Bloodthirsty Liberal

I mentioned yesterday that the “Palestinian” “Authority” was more corrupt now than ever, and that I’d find the citation for you.

Do I really have to bother?

Muhammad Rashid, the former economic adviser to Yasser Arafat who is wanted by the Palestinian Authority for embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars, revealed on Thursday that the PA had provided financial aid to Arab parties during general elections in Israel.

He also demanded an investigation into the source of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s wealth.

Rashid, who is currently in London, said that Abbas used to “take millions of dollars from the Palestinian Authority and the private sector under the pretext of helping Arab parties in Israeli elections.”

This may surprise some of you ignorant types (who do stumble into our enlightened space from time to time, attracted, like moths, to the brilliance of our colloquy). Arabs run for and serve in the Knesset. Some of them are as hostile to the Zionist entity—from within—as any Hamass or Hezbollah blowhard. I’m not sure how healthy it is to the body politic, but that’s Democracy, baby.

But to learn that they are receiving money from outside Arab sources, bent on Israel’s destruction? That would be like learning—oh, I don’t know—that Democrats like Clinton, Gore, and Obama received illegal contribtutions from Chinese communists. Can you imagine?

The PA’s Anti-Corruption Commission, which issued the arrest warrant against him, is itself very corrupt, Rashid said.

He pointed out that two ministers in Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s new cabinet have been accused of involvement in corruption scandals, but the commission did not take any measures against them.

The former adviser, who is considered one of the wealthiest Palestinians in the world, launched a scathing attack on Abbas, holding him and his two businessmen sons responsible for corruption.

“When Mahmoud Abbas returned to the Palestinian territories [after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993], I gave him $25,000 at the request of the late president Yasser Arafat,” Rashid claimed.

“Today, he and his sons have palaces and property estimated at 15 million Jordanian dinars [approximately $21m.] in Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia and other places.”

Rashid said the timing of the arrest warrant against him was linked to a series of interviews he gave to Al-Arabiya and to the PA’s fear that he would expose various corruption scandals.

Ah, they’re all rats as far as I’m concerned. Let them gnaw on each other. Just leave Israel the hell alone.

*Post title courtesy of W. Somerset Maugham, who coined it for Monaco, I believe, though it serves well here. One of the pithiest comments in all English.

I’ve treated this story sarcastically before, but, you know, after a while, even intellectual genocide—a Holocaust of the mind—isn’t very funny anymore:

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority continue to deny Israel’s 3,000 years of history in Jerusalem, claiming it is solely an Arab, Muslim and Christian city. Earlier this month, Abbas referred to Israel’s presence and activities in Jerusalem as “Judaization” and stated that Israel is stealing what he called the “cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian religious history.”

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“President Mahmoud Abbas held a series of meetings in Tunis… the President met with the Arab ambassadors to Tunisia… He explained to the guests the policies that are being adopted by the occupation authorities (i.e., Israel) – Judaization, destruction of homes, causing the emigration of Palestinian inhabitants, and imposition of high taxes; the continued excavations under the Al-Aqsa Mosque; [and he explained] the need for Arab cohesion in order to protect what remains of the holy city, and the [Israeli] attempts to steal its cultural, human, and Islamic-Christian religious history.”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 1, 2012]

“Advisor on Jerusalem affairs to the Palestinian President’s Office, Ahmed Al-Ruweidi… said: ‘Israel is managing to seize the land in the city; at the same time, the chances of maintaining its Arab and Islamic identity are small, since the occupation authorities are carrying out the 2020 plan, which is meant to establish the Jewishness of Jerusalem and to create a new and fabricated facade with an artificial heritage… about Jewish existence in Jerusalem… It is not befitting a city with the importance of Jerusalem, with what it represents, that it should continue to be subject to occupation… and that there should be repeated, ongoing attempts to change its geographical, demographic and cultural characteristics, and to create an artificial heritage with a Jewish spirit at the expense of its true and authentic [identity] as an Arab, Islamic and Christian city.’”
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 25, 2012]

These comments are just from the past two weeks, but they have been repeated over the years: millennia of history, culture, faith denied, rejected as a lie. The “Judaization of Jerusalem”? What a monstrous phrase, as offensive as if the Westboro Baptist Church protested in Mecca with signs that read “G-d Hates Moslem F*gs”. (But then, so does Ahmadinejad.)

