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CONSUMED BY HATRED More insight into the minds of our enemies. A troll by the name of Osama has posted this response to my post on terrorist Kuntar : Of course not, who the f*ck are Einat, Yael and Danny Haran? And why should she care? They were only colateral damage. Unless they were nazi pigs like most of you. Eat sh*t. Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Can you imagine being so consumed by hatred that reading about how a young girl's skull was crushed by a terrorist elicits the above response? It is people like this that have taken the world hostage.

GO AUSSIE, GO! Now for some good news - at least to those Australians out there. Australia are through to the Rugby World Cup final. We defeated the fancied All-Blacks , adding even more misery to the people of New Zealand. They will always have Lord of the Rings at least. For my American readers, Rugby is kind of like American football, but without the padding. Want to know more? Read here . Australia's opponent in the final will either be France or England. On one hand, it would be great if England would annihilate the French. On the other hand, it may be more fun if Australia does it.

WE ARE ALL UNDER ATTACK On Sundays, I am always a little behind on the weekend news due to my observance of the Jewish Sabbath, which lasts from Friday night until Saturday night. For the Jews of Turkey, their Sabbath observance had more dire ramifications . I have so much anger, despair, sadness, frustration as a result of attacks like this, that it actually inhibits my ability to write about them. But I will try nonetheless... This attack demonstrates to me a number of things: 1. No Jew around the world is safe. We are all targets because we are Jews. Even the secular Jewish appeasers of terrorism, who actually support the PLO Arabs and their ilk, are targets. Mind you, since they probably do not go to synagogue often, they are at less risk. 2. The Muslims, who are constantly asking for sensitivity towards their holy days and periods (such as Ramadan) display no such sensitivity towards our holy days. Rather, they exploit them as an opportunity to kill and maim as...

INSPECTOR GADGET? Here is a picture of Presidential Envoy to Iraq, Paul Bremer, taken from the Al-Crapeeza website . Is it just me, or does the position of the black microphone in the foreground make him look like Inspector Gadget?

TOMMY HITS BACK AT GREEK COMPOSER Israeli Justice Minister Yosef "Tommy" Lapid has compared anti-Semitic Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (otherwise known as "Theo-dork") to Hitler . In response, Theo-dork compared Lapid to Archie Bunker . Ok, not really, but you have to admit it is quite a likeness.

THOSE ZIONISTS SURE GET AROUND According to the Media Line , the Egyptian-based Middle East News Agency have reported that an office belonging to the Mossad was bombed in the Iraqi town Kirkouk on Monday night. The number of dead and wounded in Monday night's bombing is still not final, according to the Egyptian-based Middle East News Agency, but they included "Mossad people" and a number of local Kurds, who were reported as collaborating with the Israeli agents. The injured were rushed to a nearby American military base in Kirkouk and some were transferred to a hospital in Mous'ul. Local Kurds and American soldiers rushed to the building immediately after the explosion and attempted to hide anything that may reveal the "true" nature of the so-called Mossad office, MENA reported. How convenient that all evidence of the Mossad was removed by Kurdish collaborators and US soldiers before any of these claims could be verified. Sounds to me like the Muslim...

MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PLO ARABS REVISTED (OR HOW TO RECOGNIZE A HOAX) Reader Harry explains why the Michael Jordan story I blogged about yesterday was never mentioned by the main media - it was a hoax! This story sounds like hogwash. This quote from the ADL is absurd: Myrna Shinbaum, public relations director for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, said that Jordan was "obviously anti-Semitic" and vowed that any celebrity who came out in support of the Palestinian cause would be "utterly closed off from public life forever." A search on ADL's site proves it: http://www.adl.org/rumors/jordan.asp?&&MSHiC=1252&L=10&W=jordan+JORDANS+michael+MICHAELS+JORDANA+&Pre=%3CFONT+STYLE%3D%22color%3A+%23000000%3B+background%2Dcolor%3A+%23FFFF00%22%3E&Post=%3C%2FFONT%3E Michael Jordan Target of Bogus Internet Report Posted: October 3, 2002 A recent "news item" posted on several Web sites and circulated via e-mail alleges ...

