The Urban Grind

Via The Jawa Report

Hat tip: Mord

For once I agree with Mayor Bloomberg! He doesn’t take any nonsense from this CNN mouthpiece who brings up the usual pro-Fakestinian/Buchananite talking points.

Israel attacked a U.N. school in Gaza, and now the rest of the world, along with the media are in a snit.

As many as 40 Palestinians have been killed in an attack on a UN-run school, witnesses have said, as aid agencies warn Gaza is in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis.

Two Israeli tank shells reportedly exploded outside the school, spraying shrapnel on people who had sought shelter in the building.

A source inside the Israel Defence Forces said explosives had been planted inside the school which caused the civilian casualties.

“After an initial investigation, not confirmed completely, the possibility arises that a mortar shell was fired from the school towards an Israeli army force,” the source told Sky News.

“The force fired back with one shell and it seems that the school was booby-trapped, thus causing a secondary explosion.”

However, it turns out that there were terrorists in that “school” hiding like the worms and firing mortar shells from that location.

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas fired mortar shells from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in Jabalya before the IDF retaliated with aerial bombing that killed Hamas terrorists as well as children, according to an initial IDF investigation.

“Amongst the dead at the Jabalya school were Hamas terror operatives and a mortar battery cell who were firing on IDF forces in the area,” the IDF said. “We face a very delicate situation where the Hamas is using the citizens of Gaza as a protective vest,” according to IDF spokesman Brig. General Avi Benayahu.

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“This is not the first time that Hamas has fired mortars and rockets from schools, in such a way deliberately using civilians as human shields in their acts of terror against Israel,” according to the military. “This was already proven several months ago by footage from an unmanned plane depicting rockets and mortars being fired from the yard of an UNRWA school.”

The video below shows Hamas using a UN school to fire mortars in October 2007. (Via Atlas Shrugs)

Another thing the MSM won’t tell you is that some of these “teachers” moonlight as terrorist rocket builders.

Earlier this morning, Vilmar sent me a link to a video on YouTube that he posted on his blog (which from now on, I’ll call ZooTube) about the real cause of the Arab/Israel conflict. Of course, ZooTube immediately pulled the video.

Now keep in mind that ZooTube is owned by Google, who have their collective noses up the tukhases of the terrorists, and those on the left who support them. In fact, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt is a major Obama supporter. And we should all know by now how Obama has surrounded himself with Jew/Israel haters.

So here’s a link to the video that ZooTube pulled.

What does one say to people who accuse the Jews in Israel of ethnic cleansing, killing innocents, meting out collective punishment, and just making the lives of the Gazans miserable?

First off, the pro-fakes will bring up those dastardly humiliating checkpoints.

Now let me just say that the late Rabbi Meir Kahane was exactly right about the Arabs and Israel. So as insane as Israel is now, they still want to prevent as many suicide bombings as possible. I mean, what would they say after a successful attack? “Uh sorry, but we just didn’t feel comfortable humiliating and embarrassing those Arabs?” I don’t think so. Peoples lives are more important than some momentary awkwardness experienced by some Jew haters at military checkpoints.

As for ethnic cleansing, the late Rabbi Kahane said to students at Brandeis that if the Jews wanted to take over Germany and call it Israel, the Germans would have had a right to deport them. (Come to think of it, I think the same thing should go for our very own Aztlanists who say they’re going to take over the South West by out breeding us gringos.)

Also, you’ll hear many slick anti-semites these days fretting about Israel meting out “collective punishment.” So how about “collective responsibility?”

The fact is, the Arabs elected Hamas as their government. The “civilian” population is firmly behind them. These same “civilians” aid and abet Hamas. So I think it’s perfectly fair and accurate to say that the “civilians” ARE Hamas. Just take a look at this video on how the Gazans teach their children to hate and kill.

The late Rabbi Kahane actually touched on this topic when he brought up the U.S. bombing of Dresden in World War II.

