Colonel's Killers Planned to Abduct his Wife

by Gil Ronen

The Arab terrorists who murdered reserve colonel Sraya Ofer Hy”d at his home on October 10, also planned to abduct his wife, Monique. She succeded in escaping, however, suffering injury in the process.

Ouda Haroub, 18, and Bashir Haroub, 21, both from the PA Arab town of Deir Sammit in the Hevron region, were charged this week with murdering  Ofer, whose nickname was Yaya, outside his Jordan Valley home.

According to the charge sheets filed against them at the Shomron (Samaria) military court, the terrorists began planning the murder about six months before they carried it out.


hey beat and stabbed the former senior IDF officer until he died. They then looked for Monique, in order to abduct her. When they failed to find her, they escaped with the help of a third terrorist, Abed Shuamra, whom they called after the murder. Shuamra was charged last week.

The terrorists initially said that they had come to commit a robbery, but things “got out of hand.” This turned out to be untrue, and investigators determined that the murder was pre-planned.

Monique Ofer said after the murder that she and her husband heard a noise outside their home and, upon going outside to check it out, her husband was attacked by Arabs wielding iron bars and axes. The two attackers tried to grab her as she fled from the scene, but she managed to escape and stopped a passing car on Route 90 to call security forces.

"I received a call from a woman who said she (and her husband) were attacked inside their home and she managed to run away and stop a passing car for help," a paramedic working the Magen David Adom call center said. "I immediately sent medics in the area to the scene and contacted the security forces."

It later turned out that Sraya Ofer had encountered his murderers two weeks before the murder, when they approached his home. They aroused his suspicion in that encounter and he reported the license number of their car to police.

When the two killers came near his home for the first time, Ofer approached them with his gun in his hand, and with his dog next to him. The two told him that they were on their way north in their car, which had overheated, and asked for water for the car's cooling system.

Ofer gave them water but suspected that they were lying, and followed them as they returned to their car. He noticed that they headed south, and not north as they had told him. He called the police's hotline number, 100, and reported the vehicle's license plate number.

Following the report, a police car came to his home at Brosh Habik'a, and a professional tracker was also summoned when the doors of two vacation homes were found to be open, raising suspicion of a break-in.

There were no signs of a break-in, however, and a police check of the car's license plate number found that it had not been stolen. Police therefore decided not to pursue the matter further.

OC: White House Bails Out Insurance Companies with Taxpayer Money to Help Obama

ROBERT PEAR December 3, 2013

WASHINGTON - The White House is offering more money to insurance companies as an incentive for them to let people keep insurance policies that were to have been canceled next year.

The administration floated several proposals on Monday to "help offset the loss in premium revenue and profit" that it said might occur if insurers went along with President Obama's request to reinstate canceled policies.
Millions of people have received notices saying their policies were being canceled because they did not comply with minimum coverage requirements of the new health care law.

In a notice published Monday in the Federal Register, the administration acknowledged that insurers had a valid concern: They may be stuck with sicker, higher-cost customers in the new insurance exchanges because healthier Americans will stay on their existing health plans for another year.

Facing a political furor over the cancellation of insurance policies, Mr. Obama announced on Nov. 14 that he would temporarily waive some requirements of the new federal law and allow insurers to renew "current policies for current enrollees" for a year.

Insurers criticized the president's move, saying it could upset the assumptions on which they had set premiums for new insurance products providing coverage in 2014.

European Muslim Brotherhood Issues Shura Council Statement

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The Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE) has issued its Final Statement of the Seventh Shura Council held in mid-November. Notable topics taken up in the statement include concern over the issue of Muslim refugees seeking refuge in Europe, “shock at the extent of practices of eavesdropping and surveillance, invading individuals’ personal space, and spying on their private life” and what it called “flagrant violations by the Israeli occupation authorities of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque”:

Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe

Istanbul, 14-17 November 2013 The Seventh Shura Council in the ninth term of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) was held, with the blessing and aid of Allah, from 14-17 November 2013 (10-13 Muharram 1435H) in Istanbul. The Council convened this ordinary meeting, chaired by the governing body of the Federation Shura Council, and with the participation of the Federation President, Executive Office members, and representatives of member organisations in the majority of European countries.

The Bedouin Squatters

Laura: So any land that the Arabs decide to squat on should be recognized as theirs, but land that Jewish “settlers” actually purchased in Judea/Samaria and eastern Jerusalem is an illegitimate occupation. That is the twisted narrative of the left.
This latest blood libel is being pushed by the noxious “Rabbis” for Human Rights. I maintain that the Jewish left are our own worst enemies.

The blood libel film
BEN-DROR YEMINI, TOI, NOVEMBER 29, 2013,
For the past several months a campaign has been under way in Israel and around the world, backed by an endless budget, aimed at aggravating the relationship between the State of Israel and the Bedouins. This campaign included the recent release of a propaganda film portraying the expulsion of Bedouins from their land.

The main star of the film is Theodore Bikel, who was recruited for this role mainly because of his past portrayal of Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof. The film, in a propagandized play on words, is called Fiddler with no Roof, and that is nothing compared to the film’s content. The Bedouins are portrayed as the victims of the terrible expulsion decree that was issued against the Jews in the dark days of the anti-Semitic Tsarist regime, as described at the plot of Fiddler on the Roof. And a plot is just what it is.

Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief

Trust, or the lack thereof.

