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May 31, 2004
Go Navy....

The last time that Navy played in the NCAA Lacrosse National Championship game, I was a high school senior, just a few weeks shy of my induction into the Naval Academy. In 1975 I was proud to be going to Navy to join that team, and I was sure we'd win at least a couple of National Championships over the next 4 years... Well, Maryland beat us that time and during my injury shortened 2 years we didn't make it back to the chamionship. In fact, for 29 years we didn't make it back... Until Today.

Today, Navy is back in the game... and on Memorial Day!

Every player also has a letter in his locker outlining what Memorial Day means and about the dedication of the World War II memorial in the District this weekend. And they likely will be led onto the field today by a Marine carrying a flag that flew over a military base in Afghanistan. The flag was dedicated to the Navy lacrosse team by a former midfielder stationed there.

In all, former Navy lacrosse players have won two Medals of Honor, 32 Navy Crosses and 50 Silver Stars.

Congratulations Syracuse... 14-13 over Navy... dammit


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May 28, 2004
Good News is No News

Like Imshin, I do not have a good feeling about the direction the world is heading. Not enough people are even aware of dangers we face, too many people ignore or deny the threat, and far, far too many are appeasing and defending those who want to destroy our way of life. Bad feelings multiply with the amount of bad and negative news that fills the airwaves and newspapers.

On the "No News is Good News" side of things, it's nice to wake up with no news of new suicide bombers and no new terrorist attacks in Israel and the US... but the converse of that saying is depressing me... "Good News is No News." And its corollary, “Bad News is [little g] good News”

Continued reporting of bad news, which skews our view of events in Iraq are hurting America by eroding our resolve to win this war. The President's failure of leadership is exacerbating the problem. Instead of reminding us who the enemy is and showing us why it is crucial that we fight and win this war, he is campaigning for re-election. Meanwhile, John Kerry, in his own campaign, ignores the enemy and avoids talking about the threat... Both men... both camps… preferring partisan bickering to acting in the country's best interest. Meanwhile war continues. Meanwhile people are questioning the necessity of fighting this war.

As the bad news piles up, more and more people are looking for scapegoats, and more and more people are finding them in old familiar places. Jonathan Tobin has some thoughts on the way anti-Semitism is seeping into our consciousness. Did you know it was the Jews behind the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse?

It’s all so depressing and Imshin expresses the reason well:

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May 27, 2004
Twenty Years Ago

I had an unusual, but recognizable, Google Hit yesterday... for "Safina Al Arab." It's recognizable to me anyway. In fact, I told this story a couple of years ago… the [link may be broken] but it’s worth retelling, especially in light of what I found from the Google hit.

I was inspired while reading the Right Wing Texan[dead link], at Laurence’s [Amish Tech Support is defunct] suggestion. One line from the Texan, “Just sitting here (slightly tipsy) in a comfortable old pair of Wranglers and field-broke Lucchese boots listening to the new Springsteen album, drinking a Shiner Bock, and bloggin'. Life is good!” made me start daydreaming...

Sitting at the computer in my baggy shorts and well worn flip-flops, with my colortini: a Red Stripe Beer,"Red Stripe, it's Beer... Hooray Beer!" , listening to Keb Mo and bloggin’, Yes, Life is good.

I imagined sitting on the lanai with the Right Wing Texan, and a few others, swapping stories about our experiences in the Middle East, and I decided to blog one of the stories I’d have shared... from my time in Manama, Bahrain:

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May 25, 2004
Barry Rubin

Today's don't miss column is by Barry Rubin in the Jeruslaem Post. He lists a set of principles that fit the facts of today's Middle East. Among them:

Failed dictatorships
Failed ideologies
The elites' self-interest
Indoctrination of the masses
The successful use of scapegoats
The Real Origins of Terrorism &
The refusal to end the Arab-Isareli War
On the origins of terrorism he is simple, straightforward and to the point:

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May 24, 2004
An American Jew in Greece

With the coming Olympic Games, I've taken a bit of an interest in what's happening around the world to prepare for the games. Bombs in Athens are not a good sign. Meanwhile Athens struggles to get construction done on the stadiums.

