Pope Francis, Hypocrite

Pope Francis made the news today with an interesting statement on freedom of speech.

The Pope, while en route to the Philippines decided to weigh in on the Charlie Hebdo controversy.

Pope Francis described freedom of speech as not only a fundamental human right but a duty to speak one's mind for the sake of the common good. But...there were limits:

By way of example, he referred to Alberto Gasbarri, who organizes papal trips and was standing by his side aboard the papal plane.

"If my good friend Dr. Gasbarri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said half-jokingly, throwing a mock punch his way. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."

Now the Pope of course condemned the killings, saying such horrific violence in God's name couldn't be justified and was an "aberration." But he said a reaction of some sort was to be expected.

"There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others," he said. "They are provocateurs. And what happens to them is what would happen to Dr. Gasbarri if he says a curse word against my mother. There is a limit."

I have to admit I find his use of the word "aberration" to describe what happened in Paris astonishing. Has he been living in a bubble? Christians are being murdered all over the Middle East and in Africa by Muslims, and terrorism in the name of Islam has been epidemic. An aberration? Really?

That aside, I find I agree with some of what he said. People whom deliberately insult someone's religion - as opposed to being critical of its practices and ideology, which ought to be fair game - should expect a reaction.

So...where was this Pope's reaction to the deliberate insults and canards thrown at Christianity by the rabidly secular Left since he put on the Papal Mitre? Asleep in that same bubble?

And what about Jews? The most hideous libels and slanders are thrown at Jews and Judaism every day in Europe and the Middle East. Mainstream articles in ME papers repeatedly use cartoons Der Stürmer would have been proud to print, Hitler's Mein Kampf in Arabic is a bestseller and many Muslim imams demonize Jews and call for their death and destruction on a regular basis in their Friday sermons.

 

Meanwhile, Israeli flags with a Mogen Dovid, a Jewish religious symbol on them are burned every day in Europe and in the Arab World. The Pope has said nothing about any of this. In fact, he's actually criticized Israel for its 'reactions' to this insult to their religion.

 

Yet, all of a sudden, this Pontiff is already jumping in and making excuses for the violent  Muslim reaction to cartoons in Charlie Hebdo. When Muslims do it, of course it's wrong but you have to understand their justified rage.

This sort of anal hypocrisy is indefensible in someone who seeks to be a moral arbiter and the leader of the Catholic Faith. Or is it just naked cowardice, as it was with his predecessor Benedict?

A Sermon At Al-Aqsa "We Will Slaughter The Jews"

A typical Friday sermon on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Israel. This one was given November 28th and is a perfect example of what goes out every day in 'Palestine's' mosques, media and schools.

This is why 'two states for two people living side by side in peace' was and has always been a con game. Arafat's former commissar in Jerusalem, the late and unlamented Faisal al-Husseni put it very well when he called Oslo "just a Trojan Horse", designed to "cheat and ambush the Jews."

It's also worth keeping in mind that every imam and other religious 'Palestinian' figure is vetted by the Palestinian Authority (or by Hamas if they're in Gaza) so this is not some rogue imam. He's preaching the message that Abbas and his friends want put out there.

That Israel allows this to go on in their capitol is outrageous.

Top PA Official: Youth Soccer Match With Israel 'Crime Against Humanity'

Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee went ballistic over a recent youth soccer match between Palestinian and Israeli children hosted by the Peres Center for Peace as a way to build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian children.

Rajoub, a member of the Fatah Old Guard wrote in a September 6 Facebook post, “Any activity of normalization in sports with the Zionist enemy is a crime against humanity.”

He said the match represented “an Israeli attempt to cover up their crimes against [Palestinian] athletes,” according to a Palestinian Media Watch report released Monday.

Perhaps he's forgotten about his part planning the massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972, or all the other very real 'crimes against humanity' he, Abbas and the others in Fatah have happily participated in.

The kids themselves appear to not be affected by the hatred their adult leaders are pushing...at least not yet. Over 600 children from Israel and the Palestinian territories were scheduled to take part this year in the Twinned Peace Soccer Schools events.

“I love it when we play together like this. I hope that one day there will be peace between Arabs and Jews and that there will be no more wars and death,” a Palestinian boy told AFP after the first event.

Not if Jibril Rajoub and the PA have anything to say about it. A number of PA officials echoed Rajoub's sentiments

"The Palestinian organizers of this match betrayed the blood of the children of Gaza and of the martyrs, which has yet to dry a week after the end of the barbaric Israeli aggression,” said Palestinian Olympic Committee member Abd al-Salam Haniyeh in an article published last Thursday by Palestinian news agency Sama

Haniyeh went on to demand that Rajoub punish the Palestinian organizers associated with the match, who hail from Yatta. “Immediately interrogate the organizers of the match, settle the account with them and prosecute them on charges of serious treason against the blood of the martyrs [who died in the Gaza conflict] and violating the decisions made by the Palestinian sports community’s leadership,” Haniyeh urged.

Last year, in an interview with Palestinian TV, Rajoub stated his opposition to participating in sporting events with Israelis and threatened to remove anyone accused of doing so from the Palestinian Football Association.

Jibril Rajoub,you might remember is the PA leader who said that if the Palestinian Authority had a nuclear weapon, they would use it on Israel the next day.

It's pretty easy to predict what's going to happen here, because I know how these things usually end up. Remember that Arafat, Abbas, Rajoub, and the rest of the Fatah mafia were trained by their Soviet masters on how to enforce party discipline.

