Dershowitz, NGO Monitor: Probe Amnesty’s Israel biases
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

BERLIN – A group of prominent political, academic and Middle East commentators from the international board of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on Monday for an “independent evaluation of biases in Amnesty’s activities and publications, particularly related to Israel.”
The head of Amnesty International’s Finnish branch, Frank Johansson, sparked outrage last week when he termed Israel a “scum state” on his blog, a statement he has since removed following The Jerusalem Post’s disclosure of his anti-Israel remarks. Read More

The story the Tundra Tabloids broke to the English speaking world (h/t: Vasarahammer) is still continuing to boil on the surface, with the latest mention coming from the J’lem Post concerning the joint statement by Alan Dershowitz and NGO Monitor demanding a probe of Amnesty International’s anti-Israel bias. It’s high time that it happened. KGS
Click here for the entire facts on the Scum-Gate affair.

By Ted Belman

At the WJC meeting yesterday, I was thrilled to meet Fiamma Nirenstein who is now a Senator in the Italian Parliament. She is a author of many books and a noted journalist. She gave a very upbeat talk at the conference (I will link to it when I find it) and advised that many people in Europe are beginning to accept that Israel has been and continues to be unfairly treated. She is also a member of the Friends of Israel Innitiative that Irwin Cotler had a hand in creating. Hose Maria Azner, Spain, who is a founder of this group delivered the Keynote address, Defending Israel to Defend Ourselves

Israel today is nothing less than essential to us, not only because the Jewish state is located in the very region where the strategic tectonic plates collide, but because Israel is one of the few nations willing to pay a price for its survival.

Here is a article, The real terrorism is the lie against Israel, written by Fiamma Nirenstein on, 3 June 2010

It really is a shock, as said Ban Ki Moon, as said the governments who recalled their ambassadors, Turkey, Sweden, Greece, Jordan. It is a shock, oh yes, as said Hillary Clinton and as Tony Blair declared. It is a horror as the EU Foreign Minister Lady Ashton said… it is a big scandal: but we’re not talking about the battle undertaken and which, unfortunately, caused nine deaths, between the armed activists of the Marmara ship and the Israeli forces, who tried to lead the convoy loaded with unidentified goods and people to Ashdod, so as to avoid handing over potential explosive to Hamas, letting it continuing the launch of six thousand missiles into Israeli territory, as far as Tel Aviv.
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Barak: Israel May Divide Jerusalem, Internationalize Holy Basin
Interesting!! Yamit

Saeb Erekat: “I am a liar” (video)

Over the past few days, Israelis have been inundated with a slick advertising campaign, financed by the US and created by the left wing “Geneva Initiative,” to convince them that the current government does not want peace and that Palestinian Arabs do.

Here is my take on one of the commercials, starring everyone’s favorite liar, Saeb Erekat.

2nd Terror Attack on Highway 60, 2 Jews Shot

Fatah Renegades, Hamas Compete for Credit of both shootings

Shin Bet Arrests Seven Terrorist Scum Accused of Murders, Plan to Kidnap and Behead Israeli on Tape
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This is one of the most dangerous cells we’ve uncovered’
7 Israeli Arabs nabbed for 2009 cab-driver murder; Shin Bet, police say Al-Qaida-inspired terror suspects planned to kidnap IDF soldiers, murder Christians “heretics” for “insulting Muhammad.”
By YAAKOV KATZ, YAAKOV LAPPIN AND JPOST.COM

Three others planned to kidnap a Nazareth resident and behead him on video, but did not do so. Elgrisi said that they had even dug a grave for the Christian man who “insulted the prophet Muhammad.”

Seven Israeli Arabs affiliated with al-Qaida and Global Jihad have been arrested for allegedly murdering a taxi driver last year, and carrying out a series of terrorist attacks, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed on Monday. (Read more…)

Laura: Here are photos from the funerals. The little girl crying is especially heartbreaking. Bibi needs to get home and declare an end to these farcical talks. There is no possibility of peaceful coexistence with genocidal sub-human jihadist monsters. Israel should have exterminated hamas while they had the chance during Operation Cast Lead and ignored the outcries of the hypocritical UN, EU and the rest of the international community, which has expressed not an ounce of outrage about the cold-blooded murder of Jews as they do when these same mass murdering jihadis are killed by Israel. It’s a sick and twisted world. I refuse to succumb to political correctness and pretend islam is a religion of peace. It is a murderous death cult and a blight on humanity. As for the NYT and the rest of the msm, these parasites regard these murdered Jewish civilians as “settlers” thereby deserving of their fate according to big media.

