Saudi King to Ahmadinejad: 'We still need Lebanon'

...actually the irony is... and this is a hunch... but the irony is that this is very very good for Israel. Lebanon was plaid off as a victim in 2006. The idea that Lebanon and it's people is actually part of this insanity... is a reality, but the media plaid it off as untrue.

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King Abdullah telephones Iranian president before scheduled visit to Lebanon, warns him not to cause irreversible damage.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to cause an irreversible situation during the his expected visit to Lebanon on Wednesday, Channel 10 reported Tuesday.
Abdullah made the comments during telephone conversation between the two leaders and told Ahmadinejad "we still need Lebanon."The US has expressed concern to the Lebanese government over Ahmadinejad's scheduled upcoming visit to Lebanon.
US State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley said that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman last month, telling him that Iran, through Hizbullah, threatens Lebanon's sovereignty.
Officials in Jerusalem have said that Lebanon, not Israel, would be the party to suffer most from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled visit next week to southern Lebanon.
“Lebanon is the primary victim, and if it wants to stop slipping into the jaws of the Iranian crocodile, it – and the moderate Arab world – should raise a strong voice and say this provocateur is not welcome,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Yossi Levy said.
Herb Keinon contributed to this report
Comment: Interesting how SA, Obama's ME partner is being used in this manner-stay focused on Lebanon, huge political play is in motion.

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...the illusion fading away in the West of Moderate Islam

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Former Assistant Secretary Of Defense To Obama: Release Jonathan Pollard

Lawrence J. Korb is the former Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-1985) under Ronald Reagan. Last month, he wrote a letter to Obama that Jonathan Pollard should be released.
Here is the text of the letter (hat tip: IMRA).
Below that is a copy of the original letter--from Justice For Jonathan Pollard

September 27, 2010
Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
203 Yoakum Pkwy Apt 908 Alexandria. VA 22304
The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
As Assistant Secretary of Defense a the time of Jonathan Pollard's arrest I respectfully request that you exercise your power of clemency on behalf of Mr. Pollard who has now been in prison for 25 years.

Jonathan Pollard is the only person in the history of the United States to receive a life sentence for passing classified information to an American ally.
Based on my first-hand knowledge, I can say with confidence that the severity of Pollard's sentence is a result of an almost visceral dislike of Israel and the special place it occupies in our foreign policy on the part of my boss at the time, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.
Secretary Weinberger submitted two affidavits to the court in order to convince the judge to give Pollard a harsher sentence than the one requested by the government, despite Pollard admitting guilt, plea bargaining and cooperating with the government. The government committed to not seeking a life sentence but due to the Weinberger Affidavits, the redacted version of
which I have read, Mr. Pollard received a disproportionate life sentence.
Secretary Weinberger omitted his crucial involvement in the Pollard case from his memoirs and when asked by the famed investigative journalist Edwin Black, about the omission, Weinberger indifferently responded, "Because it was, in a sense, a very minor matter, but made very important." Asked to explain, Weinberger continued, "As 1 say, the Pollard matter was comparatively minor. It was made far bigger than its actual importance." When asked why this was so, Weinberger replied "I don't know why-it just was."
Mr. Pollard was not charged with harming America and has repeatedly expressed remorse for his actions. Furthermore, the average sentence for his offense is 2-4 years and today the maximum sentence is 10 years.
Justice would best be served by commuting Pollard's sentence to the time he has already spent in Sincerely,
Lawrence J. Korb

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the ball is rolling

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Judge Stops Enforcement of DADT

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips has issued a universal injunction against the enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on the grounds that it violates the constitutional rights of service members. The DOJ has 60 days to appeal. Barring that, this effectively ends the policy.

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A law passed by special interests will never bring dignity... especially to the interested members. Today Gay Marriage is just another DADT. When will we learn that Universalism discriminates? Dishonesty about our relationships within the military are as bad as dishonesty within a Marriage contract that ignores the intent and the inherent differences... and also the inherent needs of those that are different.

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Partisan Hacks: When You Assume, It Only Makes an Ass Out of You (Not Me)

the line that this is “the most important election in our lifetime” is kinda like the host of “The Bachelor” constantly saying, “The most dramatic rose ceremony ever.”