Victor Davis Hanson

Adding straws of scandal — Fast and Furious, the Associated Press monitoring, the IRS fiasco, and the NSA spying — on any presidential back except Barack Obama’s would have long ago broken it. Watergate ruined Richard Nixon. Iran-Contra earned a special prosecutor and nearly destroyed the Reagan second term. Katrina’s incompetent local and state reactions, coupled with a tardy federal effort — and the insurgency in postwar Iraq — ended the viability of George W. Bush in his second term. 

 

Second, well apart from scandal, the perception of presidential lying usually ends presidential agendas. Richard Nixon resigned after never telling the truth about the Watergate cover-up. “Read my lips: no new taxes” cost George H.W. Bush his reelection. “I did not have sex with that woman” made Bill Clinton’s impeachment likely.

The Daily TIP: Concern heightens that unbalanced Iran deal will weaken U.S. negotiators, as downward spiral threatens to take hold of sanctions regime‏

Concern heightens that unbalanced Iran deal will weaken U.S. negotiators, as downward spiral threatens to take hold of sanctions regime U.N. nuclear watchdog reemphasizes concerns on Iran nuclear weaponization Israeli officials insist violence won't derail development efforts in country's south AP: Hamas cancels anniversary celebration over Egypt-driven 'deep economic woes' What we’re watching today:

WIESENTHAL CENTER WARNS SF STATE UNIVERSITY OF POTENTIAL THREAT TO JEWISH STUDENTS AFTER VIOLENT POST BY PALESTINIAN STUDENT GROUP HEAD IS UNCOVERED

Simon Wiesenthal Center officials today warned San Francisco State University of a potential threat to its Jewish students after the Amcha Initiative uncovered a picture on Tumblr allegedly posted by the President of the university-sanctioned General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS) in which he is shown holding a knife with the caption saying, “I seriously can not get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier….”   The Tumblr post has since been removed.

 

Copies of the picture were forwarded to SFSU President Leslie Wong by Amcha and the Wiesenthal Center, and in a phone conversation earlier today with Wong’s office, Center officials warned that such avowedly violent statements, especially when linked with another recent GUPS campus event where participants used a stencil saying, “My heroes have always killed colonizers,” pose a potentially significant threat to the university’s Jewish students. “It is outrageous and unacceptable that the leader of a university-funded group would invoke a message of death and violence,” said a Wiesenthal Center official.

OSLO POLICE SAY THAT THEY’VE LOST CONTROL OVER THE CITY……..

This mirrors exactly what has been happening throughout Europe and the United Kingdom, as Muslim enclaves become no-go zones for non-Muslims, including the police, fire dept and medical first responders.

• European ‘No-Go’ Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating  (posted as early as Nov of 2011!!)

“Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers”

Oslo police: “We have lost the city”

A devastating CBN report shows that Oslo is already firmly in control of Muslim invaders. In many parts of the city the Sharia already applies as the only law. That’s where the local Imams reign. Recent police statistics reveal that 100% of all rapes in Oslo are committed by non-Western immigrants and 90% of the victims are Norwegian women, victims that are even declared to offenders – more precisely “racists”- by left-wing scum bags.

(by L.S.Gabriel)

From Street Neglect To Exemplary Citizenship

Nurit Greenger

There is much good is in our world that outweighs the bad; it must be exposed, reminded and supported all the time. Yedidut Zahala is one such organization and project.

There are many organizations in the United States that help Israel; some do it an ongoing fundraising campaign that each year expresses itself in a lavish style annual Gala in one of the luxury hotels in the city, and others, which are supposedly the "underdog", do it in an intimate way, under the generous hospitality in the home of some private individuals. The results are no different. Israel gets the support and financial help, more importantly, mental and moral reinforcement. It is possible that when people meet in privacy for a special cause , they not only achieve their goal, they also become an intimate family for the cause they have set to accomplish.

"Strength for the Hard Times"

I give thanks for this Chanukah season, which is buoying me - and I hope many of you! - during a difficult time.

 

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Before moving to the difficult stuff, I begin with links to material that I would like to share:

 

A poll done on behalf of the organization Regavim, here in Israel, shows that when Israelis who are not predisposed to the "settlements" come to understand that international law gives Israel rights in Judea and Samaria, they may change their minds about those "settlements."

 

The point here (which I make in the article) is that this shows us why the Levy Report Campaign is so important.  The Arab lies have distorted the thinking even of some Israelis, and it's our task to do the education that will set the record straight:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/28/poll-majority-of-israelis-believe-settlements-to-be-legal/

Why Is There So Little Outrage Over The Iran Deal?

E. Jeffrey Ludwig

While there are many skeptics concerning the recent deal with Iran in Geneva, a tone of outrage from political and religious leaders is missing or muted. Outside of Israel, American political leaders may disagree, but the language is typically restrained, and a "wait and see" attitude has been cultivated. Why are our politicians, as well as Christian and Jewish leaders, not clamoring for a Congressional resolution rejecting this deal?
Many of our American leaders may assume that since an Iranian nuclear weapon is so blatantly a danger not only to Israel but to the U.S., the Middle East, and to Europe, that the U.S. and the other countries who struck this deal will provide proper surveillance. They may be thinking that even though the Iranians are sneaky and cannot be trusted, the big powers will be smart enough and possess sufficient technological sophistication to prevent a real end run around the deal, and thus, even if at the last minute (the proverbial cavalry to the rescue), the West will intercept and stop any real cheating and Iran will pay heavy consequences.

COP: The Schizophrenia of Barack Obama

Steve McCann

Barack Obama is a man with only one core conviction.  He has, as the basic foundation of his otherwise disorganized and uncertain belief system, the irrefutable tenet that the United States, because of its European roots, has been the epitome of oppression and arrogance throughout its history.  Therefore, he is able to rationalize the need to say or do anything as the transformation of American society and the end of the pre-eminent status of the United States are his sole objectives.  He has, thus, adopted a pre-meditated schizophrenic personality wherein he comports himself as an apologist and appeaser on the international stage and a narcissistic autocrat at home. 

