Terror Supporting Muslim Speaker Canceled in Kansas

U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Wichita)

Not mentioned in this lengthy piece is context. The United States has an open society which tolerates all religions. In the 45 Muslim dominant countries Jews, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists are harassed, killed and not tolerated. Muslims should be grateful for the tolerance shown to them which they do not show to others. A large majority of Muslims openly promote Sharia law in the United States and the world. They demand minority status in the United Stated but are a enormous religion which grows faster than others. In the Muslim dominant countries they do not extend minority rights to others religions. Many Muslims in the United States support terrorism as a means to establish Sharia law. These facts are seldom included in media reports. It is a rational basis for the fears of American Christians and Jews when a religious personality promotes terrorist organizations. Muslim state sponsored schools taught children for generations to hate Jews, Americans and Israel. They promote the destruction of Israel. These facts need to be discussed to place the concerns about Islam in perspective.  

[From article]
The morning of Thursday, March 24, Hussam Madi got a call from Wichita police.
They said between 20 and 50 protesters would be outside the Islamic Society of Wichita mosque, off K-96 near Woodlawn, that Friday night.
It was the beginning of a collision course between freedom of expression, freedom of religion, community sensitivities and fear of violence. And some might say the right to bear arms, including assault rifles, in a public place.
A week later, the collision is still reverberating.
A protest at the Wichita mosque is unusual. It has happened maybe three times in 20 years, said Madi, a U.S. citizen, Wichita businessman, 49-year-old father of “very, very active (Wichita State University) Shocker students” and spokesman for the local Islamic Society.
Police told Madi that their understanding was that the protest would be peaceful, Madi recalled this past week. Whatever happens, police told him, “We’ll be visible.”
The people planning to protest were upset that the Islamic Society was bringing in Monzer Taleb as a speaker. They viewed Taleb as having been a supporter of terrorism.
[. . .]
The mosque also didn’t want a protest to disturb services at a Lutheran church across the street.
It was a coincidence that Taleb’s talk was scheduled on a Christian holy day, Good Friday, Madi said.
Taleb had spoken at least four times earlier at the mosque without protest, as late as December 2014, Madi said.
Another key factor for the mosque: U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Wichita, issued a lengthy statement that Thursday calling on the Islamic Society to cancel Taleb’s appearance on “Holy Friday” and saying that if the society didn’t, “They will be responsible for the damage among religious faiths that is sure to follow.”
[. . .]
The sheriff also noted that he had a concern about the choice of Taleb as a speaker and the timing of his planned appearance.
“I don’t agree with what this guy stands for,” Easter said. “But he has a right to have his First Amendment rights (voiced).”
Easter said he views Taleb as “someone who had ties to a terrorist organization. I was very surprised that they would bring that kind of person in to speak to their congregation,” especially during a Christian holiday.
[. . .]
On the day before Taleb was to speak, Pompeo issued a statement asking the Islamic Society to cancel the address.
The congressman said that while the Islamic Society had a First Amendment right, it “does not permit the Islamic Society of Wichita to escape responsibility for the horrible judgment of doing so – especially by doing so on this important Christian day.”
Pompeo, who describes himself as an evangelical Christian, added that on “one of the most holy days on the Christian calendar, and only days after radical Islamic extremists murdered dozens of innocents of many faiths in Brussels, Belgium, they chose to bring a Hamas-connected sheik to their community center here in Wichita.”
Pompeo, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Hamas is a “designated terrorist organization that has the destruction of Israel as its core tenet and terror and murder as its core operating principle.”
“I can find no mention of the Brussels murders on ISW’s website, facebook page or twitter account,” Pompeo said, referring to the Islamic Society of Wichita. “This is unconscionable. ISW and its leaders should use this to condemn this attack instead of celebrating Sheik Talib.”
[. . .]
Pompeo reiterated on Friday that although he understands the Islamic Society’s right to bring in any speaker it wants, “This is a Hamas-linked cleric.”
Taleb has confirmed that by his own words, Pompeo said.
“There’s no guessing on this one. I do know about Hamas activities in the United States from my work on the committee.”
[. . .]
Pompeo on Friday denied that he is scapegoating Taleb.
“I have been very clear to steer away from any person who has (argued) that all Muslims are persons that we have to fear,” he said. “I have been criticized for that, too.”
But now, thousands of people have been killed and millions more displaced by “radical Islamic terrorists,” Pompeo said. “And that now has reached into our country, and we need … every faith doing everything they can to push back on this violence and terror.”
Salem, the spokeswoman for Taleb, argued that it’s “completely untrue” that Taleb supports terrorism. He has been accused of calling for the destruction of Israel. But there is a key distinction, she said: He has advocated for the freedom of the Palestinian people, and in doing so, he has opposed oppression of Palestinians.