If that were truly the case, Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan would have the testicles to say, we don’t want Hezbollah/Syria/Arafat/Saudi Arabia-friend Jihad Darrell Issa (who said 9/11 was “simply a plane crash”) as our face–the face of the anti-Obama Republicans.  But they don’t.  They are ball-less.  Sorry.   When the Republicans take over the house, the scariest thing will be that Issa will become the very powerful Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. . . unless Republicans who’ve embraced this career criminal Issa (arson, car theft, falsifying military record, insurance fraud, unlicensed weapons, firing employees at gunpoint, patent theft and infringement) finally have some cojones to say “no” to him.  And they won’t.  They just don’t have it in them because they aren’t the principled people you may think they are.  Really, they are just a tiny hair better than liberal Democrats.  A tiny hair.

read about Dr. Rob Steele via debbieschlussel.com
 

If you think I have any loyalties to a political party... you are in for a surprise. Find out who you are voting for or against. The Republican Party is full of people who package the status quo Jihad and Immigration views and hide behind Ron Paul and his buddies. This isn't a problem with a two party system. This is a problem with people who trust packaging when they buy a product.

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Helen Thomas on being anti-Semitic: Baloney!

Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job.

Asked whether she's anti-Semitic, she responded "Baloney!" She said she wants to be remembered for "integrity and my honesty and my belief in good journalism" and would like to work again.

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she lied about being sorry too.

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Legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas came under some fire  for a question she asked of counter-terrorism czar John Brennan at Thursday’s briefing. She asked Brennan and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano about the motivation behind attacks like the Christmas attack on flight 253, and then pressed the issue with Brennan.

I asked Helen to explain her line of questioning, and whether she was satisfied with Brennan’s answer.

Transcript:

TC: You asked John Brennan, you said why are they trying to attack us. A lot of our readers had questions that were critical. What were you trying to get at with that question?

HT: I was trying to find out why. Why? Look, we’ve been in this war 8-9 years, against this so-called “terrorism,” and I do say so-called because in the newspapers if you read, you read about the militants. You don’t read about us bombing everybody, and never really explaining why and going into 3-4 different countries in the Middle East, Africa and so-forth. Who are we? Why are we doing this? Why isn’t every reporter asking that? Don’t you think you ought to know why you’re asked to go kill and die?

TC: So, what sort of response were you expecting from Brennan? Did you get what you expected? Were you satisfied with the answer?

HT: Hell no, because the real reason is foreign policy. How would we like foreign troops coming into our country and killing the people? That’s the answer. They say religion and everything else. Religion could be a good cover story in maybe some element, but the real reason is us being in places where we don’t belong – Afghanistan, Iraq – with no reason, no Iraqis were in 9/11.

Helen has made waves like this before. The day of my first regular briefing, I asked Helen to respond to criticism from the likes of Bill O’Reilly for having used the term “so-called terrorists” in questioning the President at his first prime-time news conference. Helen’s response ended up on the Factor, uncredited and misleadingly edited, but here’s all of what she had to say that day:

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Geert Wilders Acquitted

Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Dutch prosecutor requested a Dutch court to acquit lawmaker Geert  Wilders on a charge that he insulted Muslims as a group, news agency ANP reported on Tuesday.

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Former US Defense Official Says Pollard Punishment Too Harsh

A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration wrote U.S. President Barack Obama that Jonathan Pollard’s punishment was too harsh. The letter, written two weeks ago and revealed on IDF Radio Tuesday morning, gives new hope for a committee that has been working for years to convince the Israeli government to pressure the United States to free Pollard.

A U.S. court sentenced him to life imprisonment for passing on classified information to Israel from the Pentagon, where he worked. The offense usually carries a punishment of two to four years in jail, a point made by former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb in his letter.
"Despite Pollard's admission of guilt, cooperation with authorities, [and the fact that he] asked for a plea bargain, he received a disproportional punishment," Korb wrote.
Last month, rumors circulated in Washington that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered to extend the 10-month building freeze if President Obama were to pardon Pollard. U.S. national security officials reportedly scotched the proposal, if it actually was offered by the Prime Minister.
During the Wye Plantation negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in 1998, CIA Director George Tenet  threatened to resign when he heard that then-President Bill  Clinton was considering freeing Pollard.