Elsewhere we see the architect of the murderous attacks of the 1972 Games in Munich making a public announcement that he has "ordered all factions under his control to prevent any "isolated" attacks on this Summer's Olympic Games." How charming, yet the statement itself ought to remind us of Arafat's terrorist core. You might also note that the Government of Greece has not been unfriendly to Arafat and his PLO.

In the 1980s, the prime minister from the ruling Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Andreas Papandreou, espoused a non-alignment policy that made him preside over a Greek opening toward the Arab world. Greece was one of the first countries to grant recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1981 and the organization's chairman, Yasser Arafat, received honorary invitations to attend PASOK party conferences. In contrast, Greece did not establish official relations with Israel until 1991.
Another reminder that we ought to absorb is given to us by Shira Dicker, an American Jew traveling in Europe talks of anti-Semitism of the past and the present. During her visit to Thessaloniki she compares the comfort of the once vibrant Greek Jewish population to her own experience in America.

Update: I see Allison has mentioned this too.

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May 21, 2004
Hitchins can be Brilliant

Here he is on Michael Moore:

"But speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities."
Thank You Andrew Sullivan


Shabbat Shalom


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May 20, 2004
Lies?... Taking sides? Or both?

Reuters and Al Jezeera are not American. It should come as no surprise to anyone that they disseminate news with a bias that is usually unfavorable to America. But... must Dan Rather and Wolf Blitzer and their organizations be so consistantly biased to the anti-American side of things too?

Although I often disagree with him, Ralph Peters explains how this media bias inflicts damage on our troops and hurts our country.

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Sympathy

Everywhere, news services like Reuters and AP are trying to convince me.. and others... that the poor palestinians, the innocent victim palestinians, deserve our sympathy. But despite the best efforts of CNN, Reuters, Al Jezeera, the AP and others, palestinian depravity, as is continually demonstrated through their actions, still manages to shine through. It's extremely difficult to have sympathy for any who are part of the culture that glorifies death the way they do.

Sha! has much more on the loss of sympathy.

It is more, much more, than suicide bombing that hurts their cause. Their society is terminally sick. Last week, in Gaza, it was their gruesome, barbaric, savage treatment of the remains of Israelis. Four years ago, in Ramallah, the same barbaric culture lynched two others... you remember the pictures from that one don't you?

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May 19, 2004
From MEMRI

This would be hilarious in other circumstances. But, for something a little different... the PLO brings you Arafat's Daily Chores.

Hat Tip: Israelly Cool

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May 18, 2004
A Few more to Go

Summer Reading? I guess this is more a function of longevity than academic achievement. 63 out of 101... my favorite on the list? Treasure Island.

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How did this Happen

How on earth is any palestinian involved with a UN force ANYwhere on earth, let alone Kosovo? A suspected member of Hamas fires 400 Rounds from his, UN issued, M-16 in a murderous terror spree while wearing his Blue UN helmet, which left 3 Americans dead and eleven others wounded.

Wake Up World!

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On War

No, not Clausewitz, but the Belmont Club. And it's really more On War and the Press: News Coverage as a Weapon Take the time, read it... it's well worth it.

A tease... "A reality experienced by the few could be overridden by a fantasy sold to the many."

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Preview of an Arab-PLO State

Is it hypocrisy? Is it ignorance? Is it callousness? Is it extortion? Is it deception? Or is it plain stupidity? What is it that allows the UN to ignore, even reward Arab behavior in Sudan?

The genocide, or as Kofi Annan has labled it, “ethnic cleansing” in Sudan, ought to give the world a crystal clear view of how Arabs view the non-Arab population of the region…. Their region… The Arab Region… There is no room for non-Arabs, let alone non-Muslims in the region they see as theirs. Thankfully Israel can defend itself and avoid the fate of black Muslims in Sudan.

Read this column by Shlomo Avineri about Self-Determination in the Middle East.

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Prager on Nick Berg

More than a few blogs I read have been writing about a feeling of depression about the slant of the news coverage from Iraq. What is most worrisome to me is the blatant partisan posturing that continues to command the most coverage. And continues to divert attention away from the real threats we face in liberal democracies from Islamists, or Islamofaschists, or Militant Islam, or whatever it is you want to call it. The coverage is missing the mark... deliberately... to make partisan political points.

