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Hopeless in Gaza?
Labels: Arabs, Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Palestine, Palestinian Arabs, Terrorism
We are still unpacking (having just moved from the big house in Herzlia Pituah to a really cool apartment in the city of Kfar Sabba) ...but I'm back at work, with pen in hand, surrounded by still-unopened cartons, but eager to check out life in Kfar Sabba (yet another implementation of the Zionist dream).
Meanwhile Iran is flexing its muscles and the world continues to paint the "Palestinians" as the victims.The Iranian Mullah campaign has been incredibly successful. It seems as if most American Jews (and even some Bibi-hating Israelis) have swallowed the fantasy that Israel has become a (fill in the blanks: fascist, apartheid, racist, colonialist,) state. and so it goes. . .Labels: Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, IDF, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestinians
Sorry for our absence but we (the LSW and I) were packing and unpacking and watching for incoming missiles (there were none) in our new digs in Kfar Sabba. Yup. we moved from Herzliya Pituah (a lovely coastal community on the Mediterranean Sea) to the further inland Israeli city of Kfar Saba ( another implementation of the zionist dream). We are still unpacking but I'm back at work, with pen in hand, and ready to provide you with a daily dose of Dry Bones cartoons.Labels: Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, IDF, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestinians
Labels: AntiZionist, Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestinians, Sarah Muscroft, Terrorism, UN
Labels: Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, Islamic Jihad, Israel, The Tisha Be'Av War, War
Labels: Children, Dry Bones cartoon, friendly fire, Gaza, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, The Tisha Be'Av War, Tisha Be'Av
Labels: Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, The Tisha Be'Av War, Tisha Be'Av
Labels: Dry Bones cartoon, Gaza, Islamic Jihad, Israel, The Jewish People, The Tisha Be'Av War, Tisha Be'Av
According to the Algemeiner:"Amnesty International falsely accused Israel of bombing a Palestinian human rights organization’s office on Tuesday, when the incident actually involved a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.The projectile struck an office building on Tuesday morning in Gaza City where the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights is headquartered.Amnesty quickly issued a tweet saying, “We strongly condemn attack on the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights whose office in Gaza was struck by an Israeli missile earlier this morning. Strikes targeting civilian buildings is a violation of international law. We are sending our solidarity to @ICHR_Pal.” -more
Labels: Amnesty International, Gaza, Islamic Jihad, Israel, missile attack, Palestinians, Rockets, Terrorism
According to ArleneFromIsrael:Israeli Intelligence had been tracking him for some time. It had become his practice to surround himself with children to prevent attack upon his person, i.e. he knew that we would not target him while children were in range. Then information was acquired regarding a building in Shejaiyah, outside of Gaza city, where he was alone with his wife and could be reached. So, in a pinpoint strike, we did just that. Just the room where he was sleeping was hit (to avoid injury to civilians in the building):This is the first point to be made: the timing of the attack had to do with the opportunity to get someone who badly needed to be got. It was NOT politically motivated, as some are suggesting.President Ruby Rivlin made his position clear in a statement that was released :"We stand behind the security forces, who have been working for the success of this morning’s operations for a long time. I know that they, and the Israeli government that approved the operation, have Israel’s security, and only that in their minds.This is no time for political squabbles, and those who [engage in them] bring no credit to themselves. It is time to stop this immediately."-more
Labels: Abu al-Ata, Gaza, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism
Labels: America, Cold War, Islamic Jihad, Islamists, Mr. History, Obama, Soviet Union
Labels: America, Islamic Jihad, Islamists, Islamophobia, jihad, Media
The Asian Floods—Signs of Climate Catastrophes to Come?And for a list of disasters (both man-made and natural) from prehistoric times to the present, check out ArmagedonOnline.com
"They haven't gotten anywhere near the attention they deserve, but the floods that have struck much of Asia over the past couple of weeks may be the biggest humanitarian disaster in recent memory—bigger even than the earthquake that hit Haiti in January and the 2004 Asian tsunami. Both of those catastrophes killed far more, but the floods have affected 13 million people in Pakistan alone, and parts of India, China and North Korea have also suffered from the rains. The floods will destroy homes and business, wreck agriculture and destroy infrastructure, leave disease and disability in their wake. Flooding in China has already killed more than 1,100 people this year and caused tens of billions of dollars of damage. In shaky Pakistan, where the public has been enraged by the government's typically fumbling response to the flood, it could even increase support for hard-line Islamic groups."-more
Labels: China, Climate Change, Disasters, Earthquake, Haiti, India, Islamic Jihad, North Korea, Pakistan, Volcano, Weather
"On June 15, 1985, Hezbollah hijackers seized the TWA flight in Athens. Identifying Robert Dean Stethem as an American serviceman, they brutally beat and tortured the 23-year-old Stethem to death. Then, they threw his body off the plane, like garbage. Stethem was so badly beaten that he could only be identified from fingerprints. He was on his way home after a tour of duty with the US Navy in the Middle East.But Stethem never made it home. His next and final stop was Arlington National Cemetery.At the time, the President was Ronald Reagan, a heroic leader who didn’t give in to Islamic terror. Well, almost. In 1983, Hezbollah terrorists (with the help of the PLO and Syria) attacked and killed over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians in Beirut, while they slept. It was the bloodiest attack on the Marine Corps since World War II. But President Reagan didn’t strike back. Instead, he pulled out of Lebanon. He sent a signal to Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorists that their attacks would not be answered, that America was weak. That gave Hezbollah the courage to hijack the plane and brutally kill Stethem, almost two years later." -more
Labels: Air Travel, America, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Lebanon, Prisoner Release, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, Terrorist, tour
"Friday, July 2, 2010The Fort Hood shooter, the Christmas Day bomber, the Times Square attacker. On May 13, the following exchange occurred at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.): Do you feel that these individuals might have been incited to take the actions that they did because of radical Islam? Attorney General Eric Holder: There are a variety of reasons why I think people have taken these actions. . . . Smith: Okay, but radical Islam could have been one of the reasons? Holder: There are a variety of reasons why people -- Smith: But was radical Islam one of them?
Holder: There are a variety of reasons why people do these things. Some of them are potentially religious-based. Potentially, mind you. This went on until the questioner gave up in exasperation. A similar question arose last week in U.S. District Court when Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square attacker, pleaded guilty. Explained Shahzad: "One has to understand where I'm coming from . . . I consider myself a mujahid, a Muslim soldier." Well, that is clarifying. As was the self-printed business card of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, identifying himself as SoA: Soldier of Allah. Holder's avoidance of the obvious continues the absurd and embarrassing refusal of the Obama administration to acknowledge who out there is trying to kill Americans and why. In fact, it has banned from its official vocabulary the terms jihadist, Islamist and Islamic terrorism. Instead, President Obama's National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy -- how else do you define those seeking your destruction? -- "a loose network of violent extremists." But this is utterly meaningless. This is not an anger-management therapy group gone rogue. These are people professing a powerful ideology rooted in a radical interpretation of Islam, in whose name they propagandize, proselytize, terrorize and kill. Why is this important? Because the first rule of war is to know your enemy. If you don't, you wander into intellectual cul-de-sacs and ignore the real causes that might allow you to prevent recurrences. The Pentagon review of the Fort Hood shooting runs 86 pages with not a single mention of Hasan's Islamism. It contains such politically correct inanities as "religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor." Of course it is. Indeed, Islamist fundamentalism is not only a risk factor. It is the risk factor, the common denominator linking all the great terror attacks of this century -- from 9/11 to Mumbai, from Fort Hood to Times Square, from London to Madrid to Bali. The attackers varied in nationality, education, age, social class, native tongue and race. The one thing that united them was the jihadist vision in whose name they acted. " -more
Labels: America, Islam, Islamic Jihad, jihad, Muslim, Obama, Political Correctness, terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, War, White House
1.) Israeli troops were assaulted by Islamists as they boarded the Mavi Marmara, forcing the Israelis to fight back. Nine of the provocateurs were killed.2.) Islamist gunmen entered a Pakistani hospital, where they shot and killed 12 badly wounded patients...The 12 victims were survivors of Islamist attacks on two mosques a few days earlier, when 93 worshipers were killed.
“I unequivocally condemn what appears to be disproportionate use of force, resulting in the killing and wounding of so many people attempting to bring much needed aid to the people of Gaza”’Source: the Ettinger Report
Labels: Blockade, Double Standard, Flotilla, Gaza, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Media, Pirates, Somalia, U.N.
Are we witnessing a major shake-up in the region with Turkey going Islamist and becoming part of the anti-Western Islamic Jihad bloc? Will Gaza, the Palestinians, and the "Flotilla" affair be successfully and skillfully used to focus Turkish public attention on the "demonic Jews" while the throat of secular Turkey is slit? Forbes offers this interesting analysis out of Istanbul:Erdogan's Dangerous RhetoricYour thoughts?
"ISTANBUL -- Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's speech upon his return to Turkey from meeting President Obama was greeted in some quarters with relief. "At least he didn't declare war," said one headline. Understandably, the confrontation between Israeli commandos and the Mavi Marmara has consumed the media here. And though it seemed, at first, that the national mood was one of shock followed by outrage, already numerous gently demurring voices have begun to break the surface. The prime minister's speeches showed no such restraint: "Even bullies, pirates and criminals have a code of honor," he said, "but for those who have none, it would be a compliment to call them such names."Condemning Israel for harming innocents, Erdogan added, "Even in a war, you don't attack women, children and religious personnel," (without, of course, elaborating on what to do if the latter happen to be combatants, as they often are in Islamist circles). The prime minister has traveled the country in a kind of victory tour inciting massed crowds to chant anti-Israeli slogans, repeatedly citing "Thou Shalt Not Kill" as being explicitly a commandment from the Torah and therefore all the greater a sin when committed by Israel. Some 22 national leaders are currently in Istanbul for a conference of Eurasian nations; Erdogan is publicly flogging the issue there, too.The atmosphere in Turkey is highly combustible and open to political exploitation. Photos of bashed and bleeding young Israeli commandos published in the leading newspaper, Hurriyet--thereby confirming Israel's self-defense argument--elicited cries of "traitor" and threats. Meanwhile, the Mavi Marmara events coincided with a string of guerrilla attacks in the country by the Kurdish terror group PKK. These included an unprecedented operation against off-duty navy personnel in the non-Kurdish port town of Iskenderun, which left six dead and seven wounded. In the anti-Israeli side of the docket one can include attempts by highly placed Turkish officials to link the two--that is to suggest Israeli support of the PKK--and ubiquitous voices asserting that no Israeli inquiry into the Mavi Marmara raid can be dependable." -more
Labels: Democracy, Erdogan, Flotilla, Gaza, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, tour, Turkey
Yup.Labels: antisemitism, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Nukes
Labels: Al Queda, America, Islamic Jihad, Obama, Terrorism, Yemen
Labels: Islamic Jihad, Muslim, Political Correctness, Security, Terrorism
I started Dry Bones in Jan 1973. Since then I've been known as "Bones" to friends and colleagues. This is the first time I've ever shared the "stories behind the cartoons." Enjoy.
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