AWESOME: Benjamin Netanyahu Speech to UN.

Mark Levin, author of ‘Men in Black’, ‘Rescuing Sprite’, and the super million plus best seller ‘Liberty & Tyranny’ says that this speech has launched Netanyahu to be the leader of the free world. Levin could be right.

This is a MUST see. After you are done watching this please see Ambassador Bolton’s reaction to Obama’s statements on Israel (LINK). Here is Ambassador Bolton’s reaction to Netanyahu’s address.

Ambassador Bolton on Obama UN Speech: Most Radical Anti-Israel Speech I Can Recall Any President Making

Keep in mind that antisemitism on the academic left from which Obama comes from is very high to put it mildly. Also keep in mind that Obama sat in a radically antisemitic church for 20 years.

Dick Morris: Where Obama breaks with American Jews

Is denial more than just a river in Egypt?

Update:

Antisemitism: Swedish Paper Accuses Israel of Harvesting Palestinian Organs

AP:

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel and the Swedish Embassy responded furiously Wednesday to a Swedish newspaper article that suggested Israeli troops killed Palestinians and harvested their organs.

The article published Monday in Aftonbladet, Sweden’s largest circulation daily, implies a link between those charges and the recent arrest in the U.S. of an American Jew for illicit organ trafficking. Later the reporter told Israel Radio he did not know if the allegations were true

Headlined “Our sons are plundered for their organs,” the story made news in Israel, where some commentators compared it to medieval libels that Jews killed Christian children for their blood. Daniel Seaman, who heads Israel’s government press office, said the article played on “vile anti-Semitic themes.”

The article was illustrated with a photograph of a dead Palestinian man with a line of surgical stitches running the length of his torso, apparently taken after an autopsy, as well as pictures of stone-throwing youths and Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, a New York resident arrested in an FBI sting last month and charged with plotting to buy a kidney from an Israeli and sell it to an American patient for $160,000.

The writer, Donald Bostrom, based the story on accounts from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza whom he identified only by their first names. It quotes an Israeli military spokesman denying the charges and saying that Palestinians killed by Israeli forces are routinely subjected to autopsies.

Interviewed on Israel Radio on Wednesday, Bostrom said he was worried by the allegations he reported but could not vouch for their accuracy.

“It concerns me, to the extent that I want it to be investigated, that’s true. But whether it’s true or not—I have no idea, I have no clue,” he told the station.

Aftonbladet Editor Jan Helin said, “The article poses a question—why has this body been autopsied when the cause of death is obvious? There I think Israeli authorities owe us an answer.”

Israeli legal expert Moshe Negbi said that according to Israeli law, “Autopsies are immediately performed after every unnatural death, and this is true for most other countries as well.”

The reporter admits that he doesn’t know that the story is true and the editor still ran with it with a photo. Most western countries, including the United States, perform an autopsy when ever the cause of death isn’t natural causes.

This is not all that unusual for Europe. The antisemitism is Europe is off the chart, especially among the political left.

Jews Protesting Against Obama for Interfering in Domestic Policy. Say Obama is Racist Against Jews

Via WND:

JERUSALEM – President Obama’s policies against Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the strategic West Bank were slammed as “racist” today by participants in a rally drawing about 2,000 Israelis in front of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem.

“George Mitchell go home!” yelled protestors in front of the U.S. government building.

Mitchell, Obama’s envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is here discussing the American administration’s call for a halt to all Jewish settlement activity, including natural growth or accommodating the needs of existing Jewish populations in the areas in question.

“Obama should not be pressing Israel to compromise and freeze building in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem,” protest organizer Yaacov Steinberg told WND.

Israel already done for? Read Aaron Klein’s “The Late Great State of Israel”

“All these steps in the past just brought more Palestinian terror and showed Israeli weakness,” said Steinberg, director of a coalition of West Bank Jewish organizations.

JPOST:

“People tell us that it is impossible to stand up against American pressure; there is no bigger lie,” yelled out Dani Dayan, who heads the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, which helped to organize the event. It was timed to coincide with US envoy George Mitchell’s visit to Israel.

Netanyahu’s government should be concerned with its election promises to support the settlements, rather than with its obligations to the US, Dayan said. This government has an obligation to return Israel to the Zionist path of settling the land, he said.

Prior to the rally Dayan told The Jerusalem Post he hoped “Netanyahu will learn lessons from those who preceded him.”

And this gets down to what this is really all about. The Obama administration was not pleased that Netanyahu won the election so they are pressuring Israel to attempt to force them to break a key Netanyahu campaign promise.

Didn’t Joe Biden promise that this administration would be the most pro-Israel ever? I doubted it when the administration began hiring several very serious anti-semites to work in the administration.  See our “ISRAEL” category to learn more.

Video: Hamas Human Shield Tactics

Via IDF:

JPOST: Only 6% of Israelis see US gov’t as pro-Israel – UPDATED!

JPOST:

Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the views of American President Barack Obama’s administration pro-Israel, according to a new Jerusalem Post-sponsored Smith Research poll.

