Jihad contra Israel vista através da Teoria dos Jogos

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"Israel's Conflict as Game Theory," by Yisrael Aumann, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on analyzing conflicts using game theory. This piece was posted at Israel Defender on October 23:

Two men--let us call them Rick and Steve-- are put in a small room containing a suitcase filled with bills totaling $100,000. The owner of the suitcase announces the following: "I will give you the money in the suitcase under one condition...you have to negotiate an agreement on how to divide it. That is the only way I will agree to give you the money." Rick is a rational person and realizes the golden opportunity that has fallen his way. He turns to Steve with the obvious suggestion: "You take half and I'll take half, that way each of us will have $50,000." To his surprise, Steve frowns at him and says, in a tone that leaves no room for doubt: "Look here, I don't know what your plans are for the money, but I don't intend to leave this room with less than $90,000. If you accept that, fine. If not, we can both go home without any of the money." Rick can hardly believe his ears. "What has happened to Steve" he asks himself. "Why should he get 90% of the money and I just 10%?" He decides to try to convince Steve to accept his view. "Let's be logical," he urges him, "We are in the same situation, we both want the money. Let's divide the money equally and both of us will profit." Steve, however, doesn't seem perturbed by his friend's logic. He listens attentively, but when Rick is finished he says, even more emphatically than before: "90-10 or nothing. That is my last offer." Rick's face turns red with anger. He is about to punch Steve in the nose, but he steps back. He realizes that Steve is not going to relent, and that the only way he can leave the room with any money is to give in to him. He straightens his clothes, takes $10,000 from the suitcase, shakes Steve's hand and leaves the room humiliated. This case is called 'The Blackmailer's Paradox" in game theory. The paradox is that Rick the rational is forced to behave irrationally by definition, in order to achieve maximum results in the face of the situation that has evolved. What brings about this bizarre outcome is the fact Steve is sure of himself and doesn't flinch when making his exorbitant demand. This convinces Rick that he must give in so as to make the best of the situation. The Arab-Israeli Conflict The relationship between Israel and the Arab countries is conducted along the lines of this paradox. At each stage of negotiation, the Arabs present impossible, unacceptable starting positions. They act sure of themselves and as if they totally believe in what they are asking for, and make it clear to Israel that there is no chance of their backing down. Invariably, Israel agrees to their blackmailing demands because otherwise she will leave the room empty handed. The most blatant example of this is the negotiations with Syria that have been taking place with different levels of negotiators for years. The Syrians made sure that it was clear from the beginning that they would not compromise on one millimeter of the Golan Heights. The Israeli side, eager to have a peace agreement with Syria, internalized the Syrian position so well, that the Israeli public is sure that the starting point for future negotiations with Syria has to include complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights, this despite its critical strategic importance in ensuring secure borders for Israel. Read it all. Read more at www.jihadwatch.org

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Discurso de bispo libanês alegadamente purgado pelo Vaticano

Quem chama a atenção para este facto é Sandro Magister, observador atento e bem intencionado do que se passa no Vaticano.

O discurso do bispo da Antioquia dos Sírios Raboula Antoine Beylouni ao Sínodo para o Médio Oriente foi publicado integralmente na página do site da Santa Sé dedicada ao Sínodo (em francês, no original), mas substancialmente purgado no Osservatore Romano. Curiosamente, as partes purgadas (infra a negrito) ― talvez por razões de espaço ― são as potencialmente mais polémicas, mas também as mais instrutivas sobre a condição cristã no Médio Oriente.

Ficamos a saber que os bispos orientais sabem muito bem o sarilho em que estão metidos e que se não falam mais vezes com toda a franqueza é, simplesmente, com medo de represálias por parte dos muçulmanos, não tanto sobre si próprios ― afinal, ao seguir o chamamento de Deus para o sacerdócio, deram a vida a Cristo ―, mas sobre os seus rebanhos.

Ficamos ainda com a impressão de que o Vaticano está empenhado em não ferir a sensibilidade muçulmana, um caminho compreensível ― dada a tendência que os muçulmanos têm para se atirar aos pescoços, literalmente, dos não-muçulmanos em situação mais vulnerável; mas perigoso, porque a única via para encontrar uma solução para a questão das relações com o islão é através de um conhecimento cabal do que é o islão, através do conhecimento das fontes e da teologia islâmica e não dos discursos dos muçulmanos para consumo dos ocidentais. No fundo, uma concretização do aforismo joanino "A Verdade libertar-vos-á" Jo 8:32

Concluo, no seguimento do conselho do bispo Beylouni, tal como se encontra no último parágrafo do texto infra, apelando à Virgem Maria: Mater Eclesiæ, ora pro nobis.

