Thursday, June 12, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
How Rachel Corrie really died
On March 16, 2003, ISM 'activist' Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli D9 bulldozer in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Rafah is in the Philadelphi Corridor in the map at left, along the border between Gaza and Egypt. You may recall that it's where the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached just a few weeks ago. At the time, the ISM claimed that Corrie was protecting a 'Palestinian' house:
Witnesses said Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, was trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp when she was run over. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator.
Corrie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. Joseph Smith,21, of Kansas City Missouri, who was with Corrie at the site, said the driver of the bulldozer, an IDF soldier, could clearly see Corrie as she sat in front of the machine.
Contrary to Smith's report, IDF Capt. Jacob Dallal of the IDF Spoksewoman's Office said Corrie's death was an accident. The US State Department had no immediate comment.
In a series of three videos, each running approximately nine minutes, Becky Johnson and Lee Kaplan debunk the myth that Corrie was protecting a house. In fact, as Smooth Stone points out and as you will see in the video below, Corrie was standing in a trench where she could not be seen, protecting an entrance to a weapons tunnel.
Actual video footage from the Israeli Defense Forces show the real circumstances under which the terrorist loving anarchist died: knee-deep in a trench in the middle of dirt in an open dirt field. The left arrow on the photo below points to the tractor, the right arrow shows the kneeling Rachel Corrie. To see the live action footage moments before Rachel Corrie's accidental death, go to the Part 2 video approx 49 seconds into the video:
Video # 1 had the most views, Video # 2 had 40% less and Video # 3 had 50% less than that. Video # 2 is - in my humble opinion - the most significant video. So I am embedding video # 2 below. I also urge you to go to Smooth Stone's site http://smoothstone.blogspot.com/2008/02/videos-how-rachel-corrie-really-died.html, because he shows how the ISM used fauxtography™ to create the image of Corrie standing in front of a house rather than being in the trench where she really was.
Note that at the end of Video # 3, Lee Kaplan states his belief that the 'Palestinian' doctors who treated Corrie allowed her to die so that the 'Palestinians' would have their 'international' 'martyr.' At the time, Charles Johnson wrote the following underneath a picture of 'Palestinians' carrying out a mock funeral for Corrie:
Let’s see how many different versions of this story we can identify; she was crushed to death protecting a house; she was run over twice; she was crushed under a falling wall while trying to prevent a bulldozer from uprooting shrubbery; etc. etc. etc. Pitiful. And just look at all the Western media, falling for this garbage.
Five years ago, I'm not sure even Charles realized how the ISM had doctored the photographs. It's a pity that the IDF waited this long to release the video.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:29 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
PA TV Bunny Rabbit Threatens to 'Eat the Jews'
The latest TV character created to incite Palestinian Authority children to anti-Semitism, Islamic triumphalism and violence has debuted on a popular show produced by Hamas. The character is a cute rabbit who aspires to finish off the Jews and eat them.
The rabbit's name is Assoud, which translates as "lions," and he has come from Lebanon "in order to return to the homeland and liberate it," according to the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) organization, which translated the
"I, Assoud, will finish off the Jews and eat them."dialogue.
In a PA children's program called Tomorrow's Pioneers, a young girl hostess asks the new character, "Why is your name Assoud, since you are a rabbit?"
Assoud replies: "A rabbit is a [term] for a bad person and coward. And I, Assoud, will finish off the Jews and eat them."
"Allah Willing!" the girl exclaims.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
More Poli Jew hatred
Instead of "nickel and diming" the pope about words in a prayer, maybe we should be talking to him about defrocking anybody that uses a church for the purpose of stirring up hatred---that would be so much more productive.The kikes will not continue to spit on us
By Aviva Lori, Haaretz Correspondent
WARSAW - This was not a pogrom, but it was close. Sunday's incident in Krakow at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was rife with overtones of hatred. "The Jews are attacking us! We need to defend ourselves," shouted Prof. Bogoslav Wolniewicz, to stormy applause.
About 1,000 people gathered for special services Sunday at the church, organized by the Committee Against Defamation of the Church and For Polishness, along with the anti-Semitic Radio Maryja. Local residents were informed of the service by posters that proclaimed: "The kikes will not continue to spit on us."
The huge church was packed. People sat on the stairs and stood in the aisles. The service opened, as usual, with prayer and song, but after about half an hour, the 91-year-old bishop of Krakow, Albin Malysiak, began inflaming the crowd with his sermon.
"A man who does not love his homeland, but some sort of international entity, apparently also does not love his nearest and dearest," he said.
Afterward, Radio Maryja staffers ascended the dais, headed by Jerzy Robert Nowak, the station's expert on Jewish affairs. He spoke about the new and controversial book by Jan Gross, "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz." Nowak, who was less ambiguous than the bishop, said to applause from the crowd: "It's important that we carry our fight to its conclusion, because Gross and his supporters are marginal, and we will not permit anyone to punish Poland. Leave us in peace. Leave us alone."
The speakers directed their anger at Gross, at Jews in general, at Jews from Brooklyn in particular, at Poles who are willing to sell them anything for money, at Righteous Among the Nations Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, at a minister in the Prime Minister's Office responsible for Jewish-Polish affairs; and at the newspaper that, in their eyes, represents the Polish left, Gazeta Wyborcza, and its editor, Adam Michnik.
There were questions from the audience at the end, mostly of the "how do we defend ourselves against attacks on the church and on Poland" variety. "The best thing is to get organized," Nowak responded.
Comitt terror,get sued, then beg the USA for help to comitt more terror
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 12, 2008; A15
The State Department is considering supporting the Palestinian Authority in its quest to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments won by American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel, according to Palestinian officials and defense lawyers involved in the cases.
U.S. officials insist that no decision has been made regarding the complex litigation, which could force the Bush administration to choose between supporting compensation for victims of terrorism and bolstering the Palestinian government as the United States presses for a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Testimony in Israeli courts has connected senior Palestinian leaders -- such as the late Yasser Arafat -- to specific terrorist attacks involved in the lawsuits. But Palestinian officials have argued that it makes no sense for the United States to be providing millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority while U.S. courts are threatening to bankrupt it.
In response to a plea for assistance from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 13 months ago sidestepped the issue, writing that "the United States is not party to these enforcement proceedings." But in December, a U.S. federal judge asked the government whether it would get involved, creating the current dilemma for the administration.
"There has been a rethinking in the State Department that I wholeheartedly welcome," said Afif Safieh, head of mission in Washington for the Palestine Liberation Organization. He said the lawsuits were "politically and ideologically motivated to drive the Palestinian Authority into bankruptcy."
Victims, who will meet with top State and Justice Department officials tomorrow, said that a U.S. intervention with the courts would make a mockery of the administration's fight against terrorism.
Leslye Knox, a 46-year-old mother of six children and widow of Aharon Ellis, a U.S. citizen who was killed in 2002 while singing at a bar mitzvah in Hadera, Israel, said that she has sued under a law passed by Congress in 1990 after the murder of Leon Klinghoffer by terrorists who seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship. In 2006, a federal judge ordered the PLO and the Palestinian Authority to pay Knox and other Ellis relatives nearly $174 million, but nothing has been paid while Knox has struggled to support her family.
"Now here are the wrongdoers, they come to the government, and say, 'Hey, help us,' " Knox said. "It's hard to see why the government listens to them. It makes me feel like, 'Who is on my side?' "
"If the State Department tips the scales of justice against the victims in order to support adjudicated terrorists, the war on terrorism will be seen throughout the world as a farce," said David J. Strachman, a Rhode Island lawyer who has spearheaded many of the lawsuits.
The Justice Department will make the final decision, U.S. officials said. "A court has asked the U.S. government to inform it whether it is contemplating filing a statement of interest, but no decision has been made on how the U.S. government will respond," said State Department spokesman Tom Casey.
The Palestinian Authority initially argued that it had sovereign immunity, meaning that as a state it was beyond the reach of the U.S. legal system. Former attorney general Ramsey Clark, who was hired to defend the Palestinians, described in a court hearing how he had to "break my neck climbing over literally rubble" of Arafat's compound in Ramallah in 2003, only to be told to ignore the cases.
But U.S. courts rejected the Palestinian claim of sovereign immunity, noting that Palestine is not a state. Judgments have been rendered against the Palestinians in the Knox case and a separate case brought by the children of Yaron Ungar, a U.S. citizen killed in Israel in a 1996 terrorist attack. Ungar's relatives were awarded $116 million, which the Palestinian Authority has not paid.
After the Ungar case, about $200,000 in two of the PLO mission's bank accounts were frozen in 2005, a situation that Safieh called a "nightmare." On June 18, 2005, then finance minister (and now prime minister) Salaam Fayyad wrote to Rice, urging State to intervene, saying that the Ungar lawsuit was a "serious obstacle" to effective Palestinian participation in peace talks and was inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy.
Abbas also wrote to Rice in November 2006, after another court froze more than $100 million in retirement funds for Palestinian workers that were being managed in the United States.
Rice responded with a neutral letter. She noted that the Ungar case had gone all the way to the Supreme Court, which declined to review it, so "the judgment is final and enforceable in United States courts." She suggested that the Palestinian Authority explore "out of court solutions so as to avoid enforcement actions."
With a new set of lawyers -- Richard A. Hibey and Mark J. Rochon of the Washington firm Miller & Chevalier -- the Palestinian Authority last year said the Knox judgment should be nullified because the authority was now prepared to litigate the case and offer a vigorous defense. Citing Rice's letter to Abbas, the new legal team urged U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero to request a "statement of interest" from State because of the "international ramifications."
"The judgment's potential interference with American foreign policy presents a unique and exceptional circumstance justifying relief from a default judgment," the lawyers argued.
Marrero in December issued an order asking whether the United States contemplated issuing a statement of interest in the case. He gave the government 45 days to respond, but at the government's request, he recently extended the deadline until the end of February.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Vilna Catholics Hold Jew Hating Parade
Posted: 10 Feb 2008 12:47 AM CST But Gee its all in good Fun, at least thats what the revelers say. Uzgavenes is like Mardi Gras in Lithuania the last big party before Lent. The festival usually involves a parade or circus, with attendees in masks and costumes. But in Vilnius (known to Jews as Vilna) participants traditionally dress and act "as Jews," a feat that generally calls for Shylock-type masks, and stereotypically Jewish speech. Considering all of the Horrors that happened in Vilna 60+ years ago you would think that the residents would have a little more humanity and a little less hatred. At the very least the would not want to teach the hatred to their kids...Guess not !Vilnius Catholics derogatorily portray Jews in holiday parade By Michael Casper, The Forward VILNIUS, Lithuania - Last month, a samba group in Rio de Janeiro caused an international furor when it announced its intention to participate in the city's Carnival event on a >float depicting Holocaust victims. After outcries from the Brazilian Jewish community, a judge banned the group from using the float. Although less well known, a similarly questionable effort to celebrate the same holiday takes place in this city, once known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania because of the breadth and piety of its Jewish community. During Carnival - or Uzgavenes, as it is known in Lithuania - Catholics from around the world congregate for a feast of foods prohibited during Lent. The festival usually involves a parade or circus, with attendees in masks and costumes. But in Vilnius - commonly known to Jews as Vilna - participants traditionally dress and act "as Jews," a feat that generally calls for masks with grotesque features, beards and visible ear locks and that is often accompanied by peddling and by stereotypically Jewish speech. Perhaps even more shockingly, the "festivities" extend beyond the parade itself and into a Halloween-style trick-or-treating.When Simonas Gurevicius, the 26-year-old executive director of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, opened the door to his house during last year's Uzgavenes, he was greeted by two children dressed in horns and tails, reciting a song that translates as, "We're the little Lithuanian Jews/We want blintzes and coffee/If you don't have blintzes/Give us some of your money." (It rhymes in Lithuanian.) "They understand it as Halloween, a time to have fun and adventures," Gurevicius said. "On the one hand, it is important to respect the traditions of the country. On the other hand, psychologically it stays in their brain: The image of the Jew will be closely associated with the image from the festival." Jewish history in Lithuania, centuries long and distinguished by a profusion of yeshivas and Torah scholars, nearly ended when most of the country's Jewish community was exterminated during the Holocaust. Today, the small but close-knit community hosts school groups at its center for educational sessions on Jewish life. But according to Gurevicius, members of the Jewish community do not speak out against the parade, because they wish to avoid conflict with Lithuanians. "For sure, the Jewish people don't like so much the way Jews are shown with the other creatures," he said. But "someone could say we don't understand the humor. People think it's normal." Diana, a 20-year-old Jewish medical student from Vilnius who did not wish to give her last name, was surprised to learn that Lithuanians dress as Jews during Uzgavenes. "It's not the most pleasant thing, but it could be worse" she said, adding that "they could be smashing menorahs" - a reference to protests surrounding the erection of a large menorah in the Lithuanian town of Siauliai last December. Last Saturday, hundreds gathered in front of city hall in the capital to celebrate. The Web site of the Vilnius City Municipality promised that during Uzgavenes, which is an official holiday in Lithuania, "creatures wearing different masks - devils, witches, deaths, goats, Gypsies, and other joyful and scaring characters - hang around." Claiming to be dressed as a Jew, one woman tried to convince spectators to buy dirty handkerchiefs. Although typical costumes include farm animals and monsters, masquerading is sometimes broadly referred to as "eiti zydukais," or "going as Jews," regardless of how one dresses. The Roma do not fare better. Participants who masquerade as "Gypsies" wear gaudy makeup, hold babies and ask bystanders for money. Last Friday, Vilnius's Center of Ethnic Activity hosted an exhibition of Uzgavenes masks and screened archival footage of past celebrations. Masks of Jews were displayed between those of witches and animals, and shown with no apparent compunction to cultural delegates from Latvia and Denmark. In a video shot in Vilnius last year, a man dressed as a Jew carrying a briefcase full of toilet paper haggled with cab drivers as he led a group of people made up as beasts through the streets. "From my point of view," said Svetlana Novopolskaja, director of the Roma Community Centre of Vilnius, "Lithuanians like to dress as Roma, like their music and habits, but don't like Roma as people. They accept them as personages from fairy tales - as hobbits, for example - and are surprised and afraid when they meet real Roma." Ethnologist Inga Krisciuniene, who works at the Centre of Ethnic Activity, led the event, explained how she believed that in earlier times, Jews and Gypsies dressed alike. Revelers wore the same mask on Uzgavenes to depict them, so that the characters were distinguishable only by performers' actions. When asked whether it could be seen as offensive to mock these minorities, Krisciuniene replied, "No one has ever complained." The intent, she said, is humorous. "Besides," she added, "it's true that Gypsies steal." |
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Cure yourself
Yusuf al - Qaradawi will have to rely on the Islamic medicine: Camel urine and fly wings to cure his Islamic disease
Yusuf al – Qaradawi, who has defended suicide attacks on Israeli civilians, and issued fatwas for killing American and British troops in Iraq and homosexuals, who has been banned from
entering the US, is declared persona non gratta in the UK.
We salute the British government for its decision to ban al –Qaradawi, one of the heads of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the most vocal voice of Islamic terror in the world.
We wonder why those Muslim clerics don’t take advantage of the miraculous Islamic medicines that were recommended by their prophet and they keep praising and advising their mobs to use. Sheikh Qaradawi, did you run out of camels, or you don’t know how to extract the urine? For the flies we know you have a wide variety and an abundant date’s production. You know how the saying goes, “doctor, heal yourself”, but if things goes wrong, you’ll have the greatest consolation of meeting your beloved prophet.
Cheer up Sheikh Q. It’s a win – win situation.
We win by keeping your evil face away from us, and you win your 72 whores. Knowing how much you lust for little girls, proven by your molestation (what you call marriage, like your pedophile prophet) of a 12 year old girl when you were seventy. That’s an offer you can’t refuse…
Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi refused visa
By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 11:19am GMT 07/02/2008
A Muslim cleric who supports the death penalty for homosexuals has been refused entry to Britain, after a Conservative campaign to present him getting a visa.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is accused of homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism by critics
The Home Office said the cleric had been refused entry because of fears his views "could foster inter-community violence".
Last month David Cameron described Mr al-Qaradawi - a Qatar-based scholar with a large following across the Muslim world - as "dangerous and divisive" and demanded he be banned from Britain.
Today the Muslim Council of Britain attacked the Tory leader and said the Government's decision to refuse the visa undermined Britain's tradition of free speech.
Mr al-Qaradawi' s fatwas, or religious rulings, are considered binding by many Muslims. He was invited to the UK in 2004 by London mayor Ken Livingstone, who described him as "a powerfully progressive force for change" and "an absolutely sane Islamist engaged with the world".
Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary-general of the MCB, said the Government had caved to "unreasonable demands spearheaded by the Tory leader".
"I am afraid this decision will send the wrong message to Muslims everywhere about the state of British society and culture," he said.
"Britain has had a long and established tradition of free speech, debate and intellectual pursuit.
"These principles are worth defending, especially if we would like to see them spread throughout the world."
Egyptian-born Mr al-Qaradawi, a regular guest on mainstream Arabic TV stations including Al-Jazeera, is accused of homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism by critics.
He has defended Palestinian suicide attacks that kill Israeli civilians. "I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an evidence of God's justice," he is reported to have said.
"Allah Almighty is just; through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak a weapon the strong do not have and that is their ability to turn their bodies into bombs as Palestinians do".
But his support for Muslim integration in Western societies has led him to be seen by some as a moderate - if conservative - Islamic thinker.
The Home Office said the decision to refuse the visa had been taken after advice from several Government departments, but that Mr al-Qaradawi could still appeal on human rights and race discrimination grounds.
"The UK will not tolerate the presence of those who seek to justify any act of terrorist violence," a spokeswoman added.
Monday, February 4, 2008
No muslima doctors for me!
February 3, 2008
from Robert Spencer at Dhimmiwatch
UK: Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules,' say they're against Islam
Yet another Eurabia update from the New Britain. "Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines that everyone else has to follow." Precisely.
"Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules,'" by Julie Henry and Laura Donnelly for the Telegraph (thanks to Martin):
Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion.Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam.
Universities and NHS trusts fear many more will refuse to co-operate with new Department of Health guidance, introduced this month, which stipulates that all doctors must be "bare below the elbow".
The measure is deemed necessary to stop the spread of infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, which have killed hundreds.
Minutes of a clinical academics' meeting at Liverpool University revealed that female Muslim students at Alder Hey children's hospital had objected to rolling up their sleeves to wear gowns.
Similar concerns have been raised at Leicester University. Minutes from a medical school committee said that "a number of Muslim females had difficulty in complying with the procedures to roll up sleeves to the elbow for appropriate handwashing".
Sheffield University also reported a case of a Muslim medic who refused to "scrub" as this left her forearms exposed....
Dr Charles Tannock, a Conservative MEP and former hospital consultant, said: "These students are being trained using taxpayers' money and they have a duty of care to their patients not to put their health at risk.
"Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines that everyone else has to follow."
But the Islamic Medical Association insisted that covering all the body in public, except the face and hands, was a basic tenet of Islam.
"No practising Muslim woman - doctor, medical student, nurse or patient - should be forced to bare her arms below the elbow," it said.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The State of the Union is Against the State of Israel
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January 30, 2008... In his State of the Union address Sunday, Bush waxed poetic – we would more correctly say “delusional” - about the “palestinian” leader Mahmoud Abbas, describing this unrepentant murdering terrorist as a “man of peace”. Bush repeatedly referred not to the State of Israel, but to “the Both in What happened to Bush? Wasn’t he the “best friend” that
Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, was involved with money laundering for the Nazis. Bush’s father, George Sr., formed a coalition of “freedom-loving” nations to defeat
Bush Sr. makes money every day as a registered lobbyist for Now, Bush Jr. is trying to finish what his grandfather began and his father continued, attempting to both get rich and serve up Today people call the Iranian leader Achmadinejad the new Hitler. This week Achmadinejad told the world that it should prepare for the day - which he stated will come soon - when Israel does not exist. Bush reacts to this madman by declaring that Israel is on its own against the soon-to-be nuclear Iran. Bush is counting on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to carry out his mission to destroy Israel. Bush so desires to fulfill this plan that he went so far as to interfere in Israeli politics by asking government officials to forget that Olmert is at best corrupt and inept in order to keep Olmert in office.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
'Palestinian state temporary ruse to destroy Israel'
'Palestinian state temporary ruse to destroy Israel'
Official television network calls for 'liberation' of 'all Palestine'
Posted: January 29, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian goal of a Palestinian state is just a temporary ruse until "all of Palestine" can be "liberated," declared a leader speaking yesterday on the official television network of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization.
Saleh Raafat, a member of the executive committee of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Organization, was interviewed on PA television about the death last weekend of infamous terrorist leader George Habash, who strongly opposed signing peace agreements with Israel.
In comments screened by WND, Raafat told his interviewer: "Habash was a very positive Palestinian leader who used democratic tools to express opinions. He disagreed with [late PLO leader Yasser] Arafat regarding the present temporary vision of a Palestinian state, but he never used weapons to express his disagreement."
Raafat said the Palestinians would accept "22 percent of Palestine" as a "temporary and not permanent" state until "all of Palestine" can be liberated.
While Raafat described Habash as "democratic" and as "never" using weapons, Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has carried out scores of notorious deadly terrorist attacks. Raafat was speaking as part of a mourning series on PA television for Habash, the PFLP leader who died in Jordan at the age of 81.
Habash's PFLP gained notoriety in 1970 for hijacking four Western airliners over the U.S., Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf. The aircraft were blown up in the Middle East after passengers and crews disembarked. The PFLP in 1972 then gunned down 27 people at Israel's Lod airport.
The PFLP continues operating from Syria, Jordan and the West Bank. More recent attacks include scores of deadly shootings against Israelis, the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rechavam Zeevi and suicide bombings on an Israeli highway and in Tel Aviv's well-known Karmel Market.
According to Israeli security officials, the PFLP is the Palestinian terror group most proficient in carrying out successful drive-by shooting attacks.
Habash also led the second-largest faction of the PLO, next to Yasser Arafat's. Habash strongly opposed interim agreements with Israel and throughout his life advocated terror attacks against the Jewish state. Arafat numerous times said peace accords signed by Israel were part of a "phased plan" for the ultimate destruction of the Jewish state.
A Building Freeze or a Freezing Building


David Wilder
January 29, 2008
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It’s out of the theatre of the absurd. Yesterday a colleague of mine received a phone call from an officer in an IDF unit stationed in Hebron. He had a request/demand. Two soldiers are stationed outside Beit HaShalom for security purposes. The officer told my friend that the soldiers are ‘cold’ and requested/demanded that people in the building supply them with an electric line for a heater to keep them warm.
My friend could not believe his ears. Only days before, Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused Hebron’s request to allow humanitarian renovations in the building, including instillation of simple windows, electric current, and sealing of the building’s roof to prevent water leakage. The letter received from the Defense ministry stated clearly: If you’re cold, go live somewhere else.
The same defense ministry, who refused us electricity, was now demanding that we supply electricity to IDF soldiers. My friend’s answer was short and sweet – Go talk to the Defense Minister. If he gives us electricity, we’ll be happy to share it with you.
A little while later this information was passed on to an Israeli journalist, who requested a response from the IDF. ‘How can you ask for electricity from Jews in Hebron when you yourselves refuse to allow them electric lines?’
A little while later he received his response: ‘The entire episode was a mistake. The IDF unit requesting electricity was not supposed to call the Jewish Hebron municipality. Rather, they should have made contact with the Arab Hebron municipality and asked to receive electricity from them.’
In other words, the army can take electricity from the Arabs to keep their soldiers warm, but Hebron’s Jews cannot receive any more electric lines to keep their children warm.
This afternoon I spoke to one of the building’s residents who told me as follows: We don’t have enough electricity for ourselves, but we’ve tried to help the soldiers guarding at the entrance because it’s freezing there. We’ve given them two of our own electric heaters, but due to the lack of electric current, both of them have burned out.
Early this afternoon I visited Beit HaShalom with my cameras. My daughter, son-in-law and their three children, aged three to three months, have lived there for the past ten months. They live in a one room apartment, divided into parent’s space, children’s space, kitchenette and living room. Their windows are filled withsome kind of corrugated plastic sheets, somehow sealed onto the walls. Two small heaters keep the room from freezing.
Another family in Beit HaShalom just welcomed their seventh child a few days ago. They live in similar conditions to my daughter.
Last night winter finally arrived in Israel. Extremely strong winds pounded the Hebron area, and Beit HaShalom was quite adversely affected. Many of the residents had closed their windows with large sheets of plastic, which up until yesterday were sufficient. That changed in the middle of the night, when the strong winds literally blew the plastic window-coverings away. Families found themselves as if they were camping outdoors in the middle of the winter. Rain started leaking into people’s rooms from the walls and roof, and puddles formed in their apartments. For a good part of today many Beit HaShalom residents attempted to fix their windows, again hanging huge plastic sheets against the window frames, attaching them with screws and glue, hoping that tonight won’t be a repeat of last night. However, many of them expect it to be worse. Snow is expected in Hebron, starting tonight and ending sometime on Thursday.
One of the families has three heaters in their room, but can only use two of them, the two smaller ones. The larger radiator remains cold; it uses too much electricity. Each family has an ‘electric budget’ which they cannot go over, or else the generator which provides the building’s current will break down.
The Hebron Jewish Community is spending some $20,000 a month to keep the building warm. The generator works 24 hours a day, at full power, to heat up the family’s apartments. (You can help if you’d like, and your assistance would be much appreciated: [www.hebrontruma.com]) No one I’ve spoken to have any plans to leave. I interviewed Shlomo Levinger, who lives there with his wife and five children and asked him why he doesn’t find somewhere else to live, as Ehud Barak suggested. His answer: “This is my home, I live here. Just like anyone else in their home can install windows, so too I should be able to. We haven’t asked for very much, just to replace these plastic sheets with something a little more solid to offer us protection, on humanitarian grounds. Last night the wind blew so hard that it knocked the screws holding on the plastic sheets out of the wall. Each child needed at least three blankets; it was very cold.”
While I was there, Shlomo was attempting to repair the window space, hoping that tonight would be a little warmer in his children’s room.
(Short videos of Beit HaShalom, filmed today, can be seen on the Hebron home pages – www.hebron.org.il in Hebrew and www.hebron.com in English).
The Israeli government is doing its utmost to force Beit HaShalom’s residents to leave; Ehud Barak, the current Defense Minister, is acting like a Russian Cossack. As another friend exclaimed today: ‘This is acting like a Jew? This is the way one Jew acts towards another Jew?’
The other Ehud has the authority to overrule his defense minister. But at the moment he’s more concerned with surviving in the Prime Minister’s office follow tomorrows’ release of the Winograd Commission Report, dealing with his failures during the Second Lebanon War. That certainly takes precedence over a few dozen men, women and children in subhuman conditions in Hebron. Besides which, Olmert already declared a full building freeze in all of Judea and Samaria. So the situation in Hebron falls directly within that category: Windowless, electric-less Beit HaShalom, if not part of Olmert’s building freeze, is quite literally a freezing building.
Prescott Bush financed the building of Auschwitz and his grandson prepares a new Auschwitz

THE STATE OF YOUR UNION?
Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Dear Friends,
Early Tuesday morning, 4:00 am Israeli time, January 29th 2008, I turned on the TV to watch President George W. Bush give his State of the Union address.
As you know, the STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS is the annual message which the President of the United States gives to Congress, usually to a joint session of Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate).
Modeled after the monarch’s Speech from the Throne during the State Opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom, such a report is required by the United States Constitution.
“He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” (Article II, Section 3)
President Bush spoke about his ideas as to how he would help the poor; improve the country’s educational system; and how his administration plans to provide healthcare for every American citizen, etc., etc.
Towards the end of his speech, President Bush addressed various problems of the rest of the world, such as fighting disease in Africa, world hunger, etc. To my complete amazement, he then proceeded at length to discuss his ideas for resolving the Middle East dispute.
As the President went into his usual mantra about a peaceful two-state solution- “The time has come for a Holy Land where a democratic Israel and a democratic Palestine live side-by-side in peace”- the entire audience of Congressmen rose to their feet and applauded at length.
It was at this point, sitting in front of my TV, that I began crying like a little baby. It wasn't just about Bush’s plans, which we have long been worried about. (This much was to be expected of President Bush). But the fact that the entire audience seemed to react so enthusiastically to these ideas was what made me so upset.
The following is an excerpt from Bush’s State of the Union address:
“We're also standing against the forces of extremism in the Holy Land, where we have new cause for hope. PALESTINIANS HAVE ELECTED A PRESIDENT WHO RECOGNIZES THAT CONFRONTING TERROR IS ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVING A STATE WHERE HIS PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN DIGNITY AND AT PEACE WITH ISRAEL. Israelis have leaders who recognize that a peaceful, democratic Palestinian state will be a source of lasting security. This month in Ramallah and Jerusalem, I assured leaders from both sides that America will do, and I will do, everything we can to help them achieve a peace agreement that defines a Palestinian state by the end of this year. The time has come for a Holy Land where a democratic Israel and a democratic Palestine live side-by-side in peace.”
The picture of the Middle East painted by President Bush, unfortunately, has no basis in reality.
Abbas, the President that the Palestinians have elected, DOES NOT recognize that confronting terror is essential to achieving a state where his people can live in dignity and at peace with Israel! As a matter of fact, Abbas is the very same man who was the paymaster for the Munich massacre of summer 1972, where 11 Jewish Israeli athletes were taken hostage and murdered. Abbas, and his group, Fatah, are responsible for more Jews murdered in terror attacks, than even Hamas!
Finally, it is difficult to understand why President Bush ends his State of the Union speech with his fight against extremism in the Holy Land! Who are the extremists? Is it the Jews, who have finally regained their Homeland after 2,000 years of persecution? Or the Arabs, who have vowed not to rest until “their” land has been cleansed of every last Jew.
The hateful sentiments felt by Muslims toward all Jews are derived directly from the Koran, the Muslim Holy Scriptures:
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176:
A tradition attributed to Muhammad: “The Hour [Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: 'O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’”
At the end of his address, President Bush, once again, forcefully stated his desire to divide the Holy Land in order to give the Arabs yet another state.
Who are these people who deserve such incredible compassion? We are not only talking of the thousands of Jews killed by Arab terrorists within the borders of Israel. We surely don't have to remind you of the 2,973 Americans-- Jews and Christians alike-- killed in the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
Even if these Arabs in question were the most peace-loving, angelic individuals, President Bush still would not have the right to supercede the word of the G-d of Israel to reapportion his Holy Land.
The G-d of Israel said it clearly in Leviticus 25:23: “AND THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD IN PERPETUITY, FOR THE LAND IS MINE”.
The question I pose to President George W. Bush is as follows:
Would America’s founding fathers, who were Bible-believing Christians, have approved your policies vis-a-vis the Holy Land?
Mr. President, I ask: How will dividing the Holy Land and giving part of it to the Arab Muslim enemy improve the STATE OF YOUR UNION?
For the full State of the Union Address of President Bush, Jan. 28th, 2008:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080128-13.html
With Blessings and Love for Israel,
Ruth Matar
Brazil has lost it's humanity
Holocaust-themed Rio Carnival float causes strain
By Pedro Fonseca
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.
The Viradouro samba organization, or school, plans to feature the grim display when it marches in the Sambadrome parade strip on Sunday, despite objections from a local Jewish group.
"Really, it makes no sense addressing this theme with drums and dancing girls," said Sergio Niskier, president of the Israelite Federation in Rio de Janeiro state, referring to the slaughter of Jews by Nazi Germany in World War Two.
"There are still survivors of that horror who have the marks of that tragedy on their skin," he said.
Rio's Carnival is famed for the parades by samba schools with glitzy floats and costumes and street parties where costumed revelers drink and dance all night.
The elaborately decorated floats are a key part of each samba school's presentation, along with thousands of dancers and drummers led by near naked Carnival queens.
Viradouro insisted its Holocaust float is not meant to offend anyone.
"The float is extremely respectful, it's a warning, it's something shocking that we don't want to happen ever again," said Paulo Barros, Viradouro's artistic director.
Viradouro's parade theme is "Shockers" and it includes floats depicting the shock of birth, the shock of horror and the shock of cold.
Barrossaid the Holocaust float would be the only one without dancers on top.
"If we had people dancing on top of dead bodies that would indeed be disrespectful," he told Reuters.
Traditionally, the use of religious references causes last-minute problems for samba schools. In the past, the Roman Catholic Church has barred floats with figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary and samba schools had to cover or modify them.
(Reporting by Pedro Fonseca and Andrei Khalip, Editing by Kieran Murray)
Monday, January 28, 2008
Is this Israel's "peace partner"?
Fatah TV Broadcasts Daily Call For Ethnic Cleansing of Jews
Fatah chief and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's PA television has been repeatedly broadcasting a hate-filled music video calling for the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish people from Israel.
"My enemy, oh snake! Around the land, you are coiled. You have no choice, oh enemy, but to leave my country," is the refrain in the video, which has been broadcast on a daily basis for the past several months, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
"The song's refrain, 'My enemy, oh enemy,' is repeated over and over throughout the song. Israel is not even given the courtesy of a name, but is tagged with such labels as 'treacherous,' 'imperialism' and a 'coiled snake,'" PMW Director Itamar Marcus points out. "The Palestinian is portrayed as a heroic victim who courageously confronts the evil 'enemy' Israel."
The song incites Arabs living under Fatah's rule in Judea and Samaria to fight to the death to rid the land of Jews, assuring them that, through this, they will ultimately prevail: "You have no choice, oh enemy, but to leave my country," it says.
"The goal of this music video clip is to inculcate loathing of Israel and anticipation of its destruction," Marcus explains. "The repeated broadcast over recent months by Fatah-controlled television is consistent with other Arabic-language hate messages currently being disseminated - in spite of the peace talks."
PA TV first aired the music video in 2004 and resumed its broadcast in October, 2007. It was broadcast throughout the Annapolis conference as well as during US President George W. Bush's visit to Israel, PMW reports. It continues to be aired on almost a daily basis.
The following is the text of the hate video:
"My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!...
If you pull out my eyes,
My heart will see. (x2)
If you cut off my hands,
My chest is knives and swords.
My enemy! Oh imperialism!
This homeland is ours. (x2)
This land will be tilled
only by our hoes. (x2)
Whenever the tension rises,
Whenever this land weeps, (x2)
the flower will return
to grow in our house.
My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!...
My enemy! Oh snake!
Around the land, you are coiled. (x2)
We, noble, courageous,
on the day of ruin [battle], shall stand.
You have no choice, Oh enemy,
but to leave my country.
And my children will return.
Jerusalem Belongs to Jews
20 Years of Research Reveals: Jerusalem Belongs to Jews
Gauthier has written a doctoral dissertation on the topic of Jerusalem and its legal history, based on international treaties and resolutions of the past 90 years. The dissertation runs some 1,300 pages, with 3,000 footnotes. Gauthier had to present his thesis to a world-famous Jewish historian and two leading international lawyers - the Jewish one of whom has represented the Palestinian Authority on numerous occasions.
Gauthier's main point, as summarized by Israpundit editor Ted Belman, is that a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem. The process began at San Remo, Italy, when the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I - Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan - agreed to create a Jewish national home in what is now the Land of Israel.
San Remo
The relevant resolution reads as follows: "The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust... the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory [which] will be responsible for putting into effect the [Balfour] declaration... in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."
Gauthier notes that the San Remo treaty specifically notes that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" - but says nothing about "political" rights of the Arabs living there.
The San Remo Resolution also bases itself on Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which declares that it is a "a sacred trust of civilization" to provide for the well-being and development of colonies and territories whose inhabitants are "not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world."
League of Nations
The League of Nations' resolution creating the Palestine Mandate, included the following significant clause: “Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country." No such recognition of Arab rights in Palestine was granted.
In 1945, the United Nations took over from the failed League of Nations - and assumed the latter's obligations. Article 80 of the UN Charter states: "Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed, in or of itself, to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties."
UN Partition Plan
However, in 1947, the General Assembly of the UN passed Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan. It violated the League of the Nations' Mandate for Palestine in that it granted political rights to the Arabs in western Palestine - yet, ironically, the Jews applauded the plan's passages while the Arabs worked to thwart it.
Resolution 181 also provided for a Special regime for Jerusalem, with borders delineated in all four directions: The then-extant municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns up to Abu Dis in the east, Bethlehem in the south, Ein Karem and Motza in the west, and Shuafat in the north.
Referendum Scheduled for Jerusalem
The UN resolved that the City of Jerusalem shall be established as a separate entity under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations. The regime was to come into effect by October 1948, and was to remain in force for a period of ten years, unless the UN's Trusteeship Council decided otherwise. After the ten years, the residents of Jerusalem "shall be then free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modifications of regime of the City."
The resolution never took effect, because Jordan controlled eastern Jerusalem after the 1948 War of Independence and did not follow its provisions.
After 1967
After the Six Day War in 1967, Israel regained Jerusalem and other land west of Jordan. Gauthier notes that the UN Security Council then passed Resolution 242 authorizing Israel to remain in possession of all the land until it had “secure and recognized boundaries.” The resolution was notably silent on Jerusalem, and also referred to the "necessity for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem,” with no distinction made between Jewish and Arab refugees.
Today
Given Jerusalem's strong Jewish majority, Gauthier concludes, Israel should be demanding that the long-delayed city referendum on the city's future be held as soon as possible. Not only should Israel be demanding that the referendum be held now, Jerusalem should be the first order of business. "Olmert is sloughing us off by saying [as he did before the Annapolis Conference two months ago], 'Jerusalem is not on the table yet,'" Gauthier concludes. "He should demand that the referendum take place before the balance of the land is negotiated. If the Arabs won’t agree to the referendum, there is nothing to talk about."
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Know your enemies: If you think words cannot kill ... Listen to the sheikhs
Know your enemies: If you think words cannot kill ... Listen to the sheikhs
In August 1979, Saudi Arabia officially declared great Jihad. The western world did not take that declaration seriously because it failed to understand its significance, connotation and implication. The west thought that Saudi Arabia did so in reaction to Sadat's signing of peace treaty with Israel on March 26, 1979. The staunch Wahabi Saudi monarchs would go to any length or do anything to prevent any Muslim country from making peace with "the descendants of apes and pigs.... the enemies of Allah and Islam." The Saudis had been trying very hard to dissuade Sadat from signing the peace treaty with Israel but to no avail. The west which was thirsty more than ever for Saudi oil thought that the Saudi declaration of Jihad was directed to Israel only. Anyway, Saudi Arabia cannot fight Israel especially that Egypt was now at peace with Israel.
Saudi Arabia may not be able to defeat Israel militarily nor, for that matter, defeat "those who stand behind it." It can, however, defeat Israel and those who stand behind her who are all "infidel and enemies of Allah" through holy war (Jihad). Saudi Arabia has the money, the cunning and the will to mobilize the whole Muslim world for the great Jihad. It has devised since 1979 an elaborate plan to prepare for and win Jihad against Israel and the west.
The Wahabis (Saudi adherers of the orthodox radical version of Islam) headed by the royal family have aspired for nearly 2 centuries to "cleanse Arabia of the infidels (for them that includes Palestine.) Since its inception in 1927, el Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt) has aspired to "cleanse the whole world of the infidels." El Ikhwan brought their pedagogical skills (they control the educational system in Saudi Arabia and all Islamic countries, as well as the teachers unions) and organizational infrastructure expertise in terrorist cells creation and militia formations. The Saudi brought the unlimited financing and their first class privileged connections (lackeys) especially in the West. It’s no wonder that El Zawahri is called the brain, and Ben Laden the financier. Amalgamated, the two groups thought the time is ripe to use their WMD (weapon of mass destruction), Islam. They worked to establish basis all over the world, subdue the West and hold it hostage at gun point. They indoctrinated a Jihadist army for the Islamization war. The Brotherhood announced on March 19, 2002, that it established a new suicide bomber Unit. Some of their leaders have issued fatwas saying it is ok to kill women and children in the process.
The making of a terrorist have to start from his tender age. So they built religious schools in all Muslim countries and Muslim communities in the west, and supplied the preachers to spread the poison (Islam). They even bribed their way to the most prominent Western universities establishing academic degrees in higher education for the teachings of a pedophile, mass murderer rapist 7th century Bedouin. They also bribed all Muslim heads of state.
By late 1990s, Saudi Arabia managed to Wahabize all Muslim countries and communities where over 75% of adult women became veiled, 99% of mosques follow Wahabi prayer rituals, 99% of schools teach Jihadist version of Islam and all mass media promote the same. Anti-American sentiments soared and hate and animosity for Israel reached an all-time high, especially in Egypt, regardless of the peace treaty she signed with Israel. This is the most evident proof that treaties signed with Arabs are not worth the papers they’re written on.
Fanatic Sheiks, preachers and Islamic organizations are the front line (fifth column) central instruments in the Saudi-El Ikhwan Jihadist plan. Though dead for more than 9 years now,
Sheikh Muhammed Metwalli Al Sha'rawi, is still the West deadliest enemy. He is still regarded by Muslims everywhere, mainstream and fundamentalist, as a quasi prophet. His religious books, research papers, videos and cassette tapes are still best selling in the Muslim world. His fatwas (Islamic edicts) and tafsir (interpretation and explanation work) of the Koran are still strictly followed by all Muslims, preachers and scholars who respectfully refer to him as “the prince of Da’wa.” He is the product of Al Azhar Univeristy in Cairo, same as Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who is serving a life sentence in the US for his role in the 1993 WTC bombing. Recordings of his famous Friday TV show, still broadcasted across the Muslim world, are considered best TV program in most Muslim countries.
He had been entrusted by the Saudi and Egyptian regimes to convert the Muslim populace to jihad and martyrdom. He was an able orator, a skilled actor and a proficient Arabic linguist. This combination, together with his peasant demeanor and accent, enabled him to captivate broad-based audience in all Muslim countries and communities. (View list of his books in English http://www.islambasics.com/view.php?authID=100&page=1.)
For 25 years, his Friday show was broadcasted nationwide by the government-owned television stations in the Muslim world. His videos, tapes and books spreading the teachings of jihad and inciting Muslims to hate people of other faiths were translated, became best sellers in Muslim bookstores all over the Western world, inspired and still inspiring as we speak new generations of Muslim terrorists. Sheikhs Abu Hamza el Masri and Bakri of Finsbury park mosque are but an example of the accomplished spiritual students of Al Sha’rawi.
All this is happening in broad daylight under the nose of Western anti-terrorist law enforcement, and protected by the freedom of religion act. He is credited with the popularization and enforcement of the veil culture for Muslim women all over the world. He told Muslim men that it was halal (acceptable to Allah) to rape Christian, Jewish and Western women in general because they were “slaves.” Prisoners of war are slaves according to Islamic teachings. He wrote an article in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram on 9/2/1992 in which he said: “Raping female POWs bestows honor on her since the master does to her what he does to his wife.” He incited Muslims to convert, subjugate and take over Western countries by all deceptive means, including illegal immigration, deceiving Western women into marriage of convenience to obtain legal residency, convert them to Islam and produce as many children to increase the Western Muslim populations.
Answering a caller that asked him if it is lawful to use the kaffer (unclean non Muslim) Western products and technology, in one of his live shows, he answered: “Yes it is lawful because Allah created them to serve us, so any thing you can get or embezzle from them is halal ‘lawful’ for the Muslim”. To substantiate his fatwa, he recited Koran 33:27, “And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (Before). And Allah has power over all things.”
As a result of these live jihad talk shows permitted and supported by the governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, thousands of Egyptian female Coptic “POWs” have been abducted, raped and forced to convert to Islam for the past 30 years (and still happening every day). The whole World knows about it (just Google: kidnapped Coptic girls and you’ll have thousands of links,) except the Egyptian government that keep pretending “no hear, no see”. Added to this, thousands of male “POWs” have been abducted, robbed and slaughtered. It may have amused Sheik Al Sha'rawi to know that because of him and the criminal indifference of Western Governments, over 2-3 million Egyptian Christians (13-20% of the Christian population) have immigrated to the West over the past 30 years. It may have pleased him more to know that his teaching was immortalized at Ground Zero.
Over 25 years ago, Sheik Al Sha'rawi was already acting as though the Muslims were at war with the rest of the world. The West which did not realize that there was a war going on did nothing to stop him or to stop those who stood behind him. In fact, he was very generously rewarded by those who stood behind him, namely Mubarak and the House of Saud. Postal stamps were issued carrying his picture, titles were bestowed on him and honorable citations were accorded to him.
Only time will tell how much the legacy Al Sha'rawi left will cost America and the West. Hundreds of Islamic preachers have followed in his footsteps, with the same zeal to achieve similar “glory” and make friends with the same supporting rulers.
No American leader dared to take action against rich Saudi monarchs or Mubarak, the recipient of more than two billion dollars a year from the US, and both are supposedly American allies. It would have been easy to stop Al Sha’rawi and his like in their midst. Many of these Sheiks have dark and shabby secrets in their pasts that can be used to discredit, defame and denounce them to end their career before they had done so much damage to humanity. Bringing them to justice or bringing justice to them would have been a legitimate act of self-defense. Instead, the preacher of doom stopped the lives of thousands and will keep stopping lives from his grave until his teaching is stopped.
From muddy rat holes in God-forsaken villages to great mansions and elegant villas, those Sheiks have made the great profiteering from their fellow Muslims. On the other hand, some of them were or still are secret members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jihad, Jamaa Islamyiah, i.e. they are downright terrorists.
Any Imam can easily captivate, sway and control Muslim audience. After all, the majority of Muslims are simple and undereducated people. They are culturally shallow and illiterate. They are impoverished, downtrodden, exploited, hopeless and lacking in self-esteem. Some of them may have college degrees but that does not change the fact that education in Arab and Muslim world is substandard. Orators like Sheik Al Sha'rawi are the opium of the Muslim people. They detach Muslims from their miserable, disdainful and subhuman reality and dispatch them with Koranic verses to an abstract rosy world that is filled with hopes, promises, virgins and above all recognition and respect. They hypnotize simple Muslims into believing and feeling anything they want them to. They also guide Muslims to a meaningful life for a change. A life of Jihad and death of a martyr which lead to the highest level of Jannah (Paradise) where the pleasures denied to poor Muslims in this life are far better and more abundant.
Since the emergence of Islam in the 7th century, Sheiks have prostituted themselves to whoever pays. They tailor and sell fatwas for any purpose and in the interest of anyone who pays or rules. They issue fatwas forbidding Muslims from opposing their oppressive and corrupt rulers. The 'fortunate' Sheik is the one who is picked by the ruler to help him consolidate his power through cleverly tailored fatwas that serve his purpose and needs. That is why every Muslim country has a Mufti whose job is to issue fatwas ostensibly to guide the Muslim population. Rulers enlist the fatwa and religious propaganda expertise of freelance popular Sheiks like Al Sha'rawi. So, those Sheiks are secretly hired by the Muslim rulers and at times by foreign ones, to enhance and further their political ambitions, deflect dissent, eliminate opponents, distract Muslim populations from the harsh realities imposed on them and channel their anger towards a scapegoat enemy.
From late 1960s and early 1970s, Muslim and Arab rulers have given their Sheiks orders to wage fatwa war against the US and Israel, to ensure the success of their hate campaigns. Religiosity and fundamentalism increased as a result and with them enmity against the US. By September 11, the hate for the US had reached explosive levels. Right now, the hate for the US and Israel in the region is pathologically unsurpassed and dangerously uncontrollable.
Despite the fact that these acts of hostilities amount to a declaration of war, the US and its Western allies have failed to take any action against the Sheiks and against the rulers who stand behind and operate them. America which has a right to act in self-defense should act now correctly and promptly to avert and preempt deadlier and more devastating attacks than those of 9/11.
As we speak now, thousands of younger, angrier and more hateful Sheiks are being hatched by hundreds of religious schools across the Muslim countries. In Egypt alone, there are 50,000 Al Azhar registered Sheiks. the Saudi government has been establishing hundreds of Islamic religious schools in mosques in North America, Europe and Australia.











