Israeli news and conflicts

According to a new report by The Times, the Muslim population of Britain grew by more than 1,300,000 in the past four years. In the same period of time, the Christian population fell by more than 2,000,000. Experts say that this rapid increase is due to three reasons: immigration, a higher birthrate and conversions.
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A Labor Force Survey showed Muslim population growth in Great Britain as follows:
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2004: 1,087,000
2005: 2,017,000
2006: 2,142,000
2007: 2,327,000
2008: 2,422,000
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These are alarming numbers and the non-Muslim population should be worried. Of course, the Muslims themselves say there is nothing to be concerned about. Muhammad Abdul Bari, the General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that this ‘should not be perceived as a threat to the rest of society. We each have our own set of beliefs. This should really be a source of celebration rather than fear as long as we all clearly understand that we must abide by the laws of this country regardless of the faith we belong to.’
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Those are nice words but they don’t ring true in light of certain recent events around the world. In Pakistan, there have been several news stories about Christian persecution and violent attempts to force the native Christians there to Islam. The same holds true for Egypt, Iraq and Bangladesh. Christians in all three countries are under extreme stress to convert, leave or pay a ‘special tax.’ Is this what is in store for the non-Muslims of Britain in the future?
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Of course, the Muslims there will say such a thing is impossible but history tells us something entirely different. Look at Turkey. It was once a Christian land under the control of the Byzantine Empire. Over time, it was conquered by the Turks, who turned it into a Muslim-majority empire. At the beginning of World War I, Turkey was still 20% Christian. Today, Christians number 0.2%. Ask the Turks where all those Christians went. They certainly didn’t get picked up by UFOs and flown to another planet.
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Now Christians in Turkey live under discriminatory laws and in fear. It is next to impossible for a new church to be built (but Muslims expect to be allowed to build thousands in Europe – there are already 1600 in the UK alone), churches that already exist may not be taller than any nearby mosque and may not be ‘showy’ or ‘attractive’ in any way, and legal cases are being opened by locals against certain churches and monasteries.
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For example, Mor Gabriel, the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world is being sued for a large part of its property by local Muslims. It was founded in 397 AD and one of the ridiculous charges brought against it was that a mosque was originally on the site (which would give legal grounds to invalidate the monastery and turn it over to the Muslims). Of course, the mosque must have had a built-in time machine because Islam didn’t exist before the 7th century AD and no Muslim who understands single-digit numbers would dispute this.
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Great Britain is in trouble in a big way. This is what is known as a population time bomb. I only hope the Brits can find a way to defuse it before it goes off. God save the Queen and the people.

Two unconfirmed reports have come out about the Gaza War that would make for a good Tom Clancy book. The first is that Syrian diplomats have said that at the beginning of hostilities with Hamas, Israel secretly notified Lebanon and Syria that if Hezbollah launched rocket attacks against the Jewish state, it would retaliate by destroying high-value targets in both countries. Both countries leaned hard on Hezbollah and the terrorist group sat this conflict out.
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Careful analysis of my last sentence will show that the implied threat was against more economic targets over military ones. This was a clever strategy by Jerusalem because such targets (power stations, dams, bridges, etc.) affect the civilian population and the countries’ economies, so their repair would be vital. Replacing some tanks or aircraft isn’t much of a problem but a blown-up dam is both costly and time-consuming to fix.
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The second report regards a Hamas missile assault against the X-Band Radar facility near Israel’s nuclear reactor outside the town of Dimona (see X-Band Radar Operational in Israel in December). Three of Hamas’ longest-ranged missiles were fired at it but all fell wide of their mark. The main reason why Hamas expended some of their precious and in short-supply long-range missiles was that knocking out the radar station would have taken away Israel’s best early defense warning of an Iranian missile attack.
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Though Iran almost certainly wouldn’t have attacked Israel at that time, losing the X-Band Radar would have been a severe political and morale loss for Jerusalem. At the same time, this radar site was feeding the Israeli military with vital information about missile, rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza that allowed for rapid and usually effective countermeasures. Thus, Hamas had two good reasons to try and knock out the radar site. Luckily for Israel, Hamas’ aim was as good as their soldiers’ ability to fight: one big nil.

