I have a post written, as I saw this story at its source in the Canadian National Post, but I’m just not jumping until I see more and confirmation. In any case, if it takes something like this to get people up in arms.. Clearly the efforts to explain the nature of Iran, the nature of Islamic Fundamentalism when employed as a political regime has entirely, and utterly failed.

Not a day goes by when radical Islamists don’t call for jihad, holy war, slaughter of the ‘pigs and monkeys’ in mosques, on pulpits, in speeches, and in cafes and restaurants on the street. Forget markings and ribbons, Iran is openly calling for the destruction of the State of Israel, radical Islamists openly call for wrath on the unbelievers, including moderate Muslims themselves while at the same time developing the very weapons to carry this out.

Iran and Muslims, as well as Arabs across the World mock the Holocaust as an invention, a flight of fancy while in the same breath truly believing that Jews of all people blew up the WTC. All I see is that the Western World is simply incapable or unable to absorb the realities of what we are facing despite years of it staring us in the face.

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My own personal favorite YNET columnist has two out this week..

Sever Plocker looks at Chomsky, an issue I’ve been railing about here, as well as maintaining the even economic keel, also an issue I’ve looked at here in my own 2006 election coverage / bloggage - regarding the finance ministry and the need for responsible social spending to help the less fortunate, but also keep Israel chugging like the hightech power engine it is.

Check it out.

UPDATE: More must see TV.. er Punditry from Israpundit on Israel’s under appreciated value
This is one I’ll have to file away for future use, thank you Mr. Belman.

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I’m very happy to note that some cooler heads are prevailing again in the conservative blogosphere regarding the illegal immigration issue as well as presidential policy laid out earlier this week.

I was disheartened by the uproar that started before the speech had even aired, but many of my favourites are again looking at debating the issues, finding common ground and keeping the Conservatives and President ever strong.

All Things Beautiful has a big post up, looking at the rift that opened and aiming the criticism where it is in my own opinion best utilized. The issues that have been bothering me, were nicely laid out in one of her links as well.

Sister Toldjah had a great look yesterday as well, her comments at the top sentiments I can share with ease regarding the need to digest the issues before drawing the lines in the sand. She also linked to some of the topics and blogs you’ll find just above.

Thank goodness for the conservababes, it appears the sun will still come up again tomorrow after all! Read all about the US Senate activity and the debate as it begins to frame and take shape regarding securing the US southern border.

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Iran trying to jam TV signals, mulling confiscating all satellite dishes which are illegal in Iran

You don’t need personal freedom, you don’t need information, the theocratic state will provide for all your needs. There’s no need for debate, equalities, personal choice. Cover yourself, grow a beard and take down your satellite dish or prepare to be flogged infidel boy.

Oppressive regime of madmen: Allah provides for all the entertainment & knowledge you need

BBC: Iran targets foreign broadcasters

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), a hardline body guarding the gains of the 1979 Islamic revolution, intends to increase the number of jamming stations in Tehran and other cities from 50 to 300 within two years, an Iranian online paper has reported.

The independent online paper Rooz says new technology will be used in an attempt to block specific satellite channels broadcasting from abroad. [...]

Crackdown

Plans are also afoot to clamp down on the possession of satellite dishes within Iran. Although they are illegal, the ban has not been rigorously enforced in recent years. Now the authorities are talking about confiscating satellite dishes and fining their owners.

At the same time, the Iranian state broadcaster Voice and Vision is seeking to expand its overseas broadcasting while controlling incoming broadcasts and channelling them via the state network and cable subscription services. A member of the parliamentary cultural committee said that such broadcasts should "not be contrary to the values and principles of Islamic and national culture".

Big Brother is watching you, jamming you, protecting you! Allah be praised.

Tags: Iran, Islamic Fundamentalism, Freedom

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Everyone is talking about fences, all of a sudden Israel’s amazingly effective fence is not such a bad idea, business as usual.

Broken record: Osirak

The pattern repeats itself over and over again. When Israel attacked the Iraqi nuclear Osirak reactor the world including the USA were up in arms, the reactor was named after its benefactor Jacques Chirac before being reduced to rubble in a daring and widely admired military operation. Years on, the planet breathed a sigh of relief that the dangerous path to Iraqi nuclear weapons had been thankfully nixed at the bud. But Israel referred to in European circles at times as "that shitty little country" paid the heavy PR price.

Broken record: Pre-Emption 

When Israel on the forefront of the Jihad against the West used highly effective measures such as targeting walking time bombs in pin point defensive military operations, the killing of such homicidal civilian mass murderers raised outrage, calls of Israel being a pariah state and Jews being Nazis commonly echo loudly around the World.. Yet today that policy is now firmly rooted in American National Security Policy, and other nations facing the civilian mass murder threat quietly acknowledge not only the effectiveness, but the need to pursue the same.

