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.

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.

No, the greatest scandal, the real horror is linked to the enthusiasm with which, from wall to wall, the entire international community was quick to wave the banner of anti-Israelism without taking into account the truth, not giving a damn about the videos in which one sees how the Israeli soldiers who wanted to inspect the contents of the convoy were welcomed with iron hammers, knives, hand grenades and gunfire. An examination of the aggressive origin and the declared intentions of the pro-Hamas suicide terrorist organizations on board the Marmara don’t matter to Clinton or Ashton. Also, the international context was not taken into account – that of a Turkey linked to Iran, a supplier of weapons to Hamas, and which is increasingly determined to find its place in the sun of radical Islam.

The scandal that we warn of is about the lack of the world’s morality, integrity, and civilization, which immediately declared Israel the criminal; it’s about the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council, as well as the race of many different countries to declare their disapproval of Israel. This, yes, is a huge scandal and the wave of hatred on behalf of the European and American ruling classes, the “main stream,” of the international press with its headlines on numerous pages that repeat similar condemnations without appeal, the satisfied hate of academics and of student movements: it is like a pile of straw that waits only for the match to be struck, burst into flames and then wretchedly finishes by threatening the Jews of the Roman Ghetto. Indeed this is the proof of a theorem that the sociologist Renato Mannheimer often explains: we are talking about anti-Semitism when charges against Israel fall upon all Jews. And, in reverse, we add: we are talking about anti-Semitism when Israel alone is loaded with charges that are not directed against any other country; and when the accusations are based on lies; when anti-Jewish stereotypes like blood libel is used, depicting Israeli soldiers who really intended to kill poor pacifists, or – as it was the case of the article published in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in August 2009 – Israeli soldiers that rip out the organs of Palestinians in order to sell them. Greedy and bloodthirsty, as must be Jews.

It’s too unfair that while Hillary Clinton, together with her government, abandons Israel to the “non-aligned countries”, all ignore the news that an American drone killed along with the Al Qaeda leader Mustafa Abu al Yazid, his wife and three sons. We have not heard that this, and many similar incidents, have been brought to the attention of either the Security Council or the Human Rights Council. The Turks have killed in southeastern Anatolia and in northern Iraq something like 32 thousand Kurds. Where is the shock? In Darfur there has been talk of 300 thousand deaths and over two million displaced persons. Oh yeah? So what? In Sri Lanka, right when, in 2009, Israel was trying to stop the firing of missiles upon its civilian population (not even one resolution on behalf of the UN), there were 6500 civilian casualties in two months. In China, on July 2009, the violent repression of the Uyghurs in Urumqi led the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – while the Human Rights Council condemned Israel 27 times out of a total of 33 – to chirp that there was an “extraordinary number of people killed and injured in less than a day of rioting”. It neither appears that China is under investigation, nor is Iran, for all those it hanged, persecuted or killed.

On Israel, the moralizing obsession instead builds a myth that designs the unworthiness of Israel to exist. The lies are obsessive: the Jews, said Arafat and since then it has been continuously repeated, have never been in Jerusalem, the Temple never existed. A gross lie, functional to the techniques of de-legitimization that feeds upon the alleged cruelty of Israel: Israel intentionally killed the child Mohammed Al Dura, who instead probably died from a Palestinian bullet in a shootout; Israel committed a huge massacre in Jenin, where instead it has been revealed that the dead – almost equal in number – fell in a battle in which the Palestinians were well prepared; the Durban Conference in 2001 and then in 2009, made of Israel, along with the chorus of the world, an “apartheid state” – a lie repeated nonstop. The verdicts of condemnation on the defense barrier by the International Court of Justice of The Hague in 2004, and the Goldstone report against Israel in 2009, have simply forbidden Israel to defend itself.

Why should it, if it doesn’t have the right to exist? European elites, as we unfortunately read also yesterday in an article by a writer as Alessandro Piperno in the Corriere della Sera, variously repeated this ominous prophecy, an expression of nihilism that portrays the savage vitality of Ahmadinejad. But Israel is fine. It’s said by its magnificent writers, as well as demonstrated in its booming economy, medical sciences, music, cinema and children, who are capable of sacrifice and a complex life between war and their love for peace. On its side there is life; and in life the enemies exist, and they are sometimes frightening and dangerous.

In all this, we are proud that Italy voted against the request by the UN for an international investigation into the Israeli blitz.

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.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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.

