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Found via The American Thinker

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has been digging into Soros’Open Society Institute, backer of so much anti-Israeli and anti-US activities throughout the world, and in his first look(2005) finds that it received substantial sums from the Palestinians and the U.S. Government.The Palestinian contribution is understandable. But the U.S. Government?

Why?

This from WorldNetDaily

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Muslim terrorist leaders are “thankful” for the efforts of activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, stating in a new book Sheehan’s anti-Iraq war activities and her statements against President Bush “give us hope” the U.S. will change its Mideast policies.

“You [Sheehan] give us hope and you show us that there are different Americans than those whom we know,” stated Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank’s Anskar Refugee Camp.

“This sincere woman says what we’ve been saying all these last years – Saddam never threatened America or its security. Now Iraq is being decimated and America is losing. Voices like Sheehan’s show things can change,” said Adassi.

Read the rest here

This from the blog: GOP Vixen - Bridget Johnson article in the LA Daily News

South Korea: Ally or foe? You make the call after reading my Los Angeles Daily News column today:

“…South Korea’s National Intelligence Service chief, Kim Man-bok, flew to Afghanistan late last month and returned with the remaining 19 hostages. Immediately, reports surfaced that South Korea had paid a large sum to the Taliban in exchange for the evangelicals’ release. Al-Jazeera cited several sources that said a hefty sum had changed hands, and a Taliban figure - who later recanted under pressure from his superiors, who undoubtedly wanted to look like they were a powerful political bargaining force and not common criminals - told Reuters the amount was $20 million.

South Korea vehemently denied coughing up a ransom. But behind closed doors, the answer adopted shades of gray. ‘It is inappropriate to discuss whether a ransom was paid,’ Kim reportedly told a parliamentary committee Thursday. ‘It will be known later. I will speak at an appropriate time.’

Because the Taliban doesn’t just let valuable hostages go out of the goodness of their hearts - or for ‘demands’ that were a foregone conclusion - late last week I checked with U.S. government sources who unofficially confirmed that South Korea did, indeed, exchange cash for the hostages.

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Found this on the blog Neocon Express

Why my liberal friends fail to see with clarity what the leaders of our enemies say openly and without reservation, is a mystery to me. Do they want to live under a totalitarian, religiously fanatic dictatorship? Or is it that they disbelieve the intentions of our enemies? Or perhaps it’s all a question of willfully blinding ones self to reality in the desperate hope that it will all go away and that the age of aquariums will be upon us again?Iran’s President Ahmedinejad today (August 14, 2007) at the Iranian Embassy in Kabul:

“There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind…the world is on verge of a great upheaval and the umma at this juncture shoulder a heavy responsibility that is introducing genuine Islam as it is….nations today have no haven but religion…all of us have the duty to resist the enemy by closing our ranks….Islam belongs to all generations and Muslims should get ready for the global mission of Islam.”

Old: Iran leader: Islam to ‘rule the world’ - Urges Muslims to get ready for coming of ‘messiah’

C’mon do you really care about this, liberals and the media apparently don’t.
Dude is just viewed as the krazy little man “over there,” he is a harmless little fuzzball.

Let’s just ignore his past statements like; Israel should be wiped off the map, the Holocaust never happened, due to Iran’s importance to the world supply of oil, the West won’t dare to oppose Iran in any matter.

I’m just wondering if the Democrats running for the White House takes this crazy bastard seriously.

Ahmadinejad is part of fundamentalist Islam’s 13-centuries-old war of conquest targeting non-Muslims with the goal of imposing Islam on all the nations of the world and he wants nukes so as to destroy Israel as part of this war of conquest.
He is also quite determined to dictate his will to non-Muslim countries and to use nuclear power to pursue his goal of imposing Islam on those countries.
The next president better be prepared to deal with this nut and be willing to deal with his push in obtaining nuclear weapons.

From the Sun - UK

IRANIAN forces are being choppered over the Iraqi border to bomb Our Boys, intelligence chiefs say.

