LIONHEART: The Global Jihad

Cross posted from Radarsite

The Global Jihad - One piece of the human jigsaw puzzle
A Window on the World - The 21st Century media Revolution

At the click of a button whilst sitting back drinking tea, coffee or eating our dinners from the safety, security and comfort of our own homes we can be transported in an instant to the present War zones of Iraq & Afghanistan to watch pre-recorded images beamed live and direct onto our computer screens to see what real life is like for our troops in frontline military combat defending our way of life from the Islamic World, we can be taken back in time over and over again to relive each and every terror attack like the planes flying into the World Trade Centre which have been carried out against us in the name of Allah as a part of the global Jihad, we can watch the real life pre-recorded beheadings of innocent people, and we can sit back and listen to the intent behind the hate filled murderous rhetoric towards us from the Islamic World who are at work destroying our Western Civilization on behalf of their religion.

Each of us now has a window on the global conflict that is unfolding around the World outside the safety and security of our own homes through the internet. At the same time all of mankind is now joined together from one end of the Earth to the other by this new phenomenon, no longer do we have to rely on snail mail or pigeon carriers across the Atlantic, or telegrams on camel back across the Sahara to communicate with people; we now have hotmail and Skype reaching who we want to reach for whatever reason we want to reach them in an instant, and all totally free of charge except for our internet connection fee, this is the power of the new technological phenomenon of our age.

The 21st Century media Revolution 'The Internet' - Our Window on the World.

No longer is the news media controlled by the few in power over us who once manipulated it so they could control what we thought and how we perceived the World around us for their own purposes. The walls of control have well and truly come down, with the power of the media now in the hands of anybody who wants to use it, with the control of what we see and hear removed now from the hands of those few and placed into the hands of the many, with the reality of what is going on in the World today and how that effects us directly, no longer able to be covered up, out of sight and out of mind, although the Dictators in the newly formed European Union are looking at ways to draw the curtains on our freedom of speech across the internet, or control it so that they own the monopoly of information people receive through it so as to be able to keep control over how people think and feel throughout Europe based on their propaganda and how they want the European population to view the World.

Information is now accessible to everyone, and anyone who wants to click on the mouse button, open up the door, and come inside to look and learn, people are free to enter and free to leave, making up their own minds along the way based on the information, opinions and the facts they are presented with. Those of us who choose too are offering others a window on their personal Worlds, its surroundings, how it influences them and their thinking, and the 21st Century War that is unfolding upon the Earth.

A Window on today's Global Jihad (Holy War) against our Civilisation that is taken direct from the pages of the Koran, as Moslems follow in the footsteps and example the false warmongering prophet Mohamed set for them.

Wherever in the World today you are reading this, is testimony to those walls of control coming down and the instant global communication that we now have in our hands with which to communicate with people from all over the World. You are reading the thoughts and perceptions of a common man, not a journalist, intellectual or someone joined to any organisation, just a citizen of planet Earth in England who has the ability at his fingertips just like everybody else, to write down how he views the world around him based on the facts and how those facts then fit into the bigger picture of one important and serious aspect of life on Earth. One piece of the human jigsaw puzzle of reality concerning the Global Jihad that is now in full swing against our Western Judeo/Christian Civilisation. Then post that reality onto the 'World Wide Web' for others from anywhere in the World to read, from the safety, security, and comfort of their own homes or work place's, who then at the click of a mouse button can be transported to another part of the World and to somebody else's window and another piece of the human jigsaw of reality relating to somebody else's perception of the World around them. All those pieces of the human jigsaw from around the World reporting on the Global Jihad (Holy War) eventually leads those seekers of truth and understanding into enlightenment with a clearer picture of what the future of our Western World is now facing.

Ignore the truth and the facts pertaining to today's Global Holy War at your own peril, and at the peril of your children, grandchildren and the future of our Western Civilization.

The Islamic World does not hide the fact that they aim for Islam to take over the West, they believe it is inevitable and openly say as much, and a certain section of the Islamic World does not hide the fact that they are at war with the West seeking the destruction and conquest of our way of life, with their Moslem armies already on the ground and encamped the length and breadth of our lands conducting their part in the global Jihad. The proof is in what they say and their actions towards us, yet people are still asleep to the serious problem surrounding them and blinded to the facts staring them in the face. They just cannot see the big fat smelly Elephant sitting in the room with them, they think it's a cute little puppy because of all of the heinous propaganda by the days ruling Liberal Elite so are protecting, nurturing and feeding it, as if it is some docile little pet like the good little Dhimmi Liberal sheep people they are. Sheep people being led along with their children and grandchildren to the future bloodthirsty Halal slaughter house of an Islamic State by their appeasing treasonous Liberal Dhimmi leaders.

For me, the window on my world opened up the day I had my life threatened by drug dealing Pakistani Moslems from Luton England who are connected to Al Qaeda and the poppy fields of Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda terror training camps of Pakistan/Afghanistan and the extreme Madras's of Pakistan. It was by divine appointment that I met a Jewish computer expert in the Holy Land who set my blog up for me and showed me how to use it. I was then given a window with which to speak and tell the World exactly what is going on, on the ground from my perspective where I live in relation to the Islamic community living here, and their Holy War against British society.

War is War what ever way you look at it!!!

Luton took centre stage on the morning of 7/7 2005 when 4 British born Moslems murdered 52 innocent people and wounded over 700, and it also took centre stage of the biggest anti-terror operation in British history 'operation crevice' where the bomb maker of the fertilizer plot was an Al Qaeda trained local Pakistan Moslem taxi driver, and the Emir of the plot who is said to have also recruited the lead bomber on 7/7 was also an Al Qaeda connected Pakistani Moslem from Bury Park Luton. This is where I live, and is where Al Qaeda opened up as their frontline in their War against my Country, playing their part in the Global Jihad to destroy our Western Civilisation. The question is why? And being someone who has lived and grown up on the streets here I know exactly why and have written about this so on my blog so that those who are fighting in defence of our Civilisation know exactly what is behind the London bombings, and the state of affairs on the ground here in this frontline within Great Britain.

What happens if the cancer is left untreated?

The World is at War, the 'War on Terror' is happening as you are reading this, and Al Qaeda did declare a Civil War using British Moslems against us after all, and my window speaks for itself based upon facts for those watching and listening from around the World.

As if the British people are going to role over into submission and surrender to Moslem terror, murder and violent threats. The line was drawn in the sand and they crossed it, so what are we meant to do, just sit back in fear and let them take over? Answer that one, because MI5 admit that intelligence isn't enough, and RUSI have told Her Majesties Government that it must make 'Defence of the Realm' its No.1 priority.