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• Co-founder and executive director of Electronic Intifada
• Abunimah is a leading advocate of the one-state solution. To actualize this, he says “coercion is necessary,” and dismisses Jewish concerns of living under an Arab majority as “irrational, racist fears.”
• He acknowledges that in a one-state solution “we couldn’t rule out some disastrous situation” (4:43) for Jews.
• Labels PA President Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as “collaborators”, and PA participation in peace talks as “collaboration.” Collaboration is punishable by death in the PA and Gaza.
• In a conference in Madrid on the one-state solution, Abunimah refers to Peace Now as a “right-wing Zionist racist group[]” (Arab World Geographer, Vol 10, No 1, 2007).
• On his personal Twitter account, Abunimah accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and of being “white supremacist,” calls Israeli settlements “Jim Crow colonies,” refers to the Shin Bet (Israel’s General Security Service) as a “death squad,” and calls people of color “schwarzers.”

AUSSIES NOT HOODWINKED BY ISLAM, VIEW MOHAMMEDAN IDEOLOGY INTRINSICALLY LINKED TO VIOLENCE AND MAYHEM……..

 KGS

It’s not like those of us in the anti-Islamization /Counter-jihad movement have absolutely nothing better in life to do, than to pick on a certain group of people from sheer spite. In fact, I’ve never run into anyone involved in the movement who wouldn’t like to be doing something else, like devoting more time with their families, pursuing hobbies and enjoying life in general.

Nope, we’re stuck here in the fight against a tyrannical ideology because we believe that it is indeed a major threat to our western way of life and values. The reason that we believe it’s so, is not from spite, nor from misinformation (Muslims and the koran itself, openly divulge the game plan) but from an honest conviction that we are under assault, militarily and ideologically.

Thankfully, more and more people are seeing through all the disinformation and obfuscations by the PC media and our elected officials. The people see that Islam is not a religion of peace, no matter how many people they kill trying to prove it, and that every society that has not mounted a concerted push-back against the ideology, are eventually consumed by it.

"The West's Great Betrayal"

Mordechai Kedar


Since the signing of the Geneva agreement between Iran and the group of six countries at the end of last week, media outlets the world over have been discussing the agreement and the easing of sanctions, what Iran will give in return and the ability - which exists or does not exist - to oversee whether the Iranians, who have lied and cheated the world for many years, will faithfully carry out what they agreed to and signed on. There were those who wondered about the absence of the demand for Iran to dismantle the plutonium reactor in Arak, whose purpose is only military, and there were those who calculated the time that would be required for the Iranians to renew the activity toward producing a bomb. The media outlets of the world dealt quite a bit with Israel's concern, the rage of the Saudis' and people in the Gulf Emirates, and everyone wonders what Israel will do, who is not part of the agreement.

