Brave Palestinian Warrior Attacks Children With Axe

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Brave Palestinian Warrior Attacks Children With Axe

13-year-old Shlomo Nativ ( HY"d) was murdered and another child of seven injured today in Bat Ayin, Israel as a brave Palestinian warrior carried out a successful 'operation' and then escaped.

"I saw a boy, aged 7 or 8, running past my house, and then I saw a 20-year-old man running after him," a man who identified himself as Avinoam told Channel 10. "I approached him, and he turned to me and tried to attack me with the axe."

"I grabbed his hand, we struggled, and I yelled for people to call for help and the police," he continued.

"At a certain point, I managed to wrest the axe from his hand," Avinoam said. "I was on the ground, and that was when the man managed to escape."

"I heard a little later that somebody tried to shoot him but missed," he said. "I saw in his eyes the lust to kill. I didn't see what happened before I got outside, but I saw the wounded boy screaming, yelling to his mother that he was hurt."

Islamic Jihad and one of the Fatah factions both claimed 'credit' for this.The Israeli government has formally asked the Palestinian Authority for its assistance in tracking down the killer. Good luck with that.

What it actually is, of course, is the Palestinian's way of greeting th enew government to see how tough they're likely to be. It's happened every time a new Israeli government has been seated.

Here's hoping that when the IDF catches him, they administer a little on-the-spot justice to this murderer instead of sticking him in jail to add to the' political prisoners' the Palestinians want freed 'for peace.'

Israel needs to send a message that Olmert is gone and it's no longer business as usual.

Joke Of The Day: The Palestinian Authority Threatens To Dissolve Itself!

And yes, they're serious...

The new Israeli government was warned on Wednesday that a refusal to continue serious peace negotiations intended to establish a Palestinian state could force the Palestinian Authority to dissolve itself.

The warning, by a senior PA official, came only a day after Israel’s new rightwing government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, took office. It also came as Israel’s new foreign minister said the government did not feel obligated by the commitments made during the US-sponsored Annapolis peace initiative.

Rafik Husseini, the chief-of-staff of Mahmoud Abbas, the PA president, said: “If Netanyahu or his government continue to do what the Israeli government has done even more vigorously, the consequence is the practical end of the Palestinian Authority as a structure.”

Mr Husseini argued the Palestinians faced a government that encouraged the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and refused to endorse a two-state solution. “No Palestinian leader can continue to do peace when the objective of the Israeli state – as stated by its government – is the complete opposite of peace,” he added.

The PA was formed by the Oslo peace accords in 1993 as a quasi-government to prepare for Palestinian statehood. “If the PA cannot deliver [on the promise of an independent state], it has to change direction,” Mr Husseini said.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear this was the Arab equivalent of an April Fool's joke.

Yes, the Palestinian Authority is going to hold its breath until it turns blue and dissolve itself, cutting off all that Western aid and taking PA apparatchniks like Rafik Husseini off the payroll! And well connected Fatah goombas are going to voluntarily give up the money making rackets, scams and 'monopolies' they have going in the Palestinian occupied parts of Judea and Samaria. (AKA the West Bank)

That would be like the Gambino family or Mexico's Zeta drug cartel deciding to go voluntarily out of business. Ain't gonna happen.

As for the other stuff, it's true that the Palestinian Authority is a sham that never 'delivered statehood'. But who's fault is that? Who launched the war against Israel's civilians after the Israelis were stupid enough to believe Yasir Arafat could actually be trusted? Who has refused to educate their people for peace or invest the millions they've been able to scam from the West in a better life for their people?

The truth is, the Palestinian Authority was always a con. And none other than the late Feisal Husseini, Arafat's commissar in Jerusalem and Rafik Husseini's clan member admitted it, famously referring to Oslo as a Trojan Horse, designed to trick the Jews and pave the way for Israel's destruction.

No less than Fatah kingpin Mohammed Dahlan admitted something many of us already knew. That while the Palestinian Authority may have recognized Israel in order to get recognition and aid money, 'moderate' Fatah never did. And their official charter still calls for Israel's destruction. Getting rid of the fiction of the Palestinian Authority would take the mask off, which probably wouldn't matter all that much, on second thought. Fatah would still be getting money from the West, especially given who's in the White House now.



