Archive for January, 2007

Britain Joins Most Of Europe, Asia In Embracing Hamas

Omri Ceren

Published: January 31, 2007Posted in: Britain, EuropeTags:

Remember the time when we accused the Italian ambassador of lying, because he was giving interviews where he promised that European countries would have nothing to do with Hamas? Let’s review that particular statement again:

He boasted that it was in 2003, when Italy held the rotating EU presidency, that Hamas was listed as a terror organization by the block. “As you know when it comes to Hamas, Italy and the European countries are very firm in maintaining that Hamas need to accept Israel before accepting them as a political interlocutor,” he said.

Sounds pretty committed, don’t he?

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To Boisterous Lack Of Applause From The Mainstream Left, Jerusalem Registers Its First Married Gay Couple

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: NewsTags:

Good:

Jerusalem officially registered its first homosexual couple as married Monday, three months after a ruling by the High Court of Justice paved the way for same-sex couples to be listed in the Interior Ministry’s Population Registry. Binyamin and Avi Rose married on June 28 in Toronto, Canada, but immediately returned to Jerusalem to start building their life together.

“We did the civil ceremony in the hopes that we would eventually be able to make legal what we felt inside,” said Avi, an informal Jewish educator for the Young Judaea youth movement. “We wanted the government of Israel to recognize that we are a couple. It was no more of a statement than [coming from] a ‘regular’ couple, but we are both committed Zionists and are hopeful that our union will bring more progress on this issue.”

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Bonus Outrage: Abbas Rejects Two-State Solution, Eilat Bombing Happened After Israel Released Money To Him Anyway

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: PalestiniansTags:

It was more or less their answer to an Israeli peace gesture:

A Fatah spokesman has condemned the suicide bombing at a bakery in Eilat, in which three Israelis lost their lives. But Fatah terrorists have also taken responsibility for the attack, along with other Palestinian groups. Indeed, an announcement endorsing the attack can be seen on the Arabic Web site of Fatah’s Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, flanked by a portrait of Yasser Arafat (http://tinyurl.com/3yhwrx). This attack came four days after Abbas and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke on the same panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos and shortly after Israel released, ostensibly to the control of Abbas, $100 million in Palestinian tax revenues collected by Israel.

Obviously, this is a man that needs our full support and who should be bolstered with troops and money. Because he’s putting them to good use. Oh – and about that whole “he’s a partner for peace” thing:

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The Oh-So-Moderate Abbas Urges Palestinians To Unite, Target Israelis

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: PalestiniansTags:

What an awful – and predictable – thing for Abbas to say:

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Did The NYT Just Admit That The Defensive Fence Works?

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: NewsTags:

It sure sounds like it:

Three Israelis who worked in the bakery were killed by the blast; it was the first time that Eilat, isolated at the very southern tip of Israel, has ever been hit by a suicide bombing. The town was apparently a target because Israel’s web of defenses and travel restrictions on Palestinians has made it extremely difficult for bombers to reach Israel from the West Bank, the source of virtually all suicide bombings in Israel in recent years.

Not that anyone will remember this the next time that some jagoff decides to start a global protest about Israel’s “Apartheid Wall”. Because why should Israel be allowed to build useful defenses if they inconvenience the Palestinian public that supports suicide bombers and the Palestinian voters who elected a terrorist government? That’s just totally unreasonable, right?

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EU Condemnation Of Eliat Bombing Make No Sense, Is An Insult

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: EuropeTags:

Assholes:

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Video: Radical Islam In Britain – “The Summit of Islam is Jihad”

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: Britain, Islamic TerrorismTags:

“I don’t believe them because they are kuffaar and lying is part of their religion… these are pathological liars… we want to do away with the man-made laws… we hate the kufr”.

It’s not that anyone’s shocked that Muslims are advocating conquering Britain through violent jihad, one in which the unbelievers are killed. No one’s shocked about the sexism, the homophobia, or the bigotry. But that these things are said openly in one of the bastions of Western tolerance – and that it’s continuing without major public action rather than hand wringing – is devastating:

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As If You Needed More Proof, It Turns Out That The US Policy of Arming “Moderate” Terrorists Doesn’t Work

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: NewsTags:

One of the perennially frustrating aspects of US Mideast diplomacy is how the State Department insist that the best-of-all-Palestinian-evils is someone who should be actively supported. So when it was Hamas vs. Arafat, they supported Arafat – even though Arafat was an unrepentant terrorist. And now that it’s Hamas vs. Fatah, they’re committed to supporting Fatah with troops and training. We went off about this a couple weeks ago:

Of course the IDF objects to this engagingly idiotic idea:

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Israeli Restraint: A Contrarian View In Favor?