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LA MADRE DI DIO E L’ISLAM di Raboula Antoine Beylouni In Libano abbiamo un comitato nazionale per il dialogo islamo-cristiano da diversi anni. Esisteva anche una commissione episcopale, istituita in seguito all’assemblea dei patriarchi e dei vescovi cattolici in Libano, incaricata del dialogo islamo-cristiano. È stata soppressa ultimamente per conferire maggiore importanza all’altro comitato; per di più non aveva ottenuto risultati tangibili. Talvolta vengono portati avanti in diversi luoghi vari dialoghi nei paesi arabi, come ad esempio quello del Qatar in cui l’emiro stesso invita, a sue spese, personalità di diversi paesi delle tre religioni: cristiana, musulmana ed ebraica. In Libano, alcuni canali televisivi come “Télé-lumière” e “Noursat” trasmettono programmi sul dialogo islamo-cristiano. Spesso viene scelto un tema e ogni parte lo spiega e lo interpreta secondo la sua religione. Queste trasmissioni sono di solito molto istruttive. Vorrei con questo intervento richiamare l’attenzione sui punti che rendono difficili e spesso inefficaci questi incontri o dialoghi. Ovviamente non si discute sui dogmi, ma anche gli altri temi d’ordine pratico e sociale sono difficilmente affrontabili quando sono inseriti nel Corano o nella Sunna. Ecco le difficoltà con cui ci confrontiamo. Il Corano inculca al musulmano l’orgoglio di possedere la sola religione vera e completa, religione insegnata dal più grande profeta, poiché è l’ultimo venuto. Il musulmano fa parte della nazione privilegiata e parla la lingua di Dio, la lingua del paradiso, l’arabo. Per questo affronta il dialogo con questa superiorità e con la certezza della vittoria. Il Corano, che si suppone scritto da Dio stesso da cima a fondo, dà lo stesso valore a tutto ciò che vi è scritto: il dogma come qualunque altra legge o pratica. Nel Corano non c’è uguaglianza tra uomo e donna, né nel matrimonio stesso in cui l’uomo può avere più donne e divorziare a suo piacimento, né nell’eredità in cui l’uomo ha diritto a una doppia parte, né nella testimonianza davanti ai giudici in cui la voce dell’uomo equivale a quella di due donne ecc. Il Corano permette al musulmano di nascondere la verità al cristiano e di parlare e agire in contrasto con ciò che pensa e crede. Nel Corano vi sono versetti contraddittori e versetti annullati da altri, cosa che permette al musulmano di usare l’uno o l’altro a suo vantaggio; così può considerare il cristiano umile, pio e credente in Dio ma anche considerarlo empio, rinnegato e idolatra. Il Corano dà al musulmano il diritto di giudicare i cristiani e di ucciderli con la jihad (guerra santa). Ordina di imporre la religione con la forza, con la spada. La storia delle invasioni lo testimonia. Per questo i musulmani non riconoscono la libertà religiosa, né per loro né per gli altri. Non stupisce vedere tutti i paesi arabi e musulmani rifiutarsi di applicare integralmente i “Diritti umani” sanciti dalle Nazioni Unite. Di fronte a tutti questi divieti e simili argomenti dobbiamo eliminare il dialogo? No, sicuramente no. Ma occorre scegliere i temi da affrontare e gli interlocutori cristiani capaci e ben formati, coraggiosi e pii, saggi e prudenti, che dicano la verità con chiarezza e convinzione. Deploriamo talvolta alcuni dialoghi in televisione in cui l’interlocutore cristiano non è all’altezza del compito e non riesce a esprimere tutta la bellezza e la spiritualità della religione cristiana, cosa che scandalizza gli ascoltatori. Peggio ancora, talvolta ci sono interlocutori del clero che, nel dialogo, per guadagnarsi la simpatia del musulmano chiamano Maometto profeta e aggiungono la famosa invocazione musulmana spesso ripetuta “Salla lahou alayhi wa sallam” (che la pace e la benedizione di Dio siano su di lui). Per concludere suggerisco quanto segue. Dato che il Corano ha parlato bene della Vergine Maria, insistendo sulla verginità perpetua e sulla sua concezione miracolosa e unica, che ci ha dato Cristo, e dato che i musulmani la considerano molto e chiedono la sua intercessione, dobbiamo ricorrere a lei in ogni dialogo e in ogni incontro con i musulmani. Essendo la Madre di tutti, Ella ci guiderà nei nostri rapporti con i musulmani per mostrare loro il vero volto di suo Figlio Gesù, Redentore del genere umano. Voglia Dio che la festa dell’Annunciazione, dichiarata in Libano festa nazionale per i cristiani e i musulmani, divenga festa nazionale anche negli altri paesi arabi. Read more at magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it

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Addendum da versão francesa:

- S. Exc. Mgr Raboula Antoine BEYLOUNI, Archevêque titulaire de Mardin des Syriens, Évêque de Curie d'Antioche des Syriens (LIBAN) 

Nous avons au Liban un comité national de dialogue islamo-chrétien et cela depuis plusieurs années. Il y avait aussi une commission épiscopale issue de l'Assemblée des Patriarches et Évêques Catholiques au Liban chargée du dialogue islamo-chrétien. Elle a été supprimée pour donner plus d'importance à l'autre comité, d'autant plus qu'il n'y avait pas de résultat sensible. 

Il y a parfois des dialogues ici ou là, dans des pays arabes, comme au Qatar, où l'Émir lui-même invite à ses frais, des personnalités de différents pays et des trois religions: chrétienne, musulmane et juive. Au Liban, sur la chaîne Télé-lumière et Noursat, et sur d'autres chaînes de télévision, on donne parfois des programmes de dialogue islamo-chrétien. Souvent on choisit un thème, et chaque parti l'explique ou l'interprète selon sa religion. Ces programmes sont d'ordinaire très instructifs. 

J’ai voulu par cette intervention, attirer l'attention sur les points qui rendent ces rencontres ou dialogues difficiles et souvent privés d’effectivité. Il est clair qu'on ne discute pas sur les dogmes. Mais même les autres sujets d'ordre pratique et social sont difficilement abordables lorsque le Coran ou la Sunna les a abordés. Voici quelques difficultés que l’on doit affronter. 

Le Coran inculque au musulman la fierté d'avoir la seule religion vraie et complète, religion enseignée par le plus grand prophète, car il est le dernier venu. Le musulman fait partie de la nation privilégiée, et parle la langue de Dieu, la langue du paradis, la langue arabe. C'est pourquoi, il vient au dialogue avec cette supériorité et avec l'assurance d'être victorieux. 

Le Coran, supposé écrit par Dieu lui-même d'un bout à l'autre, donne la même valeur à tout ce qui y est écrit : le dogme comme n'importe quelle loi ou pratique. 

Dans le Coran, il n'y a pas d'égalité entre l'homme et la femme, ni dans le mariage lui-même où l’homme peut prendre plusieurs femmes et peut en divorcer à sa guise; ni en matière d’héritage où l’homme a une double part; ni dans le témoignage devant les juges où la voix de l’homme égale la voix de deux femmes, etc ... 

Le Coran permet au musulman de cacher la vérité au chrétien et de parler et agir contrairement à ce qu'il pense et croit. Dans le Coran, il y a des versets contradictoires et des versets annulés par d'autres, ce qui donne au musulman la possibilité d'utiliser l’un ou l’autre selon son avantage et ainsi il peut dire du chrétien qu’il est humble et pieux et croyant en Dieu, comme il peut le traiter d'impie, d'apostat et d'idolâtre. 

Le Coran donne au musulman le droit de juger les chrétiens et de les tuer par la djihad (guerre sainte). Il ordonne d'imposer la religion par la force, par l’épée. L’histoire des invasions en est témoin. C’est pourquoi les musulmans ne reconnaissent pas la liberté religieuse, ni pour eux ni pour les autres. Et il n’est pas étonnant de voir tous les pays arabes et musulmans refuser d’appliquer en entier les “Droits de l'homme”institués par les Nations Unies. 

Devant tous ces interdits et d’autres semblables faut-il supprimer les dialogue? Non, certainement pas. Mais il faut choisir les thèmes abordables et des interlocuteurs chrétiens capables et bien formés, courageux et pieux, sages et prudents ... qui disent la vérité avec clarté et conviction ... 

On déplore parfois certains dialogues à la télévision où l’interlocuteur chrétien n'est pas à la hauteur de la tâche et n'arrive pas à donner de la religion chrétienne toute sa beauté et sa spiritualité, ce qui scandalise les auditeurs. Pire encore, il y a parfois des interlocuteurs clercs, qui, dans le dialogue, pour gagner la sympathie du musulman, appellent Mahomet prophète et ajoutent l'invocation musulmane connue et toujours répétée “Salla lahou alayhi wa sallam” (Que la Paix et les Bénédictions de Dieu soient sur lui). 

