Countering Violent Extremism

Michael L.

Last week the Obama administration issued a "fact sheet" entitled "The White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism."

The plan is to Engage, Mentor, Support, Communicate, Partner, and Educate communities about something or other.

Given that certain someones (to rename nameless) have been running completely amock in some certain part of the world and continue to inspire others to kill other people - although no one knows just who or why - it is appropriate that the government of the United States concern itself with this matter... whatever it is.

Here is the White House plan in the specifics.

The Obama administration is going to build awareness of something, counter someone's extremist narratives and will place great emphasis on community.

Most experts believe that whatever any of this means it should be sufficient to achieve our goals, once we honestly decide what those goals are.

Not content to take full measures, however, the Obama administration has even developed plans that go beyond the above.

The underlying premise of the approach to countering violent extremism in the United States is that (1) communities provide the solution to violent extremism; and (2) CVE efforts are best pursued at the local level, tailored to local dynamics, where local officials continue to build relationships within their communities through established community policing and community outreach mechanisms.  The Federal Government’s most effective role in strengthening community partnerships and preventing violent extremism is as a facilitator, convener, and source of research and findings. 

So, not only are communities involved in the effort to Counter Violent Extremism, but the Federal Government intends to partner with those communities.

I don't see how violent extremists of any sort - Russian anarchists with little round bombs or Weathermen Underground members getting stoned and blowing themselves up while playing with dynamite or, say, radical anti-abortionists who kill health care providers in the Midwest -  can possibly do anything once communities become aware of them, particularly since those communities - wherever they may be - will be partnering with other partners, including Federal Government partners.

Since the release of the Strategy, local governments and communities around the United States have developed prevention frameworks that address the unique issues facing their local communities.  Three cities—Greater Boston, Los Angeles, and the Twin Cities—with the leadership of representatives from the Federal Government, have created pilot programs to foster partnerships between local government, law enforcement, mayor’s offices, the private sector, local service providers, academia, and many others who can help prevent violent extremism. 

Here we see the full extent of the partnering.

According to the Strategy the Federal Government will partner with an entire array of people including the police and the private sector and academia.  Once the professors get involved, you just know that the terrorists have not a chance.

Of course, it is a tad unclear on just what type of professors would be useful in Countering Violent Extremism?  Is there any such thing as "violent extremism studies"?  Or perhaps professors of Ethical Philosophy will explain to people just why it is that burning people alive in cages is perhaps something other than ethical?

In any case, the Strategy does not end there... no, it continues.  Aside from the partnering going on, the Obama administration, according to the Fact Sheet, intends

1) to appoint the first-ever senior level, full-time CVE Coordinator at the Department of Homeland Security.  {And I, for one, could hardly be more grateful.}

2)  to spend 15 million dollars (!) for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to support community-led efforts to build resilience and an additional 3.5 million in National Institute of Justice research and evaluation grants to address domestic radicalization; a workshop with the creative arts community and community leaders in Los Angeles to develop innovative, scalable and implementable programs and tools to Counter Violent Extremism.

3)  to lead a workshop with the creative arts community of Los Angeles.  {Who better, after all, to Counter Violent Extremism than southern Californian poets and graffiti artists?}

4)  to sponsor a joint DHS and DOJ symposium for local partners to collaborate and share best practices.

5)  to join Canada and the United Kingdom to bring together researchers from four robust and comprehensive research programs.

We also learn that the United Nations is very much involved in the effort to Counter Violent Extremism and that "Ministers from nearly 70 countries, the UN Secretary-General, senior officials from other multilateral bodies, and representatives from civil society and the private sector will gather during the Ministerial segments of the Summit to develop a comprehensive action plan against violent extremism."

You have to give the Obama administration credit.  They actually managed to earn the cooperation not only of the United Nations, but of 70 countries!

The administration also intends to use social media to offer a positive narrative to counter someone else's less than positive narrative.  This is so that young people can go on Facebook and come to understand that while burying random children alive might be fun and exciting, it tends to diminish one's employment possibilities for the future.

Finally, in "September 2013, President Obama launched Stand with Civil Society, a global call to action to support, defend, and sustain civil society."

And there you have it!

This is the Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism.

I feel confident that neither the Ku Klux Klan, nor the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), can possibly stand up to the Strategy.

{Don't you?}

Random, Arbitrary, and Completely Indiscriminate

Michael L.

“We note the worrisome trend of people associating violence by people of the Muslim faith with violence by people of the Muslim faith." - Preoccupied Territory

Random acts of violence have plagued Europe recently, but no one seems sure who might be behind this violence or why they are committing these acts.

We know that the perpetrators - presuming there actually are perpetrators - are human beings.

We know that these human beings attack other human beings, but we have no idea why.

The one thing that we do know is that none of this has anything to do with any particular religious faiths, neither in terms of the victims, nor in terms of the perpetrators.

As president Obama said, "No religion condones the killing of innocents."

A Big Tip O The Kippa to Ian at the EOZ.

The Islamic State Rules for the Enslavement of Infidel Women and Girls

Michael L.

I have only recently become aware of this, but MEMRI reports that the gentlemen from the Islamic State have been considerate enough to put out a pamphlet which describes, in question and answer form, the rules for the enslavement of women:

The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State (ISIS) has released a pamphlet on the topic of female captives and slaves. The pamphlet, which is dated Muharram 1436 (October/November 2014) and was printed by ISIS's publishing house, Al-Himma Library, is titled Su'al wa-Jawab fi al-Sabi wa-Riqab ("Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves"). It was presumably released in response to the uproar caused by the many reports this summer that ISIS had taken Yazidi girls and women as sex slaves. Written in the form of questions and answers, it clarifies the position of Islamic law (as ISIS interprets it) on various relevant issues, and states, among other things, that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with non-Muslim slaves, including young girls, and that it is also permitted to beat them and trade in them.

Here is some clarification for your edification and possible future use.

So, women from ahl al-harb (the People of War), otherwise known as all non-Muslim women, are considered al-sabi, i.e., sex slaveable material.

It is, of course, permissible to have intercourse with one's property, although in the West - due to our racism - we tend to think of such arrangements as rape... but what do we know?  Besides, as Obama has pointed out, it's all relative.  I mean, sure the Islamic State buries children alive, but there was the Crusades, so get off of your high horse.

You should know, if any of you guys decide to join up, that it is not permissible to sell, and thereby separate, a pre-pubescent girl from her slave mother.  It is only when she passes the age of pre-pubescence - usually around the age of thirteen - that it is permissible to sell or otherwise dispose of such a slave.

So, please, do not think that there are no rules.  There are rules and I do not think that I have to remind you how the Islamic State deals with people who violate their terms.

It is also impermissible for a master to have intercourse with his slave if he does not own that slave exclusively.  In other words, if Jay and I were to join up and pool our resources to purchase a slave girl, it would be impermissible for either of us to intimately enjoy the young lady's company.  Likewise, if either of us were to marry a Muslim woman, it would be forbidden for us to have intercourse with one of the wife's slaves, because the slave would not be our exclusive property.