Another 50% of those sampled consider the policies of Obama’s administration more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli, and 36% said the policies were neutral. The remaining 8% did not express an opinion.

Israelis’ views of Obama’s predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush, are nearly the opposite. According to last month’s poll, 88% of Israelis considered his administration pro-Israel, 7% said Bush was neutral and just 2% labeled him pro-Palestinian.

Who can blame them? Obama had surrounded himself around anti-semites Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, and others. The Obama campaign hired Robert Malley in the campaign whose extreme views against Israel are well known. The campaign rebuked Malley and said that he would never work for the campaign again only to hire him to work in the Obama Administration (LINK). Samantha Power who had advocated military intervention to create a Palestinian state was also removed from the campaign for her extreme views on Israel and was hired back to work in the administration.  

To make matters worse, Obama tried to link internal Israeli policy with Iranian nukes by telling Israel that it had better obey Obama in matters of internal policy or the U.S. would take a weaker stance against Iranian nukes (LINK).

See the Philidelphia Bulletin, American Thinker and the New York Post on this very subject.

 

UPDATE - NY Post new column:

ISRAEL BETRAYED

PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TREATING OUR FRIEND LIKE A FIEND, AND TURNING PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST AN ALLY

When Barack Obama was running for president, he vigorously reassured voters of his firm commitment to America’s special relationship with Israel. Indeed, he worked to beef up his pro-Israel bona fides long before he even announced his intention to run. In a 2006 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama recounted a helicopter tour over the Israeli border with the West Bank. “I could truly see how close everything is and why peace through security is the only way for Israel,” he said. In that same speech, Obama called the Jewish State “our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy.” During the primary and general election campaigns, Obama dispatched a stream of high-profile Jewish supporters to canvas Florida, and in a 2008 AIPAC speech, he went so far as to declare that Jerusalem must remain the “undivided” capital of Israel.

For all the qualms that anti-Obama “smears” would depress support in the Jewish community, Jews rewarded Obama with nearly 80% of their votes, more than they gave John Kerry.

Just six months into the new administration, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that those who harbored suspicions about Obama’s approach to the Middle East had good reason to be worried. A confluence of factors — including his administration’s undue pressure on Israel, a conciliatory approach to authoritarian Muslim regimes, and the baseless linkage of the failed “peace process” to the curtailment of the Iranian nuclear program — point to what could become “the greatest disagreement between the two countries in the history of their relationship,” as Middle East expert Robert Satloff recently told Newsweek.

This dramatic shift in American policy began several months ago when the administration signaled that it would make the cessation of Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank the centerpiece of its policy to revamp the region. And that approach, mostly hinted at through anonymous leaks, became as good as official when Obama delivered his vaunted address to the Muslim world in Cairo earlier this month. In that speech, Israel (and, specifically, its policy of settlement construction) was the only state to merit specific criticism from the president of the United States. Among all the degradations and injustices in the Middle East, from the abhorrent treatment of women in nations like Saudi Arabia, to Syrian-backed assassinations of pro-sovereignty politicians in Lebanon, to the arrest and imprisonment of gay men in Egypt, the leader of the free world singled out America’s one, reliable democratic ally in the region for rebuke.

Obama’s strategic worldview assumes that once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, other problems in the Middle East will be easier to fix, if not solve themselves. “We understand that Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat,” National Security Advisor Jim Jones told George Stephanopoulos last month. “We agree with that. And by the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution.”

By establishing this connection, the fate of the entire region thus hinges upon the resolution of a problem that hasn’t had a solution for over six decades. This is an awfully convenient view for those who enjoy the status quo, which is why so many Arab despots cling to it, and it’s discouraging to see the Obama administration joining them.

“Linkage” is faulty for two reasons. The first is intrinsic to the peace process itself, as it is going nowhere. And it will continue to go nowhere for at least as long as Hamas — a terrorist organization constitutionally committed to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews — rules the Gaza Strip, which it has controlled since violently seizing power in the summer of 2007. But it’s not just Hamas that remains hesitant to work with Israel. To see the continued intransigence of the Palestinians, witness their bizarre reactions to Benjamin Netanyahu’s momentous speech last week, in which the Israeli Prime Minister, for the first time in his career, announced his support for the two-state solution so obsessively demanded by the international community. The Palestinian Ambassador to Egypt denounced Netanyahu’s pledge as “nothing but a hoax.” The PLO Executive Committee Secretary called Netanyahu a “liar and a crook” who is “looking for ploys to disrupt the peace endeavor.” A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that, “The speech has destroyed all peace initiatives and [chances for] a solution.” And these are the so-called “moderates.”

The second reason why “linkage” is a faulty premise, and why the Obama administration is so foolish to pursue it, is that the problems of the Middle East are not inspired by the lack of a Palestinian state. The biggest crisis in the Middle East right now is Iran’s mad quest for nuclear weapons. Nothing even comes close. Even the Arab states — whose citizens, we are told, cannot rest due to Palestinian statelessness — are letting the world know that their foremost concern is a revolutionary Islamic theocracy with nuclear weapons (As the dramatic and inspiring street protests in Tehran over the past week have amply demonstrated, what really rouses the Muslim “street” is the venality and cruelty of the region’s authoritarian governments, not far-off Zionists reluctant to give Palestinians a state).

