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Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan's Moscow option
[DAWN]
Posted by: Fred || 08/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Nobody does wishful thinking like the Pakistanis.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2014 16:16 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Instead of Excessive Apology: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1911
We constantly and very loudly apologize... Instead of turning our backs to the accusers, as there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to, we swear again and again that it is not our fault... Isn't it long overdue to respond to all these and all future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer with the only argument that is understandable and accessible to this public: 'Go to Hell!'?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2014 14:44 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great essay by Mr. Shusteff if you follow the link.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/17/2014 15:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Shusteff is the translator. This was written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky---look him up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2014 16:13 Comments || Top||

#3  A great man/visionary who died nearly penniless shortly before the Shoah. (FYI: Excellent biography: Lone Wolf by Shmuel Katz. Publisher is Barricade Books.)
Posted by: borgboy || 08/17/2014 19:24 Comments || Top||


The Palestinian Self-Collision Instinct
[Ynet] It's time for the world to realize that we are dealing with gangs which will always live at other nations' expense and make a living off 'the conflict.'

Generation after generation, the Paleostinians are colliding with the people of Israel. Collapsed, beaten, and then screaming "Nakba" in order to pass on the collision tradition to their future generations.

This format is approaching 100 years of collision, and not a single lesson has been learned, and no real criticism is voiced.

What is the Paleostinians' chronic problem? That they are captivated by their resisting leaders, who in most cases represent partial interests, and these are the results.

What do they think? That the State of Israel and the Jewish people will give up? That will never happen, because this has been our eternal land for 3,500 years now and we have no other land, while the Sunnis living in the territories have the Arab world and Europe, which is becoming Islamic, and many of them are indeed emigrating.

The day they come to terms with the fact that the Jewish people are not going anywhere — but on the contrary, they are deepening their thick roots, multiplying and succeeding — only then peace will be possible with them. But that day is very far off, and not a single anxious American mediator is capable of speeding up its arrival.

This means that we are in for many additional generations of Arab collective suicide, and let none of them argue later on that they did not know.
This means that we are in for many additional generations of Arab collective suicide, and let none of them argue later on that they did not know. We could ask why masses of Arabs are getting killed in the Gazoo Strip for the sake of Iran, al-Jazeera, Qatar, the Moslem Brotherhood and their interests. There is no answer, apart from the self-collision instinct, as usual.

The results of the current crisis were known in advance: Israel found a solution for the rockets, handled the tunnels and taught the shocked Gazooks a lesson for many years to come. So what did they commit suicide for?

And as for the future, neither Israel nor Egypt will accept Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' illusions, as this organization is interested in establishing a dangerous ISIS-style Islamic caliphate here, and no civilized country can accept that. Similarly, neither Israel nor Jordan will accept the illusions of the "Paleostinian authority" taking over territories, as this means an existential threat to the stability in the region.

In other words, these are gangs, some of which disguise themselves as political entities and try to impose their murderous rule. They may have managed to deceive part of the naïve West, which is facing the same threat, but aren't deceiving us.

What the leaders of these gangs are left with is a quarrel over the trophy: The billions of the "reconstruction." Not a single "refugee" has been rehabilitated until today, neither in the West Bank nor in Gazoo, despite some $15 billion in donations — and maybe even more — since 1992.

So where is that money? Most of it has been stolen by the gang leaders, who have become millionaires. Since Europe has reduced its financial aid to the Strip, and Hamas' "independent" income has been disrupted by the closing of supply tunnels from Egypt, the Paleostinians launched a war aimed at returning the funds. And the funds may still return, when the Gulf states and the Europeans, who are terrified by what is happening over there, open their purses once again. But what will the common resident get out of it? Absolutely nothing.

It's time for the world to realize that we are dealing with a destructive budget-devouring element, which is incapable of funding itself, which will always live at other people's expense, and which makes a living off the conflict. Why if there were no "conflict," it wouldn't have any money.

Any sum donated to the "reconstruction" through the leadership of Hamas, Fatah, the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and the rest of the gangs will directly contribute to deepening the conflict and hostility and to the collective collision tradition.

