Battle for America's soul

There are a lot of naysayers around and I see a lot of problems in USA from afar down here in NZ.

Sometimes it is infuriating.  I hear lots of crickets chirping and lot of attention is paid to those crickets. But the majority of folks are still those silent cattle in the field.

More of the silent USA majority are getting involved.  The battle has started for America's soul. The minority 30-40% Left has been waging their war against the center Right majority for decades. Their current chosen-one, totus-reader, mulatto devil-incarnate "leader" lets the world burn (middle east, open borders, IRS scandal, Ferguson riots, more shootings in Chicago, a USMC left to rot in a Mexican jail and so on and so on...) while he plays golf, dances and hob knobs with white rich folk in Martha's Vinyard or his Hollyweird pals. He is not a "leader".

Only We.The.People can truly save America.

flag from the first Christian crusade

The Pope and the Vatican have currently called for ARMS against Islamic Jihadists in the middle east.

If any Christians are to remain in the middle east, will another justified crusade happen?

And in the USA, Christians need to stand up and FIGHT for America, too.

Trevor Grant Thomas has some ideas:

"If America is to stem her descent into a spiritual and moral winter, then Christians across the country must do their best to ignite fires of faith in their families, churches, communities, schools, places of work, and so on, and be the light we are called to be. We do not need Christians who see compromise (with Scripture) as the way forward. Neither do we need Christian monasteries or compounds where biblical values and truths are hoarded and hidden from our nation.

What we need are communities full of faithful families led by fathers and mothers who want to work hard, raise children, attend church, and pass on their biblical values to the next generation, and the next, and so on. As Psalm 78 implores the rebellious nation of Israel: fathers teach your children, so that they will in turn teach their children -- so it should be with every nation that wants to walk in the truth.

Such communities need to be “cities on a hill,” welcoming all those who want to join, so that the American people can clearly contrast the ways of those who are “lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” with those who seek to live the “godly life in Christ Jesus.” Thus Americans can clearly choose whether to be part of, as Augustine put it, the “City of God” or the “City of Man.”

"America is in the midst of a battle for her soul and it’s time that more Christians started acting like it."

Stand With Israel

I support Israel's right to exist.  From Dennis Prager:

 

From Apr 28, 2014 "The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most Palestinians do not want Israel to exist. As Dennis Prager explains, this is really all you need to know. In 5 minutes, understand how Israel was founded, and how, since that auspicious day in 1948, its neighbors have tried to destroy it, again and again."

Push back against Hollywood's "evil" soldier/veteran stereotype

Hollywood CONTINUALLY depicts USA soldiers, veterans as heartless cruel killers. Really?

They are FAR from it. 

A recent example from Daily Mail UK features this guy:

I wouldn't tangle with this guy, would YOU?!?!  He's a USA Army Special forces guy in Afghanistan - and sure looks like one tough mother-f**er. 

When he was out on patrol, something caught his eye.  If he was a heartless cruel killer like Hollywood pushes (constantly in LOTS of movies), he wouldn't have batted an eye when he saw what was happening.  This is what he did instead: he RESCUED a helpless being.

A puppy. 

With the help of donations and Nowzad (a British dog rescue org): the puppy (Yakkul) he rescued made it out of the hell hole of Afghanistan back home to Valatie, NY.

I'll be praying this brave warrior with a kind heart makes it home safely after his tour(s) finish.

... and Hollywood be damned.

More on the puppy rescue story here.

no-permit bikers ride to honor 9/11 and protest permit-given muslims

Permit was issued in Washington DC for a "million muslim march" on 11-Sep-2013.

A permit was DENIED in Washington DC for "two million bikers" who wanted to ride to protest the million muslim march.

THE BIKERS RODE ANYWAY

who's winning? remember Sept 11, 2001

Twelve years on in the Islamic jihad AGAINST the USA and other western countries, so who's winning?

Michael Walsh at PJMedia points out:

"… we are still at war with the Muslim world, and it most certainly is still at war with us.