Seeing Red: Jewish Blood on the West Bank, Its Portrayal in the Western Media

by Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas Media

Tales From The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post

Four young civilians — human beings, fathers, mothers, one of whom was also pregnant, collectively the parents of seven children — were brutally gunned down by armed, masked terrorists. Their murders were openly celebrated in the streets by their attackers and by thousands of their supporters.

You would think that the world would recoil in horror — or that those who report the news, worldwide, would do so. Think again. These four precious souls were Israeli “settlers” and, as such, have already been so demonized that they are now seen as having provoked their bloody, pitiless deaths. (Read more…)

Andrew Breitbart is a media genius.

He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart’s handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal.

It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.
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Kill them and then cluster-bomb their funerals
by Bill Levinson

I come to thee for charitable licence,
That we may wander o’er this bloody field
To book [count, identify] our dead, and then to bury them;
Montjoy the herald in King Henry V

Respect for the dead has been a standard of warfare since the days of the Iliad, in which truces were often called and observed so both sides could retrieve and bury their dead comrades. The custom of firing a volley during a military funeral may have originated in the pike and shot era, when the volley signified that the soldiers had completed the funeral and were ready to resume combat.

This tradition and courtesy is reserved for soldiers as opposed to terrorists who ambush and murder civilians. Our position is accordingly that Israel should deliberately target the funerals of Hamas terrorists with cluster bombs and similar munitions whose purpose is to kill as indiscriminately as possible–noting that many Hamas members will doubtlessly be present to have their limbs blown off and their bodies ripped apart. Israel needs to make it clear that it does not recognize terrorists as soldiers or even as human beings, a point that the famous firearm instructor Jeff Cooper made clear by using the word “goblins” to refer to enemies of civilized Humanity. The following shows what Colonel Cooper might call the “right mindset.” (Read more…)

Laura: Regarding the genocidal islamic jihadists who slaughtered four Jews near Hevron, including a pregnant woman. These are the sub-human monsters Israel is expected to negotiate with and surrender Jewish land to. The idea of land for peace is ludicrous. What it really amounts to is land for more terror and the shedding of Jewish blood. There is no peaceful coexistence to be had and nothing to compromise with those whose aim is the obliteration of the Jewish homeland and the genocide of Jews. Bibi should declare that talks are null and void. As far as the media is concerned, the murder of Jews by islamic terrorists is caused by Israel’s “occupation” and these people were “settlers”, therefore understandable and justifiable according to the msm. The only problem the media sees with this slaughter of Jews is how it will effect the bogus “peace” process.

There Will Be No Peace

Daniel Greenfield, the Sultan Knish

On Monday all the talk in the news was of an Israeli Rabbi who had called on G-d to strike down Abbas, the head of the terrorist Palestinian Authority, and the rest of his gang. On Tuesday, terrorists murdered a pregnant woman and three other people. The same media that dedicated a great deal of time and energy to condemning Rabbi Yosef for inciting violence, wasted no such time on discussing the constant incitement to violence practiced by the Palestinian Authority media under Abbas’ authority. Earlier this month Abbas had participated in a ceremony honoring the Munich Massacre terrorists. But the media has never been particularly interested in discussing Muslims calls to violence, only in tarring any opponents of Muslim terrorism in the darkest and ugliest shades.