On the Republican side, too often, there appears a level of hubris that is untenable. There is a benign form of arrogance that arises from their heartfelt belief that what they are doing is right for the country and is right for the world. They feel no need to persuade the rest of us that they are right, and worst of all is their inability to admit mistakes.

On the Democratic side, too often, appears a level of glee at any set backs and bad news from Iraq. They’ve put themselves into a situation that, in order to win in November, Bush has to fail, and they are happy to point out any and all minor failures and cheer major set backs. The only trouble is their inability or unwillingness to see Bush’s failure as America’s failure. Too often the media is an eager and willing accomplice.

Today, Dennis Prager has a few words on the issue of liberal bias as it looked at Nicholas Berg's execution.

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May 17, 2004
On Being a Jew
Nick Berg, like Daniel Pearl before him, was captured for being American but murdered for being a Jew. Striking indeed is this insight of the Arab fiends: That the Jew is their strongest enemy. All the might of three hundred million Americans is surmountable, they think, but the Jew is the foe who will not go away.

They are right. The word Jew denotes an engine of history that will not falter.

From: To be a Jew: What the murderers of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl knew by Jay D. Homnick


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Gay Marriage

Today's an historic day, if not for the whole country, at least in Massachusetts.. Although I don't much care for the integration day moniker, I am glad that gay men and women will have the same status in their civil marriage as the rest of us can enjoy. For more, don't miss rossi and, of course, Andrew Sullivan. As a secular civil matter, this is long overdue, but the religious side is more problematic.

Clearly, the Bible makes homosexual behavior an issue. Not so clear is the way that religious interpretation has evolved, and continues to evolve aomng the Abrahamic religions, from a clear prohibition against homosexuality to a partial acceptance of it. Opinions are strong on all sides.


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May 14, 2004
We need more Joes

Don't miss Senator Lieberman's (D-CT) column in the WSJ.

But, as we are showing in our response to Abu Ghraib, we are a nation of laws, and therefore must punish only those who are proven guilty. The Iraqi prison scandal has been a nightmare at an already difficult moment in the war in Iraq. But our cause remains as critical as ever to our security and our values. We must therefore persist in it. With determination and confidence, we should recall President Lincoln's words at another difficult moment in American history in pursuit of another just cause: "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us do our duty as we understand it."
And while you're at it take a look at Roger Simon's comments...


Shabbat Shalom


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Friday's Hanson

Echoing a theme in a few posts htis week Victor Davis Hanson gives us a warning:

One final jarring scene from the televised spectacles was the image of the lone, beleaguered Joe Lieberman calling for patience and sobriety, and worried about our troops in the field and the pulse of the war. This decent and honest man reminds us of what the present party of Ted Kennedy and Terry McAuliff used to be. The confidence of a Truman, JFK, and Scoop Jackson — caricatured now for dropping the bomb, a fiery "pay-any-price" speech, and heating up the Cold War — is now nowhere to be found.

This is a vital point, because either this year or sometime in the next decade a Democratic administration may well take the reins of power and in matters of national security it will be far to the left of the Liebermans of the world. And the disturbing events that we saw in the 1990s — constant appeasement of Middle East terrorists and their national sponsors, the emergence of a nuclear Pakistan and North Korea, sudden withdrawal from messy places like Mogadishu, a jetting special envoy Jimmy Carter — will return, though made worse through the prism of the present fury over Iraq.


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It's Really been 2 Years ???

Somewhere on A1A... turns two tomorrow. I wasn't going to write anything about it until I looked at last year's post... With only minor changes the column is just as applicable today. From Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder's column of 5/15/03:

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WW III

Today's must read:

We are in a world war and yet we do not notice it.

Over the past few weeks reports have abounded about the widening berth of the forces of global jihad. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that al-Qaida linked groups are operating in Africa from the Western Sahara to the Horn of Africa. The jihadis in countries like Niger, Chad and Mali are being financed, trained and indoctrinated by religious authorities from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Too many people will think this is alarmist, but Caroline Glick is right.

