Of course they’re not terrorists. After all, they’re not “right-wing extremists,” now, are they?
“Obama Admin: Palestinians Who Throw Molotov Cocktails at Israelis Are Not Terrorists,” Washington Free Beacon, October 27, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The Obama administration insisted Monday that a Palestinian killed by an IDF while attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at Israeli civilians is not a terrorist.
The Palestinian, a teenager with U.S. citizenship, was shot Friday and buried wearing a green Hamas headband. The Obama administration said in a statement on Friday that it “expresses its deepest condolences to the family.”
At a State Department briefing today, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked spokesperson Jen Psaki whether it is appropriate to offer “deepest condolences” to the family of someone killed while attempting to carry out an attack on civilians.
“There are reports … that [the Palestinian teenager] was throwing Molotov cocktails at cars on a highway, and I’m wondering, if that is the case, would you still have been so speedy in putting out a statement and offering your condolences to the family?” asked Lee. “The argument that is being made by some in Israel is that this kid was essentially a terrorist, and you don’t agree with that, I assume,” Lee continued.
“Correct, we don’t,” Psaki said. Lee then asked whether the fact that the teenager was buried wearing a Hamas headband was “of concern at all.” Psaki replied, “I just don’t have any more on this particular case.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Perhaps it was not a molotov cocktail in his hand but rather a sandwich (or maybe a flaming sandwich)? Say, she looks very nice in that shade of green.
ArcadiaP says
We actually pay this women big bucks to support Hamas. When are we Americans going to wake up?
Rob Porter says
Arcadia
I probably should not confess to this, but one can write to the State Department, and this is what I wrote to this disgusting Psaki woman (I will say that my motivations were disgust, anger, and contempt, but with a bit of my own warped sense of humour thrown in) :
“Regarding your press conference in which you were asked whether you regarded or did not regard as a terrorist the Palestinian youth who was shot dead by the IDF while throwing Molotov cocktails at cars, I wish to tell you that your response in saying ‘no you did not regard him as a terrorist’ puts in clear perspective the pathetically low-grade pigs dung level to which Barack Obama and his whole Administration has sunk. All over the world Muslims, in the name of Islam, are conducting acts of terror against those who don’t share their ignorant, fantasy, Islamic beliefs and murdering thousands in the name of Islam, yet you morals destitute dimwits of the U.S. State Department cannot bring yourselves to call Islamic terrorism for what it is.
I am neither a Jew nor Israeli, yet now regard not just with disdain but utter contempt your dishonest, cowardly and distorted portrayal of this event and Islamic barbarism generally. For you to have offered your “deepest condolences” to the family of that young Molotov cocktail-throwing terrorist (with the intention of murdering) demonstrated to what depths of moral depravity the Obama administration has sunk. As for you, you are a total disgrace and an individual of low moral character. Pardon me if I do not offer my ”deepest condolences” to your family in the event a Molotov cocktail lands on your car and incinerates you inside.”
Zero Dark Thirty says
Green is the color of Islam.
Oliver says
The State Dept. has been anti-Israel since BEFORE ISRAEL BECAME A STATE.
When Harry Truman was president, and the UN (May 1947) was voting to create Israel, the State Dept. advised Pres Truman to VOTE NO. HE VOTED YES.
The State Dept. also advised him, IF THE UN VOTE IS FOR STATEHOOD, NOT TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL. SO TRUMAN DID, ABOUT 5 MINUTES AFTER THE UN VOTE.
Having written the above, The Obama first with Shillery and now with Ketchup, is beyond the pale. beyond anything that anyone can reasonably expect.
Ron Barak says
Small errata:
on “and the UN (May 1947) was voting to create Israel”: it was 1947.11.29 and not May 1947 (see http://tinyurl.com/n2csvt).
on “The State Dept. also advised him, IF THE UN VOTE IS FOR STATEHOOD, NOT TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL. SO TRUMAN DID, ABOUT 5 MINUTES AFTER THE UN VOTE.”
From http://tinyurl.com/pqw7ayl: “On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.” So, it was a loooong 5 minutes after the 1947.11.29 vote.
john says
Obama and spol. also deny the ISIS and/or Iranian leaders are a threat .
marc says
it’s like they are not even pretending to be an ally of Israel any longer.
who can blame them, if only those uppity joooz gave them (arab sponsored terrorists) what they wanted, there would be no jihad.
