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Israel: Oil vey

What would it mean to America if there were another Middle Eastern country that could produce oil on the Saudi Arabian scale?

What would it mean to America if there were another Middle Eastern country that could produce oil on the Saudi Arabian scale? We imagine that President Obama would want to fly over immediately and bow to its leader. Until, that is, he found out that country is Isreal.

Israel flag — Oil? The Israelis can get it for you wholesale

The Jerusalem Post reveals light in the desert:

…Dr. Yuval Bartov, chief geologist for Israel Energy Initiatives, … presented data that [Israel’s] oil shale reserves are actually the equivalent of 250 billion barrels (that compares with 260 billion barrels in the proven reserves of Saudi Arabia).

…As a consequence of these new estimates, we may emerge as the third largest deposit of oil shale, after the US and China.

.. new technologies, being developed for Israeli shale, seek to separate the oil from the shale rock 300 meters underground …

…The present goal is to produce commercial quantities of shale oil by the end of the decade.

…a unique method for separating oil from shale deep underground, [would change] the entire global oil market. The effect … would be to shift the center of gravity of world oil away from Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf to more stable states…

There’s little President Blowhard and his windy city gang can do. The oil market is world-wide. If one country shuns Israeli oil, another will buy it, forcing prices down.

Now that’s change we can really believe in.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Jerusalem Post

“A shot across President Obama’s bow:” Ed Koch endorses Republican in race for Weiner’s former seat

Democrat Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, is so pissed at President Obama’s anti-Israel policy that he’s endorsing the Republican in the race to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress.

Consider it another crack in the wall. In this case, the Wailing Wall.

Democrat Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, is so pissed at President Obama’s anti-Israel policy that he’s endorsing the Republican in the race to replace Anthony Weiner in Congress.

The New York Post has the details:

Koch — a staunch ally of Israel — said he would “vote for Bob Turner” if the Republican-Conservative candidate backs Israel and opposes cutbacks to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

“If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported,” Koch said in his weekly commentary.

Koch likened the situation to Republican Scott Brown winning the Massachusetts Senate seat long occupied by Ted Kennedy.

“I want to put a shot across Obama’s bow,” Koch said in an interview.

He is furious with Obama over the president’s public push to get Israel to use its 1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state.

Ed Koch endorses a Republican. Oy veh. In one fell swoop Obama is losing both the Jewish vote and the closeted gay vote.

Source: New York Post

Un-freakin’-believable: Obama puts Israel on list of countries that support terrorism

Can someone please explain to us why there is a single Jew left in America who supports Obama and the Democrats? No, seriously.

Can someone please explain to us why there is a single Jew left in America who supports Obama and the Democrats? No, seriously. Someone explain, because It is a complete mystery to us.

Especially now that the Obama administration has used the most twisted logic imaginable to justify listing Israel as a nation that supports terrorism.

israel-terrorist-state — So says the Obama administration

CNS News has the bizarre details:

In an implicit admission that Israel is so threatened by terrorism that it is not only surrounded by countries and territories that produce terrorists but also unwillingly harbors terrorists within its own territory in a way the most other nations in the world do not, the Obama administration is currently listing Israel among 36 “specially designated countries” it believes “have shown a tendency to promote, produce, or protect terrorist organizations or their members.”

To review, Israel is threatened by terrorism. Israel unwillingly harbors terrorists. Therefore, Israel promotes terrorism.

It’s going to take someone much smarter than us to figure out the serpentine logic in that statement.

Source: CNS News

PETA comes unglued trying to unscrew the pooch

A rabbinical council in Israel has convicted a dog of housing the spirit of a lawyer and has sentenced the unfortunate creature to death by stoning.

While this may be an off-the-wall sentence, we’re sure the court must have had its reasons. In the meantime, having PETA attempt to claim some form of moral superiority is absurd.

jewish-dog — Law school was easy compared to the circumcision

“By sentencing an innocent animal to a painful death for such an absurd reason, this rabbinical court has not only completely discredited itself but also violated tza’ar ba’alei chayim (“the suffering of living creatures”) — one of the most important principles in Judaism,” PETA said in a statement Thursday.

