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Saturday, January 31, 2009
"A Gift to You from Obama before He Takes Office"
Here's the audio of al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri's take on Gaza.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Iran and Syria behind Hamas Move?
The Jerusalem Post reports that the PLO leadership is accusing Syria and Iran of working with Hamas to undermine and replace the leadership of the PLO. (See this post yesterday.) I doubt that Hamas would take such a step on its own.
The Palestinian Authority on Thursday accused Iran and Syria of encouraging Hamas and other radical groups to establish a new leadership that would challenge the PLO's claim to be the "sole and legitimate" representative of the Palestinians.
The Hamas effort so far includes "all the Damascus-based Palestinian groups, including Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command headed by Ahmed Jibril." West Bank based PA officials termed the effort "the most serious challenge to the PLO since its founding."
Ahmed Abdel Rahman, a senior Fatah official closely associated with Abbas, accused the Iranians and Syrians of meddling in Palestinian affairs. "This is cheap meddling in our affairs," he said. "They are inciting some sick people like Khaled Mashaal to reject national reconciliation and to go ahead with their plans to form an alternative leadership. But these attempts are doomed to failure."
"They are seeking to take advantage of the increased sympathy for Hamas on the Arab street following the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip," the official said. "We see this as a declaration of war on the legitimate representatives of the Palestinians."
Senior Fatah official Hussein a-Sheikh stated: "This is an Iranian-Syrian plot against the PLO," he said. "We will do our utmost to thwart it."
Another senior Fatah official, Ziad Abu Ein, said Damascus and Teheran were seeking to "destroy" the Palestinian cause and to solidify divisions among the Palestinians.
The PA believes that Qatar is also behind the call to establish a new Palestinian leadership. A PA official said the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network had long served as a platform for Mashaal and Hamas. He also claimed that the station had been "inciting" against Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas by depicting them as traitors.
If this move succeeds, Israel will have no one to negotiate with, unless Hamas suddenly changes its policies. And if the Palestinians choose electorally to turn to Hamas, or a Hamas-like coalition of groups for representation, they'll be in for a rough time. Nor would this be good news for the Obama administration.
The Palestinian Authority on Thursday accused Iran and Syria of encouraging Hamas and other radical groups to establish a new leadership that would challenge the PLO's claim to be the "sole and legitimate" representative of the Palestinians.
The Hamas effort so far includes "all the Damascus-based Palestinian groups, including Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command headed by Ahmed Jibril." West Bank based PA officials termed the effort "the most serious challenge to the PLO since its founding."
Ahmed Abdel Rahman, a senior Fatah official closely associated with Abbas, accused the Iranians and Syrians of meddling in Palestinian affairs. "This is cheap meddling in our affairs," he said. "They are inciting some sick people like Khaled Mashaal to reject national reconciliation and to go ahead with their plans to form an alternative leadership. But these attempts are doomed to failure."
"They are seeking to take advantage of the increased sympathy for Hamas on the Arab street following the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip," the official said. "We see this as a declaration of war on the legitimate representatives of the Palestinians."
Senior Fatah official Hussein a-Sheikh stated: "This is an Iranian-Syrian plot against the PLO," he said. "We will do our utmost to thwart it."
Another senior Fatah official, Ziad Abu Ein, said Damascus and Teheran were seeking to "destroy" the Palestinian cause and to solidify divisions among the Palestinians.
The PA believes that Qatar is also behind the call to establish a new Palestinian leadership. A PA official said the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera network had long served as a platform for Mashaal and Hamas. He also claimed that the station had been "inciting" against Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas by depicting them as traitors.
If this move succeeds, Israel will have no one to negotiate with, unless Hamas suddenly changes its policies. And if the Palestinians choose electorally to turn to Hamas, or a Hamas-like coalition of groups for representation, they'll be in for a rough time. Nor would this be good news for the Obama administration.
Covering World War II: Twenty-first Century Style II
(AP) Polish fighter-bombers today pounded refugee camps in the German town of Guben, after militants fired rockets across the border into the Polish town of Gubin, killing one Polish woman and wounding three children. The Polish government called the air strikes, conducted by American-built F-16s, acts of “self-defense” following years of rocket fire from within the Guben refugee camps across the border by militants of the Deutchen der Widerstand die Bewegung, more commonly known as Heimat. A spokesperson for Heimat claimed that the Polish strikes killed nine women and children. A SPRP (Polish Air Force) acknowledged that the strikes may have hit civilians, but were targeted at known Heimat weapon storage sites and had killed at least five Heimat militants.
“These were acts of barbarity and genocide,” Hans Hitlerson announced. “The Poles are occupying our territory,” Dieter Himmlerson declared. “We have the right to resist!”
“It’s a holocaust for the people in the Guben refugee camps,” one UNRWA spokesperson lamented. Since 1945 the UNRWA has run the Guben refugee camp, and scores of other camps along the border filled with refugees who fled the advancing Russian army. “The UN has looked after these poor refugees, and their descendants, for more than a half-century,” John Scott, head of the UNRWA organization in eastern Germany, informed this reporter.
Professor William Muller, who teaches German history at San Francisco State University, organized a march through the streets of that city in support of the Germans in the Guben camps and Heimat. “Guben was once a beautiful German town,” he informed the crowd gathered in support. “All Germans demand the right to return—to Guben, Danzig, Konigsberg, and thousands of other towns and cities lost to the Polish Entity during the Katastrophe. we are witnessing genocide and a new holocaust!" As Muller spoke, several protesters yelled “Death to Pollocks!”
Muller, who last year was tired but not convicted of funneling money to Heimat, an internationally recognized terrorist group, continued his speech:
After the war the Communists conducted a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign. Twelve million Germans were made refugees by the advance of the Red Army. Two million Germans died during this Katastrophe. Our women were gang raped. Our elders and little children were slaughtered like animals. The ten million survivors to this day live in desperate conditions in refugee camps. The Russians, British, and Americans redrew the borders. Land that had been German for centuries was now suddenly “Polish.” They drew the border right through Guden, leaving the other and Polish half of the town called Gudin. My parents were from Guden. I can go there and look across the border and see our family home, flying a Polish flag from its roof. Heimat will never accept that these historic German lands are now Polish. We refuse to recognize the existence of the Polish Entity. We have a right to resist this occupation, despite what the United States and the United Nations says.
“Pollocks are Untermenschen!” the crowd roared.
In a post-march interview, reporters asked Muller why over a half-century after the war Germans are still living in refugee camps. “Why haven’t they been absorbed into the rest of the German population?” I asked. “Germany lost the war; the UN redrew the borders; why haven’t these people been resettled? Aren’t you keeping them in these horrid camps for political purposes? Germany is a rich country. Surely these people could have been resettled. And don’t the Poles have a right to defend themselves from the Heimat rocket attacks?” another reporter inquired.
Muller slammed his fist onto the table. “The Polish-controlled American media is always trying to turn the oppressors into the victims.”
“Do you really think that the Poles control the American media?” I asked.
“Look at your new president, Obama. Where’s he from? Chicago—a city with one of the largest Polish populations in the world. We might as well call him Obamski! He’s a pawn of the Poles.”
“What about resettlement?” I asked.
“The refugees in these camps came from East and West Prussia, Silesia, and the Sudetenland. They don’t wish to live in Thuringia, Hesse, or the Palatinate. They demand to live where their ancestors lived. On ground that is sacred and German. The German refugees demand the right to return to their homes. No one had the right to take their homes and give them to the Poles. The German people have a right to fight the oppressor.”
“Does that include shooting missiles blindly into Polish towns, hitting innocent people?” I inquired.
“If the international community and the Poles would lift their sanctions against us and allow us to buy more accurate missiles, we would be happy to target Polish military installations. But this is the best we can do with our homemade “Wolf” rockets. Moreover, who is innocent? Not the Poles who live in our homes. They are occupiers and oppressors.”
Earlier in the day the United Nations passed yet another resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. The United States vetoed a more strongly worded draft resolution that condemned the Poles for the air strikes.
UN General Secretary Ban ki-Moon called for a prompt end of “the cycle of violence.” A Polish government spokesperson released the official response to the UN resolution: “We will be happy to end the strikes when Heimat agrees to recognize our right of Poland to exist and stops firing the “Wolf” rockets.” Heimat declared its refusal to halt its “resistance” until “all former German lands are evacuated and returned to their rightful owners.”
“These were acts of barbarity and genocide,” Hans Hitlerson announced. “The Poles are occupying our territory,” Dieter Himmlerson declared. “We have the right to resist!”
“It’s a holocaust for the people in the Guben refugee camps,” one UNRWA spokesperson lamented. Since 1945 the UNRWA has run the Guben refugee camp, and scores of other camps along the border filled with refugees who fled the advancing Russian army. “The UN has looked after these poor refugees, and their descendants, for more than a half-century,” John Scott, head of the UNRWA organization in eastern Germany, informed this reporter.
Professor William Muller, who teaches German history at San Francisco State University, organized a march through the streets of that city in support of the Germans in the Guben camps and Heimat. “Guben was once a beautiful German town,” he informed the crowd gathered in support. “All Germans demand the right to return—to Guben, Danzig, Konigsberg, and thousands of other towns and cities lost to the Polish Entity during the Katastrophe. we are witnessing genocide and a new holocaust!" As Muller spoke, several protesters yelled “Death to Pollocks!”