Military experts claim this worrying move means we are at WAR with Iran in all but name.

Last night an intelligence source told The Sun: “It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran — but nobody has officially declared it.

“We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us.

“It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot.”

Our Boys picked up the Iranian helicopters on radar crossing into empty desert.

The sightings have been confirmed to The Sun by very senior military sources.

At least two Brit squaddies are thought to have been killed by bombs planted during these incursions into Maysan province — Corporal Ben Leaning, 24, and Trooper Kristen Turton, 27.

A further 44 British deaths have also been linked to the highly advanced bombs, rockets and mortars which originated in Iran.

Coming so swiftly after the kidnap of 15 Royal Navy sailors in the Gulf, our revelation will send strained relations between London and Tehran plummeting further.

Until now, secret units from Iran’s fanatical RGC have restricted themselves to just training and arming Shia rebels in Iraq.

They include the al Quds Brigade — a secretive force tasked to spread Islamic revolution abroad who are the main backers for Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and are also active in Palestine and northern Iraq.

An MoD spokeswoman said: “There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran.

“Any Iranian link to armed militias in Iraq either through weapons supply, training or funding are unacceptable.

Israeli forces raid jeep of longtime wanted militant caught in compromising position

RAMALLAH – Israel today arrested a longtime wanted terror leader here in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

According to Israeli security officials and Palestinian sources in Ramallah speaking to WND, the terrorist was arrested while having car sex just a few hundred feet from late PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s gravesite.

Khaled Shawish, an officer in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Force 17 presidential guards, was captured by undercover Israeli police forces following scores of shooting attacks he is suspected of carrying out. Shawish, who doubles as the Ramallah chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, previously boasted of involvement in a West Bank shooting attack in December 2000 that killed Israeli ultranationalist leader Benjamin Kahane and Kahane’s wife, Talya.

Read the rest at WND

(link) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that “there is a group occupying the young Palestinians while the latter are defending their mothers and fathers, and presenting them as terrorists.

“Do these criminals believe in God and in the Bible? They are like beastly persons; they have no faith in God. We object to the crimes making bad use in the name of Judaism,” he added in a speech to the Iranian people. (Dudi Cohen)

Wait, wait, I got this.
Those chicken shit fucks from Hezbollah set-up their rocket and missile launches in the dwellings of civilians, while Israel goes out of their way to pinpoint the bombings to minimize civilian casualties but Israel is the one who gets screwed by the lying ass fauxtography jackass press. Strange, or maybe not, that you won’t find this story on any MSM site or any liberal blog.
I’m not surprised, just thought I would vent for the hell of it, to remind people. Carry on!

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Israel documents civilian-targeted weapons from Syria, Iran

Steel balls and other lethal fragments were encased in rockets from Syria and Iran that were used by Hezbollah on Israeli civilian areas during the recent war, the Israeli Ministry of Defense confirmed to WND today.

Photographs of the anti-personnel “flying metal” damage done by Syrian-made 220-mm rockets fired by Hezbollah were published today in Israel by Uzi Rubin of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Rubin served as the head of Israel’s Missile Defense Organization from 1991 to 1999, when he oversaw development of the country’s Arrow anti-missile defense system.

The published report documented the Hezbollah rockets and rocket launchers as “one of the defining weapons of the second Lebanon war,” predicting their impact in the Middle East “will encourage radical movements to adopt rocket attacks against U.S. and Western forces and assets.”

The report documented 4,228 rocket impacts inside Israel from rockets fired by Hezbollah from July 13 to Aug. 13. Israel suffered 53 fatalities from the attacks, along with 250 severely wounded people and 2,000 lightly wounded.

Rubin concluded the public shelters and the security rooms dictated by building codes in private dwellings were effective in protecting the 1 million civilians living in the northern Israel areas under attack. Some 250,000 Israeli civilians evacuated the north, relocating to other areas of the country.