“Rabbi Levin should be given a mandatory psychiatric evaluation, and PETA intends to call for criminal charges against him for inciting cruelty to animals,” the statement continued.

There’s a lot of posturing and douchebaggery in the comments surrounding this article, but the case does raise one vital question:

How can you tell if your dog houses the reincarnated spirit of a lawyer?

Sounds like a cry for a top five list:

5) Screws everything in sight.
4) Miserable cur is no one’s best friend.
3) Screws everything in sight.
2) Chases only ambulances.

And the number one way to tell if your dog houses the reincarnated spirit of a lawyer?

1) Screws everything in sight.

– Written by Perlcat

Source: AllVoices.com

Obama the comedian: My administration is the best damn friend Israel’s ever had

“Let have a big round of applause, ladies and gentlemen, for the comedy stylings of Barack ‘Shecky’ Obama.”

Presidents always wonder what they’ll do when they leave office. In the case of Barack Obama there’s no question. He leaves office on January 21, 2013 and will open the next night at the Improv in Las Vegas.

“Let have a big round of applause, ladies and gentlemen, for the comedy stylings of Barack ‘Shecky’ Obama.”

obama-comedian — Barack "Shecky" Obama probably won't be playing the Catskills circuit

Reuters has the hilarious details:

President Barack Obama reassured Jewish donors on Monday he strongly supports Israel, stressing close ties between the United States and the Jewish state, but also emphasizing that changes in the Middle East will require a fresh look at the region.

“Both the United States and Israel are going to have to look at this new landscape with fresh eyes. It’s not going to be sufficient for us just to keep on doing the same things,” Obama said at the first of two big-ticket fund-raisers where he was speaking on Monday evening.

He addressed the crowd of about 80 people a month after a speech on the Middle East that exposed a rift between the United States and Israel. At Monday’s dinner, hosted by Americans in Support of a Strong U.S.-Israel Relationship, he said his administration had done more than any for 25 years to support Israel’s security.

And then he said, “I just flew in and, man, are my arms tired. I used to live in an apartment that was so small the mice were hunchbacked. Take my wife. Please. Thank you. Thank you very much. I’ll be here all week.”

Everyone’s laughing except the Israelis.

Source: Reuters

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch may flip parties because he’s flippin’ pissed about Obama’s Israel policy

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has had it with Barack Obama. He’s had it right up to here. You know the lifelong Democrat must be seriously pissed of when he starts talking about becoming a Republican.

NewsMax has the flippin’ details:

… the former New York City mayor said, “Mitt Romney correctly summed it up when he said that President Obama has once again thrown Israel under the bus.”

“I believe this is the most dangerous and critical period that Israel has ever faced and regrettably it does not have the support of the President of the United States, which in past difficult situations it could count on.”

“I’m a Democrat. I support the Democratic domestic philosophy and policies and will always be supportive of them,” said Koch, mayor of America’s largest city from 1978-89. “But I have no hesitation in crossing party lines when I think America’s interests demand that I cross party lines.

“I supported President Obama, believing he would be good on foreign policy, particularly with respect to the support of Israel. It turned out badly.”

Welcome to reality, Ed. Feel free to bring about 3 million other Jewish voters with you.

Source: NewsMax.com

Harry Reid goes as ballistic and denounces Obama’s 1967 border plan

It certainly doesn’t sound as if he the President passed his “Israel must return to its 1967 borders” concept past Harry Reid for prior approval.

Do you think Barack Obama consults with the other leaders of his party before making one of his grand pronouncements? Or does he just assume they’ll blindly follow his lead? (And just to be clear, when we say “his party” we mean the Democrats, not Hamas.)

It certainly doesn’t sound as if he the President passed his “Israel must return to its 1967 borders” concept past Harry Reid for prior approval.

Reid spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and actually sounded angry about Obama’s plan. Well, if not angry, at least alive, which is a major improvement for ol’ Harry.

“The place where negotiating will happen must be at the negotiating table – and nowhere else,” Reid declared. “Those negotiations … will not happen – and their terms will not be set – through speeches, or in the streets, or in the media.”

And he wasn’t finished. Not nearly. “No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building, or about anything else.”

