Calev Ben-David, Much more than a border problem

"Hamas blows hole in Gaza border" was the BBC headline on September 14, 2005 - just days after the IDF had withdrawn from the Philadelphi Corridor to complete Israel's disengagement from Gaza...

...Hamas must retain the ability to continually improve its strategic position vis-à-vis Israel by bringing in more advanced weaponry to Gaza - mines, antitank weapons, longer range and more powerful rockets, and even surface-to-air missiles. It must be able to send its fighters out for professional training in such places as Iran and Syria and then bring them back in. And it must maintain a flow of cash to thwart the European Union boycott on direct financial aid to Hamas institutions, especially its security apparatus.

The key to all this is for Hamas to control Gaza's southern border crossings with Egypt...

IDF beefs up security on Egyptian border

One official said the government was split between those who thought that the recent events provided Israel with a perfect opportunity to completely disengage from Gaza, and let the Egyptians deal with Gaza's humanitarian needs, and those who fear that an open border with Egypt will quickly transform Gaza into southern Lebanon before the 2006 war in terms of the quantity and quality of arms...

"They no longer need tunnels," one official said. "Now instead of smuggling explosives and weaponry into Gaza underground, they can do it above ground."

Democracy Dies in Britain: Voters Refused Referendum on EU "Constitution"

http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4722.2989.0.0

"" By definition, within Western civilization “democracy” has come to mean “government by the people; especially: rule of the majority: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections” (Merriam Webster).

Judged by such a definition, the absolute refusal by the British government to permit the people to have their say on whether or not to sign over their national sovereignty to an imperialist European superstate is entirely undemocratic.

In fact, it borders on being the exact opposite of democratic government.

It is rule by diktat.""

But OH Noooo there's no elitist agenda to drive devolution of the nation state into a centralized globalist feudal corporation...nooo that's just Con-Spir-Acy...the MSM tells us there is no such thing,,,so go back to grazing...nothing to see here...everything thing is being taken care of by your betters in the patrician class.

No raisins for these Muslim Taliban klutzes*. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP and Taliban May-Green are in mourning.
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"Suicide Bomber Trips, Blows Self Up on Way to Carrying Out Attack

A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.
It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,325187,00.html
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*klutz
(Yiddish) a clumsy dolt

Re; No raisins for these Muslim Taliban klutzes*.

If they die before the attack in this manner, without taking out any Infidels etc, do they still get the 72 virgins or like just half that amount?

Ezra's priceless response to the threat of a defamation lawsuit from Syed Soharwardy (at ezralevant.com)

"I am not a physician, but I can assure you that my discovery of Soharwardy will be fairly described as proctological."

Bronwen Maddox, Being reasonable about Afghanistan is wishful thinking

An independent panel in Canada, which reported this week on whether to keep its troops in Afghanistan, has produced an astute and moving description of the dilemma that will ring true for any Western country...

"A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say." - maz2

Somebody's got to produce a sitcom called 'the Muslims." There's so much humour to draw on. I'm sure it would be more lucrative than 'Little Mosque on the Prairie.'

here is a good set of arguments.

http://www.languagefairness.ca/Source_files/Uploaded/AdieuQUEBEC.htm

Gime, gimme, gimme, Gilles at it again:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080125.wduceppe25/BNStory/National/home

Ezra links to IOWAHAWK, where you can find a hillarious sendup of AHRC notes take during his "interrogation".
A good laugh!

Re "Offensive Speech: What's legal? What's Ethicial
Sheldon Chumir Foundation - Calgary/Jan 24th
About 150 people +- (full house) and a great lasagna dinner.

Lead Panel Member - Allan Borovoy - sometimes referred to as the father of the Human Rights Commissions established in the '70's and under construction ever since.

He repeated once more, as he has done before in the press, that those people who first began the implementation of HRCs had no idea, nor could they even visualize, that HRCs could/would become involved with adjudicating issues of free speech.

His message was basically that free speech is very precious and is better resting in the hands of citizens rather than resting in the government's hands (via HRCs involved in issues that inhibit free speech over the long haul).

He is still very strong in the belief that HRCs are serving a useful purpose(s) but do not belong in the area of free speech - that this area should be removed from the jurisdiction of HRCs.

In question period, he was asked if he thought it would be unduly harsh for provincial governments to proceed with legislation to remove freedom of speech from HRCs. His response was that no, I think we (as a society) can handle this.

While the dismantling of HRCs may be an ambitious agenda, the time may be now to push very hard for the removal of the free speech area from all HRCs.