Furthermore, if you get one of your slaves pregnant and she has a baby it is then forbidden to sell her... which I think is a bit intrusive of property rights and should probably be rescinded, but, sadly, it is not up to me.

The rules on the dress of female sex slaves is a bit more liberal than you sometimes find elsewhere among the deeply spiritual.  She may allow her feet and hands to be uncovered, as well as her neck and her entire head so long as their is no enticement of men happening.  If there is then, apparently, she must be covered from head to toe in a potato sack and allowed, basically, to hop around the house.

It is permissible to beat one's slaves, of course, but even here there are limits to property rights.  You may beat your female sex slaves, but only for purposes of discipline, never for the shear fun of it... which, as far as I am concerned, takes all the fun out of.

In any case, I want to thank the gentlemen of the Islamic State for clarifying their rules on such matters.  I know that after they conquered the Yazidis and chopped off a bunch of heads and buried people alive, and so forth, some of the guys were concerned about the Islamic rules for their female sex slaves and the document above lays it out in a readable and accessible manner.

Now you know.

Frankenstinians Unleashed

Michael L.

The Frankenstinian people have lived in Frankenstine since time immemorial.  (RIP)

When the Euro-French occupiers of Frankenstinian land marched onto their sacred soil and started ripping olive groves from the earth with their bare fangs they let loose a righteous wave of resistance that continues to this day.

The Euro-French imperialist invaders will not know a day of peace so long as they continue to oppress the native Frankenstinian population.  The Frankenstinians are a noble and peaceful people who want nothing more than to tend their sacred olive groves and build a decent and prosperous life for themselves and their children, but they are living under a brutal occupation.

France must become a state for all of its people, not merely the Euro-French.  The Euro-French racists in the illegal French Occupation Government (FOG) have created an unsustainable situation.  The status quo, which enshrines the Frankenstinians as a permanent underclass under Euro-French law, cannot long continue. Nor should it.

The native population of Frankenstine have their rights and the French Occupation Government is responsible under international law to implement those rights.  So long as the racist Euro-French government insists upon punishing an innocent people on their own land then they will continue to receive well-deserved scorn from the rest of the world community.

It is for this reason that many millions of decent people from all around the world have elected to join the campaign to boycott, sanction, and divest from the fascistic Euro-French state.  Speaking strictly for myself, however, I am only boycotting products that are produced by illegal right-wing Euro-settlers in the Occupied Frankenstinian Left Bank.

The Frankenstinians, needless to say, will not be satisfied until they recover the entirety of their ancient realm and that includes all the illegally occupied Euro-French lands.

I am sorry.  The Euro-French suffered greatly under the Nazis during World War II - we all recognize that... sort of - but this does not give them the right to abuse another people.  It is as if they learned nothing from their experience under oppression and are now unjustly taking out that oppression on the innocents of Frankenstine.

Face it, the Euro-French are the New Nazis and the Frankenstinians are the New Euro-French.  The Euro-French took what they learned under Nazi cruelty and applied it to the innocent Frankenstinians.

Naturally the Frankenstinians are fighting back with whatever small means they have at their disposal, such as, for example, kidnapping Euro-French teenagers and running down 3 month old Euro-French baby girls with their automobiles.  But what it is most important to understand - as the New York Times does - is that the peace-loving Frankenstinians would never resort to such tactics were it not for the cruelty of the French Occupation Government.

Some people say that France is subject to an unjust effort to delegitimize that country as the Nation-State of the Euro-French people, but what I say is that France has delegitimized itself and that international scorn and sanctions are fully justified until they make the required restitutions.

Also, of course, I could not be happier that the humanistic government in Israel voted in favor of creating a Frankenstinian state right, smack directly in the very heart of the Occupied Euro-French territory.

So, what part of Occupied France should the Euros be allowed to keep?

{The Frankenstinians would very much like to know.}

No Justice, No Peace

Michael L.

{Cross-posted at the Elder of Ziyon and Jews Down Under.}

Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Lahav Harkov tells us that Israeli firebrand Naftali Bennet has a few words for Israeli parliamentarian Tzipi Livni concerning the recent rebel attack upon the French Occupying Power:

Speaking at the same event, Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett slammed Livni, saying she "talked about the occupation and diplomatic isolation, and I wondered why she didn't get on a plane to Paris to solve their problems? Maybe she can run their negotiations, offer them a diplomatic horizon, tell them there's a solution.

"Offer them to stop the occupation for peace, tell them to apologize for the caricature; that always works," Bennett sarcastically suggested to Livni. "Tell them that you make peace with your enemies, that they have a partner. Maybe they can divide Paris and give it to Muslim fundamentalists." Bennett wondered what else needs to happen for the world to wake up: "Do they not understand that a terrorist who runs over a baby in Jerusalem and a terrorist in Paris are the same, Muslim fundamentalists?" 

No, in fact, they do not understand that a terrorist attack in Paris against non-Jews comes from the same ideological well-spring as does a terrorist attack in Jerusalem toward Jews.

Most white western anti-Zionist "liberals" tend to believe that killing Jews in Jerusalem is justified due to the racist, colonialist, imperialist, apartheid nature of the insidious Jewish state.

When a Muslim kills an innocent non-Muslim in Paris that is terrorism.

When a Muslim kills an innocent Jew in Jerusalem that is righteous resistance against the despised Zionist imperialist authority.

In my opinion, Livni deserves Bennett's mockery.

Perhaps the French do need to apologize to the Muslim world for their extreme insensitivity through allowing satirical newspapers, such as Charlie Hebdo, to make fun of the Prophet Muhammad.

{Peace be unto him.}

You can poke fun at Jesus and you can poke fun at Moses, the Easter Bunny, and Barack Obama, but if you say anything about Muhammad you better watch your backside.  Not all of these intense, dark-eyed, hawk-nosed, desert deities have much of a sense of humor, after all.

So, yes, the French must apologize not only for their extreme insensitivity toward their Muslim citizenry, but also to Islam, in general.  Just as Hillary Clinton stood up before the world and groveled after Jihadis slaughtered Ambassador Chris Stevens and his diplomatic team in Benghazi, Libya - allegedly because some unknown guy with a camcorder in California was mean to the Prophet - so the French need to grovel now.

Or, perhaps Paris should be divided in order to make a capital for an Islamist state in that part of the world.

Arabs and Muslims have lived in France for centuries and deserve a state for themselves in peace next to the French state.  The ethnically "French" have no exclusive claim to the land that they occupy and by any measure of human justice need to end the occupation of Islamic and Arab lands in Europe.  France, after all, has been the home to any number of people aside from the exclusively "French."  Over the centuries the place that we call "France" has been the home of Romans, Greeks, Franks, Celts, Carthaginians, Arabs, Africans... and even Jews.