Pour finir je suggère ce qui suit : Comme le Coran a bien parlé de la Vierge Marie, en insistant sur sa virginité perpétuelle et sa conception miraculeuse et unique en nous donnant le Christ; comme les musulmans la considèrent beaucoup et demandent son intercession, nous devons recourir à elle dans tout dialogue et dans toute rencontre avec les musulmans. Étant la Mère de tous, elle nous guidera dans nos rapports avec les musulmans pour leur montrer le vrai visage de son Fils Jésus, Rédempteur du genre humain. 

Qu’il plaise à Dieu que la fête de l’Annonciation déclarée au Liban fête nationale pour les chrétiens et les musulmans, devienne aussi fête nationale dans d'autres pays arabes.

Xeque palestiniano incita à jihad e condena as negociações

As palavras do xeque Radhwan, mais concretamente a alusão aos macacos e e aos porcos ⁽¹⁾, podem ser mais bem compreendidas no contexto do anti-semitismo islâmico, enraizado no livro islâmico: http://quran.com/2/65, http://quran.com/5/59-60, http://quran.com/7/166 .⁽²⁾
Note-se, de resto, que o incitamento à jihad e o enaltecimento do shahid (pseudomartírio) é feito com base nas escrituras islâmicas, Alcorão e ahadith.

⁽¹⁾ - vide comentário de Robert Spencer aos versículos 2:63-66 do Alcorão.

⁽²⁾ - não deixe de confrontar a versão portuguesa do Alcorão com versões noutras línguas disponíveis no sítio indicado, na coluna da esquerda, por razões que expusemos em entrada recente.

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Hamas Preacher Sheikh Ismail Aal Radhwan: Those Who Negotiate With Israel Will Be Gathered in the Hellfire, Along With the Apes and Pigs

Following are excerpts from a Hamas Friday sermon delivered by Sheikh Ismail Aal Radhwan in Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 3, 2010

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Ismail Aal Radhwan: "We are here today to salute the mujahideen who rocked the very pillars of the occupation, and retaliated for the crimes of the occupation, in the West Bank – in Hebron and Ramallah. Indeed, we salute and honor those modest hands that proved to all the conspirators, as well as the occupation and its helpers, that they are capable of regaining their vitality. Yes, we salute the mujahideen, who killed the Zionists, who killed the settlers. [...] "The path to the liberation of Jerusalem and Palestine is through the gun, through Jihad, and through resistance. We say today that we adhere to the option of Jihad and resistance, the option that is ridiculed by Abbas, Fayyad, and conspirators. The path that they mock is the path decreed by Allah: 'Fighting is ordained for you, though it is hateful to you.' [...] "The Prophet Muhammad said: 'There will be a hijra after the hijra, so the best on earth are those who keep to the land of the hijra of Ibrahim. Only evil people will remain in the land.' Who are the evil people? Those who negotiate, those who hasten to normalize [relations with Israel], and those who waive [the Palestinian rights]. 'No one will remain but the evil, and the land will spew them out.' That is what is happening today. "The land will spew them out, the spirit of Allah will sully them, and the Hellfire will gather them, along with the apes and pigs – with the Jews, the Zionists, whom Allah transformed into apes and pigs. They will be gathered in the Hellfire along with those who were loyal to them and stood by them, and who abandoned the cause of the Islamic nation and of Palestine. "The Prophet Muhammad asked: 'Haven’t I told you about who has the highest standing on Judgment Day?' The people said: 'You have told us.' The Prophet Muhammad said: 'The one with the highest standing on Judgment Day is the man who set out, his horse's reins in his hands, for the sake of Allah. That is the mujahid, the martyrdom seeker, the one who wages resistance.'" [...] Read more at www.memri.org

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Protesto de pacifismo pétreo

Pacifismo pétreo porque este tipo de "manifestações de indignação" contra um qualquer acto da "entidade sionista" ― neste caso, o pretexto terá sido a eliminação física de dois destacados membros da organização terrorista Hamas pelo exército israelita ― é frequentemente apodado de "pacífico" pelos media ocidentais mais corruptos:

Que ninguém tenha dúvidas: Israel é um país em guerra.

Jihad mediática contra Israel

Já se passaram alguns dias do acontecimento e, que eu me tenha dado conta, os media portugueses ainda não noticiaram esta ocorrência.
A notícia não deve tardar: os nossos jornalistas estão só à espera que a informação seja digerida pelos seus congéneres europeus e norte-americanos para depois a regurgitar para cima dos seus incautos consumidores.

Um grupo de miúdos árabes atacou à pedrada um automóvel conduzido por um judeu que circulava na estrada de Silwan ― bairro de Jerusalém Oriental pretendido pelos árabes. O condutor atropelou um dos garotos que o alvejavam. As imagens , sobretudo sob a forma de fotografias, correm mundo como mais uma demonstração da desumanidade dos judeus: onde já se viu alguém atropelar uma criança e seguir caminho?

Tendo como certo que esta é a história que nos será servida, propomos ao que veja o video e leia os comentários do Elder of Zion:

E uma parte dos comentários referidos:

(...) I have yet to see any of the media mention that the stone-throwers smashed the rear windshield of the car with their peacful protest pebbles. In fact, from the video one can see that out of all the photographers that were there, only the videographer took footage of the car afterwards showing the damage; the rest rushed to the kid. (Most of the media showing the video do not bother to show that part of the footage either; Al Jazeera is the best example but even Fox only showed it momentarily after showing the kid being hit three different times.)

(...) there was (...) [an] earlier footage showing Mansur about to throw a stone at a different car, so he was at the scene for at least some time; he was running full-speed towards the car, not away, and he was in the middle of the street, not the sidewalk.The driver was swerving to avoid a different stone-thrower. In other words, he had a car behind him and two kids in front of him; if he would have stopped he would have been in mortal danger.

(...)

There were about six or seven journalists at the scene, possibly more than the number of stone throwers. It is hard to imagine that this event was not at least partially staged by them.

O comentador remete ainda para a apreciação feita ao incidente por um fotojornalista israelita, o qual aponta para a existência de vários indícios de que a sessão de tiro-ao-alvo terá sido orquestrada com o propósito de de serem feitos registos foto e videográficos eventualmente danosos para o estado de Israel, para contar uma história que perpetue o estatuto dos árabes da região como vítimas indefesas da opressão e crueldade israelita.