I agree with Dion but with a twist, not to add seats but strip quebec , NS, PEI, Nfld , NB of their disproportionate share. cut parliment to 100 seats 330000 each. PEI gets one , Nfld gets two and a baby soother, Quebec gets 23 and no teat having already sucked the ROC dry. ontario gets 36 but is broken into ontario and vedaland which is the niagra penisula up to trona.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/01/25/mcguinty-dion.html

Hey, where's our brave separatist frog these days?

Could it have been a chemical reaction? Or maybe an overdose of cheese?

for the record , I am a separatist .

FREE THE WEST

Remember all those girls' sports teams banning scarfs with the reason that they might be a choking hazard.

They were right.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080125.PLAYGROUND25/TPStory/National

Spector's final paragraph is either artlessly worded or he is about to drop a new bombshell in a week....

This is frustrating. I mean its been 20 years, I have never known any major political seret to stay quiet that long....

http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/01/24/172989.html

cal2.. I agree FREE THE WEST but we could FREE CANADA with a referendum by the ROC as to qeubecs usefulness within confederation.

Old story, new photo:

My 2-year-old has developed a huge fascination with bulldozers. I was looking for pictures of a CAT D9* for him, and ran across this hilarious photo. Just a quick eyeball suggests this photo depicts the Israeli Cat with a height of 24-26 feet to top of cab; this is roughly twice the size of the actual machine.

Those funny, whacky photoshoppers of the Religion of Peace® need to verify basic dimensions before they overstate their case, LOL.

mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm
* yes, the D11 is a larger machine, but the "D-Niner" always had a special place in my heart after I watched this flick as a kid.

Re; No raisins for these Muslim Taliban klutzes*. Find "hur".
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Virgins? What virgins?

It is widely believed that Muslim 'martyrs' enjoy rich sensual rewards on reaching paradise. A new study suggests they may be disappointed. Ibn Warraq reports
{...]

Luxenberg 's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris.

In Syriac, the word hur is a feminine plural adjective meaning white, with the word "raisin" understood implicitly. Similarly, the immortal, pearl-like ephebes or youths of suras such as LXXVI.19 are really a misreading of a Syriac expression meaning chilled raisins (or drinks) that the just will have the pleasure of tasting in contrast to the boiling drinks promised the unfaithful and damned.

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer
chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2yuzh (guardian)

Language Debate Continues
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080125.wlanguage25/BNStory/National/home

pay us $15 beellion dollars or else!

Is proctological a word? Too funny.

Forgot about this little GEM. Well worth repeating given current circumstances.

I wonder if Mr Cruickshank was aware of this one as well. Hurrican Krista, lying and unbalanced story production and finally the recent incident of working closely with the opposition to detract a major committee....

So Mr Cruickshank, tell me again why a reassignment, the least you could do, was required. You would seem to have cause here.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005724.html

"Luxenberg 's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris."

What a mixup.

Arabic was not a language at the time the illiterate brigand thought up the quran. Arabic was much later constructed from two source languages, Syriac and Aramaic.

There are words in the Quran that are meaningless, with no definition in any language, including languages no longer in use.

I wonder how many Muslims will commit suicide for the reward of 72 raisins, white or otherwise?

I don't suppose much of the scholarly work will matter. You already have to be irrational to believe in such an ideology.

A Mohammedan on the forthcoming film from Geert Wilders and Muslim reaction to it:

Islamotrolling

I make zero excuses for any islamafool who gets up in arms about the film and takes to the street over it. However, Wilders' film is essentially islamotrolling - a classic case of poking a hornet's nest, solely to elicit a response with which he can then use to "prove" the original assertion that Islam is intrinsically violent, etc. The fact that the vast majority of Dutch muslims will not riot in the streets is irrelevant to the desired, and manufactured, final product: a marketing ploy, with Wilders playing the role of Western martyr.

I used to have more ire for the inevitable idiots than for the instigators like Wilders, but I've come to realize that the islamofools are simply not capable of comprehending what tools they are...

Banks are helping sharia make a back-door entrance

check it out...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080125.wcomment0125/BNStory/National/home

It's safer in Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq, than in Canada where terrorists await travellers from Oz. Foody goodier. Mo! You wan 2 eggloll; one eggloll?
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Chinese restaurant opens in Baghdad’s popular Karrada neighbourhood despite security fears.
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"A young woman wearing skintight jeans, her hair blowing in the slight breeze, is sweeping the entrance. "Welcome!" she says in halting English."
http://tinyurl.com/2xex8r (MEonline)
Blothel, maybe?