The organizers, coaches and any other Palestinian adults involved in this will receive a visit from Fatah thugs in the 'security forces' and will receive a lesson, a physical one if necessary on the error of their ways. The program will be cancelled, because all of a sudden no Palestinian children or adults will be participating in it. If the regime decides it's necessary, the kids who were involved, especially if they were exposed to the hated Jews enough to see them as human beings will be subjected to intense reprogramming.

There will be no real peace between Israel and the Arabs whom identify themselves as Palestinians as long as Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the other allied factions are around.You could sign any papers you want and give in to all their demands, and that wouldn't change.

Swedish Woman Viciously Beaten By Muslim Mob For Wearing Star Of David

A Jewish mother of four was set upon and viciously beaten in Uppsala for wearing a Star of David..

“One of the attackers signaled me to ‘Shut up or we’ll kill you,’” Anna Sjögren, in her 40s, said of the ordeal, which transpired on Thursday. So far, she said she’s too traumatized by the assault to file a police complaint.

 

While walking in one of the city’s largely Muslim populated neighborhoods, “A Muslim girl saw that I was wearing the Star of David on my neck and she started swearing at me and spat in my face. I got very upset and pushed her off” Sjögren told the World Zionist Organization Center for Countering Antisemitism.

Sjögren said that someone standing next to the girl then threw a sharp object at her face. “I’m not sure who it was. Everything happened so fast,” she said.

“There were at least ten witnesses to the attack. All ten of them were wearing hijabs or scarfs in the colors of the PLO. Some surrounding witnesses claim that I ‘tripped’ and fell and that no one hurt me. It’s just unbelievable.”

Sjögren’s jaw was severely damaged, her eyes swollen, and she sustained injuries all over her body, according to the report.

So, why won't Mrs. Sjögren go to the police?

“I cannot go to the police. The worst thing is that [the assailants] will get my name and address. They’ll know where to find me and know I am the Jew who reported it,” she said.

I'm certain that there are quite a few Swedish women who have been assaulted, beaten or raped who have made the same decision for the same reason.

The one thing puzzles me about this is, being a native Swede and knowing how things are, what was she doing walking alone in a Muslim neighborhood alone wearing something that obviously signified she was a Jew?

Obviously this is no excuse for her being assaulted, but it seems like a heavy price to pay for making that point of being free to go where she wants.

That said, it's way past time for Sweden's Jews to make aliyah

(h/t Blazing Cat Fur)

French Muslims Using Facebook For 'Hit List' To target Jews

 

Muslims in France now have a new tactic. They're using Facebook to publish the names, photos identities and location of French Jews to target them for assault.

The caption above translates as  "Smile, you're caught! JRF watches!" in this FaceBook page that targets 32 Jews for attack.

The Jeunes Révolutionnaires Français, JRF, or ‘Young French Revolutionaries' posted the names and photos of the Jews above on its Facebook page, and one of those listed has already been attacked on Thursday night in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb by a gang of 15 Muslims, some armed with iron bars.

According to a France’s Le Monde Juif, three men initially approached the victim, asked his name and then were joined by the rest of the gang in attacking him.When another resident in the building appeared, the men left.

The title page of the group’s Facebook presence features a large Palestinian flag and calls for members to attend a rally on Saturday in connection with the international Al Quds Day protests around the world which the government has already banned.

The Union of Jewish Students of France, the UEJF has filed a legal complaint against the administrators of the Facebook page for incitement to racial hatred and incitement to violence,both crimes under French Law.

I'm certain Mark Zuckerberg is, you know,concerned.

In a statement, the UEJF said: “For several days, many Facebook pages have been created to encourage physical violence against young Jews. Photos were published, with the identities, phone numbers, and contact information. This young man was directly affected by such a Facebook page. It is unacceptable that the Jews are the target of Facebook calls to murder.”

Unacceptable, mais oui, but this appears to be le monde neauveau in France. I honestly don't think the French government understands what's going on or knows how to handle this

France's Muslims are going to do everything possible to drive Jews out of France, even the very left of center Jews in the UEJF. And after that, unless there is severe push back,they will start on the Christians.

Just watch.

The New Pogrom - Paris, 2014

 

The French government prohibited 'pro-Palestine' demonstrations after two synagogues were attacked, along with other violent incidents. But that didn't stop French Muslims, who raged through the predominantly Jewish Paris suburb of Sarcelles in what one police official called the “Paris Intifada.”

Sarcelles has been nicknamed little Jerusalem because of its large community of Sephardic Jews.Like most predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, it's a fairly quiet place, with the usual quota of Kosher markets, synagogues and small shops. What happened this weekend was anything but quiet.

 

On Saturday, 3000 people gathered near the Gare Du Nord, the main Paris metro train station and began marching up Barbes Boulevard, burning, looting and assaulting people who 'looked Jewish' as they went. 14 policemen were injured and 38 arrests were made. On Sunday hundreds of mostly Arab and North African youths marched through the streets of Sarcelles, wielding bars and clubs while shouting, “Death to Israel” and "death to the Jews."

The neighborhood’s largest kosher grocery Naouri was burned to a shell and so were a number of other stores including a local Jewish owned pharmacy and a funeral home. The nearby synagogue in Garges was firebombed, but fortunately not much damage was done. Windows were smashed, shops were looted and several passers by were assaulted.

 

Le Figaro reported that riot police attempted to disperse protesters and block access to another synagogue in Sarcelles, lobbing tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd. A number of police were reported injured and some journalists were assaulted as well.

