Bloodthirsty Liberal

I’d like to think I supplied the “intellectual foundation” for these folks:

[Can we all get those t-shirts?]

Dozens of demonstrators dashed into the Loop building housing President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters this morning, slipping past security guards and running up escalators as they kicked off what they called a “Week Without Capitalism.”

Eight protesters were led out in handcuffs about half an hour later after they refused to clear the lobby. They were cheered by other demonstrators who began dancing and singing folk and gospel songs.

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After about 30 minutes marching and singing outside the building, the group tried to enter the building and reach Obama’s campaign offices around 8:30 a.m.

Guards locked the revolving doors, but protesters slipped through unlocked doors off to the sides. Some pushed past a security guard who tried to block their entry but quickly gave up as protesters poured through the doorway.

Like Elizabeth “Lie-a-Whoppuh” Warren, however, be careful whom you clutch to your bosom:

Jerica Arents, from the Rogers Park-based White Rose Catholic Workers, said some of the demonstrators had come from across the Midwest and would be joining NATO protests throughout the week. Arents said demonstrators are committed to remaining non-violent.

“We see NATO as using up a lot of resources in the city and the world,” she said.

Okay, they’re a little simple-minded—but no violence, no rape, no defecation. I’m proud to embrace these child-like creatures as Bloodthirsty Liberal’s Children.

Not an oxymoron, you just have to see things from their perspective:

A key figure in Afghanistan’s efforts to bring the Taliban to peace negotiations was assassinated Sunday in Kabul, authorities said.

Gunmen killed Moulavi Arsala Rahmani while he was on his way to work Sunday morning, the Afghan interior ministry said.

Rahmani was a senator and Cabinet minister during the Taliban government. In recent years, he was a senior member of the High Peace Council, established by President Hamid Karzai to ignite peace talks with the Taliban.

Very funny, Mullah Omar. It is to laugh. It’s a pity your single eye is such a jaundiced one.

Israeli intelligence?

[T]he discussions concerning the Iranian issue are being carried out continuously in the political stratum. The bottom line is apparent: even if Israel does not commit to announcing an attack in advance, it won’t act as if the US isn’t in the neighborhood (who is increasing their presence in the Persian Gulf region).

By the way, the huge exercise that was planned for this spring, with the participation of US and Israeli forces, was meant to be another expression of the close cooperation between the countries. The exercise was delayed due to a desire to slightly ease the tension against Iran. It is now planned for October. However, it’s not unreasonable to consider that a war might erupt before then.

Or some UN stooge?

During his speech to the UN Security Council on his recent visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, the radio quoted Ban as saying “the right moment has come for the peace process in the Middle East,” adding that he spoke with Palestinian President Abbas after his agreement with Hamas movement leader Khaled Meshaal to form a new technocrats government, under the leadership of the Palestinian Authority.

The UN chief reiterated his position that the Palestinian Fatah-Hamas reconciliation accord signed in Qatar, earlier this week does not conflict with President Abbas’ negotiations with Israel.

Whatever game the UN is playing at, it is not Reality™. More like Clueless or Parcheesy. Just stay out of the way, Sun Myung, and maybe (Inshallah!) no one will get hurt.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this was seen across the street from the Friends Meeting on Sunday morning.

What have we here? The coexist bumper sticker is a well-known piece of Lefist claptrap, a way of saying that we all can get along, even as they close their eyes and start to chant when the Holocaust is pointed out, or the killing fields or Stalin’s Russia or the Cultural Revolution in China… or or or. So that isn’t so interesting.

What’s really interesting is the No Peace No Justice sticker affixed right next to it. Allow me to give you a tour of No Peace No Justice.

I attended the annual Israel Day event on the Boston Common, a day set aside for Israeli food, dance, family fun, travel booths, etc., a few years ago, back at the height of the Palestinian Terror War. As the kiddies were coloring in pictures of Israel on the lawn, a large, scary group of adults was screaming into bullhorns, banging on drums, raising their fists and cursing. And what was the primary chant: No Justice No Peace!! It was so out of control that the Boston police had officers on horseback, keeping them outside of the event. They were raging, murderous. I badly wanted to scream back: No Peace? No Palestine! but I knew that I would be killed, so I just watched in horror.

So, gentle reader, let me ask you a question. Which other group on planet earth would the “peace crowd”, you know, like the pacifist Quakers, feel ok about threatening in this way? Who else would they join in terrifying? Which other group of children is it ok to torment?

As for the Israel Day on the Boston Common? In recent years, it has been moved to a safer, indoor facility.

- Aggie

Yesterday, we corrected an earlier story to say that the Mo-Bro in Egypt would honor the peace treaty with Israel, after initially writing that they said they wouldn’t.

They won’t:

The Muslim Brotherhood denied on Saturday that it had assured Washington it would uphold the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Thursday that the Islamist movement, the clear victor in the first round of elections for the Egyptian Parliament, pledged to honor the various treaties signed by previous Cairo governments, including the peace deal with Israel.

