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Monday, June 30, 2014

THREE BOYS KIDNAPPED BY ARABS FOUND MURDERED IN ISRAEL - Why government outrage at Hamas crimes is higher than at those perpetrated by "moderate" Fatah

(SEE UPDATES at the bottom of this article, including the recording of one of the boys phone call to police begging for help.  It went unheeded.   
What part of that call didn't Emergency think was a real kidnapping?  Something very odd in police behavior.)

After an intensive search, the bodies of religious students  Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-ad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 were found outside the town of Hebron, in Israel.   They were kidnapped on June 12.




While the Israeli government has been targeting its campaign against the more radical Hamas, it's necessary to point out that Hamas is not the sole perpetrator of terror in Israel.  

The 'moderate' Fatah deception

The Israeli leadership has been endeavoring to perpetuate the myth that there is a fundamental difference between the two main factions in the Palestinian nationalist movement, Fatah and Hamas. 

Fatah rules the Palestinian Authority (West Bank), and Hamas rules Gaza.

According to the Israeli government narrative, Fatah is moderate, while Hamas is extremist. 

That's true only on the surface.  These two factions are exactly the same regarding their ultimate aim, which is the obliteration of Israel and Israelis.

Hamas is quite straightforward about it.  It wants to use insurrection and terror to take over Israel. 

Unable to carry on a major military action, Hamas has to content itself with launching low-tech rockets into southern Israel.  These rockets, despite their lack of sophistication, have injured and killed people, damaged buildings, and terrorized a large number of Israelis. 

Fatah, on the other hand, has engaged in a convoluted but quite effective international campaign to empower itself in phases.  It has embraced the diplomatic route to achieve the partition of Israel and the installation of an Arab state in what today is Jewish land, the Biblical land of Judea and Samaria. 

Not that Fatah has abandoned terror.  Its followers still threaten, harass, and murder Israelis. 
You just don't hear much about Fatah terror.

And why is that? 

It's because of the Israeli leadership's commitment to partition Israel.  They need a partner they can call - with a straight face - a peace partner.  This in spite of the numerous acts of violence and terror by "moderate" Fatah. 

The LAND FOR PEACE plan is nothing but an act of deception perpetrated on the Israeli people by the political Left and fake-right wing politicians who talk tough but submit to the Two-States-for-Two-Peoples script as designed by the United States and European governments. 

As we witness the Middle East scene erupt in flames with Arabs killing other Arabs, and the complete inability by Arab states to live according to the most basic tenets of human rights, it is utterly cynical to demand the partition of Israel - an island of stability and human rights - to create "peace" in the area. 

The partition of Israel is not aimed at bringing peace to the region but at weakening the country and easing its destruction by its enemies. 

The Land for Peace plan as promoted by the US government and Europe aims at an Israel only 9 miles wide at one point.   


REFERENCES

Recommended: 
Similarities between 'moderate' Fatah and extremist Hamas
Palestinian Media Watch news archive on this subject.
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=695

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Some examples of Fatah moderation

The murder of the Fogel family, including several children and a baby.  These murders were carried out by a branch of Fatah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which allowed Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas to pretend to distance himself from the crime.
Graphic content:  http://www.jewishjournal.com/rob_eshman/article/a_responsibility_to_look_at_the_fogel_family_crimescene_photos_20110315/

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The murder of Ben Yosef Livnat, an unarmed religious Jew who went to worship to a sacred site and was murdered by forty-four bullets shot by a 'moderate' Fatah Palestinian Authority (PA) policeman.   The PA "arrested"  the murderer and accomplices so that they would escape Israeli justice but later let them "escape".
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/three-terrorists-who-murdered-ben-yosef-livnat-captured/2013/06/19/

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The Israeli elite's conspiracy to play down Arab terror

The Israeli Left's perverted and treasonous nature   - 
And how it undermines the security and the very existence of Israel
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-israeli-lefts-perverted-and.html

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Discrimination in Israel 
 
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Israeli authorities' coverup of Arab terror
They even cover up evidence
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/how-israeli-authorities-cover-up-arab.html

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Israeli authorities try to maintain the pretence that Palestinians are credible peace partners
For reasons that remain unclear, Israel's police, media and many of its top politicians appear adamant to pretend that (most) terror attacks (in Israel) do not exist, and to keep the public unaware of them.
Read more  - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181249#.U7HdiJsU-M9

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Research -
What if Fatah and Hamas are not really enemies?
Read more - http://www.hirhome.com/israel/fatah_hamas.htm

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Cash for terrorists - How the United States government funds the killing of Jews
Taxpayers' money goes to pay salaries for terrorists.  The more Jews a Palestinian kills, the more money he receives from the Palestinian Authority.  And who funds the PA?  United States and European taxpayers.
 
