NBC News "reporter" blames U.S. for not recognizing Hamas and "reigning in" Israel

It's OT, really, but - 'reigning in'?

The expression 'to rein in', is a metaphor from the days of live horsepower.

To 'rein in' a horse is to tighten the reins so that the animal slows down or stops.

It has nothing to do with the word 'reign', meaning, 'rule, as a king or queen'.

The rider 'reins in' the horse.

Queen Elizabeth reigns, that is, rules, in England.

This confusion between 'reign' and 'rein' (also seen in modern newspaper spellings of the expression 'to give free rein', which nowadays always seems to end up as 'to give free reign') just annoys me (as do the perpetual confusions between 'it's' and 'its' and 'flout' and 'flaunt', and so on.

Re the *topic*, Mr Kirell is spot on.

And...just how many Muslim reporters are there out there, like "NBC News reporter Ayman Mohyeldinin", in all the major and middle-ranking news outfits, in America and elsewhere?

In a field crowded with the likes of Christiane Amanpour, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Michael Kruse and so many, many others, Ayman Mohyeldin hardly stands out. "NBC News Reporter Blames U.S. For Not Recognizing Hamas And Not ‘Reigning In’ Israel"
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Appalling. He is calling for "recognizing" barbarians, and hobbling Israel from responding to rocket attacks on Tel Aviv.

This creep has built his career on Jihad terror—he started getting major assignments in the wake of 9/11, when the MSM foolishly turned to Muslims of questionable loyalties:

In an interview with PRWeek, Ayman describes the opportunities that arose in the aftermath of 9/11: "There was a real shortage of people with language skills or expertise in the Middle East. Just because of my language skills and the timing, so to speak, I got a lot of experience. I was thrown into a mix of things that normally desk assistants at my level would not have gotten. I started working on some big pieces that had to do with investigating 9/11 and all kinds of international terrorist connections... I was doing translation mostly, but I was also developing themes or threads to stories that either had some Middle East connection to them or some type of Arabic language skills required. So it was an unbelievable experience at a really young age."

It is clear that even Ayman Mohyeldin can't believe the windfall that came his way from foolish Kuffars in the wake of 9/11.

And along with NBC and CNN, Mohyeldin has also worked for the openly Jihad-enabling Al Jazeera.

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...one, the United States does not have any direct contact with the Palestinian factions which it and Israel and others label as terrorist organizations, despite the fact that Hamas did win democratic elections here, despite the fact it is a part of the fabric of Palestinian politics that cannot be ignored or isolated or marginalized.
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Well, the National Socialists couldn't be ignored, either. This didn't make them rational actors. And note that he doesn't exactly deny that Hamas is a terrorist organization—he just takes umbrage that it is openly characterized as such.

And one can already see where the idea that anyone who is "democratically elected" is to be regarded as respectable and reasonable will lead, given the election of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

As for their being "part of the fabric of Palestinian politics", it must be remembered that part of that "fabric" includes their savagely massacring and driving out their Fatah rivals from Gaza soon after that "democratic" election, even following their wounded victims into the hospital to finish them off.

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They have focused on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. That hasn’t necessarily produced tangible results. There’s a lot of problems in terms of getting everyone on the same table.
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Well, of course! Given Hamas' history of slaughtering Israelis and Fatah members, and Fatah's history of murdering Israelis while being killed by their Gazan coreligionists, and Israel's history of being targeted for destruction and mass murder by both "Palestinian" groups, this should all go swimmingly....sarc/off

I'm getting a little tired of hearing Hamas referred to as a "democratically elected government." They won in Jan. 2006, and haven't had an election since, almost seven years ago. How is that still a democracy?

Always blame the kuffar, always! even if you're caught red-handed. That's how the worshipers of Pedohammed roll.

Just another fool. They're ubiquitous nowadays.

when the future gets rough,and the masses feel the pain, are these pretty faces from pravda going to get hauled in to court for treachery?

And here I thought I'd get a chance to be complementary. Instead I lose a half fucking hour of "comment" because of the half-assed comment function or what passes for a comment function. Most of the other places, like Yahoo or You Tube, when there are problems, and they are legion, I strike it up to the obvious contempt those places have for its users. Here? I don't know what the fuck is wrong. But I find myself less and less inclined to participate. It's like the "three minute limit" at city council meetings. It's not just a three minute limit...it's a tactic. Maybe youre sending me a message. So be it.

Larry A. Singleton
Riverside CA.

MSNBC, eh?

An MSNBC news crew that ventured into southern Israel within rocket range of Gaza - at least they *did* venture into southern Israel - got told what's what by the locals, in no uncertain terms.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/44971

"As rockets flew over southern Israel on Monday, a Land Rover packed with camping gear stopped in a field and out stepped a man called Boris who offered to make coffee for a nearby NBC news crew.

"Their price for accepting the excellent brew was a harangue about Israel's need to invade Gaza and reduce it to rubble.

"When interrupted, Russia-born Boris just shouted louder.

{Just like my dad...dda}.

"Putin! Putin! What would Putin do?" the man screamed.

"Think about it! Putin! A football field he would make in Gaza, a football field! What he do in Chechnya? We do same in Gaza."

{I *love* Russian Jew Boris. He sounds *exactly* as I imagine my own father would sound, if placed in such a predicament. - dda}

*Boris's 18-year-old son was among the conscripts who had just finished basic training and was waiting, with his paratrooper unit, in a grove of eucalyptus trees for the order to invade.* {my emphasis - dda}

'Father and son had not been in contact for days as all soldiers have had their cell phones taken."...

So Boris is no mere armchair warrior...his *son* will be on the front lines, in any war that does eventually happen. I think 'Boris' and our own 'Miriam Rove' would get on splendidly; for miriam rove, too, knows what it's like to have a son out there on the front line against the jihad.

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"Boris, who did not give his last name, was sanguine about his son.

"We have to do it. No choice."

'Ten miles away, sweeping broken glass, shattered bricks and collapsed plaster walls in her neighbor's apartment, which had suffered a rect it from rocket fire. Schneerson went even further.
"You see that window?" Schneerson asked.
There was no window -- it had been blown away by the rocket. "Exactly," she said, "the same. That's what we must do. No window. No Gaza."

I think the ears of that MSNBC news crew must still be burning. I'm surprised their heads didn't explode, right there and then.