Sympathy is now all rioted out..

Every week, now seemingly every day. Rioting, stoning police, setting fires to police cars, garbage bins, buildings. Over what? A parking lot. A mentally unstable woman who abused her child!? An autopsy for a Haredi man murdered? Where does it end exactly.

The crime scene in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood has turned into a battleground between police and haredim. A few dozen ultra-Orthodox people threw stones at police officers dispatched to the hostel on Tsfaniya Street, where a 50-year-old man was murdered Sunday night during a fight. The protesters tried to block removal of the murdered man’s body from the scene.

In the Mea Shearim neighborhood intense clashes broke out between the two sides. Haredim threw stones and metal objects at police officers, who responded with stun grenades. Eight police officers and an ultra-Orthodox man were lightly wounded. Three police officers were evacuated to the hospital for medical attention. The rest of the wounded were treated by ambulance crews on the spot. Damage was caused to a police patrol car and two motorcycles.

Haredim started fires at a number of different locations throughout the city. A police cruiser was set ablaze on David Yellin Street [...]

I had some sympathy at first. Yes it’s true that being beyond ultra Orthodox to the point of removal from modern day society at every level is certainly a challenge in a modern state, even if it is the Jewish state. Personally it is a bit absurd for me, but to each his own - To a limit. This is not 150 BCE. Nor do we live in the Shtetl in some remote part of Poland or Lithuania. Polling originally done in Israel by Channel 2 of religious & haredi populations showed they overwhelmingly did not support this rioting. Most polled did not see any benefit, only continued detriment to Haredi & non Haredi relations within Israel. Many called it Hillul Hashem - Those are the understatements of the year!

Lack of respect

These rioters are extremists beyond normal definition of the word, Mea Shearim has become an alien landscape. They claim that the state does not respect them, but to date they have given very little reason for the state or anyone else to accord them very much respect, as they do not respect others in any shape manner or form & they seem to relish this fact. They seemingly do not respect law, be it biblical or state law for that matter. Throwing stones, lighting fires, all on Shabbat? This is not a siege & the Romans are not at the gate. For many it seems this has become a game, we see many smiling & laughing in the TV footage as they hurl stones at security forces.

There must be accommodation for all, these extremists do not own title to Jerusalem or Israel. They are citizens like all others even though many do not recognize themselves as such. They must respect the rule of law. Their customs & beliefs are already very much respected within areas of the city with massive Haredi populations, if that is not enough that is simply too bad. They are behaving like animals and destroying the image & reputation of hundreds & thousands of peaceful law abiding and valued Haredi Israeli citizens for what can only be described as absurdity.

No one will win here, least of all this minority of the Haredi population.

Personally, I’ve had enough and I am very late to the party. The vast majority of Israel had enough weeks ago. The Hezbollah has created a terrorist state within a state in Lebanon. That is totally unacceptable. It is just as unacceptable that a group of extremist nutcases should venture to do the same in the heart of Israel. I find it particularly distasteful that like the Palestinians many of these anti-Israel protesters are using not only violence, but sending their children out to do so in their stead. Just like the Arabs in the territories & the Hamas.

We should react in kind, enough is enough. Bring out the water cannons, start arresting everyone & put it down like an Intifada because that is exactly what this is. I asked my Haredi neighbor here in Tel Aviv what he thought about all this as we met taking out the trash. He’s fully Orthodox with 8 kids, aside from the fact that he is raising chickens in my backyard (lol) I consider them model citizens. As an example the Rooster, which I was fully prepared to slaughter in the kosher manner has been removed in favor of accommodation. He answered “Busha” – Embarrassment  / Shame, and he was not referring to the State.

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Last night I was struck by the fact that one of the net’s top bloggers Allahpundit, who’s stellar coverage of Iran at Hotair has been remarkable struggled to wrap his head around what in reality is going on in Iran like much of the West in general.

On the surface, none of what is going for many American minds makes much sense. If the Theocracy controls Iran, hand picks the candidates, and already resisted a ‘reformist’ presidency previously without much difficulty why is the Supreme Leader so invested in Ahmadinejad. Yesterday in two of his amazing posts on the issue he asked himself and readers that very question twice.. It is an excellent question.