Muller, who last year was tired but not convicted of funneling money to Heimat, an internationally recognized terrorist group, continued his speech:
After the war the Communists conducted a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign. Twelve million Germans were made refugees by the advance of the Red Army. Two million Germans died during this Katastrophe. Our women were gang raped. Our elders and little children were slaughtered like animals. The ten million survivors to this day live in desperate conditions in refugee camps. The Russians, British, and Americans redrew the borders. Land that had been German for centuries was now suddenly “Polish.” They drew the border right through Guden, leaving the other and Polish half of the town called Gudin. My parents were from Guden. I can go there and look across the border and see our family home, flying a Polish flag from its roof. Heimat will never accept that these historic German lands are now Polish. We refuse to recognize the existence of the Polish Entity. We have a right to resist this occupation, despite what the United States and the United Nations says.
“Pollocks are Untermenschen!” the crowd roared.
In a post-march interview, reporters asked Muller why over a half-century after the war Germans are still living in refugee camps. “Why haven’t they been absorbed into the rest of the German population?” I asked. “Germany lost the war; the UN redrew the borders; why haven’t these people been resettled? Aren’t you keeping them in these horrid camps for political purposes? Germany is a rich country. Surely these people could have been resettled. And don’t the Poles have a right to defend themselves from the Heimat rocket attacks?” another reporter inquired.
Muller slammed his fist onto the table. “The Polish-controlled American media is always trying to turn the oppressors into the victims.”
“Do you really think that the Poles control the American media?” I asked.
“Look at your new president, Obama. Where’s he from? Chicago—a city with one of the largest Polish populations in the world. We might as well call him Obamski! He’s a pawn of the Poles.”
“What about resettlement?” I asked.
“The refugees in these camps came from East and West Prussia, Silesia, and the Sudetenland. They don’t wish to live in Thuringia, Hesse, or the Palatinate. They demand to live where their ancestors lived. On ground that is sacred and German. The German refugees demand the right to return to their homes. No one had the right to take their homes and give them to the Poles. The German people have a right to fight the oppressor.”
“Does that include shooting missiles blindly into Polish towns, hitting innocent people?” I inquired.
“If the international community and the Poles would lift their sanctions against us and allow us to buy more accurate missiles, we would be happy to target Polish military installations. But this is the best we can do with our homemade “Wolf” rockets. Moreover, who is innocent? Not the Poles who live in our homes. They are occupiers and oppressors.”
Earlier in the day the United Nations passed yet another resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. The United States vetoed a more strongly worded draft resolution that condemned the Poles for the air strikes.
UN General Secretary Ban ki-Moon called for a prompt end of “the cycle of violence.” A Polish government spokesperson released the official response to the UN resolution: “We will be happy to end the strikes when Heimat agrees to recognize our right of Poland to exist and stops firing the “Wolf” rockets.” Heimat declared its refusal to halt its “resistance” until “all former German lands are evacuated and returned to their rightful owners.”
Thursday, January 29, 2009
This Must Drive the Islamists Nuts in Pakistan
It's a trailer for a Pakistani slasher film. Derivative? Maybe?
Hamas Seeks to Replace the PLO
According to a Islamic Republic News Bureau report Khaled Mashaal, Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau, speaking in Doha rejected calls for any ceasefire unless Israel opens all the Gaza border crossings. But the more important announcement by Mashaal was that Hamas was working with other Palestinian groups to create a new umbrella organization to supersede the PLO, which began as the self-appointed and later became the officially recognized representative of the Palestinian people. [Bolding mine]
During the ceremony [celebrating Hamas's Gaza "victory] political leader of Hamas also announced an unprecedented decision regarding establishment of a new national organization for Palestinian groups instead of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
"Palestinian groups are trying to establish a new organization which all Palestinians and groups active inside the Palestine or in the other countries could be its members," he said.
"In the current situation the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is not able to act as the Palestinians' representative," he said adding, "The organization has changed into an institute to sow discord among Palestinians."
Addressing George Mitchell, the new American special envoy to the Middle East, Mashaal reiterated that in the case of ignoring the important role Hamas plays in the region, all efforts would be doomed to failure.
"The Palestine national dialogue should be carried out on the basis of the resistance and national principals," he said adding that otherwise it would be an effort to implement foreigners' orders.
Good luck, George.
It will be very interesting to see what happens in the next round of Palestinian elections, if there are any.
Here's the video report from al Jazeera.