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I doubt Obama is the President who will do the right thing. Bush W certainly wasn't. Clinton wasn't... and yes absolutely... Reagan and Bush Sr. wasn't.  Do you really think Obama cares for Israel? I sure as hell don't think any US president who withheld chemical warfare information against Jews is a friend of Israel. They get away with this because.... obviously the Israel lobby isn't as powerful as the conspiracy theorists claim...  well... duh! the CIA and government is probably the people pushing this Ron Paul lie about Jews controlling things.

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J Street links to their own lies. Depends on Zealous Followers

Unbelievable – J Street Crops Daniel Levy’s Anti-Israel Quote, Then Blasts “Far Right-Wing Blogs” For “Misreporting” It

why be satisfied with one denial strategy when you can have two? After they cropped Levy’s remarks in the text, then they linked to a 130 minute Al Jazeera video of his panel. And that video does have his full quote, which moves their denial out of Soros “omission” territory and into the brazen Goldstone denial realm where they have to hope their audience can’t see or hear things. In fairness to them, there’s at least a chance they never intended anyone to sit through the first 127 minutes of the Arabic language tape to find the clip (much easier to just take J Street’s transcript at face value!)

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read the whole thing. we give liberal Jewish Organizations too much credit. We assume we merely disagree... and nothing could be more Jewish then that, but they are liars linking to their lies hoping that their biased audience doesn't fact check their own arguments.

Their most basic move has been to deny reality as long as possible and then – when that stops working – to simply pretend that they never said what they said. This is how they handled the Soros funding scandal, as illustrated in their Myths & Facts section on the issue. First paragraph: “J Street has always said…” Second paragraph: “J Street has also always said…” Etc. This is just a strategy of omission. To debunk the accusation that they denied their Soros funding, they just never mention all those times when they denied their Soros funding.
J Street’s other move has been to go all-in on denial, even while – amazingly, openly, brazenly – acknowledging the evidence that flat out disproves what they’re saying. This was their approach to the Goldstone revelations, per Ben-Ami’s comments to the Washington Times. He began by insisting that J Street had nothing to with “facilitating” Goldstone’s DC visit, then he outlined how J Street “reached out to a handful of congressional staff to inquire whether members would be interested in seeing Judge Goldstone” – which is, of course, what the word “facilitate” means. This is a strategy of I honestly don’t know what. Doublethink? Shamelessness? Relying on the audience to be illiterate?
For completion’s sake it’s probably also worth mentioning a third move, where J Street reflexively smears all critics as right-wing neoconservative warmongers or something. That’s how they ended up castigating leftist leading light Alan Dershowitz for being a Limbaughesque Palinista. Now this one isn’t strictly an argumentative tactic, but more like just something that’s kind of stupid. It’s such a part of their repertoire, though – and it plays such a crucial role in how the anti-Israel Jewish left insulates its echo chamber – that it would be a shame to leave it out.

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Some Enemy

I guess the only way an Arab can be honest about Israel is if they no longer live in the Middle East. This was written by Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian of 'Palestinian' heritage, who is now an academic living in the UK (Hat Tip: Elder of Ziyon).

