I mentioned in a previous post that there is a war going on in Pakistan. https://forums.joeuser.com/368848 Since 2004 the Pakistani government has been fighting the Taliban and affiliated terrorists and so far the results are astounding: - 16,000 deaths - among those 6000 civilians - terrorists are here not counted as "civilians" At the same time Israel (and to a lesser extent the PLO) has been fighting a war against Hamas and affiliated terrorists in Gaza and surro...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan Results since 2004: 2,513 soldiers and policemen killed, 235+ tribesmen killed, 857+ soldiers and policemen captured (558 released) 7,712+ militants killed (809 foreign fighters) Over 3.44 million civilians displaced 5,291 civilians killed, 30 foreigners killed If the UN are so worried about 300 civilian deaths in Gaza, the situation in Pakistan will certainly make them act immediately. Just kidding. The...
Thirty years ago, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking American diplomats hostage for 444 days, chilling relations between the two countries for decades and nailing the coffin in President Jimmy Carter's political career. The Iranian Revolution had begun. Today, the fundamentalist government in Tehran held protests to commemorate the event, as usual burning the American flag and encouraging shouts of "Death to America." This time, pro-democracy protesters -- many ...
The "charade of victimization" goes on and on: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693376195819343.html In his new suburban American home, Shaker Yakub, a Yemeni Jew, folded a large scarf in half, wrapped it around his head and tucked in his spiraling side curls. "This is how I passed for a Muslim," said the 59-year-old father of seven, improvising a turban that hid his black skullcap. The ploy enabled Mr. Yakub and half a dozen members of his family to slip undetected out of the...
I cannot verify this myself as I don't know the interviewed, but it is similar to what I have heard from Jerusalem Arabs and Jewish Israelis. The original is in German. My translation is below. http://www.israelheute.com/default.aspx?tabid=116&view=item&idx=1995 Nisreen Abdel Nabi ist Palästinenserin und lebt in Beit Hanina in Ostjerusalem. Die 24-Jährige machte im August von sich reden, als sie sich in einem Brief an Außenminister Avigdor Liebermann wandte....
AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. ... When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries ... The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations...
March 2009, just after the war: THERE WERE empty beds at Shifa Hospital and a threatening atmosphere. Hamas is reduced to wielding its unchallengeable authority from extensive air raid shelters which, together with the hospital, were built by Israel 30 years ago. Terrorized Gazans used doublespeak when they told me most of the alleged 5,500 wounded were being treated in Egypt and Jordan. They want it known that the figure is a lie, and showed me that the wounded weren't in Gaza. No evidenc...
This is a picture of a so-called "Blue Box", design from 1940. It shows how much land the Jewish National Fund had bought by 1940. You can see that it covers almost the entire coast line, much of the Galil to the lake, and parts of the northern Negev as well as most of Jerusalem. The JNF controlled a bit more than half the land owned by Jews in the country. The land was then under British sovereignty. The land shown on the map on the box was neither owned by Arabs nor under t...
None of these will actually achieve much, but I find it interesting which of the three possibilities people choose. What can the world do to promote peace? Scenario A: Some Arab terrorist group fires at Israeli cities for a few years. Call 1 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. It's morally wrong!" Call 2 (before Israel fires back): "Stop shooting at the Israelis. They will fire back!" Call 3 (after Israel fired back): "Stop shooting at t...
I am often told that there is anti-Semitism. In fact I have seen it. Almost everyone tells me that anti-Semitism is a bad thing and must be fought. In fact that point is often brought up by the same people who tell me something else as well. They tell me that the "Palestinian Cause" is a noble cause and not related to anti-Semitism in any way; that the leaders of the Palestinian Cause and the Palestinian people have to be supported and that their fight is necessary and noble. And anyway, Isra...
Does anybody else think that the world might soon run out of awards to give to President Obama? And he still hasn't achieved anything, let alone made peace between any parties. George W. Bush was instrumental in setting up peace treaties in Liberia and Sudan (between the Arab government and the Christian south). But actual achievement is worth so little these days...
I have posted this story before but never got an answer from liberals. But I really want to learn how they would defend their ideas of taxation. So I have decided to post the story again. Story starts. Imagine a household of three. Imagine a household of three 20-something year olds sharing a flat. Imagine the flat has three rooms, a big one, a small one, and a mid-sized one. (The big one has also the nicest view.) Imagine the three 20-something year olds work: Peter ...
Apparently from Maxim mag originally, via Israellycool: http://www.israellycool.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mahmoudfinalclean.png
A few days ago after taking in a play ("Three Sisters" by Anton Checkov in Russian) I had this interesting short discussion with a typical theatre fan who himself seemed to believe in absolutely everything except G-d. In a pub after the play, he and my Russian teacher started talking about "healers", people who are not medical doctors but "heal" people. Both seemed to be somewhat convinced that they are indeed "healers" and that their methods work. My teacher's husband smiled and they aske...
The Obama administration has given the Palestinian Authority a "green light" to talk to Hamas about forming a Palestinian unity government, a PA official in Ramallah said over the weekend. ... "The new administration has a different policy than that of [former US president] George W. Bush," the official told The Jerusalem Post. [I'll say!] "The administration of President Barack Obama believes that a Hamas-Fatah government is good for stability." http://w...