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YouTube – Anti-Gay Marriage Petition Fraud Caught on Camera.

Hospital in Gaza Is a Scene of Pain, Despair and Defiance – NYTimes.com.

“He was told that there were more serious cases than his, that he needed to wait. But he insisted. “We are fighting the Israelis,” he said. “When we fire we run, but they hit back so fast. We run into the houses to get away.” He continued smiling.”

. . .

“They lost their loved ones as martyrs. They should be happy. I want to be a martyr, too.”

Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers.

Joe. My. God.: Hate Crime Or Not?.

There’s an interesting discussion making the rounds of NYC news blogs regarding what happened at a Jewish wedding reception last week. A 23 year-old Christian-raised cater waiter, who for five years had worked for a catering company that specialized in Jewish weddings, decided to express his sympathy for Palestinians by using the Woodbury Jewish Center’s PA system to broadcast some chants he’d recorded with his cell phone at last week’s pro-Palestine rally in Times Square. The chants? “Allahu akbar.”

Isn’t that what they usually yell right before they detonate their bombs? In this context, this is akin to yelling, “NOBODY MOVE!” in a bank. The words themselves don’t constitute the crime – it is the context, and the meanings that are generally attributed to those words in that particular context – that make it a crime. Same as shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater. He could easily have created a stampede among the 700 guests, who likely had their lives flash before their eyes…

Op-Ed Contributor – What You Don’t Know About Gaza – NYTimes.com.

THE CEASE-FIRE Lifting the blockade, along with a cessation of rocket fire, was one of the key terms of the June cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. This accord led to a reduction in rockets fired from Gaza from hundreds in May and June to a total of less than 20 in the subsequent four months (according to Israeli government figures). The cease-fire broke down when Israeli forces launched major air and ground attacks in early November; six Hamas operatives were reported killed.

Oh, gee, that’s funny. I thought the cease-fire broke down WHEN HAMAS DID NOT CEASE ITS FIRE. Did “reduction” and “cessation” suddenly become synonyms, and I just somehow missed the memo? Did 20 rockets in four months suddenly become an acceptable number? When I’m a lawyer and my client receives a “cease and desist” notice, should I write back and say, “Ooops. Sorry. We’ll cut down the number of times we violate your rights. Would 5 times per month be acceptable?”

A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery – NYTimes.com.

Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership’s war room is a bunker beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli intelligence officials say.

No wonder Hamas was vocally inviting a ground incursion! There’s also a video of a Hamas fighter running away from Israeli soldiers and grabbing a child who was standing nearby, dragging him by his shirt as a human shield. From the reports I’ve heard, this is a pretty common tactic.

U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site

U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site – NYTimes.com.

Uh… yeah. Not sure it would have been wise for Israel to strike Iran, but this pretty much confirms what we’ve suspected all along… Iran ain’t buildin’ no electricity plant. They’re building a weapon. And gee, I wonder who will be on the receiving end?

Children of Hamas.

To be fair, these are not all recent pictures. Some of them are a few years old. Of course, others are missing from the montage. Then again, there are a million montages just like this one, because there is so much documentary evidence that these children are being brainwashed to hate and to kill. One children’s show even finished its last episode with its host, a little girl, telling its viewers that the main character had been slaughtered by the Zionist pigs, and they should go avenge his death.

Hamas targets schools, world is blind, deaf, and dumb on topic.

Hamas deliberately targets Israeli schools. Palestinian terrorists deliberately time their attacks for when children are walking to or from school. There has never been an outcry from any organization that normal protests human rights violations. There have been no accusations of war crimes by Hamas. There has been, in fact, utter silence from the usual suspects. Israel schools are being targeted, and yet, that gets shrugged off by everyone but Israelis.

Riots erupt in Oakland after slain father laid to rest – CNN.com.

The cops had the guy face down on the ground and one held him down while the other shot him in the back. Aren’t we glad the police are here to protect us?

Some are speculating that the cop might have mistaken his gun for a Taser. Yeah, right. Trained cops don’t know the difference between a gun and a Taser? Bullshit. In any case, does it make it any better if it was a Taser? I mean, yeah, it would be better because the guy would still be alive, but is it any less of an excuse? Don’t police know how to do anything without a Taser these days?!

Is Gaza ‘occupied’ territory? – CNN.com.

Declassified IDF Photos and Footage Expose Hizbullah Tactics – Defense/Middle East – Israel News – Israel National News.

Hamas does the same thing. Israel returns fire to the site where the rocket was launched… and boom, there goes a mosque, or a school, or a hospital.

YouTube – Palestinians Taunt Jews to ‘Go Back to the Oven’.

That said, I’m sure you can just as easily find hard-line Israelis saying atrocious things about Palestinians. This conflict runs deeper than one over land and nationalism. It’s a battle over Grandpa Abe’s estate, and it’s completely irreconcilable as long as there are still people unwilling to compromise at all. Unfortunately all of those people happen to be on one side of the equation.

