Celebrate!

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle



You can do your part by signing the petition to force President Barack Hussein Obama to use our veto to stop this insanity.


Eli E. Hertz wrote:

A Crazy State

A Palestinian state has good chances of becoming a rogue state - the kind of polity the United States is currently grappling with in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran and elsewhere.

In 1971 Hebrew University social scientist Professor Yehezkel Dror wrote a short volume entitled Crazy States, solicited by the Rand Corporation. Decades before Mohmar Kaddafi began sending contraband by diplomatic pouch and Pol Pot "invented" the killing fields, Dror envisioned the emergence of polities that 'don't play by the rules' and therefore seem crazy to westerners. At the time he was roundly criticized as an extremist and prophet of doom - his book was labeled a brilliant intellectual exercise but off the mark in terms of reality.

The volume gained new respect after the 1991 Gulf War. Today no one denies the existence of 'crazy states', or as they are now labeled: rogue states. In a 1999 article devoted to how US foreign policy has addressed the problem of rogue states, Professor Barry Rabin of Bar-Ilan University defined the rogue state as:

"[a polity] that puts a high priority on subverting other states and sponsoring non-conventional types of violence against them. It does not react predictably to deterrence or other tools of diplomacy and statecraft."

The definition seems to fit the Palestinian Authority like a glove even in the pre-state 'test' stage prior to gaining full sovereignty.

Palestinian Arabs using non-conventional types of violence can surely take credit for "inventing" skyjackings, a political vehicle that permitted taking hostages and extorting political concessions for their release. Palestinians initiated attacks on El Al passengers and airliners at international airports and escalated the violence by blowing up civilian airliners in midair - the first, killing 47 passengers and crew aboard a Swissair flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv in February 1970.

As far as "not reacting predictably to deterrence or other tools of diplomacy," in 1974 Palestinians claimed responsibility for the first-ever Palestinian suicide-bombing, when 18 hostages near the town of Kiryat-Shmona in northern Israel were murdered by a Palestinian terrorist loaded with explosives.

Today, the battle that Israel wages against terrorism, and one the Western world must also wage, affects the entire free world.

A rogue state, said Rabin "requires special treatment and high levels of international pressure in order to prevent it from wrecking public order, setting off wars, and subverting whole areas of the world" ... "an international equivalent of incarceration or commitment to a mental institution, until there is sufficient recovery to permit reentry into the international system."

Unfortunately, the world community has been ignoring the prospect that a full-blown independent Palestinian state will become just that kind of rogue state and renegade organization the world is grappling with today.

In light of the Palestinian Arab history of violence and its poor performance coping with limited freedom or autonomy - the equivalent of a 'half-way house' to test their readiness to join the family of nations, and in light of the support (rather than pressure to 'toe the line') that Palestinians enjoy in the international arena, Palestinians independence could very well turn into a genuine nightmare.

A state with its patterns of despots, coups, assassinations, civil war, corruption, revolutions and lack of respect for human life, freedom and democracy, resembles a Crazy State that will continue to threaten Israel and world security.

May Osama bin Laden Rot In Hell- Snarky Linkfest Of Osama News

Six days in after the announcement that Osama bin Laden was killed and the news cycle is still full of news relating to the raid and death of the the Al-Qaeda leader, so below we will have linkage to quite a few eye catching stories.

Starting with the trouble making slob, Michael Moore who thinks al-Qaeda has been dismantled for a long time and that executing bin Laden was wrong and anyone who thinks bin Laden being killed without a trial, simply hates "being American".

MOORE: No, no. They killed him. But what I'm saying is they didn't kill because there was some kind of firefight or something going on. They went there with the intention to kill him. That's an execution and -- or an assassination, whatever you want to call it.

And I think -- I think, look, like I said, I'm glad he's gone. But I just feel something has -- we've lost something of our soul here in this country. And maybe I'm just an old school American who believes in our American judicial system. Something that separates us from other parts, other countries where we say everybody has their day in court no matter how bad of a person, no matter what piece of scum they are, they have a right to a trial.

One word for Moore- Jackass.

Anyone remember the name Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind to the 9/11 attacks? He is still being given free room and board on the American taxpayer's dime. Americans still argue whether he should be tried in New York, a civilian trial, or by the military via tribunal.

So, excuse the hell out of me for being more than happy that bin Laden took a bullet to the chest and head and is no longer with us. He ordered an attack that killed approximately 3,000 people in one day. He confessed to ordering it, publicly. He bragged about it.


