Bloodthirsty Liberal

If it weren’t for the tragedy of two lives lost, I’d be laughing my ass off over this.

Oh, you all know me too well. I’m laughing my ass off precisely because of the tragedy of two lives lost.

Hizbullah communicated “deep disappointment” to Hamas leadership over the discovery that the party was conducting military drills in a residential building in Lebanon without the party’s knowledge, the country’s An-Nahar newspaper reported Wednesday.

Information around the training was uncovered during the course of an investigation into an explosion in Haret Treik that killed two Hamas members last week, the paper said. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Al-Murr said the blast targeted Hamas Representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan.

According to the London-based Arabic daily Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, the attack was carried out as Hamas members received live ammunition training in the basement of the building under Hamas control.

The daily said Hezbollah told Hamas it would not intervene, and that Hamas “would have to resolve the problem on its own.”

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat also reported that Hamas decided to close its office in Haret Hreik until the situation was resolved.

This is from a Palestinian “news” source, so the syntax is a little confusing, but I think Hamass people killed each other while trying to kill someone else (also Hamass), and Hezbollah is pissed because this was on their turf—in a residential neighborhood.

I love the use of the term “office”. Like it had computers and faxes and a coffee machine. Anyway, two dead terrorists sounds like the problem resolved itself.

Clean up in aisle three!

The cleaning lady says she doesn’t do windows or pools of blood:

While America, Canada, and Europe mark the 11th day of the 11th month as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day (or Veterans Day here in the US), Hezbollah has its own name for this solemn, hallowed day:

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah slammed US President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying, “When he was elected, many relied on him and believed it would mark a major turnaround in favor of the Arab world, but this notion quickly dissipated.”

Speaking in Beirut on “Shahid Day,” the Shiite group’s leader claimed that Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security was evident in his speech aired this week during a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv marking the 14th anniversary of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination.

He said the world hoped that the new leadership in the US would “try and change the savage American policy, but the result was a complete American commitment to Israel’s interests and security.”

I don’t know what he’s drinking, but I can only imagine how they celebrate Shahid Day.

Isn’t that so typical of the Arab terrorist mind? Take the symbol of mindless butchery, bloody murder, the end of civilization—and make a holiday out of it!

Balloons, cake, pin the missile on the Jew—any occasion for a party.

I have to apologize for our appalling lack of grace and manners in observing the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the hostages in Iran, and our administration’s craven response—then and now—to that brazen violation of international law.

Thank goodness Caroline Glick did it for us:

[T]housands of Iranians in cities throughout the country took advantage of the regime’s planned demonstrations celebrating the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy in Teheran to protest against the regime. These regime opponents willingly placed themselves in front of the batons, tear gas cannons and guns of Iranian regime goons to protest June’s stolen presidential election and to call for the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime of tyranny and its replacement with a democracy.

The protesters turned regime supporters’ calls for “Death to America,” and “Death to Israel” into big, deadly jokes by calling out, “Death to the Dictator” (that is, supreme ruler Ali Khamenei) and “Death to Russia.”

Far from embracing the regime’s 30-year war against the US and the nation-state based international system, representatives of the “Green Revolution” asked the US to forgive Iran for taking 52 US Embassy personnel hostage in 1979.

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The Iranian opposition movement announced weeks ago that its members would be out in force at the anniversary rallies on Wednesday. And on Wednesday, the protesters begged the world for support. They called out to US President Barack Obama, “You’re either with us or with them.”

But Obama - in full appeasement mode - issued a statement ahead of Wednesday’s “Death to America” rallies announcing, “We do not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs.” That is, when asked to choose between Iran’s freedom riders or their oppressors, he chose the oppressors. The US is with the mullahs against the Iranian people.

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Obama said, “I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect… We have recognized Iran’s international right to peaceful nuclear power. We have demonstrated our willingness to take confidence-building steps along with others in the international community. We have accepted a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency to meet Iran’s request for assistance in meeting the medical needs of its people. We have made clear that if Iran lives up to the obligations that every nation has, it will have a path to a more prosperous and productive relationship with the international community.”

And when Khamenei responded to Obama’s obsequious bowing and scraping by saying that negotiating with the US was a “naïve and perverted” enterprise, the Obama administration had nothing to say.

