Bloodthirsty Liberal

Maybe poverty does cause terrorism: her student loans alone must be a “daily humiliation”:

After two days of deliberations, a jury yesterday found Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman with MIT and Brandeis degrees, guilty of attempted murder and assault of Americans in Afghanistan.

Following the verdict, Siddiqui, a 37-year-old former Roxbury resident, calmly addressed the spectators in the courtroom.

“This is a verdict coming from Israel, not from America,’’ she said, speaking through a white scarf that covered her face. “Your anger should be directed where it belongs.’’

I’m sorry, did she say Israel?

“This is a verdict coming from Israel, not from America.”

And you went to Brandeis, honey?

Maybe you can use that MIT degree to explain how Israel was responsible for this:

Insisting she had been framed by the US government, Siddiqui said she had been tortured and held for years in a secret US prison.

Oh gee, sweetie, that’s awful. I wonder why they treated you so bad?

The verdict ends a two-week trial in which prosecutors used eyewitnesses - but little forensic evidence - to prove that Siddiqui grabbed a machine gun from an American soldier, who had come to interrogate her, and fired it toward his colleagues but missed. Another soldier testified he barely escaped with his life, and an Afghan interpreter said he tried to wrestle the gun from her. She was subdued when a US soldier shot her in the abdomen.

The jury also heard from an employee of the Braintree Rifle and Pistol Club, who said Siddiqui had taken a 12-hour pistol training course in the 1990s.

Defense lawyers, backed by expert witnesses, countered that her fingerprints were not found on the gun and that there was no evidence it had been fired.

Reasonable objections, I suppose, but the jury didn’t buy them.

I just want to point out that this Pakistani woman who has advanced degrees from America, (allegedly) shot at American troops in Afghanistan—and blames Israel.

So I guess education isn’t the answer to terrorism either.

Jail is one answer, but I have to ask why an assault on US servicemen in Afghanistan is a criminal offense, not a military one.

What do Arabs say when they speak of Jews?

Well, there’s this:

The following are excerpts from a televised debate on the so-called Israeli trafficking in human organs, which aired on Syrian TV on January 27, 2010.

Reporter: Israel is aiding the people stricken by the Haiti earthquake. This is a wonder unto itself. But the real reason is to steal organs from the corpses of the Haitian dead, in the greatest catastrophe this poor country has ever witnessed. Once the reason is known, there is no need to wonder – the Israeli delegation, which came to Haiti under the pretext of helping these fate-stricken people, exploited the tragedy and the suffering of the Haitians, by stealing their human organs for trafficking.

This was confirmed by American activist T. West, who documented this heinous crime and posted the film on Youtube. The film shows Israelis engaged in stealing organs from the earthquake victims. It seems that the [Israeli] entity of killing, destruction, and terrorism, which has become skilled in killing women and children in ice-cold blood, is now expert in stealing human organs and trafficking in them.

For years, human organ trafficking has been on the rise in Israel. The work of the traffickers has become an international trade, with offices in Europe and Africa. This has brought Israel to the third place in the world in organ trafficking.

Third place, but I wouldn’t bet against them. They try harder!

How is American activist T. West, anyway? Give my regards to Mrs. West, G.

What else?

The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon given in the Bourin Mosque in Nablus, which aired on Palestinian Authority TV on January 29, 2010.

Palestine was subjected to a loathsome occupation of its land and holy places by these neo-Mongols, who perpetrated, on this holy, blessed, and pure land, acts of killing, assassination, destruction, expropriation, Judaization, harassment, and the fragmentation of the homeland.

This is clear evidence of the hatred they harbor, and of their unparalleled racism. This is the Nazism of the 20th [sic] century.

The Jews are the enemies of Allah and His messenger. They are the enemies of Allah and His messenger, the enemies of humanity in general, and of the Palestinians in particular. They are fighting us with all types of crime, and even the mosques have not been spared their racism.

For the people who laid traps for the prophets of Allah – arrested them, killed them, and deceived them – it is a thousand times easier to lay traps for the followers of these prophets. Our mutual enmity with the Jews is a matter of faith more than an issue pertaining to occupation and land.

Got that, boys and girls? “Our mutual enmity with the Jews is a matter of faith”. So, all the peace talks in the world won’t change their faith.

Maybe if they converted….

Seriously.

