Friday, July 1, 2011 - Happy Canada Day!


(followed by the following plea.....)


1. Well, At Least He's Honest - Palestinian PM Drops Bomb on Statehood Bid
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has told the Associated Press that the Palestinian bid for a declaration of statehood at the U.N. is essentially a meaningless gesture. "My answer to you is no,” he said in response to the question of whether the declaration would change the situation on the ground. “Unless Israel is part of that consensus, it won't.”

And no one listens to either of them.

2. Flotilla Season - In Northern Ireland, there is a time of year (the height of which is coming up very soon in fact around July 12th - marking the 1690 Battle of the Boyne) known as "marching season", where different groups march to promote their cause - most of which are organized by Protestant unionist groups such as the Orange Order, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Apprentice Boys of Derry, and the Royal Black Institution.


Flotilla Season is a very recent development, and one which I hope dies in infancy. The notion that these "activists" are truly bringing needed "aid" to "besieged Gaza" is ridiculous. They are seeking a confrontation with Israel and to embarrass Israel on the world stage. Though I think that on this subject at least, they range from anything from dopes to morons to babes in the woods to useful idiots to terrorist sympathizers to outright terrorists - I could begrudge them 1 nanosecond of credit if they were at least honest and admit their true purpose.

Anyway, as Flotilla Season 2011 is upon us, so are the articles in the press. Here are a variety of links:


And by the way, about those poor Gazans, held down by the "Man" - yes they are held down, but it's by their own Hamas leaders - who they elected, by the way. Who facilitates (real) aid for the people of Gaza? Well.........


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3. Is There Anything More You Need To Know About The UN? Last week I noted that Qatar and Iran will be the President and a Vice-President of the UNGA and that Saudi Arabia is on the UN Women panel.

Then, this week:

[c]iting the “wicked policy” of the United States and Britain, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, opened the conference with an apparent call for terror attacks on those countries as he said in a statement it was “a duty for all Muslims to confront and fight this inauspicious offspring.”




What's on the UN's agenda next week? Can't wait....











9. Miscellaneous - time to clean out the vault....a variety of topics:
10. The Tailor - from the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival - a variation on a very old joke:

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Saturday, June 25, 2011 motzei Shabbat

1. Hamas Takes Chutzpah To A New Level - I cannot think of many things that Jews have invented that Arabs in general, and Arab terrorists in particular, have improved upon. But obviously, Hamas has taken chutzpah to a new level.


Then there is "beyond chutzpah" - Arabs want 'bride for Shalit' - Israel News, Ynetnews (shout-out to Steve M. - thanks, man!)

I do not envy being in the shoes of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Government - no matter what you do, and I do not know what the realistic options are, people will disagree as either caving in to terrorists, or being too tough and contrary to international law. Nationwide events mark 5 years of Gilad Shalit's captivity... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics


Personally, and not that my opinion matters, but the very angry part of me says that after making one last demand for Gilad Shait's release, Israel should start executing (forget depriving them of a right to a university education, the poor dears - The Hard Life of Muslim Terrorists in Israeli Prison | FrontPage Magazine) one Hamas terrorist every day until Gilad Shalit is released. If Hamas murders Gilad Shalit (if they haven't already done so), then the IAF should turn Gaza into a giant parking lot, starting with all the things in Gaza that the MSM simply won't talk about - the fancy hotels, the fancy restaurants, and the Olympic-sized swimming pool.

And for the hypocritical bastards in the international human rights community who will howl - you guys can just shut up - your moral authority on issues to do with Israel has long since vanished - “Human Rights Community” Agrees: Gilad Shalit Should Remain in Captivity.


Finally, to conclude this segment, if Hamas does agree to release Gilad Shalit in exchange for a bunch of their terrorist brethren, and if they show up at the exchange point with a coffin like Hezbollah did with the remains of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev in 2008, then shoot every last one of the terrorists being released. That is what should have happened to Samir Kuntar, the despicable terrorist who in 1979 murdered 4 Israelis, including a 4 year old girl he murdered by using "blunt force against a rock". Instead, Kuntar gets treated like a conquering hero and, among other things, received the Syrian Order of Merit from that grand humanitarian Bashir Assad.

I'm just sayin.....