Jacksonl03 says
” . . . if only those uppity joooz gave them (arab sponsored terrorists) what they wanted, there would be no jihad.”
And not too long after . . . there would be no Israel, maybe no Jews . . . j
Judi says
Marc – Agreed. They’ve dropped the facade completely now
David Tsal says
One doesn’t need to be an ally of Israel to recognize that throwing Molotov cocktails is wrong. The U.S. has lots of problems with Russia right now, yet should someone in Russia throw a Molotov cocktail at a Russian citizen, would Obama administration be against that? Of course it would.
Unbelievable.
Darren says
The Islamic State Department never met a jihadist they didn’t like. With the fearless horse face at the helm there is no telling what the bad news bears of government agencies will do next. I’d be embarased to be an Islamic State department official. After they consult their wahabbi imam who consults them on islam and do some work books and watch some training videos on diversity is good who knows what the heavily infiltrated islamic state department will do next. IS aint got nothing on the Islamic State Department when it comes to supporting jihadists world wide. We need to declare the Islamic State Department a terrorist organization and begin a liberation campaign asap they are a threat to world security.
Just like the nsa should turn their data centers into server farms for the a next gen MMORPG they are useless as well. They can’t devise a counter to stealth jihad and weaponized political correctness what good are they? Billions of dollars spent a year and we get out thought and out manuevered by dudes who bang their head off the ground 5 times a day. A bunch of inbreds the elected prostitutes we have in office at the moment. Even ladies of the night feel shame unlike these clowns. Is it any wonder western civilization is in a suicidal death spiral? When the populace is so dumb that they keep getting fooled over and over again it makes me lose hope we will ever defeat these savages.
Larry A. Singleton says
“there is no telling what the bad news bears of government agencies will do next.’
Seize all your assets if you have a small business because you “didn’t put enough money in the bank”.
True story. She had the unmitigated gall to ask “Who takes all your money without proof you’ve done anything wrong?”
Answer: Our current Police State.
(Why doesn’t this site have an autofill? Push the wrong friggin button and lose all your work.)
kay says
Those of us who are true disciples of Jesus Christ know and understand that there will be war on the saints and we will eventually be overcome at the time of the end. In the natural, it will look hopeless. But that is not the end of the story. Nothing can separate us from His love and nothing will prevent Jesus from returning to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, destroying Israel’s enemies and establishing His Kingdom of Peace on the earth, just as the heavenly host informed us at His birth. The Lord warned us that His followers will be hated as He is hated but be consoled that when we see these things coming upon us, look up for His return is getting closer.
Darren says
I don’t look forward to that at all. People always fail to realize that if the bible is correct there is a whole lot of suffering and destruction first. How about we crush the enemy so we don’t have to worry about the end times? Why do we put kid gloves on when it comes to islam. We coddle them like they are infants unable to tell the difference between right or wrong, or we blame ourselves even after they kill innocent people in cold blood. The west has gone batsh*t crazy.
No Fear says
Throwing a molotov cocktail at an Israeli soldier is a friendly act of interfaith outreach.
Sending daily rockets over the border into Israel is also a good example of interfaith outreach.
john spielman says
absolutely, then according to the same US state dept logic, when Israel retaliates with massive airstrikes and artillary barages, it should be like Israel saying “why don’t we meet for tea and scones”!
gp says
A warning to all infidels:
We will fight the infidel to the death!
-Meanwhile American Laws will protect us
-Democrats and leftists will support us
-NGO’s will legitimize us
-CAIR will incubate us
-The ACLU will empower us
-Western Universities will educate us
-Mosques will shelter us
-OPEC will finance us
-Hollywood will love us
-And the UN will cover our asses
http://www.siotw.org/news_engl…
boakai ngombu says
… that is, unless you get the cholera along with us
all our diseases which you didn’t know existed will be yours
you’ve already spread the syph and the aids to your tilth and the polio to your kids
you’ll be statistics
you’re already dead, having no life from the Living God within your heart, and, now, condemnation on Judgment Day is on your head
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Hollywood will love us
This recalls Keifer Sutherland’s tearful apology for making Moslems look bad in the hit TV series 24. The series was of course predicated on the conflict between Moslem activists and Western Civilization, but the American Ummah was pissed at the treatment they were getting in the shows scripts and complained bitterly to the authorities.