If the British government are not going to do anything because they have their heads buried deeply in the sand with the British people looking at the propaganda staring them in the face, and MI5 admitting that the problem is too big for them, what is left for the British people to do about protecting themselves, their children, their grandchildren and their future way of life?

War is War and there can only be one winner at the end of it – WHO DO YOU WANT IT TO BE?

My blog http://www.lionheartuk.com/ has been the window on my personal world, and my view based upon, on the ground facts of the Luton Pakistani Moslem community living where I live and their daily street Jihad against my community and my country, and my view of the Global Jihad and the threat it poses to the future of our Western Civilistion. One piece of the human jigsaw puzzle of reality that fits with all of the other pieces from around the world which all fit together to give those who do not yet see or understand what is happening in our World today and what that means to our futures, a clearer picture of that which is out of sight and mind from most people at this moment in time, swept under the carpet of reality by the Liberal Elite and their heinous propaganda.

There are many many windows out there, too numerous to name them all, but here are just a few examples of those different windows to show you how they all fit together to give a picture of reality regarding the Islamic Worlds Holy War against all non-believers. Sderot in Israel is small town near the border with Gaza and has Hamas Moslem militants firing rockets into their community, sometimes on a daily basis, or in other parts of Israel recently we have seen Moslems driving JCB diggers at the human population killing innocent people. France which has a 10% Moslem minority now has seen fierce violent riots almost nightly, with hundreds of cars torched and French police shot at with guns by North African Moslem immigrants. Sweden now has a rape epidemic amongst its population where Swedish women who are not dressed in the veil are seen as legitimate targets for rape and gang rape by their Moslem population. Demark is now on its way to becoming the first Islamic State in Europe, where in the not too distant future Moslems will be the majority in the Country. Denmark also saw the murder of Theo Van Goth in broad daylight for producing a film depicting the oppression of women in Islam; they also felt the rage of the whole Islamic World after newspapers there published satirical pictures of Mohamed.

The list could go on and on, and it is only because of today's media revolution and individual people like myself creating their own windows on their reality can others peer through to see what is happening on the ground in different areas of the World in relation to their Moslem populations, the effect that the Islamic religion is having on their society, and what part they are playing in today's Global Jihad to destroy our Western Civilisation because the main stream media that is controlled or influenced by the State which in Britain is run by a small cabal of Liberal Elite's will not give us all of the facts, it is watered down or ignored so as to keep the population in the dark of the serious imminent threat to our way of life.

For me as a lone individual living in a 21st Century War zone, a war zone where the war is being fought by stealth, silently and subversively behind the scenes by an urban guerilla army with dangerous murderous intent knowing its goals, I thank God that He has joined me with others from around the World, each with our own windows on our own personal worlds trying to let others peer through so that they can see what we see because the very future existence and survival of our Civilisation now hangs in the balance like never before in modern history. We now have one of the Worlds largest religions actively and aggressively seeking to destroy our Nations, our societies and our way of life from within and without so that they can enforce their religion upon our lands on behalf of Allah, exactly as they are taught too in the pages of their holy books. A military political religious force that believes it is on a divine mission from god to convert the whole World into an Islamic one with its believers wanting to die in the process of achieving their religious aims because it is the only sure way of reaching their paradise.

I thank God that he has given me true alliance's with others for the days that lay ahead as together we defend our Western Judeo/Christian Civilisation for the sake of our children and grandchildren and their way of life. Roger at Radarsite has been able to take my window and piece of the human jigsaw puzzle relating to Islam's Global Holy War, and join it with others like Jewish blog central, Real Clear Politics and Reuters so as reach a much wider audience and give their readers an insight into what is happening on the ground within the UK from a non politically correct citizen.

Together we can all make a difference towards the future survival of our way of life

The armies of Islam are not over there in the Middle East, the armies of Islam are living and feeding off the fat of our lands, actively planning and plotting our downfall and over throw daily.

The Islamic World wants to take our Western Judeo/Christian Civilization into a new dark age, where the oppression, suppression and murder of their 7th Century holy books reign supreme. We then become worthless as human beings, taken as cattle and sold at the market or killed, and our women and children taken as War booty.

Don't believe it, keep peering through the different windows with an open mind and believe the facts that are presented too you, facts are facts, the corner stone of reality.

What are you personally going to do to defend the future?

Lionheart of England




From Monkey in the Middle:

When the government tells us that the War on Terror is not a War on Islam you must not believe it. With a few exceptions, the War on Terror is a War with Islam. Islam is at war with every Western nation and every other religion on Earth. It has always been this way since Muhammad created this cult and attacked his neighbors. It will be this way until either Islam is finally defeated or the world is under Muslim subjugation. That prospect is a chilling one. For either they are totally defeated or each and every person on this planet will be forced to live under strict Shar'ia Law. A set of laws in which the individual has no freedom to exist without a Muslim's permission.

Already many areas of the West are under this law. Parts of Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, France and Norway are considered no go zones for non-Muslims. Cities in the United States have started to undergo this process. Already the city of Dearborn, Michigan is controlled by Muslims and Shar'ia law is being written into their legal code (a clear violation of the 1st Amendment).

As Americans we cannot and must not allow this to continue. There must be a strict wall of separation between the Church and the State to prevent the inclusion of Shar'ia into the US Constitution. It is the goal of CAIR, and other Islamic groups to destroy the US Constitution and replace it with Shar'ia law.

It will take Constant Vigilance to prevent the Islamicfication of the United States.

Will Durban II be a replay of racist Durban I?

In the first Durban Council on Human Rights the only nation that was condemned for violations of human rights was Israel. Not Saudi Arabia where 1/2 the population has no rights. Not Sudan for the ongoing genocide being committed there. Not Myanmar for the crackdown on dissidents and other groups. No Israel. The whole conference was a condemnation of Israel and Judaism. It was lead by those greats of human rights Iran, Syria, Libya and the Palestinians. Nations and groups dedicated to the great advancement of human and civil rights.

Now it seems that the same will happen at the next conference being planned for April. Although being called Durban II, it will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. But it is being lead by the same great defenders of human rights: Iran and Libya.

Is the United Nations' follow-up to the racist 2001 Durban World Conference Against Racism headed for the same fate? Perhaps. In response to the newly released UN blueprint for next April's Durban II in Geneva, EU members need to defend the red lines set by France, the UK and the Netherlands.

What went wrong with Durban I? Despite its supposedly universal intentions, compromises were made to satisfy the non-aligned group of 118 countries, dominated by Islamic states.