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May 13, 2004
The Other Video

Again for perspective we cannot rely on our traditional media. Although it shouldn't, the continuing reporting on Abu Ghraib astounds me. Aslong as the left and the anti-Bush crowd thinks the story will hurt the President it will stay square in the middle of our attention. We will not be able to escape it. Even the brutal Murder of Nicholas Berg couldn't knock it from the forefront of news coverage. A Jew being sadistically murdered has no chance of displacing a story harmful to the President Roger Simon has been talking to a friend.

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Daily dose of Arab Confusion

With a thinly veiled reference to "neocons and the racists, the Arab News, at once, demonstrates its own prejudices and misunderstandings of America, then goes on to applaud the American response to Abu Ghraib.

Friend or Foe? ...You Decide.

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May 12, 2004
Perspective

Go on over to read Shai:

Mutilated bodies everywhere you look around here. If not in Gaza then in Fallujah. At some point you begin to realize that these aren't incidents aren't necessarily aberrations; they're part of the primitive culture that underpins this entire region.

And we're living right in the middle of it.


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Lileks

Tipping my hat to Ian and to Mike, Lileks says he's on vacation.... but he's still writing. Today, he's talking about the different reactions Muslims can have to acts such as the beheading of Nicholas Berg. Of the five different possibilities: Endorsement, Indifference, Denial, Rejection, Participation four of them are helpful to the jihadists.

But James makes another point that deserves some thought and attention:

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May 11, 2004
Prager on the Media & Abu Ghraib

If there is any similarity among the events surrounding the prisoner abuse and the events in Viet Nam about which John Kerry testified before congress in 1971, it is the way the news media presents the story. We are all appalled at the behavior of those who abused those Iraqis, just as we were about the My Lai massacre, but the media is not happy with that. Like an attention starved toddler the media screams at us to make them the center of attention. They have a definite agenda.

The media seems determined to make us all feel bad about being American. How many times must they show the same story and same pictures? How long will they rub our noses in the atrocities? How else can Ted Kennedy say the following, for the record, and get away with it,

"...the symbol of America is not the Statue of Liberty. It's the prisoner standing on a box wearing a dark cape and a dark hood on his head, wires attached to his body, afraid that he's going to be electrocuted.
Then again, Kennedy spouts more anti-American venom:
On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. “Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."
The Abu Ghraib story has been pounced on because it’s exactly the kind of story that big media loves. It fits their agenda, and it gets them ratings. It’s the type of story that plays to the best in us AND to the worst in us.

Our compassion and love of freedom causes us to be deeply shamed and upset by the images, yet our collective voyeurism keeps us wanting to see more and more of the evil. Our demand to see the rest of the pictures will be just as great, if not greater than our demands to correct the wrongs. It’s a perfect media story, and they’re eager to satisfy our desires. Unfortunately other important stories will go unreported because it doesn’t fit Big Media’s goals or methods. And unfortunately, to use the media’s term: this story has legs.

Dennis Prager puts it into perspective,

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May 07, 2004
Joe Lieberman

I just may cast a write-in vote for Joe Lieberman in November.

As an American... as a Veteran... as a Jew, and as a Human Being I was proud of his statement to Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers during his six minutes allotted for questioning this morning. From the transcript...

Mr. Secretary, the behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable and un-American. It deserves the apology that you have given today and that have been given by others in high positions in our government and our military.

I cannot help but say, however, that those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on September 11th, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq working to liberate Iraq and protect our security have never apologized.

And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never received an apology from anybody.

So it's part of -- wrongs occurred here, by the people in those pictures and perhaps by people up the chain of command.

But Americans are different. That's why we're outraged by this. That's why the apologies were due.

Others were trying their best to make a bad situation even worse. Ted Kennedy was disgraceful and Robert Byrd is an embarrassment who needs to be put out to pasture, both were petty and led their questioning with statements that were either completely ignorant or utterly dishonest... neither is stupid. Their partisan bickering is going to harm the Democrats in the end. In playing to the dramatic sound bite and ignoring the facts; in treating this abuse scandal as if it was a Sixty Minutes news scoop instead of a many-months long criminal investigation brought to light by good conscientious soldiers; in trying to score some cheap political points instead of working to ensure this type of aberrant immoral behavior doesn’t happen again.

