Posted on 02/15/2011 2:48:18 PM PST by Nachum
they thought they were dealing with noble, peace-loving freedom fighters who by the way, just looovvvveee them and Obama
They’re have a tough time pinning this on the Tea Party or talk radio, but I’m confident they’ll make an effort.
...and beaten.
Reportedly she was “sexually assaulted” by a mob in Cairo but finally rescued. Her own goal in life seems to be to provide fodder for tabloids in search of sex scandals—one of her previous affairs was with Michael Ware. She is a South African who works for CBS...had to Google her to find out who she was.
Isn’t that amazing??
The Left truly believes it’s own drivel. Literally.
Insane.
I'm not sure about MM, but I know Ann and Sarah can use a side arm and probably would be carrying in that situation. Also they wouldn't be foolish enough to parade themselves around a mob of rioting Muslim males dressed like western liberated females and not appreciate the inherent dangers in that behavior. In short they never would have allowed themselves to become victims.
“Angry mob?” Mubarik had stepped down. It had nothing to do with anger, and everything to do with how Muslims view women, perhaps especially western women.
Is she stupid? Is she totally unaware of proper travel etiquette? Is she ignorant of strict dress codes in these savage countries? I refuse to say she was asking to get raped, but (from her photo) she was blatantly flirting with danger.
Stupid woman.
Here is something more on Mr. Rosen. It is to admiring but gives some hints about what avile a squalid piece of excrement he is. A classic example of the ‘Self Hating Jew’ in action:
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Education of Nir Rosen
Blogger David Adesnik, who knew Nir Rosen in elementary school here in the US, described him as “a scrawny kid who could draw just about anything if you have him a pen and paper.” Adesnik also noted that Rosen “never had much respect for authority and once got suspended for a having a haircut that was more cut than hair.”
Adesnik and Rosen went to different schools in the ninth grade and lost touch with each other until one day in Washington when, as Adesnik recounts, “a heavily-muscled man with short hair and a very attractive woman on his arm called out my name.” It turned out to be Nir Rosen, his old classmate, who announced to Adesnik that he wanted to become an investigative journalist.
There are two ways to become a journalist. One way is to start as a cub reporter and work your way up through the ranks. The other way is to wait for a war to break out and then get to the frontlines as a freelancer and report from there, hoping your stories get picked up by mainstream media. Rosen chose the second approach and, while working as a bouncer in a Washington, D.C., nightclub, waited for the right foreign destination to explode, where he would then use his dissident views to help expose the myriad wrongs done around the world in the name of American imperialism.
His first opportunity came with the Balkans and the second in Iraq. “My friend is one of the most hardcore leftists I have ever met,” Adesnik wrote in a later blog entry. “His mission in Baghdad is to document and expose the inner workings of American imperialism. This is the same guy who insisted that the United States bombed Kosovo in order to expand into the Balkan marketplace.” Rosen was arrested in Serbia, an experience about which he wrote for the Salon online magazine: Ten Days in a Serbian Prison.
But it was the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003 that Nir Rosen had been waiting for. He flew into Baghdad on April 7 and by April 19 he had an article in Time Magazine. And thus began Nir Rosen’s career and education in Iraq. Using an engaging smile, knowledge of Arabic picked up as an Israeli-American Jew who spent summers back in Israel, and what was coyly referred to as his “Middel Eastern appearance,” he befriended countless Iraqis and created sources from among a variety of groups — both Shia and Sunni — with different ideas about the future of Iraq.
At first Rosen thought that the Shia and Sunnis would unite to remove the Coalition forces out of Iraq, as he explained to David Adesnik in the summer of 2004. But after a couple years of covering Iraq, he began to see that some kind of civil war was in fact inevitable.
In early 2006, he thought that the civil war had in fact begun right after the elections of 2005. By the late spring of 2006, however, he had revised the inception of the civil war to the day that Saddam’s statue had been pulled down in Firdus Square, April 9, 2003. “It started when U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad,” Rosen wrote for the Washington Post on May 28, 2006. “It began when Sunnis discovered what they had lost, and Shiites learned what they had gained. And the worst is yet to come.”