The lesson here is that Hollywood has an excuse for its Dhimmitude, cuz telling the truth is just plain bad PR.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
A terrorist is not a terrorist when he engages in acts of civil disobedience, even ones that can do great bodily harm. Deepest condolences to he who threw a bottle full of gas capped with a burning rag cuz that setup ain’t gonna result in a mass murder fatality, at best the weapon would end up severely burning and scarring a Jew’s face, that’s all.
***
Did you see what happened in Germany yesterday? 48 Polizei Deutsch were injured holding back hundreds of “skinheads” and “right wing extremists” youths who held a protest against Moslem aggression.
I’ve said for years that sooner or later there’d be a strike back. Yes, after 9/11 a few Moslems got their asses kicked in the days immediate following, but nothing big. We’ll see what the gubmint controlled socialist media of Western Europe comes up with to turn this inevitable outburst against the Infidels.
It was bound to happen sooner or later, it’s later, and it’s bound to happen more.
Georg says
Germans who march against Salafism [How can that be even slightly controversial?……. lulz] are “far-right” while a person winging bombs at civilian cars is “a US citizen”.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
nacazo says
of course it was not terrorism. it was an unfortunate case of street walking violence.
/sarc off
Larry A. Singleton says
Slingers
I’ve got an article out of a magazine “Giant Slayer: The unsung sling was low-tech, low-class and as lethal as a modern handgun” by foster Grunfeld. (I wish I could find it online.) My favorite part of the article was a sidebar that pretty much summed it up: “We must get hold of slingers and cavalry as soon as we can…According to Xenophon, the Persians did no further damage by their old methods of long-range fighting, since the Rhodians could sling farther than the Persian slingers and farther even than most of their archers.”
Also people should read the Roman doctor Celsus and his description of removing “bullets”. There’s actually a Fresco of Pompeii showing a Roman surgeon “extracting a projectile”.
The Greeks and Romans used to inscribe messages on their stones; “For Pompey’s Backside”.
When I was a kid I got hit in the back of the head by a rock thrown a block away from this other kid who got “lucky”. No Fun.
It also said in the Grunfeld article “Local folklore has it that Balearic Slingers could sink ships at more than 500 yard. This sounds far-fetched, but nevertheless the Romans, when they arrived to conquer Mallorca in 123 BC after several failed attempts, first stretched hides above the decks as protection against sling bullets and other projectiles.”
I’m reading Caesar’s Civil War. (I’ve read the Wiseman’s Battle for Gaul twice [Get This Book] and Ford’s God’s and Legions. Just saying). Slinger’s were an important and deadly addition to these armies.
It’s too bad the Palestinians can’t grasp the old “sticks and stones” adage. But I guess that’s their point.
These “stone throwers” should be treated as the contemptible attempted murderers that they are. It makes me sick that they haven’t kicked these genocidal scum off the Temple Mount.
At one time I had tolerance for all religions. That all changed with Islam. When I was a kid I was chanting “nam myo ho renge kyo” to a piece of paper. Hitch-hiking back east I hung out with the Children of God. I used to go to the Family Home Evenings with a Morman shipmate of mine in the Navy.
Thing is, Islam is a disease, and Muslims are the symptom. I have no sympathy or empathy for them or their sick “religion of peace”. Especially after making an honest effort at understanding their religion and finding “Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah” by ‘Sheikh Abdullâh bin Muhammad bin Humaid in a Summarized Bukhari I’d ordered online. It was submitted almost as an Introduction. It scared me so bad I wrote a canned pitch I throw around like a religious tract:
(Part of what scared me was this guy was a “an ex-chief Justice of Saudi Arabia. I’ve also found out a lot about Saudi Arabia since then.)