In a joint police-Shin Bet operation, Ahmed Ahmed, 21, Jalib Janam, 26, Wassim Allam, 23, Khidar Ziddana, 22, Ahbed Abu-Salim, 19, Adi Azzam, 23, and Oman Kakhibi, 22, all Nazareth residents, were arrested between May 11 and June 21. All seven were indicted Monday at the Haifa District Court. Dep.-Cmdr. Avi Elgrisi, Head of Amakim Police’s Central Unit told The Jerusalem Post that “this is one of the most dangerous cells we have uncovered.” The investigation was initially focused on two suspects, before being widened to include a total of seven suspects, he said, adding that police are expected to make more arrests in connection with the investigation.

The seven said that they founded a group called Aljahabiyya and claim to follow Salafism, an extremist Sunni Islamic movement. Aljahabiyya was formed two years ago, and inspired by and affiliated with al-Qaida and Global Jihad. The group underwent a process of radicalization, using material found on the Internet, including pictures of weaponry and instructions to prepare explosives and perpetrate terrorist attacks. The seven downloaded al-Qaida propaganda movies and speeches by Osama Bin Laden.

‘Suspects accessed jihadi ideology and indoctrination’

“They accessed the Internet for jihadi ideology and indoctrination, and used it as an information source to listen to extremist clerics,” Elgrisi said.

The group allegedly carried out attacks to avenge the murder of Arabs by Jews in Israel, and confessed to plotting to kidnap IDF soldiers and take their weapons.

Ahmed, Janam and Zidanna were involved involved in the murder of taxi driver Yafim Weinstein, who was killed on November 30, 2009, as well as other attacks. In their interrogation, the three confessed to ordering Weinstein to a kibbutz near Nazareth, where one shot the taxi driver, and others assisted in destroying evidence. They reenacted the murder and led investigators to the place they hid the murder weapon used to kill Weinstein.

Weinstein, 54, a Nazareth Illit resident, was found murdered in his cab outside Kfar Hahoresh in November, leaving behind a wife, children and a grandchild. Details of the investigation were under a gag order until Monday morning.

The Shin Bet also found that after the murder, Ahmed and Janam attempted to travel to an al-Qaida training camp in Somalia to join the fighting against the Christian “heretics” as well as against the US, but were barred from entering Somalia at the Kenyan border.

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.”

The men also threw stun grenades and Molotov cocktails at Jewish- and Christian-owned businesses and homes in the town. They burnt Christian tour buses, and dealt in arms.

They also stabbed a pizza delivery man in Nazareth Illit, stealing his scooter and NIS 100.

“On the criminal front, we are searching for criminals who sold weapons to the suspects,” Elgrisi said. “Security suspects will also be arrested.”

In April 2009, Elgrisi led an investigation into a terror cell made up of six Israeli Arabs and a Beduin from the North who had reached an advanced stage in their plot to carry out an attack on Israelis.

The cell had prepared several explosive devices and simulated the kidnapping of soldiers while engaging in Internet communications with a terror operative based in Gaza, known as “Abu Kassam.”

The cell filmed their preparations, Elgrisi said last year, adding that in one exercise, a cell member pretended to be an IDF soldier while the remainder of the group practiced abducting him.

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.

First, they came for the settlers. Then, they came for the secular Israeli pro-peace demonstrators in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv. And then they came for ….you and me.

Predictably, sadly, my three local area New York City newspapers present this tragic news in very different ways.

Tali and Yitzhak Ames with five of their children

Kochava Even-Chaim

Avishai Schindler

Allow me to first quote from the Bible of the intelligentsia, aka the New York Times, which presents this incident on page 4, not on page 1; the early pages are usually reserved for all incidents in which Israelis fight back so that Israeli “evil” is seen immediately and framed as among the most “important” world news of the day. The accompanying Times headline? Unbelievably, it is this: “Killing of 4 Israeli Settlers on the Eve of Peace Talks Rattles Leaders on Both Sides.” It’s really not clear who killed the “settlers.” What is clear is that “both sides” are “rattled.” The piece opens with a paragraph that made me see red, both literally and metaphorically. It reads as follows:

“The killing of four Israeli settlers, including a pregnant woman, in the West Bank on Tuesday evening rattled Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of peace talks in Washington and underscored the disruptive role that the issue of Jewish settlements could play in the already fragile negotiations.”

