LGF Archives: August 2002
Tubas Missile Attack
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 5:54:00 pm PDT
It’s clear that Israel carried out an attack against members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs‘ Brigades today that may have resulted in some unfortunate civilian deaths. But right now there isn’t much else that’s clear about the incident; the wire services differ greatly on the details, according to their biases. ...
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Rolling Back Radical Islam
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 2:36:35 pm PDT
Here’s a fascinating, very realistic essay by Ralph Peters that tries to form a long-range strategy for dealing with the anti-civilization forces of militant Islam: Rolling Back Radical Islam. Highly recommended.
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Raging Paranoia
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:48:58 pm PDT
Christopher Johnson (no relation) diagnoses some raging Islamic paranoia at the propaganda rag he calls My Weekly Arab Reader.
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New Swedish Hijack Details
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:05:34 am PDT
The Swedish security police seem to be trying to play down the attempted hijacking incident, at a “politically sensitive time.” Margareta Linderoth, a Sapo official responsible for several departments including the one handling international terrorism, denied that police believed the arrested man was planning to attack an embassy or that ...
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The Filthy Summit
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:15:58 am PDT
When it’s all over, and every last lobster and tin of caviar and magnum of vintage champagne has been consumed, the delegates to the Johannesburg Earth Summit will have generated between 300 and 400 tons of garbage, of which only 20% will be recycled. They will have consumed 5 million ...
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Interview with Oren
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 9:44:07 am PDT
Ha'aretz has a great article today about Michael B. Oren and his book Six Days of War: No, but I read the book.
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Lionel Hampton, 2002
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 8:54:58 am PDT
Jazz virtuoso Lionel Hampton (who was a great friend of Israel) has died at the age of 94. I met him backstage at a jazz festival in Köln, and he was the epitome of a dignified gentleman. A truly fine artist who will be greatly missed. RIP.
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Move Over, M. Kahil
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 8:41:30 am PDT
If you think the anti-Israel cartoons in the Arab press are bad, or if you thought Ted Rall’s Terror Widows was about as creepy as a cartoon could get, have a look at the latest Bob the Angry Flower: Disputed Territories. Unbelievable. Julius Streicher would have been proud. The author comments ...
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Swedish Jackalope Hijacking
Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 8:22:40 am PDT
Swedish intelligence has confirmed that the Tunisian Muslim arrested yesterday with a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage was indeed planning to hijack the plane and crash it into a US embassy in Europe. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin, arrested on suspicion he was about to ...
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About Jackie Mason
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 5:53:16 pm PDT
I was going to write something about the Jackie Mason-Ray Hanania tempest-in-a-teapot, but Al Barger and Stefan Sharkansky beat me to it and said everything there is to say. Stefan links to some of Hanania’s published articles (he has a blog!), to give you an idea why the Jackie Mason ...
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Glamor Girl Irma
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 4:38:52 pm PDT
When people say mean things about me, I just look at Irma the baby ant-eater and everything’s all right.
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Don’t Dianafy 9/11
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 3:26:56 pm PDT
Mark Steyn pleads with the media not to trivialize September 11. 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, leaving a gaping hole in the lives of their children, parents, siblings and friends. Those of us who don't fall into those categories are not bereaved and, by pretending to be, we diminish ...
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Arab News Figures It Out
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 1:38:48 pm PDT
The State Department will hold a conference on anti-Americanism at the beginning of September, with experts invited from all over the world. How you become an “expert” in anti-Americanism, I don’t know. But Foggy Bottom wouldn’t need to spend all that guv'mint money if they’d just ask the editors of the ...
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Palestinian Narcissism
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:10:32 am PDT
Here’s another Palestinian poll to chew on, from December 2001, revealing the deep narcissism underlying the Palestinian self-image. The participants were read a list of events, and asked whether they agreed or disagreed to define the events as terrorism. The killing of 29 Palestinians in Hebron by Baruch Goldstein at al ...
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Palestinian Thugs Murder Teenage Girl
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:37:52 am PDT
Now the courageous freedom fighters of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a group affiliated with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, have murdered a teenage girl. The article does not explicitly say it, but this is probably the niece of Ikhlas Khouli I wrote about yesterday. No word on the nephew, who ...
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We Must Not Assume
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:22:58 am PDT
A 29-year old Muslim is under arrest in Sweden for trying to board a plane with a handgun in his carry-on luggage: Terror experts quiz hijack suspect. He was part of a group of 20 flying from Sweden to Britain to attend an Islamic conference. But of course, when the ...
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Robbins Quotes Zeppelin
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 9:39:40 am PDT
James S. Robbins points out a few similarities between 2002 and 1990: The Song Remains the Same. Haven't we been here before? President George Bush facing off with Saddam Hussein, public support for war divided, allies diffident, Arabs recalcitrant, talk of thousands of casualties and use of weapons of mass ...
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Talking Out of Both Sides
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 8:42:43 am PDT
The lawsuit by families of September 11 victims against Saudi Arabia has provoked the official Saudi media into a shrieking frenzy, even as their representatives in the West try to sound moderate. Here’s the official line their own people are hearing in Arabic, from an article titled “This Is America” in ...
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Pretty Please?
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 7:38:34 am PDT
The Palestinian security chief, Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, has told an Israeli newspaper that he asked the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to stop suicide bombings. Maybe I’m in a bad mood this morning. But rather than making me feel hopeful, this statement irritated me. Where was this guy 5 ...
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By Infinite Moonlight
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 5:30:38 pm PDT
At the Asia Times, David Isenberg provides an excellent, detailed summary of how things stand in South Asia and the Middle East: By infinite moonlight, US readies for war. If this article is accurate, we’re poised to deliver a crushing blow against Iraq, and have been for 10 years.
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More Palestinian Justice
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 5:15:16 pm PDT
The noble Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, having tortured a son into betraying his mother, are now persecuting the family of Ikhlas Khouli, kidnapping the murdered woman’s niece and nephew and threatening to murder them too. A brother and sister from the West Bank town of Tul Karm were kidnapped Thursday ...
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This Trophy Smells Funny
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 4:05:06 pm PDT
South African and Asian farmers presented several NGOs with a special award today in Johannesburg: Tail-end trophy for Greenpeace. Johannesburg - African and Asian farmers, and hawkers from across South Africa handed over a "Bullshit Trophy" (yes, that is the trophy's real name) to Greenpeace, the Third World Network and ...
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Clark in Iraq
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 3:05:07 pm PDT
Fruitcake ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark is in Baghdad, calling for the United Nations to “act to prevent an attack by the United States against Iraq.”
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Why Arabs Lose Wars
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 2:47:23 pm PDT
Here’s a fascinating and insightful article on Why Arabs Lose Wars. (Via The Corner.)
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Crude Zionist Propaganda
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 1:07:29 pm PDT
Michael B. Oren’s book Six Days of War has been universally acclaimed by reviewers as an exhaustively researched and definitive history of the 1967 Arab-Israel war. Former ambassador to Lebanon Richard B. Parker wrote: This is a fascinating, comprehensive, and readable study of one of the major turning points in ...
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RWN Interviews Pipes
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 9:47:14 am PDT
John Hawkins scored a great wide-ranging interview with Daniel Pipes. Go ye and read of it.
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They Arrest Everybody Who Sneezes
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 9:36:16 am PDT
In an interview on Fox News last Tuesday night, Ali Al-Ahmed of the Saudi Institute had some unusually direct words for the House of Saud, when asked by host Linda Vester about Saudi Arabia’s “cooperation” with the United States: VESTER: Ali, in fairness, we should mention that yesterday, the Saudis ...
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Fisking Zogby
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 9:06:41 am PDT
When I see Arab American terror apologist James Zogby on television, or read one of his articles in the Arab News or the Jordan Times, I often wonder what’s going on in his head as he twists, evades, attacks, and avoids all questions. He can’t really believe all that shinola ...
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Out of the Way, NEA
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 7:55:48 am PDT
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about a replacement for the NEA’s flawed September 11 lesson plans, from the Fordham Foundation. Fordham (not associated with the university) collected essays from 23 authors addressing the September 11 attack on the U.S. Rather than engaging in sentimentality or political correctness, this teacher's (and parent's ...
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Al Qaeda Cash Flowing Through Europe
Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 7:35:25 am PDT
The Washington Post reports that the global effort to freeze Al Qaeda funds is stalled, allowing the group to obtain tens of millions of dollars. Why has the financial campaign run aground? Because the Europeans are dragging their feet. Again. But the effort to shut down al Qaeda's financial network has ...
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Sudan Analysis
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 2:47:32 pm PDT
Don’t miss Joe Katzman’s site; he’s been publishing the stories and observations of retired Naval Intelligence Officer and international monitor Lawrence T. Peter, who just returned from Sudan.
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Nobody Likes Us
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 1:37:32 pm PDT
Well, the whole world seems to be against us, including our NATO allies. The same cries we heard before the Afghanistan campaign are being heard again: an attack on Iraq will inflame the Arab street, we’ll get bogged down in an endless war (how long before the Q word is ...
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Eminent Arab Scholars
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 9:39:43 am PDT
The Jerusalem Post has a report on a new conference on Holocaust denial and the evil Jewish Conspiracy™ scheduled at “The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up,” a Bizarro World “think tank” in Abu Dhabi. I’ve written about the Zayed Centre for Schizoid Fantasies before; one of their honored guests ...
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A Veritable Blueprint
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 7:56:10 am PDT
A new Senate report on intelligence failures before September 11 says the FBI bungled the Moussaoui investigation so badly that they missed “a veritable blueprint for 9/11:” Senate Report on Pre-9/11 Failures Tells of Bungling at FBI.
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Stop Looking At Me Like That
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 7:32:15 am PDT
Here’s a brutally funny cartoon at the Intellectual Activist about the Earth Summit in Johannesburg.
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The Logic of Nukes
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 7:23:16 am PDT
A must-read column from Charles Krauthammer explains the terrible logic of nuclear weapons, and why allowing Saddam Hussein to possess them would be disastrous.
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Who’s More Miserable?
Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 6:56:18 am PDT
I love it when James Lileks gets irked at a Guardian columnist—superior prose-wrangling is guaranteed to ensue. Today the object of his ire is the Guardian’s Idiot King, George Monbiot. This one’s a classic. Who’s more miserable - the far right or the far left? The former is likely to ...
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Bandar in Levis
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 5:28:14 pm PDT
When venturing into Dar ul-Harb, it is permissible to wear the clothing of the infidel. Interesting that the only picture released so far of these two together shows Bandar in his best Western clothes, sitting on the arm of a chair so that he’s looking down on Dubya.
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Bellying Up to the Trough
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 3:57:04 pm PDT
At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the delegates and heads of state in attendance are engaged in a solemn quest to end poverty and hunger throughout the world. And they’re starting with themselves, with lavish dinners in plush dining rooms in five-star hotels, featuring lobster, caviar, and vintage ...
