LGF Headline:

Drunken Anti-Israel Climate Change Hooligans Who Love Hamas

From AP:

Police were confident of being able to contain the expected climax of the climate camp at Heathrow Airport.

Protesters, buoyed by an influx of new arrivals, promised 24 hours of direct action, starting from midday on Sunday.

The move came after 20 anarchists from the camp broke into a warehouse in Hayes, owned by Carmel Agrexco, an Israeli fruit and vegetable importer. Up to six were arrested on suspicion of burglary, police said.

Amos Orr, general manager of Agrexco UK, said: “They broke in. A lot of them were drunk, they broke doors, spread papers everywhere and they were very aggressive. They were singing about Hamas.”

We wrote previously about a children’s show on a government-operated TV channel in Gaza (government = Hamas). The show starred a Mickey Mouse look alike, subsequently killed on air (by a Jew, of course).

The mouse has been replaced by a big bee. Here the Nahoul the Bee teaches a lesson on cruelty to animals.

Via LGF

Wait, I though Palestinian Arabs hated Israel because the Zionists are so mean to them.  

Palestinians run as they try to cross to the Israel side at the Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Dozens of Palestinians converged on the Erez crossing with Israel on Saturday, trying to leave the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ takeover. At the same time, hundreds of people looted police positions on the Palestinian side of Erez, and at one point Israeli troops fired in the air to keep the crowd at bay. The looters walked off with furniture and scrap metal. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Separately, these are pretty funny:

Hamas militants sit as they pose in the passport processing area of the terminal at the Rafah Border Crossing which is now controlled by Hamas militants, near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2007. On its first day of full rule in Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas on Friday granted amnesty to Fatah leaders, signaling that it seeks conciliation with the defeated forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/ Eyad Albaba)

 

A Hamas militant is seen inside of an X-ray machine in front of journalists in the passport processing area of the terminal at the Rafah Border Crossing which is now controlled by Hamas militants, near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Hatem Omar, MaanImages)

Freaks!

Maybe if the EU would just stop sending Hamas money these impotent sissy lame-os would just starve to death.

From Canada.com:

Last week, the Lebanese army attacked a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that’s become infested with Islamist suicide terrorists and guerilla fighters. On May 20, government troops surrounded the camp, with tanks and artillery pieces shelling it at close range. Army snipers gunned down anything that moved. At least 18 civilians were killed, and dozens more injured. Water and electricity were cut off. By week’s end, much of the camp had been turned into deserted rubble. Thousands of terrified residents fleeing the camp reported harrowing stories of famished, parched families trapped in their basements.

How did the rest of the world react? The Arab League quickly condemned “the criminal and terrorist acts carried out by the terrorist group known as Fatah al-Islam,” and vowed to “give its full support to the efforts of the army and the Lebanese government.” EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana also condemned Fatah al-Islam, and declared Europe’s “support” for Lebanon. And the UN Security Council called the actions of Fatah al-Islam “an unacceptable attack” on Lebanon’s sovereignty. As for the Western media, most outlets ignored the story following the first flurry of news reports.

At this point, please indulge me by re-reading the first paragraph of this column — except this time, substitute the world “Israeli” for “Lebanese” in the first sentence. Let’s imagine what the world’s reaction would be if the ongoing siege were taking place in Gaza or the West Bank instead of the Nahr al Bared refugee camp on the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon.

First of all, a flood of foreign journalists would descend on the camp to document Israel’s cruelty and barbarism, and the story would remain front page news to this day. Al-Jazeera would be a 24/7 montage of grieving mothers swearing revenge on the Zionist butchers, and rumours would swirl of mass graves and poison gas. The Arab League, EU and United Nations would condemn Israeli aggression — as would the editorial board of The New York Times. The Independent would dispatch Robert Fisk to embed with Fatah al-Islam. And the newspaper’s cartoonist, Dave Brown, would produce another award-winning rendition of his signature theme: Jews eating Palestinian babies…

…For years, we have been told that Palestinian suffering and “humiliation” is at the root of the Middle East conflict, as well as the Western-Muslim clash of civilizations more generally. This is nonsense: The 200,000-plus Palestinian refugees who live in Lebanese camps are treated worse than dogs — with no access to decent schools or good jobs — and no one in the Arab world cares a whit. In fact, many Arabs seem to embrace the same blind anti-Palestinian hatred of which Israel is typically accused. When Lebanese armoured personnel carriers rolled through Tripoli on May 20, they got a standing ovation from local residents. “We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps,” one local told The New York Times. “Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians.”

Read the rest here.

Palestinian Media Watch has translated this childrens TV show broadcast by the Palestinian Authority’s state-owned channel Al Aqsa:

Update (5/9/07):

via LGF

AP reported on the Mickey Mouse Story yesterday. Funny thing - the headline initially read Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ wants Islam takeover.

The PC police at AP must have not liked that - it was shortly thereafter changed to Hamas ‘Mickey Mouse’ preaches resistance.

The article links to a CNN video talking about the program, but very little of the actual program is showed. Its also a bit of a canard to claim the program comes from ‘Hamas militants’ - Al Aqsa is owned an operated by the Palestinian Authority.

Update (5/10/07):

via LGF

The outrage of the day is the way CNN tried to cover up the Hamas Mickey Mouse story; Glenn Beck was played for a fool by his CNN producers, and he talked about it on his radio show today:

Always been a fan of Victor Davis Hanson. I like him even more now that I know he was once a professional farmer.

If you read his columns you’ll recognize many of the examples and arguments in this Hoover Institution address (and Q&A).

The woman in the photo is Rim Al-Riyashi. She was a 23 year old mother of two (1 and 3) when she blew up herself and five Israelis.

Watch this video from Al-Aqsa TV (via MEMRI).

