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Sunday, November 30, 2014

IF EUROPEANS RECOGNIZE PALESTINE, they should also recognize the right of their minorities to set up their own separate states - Self-determination does not stop with Palestine - The complete lack of shame by genocidal Europe in demanding Israel's surrender of its biblical heartland

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NOTE:  Thousands of years ago, at a time when Europe was  populated by wild, primitive roaming tribes, Jews already had a state and a culture that has served as a basis for Western values, spirituality, and civilization. 
 
TSSFor the past 2000 years - ever since the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and enslaved the Jews or sent them into exile - the Europeans have persecuted, tortured, massacred. and burned alive MILLIONS of Jews. 
 
The last 6 million are often mentioned, but the killings started much earlier.
 
Those genocidal nations - after perpetrating all those crimes - feel ENTITLED now to dictate to Jews whether they can or can not build homes in their ancient capital of Jerusalem.
 
They feel ENTITLED TO DEMAND where Israel should draw its borders.   
 
They feel ENTITLED to tell Israel when, how, and if it can defend itself.
 
Never mind that Europe and the United States DID NOTHING every time the Arabs attacked the Jews with the intent to wipe out its population.   They secretly cheered as Arabs attacked in 1948, 1967, 1973.... 
 
Since the Jews fought and won every time against impossible odds, now the US and Europe have resorted to diplomatic pressure, propaganda, and psychological methods to force the partition of Israel, knowing full well that Israel cannot survive with what are often called "the Auschwitz borders". 
 
And it's not only a matter of security. The land that the Americans and Europeans are demanding for a terror Arab state is the ancient biblical land of Israel.  They are asking the Jews to surrender that land to Islam - a conqueror and occupier in the region.
 
It gets worse.  The Palestinians were allied with Hitler during the war, and their leader worked in Berlin alongside Hitler in the design and implementation of the Final Solution.  That Palestinian leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, set up a Muslim Nazi SS Division guilty of war crimes in Eastern Europe.
 
In other words, the world is now demanding that the Jews reward the Muslim Nazis.  Germany had to pay compensation for their crimes, but their accomplices, the Palestinian Arabs, are supposed to get rewarded by their very victims.  (See references at the end of the page.)
 
The map above shows how Israel would look like:  9 mile wide at its narrowest point, and split in two to give Arabs a land corridor.  
 
The fact that Israel's surrender of Gaza to the Palestinians brought only more Arab terror and infiltration across the border means nothing to those who argue that a bigger partition will bring "peace".  
 
Ironically, at the same time as Europe and the US governments insist on imposing their HOAX of "land for peace" on Israel, Muslims can't even make peace among themselves, and are killing each other in Syria, Iraq, and other parts of the Muslim world.   
 
The European and American plan for Israel's partition is nothing less than a plan for a second Holocaust.  The Europeans who did the killings, and the Americans  who closed their doors to European Jews during the Nazi years, want the Arabs to complete the genocidal job the Europeans left unfinished. 
 
The following article calls attention to European hypocrisy, as European countries that deny self-determination to their own ethnic minorities, demand Israel's partition for the creation of the Islamic state of Palestine.
 
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Europe, what about your separatists?
 
 
By Professor Steven Plaut
 

It seems that quite a few European countries are in the process of "recognizing" the "state" of "Palestine."  The question arises as to what the appropriate response from Israel should be to these actions by the Europeans.

Here is a plan:

If Belgium recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Flemish, the Walloons, and the Belgium Germans, and officially recognize the right of each group to set up its own state.

If Denmark  recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movement of the Faroese and officially recognize the right of the Faroe Islands to be an independent state.

If Finland recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Ă…land Swedes, and officially recognize their right to set up their own state.

If France recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Basques in France, of Brittany, of Northern Catalonia, of Savoy, of Occitania, and of course of Corsica.   Israel should officially recognize their right to set up their own states and arm them generously.

If Germany recognizes "Palestine," then Israel must recognize the separatist movements of the Bavarians, the East Frisians, the Franconians, the Lusatians, and the people of Shleswig-Holstein, and Israel must officially recognize their right to set up their own states.


WILD WEATHER AND AMAZING SURF ON PORTUGAL'S COAST AND THE CANARY ISLANDS

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Thrill-seeking surfers ride huge Atlantic Ocean swell off Portuguese beach where daredevil set world record.
 