Follow the link to read more. This line above alls tood out:

There are even signs of rising anti-Semitism, as a survey by Columbia and Stanford professors found that 32% of Democrats blamed Jews for the financial crisis.

French Muslim Immigrants “protest Israel” by mob theft of a grocery store.

Via Hotair.com:

In Western Europe they are facing a complete breakdown in the rule of law, all while the Euro-left defends them.

Ed Morrissey:

Boycotts are perfectly legitimate free-market forms of protest — but this isn’t a boycott at all. A boycott is an organized effort to stop buying products or services from some offending source. This is an organized theft ring and nothing more. Unless they’re paying for those groceries, which would defeat the entire purpose of the protest, the Palestine Vivra group is committing grand theft and conspiracy to commit grand theft. That’s not a legitimate act of political protest; it’s thuggery. The most ironic part of this video is the frequent references to Israel’s “criminality” while the groups steals everything that they can grab …  and while their fellow countrymen don’t lift a finger to stop them.

Obama Uses Iranian Nuclear Threat Against Israel: Do what we say or we let Iran have nukes….

When people mentioned these kind of concerns the left and the Obama Camp called them crazy and when some hardcore anti-semites were fired from the campaign, they took positions in the administration after the election (LINK & LINK  … of course who can forget THIS).

Now this……

The Age of Australia:

It is bad enough that President Obama uses almost every opportunity he can to set the parameters of a final peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. Now US officials are openly using Israeli anxiety over Iran’s fledging nuclear program as a bargaining chip to force Israel’s hand on giving up control of the West Bank Palestinian territory.

No less a figure than White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel – whose father fought with the militant Zionist group the Irgun, and whose appointment had provided such reassurance to Israeli officials – was quoted this week laying down the law to Israel.

If Israel wants US help to defuse the Iranian threat, Mr Emanuel was reported to have told Jewish leaders in Washington, then get ready to start evacuating settlements in the West Bank.

Talkback radio blazed with fury across the country the same day, as Israelis protested that no US official had the right to tell them where to live.

Speaking of Iran, what is the Obama administration going to do about THIS?

Home from the war… and British troops are greeted by abuse from Muslim protesters

UK Daily Mail -

By Michael Seamark, Andrew Levy and Matt Sandy
11th March 2009

Twice in two years they have fought in Iraq. Twelve of their regimental comrades paid the ultimate price there and in Afghanistan.

Over the past two years they have spent day after day patrolling hostile territory, where every passer-by could have a gun or a bomb.

So the 200 men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment perhaps had a right to expect a heroes’ welcome yesterday on a homecoming parade through Luton.

Venom: Faces contorted with fury, some of the Muslim demonstrator who marred the homecoming of the Royal Anglian Regiment yesterday

 

Returning heroes: Members of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment parding through Luton yesterday after their tour of duty in Iraq

 

Instead, they were faced with the hate-filled jeers of anti-war protesters waving placards saying: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra,’ and ‘Anglian soldiers: cowards, killers, extremists.’

There was a furious reaction from the hundreds lining the streets to support the soldiers – known as the Poachers. Shouting ‘scum’ and

‘no surrender to the Taliban’, they turned on the Muslim demonstrators.

Police were already out in force to protect the anti-war group and arrested two men among the soldiers’ supporters.

Sickening: The protesters had printed out placards, branding the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment ‘cowards’ and ‘killers’

Police closely monitor the anti-Army group as the 200-strong regiment passes through Luton town centre

Last night the mother of David Hicks, a captain with the Royal Anglian Regiment who was killed in Afghanistan in August 2007, called the protests ‘extremely distressing’.

Fatah TV: Death to Israel, Use Your Bodies as Bombs.

Folks this is the “moderate” and so called “legitimate” government of Palestinians. The leader of this government who put out this filth is who Hillary was yukking it up with.

Is this the behavior of peaceful people who want to negotiate?

Sweden: Anti Israel Protest & Vandalism At Tennis Match

If you haven’t seen our previous post on what is going in in Sweden it is definitely a must see. Sweden has let far too many violent radicals immigrate into the country and the results are violence and lawlessness.

Hitchens: UN Resolution to Criminalize Critique of Islam

Hitchens:

A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.By Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, March 2, 2009

The Muslim religion makes unusually large claims for itself. All religions do this, of course, in that they claim to know and to be able to interpret the wishes of a supreme being. But Islam affirms itself as the last and final revelation of God’s word, the consummation of all the mere glimpses of the truth vouchsafed to all the foregoing faiths, available by way of the unimprovable, immaculate text of “the recitation,” or Quran.

If there sometimes seems to be something implicitly absolutist or even totalitarian in such a claim, it may result not from a fundamentalist reading of the holy book but from the religion itself. And it is the so-called mainstream Muslims, grouped in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, who are now demanding through the agency of the United Nations that Islam not only be allowed to make absolutist claims but that it also be officially shielded from any criticism of itself.