He left seven of them, and they are old enough (or will be soon enough) to want to know why he died, what purpose it served, how it could have been allowed to happen.

So what would you tell them? Cause I got nothing.

Shortly before the murder of Rabbi Meir Chai ten days ago, the Palestinian Authority rejected a request by Israel’s security forces to re-arrest Fatah terrorist Anan Subuh, who later participated in the murder.

Subuh, 36, a resident of Shechem, was a member of the Fatah terror group’s “Al Aqsa Martyrs” and Tanzim subgroups. He had been a member of a Tanzim cell that operated from the casbah area of Shechem and was led by Naef Abu Sherach until Sherach’s death in June 2004. Subuh traded in weapons and supplied the weapons for terror activity.

He was included in the “fugitive agreement” between Israel and the PA, in which Israel agreed to stop hunting down certain fugitives in return for a promise by them not to go back to terror activity.

Arutz Sheva has learned that the Shabak received highly dependable information that Subuh had gone back to terror activity after the fugitive “pardon.” The IDF therefore demanded that the PA, which is headed by Fatah, arrest him. The PA refused, apparently because Subuh belonged to a Fatah subgroup and not to rival Hamas.

Shortly afterward Subuh participated in Rabbi Chai’s murder. Two days later the IDF gunned him down when he hid in a weapons cache in his home. Two other terrorists who carried out the murder were also eliminated that day.

You see, little ones, daddy got blown away because Israel knew there was a terrorist with blood on his hands who was back in the business of killing Jews, even though he had been warned not to, but the terrorist’s sponsors didn’t want to arrest him, so they let him skate and he blew daddy away. Okay? Now, go wash up for dinner.

Israel is often charged with “disproportionate responses” to terror. Yeah, I’d say so: disproportionately feeble.

I would ask reader Chris what he thought of this story, but I think he stopped reading after “Seriously”.

New Year’s means Dick Clark to some, Guy Lombardo to others.

To the Palestinians, it means blood libel (literally):

Following are excerpts from a Hamas TV anti-Semitic cartoon, which vilifies the PA. The cartoon aired on Al-Aqsa TV on January 1, 2010. [Anti-semitic? We’ll be the judge of that.]

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Cut to a Jewish settler, brandishing a sub-machine gun, and his elderly father

Father: Son, the five most delicious things in the world are three…

Settler: I know.

Settler and his father: Palestinian blood.

Father: Go, son. Drink their blood, and come back safely.

Settler: I will do it for you, father.

Father: This is a map of Hebron. Take it. You may need it.

Settler: I will not need it, because I am not Gilad [Shalit], and the West Bank is not Gaza. Calm down. Shalom, father.

Father: Shalom, son.

The settler heads through the military checkpoint, firing his sub-machine gun. The wall bears a poster of Ahmed Qurei, with the words “Qurei’ Company for Building Materials.” This is a reference to accusations leveled against Ahmad Qurei’, aka Abu Alaa, that his company supplied building materials to settlement activities.

Settler: I am getting loooooooost…

Israeli officer (to Bahlool): Go after him.

Bahlool: Yes, sir.

Israeli officer: Go get him!

Bahlool races after the settler, who is walking to Hebron, brandishing his sub-machine gun. The settler fires several rounds. When Bahlool arrives on the scene, there is a pile of Palestinian children lying in a pool of blood. A girl’s decapitated head lies next to a doll. The settler licks a drop of blood that escaped his lips.

Bahlool: Listen you… You Jew who got lost, you’ve killed my people before my eyes. I will respond with… more peace. Are you done?

Settler nods

Bahlool: Thank you very much.

Sounds anti-Semitic to me. But maybe you had to see it.

As this fellow points out, Hamass doesn’t hate just Jews, they hate everybody (Jews most of all):

Following are excerpts from interviews with retired Egyptian Generals Husam Sweilem and Nabil Babawi, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on December 25, 2009 and on Al-Alam TV on December 23, 2009.

People from Hamas have agreed to annex northern Sinai to Gaza. They want to turn this area into a base for Hamas resistance against Israel. They want to launch the resistance from there, strike within Israel, and return to the safety of Egyptian territory. Then Israel will retaliate against them, by attacking their bases in northern Sinai, and by occupying northern Sinai again. Then, Sinai will become a second Afghanistan, a second Jizan, or like the Swat Valley in Pakistan, and we will have to establish camps for the Palestinians. This is what they plan for Egypt. Does this correspond with Egyptian national security?