O lobby árabe

Fala-se insistentemente no lobby judaico e da sua suposta influência na política externa norte-americana.
Se pensarmos, contudo, que a Primeira Guerra do Golfo foi travada para libertar um estado árabe (o Kuwait) e proteger outro (a Arábia Saudita); que a intervenção da NATO na Guerra da Jugoslávia e os bombardeamentos de Belgrado foram feitos em benefício dos muçulmanos contra os sérvios cristãos ortodoxos, podemos começar a desconfiar que outros lobbys se movem nos corredores do poder dos EUA.

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‘ARAB LOBBY’ - New book by Mideast expert Mitchell Bard claims the Arab lobby, headed by Saudis, ‘has unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on merits of their arguments.’

The so-called Israel lobby has been widely denounced and demonized in the media, but its power pales in comparison to the decades-long corruption of American interests by Arab governments. Indeed, for more than seventy years, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been shaped not by the power of a nefarious “Israel lobby” but by a misguided emphasis on pleasing and placating the Arab states. This outlook has ensured that the United States pays disproportionate attention to their demands, assisting Arab countries—all of them dictatorial regimes with abysmal human rights records—that do not share our values, and often work to subvert our interests.

Arabists in the State Department, many of them openly anti-Semitic, tried to prevent America from recognizing Israel in 1948, and have since waged a long bureaucratic war to undermine the alliance between America and the only true democracy in the Middle East, blocking arms and aid to Israel, while seeking larger weapons sales for their Arab friends. Many of these Arabists subsequently found lucrative jobs promoting business with Arab countries, speaking on their behalf and criticizing U.S.-Israel policy.

Today the Arab states influence American policy through numerous hidden and informal channels, including former members of Congress, subsidized think tanks, paid media spokesmen, academics who hold chairs endowed by Arab money, human rights organizations, assorted UN agencies, European diplomats, and Christian groups hostile to Israel. A number of former ambassadors, university professors, and think tank experts routinely opine on Middle Eastern affairs, but never reveal these conflicts of interest.

Mitchell Bards “Arab Lobby” was written as a sort of response to those who warn of AIPAC’s influence over Washington. Bard, who serves as executive directorof the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), claims that “one of the most important distinguishing characteristics of the Arab lobby is that it has no popular support. While the Israeli lobby has hundreds of thousands of grass root members and public opinion polls consistently reveal a huge gap between support for Israel and the Arab nations-Palestinians, the Arab lobby has almost no foot soldiers or public sympathy. “What they lack in human capital in terms of American advocates, they make up for with almost unlimited resources to try to buy what they usually cannot win on the merits of their arguments,” he writes in the book.

Activistas pró-Palestina estupradas pelos seus protegidos (3)

A propósito de mais notícias de estupros de activistas da causa palestiniana pelos palestinianos cuja causa defendem, falámos de esclavagismo islâmico de cristãos europeus ao longo da história e de como às mulheres era reservado o papel de escravas sexuais.

A propósito da mesma notícia, um leitor do Gates of Vienna, militar norueguês que serviu no Kosovo e no Líbano, relata uma notícia algo semelhante às duas referidas, e conta algumas histórias que ajudam a perceber o modo como no islão a mulher é tratada, e tece algumas considerações:

«(...) When I served with UNIFIL in Lebanon twelve years ago, a friend I had gained among the locals -- a Sunni Muslim -- told me the story of how he had lost his virginity. Together with one of his buddies, he tricked a girl from a different village to drink a soda spiked with drugs. When the drugs took effect, the two of them had their way with her in the back of a van. While I was appalled by this story, he himself was quite proud over how clever and cunning he had been. He considered the whole story amusing.

If they behave like this against their own, then there will hardly be any mercy shown to outsiders. At the time I heard this story, I also heard stories for the first time of how playboys of the Saudi royal family used their diplomatic immunity to bring Western women – party girls, models and callgirls - into Saudi Arabia on their private jets. Once arrived, they became what they where intended to be -- slaves -- and disappeared from the world. I believe Soldier of Fortune magazine has written articles on this subject.

The scale of this enslavement of Western women in the Muslim world is probably much, much larger than just a few isolated cases -- and if so, a very potent weapon for exposing the moral void of both Islam and Marxism at once. (...)»

O hobby do Hamas

Esta entrada serve para responder à questão que todos já nos teremos colocado, uma vez ou outra: «o que fazem os homens do Hamas quando não estão a atirar rockets sobre a população civil de Israel ou a planear atentados suicidas?»

Estão a destruir estabelecimentos hoteleiros e de restauração ou similares onde um terrível pecado é cometido: o convívio entre pessoas de sexos diferentes; e outro menos grave, mas igualmente inaceitável: que às mulheres seja permitido fumar narguilé.

Nota final, como diz Marisol em comentário à notícia: mas então Gaza, esse campo de concentração onde os palestinianos estão reclusos pelos israelitas, tem hotéis, restaurantes e parques aquáticos? Por enquanto, tem!

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Unidentified gunmen on Sunday set fore to Crazy Water Park, one of the Gaza Strip's most popular entertainment sites.

Eyewitnesses said that at least 25 assailants participated in the pre-dawn attack. The gunmen beat the two night watchmen, bound their hands and confiscated their mobile phones before setting the complex on fire, they said.

Manager Ala al-A'raj said that the water park was closed down by Hamas two weeks ago. He said that no one was injured in the attack, which destroyed the resort completely.

No group claimed responsibility for the arson and the Hamas government, which issued a strong condemnation, promised to pursue the perpetrators and bring them to trial.

Two human rights organizations also condemned the torching of Crazy Water Park and called for an immediate investigation.

"The attackers stormed the resort using a four-wheel drive vehicle," one of the guards told a human rights group. "They along with another group of gunmen, set fire to the two main buildings, Beduin tents and 300 nargilas [water pipes]."

Last week the Hamas government ordered the closure of Crazy Water Park for three weeks under the pretext that the place did not have a proper license.

Last month Hamas policemen raided the resort and expelled dozens of men and women who had gathered for a fast-breaking meal during Ramadan. The owner of the site was summoned for questioning and warned not to hold events where men and women sit together.

Sources in the Gaza Strip said that Hamas has been targeting the water park because the owners violated an order banning women from smoking the nargila in public places.

Last week the Hamas authorities closed down the Sama sea-side restaurant in Gaza City where a woman was seen smoking the nargila.

Human rights activists said that Hamas has recently stepped up its efforts to impose strict Islamic teachings in the Gaza Strip.

They noted that last week Hamas closed down the Aseel Horse Club, also under the pretext that it was operating without a proper license.

Hamas policemen also raided the Beach Hotel and handed the owner an order closing it down for three days. The decision was taken because one of the hotel restaurants had allowed a woman to smoke the nargila.

