GAZA, ISRAEL, EGYPT

The other day, in defense of  angry egyptian islamists, someone said:  “Wouldn’t you be angry too, if your people had built magnificent  Pyramides, and that now you were reduced to  such poverty?” (*)

That made me think and question myself, genuinely question myself: what good has come  out of Egypt  more recently?



Islam?

Note to self: when you meet a Coptic Christian, ask him or her what he thinks of  the Muslim invasion of Egypt and the deplacement  of his people. **)




Arafat?

Note to self:  if you ever have the chance to meet  the widow (no, not his widow who is sitting in Paris on the billions he stole from the Palestinian people) I mean  ask  one of the widows of the Israeli Olympic team of 1972.





The images coming out of Tahir Square during the Obama-facilitated Arab Spring?

 Note to self: Ask  LARA LOGAN   what these images cost her.



 

 Mohamed Morsi of the  Muslim Brotherhood, who  is ruling Egypt  now?

Note to self: ask the people of Israel.







The Muslim brotherhood whose credo was and still is:  "Allah is our objective; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations" ?

Note to self:  watch this video and listen to  David Harris :






*) Cairo: A leading Egyptian jihadist, who fought in Afghanistan on the side of militant Taliban, has called for the removal of the world-famed Pyramids and the Sphinx, branding them idols.
Al Gohari, who was imprisoned twice in the era of Hosni Mubarak but released by a court verdict after the 2011 popular uprising that toppled the long-standing president. told the privately owned Egyptian Dream TV: “We destroyed the Buddha statues in Afghanistan and will destroy the Sphinx and the Pyramids because they are idols. The Muslims are obliged to apply the Sharia (Islamic law), including the removal of the idols.”



**) Muslim conquest of Egypt: The Muslim invasion of Egypt took place in AD 639. Despite the political upheaval, the Egyptian population remained mainly Christian. However, the gradual conversions to Islam over the centuries changed Egypt from a Christian to a largely Muslim country by the end of the 12th century. Egypt's Umayyad rulers taxed Christians at a higher rate, driving merchants towards Islam and undermining the economic base of the Coptic Church.

Gaza: Rockets, Bollywood and updates

A little counter-weight to the partisan "news" of our national, tax-payer funded ABC who leads its news with their usual  subliminal and not so subliminal messages:

Time to expose a little Bollywood scene from Gaza which illustrates that that particular emperor is not so much naked as disguised:

And then there are the women
the women and the children,
always the women and the children,
Jews do eat Arab children for breakfast,
don't they?!

 

 

 

 

"…The world as a whole, not just the occasional liberal brat, will continue being disappointed in Israel for not having magically and non-violently resolved the dilemma of people shooting at it no matter what it does. After all there's already a book titled, "How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less" on the shelf. Why not just read it and do what it says?..."  says Sultan Knish in "A Peacetime War or a Wartime Peace

Update:

The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) has dispersed warning leaflets above several locations in the Gaza Strip. This video is from Thursday, Nov. 15, over Khan Yunis.

The leaflet in Arabic reads:




 

"Important announcement for the residents of the Gaza Strip: For your own safety, take responsibility for yourselves and avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives and facilities and those of other terror organizations that pose a risk to your safety. Hamas is once again dragging the region to violence and bloodshed. The IDF is determined to defend the residents of the State of Israel. This announcement is valid until quiet is restored to the region. Israel Defense Forces Command."

 

Update 2:

"...The terrorists [HAMAS] are committing a double war crime: they fire at Israeli civilians, and they hide behind palestinian civilians..." says Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu:

Update 3.

If you watch nothing else, watch this  6 minute video from minute 5.00:



French Flags are flying again in France

AT LAST ! :)

It’s the first time since  that dark dark night of the 6th  May 2012 that I dare hope again. 

The socialist/left  alliance had just won the élections  (97+ % of the huge muslim community in France had voted for them) and a sea of Arab/Islamist/Jihadist/ flags obscured the one or two timid displays of the  French tri-colore that night at the Place de la Bastille in Paris.  An omen-inous metaphor for what  is happening in France now.

But, thanks not last  to two very brave French,  Christine Tassin from Resistance Republicaine  and Pierre Cassen  from Riposte Laique,  France is perhaps not lost after all. This here was the first video, released right after the march against Islamic Fascism. It’s raw and only very roughly edited as is their love for the freedom and dignity of their France: (*)

Not Waving But Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,

But still he lay moaning:

I was much further out than you thought

And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking

And now he's dead

It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,

They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always

(Still the dead one lay moaning)

I was much too far out all my life

And not waving but drowning.

Pssst....France might be waving again  and not drowning....;)

"Mon  objective a toujours été, non pas avec QUI  je m’allies, 

mais POURQUOI je m’allies. S’allier ce n’est pas s’aligner!"
(Anne Zelenski )

(my objective has always been, not with WHOM I ally myself, but WHY I make an alliance.
To ally oneself is not the same thing as to align oneself).

 

(*) Update 25.11.2012

Here is a more "polished" video of this march. And the music is better:  as courageous as my friends are, some of them just are not the best singers ;)

 

The Devil

Der Teufel ist im Detail (the devil is in the detail), said Goethe in his Faust I, well this woman thought that the devil was rather in the toaster:

whereas this Schmuser thinks the Devil is a woman or vice versa...(ahhh nostalgia...)

Propaganda

Les enfants palestiniens manipulés et mis en scène dans les manifestations

This video was released a few days ago with French sub-titles. As I have no idea how to "dub" a video, I'll be pedestrian and just translate, as best as I can, the text:

@ 0.02 Minute:
Every week demonstrators meet at Nabi Saleh. They are mostly under 16 y.o.

@ 0.13: They provoke the Israeli soldiers, hoping for a violent reaction.

@ 0:24:  In some cases, these children are sent to the demonstrations by their own parents.

@ 0.32:  Parents are poised, ready to film the slightest confrontation.

@ 0.43: Adults push the children into the faces of the soldiers, hoping for a violent reaction.

@ 0.56: The little girl waits for the presence of a camera man to put herself into "position".

@ 1:07: the Israeli soldiers, trained for this type of provocation, remain indifferent.

@ 1:12: "Please share this video, because the main media will not show it.

Quote of the day:  

"….you are a journalist and your kind doesn't set off bombs, 

your kind acts as the propaganda corps for those who set off bombs."

  by Sultan Knisch

Remembrance Day

Poppies from a German Daughter

On  Remembrance Day

I buy three red poppies:

One for the blood of my German father

that reddened the ruins of Monte Cassino

One for the drops of sweat and youth

left trailing on the Kokoda

by my Australian husband

and One

 for the Unknown Soldier.

...But O for the touch of a vanished hand, 

And the sound of a voice that is still! ...
(Tennyson)

Two postcards from France

Witnessing  first hand what's happening to their country,

I am on their side:

This video above simply disappeared - Censorship?

So I'm trying  it again with the help of  Eyore from Vlad Tepes

A long long time ago, in their country...

The US Election result 2012

I never made a secret of my dislike for Obama (who really dislikes Jews deeply, despite the vote-canvassing niceties he sent in Israel's  direction during the last days of his election campaign), but I could not quite put my finger on the deep(ish)  malaise I felt at the thought of a Mitt Romney win, and I could even less express it.  So, as so often, the delightful Sultan Knish did it for me in his latest article where he writes:

"...The 2012 election was of course a disaster. A complete and thorough disaster. But it was a disaster because Obama and his cronies won. Not because Mitt Romney lost..." 

Another of my favorite Cassandras  is Melanie Phillips. She writes:

"America goes into the darkness.  

The greatest satisfaction today over the re-election of Obama is not being felt in the Democratic Party. It is not being felt among the media, who are no longer objective observers but have turned instead into corrupt partisans who ruthlessly censored the truth about Obama and helped peddle his demonising propaganda about his opponent. It is not being felt among the gloating, drooling decadents of the western left who now scent a great blood-letting of all who dare defy their secular inquisition. No, the greatest satisfaction is surely being felt in Iran... "

Here is a little consolatory poem  for Melanie and others who share her inquietude:

"Hope" is the thing with feathers—

That perches in the soul—

And sings the tune without the words—

And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—

And sore must be the storm—

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm—

I've heard it in the chillest land—

And on the strangest Sea—

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb—of Me. 

(Emily Dickinson)

As to you, Ahmadinejad and Co., take this and smoke it, pfffft!

Child Abuse

Give me a child to the age of 7...

 

 

 

 

 

                                        

  

...and I give you the (wo)man

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And their victims...twice over !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A love song to Obama with thanks

Chamberlain v. Netanyahu

And here is the antidote. This is, in my view, the most important speech of our time, lets hope it will not share the destiny of Cassandra's prophesies.

Quand on est con on est con

"When one is stupid one is stupid", sings one of my favourite  balladeers, Georges Brassens  who takes no prisoners, metaphorically speaking….just like that “con” below…who kills indiscriminately: orthography, language and Jews, and this time I'm not speaking metaphorically.  Although perhaps the idiot is more malicious than stupid - which gives me a pretext to post  the quote of the day:

"When the consequences of  stupidity become indistinguishable from the consequences of malice, it is wiser and safer to assume malice."

Will one Muhammad cartoon a day….

...keep the doctor away?


Daniel Pipes thinks so, and so do I. He asks:

"...What would happen if publishers and managers of major media reached a consensus, "Enough of this intimidation, we will publish the most famous Danish Muhammad cartoon every day until the Islamists tire out and no longer riot"? What would happen if instances of Koran burning happened recurrently? Would repetition inspire institutionalization, generate ever-more outraged responses, and offer a vehicle for Islamists to ride to greater power? Or would it lead to routinization, to a wearing out of Islamists, and a realization that violence is counter-productive to their cause?

I predict the latter, that a Muhammad cartoon published each day, or Koranic desecrations on a quasi-regular basis, will make it harder for Islamists to mobilize Muslim mobs. Were that the case, Westerners could once again treat Islam as they do other religions – freely, to criticize without fear. That would demonstrate to Islamists that Westerners will not capitulate, that they reject Islamic law, that they are ready to stand up for their values.

So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: display the Muhammad cartoon daily until the Islamists get used to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger."

Quote of the Day: 

"If you want to know who rules over you, 
simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." 

- Voltaire -

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Aux Champs Elysées...

... then:

... and now: 

At least four  French laws were broken there, on the Champs Elysées in front of the American Embassy with impunity and in front of the police:

1. At the moment, any religious protest marches are forbidden in France.

2. Several  women defied the law forbidding the full face veil.

3. Muslims Prayers in the Street have been illegal for over a year. Consequently here, on the Champs-Elysees, facing an immobilised police force this was yet  another law-breaking provocation.

4. Threatening the “Jews” with genocide, although quite fashionable these days among islamists, is not exactly legal in France. And the slogan “Khaybar! Khaybar! Ya Yahoud” literally translated means: “(remember) Khaybar! (remember) Khaybar! Oh Jews!”. Khaybar was the place where the Jews were massacred, and their women and children enslaved..


Incidentally, the Champs Elysees have become rather tacky over  the last few years.

A word to rioting Muslims

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