Guilty. Now, DEAD.

Osama will not be the catalyst so the left can cry about the conditions we are holding him in. Osama cannot cause more conflict in the country as we argue over what interrogation tactics are being used on him.

Osama bin Laden is gone. Dead. At the bottom of the ocean (supposedly unless that story also changes like the 27+ other changed stories coming from the White House.)

Picture to the left comes from Israel Matzav's site, photo-shopped no doubt, but since Obama, in his crowning glory of brilliance refuses to release a photo of a dead bin Laden for Americans to see, I will use it here anyway as a symbol to represent what we hope bin Laden looked like before being thrown into the sea to become fish food.

Consider the football spiked Mr. President.

Refusing to release the real thing means people are going to photoshop their own and a person with half a brain should have realized the to start with.

Obama's reasoning:

"It is important to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool," said the president.

Hows that working out Barack?

FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW TO TAKE REVENGE

US leaders were branded “murderers” by radicals, who warned vengeance attacks were “guaranteed” and shouted: "USA, you will pay."

This just in from London-istan: Violent clashes outside U.S. Embassy after hundreds of UK Muslims stage mock funeral for 'murdered' Bin Laden

Violent clashes broke out around the world today as thousands of supporters of Osama bin Laden took to the streets to protest at the Al-Qaeda leader's death.

While many protests took place across the Muslim world, the most extraordinary took place in London, where hundreds of supporters gathered at the U.S. embassy to stage a mock 'funeral service' for the slain terror leader.

Not so good huh?

Obama and his administration officials have got to be the most naive fools in the world if they believed for a second that some picture would incite more violence from the perpetually violent Islamic extremists than the death of Osama bin Laden itself would, could and has.

Btw, word is bin Laden's successor was already chosen and some even believe al-Qaeda was already being led by Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri and the courier who led U.S. forces to Bin Laden, did so deliberately.

After killing bin Laden, Obama okayed another attack trying to hit another "most-wanted" al-Qaeda member, Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but he got away.

So the I, I, I, I, I, me, me me, my, my my, President hits one and misses one. [Update] See follow up piece comparing Bush's Capture of Saddam Hussein speech to Obama's death of bin Laden speech, here)

Shit happens.

The latest of the we-have-to-keep-this-story-running-until-polls-put-us-over-the-52%-approval-mark-White House's bright ideas, is to publicize home videos of bin Laden watching himself on television. (H/T Wapo for video embed)

Newly released videos show Osama bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos, revealing that even from the walled confines of his Pakistani hideout, he remained a media maestro who was eager to craft his own image for the cameras.

The videos, released by U.S. intelligence officials Saturday, were offered as further proof that Navy SEALs killed the world's most wanted terrorist this week. But they also served to show bin Laden as vain, someone obsessed with his portrayal by the world's media.

One of the movies shows bin Laden, his unkempt beard streaked in gray, sitting on the floor, wrapped in a brown blanket and holding a remote control. He flipped back and forth between what appears to be live news coverage of himself. The old, small television was perched on top of a desk with a large tangle of electrical wires running to a nearby control box.

In another, he has apparently dyed and neatly trimmed his beard for the filming of a propaganda video. The video, which the U.S. released without sound, was titled ""Message to the American People" and was believed to be filed sometime last fall, a senior intelligence official said during a briefing for reporters, on condition that his name not be used.

No spiked footballs here, move along.

CNN is showing the videos here.

What would a snarky, snide, sarcastic piece be if it doesn't mention the useless UN human right's watchdogs questioning the U.S.'s actions in killing bin Laden?

How does it feel to get a taste of what Israel deals with constantly Barack?

Next up, a piece from Spiked Online which begins with the question "How did ‘I hate bin Laden and I’m glad he’s dead’ become the most shocking thing one can say in polite society?"

Good question and they provide a nice essay in answering it, read that for yourself, but I am noting the concluding paragraph because it conveys what I am seeing quite a bit of online, throughout the blogosphere.

Look, if you want to have a real debate about Western intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, bring it on. spiked bows to no one in the implacability of our principled opposition to foreign meddling in other states’ affairs. But if you want to tell me that bin Laden was treated badly, and that the allegedly morally unhinged reaction to his death might invite more terror upon us, then I have only one thing to say: ‘Fuck bin Laden.’

Indeed.