Among the Syrian-provided rockets used were:

 

• Grad-type 122 mm Katyusha, range 18.6 miles, warhead 66 pounds. 
• Improved Grad 122 mm Katyusha, range 31 miles 
• 220 mm rocket, range range 43.5 miles, probably Syrian-manufactured Russian “Ouragan” Multiple Launch Rocket System 
• “B302″ 302 mm rocket, range 62 miles, warhead 386 pounds, probably Syrian-manufactured Chinese WS-1 MLRS

The photographs of Syrian and Iranian rockets fired by Hezbollah provided documentation of worldwide speculation during the war that Syria and Iran both had been involved in arming Hezbollah.

Israel also identified debris from Iranian-made240 mm Fajr-3 with a range of 28 miles. Hezbollah also attacked Israeli naval vessels in the Mediterranean with the “Noor” (C802) anti-ship cruise missile, a Chinese-designed, Iranian-manufactured missile. On July 14, a C802 killed four Israeli sailors aboard the Israeli Navy Ship INS Hanit.

During the first two weeks of the war, Hezbollah rocket attacks averaged about 100 per day. In early August, Hezbollah doubled the rate of attack to a daily average of 200. There was a decline in the final week, although Hezbollah still was able to launch 250 rockets Aug.13, the day before the cease-fire. Rubin concluded “Israeli counterattacks apparently had no serious influence on Hezbollah’s rate of fire but had an effect on the accuracy and geography of the attacks.”

Rubin concluded Israel needed to reduce the “flash-to-bang” cycle – the interval from the launch of a Hezbollah rocket to the Israeli counterattack – to a few seconds from the time of pinpointing launcher location. Rubin’s second major conclusion was Israel needed “to develop and deploy effective and affordable active defense against rockets to protect vital civilian and military installations.”

Early warning sirens were credited with providing “timely alarms, saving innumerable lives.”

Counter-fire by Israeli artillery was rated “marginally effective,” as were raids by Special Forces units on rocket launchers and command posts. Rubin also rated air strikes as “moderately effective,” as they degraded the accuracy of the rocket launchers and pushed them away from the best launching zones from which to strike Haifa.

Rubin noted that one of the major effects of the war was that economic activity in Israel effectively was suspended for a month.

(Thanks Misty!) 

By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
From Telegraph UK - Article Link

A senior member of Hamas has broken a taboo by calling on Palestinians to stop blaming Israel for all their ills and look instead at their own failures.

Ghazi Hamad, the Hamas government’s official spokesman, said Palestinians had been “attacked by the bacteria of stupidity”.

“The anarchy, chaos, pointless murders, the plundering of lands, family feuds … what do all of these have to do with the occupation?” he asked in the opinion piece published in the Palestinian newspaper, al-Ayyam. “We have always been accustomed to pinning our failures on others, and conspiratorial thinking is still widespread among us.”

He was particularly scathing about the failure of the Palestinians to make a success of the Gaza Strip, the territory that Israel effectively surrendered a year ago.

“When you walk around in Gaza, you cannot help but avert your eyes from what you see: indescribable anarchy, policemen that nobody cares about, youth proudly carrying weapons. From time to time you hear that so-and-so was murdered in the middle of the night, and the response comes quickly the next morning. Large families carry weapons in tribal wars against other families.

“The reality in which we are living in Gaza can only be described as miserable and wretched, and as a failure in every sense of the word.” His description resonates with what many outsiders find when they leave the orderly roads and fields of Israel and cross into Gaza, a dirty, crowded coastal strip teeming with 1.4 million people.

Israel can be blamed for many of Gaza’s problems but there is plenty of evidence to support Mr Hamad’s thesis, that the kidnapping, lawlessness and social chaos are, at least partly, homegrown.

He said his article was his private opinion.

But it is a sign of growing division between Hamas members living in the Palestinian territories and exiles living elsewhere, including the leadership in Damascus.

The exiles take a hard-line attitude, insisting on militants continuing to fire Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel. But people, such as Mr Hamad, who live in Gaza seem to have lost patience with these tactics.

The rockets have killed only four Israelis, yet hundreds of Palestinians have died in Israeli retribution.