Two weeks ago Hamas policemen also stormed two halls in Gaza City where cultural events were taking place and kicked out the guests. The owners of the halls were requested to sign a document pledging that they would not host such events in the future.... Read more at www.jihadwatch.org

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Negociações de paz israelo-palestinianas: repetição de uma farsa (2)

Mas os ocidentais permanecem voluntariamente alheios ao permanente desfilar de evidências de que a negociação em curso não tem quaisquer condições para levar à paz. Destinam-se somente a colocar Israel numa situação difícil, na qual terá ou que fazer concessões difíceis e prejudiciais (como foi sair da Faixa de Gaza) ou sair das negociações perante exigências inaceitáveis. Este processo, orquestrado pelos progressistas da administração Obama visa apenas encostar Israel entre a espada e a parede. E está a resultar.

Amplify’d from www.palwatch.org

PLO ambassador in Lebanon: Peace talks are stage in delegitimizing "rebellious, racist" Israel

Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The PLO's ambassador to Lebanon says that the current peace talks "are not a goal," but just another stage in the Palestinian attempt to undermine Israel's legitimacy. The Palestinian Authority official daily reported that the Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah described the peace talks as part of a broader process to isolate Israel, "threaten its legitimacy" and present it as a "rebellious, racist state."

Abdullah indicated that this goal to call attention to Israel's "war crimes" and isolate it, as was done to South Africa, is already being realized: "Many Israelis in senior positions are afraid to travel to European countries lest they be put on trial for their crimes."

See more at www.palwatch.org

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Indignação selectiva

Excelente artigo, contextualizando a indignação ocidental - fruto do medo perante a ameaça islâmica - face à intenção de um pastor protestante norte-americano de queimar o Alcorão. Lede tudo:

Miedo a quemar un Corán: ¿Quiénes son los que queman el Corán?

Por Eduard Yitzhak para Guysen International News Desde 1950 hasta hoy en día, más de 10 millones de musulmanes han muerto en nombre del Islam, asesinados por sus correligionarios musulmanes, que cometieron, y cometen, los crímenes en nombre del Corán y de la Shari´a y son ofrecidos a Alá como sacrificios paganos. Los musulmanes no se han enojado ni irritado por esto. [1] En una mezquita pequeña en países no-musulmanes hay centenares de ejemplares del Corán, en una de tamaño medio en los países musulmanes hay millares de ejemplares, y en las más grandes, muchos más. Todas las ramas del Islam tienen el mismo Corán. Los musulmanes sunnitas han incendiado infinidad de mezquitas chiítas, y viceversa, musulmanes chiítas han incendiado un sinfín de mezquitas sunnítas, causando la muerte de numerosos fieles musulmanes y la quema de infinidad de ejemplares del Corán. Esto no ha producido el enojo ni el enfado de los musulmanes. [2] Según el Centro de Estudios del Islam Político www.politicalislam.com en los 1.400 años de existencia del Islam, los musulmanes han asesinado en nombre de Alá, del Corán, de la Shari´a, y de Muhammad, alrededor de 270 millones de kafir, infieles, 60 millones de cristianos, 80 millones de hindúes, aproximadamente 10 millones de budistas, y unos 120 millones de esclavos africanos. Hasta la fecha no ha habido ni una petición de perdón ni disculpas oficiales por parte de organizaciones u organismos musulmanes. Esto no ha encolerizado ni airado a los musulmanes. [3] Los creyentes más fervientes del Islam han destruido e incendiado sinagogas e iglesias, causando mortandad de judíos y cristianos, y también la quema de Sifrei Torá [Libros de la Torá] y Biblias. [4] Muhammad, el fundador del Islam, es quien instauró la tradición musulmana de conquista y destrucción de sinagogas, iglesias y templos paganos y su transformación en mezquitas. [5] Esto no ha producido el enojo ni la vergüenza de los musulmanes. Antes de la liberación y reunificación de Jerusalem, durante la ocupación jordana de Jerusalem Este, de 1949-1967, 58 sinagogas fueron destruidas en el Barrio Judío del Casco Antiguo de Jerusalem por el ejército jordano tras la toma del área en 1948, y 38.000 tumbas en el cementerio judío del Monte de los Olivos destruidas. Algunas de estas tumbas fueron utilizadas para construir cercas y letrinas para el ejército jordano, así como para cubrir las calles. [6] En Israel no ha habido nunca ninguna llamada de rabinos ni de líderes políticos a destruir mezquitas o ejemplares del Corán como represalia. Cuando los árabe-palestinos destruyeron las sinagogas tras la retirada de la Franja de Gaza, el Comité de Rabinos del Consejo de Comunidades Judías de Judea, Samaria y la Franja de Gaza llamó a hacer un día de ayuno a los judíos en conmemoración de las sinagogas destruidas. [7] En nombre del Corán se han cometido incontables crímenes contra los que los fieles devotos del Islam consideran infieles, judíos y cristianos. [8] Tampoco esto ha producido el enojo de los musulmanes ni les ha arrebatado a descalificar a los islamistas. En nombre del Islam se discrimina a los cristianos de Pakistán, damnificados en las inundaciones recientes, se les priva de ayuda lo que les depara la muerte en muchos casos, si no se convierten al Islam. Tampoco esto ha enojado ni indignado a los musulmanes. Blogs, webs islámicas instan a los seguidores de Muhammad a cometer atentados en nombre de Alá en diversas ciudades del mundo no-musulmán, Dar al-Harb, [la Casa de la Guerra], como recientemente han pedido que lo hagan en Barcelona, España, pero esto no irrita ni enoja ni molesta a los musulmanes. Un líder religioso protestante, el pastor Terry Jones, con apenas una cincuentena de seguidores, se ha hecho famoso por la propuesta de quemar ejemplares del Corán el 11 de Septiembre. Esto si que ha provocado la irritación, la ira y el enojo de los musulmanes.

Ramadão e Jihad

Esta entrada é dedicada a todos os patetas, idiotas úteis do islão, que se congratulam quando o Ramadão começa: estultos, não sabem do que falam. O texto infra, copiado do MEMRI, dá conta de diversos apelos à Jihad pela Causa de Alá feitos durante e por ocasião do Ramadão, uma e outro, segundo a teologia islâmica, tal como ilustrado pela sua história, em estreita relação. Lede, pelo menos, os títulos de cada parágrafo:

Calls in the Muslim World to Intensify Jihad During Ramadan

By: D. Hazan*

Introduction

During Ramadan, the printed and electronic Arab media, including the jihadist websites, published numerous articles on jihad, with a special focus on the link between jihad and Ramadan.

The main motifs of these articles were:

· The month of Ramadan is the month of attacks, conquest, and victories, with an emphasis on the fact that many of the early Muslims' victories over their enemies, such as at the battles of Badr, Hittin, and 'Ain Jalut, came during Ramadan.