Whatever you do, Egypt, don’t build a wall. The human rights mob hates walls.

PS: What did I say about Hamass hating everybody?

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the PA has information that Hamas wants to carry out violent operations in the West Bank.

PPS: Sorry, one more. Can’t resist.

Hamas political bureau head Khaled Mash’al said in Saudi Arabia that Hamas is in the final stages of the reconciliation with Fatah, and that everyone agrees that the signing will take place in Cairo, but at the same time the document must be changed so that it meets everyone’s demands.

Oh yeah, sounds like you guys are ready to commit (suicide, maybe).

We already reported on Egypt’s construction of an Apartheid Fence—sorry, security barrier—on its border with Gaza. I can’t find a picture, but here’s a diagram:

We might wonder why there isn’t one scintilla of the outrage there was (and still is) over the Israeli life-saving barrier—sorry, Apartheid Fence—but even when one news organization has the effrontery to cover the story, they are slandered in the most curious way:

Egypt’s minister of legal affairs and parliamentary councils, Mofid Shehab, criticized Al-Jazeera Saturday for instigating “a Qatari civil war” with its reports on a steel barrier being built on the border with Gaza.

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He said television networks were working against the Egyptian government “in order to engender a civil war and inflame the Egyptian and Arab streets, and cause a clash of official authorities”.

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Shehab’s criticism followed reports on the separation barrier currently being erected by Egypt on its border with Gaza in order to eradicate smuggling tunnels being dug there.

“This civil war network is first and foremost an Israeli tool,” he said. “It transferred reports on the Egyptian construction on the border from the news agencies in Israel and has begun to weave its usual plot.”

Al-Jazeera is an Israeli tool??? Who is this guy, Shecky Shehab?

But he eventually gets around to something a bit more believable:

The minister confirmed that armed forces were guarding construction work on the barrier, which was aimed at “securing Egypt’s border and its people”.

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“I ask all Egyptians, and all those who support their homeland, are you willing to accept the violation of your country’s sovereignty?”

Nicely put, Shecky. I think I’ll save them for the next time somebody calls Israel an Apartheid state (tomorrow, if I know my leftists).

PS: I probably should (but probably won’t) list all the other separation barriers around the world. I recall writing about one in Saudi Arabia.

Instead of tut-tutting every time an Israeli wants to build a walk-in closet, President Obama should say something—anything, really, just a word, a nod, a wink, anything—about this:

Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai — a 45-year old Israeli and father of seven children - was killed in a drive-by shooting last Thursday. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, part of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, took responsibility for the killing. On Friday night, Israeli forces located and killed three of the terrorists involved in the attack.

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared the killers “Shahids” (holy Martyrs) and sent his personal emissary to visit the families:

“Secretary General of the Presidents Bureau, Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, conveyed condolences on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas to the residents of Nablus and to the families of the three Shahids [Martyrs] for the Martyrdom of their sons, who were assassinated by Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning. He conveyed to the fighting families letters of condolences from the President [Abbas] and updated them as to [Abbas’s] decision to declare them as Shahids [Martyrs] of the Palestinian revolution…”

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PA Prime Minster Salam Fayyad went even further, personally visiting the families of the terrorists along with other senior PA officials.

“Prime Minister visits Nablus and conveys condolences to the families of the Shahids (Martyrs). Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad today visited the city of Nablus in the wake of the Israeli military operation, and presented condolences to the families of the three Martyrs who were murdered by the occupation forces.

Dr. Fayyad was accompanied by Internal Affairs Minister Dr. Said Abu Ali, leaders of the security agencies, and Police Director-General Major General Hazem Atallah, and they visited the house of mourning, which was held in the Trade Unions compound in the city… The Prime Minister condemned the Israeli military operation in the city.”

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The Fatah movement is glorifying the terrorists:

“Mahmoud Al-Aloul, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said that the occupation murdered these three young men as well as another three in Gaza, in cold blood. He described them as ‘[military] commanders, brave heroes, and fighters.’”

They cowardly slaughtered a father of seven in cold blood, whose only crime was to come into their sights. And they are glorified as holy martyrs.

They were pig s**t, if pigs don’t mind my saying so.

