Otherwise, silent as always about the latest Palestinian attack in J-Lem.
Via Pat Condell.
Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obamalot, Obsessions, The War, War Without End
Three news headlines from the same event:
Associated Press headline: Israel police shoot man in East Jerusalem
BBC headline: Nine hurt as car hits pedestrians at Jerusalem Station
Fox News headline: Palestinian driver kills baby at Jerusalem train station
Via Simply Jews
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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, The Culture, The War
Tagged palestinian terrorist kills baby, why leftists hate fox news
The most pro-Israel American presidential administration ever? So the Democrats would have you believe of President Obola and his secretive and duplicitous crew.
An Israeli newspaper’s investigation shows otherwise.
Last summer, during Israel’s battle with rocket-firing Hamas in Gaza, the administration not only held up transfers to Israel of Hellfire missiles (and all ordinary munition resupply as well) for several, potentially crucial days, it also ordered the FBI not to cooperate in helping locate a missing IDF soldier.
The Israel Defense Force now believes Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul was dead all along but Hamas said he was alive and taunted the Israeli public with its worst nightmare (a kidnapped soldier from its conscript army) with details from his Facebook page:
“On July 22, as international news reports carried Hamas’ claim of Shaul’s capture, the IDF really had no idea whatsoever what happened to the Israeli soldier. The only statement made by the IDF at that point was that Shaul was missing in action. Even two days later, the IDF still did not know if Shaul had been kidnapped by Hamas or whether he was dead.”
So, because the IP address hosting Shaul’s Facebook page was in the U.S., the IDF asked the FBI to help locate whoever (presumably Hamas) had gotten into the page. FBI agents immediately agreed to help and were moving on it when they were ordered by their own senior management to stop.
“Senior law enforcement officials, on condition of anonymity, have told me that the withdrawal of authority to the FBI to retrieve the Facebook records for Israel came from the [U.S.] Attorney General’s office,” Steven Emerson wrote in Israel Hayom.
In other words, from Eric Holder, Wormtongue’s close friend and trusted operative, a wellknown Democrat skunk in his own right already held in contempt of Congress on other matters.
Via Israel Matzav
UPDATE: Unidentified “senior officials in the American administration,” on Sunday (Oct. 18) denied declining to help Israel in the matter of the missing soldier, according to Haaretz. The left-wing newspaper put a right-left spin on the report in Israel Hayom accusing anti-Obama rightists of fomenting the issue. The Times of Israel, picking up the Haaretz report, added that the IDF and prime minister’s office had declined to comment on the subject. So take your pick on who to believe.
Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, Obamalot, The War, Troops
Tagged IDF Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul, Israel Hayom, Israel Matzav, Steven Emerson
As Barry-the-bumbler is learning in Iraq and Syria, probably to his chagrin, unless you buy the dubious notion that he wants the Islamists to win. Result: the fighter-bombers bomb and the ISIS infantry takes a Kurdish town and threatens Baghdad.
You can come pretty close to winning, however, as the Israelis did recently against Hamas, if you have enough troops on the ground to pick your targets for you.
Even the Iraqis want American ground troops back now, having stupidly pushed them out just five months ago. We could let them stew, of course, longer than Barry boy will do until the election’s over. But we’ll go back eventually.
That was a given, even back in June. It just happened faster than envisioned.
Posted in Obamalot, The War, Troops
Tagged Iraq wants Americans back, you can't win wars from the air
They love us, they really love us. ISIS, that is:
“Who can reject this: ‘But, whoever to be killed at the hands of Americans will receive 144 virgin Hoor Al-ayn in janat…'”?
Now all we need to do is get it cleared up whether that’s virgins or raisins. Women or goats is another matter.
Via Simply Jews
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A U.S. jury said on Monday Arab Bank Plc provided material support to Hamas, and must therefore compensate the victims of two dozen attacks the Islamic militant group allegedly carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Jurors needed less than two days to deliberate, following a six-week trial in Brooklyn federal court that lawyers described as the first terrorism financing civil case to reach trial in the United States.
Nearly 300 Americans who were either victims or related to victims of the attacks had sued Arab Bank in 2004, accusing it of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act, which lets victims of U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations seek damages. A trial on damages will be scheduled for a later date.
Via Israel Matzav.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (whose updating of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos—including a shamelessly inaccurate plug for global warming—was so bad I stopped watching it after two episodes) is an atheist who apparently likes to make up fake quotes about believers, particularly former president Bush II.
Now Wikipedia is covering for Tyson: “Despite the fact that no evidence exists that Bush ever said ‘Our God is the God who named the stars’ shortly after 9/11 as a way of segregating Christians and Jews from Muslims, under no circumstances will Wikipedia allow that site to note that Tyson’s fabricated quote is obviously fake and non-existent.”
I still like Wikipedia as a resource, if not the bearer of absolute truth. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica has its quirks. Nor should Tyson, the latest black darling of the New York Progressives, be held to an absolute standard—although he is supposed to be a scientist before he’s a politico and he’s now failed that standard twice that I know of.
But trotting out the tired Bush and Christianity bashing in the same breath, apparently to show his fans he’s a doctrinaire Democrat, is twice too much for me.
Tyson, get thee behind me!
Via The Federalist.