And…

It might also help if the Muslim hadith did not prescribe the death penalty for anyone trying to abandon Islam—one could then be surer who was a sincere believer and who was not, or (as with the veil or the chador in the case of female adherents) who was a volunteer and who was being coerced by her family.

Rather than attempt to put its own house in order or to confront such other grave questions as the mass murder of Shiite Muslims by Sunni Muslims (and vice versa), or the desecration of Muslim holy sites by Muslim gangsters, or the discrimination against Ahmadi Muslims by other Muslims, the U.N. resolution seeks to extend the whole area of denial from its existing homeland in the Islamic world into the heartland of post-Enlightenment democracy where it is still individuals who have rights, not religions. See where the language of Paragraph 10 of the resolution is taking us. Having briefly offered lip service to the rights of free expression, it goes on to say that “the exercise of these rights carries with it special duties and responsibilities and may therefore be subject to limitations as are provided for by law and are necessary for respect of the rights or reputations of others, protection of national security or of public order, public health or morals and respect for religions and beliefs.” The thought buried in this awful, wooden prose is as ugly as the language in which it is expressed: Watch what you say, because our declared intention is to criminalize opinions that differ with the one true faith. Let nobody say that they have not been warned.

Read the rest HERE.

Free Speech Coming to an End in Europe (unless your an islamic radical)

Say you want all the Jews to be gassed in an islamist protest is protected speech in Europe, but criticize those who say it and the government moves in to shut you down and prosecute you for insulting Islam (even if youa re telling the truth about it).

This is Geert Wilders. He is a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands. He has been banned from the UK and is being prosecuted in his home country for “hate speech”. His crime is quoting islamists and others such as Winston Churchill about radical Islam. Now those who said the things originally are fine, but dare to quote them and they throw the book at you.

You won’t see this guy in class will you?

Geert Wilders calls for international First Amendment:

Geert Wilders on the O’Reilly Factor:

San Francisco State U: Radicalized Islamists and leftists turn violent at anti-terror protest.

Gator GOP:

The College Republicans at SFSU held an anti-hamas event on campus. They had a petition for students to sign in opposition to Hamas. Playing off the Bush shoe throwing incident, students who opposed hamas were encouraged to throw a shoe at the Hamas flag. Radical leftists and Hamas supporters rallied against the event and became violent. TWO students were taken into custody and charged for attacking the College Republicans.

http://gatorgop.blogspot.com/2009/02/college-republicans-assaulted-2.html

 

Aftermath – Socialists and Islamists demand end to free speech at SFSU:

2/12/09
An anonymous source from inside the Palestinian Club and the Socialist club at SFSU has provided the College Republicans with the following information:

In response to the College Republican’s anti-Hamas event (video below) held on Wednesday the “offended parties” have banded together to push the school to punish the College Republicans for throwing shoes at the Hamas Flag. Over the next few days the coalition will release a statement making the following demands:

-Authorities must drop all charges pending against Muhammad Abdullah and Jeremy Stern, the two protestors that assaulted the College Republicans and stole their property.

-The school must sanction/punish the College Republicans for throwing shoes at the Hamas flag.

-The groups must organize a forum to “educate” students about what forms of speech are not acceptable according to the offended parties, specifically the always ambiguous “hate speech.”

So far we’ve confirmed that the General Union of Palestinian Students and Muslim Student Association are the main players in the push to ban/punish forms of speech that could potentially offend students.

Timeline of violence by leftist/Islamist students at SFSU:

Last week the College Republicans were attacked by a group of radical students on campus. Some protesters openly supported Hamas. One Hamas supporter leaned in to the table and said, “Of course I support Hamas, I voted for hamas! I fought for hamas! How dare you!” Some media outlets and bloggers think this is the opening salvo in a battle to suppress “offensive” speech at sfsu. But the frightening reality is that this kind of thing has been going on at SFSU for quite some time now. The following is a timeline of events that have taken place at SFSU that involve radicals trying to silence political opposition using violence or threats of violence. (Click the link for the timeline).

http://gatorgop.blogspot.com/2009/02/nothing-new-radical-leftistspalestinian.html

Bill O’reilly did a spot on one of the ‘incidents:

O’Reilly said that they look like Al-Qeada. They may be. According to Jihadwatch and some other watchdogs many Muslim Student Organizations are affiliated with or sympathetic to Al-Qeada.

SFSU GOP gets note from the violent student who was arrested and responds:

UPDATE: K Real responds. The arrested protester wrote to us with a dissertation that contained the following literary gems:

-”Standing on that flag could have caused many problems for the USA including a global boycott of US Goods which could have cost the USA billions during a recession. Food for thought homies.”
-”Petty Thefty all that was alleged! My case was thrown out already!!! So what theft? I took my flag back and it is were it belongs!!! “
-”Standing on that flag was like a KKK cross burning. “
-”yeah enjoy laughing at the fact that I have tens of thousands of people who adore me. Don’t be jealous!”