In his first public appearance in over a month, senior Hamas official Khaili al-Haveh crawled out of his hidey-hole to address more than 5000 supporters of the terrorist regime today (30 January). He must have a secret desire to be a Hollywood-caliber comedian because he declared victory over Israel in their recent war, a statement on par with a George Carlin monologue in its amusement quotient.
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Looking out over the ruins of Gaza City he said, ‘We thank God when we see our houses bombed and our institutions destroyed, but our people say yes to the resistance and yes to martyrdom for the sake of God. We say proudly that Gaza has won the war, the resistance has won the war, and Hamas has won the war.’
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The most laughable part of this entire charade is that Hamas has been screaming in the international media about the disproportional amount of casualties they have suffered compared to the Israelis (1300 dead to 13), all the destruction Gaza has sustained and leveling genocide charges against Jerusalem. Does all this sound like the words of victors, the winning side?
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You can’t have it both ways, Mr. Haveh. You can’t see your territory pretty much leveled, take massive casualties without inflicting hardly any in return and then declare victory. This would be like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan claiming victory in World War II. All those big words, bragging and taunts before the conflict started amounted to nothing. All those Hamas ‘soldiers’ hiding so their officers had to go out and get slaughtered isn’t the behavior of a victorious army.
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Let’s be honest. Hamas got its ass kicked up into its teeth and no amount of bombastic speeches is going to change that fact. I truly hope the Palestinian people of Gaza can see the Hamas putzes for what they really are: a big, bad bunch of gun-totting losers. For all the suffering and destruction the Palestinian people have had to endure, Hamas managed to kill only 9 Israelis (the other 4 died from a friendly-fire incident). Where is the victory in that? What kind of return on all that sacrifice has been realized? If this were a financial scenario, Hamas would be bankrupt, dissolved and put out to pasture.

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Here you have a Hamas member of the Religion of Peace showing how hard the Palestinians are trying to come to terms with Israel. Maybe the word ‘peace’ has a different meaning in Arabic. In any case, the Israelis paid him back in kind and now Ahmed or whatever his name is, is enjoying his 72 virgins (ooh, how so politically incorrect) in Paradise.

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Here is another example of how Hamas uses children to manipulate the public and spread its propaganda of hate.  The main audience of this farce is children, which makes this joke of a program even more reprehensible..

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I have asked this question before and I will ask it again in the future: What kind of adults will result from this childhood experience and upbringing?  Will they be normal, balanced, law-abiding members of society or homicidal killers seeking to eradicate an entire group of people from the earth.

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We in the West view such programs as a total joke, but many of us do not realize the true danger they represent.  We have to wake up soon and see these pathetic programs for what they are: truly dangerous propagandistic brainwashing techniques.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off stage at Davos after a heated exchange with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the conflict in Gaza.  He got upset and red-faced after the moderator cut him off when he tried to respond to Peres’ impassioned defense of Israel’s offensive against Hamas.

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Edrogan loudly exclaimed, ‘You are killing people.’  Another report (from the Jerusalem Post) quotes Edrogan as saying, ‘I find it very sad that people applaud what you said.  There have been many people killed.  And I think that it is very wrong and it is not humanitarian.’

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Peres pointed his finger back at him and responded with, ‘You would do the same if rockets were falling on Istanbul.’

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Perez brought up an excellent point.  The Turks aren’t shy about killing when it is they who are doing the killing and they have proved that over and over again during the past century.  First there are the three genocides they carried out (Armenian, Assyrian and Pontiac Greek) that resulted in at least 2,000,000 deaths.  Then there was their participation in WW I.  In 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and 1500 Greek Cypriots mysterious went missing.  Finally, there is the Kurdish problem and the extreme violence Ankara resorts to in order to deal with it.

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Come on, Mr. Edrogan.  Be fair, consistent and non-hypocritical.  Why attack and bomb the Kurdish rebels when you can ‘talk’ to them instead?  Show Israel how it is done right and ‘negotiate’ with those who would commit terrorist attacks against your people.  That is the only way your theatrics will have any real meaning.  Otherwise, you are a sad and sometimes amusing figure of foolishness who makes his anti-Semitism very obvious.

ANSAmed reports that Cyprus is to file a case against Turkey with the European Court of Human Rights.  The issue is over what happened to some 1500 Greek Cypriots who disappeared during the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island.  Not only is the Cypriot government taking its case to the European Court, but it is also bringing it to the Permanent Members of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

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What set this action into motion was a television program where Turkish actor Attila Olgac said that he had killed ten Greek Cypriots during the war, including a 19-year-old captured soldier who was murdered in cold blood.  Olgac later retracted his statement claiming he was talking about a film scenario instead, but the damage was done and outrage became unavoidable.