Nuke Deal Fiasco Analyses Ignore Iran’s Genocidal Islamic Jew-Hatred

Andrew Bostom

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran’s President Rouhani, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, all concur on this critical outcome of the interim agreement struck between Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers, announced early Sunday morning, 11/24/13: Iran’s nuclear enrichment program will continue apace.
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a not-for-profit, non-partisan, advocacy group which  seeks to thwart Iran’s ambition to obtain nuclear weapons, issued a press release highlighting the fundamental strategic failures of the interim 6-month pact:
By not agreeing to dismantle a single centrifuge, Iran has not rolled back its nuclear infrastructure and with the many centrifuges that it is currently operating, Iran retains the ability to breakout and produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in as little as 2 months. At the same time, the carefully constructed sanctions architecture developed over decades has been significantly rolled back.
UANI argued further that the Geneva agreement provided Iran disproportionate sanctions relief, which would enable the Iranian economy (as gauged by the value of its currency, the rial) to recover to an extent that Iran’s nuclear weapons development (i.e., nuclear enrichment, and plutonium generation) programs, would be abetted by this reduction in economic pressures.
Six months from now we believe that the Iranian rial will have regained significant lost value and there will be far less economic pressure on the Iranian economy. And accordingly there will be far less pressure for Iran to actually dismantle a material number of centrifuges, much less end its nuclear enrichment and plutonium programs for which it has no practical purpose except to produce a nuclear weapon. If Iran’s industrial-size nuclear program is not rolled back, Tehran will inherently maintain the breakout capacity to build such a weapon
While a number of equally sobering assessments (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) have reiterated UANI’s tocsin of looming geo-strategic calamity regarding the so-called “P5 + 1” agreement just brokered with Iran, the ideology animating Iran’s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons—apocalyptic, annihilationist Islamic Jew-hatred—was uniformly ignored.
For the past decade, in essays (here, and in a three part series, 1, 2,  & 3), and my lengthy compendium, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, I have elucidated Shiite Iran’s half millennial history of Jew-hatred—its canonical Islamic origins, and the brutally oppressive, intermittently murderous impact of this doctrine on Iranian Jewry.
E. G. Browne, a Persianophilic British scholar, wrote the following words in the 1920s about the entire period of Shiite theocratic rule, from the ascension of the first Safavid shah, Ismail I, at the outset of the 16th century, through Reza Shah Pahlavi’s installation in 1925, marking the end of the Qajar dynasty (and punctuated by dramatic secular reforms):
The Mujtahids [authoritative interpreters of Islamic law] and Mulla are a great force in Persia and concern themselves with every department of human activity from the minutest detail of personal purification to the largest issues of politics.
These Shiite clerics emphasized the notion of the ritual uncleanliness (najis) of Jews in particular, but also of Christians, Zoroastrians, and others, as the cornerstone of relations toward non-Muslims. The impact of this najis conception was already apparent to European visitors to Persia during the reign Ismail I. The Portuguese traveler Tome Pires observed (between 1512 and 1515) that “Sheikh Ismail . . . never spares the life of any Jew,” while another European travelogue notes “the great hatred [Ismail I] bears against the Jews.”
Mohammad Baqer al-Majlisi (d. 1699) was perhaps the most influential cleric of the Safavid Shiite theocracy in Persia. For six years at the end of the 17th century, he functioned as the de facto ruler of Iran, making him the Ayatollah Khomeini of his era. By design, he wrote many works in Persian to disseminate key aspects of the Shia ethos among ordinary persons. In his Persian treatise “Lightning Bolts Against the Jews,” Al-Majlisi describes the standard humiliating requisites for non-Muslims living under sharia, first and foremost the blood-ransom jizya, or poll-tax, based on Koran 9:29.
He then enumerates six other restrictions relating to worship, housing, dress, transportation, and weapons, before outlining the unique Shiite impurity or najis regulations. It is these latter najis prohibitions which lead anthropology professor Laurence Loeb — who studied and lived within the Jewish community of Southern Iran in the early 1970s — to observe, “Fear of pollution by Jews led to great excesses and peculiar behavior by Muslims.” According to Al-Majlisi:
And, that they should not enter the pool while a Muslim is bathing at the public baths . . . If something can be purified, such as clothes, if they are dry, they can be accepted, they are clean. But if they [the dhimmis] had come into contact with those cloths in moisture they should be rinsed with water after being obtained. . . . It would also be better if the ruler of the Muslims would establish that all infidels could not move out of their homes on days when it rains or snows because they would make Muslims impure.
Walter Fischel, the pre-eminent modern historian of Iranian Jewry, has described, in addition, the severe hardships imposed upon Iranian Jews because of their image as sorcerers and practitioners of black magic, which was “as deeply embedded in the minds of the [Muslim] masses as it had been in medieval Europe” [emphasis added]. The consequences of these bigoted superstitions were predictable:
It was therefore easy to arouse their [the Muslim masses] fears and suspicions at the slightest provocation, and to accuse them [the Jews] of possessing cabalistic Hebrew writings, amulets, talismans, segulot, goralot, and refu’ot, which they [the Jews] were using against the Islamic authorities.
This hateful brew of  dehumanizing “impurity” regulations, and the popular conception that Jews engaged in “sorcery,” fomented recurring Muslim anti-Jewish violence,  including pogroms and forced conversions throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which rendered areas of Iran Judenrein — free of Jews.
The so-called “Khomeini revolution,” which in 1979 deposed the secular, Western-oriented regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was in reality a mere return in full (including najis regulations, etc.) to oppressive Shiite theocratic rule, the predominant form of Iranian governance during four centuries. Conditions for all non-Muslim religious minorities, particularly Jews, rapidly deteriorated. Although the demographic decline of Iranian Jewry after the creation of Israel was significant even before the revolution — from nearly 120,000 in 1948 to roughly 70,000 in 1978— the Jewish population dropped precipitously after Khomeini’s ascent to less than 9000 at present.
Ayatollah Khomeini’s views were the most influential in shaping the ideology of the revitalized Shiite theocracy, and his attitudes towards Jews — both before and after he assumed power — were particularly negative. Khomeini’s speeches and writings invoked a panoply of Jew-hating motifs, including orthodox interpretations of sacralized Muslim texts, and the Shiite conception of najis. More ominously, Khomeini’s rhetoric blurred the distinction between Jews and Israelis, reiterated paranoid conspiracy theories about Jews (both within Iran and beyond), and endorsed the annihilation of the Jewish state. The pillars of this continuous modern campaign of annihilationist anti-Semitism are the motifs from traditional Islamic Jew-hatred, including Islamic eschatology, grafted seamlessly to jihadism. These deep-seated Islamic theological motifs are further conjoined to Holocaust denial and the development of a nuclear-weapons program intended expressly for Israel’s eradication.
The conception of najis or ritual uncleanliness of the non-Muslim was clearly reaffirmed. Ayatollah Khomeini stated explicitly: “Non-Muslims of any religion or creed are najis.” Khomeini elaborated his views on najis and non-Muslims, with a specific reference to Jews:
Eleven things are unclean: urine, excrement, sperm, blood, a dog, a pig, bones, a non-Muslim man and woman, wine, beer, perspiration of a camel that eats filth. … The whole body of a non-Muslim is unclean, even his hair, his nails, and all the secretions of his body…The body, saliva, nasal secretions, and perspiration of a non-Muslim man or woman who converts to Islam automatically become pure. As for the garments, if they were in contact with the sweat of the body before conversion, they will remain unclean. … It is not strictly prohibited for a Muslim to work in an establishment run by a Muslim who employs Jews, if the products do not aid Israel in one way or another. However it is shameful [for a Muslim] to be under the orders of a Jewish departmental head.
Among non-believers, Iranian Shiite theology has always reserved a special hatred for Jews. Besides returning the small remnant of the Iranian Jewish community to a state of obsequious dhimmitude through execution and intimidation, Khomeini’s Iran has embraced jihad “as a central pillar of faith and action,” seen most notably in its unending campaign of vilification and proxy violence against the “Zionist entity,” Israel. For Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the destruction of Israel was an openly avowed policy driven by his eschatological beliefs. Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, summarized this annihilationist eschatology, redolent with Koranic Jew-hatred, in 2006:
The Jew is the most obstinate enemy (Koran 5:82) of the devout. And the main war will determine the destiny of mankind. . . . The reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will lead to a war between Israel and the Shia.
