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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Summer's here, and the time is right...

Three years ago Bacon-Eating Atheist Jew had an idea for a song parody of "Dancing in the Streets". Given that title, I whipped out some lyrics, BEAJ sang it and Watcher created a slide show.

Well, it's summer again. It popped into my head this morning, and most of you never saw it, so here is the utterly politically incorrect video:

Lyrics:
Callin' out around the world
Get ready for the desert heat -
Summer's here and the time is right
For Muslims in the streets
Rallying in San Francisco
Down in Belgium
Up at Ground Zero

All they want is rockets, sweet rockets
Katyushas everywhere
There'll be demonstratin' , swastikas wavin'
Muslims in the streets

Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear
Burqas, hijabs covering hair,
So come on, every guy grab a sign
Pretend to care about Palestine!

There'll be rioting,
Muslims in the street

This is a demonstration
Bomb a train station
And burn some effigies
Lefties and commies, halal salamis,
More Muslims in the streets

London UK
Dearborn and DC now (Baltimore and DC now)
Madrassas in VA

All they want is dead Jews (lots of dead Jews)
Burning US flags everywhere
There'll be lots of hatin', cursing Big Satan
And Muslims' in the street, yeah

You can praise imams in Iran
Just don't burn any Korans
Beat you chest, scare the west
Convert the dhimmis, behead the rest

Lots of Muslims
Rioting in the streets

Hack the Fatah elections!

From Ma'an:

Fatah members trapped in Gaza due to the power struggle with Hamas will vote in their party’s convention by phone and email.

Oh, this is too easy....

"To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God"

From Al Arabiya:

The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie's most memorable line.

"To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God."

"Imad Aqel", which had its premiere on Saturday, is the first feature film produced by the Islamist Hamas movement and the title is the name of a Palestinian fighter whom Israel held accountable for the deaths of 13 soldiers and settlers.
In accordance with strict Muslim tradition, men and women sat in separate sections of the theatre to view what Hamas officials termed the "Cinema of Resistance", referring to what it describes as a fight against Israeli occupation.

"Imad Aqel" was filmed on a set built inside the former Jewish settlement of Ganei Tal in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

It depicts Hamas's founding in the 1980s, attacks Aqel mounted on the Israeli military in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the signing of the Oslo peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993.

The film cost $120,000 and was written by Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior leader of Hamas, which the West regards as a terrorist group and shuns because of its refusal to renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing interim peace deals.

Aqel was killed at the age of 22 by Israeli soldiers who surrounded his hideout in Gaza in 1993.

Four of the actors in the film, which took several months to make, were later killed in the 22-day offensive Israel launched in the Gaza Strip last December with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian fighters.

Majed Jendeya, the movie's German-trained director, said he hoped to screen the film at the Cannes festival in France.

Three deaths and no Zionists in sight

This one was an electrocution.

And a 38-year old man shot and killed his father near Bethlehem.

Also, an Egyptian guard was killed by someone trying to smuggle illegal African immigrants into Israel.

The 2009 PalArab self-death count is now at 134.

UPDATE: Ma'an English bulletin says a father killed the son, so the autotranslation might have been messed up.
UPDATE 2 : I was right the first time.

Hezbollah violating UN 1701 (video)

From the Times of London:

These rockets are near the border with Israel:

Surveillance footage, obtained by The Times, reveals that Hezbollah fighters desperately tried to salvage rockets and other munitions from the site, while obstructions were placed in the way of Unifil peacekeepers coming to investigate.

Alain Le Roy, the head of UN peacekeeping operations, told the Security Council last month that the ammunition explosion amounted to a “serious violation” of UN resolution 1701, which imposed a ceasefire and arms ban after the 2006 war.

“A number of indications suggest that the depot belonged to Hezbollah, and, in contrast to previous discoveries by Unifil and the Lebanese Armed Forces of weapons and ammunition, that it was not abandoned but, rather, actively maintained,” he said.

Unifil’s mandate is due to be renewed by the Security Council by the end of this month and Israel is pressing for the peacekeepers to be more robust in stopping Hezbollah and other armed groups form infiltrating the UN-patrolled region south of the Litani river.

But while diplomats negotiate, many believe that it is too late to stop Hezbollah’s build-up.

The group, armed, trained and financed by Iran, has been engaged in a wide-scale recruitment, training and rearmament drive since the end of the 2006 war with Israel.

