MEDIA MALPRACTICE IN THE COVERAGE OF ISRAEL as exposed by former AP correspondent Matti Friedman

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Outstanding speech by Matti Friedman former AP journalist  who covered Israel for Associated Press. 

He gave this speech at a BICOM dinner in London on January 26, 2015. 

 

Selected excerpts:

• The international press in Israel had become less an observer of the conflict than a player in it. It had moved away from careful explanation and toward a kind of political character assassination
• Israel’s flaws were dissected and magnified, while the flaws of its enemies were purposely erased
• Something toxic is driving this –  ” Jews are troublemakers, a negative force in world events, and that if these people, as a collective, could somehow be made to vanish, we would all be better off”.
• When I worked in the AP’s Jerusalem bureau, the Israel story was covered by more AP news staff than China, or India, or all of the fifty-odd countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined. This is representative of the industry as a whole.
• People observing this conflict from afar have been led to believe that Israel faces a simple choice between occupation and peace. That choice is fiction.
• The Palestinian choice, it is said, is between Israeli occupation and an independent democracy. That choice, too, is fiction
• (Partition for the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state) will bring the black-masked soldiers of radical Islam within yards of Israeli homes with mortars, rockets, and tunneling implements. Many thousands will die. 
• No international investment or guarantees, no Western-backed government or Western-trained military will be able to keep that from happening, as we have just seen in Iraq.
• The only group of people subject to a systematic boycott at present in the Western world is Jews, appearing now under the convenient euphemism “Israelis.”
• The Jews of the Middle East are outnumbered by the Arabs of the Middle East 60 to 1, and by the world’s Muslims 200 to 1.
• Neo-Nazi rallies at Palestinian universities or in Palestinian cities are not covered — I saw images of such rallies suppressed on more than one occasion.
• Jewish hatred of Arabs is a story. Arab hatred of Jews is not. 
• The time has come for everyone to admit that the fashionable disgust for Israel among many in the West is not liberal but is selective, disproportionate, and discriminatory.

 

Following are the speech highlights compiled by Israpundit. 
 
They are followed by the entire transcript of Mr Friedman's speech.

 

HIGHLIGHTS

• I gradually began to be aware of certain malfunctions in the coverage of the Israel story – recurring omissions, recurring inflations, decisions made according to considerations that were not journalistic but political,
• We sought to hint or say outright that Israeli soldiers were war criminals, and every detail supporting that portrayal was to be seized upon.
• Neo-Nazi rallies at Palestinian universities or in Palestinian cities are not — I saw images of such rallies suppressed on more than one occasion. Jewish hatred of Arabs is a story. Arab hatred of Jews is not.
• Our policy, for example, was not to mention the assertion in the Hamas founding charter that Jews were responsible for engineering both world wars and the Russian and French revolutions.
• 100 houses in a West Bank settlement are a story. 100 rockets smuggled into Gaza are not.

• The Hamas military buildup amid and under the civilian population of Gaza is not a story. But Israeli military action responding to that threat – that is a story,
• Israel’s responsibility for the deaths of civilians as a result – that’s a story. Hamas’s responsibility for those deaths is not
• Israel’s flaws were dissected and magnified, while the flaws of its enemies were purposely erased.
• Threats facing Israel were disregarded or even mocked as figments of the Israeli imagination,
• A fictional image of Israel and of its enemies was manufactured, polished, and propagated to devastating effect by inflating certain details, ignoring others, and presenting the result as an accurate picture of reality.
• The international press in Israel had become less an observer of the conflict than a player in it. It had moved away from careful explanation and toward a kind of political character assassination
• Something toxic is driving this –  ” Jews are troublemakers, a negative force in world events, and that if these people, as a collective, could somehow be made to vanish, we would all be better off”. 

TRUTHS

• The occupation is not the conflict, which of course predates the occupation. It is a symptom of the conflict, a conflict that would remain even if the symptom were somehow solved.
• an end to the occupation will create a power vacuum that will be filled, as all power vacuums in the region have been, not by the forces of democracy and modernity, which in our region range from weak to negligible, but by the powerful and ruthless, by the extremists
• People observing this conflict from afar have been led to believe that Israel faces a simple choice between occupation and peace. That choice is fiction.
• The Palestinian choice, it is said, is between Israeli occupation and an independent democracy. That choice, too, is fiction
• The only group of people subject to a systematic boycott at present in the Western world is Jews, appearing now under the convenient euphemism “Israelis.”
• The only country that has its own “apartheid week” on campuses is the Jewish country.
• No one cares that, “The human costs of the Middle Eastern adventures of America and Britain in this century have been far higher, and far harder to explain, than anything Israel has ever done. They have involved occupations, and the violence they unleashed continues.”

 

• the fashionable disgust for Israel among many in the West is not liberal but is selective, disproportionate, and discriminatory
• The cult’s priesthood can be found among the activists, NGO experts, and ideological journalists who have turned coverage of this conflict into a catalogue of Jewish moral failings,
• boycotts of Israel, and only of Israel, which are one of the cult’s most important practices, have significant support in the press, including among editors.
• Sympathy for Israel’s predicament is highly unpopular in the relevant social circles, and is something to be avoided by anyone wishing to be invited to the right dinner parties, or to be promoted.
• the events in Gaza this summer were portrayed not as a complicated war but as a massacre of innocents.
• The Jew is the perennial scapegoat for all that is wrong with the world.
• As the journalist Charles Maurras wrote, approvingly, in 1911: “Everything seems impossible, or frighteningly difficult, without the providential arrival of anti-Semitism, through which all things fall into place and are simplified.”
• the global villain, as portrayed in newspapers and on TV, is none other than the Jewish soldier, or the Jewish settler. They  are the heirs to the Jewish banker or Jewish commissar of the past.
• The world isn’t fixated on Israel despite everything else going on – but rather because of everything else going on.

His speech is an absolute must-read.

It is long but worth every minute you take to read it.

 

Blogger's note:

Please keep in mind - as you start reading this speech where Mr Friedman refers to Israeli checkpoints - that we in the West are subjected to security scrutiny that can be just as bad or worse than the one experienced by Arabs at checkpoints.

Ever since 9/11 all air travellers are routinely subjected to extreme indignities by US airport security staff. 
Because of Muslim terror threats.

As an example read article and watch video of a disabled toddler in a wheelchair made to wait for special scrutiny by US airport security, oblivious to her cries of fear and confusion.

On top of that they confiscated her beloved plush toy bunny.  

She was dreaming of seeing Disney World.  Instead, she was subjected to a traumatic experience.  Perhaps this was part of US security efforts to appear not to be doing "racial profiling".

Read more and see video:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281769/Parents-fury-TSA-detains-wheelchair-bound-daughter-3-theyre-trying-fly-Disney-World-family-vacation.html

 TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENTIRE SPEECH

by Matti Friedman

 

One night several years ago, I came out of Bethlehem after a reporting assignment and crossed through the Israeli military checkpoint between that city and its neighbor, Jerusalem, where I live.
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YELLOWSTONE GEOLOGIST MARK HESSLER MAKES STATEMENT SAYING THAT PREDICTIONS FOR YELLOWSTONE'S SAFETY CAN'T GO BEYOND TWO WEEKS - All could change in two weeks - In any case, BE PREPARED for any disaster. See list of 50 best preparedness websites and tips for evacuating with your PETS

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Making scientific predictions is a risky business.  Just a few days ago meteorologists announced the greatest snowstorm ever for NYC.    The city came to a stop, all transportation was banned, people raided supermarkets, and got ready for it.  

 

Then nothing much happened.  At least in NYC.  The storm was heavy in the northern Atlantic states but it fell short of a major disaster.

 

So science can be wrong.  Even when all the signs are added up together to forecast disaster, nature has a way doing the unpredictable.

 Yellowstone illustration by National Park Service  - LIVE SCIENCE

 

Anyway, here is a report about a reputable geologist stating that in the case of the Yellowstone supervolcano nothing can be predicted beyond a two-week time frame. 

The number of earthquakes at Yellowstone has ramped up, along with the appearance of other disturbing geological signs, and a major eruption could happen during our lifetime - or even next month.  All the signs are there, we just don't know when the overdue eruption will take place.

Whether the government is suppressing alarming news or not, we can't tell for sure.  There could be many reasons behind it.  One of them is that since there is no certainty one way or the other, government and business don't want panic and a drop in real estate prices in the area most likely to be affected. 

 

Whether predictions for ANY disaster turn out to be accurate or not, always be prepared.

 

You need food, water, medicine, and other necessities for at least three months, not only for your family but for your pets, in case you need to hunker down at home. 

 

You also need an evacuation plan and some cash.  With our dependence on computers there may come a time when electronic access to funds is not available (an EMP event would fry the grid).

 

Check the web to get an idea of what you need.  Search using words such as preparedness, emergency, and prepper.  I have provided you with 50 links to some of the best prepper sites, and one exclusively for pets.  Never again should families be forced to abandon their pets, as was the case with the Katrina disaster. 

 

 

Catastrophic: A new USGS graphic shows how a 'super eruption' of the molten lava under Yellowstone National Park would spread ash across the United States - DailyMail

 

 

Yellowstone Geologist predicts 

volcano eruption within two weeks

 

 by Shepard Ambellas

 

As of January 29, 2015, Hank Hessler, a park geologist stationed at Yellowstone National Park since 2002, publicly announced and put only a 2 week time-frame for the supervolcano located under the park to erupt.  (Meaning that things appear safe for the next two weeks, but that science can predict beyond that - blogger.)

Yellowstone National Park

 

There were more than 1,900 documented earthquakes throughout the park in 2014 alone as swarm activity continues to increase.

 

On March 4, 2014, Intellihub came across information, by an unnamed source, who reported that the White House had ordered the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to suppress earthquake swarm data within the region to hide what may be coming from the general public.

And this is where it gets scary as Yellowstone and a 1000 mile swath surrounding the park’s supervolcano may be on the brink of an extinction level event (ELE).

 

In fact reports suggest that ancient Helium4 gas has breached the surface layers of Yellowstone’s crust and is now escaping into the earth’s atmosphere. Coupled with the recent and abrupt ground level rise in the park we may be looking at a recipe for disaster.

 

After all, Michio Kaku, a famous theoretical physicist, pointed out in a January 2011 newscast which aired on CNN, “When it blows [Yellowstone] it could destroy the United States as we know it. […] That’s what is making us nervous”

 

Shockingly, later in the newscast, Kaku went on to explain how a 1000-mile ring of the U.S. would likely be destroyed if the supervolcano actually went. And to make matters worse, geologists all conclude that the park is long overdue for an eruption.

 

 

In fact, the last Yellowstone eruption was thought to have happened around 630,000 years ago, meaning we are about 30,000 years overdue, literally putting us in the hot seat, front row.

 

Kaku also pointed out that, “Every single burp, murmur, of this gigantic supervolcano, including the rise above sea level, has to be watched very carefully”.

 

So basically if you do the math for the disaster zone radius, the first 100-miles emanating out from ground zero would be completely wiped out. After that, ninety percent devastation would span out another 500 plus miles from ground zero, making a 1000-mile diameter ring that will essentially be fully decimated from the blast.

 

Additionally this would essentially put what’s left of the United States into a State of Emergency and full-on martial law would be declared under National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 51.

 

And it gets even worse.

Continue reading and see references for prepper websites

SEN. TED CRUZ ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION : IS WHITE HOUSE USING TAX DOLLARS TO TOPPLE ISRAELI PM Netanyahu in next elections - White House not only works on partitioning Israel to create an Islamic Arab state, but now it appears to be connected to conspiracy to finance and influence who is going to be Prime Minister

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 The latest scandal of the White House war against Israel

UPDATES


March 13, 2015:  Bipartisan Senate panel probes whether the Obama administration funded effort to oust Israeli PM Netanyahu  - 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/14/senate-committee-probes-whether-obama-administration-funded-effort-to-oust/
 
List of White House army of staffers now working in Israel to topple PM Netanyahu
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/obama-army-deploys-to-tel-aviv-to-topple-netanyahu/

 Jeremy Bird, one of the White House operatives conspiring to oust PM Netanyahu
has a history of anti-Israel hate activism
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/v15-us-political-operative-marinated-in-hate-israel-activism/2015/01/30/


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Senator Ted Cruz asks for an investigation:

  Has the White House launched

a political campaign against Israeli PM Netanyahu?

 

by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Sen. TED CRUZ

The Obama Administration’s actions towards Israel become more intolerable each day, carrying with their insults deeply damaging national security implications for our country.

Earlier this week, Americans opened the newspapers to discover that the Obama campaign team has deployed operatives, including 2012 Field Director Jeremy Bird, to Tel Aviv to try to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu through an organization that receives taxpayer grants from the U.S. Department of State.

 

This follows a long string of hostile behavior that has only escalated with time.

In The Atlantic, “unnamed senior administration officials” have called Mr. Netanyahu a “chicken****” and bragged that it was now “too late” for him to take action to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capability.

 

Last week, more anonymous sources vented to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that “Netanyahu spat in our face,” and vowing “there will be a price” for the Prime Minister’s accepting House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to come address Congress on the subject of Iran’s nuclear program.

 

An Obama campaign foreign policy advisor, Daniel Kurtzer, suggested to the New York Times that the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, should be “reprimanded or removed” for passing along the speaking  invitation from Speaker Boehner.

 

And, let us not forget how eager the Obama Administration was to impose an unprecedented flight ban against Israel last year during its military operation against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

 

At the time, I asked the simple question whether the Obama Administration was using the Federal Aviation Authority to launch an economic boycott against Israel. After their actions were questioned, they quickly lifted the ban.

 

Now, it is time for another simple question:

 

Has President Obama launched a political campaign against Prime Minister Netanyahu and his allies?

 

Prime Minister Netanyahu is a courageous leader, a symbol of Israel’s strength in the face of continued threats from Iran, and Americans who support Israel deserve to know whether their President is actively working to remove him from office.

 

And, even more troubling, whether U.S. tax dollars are being used to fund the campaign.

 

Specifically, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that a U.S. taxpayer-funded non-profit organization called OneVoice is actively working with a campaign operation called Victory 2015 (V15)–working hand-in-hand with Obama field director Jeremy Bird–in an effort to influence the upcoming elections in Israel on March 17, 2015.

 

Today I, along with Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY), sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry to request an investigation into this funding and the propriety of U.S. taxpayer dollars being used to exert undue influence over a foreign election and to destabilize a long-standing ally.

 

In our letter we asked questions such as:

 

-  “How much funding has the U.S. Government provided to OneVoice, PeaceWorks Network Foundation, and any connected initiatives, projects or subsidiaries?”

 

-  “Who approved providing such funds?”

 

-  “What were the specific reasons and terms for providing funds, and how are these funds specifically being spent?” .

 

-  “Can the Department of State guarantee that none of these funds have been or will be used in the endeavor detailed above, namely the partnership with V15, or any similar effort to exert undue influence over the Israeli political process?”

 

All of this is even more perilous given the imminent threat posed by Iran’s active effort to acquire nuclear weapons capability.
 

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KURDS DEFEAT ISIS IN KOBANE - Pictures of the aftermath of a months-long war - The US and Europe still refuse to provide Kurds with proper weapons - The US, EU and their Muslim allies would prefer to see Kurds massacred rather than arm them for a future independent Kurdistan

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Kurds defeated ISIS in Kobane

and regained full control of their city.

The Kurds won against all odds.  The Muslim world was against them.  The West denied them weapons, so as not to upset Muslim countries that want to deny them an independent country.
 
The White House and Britain had to be SHAMED into providing them some assistance bombing ISIS vehicles and buildings - careful not to cause any collateral damage against ISIS terrorists.

Kurds had to rely on themselves - on men, young women and the elderly picking up guns and becoming soldiers to defend their land.  Women, in particular, have been a significant force for the besieged Kurds of Kobane.


It was the Kurds that made the effort to save and protect the Yazidi, another besieged minority under the threat of genocide by ISIS.  The West did nothing.
 
Control over their land, and physical and cultural survival are the key factors in the Kurds fight against ISIS, no matter at what price.

 

It was a fight to the finish

 

Notice how there has been no mention of the Kurds' right to a country of their own, although they are a distinct culture, with their own language, and ancient ties to their land.  There are 70 million Kurds living in territory occupied by Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.

 

This lack of interest in granting Kurds their well-deserved independence is powerful evidence that the pro-Palestinian movement is essentially an anti-Semitic international conspiracy to bully Israelis and deprive Jews of their land. 

 

The international tepid response - or the complete absence of it - to the Kurds' plight will be one of the most shameful chapters of 20th and 21st century history.

ISIS jihadis defeated by the KURDS of Kobane.

STRANGE BUBBLES IN A BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL CANADIAN LAKE - They erupt in fire if lit with a match - They are methane gas formed when microbes consume organic matter at the bottom of the lake

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A photographer has captured amazing images of methane bubbles in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada

The pictures show a frozen lake with the icy 'circles' trapped underneath in fascinating formations

In the summer the bubbles simply rise to the surface and pop, but in the winter they are frozen within the ice

Methane is 25 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide, and ignites easily when lit

These lakes may look like they are full of bizarre floating sea creatures, but they are actually filled with thousands of frozen bubbles.

 

Snapped across Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, the natural wonders are made of highly flammable gas methane.

See more images

WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLES TO DEFINE TERRORISM - State Department says Taliban isn't a terrorist group, and neither are Palestinians who throw rocks and firebombs that maim and kill Israelis

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Pakistani student
injured by Taliban
-  WH says it's not terror

White House says Taliban Is not a terrorist group one month after 132 Pakistani school children slaughtered.

Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz responded to a question about whether Jordan’s plan to make a prisoner trade with ISIS was similar to the U.S. swapping five Taliban members for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. 

First, Schultz said that the U.S. doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. Then he said:

 “I don’t think that the Taliban is a terrorist organization…it is an armed insurgency.”

ERIC SCHULTZ

You don’t think the Taliban is a terrorist group?” ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked.

“I don’t think that the Taliban… the Taliban is an armed insurgency,” Schultz continued haltingly, pointing out that the United States negotiated Berghdal’s release during the “winding down” of the war in Afghanistan.

Journalist Charles Krauthammer commented on Fox News:

It slits throats. It attacks buses. It drives car bombs into markets and it’s not a terrorist group. Look you can’t parody this administration…  

And also the idea that the war is winding down is preposterous. Tell that to anybody that lives in Afghanistan.  

This is a fantasy. Obama is pretending that the War on Terror, the War in Afghanistan, the War in Iraq is winding down… This is sort of embarrassing.

With reports from:

-  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/28/white-house-spokesman-isil-is-a-terrorist-group-taliban-is-an-armed-insurgency/
-  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/01/obama-wh-says-taliban-is-not-a-terrorist-group-one-month-after-they-slaughter-132-pakistani-school-children/ 
-  http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/01/29/white-house-spokesidiot-says-the-taliban-is-not-a-terrorist-organization/

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Daily Mail report and images of the victims of 
"insurgent" Taliban attack that killed 123 children
 and injured many more at a school in Pakistan

Gunmen in Peshawar entered school and started shooting at random

One terrorist blew himself up in a classroom containing 60 children

Teacher set on fire in front of pupils, with the children forced to watch  

Insurgents had ‘inside information’ before carrying out well-planned attack

MailOnline heard harrowing eyewitness accounts of the massacre        

Taliban accepted responsibility for the attack, claiming it 'was just a trailer' 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2875729/Up-20-dead-500-children-teachers-taken-hostage-Taliban-gunmen-storm-military-run-school-Pakistan.html

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ISRAELI 11-YEAR OLD GIRL
 SERIOUSLY BURNED BY PALESTINIAN FIREBOMB ATTACK

 

The US State Department says that Palestinians throwing firebombs

at Jews are NOT TERRORISTS

Since a Palestinian firebomb attack last December, Israeli 11-year-old  student Ayala Shapira has been hospitalized suffering from severe burns to 40% of her face and upper body. 

At first she was in a coma and doctors were not sure she was going to survive.  

Read more:

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/12/israeli-father-and-11-year-old-daughter.html

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Tag.aspx/36003

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PALESTINIAN MINISTER SAYS KILLING JEWISH BABIES IS A LEGITIMATE PART OF "RESISTANCE"
'Moderate' Palestinian Authority honors as a  hero every terrorist that kills Jews of any age.

Photo on the right:  Asher Palmer and his son Yonatan, both murdered by rock-throwing Palestinians. 

Read more:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/12/palestinian-minister-says-killing.html

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The US State Department says that Palestinians throwing firebombs at Israelis 

are NOT TERRORISTS

Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson in the Obama administration
Arabs who throw firebombs at Israelis are NOT TERRORISTS

Read more:  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-palestinians-who-throw-molotov-cocktails-at-israelis-are-not-terrorists/

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/obama-state-department-palestinians-who-throw-molotov-cocktails-at-israelis-are-not-terrorists

 

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SHIITE ARABS MASSACRE SUNNI ARAB VILLAGERS WHO HAD FLED ISIS - Arab factions have been massacring each other and slaughtering non-Muslims for 1300 years - And yet the world demands Israel's partition "for peace"

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Surviving ISIS only to be Massacred by Iran-backed Shi'ites?  Iraq to probe whether its army stood by while Shi'ite militias gunned down Sunni villagers who had escaped ISIS.

 

The Iraqi government vowed Thursday to investigate accusations backed by eyewitness accounts that Shi'ite militias massacred more than 70 Sunni villagers during an operation against jihadists in Diyala province.

 

Survivors and Sunni officials say the massacre took place on Monday in Barwana as soldiers and allied militias wrapped up an operation to expel Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists from their last urban bastion in Diyala.

 

Photo on the right above:  On another operation on January 24, 2015 the Iraqi army, supported by pro-government militia, retaked positions held by Islamic State (ISIS)  near village of Sharween, in Diyala province ©Younis al-Bayati (AFP)

 

Some military officials have already denied the allegations but Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced that an inquiry has been opened.  "The prime minister has ordered an investigation into the matter," his spokesman Rafid Jaboori told AFP, without elaborating.

For the West to support either Shiite or Sunni is like choosing between Alien or Predator
There are no good guys there.

 

Barwana is a small village located just west of the town of Muqdadiyah. It housed several Sunni families who had fled ISIS rule over neighboring villages.  Shi'ite militiamen entered Barwana on Monday and allegedly selected young men (some between 9 and 12 years old) after checking their IDs before lining them up to be shot.

WALLACE THE RABBIT SERVES UP BEER FROM HIS DELIVERY CART - And his owner builds him a castle

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Beer with a lot of hops 

"Wallace. Grab me a beer please?" Sounds like a simple enough request. But for Ben Ahles, having Wallace actually bring him that beer is an "epic accomplishment."

 

Wallace is a rabbit. And for the past year, Ahles has been training Wallace to deliver his brew by pushing a tiny cardboard beer cart.

 

Ahles has posted the video of Wallace online and it has turned out to be a huge hit.  The project is part of Ahles' effort to build a relationship with Wallace, who belongs to Ahles' girlfriend.

watch video and see Wallace's Game of Thrones' castle