Gaza Sewage Flood: Palestinians Brought It On Themselves!

Again, sorry about the slow posting. I'm stepping it up at school; only 29 days left (not that I'm counting, or anything).

Anyway, a few days ago the media was weeping for Palestinians killed in Gaza from a sewage flood. But some of us know why their sewers aren't working.

The MSM failed to mention this little tid-bit of info about them ripping up their own Israel-funded sewer to make rockets which they subsequently kill Israeli civilians with.

They did manage to blame it on fighting "between" Israel and Palestine:

Aid officials said plans to build a larger waste-treatment facility had been held up for years by perpetual fighting in the area between Israel and Palestinians

Fortunately, I saw no direct blame levied at Israel. But for years Palestinians have been criticizing Israel for not allowing the import of the pipes needed for the sewers. But can you blame them when Palestinian terrorists, supported by a majority of the Palestinian population, rip these pipes out of the ground daily to convert to rockets? I know I don't.

I said it before:

It just shows that these Palestinian terrorists don't have Palestine's best interests at heart, they just want to destroy Israel. And what kind of person is invested in the annihilation of an entire people? You know, other than Hitler and the Muslims.

Judge Allows Terror Supporter A Trip To Disney World

Isn't our justice system wonderful?

A federal judge in Illinois on Thursday approved a request for a trip to Disney World by a man who the government had once accused of aiding Palestinian militants, brushing aside prosecutors' claims that he may instead flee.

"I'm confident that he will come back," U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve said in giving former Chicago grocer Muhammad Salah permission to make the trip to the Florida vacation spot....

..."I get to take it off," a smiling Salah told reporters after court, pointing to a bulge under his left sock where the government has placed an electronic monitoring bracelet to make sure he stays under house arrest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Ferguson opposed allowing Salah to take off the monitoring bracelet or make the trip.

"His word has been found worthless by a jury," Ferguson said.

And libs bitch that we're being cruel to terrorists! We're letting them go to Disney World!

I don't know this guys' story, but if he's been convicted of aiding terrorists, he should be hanging from a tree somewhere. If he's suspected of terrorism, he should be sitting in a concrete room awaiting trial. Don't be surprised when this guy flees the country and ends up in Palestine killing Jews, or Iraq killing American soldiers.

(Hat tip: Jawa)

Israeli Killer Robot

Cool:

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli defense firm on Thursday unveiled a portable robot billed as being capable of entering most combat zones alone and engaging enemies with an onboard armory that includes a machine-pistol and grenades.

The VIPeR, roughly the size of a small television, was invented as part of Israel's efforts to develop weaponry that could reduce the risks to its forces from hand-to-hand fighting against Palestinian or Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.

The manufacturer, Elbit Systems Ltd., said that the VIPeR's small size and dual treads enable it to move "undeterred by stairs, rubble, dark alleys, caves or narrow tunnels".

As well as bomb-sniffing and bomb disposal equipment, the VIPeR can carry an Uzi machine-pistol or plant a grenade. The weapons would be aimed using an onboard video camera.

According to Elbit, which has close links with the Defense Ministry, Israel plans to deploy the VIPeR among its infantry units after field tests. The robot could also be of interest to foreign police units or U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sound almost as cool as their robot bee assassin. Actually, this sounds more feasible.

I think this is a picture of it:

Palestine Shoots Self In Foot, Blames Israel

Apparently the Palestinians have been bitching about the condition of their sewers, saying that their streets are flooding with sewage because the Israelis won't allow the needed pipes through road blocks. (Hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)

As it turns out, the Israelis are saying that Palestinian terrorists are digging up the pipes to convert into rockets to launch into Israel and kill innocent civilians. Who do you believe? I think Israel has earned a little more of my trust, seeing as how they don't target civilians, run massive propaganda efforts, or throw children off the roofs of schools.

Reports The Jerusalem Post:

A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, who worked as a metal merchant at the Karni Crossing, was arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) earlier this month for allegedly selling pipes, which he would buy in Israel, to terror groups who used them to manufacture Kassam rockets, it was released for publication on Sunday...

The pipes that were sold to Zak were intended for civilian use, and specifically for the construction of a sewage system in the Gaza Strip.

So, I could believe that now Israel isn't letting the pipes into "Palestine," and why would they? Just so the people who ripped the original ones out of the ground can use these as weapons, too? The Palestinians have brought this upon themselves. And yes, I know not all Palestinians are terrorists, but a large majority of them support the efforts of Hamas and encourage the destruction of Israel. You get what you give.