The crowd burst into applause, something so unknown to Harry that he was nearly startled into a moment of senior incontinence.

Thursday: Obama says Israel must return to 1967 borders.
Friday: Press Secretary says Obama never said it

Veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler had an interesting exchange on Friday. And by “interesting” we mean, of course, that Carney lied through his teeth and nothing short of waterboarding could force him to admit that’s what he was doing.

Koffler tells the story in his White House Dossier blog:

In discussing President Obama’s decision to say Thursday that Mideast peace negotiations should begin with the assumption that Israel will return to the 1967 borders – give or take some land swaps – Carney yesterday sought to portray Obama’s statement as consistent with existing U.S. policy as outlined in a 2004 letter from George W. Bush to then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Now, this letter wasn’t a “hey, my grandkids are great, how are yours?” type of note. It was official U.S. policy, stating that a return to the 1967 lines was not realistic and that the Palestinian’s “right of return” to Israel proper was null and void. In addition to apparently new policy on the borders, Obama said the right of return issue should be negotiated.

Here’s what Carney said early in the briefing:

I think, again, there is nothing that the President said yesterday that contradicts the 2004 letters that were exchanged between President Bush and Prime Minister Sharon, or what Prime Minister Netanyahu said today in the Oval Office. We — the President said in his speech that a starting point for resolving the territorial issue is the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps and security for both nations.

Carney was using careful language – “nothing that . . contradicts the 2004 letters.” What I wanted to figure out was whether, in fact, the United States is now breaking with existing policy. So in the video below, I asked Carney if he would affirm previous U.S. policy. As you will see, he would not.

Koffler is lucky he even got Carney to admit that Obama made the speech.

“Speech? What speech? I haven’t heard anything about a speech. I’m pretty sure the President was out playing golf on Thursday.”

Source: White House Dossier

Does this sound like Obama just said he’s abandoning Israel

This is one that seems to have slipped by the media and the pundits. They were so busy analyzing the “1967 borders” comment Obama’s latest Middle East speech that no one caught this brief sentence.

“As for security, every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself – by itself – against any threat.”

First he says Israel has to return to indefensible borders. Then he says it has to defend itself by itself. As in solo. Without its staunch America allies.

Hmmmmm.

Israeli Knesset member says today’s Barack Obama is yesterday’s Yasser Arafat

You’ve probably seen polls in the past that peg President Obama’s approval in Israel in the mid-single digits. He may have lost a few more points with his latest Middle East speech on Thursday.

obama-arafat — Yassar Arafat in a nicer suit

The Jerusalem Post has the particulars:

Knesset members on the Right expressed outrage on Thursday night at US President Barack Obama’s call for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps in an exchange of territory for security.

They called upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reject Obama’s plan when he meets with him on Friday in Washington.

“Barack Hussein Obama adopted the staged plan for Israel’s destruction of Yasser Arafat, and he is trying to force it on our prime minister,” said Likud MK Danny Danon. “All that was new in the speech was that he called for Israel to return to 1967 borders without solving the crisis. Netanyahu has only one option: To tell Obama forget about it.”

National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari also slammed Obama’s speech, calling it “a landmine with pretty wrapping.”

Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, who as a minister close to Netanyahu must be more diplomatic, complained on Channel 2 that according to Obama’s approach, the Palestinians would receive their demands on borders before negotiations begin.

“Once they have everything from the start, they have no reason to make any concessions, ”Erdan said.

Obama says he wants the two sides to compromise. Unfortunately, when one side wants to exterminate the other side, what’s the compromise? Exterminating every other Israeli?

Source: Jerusalem Post

Definition of chutzpah: Syria kills 780 protesters, then condemns Israel for firing on Syrian invaders

The Assad regime has slaughtered 780 protestors according to human rights groups. Then they condemn Israel for firing on Syrian invaders.

Syria’s response to the Arab Spring has been brutal. The Assad regime has slaughtered 780 protestors according to human rights groups. But this is one of those situations where you can call your sister ugly, but no one else can.

The Jerusalem Post reports Assad’s hypocrisy:

“Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians approached the fence at Maroun a-Ras. The Lebanese army did not stop them. When IDF saw them attempting to destroy the fence, they took steps to stop them,” Brig.-Gen. Yoav “Poli” Mordechai told Channel 10 News.