As characterized in the canonical hadith (collections of Mohammed’s words and deeds), Sunni and Shiite eschatology (end of times theology) highlight the Jews’ purported supreme hostility to Islam. Jews are described as adherents of the Dajjal, the Muslim equivalent of the Antichrist. Other traditions state that the Dajjal is Jewish himself, and that at his appearance, he will be accompanied by 70,000 Jews from Isfahan wrapped in robes and armed with polished sabers, their heads covered with a sort of veil. When the Dajjal is defeated, his Jewish companions will be slaughtered — even rocks and trees (except for the so-called gharkad tree) will deliver them up. Thus, according to a canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985), if a Jew seeks refuge under a tree or a stone, these objects will be able to speak to tell a Muslim: “There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him!” And the notion of jihad “ransom” extends even into Islamic eschatology: On the day of resurrection, the vanquished Jews will be consigned to hellfire, which will expiate Muslims who have sinned, sparing them from this fate.
Professor Moshe Sharon recently provided a very lucid summary of the unique features of Shiite eschatology, its key point of consistency with Sunni understandings of this doctrine, and Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s deep personal attachment to “mahdism.”
Since the late ninth century, the Shiites have been expecting the emergence of the hidden imam-mahdi, armed with divine power and followed by thousands of martyrdom-seeking warriors. He is expected to conquer the world and establish Shiism as its supreme religion and system of rule. His appearance would involve terrible war and unusual bloodshed. Ahmadinejad, as mayor of Teheran, built a spectacular boulevard through which the mahdi would enter into the capital. There is no question that Ahmadinejad believes he has been chosen to be the herald of the mahdi. Shi’ite Islam differs from Sunni Islam regarding the identity of the mahdi. The Sunni mahdi is essentially an anonymous figure; the Shiite mahdi is a divinely inspired person with a real identity. However both Shiites and Sunnis share one particular detail about “the coming of the hour” and the dawning of messianic times: The Jews must all suffer a violent death, to the last one. Both Shi’ites and Sunnis quote the famous hadith (Sahih Muslim, Book 40, Number 6985) attributed to Muhammad.
Almost four decades ago Bat Ye’or published a remarkably insightful analysis of contemporary Islamic Jew-hatred, in particular, its annihilationist predilection. She hypothesized that the rise of Jewish nationalism—Zionism—posed a predictable, if completely unacceptable challenge to the Islamic order—jihad-imposed chronic dhimmitude for Jews—of apocalyptic magnitude, activating Islam’s eschatological motifs.
The pejorative characteristics of Jews as they are described in Muslim religious texts are applied to modern Jews. Anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism are equivalent—due to the inferior status of Jews in Islam, and because divine will dooms Jews to wandering and misery, the Jewish state appears to Muslims as an unbearable affront and a sin against Allah. Therefore it must be destroyed by Jihad. Here the Pan-Arab and anti-Western theses that consider Israel as an advanced instrument of the West in the Islamic world, come to reinforce religious anti-Judaism.
Shortly after the election of Iran’s current “moderate” President Rouhani, the New York Times published a story on August 2, 2013 that was briefly revised later, and included this observation:
Ahead of his inauguration, Iran’s new president on Friday called Israel an “old wound” that should be removed, while tens of thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about Israel — his country’s archenemy — echoed longstanding views of other Iranian leaders. “The Zionist regime has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world for years and the wound should be removed,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency.
ISNA claimed later that they (and not Western editors) had mistranslated Rouhani’s quote and then issued corrections claiming he had merely called Israel a “sore” and had not said it should be removed–though one wonders what he thinks should be done with sores if they are not to be removed. The original Times story was then replaced with a tamer piece. But the argument that the alleged mistranslation should not be used to debunk Rouhani’s reputation as a moderate was undermined by the fact that, as even the revised Times story said, he had denounced Israel “in several books.”
Hassan Rouhani has a lengthy history in Iranian politics, having served as the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council for more than 16 years.  He was also a former deputy speaker of the parliament. During the Mohammad Khatami’s Presidency, in 2003,  Rouhani became Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator. Rouhani maintained the post for two years before being replaced by Ali Larijani when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assumed the presidency in 2005. He is also a member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, an advisory body to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as the Assembly of Experts, a body vested with the power to elect and remove the Supreme Leader. Rouhani is reputed to be close to both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council.
Until his election to the presidency, Hassan Rouhani headed the Tehran-based think tank, the Center for Strategic Research. Rouhani, in a 2009 monograph published by the Center for Strategic Research, “Islamic Political Thought, Volume I: Theory,” extolled Iranian theocrat Ayatollah Khomeini’s alleged enlightened “vision” for Islamic governance, as follows (translation kindly provided by Amil Imani):
It appears distancing from any fundamental ideals of the Islamic Revolution, would only mean to be held in the prison of western politics, “politics without ethics” or a medieval European dungeon, “backward religious thoughts”…And we all have witnessed and taken notes of the warning of great architect of the Islamic government, Ayatollah Khomeini, that we avoid falling over that cliff…[T]he Islamic Revolution and its theorists, and above all, Imam Khomeini, were exemplary leaders who were the first projected, defined and implemented a superb divine Islamic model for all humans and all times.
Not surprisingly—except, perhaps to current Secretary of State John Kerry—and entirely consistent with policies of the Iranian regime since Khomeini’s retrograde “revolution,” Rouhani is a strong proponent of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, regardless of Western, or international objections, as evidenced by these multiple statements from 2004:
We will go ahead with confidence-building and will endeavor to build up our [nuclear] technical capability to restore our national rights in the context of the international conventions. This is our diplomacy: to proceed [in] both directions simultaneously.
We only agreed to suspend activities in those areas where we did not have technical problems. This is what they are saying now in their negotiations. We completed the Isfahan project, which is the UCF where yellowcake is converted into UF4 and UF6 during suspension. While we were talking with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in parts of the facility in Isfahan, but we still had a long way to go to complete the project. In fact, by creating a calm environment, we were able to complete the work in Isfahan. Today, we can convert yellowcake into UF4 and UF6, and this is a very important matter. In fact, UF6 is what the centrifuges feed on; it is the feed material for centrifuges. Therefore, it was important for us to conclude that process.
I think we should not be in a great rush to deal with this issue. We should be patient and find the most suitable time to do away with the suspension. If we decide to start enrichment in the face of opposition by the West, we must find the best time and the most favorable conditions, and if we decide to work with the West, we must utilize all our capabilities and everything that is in our power to achieve our objectives. We should not rush into this. We must move very carefully, in a very calculated manner.
If one day we are able to complete the fuel cycle and the world sees that it has no choice, that we do possess the technology, then the situation will be different. The world did not want Pakistan to have an atomic bomb or Brazil to have the fuel cycle, but Pakistan built its bomb and Brazil has its fuel cycle, and the world started to work with them. Our problem is that we have not achieved either one, but we are standing at the threshold.
One of the members indicated here that all this should have been done in secret. This was the intention; this never was supposed to be in the open. But in any case, the spies exposed it. We did not want to declare all this.
Finally, the majority of Iranians—63% according to Pew polling data from February of this year (2013)—were willing to pay the high price of sanctions. Sixty-three percent claimed that Iran should continue to develop its nuclear program, even given the scale of sanctions imposed on their country because of such efforts. No wonder Iranian public reaction has been effusively positive now that the feckless Obama administration has proven willing to abandon even this tame disincentive to the popular sentiment for Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Given the ad nauseam expressed genocidal intentions toward Israel of the current ruling Iranian theocracy, the mass support of the Iranian populace for the nuclear weapons capable of fulfilling this annihilationist goal, and current U.S. “negotiating” policies, Israel must destroy Iran’s nuclear arms production facilities by whatever means necessary.
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2013/11/25/nuke-deal-fiasco-analyses-ignore-irans-genocidal-islamic-jew-hatred/
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Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran’s President Rouhani, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, all concur on this critical outcome of the interim agreement struck between Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers, announced early Sunday morning, 11/24/13: Iran’s nuclear enrichment program will continue apace.

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a not-for-profit, non-partisan, advocacy group which  seeks to thwart Iran’s ambition to obtain nuclear weapons, issued a press release highlighting the fundamental strategic failures of the interim 6-month pact:

By not agreeing to dismantle a single centrifuge, Iran has not rolled back its nuclear infrastructure and with the many centrifuges that it is currently operating, Iran retains the ability to breakout and produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in as little as 2 months. At the same time, the carefully constructed sanctions architecture developed over decades has been significantly rolled back.

PM Netanyahu in Rome says will not be silent‏

PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Candle-Lighting Ceremony for the Fifth Night of Chanukah at the Great Synagogue in Rome
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Sunday, 1 December 2013), at the Great Synagogue in Rome, made the following remarks at the candle-lighting ceremony for the fifth night of Chanukah:
 
"In contrast to others, when I see that interests vital to the security of
Israel's citizens are in danger, I will not be silent.

Netanyahu strengthens despite Iran deal

Likud-Beitenu, and Labor under Isaac Herzog, both gain in the latest "Globes"-Smith Institute poll.

 Lilach Weissman

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to prevent the Iranian nuclear agreement may have weakened his standing at the White House, but it has actually boosted his standing among the Israeli electorate. Likud-Beitenu has risen to its highest level since the January elections - 37 Knesset seats, were elections held today, according to the "Globes"-Smith Institute poll for November. The Likud-Beitenu gained three seats compared with the previous poll in late October, and six seats compared with its showing in the elections.

When Israel faces a security or sensitive diplomatic crisis, the public rallies around Netanyahu, who is perceived as authoritative, and the only man who can deal with Iran, regardless of whether the public agrees with him or not. The public will also stand by the prime minister against rivals.

The Truth About Bethlehem

In 1990, before the Oslo Accords, 

Bethlehem was 60% Christian

Today, after nearly 20 years of

Palestinian Authority rule and

incessant Muslim threats and harassment,

Bethlehem is less than 15% Christian.

This pattern of Christians fleeing

is being repeated

in every Muslim majority country

in the Middle East.

Surviving the New Middle East

Ted Belman

The US is embracing fundamentalist Islam. First, she embraced Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and now its the turn of Shiite Iran. The US certainly doesn't want to take the side of the Sunnis against the Shiites. And she is tired of taking the side of Israel against both the Shiites and the Sunnis. That's why the US, especially under Obama, has been undermining Israel at every turn. That's the new Middle East.


Israel and the Gulf states are imperiled by this reality. Fundamentalist Islam doesn't accept the Balfour Declaration and the creation of Israel. It is dedicated to its destruction.

Manufacturing Intolerance

Sultan Knish

By now everyone knows that Dayna Morales, the lesbian waitress who claimed to have been denied a tip over her sexual orientation, was lying. It's not the first politically correct receipt hoax and it won't be the last. These hoaxes happen because leftist activists promote them and the media picks them up. The world is full of liars and con artists, but it's revealing to see which of their lies and cons succeed.

Morales' hoax is a blip in the larger pattern of faked hate crimes. Bigotry is the witch hunt of the modern Salem and progressive witch hunters are just as careless about facts and evidence. Now as then, the goal is to stamp out an attitude and a cultural threat, rather than to enforce the law, and that leads inevitably to the entire tawdry parade of hysterical denunciations and moral panic.

But what is behind this need to manufacture intolerance?

Jerusalem Mayor Acknowledges Upswing in Arab Violence

Nir Barkat, Jerusalem's mayor, admits increased violence from the city's Arab population; no appropriate punishment in place.

By Tova Dvorin

First Publish: 12/1/2013

Nir Barkat, October 2013 (file)

Flash90

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat acknowledged Sunday reports of a major upswing in Arab-on-Israeli terror in the past several months - including an endless barrage of rock-throwing attacks.

"There has been a significant increase in the number of attacks from the Arab residents in the Eastern neighborhoods of the city," Barkat stated, in a Sunday morning interview with IDF Radio.

ROP: Iraq: Seven beheaded bodies and five severed heads filled with explosives found

Don't you dare investigate the ideology that fuels this savagery. That would be "hateful" and "extremist." "7 Beheaded bodies found in Tikrit," from NINA, November 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Tikrit (NINA) – Police in Salaheddin province found 7 beheaded bodies in Tikrit. Police source told NINA that the bodies found in various parts of Qadisiya neighborhood, northern Tikrit; they are bearing bullet shots.
He added that earlier in the day, the bodies' heads were found, and been identified; they belonged to workers of an Italian firm the the [sic] Tirkit [sic] Stadium; 5 of them are residents of Tikrit while the remaining 2 are from Baghdad.

Hold the phone. Who are you calling a Palestinian?

Modern "Palestinians" have been manipulated by two generations of corrupt and cold-hearted leaders into an identity they did not have just 65 years ago. Try telling that to the BBC or the United Nations

Who does he want to be?

Nick Gray

The word “Palestinian” has always been difficult to define. For a start, there has never been a state called “Palestine”, so how can you define Palestinians? There has never been a Palestinian currency, monarch, capital city or defined international border.

In fact, at the end of the Ottoman empire in 1918, Arabs living in the area now covered by Israel and Jordan preferred to be known as Syrian. It was the incoming Jews who were calling themselves “Palestinian”, following the name of the area under British mandate control.

When Britain, to satisfy promises made to Arab leaders during World War 1, set aside part of her Palestinian mandate for Arab rule, it was this area (Trans-Jordan, now Jordan) which was known as a Palestinian state -- something it still is in cultural terms.

When Jordan illegally invaded and seized part of the mandate territory allocated for Jewish settlement in 1948 and called it “The West Bank” there was no talk of creating a second Palestinian state on that land and there was no localised national movement to do so. Arab nationalism, up to then, had focussed on being part of a wider Muslim “Umma” covering the whole region.

Egypt did the same with the narrow strip we now call Gaza in the same war, but again there was no move to call it “Palestine”, nor its people Palestinians. This too was an illegal annexation of land intended for Jewish settlement alongside the local inhabitants.

French feminists fight to support Muslim veil ban

Analysts think the European court would not want to overturn the French decision, though they cannot rule out a surprise ruling given the pressure from Muslim groups

by the commentator

 

 

 

In another example of the contradictions between Left-oriented cultural Marxists over gender issues versus ethnic minority issues, a leading feminist organisation has come out strongly in favour of a Paris court's upholding of the French ban on the Muslim veil.
As France 24 reported on Wednesday:
"A Paris court has ruled the sacking of a Muslim crèche worker for wearing a headscarf was legal, but another woman's challenge to the contentious legislation goes up before the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday."
However, in a letter to the European Court of Human Rights, the International League for Women's Rights, a group founded by the iconic French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, said:
"The full-face veil, by |literally burying the body and |the face, constitutes a true deletion of the woman as an individual in public... How can one not see that to wear the full veil is also a symbolic violence to other women?"

No honour in the killing of women

The UN estimates that 5,000 women are killed each year for "dishonoring" their families. About two-thirds of all murders in Palestinian territories are honor-killings

End honour killing

Michael Curtis

On 1 December 2013

There are some very active women's organizations and international units attempting to curb abuse of and violence against women. They work to bring awareness to the cultural, and sometimes religious, norms, laws, and practices that have created and preserve these conditions.

But those efforts are too small-scale. This violence still occurs in many countries in the world, and it is most prevalent, especially in its most acute forms, in countries with a predominantly Muslim population. What is needed is a large-scale attack by national governments and international organizations.
At the base of this violence is the concept of honor, which women supposedly embody. Because of their lack of education and empowerment, women affected by this concept have rarely been able to challenge the nature and consequences of it.

Teaching Children Jihad in Dagestan

 Robert Spencer

“Allahu Akbar!” at the video’s conclusion…

“The Child is father of the Man,” wrote William Wordsworth, and nowhere is this truer today than in the Russian Muslim Republic of Dagestan, from which hailed the Boston Marathan jihad mass murderers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In a telling indication of what kind of environment the Tsarnaevs grew up in, children in Dagestan have found a new source of fun far more engrossing than Assassins Creed or World of Warcraft: in imitation of their parents, they’re filming their own jihad videos.