It just shows that these Palestinian terrorists don't have Palestine's best interests at heart, they just want to destroy Israel. And what kind of person is invested in the annihilation of an entire people? You know, other than Hitler and the Muslims.

A True Hero Turns 79

Happy Birthday Ariel Sharon. You're not forgotten.

Edwards Doesn't Apologize

The third Democrat in so many days to completely eat his words regarding the affairs of the Middle East and the War on Terror:

WASHINGTON John Edwards' presidential campaign wants to make it clear that he doesn't consider Israel a threat to world peace.

A spokesman for the 2008 Democratic candidate issued a statement today denying such a report on Variety.com.

Columnist Peter Bart reports that Edwards told a Hollywood fundraiser last month that the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities is perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace.

Edwards' spokesman Jonathan Prince says the article is erroneous. He says Edwards says one of the greatest short-term threats to world peace is Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Israel Condemned For Self Preservation - Nothing New

Isn't it nice to see a mainstream media story that's sympathetic toward Israel? Too bad I can never find any:

Lebanon's military says it has fired anti-aircraft rounds against Israeli jet fighters violating its airspace.

The aircraft were flying at low altitude over southern Lebanon, but none appear to have been hit.

It is reported to be the first time the Lebanese military has fired at the Israeli aircraft, which make regular sorties over southern Lebanon.

Beirut and the United Nations say the flights violate a ceasefire agreement sanctioned by the UN Security Council.

Israel says the sorties are to make sure that weapons are not being smuggled into southern Lebanon to re-supply Hezbollah militants.

The UN says the flights undermine the efforts of its peacekeepers to maintain stability in the area.

Hezbollah and Israel fought a 34-day conflict in 2006, in which Israeli air power caused massive destruction to south Lebanon. Fighting ended in August under the terms of the UN ceasefire resolution.

The UN continues its anti-Israel BS and this article reports the UN's view unquestioningly. Maybe if the UN ever did anything right and would take care of business in S. Lebanon, making sure Hezbollah wasn't rearming, then Israel wouldn't have to check.

Egypt - Our Allie In The Sand

Hat tip to LGF for this gem - a little reminder that Islamic states are still insane:

A member of the Egyptian Parliament from President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party said Monday that nothing short of a nuclear bomb would ‘work’ with Israel.

“That cursed Israel is trying to destroy al-Aksa mosque,” Mohamed el-Katatny of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) told the Egyptian Parliament, adding “nothing will work with Israel except for a nuclear bomb that wipes it out of existence.”

The harsh statement was uttered during a heated discussion of Israel’s renovation of the Mughrabi walkway near the Temple Mount. Egyptian parliamentarians claimed that Israel was destroying the Al Aksa mosque.

Mitt Romney Loves Cars More Than Jews

Wow. The Democrats lost absolutely no time in slamming Mitt Romney as a racist:

Republican Mitt Romney's choice of a museum honoring auto pioneer Henry Ford as the site of his presidential announcement was strongly criticized Monday by Jewish Democrats, who noted Ford's history of anti-Semitism.

The former Massachusetts governor, who is scheduled to formally launch his presidential candidacy from the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit on Tuesday, was taken to task by The National Jewish Democratic Council.

The council "is deeply troubled by Governor Romney's choice of locations to announce his presidential campaign," executive director Ira Forman said in a statement.

"Romney has been traveling the country talking about inclusiveness and understanding of people from all walks of life," Forman said. "Yet he chooses to kick (off) his presidential campaign on the former estate of a well-known and outspoken anti-Semite and xenophobe."

Forman said Romney's "embrace of Henry Ford and association of Ford's legacy with his presidential campaign raises serious questions about either the sincerity of Romney's words or his understanding of basic American history."

My bullshit meter almost exploded as I kept reading these libs' complaints. Theirs is the party that could care less if every Jew in Israel were wiped off of the map. They're the party whose base frequently derides Jews on any one of their left-wing blogs. Would they criticize someone for launching their campaign from the MLK Jr. Museum - after all, he was a know womanizer, and communist sympathizer.

Indict Ahmadinejad

Hat tip to LGF who linked to this online petition at Aish.com, calling for the indictment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under the UN Genocide Convention. The Petition states:

We, the undersigned, call on the international community to indict Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to commit genocide, as per the UN Genocide Convention which classifies "incitement to commit genocide" as a crime against humanity.

They also have a powerful video with evidence of his crimes to incite genocide against Israel and the West. Sign the petition, I did (not that the UN will do anything about it).

Carter's Cash

National Review has a great article up about Jimmy Carter's anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian terrorist book, and the question's the it raises about where Carter gets his funding.