We’re flattered that k real thinks our club could start a global boycott of the United States. Anyone else think he’s giving us WAY too much credit? Whatever, we’ll take it! As far the case being dropped: Are we supposed to be surprised that the San Francisco DA wouldn’t press charges against a protester that attacked Republicans? We would have been shocked if punishment had been sought in the case. The KKK burned crosses to warn of impending violence and used it as a tool of their terror. It was YOU who committed acts of violence, not us. As for the “tens of thousands of people who adore you,” if thinking that helps you get to sleep at night, more power to you.

http://gatorgop.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-information-about-arrested.html

And of course the SFSU administration is covering for those who commit violence and had to be sued for violating the legal rights of College Republicans.

For all the details here is the link to FIRE’s case file on SFSU violations.

Dennis Prager lecture at UC Berkeley: How universities teach anti-semitism and moral obscenity. Why universities should be celebrating Israel’s 60th birthday.

Part 2.

This is a lecture that every college student should see. If you take the campus Israeli/Palestinian conflict class you especially need to watch this lecture because this maybe the very best example of another perspective that you may ever see. Prager is well known for his charisma and logic. The lecture is entertaining and you will not regret watching.

Did the Jewish Resistance Over React to Nazi Aggression in WWII?

The entire “proportional response” argument implies the following narrative:

Israel should count the number of rockets and mortars shot against them and fire the exact same number back, that way it is “fair” and “proportional”.

Do you now see how foolish such a position is? If Mexico had launched 10 rockets a week against the United States and one of those killed your family, would you demand that the United States fire 10 rockets back and stop?

Or would you demand that your government provide some security and see to it that Mexico could never launch a rocket again?

The real question is; how can anyone apply such a preposterous argument against Israel and not expect to get pegged as an antisemite?

This is from our friends at the People’s Cube:

Israel Vows “Disproportionate Response” to Rocket Attacks

Good, tit for tat warfare never works, limited warfare almost never works. It is time that this conflict be brought to an end through victory. Note to anti-semites everywhere, and especially to certain professors at IUSB who know who you are: If Palestinians stop launching rockets and mortars at Israel tomarrow they will have nothing to fear from Israel.

JERUSALEM, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert threatened on Sunday a “disproportionate response” to the continued firing of rockets into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

There have been sporadic rocket attacks by militants on southern Israeli communities and several Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip since a truce came into effect on Jan. 18 following a 22-day Israeli offensive in the territory.

At least two rockets struck southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or casualties. A wing of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group belonging to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, claimed responsibility.

“The government’s position was from the outset that if there is shooting at the residents of the south, there will be a harsh Israeli response that will be disproportionate,” Olmert said at the weekly cabinet meeting after the latest rocket salvo.

“We will act according to new rules which will ensure that we will not be drawn into a war of incessant shooting on the southern border, which would deprive the residents of the south of a normal life,” he said, without elaborating.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL1451625

EU official: Hamas responsible for Gaza

It’s about darn time that the EU got sick of rebuilding Gaza. It looks like the EU is about ready to tell Palestinians to knock it off or get cut off.

JPOST:

Hamas bears an “overwhelming responsibility” for the destruction of Gaza, a senior European Union official said Monday, as he toured the area to see the destruction caused by Israel’s 22-day military offensive there.

But Louis Michel also leveled harsh words against Israel for killing civilians and bombing nonmilitary targets during the fighting.

I almost fell off my chair when I saw this:

Last week, when EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero Waldner visited Israel, she said that the EU would not pay to rebuild Gaza until a government that it found acceptable was in power there.

On Monday, Michel was more frank, saying the EU was tired of paying for the same infrastructure only to have it repeatedly destroyed.

Speaking with reporters later in Tel Aviv, he said, “It is very frustrating that the EU commission and the member states are systematically obliged morally to pay and to pay once more for infrastructures that we have already paid for once or twice or three times,” said Michel.

JPOST: Iran Smuggling New Rockets to Gaza

Folks, this is why wars need to be fought until someone surrenders.

Iran has renewed efforts to supply advanced weaponry to Hamas and the IDF is concerned that the terror group will try to smuggle long-range Fajr missiles into the Gaza Strip.

According to the latest intelligence assessments, Iran, which was responsible for writing Hamas’s military doctrine, has already launched an internal probe to determine how the plan it had created for Hamas failed to cause more IDF casualties.

The military plan created by the Iranians was based on three pillars: The first was the defensive measures that Hamas had created in Gaza, which included dozens of kilometers of tunnels and thousands of roadside bombs and booby-trapped homes.

The second pillar was rocket attacks against the home front. Here too, Hamas failed to fire rockets farther than 40 kilometers, even though it had planned to.

The third pillar was creating a “victory image” in the form of a burned-out tank or the abduction of an IDF soldier.

“Hamas thought it would succeed like Hizbullah did in 2006,” a senior defense official said.