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Anticipating a New Book

Phyllis Chesler, author of The New Anti-Semitism, has written a column introducing an unpublished book by "Minnesota based psychoanalyst and Arabist, Dr. Nancy Kobrin." I'm already looking forward to reading The Sheik's New Clothes: the Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Suicide Terrorism. Here's a sampling of what Ms. Chesler finds noteworthy:

Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.

According to Dr. Kobrin, "The little girl lives her life under a communal death threat - the honor killing." Both male and female infants and children are brought up by mothers (who are debased and traumatized women). As such, all children are forever psychologically "contaminated" by the humiliated yet all-powerful mother. Arab and Muslim boys must disassociate themselves from her in spectacularly savage ways. But, on a deep unconscious level, they may also wish to remain merged with the source of contamination - a conflict that suicide bombers both act out and resolve when they manfully kill but also merge their blood eternally with that of their presumably most hated enemies, the Israeli Jews. In Kobrin's view, the Israeli Jews may actually function as substitutes or scapegoats for an even more primal, hated/loved enemy: Woman.

Widespread child sexual abuse leads to paranoid, highly traumatized, and revenge-seeking adults. Based on my own experience in Afghanistan (a non-Arab, Muslim culture), a polygamous, patriarchal culture also leads to an infernal, fraternal competition for paternal favor and inheritance. It is brother against brother, full brothers against half-brothers, full and half brothers against first cousins - and thus, can entire families and clans remain locked in revenge-fueled mortal combat for generations.

Depravity is an appropriate word to describe this form of Arab culture.


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May 06, 2004
What she said...

Here is a straightforward and simple observation by Dawn Olsen about the idgits accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners. I am insulted by the lame excuse being proffered by the schmucks, who shamed all of us, in their effort avoid responsibility. Dawn gets to the essence and shows us why it's such an utterly stupid defense.

You know what, I am "not properly trained" to take care of children (I still need abuse training, CPR and some other "official" crap) but no one needed to tell me "Oh, by the way Dawn, don't molest, beat, threaten (I might do that sometimes) or in any way violate the children's basic human rights." I mean, I guess I just figured that was common sense.


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May 05, 2004
UN's Zero Credibility

BFD. What does it matter that the US Representative walked out of the meeting which confirmed Sudan's Election to the UN's Commission on Human Rights Commission? Really, what does it matter? Does the UN as a whole have ANY credibility left?

We ought to withdraw ALL support from the UN until they move their Headquarters to Khartoum or, as Paul Johnson wrote for Forbes back in January, maybe the UN would be better placed in Dar es Salaam... Either way, it's time the United States embarks on a profound re-evaluation of our support for and our relationship to, the United Nations. For the UN has become

has become a mere theater of empty rhetoric and shameless deals supporting a growing tide of anti-Semitism and racism and--let us not be mealymouthed--state crime. It is a place where near-bankrupt dictatorships can sell their votes to the highest bidder.
Again, I go back to Paul Johnson’s suggestions earlier this year…

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May 04, 2004
7 3 3

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Ten year old Joe William Sheffield, is suffering from Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. I heard about him on the local news last night. His church is using an innovative way to boost his spirits and to let him know that people all over the world have him in their prayers... and all of the attention is obvioulsy boosting his spirits.

They put up a web page and they gave him a pager. The number is toll free: 877-546-0248. If you call it, and leave the numeric message, 7 - 3 - 3 (7 letters in Praying, 3 in For and 3 in You), "Joe William knows he's definitely not going through his cancer alone. "


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More on the Murder of the Hatuels

Yesterday I asked, "Does anyone care?" maybe the question should have been framed differently. Maybe I should have asked, "What if this was a French [non-Jewish] family in Paris?" or, "What if this had been an Arab family in Jenin?" How different would the world's press coverage have been if the mother and her 4 children, ages 2 – 11, had not been Jews? Or worse… what if it had been an Israeli shooting an Arab family? How quickly would the Security Council have met to condemn Israel? How many columns and articles and interviews in the New York Times and the Guardian and the BBC and NPR would we have seen and heard?