… we have lost the strategic advantage of having large concentrations of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, surrounding Iran, and the mullahs are well on their way to acquiring nuclear weapons in order to hasten the coming of the Twelfth Imam.

… in addition to the 3,000 souls lost in 2001, more than 5,000 soldiers have perished in the “War on Terror,” and for absolutely no strategic purpose or effect.

… we lost four diplomats and security personnel in Benghazi, Libya, exactly one year ago today, and still the government not only continues to lie about what happened but also refuses to let the truth come out. Or, maybe, somehow it will.

… our best fighting generals have been sacked, on one pretense or another, since the start of combat operations in the Af-Pak theater.

… we have active hostiles serving openly in our Armed Forces.

… political correctness has spread to all corners of the Armed Services, including the Marine Corps, and is directly responsible for the Bradley Manning and Major Hasan fiascos; there will be more to come. "

From RightScoop Is the West Protecting Radical Islam?

NO to USA involvement in Syria

Americans do NOT support helping Islamic rebels like Al Quada (however its spelled). 

REMEMBER SEPTEMEBER 11TH!  This attack was by Islamists! They HATE the USA.  And O and his minions want to CODDLE them and ARM them. What UTTER nonsense...

Justice with Jeanine Pirro on Syria explains why most rational and sane Americans say NO to any USA strikes or boots on ground in another middle east hell hole below. And BRING American troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan already.  

O has no credibility
His regime has no credibility
Kerry has no credibility either.  From 2012 see happy dinner time photo with Kerry, Assad and their wives:  

Last year, Liberty Beacon noted "John Kerry, who is expected to be nominated as secretary of state later this afternoon [TLB Note: John Kerry has been nominated since this article was posted; please read more here], has made frequent visits to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Assad is now under fire for mass murdering his own civilians, as he fights an internal war to keep his position of power."

O's finger wagging at Assad will mean nothing. Couple weeks ago Heritage noted "Rubio and Risch emphasized that Assad is unlikely to receive the intended message of a “finger wag” strike and instead will become even further emboldened by U.S. military action. After all is said and done, Assad would be able to say he stood up to the greatest military power on the globe and continue the slaughter of Syrians."

On twitter:  #NoUSTroopsInSyria or just #Syria

Was Benghazi just a gun running operation from Libya to Syria for O's AQ pals?  Is THAT why the "investigation" is being blocked by O and his minion?  New flash: the attack which killed a US ambassador was NOT due to some random video. Atlas Shrugs points out the idiotic Susan Rice to brief congress on Syria on September 11, 2013?  What asshattery is that?!

Last but not least for this post: DC "approved" a million muslim march for 11-Sep-2013 but NOT for American motorcyclists.  Twitchy reports: THEY ARE GOING TO RIDE ANYWAY.

 

 

Huma's not appalled because Islam

Huma Abedin doesn't care if her husband Anthony Weinder likes to sext women. She's not appalled in the slightest.  Why?  Here's a few reasons:

This week, Robert Spencer reminds everyone Huma is Muslim:

"If Huma Abedin is indeed a “practicing Muslim,” then there is no reason to think that she doesn’t believe in the Qur’an’s allowances for polygamy and sex slavery (for men only, that is), and thus it could well be that her husband’s appalling behavior simply doesn’t appall her. She may accept the idea that a husband of a Muslim wife may well have a wandering eye, and go on the prowl for other women, and even perhaps marry one or more of those other women while remaining married to her."

Andrew McCarthy also reminds us about The Huma Unmentionables:

"Ms. Abedin served as one of Secretary of State Clinton’s top staffers and advisers at the State Department. As I’ve previously detailed, during that time, the State Department strongly supported abandoning the federal government’s prior policy against official dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood. State, furthermore, embraced a number of Muslim Brotherhood positions that undermine both American constitutional rights and our alliance with Israel. To name just a few manifestations of this policy sea change:

• The State Department had an emissary in Egypt who trained operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations in democracy procedures.
• The State Department announced that the Obama administration would be “satisfied” with the election of a Muslim Brotherhood–dominated government in Egypt.
• Secretary Clinton personally intervened to reverse a Bush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder and son of one of its most influential early leaders, from entering the United States.
• The State Department collaborated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in deference to sharia proscriptions against negative criticism of Islam."

