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Iran and syria are at it again

Lebanaon looks set to explode. Again.

Clashes broke out in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley today as rival factions prepared for what many in the country feared would be a bloody showdown between the Government and the Shia group, Hezbollah.

At least one person was killed when fighting broke out in a mixed Sunni and Shia neighbourhood near the Bekaa town of Chtaura as supporters of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement fought partisans of the pro-Government Future Movement.

(Note from Markos: Can somebody please find an angle to Blame Boosh™ for this? It’s patently obvious that the criminal invasion of Iraq by the crusaders and occupiers has stirred up this unpleasantness in a region where peace and tranquility have otherwise reigned for centuries. Please pass on approved progressive responses to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean).

Uh-oh! Methinks perchance Messrs Carter and Obama are needed to smooth things through with a bit of hope and, errrm, some change, and some talking to enemies, and stuff.

Last night, Sheikh Rashid Qabbani, the Sunni mufti of Lebanon, delivered unusually harsh criticism of Hezbollah, describing the party as an “armed gang of outlaws that have carried out the ugliest attacks against the citizens and their safety”.

An armed gang of outlaws! WHAT???? These people are legitimately-elected representatives of the people!! Or perhaps he’s absolutely right, and the scales are falling from the eyes of the people regarding radical Islamism - Lebanon could actually become, together with Iraq, a bulwark in the fight against these barbaric savages, if they tough it out and destroy the rag-tag gangs who actually do the fighting (Hezbollah will of course deploy their very own Comical Ali to hail the great military victories of their street thugs, all the while downplaying the actuality of Lebanese troops shooting them like fish in a barrel).

The Higher Shiite Council, the leading authority for Lebanese Shia, today accused the Government of “bias” and blaming it for triggering the crisis.

Triggering it by not capitulating to the threats of a bunch of seventh-century hoodlums, one assumes?

But Marwan Hamade, the Minister of Telecommunications, told The Times that the Government had no intention of rescinding its decisions.

“Hezbollah has unmasked itself. It is not a resistance movement, but a militia trying to take power in Lebanon,” he said.

Quite so, old chap, quite so. The only part you need to add is ‘funded by a pencil-necked weirdo and a grinning midget psychopath from the Axis of Evil’.

Courage, as a proven fabulist once said.

Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust are from April 27 - May 2.

The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to those victims. In accordance with its Congressional mandate, the Museum is responsible for leading the nation in commemorating the Days of Remembrance, and for encouraging and sponsoring appropriate observances throughout the United States.

Holocaust Remembrance Day this year is Friday, May 2 in the US.

Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day that has been set aside for remembering the victims of the Holocaust and for reminding Americans of what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred and indifference reign. The United States Holocaust Memorial Council, created by act of Congress in 1980, was mandated to lead the nation in civic commemorations and to encourage appropriate Remembrance observances throughout the country. Observances and Remembrance activities can occur during the week of Remembrance that runs from the Sunday before through the Sunday after the actual date.

In Israel, Yom Hashoah will be celebrated on Thursday (so as not to conflict with the Jewish Sabbath).

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It is a solemn day, beginning at sunset on the 27th of the month of Nisan and ending the following evening, according to the traditional Jewish custom of marking a day. Places of entertainment are closed and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country. The central ceremonies, in the evening and the following morning, are held at Yad Vashem and are broadcast on the television. Marking the start of the day-in the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, gather together with the general public to take part in the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem in which six torches, representing the six million murdered Jews, are lit. The following morning, the ceremony at Yad Vashem begins with the sounding of a siren for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the sounding, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust.

Thank you President Carter

Jimmy Carter loves thugs and dictators. If you regularly violate human rights and torture, murder, maim, imprison or otherwise destroy ordinary people then by all means, President Carter is your friend. He decides that since Hamas is so good at this, he would go chat with them to see how he can help them feel good about themselves.

Now, I really haven’t seen much of this in the news about Carter’s trip to see Hamas and it really isn’t surprising that the news media is ignoring it. Here’s why: Earlier this week, Carter defended his trip to see Hamas. He said he failed to convince them to stop shelling Hamas for a month. Note, not stop shelling period, no, just for a month. So it’s ok to kill Jews, as long as you wait a month? Is that it Mr. Carter?

So when Carter got there, they negotiate and agree to peace for 10 years as long as Israel agrees to the pre-war borders. Carter comes out and announces a big win. However, during the very next meeting, Hamas launches the biggest attack in about 5 years. Killing 3 soldiers and hurting a child. They did this is during the meeting, while Carter is sitting there with the top terrorist. He was totally oblivious to what is happening. Hamas then comes out and contradicts everything Carter said after the first meeting.