“I live in Garges, near the synagogue, but I’m afraid to go home,” a young woman told the newspaper.

“We are seeing real scenes of urban guerrilla warfare,” Thierry Maze, a local law enforcement officer, told Le Figaro.

Many Jews reported being afraid to leave their homes.

Here's what Sarcelles looked like afterwards:



This pogrom - and it really can't be called anything else- has become a major concern to French Jewish leaders.From the Algemeiner:

In a Facebook post on Monday, France’s former chief rabbi Gilles Berheim called on the French government “not to tolerate this kind of behavior.”

“I watched from Israel with great concern and fear the violence that took place in Paris, in Barbes on Saturday and on Sunday in Sarcelles,” he wrote. “While the pretext for these demonstrations was support of Gaza, they are actually anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic demonstrations. This is unspeakable

Rabbi Levy Djian, a French Jewish activist living in New York told The Algemeiner that the series of riots show “we are entering a new era of real fear for the Jewish community of France.”

“Last week, in Paris, synagogues were attacked in broad daylight,” Djian said. “In Nice demonstrators screamed: ‘We are all Mohamed Merah’s!’ Then there were the riots in Barbes (Paris’s 18th district) yesterday, and there were the violent demonstrations in Sarcelles on Sunday.”

(note: Mohamed Merah was the jihadi who murdered a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulon back in 2012. Some hero..)

“The fact that the Muslims feel free to act against the police and the government is very alarming because who knows what will happen tomorrow? Many are talking about going to Israel but this can not be the solution to this problem. There are still many Jewish communities in France and it is imperative that they should be safe and feel totally secure.”

Rabbi Djian has it correct that France's restive Muslims no longer fear the police. Why would they? Certain arrondissements in Paris and elsewhere are known to les flics as La Zone, no-go areas where they only go in heavily armed bands when absolutely necessary. And for all the condemnations of the violence President Hollande and the Socialists owe their election to an almost bloc Muslim vote. They aren't going to bear down too hard.

France's Jews, no matter what, aren't going to feel 'safe and totally secure' in France and they are going to continue to be targeted. It is French Jews that are being attacked, not Israelis or Israeli institutions.It is French Jews, it has been happening for a long time now, and it is not going to change unless something unforeseen happens.

Despite Rabbi Djian's thought on the matter, going to Israel is indeed a solution that is appealing more and more to many French Jews.

As Roger Cukierman, President of Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF), France's major Jewish organization said in Le Monde Juif,the anti-semitic violence could very well drive France's Jews out of the country.

As the French will no doubt find if that happens, après le Juifs, le déluge, to change slightly an an old and famous quotation.

Pro-Israel Supporters Attacked By Palestinians In Los Angeles

Supporters of Israel attending a large rally in Los Angeles were attacked Sunday by four Palestinian Arabs carrying 'Palestine' flags, sporting anti-semitic stickers and graffiti and wielding clubs.

The incident occurred at a large solidarity rally outside the Los Angeles Federal building in West Los Angeles, a traditional site for such events. Sponsored by Stand With Us and the Israel American Committee, the rally drew a crowd of about 1,250 Jews and Christian supporters of Israel.

 

The Times of Israel had a pretty good summary of what was said at the rally..a yearning for peace, and an affirmation of Israel's right to defend its people:

"This war is hard for Israel to fight because Hamas is cowardly. They are hiding their rockets and rocket launchers in schools and mosques, hospitals and apartments,” StandWithUs President Roz Rothstein told the crowd. “They are intentionally endangering everyone, on both sides. All of us here today, who support liberal democratic values and peace, hope that Israel succeeds in defeating Hamas.”

Leehy Sha’ar – whose nephew, Gil-ad, was one of the three teenagers kidnapped and killed by Hamas on June 12 — also spoke briefly.

“Israel only wants to live in peace but she can only live in peace with neighbors who also want to live in peace with her,” Sha’ar said. “In the name of the three holy boys, Gil-ad Sha’ar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach, may Hashem [God] bless us with unity and strength to defeat the Hamas and terrorist enemies and may Hashem bring us closer to the true peace that we all deserve.”

As always, Palestinian Arabs living in the Los Angeles area and various groupies underlined that message..that peace can't be one way. That contingent, whose numbers eventually swelled to about 200 put on a counter demonstration. It's indicative of the difference between the two groups that the pro-Israel crowd was chanting 'am Yisrael chai' (Israel lives) as opposed to 'Allahu Akbar','Death To Israel' and the other openly anti-semitic slogans coming from the pro-Palestinian counter demonstration.

The signs were quite different too.

The Los Angeles Police did a decent job of keeping the two groups separated but at one point, four men who later turned out to be Palestinians arrived in a pickup truck, jumped out and began physically assaulting the pro-Israel demonstrators with clubs.



A shot was fired at the truck as it fled the area by a DHS officer who was on the scene . The  4 Palestinians were later arrested and will likely be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Several people were treated on the scene for injuries and I believe on person, an elderly woman, was taken away in a Hatzolah ambulance.

Needless to say, Los Angeles' left wing Times  reported (via 'media reports' meaning the AP) that the violence broke out of the trampling of a Palestinian flag by pro-Israel demonstrators. That's an utter falsehood as anyone who was there and has a regard for truth would tell you. The Arabs started swinging first, and the 'trampling' occurred in an attempt to disarm them. But then, that's The Times.And I'm sure the local Jewish Journal, a paper with a similar political orientation to the Times will be quick to back them up. Israel must be blamed even for a blatant attack like this.

