US Vetos Falacstinian UN Resolution While Democrat Party "Sews" New Jew Hate Seeds

Falacstinian officials requested the UN Security Council condemn Israel for allowing Jews to build in Jewish cities and towns in Judea and Samaria, the heartland of the Jewish people which was liberated from illegal Jordanian occupation in 1967. In a bewildering move, the US vetoed the resolution, which would have condemned Jewish construction on Jewish land as an obstacle to peace, and blah blah blah.

You know what would be refreshing? A UNSC resolution declaring that the presence of Arabs in Jewish lands are the obstacle to peace.

Susan "Condemn Israel Whenever Possible" Rice, the US ambassadork to the UN stated:

"...our opposition to the resolution before this Council today should therefore not be misunderstood to mean we support settlement activity. On the contrary, we reject in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity."

[Translation: Look, I and my boss hate the Jews just as much as you do, and are completely disgusted by their continued building in their historic homeland. But rest assured that we are doing our best night and day to correct what we see as the historic mistake of allowing the Jews to regain sovereignty in their land.]

"This draft resolution risks hardening the positions of both sides. It could encourage the parties to stay out of negotiations and if and when they did resume to return to the Security Council whenever they reach an impasse."

[Translation: My boss, his royal Barryness, might not be able to put a peace treaty and Israeli national suicide on his resume in 2012, which is not good because all he has so far is bankrupting the nation, signing healthcare legislation the majority of the country didn't support, playing lots of golf and basketball, and going on expensive vacations.]

"The United States has been deeply committed to pursuing a comprehensive and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In that context, we have been focused on taking steps that advance the goal of two states living side by side in peace and security, rather than complicating it. That includes a commitment to work in good faith with all parties to underscore our opposition to continued settlements."

[The Barry is doing everything possible to force Israel to commit national suicide, but since we've been caught lying to both Jews and Arabs we have a major credibility problem. We're working on slicker and craftier ways to get rid of the Jews, but they've gotten wise to us and we're trying to not piss them off so overtly at this time. We figured that more two-faced bullshit was the way to go since it's been working so well heretofore.]

But here's the real story. I think the real aim here is to promote Jew hate in the United States.

According to Arutz-7, sources within the Democrat Party are claiming that the reason the US vetoed the resolution was not for any of the b.s. spewed out of Susan Rice's duplicitous, lying mouth. It was because...

"...major Jewish donors told Obama that they would stop funding the party if israel was condemned, leading him to make the decision to veto the resolution."

Ah, now there's something all the Jew haters can agree on...Jewish money effecting American foreign policy. Got news for you people: if Jewish supporters of the Democratic Party are still supporting them at this point it's because they are against Jewish building in Judea and Samaria. The White House is simply fanning the flames of Jew hate in America, a popular ploy by governments who have plundered their citizenry, and have no solutions because they are in fact the problem. The economy is in the crapper? Blame the Jews? No peace in the Middle East? Blame the Jews.

If there are in fact Jews still supporting these racist idiots this ploy ought to put the kaibosh on that. Of course we know it won't. Stupid is as stupid does.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we sew threads to deceive.

Niall Ferguson Gives Pampers A Spanking

With a tip of the hat to my friend Swannie, what follows is nearly an 11 minute lashing of the Pampers administration by Harvard's Niall Ferguson on the pResident's gross failure in handling the situation in Egypt, and foreign policy in general. Ferguson repeats much of what I got tired writing about: Pampers' complete and total ineptitude, which anyone with half a brain saw coming.

Surrounded by idiots like James Crapper, this situation was left unattended, and the United States was completely unprepared for it, unless you subscribe to the theory that Pampers is a Muslim bent on enabling worldwide jihad. Whether he is or is not Muslim doesn't matter so much as the fact that he is in fact enabling worldwide jihad by placating Hamas, ignoring the anti-government protestors in Iran, aiding and abetting the rise of Jizbullah in Lebanon, kissing Syria's ass, inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to the Egyptian "democracy" tea party, and still kissing Muslim ass around the world like he's desperate for a date to the prom.

This is looking like Iraq all over again, when the Shrub administration, completely unprepared for the aftermath of Shrub II's quest to get the man who threatened to kill his daddy, found itself looking at what any idiot could have foreseen: a new rising Shiite power next door to Iran. Uh...duh! Why people praise this jackass and his cronies is beyond me.