In December of 2008, Israel launched operation “cast lead” against Hamas which was launching rockets on Southern Israel on a daily basis. This operation has resulted in the death of more than 1,400 Palestinians, many said to be civilians; an absolute tragedy, nonetheless, those criticizing Israel fail to recognize that the number of causalities is small comparing to Gaza’s population of 1.5 million, considering the high density of Gaza’s population per square kilometre, the number suggests the Israeli forces were very cautious in carrying out their attacks, despite the fact that they were chasing a moving target, Hamas militants. If Israeli forces were targeting Palestinian civilians, the number of the dead would have reached tens of thousands.
On comparison; in 1976, Lebanese militiamen butchered 2,000 Palestinians; almost wiping out the entire population of Tell al-Zaatar refugee camp within days. This was revisited again in 1982 in Sabra and Shatelah massacre; where, in less than four days, Lebanese militiamen killed thousands of women and children who posed no threat as most Palestinian fighters had left then to Tunisia. Two years ago, al-Jazeera satellite network aired rare footage of Palestinians running to Israeli soldiers for refuge from the massacre.
Furthermore, most Arab atrocities against Palestinians have included documented rape cases, even of children, while not a single rape case has been reported against Israeli forces in more than sixty years of operations.
Arab governments’ oppression of the Palestinians does not stop at bloodshed and wholesale slaughters, in fact the more troubling aspects of the way they treat Palestinians is in the systematic long-range exclusion and discrimination. In Arab countries where Palestinians make up a good percentage of the population; they are depraved of all basic necessities, starting with education, down to basic healthcare. Even at countries that have granted the Palestinians citizenships; the Palestinians stand helpless and banned from every potential to improve their livelihoods.
Israel, on the other hand, has always allowed Palestinians to work there and to get paid in Western standards, and even had allowed them generous access to healthcare. In fact, Israel has also welcomed Palestinians as visitors, patients and even as investors, this generosity was only limited when Hamas started bombing Israeli civilians with no signs of an end in sight.
The complexity Israel has with Palestinians revolves around security rather than ideological issues; Israel does not have an aim to enslave the Palestinians for life or purposely degrade their humanity. While many Arab countries have designed their systems to discriminate and humiliate the Palestinians, squeezing them into illiteracy and poverty while milking them for tax money.
This has become most visible recently with calls in some Arab countries to revoke citizenships of all Palestinians there and actually to force them to seek local guarantors to obtain residency, thus enslaving them for life.
This comes as a deeper shock for Palestinians when they see Israeli Arabs, with many of them describing themselves as “Palestinians in Israel”; those are full citizens of Israel with access to all privileges. Israeli Arabs are fully represented inside the Knesset while Palestinians, in their Arab homeland, are allowed only symbolic presence in parliaments, even at countries where they are the majority. And while some Arab countries selectively withdraw citizenships from Palestinians, many Arab Knesset members do not hesitate to speak against Israel with no fear of losing their citizenships or entitlements.

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I wonder how many other Arabs (especially 'Palestinians') understand this to be the truth, even if they are not free to say it.

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The truth about GAZA (not in your morning paper)

Todah to EoZ for recommending that we read Peter Hitchens at the Daily Mail (UK).  Thank Gd there is at least one real journalist left; it's just too bad he's not in America.

It is lunchtime in the world's biggest prison camp, and I am enjoying a rather good caffe latte in an elegant beachfront cafe. Later I will visit the sparkling new Gaza Mall, and then eat an excellent beef stroganoff in an elegant restaurant.
Perhaps it is callous of me to be so self-indulgent, but I think I at least deserve the coffee. I would be having a stiff drink instead, if only the ultra-Islamic regime hadn't banned alcohol with a harsh and heavy hand.
Just an hour ago I was examining a 90ft-deep smuggling tunnel, leading out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt. This excavation, within sight of Egyptian border troops who are supposed to stop such things, is – unbelievably – officially licensed by the local authority as a 'trading project' (registration fee £1,600).
It was until recently used for the import of cattle, chocolate and motorcycles (though not, its owner insists, for munitions or people) and at its peak earned more than £30,000 a day in fees.

But business has collapsed because the Israelis have relaxed many of their restrictions on imports, and most such tunnels are going out of business. While I was there I heard the whine of Israeli drones and the thunder of jet bombers far overhead.
Then, worryingly soon after I left, the area was pulverised with high explosive. I don't know if the Israeli air force waited for me to leave, or just walloped the tunnels anyway.
The Jewish state's grasp of basic public relations is notoriously bad. But the Israeli authorities certainly know I am here. I am one of only four people who crossed into the world's most misrepresented location this morning.
Don't, please, accuse of me of complacency or denying the truth. I do not pretend to know everything about Gaza. I don't think it is a paradise, or remotely normal. But I do know for certain what I saw and heard....