Helen Thomas: "Race Turns Into Black Man V. White Woman" [Scary Image Alert]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959590/posts

Scroll down for: Willy and Helenback. (pic from here):
http://tinyurl.com/3yclyd

So the ACLU and other leftards have scurged every last vestage of the christian religion from US public life. I wonder if they'll care about the separation of church and state when the church in question is more Mosque'ish?

"Muslim opening prayer at Iowa Statehouse raises concerns"

(complete with calls for victory over the unbelievers and over the "great satan")

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19227412&BRD=1304&PAG=461&dept_id=180486&rfi=6

A guest - a black woman, by the way - on the Colbert Report last night described Hillary Clinton's recent behaviour as "sphinctitious". Colbert nearly fell off his chair laughing.

As for the scarf issue: hasn't this been a known problem at ski resorts for years? I'm sure I remember reports of kids being strangled when their long scarves got caught on ski tows.

Charles MacDonald,

But then he says, "Premeditated mischief, cowardly wrapped in the mantle of free speech as if it were some noble enterprise, by someone who is clearly very intelligent, doesn't have any excuse."

Obviously, he's made up his mind before seeing the film. As usual, Islamic apologists don't present rational, fact based counter arguments. Instead, they deflect, deceive and blame. This fellow is no different.

re. Muslim prayer in Iowa State Capitol - you may as well start at the top.

http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/quickFacts.htm

Cherniak jumps shark: fires off letter to CBC Ombudsman Carlin demanding to know if the Government of Canada intimidated or coerced the CBC into punishing Krista Erickson. Encourages others to do the same.

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere: (found at Brussels Journal)
A quote from Islam and the West, the 2008 annual report of the Davos World Economic Forum [pdf]:

Clear majorities in all European countries surveyed see greater interaction between the West and Muslim worlds as a threat. This is true of 79% of the population in Denmark, 67% in Italy, 67% in the Netherlands, 68% in Spain, 65% in Sweden and 59% in Belgium. This corresponds to a growing fear among Europeans of a perceived “Islamic threat” to their cultural identities, driven in part by rising immigration from predominantly Muslim regions. [...]

Although some might expect the United States, Israel and the Middle East to be more likely than Europe to feel threatened by the “other,” the opposite is the case. In the United States (70%), Canada (72%) and Israel (56%) majorities say that greater interaction is a benefit.

Comment: We are either totally wonderful or completely uninformed by our MSM. Outreach ... my ass.

Oh, anybody hear anything more about the Toronto 17. I seem to vaguely recalll ....

Russian police arrest crime lord with Canadian connections
....The FBI said on its Web site that Mogilevich and two other men were wanted for his alleged participation in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors in the stock of YBM Magnex International, Inc., a company that formerly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange....

....Nine YBM officers and board members - including former Ontario premier David Peterson - along with National Bank and investment dealer Griffiths McBurney, faced allegations of failing to disclose all material facts about YBM in a 1997 prospectus.....

www.torontosun.com/News/World/2008/01/25/pf-4793467.html

Russian (East European) Organized Crime
Around the Globe"
March 9-10, 2000

The YBM Magnex International Stock Fraud Case

...."YBM attracted a blue-ribbon board, its books were audited by two prominent America accounting firms, it issues glossy annual reports and it had its own web-site. All of this turned out to be sophisticated cover for what was also a vast money laundering operation… ‘this is the first pubic demonstration of the manipulation and infiltration of world financial markets by Russian organized crime’ …".

yorku.ca/nathanson/Publications/russian.htm

Step aside AGW, water is the new crisis:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_sc/world_forum_water_scarcity_2;_ylt=AgGrmXVb8K2fb7BuQGI31SP0kPUI

A high and a low: Afstan is UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's war; Scott Taylor says Canadian policy in Afstan is racist.

Why did the Globe not run the Secretary General's article in its print edition?

Mark
Ottawa

to paraphrase Mulroney - there is no crook like an old crook.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080125/mulroney_cash_080125/20080125?hub=Canada

Irwin Daisy: Quite right. So far as I know, the film has not been screened for the general public anywhere. We are all simply reacting to hearsay descriptions of what Wilders does in the film, viz., cutting and burning the Quran. The reactions seem perfectly valid, if that is what he does. As to what else Wilders does or argues in the film, we'll have to wait and see.