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The Springer/Angelou/LGF Connection
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 3:26:31 pm PDT
LGF reader Aaron Schatz, who writes the Lycos 50 Daily Report on the most popular Internet searches, emailed to tell me that this past week he noticed a significant number of searches coming through for a particular weblog. Was it Instapundit? Andrew Sullivan? KausFiles? You’ve probably guessed where I’m heading. It was ...
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The Neighborhood is Alarmed
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 2:11:40 pm PDT
Iraq says they “could not care less” about Dick Cheney’s speech, and that they will rise up and smash... etc. The rest of the Arab world is very alarmed. "Striking Iraq is something that could have repercussions and post-strike developments. We fear chaos happening in the region," Egypt's Mubarak told a ...
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Training Wheels
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 1:41:20 pm PDT
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Stability is the Last Thing Iraq Needs
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:57:55 pm PDT
Mark Steyn takes on the myth of Middle East stability. When it comes to unsavoury foreigners, Eagleburger, Scowcroft and Kissinger are all famously "realist," though there's a fine line between realism and inertia. A decade ago, Brent Scowcroft advised Bush Sr. to stick with Gorbachev and the preservation of the ...
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Palestinian Public Opinion
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:53:20 am PDT
The results of a new poll of Palestinians show that 54% support continuing suicide attacks against Israelis in Israel. Another disturbing result: even after a peace agreement and establishment of a Palestinian state, 88% would be opposed to adopting a school curriculum that recognized Israel and taught school children not ...
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Grand Mosque No Thanks
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 9:51:50 am PDT
Here’s an interesting site run by a group of Danish citizens opposed to the construction of a “Grand Mosque” in Denmark: Grand Mosque No Thanks. An islandA mosque is an island where Danish law cannot be applicable. Only sharia, Islamic law can rule. The grand mosque will therefore be a ...
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The Wages of Terrorism
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 8:42:49 am PDT
Buried at the bottom of this Fox News story about US demands for Palestinian political reform is an interesting note about Israel’s policy of demolishing the houses of terrorists—it may be achieving results: In another development Tuesday, an Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 30 Palestinians wanted ...
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State Defends Arafat
Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 7:24:31 am PDT
In June of this year, Scott Johnson wrote an op-ed for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune linking Yasser Arafat and his PLO directly to the murder of US Ambassador Cleo Noel, and to the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking, during which American citizen Leon Klinghoffer was murdered and thrown overboard. Before the article ...
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What Baseball’s All About
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 6:18:07 pm PDT
Kieran Lyons on the true meaning of baseball.
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Suicide Militants
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 3:25:31 pm PDT
Meryl Yourish gives Reuters the full frontal Fisk treatment, putting their anti-Israel bias under the microscope in an article about “suicide militants.”
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A Quaint Islamic Custom
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 3:11:51 pm PDT
In our comments, several readers have mentioned the story of a Pakistani woman whose husband hung her upside down and mutilated her horribly after accusing her of infidelity—an attempted “honor killing” that she somehow survived. Diane E. found a link to a Pakistani women’s magazine that has the full gut ...
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Arab Israelis Arrested
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 2:23:47 pm PDT
Seven more Arab citizens of Israel have been arrested for planning suicide bomb attacks. One of the two main suspects made a full concession to Israeli police, saying that “as a Palestinian, his goal was to kill as many Jews as possible.”
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We Will Not Live at the Mercy of Terrorists
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 2:10:38 pm PDT
The Weekly Standard has the full text of the highly significant speech Vice President Cheney made today: “We Will Not Live at the Mercy of Terrorists.”
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Joanne’s Got a Brand New Blog
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:19:39 pm PDT
One of our favorite bloggers, Joanne Jacobs has a spiffy new eponymous URL and a clean new weblog design to go with it.
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Harming the Cause
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:49:28 am PDT
The Palestinian journalists’ union is starting to dimly perceive that those photographs of babies in bomb belts and kids waving automatic weapons aren’t going over too well with the civilized world. So the union has banned journalists from photographing Palestinian children carrying weapons or taking part in activities by militant ...
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Pipes on Militant Islam
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:36:38 am PDT
An interesting interview with Daniel Pipes from Investor’s Business Daily: Militant Islam Is Put In Class With Communism, Fascism.
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No Terrorists Here
Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 7:38:38 am PDT
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien says Hamas is not a terrorist organization, because it funds schools and hospitals. It’s amazing how little guile it takes for Palestinian terror groups to fool people like Chrétien. As if having to deal with the Canadian government's disgraceful actions isn't enough, Canadians now also have ...
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Email Overload
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 7:06:37 pm PDT
Oh man, is my email ever out of control. I thought it was bad the last time I whinged about it. I had no idea. My sincere apologies if I haven’t replied to an email you sent recently. LGF is getting 10-15,000 unique visits per day (something I never anticipated, and I’m ...
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Friday Sermon Watch
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 1:19:51 pm PDT
From Abu-Hanifah al-Nu'man mosque in Baghdad, Iraq: "O God, support Islam and Muslims, elevate the word of justice and Islam, and help the believers score victory over the infidels. O God, give safety and prosperity to this country and protect Muslims' countries from disasters and diseases. O God, support your ...
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Palestinian Justice
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:41:16 pm PDT
The son of Ikhlas Yassin (who had 7 children, not 3) says he was tortured by the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades until he invented the story that his mother was a collaborator. Bakir Khouli, 17, lifted up his T-shirt at his one-room house in Tulkarem on Sunday to reveal black ...
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A Letter from Osama?
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:13:59 pm PDT
Islam Online has a letter from Osama bin Laden that they claim was written “a few weeks ago.” (It’s conveniently undated.) They’ve posted photographs of the letter.
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Ikhlas Yassin
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:46:35 am PDT
This is Ikhlas Yassin, 35-year old mother of 7, in a still from the video of her forced confession. Staged with a mattress as backdrop. The Reuters copy for this photograph says she was “testifying.” Palestinian Ikhlas Yassin is seen in this frame grab made from an undated amateur video as ...
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It’s a Vision Thing
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:23:27 am PDT
Another beautifully reasoned column from Victor Davis Hanson, about the need for a language of transcendence. September 11 in so many ways has turned the world upside down. Domestic politics and ideology are no exception. Mr. Bush and his conservatives now have a rare opportunity to seize the day and ...
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Why the Palestinians Are Winning the Media War
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:59:09 am PDT
In a thought-provoking and insightful interview, newsman David Bedein answers the question, “Why are the Palestinians winning the media war?” It’s no accident; the PLO has deliberately manipulated world media for many years, and quite successfully, as Bedein points out: The Palestinians have an excellent track record in manipulating images ...
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Shilling for the House of Saud
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:19:10 am PDT
Go ye and read Matt Welch’s excellent column on the corrupt American bureaucrats who promote the Saudi regime in the US: Shilling for the House of Saud. ...it is jarring to observe how closely the ex-ambassadorial rap about Crown Prince Abdullah resembles a slightly more dignified and coherent version of ...
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The World’s Largest Protection Racket
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:00:57 am PDT
According to affidavits and testimonies in the lawsuit filed against Saudi Arabia by the families of September 11 victims, senior members of the Saudi royal family paid Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden hundreds of millions of dollars so that Saudi Arabia would not be attacked: Saudi royal family paid ...
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MEMRI Responds
Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 8:25:26 am PDT
The president of MEMRI responds to Brian Whitaker’s dishonest, Arab agenda-driven attack: Media organisation rebuts accusations of selective journalism. Two days before his piece appeared on the web, he called our Washington office to ask for the Arabic original of an article translated by Memri from the London daily Al-Hayat. ...
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Palestinian Self-Policing
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 3:25:26 pm PDT
Here’s how the Palestinian Authority polices itself. Today in Tulkarem the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a branch of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, kidnapped a 35-year old Palestinian woman from her home, brought her to a deserted building, forced her to videotape a confession, murdered her (thankfully, no more details are given), ...
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Fighting for Our Souls
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 2:47:42 pm PDT
As an immigrant from India, Dr. Bala Ambati has a true appreciation for the virtues (and the faults) of the United States, as he shows in this article for Duke University’s Chronicle: Fighting for our souls and our ideals.
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Sayonara, Saudi Arabia
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 2:34:45 pm PDT
Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder make an argument for seizing the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula: Sayonara, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis' control of 25 percent of the world's oil reserves has historically allowed them to blackmail us. Now, President Bush seeks to improve domestic production and increase our national ...
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Nuclear Raid in Yugoslavia
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 1:11:02 pm PDT
A joint US-Russian team has “raided” a nuclear facility in Yugoslavia, recovering more than 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium—enough to construct two atomic bombs. The dawn “raid” on the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, protected by Yugoslav Army helicopters and 1,200 heavily armed troops, was the first ...
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The Blogging War
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:25:48 am PDT
The Jerusalem Post has a good article about webloggers in Israel, featuring Renatinha, Tal G., and Gil Shterzer: The Blogging War. If you haven’t been at JPost in a while, be warned. They have an annoying new registration system, which won’t accept your password from the previous annoying registration system. If ...
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Poverty Programs
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:47:51 am PDT
At the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, delegates from the globe’s most high-profile NGOs are going to end World Poverty. If only they could figure out how. While NGOs talk about it over lunches and dinners in air-conditioned conference rooms, Robert Mugabe is implementing his own hunger ...
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How We Lost the War
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:25:00 am PDT
In 1996 the Weekly Standard published a piece of speculative fiction by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. set in the year 2007, told from the viewpoint of “the Holy Leader” of a warrior culture that has defeated America in a brutal asymmetric war: How We Lost the High-Tech War of 2007. ...
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Conspiracies, Imagined and Real
Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 8:39:34 am PDT
French writer Thierry Meyssan says the US military used remote controls to steer two jetliners into the World Trade Center on September 11, and that a US missile—not an airplane—hit the Pentagon. His book The Appalling Fraud was a bestseller in France. Naturellement. And of course the conspiracy-haunted Arab world ...
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A Modest Proposal
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 5:37:17 pm PDT
A MODEST PROPOSALBy Claire Berlinski SADDAM, LET’S THINK outside the box for a change. We know you don't really give two shits about the Palestinians, and you sure as hell don't give a rat's ass about Islam, either. And we know you're a practical kind of man. So here's a little suggestion ...
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Podiatrist on the Edge
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 4:11:46 pm PDT
What’s this world coming to, when even podiatrists are heavily armed and planning to bomb stuff? A group of townhouses was evacuated after guns and explosives were found in the home of a podiatrist whose wife had called police, saying he was acting unstable.The Pinellas County Sheriff's office said deputies ...
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Swiss Cheese, Please
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 2:14:30 pm PDT
Now here’s something you don’t hear about very often: Microsoft Warns of Security Risks in Office, IE. Imagine that!