The "we got here first" argument holds no water.

France is a major part of the European imperialist infrastructure that dominates and controls people of color throughout the world and therefore deserves no special privileges or considerations.  Crusading white European powers, such as France, deserve a commupence due to centuries of racist abuse of indigenous peoples everywhere, most particularly within France itself.

France needs to be a state for all its peoples and so long as France defines itself exclusively as French then it can expect the kind of understandable response from the indigenous population that we just saw in Paris.

The indigenous Arabs are persecuted by the racist French government which keeps them in poverty and in separate and entirely unequal economic and educational systems throughout the country, so what would the French expect?

For example, French government intransigence in insisting that the French language exclusively be the official language of the French state just screams white, western privilege and is a well-understood insult to other native peoples throughout the country, such as the Basque.  The Israelis, for an alternative humanist perspective, are not nearly so xenophobic and therefore have institutionalized Arabic as one of the official languages of Israel and France must do likewise if it wishes to be considered among the fair and civilized nations of the world.

The French, it must be further understood, are guilty of centuries of foreign oppression in places like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and even India; not to mention Syria, Lebanon and parts of Turkey, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

France recently voted at the United Nations, over the objections of the Jewish people worldwide, for the creation of a 23rd Arab state to be imposed directly upon the heartland of the Jewish people in Judea and Samaria.

If the French wish to be free of Arab-Muslim resistance toward the French occupation of Muslim lands in Europe then it must end that occupation.

Until it does so, France will never know peace and therefore a French version of J Street is necessary.

We'll call it F Street and, much like F Troop, it will be the necessary moral French equivalent of J Street.

What we need is for progressives to tell the French people and the French government what they must do in order to make peace with the native population.  What I recommend is that we finance a series of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to monitor French settler behavior, and the behavior of the French government, toward the native Arab population.

There will be no peace until there is justice toward the Arab-Palestinian population of France and there shouldn't be.

No Justice.

No peace.

Breaking: Jews Build Housing for Themselves in Jerusalem

Michael L.

In a move of unprecedented audacity the Israeli government has announced plans to build 380 homes in East Jerusalem.

The Times of Israel writes:

Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new homes in two Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, a local official said

“The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa,” Pepe Alalu, a Jerusalem city councilor with the opposition Meretz party, told AFP.

He accused local officials of taking advantage of attention focusing on Israeli elections due in March to expand construction in disputed areas.

“This kind of decision distances us from any chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinians,” he said.

Needless to say, the Obama administration is entirely opposed to the very notion that Jews would build housing for themselves in Jerusalem without his personal approval.

In conversation with the Associated Press, President Obama is quoted as saying, "Who do these Jews think that they are, anyways?  The Judaization of Jerusalem will not go unpunished."

In response, Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that Obama could "kiss my yiddishe tucchus" thereby ensuring for himself another term as the Israeli Prime Minister.

What the Jews of Israel seem not to understand is that they have no right to live normal lives on the very land that Jews come from.  Mahmoud Abbas knows this.  Barack Obama knows this.  So, what the heck is wrong with Benjamin Netanyahu?

Why is it always Netanyahu that is the odd man out?

Obama and Abbas agree that Jews should be allowed to live in certain places, but not in others.  Among the places that Obama and Abbas agree that Jews should not be allowed to live, and thus build housing for themselves, is in Judea.

For Jews to build housing for themselves in Judea would be an infringement on the rights of the indigenous Arab population and President Barack Obama will simply not allow any such infringement on native rights during his tenure.

"The Jewish people are a fine people," Obama said.  "And while they have the same rights as other peoples, they have no right to just do whatever they want.  Jerusalem does not belong to the Jewish people, after all.  We do not know who it belongs to.  Possibly the Turks or the Amish, but until we figure it out the Jews have no right to just go building, willy-nilly."

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told the press that "Israel is a very important strategic partner to the United States.  However, it must be understood that Jews do not get to building housing for themselves on Jewish land without permission."

In response to this set of international criticisms the Knesset broke out into brawl which lasted until Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, personally kicked each and every one of their asses.

He was quoted as saying, "Shut the f**k up and sit your asses down!"

Which is precisely what they have done since.

Non-Jewish Gay Partners Now Entitled to Make Aliyah

Michael L.

Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Jeremy Sharon says this:

In a letter published on Tuesday, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar instructed the Population and Immigration Authority and the Jewish Agency to grant Israeli citizenship to the spouse of any Jew, regardless of the sexual orientation of the couple.

Reaction from the haredi world was swift and scathing, with ultra-Orthodox MKs speaking out against the decision and haredi groups in the US voicing intense criticism.

Under the Law of Return, every Jew is entitled to immigrate to Israel and to gain Israeli citizenship. Clause 4a of the law stipulates that the Right of Return is also applicable to the partner of Jews exercising this right.

In recent years there have been several cases in which a homosexual couple comprised of a Jew and a non-Jew, married legally in their country of origin – usually the US – and then sought to make aliya and immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return.

Welcome to the twenty-first century.

So, the hard-line, right-wing government under that loathsome fascist, Benjamin Netanyahu, has decided to allow non-Jewish Gay people to become citizens of Israel so long as they make aliyah with their Jewish spouses.

This is clearly an example of "pink washing."  The Jews of the Middle East are racist, imperialist, colonialist, militaristic, racist, fascists.  This is just a ploy to get humanitarians not to hate Israel as much as it deserves to be hated.  Just like when Israel invaded Haiti after the 2010 earthquake there.  Coming from the other side of the planet, they claimed to be first on the ground with medical supplies and humanitarian aid, but that was just propaganda, really.

They were probably harvesting organs to be sold to wealthy old pornographers in Tel Aviv and Miami.

Israelis despise people of color.  It was all for the cameras and the money.

And now this!

Israel is merely pretending to have a sense of justice, when we all know that the fascist Israeli government is engaged in the ethnic-cleansing and genocide of the indigenous population.

The Palestinians have lived on their land for tens of thousands of years, long, long before white Jews were even invented.  For many thousands of years before the Jewish invaders arrived with their lawyers, and their bagels, and their iPods - and Natalie Portman - and their weapons designed specifically to murder children, the Palestinian indigenous native villagers tended their flocks and raised their sacred olive groves in peace.

They walked bare-foot in the dew of the morning and surveyed their gardens, flowers, and herbs.  They labored in the heat of the day among the olives and the grapes and the goats and the sheep.  In the evenings they prayed for peace and shared communal meals among family and friends while passing down familial legends and the stories of their people to their children.

And now we have these ZioNazis, these usurpers of clean and sacred land, pretending to be open-minded concerning a persecuted minority.

Do not let them fool you.

Israelis have no sense of social justice and want nothing more than to destroy the lives of innocent Palestinian children as they clutch their teddy bears in their cradles.

Where are the Jewish Riots?

Michael L.

I cannot but help notice the general lack of Jewish rioting.