Well, what is one supposed to say in response to a bitch slap? “Ow” just doesn’t sound like a leader of the free world.

But then, neither does Obama:

Early Wednesday morning, IDF naval commandos boarded the merchant ship Francop and diverted it to the naval base at Ashdod. There the IDF displayed its cargo of 3,000 rockets and various and other sundry ordnance useful only to terror forces.

The Francop originated in Iran and was intercepted en route to Iran’s Hizbullah proxy force in Lebanon via Iran’s Arab toady Syria.

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Wednesday’s raid has had no discernible impact on American policy. The US did not denounce either Syria or Iran for breaching the UN Security Council resolution barring Iranian arms shipments as well as the Security Council resolution prohibiting nations from arming Hizbullah. The US did not state that in response to what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called a “smoking gun,” it will reconsider its decision to send an ambassador to Damascus or its commitment to appeasing Iran through its nuclear talks in Geneva. The only thing a State Department official could bring himself to say was that the US is concerned about “Hizbullah’s efforts to rearm in direct violation of various UN Security Council resolutions,” and remark that the groups remains, “a significant threat to peace and security in Lebanon and the region.”

Do we sound like a reliable trustworthy ally? Not to me, either.

William F. Buckley famously announced at the founding of the magazine National Review that he intended to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop”. It’s a nice image, but I feel it needs to be set on a small river, approaching a waterfall. Aggie and I (and most readers) standing and yelling, but I think history is moving in the wrong (and very dangerous) direction.

If the United Nations is so crucial to world peace (and I can’t even type that with a straight face), how come nobody yells “Call the Security Council!” when mugged by reality?

UNIFIL - the UN’s 13,000-strong peacekeeper force in southern Lebanon - is doing a good job of preventing Hizbullah from operating out in open areas, BUT dares not enter the hundreds of villages which dot the area, and which have become the central bases of operation for the Shi’ite terrorist group, an army source told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

UNIFIL’s mandate is based on the enforcement of UN Resolution 1701, which bans Hizbullah from building up weapons caches south of the Litani River. But in reality, the arms ban is being partially enforced, the source added.

Speaking by phone from southern Lebanon, UNIFIL’s Deputy Spokesman, Andreas Tenenti, told the Post that the peacekeepers have not encountered any attempts by Hizbullah to rearm itself in violation of Resolution 1701.

“From what we’ve seen during our patrols, we have not witnessed any rearmament,” Tenenti said. “We have a large presence in the south of the country, [BUT] we are not in every place at every time,” he added.

Why do I picture the UN spokesman as being played by John Cleese or Graham Chapman?

If Israel relied on the UN for its self-defense, it wouldn’t survive for long, nor would it deserve to.

Do you love diversity as much as I do? Can’t get enough of it myself. I’m a diversity pig, wallowing in differences and dissimilarities.

Take the Middle East: after war between Israel and Lebanon, each side has gone its own way.

Israel:

During the Second Lebanon War, in the summer of 2006, the Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC) admitted hundreds of wounded patients, soldiers and civilians, to an old, crowded and unprotected emergency room. As this took place, Katyusha missiles were falling in areas adjacent to the hospital.

For the Rambam administration, one of the main lessons of the war was the need to immediately construct a new protected emergency room. This facility would have to stand up to conventional and chemical means of warfare, and supply quality medical care for residents of Haifa and Northern Israel.

As a result of cooperation between donors - the Discount Investment Corporation Ltd of the IDB Group, the Jewish Agency, the Claims Conference and the non-profit organization, “Reut” - the necessary amount of 60 million shekels was raised for building and equipping the new emergency room.

“At the start of the Second Lebanon War we promised to protect Rambam. After three years we have completed the first stage,” said RHCC Director Prof Rafi Beyar, referring to a huge building project at Rambam. This plan includes establishment of a secure underground hospital for 1,730 patients, a children’s hospital, and facilities for cancer care and for cardiac treatment, and a tower for clinical research.

Hezbollah:

An explosion ripped through the garage of a Hezbollah member’s home in southern Lebanon on Monday, and security officials said the building might have been used to store weapons.

One senior security official said the blast killed one person, but the other officials could not confirm that. The Hezbollah militant group that holds sway in the south said no one was killed but one person was wounded.