By Thomas Sowell - Via Human Events

Now that Israel has responded to rocket attacks and the abduction of its soldiers by terrorists by making military strikes into areas controlled by those terrorists, much of our media are deploring another “cycle of violence” in the Middle East.
For reasons unknown, some people seem to regard verbal equivalence as moral equivalence — and the latter as some kind of badge of broadmindedness, if not intellectual superiority.
Therefore, when Palestinian terrorists (”militants” in politically correct Newspeak) attack Israel and then Israel responds with military force, that is just another “cycle of violence” in the Middle East to some people.
The “cycle” notion suggests that each side is just responding to what the other side does. But just what had Israel done to set off these latest terrorist acts? It voluntarily pulled out of Gaza, after evacuating its own settlers, and left the land to the Palestinian authorities.
Terrorists then used the newly acquired land to launch rockets into Israel and then seized an Israeli soldier. Other terrorists in Lebanon followed suit. The great mantra of the past, “trading land for peace,” is now thoroughly discredited, or should be.
But facts mean nothing to people who are determined to find equivalence, whether today in the Middle East or yesterday in the Cold War.
Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, nothing is easier than to create verbal parallels and moral equivalence, though some people seem to pride themselves on their ability to do such verbal tricks.
Centuries ago, Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men’s counters but that they are the money of fools.
Regardless of fashionable rhetoric, there is no Middle East “peace process” any more than trading “land for peace” has been a viable option. Nor is a Palestinian “homeland” a key to peace.
During all the years when Arab countries controlled the land now proposed for a Palestinian homeland, there was no talk about any such homeland. Only after Israel took control of that territory as a result of the 1967 war was it suddenly sacred as a Palestinian homeland.
There is no concession that will bring lasting peace to the Middle East because the terrorists and their supporters are not going to be satisfied by concessions. The only thing that will satisfy them is the destruction of Israel.
Pending that, they will inflict as much destruction and bloodshed on the Israelis as they can get away with at any given time. This brutal reality is not going to vanish through verbal sleight of hand.
The terrorists have spoken in words and in deeds, including suicide bombers. They have what Churchill once described in the Nazis as “currents of hatred so intense as to sear the souls of those who swim upon them.”
We saw that on 9/11 — or should have seen it. But many, especially among the intelligentsia, are determined not to see it.
Of all the Western democracies, only two have no choice but to depend on their own military forces for their survival — the United States and Israel. The rest have for more than half a century had the luxury of depending on American military forces in general and the American nuclear deterrent in particular.
People who have long been sheltered from mortal dangers can indulge themselves in the belief that there are no mortal dangers. Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran or North Korea — and, through them, in the hands of hate-filled terrorists — may be all that will finally wake up such people. But that may be tragically too late.
Those who keep calling for an end to the “cycle of violence” are what make such violence more likely. “World opinion” in general and the United Nations in particular can always be counted on to counsel “restraint” in response to attacks and “negotiations” in response to lethal threats.
What that means is that those who start trouble will have a lower price to pay than if those they attacked were free to go all out in their counter-attack. Lowering the price to be paid by aggressors virtually guarantees more aggression.

by Dan Darling - The Weekly Standard

AS ISRAEL CONTINUES to come to grips with Hezbollah’s missile strike on the northern Israeli city of Haifa, it is important to fully appreciate the implications of this attack. While Hezbollah, like other terrorist and guerrilla organizations worldwide, has long been known to possess a number of Katyushas with a range of up to 10-20 kilometers, the two missiles fired at Haifa are believed to be Iranian-produced Raad-1s, which have an estimated range of as much as 150 kilometers. While attacks by Katyusha rockets (like their Qassem counterparts that are favored by Hamas) have long been a problem for northern Israel, the grim implications of the use of Raad-1s against Haifa were best spelled out in a headline by Ynet News: “2 million Israelis under threat.” The reach of Hezbollah’s missiles, once believed to be confined to the northern border, has now spread to encompass the vast majority of Israel.
The introduction of Raad missiles should also clear up any lingering doubts among analysts as to the Iranian complicity in the latest violence. While the relationship between Hezbollah and the senior echelons of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have long been clear enough to make it the quintessential textbook definition of state-sponsored terrorism, the increasingly sophisticated weapons being used by the terrorist group leave little doubt that Iran is complicit in the recent violence.
In an eerie parallel to the current situation, Time magazine discussed Hezbollah’s relationship with Iran in a recent article 
 
 
in which it noted:

