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Politics - Justice - And Wrestling With The Angel
Friday, June 29, 2007
Yeshua -
Passover
Lamb
I am often so disgusted with my fellow Christians that I think I ought to become a Jew. But, I know the last thing my Jewish friends want is another Jew for Jesus, so I refrain from my inclination.
My opinion is, Yeshua was Moshiach (the Messiah and King, the wonderful counselor, the Prince of Peace). His name and being were prophesied in the book of Zechariah. I don' understand how the world has missed that fact, but even Christians don't realize it.
1Then he showed me Joshua (in the Hebrew, this name is Yeshua) the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
2The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?"
3Now Joshua (Yeshua) was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
4He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, "Remove the filthy garments from him " Again he said to him, "See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes."
5Then I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by.
6And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua (Yeshua), saying,
7"Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.
The Branch
8'Now listen, Joshua (Yeshua) the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you--indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch.
9'For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua (Yeshua); on one stone are seven eyes Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10'In that day,' declares the LORD of hosts, 'every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.'"
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11"Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua (Yeshua) the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
12"Then say to him, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD.
13"Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His throne Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices."'
14"Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah.
15"Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD " Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you And it will take place if you completely obey the LORD your God.
G-d, long ago, separated the offices of Priest and King.
The only person who could be both Priest and King is the Restorer, Moshiac, Yeshua.
Sorry to preach, but this is what I believe. I've got to tell you.
I often wonder at what a jerk I am, or perhaps I should say, at what a jerk I have become.
On 9/11, I told my wife that the world was going to change; we were now clearly at war, and I might end up being called into the military. To my amazement, and my disgust, our country never truly realized the threat we face, and I was, obviously not called into service.
However, as I told my wife, I have one talent in life, and that is the ability to write, and thus, this is what I do.
We need to win this war, my friends. If not, our children are going to live a life of horror unlike any nightmare that we have ever had.
I will do whatever it takes to win.
I will not succumb to the idea that our enemy is our friend because he knows how to speak kind words periodically. I will not succumb to the idea that Islamofascism is a law enforcement problem. I will not succumb to the fatalist Christian idea that we are in the End Times.
I will continue to fight as long as G-d grants me breath in my lungs.
But, as Nietzsche said, be careful that you do not become the monster whom you fight. I sometimes fear that I am becoming a monster. And sometimes, I fear that my fear of becoming a monster might just be the weakening of my resolve.
I am on a road, my path of destiny, and there is no turning back.
If I make mistakes, I pray that G-d will forgive me.
Here is a letter I wrote to my blog partner Publius 2000 last night. I go to church with Publius and I have immense respect for both his intelligence and his decency.
This might just be me exhibiting my insecurities, but one thing I really like about the idea of having you on the show is to demonstrate the kind of ideology I am grounded in.
As you and I and Ronit have discussed from the very beginning of our endeaovors, I am a consistent and passionate mouthpiece, but I am also a jerk. I come off as a bit of a loon. The thing is, I am not a loon, but there is something about the way I represent myself that puts across that idea.
You, in particular, and Ronit as well, come across as more reasonable people than I.
I may be a good mouthpiece, because I am willling to speak out ALL THE TIME, but I think I need help.
I have friends in the blog world who are like you. Baron and Dymphna at Gates of Vienna are similar to you. They are both professorial types who have a lot of respect for what I do.
I see myself as a Thomas Paine type of person. I am an agitator. I am a troublemaker at heart, but/and that kind of thing is needed in times like we are living in.
I am not the bad guy I often represent myself as. I am not just a sloganeer. You know me. I am a person with an appreciation for subtelties and nuances. If I weren't that, I wouldn't be friends with people like you and Ronit.
But, the fact remains, that I am willing to cut through subtelty and nuance more often than most. I am more than willing to summarize complicated ideas into cheapassed slogans for the masses. I think this kind of thing is needed during time of war.
I have developed a very specific strategy to what I am doing (which I choose not to share with anyone).
I believe that I am sacrificing myself for a greater good. I believe I am doing something on a macro-level which is for the best, but if looked at from an individual standpoint, I'm just being an asshole.
You said to me something to the effect of, "Well, if you are ok with what you are doing spiritually, then good for you ...."
Well, like I said, I'm not totally ok with what I'm doing.
But, I'm doing what I'm doing with a bigger strategy.
I'm a propagandist.
I told my wife on 9/11 that this was a talent I have. I have been in advertising all of my adult life. I have an ability to condense and codify complicated ideas. I think I need to do this, and I need to do it for the complicated demographics and psychographics of Western Civilization. We are a very complicated cultue. We are not multicultral, as our leaders would like us to believe, but instead, as free people, we have chosen, many different lifestyles, as is our right.
I am trying to give voice and celebrate that freedom, and that right.
I believe I am doing a good job.
More and more, I recognize that I am in exile from the people that I admire and love. I think you might be one of the few people who has the historical understanding to know that there is precendent for what I do.
Or, maybe, I really am just a jerk.
I don't know.
But, I am trying to do my best to give voice to the concerns of our team. I am trying to make sure that our team (the West) speaks of victory, and not of defeat.
I hope this makes sense to you.
I have no idea how he will respond, and in a sense in doesn't matter, because as I said, this is my destined path.
I would like my Christian friends to understand, but I don't think they will.
I am an asshole. I am a jerk. I am becoming a person that I never anticipated that I would become. I have been a peaceful person all my life. I am a lifelong registered Democrat. I was, basically, a Pacifist and a leftie, but I can not stand by and watch our leaders hand over the keys to Western Civilization to the enemies of freedom.