And any of you Christians out there who buy into this, or harbor even the least sympathy: how long do you think they’ll tolerate your stain on their “Arab, Islamic” city? Remember, first they came for the Jews…

PS: One remarkable thing I remember about my trip to India many years ago was the tradition of the Moguls (the Muslim conquerers) to build their temples atop the ruins (which they ruined) of Hindu shrines. Typical of most invader cultures—you should hear what the Incas did to smaller tribes in South America. (No surprise Elizabeth Warren didn’t claim to 1/32nd—or even 1/512th!—Incan. Nasty folk, though excellent architects!) So, to find the Al Aqsa Mosque built latterly atop the site of the Second Temple is to be expected. Second, by the way, as in after the First Temple—just so we’re clear. But in all my stay in India, I never once heard anyone suggest the Hindu “occupation” was unjust and illegitimate. Never did I hear of the “Hinduization” of India.

Remember that piece of advice about writing an angry letter? Put it in a drawer for a day or so, then see how you feel.

Who writes letters anymore anyway?

In a letter to be delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in several days, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is demanding that Israel accept the establishment of a Palestinian state “on the 1967 borders” with possible minor adjustments, halt all building over the Green Line, and release all prisoners.

If Israel fails to do this, Abbas vows, the Palestinians will “seek the full and complete implementation of international law” to deal with Israel’s presence “as occupying power in all of the occupied Palestinian territory.” The situation as it stands, he states, “cannot continue.”

The letter is set to be delivered later this week.

I realize public services in the disputed territories might be less than ideal, but why should it take so long to get a letter from Ramallah to Jerusalem? What is it, fifteen to twenty miles?

And pardon my language, but does he really want to come across as such a whining bitch?

“As a result of actions taken by successive Israeli governments,” he writes, “the Palestinian National Authority no longer has any authority, and no meaningful jurisdiction in the political, economic, social, territorial and security spheres. In other words, the P.A. lost its reason d’être.”

Raison d’être, you mean? I thought all you guys spoke French. If the PA has had any raison or authority or jurisdiction, it has been lost on me. You are funded entirely by foreign largesse, you behave like sauvages—it is hardly surprising that you lack an état. Merde-for-brains losers.

Can you be an Arab dictator if you don’t have a state?

Makes you ponder:

A Palestinian woman accused of defaming the president on her Facebook page has been detained for two weeks while an investigation is carried out, activists said Monday, in what they say is a growing crackdown on writers who criticize the West Bank government.

Palestinian security forces arrested Ismat Abdul-Khaleq, a West Bank university lecturer, last Wednesday after they found writing on her Facebook page accusing President Mahmoud Abbas of being a traitor and demanding he resign, said lawyer Issam Abdeen of the Palestinian rights group al-Haq.

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“We are genuinely concerned about tightening limits on freedom of expression and on the media,” Abdeen said. “We don’t want reporters to second-guess what they write on whether they will be punished or not.”

Abdeen said the Palestinian public persecutor’s office was particularly harsh in ordering the prolonged detention of those accused of defamation. Abdul-Khaleq is a single mother of two children.

In other recent cases, newspaper reporter Yousef al-Shayeb has been held for eight days for allegedly defaming public officials. Al-Shayeb was expected to be released Monday after a court ordered him freed on $8,000 bail after a public outcry.

Two other reporters were interrogated last week, one for his Facebook posts and the other over a story he was researching.

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Defaming the president and other high-level officials is a crime in the Palestinian Authority.

“These expressions go beyond freedom of expression,” said public prosecutor Ahmed al-Mughani.

She is also accused of calling Abbas a “traitor” and saying he partied with prostitutes on the graves of slain Palestinians. Abdeen said Abdul-Khaleq denied she wrote those things.

Don’t take it back, honey! Let him prove he didn’t. In fact, say he snorts coke off a belly-dancer’s bare midriff. I bet he does, or wishes he did. (Who doesn’t?) Get your money’s worth.

Just look!

Earlier this month, two Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli soldier in Hebron and stabbed him with a knife. Despite his wounds, the soldier managed to shoot both terrorists, one of whom was killed while the other was injured.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas sent a condolence telegram to the family in which he called the killed terrorist “courageous.” The soldier’s act of shooting the terrorist who tried to kill him was defined by Abbas as an “assassination.” The official PA daily referred to tje soldier’s self-defense as a “loathsome crime,” while the attempted stabbing of the Israeli soldier was called “legitimate struggle.”

A few days later, Mahmoud Abbas sent his personal representative, Abbas Zaki, to visit the families of both terrorists and to express the leadership’s “solidarity.” Zaki said that the death of Aram was “cold-blooded murder” and “expressed the pride of the Palestinian leadership in this generation and in this heroism.”

