The “Flying Imams” Want What???
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If you thought you’d heard the last of the notorious “Flying Imams” you were just plain wrong. It seems there trial is now in the discovery phase and what the Imams are asking for might make your heart skip a beat.
I don’t have the strength to rehash the “Flying Imams” case point by point so you’ll just have to read about it. Suffice it to say that a group of disgruntled Imams represented by the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trouble with a capital T. As we’ve reported numerous times, the Justice Department has said repeatedly that CAIR is affiliated with Hamas.
So imagine the shock when attorney and CAIR President asked the court for this:
Omar Mohammedi, attorney for the imams, and President of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, went first. His motion was for the judge, Arthur Boylan, to compel US Airways to divulge its training manuals, and information on its security procedures, so that they could show that the security procedures were not followed down to the last jot and tittle when the imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on November 20, 2006.
That ladies and gentlemen is chutzpah in its purest form. Only in America could a group of Imams led by a Hamas linked organization demand the security and training manuals for a U.S. airline and do so with a straight face.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip to LGF)
Palestinian Activist Talks About The Obama He Used To Know
Jimmy Carter Shows How Much He Hates The Jews–Again
For the second time in recent weeks, honorary Palestinian militant and former President, Jimmy Carter, opined about Mid-East peace and offered his own foreign policy.
While in the Welsh border town of Hay to attend the Guardian literary festival, Carter told the Guardian that Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza.
He described the EU’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as “supine” and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as “embarrassing”.
He also called on the EU to reassess its position on Hamas if the terrorist group agrees to a cease-fire.
Carter never misses an opportunity to criticize Israel and carry water for Hamas. I really think the old man has lost it. Hamas is one of the most vicious terrorist groups on earth, and a former President of the United States hugs these people and constantly shills for them.
Never mind the constant rocket attacks on Israeli civilians or the 4-ton truck bomb that detonated at the border with Gaza instead of Israel thanks to an alert Israeli soldier.
For Carter it’s all about peace and negotiation and hugs, but Carter doesn’t live in the real world. That’s why he allowed Iran to make a mockery of America while he was President.
When President Bush spoke of appeasement while in Israel recently, he was speaking about Jimmy Carter. Carter has shown himself to be the world’s biggest appeaser time and time again.
-Chris Jones
Palestinian Terrorist Detonates 4-Ton Truck Bomb At Gaza Border Crossing
It looks like Jimmy Carter’s favorite “partners in peace” are up to their old tricks again! A Palestinian terrorist tried to cross into Israel from Gaza, but was stopped by alert Israeli soldiers.
Israeli soldiers fired on the vehicle as it approached the border crossing at which point the driver detonated the truck. The resulting blast could be heard 18 miles away, but thankfully only the would-be killer died.
Two other men allegedly involved in the attack were intercepted by Israeli helicopters and killed in an air strike as they fled in their getaway vehicle.
Had that truck bomb entered Israel and detonated in a public place, the result would have been devastating. A 4-ton truck bomb would have killed hundreds of people and leveled a city block. These are the killers and assassins that Jimmy Carter hugs and talks of peace with.
-Chris Jones
Obama’s Hamas Problem
Contrary to what ‘Obamaniacs’ will tell you about Barack Obama’s long and distinguished record of public service, Barack Obama has a record so thin its practically translucent. So suffice it to say that the only thing you can do to try and understand a man with no record is to look at his associates, friends, “spiritual advisors”, and even acquaintances.
So it should not be particularly shocking that Republicans and even a few Democrats find it curious that Barack Obama keeps his pro-Israel/anti-Hamas rhetoric strong in public, then quietly fires an adviser for engaging in private direct-talks with Hamas, hopefully to avoid embarrassment if word of the talks leaked.
Just as Obama has sought to distance himself from his insane pastor, the Obama campaign is now distancing itself from the freshly fired adviser. They argue that he was merely an “informal” adviser who never even met with Barack Obama.
But as Philip Klein points out, it’s certainly not far-fetched to believe that Barack Obama would engage in direct talks with the murdering thugs of Hamas. He has after all made his intentions to meet with Iran, Syria, and the rest of our hated enemies quite clear, so why not a terrorist organization as well?
It’s an ugly fact that the American left which Barack Obama is to the left of, believe America’s support for Israel is misguided and that we should instead tilt our policies towards the Palestinians.
Philip Klein writes in The American Spectator about some of Barack Obama’s associations with well known anti-Israel figures over the last 10 years.
It’s pretty hard to imagine that a student of the far-left like Barack Obama wouldn’t have pro-Palestinian leanings.
Let me be clear, I’m not in any way insinuating that Barack Obama is an anti-Semite or a racist, but I am insinuating that he disagrees with America’s undying support for the Jewish state.
I think as this political race drags on, it will become more and more clear that Barack Obama believes in the Jimmy Carter narrative about the Middle East. That narrative being that Israel is a vicious country that oppresses and occupies the land of poor Palestinian people.
When the truth is that the Palestinians have built a society that is devoid of compassion or morality and instead traffics in hate and terrorism. Palestinian children are taught from birth to hate Jews and kill them wherever and whenever an opportunity presents itself.
We don’t really know anything about this guy Barack Obama. We know he used to be a liberal State Senator, who used his relationship with his nutty pastor to gain street cred in Chicago’s southside, and earned the respect of liberal elites by getting chummy with terrorist William Ayers. All these unseemly associations earned him the votes needed for a U.S. Senate seat, and now he wants to be President.
About the only thing we know about Obama’s intentions are his plans to “change the politics in Washington” whatever that means. Oh, and he promises that “yes we can,” which could mean many things.
Yes we can…talk to Hamas, yes we can…stop supporting Israel, yes we can…(fill in the blank).
So for the time being we can add ’support for Israel’ as another big question mark in a long line of question marks when it comes to the ambitious young Senator from Illinois.
All the ducking and weaving by his campaign instead answering questions about who he is and what he believes was enough to get him the nomination, but it’s not gonna be enough to get him to the White House.
-Chris Jones
Hamas Reveals The Truth Behind The Holocaust
Israel’s UN Ambassador Calls Jimmy Carter A “Bigot”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter “a bigot” for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, “went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas,” Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.
The Ambassador should be applauded for speaking the truth about the former President. Carter proved once an for all that he is no friend of Israel. This most recent misadventure is merely the latest attempt by Carter to further his anti-Israel crusade.
Gillerman wasn’t through with Carter yet:
The ambassador called last weekend’s encounter “a very sad episode in American history.”
He said it was “a shame” to see Carter, who had done “good things” as a former president, “turn into what I believe to be a bigot.”
Carter has had a fetish for dictators and terrorists for years, but he finally went too far this time.
-Chris Jones
Palestinians: Carter-Hamas Visit Achieved Nothing
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said today that Jimmy Carter’s much publicized meeting with Hamas achieved nothing.
“President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete,” he told a conference in the Spanish capital.
“The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else,” he said.
“Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas,” Malki added.
Actually Al-Malki is wrong to say that Carter’s trip achieved nothing. One achievement was giving legitimacy on the world stage to one of the most notorious terrorist organizations on earth.
Carter gave legitimacy to a group which thinks sending young men into Israel wearing vests packed with explosives and nails in to blow themselves up is the fastest way to heaven. A group that raises their children to believe that killing Jews is their duty as Palestinians and God will reward them for it.
Hamas is a group of cold-blooded killers pure and simple. For Jimmy Carter to have met with the group’s leadership in Syria (right in the belly of the beast) was a disgrace.
He continues to be shockingly naive in his belief that “talking” with dictators and terrorists is the solution for everything, and as usual he was proven wrong.
Jimmy Carter To Meet With Hamas Leader In Syria
Former President Jimmy Carter is once again cozying up to an enemy of the U.S. and Israel and once again proving just how bad his judgment is.
Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas who’s responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers recently that sparked the war with Lebanon.
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.
Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Carter is a long-time Palestinian sympathizer who mistakenly believes Israel is the “bad guy” in the mid-east. He loves to meet with America’s enemies and criticize President Bush in the foreign press.
A former President meeting with the leader of one of the worst terrorist organizations is a slap in the face to our allies and contrary to the foreign policy set by President Bush.
I’m sure Jimmy Carter would meet Osama Bin Laden in a cave on the Afghan border if given the opportunity.
-Chris Jones
Hamas Terrorist Opens Fire In Jerusalem Killing 8 People, Gaza Celebrates
From The Jerusalem Post:
Eight people were confirmed dead in a terror attack at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday evening. The attack was reportedly perpetrated by a resident of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom have confirmed 10 wounded civilians, including three seriously. One terrorist was said to have been killed by a student.
Witnesses said that only one terrorist had entered the building and that he managed to fire 500-600 bullets over the course of 4-10 minutes before he was killed.
Although witnesses said only a single terrorist carried out the attack, police were searching the building for an additional terrorist, preventing the entrance of rescue workers. Later Police Chief David Cohen confirmed that there were no additional attackers.
The terrorist entered the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in the neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe carrying weapons. He was not wearing a suicide-bomb belt as earlier reported.
The gunman entered the library where about 80 people were gathered, witnesses said, and opened fire.
Yitzhak Dadon, a student, said he was armed with a rifle and waited on the roof of a nearby building. “He came out of the library spraying automatic fire … the terrorist came to the entrance and I shot him twice in the head,” he said.
Approximately 50 ambulances were sent to the scene and a 16-year-old boy in serious condition and suffering from chest wounds was seen being evacuated from the scene.