I love my family, and I love my friends with more tenderness every day of my life, because I am realizing more and more how precious our beautiful lives are here in America. But, there are entire swaths of the world that are completely dominated by hatred and insanity.
We need to put a stop to that, my friends, or it will put a stop to us!
He was a star of Major league baseball, a ferocious pitcher, a supporter of Israel, and seemingly, a truly decent guy, although he was plagued with human frailty.
A three-time All-Star who saved 286 games, Beck was known for his bushy mustache and gregarious personality. His family and friends remembered him as an intimidating competitor who was a soft touch away from the field - and as a man who devoted time and money to helping children with AIDS.
"At his core, he was determination," his wife, Stacey, said in remarks during the service. "He never quit. That doesn't mean he never failed. He just kept trying."
A portrait of Beck, his hair flapping as he fired a pitch in a Giants uniform, was placed above the closed casket.
The Giants plan to honor Stacey and Rod Beck at their annual "Until There's a Cure Day" event, scheduled for July 27 at AT&T Park. The event raises funds for AIDS education and research.
"He stepped up and gave a face to those with AIDS," Stacey said. "He hugged and kissed children others were afraid to touch. He convinced others to do the same. He helped eradicate shame and ignorance."
Beck was found dead in his northeast Phoenix home Saturday. He was 38. He is survived by Stacey and their two daughters.
G-d Bless Rod Beck and his family. He was the baseball equivalent of a warrior; willing to do what it takes to win.
JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice twice referred to Hamas as a "resistance movement" during a meeting with reporters from the New York Daily News earlier this month, but the newspaper did not report her remarks, WND has learned. Rice's interview is transcribed in full on the State Department website.
Rice's statements mark the second documented time in recent months she called Hamas a "resistance movement" during unscripted chats with journalists.
Hamas is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shooting attacks and rocket firings. It's classified by the State Department as a terror organization. The group's official charter calls for the murder of Jews and quotes widely from the anti-Semitic creed, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
During the interview June 8 with the editorial board of the Daily News, Rice was asked about the recent history of democratic elections in the Middle East resulting in the rise to power of terror groups, such as Hamas.
Rice told the paper it was "very interesting to see Hamas trying to come to terms with no longer being really a resistance movement, but having to deal with politics."
Rice then referred to Hamas as a resistance movement a second time during then interview. "A moderate Palestinian friend of mine said, 'You know, they (Hamas) used to be the great resistance, running the streets with their faces covered and going after Israel. And now, they look like a bunch of politicians who also can't make the sewer system work.'" Love the qualifier -"moderate."
She went on to reference Hamas' terror cells, calling them the group's "military wing," which regularly carries out terror attacks, including shootings and firing of rockets into Jewish population centers.
"And they're (Hamas) clearly uncomfortable in that framework, which is part of why I think you see the military wing of Hamas trying to make this again about Israel and the Palestinians, not about the contestation of politics inside the Palestinian territories," Rice said.
Rice's remarks were not challenged by the Daily News editors. Much of the interview was conducted by Daily News Chairman Mort Zuckerman, who is also a prominent Jewish leader. Oh puhleeze, Zuckerman is such a schmuck.
Washington, DC... The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today sent a letter signed by six former U.S. ambassadors to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, asking him to remove former President Jimmy Carter from his position as Honorary Chairman of Democrats Abroad, an arm of the DNC.
The letter comes in response to statements by Carter which call into doubt his suitability as a representative of the United States abroad. Recently, he criticized the U.S. government for withholding direct aid to Hamas, describing this policy as "criminal." Read the letter here.
UPDATE: Gaza - Year Zero By Jonathan Spyer , The Guardian, June 22, 2007 The Hamas coup that took place in Gaza last week is an event of historic importance. For the first time in the region, Islamist fighters took on the internationally recognised forces of a western-subsidised Arab nationalist client - and beat them hands down. Fatah was revealed to be the empty, corrupted shell that most Palestinians and many observers of Palestinian politics have known it to be for a long time. The implications of the bloody putsch in tiny, crowded Gaza have not yet presented themselves in full. But it is already possible to make a number of observations, and draw some tentative conclusions.
Three observations: Firstly, the coup is the latest victory to be added to the considerable list of gains made by the Iranian-Syrian alliance in the last four years. Following on from what looks like the successful undermining of western policy in Iraq, the ongoing Syrian attempt at re-encroachment in Lebanon, the electoral triumph of Hamas in 2006, and the holding by Hezbollah of Israel to a bloody stalemate in 2006, the latest events will be a further indication to the Iran-led bloc that their way - the way of 'muqawama' (resistance) is the road to victory.[...]Secondly, Arab political establishments are aware of what is happening, are frightened by it, but have not yet developed a coherent response. Given their track record in responding decisively on other matters of import, optimism would be misplaced.[...]
Thirdly -the regime Hamas is creating in Gaza will be one of prayer, poverty and bloody repression. Read all of it here.
Nothing is more depressing me than the books of Daniel, Isaiah, and Revelation.
God created human beings to have will.
What are we gonna do about this mess we're in? We are accountalbe to the heavens.
They ask me how I feel And if my love is real And how I know I'll make it through.
And they, they look at me and frown, They'd like to drive me from this town, They don't want me around' Cause I believe in you.
They show me to the door, They say don't come back no more' Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,
And I walk out on my own A thousand miles from home But I don't feel alone' Cause I believe in you.
I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter, I believe in you even though we be apart. I believe in you even on the morning after.
Oh, when the dawn is nearing Oh, when the night is disappearing Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.
Don't let me drift too far, Keep me where you are Where I will always be renewed.
