Friday, September 30, 2005

UK minister SUPPORTS Israel (shock, horror)

Get this from JPost:

Israel’s response to the recent Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot has been measured and appropriate, Kim Howells, Britain’s Minister of State for the Middle East, told The Jerusalem Post, disregarding Palestinian appeals for the world to rein in the IDF.

Howells, on a three-day visit to the region, hinted in an interview Wednesday night that financial aid to the Palestinian Authority might be withheld if the PA did not seriously begin tackling the terrorism in its midst.

“The Palestinians are receiving more aid per capita than any other people on the face of the earth, and we want to see some proper response,” Howells said, hinting at a decrease of economic aid if the Palestinians don’t fight terror.


Wow, I haven't heard this anywhere else. But then, my TV at campus only has the Beeb. Still, this makes so much sense than you can expect the moaning to start shortly. Hopefully Kim Howells can keep her job.

Militants 'end West Bank truce'

An al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader says the Palestinian militant group will no longer respect a six-month truce after Israeli raids killed three militants.

"There will be no limits to our responses... We need to protect our people," said Zakaria Zubeidi.

Beeb


End the truce? What truce - you didn't go one day without trying to kill Jews. And Israel killed your militants after they were fired upon.

Joke, absolute joke. How can the BBC report this with a straight face?

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

"The death of memory"

Caroline B. Glick's latest piece is, as ever, a must-read:

We are a people with a mission in the world. Our mission as Jews and as the Jewish state is predicated on our preservation of our national memory and the actualization of that memory in our lives and in the lives of the generations that come after us.

Motion to bring leadership poll forward defeated



Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has narrowly defeated an attempt to force him into a snap contest for the leadership of the Likud party.

A motion to bring forward a poll from April 2006, demanded by his rival Binyamin Netanyahu, was defeated in the 3,000-strong Likud Central Committee.

BBC News


Sharon battles on. Also I wouldn't mind betting that Sharon's recent airstrikes in Gaza were also helpful in reminding Likud members that he is still tough on terrorists - and that might have prevented some of his opponents over Gaza to jump ship just yet. Who knows though? - just one mans theory

Friday, September 23, 2005

Hamas even blow themselves up



GAZA CITY (AFP) - At least five Palestinians were killed and 35 others wounded when a jeep exploded at a military parade organised by Islamist fundamentalist group Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip

The Palestinian interior ministry said Friday that first indications suggested that the blast was caused by Hamas explosives packed into the car

AFP


Ahem.

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Simon Wiesenthal, R.I.P.

One of the most marvelous human beings has left us. His legacy and his quest for justice will be remembered forever:


Wiesenthal once spent the Sabbath at the home of a former Mauthausen inmate, now a well-to-do jewelry manufacturer.

After dinner his host said, "Simon, if you had gone back to building houses, you'd be a millionaire. Why didn't you?"

"You're a religious man," replied Wiesenthal. "You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?', there will be many answers.

You will say, 'I became a jeweler',

Another will say, I have smuggled coffee and American cigarettes',

Another will say, 'I built houses',

But I will say, 'I didn't forget you'."

Monday, September 19, 2005

Hamas turns out in force



And you wonder why Israel won't negotiate?

Friday, September 16, 2005

Sharon "snubs" Blair at UN




Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, has confronted Tony Blair about recent attempts by British human rights lawyers to have senior Israeli Defence Force generals arrested as they arrive in the UK, it was reported today.

Israeli newspapers reported that the two men met on the sidelines of the UN summit in New York yesterday and Mr Blair extended an invitation to his counterpart to visit the UK.


"I would really like to visit Britain,"the Yediot Aharonot newspaper quoted Mr Sharon as replying, jokingly. "The trouble is that I, like General Almog, also served in the IDF for many years. I too am a general. I have heard that the prisons in Britain are very tough. I wouldn’t like to find myself in one."

Mr Sharon was referring to the near-arrest of General Doron Almog, a former Israeli army commander, at Heathrow Airport on Sunday, and the decision of General Moshe Yaalon, the army's former chief of staff, not to attend a speaking engagement in London this weekend because of fears that he too might be arrested.

Israeli military chiefs have been alarmed by the lawsuit filed on behalf of Palestinian victims of alleged war crimes committed by the IDF in 2002 and the issuing of an arrest warrant for General Almog - who stayed on his plane and returned to Israel after being tipped by embassy staff in London.

According to Israeli Army radio, Mr Blair was said to be have been embarrassed by the exchange and to have promised to "take care of the matter". A spokeswoman for 10 Downing Street confirmed that the meeting took place today but declined to comment on the conversation.

Times Online

The utter British insanity over the attempted arrest of General Almog could only be answered with a joke - if you don't laugh, you'd cry


But on a more serious note, what Sharon actually said on the podium was also great and exactly what was needed.

"I call on the Palestinian leadership to show determination and leadership, and to eliminate terrorism, violence, and the culture of hatred from our relations. I am certain that it is in our power to present our peoples with a new and promising horizon, a horizon of hope."

Full Transcript



Hopefully, the assembly took notice off this common sense. But then again, this is the "United Nations" - united in nothing but its hated of Israel.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Please Read

Can all SSSI members please see this post in our Google Group.

Also, I have decided to disallow comments for all except SSSI members, because I am getting annoying spam and trolling which I do not know how to combat. So until I do, this will have to stay in place.
Your patience is appreciated.

Anarchy in Gaza

Just some stories on how the Palestinians are capitalising on their new found freedom in Gaza: (from LGF)

Hamas makes music in Gaza celebration war.

Palestinians swim and loot on Gaza’s first day of freedom.

Palestinians set fire to shuls, yeshiva.

and yet, the MSM doesn't seem to care. Take this picture:



The BBC caption reads:


Militant organisations quickly climbed on some of the synagogue roofs and hoisted their flags, along with the Palestinian national flag.


Linkage

"Palestinian national flag"?!?!? The black flag is that of the Islamic Jihad organisation, one of the most brutal terrorist groups in the world. And the detail of their flag?



Their claim to land doesn't stop at Gaza or the West Bank. These are people who want Israel destroyed. And so how symbolic then that Islamic Jihad stand aloft a huge star of David. This is the synagogue these thugs and killers defile their feet with:



Sh*ts f*cked up

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Never Forget


"Freedom itself came under attack today"
- George W. Bush, September 11th, 2001


"We will not falter, we will not tire, and we will not fail"
- George W. Bush, September 20th, 2001


In Memory of all those who were murdered on September 11th, 2001, in New York City, at the Pentagon in Virginia, in Pennsylvania, and in the air above the greatest country on Earth.

We wil never forget.

May God Bless Them.

May God Bless America.




Friday, September 09, 2005

Natan Sharansky on The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show featured an interview with former Israeli cabinet member and bestselling author Ntatan Sharansky in a 3 way discussion on the future of Gaza after disengagment, the Egyptian election and rights in Syria.

To listen, click here for the page of my website where I am hosting the .wma files.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

LGF

A report published by Palestinian Media Watch revealed that after having signed a deal with the US for $50 million to help with housing and infrastructure, Palestinian Authority officials called to launch attacks against US soldiers and portrayed the US as “an enemy.”

PMW noted that in recent days PA religious officials in radio and television sermons described the US as “the most heretic” among countries and as an enemy who is trying to dismantle the Islamic world. One of the officials called to intensify terror acts against US soldiers in the presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The report mentioned texts of two sermons conducted on September 2. One was broadcast on PA television and in the presence of Abbas and Yusuf Jum’a Salameh, the PA minister of the Wakf and Religious Affairs: “We say to the dear, heroic Iraqi nation, turn this incident [the accidental death of 1,000 Iraqis] into an opportunity for resisting the [American] occupation, for uniting families, for unifying the forces and for opposition to the policy of dismantling Iraq and dividing it geographically.”