Hamas set up Al-Aqsa after winning the Palestinian Authority parlimentary elections in January 2006. The station broadcasts from inside a mosque in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Observer newspaper carried this article by Arab lobbyist James Zogby concerning Jordanian King Abdullah II’s Wednesday address to Congress:

By any reasonable measure, King Abdullah II of Jordan’s speech before a joint session of Congress was both smart and courageous. He took advantage of being only the fourth Arab leader given this opportunity and chose to do the unexpected…

There’s a factual error in that second sentence that may be revealing. Here’s the list addresses to Congress by Arab leaders:

• Nov. 5, 1975 Anwar El Sadat, President of The Arab Republic of Egypt.
• Sept. 18, 1978 Anwar El Sadat, President of The Arab Republic of Egypt
• July 26, 1994 Hussein I, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• September 23, 2004 Ayad Allawi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
• July 26, 2006 Dr. Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Ithe Republic of Iraq
• March 7, 2007 King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

That’s five Arab leaders, not four. Perhaps in the eyes of the UN and Mr. Zogby two democratically elected Arabs (Iraqis) are only as good as one Arab dictator.

The NY Sun responded to the speech differently:

If one were to distill 110% wrongheadedness and then distill it again a second, third, and fourth time, one couldn’t come up with a speech as purely wrongheaded as the one that the Hashemite king, Abdullah II, delivered yesterday to a joint meeting of Congress. The king’s aim amounted to blaming Israel for all the world’s problems. “The wellspring of regional division, the source of resentment and frustration far beyond, is the denial of justice and peace in Palestine,” the king said. “This is the core issue. And this core issue is not only producing severe consequences for our region, it is producing severe consequences for our world.”

And from the WSJ:

In a speech Wednesday to a joint session of Congress, Jordan’s King Abdullah made the remarkable claim that “the wellspring of regional division, the source of resentment and frustration far beyond, is the denial of justice and peace in Palestine.” Solve that, he said, and “hope to our region’s people” could be restored…For decades, conventional wisdom held that the conflict between Arabs and Israelis lay at the heart of most of the Middle East’s troubles. Does anyone seriously believe that anymore?

Mr. Abdullah II owes his kingdom to the favor of the retreating British, who created his country and made his father King in 1921. Jordan (then Transjordan) was invented out of most of what was then called British Palestine.

Abdullah I was friendly with the British ever since they backed him in a civil war with the Saud family for control of Mecca and Medina. He lost that fight (hence Saudi Arabia), but the British gave his family sovereignty over a land 600 miles away.

Jordan today is about 55% Palestinian and 40% Bedouin. There are more than 2x as many Palestinians in Jordan as there are in Israel. Hashemites are an extreme ethic minority in the country - basically just the royal family. The rest of their tribe resides in the Heyaz, a coastal region of Saudi Arabia to the south.

In 1948 Jordan attacked newly independent Israel. In the process it occupied most of what had been set aside by UN mandate as an independent Arab Palestinian state. In 1950 Jordan formally annexed the West Bank, absorbing more than half of what was to be Free Palestine into its own country. Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967 and turned it over to Palestinan administration in 1993.

The Hashemites weren’t t popular leaders, facing multiple attempted coups by the majority Palestinians. This culminated in a 1970 civil war called Black September in which 2000 Palestinians were killed along with 3000 Syrians who came to their aid. Egypt called the killings genocide.

Mr. Abdullah II has an obvious interest in pointing fingers at Israel for the problems of the Palestinians. His interest is the same as that of the various Arab dictators who need some excuse to distract from the failures of their usually incompetent, often brutal regimes.

What is up with Iran’s Israel obsession and the lame Holocaust conference? A good piece from the Weekly Standard:

 Just as Hitler sought to “liberate” humanity by murdering the Jews, so Ahmadinejad believes he can “liberate” humanity by eradicating Israel. The deniers’ conference as an instrument for propagating this project is intimately linked to the nuclear program as an instrument for realizing it. Five years ago, in December 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani first boasted that “the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything,” whereas the damage to the Islamic world of a potential retaliatory nuclear attack could be limited: “It is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality.” While the Islamic world could sacrifice hundreds of thousands of “martyrs” in an Israeli retaliatory strike without disappearing–so goes Rafsanjani’s argument–Israel would be history after the first bomb.

Read the whole thing.

Two recent articles cover the same topic - civil war in the Palestinian Authority territories is rasing questions about whether or not an independent Palestinian state is viable.

 The first is from Sunday’s Jerusalem Post:

As the fighting between Fatah and Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip, many residents here said Saturday that they were concerned that the international community would turn its back on the Palestinians…

“Everyone here is disgusted by what’s happening in the Gaza Strip,” said Shireen Atiyeh, a 30-year-old mother of three working in one of the Palestinian Authority ministries. “We are telling the world that we don’t deserve a state because we are murdering each other and destroying our universities, colleges, mosques and hospitals. Today I’m ashamed to say that I’m a Palestinian.”…

 ”The world is watching how the Palestinians are destroying their institutions and achievements with their own hands. They see how we are mercilessly slaughtering innocent people. We are losing the sympathy of the world. I’m afraid the world will now view us differently.”

The second, from Sunday’s NYT, is a bit watered down and snarky, but makes the same general points:

 The fierce internal clashes between Palestinian factions have shocked many Palestinians and Arab governments, who fear that the continuing bloodshed is damaging the Palestinian image before the world, Palestinians say.

If its any consolation, watching the elected representatives of the Palestinian Authority assassinate one another , kill each other’s children, destroy property taken from Israel, and fleece foreign aid to the tune of billions$ has had no impact on Dirck the Noorman’s opinion of the viability of an independent Palestinian state.