So let's go back just a bit.

Last year July 2012 Andrew McCarthy discussed Huma Abedin’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties and some conflicts of interest in the USA State Department. He asked:

"Any chance Speaker Boehner might take just a couple of minutes out of his busy jihad against Bachmann to focus on how the State Department — during Ms. Abedin’s tenure — has cozied up to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s chief sharia jurist?"

Good question

McCarthy points out: "Sheikh Qaradawi is a promoter of jihadist terror. His fatwas endorse terrorist attacks against American personnel in Iraq as well as suicide bombing — by both men and women — against Israel. He is a leading supporter of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch. He also runs an umbrella organization called the Union for Good (sometimes referred to as the “Union of Good”), which is formally designated a terrorist organization under American law. The Union for Good was behind the “Peace Flotilla” that attempted to break our ally Israel’s blockade of the terrorist organization Hamas (the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch) in 2010."

August 2012, Jamie Glazov wrote of: Huma Abedin, Islamist Connections and Willful Blindness. Huma has an agenda:

"In 1997, Ms. Abedin was on the executive board of the Muslim Students Association at George Washington University in Washington – while she was an intern at the Clinton White House and while she was an assistant editor at Naseef’s journal. The Muslim Students Association is the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s infrastructure – an infrastructure that the Brotherhood has quite intentionally constructed for the purpose of executing the “Muslim Minority Affairs” strategy of giving like-minded Muslims the space and fortitude to resist assimilation and demand accommodation."

Also in August, Mr. Glazov wrote: The Huma Abedin-House of Saud Connection Exposed as discussed with Walid Shoebat

Huma's involved in "Muslim Minority Affairs (MMA)".  Some of the MMA goals are:

"1. Recruit individual Muslims that live in non-Muslim lands and transform them as a collective unit by establishing centers, educational programs, mosques and organizations like ISNA and MSA in order to stop Muslim assimilation in non-Muslim host nations.

2. These then can influence the non-Muslim host nations by shifting the demographic scale due to their population growth in favor of the Saudi agenda.

3. A gradual implementation of Sharia will ensue by becoming a major revolutionary powerhouse.

4. This will tilt the host nation in favor of Muslims due to their increase as a population.

5. By this, a transformation then ensues in the host nation to gradually begin to implement a Wahhabi style Sharia.   (Hmm, didn't O say he wanted to "transform" the United States of America?!) 

6. The host state then will join the Muslim commonwealth. "

Now can you see why Weiner will not "pull out" of NY mayor race?  Huma says No.

And just a bit more about "The Dark Muslim Brotherhood World of Huma Abedin":

"FP: What do you say in response to those who would say that bringing Huma Abedin into all of this is an unfair and unwarranted “guilt-by-association” tactic?

Shoebat: When westerners say “guilt-by-association” regarding Huma, they are comparing the Middle East with the Middle West. Westerners need to shift gears into the Muslim World and when they do they will begin to comprehend the significance of this connection.

Huma’s links to a family that is directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, including her brother and mother, creates a question that no one on earth can easily answer:

Other than Huma Abedin, has there ever been any member of the Muslim Brotherhood or a prominent Islamist who will not openly denounce a “daughter” or “sister” that married a non-Muslim Jewish male?

It is extremely rare to have Muslim women marry non-Muslims, much less to have conservative Muslims look the other way, unless Huma has a “higher calling” and a unique exception was made for her, since she is an ear into top U.S. sensitive information, or Anthony Weiner has converted to Islam or even both. "

Stakes are way too high - Anthony and Huma do not want to lose any power and influence.

Huma especially.