Of course, the reaction was just what you would have expected.

Syria condemned on Sunday Israel’s “criminal activities” in the Golan Heights,Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon where Israeli forces had fired to disperse pro-Palestinian protests.

Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations to prevent crowds from crossing Israeli frontier lines.

State news agency SANA quoted the foreign ministry as saying it called on the international community to hold Israel responsible for the incidents, the deadliest such confrontation along the borders in years.

Of course, they want to hold Israel responsible. According to the Arabs, Israel has been responsible for every bad event in the world since the White Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Yes, that was 30 years before Israel was founded, but those damn Zionists undoubtedly had something to do with it.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Evil, greedy Jews pay Palestinian workers twice as much as kind, compassionate Palestinian employers

We’re pretty sure that this is just some Zionist trickery. Some evil plot to lure innocent Palestinians into slavery. Some nefarious … what’s that? The statistics were released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics?

Oh, crap. This doesn’t work with the media’s narrative.

palestinian rock throwers — The Palestinian Rock Throwers Union reports an unexpected increase in first time unemployment claims

The Jerusalem Post has the details:

The figures showed that although the Palestinian Authority has banned Palestinians from working in settlements, 14.2 percent of employed Arabs from the West Bank worked in settlements in 2010, an increase by 1 percentage point from the previous year.

According to the Statistics Bureau, the nominal daily median net wage of Palestinians who worked in the West Bank was NIS 76.9 in 2010, while those who were employed in settlements received NIS 150 per day.

The bureau’s Labor Force Survey showed that the Palestinian unemployment rate in the West Bank last year stood at more than 17%, while in the Gaza Strip it reached almost 38%.

To the Palestinians’ credit, the unemployment rate among suicide bombers remains at zero for the tenth consecutive year.

Source: Jerusalem Post

Nobel Peace Prizes ain’t what they use to be: Mohamed ElBaradei wants to declare war on Israel

Remember the good ol’ days when Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to people who actually lived lives filled with peaceful pursuits? People like the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, and Mother Teresa.

Well, those days are gone. Long gone. More recent Nobel Peace Prizes have gone to unabashed terrorist Yasser Arafat, newly-minted war monger Barack Obama, and Egyptian Presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei.

YNet reveals ElBaradei’s warmongering:

Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that “if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.”

In an interview with the Al-Watan newspaper he said: “In case of any future Israeli attack on Gaza — as the next president of Egypt — I will open the Rafah border crossing and will consider different ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement.”

He also stated that “Israel controls Palestinian soil” adding that that “there has been no tangible breakthrough in reconciliation process because of the imbalance of power in the region — a situation that creates a kind of one way peace.”

“One way peace” sounds like something that occurs immediately prior to a “kinetic military action.”

If this guy doesn’t become President of Egypt, he surely has a future in the Obama administration.

Source: YNet

Mmmm, mmmm: Gallup says Americans have some hot, hot love for Israel

Americans’ views toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held fairly steady over the past year, with a near record-high 63% continuing to say their sympathies lie more with the Israelis.

This is not going to sit well in the White House. Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration to destroy the special relationship the United States has always had with Israel, the American people show more support than ever for the Middle East’s only democracy.

Gallup explains it in one short paragraph and one simple chart:

Americans’ views toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held fairly steady over the past year, with a near record-high 63% continuing to say their sympathies lie more with the Israelis. Seventeen percent sympathize more with the Palestinians.

Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure this isn’t the kind of change the Obama administration had hoped for.

Source: Gallup.com

Idiot Saudis say, “Look at that hook nose. He must be a filthy Jewish spy.”

Saudi Arabia is a country with vast quantities of oil, but very little rational thought. As this story clearly demonstrate

Saudi Arabia is a country with vast quantities of oil, but very little rational thought. As this story clearly demonstrates.

vulture-israeli-spy — The Saudis captured this Israeli spy, but so far he has refused to talk

The Daily Mail UK has details of Israel’s avian James Bond:

A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday.

The bird was found in a rural area of the country wearing a transmitter and a leg bracelet bearing the words ‘Tel Aviv University’, according to the reports, which surfaced first in the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.