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The timing of this international lawsuit coincides with Turkey’s renewed push to get its ascension talks with the EU in high gear again.  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been leading the charge for Turkish admission into the Common Market.  Of course, this is in stark contrast with his blasting of Israel for the recent Gaza War and urging of the UN to expel Israel as a member.  This hypocrisy fits in perfectly with how the Turks deal with their Kurdish problem: with artillery, air strikes and infantry assaults.  The Turks don’t believe in people killing terrorists, unless it is them doing the killing.

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However, duplicity is nothing new to Ankara.  The Turkish nation still hasn’t admitted to the three genocides it committed in the first quarter of the twentieth century (Armenian, Assyrian and Pontiac Greek), much less come to terms with it or made any sort of amends.  In fact, one can be jailed in Turkey for even publicly acknowledging these tragic events ever happened.  There is an official version of events one had better believe, or at least talk about openly, if one values one’s skin much.

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The Turks killed upwards of 2,000,000+ people during their genocides, so 1500 missing Cypriot Greeks are peanuts to them.  Heck, such a small number is Boy Scout stuff, not He-Man material.  The Turks who invaded Cyprus in 1974 were two generations removed from those who carried out the genocides 50-60 years earlier.  I guess that growing up on all those stories from grandpa left them feeling like they had missed out on a lot fun, so when they had the chance to do it for themselves in 1974, they went for it.

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In any case, issues surrounding Cyprus are one of the major stumbling blocks to Turkey’s ascension to the EU.  Nicosia now has the opportunity not only to find out what happened to 1500 of its people and gain some closure, but to get some payback as well.

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This was too good to pass up so I posted it here for our readers who appreciate dark humor.  It is so well done that several people I showed it to at first thought it was a real ad!

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This video is long (13:06) and shows Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari giving his version of Jewish history and why he approves of the Holocaust. It has some very disturbing scenes in the middle but it is important to watch it for a couple of reasons. The first is to see how warped some people’s sense of history is. It is actually hard to believe that someone actually thinks that any of this tripe is true. I don’t know what is scarier: whether this Neanderthal is just lying through his teeth to generate more hate for the Jews or if he really believes what he says.
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The second is to see the Holocaust footage itself. Sometimes people have to be reminded of this most evil of events in human history. Its true horror can only be understood through pictures and video. Text, no matter how good the writer, just can’t convey the wickedness and soul-churning despair in the same way. After seeing this video, one can then understand what propagandistic bullshit the Palestinians are trying to get the world to believe by comparing the recent war with Israel to the Holocaust.
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And gullible fools the world over are accepting it! That is because most, if not all, of them have never actually watched Holocaust footage. If they had, they would have been able to make a quick comparison on their own and dismiss this idiotic claim. However, the Palestinians know full well the educational deficiencies of the average Westerner so they are getting away with it, even with some politicians.
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At least after viewing this post YOU will know better because you will be better informed and not just relying on anti-Semitic propaganda from bleeding-heart liberals or the Muslims themselves. Knowledge truly is a weapon and a defense as well. Arm yourselves so you can see the truth for yourself.

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On Sunday 25 January a pro-Israel rally was held in Malmö, Sweden. The organizers got a permit and the rally started off very peacefully. At some point during the event, a group of Muslims appeared on the square and approaches the Jewish group. That is where things quickly went wrong.
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Swedish law requires the police to keep ‘others’ from interfering with or interrupting a legal demonstration. You can see that the Swedish police allowed the Muslims to get very close to the Jews. This was their second mistake. The first was allowing the Muslims to form a counter-demonstration at all because they did NOT have a permit to do so and could legally have been dispersed on threat of arrest.
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The third mistake and probably the most serious of all is the police did nothing when the first attacks from the Muslims took place. You can see the escalation of violence that is a natural consequence of police inaction. First came the eggs, then the bottles; this against a background of shouts of ‘Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.’ Seeing the cops were not willing to stop them, fireworks came next. That seems to have finally sparked the police into action but they took an unpredictable and unfair course. Instead of breaking up the Muslim mob and sending them home, they told everyone to leave the square, including the Jews who had legal permission to be there in the first place.
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This event is yet another example of how violence and disregard for the law get rewarded in Europe. By not following its own laws and procedures, the Malmö police allowed this event to spin out of control. Luckily, nobody was seriously injured. To be fair to the police, they did arrest four Muslim troublemakers (according to Swedish news), including one man who tried to fight with them, but all of that would have been unnecessary if they had just done their jobs and enforced the law at the beginning.
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One of the best ways to stop violence is to prevent it in the first place. This is a vital lesson the Malmö police need to learn quickly because maybe next time things won’t turn out as well. The local Muslims now know the cops are hesitant and weak-willed. Like sharks that smell blood in the water, they will move in for the kill.