Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Steny Hoyer Just Slapped Down Obama's 1967 Borders Statement #aipac

Watching the live feed from AIPAC, Steny Hoyer just slapped down Barack Obama's assertion that Israel should return to its 1967 borders:

Israel's borders must be defensible and must reflect reality on the ground!...

...the reconciliation of Hamas and Fatah puts the future in doubt ... let us make this clear: peace can only be achieved by a return to the negotating table without pre-conditions...

I believe in Palestinian statehood, but I oppose [an outside force imposing it]... peace cannot be imposed, it must be negotiated ...

We will not compromise or temporize, we will not ... fund a government that does not recognize ... Israel's right to exist...

Sounds like Hoyer has completely repudiated the "Obama Doctrine".


Friday, May 20, 2011

Stop-Action Photos: Watch President Obama's Facial Expressions as He Meets With Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu

Courtesy PBS, I captured the "highlights" of the 15-minute public meeting between Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama. Does the term "poor body language" ring a bell?

In related news, Dan from New York reports that Netanyahu has urged Obama to return the U.S. to its 1845 borders.


Linked by: Michelle Malkin. Thanks!

Plump, pony-tailed blogger beclowns himself for umpteenth time, fails to remove embarrassing tweets

Well, this must be a tad embarrassing:


This is odd: headlines around the world plainly refute Chaz' contention because, yes, President Obama did tell Israel to revert to its pre-1967 borders.

You know, back in the day, I never thought my blog would be more popular than LGF. I failed to anticipate the epic meltdown of Johnson, which was as tragic as it was needless.

He's on the wrong side of history and everyone but him knows it.


Allen West Reads Obama the Riot Act on Israel

Since he apparently won't run for president in 2012, I say we make Allen West the Speaker of the House. After all, he's not a crybaby, nor is he a really lousy negotiator like our current version.

Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state.

From the moment the modern day state of Israel declared statehood in 1948, to the end of the 1967 Six Day War, Jews were forbidden access to their holiest site, the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, controlled by Jordan’s Arab army.

The pre-1967 borders endorsed by President Obama would deny millions of the world’s Jews access to their holiest site and force Israel to return the strategically important Golan Heights to Syria, a known state-sponsor of terrorism.

Resorting to the pre-1967 borders would mean a full withdrawal by the Israelis from the West Bank and the Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. Make no mistake, there has always been a Nation of Israel and Jerusalem has been and must always be recognized as its rightful capital.

In short, the Hamas-run Palestinian state envisioned by President Obama would be devastating to Israel and the world’s 13.3 million Jews. It would be a Pavlovian style reward to a declared Islamic terrorist organization, and an unacceptable policy initiative.

America should never negotiate with the Palestinian Authority- which has aligned itself with Hamas. Palestine is a region, not a people or a modern state. Based upon Roman Emperor Hadrian's declaration in 73 AD, the original Palestinian people are the Jewish people.

It's time for the American people to stand by our strongest ally, the Jewish State of Israel, and reject this foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.

While the winds of democracy may blow strong in the Middle East, history has demonstrated that gaps in leadership can lead to despotic regimes. I have questions for President Obama: 'Who will now lead in Egypt?' and 'Why should American taxpayers provide foreign aid to a nation where the next chapter in their history may be the emergence of another radical Islamic state?'

President Obama has not stood for Israel or the Jewish people and has made it clear where the United States will stand when Palestine attempts to gain recognition of statehood by the United Nations. The President should focus on the real obstacle to security- the Palestinian leadership and its ultimate goal to eliminate Israel and the Jewish people.”

It sounds like Rep. Allen West (R-FL) knows what really happened in the Middle East.


Obama orders Jews to Ghetto in preparation for final final solution

By calling for Israel to return to its pre-1967 War borders -- according to The New York Times -- President Barack Obama has thrown the tiny Jewish state under the bus.

For in doing so, he has broken decades of precedent with U.S. history; he has encouraged radical Muslims the world over to rally for indefensible borders; he has demanded a divided Jerusalem; and he has all but embraced Hamas and the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood.

Hamas has already responded: it says that Obama is delusional and that it will never recognize Israel's right to exist.

Why is it that only conservative Republicans are defending Israel? Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Orrin Hatch, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity among them?

Where are Jewish liberals in Congress like Barney Frank, Schmuck Schumer, Anthony's Weiner, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, et. al.? AWOL. The camera hogs suddenly can't be found.

The nearest analogy I can come up with is this: President Obama has ordered Jews to the ghettos in preparation for a final, final solution.

Earlier today, reacting to Obama's speech, Benjamin Netanyahu told Obama to go pound sand.

The only peace that will endure is one that is based on reality, on unshakable facts. I think for there to be peace, the Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines. Because these lines are indefensible. Because they don’t take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years.

Remember that before 1967, Israel was all of 9 miles wide. It was half the width of the Washington beltway. These were not the boundaries of peace. They were the boundaries of repeated wars because the attack on Israel was so attractive for them. We can’t go back to those indefensible lines and we’re going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan. . . .

We’ve been around for almost four thousand years. We’ve experienced struggle and suffering like no other people. We’ve gone through expulsions, pogroms and massacres and the murder of millions.

But I can say that even at the dearth, even at the nadir of the valley of death, we never lost hope and we never lost our dream of reestablishing a sovereign state in our ancient homeland, the land of Israel.

And now it falls on my shoulders as the Prime Minister of Israel, at a time of extraordinary instability and uncertainty in the middle east to work with you and fashion a peace that will ensure Israel’s security and will not jeopardize it’s survival.

Obama needs to do a little reading; to study some history; to find what really happened in the Middle East before he bloviates on topics he knows absolutely nothing about.


Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Ten million times worse than Valerie Plame: additional UBL mission leaks that we (and they) should not know

Where's Valerie Plame when you need her to screech about real national security leaks?

...The U.S. deliberately hid the operation from Pakistan, and predicted that national outrage over the breach of Pakistani sovereignty would make it impossible to try again if the raid on bin Laden’s suspected redoubt came up dry.

Once the raiders reached their target, things started to go awry almost immediately, officials briefed on the operation said.

...Adding exclusive new details to the account of the assault on bin Laden’s hideout, officials described just how the SEAL raiders loudly ditched a foundering helicopter right outside bin Laden’s door, ruining the plan for a surprise assault. That forced them to abandon plans to run a squeeze play on bin Laden — simultaneously entering the house stealthily from the roof and the ground floor.

...The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a classified operation. [Ed: which, I believe, is still a crime.]

U.S. officials believe Pakistani intelligence continues to support militants who attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and actively undermine U.S. intelligence operations to go after al-Qaida inside Pakistan. The level of distrust is such that keeping Pakistan in the dark was a major factor in planning the raid, and led to using the high-tech but sometimes unpredictable helicopter technology that nearly unhinged the mission.

...Five aircraft flew from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, with three school-bus-size Chinook helicopters landing in a deserted area roughly two-thirds of the way to bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, two of the officials explained.

Aboard two Black Hawk helicopters were 23 SEALs, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo. Nineteen SEALs would enter the compound, and three of them would find bin Laden, one official said, providing the exact numbers for the first time... Aboard the Chinooks were two dozen more SEALs, as backup. [Ed: release of these numbers is not good.]

...As three of the SEALs reached the top of the steps on the third floor, they saw bin Laden standing at the end of the hall. The Americans recognized him instantly, the officials said... Bin Laden also saw them, dimly outlined in the dark house, and ducked into his room... The three SEALs assumed he was going for a weapon, and one by one they rushed after him through the door...

...Two women were in front of bin Laden, yelling and trying to protect him, two officials said. The first SEAL grabbed the two women and shoved them away, fearing they might be wearing suicide bomb vests, they said... The SEAL behind him opened fire at bin Laden, putting one bullet in his chest, and one in his head.

...Back at the White House Situation Room, word was relayed that bin Laden had been found, signaled by the code word “Geronimo.” That was not bin Laden’s code name, but rather a representation of the letter “G.” Each step of the mission was labeled alphabetically, and “Geronimo” meant that the raiders had reached step “G,” the killing or capture of bin Laden, two officials said.