THERE'S NOTHING ON THE TUBE The PLO Arab deputy minister for foreign affairs is apparently bored with television in the PLO Arab areas. They just aren't showing enough anti-Semitic propoganda these days. The Palestinian deputy minister for foreign affairs, 'Adli 'Sadiq, wrote an item for the Palestinian daily Al-Hayyat Al-Jadida on Monday criticizing the fact that all the Arab television shows and serials made for the holy month of Rama’dan are of a low artistic standard and do not deal with important current affairs. Such shows, in his opinion should dwell on issues such as the "Zionist criminal aggression, the failure of financial development, democracy, human rights or issues of violence and extremism." However, the author points out one show, the anti-Semitic Syrian production "The Diaspora", which he claims is of high quality and says that more productions like it should be made. And speaking of PLO Arab television, I let my imagina...

HOW MUCH AL-CRAPEEZA DO WE HAVE TO SWALLOW? Al-Crapeeza continue their lying and incitement. In their report on the decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to lift the ban on the film Jenin Jenin , the Jihadist media outlet state as fact the occurrence of a massacre, despite the fact that Israel has long been exonerated of this false charge. For 54 minutes, viewers are gripped by the harrowing stories retold by survivors of the massacre . Without the use of a narrator, the film pieces together the events of the massacre through the survivors' stories. Their motto should be: Don't let truth get in the way of a good lie .

"ISRAELLYCOOL" FAMILY MEMBER HELPS NAIL TWO TERRORISTS This news alert from Debka : In southern Gaza Strip, Palestinians shot and injured member of crew working on Morag security fence. He was evacuated to hospital under fire. IDF patrol opened fire on grouped of armed Palestinians stealing into Israeli Nahal Besor village cluster opposite Gaza Strip. Two intruders hit . My wife informs me that my brother-in-law was involved with that patrol. Way to go Matt! Thanks for defending all of us and please stay safe.

IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME Greek composer and cultural icon Mikis Theodorakis has jumped on the anti-Semitism bandwagon, unleashing the following vicious tirade against the Jews: "We, the Greeks, did not turn aggressive like them because we have more history. They only have Abraham and Jacob, who were shadows, while we have Pericles. Imagine what would happen in Greece if we were as aggressive as the Jews...Today it is possible to say that this small nation is the root of evil. It is full of self-importance and evil stubbornness." But we shouldn't be surprised. His website contains statements like these: "This moment I see, as does everyone who lives and breathes, the biblical destruction of Baghdad. Amid the flames that engulf the martyr city, I see the image of the USA as a civilized country being annihilated within me. I see Bush standing shoulder to shoulder with Genghis Khan, Attila and Hitler. I view Americans responsible as detestable, ruthless, cowardly m...

MICHAEL JORDAN AND THE PLO ARABS I just read about this today, although it happened a year ago. I am shocked to say the least. Basketball superstar Michael Jordan, who recently announced that he will return for a second season with the Washington Wizards, has decided to display solidarity with a variety of causes by wearing a black armband during games. After discussing his new season with the Wizards at a press conference, Jordan was asked about the significance of the black armband he had been spotted wearing. "It's in the tradition of silent but visible protest," Jordan said, "like the Tinker kids, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos." Jordan was referring to the famous Tinker v. Des Moines free-speech case in which two high school students won the right to wear black armbands in school as a protest against the Vietnam war, as well as the two Black U.S. athletes who gave the Black Power salute during the 1968 Olympics. When pressed by reporters to ex...

THE ENEMY WITHIN Following the devastating Cafe Hillel suicide bombing back in early September, I blogged about my own personal experiences with terror , whether it be knowing someone who had been killed or injured, or my own brushes with terror. Then I read this article this morning: Three Jerusalem Arabs with ties to Hamas who planned to carry out a mass poisoning at a prominent Jerusalem cafe were sentenced Tuesday to five to ten years in prison by the Jerusalem District court. The three men, whose arrests last September foiled their plans to poison Jewish diners at the city's Cafe Rimon, had confessed to the charges against them, with two of the three previously reaching a plea bargain with the prosecution. According to the sentencing handed down in court, Othman Kiania, 23, from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, who had worked for the past three years as an assistant chef at the restaurant was sentenced to five years in prison, Moussa Nasser, 23, of J...

