Susan Rice: UN Recognition of Palestinian State = "Exceedingly Politically Damaging in Our Domestic Context

...Susan Rice and the Obama adminstration is very worried about losing Jewish voters in 2012, if the Palestinians are recognized by the United Nations.

Yet, in a video you see that Susan Rice is worried about something else; losing Congress' financial and political support of the United Nations; an idea first put forth by John Bolton and since supported by a number of different individuals in Congress.
Here is the important quote: And this would be exceedingly politically damaging in our domestic context, as you can well imagine. And I cannot frankly think of a greater threat to our ability to maintain financial and political support for the United Nations in congress than such an outcome.
The video was censored; the quote appears around the 6:30 mark.

via challahhuakbar.blogspot.com

what is amusing is in the Reagan administration it was ("Fuck the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway.") Baker who threatened to withdraw funding to the United Nations when the United Nations said it would create Palestine.
US to veto Palestinian statehood bid in UNSC, PA Backing Off Declaration of Statehood‏

John Bolton: US Can Stop PA Initiative by Halting Funds for UN:“Reducing U.S. funding to the U.N. is the next available, highly visible, target of opportunity. It presents the U.N. membership with a fascinating question: Would they rather recognize Palestinian statehood, or keep America's money?"

The president of the UN General Assembly said there is no way that a Palestinian state could become a member of the United Nations without a recommendation from the Security Council.

Intifada IPad Application Removed by Apple

Apple removed an application from its App Store on Wednesday after a Jewish human rights group and a top Israeli official said it contained anti-Semitic content and promoted violence against Israel.

The app, “The Third Intifada,” notified people of upcoming protests against Israel and also highlighted anti-Israel news and opinion from around the Web.
“We removed this app from the App Store because it violates the developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people,” an Apple spokesman said Wednesday evening.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a group dedicated to stopping anti-Semitism, put out a statement on Tuesday asking the company to “immediately withdraw its approval” of the application. The center said that its researchers had found that the app “contains anti-Israel content — articles, photographs of ‘martyrs’ and stories — and updates its users on further incitements to protest and violence.”
According to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, Yuli Edelstein, an Israeli minister of public affairs, also sent a letter to Apple asking for the “immediate removal” of the application from the App Store.
Apple states in its App Store policy, under section 19, which pertains to religion, culture, and ethnicity that “Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected.”via Challah Hu Akbar and image via the next web

Syria protests: Syrian forces raid dorms; 3 students killed

Security forces launch the raid at Damascus University a day after President Bashar Assad made a speech there pledging reform. Draw Image: Twenty-one students are reported injured and 130 arrested. Violence continues in other parts of the nation. via latimes.com

Bribery Convict says chance for peace with Syria failed in 1993.

Former Shas leader and convicted felon Aryeh Deri announced on Wednesday that he is planning to return to politics. But not with Shas.  Deri has been out of politics for several years now due to a bribery conviction.

The FDA’s Disturbing Propaganda

...I_heard_about_this... this morning and I was afraid to look. I should of, I bet I get a lot of hits for these fucking puke disgusting images. Really... I'm a smoker and it is disturbing. Right now I'm on those free nicotine patches from...
New York Smoke Free. That is if you are in N.Y.State. It is pretty good because I save a lot of money. I mean... who can turn down free Nicotine... Shit! h/t Conservative Compendium

Palestinians Busy Fighting Each Other: Not Ready For Statehood

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image via Mid East i

Dahlan ousted via Maan News

Bio of Dahlan via
Lawrence of Cyberia

Abbas's recent decision to expel Dahlan from Fatah is threatening to divide the faction into two separate parties. Dahlan is enormously popular among many Fatah cadres in the Gaza Strip, where there is great anger over Abbas's decision. via hudson-ny.org

Dahlan hates Hamas and Hamas hates him. It is reasonable to think that he is being forced out because he opposes Fatah’s cooperation with Hamas. Dahlan believes that in any such deal Fatah will eventually be the loser and Hamas will take over the PA. via crethiplethi.com

Many Fatah leaders are now threatening to quit the faction in protest against the dismissal of Dahlan. Even those who are not known as Dahlan supporters have come out against the decision because of the way it was taken.
They point out that the removal of Dahlan was carried out illegally and without the approval of Fatah institutions. They also note that as a member of the Palestinian parliament, Dahlan enjoys parliamentary immunity – a fact that Abbas preferred to ignore when he decided to remove him.

Bio of Barghouti via
Lawrence of Cyberia

Another Fatah leader who is now challenging Abbas is Marwan Barghouti, who has been in Israeli prison for the past nine years after being convicted of organizing armed attacks against Israelis. Barghouti's wife this week published a letter she sent to Abbas in which she accused the Palestinian president and his top aides of turning their backs on her husband.

Fayyad
...will announce his intention
to refuse to head the new unity government
if he is offered the post,
sources close to the appointed
West Bank Prime Minister told Ma'an.
Fayyad has publicly said he would accept
whatever parties decide in Cairo.
via Maan News h/t Challah

On the other hand, the Fatah-Hamas "reconciliation" accord, which was announced on May 4, seems to be going nowhere. The two rival parties were supposed to announce the establishment of a unity government this week. But the announcement was postponed indefinitely because of Hamas's refusal to accept Salam Fayyad as prime minister of the new government. It also seems that not everyone in Fatah is happy about the idea of having Fayyad as prime minister.

Hamas, meanwhile, is also witnessing a power struggle between its leaders in the Gaza Strip and those sitting in Syria, especially in regard to the reconciliation pact with Fatah and the fate of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held by Hamas for five years.
Two weeks ago, Palestinians were shocked when they learned that militiamen belonging to Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front-General Command opened fire at a demonstration in a refugee camp in Syria, killing 14 people and wounding many others. more via hudson-ny.org

Incidentally, nobody has ever been kicked out of Fatah for advocating, ordering, organizing, or participating in a bloody terrorist attack against Israeli civilians. Nor has anyone ever been thrown out for incitement or breaking the group’s commitments in the “peace process.” via crethiplethi.com

Man's severed head, genitals left outside Juárez church

Man's severed head, genitals left outside Juárez church:

Mexican Meatball Snuff film...

A man's severed head and genitals were left outside a church in Juárez on Tuesday afternoon.

Chihuahua state police said the body parts were found inside a black plastic bag behind Sagrado Corazón church east of downtown Juárez. The rest of the body has not bee located.
Investigators found a DVD with the body parts, but a police spokesman said he did not know what was contained on the disc.
A spokesman said the severed head and genitals incident was the lone homicide reported as of Tuesday evening. There were two homicides Monday and five on Sunday. via El Paso Times h/t Eye On The World

Galliano to meet Big Gay Bubba in Jail

Galliano to Appear Before a French Court!

John Galliano via Jadore Couture

...Fashion designer John Galliano will appear in court in France on Wednesday to face charges of making anti-semitic comments in a café, Sky News reported.

Galliano was fired as creative director for fashion house Dior in March after a video showed him apparently drunk, telling a woman he “loved Hitler” and that her parents might have been gassed in a Nazi camp.
If found guilty, Galliano faces a fine of up to 22,000 Euro and a six-month prison sentence. via Israel National News and Big Gay Bubba via New Grounds

Natalie Portman Condemns John Galliano's Antisemitic Slurs

FASHION WORLD SHOW IT'S HATE OF JEWS AGAIN.

this guy has been hanging out with

Perez Hilton too much.