Snapped Shot

Aussie Dave caught this one right away—he's sporting a sleek new design that's worth an extra visit, btw—but seeing how I was stuck crawling around a server cabinet all day on Friday, I'm a bit late to the game.

Is this not the greatest example of motherhood, evuh?

Released Palestinian prisoner Fatma Ziq, center, who returned to Gaza after her release from an Israeli jail, holds a rifle as she sits with her children in the family house in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Israel freed 19 Palestinian women prisoners on Friday after Hamas militants handed over a video disc offering a first glimpse of an Israeli soldier they've held captive for more than three years. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)

One wonders where our local terror-apologists stand on imagery like this... Somehow, I suspect the only way that any leftist would condemn this woman is if I were to reveal that she was an evil home schooler.

Avast!

I'll open by saying that I certainly hope for their safe return—but seriously: Have we really become so depraved as a nation that this doesn't raise any red flags out there?

MOORESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - Authorities across the country are on the look out for two Iredell County girls -- including one who is 9-months pregnant -- who disappeared with their step-father last week.

Janette Hess says her 12-year-old pregnant daughter Keara and 11-year-old Sierra, vanished with their stepfather, Matthew Hess, on Thursday, Sept. 24.

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Keara has never indicated that her stepfather was the father of the child. They think the father is a young person Keara's age. The mother told authorities her daughter named a young person as the father.

Keara got pregnant when she, her sister and Matthew Hess lived in Lincoln County. At the time, Matthew and Janette Hess were separated.

I am literally speechless.

Elder, over at EOZ, found a rather interesting snippet of what goes on during a normal day at an Islamic school.

When asked the reason he was in Police custody, Sani narrated his own side of the story giving a detailed description of how he carries out the neferous act.

“At night, when the children fall asleep, I normally go to the older ones among them, undress them and orally them and I will then collect their semen into a container. I will make the sperm to dry after which I usually mix it with the bark of a tree and use the mixture in my bath water daily. I do this for wealth, spiritual strength and for proficiency of the spiritual assistance I render to my clients who come to seek assistance for different ailments and problems they are faced with,” he emphasised.

Though Sani refused to mention those who patronise him, it was obvious from what he said that some wealthy and powerful men in the society enjoy his patronage and those within the police premises where he was paraded are of the opinion that Sani uses the sperm of the young boys who are within the ages of 12-15 years for money-making rituals for his clients or use the sperm for longevity for himself or his clients.

Note how proud he is of his actions. Look how much business he received from his perversions. They knew what was going on. They paid him good money for her sadistic, perverted molestations. They all know of Islam's perversions but yet they hypocritically proclaim righteousness. How often do you hear of the honor squads patrolling the Muslim streets and beating anyone they have deemed "unrighteous".

Boy, if they keep on going like this, even our liberals will abandon them:

A Palestinian boy, with paint smeared on his face, yawns during a Hamas protest against the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in Gaza March 6, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

For reference, Omar al-Bashir looks like this. In comparison, American liberals look more like that.

You know, the more I think about this, the more I think that this can only make the Palestinians even more endearing to the Leftist cause.

"Nuance" does tend to travel in the most predictable circles, after all.

Since President Obama (henceforth: The Idiot In Chief, not to be confused with The Moron In Chief) has decided that we no longer have any need to defend our allies from nuclear attack, here is a valuable lesson from the past:

Considering how blatantly the subjects in this photograph are acting for the camera's sake alone, I think it's safe to say that photojournalism has outlived its usefulness in the Palestinian Terror-tories:

Palestinian mourners react during the funeral of militant Al'a Abu al-Rob in Qabatiya near the West Bank city of Jenin February 5, 2009. Israeli troops shot dead al-Rob at his home in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian security official said. An Israeli military spokesman said the militant belonged to the Islamic Jihad group and was suspected of involvement in attacks against Israelis. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK)

Technically, I suppose you could call this a "reaction." It's probably more accurate, however, to say that the man in this photograph is acting in front of the cameras. Without the ever-present photographers situated ever-so-conveniently on the hospital stoop, one would imagine that this man would feel no need to parade his emotions so openly.

Of course, it's pictures like this that remind us exactly why it is that we don't need the army of photographers on the ground in Gaza.

A Palestinian man reacts as he holds a blood stained sheet at the entrance to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting the compound on fire as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the area on a mission to end Israel's devastating offensive against the territory's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Thaer Al-Hasani)

Update: More acting for the camera's sake (mild content warning).

Update: And more. The only people in the world that are being fooled by this charade are those who have a stake in the battle (i.e., the Islamists that wish to see the total eradication of the Jewish State, and Leftists that despise the only bastion of democratic governance in the Middle East).

Someone has put up a blog that shows images of kids in the Mid-East who are either sent parading, or are willingly parading, with weapons. And of course, the context is always that they hate Israel, Big Satan, and any western nation that opposes them. They strut their kids around like trophies of exemplary parenting having raised their kids to hate anything and everything. Having trained their children that if they don't willingly kill themselves or everyone around them, then their god will not accept them in to their form of heaven.

Please tell me what kind of sick god have you heard of that demands that kind of devotion? It certainly is not the GOD of Israel and Christianity. It is more likely a god from the other neighborhood. A neighborhood to the south.



As an example of the hate that is taught and the utter brain-washing that exists in these countries, take a look at this picture. I post this, assuming of course that the author of the blog wants this message out.

Can you get any more disturbed that this? Parents are training their kids how to honor death through mass parades and media attention. I am sure you can guess where the parent's get these ideas.

A religion cult that honors death, that pushes their children to die at an early age through horrific acts of murder and suicide, that treats their civilians as mere objects to stop bullets, that steals from its neighbors and forces them to buy the items back, that refuses to live in peace with anyone, that promotes blood letting of their own children, prays to a block of stone, that would rather go extinct that just be at peace, is no religion at all but a fanatical satanic cult.

How can you make peace with people that hate their own people? How can you FORCE another nation, against its will to survive, to make peace with them? How can you also expect a people, that would gladly kill its own citizens out of a sick twisted idea of honor, to honor an idea of respecting the life of another country? A cult whose primary and sole purpose is the destruction of its neighbors.

We will never see peace in the middle east until the day we stop seeing Arab children taught to do this.

You can't raise an entire generation of human beings to unconditionally hate without expecting there to be somewhat... hateful consequences, after all.

In this picture, the rocket is being launched by Hamas from:

(A) a military base,
(B) a battlefield,
(C) a naval vessel, or
(D) an area surrounded by civilians.

The answer, of course, is self-evident. Isn't it curious, therefore, that the Associated Press doesn't see fit to include that little tidbit of information in the caption?

IMPORTANT: See Carl in Jerusalem's post here for more direct proof of Hamas' continued use of civilian infrastructure for warmaking purposes. Then click on ye "Continue Reading" link and keep on truckin' for my take on things. Not that I've got anything important to say or anything...

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CiJ has the scoop:

Arutz Sheva reports that a study by the Terror and Intelligence Information Center shows that when the IDF warns Arab civilians of an impending attack in their neighborhood, Hamas uses the information in order to organize the civilians into human shields in the hope of protecting the targets from the IDF's wrath. The Center explains that Hamas considers this a 'win-win' situation

Be sure to hop over for the full story, and go and vote for Israel Matzav while you're at it!

Some insightful analysis on the media coverage of Operation Caste Lead, courtesy the ever-eloquent Richard North:

Unable to defeat Israel, and knowing that an all-out, unrestrained military operations would destroy them, first Hezbollah and now Hamas have been employing the same stratagem to enable them to pursue their terror campaigns yet avoid annihilation.

The stratagem was perhaps discovered by accident in April 1996 when a UN-supervised building in the centre of the village of Qana had been shelled during an Israeli operation code-named "Grapes of Wrath, aimed at clearing out Hezbollah from the region. This had resulted in over 100 civilian deaths, the resulting international pressure precipitating the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.

On 30 July 2006, in the second Lebanon War, when the Israelis were attempting to complete the job they had started ten years before, Hezbollah was struggling against the might of Israel and desperately needed a cease-fire in order to regroup and re-build its forces and stocks of weapons. By what appeared to be convenient coincidence, in the small hours of that morning an IDF aircraft was claimed to have bombed a building in the hamlet of Khuraybah, close to Qana.

Be sure to hop on over and read the rest—A mere citation couldn't possibly do this article justice.

Stop whatever you're doing and read this post, written by the (quite eloquent) mother of a solider in the IDF. I'll post the intro here, but the article is long, and is very worthy of a full read:

There are images that break your heart. The news is filled with them today and they can easily sway you to think that all of the situation in the Middle East comes down to a picture. How horrible, truly tragic, unacceptable and wrong it is to have a child die.

It is so horrible, sometimes you forget to look behind the picture. It's so simple, really. A child should be able to go to school and be safe. I last spoke to my son days ago and in the background I could hear the sound of explosions. Through the phone, dozens of kilometers away from me, and quite a distance from Elie, I could hear another unit firing. Can you imagine how loud that would be up close?

Yesterday, mortars were fired FROM the school In Jebalya. This was a direct and intentional attack on Israel, on Israel's soldiers and population. Mortars are explosions. They are loud. You can't pretend you didn't hear them.

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If you read that article from top to bottom and still blame Israel for what's going on in Gaza, you just might need a brain transplant.

The ambulance-chasing press has rushed to the scene to cover the Israeli-caused carnage, but in all of the coverage I've seen so far, not a single press agency seems to be bothered enough to ask if Hamas was launching rockets from the school.

Because, you know, little facts like whether or not a terrorist group committed a war crime are apparently not relevant to the news story.

(For an example of Hamas using a UN School as a rocket-launching platform, please see the video here. We covered it way back when, as well, but Jim remembered it first, so off you go. [Ed.:—Temporarily embedding video for AoS readers. Please give Jim H. of Gateway fame a visit!])



Update: You know, one fact which does not escape me is that all of the men carrying bodies in this picture appear to be the right age and physical shape to be Hamas militants.

Not that the press generally knows how to identify militants or anything.

Update 2: Carl in Jerusalem is suspecting that this will become the "Qana" of 2009. Of course, as Carl points out, much of what happened at Qana has proven to be a fraud, so one wouldn't be surprised to find the same hold true of today's events.

It is patently obvious that Hamas has been directing Gaza residents to hide out in the UN schools, as the last few days of wire coverage illustrates—and terrorist groups don't usually offer such advice for free.

UPDATE: The Israeli consulate in New York is reporting via Twitter (how cool is that?) that the initial investigation suggests that mortars were fired from school grounds by Hamas militants, which is obviously what Israel was aiming for.

Additionally, the investigation has revealed that there was potentially a large secondary explosion at the scene, indicating that there was a significant amount of weaponry stored on site as well.

I ask again: WHERE IS THE WORLD-WIDE CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS???

Update: Another Hamas human rights violation: The IDF has discovered that another school in the Gaza Strip was being used for weapons storage.

One wonders when our independent news agencies will decide to start to questioning the Hamas party line in this present conflict.

See-Also:

AOS, Michelle Malkin, LGF, The Jawa Report, A Blog For All, Jules Crittenden, Hot Air.