Saturday, June 11, 2011 - motzei Shabbat

Shavuah Tov - Gutte Vach - Have a Good Week!

1. Syria - the situation in Syria continues to spiral downward and out of control. The level of violence being used against protesters reached new heights this past week with the deployment of helicopter gunships and armored units by Syrian "authorities" - I hesitate to refer to them as a "government", since their actions are more emblematic of a group of criminal thugs - not that there is any shortage of such groups in the area.
As a side note, and I have suggested before, if the "15 minutes of fame" was not enough for the protesting Page in Canada's Senate (I'm not going to mention her by name), and she really thinks we need a "Canadian" Arab Spring, she should go to Syria to help out before it's time for the next Canadian federal election in 4 or 5 years. Get some practical experience. Get right up there on the front lines too, so we can have your eye-witness reports - just be careful - you aren't dealing with the Parliament Hill security force. And by the way, why don't you take Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star with you (also see - How did anti-semitism go from being a serious pathology to a prop for lazy Toronto Star columnists?)


But for some reason, the world has no idea what to do. NATO is helping the rebels rising against the criminally thug regime of Gadhaffi's Libya - even without knowing who the rebels really are. The West threw long time ally Hosni Mubarak under the Egyptian bus so quickly he didn't have time to ask for a transfer. But when it coms to Syria, somehow no one knows what to do - U.N. Still Stupefied on Syria | FrontPage Magazine and Peter Goodspeed: UN silent in protecting Syrians from government | Full Comment | National Post

I hope you can stand to read the following harsh non-diplomatic emanating from the UNSC:
Rather than confront directly the evil of mass murder imposed by the Syrian regime, the latest draft resolution proposed by the United Kingdom “calls upon all sides to act with utmost restraint.” This moral equivalency between the acts of government forces and protesters was an attempt to win over Security Council members such as India who complained that there were “armed extremists among the protesters” and wanted the council to condemn the demonstrators as well.
Which I am sure will make Bashar Assad tremble in his boots - after all, he comes from a long line of peace-loving, benign rulers:

"One fine day in 1982, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood attacked a military academy in Syria and killed nine people there. The response of the regime, under Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al-Assad, was to mobilize the so-called Republican Guard, which was commanded by his brother, Rifaat, to surround the town of Hama with tanks and artillery. They bombarded it for 24 hours, killing between 12,000 and 20,000 people. This is one regime that doesn't hesitate to shed blood."

Oh, and when in doubt - in addition to massacring your own people (policy 1A), adopt policy policy 1B - divert attention from your evil acts, preferably by blaming Israel - Syria: Anti-Israel rioters were paid $1,000 - Jihad Watch and J'lem files UN complaint over Syrian Border Provocations... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics.

What does the future hold? Here's a prediction - Elliott Abrams: Pressure Points - After Assad, Democracy In Syria?

And before I leave this topic - please allow me to share what has to be one of the stupidest comments from a politician I have read in a long time (and that's saying something). Check this out, from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair:
“I think in Syria frankly there isn’t the same support for military intervention [as in Libya],” former British prime minister Tony Blair said Thursday in a BBC interview. “There is still a small but very residual hope that President Assad will lead his country on the path of reform.”
Is Blair nuts? Chamberlain probably said the same thing about Hitler.

2. Help Is On The Way!!!! In a late-breaking development, it now appears that concerned groups of international citizens are sending a "freedom flotilla" to challenge the brutality of the Syrian thugs..........


Oops - I made an error - the freedom flotilla (ships of fools) is seeking to break the mythical siege of Gaza by the evil JOOS. A siege that really never existed, and which has been "relieved" by the opening of the Gazan border crossing with Egypt at Ramah.

But this matters not a bit or a whit to the usual group of morons who will do anything to try to demonize and delegitimize Israel - and I'm calling their actions what they really are - antisemitism. These goofs may try to hide under some fig leaf of human rights (and given the drugs they probably took in the 60s, they may actually believe that). However, with all the events in the Middle East over the last months, the only one they can rouse themselves to protest is a non-existent siege of Gaza? Oh yeah, I forgot - it comes back to the evil JOOS and that pariah state they stole from the Arabs.

I submit that apart from being detached from reality, these guys protest against Israel for 2 main reasons - (i) demonizing Israel is not exactly an unpopular sport in today's world, so they can always count on some support from most Arab countries, the EU, and their leftist kooky buddies, and (ii) they know that the IDF will do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties (even of kooky civilians) - as would happen if they tried this stunt elsewhere - and not just the Middle East - try this in Russia or China and see what would happen.

Maybe I'm having a really cranky week, or maybe I'm just blowing off steam, but the minute the flotilla has been warned to turn back but decides to press on and then passes the IDF's point of no return - if it were up to me, I'd sink the first ship. And if the next ship did not immediately turn around, I'd sink the next ship. And so on, until all the ships had fled or were on the bottom of the Mediterranean. And then tell the entire world to go to hell.