Dissolve away boyos. It'd be more honest.

Finally, as an aside, notice how this supposedly unbiased news story in the British Financial Times referred to the new Israeli government - which includes the leftwing Labor Party - as 'rightwing'?

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Watcher's Council Nominations, 4/01/09

Welcome to the April Fools edition of the Watcher's Council...

The Watcher's Council is a group of some of the most incisive blogs in the`sphere. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one of their own and one from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.

So, let's see what we have this week....and do check out the Watcher's fine intro essay on the first months of the Obama administration...


COUNCIL


Joshuapundit - Why I’m Happy The NY Times Published An Anti-Semitic Cartoon - I'm referring, of course, to a nifty bit of Jew hatred drawn by Pat Oliphant, who as I point out has a long history of this sort of thing. Why am I happy the Times and other papers published it without a moments hesitation and what does it tell us? Click on the link and find out.



Soccer Dad - Now he tells us - Soccer Dad dissects yet another fraudulent claim of IDF 'war crimes' during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.


The Colossus of Rhodey - Why we should care about North Korea’s missile- Hube's interesting post details the dangers of an EMP, where an explosion is detonated in the startosphere with the idea of destroying a nations' electronic technology. I would point out that not only North Korea but Iran now or soon will have the satellite cpability of doing this..at a time when the Obama administration is planning deep cuts in our military, especially in missile defense.



Of course, one sure-fire way of preventing this would be to knock any satellites out of the sky and do a protracted raid on suspected nuclear facilities and infrastructure in rogue states like North Korea and Iran before they become a problem...but that's just my silly, politically incorrect way of handling such matters. The policy of Carthago delenda est certainly worked for the Romans though, as I recall...


The Razor - The Imaginary Leader - That's how Scott refers to the present occupant of the White House. Unfortunately, he's all too real.


The Glittering Eye - What’s the Niche for GM? - Dave Schuler asks an interesting question this week - now that GM has become Government Motors instead of General Motors, exactly what market niche are they going to try to compete in? Or to put it another way, are you in favor of the Feds subsidizing the UAW on your dime in a company that's unlikely to ever turn a profit?



I would differ with him only on the major source of GM's problems, which was not necessarily bad management. There's a direct correlation between the degree of unionization and the companies that are successfully making cars versus those who aren't. And in addition, aside from overly lucrative union contracts, th ecompanies that are in trouble have years of union entitlements and lucrative pensions to deal with...a factor that the Feds might have done a lot more good subsidizing than simply throwing billins at the companies without solving the underlying problems.


Rhymes With Right - A Case That Ought To Be Easy To Decide - Greg takes on an unreasonable search and seizure case involving - get this - a thirteen-year -old girl who was strip searched in an effort to find some non-existent advil!



Right Truth - Lessons from South Africa - The news from what was once a fairly prosperous westernized country continues to get owrse, and Debby Hamilton has the story.


The Provocateur - Chris Dodd’s Unique, Brazen and Dangerous Corruption- Mike takes a good look at the antics of the Senator from CountryWide and AIG.


Bookworm Room - Is Barack Obama Evil -Well, is he? Ms. Bookworm examines the evidence.


NON-COUNCIL


Submitted By: Soccer Dad - ShrinkWrapped - Information Warfare in a “Post-Modern” World Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey - Kesher Talk - Shards of Faith, Reassembled



Submitted By: The Razor - israel insider - Barry Rubin: The Loathsome Cartoon


Submitted By: The Glittering Eye - Zenpundit - Mexican Standoff With Reality


Submitted By: Rhymes With Right - Right on the Left Coast - Above The Law


Submitted By: Joshuapundit - Rants And Raves - Olson, Ayers, Dorhn: America’s aging terrorists


Submitted By: Right Truth - Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media - Is Jenin a Hotbed of “Moderates”? Ask Wafa Younis, Hero and Humanitarian.


Submitted By: The Provocateur - Portfolio - The Formula That Killed Wall Street


Submitted By: Bookworm Room - American Thinker - My Generation’s Moral Rescession

The Palestinians Throw A Tantrum: "Netanyahu Does Not Believe In Peace"

It's to be expected of the Palestinians, but they've set a new record inself-defeating rejectionism today.

