We now have a whole society rallying around and praising this despicable depravity.

God judges a society not just by what they do, but also by what they allow – and even more by what they celebrate. The official voice of the Palestinian people has praised one of the worst examples of inhumanity that I have ever seen, and not one Palestinian voice has been heard to protest this atrocity.

I know that there are Palestinians who are horrified by the murder of the Fogels, and by how their society has responded. They are horrified and sickened.

Unfortunately, they remain silent.

This is a mistake.

If good and just Palestinians remain silent while their leadership claims to speak for them, then they too will bear the guilt of their nation and suffer the consequences.

There is a Judge, and He is not indifferent to the affairs of mankind.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants

- Deuteronomy 30:19 (NASB)

Choose life.

On PA TV: Glorification of Fogel family murderers

Mother of Hakim Awad, killer of 5 Fogel family members:

“My greetings to dear Hakim, the apple of my eye, who carried out the operation in Itamar, sentenced to 5 life sentences”

Aunt of Hakim Awad: “Hakim Awad, the hero, the legend”

PA TV host: “We [PA TV] also convey our greetings to them”

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

Twice last week, official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast greetings to the murderers of the Fogel family from the relatives of the killers and from the PA TV host.

On March 11, 2011, five members of the Fogel family were killed in their home in the Israeli town Itamar by Palestinian terrorists from the Awad family. Hakim Awad led the attack, killing the parents Ehud and Ruth and three of their children, aged 11 years, 4 years, and 2 months.

The weekly PA TV program For You dedicated to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons let the mother and aunt of one of the murderers praise the terrorists as “heroes.” After the mother of the murderer Hakim Awad explained how she is prevented from visiting her son for security reasons, the PA TV host said: “Go ahead, sister, we can convey your voice.”

On the phone, Hakim Awad’s mother “blesses” her “dear son,” and despite the fact that participants in this TV program normally do not mention the terror attacks for which their relatives are serving time, the mother mentions that her son is the one who “carried out the operation in Itamar and sentenced to 5 life sentences,” referring to her son’s brutal killings in the town Itamar.

Hakim Awad’s aunt also participated in the program and referred to the terrorists involved in the killings as “heroes,” calling Hakim Awad “the hero, the legend.” This prompted the PA TV host to add: “We, for our part, also convey our greetings to them.”

It was Hakim Awad who killed Ehud and Ruth Fogel and their young children with a knife. The other Awad family members praised on the program as “heroes” were either accessories to the murders or helped destroy evidence.

Although this was a phone conversation, the editors of the PA TV program and its host did know in advance that the callers were relatives of the Fogel murderers. The host introduced them before the conversation took place and a text with the names of the callers appeared at the bottom of the screen: “Prisoner Hakim Awad’s family / Awarta – Nablus.”

The program was broadcast on official PA TV on January 19 and 21.

Read the rest of the article here.

Seriously.

It’s been slowly dawning on some of us that democratic ideals can only exist where there is an education system to promote them. If you have an educational system that promotes some OTHER ideal, well… you’ll get something other than democracy.

Hence, the current Palestinian mess.

That’s right. For generations, the Palestinians have taught their children anti-democratic values, and we’ve known this. That’s why it shouldn’t surprise us (but does) when democratic elections bring non-democratic results.

Democracy requires a good educational system. Palestinians do not have one. Ergo, Palestinians cannot be allowed to have a democracy. Otherwise, they become a threat to their neighbors. And frankly, that’s a bad thing for the Palestinians.

It is very, very unhealthy to be a threat to Israel.

Read the following article and see if you draw the same conclusions that I have…

‘Hamas will defeat Fatah in May elections’
By Khaled abu Toameh, 01/20/2012

Former PA minister Nabil Amr warns that his party will be defeated again if new elections are held in Palestinian territories.

A senior Fatah official warned Thursday that Hamas would once again defeat his faction if and when new elections are held in the Palestinian territories.

Nabil Amr, a former Palestinian Authority minister, said that Fatah leaders have sent a letter to President Mahmoud Abbas (who also heads Fatah) calling on him to hold a conference to discuss preparations for the elections, slated for May.

Abbas has announced that he would like to hold elections on May 4. However, many Palestinians are skeptical that he would be able to hold the vote, largely due to the ongoing dispute between Hamas and Fatah.

Fatah has come under criticism for failing to draw conclusions from its defeat to Hamas in the 2006 parliamentary election.

Since the Hamas victory, Fatah has failed to come up with a new list of candidates.

Moreover, internal squabbling between Fatah’s young guard and veteran leaders continues to undermine the faction’s credibility in the eyes of many Palestinians.

Last week, Amr and several Fatah leaders held consultations in Jordan to discuss ways of avoiding another electoral defeat to Hamas, as was the case in the last parliamentary vote.

“Yes, we are concerned,” Amr said in an interview with the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper. “Unless the situation in Fatah changes, what happened in the past could occur once again.”

Read the rest of the article, here.

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As an aside. Take a look at the US educational system. That’s the future of ‘American Democracy’ – such as it is.

Actually, the problem with truth is that it is almost ALWAYS ugly – along with inconvenient and embarrassing.

