Archive for January 31, 2012
Why the Latest Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Have No Chance
1The preliminary peace talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Amman were suspended. Here’s why. When it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, rule #1 is that the core issue regarding the conflict is not about land. Newt Gingrich touched on this when he said that the Palestinians are “an invented people.” The stated goal, that the issue is about land, is a myth. The reality behind the myth is the elimination of the Jews. This is why Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO’s ambassador to the U.S., recently said that the future Palestine should be free of Jews. It is why Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, told the Huffington Post that “Israeli soldiers and settlers — ‘persons who are amid an occupation, who are in my land illegally’ — would be rejected from the new (invented) Palestinian state.”
For that, Israel would have to give Ariel and Ma’ale Adumim over to the Palestinians. In return, more than 56,000 people would be forcibly ejected from their homes and compelled to find a new place to live. In essence, the Palestinians would like to create a Nakba for Israel just as they created it for themselves, when they attempted to destroy Israel in 1948. There is an Arab proverb that says “the Arab got his revenge 50 years later.”
When it comes to the Palestinian welfare, it is Israel that cared more about raising the standard of living for Palestinians. I had once asked my own Palestinian family:
“Why do you reject Israel, especially since your standard of living under Israel was better than before the Palestinian Authority took over?”
The answer from my uncle was swift:
“You know very well that we will never accept Jews to rule over us.”
Palestinianism is a racist ideology and nothing more.
It is for this reason that Erekat continues to create a fictitious ‘Palestinian misery’ that he blames on the Zionist state while using the “peace card” in order to gain concessions. Lately, Erekat is demanding the release of Marwan Barghouthi and other PFLP terrorists like Ahmad Sa’dat and Aziz Duweik, the Hamas leader along with all prisoners. If the Palestinian Authority cares about peace why demand the release of peace-destroying terrorists? The answer is that the PFLP and Hamas reject peace negotiations with Israel.
I remember when we fought to stop the extradition of terrorist and Jew murderer Ziad Abu Ein in the early eighties; he became the chief of prisons in the Palestinian area. How could a terrorist be put in charge of terrorists in prison? You might argue that this was under Arafat but Mahmoud Abbas saw fit to select Latifa Abu Hmeid, the mother of several terrorists involved in multiple attacks on Israeli civilians, to be the ambassador for the Palestinian independence bid and named a Ramallah square after Dalal al-Mughrabi who murdered 37 Israelis.
Arabs are experts in advancing misery and myth by keeping their people in conditions of squalor in order to blame Israel while while screaming about occupation being the problem. It isn’t. From my own experience years ago when I first walked in on a speech by Moshe Elad, an Israeli official who wanted to better the living standards of Palestinians in Dheshe camp near Bethlehem. He explained how his efforts were thwarted by the Palestinian Authority since they wanted to keep the so-called refugees in squalid conditions, to exploit them in order to make an argument about Palestinian misery. What the Arab leaders are doing is exactly the opposite of what they claim they want. Just look at when Ehud Barak was willing to give the Arabs 90% of the lands they asked for; they turned it down.
On the other hand, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the Obama administration will not put serious pressure on Israel over the Palestinian issue in a US election year; this is why peace talks in Amman were suspended. Netanyahu knows that the entire exercise is a sham and is an attempt at buying time to ward off international pressure while giving lip service to peace negotiations himself; it’s an election year there as well and he wants to win over the centrists in Israel. Of course, King Abdullah of Jordan hosts such events to appease his Palestinian population while the revolution brews in the Middle East. That revolution demands the end of dictators and the implementation of an Islamist regime to supplant Arab Nationalism. He knows that he is better off dealing with non-Islamist Palestinian Authority so he takes photo-ops with Hamas leaders while Saeb Erekat refuses to even listen to a presentation on Israeli security concerns by an Israeli Army general. Consequently, Netanyahu’s negotiations are made easier.
Erekat is in a dilemma; there are pros and cons for peace talks. While the Palestinian ideology portrays Israel as Satan in order to fuel terror aspirations, he is presented with a dilemma when he sits with Israelis and listens to “Satan’s” security concerns. How could the Palestinian on the street justify even having other non-Muslim “satans” like the Quartet and its component members – the US, the EU, the UN and Russia – determine his destiny?
So who can bring all sides to the negotiating table?
Even French President, Nicolas Sarkozy realizes that only Turkey can broker a peace deal since it is perfectly situated in the region as the major super power that does not use Iran’s saber-rattling rhetoric against Israel and is a NATO member. Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan walked out on Perez and sent a Flotilla to Gaza; all of this is to force Israel to the negotiating table.
Both sides – Israeli and Palestinian – know that they will never agree on Jewish access to holy places or the right of return; such things are non-negotiable. Even if all Netanyahu’s demands are met, that the “Palestinians must recognize Israel as the Jewish nation’s state,” that the “treaty must be an end to the conflict,” that the “Arab refugee problem must be solved outside Israel’s borders,” that a “Palestinian state will have to be demilitarized and a peace treaty must safeguard Israel’s security,” that the “settlement blocs will remain within the State of Israel and Jerusalem will remain its united capital,” it won’t matter. Even if the Palestinian Authority will accept all such principles, the problem is not simply the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the center of this problem is an Islamo-Nazi regime that is rapidly growing throughout the entire region.
Egypt demands an end to the peace-treaty with Israel while 2 million Egyptians repeated the slogan in Tahrir Square, “To Jerusalem we march, martyrs by the millions.” It is now even refusing to allow the exit of high profile Americans. In Libya, Tunisia and Turkey installing Islamist regimes that speak about entering Jerusalem triumphant. It is why Erdoğan tells the 51 Muslim states O.I.C (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), “Jerusalem is the apple of the eye of every Muslim.” Even if Israel gives up the Golan Heights, it will be used by such regimes to advance on Israel’s Adam’s apple.
It’s not a Palestinian land issue but the issue of an existence of Jews on Muslim lands. It is so obvious that those who deny it must do so willingly.
As Blase Pascal once said:
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
The Reason for Christian Persecution by Islamists
0By Ted Shoebat
Pope Benedict XVI recently issued a condemnation of the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram, which caused the deaths of at least 35 people in Nigeria, simply because of their Christian faith. Those of the Church, and others of the free world, have shone a spotlight on the persecution of Christians countless times, but it is also necessary to understand the origins of such hatred and religious bigotry.
Islam is not an ‘Abrahamic religion,’ as many have said; it is a faith with roots in pagan views on human life, which affirms that mortal blood, when shed, cleanses the sins of the sacrificed. The Christian faith teaches that man can only attain forgiveness and salvation through the blood of Christ; those of the Islamic faith hold that salvation may be attained by the five pillars of Islam, which are:
1. The acceptance of Allah as the only god, and Muhammad as his prophet,
2.Prayer
3.Fasting
4.Zakat (giving money to Islamic causes)
5.The Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)
However, superior to all of these pillars, is Jihad, the struggle with those who are enemies of Allah and
his cult; to die in this violent cause brings to the Muslim certain salvation.
Christianity is viewed as the enemy because at its essence, it is a way to salvation that requires Muslims
to reject Jihad. Christ began the most monumental movement against human sacrifice when He died on
the cross. “But now in Christ Jesus,” says Saint Paul, “ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by
the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13)
The Christian faith is what served to rid the entire world of those cults which sought salvation through
the shedding of human blood. Yet, the Islamic god, Allah, takes pleasure in the sight of bloodshed, and
the more violence caused by his worshippers, the more he delights in them.
When Christians, and the other peoples of Persia, were subject to extortion and commanded to:
“Embrace Islam so that you may be safe. If not, make a covenant with me and pay the Jizyah tax.”
Khalid bin al-Walid, a companion of Muhammad, made a vow to Allah that if he was granted victory,
he would form a canal running with the blood of the slain around the Persian villages. It took the
Muslims a day and a half to behead all of the captives, and the blood was so much, and so coagulated,
that the warriors of Muhammad had to fill it with water in order to get their canal of gore to flow. [1] Scenes from Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto are brought to mind when reading about such religious rites.
Human sacrifice, either of oneself or others, is an anathema to Christianity. Thus, the teachings of the
Nazarene are the greatest enemy to Islam; it is the only faith which teaches that perfect blood, that
of the Son of God, is the only sacrifice which forgives the sins of mankind. Islam teaches that Judas
Iscariot was crucified in place of Jesus, whom they believe to have been a revolutionist promoting a
revolutionary social gospel; and it as well charges that the true Christ is not who Christians think He
is, and in doing such, has made Christianity its most distinguished enemy by belittling the faith.
Christianity is the most followed faith on earth, and as such it is a major threat to the Islamic religion, as well
as the latter’s unholy grail – an Islamist utopia, in which the Muslims will have the complete power,
throughout the earth, to “destroy the cross and to slash the throats of those who believe in the cross.”
[2]
The Christians of Nigeria are not victims of an Islamic sect or fanatical group but followers of the
purest form of Islam; it is beyond important for the church to recognize this fact. “And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,” says Saint Paul, “but rather reprove [them].”
(Ephesians 5:11)
[1] At-Tabari,Vol XI, The Challenge to the Empires, In Series: The History of at-Tabari, (Ta’rikh al-
rasul wa’l-muluk), Translated by K.Y. Blankenship, SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies, Bibliotheca
Persica, State University of New York Press, Albany New York, 1993, pp. 44-45
[2] This was stated by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, read from the article: Iraq’s al-Qaida threatens
to ‘destroy the cross’, By AP AND JPOST STAFF.
Was Sami Osmakac following true Islam?
0By Ted Shoebat
Just very recently a Yugoslavian Muslim by the name of Sami Osmakac, was charged for conspiring to slaughter Americans in Tampa Bay, Florida, by destroying nightclubs and a Sherif’s office. Osmakac had filmed himself speaking of his future plan of mass slaughter, in which he made clear his belief that the blood of Muslims was superior to that of non-Muslims. The Globe and Mail reported that Osmakac was “plotting a radical Islamic attack”, but what needs to be acknowledged is that this terrorist’s sentiments are not seperated from Islam, but are true to the teachings of Islam. Within the dogma of Islam, we find that Muhammad, the founder of the religion, upheld a superiority complex in that those who denied his prophethood, deserved to be enslaved; their rights to liberty, private property, and the pursuit of happiness, seized by the tyrants.
Those of the Ummah, or Islamic Community, are apart of a collective body, and those who are not, are viewed as deserving despotic infliction. In short, Muhammad’s view’s on society upholds a socialist utopia in which one must be apart of the Islamic body, or perish or suffer enslavement. “To declare brotherhood among the individuals of any society”, says Mustafa al-Sibai an Islamic authority, “necessitates al-takaful [interdependence] among them, not only in eating, drinking and bodily needs but also in every other necessity of life. The acknowledgment of brotherhood between two persons is an acknowledgment of al-takaful and al-tadamun (solidarity) between them in sentiments and feelings, in demands and needs, and in status and dignity. This is the truth of al-takaful al-ijtimai in Islamic socialism.” (1)
Despite having some differences, Marxism and Islamism have many similarities. Marxism upholds a universal utopia in which the poor ‘have-nots’ clean the coffers of the rich ‘haves.’ Islam’s universal Ummah has dissident wealthy Jewish communities and Christian nations taxed with Jizya by the Muslim-have-nots.
Both systems have a disdain for the Church, which is the main target for their hatred. After the Bolsheviks took over Russia, Vladimir Lenin stole all of the land owned by the nobility and the church, and gave it to the have-nots. The land was stolen “for the benefit of the community” and was “to be distributed in equal shares.” The private ownership of land was to be “abolished forever.” (2)
Similarly, when the Muslims conquered Spain they took over Christian lands and destroyed their churches. Church property became under the control of the Ummah and thus Christians were forced to comply with the Pact of Umar that guaranteed the Islamic enforcement over Christian lands. In the document it reads: “We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks’ cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.” (3)
The Ummah also demands that Jews and Christians pay Jizzya-poll-tax as income for the Muslims. The Muslim philosopher Al-Ghazali explains: “Jews, Christians, and Majians must pay the jizya [poll tax on non-Muslims]…on offering up the jizya, the dhimmi must hang his head while the official takes hold of his beard and hits [the dhimmi] on the protruberant bone beneath his ear [i.e., the mandible]… They are not permitted to ostentatiously display their wine or church bells…their houses may not be higher than the Muslim’s, no matter how low that is. The dhimmi may not ride an elegant horse or mule; he may ride a donkey only if the saddle[-work] is of wood. He may not walk on the good part of the road. They [the dhimmis] have to wear [an identifying] patch [on their clothing], even women, and even in the [public] baths…[dhimmis] must hold their tongue…” (4)
Furthermore, Osmakac is a Yugoslavian Muslim, and when one peruses the history of the Axis of evil, one finds such people had involvement with Hitler in massacring Christians, Jews, and Gypsies, within Islamic eastern Europe.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem in the early 20th century, had worked with the Nazis in a plan to exterminate the enemies of both Islam, and the Third Reich, within Islamic lands. “Germany”, wrote Hitler to his Muslim allies, “stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine…Germany would furnish positive and practical aid to the Arabs involved in the same struggle…Germany’s objective [is]…solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere…In that hour the Mufti would be the most authoritative spokesman for the Arab world.” (5)
In 1943, the Mufti went to Yugoslavia, where he organized the Nazi/Islamic Hanjar division, Bosnian 23rd Waffen SS Kama Division, and the Albanian Skanderbeg 21st Waffen SS Division. It is because of such sinister conspiring and acts, that in 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. (6)
The history of Islamic cruelty from the Eastern Europeans who follow the religion of Muhammad, is soon connected to the occurrences which have happened in our time, and Osmacac is merely following the path which his predecessors walked before him; and it is such a path which we, as an intelligent people, must soon recognize. The ideas and aspirations of Osmacac are no mere products of a few fringe groups here and there, but they are apart of an entire system of religion and political ideology, which seeks to unite the world under a universal kingdom–-a kingdom which upholds not law, but lawlessness; not property, but the seize of property; and not life, but the destruction and enslaving of it.
