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November 2015

Could the destroyed Russian plane be jihadi payback? By Shoshana Bryen

It could have been a coincidence. A Russian airbus with 224 people – mainly tourists – flying from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia could simply have come apart in midair, killing all aboard. It would have been one heck of a coincidence, though, considering the players who would have wanted it to disintegrate and the constellation of agendas that would be advanced by a well-placed bomb.

It is almost impossible that the plane was hit from the ground. It was flying too high for a shoulder-fired missile. Although it isn’t clear whether there are mobile missile launchers in Sinai, assume for a moment that one or more exist. The missile would have to have been programmed – it needs radar and target designation – and therefore it needs a) to know the flight path of a particular plane if it plans to hit a particular plane and b) an operator with the right skills. (The list of requirements for a successful takedown of an airliner is what leads some to believe that it was a Russian operator in Ukraine who fired on Malaysian Air Flight 17 a year ago.)

A bomb inside the plane, however, would account for the widespread wreckage.

Stabbing spree suspect at California college Identified as Muslim (Includes video) Jim Kouri

Five people were stabbed at the University of California, Merced, on Wednesday morning by an assailant who was shot and killed by police. Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke identified the suspect in Wednesday’s stabbings at UC Merced as Faisal Mohammad, an 18-year-old from Santa Clara. He was a first-year student majoring in computer science major.
The five victims were all attacked in front of an office building on campus according to a school official, according to a campus public safety officer who requested anonymity. “I was suspicious of the authorities who controlled the flow of information about the incident. They really hesitated to identify the perp since he was a Middle Easterner. But how can they cover up the identity a person with the name Faisal Mohammad as anything but a Muslim attacker,” said the campus cop.
The attacker originally was identified in reports as being a student in his early 20s and that was all. “Since Mohammad was killed by police, the Obama administration, the equally leftist California Jerry Brown and others are free to say the motive is unknown. That means they probably won’t call it Islamic terrorism related,” said former police officer and undercover detective Iris Aquino.
The university closed the campus and canceled Wednesday’s classes for the day and night in response to the attack, but the administration noted that everything is under control. “Campus is locked down. Do not come to campus. If you’re on campus, stay where you are,” read a school announcement. “Though there is no active danger, getting on and off campus is difficult.”
Mohammad shared a dormitory room with Andrew Velasquez who told KFSN TV News that Mohammad was “antisocial” and didn’t talk much. “I never saw him with anybody. Walking to class, I never saw him walk with anybody,” Velasquez said. “Every time I would try and say something, he would just ignore it.”

No Holds Barred: Roger Waters’ unnatural preoccupation with Jews

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/No-Holds-Barred-Roger-Waters-unnatural-preoccupation-with-Jews-432204
The essence of anti-Semitism is the attempt to defame the Jewish people as a murderous, bloodthirsty nation that is deeply immoral. :by Shmuely Boteach.

“Waters would accuse the Jews, who give complete control of their holiest site in Jerusalem to the Muslim Wakf, of being like the Germans who snuffed out six million Jewish lives.Only a wretched, pitiless, cold-blooded ignoramus could make such a fraudulent allegation. Only a man whose breast swells with hatred of Jews could fabricate so sinister a blood libel. And only a first-class fraud like Roger Waters would believe that he could lie so viciously to an educated public and get away with it.”

“In a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone magazine this week, former Pink Floyd front man and Israel-hating obsessive Roger Waters demonstrated his all-consuming preoccupation with the Jews.

He speaks about watching Jewish Life Television late at night and reading about “old local Jewish ladies” who organize protests against him. Like most anti-Semites, he peddles central Jewish coordination theories, asserting that pro-Israel efforts, such as this very column, are organized by the prime minister of Israel’s office. “Hasbara, the arm of the Prime Minister’s Office that we all know starts with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. It’s very organized, and I see it all over my Facebook page all the time. It’s this hugely organized thing.”

But for all his loathing of Israel, including flying pigs with Mogen Dovids on them as his concerts, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and Israel’s policies to the Holocaust, and publicly condemning far more successful performers such as Jon Bon Jovi for performing in Israel, Rogers insists he is not a Jew-hater. “It’s not the Israeli people, not Jews, not Judaism. I would never dream of attacking them.”

Jerusalem Post Editorial: Immoral labels

For three years now the European Union has been threatening to publicize guidelines on the consumer labeling of Israeli products produced over the pre-1967 lines in parts of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Golan Heights.

This week sources in Jerusalem said they had received signals the Europeans would soon make good on this threat – possibly within days.

The Europeans for their part have in the past attempted to play down the issue, claiming that labeling does not constitute a boycott. As EU spokesman in Israel David Kriss told Bloomberg in June, “The main principle here is simply that consumers in Europe should not be misled about the origin of products.”

Kriss and other European officials would like us to believe that labeling is just a way of providing European consumers with information and has nothing whatsoever to do with nasty boycotts.

Such attempts to dissemble are hardly convincing. After all, what precisely will be written on the labels? “Made by Israeli settlers in Occupied Palestinian Territory”? Even the more innocuous “Produce of the West Bank (Israeli settlement produce)” that already appears on products in some British supermarkets is enough to deter European consumers already prejudiced by slanted news media.

A LETTER FROM DAYNA MESERVE…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

Dayna is a passionate Christian Zionist who yearned to go to Israel “someday,” but real life kept getting in her way.Well, last month she finally got her wish…and she sent me this remarkable, passionate and encouraging letter which I am urging you to send out to as wide an audience as possible……Joan Swirsky (Author of “The Cargiver Survivors Guide”)

Dear Joan,

As I sit, safe and sound, on my living room sofa in my condo in Naples, FL, it’s been less than two weeks since I toured Israel and walked the streets in the Old City of Jerusalem. I’m thankful that, as a tourist, I was not personally confronted with the deadly violence that Israelis are experiencing these days, in a Palestinian “knife intifada.”

We spent a day at a ministry center in Haifa. I met Russian Jews who came to the center to receive practical goods that were being gifted to them by The Joshua Fund. The grateful looks on their faces were priceless. There were incredulous tears of joy as they received a decorative canvas wheeled cart, kitchen knives, a wireless electric tea pot, laundry detergent, dish towels, a cutting board, a vegetable peeler, a can opener, a pot with a lid, a glass bowl, a ladle, a decorative mug, and a pillow––items that you and I take for granted.

One sweet, gray-haired lady whom I greeted and assisted, really touched my heart. I couldn’t hug her or help her enough! I got choked up just wondering how she happened to be there at that time in her life.

Two hundred people (men, women and their children) had been selected to participate in this event. Fortunately, not everything that’s going on in Israel is violent or deadly!

Joan, everywhere we went, there were tour groups of Christians and Jews from all over the world in Israel! Not even the threat of Palestinian Islamic terrorism kept us away from our quest to experience Israel!

I felt safe from the moment I arrived at Ben Gurion Air Port in Tel Aviv. As a visitor in Israel, when I was standing on the Golan Heights hearing gunfire fire coming from Syria, that’s when I was confronted with the reality of war. It was surreal.