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PA wants ancient Jewish cemetery at Mount of Olives

The Palestinians are cruel heartless bastards. It is pointless to negotiate with them if this is an issue. A Jewish cemetery that the Arabs have a history of desecrating should not be put on the table. Only the bloodless Europeans who threw six million Jews to the Nazis could think this kind of negotiation can lead to peace.

From JPost: (via Daily Alert)

The Internal Security Ministry and the Housing Ministry announced that millions of Shekels will be invested to boost security at the Mount of Olives site in Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
The new plan will include hundreds of cameras and sensors, and will increase the activities of the border police at the site, according to the report.

The fact is that it is dangerous, even today, for Jews to visit the graves of their loved ones and ancestors on the Mount of Olives.
And that mountain is considered "occupied."
While many people discuss the issue of the Old City of Jerusalem in any final status discussions, there is very little written about the Mount of Olives. Yet that ancient burial ground has no sanctity nor history for Arabs or Muslims (although it has meaning for Christians.) There should be no question that this holy spot should remain under Jewish control.
And yet, last month, Ehud Barak hinted that the Mount of Olives can be placed under a "special regime" - meaning, at least partial Arab sovereignty.
Last year, JCPA published an important summary of all the issues around the Mount of Olives:

The Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, that the Palestinians demand to transfer to their control, is the most important Jewish cemetery in the world. The area has constituted a religious and national pantheon for the Jewish people and the State of Israel, containing the tombs of the illustrious dead of the nation over the course of 3,000 years and serving as a site for Jewish gathering and prayer at the time of the ancient Temple and even prior to it.
Under Jordanian rule, Jewish access and the continued burial of Jews on the mount was prohibited, despite Jordan's explicit commitment in the Israeli-Jordanian Armistice Agreement of 1949. During the period of Jordanian rule, the cemetery was destroyed and desecrated, and 38,000 of its tombstones and graves were smashed to smithereens.
Since Jerusalem's reunification, burial ceremonies were renewed at the site and large sections of the cemetery were rehabilitated. Nevertheless, attempts by Palestinians to damage the cemetery have never totally abated, and there have been periodic attacks on Jewish mourners escorting their dead for burial.
Previous Israeli governments that consented to discuss arrangements in Jerusalem with the Palestinians rejected their demand to transfer the Mount of Olives to PA sovereignty and control. Nevertheless, those governments were prepared to give their assent to the transfer of neighborhoods that control the access routes to the mount. Should any such agreement be implemented in the future, it could endanger freedom of access to the site and continued Jewish burial there.
In any future arrangements, in order to allow continued Jewish burial on the mount, Israel must guarantee freedom of access to the site by controlling the arteries leading to it, as well as the areas adjacent to it. On the previous occasions that Israel transferred areas that included Jewish holy sites to Palestinian control, the Palestinians severely encumbered or refused to allow Jewish access to these places. Sometimes these sites were even severely damaged.

This is not an issue that Israel can compromise on.

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Abbas aka Abu Mazen is a Holocaust denier. He has no interest in a Jewish state. He has no interest in anything but destroying Judaism.

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Darkest Anti Semitism in Holland

I remember spending time in the mid-1970s with the late Meyer Levin in his home in Israel; we spent hours walking on the beach as he tried to persuade me that Broadway Jewish communists (Lillian Hellman in particular) had colluded with Otto Frank, Anne’s father, to ditch Levin’s screenplay about Frank and to present a far more “universal” and less specifically Jewish Anne. Hellman and others succeeded. More, they also managed to persuade Hollywood and Broadway to focus on Anne’s “optimism,” and to bypass her growing sense of the unfolding tragedy. Levin himself became obsessed with this “whitewashing” of the Holocaust through this use of Anne Frank. I believed him. Most others did not. I am afraid that he died a bitter and heartbroken man. Not until 1997 did Cynthia Ozick finally set the record straight in the pages of The New Yorker. She, too, found that Levin was telling the truth. Author Abigail R. Esman would have believed Levin. She would actually have a thing or two more to tell him. An expatriate Jewish-American, Abigail R. Esman, has written an important and powerful new book, Radical State: How Jihad Is Winning Over Democracy in the West. It is set in Holland, where she has now lived for the last twenty years.