The Question of Carter’s Cash
In which our reporter follows the money

CLAUDIA ROSETT

Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.

Even in Carter’s long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book’s entire approach, Carter includes a “Historical Chronology,” from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center’s Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” As this article goes to press, more protest resignations, this time from the Carter Center’s board of councilors, appear to be in the works.

If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carter’s book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carter’s presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carter’s self-proclaimed mission to save the world.

In recent weeks, a number of articles have noted that Carter’s anti-Israeli views coincide with those of some of the center’s prime financial backers, including the government of Saudi Arabia and the foundation of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, whose offer of $10 million to New York City just after Sept. 11 was rejected by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani because it came wrapped in the suggestion that America rethink its support of Israel. Other big donors listed in the Carter Center’s annual reports include the Sultanate of Oman and the sultan himself; the government of the United Arab Emirates; and a brother of Osama bin Laden, Bakr BinLadin, “for the Saudi BinLadin Group.” Of lesser heft, but still large, are contributions from assorted development funds of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as of OPEC, whose membership includes oil-rich Arab states, Nigeria (whose government is also a big donor to the Carter Center), and Venezuela (whose anti-American strongman Hugo Chávez benefited in a 2004 election from the highly controversial monitoring efforts of the Carter Center).

Read the rest.

I Miss The Cold War...

Well, Russia has gone ahead and filled Iran's missile order, selling them some 29 "Tor M-1 missiles." This story makes me miss the Cold War, when we had an excuse to wipe Russia off the face of the earth. I certainly hope if we ever go to war with Iran and these weapons are used against American troops that Russia is held accountable for their irresponsible actions.

And one question in all this; where's the UN? Shouldn't they be doing something to stop the sale of missiles to an evil regime that has declared its desire to destroy Israel and the West? Speaking of Israel, let's hope they go through with their plans to nuke Iran's nuclear facilities, and while they're at it, nuke these new missile systems, too.

Zing!

Israel's President Moshe Katsav may be indicted on shocking charges of rape and abuse of power.

Why haven't I seen any liberals making the obvious joke: "Yeah, the rape of the Palestinian people." Zing!

Jimmy Carter - The Anti-Semite

You know, when Jimmy Carter constantly defends Palestinian terrorists as an oppressed people and calls the Israelis terrorists for whatever they do, I didn't want to label him an anti-Semite. I thought that may be a case of an idiot liberal who honestly thought that Palestinians were the victim, because he was to ignorant to understand the situation.

When Jimmy Carter asked the US Justice Department to "show special consideration" toward a man who was "proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria," I didn't think that was enough to call him an anti-Semite either. It could just be another case of a bleeding-heart liberal feeling the need to protect all the scum on the earth. Tooky-syndrome, if you will.

But when the evidence keeps piling up, it makes you wonder if the former president doesn't have some - at least deep-seeded - hatred for the Jewish people. In this video clip, Carter refers to the Holocaust as the "so-called Holocaust":



Once again, on it's own, I wouldn't say this new evidence is enough to label Carter an anti-Semite; it could just be a case of a liberal slipping into PC speech that he felt may offend Muslims, such as Ahmadinejad. But when you look at the big picture, it's hard to rule out the fact that Jimmy Carter may very well hate Jews.

*** Update - 7:30 pm ***

It just occurred to me that in regard to Carter's defense of Palestine, the fact that he absolutely refuses to debate anyone on the subject shows that he doesn't feel his arguments can stand up to scrutiny and therefore you could easily argue that his defense of those barbaric terrorists is malicious, and not just ignorant.

And finally - that last piece of evidence that Carter is anti-Semitic:

German critics and historians have lambasted Guenter Grass, saying the Nobel prize-winning author "lost his standing as a moral authority" after revealing that he once belonged to Hitler's Waffen SS.

Isn't Jimmy Carter a Nobel prize winner as well? (and yes, that last "evidence" is a Michael Moore-style, Bush-is-connected-to-Osama argument, meant as a joke.)

Palestinian PM is Paranoid

The Prime Minister of Palestine has accused the US government of trying to topple his goverment, now why would they want to do that?

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said on Sunday the United States was determined to bring down his government despite the Islamist group's standing offer of a long-term truce with Israel.

Haniyeh, speaking before talks in Damascus between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, reiterated that any such accommodation with Israel did not entail recognition of the Jewish state.

"We accept a Palestinian state on the lands (Israel) occupied in 1967, but in return for a long-term truce and not recognition," Haniyeh said in a speech.