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APRIL 1, 2016 7:01 PM
How Wichita mosque speaker controversy played out
BY TIM POTTER
tpotter (at) wichitaeagle.com

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US Taxpayers Fund Terrorism By Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood Through US Dept. of Health Human Services

[From article]
The Obama administration recently gave a $270,000 grant to an Islamic charity that has been banned by Israel and the United Arab Emirates because of alleged financial ties to the terrorist group Hamas and to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided the funds last month to the U.K.-based Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) for its work in Kenya, according to the federal spending database USASpending.gov.
The funds are earmarked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global health security partner engagement initiative.
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The program is aimed at fighting infectious diseases and promoting “global health security as an international priority,” according to the CDC website.
But IRW has been at the center of other security concerns.
In 2014, Israel and United Arab Emirates banned IRW, which is headquartered in Birmingham, England, from operating within its borders alleging that the group supports and funds Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s military arm in Palestine.
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Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon alleged in July 2014 that IRW’s chapters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were being run by members of Hamas.
“The IRW is one of the sources of Hamas’s funding and a means for raising funds from various countries in the world,” Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon said in a July 2014 statement. “We do not intend to allow it to function and abet terrorist activity against Israel.”
[. . .]



The IRW provides support and assistance to Hamas’s infrastructure,” the statement continued, alleging that IRW’s operations are “controlled and staffed by Hamas operatives.”
“The intensive activities of these associations are designed to further Hamas’s ideology among the Palestinian population.”
In Nov. 2014, United Arab Emirates added IRW to its list of designated terrorist organizations. HSBC, the London-based bank, also severed its relationship with IRW, citing the alleged terror ties.
But Ryan Mauro, who tracks terror-linked group as a national security analyst for the Clarion Project, says that IRW’s links to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood should, at the very least, disqualify it from receiving any federal funding.
“IRW’s Muslim Brotherhood ties should rule it out of the running for government grants. This is simply common sense,” Mauro told The Daily Caller.
The CDC grant isn’t the first federal grant IRW has received this year. As the Washington Free Beacon reported in December, U.S. Agency for International Development gave IRW a $100,000 stipend, also for work in Kenya.
Mauro also noted that more than 50 members of Congress support new legislation labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. One supporter of the measure if Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/30/feds-give-270k-grant-to-islamic-charity-with-alleged-ties-to-hamas-muslim-brotherhood/

Feds Give $270K Grant To Islamic Charity With Alleged Ties To Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood

Chuck Ross, Reporter
12:07 AM 03/30/2016

Cambridge, MA City Council Condemns Published Article

Clever changing focus to First Amendment. Issue is whether a Cambridge City Councilor is linked to a terror group. No discussion of that by the Council. Is it true? Councilor Mazen does not deny he is so linked. The City Council ignores the issue, instead attacks a news venue. In 1993 R.W. Apple received an award from the Neiman Foundation at Harvard. I asked Mr Apple, at the event why the "irresponsible" media, his term, often turned out to be accurate in their reporting, while the "responsible" media, e.g., the New York Times was often wrong. The National Enquirer (designated irresponsible) revealed John Edwards impregnated his videographer, while running for President. Like Bill Clinton, Edwards denied it on television. The Cambridge City Council declared Breitbart to be an “illegitimate tabloid.” William Bulger blamed Boston tabloids for circulating rumors about him and his brother, serial killer James "Whitey" Bulger. After name calling is done, is CAIR terror linked or not? The FBI says it is. The British government says it is. Councilor Mazen is silent. Will name calling reveal the truth as it does on the Harvard University campus? Is the matter unacceptable for City Council deliberations?

