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IDF enters Gaza Neighborhood

by Phantom Ace ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under IDF, Islamists at January 13th, 2009 - 3:55 pm

It looks like the IDF is testing Hamas defenses in Gaza City.

Israeli forces enter Gaza City neighborhood

 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israeli ground troops battled Palestinian militants in the streets of a densely populated Gaza City neighborhood early Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes and sending terrified residents running for cover as gunfire and explosions echoed in the distance.

Israel’s push into Tel Hawwa neighborhood was the farthest it has moved into Gaza City during its 18-day offensive against Hamas militants, and brought Israel’s ground forces within a mile of the crowded city center. Palestinian hospital officials say more than 900 Palestinians, half of them civilians, have been killed.

Israel launched the offensive on Dec. 27 to end years of Palestinian rocket attacks on its southern towns, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed to press forward with an “iron fist,” despite growing international calls for an end to the fighting. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was headed to the region Tuesday to press for a cease-fire.

Israel needs to storm Gaza and finish this!

Israel Rejects UN Condemnation As “Irrelevant”

by WrathofG-d ( 20 Comments › )
Filed under Gaza, Israel, United Nations at January 13th, 2009 - 2:56 pm

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un-human-rights-council-logo(IsraelNN.com) Israel has rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution “strongly condemning” Israel’s counter-terrorist operations in Hamas-controlled Gaza. The non-binding resolution was adopted Monday by a coalition of 33 African, Asian, Arab, and South American states. Thirteen European states abstained, while Canada was the sole “no” vote. The United States and Israel are not members of the Council.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokespeople roundly rejected the HRC resolution as “irrelevant and one-sided.” The HRC itself, Israel noted, is dominated by Islamic and non-aligned states, while Western democratic nations “refused to give their support to this resolution or lend it moral credence.” Japan, Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and Cameroon also abstained.

“The politically-motivated, almost exclusive focus on Israel has become a repulsive habit of the Council,” the Foreign Ministry said, adding that the Human Rights Council is once again exposing “its true face as a body exploited by states whose behavior is far from ideal, where human rights are concerned. This allows the Council’s attention to be diverted from most of the regions of the world, while the fate of their residents is left to criminal negligence or abuse by Council members or their allies.”

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Israel finally responds appropriately to the witless U.N.  I imagine however that those who are Anti-Israel will very quickly quote this non-binding resolution as “further evidence” of Israel’s violation of international law, and U.N. resolutions.  But then again the facts have never been their friend.

Anti Zionism = Anti-Semitism

by WrathofG-d ( 14 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Palestinians at January 12th, 2009 - 12:04 pm

It Isn’t About Land….Its About Hatred Of Jews

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CHICAGO

Chicago synagogues vandalized

(JTA) — At least three Chicago-area synagogues were vandalized following rallies in support of and against Israel.

The synagogues were defaced early Saturday morning by two vandals who smashed windows and doors with rocks and bricks and sprayed pro-Palestinian graffiti on the buildings. The men were captured on a video surveillance camera at one synagogue and were seen by a caretaker fleeing the scene at a second synagogue.

Some of the graffiti read “Death to Israel and “Free Palestine,” according to local reports.

Police believe that the incidents could be related and are currently being investigated as hate crimes by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to the Secure Community Network, which coordinates security for North American Jewish institutions. The Chicago Tribune has reported that a fourth synagogue, in the suburb of Lincolnwood, was also vandalized.

The vandalism incidents, and an attempt late Friday afternoon by four unknown men in Chicago to enter a Jewish federation building, followed a Jewish communal rally Friday in support of Israel and a pro-Palestinian rally later in the day.

A week ago, a Chicago Jewish day school received a bomb threat in the mail that was also directed at other Jewish schools and institutions.

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ROME

Outrage over proposal to boycott Jewish-owned shops

Jewish leaders in Rome today expressed outrage over a trades union proposal to “identify and boycott” Jewish-owned shops in the Italian capital amid fears of a resurgence of anti-Semitism linked to Israeli actions in Gaza, .

Jewish leaders said the proposal, put forward by Giancarlo Desiderati, leader of the Flaica-Uniti-Cub union, which represents 8,000 shop assistants in Rome, was reminiscent of the anti-Semitic racial laws adopted 70 years ago by the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in imitation of Nazi Germany, under which only “Aryan” shops were allowed to trade.

Asked if he was aware of the comparison, Mr Desiderati said: “We know we will have everyone against us, but we cannot pass over in silence what is happening in Gaza”.

He said his union had already urged its members to boycott Israeli products, and boycotting Jewish-owned or Jewish-run stores was a logical next step.

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South Africa

Remove rabbi from religious forum, Muslims say

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (JTA) — A South African Muslim group wants the country’s chief rabbi removed from a religious leaders’ forum over the Gaza incursion.

The South African Muslim Judicial Council is questioning whether South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein should continue to be a member of the prestigious National Religious Leaders’ Forum comprising clerics from all the major faiths.

This follows a hot debate on a talk radio station last week between Goldstein, who plays a key role in the organization, and Muslim theologian Moulana Ebrahim Bham, in which Goldstein said the war in Gaza is one of self-defense and that the South African Jewish community “passionately” believes Israel is the victim and is conducting itself “in a manner which is a just and legal war” into which it was forced against its will.

Council spokesman Nabeweya Malick said his organization was questioning Goldstein’s position and “whether he holds the necessary moral and ethical authority to be part of this noble forum.”

The Muslim council spokesman said the chief rabbi’s statements have given justification for continued military action and did not mention a call for a cease-fire. “Speaking as a rabbi, where is his compassion? The forum is for all religious leaders to maintain some kind of sane moral position,” he said.

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FRANCE

Synagogue, Jewish building attacked in France

PARIS (JTA) — Molotov cocktails were launched at a synagogue in suburban Paris and at a Jewish community building near Strasbourg.

Sunday’s firebombing near the synagogue in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis also partly burned a Jewish restaurant.

No injuries were reported in either attack.

The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism blamed the mayor of Saint-Denis, a member of the Communist Party, for the attack, which came after the city called for a pro-Palestinian protest on Jan. 8, and a pro-Palestinian rally on Jan. 10 in Paris featuring 30,000 demonstrators turned violent.

“What we feared has arrived,” the bureau’s president, Sammy Ghozlan, told reporters.

The bureau had demanded that police prevent Mayor Didier Paillard’s anti-Israel rally, which “risked provoking … and inciting hate” of Jews, Ghozlan said in a statement, but his calls went unheeded.

Paillard said Monday that the bureau’s accusation was an “unacceptable manipulation,” and the city organized a peaceful gathering in front of the synagogue for Monday night.

French politicians overwhelmingly condemned both attacks, which come as similar crime increases in tandem with virulent anti-Israel rallies across the nation.

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American Islamo-Fascist Umar Lee Challenges Joe the Plumber

by Phantom Ace ( 18 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists at January 8th, 2009 - 11:41 pm

Umar Lee challenges Joe the Plumber to a fight!

Umar Lee Challenges Joe The Plumber to a Fight

Joe the Plumber is now headed to Gaza as a war correspondent for the conservative, anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli website Pajamas TV.

I challenge Joe to a fight, we can either do boxing or MMA. If I win the proceeds go to the children of Gaza, if he wins the proceeds go to Israel. I encourage my readers to email Pajamas TV in support of this event.

Umar Lee is an Islamo-Fascist. He wants violence against those he disagrees with. Hey Umar, you aren’t anybody, you’re a Wannabe Jihadi. Umar is an American Islamo-Fascist. He needs to watched and monitored. He’s the enemy with, a threat to America