Anti-semite to speak at Vancouver Public Library

SEE AN UPDATE ON THE FELTON’S TALK HERE

Amazon is fantastic. I love it when you find a book and scroll down the page to the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” section. It tells you all you need to know about the intended audience for your purchase.

Vancouver’s city librarians may not be aware of this neat feature, but I would encourage them to familiarize themselves with it. It might save them some trouble in the future.

There’s a book out there called: “The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America” written by a fellow named Greg Felton. Look it up on Amazon, scroll down to the ‘also bought’ section for it and you’ll find these titles:

• “The Jews and Their Lies”
• “The Synagogue of Satan”
• “The Case Against Israel”
• “Auschwitz Lies”

That’s not at all ambiguous. Nor are the reviews, nor is the writer. If you hate you some Jews, you’ll love you some Greg Felton.

And thanks to the above mentioned librarians’ carelessness, he’ll be speaking on Monday, February 25th at the Vancouver Public Library.

Felton is an overt anti-semite. He’s, as they say, “out”. Just look at his website – look past the Star of David festooned over the masthead of the Globe and Mail, look past the picture of PMSH pledging allegiance to the Israeli flag and take a look at Felcher’s articles. Here’s one praising Amahdinejad:

First of all, we should ask: “Should Israel be on the map in the first place?” Loyal readers of this space know the answer … Israel is a criminal entity that has never had a moral, legal or political right to exist. Score one for Ahmadinejad.

He’s just despicable. But I certainly don’t want to prevent this person from freely ‘monger’ing his hate – I think it’s a good thing that people like that identify themselves. Terry Glavin said this very succinctly: “Facts alone condemn Felton. They need no help from me.”

But giving him a public venue and paying to promote him with public money, that’s nothing to do with free speech. He has a right to say whatever he wants (excluding libel, etc… obviously), but there’s no way he has the right to public money to do it. The city just has to cancel his talk. If he wants to be a nut, he’s within his rights to do it out on the street with all the rest of his kind.

You can read much more about this on Terry Glavin’s site.

If you are in Vancouver on the 25th, I do recommend attending the lecture with your camera. I intend to go and take lots of pictures of the applauding little Eichmans for posting here.

Dilbert’s mea culpa

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has been taking a lot of heat on the web and in his own comments for his “satire” the other day in which he appeared to show sympathy for Amahdinejad. Today he issued a mea culpa:

In reading the comments to my post yesterday, I see that many of you were confused about my positions. Evidently all of you are brilliant, so I assume the problem is on my end.

He clarified a few things, most importantly on Israel and the Jews:

If Israel had an enemy that it could make peace with, then I might feel different. But it doesn’t, so Israel’s best interests dictate keeping the neighbors too economically weak to purchase expensive weapons, and to control as much territory as possible. I don’t begrudge any country that makes rational decisions in support of its own safety. I don’t even begrudge Israel’s influence on American foreign policy. I respect them for how well they do it.

Here’s the video version:

Yom Kippur Greetings From Dilbert

“Interesting” blog post on Dilbert author, Scott Adams’ blog today. Re Amahdinejad’s calling the holocaust a ‘myth’:

Aren’t there any Iranian words for saying a set of historical facts has achieved an unhealthy level of influence on a specific set of decisions in the present?

What would be a healthy level of influence for the holocaust to have on current affairs? I’d say it doesn’t have enough influence, just look at Darfur, or the Western Sahara. But anyway, you have to question the motives of anyone who appears to be kvetching about Jewish influence. I won’t call him an Anti-Semite, because that would be poor form, but I would just ask – based on that comment above, what else could he be?

FYI – Dilbert on 9-11:

France 2 ordered to release complete Palestinian “Martyr” video

France has been ordered to release the tapes. These are the tapes of the evil joooz killing the poor helpless Palestinian boy in a shootout with brave and noble Palestinian freedom fighters.

That’s what the published tape shows. But the full unedited footage? That’s been hidden from public view.

Philippe Karsenty, director of the media watchdog group Media-Ratings, was convicted of slander by a French court for suggesting that the raw tapes showed something different. He said that they real tapes showed a staged event and that the boy was not killed on tape.

If you remember the fauxtography scandal during the Lebanon war, it seems plausible.

Here’s the report from Pajamas Media:

The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty in the matter of Mohammed Al Dura – the epochal case of the Palestinian boy allegedly shot by Israeli troops in 2000 – took a huge turn today. Photos of the boy have been accused of being the birth of fauxtography.

Appellate Court Presiding judge Laurence Trébucq has demanded that France 2 hand over the 27-minutes of raw footage shot on the afternoon of September 30, 2000 by Talal Abu Rahmeh. France 2 lawyer Maïtre Bénédicte Amblard tried to convince the judge that the request was not appropriate, relevant, necessary or even advisable. But the judge wants to see the outtakes with her own eyes. This is the first time the French court has made such a demand that would be normal in the US system. The court will now be able to determine if the Al Dura shooting and tape was a fake, as many have alleged.

Maître Amblard was not able to reach her clients to confirm availability of the footage. Today’s hearing was adjourned. The next hearing is scheduled on November 14th… to view the raw footage.

Archduke Shot – Kaiser blamed

In a story lost somewhere in the aether last week, Israel bombed Syrian nuclear facilities or missile batteries or something of the sort.

From the NY Times:

After days of silence from the Israeli government, American officials confirmed Tuesday that Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes inside Syria last week, the first such attack since 2003.

A Defense Department official said Israeli jets had struck at least one target in northeastern Syria last Thursday, but the official said it was still unclear exactly what the jets hit and the extent of the bombing damage.

The Times writes that Syria has filed a complaint with the UN. What the Times neglected to mention is that Syria has also responded by calling up reservists, mobilizing its armed forces and readying an attack on Israel:

the Syrian army has begun drafting reservists from the armed corps, missile corps and anti-aircraft units, and quoted “sources in the know” who said the draft was a response to Israel raising its level of readiness in the north. [source]

North Korea has condemned Israel which leads one to wonder if any of their people were on the ground where it hit [which might lend credence to the Nuclear angle]. You can read more on this at LGF or at Captain’s Quarters.

Clarity on Palestine

That is a poor, outgunned Hamas “Freedom Fighter”. Below is part of a communique from Hamas. Notice the phrases in bold and see what Arabs mean when they say ’settlement’ and ‘occupied territory’. We’re not talking about kiryat alba, were talking about Tel Aviv – Arabs consider that city to be a ’settlement’ on ‘occupied’ Arab land. When they talk about ending the occupation, they don’t mean leaving the Gaza strip – that didn’t pacify them – they mean Jews leaving the Middle East. What is there really for Israel to negotiate? Here it is from Hamas:

Hamas Movement refuses to divulge any of its armed wing’s secrets but underlined that a big chunk of its weaponry was home made.

In a related matter, the Islamic Jihad Movement fired a homemade missile at Askelon city inside the 1948-occupied lands, and unleashed mortar shells at the Israeli settlement of Sderot and IOF positions in Kerem Shalom.

Map here

Gilad Shalit’s Alive

Gilead Shalit is impressive.  It took nearly a full year of imprisonment by Hamas to break him.  God only knows the months of torture it took to make him say what he did.

More at the JPost. 

Hamasistan – Seriously messed up.

This is the border in the new Hamas-controlled Gaza strip. Seriously.

 

British Press Welcomes its Islamic Overlords 2

[I say '2' because the first quasi-related blog post is here]

Today I was looking at the British ‘National Union of Journalists’ website and saw their ‘International Activity’ section. They had a list of all of their international campaigns and I was pleased to see one there for Cuba.

About bloody time. Maybe I had the NUJ all wrong. I thought they were leftist ideological extremists, [actually 'Bonapartists' for those who speak Trotskyite] because of their boycott of Israel.

But running a Cuba campaign, well bravo. As you may know, Cuba has one of the worst records on press freedom in the world. ‘Reporters Without Borders’ ,the world’s premier advocate for press freedom, has a running press freedom tally on their homepage called the “Press Freedom Barometer”. So far in 2007, 47 journalists have been killed, and another 68 cyberdissidents (i.e. bloggers) and 125 journalists have been imprisoned. The largest group of imprisoned journalists are Chinese. The second largest group – Cuban.