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A Fork in the Road
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 1:59:32 pm PDT
Here’s some news in need of parsing: Bush to Meet Saudi Prince in Texas. This time it’s Bandar, who’s considered more friendly to the West than the Clown Prince. Some possibilities: 1. We’re caving in to the Saudis again. The State Department has won. 2. We’re trying to keep the Saudis fat and ...
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Lileks Roks
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:58:27 pm PDT
James Lileks drives his oooiiiillll-powered killdozer over the squinty warbloggerwatch wantwits. Man. That’s gotta hurt.
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Hizbollah Hacked
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:54:59 am PDT
The Hizbollah web site has been hacked! UPDATE: the Hizbollah freakazoids noticed and pulled the site down, so I removed the link.
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Gaza Attack Foiled
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 8:36:14 am PDT
The Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades tried to sneak into a Jewish community in the Gaza Strip today, no doubt looking for little children they could courageously murder in their beds: Israelis Stop Gaza Attack, Killing 2. Ben-Eliezer’s “Gaza First” plan—relying on Palestinians to police themselves (!)—is really working well, isn’t it? ...
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Deconstructing Osama
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 7:53:46 am PDT
Bernard Lewis, who’s been trying to awaken the West to the dangers of militant Islam longer than almost anyone, looks at the continuing popularity of Osama bin Laden in the Arab world: Deconstructing Osama.
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CAIR Thanks McKinney
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 7:44:25 am PDT
Terror apologist group CAIR lays one last smackeroo on Cynthia bint McKinney’s hind quarters. All that campaign money wasted. What a shame.
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The War Bush is Losing
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 7:38:38 am PDT
Mark Steyn speaks the truth: The war Bush is losing. There’s so much rueful wisdom in this article that I can’t even start to pull out quotes; well, OK, just one, about the NEA’s pomo multiculti agenda: I don’t think the teachers’ union are ‘Hate America’ types. Very few Americans ...
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Hate Concert in DC
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 7:23:19 am PDT
Neo-Nazi white supremacist hate group the National Alliance has renamed itself as “Taxpayers Against Terrorism,” and they’re planning an anti-Semitic rally and “rock concert” in Washington DC. "Just as Jews - whether they are in Israel or New York - identify themselves as being Jews and would prefer to work ...
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Tenure for Terror
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 6:49:28 am PDT
John Podhoretz is just as disgusted by Sami Al-Arian’s 15 minutes of deception as I am. The real point is not that Al-Arian lies and spews anti-Semitic hate speech; the man has also acted on his evil beliefs: Sami al-Arian is, in a word, despicable. He roots for terrorist murderers ...
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Donahue Gives Al-Arian a Tongue Bath
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 8:27:18 pm PDT
I just saw Phil Donahue interview Sami Al-Arian on MSNBC, and I don’t even trust myself to write about it. As outrageous as his fawning interview with Adam Shapiro was, this was unbelievably worse. He showed a clip of Al-Arian calling Jews “the sons of monkeys and pigs“ ... and ...
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M. Kahil: Anti-Idiotarian?
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 7:54:00 pm PDT
What in the hell got into M. Kahil today? I can’t believe this cartoon was published by the Arab News. I’ve saved a copy here because I have a feeling it’s going to get yanked from their web site as soon as one of the 7000 princes notices it.
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The Strange Case of Sami Al-Arian
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 6:45:50 pm PDT
The story of tenured University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian is complex and confusing, and it’s even remotely possible that he has nothing to do with terrorist organizations, despite all evidence to the contrary. But there’s a lot of evidence to the contrary, with alleged connections to Islamic Jihad founder ...
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Wizard of Iran
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 5:41:12 pm PDT
A perceptive editorial cartoon at the Intellectual Activist about the clash of ideologies in Iran: Wizard of Iran.
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Intentional Virus
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 3:30:01 pm PDT
I’ve been receiving a lot of emails containing the Klez virus recently, and I get so much email that I haven’t paid too much attention to this. The Klez virus works by scanning an infected hard disk for email addresses and sending copies of itself to as many addresses as it ...
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True Lies
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:57:31 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting article from Claire Berlinski about the bureaucratic arthritis that afflicts the CIA: True Lies. Prospective employees are required to list the names and addresses of every foreign person with whom they have a close or continuing relationship. Someone who speaks Arabic with native fluency almost certainly has ...
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PalScam
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:40:23 pm PDT
Stefan Sharkansky got his hands on an advance copy of a new IDF report on Palestinian kleptocracy financing, with some very interesting details about where all that money has gone. Hint: it hasn’t gone into lesson plans teaching tolerance. The IDF document contains English translations of captured documents (and links ...
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Revenge of the Tweezer People
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 9:09:47 am PDT
Glenn Reynolds rips Norman Mineta and the wacky security procedures being followed at US airports. The Department of Transportation is more concerned with political correctness than real security, and unless things change it’s only a matter of time before something very bad happens.
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Religion of Peace, Part Two
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 8:40:58 am PDT
Britain’s home secretary David Blunkett is calling on Muslims to act against extremists. Here’s a very disturbing bit, evidence that the radical Islamic problem in the UK is much worse than many people think: Mr Blunkett's visit to the Muslim centre came as it emerged that the Greater London Authority ...
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Saddam and Terror
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 8:14:02 am PDT
In today’s NYT, William Safire has more about Saddam Hussein’s Al Qaeda connections: Saddam and Terror. Brent Scowcroft and his leave-Saddam-alone acolytes on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board insist "there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations." But here are two names of intense current interest to ...
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Hamas Terror Cell
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 7:50:30 am PDT
Ha'aretz has details about the East Jerusalem Hamas cell broken up by Israel yesterday. This group had Israeli ID cards, and made several attempts to carry out “mega attacks” that, if they had succeeded, would have killed thousands. LGF reader Uzi describes the scenario if the attack on gas storage facilities ...
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Religion of Peace
Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 7:28:00 am PDT
Early this morning in the Philippines, merchants at a public food market were horrified to discover the severed heads of two kidnapped Jehovah’s Witnesses: Bandits Behead 2 in S. Philippines. “Bandits?” Brig. Gen. Romeo Tolentino, army commander on the southern island of Jolo in Sulu province, said the heads of ...
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Another Phony CAIR Poll
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 7:58:31 pm PDT
Howard Fienberg fisks yet another deceptive, statistically meaningless “Muslims are victims” poll from the Council on American Islamic Relations.
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ClearGuidance Revisited
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 5:59:44 pm PDT
Regular readers will remember our thread the peaceful youth of Islam, about the appalling hatred on the Islamic website ClearGuidance.com, a site dedicated to luring young Muslims into the jihad lifestyle. Well, even though the moderators of the site closed it to outsiders after LGF (and Tal G. and James Lileks ...
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We Still Don’t Get It
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:34:23 pm PDT
With 961 votes in our latest poll, about 15% of the voters say they believe our government is doing everything possible to prevent more attacks by militant Islamic groups. I urge every one of our visitors to read Jeremy Reynalds’ account of his attempts to alert the FBI about the new ...
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Abu Nidal, September 11 and Saddam
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:05:48 pm PDT
At the OpinionJournal, Asla Aydintasbas puts it all together: Abu Nidal, September 11 and Saddam. Her theory is that Abu Nidal was killed by Iraqi intelligence because of what he might reveal about Saddam’s connections with the September 11 hijackers. The story starts with Ziad Jarrah, comrade of Mohamed Atta ...
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Rumsfeld Speaks Truth
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:41:11 am PDT
Donald Rumsfeld lays the boogie down. America cannot afford to wait for proof that Saddam Hussein is building weapons of mass destruction, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has declared.Donald RumsfeldMr Rumsfeld, a leading advocate of military action against Baghdad, flatly rejected calls from Washington, Europe and the Arab world ...
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Arab News Wacko Roundup
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:31:56 am PDT
It’s no secret that the Arab News is a foul rag, regularly publishing articles by insane anti-Semites like Israel Shamir and E.A. Richards. But wow. Today they have outdone themselves. Here’s Israel Shamir showing some love for neo-Nazi hate group the National Alliance: Rock of dissent by National Alliance. I won’t ...
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Oil Tick Chutzpah
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 9:53:46 am PDT
You almost have to admire the chutzpah of the oil ticks: Saudis Plan to Sue U.S. over Sept. 11. After obstructing investigations, refusing to freeze bank accounts, funding extremism around the world, spewing a non-stop stream of anti-Semitism and hatred from their official media, and generally behaving like a bunch of ...
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A Piscine Odor
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 9:40:39 am PDT
The story of the death of Abu Nidal reeks to high heaven.
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Hamas Cell Captured
Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 9:12:44 am PDT
Excellent news from Israel this morning, where a Hamas cell responsible for many of the worst recent terror attacks—including the Hebrew University cafeteria bombing—has been captured on their way to slaughter some more women and children. The scum who perpetrated the Hebrew U attack actually worked at the University: Mohammed ...
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McKinney Bites! McKinney Chews It!
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:17:43 pm PDT
Cynthia McKinney is toast! My faith in the voters of the United States is now officially restored. UPDATE: Reader Glen Wishard contributes the theme song for McKinney’s well-deserved defeat: (To the tune of "Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas") Oh, the Taliban will miss you For the end is coming fast. To the Rosie show where ...
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New 9/11 Suspect
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:47:37 pm PDT
The FBI has issued a worldwide bulletin seeking a new suspect in the September 11 hijackings. And I hope you’re sitting down, because this may come as a shock—he’s from Saudi Arabia.
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Oh McKinney, We Hardly Knew Ye
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:27:46 pm PDT
This is a beautiful thing. Cynthia bin McKinney (D-Hamas) is going down for the third time. Now the screaming starts.
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Fatah Says: Keep On Killin’
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 6:35:57 pm PDT
In return for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Bethlehem, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are planning a big celebration: Fatah vows massive attacks: A statement from the group's command center in Nablus said it will continue to target both soldiers and civilians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 5:39:06 pm PDT
Last Friday, as they do every Friday, the state-controlled media of the Middle East broadcast messages of hate from their “most holy” mosques, courtesy of the spiritual leaders of Islam. Here’s this week’s roundup of the psychosis that has the Arab world in a death grip. From the Grand Mosque in ...
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Taking on the Websites of Terror
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 3:04:59 pm PDT
Here’s a very interesting weblog that seems to focus on locating and exposing terrorist web sites: Haganah. One of the hate holes mentioned is none other than ClearGuidance.com. Check out this “how to” guide for finding and shutting down terror-supporting sites:Taking on the Websites of Terror.
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Iran Races for Nuclear Capability
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 2:09:56 pm PDT
Egypt reports an increase in Iranian nuclear activity. ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Israel and the United States are said to have detected a significant acceleration in Russia's efforts to build a nuclear reactor in Iran.An Egyptian report said that Russia and Iran have increased the number of personnel working on ...
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European Union Likes to Watch
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 1:54:18 pm PDT
The unelected weasels of the European Union are trying to pass a law that would force communication service providers to keep records of everything their customers do—for at least a year: Privacy fears over EU snooping plans. Before now data protection laws meant that companies providing communication services could only ...
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History Repeats
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:54:14 pm PDT
Rand Simberg has discovered a news report from the Routers wire service on April 3, 1944 that sheds new light on international support for World War II: Administration Split On Europe Invasion. Fissures are starting to appear in the formerly united front within the Roosevelt administration on the upcoming decision ...
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Teachers Reject NEA Lesson Plans
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:35:08 pm PDT
Looks like more than a few teachers are not going to follow the NEA’s (and PBS’s) anti-American agenda: NEA plan for 9/11 not backed by teachers. "The American Federation of Teachers disagrees with the lesson plans found on the NEA Web site," said Janet Bass, a spokeswoman for the union. ...
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Dead Terrorist in Baghdad
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:46:26 am PDT
Michael Ledeen writes about the bloody career of Abu Nidal, with a very interesting footnote: But we do know something else about Abu Nidal, which we will do well to remember as we grapple with prospects for a Middle East "peace." Although he was universally considered to be a mortal ...
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Iraqi Embassy Siege Ended
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:17:07 am PDT
That was fast! The siege of the Iraqi embassy is finished. Fox News is reporting that some of the hostages suffered minor injuries, but it seems to have ended without serious casualties. It will be interesting to see the political fallout from this.
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Saddam’s Rap Sheet
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:10:33 am PDT
Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer look at the immediate threat posed by Saddam Hussein against the civilized world: Saddam's Rap Sheet.
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Just Like Oliver
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:55:42 am PDT
And now a word from our sponsor. See, that’s the thing—LGF doesn’t have a sponsor. We’re doing this without pay, except for donations from our gentle readers. So at the risk of sounding like Oliver Twist, I’d like to remind you that one way to show appreciation for what we do ...
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News From Bizarro World
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:32:08 am PDT
The United Nations has become the world’s leading proponent of unfathomable stupidity. In their latest cruel joke on civilization, Libyan strongman and staunch supporter of terrorism and torture Muammar Gaddafi will be the new head of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
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Crime-Free Saudi Arabia
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:16:56 am PDT
Decapitation #32 in Saudi Arabia this year is a heroin smuggler from Pakistan. Because someone always comments that we have no right to disapprove of this barbarism because some states in the US have capital punishment, please note: these decapitations are done with a sword in front of a cheering ...
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The Real Racists
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 9:00:26 am PDT
Here’s a great new column from Mark Steyn: Multiculturalists are the real racists. As I understand it, the benefits of multiculturalism are that the sterile white-bread cultures of Australia, Canada and Britain get some great ethnic restaurants and a Commonwealth Games opening ceremony that lasts until two in the morning. ...
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Vote Against McKinney!
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 8:00:21 am PDT
Again I urge you to visit Reid Stott to read the latest about Cynthia bin McKinney’s unbelievably deceptive campaign. The woman is absolutely despicable; no wonder she has the support of CAIR and other radical Muslim groups. Just one example: she is using an endorsement from Andrew Young that was taped ...
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Embassy Takeover
Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 7:32:41 am PDT
An Iraqi group opposed to Saddam Hussein has apparently taken over Iraq’s embassy in Berlin. BERLIN (Reuters) - An Iraqi opposition party said on Tuesday it was occupying the Iraqi embassy in Berlin and police confirmed an incident at the embassy.A group calling itself the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany ...
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Vote Against McKinney
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:30:48 pm PDT
Reid Stott is all over Cynthia bin McKinney. Go read him. He lives there. He knows whereof he speaks. It’s crunch time; if you’re in her district, you need to vote against her in the primary, or we’ll have an Arab puppet on the House Foreign Relations Committee.
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Demon Israel and the Ivory Tower
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 2:50:50 pm PDT
A good article at Ha'aretz about the campaign of hatred and delegitimization being waged against Israel on American college campuses: “Demon Israel” and the ivory tower.
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Brain-Damaged Jihad Kidz
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 2:41:48 pm PDT
The ClearGuidance jihadi losers are still talking about us, by the way; we’ve had several visitors from there today, including one who posted a comment from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
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Farrakhan Mouths Off Again
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 1:04:46 pm PDT
Fresh from his whirlwind tour of the world’s totalitarian hellholes, during which he smooched the powerful butts of Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe, Screwy Louie is in Atlanta, ostensibly to support Cynthia bin McKinney. "The president of the country seems to be drunk," he said Sunday at the Hillside Chapel ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:46:28 am PDT
Fifteen prominent Danish Jews have been put on a Muslim hit list. The people on the list reportedly include Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior's father, Binyamin, a rabbi in the community, and the father of Ron Pundak, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords.The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called ...
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Teaching Tolerance for Terror
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:28:05 am PDT
Here’s one of the lesson plans recommended by the NEA for September 11: Tolerance in Times of Trial. The objective is: To explore the problems inherent in assigning blame to populations or nations of people by looking at contemporary examples of ethnic conflict, discrimination, and stereotyping at home and abroad. ...
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Palestinian Promises
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:03:32 am PDT
Israel pulled all its troops out of Bethlehem today. And the AP says: Palestinians Promise to Keep Peace. A spokesman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas — which has conducted numerous suicide bombings — said the group would not halt attacks. Ismail Haniya called the plan "nothing but an Israeli ...
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Idiotarian Dictionary
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:11:44 am PDT
Mike Silverman has put together a handy dictionary for translating from Idiotarian to English.
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Who Needs ’Em?
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 9:32:10 am PDT
Pentagon adviser Richard Perle dismisses Europe. Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said the Bush administration would rely on help from Britain and dissident groups within Iraq, but would not expect other NATO allies to participate if the United States were to launch an attack."Our European allies are just not relevant to ...
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Today’s Outrage
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 8:26:29 am PDT
Please, someone tell me I’m still asleep, and dreaming. Because if I’m not, this story just might make my head explode: NEA delivers history lesson. The National Education Association is suggesting to teachers that they be careful on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks not to "suggest any ...
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More on Nidal
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 8:07:32 am PDT
More details about the long-overdue death of Abu Nidal.
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The Treasurer Talks
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:49:29 am PDT
The former treasurer of the PLO has escaped house arrest in the Palestinian Authority and fled to London, and he’s talking about Yasser Arafat’s embezzlement of millions of dollars from international donations: Ex-aide accuses Arafat of major scam. Of course, the BBC just can’t resist getting in a dig at ...
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Abu Nidal Takes the Dirt Nap
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:43:34 am PDT
Proto-terrorist Abu Nidal has been found dead in Baghdad, of “gunshot wounds.” Palestinian sources say the death was a suicide. A suicide, with multiple gunshot wounds. Maybe he tortured himself first?
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Religion of Peace
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:39:33 am PDT
An Islamic court in Nigeria has rejected the appeal of a woman who had a baby outside wedlock, and sentenced her to be stoned to death.
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The Prof Who Can’t Count Straight
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:35:52 am PDT
Also at the Weekly Standard, a great piece showing just how scurrilous Marc Herold’s Afghan civilian casualty figures really are: The Prof Who Can't Count Straight.
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It Gets Hard When They Cheer
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:34:07 am PDT
Part Two of Larry Miller’s account of his trip to Israel is now at the Weekly Standard: "It Gets Hard When They Cheer". The conclusion will bring tears to your eyes: Downstairs, before we left, the head of the hospital, an Israeli named Audrey, was showing me the children's waiting ...
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Hundreds More to Be Trained
Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 7:18:35 am PDT
I missed this little story in the Arab News last week. The last 15 Saudis who took part in our airline training programs were so successful that we’ve accepted 202 more. JEDDAH, 12 August — Saudi Arabian Airlines has sent 202 employees to the United States for advanced training in ...
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Who Needs Vacations?
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 9:38:14 pm PDT
James Lileks needs a vacation. So do I. I haven’t had a vacation in at least 10 years.
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The Definition of Insanity
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 9:07:52 pm PDT
Israel has agreed to begin withdrawing troops from Bethlehem and Gaza, to test whether Palestinian security forces can control the terrorists: Bethlehem, Gaza Pullout Approved. Why are they doing this? I really hate to say it, but I expect several major terrorist attacks in Israel this week. I hope I’m proven ...
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The Glorification of Death
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 7:11:43 pm PDT
Courtesy of reader A. van Hilten, here’s an Argentinian web site with a collection of Palestinian martyr posters—a “who’s who” of terrorism: Santificacion de la Muerte.
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Al Qaeda Video Archives
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 4:11:07 pm PDT
This week CNN will be airing excerpts from previously unseen Al Qaeda videotapes, including scenes of chemical weapons tests on dogs. In one scene, a group of unidentified men wearing Afghan-style sandals rush out of an enclosure where one of the dogs is penned. A white liquid that gives off ...
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The Collaborator
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 1:21:05 pm PDT
The New York Times Magazine has a good story about a Palestinian who collaborated with Israel, containing this surprising statistic: In more ways than one, collaborators are a Palestinian nightmare. During the first Palestinian uprising, between the end of 1987 and the signing of the Oslo accord in 1993, about ...
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Defining Terrorism Down
Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 9:33:12 am PDT
The Washington Post has a long and utterly appalling article today that discusses the “effectiveness” of Palestinian suicide bombing: Suicide Bombers Change Mideast's Military Balance. In this entire cold-blooded piece of moral equivalence, there isn’t one word that even hints at the immorality of targeting innocent civilians; in fact, suicide ...
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No Anti-Semitism Here, Move Along
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 6:08:57 pm PDT
On July 28 here at LGF, Arab News editor John R. Bradley wrote: I despise anti-Semitism from the very bottom of my heart, as does everyone else on the Arab News team. We regularly emphasize in editorial meetings that Jews are not and never have been “the enemy”. Well, the ...
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The Israel Shamir Case
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 4:49:09 pm PDT
Nigel Parry, no friend of the state of Israel, has put together a page about raving moonbat author Israel Shamir: The Israel Shamir Case. After initially being “impressed” with Shamir’s style, even Arab apologists like Parry and Jabba the Hutt Hussein Ibish began to realize that Shamir was crazier than ...
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Games of War
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 1:46:19 pm PDT
By the way, those Palestinian death cult summer camps have been going on for years, no doubt financed by the EU and UNRWA. Here’s a story from August 2000: Palestinian Summer Camp Offers the Games of War. In the mock kidnapping, an Israeli official walked across the old prison yard ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 1:20:24 pm PDT
Reader Randall Parker alerted us to this story at the Beeb about a massacre by Islamic nutjobs in Algeria that killed 26 people, most of them women and children: Dozens dead in Algeria massacre. This latest attack has been blamed on the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Rachid Oukali, alias Rachid ...
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Death Cult Summer Camp Grads
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:54:04 pm PDT
Baby wipe billionaire Yasser Arafat flashes the victory sign to graduates of his Fatah death cult summer camp: This wasn’t the kind of camp where kids sing Kumbaya and learn how to tie knots; it was the kind where Palestinian kids learn how to murder Jews and set their houses on ...
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Hamas Says: Keep On Killin’
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:07:57 pm PDT
Filthy murdering swine ... uh, I mean spiritual leader of Hamas Sheikh Ahmed Yassin gave an interview to Al Jazeera in which he said that agreements among Palestinian political parties are forbidden if they are dependent on acknowledgment of the State of Israel. Yassin said there was no disagreement within ...
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Guardian Swallows a Lie
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:24:47 am PDT
A couple of days ago, anti-Israel Guardianbot Jonathan Steele filed a story at the Daily Wanker that said Nelson Mandela would attend the trial of terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti in Israel. Turns out it isn’t true; Steele uncritically reported the statement of Barghouti’s lawyer that Mandela would attend, but Mandela’s people ...
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Dead Filth
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 8:40:16 am PDT
There wasn’t much left of the passengers on the planes that slammed into the World Trade Center towers. But after sorting through the remains at the Pentagon and in that Pennsylvania field, investigators have identified pieces of nine of the hijackers. And no one seems to know what to do ...
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Shiri Negari
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 8:30:56 am PDT
A heart-wrenching tribute to a young woman murdered by a Palestinian suicide bomber: Remembering Shiri Negari. Rest in peace.
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Old Habits Die Hard
Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 8:06:34 am PDT
I don’t know; it just doesn’t seem like the best time to invest in Iraq. First Russia increases their support for Iran’s nuclear program, now they’re entering into a huge economic cooperation deal with Iraq. What is Vladimir Putin up to? This has the rank smell of the old Soviet Union. ...
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Peace Abbey
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 9:27:23 pm PDT
Mark Sullivan emailed me about a morally empty statement from Massachusetts’ Peace Abbey, saying it needed a proper fisking. I don’t think so, Mark; you’ve already done it, beautifully and movingly.
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Lawsuit? What Lawsuit?
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 5:53:21 pm PDT
Not one word about the trillion dollar lawsuit against Saudi Arabia in today’s ArabNews, but thousands of words about “A friendship in crisis,” “Saudi-US relations under spotlight,” and “Saudi-US relations.” And of course, all the problems are the fault of the Zionist lobby. What a bunch of unremittingly craven cowards.
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Follow the Money
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 3:18:27 pm PDT
Fascinating. Four of the people named in the 9/11 survivors’ trillion dollar lawsuit against Saudi Arabia are also on Cynthia McKinney’s donor list.
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Death Cult Summer Camp
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 3:04:10 pm PDT
Palestinian children learning to slaughter Jews in their homes, at a summer camp sponsored by Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization:
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Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 2:06:36 pm PDT
Stefan Sharkansky has translated part two of Die Zeit’s damning exposé of the European Union’s moral blindness and complicity in Palestinian terrorism: Arafat Bombs, Europe Pays (Part II). This is a must-read.
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Clearly Mentally Ill
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 1:59:23 pm PDT
John Hawkins has some new quotes from the ClearGuidance site; those cute little jihadis have closed their site to outsiders (or so they think) but they’re still pumping themselves up with violent fantasies and hate for “kaffirs.”
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Whitaker’s Arab Connection
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 1:38:20 pm PDT
The blogosphere has already chased it, separated it from the herd, brought it down, and ripped it to shreds: Brian Whitaker’s feeble attack on MEMRI. But Geoff Meltzner cracked open a leg bone and found some marrow left in there. (How’s that for some blood-lovin’ killblogger imagery?) In Whitaker’s article he ...
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The University of Death
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 9:58:20 am PDT
Al Najah University in Nablus has a rather unique curriculum, focusing on essential Palestinian skills such as attacking Israeli buses with missiles: ...and the best way to pack nails and screws into an explosive charge: Distinguished alumni include mass murderers Muhamad Ruhl, Hashem Najer and Hamed Abu Hijla, among many others: Guest speakers ...
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Birds of a Feather
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 9:12:23 am PDT
Screwy Louie Farrakhan is going to stage a rally in Georgia to support Arab boot-licker Cynthia bin McKinney. McKinney's campaign manager, Bill Banks, said he knew little about the visit or why Farrakhan is coming."We have a lot of people coming in. They saw what happened to [U.S. Rep. Earl] ...
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Arab News Reverts to Form
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 8:16:57 am PDT
My God, what an unbelievable open sewer of anti-Semitism at the Arab News today, from the always-despicable Israel Shamir: Take the money and run. Amazingly, with all the heat the Arabs have received for this kind of thing, Shamir even tries to slip in the blood libel with a “Sweeney ...
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Elevated Risk
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 8:02:02 am PDT
The INS will be implementing new restrictions and safeguards for visitors from Mideast countries: INS limits entry from Mideast countries. "The vulnerabilities of our immigration system became starkly clear on Sept. 11th," said Attorney General John Ashcroft. "This system will expand substantially America's scrutiny of those foreign visitors who may ...
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Egyptian Rights
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 7:39:07 am PDT
In response to US pressure to free political activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egyptian leaders are complaining that if they give more freedom to their people the government will be open to a takeover by Islamic extremists: Egyptian Rights Activists Troubled. They’re right: Egypt banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 1954, accusing ...
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Cross-Pond Egghead Debate
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 6:38:17 pm PDT
A small think tank known as The Institute for American Values is duking it out (intellect-wise, that is) with a group of German peace activists and intellectuals: The U.S.-German Conversation. The original American letter was a fairly sophisticated 20-page reflection on basic political values, separation of church and state, just-war ...
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The Old Same Place
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 6:30:19 pm PDT
At NRO, Nissan Ratzlav-Katz writes about the revolutionary new peace plan proposed by Israeli Labor leader and defense minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, known as “Gaza and Bethlehem First.”
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Patently Absurd
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 5:03:11 pm PDT
Kieran Lyons has an eye-opening chart comparing the number of US patents granted to Israel with those granted to all the Arab states. The difference is simply astounding; and Kieran just got added to our anti-idiotarians page. UPDATE: and here’s a comparison of Jewish and Arab/Islamic Nobel Prize winners.
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So You Want to be a Martyr?
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 4:31:52 pm PDT
Deciding to become a martyr can be very stressful. Here are a couple of pamphlets that can help you answer the hard questions, before you strap on that Semtex vest: So You Want to be a Martyr? (Warning: sense of humor required; if you’re offended, blame Jim B.)
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Suing the Saudis
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 4:00:39 pm PDT
In February I noted a Daniel Pipes article suggesting that victims of the 9/11 attacks should sue the Saudis. Now it’s actually happening: $116 trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 families. There’s a fascinating tidbit in this CNN article that is oddly missing from most other reports: The attorneys and investigators ...
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Bush Pressures Egypt
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 3:39:28 pm PDT
At first I thought this story was a real stunner: President Bush is threatening to stop giving money to Egypt, in protest over Egypt’s persecution of human rights advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim. But it turns out this only means the US won’t consider additional funding, over and above the $2 ...
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A Pilot for an Arab TV Program
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 2:37:58 pm PDT
Arab governments keep making noises about “information campaigns” to present Arab views to the West. Saudi Arabia has even thrown away millions of dollars on this kind of worthless advertising. But some liberal Arab intellectuals are ferociously mocking the idea. MEMRI has a translation of a devastating article by renowned Egyptian ...
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Barghouti’s Indictment
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 2:10:13 pm PDT
IMRA has translations of the charges brought against terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti yesterday in an Israeli court, with details about specific terrorist attacks Barghouti oversaw personally: Part One Part Two Part Three
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Shari'a in Indonesia
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:16:52 am PDT
Islamist nutjobs in Indonesia are pushing hard for the government to throw out democracy and institute Islamic Law (shari'a): Indonesia Grapples With Islamic Law. Because, you know, Islamic Law has been such a success everywhere else in the world. "There is no God but Allah!" chanted thousands of pro-sharia demonstrators ...
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Idiot Watch
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 9:32:49 am PDT
An interesting phenomenon I’ve noted: the Islamist freaks always seem to post their stupidest comments in topics that haven’t been active for a while. Case in point: this hilariously boastful comment from a ClearGuidance hatebot. Tremble before the majesty of the big scary Islamic warrior, infidels. UPDATE: by the way, the ...
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More Palestinian Child Abuse
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 8:25:30 am PDT
These lost children are showing the world what a sickeningly corrupt and vile society they are cursed to be part of. This demonstration was organized by Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, in support of Saddam Hussein.
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Today’s Outrage
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 8:04:06 am PDT
It’s still early, but I doubt I’m going to find anything more outrageous today than this story Jason Rubinstein emailed to me. Colorado College, an independent liberal arts school, is holding a three-day conference titled “September 11: One Year Later: What are the major political, philosophical, and social issues facing us ...
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Choosing Sides
Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 7:15:15 am PDT
The Jerusalem Post reports that at yesterday’s Palestinian death rally, marchers chanted their support for Saddam Hussein, calling on him to bomb Tel Aviv.
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The Nazi Connection
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 5:52:15 pm PDT
Here’s a site with pictures of the actual documents the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem exchanged with Nazi leaders during World War II, begging them to keep the Jews out of the Middle East and gas them right there in Europe: Muftism and Nazism: World War II Collaboration Documents. And this section ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 3:10:53 pm PDT
Islamic extremists in Great Britain are disturbingly open about their incitements to jihad. A group of these nut sandwiches are threatening to issue a fatwa if the US attacks Iraq—even though they describe Saddam Hussein as the “child of Satan:” Muslim radicals in Britain issue 'holy war' warning. "If the ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 2:20:39 pm PDT
A Snoopy baseball shirt, an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades headband, and a nice big gun. Young Achmed aspires to be a suicide bomber with no head.
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Got One
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 1:39:44 pm PDT
A top Hamas terrorist who was reportedly planning an attack on a high-rise building has been killed by rocket fire that destroyed his house. Nasser Jarar was a notorious bomb-maker who blew off both legs and one arm in a “work accident,” but never lost that Palestinian can-do attitude.
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Hot Time in the City
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:59:04 pm PDT
Here’s a great piece by James Robbins on the war of the cities coming soon in Iraq.
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Activity on the Ground
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:16:58 am PDT
Bill Gertz reports that US satellites have spotted a convoy of 60 trucks at a known biological weapons plant in Iraq. U.S. intelligence agencies spotted activity at an Iraqi factory last week that is increasing fears that Saddam Hussein is advancing his germ-weapons program, The Washington Times has learned.A convoy ...
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Hello, Goodbye, and Peace
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:25:32 am PDT
Larry Miller visits Israel: Hello, Goodbye, and Peace. As many of you know, El Al puts at least one armed marshall on each flight. This is a good idea, one of two good ideas El Al gave to all our airlines about five years ago, when the Israelis were invited ...
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Exposing the Big Lies
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:08:17 am PDT
An excellent piece by Daniel Doron exposes the Goebbels-like Big Lies disseminated by the Arab world, and the shameful support given to Arab dictatorships by Western governments: Palestinian Lies & Western Complicity. The Europeans have at least good, if cynical, realpolitik reasons for supporting dictatorships in the Arab world. They ...
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Old Blue Eyes Is Back
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:01:20 am PDT
The Chairman of the Board belts out a new version of a classic song: Strangers on My Flight.
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Khatami Visits Karzai
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 9:19:19 am PDT
If Iran is part of the Axis of Evil, why are US troops in Afghanistan providing security for Iranian President Khatami while he issues veiled threats against America? Iranian President Says U.S. Leaders 'Misused' Sept. 11.
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holier than thou
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 8:52:17 am PDT
Serious flaw found in Internet Explorer again!!!
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The Man Who Inspired the PLO
Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 7:49:56 am PDT
Even terrorists have heroes. Earlier this month Yasser Arafat talked about his: Hajj Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who visited Nazi death camps and tried to convince Adolf Hitler to bring his “Final Solution” to the Middle East and North Africa. UPDATE: Reader Glen Wishard tracked down another ...
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How We Can Coexist
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 6:16:59 pm PDT
Here’s the essay (and I use the term loosely) recommended to us LGF infidels by our SoundVision pals, that purports to tell us How We Can Coexist. And here’s where I stopped reading... It is unreasonable to assume that those who attacked the United States on September 11 did not ...
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Like Fighting Capitalism in America
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 5:48:23 pm PDT
If I wrote this kind of thing, I’d get hate mail calling me a racist: Fighting Corruption [in the Arab World] is Like Fighting Catholicism in the Vatican. Corruption is the Essence of the Regime"Therefore, in transparent regimes what is regarded as 'corruption,' is the essence of the regime in ...
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Elvis Toast
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 2:25:53 pm PDT
Elvis Presley is the toast of the town in New Zealand.
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Living To Die
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 2:09:52 pm PDT
One of LGF’s most active topics was “selling martyrdom” (note: page takes a while to load, with over 300 comments), about a Palestinian propaganda campaign called “Dying To Live.” Now one of our readers (who I know only as Phillip) has done a dead-on parody of those creepy ads: Small version. Large ...
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Don’t Get Over It
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 1:57:50 pm PDT
Go read Rod Dreher: America, Get Angry.
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Support for ClearGuidance
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 1:30:19 pm PDT
The peaceful folks at SoundVision are expressing their support for ClearGuidance.com, and their support for training children to handle automatic weapons and hate infidels. And advising us not to read anything into the fact that as soon as the owners of CG became aware of the attention they were getting, ...
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Mystery Cartography
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:24:24 pm PDT
Mercedes-Benz has now removed all country names from their map of the Middle East. What a weird thing to do. Last week: Today: They must be really afraid of a huge loss in Arab business if they put Israel on the map—so afraid that they’ll risk the negative reaction they’re bound to get ...
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The Case For War
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:41:00 am PDT
Richard Perle makes the case for pre-emptive war on Iraq: Why the West Must Strike First against Saddam Hussein.
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BBC World Disservice
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:09:12 am PDT
Andrea Levin dissects the BBC’s blatantly pro-Palestinian bias, with examples from several interviews on the World Service News Hour: BBC World Disservice.
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That’s a Lot of Baby Wipes
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 9:56:52 am PDT
According to Israel’s head of military intelligence, Yasser Arafat’s personal wealth is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars.
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Zawahiri’s Cowardice
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 9:05:37 am PDT
A reader emailed us this interesting story in a Scottish newspaper, about an Egyptian author who was forced to withdraw a book critical of the mad pediatrician, Ayman al-Zawahiri, after “intense pressure” (read: death threats) from al-Zawahiri’s supporters in Egypt and Saudi Arabia: Islamic author faces backlash for book. A quote ...
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Mandating the Koran
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 8:27:51 am PDT
In Bizarro World where everything is backward, the ACLU is strongly in favor of compulsory religion classes in college. Oops ... did I say Bizarro World? I meant the University of North Carolina. When a state university requires students to immerse themselves in the study of a particular religion, it ...
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Is Islam Evil?
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 8:08:46 am PDT
Last month Daniel Pipes wrote an article titled “The Evil Isn't Islam,” drawing a distinction between Islam and its aggressive cousin, militant Islam, and concluding with a challenge: The challenge ahead is clear: Muslims must emulate their fellow monotheists by modernizing their religion with regard to slavery, interest and much ...
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Mars Attacks
Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 7:27:38 am PDT
Flying saucers attack India! SHANWA, India -- Panic-stricken Indian villagers are blaming UFOs for a spate of attacks that have killed several people and injured many others in Uttar Pradesh state.Villagers in this poor region say as night falls, a flying sphere, emitting red and blue lights, hones in on ...
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Personal Best
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 6:44:03 pm PDT
I think we’ve set an LGF record today, with over 10,000 unique visits according to my statistics application, as of 6:19 pm Pacific. I just got a tiny frisson of stage fright. James Taranto’s Best of the Web was responsible for a large percentage of our visitors, with his link to our ...
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Prosecute The PA
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 2:46:52 pm PDT
Bennet M. Epstein says that instead of posing for photo-ops with Colin Powell, Saeb Erekat and other top Palestinians should be arrested and prosecuted under the RICO act. The Palestinian Authority meets the statutory definition of a RICO "enterprise" under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and its leaders ...
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Scheme And Deceit
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 2:07:26 pm PDT
Palestinian Authority Communications Minister Imad Falouji let the mask slip in an interview on official PA television: "Israel does not recognize the basis of the negotiations," Falouji said in an August 8 broadcast. "That is because Jewish nature is in control of that state and does not sanction peace or ...
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Palestinians Miss Another Opportunity
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 1:41:31 pm PDT
In response to pressure from Hamas and other hardline terror groups, Palestinian political factions including Arafat’s Fatah have abandoned their call to end attacks on civilians.
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The Saudi Way
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:57:00 am PDT
An interesting story at OpinionJournal by Simon Henderson, about Saudi Arabian payoffs to Bin Laden: The Saudi Way. The Saudi way of public diplomacy is to deny everything; for months Interior Minister Prince Nayef simply said the Sept. 11 hijackers had stolen Saudi identities. For the less gullible, the Saudi ...
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Welcome To The 12th Century
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:39:18 am PDT
Yesterday the Saudis hacked off a heroin smuggler’s head with a sword. They also flogged 12 teenagers for “flirting and bothering families.” Nice medieval punishments, carried out in public to make sure Saudi Arabia stays, in the immortal words of ArabNews editor John R. Bradley, “a completely crime-free environment!” Funny thing, ...
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The Case Against War
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:11:47 am PDT
At NRO, Doug Bandow lays out the case against war with Iraq.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 8:47:08 am PDT
Every Friday the official media of the Arab world broadcasts a deluge of hate speech, in the guise of Islamic sermons. Here are the latest calls for death and destruction, delivered by top religious scholars. From the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen: "O God, support those supporting Islam, disappoint those disappointing ...
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The Truth About The Wipes
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 7:51:17 am PDT
Authorities are investigating Arab small businesses across the US suspected of channeling money to terrorist groups: Small Scams Probed for Terror Ties. An alert LGF reader tipped me off to an amazing revelation, buried deep within this Washington Post article, that may be the solution to the Arafat Baby Wipes Mystery: ...
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SFSU Appeases Arab Students
Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 6:59:48 am PDT
After a disgraceful anti-Semitic near-riot earlier this year, San Francisco State University has come up with an idea to improve relations between Jewish and Arab students. They want to create a new Arab and Islamic studies program. And speaking of disgraceful, here’s how the SF Chronicle describes the confrontation: Tensions between pro-Israeli ...
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Nostalgia
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 5:57:14 pm PDT
AP photographer Jassim Mohammed has been busy in Iraq today, taking pictures of Iraqi youth training to slay the infidels. Being generous, I think I counted 18 Iraqi youth in one photo. I’m starting to miss the Soviet Union. Their military parades were much more impressive.
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Dalal Mughrabi High
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 5:25:43 pm PDT
Yesterday I wrote: When the administration of a girls’ school chooses to rename it after a famous female terrorist (a monster who tossed a baby into a burning bus) one might ask whether the name is a symptom of a much deeper problem in that school and many others in ...
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Al Qaeda In Iraq
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 2:18:05 pm PDT
A report in the Observer says that soldiers of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (which goes by the unfortunate acronym of PUK) are preparing to attack an Islamic militant group known as Ansar al Islam, an offshoot of Al Qaeda that is being given sanctuary by Iraq and Iran: Kurdish ...
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Dubya’s Grovel
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:38:12 am PDT
Add Ralph Peters to the growing list of people who are fed up with Dubya for groveling to the Saudis. The trigger for the latest orgy of kissing Saudi feet was an article in The Washington Post by one of our nation's finest reporters, Thomas E. Ricks, revealing that a ...
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Israel Will Retaliate
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 9:15:40 am PDT
If Iraq attacks, Israel says it won’t hold back this time. Israel has notified the U.S. it would respond to any Iraqi attack, even if there are no casualties, Ha'aretz has learned. Senior Israeli officials have explained to their American counterparts it is important to Israel to maintain its deterrence, ...
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Peaceful Islamic Youth Watch
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 7:59:40 am PDT
At the SoundVision Islamic bulletin board, someone posted the violent poem “Yes, I am a Terrorist,” that I wrote about last week. A visitor with some sense asked the moderators to delete the poem because it violated forum rules. It wasn’t deleted; obviously the moderators didn’t think it was objectionable. Instead, ...
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Under The Media Radar
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 7:31:29 am PDT
DEBKAfile is reporting that Turkey has seized a critical air base in Northern Iraq, with help from US Special Forces.
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SoundVision
Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 2:49:32 am PDT
Here’s another forum where the ClearGuidance freaks hang out. They’re warning each other to be careful what they say. A little late for that, kidz.
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Hamas Claims Another Victim
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 6:24:10 pm PDT
Dafna Shafruch was 62 years old when she went to work at Hebrew University on July 31. She is survived by her husband and three children.
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How Do You Feel?
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 5:35:41 pm PDT
Well, I don’t know who the hell is secretly controlling the Pentagon, but it sure isn’t Little Green Footballs. Even though our readers voted overwhelmingly in favor of US retaliation against Hamas for the Hebrew U bombing, it’s clear that it ain’t gonna happen. So it’s time for a new poll. ...
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What’s In A Name?
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 5:17:53 pm PDT
The Palestinian girls’ high school named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is changing its name in order to receive US aid for renovations: Renaming after terrorist almost cost school US funding. Neither USAID nor ANERA was informed after the school decided to name itself after Mughrabi. An official at ANERA confirmed ...
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Now It’s The Christians
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 4:34:43 pm PDT
I guess Arabs don’t blame the Jooz for all the evil in the world: Saudi media criticize 'Christian extremism' in the USA. Two Saudi dailies, Al-Watan and Saudi Gazette, on Thursday criticized the "Christian extremism which has been on the increase" in the USA, after the Washington Post on Tuesday ...
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Islam, Taboo, and Dialogue
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 4:26:58 pm PDT
Bat Yeor calls for open discussion of Islam’s taboo concept of dhimmitude. In the current political climate, it is tempting to maintain the taboos on those historical subjects that could be easily exploited by xenophobes. One such taboo is dhimmitude, which resulted when Christians and Jews (dhimmis), in addition to ...
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Lake Arabia
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:14:48 am PDT
An interesting report in the Asia Times that wealthy Saudi Arabians are arriving en masse in Switzerland: Lake Arabia. Hotels around the Lac Leman are having a masked ball - since most of the guests are court members or wealthy visiting Arabs. Asia Times Online learned that on any given ...
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suicidal street
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:24:15 am PDT
The Jerusalem Post has a very good article about the support for murdering civilians on the Palestinian Suicidal Street. If you want to find a good side in this, the Palestinians are at least talking about it; but there’s no doubt that they overwhelmingly support the barbarism of suicide bombing. ...
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connections
Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 8:56:56 am PDT
Here’s a good story at Wired about how Jon Messner hijacked Al Qaeda’s web site, with some details that haven’t appeared elsewhere. And if you followed our thread about the ClearGuidance.com nightmare pit, you’ll recognize the name of the company that Messner believes will be hosting the new Al Qaeda site: ...
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the fearsome iraqi militia
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 6:04:55 pm PDT
I think the suicide bomb belts are supposed to scare us. Even the fearsome women of Iraq are ready to shoot off the head of the Great Satan. Note that they are so fearsome they do not require ammunition.
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unclear on the concept
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 5:14:47 pm PDT
The Arab News asks the poignant question: Why are there no Muslim peace activists in Palestine? Our heads hang in shame and sorrow when many European young men and women, instead of Arab youths, struggle for our cause against Israel. These Europeans are prompted in their actions by their conviction ...
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shapiro’s in the hoosegow
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 4:07:13 pm PDT
Adam Shapiro is sitting in a cell in Israel, and his wife is very worried. Shapiro's wife, Huwaida Arraf, said she has been barred from seeing her husband and that soldiers roughed him up. She said Shapiro has asthma and needs his medicine."I'm worried about him," said Arraf, a Palestinian-American. ...
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barone on the saudi entity
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 3:51:39 pm PDT
Michael Barone says there are no illusions in Washington about Saudi Arabia, even though spokespeople continue to emit regulation diplo-speak: Our Enemies the Saudis (Continued). You don't have to be a conservative to regard as an enemy a regime that exports terrorism and totalitarian ideas. The Saudis have been behaving ...
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pondering terror at leisure
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 3:38:19 pm PDT
Daniel Henninger says they’re still out there, and they’re going to try to kill a large number of us again. And we’re not going to be ready for it. This may be obvious to readers of LGF, but I have a sickening feeling that the majority of America has rolled over ...
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herbert fisks herold
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 3:23:07 pm PDT
I didn’t have time to write anything about the latest Marc Herold travesty, where he pushes his inflated Afghan civilian casualty figures yet again. But now I don’t need to, because Bill Herbert and Mr. Misha have already fisked Herold’s article to within an inch of its life.
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congrats to joanne
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 3:16:51 pm PDT
Big ups to Joanne Jacobs, who will be doing education commentaries for NPR’s “All Things Considered.” I hope she doesn’t fall prey to the NPR ideology warp field and become a mixed-up Chomskybot.
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hamas threatens israeli leaders
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 1:54:15 pm PDT
Hamas says it will target Israel’s leadership. These guys really do have a death wish; there’s no quicker way to unite the citizens of a democracy than by murdering their leaders. If they succeed in an attack on Sharon or Peres, or on their families, the wrath of hell will ...
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bmw removes the evidence
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 10:12:18 am PDT
BMW has taken down their map of the Middle East that labeled Israel as “Palestine.” I hope they’re embarrassed; but I suspect they’re simply trying to cover up their pandering to Arab anti-Semitism before it turns into a public relations disaster.
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europe flunks
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 9:55:18 am PDT
Did that asinine article by Adrian Hamilton leave a bad taste in your medulla oblongata? Yes? Well, clear your brainpan with the eminent sense of Victor Davis Hanson: Flunking with Flying Colors. The history of the [Middle East] region should bring moral clarity as well. Wars #1-3 were fought not ...
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LGF in switzerland
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 9:23:09 am PDT
Hey! Lookie here! A Swiss magazine has published an article about weblogs, featuring LGF and a bunch of our friends. And look who gets quoted in the sidebar: frequent LGF commenters E. Nough, Andrew X, and J. Lichty (they got your initial wrong, though). Only trouble is, the article seems to ...
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hamilton cracks wise
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 at 7:36:06 am PDT
In one of the stupidest columns ever published in Britain’s stunningly stupid Independent (the lair of Robert “Hit me, I’m English!” Fisk), cheeky schoolboy Adrian Hamilton suggests a preemptive strike—against the United States. This is what passes for cleverness at the Independent. The problem remains the practicalities. Whereas in Afghanistan ...
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the jihadis are talking among themselves
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 6:45:12 pm PDT
An interesting note: we’re getting hits today from a topic on the ClearGuidance (hey! they understand camelcaps!) website. That’s right, kidz. We’re watching you back.
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what’s wrong with these pictures?
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 2:08:17 pm PDT
Best of the Web pointed out today that the BMW website’s dealership map for the Middle East seems to be missing something. UPDATE: BMW isn’t the only cartographically challenged German car manufacturer. Here’s the Mercedes Benz map of the Middle East:
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faces of american islam
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 1:22:16 pm PDT
Policy Review has another great essay today by Daniel Pipes and Khalid Duran, about the large number of Muslim immigrants now living in America and Europe: Faces of American Islam. The article concludes: Because the immigrant Muslim community is so new, it is still very much in formation. Which way ...
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fantasy ideology
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 10:48:57 am PDT
An excellent essay by Lee Harris makes a compelling case that we’re not actually “at war” with Al Qaeda in the classic sense, because the objective of militant Islam is not really political. He argues that Islamic terrorists are not trying to force the West to make political concessions or ...
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shapiro gets 86ed
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 7:37:28 am PDT
A group of foreign “peace activists” has been arrested in Israel as they marched to encourage Palestinians to break the curfew. Israel says they will be deported—and one of these idiots is our old friend Adam Shapiro.
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guess who
Thu, Aug 8, 2002 at 7:12:31 am PDT
The many princes of the peaceful, tolerant Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are puzzled. They are hurt. Who could possibly be telling the Pentagon the Saudis are our enemies? And why? Could it be the hate speech that issues regularly from their mosques and their media? Could it be their support for ...
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they’re on to us
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 7:43:15 pm PDT
The freakazoids at ClearGuidance.com have apparently noticed the sudden surge of traffic, and someone has gone through their bulletin board and removed the nastiest topics.
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palestinian justice
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 5:56:35 pm PDT
Earlier today an LGF reader emailed a link to a story at UPI about the summary execution (sans trial) of an accused Palestinian rapist. But the full story is much worse. The execution was carried out in Yasser Arafat’s compound immediately before a Palestinian cabinet meeting, in full view of the ...
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the future of islam
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 5:05:31 pm PDT
Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Taskhiri is the head of the Iranian delegation to a symposium in Jordan on the “Future of Islam in the 21st Century.” Islam’s future, according to the Ayatollah, includes lots more suicide bombings and dead Jews. "For the Palestinian people, who are subject to the Zionist oppression ...
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saudis spit in the face of the US
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 4:52:43 pm PDT
We probably didn’t need any more evidence, but Saudi Arabia has now removed all doubt that they are not on our side. JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia –– Saudi Arabia has made clear to Washington – publicly and privately – that the U.S. military will not be allowed to use the kingdom's ...
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today’s outrage
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 1:11:40 pm PDT
Dalal Mughrabi was a Palestinian woman who helped perpetrate a 1978 bus hijacking that ended in the massacre of 37 people, one of them an American. In the Bizarro World of the Palestinian Authority, she has a girls’ high school named after her. And in the Bizarro World of US foreign aid, ...
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rumsfeld on the middle east
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 12:54:26 pm PDT
Donald Rumsfeld gets it, and he breaks it down for y’all. "My feelings about the so-called occupied territories are that there was a war," Rumsfeld said. "Israel urged neighboring countries not to get involved in it once it started. They all jumped in and they lost a lot of real ...
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the peaceful youth of islam
Wed, Aug 7, 2002 at 7:10:03 am PDT
Tal G. linked to a site that advertises itself as “a resource guide for Muslim American teenagers,” called ClearGuidance.com. It may be the most disturbing web site I’ve seen yet. Muslim kids talk about school, their parents, the best way to stab Jews, and which decapitation video is the coolest. SERIOUS WARNING. This ...
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peaceful religion watch
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 5:15:17 pm PDT
This week’s peaceful religion watch (courtesy of IMRA) includes the usual suspects with the addition of Qatar. LGF reader Lynn-B says the hate rhetoric is being kicked up a notch or two; I agree. A live sermon from Umar Bin-Al-Khattab Mosque in Qatar, on the official television station of the State ...
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psycho death cult summer camp
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 4:51:19 pm PDT
Reuters says: Palestinian youths are trained on how to infiltrate Jewish settlements during a “Jenin Martyrs Brigades” camp in Brig refugee camp in Gaza Strip August 5, 2002. Just youths, getting trained for some lighthearted infiltration and pointless suicide! Budding young Mansons on steroids, armed with assault rifles.
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hebrew u survivor
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 3:16:49 pm PDT
Michael Ledeen interviews Eliad Moreh, who survived the mass murder at the Hebrew University cafeteria.
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israel is winning
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 3:08:41 pm PDT
Daniel Pipes says Israel is winning, and the stupidfada may collapse before the end of the year.
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arab UN delegates ignore reality
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 9:57:54 am PDT
Arab and Muslim countries, unwilling to accept the UN report clearing Israel of “massacres” in Jenin, are pushing hard for a UN General Assembly resolution accusing Israel of atrocities and “grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.” US and Israeli representatives wondered aloud why they were debating Israel's culpability in ...
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our allies
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 9:40:11 am PDT
A briefing given to a top Pentagon advisory board unequivocally depicted Saudi Arabia as an enemy. "The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader," stated the explosive briefing. It was presented on July 10 to ...
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remain calm
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 8:16:11 am PDT
Still waiting for more disk space to be granted by the almighty system admins of our gracious web host. Stay tuned. Hold that thought. Comments are still disabled. UPDATE: @9:35 our extra space has been allocated, and comments are activated.
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boy meets camel
Tue, Aug 6, 2002 at 6:40:44 am PDT
The Arab News recounts a sad tale of star-crossed lovers with a tragic ending: Jail and lashes for bestial teenager. JEDDAH, 5 August -- A court in northern Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Nigerian teenager to six months in jail and 240 lashes for having sex with a ...
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don’t panic
Mon, Aug 5, 2002 at 6:13:56 pm PDT
Slight problem, LGF readers. You guys are so rambunctiously verbose that we've used up all the storage space on our server! Now I know how my weblog scripts behave when they run out of space. I’ve requested more space from our host, but in the meantime I had to disable comments. ...
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a dud
Mon, Aug 5, 2002 at 11:25:05 am PDT
A suicide bomber being given a ride by an Israeli Arab security guard blew up prematurely, killing himself and seriously injuring the driver.
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arab news penetration
Mon, Aug 5, 2002 at 10:04:57 am PDT
The Arab News says the Internet is going to break the Jewish hegemony’s stranglehold on US media, by letting the Arab message penetrate the US barriers. Never mind that the whole country of Saudi Arabia is behind a firewall. Amr Mohammad Al-Faisal starts out by threatening to bite the kneecaps off ...
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those who hate us
Mon, Aug 5, 2002 at 9:30:39 am PDT
Barry Farber writes about a disturbing conversation with a pair of American Muslims on a plane flight from New York to Toronto: Those Who Hate Us.
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party night in gaza
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 6:31:16 pm PDT
In the fifth terrorist attack today, a married couple was killed and their two children injured when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car. It’s party night in Gaza again.
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raving moonbat watch
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 4:10:37 pm PDT
Drawing from their apparently bottomless pool of fair, balanced, non-anti-Semitic, hilariously inept writers, the Arab News finds a gentleman named “Dr. E.A. Richards,” who says the five Americans who died in the cafeteria at Hebrew University got what they deserved for being Jews. As to the 5 American students that ...
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fourth estate: fifth column
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 2:46:30 pm PDT
Here’s another translation from an Arabic language publication by MEMRI, featuring two poems that were printed recently in Al-Watan: Yes, I Am A Terrorist. They have destroyed my world Let them reap what they have sown. If on my lips and in the cells of my blood The globalization of destruction has ...
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to shoot or not to shoot?
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 11:24:30 am PDT
In Iran the hardliners and moderates are arguing about whether to try to shoot down US and British war planes if they fly over on the way to attack Iraq.
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the money trail
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 11:12:21 am PDT
Senator Joe Lieberman calls for the US to cut off the flow of support for Hamas and other terrorist groups coming from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
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bush’s shame
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 9:33:07 am PDT
Thomas Friedman rips President Bush and the State Department for allowing an Egyptian kangaroo court to sentence a democracy advocate to 7 years of hard labor: Bush's Shame. Watching the pathetic, mealy-mouthed response of President Bush and his State Department to Egypt's decision to sentence the leading Egyptian democracy advocate ...
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no need to control it
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 8:59:08 am PDT
President Bush said, “There are a few killers who want to stop the peace process that we have started.” Palestinian Authority Secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman said he understands today’s bus bombing, and terrorism doesn’t need to be controlled. Palestinian Authority Secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman said he understands today's terror attack, Israel ...
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barrage of terror
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 7:45:51 am PDT
The bus bombing was only one of four terrorist attacks in Israel today: 2 killed, 14 hurt in shooting attack in Jerusalem. 7 hurt, 2 seriously, in attacks near Ramallah and Tul Karm.
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and again
Sun, Aug 4, 2002 at 6:29:04 am PDT
Another Palestinian war crime: Nine Die in Bus Bomb Blast in Israel.
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abdullah working with saddam?
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 2:49:43 pm PDT
The Jerusalem Post reports that Jordan’s King Abdullah II has been passing sensitive American intelligence material to Saddam Hussein, in return for “substantial gifts.”
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palestinian bioweapons
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 11:11:41 am PDT
A British report says that Saddam Hussein is planning to arm Palestinian terror groups with biological weapons.
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photoshop abuse
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 9:24:25 am PDT
Go vote in Michele’s Photoshop contest, in which indecent things are done to that photo of Jesse Jackson gettin’ some sweet lovin’ from Yasser Arafat. I think the winner’s gonna have to be Sekimori.
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roots of hate
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 9:12:03 am PDT
I highly recommend reading the 1997 interview with Rantisi mentioned in the preceding entry. When this interview took place there was talk of a “temporary cease fire” between Hamas and Israel. The pediatrician of death mentions this, and I was struck by his view of what the cease fire would ...
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the end game for hamas
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 7:45:05 am PDT
Nissan Ratzlav-Katz writes about the crystal-clear intentions of Hamas—the bloodthirsty logic of visceral hatred. Speaking in English with European media outlets, Hamas spokesman Abd al-Aziz Rantisi further explained that Hamas is only trying to "defend our children ... stop demolitions of our houses ... " and the ever-popular "end ...
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lost radioactive matter
Sat, Aug 3, 2002 at 6:38:44 am PDT
Sometime in May, a truck containing radioactive material crossed the US-Canadian border at either Port Huron or Detroit—and it still hasn’t been found.
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i want my son to be a martyr
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 8:24:20 pm PDT
Egyptian movie star Laila Olwi has a hot script ready to film, but she’s having trouble getting a producer interested. She wants to play the mother of a “martyr.”
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the bbc and the middle east
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 5:02:15 pm PDT
An exhaustive study of the BBC’s outrageously biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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the culture of hate
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 4:56:44 pm PDT
Bat Yeor, author of Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, writes about the poisonous culture of hate she calls “Islamic jihad.” This hate, which suppresses freedom of thought, and condemns difference, calls itself "Islamic jihad." It draws on religious texts whose interpretation other Muslims dispute. Moreover, because these moderate Muslims ...
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rantisi rants
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 2:21:25 pm PDT
Hamas freakazoid Abdel Aziz Rantisi (a pediatrician, believe it or not) says he’d just love it if his sons became suicide bombers. In fact, he wants every Palestinian to have that glorious opportunity. Senior Hamas figure Abdel Aziz Rantissi stated in an interview that he was not opposed to the ...
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seven impossible things
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 12:42:45 pm PDT
Here’s a great post by Joe Katzman, who turns the argument about Iraq on its head to ask what we’d have to believe to refrain from attacking Saddam: Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
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PA corruption
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 12:09:02 pm PDT
A new interview at MEMRI with Palestinian Legislative Council member Mu'awiya Al-Masri, who exposes the astonishing level of corruption in the government of Yasser Arafat: There is Only One Institution—The Presidency. In 1999 Al-Masri was shot in the leg after signing a document against corruption. It should be noted that his ...
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mckinney’s arab friends
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 11:17:03 am PDT
Scott Koenig discovered a very peculiar fact about the Honorable Ms. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia: seems she received a sudden flood of campaign contributions from men with Arab names—on September 11, 2001. Coincidence, I’m sure. Just like it’s a coincidence that the Arab News is pulling out all the stops to ...
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the jenin hoax
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 8:39:23 am PDT
James Bennet of the New York Times sounds quite disappointed in his story about the UN report on Jenin. The Times has very helpfully provided links in the right sidebar to “Related Articles” that show why Bennet is taking the news so hard: he was one of the more enthusiastic promoters ...
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war crimes
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 7:07:55 am PDT
Human Rights Watch has not one word on their web site about the Palestinian war crime that killed 5 Americans at Hebrew University. Just busy, I’m sure. Busy, busy, busy. So many human rights abuses, so little time. They’ll get around to it, as soon as they deal with more important ...
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palestinian child abuse
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 at 6:46:48 am PDT
A woman suicide bomber who surrendered to the IDF was going to carry a baby during her attack. The woman would-be suicide bomber, Umiya Muhammad Damaj, 24, of the refugee camp in Jenin, surrendered to IDF troops on July 27. She allegedly told her interrogators that she had been influenced ...
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should we retaliate?
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 5:32:12 pm PDT
MSNBC is running a poll: Should the US retaliate against Hamas? As of this writing there are 19,589 responses, with 73% saying yes. I think I’ll run the same question. Watch for a new LGF poll soon.
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booooring
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 2:17:31 pm PDT
“John R. Bradley” is back, with another embarrassingly inept rant. If I wrote as badly as Bradley, I’d martyr myself. But now LGF can claim the dubious honor of the first weblog to be attacked in the Arab News. Unless you know of another “hate-mail oriented, extreme right-wing website” that blocks ...
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they’re laughing at us
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 1:53:55 pm PDT
John Derbyshire says it all, writing about US under-reaction to the Hebrew University bombing: A clear public announcement by the administration that any person known to be associated in any way whatsoever with Hamas is a target of opportunity for U.S. troops and special services; similarly with anyone know to ...
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ideological terrorism
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 1:28:50 pm PDT
A French (zut alors!) court has issued a summons for the editor of Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, charging him with “incitement of hatred and anti-Semitic violence” for publishing the disgusting blood libel myth. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A prominent Egyptian editor on Thursday defended his newspaper's publication of anti-Semitic tales ...
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free is good
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 1:14:56 pm PDT
Eric Olsen has an interesting idea for bloggers who like to review music. It apparently involves some sort of FREE CDs. Or will, at some future date. Check it out. Free is good.
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digital remix
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 11:30:12 am PDT
By special request: Mandatory disclaimer: this photograph has been digitally manipulated. Shake well before using. Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Refrigerate after opening. UPDATE: Photos are going on and off today. The .mac servers (from whom I’m leaching bandwidth) are acting up. This has happened before. Try ...
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an elvis sighting
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 9:53:40 am PDT
LGF reader Ernie G. discovered another photograph of the Gaza celebrations: Because sometimes mockery is as good as outrage.
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as the barbarians gloat
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 9:11:07 am PDT
Of the seven people murdered yesterday, five were Americans. President Bush said, "I am just as angry as Israel is. I am furious." Palestinians couldn’t care less. In the Gaza Strip, an estimated 10,000 people rallied on Wednesday night to celebrate the bombing attack and endorsed calls for more "martyrdom operations." A ...
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UN grudgingly admits the truth
Thu, Aug 1, 2002 at 7:43:17 am PDT
The United Nations painfully, grudgingly admits there was no massacre in Jenin. But of course they still try to find equal blame for Israel. "Palestinian groups are alleged to have widely booby-trapped civilian homes, acts targeted at IDF personnel but also putting civilians in danger," the report adds."IDF is reported ...
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