  • Surfers take on huge waves in northern Portugal where surfer Garrett McNamara set a world record in 2011
  • The site has become a shrine for thrillseeking boarders as large Atlantic swells create massive waves
  • Photos taken yesterday show a group of daredevils catching waves which could easily turn deadly
     

  • The surf is best in the winter when Atlantic winds pick up, creating giant waves along the Portugal coast north of Lisbon. Pictured yesterday is a surfer dropping straight down the face of a wave
     
    See additional images and read about the Canary Islands

    BLACK AMERICAN ANTI-SEMITISM, INGRATITUDE AND BETRAYAL - Writer who fought along with many other Jews for Afro-American civil rights looks back feeling betrayed - Although quick to denounce "racism", blacks have a long history of anti-Semitism in America.

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    Black American racism, ingratitude and betrayal
     
    By Jack Engelhard 
    No gratitude was expected -- but neither was scorn, contempt, derision and backstabbing.
     
    Bigotry has no bounds. We hear that rioters in Ferguson, USA have found the enemy and it is…the Jews!  Yes the Jews. 
     
    Protesters have been marching with signs equating the “suffering” of blacks with the “suffering” of “Palestinians.”

    How Israel got into the picture, six thousand miles away, nobody knows. Reggie Bush ought to know. The football star was up there with the rest of them denouncing the police and while he was at it, denouncing Israel. Maybe someone ought to inform this millionaire athlete that, going back to the 1960s, Jews were front and center for the Civil Rights movement.

    They marched with Martin Luther King Jr. The first name (among many) that comes to mind is Rabbi Abraham Heschel.

    Many risked their lives and some even lost their lives for the sake of equality. Two (among many) come to mind. Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

    These Jewish Civil Rights activists were murdered by the KKK near Philadelphia, Mississippi for their participation in the Freedom Summer of 1964.

    US REFUSES TO ARM THE KURDS SO AS NOT TO ANTAGONIZE ANTI-AMERICAN TURKEY AND IRAN REGIMES - The White House willing to let Kurds be massacred by ISIS - Read outline of Kurdish history

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    America must arm the Kurds,
    even if it antagonizes Iran and Turkey
     
    By Dr. Robert Sklaroff and Dr. Sherkoh Abbas
     
    Obama’s America is cow-towing to the whims of Iran and Turkey, rather than directly helping the Peshmerga in Kurdistan.  The desired boots-on-ground are directly underfoot, yet he refuses to acknowledge the urgent need to assist the Kurds; instead, he keeps “tripping” over their presence.
     
    Obama’s apologists alternately say the situation is hyper-complex and freedom-seekers are ultimately doomed. To the contrary, the key-players reveal their motives through their actions (even if utterances are occasionally cryptic), and the pathway to a quality outcome is readily apparent, even if Obama would have to ‘fess-up regarding the existential threat of the global Islamist ideology.
    Thick plumes of grey smoke rise from an ISIS position in eastern Kobane, after an airstrike by the U.S-led coalition
    Sporadic US bombing has failed to stop ISIS
     
    Because the goals of contiguous countries are averse to those beneficial to America, Kurds must urgently be empowered to champion Western Civilization’s value-system.
     
    Iran wants to preserve the Assad government, and has avidly shored-up these state-terrorists with the loyal assistance of the Russians who covet the Tartus port.
     
    Tehran wants to forge a Shi’ite pathway to the Mediterranean, and has enlisted support in this endeavor from a Baghdad government that has been set adrift by America’s unilateral retreat.
     
    American policy is predicated on a double-blunder—“two sides of the same coin”— one component of which is widely-debated and the other component of which has remained shrouded.

    Saturday, November 29, 2014

    NEWS IN CARTOONS - November 29, 2014 - Amnesty, Ferguson riots, US enabling a nuclear Iran, low gas prices, Thanksgiving, White House policies, Executive Action, Chuck Hagel, thanking Veterans, net neutrality, Ebola


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    The following Gary Varvel cartoon was censored by his home newspaper,  the Indianapolis Star.


     Via - http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2014/11/amnesty-for-unamerica.html

    Obama enabling Iran to develop nuclear weapons

    Iran Negotiations
    http://legalinsurrection.com/tag/a-f-branco/

    See more cartoons

    KURDS IN KOBANE SURROUNDED BY ISIS - Thanks to Turkey's informal collaboration with ISIS and the US reluctance to give proper military aid to Kurds - The West, Turkey and the Arabs hoping for the defeat of the Kurds, even if it is through genocide

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    The West's abandonment of the Kobane and the Kurds
    The most recent assault began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives while driving an armoured vehicle across the border, Kurdish officials have said. Above, the aftermath of a truck bomb in Kobane
    Aftermath of suicide bombing attack in Kobane

    
    • It was no long ago when we saw the pictures of  the Turkish army and their tanks across the border with Syria and within view of Kobane, doing nothing but waiting for ISIS to massacre the Kurds.   
    • Turkey has been accused of being a secret ally of ISIS. 
    • Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran fear the 30 million Kurds because of their demands for an independent country.  The US has allied itself with those countries and their desire to keep the Kurds oppressed and under occupation.
    • The US - with the world's most powerful military - has engaged in only a mild and sporadic bombing of ISIS buildings and vehicles, in what is nothing but a show to pretend to be helping the Kurds, while denying the Kurds proper weapons to defend themselves.
    • If the Kurds are massacred, it will be the direct result of the US deliberate inaction to protect them. 
    • An intensive US bombing campaign on ISIS in Kobane would have driven them back in a matter of hours.   But the US does not want to defeat ISIS or protect the Kurds.
    • The US government has also done nothing while Yazidis, Christians, and other minorities have been tortured, raped and massacred by ISIS - becoming de-facto indirect collaborationists with ISIS.
    • The US's government's hope is for ISIS to topple Assad in Syria - at any cost.  He is the last secular tyrant still holding on to power after the Arab Spring uprising. 
    • The US government has favored the Muslim fundamentalist takeover of Middle East countries, while turning its back on long-time secular  allies of the US. 
    • The US gave its full support to the Muslim Brotherhood rule after the toppling of Mubarak in Egypt, but has shunned the subsequent secular rule by general Al-Sisi.

    Daily Mail - Islamic State militants attack Kobane from Turkey for the first time - indicating besieged Syrian town is totally surrounded 

  • Suicide bomber drove car across border from Turkey, officials have said
  • Turkish government denied claims that its territory had been used for raid 
  • Clashes today have killed at least eight Kurdish fighters, said monitors 
  • WORSENING HUMANITARIAN CONDITIONS IN SYRIA - Spreading disease, including FLESH EATING MAGGOT DISEASE, afflicting the population - The US and UK accused of underfunding aid to needy Syrians, while they continue to give disproportionately high amounts of aid to Palestinians

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    The results of the West's instigated "Arab Spring" have left the Middle East in much worse conditions than it was before it was unleashed.
    Syrian children drink water from a pump on October 28, 2014 in Douma, as the UN health body said it is launching a campaign in Syria in a bid to help people ...

    In Syria:
    • Cases of myiasis or flesh-eating maggot disease in Syria.
    • Also rising cases of polio
    • Tuberculosis, typhoid, and scabies are now endemic
    • Hygienic and sanitary conditions are significantly substandard
    • The conflict has killed 195,000 Syrians.
    • Oxfam accuses the US of failing to fund humanitarian aid to Syrians in need.
    • Britain also under fire for only providing meager aid to Syrians.
    • An estimated 9 million Syrian refugees have fled their homes since the start of the Arab Spring and as a result of the conflict that has raged since.
    • In the meantime humanitarian aid continues to pour in disproportionate numbers on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. 
    • Palestinians are the largest recipients of international aid PER CAPITA in the world (see figures at bottom of page).
    Three cases of myiasis have been reported near Damascus, marking the first appearance of the flesh-eating maggot disease in Syria, UN health experts said Friday.

    Myiasis, an affliction caused when flies lay their eggs in wounds, is not lethal for humans, but its appearance says a lot about worsening living conditions in war-ravaged Syria, the World Health Organization said. 

    Friday, November 28, 2014

    BUFFALO HERD FIGHTS OFF LIONS WHO THREATENED A STRAGGLER THAT HAD SEPARATED FROM THE PACK

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  • The footage was taken by a tourist in South Africa's Kruger National Park
  • Four lions climb over the lone buffalo, clawing and biting the weak animal
  • But then four fearless buffalo come storming to the rescue of the straggler
  • One charges at the group, headbutting the big cats off the injured buffalo

  • The four lions clamber over the lone buffalo
    The capture
      
    The weak buffalo scrambles to its feet and trots off to safety while the others stand guard to ensure the lions do not return to finish the kill


    The rescue
     
     One Buffalo charges at the group of lions headbutting them off the buffalo and sending the them scattering 
    The victory
    One Buffalo charges at the group of lions headbutting them off the buffalo
     and sending the them scattering  
     
    Watch video here
     
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    HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS MASSACRED IN HINDU RITUAL TO ATTRACT GOOD LUCK - At least 5000 buffalo who never hurt anyone decapitated in one day, plus many other animals - Scientists say HUMANS ARE A PARASITIC OUTBREAK unleashing destruction on life on Earth

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    Nepal's killing fields: FIVE THOUSAND buffalo lie slaughtered at the beginning of Hindu ceremony which sees up to 300,000 animals killed to bring worshippers good luck.

     
     

     Many people in the West hold the notion that Eastern spirituality,
    and even any non-Western sets of belief,
      are better than Western culture. 
    Maybe in theory.  Not always in practice. 
    Much evil is perpetrated in the name of religion.
    But atheistic countries such as China are also unleashing devastation on nature and cruelty against animals. 
    The real problem goes beyond cultural differences and religion,
    and it lies with human nature itself
    Religious or not, humans are a plague on this planet.
    As long as the world human population continues to increase out of control,
    so do crimes against animals, the environment, and other humans.
    And so we'll see more desecration of nature, the murder and torture of trillions of innocent animals, and even the extinction of wonderful creatures such as elephants and tigers.
    The worst part is that we're not even ashamed of it, so the victimization of animals is reported only sporadically, while focus on human drama takes priority.
    Scientists have come out and said it: 
    Human rates of growth and consumption
    show all the characteristics of a parasitic outbreak
    that is destroying life on Earth
    (see references at end of this article)

      

     
    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
     
  • Hundreds of thousands of animals set to be slaughtered during two-day religious festival in Nepal
  • The Hindu festival is held every five years in honour of Gadhimai, the goddess of power
  • Festivities kicked off on Friday morning with the mass-slaughter of 5,000-6,000 buffalo in a field 
  • About 2.5 million devotees  have turned out for the festival, according to local government official Yogendra Prasad Dulal, who said it was 'impossible to estimate' the total number of animals sacrificed so far.
  • 'It has been a grand day,' Mangal Chaudhary, head priest at a the Gadhimai temple said. 'The buffalo sacrifice has ended, but we will continue the rituals with goats and other animals for one more day,'
  • The last time the festival was held, in 2009, more than 250,000 animals were killed, according to PETA 
  • Local government representatives say they cannot ban Hindu's form the slaughter during the festival because it would 'hurt their sentiments' 

  • A butcher walks with a bloodied blade as he looks for an animal to kill during a mass slaughter to celebrate the start of the Gadhimai festival
    A butcher walks with a bloodied blade as he looks for an animal to kill during a mass slaughter to celebrate the start of the Gadhimai festival.

    Thursday, November 27, 2014

    FERGUSON BLACK PANTHER LEADERS CHARGED WITH MURDER AND PLOTTING TO BLOW UP ST LOUIS ARCH - In October Black Panther NY local leader praised Muslim attack with an ax on NY policemen

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    Gateway Pundit:  Last week Black Panthers Olajuwon Ali and Brandon Muhammad were indicted in federal court for illegal firearms purchase – plotting to bomb the St. Louis Arch – and plotting to murder St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson.

    The Panthers wanted to purchase more bombs but were waiting for their girlfriend’s (benefits) EBT card was replenished!

    Your tax dollars at work
    – Blowing up the Arch!

    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported:
    Two men indicted last week on federal weapons charges allegedly had plans to bomb the Gateway Arch — and to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson — the Post-Dispatch has learned. 

    A HUMAN BABY AND A SLOTH - BEST FRIENDS - But the illegal trade of pet baby sloths is killing thousands. In Asia they are murdered to be turned into food and medicine.



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    Baby Alia is also friends with Boomeroo, the couple's kangaroo The best of friends! Five-month-old baby forms incredible bond with pet sloth called Daisy.
  • Baby Alia was introduced to Daisy when she was just two days old
  • Mum works as an author, educating children on animal rights and care
  • The pair have become best friends, playing and even napping together
  • Before you fall in love and decide to have a sloth of your own, please be aware that the illegal trade of pet sloths is killing thousands of baby sloths. 
  • These animals are extremely demanding as babies, and it's very difficult for a human to look after them.  As babies they may need to be carried around 24/7. 
  • While Asian trade mostly stems from a desire for exotic meat and medicinal ingredients, in Colombia the pet trade rules the market
  • Please read article at the bottom of this page for more information.

  • Mum Julia said: 'There are challenges to being an author with many animals, as well as two new babies'
    Daisy and Alia -  Friends forever

    BRITISH ACTOR JOHN CLEESE SAYS YOU CAN'T MAKE JOKES ABOUT MUSLIMS BECAUSE THEY'LL KILL YOU

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  • The British comedian argued that political correctness is 'condescending'
  • He said it starts out as 'a halfway decent idea' then goes 'completely wrong'
  • Cleese added that you can make jokes about Muslims but 'they'll kill you'
  • The comedian was being interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher
  • He also said that he finds any type of fundamentalism 'terribly funny'

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    Cleese (top) on Fawlty Towers
    John Cleese has argued that political correctness is 'condescending' as it only allows jokes to be made about certain groups while implying others need to be protected.
     
    Speaking to Bill Maher on HBO, the legendary comedian said he used to make race jokes about nationalities such as the French and Australians - but if he mentioned Mexicans it was deemed unacceptable.
     
    'It's so awful isn't it? he said. 'It starts out as a halfway decent idea, and then it goes completely wrong.   Make jokes about Swedes and Germans and French and English and Canadians and Americans, why can't we make jokes about Mexicans?
     
    ' Is it because they are so feeble that they can't look after themselves?   It's very, very condescending there.'
     
    The British comedian then goes on to say suggest that the reason you can't make jokes about Muslims is because 'they'll kill you'. 

    SOMETIMES YOU DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO - Passengers told to get out and push their plane after its brakes froze in -52 Celsius in Russia

  • Passengers disembarked in minus 52C to push after plane's brakes froze 
  • The Soviet-era aircraft was frozen to the ground at Igarka airport in Russia 
  • Many of the 70 passengers helped dislodge plane and move it backwards 
  • Eventually it made a successful flight to regional capital of Krasnoyarsk

  • A video shows the successful mass effort to budge the Soviet-era plane, after which it made a successful flight to regional capital Krasnoyarsk

    Passengers on a Russian plane disembarked in minus 52C to push their jet - after its brakes froze in the icy temperatures.  The UTair aircraft 'literally froze on the ground at Igarka airport, above the Arctic Circle,' reported The Siberian Times.  'Fearing the UTair service to regional capital Krasnoyarsk could be delayed, many of the 70 passengers used brute strength to free the 30 ton Tupolev 134.'

    Wednesday, November 26, 2014

    WHITE HOUSE POLICIES CONTINUE TO HURT AMERICANS, AND BLACK AMERICANS IN PARTICULAR - Government offers $3000 per employee incentive to firms to hire alien immigrants over native born Americans

    Perhaps the influx of millions of alien immigrants and other White House policies under an Afro-American president will hurt black Americans more than any alleged racism.

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

    Under the president’s new amnesty, businesses will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants over native-born workers because of a quirk of Obamacare.
     
    President Obama’s temporary amnesty, which lasts three years, declares up to 5 million illegal immigrants to be lawfully in the country and eligible for work permits, but it still deems them ineligible for public benefits such as buying insurance on Obamacare’s health exchanges.
     

    Under the Affordable Care Act, that means businesses who hire them won’t have to pay a penalty for not providing them health coverage — making them $3,000 more attractive than a similar native-born worker, whom the business by law would have to cover.
    The loophole was confirmed by congressional aides and drew condemnation from those who said it put illegal immigrants ahead of Americans in the job market.

    ESCAPED YAZIDIS TELL HOW THEY LOST THEIR FAMILIES TO ISIS - Muslims cut the babies' throats and raped and enslaved their mothers - All this happened under the indifferent watch of the US government

  • They are now under the protection of the Kurds
  • Kurds themselves are still threatened with genocide by ISIS
  • While the United States still refuses to directly arm the Kurds
  • US Secretary of State Kerry even intended to let ISIS massacre the Kobani Kurds
  • Kerry said the city was of no strategic importance.  Kobani is still under ISIS fire.
  • An estimated 200,000 Yazidi were forced to flee as ISIS advanced
  • Thousands were murdered while scores of women were taken as slaves
  • Some survivors such as Tahsyn lost their entire families as they escaped
  • Others saw babies murdered and women of all ages being raped
  • Most now live in refugee camps near Lalesh and Zohar in northern Iraq
  • Just don't tell these victims that Islamophobia is "racist" 
  • All this happened under the watch of the powerful United States government
  • Which is too busy condemning Jews for building homes in Jerusalem.
  • When they mention the Daesh, that's the local name for ISIS or ISL or Islamic State

  • Brave: Many of the refugees living in the two camps are terribly traumatised children
    This stoic little survivor faces the camera with determination
     
    Horrors: Like Hassan, this little girl witnessed the murder of her friends and family
    This small and brave Yazidi girl also witnessed horrors we can't even imagine
    at the hand of the Religion of Peace

    Tragic: Tahsyn shows a photo of his two little boys. It is all he has left of them after they were murdered by IS
    Tahysn with photo of his sons

    This time last year, Tahysn was a happily married father of two little boys aged three and four and lived close to his large, extended family in the village of Shangal in Iraq's Nineveh province.
     
    Now, home is a ramshackle refugee camp under the protection of Kurdish peshmerga fighters and he is grieving the loss of his wife and sons.
     
    His story is far from unique. Like so many other Yazidis, his family were massacred by ISIS jihadis as they swept through northern Iraq in August. Like them, Tahysn has lost everything.
    Temptation: A flaring oil well just behind the camp hints at the financial reason for the ISIS onslaught
    Kurdish flaring oil well, coveted by ISIS 

    'When the Daesh (a local slang term for ISIS) came to our village, I was not there but called my family and told them to leave. It was a big shock for everybody. 
     
    'They managed to escape the village but on the way to Mount Sinjar, they met Daesh. All of them were killed.'

    His eyes glistening with tears, he adds: 'My older brother, my father, my mother, my wife and even my two kids were killed. All I have left of them is just one picture on my mobile phone. 
     
    'The Daesh are just savages. They do not respect religion or humanity. They are not humans - even animals have more pity.'

    ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM - The lands and holy sites conquered by the sword - The genocide of at least 250 million non-Muslims through the centuries.

    The current controversy over Jews praying at their thousands-of-years-old Temple Mount (under Muslim control in Jerusalem) obscures the fact that it is the holiest site in Judaism that was conquered by Islam - which, according to their imperialistic tradition, built a mosque on top.
     
    Holy Sites stolen by Islamic Armies in the past continue to be occupied today.  Wherever Islam rules beyond the Saudi peninsula - that's a foreign conquered territory.  Muslims have raised colonization to new heights during their history.
     
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    Wikipedia map shows how Muslim imperialism between the years 622 to 750 only.  Such rapid expansion did not take place by simply proselytizing.  They conquered by the sword.  Convert or die.  Their empire extended all the way to Spain and other parts of Europe. Later on they expanded into Africa and other lands.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests

    Africa today is mostly Islamic, after having been subjected to the Arab slave trade - a catastrophic event for their populations, although we almost never hear about it.  http://www.arabslavetrade.com/

    Muslims vow to rule over Europe once again.  Once land has been in Muslim hands, they consider it to belong to them forever.  That explains their stated intent to reconquer all of Israel - not just a part of it for a Palestinian state.
     
     
    The Colonialist Crimes of Islam
     
    By Ezequiel Doiny.
     
    Islam is a colonizing power. While there is only one Jewish State smaller than New Jersey with a population of about 7million Jews, Islam has expanded from Saudi Arabia to the 57 countries member states of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation with an estimated population of an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims.
     
    Lyn Julius comments about George Bensoussan' book Juifs en pays arabes: le grand deracinement 1850 - 1975:  
    ...Bensoussan, threatens to stand the notion of ''Jewish colonialism'' on its head: it is the Jews who lived under Muslim rule who were the true victims of colonialism...By the time the Arab conquerors had swept over the Middle East and North Africa, the Jews had been living in the region for 1,000 years... 
    Under Islam, according to the eighth-century Pact of Omar, indigenous Jews and Christians were permitted to practise as long as they acquiesced to the ''dhimmi'' condition of inferiority and institutionalised humiliation..
    ...Bensoussan observes that the Islamic order was built on a ''colonial'' notion - submission. The Muslim submits to Allah, the Muslim woman submits to her husband, the non-Muslim dhimmi submits to the Muslim. At the very bottom of the pile is the slave... He produces incontrovertible evidence that, 100 years before Israel was established, most Jews in Arab and Muslim lands lived in misery and fear. 
    ....Jews were regularly mobbed, robbed, their possessions looted, beaten up on the slightest pretext, or false charge brought by a jealous neighbour. Jews were feminised in the Muslim imagination - cowardly, submissive, unable to stand up for themselves.
    ...Bensoussan''s great achievement is not just to blow out of the water the myth of Arab-Jewish coexistence predating the creation of Israel, but unfashionably to place the colonial boot on the Arab foot...A sovereign Jewish state in the land of Israel begins to look like the liberation of a colonised, indigenous people from 14 centuries of subjugation...
    Through its history of conquest, Islamic armies invaded many nations. In their process of colonization, Islam  erased native cultures and converted holy places into Mosques. Holy Sites stolen by Islamic Armies in the past continue to be occupied today.

    It is time for modern, moderate Muslim regimes to repent for Islam's violent past.

    The same way that today Germany apologizes for the crimes of the Nazis, the same way that today Spain apologizes for the Inquisition, the Muslims today must apologize for the crimes of Islam and return stolen holy sites to whom they belong.

    List of non-Muslim Holy Sites stolen by Islamic armies:

    1. Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Holiest site for Judaism. Site of the two Jewish Temples. The Muslims built two mosques there, adding the legend that Mohammed tied his horse to a post there.

     2. Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron. The Jewish Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are undeniably buried there. The Muslims built a mosque there.

     3. There are 2000 Hindu Temples in India that were converted to mosques. During the reign of Aurangzeb, tens of thousands of temples were desecrated: their facades and interiors were defaced and their divine images looted. In many cases, temples were destroyed entirely; in numerous instances mosques were built on their foundations, sometimes using the same stones. Among the temples Aurangzeb destroyed were two that are most sacred to Hindus, in Varanasi and Mathura. In both cases, he had large mosques built on the sites.
     
    Continue reading, including references and a video

    AERIAL PHOTO OF RED TIDE IN CHINA

    These astonishing aerial photographs show red tides on coastal waters along a beach in China.
     
    Worry: Usually occuring in late summer or early autumn, the tide can produce harmful chemicals and cause respiratory problems
    Visitors to Dameisha beach in Shenzhen have been warned by officials not to swim in the area to avoid any potential allergic reactions.
     
    After an outbreak in 2004, experts said that the main cause of red tides was the release of large amounts of untreated sewage into the sea.  They also claimed overfishing had led to a sharp fall of shallow-water fish and shrimp stocks that were able to feed on algae in the area.
     
    The tide, with the scientific name of Karenia brevis, is caused by microscopic algae blooms that explode in numbers in the right conditions.  Usually a phenomenon that occurs in late summer or early autumn, the tide can produce harmful chemicals and cause respiratory problems.
     
    This is the second case of red tides on the eastern Shenzhen coast since June - and it is feared local fish could die from oxygen deprivation. 
     
    Another common red tide is found most summers along Florida’s Gulf Coast - and the biggest one since 2005 was observed this August. 
     
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    THE CONNECTING POINTS LINKING STREET VIOLENCE IN FERGUSON, EUROPE AND ISRAEL - How anti-Israel agitators have tried to co-opt the Ferguson protests - And Al Sharpton's inciting against police in Ferguson and against Jews in NY

    The well-organized movement for the demonization of Israel is piggybacking onto unrelated sources of unrest,
    thus blatantly manipulating issues and emotions.

    How anti-Semitism found a receptive audience among Afro-Americans.  The long history of black anti-Semitism in the USA.
     
    This scene with anti-Israel protestors in Ferguson
     
    Looters in Ferguson wore masks to avoid being identified -- but the kafiyehs worn by some provided a clue to possible identities.
    Rioters and looters in Ferguson wore masks to avoid being identified
    but the kafiyehs worn by some provided a clue to possible identities.
      
     
    Rev. Sharpton at the podium 
    And Reverend Al Sharpton inciting Ferguson blacks
     
     
    and a much heavier and bearded Sharpton (in blue) instigating a pogrom against Jews in Crown Heights back in 1991.

    Tuesday, November 25, 2014

    FERGUSON - They burned and looted their own city because they're angry - The images of arson frenzy and devastation.

    The street that burned: Shop after shop destroyed by night of rage on Ferguson's main shopping street to agony of owners - but locals turn up to laugh, pose for pictures and scavenge leftover beers

  • At least two dozen businesses torched and strips of shops razed to the ground or ransacked
  • West Florissant Avenue, town's major route, reduced to smoldering ruins and guarded by police 
  • Two stores collapsed completely after burning last night and many more have been burned out
  • But locals have turned up to pick over the remains and scavenge alcohol left behind by looters 
  • Shop owner turns up in tears to assess damage and says: 'We just have to rebuild' 

  • Destruction: :A rioter uses a stick to break a window at the Hunan Chop Suey Chinese Restaurant along West Florissant Ave last night
    A rioter uses a stick to break a window at the Hunan Chop Suey Chinese Restaurant along West Florissant Ave last night

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    THE HYPOCRITICAL REACTION TO THE ISRAELI JEWISH STATE LAW from the US State Department and from countries that call themselves "Arab Muslim States under Sharia Law" - Here are the facts and why this law is necessary.

    The Israeli Knesset will be enacting a law that designates Israel as a Jewish state.  This has elicited an outcry from all corners of the world. 

    The US State Department interfered in Israel's internal affairs and called on Israel "to stick to democratic principles" - oblivious to the fact that the US president himself does not, with Executive Orders that bypass the newly elected Congress representing the will of the majority of Americans.

    Muslims are in a loud uproar, accusing Israel of discrimination against its Arab population. 

    Curiously, the Druze, a sect derived from Islam, and victimized by Arab countries, is all for Israel defining itself as a Jewish nation. 

    Here is an article that sets the facts straight.  They may surprise you.

    See also the full text of the Jewish State Law - It shows no discrimination against non-Jews in Israel.
     
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    EOZ - Arabs have been unanimous in rejecting the idea of Israel being a "Jewish state." Their reasons are that by definition a Jewish state would be discriminatory against Arabs and Muslims.
    

    WILL PARTITION OF THAT RED BIT ON THIS MAP (ISRAEL) BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLD?If you define "Jewish" in purely religious terms, that would mean that any state that defines itself as "Islamic" is, by definition, equally guilty of this discrimination.
     
    If you define "Jewish" in ethnic or national terms, then any state that defines itself as "Arab" would be equally guilty of the racism that Israel is being accused of.

    Time to check out the official hypocrisy of Israel's critics, and note the deafening silence towards this supposed Arab and Islamic racism:

    Map above shows "Arab" and "Islamic" countries (in green), raising objections to Israel (in red) being "Jewish".

     
     
    ARTICLE 1
    Palestine is part of the large Arab World, and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab Nation. Arab Unity is an objective which the Palestinian People shall work to achieve.
     
    ARTICLE 4
    1. Islam is the official religion in Palestine. Respect and sanctity of all other heavenly religions shall be maintained.
    2. The principles of Islamic Shari’a shall be the main source of legislation.
     
     
    Article 1
    The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is an independent sovereign
     Arab State. It is indivisible and inalienable and no part of it may be ceded. The people of Jordan form a part of the Arab Nation, and its system of government is parliamentary with a hereditary monarchy.

    Article 2
    Islam is the religion of the State and Arabic is its official language.


    Continue reading excerpts of Middle East national constitutions, and read article explaining why the Jewish State Law is necessary not only for Israel, but as a model for other ME minorities such as the Kurds, the Sunni, the Shiite, and so forth.