Broken Record: Isolating Terrorists

After Israel presented the case along with documentation that Yasser Arafat, the so called reformed Terrorist was still very much complicit in terror, still very much complicit in murder, Ariel Sharon surrounded Arafat’s Muqata compound isolating him from the privileges of leadership Israel had granted him and the PA. The World issued vociferous condemnation, vigils for the brutal terrorist ensued and media elevated the issue to World obsession with daily 24 hour Arafat watches, smuggling in cell phones and making it seem as if Arafat was starving to death. The numerous wanted Terrorists holed up in the compound with Yasser were all but ignored.

Of course, once the Taliban was shown complicit in funding and supporting terror and sheltering Al Qaeda, the World lept into action in Afghanistan and isolating the bad guys would not prove to be harsh enough, full on regime change (thank goodness) was quickly slotted at the top of the menu.

Broken record: Jenin

After the slaughter of the elderly and the never ending stream of mass murder, Israel committed its young soldiers to the difficult task of entering the Jenin terror breeding camps and cleaning up the terror factories. Of course, it would have been easier to deploy fighter bombers and simply level the place but Israel, featuring one of the most noble armies in the World consisting of conscripted civilians went house to house, suffered horrible losses with 18 soldiers killed in an effort to spare innocent human life.

The ‘outrage’ was splashed across every newspaper on the planet, accusations of massacres, comparisons to Bosnia, Nazi Germany, ethnic cleansing dominated media. Condemnation from every corner for weeks on end continued, Saeb Erekat humiliated himself on television claiming over 500 civilians murdered.. The UN and every sane rational look at the situation showed no massacres, no ethnic cleansing, no civilians targeted for murder. The notion turned out to be preposterous yet few retractions were printed and to this day many believe some sort of ridiculous massacre took place in Jenin.

Today international governments and militaries line up to visit with Israeli military experts, Israel’s innovative tactics, including the dangerous and difficult house to house method of engaging terror while trying to save innocent life is considered a model for the World to follow.

Today, broken record: Security Fences

After Israel announced and began construction of the security fence along the seam line of the West Bank the planet frothed at the mouth like a rabid dog. Israel is an apartheid state, Israel is an international criminal, Israel to the Hague in a sham farce of ‘international justice’ stacked with typical despots for judges. Even as the suicide bombings plummeted media buried their heads and claimed it was untrue, touted humanitarian disasters which never manifested and even now protesters picket and raise their signs calling Israel and Jews Nazis.

Israel’s fence is now acknowledged as being a major life saver, apartheid is in reality nowhere to be found and other nations are looking to Israel’s lead, like this AP report on the US considering emulating the Israeli fence for the massive and porous US / Mexico border. While the AP acknowledges the effectiveness of the fence, it wastes no time shedding a few tears for the poor Palestinians and Mexicans, both now apparently ‘humiliated’ and subjected to ‘cruelty’ spending plenty of time highlighting the so called ‘unjustness’ of it all..

The same old fable repeats itself, with a slightly different tune.

Tags: Israel, Security Fence, USA, Mexico, UN, Media, Jenin, Osirak

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Which explains a lot seeing as I’m Jewish.

See, I have a bit of a luck deficit. I’ve never won anything in my whole life (well other than election type things in school) but lotto or bingo or prizes? Zip.

It doesn’t happen for me. In fact the only thing involving luck I seem to excel at is roulette in Las Vegas, I always win in Vegas, maybe I’m just good at roulette, but I’m not sure since I don’t want to push my luck and don’t play anywhere else.. You see what I’m dealing with here!?

Jewish Blogging

In any case my zero luck streak continues. Two months ago I signed up to jewishblogging to get my blog syndicated (woohoo!)

Got my confirmation email welcoming me, got my handy link in on the right side blogroll and waited. It said in the email it may take a day or so I think, so I waited, and waited.. But my luck kicked in, suffice it to say two months later I’m not listed. Ok, not a big deal, it slipped my mind in any case.

Jrants 

Then this week I found Jrants, more syndication! (it is may sweeps week after all). Perfect, I figured sign up there and we’re good to go. So I filled out the form, got my link in on the right hand blogroll and fired that baby off!

I don’t think I need to tell you how this story ends, suffice it to say that my luck is consistent and Irish.. I am not.

At this rate I’ll be signed up and unlisted to every service on the internet in no time!! LOL

I could try and save a little face here and pull the old "they aren’t too fond of the Jews" bit as my excuse, but somehow I get the feeling that isn’t going to fly!

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The unsanctioned new Hamas ’security force’ is now operating, just in time for the Palestinian Civil War.

Terrorists with assault rifles, RPG rocket launchers, Anti tank Missiles, grenades, and shoulder fired missiles to preserve the ‘peace’

Ap via CTV

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The defiant Hamas-led Palestinian government sent a new militant force into the streets of Gaza on Wednesday, disregarding President Mahmoud Abbas’ order banning the creation of the security body and raising the stakes in their deepening power struggle.

Hamas appeared to have been propelled into action by mysterious drive-by shootings that killed two of its militants in the Gaza Strip hours earlier.

These and other recent cases of deadly infighting have threatened to plunge the Palestinian territories into bloody chaos.

Meanwhile, Israel reopened the main cargo crossing between Gaza and Israel, Gaza’s economic lifeline, and two Palestinians militants were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank.