The IDF is concerned that Hamas and Iran will try to smuggle long-range Fajr missiles into the Gaza Strip. Fajr missiles, manufactured in Iran, have a range of 70 km. and if fired from Gaza would easily reach Tel Aviv.

On Monday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that renewed weapons smuggling would be legitimate grounds for Israel to renew attacks against Hamas.

While the Fajr is large – 10 meters in length compared to the two-meter Grads – it is believed that it would be possible to smuggle the rockets into Gaza after it was disassembled into several components and via a tunnel dug especially large for the purpose.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292910127&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hotair.com comments HERE.

JPOST: Hamas raids aid trucks, sells supplies

Recently we reported that Hamas admits to using civilians as human shields and how they gunned down a Palestinian wedding party for the crime of “singing” and now we have this from the jpost:

Jan. 12, 2009
YAAKOV KATZ and JPost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

Hamas on Monday raided some 100 aid trucks that Israel had allowed into Gaza, stole their contents and sold them to the highest bidders.

The IDF said that since terminal activity is coordinated with UNRWA and the Red Cross, Israel could do nothing to prevent such raids, Israel Radio reported.

Between 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the army had ceased all military activity in Gaza and once again established a “humanitarian corridor” to help facilitate the transfer of the supplies.

The Kerem Shalom and Karni crossings had been opened to allow in the aid trucks.

Security officials at Kerem Shalom thwarted an attempt to smuggle electrical goods, disguised as humanitarian supplies, into Gaza. The electrical goods included computers, infra-red cameras, ovens, microwaves and other electronic equipment.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has forbidden the entry of electronics to Gaza since the goods do not fall under the category of humanitarian aid. Some electronic equipment has been let in as per an official Palestinian request, such as equipment used to repair the damaged electrical grid in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel is considering establishing a field hospital in the Gaza Strip to treat Palestinian civilians wounded in fighting between the IDF and Hamas.

The plan would be to establish the field hospital outside the Gaza Strip, but the IDF is also considering the possibility of erecting the hospital inside the Palestinian territory so it will be more accessible to the Palestinian population. It would be run by the IDF Medical Corps.

Also Monday, in an effort to promote Israeli humanitarian efforts in the Gaza Strip, the Defense Ministry launched a new Web site that provides a live video feed of the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing, through which international organizations have been transferring basic foods and medical supplies to Gaza.

The footage can be viewed HERE.

Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, the IDF has facilitated the transfer of close to 900 trucks into the Gaza Strip with over 20,000 tons of basic foods and medical supplies.

VIDEO: Hamas Admits Using Civilians as Human Shields

This clip was recorded by the Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org).

Funny, I don’t remember seeing this on NBC News.

Once again special thanks to Pamela Geller for the video link.

Update – Actual footage of more use of kids as human shields.

Video: Hamas Kids Television

This video is from Palestinian Media Watch. It is a series of clips from children’s TV courtesy of Hamas.

It is disturbing. Again, for some reason, none of this makes NBC News.

And again thanks to Pamela Geller for the video link, she is on a roll lately.

VIDEO: Hamas Slaughters Palestinian Wedding Party

I have a wicked headache today – so there will be just a few updates -

This video is a must see – it shows Hamas murdering a Palestinian wedding party. Their crime: singing at the wedding.

Thanks to Pam Geller for the video lonk.

Anti-Israel Propaganda at the University of California Santa Barbara

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Jonah Goldberg: Who are the real Nazi’s?

Goldberg:

The Fort Lauderdale outburst is just one window on the upside-down world of Israel hatred. Across the Islamic world, and in too many points West, it is still considered a penetrating and poignant insight to call Zionists the “new Nazis.” For instance, in Sunday’s Gulf News, Mohammad Abdullah al Mutawa, a sociology professor at United Arab Emirates University, penned an essay titled “Zionists are the new Nazis.” He began: “Today, the whole world stands as a witness to the fact that the Nazi Holocaust was a mere lie, which was devised by the Zionists to blackmail humanity.”

At a Saturday New York protest against Israel’s military assault on Gaza, some carried signs that read: “Israel: The Fourth Reich”; “Holocaust by Holocaust Survivors”; “Stop Israel’s Holocaust”; “Holocaust in Gaza”; and “Stop the Zionist Genocide in Gaza.”

Type “Israel” and “Nazi” into any news search engine and you’ll be rewarded, or punished, with a bounty of such statements just over the last week or so. Gaza is the new Auschwitz, the Israeli Defense Forces are SS troops … I find myself tempted to simply write “et cetera” because it’s all so familiar by now. But to do that is to dismiss, and therefore accept, such grotesqueries as trivialities, when in fact such charges are deeply revealing — just not about Israel.

First, let us note that if supposedly all-powerful Israel is dedicated to exterminating the Palestinian people, it is doing a very bad job. The Palestinian population has only grown since 1948. There are more Arab citizens living in Israel proper today than there were in all of Palestine the year Israel was founded.

Perhaps one reason Israel fails at genocide is that it isn’t interested in genocide? That would explain why Israel warned thousands of Gazans by cellphone to leave homes near Hamas rocket stockpiles. It would clarify why, even amid all-out war, it offers aid to enemy civilians. It would even illuminate the otherwise mysterious clamor from Israelis for a viable “peace partner.”