So what do we have in Egypt? Well, let's see...the "revolution" has resulted in a military junta dissolving the Egyptian parliament, and assuming full control of the nation. If the Muslim Brotherhood is the most organized part of the opposition, which it's safe to say is the case, its peaceful assumption of control of Egypt will mean that it was done with the military's consent. This is as we say...very very bad, as the MB's agenda is quite well known (it's not sunshine, lollipops and rainbows). If the military opposes the rise of the MB, which it logically should as the MB stands for undoing the economic powerhouse that is the Egyptian military, there could be a bloodbath in Egypt, which is why I again assert that a number of MB leaders are going to end up being eaten by crocodiles or fall off pyramids, or get lost in the desert with a lot of people just scratching their heads saying, "Gosh...I have no idea what happened to so and so..."

This is going to be a fiasco of massive proportions and we have a numbnuts in the White House who makes Jimmy Carter look like George S. Patton. Israel better have its act together if this goes wrong, because there is no one else prepared to deal with this.

So pop some popcorn and enjoy the video. I found it particularly entertaining that Morning Joe had to bring in all their mind-numbing panelists to challenge Ferguson, to no avail. These sick, brain dead Pampers bootlicks were foiled by their greatest foe...an intelligent person.

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Who Is This James Clapper Anyway?

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, James Crapper, the shrunken head of US Intelligence, stupidly asserted that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular and has forsworn violence. How he remains upright with his head jammed up his rear so much of the time is anybody's guess. I suppose that when this is your state of being you get used to it.

Unfortunately, it seems that Fox News, in its constant effort to please their Islamic paymasters, has also jumped on board the Muslim Brotherhood Is Not Violent Bandwagon by asserting same in an online article in which they report that the Pampers administration corrected Crapper's dufus statement that the MB is secular.

DNI spokescrouton Jamie Smith stated that what Crapper really meant to say was:

"To clarify Director Clapper's point, in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood makes efforts to work through a political system that has been, under Mubarak's rule, one that is largely secular in its orientation. He is well aware that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization."

But what Crapper said was:

"The term 'Muslim Brotherhood' ... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam."

[Ed. note...the reality is that the MB's problem with Al Quackers is they are the competition.]

I agree, it's very easy to tell when people are double-speaking. Their breath smells like poopy.

Here's a bit of analysis from Prof. Waller R. Newell from Carleton University in Ottawa that I read today over at Arutz-7:

“A senior member of the Brotherhood has already announced that their aim will be to ‘prepare the Egyptian people for war with Israel’ and called for the Suez Canal to be closed so as to disrupt the West's oil trade. Another announced that a newly elected legislature's first duty will be to re-consider the peace treaty with Israel. As a matter of course, as soon as they can, the Brotherhood will terminate Egypt's tourist industry, one of its chief sources of income and an employer of many of the people demonstrating in Cairo today, because they regard tourists as a foreign taint and their interest in ancient ruins as promoting paganism. As Islamist revolutionaries, whatever more palatable image they may choose to present for now, they do not have the slightest interest in raising the Egyptian people's standard of living, because they detest liberal individualism and economic freedom."

Wow, that sure sounds like they've...what was it the idiots at Fox News said..."renounced violence." Yes, if you get your news from Fox you are just as disinformed as everyone who watches MSNBC. Sorry.

So just exactly who is this James Crapper, and how is it that he's ended up as our DNI? Well, most recently he was a holdover from the W. Shrub administration...so much for change. He's also the guy who answered the question of, "Where's the WMD?" after we invaded Iraq. He said the Iraqis obviously shipped them to Syria...duh! Too bad for him that the head of his agency at the time, a David Burpee (I know, but it's too easy), could not provide any evidence beyond Crapper's statement to support this assertion. Whoops! So I guess we have a DNI who has a penchant for making stuff up. It would seem that this is the only criteria necessary for getting any high level job in a Presidential administration.

But there's more to this story than Crapper's penchant for making stuff up. I've looked at his photos very closely and I am convinced that Robert Gibbs is his love child...

...or he's this dude from Star Trek, which would be appropriate since the back of his head looks like a butt.