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A July explosion in an abandoned building in another southern village was said to have been caused by a fire in a secret Hezbollah arms depot. The group said at the time that the building housed ammunition leftover from Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

That incident raised tension along the border with Israel, which called it a violation of a U.N. resolution that ended the monthlong 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. The resolution prohibits the militants from engaging in military activity in south Lebanon and forbids the smuggling of weapons to the group.

But Hezbollah fighters are believed to continue to have a clandestine presence in the area.

Arabs boast that they love death the way the rest of us love life. And they just go on proving it.

Celebrate diversity, baby.

One case where the Arabs bettered the Jews:

At least four senior members of Hezbollah suffered serious financial losses as the result of embezzlement by the Lebanese Shi’ite businessman Salah Ezzedine, according to the London-based newspaper Asharq Al Awsat. Ezzedine, who has been dubbed “Hezbollah’s Madoff,” is suspected of embezzling more than one billion dollars.

The four were identified as Mohammad Raad, head of the Hezbollah faction in the Lebanese parliament, Hezbollah MPs Amin Shari and Hussein al-Hajj, and Wafiq Safa, head of the organization’s coordinating committee.

Safa was the person who handed over the bodies of missing Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser, to the United Nations, during a 2008 prisoner swap between Hezbollah and Israel. At the time, he stood in front of the Al-Manar television cameras and declared: “You will know immediately what their fate was,” as he pointed to the coffins containing the remains.

According to assessments in the Arab media and the news agencies, Ezzedine succeeded in defrauding hundreds of investors out of sums totaling between $600 million and $1.3 billion. He was arrested at the beginning of last week after persuading a large number of investors - including businessmen from Qatar and the Gulf states and thousands of villagers from southern Lebanon - to transfer sums of money to him, which he promised to invest with returns of 25-55 percent. After he declared bankruptcy, Ezzedine turned himself over to the Lebanese authorities.

Madoff’s crimes hurt many Jewish charities—educational, cultural, scientific. Hezbollah’s Madoff hurt terrorist scum. He should get a medal.

Seriously, it will take these Islamist a-holes years to embezzle their riches back. They won’t have the time or the money to invest in the arsenals and training necessary to wreak genocide upon Israel. If Lebanon won’t name a street after Ezzedine, Israel should.

This has not been a good time for Hizballah, Lebanon’s occupying force. First, one of their arms caches on the border with Israel spontaneously ignites, embarrassing all involved, and even leading to censure before their mentors in the United Nations.

And now this:

An Iranian plane crash two weeks ago – which left 168 people dead – was caused by the explosion of sophisticated fuses slated to be delivered to Hezbollah, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Saturday, quoting sources in the Middle East.

According to the report, the pilot of the Tupolev plane, which was making its way from Tehran to Armenia, sent an emergency warning 16 minutes after takeoff. Shortly afterwards, the plane crashed in northwest Iran.

According to the sources, the aircraft was carrying a large number of modern fuses composed of 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of explosives and electrical instrumentation.

The report is in line with testimonies on explosion sounds heard before the crash. According to the sources, the plane was meant to transfer the fuses from Iran to Armenia, and from there to Syria through Turkey, and then on the ground to Lebanon. This route was chosen, according to exiled opposition sources, so as not to draw attention.

If there were truth in advertising in Islam, Hezbollah would have to change its name from Party of God to Party of Conniving Terrorists With No Regard For Human Life—Anyone’s.

I don’t know, maybe it’s the same thing, so don’t bother.

But of course it takes two to go bang-o, and Iran is just as guilty of using a civilian airplane to transport enough explosives to sink the Lusitania. Maybe this is just government policy, no more or less odious than cap-and-trade or ObamaCare.

It is the imponderable mystery of our age that Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Aqsa, PFLP, Iran, Syria, and all the other actors and sponsors of international terrorism are allowed to carry on their activities with barely a hindrance, while Israel is scolded and lashed for putting a room over the garage.

We’re gonna go through it together.
We may not go far, but sure as a star,
wherever we are, it’s together.

Wherever I go I know he goes.
Wherever I go I know she goes.
No fits, no fights, no feuds
and no egos, Amigos, together!

