Archive for July, 2006
Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the WorldNetDaily:
New organization says it will stage more assaults against Jewish state
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV – A group claiming to operate out of Syria took credit today for what it said was an attack against Israeli troops operating near the Syria-Israel border, according to a source in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Reuters:
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Syrian military on Monday to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for Lebanese resistance against Israel.
“We are facing international circumstances and regional challenges that require caution, alert, readiness and preparedness,” Assad said.
“The barbaric war of annihilation the Israeli aggression is waging on [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
BY: FERN SIDMAN
When George Orwell originally penned his classic novel “1984”, I would venture a guess that neither he nor his readers ever actually envisaged a world that would embrace these warped and twisted values. Fast forward to the year 2006 and we are witness to a world that is being taunted with such strikingly [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Geoff Elliott in The Australian, with thanks to JE, examines the larger agenda behind recent headlines:
FIRST the Hezbollah attacks on Israel, now this. Yesterday, Hezbollah’s key sponsors, Tehran, indicated it would not comply with any UN resolutions trying to suspend Iran’s nuclear program.
“Iranians will not accept unfair decisions, [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
A Stop-the-Presses Alert from the Indo Asian News Service, with thanks to DFS:
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Ahead of the SAARC foreign ministers’ meeting next week in Dhaka, India has said it has evidence of Pakistan’s role in cross-border terrorism.
In an interview with
CNN-IBN TV channel, National Security [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
August 1939 Alert from Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s hardline forces should get ready to take revenge on Israel and the United States for the offensive on Lebanon, the head of the Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“The Basij [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Tiny Minority of Extremists Alert: “Nigerian Muslims Continue Protests: Anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment is high,” from OhMyNews, with thanks to Twostellas:
For the second time in less than a fortnight, millions of Nigerian Muslims took to the streets across the country on Friday to protest Israeli attacks on the Lebanese faction Hezbollah.
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: “Survey reveals Muslim views on violence,” from The Jakarta Post, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Up to 1.3 percent of Indonesian Muslims nationwide admit using violence against people or objects they consider contradictory to their beliefs, a survey found, with more than 40 percent ready [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
CAIR should be banned from the US… Enough said…
Courtesy of CNS News:
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
July 31, 2006
(CNSNews.com) – An Islamic advocacy group accuses Israel of waging a campaign of terror in southern Lebanon.
Moreover, the Council on American-Islamic Relations says U.S. support for “Israeli terror” is undermining America’s credibility and interests worldwide.
“Whenever civilians are attacked [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Blame, Facts & Propaganda
Death Cult Child Welfare
Israeli Unilateralism
Mass Murdering “Holy Man” Appeals to Dark Ages
Sphere It
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Jeff Jacoby
According to a pair of Gallup polls released last week, 83 percent of Americans say Israel is justified in taking military action against Hezbollah, while 76 percent disapprove of Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. Yet when asked which side in the conflict the United States should take, 65 percent answer: neither side. [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Allahpundit
No big deal. She’s conservative so it’s fair game.
Which is more racist, the rhetoric itself or the free pass Palestinians get from progressives because they supposedly don’t know any better?
Al Hayat featured pictures of ralliers brandishing anti-Rice placards, some reading, “Murderer Rice go to Hell” and “Get out.” One placard had [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Hot Air:
No one this side of Riyadh seriously believes Israel targets civilians. Even the most cartoonishly Gibsonesque anti-semite can see that the 12 Jews who rule the world gain nothing by taking out women and children. At worst, Qana is a case of recklessness.
Was it reckless? Watch the video and judge for yourself. [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Bryan
The Bush administration is off the rails.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will seek international consensus for a cease-fire and a “lasting settlement” in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel through a U.N. Security Council resolution this week.
“I am convinced that only [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Vodka Pundit:
One of the more pressing questions in the ongoing war against Islamofascism is, how do we fight these people?
It’s not just an academic question. The opponents of classical liberal civilization have become adept at using the West’s principles against us. The Geneva Conventions, for instance, were originally designed to protect both civilian [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
Syria’s Chemical Misslies
NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
July 30, 2006: Syria may not have nuclear weapons, but it has created a force of ballistic missiles equipped with chemical (nerve and mustard gas) warheads. Syria is believed to have about 1200 ballistic missiles. About 85 percent of them are
SCUDs, [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Israpundit:
by Neil Craig, Scottish blog “A Place to Stand”!!