Why is Khamenei so invested in an Ahmadinejad victory?

As a frequent commenter at HotAir I responded to the query, but it is so vitally important to understanding these events that it deserves some expounding. By the same token, the answer sheds some light as to why the entire American administration is seemingly equally clueless & impotent regarding  events in Iran in general, and why the Americans are now failing miserably with their new Hope & Change strategy and engagement policy. A strategy which has now been thoroughly shredded, despite the fact that Obama, Hillary & CO. are living in convenient denial.

The initial Revolution has undergone Evolution

The answer is simple enough if one understands Iran in its current incarnation. The Theocracy is invested in Ahmadinejad because the Revolutionary Guard are invested in Iran. When I say invested I mean literally and figuratively. Over the last number of years the Revolutionary Guards have instituted a near full takeover of Iran. Wielding incredible power internally they have utilized Iran’s great wealth and their positions as the upper crust of Iranian society or access to it, to seize power across the board. The relationship between the guards & Khameni is symbiotic, as much as the Guards need Khameni, the Supreme Leader needs the guards.

Commanding Heights

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Viral Marketing.

I want to give this guy a hug..

I have already signed the Declaration myself. There’s more there than a donation prompt as well, including a new ning social networking group.
Heh!

HT to LGF.

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American President via video message called on Iran to display..
“Peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization“.

Problem is, Iran is not led by peaceful people – Nor does it display under Islamic Fundamentalist rule much in the way of true greatness. While the US President was busy pandering to the Iranian regime, they’ve been busy curtailing personal freedom, hanging juveniles, stoning people, and all sorts of family fun activities befitting the great societies of our time..

Iran Focus – London, May 8 – Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) confiscated 84,000 satellite dishes during the Persian calendar year that ended March 20.

“In the past year, 84,000 satellite receivers and other satellite appliances have been discovered and seized by police”, said the head of the SSF anti-smuggling department. “Fighting against forbidden and anti-cultural goods is the priority in our department”, he said. His remarks were carried by the state-run news agency Fars on Wednesday.

SSF agents went up rooftops in Tehran and other major cities removing satellite dishes which are banned in Islamic Iran. The Islamic Republic banned satellite dishes in 1995. The crackdown on satellite dishes was prompted by broadcasts from Iranian opposition groups whose television programs reportedly have a large audience in Iran.

Other examples of Mullah greatness this week via the Focus:
Dela Darabi – Beautiful Iranian juvenile hung secretly this past week;
Bombarding Iraqi Kurds in violation of Iraqi sovereignty;
Steadily progressing toward a secret & illicit nuclear weapons program;
Reaffirming deadly support for terrorist organizations

We can go on & on..
Just a few examples of the ‘Great Regime’ the Obama Administration seeks to appease at the expense of America’s allies like Israel, and Iran’s yearning to be free of oppression peoples & reformers.

Via Daled Amos, the Arab world is also thrilled with the appeasement effort so far, rebuffing both envoys Denis Ross & SecDef. Gates – Who were on missions to smooth over ruffled feathers. Mission Status? Failed.

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Brigitte knocks one out of the park

Appearing on Morning Joe at MSNBC Gabriel in 6 minutes or less gets to the heart of the matter;

• Muslims & the Arab world cannot simply be handed Democracy, in order to appreciate & value democracy one needs to fight for it
• Muslim extremism is an ideology like Nazism, preys on the weak, the youth and ignorance
• Wealth transfer through energy is feeding a monster
• Muslim moderates appear nearly non existent in their efforts to seize the Muslim mantle

Time to stand up she says, create organizations and be heard. Quite a lady, with a clear concise message. Buchanan, Brezinki’s daughter & co. appear somewhat out of their league, but kudos to at least having Gabriel on to speak a little common sense to the rabid MSNBC crowd. Enjoy a few minutes below..

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From my favorite UK Daily the Telegraph comes the big ‘progressive’ news out of Iran.. You have nothing to fear from radical Islam, give them the nukes I say.

Iran has placed a new moratorium on the execution of people by stoning, the country’s judiciary has announced.

