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The answer is never. Not the government and press, anyway. William Hague spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu and told him Israel was losing support in the UK because of "settlements". As though Israel ever had the UK's backing to begin with:

William Hague's comments come after Yuval Steinitz, a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said perceptions of Israel were more negative in Britain than in other countries.

"Traditionally we had good relations with Britain and currently we have good intelligence cooperation with Britain and it's very successful," he told the Daily Telegraph.

"(But) we are concerned about the relations, about what we see as some animosities and some incitement in Britain, in the media, made by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) against Israel.

"I hope we will be able to use (Mr Hague's) visit to improve relations."

Mr Hague, though, was unrepentant.

He said: "Israel has lost some of its support in Britain and in other European countries over time - this is something I've often pointed out to Israeli leaders - because of settlement activity, which we condemn.

"We strongly disagree with settlements on occupied land. Israel is a country we work with in many ways but we do disapprove of settlements.

"We want to see both Israelis and Palestinians really commit themselves to the peace process while there is still a chance of a two-state solution."

Blaming both sides as usual, but truly only Israel is the scapegoat for Hague, and again he refuses to recognize that the land he has such a problem with us living on is Jewish, and he has no problem with Islamists enforcing sharia upon anyone. We shouldn't even be asking for their backing, because it would be foolish, and the UK is the least trustworthy of European countries on politics.

And I've got a feeling the only reason Hague even comes here is to blabber on and on with politicians yet never does he take the time to tour it and check out the shopping malls and speak with the common citizen or make friends - because he doesn't want any.

Labels: anti-semitism, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, londonistan, Moonbattery, political corruption

An act of cowardice from the leadership in Britain (via Hot Air):

Defence sources said the order had been given that uniform should not be worn by those travelling alone, or on public transport as a “common sense precaution” immediately after the killing

A source stressed the order was temporary while investigations into the killing carried on and the decision would be reviewed in the next few days…

“Personally, I would argue against it,” [Col Richard Kemp] told the Today programme. “As we saw in this case you don’t need to have somebody in uniform, you just need to have someone who knows a bit about soldiers and does a bit of observation in the vicinity of a barracks and you can identify a soldier very quickly…

The Ministry of Defence has already announced it is increasing security at all barracks in London.

If I'm correct, the murdered soldier wasn't wearing his uniform outside the base, so I'm not sure how this makes sense to instruct the troops not to wear their uniforms while off-duty.

The worst part is how the crowds who witnessed the horrific crime went the Kitty Genovese route and did nothing to stop the jihad murderers from executing the soldier. Richard Fernandez says:

This incident illustrates, if nothing else, the endpoint of the social engineering of the West. It has been remarkably effective.

From a certain point of view, the British crowd behaved perfectly and this is the way “they” all want us to behave. The populace sheltered in place, didn’t do anything rash, talked to the perpetrators as people. They waited for the police to come and the hospital helicopter to take the corpse away. Some will doubtless get counseling to overcome their shattering experience.

But will they be encouraged and counseled to have the courage it takes to prevent more graphic murders like this from occurring if there's a chance they can stop them from happening? Probably not.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, jihad, londonistan, Moonbattery, racism, terrorism

The Boy Scouts of America succumbed in part to political correctness by allowing gay youngsters to join their ranks. Aside from how sloppy the new policy is, which will only lead to more problems for them, they're bound to lose a lot of support from Christians and family groups who don't want their children being subjected to poor examples and influences.

Maybe the biggest mistake they made was that they never thought of the idea to say that homosexuals could join more easily provided that they try to change/fix their problem and be as heterosexual as saner people are, and not ride a high horse acting like homosexuality is something they must uphold/adhere to at all costs. At least I think that could have been a good idea. Now, the BSA are trashing even that much by turning against the values they held earlier, and there's every chance it could cost them in the long run.

Labels: Moonbattery, United States

For four days now, there's been an outbreak of Muslim rioting in Stockholm, just like the Muslim riots in France several years ago, with the name of the perpetrators' religion conspicuously absent from a lot of the reports (via Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs):

Riots continued for the fourth straight night in Sweden Wednesday, as youth set fire to cars and threw stones at police in immigrant suburbs of Stockholm and the southern Swedish city of Malmo.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has appealed for calm in the wake of the violence, which appears to have been instigated by the police shooting of a machete-wielding 69-year-old man in the Stockholm suburb of Husby this month. Police said the shooting was an act of self-defense, but it has triggered accusations of police brutality.