Note: This opening paragraph literally blames the past and future peace failures on the Israeli settlements. The Times neither blames nor characterizes Hamas accurately. It does not say the Arab Muslim terrorist group, Hamas — the Palestinian version of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, probably also backed by Iran and Hezbollah, and the group which is claiming responsibility for the attack — is also responsible for a deadly civil war with the not-so-moderate President Abbas; an Islamist war on Palestinian women, homosexuals, and dissidents; and a jihadic war against the Jews, which began a long time ago and which will never stop until either such terrorist leaders and their propaganda are utterly vanquished militarily or until the Jews have been driven out of the Holy Land once again.

On the contrary. The piece also positions President Mahmud Abbas as the “good” guy who, like his negotiating partner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has “condemned” the attacks. Yes — even as Abbas is busy honoring the Palestinian terrorist who planned the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic games, Amin Al-Hindi, as well as the Palestinian terrorist Omar Muhammad Ziyada, who murdered an Israeli civilian in a human bomb homicide in 2002.

The Gray Lady does not even tell us the names of the Israeli civilian victims, nor are they in any way humanized. Their histories are not presented. They are only “particularly militant settlers”: faceless, shadowy figures. We are not supposed to care about them. We do learn what Hamas said about the attack, namely that it was a “natural response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers.” We also learn that “hundreds” of Hamas supporters “took to the streets … to celebrate the news of the attack.”

Shame on you, Isabel Kershner and Mark Landler (who share this byline of infamy), and shame on your editors. Continue

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.

But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media. I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.

Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman”.

“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.” The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.

But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”. The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.

There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.

Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.

Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.

Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.

But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.

As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost. Oink!

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.”

The goblins do not hijack El Al. Not any more. …Some years ago two pirates attempted to take over an Air Iberia flight from Madrid to Rome. The passengers killed them, the stewardesses covered them up with blankets, and opened the bar. [What is Spanish for "Now comes Miller Time?"] …More recently a troll seized a girl in a Philippine bank, doused her with gasoline, and threatened to burn her if he was not given all the ready money. The customers not only beat him to death, they actually dismembered him!

This is how the Israeli military, and indeed Israeli civilians, need to treat the goblins. Put them down and put a round through each one’s head to make sure or, if no firearm is available, slam one’s heel into each one’s head (aim inside the head and not at its surface) until it stops moving. When its family tries to bury it, it had better do so in secret unless it wants an IAF plane to drop a bomb and solve even more problems. Goblins are not human beings with human rights, they are things to be exterminated like the menaces to civilization they are.

Hamas leader rejects talks with Israel reinforces this position

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder that the Islamic militant group cannot be ignored in any Mideast deal.

…Hamas has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s shootings, a vivid reminder that the Iranian-backed group may be locked out of the peace negotiations but remains a key player in determining their outcome.

Fine; they reject compromise and admit their guilt, so kill them on sight and kill them to the last man. We would in fact go so far as to encourage the IDF and groups of armed Israeli civilians to hunt and kill them for sport. Israel needs to traumatize Hamas, and the United States Al Qaida, to the point where the survivors will be glassy-eyed shells of human beings who cringe if even one word is spoken in Hebrew or English respectively. Terrorists understand only the most basic argument of the most savage primate, i.e. a club over the head, and that argument needs to be made as frequently and forcefully as necessary to break the cycle of violence.

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.

Gibbs boasted that the Palestinian Authority had condemned the attack. In reality what the Palestinian Authority had said was that the attack went “against Palestinian interests”. As condemnations go, this is right up there with, “Don’t sell drugs while the police are watching my house” and that all time champion, “I am completely against adultery in an election season”. The Palestinian Authority did not condemn terrorism. It condemned the attack because it wasn’t in their interest today to murder the Ames’ and their friends today. Tomorrow it might be again.

Meanwhile the US is funding a Palestinian Authority ad campaign aimed at Israel, which suggests that Abbas and his terrorist gang is interested in peace, and Israel isn’t. So while Obama talks about being evenhanded, he is actually funding a series of domestic attack ads against Netanyahu, and for Abbas.

The media coverage has proven to be every bit as human as Gibbs and Crowley, focusing on the murders only in terms of their potential for disrupting the negotiations. This has been the modus operandi for almost two decades now, as articles have run off the press treating every murder of Israelis not in terms of the dead, but in terms of what it will do to the prospects for a terrorist Palestinian Arab state.Continue

See alsoKids Celebrating the massacre of Jews in Gaza.

