Apartheid

It is timely, after the hate-fest that just went on at Turtle Bay in New York at the United Nations General Conference. One of the now-normal slams against Israel is that it is an “apartheid” state. You know, like big, bad, South Africa before Saint Nelson freed them. My [...]

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oil ticks

There is something more than a little discomfiting about this image: the leader of the free world holding hands with an unelected absolute monarch of a “nation” that is directly responsible for much of the Islamic terror around the world.
The Saudis have unearned oil wealth; wealth they did not have the ability to tap [...]

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Speaking of drinking the Kool-Aid…

To get a sense of the truly mad world of Islamists and their thoughts, just consider this al jazeera segment as translated by MEMRI. It’s a “debate” between Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan and a rather interesting specimen, an Egyptian Islamist named Tal’at Rmeih.
The first sense one gets is being seated at the Mad Hatter’s [...]

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Everyone else’s fault

One reason that there is not peace between the Palestinians and Israelis is that the terrorists who run the West Bank and Gaza have some helpful enablers among the liberal media. This isn’t the primary reason; but it does contribute to the woeful inability of the Paleos to stand up and do the right [...]

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Par for the course

Let’s see. Out geniuses at the FBI and the CIA both provided security clearances and employment to a woman who was an illegal Muslim immigrant who obtained her citizenship fraudulently, and who has family ties to foreign terrorist backers. Par for the course.
However, our stalwart defenders of freedom claim, according to this NBC [...]

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Why we failed in Iraq…

…and why we will fail every time we attempt to change centuries of tribal, blood-and-soil Muslim culture overnight. Rich Lowry’s opinion piece at the New York Post, “Taming the Tribes,” claims that we are winning in Iraq precisely because we have turned away from this neo-Wilsonian, and doomed, mission.
That we are now winning is [...]

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res ipsa loquitur

Ah, yet another story about the vaunted Arab friendliness and welcoming of strangers. It seems that a group of spoiled Arab sweeties, fresh from spending their unearned oil revenues in Milan, refused to have their pure selves seated next to men to whom they were not related.
Now, how people arrange their lives, and with [...]

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gangbangers-for-Allah

Ralph Peters, the angry-not-so-young military retiree-cum-pundit, has penned a must-read synopsis of what Muslim Arabs are about:
Look at Gaza, at the orgy of self-destructive savagery, the macho idiocy, the junkyard-dog religion and the murder-suicide cult sweeping Arab civilization. Then note that, barring a few fringe players, only two sides are fighting in the Gaza Strip.
In [...]

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Hamastan

Interesting, and deadly accurate, article of this title from Barry Rubin at WSJ. He provides some useful background, a recent history of the Paleos descent into chaos — a chaos that is largely self-induced:
In 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat turned down President Bill Clinton’s offer of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in east [...]

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“Jew American Army”

“Are too!” “Are not!” And so it goes between two spoiled, bratty kids. Unfortunately, these kids carry AK-47s, and when they’re not firing them off in the air to celebrate killing some infidels, they spray the landscape, hoping to nail a member of the other group.
These are the Stupids making war against the Crazies in [...]

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Fascinating perspective

Melanie Phillips sheds light on unknown (at least to this infidel) portions of the Quran that implore Muslims to love and respect Israel and the Jews. Who knew?
Here’s an extract, which Ms. Phillips cites from the website “Arabs for Israel”:
[Quran] 2:47 Children of Israel! call to mind the favour which I bestowed upon you, and [...]

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All you need to know

Once again, an eager if naive American secretary of state goes into “shuttle diplomacy” mode. Condi Rice is an admirable woman, but is clearly still playing the good and loyal analyst by going to the Middle East to listen to the whines of the Arabs about those frightful Israelis.
There is only one thing wrong [...]

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So, what’s their position on gravity?

So, some Hamas schmuck has told the world that, yes, Virginia, there is an Israel. But we still want to destroy it, and we won’t even talk about recognizing the Zionist Entity until a Palestinian state is created.
And, oh, by the way, we’ll tell you Jews what land is yours, and you’ve got to [...]

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"most abhorrent"?

First, let me say that, although I think he is an idiot of the first water, I pray for Jimmy Carter. Pray that he will read the Scriptures he seems to have forgotten in his very public persona of piety.
Nice alliteration, there, Jack, now get to the point. The point is that I [...]

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"house of condolences"

Got to hand it to the Palestinians. They never seem to miss an opportunity to get on the wrong side of history. There is, now, in the (Christian) holy city of Bethlehem, a “house of condolences” for paleos to mourn the passing of a man who was, apparently, the best friend a terrorist [...]