Riots began in Husby, which has a large immigrant population, on Sunday night and have spread to other locations, including the southern suburb of Fittja.

A police station in another southern suburb was set on fire, but no one was injured in the attack and the fire was quickly extinguished, according to media reports. Dozens of cars have been set ablaze during the riots, testing the resources of the local fire departments, according to the police.

At least one police officer was injured in the riots Wednesday night, and two schools, a restaurant and a cultural center have been damaged this week.

Growing Disparities

The violence has been attributed to the growing disparities between rich and poor in the country, where immigrant communities have been affected the most by cuts in state benefits over the past two decades. Official unemployment among the foreign-born is at 16 percent.

"The reason is very simple," Rouzbeh Djalaie, editor of a local newspaper in Husby told the news agency Reuters. "Unemployment, the housing situation, disrespect from police. It just takes something to start a riot, and that was the shooting."

Djalaie told Reuters that local youths are often the subject of unnecessary identity checks from police, who reportedly called them "apes" during the recent riots. The country ranks fourth among 44 industrialized nations in the absolute number of asylum seekers.

Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask called attacks on police officers or rescue personnel "unacceptable," but said she understood why many people in these suburbs are angry. "Social exclusion is a very serious cause of many problems, and we understand that," she said.

The Muslims are the ones advocating social exclusion, and it's a disgrace that she's even remotely justifying their violent behavior. When things like this happen, it destroys economic stability along with the automobiles that were burned, and it makes life terrible for everyone.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, jihad, Scandanavia

An Islamofascist from east Jerusalem has been booked for assault:

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment against Ahmed Abu Alhlawh, an 18-year-old resident of Jerusalem, who attacked a young haredi man during Nakba Day events, held on May 15.

According to the indictment, on Nakba Day the defendant walked to the Damascus Gate with some friends. When the defendant and his friends noticed a group of young haredim, they punched and kicked them, because of their Jewish ethnicity. The haredi that was hospitalized was in fair condition at the time, and stayed in the hospital for five days.

And now the creep who attacked him should be incarcerated for 5 decades for committing a hate crime.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, Jerusalem, jihad

The IDF almost let down some new Haredi contributors by changing the location of a swearing-in ceremony. Fortunately, they've turned around:

The IDF has decided to hold as originally planned the swearing-in ceremony for recruits of the Netzah Yehuda Batallion of Nahal’s haredi unit. The ceremony will take place at Givat Hatahmoshet in Jerusalem on Sunday with relatives in attendance.

The about-face follows public outcry after Ynet’s story on how the IDF cancelled the swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Thursday, out of fear extremist haredim would protest at the event. [...]

Another soldier who serves in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion said the decision "may be interpreted as a capitulation to the haredi street," adding that a "solution could have been found so that the haredi soldiers would also absorb the symbolism and historic importance of Ammunition Hill."

Luckily, it looks like it has been, thanks to the backlash that followed the report. If any Haredi moonbats turn up, the authorities should be ready to deal with them, and soundly. Under no circumstances should they let any shrieking dummies deter them from going through with an important event like this.

Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Jerusalem, military, Moonbattery

The Times of Israel's covered the history research now being conducted for some archaic beams of wood, some of which may date as early as the 1st and 2nd Temple periods.

Labels: Israel, Jerusalem

But nothing was actually done. From USA Today (via The American Thinker and The Jawa Report):

The two suspects videotaped butchering a soldier to death on a London street before spouting extremist slogans to bystanders were part of a early security services investigations for possible terror links, according to a government British official. [...]

The Associated Press, quoting an unidentified British official, said both men had been part of an earlier security services probe.

But they didn't think they were dangerous? This brings to mind the pathetically disastrous efforts to keep the jihad murderer from Toulouse under surveillance.

Speaking of which, David Cameron channeled Nicholas Sarkozy:

Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday the brutal murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street was an attack on Britain and a betrayal of Islam.

"This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country," he said.

"There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act."