Nuland insisted that the various political parties in Egypt have offered the US “good guarantees” that the peace treaty will be observed. She stressed that Washington fully expects all of Cairo’s political factions to honor the previous regime’s international agreements.

According to Essam al-Erian, deputy head of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party, the accords “are under the responsibility of the people and state institutions, and it would not be right for anyone to speak on behalf of the Egyptian people.”

Speaking to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, al-Erian said, “We are not in a position to give assurances.”

Rashad al-Bayoumi, the Brotherhood’s second in command, told Al-Hayat las week that “the Muslim Brotherhood will not recognize Israel under any circumstances and might put the peace treaty with the Jewish state up to a referendum.”

The Brotherhood, he added, “did not sign the peace accords… We are allowed to ask the people or the elected parliament to express their opinion on the treaty, and (to find out) whether it compromised the people’s freedom and sovereignty. We will take the proper legal steps in dealing with the peace deal. To me, it isn’t binding at all. The people will express their opinion on the matter.”

Until another politically appointed Obama stooge re-corrects the correction, we regret the error(s).

It makes sense: an “invented people” invent all sorts of crises, conflicts, and chaos.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has declared war on all informal meetings between Israelis and Palestinians, Hatem Abdel Kader, a senior Fatah official, said over the weekend.

Fatah’s decision came following a series of meetings between Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and academics to promote peace and “normalization” between the two sides.

Last week, Palestinians thwarted an attempt by a group called the Israeli Palestinian Confederation to hold a conference in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

At the conference, Israelis and Palestinians were expected to vote for a joint parliament that would offer itself as a “third government” for the two peoples.

Palestinian protesters stormed the Ambassador Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem and forced the Israeli organizers and hotel management to cancel the event.

The following day, a similar anti-normalization protest in Bethlehem forced the group to cancel a planned conference near the city.

Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh, who was supposed to speak at the conference, had to cancel his appearance after receiving threats from Palestinian activists belonging to Fatah and other groups.

You know Fatah: they’re the “good” Palestinian Arabs, as opposed to the “bad” Arabs, like Hamass, who do things like renounce any thought of peace with Israel. Fatah’s not like that, you see, not their style. They’re good. That’s why this administration (and all previous ones, it must be admitted) say they are Israel’s peace partner and why they order Israel to “get back to the damn table!

If the pursuit of peace was ever immoral, this is that time.

I’m used to the permanent campaign of the Obama administration. It’s all about reelecting his a** and always has been.

But the Defense Secretary? I understand he may have some free time on his hands, what with our abandoning Iraq and Afghanistan to their radical Islam fate (not to mention Egypt and Libya), but how can he fix his mouth to say these words?

With his boss, U.S. President Barack H. Obama, doing poorly in the polls less than a year before the 2012 election, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lashed out at Israel Friday, demanding that Israel “just get to the damn table” and negotiate with the PA. Ignoring Israel’s ongoing and constant appeals to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to restart negotiations with Israel without preconditions – a stance supported by the Quartet, of which the U.S. is a member, it should be noted – Panetta said that “the problem right now is we can’t get ‘em to the damn table, to at least sit down and begin to discuss their differences. We all know what the pieces are here for a potential agreement,” he said.

That is a flat-out lie, and he knows it (though as a former CIA Director, he may know a lot less than we give him credit for). Israel has offered to sit down at the damn table, the ottoman, the divan, or any other damn piece of furniture that you can name. The Arabs won’t because they don’t accept that Israel is a permanent entity. And after getting Sinai, Gaza, and parts of Judea and Samaria back without one single concession—not one—why should they? They’ve got shills like Panetta blaming Israel for intransigence. Given time, they’ll have their one (more) nation from the river to the sea, and Perth Amboy, NJ thrown into the bargain.

There are no pieces for an agreement. Zero, zilch, nada. There are no differences to discuss because it’s all differences—there’s nothing in common.

The Obama administration’s attitude toward the Jews mirrors its attitude toward workers—they don’t like ‘em and they don’t care who knows it. In fact, they prefer everyone to know it. There may be votes in their knowing it.

Thanks, Barry. Those women didn’t want equality anyway. And who needs peace between Egypt and Israel. The world is a much safer place today with Obama in the White House.

Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet in the religious movement’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring.

The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was the strong showing of ultraconservative Islamists, called Salafis, many of whom see most popular entertainment as sinful and reject women’s participation in voting or public life.

Analysts in the state-run news media said early returns indicated that Salafi groups could take as much as a quarter of the vote, giving the two groups of Islamists combined control of nearly 65 percent of the parliamentary seats.

I would like to remind our brain-dead liberal readers that you believed the nonsense from the White House and from the State Department: This is a Democracy movement! There is simply no learning curve in this country any more, and we will someday pay the price. Does anyone recall that the Bush administration was all overjoyed at the thought of voting in Gaza? How did that work out? Why couldn’t we see the trend?