Slavery was and is evil. But by addressing only the trans-Atlantic slave trade of previous centuries while ignoring the modern Arab slave trade and other forms of slavery, the 2001 conference showed itself to be more concerned with scoring points than promoting human rights.

SIMILARLY, THE conference's condemnation of Western European colonialism became tainted when it omitted mention of far more recent colonial crimes — be it Russian colonialism in Ukraine, Armenia and the Baltics, or China's ongoing repression of Tibet.

To make matters worse, the entire Durban I agenda was hijacked by anti-Israel forces, led by Iran and Yasser Arafat, who showed up in person.

Then as now, the lead-up was formative. Six months before Durban I, at the preparatory Asian meeting in Teheran, the 57-strong Organization of the Islamic Conference led the conference to single out Israel, accusing it of "ethnic cleansing" and committing a "new kind of apartheid, a crime against humanity." After international interventions, Durban's final declaration was toned down. Nevertheless, it expressed concern about "the plight of the Palestinian people under foreign occupation," and recognized "the right of refugees to return voluntarily to their homes." The US delegation walked out. At the end of the conference the Canadian representative said: "Canada is still here only because we wanted to have our voice decry the attempts at this conference to delegitimize the State of Israel."

Far worse, though, were the nongovernmental proceedings. Goebbels-like caricatures of Jews circulated freely. Jewish activists were harassed. The final NGO statement declared Israel a "racist apartheid state" guilty of "genocide." The text was so odious that even Mary Robinson, the UN rights chief who had been criticized for appeasing anti-Israel forces, refused to accept it.

The late Democratic Representative Tom Lantos of California, a US delegate, said "this was the most sickening and unabashed display of hate for Jews I had seen since the Nazi period."

WILL DURBAN II suffer the same fate?

Some fear it is inevitable. Canada has already announced that it will not participate. The US and Israel will also stay away, unless it is proven that Durban II will not be another platform for anti-Semitic hatred.

That leaves the EU.

It has been clear in resisting attempts by Algeria, Pakistan and other Islamic states to alter the agreed mandate with a condemnation of "defamation of religions" — i.e., the unflattering Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as well as milder forms of free speech deemed unacceptable to Islam.

It has been ambivalent, however, in its response to the renewed attempts to tar Israel. On the one hand, France and some other leading EU states have declared attacks on Israel to be a red line. "[T]the Durban conference in 2001 led to intolerable excesses from certain states and numerous NGOs that turned the conference into a forum against Israel," said President Nicolas Sarkozy in February. "France will not allow a repetition." His position was unequivocal: "If our legitimate demands are not taken into account, we will disengage from the process."

Similar warnings were expressed by UK Minister for Europe Jim Murphy and Netherlands Interior Minister Maxime Verhagen.

BUT SINCE the UN on May 27 released a blueprint for Durban II that again singles out Israel, not one EU state has spoken out.

The issues to be included in an April 2009 declaration confirm that the planners of Durban II, headed by Libya, have again set their sights on the Jewish state. First, under the header "Victims of racism," the draft makes special reference to "the plight of the Palestinians."

Second, under "contemporary forms of racism as reported by different countries," Israel is singled out by Iran, a vice chair of the conference's organizing bureau.

In other words, the train to Durban II has already left the station. Why is the EU failing to defend the principles laid down by France, the UK and the Netherlands? Those who would like to give the new conference a genuine chance to combat intolerance need to know that Durban II will not be a repeat of the Durban I debacle.

The test — the EU's test — is now.

In further news from UN Watch:

UN Watch this week released a major study of Louise Arbour’s performance as UN rights chief over the past four years, refuting inflated claims made by both her critics and defenders, and giving the Canadian jurist mixed reviews on how she took on violators. The report also offers concrete recommendations for her replacement, Navanethem Pillay of South Africa, urging her to adopt a stronger approach in confronting UN heavyweights like China, Russia and Egypt.

Critics and defenders of Arbour’s record seem to agree on one thing: a principal measure of her efficacy and success as High Commissioner is the degree to which she properly criticized countries that violate human rights. Bearing neither the power of the purse nor of the sword, the UN’s top human rights official must make use of her unique bully pulpit to name and shame violators, throwing a spotlight on their abuses.

No it is time for the EU to take a stand. But they won't, for their Dhimmitude is almost complete. Durban II will condemn Israel, the United States, and Europe in this next round of attacks. Thus insuring that the nations of the Civilized world know that the UN has become irrelevant to any hopes of the world. Maybe then these nations will leave this behemoth by the East River and impose true democracy and human rights upon the nations of the planet who refuse to do so themselves.

Cross posted at Reject the UN

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

On August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay dropped one bomb. This bomb, code name Little Boy, exploded over the city of Hiroshima with a force of 12.5 kilotons of explosives. This first atomic weapon was a dirty bomb using less than 10% of its fissionable material. Whether it was right or wrong what the US did is not the point, nor can it be the point. It was done, thousands suffered and a city was destroyed.

Based on research thus far, it is believed that the atomic bomb exploded approximately 580 meters in the air over the Shima Hospital in Saiku-machi (now Otemachi 1 chome), about 300 meters southeast of the Aioi Bridge. At the instant of detonation, the temperature of the air at the point of explosion exceeded a million degrees Celsius (the maximum temperature of conventional bombs is approximately 5,000 °C). A white-hot fireball appeared millionths of a second after detonation. After 1 second, the fireball reached a diameter of approximately 280 meters. For the following three seconds, it emitted powerful heat rays, and continued to shine visibly for approximately 10 seconds.

At the instant of explosion, intense heat rays and radiation were released in all directions. The pressure on the surrounding air created a blast of unimaginable force. The cloud generated by the explosion rose on powerful updrafts. As the pillar of radiation-laden soot and smoke reached the bottom of the stratosphere, it spread horizontally to a diameter of several kilometers, forming a giant mushroom cap. Of the energy released, about 35% was in the form of heat, 50% was blast, and about 15% was radiation.

Because the A-bomb exploded close to the center of the city, and because 85% of the buildings were within 3 km of the hypocenter, destruction to the city was nearly complete, with 90% of buildings collapsed or burned. (August 1946 Survey by the Hiroshima City Government)

By December of 1945 approximately 140,000 dead (±10,000) as of the end of December 1945.
(Of Hiroshima's estimated population of 350,000)

The destruction of Hiroshima took less than a minute, its effects are still being felt.

Since that time 8 nations have declared that they have nuclear weapons. United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, India, Pakistan, and North Korea.

There is one nation that won't confirm or deny that they have nuclear weapons: Israel.