And that which you've given me today Is worth more than I could pay And no matter what they say I believe in you.
I believe in you when winter turn to summer, I believe in you when white turn to black, I believe in you even though I be outnumbered. Oh, though the earth may shake me
Oh, though my friends forsake me Oh, even that couldn't make me go back. Don't let me change my heart, Keep me set apart From all the plans they do pursue. And I, I don't mind the pain Don't mind the driving rain I know I will sustain' Cause I believe in you.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton got out of jail Tuesday and immediately got back to being Paris Hilton, summoning a hair-salon van and, by her mere presence, creating a huge traffic jam that angered the neighbors.
It appeared that Hilton's plans to serve God in some way, perhaps by creating a halfway house for former ex-convicts like herself, would have to wait at least a day as she readjusted to the simple life of fame and celebrity.
"There's not going to be a press conference today. I just spoke to Mr. Hilton. They have no plans to make any statement," police Sgt. B. Anthony Roberts told reporters assembled outside the front gate of her grandparents' estate as the newly freed heiress kept a low profile inside. Although Hilton kept out of sight, her presence was still palpable up and down the block, from the TV satellite vans that took up so much room on the narrow street that cars couldn't pass one another to the fast-food luncheon that was passed along to the assembled masses outside.
Many conservatives do not like Joeseph Campbell, but what would we do if we didn't have Medussa to talk about?
We can only hope. (Thanks to Rocketsbrain for passing this along):
MASS RIOTING Against the Regime in Iran!
RIOTING IN IRAN!!The latest gas crisis has the people rioting against the Regime!** Report: Upset crowds set fire to some 50 gas stations in Tehran!** Another Report: ";The Situation is Out of Control!"Some youths hurled stones and chanted, "Guns, fireworks, tanks, (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad should be killed", the witness said- Free Republic .
Winston is getting first hand reports on the situation:
I am getting some first hand reports from inside of Iran about the situation resulted from fuel ration policy which will go into effect as of tonight midnight (local time) through out the country.Angry people have blocked the main highway in Tehran and several serious clashes have occurred in gas stations across the capital. The amount of anger among the people is such that police forces have refused to intervene in some parts of the city where roads are blocked and people have shattered the buildings' windows. And some reports indicate that 50 petrol stations were set ablaze in Tehran alone and at least 3 people died in the clashes.
We can only ponder and try to get the most from our situation here on Earth. There is a spiritual reality beyond this existence that we cannot fully comprehend as long as we are in these forms that we are in now.
So what can we do?
We can try to be good. We can try to let ourselves grow to include our families, our friends and our fellow human beings.
When I was a child I read something in school that impressed me. It was the philosophy of an Indian — as in Native American — tribe. It said that we as humans start out with an understanding of our selfish needs. Later in life this understanding can grow and we can understand the needs of and feel a oneness with our family, and, as our empathy continues to grow, our tribe, mankind, all life, mother earth, the universe and all existence.
I think that was the most important thing I ever learned in school, and I also think that I learned it by accident. I don’t think I was supposed to learn that the self can grow. I was supposed to learn not to be arrogant about my own culture.
I learned not to be arrogant about my own culture, and I learned it well. For many years I believed everything from other cultures was automatically better then what my own could provide. I lost many important moments with my grandfather, arguing silly things that he didn’t have patience for, nor could he understand how I got them into my head.
I enjoy reading Fjordman’s articles, and how he speculates about how political correctness and Multiculturalism might be connected to or descended from Communism.
But I don’t think that there is a connection, other than the rejection of the self.It’s like having a monkey running amok in our garden with an axe. If you break the axe and the monkey picks up a saw, it doesn’t mean that the saw is somehow a descendant of the axe. It just means that the monkey will do anything to create more destruction.
The monkey here is the rejection of the self. When the self is rejected, there cannot be empathy for others. Instead of letting the self grow naturally, it has been rejected as evil to begin with, and we are left with a hollow human being without the potential for growth.
It’s a Utopian idea: the selfless people of a dream about a perfect world. It must have somehow been inspired by an idea of very spiritually developed people, but when the primitive newborn self was declared evil, this was soon forgotten. And then all manifestations of the self were seen as evil. Love of self, love of family, love of one’s tribe or race, nationalism and so on.
I think Panarath has hit on something very important here. When you think about it, all totalitarianism relies on the rejection of the self.
The Judeo-Christian tradition, on the other hand, teaches that the person is so important, as an individual self, that all should be granted equal rights; the right to free speech, to own property, and to equal protection under the law.
The Bible tells us that we, as individual selves, are so important that God would lay down the life of His only begotten Son so that, if we believe in Him, we may have everlasting life, and share it with Him. Jesus, himself, fretted over the one lost individual so much so that was said,
What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them,
'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'
Our Declaration of Independence tells us, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We are the inheritors of such a tradition. We ought to protect it. It is precious.
I'm sure Alan Johnston feels good about all the support he's getting from his fellow journalists as he sits, somewhere, in some small, dark room, with guns pointed at his head. From No Pasaran:
At roughly 1315 UTC, at the same time the BBC was having an on-air "silent vigil" for the release of kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, a clan member of the group holding him had his head blown off by masked men.
Munir Dughmush was shot while standing outside a building in Gaza City's Zaitoun neighborhood, sources in the Gaza Strip said. They said masked gunmen opened fire at him, killing him instantly.
Following the incident, foreign journalists were advised to stay away from the Gaza Strip for fear of reprisal.
They recently said they were willing to talk about releasing Johnson.