...As the SEALs began photographing the body for identification, the raiders found an AK-47 rifle and a Russian-made Makarov pistol on a shelf by the door they’d just run through. Bin Laden hadn’t touched them...

And sorry about the "UBL death photo". I think this august journal was the first to post this particular image, and -- based upon the description of the firefight -- it's the only one I've seen that looks like an accurate representation.


Hat tip: JTT.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Top 12 Photos From the 'Finish What Hitler Started' Rallies #nakba

"Right of return" is a synonym for the right of the Palestinians to invade Israel. And the Palestinian people are so incredibly violent that they've been walled off by their Muslim brothers in both Jordan and Egypt. You don't hear much about those security fences, but when it comes to the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan and Egypt keep their distance from the barbarians for good reason: they get killed if they don't keep the walls in place.












And Israel is, of course, the proverbial "canary in the coal mine" for Western Civilization.


Images via: Atlas Shrugs, W.P., and Conservative Tree House.


Sunday, May 15, 2011

Israel invaded on three fronts

In the Golan Heights, in Gaza and in Jerusalem, Palestinians used the anniversary of Israel's birth to launch attacks on our only Democratic ally in the Middle East.

Dozens of people were injured when Israeli troops opened fire as a group of demonstrators from Syria tried to break through a border fence at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Forty-five people were injured in the incident.

Across the West Bank and Gaza, hundreds took to the streets in demonstrations marking the anniversary of Israel's creation in 1948.

In northern Gaza, at least six people were injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of young demonstrators approaching the border.

Outside Jerusalem, soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of people throwing stones.

Israel had heightened security in anticipation of unrest leading up to Sunday's protests marking "Naqba" - or "the catastrophe." Some activists have called for a new "intifada" - or uprising - against Israel.

I believe that it was Reliapundit, in a prediction written a couple of days ago, who was the first to predict the outbreak of the 'Third Intifada'.

These 'protests' are thinly-veiled proxy attacks organized and funded by Iran, Syria, Egypt and the other 7th-century barbarian extremists.

How's that 'Democracy Movement' working out, Sparky?


Hat tip: Dan from New York.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Top 20 #OsamaPorn Movie Titles

Yes, it's true that Osama was a porn aficionado (not that there's anything wrong with that, but it does seem a trifle hypocritical, no?). Which led to the inevitable Twitter hashtag meme (#osamaporn) of which my top 20 Osama Bin Laden porn movie titles were as follows:

20. @Saisi_ Al-Jazeera Anchorgirls Gone Wild
19. @sarahcolonna: The Camel's Toe
18. @ProducerMatthew: Two-and-a-half goats
17. @_struct: Kandawhore
16. @galeonscallion: Seal Team Sex
15. @kobyb: Debbie Does Dubai
14. @NBNP: Talibangher
13. @woolfe: Goatback Mountain
12. @coyotered9: Sleeping with the Yemeni
11. @WMDOwl: Betty Bangs Baghdad
10. @Fais_VoML: Amateur Infidels XV
9. @mrsammac: The Fatwa In My Pants
8. @RorschachNEOCON: "Ewe-Turn"
7. @MichaelHeister: You Jihad Me at Halal
6. @RorschachNEOCON: Goats Gone Wild
5. @Steven_Savona: Bearded Beauties: Volume IX
4. @mattyirish: Facial Profiling
3. @BettyFckinWhite: The Taliboners
2. @kobyb: Deep Goat
1. @sdvitelli: Sinfidels


Monday, May 09, 2011

Authorities "do not yet have a motive" of suspect who tried to break into American Airlines cockpit while shouting "Allahu Akbar!"

I, for one, suspect that Militant Quakers are behind this, the third major airline disturbance in 24 hours.

The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco. He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door...

Within moments Sunday, a flight attendant tackled Rageh Almurisi. Authorities do not yet have a motive.