[From article]
In a resolution passed last month, Cambridge’s City Council publicly denounced the right-wing media organization Breitbart.com for spreading what it called “anti-Muslim libel” after the outlet published an article asserting that a City councillor has ties to the Islamic militant group Hamas.
Breitbart’s November article, entitled “Hamas on the Charles,” claims that City Councillor Nadeem A. Mazen is connected to Hamas through his work as a founding director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy organization.
The council’s December 7 resolution, proposed by Councillor Dennis J. Carlone, characterized Breitbart as an “illegitimate tabloid” that should be disregarded.
“Breitbart.com has a history of outrageous and sensationalized journalism designed for shock value but which has no proven basis in truth whatsoever,” the resolution reads.
[. . .]

Sam Westrop, one of the authors of the Breitbart article, said he does not believe his article is libelous.
“For it to be libel, something would have to be untrue and unfortunately everything we’ve written is true,” said Westrop, who is the research director of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a group that frequently criticizes Islamist extremism. “This unprecedented attack on media criticism of a public official is highly unusual.”
In response to the December resolution, Breitbart published a second article written by another author titled “War: Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council Censures Breitbart News.” The article claims the resolution is an “affront to the First Amendment” and defends the site’s original story as factual.
Mark V. Tushnet ’67, a Harvard Law School professor specializing in constitutional law, wrote in an email that he “doubt[s] that the city council's resolution could be fairly called even an affront to First Amendment values.” Mazen also said he does not believe the resolution is a “free speech matter”; nor does Westrop, who said “no one has removed the article or stopped us from speaking.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/1/7/cambridge-city-council-breitbart/


Cambridge City Council Denounces Right-Wing Media Outlet
By JOSHUA J. FLORENCE and SAMUEL VASQUEZ

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
January 6, 2016

More Reasons For FBI Shunning CAIR

Here's my question concerning the free operation of CAIR as a civil rights organization. Even in this press conference held on December 21, 2015 CAIR spokesmen ignore extremist violent acts by persons who appear to be Muslims, killing Americans. CAIR never condemns those mass murders, and does not mention Muslim violence anywhere. They are only concerned about bias and discrimination against Muslims in America. CAIR never mentions extreme abuses in Muslim dominant countries. CAIR ignores hate speech and actions expressing a desire to kill Americans,  Jews and to destroy western civilization and Israel specifically. They are adept at exploiting freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution as they protect aggression against the United States. He's a link to UK Prime Minister's report on the Muslim Brotherhood, the press conference by CAIR, followed by an essay about the UK report on Muslim Brotherhood and violence. 

UK Study can be read at this link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486932/Muslim_Brotherhood_Review_Main_Findings.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Neptune+Web+E-Blast&utm_content=British+government+concludes+Muslim+Brotherhood+is+Radicalizing+Force&utm_campaign=Muslim+Brotherhood+inquiry+press+release

http://www.c-span.org/video/?402400-1/us-council-muslim-organizations-news-conference

DECEMBER 21, 2015
Muslims in the U.S.

Representatives of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations held a year-end news conference at the National Press Club on the organization’s initiatives to combat anti-Muslim attitudes in the U.S. They announced decisions made during their summit the previous day on new educational, outreach, and civil empowerment initiatives to address growing Islamophobia in the U.S. and to enhance national security. New strategies would include a campaign to register one million Muslim-American voters by the 2016 presidential election and a “National Open Mosque Day.” In addition, the council would seek to increase emergency preparedness for Muslim institutions and citizens faciing hate crimes around the country.

[From article]
A recently-published British government report concludes that “membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism,” according to Prime Minister David Cameron. The report also notes that the British government was mistaken in believing it shared a common agenda with the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Qaeda and militant Salafism in general. Cameron said the government would be more careful in the future not to provide legitimacy or a platform for the Muslim Brotherhood.
[. . .]
CAIR, a widely-quoted organization which poses as a civil-rights group, is a Muslim Brotherhood entity. A federal district court found it to be so, listing it under the heading “The following individuals/entitles who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.” CAIR is number 11 on the list. CAIR was started with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Holy Land Foundation, a terrorist organization prosecuted by the aforementioned court for aiding the terrorist group Hamas. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Muslim Brotherhood is “Hamas’ parent organization.”
[. . .]