Exchanges of fire mar 3-hour truce in Gaza – CNN.com.

Typical.

A planned three-hour lull in Israel’s assault on Gaza was marred by sporadic attacks by Hamas militants and retaliatory fire from Israeli forces.

EVERY cease fire results in Hamas launching rockets and Israel striking in retaliation. Why should the fact that humanitarian aid is on the line make any difference to Hamas? They don’t want aid; they want high death tolls.

People think Israel is posting videos of their attacks on Gaza to somehow brag about their violent response. This video shows another story – this is why Israel really posts videos – so the world can see the truth. Hamas literally stores its weapons in and launches rockets from the doorsteps of elementary schools, and then blames Israel when it strikes back against the launch points. This has happened several times over the past few days – Israel is catching flak for shelling schools where Hamas attackers are launching missiles (I realize this is an older video – it just goes to show you how long Hamas has been using schools as launch pads, and how long Israel has been restraining itself against striking back).

YouTube – Mortar Bombs Shot from UN School in Gaza 29 Oct. 2007.

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – On the ground near the Gaza border « – Blogs from CNN.com.

Positions are hardening. A senior Hamas official today made greater threats, saying Israelis “legitimize the killing of their people all over the world when they killed our people.”

I have no doubt that he’s talking about the massacre in Mumbai, and other attacks on Jewish centers around the world in recent years – attacks many people haven’t heard about because they are simply not reported adequately. This guy isn’t talking about Israelis – he’s talking about Jews. And there you have it – proof that Hamas and other extremists do not distinguish between Israel and the Jewish people as whole, and when they say they will wipe the Zionists from the earth and drive the Jews into the sea, what they mean is what they’ve said in the past – they want to finish what Hitler started. Anti-Zionism is not anti-Israel – it is anti-JEW.

“Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” – Golda Meir

Doctor in Gaza: Patients ‘lying everywhere’ – CNN.com.

I like how they show injured Palestinian children but never injured Israeli children. Does the world think Israeli children haven’t died at Hamas’s hands? Does the world think Hamas hasn’t tried its best to kill innocent Israeli children? A rocket hit a kindergarten classroom today in southern Israel. Thank god the school was closed due to the threat. That’s the thing – Israel takes measures to protect its children, while Hamas doesn’t seem to care if its rockets kills even its OWN children. Where is the anger and lamentation over the deaths of THESE girls? Is it only tragic when Israel is to “blame”?

Hamas won’t stop rocket attacks on Israel – CNN.com.

Well really – did we think they would? They didn’t stop during the cease fire – why would they stop once Israel retaliates?

THE SWASH ZONE:

Of course the hospitals and schools and even the mosques are ammunition dumps and launching pads for the thousands and thousands of missiles Hamas has launched and is launching indiscriminately into Southern Israel for the very purpose of provoking an attack which, seeing as they are hiding in schools and hospitals and apartment houses would generate the kind of inadvertent martyrdom Hamas, in its self-righteous cowardice, likes to assign to innocent people.

No kidding. 😛

Autopsy to be performed on Travolta’s son – CNN.com.

Kawasaki disease? Really?

I guarantee you we’ll find out more about this kid’s medical condition, and it won’t be pretty. Scientologists ignore a LOT of developmental disabilities, including autism, which according to the buzz was the young Travolta’s true developmental disability. If this is true, then Travolta and Preston are essentially responsible for their son’s death, since they failed to provide him with the treatment, care and supervision that he needed.

Firedoglake » Gaza Ground Invasion Beginning.

Sorry, how is this an act of “ethnic cleansing” when Israel has a sizable Arab population within its own borders, and Arabic is one of its national languages?

Israeli ground troops enter Gaza – CNN.com.

Well. Hamas got what they were after, I guess. You know they were hoping this would happen.

List of rocket and mortar attacks in Israel in 2008.

So like… just how many are they expected to tolerate before retaliation is finally allowed? Bear in mind that Israel is TINY – not much larger than Riverside County, or about 1/3 – 1/2 the size of San Bernardino County. It’s not a large country. So tell me – how many rockets does this tiny country less than half the size of the fucking 909 have to put up with before it’s allowed to fight back without people accusing it of being a big bad imperialist?

‘Safest’ seat remarks gets Muslim family kicked off plane – CNN.com.

Oh please. The airline can’t possibly believe it behaved appropriately, particularly since even the freakin’ FBI told them everything was fine. If a white family was discussing the safest place to sit on an airplane, people would just chuckle and think they were a bit paranoid and plane-phobic. A Muslim family discusses the safest place to sit on an airplane, and suddenly they’re terrorists? God forbid people should just be a little freaked out about hurtling hundreds of miles per hour through the sky in a giant hunk of metal?

Besides, not to be crude, but how often do terrorist hijackers worry about the safest place for them to sit on a plane they’re going to crash?

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