I guess in the end it doesn't matter which he is...we're screwed either way with this clown.

Buried In His Jammies...The Scoop On Egypt

So, while this blog has been taking a little break, I have been watching the events unfold in Egypt. Pundits are scratching their heads, the Idiot-in-Chief is well...being an idiot...and everyone is wondering what's going to happen over there.

This is not a very complex situation. Unfortunately, there are very few people in the news talking about this that have the foggiest notion as to how things really work in Egypt...or anywhere else for that matter. There were however a few moments of media justice, most notably being the attack on Christiane Almondpoo, whose poor quality of journalism is only surpassed by her loathing of all things Israeli. Anderson Pooper was punched in the head, and Katie Couric well, I think she was jostled. Please do not jostle Katie. We need those perky types to feed us our disinformation.

So what's the story with Egypt? As I said, it's unbelievably simple. The army runs Egypt. It always has, since the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who created the one-party system that brought Egypt its own brand of non-democratic democracy in 1956. A military man himself, who was sent to participate in the Egyptian delegation to negotiate a cease-fire with Israel in the wake of the Jewish state's surviving the Arab war of destruction brought against her, Nasser eliminated all other political parties in Egypt and consolidated his power with the military's backing.

Following the signing of the treaty between Israel and Egypt, the Egyptian military was facing massive stand-downs as its primary enemy was Israel. Facing layoffs and skyrocketing unemployment, the Egyptian military, one of the largest employers in Egypt, put its people to work in other areas of the Egyptian economy, tourism and such. A large portion of Egypt's economy is fueled by the military. Political and social instability is not simply bad for the country, it's bad for business, which is why you didn't see the army cracking skulls as we saw in Iran...killing your customer base is also bad for business.

So Mubarak resigns, and the military is running things...in other words, nothing has changed. While worthless Mohammed El-Baradei struts around like a rooster, he and the rest of the opposition leaders do not have to impress the people. They have to impress the generals. Whoever the army sees as being capable of keeping things stable will be to run in whatever elections there will be, and the winner will take power with the military's consent. That's it. It's that simple. Democracy...Egyptian style.

Of course the fly in the ointment is the Muslim Brotherhood, which Idiot-in-Chief says can be in the new Egyptian government if it rejects violence...which is the same thing he said about the MB's brothers in harm, Hamas. That really worked out well didn't it?

But just when you thought things couldn't get more obtuse, James Clapper steps into the vacuum. Head of U.S. Intelligence (which makes me wonder just how intelligent the rest of the bunch is), Clapper released a bit of brilliant analysis stating that the Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular," and has "eschewed violence."

I'll wait for you to finish laughing hysterically...still waiting...okay, I'm going on whether you're ready or not.

So Jimmy, let me ask you this. Did you happen to notice that the Muslim Brotherhood's name only consists of two words? The second word, "Brotherhood," you and Idiot-in-Chief really like as it no doubt conjures up images of grown men holding hands and prancing through rainbow unicorn pastures in their underpants while singing "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, and of course cute little puppies.

The first word in the name "Muslim Brotherhood" is in fact the word, "Muslim." Nothing makes you say "largely secular" like the name of a religion in the title. Most likely what happened is he got so mushy over the notion of a brotherhood of Muslims that he thought the Muslim Brotherhood was the Muslim version of the YMCA.

In fact the Muslim Brotherhood has been killing since 1927, and sent commandos to fight the Jews in the War of Independence. And somehow James Crapper must have managed to block out this:

Sadat was assassinated following the issuing of a fatwa by Omar Abdel Rahman, leader of the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, born out of the Muslim Brotherhood. Aren't you glad our intelligence services are being headed by such a grossly incompetent buffoon? At least this White House is consistent.

There is legitimate worry by those folks who are not so susceptible to this type of incompetent buffoonery that the Muslim Brotherhood could launch a takeover of whatever new government forms in the wake of Mubarak's resignation, which is why I would imagine that over the next several months it's members, along with those of its various offshoots, will be hunted down and will start quietly disappearing. Don't worry boys, the Egyptian military knows who and where you are. Get your affairs in order because you'll be moving in with the 72 virgins soon enough.