But no. For millions of Israel haters, the more plausible explanation is that the “defiant” Palestinians have miraculously survived Israel’s determination to wipe them out.

Meanwhile, calls for the complete extermination of Israel are routine.

Obama is Doing Right by Israel and Deserves Credit

It is no secret that this site has been critical of Barack Obama and has catalogued scores of lies and reversals by him and his campaign. In this case though Obama deserves credit for doing the right thing and keeping his campaign promise by sticking by Israel.

Many articles are appearing in the elite media criticizing Obama for not speaking out on the recent military activity in Israel and Gaza. The criticism is wrong headed and unfair.

First, Obama is not the president yet, it would in inappropriate for him to stick his nose into foriegn policy. He knows that Bush is the president until January 20 and is showing respect for the law in keeping quiet.

Second, Obama ran on a platform of “change” and while his economic policies are a Hoover/Carter retread that will likely lead to a bigger economic mess than we are in now, on Israel Obama’s silence IS change. Remember history, the terrorists in Gaza launch rockets and mortars and kill Jews at any opportunity for months on end, the world says nothing and as soon is Israel responds to defend itself and stop the death of its citizens the world calls for “cease fire” and “peace” this ensuring that Hamas/Hezbollah are not sufficiently dealt with so they can start the cycle of violence all over again. This has been the pattern for as long as I can remember. Obama is bucking that pattern.

Obama is doing the right thing and deserves the proper credit.

Click HERE for our Israel coverage and be sure to read Prof. Dershowitz’ article.

UPDATE: The US has blocked a resolution in the UN calling for a cease fire because it had no language condemning Hamas rocket attacks againat Israeli’s. This is typical of the double standard the UN has used against Israel in the last 25 years.

Gaza Terrorists Fire Mortar from UN School

Via IDF Desk:

Terrorists from the Gaza Strip fire mortars from an UNRWA boys’ school in Gaza on 29 Oct. 2007. Hamas and other terror organizations in Gaza make deliberate use of civilians living in populated areas as human shields.

From 2005 through 2007, Gaza terrorists have fired 2,550 rockets and mortar bombs on Israeli towns.

Antisemitism on the Left: After Suffering Dozens of Rocket Attacks Every Day Only 31% of Democrats Support Israeli Military Action

Today’s Rasmussen Poll:

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans back Israel’s decision to take military action against the Palestinians, but only half as many Democrats (31%) agree.

This is a knee jerk reaction based in a bias against Israel…and why do I say that:

Sixty-seven percent (67%) of those who say they are following news out of Gaza Very Closely support Israel’s military action, while 30% favor diplomacy.

Because those who are paying close attention clearly understand why military force is needed at this time and understand that decades of diplomacy have gotten no where to resolve the issue. Bigotry is often based in ignorance so it is no surprise that those who are the most against the Israeli action are also those who are most ignorant about it. Of course it is no secret that antisemitism is in fashion with the far left.

Israel, Hamas, and moral idiocy

[This is a letter to the editor of the Christian Science Monitor by Prof. Alan Dershowitz. It really hits a homerun with an eloquent explanation of the current situation. - Editor]

Much of the world’s response is a false moral equivalence that simply encourages the terrorists.

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Israel’s decision to take military action against Hamas rocket attacks targeting its civilian population has been long in coming. I vividly recall a visit my wife and I took to the Israeli city of Sderot on March 20 of this year. Over the past four years, Palestinian terrorists – in particular, Hamas and Islamic Jihad – have fired more than 2,000 rockets at this civilian area, which is home to mostly poor and working-class people.

The rockets are designed exclusively to maximize civilian deaths, and some have barely missed schoolyards, kindergartens, hospitals, and school buses. But others hit their targets, killing more than a dozen civilians since 2001, including in February 2008 a father of four who had been studying at the local university. These anticivilian rockets have also injured and traumatized countless children.

The residents of Sderot were demanding that their nation take action to protect them. But Israel’s postoccupation military options were limited, since Hamas deliberately fires its deadly rockets from densely populated urban areas, and the Israeli army has a strict policy of trying to avoid civilian casualties.

The firing of rockets at civilians from densely populated civilian areas is the newest tactic in the war between terrorists who love death and democracies that love life. The terrorists have learned how to exploit the morality of democracies against those who do not want to kill civilians, even enemy civilians.

The attacks on Israeli citizens have little to do with what Israel does or does not do. They have everything to do with an ideology that despises – and openly seeks to destroy – the Jewish state. Consider that rocket attacks increased substantially after Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, and they accelerated further after Hamas seized control last year.

In the past months, a shaky cease-fire, organized by Egypt, was in effect. Hamas agreed to stop the rockets and Israel agreed to stop taking military action against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. The cease-fire itself was morally dubious and legally asymmetrical.

