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HOT MIC CATCHES EGYPTIAN POLITICIAN DISCUSSING ‘WAR’ WITH ‘ENEMIES’ ISRAEL AND AMERICA

Lumpy — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:33:08 +0000

By The Blaze | ust last month, Secretary of State John Kerry quietly sent Egypt an additional $1.3 billion, even though Egypt has failed to live up to democracy standards. That largesse didn’t stop a prominent Egyptian politician from talking about Egypt’s “enemy” the United States in what some pundits are classifying as a classic and embarrassing “hot mic” moment. President Mohammed Morsi gathered a group of politicians last week who thought they were speaking privately at a parliamentary meeting. But as seen in an Egyptian television video of the meeting — excerpts of which were later translated by the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) — they were actually on live television, cringingly discussing secret ways to stop Ethiopia’s Nile River dam project which threatens water flowing to Egypt. The New York Times blog reports: Unaware that their words were being broadcast live on a state-owned television channel, many of those seated around the table said the dam was in fact a secret American and Israeli plot to undermine Egypt that must be stopped at all costs. The participants learned they were on live TV only after Magdi Ahmad Hussein, chairman of the Islamic Labor Party, suggested that all present vow not to leak any information to the media. Before being told he was on television, Hussein described the U.S. as an...

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013 U.S. Defends “Human Rights” of Persecutors of Christians

Lumpy — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:25:40 +0000

By Middle East Forum | The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in the African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at least 41 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a bus station in a predominantly Christian neighborhood. According to the Christian Association of Nigeria, these attacks “were a signpost of the intended extermination of Christians and Christianity from northern Nigeria.” According to the Rev. Jerome Ituah, “Out of the 52 Catholic churches in Maiduguri diocese, 50 of them have been destroyed by Boko Haram. When two Christian brothers were returning home after Sunday church service, jihadis opened fire on them with machine guns, killing the brothers, as well as three others, and injuring several more Christians. Another 13 Christian factory workers in Kano were “gruesomely” slain. Said the local bishop: “Reports of the attack reaching us disclosed that on that fateful Saturday at about 7 p.m, Muslim faithful were conducting their prayer close to the affected compound occupied by Christian families, when two taxi cabs stopped in front of the compound and the occupants, who all concealed their arms dashed into the complex and demanded to know why the residents were not part of the...

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The Return of Crusader Theology

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:43:20 +0000

By Israel Today | Last month, the World Council of Churches (WCC) convened in Lebanon and issued the following statement: “Palestine continues to be the central issue in the region … The persistence, after sixty five years, of continuing dispossession of Palestinian people—Christian and Muslim alike—from their land by Israeli occupation, continuing settlement of land inside the 1967 borders … is central to the turmoil in the region …. Jerusalem today is an occupied city with a government which has adopted discriminatory policies against Christians and Muslims alike …” The WCC also took aim at Christians who dare to support Israel, the reviled “Christian Zionists”: “Christians who promote ‘Christian Zionism’ distort the interpretation of the Word of God and the historic connection of Palestinians—Christians and Muslims—to the Holy Land, enable the manipulation of public opinion by Zionist lobbies, and damage intra-Christian relations.” The WCC is not a marginal organization that can be dismissed off hand. It represents some 500 million Christians living in 110 countries and territories around the world. It include Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed and Independent churches, all of which have signed on to a political-religious document that contains blatant lies that bring to mind historical anti-Jewish Christian biases. For instance, the WCC asserts that Israel, continually, for 65 years, has been dispossessing...

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Rumors of war in the north

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:38:29 +0000

By Israel Today | Earlier this week, the US government warned Americans to steer clear of Israel’s northern Golan Heights. Now the United Nations is cautioning that neighboring Syria’s ongoing civil war is likely to spill over the border. “US citizens are advised to defer non-essential travel to and within the Golan Heights and to exercise an extra measure of caution,” read an email sent by the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to American citizens living in Israel. The warning came after Syrian government and rebel forces engaged in a days-long battle for the border town of Quneitra, with Syrian forces entering the demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Syria for the first time in decades. Around the same time, Austria, which is the largest contributor of troops to the UN peacekeeping force stationed on the Golan border, announced that it was pulling its soldiers out of the region. The peacekeepers making up the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) have been repeatedly targeted by Syrian rebels in recent months, and many have expressed their total lack of motivation to risk their lives to prevent war between Israel and its neighbors. The Austrian troops began withdrawing on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened rushed negotiations with Sweden to replace the absentee peacekeepers. In fact, Ban...

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Summer camp in Gaza: Kids learn to abduct Israelis

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:35:16 +0000

By Israel Today | The annual Hamas-run summer camp in the Gaza Strip has started up, and features the same unbelievable line-up of activities, such as learning to fire live assault rifles, avoid capture by the authorities and abduct Israeli Jews. To increase the realism, tires are left burning all around the camp ground, and the sounds of explosions can be heard constantly. An estimated 10,000 Gaza kids between the ages of six and 16 attend the camp every summer. Let that sink in – first graders are being trained to kill people with guns and violently kidnap Jews. UK newspaper The Daily Mail, which has a reporter in Gaza, wrote that the camp “appears to have been designed to mold its visitors into the terrorists of tomorrow.” To make sure the children know just what it is their being trained to fight for, their masked Hamas supervisors also provide a number of lessons and workshops on Islam and becoming a martyr for Allah. To see original article,visit Israel Today PJTN stands with the Jewish State of Israel as a culture of life.Join PJTN in our stand with—and for—Israel…

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Professors: Stop calling Israel an occupier

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:32:21 +0000

By Israel Today | Professors participating in an international conference at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv this week explained that international law that does necessarily support the claim that Israel is imposing a belligerent occupation on Judea and Samaria. Under the title of “Israel and International Law,” the conference brought together professors of law from around the world to discuss the issue of Israel’s presence in and sovereignty over the so-called “West Bank.” Prof. Avi Bell of the University of San Diego explained to Arutz Sheva that it is “a mistake to think of this as a simple black and white matter of law. It’s not. It’s complicated.” Bell noted that “the way the law is generally discussed is as if it’s all absolutely clear that Israel’s case is insupportable,” while in reality Israel has a very good legal case for continued sovereignty over these territories. Prof. Jeremy A. Rabkin of George Mason University added that since the creation of the United Nations, “no other country in the world…has ever acknowledged that it is involved in an occupation.” As such, this is a very flexible category without modern legal precedent, so it is unfair to create an international law that applies only to Israel. Meanwhile, a poll conducted by Smith Research on behalf of the Knesset’s Land of...

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Mideast turmoil presents opportunity for Israel

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:29:27 +0000

By Israel Today | Danny Ayalon, Israel’s popular former deputy foreign minister, says the Middle East is set to fracture even further in the near future, resulting in a region with over 30 nations, where only 22 exist today. Speaking at the John Gandel Symposium at Tel Aviv University, Ayalon further stated that the process of globalization on the one hand, and the disintegration of independent political entities around the world on the other, present Israel with both opportunities and threats. In his estimation, the divisions and current inward focus in the Arab states means there is at present no strong unified stances against Israel. At the same time, export deals for a portion of Israel’s new natural gas resources could strengthen dialog with Europe. “The problem of the events in Syria is that in the absence of a strong government, security arrangements with Israel can be broken, so Israel has to take into account the presence of forces such as Hezbollah or al Qaeda,” explained Ayalon. “Strategically, our position may better, but tactically we have challenges.” Ayalon believes that Iran will not become a nuclear power, thanks to eventual international intervention, and that Hamas’ position in the region will weaken significantly as Iran and Syria all but cut ties after the looming fall of...

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Islamic states reject as un-Islamic UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning violence against women

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:25:46 +0000

By Jihad Watch | “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34) “Islamic states frown on Islam-opposing paragraphs of UNHCR violence against women resolution,” from the Kuwait News Agency, June 14 (thanks to Andrew Bostom): GENEVA, June 14 (KUNA) — Islamic member states of the United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNHCR) rejected on Friday paragraphs violating the Islamic law in the council’s resolution on the elimination of all forms of violence against women, noting that the member states must make sure that their laws and national policies are consistent with the rejected demands. The rejections include the paragraph, which gives women “the right to control matters concerning their sexual lives as well as their reproductive health without coercion, discrimination or violence.”They also rejected the paragraph that allows performing judicial proceedings in cases of rape within marriage, the abolition of provisions that require the matching of certificates and allow the rapist to escape prosecution by marrying him to his victim as well as subduing victims...

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Report: Iran sending 4,000 troops to aid Assad

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:23:22 +0000

By Jerusalem Post | The Independent: Iran proposes Golan front against Israel; rebels call on new Iranian President to stop support of Assad. Iran will send 4,000 Revolutionary Guard troops to Syria to fight alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, The Independent reported on Sunday. The decision to send soldiers to Syria was taken last week prior to Friday’s Iranian presidential election which saw cleric Hassan Rohani defeat a number of more conservative candidates. The Independent quoted pro-Iranian sources as saying that Iran has proposed to open up a front against Israel on the Golan Heights as part of efforts to preserve Assad’s regime in Syria. The report comes after the US announced on Thursday that it will begin to arm the Syrian opposition in the face of evidence that Assad used chemical weapons against rebels on multiple occasions. Iran has been Assad’s most staunch supporter and hasadmitted in the past that Revolutionary Guard forces were active in Syria, helping the regime in its fight against rebels. Upon news of Rohani’s victory in the Iranian presidential election, the opposition Syrian National Coalition called on the new Iranian leader to drop the Islamic Republic’s support for Assad. “For more than two years of the Syrian revolution, the Iranian authorities have stood against the aspirations of the Syrian people by continuing to support the criminal Assad...

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Abdullah: Jordan ready to fight threats from Syria

Lumpy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:19:42 +0000

By Jerusalem Post | Jordanian King says Jordan can protect itself from Syrian war spillover “if the world does not help as it should.” AMMAN – Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Sunday the kingdom was ready to fight to protect itself against any threat to its security from the escalating civil war in neighboring Syria. He was speaking as Jordanian and US forces proceeded withjoint military exercises with the participation of 17 other countries. Diplomats say the exercises, which entered their second week, aim to send a strong message to Syrian President Bashar Assad. “If the world does not help as it should, and if the matter becomes a danger to our country, we are able at any moment to take the measures to protect the country and the interest of our people,” King Abdullah told military cadets at a graduation ceremony in southern Jordan. He also saluted members of his country’s armed forces who helped over the last year undertake a massive humanitarian relief operation to bring across the border hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing bombardment in their villages and towns and seeking a safe haven. A Pentagon spokesman said on Saturday Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved a Jordanian request for American F-16s and Patriot missiles to remain in the Western-backed kingdom after...

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