While authorities said that Almurisi, 28, of Vallejo, Calif., has no clear or known ties to terrorism, the incident underscored fears that extremists may try to mount attacks to retaliate for the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden last week.

Federal agents are investigating Almurisi's background. He was carrying a Yemeni passport and a California identification card, authorities said...

...passengers on the plane were stunned when they saw Almurisi walking down the aisle. She said a woman in a row across from her who speaks Arabic translated that Almurisi said "God is Great!" in Arabic... Andrew Wai, another passenger, told KGO-TV on Monday that the wife of one of the men who took Almurisi down later said Almurisi was yelling "Allahu Akbar."

"There was no question in everybody's mind that he was going to do something," Marty said...

Worry not, dear citizens. We have crack investigative minds like Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano on the case; they will certainly be able to deduce the true motive of Mr. Almurisi given enough taxpayer dough, time, resources and race-baiting.


Hat tips: Atlas, via TrendingRight.

Sunday, May 08, 2011

US Releases Photo of Bin Laden's Funeral


Hat tip: Dennis.

Good News: Radical Muslim Separatist Groups Now Actively Trying to Undermine Border Security Between Canada and Michigan

What do you get when you cross CAIR with Eric Holder's Justice Department and Janet Napolitano's DHS?

Long-term, I'd wager on needlessly dead Americans.

The U.S. government has launched an investigation into allegations that federal agents at several U.S.-Canada border crossings in Michigan repeatedly harassed, jailed and body searched Muslims because of their background or appearance... The investigation comes in response to complaints filed in March by the Council on American-Islamic Relations with the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.

...every time Wissam Charafeddine of Dearborn has crossed the border into the U.S. from Canada in the last three years, he says he has been detained, fingerprinted and body searched... One time, he said, he was separated from his family and jailed in a cold cell for five hours as his 1-year-old daughter cried for milk.

...One of the 10 complaints by local Muslims involves Imam Ali Suleiman Ali, head of the Canton Mosque, one of the larger Islamic centers in metro Detroit... He described a recent border crossing in which he says agents handcuffed and detained him while asking him, "Where's your mosque?" and "What Islamic organizations do you belong to?" Ali described several other similar situations at borders or airports in the past five years.

... "Why do I have to be treated like a terrorist?"

The theme of undermining border security measures is a consistent one for this particular Imam.

Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a fatwa — a religious ruling — that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports. The Fiqh Council of North America ... issued a fatwa last week that says going through the airport scanners would violate Islamic rules on modesty...

...Two members of the Fiqh Council are from Michigan, Imam Hassan Qazwini of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, and Imam Ali Suleiman Ali of the Canton Mosque. “Fiqh” means Islamic jurisprudence...

...The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has a chapter in Michigan, says it endorses the fatwa. “We support the Fiqh Council’s statement on full-body scanners and believe that the religious and privacy rights of passengers can be respected while maintaining safety and security,” said Nihad Awad, national executive director of CAIR.

Their actions make it clear that CAIR and "the Fiqh Council" are dedicated to weakening America's security posture.

And it doesn't have a bit to do with religion. It has to do with promoting a political system -- Sharia law -- that just happens to be conveniently wrapped in the protective coating of a religion.

It seems perfectly obvious that Sharia is what CAIR and the other radical Muslim separatist groups are after. And with terror defenders and apologists like Eric Holder in charge of the DOJ, they're likely to get much of what they want.


Friday, May 06, 2011

Photo o' the Day: Fish Food


Hat tip: Papa B.

Obama asks 10-year old son of deceased 9/11 first responder how he feels about Bin Laden being dead

Perhaps the president was looking for another 'attaboy!'

The 6-foot-1 leader of the free world stared the pint-size kid in the eyes and solicited his opinion about a subject that has captured the attention of the world.

"He asked how I felt about Osama Bin Laden being dead," the boy said.

"I said he could have done something a little less harsh to him, but it was nice to just know that after what happened to my dad, this guy was killed, too."

This guy is all class. All class.