ANTI-SEMITISM FROM A NON-JEW'S PERSPECTIVE US Navy Retiree John Rudolph has a few things to say about the beast known as anti-Semitism from the perspective of a non-Jewish person. Being a non-Jew, or Gentile, I have been making some observations lately over the past few months, and have observed something terribly odd. I go into the news groups in Yahoo!, and all I see are Jews being blamed for nearly everything that is wrong on the planet. Jews are being accused of running the media and telling us only what they want to hear. Jews are being blamed of the situation over in the Middle East, even though Israel takes up only 0.01% of the total land mass of the Middle East. Jews are being blamed for just about everything - and it is getting worse. Charlottesville, Virginia, is the most liberal leftist town in the state. Thanks to the University of Virginia population, with its pious, overbearing professors and staff that feel they are smarter than thou, it's common ...

QUOTE OF THE DAY "You would have to note that it was only (lately) that Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership could even find it in themselves to mention the word Palestinian. So I reject the notion that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, overwhelmingly important as it is, would stop the terrorism that has been directed against the United States, Western interests and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia." - US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaking to reporters after talks in Cairo with Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa.

FAINE-ING THE TRUTH Jon Faine, a Jewish journalist at The Age, gushes with praise for Al-Crapeeza after being fed the usual lies about "uncensored media", "freedom of expression" and "an exchange of ideas" by the curiously named Jihad Ballout . And how about this for a lie: "Any Jews working here?" I asked, and was told that if I wanted to apply, and spoke Arabic, and was interested in quality journalism, I would be welcome. If Faine had done his research before this embarassing piece of "journalism", he may have uncovered the Al-Crapeeza that we know and loathe. The Al-Crapeeza that constantly demonizes the US, Israel and the Jews, while labelling terrorists as "resistance fighters" Update: Not to mention this (courtesy of LGF ): AL-JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT SATTAR KARIN ADMITTED THAT HIS OFFICE IN THE MAHMOUDIYA, BABIL PROVINCE OF IRAQ HAS BEEN USED TO COORDINATE ATTACKS AGAINST COALITION FORCES. TWO SYRIAN NATIO...

PRIZE AND PREJUDICE Padraic McGuinness has written an interesting op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald in which he blasts the Sydney Peace Prize, but claims that Jewish leaders should have just ignored the whole thing. Peace prizes are getting sillier every day. It used to be there was a fairly simple path to obtaining a Nobel Peace Prize, which involved murdering as many people as possible and then promising to stop. With some awareness of the absurdity of this, the Nobel committee in Norway, which awards the prize, began to share the award between the leaders of two sides involved in a conflict who promised to make peace. Thus 30 years ago the prize was awarded jointly to Henry Kissinger of the United States and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam for their joint efforts at making peace in Vietnam. While I am unconvinced by the case made by the journalist Christopher Hitchens who claims Kissinger should be tried as a war criminal, he did not have clean hands. Nor did Le, certainly a mu...

DEMOCRACY AT WORK Israel is by no means a "perfect" democracy in the sense of equal rights for all citizens. There are a number of reasons for this situation, some stemming from the reality of the situation on the ground (e.g. it is unsafe to make military service mandatory for Israeli Arabs due to their divided loyalties) and some stemming from the fact that Israel is a Jewish state (e.g. immigrant rights for Jews and offspring of Jews to encourage Jewish immigration). I plan to blog on this topic at some later stage. However, right now, I want to point out this news story that highlights the indisputable fact that Israel is a democracy nonetheless. The Supreme Court ruled this morning, unanimously, that the film "Jenin, Jenin" - which contains "testimony" by Arab residents of Jenin regarding alleged Israeli atrocities - may be screened in Israel. The Court thus overruled a decision by the Censorship Council, and stated that the original decision to...