Cross-posted from MsUnderestimated.

A friend of mine sent me this link, and I have to say I was stunned when I watched the “Pallywood” video. This isn’t just your typical conspiracy theory, people; this is legitimate and with audio/visual proof of the Palestinian production company that is paid to make Palestinians’ “deaths” and “injuries” look factual.

Apparently this is not very new, however it was new to me – but relevant still the same and worthy of passing around. For those of you out there who do NOT believe that a lot of the B.S. casualties on the Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian sides are just that – B.S – this post is just for you! Some are obviously nothing more than what is created in the director’s studio for the media idiots to buy into, swallowing hook, link, and, in this case, stinker!

From the site Second Draft, you can read and see the truth also about the Al Durha “incident.” From the Pallywood video, here’s what the producers say:

“The material we show here constitutes a tiny fragment of a much larger phenomenon, raw footage from Palestinian photographers working for major western media outlets. From this material, our news agencies prepare news reports that shape our perceptions of what is happening in the Middle East Conflict.

We think that a close analysis of this material defies all expectations of what such footage should resemble, and suggest that Palestinian photographers do not at all share the same production and journalistic values espoused by a free press. We leave the experience and the judgment to you:”

So, like they suggest, you watch for yourself and YOU decide. This is absolutely astonishing, and I can’t believe I’ve not heard of this before.

To read the rest of the post, and watch the second video, “Al Durha,” go to MsUnderestimated.

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Guards at Gitmo claim they are the ones suffering real abuse.

The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.

Incident reports reviewed by The Associated Press indicate Military Police guards are routinely head-butted, spat upon and doused by “cocktails” of feces, urine, vomit and sperm collected in meal cups by the prisoners.

They’ve been repeatedly grabbed, punched or assaulted by prisoners who reach through the small “bean holes” used to deliver food and blankets through cell doors, the reports say. Serious assaults requiring medical attention, however, are rare, the reports indicate.

Much more details at Stop The ACLU

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “BB” Netanyahu phoned in on The Rush Limbaugh Show this afternoon to discuss the war between Israel and Hezb’Allah.

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Fmr. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger appeared on FOX News earlier this afternoon to discuss his op/ed in the Washington Post calling for diplomacy in Iran:

A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran’s leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation—whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice.

Diplomacy never operates in a vacuum. It persuades not by the eloquence of its practitioners but by assembling a balance of incentives and risks. Clausewitz’s famous dictum that war is a continuation of diplomacy by other means defines both the challenge and the limits of diplomacy. War can impose submission; diplomacy needs to evoke consensus. Military success enables the victor in war to prescribe, at least for an interim period. Diplomatic success occurs when the principal parties are substantially satisfied; it creates—or should strive to create—common purposes, at least regarding the subject matter of the negotiation; otherwise no agreement lasts very long.

Even if you disagree with Kissinger, it’s still great to hear from him.

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WASHINGTON — The House headed late Friday toward a vote to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour by June 1, 2009, phased in over three years. It seemed likely to pass the House but faced an uncertain fate in the Senate.

I’m not a minimum wage employee so I do not know the hardships of being one, however what I do know is, raising the minimum wage is not the answer, it is just a quick solution. Democrats drool at the possibility of being the so-called public champion and will do anything to get this type of recognition, even if that means it won’t work out in the long one. The minimum wage issue is exactly that kind of situation. The Democrats will scream and scream how this will help those working minimum wage jobs, but it won’t. What you’re not told is how many jobs will be lost or cut due to an increase in the minimum wage.

Businesses will cut jobs and make those who stay employed work harder to meet up for the 40% increase in their pay. I would assume 2 out of every 5 employees would be let go, thus creating a enormous amount of unemployment. However, like I noted earlier, Democrats will not make you aware of this, they only care about being the champion for the people.

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Why were people still in the building?

An IDF investigation has found that the building in Qanastruck by the Air Force fell around eight hours after being hit by the IDF.

“The attack on the structure in the Qana village took place between midnight and one in the morning. The gap between the timing of the collapse of the building and the time of the strike on it is unclear,” Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters told journalists at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, following the incidents at Qana.

I hate to suggest this, but perhaps Hezb’Allah forced children to stay inside.

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Ok, this is cool …

Blogger Atlas Shrugs is in Israel:

Just got to the hotel…............security insane (maybe because I am staying in Condi’s hotel?) I stopped at Mini-Israel on my way in the Jerusalem. It is striking to me the respect and attention the Israelis paid to replicating in exact detail the mosques and the Muslims in prayer in these displays at Mini Israel. The Israelis duplicatd more mosques that temples. Oh, if the respect was mutual, what a wonderful world it would be.

Read more about her arrival in Israel and be sure to keep reading her blog for updates.

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Cross-posted from Ms.Underestimated.

When some talk about “moral equivalence” or “disproportionate force,” they miss the very essence of what is deemed a “fair fight.” For those of you who need a reminder of how it really is, I offer you this:

When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (Philippines) that still haunts my dreams. The fight was between a big oafish Marine and a rather soft-spoken, medium-sized Latino sailor from my ship.

All evening the Marine had been trying to pick a fight with one of us and had finally set his sights on this diminutive shipmate of mine… figuring him for a safe target. When my friend refused to be goaded into a fight, the Marine sucker-punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man’s mutilated ear.

Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this Marine, but my shipmate quickly turned on him and began to single-handedly back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx.

Each punch opened a cut on the Marine’s startled face and by the time he had been backed completely into the corner he was blubbering for someone to stop the fight. He invoked his split lips and chipped teeth as reasons to stop the fight. He begged us to stop the fight because he could barely see through the river of blood that was pouring out of his split and swollen brows.

Nobody moved. Not one person.

The only sound in the bar was the sickening staccato sound of this sailor’s lightning fast fists making contact with new areas of the Marine’s head. The only sound I have heard since that was remotely similar was from the first Rocky film when Sylvester Stallone was punching sides of beef in the meat locker.

Finally the Marine’s pleading turned to screams…. a high, almost womanly shriek. And still the punches continued relentlessly.

Several people in the bar took a few tentative steps as though they wanted to try to break it up at that point, but hands reached out from the crowd and held them tight. I’m not ashamed to say that mine were two of the hands that held someone back.

You see, in between each blow the sailor had begun chanting a soft cadence: “Say [punch] you [punch] give [punch] up [punch]... say [punch] you [punch] were [punch] wrong [punch].”

He had been repeating it to the Marine almost from the start but we only became aware of it when the typical barroom cheers had died down and we began to be sickened by the sight and sound of the carnage.

This Marine stood there shrieking in the corner of the bar trying futilely to block the carefully-timed punches that were cutting his head to tatters… right down to the skull in places. But he refused to say that he gave up… or that he was wrong.

Even in the delirium of his beating he believed in his heart that someone would stop the fight before he had to admit defeat. I’m sure this strategy had served him well in the past and had allowed him to continue on his career as a barroom bully.

Finally, in a wail of agony the Marine shrieked “I give up,” and we gently backed the sailor away from him.

I’m sure you can guess why I have shared this story today.

I’m not particularly proud to have been witness to such a bloody spectacle, and the sound of that Marine’s woman-like shrieks will haunt me to my grave. But I learned something that evening that Israel had better learn for itself if it is to finally be rid of at least one of its tormentors:

This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage… but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat.

Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute I saw that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a cease-fire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today.

President Lahoud of Lebanon, a big Hezbollah supporter and a close ally of Syria, has been shrieking non-stop to the UN Security Council for the past two days to get them to force Israel into a cease fire.

Clearly he has been reading his autographed copy of ‘Military Success for Dummies: Arab Despots’ by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Ever since Nasser accidentally discovered the trick in ‘56, every subsequent Arab leader has stuck to his tried and true formula for military success:

Instigate a war.

Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your ass handed to you… get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease-fire.

Whatever you do, don’t surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population… and will force a truce.

Once a truce has been called, you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle.

This tactic has never failed. Not once.

In fact it worked so well for the Egyptians in 1973, that to this day they celebrate the Yom Kippur War – a crushing defeat at the hands of Israel – as a military victory! No kidding… it’s a national holiday over there!

President Lahoud has already begun to shriek like a school girl to the UN Security Council to “Stop the violence and arrange a cease-fire, and then after that we’ll be ready to discuss all matters.”

Uh huh. Forgive me if I find that a tad hard to swallow. He allowed Hezbollah to take over his country. He allowed the regular Lebanese army to provide radar-targeting data for the Hezbollah missile that struck the Israeli destroyer. He has turned a blind eye while Iranian and Syrian weapons, advisers and money have poured into his country.

And now that his country is in ruins he wants to call it a draw.

As much as it may sicken the world to stand by and watch it happen, strong hands need to hold back the weak-hearted and let the fight continue until one side finally admits unambiguous defeat.

Here’s the original link to Bogner’s post – rather brilliant, I must say. And thanks go to this person for sharing this with me and my friends:

Ch., Lt Col Brett C. Oxman Staff Chaplain, Personnel and Budget Office of the AF Chief of Chaplains DSN 297-1485, Civ (202) 767-1485

Seen at Treppenwitz (thank you, sir, for the clarity).

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Michelle Malkin details the victim of the Seattle shooter.

SEATTLE – At Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue, where the 58-year-old Waechter was a member for about 30 years, services went on. But unlike most Saturdays, there was a police officer sitting in a parked squad car outside the temple and there were tears as members greeted one another. map Pam Waechter

After a late morning service, Rabbi James Mirel said Waechter’s death is a loss to the entire Jewish community, not just his congregation.

“It’s hard for us to understand, but this is so far past the Seattle community,” he said, “It reverberates throughout the entire world.”

Waechter’s memory will serve as a reminder for the rest of the community to carry on, Mirel said.

“I think of her as an inspiration,” he said. “I know there will not be a day for the rest of my life I will not think of her.”

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FOX News obtained the following video showing rockets being fired from a building similar to one Israel bombed in retaliation.

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