That aside, the message this sent  can't be emphasized enough. It's not 'Israelis' or Israel institutions that are being attacked here but Jews. Just like their Hamas heroes, these people don't differentiate between the two. Nor would it change if Israel ceased to exist.

It's time Jews living in the diaspora understood that reality.

'How Dare Those Jews Defend Themselves!'

Europe is once again showing its true colors.

In Paris, violent rioters predominantly from the city's restive Arab population attacked Jews on the streets and attempted to storm two synagogues over the weekend while worshippers were inside.

The worst incident took place at the Synagogue de la Roquette in Paris. Jews were besieged inside when a mob of Arab protesters pushed the five French police who were assigned to guard the synagogue and attempted to break into the building itself to get at the Jews inside.

French Jewish journalist Alain Azria, who was on the scene told the AFP that close to 200 congregants were insideas the protesters chanted anti-Semitic slogans and hurled objects at the synagogue.

“They were determined to enter and the police did not have enough forces,” he said.

According to Azria, what saved the Jews inside from serious injury and even death was men from the SPCJ Jewish security unit, the Jewish Defense League and Beitar, who engaged the attackers to defend the Jews. Six of the predominantly Arab protesters were arrested.

“Thank God they were there because the protesters had murder on their minds and it took a while before police reinforcements arrived,” Azria added. Three Jews were hospitalized, but a far worse carnage was avoided.

In Bellville, an eastern suburb of Paris, a pro-Hamas demonstration Saturday featured chants of “Itbah Al-Yahud” (“slaughter the Jews”).

On a Paris street near the main Gare du Nord train station, a Jewish 17-year-old girl was assaulted in broad daylight by a man described as being Arab in appearance when he sprayed pepper-spray in her her face. The girl, identified by her initials, J.L., wrote in her complaint to police that the man, who was in his 20s, shouted: “Dirty Jewess, inshallah you will die.”

There have been a number of reports of assaults against Jews throughout France.

In a separate incident occurred this Friday night, when the synagogue of Aulnay-sous-Bois, a northeastern suburb of the French capital, was packed with worshipers at the weekly Sabbath services. A firebomb went off at the entrance, and although no one was injured, the resulting fire damaged the synagogue.

 

Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemned the attempted synagogue attacks "in the strongest possible terms".

"Such acts targeting places of worship are unacceptable," he said in a statement.

Needless to say, French President Hollande is pushing for an immediate cease fire. He and the Socialists carried almost the entire Muslim vote in the elections, so he likewise could care less about Israel's security or Hamas shooting missiles at them beyond a perfunctory condemnation here and there. He's mainly interested in quiet and being able to financially support the new Hamas-Fatah reichlet.

And the protesters? Here's a typical statement from one, whom identified himself as Amid Hamadouch to the AFP.

"I came to say no to this massacre."

"They are bombing innocent people. There are missiles being launched by Hamas, but the Israeli response is disproportionate. They are attacking the civilian population and not Hamas officials."

What Amid had to say should be quite reveling to all of us, and especially to Jews. Amid and his friends , of course, were not out on the streets protesting or attacking Palestinian institutions when Hamas was launching missiles and mortar shells at Israel. He was fine with it.Nor does he care that those brave Hamas fighters he admires so much are using women and children as human shields, or that the IDF is doing everything it can to minimize civilian casualties.

Even more to the point, he and his compatriots aren't attacking Israelis, twisted in morality as that would be. They're attacking Jews. Because to them, they're one and the same. And if there was no Israel, Jews would still be targeted anyway. That's something a number of Jews who pat themselves on the back as 'anti-Zionists' or whom pride themselves on being critical of Israel ought to ponder.

The same message is being sent across Europe. It's time the Jewish communities in the Diaspora started paying attention.

 

Jews Barred From African Union Summit Learn A Needed Lesson

 

A group of prominent American Jews were invited to attend the 23rd African Union Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea this week, with the idea of working on logistical and financial support for educational,humanitarian and development projects in Africa from mainstream Jewish groups like the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.On the agenda and scheduled to open the conference was a simple statement, a declaration of support for the three kidnapped Israeli teens.

The Jews  were not allowed to attend, and the story points out something valuable to remember:

"I have never seen such racism, such anti-Semitism. We were humiliated," said several of the Jews in attendance, who had left Equatorial Guinea in a fury after changing their flights.

"It all began when one of the Arab delegates, from Egypt, approached us at dinner the night before the opening and asked what we were doing here, pointing at the men wearing kippahs," said Israeli businesswoman Yardena Ovadia, who had organized the invitation of the Jewish delegation to the summit.

Ovadia, who has close ties with Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang, said that she explained to the delegate that her and her friends were Jews from the US, not Israelis.

The following day representatives of the Arab League refused to enter the hall until all the Jews left, or as they called them, the "Israeli delegation."

"We were already seated in the conference hall," said Ovadia. "The heads of the Arab League announced a boycott of the conference until the 'Israeli delegation' left. We officially declared that we were Americans, not Israelis, but it didn't help."

"There was a representative of the US congress with us. She was shocked and said that there will be an official government statement," Ovadia added.

Notice that the first default position of these American Jews and this Israeli-American businesswoman was to try to distance themselves and declare that they were Americans, not those 'evil' Israelis.