The problem is not limited to leaders from long ago: CAIR’s current executive director, Nihad Awad, participated in a Hamas meeting in Philadelphia and has voiced support for the group.
[. . .]
Given CAIR’s record of ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) severed ties with CAIR back in 2009 “until [the FBI] can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS.” After the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in November 2014, the U.S. State Department said it would investigate. What has it found? Why doesn’t the federal government release the reports?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/has_the_us_government_finished_investigating_cair_for_terror_ties.html

December 19, 2015
Has the U.S. Government Finished Investigating CAIR for Terror Ties?
By Johanna Markind

Liberals Join Hamas Terrorists Broadcasting Character Assassination of Israeli Soldiers

[From article]
BDS lies when they call our brave soldiers “war criminals” and accuse the IDF of “war crimes.”
[. . .]
To emphasize the point, the report states,
“The IDF not only met its obligations under the Law of Armed Conflict, but often exceeded these on the battlefield at significant tactical costs, as well as in the humanitarian relief efforts that accompanied its operation.”
Additionally highlighting the conduct of the IDF and the Israeli soldier the report recorded that,
“Where the high standards of conduct the IDF sets for its personnel have not been met incidents are investigated, including criminal investigations, through an independent mechanism under the oversight of the democratic institutions of the State of Israel. This mechanism clearly meets the requirements of legal recourse, judicial independence and democratic oversight that our own nations set for ourselves.”
[. . .]



The team of overseas military experts reported on Hamas thus,
“Hamas not only flagrantly disregarded the Law of Armed Conflict as a matter of course as part of its terrorist-army hybrid strategic concept, but rather it abused the very protections afforded by the law for military advantage. It embedded its entire military machinery in civilian locations and sensitive sites, including those of the United Nations.
Hamas indiscriminately targeted Israeli civilians throughout the conflict with extensive rocket fire and willfully sought to draw the IDF into battle in a prepared urban stronghold amid the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, for which it located its operational headquarters in Gaza’s main hospital.”
All these are war crimes.
[. . .]
Lost in the malediction of cynical media misreporting and malevolent anti-Israel propaganda disguised as Palestinian human rights concerns is the fact that, during fifty days of war, Palestinian fired 4,564 rockets at Israeli civilian targets. Despite the UN statistics, which were adopted lies provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, a de factor Hamas Gaza, the real Gazan casualty figures show that 60% were men of fighting age, that many of the “children” quoted in the false figures were actually men in their 20s, that many Gazans were killed by Palestinian rockets aimed at Israel short-falling within Gaza and there is video evidence of Hamas conducting public executions of non-compliant Palestinians.
[. . .]
The Israeli Air Force conducted over 5000 sorties over Gaza, IDF artillery mapped out and targeted large concentrations of terrorist activity throughout the Gaza Strip, tanks softened up intense areas of terrorist strongholds in urban areas in preparation for the entry of thousands of infantry soldiers who were forced to destroy booby-trapped buildings alleyways and uncover and destroy miles of terror tunnels, rocket sites, and weapon storage facilities as well as fighting civilian-attired terrorists coming out of houses and public buildings to attack them.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/bds_lies_when_it_calls_brave_idf_soldiers_war_criminals.html

December 15, 2015
BDS lies when it calls brave IDF soldiers 'war criminals'
By Barry Shaw

Israel Outlaws Domestic Islamic Group

[From  article]
Israel outlawed a domestic religious-political group it referred to as the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, accusing it of inciting recent Arab violence by conducting a campaign of agitation over a Jerusalem holy site.
The security cabinet’s decision makes it illegal to belong to or aid the movement, and allows for seizure of its property. Following the overnight decision by a group of senior ministers who deal with security issues, police shut down 17 organizations linked to the movement in Arab communities throughout northern Israel. They seized records from offices of several of them, and froze bank accounts.
“For years, the northern branch of the Islamic Movement has led a mendacious campaign of incitement under the heading ‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’ that falsely accuses Israel of intending to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque and violate the status quo,” the government said in an e-mailed statement, referring to the Jerusalem shrine.
“A significant portion of recent terrorist attacks have been committed against the background of this incitement and propaganda,” it said.
Israeli Arab lawmaker Ahmad Tibi told Israel Radio the decision to outlaw the branch of the Islamic Movement was a “cynical political gesture” timed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to exploit the atmosphere created by the attacks in Paris.
Tibi, a veteran parliamentarian belonging to the United Arab Party list, said the Islamic Movement expressed legitimate Muslim concerns over the holy site, and its positions did not seek to incite violence.

[. . .]