Islam threatens YOU personally

Do you fully Understand the threat that is Islam?

"Most Americans would agree that terrorism is a threat, but few understand violent jihad in its proper context. Terrorism is one of the primary ways that Western nations are softened to Islamists' stealthier tactics which involve gradual infiltration and subversion of a society's foundational religiopolitical, military, legal, educational, and media institutions.

The Muslim Brotherhood refer to their strategy in America as a "Civilization-Jihadist Process,” and their work in the US as “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their [westerners'] hands and the hands of the believers [true followers of Allah] so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

Unbeknownst to many Americans, the "Civilization-Jihad" in the US began in 1963 with the establishment of the first Muslim Brotherhood front group in North America, the Muslim Students Association (MSA). Fifty years later, there are hundreds of MSA chapters on US college campuses, multiplied numbers of prominent Muslim Brotherhood front groups, and a large yet undetermined number of individuals affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and other US-designated terrorist groups working in national, state, and local government, many at the highest levels.

The freedoms Americans have taken for granted since our nation’s Founding are being systematically undermined from within by an enemy that has penetrated every sector of the Federal bureaucracy, including our national security, intelligence, military, law enforcement, and diplomatic agencies and the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our Government. The clandestine jihad has made enormous strides in America since 9/11, due in large part to the willful blindness of national leaders who have focused all of their energies on terrorism prevention and winning the kinetic war while ignoring the more insidious, growing threat."

Highlighted at Victoria Jackson's site, interesting video which explains some stuff. 



Oh and related - here's a more light hearted video explaining a bit about the current O-regime SPY PROGRAM, its invasion of privacy and why YOU should care about it:

FIGHT to KEEP free speech in USA alive and well

Freedom of speech is the FIRST AMENDMENT of the USA constitution! 
It is the bedrock of the United States Constitutional Republic!
Free speech isn't 'free' unless free people FIGHT to retain and keep it!

Pam G's has a fiery speech about this topic recently in Tennessee:




So why exactly is Pamela G. all fired up in Tennessee?  Details from Cliff Kincaid over at Trevor Loudon who writes:  "An Islamic Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee features “Strong Islamic studies,” a term that implies Sharia, or Islamic law."

A TENNESSE MOSQUE is advocating for Sharia law WITHIN THE USA. Islamic supporters want to make CRITICIZING Islam illegal.  This mean: THEY WANT TO BAN FREE SPEECH!

Mr Kincaid continues "Lafferty said it was entirely predictable that when Killian mentioned the name of the Attorney General, Eric Holder, who is neck-deep in several scandals, people in the audience booed. “Every mention of Holder had the same effect,” he noted.

Killian’s speech, Lafferty said, was that “Muslims are misunderstood and they are no different than you or me” and any criticism of Islam is “hate-mongering and bigotry.”

“The biggest story of the event was the crowd,” Lafferty said. While some people were angry and animated in their reactions to Killian’s lecture on “hate crimes,” he said there was intimate knowledge of Islamic practices and that when Muslim speakers at the podium with Killian talked about Islam as a peaceful religion which valued good citizenship, people interrupted with the word “takiya,” a reference to the Islamic concept of deception.

However, CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) insisted that local residents, as well as Geller and Spencer, were at fault for reacting to the DOJ campaign against the First Amendment. This became the story line of much of the coverage of the event.

The SPLC works hand-in-glove with the Obama/Holder Justice Department, smearing opponents of radical Islam as “Islamophobes.”

But Lafferty of VAST said the focus was “that a special meeting was being conducted to talk about the Department of Justice’s commitment to protect the rights of one religious group—Islam.”

Lafferty and others question why the Justice Department has singled out Muslims for special protection and that such a practice reflects adherence to Sharia, or Islamic law, over and above American law and the Constitution.

He noted that the DOJ based this meeting on the fact that a local Tennessee politician had posted a stupid gag on Facebook about targeting Muslims, and that the incident was “being used as the pushing off point for Justice to scrutinize every statement about Islam on the Internet.”