 


To the Arab League delegates, that made absolutely no difference. It also apparently didn't make any difference to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Egyptian President al-Sisi, the prime minister of Spain, four Iranian ministers, and other foreign dignitaries in the hall.

 

None of them said a word as the 14 Jewish delegates were forced to leave the hall and the proceedings started an hour late. Nor did any of them say anything or walk out either when the Palestinian Authority's unelected dictator Mahmoud Abbas' deputy made a speech accusing Israel of perpetrating a 'Holocaust' on the Palestinian people. And that declaration of support for the three kidnapped Israeli teens? If these people couldn't even abide being in the same room with Jews, do you think that ever happened? Of course it didn't. It never even made it to the floor and was cancelled from the agenda.

And some of these people  are the same one who accuse Israel of 'apartheid'!  Yes, it's the old story again, 'Jews Unwelcome.' And the usual suspects still keep their mouths shut.







The supreme irony here is that the Israelis have given billions in badly needed aid to African nations, unlike the Arab countries with their billions of petro-dollars. That likely has a lot to do with why the president of Equatorial Guinea called Yardena Ovadia personally to apologize and invite the Conference of Presidents' delegation to a special dinner. But at that point, they had already rescheduled their flight and had left the country.

Believe or not this is a positive development. These American Jews, who thought themselves apart from their Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel may have learned, perhaps, that 'anti-Zionist' is just a code word for anti-Semite. To these people all Jews are 'Israelis', no matter how politically correct they are, how critical they are of Israel's policies or how much 'interfaith outreach' they do with Islamists.

It's high time this lesson was learned.

How The Palestinians And The Left Are Celebrating The Israeli Kidnappings

By now, most of you know that three Israeli teens were confirmed kidnapped near Gush Etzion, almost certainly by Hamas.

While most Israelis and many(but believe me, not all) Jews in the Diaspora are praying for their safe return, the Palestinians are celebrating this 'successful operation' in their usual hideous fashion.

 

This image came not from Hamas, but from the official Fatah Facebook page showing the three kids as Jewish 'rats' caught in a trap.

Fatah also instructed 'activists' to destroy any CCTV footage that might aid the Israelis in finding the kidnapped kids.




 And of course, candies and sweets are being passed out in Gaza, while the rockets are still being fired at Israel.





As a matter of fact, Hamas,who has not claimed responsibility may not be the kidnappers.

Abbas' thugs in the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade issued a statement online claiming that they were holding the children and they would only be released in a swap for imprisoned convicted terrorists.

“We won’t release the three children, except in return for thousands of prisoners,” the statement read.

Remember, al-Aksa has pulled off this sort of thing before.

 Al-Quds, a Palestinian news agency, published an article on Wednesday describing the creative ways in which Arabs are celebrating the campaign through personal photographs, shaping the words out of string beans, or even carving them on a Libyan beach.

 

In Israel itself, notorious MK  MK Hanin Zoabi (United Arab List) sparked outrage even from her colleagues on the Left when she said  that those who kidnap Israeli children are not terrorists.

Fortunately, there are a number of Israeli Arabs who don't feel that way, even in the face of death threats.

As despicable as this response from the vast majority of Palestinians is, it's to be expected. They've done far worse over the years.

But the West's reaction is simply abominable.

The Israelis are desperately searching for the missing kids throughout the Hebron area, where they're believed to be held. The response from the Obama White House? To lean on Israel to 'urge restraint.'
Apparently the Obama team thinks Israel has arrested too many Hamas operative in Judea and Samaria for its liking.

The EU took a full five days before issuing a perfunctory condemnation, and the UN actually issued a statement saying they were uncertain whether a kidnapping had actually even taken place!.

None of them are reconsidering in the slightest their support for the new Fatah-Hamas unity government.  

In fact, in the middle of all this, the EU actually adopted a ten page proclamation together with the Arab League hailing "‘Palestine’s commitment to democracy and human rights’ and lauding the new unity government while harshly condemning Israel - or, as they put it , the Occupying Power'- for human rights violations galore, including what they termed the “grave humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip” caused by "the closure" imposed by Israel against Hamas for firing rockets at Israel's civilians. Of course, there was no mention of the Egyptian government's participation in closing the tunnels and working to keep Hamas from obtaining heavy weapons on their side of the border.

It was so blatantly biased that the Israeli foreign ministry actually summoned EU Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen to complain.

The message here is one that even the most reluctant Israelis are beginning to understand. To the EU and President Obama's team, the kidnapped teens and the rockets being fired into Israel are collateral damage of little importance next to a Jew-free Palestinian reichlet and an indefensible Israel on the 1948 cease fire lines.

The EU,of course has been the most outspoken about this, since they see it as excusing their craven behavior during the Holocaust(with some honorable exceptions), and a way of appeasing their new, restive Muslim populations as attacks on Jews in Europe continue to rise.

In the U.S., while most Americans remain pro-Israel, Barack Obama has largely succeeded in making Israel a partisan issue. And a look at what's happening on America's campuses and on the Left, sparked by a president who declared as early as 2009 that his goal was to create distance between America and Israel is a sign that things may be changing.

No matter how many concessions 'for peace' Israel makes, it will never be enough, because the ultimate goal is no Israel at all, not just as far as the Arabs aree concerned by Israel's implacable enemies in the West.

In essence, it's a movement towards a redo of the 1948 UN vote that created the State of Israel with a "no" outcome, and one of the best reasons I can think of that a strong, vital Jewish State is an absolute necessity.

