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Pope Benedict didn't really walk out during Sheikh's vile rant...

And this is after the Sheikh did the same damn thing to John Paul II nine years ago!

Sheikh Tamimi, shown here (l) arguing with an Israeli soldier as he and the Archimandrite of the Christian Orthodox Church, Attalla Hanna (center) tour the Old City of Hebron in 2007. 

I swear!  Is there anyone left in the political or theological class that will stand up to these fiends?  Anyone?

From the Weekly Standard's Rachel Abrams:

The pope walked out when the ranting was over, though not before shaking the sheikh’s hand. The thing is, the self-same sheikh pulled the self-same stunt nine years ago when John Paul II visited Israel. Um, better vetting next time would be good.

In case you haven't heard about the incident.

A leading Palestinian cleric commandeered an evening devoted to interfaith dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI on Monday to rant against Israel for "killing Gaza's children," "bulldozing Palestinian homes" and "destroying mosques."

In an impromptu speech, delivered in Arabic at the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, chief Islamic judge in the Palestinian Authority, launched a 10-minute tirade against the State of Israel for confiscating Palestinians' land and carrying out war crimes against the residents of Gaza.

He also called for the immediate return of all Palestinian refugees, and called on Christians and Muslims to unite against Israel.

Tamimi invoked the name of Saladin, the Muslim sultan who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187.

Riddle me this my possums - how does some jamoke get up and make an 'impromptu speech' at an event like this?  It's good thing he didn't have a gun...or a knife...or a bomb belt...or a shoe.  (I think the Pope's advance men got played and it was all a big setup - but that's just me.   Get a load of the groveling statement they put out after the event.)

Tamimi, uninvited and taking the podium after the pope, accused Israel of killing women and children in Gaza and making Palestinians refugees, then declared Jerusalem the Palestinian capital. The pope left the building after Tamimi's remarks and before the meeting ended, the Post said.

Afterward, papal spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi issued a statement saying, "The intervention of Sheik Tayseer Tamimi was not previewed by the organizers of the inter-religious meeting that took place at Notre Dame Centre in Jerusalem. ... We hope that such an incident will not damage the mission of the Holy Father aiming at promoting peace and inter-religious dialogue."

About the sheikh - he was the nut that issued the fatwa against palestinians selling land to Jews among others.  Oddly enough, he reportedly sold his own property to a JEW. 

Israel: Another bulldozer jihad attack

Okay, it looks more like a backhoe but you get my drift.  The good news: a brave taxi driver shot the terrorist at the scene.  The bad news:  Hamas is praising the attacks and calls the rampage 'a natural response'.  Yeah, if you're a death cult crazed lunatic - it's a natural response!

Oh, yes.  Let's give them a state and pour more aid down their Muslim sewer.  (this really ticks me off.)

From CNN.

A man who drove a construction vehicle into a police car and an empty bus on a major road in Jerusalem has been shot and killed, Israeli police and medical services.

Two Israeli policemen sustained minor injuries in the incident, police said. The driver was shot by an Israeli policeman and a taxi driver at the scene, according to a police spokesman and eyewitnesses. He died as he reached a Jerusalem hospital, Israeli medical services said.

Police have not identified the driver. A police officer on the scene told Israel Radio that there was an open Quran, or Muslim holy book, inside the construction vehicle.

Al Jazeera is reporting that the Islamic Jihad is claiming responsibility for the attacks and it's in response to a Gaza airstrike that killed two Islamic Jihad terrorists.  The Kassams are flying again, too.

Miami: The Arab street goes to South Beach.

"A loud, colorful microcosm of hate..."

Kicking cars and punching cops: Highlights from Gaza Protest Arrests

From the Miami New Times.

An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted "baby killers!," and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate - with Muslims waving red and green Palestinian flags on one side of the boulevard, and Jews holding hand-penned signs on the other. As the Herald reported yesterday, a dozen people were arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct.

What wasn't mentioned: The most serious charge (a felony battery) came from a bright, well-respected Bonita Springs doctor and director of a non-profit named Riadh Atmani. The Miami police report notes that the 42 year-old - a bearded, six-foot-five, 220 pound bear of a man - grabbed a police officer "and his prisoner," pulled them into a pack of protesters, "hit [the cop] in the face" and "broke the sergeant's glasses." Shortly afterwards, around 3:20 p.m., police described his demeanor as calm and soft spoken. Public records show Atmani runs Bonita Springs Islamic Center on Bonita Beach Road, about which little information is available. (He couldn't be reached at several listed phone numbers for comment.)

Other highlights from police reports include: A 31 year-old from Jordan who allegedly tried to ignite a riot, then called a cop a "n*****r"; a 23 year-old car-kicker from Kuwait, and a New Yorker who threw one too many punches in amid a mosh pit of demonstrators.

Video at link.

International Red Cross shills for Hamas.

Just one more reason to donate to the Salvation Army in my view.

From The NYT:  Gaza children found with mother's corpses.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered “shocking” scenes — including small children next to their mothers’ corpses — when its representatives gained access for the first time to parts of Gaza battered by Israeli shelling. It accused Israel of failing to meet obligations to care for the wounded in areas of combat.

I don't know.  Personally, I think this is more shocking and it goes a long way to explain the "shocking" scenes witnessed by the Dhimminational Red Cross.

US: Jimmy Carter Shills for Hamas...and himself.

Jimmy Carter gets my vote for most pathetic ex-president.  And having lived through the Carter years, I can say with some authority that he was also a pathetic PRESIDENT.  (Poor thing, he yearns to be relevant in the worst old way.  I wish he'd just shuffle back to his peanut farm.  Or go somewhere and build more sub-standard housing for the poor.)

Anyways, in this piece Jimmy pretty much says he visited the Israelis of Sderot and they are whiners and namby-pambys.  And they have some nerve complaining about a few rockets when 1.5 million Palestinians are STARVING!   HE visited the Palestinians - they sort of blew him off but HE, Jimmy Carter was able to get them to agree to peace talks.  Then HE, superstar president and world humanitarian that HE is - was singlehandedly able to bring Egypt to the negotiating table.   If that wasn't enough, HE singlehandedly got Israel to allow the resumption of humanitarian aid.  Not through with the region, HE traveled to Syria to see if the Syrians could get Hamas to stop shooting rockets long enough to get them to REALLY stop firing rockets so the humanitarian missions would continue. 

You know what happened next.

Big surprise - they were just playing him. 

Poor Jimmy.

HE tried to broker and mideast peace deal and all HE got was FREQUENT FLYER MILES!   

An Unnecessary War by Jimmy Carter

After 12 days of "combat," the Israeli Defense Forces reported that more than 1,000 targets were shelled or bombed. During that time, Israel rejected international efforts to obtain a cease-fire, with full support from Washington. Seventeen mosques, the American International School, many private homes and much of the basic infrastructure of the small but heavily populated area have been destroyed. This includes the systems that provide water, electricity and sanitation. Heavy civilian casualties are being reported by courageous medical volunteers from many nations, as the fortunate ones operate on the wounded by light from diesel-powered generators.

I tell you, my heart bleeds and my knee jerks.

Bonus Presidential Coverage.

From FReeper silent_jonny reporting on yesterday's Presidential luncheon: 

"Today President Bush welcomed former President George H. W. Bush to the Oval Office. A disbarred lawyer, a failed peanut-farmer and a former ACORN employee were also in attendance."

courtesy of FReeper Roscoe Karns.

Guess who said, "I like the rug?" 

If you guessed Slick Willy - you guessed right. 

(Reminds you of the good old days of rolling around on with it with the interns, eh there Bill?)

US: Keith Ellison shills for Hamas.

"If this problem was a cake, everyone could have a slice."  (I swear I he said that.)

From Powerline (courtesy of NJDhockey fan at the LGF link thingy).

Keithy must have been all fired up by his Hajj pilgrimage. His humanitarian heart bleeds for the Gazans and he is looking for a 'robust peace process'.  "A school was bombed, a mosque was bombed, children have been killed!"

OVER 600 Palestinian dead!

Oh, the humanity!

Iran: Khamenei puts the kibosh on Jihadis going to Pali

Iran will help Hamas in "ways other than military action". 

From Stratfor:

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Jan. 8 that potential suicide bombers were banned from leaving the country to carry out attacks in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. Khamenei added that Iran will help Hamas in ways other than military action against Israel.

Muslims draw up hit list of UK jews.

This list comes hot on the heels of the Belgian list - and nobody is saying boo about it.

From Israel Matzah:

London's Daily Sun reports that Muslim 'fanatics' have drawn up a "hit list" of British Jews to be targeted in response to the current Israeli operation in Gaza. TV’s The Apprentice boss Sir Alan Sugar and Amy Winehouse record producer Mark Ronson are among prominent names discussed on a fanatics’ website.

Labour Peer and pal of Tony Blair Lord Levy, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Princess Diana’s divorce lawyer Anthony Julius are also understood to be potential targets.

British anti-terror expert Glen Jenvey is convinced online forum Ummah is being used to prepare a deadly backlash against UK Jews.

Read more deets here.

Salt Lake City: 200 protest Israel bombing Gaza.

"Our government has taken the stance that Israel deserves to live in peace and security. Our position is that Palestinians deserve the same."  

Don't make me laugh, moonbat.  I guess the Palestinians should have thought of that before firing all those rockets into Sderot, then.

One protester, a certain Hilda Sabbah, says her girlfriend was 'shot three times in the head'.  Given that ground forces have yet to enter the region and the fact that it's hard to feature the Israelis firing magic bullets from the window of a speeding F-16, I'm calling bullshit on you, Hilda.  If your cousin got shot, she got shot by your buddies from Hamas.

From The Salt Lake Tribune.

Hilda Sabbah watches news reports from Gaza, seeing if she knows the faces of the wounded and dead being carted away from a bombed-out building.

The Palestinian woman, 38, left home eight years ago to earn a doctorate from Brigham Young University, but her parents and siblings still live in the West Bank and her cousins are in Gaza, which is under Hamas control.  One of her close friends was shot three times in the head earlier this week and likely won't survive.

"You wait to hear from friends and family, but you just feel crippled," she said.

Sabbah was one of nearly 200 protesters who gathered Wednesday in front of the Federal Building in Salt Lake City to protest U.S. funding of the Israeli military and the renewed violence in the Middle East.

Protesters held signs, shouted to drivers to honk in support and shared their stories with passersby.

"We're very concerned about the indiscriminate bombing of innocents in Gaza," said Frances ReMillard, whose group, Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land, organized the protest. "Our government has taken the stance that Israel deserves to live in peace and security. Our position is that Palestinians deserve the same."  

Ralph Peters: Preach it, Brother!

From his column Bam stirs fears in Israel today over at the New York Post:

"But, as this column has stressed for years, fighting terrorists effectively means going in on the ground - and sooner is better than later. You can't impress fanatics into surrendering. You have to kill them. Nothing else works.

Let me repeat that: You have to kill fanatics. Nothing else works."

Read it all, possums.