During the ceremony [celebrating Hamas's Gaza "victory] political leader of Hamas also announced an unprecedented decision regarding establishment of a new national organization for Palestinian groups instead of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
"Palestinian groups are trying to establish a new organization which all Palestinians and groups active inside the Palestine or in the other countries could be its members," he said.
"In the current situation the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is not able to act as the Palestinians' representative," he said adding, "The organization has changed into an institute to sow discord among Palestinians."
Addressing George Mitchell, the new American special envoy to the Middle East, Mashaal reiterated that in the case of ignoring the important role Hamas plays in the region, all efforts would be doomed to failure.
"The Palestine national dialogue should be carried out on the basis of the resistance and national principals," he said adding that otherwise it would be an effort to implement foreigners' orders.
Good luck, George.
It will be very interesting to see what happens in the next round of Palestinian elections, if there are any.
Here's the video report from al Jazeera.
The Ummah's Best and Brightest
Next time someone tells you that people are driven to violent jihad by poverty and hopelessness, show them this al Qaeda video.
Obama: Tool of the "Juice"
According to Lebanese author Farid Salman. You can watch the MEMRI clip here (registration required). Bolding mine.
Farid Salman: Obama will not complete the plan of George Bush Senior. Obama was brought to power by the Jews. Let me tell you something. In my view, and I might be mistaken, the Jews brought Obama to power in order to take revenge... Before they establish the Semitic Middle East, they want to tear America to shreds, because they hate America. Obama will be the cause...
Interviewer: They want to rule...
Farid Salman: Of course. Obama will be the cause for internal strife in the U.S. In addition, they want to destroy the European Union, and thus, the Semitic Middle East will be established. It's the Jews, not the Zionists, that are doing this.
Farid Salman: Obama will not complete the plan of George Bush Senior. Obama was brought to power by the Jews. Let me tell you something. In my view, and I might be mistaken, the Jews brought Obama to power in order to take revenge... Before they establish the Semitic Middle East, they want to tear America to shreds, because they hate America. Obama will be the cause...
Interviewer: They want to rule...
Farid Salman: Of course. Obama will be the cause for internal strife in the U.S. In addition, they want to destroy the European Union, and thus, the Semitic Middle East will be established. It's the Jews, not the Zionists, that are doing this.
Who Let the Dogs Out Alert
Another released Guantanamo detainee has popped up in a video as an al Qaeda leader. Fox News reports that Saudi national Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, released from Guantanamo because he "insisted he had only wanted to help refugees and was not a fighter," has resurfaced as an Al Qaeda field commander "sporting a bandolier of bullets" and being hailed "as a veteran guerrilla and 'a fomenter of war.'"
Read the f---ing manual! They are taught to lie and accuse the US of torture. I'm not saying that no one has been tortured. But the fact that someone claims to have been tortured does not mean he has been. Nor does the fact that they claim to not have been fighters mean that they weren't.
Read the f---ing manual! They are taught to lie and accuse the US of torture. I'm not saying that no one has been tortured. But the fact that someone claims to have been tortured does not mean he has been. Nor does the fact that they claim to not have been fighters mean that they weren't.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Is the Concept of Hyperbole Unknown in the Arab World?
Moqavemat, a Hezbollah website, today carries this story: "Al-Ghoul: Israeli war on Gaza was the biggest holocaust in history."
Palestinian parliament member MP Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul, of Hamas Movement, has described the Israeli war on Gaza as the biggest holocaust in history, adding that his government would chase Israeli war criminals and file lawsuits against them.Ghoul's remarks were uttered as he received a Moroccan Parliamentary delegation visiting the PLC building that was flattened to ground in an Israeli air strike on it during the war on Gaza.
Come on! Does this guy have no concept of scale? Haven't they been beating the United States up for years for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Was what happened in Gaza worse than that? What about firebombing Dresden? There's no need to ask, of course, about the Armenia Genocide of the Great War or the Jewish Genocide of the Second World War.
The bar for holocausts and genocide will soon be the death of a single Arab.
Palestinian parliament member MP Mohammed Faraj Al-Ghoul, of Hamas Movement, has described the Israeli war on Gaza as the biggest holocaust in history, adding that his government would chase Israeli war criminals and file lawsuits against them.Ghoul's remarks were uttered as he received a Moroccan Parliamentary delegation visiting the PLC building that was flattened to ground in an Israeli air strike on it during the war on Gaza.
Come on! Does this guy have no concept of scale? Haven't they been beating the United States up for years for Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Was what happened in Gaza worse than that? What about firebombing Dresden? There's no need to ask, of course, about the Armenia Genocide of the Great War or the Jewish Genocide of the Second World War.
The bar for holocausts and genocide will soon be the death of a single Arab.
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