Video only:
 
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ISRAELI POLICE CHRONIC DISREGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF JEWS
They only rush when there is an Arab altercation with Jews and routinely arrest the Jews, no matter who is at fault
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Police knew about the kidnapping within minutes and did nothing. 
They got a desperate call from one of the victims and did NOTHING until the army was notified by parents many hours later.
One of the kidnapped boys made a phone call to police, but his cry for help was dismissed by several high rank police as a prank.   In a very unstable area, no effort was made to make certain the caller was OK. 


Typical cases where Jewish lives are at risk
and police does nothing
 

Father & Daughter Nearly Lynched
Yitzchak Levi says he and his infant daughter were nearly killed by an Arab mob while driving through Jerusalem – and police didn't care.
 
 
Two Jews nearly lynch in Jerusalem by stone throwers 
Police does nothing about Arab stone throwers.  Children have been injured and killed by these attackers, but there is no police protection for motorists or apprehension of perpetrators.


Israeli military judge calls Arab stone throwers "mischievous"
Read more - http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/military-judge-calls-stone-throwing-at-jews-mischievous/2013/03/25/


Arab mob attacks Jewish youngsters - Still no police action after years of terror and violence
Read more - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169086#.U7Hlm5sU-M8
 


 
UPDATES

ON THE MURDER OF THE KIDNAPPED BOYS

Sunday, June 29, 2014

THE MYSTERIOUS CREATURE STALKING NEW YORK STREETS IS FINALLY EXPOSED - It is a cute FISHER of the weasel famil who feeds on RATS

Welcome to New York! Meet the weasel-like creature spotted stalking the streets of the city... and the good news is it feeds on RATS

  • People in the Bronx first spotted the odd creature in April
  • A zoologist has identified it as a fisher, a member of the weasel family
  • Fishers prey on rats and squirrels
  • They were once prevalent in the New York City area but moved further upstate after they were excessively hunted for their fur
  • The last one was seen sometime in the 1600s
  • Zoologist Roland Kays thinks the Bronx fisher may have come down the river
  • Fishers could help control the rat population - but may also have a taste for cats and small dogs Mysterious: This creature was photographed around the Bronx for months before it was identifed


  • No natural predators: Fishers are hunters that prey on small rodents - but aren't a threat to humans



    Read more http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671838/Mysterious-creature-stalking-streets-New-York-feasting-rats-identified.html



    Photos by Daily Mail - The stalker (picture in the middle)  by CBS
    Other illustrations by All Canada Photos and Wikipedia



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    BILLIONS OF JELLYFISH INVADE THE COASTS OF BRITAIN

  • Mass of moon jellyfish spotted off beach at Newquay, Cornwall
  • The moon jellyfish are not dangerous to humans, only giving a mild sting
  • Another species seen in large numbers in recent weeks is the massive barrel jellyfish, which can grow up to 4ft long and weigh three stone

  • Picture:  Blue Jellyfish spotted off Newquay Beach, Paul Terry, SWNS, Daily Mail

    Read more and see additional pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2672909/Billions-jellyfish-appear-British-coastlines-sea-temperature-rises.html

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    THE CUTE SWIMMING PIGS OF THE BAHAMAS BECOME FAMOUS

    daily life©http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/. Unauthorized duplication of this blog's material is prohibited.   Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full credit and link is given to Otters and Science News Blogspot.  Link to this post:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-cute-swimming-pigs-of-bahamas.html - Thank you for visiting my blog.
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    Are they doing the hoggy paddle? Swimming pigs of the Bahamas become YouTube stars and are even set to star in a documentary.
     
    Swimming swine: The pigs are thought to have been introduced to the island by passing sailors who may have thought they would make a good food source
  • Swimming swine of the Caribbean popular with visitors, who upload videos of themselves taking a dip with the pigs
  • The animals are believed to have been abandoned in the idyllic spot by sailors, who intended to eat them
  • Now a documentary is being made about the pigs, who often swim out to boats to get food from holidaymakers

  • Online sensation: There are dozens of videos of the swimming pigs taken by tourists besotted with their unusual antics


    Silver screen: A filmmaker is now making a documentary about the swimming pigs of Big Major Cay and the surrounding islands

    Dinner time: The swine approach a boat in search of a meal. They often swim out to greet holidaymakers