How then does a highly influential subculture of fantasists with moral uncertainty and journalism degrees defend its’ own against another highly influential subculture of fantasists with amoral tactics and small arms? It doesn’t.
I‘m sure those who participated in the big BBC-staffer group hug believed that their vigils, websites, sign-bearing, and pot-banging will somehow appeal to the compassion of those who hold Johnston and get him released. This would only be possible if there was a way in Gazan militant society to actually act with compassion (if one was capable of it), and even yet not get shot by someone else if you try.
All their “campaigning” has done is raise the man's stock.
The more of a pointless a stink they make about Johnston’s captivity, the more he's worth as a captive.
Which brings us to the the accompanying photo. Journalists without borders who seem to want to conceal their identity to even show empathy for one of their kidnapped fellow journalists. Even if they are just kids imagining their hearts are with him - Indeed they’re displaying the fear that they themselves have sewn by the over-reporting and giving too much importance and credence to the causes of Johnston’s captors.
The Left Front: The Left Will Try To Revive The Fairness Doctrine
Air America failed because no one wanted to listen to it. It is possible that this is because it was just a particularly bad example of left-wing radio. Or, it is possible that left-wing ideas just do not translate well through the medium of talk radio.
Whatever the case, the left, as per usual, can not sit idly by and accept the results of the market. Instead, they must regulate the market to make sure that everyone (meaning everyone on the left) has a "fair" chance.
Our conclusion is that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system, particularly the complete breakdown of the public trustee concept of broadcast, the elimination of clear public interest requirements for broadcasting, and the relaxation of ownership rules including the requirement of local participation in management.
Ultimately, these results suggest that increasing ownership diversity, both in terms of the race/ethnicity and gender of owners, as well as the number of independent local owners, will lead to more diverse programming, more choices for listeners, and more owners who are responsive to their local communities and serve the public interest.
Along with other ideas, the report recommends that national radio ownership not be allowed to exceed 5 percent of the total number of AM and FM broadcast stations, and local ownership should not exceed more than 10 percent of the total commercial radio stations in a given market.
Anyway, I do think it is arguable what percentage of radio stations a corporation like Clear Channel ought to be allowed to own in a given market. However, attempting to ensure a certain percentage of minority and local ownership is racist in nature, and an a socialistic restriction of free trade to boot.
The Left's solutions are always the same, aren't they? More and more government restrictions under the guise of trying to help minorities and women.
Jimmy Carter, the George Washington of the modern terrorist state. Congratulations to him on his proud legacy. Asshole:
We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has created the entire mess.
The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.
Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty."
The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"
Well, we see now, don't we? Carter is even willing to support Hamas, and their calls for genocide, and their coup d'etat in Gaza, as Democracy.
Article 16: The liberation of Palestine, from an international viewpoint, is a defensive act necessitated by the demands of self-defense as stated in the Charter of the United Nations. For that, the people of Palestine, desiring to befriend all nations which love freedom, justice, and peace, look forward to their support inrestoring the legitimate situation to Palestine, establishing peaceand security in its territory, and enabling its people to exercisenational sovereignty and freedom.
Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947,and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the loss of time, because they were contrary to thewill of the Palestinian people and its natural right to itshomeland, and were in violation of the basic principles embodied inthe Charter of the United Nations, foremost among which is the rightto self-determination.
Article 18: The Balfour Declaration, the Palestine Mandate System,and all that has been based on them are considered null and void.The claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestineare not in agreement with the facts of history or with the truebasis of sound statehood. Judaism, because it is a divine religion, is not a nationality with independent existence. Furthermore, the Jews are not one people with an independent personality because theyare citizens to their states.
Article 19: Zionism is a colonialist movement in its inception, aggressive and expansionist in its goal, racist in itsconfigurations, and fascist in its means and aims. Israel, in itscapacity as the spearhead of this destructive movement and as the pillar of colonialism, is a permanent source of tension and turmoil in the Middle East, in particular, and to the internationalcommunity in general. Because of this, the people of Palestine areworthy of the support and sustenance of the community of nations.
Article 20: The causes of peace and security and the requirements ofright and justice demand from all nations, in order to safeguardtrue relationships among peoples and to maintain the loyalty ofcitizens to their homeland, that they consider Zionism an illega lmovement and outlaw its presence and activities.
So, in other words, the Palestinians Liberation Organization, which is the party upon which is the parent organization of Fatah, does not accept the existence of Israel at all.
How moderate is that?
Additionally, I would like to point out that while the above linkwhich explains that Arafat was indeed related to al-Husseini doesindicate that Arafat was part of the man's original name, I have never seen that claim made elsewhere.Here's why that might be interesting.Mt. Arafat is the mountain which overlooks Mecca. When Muslims makethe Hajj, they spend their last evening on Mt. Arafat and then descend into Mecca.
This is remiscent of the story of Moses looking down on the promisedland from Mount Nebo on the night before he died.
Here's the story from Deuteronomy 34:
1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the topof Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the wholeland—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraimand Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, [a] 3the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the Cityof Palms, as far as Zoar.
4 Then the LORD said to him, "This is theland I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'Iwill give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with youreyes, but you will not cross over into it."5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORDhad said.
I believe Arafat may have taken his name because he believed himself to be the Moses of the Palestinian people.
I think the past week or so has provided us with a number of clarifying moments. I would define a clafirying moment as a time when something happens which forces people to come down on one side, or the other of the line between good and evil.
"This is an occasion for the world's 1.5billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision," said Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's religious affairs minister.
"The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism," he told his country's parliament.
"If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so, unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."
Yep, that's the Religion of Peace for you. Salman Rushdie is a great writer. He writes a book critical of some of the violent elements of Islam. He is knighted for the contributions of his entire body of work to British culture, which is an act of inclusion, considering the man is not native British. And, for this, the Religion of Peace threatens to blow people up.
That's clarifying.
It has also been clarifying to watch events unfold in Gaza and to see how our own Western policians are dealing with them.
Hamas has taken over Gaza entirely, evicting members of the Fatah political party from the offices to which they were elected by the will of the people. Hamas has performed a coup d'etat.
... the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
So now we know, Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, is openly in support of the genocide of Jews; a second Holocaust.
The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration’s refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was “criminal.”
Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."
"After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after.
Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:
Article Eight: Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.
The openly stated goal of Hamas is to kill Jews. Therefore, Jimmy Carter is now clearly advocating for genocide; the second Holocaust.
U.S. Would Nuke Afghanistan: British Children Tell Themselves Ghost Stories Around The Campfire
Well actually, they aren't children. Instead, they are a former British diplomat to the UN, and the makers of a new documentary:
Britain joined the United States' invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the shit" out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.
In comments printed in advance in the Daily Mirror tabloid on Monday, Christopher Meyer said that fear explained why Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to stand with US President George W. Bush in his decision to invade Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- to temper his aggressive battle plans.
"Blair's real concern was that there would be quote unquote 'a knee-jerk reaction' by the Americans ... they would go thundering off and nuke the shit out of the place without thinking straight," Meyer reported told the documentary, according to the Mirror.
In other excerpts of the documentary, printed in The Observer newspaper on Sunday, members of Blair's inner circle said the prime minister agreed to commit troops to the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq despite believing that the United States had failed to prepare adequately for post-war reconstruction.
Channel 4 will air the first part of "The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair" on Saturday.
Listen up all British people. The truth is, we Americans have a plan to nuke the UK.
I have refrained from commenting on this case though because I tend to only concentrate on issues which I consider to have international importance. But, I must say, I am very happy to see that justice has been served:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - District Attorney Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, a disciplinary committee decided Saturday. Even the veteran prosecutor said the punishment was appropriate.
"This matter has been a fiasco. There's no doubt about it," said committee chairman F. Lane Williamson.
Nifong sat motionless, one hand resting over his mouth, as Williamson recounted how he engaged in dishonest and deceitful conduct. He said Nifong's early comments about the case—which included a confident proclamation that he wouldn't allow Durham to become known for "a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl"—were purposefully designed to boost his campaign for district attorney.
"At the time he was facing a primary, and yes, he was politically naive," Williamson said. "But we can draw no other conclusion that those initial statements he made were to further his political ambitions."
Nifong will not appeal the punishment, his lawyer said.
Nifong should probably have to serve time in prison as well, but I never expected even a disbarrment. Good deal.
The man is a disgrace, and I hope he is treated as a disgrace wherever he goes from now on.
He ought to have no more opportunities in any positions of power. If he wants to redeem himself by serving, well then, great. But, I really hope everyone has the sense to treat this man as the pariah he is.
The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, is a thoroughly dishonorable fellow. You can't blame him, really, for seizing his main chance and perverting every principle of prosecutorial ethics, because he only did it for personal gain. He was acquainted with Crystal Mangum and her family from a previous case, and seized upon her accusations just when the Durham Police were about to conclude, based on pending DNA evidence, that there was nothing to do.
Nifong was motivated primarily by ambition and greed. He is honestly corrupt, and didn't see anything wrong in destroying 3 innocent lives so that he could portray himself as the champion of the poor, the downtrodden, and the African-American, thus positioning himself to garner the slim margin he needed in order to be elected District Attorney and magnify his pension. To achieve his goal, Nifong set up improper and irregular interviews with the accuser, pilloried his 3 innocent victims in biased and misleading press briefings, and concealed and misrepresented critical DNA evidence.
The North Carolina State Bar Association's brief against him is entirely damning, and the State Attorney General's dismissal of all charges against the Lacrosse players, and his characterization of Nifong's zealous prosecution, used unprecedented language in lambasting Nifong for being just the sort of scoundrel he is. At a minimum, he will be disbarred for life. His conduct in this case was so outrageous that he is probably also liable for civil damages. I would not be surprised if he ends up behind bars, as well.
As I mentioned in the post below, Chris Cornell is one of my favorite singers. I loved him with Soundgarden, Audioslave, and solo. I remember seeing him in concert once and I came away with the sad impression that he might have been the angriest man I had ever seen who had not killed himself.
Well, he seems to be undergoing some sort of change. Thank God for him and his talent and for God's saving Grace. And, I hope and pray he comes through it ok.
In this video (with lyrics) he basically admits that my impression of him was true. However, the truth is, in the absence of love, many of us fill our lives with hate. But, the ultimate reality is, we can never fully convince ourselves that there is such a thing as nothing.
According to the international left and the paleo-right, Israel is a fascist apartheid state, a brutal occupier, universally despised by the oppressed Palestinian people.
So where do the oppressed Palestinians look for sanctuary, when the terrorist government they elected begins the inevitable slaughter?
Palestinians run as they try to cross to the Israel side at the Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Dozens of Palestinians converged on the Erez crossing with Israel on Saturday, trying to leave the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ takeover. At the same time, hundreds of people looted police positions on the Palestinian side of Erez, and at one point Israeli troops fired in the air to keep the crowd at bay. The looters walked off with furniture and scrap metal. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Israel Is Damned If They Do, And Damned If They Don't
There is a civil war going on in Gaza. Hamas is rounding up and killing the Fatah "Security Forces."
You just know people will figure out a way to blame the Jews for it. Only, how? How could they possibly blame the Jews for the fact that two Palestinian factions are at war with each other?
The Hamas campaign to eradicate Fatah from Gaza is certainly not the sole cause of Gazans’ misery. They long suffered from Israel’s suffocating occupation, and then from Ariel Sharon’s foolishly unilateral withdrawal in 2005, a move that allowed Hamas to bid for power with the misleading claim that its rockets and suicide bombings had driven Israeli soldiers and settlers out of Gaza. Gazans were victimized as well by the corruption and misrule of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah cronies.
Got that? It's the Jews fault, because of the occupation, AND it is the Jews fault that they stopped occupying Gaza.
So, what words should reasonable people choose to describe our feelings about such reasoning? Well how about this:
Fuck the Boston Globe.
Here's video from the Gaza Civil War.
From Infidels Are Cool:
The bitterness of the civil war that has forced the United Nations relief agency to suspend all but emergency deliveries of food and medical supplies is clear in the epithets the two sides use for each other. Hamas calls the Fatah fighters “the Jew-American army” while Fatah, alluding to Iran’s backing for Hamas, calls the Sunni Muslims of Hamas “the Shi’ites.”
When not issuing these freaky fatwas, the good Doctor can be seen meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, discussing how to improve the teaching of Islam in Britain.
In his book Religion and Life – Modern Everyday Fatwas, Egyptian Mufti Dr. Ali Gum’a wrote that the companions of the Prophet Muhammad would bless themselves by drinking his urine, and described an incident of urine-drinking from a hadith: “Umm Ayman drank the urine of the Prophet, and the prophet told her: ‘This stomach will not be dragged through the fire of Hell, because it contains something of our Lord the Messenger of Allah...’
”This blessing,“ Al-Gum’a added, ”[can also] be done with the honorable saliva, sweat, hair, urine or blood of the Prophet. This is because anyone who knows the love of the Messenger of Allah is not repulsed [by these]; just as a mother is not repulsed by the feces of her son, this is even more so [in the case of] our Lord the Messenger of Allah, whom we love more than our fathers, sons, and wives. Anyone who was or is repulsed by the Messenger of Allah must recant his faith.“
Following the ensuing uproar, Gum’a came to the defense of his fatwa, saying: ”The entire body of the Prophet, whether exposed or hidden, is pure, and there is nothing in it– including his secretions – that [can] repulse anyone. His sweat smelled better than perfume. Umm Haram would collect this sweat and distribute it to the people of Al-Madina.“
Dr. Gum’a added: ”The hadith of Suhail bin Omar at Al-Hudaybiya says: ‘Oh Lord, I was with Kisra [the ruler of Persia] and with Kaisar [the ruler of Byzantium] and I saw no instance in which the leader was glorified like the Companions of the Prophet glorified Muhammad. The second Muhammad spat, one of them would immediately hasten [to grab his saliva] and smear it upon his face.’ Hence, the ulema, including Ibn Hajar Al-Askalani, Al-Baihaqi, Al-Daraqutni and Al-Haythami, determined that the Prophet’s entire body was pure."
JPost: A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior officers in the US armed forces had thrown their support behind Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop Iran.
Predictions within the US military are that Bush will do what is needed to stop Teheran before he leaves office in 2009, including possibly launching a military strike against its nuclear facilities…
According to a high-ranking American military officer, the US Navy and Air Force would play the primary roles in any military action taken against Iran. One idea under consideration is a naval blockade designed to cut off Iran’s oil exports.
The officer said that if the US government or the UN Security Council decided on this course of action, the US Navy would most probably not block the Strait of Hormuz - a step that would definitely draw an Iranian military response - but would patrol farther out and turn away tankers on their way to load oil.
THE FACT THAT IT WOULD BE A NAVY LED ATTACK IS WHY THE NEW CHAIRMAN WILL BE AN ADMIRAL.
British Company Attempts To Sell Black Market Weapons-Grade Uranium To Iran
You've heard Iran say it over and over, folks. Their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. So then, why are they buying weapons-grade uranium on the black market? And, why the hell is a British company trying to sell it to them? The very liberal British daily, The Guardian, has the story:
MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran Guardian A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal.
Anti-terrorist officers and MI6 are now investigating a wider British-based plot allegedly to supply Iran with material for use in a nuclear weapons programme. One person has already been charged with attempting to proliferate 'weapons of mass destruction'.
During the 20-month investigation, which also involved MI5 and Customs and Excise, a group of Britons was tracked as they obtained weapons-grade uranium from the black market in Russia. Investigators believe it was intended for export to Sudan and on to Iran
Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plantsTimes Online IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.
We are nuts if we do not destroy the Iranian regime.
President Carter receiving the International Zayed Prize for the Environment in 2001 from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maklum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Minister of Defence. The prize included $500,000. The following year President Carter refused the Wiesenthal Center’s request to repudiate the Zayed Center in Abu Dhabi for a symposium where it was asserted that the Nazi Holocaust was a ‘false fable’.
Atrocity to follow shortly. You have been warned. According to Guysen News:
The Palestinian government has decided to support the cease-fireproposal of President Mahmoud Abbas. Ghazi Hamad, the Palestinian governmentspokesman, said: «We approve the idea of a broad, temporary, bilateralcalm».
My church has become aware of the Darfur problem. We discuss the situation in church and in Bible Studies, and we take up collections to help the people of Darfur. Nice, huh?
Never is it mentioned that the Sudanese genocide has been going on for twenty-four years, not just the four years that the media has been covering it. Never is it mentioned that over 2 million black Christians and animists have been killed in Sudan. Never is it mentioned that the Arab government of Sudan is using the Arab Janjaweed militias to systematically kill and rape millions of black people. Never is it mentioned that when the Arab Muslim establisment ran out of Christians and animists to kill they set to work killing the black Sufi Muslims, and that it was only when the government began killing Muslims that the media began covering the situation in earnest.
No my Church would never mention these facts, because it would mean condemning Islam explicitly for its evil melding of religion and politics.
Jeez Pastorius, why don't you just go to a different church? Well, you know what? I've been to other churches and I don't know of any that discuss such issues openly and honestly.
Darfur is a catastrophe that could and should be solved in an hour or so. The killers largely operate from helicopters and small fixed wing aircraft. We could destroy them all in an hour or so. But that would be "wrong," because it would violate the current hymnal.
Go tell the victims. Explain why sanctions are better, because it makes the Western politicians feel pious. Even though black Africans are being slaughtered.
And while you're at it, tell the starving people of Zimbabwe why their killer and oppressor, Robert Mugabe, is left untouched by the entire outside world. Explain why St Nelson Mandela doesn't give a damn, while you're at it.
The Middle East is tough. These African horrors are relatively easy to fix. But nobody does a damn thing except talk about sanctions...and then largely fail to enact and/or enforce them. When did Western leaders become vulgar Marxists? These evils do not have economic causes and are unlikely to be defeated by economic means (remember the Iraqi sanctions?). They have political causes and can be defeated by superior fire power.
Recently I interviewed Don Cheadle, who starred in that marvelous film Hotel Rwanda a year or two back. He's now written a book about Darfur. Very nice fellow. But he doesn't seem to appreciate that the big lesson of Rwanda is that the thugs understand very clearly that whenever the west starts working through the UN it sends the message: We're not serious. Indeed, we're so unserious we're going to "solve" this problem through a process which gives mass murderers the one thing you need if you want to kill hundreds of thousands of people - time.
So Cheadle's book proposes all kinds of things you the citizen can do for Darfur - write your Congressman, send a letter to the local paper, etc. There's a lot of it about. A week or two back, the following caught my eye:
"On Sunday, April 29, Salt Lake Saves Darfur invites the greater Salt Lake community of compassion to join with us as we honor the fallen and suffering Darfuris in a day of films, discussion and dance with a Sudanese dance troupe."
Very nice. But wouldn't it make more sense to try the Ledeen solution and save the Sudanese dance troupe for the post-victory party? "Salt Lake Saves Darfur" looks like doing wonders for "the greater Salt Lake community of compassion" but rather less for the people of Darfur. There is a grotesque narcissism in the determination of the Save Darfur campaign to embrace every strategy except the one that would actually save Darfur while there's anyone still left to save. The reality seems to be that these groups prefer to go the ineffectual dance-troupe route because it makes them - the "community of compassion" - the focus of things.
Here's what I think of the "community of compassion": they are so wrapped up in their communal mental masturbation--which brings them pleasure, and reinforces in their mind what wonderful, caring people they are--that they lack appreciation for the real world outside their feelings. They mean well. In fact, they care so much, it postively makes me puke.
Steyn is absolutely correct. This is a pure and absolutely grotesque narcissism whose pretentious and sanctimonious presentation attempts to disguise its self-serving origins.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map", has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat.
"With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
"By God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future," he said. He did not elaborate.
Iran has described the war last summer between Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel as a victory for the Iranian-backed group. Tehran also often praises the Palestinians for what it says is resistance against Israeli occupation.
Ahmadinejad was speaking ahead of Monday's anniversary of the death in 1989 of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, whose words Ahmadinejad echoed when he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
The president's comments caused consternation in Israel and the West, which also fear Iran is seeking to build an atomic arsenal under cover of a civilian nuclear power program, a charge Tehran denies.
Although Ahmadinejad has said Iran is not a threat to Israel, Iranian officials have said Tehran would respond swiftly to any Israeli attack. Some analysts have speculated Israel could seek to knock out Iran's atomic sites.
I have never seen this movie. I can not bear to see it. The music tells me all I need to know. I am posting this for the music and I am finding myself slain by the soundtrack.
I Think I Have Contracted Bush Derangement Syndrome
George Bush has gone from being a great President to being almost as bad as his detractors make him out to be, and he has accomplished the whole decline in the relatively short time since his reelection.
A stunning decline. I am beginning to really hate George Bush.
Maybe someone can explain how this helps our negotiating position
Rice Says No War Plans Against Iran
MADRID, Spain (AP) - The U.S. is not preparing for war against Iran and Vice President Dick Cheney supports that policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, taking a swipe at a U.N. official who says he's worried about "crazies" who want to start bombing.
"The president of the United States has made very clear what our policy is. That policy is supported by all the members of his Cabinet and by the vice president of the United States," Rice said Friday.
Now that means either the whole government is a bunch of liars or a bunch of fools. Neither of which I care for in this instance.
I have already voted in one fool (Jimmah), and worked against a considerable liar (Nixon) Who are these people and what have they done with the guys who said 'pretty soon the whole world will hear you'?
The Bush Admin has lost me on the border
The Bush Admin has lost me on the immigration reform as they want it
The Bush Admin has lost me on backing off on supporting democracies
The Bush Admin has lost me on the Iraq as they have done it
The Bush Admin is now losing me on Iran.
If they have lost me (and folsk like me) on these foreign and security issues, who will they have left?
Film maker Brooke Goldstein traveled to the West Bank and filmed more than five hours of interviews with terrorists and their brainwashed children. She went into it believing the situation had been exaggerated—but found it was worse than she could have imagined: Recruited To Die.
As the group walked through the town, they spoke to Palestinian Arab children in schools and on the street. “Our fixer was encouraging us to speak with the children. I think I’d always, deep down, had a hard time thinking the problem was really that bad. I thought maybe it was a lunatic fringe,” she said.
In fact, the fanaticism was worse than she ever imagined. “The most shocking thing was reconciling the normal appearance of these kids and what was coming out of their mouths,” she said. “I was holding these beautiful children in my lap, and my translator was translating words of hate.”
The story was always the same. “No child ever said, ‘I don’t want to be a martyr.’ They talked about fame, paradise, virgins, and Ferris wheels [after death]. They were happy to tell me they hated Jews,” she said.
The children were more fanatical than their parents. “When we interviewed Hussam’s family for the film, his parents were distraught. They don’t believe in this whole child suicide bomber concept,” Ms. Goldstein said. “Then I interviewed his sister, who was like, ‘I’m so proud of my brother. Hamas says he’s a hero.’ At one point she had a loser, dwarf, mentally handicapped brother. Now she’s the coolest girl in class, and very proud.”
In addition to the children, Ms. Goldstein interviewed Mr. Zubeidah, commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin. At the time, the Israel Defense Forces had made five attempts to assassinate him. In person, Mr. Zubeidah was not the harsh figure she had expected. “It was like talking to any other kid, about 27 years old,” she said. “He was smiling. My translator told me, ‘He’s talking about killing Jews.’”
If you want to know how disgusting the Palestinian Cult of Death is, then check out this example of indoctrination and child abuse:
Saudi Arabia is among the most disgusting countries on the face of the Earth. Sharia is the Constitution. This means gays, apostates and adulterers are killed for their "crimes." Women are slaves in Saudi Arabia. They must wear the burqa. They are not allowed to make their own decisions about whether to get an education, or about whom to marry. It is illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia.
They do not allow Jews in Saudi Arabia. That's right, it's the official policy of the state. "No Jews Allowed."
Saudi Arabia is also the fount of money which backs the spread of Wahabbism which is the ideological basis of Al Qaeda
What could we possibly have to learn from these people?
If I were to meet the school administrators and teachers who were behind this, I would end up in jail. I'm so glad I live 3000 miles from them.
AMHERST— For one night, on May 9, the quaint colonial town of Amherst, New Hampshire, was transformed into a Saudi Arabian Bedouin tent community, with the help of 80 seventh-graders at the Amherst Middle School. The weather cooperated, providing 85 degree temperatures to give an authentic Saudi feel to the evening.
More than 250 guests arrived at the open tent and were welcomed with an Arabic greeting of “Marhaba” by students at a Saudi customs desk.
During the check-in, guests selected a traditional Arabic name for their name badge and completed an actual Saudi customs form, which warned in bold letters “Death for Drug Trafficking ” at the top.
Only the seventh-grade boys were allowed to host the food stations and the Arabic dancing, as the traditions of Saudi Arabia at this time prevent women from participating in these public roles.
Dressed in traditional Arabic wear—long plaid kilts, white shirts and turbans—the boys offered food and entertained guests. The Arabic dancers enthusiastically performed to music and encouraged male visitors to join their dance.
Seventh-grade girls hosted the hijab and veil stations, where other female guests learned how to wear the required head covering and veils.
Atlas adds: If this is not the sickest, pathetic attempt at submission. Our poor children. Preparing them for servitude.
Were there clitorectomy reenactments for the girls?
My friend Lady Vorzheva sent this along to me. I wonder what, exactly, is going on.
Subject: conversation with my friend who is at UCAB in Caracas — if anyone can help get this to int’l media, please let me know! 2:50 PM . .: Kate theres a lot of police man surrounding my university the situation its very very tense and surreal me: hola, Julia . .: hello, just keep an eye on UCAB check the news call univision make someone publish something me: have been watching it as much as possible today 2:51 PM . .: the students need support we are kidnapped me: where are you right now? at the univ? . .: at my university inside an office just near by the entrance where everything is happen i have my hands painted with white me: ok, am going to see what has been posted online just now 2:52 PM . .: the people is going out or trying i think http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/?p=5347 2:53 PM I gotta come back outside to see whats going on me: fuck, next wk i won’t be able to check a lot bc i’ll be in mexico on business . .: seems like they are letting the people get out me: yes, go i’ll be here for another few hrs i can give you my cel phone if you need anything, am more than happy to help . .: right now , i just need international support right now me: believe me, am working on it . .: i have your skype, dont worry gotta go me: ok, perfect talk with you soon cuidate, chama 2:54 PM . .: no s{e ni por que{´te hable en ingles estioy muy tensa me: sisas, me imagino.. pues contactate conmigo cualquier cosas que necesites This is an alert. Please, if you value freedom, repost this alert: Venezuelan Government has kidnapped the students inside the University. No one can enter or exit -from the above link-: A police barrier of the Military Police is forbidding the students of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) as they wanted to demosntrate in front of the National Parliament. The Military Police has said that the students should wait till a MPs Commission who will receive a document. In this moments there are more gruops of students who are getting to the area in support of the rest. The students have announced they will demostrate today at 11 in the La India Sq. to march till the Parliament. Major Bernal has announed them they do not have any permission to do that, but they have answered they will concentrate themselves just the same in the pavements without having the traffic interrupted. Globovisión has informed jsut now that Chávez’s supporters have just now began to get to the place and they have even set up some tents, from where they want to call on others to defend the revolution. But the students have begun to march whatever the menaces and protests and the advices from the Major about being forbidden.