Most of the money will not go to the population's "reconstruction," but will be used to prepare the next stages of the collision. Not to the "Paleostinians," but to the "Paleostinian problem"; not to a calm, but to incitement. We can already say to the Paleostinians: See you in your next suicide.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 08/17/2014 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  IF (large theoretical) the Palestinians were to eliminate the Israelis this week, they would spend the next two weeks destroying everything the Jews had built.
Within three weeks the Paleos would be killing each other over what was left.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/17/2014 13:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Ed in Texas: You left out fighting with all their neighbors. Ninety percent of all Arabs are quarrelsome, tribalistic, arrogant wastes of protoplasm. The other ten percent are very young children that haven't been imprinted yet.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/17/2014 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  A few years ago I mentioned that the Palieos are simply addicted to murder people - particularly innocent people. If they can't murder Jews they will just as happily murder each other - just as long as they get their hit (pun intended) of the thrill of killing someone innocent.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/17/2014 15:37 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Busting the Media's ISIS Myths
A taste from a longish piece by Daniel Greenfield.
[FrontPage] Know your enemy. To know what ISIS is, we have to clear away the media myths about ISIS.

ISIS is not a new phenomenon.

Wahhabi armies have been attacking Iraq in order to wipe out Shiites for over two hundred years. One of the more notably brutal attacks took place during the administration of President Thomas Jefferson.

That same year the Marine Corps saw action against the Barbary Pirates and West Point opened, but even Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Howard Zinn chiming via Ouija board would have trouble blaming the Wahhabi assault on the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 1802 on the United States or an oil pipeline.

Forget the media portrayals of ISIS as a new extreme group that even the newly moderate Al Qaeda thinks is over the top; its armies are doing the same things that Wahhabi armies have been doing for centuries. ISIS has Twitter accounts, pickup trucks and other borrowed Western technology, but its ideology and brutality have always been part of Islam. They are not a new phenomenon.

Sunnis and Shiites have been killing each other for over a thousand years. Declaring other Muslims to be infidels and killing them is also a lot older than the suicide bomb vest.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I'm surprised that the left MSM such as NYTs, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR etc. haven't portrayed the ISIS psychos as "brave lions and heroes of Islam." Maybe they have; I haven't seen everything they put out.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2014 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  ISIS threaten their Soody paymasters, JQC.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/17/2014 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  That same year the Marine Corps saw action against the Barbary Pirates and West Point opened, but even Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Howard Zinn chiming via Ouija board would have trouble blaming the Wahhabi assault on the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 1802 on the United States or an oil pipeline.


Give 'em half a chance.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/17/2014 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  "There is nothing new under the sun."
Posted by: borgboy || 08/17/2014 19:15 Comments || Top||

#5  borgboy

There's plenty of brand spanking and awesome new stuff in civilised western capitalist countries
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/17/2014 19:20 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2014-08-17
  Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials
Sat 2014-08-16
  Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists
Fri 2014-08-15
  ISIS jihadist poses with severed head as Caliphate seize more key towns
Thu 2014-08-14
  Boko Haram Appoints New Emir for Gwoza
Wed 2014-08-13
  Prince Saud: Israel has no right to self-defense
Tue 2014-08-12
  "Convert by noon today or we will kill all of you"
Mon 2014-08-11
  Iraq PM to sue president, security forces deploy across Baghdad
Sun 2014-08-10
  Al-Qaida Militants Kill 15 Yemeni Soldiers
Sat 2014-08-09
  Gazans back in UN schools as Israel resumes blitz
Fri 2014-08-08
  Widening of Zarb-i-Azb operation likely
Thu 2014-08-07
  Iraq forces, Peshmerga kill 240 ISIL terrorists
Wed 2014-08-06
  Iraq air force to back Kurds fighting Islamists
Tue 2014-08-05
  American Major General Killed in Shooting at Afghan Military Academy
Mon 2014-08-04
  Woman Kills Four Taliban Before Dying
Sun 2014-08-03
  Islamic State seize town of Sinjar, pushing out Kurds and sending Yazidis fleeing


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