There are 2 nations trying to make nuclear weapons: Syria and Iran. Both of these nations have sworn to destroy Israel. And only one of them Iran is actually enriching uranium to fulfill that threat.

Iran now claims to have 6000 centrifuges, doubling the capacity of their nuclear program. While the civilized world tries to stop Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon through negotiations, Israel prepares to strike.

On Friday the New York Times reported that Israel carried out a major military drill during the first week of June that US sources say was apparently a rehearsal for a potential attack on Iran's nuclear sites.

Several US officials were quoted by the newspaper as saying that it seemed the drill was an effort to develop Israel's capacity to carry out long-range strikes and to show the gravity with which Israel views the Iranian nuclear issue.

More than 100 IAF F-16 and F-15 fighter jets took part in the exercise, which was carried out over the eastern Mediterranean and over Greece, the officials said.

The drill also included IAF rescues helicopters, said the officials, adding that the helicopters and refueling tankers flew more than 900 miles, which is approximately the distance between Israel and Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

Israel knows that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, Iran will use it on any Israeli city. Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dimona, even Jerusalem would and could become the next Hiroshima. Israel's response would be devastating to Iran.

During the Cold War there were many occasions in which the Soviet Union and the United States stood at the prepicite of the abyss. What kept the two nations from going over the edge and taking the world with them was the fact that they would destroy each other and neither side would win. This Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD kept the world from blowing itself apart.

Unfortunately, MAD doesn't work with Iran. Iran is ruled not by sane, rational people, but by religious fanatics who actually believe that the destruction of Israel will bring back their long, lost 12the Iman (the Mahdi). They are eagerly working towards this goal. The Iranian people actually believe that if they were to die in a nuclear holocaust, they would go straight to Paradise and receive 72 virgins each. How do you combat such a mentality?










What happened on August 6, 1945 must not be repeated in the near future. If the world can't stop Iran, Israel must. For it is not only their cities that are at risk, but every city of the Civilized world is at risk.

On this the 63rd anniversary of that day we must take a firm stand with Iran and tell them under no circumstances will we allow you to have a nuclear weapon!

UPDATE: Isabel Garcia-Deputy Pima County Public Defender-Needs to Go

Cross posted from Miss Beth's Victory Dance

[UPDATE AUGUST 5, 2008]

The issues with this attorney and her criminal activities was addressed today by the Pima County Board of Supervisors. Her partner in crime presented a letter of support with 739 signatures. The number of people wanting her gone was not given. Here is the article published by the Tucson Citizen today (link here):

Pima County lawyer slammed, defended over sheriff piñata
B. POOLE
Tucson Citizen

Controversy continued Tuesday over Isabel Garcia, the Pima County legal defender who carried a paper-mâché head of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in front of a cheering crowd during a protest last month.

The issue was not on the agenda for Tuesday's Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting, but about 20 speakers - about half in support of Garcia and half in protest of her actions - came to a microphone during a call to the audience.

During a July 10 protest she organized, Garcia, who is a defense attorney, was seen holding the paper head - which had been beaten off of a piñata by youths wielding sticks - while the crowd cheered. The episode sparked calls for Garcia's disbarment and firing.

The issue is not about immigration or Joe Arpaio, who was in Tucson for a book signing, but about Garcia, who is also director of the Coalición de Derechos Hermanos, inciting children to violence, Kendra Wood said.

"I don't think she has any business holding a position of public trust," Wood told the supervisors.

Kat Rodriguez of Derechos Hermanos, sent the supervisors a letter supporting Garcia. The letter contained 739 signatures supporting a woman who has worked tirelessly for immigrants' rights, Rodriguez said.

The protest was not intended to incite violence; it was a traditional form of protest, she said.

"It was a symbol of the oppression we have seen," Rodriguez said.

Lori Oien seemed less concerned about Garcia's actions than the county's reaction.

"What is concerning to me is your approval by silence," she said.

County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry said after the meeting that the county is looking into Garcia's actions. The Legal Defender's Office, which Garcia heads, takes indigent defense cases the Pima County public defender can't because of conflicts or other reasons.

"It's under review," he said.

Several speakers decried Garcia's actions as hurtful to law enforcement officers. Larry Lopez, president of the Tucson Police Officers Association, demanded an investigation.

"Law enforcement around this state does not think this is funny," he said.

Leilani Clark was at the July 10 protest and held the piñata. She denied Garcia had any hand in what the youths did.

"She had no control over us. . . . We acted on our own," Clark said.

Notice how the kids have been brainwashed into protecting her--juveniles.
Here is the letter of support, complete with all 739 names (pdf link here):

I suggest everyone contact ICE (866-347-2423) and the Border Patrol Tucson Sector (520-748-3000) with these names and demand investigation of them. The reasoning is they support illegals and are most likely illegal themselves. At the very least, report Garcia and Rodriguez to ICE, DHS and Border Patrol. The office information for Garcia is: Pima County Legal Defender, 32 North Stone Avenue, Suite 703, Tucson, 85701 (520) 740-5775 and fax of (520) 740-882-7338; Derechos contact information is: 631 South 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701; (520) 770-1373 and fax of (520) 770-7445.

Keep in mind this is not a First Amendment issue, this is an issue of an attorney's blatant disregard for the law, her signing documents with the Mexican government stating she would give aid and succor to illegal border crossers, her disregard for the law regarding juveniles, her attempts to stifle the freedom of others in their free speech, her encouragement of violence upon lawfully elected law enforcement officials, her delight in exhibiting a severed head (a la Nick Berg) and doing it all on the taxpayer dime. It is about an attorney violating the Model Rules of Procedure and her oaths of office.

It is not about hate speech--the only hate speech is her own. It is not about hate actions--the only hate actions are her own. It is not about legal immigration, it is about enforcement of current laws regarding ILLEGALS.

It is about a corrupt city council and board of supervisors who shield her.

It is about time she is gone. Call, write, email--all the information is here and below. Flood these offices with the demand she be removed from public employ and disbarred. Don't let this rest.

[UPDATE JULY 17, 2008 #3]

Izzy's "partner in crime" Kat Rodriguez [coordinator of Coalicion de Derechos Humanos] weighs in, using almost word for word Izzy's whiny, spin filled diatribe from the Derechos site here.

[UPDATE JULY 17, 2008 #2]
Sheriff Joe weighs in on Izzy here.

[UPDATE JULY 17, 2008]

Original article here.

This story is starting to pick up some traction and we need to keep up the pressure on Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry [contact information below], the State Bar of Arizona and the ethics review boards of the Bar and Pima County Merit Rules and Personnel Policies [Pima County Human Resources].

Speaking of the Pima County Merit Rules and Personnel Policies, they can be found here. Isabel Garcia has violated Rule 7-119 [Rules of Conduct] and the disciplinary procedures are addressed under Rule 12 [Disciplinary Actions, Administrative Suspension and Administrative Suspension; specifically Rule 12.1 C 10 and 12]. I know people who were fired for "dirty" emails on county time--Garcia's behavior is far more egregious in scope and gravity.

I also reported this woman to the State Attorney and received this response via email:

If you believe a public official to have broken the criminal or ethical
laws- then please put it all in writing along with links or print outs
of your pictures, videos etc and send them to:

Fraud and Public Corruption Section
Office of the Arizona Attorney General
1275 W Washington St
Phoenix, AZ 85007-2926

We cannot take complaints on the internet or phone still. Only in writing.

I would strongly suggest taking this action as well and keep flooding them with reports.

It's interesting to note the media in Tucson [the notable exception, of course, being Jon Justice' morning show on 104.1 The Truth, from 6-9am Monday through Friday, who first broke the story] has yet to pick up this story but has, in fact, buried it, despite the outcry from the citizens of Tucson wanting investigation and exposure. Of course, Garcia is a democrat and figures she's protected.

However. Legal, taxpaying citizens of Tucson, those who pay Garcia's wage, have spread the word far and wide. Michelle Malkin has two stories about this incident, "Unhinged in Arizona: Open Borders mob, led by public official, ravages Joe Arpaio effigy" here and "Tucson open-borders official gloats about effigy-beating here". So far, there are 211 comments on the first article and 39 on the second article. Some of those comments are hilarious, yet a few bring home a point people are noticing and it's not a pretty point.

Some of the comments from "Unhinged":

RedDog said: Dang! Does that chick holding up the effigy in the lead still photo look like Linda Blair or what!? eeeeeeeeee!

right_on said: At what point does “free speech” and the right to peacefully assemble, become “hate speech” and the encouragement to commit violence against
law enforcement?

The only difference I see here, between Islamo-terrorists, and Azlano-terrorists is the language.

Unfortunately, to our demise, the liberals not only tolerate this type of action, they openly encourage it.

What we need is a law enforcement, Rapid Deployment Force, that would descend on this type of illegal alien love-fest, round up all participants/lookers-on, identify them, and if here illegally, deport them.

What would you suppose would happen, if someone created an effigy of a Latino “Illegal Jose,” and began beating it with a bat (to the cheering and encouragement of a pro-American crowd, of, oh I don’t know, say white people?) You got it! It would not be tolerated…but this is?

vickisoup said: If our US citizens and [some] public officals don’t see anything wrong with proudly strutting around with an effigeal head of another public
official (outrageous conduct previously reserved to the neanderthal
Islamofascists), we are closer to a complete takeover than I’d feared.

Alphonse said: Wow, looks just like pictures you see of Mugabe’s thugs ravaging Zimbabwe. That’s what chamberpot immigration will do for you.

And, some comments from "Tucson Open Borders":

RaisedRight said: “We stand for the principles of peace and justice… except when you try to reinforce laws that we don’t like, then we tear your heads off.”

Blind_Mule said: Jeeez, this stuff just makes me want to go out and kick the Chihuahua.

These people and this women in paticular have absolutley no respect,morals or shame. Reminds me of some middle eastern street protest,what’s next burning the American Flag and Death to America signs.

abstractmind said: I’d love to see some resident trolls explain how this event represents their tolerance, but also how it demonstrates peace and justice.

I’m glad that they are putting pressure on this vile woman. She looks like a replacement for one of the zombies in a Romero film, btw.Scary stuff.

Bill Grant said: Caution, disturbing links. Does this photo remind anyone else of the Nick Berg beheading? Do these creeps realize that? I wonder.

One thing more and more people are seeing in Garcia's actions is how similar her actions are to the terrorists we are fighting and to the Mugabe regime. This is disturbing in the extreme. Commenter Bill Grant, above, has the photos exactly right--Garcia emulates Berg's murderers well.

Several commenters and people calling in to Jon's show have made the observation should anyone have committed this "act of free speech" upon an effigy of Garcia or an illegal, there would be an uproar for weeks based on the alleged hate crime implicit in such an action, yet Garcia gets away with this action with impunity. Such is the hypocrisy of the lunatic left and their fringe followers. The commenters and callers are, of course, correct. Here is the official, 2004 definition of "Hate Crime" from the FBI website here:

A hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.

It's about time that definition applied to those covered and committing such acts themselves. Garcia committed a hate crime--and encouraged juveniles to commit a hate crime themselves--with her actions. Just because she is Mexican and follows the Reconquista/Aztlan/La Raza agenda does not mean she's immune from the laws applying to the United States.

She claims Jon Justice and Joe Arpaio are "haters"--yet who stands like a Nick Berg murderer holding an effigy severed head? Jon Justice is just as entitled to his opinion and Freedom of Speech as Garcia; Joe Arpaio is doing his job of enforcing laws on the books, as he was elected to do. Neither are inciting riots, contributing to the delinquency of minors or disrupting private business. They are not involved in conflicts of interest as Garcia is--encouraging illegal activities while on the county payroll; hiding behind hate crime legislation when it suits their purpose; committed to the overthrow of the US Government she's sworn to uphold and violating her oath as an attorney.

If people don't like what Jon has to say they won't tune him in. If they don't like Arpaio's actions, they'll vote him out of office. We don't have those choices with Garcia. She was appointed to her position and Huckleberry refuses to remove her, despite a growing demand from the legal taxpayers of Pima County.

Now, here's the "rich" part. Garcia responds on the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos website here. Her "rebuttal" is entitled, "Response to Sheriff Arpaio Protest" and is nothing more than a "whine fest"; not once does she address her own wrongdoing. She pulls the usual spin; below are some quotes (comments of mine inserted and emphasized):

...many of us in Tucson have made a promise that we will not allow him to come into our town without him hearing from those of us who stand in support of the thousands of workers and their families who have borne the brunt of his narrow-minded, ignorant policies. That he would come to Tucson to promote a book filled with lies, fear, and ignorant perspectives about immigrants, was especially appalling to us.

The leaflet states that we "continue to work for a community that is diverse, respectful, and appreciative of each other's differences." Others brought signs and megaphones, with someone bringing a large piñata with Arpaio's face glued on the head. I am sure you are aware that these types of symbolic images are not only
common, but generally are used in context of referring to the policies of individuals in power.

I am now the target of a corporate-media-sponsored campaign to get me fired from my job as the Pima County Legal Defender (who is the corporate-media-sponsor?). The first thing that you should know is that this is not a community-based campaign by those that disagree with me, but a campaign
that was instigated by Jon Justice (not his true name) who has a program in the new hate-radio in town, 104.1 FM. On Friday morning, he was on his program urging everyone to call Chuck Huckelberry to fire me because I dared exercise my 1st Amendment right to express my views. (And we are entitled to exercise our First Amendment rights to express OUR views in wanting you GONE-Jon didn't hold guns to our heads to call and write!) They cover it by saying that the breaking of a piñata is a violent act! ??? That is simply absurd. The piñata was a symbol of Arpaio's racist, violent and brutal policies. The youth did not hit Arpaio,
they hit the piñata to break the policies that keep us fearful of each other, and that have caused so much pain to so many hardworking men, women and their children. (And this differs from the actions of islamists in the Middle East how?) He is the violent one. I have spoken directly to some of his victims/survivors of his power, and have cried just listening to their accounts.

I am proud to have been part of the community's response to his arrival in Tucson. We stand committed to stop hatred and xenophobia (it seems you and your cadre are the ones exhibiting the hatred and xenophobia by your actions and encouragement), and to work for a society that respects human rights for
everyone regardless of their age, color, race, ethnic background, gender, gender-preference, religion. As an attorney I find it is not only my right, but my responsibility to stand up when the power of the state is used to crush people (it is not your right or responsibility to advocate the overthrow of a legal government or engage in inappropriate political activity nor to advocate illegal activity in minors). I will continue to do so.

Follow the link and read the entire drivel--make sure your stomach is empty beforehand as you will be heaving at the heaping of self serving, absolute delusional lunatic agenda.

The Tucson Citizen also has an article up entitled, "The big debate: Joe Arpaio, pinata". Below are some quotes from that article:

Immigration rights protesters acted like "out-of-control, raving lunatics" when they destroyed a piñata bearing the likeness of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, "a bully with a badge" who was in Tucson last week to promote his book, says Citizen columnist Anne T. Denogean.

Garcia, whose Human Rights Coalition organized the protest, said breaking the piñata was "funny."

No, it was "classless," says Reyes F. and "treasonous," (Chris F.). Garcia should make a public apology, Adam L. says. Bruce S. terms the protest "disgusting" and wonders how Pima County officials would distinguish between Garcia's involvement in it and another employee's participation in a Ku Klux Klan rally.

And that last line is the very heart of the matter--had this been a white person engaging in this kind of behavior, a white Pima County Deputy Public Defender, paid by the legal taxpaying citizens, and this had been a klan rally, they would have been fired already.

Denogean's article, "Protesters as offensive as Sheriff Arpaio", has this to say:

But I don't think you persuade the public that the man is an
out-of-control, raving lunatic by behaving like out-of-control, raving
lunatics.

That's the kindest description I have for the immigration rights protesters who beat to a pulp a piñata meant to represent the sheriff during Arpaio's visit to Tucson last week.

What occurred about midway through the protest, however, was truly disturbing. Several young protesters outside the store brought out a piñata meant to represent Arpaio.

The piñata, with a picture of Arpaio's face taped or glued to the head, was clad in a sheriff's uniform and equipped with pink handcuffs. One woman held up the piñata, while teenage protesters took turns bashing it with sticks. The Tucson Citizen ran a picture the next day of a teenage boy carting away the remains of the beheaded piñata.

While the beating of Arpaio in effigy proceeded, Isabel Garcia, head of Humanos Derechos, a group that purports to stand for the dignity of all human beings, stood by and laughed.

Follow the link above to the rest of the article--it's extremely enlightening. The Citizen also ran a poll with that article asking, "Do you think Coalicion de Derechos went too far when it smashed an Arpaio pinata?". Overwhelmingly, the answer was "Yes, members act like the people they say they hate (91%) compared to just six percent saying "No, it was deserved" and two percent saying "Other" (total number of votes=759).

The bottom line is this: Isabel Garcia, Pima County Deputy Public Defender, paid by the legal taxpayers of Pima County, needs to be fired and disbarred. Please follow the links to the appropriate officials and agencies and keep up the pressure. The officials and agencies will do NOTHING about it without overwhelming public pressure, stating clearly and unequivocally we are tired of this nonsense and we want the cancer GONE. Do your part to remove the cancer that is Isabel Garcia.

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Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry Contact Information:
(520) 740-8661
Chuckelberry@co.pima.az.us
chh@pima.gov

KGUN 9 Email: kgun9news@kgun9.com
KVOA 4 Email: kchoal@kvoa.com
FOX 11 AZ Email: news@fox11az.com.
News 13 Hotline: (520) 744-6397
Jon Justice: Website here.

From Monkey in the Middle:

Public officials by the very nature of their jobs must not allow themselves to be part of any organization dedicated to breaking the law. In other words, Caesar's Wife must be above suspicion. In this case Caesar's wife, Isabel Garcia is not only not above suspicion, but actively working to bring down the local government in Pima County. This is known as Sedition. And is a felony.

There are those people who are working to change immigration policy in the United States. Many of them are doing so within the boundaries of the law. Ms. Garcia is not one of these people. She seeks to aid and abet law breakers aka criminals. This is a crime, and disbarment can and should be one of the options that Pima County could take.

Either she step down from her position (the honorable thing to do) or the Bar Association should start proceedings against her. She cannot continue to serve Pima County and criminals at the same time!

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This Flip-Flop gets a 7.5.

Each day Barack Hussein Obama flip-flops on another issue. This time it is energy. We have an energy crises in the US. Not enough domestic oil. And up until yesterday Obama's solution was alternative energies and tire pressure.

When I wrote to Senator Obama on this issue (he is my senator) I received this response:

We should continue to look for new sources of domestic fuel production - - but not unless the pursuit of alternative fuels and energy efficiency is conducted at far greater levels than has been done in the past.

A big change from what he originally stated back in June when he opposed any and all drilling off shore or in ANWAR for new sources of oil.

Yesterday Obama dropped this bombshell:

Barack Obama on Monday called for tapping into strategic oil reserves as part of his plan to provide relief from high gas prices.

Obama has previously said he was opposed to using the strategic reserves, but on Monday he proposed selling 70 million barrels of oil from the reserves in order to lower gas prices.

Obama unveiled his energy plan, which includes a windfall profits tax on big oil corporations that would be used to provide a $1,000 rebate to people struggling with high energy costs.

"You won't hear me say this too often, but I couldn't agree more with the explanation that Sen. McCain offered a few weeks ago. He said, 'Our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been 30 years in the making, and was caused by the failure of politicians in Washington to think long term about the future of the country,' " Obama said.