Israel, in effect, was saying to Hamas: If you stop engaging in the war crime of targeting our innocent civilians, we will stop engaging in the entirely lawful military acts of targeting your terrorists. Under the cease-fire, Israel reserved the right to engage in self-defense actions such as attacking terrorists who were in the course of firing rockets at its civilians.

Just before the hostilities began, Israel reopened a checkpoint to allow humanitarian aid to reenter Gaza. It had closed the point of entry after it had been targeted by Gazan rockets. Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, also issued a stern, final warning to Hamas that unless it stopped the rockets, there would be a full-scale military response. The Hamas rockets continued and Israel kept its word, implementing a carefully prepared targeted air attack against Hamas targets.

On Sunday, I spoke to the air force general, now retired, who worked on the planning of the attack. He told me of the intelligence and planning that had gone into preparing for the contingency that the military option might become necessary. The Israeli air force had pinpointed with precision the exact locations of Hamas structures in an effort to minimize civilian casualties.

Even Hamas sources have acknowledged that the vast majority of those killed have been Hamas terrorists, though some civilian casualties are inevitable when, as BBC’s Rushdi Abou Alouf – who is certainly not pro-Israel – reported, “The Hamas security compounds are in the middle of the city.” Indeed, his home balcony was just 20 meters away from a compound he saw bombed.

There have been three types of international response to the Israeli military actions against the Hamas rockets. Not surprisingly, Iran, Hamas, and other knee-jerk Israeli-bashers have argued that the Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilians are entirely legitimate and that the Israeli counterattacks are war crimes.

Equally unsurprising is the response of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and others who, at least when it comes to Israel, see a moral and legal equivalence between terrorists who target civilians and a democracy that responds by targeting the terrorists.

And finally, there is the United States and a few other nations that place the blame squarely on Hamas for its unlawful and immoral policy of using its own civilians as human shields, behind whom they fire rockets at Israeli civilians.

The most dangerous of the three responses is not the Iranian-Hamas absurdity, which is largely ignored by thinking and moral people, but the United Nations and European Union response, which equates the willful murder of civilians with legitimate self-defense pursuant to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

This false moral equivalence only encourages terrorists to persist in their unlawful actions against civilians. The US has it exactly right by placing the blame on Hamas, while urging Israel to do everything possible to minimize civilian casualties.

• Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School. His latest book is “The Case Against Israel’s Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace.”

Muslim Protestors in Copenhagen: “The Jews Are Allah’s Enemy”

Europe is foolish to let so many radicallized muslims immigrate, but one reason so many are let in is because antisemitism has never fallen out of fashion in Europe (Hat Tip Ed Morrissey).

So much for so called “Western European tolerance”.

Jews shot in Denmark:

A gunman wounded two Israelis working at a packed central Denmark shopping mall Wednesday, Danish police said.

The two wounded men are Israelis in their 20s, police spokesman Lars Thede said. He said it was too early to speculate on whether they were targeted because of their nationality.

Yup, just another isolated incident….

Bibi Netanyahu Statement on Latest Israeli Military Action

Special thanks to Brian Sikma for the heads up on this video.

Youtube Showing Anti-Semitic Bias Again – Censoring the New IDF Channel

Thats right I said again…

Via the great Michelle Malkin:

Color me unsurprised: Bob Owens notes that YouTube is censoring content on the Israeli Defense Forces video channel.

YouTube didn’t earn the AllahTube and DhimmiTube nicknames for nothing!

Greg Jarrett Takes Lying Palestinian Apologist Apart

This is an example of the outrageous antisemitic and anti-israeli propaganda that is peddled by the media in Europe, the Middle-East and some far left sources around the world and in some universities. Greg Jarrett isn’t having it and its about time someone stood up to liars like these.

Special thanks to Hotair.com for posting the videos.

Israel Strikes Back After Scores Of Attacks from Gaza – World Shows Idiotic Double Standard – UPDATED!

Today Condi Rice over at the State Department called for a cease fire in the Gaza Strip. Hey Condi, where was your call for cease fire when Hamas was firing dozens of rockets at Israeli civilians? It would be easy to just chalk up the worlds glaring double standard when it comes to warfare to antisemitism, but after examining this issue for years, and examining how so many governments have one standard for Jews and another for everyone else, I believe that antisemitism is exactly what it is.

What would the United States do, if year after year, with some support from the Mexican government, they launched rockets and terror attacks against the United States and its civilians along the border? I will tell you what we would do, we would either conquer it and make it the 51st state, or we would occupy it and place a puppet government in Mexico City.

Yet the world has encouraged limiting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to “tit for tat” warfare.  History shows that such warfare never leads to peace, it has just lead to generations of hate and deaths that do not need to happen. What the Israeli/Palestinian conflict needs is a clear and decisive winner and that winner should be Isarel. The Palestinians have been able to come up with what is only one corrupt and terror supporting government after another.

It is time for the Isareli/Palestinian conflict to come to and end for good. Then and only then, will the killing stop and there can be peace.

Update: IDF still sending humanitarian shipments to Gaza:

Update: IAF takes out Underground Missile Launch Site in Residential Area – Missile at site misfires after attack: