From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

Ali Abunimah is unhappy with Barack Hussein Obama’s sudden love affair with Israel. Relax, Ali! Obama has inherited his father’s ideology, a mashup of Islamism and Communism, first pioneered by Arab leaders like Muammar al-Gaddafi. The picture of Obama enjoying an evening with Edward Said, the most effective academic Jew-hater of the past half century (yes, even viler than Noam Chomsky), should scare every American with even a modicum of empathy with the Jewish people. Obama is clearly dangerous.
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One of the best reasons to switch to FOX News is CNN’s Richard Quest. A know-it-all “business” journalist, who could not pass a pop quiz in any economics course I have ever taught. An unctuous mimic of Uriah Heep, he is an insult to the intelligence of CNN viewers, someone who reminds me of “Martin” in Bart Simpson’s class.

Now you will never know this from watching CNN or reading its web site, cause it ain’t there, but Richard Quest was arrested Friday for running around Central Park very high on drugs, naked, and reportedly with a length of rope wrapped around his neck and also attached by the other end to that part of his anatomy that the Moyel would have attended to on the 8th day. Yahoo! News reports the sordid affair.

A New York judge ordered CNN reporter Richard Quest to undergo six months of counseling on Friday after Quest was arrested in Central Park for possession of a controlled substance, his lawyer said.

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He was arrested at 3:40 a.m. on Friday in New York’s Central Park for being in the park after a 1 a.m. curfew.

Police discovered a plastic bag containing what was believed to be methamphetamine in his pocket, police spokesman John Grimphel said.

Let me say that I have been in Central Park many a time, including for 60s anti-Vietnam War protests back when I was a young whipper snapper, and never once was I naked, although I spent most of the antiwar protests hoping that some coeds near me would take off their tops. [I am too old now to remember exactly why.] No, that is not me in the movie singing the Aquarius song.

Now I find this story quite inspiring. Not the part about the drugs, but the part about the rope.

In fact, I think we could probably produce peace in the Middle East if we adopt the idea. See, just attack ropes with one end around the neck and the other end around the other end, to all Israeli politicians implicated in the “peace process,” and set them loose to run around the Ramat Gan park at 3:00 in the AM, but making sure that THIS time CNN and not just Reuters is there to get the photo shoots.

And everything else will follow!

Israel Air Force pilots successfully targeted and killed 8 enemy fighters in Gaza over the weekend. Congratulations, IAF pilots! Unfortunately, this is not the kind of war that can be won by killing 8 or 100 Jihadis per day. Swatting at the mosquitoes will not drain the swamp. This swamp breeds more Jihadi mosquitoes than a civilized people would find morally acceptable to kill. Read more >

What’s the difference between people who say ‘I like Jews best’ and those who say ‘some of my best friends are Jewish’? Not much, we suspect.

Condell’s satire is clever and we enjoy his video commentary. However, we take umbrage with Condell’s suggestion that the Middle East crisis can be solved through Israeli concessions. The Jihad is a native Islamic construct, devised to spread 7th century Bedouin civilization to every corner of the world. Arguing that ‘success’ will slow down the Jihad is prima fascia ridiculous. The Jihad is forever!

If surrendering Jerusalem will stop the Jihad, then ceding Luton, Liverpool, and a few London neighborhoods will produce instant tranquility. Read more >

Happy Passover – Chag So-me-ach

Have a Great Seder and

Read the Whole Haggadah

This is the actual flag raised over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Today, in the Balata neighborhood of Shechem (Nablus), Israeli troops killed an enemy commander and captured two other enemy fighters. The IDF elite Duvdevan unit tracked Hani Ka’abi to his home and killed him in the ensuing battle. His deputy, Hosni Tzalag, and a third terrorist were captured.

Congratulations, Duvdevan!

IDF soldiers tracked down and killed the mastermind of a plot to carry out a terrorist attack through the use of poison, after surrounding his house in the Balata neighborhood of Shechem Thursday morning.

The terror attack planned by Ka’abi involved slipping a slow-acting poison powder, virtually undetectable, into the food of diners at the “Grill Express” restaurant in Ramat Gan, where he had managed to recruit two Arab kitchen workers as new operatives.
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Lionheart the Blogger was run out of town for daring to expose unsavory aspects of the Islamization of Luton, England. If the name Luton sounds familiar, it may be because three of the Jihadis who murdered 52 people in London, July 7, 2005, caught a train at the Luton station.

Zarrar Said, a Pakistani visitor, provides an insider’s peek into the Luton Ghetto.

My journey of self discovery began in England. I arrived at Heathrow at 6am and obviously my friend Turkish wasn’t there to pick me up. We named him Turkish after the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch.

Laziness is inbred in Pakistanis, I thought. A nation of lazy people. After looking around for a phone booth I ran into many tabloids on the floor promoting the Ashes series and the newly found English hero, Andrew Flintoff. The love for a game they themselves had invented had suddenly erupted in the hearts of Englishmen. In the past, Asian-English people would never had supported England but their ancestral nation, all of a sudden there was a national pride involved amongst all.

Turkish’s brother Bobby picked me up and we headed for Luton, an experience I will never forget. They were everywhere. Infesting the city. They had taken over like a virus. Pakis had conquered Luton. Downtown Luton could be easily mistaken for Kotli or Mirpur or even Muzzafarabad.

People in traditional clothes, a mosque every other block, veiled women, and throngs of boys. “Your shocked innit!” said Bobby, with a sly look on his face as if he was trying to say, “you’re in for it now mate!”. Suddenly my sleepiness had gone away. “It’s way backward here mate, lemme tell ya. Pakis just came here in the 50s and kept the bloody culture of the time… and not just any Pakis… Kashmiris mate!”. Kashmiris, the hillbillies of Pakistan.
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Thursday afternoon, Israeli troops killed one enemy fighter, wounded a second and took off in pursuit of a third. The three Jihadis tried to attack the Kerem Shalom crossing through which the Israeli government streams food, supplies and rocket fuel to the Hamas gang.

The IDF is great. Olmert sucks.

(IsraelNN.com) Early in the afternoon, Hamas terrorists attempted another sneak infiltration attack in Israel. The target was the Kerem Shalom crossing at the Israel-Egypt-Gaza border, through which Israel continues to stream food and supplies into Hamas-run Gaza.

An alert IDF desert patrol unit, generally comprised of Bedouin soldiers, identified the cell of three terrorists attempting to infiltrate into Israel near the crossing. The soldiers opened fire, killing one and wounding another, and took off in pursuit of the third.

The attempted attack eight days after Hamas terrorists from Gaza fired a heavy barrage of mortar shells at the Nachal Oz area, creating a cover under which two terrorists infiltrated the fuel depot there and murdered two employees – Oleg Lipson, 37, and Lev Cherniak, 53, both of Be’er Sheva.

In January 2002, four Bedouin soldiers of this unit were killed in the same area in a Palestinian terrorist attack. Two Gazan terrorists, carrying explosive belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in PA police uniforms, infiltrated into Israel before dawn and killed them in their base near Kerem Shalom.

Close to 320 trucks have made their way from Israel to Gaza in just the past three days alone – including nearly 90 through the Kerem Shalom crossing – carrying many types of food, medical equipment, and various goods.

In recent years, Passover has undergone a make-over in the American Jewish non-Orthodox community, one that has converted it largely into a holiday devoted to celebrating human rights, protesting a long list of human rights abuses and promoting fashionable causes. The remake seems designed to make Passover a cosmopolitan holiday, one with a universal message in which all can join, in essence the Jewish answer to the Declaration of the Rights of Man of the French Revolution.

Back in the 1960s, a series of Political Correctness Haggadot (plural of Haggada) were written, in which the message of Passover was turned into a celebration of the civil rights movement in the United States. Arthur Waskow, the guru of the *Tikkun*-”Renewal” crowd, wrote at the time a Black Liberation Passover Haggadah, celebrating black militants like the Black Panthers, who were themselves coincidentally calling at the same time for the annihilation of Jews. Later Political Correctness Haggadot were devoted to homosexual rights, women’s liberation, and assorted other faddish causes, not least of which was Palestinian “liberation”. No doubt, this year will see Defend Iran and Help Obama *Haggadot* or No War for Oil ones.

“Multicultural” Passover seders became fashionable in some circles, in which the seder became a mixture of acclamations for human rights and freedom, taken from a wide variety of non-Jewish sources.

As yet another illustration, a few years back the Passover cause celebre of American Jewish liberals was Tibet (my guess is it will be this year again), with Tibetan officials invited to Passover seders, and where the leftist Religious Action Center (RAC) of the Reform synagogue movement called on Jews to hold Tibetan-freedom Passover seders in solidarity with Tibet. The RAC is devoted to the proposition that Jewish values are nothing more and nothing less than this year’s leftist political fads, including gay “marriage”, supporting affirmative action apartheid programs, and opposing all welfare reform. Its head, Rabbi David Saperstein, was quoted with approval a few years back by the American Communist Party’s weekly newspaper.
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On Wednesday 30 rockets were fired by the enemy from Gaza. On Thursday, so far, 12 rockets were fired, including two Katyushas. Thank God, there were no casualties.

On the Shomron front, just south of the terror capital of Jenin, Israeli troops killed two enemy fighters from the Islamic Jihad gang, destroyed enemy homes, and captured 26 Jihadis

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas terrorists have fired 12 rockets at Israel so far Thursday, causing fear but no concrete damage. Two rockets were fired at Sderot around 9 AM, with one landing in the city and one to the south, and another one hit the Eshkol region shortly after 10 AM.

Two Katyusha Grad rockets were fired towards the coastal city of Ashkelon, one in the early morning and another in the afternoon. Both fell short, causing no damage. Also this morning, including just before dawn, Kassams were fired towards Israel, landing in the Shaar HaNegev, Sdot Negev and Eshkol regions to the east of Gaza.

Some 30 Kassam rockets were fired by Gaza enemy at Israel on Wednesday, miraculously causing only minor damage and no casualties.

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In the incident in question, which took place before dawn this morning, an IDF force entered the town of Kabatiye, just south of the northern Shomron terror capital of Jenin, in the heart of the largest chunk of PA-controlled area. The force surrounded a building in which were hiding two top wanted terrorists of the Islamic Jihad terror wing. After the ensuing exchange of fire, the two terrorists were dead; no casualties were caused to the Israeli forces. The IDF destroyed most of the building with bulldozers. The force continued to battle other Islamic Jihad terrorists in the town afterwards.

The IDF arrested 26 wanted Palestinian terrorists over the course of the night in various areas of Judea and Samaria.