Through thick and through thin,
all out or all in.
And whether it’s win, place or show.
With you for me and me for you,
we’ll muddle through whatever we do.
Together, wherever we go.

Hamas is digging tunnels next to United Nations facilities under the assumption that the IDF will not target them during a future conflict, defense officials warned on Sunday.

The officials said a tunnel Hamas had been digging adjacent to a UN school in Beit Hanun had collapsed earlier this month. According to some reports obtained by Israel, the collapse of the tunnel caused damage inside the school.

UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness denied claims that a tunnel was being dug under a UN school, and said, regarding claims tunnels were being dug adjacent to UN schools: “It is not within the UN mandate to police what is happening under the streets of Gaza.”

According to one official, the tunnel was being dug directly next to the school and likely underneath it as well.

The IDF’s concern, a defense official said, was that Hamas was digging tunnels adjacent to UN and other international facilities because the terror group knew that the IDF would think twice before bombing them.

The official said it was certain that the digging was being done without the UN’s knowledge.

The idea of tunneling near the UN school, the official said, was a lesson Hamas had learned from Operation Cast Lead earlier this year, during which the IDF did its utmost to avoid targeting UN facilities.

“Hamas uses civilian infrastructure to hide behind,” explained the official. “This is another example of Hamas’s cynical use of a school.”

If I were a UN official, I’m not sure I’d go with the Sgt. Schultz defense: “I know nothing!” But it’s probably honest.

I just wonder sometimes:

The chief of United Nations peacekeeping forces, Alain Le Roy, has told the Security Council that a series of explosions in southern Lebanon on July 14 most likely came from an illegal Hezbollah arms cache. He gave a speech behind closed doors on Thursday, and reporters obtained copies on Friday. Mr. Le Roy, left, said there were “a number of indications” that the ordnance was Hezbollah’s, including reports from the Lebanese Army that the civilians who rioted to prevent United Nations peacekeepers from investigating were Hezbollah supporters. The cache included mortars, AK-47s, artillery shells and 122-millimeter rockets. Mr. Le Roy said the weapons were a “serious violation” of the Security Council resolution that ended the 34-day Israel-Lebanon war in 2006.

Wherever the UN is, Arab terrorists are sure to be found nearby. Odd coincidence. Still, it makes for easy targeting—and the old expression “two birds with one Hellfire missile” suggests itself.

Nasrallah <3 Ahmadinejad

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah congratulated Khamenei for “the splendid show of heroism” of the Iranian people as they renewed their faith in the regime, the values, and the principles of the Islamic revolution, and which gladdened the hearts of all the downtrodden and of the jihad fighters.

Nasrallah also wrote that the reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attests to the people’s great trust in him and their love for him.

That’s pretty funny, you have to admit.

Why, just look at the all the lipstick on that rag.

Come to think of it, the [gag] election absolutely reaffirmed “the values, and the principles of the Islamic revolution”.

Completely.

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Hamas states that Ahmadinejad’s reelection is a sign of the Iranian leadership’s success in defending the Iranian people and its interests. The movement also praised Iran for its support of the Palestinians.

Kind of says it all.

Boy, are we stupid. Solid gold, platinum coated idiots. Bona fide morons of the highest order.

While we argue whether two or three terrorist scumbags (with the blood of thousands on their hands) were gavaged or not, another country is engaging in this sort of behavior—and much, much worse:

An official in the Ahwaz human rights organization stated that Hizbullah operatives had kidnapped an Ahwazi refugee named Ali Halali Majd together with his wife and three children, in Beirut, and had transferred the family to Damascus, from where all four were handed over to Iranian authorities.

The official said that Hizbullah had help from members of the Iranian diplomatic representation in Lebanon, and added that this was not the first time that Syria had handed Ahwaz refugees over to Iran.

I don’t know why this strikes me as sadder than imprisoning an American journalist (Roxana Saberi), hanging homosexuals, stoning women, and all the other abuses of inalienable civil liberties and human rights for which Iran is so justifiably notorious.

But if this story is true, someone who had escaped the verifiably evil clutches of the Islamic Republic, who presumably still worked for the benefit of his countrymen trapped in that nation/prison, was seized—along with his family—and sent back to face a fate that only depresses us to think about.

And depression is just anger turned inward. I want to go waterboard somebody right now. Here, puppy!