This has been your snark of the day.

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And It Begins...

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

The Arab League Cowards are preparing to demand the UN set up a No Fly Zone over Gaza. This is the same group of cowards who demanded a No Fly Zone over Libya then ran at the first sign of trouble.

The Arab League on Sunday announced during a special meeting in Cairo that it plans to press the UN to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza amid an escalation in violence in the area, AFP reported.

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said he plans to present the proposal to the UN Security Council, the report said.

The announcement came as Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported on Sunday that UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Roberty Serry successfully brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip including Hamas.

The deal, reportedly reached Saturday night stipulated that the IDF stop its air and artillery strikes against Palestinian terrorist groups, who also reportedly have agreed to halt their rocket and mortar fire.

Neither Jerusalem nor Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have announced a ceasefire, but senior officials made statements Sunday hinting to their openness towards such a deal.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said early Sunday that Jerusalem was willing to accept a mutual ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza after several days of projectile fire and IDF strikes, adding that "If necessary, we will act, but," he said, "restraint is also a form of strength."

"If they stop firing on our communities, we will stop firing. If they stop firing in general, it will be quiet, it will be good," Barak told Israel Radio.

On the Gazan the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds, said that it was committed to a ceasefire with Israel, saying it was in the "interests of our people not to give Israel an excuse to launch a major military operation in Gaza."

The announcement came only hours after the group claimed responsibility for firing three mortars and a rocket into Israeli territory Sunday morning.

Abu Ahmed, Islamic Jihad's spokesperson, said that his group would cease violence "so long as Israel fulfills it's responsibility and stops attacks against the Palestinian people in Gaza."

Hamas also softened its language on Sunday.

The group's spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Sami Abu Zuhri, on said that "The Palestinian factions are not interested in escalation." He added, "if the Israeli aggression stopped, it would be natural for calm to be restored."

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When the Arab League Cowards deceived the UN last time over Libya they turned tail and ran like the cowards they are leaving NATO but more importantly the US holding the bag (Ground troops will be landing soon.). This is what will happen again.  Especially if the 3 Bitches Witches (Clinton, Powers, and Rice.) get their way.

Reports: 11 Dead After UN Headquarters In Afghan Attacked By Mob Over Koran Burning

NYT reports:

Thousands of demonstrators angered over the burning of a Koran in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, overrunning the compound and killing at least seven foreign staff workers, according to an Afghan officials.

There were conflicting reports of the total number of people killed and whether two of the victims had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also reported killed.

The incident began when thousands of protesters poured out of the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif after Friday prayers and attacked the nearby headquarters of the United Nations, according to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for northern Afghanistan.

After disarming or shooting the United Nations compound’s guards, the crowd surged inside. Mr. Ahmadzai said that eight of the foreign staff workers, whose nationalities were not known immediately, were killed by gunfire, and that two others were captured by the mob and beheaded. Other reports said that the operations center was burned down as well.

AFP:

Eleven people including eight UN employees were killed Friday in an attack on the organisation's headquarters in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif by demonstrators protesting at the burning of the Koran by a US pastor, police said.

"In total, 11 people were killed -- three foreign members of the UN, five Nepalese United Nations guards and three (Afghan) protesters," General Mohammad Daud Daud, a senior officer in the northern region told AFP.

A UN spokesman in New York confirmed only that there had been an unspecified number of deaths but if the toll is confirmed the attack would appear to be the deadliest on the UN in Afghanistan since the US invasion of 2001.

BBC has an audio of an interview with Terry Jones:

The violence occurred during a protest over the burning of the Koran in a US church on 20 March, by Pastor Wayne Sapp.

The burning took place in the presence of US pastor Terry Jones, who last year drew condemnation over his aborted plan to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Speaking to the BBC, Pastor Terry Jones denied responsibility for the protest and claimed "they used the Koran burning as an excuse to promote their violent activities".

Reuters reports that two people were beheaded, but other reports contradict that and say there were no beheadings.

Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least eight foreign U.N. workers were killed, two of them beheaded, on Friday in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif after a demonstration against the burning of Korans by a U.S. preacher, a regional police spokesman said.

Burning a Koran is just as disrespectful as burning a bible, yet we do not see other religions murdering innocent people, present day, in the name of their gods because someone thousands of miles away, in another country burned their holy book.

Moderate Muslims need to get out in front of this and condemn this action... fast.

H/T Drudge@Twitter

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