The Netanyahu government has just been sworn in today and Fatah's capodel tutti Abbas and his assorted thugs are already kicking and screaming:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas charged on Wednesday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahudid not believe in peace, urging the international community to exert pressure on him to accept a two-state solution.

"It's obvious that Netanyahu does not believe in the two-state solution and the agreements signed with the Palestinians and does not want to stop settlement construction," Abbas said.

"Therefore, we must tell the world that this man does not believe in peace and as such we can't deal with him." Abbas said that he was nevertheless prepared to talk to representatives of the new government if he sensed thatNetanyahu was willing to move forward with the peace process and accept the two-state solution.

Abbas added that Netanyahu's plan to focus on boosting the Palestinian economy was insufficient as long as it doesn't have a political content.

"The Palestinian issue is not an economic problem," he said. "This is, first and foremost, a political case."

Yes, the last thing Fatah's chief mafioso wants is for his people to actually have a real economy. Not only would it cut into Fatah's monopolies and rackets given out to various cronies, it might actually cut into that lovely donor aid that the Palestinians receive and that Fatah skims a healthy chunk of right off the top.

And who knows? With a real economy, the Palestinians might actually decide that living in peace next to the Jews is preferable to living in misery under a corrupt kleptocracy.And.We.Can't.Have That.

Admittedly, Netanyahu was silly to propose it knowing that Abbas and his people run things and would never give it the time of day, but it was still the most common sense solution. That is, if your goal is to have a functioning state living next to Israel in peace instead of nurturing revanchist fantasies of destroying it and replacing it with greaterArafatistan.

Another Fatah spokesmouth, Fahmi Za'areer was also heard from:

"The right-wing in Israel is talking about the so-called economic peace to avoid fulfilling Israel's obligations under the terms of the Oslo Accords and other agreements," he said.

"Any talk that does not include the principle of land for peace and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state will be doomed to failure."

Za'areer said that the Palestinians were not afraid of the new right-wing government in Israel "because our people won't wait forever for the peace process to succeed." TheNetanyahu government, he added, is not a partner to the free world or its values."

This, from a group that has yet to fulfill any of their commitments under either Oslo or the Road Map! And as for the new Israeli government not being a partner of the free world or its values, I doubt Mr. Za'areer has the foggiest notion of what those values are. For the record, they don't include executing gays, honor killings, turning children into homicide bombers, deliberately targeting non-combatants, paying stipends to convicted murderers in Israeli jails, rigid government control of the media, making people who murder kids 'honorary citizens' or insisting that your territory be Jew-free.

Then we have the right half of Yasir Arafat's forked tongue, Saeb Erekat, who drives a BMW while his people live in squalor:

Saeb Erekat, chief Palestinian Authority negotiator, said it was clear from Lieberman's statements on Wednesday that the government is not committed to the US backed road map for peace.

"So why do people blame Hamas" for not committing to previous agreements signed "when Lieberman said he is not committed?" he asked.

Actually, Saeb ol' buddy, what Lieberman said was that Israel wascommitted to the Road Map, just not to the gang rape that occurredcourtesy of Condi Rice at Annapolis. It's the 21st century, Saeb, and you just can't lie like that in public anymore and get away with it. Well, okay, maybe in the New York Times and al-Jazeerah you still can, but it's just not as easy as it was in the old days.

Still, if you and the boys want to ditch all the previous agreements and start from scratch, I'm sure the Israelis are more than willing toaccommodate you and get back some of the ground they lost back when you had Olmert and Tzipi Livni to sucker in.

Bottom line? Yet another episode of Palestinian rejectionism.

Without waiting to see what Netanyahu actually proposes or puts in play, they're letting him know that they're not prepared to negotiate or concede a damned thing. They either get everything they want no matter what or they'll accept nothing at all, just like they've always said.

The thing is,by putting this out there, they've also sent a message back toNetanyahu that anything reasonable he might of considered proposing is out of the question and off the table.And given that the Israelis have a lot more pressing concerns then pleasing the likes of Abbas and Erekat,they might just have picked the wrong time to overplay their hand.