That victory came at the expense of the liberal parties and youth activists who set off the revolution, affirming their fears that they would be unable to compete with Islamists who emerged from the Mubarak years organized and with an established following. Poorly organized and internally divided, the liberal parties could not compete with Islamists disciplined by decades as the sole opposition to Mr. Mubarak. “We were washed out,” said Shady el-Ghazaly Harb, one of the most politically active of the group.

Although this week’s voting took place in only a third of Egypt’s provinces, they included some of the nation’s most liberal precincts — like Cairo, Port Said and the Red Sea coast — suggesting that the Islamist wave is likely to grow stronger as the voting moves into more conservative rural areas in the coming months. (Alexandria, a conservative stronghold, also has voted.)

The Obama administration is going to refuse to discuss this, and the media will soon stop reporting, so let’s tell the truth while we can: The United States, as the most powerful nation on earth, has responsibilities. Peace and stability are good. Revolution and anarchy are bad. Rigid religious systems that oppress women and minorities are bad. The United States, but turning a blind eye to what was obviously happening in Egypt, supported bad outcomes. We could not possibly have been stupid enough to innocently believe that the Islamists wouldn’t take over the country. And that leads to the most basic question about the Obama administration: Is Obama merely incompetent or is he malevolent?

- Aggie

He’s no less deserving than certain Nobel laureates I can think of:

Organisers of the Confucius Peace Prize – China’s alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize – say they are determined to give the award to Vladimir Putin, despite opposition from Beijing.

The Culture Ministry announced earlier that the award would not be given this year and disbanded the prize committee.

But committee member Qiao Damo, a poet, says he has set up a new panel and insists that a ceremony will go ahead.

He said Mr Putin was chosen for his opposition to Nato’s Libya bombing.

Which was supported by whom? I can’t remember.

But these Confucians are pretty confused:

And a statement attributed to Mr Qiao’s new panel also paid tribute to Mr Putin’s actions in going to war in Chechnya in 1999.

“His iron hand and toughness revealed in this war impressed the Russians a lot, and he was regarded to be capable of bringing safety and stability to Russia,” the statement said.

Bombing Chechnya to the Stone Age, good. Bombing Libya to remove Qaddafi, bad.

Still, it’s hard to argue with this:

“I feel the Noble Peace Prize has gone too far away from peace, and their standard has gone too far away from the essence of peace,” he said.

Or as Confucius himself once said, “He who give peace prize to preening metrosexual with itchy trigger finger need to have head examined.”

This is too bad.

I wonder which moonbat the President will choose to replace him?

The flagging U.S. effort to broker new Middle East peace talks took a fresh hit on Thursday when presidential advisor Dennis Ross stepped down, leaving the White House without its chief Mideast strategist and one of its most seasoned peace negotiators.

Ross, who served on the National Security Council as a special advisor to President Barack Obama, has been a key figure on the White House Mideast team and also an important voice in U.S. policy on Iran.

“Dennis Ross has an extraordinary record of public service and has been a critical member of the president’s team for nearly three years,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.

Ross had initially pledged to work for Obama for two years, but extended that by another year in light of the Arab Spring upheaval that has reshaped the Middle East, Carney said.

“Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise,” Ross said in a brief resignation statement.

Ross’ departure could fan doubts over Obama’s Mideast peace strategy and follows the resignation in May of Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell.

Mitchell was no loss, but Ross is a good guy.

- Aggie

The latest from Latma, but if you’re expecting tears of laughter, you’re only half right:

We are the children of Oslo September ’93
You sold us out on the
White House lawn for promises
You were weary men who wanted
a Nobel Peace Prize
You were young women who wanted to mix reality with a dream
So you got your acclaim and signed a deal
That was total ruse
That you could try out on us -
Why not, apres vous la deluge
You promised an olive branch, a dove
We got Qassams on a house
You promised joy and calm
We got only expulsions and bombs
You promised a dove …

We are the children of Oslo September ’93
We grew up and now are in the army
with our weapon and helmet on our heads
I’m from Kfar Saba
Haifa
Gush Katif
I’m from Sderot
Watch out for your Nobel, so it doesn’t
get dirtied by shrapnel, tears and blood
We won’t pressure your, we won’t ask you what more he is plotting
Because we learned from you long ago that promises don’t have to be honored
In trauma wards, in Ashkelon, Itamar and in war,
we only wanted to whisper.
We are the children of that Oslo …
What were you thinking?

You promised an olive branch, a dove
We got Qassams on a house
Just two dead every day
What a great price to pay – for peace
Keep on singing about legacy [AL: reference is to "Rabin Legacy"]
We just got orders over the secure net
We don’t have time for discussion
That’s ok, we forego an apology
You promised a dove …

Thank to reader Yerushalimey for passing this along. It doesn’t break new ground (for those who have been paying attention), but it’s entertaining: