Mazin Qumsiyeh: Olive Tree Initiative Contact and Anti-Semite

Hat tip Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers





Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers has a piece on Mazin Qumsiyeh a West Bank Palestinian who is one of the principle contacts for the Olive Tree Initiative. According to this article, Qumsiyeh takes his opposition to Israel a bit farther than just an opposition to Zionism.




http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2014/07/mazin-qumsiyeh-compares-lubavitcher.html


I expect there will be another OTI delegation of "student diplomats" en route to the Middle East in August and that they will meet with Qumsiyeh. Maybe the Jewish students can ask him about all these statements. In addition, maybe the people who run the OTI can tell us how much money they pay to Qumsiyeh and all those other "tour guides" in the West Bank. They are still under a California Freedom of Information request to do so.

Obama's Brown Shirts in Action

Hat tip PJ Media and Squid




As if this border mess wasn't bad enough, we have some government contracted security firm from the Baptist Church, be jeezus, walking around with badges and threatening to arrest people. They call themselves Brown Shirts. Wonderful. Just this week I cross-posted a piece by Fox News' Todd Starnes about these guys who were threatening civilian workers at these holding centers for the Central Americans coming across our border with arrest if they spoke out about the health problems and conditions at the camps. In addition, they also prevented a congressman from Oklahoma from entering a holding center in Oklahoma to talk to the immigrants. The below article in PJ media tells us who these guys are.


http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/07/01/brown-shirts-are-silencing-medical-personnel-on-the-texas-mexico-border/


I should note that one of Adolf Hitler's first acts upon becoming chancellor in 1933 was to assign his SA troops (Brown Shirts) as auxiliary police officers. Of course that resulted in the arrests and beatings of Hitler's political opponents the same year, (Communists and Social Democrats).


So now we have a bunch of jokers rom the Baptist Church hired by that storied law enforcement agency, the Dept of Health and Human Services, until recently under the rule of J. Edgar Sibelius, calling themselves Brown Shirts and intimidating people. My question is just what law enforcement training and statutory power do they have that bestows arrest powers upon them? I can understand security powers, but if they received information that one of the health workers was talking to the press, how would they proceed? Do they go to the person's house and arrest them? Do they take the information to the US Attorney's Office and a federal grand jury for an indictment? Do they apply for a wiretap to listen in on the person's phone conversations? Do they apply for a search warrant?


Meanwhile the Border Patrol union reports that 70% of its border personnel have been reassigned to changing diapers and other social services for the new arrivals.


Thanks, President Obama.

The Murder of an Arab Teen in Jerusalem

This week, I wrote that one of the differences between the Israelis and the Arabs was that Israelis don't kidnap and murder Palestinian teenagers as was the case with the three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed in the West Bank. No sooner did I write that than word came out that an Arab teen was found murdered in Jerusalem in apparent retaliation. Of course, I could have gone back to my post and deleted that line, but why should I do that other than I could? I would rather deal with it and talk about it openly.

In some quarters, claims are being made that it was "an inside job"; that the boy was not taken and murdered by Israelis. I don't know, and we will have to await more facts coming out. I will say this, however:. First of all, there is no way to condone this act, and I hope that the perpetrators are arrested and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

The second point that must be made is that unlike Palestinian society, Israel has laws and a justice system to deal with this. While the "government" in Gaza (Hamas) celebrated the crime against the three Israeli teens, the Israeli government has condemned the killing of the Arab boy and is looking for the killer(s).  In fact, Hamas is believed to actually be behind the triple homicide.

And therein lies the basic difference between Israeli society and Arab society. Israel is civilized and believes in the rule of law. Arab society is dysfunctional, violent, and celebrates killing. Who among the Palestinians and the wider Arab world was speaking out and condemning the murders of the three Israeli boys? Of course, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement, but he was expected to since the PA is  receiving all that aid and was ostensibly helping in the search. But that's about it. Even the Western supporters of the Palestinians were referring to the victims as "squatters" and illegal settlers.

If the killer(s) of the Arab boy turn out to be Israelis, then Israel will have an opportunity to demonstrate through its justice system the difference between them and their enemies. Hopefully, the Western press will take note.

Chuck Hagel and Tim Howard

At least Chuck Hagel knows how to laugh at himself. In this latest laffer, Hagel thanks US soccer goalie Tim Howard for "defending" the USA.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/02/chuck-hagel-thanks-tim-howard-for-defending-united-states/?intcmp=latestnews

I suggest we send Mr Howard down to our southern border.

So You Want to Be a TV News Anchor?

If you are like me, you probably watch those big TV news anchors like Brian Williams reading the news off some screen in front of him that we can't see, and you figure you could do that job, right? Let me give you some reinforcement. Here below is an example of a news broadcast in Lithuania. (Be patient. It takes a while to load.)

http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/55691/ziniasklaidos_apzvalga

Kinda makes our anchors look good, don't it?

If you are interested, send in your resume to Lithuanian National TV. You must be able to read the newspapers and speak Lithuanian. (And the latter ain't easy.)

Another Useless Academic Blames Israel for the Murder of Three Teenagers

Hat tip Campus Watch and Elder of Ziyon


Juan Cole is a history professor at the University of Michigan. He is noted as a big supporter of the Palestinian cause and just about anything else Arab. Not surprisingly, he points out the fact that the three teenagers abducted and murdered on the West Bank were not only residents of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but "squatters". That's a good way to subtract some of the blame from his benighted Palestinian terrorists. Elder of Ziyon takes him to task for this and rightfully so. This piece also appears on Campus Watch.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/despicable-juan-cole-blames-jews-for.html#.U7RSKPldWSo

"The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls for reprisals in Israel.Whoever is responsible for it, the killing of the youth was a horrid and inexcusable crime, and the heart of any parent goes out to the bereaved families."

"Palestinian land?"  How about disputed land, or how about Judea and Samaria? What country is Palestine, Mr Cole? 

At any rate, that comment by Cole reminds me of the time (one of the times) the British twit and propangandist Ben White came to speak at UC Irvine, where I teach. I was in attaendance and recall when during the q and a, a Jewish couple asked him about a recent murder in the West Bank when members of two Jewish families who resided in one of those settlements were murdered. White's response was that they were illegal settlers. When the lady told him that they were Jewish human beings, White stated that, "Ok, they were illegal settler Jewish human beings." 

This is how people like Cole and White, who should know better, react when they come to the defense of those Palestinians who have no regard for human life. They point out that the victims were "illegal settlers" or worse, "squatters". So much for their own humanity. I imagine that 75 years ago, these apologists would be talking about all the "suffering" that the 6 million Jews had caused the National Socialists.

As for Cole, he may have a name in the academic left, but in reality, his kind is a dime a dozen. Imagine: A university professor who is anti-Israel.

Let's Play "Queen for a Day" With Hillary Clinton

Back when I was a kid, there was a popular show on radio and TV called, "Queen for a Day". The show featured a series of down on their luck women who came out and told their sob story and what they wished for (usually a washing machine or some other appliance). The audience would vote by applause as to which contestant got the goodies depending on who garnered the most sympathy.

One day, we all turned on the radio because my first cousin-still a teenager- was on the show. When asked what she wanted, she asked for a box to keep her little possessions in because her cousin (me) was always getting into them (a real tale of woe). Needless to say, she did not win.

So with my late cousin in mind, let's return to those days of yesteryear and play, "Queen for a Day". This episode is from early 2001.
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"Hello and welcome to our studio audience. Let's welcome our first contestant, shall we? Let's all give a warm welcome to Hillary Rodham Clinton!"



(Mild applause)

"Hello, Hillary."

"Hello, Jack."

"Tell us, Hillary. Where do you live and what do you do?"

"Well, to tell you the truth, Jack, right now I am homeless and out of work."

"Oh? How so?"

"Well, my husband and I have recently been evicted from the White House, and we are dead broke."

"How did that happen, Hillary?"

"Well, our lease ran out and we have so many legal bills, we just can't make ends meet. Our kid has been attending Stanford, Oxford and Columbia, and I'm not sure we can keep paying her tuition."

"Well, how did you get all those legal bills?'

"It's because my husband was working so hard for the American people, and he got caught up in that vast right-wing conspiracy.  The next thing we knew all these women were crawling out of the woodwork accusing Bill of all kinds of stuff while I was away almost getting killed in places like Sarajevo, and no matter how much he said it wasn't true, well, next thing we knew, there were lawyers, special prosecutors, depositions, grand juries, nobody is buying my book, and well, here I am on Queen for a Day, boo-hoo-hoo."



"Well, that's terrible, Hillary. I am sure everyone in the audience feels sympathy for you. Tell us, how can we help? What would you like to get on Queen for a  Day?"

"Well, Jack, first of all, I was hoping I could get a house- in Chappaqua, perhaps. And secondly, I would like to be appointed, er elected to the US Senate.

"OK, Hillary. Don't go away. After we hear from our other two contestants, we'll let the audience decide."

(Later in the show)

"Now it's time for the audience to decide. Contestant number one-Myrtle Peabody's husband fell in a cement-mixer and is now permanently disabled. She needs a washer-dryer to do her laundry. Please signify by your applause, please."

(Mild applause)

"Contestant number two, Bertha  Boxcar, had her right ear bitten off by a great white shark while swimming in Lake Michigan. She needs a hearing aid. "Let's hear it for Bertha."

(Mild applause)

"And our third contestant, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is dead broke and homeless. She wants a house in Chappaqua and a job in the US Senate. Your applause, please."

(Wild cheering and standing ovation)

"Congratulations, Hillary Rodham Clinton! You are Queen for a Day!"



"What do you mean for a day?"

The Border is Coming to All of Us

Fox News' Todd Starnes has an expose on the border situation as revealed by whistle blowers. Many of the children arriving at our border from Central America are disease ridden. Worse yet, workers have been threatened with arrest by mysterious security police if they speak out on the situation.


http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=361069

Of course, I feel badly for these unfortunate kids who are caught in the cross-fire of an international mess, but there are health concerns here for all concerned.  The first thing reporters (as if we still had any left in America) should be asking is, "Who are these security 'brown shirts' and what police authority do they have to arrest anybody merely for opening their mouths?"

Of course, aside from the much-maligned Fox News, who else will ask-MSNBC?

J Street's Moral Equivalence

Hat tip JJ


As Israel buries its three murdered teenagers, the Gorge Soros-funded American organization J Street, still masquerading as a Jewish pro-Israel organization, continues to plead the Palestinian cause. J Street's president Jeremy Ben Ami, writes this disgraceful article to mark the event.

http://jstreet.org/blog/post/enough-of-tears-and-bloodshed_1

JJ Surbeck of Training and Education About the Middle East (San Diego), nails it with this analysis of Ben Ami's piece.


"I know there are still people who believe J Street is doing the right thing because its members are convinced they know better than the Israelis what’s good for them. I know because I saw them at their Annual Symposium in San Francisco a few weeks ago, including the San Diego contingent. For these hopeless and dangerous dreamers who fancy themselves as saviors, it would be a good idea to read the latest drivel that their fearless leader has spewed on the occasion of the inexcusable murder of Gilad, Naftali and Eyad. But of course, Ben Ami being Ben Ami and J Street being J Street, they would betray their agenda if they were to put the blame exclusively on the murderers. Just like the New York Times and other sick leftist commentators everywhere, J Street considers that, you guessed it, since these teenagers lived in Judea/Samaria, they were therefore part of "the occupation", and they had it coming consequently. In case no one had noticed, that’s the Palestinian narrative, not the Israeli one. So if anyone is still dumb enough to believe Ben Ami, one should according to him stop and think a little bit about the amount of pain that the poor, sweet, innocent Palestinians (whose peaceful culture we should assume is close to pastoral in nature) must have endured to conclude that such cold-blooded murders were the only way to improve their lot. 

You read this junk and you wonder how many synapses in Ben Ami’s brain have shorted... It is simply unbelievable and unconscionable for the leader of a national Jewish organization to express at this time views that Haneen Zoabi, the firebrand Arab-Israeli MK accused of treason, would not disagree with. Ben Ami has this amazing sentence: "There is no way out of this spiral of violence and conflict if we can’t start to hear and understand the pain on the other side too.” Wrong. Soooo wrong. The spiral of violence exists only for one reason: because thanks to people like you, Israel has paid way too much attention and a heavy price trying to understand the pain on the other side, precisely. And the only guaranteed result, over and over again, has been and still is more pain inflicted by Palestinians who are not one bit interested in reciprocating some understanding of the pain they inflict on innocent people, over and over again. So, no, Mr. Ben Ami, there is no more room for understanding the pain on the other side. What is to be understood is that the Palestinians don’t understand Israel’s pain, never have and never will. It is consequently time to stop the charade of establishing any type of equivalence between the two sides. Israel is now entitled to take all measures it deems necessary, without any restraint of any sort, to root out the evil that you refuse to see and which, as we have repeatedly warned, you help unleash on a regular basis. “Pro-Israel?” How dare you? You and anyone who still supports you are objective accomplices in these murders." 

J.J. Surbeck
Executive Director

Training and Education About the Middle East
www.sandiegoteam.org
E-mail: info@sandiegoteam.org

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I concur. Israelis do not kidnap and murder Palestinian teenagers. Israelis do not strap on suicide bombs in order to kill dozens of Palestinians. Where Israelis respect human life, Palestinians have zero regard for it.

J Street consistently takes the Palestinian side in every instance. Yet they are so intellectually dishonest that they still insist they are pro-Israel.

*Update: No sooner do I say that Israelis do not kidnap and murder Palestinian teenagers, than it appears that just such a thing may have happened. A teenage Arab has reportedly been found murdered in Jerusalem. Naturally, I condemn this. I will point out, however, that this is an isolated incident, and the Israelis have a justice system that will honestly attempt to bring the perpetrators to justice-quite unlike the Palestinians. 

SJP Never Gives Up

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)  is a despicable national student group that uses brown shirt tactics to deligitimize Israel on college campus. Their main tactic is to intimidate pro-Israel Jewish students on campus, a tactic that university administrators have turned a blind eye to. The UCLA chapter has been especially active in the past few months attempting to keep pro-Israel Jewish students off of the student government. Here is the latest from this week's Daily Bruin. Now they are attempting to submarine a student-regent delegate to the UC Board of Regents.

http://dailybruin.com/2014/06/29/ucsa-investigates-allegations-about-student-regent-designate-avi-oved/

Correct me if I am wrong, but I would be highly surprised if student government candidates backed by the the SJP have not received funding from outside sources. I don't keep up with all the by-laws, but to me this is dirty politics.

The bottom line is that SJP and their allies never give up. If they lose a divestment vote against Israel, they just bring it back the following quarter or semester. This is what they do. It must get tiring for university students who don't even care about the issue one way or another.

Bret Stephen Asks: "Where Are the Palestinian Mothers?"

Hat tip Wall Street Journal, Elder of Ziyon, and Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers




Bret Stephen has an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal about the kidnap-murder of three Israeli teenagers. I am cross-posting it from the blog, Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers. Its title is, "Where Are the Palestinian Mothers?", which I think is pretty self-explanatory.


http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-where-are-the-palestinian-mothers-1404171087

The picture above (Elder of Ziyon) pretty much answers the question. That is where they are-raising their children to hate Jews and kill them as soon as they are old enough-even at the cost of their own lives. You will also find them on the streets dancing and passing out candy every time one of these murders occurs.

In addition, Palestinian children are taught the same message in their schools and when they turn on the TV to watch cartoons. They are literally taught that Jews are descendants of apes and pigs-not worthy of life. Is it any wonder these things happen?

And so many gullible and foolish Westerners think that they deserve a state of their own. You cannot build a state around people who have no regard for human life. The Palestinians and their Arab brothers, who use them as pawns but won't absorb them into their own societies, have only themselves to blame for their miserable condition.

The Disgraceful Klinghoffer Opera

Hat tip JJ and Jerusalem Post

I remember well the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro because we were living in Italy in 1985. It was yet another horrific example of the basic inhumanity of Palestinian terrorists. Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish American man was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by the same kind of savages that most recently kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers.

Yet an opera playing in New York attempts to bestow humanity upon the killers who carried out the Achille Lauro atrocity. At the same time, in its dialogue, it parrots the very Jew hatred that motivated the terrorists.

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=361069

Final point: Once again the Anti-Defamation League fails in its responsibility to condemn anti-Semitism when it comes from Arab or Muslim quarters. They should be ashamed.