“Both Pamela Geller and the incomparable Robert Spencer spoke brilliantly about free speech and the threat posed to it by government suppression,” Lafferty said."

"I don't care if you want to worship a stone, just don't stone me with it!..." P. Geller

SC's J v M Qur'an Challenge II

Nice... Crowder gets all sorts of violent death threats with his not-moohamud video.  From some comments at Twitchy "Seems Muhammad was a Polygamist, Pedophile and a Murderer ... and batshit crazy".

Exactly...

Geller: Shariah enforcement by USA leftists

What kind of future do you want America? You gonna have to FIGHT for it

Pamela Geller discusses the:
Jihad In Boston, Jihad In America, Stop The Jihad - 4/20/13

The Left: obfuscating for Islam

The leftist media is asking "why would those Boston bombers do such a horrible thing?"

I used to think there were no dumb questions, but that "question" really is dumb, completely disingenuous and hypocritical.  They either just don't care - are doing their damndest to NOT see the answer right in front of their face.  Their propaganda: annoying and tiresome.

The answer is CRYSTAL CLEAR to anyone who has done even a smallest, teeniest amount of research on Islam.  Muslims who commit terrorist acts are following Islamic Jihad - they are simply following what their "religious" book TELLS them to do:  kill all infidels.  Mohammad commands it.

So "true believers" of Islam - are all supposed to KILL non believers.  THAT is why they do it.

Leftist media and leftist "leaders" are purposefully obfuscating for Islam.

Jihad against the USA, the west, has been going on for centuries. 

Fox news has done a relatively good job especially when the hunt for the #ChechenJoker was full on after Sean Collier got shot, the car chase and death of Tamarlan - but I heard someone on Fox say the Boston marathon bombing was "the first terror attack in 12 years" meaning first since Sept 11, 2001 - WHAT??  This has NOT the first in 12 years in the USA - not in the slightest. 

Pamela Geller has a partial list here:

"BROOKLYN BRIDGE Iyman Faris, a U.S.-based, al Qaeda operative, planned to cut the bridge's support cables but was deterred, in part, by the NYPD's 24-hour coverage of the bridge. Faris sent al Qaeda leaders a coded message that, "the weather is too hot," indicating he could not carry out the mission. He was arrested in 2003, pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.

SUBWAY CYANIDE - A plot to disperse cyanide gas in the subway system was called off at the last minute by Iyman Zawahiri for what he said was "something bigger."

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE & CITIGROUP HEADQUARTERS - Al Qaeda plot to use vehicles to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, Citibank, and other financial institutions. NYPD tactical teams were deployed to high-threat locations, and vehicle inspections were increased in response. Dhiren Barot/Issa al-Hindi, an associate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pleaded guilty in 2006.

GARMENT DISTRICT PLOT The NYPD and FBI arrested Uzair Paracha for material support of terrorism in New York based on intelligence developed overseas. Paracha is reported to have discussed with top al Qaeda leaders the prospect of smuggling weapons and explosives possibly even a nuclear device into Manhattan's Garment District through his father's import-export business.

HERALD SQUARE SUBWAY STATION An NYPD undercover officer helped disrupt a 2004 plot to bomb the Herald Square subway station by lone-wolf admirers of Al Qaeda. Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay conspired to blow up the 34th Street subway station, including surveilling the subway station, choosing the location for their bombs, and diagramming entrances and exits.

PATH TRAIN and WTC RETAINING WALL A multi-agency investigation disrupted a plot to attack NYC's underground transit link with New Jersey in 2006. Law enforcement monitoring international chat rooms discovered suspects' plan to destroy a PATH train tunnel and the retaining wall at Ground Zero, to flood the New York Financial District. The main operative was taken into custody in Lebanon and admitted to plotting the attack." ... And: MORE HERE.

Just because the lying liars of the communist O-regime and their apparatchik's "the media" say "terrorism by Jihad" is not happening against the USA or the west, does not mean IT IS.

