Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden’s biggest donors. Well, of course, they are, what’s amazing is Politico figured it out and outed this practice.
The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.
You’ve got to hand it to the long suffering nation of Israel. After a week that has seen them viciously maligned for performing the minimum efforts necessary to guarantee their existence, they have responded with kindness and by easing certain restrictions of a three year old blockade pertaining to Gaza.
You’ve got to hand it to the long suffering nation of Israel. After a week that has seen them viciously maligned for performing the minimum efforts necessary to guarantee their existence, they have responded with kindness and by easing certain restrictions of a three year old blockade pertaining to Gaza.
Heraldnet reveals the details:
Palestinian official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said soda, juice, jam, spices, shaving cream, potato chips, cookies and candy were now permitted. He said military officials began approving the expanded list of permitted products in meetings with Palestinian liaison officials last week.
Of course, when we heard that one of the items now being allowed into Gaza was shaving cream we were a little bit curious. After all, shaving cream would hardly seem to be a staple of an area where most of the men wear beards and wear them long.
But then we remembered that Rosie O’Donnell supports the destruction of Israel. And if there’s even the slightest chance that the queen of mean could show up to protest the nefarious Jewish practice of resisting a second Holocaust, then the need for a product intended to remove excess facial hair becomes immediately apparent.
Source: HeraldNet.com
President Obama flexed his sinewy diplomatic muscles and declared that Israel’s Gaza blockade cannot be sustained and must be lifted. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said no way.
President Obama flexed his sinewy diplomatic muscles and declared that Israel’s Gaza blockade cannot be sustained and must be lifted.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said (and this is a very loose translation), “Hold your horses, Hussein.” He knows lifting the blockade will strengthen Hamas.
Haaretz reports the latest Mid East diplomatic dust-up:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is opposed to lifting the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip because this would bolster Hamas, according to what he told United States President Barack Obama during their meeting at the White House Wednesday. Egypt also supports this position.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once more put off announcing the creation of a committee of inquiry into the naval commando raid on the Gaza Strip flotilla, and the matter will not be brought before the cabinet for a vote this morning.
Netanyahu and his advisers had hoped to announce the establishment of a committee of inquiry as early as yesterday evening for a vote in the cabinet today. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister’s Bureau said yesterday evening that the conditions have not matured for such an announcement “due to political reasons.”
Unfreakinbelievable. We’re left with the remarkable spectacle of the Israel agreeing with the “moderate” terrorists and the our President siding with the “radical” terrorists.
Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Source: Haaretz via Bluegrass Pundit
Mr. President, whose side are you on? After 17 months of isolating Israel and after 17 months of cozying up to her enemies, it seems like a reasonable but rhetorical question. And we’re glad Mike Pence had the balls to stand up in the House of Representatives and ask it.
Mr. President, whose side are you on? After 17 months of isolating Israel and after 17 months of cozying up to her enemies, it seems like a reasonable but rhetorical question. And we’re glad Mike Pence had the balls to stand up in the House of Representatives and ask it.
Here’s the complete transcript of Pence’s comments:
“We all grieve the loss of life that occurred last week when a flotilla designed to challenge Israel’s effective blockade of Gaza ended in military confrontation. But Israel has a right to defend itself.
“The history is clear in that region; Gaza is controlled by a terrorist organization known as Hamas. Hamas used Gaza as a launching pad for thousands of rockets that killed innocent civilians in Israel. Israel responded with military force and has instituted a blockade that has saved lives in Gaza and in Israel. And there’s no humanitarian crisis. Ten thousand tons of food and medical supplies are transferred into Gaza every single week.
“Remarkably, yesterday the president said it was time for Israel to sharply limit its effective blockade in Gaza, saying ‘the situation in Gaza is unsustainable.’
“The truth is, Mr. President, your policy in Israel is unsustainable.“The American people are on the side of Israel and Israel’s right to defend herself.
“Mr. President, whose side are you on?”
Yup, we’re pretty sure that’s a rhetorical question.
H/T: HotAir.com
We weren’t surprised to find out that former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was a participant in the latest Gaza “Peace Flotilla.” We were just surprised that the left wing lunatic took more than a week to spout off about it.
We weren’t surprised to find out that former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was a participant in the latest Gaza “Peace Flotilla.” We were just surprised that the left wing lunatic took more than a week to spout off about it.
It’s always reassuring, somehow, to see that the rest of the world’s media is just as biased as the American media. Take, for example, this story from the BBC.
The headline says, “UN Chief Says Gaza Suffering Under Israeli Blockade.” Damn those dastardly Israelis. The article continues:
It’s always reassuring, somehow, to see that the rest of the world’s media is just as biased as the American media. Take, for example, this story from the BBC.
