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HAMAS IS A 7TH CENTURY PROBLEM

To understand why, let’s step into a time machine and go back to the spring of 632. The Byzantine Emperor Heraclius is engaged in the first of a series of wars with Mohammed’s maddened followers. England is divided into seven quarreling kingdoms. Across the water, the Merovingians are killing each other in ways that would give George R.R. Martin nightmares. Meanwhile in a more civilized part of the world, China’s fading Sui Dynasty fields an army of over a million men in a failed effort to invade Korea.

Back in Medina, Mohammed had come down with the sniffles. He had a fever and a headache and there wasn’t any Tylenol around for miles. Mohammed hadn’t been a very good man and he made a very bad patient. Upon being told that he had pleurisy, he claimed that only people possessed by Satan came down with that disease so he couldn’t possibly have it and instead blamed the Jews for poisoning him.

His own homemade cures, such as bathing in seven skins of water from seven different wells, didn’t help. But before he died, he managed to make the Middle East an even worse place by ordering the ethnic cleansing of Jews and Christians.

Israel Is the Victim of Mohammed’s War Against the Jews




How Can Justin Amash be the “Conservative” Candidate if he Supports Illegal Alien Amnesty?




SHAMELESS

The biggest problem with Hard Choices was always the title. The Clintons don’t make hard choices because they have no impulse control.

That’s what led Bill Clinton to harass every woman within a hundred mile radius and it’s also why Hillary Clinton allowed herself to be recorded laughing about the time she helped a rapist who beat a 12-year-old girl into a coma beat the rap. It’s why the greedy couple stole White House furniture, traded pardons for cash and grabbed every bit of loose change that they could get their sweaty hands on.

The Clintons have always been oblivious to their own vulgarity. They have never understood how they embarrassed their own political allies. Hillary’s gaffes about money, like Bill Clinton’s gaffes about sex, are symptoms of their obliviousness to their lack of self-control.

Hillary’s Greed is Destroying Her Presidential Campaign




Hillary Clinton Suggests Hamas Backer Mediate Between Israel and Hamas




THIS IS THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY

“There were people – babies – thrown through the window and covered with blood,” an eyewitness described the horrifying scene.

“The worst thing I saw, which I think will haunt me all my life, is a baby that was sitting in a stroller outside a shop and was dead,” another eyewitness related.

One of the Hamas terrorists involved in the attack described her reaction and the Muslim reaction.

“While I was on the bus and everybody was congratulating one another, they said on the radio that there had been a martyrdom attack at the Sbarro restaurant, and that three people were killed. I admit that I was a bit disappointed, because I had hoped for a larger toll. Yet when they said ‘three dead,’ I said: ‘Allah be praised.’”

“Two minutes later, they said on the radio that the number had increased to five. I wanted to hide my smile, but I just couldn’t. Allah be praised, it was great. As the number of dead kept increasing, the passengers were applauding.”

The Baby Killers of Gaza


You can find a Hebrew translation of this article at my Hebrew blog, undertaken by Dan Bornstein. And there are plenty of other translated articles there.

Lawyer for Muslim Who Killed Wife for Not Cooking Goat, Says Prison Life Without Goat Will be Hard




ARE THERE REFUNDS FOR CONGRESS?

Sometimes I buy things and I’m disappointed when they don’t work right. I can just imagine how someone would feel when they bought Congress.

But that’s the tragic situation that Messrs Buffett, Adelson and Gates nee Microsoft find themselves in. They bought Congress and it isn’t giving them amnesty. What’s wrong with Congress, they ask in a New York Times editorial. They paid good for money it. Why won’t it work?

Billionaires Who Bought Congress Say They Feel “Shortchanged”




Who’s Ready for a 3rd Hillary Clinton Book?




CIVILIZATION'S END

“What I saw this afternoon in front of the synagogue of La Roquette, Paris:

-I saw a hundred pro-Palestinian activists rushing to the synagogue

-I saw a group of forty Jews outside defending 160 worshipers inside in an atmosphere of pure urban guerrilla.

-I’ve seen a dozen men, 50-55 years, Gil Taieb, dripping with sweat after the fight. I saw Fabien limping after a nasty blow to the leg. I was told after he was over 60.

-I saw a 40 year old woman say “I threw a chair at their faces, these bastards.”

Eyewitness Accounts of Muslim Attack on Paris Synagogue



David Brock Claims Hillary’s Bad Book Sales are a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy




THEY'LL HAVE TO SETTLE FOR PEPSI

He’d had enough of the hundreds of rockets in the sixth day of Operation Protective Edge, and the thousands before then, and for three hours refused to move his vehicle parked across the two-lane road leading to the crossing point, at the southern end of the Strip.