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

How does one explain to a two-year-old that his ima will not return? Photos

How does one share the news with an eight-year-old girl that the mother she loved, the one who brought her up and cared for her, can no longer brush her hair or make sure her collar is straight when she leaves the house for school?

How do you tell a new bride that her husband, the one with whom she planned her future, her children, her life will not be coming home?

May Hashm help these families through this very difficult time. May BiBi’s heart be hardened against these brutes, and may the entire country answer this terrorist act in the only way it must be answered:

BUILD! BUILD!! BUILD!!!

Thousands should descend upon the land of Israel with tools and materials in hand building in the name of the people who have given their blood for our land.

May giant cities be constructed in the name of these five victims.

Yes, five.

I know the secular press will not say it, but a baby in its ninth month is, clearly, halachly, a human being. A victim of terror before drawing a breath.

May Hashm bless us all, and protect us from these savages and their co-conspiritors: those signing letters of boycott against their brothers, those spying under the guise of “peace,” those wearing the cloak of political progressives while furthering the cause of Islamic fascism. May they all learn what it is to fear the LORD.

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Hundreds attend terror victims’ funerals, Read more

Family members weep, tear clothes as four victims of Tuesday’s shooting attack brought to Beit Hagai synagogue. Victim’s husband says ‘it’s cowardice to shoot woman in moving car’ while Knesset speaker vows ‘construction will be Zionist response to terror

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. ”

Lepante’s View

His camera shows that Muslims “are blocking the streets with barriers. They are praying on the ground. And the inhabitants of this district cannot leave their homes, nor go into their homes during those prayers.”

“The Muslims taking over those streets do not have any authorization. They do not go to the police headquarters, so it’s completely illegal,” he says.

The Muslims in the street have been granted unofficial rights that no Christian group is likely to get under France’s Laicite’, or secularism law.

“It says people have the right to share any belief they want, any religion,” Lepante explained. “But they have to practice at home or in the mosque, synagogues, churches and so on.”

Some say Muslims must pray in the street because they need a larger mosque. But Lepante has observed cars coming from other parts of Paris, and he believes it is a weekly display of growing Muslim power.

“They are coming there to show that they can take over some French streets to show that they can conquer a part of the French territory,” he said.

France’s Islamic Future?

If France faces an Islamic future, a Russian author has already written about it. The novel is called “The Mosque of Notre Dame, 2048,” a bestseller in Russia, not in France.

French publisher Jean Robin said the French media ignored the book because it was politically incorrect.

“Islam is seen as the religion of the poor people, so you can’t say to the poor people, ‘You’re wrong,’ otherwise, you’re a fascist,” Robin explained.

The book lays out a dark future when France has become a Muslim nation, and the famous cathedral has been turned into a mosque.

Whether that plot is farfetched depends on whom you ask. Muslims are said to be no more than 10 percent of the French population, although no one knows for sure because French law prohibits population counts by religion.

But the Muslim birthrate is significantly higher than for the native French. Some Muslim men practice polygamy, with each extra wife having children and collecting a welfare check.

“The problem of Islam is more than a problem of numbers,” said French philosopher Radu Stoenescu, an Islamic expert who debates Muslim leaders on French TV. “The problem is one of principles. It’s an open question. Is Islam an ideology or just a creed?”

“It doesn’t matter how many there are,” he aded. “The problem is the people who follow Islam; they’re somehow in a political party, which has a political agenda, which means basically implementing Sharia and building an Islamic state.”

In Denial or Fed Up

From the 1980s until recently, criticizing or opposing Islam was considered a social taboo, and so the government and media effectively helped Islam spread throughout France.

“We were expecting Islam to adapt to France and it is France adapting to Islam,” Robin said.

About the burqa controversy, one French Muslim man told a reporter that Europeans should respect Muslim dress. One Parisian woman wearing a headscarf said “the veil is in the Koran” and “we only submit to God and nobody else.”

But even if many government elites are in France are in denial over Islam, the people in the streets increasingly are not. Some have become fed up with what they see as the growing Islamization of France.

They’ve started staging pork and wine “aperitifs,” or cocktail parties in the street. They’re patriotic demonstrations meant to strike back against Islam. Another national demonstration is planned for Saturday, Sept. 4.

A Warning to the West

The French parliament is expected to debate the burqa law in September. Jean-Francois Cope, president of the Union for a Popular Movement political party, has a warning for the West and for America.

“We cannot accept the development of such practice because it’s not compatible with the life in a modern society, you see,” he said. “And this question is not only a French question. You will all have to face this challenge. “