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.

Palestinian Civil War

Members of the Religion of Peace continue to kill each other throughout Palestine:

JERUSALEM, Feb. 2 — In some of the worst fighting between Palestinian factions so far, security-force members loyal to Fatah stormed the Hamas-aligned Islamic University today, setting the library and other buildings on fire, as the two factions battled today in several parts of the Gaza Strip.

At least 15 people were killed, including a 7-year-old boy, bringing the total for the past two days to 21. Nearly 200 more Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been hurt over the same period, as fierce shootouts erupted in Gaza City and the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian hospitals.

“I call on all parties in Gaza to stop these actions that harm the Palestinian interests,” Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said today in Ramallah in the West Bank.

Hamas and Fatah leaders met at the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Gaza City this afternoon and agreed in principle to halt the violence. “We, the leaders of the two groups, agreed, with God’s help, on a cease-fire,” Nizar Rayan, a senior Hamas leader, said as he emerged from the discussions.

But it was not clear whether the agreement would take hold. Previous cease-fires have been short-lived: A truce announced early Tuesday brought relative calm for two days, but the fighting erupted again on Thursday.

I think these people honestly make a hobby out of breaking cease-fire agreements. That and killing Jews.

Palestinian Civil War Rages On

More on the Palestinian civil war, you know, the actual civil war where two factions within the government of a given country are fighting for total control of the given country, unlike Iraq:

The sound of gunfire and grenades echoed across Gaza City on Sunday as rival Palestinian factions fought in the streets in an increasingly bloody power struggle.

Twenty-five people have been reported killed since late Thursday, including a 12-year-old boy who was caught in the crossfire Saturday night, hospital officials said.

The boy's father, a local Fatah leader, was injured in the gunbattle. From his hospital bed, he told the Associated Press that Hamas gunmen attacked his home.

The past week has seen the worst fighting yet between Hamas supporters controlling the Palestinian parliament and the Fatah faction loyal to the Palestinian president.

Hmm. When it's the Religion of Peace killing the Religion of Peace - who does the media blame?

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.

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!

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.

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.

Round Up

I'm in a hurry for now, so here's a few links to some stories that caught my eye:

An article from the NYT: Fatah Holds Rally in Gaza City Stadium,

One from al-Reuters: Polish archbishop resigns in spying row

One from Independent online, staying with the Roman Catholicism theme: Spanish bishops fear rebirth of Islamic kingdom,

and our friends over at LGF with a story of Political Correctness run amok in France: Breaking: Pork Soup Racist Again in France.

Hope this will do for now. I'm off to play some racquetball now, and I'll try and post more in depth later on tonight.

Palestinian Civil War

al-Reuters:

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric after he delivered a sermon in the Gaza Strip on Friday calling for an end to fierce factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, hospital officials and local residents said.

Meanwhile, the MSM refuses to use the words "civil war" and "Palestine" in the same story - an honor reserved for Iraq, which, to them, is constantly descending into civil war. When the fighting occurs between Palestinians it's "internal fighting."

How Palestine Negotiates

So Israel's Olmert has offered Palestine some prisoners (in exchange for prisoners) and even went so far as to say that Palestine may be able to achieve an independent state through talks. In response Palestine launched rockets into Israel. Does anyone think you can reason with these people?

Palestinian Cease-Fire

Cox & Forkum:

Well That Didn't Take Long...

Palestinians have already broken the "truce" with Israel. Reports AP:

Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as an unexpected truce took hold Sunday, but two major Palestinian militant groups, saying they had no intention of stopping their attacks, fired volleys of homemade rockets into Israel.

One of the "Palestinian militant groups" being Hamas, by the way, which has huge influence in Palestine's government.