Palestinian Media Watch reported last year that Abbas sent a grant of $2000 to the family of a terrorist who was killed while attempting to attack Israeli soldiers with pipe bombs.

Of course, Abbas, the “good” terrorist leader, is only trying to keep up with Hamass, the “bad” terrorists, who got a good reception of their own:

Today the UN Human Rights Council and its UN staff in Geneva advertised and facilitated an event that handed a UN pass, and a UN microphone, in a UN room, to a representative of the terrorist organization Hamas.

…notwithstanding the fact that the grotesque antisemitic charter of Hamas advocates the murder of Jews and the obliteration of the Jewish state – – and the organization’s members are continuing to use unspeakable cruelty and violence to realize that horrendous goal.

When it comes to depravity, the UN Human Rights Council seeks to redefine the answer to the old question, how low can you go?

We’ve all received ‘em, often from our own mothers: those epistles that elicit shame, resentment, anger, depression, acceptance. It’s like the five stages of guilt.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deserves an award for being the best master of gimmicks in the Middle East.

After his failed statehood bid at the UN Security Council and his unsuccessful attempts to end the power struggle between his Fatah faction and Hamas, the 76-year old Abbas has resorted to his old habit of issuing empty threats.

Abbas’s most recent threat, his aides said this week, was to send the “mother of all letters” to the Israeli government regarding the stalled peace process.

Abbas’s explosive letter will hold Israel alone responsible for the failure of the peace process, mainly because of its refusal to halt construction in the settlements and accept the pre-1967 lines as the borders of a future Palestinian state, the aides revealed.

They added that the president was busy these days writing the “mother of all letters,” which will be sent to the Americans and Europeans before it is delivered to the Israeli government.

By describing the letter as the “mother of all letters,” Abbas and his aides are hoping to create drama and suspense over the stalled peace talks with Israel.

First of all, it’s rather endearing that Abu Mazen (Abbas’ nom de guerre—they all have ‘em) wrote a letter. He could have emailed, texted, even tweeted. But no, he wrote a letter. We obtained a copy:

Dear Zionist entity,

Mahmoud

They speak their minds for one:

Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hassan, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on February 14, 2012.

The conflict between us and the Jews – as I have said time and again and shall continue to emphasize… The conflict between us and the Jews is not about land or borders. Rather, it is a conflict pertaining to creed and existence.

I hope that our good, blessed, pious, proud, and free Muslim youth will be aware of this fact. The conflict between us and the Jews is not about land or borders. Rather, it is a conflict pertaining to creed and existence.

[...]

I delivered two lectures under the title: “The Jews and the Globalization of False Claims,” in which I explained that the Jews specialize in the globalization of false claims. First, they make a false claim, then they make it global, and then they repeat it time and again, and mobilize the huge media machine in order [to spread] these false claims, which are repeated again and again and again, until they hear nothing but the echo of their own voices. Then they reach the point that people believe these globalized claims.

The Jews repeat their false claims time and again, until, from so much repetition and insistence, these claims become global axiomatic truths.

Nobody dares to discuss these claims, let along rebut them, lest they be accused of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews.

Nobody could accuse you of that, Muhammad! The conflict between us and the Jews is not about land or borders. Rather, it is a conflict pertaining to creed and existence.

Yeah, yeah, we heard you the first two times.

But what do you know? This confession thing is spreading to politicians, too!

Following are excerpts from an interview with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, which aired on Al-Jazeera Network on March 2, 2012:

If you are referring to political ideology – let me tell you in all honesty, there are no disagreements between us.

I’m not sure Hamass thinks so, but the fact that you do tells us something.

Anyone else?

Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Arifi, which aired on Al-Nas TV on February 21, 2012:

There is no doubt that one’s devotion to Jihad for the sake of Allah and one’s will to shed blood, smash skulls, and chop off body parts for the sake of Allah and in defense of His religion constitute an honor for the believer. Just having this notion in your heart is a mark of honor, even if you do not actually wage Jihad.

Oh, I see. You don’t actually have to smash the skulls and lop off the body parts as long you think about it.

Just put down the Koran, Muhammad, and step away from the prayer rug and no one gets hurt. What a fruitcake!

Chutzpah, thy name is Arab:

One principle of Palestinian Authority religious belief is that the Palestinians’ fight against Israel is for Allah and for Islam. Accordingly, the PA presents the conflict with Israel as a fight on behalf of all Muslims to liberate what they claim is Islamic holy land. See examples below.