He sounds just like Sarkozy did when he weakly condemned the terrorist act in Toulouse. Both seem to share a bit in common: either they haven't read the Koran, or they won't be honest and admit the content that one of the savages referenced in the video recordings. Cameron, like Sarkozy, has only done a disservice to the victims with his cowardice.

Update: The Week has weighed in on the issue, asking if this is part of a rise in lone-wolf terrorism, but unsurprisingly, they won't ask if Islam is what's influencing the savages. The Koran is what should be the concern, not just al Qaeda.

Labels: dhimmitude, France, islam, jihad, londonistan, political corruption, racism, terrorism

This is something that went on for a decade. The monster who ran it has been arrested and is now facing trial for child abuse:

The details of a shocking child abuse scandal began to emerge on Tuesday in the Galilee town of Majd al-Krum when a Nazareth court lifted the gag order on the affair, which apparently has been going on for ten years.

Munib Farhat, a 56-year-old resident of Majd al-Krum, is suspected of heading a cult and enforcing his will on six families in his community, including dozens of children. The police suspect Farhat of forcing the members of his cult to beat their children, humiliate them, withhold food, lock them in bathrooms and smear them with fecal matter. The cult leader is also suspected of abusing the women in the cult, committing sexual assault and sodomizing them.

The affair was exposed when a woman who belonged to the cult filed a police complaint several weeks ago. A team of investigators consequently launched an undercover probe into the woman's allegations, in cooperation with Welfare Ministry social workers and Interior Ministry officials. The investigation, which was accompanied by the Haifa District Prosecutor's Office, revealed that Farhat, who refers to himself as a caliph, allegedly imposed a very strict disciplinary code on 11 adults and 25 children.

Clearly, a piece of filth who wants to bring back the caliphate of the 7th-8th century. Israel National News says that:

...Farhat was also very involved in cult members' personal lives, and he required them to reveal intimate details of their relationships, and of their finances. He also demanded that members turn over their salaries to him, and he distributed allowances to members. Cult members questioned by police said that Farhat tried to foster total dependence on him, and demanded that they loyally follow his every instruction.

In other words, he operated by the worst ways of socialism. The children and women who were abused by that excremental creature have since been saved and moved to safer living quarters. Farhat should be sent to solitary confinement for his repugnant crimes. Cults like these are the most dangerous kind there is, and at least a year ago, the authorities announced that they're trying to launch a program to deal with cult groupings.

Update: also crucial to note is this equally obscene news that occurred in more recent times of a cult leader from a Haredi background named Elior Chen, who conducted child abuse during 2007-08 in Betar Illit. He was given 24 years in prison, and should have received a much heavier sentence.

Labels: haredi corruption, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, misogyny

From the AP/KXAN:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

Erwin Antonio Rios admitted guilt Tuesday in U.S. District Court as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

In an affidavit filed with the court, FBI Special Agent Frank Brostrom said the 19-year-old from Fayetteville holds extremist Islamic views and told a government informant he would like to kill Fort Bragg soldiers.

Authorities said Rios also plotted to travel overseas to commit violence and devised a scheme to commit armed robberies to get money to buy weapons. The FBI set up a sting where Rios bought what he was told was a stolen handgun and was then immediately placed under arrest.

Obviously, he's another Muslim convert. And now, he's deservedly a jailbird.

Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, military, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Warning: the following video contains graphic images:

Via Robert Spencer, in this CBS report, the jihad savage in London spoke about Surat at-Tawba, the 9th chapter in the Koran, which justifies the murder of infidels. Highlights include:

"And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." -- 9:5

"Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people and remove the fury in the believers' hearts. And Allah turns in forgiveness to whom He wills; and Allah is Knowing and Wise." -- 9:14-15

"Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled." -- 9:29

"O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination." -- 9:73

"O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness. And know that Allah is with the righteous." -- 9:123

It's enough to vomit.

Labels: islam, jihad, londonistan, racism, terrorism

One of the most violent murders that could be conducted by Islamofascists in the UK took place in broad daylight in London:

Two men wielding a machete and a cleaver hacked a man believed to be a soldier to death on a busy London street Wednesday while yelling "Allahu Akbar," in an attack that was caught on video and left the nation shocked and horrified.