4 Murdered In Attack On Jewish Museum, Jews attacked outside Paris Synagogue

Just another day in Europe...

An Israeli couple, a French woman and a young Belgian man were murdered in a shooting attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday by an unidentified gunman who burst into the building with an automatic or semi-automatic rifle.

As you can see in the video, released by the Belgian authorities, the killer carried out his attack in a deliberate and seemingly well-planned manner.

Belgium has a Jewish community of about 40,000, half of whom live in Brussels. Like Paris and other European cities, Brussels has a large and restive Muslim population of about 300,000, over 25% of the city's population and just under half of Belgium's estimated 650,000 Muslim population. The districts of Brussels that have large Muslim populations have essentially become no-go areas like many banlieus in France with a considerable increase in crime, including an average of around 250 gang rapes a year since 2007. As the Muslim population has grown, there's been a large increase in the number of mosques and minarets, veiled women in public, and more Islamist organizations. Two seats on the Brussels City Council in two heavily Muslim neighborhoods of Brussels, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and Anderlechtare, are held by Lhoucine Aït Jeddig and Redouane Ahrouch, both from the fledgling Islam Party, which seeks to impose sharia law on Belgium. In Antwerp, there is already a sharia court founded by the Islamist group Sharia4Belgium. Which is legally allowed to supersede secular Belgian law, on marriage, divorce, and child support issues.

The Belgian government issued the usual condemnations and has increased security for Jewish institutions in the country. This is not the first anti-semitic incident in Belgium, and given the current increase in the Muslim population, it will undoubtedly not be the last.

Just a few hours after the attack in Brussels, two Jewish men, brothers in their 20's were brutally beaten outside Chaare Tsion Synagogue in suburban Paris on Saturday night, probably after attending the Mincha prayer service. They were followed from the synagogue and beaten with metal pipes by a gang which then fled on bicycles and on foot. This sort of thing is becoming increasingly common in France, and is the reason behind a spike in the immigration of French Jews to Israel.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même.......

French Billboard Company Cancels Jewish Themed Ads Because Of Vandalism

A French advertiser has decided to scale back a campaign for the Jewish oriented dating site JDate after a number of its billboards, similar to the one above  were vandalized with anti-semitic graffiti..

Thierry Courrault, the regional director for JC Decaux, a large French billboard company, told French Jewish news site Le Monde Juif.info. that the company decided to pull 18 billboards out of 100 advertising JDate because of “vandalism against our property, swastika graffiti and broken windowpanes".

"In this very particular current context, it was to avoid the proliferation of such acts,” adding that the decision “was commercial and does not represent any position on the issue.”

No position on Jew hatred? Faire Français pouvez-vous obtenir? (How French can you get?)

Most of the vandalized billboards were located in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre, which has a substantial 'immigrant' population.

On Jan. 19, less than a week ago, the remains of a freshly slaughtered wild boar were found on the doorstep of the Saint-Brice-sous-Foret synagogue north of Paris. The following day, the Chabad synagogue in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt was hit by vandals painting swastikas on its facade.

même chose jour différent

Muslim DHS Adviser Bashes 'Christianists' , Says Reporter Has 'Jewish Demeanor'

 

Members of Joshua's Army will be quite familiar with Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based Islamic cleric who's an outspoken proponent of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of President Obama's senior Department of Homeland Security advisers.


Elibiary has an ongoing close relationship with former Holy Land Foundation director and president and CEO Shukri Abu Baker, who was convicted in 2008 of financing the terrorist organization Hamas. And Elibiary was an influential voice in lobbying Attorney General Eric Holder to avoid prosecuting the senior executives of CAIR, The Islamic Society of North America, the North American Islamic Trust and a number of other Muslim Brotherhood front groups who were caught red handed money laundering and providing material aid to terrorism in the Holy Land Foundation trial.Although I somehow doubt Elibiary had to work all that hard, considering Eric Holder's record.

Among other things, Elibiary is a big fan of  Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni and his Islamist style villayat-e-fiqh style of theocratic government. When Dallas Morning News reporter Rod Dreher wrote about Elibiary's laudatory remarks on Khomeni and Islamist government at a December 2004 conference in Dallas, titled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary,” Elibiary threatened him with violence.

Elibiary is also an outspoken admirer of the ideas of Salifist Islamist writer Sayyid Qutb, widely quoted by al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups like the Brotherhood as an inspiration and guide for their activities.

And wait, there's more -  Elibiary was also caught abusing his access to the highly classified DPS database (the Homeland Security State and Local Intelligence Community of Interest, or HS SLIC) containing hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports that were supposed to be used solely to aid law-enforcement agencies.

Elibiary used this to put together a number of classified documents that he felt promoted “Islamophobia,” and tried to leak the classified files to a far Left media outlet, who refused to do the story because they felt the files failed to show any real DHS bias against Muslims. His access was subsequently revoked, but he not only was allowed to retain his post at the DHS but was actually promoted recently.

Elibiary made the news today with tweets referring to WND reporter Aaron Klein as 'having a Jewish demeanor' and bashing what he called 'Christianist Xenophobia':

Asked by WND to clarify his remarks, Elibiary replied, “Christianist” refers to “Christians who mix theology and nationalism. Christianists view today’s politics through a theologically influenced (Calvinist) view of America’s founding.”

Elibiary identified WND as falling into his definition of “Christianist.”

“WND certainly would often times fall in this camp as well as perhaps a subset of Christianists that political scientists refer to as ‘Christian Zionists’ because of its foreign policy worldview through a dispensationalist end-time theology.”

