Tuesday, 15 March 2011

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The Media’s Culpability in Demonizing “Settlers”

Laura: I’m sickened over the coverage of the massacre of the Fogel family by the leftist media. In their morally twisted reports, the demonic murderers are merely described as “intruders” while their victims are among the “extremist settlers”. I refuse to succumb to the politically correct garbage that such savage acts are the result of “occupation”. What this is, is jihad and not only are the perpetrators of this massacre demonic but so is the culture which indocrinated them to such genocidal hatred and murder and celebrates these acts. Also depraved is the western left which essentially provides cover for islamic atrocities against Jews and should therefore be held to account for the monstrous massacre of the Fogel family.

Armchair barbarism

Melanie Phillips, The Spectator

Today the massacred Fogel family was buried in Jerusalem. And as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral...

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No Problem Here? Egypt Apparently Has Already Ended Gas Shipments to Israel

By Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports

There’s nothing to worry about, we are told, of course Egypt wants to get the money from gas shipments, right? Ideology and politics are not important, we are told, but are always trumped by material considerations.

Well, it looks as if Egypt has stopped gas exports to Israel, just about their only trade link. The company that supplies 45% of the gas needed to produce Israel’s electricity, has missed several promised deadlines to restore service since the pipeline was damaged in a terrorist explosion February 5.

The Egyptian government is pretending that there are technical problems but that’s nonsense. Either there will never be any gas shipments at all or Egypt will demand such a steep increase in price that this will be designed more to end the deal rather than to increase their revenue.

So Israel’s Electric Company is asking the Environmental Protection Ministry to switch to diesel and fuel oil. One day, Israel...

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Lenin’s Lessons for Obama on Dealing with Radical Islamists

By Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports

I just don’t get it. The more degrees from famous universities U.S. leaders have, the less they seem to know, especially about history.

Consider this in light of their inability to understand that not only al-Qaida but also Syria, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP government in Turkey, as well as Iran’s regime and other Islamists are dangerous, anti-democratic forces.

1. In 1920, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the new Soviet Union and of the world Communist movement, wrote “`Left-Wing’” Communism: An Infantile Disorder.” Lenin ridiculed small, radical groups that believed only instant insurrection could bring revolution. He explained that Communists needed to maneuver, to use all sorts of tactics, sometimes to advance and sometimes to retreat.

In our time, al-Qaida is the equivalent of the groups about which Lenin was writing. It knows only one thing: terrorism. In contrast, the West’s really important...

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MUSLIM DEPRAVITY

Islamic Jew Hatred: **GRAPHIC** Muslim Massacre Jewish family of Five, Three Year Old Stabbed in the Heart, Baby’s Throat Slashed

Atlas Shrugs reports the event in all its gory detail.


Stopping incitement is a prerequisite to a peace process

Let’s stop pretending

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH

The Palestinian Authority and its leaders share the blame for the murders of the five Israelis from Itamar on Friday – including two children and an infant – along with the terrorists who committed them. It is the PA and its leaders who have prepared the ground for these murders with the incessant incitement to hatred and the glorification of violence and terror.

In spite of its conciliatory statements in English, the PA continues to use all the structures it controls to demonize Israelis and to promote violence. Terrorists are presented as heroes and role models for Palestinians, teaching that killing Israelis is a way to earn eternal fame.

Just two months ago, PA President Mahmoud Abbas sent a clear message of support for terror when he awarded $2000 to the family of a terrorist who attacked IDF soldiers. Last week, the PA’s official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida...

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Barak warns against ‘political tsunami’

T. Belman. This is why Barak must go. Nobody invaded S. Africa. If Iran can withstand sanctions, even moreso Israel. Israel has nothing to lose by giving the world the middle finger. The worse that can happen is we will be forced to accept the Saudi Plan and that’s all we are being offered now. Go for it.

Attila Somfalvi, YNET

“We are facing a political tsunami most of the public isn’t unaware of,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a speech at the International Security Studies Institute in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

“There is an international movement which will recognize a Palestinian state on 1967 borders. It would be wrong to ignore this tsunami,” Barak said. According to the defense minister, this is scheduled to happen before September.

“Israel’s de-legitimization is in sight. It’s very dangerous and requires action,” Barak stated. He warned against an attempt to push Israel into the same corner South Africa once...

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Lift the effing freeze

By Ted Belman

Abbas: Attack Was Inhuman

    In an interview with Israel Radio Monday, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas called the terror attack in Itamar “disgusting, shameful, and immoral. A human being could not have done such a thing.” Abbas said that “such things, the murder of infants, children and a woman who was slaughtered, must bring all people to pain and to tears.”

Who gives a shit.

US ‘deeply concerned’ by new settlement construction

    The US embassy in Tel Aviv issued a statement saying: “We’re deeply concerned by continuing Israeli actions on settlements in the West Bank.”

    The Associate Press report said that the US saw “these settlements as illegitimate and as running counter to efforts to resume direct negotiations.”

Who gives a shit.

UN: New settlement building not ‘conducive to peace’

Who gives a shit.

Gov’t OKs hundreds of housing units after Itamar attack

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Liberal Indifference Over the Murder of an Israeli Family

Laura: As far as the depraved, degenerate leftists in the western media are concerned, the murder of five members of the Fogel family is not really an evil act or an act of terrorism at all since according to them they were “settlers” and “occupiers”. This is why there has been scant coverage and the coverage this has received has been met with indifference or has been focused on “settlements”. So, for the leftist media the real victims aren’t the Fogel family but those who cut the throats of this family in their sleep. And of course the slaughter of a Jewish baby and children as other such murders, are celebrated by the “palestinians” by passing out candy.

There are also those who make the pathetic attempt to equate such a horrific act with the IDF killing of “palestinians”. But there is no moral equivalence. The IDF doesn’t purposely target civilians, they do not...

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