Islamic Jihad IS happening, has BEEN happening and CONTINUES to happen. Ignoring, being nice nice and coddling Islam - DOES NOT prevent their Jihad.  WAKE UP!

Daniel Greenfield points out Americans might want to refuse to be terrorized, but their government "leaders" sure aren't taking the appropriate steps in prevention:

"If America had refused to be terrorized, the Tsarnaevs would not have been admitted to this country or would have been shown the door once they started adding terrorist videos to their playlist. Instead Tamerlan Tsarnaev was free to slap around his girlfriend while his brother Dzhokhar was adding classic hits to his YouTube playlist like "We Will Dedicate Our Lives to the Jihad."

"(O and leftist leaders) Talk of refusing to be terrorized smacks of governments handing out coping mechanisms for preventable acts of terror. And once we start going down that road, it's worth remembering that the timeless coping mechanism for that sort of thing is Stockholm Syndrome. Indeed the old Stockholm cure is popular in the media which is already beginning to disgorge explanations of alienation that will show that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't kill on their own, we made them killers by not showing them enough love.

It's not the role of governments to tell people how to get over a terrorist attack. Nor is it the role of government to violate the Bill of Rights using the act of a lone madman as a pretext. But it is the role of government to stop an international campaign of terror by a fanatical ideology from reaching these shores using the blunt tool of immigration.

Refusing to be terrorized is as simple as refusing to accept more immigrants from Muslim countries. It's not the least repressive measure ever, but it beats interfering with the civil rights of hundreds of millions of Americans who are not members of terrorist groups.

The difference between refusing to accept terrorism and refusing to feel bad about terrorism is the difference between refusing to be terrorized and refusing to pay attention to terrorism.

There is no need for Obama to play Therapist-in-Chief. It's not his job, even if he is better at it than he is at his real job. His job isn't to praise the attitudes of the people his administration put in danger by refusing to give Tamerlan the boot even after warnings had come in that he was involved with Islamic terrorism. It's to refuse to accept the presence of terrorists in this country.

Obama obviously won't do that job. But neither did Bush. Unlike empty paeans to courage by politicians with none of their own, that topic is not even on the table. The terrorists will keep on coming and after each new act of terror, the politicians who keep the door wide open for them will praise the indomitable spirit of whichever city got targeted this time around."

Brigitte explains: this is Islam

why can't Israel exist?

STFU Islam, seriously

the ever clever Pat Condell explains EXACTLY why Islam should just SHUT the F**K up already:

WND's Stakelbeck on terror.

WND's Stakelbeck on terror... The war on terror continues... and they are trying to infiltrate the White House.  Will you let them succeed?!  (the "moderate" muslimbrotherhood? what a joke)  More at WND.com.

Condell: hey BRITAIN, time to tell the truth about Islam

another good one about the truth about Islam from Brit: Pat Condell:

 

Klavan on: How to Behave During an Islamic Massacre

from last year, but Klavan is still spot on:



Christian, Judeo writings and teachings somewhere along the line say if someone hits your arm, offer your other arm for them to hit that one...

How would that work exactly in Islam when you happen to be offended after they stone, kill, hang or behead you?

....uuuuuuh, yep

Greenfield: the end of Palestine (yeah!)



that Arafat was SUCH a fun guy = "normal" to suicide bomb? huh?

The excellent Daniel Greenfield article describes the end of Palestine (yeaaaah!  IT NEVER "EXISTED" ANYWAY!) - no matter what Abbas does (their last and latest ditch effort is demanding UN "statehood"... "now"! crikey...)

"Abbas doesn’t represent anyone, except the militias and bureaucracy that he pays with US and EU money. His term has expired. He has no legal status for conducting any negotiations. But you won’t read that in the press, which takes great care to blame Netanyahu for delaying negotiations, when in fact it was Abbas who repeatedly rejected direct talks, primarily because they may well end up being his death warrant.