Although these tags indicate that the bird was part of a long-term research project into migration patters, residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia’s Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be a ‘Zionist plot.’

The accusations went viral, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the ‘Zionists’ had trained these birds for espionage.

Please allow us to start a new rumor: The Israelis have also trained a flock of parakeets to fly into Saudi Arabia, sit in the trees and screech at men walking by, “I saw your wife without her burqa. She reminds me of a camel I once rode across the desert.”

Is there nothing too evil for those damn Zionists?

Source: Daily Mail UK

Muammar Gaddafi proposes the oddest U.N. resolution ever

During the discussion, which is primarily aimed at expressing solidarity with the Palestinians, Gaddafi presented his proposal for the establishment of a bi-national state called “Isratine” – a combination of Israel and Palestine.

Let us warn you up front that this story sounds like a parody from the Onion, but it’s not. No, unfortunately, this is 100% authentic news.

muammar gaddafi Isratine — And then the Libyan leader entertained the U.N. delegates with his spot-on impression of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards

YNet.com has the weird details:

Every year on November 29 the United Nations General Assembly holds a discussion on the situation in the Middle East.

Usually, the “conclusions” from the event are formulized into a series of condemnations against Israel, but this year Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi managed to confuse everyone and steal the show yet again.

During the discussion, which is primarily aimed at expressing solidarity with the Palestinians, Gaddafi presented his proposal for the establishment of a bi-national state called “Isratine” – a combination of Israel and Palestine.

According to Gaddafi’s proposal, the new state will absorb millions of Palestinian refugees and will be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction.

The initiative, which is completely at odds with the international community’s position on an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, was received at first as a joke but quickly prompted confusion among UN members.

The United States and European nations immediately announced that they opposed the initiative and demanded to remove it from the agenda – but Gaddafi refused.

The nonaligned bloc, and especially the Arab group within it, did not immediately agree on a voting position, if in fact the proposal is ever brought before the assembly for a vote.

The proposal also managed to confuse African and Arab member states, which did not know whether to object, abstain, or just leave the venue.

Finally, a little comedy relief amid the humdrum corruption that is the United Nations.

Source: Ynet.com

Helen Thomas: Still an ugly anti-Semite (with the emphasis on ugly)

Helen Thomas claimed that “Zionists” control U.S. foreign policy and other American institutions. The local Jewish community strongly condemned her remarks.

Anti-Semitic former White House correspondent Helen Thomas spoke at a Dearbornistan anti-Arab workshop.

The Detroit Free-Press reports:

Striking a defiant tone, journalist Helen Thomas, 90, said today she absolutely stands by her controversial comments about Israel made earlier this year that led to her resignation. But she stoked additional controversy with new remarks, claiming that “Zionists” control U.S. foreign policy and other American institutions. The local Jewish community strongly condemned her remarks.

In a speech that drew a standing ovation, Thomas talked about “the whole question of money involved in politics.”

“We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is…We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”

One reaction came almost immediately:

Wayne State University, the Detroit, Michigan, institution that Thomas graduated from in 1942, said in a statement Friday that the school will no longer give out the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award.

“Wayne State encourages free speech and open dialogue, and respects diverse viewpoints,” the school’s statement said. “However, the university strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas during a conference yesterday.”

But what was the reaction from all those liberals who insisted that Thomas had been unfairly fired and that her long, noble career proved she wasn’t really an anti-Semite?

(Sound of crickets)

Source: Detroit Free Press, CNN.com

Obama says, “Hmmm. Maybe the Israelis don’t trust me because my middle name is Hussein.”

anti obama israeli protest — Barack Hussein Obama is about as popular as a ham sandwich in Haifa

It’s almost reassuring in a sick sort of way to see that President Obama blames his international woes on others just as consistently as he blames his domestic woes on others. It’s never this guy’s fault. It’s always the fault of those morons who aren’t smart enough to realize that he is The Greatest President In History.

Haaretz.com explains the latest example:

U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran.

During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”

“I think that sometimes, particularly in the Middle East, there’s the feeling of the friend of my enemy must be my enemy, and the truth of the matter is that my outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West.”