The headline says, “UN Chief Says Gaza Suffering Under Israeli Blockade.” Damn those dastardly Israelis.
The article continues:
The UN chief has said Israel’s blockade of Gaza is causing “unacceptable suffering,” during a Middle East visit to reinvigorate the peace process.
Ban Ki-moon told Gazans that “we stand with you” as he visited an area damaged by Israel’s offensive 14 months ago.
His visit to the region comes amid tension over Israel’s plans to build more settlements in East Jerusalem.
But if you force yourself to keep reading, you’ll come to this revelation mentioned in passing all the way down in the tenth paragraph:
Among a list of criticisms of the blockade by Israel and Egypt, Mr Ban said the blockade was counter-productive as it prevented legitimate commerce and encouraged smuggling and extremism.
What’s that? The problem is so severe that Egypt, another Muslim country, is cooperating with Israel by blockading Gaza?
We assume the left will now begin referring to the evil, racist Egyptians in the same way that they refer to the evil, racist Israelis?
But we won’t hold our breath.
Source: BBC via Best of the Web
The stimulus is working so damn well here in the United States that the Obama administration has decided to extend it to our good friends in Gaza.
The stimulus is working so damn well here in the United States that the Obama administration has decided to extend it to our good friends in Gaza.
Reuters reports this unbelievable story:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday there had been some progress toward reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the “near future” and announced $200 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinians.
Clinton said the money, which is part of a $900 million pledge she made in March at a donors conference in Egypt, was transferred directly to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and would help it meet a budget shortfall.
Yes, a budget shortfall for the Palestinian Authority. Through no fault of its own, the cost of dynamite vests has risen dramatically. And the cost of rockets lobbed into Israel has…well…skyrocketed.
Source: Reuters via LittleGreenFootballs.com
Cynthia McKinney was aboard a ship attempting to break the Israeli’s blockade of the Gaza coastline. The Israelis intercepted the ship, boarded it, and arrested nineteen of the 21 people aboard, including her.
Leftist loon and former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has discovered that being a loose cannon isn’t enough to win a war against the Israeli military.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McKinney was aboard a ship attempting to break the Israeli’s blockade of the Gaza coastline. The Israelis intercepted the ship, boarded it, and arrested nineteen of the 21 people aboard. McKinney was one of the nineteen.
The Greek-registered ship, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, is officially named Arion but the U.S.-based Free Gaza Movement prefers to call it the Spirit of Humanity.
This is getting to be a habit, because McKinney was aboard another ship that collided with an Israeli naval vessel while trying to get to Gaza last December.
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us,” said McKinney (D-GA). “Our boat was not in Israeli waters and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip. President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”
A show of hands, please. Who wants to tell McKinney that President Obama is not the Commander-In-Chief of the Israeli military?
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Bluegrass Pundit
Reverend Jeremiah Wright is talking again. And his comments are not going to help President Obama’s relationship with Israel. Not at all.
Wright said he hasn’t spoken to Obama since the President threw him under the bus last year. “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. They will not let him…talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.”
“Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza,” Wright added. “Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel.”
Finally, Wright indirectly confirmed the truth of the accusation that Obama must have heard, but not been bothered by his inflammatory sermons while attending the Trinity United Church of Chicago for twenty years, by admitting that his message hasn’t changed:
“…the media went back five, seven, 10 years and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons to hear what I’ve been preaching for 20 years?”
Pity poor Israel is surrounded by enemies – Lebanon to the north, Syria and Jordan to the east, Gaza and Barack Obama to the west.
Source: FoxNews.com
This is one of those stories the media never covers. And one of the reasons we hate them.
During the recent Gaza conflict, it was widely reported that Israel Defense Forces had bombed a U.N. school in the Jabalya refugee camp. This led activists to accuse Israel of war crimes and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to demand an investigation.
Now the U.N. reports that “a clerical error” led them to falsely accuse Israel of the attack. The international organization’s January 6 field report said an IDF shell had caused fatalities when it hit outside the school, but an updated field report dated January 7 said the shell hit the school itself.
U.N. spokesperson Roseanne Roseannadanna said, “Oops. Never mind.”
Funny how coverage is so much spottier when it comes to retractions. Especially when it involves Israel.
The number of civilians killed in the recent Gaza conflict is dropping almost as fast as Hamas’ credibility.
During the conflict, the Palestinian Authority wailed that Israel was slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians. One of them was supposedly an “innocent” medic named Naim. And the international press dutifully reported every word as truth.
“Following the clashes,” the Israel Defense Force announced, “the Palestinian press reported that Naim was killed and that he was a medic with the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Gaza CLA, however, produced photographs of Naim posing holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and Continue reading “Why is that innocent Palestinian “medic” packing a Kalashnikov assault rifle?”
