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"One of the worst human-rights violations in the world today" – this is how Nelson Mandela has characterized Israel's naval blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, and the defensive actions the Jewish state's soldiers were forced to take onboard a Gaza-bound ship. The Mavi Marmari was one in a flotilla of six ostensible aid ships headed to Gaza in contravention of the naval blockade. And I know this how? Norman Finkelstein, another of Hamas' effective spokesmen – left-liberal, Jewish academics often are – has galvanized Mandela for moral suasion in condemning Israel's actions. The fact that Mandela made the condemnation in his...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, called Wednesday on President Barack Obama "to call Israel to an accounting" for its attack Monday on a Turkish ship that was traveling in international waters laden with humanitarian goods for Gaza. Israel's conduct "constitutes an act of belligerence against Turkey, which at one time Israel considered an important ally," the Ohio Democrat wrote. "It also undermines United States troops' efforts in Iraq, since your administration's efforts to achieve stability in the region and to withdraw troops from Iraq has depended upon Turkey's cooperation through use of its air bases." He called for the United States...

"....we're going to be talking for a half hour or so to Andrew McCarthy, who has written a book. It's The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. It is especially timely given what's happening in Israel via this flotilla, the misreporting regarding the Israelis with this flotilla incident over the weekend. The Israelis and the Egyptians set up blockades to prevent more weapons from getting to Hamas in Gaza. It was purely and simply that. The Turkish government, which is now aggressively throwing in with Iran and even Hugo Chavez, led this provocation. ...." "Islamists have taken...

[video] In an an extraordinary interview prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says Obama has more in common with the radical left and Islam than might be imagined. He states that there is "no doubt that Obama is the ideal partner for the global Islamist movement." He adds, "Islamists now have an administration that's extraordinarily friendly and wants to be perceived as friendly to not just Islam at large, but to the Islamist movement. Obama can speak in a unique way both to the Islamists and to the left. He is a dyed-in-the-wool member of the hard left, but he also has significant...

Most Americans who have some passing acquaintance with the term "Salafist" assume it is a label for terrorists. Therefore, in the public mind, Salafists are the real bad guys, to be sharply distinguished from the ubiquitous Muslim "moderates" -- who are purportedly "moderate" because they allegedly "reject terrorism," not because their views are actually benign. This is a hopelessly ill-conceived construct, but leftists -- who dominate policy circles, the academy and the media -- are delighted to have us see things this way. With Americans in the dark, Islamists freely pass themselves off as moderates. That makes it politically palatable...

THE GOVERNMENT, political parties, NGOs and members of the public roundly condemned the killing of the humanitarian activists by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in international waters in the early hours of yesterday. President Demetris Christofias condemned both the naval blockade of Gaza, which he said violated international law, and the attack. "The killing of people is condemnable for everyone and the killing of non combatants constitutes a criminal act,” he said. “No one is happy, first of all with continuing blockade, which followed the attack against Gaza in December 2008 with its catastrophic results on Palestinians.” The continuing of...

<p>The US president's national security strategy is to highlight homegrown terrorism for the first time, an adviser to Barack Obama says.</p> <p>John Brennan said the document being unveiled on Thursday explicitly recognised the threat posed by "individuals radicalised here at home".</p>

While it cannot be proven, there is little reason to doubt that many on the Left are disappointed that the Times Square bomber didn't turn out to be the "white male" he was originally identified as. This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling evidence.There is a perfectly clear pattern on the Left -- the normative Left, not just the "far" Left -- that denies the obvious when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Take, for example, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 fellow soldiers and tried to murder the 32 others whom he wounded...

In May of 2009, Elena Kagan, as US solicitor general, filed papers with the US Supreme Court encouraging it not to listen to arguments in a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit was filed by thousands of family members and victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US.

Franklin Graham, Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, 2010, tells the gospel truth... YouTube Video On This Page ...but he need not be so pessimistic about our future, if Americans are willing to wake up and "repent," i.e., turn to the truth, and yield ourselves to it (hence, the word under-stand). That is how to truly become aware and strong. And people who do this will fulfill the responsibilities with which God charges them. Those who are Sovereign Citizens of America will carry out our responsibilities to govern our nation and influence our culture. For example,...