Hizballah officials have publicly said that the group possesses some 13,000 rockets. Most of them are believed to be standard Katyushas, which have a 12-mile range. But, Israeli officials say Hizballah also maintains a supply of 220mm and even larger rockets from Iran, a “strategic threat” capable of hitting targets in Haifa–20 miles inside Israel–and beyond. “They can target all of the north and go as far afield as Haifa, threatening one million inhabitants of Israel. It must be considered by Israel’s leaders at all times,” the Israeli military intelligence official says.
Israeli officials reportedly allege that the long-range rockets are under the direct command of officers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, which Israel alleges has lately expanded its presence along the border. This charge, too, is denied by Hizballah, and has not been independently confirmed.

The Time article also goes on to discuss the continued financial support that Hezbollah enjoys from Iran, reporting that “one Western diplomat in Beirut estimated the figure at between $20 million and $40 million a month.” These continued logistical and financial ties further highlight the absurdity of denying the clear-cut patron-client relationship that exists between Iran and Hezbollah. That this relationship continues in spite of Hezbollah’s recent attacks leaves little doubt that Iran at least approved of, if not ordered, the current violence. READ THE REST HERE

AND AFTER THAT READ THIS:

Rush: “It’s Been World War III Since 9/11, What’s Happening Now Is Gift to the World”

Idiot liberals had a cow on many of the blogs yesterday after Rush make this comment on his show. Several liberal blogs had posted the quote less an hour after he made them without understanding what he meant by them.
Rush explains basically that we have an opportunity NOW to deal with Iran BEFORE they get nukes. I ran is responsible for what is going on and frankly they don’t give a shit what the rest of the world thinks. So they need to be dealt with. Here is Rush’s take: 

Here’s the key: Are we going to take care of Iran now before it has nukes or are we going to wait until we can’t do anything?

That’s the key here.

Iran is nothing more than a third-rate dictatorship. It’s not supported by it’s own people. There’s a very restive population there. It’s a Jimmy Carter legacy which has to be ended. Now, Israel can’t do this. People say, “Turn Israel loose on Iran.” Israel can’t do it, folks. They can’t take care of Iran without us. Iran is too far away for their ground forces. It’s too far away for their fighter jets to run bombing missions and to get back, but just think. Ask yourself a hypothetical: if we were doing to Iran what Israel is doing in Lebanon, that might be enough. You don’t need to go in and occupy Iran. Anything that takes its place can’t be any worse if we were to root out the current mullah regime and that has to be objective number one. That’s why I think this is a gift to the world, folks. This is an opportunity finally to do something about Iran. Iran is the elephant in the room in all of this, and if we sit here and say it’s Hezbollah or it’s Assad or it’s Syria or it’s Hamas, we are blaming the tentacles and not the brain, and Iran is the center and the focus of this, and that’s why this is a gift.

READ FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE:

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“All the major disasters which befell the region stem from the existence of the state called Israel. So long as there is a state called Israel, disasters and suffering will continue. This is a cancerous body in the region… When a cancer is discovered, it must be dealt with fearlessly; it must be uprooted…

“The only way to achieve just and comprehensive peace is not through the implementation of resolutions 425, 242 and 338 but by restoring all the Arab lands to their sons and owners, without war and conflict. Let us spare bloodshed. Let the Yemenite Jews return to Yemen, the Moroccan Jews to Morocco, the Ethiopian Jews to Ethiopia, the European Jews to Europe, and the American Jews to America. The Palestinian people will get their land back and establish their state…

“Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history… Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment…” SOURCE