“It’s very sad tonight in Jerusalem - many people were killed in the heart of Jerusalem,” Mayor Uri Lupolianski told Channel 2,
“We bless the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last,” Hamas said in a statement.
In Jebaliya, about 7,000 Gazans of different factions marched in the streets, firing in the air in celebration, and visited homes of those killed and wounded in Israel’s ground operation this week.
In Rafah on the Egyptian border, residents distributed sweets to moving cars, and militants fired mortars in celebration.
The student who took decisive action and killed that terrorist is a true hero. That’s a good example of how one student can stop a massacre if he has the ability to protect himself. Eight people were indeed killed, but had that student not acted you can be sure the death toll would have been even greater.
-Chris Jones
Israel To Gaza: It’s On
From Hot Air:
The Israelis have sent a warning to Gaza and its Hamas leadership after the latest rocket attack on Ashkelon. If the attacks continue, Israel will invade Gaza and conduct large-scale military operations to eliminate the threat:
Israeli leaders warned Friday of an approaching conflagration in the Gaza Strip as Israel activated a rocket warning system to protect Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 people, from Palestinian rockets.Ashkelon was hit by several Grad rockets fired from Gaza on Thursday, a sign of the widening scope of violence between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. One hit an apartment building and another landed near a school, wounding a 17-year-old girl.
Located 11 miles from Gaza, Ashkelon had been sporadically targeted in the past but never suffered direct hits or significant damage.
“It will be sad, and difficult, but we have no other choice,” Matan Vilnai, Israel’s deputy defense mister, said Friday, referring to the large-scale military operation he said Israel was preparing to bring a halt to the rocket fire.
“We’re getting close to using our full strength. Until now, we’ve used a small percentage of the army’s power because of the nature of the territory,” Vilnai told Army Radio on Friday.
Israel had tried using softer methods to stop the attacks, including a lockdown on the border between Gaza and Israel. That resulted in a breakout at Rafah, which took the Egyptian government several days to resecure. Other nations had pressured Israel to end the embargo or at least loosen it for food, energy, and medical supplies, but the rocket attacks continue.
Hamas says that Israel’s return fire has killed 15 civilians and blames Israel for the rising tensions. Apart from the absurdity of blaming someone for hitting an aggressor in return, Hamas and other terrorist entities have no one but themselves to blame for civilian deaths. Even the AP acknowledges that Hamas launches its rockets from densely populated civilian centers, drawing fire onto their own people.
Israel cannot stand idle while terrorists rain rockets onto civilian populations, and the escalation to Ashkelon is a deliberate provocation by Hamas. The IDF has to take action, and this time it cannot be constrained by proportionality. They need a massive response to the Gaza provocateurs, one that leaves them no ground to hide. If Gaza’s civilian population wants to avoid that, then they need to rid themselves of the terrorists before Israel’s military does its work.
Hot Air has it right as usual. Israel needs to quit taking this crap from the terrorists and take care of business. The sooner they move into Gaza and lay waste to the place the sooner the violence will end. Anyone who thinks Israel can ever coexist with Hamas is living in a fantasy world.
Every single member of Hamas should be systematically hunted down and killed. The same goes for Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, and any other gun toting, missile firing, Islamic group.
All the pretend cease-fires and half measures on the part of Israel only prolongs the violence. They need to get in, level the joint, and get out.
-Chris Jones
Don’t Forget That CAIR Is A Terrorist Organization
The Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are a bunch of lying, terror supporting, Islamic thugs.
CAIR is currently attempting to stop the Air Force Academy from having a panel of former Islamic terrorists give a presentation to students about “dismantling terrorism.” They don’t want the former terrorists to spread “hate-filled rhetoric” about Islam.
CAIR has also called the FBI and asked that an investigation be opened into popular blog Little Green Footballs. The Hot Joints are big fans of LGF and of the Air Force Academy, so we thought we would remind everyone exactly who CAIR is.
Here’s what CAIR says about themselves:
CAIR’s mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
Here’s what the U.S. government says about CAIR:
For the third time federal prosecutors have called out CAIR as part of a covert Muslim Brotherhood effort in the United States. First, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Hamas-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
CAIR was listed among “entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee.” Then, when the group petitioned to remove its name from that list, prosecutors said such relief “will not prevent its conspiratorial involvement with HLF, and others affiliated with Hamas, from becoming a matter of public record.”
Now, in a federal court filing from December, federal prosecutors have described CAIR as “having conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.” The government also stated that “proof that the conspirators used deception to conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists was introduced” in the Dallas Holy Land Foundation trial last year and the Chicago trial of the Hamas men in 2006.
CAIR likes to pretend they’re a moderate organization that just wants peace, but anytime you feel yourself being sucked in by that lie just refer back to this post.
-Chris Jones
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