Others are trying different tactics - Roger L. Simon » Flotilla II: Israel Human Rights Group Warns Satellite Giant Immarsat over Hamas Ships - because at the end of the day - money talks.

Meanwhile, the NDP, the Official Opposition in Canada is having trouble sorting out its stance on the subject.
So Taliban Jack is trying to have it both ways - the NDP won't officially support the flotilla (or condemn it either) and is leaving NDP MPs to determine their own position on the issue. I'm just betting he would not do anything remotely similar on issues related to women's rights, union rights, environmental matters, or abortion - just to name a few. (Or this issue - MPs defend their $804 million in pension benefits, but attack PM over hockey ticket | Full Comment | National Post)



And to register concern with the Israeli Ambassador about the safety of Canadians who choose to go on these ships is simply obscene. If these guys choose to put themselves in harm's way - deliberately seeking to provoke the military forces of an ally in a war zone - whatever happens, they will get 100% of what they deserve. And please - no requests to send Canadian resources of any sort to assist anyone who is injured or detained - you make your bed, lie in it. Oh, and maybe take a look at this - Today’s letters: Gaza cruise advice | Full Comment | National Post



3. The Oil Weapon - I believe that Golda Meir was said to have "criticized" Moses by saying that he led the Israelites to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. WEll, that may not be the case any longer - and wouldn't this be just beautiful if true? Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel | FP Comment | Financial Post and Lawrence Solomon: Israel’s new energy | FP Comment | Financial Post.


4. Israel's True Friends



And maybe someone else can explain how Iran is permitted to be a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.



Uh, fellas ever hear of this thing called the Bible? OK, well, if any of you can read without moving your lips, go see what it says. And here - let's take the King James version of the Bible, just so you don't suggest I'm using a corrupted source - read it here.

It's like the world of Bizarro Superman, where everything is backwards.


Except that the Jews are always villains. That never changes......




9. Can Someone Explain This To Me? - Napolitano | Profiling | Muslim | RealClearPolitics - I'm obviously missing something.

10. Turkey - it has not received very much, if any, coverage in the press, but there is an election in Turkey on Sunday. It is likely to be an extremely important event in not only Turkish history, but also regarding Turkey's relations with the rest of the Middle East:
Don't hold your breath for anything positive for Israel or the West.


11. More Turkey? a long but very interesting piece from Michael Totten, a very interesting writer - Michael Totten - Ottoman Fantasies

12. More Totten? - here are 2 further pieces by Totten - the first about Hebron, and the second about both the reaction to his first piece and an inadvertent omission (his words) from it.

"The Sunni and Shia militias that engaged in murderous sectarian “cleansing” operations against each other in Iraq were more or less equivalent morally, so I described them as such when I filed reports from Baghdad. The violent Israeli settlers in Hebron—and there are some—in no way compare to the Palestinian terrorist organizations that waged such massive and relentless campaigns of mass murder that it took the powerful Israeli army years to put them down.

There’s a serious asymmetry between the two sides, and that’s why I don’t place an equal amount of emphasis on the amount of criminal violence each side commits. Jews and Israelis everywhere recoil in horror from the likes of Baruch Goldstein, but public squares in Palestinian cities are named after suicide bombers and other killers of innocents."

13. Osirak Raid 30 Years On - hard to believe that this was 30 years ago:





15. OK - Let's Turn That Frown Into A Smile - The Miracle That Is Israel | FrontPage Magazine


16. Deny This - the Palestinian propaganda machine can say what it wants, but it cannot deny the truth of this:


17. Odds & Sods - a little of this and a little of that......


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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM

    Tony Blair is a seasoned and qualified moron who has been spouting the same garbage that the Barak show has been touting since his inception. Asad is a wheeler dealer playing Iran's promises against the Us's bribes. The American public is being sold down the river with misleading propoganda. In fact Barbara Walters was sent to Syria to interview the couple. Barbara reported back that his wife was so glamorous, the society is so civilized, the food was fabulous and the entertainment and hospitality was superb. Furthermore she reported back to the VIEW that the Arabs have been wrongly maligned. So her word must be the last word, isn't it, never mind a few dead anarchists who are littering the streets? The mind boggles.

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  2. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    Just so you know, the German and Yiddish word for week is V-o-c-h, it is not spelled wih an "a"

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  3. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    Loved that story about the oil find in Israel, supposedly there is more oil there than in all of Saudi Arabia. W-h-o-o-o-p-e-e!!!

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  4. Mark's Pro-Israel BlogJune 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    Thank you for the correction.

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  5. Mark's Pro-Israel BlogJune 18, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    Now that she has lots of time on her hands, maybe Oprah could be sent as the President's special representative and give a report -she could take Dr. Phil and he could explain how Assad's repression results from him being beaten as a child and that it really isn't his fault, but somehow the fault of those evil JOOS.
    Meanwhile, if memory serves, Assad is trained as an ophthalmologist - that is ironically appropriate, since if the people in the West cannot see what is going on in Syria for what it is - they need to visit their own medical professionals - first an ophthalmologist and then a mental health professional.

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