Really, this is the mother lode of all such posts:

Palestinian antisemitism has long been recognized as a vehicle of hatred. From academics teaching that Judaism permits murder and rape of non-Jews, to religious leaders teaching that Islam demands the extermination of Jews, Palestinian antisemitism is a compelling force driving hatred and terror.

The Palestinian Authority depicts Jews as the archetypal force of evil throughout history. Jews are said to be responsible for all the world’s problems: wars, financial crises, even the spreading of AIDS. Jews are a danger to humanity.

Whereas this paradigm has been used before, the Palestinians take it a step further, turning demonization of Jews into the basis for Palestinian denial of Israel’s right to exist and a central component of Palestinian national identity.

Are you reading, Mr. President? You should be.

Because of Jews’ evil nature, according to this Palestinian principle, nations of the world have been involved in continuous defensive actions to protect themselves. The antisemitic oppression, persecution and expulsions suffered by Jews throughout history are presented as the legitimate self-defense responses of nations.

Ibrahim Mudayris, a PA religious official, delineated this ideology: “The Jews are a virus similar to AIDS, from which the entire world is suffering. This has been proven in history… Ask Britain!… Ask France!… Ask Portugal… Ask czarist Russia - who invited the Jews and they plotted to murder the czar!… Don’t ask Germany what it did to the Jews, since the Jews are the ones who provoked Nazism to fight the entire world” (PA TV, May 13, 2005).

The apex of this Palestinian ideology, and possibly its purpose, is to use this demonization of Jews as the basis for denying Israel legitimacy and to present Palestinians as the ultimate victims. According to this Palestinian model, the Jews, who are said to have no history in the land, would never have considered coming to “Palestine”: Europeans created Zionism as the final act in the long series of self-defense measures, to rid themselves of the “burden” of the Jews.

One could cite dozens of examples. The authors settle for a few.

They conclude:

In other countries, antisemitism has been a tool to promote hatred for a variety of internal reasons. As such, when hatred was no longer necessary, antisemitism as a government policy could be eradicated, as in post-Nazi Germany. But the goal of PA demonization of Jews transcends mere hatred. Antisemitism is its political tool to defame Zionism, deny Israel’s right to exist and create victimhood as the glue that cements Palestinian national identity. Because this political goal will exist as long as Israel exists, Palestinian antisemitism will be much harder to uproot.

So, it’s not about adding a rec room in Shiloh, or a half bath in East Jerusalem. It’s not really about the Jews at all. As usual, the pathology is about the sick, perverted mind that invents it. Blaming the Jews for the Palestinians’ woes is like blaming Jodie Foster for John Hinkley.

Don’t jump to conclusions. Hear the man out:

In a December 11, 2009 column titled “The Zionist Cockroach” in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, Kuwaiti columnist Fakhir Hashem Al-Sayed Rajab compared the Zionists to cockroaches capable of survival in any situation….

“There are [various] types of cockroaches: wingless, winged, German, American, Asian. Cockroaches are among the most primeval of the earth’s creatures; they can withstand harsher conditions than any other creature, and adapt rapidly to their environment. They say that there are 4,000 kinds [of cockroaches]. The cockroach can survive a week or two without its head, and a month without food. It can withstand many times more radiation than a human can, and will fight to survive.

“I compare the Zionist to the cockroach.

See, that’s not so bad. Admiring, almost.

Let’s see how he continues:

For thousands of years, the Zionist has fought [to remain] alive, by all possible means: plunder, exploitation, deceit, killing, and ‘laying [its] eggs’ across the world so that its offspring will continue to exist until Judgment Day.

“The Zionists have managed to quietly take over the world, imperturbably… and now they are the most powerful force in the world – not in physical strength and weapons stockpiles, but in their power of thought, economics, and planning in all countries, so that [these countries] obey them, and whoever opposes them must watch out. A simple declaration against them means a cruel attack by them – and antisemites beware!

We, and he, should have stopped when we were ahead.

It’s not about the settlements, people. It’s not about the settlements.

PS: Can any Zionists out there confirm or deny that you lay eggs? As descendants of apes and pigs (so I read), you are surely mammalian. But evolution is already irrelevant to this discussion.