Klein, who has written for WND since 2004, replied that he is Jewish and not Christian.

Elibiary wrote back saying he assumed Klein was Jewish “with the last name of Klein and your demeanor in (sic) video I saw of you on Fox. But I also know WND (sic) ubber Christian.”

Mohamed Elibiary is a senior adviser on Homeland Security. And that says a great deal about the high regard Islamists are held in the Obama Administration.

Official: Obama To Let Thousands Of Syrian Refugees Into The US

 

Obama's State Department has announced that the U.S. will take in thousands of Syrian refugees.

"Referrals will come within the next four months. We will need to interview people and perform security and medical checks," Kelly Clements, the State Department's deputy assistant secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration.

The refugees are reportedly going to be screened for terrorist ties:

"Refugees are subject to an intensive security screening process involving federal intelligence, law enforcement, defense, and homeland security agencies," a State Department official said. "The U.S. government makes every possible effort to uphold and enhance the security screening aspects of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Refugees are among the most carefully screened of individuals traveling to the United States."

Sure they are. Get ready for the next batch of Tsarnaevs and Nidal Hassans.And while you're at it, ask people in Minnesota and other locales what's happened to their crime rate since the U.S. settled a bunch of Somalis there.

And considering that the Obama Administration was funding these people and arming them for months even though most of them were Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, I have a feeling that 'terrorist' label is going to be, shall we say, flexible.

I also guarantee you that few if any of these people will be Christians, since a lot of them have already fled the country..many of them undoubtedly at the hands of those we will be welcoming to our shores as refugees.They're in much more dire circumstances than Syria's Sunni Muslims, but that isn;t going to get them in.

America's Jews in particular ought to be just thrilled at these actions by the man most of them voted for. Given the level of anti-Semitism in the majority of Arab Muslims, we certainly need more of them to create a hospitable climate for America's Jews, don't we?

Back in 2009, President Obama, in an interview called America one of the world's largest Muslim nations. And just a little while ago,this president was telling the world in front of his friends in the Islamist government of Turkey that the U.S. wasn't a Christian nation.

This was more than just a simple gaffe. As Melanie Phillips precipitously pointed out at the time, it  wasn't  so much a statement of fact by the president as much as an aspiration and a goal.

And he's doing his very best to achieve it.

Jewish Teen Girls Victims Of Muslim Acid Attack

Two Jewish teens from Britain who were volunteering at a local school in Zanzibar for the summer were victims of acid attacks, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries.

Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, both 18 and both active members of the Federation for Zionist Youth (FZY), are from Manchester.

"The attackers approached the girls as they were walking on a street at around 7:15 p.m. and threw acid at them," Zanzibar Urban West regional police commander Mkadam Khamis Mkadam told Reuters. "The incident occurred when the streets were deserted as most people were breaking their Ramadan fast."

Television images showed one girl obviously in pain in the back of a car at the Zanzibar airport.

"The victims sustained facial, chest and back injuries from the acid attack," Mkadam said.

The two girls were flown to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania's capitol fir treatment and left today for Britain.

According to what one of Kristie Trup's friends, Oli Cohen, 21, told the Jewish Chronicle, "Katie was attacked two weeks ago by a Muslim woman for singing on Ramadan. She was shocked as it just came from out of the blue - but she wasn't scared enough to come home she stayed out there to finish her trip and volunteering."

Zanzibar, an Island in the Indian Ocean is part of the African country of Tanzania but is predominantly Muslim. It's known as a popular tourist spot but has been hit with a series of terrorist attacks mainly sponsored by the local Islamist group Uamsho (Awakening), which wants Zanzibar to separate from Tanzania and become an Islamist state under sharia.

Two Christian leaders were murdered early this year in separate attacks.

Reuters, of course, referred to this as a 'random attack.'  It wasn't. There are literally thousands of these kinds of 'random attacks' involving Muslims. This was a deliberate terrorist assault aimed at two Jewish teens who were there volunteering to help the local, predominantly Muslim population. And frankly, I think their parents should have known better than to send them there.

Here's hoping the two girls recover quickly, but that both they and their parents have learned something.

Jews are the "most evil among creations, barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs"

Just a little snippet of children's programming from state run Palestinian TV, Israel's 'Peace Partners' :

PA TV reporter: "Let's meet these girls who want to recite a short poem."

Girl 1: “I do not fear the rifle because your throngs are in delusion and ignorant herds.
Jerusalem is my land, Jerusalem is my honor
Jerusalem is my days and my wildest dreams.
Oh, you who murdered Allah’s pious prophets (i.e., Jews in Islamic tradition)
Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood
You have been condemned to humiliation and hardship.
Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations
Oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs."

Girl 2: "Jerusalem is not your den
Jerusalem opposes your throngs
Jerusalem vomits from within it your impurity
Because Jerusalem, you impure ones, is pious, immaculate
And Jerusalem, you who are filth, is clean and pure.
I do not fear barbarity.
As long as my heart is my Quran and my city
As long as I have my arm and my stones
As long as I am free and do not barter my cause
I will not fear your throngs
I will not fear the rifle.”

Sweet, no?

 According to watchdog  Palestiniian Media Watch (PMW), the broadcast went out on July 3, and the two children were sisters.

I don't blame these children. I doubt they have a clue as to what they're really saying, and are just reciting a script for the thrill on being on TV, 'attagirls' from the adults and maybe some chocolate or something. But you know what? The adults know exactly what they're doing, and so do the sort of humans ( and I use that term loosely) who run Fatah and the Palestinian Authority.