· The importance of the commandment of jihad, particularly during Ramadan. Jihad is defined as one of the most important commandments of Islam, and its intersection with Ramadan, which is "the best month in Allah's eyes," is "a tremendous high point that none can attain but he to whom Allah has chosen to grant this tremendous honor of fasting and war." Likewise, it is claimed that the commandment of jihad, which is said to be twice as important as ordinary commandments, is intensified during Ramadan, and takes first priority. One article included a point-by-point comparison of a Muslim who fasts during Ramadan and a mujahid, saying, inter alia, that "fasting is one of the means of educating the soul towards jihad." Another article stated: "Real jihad is connected to real fasting; therefore, let us educate our children to pass the test of fasting so that they will succeed in liberating the [places] holy to us."

· A statement by Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi that "jihad is an Islamic moral obligation."

· A call to Muslims to step up their jihad activity during Ramadan, as the Prophet Muhammad did: "Oh mujahideen... show us something that will gladden us and stoke the ire of the infidels, something that will please our mothers and sisters and brothers who have lost what is most precious to them [i.e. their loved ones]." One of the articles included a call to the mujahideen to purge Saudi Arabia of the Crusader infidels who violate the country's sanctity with their presence. Another article included a call to the mujahideen to join forces and find new ways of striking at the enemy. Hamas' 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades boasted that in the early years of this decade, they had been the leaders in attacks on Israelis during Ramadan.

This paper will review the main points made by these articles and statements.[1]

Saudi Sheikh: Jihad against the Infidels Is an Eternal and Most Important Commandment

Saudi sheikh 'Abd Al-Rahman bin Nasser Al-Barrak, a former lecturer at the Imam Muhammad bin Sa'ud Islamic University in Riyadh,[2] posted an article on his website albrrak.net titled "Jihad for the Sake of Allah is the Height of the Summit of Islam." In it, he stated that jihad against the infidels is an eternal and most important commandment of shari'a, and that its supreme goal is to make the word of Allah supreme. Quoting from the Koran and the Hadith, he stressed that jihad is still a source of honor for Muslims, and that its absence is a source of their humiliation. Al-Barrak added that if the enemy is amenable to reconciliation, and this serves the interest of Islam and of the Muslims, they may reconcile with him, but only temporarily, not permanently – as the Prophet Muhammad did with the Jews concerning Al-Madina.

Al-Barrak said that the proof that jihad is mighty today is that it has become "what the infidels fear most of all about the Muslims, and [therefore] they use it to malign Allah's shari'a and the Muslims, past and present." He added that, at this time, the infidels are enjoying economic superiority, while the Muslims are divided, and most neglect their religion. This, he said, forces the Muslims into sycophancy towards the infidels with regard to the laws of jihad: they have to say that jihad in Islam is strictly defensive – to the point where the infidels are demanding that the Muslims remove the subjects of jihad and al-wala wa al-bara[3] from their school curricula, or at least correct them. The infidels, Al-Barrak noted, think that that this will void the shari'a, but has Allah preserved his shari'a in the Koran and in the Sunna, and they are the source of theoretical and practical knowledge for the seekers of the right path in every generation.

Al-Barrak set out several laws of jihad for the sake of Allah: Muslims must make ready their strength to the utmost of their power for jihad against the infidels;[4] Muslims may take infidel fighters captive, but only after they smite them with the sword and bind a bond firmly on them;[5] in the event that the Muslims are victorious over the infidels in war, they may take booty and captives – including the wives and children of the infidel fighters – and may enslave them. Here, Al-Barrak noted that today, the U.N. has forced the Muslims to abolish the law of slavery which is one of the laws of jihad – "while the countries of unbelief and tyranny that arbitrarily control the U.N.'s laws subjugate the weak peoples in the name of reform... and colonialism still exists in every Muslim country where there is occupation."[6]

Negociações de paz israelo-palestinianas: repetição de uma farsa

Khaled Abu Toameh, árabe israelita, muçulmano, jornalista do Jerusalem Post, publica um artigo no Hudson NY sobre as negociações de paz iniciadas o mês passado nos EUA entre israelitas e palestinianos, sob os auspícios da administração Obama. Relata um cenário já conhecido de negociações anteriores: negociadores palestinianos que não representam o seu povo; que dizem uma coisa em inglês à mesa das negociações e aos media e o seu contrário em árabe na imprensa palestiniana.

Amplify’d from www.hudson-ny.org

A number of senior Palestinian officials who do not have much credibility among their own people are now trying to sell themselves to Israelis as "partners for peace."

This is the same group of Palestinians who in the past advised Yasser Arafat to reject then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offer during the botched Camp David summit in 2000. They were among Arafat's inner circle when he walked out of the Camp David summit and initiated the "Second Intifada."

These are also the same officials who, back then, justified the eruption of the intifada as a "natural response" to Israel's refusal to comply with 100% of the Palestinians' demands.

Saeb Erekat, Jibril Rajoub and Yasser Abed Rabbo are now trying to persuade the Israeli public that Israel does have partners for peace on the Palestinian side. And who are the new-old partners? Erekat, Rajoub and Abed Rabbo, of course.

With the help of US taxpayers' dollars, the three, together with other Palestinian officials, are sending their "peace" messages to the Israelis in English. The campaign, according to Palestinians, is being funded by the US Agency for International Development [USAID].

The campaign targets only the Israeli public. No similar messages are being sent to the Palestinians despite promises that they would.

It would have been more effective had the campaign, which some say costs about $250,000, been directed also toward the Palestinian public.

What is wrong with funding a campaign directed toward the Palestinians with a message that talks about peace, coexistence, compromise and cooperation with Israel?: Isn't there also a need to address the Palestinians about the need for peace and compromise?

Ironically, the same officials who are offering themselves to Israelis as "peace partners," are, at the same time, telling Palestinians -- in Arabic -- that Israel does not want peace. The tone in the Palestinian media remains as anti-Israel as ever.

In just the past week, Palestinian Authority officials have even escalated their rhetoric by issuing daily threats to withdraw from the US-sponsored direct talks that were launched in Washington last week.

In Arabic, Mahmoud Abbas and his top officials are telling Palestinians that they would never make "even one concession" to Israel during the peace talks. In Arabic, they are saying that they will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state; will never relinquish the right of return of millions of refugees to Israel, and will never make any compromises on Jerusalem.

In Arabic, they are also telling the Palestinians that Israel is not serious about peace, and that there is no real partner for peace in Israel.

In English, however, the same officials are telling the Israelis that they are ready to display flexibility and make "sacrifices" for the sake of peace.