Three Jewish Israeli kids, including an American, were killed strictly for political reasons.

And, yet, there is no rioting.  Jews are not rioting in the streets of Tel Aviv.  Jews are not rioting in Jerusalem... or Yerushalayim... if you like.  Jews are not rioting in Brooklyn and they are not rioting in Miami.

They are not rioting in Timbuktu nor Walla Walla, Washington.

They are not rioting in Canada nor Australia nor the United States nor England nor Ukraine.

Of course, there are not a whole lot of places that we could riot given the fact that our numbers have been reduced to virtually nothing outside of those places.

I am told that there are a few Jews in France, but that they are leaving and for very good reasons.

I was considering starting up a riot here in Oakland, because there is a Jew - her name is Sonia -  that lives a couple of blocks from here, but I'm pretty sure that she has class tonight.

There just seems to be a general lack of Jewish rioting going on and I am not certain that this is appropriate.

Throughout the Arab-Muslim world they love riots and sometimes in the really terrific fun, as we saw in Tahrir Square in Cairo not all that long ago, they combine rioting with raping - not that western feminists care.

When you add the raping to the rioting then you really have some terrific revolutionary activity against... the man... or something... but you cannot blame the so-called "Arab street" for its behavior because... I don't know... Reagan and Bush.

Sometimes Europe.

We have to understand that the progressive-left generally does not consider Arabs or Muslims to be human beings.  They seem to consider them savages or just monkeys, or something, but not human beings who are responsible for their own behavior.

In truth, outside of political Islam, the western left is the most outrageously racist political movement in Europe and the US today.  I have never seen such pure contempt for another people as we see in the contempt that progressive-left westerners have toward Muslims and Arabs.

The entire Middle East is in flames.  In country after country Sunni and Shia are butchering one another in the name of Allah - and blaming the Jews - and there are far more dead Arabs in political conflict with one another than there are dead people throughout the long Arab war against the Jews.

The entire Arab-Jewish War since 1948 has taken about 50,000 lives, one-third Jewish and two-thirds Arab.

The Sunni-Shia conflict since 2011 in the joyous "Arab Spring" has destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives, easily, if not more.

Meanwhile, the European Union is looking to boycott Israel because the notion of Jews living in Judea is simply too much for European and western-progressive racists.

You have to admit that the very notion of Jews building second bathrooms for themselves in Sheikh Jarrah is a terrible atrocity that no reasonable person could ever condone.

Arabs are slaughtering one another by the bucket-load and even proudly engaging in ritual cannibalism before the camera, but what really pisses off western leftists are Jews that build housing for themselves in the hills of Judea.

The injustice of the progressive-left, viz-a-viz the Jewish people, is profound.

Sometimes I find it humorous... usually not so much.

The Nazi Zombie

Michael L.

{Cross-posted at Jews Down Under.}

Talk throughout the Jewish press and blogosphere is consumed with the apparent death of the non-peace process.  Mahmoud Abbas says that Fatah is now seeking unity with Hamas and Netanyahu is claiming that his government will not negotiate with terrorists, thus bringing this long, miserable Obama-Kerry diplomatic fiasco to a staggering and stumbling non-finish.

Of course, the peace process is not dead, however.  The reason that it is not dead is because no one who counts has the will or ability or bravery to kill it.  Oslo is like a Nazi Zombie that simply will not die.  We watch the Nazi Zombie shuffle around in his tattered uniform and make threatening grunting sounds and gape in horror as bits and pieces of the Nazi Zombie fall off of the creature's body.

It's grotesque, but it is fascinating in a horror movie kind of way... except for the fact that it is real.

The reason, by the way, that I call the non-peace-process a "Nazi" Zombie - as opposed to your regular, run-of-the-mill, day-to-day kind of Zombie - is because ultimately the trend-lines within the process threaten the Jewish minority in the Middle East in a direct and physical way.  An obvious example is handing over psychopaths who think that killing Holocaust survivors is sanctioned by Allah and who get hailed as heroes by both Fatah and Hamas.

Many of us, I suspect, simply want the Nazi Zombie to wander off someplace and get lost - or perhaps someone can induce it to go play in traffic - but this does not seem likely.  Oh, sure, he's crashing into trees and shrubbery and chasing around ducks, but he never seems to actually depart the village.  It is not that anyone really wants him here.  The Jews generally do not because we tend to oppose freeing the murderers of Holocaust survivors.  {We are funny that way.}  The Palestinian-Arabs definitely do not want him here because if the Nazi Zombie were to, by some miracle, find a truffle in the forest than the PA might have to make an actual negotiated settlement of hostilities, which would not be the least bit good for business, nor for Mahmoud Abbas's already failing health.

So, the question becomes, as we watch the Nazi Zombie blundering about, what direction the creature might take and therefore how should we prepare ourselves for its next round of chaos and mayhem?  The only ones who show any genuine enthusiasm for this particular golem are its masters on Pennsylvania Avenue, but they have no real control over the beast.  Sometimes they might put some delicious roast mutton in a particular place in order to induce the Nazi Zombie to shamble in a certain direction, but for the most part they have no idea what the damn thing is going to do.

What they are mainly concerned about, needless to say, is that their own insidious creation will turn around and bite them directly in the tuchus - which if I had any influence over the beast I would very much encourage it to do.  Unfortunately, I have none and am just as horrified and disgusted as the rest of you people.

Although, I have to say, you get used to that after awhile.  The sense of horror and disgust becomes a sort-of cozy blanket that one wraps oneself within.  The horror and disgust becomes habitual and normal and expected and, if not warm, exactly, at least something other than frozen-to-the-bone-cold... which is what full-on horror and disgust at the Nazi Zombie actually should be.

In any case, I do not know where the monster is going next and neither does anyone else, least of all the thing's masters on Pennsylvania Avenue.

My suspicion is that the creature will upset the Europeans who will, in reasonably short order, push it back into the faces of the Jews.

We shall see.

The Jig is Up!

Michael L.

And it is long past time for us to come clean.

Today I was reading an article over at the Gatestone Institute by Fiamma Nirenstein entitled, Israelophobia. 

Nirenstein references professor Daniel Goldhagen's recent book, The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism.  In that book, Goldhagen, who is Jewish - notice the word "Gold" directly in his name - lists the various sins of the Jewish state of Israel and, thus, the sins of the Jewish people, more generally.

This is, among numerous other things, what we are guilty of:

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, are the source of disorder for the neighboring countries. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, are the cause of the dictatorships in the Middle East.  

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, are the greatest threat to world peace. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, are the Nazis of our time. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, inspired the war against Iraq. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, controls U.S. policy. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, foments hatred toward the Americans and the West. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, perpetrates genocide against the innocent, bunny-like "indigenous" population from Saudi Arabia. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, wants to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, murders Palestinian babies in their cribs. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, poisons wells and people... mainly for the fun of it. 

