Calling Obama on his double standard. "Barack Hussein Obama vs Israel," from Sultan Knish, March 14 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The manifold organs of the ObamaMedia are abuzz with outrage over what they are calling Israel's "insult" to the United States. But what was the nature of this awful and outrageous insult? Did Israeli officials pull off V.P. Biden's rug to show off his bald head underneath. Did they ask him why the suit of his pants is so shiny. Did they make him sit at the kiddie table?More to the point did Israeli TV air calls for a Jihad against America, as Palestinian Arab TV did? Did Israel name a square after the murderer of an American photographer, as the Palestinian Authority did? Did an Israeli Anchorman do a skit in blackface during Obama's visit, as a Turkish anchorman did during Obama's visit to Turkey? Are Israeli religious institutions issuing Fatwahs against America, as Al Azhar University, which Obama visited and spoke at, has done? Are Israeli leaders funding terrorism against America, as the Saudi King, before whom Obama bowed, does?
No, none of those incidents were described as insults. Nothing that Muslim countries did to mock, humiliate and murder Americans were even noticed at all. None of them produced furious condemnations from the White House or two hours of Hillary Clinton screeching on the phone at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So what did Israel do that was so awful, so horrible and terrible? It built houses. Yes, civilian houses. Not army bases or nuclear missiles or walls. Houses.
Israel approved a construction project to build housing for its own people, in its own capitol city, Jerusalem. Some of the housing will be built in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, situated around the grave of Shimon the Righteous, a Jewish religious figure famed for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. A neighborhood where Jews have lived for over a century. As well as Ramat Shlomo, a thriving neighborhood with thousands of Jewish families living in it.
The Obama Administration's objections to Jews living in Jerusalem are purely racial and religious. If Israel were approving a construction project to build housing for Arab Muslim citizens of Israel, Biden, Hillary and their media troupe wouldn't be screeching about it to the high heavens. It is only because Jews are to live there, that they have a problem with it. Their objections therefore are purely based on race and religion-- and completely racist....


























A wonderful article, about an Administration that is even worse, if such is possible, than was the Bush Administration, when it comes to truly grasping the meaning, and menace, of Islam. But at least the Bush Administration, with its messianic sentimentalism about bringing "freedom" to "ordinary moms and dads" in the Middle East, did not try to blame Israel for its failures to truly grasp the meaning and menace of Islam, and to go off on squandering ventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, while the real theatre of war in the without-end Jihad against all non-Muslms, is now Western Europe. Thank god that Geert Wilders and the Freedom Party have declared that they believe the Western attempt in Afghanistan is misguided and a waste. The re-making of Muslim lands, or rather the expensive attempt to re-making, is based on a forlorn hope that Islam itself, and those who believe in it -- and not merely "violent extremists" which is merely a comforting idea, the name we give to those Muslims who choose to further the goals of Jihad through their direct participation in terrorism, while those Muslims who use other, far more effective instruments that do not include violence, are mistakenly described as "moderates."
The mendaciousness, the cruelty, the stupidity, the deliberate ignoring of what the Mandate for Palestine was all about, the incredible refusal to study either that Mandate, or the history of the Middle East, or the history of the many non-Muslim or non-Arab peoples in the Middle East and treat the area as if belonged, for some reason, to Arab Muslims, the betrayal or indifference to what is happening to the Copts in Egypt, to the position of the now-threatened Maronites in Lebanon, to the Assyrians and Chaldeans being frightened out of Iraq, the indiffeence to the non-Arab Kurds and Berbers, and of course the cruelty of the Obama Adminstration in its deliberate manufacturing of an "incident" (the announcing of apartments being built in part of Jerusalem, a city which the Israelis are not going to give up, and an intelligent American administration would be moving heaven and earth trying to convince all Israelis not to give up one dunam more, but to hold on to all of those parts of Judea and Samaria that were carefully renamed "the West Bank" (what kind of idiotic topynm is "the West Bank" that it deserves to be used, even believed in?) by the Jordanians, because that is the only way that Israel will retain the deterrent power that, alone, keeps the peace, such as it is, between the permanently besieged Israelis, and their permanent besiegers, those conducting the Lesser Jihad (the sum of all Lesser Jihads around the world is the world-wide Jihad) against the Infidel nation-state of Israel.