Rosen has had a book published — “In the Belly of the Green Bird” — and has worked hard and taken many risks over the last couple years to create a career in journalism. He is also now married and, as I write this, his wife is about to give birth to their first child. One wonders to what extent Nir Rosen has had to temper his youthful dissident crusade when confronted with the messy reality of Iraq on the ground. Maybe one day he will write about that too.
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On April 24, 2002, Nir Rosen had an article entitled “The Broken Home: Revisiting Israel” published in Alexander Cockburn’s Counterpunch. It is an interesting read, especially given that Rosen’s Jewish background would later in Iraq be “elided,” as the postmodernists quip, and he would simply become a person of “Middle Eastern appearance” whose father was born in Iran. In this article, Rosen reveals that he considers religion “backward and absurd” and that as a child he had “dreamed of joining Israel’s elitie special forces.” The amount of dissembling he must have engaged in while reporting in Iraq is a little mind-boggling when one considers that Rosen had befriended many who would certainly have either killed him or sold his location to the highest bidder if they had been told the truth about his background. To me, this is just another interesting element to the education of Nir Rosen.
I’m wondering who the media and leftist radio/TV moon-bats will look to blame for this. Maybe Palin? Or Rush? Spin it so that Conservative radio is to blame.
Maybe the left considers complaining about the...uhhhh...treatment...of this woman “culturally insensitive”...
The liberal media will try to spin this somehow...
Islam is Evil. Islamics are not the level of feral animals. It is a cult of hate, and, a cult that is abusive towards women
If both the liberal and conservative media do not start coming out and denounce Islam....no more “Islam is a religion of peace” crap....then Islam will have won
an array of the anti-Semetic,anti-US, antii-Israel rantings of this piece of garbage who is the poster boy for being a ‘sel hating Jew’:
Nir Rosen
Nir Rosen is a Jewish American journalist and fellow at the New York University Center on Law and Security, and a former fellow of the New America Foundation. It also appears that his parents are Israeli. Though best known for his writings on Iraq, Rosen comments on other areas in the Middle East including of course Israel. In the selection of statements by Rosen below, he whitewashes the international terrorist organisation, Hezbollah, accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing, justifies Palestinian violence on Israeli civilians and advocates a one-state solution.
Below is a selection of statements made by Nir Rosen “in his own words”:
“Question: The political turmoil in Lebanon continues even though the war with Israel has been over for more than a year. Tensions are escalating because of the upcoming presidential elections which are being closely monitored by France, Israel and the United States. Do you see Hezbollah’s role in the political process as basically constructive or destructive? Is Hezbollah really a “terrorist organization” as the Bush administration claims or a legitimate resistance militia that is necessary for deterring future Israeli attacks?
Nir Rosen: Hizballah is not a terrorist organization. It is a widely popular and legitimate political and resistance movement. It has protected Lebanon’s sovereignty and resisted American and Israeli plans for a New Middle East. It’s also among the most democratic of Lebanon’s political movements and one of the few groups with a message of social justice and anti imperialism. The Bush Administration is telling its proxies in the Lebanese government not to compromise on the selection of the next president. This is pushing Lebanon towards another civil war, which appears to be the plan. The US also started civil wars in Iraq, Gaza and Somalia.
Question: The Gaza Strip has been under Israeli sanctions for more than a year. Despite the harsh treatment—the lack of food, water and medical supplies (as well as the soaring unemployment and the random attacks in civilian areas)—there have been no retaliatory suicide attacks on Israeli civilians or IDF soldiers. Isn’t this proof that Hamas is serious about abandoning the armed struggle and joining the political process? Should Israel negotiate directly with the “democratically elected” Hamas or continue its present strategy of shoring up Mahmoud Abbas and the PA?
