They won’t miss him in Kenya: They remember bin Laden in Kenya. With curses. And in Somalia with threats. Hokay. Next on the list, dudes. On the other hand, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is lying through its teeth again. He says there’s “no connection between Islam in violence.” In the previous breath, he predicted terrorist groups would take revenge for bin Laden’s death. But hey, no connection there. None at all.

Awesome way to make friends in America, dude: Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas—that same Hamas that kept getting those op-eds in major American newspapers touting its moderation and its insistence that deep down, Hamas wanted what Americans wanted—is condemning America for killing bin Laden. Yeah, they’ve totally moderated since they had to deal with taxes and garbage collection in Gaza. Not.

Seriously? Oil is cheaper because bin Laden is dead? Now that’s the second-best news about his death. And stock futures are up. Heh.

Headline roundup: WaPo. The Times. The Cable (timeline). The NY Post. The NY Daily News. Celebrations at Ground Zero and Jersey City. (Don’t forget, hundreds of New Jerseyans were murdered that day as well.) World leader reactions. Behind-the-scenes of the attack. What bin Laden’s death means to al Qaeda.

P.S.: My server is the subject of a DDOS. I have no idea who’s the target, as hundreds of websites share the server. I doubt it’s little old me.

Muslim ERA Watch: All but one of the rapists in the infamous case in which a young woman was ordered to be raped by a village council because her brother was accused of having an affair with a woman of a higher cast. Yes, the punishment was for the relatives of the woman to rape the boy’s sister. Because that’s just such a perfect punishment for such a non-crime. Well, all but one of the rapists have been freed. Because, after all, she’s just a woman. Her voice counts for half that of a man’s in sharia court, and four eyewitnesses must actually see the rape occur before there can be a conviction. That, plus, well, let’s face it: Pakistani Muslims aren’t too keen on their women getting all uppity and complaining about things like being raped.

Say, did you know there’s still fighting in the Sudan? Of course you didn’t. The news media are too busy telling you about how horribly Israel treats the Palestinians.

ISI and Taliban, sitting in a tree: Really? The ISI has links to terrorists? Who knew? Oh, that’s right. We did. We’ve known for over a decade, and yet, Pakistan likes to pretend it isn’t so. Sure.

Muslims won’t live under a dhimmi: Nigerian riots have claimed over 100 lives. Why are they rioting? Because a Christian won the election. ROPMA is an acronym we used to see a lot on LGF. It means, “Religion of Peace, my ass.” That would be because of acts like these:

Those perceived to be supporters of the ruling party have been stabbed, hacked and shot to death by angry youths since Jonathan, a Christian southerner, defeated Buhari. Churches, mosques, homes and shops have been set ablaze.

You know what’s really scary? The fact that all I did was go to the Townhall wire service world news page for the above articles. I didn’t have to search hard at all to make a news roundup entirely of violent acts by Muslims. And who is being demonized for causing all of the above? That’s right, Israel. If only Israel made peace with the Palestinians, none of the above actions would have happened.

Absurd?

Of course it is. But that’s the narrative that’s been pushed for decades.

The families of the two terrorists who confessed to murdering five members of the Fogel family refuse to believe the two committed the massacre. Hakim Awad’s mother, Nawef, claimed that her son was at home the night of the murder and never left the house. “Five months ago Hakim underwent a surgery in his stomach and I’m sure he was tortured and forced into confessing.”

Of course, because everyone who undergoes stomach surgery then is tortured into confessing to a brutal mass murder.

The mother claimed that Israel was trying to cover up for crimes it committed in Awarta last month and noted that their home in the village was very far from the settlement of Itamar.

Oh, it was too far to walk. I see. Let him go, IDF. You got the wrong guy.

The other guy is innocent, too. Why? Because it took so darned long!

He claimed that had the two been guilty, Israel would have captured them long ago. “Why weren’t the culprits’ identities revealed in the first days after the murder? The whole world knows about Israel’s advanced investigation abilities and its use of sophisticated means,” he said.