Another in an endless series of lessons to those who think that if Israel changed its zoning laws, all would be well:

[T]he minute UNRWA deviates from the goal for the sake of which it was established and presumes to take on a political mission, set forth ideological demands in return for its services, or seek to make a cultural impact by mandating the study of the Holocaust to which the Jews were subjected, the relationship that now exists between it and the Palestinian refugees will be disrupted.

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First, there is no universal consensus regarding the historical authenticity of the Holocaust. [Some] doubt that the Jewish version of [the Holocaust] is historically untrue.

Millions of Europeans concur with the French philosopher Roget Garaudy [and] his book The Founding Myths of Modern Israel.

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Second, even if all the world governments conceded that the Holocaust happened according to the Jewish version, it would never convince a Palestinian – because he knows that the world has acknowledged the injustice done to [the Palestinian people] yet disregards the holocaust being perpetrated against it on a daily basis This [holocaust] is eating away at the Palestinians’ flesh with roadblocks, and is breaking its bones with the blockade – while the entire world looks on in silence, [as if] it had swallowed its tongue. And if Mr. John Ging, UNRWA operations director in Gaza, asked any group of Palestinian students, ‘What is a Jew? ‘ – the answer would be given promptly: ‘A Jew is death, wounds, torture of prisoners, destruction of homes, devastation, perdition, deception, siege, and oppression.’

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It is not enough for us Palestinians to refuse to teach our children about the Holocaust. We must introduce special classes about the Nazis of the 21st century – the Israeli Jews….

It’s hard to select the most offensive thing from the above, but I had to laugh at the part where the writer told UNRWA to butt out of teaching history and stick to forking over the heaping piles of money to maintain the Palestinians in the ignorance and misery to which they have become accustomed. May they choke on it.

And if you think his is a minority opinion

Following are excerpts from an interview with Muhammad Yousef ‘Adas, former advisor to UNESCO

The reason for the whole issue is that [the Jews] meddle with the economy, thus gaining control over nations. They finance wars. They are the cause of wars and economic corruption. They helped other countries to shackle Germany, by means of the World War I treaties, with which we are familiar. […]

“Like Roger Garoudy said, the number of [victims] is very controversial. These figures emerged from a myth, not from facts. […]

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Interviewer: “Nobody is held accountable for this, but whoever denies the Holocaust is harassed, fired, arrested, or even physically eliminated.”

Muhammad Yousef ‘Adas: “Physical elimination goes without saying, if the other solutions are difficult to accomplish.

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“There are statistics that show that there were only a few hundred thousand – at most 400,000 – Jews. And some statistics give much lower figures…”

Interviewer: “Some say 5,000.”

Muhammad Yousef ‘Adas: “5,000 Jews. […] It is not merely deception. It has become an industry – the Holocaust industry. They profit from this a great deal.

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“There is a fundamental racism in Western mentality. The Jews are part of this racism because they are white Europeans. The Europeans… Let’s put Hitler aside – the Europeans in general believe that the white race is…”

Interviewer: “The supreme race.”

Muhammad Yousef ‘Adas: “Right.”

To summarize: maybe only 5,000 Jews died in the Holocaust; those who survived are vile racists; the real Holocaust is being visited upon the (brown) Palestinians by the (white) Jews.

Well we respect all opinions here at BTL.com—but we respect facts more:

The United Colors of Israel

Of course, the Palestinians are not without their values, too:

Hey, Mr. Peace Prize Man, what do you think about this?

“With the renewal of the threats emanating from the Zionist military establishment to carry out a new attack on the Gaza Strip… the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades… warned of a harsh and painful response that the occupation state is not expecting. This response was conveyed by one of the heads of the Brigades in the Gaza Strip, Abu Ahed…

“Abu Ahed also declared that the Brigades’ activity in Gaza should be viewed as a personal endeavor, since many of the Brigades’ Jihad (Islamic War) fighters purchase weapons rather than food for their children, and many of them have even sold their wives’ gold [jewelry] in order to obtain weapons, since the Hamas forces have confiscated the Brigades’ members’ weapons.”
[Official Fatah web site, www.Fateh.org, Dec. 9, 2009]

Leaning on Israel to give up Jerusalem isn’t going to fill a Palestinian child’s belly, or drape bling on a Palestinian woman.

It was one thing when Golda Meir said peace will come with the Arabs when they learn to love their children more than they hate the Jews. It is quite another when the Arabs say it—officially—themselves.