The children of Dagestan are not so concerned, at least so far, about beheading Western journalists or demanding the end to this or that “occupation” or else many more will die; as is understandable given their age and experience, their jihads are somewhat smaller in scope. Brandishing weapons (which Russia Today assures us are toys), they’re filming themselves demanding good grades in school or money from their parents or others.

Is the Game Lost?

The Islamic Volkswanderung is well on its way to completing its mission.
David Solway


Human history has always been marked by major population shifts, from earliest hominid times over the Horn of Africa to the present moment when what social scientists and historians define as a “demographic transition [1]” is occurring. Whether as a result of military campaigns and their attendant population dislocations or great migrations owing to plague, material deprivation, the lure of new settlements or economic factors, what we might call the “demography of exodus” is one of the great drivers of historical change. In the current age, there can be little doubt that a kind of volkswanderung [2] (German for “migrations of peoples”) or, perhaps more shockingly, a return to the “Dark Ages” is taking place before our eyes. As professor Judith Klinghoffer of Rutgers University writes, in an article titled “Dark Ages Redux [3]” dealing with the influx of immigrants into the West from Muslim countries, “with each and every passing day the price for defeating the forces of darkness is getting higher and higher and ultimate victory less and less certain.”

Minnesota: Catholic university installs mini-mosques and Islamic foot baths for Muslims

creeping
Tolerating the intolerant. via At University of St. Thomas, Catholics and Muslims find common ground | Star Tribune. h/t sharia unveiled

 

How many universities in the Muslim world have these?

Dark-haired young men started arriving about 12:30 p.m., piling their backpacks and coats in the narrow hallway. One by one, they slipped off their shoes and darted into an “ablution station” for ritual washing. Then they filed silently into room 302 of Loras Hall.

For the first time in its 128-year history, the University of St. Thomas has its own Islamic prayer rooms, as well as ritual washing stations for observant Muslims.

The prayer rooms, which opened in September, reflect the surging number of students from Middle Eastern countries flocking to the Catholic university in St. Paul.

The contingent from Saudi Arabia alone has jumped tenfold, from 12 students in 2008 to 121 this fall, and officials say they’re now the largest bloc of foreign students at the university.

Will the West withstand the Obama presidency?

By MARTIN SHERMAN

  

The really chilling aspect of the Obama-incumbency is that it is difficult to diagnose whether the abysmal results it produced—including the recent Geneva debacle—reflect crushing failure or calculated success

 

US President Barack Obama. Photo: Reuters

 

I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. – Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo, 2009  

 

For anyone who understands that the US Constitution is not a Sharia-compliant document –neither in letter nor in spirit – it should be alarmingly apparent that the Obama-incumbency is a dramatic and disturbing point of inflection in the history of America and its “Western” allies. By “Western” I mean countries whose political practices and societal norms are rooted in Judeo- Christian foundations in a cultural rather than in any religious sense.

The devil is not in the details

One does not have to be an expert in Islamic history or culture, or be familiar with the details of Koranic verse or Hadithic texts to realize that Obama’s characterization of the alleged affinity between America and Islam is entirely detached from any reality on the ground–particularly with regard to the matters he enumerates in the preceding excerpt from his 2009 Cairo speech.

Iranian navy takes another big step outward

  http://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/iranian-navy-takes-another-big-step-outward/

 

A couple of years ago, the Iranian navy announced it had deployed a submarine to the Red Sea as part of its patrol force there.  We can’t be sure (from out here in Unclassified World) how many times submarines have deployed to the Red Sea since.  It’s probably not many; Iran does better now with her Russian-built, Kilo-class submarines than she used to, in terms of keeping them ready and deployable, but her performance still wouldn’t be called great.

It’s good enough, however, to back up last week’s announcement that the Kilo-class submarine Younus (also spelled Younes and Yunes in transliteration) was heading for a deployment around the Indian Ocean, and would make stops in India and Sri Lanka while it was out.  The submarine will be accompanied by the frigate Alborz (British-built Vosper Mark V class) and the auxiliary ship Bandar Abbas (a German-built 1970s-era replenishment ship with small deck guns, used for some patrol duties as well as supply missions).

PA historical revision: Hebrew Shekel coin from 66 CE is “ancient Palestinian coin”

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik 

PA historical revision:

Judean Shekel coin from 66 CE
is "ancient Palestinian coin" and part
of the "Palestinian cultural tradition"

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
 

"Shekel of Israel [Year] 1"

"Jerusalem the holy" [New York Post, March 10, 2012]

A Judean Shekel coin from the year 66 CE, the first year of the Jewish rebellion against Rome, was sold for $1.1 million this past week at an auction in New York. The words in Hebrew "Shekel of Israel [Year] 1" are printed on the front of the coin, and "Jerusalem the holy" appears on the back. [New York Post, March 10, 2012]

The official Palestinian Authority daily in writing about the auction described the Hebrew coin from the Second Temple period as an "ancient Palestinian coin" and as being part of the "Palestinian cultural tradition." The coin, with the ancient Hebrew lettering, can be seen to the right.

Netanyahu: Prawer bill will be advanced for better future of Negev residents

ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, BEN HARTMAN, LAHAV HARKOV
  
Premier condemns "lawbreakers" who attempt to "prevent better future for greater population"; police arrest 28; 15 police officers wounded in riots over Beduin resettlement plan.

PM Binyamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at the start of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu condemned the acts of "lawbreakers" in light of violent demonstrations that took place across the country Saturday in protest of the controversial Prawer plan to resettle Beduin in the Negev, and charged that the legislation would be advanced.

"We will treat offenders to the fullest extent of the law and will not tolerate such disturbances,"  the premier said while discussing the "Day of Rage" riots with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitz and Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino.