Palestinian Islamic Jihad is calling for a third intifada on the heels of the riots in Acre—now in their third night. Please take careful note of the text in bold.

On a third successive night of rioting in Akko, Arabs threw stones at dozens of Jewish youths who formed a crowd in one of the city’s eastern neighborhoods. A man who was walking his dog sustained a mild head injury from a stone flung at him.

Police detained four Jewish protestors and began to disperse the remaining crowd with the help of stun grenades, tear gas, and water hoses. Officers also raided a home from which stones had been flung, detaining the family within. At around 10 pm police reported the incident under control.

Northern District Police stated that altogether 30 people have been arrested in relation to the riots since they first began on Yom Kippur Eve.

The incident commenced at around 9 pm, when dozens of Jewish youths began to crowd two of the neighborhood’s main streets. Police barricaded the eastern entrance to the city, and deployed large SWAT and Border Guard forces armed with anti-protest equipment to the area. Three residents of the city were detained earlier
Friday.

Now read what the terror leaders are asking:

The Islamic Jihad movement called on Friday for Palestinians to take to the streets in solidarity with the Arabs of Akko and Arabs in Israel, in general, “due to the racist aggression and brutality of the occupation and the bullying of the settlers.”

“The extreme Jewish attacks and the crimes of the settlers during recent days are a manifestation of the brutality of the occupation and its racism, in Akko and in other Palestinian villages in occupied Palestine,” said the group’s spokesman Walid Hilam.

He called on Akko’s Arab residents to continue to fight and remain unified in the fact of aggressive behavior and to hold on to their lands in the face of an alleged Zionist plot to relocate them, as occurred in 1948.

This is not your father’s intifada. This is not the Arafat-led intifada of 2000. It is not the rock-throwing intifada of the 1980s. This is a different time, and Jews are feeling very, very differently about Arab mobs. All you have to do is look at what happened in Acre the past three nights. What I have seen from these events is that Jewish Israelis will no longer stand by passively while Arab mobs riot in their neighborhoods. What you will see, if this thing spreads, is more crowds of young Jewish men matching club for club and stone for stone with young Arab men. And while this is not a good thing for either Arabs or Jews, it’s pretty clear that the Arabs will be the losers if this rioting does not stop.

There’s simply no margin of error left. After years of being bombed and rocketed by terrorists, after months of watching Arab Israelis misuse their identification cards to murder Israelis even in the heart of Jerusalem, Israeli Jews are responding to violence with violence.

I am not condoning this. I am simply reporting it, and writing what I think.

And I think that Israeli Arabs had better not listen to the terrorists. A third intifada will be disastrous for them.

Even this bogus online test thinks so.

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Why is this story not getting wider play?

International nuclear inspectors have begun investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct complex experiments on how to detonate a nuclear weapon, according to European and American officials.

As part of the investigation, inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are seeking information from the scientist, who they believe acted on his own as an adviser on experiments described in a lengthy document obtained by the agency, the officials said.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the document appeared authentic, without explaining why, but they made it clear that they did not think the scientist was working on behalf of the Russian government.

Still, it is the first time that the nuclear agency has suggested that Iran may have received help from a foreign weapons scientist in developing nuclear arms.

The Russians are helping Iran build nuclear weapons? That’s huge. And the fact that the IAEA insists it’s a “lone gunman” Russian scientist? That’s bull.

This evidence is a smoking gun that Iran is trying to create nuclear weapons, and yet, the UN Security Council won’t vote on sanctions. Why would they? The Russians are supplying Iran with everything they need to build a nuclear bomb. Is Russia that stupid that they think they’ll be immune to the Iranian bomb, or are the Iranians smart enough not to threaten Russia? I don’t think they’ve forgotten Chechen.

According to Friday reports in several leading newspapers, a closed-door briefing held in February at the agency’s Vienna headquarters, had the IAEA’s chief nuclear inspector, Olli Heinonen, present diplomats from dozens of countries with newly declassified evidence, documents, sketches and even a video that he said raised questions about whether Iran had tried to design a weapon.

Among the data presented by Heinonen, were indications that the Iranians had worked on exploding detonators that are critical for the firing of most nuclear weapons.

How many years did we hear the chief of the IAEA tell us that the Iranians weren’t working towards nuclear weapons? How much longer will the world not take any action? Now is the time to issue crushing sanctions. Crude oil is at its lowest prices in over a year. Iran’s economy is floundering. Real sanctions would have an effect on the Iranian race to the bomb.

But then, the Russians have a veto in the UNSC. And they’re helping Iran in every way possible—supplying fuel, technology, and now, instructions on how to make the bombs explode. When John McCain says that when he looks into Putin’s eyes and sees a K, a G, and a B, he is on the right track. The rest of the world should take heed.

Sen. Obama from the debate Tuesday night.

I don’t understand how we ended up invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, while Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are setting up base camps and safe havens to train terrorists to attack us.