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Saying Goodbye

I was listening to the news on the radio, and heard about some sort of interactive video game that provides training to some of our troops on cultural sensitivities in Iraq. The one example that was mentioned was that it is somehow considered insulting to an Iraqi to say “goodbye.”
Well, poor little sensitive Iraqis. [...]

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“wall of the mind”

The quotation is from a book review by Newt Gingrich that appears in the forthcoming issue of the Weekly Standard. Pretty classy outfit, the Standard, to have a former speaker of the House of Representatives write a book review, was my first thought.
The book is by a former secretary of defense, Bill Cohen, who writes [...]

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Chickens, roosting, and schadenfreude

“Palestinian Gunmen Kill Three Children of Senior Palestinian Intelligence Officer in Drive-By Shooting” is the headline in this New York Sun story. The basics:
Gunmen killed the three young sons of a Palestinian security officer targeted twice before for assassination by Hamas, riddling the car taking them to school with more than 60 bullets – and [...]

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Do we really think they’ll stop?

The usually sound Victor Davis Hanson, in his piece today at NRO, wrote:
Hamas and its rivals exist largely because of the occupied West Bank: force Israel back to its 1967 borders, and Palestinian grievances — and the violence — largely vanish, as the United States at last is freed from much of the old Pavlovian [...]

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cut-and-walk

Interesting how the liberal establishment comes around. It’s become clear, even to the mandarins at the Gray Lady, that we can’t simply storm for the exits in Iraq, thereby leaving Iraqis to the tender mercies of thuggish Arab Sunnis and Islamofascist Shiites. Which is to say the majority of all Iraqis who are [...]

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These six imams get on a plane…

A variant, perhaps, of the “A priest, a minister, and a rabbi go into this bar…” joke? Or, more likely, a snapshot of how unamerican and sinister Muslims can appear to us. With, maybe, just maybe, some very good justification on our part.
We have been targeted by Muslims, and especially by Muslims on [...]

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There is a difference

Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese Christian journalist who lives in the United States. She has made it her mission to warn us of the dangers of radical Islam, and has some enlightening things to tell us from her own experiences.
This particular clip shines a bright, hard light on the differences between Israelis and Muslim [...]

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“I think I know it”

My respect for Condi Rice is just about at rock bottom, and it may have been that her brain was eaten by the Striped Pants Zombies at the State Department. Yesterday’s column by Mark Steyn covers a lot of idiotarian territory, but it includes two women who are pointing the way towards a very bleak [...]

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Why don’t we understand them…

…is the plaint of many in the West. The “them” is whatever group, nation, culture, or religion that happens to have made Western liberalism its sworn enemy. And by “liberalism” I very much do not mean the idiotarians of the left who never met a Third World, Marxist, or Islamist thug they did [...]

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No, they’re not "uninvolved people"

The “uninvolved people” cited are Palestinian civilians being used as human shields to protect terrorists. Or, as the mainstream media now call them, “militants.” Back in the day, “militant” might be used to describe a union organizer, albeit a very pushy union organizer. If that union organizer were to kill civilians at [...]

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“a nation of animals”

Thus one Hamas cutie describes Israel. This in response to an apparently uninentional IDF action that caused the deaths of some civilians. An action for which, according to the Jerusalem Post story,
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Peretz issued an apology for the killing of innocent civilians and offered the Palestinians humanitarian and medical assistance.
It is [...]

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"a nation of animals"

Thus one Hamas cutie describes Israel. This in response to an apparently uninentional IDF action that caused the deaths of some civilians. An action for which, according to the Jerusalem Post story,
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Peretz issued an apology for the killing of innocent civilians and offered the Palestinians humanitarian and medical [...]

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Confused Jews

“Survey Finds U.S. Jews Back Palestinian State” is the headline in a brief article in today’s WaPo. The survey, conducted by the American Jewish Committee, has a rather starker message, however.
The WaPo story, of course, is slanted to favor the Paleos. The truth of the survey, however, is that a rather large majority [...]

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Why, that’s just crazy enough to work

Saul Singer, of the Jerusalem Post, has a radical idea up at NRO today: Arab states should take the initiative in ending the Israeli-Palestinian nastiness.
This may seem obvious, but it has apparently eluded our State Department and policy-makers for decades. Of course, the fact that some “moderate Arab” states have lots and lots of oil [...]

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The Holocaust’s Arab Heroes

This is the title of an interesting article that’s been given a chunk of prime Sunday media real estate on the front page of the Washington Post’s Outlook section.
The article serves at least one useful purpose: it reminds readers that the Arab world is in denial that the Holocaust even took place. [...]

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