Wash, rinse & repeat...

From ATLAS SHRUGS http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/12/lather-rinse-re.html

• Is it just me, or does it look like Israel is starting to fall back on hitting empty buildings, sports stadiums, etc.? Seems like we've been down this road before in 2006.
  The pattern: 1) Israel starts out with an aggressive military response to the terrorists - the goals are somewhat fuzzy, but it does feel cathartic. 2) The terrorists go to ground quickly after taking a minor hit to key forces and weaponry. 3) The Arabs riot in the streets of Europe and across the middle east. 4) Western govts get nervous and turn the screws on Israel to pull back and negotiate and make peace. 5) The media reports it as a humanitarian tragedy story, complete with the pathetic pictures of Palestinian kids, leading to massive pressure on Israel to call it quits. 6) Israel gets nervous and starts doing non-strategic things like flattening empty buildings, to avoid civilian casualties, while trying to figure out what to do next in the face of strong and (to them) unexpected international condemnation. 7) The enemy, seeing that Israel has no real war plan, starts claiming victory, i.e. "survival" in the face of the onslaught of the world's 4th largest army blah blah blah, and uses some of its mostly-untouched forces and armaments, which were, of course, hidden beyond the IDF's reach. 8) Israel calls it off and tells its citizens it won. Everyone knows otherwise.
  We seem to be roughly at stage 6 right now.
  The key ingredient in this repetitive mobius strip of failure is the inability of Israel's government to correctly anticipate the global pressure it will be under to call it off before a successful conclusion. Israel keeps expecting the world to be sympathetic and supportive. Israel is delusional.
  Sorry to take the wind out of the sails of anyone who's pumped up and thinking Israel is on the way to a grand victory. I see Lebanon II unfolding, rapidly.

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in December 1941 only a few thousand Americans were killed or wounded but the American aerial bombing of Japan by August 1945 had killed or wounded six million Japanese. Was this a disproportionate response? Japan became a much better country after this Bushido death cult was eliminated. Gaza would be a much better place if Israel is permitted to destroy this Hamas death cult but alas this will not happen.

Taliban Hit Pakistan Town That Fought Back - NYTimes.com

Taliban Hit Pakistan Town That Fought Back - NYTimes.com

"A suicide car bomber set off an explosion at a school in Shalbandi that was serving as a polling place, as voters lined up to elect a representative to the National Assembly. More than 30 people were killed and more than two dozen wounded, according to local political and security officials. Children and several policemen were among the dead." This was a reprisal for a posse from Shalbandi that earlier had hunted down and killed several Taliban fighters for murdering eight local policemen.
Meanwhile in Gaza Egyptian border guards have fired upon Palestinians fleeing Israeli assaults on Hamas according to The Press Association. "At least 300 Egyptian border guards have been rushed to the area to reseal the border, the official added on condition on anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press. A resident of the Gaza Strip side of the border, Fida Kishta, said that Egyptian border guards opened fire to drive back the Palestinians."
These Palestinians in Gaza originated in Egypt a few generations ago and the Taliban, a creation of the Pakistani security services, are murdering their coreligionists with great alacrity. Such is the pathology of the Religion of Peace.

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Abbas blames Hamas for bloodshed

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Abbas blames Hamas for bloodshed

Here is something from the if pigs had wings they could fly department. This story goes on to say that Hamas is not allowing the wounded to go to Egypt for treatment: "Egypt's foreign minister has also blamed Hamas for preventing hundreds of wounded Palestinians from entering Egypt via the Rafah crossing for treatment - the only crossing that does not border Israel.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the wounded were 'barred from crossing' and he blamed 'those in control of Gaza' for putting the lives of the injured at risk."

Jihad Watch: Saudi top dog to Bush: Get the Israelis to stop

Jihad Watch: Saudi top dog to Bush: Get the Israelis to stop:
"CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) — Saudi King Abdullah told US President George W. Bush by telephone on Saturday that major countries must take action to halt Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported...."
A Saudi King askes an American President to jump. "How high?" is the answer no matter if the President is named Bush or Obama.

The Fort Dix Five - part of global jihad

The Fort Dix 5

1. Mohamad Shnewer, 24, of Cherry Hill, U.S. citizen born in Jordan. Graduated from Cherry Hill High School West in 2003; attended Camden County College. Drove for All City Cab in Philadelphia, did construction work and worked at family's Plaza Food Market & Halal Meats in Pennsauken.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
2. 
   Dritan "Tony" Duka, 29, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Operated a roofing business.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
3. 
   Eljvir Duka, 25, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Operated a roofing business. Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges. Found not guilty of gun charges related to his brothers' attempt to buy weapons from an FBI informant.
4. 
   Shain Duka, 27, of Cherry Hill, ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia; immigrated illegally with his parents in 1984. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Operated a roofing business.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military and of gun charges.
5. 
   Serdar Tatar, 25, of Philadelphia, legal U.S. immigrant born in Turkey. Dropped out of Cherry Hill High School West. Delivered orders from his father's pizzeria to military personnel at Fort Dix. Was assistant manager of 7-Eleven store on the Temple University campus.
   Verdict: Guilty of conspiracy to kill members of the U.S. military.

The evidence suggests quite clearly that these men from disparate nationalities, cultures and languages were brought together by the same doctrine that drives al Qaeda (Sunni Wahhabis), the Mumbai mujahideen (Sunni Deobandis), Khomeini-faithful Iranians (Shia), Hamas (Sunni Muslim Brotherhood types), Hizbullah (Lebanese Arab Shia not necessarily faithful to the Persian Khomeini), Sudanese, Somalis, Indonesians, Nigerians, Bosnians, Chechens, and the list goes on and on and on. So what is that Common Enemy Threat Doctrine that unites these globally distant and unrelated groups? Ask them. Don't listen to the apologists or even the "experts" who want to suggest that they know better what motivates these groups than the groups themselves. If you simply listen and read what the global jihadists themselves say, it is for all practical purposes identical: The Law of Jihad as articulated throughout Shariah's 1200 years of development.
In other words, this is not some modern 20th century phenomenon. It is not just the work of the Muslim Brotherhood developed in the 1930s-1950s in Egypt. It is not just the oil-soaked Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia. It is a war against infidels that has been waged since Mohammed came onto the scene.
When you find yourself reading what some "expert" or some "Muslim leader" or an academic apologist says they REALLY mean when they speak of jihad, know you are drinking Kool-Aid. There is a fundamental difference between being informed by the mujahideen who are doing the murdering and the Shariah authorities--both classical and contemporary--from whom they claim to take instruction on the one hand and the secondary or tertiary literature of the academics and "experts" that is just spinning another "viewpoint" on the other.
Indeed, the latter will tell you at the end of the day that global jihad is all your fault. Western colonialism, imperialism, and institutional racism. Of course, that is not the common language of the mujahideen. Yes, some will take up the Palestinian gripe or the presence of US infidels in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. But that is not a common theme. The only common threat doctrine they all espouse is Shariah and its law of jihad. And, you need not take our word for this. The facts as evidence exists independently of what we say. It is found in the polemics and political tracts of Hamas, al Qaeda, Khomeini, Dow Jones Shariah authority Mufti Taqi Usmani, and many many others.
That of course is why the Fort Dix 5 were convicted. The evidence came from their own mouths in taped conversations; from their own computers; and from their purchase of real weapons to wreck real havoc.

Pallywood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys

Jihad Watch: The OIC calls on the media to suppress the truth

Jihad Watch: The OIC calls on the media to suppress the truth:
"“It is therefore hoped that media will avoid resorting to any reference to Islam when narrating such events in order not to disseminate erroneous information that might jeopardize the basic human rights of Muslims, the world over.”
The media are being asked not to report the facts about terrorism carried out in the name of Islam. Unpleasant though this may seem, and however difficult it may be for the OIC to swallow, the press have a responsibility to report the facts as they see them, and this must including the words and deeds of the terrorists. Respect for the truth, for facts, must come first. To deny the facts and to silence freedom of expression is the first step along the road to tyranny."

West paying jizya to Taliban » Winds Of Jihad

West paying jizya to Taliban » Winds Of Jihad:
"The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach Nato bases in the south of the country"
That and the heroin trade is keeping the jihadists in lots of money to pay for weapons and soldiers. As in the comic strip Pogo where it is revealed that "We have seen the enemy and it is us."

SteynOnline - CHRC: Infidels are not a protected category

SteynOnline - CHRC: Infidels are not a protected category:
"Commission canadienne des droits de la personne - S’attaquer aux gais, aux occidentales et aux juifs n’est pas nécessairement haineux"
So according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission if you are a christian pastor who objects to gay marriage you will be subjected to a lifetime speech ban. However, if you are a Muslim imam who says, among other things: homosexuality is a perversion and spreads disorder, gays and lesbians should be exterminated, those caught preforming sodomy should be beheaded, infidels (non Muslims) live like animals, men are superior to women, Jews spread corruption and chaos, Christianity is a religion of lies which goes against human nature which is the reason the West is full of perversity, corruption and adultery - all this is protected speech. Why? Because attacking Gays, Jews and Christians is not necessarily heinous according to the Lynch mob.
Here caution is warranted because it is okay for a Muslim Imam to say these things (which is as it should be as freedom of speech includes drivel) but some have faced a week long trial at the B.C.H.R.T. kangaroo court for quoting such Imams. Anyway read more for yourself here.