The Democratic presidential candidate said he wants to eliminate the need for oil from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years.

Obama has spoken against offshore drilling, but last week he said he would be willing to compromise if it were part of a more overarching strategy to lower energy costs.

Barack Obama is a dreamer. He is planning a 10-year solution. It will take 20 years to research, invest and develop any new energy source, let alone build an infrastructure that would make it a reality. So what does the US do in the mean time? It waits and watches as gas goes to $10 a gallon, $15 a gallon, $20 a gallon.

And what is Obama's temporary solution? Make sure your car is running smoothly with a tune-up and properly inflate your tires. Part of it is just common sense. If your car is in tune and your tires are properly inflated, you will have better gas mileage. But it will not solve our energy crises as it now stands. The idea reminds me of President Ford's Whip Inflation Now buttons of the 1970's. Both are bad ideas, but at least President Ford's didn't cost the average American a small fortune every time they fill up their car.

Poll Results

QUESTION: Should Israel declare the truce with Hamas over?

ANSWERS:

Yes 33%
N0 25%
There was a Truce? 41%

There is now a new poll question.

Should the IDF attempt to rescue Gilad Schalit, assuming it knows where he is being held?


Please answer at the poll on the left.

Too Young To Say I Do.

Dry Bones, one of Israel's best political cartoons has been a favorite of mine since the 1970's.

This was yesterday's strip.

And from the blog, was written this:

MEMRI (The Middle East Media Research Institute) is an incredibly important resource. They translate Middle East media, bridging the language gap between the Middle East and the West.

I was rummaging around at MEMRI this morning, when I came across a recent Lebanon TV interview with a Saudi marriage official, Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi. According to Dr. Al-Mu'bi:

"There is no minimal age for entering marriage. You can have a marriage contract even with a one-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of nine, seven, or eight. This is merely a contract [indicating] consent. The guardian in such a case must be the father, because the father's opinion is obligatory. Thus, the girl becomes a wife...

But is the girl ready for sex or not? What is the appropriate age for having sex for the first time? This varies according to environment and traditions. In Yemen, girls are married off at nine, ten, 11, eight, or 13, while in other countries, they are married off at 16. Some countries have legislated laws forbidding having sex before the girl is 18.

...

The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow. He took 'Aisha to be his wife when she was six, but he had sex with her only when she was nine."

You can see the TV interview yourself by clicking on MEMRI TV clip.

What are your thoughts?

How many times will the Democrats give in to this man?

In May, the Democratic Party came to a decision regarding the delegates from Florida and Michigan. They sat the delegations and gave each delegate a 1/2 vote at the convention. They also awarded delegates to Barack Hussein Obama who wasn't even on the ballot in these states. It seems that whatever The Anointed One wants, Howard Dean and the party elite will jump through hoops to get it for him.

But what happened and is happening is that many rank and file members of the party are angry. Very angry to be exact. They have given themselves a name PUMA (Party Unity My Ass). And they are dangerous to Obama's chance for the White House.

So instead of trying to court them in the preceding months, instead of addressing their issues, instead of allowing the party to fully seat the delegation when they met in June, Obama held his ground against them. Until today.

Now that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, he wants convention delegates from Florida and Michigan to have full voting rights at the party’s national convention.

Obama sent a letter Sunday to the party’s credentials committee, asking members to reinstate the delegates’ voting rights when the committee meets at the start of the convention.

The delegates were originally stripped because the two states violated party rules by holding primaries before Feb. 5. The delegates from each state were given half-votes at a contentious party meeting in May, as part of a compromise designed to give two important states some role at the convention.

Obama’s former Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, had won both primaries, though Obama’s name was not on the Michigan ballot and neither candidate campaigned in Florida.

“I believe party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories,” Obama said in the letter.

The Illinois senator said he supported the party’s efforts to control the primary calendar.

“As we prepare to come together in Denver, however, we must be — and will be — united in our determination to change the course of our nation,” Obama said.

Obama’s endorsement virtually guarantees the delegates will have full voting rights. Clinton, who also has supporters on the credentials committee, had lobbied to reinstate the delegates.

He is scared that the PUMAs will cause a scene. What he doesn't understand is that he could have done this in May and kept his party together. His supports believe that he can do no wrong, and that what he wants he should get.

But he is getting scared. Although the Main Stream Media is backing him, he isn't ahead in the polls by 10-15 points. He is neck and neck with John McCain. He is afraid to debate John McCain knowing that unlike the debates before the primaries, this time he will be asked hard questions and have to actually answer them with ideas and not rhetoric.

He needs the PUMAs on his side. And I don't believe that this stunt on Obama's part will do it. For now the nation is seeing that Barack Hussein Obama is nothing more than an Empty Suit, Flip-Flopping politician with no new ideas and only the rhetoric of Change. And the country will reject him for that.

How to get the world to hate Israel.

No nation in the world is held to standards as high as Israel is. No nation in the West, Africa, South and Central America or the Muslim world is considered so worthy. Nor is Russia, any of the old Soviet satellites or China held to such a standard. Maybe they should be. For then the world would be a calmer, safer place. Or would it be.

By Richard L. Cravatts

As part of evaluating the competitive landscape of the popularity of nations, in a process referred to in marketing circles as ‘place branding,’ Israel, to no one’s great surprise, comes up short in brand likeability, ranking last out of 35 nations included in an August 2006 survey conducted by nation branding expert Simon Anholt, even less attractive to respondents than Indonesia, Estonia, and Turkey.

How could this have happened to a country that is the Middle East’s only thriving democracy and enjoys a remarkably robust economy that has spawned some 1000 startup high tech companies, for example, second only to the U.S.? How, in short, would you go about making the world hate Israel?

This is how you would accomplish that objective if you were an enemy of Israel:

Even after 60 years of its existence, you question the fundamental right of Israel to even exist and regularly, though falsely, condemn it for being created “illegally”—through the “theft” of Palestinian lands and property—and thus decide, because of its original sin, it has no “right to exist.” You accuse the government of a “brutal,” illegal “occupation” of Palestinian lands, especially Gaza and the West Bank (but for many, all of Israel), of being a “colonial settler state,” a Zionist “regime” or “project,” a land-hungry nation, a usurper of property that was lived on and owned by a Palestinian “people” “from time immemorial.”

You describe the very existence of the country as being the “greatest threat to world peace,” the core cause of all Muslim anger toward the West, the root of all of the Palestinians’ suffering and economic plight, and describe Israel as a nation that has even been referred to publicly as a “shitty little country” by the French ambassador to Britain.

You make ‘Palestinianism’ into a virtual cult whose members offer a world-wide reverence for the Palestinian cause and repeat without end that their nationalistic striving is inviolable, a basic human right, Of all the 100 million refugees who were dispersed around the globe and were re-assimilated since World War II, you chose only the Palestinians to languish, as if in amber, in barbaric refugee camps where their lives are used as political fodder to denounce the existence of an Israel that supposedly has deprived them of a home.

You have the United Nations set up an agency whose sole function it is to make sure that this one group of refugees in the whole world are coddled, advocated for, and repeat, mantra-like, that a human “right of return” has been sanctified and assured by international law for the Palestinians, giving only this group of refugees a collective, as opposed to individual, right of return—and not only to those refugees who supposedly lived in and left what is now Israel, but all of their descendents, as well.

You use the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to further demonize and delegitimate Israel, making it a pariah in the world community and issuing an edict that equates Zionism with racism. In 2006-07, if you are the Human Rights Council, you pass one hundred percent of your condemnatory resolutions against Israel.

If you are the autocratic, despotic states of the Arab world, you initiate a prolonged, unceasing propaganda war against Israel and Zionism, in which it is your intention to encourage your citizens, not to question why they live under tyranny and despair under their own corrupt, defective governments, but that their circumstances are bleak because of the success and very existence of Israel. You depict Jews as apes, pigs, and subhuman monsters, and regularly produce Nazi-like propaganda and cartoons in your state-owned media that accuses Jews and Israelis of blood libels, bloodthirstiness, militarism, a desire for world domination, imperialism, and complicity with the U.S. and the West to destroy Islam—all which make Jew-hatred inevitable.

You inculcate Palestinian children, nearly from birth, with seething, blind, unrelenting, and obsessive hatred of Jews and the 'Zionist regime,' so that kindergartners graduate with blood-soaked hands while toting plastic AK 47s and dedicate their lives to jihad, and older children are recruited to hide explosives on their bodies to transform themselves into shahids -- a new generation of kindling for radical Islam's cult of death.

When Israel launches a military strike against nests of terrorists or in response to ceaseless rocket barrages, you term their response “disproportionate,” another escalation in the “cycle of violence,” a violation of human rights, aggressive, militaristic, with Apache gunships “pounding” terrorist neighborhoods.

If you are the Palestinian media, and members of the world media who are either intentionally biased or willing to be duped by anti-Israel propaganda, you repeatedly report on supposed Israeli human rights violations, such as an alleged “massacre of the 21st century,” a horrible war crime and example of “genocide” committed by Israel against Palestinians in the village of Jenin.

You talk about the Israeli security barrier as an “apartheid wall,” and describe it as a massive, soaring, unbroken division through Palestinian neighborhoods and communities, overlooking the fact that the wall is towering and solid concrete only in those regions that have been repeatedly assaulted by terrorism, and that 90 percent of the hundreds of miles of barrier is comprised merely of wire fence.

You use the “apartheid wall” image to create a broader misconception about the Palestinians living under a South African-style apartheid regime, disingenuously equating race restrictions that blacks lived under in Soweto with the open society of Israel in which Israeli Arabs have more rights than in any Arab state and are asked only not to murder Jews in their midst.

On campuses where a coddled and insulated professoriate often express antipathy for the perceived ills of capitalism, the usurpation of “Palestine” by Israel, “land grabs” through occupation, and the denial of the civil and economic rights of the Palestinians, you contend that Israel’s very existence is not at all about self-determination (something you deem appropriate only for the Palestinians) and all about greed, globalism, colonialism, exploitation, and undeserved political and economic might. No longer able to fight apartheid in South Africa, you now try to transmogrify that racist social system onto Israel, holding rallies and encouraging the signing of petitions which call from divestiture from companies doing business in Israel.

You fund Middle Eastern Studies centers on university campuses and use them as anti-Israel, anti-American “think tanks” where scholarship is tainted with ideology and singularly focused on the Palestinian cause. You fund the active and vocal Muslim Students Association on campuses across the country that hold “Israel Apartheid Week” and “Holocaust in the Holy Land” festivals at which propaganda, Jew-hatred, apologies for terrorism, and further demonizing of Israel takes place.

In the Arab world, you play fast and loose with history in your attempt to create a historical narrative conforming to your own political agenda, erasing any link between Palestine and the Jews. Though Jerusalem is mentioned not once in the Koran and over 669 times in the Jewish Bible, you claim that Jerusalem is now the “third holiest site to Muslims,” that, as Yasser Arafat announced at Camp David in 2000, the Temple Mount was never a Jewish site, that Jews now “occupy” Muslim lands, and that the archeological and historical evidence that confirms an uninterrupted 3000-year presence by Jews in the Holy Land is merely a “construct,” yet another lie promulgated by Israeli historians and archeologists as way of erasing and obscuring an Islamic past.

If you are in the traditionally Arabist U.S. State Department, or in the “realist” school of diplomacy, or part of the European Union, and you have an insatiable need for oil, you overlook the tyrannies and unfaithfulness of our Middle Eastern “friends,” and ask nothing of them, but demand that Israel, the only democracy in a sea of despotism, continually prove its loyalty to us and embrace policies that could potentially threaten their own security. You write academic books questioning the strength of the "Israel Lobby," and wonder out loud if Jewish influence and wealth forces us to lose credibility and threaten our national security on behalf of Israel.

You do all of these things, as part of a concerted effort and also as random, independent efforts on the part of Israel’s enemies, and you do it for the 60 years of Israel’s existence, and then you are shocked, shocked, when Israel is shown to rank unfavorably in surveys which measure the public’s perception of nations and how they compare to one another in the world community. But you are pleased, because you know that if Israel cannot be annihilated with armaments and rockets, perhaps you can make it cease to exist simply by making the entire world loathe it for being what it is.

Mr. Cravatts, PhD, director of Boston University’s Program in Book and Magazine Publishing at the Center for Professional Education, writes frequently on terrorism, higher education, politics, culture, law, marketing, and housing, and is currently writing a book about the world-wide assault on Israel taking place on college campuses.

From Monkey in the Middle:

When I read this report I was reminded of the ongoing hatred shown on US University campuses towards Jews and Israel. This is especially true of the ongoing hatred at the University of California at Irvine (UCI). Reports of the anti-Semitism on this campus are regularly posted at Radarsite and other places on the web.

Hatred of Israel is not anti-Israel. It is just another name for that old hatred called: anti-Semitism. If and the person who has this conviction is an anti-Semite.