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There was no joy in liberal land when the prime suspect in the Times Square bomb plot turned out to be a Pakistani-American. The right-wing terrorist boogeyman vanished. Leftist racial and ethnic profiling failed again. The widely distributed videotape of a lighter-complected suspect near the attack scene - almost universally reported as a "white man" - raised expectations in some quarters that this could be the work of right-wing extremists, maybe even - oh dare it be hoped? - a Tea Party Republican.

Meet Faisal Shahzad. As a wannabe mass murderer, he is kind of a zero. Then again, so is his political hero: President Obama. You see, Mr. Shahzad meets all of the criteria for the modern day Democrat; 1) He was from overseas. Just like George Soros, that awful Huffington Puffington woman, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos and, quite frankly, our President, Faisal's connection to the US was rudimentary at best. 2) Faisal was an anti-Bush zealot. The Wall Street Journal reports that the alleged terrorist spoke out passionately about one issue: his hatred of President Bush. Who did he...

Pakistan-Born Shahzad Faced Foreclosure in Connecticut and Disliked President Bush; an Invisible Man at His University Faisal Shahzad was losing his Connecticut home to foreclosure, disliked President George W. Bush, and was an almost invisible presence at the American university where he earned two degrees. Those are some of the details in the still-emerging portrait of the man who authorities say has implicated himself in the botched Times Square bomb plot. Mr. Shahzad was born in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, according to Pakistan's U.S. embassy. He worked at a Connecticut marketing firm until 2009, the same year he became a...

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, brought on two former CIA officials to discuss the latest terror attack, and the MSNBC host agreed with Tyler Drumheller that the most recent attacker was motivated by his house being foreclosed on and also agreed with Robert Baer who feared another attack could lead to "The Tea Party being strengthened" which could lead to "people blaming the White House for a situation it didn't create." Baer also hit Matthews' sweet spot of talking points when he went on to warn that the last successful terror attack "got us into a war in Iraq we...

Various politicians and members of the media blamed the "right-wing" for the failed New York car bomb terrorist attack, now they are afraid of "racism" against Muslims. Monday, May 3, 2010: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY): "Whether the guy who did this, or the people who did this were with some Islamic terrorist group or whether they were some right-wing nut group or whether they were by themselves, in one sense it doesn't matter." CNN Terrorism analyst Peter Bergen says its probable the Times Square car bomb attempt was by a "right-wing" terrorist. MSNBC's Chris Matthews and NBC News Terrorist Analyst...

The first video is an interview of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Katie Couric. Here, the liberal gun control advocate Bloomberg tries to blame this terrorist attack on someone who is not happy with the health care bill. Would that be a Tea Party person, Mr. Mayor? The second video/audio is the voice of MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, wishing out loud that it wasn’t an islamic terrorist. She states, “There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country”. Well, I hate to disappoint you, Contessa….but it...

Faisal Shahzad gave the impression of a quiet family man, raising two small children with his wife in Shelton, Conn. and telling neighbors he worked on Wall Street. Now the Pakistani-American is accused of trying to detonate a homemade car bomb in New York City's bustling Times Square. Authorities have brought terrorism and mass destruction charges against him, saying he has confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan. Shahzad was expected to appear in court Tuesday. CBS News reports that officials intend to arraign Shahzad Wednesday morning in Manhattan Federal Court before a U.S. magistrate. Shahzad has been talking to...

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer told a radio host today that she’s disappointed the Times Square terrorist is a Pakistani-American Muslim. Why couldn’t it just be an angry white male? That would make things so much easier for the jihadi-supporting left. The Radio Equalizer reported this from today’s Stephanie Miller Show: GatewayPundit has the audio

From House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D/MD, today has said that the President Barak Obama White House has been much sucessful in fighting terrorism then his predecessor, former President George W. Bush.