Here’s a little unsolicited tip from IHateTheMedia.com, Mr. President:

It’s not your middle name. It’s that you side with Israel’s enemies first, last and always.

Source: Haaretz.com

U.S. expands sanctions list aimed at Iran’s nukes. Blather. Rinse. Repeat.

For anyone who hasn’t lived in a cave for the last twenty years, it is painfully obvious that “sanctions” never work. It’s pretty much the equivalent of a “time out” for a serial killer, or in this case a deranged dictator – same thing.

obama-washington — Is it us or is G. Washington blushing more than usual?

The Obama administration has a problem with history. They haven’t read it and are rushing to repeat all the mistakes.

The Associated Press reports on Obama’s historical myopia:

The targets include five companies and 90 ships that Iran used to evade three previous rounds of sanctions, said Stuart Levey, Treasury’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Levey said Iran even renamed and repainted some ships to try to evade recognition.

Marina Ottaway, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said she doubts sanctions will push Iran to ditch its nuclear program. “I can’t think of any example of a regime that has been brought to its knees by sanctions,” she said. “Sanctions are an expression of frustration by the countries that enforce them.”

Well, now Miss Ottaway, we beg to differ. We have some ideas for sanctions that will bring Iran to its knees faster than Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. How about embargoing:

radioactive-symbol — Embargo Item #5: If it continues threatening Israel, Iran may need a lot of these radioactive signs

1. No more “Baywatch” DVDs for Mahmoud.

2. No more goat lingerie for Victoria’s Secret Tehran.

3. No more of those “Miami Vice” stubble razors for Iranian men.

4. No more copies of Mein Kampf for Iranian libraries.

5. No more of those helpful “Radioactive” warning signs.

6. No more designer label dynamite vests.

George Washington said, “It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.”

Barack Obama said he would sit down with any of our enemies without preconditions.

We think we’ll go with Washington on this one.

Source: Associated Press, USA Today

Helen Thomas just said what Barack Obama believes

No one should have been surprised by Thomas’ outburst. Despite the White House’s tepid relatively condemnation of Thomas, the fact is that she was merely parroting what Barack Obama believes.

helen thomas barack obama — Are these people pre-occupied with Israeli occupation?

Helen Thomas said of the Israelis, “Tell ‘em to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people are occupied and it’s their land. It’s not Germany. It’s not Poland. They could go home to Poland, Germany, and America. And everywhere else.”

No one should have been surprised by Thomas’ outburst. Despite the White House’s tepid relatively condemnation of Thomas, the fact is that she was merely parroting what Barack Obama believes.

Note this quote from his June 4, 2009 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo:

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people — Muslims and Christians — have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years they’ve endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations — large and small — that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. And America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own. (Applause.)

This quote comes from WhiteHouse.gov and we really appreciate the way the White House emphasized that the Muslim audience applauded the line about the Jewish occupiers.

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

After last week’s close shave, Israel to allow Barbasol back into 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.

rosie-odonnell-shave-cream — Now that Israel has eased the blockade, Gaza men and Rosie O'Donnell can get the kind of close, clean shaves they like

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

Obama says, “Lift the Gaza blockade.” Palestinian Authority President Abbas says, “Hey, not so fast.”

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.

obama abbas Israel Gaza Hamas — "Lift that blockade and I'll break your friggin' hand, Hussein." Or words to that effect.

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

Mike Pence asks Obama a rhetorical question: “Mr. President, whose side are you on?”

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

Déjà vu all over again: Former Congresswoman/lunatic Cynthia McKinney aboard Gaza “Peace Flotilla”

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.

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Helen Thomas proves that she is an ugly, old anti-Semite

“Ugly” is indisputable. Ditto with “old.” Anti-Semitic has always been assumed. But now the angry old bat has finally slipped and put her anti-Semitism on display for the whole world to see.

We eagerly await her official statement that she was misquoted when she said of the Israeli Jews, “Tell them they should go back to Poland and Germany.”

Of course, the response to this will surely be universal condemnation by the rest of the press corps and she will just as surely be stripped of her seat in the first row at future White House press briefings.

Oh, man, we crack ourselves up.

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