Although basic training on handling and firing weapons as well as field craft is taught at ad hoc camps in the mountains flanking the Bekaa Valley, more specialised courses are carried out in Iran. Hundreds of fighters have travelled to Iran since 2006, many of them on multiple trips, to acquire skills in bomb-making, anti-tank missiles, sniping and firing surface-to-surface rockets.

Remember this?

Yasir Arafat, September 9, 1993:

The PLO commits itself to the Middle East peace process, and to a peaceful resolution of the conflict between the two sides and declares that all outstanding issues relating to permanent status will be resolved through negotiations.

The PLO considers that the signing of the Declaration of Principles constitutes a historic event, inaugurating a new epoch of peaceful coexistence, free from violence and all other acts which endanger peace and stability. Accordingly, the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators.

Mahmoud Abbas, August 4, 2009, at the Fatah conference:

We reserve the right to resistance, legitimate under international law.

And in a conference that opened up in tribute to "martyrs" who blew themselves up trying to kill Jews, the word "resistance" means....?

And in other Palestinian Arab news....

Hamas stopped elderly patients, women and children from getting medical treatment in Israel over the weekend, fearing that they are really Fatah members going to the conference in Bethlehem. 55 patients and their families clashed with Hamas forces near the Erez crossing. The PA Ministry of Health says that some 13 patients have died from Hamas restrictions on going to Israel. The ministry also says that since Hamas dismissed PA doctors and replaced them with their own, inferior doctors, more patients have needed to go to Israel for their care, costing the PA tens of millions of dollars.

As Gilad Shalit suffers in an undisclosed location, 100 Palestinian Arab prisoners completed their college degrees this year. They also enjoy hot water, radios, Arab TV and portable music players.

Egypt intercepted a shipment of 70 tons of cement meant for Gaza. It is probably a very small percentage, though, because Northern Sinai is now suffering from a shortage of cement as suppliers are selling it all at much higher prices to Gaza smugglers.

Hamas abducted 20 more Fatah members as the Fatah conference began in Bethlehem.

A Gaza ombudsman (who knew?) reveals the incredible fact that Hamas actually tortures prisoners!

PA finally deciding to stop bankrolling Hamas?

The Palestinian Authority has apparently decided to stop paying for Gaza infrastructure as it has been. It will announce at the end of the Fatah conference that it will only send salaries to the 77,000 workers in Gaza who do no work.

More than half the PA budget goes to Gaza, and on a per-capita basis Gazans get twice as much PA aid [from the West] as West Bankers. Two years after Hamas violently overthrew the PA, the quasi-government still pays Hamas for electricity, water and fuel. A prominent Fatah member and ambassador to Beirut described Hamas (sort of) this way: "We see the lion's teeth, and he ain't smiling."

Another source said "I think that this farce must end, and that Hamas bears responsibility towards the people who they [claim they are] responsible for."

Hamas responded to the threats by saying that this only proves that the PA is collaborating with Israel. A Hamas spokesman said this "indicates that the Fatah movement had lost its senses and has started pouring the bulk of their anger on Hamas and the people, especially after failing in all attempts to impose a de facto policy on Hamas." He said that withholding the free money is "blackmail."

The Fatah conference begins

The sixth Fatah conference started today in Bethlehem.

Mahmoud Abbas claimed that Israel had already committed to giving him all of east Jerusalem and was now reneging. In other words, the leader of the Palestinian Arabs is a baldfaced liar.

Abbas also nostalgically recalled the early days of "resistance," which included hijacking and blowing up international airliners and murdering Olympic athletes, as compelling "the whole world to hear the voice of Palestine."

He also referred to Hamas leaders as the "princes of darkness." Hamas had blocked all Fatah members in Gaza from attending, and some 27 had to sneak out of that "open air prison" that Hamas evidently owns the keys to.

Hamas promised to arrest those attending Fatah members upon their return, and reports indicate that Hamas has stopped nearly all patients from going to Israel in recent days in fear of them attending the conference.

A former Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader who is now on Israel's amnesty list called on the Fatah to adopt a "program of resistance" at the conference. He also said “I am happy that our army is trained in Jordan in Egypt, in Russia, in several countries all over the world. In case there is a future war, we will have some people who will be trained.”

Tuesday linkfest

Anne Bayefsky puts together a strong case that Obama has already resigned himself to a nuclear Iran, as he gives the mullahs all the time they need without any repercussions.

Barry Rubin explains why a settlement freeze makes no sense to Israel, even among Israelis who aren't pro-settler.

A British regulator announced the shocking news that George Galloway's broadcasts on Iran's English-language PressTV violated impartiality rules. Who woulda thunk it? (h/t Suzanne)

Daled Amos emails the US Consulate in Jerusalem, and receives a response that the "Consulate General in Jerusalem is the principal representation to the Palestinian Authority." Putting together the facts that the consulate is in both east and west Jerusalem and not in the West Bank, this indicates that US State Department policy is not that Jerusalem is disputed, or even meant to be an international city, but it is entirely Arab. (Daled Amos has a different take.)

Tunnel collapse!

One dead, two injured, three missing in a new tunnel collapse under the Rafah border on Monday night.

The 2009 PalArab self-death count is now at 133.

UNIFIL to build apartheid fence against expansionist Zionist cows

This story's got it all: a fence, a border, water, an impotent UN, and, of course, Zionist cows:

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is in the process of erecting a fence in the southern Kfar Shuba area with the aim of preventing cows from Israeli flocks crossing the Blue Line and using Lebanese water supplies, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

The fence, which will be erected by the Spanish contingent of the UN peacekeeping force, will be two meters high and surround the Baathaiil Lake once finished in the next ten days.

A UNIFIL spokesperson told The Daily Star that they are assisting the Lebanese authorities by creating the fence “in order to prevent cattle crossing around the Kfar Shuba region.”

Media reports on Monday suggested that the fence, once erected, will allow Lebanese shepherds to pass over to the opposite side of the lake.

This comes a month after a UNIFIL meeting, in which municipality members urged peacekeepers to keep Israeli cows out of Lebanon by any means necessary.

The Lebanese claimed last month that the thirsty Zionist cows are being protected by Merkava tanks.

UPDATE: According to the LA Times Babylon and Beyond blog, the Blue Line extends through the "lake" (really a pond.) So if UNIFIL places the fence south of the pond it is actually depriving the Zionist cows of their rightful water! (h/t Global Freezing)

Open thread

I've been distracted by Real Life® issues lately, but that doesn't mean you have to be....feel free to paste any interesting links you've seen.

US policy on Jerusalem (Ami Isseroff)

From the Zionism-Israel website:

What George Mitchell is asking Israel to do is to give up its capital city. What are friends for after all, if not to oblige other friends with little favors like that? This is an even handed policy. The Saudis are asked to allow Israeli overflights (and refuse) and Israel is asked to renounce sovereignty over its capital city. Everybody is asked to do something for the cause, and to please smile while doing it.

The heart of the disagreement is that the US insists that Jerusalem is just another "settlement," that the US does not recognize Israeli sovereignty in any part of Jerusalem, and that they can and should dictate to Israel what policies to adopt in Jerusalem and when and where to build. The most recent "misunderstanding" was a public and ugly US protest against removal of illegal Palestinian occupants squatting in propery owned by Jews. It may not be wise for Israel to build in areas that might be subject to future negotiations, but it certainly understandable that Israel will enforce Israeli law, backed by a supreme court decision, in an area that is declared by Israel to be under its sovereignty. There is no misunderstanding. The problem is not that the United States wants Israel to negotiate, but rather that the US is telling Israel and the world that there is nothing to negotiate about in Jerusalem, since the city does not belong to Israel according to them, but to a hypothetical international administration or Palestinian state. This is not a disagreement among friends. It is a hostile diplomatic act. In the 19 years of illegal Jordanian occupation of East Jerusalem, the United States did not once protest any Jordanian action, including the building of King Hussein's summer house, or the wrecking of the last remnants of the Jewish quarter and the Jewish cemetery in the Mount of Olives.

Read the whole thing.

Today's PalArab news

Fatah admitted its failure at getting the international community to pressure Hamas to allow Fatah members to go to the Fatah conference in Bethlehem that starts tomorrow. Hundreds of members are being kept in Gaza by Hamas, who also threatened to arrest any who manage to sneak out upon their return. (Egypt is opening the Rafah crossing today.)

For its part, Hamas continues to arrest Fatah leaders and members in Gaza.

A Christian gold dealer in Gaza was murdered and his body dumped at the beach. These murders always send shockwaves through Gaza's tiny Christian community.

The 2009 PalArab self-death count is at 132.