The murder of four Israelis and an unborn child was described not in terms of their human toll, but their political toll. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs condemned the terrorists as “enemies of peace”. The six orphans no doubt thank him for his concern for “peace”. State Department spokesman PJ Crowley dispensed with the human side entirely, warning that, “There may well be actors in the region who are deliberately making these kinds of attacks in order to try to sabotage the process”. A statement that could have been produced by a particularly unfeeling computer. (Read more…)

PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE PREGNANT WOMAN’S VICIOUS MURDER AND THREE OTHERS BY PASSING OUT SWEETS…….
How disgusting is this? Remember folks, these are the people the “aid flotilla” activists are trying to help run the anti-weapons blockade Israel and Egypt have set up for the whole of Hamastan. KGS Photos

Funeral For Five Victims: Avishai Shendler, 24; Kochava Even-Haim, 37; Talya Imes, 45; her husband Yitzhak Imes, 47; and their unborn baby

B”H

How does one explain to a two-year-old that his ima will not return? Photos
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By Dale Hurd, CBN News Sr. Reporter

PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.

This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.

It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status.

An ordinary French citizen who has been watching the Islamization of Paris decided that the world needed to see what was happening to his city. He used a hidden camera to start posting videos on YouTube. His life has been threatened and so he uses the alias of “Maxime Lepante. ”
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By Yossi Beilin, Bloomberg

If there were even the slightest chance of the talks succeeding, I would say it was worth making one more attempt. However, in this situation, there is almost no such chance, whereas the grave implications of failure are both clear and painful. I call upon the U.S. administration to hurry up and change the goal of the talks. They should deal with what the parties are prepared to implement, and not with what they are forced to do as a result of American pressure: open negotiations on a partial and temporary agreement. [..]

Netanyahu’s Constraints

This is no simple matter. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would find it difficult to persuade his voters to uproot settlements and withdraw from most of the West Bank without any mention of the finality of the dispute, or of other advantages that would arise from a permanent peace agreement.
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By Ted Belman

At the WJC I struck up a conversation with a Jewish lawyer from Hungary who was a delegate. I expected he shared my views on the Muslim problem in Europe but he didn’t. We talked about the EU v nationalism. He was all for the former. I asked for his views on the Muslims and he said that they are needed for the economy and do not represent a threat. Germany, he said is doing a good job of integrating them. No problemo.

When when I got back I had this email from Crystal K who runs the group list Europeans who Support Israel

New attacks against Thilo Sarrazin, a great German accused of ‘racial incitement’ by a politically correct german gov’t, after his new book speaking up the truth on turkish and arab immigration. Shame on Angela Merkel. Even more shockingly, the misplaced attacks come also from the jewish side, again! as we remind in a previous post, here below.
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Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Jerusalem Post editor Caroline Glick shares the Israeli view of the coming peace talks in Washington.

Washington’s Israeli allies

by Caroline Glick

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads to Washington for another stillborn round of talks with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas hosted by US President Barack Obama, he will probably be preoccupied with one issue.

It won’t be Obama’s bigoted demand that Jews be prohibited from building synagogues, schools and homes in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu won’t be wondering how long Abbas can keep up with his “Palestinian president” act before his people chase him out of town. Abbas’s term ended in January 2009.

Israel’s elected leader will be thinking about Iran. He will be wondering how the US government will react if he sends the IAF to bomb Iran’s nuclear installations. Will the US permit IAF jets to overfly US-controlled Iraqi airspace? Or will Obama follow the advice of his foreign policy mentor Zbigniew Brzezinski and order the US Air Force to shoot down those jets, abandon the US-Israel alliance and embrace a new role as protector of Iran’s nuclear weapons program? (Read more…)

By Ted Belman

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent out a newsletter on the direct talks which said

Components of peace

Israel approaches these negotiations with great hope, in a belief that a workable peace agreement can indeed be achieved. From Israel’s perspective, such an agreement should address three basic principles: security, recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and a complete end to the conflict.

Today at the WJC meeting, after listening to the panel on Israel’s security needs, I complained that all we hear about from Israel is that we demand security. Big deal that that is the first order of business.
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Threat would create Palestinian country outside of coordination with Jewish state

By Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – If Israel and the Palestinian Authority fail to reach an agreement within the next year, the Obama administration could support a United Nations resolution that would unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, senior PA officials told WND.

The officials were speaking ahead of a major summit that starts today in Washington to launch direct talks between Israel and the PA. The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan will also take part in the summit.