(1) Mustafa al-Sibai’s Ishtirakiyyat al-Islam (Islamic Socialism), quoted in Theodore Shoebat, For God or For Tyranny, ch. 16, p. 157.
(2) See THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF LAND SOCIALIZATION, Decree of the Central Executive Committee, February 19, 1918.
(3) See Islam: Truth or Myth? Pact of Umar, (probably drafted during the time of Umar b. Abd al Aziz who ruled 717- 720 AD) from Al- Turtushi, Siraj al-Muluk, pp. 229-23.
(4)See 53 Al-Ghazali (d. 1111). Kitab al-Wagiz fi fiqh madhab al-imam al-Safi’i, Beirut, 1979, pp. 186, 190-91; 199-200; 202-203. [English translation by Dr. Michael Schub.].
(5)See Theodore Shoebat, In Satan’s Footsteps, ch. 13, Nazis and Muslims.
(6) Ibid.
Report: Iran and Muslim Brotherhood in ‘Constant Contact’
1In light of revelations that Iran is reportedly preparing for terrorist attacks on the US homeland, coupled with a Federal Judge’s ruling just last month that Iran was behind 9/11, the notion that the Obama administration would use a Muslim Brotherhood leader (Qaradawi) to negotiate a truce between the United States and the Taliban is made even more disturbing with this news.
Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood maintain close contact, Iran’s foreign minister has said in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm.
“Tehran is in constant contact with the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
He said Iran is ready to promote its diplomatic relations with Egypt to the ambassadorial level, paricularly in light of the Muslim Brotherhood’s recent ascendancy to power. The group’s party, the Freedom and Justice Party, controls 43 percent of parliamentary seats.
Seemingly lost in all of this is that the Muslim Brotherhood has a tremendous presence inside the United States. The Holy Land Foundation trial proved that.
h/t Weasel Zippers
Egyptian Cleric: Girls turn into Women faster in Warm Climates
1According to Egyptian cleric, Sheik Abdallah Kamal, Muhammad’s marriage to the six-year old Aisha was ok because girls mature much faster in warmer climates. In this alternate reality, Muhammad’s young bride reach womanhood at the age of eight, which is one year prior to when Muhammad consummated the marriage.
Kamal said the following during a program that aired on Safa TV.
Via MEMRI:
In warm places, girls reach puberty at a very early age – generally at the age of 8 years. In cold places, girls’ puberty is delayed until the age of 21 years – as is the case in some cold countries.
If this is true, Al Gore has been trying to stop a cure for pedophilia with his anti-global warming crusade and should be arrested.
h/t Weasel Zippers
Iran to Launch Attacks in the United States?
1Earlier this month, we reported on the chief commander of Iran’s Quds Forces, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, receiving orders from the Ayatollah to carry out terrorist attacks against the west in response to the recent assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. We also reported on his ties to Hadi al-Ameri, Iraq’s Transportation Minister, who was given the red carpet treatment by the White House in December.
Now, the Washington Post is reporting that Intelligence sources believe terrorist attacks inside the United States are being prepared.
Via the Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. said in prepared testimony that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington that was uncovered last year reflects an aggressive new willingness within the upper ranks of the Islamist republic to authorize attacks against the United States.
That plot “shows that some Iranian officials — probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime,” Clapper said in the testimony, which was submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee in advance of a threat assessment hearing Tuesday. “We are also concerned about Iranian plotting against U.S. or allied interests overseas.”
Again, if Soleimani is proven to be the executor of these attacks, Americans will have a right to demand why his colleague, al-Ameri was inside the Oval office on December 12, 2011.
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