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: NewsTags:

Just to be clear: there are two issues here. One is the manifest global bias that will blame Israel for anything, no matter how absurd the charge. The other is the objective tactical wisdom of staying out of Gaza and the West Bank right now.

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Now Watch Israel Not Retaliate For Yesterday’s Suicide Bombing

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: Islamic TerrorismTags:

Early reports are that Israel is mobilizing the IDF for operations in Gaza:

Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the IDF on Monday night to prepare plans to target Palestinian terror organizations and Islamic Jihad terror chiefs in the Gaza Strip as a response to the suicide attack in Eilat that killed three Israelis earlier on Monday morning.The IDF also immediately reinforced troops along Israel’s fenceless border with Egypt, which security officials said the bomber used to infiltrate into Israel… Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a Kadima faction meeting that for “a long time, Israel [had] enjoyed the illusion of quiet.” Olmert said that in recent months, Israel had prevented numerous terror attacks. The prime minister said he would consult security officials, and only after all relevant intelligence had been collected would the IDF decide on a course of action.

For those of you confused by what “a course of action” means, it basically means that the IDF will do nothing:

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Video: Giant Sword Armed Wii Controlled Robot. What Could Go Wrong?

Omri Ceren

Published: January 30, 2007Posted in: RobotsTags:

This week in welcoming our new robotic overlords:

It’s like we’re trying to get conquered.

Previously: Bad Week For The Future Of Humanity. Great Week For Future Robotic Overlords., “One Day Robots Could Fool Us Into Believing They Are Human”, Excuse Us While We Geek Out – God Particle Glimpsed Edition

Another Day, Another Blood Libel Carried By Arab Press

Omri Ceren

Published: January 29, 2007Posted in: NewsTags:

How has the Arab public become so pathologically, neurotically, genocidally anti-Israel? The constant circulation of age-old anti-Semitic blood libels might have something to do with it:

An Israeli promotional campaign involving balloons caused panic among Lebanese civilians yesterday when the wind carried them over the border into southern Lebanon. The Lebanese media reported that some civilians were hospitalized after inhaling the gas in the balloons. However, the photographs published on the Web site of Hezbollah’s TV station Al-Manar show green balloons from a promotional campaign for Ha’ir, a Schocken group newspaper. Lebanese sources said the balloons reached the southern Lebanese cities of Nabatiyeh and Tyre… Lebanon’s official news agency claimed that they were “poisoned balloons” dispersed by IDF aircraft.

Yes, that’s right. Israel released poisoned balloons meant to kill Lebanese civilians. Because that’s totally reasonable – Israel always goes on campaigns to indiscriminately kill civilians, right? That’s just what they do. Which is why they need to be wiped out. It all makes perfect sense.

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Video: Iran Is Evil, Threatens To Destroy Israel, Murders Homosexuals

Omri Ceren

Published: January 29, 2007Posted in: Academia, IranTags:

Apologists like Juan Cole are fond of writing incoherent posts proving this or that Western “fabrication”, which their reality-based followers then pass around the internet with sneers about how qualified the apologists are. One of Cole’s more idiotic claims is that Ahmednejad never threatened to destroy Israel. And again:

Probably just mistranslations. Again.

Previously: Juan Cole is Intellectually Dishonest, Part [Insert Big Number Here], Juan Cole As a Study In Pro-Jihadist Faux Liberal Sophistication, Juan Cole – Fraud

LA Times Forgets To Mention Fatah’s Responsibility For Today’s Suicide Bombing

Omri Ceren

Published: January 29, 2007Posted in: Islamic Terrorism, PalestiniansTags:

Here’s a fun game for JBloggers to play. How many articles from major news outlets can you find that correctly link the Al Aqsa Brigades to this morning’s suicide bombing but that fail to mention that they are members of President Abbas’s Fatah party? We’ll start everybody off, with Richard Boudreaux’s report for the Los Angeles Times.

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Anti-Jewish Violence Skyrockets In Europe – Maybe It’s Not Just Anti-Zionism After All

Omri Ceren

Published: January 29, 2007Posted in: EuropeTags:

Well here’s something we never could have guessed:

Last year saw a substantial rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, Austria and the Scandinavian countries, according to the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism. In an annual press conference, the forum explained that 2006 was characterized by escalation in the number and violent nature of attacks on Jews, proliferation of Holocaust denial and increased comparison of Israel to the Nazi regime. Jewish Agency chair Zeev Bielski commented that, “Anti-Semitic phenomena in Europe are very grave and countries like France and England are struggling to handle them.”

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