Remember The One and all of the Democrats promising to shut down the Guantanamo detention center as one of their first orders of business? How that was one of the main reasons to vote for Him, since we couldn’t trust McCain to shut it down. Once again, reality has intruded on The One’s agenda according to the Washington Times;
Category: Terror War
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Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic [Jonn]
This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguaration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans, but as you can see by the flag above, it was more an Israel Hate Fest than support for anyone.
About three blocks from Lafayette Park, in Farragut Park, I ran into a prayer session;
Inside Lafayette Park, it was interesting to see who was behind the protest;
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More on CNN’s Hoax Video
I posted this video earlier this morning in relation to a Michelle Malkin post on Joe the Plumber.
Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee characteristically takes the hoax a whole lot further;
But what marks this story as a hoax, and what elements point to media collusion in promoting this video as propaganda? Please watch the video above again, and we’ll go through those elements step-by-step.
They are:
* basic medical procedures are poorly faked
* known propaganda actors are used in this film
* the site of the attack is poorly-constructed and inconsistent with a military attack.
* the body doesn’t act like a bodyFirst, let’s return to the hospital, and take a look at our medical doctors and the life-saving procedures they are performing.
Owens pulls in the dope on the European doctor in the clip as well;
International media reports, including those from the BBC, CBS, CNN and FOX’s sister station Sky News, present Gilbert as an ordinary doctor.
But a look at his record shows that Gilbert, 61, is a political activist and member of the Norwegian Maoist “Red” party, and he has been involved in solidarity work for the Palestinians since the 1970s. He has criticized the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders for refusing to take sides in conflicts.
Go read the whole post. For most of us it won’t change our minds about the media (because we already know they’re lying crooks), but it’s got a lot of tips to critically watch the media coverage of this conflict.
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Nazi Imagery in Arab Press
The Jewish Defense League has assembled some of the editorial cartoons from the Arab media that are using Nazi imagery to condemn Israel’s actions against Hamas in Gaza and put them in a slide show. Here’s a few;
I’ve looked for Arab-hatred in the Israeli press and I’ve yet to find any. A statement from the JDL;
“The Arab press serves both as a powerful influencer of opinion and as mirror of the larger society, and as the conflict between Israel and Hamas plays out in the daily newspapers, anti-Semitism and Nazi comparisons have reached a fever pitch,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor. “In this incendiary environment, where anger at Israel already seethes in the Arab street, cartoonists and editors are doing more than heaping invective on Israel. They are fueling a toxic mix of hatred — for Israel, for America, for Jews, for the West — by dredging up anti-Semitism in its most lethal and virulent form.”
Yeah, I’m just waiting for angry Jews to take to streets of Europe and burn innocent people’s cars and demand that the cartoonists get beheaded.
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Iran and Jimmy Carter open up second front against Israel [Jonn]
The first thing I read this morning while perusing last night’s news on the Moronosphere BlogNetNews was a post at The Jawa Report about rockets striking Israel from Lebanon.
The Washington Times confirms the attack from Lebanon;
Lebanese militants fired barrages of rockets into northern Israel early Thursday, striking a nursing home and threatening to open a second front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Two people were injured, and the rockets on Israel’s north raised the specter of renewed hostilities with Hezbollah, just 2 years after Israel battled the guerrilla group to a 34-day stalemate. Hezbollah started the 2006 war as Israel was battling Palestinian militants in Gaza.
A nursing home? Shouldn’t that piss of the international community? I mean, really. Well, in the Washington Post, Jimmy Carter is explaining how easily Israel could’ve avoided the whole Gaza thing;
Hamas leaders also agreed to accept any peace agreement that might be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also heads the PLO, provided it was approved by a majority vote of Palestinians in a referendum or by an elected unity government.
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After about a month, the Egyptians and Hamas informed us that all military action by both sides and all rocket firing would stop on June 19, for a period of six months, and that humanitarian supplies would be restored to the normal level that had existed before Israel’s withdrawal in 2005 (about 700 trucks daily).
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And this fragile truce was partially broken on Nov. 4, when Israel launched an attack in Gaza to destroy a defensive tunnel being dug by Hamas inside the wall that encloses Gaza.
A “defensive tunnel”? The tunnel was dug so Hamas could kidnap Israeli soldiers and that’s a defensive tunnel? Good old Jimmy Carter the world’s most famous anti-Semite. On the up-side, as long as he’s writing for the Post, he’s not building death-traps for Habitat for Humanity.
In another article in the Post, the Red Cross accuses Israel of starving children;
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that it had found at least 15 bodies and several children — emaciated but alive — in a row of shattered houses in the Gaza Strip and accused the Israeli military of preventing ambulances from reaching the site for four days.
Emaciated? After four days? I think if anyone was emaciated, their starvation started long before the response by Israel. Well, Michelle Malkin writes that Joe the Plumber is enroute to Gaza, so maybe he can us the straight answer.
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Muslim grievance theater [Jonn]
We’ve watched, over the last several days as Muslims in the US have protested the Israeli response to blatant attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians. Last night, protesters in London and Paris turned violent. In London, they scuffled with police, in Paris they torched private property.