2. Hamas Learned "Uber-Chutzpah" From The Useless Nations - among other places. Read the first sentence of this article and tell me if something seems amiss - The U.N. Prepares for Durban III | The Weekly Standard - did you see it?

The UNGA elected Qatar as president and Iran as a vice-president of the UNGA for the next year.

Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran. Qatar and Iran.

Here's what the Qatari delegation head to Durban I said at that antisemitism festival in 2001:

At the first Durban conference on “combating intolerance and xenophobia” the head of Qatar’s delegation, Abdul-Rahman H. Al-Attiyah, declared: “all the Israeli heinous violations are justified as a means to bring back every Jew to a land that they raped from its legitimate owners and denied them their right to claim it back.”

I'm sure his attitude has changed since then....


As for Iran, well, what can one say - here's just one latest example - Ahmadinejad accuses US of profiting from 9/11 and the Holocaust... JPost - Iranian Threat - News

What do you expect from such a corrupt organization? That permits Saudi Arabia to be on the UN Women panel - a nation in which among other things, women are not allowed to drive. And check this out from when Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN Women Panel:

After all, who could forget the farce that ensued when a Saudi delegation appeared for the first time before the UN women's rights panel in Geneva in 2008 and absurdly insisted that women in their country faced no discrimination?

But the most ludicrous claim came when the UN committee asked why Saudi men could marry up to four wives. With a straight face, a Saudi delegate — a man, of course — explained that it was to ensure a man's sexual appetite was satisfied legally if one wife could not fulfill it.

What do you expect from an organization that permits the following countries to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Council - Saudi Arabia (double winner!), China, Cuba, Jordan, Kuwait, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Qatar (double winner!). And Libya was a member until it was suspended just a few months ago.


The whole useless organization should be figuratively, if not literally, blown up. Whatever good work it might do is far outweighed by its corruption, hypocrisy and overall inability to perform its mandate.


3. Take That, Political Correctness #1 - In what I think was a surprising verdict (not because of right or wrong, but in terms of the trial taking place n one of the most Liberal nations on earth and the degree to which Europe has gone overboard to accommodate the demands of Islamicists), Geert Wilders has been acquitted of uttering hate speech - Geert Wilders Acquitted | FrontPage Magazine.

Meanwhile, from Germany comes this article - The World from Berlin: Wilders Acquittal a 'Slap in the Face for Muslims' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International - ummm, when the world wants advice from Germany about hate speech, we'll give you a call (hint - don't hang around your phone or computer waiting....)




5. The "Beeb" - the BBC, that is. BBC apologises for dog story Just Journalism - but try to get them to apologize for a false story about Jews......



6. The "Ceeb"? When it comes to Israel, CBC Reporter Neil MacDonald never lets the facts get in the way of a good story - Contrary to CBC Reporter Neil MacDonald, Israel Sees Assad's Regime as a Brutal Destabilizing Force (June 23, 2011) - when you look at this link, look at how many times this type of thing has happened - how about assigning him to covering the frequency of bowel movements of the penguins on Antarctica? And for my money, he can take his abysmally unfunny brother, "comedian" Norm MacDonald with him - not because he should pay for the sins of his brother, but because in my opinion, he is so painfully and spectacularly unfunny.


7. Because They Are Morons? Not Mormons...... MORONS - Q&A: Why United Church activists are targeting Israel Holy Post National Post


8. Michael Totten - find the time to read this link - Just Journalism Interview: Michael J. Totten Just Journalism - why? This excerpt is a good indicator -

CD (interviewer): There’s an ongoing debate about the ways in which radical Islamist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas are portrayed in the media. For example, there’s controversy over terms such as ‘terrorist’ or ‘militant’, and from one side complaints that the ideological extremism of these groups is never spelled-out, and from the other that the legitimacy of their territory-based grievances aren’t given due prominence. A noticeable curio is the tendency to ‘balance out’ the rather more unsavoury aspects of these organisations – for example, by emphasising their social charity work – as if they were just Islamic equivalents of the Salvation Army, albeit with more literal weapons. What’s your take on this?

MJT (Michael J. Totten): First of all, Hamas and Hezbollah don’t have territory-based grievances. They explicitly say, in no uncertain terms, that they wish to erase an entire nation from the face of the earth. No other country gets discussed in this manner. I don’t believe that if the Irish Republican Army vowed to conquer London and massacre the English that even the most radical of British leftists would find the IRA remotely acceptable or describe its program as “territory-based.”