Now PA TV has broadcast a song accusing Israel of being the one fighting a religious war “in your name, oh God.” The song demonizes Israel as an oppressor that “tortured” Palestinians and “usurped” Palestinian land, all in the name of religion.

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“My country – they [Israel] usurped, divided and stole
The truth – they mutilated
The freedom – they suppressed
Our fields – they burned and seeded with our corpses
Our villages – they uprooted and replaced with their houses
In your name, oh God, they tortured me
In your name, oh God, they expelled me
They destroyed, in your name,
they ruled in your name, oh God, hear my prayer
In our homes – they attacked us
With destruction – they threatened us
To ruin – they pushed us.”

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While Israel does not portray the conflict as a religious war, the PA emphatically defines it as such. In January, Palestinian Media Watch exposed a speech by the PA Mufti in which he presented the killing of Jews by Muslims as a religious Islamic destiny.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said that taking Jerusalem away from Israel on behalf of Islam is a fard ayn, a personal religious obligation on every Muslim.

“I say to the leaders of our Arab nation and to its peoples: Jerusalem and its environs are a trust that Allah entrusted to us. Saving it [Jerusalem] from the settlement monster and the danger of Judaization and [land-] confiscation, is a personal [Islamic] commandment [Arabic: fard ayn] incumbent on all of us. Therefore, I call all of you to serious and urgent action to save [Jerusalem] and to make available all possibilities in order to strengthen our resolve and to maintain its historical, cultural and religious character.”
[Al-Jazeera TV, March 27, 2010]

The Palestinian Authority Minister of Religion Al-Habbash has stated many times that the conflict with Israel is a Ribat, a religious conflict or war to defend or liberate land said to be Islamic.

“Settlement monster”? What a great expression! One I intend to use as my own from now on.

ROOOOAAAARRR!!!!!!!!

You know what to do, Israel:

The Palestinian Authority has ditched any Quartet hopes for a negotiated peace with Israel and rejects Jewish sovereignty over “settlement blocs,” such as the city of Maaleh Adumim, home to approximately 40,000 Jews, and the Gush Etzion communities.

It also demands the release of terrorists, the right to maintain a PA army and a halt to Jewish growth in Judea and Samaria in all parts of Jerusalem the Authority claims…

Anything else? Cappuccino? Biscotti? Magazine?

The PA document presented in Jordan includes a demand for 98.1 percent of Judea and Samaria and areas of Jerusalem that were restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967.

Virtually all of the Palestinian Authority demands are a rejection of Israeli “red lines,” which include maintaining the Oslo Accords prohibition on the establishment of a Palestinian Authority army.

“They ignored facts that have been on the ground for 40 years,” an Israeli source told the newspaper. “They ended up going back to the demands for a freeze on building for Jews in Judea and Samaria and the demand for freeing Hamas’ spokesman for Judea and Samaria.”

I guess you could call this “peace” plan the 1.9% Solution. If that’s the Arab position, I don’t see why it can’t be Israel’s—with the percentages reversed.

If you’ve been here for a while, this isn’t the first you’ve heard of this story—but isn’t that the real scandal?

How many times do the Palestinians get to use US money to better the lives of terrorists before the US says no more money?

Democratic Congressman Ted Deutsch and New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel have asked US Comptroller-General Gene Dodaro to investigate the Palestinian Authority’s use of American funding.

The request this week came three weeks after MK Moshe Matalon (Israel Beiteinu) had sent a letter to the budget committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives, informing them of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s policy of paying freed Palestinian prisoners who had been convicted of murder $5,000 and building them new homes.

Matalon received a copy of the congressmen’s letter on Thursday.

“Many of the released prisoners were convicted of orchestrating and carrying out Hamas-sponsored terrorist attacks in Israel, including the bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub that killed 21 people, the attack on a Netanya hotel that killed 29 people, and the bombing of a Sbarro Pizzeria that killed 15 people,” Deutsch and Israel wrote.

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They added that “the US must be unequivocally committed to ensuring that American taxpayer dollars are used to serve the interests of the US and our allies around the world.”

You’d like to think, right?

Instead:

“At the ceremony Abbas held [in honor of released prisoners] in Ramallah, he is reported as having praised these individuals for their ‘courage and sacrifice,’” the Israel Beiteinu MK wrote. “The atrocities referred to by Abbas as acts of ‘courage’… include the murders of scores of innocents, including women and children.”

These are people who should be dead. Instead they’re getting houses built for them on our dime. The only way this makes sense is if this is what their roofs look like through the sight of a bombardier: