Palestinian Statehood Vote Could End All PA Agreements with Israel and the U.S/other news

WH excludes Israel from list of nations that have been subject to terrorism attacks-but Bali, Belfast, and Lahore are noted as having been victimized by terror. Belfast-what decade are they in?

Comment from Ed Lasky : WH excludes Israel from list of nations that have been subject to terrorism attacks-but Bali, Belfast, and Lahore are noted as having been victimized by terror. Belfast ? What decade are they in ?

Comment from Richard : What western country OTHER than Israel has put up with MANY YEARS of terrorism with multiple suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, hijackings and kidnappings ? What possible reason could there be for leaving Israel off a statement like this ?

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US: fight broke out today at Rye Playland after a large group of Muslim women were denied access to rides

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:49 PM PDT

They were wearing "traditional headgear*, you see, celebrating the end of Ramadan. How dare the ignorant kafirs prevent them from going on rides, even it is for their own safety! I think...

SPIEGEL: "His Motivations Remain a Mystery"

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:14 PM PDT

Yes, this one is a real headscratcher, I tell ya. Arrested in Britain The Path of a Young German Salafist Spiegel h/t Pamela Geller Abdul Hakiim converted to Islam, wore long robes, dreamed of...

Abu O'tard (Still) Popular With Muslims

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:41 PM PDT

Obama Still Popular With Domestic Muslims Barack Hussein Obama's approval has sunk to a disastrous 38% according to Gallup. But there is a group very happy with his performance — Muslims: For a group...

Deja vu all over again: Pal Arab "minister" accuses Israel of harvesting 'Palestinian' organs

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Blood Libel against the Jews? But of course: The 'Palestinian Authority' minister of prisoner affairs uncontrollable rage Issa Qaraqi accuses Israel of – what else –...

Aga Can, Part II

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT

Part One is here. Here is the Aga Khan/Rick Perry curriculum: Scrubbed from the web, cache scrubbed from Google Search By Robert Spencer One of the oddest and most telling aspects of this Rick...

Canada: Muslim Prayer Racket in Public Schools

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT

Bunglaphobia Watch tries to smear those who object to Muslim prayers in Canadian public schools and sets them up for target practice: The people behind the Toronto prayer protest Haroon Siddiqui...

Honor Restored: Father slit throats of three daughters in 'honour killing' after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:06 PM PDT

Daily Mail A Libyan father killed his three daughters after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops to lift the shame on his family, a human rights group said today. The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18...

Destroy the terrorist regime in Gaza

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:59 PM PDT

Carl in J'lem presents: Evelyn Gordon writes thatthe time has come to destroy the terrorist regime in Gaza. The claim "there's no military solution to rocket fire" is patently absurd. During...

The Beep Does Another Hatchet Job on the EDL

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Thanks to GoV: The Beeb Does it Again The BBC has put out yet another hit piece on the English Defence League, doing everything in its power to paint the peaceful demonstrators at EDL events as...

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Libya: Father slits throats of three daughters raped by Gadhafi's troops

Aug 31, 2011 03:23 am | Marisol

As we noted in a prior report on the risk of honor killings and rape in Libya, this is the population from which a tolerant, pluralistic civil society is supposed to spring forth now that it's no longer hindered by a lone autocratic weirdo. A democracy is only as good...

Surprise! Gadhafi daughter "killed" in 1986 airstrike may be alive and well

Aug 31, 2011 03:16 am | Marisol

"War is deceit," after all. And the evidence is mounting that a story used to inflame anti-American hatred and justify violence may be an elaborate work of fiction. "Daughter Gadhafi said was dead apparently lives," by Hadeel al-Shalchi for the Associated Press, August 30: TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Since the...

Afghanistan: Karzai ordered leak of info that wrecked deal to release U.S. soldier captured by Taliban, angry at not being included in talks

Aug 31, 2011 03:07 am | Marisol

More on this story. Reservations about negotiating with the Taliban are, of course, more than reasonable, but there is the principle of the matter in our "friend and ally" Karzai's behavior. "Secret U.S.-Taliban talks were closing on deal to free kidnapped army sergeant before being scuppered by Karzai aides," by...

New York: Fifteen Muslims arrested in riot over Playland Park safety rules

Aug 30, 2011 09:41 pm | Robert

Where American law and practice conflict with Islamic law and practice, American law and practice have to give way. That is the way it always is. Otherwise, there will be violence. "Police arrest 15 at Playland in dispute over Muslim headwear," by Rebecca Baker and Jonathan Bandler for LoHud.com, August...

Chechnya: Misunderstanders of Islam murder seven in two bombings

Aug 30, 2011 07:27 pm | Robert

"The first blast occurred when officers attempted to detain a suspected militant in the Chechen capital of Grozny." See, if only the officers weren't so "Islamophobic" as to interfere with the activities of the glorious mujahedin, none of this would have happened. Will the Islamophobia never end? "Russian report: 7...

Convert to Islam arrested with bomb-making guides and al-Qaeda propaganda; Spiegel says his "motivations remain a mystery"

Aug 30, 2011 07:02 pm | Robert

Everyone knows that Islam is a Religion of Peace™ and that only greasy Islamophobes pause from raking in the bucks long enough to suggest otherwise, so Abdul Hakiim's conversion to Islam couldn't have anything to do with his sudden interest in setting off bombs. This one is, a Pamela Geller...

Jihadist garage sale of the century underway: Gaza groups reportedly buying Libyan weapons

Aug 30, 2011 03:38 pm | Marisol

While there continue to be concerns about Libya's unconventional weapons and potential "dirty bomb" material, lighter conventional weapons are already reported to be on the market. And there also remains the possibility of a second "storefront" opening up upon the fall of the Assad regime. "'Gaza militants have Libyan arms',"...

Al-Qaeda bigwig and former Gitmo detainee tells Saudi prince to expel all non-Muslims from the kingdom

Aug 30, 2011 03:19 pm | Marisol

Never mind how that would paralyze the Saudi economy, dependent as it is on what often amounts to slave labor, as demonstrated by so many horror stories, and the denial of freedom of religion and worship to non-Muslim foreign workers. But what kind of intolerant person would demand the expulsion...

Here is the Aga Khan/Rick Perry curriculum: Scrubbed from the web, cache scrubbed from Google Search

Aug 30, 2011 09:07 am | Robert

One of the oddest and most telling aspects of this Rick Perry/Aga Khan curriculum controversy is that when Pamela Geller and I started writing about the curriculum, it was scrubbed from the web. Now it has been scrubbed from the Google cache, as I noted here. This is highly suspicious,...

Palestinian Authority's prison affairs minister accuses Israel of harvesting organs

Aug 30, 2011 09:01 am | Marisol

More sterling behavior from the entity that wants to be handed a state in September without acting like one. This new form of blood libel has become popular in the past few years, bolstered by a bogus story in a major Swedish paper in 2009, and surfaces every now and...

Israel on alert for another major attack after 10-man cell crosses from Gaza into Sinai

Aug 30, 2011 08:43 am | Marisol

On alert for Islamic Jihad's potential Ramadan finale. "Vilnai: 10-man terror cell planning attack from Sinai," from the Jerusalem Post, August 30: A cell of more than 10 terrorists is currently in the Sinai with plans to carry out an attack against Israel along its border with Egypt, Home Front...

Malaysian Muslims are reminded of their Islamic duty to proselytize

Aug 30, 2011 08:10 am | The Anti-Jihadist

Now that the 'holy' month of Bombadan Ramadan has ended, Muslims are now celebrating the holiday of Eid ('Hari Raya' in Malay parlance). For most Malaysian Muslims, this holiday means food (day-long feasts are common) and being with family, with journeys back to hometowns ('balik kampung') being firmly embedded in...

Michael Coren on Imam Rauf's claim that Sharia and U.S. Constitution are compatible: "That man's either incredibly stupid or incredibly dishonest"

Aug 30, 2011 07:49 am | Robert

Enjoy this superb takedown by Michael Coren of the slick and sinister Islamic supremacist Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf of the Ground Zero Mosque initiative, and his claim that Sharia and the U.S. Constitution are compatible. Be sure to watch it all. Seldom has Sharia been so fully, concisely, and...

Spencer: "Fear, Inc.": The business of saving jihad from "Islamophobia"

Aug 30, 2011 07:01 am | Robert

In "Fear, Inc.: The Business of Saving Jihad From 'Islamophobia'" in Human Events this morning, I discuss the irony of the release of the latest slick and well-funded "Islamophobia" report just as more jihad attacks are being perpetrated and more jihad plots uncovered: This past week, "Mohammed K.," a...

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Jordanian Opposition Demands Limits on King's Powers(DPA/Trend - Azerbaijan)
  Jordan's opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement on Sunday called for a curtailment of the king's powers and indicated it might boycott the next general elections if its demands were not met.
  "The Islamic movement will decide its political participation in the light of the response to these necessary demands that cannot be postponed," said Hamzeh Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
  One of these demands, Mansour said, called for a revision of the constitution to ensure that prime ministers be appointed from parties or parliamentary coalitions that have majorities in the lower house. The king has so far appointed premiers and ministers a t his discretion.
  King Abdullah II set up a royal committee for the revision of the constitution in May at the height of demonstrations that swept Jordan, inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia.

Luxury, Horror Lurk in Gaddafi Family Compound - Dan Rivers (CNN)
At a seaside compound in western Tripoli, Moammar Gaddafi's sons enjoyed a decadent lifestyle that his people could only dream about, while perpetrating unspeakable horrors on the staff that served their every whim. We met a nanny who worked for Hannibal Gaddafi. She'd been burnt by Hannibal's wife, Aline.Viewer discretion.

Female Sniper's Confession Reveals Mass Murder in Libya - Kursat Bayhan (Zaman - Turkey)
Captured by opposition forces, 19-year-old Nasrin Mansur Alfarjari, a female sniper in Gaddafi's Special Forces, confessed to targeting innocent people at military training sessions during the Gaddafi era.
She said hundreds of 19 to 20-year-old women soldiers like her fought with the Special Forces. They had to shoot living people as target practice, she said.

Israel to Focus More on Exports to India, China and Less on U.S,, EU(Port 2 Port)
  Figures show that Israeli manufacturers have been increasingly targeting the fast-growing markets of Asia, partly at the expense of the United States.
  Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said that Israel is working to safeguard its economy by focusing less on the United States and Europe markets and more on countries to the east and south.
  Steinitz noted, "Over the past two years the Finance Ministry has led a change from Israeli exports to the U.S. and Europe in the direction of China, India and South America." Steinitz added that "In the past year the number of exports to those countries has gone up by 20%, from 33% to 40%."

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Israel's 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense System Hits 85% of Targets - Eli Lake
Israel's cutting-edge missile defense called Iron Dome scored an 85 percent success rate in knocking out rockets launched against Israel's southern cities in recent clashes with Gaza.
  The battlefield success of Iron Dome could change the political calculus in Israel by providing protection against attacks that prevented Israel from withdrawing after it dismantled settlements in Gaza in 2005. A former senior Israeli defense official with detailed knowledge of the Iron Dome system said it is a crucial element of Israeli defenses. "But it is not a silver bullet because there will always be 10 times more rockets than Iron Dome interceptors can stop," he said. (Washington Times)
    See also Iron Dome vs. Gaza Rockets - Moshe Arens
The Iron Dome, developed by Rafael, is a superb technological achievement. It follows Israel's first technological breakthrough in ballistic missile interception - the Arrow, developed by IAI. It is an achievement unequaled anywhere in the world.
  The Iron Dome is a source of pride and gives us the feeling that we are not completely helpless against the rocket threat.
  But to be honest, whereas the Iron Dome can effectively defend small militarily important targets, it does not provide the protection that our civilian population in the south, and maybe tomorrow in the north, is entitled to. The idea that missile interception systems, when eventually deployed throughout Israel, will provide an impenetrable umbrella under which Israelis will be able to peacefully carry on their daily lives even when Israel is attacked by rockets, is an illusion . There are other ways to put an end to the rocket threat, and the government will sooner or later have to resort to them. (Ha'aretz)

Syria Crackdown Horror Catalogued in Amnesty's "Deaths in Detention" Report - Nour Ali
At least 88 people, including 10 children, have died in detention in Syria since the uprising against the regime began in March in what amounts to "systematic persecution on a vast scale", according to Amnesty International.
The majority of victims were tortured or ill-treated, with injuries ranging from beatings, burns and blunt-force traumas to whipping marks, electrocution, slashes and mutilated genitals.
According to one activists' group, at least 551 Syrian civilians have been killed during Ramadan, which ends with the festival of Eid al-Fitr. (Guardian - UK)

Obama Administration Targets 3 Senior Assad Regime Officials with Sanctions
The Obama administration expanded its net of sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on Tuesday, banning Americans from doing business with the country's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, and two other senior officials as it seeks to further pressure authorities to halt a five-month crackdown on protesters. (AP/Washington Post)

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IDF Chief Warns Terror Groups: Don't Test Us - Tova Dadon
IDF Chief of Staff Gen Benny Gantz on Tuesday warned the Gaza Strip-based militant groups of Israel's severe response should terror attacks and rocket fire on the south continue. "Hamas and the other terror groups in the Gaza Strip should know that bringing harm to Israeli citizens will bring about a harsh response. They do not want to test our might," Gantz said.
Israel's security forces remained on high alert on the Egyptian border in response to a viable Islamic Jihad terror threat. Military intelligence suggests that an Islamic Jihad terror cell has left the Gaza Strip and intends to infiltrate Israel through Sinai. (Ynet News)

Jordan Urges Abbas to Rethink UN Bid - Roee Nahmias
Jordan has appealed to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and asked him to reconsider the PA's nearing bid for UN recognition, Saudi Arabia's al-Madinah newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Jordan views the move as dangerous and as one that may compromise the Palestinians' assertion of the right of return. (Ynet News)

Turkey's Need for Israel's UAVs May Rehabilitate their Relationship - Zvi Bar'el
Turkey censured Israel for its activities in Gaza, but operates in a similar manner against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK): It penetrates Iraq's air space and bombs villages or sites suspected of housing PKK members, causing the deaths of innocent people, including women and children.
According to Turkish sources, the Turkish army is using unmanned aerial vehicles acquired from Israel, to which Turkish-made cameras are attached. It turns out that the amount of UAV's in Turkey's hands is insufficient, and it is seeking to purchase more, along with other military equipment, for immediate delivery.
A senior Turkish source told Ha'aretz that it is possible that "the war against the PKK may actually be the factor that rehabilitates relations between Turkey and Israel. Turkey needs the UAV's and Israel is likely to be a good source." (Ha'aretz)

Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):

Israeli Ambassador: Palestinian Statehood Vote Could End All PA Agreements with Israel and the U.S. - Josh Rogin
If the Palestinians go forward with their drive to seek recognition as a state at the UN General Assembly next month, all agreements governing Israeli-Palestinian and U.S.-Palestinian cooperation could become null and void, according to Israel's ambassador to the United States.
  "We have a lot of agreements with the Palestinian Authority, we have no agreements with a 'Government of Palestine,'" Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, told The Cable in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. "It's just a fact, we have no agreements with a 'Government of Palestine.' It puts us in a different realm."
  Oren said that agreements covering all sorts of fields, such as import-export, water sharing, and Israel-Palestinian security forces cooperation, would become invalid if the Palestinians declare statehood unilaterally, based on a vote at the UN -- rather than by negotiating statehood with the government of Israel via the stalled peace process.
  "It's not just our agreements with the Palestinian Authority, it's America's agreements with the Palestinian Authority (that are at risk)," Oren said. "America is a cosignatory to the Oslo Accord and this would seriously undermine it." (The Cable, Foreign Policy)

Iran Feels Heat Over Support for Damascus - Farnaz Fassihi
Iran's steadfast support for Syria's regime has rapidly eroded Tehran's credibility among Arabs, leaving the country with a foreign-policy dilemma as popular uprisings mount across the region. Meanwhile, Iran's official reaction to the downfall of Col. Moammar Gaddafi's regime in Libya has been measured. Iranian officials, as well as leaders of Iran-backed Hizbullah, appear to have taken a selective approach to the Arab uprisings.
A new poll the Arab-American Institute conducted in six Arab countries and released in July showed Iran's popularity has fallen drastically. The poll, taken during the first three weeks of June, asked more than 4,000 Arabs questions that included whether Iran contributed to peace and stability in the Mid dle East. In Egypt, only 37% had a favorable view of Iran, compared with 89% in 2006. In Saudi Arabia, the number dropped to 6% from 85%, while in Jordan it fell to 23% from 75%.
In Lebanon and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza, anti-Syrian regime protests have erupted, to the dismay of their governments, which are allied with Iran. In Syria, protesters have burned Iranian and Hizbullah flags, along with pictures of Iran's Khamenei and Hizbullah's Nasrallah as they chanted "Death to the Dictator. (Wall Street Journal)

Observations:

If the Arab Spring Turns Ugly - Vali Nasr (New York Times)

There are no recent examples of extended power-sharing or peaceful transitions to democracy in the Arab world. When dictatorships crack, budding democracies are more than likely to be greeted by violence and paralysis. Sectarian divisions - the bane of many Middle Eastern societies - will then emerge, as competing groups settle old scores and vie for power.

Syria today stands at the edge of such an upheaval. The potential for a broader clash between Alawites and Sunnis is clear, and it would probably not be confined to Syria. Instead, it would carry a risk of setting off a regional dynamic that could overwhelm the hopeful narrative of the Arab Spring itself.

Throughout the Middle East there is a strong undercurrent of simmering sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shiites, of whom the Alawites are a subset. Shiites and Sunnis live cheek by jowl in the long arc that stretches from Lebanon to Pakistan, and the region's two main power brokers, Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, are already jousting for power.

Today, Shiites clamor for greater rights in Lebanon, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, while Sunnis are restless in Iraq and Syria. For the past three decades the Saudi monarchy, which sees itself as the guardian of Sunni Islam, has viewed Iran's Shiite theocracy as its nemesis.

Saudis saw Iran's hand behind a rebellion among Yemen's Houthi tribe - who are Zaydis, an offshoot of Shiism. Iran blamed Arab financing for its own decade-long revolt by Sunni Baluchis along its southeastern border with Pakistan. And since 2005, when Shiite Hizbullah was implicated in the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a popular Sunni prime minister who was close to the Saudis, a wide rift has divided Lebanon's Sunni and Shiite communities, and prompted Saudi fury against Hizbullah.

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