Nir Rosen: Hamas won democratic elections that were widely recognized as free and fair; that is, as free and as fair as you can expect when Israel and America are backing one side while trying to shackle the other. Israel and the US never accepted the election results. That’s because Hamas refuses to capitulate. Also, Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood which is active in Egypt and Jordan and both those countries fear an example of a Muslim brothers in government, and they fear an example of a movement successfully defying the Americans and Israelis, so they backed Fatah. Everyone fears that these Islamic groups will become a successful model of resistance to American imperialism and hegemony. The regional dictators are especially afraid of these groups, so they work with the Americans to keep the pressure on their political rivals. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah collaborates with the US and Israel to undermine Hamas and force the government to collapse. Although they have failed so far; the US and Israel continue to support the same Fatah gangs that attempted the coup to oust Hamas. The plan backfired, and Hamas gunmen managed to drive Fatah out of Gaza after a number of violent skirmishes.
Israel should stop secretly supporting Fatah and adopt the “One State” solution. It should grant Palestinians and other non-Jews equal rights, abandon Zionism, allow Palestinian refugees to return, compensate them, and dismantle the settlements. If Israel doesn’t voluntarily adopt the One State solution and work for a peaceful transition, (like South Africa) then eventually it will be face expulsion by the non Jewish majority in Greater Palestine, just like the French colonists in Algeria.
This is not a question of being “pro” or “anti” Israel; that’s irrelevant when predicting the future, and for any rational observer of the region it’s clear that Israel is not a viable state in the Middle East as long as it is Zionist.” Excerpts from interview of Nir Rosen by Mike Whitney November 30, 2007
“Nor has the movement shown a long-standing inability to reconcile with its enemies. Most strikingly, in 2000, after Israel’s withdrawal from the Lebanese territory it was occupying, the thousands of Shia and Christian collaborators suddenly found themselves vulnerable to retribution and street justice from understandably aggrieved Lebanese. On strict orders from Hizballah, however, the vast majority were not touched. Rather they were handed over to the Lebanese army, dealt with by the Lebanese government and imprisoned and amnestied prematurely, in a move that offended many Lebanese. Nevertheless, today they can be spotted in towns in the south; everyone knows who they are, and they remain unharmed. Hardly the actions of a violent fundamentalist terrorist organization.
And what was so unreasonable about Hizballah’s demands? The movement insisted it wanted Lebanese prisoners to be freed by Israel, all of Lebanon’s territory to be evacuated by Israel, and for the Lebanese army, which had never defended Lebanon, let alone its south, to come up with a national defense plan. Thirty years of proven Israeli brutality and 60 years of Lebanese government neglect of the south gave Hizballah a raison d’etre its leadership insisted it did not want.
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It was this culture of resistance that led to Hizballah’s surprise victory in what is now being called in Lebanon “the Sixth War” with Israel. (A note on my usage of “surprise victory”: If war is politics by other means, then Israel failed to achieve its stated political goals of disarming Hizballah and pushing it north of the Litani River; so too did it fail to achieve its unstated goals of cleansing the south of all Shias and intimidating Lebanese and Palestinian resistance— two failures that even Israel’s own generals are beginning to admit. Hizballah, on the other hand, not only survived the war intact, and with relatively few casualties, but it inflicted relatively heavy casualties on the Israeli military and achieved greater popularity than it ever had—winning the hearts of Muslims around the world, and many non-Muslims in Lebanon.)”
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As we Americans mourn our losses in the Sept. 11 attacks and in the subsequent war on terror (which has now cost more American lives than were lost in the attacks that provoked it), it is worth wondering: What exactly is terrorism? And if it is the infliction of violence on civilians for political reasons, then who are the terrorists?” Hizb’allah Party of God Truthdig October 3, 2006
“Over a year ago, I revisited Israel after a three-year absence. As my El Al plane landed in Tel Aviv, the intercom played an Israeli folk song of my childhood, “Its so good that you’ve come home.” Despite my cynicism, the child in me wanted to cry. I stifled the nascent tears, which I rejected as a vestigial remnant of the nationalist propaganda they had inculcated me with in the summer camps of my coastal village. Just like every other time I came, I was entering a maelstrom, new and unique, yet a mere variation on the same theme of bloody nationalism, paranoid identity and violent religion that defined Israel.
