Well, that’ll piss off the Deathers: If al Qaeda itself says bin Laden is dead, will the lunatics stop pretending that he’s not? Of course not. It’s all U.S.-Zionist psyops.
He’s a witch! Burn him! The modern state of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in all of its modern modernity, is accusing Ahmadinejad supporters of being witches. Really, you can’t make this stuff up. On the other hand, there’s a serious rift going on right now between Mad Mahmoud and the Mad Mullah-in-chief. And may I say: Rock on, you two! Killing each other would be the best case scenario, but I’ll settle for one offing the other.
The CIA has got its mojo back: Read this account of how they found bin Laden. Good. We need a good spy service to protect us from the likes of bin Laden. Here’s hoping they catch the next one before the next 9/11.
A tale of two headlines:
The New York Times: Strong Job Report Shows U.S. Economy Gaining Steam
CNBC: Jobs Report Has More Bad News Than Good News
To everything, spin, spin, spin, there is a season, spin, spin, spin.
Seriously? Three hundred years too late: I mean, seriously? Now the Spaniards are sorry for the Inquisition? Yeah? Then let them be more supportive of Israel to prove it. (Of course, this isn’t all of Spain. Just Majorca. Figures.)
Hamas spokesliars and their media enablers: Why, exactly, can’t the media point out that Hamas is simply saying what the West wants them to say in order to push forward a Palestinian state so they can attack Israel from closer range, more openly? Just once, let Ethan Bronner ask Khaled Meshal to define “occupation” truthfully, and he will hear that all of Israel is “occupied Palestine.” In fact, he said so.
“All Palestinians know that 60 years ago they were living on historic Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Right there, he has defined what Hamas will accept as a Palestinian state. So why put forth the two-state fiction? They’re just words that Hamas has learned the world wants to hear. Will the media point out the flaws in the Hamas claims? No. They’re too busy passing along Hamas anti-Israel spin as factual statements. Witness:
Mr. Meshal said that there was recent activity on ways to release Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held for nearly five years by Hamas, but that there had been no breakthrough. He blamed Mr. Netanyahu, saying he was responsible for the delay.
“Delay”? Five years in captivity because Hamas wants Israel to release mass murderers, and the Times calls it a “delay” in obtaining a prisoner exchange?
Propagandists. That’s what reporters are these days.
Fact is, “historic Palestine” includes not only Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, but all of Jordan. And historically, it was practically deserted, except for a few Bedouin nomads and a thin coating of Jews. The Turks controlled it, virtually all of it held by absentee landlords who oppressed their tenants to a fare-thee-well. It was only when (more) Jews began immigrating from Europe that Arabs also began migrating into “Palestine.” The popular narrative – that the Jews displaced a population of Arabs that had been living in Palestine “from time immemorial” – is utter bullshit, but the Arabs, with British complicity, have done an effective job of selling it.
Under the British mandate, the Jews were to have their national homeland in Palestine. To appease the Saudi Arabs and take some political pressure off them, what is now Jordan was peeled away and handed over to the Hashemite king.
“If al Qaeda itself says bin Laden is dead, will the lunatics stop pretending that he’s not?”
whoa! there are people who think he’s not *dead*? Benazir Bhutto claimed to have intelligence suggesting he’s been dead for years / a bomb-shell she dropped during a David Frost interview. me? i’ve always wondered whether he was even human. 7 feet tall and 160 lbs? i’m imagining a creature of wire, string and foam. in short, a Muppet.
UBL may not have been human, but not because he was a Muppet. If he was not, it is more likely that he has now returned to that overly hot place from whence he originally came.