The media and the Obama Administration remain wired into a purely “Blame Israel” mode. One story after another insists that the main obstacle to peace is a few private Israeli homes going up in Jerusalem or Judea and Samaria. It is as if Hamas’ control of Gaza doesn’t exist for them. The elephant in the room armed with rockets and suicide bombers, controlling all of Gaza, might as well be a non-issue, as far as they’re concerned. No one in the media asks when was the last time Abbas won an election. A minor issue that goes to the minor question of whether Abbas is even actually empowered to reach any binding agreements.

It might be 2011, but it might as well be 1996 or 2003 or any year in between. Except that the PLO’s power is about done. The negotiations don’t matter. Abbas will do his best to see that they fail, because it’s the only way he can survive his own people. And he needs to have the blame for the failure fall on Israel, because it’s the only way he can hang on to US and European support. As usual, nothing Israel can do will work, and whatever it does, it will get the blame. The media will go on chattering about settlements, as if that were the endgame here.

aaaw, tyrannical friendship and huggies! ... aren't they cute together?  (blech)

Statehood is a fiction that will move more money into the pockets of the Fatah elite, but it’s also a double-edged sword. Fatah’s only defense against a Hamas takeover is that it can extract territory through negotiations—something Hamas cannot do because it refuses to negotiate for anything but temporary truces. A unilateral statehood declaration, if taken seriously, would also mean the end of negotiations. That’s something Abbas can’t afford because then his usefulness to Hamas is at an end.

Abbas needs Israel to keep from being overrun by Hamas, but he needs Hamas to keep his image as the moderate alternative to those crazy guys in Gaza. The balancing act has drawn billions in foreign aid, but infuriated everyone. Now Abbas is playing an even more dangerous game, going for broke to shake down Israel and the world into giving him some breathing room. It’s a desperate move, but it may also work in the short term. In the long term though, the whole shebang is still doomed.

The Palestinian Authority is not a government, it’s a terrorist organization in suits and ties. It has shown that it is not self-supporting and not capable of running anything besides a rocket launcher. It existed only as long as it was useful to someone.

The PLO began life because it was useful to the Syrians and Egyptians. When they no longer wanted it, it was still useful to the USSR. When the USSR no longer wanted it, it became useful to America. But now it’s running out of sponsors.

The United States has been funding the Palestinian Authority since 1992 and it has gotten nothing for it, and while the foreign policy establishment insists on blaming Israel for that, there’s only so long that game can go as well. The Bush Administration dumped Arafat and Abbas knows that sooner or later his turn will come. With no more options, no ability to reach a final status agreement and Western patrons whose foreign aid budgets will start tightening in the face of the bankruptcy, he is playing his only remaining card.

Either way the Palestinian myth is on the verge of flickering out. Hamas may talk about Palestinian rights, but it has even less interest in them than the PLO did. Hamas was spawned by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Its goal is an Islamic state in Egypt and Gaza, and then all of Israel. It has replaced the Pan-Arabism of a Shukairy with a Pan-Islamism, that it meant to lead to a Global Caliphate. The leaders of Hamas are no less corrupt than Arafat’s cronies were, but it will take longer for the average Israeli Arab to figure that out."  READ THE REST HERE

best buds: Arafat and Saddam about to... kiss?
thank GOD both these assholes are DEAD

GOODBYE "PALESTINE"
GOODBYE PLO
here's your hat, what's your hurry

exactly why Islam is evil and certainly NOT a "religion"

Islam is not a religion.

"Islam is seditious against every nation and government on earth. Islam demands that all muslims work to overthrow all nations, governments and non-sharia laws."

"Islam is peace" only means the "peace" after all non-muslims (infidels!) are killed and the only law is Sharia. If you still think Islam is "peaceful" and is hunky dory to have a) mosques built all over the USA and 2) taught as a wonderful thing in American public schools (like TX Gov Rick Perry and other appeasing politicians), then Ann Barnhardt has got some very, very important history and accurately fact based information for you.

This NOT for children.

Watch and learn.