Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience dies http://www.hurryupharry.org/ Brett, February 24th 2010, 12:00 pm According to The Guardian: Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 42, one of Amnesty International’s “prisoners of conscienceâ€, was so emaciated he was almost unrecognisable when he died at a prison hospital in Havana. Jailed in 2003 during a political crackdown, he is the first dissident […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE 02/23/2010 04:58 PM Targeted Killing in Dubai A Mossad Operation Gone Awry? The assassination of Hamas functionary Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is widely believed to have been the work of the Mossad. But why would Israel’s legendary intelligence service allow the identity of its agents to be compromised? The affair looks set to damage the […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/ Â No longer Londonistan but Hamastan Wednesday, 24th February 2010 An immensely important and chilling analysis by the authoritative Intelligence and Analysis Information Centre in Tel Aviv highlights the shocking extent to which Britain has become the European epicentre of Hamas activity. Hamas, let us remind ourselves, is the genocidal terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organisation, […]
Updated: Wed., Feb. 24, 2010, 5:18 AM Baring the Bam myth By MICHAEL GOODWIN Last Updated: 5:18 AM, February 24, 2010 Posted: 4:47 AM, February 24, 2010 Something very good al ready has happened as a result of President Obama’s strange entry into the health-care sweepstakes. Think of it as the death of a myth. […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2010/02/24/obamas_terrorist-shielding_envoy_to_the_muslim_world On Feb. 20, 2003, Professor Sami Al-Arian of the University of South Florida was arrested by the Department of Justice for his leadership of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist organization. Al-Arian was a radical supporter of Islamic terrorism, a man who announced at rallies that he sought “victory to Islam” and “death […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/02/24/corruptocrat_eric_holders_national_security_cover-up Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s National Security Cover-Up Michelle Malkin Wednesday, February 24, 2010 The White House wants to play Transparency Olympics with the Tea Party movement. President Obama’s Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin dared Tea Party activists and conservatives last week to “push the administration to make its policies more open” and make it a […]
More Than a Hero Posted by Robert Spencer on Feb 24th, 2010 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/24/more-than-a-hero/ Â I said it at the Geert Wilders event at CPAC 2009, and it is still an accurate observation: we live in such a cheap and tawdry age that all one needs to do to be a hero is tell the truth […]
The “Peace Partners†Who Never Were http://frontpagemag.com/2010/02/24/an-attempt-to-unify-palestinian-terror/ Joe Kaufman On February 14th, all of the major Palestinian terrorist factions met at the offices of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for peace talks. But this was not about peace with the Israelis. No, this was a meeting to reconcile differences, in order […]
I hate to disagree with my e-pal David Hornik but the following passage is terribly wrong: “Tentatively, after almost a year in office, Netanyahu can be described as handling the Palestinian situation artfully: positioning himself as a perceived moderate by expressing openness to the idea of a Palestinian state, while hedging such a hypothetical state […]
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 When It Comes to Analyzing the Middle East, We Live in the Age of Idiocy By Barry Rubin After more than 30 years of watching people write dumb things about the Middle East, I believe that in the last month I’ve seen more nonsense than at any previous time. The problem […]