Second, I’ve never understood why some people think it’s such a big deal that Hamas and Hezbollah engage in charity work. They’re still terrorists. They’re still fascist movements that place the murder of Jews at the core of their ideologies. Pol Pot may not have built hospitals, but Hitler did. Both Hitler and Pol Pot built schools. So what?

I’m not sure I have much else to say about this

9. Un-"apped" - Apple Removes Intifada App From Store - NYTimes.com - but if I were in charge at Apple, I'd love to know what genius approved this in the first place.

10. Comment From A Reader - in item 17 of last Saturday's blog posting, I gave voice to some of my opinions about the Shoah. After the item, I included a number of Shoah-related pictures, and prefaced them with the words "Caution - Graphic Images below..."

A reader named "CL" posted a comment that I will summarize as being to ask why I had given such a caution, as that gave readers a way out of having to look at the images (the full comment is published here). Interesting comment. CL is free to interpret the caution as they night, but my intent was anything but.

I am certainly not an expert on the Shoah, but at the same time, I believe that I am fairly well informed on the subject. I have read dozens of historical works (many of which are very graphic in words as well as images), watched numerous documentaries (many of which are very graphic), talked extensively with many survivors, given presentations on the Shoah to Jewish and non-Jewish groups, visited the USHMM, visited Yad Vashem 5 times (including its new (in 2005) museum 4 times), and participated in the 2005 March of the Living (which included visits to Auschwitz, Aushwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, and other Shoah sites in Poland).

Even with all that background, I still find that I have to steel myself emotionally when "engaging" in something to do with the Shoah - reading a book, watching a documentary, or whatever. The sheer horror of the details of what was done to millions of innocent men, women and children simply because they were Jewish still overwhelms me every time. And I think that's a good thing - one should not want the subject of the Shoah to become trivial or mundane.

So my intent was not at all to warn people so that they could turn away. My intent was simply to tell people to brace themselves emotionally for the images I had included.

As a last point on this issue, I think that everyone (Jews and non-Jews) should become much more educated about the Shoah - to become much more aware of the depth of evil that perpetrated in the Shoah (and that still exists today in other ways) and that collaborated in it, and to become aware of the heroism of those who resisted (and resistance took many forms), those who somehow survived, the righteous gentiles who rescued Jews, and, quite frankly, the dignity of the victims. And to prevent it from happening to anyone again.

... A miracle occurred. Two hundred children did not cry out. Two hundred pure souls, condemned to death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their father and brother, Janusz Korczak, so that he might protect and preserve them. Janusz Korczak was marching, his head bent forward, holding the hand of a child, without a hat, a leather belt around his waist, and wearing high boots. A few nurses were followed by two hundred children, dressed in clean and meticulously cared for clothes, as they were being carried to the altar. (...) On all sides the children were surrounded by Germans, Ukrainians, and this time also Jewish policemen. They whipped and fired shots at them. The very stones of the street wept at the sight of the procession.

Read more about Janusz Korczak here - my visit to the orphanage at Siena Street in Warsaw was one of the most emotional parts of my trip on the March of the Living.







11. Self-Explanatory - maybe the Sixties produced great rock 'n roll, but it also produced this type of thinking - Rubin Reports - The Scene of the Crime: I Accidentally Stumble Into A Hotbed of Educational Indoctrination


Also see:


12. We Love to Fly and It Shows - the slogan of Delta Airlines - but you're Jewish and want to go to Saudi? Or bring a Bible? Ohhhhhhh..... Ron Radosh - The Case for a Boycott of Delta Airlines (UPDATED) and Delta: We Love to Fly Without Jews (and Bibles) — and it Shows - Delta Airlines - Fox Nation






15. Syria and Iran - what wonderful members of the international community....


17. Ship Of Fools Update - there is a legal maxim (volenti non fit injuria) which means that "to a willing person, no injury is done" - in other words - if you are dumb enough to poke a bear in the eye, and the bear subsequently tears your tuchis off - don't try to sue the bear. The utterly stupid useful idiots who are planning to sail on flotillas to Gaza should take that maxim to heart.


So guys - don't whine and moan no matter what happens to you - you're on your own!




As well, this was the workplace of Cosmo Kramer as related in the famous Festivus episode:


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