He said one of the bombs landed between two houses in the community, near the shelter where the children slept.

“I have no problem with them receiving humanitarian aid,” he told Israel’s Channel 2 News. “Gas, fuel, medical supplies – no problem,” he said. “But cola and all these other luxuries? They fire at us and we’re giving them goods so they can keep firing?”

“At night, my children cry, but the goods pass”

Israeli Truck Driver Blocks Coca Cola Shipment to Gaza




DUH

Shlomo Avineri is an expert on Marx and Engels. He was a fervent advocate of negotiating with the PLO and ended up heading Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A Likud MK even compared him to “Lord Haw-Haw”, the British traitor who had broadcast from Berlin during World War II and was later executed)

Avineri’s awakening process was really slow.

“We were incredibly stupid…. We thought they wanted a state, and a two-state solution, but it turns out that they want to destroy Israel, because they cannot/will not accept any form of Jewish national self-determination.”

Israeli PLO Sympathizer: “We Thought They Wanted a State…. But it Turns Out They Want to Destroy Israel.”




FEAR NOT

Maybe the Iranians developed some special Jew-guidance system or Jewdar for Hamas’ rockets, but considering how many times those rockets have fallen on Muslim houses and hit Muslims, the system seems to be a little defective.

Or maybe those Muslims are really secret Jews.

Hamas Tells Israeli Muslims Not to Worry, Their Rockets Only Hit Jews




UK Jihadist Who Appeared in “No Life Without Jihad” Loses Life




IS IT A BIRD, IS IT A PLANE...

On Sunday, the M75 missile hit the front yard of Taher Tameem, 32, leaving a crater in the ground. The bomb’s blast blew out his living room windows, and pierced the entrance to the home and its interior with shrapnel.

At the time of the explosion, late Sunday afternoon, Tameem, his wife and three young children were seated in the kitchen, a dark interior room, preparing food for the evening’s Iftar, the meal that breaks the daily Ramadan fast.

“This is so good,” agreed Tameem, the homeowner. “I saw the missile as a blessing from the sky, because it comes from Hamas. Good for Hamas!”

West Bank Muslims Thrilled that Hamas is Bombing Them




More Foreigners Than Americans Have Confidence in Obama




IF AMERICA WERE MORE LIKE BULGARIA

The 3m-high fence, which has taken a week to build and was completed on Thursday, has already reportedly brought the number of illegal arrivals down to 300 per month compared with 2,000 people each month this time last year.

So Bulgaria can put up a 30 kilometer fence in a week, but we still can’t close off the border.

Bulgaria Puts Up Fence to Keep Muslim Illegal Aliens Out



BRAVE NEW WORLD: Government Wants Talking $30K Shopping Carts to Tell Food Stampers to Eat Healthy



NO SALE

Non-Jews found it easier to immigrate to some Latin American nations. Mexico admitted only 400 Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1945, but issued at least 16,000 immigration visas to Spanish loyalist refugees between 1938 and 1945, and over 1,400 visas to Catholic Polish refugees between 1939 and 1941.

Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.”

Using the Holocaust to Argue for Illegal Alien Amnesty




Harry Reid: The Border is Secure, Now We Need Illegal Alien Amnesty




WELL LIBERALS HATE IT

Maryland State Police have classified anti-immigration graffiti spray painted on the former Army Reserve Center in Westminster as a hate crime.

The graffiti was sprayed sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning, according to Lt. Patrick McCrory, commander of the state police Westminster barracks. The graffiti said “NO ILLEAGLES [sic] HERE NO UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS.”

Condemning Illegal Immigration Now Prosecutable as a Hate Crime




TO RULE THEM ALL

What we are seeing is an emerging ideological authority that uses the state as one of its mechanisms of power, alongside everything from cultural institutions to organized activism. It makes no meaningful distinction between governments, non-profits, elected officials or activists. It sees itself as omnipresent and omninterventionist.

When everything is politicized, then nothing is private. That’s one of the creepier and nastier things about the left. Nothing is truly interior. Everything is subject to external regulation, whether through the power of the state, through mob power, through cultural power, or any other number of social justice interventions.

The Infinite State is Our New Religion




Neither Egypt nor Israel Want Kerry to Come

... from the comments

 Borax • Can we add the USA to that list? We don't want Kerry to come back here either.




Kerry Tells Congress Iran Sanctions a Good Idea, State Dept Denies He Ever Said It




HAMAS FINAL DESTINATION

The Gaza “child” is veteran horror movie actress Stephanie Honoré who is thirty. The whole point of these bloody photos is to shortcut rational thinking and push an emotional reaction to the fore.