And to the Idiot-in-Chief, who clearly was not paying attention, and seldom does unless it relates to his jump shot or tee time, Egypt is not interested in what you want. The world doesn't care what you think. In the end you will get fooled again. And come the new elections in Egypt it will be meet the new boss, same as the old boss for you Egypt. Enjoy.

Everyone sing along with Pete.

Israeli Spy Arrested In Saudi Arabia

It has been reported that Saudi security forces have arrested an accused spy operating in Saudi Arabia on behalf of Israel. Carrying a GPS transmitter, the spy was found near the home of a sheikh in Hayel. Currently the spy suspect, known as R65, is not talking or otherwise cooperating with Saudi security forces. Though you would think that this is because of the agent's extensive training in resisting a variety of pressure interrogation methods, this is not the case. R65 is not talking because he can't...he's a frackin' vulture.

That's right, these backward Ishmaelite idiots have arrested a vulture.

Tagged with a ring bearing the legend, "Tel Aviv University," the vulture is part of a long term study being conducted by Israeli researchers on the migratory habits of the vultures. R65 arrived in Saudi Arabia after spending the winter in Sudan, no doubt feeding on corpses of more victims of the Arab Islamic genocide being perpetrated against the people of Darfur, while the bleeding heart douchebags of the world from Roger Waters to the parents of dead idiot turned latke Rachel Corrie, blame Israel for all the world's woes.

It ought to sicken every American that so much of the world's economy is driven by our dependence on oil imported from people who are so utterly stupid that they would arrest a bird on suspicion of espionage.

With the Egyptians recently accusing Mossad of releasing trained sharks to attack tourists, and now the vulture arrest, I think it's time for a new OMV poll. Be sure to look above to vote for the next animal to be accused of spying on the Arab geniuses.

While you give it a think, check out this video. Maybe the Saudis are onto something after all...or just on something...idiots.

Merry Birthday, Hypocrites

So, yesterday was Yeshki's birthday. I hope all you non-hypocritical Christians out there had a meaningful day that was largely free of certain fat red elf, who has turned what I would imagine should be a holy day for you, into a pagan festival of materialism.

For the rest of you...I'm talking to you Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel Christians...if you're Presbyterian and sitting on your hands, or clapping your hands, while your church's leaders support terrorist homophobic honor killing animals passing themselves off as "Palestinians," then this post is especially for your particular breed of douche.

This just came through my inbox so I just had to share.

As a believing Christian, I made a recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I was profoundly disturbed by the Jewish state and its criminal occupation of the West Bank. I know that many good Christians support the Jewish occupation, but I do not! How can you justify usurping land that belongs to others?

Response:

You are entitled to your opinion on the matter. But I hope you are consistent in your beliefs. Being that you oppose a Jewish presence on the West Bank, I assume you will not be participating in any celebrations during the coming days. According to your view, there is no reason to be merry on December 25.

The Christian holidays celebrate an event that you have named a criminal act - the birth of a Jewish baby to a Jewish family living in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Your views should not allow you to have any part in this cheer, for if you did you would be giving retroactive approval to a Jewish settlement on the West Bank that dates back more than two thousand years.

Perhaps you will be joined by the UN and other humanitarian organizations around the world condemning any celebrations this week that are connected with this controversial birth, as such events would be recognizing the rights of a Jewish family to live on what you see as occupied territory.

However I must warn you, by espousing this view and not celebrating, you will be vastly outnumbered. Not that it's so bad to be in the minority, I personally have been all my life. But keep in mind, while you accuse Israel of occupying land, there will be two billion Christians around the world celebrating the fact that the West Bank has always been the home of the Jewish people.

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Aaron Moss (Sydney, Australia)

Kind of makes you feel stupid, doesn't it Joe Presbyterian BSD'er? If not, then perhaps this story will.

The Falacstinians are claiming that Jesus was not a Jew, but a Palestinian. Not only that, he was the first Palestinian martyr. Now, Nazareth Ilit, a community built for Jews along side Nazareth, which is an Arab occupied town, has been overrun by Arabs who are demanding that they be allowed to display Christmas trees in public squares. The AFP picked up the story and are of course branding the Jews as anti-Christmas and blah blah blah.

No surprises there of course. But here's a little factoid for all you Christian Jew haters out there:

Since the Falacstinian Authority, whom the Presbyterian Church seems to love almost as much if not more than Jesus, were given control of Bethlehem the Christian population has plummeted. In 1990 the Christian population was a 60% majority. In 2000 it was down to 40%. In 2008 only 15% of the population is Christian. Is this because of brutal Israeli occupation? No. It's because Israel relinquished control of Bethlehem to the Falacstinians.

Christians in Falacstinian controlled areas are now subjected to dhimmi status. They are restricted religiously, culturally, economically, and politically. International Human Rights lawyer, Justus Reid Weiner, has reported that around 1000 Christians emigrate from Bethlehem annually. Inferior to their Muslim Falacstinian occupiers, Weiner states they are subjected to a number of injustices:

"There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion.

"Neither the Palestinian Christian leaders nor the PA want to reveal accurate statistics. That would mean the extent of the emigration would become publicly known. They would then have to face questions about the reasons for this decline."

Did I mention that FA Muslims have murdered Muslims who have converted to Christianity? It's 'cause the Koran says they should. I love the "religion of peace," don't you?

Falacstinian Authority officials are directly responsible for these acts as they are the legal authority in Bethlehem, with many attacks on Christians being sanctioned by FA officials. I wonder if that subject comes up when anti-Jew Christian boycott groups get together for their Israeli bash sessions? I'm guessing no. BTW, in case you think this is only happening in Bethlehem, it is happening in all areas where Israel gave over control to the Arabs. It is also happening all over the Muslim occupied Middle East.

So all you anti-Israel Presbies, Lutherans, Methodists, United Church of Christers, and Episcopalians here's two questions for you:

1) Who was it that guaranteed freedom of religion and access to all holy places by all faiths in what you call the "occupied west bank" which Jesus called Judea and Samaria?

Answer: Israel.

2) What do you think will happen to the remainder of your Christian brethren in those areas if they continue to be controlled under the current Arab occupation, and Juan Hussein Peron Obambi gets his wish and Israel is forced to surrender Judea and Samaria?

Answer: They will be hounded, tortured, and murdered until they are all driven out or dead.

So, how stupid do you feel now?

Merry Fucking Christmas hypocrites.

Fast of Tevet

Today is the Fast of Tevet, marking the date when the armies of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. It is a unique date this year as it falls on the eve of Shabbat. So significant is this fast that we do not manipulate the calendar to prevent it from falling on a Friday. Instead, we prepare for Shabbat without tasting the food we are cooking. And rather than break the fast at sundown, we wait until after the kiddush Friday night. But back to the siege.

As we see again and again, when Am Yisrael fails to accomplish its mission, when it fails and strays from serving HaShem, there are dire consequences. In this case, it was the worship of foreign gods that brought about the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple of Solomon, where now stands that ugly pimple of al-aqsa and the golden omar pimple. We should only merit to witness the coming of Moshiach and rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash...today.

Alas, we continue to stumble. The government of Israel, largely comprised of men who are only nominally Jews and have no loyalty to the G-d of Israel, continues to speak of freezes or negotiations with Arab animals who spray graffiti on the walls of Joshua's tomb, desecrate a memorial for a rabbi, kindergarten teacher, and father of seven that they murdered, and day in and day out make clear that their dearest wish is to baptize their homicide-belt wearing babies in the blood of Jews. You don't negotiate with this...you do what the Torah demands, what the G-d of Israel demands...that these people be driven out from the land of Israel. They have lands that were given to them. Let them live there and do whatever it is they wish there.

Is the Torah not clear enough? If we love HaShem and keep the mitzvot the rains will fall and the land will give its abundance in its season, which includes driving out those who seek to kill us. If we do not...tzuris, and we are driven out, a process that began on this day some 2500 years ago. And so I will fast, not so much to remember this event, but because we clearly are screwing up again and need help. I need help. It is not easy being a Jew in galut, in exile. I need to keep going, continuing to move forward, doing what I can to stay on the path HaShem has me walk. But it's hard. The great scholars are few and far between. There are fewer and fewer to turn to here, and so we go further and further astray, making checking the lettuce for bugs more important than Ahavat Yisrael.

What is the lesson of Chanukah that we recently finished celebrating? It's not about oil. The lesson lies in the aftermath, when civil war between Jews exacerbated a reliance on foreign power which led directly to the annexing of Judea by the Roman Empire. Today that fat head idiot Bibi and his council of garbage led by the two-headed windbag of Peres and Barak spend their waking hours either plotting how to sacrifice Torah Jews to the god of their political/secular power, or figuring out how to kiss the White House ring without writing their political death sentence. These morons fail to learn the lesson of Chanukah...without unity among Jews we are the prey of foreign influence that will first promise us protection, and then slit our throats.

It is time to stop using Torah as a bludgeon against those who are not observant, and time to start using it to remind them that Torah is who they are, use it as a means to bring them back to where they are supposed to be...something Chabad does so well. The Midrash tells us that at Sinai, everyone heard the Voice of HaShem in accordance to their own capacity to understand. Moshe was the only one of us to grasp all that was conveyed and it was his job to explain to us what it all meant. We have no Moshe now. We are all, all of us, groping around in the dark, until Moshiach comes.

So yeah, I'm fasting in the hopes that the pendulum starts moving in earnest in the direction of redemption and insight, and that my own sight improves right along with everyone else. We can't be a light unto the nations when there are frum couples going on the People's Court attempting to scam goyim out of money over a wig, and when we fail to get our own selves together.

So what's my fast about really? It's for more Torah...and less bullshit.

I'm Not That Pesky Landshark

The dreaded Zionist Entity that most of you know as Israel has been accused of a number of bizarre things over the years...many of these accusations involving animals.

• Releasing wild boars to destroy Arab crops (who would have thought you could train a boar to know the difference between a Jewish and Arab farm? Maybe Arab crops wear kafias?)
• The training of Vicious Attack Snakes
• The marketing and distribution of Sex Gum that made Arab teens horny (forget the raging hormones and sheer boredom) and...my personal favorite...
• THE SUPER RATS OF JERUSALEM...yes the Super Rats of Jerusalem...able to breed and produce rats at four times the normal rate! Unafraid of Arab cats! Able to discern the difference between Arabs and Jews (again...it must be the kafias)! The power of flight! Is there nothing the super rats of Jerusalem cannot do? Well, if they're supposed to be driving the Arabs out of Jerusalem they're not doing such a great job...

But there is one thing that the SUPER RATS OF JERUSALEM can't do...swim and eat Egyptian tourists...which is why an Egyptian official is accusing the Mossad of releasing a shark into the waters near Sharm al-Sheikh.

Yes, you read that correctly. Egypt's governor of Southern Sinai stated:

“We must not discount the possibility that Mossad threw the shark into the sea, in order to attack tourists who are having fun in Sharm al-Sheikh. Mossad is trying to hurt Egyptian tourism in any way possible, and the shark is one way for it to realize its plan.”

Apparently four Russian tourists were attacked by sharks near the resort town. Maybe sharks are attracted to vodka, in addition to blood. Where is Jacques Cousteau when you need him? Heck, I'd take Steve Zissou...



Yes, with all of the intelligence gathering and other cool spy stuff Mossad is involved in, they are apparently making the destroying of Egyptian tourism a priority...makes sense. Once again I find myself wondering how it is that these people have managed to maintain something as intricate as a country as long as they have...oh wait...they are either rolling in oil money or propped up by foreign governments...or both...my bad.

I can honestly say I haven't heard anything this insipidly stupid since the last time Mahmoud Abbas opened his fat stupid mouth...what time is it?

Never mind that sharks inhabit the Red Sea and occasionally, though rarely, attack people...if Egyptian tourists are being mauled in shark attacks it must be the Jews' fault. This is why Israel gave up Sinai?

In response the Egyptians have killed not one, but two sharks. But I thought Mossad only released one shark. What gives? Maybe Egyptians can't count. That would be in line with the whole Egyptian election fraud thing I guess. No one seems to be able to count the ballots properly because I'm pretty sure that I won those elections. Oh well. What's important is that after killing the two sharks the Egyptians have lifted the ban on swimming.

One of the sharks killed by the Egyptian idiots was an endangered white tip shark. Shark advocate Thomas Hopkins gives an alternative explanation to the Mossad Shark Theory:

We have seen in the past few years massive troubles with more sharks coming closer to the shores in Egypt. What is happening is that a lot of the marine life and fish sharks used to eat have migrated away from areas and sharks are resorting to the next best catch around and that is human flesh.

Makes sense to me, which is why no Egyptian officials thought of it.

Hopkins went on to say that killing the sharks would not solve the problem and that Egypt might want to reevaluate its environmental policy regarding the Red Sea. He did not suggest Egypt blame the Mossad. Maybe Hopkins works for Israeli Intelligence.

Northern Israel On Fire

A fire broke out in the Mount Carmel area of northern Israel around 10:00 am on Thursday. There are conflicting reports. Arson is not being ruled out, especially since some are saying that the fire appears to have started around the same time in three separate locations. At least 40 are dead. For a really good timeline I suggest keeping up with things over at the Muqata. Jameel will resume live blogging soon I would imagine. It's almost 7:30 on Friday morning over there.

As we remember the miracle of the flames of Chanukah, let us pray that we see a miracle in these fires being put out quickly. The foreign fire fighting planes should be there and in action now.


Dramatic Video of Worst Fire Disaster in Israel History



Blazing Inferno on Mount Carmel 2010

Chanukah: "Eight Is The Number of Infinity"

Yeah, I copped that from Matisyahu. He makes an excellent point, throwing a little mysticism into the Chanukah atmosphere.

Seven is considered to be the number representing the perfection of things in their natural state. HaShem fashioned the natural order in seven days. There are seven weeks between Pesach and Shavuot. There are seven branches on the menorah that was rekindled by the Maccabees, the menorah that HaShem designed to burn in the Beit Hamikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem.

So why eight nights? There are many explanations beyond the fact that the oil that should have lasted one day burned for another seven. The one I like the best I heard from my rabbi in my last hometown.

If seven represents the perfecting of things in the natural order the miracle of Chanukah must be something beyond this perfection. There was something supernatural that drove the Maccabees to take on the Greeks who far outnumbered them. They were driven by their faith, their desire to maintain our relationship with HaShem, their desire to maintain the perfected natural order that the menorah represents. Because of this, the Hasmonean warriors merited something higher, something beyond the natural state of perfection, which is what the eight flames of Chanukah represent.

Each night of Chanukah the light grows stronger. With each successive night so too do we become stronger as we remember the miracles that were done for us then, and all the way up to today. In spite of the suffering we have endured at the world's hands, when we increase the light each night in our windows for all to see, we reaffirm the same faith that drove the Maccabees, and we let the world know that we are not letting that faith be dimmed or snuffed out. And so every chanukiah that is lit today is itself a miracle. Each is a member of Am Yisrael that has endured, that has not been broken or lost. And that's a very big deal.

May the celebration of the rededication of the Temple be a time to rededicate ourselves to our communities, our people, Torah, and HaShem.

And now a little Matisyahu. This video has been going around the Jewish blogosphere this week. It does the job. Lyrics appear under the video. Enjoy.

Chanukah Sameach!



Lyrics: Matisyahu

Just livin’ in the miracle, candles are my vehicle
Eight nights are gonna shine invincible
No longer be divisible, born through the struggle
Keep on moving through all this hustle
Head up, head down through all of the bustle
New York City wanna flex your muscle
Look so down, look so puzzled
Huddle ‘round your fire through all the rubble

Bound to stumble and fall but my strength comes not from man at all
Bound to stumble and fall but my strength comes not from man at all

Do you believe in miracles
Am I hearing you am I seeing you
Eight nights eight lights and these fights keep me right
Bless me to the highest heights with your miracles

Against all odds drive on till tomorrow
Wipe away your tears and your sorrow
Sunrise in the sky like a an arrow
No need to worry, no need to cry
Light up your mind no longer be blind
He who stretches will find
Leave your problems behind you will shine like a fire in the sky
what's the reason we’re alive – the reason we’re alive…
Bound to stumble and fall but my strength comes not from man at all
Bound to stumble and fall but my strength comes not from man at all

Do you believe in miracles
Am I hearing you am I seeing you
Eight nights eight lights and these fights keep me right
Bless me to the highest heights with your miracles

Eight is the number of infinity one more than what you know how to be
And this is the light of festivity when your broken heart yearns to be free

Do you believe in miracles
Am I hearing you am I seeing you
Eight nights eight lights and these fights keep me right
Bless me to the highest heights with your miracles