However, it seems that Palestinian Media Watch has been just a bit too truthful, and they got their account on YouTube frozen.

Interesting, right?

It’s okay for YouTube to act as a forum for all kinds of stupidity, lies and other kinds of trash, but too much truth will get you banned.

Welcome everyone to 2012. The year is not even a month old and the thought police are already out trying to protect you from the possibility of entertaining embarrassing and politically ugly ideas. Too much truth is just not done in our enlightened age.

Here’s the video that YouTube banned, from palwatch.org:

PA Mufti calls for the killing of Jews quoting Islamic Hadith from Palestinian Media Watch on Vimeo.

Here’s the article from The Blaze that alerted me to this latest bit of hypocrisy on the part of YouTube:

YouTube Freezes Palestinian Media Watch Account, Pulls Fatah Video Calling for Religious War with Jews, Born of ‘Apes & Pigs’

January 17, 2012 by Tiffany Gabbay

Palestinian Media Watch is an organization whose stated mission is to monitor, translate and disseminate all forms of media broadcast by the Palestinian Authority. These translations, videos and transcriptions showcase a steady stream of virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Western sentiment, often with direct calls for physical violence.

Many believe PMW offers a valuable service as it provides key insights into the way the PA thinks and operates. Now, however, for at least the second time, PMW’s YouTube service has been disrupted after the watchdog group uploaded a vitriolic Fatah video in which Jewish people are referred to as “descendants of apes and pigs” and the PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein calls on Palestinians to “kill the Jews” no matter what “rock or tree” they “hide” behind.

Of course, the hate speech and calls for violence do not come directly from PMW. PMW merely translates and disseminates what was already produced and broadcast by the PA.

YouTube administrators have deemed the most recent upload as “innaproriate,” and have subsequently removed the video from its site and frozen PMW’s user account. This is not the fist time YouTube has taken such actions against PMW and the exact reasons are unclear. Some critics say YouTube has bowed to pressure from Islamic special interest groups.

Read the rest of the article here.

Of course, the video doesn’t just show the Grand Mufti of the Palestinian Authority calling for religious war. No, he’s calling for religious genocide.

Well, here’s another reason.

Apparently, the Obama administration has advised the Palestinians to be good little boys and girls until AFTER he is re-elected, and then he’s promised to pull out the thumb screws and deliver Israel on a platter.

Isn’t that so typical? So, just Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton/et al. ?

Don’t you just love a guy who consistently stabs vital allies in the back, and then claims to be their best friend ever?

Yeah. I love it too.

So far, the only thing going for Mr. Obama is the fact that he’s good to his dog, and faithful to his wife. Just like Jimmy Carter. There’s really nothing else in the plus column.

Please, if you are thinking about voting Mr. Obama in for another term, just lie down until the thought goes away. I think that one term is enough, don’t you?

Here’s the WND article that got my blood boiling…

FROM WND’S JERUSALEM BUREAU

Obama to ‘take on’ Netanyahu after election?

Palestinians say White House asked them to delay demands till 2nd term

By Aaron Klein

Aaron Klein is WND’s senior staff reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio. His latest book is the N.Y. Times best-selling, “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists.

JERUSALEM – The Obama administration asked the Palestinian Authority not to make any major demands until after the presidential election in November, a senior PA official told WND.

The PA official, speaking on condition his name be withheld, said that Obama promised to renew stalled Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the basis of the 1967 borders, meaning an Israeli withdrawal from eastern sections of Jerusalem as well as from Judea and Samaria, also referred to as the West Bank.

“We were asked by the (U.S.) administration not to make special demands or scandals during the elections,” said the official.

“After elections, the negotiations will be renewed on basis of the Clinton plan and Obama’s speech in Cairo of the 1967 borders,” the official said.

Read the rest of the article here.

Anyone who sits down and looks at the mess that Hamas has made of Gaza would say the same thing. There is just no way that Israeli public opinion will allow Gaza to continue shooting rockets at Israeli civilians. The more those rockets kill, the closer Israel gets to yet another invasion of Gaza.

Why hasn’t the Israeli army invaded before now?

Because the Israeli army doesn’t actually enjoy going to war.

Most armies don’t, but Israel’s army is particularly conflict-averse. This is partly because it is a citizen army with only a tiny core of professional soldiers, but it is also true because of the character of Israelis themselves.

Israelis do not like violence.

Seriously.

Of course, if you are a reader of the New York Times, you won’t believe this, but that’s your problem. NYT readers will need to find a different site than this one to validate preconceived notions.

Now, I’m not saying that Israelis are little angels. They aren’t. They are like people anywhere else – except, maybe a bit noisier. (Israelis are LOUD.)

Anyway, this is the irony that surrounds Israel. Israel is constantly forced to do things that perpetuate a completely inaccurate stereotype.

And no one seems to want to point out that the violence coming FROM Gaza is a direct result of Israel handing Gaza over to the Palestinians.

Here’s the article in Israel Today that got me thinking about this:

Israel says it will have to invade Gaza again

One of these days, the rest of the world will wake up and realize that Israel was right all along. Unfortunately, the ‘rest of the world’ only tends to do that when it is far, far too late.