The Jews of the Middle East, via the State of Israel, only pretend to be friendly toward Gay people, but really it is nothing but "pinkwashing," i.e., a brazen attempt to pretend an attitude of respect toward gays, as opposed to the persecution of them in Muslim countries, purely for propaganda purposes.

The jig, as they say, is up.

We should just come clean and embrace our evil nature.  It has to be understood, of course, that these crimes against humanity, and all things decent, were not merely committed by the government of the State of Israel.  Israel is a democracy and, thus, its government reflects the will of its people.  Furthermore, the State of Israel has the general support of Jews throughout the world and since Israel is clearly an evil and insidious country that is in good need of an ass-kicking, what does this say about its Jewish supporters?

One cannot knowingly support evil and not be evil, after all.

So, yes, the Jews are evil and we need to embrace our evilness!

I say that whenever Israel is accused of this or that heinous crime against either the "Palestinians" or anyone else, for any reason whatsoever, we just go with it.  For example, let us admit that not only are we persecuting the local Arabs under a brutal system of "apartheid," but that we are absolutely gleeful about it.

Persecuting Arabs is a Jewish past-time, a hobby of sorts, and we have no intention of giving it up anytime soon and the rest of the world is simply too weak to make us stop.  We are Jewish Supremacists and we believe that the normal rules of civil society, or common human decency, simply do not apply to us because we are better than the rest of you, do not need you for anything, and therefore we will do whatever we want, whenever we want to do it.

I am suddenly reminded of Cathy Bates' character in American Horror Story: Coven.  Bates plays Madame Delphine LaLaurie, an early 19th century woman of luxury in New Orleans who gets sadistic enjoyment out of tormenting and deforming and cutting body parts out of black slaves in her own personal torture chamber.  One of the poor bastards says, "Why are you doing this to me?" and Bates replies, "Because I can, honey.  Because I can."

{You should also know that later in the series she very definitely gets her comeuppance in a way that is both gruesome and hilarious.}

The truth is that no matter what Israel does, or does not do, we are going to face large segments of the western left who tell us that the Jewish country is vile as, by unspoken extension, are the Jewish people.  Even if Israel is first on the ground in Haiti, we will be told that the only reason that Israel reacted so quickly to bring aid from half-way around the world was to deflect from its horrific treatment of the "Palestinians" or to steal human organs for sale on the international black market.

It simply doesn't matter what Jews contribute to world culture via computer technology or medical technology or agriculture or art or entertainment or religion.  We gave the world a humane moral code via the religion, but that does not matter.  In fact, were it not for the Jews there would be no Christians, nor any such thing as the religion of Islam, but even that does not matter.

That being the case we have nothing to lose and we should stop apologizing.

In fact, as soon as I am done writing this I fully intend to find the nearest well and poison the holy crap out of it.

The Racist Israeli anti-Rapist

Mike L.

On any given day I never know what is going to leap out.

Laurie has asked me how it is that I never seem to get writer's block and my response is that when you cover the Arab-Israel conflict there is always, but always, something to write about.  Not a day goes by in which so much pure stupidity doesn't come pouring out of my computer screen that I am not forced to write about it.

{Just ask Jon Segall.  He'll tell you.}

So, for example, this morning I was perusing the Elder of Ziyon's site when I came across a link to this Times of Israel article by a young, ex-IDF soldier, Hen Mazzig, who is now doing pro-Israel outreach in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, which happens to be where I live.  He writes:

"To give you a taste of the viciousness of the BDS attacks, let me cite just a few of the many shocking experiences I have had. At a BDS event in Portland, a professor from a Seattle university told the assembled crowd that the Jews of Israel have no national rights and should be forced out of the country. When I asked, “Where do you want them to go?” she calmly answered, “I don’t care. I don’t care if they don’t have any place else to go. They should not be there.” When I responded that she was calling for ethnic cleansing, both she and her supporters denied it. And during a presentation in Seattle, I spoke about my longing for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. When I was done, a woman in her 60’s stood up and yelled at me, “You are worse than the Nazis. You are just like the Nazi youth!” A number of times I was repeatedly accused of being a killer, though I have never hurt anyone in my life. On other occasions, anti-Israel activists called me a rapist. The claims go beyond being absurd – in one case, a professor asked me if I knew how many Palestinians have been raped by IDF forces. I answered that as far as I knew, none. She triumphantly responded that I was right, because, she said, 'You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist and disgusted by them that you won’t touch them.'"

I would like to suggest that it is not merely Israeli Jews who are so racist against Arabs that they won't rape them, but diaspora Jews are equally racist and refuse to rape them, as well.

Y'know, the other day I was strolling down Market Street when I ran into my friend Shafiqah.  I've known Shafiqah since my days at San Francisco State University and when I saw her on the street she seemed a bit miffed.  I had not seen Shafiqah in quite awhile, because people sometimes have a tendency to come and go in this world, but I was a little surprised to see that she was irked with me.

I figured that maybe she was reading my writings!

But, no, that was too far-fetched.  So, she comes up to me and says, "Lumish, how come you never raped me?  What?  Are you so racist toward my people that the very idea of raping an Arab woman disgusts you?  Do you have such loathsomeness in your heart for me and my family and my people that you won't rape a single one of us?"

Then she spit on me and walked away.

Nonetheless, what I recommend to my fellow Jews everywhere is to not rape people.

Don't rape Eskimos.  Don't rape Jehovah's Witnesses.  Don't rape Rastafarians.  Don't rape Rosicrucians.  And particularly do not rape Arabs.  It may upset them, or some of their friends in places like the University of California, Berkeley, but you are under no moral obligation to rape anyone.

Every once in awhile you may feel that a pity-rape is in order so as to demonstrate your open-mindedness, liberality, and commitment to the multicultural ideal.  You may even come to think that your disinclination to rape, say, Mennonites - why not? - represents your racist ill-will toward Mennonites.  My suspicion, however, is that the great majority of Mennonites will not mind if you do not rape them, or their women, and they probably will not hold it against you.

In fact, I have never yet heard anyone complain about the general Jewish disinterest in raping Mennonite women.  Day after day, month after month, and year upon year, Jewish men fail to rape Mennonite women and somehow college professors throughout the country have said not a word concerning our obviously malignant racism toward Mennonites.

How is it that if we fail to rape Arabs we are castigated as racists and, yet, if we also fail to rape Mennonites we are not castigated as racist anti-Mennonites?  But, I guess the most pertinent question is, how is it that we are failing to keep up our end of the obligation to rape non-Jews?  Is it possible that the professor who spoke with Mr. Mazzig is correct and that the reason that Jews fail to rape either Arabs or Mennonites - or, say, the Easter Islandish - is due to a flaw in our collective character?

Are the Jewish people such horrible human beings that we cannot even bring ourselves to rape our friends and neighbors?  Well, I am here to tell you that the answer to that question is "yes" and you should all be ashamed of yourselves!