Guys, you're giving money to people who not only hate you but who you suspect of directly aiding your enemies? Wheres the logic there? Bring back Bush the cowboy, pleeeeeeeeeeease no more of this lefty think

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Let the "Palestinian" Civil War begin

What a friendly way of celebrating the first part of their own "state":

Israeli security forces reported Wednesday that Manhal Arafat, the son of General Moussa Arafat who was shot to death Tuesday night, was kidnapped and killed by his abductors.



The best part? No Israelis, Americans or other Westerners are affected. Keep the gates closed, and let them celebrate!

Monday, September 05, 2005

Iran update

Yahoo


TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran’s supreme leader hailed Palestinian militants for “expelling the Zionist regime from Gaza” and called for the “continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad,” or holy struggle.

“The only way to confront the Zionist enemy is the continuation and fortification of resistance and Jihad,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying Saturday in a meeting with the militant group Islamic Jihad’s secretary general Ramazan Abdullah.

“Although the retreat of the Zionist regime from Gaza is short of Palestinian rights and demands, it is however a big victory that shows the inability of the occupier regime of Qods (Jerusalem),” the ISNA news agency quoted Khamenei as saying. He added that “with the cooperation of Jihadi groups”, further “success is also possible in other parts of the occupied territories”.


Also
LGF tells of how Iran's nuclear program seems to be steaming ahead, now they have "rejected the threat of EU Sanctions".

Don't say we didn't tell you so:


Stuff

Greetings and Welcome to our new member Marco_Polo!

Also, SSSI recieved 276 Unique visitors for its first week recording hits. Lets try and make it even more this week!

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Saturday, September 03, 2005

"Two very different societies"

Mentioning that an article posted at VDH's website is a must-read verges on a truism, but Gaza and Victory? is a very good reminder that these are indeed "two very different societies":

Both sides fight, but not for the same reasons. Israel fights to preserve its democracy; Hamas fights to establish theocracy. Israeli politicians seek public support by promising solutions and calm; Palestinian leaders do so by pledging struggle and martyrdom. Israelis are saddened when their army causes injury to innocent Palestinians and prosecute their soldiers who violate the law. Palestinians greet atrocities carried out in their honor with cheers, rationalization, and fireworks (or, as on 9/11, they hand out sweets). If Israelis march in the streets, they brandish placards; if Palestinians pour into the streets, expect automatic weapons.


He closes his piece as follows:

For disengagement cannot bring peace; the withdrawal is from the land, not the struggle. Nothing can bring Israel peace until Palestinian terrorism is routed. Victory precedes peace, and it is on victory that Israel must now concentrate.


Indeed it must. And all friends of Israel should thank him for this moral clarity and courage. Given that Joey Tartakovsky is the Assistant Editor of the outstanding and irreplaceable Claremont Review of Books, one would expect no less.



(Cross-posted at Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)

Friday, September 02, 2005

Latest Polls

Poll-
Likud members: Sharon 34% Netanyahu 45%,

Likud will break up, 50%:32%

More trustworthy:Sharon 41% Netanyahu 31%

On a scale of 1 to 10 what grade would you give to Ariel Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu for their performance as prime minister?Average: Sharon 6.7 Netanyahu 4.8

Who do you prefer as head of the Likud and its candidate for prime minister?
Likud voters: Sharon 52.6% Netanyahu 33.4% Neither 7.9% Don't know 6.1%[IMRA: Registered Likud members select the candidate in primaries]

Did Netanyahu's press conference this week strengthen or weaken him?
Likud voters: Strengthen 32.8% Weaken 47.1% Neither 14.0% Don't know 6.1%

On a scale of 1 to 10 what grade would you give to Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak for their performance as prime minister?
Average: Peres 6.9 Barak 2.8

Did Ehud Barak withdraw his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Labor Party out of concern for party unity or because he understood that he was going to suffer a huge loss in the primaries?
Labor voters: Concern 8.5% Huge loss 61.8% Don't know 29.7%