I found this funny video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZzPcmte97c

actually save the planet , bwahhahahha

Officials:2 Palestinians Die In W Bank Settlement Attack -AFP
JERUSALEM (AFP)--Two Palestinians were killed Thursday after they stabbed a pupil during an attack on a Talmudic school at a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, Israeli emergency services said.

The Palestinians were shot dead after attacking several pupils with knives at the school in the settlement of Kfar Etzion, the emergency services said, without specifying if the men had been killed by Isreali troops or settlers."

No it doesn't seem very specific, does it?
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080124%5cACQDJON200801241619DOWJONESDJONLINE001174.htm&

Boycott Punkman; do not link to his vanity.
In other news, AbNormal will never upstage Buttcrack Karl.
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Ex-Mulroney chief of staff to tell MPs about cash

OTTAWA — A troubling new allegation about large amounts of cash arriving at 24 Sussex Drive when Brian Mulroney was prime minister will be aired at the Commons ethics committee.

The committee is set to reconvene next week when the Commons returns from a six-week break.

MPs are looking into the decade-long relationship between the former Tory prime minister and arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber.

Norman Spector, a former chief of staff to Mulroney in the early 1990s, says he’ll be bringing documentary evidence to the committee.

[…]

* Note: Warren is very excited about this development. No small wonder why.
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Comments:
#1.
With all due respect Jack,don’t link to that simpering liberal wimp Wornout Kinsella’s ultra liberal blog.
All you are doing is swelling his pompous partisan head by sending people over to his blog.

Best just to cut and paste without a link,that way he gets less traffic,and and we get the gist of his crap without dirtying ourselves and adding to his site numbers.

Best to put anybody involved in that old monster Jean Cretin’s regime in the past and try to forget the damage they’ve done.
Mr.g
Comment by mr.g | January 25, 2008
#2.
I stand “chastised”. I will not repeat my lapse in judgement.
Comment by Jack | January 25, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/24utzw (jacksnwatch)

jcl @ 4:26PM - the UN's new crisis - water.

How long before we start being told to purchase water credits??? Taxing us to flush the toilet?? Tea and coffee to be taken dry?? Soft drinks will consist only of CO2 and beer will be pure barley - no liquid?? Showers should be interesting in the new waterless world. Absence of them would be very leftoid/hippy happy.

To say nothing of armed UN guards on the Great Lakes. Or will that be armed Nato guards?? For a diplomatic resolution of course, as requested by Izzy Munie Dion .

Please, with respect , we, the Canadian part of Nato are installing the weapon that equips Afghanistan with the power and ability to resist drug cartel slavery; to resist the Taliban.

Schools and teachers are the first target of Osama*s boys because once young people get a glimpse of freedom and fair government, then the last thing they want is poppy farming slavery under Osama*s thumb.

Painful youth poverty is widespread in Pakistan as well, where a public school system is largely missing.

Understandable that impoverished youth accept a daily meal and bed in Taliban Madrassah .

As ex-military myself, allow me to suggest that losses of [ 78 ] Canadians over the last six years is no reason to think of leaving Afghanistan. What Silliness!

Keeping Pakistan*s nuclear weapons from Taliban control is paramount for Canada, the West and Nato. = TG

That comment is the result of an excellent UK link provided above. . . .

by: Charles MacDonald at January 25, 2008 11:06 AM

timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article3247744.ece

= TG

All 4; no, make that, all 5 countries are outside the socialist European Union (EU).
Kudos to Conservative PM Harper.
More, please.
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Canada Inks Free Trade Deal with Four European Countries

The Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yielded a new business relationship for Canada on Friday.

Canada will sign a free trade deal with Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein on the sidelines of the conference.

This is the first free trade deal with those countries, none of which are part of the 27-member European Union. (cfra.com)

Wisdom from India . . . [Close to the problem]

In Afghanistan Pakistan is the biggest villain. Unless this is accepted and action against the Taleban bases in Pakistan, all the talks of ionosphere such as democracy, reconstruction will slowly go towards moon/sun and the Nato troops will meet the similar fate as in Vietnam or Russian troops in Afghanistan itself!
Regards,
Krishna R. Kumar, Udupi, India
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Kinda mystical, but correct none the less. = TG

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 25th is the coldest day of the year, the middle of winter if you will. It will generally only get warmer from here.

Have a great second half of winter.

Heterosexual White Guy Journalists Association

There’s a need out there and I have undertaken to fill it. Therefore, it’s my great pleasure to announce the formation of the Heterosexual White Guy Journalists Association, or HWGJA (hah-wug-jah).

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=4