I was raised to believe that Israel is a Light Unto the Nations or Light Upon the Nations - or that it somehow has something to do with lighting something - and now I can no longer believe it and must, instead, believe that the Jewish State of Israel is a vile and disgusting place filled with vile and disgusting Jews who are so busy (and selfishly) creating computer software and sending Natalie Portman's out into the world that they cannot even bring themselves to show basic human decency by committing acts of non-volitional sex with non-Jews.

Or, wait!  Maybe it's even worse than that.  Could it be that the great majority of Jews are actually anti-Semites because we fail to rape Jewish women, as well?

Oh, for G-d's Sake, now I won't sleep tonight!

Boston bomber's mother urged him to join Palestinians

Mike L. 

Written by the AP, published by Y-Net

Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the US government finally received details about the call...

In early 2011, the Russian FSB internal security service intercepted a conversation between Tsarnaev and his mother vaguely discussing jihad, according to US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation with reporters.

The two discussed the possibility of Tsarnaev going to 'Palestine,' but he told his mother he didn't speak the language there, according to the officials, who reviewed the information Russia shared with the US.

Now that some time has passed and we've learned a little more about the Tsarnaev brothers would it be wrong and racist of me to suggest that these two gentlemen were Jihadis?

Is that out of line?, because I do not want to be racist.  Look, just because these two guys were initiated into an ideology that seeks the murder of westerners and Jews doesn't mean that we should be harsh about the matter.  There is no doubt in my mind that these two young Jihadis were perfectly fine and good people.  They obviously meant well.  They cared about their families and wanted what was best for everyone - accept for me, you, and our family and friends, who they wanted to kill for theological-political reasons.

But that's not their fault, really.  The only way to be fair to the innocent Tsarnaev brothers is for us to accept our guilt.  Their behavior is not their fault.  On the contrary, their behavior is our fault.  In fact, as I learn this morning, their behavior is even in some measure the fault of the Jewish people of the State of Israel.

For thirteen of the last fourteen centuries the Jews of the Middle East have been dhimmis under the boot of Arab-Muslim imperialism and if they had not freed themselves in the early-middle of the twentieth century there would be less reason for Jihadis like the Tsarnaev brothers to be angry.  As Jewish people who care about what is best for all of humanity - even if we do not give a shit about ourselves - the only conclusion that we can come to is that we were mistaken to free ourselves from slavery under Islam.

As most progressives would tell you, the real problem is that Jews are mean.  They wouldn't put it in quite those terms, but that is what they are saying.  In 1948, for no reason whatsoever, these militaristic and racist and imperialist and apartheid-like Holocaust survivors and their wives attacked a whole bunch of entirely innocent Arabs who wanted nothing more than to raise their Sacred Olive Groves in peace.  The Jews, or so we are told, ethnically cleansed the indigenous population from Jewish land.

The problem is/was that those pernicious Jews wanted to steal "all the land."  All of it!  Sure that land only represents a fragment of one percent of the land of the Middle East and it has been Jewish land for almost four thousand years and the Jews were willing to divide it and divide it again, but that doesn't change the fact that they insisted upon stealing all of it.  All of it, I say!

And look at what is going on now.  We have all these Jews with their backs to the Mediterranean, surrounded by a whole bunch of pissed off Arabs, and those Jews (wrongly) insist upon defending themselves.  This is unheard of in human history and it is simply unacceptable.  Within long-standing Muslim and European traditions Jews are not allowed to defend themselves and must be righteously condemned as aggressors, if not killed, whenever they do so.  It has always been like this and it must always stay like this.  I am not exactly sure why, but what I do know is that when the tiny Jewish minority in the Middle East does defend itself from the much larger Arab majority, it pisses off well-meaning white people in Europe and the United States.

So if it pisses off well-meaning white non-Muslim people, one can only imagine how the poor Tsarnaev brothers felt.

It's only been a few weeks since Barack Obama put his foot on Netanyahu's head in order to make him apologize for allowing the IDF to defend the country against
Jihadis "peace activists" in the Mavi Marmara affair and now look what happens!  Two perfectly fine young fellows in the United States kill people and maim a bunch of others because they are dissatisfied with the international order.

And who could blame them, really?

Obama touts Hagel as possible defense secretary and best friend that Israel could possibly ever have

Mike L. 

US president offers strong support for former Republican senator as potential defense secretary who's been criticized for his record on Israel

President Barack Obama offered strong support for former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as the potential next US defense secretary but said in remarks aired on Sunday that he had not yet decided on a nominee for the Pentagon post.

Hagel is considered a leading candidate to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, but the former Nebraska lawmaker has come under criticism for his record on Israel and for a comment that being gay was an inhibiting factor for being an ambassador.

"I've served with Chuck Hagel. I know him. He is a patriot. He is somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the United States Senate, somebody who served this country with valor in Vietnam," Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview taped on Saturday and broadcast on Sunday.

Yes, I am sure that Chuck Hagel is the best friend that Israel ever had and has Israel's back and is more supportive of the Jewish state than anyone who has ever lived, much like Obama himself.

Besides, everyone knows that the best way to be friendly toward Israel is tough love... a good raping, perhaps.

What Israel clearly needs are more friends like Chuck Hagel and Barack Obama and Peter Beinart and Rashid Khalidi and Thomas Friedman and Edward Said and Jeremy ben Ami and Noam Chomsky and Yassir Arafat.

What we need is a Secretary of Defense who understands that Hezbollah and Hamas are great friends to the United States, but that Israel needs a good ass-whooping so that it will stop building housing for its people in the city of Jerusalem... because, y'know, Jews building housing for themselves in the ancient Jewish capital city is an outrageous violation of the peace process and you cannot expect peace-loving Arabs to put up with such an intrusion on their sovereignty.

Ask Barack Obama, he'll tell you.  Obama understands that despite two thousand years of diaspora and persecution and pogroms and riots and expulsions, all leading to that rocking good time that Jews had in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century, that the Jewish state of Israel doesn't really, necessarily want peace because they have not explored their souls enough.

There wasn't enough soul-searching going on in Auschwitz... what with all the volleyball games and ping-pong tournaments, I guess.

Jews are apparently not introspective enough.  We have not done a thorough enough job of exploring our souls to Herr Sigmund Obama's satisfaction or to determine whether or not we want more Jihadis chopping the heads off of our three month old baby daughters.

Or so this insidious moron seems to think.

Sudan nabs Israeli 'spy' vulture

Mike L.

Sudanese media was a buzz Thursday, with news saying that Darfur authorities had captured a vulture carrying Israeli spy gear. 

The suspect bird was found to be tagged with an Israeli GPS chip and a leg band labeled "Israel Nature Service" and "Hebrew University, Jerusalem."

Khartoum's media claimed that the device was capable of taking photos and sending them back to Israel; but Israel's National Parks Service dismissed the allegation, saying that both the band and the GPS chip were nothing more than standard migration trackers.