Israel’s government described Salah’s group as a “sister organization” to the Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip.
‘Dangerous Incitement’
“The cabinet took this step after a series of deep consultations with all relevant security and judicial bodies, with the goal of ending dangerous domestic incitement,” Netanyahu said in an e-mailed statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/israel-outlaws-domestic-islamic-movement-as-police-raid-offices

Israel Outlaws Domestic Islamic Group as Police Raid Offices
Calev Ben-David
November 17, 2015 — 3:57 AM EST
Updated on November 17, 2015 — 8:19 AM EST

Children Of Hamas Being Taught To Hate And To Kill Jews

Published on Sep 15, 2015
On a children's show on the Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV channel, young children, dressed in military fatigues, were asked what they want to be when they grow up. One of the children said that he wanted to be an engineer, "so that I can blow up the Jews." Another recited a poem: "I shall liberate [Jerusalem] from the Jews by means of the Al-Qassam Brigades."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXlSeDHGh0#action=share

Iran Increases Funding For Terrorism After Misguided Nuclear Weapons Deal With White House

[From article]
Since the [nuclear] deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups in the region that have become political players, Hamas and Hezbollah. In the years before the deal was signed, the crippling sanctions limited this support, which had significantly diminished along with Iran’s economy. But Tehran’s belief that tens, or hundreds, of billions of dollars will flow into the country in the coming years as a result of sanctions relief has led to a decision to boost the cash flow to these terror organizations.
 
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/21/iran-increases-funding-to-hezbollah-hamas-with-support-from-nuclear-deal/

Iran Increases Funding for Hezbollah, Hamas in Anticipation of Nuclear Deal Windfall
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 11:39 AM

Anti Hate Group Protests Anti Israeli Propaganda Film

[From article]
Americans for Peace and Tolerance released an expose video April 23 that aims to prove “Whose Jerusalem?” fails “to meet the basic rules of evidence and logic and attempt[s] to indoctrinate students, especially Jewish students, against the state of Israel.”
The workshop teaches that Hamas – a U.S.-designated terrorist group – and Fatah are political parties that support “more peaceful means than intifada,” among other lessons. The group argues the lesson abandons “academic integrity” and enlists students as political activists for an ideological cause.
“Despite its bias and serious flaws, the … workshop is Common Core compliant,” APT president Charles Jacobs said.
The workshop’s curriculum, designed for students in middle and high schools, requires students play the parts of Arab, Israeli, or American leaders to negotiate a “BATNA” (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) for the division of Jerusalem using the materials provided by the workshop.
[. . .]
According to Americans for Peace and Tolerance’s video, the workshop also includes exercises that asks instructors to have Jewish students empathize with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group that calls for the death of all Jews in its founding charter.
Boston University Profesor Carl Hobert, who developed the workshop, has defined “Whose Jerusalem?” as “educational civil disobedience” guided by a hands-on approach. Included in APT’s video is a clip of Hobert speaking to an audience about the simulations done in his workshop on the Arab-Israeli conflict. When describing the roles students play in the simulation he says:
“When a student goes, I am devoutly Jewish and I’ve got family members in Israel. I would like to be a member of Likud Party. Guess what we make that student? A member of Hamas.”
[. . .]
The workshop also suggests an equivalence between the use of military drones by the United States and terrorist suicide bombing. APT’s video shows Hobert telling students that drones “kill people who are supposedly terrorists.” He asks, “Isn’t that a form of terrorism?”
[. . .]
Noam Chomsky of MIT and Denis Sullivan of Northeastern, both outspoken critics of Israel and America, assisted Hobert in the creation of the course, according to APT. Hobert even brought Chomsky, who is described in BU Today as his “friend and longtime inspiration,” to speak about the Middle East at Boston University in 2009.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22507/

PROF’S ‘WHOSE JERUSALEM?’ COMMON CORE LESSON TEACHES STUDENTS TO SUPPORT HAMAS
by ALEXANDRA ZIMMERN - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON
 MAY 18, 2015

Gaza Palestinians Fire Rockets Into Israel Again

[From article]
Israel's defense minister is blaming Islamic Jihad — a smaller Palestinian militant group in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip — for the latest rocket fired at Israel that drew retaliatory airstrikes overnight.
Moshe Yaalon says the airstrikes targeted both Islamic Jihad and Hamas sites in Gaza early on Wednesday, after Islamic Jihad fired a rocket toward southern Israel late on Tuesday night.
There was no immediate comment from Gaza and no Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the attack. The military says it carried out four airstrikes, with no casualties reported.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150527/ml--israel-palestinians-a394422421.html

Israel defense minister: Islamic Jihad behind Gaza flare-up
May 27, 2:18 AM (ET)
AP

* * *

[From article]
A terrorist rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Southern Israel near the heavily populated town of Ashkelon, the Israeli Army confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
It was not clear if Hamas or another splinter faction was responsible for the attack, which comes following a relatively long period of calm between Israel and the Palestinians following an intense war last summer.
Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Peter Lerner confirmed that “at least one rocket launched from Gaza struck Southern Israel” late Tuesday.
No one has been reported as injured as a result of the strike.
Alarms warning of the incoming rocket attack could be heard signaling through Ashkelon and surrounding areas.
[. . .]
Hamas denied that its military wing had anything to do with the attack.
Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that Hamas will be held responsible for any attack—by its own military wing or another group’s—on Israeli soil.
The rocket fire comes as Israeli officials renew warnings about the threat posed by a complex tunnel system running underneath the Gaza Strip and into Israel. Hamas has sought to use these tunnels to carry out terror attacks and abduct Israeli soldiers.
Hezbollah also has begun digging a similar system of tunnels around Israel’s northern border, according to reports.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/terrorist-rockets-hit-israel/

Terrorist Rockets Hit Israel
Army: Rocket fired into south Israel
BY: Adam Kredo
May 26, 2015 4:24 pm

Pope Tries To Hold Palestinians Accountable For Murder Of Christians

[From article]
The Vatican holds no sway in most of the region, but “The State of Palestine” claims responsibility for both Gaza and the West Bank. The Vatican may believe that use of the symbolic title “State of Palestine” is a reasonable trade-off for trying to formalize the responsibility of the PA for the behavior of Hamas in Gaza, as well as for its own harassed and declining Christian population.
[. . .]
Along with mandating Islamic dress codes for all women in Gaza, Hamas has banned wine, including wine for communion; it is brewed now in secret. In 2007, the owner of the Gaza's Bible Society bookstore was murdered after being accused of proselytizing. The YMCA library in Gaza was blown up and all 8,000 books were destroyed or stolen. In 2011, Hamas cancelled Christmas, banning festivities and crucifixes.
[. . .]
The Vatican and the Palestinians, it seems, were frying different fish. The Vatican needs to worry about Christians in the region and can't talk to ISIS or Syria or Iran, so it chose the “State of Palestine” to take a stand for the “essential life of the Church.” The PA only wants to look like a state in the eyes of the media and thus further irritate Israel -- and it succeeded.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/christians_in_the_middle_east_sometimes_it_isnt_about_israel.html

May 15, 2015
Christians in the Middle East: Sometimes it isn't About Israel
By Shoshana Bryen

Anti Semitism Now A Political Issue

[From article]
Anti-Semitism is embedded in both the Hamas and Palestinian charters.
[. . .]
the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a rabid anti-Semitic screed that, alongside Mein Kampf, is a best-seller in much of the Arab world today.
[. . .]
People like Herzl saw a Jewish state as saving liberalism. By removing the Jews, a country’s defects could not be blamed on the Jews. If no Jews were there, so it was believed, they would have no one to blame. It would put an end to anti-Semitism. How wrong they were!
[. . .]
When Israel established its permanency, it was assumed, the Arabs would become reasonable. But when it comes to the Jews, nobody and nothing is reasonable.
[. . .]
What are the Jews, what is Israel, to do about this phenomenon? The essential first thing to do is to stop playing the defendant. Once you accept the role and play the part of a defendant you lose the incentive to play the role of the prosecutor.
[. . .]
More often they were judged and prosecuted for crimes uncommitted. Jews were always automatically put on the defensive. Sadly, Israel has played this role all too often.
[. . .]
Israel must demand that world bodies reform their political thinking and stop imposing a different double standard to Israel and instead judge others by the norms they apply only against the Jewish state.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/correcting_the_rise_of_political_antisemitism.html

December 17, 2014
Correcting the Rise of Political Anti-Semitism
By Barry Shaw

US Ally, Qatar Funds Terrorists

[From article]
Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya's capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country's collapse into a failed state.
Moreover, the new overlords of Tripoli are allies of Ansar al-Sharia, a brutal jihadist movement suspected of killing America's then ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and of trying to murder his British counterpart, Sir Dominic Asquith.
Barely three years after Britain helped to free Libya from Col Gaddafi's tyranny, anti-Western radicals hold sway. How could Britain's goal of a stable and friendly Libya have been thwarted so completely?
Step forward a fabulously wealthy Gulf state that owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East.
Qatar, the owner of Harrods, has dispatched cargo planes laden with weapons to the victorious Islamist coalition, styling itself "Libya Dawn".
[. . .]
On Wednesday, the 34-year-old Emir of Qatar, who was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, took pains to deny the accusation while standing alongside Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor. "What is happening in Iraq and Syria is extremism and such organisations are partly financed from abroad, but Qatar has never supported and will never support terrorist organisations," he said.
The credibility of that denial depends partly on how you define a "terrorist organisation". Qatar has let Hamas, the armed Palestinian movement, base its political leadership in Doha since 2012. Qatar's government has funded Hamas and the previous Emir paid an official visit to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11110931/How-Qatar-is-funding-the-rise-of-Islamist-extremists.html

How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists
The fabulously wealthy Gulf state, which owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East, is a prime sponsor of violent Islamists
By David Blair and Richard Spencer
10:00 PM BST 20 Sep 2014

Pro Hamas Swiss Mayor Blames Jews For Scandal

[From article]
Geri Muller, the pro-Hamas mayor of the Swiss town of Baden, is embroiled in a sex scandal that has resulted in fresh conspiracy theories against his Jewish opponents. A 33 year old woman who identified herself as N.W. rang the doorbell of Muller’s ex wife and, while making suicide threats, was armed with nude selfies of the Mayor, who lewdly invited her to a sexual encounter.
The scandal in Switzerland, known as Geri-gate has led to accusations that the Jews are behind it all, with allegations that N.W. met with prominent figures in the Swiss Jewish community prior to the revelation. Baden Jewish community president, Josef Bollag and Sacha Wigdorovits were accused of coaching N.W. to get revenge against the Mayor’s support of Hamas. Wigdorovits and Bollag admitted that they were approached by N.W., but said they referred her to third parties.
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In 2010, Muller went to the Gaza strip and posed for a photo with Hamas minister Ismail Haniyeh. He also had another selfie snapped with Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri. Muller is involved in the Council for European Palestinian Relations, which Israeli officials says is a Hamas front organization. Muller got in a tangle with Bollag when he compared Israelis to the Nazis in their dealings with Palestinians, and reportedly commented that Muller is turning the area into a haven for radical Islamists and anti-Semites.

http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/09/09/badens-mayors-nude-selfie-breeds-anti-jewish-conspiracy-theories/

Baden’s Mayor’s Nude Selfie Breeds Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories
Published On: Tue, Sep 9th, 2014
By Lily Bethlehem

Hamas Rebuilding Terror Tunnels

Al-Qassam Brigades showing Gaza tunnel post-operation
Photo: Reuters

[From article]
Given the lack of an official truce agreement, it remains unclear how Israel will respond to Hamas rearming, resupplying, and – most importantly – rebuilding the tunnels leading into Israeli territory. 
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On Saturday, a senior Hamas official in the West Bank, Mahmoud al-Zahar, said that "if the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank held a quarter of the tools at the disposal of the resistance in Gaza – Israel would be demolished in a day."  
[. . .]
"Victory has many fathers and failure has but one – its name is Netanyahu," al-Zahar said. The Hamas official also dismissed Israeli claims that the IDF destroyed all the group's tunnels. "Who is stopping us right now from building new tunnels?"



http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4568482,00.html

Senior source: Hamas rebuilding Gaza terror tunnels
Political source warns radical Islamist group resumes rocket manufacture, smuggling operations despite ceasefire in Strip.
Attila Somfalvi

Published:  09.07.14, 18:52

Terrorists Exhibit Chutzpah

This is like the child who kills his parents and pleads for mercy because he is a an orphan. It is one more example of using words to mean whatever the speaker wants them to mean. Aggression is limited to unprovoked attacks. Retaliation and defense are not aggression. 

[From article]
The political chief of Hamas has called on President Barack Obama to intervene with the Israeli government to "lift the siege" of Gaza and push for a cease-fire in the conflict to stop a "holocaust" against the Palestinians.
"You as the leader of the most powerful state in the world, I ask you to call [on] Israel to stop its aggression on Gaza — and to lift the siege and open the cross borders and to rebuild Gaza," said Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News. "This is our demands."

http://news.yahoo.com/in-personal-plea--top-hamas-leader-calls-on-obama-to-stop--holocaust--in-gaza-180315615.html

In personal plea, top Hamas leader calls on Obama to stop 'holocaust' in Gaza
Meshaal compares Israeli prime minister to Hitler, criticizes Hillary Clinton in Yahoo News exclusive
By Michael Isikoff
August 25, 2014 5:42 AM

Yahoo News

Obama Reveals His True Colors

[From article]
When I first glanced at the headline on today's Jerusalem Online and reports in the Jerusalem Post and other Israeli newspapers, I thought they must have been a satire: "Washington officials have told Egypt that the US will guarantee Israel's commitment to any agreement signed." But it was not a satire. This was deadly serious, confirmed by other Israeli newspapers and sources in Cairo.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4522/op-ed-the-president-true-colors-finally-revealed#

Op-Ed: The President's True Colors Finally Revealed
by Steven Emerson
Jerusalem Online
August 17, 2014

Extensive Hamas Tunnel Systems Show Gaza Was Wired For War

[From article] Israeli security thought it had adequate intelligence about Gaza. It was in for a surprise. It was not just the labyrinth of tunnels discovered, much more extensive than expected, but the stockpiles: thousands of weapons, Russian anti-tank missiles, explosive devices, and large amounts of tranquillisers, handcuffs, syringes, ropes. The tools of capture on a large scale.
Some of the tunnels are very deep, big enough to hold vehicles. They were dug with electric jackhammers, mostly about 20 metres below ground, and reinforced with concrete made on site, in workshops adjacent to the tunnels.
The tunnels served as command centres, infiltration points into Israel, weapons stores, rocket-launcher hiding sites, and the means to move and conceal fighters during urban combat. The tunnels dug into Israel were created in parallel pairs, with multiple shafts to the surface for multiple entry points. Inside urban Gaza, the labyrinth could allow fighters to move unseen between homes and alleys.
Gaza had been wired for war. On a scale more advanced than Israeli military intelligence realised, which is why the Israel Defence Forces lost more than 40 soldiers in the first phase of Operation Protective Edge.



http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-hamas-trap-hidden-labyrinth-was-wired-for-war-20140803-zzznh.html

The Hamas trap: hidden labyrinth was wired for war
August 4, 2014

Paul Sheehan
Sydney Morning Herald columnist

Useful Idiots of Hamas

[From article]
the line uttered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the other day about the difference between Israel and Hamas: "We're using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles."
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Hamas hides its rockets in schools and places its command bunkers under hospitals. It wants war, and it wants civilian casualties.
Josef Stalin infamously said that one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. Hamas is happy with either a tragedy (the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli shells last week) or a statistic (the climbing civilian toll), so long as it is death and so long as it can be used in the propaganda war against Israel.
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Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out in The Atlantic that 700 people were killed in Syria last weekend alone, outpacing the total death toll in Gaza so far, but the deaths received almost no media coverage.
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Its objective is, with support from fellow travelers and useful idiots the world over, to make Israel the new South Africa, toward the goal of its ultimate destruction. If it takes countless dead Palestinians to do it, so be it.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0714/lowry072514.php3#.U-slLt0--yM

Jewish World Review

July 22, 2014 / 24 Tammuz, 5774
Hamas' useful idiots
By Rich Lowry

Hamas Shoots Rocket Into Israel Before Cease Fire Ends

[From article]
Rockets were fired from Gaza Wednesday night two-hours before the midnight deadline to Sunday's 72-hour cease-fire, as the IDF enhanced its troop presence along the border preparing to once again wage war against Hamas in Gaza.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Rocket-sirens-sound-in-southern-Israel-hours-before-end-of-temporary-cease-fire-371015

Rocket fire targets southern Israel hours before temporary cease-fire deadline
By HERB KEINON, KHALED ABU TOAMEH, MICHAEL WILNER
LAST UPDATED: 08/13/2014 22:44
Terrorists in Gaza breach three-day cease-fire set to end at midnight by launching rocket at Israel; one projectile strikes open area in Sha'ar Hanegev, no injuries; Hamas denies firing rockets.