The victim, who some reports said may have been a soldier, was killed at the scene, and the attackers waited at the scene until police arrived and shot both. One attacker, his hands soaked in blood and still holding a machete, delivered an angry jihadist screed as stunned passersby watched, the dead man lying on the street, in the southeast London neighborhood of Woolwich.

"We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day," he said in a video clip that was shown on the ITV website. "This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

"I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same," the killer continued. "You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."

Witnesses said the attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is Great," during the bloody rampage, according to the BBC.

Police said two attackers were shot by authorities and taken to separate London hospitals to be treated for their injuries. Live television images of the scene showed a trail of blood on the pavement, cordoned-off streets and crime scene investigators marking the scene as witnesses recounted the harrowing attack.

"These two guys were crazed. They were just animals," one witness, identified as James, told LBC radio. "They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there."

Those two savages should have been wiped off the face of the earth for their sadistic crime. This is another result of Britain's fiasco of multiculturalism and diversity. Who knows how much more of this will occur before the government and authorities recognize the horror they're leading to?

Labels: islam, jihad, londonistan, military, racism

These vandals were thankfully caught, and should be punished to the full limit of the law:

Jerusalem's old-new face? Dozens of Khan Theater ads were destroyed last week along the entrance to Jerusalem and Highway 1. The vandals sprayed the image of an actress presented on the posters with paint, causing damage estimated at thousands of shekels.

The Jerusalem Police arrested two young ultra-Orthodox men spotted defacing the billboards.

The theater's new subscription campaign was launched with ads promoting its 2013-2014 season. They included pictures of actor Ariel Wolf and actress Tamar Alkan, who star in "The Imaginary Invalid."

"It should be stressed that the two actors' clothing is modest and respectable, and does not aim in any way to create a provocation," a source in the theater said Thursday. Yet in recent days, Alkan's image was covered in turquoise and beige paint.

The Jerusalem District Police chased two young haredi men seen defacing the billboards and arrested them. According to the police, one of the men denied the allegations while the other told his investigators that the pictures offended the haredi public's sentiments.

The two were released under strict conditions by the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, and the police plan to recommend that they be prosecuted.

'Great damage to city's image'
Danny Weiss, the Khan Theater's executive director, appealed to the Jerusalem Municipality in an urgent request to handle the phenomenon and increase its enforcement.

"The fact that this is the third time in a row that Khan Theater ads are destroyed because of the presence of a woman in them is infuriating," he said. "We call on the Jerusalem Municipality to act firmly against this phenomenon, which causes great damage to the city's image."

He added that beyond the emotionally charged issue of excluding women, there was the practical question of how anyone could even destroy billboards located so high, on a main traffic artery like the entrance to Jerusalem.

"The Khan Theater will continue, as always, to present its actors and actresses in all its publications, including on billboards in Jerusalem."

The theater added in a statement that "this is the third year in a row that the Khan Theater's subscription campaign, which refuses to give in to the demand to avoid posting signs with pictures of a woman in Jerusalem, suffers due to the growing intolerance in the city.

"Last year, posters with the illustrated image of actress Orit Gal were posted across Jerusalem, and the year earlier we included a picture of actress Nili Rogel. Those signs were defaced too, although those female characters had nothing provocative about them."

This proves that it's got nothing to do with how the women in the pictures are dressed in the view of the Haredi moonbats. Rather, it's anti-female sentiment all the way, basically implying that women are "meat" or sexual objects, which is as dehumanizing as it's contempt for other people's property. The municipality has condemned the vandalism, but more needs to be done, like getting the police to crack down on these perpetrators.

And it's not just in Haredi areas where this is a problem: even in Arabic/Islamic neighborhoods like Shuafat, there was some vandalism of the advertising cases at the train stations late last year. It was only a few weeks ago that the cases were fixed; they'd had their glass smashed, as compared to where Haredi vandals only spray painted.

That told, the two vandals who were arrested should be made to pay for their damage out of their own pockets and if they spray painted any advertising cases, they should be instructed to clean up their own mess. Their act wasn't just contempt for other people's property, it was also contempt for the opposite sex.

Labels: haredi corruption, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, misogyny, Moonbattery

Florida's WESH (via Michelle Malkin) tells that a man who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev tried to attack an FBI investigator and was shot dead:

According to NBC News, a special agent was interviewing the suspect regarding his connections to bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and other extremists. The suspect, identified by the FBI as Ibragim Todashev, was originally cooperative, but he was shot after attacking the agent, NBC News reported.