The United States did not attack Iraq because of 9/11. Or not exclusively. This little tidbit is a reminder that Sen. Obama’s worldview is much different from that of George W. Bush or John McCain.

The reason why the Bush administration - with overwhelming Congressional support - decided to attack Iraq was because Iraq under Saddam had failed to come clean about its WMD program in accord with UN resolutions. Since the United States was uncertain, the government felt - especially in the wake of 9/11 - that it couldn’t take and find out that there Saddam had a WMD program when a SCUD landed in the United States or in the land of an ally loaded with such a warhead. Saddam also was giving aid to numerous terror groups. And despite what the MSM would have you believe, he did have ties to Al Qaeda, even if he had no role in 9/11.

But here’s the part that bothers me even more. One of the mantras of the Obama campaign is that he will use all the (presumably diplomatic) tools at his disposal to prevent Iran from going nuclear. The assumption is that these diplomatic tools will be effective. But Sen. Obama never seems to consider what would be if diplomacy fails.

Sen. Obama’s implication is that President Bush failed to use all the diplomatic tools available to him to bring Iraq into compliance. President Bush did try, but he was undermined (as Pres Clinton was before him somewhat) by countries like France, Germany and Russia that had commercial dealings with Saddam and were thus willing to subvert the UN resolutions that were supposed to bring him in line.

Rather than take a chance, President Bush chose to take action. Sen. Obama claims that a nuclear Iran is “intolerable.” But if it becomes inevitable because diplomacy fails will Sen. Obama continue using those tools? Or will he act?

Related from Anne Bayefsky:

Wake up. There is a genocidal maniac on the verge of reaching the point of no return in his ability to make a nuclear weapon. A fanatic with the stated ambition to murder five million Jews living in Israel — to start. A villain who has already funded and armed a terrorist war against the Jewish state that in 2006 forced one-third of Israel’s population to live underground for almost a month. In other words, an individual who is ready, willing, and able to give the nuclear trigger to a terrorist group — to terrorists who cannot be bargained with because they prefer their death to your freedom. As for the suggestion that the Mullahs are more powerful and nicer guys, the millions brutalized and subjugated in Iran tell a different story.

h/t LGF

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

The Muslims in and around Israel showed the famous Muslim respect for other religions, in only the way they can.

First, Syria has moved thousands of soldiers to its border with Lebanon. So it’s no surprise that the IDF scrambled jets as an unidentified aircraft approached Israel’s northern border.

Inside Israel, we had Arab “youths” racing their cars on the empty highways. Israel effectively shuts down on Yom Kippur, except in the Muslim areas. When the police came to stop the “youths” from racing, they did what Arab “youths” in and around Israel always do when confronted with Israeli authority figures: Threw stones.

Some 400 Arab-Israeli youngsters on Wednesday hurled stones at police officers who were trying to prevent them from racing their cars along Route 65 in Wadi Ara, which was empty due to Yom Kippur. Four officers were lightly injured in the incident, and one Arab was arrested.

Next, we have the riot in Acre, a mixed Muslim and Jewish city, where a Muslim man drove his taxi into the Jewish section of town. There are conflicting reports:

Police say the disturbances were sparked deliberately on Wednesday evening when an Arab driver, Tawfik Jamal - a resident of Acre’s Old City - made his way to the predominantly Jewish Ben-Gurion neighborhood in the eastern part of the city, blasting loud music from his vehicle as a provocation on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Speaking to Channel 2 News, Jamal denied he had intended to provoke local residents, saying he had driven with his 18-year-old son and the son’s 20-year-old friend carefully and quietly from the Old City to the Ben-Gurion neighborhood, three kilometers away, to pick up his daughter from her fiancé’s home.

But police dismissed Jamal’s claims.

“This was a provocation. An Arab driver arrived in a Jewish neighborhood on Yom Kippur with blaring music, and refused to leave when asked to by local residents. We believe he was intoxicated. This was a deliberate act,” Galilee Police spokesman Ch.-Supt. Eran Shaked said.

The verbal confrontation between Jamal and the local residents quickly deteriorated into violence, as rocks and bottles were thrown at Jamal’s vehicle.

According to Jamal, he and his two passengers fled the car. The three were taken to hospital where they were treated for light injuries and released.

In the meantime, police said, “False rumors that Arabs were seriously harmed or killed by Jews reached the Old City, and caused a far more serious and organized incident in Acre.”

Responding to the rumors, hundreds of Arabs set out from the Old City toward the Ben-Gurion neighborhood, walking down a main road, smashing store windows and cars along the way. Reports said the mob shouted “Kill the Jews,” “Allahu Akbar,” and “If you come out of your homes, you will die.”

Lovely. Living together in one binational state—isn’t that what the Palestinians are now threatening? It will work so well, too. Just look how well it worked on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

But you keep telling us about that wonderful Muslim respect for other religions. Especially on the heels of news that Iran will be passing a law making apostasy a capital crime. I wonder how Ahmadinejad will duck that question next time he is interviewed by fawning American reporters.