I think it's clear that had the shooters been Israeli soldiers and the victims a Palestinian family, millions of righteously indignant protesters would have hit the streets and the airwaves calling for the capture and punishment of the murderers and, no doubt, the immediate dismantling of "the Zionist entity."

They do that when a Palestinian civilian gets unintentionally caught in the crossfire. They do it when actual gunmen and terrorists are killed. They do it when fences are constructed to keep the killers out. They do it when terrorists' houses — their houses, not their families — are destroyed. They do not do it when defenseless Jewish women and children are gunned down in the street.

There are only a limited number of explanations for this — none of them very pleasant

Go read the rest of Rachel Raskin-Zrihen's article.

What you might not notice is how the rest of the world expects the Arabs to act as murderous barbarians. It's not news when Arabs slaughter, at point blank range, a two year old girl and her 3 sisters and her pregnant mother. That sort of behavior is expected and ACCEPTED out of Arabs. It is absolutely sickening and utterly depressing that these people are coddled by the left and by much of the West as the modern day Noble Savage.

Continuing with Raskin-Zrihen...

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posted by oceanguy 10:28 AM in |
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May 03, 2004
Does anyone care?

Dave observes "It must be a busy news day" when the outrageously brutal murder of a mother and her four young girls barely gets a mention in the NYT. In fact the Times simply refers to the gruesome tragedy in an offhand way. In a story about Sharon’s defeat in the Likud referendum on the Gaza pull-out, the Times makes their only mention of 4 little girls being murdered, at close range, along with their mother after their car had been immobilized. Here is the NY Times in an aside on their referendum report:

Sunday's voting was marred by violence. Palestinian gunmen killed a pregnant Gaza settler and her four daughters, ages two to 11, in an ambush on her car as she was en route from Gaza to Israel. Israel killed four Palestinian militants in the West Bank and destroyed a Hamas-affiliated radio station in Gaza in missile strikes.
Gunmen… I guess some would think that’s preferable to militant or freedom-fighter, but the message is the same.

According to the Times, Tali Hatuel was a settler, on her way to Israel. In other words we are meant to believe that SHE was an intruder. We are led to believe that the act was just a part of the general violence of the day with Israel balancing things out by killing four militants in the West Bank... Tit for Tat, the Times would have us believe… might they even want their readers to conclude that “she deserved what she got?” The reporting is disgraceful.

CNN followed a similar line, but their version is even more curious. The fact that a CNN crew was directly involved in the incident in which the Hatuel family was murdered certainly seems newsworthy.

CNN said the Palestinian terrorists opened fire on one of its film crews working near Gush Katif in Gaza.

The CNN crew said that after fleeing the terrorists, they attempted to warn and stop unsuspecting Israeli civilian vehicles leaving Gush Katif in the direction of the terrorists. They did not successfully stop the mother and four daughters who drove past the armored CNN vehicle and were subsequently gunned down by the terrorists.

But, curiously, CNN’s report makes no mention of it and instead, alludes to a similar state of moral equivalence that the Times paints for us. By telling the story as a sub-head to their “Four Militants Killed in West Bank” headline they make it seem as a retaliatory attack. Again, tying events together in one story as if they are related. They are not. The effect is as insulting as it is false.

Shooting a helpless woman and her four young children at close range is an horrific crime. It’s outrageous to make any comparison of these ghastly murders to any military operations against terrorists. Shame on you New York Times and CNN.


posted by oceanguy 11:55 AM in |
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Depravity among palestinian Arabs

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This week it was 4 young girls and their pregnant mother. Not long ago another depraved palestinian Arab killed a mother and her two young boys as she read them a bedtime story. A month ago a murdering Arab snuck into a home in the middle of the night and slaughtered a father protecting his 14 yr old daughter... There have been many similar attacks.

Shai says this latest bit of terror is unrivalled in it's villainy... maybe it is. It's hard to argue that it isn't when two murders shoot up a car, then approach it to execute any survivors at close range and they find a mother and her four daughters. Nothing but hate could allow men to look those young girls in the eyes and shoot them. What sort of society produces and nurtures such hatred? What sort of society shows such a callous disregard for the value of life?

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