Bless her heart. RT @billmurphy: Alison Lundergan Grimes Thinks Iron Dome Goes Underground http://t.co/grVJsFVL8z #KYSEN
— Jackie Wellfonder (@Wellfonder) July 30, 2014Democrat Candidate in KY @AlisonForKY thought the Iron Dome dealt with tunnels! This is your low info democrat. What an embarrassment. #tcot
— Brittany Pounders (@LibertyBritt) July 30, 2014In order to justify killing Jews, Jew-haters throughout history made up libels about the Jews that were so awful that they justified, at least for the Jew-hater, the mass murder of Jews. The charge that the Jews of every age — not just some Jews at one time — killed God Himself was used by medieval Christians to justify mass murdering of Jews.Keep reading.
Then came another grotesque libel — what is known as the blood libel. Also prevalent in the Middle Ages, this charged Jews with kidnapping Christian children, sacrificing them and using their blood to bake matzo (the unleavened Passover bread).
Later libels against the Jews included the forgery known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which purported to prove that Jews plotted to rule the world.
At this very moment, we are living through as enormous a libel — directed not against all Jews, but against the Jewish state: Israel is committing genocide of Palestinians and is, therefore, morally identical to the Nazi regime.
This libel is spread by left-wing radicals and by Muslims, especially in the Middle East. Some examples...
What The Local #Media Missed: Days of Rage in #Boston - http://t.co/Ill56WybGT #MediaBias #Israel
— CAMERAorg (@CAMERAorg) July 29, 2014"No justice, no peace- Free Palestine." RT @JVPBoston: 2 protesters holding roses for Palestine #Boston4Gaza pic.twitter.com/LoXgW0JtLU
— Stop The Wars (@sickjew) July 26, 2014The... hostility displayed at these putative "peace" rallies cannot be excused, justified or explained by the tragic deaths currently taking place as a result of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The underlying emotion at these rallies is hate toward the very notion of Jewish sovereignty and hate toward Jews who support Israel.
If these protesters were serious about promoting peace and human rights, they would have confronted the terrible acts of violence perpetrated by ISIS in Syria and Iraq, where thousands of people have been turned into refugees and hundreds, if not thousands, of young men have been murdered, and in some instances, have had their heads cut off.
These atrocities have largely gone unnoticed by the activist organizations that organized these days of rage in Boston. They have, however, held more than five anti-Israel rallies in the last month alone.
This is not about peace. This is not about justice. And it's not about human rights.
It's about hate.
And lots of it.
BAMAKO, Mali — The cash filled three suitcases: 5 million euros.More.
The German official charged with delivering this cargo arrived here aboard a nearly empty military plane and was whisked away to a secret meeting with the president of Mali, who had offered Europe a face-saving solution to a vexing problem.
Officially, Germany had budgeted the money as humanitarian aid for the poor, landlocked nation of Mali.
In truth, all sides understood that the cash was bound for an obscure group of Islamic extremists who were holding 32 European hostages, according to six senior diplomats directly involved in the exchange.
The suitcases were loaded onto pickup trucks and driven hundreds of miles north into the Sahara, where the bearded fighters, who would soon become an official arm of Al Qaeda, counted the money on a blanket thrown on the sand. The 2003 episode was a learning experience for both sides. Eleven years later, the handoff in Bamako has become a well-rehearsed ritual, one of dozens of such transactions repeated all over the world.
Kidnapping Europeans for ransom has become a global business for Al Qaeda, bankrolling its operations across the globe.
While European governments deny paying ransoms, an investigation by The New York Times found that Al Qaeda and its direct affiliates have taken in at least $125 million in revenue from kidnappings since 2008, of which $66 million was paid just last year.
In news releases and statements, the United States Treasury Department has cited ransom amounts that, taken together, put the total at around $165 million over the same period.
These payments were made almost exclusively by European governments, who funneled the money through a network of proxies, sometimes masking it as development aid, according to interviews conducted for this article with former hostages, negotiators, diplomats and government officials in 10 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The inner workings of the kidnapping business were also revealed in thousands of pages of internal Qaeda documents found by this reporter while on assignment for The Associated Press in northern Mali last year.
In its early years, Al Qaeda received most of its money from deep-pocketed donors, but counterterrorism officials now believe the group finances the bulk of its recruitment, training and arms purchases from ransoms paid to free Europeans.
Put more bluntly, Europe has become an inadvertent underwriter of Al Qaeda...
As much of world watches Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel: http://t.co/DepO2etLQS
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 29, 2014
Water soaks UCLA campus as seen by @GadiNBCLA http://t.co/TR6BHiTMLk pic.twitter.com/2s2mtXir5T
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) July 30, 2014Flooding on UCLA campus threatens Pauley Pavilion http://t.co/dHqnYexUl5 via @usatoday
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) July 30, 2014#SunsetFlood: 10630 West Sunset Blvd. Water rising. Drivers avoid area #TRAFFICALERT http://t.co/5ldkqHexCI pic.twitter.com/2WpSEl08Yg
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 29, 2014#SunsetFlood: UCLA Medical Center not affected by water main break at this time http://t.co/u5lTvejony
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 29, 2014PHOTOS: Water main break floods Westwood street and parts of UCLA #SunsetFlood http://t.co/3v8f7MBxWR pic.twitter.com/8qkgrCoCcR
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 29, 2014MAP of #SunsetFlood http://t.co/5ldkqHexCI pic.twitter.com/bEt1GZyobH
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 29, 2014#SunsetFlood update: fire officials making requests for sand bags to stop significant water flow on #UCLA campus.
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) July 29, 2014#LAFD Captain reports that #DWP officials expect water to progressively decrease within the next two hours in #Westwood.
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) July 30, 2014#UPDATE: Officials say at one point 36,000 gallons of water was flowing per minute from the water main break near #UCLA
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) July 30, 2014
#ISIS posts a video for Eid al-Ftr showing how it massacred dozens of Shiite hours after the fall of #Mosul & Tikrit pic.twitter.com/Jh1N5rjAUo
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) July 29, 2014
ISIS's latest video: unimaginable barbarism. An ISIS-run state would be a menace to all. http://t.co/U4SF5Yr8B4
— Roland Paris (@rolandparis) July 29, 2014
ILLEGALS PROTEST OUTSIDE OF WHITE HOUSE; NO FEAR OF ARREST http://t.co/KWfzLU9OCL
— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) July 29, 2014@AmPowerBlog @vermontaigne It appears that the only way to "Fix Stupid" is with a bullet in these moron's brains....should they have any.
— Pat Houseworth (@prhouseworth) July 28, 2014Gosh that's not Applewhite-culty at all RT @AmPowerBlog Hamas' Useful Idiots Stage 'Die-In' Protest http://t.co/9FVdmHsRA1
— Film Ladd (@FilmLadd) July 28, 2014@AmPowerBlog @RichardDeLaGar4
Too bad the Islamist scum weren't assisted by blowing off their heads
— Gen. Robert E Lee (@Suthen_boy) July 28, 2014
Kerry on personal attacks from Israel: "I've taken hits before in politics, I'm not worried about that. This is not about me."
— Ali Weinberg (@AliABCNews) July 29, 2014
On Monday, Secretary of State Kerry took to the podium at the State Department to say that he was working with Israel and Hamas to negotiate an extension of their temporary ceasefire.And the fact is, Kerry was pushing the Hamas cease-fire. At Free Beacon, "Israeli Officials, Press Criticize John Kerry’s Ceasefire Proposal: Kerry 'completely capitulating' to Hamas' demands."
“Today, we are continuing to work toward establishing an unconditional humanitarian ceasefire, one that…will stop the fighting, allow desperately needed food and medicine and other supplies into Gaza, and enable Israel to address…the threat posed by tunnel attacks—and to be able to do so without having to resort to combat,” Kerry said.
An hour later, the Israeli military sent a text message to all Palestinians to stay in their homes and resumed strikes inside Gaza.
The resumption of violence was the latest example of just how disconnected Kerry’s whirlwind diplomatic efforts have been from the combatants he’s trying to get to stop fighting. The Israeli government has been particularly vocal in its criticism of Kerry’s peacemaker attempts. But in the Palestinian camps, there has been public discontent, too.
Ever since Kerry left the region Friday for Paris, he has been scrambling to patch together a series of short-term humanitarian ceasefires: first 12 hours, then another 4 hours. He was working on an extension Monday when the two parties decided to move on and resume their fighting. Kerry seemed unaware—or unwilling to admit—that his latest plan for a ceasefire extension was about to be rejected.
WHAT THE FUCK! Group of Illegal Aliens from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka Caught Entering Texas from Mexico http://t.co/6olXwDQPQr
— Heidi (@HeidiL_RN) July 29, 2014