The viciousness, the deep indiffeence, to the fate of Israel, the treating of this country as a vassal that must snap to it when His Master's Voice is heard, is unlike anything we have ever seen before. It is worse than James Baker, than Jimmy Carter, cruelly viciious toward Israel as both were. And it is worse because, in the year 2010, by now some in Washington should have figured out what the ideology of Islam is all about, should have looked all around the world, not least in Western Europe, and recognized what is happening, and if they ever had misunderstood what Israel faces, if they had ever accepted that invented "Palestnian people," if they had ever ignored the vast asymmetries in land area, and population, and wealth, and power, between the 22 members of the Arab League and tiny Israel that can hardly be discerned on a world map, if they have no idea why control of the Judean heights and valleys, and the aquifers, are necessary, if they really are willing to ignore what is written, what is spoken, what is all over the Arab and especially "Palestinian" press, radio and television, and in the textbooks too, preaching Der-Stuermer like hate, if they can do all this, because they simply are incapable of figuring out all the things they might be doing, other than these fabulously expensive vain efforts at raising up Muslims and changing their societies (if you truely wish Muslims well, you would wish them to abandon Islam, and that can only be done in the absence of Infidel efforts to make their countries prosperous, stable, unified, can only be done when enough people come to a conclusion much like that of Ataturk after World War I, come to the conclusion that is that the political, economic, and social failures of Muslim polities and peoples are a direct result of Islam itself, and pari passu with the strenght, or fanaticism, of the faith felt and displayed).
The cruelty and viciousness displayed by those who think Israel "insulted" Biden, or Clinton, or Obama, or America -- the United States of America is not insulted, and is not the same thing as this philo-Islamic, at-it's-wits-end Adminsetration, that will do little to stop Iran, and everything it can, however, to prevent Israel from doing what, if one understands the entire legal, moral, and historic claim (and for this one has to read, one has tor read, for example, the books by the jurist Julius Stone, and that by lawyer Howard Greif), it certainly has a perfect right to do.
I used to allow myself to believe that, since I knew the charges that Obama was a Muslim were crazy, that I could make a case that he was intelligent enough to distance hismelf, Henry-Fifth-like, from his pre-existent Rashid-Khalidi-and-Jeremiah-Wright past, and that worldview that identifies the Arabs, with all of their wealth and power, as the third-world victims of first-world Israel. I thought he knew better, or would find out. I thought Hillary Clinton, supposedly a wonkette, would actually have carefully studied not only Islam, but the Mandaate for Palestine, and the legal claims (see Stone, see Greif), and why Israel's claim to the "West Bank" existed before Israel took possession, in June 1967, through force of arms, of that sliver now, in current conditions, indispensable to its survival, but apparently she can't spare the time to read, and read. And in the hectic vacancy of Official Duties, no one can learn anything. They would have had to learn it all before, had to have been churchills in the wilderness, studying history, studying men and events. But none of them are up to it. And that is why Israel is in peril. And that is why Western Europe is in peril -- but in Western Europe, as opposed to Israel, they may be in a position to distance themselves from Baby Huey, America, so lacking in finesse and cunning, so unintelligent in its policies, and led by people who, feeble in dealing with Iran, incapable of even understanding how Europeans are now feeling about the aggressive and hostile Muslim presence that is completely unlike any of the many other, but non-Muslim, immigrant presences, simply choose to scapegoat, so cruelly, Israel. This should not, for one minute, be forgotten.
They don't have any idea what to do about Islam, but they know exactly what they are going to do about Israel. Complete and utter failure.