They're indoctrinating the next generation in dehumanizing Jews and legitimizing terrorism and genocide. Do you or any other rational human being expect these people to actually keep any peace agreement they make with Jews, with Israel? Why would they?

This indoctrination in hatred, this refusal to live with Jews in peace and equality is what killed the so-called peace process - not Jerusalem, not 'occupation', not Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. It started with Arafat and has continued to the present day.

And yet the US and the EU continue to fund this evil and to advocate for  it.

The word 'Palestine' comes from a Roman corruption of the word 'Philistine', and that name was deliberately chosen by the Romans to mock the Jews after Israel and Judea were conquered.

Like other peoples in this part of the world, the Philistines made a fetish out of child sacrifice, burning thousands of their children on the altars of their god Dagon.

The majority of Arabs who proudly identify themselves as 'Palestinians' are worthy inheritors of this tradition.

By their hatred of Jews and denial of their humanity, they deny their own. And plant  the seeds for their own destruction, just as the Philistines did.

Leftist Muslim Politician To Jewish Woman- ''I Am Your Nightmare"

Karen West from the Social Democrats in Denmark put this on her Facebook page:



"Yesterday I received a screenshot in which the "social democratic" Youssef Khalil Idiab, member of city council of Brøndby (Copenhagen suburb), wrote to a Jewish woman:

"I am your nightmare , wait for me, Palestinia is on the way, peace is on the way, and you and yours are on the way to the dump of history, wishing you frightening nightmares."

"Regardless of who you stand with, Regardless of what one thinks about the conflict this is completely unacceptable for a social democratic elected official".

"Imagine if an elected official had written the same thing to a Muslim on Palestine."

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The reason Ms. West is so upset is because this kind of openly expressed hatred by Muslims is hardly unique in Denmark nowadays, and it has a special resonance there:



Denmark, considered an Aryan country by Hitler could have had a very easy time of it during the Nazi occupation. German troops were ordered to behave with discipline in the country, respect the local laws when they didn't contradict military necessity and avoid the usual outrages. Denmark was a German 'Protectorate', its government still kept local control, King Christian X retained his throne and Denmark's Jews were not rounded up and shipped to concentration camps with the eager cooperation of the locals as they were in most of Europe. When local Danish Nazis tried to burn the main synagogue in Copenhagen, they were arrested by the Danish police and jailed, outraging the Nazis and eventually leading to a German takeover of the Danish government.

When the Germans finally issued a deportation order for Denmark's Jews in 1943, Danish civil servants leaked the news of the upcoming order and virtually the entire country collaborated in transporting their Jewish fellow citizens to safety in Sweden.

Today, Denmark has a population of 6,400 Jews and 270,000 Muslims in a population of about 5.5 million, and things are very different.

Jews today in Denmark are openly advised not to wear any clothing or jewelry that marks them as Jews for their own safety.

The entrance of the Caroline Jewish Skole in Copenhagen’s Østerbro district is surrounded by a high barbed wire fence and policed by private security guards, and the same applies to the other Jewish community buildings, schools and synagogues.

The Humlehave School in Odensesaid, a secular public school said openly that it would refuse Jewish students because Muslim violence would make it too dangerous for them.

Anti-semitic violence and attacks have skyrocketed in direct proportion to the increasing Muslim population.

Can it be that even Left leaning Danes like Ms. West are beginning to realize that Islam doesn't play well with others, and that for Islam tolerance is a one way street?

And could it possibly be that as the Jews leave, they're realizing that the Jews were just the first victims and they're next?

Arabs Cheer The Death Of Six Israelis - Until.....

There was a terrible accident in Haifa, Israel today that took the lives of six people and injured a number of others when a truck slammed into a line of cars.

As soon as the news hit the Arab world, particularly Israel's 'peace partners' the rejoicing began:

Allah is great, thank Allah for their many dead

10 Zionists killed and wounded 15 in a truck collision accident with 7 cars in Haifa
Allahu Akbar
Thank Allah

News delightful and very beautiful

Later, the news came through that the driver was Arab, and the Israeli media started speculating that this might have been a deliberate terrorist attack. The Arabs have used this method before, especially in Jerusalem.

The thought that it might have been a terrorist attack was a source of great joy to the usual suspects, as you can imagine:

Oh Allah, please be true!
10 dead soldiers and dozens of injured in an attack in occupied Haifa

Just one small problem.

As it turned out, all of the dead were Arabs. And the truck itself was unsafe..the truck was overloaded, in poor condition and its brakes went out while driving down a steep hill.

The three page thread of hate-filled comments abruptly stopped once that news became public.

Tragically, most of the victims were in their late teens and early twenties,just waiting for a red light to change.

The fact that Arabs would glory in what they thought was the death of Jews is nothing new. During the Second Intifada, it was routine to hear Arabs firing guns in the air and ululating in celebration after a successful homicide bombing, especially in Jerusalem - while members of ZAKA within hearing range were still gathering up body parts into plastic bags for burial and loading surviving victims into ambulances.

It says something about the Israelis that after those kind of incidents, they refrained from driving out the people who refer to themselves as Palestinians entirely.

It also says something about the Palestinians, and what it says is the root of the entire Arab Israeli conflict. Swapping some land for a few worthless pieces of paper isn;t going to change that kind of psychotic hatred.

(H/T, Israelly Cool)