Of course the Israeli National Parks Service denied the allegation, but I can tell you, as a long time fisherman, that park service rangers are mean and definitely not to be trusted.

How can the Palestinians ever accept a state for themselves in peace next to Israel if Israel insists upon antagonizing the rest of the Arab world with their IDF sharks cruising Egyptian waterways and their hot and tempting Hadassah squirrel agents making googly eyes at innocent Palestinian men?

This aggression will not stand, man!

{Oy.}

Just Kids Having Fun

Mike L.



Needless to say, as the innocent victims of a racist, colonialist, imperialist, apartheid regime, they have every reason to want to play catch.

Of course, they've been playing catch with the Jews in the Middle East for 14 centuries, but why quibble?

By the way, I am not entirely certain just when this friendly example of fun-filled rock throwing took place, but it certainly represents a vivid example of the genre.

They should be very proud.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Mike L.

This is the satirical piece, written in March 2010, that got me banned from Daily Kos.

At the time they accused me of making fun of the "occupation" when, in fact, I was making fun of them! It got 423 comments, almost all of which were negative, but some people found the piece funny. It was certainly fun to write, anyway.

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Breaking: Jew Builds Second Bathroom in East Jerusalem

Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem --- The entire world was shocked yesterday when this reporter revealed that retired electrician, Ehud David Netanyolmert, shook the peace process to its roots by building an illegal second bathroom in his East Jerusalem home.

“This is yet another example of Israeli intransigence,” said Palestinian Authority PM, Mahmoud Abbas. “We cannot negotiate with the Israelis if they insist upon violating international law with the continued building on Palestinian lands. Israel must pressure Mr. Netanyolmert to dismantle the illegal mini-settlement that he has constructed.”

Only slightly taken aback by the world community’s rejection of the second bathroom, Benjamin Netanyahu told the Jerusalem Post, “Israel wants peace and two states for two peoples. The Palestinians need to sit down at the negotiating table and I honestly do not see what some guy's second bathroom has to do with anything.”

In Washington, US President Barack Obama convened an emergency meeting with his cabinet in order to evaluate the situation and to determine the best response to this most recent Israeli aggression. In response to the crisis US diplomat George Mitchell claimed, “Israelis have rights, but so do the Palestinian people. While the United States remains deeply committed to Israeli security, it is entirely unclear how the second bathroom promotes that security or in any way advances the cause of peace.”

When queried about this blatant Zionist violation of international law Mr. Netanyolmert objected to the entire line of enquiry. “You people are meshuganah,” Netanyolmert said while standing in his doorway, wearing his jammies and blinking into the morning sun. “Are you honestly telling me that Vladimir Putin objects to my second bathroom on the grounds that it is an impediment to peace? Vladimir Putin? Really?”

It should be obvious to any reasonable observer that Mr. Netanyolmert’s myopia regarding Zionist aggression, and his willingness to derail the peace process, cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. The Palestinian peace organization, Hamas, therefore responded today with a flurry of Qassam and Katyusha rocket attacks on S’derot and Ashkelon. The typical Israeli myopia extended to former S’derot mayor, Eli Moyal, who, while quivering under his desk, is alleged to have told his secretary, “Second bathroom? What second bathroom? What the hell are these people talking about?”

Meanwhile, a variety of Israeli left-of-center organizations are planning a mass rally in opposition to The Second Bathroom. Naomi Chazan, of the New Israel Fund, said that dozens of people will gather outside Mr. Netanyolmert’s home in solidarity with Palestinian activists in a No Second Bathroom rally. The protestors will carry signs reading, “Get the Hell out of the Bathroom!” and “Netanyolmert, Zionist Criminal Baby Killer!” and “Who Do These Jews Think They Are, Anyway?!”

Some fear that just as Ariel Sharon's stroll on the Temple Mount inevitably caused the Al-Aqsa Intifada, so Mr. Netanyolmert's violation of Palestinian sovereignty might spark a third... The First Second Bathroom Intifada.

One hopes that if the Israeli government makes the necessary concessions by evacuating the bathroom then the Palestinian Authority might be persuaded to sit down for peace talks.

But who would blame the PA if they refuse?

Perhaps Obama Needs to Burn an Israeli Flag on National Television

 

 Mike L.

I sometimes wonder just what it will take to convince Obama's Jewish supporters of the president's unfriendliness toward the Jewish state of Israel.  So far nothing has worked.  No matter how hard Obama tries to distance himself from Israel and downgrade that country's standing in the United States, Jewish progressives (pretending to be liberals*) remain firmly committed to the most anti-Israel American president in history.  Whether its wrecking the "peace process" and then blaming it on Israel or telling Jewish people where they may be allowed to live, and thus build, in Jerusalem or comparing the rise of an anti-Semitic genocidal movement in the Middle East to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s or allowing Iran to get nuclear weaponry, nothing that Obama says or does can convince these Jewish supporters that Obama simply does not much like the Jewish state of Israel.

Why none of this fazes Jewish progressives... pretending to be liberals... is hard to fathom.  We often cite Jewish Stockholm Syndrome as a possible explanation, but slapping a label on the phenomenon only means so much.  In truth, I do not have an answer for just why it is that so many Jewish progressives refuse to acknowledge obvious truths, but that they do so is plain to see.  In fact, as of yesterday, we have even more evidence of Obama's disdain for the Jewish state of Israel and it's all over the news.  In an interview with 60 Minutes Obama said the following:

When it comes to our national security decisions, any pressure that I feel is simply to do what’s right for the American people. And I am going to block out any noise that’s out there. Now I feel an obligation, not pressure but obligation, to make sure that we’re in close consultation with the Israelis on these issues because it affects them deeply. They’re one of our closest allies in the region. And we’ve got an Iranian regime that has said horrible things that directly threaten Israel’s existence.

Not only did Obama refer to Jewish-Israeli concerns about the coming Iranian nuclear stockpile as mere "noise" to be dismissed, he also downgraded Israel from our number one ally in the region to merely "one of our closest allies in the region." While the "noise" comment is both disdainful of Jewish safety concerns and spiteful to the state of Israel, what I am more interested in, I think, is Obama's notion that Israel is not necessarily our best ally in that part of the world.

Just who does Obama consider to be a better ally?  Saudi Arabia?  Obama did, after all, famously bow to the Saudi monarch, but Saudi Arabia also spends millions of dollars on a yearly basis (or whatever the actual figure might be) spreading hatred toward both Israel and toward the United States.  Are they a better friend to the United States than Israel?  I certainly wouldn't think so, but that doesn't mean that Obama doesn't think so.

Or, perhaps what is more likely is that Obama had Turkey in mind.  Obama has claimed that Erdogan (unlike Bibi) is one of his favorite partners in the region, so maybe it is that country that Obama considers a better ally to the United State than Israel.  Of course, under Erdogan Turkey has joined the rising regional trend toward political Islam and now faces more toward Iran than it does toward the west, so it becomes difficult to see just how Turkey could possibly be a better ally to the United States than Israel but, again, just because I wouldn't think so, that doesn't mean that Obama doesn't think so.

