Remember that girl who was beaten by half a dozen young thugs on a bus while the rest of the passengers looked on and did nothing? They got the kids who did it.

Too bad they can’t get the passengers on any charges.

Six youths were arrested by Barnet police this week in connection with a vicious anti-Semitic attack on a 12-year-old girl, that left her unconscious with a fractured eye socket.

The young victim who asked not to be named told the Jewish News yesterday how the incident last month had shattered her confidence and left her suffering from terrifying nightmares.

The police said that four 14-year-old girls, a 10-year-old girl and a boy aged 10, had been arrested and released on bail in connection with the attack, which shocked London’s Jewish community.

The group allegedly sat close to the girls and began quizzing them about their clothing before asking if they were Jewish.

[...] “She got off me. Then she pulled my hair and screamed, ‘Get her phone, get her phone’. I think I slapped her and my friend pulled me down the steps to get to the door.

“Everyone on the bus looked at us like we were mad. We were screaming for him to open the door.”

Despite her screams of terror, fellow passengers looked on and said nothing until eventually a boy forced the door open so they could make their escape.

I’m sorry, but the passengers were so chickenshit they couldn’t face down a bunch of teenaged girls and two ten-year-olds? What kind of wusses do they grow over in Britain? Is the British Empire laid so low that they can’t be bothered to stop a bunch of girls?

No wonder British Muslims are brazenly calling for the death of the Pope. They know the Brits won’t stand up to a bunch of screaming little girls wielding cell phones, let alone screaming young men threatening death.

I’m going to use a very non-PC phrase here, but I really need to know: When did the Brits become a nation of pussies?

There is nothing new under the sun. The legacy of Arafat’s double-tongued speech and triple-dealing behavior is alive and well, serving its new users - the Hamas crowd. The news are doubtlessly confusing for a reader who just arrived from another planet.

On Saturday, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said that the political program of the proposed Palestinian national unity government does not include recognition of agreements that were previously signed between Israel and the Palestinians.

“The program does not talk about recognizing agreements that were signed with the Israeli occupation,” he told reporters in Gaza City. “Instead, it mentions that we will have to accept these agreements in accordance with the national interests of our people. This does not mean that the new government would recognize these agreements.”

So, what the heck does it all mean, our friendly alien may as well ask? If these Hamas people accept the agreements, why nor recognize them as well? Or vice versa? Why would a politician talk like a bleeding lawyer anyway?

Then it becomes even more confusing:

Hamas has made it clear that while it is prepared to “deal” with the agreements with Israel, it will never honor them. Hamas has also stressed that the unity government’s program does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. Abbas, on the other hand, argues that the program is based on the 2002 Arab peace plan that implicitly recognizes Israel.

So, if Hamas will never honor any agreements, in what manner it is going to “deal” with them?

You see, dear E.T., these folks of Hamas don’t actually want no peace agreements with no Jooz. They would like to continue trying to kill these pesky Jooz off in any way possible, but there is a small catch to this simple program: while they spend their time and what money there is in finding new ways to kill Jooz, the other folks, the ones with money, do not agree to feed them.

So they would like to get the money from the rich folks and continue killing Jooz at the same time. This is why these Hamas folks are making it to seem that they are together with the Fatah folks* and are much more benign and generally nicer than they would look to you when you know them better.

But, on the other hand, they do have a problem: for Hamas folks even to promise (let alone to actually behave in this way) that they will be ever ready to get along with Jooz is very difficult. Simply impossible, I would say. Still, they need the money first and above all, and as soon as possible. And they are almost ready to say something that will make the rich folks (especially ones of Europe) happy enough to open their wallets.

Almost, but not quite. Something gets stuck in their collective throat each time they are opening their collective mouth…

So they are not quite up there with that old late Yasser Arafat (tell you later about him), but they show some promise. I bet in a few weeks they will find the formula that will suit the European folks on one hand and let the Hamas folks continue killing Jooz on the other hand. And then everyone will be happy again. Aside of them Jooz, of course, but who cares…

(*) The other, Fatah folks, would also like to kill the Jooz, but are ready to promise not to. For a while, at least. This is called “pragmatic approach” on Earth, dear E.T…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

You knew it was coming.

Iranian hardline newspapers said there were signs of an Israeli-US plot behind comments by Pope Benedict XVI that linked Islam to violence and sparked a wave of anger among Muslims all over the world.

Because the Iranians are effing crazy.

The daily Jomhuri Islami said Israel and the United States could have dictated the remarks to distract attention from the resistance of Hizbullah to Israel’s offensive on Lebanon. “The reality is that if we do not consider Pope Benedict XVI to be ignorant of Islam, then his remarks against Islam are a dictat that the Zionists and the Americans have written (for him) and have submitted to him.”

Of course, their current history of Jew-hatred doesn’t hurt. Ahmadinejad is the modern-day Haman, after all.

“The American and the Zionist aim is to undermine the glorious triumph of Islam’s children of Lebanese Hezbollah, which annulled the undefeatable legend of the Israeli army and foiled the Satanic and colonialist American plot,” it said, according to AFP.

So it’s not just an evil plot, it’s not just a colonialist plot, it’s also a Satanic plot. But, you see, there is no Satan in Judaism, at least, not in the way you think of Satan as that fallen angel dude who goes around causing problems for Christians. They can’t even keep their Evil Religious Plots straight.

Another daily Kayhan said there were signs of Israeli inteference aimed at creating conflict between Islam and Christianity. “There are many signs that show that Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks regarding the great prophet of Islam are a link in a connected chain of a Zionist-American project,” it said.

These guys would fit perfectly in with those morons who protested the 9/11 memorials with those stupid conspiracy shirts. Cue Twilight Zone theme.

Sadly, there are many around the world who will believe this crap, not all of them Iranians or Muslims.

I have just successfully (FINALLY!) figured out how to modify the auto-close comments plugin for Wordpress to eliminate all that disgusting trackback spam I’ve been getting. Every so often, the spammers find my older posts and attempt to spam all the trackbacks. I closed comments after 21 days, but also finally figured out how to modify the PHP script to change it to 7 days, so if it takes you a week to find my post and you want to discuss it, well, you’re SOL.

Score one for me in the victory against spam.

Of course, now no one can trackback any of my posts, so there are the losses to be taken.

I think we do need anti-spam laws. With heavy cash penalties. That would stop them.

This was in my email this morning:

STAND WITH ISRAEL!

Speak Out Against Global Terrorism and its State Sponsors.

Free the Kidnapped IDF Soldiers.
NATIONAL SOLIDARITY RALLY
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

(across from the United Nations)
Wednesday, September 20th

12 noon, rain or shine

2nd Avenue at 47th Street
Subways: 4, 5, 6, or 7 to Grand Central Station

Thousands of shofarot will sound in a call of unity with Israel.

Participants are urged to bring a shofar.

Sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, in cooperation with the United Jewish Communities, UJA-Federation of New York and Jewish Council for Public Affairs

If I were still living in NJ, I’d be there. If you can make it, I urge you to go. There will be thousands of Jews with shofarot protesting the modern-day Haman. Wow. I can’t wait to hear the podcasts. (Shofar is feminine? That’s—weird.)

Take a look at these two BBC articles, which should be close to identical, and yet, they are not.

Hezbollah accused of war crimes
Amnesty International has accused Hezbollah of acts amounting to war crimes in the conflict with Israel.

It says the Lebanese militant group deliberately targeted civilians with rockets in the 34-day war - a “serious violation of humanitarian law”.

Amnesty has already accused Israel of committing war crimes by targeting Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure and is urging a UN inquiry into violations.

Hezbollah rejected the report, calling it a result of US and Israeli pressure.

Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah said Amnesty should analyse the number of civilians killed on each side, before accusing Hezbollah of war crimes.

Amnesty says what it calls Israel’s violations can in no way justify Hezbollah’s actions.

That was from a few days ago. Now this one:

Israel accused over ‘war crimes’
Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Lebanon.

The human rights group says attacks on homes, bridges, roads and water and fuel plants were an “integral part” of Israel’s strategy in the recent war.

The group also calls for a UN investigation into whether both Israel and Hezbollah broke humanitarian law.

Israel said it did not deliberately target Lebanon’s civilian population.

In a report released on Wednesday, Amnesty International bases its accusations on an examination of Israeli attacks and comments made by Israeli officials during the 34-day conflict with the militant group Hezbollah.

Notice how the BBC, like most media outlets, include Amnesty’s charges against Israel in the new charges against Hezbullah. Notice also how they change the wording on the phrase “war crimes” in the lead when discussing Hezbullah, but have no such compunction when Israel is charged with them. Also notice two paragraphs in the lead with Hezbullah denying the charges, replete with excuses and a named spokesman. Israel, as always, is identified with the vague “Israel said.” No spokesman is named, yet the reporter had to talk to someone to get that quote, or had to read a press release somewhere with an identified spokesman.

The dehumanization of Israel in the mainstream media continues.

By the way, that British anti-Semitism report? Funny, but it seems to have dropped off the radaro—and it never got very high up on it to begin with. Imagine a report that said anti-Muslim attacks were up sixfold in Britain since 2001. We’d still be seeing it on the front pages of world newspapers.

What biased media?

Shyeah.