I wrote the other night about a Muslim man who attacked a Jewish immigrant, injured a police officer and walked away from the incident scot-free, apparently. Can the violence we’ve seen in Europe be far away in this country as well? Well, here’s my question to all of the Muslims who think they have a legitimate complaint. Leaving aside the specifics of your allegations against Israel, and considering only your passion and commitment, why are you still here?
If you feel so impassioned about the plight of Palestinians, why aren’t you sneaking into the Gaza Strip to fight the Israelis? Sure the Israelis and Egyptians have a blockade in place but that didn’t stop al Qaeda from infiltrating into Iraq from Syria and Iran, did it? The West Bank shares a border with Jordan – there’s a way to get into the fight.
Why isn’t Iran sponsoring arms shipments into Gaza like they did to Hezbollah in Lebanon? Why haven’t they airdropped weapons and troops into Gaza? They have the inclinations and the means. They haven’t even offered to supply Palestinians with medical supplies.
But most importantly, why aren’t these youths in Europe and the US streaming back into Gaza to help Hamas? The simple answer is; they’re cowards. Just like Hamas is cowardly and prefers to fire missiles at civilians randomly than to face an army of legitimate combatants in a head-to-head battle.
And that’s why they riot; they’re cowards. They know that no matter what they do in the West, at the end of the day, they’ll still be alive and they go home to watch TV and decompress from their antics. few will end up in jail over night and released the next day, no matter who and how many they’ve injured, no matter how much private property they’ve destroyed. There’s no downside for them.
If they go to Gaza, they might get shot by Israelis, or Hell, they might be shot by Hamas (like 75 members of Fatah were shot by Hamas just before the Israeli incursion). Besides, in the West, they’ve got ANSWER thugs telling them how brave they are to march a few hundred yards in the cold. No downside.
In other words, the Muslims in the West are too lazy, too cowardly, too selfish to actually act on what they claim they believe in. It’s much easier to engage in theater than to engage youself in the process. Muslims in the West are giant pussies.
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Is Israel Finally Going to Face the Vaunted Hamas Military in Open Battle? [COB6]
I realize fully that this could be the stupidest question ever but this is apparently the angle that the MSM is poised to take.
The idea that Israeli ground troops are about to enter Gaza is nothing new and this report from the UK Times online starts fairly good:
Israel is poised to launch a major ground offensive into Gaza tonight after allowing hundreds of foreigners living in the devastated territory to evacuate.
After a week of air strikes that have killed at least 420 Palestinians and left scores of buildings in rubble, the Israeli army was set to fling hundreds of troops and tanks into a blitz to stamp out Hamas’s military wing, The Times understands.
Despite the looming onslaught, more Hamas rockets – which have so far killed four Israelis – were fired into southern Israel today.
Then the shark is jumped and rather quickly. The Times author decides to build the drama by quoting some savage terrorist who was giving a eulogy at the funeral of the last terrorist who was thoroughly ventilated by the Israelis.
“I call on the resistance to continue pounding Jewish settlements and cities,” said Sheikh Abdelrahman al-Jamal at the funeral of a hardline Hamas political leader killed, together with his four wives and 11 children, in an Israeli air strike on his home.
“We will remain on the path of jihad until the end of days.”
But then the grand prize for idiot reporting comes later in the article:
Hamas’s military wing has been waiting for a ground offensive to face the Israeli army in open combat, despite Israel’s vast military superiority.
Does anybody with a spoonful of gray matter believe that the Hamas thugs have been anticipating, with gritted teeth and steeled resolve, an open combat with the Israeli Army? If you believe that, you are a retard.
When is the last time an Israeli or US soldier was captured wearing women’s clothing surrounded by children? I can’t think of a single occurrence of such battlefield cowardice while I can think of many such occurances from the savage followers of the fake religion of the pedophile murderer.
Hamas will not face Israel in open combat as every time since 1948 an Arab force has been foolish enough to do so wound up in a humilating defeat. Hamas is and has always been a cowardly terror organization. The overwhelming cultural weakness in manliness in the arab world is astounding. The fact that these seventh century idiots can not possibly stand up to any western power hasn’t hampered their ability to lure more and more intellectual midgets into their ranks. Sadly most of these folks will die for nothing. There are no 72 virgins morons; you are just dead.
Having said all that, I must confess that I truly wish that they would organize and face Israel in “open combat” for this would result in the absolute destruction of Hamas and that would be fun to watch.
My advice to the IDF: Don’t take prisoners, kill all of these savages. Trust me, after your election and our future CinC takes office the prisoners will all be released for nothing and they will come back and try to kill your children.
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IDF’s announcement of ground operations in Gaza [Jonn]
I found this on YouTube at the Israeli Defense Forces channel;
AFP quotes the Hamas answer;
Hamas vowed on Saturday to turn the Gaza Strip into a “cemetery” for the Israeli army, which launched a ground offensive in the enclave following a week of air and naval bombardment.
So, it’s on.
Here’s Uncle Jimbo’s official statement, since Obama doesn’t have one.
Solomonia points us to Israellycool for live blogging the ground assault into Gaza.