Deconstructing intelligence as a requirement for membership in the Palestinian Authority. Via PMW: Israel’s supernatural rats chase away Jerusalem’s Arabs. The Palestinian Authority has come up with yet another wild accusation about Israel. Two PA newspapers – one directly controlled by the office of PA President Mahmoud Abbas – are accusing Israel of releasing rats with supernatural qualities to chase away the Arab residents of Jerusalem. According to the PA papers, the Israeli-Jerusalem rat is: 1. Immune to rat poison;2. Aggressive and larger than usual;3. Unafraid of cats and able to scare them away;4. Highly fertile — female rat gives
Read More +More Muslim hubris from Iran. Via Iran Fakes Missile Launch Picture After Misfire: A picture from the Iranian news website Jamejam clearly shows three airborne missiles and one that has failed to take off. But a second image released by the PR arm of the Revolutionary Guard seems to have digitally wiped away the embarrassing dud, replacing it with a fourth successful launch, complete with billowing clouds of exhaust and desert dust. Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, said, “It’s ironic – Iran launches these missile tests to demonstrate might, and instead what they demonstrate
Read More +Creating policy via temper tantrum allows the west to forget about the more than 11,000 innocent people who have been murdered by Muslims since 9/11. From Today’s Zaman: Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member countries plan to declare a day of memorial for massacres and genocide committed against Muslim communities in various countries throughout the 20th century. On Friday, representatives of OIC youth organizations came together at İstanbul’s Grand Cevahir Hotel for a meeting organized by the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYF-DC) to discuss programs to create awareness of Muslim grievances over the past within
Read More +The barbarians are at the gate. May Israel have the strength to slaughter them before they infiltrate. From Not Just a Palestinian Gimmick via DailyAlert: The PA leadership seems to be backing an initiative to respond to Israel’s 60th anniversary by encouraging Palestinians to enact their “right of return” by showing up on Israel’s doorstep on May 14. While obviously a propaganda stunt, even gimmicks say something about where Palestinians stand. After all, Fatah is presumably committed to a two-state solution and to peace with Israel. This is the basis of the Annapolis process, of billions of dollars of assistance
Read More +More mendacity from Islam, the keeper of falsehoods, revisionism, terror and bloodlust. From PMW: Palestinian children in Gaza were gathered for an exhibition that depicts Israel burning children in a crematorium. Young children are seen standing beside dolls being placed into a model of a cremation oven. According to the article in Al Ayyam, “The National Committee for defense of Children from the Holocaust opened its activities with a Holocaust exhibit. The Exhibit include a large oven and inside it small children are being burned, the picture speaks for itself.” [Al Ayyam, March 20, 2008] Another part of the exhibit
Read More +More Muslim hubris and mendacity. Via The Canadian Press: Israeli writers will be the toast of the Paris international book fair in March but some Arab intellectuals argue that honouring Israel’s literature has brought dishonour upon France. The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization urged its 50 member states this week to boycott the March 14-19 event. Each year the international fair puts the spotlight on one country. This year it is inviting 39 writers from Israel, including David Grossman, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua and Aharon Appelfeld. A similar controversy is brewing about the May book fair in Turin,
Read More +Excerpted from Melanie Phillips: Tomorrow, [Update: legal argument took place on September 12 while the full hearing is now scheduled to start on September 19, 2007. ] an appeal starts in Paris in a case which encapsulates all that is most rotten and murderous about the media war against Israel and its truly monstrous consequences. At the beginning of the second intifada, an event occurred which more than any other was to incite mass hysteria against Israel, lead directly to the terrorist murder of Jews and whip up demonstrations and incitement against Israel and the west throughout the Arab and
Read More +Via Palestinian Media Watch: Statements maligning the Jewish religion and the Jews as the enemy of Allah are common within the Palestinian Authority. A prominent official from the Palestinian Legislative Council recently attacked Judaism saying, “it is a faith that is based on murder: ‘I kill, therefore I am.’” The Hamas representative, Dr. Yussuf Al-Sharafi, further says that Israel will cease to exist “through blood and Shahids [martyrs].” This past week Dr. Ahmad Bahar, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council said that the Jews were a “cancerous lump” and prayed to Allah for the genocide of Jews and Americans
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