Are there other possibilities?

It was under Obama's stewardship that Egypt went from the ally column to the not-ally column, as Obama himself has admitted.  Of course, that represents another very important Obama foreign policy failure that progressives (pretending to be liberals) just sweep under the rug in the hopes that people won't notice.  Those of us who participate on Israel Thrives do notice such things and tend not to appreciate it, but obviously Obama does not care what anyone thinks outside of the narrow American plurality he needs to win reelection.

So, what I am thinking now is that if Obama wishes to convince his Jewish supporters of that which couldn't be more obvious what he should do is simply burn an Israeli flag on the front lawn of the White House.  Wouldn't that be something!  He could call a press conference, burn the Israeli flag, smile for the cameras, and say something like, "Israel has no greater friend in the world than this president of the United States" as he stomps on the flames.

But, you know, I am convinced that even if Obama were to do such a thing, it wouldn't matter.

He'd still get the Jewish vote.

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* Barack Obama supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.  The Brotherhood is the granddaddy of political Islam, a movement that subjugates women, is genocidal toward Jews, and that kills Gay people outright.  It is difficult to see how any actual liberal would support a president who supports such a movement.

Innocent Indigenous Arabs Attack Racist and Corrupt Jewish Village

Mike L.

Hundreds of PA Arabs assault Jewish villagers in the Binyamin region, children cry as mob screams ‘slaughter the Jews.’

“Children in the village are crying,” community spokesman Aharon Katzuf told Tatzpit. “They can’t sleep because of the screams of ‘Yitbach al Yahud’ [Slaughter the Jews – ed.] and ‘Allahu Akbar.’”

Yet progressives would tell us that the reason that the innocent, and deeply spiritual, "indigenous" population seeks to slaughter the racist and corrupt Jews is because the racist and corrupt Jews of the Middle East are mean. Israel, they would claim, is a racist, imperialist, militarist, colonialist, apartheid, racist state which is why the innocent, and deeply spiritual, "indigenous" population has every reason to want to slaughter, in the nicest manner possible, the racist and corrupt Jews who dare to live among them, despite the fact that Barack Obama has ordered those Jews not to do so.

Never mind that the innocent, and deeply spiritual, "indigenous" population outnumbers the Jews 50 to 1 in the Middle East and has been in the well-meaning Jew Killing Business for fourteen hundred years.  Never mind that the racist, corrupt Jews lived in the region for a few thousand years before the innocent, and deeply spiritual, "indigenous" population showed up to subjugate them.  Besides, any racist Jew who objects to being the target of benign genocidal incitement by the innocent, and deeply spiritual, "indiginous" population is clearly an Islamophobe and, perhaps, even a Republican.

And a racist.

Clearly.

This Isn't Real

Mike L.

In order to maintain our credentials as good "liberals" or good "progressives" we must learn to understand that reality is only meaningful to the extent that it reflects our political inclinations. In the clip above we have a Hamas official, Ahmad Bahr, screaming for Jewish blood.

He says this:

If the enemy sets foot on a single square inch of Islamic land, Jihad becomes an individual duty, incumbent on every Muslim, male or female. A woman may set out [on Jihad] without her husband's permission, and a servant without his master's permission. Why? In order to annihilate those Jews.
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Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, destroy the Americans and their supporters. Oh Allah, count them one by one, and kill them all, without leaving a single one.

The truth, of course, is that he said no such thing. Bahr was merely giving some instruction on the importance of goat's milk to the nutritional needs of children and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and, even worse, a conservative.

It is important to recognize that when leaders throughout the Muslim Middle East call for the genocide of the Jews that we should either ignore it entirely or interpret it in the correct fashion. For example, when he says "kill them all" what he really means is "give them a cookie and pat them on the head."

Just ask Juan Cole.

If you disagree with this assessment you are clearly a "racist" and an "Islamophobe."

I Surrender!

Mike L.

{Cross-Posted at Geoffff's Joint, Bar and Grill and Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers.}

To My Jihadi Friends:

I surrender!

You have been in the Jew Killing Business for, what?, 1,400 years now? I must say, I think that you've done a splendid job. Just look at the Middle East. This huge expanse of land and the Jews only occupy some fraction of one percent of it. If you guys had not been so vigilant in your genocidal attempts against us, who knows how much of that land we might be living on today?

That is, you've done an exceptional job of keeping our numbers artificially low and you should be commended for your efforts. I'm sure that Big Daddy Allah is very proud of your work.

Oh, and by the way, I have to say that I find the argument that you made yesterday in Bulgaria to be quite compelling. Nicely done. Well said.

In any case, I surrender! I give up! Take me, I'm yours!

To My Progressive Friends:

I want to thank you for telling little Jewish kids that the reason that Jihadis seek to kill us is because we're mean to the Palestinians and that if only we would stop being mean to the Palestinians then they would stop trying to kill us. This is the message that you guys have been sending us for decades and I appreciate it very much. It's necessary for Jewish people to understand that the reason that Jihadis seek to kill us is because we aren't nice enough and that we need to redouble our efforts at niceness.

It's particularly important that Jewish children understand this.

I fully understand your moral superiority to the Jewish state of Israel, if not to Jewish people, in general, and will do what I can to make the bad Jews be more like the good Jews.

To the Good Jews:

The good Jews are my absolute favorite Jews.

These are Jewish liberals or progressives or leftists (or whatever) who agree with progressives, in general, that the real problem here is not the Jihadis (who they barely even acknowledge the existence of because to do so would make one a racist, a vile "Islamophobe"), but bad Jews.

The good Jews understand, along with progressives, that the problem is not radical Islam or Islamism or the Jihad... or any of that... but bad Jews who must be stopped at all costs. The problem is not anti-Jewish incitement emanating from throughout the Muslim Middle East, but Avigdor Lieberman.

Were it not for Avigdor Lieberman or Benjamin Netanyahu or the Likud there would be peace now and therefore what is necessary is excoriating these people and dragging their names and reputations through the mud and driving them out of public life by any means necessary, including, but not limited to, defamation of character.

So, I surrender.

You guys are right.

The Jihadis are right that Jews are the children of apes and pigs and need to be slaughtered wherever we might be found.

The progressives are right, with their profound sense of history, that the reason that the Jihadis seek to kill us is because we're mean to the Palestinians. If we weren't mean to the Palestinians the Jihadis would be as gentle as narcophied lambs.

And progressive Jews are right that the real problem is those Jews over there, the bad Jews. The Jews who believe in Jewish self-defense. The Jews who are willing to stand up for the Jewish people. Those Jews who insist upon living in Judea. Those Jews give all the rest of us a bad name, so it's no wonder that our non-Jewish progressive friends blame us for the violence against us because clearly we deserve it... but that's because of the bad Jews!

{'Scuse me. Must go throw up, now.}