Rajoub, Abed Rabbo and Erekat belong to an era that many Palestinians would like to forget. These are the same officials who failed their people time and again since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

Officials who do not have much credibility among their own people are now asking Israelis to believe in them. They are doing that in English and with the assistance of US taxpayers' money. Before seeking the Israel's confidence, they should first be seeking their own people's trust. Read more at www.hudson-ny.org

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Oremus pro Papa orante pro Iudæis

Ipsa visio et Italiane (vulgo "Benedetto XVI riceve Shimon Peres")
et Anglice (vulgo "Pope receives Shimon Peres")
et Germane ("Benedikt XVI. empfängt Shimon Peres").

Auditote verba Papalia de Shoah (vulgo "série de vídeos em que o Papa fala com ou sobre os judeus, Holocausto, Shoah, &c.") quater linguis: Castellana, Italiana, English, Deutsch.

De illusione moderati islam

Scripsit Fjordman in conspectu Jihad. Artigo que aponta para a irreformabilidade do islão. O islão moderado enquanto taquia e método de infiltração. Os casos da Turquia e do Irão sobre como será impossível, digo muito difícil (bendita seja a virtude da Esperança!) chegar à separação entre Estado e Religião e à liberdade religiosa nos países maioritariamente islâmicos. As diferenças entre xiitas e sunitas, e algumas sectas quejandas, mais pacíficas, mas que foram esmagadas e não conseguiram que o islão moderado imperasse. A negrito uma referência aos estudos histórico-críticos para a origem cristã das passagens mais pacíficas do alcorão. No fim do texto, o homem até considera ser necessário arrasar as cidades sagradas do islão, em desespero de causa, como única forma de abater a moral do geadistas e forçar a reinterpretação dos seus escritos sagrados!...

«This essay overlaps to some extent with earlier essays of mine regarding the alleged existence of a "moderate Islam," including Do we want an Islamic Reformation? and Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims. In this discussion I take as my starting point the fact that the traditional Islamic religious texts -- the Koran supplemented by secondary sources such as the hadith literature -- through a straightforward reading encourage perpetual violence against non-Muslims around the world until the global supremacy of Islam and its followers has been firmly established. There are plenty of studies available confirming this. Muslim scholars themselves, including prominent ones such as al-Ghazali and Ibn Khaldun, have supported this view for well over one thousand years and continue to do so in the twenty-first century.

Conformidade com a sharia em Israel

Conformidade com a sharia em Israel imposta pelo governo israelita (conservador, diz-se, radical de direita, dizem outros) às IDF: os soldados em patrulha em zonas de fronteira com a Autoridade Palestiniana não podem fumar, beber nem comer durante o dia, ou seja: têm que respeitar os preceitos islâmicos do Ramadão.

Amplify’d from www.israelnationalnews.com

Group Slams Barak Call for IDF Ramadan 'Fast'

Rightwing and religious Israelis were up in arms Tuesday after Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered IDF troops not to eat while patrolling IDF checkpoints in Judea and Samaria during the monthlong Muslim Ramadan month, which begins Thursday. In a statement, the Samaria Residents Council said that “it is sad to see that Barak has become an expert on Islam, as he sends IDF soldiers and border troops to tear down synagogues, beat up rabbis, issue orders to demolish Yeshivot, and arrest Jewish youths by dragging them by their peyot, their sidecurls. Is he Ehud Barak or 'Ahmed Barak,'?” the Council asked rhetorically. Read more at www.israelnationalnews.com

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A instrumentalização da causa palestiniana pelos estados árabes

Artigo do nosso conhecido Ephraim Karsh - autor do magnífico Islamic Imperialism - no qual se destaca um conjunto de acontecimentos que demonstram, mais que o desinteresse árabe pela causa palestiniana, a sua instrumentalização pelos estados árabes.

Amplify’d from http://www.meforum.org/2696/palestinians-alone

The Palestinians, Alone

by Efraim Karsh The New York Times August 2, 2010

It has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and stability in the Middle East. Since Arabs and Muslims are so passionate about the Palestine problem, this argument runs, the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate feeds regional anger and despair, gives a larger rationale to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and to the insurgency in Iraq and obstructs the formation of a regional coalition that will help block Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

What, then, are we to make of a recent survey for the Al Arabiya television network finding that a staggering 71 percent of the Arabic respondents have no interest in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks? "This is an alarming indicator," lamented Saleh Qallab, a columnist for the pan-Arab newspaper Al Sharq al Awsat. "The Arabs, people and regimes alike, have always been as interested in the peace process, its developments and particulars, as they were committed to the Palestinian cause itself."

But the truth is that Arab policies since the mid-1930s suggest otherwise. While the "Palestine question" has long been central to inter-Arab politics, Arab states have shown far less concern for the well-being of the Palestinians than for their own interests.

For example, it was common knowledge that the May 1948 pan-Arab invasion of the nascent state of Israel was more a scramble for Palestinian territory than a fight for Palestinian national rights. As the first secretary-general of the Arab League, Abdel Rahman Azzam, once admitted to a British reporter, the goal of King Abdullah of Transjordan "was to swallow up the central hill regions of Palestine, with access to the Mediterranean at Gaza. The Egyptians would get the Negev. Galilee would go to Syria, except that the coastal part as far as Acre would be added to the Lebanon."

From 1948 to 1967, when Egypt and Jordan ruled the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Arab states failed to put these populations on the road to statehood. They also showed little interest in protecting their human rights or even in improving their quality of life — which is part of the reason why 120,000 West Bank Palestinians moved to the East Bank of the Jordan River and about 300,000 others emigrated abroad. "We couldn't care less if all the refugees die," an Egyptian diplomat once remarked. "There are enough Arabs around."

Not surprisingly, the Arab states have never hesitated to sacrifice Palestinians on a grand scale whenever it suited their needs. In 1970, when his throne came under threat from the Palestine Liberation Organization, the affable and thoroughly Westernized King Hussein of Jordan ordered the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, an event known as "Black September."

Six years later, Lebanese Christian militias, backed by the Syrian Army, massacred some 3,500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, in the Beirut refugee camp of Tel al-Zaatar. These militias again slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians in 1982 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, this time under Israel's watchful eye. None of the Arab states came to the Palestinians' rescue.

Worse, in the mid-'80s, when the P.L.O. — officially designated by the Arab League as the "sole representative of the Palestinian people" — tried to re-establish its military presence in Lebanon, it was unceremoniously expelled by President Hafez al-Assad of Syria.

This history of Arab leaders manipulating the Palestinian cause for their own ends while ignoring the fate of the Palestinians goes on and on. Saddam Hussein, in an effort to ennoble his predatory designs, claimed that he wouldn't consider ending his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait without "the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab territories in Palestine."

