No offense to any of our British readers/writers…this was just too good to pass up!  Damn…but why does that bald guy have to be in the picture???

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs

We need a little humor in our lives now and then…

Harry’s Place, a UK blog dedicated to promoting the ideals of freedom and democracy, is being sued by Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, which has been linked to Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood, both terrorist organizations. The blog reports that Mr. Sawalha, according to the BBC…

“master minded much of Hamas’ political and military strategy” and in London “is alleged to have directed funds, both for Hamas’ armed wing, and for spreading its missionary dawah”.

In their revelation of the impending lawsuit against them leveled by Mohammed Sawalha, they write:

Mr Sawalha claims that we have “chosen a malevolent interpretation of a meaningless word”. In fact, we did no more than translate a phrase which appeared in an Al Jazeera report of Mr Sawalha’s speech. When Al Jazeera changed that phrase from “Evil Jew” to “Jewish Lobby”, we reported that fact, along with the statement that it had been a typographical error.

Mr Sawalha has been the prime mover in a number of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood associated projects. He is President of the British Muslim Initiative. He is the past President of the Muslim Association of Britain. He was the founder of IslamExpo, and is registered as the holder of the IslamExpo domain name. He is also a trustee of the Finsbury Park Mosque….

…Mr Sawalha says that the attribution of the phrase “Evil Jew” to him implies that he is “anti-semitic and hateful”. Notably, he does not take issue with our reporting of the revelation, made in a Panorama documentary in 2006, that he is a senior activist in the clerical fascist terrorist organisation, Hamas.

It looks like Harry’s Place is going up against some pretty top-notch lawyers on this one, and they’ve got guts, but as the post goes on to say:

If Mr Sawalha persists in attempting to silence us with this desperate legal suit, we will need your help.

We won’t be able to stand up to them alone.

This is why we’ve started this blogburst, to get the word out that we won’t let members of Hamas or any radical terrorist group censor us or any of our fellow bloggers.

If you’d like to add your site to the blogroll, simply email us at admin @ neoconstant . com, and include your site’s URL.

Then copy and paste this (or write your own) entry into one of your posts. Future posts will be emailed to you. Thanks, and don’t forget to head over to Harry’s Place to show your support of their freedom of speech!


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Al Qaeda’s 9/11 sneak attack cast suspicion on all Muslims. After the hijackers hid amongst us, pretending to be trustworthy friends while plotting acts of war, how can we know that other Muslims are not doing the same?

American Muslims could undo much of this suspicion by helping to expose the terrorist memorial mosque that architect Paul Murdoch is trying to plant on the Flight 93 crash site

Non-Muslim Americans can tell themselves that the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent is esoteric or unimportant (even if they go by semi-Islamic sounding names like Allahpundit), but every Muslim will instantly recognize this orientation as the central symbol of Islam.

Other Americans can also get confused about the direction to Mecca, thinking that the northeast facing crescent memorial CAN’T point to Mecca because Mecca is south of us. Not American Muslims, who all know that the shortest-distance direction to Mecca is to the northeast, since the overwhelming majority of them face this direction for prayer:

A person facing into the Crescent of Embrace (which remains completely intact in the “broken circle” redesign) will be facing almost exactly at Mecca (the Muslim “qibla,” or prayer direction.)

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Some of the best news this past week came out of Colombia, where Government agents posing as rebels tricked actual rebels into freeing 15 hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, three American contractors and 11 Colombian police and military personnel.  This really was some amazing work on the part of the Colombian military:

The agents gained the rebels’ trust and rose to the top of FARC’s leadership council as well as a team assigned to guard the hostages.

When the time was ripe, the moles used the authority they’d gained within the group to order the 15 hostages moved from three separate locations to one central area, and the game was on.

Incredibly, the entire mission was carried out without a shot fired.  The agents led their rebel counterparts to believe the helicopter coming to rescue the hostages was an “international mission” like the Red Cross.  They loaded up the hostages, convinced the other rebels to lay down their arms, and then arrested the men and got the hostages out.  Fact is, you don’t hear many stories like this, that end so well.

In other news, an Arab Israeli ran a front end loader into a bus in Jerusalem killing several people and wounding many more.  His family has said he was not involved in politics, and that the apparent terrorist attack was actually just a guy who lost his cool.  It looks as though, perhaps, he was involved in criminal rather than political disputes.

This taken from comments by thedoctori on Newsvine:

• Did you know that some Palestinians celebrated the 911 atrocity?
• Did you know that Palestinians have dressed up babies as homicide bombers?
• Did you know that Hamas runs kindergartens for homicide bombers?
• Did you know that Hamas’ explosives blew up 15 Palestinians during a parade?
• Did you know that “The armed wing of Hamas has admitted that a massive explosion in the Gaza Strip on Thursday was caused by militants preparing an armed operation… Seven people, including a four-month-old baby were killed in the blast … About 50 people were wounded, among them 15 children, Palestinian medics say?”
• Did you know that after Israel pulled all its troops and settlers out of Gaza, Hamas and Fatah started a civil war, killing hundreds and wounding hundreds of Palestinians?
• Did you know that “About 400 Israeli families lost loved ones in a decade of Hamas suicide bomb attacks?”
• Did you know that “1,165 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since September 2000″ and “8,341 Israelis wounded in terror attacks 2001-2007?”
• Did you know that Yasser Arafat rejected the Israeli offer made at Camp David during Clinton’s last days in office? Israel’s “most generous peace offer in the history of the conflict was answered with the most sustained wave of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israeli history.”
• Did you know that “Jewish immigration, begun in the late 19th century, swelled in the 1930s with refugees from the Nazis; heavy Arab immigration from Syria and Lebanon also occurred.” In other words, many Palestinians are immigrants, too. Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel since 2000 BCE.
• Did you know that “After Saddam Hussein was driven out, the emirate [Kuwait] expelled some 400,000 Palestinians?”
• Did you know that Hezbollah’s indiscriminately-aimed rockets have killed Arabs?: “Hezbollah rockets made their first hit near Christian holy sites in Israel: Two rockets hit Nazareth — the biblical hometown of Jesus — killing two brothers ages 3 and 9 as they played outside, bringing the Israeli death toll to 29. At least 18 others were wounded in the attack.”

False Claims

False claim: Israel was stolen from the Arabs to begin with….and they are still stealing more and more everyday.

The usual propaganda–read this for a reality check:

False claim: Did you know that Arabs are not allowed to go into some of the Jewish settlements (stolen land)…even though they are in their OWN state?

Palestinians can thank their leaders for that. Many average people used to work in Israel. Israelis got sick of terrorists slipping in under the guise of being workers:

The number of Palestinians who worked daily in Israel before the intifada was more than 150,000; the figure now is fewer than 35,000.

False claim: Did you know that Jerusalem is supposed to be the capital of Palestine (NOT Israel)…but is currently being annexed (illegally)?

Huh? Oslo, agreed to by the PLO, put the status of Jerusalem up for negotiations (e.g., a shared capital). So does the Roadmap. King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 1004 BCE. Jews have lived there continuously much longer than Arabs. There are mountains of Jewish archeology in Jerusalem predating the Al-Aqsa Mosque. See “First Temple seal found in Jerusalem.” See “Archeologists find 2nd Temple quarry.”

False claim: Do you know that Israel uses illegal weapons on Palestinian CIVILIANS, many of whom are women and children?

“Almost 1,000 rockets and over 1,000 mortar bombs fired from the Gaza Strip have struck southern Israel since the beginning of the year (Jan-May 2008).” Palestinians are targeting Israeli civilians.

“About 400 Israeli families lost loved ones in a decade of Hamas suicide bomb attacks?”

Here’s a link to Israeli civilian casualties.

False claim: Did you know that even Palestinian ambulances (while in emergency situations) must still wait at checkpoints?

Yeah, because Palestinian terrorists use ambulances for their operations.

False claim: Do you know Israeli soldiers shoot at PROTESTERS and JOURNALISTS? Frequently killing them?

Palestinian journalists themselves have accused Hamas and Fatah of mistreating them.

Well, as per usual, the internet is buzzing with information, news, a wide variety of topics.  I’ve taken it upon me to find just a few of the most interesting, riveting, and thought-provoking bits.

CNN reported on the arrest of over 500 people allegedly linked to al Qaeda.  Liberals in America will be pleased to hear they won’t be going to Gitmo to suffer the atrocities of the American military prison system, but will instead be comfortably housed in Saudi prisons, where undboubtedly they will be treated with good, old-fashioned Wahhabi hospitality.

In a written statement, the ministry said the cell’s leader was found with a letter from al Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, “urging him to raise funds and that [al-Zawahiri] will provide him with the personnel, whom they called the mujahedeen.”

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I’ve been thinking about “neo-centrist” politics lately, as the term “neo-conservatism” has been so blackened.  Michael J. Totten sums this concept up very nicely below:

The Neo-Centrist Alliance

This passage from Christopher Hitchens’ new Vanity Fair piece about the intra-Republican civil war really stuck with me. (No link, not online.)