This case is a slam-dunk. The IDF took DNA samples at the crime scene, which is why they were taking mouth swabs of the men in the village. DNA evidence, when treated properly, does not lie. Palestinians, however, do.

The family members of the second suspect, Amjad Awad, also deny any connection to the massacre. They are claiming Amjad was in the village at the time of the murder. “The Israeli narrative is filled with lies and is a distortion of the truth,” one family member claimed. He also asserted that the two suspects are not friends. “One went to university, the other is in high school.”

That’s funny. They’re cousins. (And they’re only a year apart.)

This Reuters story is riddled with errors and contradictions. It calls the murderers “brothers.” First, it quotes an Israeli officer says the murders weren’t premeditated, then it quotes Mickey Rosenfeld as saying the murders were planned. If an IDF officer said that on a conference call, Israel’s PR is even worse than we already thought.

The first suspect is Hakim Mazen Awad, 18, a high school student whose father was active in the Popular Front terror organization. Awad has a prison record. His uncle, who was killed in clashes with IDF forces in 2003, was involved in a June 2002 terror attack in Itamar, which left five dead.

The second suspect, Amjad Mahmad Awad, 19, also a student, is affiliated with the Popular Front.

The two suspects confessed to their involvement in the murders, and said that they sought to carry out a terror attack in order to kill Israelis. They expressed no regret over the murders.

They were aided by at least five other members of their families, who helped hide them after the attack. So far, I haven’t seen the protestations of innocence that usually follows, possibly because there’s no denying that the family is part of the PFLP.

The heinous deed done, the two, who are not related, returned to their village on foot and appealed to Hakim’s uncle, Salah Awad, also a Popular Front militant, for assistance, giving him a detailed report of the attack they had carried out.

Salah Awad helped them conceal their weapons and bloodstained clothes, and later, he transferred the stolen weapons to a Ramallah resident, for hiding. The latter was arrested after the weapons were discovered in his possession.

The demonization of Israelis by the Palestinian media, by the Palestinian schools, and by the constant barrage of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian propaganda by organizations like the ISM are the reason two young men could murder a three-month-old infant in cold blood, without remorse. Read this, and tell me you can’t see the similarity between the words and deeds of the Awads, and the words and deeds of the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Before fleeing the scene, the two stole an additional gun from the Fogel home. When they had already left the house and saw a patrol car outside, they feared they would be captured. At that point, Amjad insisted on going back into the house and searching for additional weapons. Unfortunately, this was when the Fogel’s baby girl started crying. Fearing it would attract attention, the two murdered her, as well.

As for the two surviving children, the murderers said they hadn’t noticed them. Had they found the two, both said, they would not have hesitated to kill them, as well.

Israel needs a death penalty for terrorists. These men are now going to become bargaining chips in the negotiations for Gilad Shalit, which Ismail Haniyeh only yesterday said he would never compromise on. Which means he wants the release of Palestinians responsible for the murder of dozens of Israeli civilians. I’m sure Haniyeh will include the Awads in the future.

Sources familiar with the investigation said the two offered a dispassionate account of the attack, and “a chilling reenactment.” Shin Bet officers described it as one of the most “shocking, cold, remorseless and detailed description,” they had ever come across.

Amjad noted that he went to Itamar to “die a martyr’s death”, which strengthened his willingness to carry out an act of terrorism. During their interrogation the two suspects made no distinction between the murder of the parents and the children, describing it simply as an act against five Jewish Israelis.

Sociopaths, made that way by the virulently anti-Israel Palestinians and their enablers in the world community. And by “enablers in the world community” I mean the EU and the idiots in the U.S. who refuse to make the Palestinians live up to reality by understanding that there will be no “right of return,” that they will not get 100% of the 1949 Armistice line, and that Israel is here to stay, forever, as a Jewish state.

These murders are on their heads as well.

The AP news story on this is actually balanced for a change. They even name the Israeli spokesman they quote.

The media put forward all charges of Israel committing war crimes. Take the Mavi Marmara incident. How many articles did you read about whether or not Israel committed war crimes against the passengers (those beacons of peaceful protest that only recently repeated their commitment to destroying Israel)?

Take a look at what Britain’s foreign minister had to say about the deliberate targeting of a school bus.

Earlier, British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the anti-tank missile attack on a childrens’ school bus in the Negev, calling it a “despicable” and “cowardly” act.

“I unreservedly condemn today’s attack from Gaza on a bus carrying school children in southern Israel. The initial reports we have received suggest the bus was deliberately targeted and that a 16-year-old boy has been critically injured,” Hague said.

“This is a despicable and cowardly act that stands in stark contrast to people’s desire for peaceful reform across the region. Violence will never deliver peace,” Hague continued.

Only a week ago, Hague’s office released a report on the world’s 26 worst human rights violators. Israel was in the report, along with 25 actual human rights abusers. If, as Hague says above, he has reports that Hamas deliberately targeted the school bus (which it did), then this is not a “despicable and cowardly act.” It is a human rights violation. It is a war crime. And yet, Hague doesn’t use that language to describe it. Why is that? Why is it that his office can slander Israel as a violator of Palestinian human rights, but it can’t call a war crime a war crime? The deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. Hamas deliberately targeted a school bus full of children (it hoped).

Don’t hold your breath waiting to hear Hague condemn Hamas war crimes. He’s too busy accusing Israel of them. As for the EU, well, there isn’t even a mention of Hamas in Catherine Ashton’s rote condemnation of “violence.” It’s as if the rockets launched themselves. And mention of a school bus? Surely you jest.

“I strongly condemn yesterday’s mortar and rocket attacks out of the Gaza strip, which once again hit the innocent civilian population and which must stop immediately,” she said.

“I am deeply concerned by the current escalation of violence,” the 27-nation EU’s foreign policy chief said in a statement.

“I also deplore the loss of civilian life in Gaza and call on Israel to show restraint.

No, the label of war crimes is never attached to actual war crimes perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis. That label is reserved for Israel only, especially when Israel is doing no such thing.

We must once again call on a refrain we got too tired to use recently. What time is it? That’s right, it’s Israeli Double Standard Time. But don’t worry. It only occurs on days that end with a “y.”

     Missile from Gaza hits Israeli school bus; 2 hurt

It was a missile that did the damage, not Palestinian terrorists. The AP did not cite the airstrike as the killer in this article from three days ago:

     Israeli Airstrike Kills Militants In Gaza

Quite a difference. You also have to dig down near the end of the story to discover these extremely relevant facts:

Police said that within an hour of the initial missile attack about 15 mortar shells fired from Gaza landed in Israel, including one that directly struck a home, causing damage but no injuries.

That’s the 16th paragraph in a 23-paragraph story. This is the second:

Israel unleashed airstrikes against Hamas targets across the border as well as tank fire that killed a 50-year-old civilian outside his home and wounded nine other people, Palestinian medics said.

The IDF struck after the barrage of missiles. You would think that would be relevant to the writers and editors of the AP piece. But you would be wrong.

The only good news in this whole horrible afternoon in Israel is this: Iron Dome shot down a Grad rocket.

Residents in Ashkelon reported Thursday seeing Israel’s new Iron Dome defense system intercept a Grad rocket fired towards the southern city from the Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses told Ynet they saw the rocket explode in midair and realized that the system had intercepted its first rocket.

If Iron Dome is deployed along the entire southern border, it’s a game-changer. And the Palestinians know it. Doubtless, they’re testing to see what does and does not get shot down.

The IDF saves Bambi: Or Bambi’s mom. Or sister. A Palestinian was taking the doe to the PA, presumably to present them with dinner. The IDF confiscated her and got her fixed up.

Oh, look: More to hate about Obamacare. Yep. If you’re a member of the protected class (read: Labor unions), you get taxpayer money to support your people’s medical benefits when they retire early. Me? I have to support myself if I retire early. Time to end all public-sector unions. All of them. Private-sector unions will die of their own accord, eventually.

Oh, so this is what they mean by “quiet”: Only two rockets in the past three days

Former MI6 chief: What moderate Muslim Brotherhood? Ynet buried the lede in this story. So the former head of MI6 knows that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, but our own pundits and politicos just can’t see it. Good to know that our people are so easily fooled.

If he’s lost Ruth Marcus, he’s losing Liberal America: What? The Great Orator has become pedantic and repetitive? Say it ain’t so! Wow, she really skewers him. Check this out:

The false-choice dodge takes three overlapping forms. The first, a particular Obama specialty, is the false false choice. Set up two unacceptable extremes that no one is seriously advocating and position yourself as the champion of the reasonable middle ground between these unidentified straw men.

Thus, Obama on health care, stretching back to the presidential campaign: “I reject the tired old debate that says we have to choose between two extremes: government-run health care with higher taxes — or insurance companies without rules denying people coverage,” he said in 2008. “That’s a false choice.” It’s also a choice that no one — certainly no other politician — was proposing.

He’s losing his formerly adoring audience. Hope he’s losing his voters just as much.

The administration officials offered few details on how Obama would turn the broad objectives he’ll call for Wednesday into specific policies. They did, however, say the efforts would require increased spending on research and development. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to preview the president’s speech.

Of course. Spending other people’s money has been his life.’s work Why stop now that he’s president? Oh, as to drilling in America’s oil fields? Shyeah, right. Why would he want to do that?

Yeah, and the Israeli Air Force jets were on their way to synagogue: This is a new excuse. PIJ admits that Israel killed one of its terrorists, but he wasn’t going to launch rockets at Israel. The random group of Islamic terrorists was on its way to the mosque to pray. Uh-huh. By the way, the headline, of course, uses the active voice when discussing the death of Palestinians. And blames Israel (which is, of course, responsible). As opposed to AP’s inability to use the active voice or blame Palestinians when Israelis are killed.

Israel airstrike kills 1 Gaza militant

Awesome. Egypt’s new government wants to build ties with Iran. See title.

Check back later: Ban Ki-Moon made a speech about Israel and the Palestinians. I suspect fiskability.

Israel deploys rocket defense system against Gaza

The system is being deployed against Gaza. Not against “militants.” Not against Hamas. Not against rockets. Against Gaza. Subtle. Very subtle. And also very anti-Israel. Those monsters! Deploying a rocket defense system against the poor, overcrowded, innocent territory of Gaza!

Yeah, I agree: IDF officers are saying that the response to over 50 rockets and mortars launched in a day, as well as grad missiles landing near major Israeli cities, was too soft. Oh, come on. Bibi flat-out told Hamas not to test him, didn’t he?

Trade with Iran? Totally more important than a few dead Jews: Leaked documents are showing that the Argentinians offered to drop their investigation into the Iranian-sponsored terrorist bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Buenos Aires Jewish Center, which killed 114 people. Because it’s the age-old question of the non-Jewish world: What’s more important? Money or Jews? Yes, we know the answer to that. Funny, how the world always uses the stereotype that Jews think money is the most important thing in life, and it always turns out that it’s the non-Jews who are ready to turn on Jews at the drop of a … coin.

Weird news story of the day: Gandhi left his wife for the 1908 version of Arnold? (It’s pretty easy to spread stories about people after they’re dead.) Say, come to think of it, isn’t this lashon hara? Should Ynet be publishing stories like this? Should I be repeating them? I’m so confused…

Israeli airstrike kills 2 Gaza militants¹
Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two militants² as the military prepared to activate a new defense system to shoot down incoming rockets.

Islamic Jihad, a militant group that frequently attacks Israel, confirmed two members were killed in the airstrike, while a third was critically wounded. The group did not specify whether they were in the process of launching rockets³.

Gaza militants, including Islamic Jihad and the territory’s Hamas rulers, had said over the weekend that they would halt their fire if Israel did⁴. It was not clear whether they were reneging on that pledge⁵ or whether the air strike hit a rogue group of militants⁶ ignoring the cease-fire overture⁷.

By the numbers: These are the three paragraphs that wind up in the “World news” section of your local paper. Let us analyze this so-called objective news report.

1. The headline: Note that the AP does not hesitate to use the active “Israeli airstrike kills,” and blames Israel in the headline. It isn’t the mystery of the butchery—sorry, “knife attack” that killed the Fogel family. It isn’t “Rockets kill Israeli” headline that are used when the “crude, homemade” kassams kill a civilian. It’s an Israeli airstrike that killed the “militants.”
2. Again, the AP is totally certain that Israel killed the militants, as opposed to their continued game of “Gee, nobody’s claiming the bomb attack, so we don’t know if Palestinian militants did it” routine.
3. Note the attempt by the AP to make it look like Israel is the aggressor here (see below). Gee, the terrorists didn’t admit they were trying to murder civilians. Go figure. And yet, Ynet managed to find out that they were, indeed, part of a rocket-launching group, in an article published before the AP release.
4. Here we have the moral equivalence game again, putting the Israeli response to rocket fire into the same category as terrorists firing rockets, and calling the lack of both a cease-fire—so that when Israel defends itself from terrorists, it is “breaking” the (pick one) calm, lull, cease-fire, relative calm, quiet.
5. Seriously? How many times have terrorists said they’d stop firing rockets if Israel would stop it actions against them and then immediately claimed that Israel “broke the calm”? The AP is still pretending that the terrorists’ word counts for something? Tell that to the dead and wounded in Israel. But take note that the AP constantly publicizes these “pledges”—only to subtly accuse Israel of being the one that first broke the “calm.”
6. Islamic Jihad claimed the dead terrorists as theirs. The only reason the AP has to imply the dead terrorists were “a rogue group” is to give PIJ cover for breaking their “pledge.”
7. See 5 and 6. This is the AP bending over backwards to try to clear the “militants” of any wrongdoing. Gee, maybe they were just on their way to their grandmother’s house, and happened to be struck by a Hellfire missile launched haphazardly by the IDF.

We are also back to the incorrect AP boilerplate about the 2006 Gaza war.

The renewed hostilities have fed concerns of another large-scale Israeli military operation against Gaza militants. In December 2008, Israel invaded Gaza in response to years of rocket and mortar barrages on its southern communities, killing 1,400 Palestinians , including more than 900 civilians, and causing widespread destruction.

Thirteen Israelis also died.

Hamas has admitted that 600-700 of the dead were “militants”. The AP is now passing along incorrect propaganda. And, as always, note the juxtaposition of Israeli and Palestinian dead, as if it’s all about the numbers, and not about the object of Hamas, which is the eradication of all Jewish Israelis.

And last, but not least, here are paragraphs four and five, which also sometimes show up in your World News section of the Sunday paper:

A spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-run interior ministry, Ihab Ghussein, accused Israel of seeking to perpetuate the violence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had “no interest” in escalating things.

Note that the accuser is Hamas, and the accusation is that Israeli is behind the “violence.” One last time: The terrorists launch rockets. Israel responds by killing the terrorists. That makes the cause the rockets, the effect the Israeli airstrikes. The AP always uses this tactic to make it seem like Israel is the aggressor. Here’s paragraph six, which will absolutely be cut out of the article in the World News section:

“But we won’t hesitate to employ the might of the military against those who would attack our citizens,” Netanyahu added in remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.

This is why the world is so against Israel. It is constantly pummeled by the anti-Israel narrative, the Palestinian propagandists and their allies in the world media.