Reporters Without Borders deserves endless commendation for its defence of Cuban dissidents. Here is what they say about Cuban rights violations and philocubans:

Cuba has many admirers all over the world, more than any other government. The Cuban revolution retains a deep-seated, romantic appeal many still find hard to resist. Castro fans find reasons to forgive or turn a blind eye to the revolution’s crimes and shortcomings. Many who have never set foot in Cuba see it as a symbol of the struggle against US imperialism and therefore think it should be spared all criticism. Even if that means ignoring its human rights violations.

So getting back to the NUJ. Bravo again for their campaign for press freedom in Cuba. But, I speak too soon. Their Cuban campaign? The National Union of JOURNALISTS isn’t standing up for their imprisoned Cuban journalist commrades, oh no, that would be too close to their mandate. They are standing up for Guantanamo detainees. Their target isn’t the Castros, but Bush.

With that nuance done away with, I geuss I was right in thinking that they are leftist ideological extremists. What then of the NUJ’s ‘Boycott Israel’ campaign referred to above? First if you don’t know, the NUJ wants to boycott Israel for these reasons:

…the slaughter of civilians by Israeli troops in Gaza and the IDF’s continued attacks inside Lebanon following the defeat of its army by Hezbollah.

[and]

…Israeli aggression in Gaza and other occupied territories.

There has to be a unifying principle that would require an organization to support suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in Cuba and call for “sanctions [to] be imposed on Israel by the British government and the United Nations”. I went looking for this principle and as often happens these days, this lead me to Facebook. The National Union of Journalists has a group there, complete with comments.

The group hosts a debate on the boycott. The leading opponent is BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones , you can read more about his opposition on his blog. He appears to principally oppose the boycott because it was passed by undemocratic means. Fair play that, but what struck me most was a comment by a countryman of mine and a former journalist for the New Statesman, Leigh Phillips (the group’s admin) in support of the boycott:

The world is currently at war and the heart of the conflict between the West and Al Qaeda is threefold (Al Qaeda’s consistently stated three demands for an end to hostilities): the Israeli occupation, the presence of US troops in the Middle East, and US support for authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes. There can be no end to this war until Israel ends the occupation. What more important battle is there to pick?

In other words, boycott Israel, because it will mollify Al Qaeda. Now, I’ve written about why that won’t work below, so I don’t want to get into the practicality of it. But let me state Phillips’ argument again: “Al Qaeda’s consistently stated three demands for an end to hostilities [are ending] the Israeli occupation, the presence of US troops in the Middle East, and US support for authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes…What more important battle is there to pick? “

And so here is your unifying principle: this member of the National Union of Journalists isn’t just opposing the Blair or Bush governments, but he is supporting the enemy. They’ve gone from dissidence to actual treason.

Is it surprising though? They’ve been there on the other side for a while. Read the Guardian or the Independent and tell me they’re on our side. Don’t believe me? Here’s the Independent:

how come our midgets still pretend they are fighting the Second World War, that Saddam was Hitler on the Tigris, that Nasser was the Mussolini of the Nile (this really was Anthony Eden’s description!), that they are standing up to appeasement, and al-Qa’ida “fascism”? Is there not some way of switching this nonsense off?

Look around and you’ll see that it’s not only the British journalist establishment, but the left in general that has gone turncoat.

Terry Glavin summarized this best when writing about the Canadian ‘anti-war’ movement, but it’s applicable to the British media:

…this is war, and these people are not on our side.

For more on the boycott, take a look at these articles:

+ Front Page Mag – Dershowitz

 + Haaretz – Retaliation!

UNRELATED: Canadian Leftists picket bookstore. It’s owned by the jooooz! you see.

Dilbert: Bush was right.

When was the last time you read something and thought: “Holy crap, I’ve never heard that before”?  Right so – here it is – “Bush was right”. Got it? But wait, there’s more! ‘Bush has solved the Al Qaeda problem.’ – brilliant.

Dilbert explains why:

I knew a guy who worked privately as “muscle” to get rid of stalkers for women who could afford his services. He was an expert on stalker mentality. His view, based on years of experience, is that you can’t make a stalker give up stalking. The best you can do is encourage him to stalk someone new. His job was to make it so dangerous to stalk his client that the stalker would move on to a new and more accessible victim.

We have the same stalker mentality situation with Al-Qaeda. Our best bet is to divert their focus to more accessible targets, just as the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan shifted their focus to us. Ironically, the civil war in Iraq might have accidentally accomplished through irrational means what good foreign policy could not. Al-Qaeda is using far more resources fighting other Muslims than fighting the U.S.

I think for the most part he’s right. No matter what we do we could never piss off Al Qaeda as much as the Shia could. Does this mean we should leave Iraq? No, it means we should stay in Iraq. As long as America is there, it’s fighting and showing Al Qaeda it’s the meanest, toughest guy on the block. If it runs away, it starts to look like a soft target.

Don’t take my word for it, listen to Bin Laden (pre 9-11) talking about the American retreat from Somalia:

“You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew. The extent of your impotence and weaknesses has become very clear,” he said. “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”

And according to Dilbert, if you have a live horse that can kick you and a dead horse that won’t – you’re gonna beat the dead horse.

The Six-Day War – Video

+ Unrelated 1: ‘Israel will be destroyed soon’ – Iranian President Ahmadinejad
+ Unrelated 2: Syria, Iran, Hezbollah Plan War on Israel for August

Yesterday was the anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War. For the uninitiated, the Six-Day war lasted for six days back in 1967. That’s all everyone can agree on.

This is what we in the west say happened. You know us the West? Put a man on the moon, free press, Nobel prizes up the wazoo, religious freedom etc… . Well this is what happened from our point of view. Now keep in mind I completely respect the other point of view. You know the other point of view which claims that the Jews, apparently sons of pigs and monkeys, started this war as part of a satanic plot to humiliate the Arabs etc…?  Two completely equal world views – each of which I respect entirely. So this is ours, which is of course as equally biased as the other world view.

So the Six-Day war started after Egypt expelled the Sinai Peacekeeping forces, blockaded Israel, and arrayed a dozen muslim nations and half a million troops on Israel’s borders. Israel waited for the international community to do something. It did not. Israel has an all conscript army,to put an army in the field, it needs to remove every able-bodied man and woman from the economy. It can do that for a few days without facing economic collapse, but not much longer. Israel does not have the luxury of waiting for sanctions or pro-longed talks to work.

It launched a surprise attack and destroyed all of the Arab air forces. It followed up by resisting and then pushing back the Arab armies and occupying Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan and the Sinai. It’s territory increased 350% But with such a rapid advance, it rolled over hundreds of thousands of Arab civilians – who then began life under Israeli rule.

This video documents that war and some of the background for it. It’s by the Israeli government. Part 1 is below, the links to the other parts are below that.

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10
• Part 11

Chagall has always been my favourite painter, now more so

The last time I was in Zurich I spent half my time in Fraumunster Cathedral in worship of Chagall’s stained glass windows. He’s my favourite artist on earth.

I was reading an old Time story on the 6-day war. It was a contemporary story, and I found this:

Lovelier Windows. At 11 a.m. on the first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector of the divided city. Longer-range guns reached across Israel’s narrow waist to hit the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and Syrian guns opened up on northern Israeli towns from the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee. But it was Jerusalem, the Israeli capital, that took the worst damage the Arabs inflicted on the Jews in the whole war. Most of the city’s residents spent the next two days of constant bombardment in underground shelters. Even with only essential civilians venturing above ground, more than 500 were killed and wounded in the massive Jordanian shelling.

No part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol’s home and in the garden of the King David Hotel. The glass panes in the Israel Museum were blasted out, and the Isaiah Scroll, most complete of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, was hastily moved into its underground vault. Most of the famed Chagall stained-glass windows in the Hadassah Medical Center’s synagogue were taken down in time, but a hole was blasted in one. Wrote Chagall from France: “I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe and I will make you lovelier windows.”