That’s not the worst of Carter’s woes. Hamas, as you know, is a puppet of Iran. What do you think led the Iranian news (and news stations all through the Middle East) that night. Carter, shaking hands with Mr. Hamas-boss super-imposed with the details of the new attack. Carter was used. He was pulled off the roll, used to wipe and then flushed. Carter, by virtue of being an ex pres, has credibility. When he is seen with a group like Hamas, he gives them legitimacy. He gives them the pictures they need to coerce people. “The U.S. is on OUR side, you better obey or you’ll disappear with their blessings”. Carter either didn’t realize this or he didn’t care. The State Dept has a study that shows that terrorist groups like to launch their biggest attacks while “negotiating” for peace. It was standard operating procedure here and Carter swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Carter was reduced to a stammering “I did my best, yada yada yada…” and looks like a complete fool.

So, why do I say thank you to him? Why has the news media pretty much ignored this? Simple. Barack Obama says he wants to negotiate with Hamas. He says he’ll meet with them without pre-conditions. Thank you Jimmy Carter. You just showed us what the real world does to a hippie fantasy. We can now point at your abject failure to show what a failure Obama WILL be. His biggest foreign policy plank, meet with people that we used to refuse to meet with, is now toast. Every time he suggests it, we can hang Carter around his neck and sink him. This hippie “sing cumbaya and talk” junk does not work with thugs. We knew that. Now, more people will know it too. We just need to keep reminding them. So thank you President Carter. You showed what a fool you are, and by extension, what a fool Obama is.

Terrorists for Obama

Now here’s an endorsement Obama can be proud of:

… the Hamas terrorist organization has expressed the “hope” that Senator Barack Hussein Obama will win the presidential elections and change America’s foreign policy.

Even though Obama has said that he would not meet with Hamas unless it renounces violence and recognizes Israel, or becomes the recognized leadership of the Palestinians — he has no qualms about holding talks with the leadership of Iran, Syria, and North Korea — that doesn’t seem to bother the Hamas leadership.

“We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections,” Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with World Net Daily and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York.

He saw Obama’s comments about Hamas as political posturing that was understandable to lull supporters of Israel before the election.

“I understand American politics and this is the season for elections and everybody tries to sound like he’s a friend of the Israelis,” he said. All that would change if Obama would get elected. “I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse….

But I bet you won’t see that in your morning paper.

Jimmy Carter honors Yasser Arafat

He doesn’t even pretend that he doesn’t support terrorists any more, I guess. So progressive of him to lay a wreath at Arafat’s grave.

Read more from Nice Deb.

jimmy Carter and hamas

It’s no wonder Carter is reportedly planning (along with Manbearpig) to endorse Barack Obama if Hillary doesn’t “step down”–they both have a special place in their hearts for the scum who want to “push Israel into the sea.”

Barack Obama refuses to criticize Jimmy Carter’s meeting with Hamas. Is it because Carter may soon endorse him or because Obama once helped fund an organization opposed to Israel’s existence?

Think Dhimmi Carter is a great guy? You’ll looove Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama: Friends of “palestine!”

Meanwhile, Gay Patriot has sounded the call to contact your Senators asking them to censure Jimmy Carter.

Including his term in office, but mostly after, Carter has a history of actions intended to undermine and destroy the United States of America. His meeting this week with Hamas should be the last straw for those who believe in this nation.

I’m all over it. I’d say unless your Senator is named Barack Obama, you should too (Obama would be a waste of a phone call or email).

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Jimmy Carter to meet with Hamas (!)

Ex-Presidents For Genocide!

NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

If there were ever any doubt as to where Carter stands on terrorism vs. Israel–and for that matter, the West in general, including us–this ought to settle it. Hamas? I shouldn’t be surprised, but HAMAS? A former President of the United States is going to legitmize this?

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ”

“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”

THAT is Hamas. What next, Hizb’allah? I’m sure he’d have no problem meeting and chumming around with the mullahs in Iran; after all, at least they are a recognized government by the civilized world (unfortunately).

How about Osama Bin Laden next? Oh wait…then he might be asked to tell where Bin Laden is, and that might be too much to ask of Jimmy Carter.

No wonder Carter hearts Obama.

stein hoist Story and pic via LindaSoG, who’s got a companion “guess who” with it.

UPDATE: James Taranto nails it:

This is par for the course for Carter, who has spent decades trying to undermine American foreign policy and won a Nobel Peace Prize for it. It reminds us of one reason we’re uneasy about the idea of electing Barack Obama, who has made much of his desire to meet with hostile foreign rulers and has given us no reason to think he will take a hard line with them, à la Reagan with Gorbachev.

America elected Jimmy Carter 32 years ago and is still paying the price. Suppose history repeats: Obama wins and has a failed one-term presidency. Will he be jetting around the world meeting with terrorists and despots and denouncing America in 2040? Maybe not, but the thought gives us a shudder.

Together4Israel

Together4Israel

Go to http://www.together4israel.org and join the largest ever online rally in support of those living under fire in Israel. Show your solidarity with the residents of Sderot, Ashkelon and other towns living under the constant threat of terrorism. Go to Together4Israel.org on March 20, 2008 at 5 p.m. EST and help make history, together with 1,000,000 fellow supporters. Visit today to sign up for a reminder email or SMS, and to pledge to attend.

The Together4Israel webcast schedule is here; speakers include (among others) Natan Sharansky, Elie Wiesel, and Alan Dershowitz. Additionally, “throughout the presentation, remarks from Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama regarding Sderot will be presented.”

stein hoist Daled Amos

ROP™ Palestine Branch office

I’d be sorely tempted to destroy a town, after 24 hours notice-to-vacate, of course.

Hamas militants have claimed responsibility for the murder of eight young students at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem yesterday.

An official from the Palestinian Islamist movement said: “The Hamas movement announces its full responsibility for the Jerusalem operation. The movement will release the details at a later stage.”

A Hamas radio presenter backed up the claim. He said the group’s military wing had “promised a jolting response” to this week’s violence in the Gaza Strip in which more than 120 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military, many of them in the northern Gaza town Jebaliya

And the Israeli attack was IN RESPONSE TO INDISCRIMINATE HAMAS ROCKET ATTACKS into Israeli towns.

The attacker, who was said to have worked as a driver at the school, carried both an automatic rifle and a pistol, and used both as he entered through a main gate and then strode toward the library.

He was eventually shot dead by an Israeli army officer who lived nearby and ran to the school when he heard gunfire. Police found six emptied ammunition clips on the school floor after the attack.

How many more kids would have been killed if an armed citizen hadn’t intervened?

I hope Israel reacts with overwhelming force; Hamas are a bunch of gangsters, nothing more.

Helpless Palestinians suffering worst crisis since 1967

And it’s all because of those Jooooooz.

LONDON (Reuters) - Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has created the worst humanitarian crisis since the Israeli occupation began in 1967, aid and rights groups said on Thursday.

Food shortages, crumbling health services and a water and sewage system close to collapse are all part of the daily misery facing 1.5 million Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, a report by a coalition of British relief groups said.

About two thirds of the way into this story we learn of a possible reason for the Israeli ‘blockade’:

A senior U.N. official warned the dire conditions outlined in the report would be worsened by any escalation of Israeli military action in response to indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza.

Errrrrr. So the Israelis will be to blame for the situation if they escalate their response to indiscriminate rocket attacks. (Which garner absolutely no condemnation from any of the assorted do-gooders and terror-apologists quoted by Reuters. The rocket attacks are not the problem. The Israeli response is the problem).

“It’s grossly disproportional,” Geoffry Binder, an expert on international humanitarian law in London, told Reuters.

“What we’re dealing with here is a few rockets coming from presumably one small corner of Gaza. And the response is the blockade and the destruction of hundreds of lives and the impoverishment of the whole area.”

I wonder how Mr. Binder would feel if these ‘few rockets’ were landing on his wife and kids.

An Absence of Hope

Nineteen months after the kidnapping of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev by the Lebanese Hezbollah, there has been a dramatic shift in the negotiations for their return. Until now, the Israeli government assumed that at least one and perhaps even both of the soldiers survived the Shiite militia’s attack on their border patrol on July 12, 2006. But intelligence information suggests that this assumption was wrong (more…). According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, Jerusalem has now concluded that the two soldiers are dead.

Even in the absence of unequivocal evidence, the negotiators have already abandoned hope. Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is hesitant to publicly pronounce Goldwasser and Regev dead. It would be a bitter setback for Olmert, who defined the return of the soldiers as the objective of the Lebanon war in the summer of 2006.

Back in July of 2007, it was reported that at least one of them were dead, and it was denied by Nasrallah. No one cared then, and no one will care now, as no one cared when we suffered through reports that Gilad Shalit was gravely injured and in need of medical attention.

Nineteen months. Amazing how time marches on, while the world pressures Israel to make concessions to these terrorists even as it turns its back on Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev, indifferent as to whether they are alive, or dead. I look at the remains of their humvee, and I wonder.