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My first morning in Israel I was awakened by the high-pitched voice of my grandmother shouting to other family members: “We will never give up the Temple Mount! It is the heart of hearts of world Judaism!” The Temple Mount is called the Haram al Sharif by Muslims. It is in East Jerusalem and both sides wanted it. I groaned to my grandmother my hope that they give back the Western Wall too, and pulled the pillow over my head. The day I arrived, Prime Minister Ehud Barak had indicated his acquiescence to a Clinton plan for Jerusalem’s partition. I had arrived at a time when the country was engaged in a violent debate over whether a bunch of rocks were more sacred than human life.
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Israel and the Palestinians cannot be reconciled. My father always spoke about the coming blood bath that would make Israel look like Bosnia and I am now inclined to agree with him when before I dismissed him as a sardonic veteran of three wars. “The Palestinians want justice and the Israelis want a compromise,” he told me. And never the twain shall meet. My father sighed, “It was a mistake for us to come here to begin with. Zionism was a colonialist idea. The Palestinians were the American Indians. It was not an empty land. The blood will soon be up to our knees.” I looked out the window and wondered if all this could be erased. I had been to Bosnia before, and I had seen the rotting carcass of a country.” This Broken Home Revisiting Israel April 23, 2002
“The powerful – whether Israel, America, Russia or China – will always describe their victims’ struggles as terrorism. The destruction of Chechnya, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the slow slaughter of the remaining Palestinians, the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, these will never be called terrorism.
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The Palestinians do not attack Israeli civilians with the expectation that they will destroy Israel. The land of Palestine is being stolen day after day. The Palestinian people are being eradicated day after day. They must respond in whatever way they can to apply pressure on Israel.
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It is not that Palestinians have the right to use any means necessary to resist, but they are weak. The weak have much less power than the strong, and can do much less damage. The Palestinians would not bomb cafes or use home-made missiles if they had tanks and planes. It is only in the current context that their actions are justified, and there are obvious limits.” Hamas has been targeted since it was elected The Nation December 29, 2008
On the pages of ‘Comment is Free’, Nir Rosen stated the following “in his own words”:
“A Zionist Israel is not a viable long-term project and Israeli settlements, land expropriation and separation barriers have long since made a two state solution impossible. There can be only one state in historic Palestine. In coming decades, Israelis will be confronted with two options. Will they peacefully transition towards an equal society, where Palestinians are given the same rights, à la post-apartheid South Africa? Or will they continue to view democracy as a threat? If so, one of the peoples will be forced to leave. Colonialism has only worked when most of the natives have been exterminated. But often, as in occupied Algeria, it is the settlers who flee. Eventually, the Palestinians will not be willing to compromise and seek one state for both people. Does the world want to further radicalise them?” Gaza: the logic of colonial power December 29, 2008
I feel terribly for Ms. Logan and hope she will be okay, but this guy mentions something odd in his comments - that the same thing happened to a number of women that night. Where are the news reports about this? Is it possible that the anti-Hosni demonstrators engaged in wide scale rape last week, but the facts were covered up by U.S. journalists because the “pro-democracy” celebration storyline perpetrated by Barry and the MSM could not be tainted by these terrible assaults?
Because zero intends to stand with his Muslim Brothers if things get dicey.
“..sexually assaulted i.e. raped”
Nowadays the term “sexual assault” can mean almost anything; including rape, fondling, groping, a pat on the butt, or an unwanted kiss.
Unless you KNOW that she was raped; don’t infer it from the term “sexual assault.”
Watch-—she will come back and say it’s all the TEA party’s fault for spreading hateful rhetoric and her Muslim animal rapists are “not to blame”.
Watch.
I agree. How long before Rape And The City 2?
(I'm being deliberately unfunny to make a point.)
I’m sorry for this lady that this happened.
WHY do we send females in to events like this in gutter countries and expect anything else?
Be like sending a lady reporter to Mexico to cover the norcos.
This just shows how off the charts some people are,, particularly on the left. He calls her a warmonger or whatever, and because he disagrees with her politics he has no sympathy. Human decency goes out the window.
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