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Prof. Phyllis Chesler
Prof. Phyllis Chesler is the author of fifteen books, including Women and Madness (Doubleday, 1972), The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and most recently, The New Anti-Semitism. She is the co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women's Health Network.

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Leftist Propaganda Brain Washed Generations. Even Anne Frank's story was lost

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Associated Press Analysis by AP Israel Watch

Amy Teibel:

It would be fun to catalog the terms of abuse & lies she has about Israelis she dislikes. Ready? (Italics by us, for emphasis on the main distortions.) [plus some clarifications]

• nationalists [only a crime in Israel, in her eyes]
• defensive [not Amy]
• siege mentality [never mind that Israel and Jews ARE under siege]
• hard-line pressure [the old stereotype about any Israeli leader with a backbone]
• atmosphere of polarization [they, not Amy; Amy is Mrs. Tolerance herself]
• criticism is being muzzled [no, it is not; in Gaza and the West Bank, yes]
• committing war crimes [the old canard]
• a military offensive in the Gaza Strip [if ever there was a defensive war]
• harsh international criticism over a deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla [as we have shown before, the international community supported Israel; the main international criticism came from..... AP]
• killed a Palestinian militant in Dubai [a terrorist leader, he was]
• would shut down groups that provide information that could be used to support war crimes allegations against Israel in court cases raised in other countries [no, rather, that baselessly slander Israel - we understand that she fears for her hobby horse, but she could always move to Gaza City or Jericho to continue to write her heartfelt cries]
• would impose fines and entry bans on supporters of an anti-Israel boycott [any country would ban entry for people who come to make trouble, but Israel should be above this]
• the Palestinian grief over Israel’s 1948 creation [rather, they should grieve about being used by all the Arab states that attacked Israel, that promised them all of Palestine, that used them as a bargaining chip and their leaders that never bothered to go for a state, especially not when the West Bank was occupied by Jordan]
• hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from homes in what is now Israel [in AP's narrative, Arabs are victims, so Israelis are aggressors]
• would deny state funding to groups that mourn the “nakba” [the chutzpah of wanting state funding for deploring the existence of the state!]
• human rights groups that expose unethical Israeli conduct should not be allowed to operate freely [the biggest lie; unethical conduct is chased after by so many Israeli Jews and Israeli Jewish organizations, and they have broad support in the Israeli mindset]
• Israeli citizens who support sanctions or boycotts against Israel should be punished [Amy would like them to be medalled?]
• Israel’s internal security service called in for questioning a former air force pilot who has become an outspoken critic of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians [people that don't endanger the state should have nothing to fear from being questioned by them]
• accused Israeli naval commandoes of roughing him up [if it were true it became a court case]
• to Gaza to draw attention to Israel’s blockade of the territory [run by a terrorist junta; where is Gilad Shalit?]
• Naomi Chazan, a professor who has come under fire from ultranationalists who accuse her of being “anti-Israel” [a friend of Amy; nice example of her polarizing (Who? Amy? Never!)]
• the antagonism is dangerous [the antagonism by others, that is; hers is fine]
• dissent is being quieted [in Israel everybody is a dissident and quiet is not what happens here]
• ultranationalist [the term itself conveys intolerance]
• played on the perceived disloyalty of Israel’s Arab citizens [suggestive use of language]
• It has been widely speculated [by Amy's sub-conscience]
• the bill appeared aimed squarely at Arab Israelis [appeared but is not]
• limiting democracy in Israel and deepening the prejudice against its Arab minority [baseless accusations that are possible in Israel's democracy]
• antidemocratic laws that ostracize and delegitimize minority views, particularly those of Arab citizens [we're all shivering with Amy at this dreadful perspective]

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Danish Leftist Gets Stoned by Palestinian Kids - PRECIOUS!

Watch as the outstretched hand closes into a clenched fist.

The translation is messed up, but it sure is funny how they mangle the man's name:

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