The Hamas-led government and Abbas have been locked in a power struggle since the Islamic militant group ousted Abbas’ long-ruling Fatah party in January parliamentary elections.

Abbas, who directly controls three security forces, appointed an ally as head of the remaining three security branches, which fall under the command of the Hamas-led Interior Ministry.

In response, Interior Minister Said Siyam announced a plan last month to create the new force, which would be solely under his control.

Abbas vetoed the force, which is to number about 3,000 fighters and be headed by Jamal Abu Samhadana, a key player in ongoing rocket attacks on Israel and a suspect in the deadly 2003 bombing of an American convoy in the Gaza Strip.

Ignoring Abbas, Siyam said the unit would begin operating immediately.

Within hours, dozens of members of the armed force, all wearing the beards favored by observant Muslims, were deployed in central and southern Gaza.

At the Bureij refugee camp, about 75 fighters patrolled the camp or took up positions outside.

Members of a security branch answerable to Abbas stood just a few yards away.

Siyam activated the new force just hours after masked gunmen killed a member of Hamas’ military wing before dawn in a drive-by shooting at the Jebaliya refugee camp.

On Tuesday evening, another Hamas activist was killed in a similar attack in Gaza City.

Two more Hamas activists were wounded in a third shooting. Those attacks came less than a day after the cars of senior Fatah militants were blown up in Gaza City.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Dozens of Hamas gunmen, armed with anti-tank launchers, shoulder-fired missiles, hand grenades and assault rifles, turned out in a show of force Wednesday at the funeral of the militant shot Tuesday.

A mosque loudspeaker announced that the family would not receive mourners "until the killers are punished."

During the funeral procession, a voice over a loudspeaker blamed a Fatah-dominated branch of the Palestinian security forces. Mourners called on Abbas to dismiss Rashid Abu Shbak, the loyalist Abbas had appointed as a senior security commander. [...]

Despite the fact that this Hamas terrorist govt is total chaos, and that the terrorists are roaming free.. The Karni crossing has been opened to Israel. The Emeer, Israel’s new defense minister with a softer more thoughtful approach. I’m still stuck on the term ‘militant force’ the AP has conjured up personally.

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It has been claimed by Israel for a long time as quite evident, but now the indictment comes from a former PA Security Funds Manager, and it’s damning.

Also revealed, Iran & Hezbollah’s direct hands in fermenting anti Israel Terror, these are acts of war and the reality of this explains a lot to the doubters of Israeli policy over the last few years, justification and more. The Europeans most especially have egg on their face with the big claims and grandiose studies of how funds and aid in general never reached terrorism in the PA. Makes the endless pressure on Israel to appease in European style and deal with corrupt warmongering terrorists seems hollow indeed.

It is clear as daylight that the more things change, the more they stay the same.. the PA was and is a Terrorist Organization.

Former Arafat aide: He purchased arms with Israeli money - YNET

Former PA security funds manager Fuad Shubaki says during interrogation that PA funded terrorist cells that operated against Israel; also revealed: Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hizbullah coordinated Karine A arms ship with senior PA senior [...]

read in full at YNET ; read in full at JPOST

Tags: PA, Palestinians, Arafat, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Iran

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Chavez can’t shut up for even 30 seconds, mulls selling his used US F-16s to Iran

Iran Focus via AP

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela is considering selling its fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to another country, perhaps Iran, in response to a U.S. ban on arms sales to President Hugo Chavez’s government, a military official said Tuesday.

Gen. Alberto Muller, a senior adviser to Chavez, told The Associated Press he had recommended to the defense minister that Venezuela consider selling the 21 jets to another country.

Muller said he thought it was worthwhile to consider "the feasibility of a negotiation with Iran for the sale of those planes."

Even before the U.S. announced the ban on arms sales Monday, Washington had stopped selling Venezuela sensitive upgrades for the F-16s.

Chavez has previously warned he could share the U.S. jets with Cuba if Washington does not supply parts for the planes. He also has said he may look into buying fighter jets from Russia or China instead

There’s not much military value to pawning off these fighters, but what is enlightening is how Chavez is the same old moonbat lefty we all know and love, only leadership style. He endlessly berates the US, Bush on a daily basis, based mostly on his own fantasies, and when challenged with a dose of reality as in the USA responding by telling him he’s out of their weapon export business.. His reaction is typical unhinged and childlike, lacking substance weight or reason.

He’s like Michael Moore, only caliente!

He’s the big moonbat on campus as far as I’m concerned, BIG player in the anti imperialistic struggle I tell you!!! Even more curious or lacking any semblance of sanity, a few days ago he claimed the US was preparing to attack Venezuela!? Whatever that means, but hey it is always a good idea to pawn off your 21 plane strong airforce, right before the World’s superpower attacks you. This worked wonders for Saddam Hussein who did the same thing and we all know how well it turned out for him.. That’s what I love about the socialists, they’re really grounded, keeping it real - fantasy style!

I was going to put a photo in of Chavez, but then I’d have to look at him all day today and it’s not happening.

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