At least nine people in the country are believed to be facing the sentence for a range of offences including adultery, prostitution and incest.  The head of the judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi first told judges to stop carrying out the penalty in 2002 after pressure from the EU.

Last year, however, a man was stoned to death in western Iran, prompting fears that the punishment would again be regularly carried out. Several other cases of stonings in the past two years were reported but never officially confirmed. The judiciary’s spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said four sentences had been commuted – two will now face long prison sentences and the other two will be flogged.

“In a few other cases, these people have asked for forgiveness and their request … is under review,” he said.

According to Iran’s Islamic legal system, people sentenced to stoning should be half buried before being pelted with stones large enough to hurt, but not large enough to kill immediately.

That’s nice. I’m relieved to see that it was pressure from the EU which has caused the OFFICIAL LEGAL & JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN IRAN to maybe re-consider stoning people to death in 2008, and not any matter of conscience or internal horror, that is very comforting to me. Sounds very humane all in all, half buried so your head is above ground while people throw rocks at you large enough to kill you.. but only very slowly. I’m worried about the stoners though? Will they all be unemployed now and be forced into difficult job retraining, perhaps there might be some openings in flogging? Let’s hope so..

Surgeon General’s Warning: Be careful with that hashish my Iranian friends, Iran is apparently one of the few remaining places where getting stoned can, well.. Get you stoned. Viva Islam!

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Our distinguished guest, President Bush is heading out of Israeli control today and the concern in Israel for his safety is palpable. Numerous Gazan groups spurred on by the radical Hamas have called for the assassination of the US President on his visit, the Jerusalem Post reports 3 radical Palestinian groups calling for violence against Bush in the last 24 hours alone.

Violent Demonstrations Expected

Yesterday while Bush was in Tel-Aviv & Jerusalem, violent protests, flag burnings & burnings of Bush in effigy took place in Gaza, and violent demonstrations are expected in the West Bank areas where the President is expected to visit with Abbas & PA officials, who themselves are now equally concerned for his safety.

We are taking these threats very seriously,” a senior PA security official told The Jerusalem Post. “We have taken several precautionary measures to foil any attempt to target Bush or to disrupt his visit.”

Another PA security official accused Hamas of being behind most of the threats against the US leader. “Hamas has turned the Gaza Strip into a safe haven for numerous terrorist groups,” he said. “All these groups are operating there under the auspices of Hamas.” [...]

Some 20 masked gunmen belonging to the Army of the Nation held a press conference in Khan Yunis in which they condemned Bush as the “leader of the infidels” and accused him of “waging war against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.” The group vowed to receive Bush with suicide bombers during his visit to the Palestinian territories.

A spokesman for the group who identified himself as Abu al-Hifs denied his men were affiliated with al-Qaida or Fatah al-Islam. “We are all Muslim youth from here,” he said. “Fatah al-Islam and al-Qaida are our brothers. Although we have no ideological difference between us, we don’t belong to them.” [...]

This is combined with the previous Al Qaeda messages, 2 in the past two weeks calling for violence against Israel & Bush. It’s quite dangerous frankly, Israel is not allowed security control in PA autonomous areas, and of course Gaza is really Gazastan now..

The Palestinians have created a cesspool of terrorism & violence, which even now threatens to mar the visit of the man most responsible for trying to fulfil their dream of statehood. Bush is en-route to Ramallah now, please keep him safe.

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It’s a figment of our collective imagination, nothing more than a Hollywood stunt. Wow, the nerve of the Pentagon to fabricate an international incident like this along with fake video, I tell you between the endless lies pouring out of Iran, the conspiracy theorists flocking to Ron paul, and the wave of puke inducing Obama worship the whole planet has gone to hell.

It’s like the morons have seized control, either that or someone has been slipping bad acid into my Cup ‘o Soups. Attention the following Pentagon video has been declared a fabrication by the Islamic Republic of Iran so you must view at your own risk lest Allah strike you down, more to the point.. If you watch this you have to wonder about the Americans, can you believe these boats we NOT fired upon!? Insanity.

I feel safer already knowing the USA is watching Israel’s back in case of a nuclear Iran, nice to know we’ll all be vaporized WELL BEFORE any action is taken.. If ever.

Decline of the American Empire.

Hat Tip JPOST

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