Oh yeah. Because you're terrorist bastards who are blakmailing Israel out of even more land and in return you're going to stop killing them for a little bit, but not forever, and God forbid you recognize the state with which you're making a deal.

The Next Holocaust

Big ol' hat tip to Little Green Footballs for an essay by Benny Morris, that is a very chilling portrayal of how Israel may one day be wiped off the map by Iran:

The second holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or 10 years, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five years after Iran's acquisition of the Bomb, the mullahs in Qom will convene in secret session, under a portrait of the steely-eyed Ayatollah Khomeini, and give President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by then in his second or third term, the go-ahead.

The orders will go out and the Shihab III and IV missiles will take off for Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa and Jerusalem, and probably some military sites, including Israel's half dozen air and (reported) nuclear missile bases. Some of the Shihabs will be nuclear-tipped, perhaps even with multiple warheads. Others will be dupes, packed merely with biological or chemical agents, or old newspapers, to draw off or confuse Israel's anti-missile batteries and Home Front Command units.

With a country the size and shape of Israel (an elongated 20,000 square kilometers), probably four or five hits will suffice: No more Israel. A million or more Israelis in the greater Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem areas will die immediately. Millions will be seriously irradiated. Israel has about seven million inhabitants. No Iranian will see or touch an Israeli. It will be quite impersonal.

I try to be optimistic, but I really to worry that this is a very, very plausible event in our world's future.

Israel Funds Terrorists - The Ones Who Are Killing Jews

Brilliant:

Israel transferred $100 million in withheld Palestinian tax revenue to President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, part of a U.S.-led push to bolster the moderate leader in his power struggle with Hamas, Israeli officials said.

The transfer was the first by Israel since Hamas, whose charter calls for the Jewish state's destruction, came to power last year.

"The money has been transferred," a senior official in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said.

I hope Olmert remembers this brilliant move in diplomacy when $100 million worth of Palestinian rockets rain down on Israeli streets.

Dershowitz to Rebut Carter In Event

Dhimmi Carter still refuses to debate anyone about his book (I suppose that the arguments in the book are just too airtight to subject them to ridiculous, Zionist criticisms), but without debating, we get the next-best thing:

WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter won't go unchallenged after his appearance next week at Brandeis University, where he is lecturing on his latest book about what he terms the Palestinian apartheid by Israel.

Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz will step on stage afterward to rebut the former president's remarks despite having been booted from an earlier booking to debate Carter on his assertions.

“I think the inaccuracies of Carter’s points have to be pointed out. Carter said he wrote the book in order to stimulate a debate, but he won’t debate. I’m debating him whether he’s there or not,” Dershowitz told FOXNews.com.

“If his chair is empty, then that’s his decision,” he said.

Dershowitz joins a growing pool of critics, including a longtime Carter aide, Jewish groups and academics who allege inaccuracies and distorted history in Carter's best-selling book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” The book has sold about 70,000 copies.

Carter recently accepted an invitation to speak on Tuesday at the nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college near Boston after having cancelled an earlier invitation. He will talk for about 15 minutes and then take questions from the audience for 45 minutes.

Let's hope Carter doesn't back out of this one too. It's shocking to me that there's anyone who can't see through Carter's shallow arguments - especially when even he knows he's wrong and can't defend his insane position.

ObviousHeadline - Too Good to Be True

Here's an update for my "Obvious Headline of the Day" from earlier today, which was "Hamas leader says Israel's existence is a reality".

Well now Hamas is denying that Khaled Meshal said anything about recognizing Israel, and spoke only of a cease fire with the non-entity.

I think what's more likely here is that Khaled spoke a little too soon, without getting the go-ahead from the party, not that al-Reuters is known for their accuracy either.

Obvious Headline of the Day

What's obvious about this headline is what the heathen Muslim (pardon the redundancy) was finally able to catch on to:

Hamas leader says Israel's existence is a reality

I would like to be the first to congratulate Khaled Meshaal on being the only Arab on record as noticing that there's a pesky little country over there in the Middle East, a fact that has escaped most Muslims, who wonder who in the world it was that beat their asses in the several wars that Israel has fought in.

Of course, Khaled Meshaal has to be measured in his obviousness, adding the condition that a Palestinian state has to be created before Israel gets "formal recognition." If there isn't a Palestinian state yet, what the Hell is Palestine doing with all of that land Israel - I mean "the demonic non-entity" - gave them?

I didn't read the story past the first paragraph, but you can here.

-- Update, 9:03 am --

Hamas is now denying that Khaled ever said he would acknowledge Israel, here's a post on that.