    Bay of Pigs: These swimming pigs have become a Youtube hit across the world. Visitors film themselves swimming with the animals, who live on a small Caribbean island



    The swimming pigs of the Caribbean

    The pigs will run into the water and actually swim out to the oncoming boats to get food from the occupants

    Narrative: A man is filmed talking about the pigs for the documentary 'When Pigs Swim'
    A man talks about the pigs for the documentary "When Pigs Swim"


    Source
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673896/Are-doing-hoggy-paddle-Swimming-pigs-Bermuda-YouTube-stars-set-star-documentary.html

    Photos - wenn.com and Daily Mail


    Trailer for documentary When Pigs Swim


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6xsPVMVHGk


    UPDATE


    Star attraction: Tourists visit the paradise, nicknamed Pig Island, to visit the swine in their unusual habitat every year
    Click on this link to read the February 8, 2015 new article 
    on the swimming pigs:
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/02/more-pictures-of-cute-swimming-pigs-of.html
     

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    Saturday, June 28, 2014

    THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT - FOUR BASIC FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW -

    By Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin

    
    Most Westerners, including many Jews, are unaware of four fundamental facts about the Jewish homeland of Israel that would greatly increase their support for the Jewish State.

    The burden is on us to make these facts more widely known in the West.

    #1 - The Jews Never Left
    Although most in the West accept that Jewish biblical history happened, most believe that upon vanquishing the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE, the victorious Romans “exiled” Judaea’s surviving Jews - and that Jews did not return to Israel in meaningful numbers until the late 19th ‎century Zionist movement.   Wrong.

    Jews have ALWAYS lived in Israel.   In smaller numbers than today, but they were always there.

    MAP:  BCE map showing the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.  The red line indicates present day Israel (except for Gaza that was unilaterally vacated by Israel in 2005).

    Solid evidence - Roman-Byzantine era synagogues, the Mishnah and Palestinian Talmud, Roman recognition of the Patriarch as head of the homeland’s Jews, and Jewish military and other aid to the 7th‎ century. 

    Persian and then Muslim invaders - establishes that no such “exile” occurred.

    Archeologists have constructed a map of 9thcentury Jewish communities of which we have knowledge today.

    The Crusaders also acknowledged the month-long courageous Jewish defense of Haifa and the fact of Jews defending Jerusalem.

    We have much evidence of the Jews’ vibrant presence in their four holy cities - Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron - and elsewhere in Israel through the ensuing six centuries of non-Arab Mamluk and Turk foreign rule. According to scholars, this gave the Zionists’ “real title deeds.”

    #2 - Who Are The Real Palestinians?  The Jews.
    Today’s Palestinian Arabs, whom everyone calls “The Palestinians,” claim descent from the pre-Israelite Canaanites, but if either side has Canaanite blood it’s the Jews.

    Archeologists trace Israelite presence back to the 12th c‎entury BCE, but are divided into “conquest” and “indigenous origin” camps. The latter believe that the Israelites populating the original Judean-Samarian hills were themselves Canaanites who began a new religion and lifestyle, not outside invaders.

    The 7th century CE Arab invasion, which came storming out of the Arabian Peninsula, came 18 centuries later.

    Modern Israel in 1948 became the land’s next native state after the Jews’ ancient Judaea.

    Without exception, every ruler in between - Romans-Byzantines, briefly Persians, foreign Muslim dynasties that began as Arab but progressively fell under control of the Turks, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottoman Turks - was a foreign invader, and mostly non-Arab at that.

    During the post-Ottoman League of Nations’ Mandate, all of the land’s residents - Muslims, Christians, and Jews - were called “Palestinian.”

    Indeed, the term “Palestinian” - e.g., the Palestine Electric Company, the Palestine Symphony, the Palestine Post (today’s Jerusalem Post), Jewish institutions all - usually referred to Palestine’s Jews. In fact, Arabs at the time disdained being called “Palestinians” and thought of themselves instead as southern Syrians.

    The UN in 1947 did not partition Palestine into Jewish and “Palestinian” states, but rather into a “Jewish State” and an “Arab State,” terms that it used over and over. And the partition resolution refers to Palestine’s Jews and Arabs as “the two Palestinian peoples.”

    #3 - There are No Such Places as “the West Bank” and “East Jerusalem”
    Though the Arab side, the Western media, and even, foolishly, we Jews constantly refer to “the West Bank” and “East Jerusalem,” these are not historic but recently invented terms to disassociate these historic centerpieces of the Jewish homeland from Jews.

     “Judea and Samaria” are not what the media has called “the biblical names for “the West Bank,” but are the actual Hebrew-origin names by which the homeland’s hill country has been known throughout history into the mid-20th ‎century.

    In attempting to partition the remaining western Palestine in 1947 (the all-Arab created country named Transjordan, which were the lands of the Palestine Mandate east of the Jordan River, had already been lopped off from the Mandate in 1922), the UN did not refer to “the West Bank,” but to “the hill country of Samaria and Judea.”

    Jordan invented the term “West Bank” in 1950 to disassociate it from Jews, after it illegally annexed the West Bank in 1948.

    In the past 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the capital of three homeland states - Judah, Judaea, and Israel, all of them Jewish.

    Palestinian Arabs have not ruled Jerusalem for one day in history, and foreign Arab dynasties only for part of the time between the Arab invasion of 638 and Crusader conquest of 1099.

    Jerusalem’s present day renewed Jewish majority dates not from 1967, or 1948, or the First Zionist Congress of 1897. Jews again became Jerusalem’s plurality population in pre-Zionist mid-19th century times, and its never-relinquished majority well before the 19th century’s end - still during foreign Ottoman rule.

    #4 - The Arab-Jewish Conflict Created More Jewish Than Arab Refugees
    According to the British themselves,Palestine’s population at the end of the Mandate consisted of 1.2 million Arabs (Jewish sources claim only 1 million Arabs) and 600,000 Jews. Not all of those Arabs lived in the part that became Israel, and not all of them left.

    Estimates of the Arabs during the 1948 War who were told by their leaders to leave their homes to make way for the invading Arab armies range from less than 472,000 to 650,000. The vast majority never even saw one Israeli soldier.

    During the 1948 war and its aftermath, some 800,000-850,000 indigenous Middle Eastern Jews, some with roots going back to biblical times, fled vast Arab and other Muslim lands, forced to leave behind property and businesses for which they have never been compensated.

    The fledgling Jewish state happily absorbed them. The Arab-Jewish conflict generated a two-sided refugee issue, not a “Palestinian refugee issue.”

    If more people in the West understood and appreciated these four largely unknown fundamental facts, there would be much greater appreciation of the bona fides of the Jewish people’s deep homeland claim, and less talk about “Israel’s founding in 1948” and “Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the Palestinian West Bank.” In essence, if we forfeit the language, we forfeit our heritage and our history.

    AUTHORS - Lee Bender is the co-President, and Jerome Verlin is the co-Vice Present of the Zionist Organization of America-Greater Philadelphia District, and they are the co-authors of the book “Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed From A-Z” (Pavilion Press).

    Link to this article
    http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=7343&q=1

    Originally posted here
    http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/26/four-facts-that-everyone-should-know-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

    Map - http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Kingdoms1.html

    RELATED

    The League of Nations Palestinian Mandate explained, with maps and references
    http://debunkingliesandmyths.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-mandate-for-palestine-facts.html

    Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands
    http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.ca/2007/04/seven-myths-about-jews-from-arab.html

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    Friday, June 27, 2014

    BLACKS CHOSE A BLACK PRESIDENT BUT SEE THEIR CLOUT ERODED BY OBAMA'S FLOOD OF HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS

    The law of unintended consequences.  The steady flow of Hispanic and other legal and illegal immigrants into the United States -  added to the loss of American jobs to Asian factories and tech enterprises  - continues to erode into the earnings and job security of those born in the country - whatever their race or education level. 
     
    What is most striking is that as the Afro-American proportion of the US population shrinks, they may see their clout dissipate, while that of Latinos increases.  This will have long-term social and political repercussions as Blacks continue to need assistance with special social programs.  Will the funds required to pay for them continue to be available?
     

     
    Race Gap: Blacks Fall Further Behind Under Obama

    Image: Race Gap: Blacks Fall Further Behind Under ObamaNEWSMAX - Black Americans have overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama in two presidential elections, but they have fallen further behind during his term in office, losing ground in measures of income, employment, and education.
     
    And while the recession impacted all race and age groups' earnings, blacks fared the worst.

    While blacks turned out in record numbers to support Obama in 2012, many are becoming more vocal about the lack of progress for African-Americans.

    A PUPPY AND A BABY BOY - PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF A LOVING FRIENDSHIP AS THE BABY GROWS OLDER

    Close: Mother Devin, 26, who set up the account, says: 'The bond that Carter and Toby share is absolutely incredible' A puppy is a boy's best friend: Amazing photos show the bond between toddler and his dog... and now they have more than 5,000 Instagram fans.

  • Carter and pet Toby are inseparable and have been part of each other's lives since before the youngster was born
  • Parents Devin and Jake Crouch have been documenting their progress on the picture sharing site since 2012
  • Toby would lie next to Devin while she was pregnant because he could tell 'something was going to change his world'
  • The couple rescued Toby in 2011, and welcomed Carter into the family home 16 months later  

  • A boy's best friend: Carter (left) and his loyal pet Toby have been inseparable ever since the youngster was welcomed into the family homeSharing: The youngster, relaxing in the sun, offers his dog a slice of watermelon. He responds by sticking out his tongue to taste the fruit 

    Read more and see series of lovely pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670577/A-puppy-boys-best-friend-Amazing-photos-bond-toddler-dog-5-000-Instagram-fans.html

    Photos - Mercury Press and Media, Daily Mail

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    U.S. GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY - IT CALLS FOR THE INTEGRITY OF IRAQ'S TERRITORY - BUT FOR THE PARTITION OF TINY ISRAEL

    In his meeting with al-Nujaifi, Kerry said "these are difficult times." He said President Barack Obama and the American people remain committed to Iraq and are concerned about its security and the political chaos. 
     
    "But the principal concern is for the Iraqi people — for the integrity of the country, its borders, for its sovereignty," Kerry said.

     
    On the other hand, John Kerry - and several US administrations in fact - have been bullying Israel for years urging its partition for the creation of a terror Palestinian state, which has no basis in history, international law, or viability. 
     
    Mr Kerry knows that an Islamic Palestinian state would be politically dysfunctional and would end up in a violent power struggle followed by the usual Islamic oppression of men, women and children, terror and the destabilization of the region.

    References:
    Kerry's statements about Iraq:
    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/john-kerry-iraq-war-108172.html

    Kerry's bullying of Israel
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/2/humphries-liberal-bully-of-the-week/

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    No historical or legal basis for partitioning Israel
     
    According to the Israeli historian Benny Morris, in ancient times, “The core of the Jewish state was the hill country of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee.” 
    Read more - http://unitedwithisrael.org/the-jewish-connection-to-judea-samaria/


     
    International law recognizes Israel's right to Judea and Samaria
     
    Read more
     - http://unitedwithisrael.org/international-law-officially-recognizes-jewish-claims-in-judea-and-samaria/
    http://ambassadoralanbaker.com/ten-basic-points-summarizing-israels-rights-in-judea-and-samaria/
    http://shomroncentral.blogspot.ca/p/5-legal-rights-to-samaria.html

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    US MONEY FOR JIHADISTS -
    NOT FOR AMERICAN WAR VETS

    The following is an item indicative of the US administration priorities of being kind to enemies of the US while neglecting American heroes and betraying international friends.

    The White House asks Congress for $500 million to arm and train Syrian jihadists.  The US claims it would only arm the 'good jihadists'. 

    At the same time American war veterans languish and die without proper health care.
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/obama-doubles-down-on-stupid-asks-for-500-million-to-train-arm-syrian-rebels/

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    KITTENS FOR JIHAD? - Middle East terrorist group ISIS attracts online supporters with pictures of cute kittens - The Islamic State of Cat

    Islamic State of Cat is yet another sign that ISIS, unlike its predecessors, is not only fluent in Western internet language but willing to engage with Westerners in their language.
     
    ISIS also launched a less frivolous media project intended for a Western audience in English, French, and German titled Al-Hayat, which publishes a monthly magazine intended to keep sympathizers of jihad updated on ISIS's advances.   

    Islamic State of Cat @ISILCats     
    I Luvs My Mujahid
     
    That magazine uses more traditional imagery to promote the cause: mass executions, severed heads, and the violence usually attributed to terrorist propaganda.Al-Hayat is, nonetheless, run by Western Islamists that left their home countries to fight jihad in Iraq and Syria, which is the key distinction between ISIS and similar groups.
     
    Given the exceptionally high number of Westerners joining ISIS, the promise of the joys of jihad appears to be working-- and the free play time with kittens can't hurt, either.
     
    Source

    RELATED

    ISIS murders 190 prisoners in just four days - Pictures
     
    Kittens for Jihad?  
     
     
     
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    MERIAM IBRAHIM RELEASED FROM CUSTODY AGAIN - WILL TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES

    UPDATE June 27 - Meriam Ibrahim is now at the United States Embassy.

    Read more - http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sudanese-christian-woman-us/2014/06/27/id/579626/

    Previous report:
    First picture as a free woman: Sudanese death row mother Meriam clutches her baby girl in the back seat of a car moments after being released by police 'to travel to US'

  • Meriam Ibrahim and her husband, US citizen Daniel Wani, were held as they tried to fly out of the country on Tuesday
  • Doctor was charged with traveling on false documents which carries seven-year sentence
  • Couple and their children, Martin, 21 months and Maya, one month, were detained by about 40 National Security agents at Khartoum airport
  • It is believed they are due to try to make it to Washington DC before setting up home together in Manchester, New Hampshire

  • Read more and see pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671653/First-picture-free-woman-Sudanese-mother-Meriam-clutches-baby-girl-seat-car-moments-released-police.html

    Previous reports on Meriam Ibrahim on this blog
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Africa%20-%20Sudan%20-%20Meriam%20Ibrahim

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    Thursday, June 26, 2014

    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH VOTES NO ON PROTECTING BABIES BORN ALIVE DURING ABORTIONS

    Susan Berry of BREITBART reports:  
     
    The nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination has been busy these days. It has voted to approve same-sex marriages, to endorse divestment as a protest against Israeli policies toward Palestinians, and now has approved allowing babies to die who are born alive during botched abortions.
     
    As Wesley J. Smith at National Review Online observes, the motion that failed to win approval states:
     
    1. Call for the Presbyterian Mission Agency and member congregations to enter a two-year season of reflection upon the plight of children unwanted by human society, both born and not-yet born, and to purposefully seek to enter the pure worship of God by offering aid, comfort, and the Gospel to those responsible for the care of our most desperate orphans (including those who survive abortion procedures): parents, siblings, church and community leaders, and the medical profession.
     
    2. Direct the Moderator of the General Assembly and the Stated Clerk to issue statements that denounce the practice of killing babies born live following an abortion procedure, such as was revealed in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell clinic in Philadelphia.
     
    “…[I]t is breathtaking that the Church wouldn’t even agree to ‘reflect’ on protecting the lives of born babies and denounce Kermit Gosnell-style murders," Smith notes. “This is akin to refusing to oppose the terminal neglect of unwanted infants, even infanticide.”
    Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted last year of murdering babies who were born alive during botched abortions.

    Source
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Presbyterian-Church-Votes-No-On-Protecting-Babies-Born-Alive-During-Botched-Abortions

    RELATED
     
    Christian Churches obscene and vicious war against Israel
    Oblivious to Muslim massacres of Christians, Presbyterians pass anti-Israel BDS Resolution
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/christian-churches-obscene-and-vicious.html


    ABORTED AND MISCARRIED BABIES INCINERATED BY UK HOSPITALS TO GENERATE HEAT
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/03/aborted-and-miscarried-babies.html

    ABORTED BABIES FROM CANADA BURNED BY OREGON TO HEAT UP HOMES
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/04/aborted-babies-from-canada-burned-by.html
     
     
    Life Site News
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/

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    CYRIL THE ORPHAN SQUIRREL WHO WON A MAN'S HEART

    Cyril began to suckle from a doll's teat and after a few misses got the milk in his mouth

    How Cyril the orphan squirrel stole my heart and all my wife's Custard Creams


    Read this moving love story here
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2665394/How-Cyril-orphan-squirrel-stole-heart-wifes-Custard-Creams.html




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    FISH TAKE OVER ABANDONED FLOODED MALL IN THAILAND

    The New World Mall was closed in 1997 after it was found to have breached building regulations and a fire in 1999 destroyed the roof allowing rainwater in

  • New World Mall in Bangkok, Thailand, flooded after fire destroyed roof
  • Locals noticed water attracted mosquitoes so introduced fish to eat them
  • The freshwater talapia have thrived and hundreds fill the abandoned building 

  • Read more and see additional pictures
    An abandoned mall in Thailand has become home to hundreds of fish after it flooded. Locals introduced the talapia to eat mosquitoes which had been attracted by the stagnant waterhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670491/Fish-abandoned-New-World-Mall-Bangkok-flooded.html



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    More pictures of abandoned places on this blog
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/search/label/Abandoned%20sites

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    DISCRIMINATION IN ISRAEL - The silence about anti-Jewish and pro-Arab bias among Leftist Jewish media, judiciary and government

    Yusuf Huliasi wielding a wooden bat
    Attacker Yusuf Huleisi
    The issue of blatant discrimination against Jews in Israel may come as a surprise to readers used to articles that highlight even the slightest instance of discriminatory treatment of Arabs. 
     
    The media and the Arabs quite often make up incidents (it's called Pallywood), or blow them out of proportion - and that's what the media and activists concentrate on.

    The truth behind all that is rather painful:  Jews are constantly being discriminated against in Israel - particularly religiously observant patriotic Jews. 

    Israel's worst enemies are Jews who hate Jews.  They side with the enemy and undermine the country's safety.

    Israeli Jews are profoundly divided by politics and degree of religious observance.  The Israeli secular left has such animosity against religious Jews that they would rather side with religious Muslims rather than their own brothers and sisters.

    This secular pro-Arab left has a firm hold on the media, the judiciary and the government.  Israelis seem to be habituated to the notion that the Jewish majority can be routinely discriminated against by pro-Arab leftist Jews with authority and influence. 
     
    Some of the extremes of the Jewish pro-Arab bias could be considered outright treason. 
     
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    Today's news:
     
    Judge orders the release of Arab who broke a Jewish youngster's skull with a bat

    The boy was walking along with friends, stopped to urinate, and then was attacked by a neighborhood Arab.  He suffered a depressed skull fracture, wounds to his scalp and intracranial hemorrhaging, and ended up in hospital.
     
    PHOTO above - Arab attacker.  The initial part of the assault was captured on video.
     
    While Judge Rivka Feldman-Friedman of the Jerusalem District Court acknowledged that the evidence was clear against Yusuf Huleisi, and yet despite the evidence and Huleisi's past criminal record, she ordered to release him to house arrest in the Jerusalem Arab-majority neighborhood Jabel Mukaber.
     
    The prosecuting attorney requested to appeal the decision, but took back the request several hours later. (Why?)
     
    Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who represents one of the Jewish youth attacked in the incident for the Honenu legal aid organization, noted earlier in the month how things would have been different if the Jews had been the attackers instead.
     
    "The entire agenda in Israel would have been busy only on this issue," argued Ben-Gvir. "The media would have spread on thick the red titles, the police would be conducting arrests, and (Justice Minister) Tzipi Livni and (President) Shimon Peres and even the prime minister would have been condemning it."
     
    "But when a Jew takes a bat to the head, the hypocrisy celebrates and the media is silent. We demand that the police enforce justice, submit an indictment and ask for the attacker to be arrested until the end of legal proceedings," said Ben-Gvir.

    Article and photo - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182200#.U6xlb5sU-M8
     
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    THE ISRAELI LEFT'S PERVERTED AND TREASONOUS NATURE
    And how it undermines the security and the very existence of Israel
    Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-israeli-lefts-perverted-and.html

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    HOW ISRAELI AUTHORITIES COVER UP ARAB ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND TERROR AGAINST JEWS
    Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/how-israeli-authorities-cover-up-arab.html

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    In Israel a Jew can be arbitrarily detained and deported indefinitely from his community
    -  no reasons given -
    for what he might be thinking
     

    Administrative Detention orders, originating from the British Mandate era, empowers military commanders in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to detain a person for a maximum of six months, under a “reasonable basis for believing that the security of the region or public security necessitates.” It may be extended for an additional six months, but does not specify a maximum cumulative period.
     
    There is no evidence, no trial and no judicial process. 
     
    Most significantly, according to Louis Rene Beres, renowned Professor of International Law, “The point of these orders, of course, has been to quash anti-government dissent in various West Bank (Judea/Samaria) Jewish communities. Designated recipients are not informed as to the precise reason for the orders, nor have they any formal right of appeal.”

    Read more
    http://honenu.org/articles/administrative-detentionexpulsionselective-enforcement-against-jewish-nationalists/


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    Mass expulsions of Jews from their homes
    In Israel only
     

    The Amona expulsion carried out by Ariel Sharon's successor, PM Ehud Olmert (recently convicted of fraud)

    MORE GRAPHIC VIOLENCE of the brutality with which the Israeli government expelled Jews from their homes in Amona.  These pictures are from Israel.  Not from some Eastern European country under Nazi control.  This is a pogrom perpetrated by the Israeli government against Israeli citizens, just because they were Jewish.
     
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    Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon -
    Why isn't his legacy of expelling 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif considered a crime?
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    MORE REFERENCES
     
      
    Recommended: 

    Archive on Israeli police abuse of Jews

    On Israel National News - Arutz Sheva
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Tag.aspx/17368

    On the above link you may see references to Yitzhar Jews.  Yitzhar is a small town of observant Jews who have been trying to assert their rights as Israeli citizens.  Authorities don't like that, so they have made it their priority to harass them, quite often severely breaking the law in the process. 
     
    Secular Israeli authorities like Jews to be fearful and submissive, while treating Arabs with more consideration, afraid themselves of Arab insurrection and brutality.

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    Police attack on middle age women peacefully holding placards
    Here is footage of a police attack against a group of Jewish women peacefully protesting against the treasonous pro-Arab Oslo Accords.

    Police brutally grab one of the women and drag her to the floor and then onto a police van.  Police lied and charged the victim with attacking the officer.  Police had to retract when video of the incident surfaced on the media.

    Read more and see video
    http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2007/02/video-footage-of-deputy-chief-of-police.html

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    How Israeli police and army were indoctrinated in brutality by a team of psychologists prior to expulsions of Jews from their homes
     
    A report entitled The Mental Preparation for the Disengagement and its Aftermath in the IDF sheds light on the intense preparations that took place. ('Disengagement' = the expulsion of Jews from their homes.)
     
    “To execute robotic responses [by IDF soldiers] in a precision-like fashion, southern military commander Dan Harel appointed a team of psychologists to ‘transform’ the soldiers’ thought processes,” says the report.
     
     a series of psychological exercises “planned to ‘release’ the soldiers from their conscience by carrying out exercises in emotional disconnect.” The psychologists’ notes on those exercises are detailed in the journal Military Psychology (No. 5, December 2006).
     
    The case of Akiva Vitkin (also see next article on this page)
     
    Akiva Vitkin’s story began at a non-violent protest. As the 19-year old sat in the streets of Ramat Gan protesting the expulsion, three police officers sat on top of him and pretended to handcuff him. Tuvia Lerner of National News Network had stopped his car nearby and caught the incident on film.
     
    “Another police officer approached Akiva from behind, leaned towards his head, stuck his fingers in Akiva’s nostrils and pulled violently upwards and backwards.  Akiva was dragged to a police car while he was bleeding from his mouth, nose and eyes.”
     
    At the Ramat Gan police station afterwards, Vitkin was taken into a room where a witness observed four policemen beating him with their fists and knocking him to the floor before the door was closed. Akiva emerged with his face swollen and bloody, barely able to walk.
     
     
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    Police forced to compensate victim for the savage attack they inflicted on peaceful protestor Akiva Vitkin
     
    2011  - The protestor, Akiva Vitkin, was detained by police was attacked twice: the first time was by riot police officer Eran Naim, who stuck his fingers in Vitkin’s nostrils and pulled his head backward, leaving Vitkin with facial injuries and bleeding.
     
    Vitkin was beaten a second time by riot policeman Eliran Avraham after he was arrested and taken to the police station. Avraham badly beat Vitkin while he was shackled in an interrogation room.

    Read more - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150081#.U6x-8JsU-M8


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    2014 Report - Increased Police corruption and brutality in Israel


    Attorney Pini Fischler of the Ometz government watchdog group has published the group’s monthly report on the Israel Police.   The report indicates that police violence against innocent citizens is increasingly a problem, Fischler declared. 

    He pointed to the growing sums of money that police have been ordered to pay as compensation to people who were wrongly arrested and in cases where officers wrongly used physical violence, or made unnecessary use of tasers.

     

    To this point, police have paid roughly 100 million shekels in compensation, he said – and the report indicates that police will need to pay another 30 million in 2013 alone.
     
    The report also analyzed various investigations into police violence conducted by the police’s own Internal Investigations unit, and court cases centering on police violence.
     
    He clarified that he does not see the Israel Police as a whole as a corrupt organization. However, he said, corruption has gone beyond the “few bad apples” seen in the past.
     
    Read more

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    Arabs are treated well, in comparison
    Freed terrorist who murdered two Jewish students complains police interfered with his stamp collecting
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/04/israeli-brutality-freed-terrorist-who.html



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    Thirteen year old Jewish girls mistreated in prison for the crime of building a shack on a hilltop
    Read more


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    The real Apartheid in Israel - Jews are banned from praying at Temple Mount, the most sacred site in Judaism
    Read more
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/the-real-apartheid-in-israel-jews-are.html



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    Honenu
    An organization to monitor and defend Jewish legal rights in Israel
    http://honenu.org/

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    This Ongoing War -
    A blog dedicated to document continuous Arab aggression against Jews.  Pro-Arab leftist Jews pretend this Arab murderous hate and violence does not exist, or more often they blame the victims.
    http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.ca/

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    Honest Reporting -
    Exposing anti-Israel bias in the international media, twisting facts to suit their agenda. 
    You won't see the mainstream media ever reporting on the abuse of Jews in Israel, whether by Arabs or by Jewish authorities.
    http://honestreporting.com/

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