The Rav would ask ‘Who do you think was in Dresden ? No one but Nazi generals ?’ The Rav would explain that the Allies knew that Dresden wasn’t full of high ranking Nazis or many strategically valuable targets. No, it was overwhelmingly populated by what would be called today, ‘innocent civilians’.

Nonetheless, the Allies unleashed a fire-bomb campaign that killed over 100,000 people in a single night !!

And they unleashed this inferno precisely because the residents of Dresden were regarded as part of the Nazi war machine. For that, they bore a collective guilt - and for that, they were collectively punished.

See also Buchanan’s Blitz.

Part three of my series on Gaza deals with the vitriolic, calumnious, anti-Israel propaganda that is making the rounds in national media organizations such as Yahoo! News, Reuters, AP, the New York/Los Angeles Times, and more local outfits as well such as the OCR (Orange County Register). What is this and what can we do about it?

Anti-Semitic Media Claims and their Refutations

CLAIM: There are massive numbers of Arab casualties due to Israeli airstrikes.

TRUTH: Even the Arabs’ own estimates are only 500-some casualties, total. When one considers that about 300 tons of bombs have been dropped by Israel so far, that averages to almost 1,000 tons of explosive per Arab casualty. Even if we believe these casualty figures, that is an extremely inefficient tonnage/casualty ratio, which suggests that Israel is NOT targeting dense population structures. When one considers that the Arab/Islamic propaganda spewed by these nations and their sycophants in the United Nations and Europe is based in complete lies intended to make the Israelis look as bad as possible, it becomes even doubly difficult to believe the claims.

If the Israeli Air Force, which is the most powerful air force in the Middle East several times over, really wanted to, it could completely level the towns and villages of Gaza, creating hundreds of thousands of Arab casualties very quickly. However, Jews do not believe in mass murder and total warfare, and always seek to spare civilians even when those civilians want them dead and are all helping the Hamas terrorists.

CLAIM: Great numbers of Arab casualties are civilians.

TRUTH: Even if you take the Arab media and U.N. estimates at face value, only 25% of Arab casualties are so-called civilians. That would mean that out of 500 alleged Arab casualties, roughly 125 are civilians at most, which is an astonishingly low rate of collateral damage. This is a very low figure when considering what modern warfare consists of as it is, but it should be remembered that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are well-known for using female and child fighters, who obviously are not civilians. But don’t forget that these claims are complete and utter lies of Islamic and anti-Semitic Western propaganda.

CLAIM: Israel attacks civilian centers.

TRUTH: The truth is that Israeli soldiers actually have to ask their commanding officers’ permission to return fire even when being shot at. Israeli soldiers and bombers simply do not target civilians, ever! This is the worst lie of all. The fact is that each and every Israeli soldier and citizen is taught that it is more honorable to die than risk harming an “innocent” Arab civilian. The reason why the Israeli government has sent ground troops into Gaza, greatly increasing the chances of Israeli casualties, is because they absolutely refuse to bomb Hamas strongholds from the air that at all might contain noncombatants! Israel could have won this war through aerial force alone, with no Israeli casualties, in a matter of minutes, but would never bomb Gaza into rubble, because Jews do not believe in total warfare and complete annihiliation of their enemies, even when they are seeking their destruction.

Any check of the real facts (generally buried deep within the news stories) will show that the vast majority of targets hit by Israeli jets are “symbolic targets” (Hamas government buildings, mosques, assembly halls, houses owned by terrorists, et cetera) that have long been abandoned and are in fact EMPTY BUILDINGS! Does a military that primarily attacks empty buildings desire to cause mass civilian casualties! For that matter, does a military that attacks empty buildings really want to win?

It should be remembered that in Islam, any casualty of war, regardless of the circumstances, is considered a martyr of Allah and therefore a blessed saint who goes immediately to heaven. This is why Arabs choose to live near terrorist compounds and training camps. If they or their children are inadvertently hit by Israeli fire when Israeli troops or planes are hammering the terrorist combatants, they believe that they will go to Paradise immediately. This is also why Arab parents often send their children to be “shahids” (suicide bombers) to blow up Israeli children.

CLAIM: Israel is using white phosphorus, a very dangerous incendiary chemical, in its bombs.