The man studied martial arts and was planning to fly back to Chechnya:

Khusen Taramov says the day that federal agents identified the Tsarnaev brothers as the Boston bombing suspects, FBI agents came to the apartment complex and started questioning a few people of Chechnyan descent. “One day they started questioning us, next day after the bombing, not the bombing, after they found out the bombers were Chechnyans, and they started following us, watching us, they pretty much told the guy from his apartment and they start following us, watching us like everyday,” said Taramov.

Taramov says Todashev met Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Boston and the two had hung out a few times.

Taramov says Todashev met with FBI agents last night and it was supposed to be their last meeting because he was planning to fly back to Chechnya last night. He says the plane ticket was purchased before the Boston bombings but federal agents strongly advised him not to go home.

“He cancelled the tickets because, the FBI had been like, I don’t know, they’ve been pushing him, you know what I’m saying. They’ve been pushing him they say don’t leave; don’t leave so he decided to stay. But we had a feeling, worst case scenario something like that was going to happen. You know what I mean,” said Taramov.

The FBI has not identified the man killed but says the agent was working on a case inside the apartment complex when the shooting happened. “We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent. The incident occurred in Orlando Florida. The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time. We expect to have more information later this morning,” said FBI spokesperson Special Agent Dave Couvertier.

Jihadists are the most dangerous and unworthy people to whom martial arts could be taught.

Labels: anti-americanism, Asia, Europe, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

There was a huge tornado the other day in Oklahoma that cost dozens of lives, the worst part being that many of the victims were children.

It's not even the first time that the town of Moore was hit by a tornado that big: back in 1999, there had been another one, just as awful.

My condolences to the families that were struck by this horror.

Labels: United States

A bad example set in Jerusalem's most Haredi enclave:

Dozens of haredim threw stones at two haredi IDF soldiers in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea She'arim neighborhood on Sunday night, police stated.

The haredim lit trash cans on fire and fled the scene.

Firefighters arrived to extinguish the blazes. No injuries were reported.

Th incident came after an anti-draft demonstration staged by the radical Eda Haredit organization turned violent Thursday night, with haredi protestors throwing rocks, glass bottles and other objects at police in front of Jerusalem’s IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem's Romema.

This isn't new. There've been some attacks at times against Haredis who've served in the army when seen in uniform in neighborhoods where Haredi residents are dominant. It's very sad. Those yeshivas and synagogues who allow this kind of behavior against army personnel should be the first to have any funding revoked, if they get any.

Update: here's more news telling about the concern that Haredi soldiers will be targeted by their communities.

Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Jerusalem, military, Moonbattery

As though what happened at the Western Wall wasn't bad enough, now the apartment of a member of Women of the Wall has been vandalized with slurs and death threat graffiti:

Vandals sprayed offensive and threatening slogans at the entrance to the south Jerusalem home of Peggy Cidor, a journalist and a member of the Woman of the Wall organization, which campaigns for egalitarian women’s prayer at the Western Wall.

A neighbor called the police after discovering the graffiti on Monday morning, spray painted in the stairwell leading to Cidor’s apartment.

Slogans declared “Women of the Wall are villains,” “Jerusalem is holy,” and, in a play on Cidor’s name when written in Hebrew, that “Peggy has passed her expiration date.” On Cidor’s door, the vandals scrawled “Torah tag,” a reference to “price tag” vandalism attacks, perpetrated by extremist settlers and their allies against Palestinian and Israeli Arabs. Another scrawl warned that Cidor was only the first, and that more attacks would follow.

About those "price tag" vandalism attacks: it's not clear if they actually were carried out by "settlers" though if they were, they only do harm to the legitimacy of Jewish residents of Judea/Samaria.

Cidor told The Times of Israel that she would not be deterred by the attack and that any changes to her lifestyle are “out of the question.”

“I’m not afraid,” she said. “It takes more than that to scare me. I’m just pissed off.” [...]

“The problem is not who did this,” she said. “It is whether the rabbis will understand that this isn’t the way to do it.”

Some of the rabbis she speaks of, like Shmuel Rabinowitz, have condemned the attack. But it's too little, too late; they could have avoided giving so much attention to WoW and ensured they would remain a mere blip on the radar. But nooooooooo, they just had to make such a ruckus.

On that note, the Jerusalem Post received correspondence, some pretty negative towards the Haredi moonbats (one letter was also quoted in the NJ Jewish News), and one of the writers who's a rabbi said:

I would humbly recommend silence for both sides. As the haredim realized in their recent exchange with Finance Minister Yair Lapid, sometimes silence is worthwhile.

The Women of the Wall would probably be long-forgotten had they been ignored. Their behavior clearly shows their interest in publicity. They should not be given free publicity.

There were also statements by the leadership of the Rabbinical Assembly in condemnation of the Orthodox position. I would suggest to them that first they deal with the alarming rates of intermarriage. A bit of silence and humility would surely do them no harm.

That's something every Haredi would do well to ponder. If they'd just turn their attention away and not act like egalitarians are all martians from outer space, they'd be solving the problem the real way. Now, they can only blame themselves for giving WoW all the attention they didn't need, and tarnishing their public image more than need be.

Labels: haredi corruption, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, misogyny, Moonbattery

Dr. Yehuda David, who was sued by the father of Mohammed al-Dura for letting everyone know he'd given him medical treatment for which he was only thanked with spite, is satisfied with the Israeli government's report confirming that the video was a hoax:

Dr. Yehuda David, who was sued for libel by the father of Muhammad al-Dura – and eventually won his case – expressed great satisfaction at the issuing of a report by a special report by a government panel that revisited the infamous incident, in which IDF soldiers were accused of killing the 12 year old Arab boy at the start of the second intifada. The committee determined that not only were the allegations – and a report by French television purporting to show IDF soldiers shooting and killing the boy – a lie, but that the al-Dura is not even dead.

According to David, the whole incident stinks of a coverup – and the evidence that shows that not only was al-Dura not killed, but that the entire story was a hoax, perpetrated with the assistance of a French television station, is there for all to see. [...]

David, a physician at Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv, entered the al-Dura fray on December 13, 2007 when he told Israel's Channel 10 that he had treated Jamal in 1994 for knife and axe wounds to his arms and legs sustained during an Arab gang attack. David said the scars Jamal claimed as bullet wounds from the 2000 incident were actually scars from a tendon repair operation that David performed in 1994, leading Jamal to sue him for libel. He was initially convicted of a charge, but that decision was overturned by the French Supreme Court in February 2012. The decision was widely seen as a national victory for Israel.

The new report also questions whether or not the younger al-Dura was even killed. The fact that he was still alive at the end of the French television video, after the gunfire had stopped, could mean that the boy is alive even now. “Since this issue was first raised there have been many contradictions and cold trails, based on the story the French television company told. There are many unanswered questions about many aspects of this incident,” the committee said.

According to David, the answer to this question is clear, and is supported by evidence. “We know that a child whose name is Mohammed al-Dura was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza at 9 AM,” David told Arutz Sheva, relying on publicly released information. “We know that the event in which it was claimed that the child was killed actually only began at 3 in the afternoon. So how is it possible that there was a dead child at 9 AM, and they want us to believe that it is the same child who was shot by Israeli soldiers at 3:00?”

So who was the child in the famous video? Most likely a brother of Mohammed, David said. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest this already, David said: According to the results of an investigation by a German group, for example, the shape of the skull of the buried child was different than the shape of the skull of the child seen in the video. The real identity of the child could be confirmed by disinterring him. David is willing to bet that the child will turn out to be the “real” Mohammed al-Dura, the one who died in Shifa Hospital in the morning, as opposed to the “fake” one – the one seen in the video, who is alive and well.

David said that it was regrettable that it had taken the state so long to take a definitive stance on the hoax. “Now we know that Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government acknowledge the truth – that Jamal al-Dura is a liar, and that all the information supplied by France 2 during the event on Septerm 30, 2000, is a hoax. This has caused a tremendous sacrifice of Israeli lives, because it was the beginning of the second intifada, which led to the loss of 2,500 Israeli lives,” he said, including the victims of the 2012 attack by a Muslim fanatic on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, who specifically said he was “avenging” the death of al-Dura.

Could it be? A sibling was seen in the video?

The reason it took so long can also be blamed on Ehud Olmert, who made no effort on his part to combat this when he was prime minister. Enderlin owes an apology for his cowardly suits against Phillipe Karsenty and failing to admit he's capable of making mistakes, and should be thrown out of journalism altogether.

Update: Shurat HaDin is calling for Enderlin's press credentials to be revoked:

"Criminal charges should be filed, and Charles Enderlin should never be allowed to practice journalism in Israel again,” asserted Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, in response to a report released Sunday by the Israeli government, which found France 2's claims that IDF troops killed Mohammed al-Dura in 2000 as baseless.

“The fact the al-Dura story has turned out to be a hoax should cause us to take action against those who invented and spread this staged fable. Israel's Government Press Office should also revoke France 2's credentials," she said. [...]

"The French network ignited a still-burning torch of hatred against Israel, with images of al-Dura still being presented in anti-Israel protests in Iran, the Arab world and in Western Europe. Those who are responsible must bear the consequences of their actions in order to avoid the repetition of incidents like this and, moreover, to stop this blood libel once and for all," she added.

Those responsible must take it and confess to what they knew, and acknowledge their capability of making mistakes. More news available at The Jewish Press.

Labels: anti-semitism, communications, dhimmitude, France, islam, Israel, jihad, msm foulness, war on terror

A most obscene spectacle spotted in Gush Etzion:

Hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, were astounded Monday morning to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town of Beit Omar.

The residents notified the IDF.

A resident, Uri Arnon, told the Tazpit News Agency: "I felt we were going back 75 years, losing our hold on the land. The Arabs no longer feel the need to hide their murderous tendencies, announcing out loud that they wish to annihilate us."

An IDF spokesman said that the flag was hung on an electrical line, and that they were waiting to professionals to come and remove it.

No doubt they were showing their support for Haj-Amin el-Husseini, the mufti who collaborated with the nazis during WW2.

Labels: anti-semitism, germany, islam, Israel

The New Statesman's written about something that may be overlooked in any society: the apostates and how many are there?

Islam is often perceived as a religion antithetical to British, secular values. But between 2001-2011, more than 100,000 British people converted to Islam. This may come as a surprise, especially considering the virulent climate of Islamophobia supposedly pervading the country in the shadow of 9/11. Yet, while Muslims may rejoice at the news of many British people flocking to Islam, little is known about the large proportion of converts who later become apostates.

“Many converts leave the faith. We don't have exact statistics but some stats say 50 per cent will leave within a few years,” says Usama Hasan, a part-time Imam and a senior researcher at the counter extremism think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation.

The internet, in particular, Twitter, provides ex-Muslims, often with pseudonymous accounts, a safe haven to challenge, criticise and mock Islam. The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), founded six years ago, was set up by a group of non-believers and acts as a community for those who have renounced their faith.

There are, of course, a multitude of reasons why someone might become an apostate after converting. Many British women convert when marrying a Muslim man, but, when the relationship ends, they sometimes leave the faith. (The same rarely happens in reverse, as the consensus of scholars believes a Muslim woman marrying a non-Muslim man is against the Sharia.) Some converts don’t receive the community support upon entering the faith. While others can be referred to as “drifters”: they experiment with different lifestyles. However, many ex-Muslims cite bad experiences with Muslims in their stories of how they came to renounce the faith.

More of which can be read in the article. This is a bright spot in a sea of sadness that is the UK these days. And if converts could leave in the UK, the same doubtlessly holds true in many other parts of the world. Unfortunately, there's likely still quite a few converts who remain there, and it wouldn't surprise me if they turned out to be the ones we need to be most wary of.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, londonistan

The Israeli government set up a committee to investigate the al-Dura hoax, and they verify:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a government report Saturday, presenting the findings of a special governmental inquiry committee into the death of Muhammad al-Dura during the al-Aqsa Intifada. The report focuses on the controversial September 2000 France 2 broadcast – in which the boy is seen hiding behind his father while the two were under IDF gunfire – and conclude that al-Dura was still alive at the end of the video.

According to the committee findings, in contrary to what had been published before, there was no evidence that the boy or his father were injured at the time the video was shot, thereby noting there was reasonable doubt regarding IDF's responsibility to the boy's death.

Upon receiving the committee's findings, Netanyahu said that "focusing on this incident is important as it slandered Israel and serves as an example for the delegitimization Israel constantly faces.

"There is only one way to fight lies," the prime minister concluded, "and that is with the truth."

According to the committee, France 2 framed the story as if at the time of its broadcast there was concrete evidence supporting the claim that the boy had died as a result of IDF gunfire, despite the fact that at the time, the responsibility for Al-Dura's death was still disputed, thus putting into question the entire credibility of the news report.

The committee, formed in 2012, was first headed by now Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, and concluded its inquiry recently under the chairmanship of Yuval Steinitz.

Steinitz also commented on the report saying "This was a blood-libel against Israel. The French report was simply false."

If there's anyone who predictably won't accept the results of the investigation, it's one of the relatives, who's just too consumed by his own bigotry. INN suggests it's possible that al-Dura is still alive, and if he was killed, we have to wonder if he was eaten by his own, turning him into a sacrifice so that the hoax wouldn't be found out so easily.

The Times of Israel says:

“Contrary to the report’s claim that the boy was killed, the committee’s review of the raw footage showed that in the final scenes, which were not broadcast by France 2, the boy is seen to be alive,” the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy report stated regarding the television report.

Charles Enderlin and France 2 would do well to climb off their high horse and stop acting like they never have to say they're sorry. They'd do a lot better to admit they're capable of making mistakes, and Enderlin should have his press pass here revoked.

Labels: anti-semitism, communications, dhimmitude, France, islam, Israel, jihad, msm foulness

Danielle Avel, a former analyst with the Investigative Project on Terrorism found out that Facebook's been following in the footsteps of Yahoo and Google in promoting a divided Jerusalem, for the sake of a palestinian state. Not only that:

Facebook did not respond to my requests to clarify and/or comment on its incorrect use of “East Jerusalem.”

They won't even explain themselves, shutting out any who question their beliefs. No wonder I'm not bothered I don't own a Facebook account with them to date.

Labels: communications, dhimmitude, islam, Israel, Jerusalem, United States

The latest census figures (via MSN) strongly suggest that the most dhimmified European country could be the first to have its prior religion supplanted by the Islam:

One in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the 2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an aging Christian demographic could mean Islam will be the dominant religion in the UK in 10 years.

A new analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the number of Christians was falling 50 per cent faster than had previously been thought. Earlier analysis of the statistics showed only a 15 per cent decline, but the ONS found that this figure had been beefed up by 1.2 million foreign-born Christians.

Furthermore, the re-analysis showed that the majority of Christians were over the age of 60 and for the first time less than half of young people describe themselves as Christian. As a result the ONS has calculated that in a decade only a minority will classify themselves as Christians in England. Christianity is still the dominant religion in the UK with over 50 per cent of the population regarding themselves as believers.

However, this may be set to change as the British Muslim population has surged dramatically over the past 15 years, increasing by 75 per cent in England and Wales. The 2011 census puts the Muslim population of the UK at around 5 per cent, a total that has been boosted by around 600,000 Muslim immigrants who have arrived in the UK over the past decade.

Many of these Muslim immigrants have since replaced much of the native British population throughout London, with 600,000 people moving out of the capitol in all that time. If the Muslims take up primary residence in London, it could easily become the first major city with a majority Muslim population. And so far, not enough people there have the guts to protest this sad state of affairs.

Labels: Christianity, dhimmitude, immigration, islam, londonistan

Sometimes it's pretty predictable how these jihadists can plead in a trial. Case in point, one who was recently arrested in Idaho (via The Jawa Report):

BOISE -- An Uzbekistan national arrested in Boise has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges he conspired with a terrorist group on a scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, appeared before a federal judge at 8:30 a.m. He used an interpreter over the phone to communicate his not-guilty plea.

Kurbanov's trial is now set for July 2, 2013 [...]

Interesting that he can't/won't speak English, yet people like him are allowed to enter the country regardless.

Labels: anti-americanism, immigration, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror

Russia is still going down a very dark path:

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Russia has sent Syria advanced anti-ship missiles, U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, bolstering Syrian defenses despite pleas from Washington and elsewhere to stop supplying President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

That's all one needs to know that Russia heading back to their old ways, and now it's made even worse by their collaborating with jihadists.

Labels: dhimmitude, islam, jihad, Russia, syria