Behind the Times.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been tied to the whipping post, and oh Lord I feel like I’m dying.
Here’s another daft NY Times reporter who thinks that the entire history of the world began on the day she graduated J-school.
Countering criticism of another Jewish building project planned for Sheik Jarrah, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, [...]

Death cult.

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.
via ‘Mum’ had 80 women [...]

Out of his league.

This from Reuters today:
[Former Senator George] Mitchell, who helped to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict, was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week to lead U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mitchell’s tour will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Britain. He said he would later [...]

September 20, 2001.

President George W. Bush said this to the American people during his State of the Union address on 9/20/01:
It is my hope that in the months and years ahead life will return almost to normal. We’ll go back to our lives and routines and that is good.
Even grief recedes with time and grace.
But our resolve [...]

An endless stream of cigarettes and magazines…

Guess who’s going home to plot the murder of our children?
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen and is now the terror group’s No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement from [...]

And we wonder why they hate us.

Amsterdam’s red light district is reportedly to receive a bronze statue dedicated to prostitutes around the world.
According to the Dutch agency ANP, sculptress Els Rijerse made the statue at the request of a former prostitute Mariska Majoor, who a decade ago founded a centre on prostitution in the Dutch capital.
Majoor was quoted as saying by [...]

Taking his eye off the ball?

First he’s closing Guantanamo and now he’s shutting down the “black sites”?
President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration’s architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a [...]

Cease fire?

How to fix this?
Violence marred the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Hamas gunmen fired mortar shells into Israel and opened fire on IDF troops who remained inside the Palestinian territory.
In the afternoon, IAF aircraft bombed a mortar launcher in the Gaza Strip that had been used hours earlier to fire some eight [...]

Busted.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary — in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.
The Roman Catholic Church condemned Ricardo Oyarzun’s plans for a show featuring the models, and a conservative group tried unsuccessfully to block it in court.
Oyarzun said he had [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy.
On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, and [...]

Mobs threatening Israel-supporters in Germany.

Outrage over Demonstration in Germany: Police Remove Israeli Flag during Islamist Protest March – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International.
As the first protesters recognized the flag, P. and his girlfriend were standing on the street nearby. He said he followed the march because he wanted to document any incidents of anti-Semitism or hate campaigns. He [...]

Big Picture

As always, Melanie Phillips offers clarity:
The atrocities demonstrated with crystal clarity what the Islamist war is all about – and the western commentariat didn’t understand because it simply refuses to acknowledge, even now, what that war actually is. It does not arise from particular grievances. It is not rooted in ‘despair’ over Palestine. It is [...]