It’s not the only attack from the old right that describes the neocons as Johnny-come-latelies: chancers who had changed their party allegiance just in time to catch the Reagan tide, but who remained liberals and cosmopolitans under the skin. Indeed, William Kristol has proved Buchanan’s point, by telling The New York Times that, if pushed, by which he clearly meant “in any case,” he would prefer an alliance with liberal hawks to one with anti-war Republicans.

Sometimes I wish the neos could form their own party: the neo-liberals and neo-conservatives against the Democrats and the Republicans. Not gonna happen, I know. But that is the “party” I feel like I belong to these days….

Me, too, Mr. Totten.  I think a lot of people do.

NBC’s Tim Russert died this afternoon of a heart attack.  According to NBC:

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” program when he collapsed, the network said. He and his family had recently returned from Italy, where they celebrated the graduation of Russert’s son, Luke, from Boston College.

58 years old is way too young to go like this.  It’s terribly sad.

Passing along the news to everyone…looks like McCain is going to answer some hard questions.  If I had television I’d watch it, but I guess I’ll have to surf YouTube and the blogs to get my dose of the Straight Talk Express… (more…)

Nobody says it quite like Meryl Yourish. And by “it” I mean, basically anything regarding Israel. Her candor is enviable, and her wit is razor-sharp. I’ve heaped praise on her before, but this time I just wanted to throw in a quick quotation–a little “rule” of sorts that I think applies here just as well as on her blog. (more…)

Ron Paul has absolutely no chance in a million years of becoming the next President of the United States of America. None. I site, as my source for this wild claim, the fact that he has not won a single state primary. Add to this the fact that his popularity is more a media infatuation with a certain inexplicable fervor unique to his supporters, and you basically can see how Ron Paul has built his castle out of sand. The realities of politics in America will wash the campaign into the wide oceans of time and memory. (more…)

This is one of the greatest new Reggae songs by one of the finest modern Reggae singers around. And he’s Chassidic.

So, think on this….

Meryl Yourish is an endless source of Zionist information, and her blog should be read daily for any of you who may be interested in what’s going on in Israel regarding the Palestinian conflict. Daily. I’m not kidding when I say this, but she manages to pour through so much material, so many news sources, and get to the heart of the issue in such a clear and accessible way, that you really should visit her site on a regular basis just to stay on top of the conflict. And then, there are cats as well. Something she shares in common with our fellow blogger Mr. Edward Beaman.

For this episode of Sententia, I will draw from Yourish’s column with a very illustrative glimpse into the numbers behind the Real Holocaust (as in the Nazi Holocaust) and the Fake Holocaust (as in what the Palestinians and much of the world media are describing Israel’s treatment of the Gazans as….)

This is especially poignant since we are now entering 60th anniversary celebrations over the state of Israel.  Ever defiant, our Israeli friends and allies somehow manage to stave off the forces of darkness and barbarism, and have for six decades against overwhelming odds.

From Meryl Yourish:

Today is the day that Jews all over the world remember the victims of the Holocaust. Even as we do this, the Palestinians and their Arab and Muslim allies once again try to expropriate the language and images of the murder of Jews, and apply it to Palestinians. The word “Holocaust” is being used a lot to describe Gaza. Well, let’s take a look at the difference between the real Holocaust, and the utter misuse of that word to describe Palestinian deaths in a war with Israel.

The real Holocaust deaths (a partial list):

Country	Jews Killed	% of Country’s Jews Killed
Austria	50,000	36
Belgium	25,000	60
Belorussia	245,000	65
Bohemia/Moravia	80,000	89
Bulgaria	11,400	14
Estonia	1500	35
France	90,000	26
Greece	65,000	80
Hungary	450,000	70
Italy	7500	20
Latvia	70,000	77
Lithuania	220,000	94
Luxembourg	1950	50
The Netherlands	106,000	76
Norway	870	55
Poland	2,900,000	88
Russia	107,000	11
Romania	270,000	33
Slovakia	71,000	80
Ukraine	900,000	60
Yugoslavia	60,000	80

The total number of Palestinians killed in the territories since the start of the second intifada: 4,609.

The Palestinian population today (disputed):

Gaza: 1,482,405
West Bank: 2,611,904

The Palestinian population in 1967:

Gaza:380,800
West Bank: 604,494

Someone else can figure out percentage of population growth and the number of Palestinian deaths. I’m not going to waste the time on an obviously spurious comparison. I’m just going to continue to point out the attempt to expropriate all of the language used to describe the world’s crimes against the Jews by the Palestinians, who would have you believe they are also victims of anti-Semitism. This needs to be stopped.

Never forget. There is no Palestinian “Holocaust.” There was only one Holocaust, that of the Jews by the Nazis, with the willing help of Europeans and Arabs, including the ones who lived in what was then known as Palestine—and whose descendants live in the territories today.

The descendants of the victims of the Holocaust? Well, there are none for the true victims. Only for the survivors.

Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live. Long live the people of Israel.

Thank you, Meryl Yourish, for this little reminder. That’s the thought-provocation for the day….

Further reading:

Why I Strongly Support Israel, by Edward Beaman

The Desert Bloom, by Churchill’s Parrot

Happy Anniversary Israel, from Radarsite

1948, Israel, and the Palestinians, from Commentary Magazine

The Borowitz Report has revealed a startling new tactic the Obama campaign is taking, reinvigorating itself by shifting the “bitterness” from the voters to the candidate:

“You want to talk bitter?” Obama said to his audience. “How about losing the Pennsylvania primary after you were supposed to have this nomination locked up – that’ll make you bitter, for damn sure.”

Sen. Obama said that after Rev. Wright controversy, the ABC News debate, the flag lapel criticism, and the “red phone” ads, “You can bet your ass I know a thing or two about who’s bitter.”

Ankle Biting Pundits reveal the tab Sen. Larry Craig has been left with over the bathroom fiasco.  The lawyer’s bill is probably even more of a fiasco.

GOP Senator Larry “Wide Stance” Craig has to pay a huge chunk of his $407,000 legal bill resulting from his guilty plea to “Disorderly Conduct” (i.e. trying to get busy with another guy in an airport toilet) out of his own pocket, and not use campaign funds like he tried to do previously.

And this funny image comes direct from Laugh@Liberals:

So lighten up.  Things aren’t always dark and somber and serious.  Just most of the time….

Here’s a little list of some of my favorite blogs and web sites at the moment–I’m sure I’ve left some out. Actually, I guarantee that I’ve left some (or many) out, but I only have so much time on my hands….

Bruce Kelly

For a really good resource on Conservative blogs and Conservative sites, visit BruceKelly.com. From here, you can find all sorts of great sites and resources. Mr. Kelly includes a steady update of recent articles; summaries of various sites; and has recently added a link to his new “Digg-clone” Tastylinks.com which I’ve just registered for, so I can’t give you much feedback on it yet….stop by for yourself. Great name for a site, though–quite frankly, I can’t believe the domain was still available!

Churchill’s Parrot

Some of the most eloquent conservative writing on the Internet can be found here on NeoConstant–when I syndicate posts from my friend Charlie, Churchill’s Parrot. The Parrot has a way with words and ideas that is quite beyond me. (I blame it on his age–after all, he was in the thick of things with Mr. Churchill, and he’s been defending the honor of Britain and the Anglosphere ever since!) Charlie has started a community of bloggers called the Anglosphere Consortium, of which I am a proud member. The organization also has a forum hosted here on NeoConstant.

Meryl Yourish

For those of you who are, like me, Zionists, you may want to check out Meryl Yourish’s blog. She manages to blog faster and more furiously than almost anybody. Her blog is a very good source of information on Israel and the conflict there. I’m not sure how anyone can post so much, but I’m glad she does.

Elder of Ziyon

Also, head over to the Elder of Ziyon, another excellent Zionist blog with a veritable wealth of information about Israel and the terrorists committed to her destruction. Like any true Zionist blog, this one takes a critical look at the US and how US policy is not always in-line with Israeli interests, so if you happen to be blindly pro-America you may want to stop by and get a broader perspective.

Deeper Look

A Deeper Look Weblog is a fantastic blog about the spread of Islamic Radicalism in the west. I never ceased to be amazed with the amount of resources and information that Krishna is able to pull together there and on Newsvine. Very strong writing and commentary on terror and Islamism, and an avid supporter of Israel.

Neo-Neocon

For Neoconservative writing, it’s hard to beat Neo-Neoc on. Each post is well thought out and eloquent to a fault. Neocons get a bad wrap these days, so it’s nice to see others out there with a strong voice, and a sharp intellect. A good deal of Neo-Neocon’s writing revolves around domestic issues, history, and so forth, but the Neoconservative vein is still strong.

…and many more.

Beyond this, I get into too many debates at Newsvine; spend some time over at Digg; and enjoy tech blogs like Engadget when I’m in the mood for something a little less heavy than politics and world affairs. I can’t keep up with too much, so my Gather and Myspace pages are pretty much dormant.

I also blog at Blendwire and the Daily Elephant.