Were they alive when captured, were they injured? And if so, who treated their injuries, what medicines were they given by the animals who took them? I look at that humvee, and I believe that they were injured, and I know that they were likely just bandaged up and left to live or die on their own. If they were alive, or are alive, every additional day of captivity makes it more likely that they will never be free.

Their lives matter only to those who love them. To the terrorists, they are pawns, bargaining chips. To their country, they are an inconvenience. And to the rest of the world, their lives mean nothing. I hope and I pray for them, but I expect the worst, and with good reason. Their names and their faces had already faded from the news, and soon, the world will forget they ever existed, as they have forgotten other Israeli soldiers who have disappeared into the hands of terrorists, never to be seen or heard from again:

Three soldiers, captured by terrorists during a battle with Syrian and Palestinian forces near the Lebanese village of Sultan Yaqub. June 11, 1982. Twenty-five years ago, over 9,000 days.

Two soldiers captured with them were released in prisoner exchanges with Syria and Achmed Jibril’s PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command). Every once in a while, their names come up (including the 1988 Amnesty International Report and the 1993 Amnesty International December Update) but reports are conflicting and nothing is verifiable. Zachary Baumel is an American citizen.

Israeli air-force navigator Ron Arad was taken captive after his F-4 Phantom warplane went down over Lebanon. October 16, 1982. Twenty-four years ago, over 8,000 days.

Ron Arad was taken captive by Amal, a Lebanese Shi’ite militia group lead by Nabih Berri, who today is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. In 1987, Arad’s family received several letters and a photo of Arad confirming that the missing navigator was alive and in Amal’s hands. Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then “sold” Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran. But these reports cannot be verified.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad, although I have my own thoughts on that.

Guy Hever, a soldier in the Israeli Army who was reportedly last seen standing at the Katzabiya junction, just a kilometer away from the Syrian border. He disappeared, and has not been heard of since. August 17, 1997. Ten years ago, over 3,500 days.

Does anyone remember these men today? Sadly, no, most people don’t remember them, if they ever knew about them in the first place. Disappearing Jews don’t make headlines. And if you notice where that link goes, well, its not anything in the mainstream media. Even dead Jews don’t make headlines.

Cross-posted at Something… and Half of Something

Another one bites the dust! Imad Mughniyeh is finally DEAD

This one’s been a long time coming. Damn, this is good news! Imad Mughniyeh is one hell of a big ugly fish, and I’m only sorry that he didn’t die a more slow, painful death. Let him suffer the worst pits of hell for each of his victims.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Imad Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of dramatic attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks that killed hundreds of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, has died in a car bomb in Syria, Iranian state media and a Syrian rights group said Wednesday.

The Islamic militant group Hezbollah and its Iranian backers blamed Israel for the killing. Israel denied involvement.

Hezbollah did not say how or where Mughniyeh was killed. But Iranian state television and the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said he died in a car bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday night.

Hezbollah’s announcement of the death came a few hours after a late night explosion in Damascus destroyed a vehicle. Witnesses in the Syrian capital said at the time that a passerby was killed as security forces sealed off the area and removed the body. But authorities there would not give details.

“Blamed Israel.” Typical. I pray it was Israel getting justice for their victims of his pure evil.
Don’t remember this particular specimen of Islamotard terrorist? I know you’ll recognize this sociopath’s work.

[I]n September 1999, Argentinian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Imad Fayez Mughniyeh (alias ‘Hajji’), a top Hizbullah security official in the 1980s and alleged leader of a sub-group called Islamic Jihad, in connection with the 1992 embassy bombing. He was later indicted for the AMIA atrocity as well.

Mughniyeh, a Lebanese Shi‘a Muslim, was indicted by the US in 1985 for the hijacking of a TWA airliner in which a US Navy diver was killed. He is also suspected of being behind a whole host of other attacks in the 1980s, including the kidnapping and murder of CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut in 1984, as well as suicide bombings of the US embassy and a US marine barracks in which some 300 people perished. Mughniyeh and some of his associates were named in the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list after the events of 11 September. His present whereabouts are unknown, although he is said to have undergone extensive plastic surgery to disguise his appearance.

Additionally, Bill Roggio wrote at the Counterterrorism Blog during the 2006 war in Lebanon about Mughniyeh:

At the outbreak of war between Israel and Hezbollah, I reported Imad Fayez Mugniyah, Hezbollah’s military commander, was likely behind the operation to snatch the Israeli soldiers, and documented Hezbollah and Mugniyah’s links to Iran and historical involvement in international terrorism. Dr. Magnus Ranstorp explained Hezbollah’s command structure and decision making processes, Mugniyah’s likely involvement with the capture of the Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah’s links to Iran and Hamas.