See also:
The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968 Translated by D.F. Green/David G. Littman (Support Secure Freedom)Front to back; 95 pages of outrageous lies and vile Jew-Hatred.
http://supportsecurefreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/Arab-Theologians-on-Jews-and-Israel-4th_Ed_082011.pdf
Read Andrew Bostom’s The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism and read from page 51 on the above topic to page 53 the 2003 Putrajaya Islamic Summit and a little beyond to a speech by Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the same page. The whole chapter is one horrific example after another of Islamic mass murder and pogroms but go ahead and start with this.
And this:
Dr. Wafa Sultan exposes Islamic values with Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad
http://www.mrctv.org/videos/dr-wafa-sultan-exposes-islamic-values-sheikh-omar-bakri-muhammad
This less than 8-minute video segment, if viewed objectively and dispassionately, could do more to educate the American public on the theory animating the practice of “Islamic international relations,” without any further explanation required. Andrew G. Bostom-The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism.
I thought I’d go ahead and include these as well:
Islamists Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/9669/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel
Reggie Stone says
See also 7/7 Ripple Effect – You tube
Wtf? says
WTF? WTF? WTF!!!!
Has America gone certifiably insane? What are they thinking in the Crescent Moon Whitehouse?
fair_dinkum says
that’s a big statement.
what are her sources?
Ha Meshuga says
The standard practice of de-legitimizing Israel and Jews, plain and simple and continuing to free arabs from responsibility of their actions.
No problem, God said this would happen.
shabeer_hassan says
#Larry A. Singleton
Jew people good deed agreed/praised:
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 56 :: Hadith 673
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “While a dog was going round a well and was about to die of thirst, an Israeli prostitute saw it and took off her shoe and watered it. So Allah forgave her because of that good deed.”
Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 56 :: Hadith 670
Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 37 :: Hadith 488
Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 43 :: Hadith 662
Non Muslim (dhimmi) was protected: Jew agreed:
Muslim :: Book 30 : Hadith 5853
The Jew went to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: Abu’l-Qasim, I am a Dhimmi and (thus need your protection) by a covenant, and added: Such and such person has given a blow upon my face. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Why did you give a blow on his face? He said: Allah’s Messenger, this man said: By Him Who chose Moses (peace be upon him) amongst mankind, whereas you are living amongst us. Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) became angry and signs of anger could be seen on his face, and then said: Don’t make distinction amongst the Prophets of Allah.
Bukhari :: Book 5 :: Volume 57 :: Hadith 50
I also recommend him concerning Allah’s and His Apostle’s protectees (i.e. Dhimmis) to fulfill their contracts and to fight for them and not to overburden them with what is beyond their ability.”
Allah will punish the people ::
33: 57. Verily, those who annoy Allâh and His Messenger (SAW) Allâh has cursed them in this world, and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating torment.
58: 15. Allâh has prepared for them a severe torment. Evil indeed is that which they used to do.
Allah will punish the people who act against the Muslim:
33: 58. And those who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear on themselves the crime of slander and plain sin.
85:10. Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and believing women (by torturing them and burning them), and then do not turn in repentance, (to Allâh), will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the burning Fire.
Walter Sieruk says
The people of the Obama administration have shown just of little they really understand by making such absurd untrue statements about the Muslims in Israel who engage in violence in their jihad not being terrorists. This young woman did this ,by what she said, thus she showed that the people of the Obama administration are in the dark. In other words, they by their own words have exposed their ignorance.
carpediadem says
They are not ignorant. They support anti Israel jihad and use your tax dollars to fund it.
Ralph says
There has been a lot of research over the last eighty years or so into the nature of prejudice, group perceptions, and inter-group conflict. A lot of this has looked at the nature of racial conflict. Perhaps because the researchers were mainly white liberals a lot of the research has focused on white prejudice towards black people. This may even have given rise to an unexamined assumption both within the research and in the conclusions emerging from it that racial discrimination and prejudice are a predominantly a white problem. The possibility that black people could feel prejudice and would act in discriminatory ways towards white people was not even considered. Marxist intellectuals are fond of claiming that science is “socially constructed” and perhaps they would be correct in this instance.
Mirren10 says
” The Obama administration said in a statement on Friday that it “expresses its deepest condolences to the family.”
Did the obama ‘administration express its deepest condolences to the family of little Chaya ? Or the Fogel family ?