Another of my bright ideas.Their problem is that though they[the Israelis] can win any war they can’t take the hearts & minds. For that they need some way to talk to the Arab people.
Israel should launch a geo-synchronous communications satellite (one that stays at all [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
America is sooo fed up with the treacherous French – tell you what, when we drop the bomb on Iran we should just aim a little to the left… Hope your appeasement gets you to live 10 minutes longer Chirac, but I wouldn’t count on it. Just because you support the Islamofascists, doesn’t mean they [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the American Congress for Truth:
I urge ever member of American Congress for Truth to watch this documentary “Obsession: The threat of Islam to Western Civilization.”
I have been involved with the producers of this documentary for two years and am one of the experts interviewed. This is the defining eye opener of WHAT THE [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Israel will only temporarily cease operations over the next few hours, as the Knesset has demanded a more expansive ground offensive and a “strategic victory” over Hezbollah. Defense Minister Amir Peretz ignored heckling by Israeli Arabs in the parliament as he pledged to engage Hezbollah on a more sweeping scale than before:
Israel [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
When we or our allies go to war, we expect the maximum effort to adhere to the modern conventions of warfare, especially in protecting civilian populations. Unfortunately, the success for such efforts largely depend on the nature of the enemy. An enemy that does not concern itself with protecting civilian populations—in fact, [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Fuad Saniora apparently wants to make it difficult for people to remain sympathetic to Lebanon, or perhaps he just has the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome since Patty Hearst. Whatever the reason, Saniora made it clear that he will not have the stomach for disarming Hezbollah as required by the UN Security [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Evan Kohlmann
Needless to say, Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have released quite a voluminous amount of propaganda material lately, and I’m finally getting around to adding some of the most noteworthy recent videos and communiques to my website. Already available this morning on Globalterroralert.com are communiques from the Taliban in [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Dennis Lormel
The Israelis need to accept responsibility for the bombings that have killed innocent Lebanese citizens. Likewise, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran need to be accountable for causing the crisis which resulted in the deaths of so many innocent people.
At what point will responsible countries around the world have the backbone [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 31, 2006
The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began with the [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Joseph Klein
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 31, 2006
Kofi Annan falsely proclaimed to the world that Israel was guilty of “apparently deliberate targeting” of a UN observation post, killing four observers on July 25th. As Mark Twain so astutely observed, “[A] lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Andrew G. Bostom
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 31, 2006
The ongoing violence in Lebanon and northern Israel, engendered by Hezbollah’s toxic amalgam of jihad and Jew hatred, reached Seattle, Washington this past Friday July, 28, 2006, just after 4 PM, local time. Naveed Afzal Haq, a Pakistani Muslim, hiding in the foyer of the [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Lee Smith
Weekly Standard | July 31, 2006
The Lebanese media are the best in the Arab Middle East, and perhaps the freest, not because of any noble principles but because they are so competitive. Every Lebanese media outlet represents a political interest, sometimes several political interests, and all the major political parties [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Cox and Forkum:
From CNN: Suspect ticketed before Jewish center shootings.
Three of the shooting survivors were in serious condition, according to Harborview Medical Center; the other two victims were in satisfactory condition, including a woman who is five months pregnant. Police said she was shot in the arm while covering her abdomen. ...
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the Jerusalem Post:
An attack on a Sydney synagogue may have been fueled by anger over the Middle East conflict and the spiraling civilian death toll in Lebanon, a rabbi said Monday.
Rabbi Wernick, who cited religious reasons in declining to give his first name, and his young family were inside a house attached to [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
1938 alert…
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
BERLIN
Vandals scratched a swastika into one of the slabs of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, police said Sunday.
Security officers found the swastika Saturday morning, police said. The damage was swiftly repaired.
The memorial a vast field of more than 2,700 gray slabs situated close to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of My Way News:
By THOMAS WAGNER and KATHY GANNON
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, hours after agreeing to temporarily halt raids while investigating a bombing that killed nearly 60 Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children seeking shelter.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to a 48-hour halt in the [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of Reuters:
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces have destroyed an estimated two thirds of Hizbollah’s long-range missile capabilities, a senior government official told Reuters on Monday.
The Iranian-supplied Zelzal-2 missiles have been Israel’s main strategic concern during an a 20-day-old fight with the Lebanese guerrilla group. They have a range of 200 km (125 miles) and [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq’s vice president on Monday accused Israel of carrying out “massacres” in Lebanon, the strongest criticism yet of the Jewish state by a top official of the U.S-backed Iraqi government.
Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite, singled out Sunday’s Israeli airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of The Week Magazine (a great new resource – thanks to Matt):
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the son of a Beirut grocer, is regarded as a superstar in much of the Arab world. After Hezbollah’s previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israelis in 1992, Nasrallah took over the party, turning it into an even [...]
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Courtesy of the Herald Sun:
Check it out – definitely sobering… I have the feeling this is going to be a lonnnggg week full of bad news…
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Posted in July 31st, 2006
Hat Tip: Garry Hamilton from days ago and finally found it thanks to My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy…
Sphere It
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Hat Tip to Chris and Karol Davis:
To the citizens of the state of Nevada:
After enduring eight years’ experience of an expanding Nevada government, you are called upon to decide the fate of all citizens residing in the state. You are to choose the next Governor. The subject itself speaks of importance, comprehending nothing [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of My Way News:
By KATHERINE SHRADER and KATHY GANNON
ERUSALEM (AP) – Israel agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
The announcement [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Michael J. Totten:
Before this war even started I wrote that Israel should leave Lebanon as a whole out of its fight with Hezbollah, that the real enemies were in Syria and Iran. War in Lebanon has destroyed almost every last scrap of political capital Israel had in that country, it has a reduced [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of the American Congress for Truth:
WORLD COUNCIL OF THE CEDARS REVOLUTION
www.cedarsrevolution.org
email: cedarsrevolution@gmails.com
Press Release
New York, July 30, 2006
The World Council of the Cedars Revolution, after having observed the security developments in the last 48 hours and the horrific deaths caused by warfare between Hezbollah and Israel on Lebanese territories, and in the area of Qana [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
I noticed today that Dr. Rusty Shackleford at the Jawa Report is buying a gun… Let me say, bravo! We have also purchased guns and are working on massive practice sessions – just in case… Rusty, you can always email us at (terresa AT noisyroom DOT net) and we will give our 2 cents worth [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Civilians Under Siege
While We Sleep
Dubya & Blair Speak the Obvious
IDF to Islamic Jihad: Pay to Play
Iranian Shocker
Mr. Popular
Osama the Gutless Jihadi Wonder
Enter the Weasel
The Bravery & Honor of Allah’s Sons
We Love Life
Glass Slipper of Blame
Morality & Allegiance
Extra Shifts Available at the Heavenly Virgin Factory
Israel’s Peace Partners Not Idle, Only Contained
Sphere [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Allahpundit
I have a crazy hunch that the people who believe a controlled demolition took down the Towers on 9/11 will be decidedly more skeptical about this one:
“The attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Vital Perspective:
At least 54 Lebanese citizens were killed in the IAF strike on a building in the Lebanese village of Qana early Sunday, an area from which hundreds of missiles were launched towards the city of Nahariya and the communities in the western Galilee. Dozens of others were reportedly trapped in the rubble. [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
KOFI ANIMAL, Where is your shock! outrage! to this?
Kofi Annan has been stoking the flames of Jew hatred. His own blinding hate for the Jews has rendered him incapable of performing his duties in even the most basic capacity. He is a luxury a world spinning madly out [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Pamela is on her way to Israel – more guts than most men I know. Our prayers are with her…
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
The Vocabulary of Untruth Victor Davis Hanson
Words take on new meanings as Israel struggles to survive.
A “ceasefire” would occur should Hezbollah give back kidnapped Israelis and stop launching missiles; it would never follow [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
This is not Osama Bin Laden or some” radical extremist.” Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi is the head of Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University – as close to a Pope of Islam as you are going to get. Think about that.
Jew Hatred from the “Muslim Pope”
Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS
Imagine the following [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
Atlas Exclusive: Andrew Bostom explains the malevolent motivation behind the current world war. Get Educated. Now.
Hezbollah’s Creed: Jihadism and Jew Hatred,
Andrew G. Bostom, MD, MS
What prompted Hezbollah’s aggressive actions across Israel’s internationally recognized northern border with Lebanon—sporadic katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli civilian populations since last fall, and then the dramatic kidnapping [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2006
Courtesy of Israpundit:
Ten years ago Israel responded to Hezbollah rockets launched in close proximity to a UN shelter, an errant shell struck that shelter killing nearly 100 civilians. The resulting furor and diplomatic storm forced Israel to abandon its attempts to protect its civilian population and sue for a ceasefire while leaving Hezbollah intact. (The [...]
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