Shortly after the Persian Gulf War, Kuwaitis then set about punishing the P.L.O. for its support of Hussein — cutting off financial sponsorship, expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers and slaughtering thousands. Their retribution was so severe that Arafat was forced to acknowledge that "what Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories."

Against this backdrop, it is a positive sign that so many Arabs have apparently grown so apathetic about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For if the Arab regimes' self-serving interventionism has denied Palestinians the right to determine their own fate, then the best, indeed only, hope of peace between Arabs and Israelis lies in rejecting the spurious link between this particular issue and other regional and global problems.

The sooner the Palestinians recognize that their cause is theirs alone, the sooner they are likely to make peace with the existence of the State of Israel and to understand the need for a negotiated settlement.

Efraim Karsh, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, is a professor of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at King's College London and author, most recently, of "Palestine Betrayed." Read more at www.meforum.org

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Activistas pró-Palestina estupradas pelos seus protegidos

A história é simples e tem todos os ingredientes de uma anedota de mau-gosto. O que é mais triste é estas moças estarem de tal modo submersas no lixo ideológico progressista que acabem por ceder às pressões políticas para não apresentar queixa, de modo a não prejudicar a causa, a palestiniana, na sua "luta contra a ocupação". O problema assumiu proporções tais que as organizações pró-palestinianas estão a realizar workshops dirigidos às mulheres que pretendem protestar a favor da causa palestiniana, de modo a que aprendam a defender-se das investidas sexuais mais agressivas dos indivíduos a favor de quem elas se manifestam.

Amplify’d from www.spectator.co.uk

An illuminating post on the excellent Muqata blog (backed up also here) reveals what western pro-Palestinian war (aka peace) activists don’t tell us what happens -- it would seem frequently -- to the women amongst them when they sally forth to protect the ‘defenceless’ Arabs against Israeli ‘aggression’. They get sexually assaulted by the defenceless Arabs.

Back in July, Ha’aretz reported the story of a former Arab convict named Alladin who would find these young female peace activist staying in nearby villages, he would tell them he was on the run from the Shabak (Israel security), and ask them to hide him. These young female dupes would of course be happy to help an Arab on the lam from the Israeli authorities and let him sleep in their rooms.

So far one girl initially came forward about the attempted rape against her. She was found wandering the village of Umm Salmuna (near Bethlehem) in a state of shock, so who knows if the attempt actually failed. But in the end [she] retracted her story due to pressure to ‘not hurt the cause’. Haaretz had learned that representatives of both the popular protest movement and the PA have since applied pressure on the American peace activist as to prevent her from making the story public.

The story could have ended there, except that there’s more. Apparently, quite a number of female protesters have been sexually assaulted and molested by the Arabs they are protesting for. One attack occurred just recently in Bil'in. After the army fired smoke gas towards the rioting crowd of ‘peace’ activists and Arabs, the protesters ran. One Arab decisively used the smoke cover as an opportunity to sexually assault one of the more seasoned female activists.

The problem has gotten so bad, that some female protesters have stopped showing up to the protests...Two months ago, some of the radical leftwing organizers started running secret workshops... The subject? ‘How to deal with sexual harassment during direct activities against the occupation’. The workshop is for female and transgender activists.

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. Read more at www.spectator.co.uk

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Israel atacado com armas norte-americanas

Melanie Phillips aborda fornecimento norte-americano de armas ao exército libanês, o qual, na prática, é um ramo do Hezbollah, organização terrorista cujo objectivo é derrotar a "aliança imperialista cruzado-sionista", ou seja, dito com linguagem de gente sã, os próprios EUA e Israel. Lede tudo!

Amplify’d from www.spectator.co.uk

As the days have passed, it has become ever clearer that the deadly ambush laid by the Lebanese army for the IDF, in which Israeli Lt Col Dov Harari was killed (his funeral is pictured here) along with three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist, was a Hezbollah operation.

In the Washington Post, Israel’s ambassador to the US Michael Oren wrote:

Although the maintenance work was fully coordinated with the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, and the fatal shot was fired by the nominally independent Lebanese Armed Forces, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, sent a television crew to film the ambush. He applauded the murder as a ‘heroic confrontation’ and threatened to ‘cut off the arm’ of Lebanon's enemies, ostensibly by firing his Iranian- and Syrian-supplied arsenal of more than 42,000 rockets at Israeli cities and towns.

It is hardly surprising that the ambush turns out to have been another staged performance from the Jihadiwood Production Company, since blogger Emet m’Tsiyon reports that the Lebanese ‘village’ of Adeissa, where the ambush took place, is not a functioning village at all but a Hezbollah military stronghold, consisting merely of

an elaborate system of bunkers and shooting platforms designed to look like houses...

But there is a further surreal twist to the affair. In the Tablet, Yoav Fromer asks whether American arms supplied to the Lebanese army are now being used against Israel. The answer is almost certainly yes.

The pictures speak for themselves: Freshly uniformed Lebanese soldiers, armed with U.S.-made M-16s and backed by U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carriers, can be clearly seen firing at Israeli soldiers who are standing on Israeli territory. Given the generous military aid that Lebanon has been receiving from the United States in recent years—aid that included sophisticated sniper rifles of the kind that may have been used to target and kill the Israeli officer, Lt. Col. Dov Harari—one cannot ignore the possibility that the same U.S. weapons intended to help stabilize Lebanon and secure the northern Israeli border may be having the opposite effect.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Lebanon is now the second-largest recipient of American military aid per capita after Israel. Yet the evidence strongly suggests it has become a Hezbollah fiefdom. Arming the Lebanese forces therefore means arming Hezbollah. Hezbollah, like its sponsor Iran, regards itself as in a holy war against America and the west.

And so what does the Obama administration say about its arms to Lebanon policy? When asked about this after last weekend’s ambush Philip Crowley, Assistant Secretary at the State Department, replied:

This is not the first time we’ve had incidents of this nature. We want to see that they don’t happen again. But we do have interests on both sides of the border. We are committed to Israel’s security, but we’re also committed to Lebanese sovereignty. These interests are not mutual exclusive. They’re not in contradiction.

Let us not forget that a major factor behind the Hezbollah/Iranian takeover of Lebanon is that America so shamefully betrayed its nascent democracy movement, when the US failed to press for the indictment of Syria over the murder of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri. As Lee Smith points out in his fine book The Strong Horse, this stopped dead in its tracks the 'Cedar Revolution' in Lebanon and thus in turn the movement for democracy in the wider Middle East, empowering instead Iran and its terrorist proxies.

America appears to have developed the political equivalent of an auto-immune disease – nourishing those who would kill it, while attacking those who are vital to its health. Read more at www.spectator.co.uk

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