On Saturday, the Jerusalem Post reported on Mugniyah’s involvement in the current conflict and his past history with Fatah and in Hezbollah. Mugniyah is fingered as the likely operative “behind the abduction of the two IDF soldiers on July 12″ as well as “in charge of Hizbullah’s rocket unit in south Lebanon.”

And that’s not all. Fausta mentions his activities in Argentina:

Mughniyeh is also believed to have been behind the 1992 bombing of Israel’s embassy in Argentina in which 29 people were killed, and the blast at a Buenos Aires Jewish center two years later that killed 95.

Recently Argentina has been investigating the 1994 explosion, which is the largest terrorist attack ever staged in Latin America against a Jewish group.

This piece of shit was one of the mere handful of worst of the worst. Twenty-five years we’ve been waiting for this scumbag to get put down. Twenty-five years. I remember those days of terrorism in Beirut like it was just yesterday–after the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, that period probably had the greatest impact of all on my overall view of the world geopolitics–even more than the Cold War. Imad Mughniyeh is essentially Osama bin Laden without the recruiting tool of the internets; his activity was likely an inspiration to Bin Laden himself, not to mention countless other terrorists. His death comes 25 years too late for the lives lost, but finally, he’s dead.

More about Imad Fayez Mugniyeh from:
* Counterterrorism expert Dan Darling (from 2006)
* Counterterrorism Blog
* DEBKA; also note that they tie Mughniyeh to Moqtada al-Sadr’s war on Americans in Iraq, as do terrorism analysts Jonathan Schanzer and Dan Darling.

Imad Fayez Mughniyeh

Self-loathing stupid Israeli moonbat of the day

Liberals are stupid. It doesn’t matter where they are. They’re just stupid.

Today’s stupid liberal joins us from Israel, where she has written a Doctoral thesis positing reasons for the low incidence of rape by IDF soldiers. The reason is that they’re racists, and see Palestinian women as beneath them.

This remarkable conclusion could only be reached by a stupid liberal. It’s pretty impressive stuff, even by the laughably low standards that stupid liberals normally follow.

The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: “In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organized military rape would have done.”

So raping strengthens ethnic boundaries, and so does not raping? How does that work, Professor?

The paper further theorizes that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are de-humanized in the soldiers’ eyes.

Here’s an alternative theory: The IDF don’t rape Palestinians on a widespread basis because it is comprised of average law-abiding Israelis that would consider raping anybody abhorrent. Maybe?

Go and read it, it’s pitiful.

NIE - unreliable crap or Holy Writ? They report we deride.

I’ve got a whole lot more confidence that the Israelis know what Iran is up to than the idiots in Washington DC.

And the Israelis are calling yesterday’s bizarre NIE a steaming pile of nonsense (the same NIE which in 2005 said that Iran was busying herself making nukes, but now says they quit two years prior to that. So the NIE was wrong then and right now, or right then and wrong now? How can we have any confidence in it?).

“We have a lot of very clear and solid intelligence, that to my best understanding, clearly shows that the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons today, as they did two years ago. This is not a matter of speculation, but this is about solid intelligence.”

I have a basic rule that I apply to matters of military practice, dealing with terrorists, security policies and the like:

When in doubt, go with the Israelis.

“The Americans apparently came to their conclusions on the basis of human intelligence,” he said, mentioning Gen. Ali Reza Asghari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister who defected to the West in February.

For those who would base their assessment of a WMD threat on the say-so of one person I have two words: Ahmed Chalabi.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Twenty-nine-year old Ido Zoldan of Shavei Shomron was murdered on November 19, 2007 in a terror attack, leaving behind his wife Tehila and his children, three-year-old Aharon and one-year-old Rachel.

Ido Zoldan and his family were putting their lives together after being expelled from their home in the community of Homesh during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza.

Who killed him?

Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah terrorist branch, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it carried out the attack to demonstrate its opposition to the Annapolis conference.

But, earlier today in Israel, the news was released that one day after the terror attack, the IDF arrested three “Palestinian policemen” for the murder of Ido Zoldan, two of them confessed, and they picked up the third.

So. They waited a week before telling us who was behind this murder, obviously to avoid any negative press before Annapolis, so Condi Rice could sit down and schmooze with Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the most active and evil terrorist group in the world.

And… in case you are wondering, yes, these would be the same “Palestinian policemen” that the United States of America has armed and trained to kill, using our tax dollars to support terrorism.