Hamas and its Western defenders know that it doesn’t matter where they get their photos or whether they’re real. They know that if they saturate social media with enough of them, they can create the emotional reality of an atrocity.

Hamas Tries to Pass Off “Final Destination” Horror Movie as Israeli Atrocity





RT’s Abby Martin Hysterically Defending Putin on Twitter




LIBERALS ARE ALL HEART

Yellen is all heart. Sure she’s devaluing the dollar, but she’s doing it for the poor unemployed who will really benefit from higher food prices.

In unusually emotive language for a central banker, she talked about the “psychological trauma” suffered by the unemployed and their families.

So let’s keep hiking up commodities prices while devaluing their savings so they can be really traumatized by being unable to buy food.

Fed’s Yellen Vows to Continue Devaluing Dollar for the “Unemployed”




Leslie H. Gelb: “Fight Islamic Theocracy and Terrorism by Allying w/Iran”





VIVA LA REVOLUCIA

You just know these two are on a faculty somewhere teaching Marxism-Leninism. After this, they’re going to host a little tea at home for their colleagues while talking about how exciting spending an hour screaming about the Jews was.

White British Leftists in Keffiyahs Hate “Cheap Jewish Settlements”




Turkish Dictator Who Looks Like Hitler Compares Young Israeli Woman to Hitler




COUNTDOWN

Ordinarily it would have been rather hard for anyone to have the standing to challenge Obama’s illegal DREAM amnesty. But the attempt to force Arizona to issue drivers licenses to the illegals may have put the case on a path to the Supreme Court.

Will Obama’s Illegal DREAM Amnesty be his Next Big Supreme Court Loss?





THE ROUNDUP

Edward Cline writes about the Cujo Meme of Islamic terrorism.

And here is the Cujo Meme:  It is a cinematic analogy of how our State Department and Hollywood perceive Islam and Muslims, perceptions mirrored in their treatment of Muslims and Islam (and also of illegal immigrants), in film and at the negotiation tables. 

Muslims are just like friendly, docile St. Bernard dogs. But, bitten by the rabid bats of Islamophobic distortions, persecution, isolation, lies, discrimination, and attitudes of moral superiority by Westerners, the lovable dog goes mad and occasionally goes on a rampage against its tormentors.  

It's a tragedy that some people lose their lives in such incidents, but, who can blame the killers? They have legitimate grievances that have not been addressed with any sincere understanding or compassion. The hegemony of Western "civilization" must be challenged and dissolved if there is to be "peace." If there's violence, it's all our fault, not that of those going on rampages. Can one really morally judge dogs infected with rabies?

But Islam is basically a good dog. See? It's that simple. This has been the contextual premise of our foreign policy for a long time, and Hollywood's, as well.

That reminds me of my own piece, Housebreaking Islam...

About the only countries who thwack Islam on the nose anymore are America and Israel, and they do it all too lightly, and hardly say "Bad Dog" anymore. No wonder the house is full of crap, the kids need tetanus shots and the "dog" is running the house.

As the riots, murders, gang rapes and bombings across Europe show, a lot of people would rather learn to live like dogs, than stand up to the pack. But that kind of whipped cur attitude isn't limited to Europe.

Not only can't our governments say "Bad Dog" anymore, even civilians aren't allowed to say it on a freelance basis, let alone deliver a good solid thwack to the nose of the mangy curs. Forget about housebreaking Islam, the way things are going Islam is housebreaking us.

THE WAVE

They assume that the public sector unions, especially teachers, will be OK with this new pool of Democrats--who will vote mind you--as they also keep alive schools, and a range of government benefit programs on which public sector employees increasingly rely for their own employment. The DNC is sticking a big middle finger in the air and waving it at the private sector unions and their members, the black churches and the black middle and working classes, and, of course, nearly the entire non-elite white electorate of the USA. Taxpayers no longer have any clout. The Federal bureaucracy has become the armed implementation wing of the DNC.

We are seeing the Democratic Party openly reinvent itself, without any shame or purpose of evasion, into a party of career bureaucrats, educators, and crony capitalists, kept in power by stupid young people, Hollywood, the growing ranks of dole recipients, and, of course, the wave of  poor hispanics. 

Arguably the worker to clerk reinvention had happened a while ago, and across the West, where even the Reddest parties became the parties of government clerks and non-profit activists.

The labor unions that matter are increasingly government unions. The rest work for the liberal man.



IF...

If you understand Hebrew and can tolerate rap,




ASPIRATION

It is never enough to desire freedom. It is never enough to long for liberty. One must be compelled by their conscience to act to bring about that freedom. Zionism represents both the intrinsic desire within man to be free and the bringing about of that same freedom into fruition.

Chloe Valdary at Times of Israel.