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Muslim attacks Jewish counter protester in DC (UPDATED) [Jonn]

ANSWER and the Muslim American Society were at it again today in DC, this time in front of the Israeli Embassy. Of, course, you know I couldn’t resist going. Yep Brian Becker, the ANSWER national coordinator was there again calling for the arrest of George Bush and the rest of the criminals so they can answer for their “crimes”. Lord knows what they’ll do after January. It looks like they had a few hundred;

But it had the feel of a social event more than a protest;

They even had a token self-hating Jew. Just one.

See the yellow flag? It’s the Hezbollah flag – sweet crowd, huh?

There were two counter protesters. The little guy on your right was a Lithuanian Jew who had immigrated here in 1985.

When I went up the street to start filming the protest as it moved to the Egyptian Embassy, I kept an eye on that corner where the two counterprotesters were and I saw this guy in the white shirt hit the Lithuanian Jew;

So I scurried back down and it’s all in this video;

I got there just in time to see a cop pinning the guy in the white shirt to the pavement.
So this guy and I are the only two who volunteered to be witnesses for him;

That’s Alex Knepper a blogger from Race42012 in the picture above describing the incident to the local Fox Affliate newsbabe. But I’m not hoping for much. The officer who interviewed us said that “these things never go to court”. Yeah, not in DC they don’t. It was assault, they took his statement, he has two witnesses, but that’s not enough to go to trial in DC. Wonder why? Me, too.

We’ll see if it makes the news tonight.

There are more photos of the protest at my Flickr page.

Thanks to Atlas Shrugs, Gateway Pundit, Solomonia, Race 4 2012, Wake Up America, Thunder Pig, Winds of Jihad, Doug@Ross, Marooned in Marin, Chickenhawk Express and Memeorandum for the links. Willkommen zu unseren neuen deutschen Freunden an Politically Incorrect.

UPDATE: I just watched the Fox 5 newscast and they didn’t use either interview, but they did mention the incident in relation to the police officer that was injured tackling the aggressor (in my video you can see the officer struggling to stand up).

January 2, 2009
Stay away from Renwaa

Many of you probably remember Renwaa, a member of our TAH community who kept us updated while she was in Mumbai during the terrorist attack there last month. Well I sent her an email yesterday with New Years greetings and I get back an email this morning from her to say that she was in Denmark visiting her in-laws who just happened to live down the street from this attack in Denmark (from Gateway Pundit);

Breaking- Israel Matzav is reporting:

Israel Radio is reporting that a ‘Palestinian’ opened fire on a group of Israelis in a supermarket just outside of Copenhagen.

More… Ekstra Bladet has this on the shooting:

Two people were injured, since shortly after 15 shots were fired in Rosengårdscentret center in Odense, the police, according to Ritzau.

The status is unknown.

We are looking for an offender at the moment, said the guard commander at the 16-time Ritzau.

We have plenty to look for right now, so we can not say more.

Haaretz is reporting the shooters were Arab youths:

So, I’ve come to the obvious conclusion that all of these attacks are Renwaa-related somehow. I suggest to all of our readers they should stay away from Renwaa until she can finish dealing with these terrorists.

Stay safe, Renwaa.

January 1, 2009
Pallywood comes to DC [Jonn]

The anti-Hamas battle came to DC today. In front of the US State Department to be exact. On an email tip from William Teach at Pirate’s Cove and Right Wing News, Uncle Jimbo, TSO and I were there to bring it to you with all of it’s repetitious chanting blather.

Today’s rally was organized by ANSWER’s National Coordinator guy Brian Becker;

If Becker was in on it, it was the biggest thing going on in the country hippie-wise. If you click on the link you can read what I wrote about him back in January after another anti-Israel protest at the Israeli Embassy. But, their budget must be dwindling because I saw him interviewing himself afterwards – he was the interviewer, interviewee and cameraman.
This was his sidekick;

I know who she is, but I can’t remember her name now. (Editor’s Note: Raoul reminded me that she’s Mara Verheyden-Hilliard from the National Lawyers’ Guild – she’s got a page on Discover the Network) She was working the crowd up into a frenzy of paranoia about how we were ringed by police and people in the State Department were watching us with binoculars. She left out the tiny remote controlled mosquito things flying around the group.
Here’s the video of her paranoid rantings;We were ringed by police, but we were on State Department property in downtown DC, not everyone there was protesting. I saw at least one panhandler fleecing the crowd.

And it was several hundred people;

At five o’clock some of them prayed, but certainly a small portion of them. I guess that’s as deep as most of them took those shouts of “God is great” I heard.

The most important thing is to listen to the rhetoric and lies in the videos. Notice there are very few Palestinians, very few Arabs speaking. The Arab Community, like IVAW, like every other group of “victims” are being used by the anti-war community to work us all up into a lather. But you can see that for yourself.

If you look closely, you can see Uncle Jimbo trying to blend in with his “Don’t be a Dou-Che” T-shirt;
And finally, while I was losing the light, they marched off some-damn-where with their mindless chants;

If anyone in the DC area wants to counter-protest, they’ll be at the Israeli Embassy at 4PM Friday and then they claim they’re marching to the Egyptian Embassy – it’s about 1/3 of a mile. I’ll probably be there, too.
Jimbo’s excellent camera work is here.

December 30, 2008
Ship of Fools turned back [Jonn]

While I was snoozing through a Code Pink protest yesterday, news broke from Little Green Footballs that Cynthia McKinney had boarded the SS Moonbat and headed for Gaza with supplies on a three hour tour, three hour tour.

[S]he’s getting on a boat in Cyprus with a bunch of international moonbat activists (aka Hamas supporters), planning to run Israel’s blockade on Gaza.

Michelle Malkin reported last night that the Israeli Navy had turned the yacht around (only McKinney would conduct an amphibious assault in a yacht);

Update 5:22am Eastern. Carl in Jerusalem reports that the S.S. Moonbat has been turned back by the Israeli Navy…

The yacht carrying former US Congresscritter and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney tried to outmaneuver an Israeli navy gunboat off Gaza Tuesday morning. The yacht rammed into the Israeli gunboat, which then turned it around and sent it back to Cyprus.

Haaretz reports;

Free Gaza Movement told Reuters their boat, carrying 3.5 tons of medical aid with 16 people aboard, was rammed and shot at while in international waters about 70-80 miles off Gaza by Israeli naval vessel.

Palmor denied there had been any shooting although the two ships made “physical contact.” He said no one had been hurt and that the Israeli ship escorted the aid boat back to Cypriot territorial waters.

From CNN:

In a radio message, the Israelis accused the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity, its captain said.

[…]

But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor called allegations that the vessel was rammed deliberately “absurd.” He said the volunteer boat was trying to outmaneuver the Israeli vessel when it was struck.

[…]

The Dignity was headed to Lebanon after the collision.

[…]

The boat was taking on a small amount of water after the collision, its captain said. Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.

For the pampered Left, every indignity they suffer is some sort of intentional conspiracy against them.

December 30, 2008
Israel rejects truce?

This morning, we read from Reuters that “Israel rejects truce, presses on with Gaza strikes“. It hints that the Palestinians offered a truce after losing more than 300 dead, doesn’t it? Here’s a screen shot of the headline;

But actually, we find out in the eighth paragraph, the truce appeal didn’t come from Hamas at all;

The United Nations has called for an immediate truce. But Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said “there is no room for a ceasefire” with Hamas until the threat of rocket fire had been removed.

“The Israeli army must not stop the operation before breaking the will of the Palestinians, of Hamas, to continue to fire at Israel,” he told Israel Radio.

Oh, so it was the United Nations that asked Israel to unilaterally stop shooting. I wonder if the UN asked Hamas to stop shooting since they’ve been shooting for the last six weeks of the “ceasefire”. In fact, most of the news sources make it sound as if israel is the aggressor here. The Washington Post paints them as lunatic war mongers;

While previous Israeli assaults on Gaza have pinpointed crews of Hamas rocket launchers and stores of weapons, the attacks that began Saturday have had broader aims than any before. Israeli military officials said Monday that their target lists have expanded to include the vast support network that the Islamist movement relies on to stay in power in the strip. The choice of targets suggests that Israel intends to weaken all the various facets of Hamas rather than just its armed wing.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the strikes over the weekend were ill-considered acts of near-terrorism;

The announcement came as sources close to Hamas said that the movement’s armed wing had hardly been affected by the IDF operation that began on Saturday.

The sources told The Jerusalem Post that many of the casualties in the first two days of the operation were “ordinary” policemen who had been recently recruited to various branches of the security forces.

“These policemen were being enlisted to direct the traffic and fight crime,” the sources said. “These are not the militiamen who are responsible for the rocket attacks on Israel.”

This explains why Hamas did not rush to evacuate the headquarters of the “civilian” police force in Gaza City before the IDF offensive.

Reuters reports that a clerical group in Iran is enlisting volunteers to help Hamas in Gaza;

A group of Iranian hardline clerics is signing up volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israel’s airstrikes that have killed at least 300 Palestinians, a news agency reported on Monday.

“From Monday the Combatant Clergy Society has activated its website for a week to register volunteers to fight against the Zionist regime (Israel) in either the military, financial or propaganda fields,” the semi-official Fars news agency said.

Israel patrols the coastal waters around Gaza and has declared areas around the enclave a “closed military zone”.

The hardline Iranian group, which is headed by some leading clergy, says it has no affiliation with the government and was formed shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.

I guess the Iranians are afraid of an Israeli air strike because their head cleric issued a fatwa ordering all Muslims to defend Hamas according to Ynet;

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, state television said.

“All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr,” state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement outlining the fatwa.

Yeah, so Israel accepting a truce from the UN would do a lot of good, huh?

December 30, 2008
The Left loves them some Hamas

The Israelis pounded Hamas pretty good this morning after taking six weeks of rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza. Some reports of dead Palestinians are over 200 dead and 300 injured. And the Left is hatin’ on the Israelis. From Little Green Footballs, I read this from Daily Koz;

We cannot seriously expect Hamas to end their barrage of rocket attacks on southern Israel until the Israelis make good faith efforts to recognize the legitimate claims of the Palestinian people.

Keep in mind, this is after the Israelis endured six weeks of rocket attacks without returning fire until the ceasefire ended. Not to mention the other concessions Israel has made over the last several years. And even though readers of this blog knew that counter attacks were imminent, one writer at Firedoglake called it a surprise attack against Hamas;

Another, calls it a “first strike”;

Well, so much for peace. Looks like Siun was right, and the deliveries yesterday were just a pathetic public relations ploy. Israel managed to assassinate the police chief, governor, and security chief. A first strike bombing like this can do a fair bit of damage, as it did, but Hamas will now disperse its people and assets, and future bombings will be less effective.

Of course, this second writer doesn’t mention the Hamas rocket falling short yesterday and killing two Gazan girls. But he does drag out a picture of a dead Palestinian baby from February for his piece;

I’m sure this writer figures Hamas should be forgiven since they didn’t kill many Israelis;

Hamas missile counterattacks killed, oh, one person.

So because they’re bumbling buffoons, they should be allowed to continue firing their rockets into Israel with no response because they don’t usually hit much anyway. Besides, who knows, practice might improve their aim. Oh, and Fatah are apparently the Israelis’ lap dog which might come as a surprise to both parties;

Israel keeps thinking it’s going to get a cheap peace or that its problems with the Palestinians can be solved with violence. Short of full-scale ethnic cleansing they can’t. Nor can they make peace with their lapdogs in the Fatah, the only people who might be able to enforce a peace are Hamas. You have to make peace with your enemies and it has to be those enemies who are able to enforce peace. Only Hamas can do that. Fatah can’t and Israel can’t, and they can’t bomb or assassinate Hamas into peace either.

So the Left sees Hamas as the key to peace – the same Hamas that slaughtered hundreds of Fatah Palestinians a while back. The same Hamas that has fire fights with the Egyptian Army. Others on the Left are so tight with the language usage that they attack the Huffington Post for “taking cues from Fox News” because a writer at HuffPo called the strikes “retaliatory”.

It looks like the American Left is being as obstinate as Hamas and hezbollah. Of course, it’s easy for them to be obstinate as long as the whole rest of the world pays the real price and finally comes up with a solution that they can gripe about.

December 27, 2008
Palestinians kill 2 girls in Gaza

The actual Associated Press story is entitled “Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza” but the rocket didn’t actually misfire, it was misdirected.

First of all understand that weeks before the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire ended, the Palestinians were firing rockets at Israel and the AP along with every other news service were wringing their hands over Israel’s reaction. Israel hasn’t done anything up to this point.

Then, while still firing missiles, some clumsy doofuses in Gaza fired a homemade rocket which fell short.

A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.

So we should probably blame the Palestinians, right? Nope. AP says it’s Israel’s fault;

The attack came as Israel sent mixed signals over its plans to respond to continuing Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli defense officials say politicians have approved a large-scale incursion into the territory once rainy conditions clear.

Oddly enough, no one has claimed responsibility for the misdirected rocket;

None of Gaza’s militant factions claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the house in Beit Lahiya.

You can read the entire story and not find a reference to the fact that Hamas fired missiles into Israel weeks before the ceasefire ended last week, only with a nebulous reference to the ceasefire collapsing;

The girls were the first Palestinian civilians inadvertently killed by militants since their truce with Israel began collapsing six weeks ago.

Now, if these girls had been killed by Israeli forces, their bodies would have photographed and splashed across the internet as evidence of the cruelty of Israel’s “occupation” of Palestine. There would have been shots of Palestinians tossing rocks and bottles at checkpoint guards and the volume of rockets would have increased and the AP would have made excuses for their fury. But, in this case;

But, as with similar cases involving unintended civilian casualties in the past, there were no immediate signs of backlash against the militants after the girls’ death.

And there won’t be any backlash, because Hamas is much more brutal in quashing dissent than the Israelis.

Here’s a screen shot in case the story disappears later;

There’s more on the ceasefire’s collapse by Lisa Goldman at Pajamas Media.

December 26, 2008
Jury convicts Fort Dix 5 [Jonn]

Not like we wanted them convicted, but convicted nonetheless;

I’m not sure why the jury didn’t hit them with the attempted murder charge, probably because the terrorists were bumbling morons.

UPDATED: Apparently the defense convinced the jury that the 5 were egged on by the informants;

Defense lawyers argued that the alleged plot was all talk — that the men weren’t seriously planning anything and that they were manipulated and goaded by two paid FBI informants.

Faten Shnewer, the mother of defendant Mohamad Shnewer, said the informants should be the ones in jail. “Not my son and his friends. It’s not right, it’s not justice,” she said after the verdict. The government “sent somebody to push him to say something; that’s it.”

You can’t cheat an honest man and you can’t force some one into a suicide mission.

“I don’t think they actually mean to do anything,” said Mohamed Younes, president of the American Muslim Union. “I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke.”

Jim Sues, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said: “Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment. From what I saw, there was a significant role played by the government informant.”

Yuh-uh.

Michelle Malkin remembers the guy that started the investigation.

December 22, 2008