WTF at WTC? Obama Has American Flag Removed From Ground Zero Site Moments Before Photo Shoot! [Updated: or Perhaps Tapper Just Confused All of Us]

ABC's Jake Tapper was on the scene. He disbelievingly tweeted:

Here's his photo of the take-down.

This administration and, by extension, the Democrat Party are now so thoroughly divorced from the history, traditions and morals of America that we might as well admit the Marxist left has executed a successful coup d'état on this Republic.


Update: The timing of Tapper's tweet is the subject of some discussion now on Twitter. @AllahPundit offers this photo of the wreath-laying, which depicts the flag in the background. So exactly what Tapper was talking about is a mystery to me.

Update II: Michelle Malkin gets to the bottom of it (hat tip: Tabitha Hale):

Earlier this morning, I tweeted a link to Doug Ross’s post highlighting a seemingly outrageous photo from ABC News White House reporter Jake Tapper showing the American flag being removed from Ground Zero.

Tapper wrote: “One minute to air and they decided to take the flag down from the live shot!”

Many, including me, jumped to the conclusion that the stage managers at the White House had the flag removed.

It’s not true... As Allahpundit points out, Tapper tweeted the photo at the end of the day yesterday after the Ground Zero event and the flag was visible during the ceremony.

As do I. But I'm sticking by my "Marxist coup d'état" comment.

Update III: Why the Leftists commenting here are idiots: (a) the next retraction one of the Left-leaning media sources makes will be their first (e.g., "Terror Wiretaps plus Invasion of Iraq plus Rendition plus Waterboarding Led to Bin Laden"); (b) Obama's on-again/off-again flag-pin patriotism; (c) and his well-documented failures to show respect to the flag -- all make it clear that Tapper's tweet would be utterly believable in the original context.

Don't let the blog's door hit you on the ass on the way out, drones.

Update IV: Flashback: 'Obama White House ordered coverup of religious symbols for Georgetown speech'


Hat tips: FireAndreaMitchell, via TrendingRight.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Obama Won't Show You These Pix, But I Will [Dan from New York]

Dan from New York:

Photos taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.

Enjoy.

More dead terrorists, please.


President Obama: We Can't Release Photos of Bin Laden Lest We Be Perceived as Doing the Icky Shuffle on Bin Laden's Body

Stunningly, the Obama administration has reversed course and decided not to release photographs of Osama Bin Laden's corpse. And the President used a handsome gridiron analogy to get his point across.

Via White House press secretary Jay Carney, Obama lectures that we “don’t need to spike footballs” and echoed GOP Rep. Rogers’ line that OBL is not a “trophy.”

RennaW hits the nail on the head in her rejoinder to Obama’s admonishment about spiking footballs: “Said the guy who said ‘I won’…and spent $150 million on [his] inauguration.”

Oh, and stupidity isn't limited to just one side of the aisle.

Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says the picture could inflame anti-U.S. sentiments around the world and hamper intelligence cooperation with the United States. He says conspiracy theorists won’t be persuaded no matter what the U.S. does.

Let me get this straight, Mr. Rogers -- if that is your real name -- releasing the Bin Laden death photos could inflame anti-U.S. sentiment to the point where extremists could fly planes into buildings, killing thousands of innocent civilians?

Really?

Release the damn photos already. Appeasement of extremism breeds extremism. Killing terrorists dissuades terrorists.

Release the damn photos. The gorier, the better.


Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Bin Laden Death Photo: Well, At Least This One Doesn't Look Fake

O.G. relays this photo of what is presumed to be UBL's carcass before it was dispatched to the deep.

I can't verify its authenticity but, then again, I can't not verify its authenticity either. The most recent Drudge flash casts doubt, stating: "The images, being described as 'graphic', are bound to stir emotions in the east and the west, and will likely become the most viewed photographs in modern history... One image shows a bullet wound to his head above his left eye. "

Update: O.G. observes that this photo matches the description "if it's flipped, dumbass."

Ooooooh.


Sneak Peek: Time Magazine Cover - Bin Laden Special Issue

Via @Koblin.

I'd prefer the real photo, no matter how gruesome.


Hat tip: TrendingRight.