Sources in both the PA and Israel told WND the Obama administration did not impose any preconditions for the summit, a move that is somewhat out of character for the U.S. president. It was Obama who urged Israel to halt all Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as a precondition for indirect negotiations last November.
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Today I am live blogging from the conference of the WJC.

Dore Gold
- futher redeployment is req’t of Oslo
- spose to be up to Israel
- US wanted a second redeployment of 35%.
- politics and diplomacy came before security early on
- Netanyahu reversed this now. Security first.
- the Arabs are now concerned about Iran and not Israel
- Dore says this is a rare opportunity for Israel
- in Washington Israel will discuss security first
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Laura: As if a mosque at ground zero is not enough of an outrage and an affront to Americans, the terrorist front group, the muslim brotherhood, will receive taxpayer funded stimulus grants. Our soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan fighting islamic jihadis only to have our own government use OUR money to aid the stealth jihad being waged against us at home. Furthermore, this amounts to the government favoring a specific religion, islam, which it is not supposed to do but is doing so time and time again. This is unconstitutional aside from the obscenity of providing government grants to those waging war against America.

Coming August 31: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood

Posted by Christine Brim, Big Peace

Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.

On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.

The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference): (Read more…)

Is “Never Again” Just a Slogan?
by Bill Levinson

From Baha’i woman recalls imprisonment in Iran This looks almost exactly like what Nazi Germany did to Jews during the late 1930s. Perhaps Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is now placing orders for Zyklon B…

Baha’i blood is “mobah,” which means members of the Baha’i faith can be killed with impunity, the report says. Iranian authorities view Baha’is as “heretics” who may face repression on the grounds of apostasy.

Since 1979, the Iranian government has executed more than 200 Baha’is and more than 10,000 have been dismissed from government and university jobs, the commission’s report says. Baha’is may not establish places of worship, schools, or any independent religious associations in Iran. In addition, Baha’is are barred from the military and denied government jobs.

Looking at our situation objectively; For Israel to have even a modicum of security and so called secure borders it is obvious that Israel needs to expand her territory not contract them. Yamit

ISRAELS CRITICAL SECURITY NEEDS FOR A VIABLE PEACE
In light of a widening range of threats to Israel’s security, for the first time a group of senior Israeli generals has come together to outline the basic principles of a defense policy – rooted in a consensus spanning past and present Israeli governments – which is focused on Israel maintaining defensible borders.
The crisis over the Hamas flotilla to Gaza illustrates how some of Israel’s critical alliances in the Middle East are changing, especially its relationship with Turkey, and the importance of designing a defense policy that takes into account the uncertainties that Israel faces with many of its neighbors.
Recent events only underscore that it is critical for Israel to preserve the principle of defending itself by itself. Read More

Jews Wake Up! We Are All Targets And Under Attack! Start connecting the dots. Yamit
Time for Jews to Behave Like Madmen,

by Karmel Melamed

According to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s report, on the evening of August 26th three men, now identified as local Iranian Jews, were found murdered inside their apartment located on the 600 block of North Kings Road in West Hollywood.

The victims, who were found by Sheriff’s deputies shot to death, were identified as Pirooz Moussazadeh, 27; his brother, Shahriar Moussazadeh, 38; and Bernard Khalili, 27, said Craig Harvey, chief of investigations for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Read More

Four Jews Murdered in Arab Terror Attack Near Hevron

by Gil Ronen

Terrorists murdered four Jewish civilians in a shooting attack at the Bani Naim junction just south of Hevron Tuesday evening. Emergency service paramedics could do nothing to save the victims whose bodeis were riddled with numerous bullets. The terrorists reportedly made sure their victims were dead by shooting them from close range after the initial fusillade.

According to report on Channel 2 television, the victims are two couples, and one of them is a pregnant woman. The IDF is combing the area, searching for the terrorists.

Initial reports said one of the victims had a license for a firearm that was suspended shortly before the attack.

Hamas and Fatah are blaming each other for the terror attack. Read More

Analysis: An attempt to torpedo peace talks
By YAAKOV KATZ

The attack near Kiryat Arba sends a clear message that peace talks are not accepted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, under direction from Iran. Read More