TRUTH: This lie comes from Press TV, which is the English-language version of the official media arm of the Iranian government. This is the same Iranian government that denies the Holocaust, vows to use a nuclear bomb to wipe Israel off of the map, and calls for an Islamic holy war against both the so-called “Great Satan” (America) and the “Little Satan” (Israel).

CLAIM: Israel is using depleted uranium bullets against the Arabs of Gaza, because doctors have discovered traces of depleted uranium in the systems of Arabs they have treated.

TRUTH: This lying claim comes from the nation of Norway, and specifically, from Dr. Mads Gilbert, who heads a triage team from that nation. The fact that Norway is sending doctors to Israel to treat the Arabs allegedly wounded in this time of war, but not the Jews wounded by Arab missile fire, says everything. Norway is an extremely anti-Jewish and anti-Christian nation that sided with the Nazis in the Second World War. The president of Norway during World War II, Vikdun Quisling, was a big supporter of the Third Reich. Norway has always sided with Muslims in every single war of the past fifty years, anywhere in the world. Don’t forget that Norway intervened on the side of Israeli Arabs in 1993 to produce the Oslo Accords, which produced the modern phenomenon of “land for peace” (in which tiny Israel gives large chunks of its territory to create a so-called “Palestinian” state). Norway also has taken the side of the Tamil Muslims of the LTTE terror movement in Sri Lanka in the jihad there, and of the Albanian and Bosnian Muslims (who joined the side of Germany in World War II and volunteered for the SS in droves) in their jihad against the Serb Christians of Yugoslavia. In every evil cause imaginable around the globe, Norway can always be counted upon to get involved up to their necks.

Also, it should be known that modern Norway today is an atheistic, postmodern, Christ-hating nation that takes in unlimited numbers of Islamic immigrants, and provides housing and jobs to even the most radical Muslims within, and also has large numbers of witches and satanists roaming the streets, attacking Christians and burning churches. It is actually hip and cool to be a satanist in Norway.

In closing, I strongly urge you to take these lies with a grain of salt. The fact is that the world hates Israel and Jews and always has. In Biblical times, Jews were accused of disloyalty to the Persian, Roman, Greek, and other empires, even when nothing of the sort was true. In the Middle Ages, so-called Christians made up the “blood libel” that Jews kill Gentile children and use their blood to make matzos. In the late 1800s, Jews were accused of being spies that undermined nations such as France. In the 1930s, we all know what happened. Today, anti-Semitism takes the form of vicious lies against Israel. Please have sober minds and use some sense in evaluating what the world tries to feed you.

 
There are those who, witnessing what’s going on in the world, are convinced the Apocalypse is on the way. Sometimes I agree. On days when I am bored I contemplate a future dominated by an EMP-blasted earth with no functioning computers or cars (except really old ones without any electronics.)

Who would live? Who would die? Who would continue to pray at the altar of the Church of the Cult of Victimology or the Church of the Perpetually Entitled their bowls in the hands, outstretched, begging to be ssaved? Do we kill them outright as being detrimental to the survival of the others or just abandon them to their own devices much as native Americans and other cultures abandoned their elderly and infirm in the woods or deserts for the wolves and bears to put them out of their misery.

Would I be able to grow my own food? Would I have to kill the two-legged leaches intent on taking what I have?

So I am a bit prepared. Guns. Knives. Bullets. Survival manuals.

So much for me. This site has some ideas of what you should do.

I like their first two ideas:

(A) Still

In order to weather the End of the World, you’ll need a stiff drink. Once the supermarkets have been looted, you can become the most profitable member of your tribe by building a liquor still.

Finding one might be tricky, so the quickest way is to build your own. First, hit Wikipedia for the details and print them, right now (remember, there will be no internet). Then, you’ll need to ferment something starchy or sugary to get some alcohol. Then, it’s into the still.

A good vessel is a copper hot-water tank. It probably even has a heating element inside, but if you’re out of power you’ll need to light a fire. The trick is to take the temperature up enough to boil the alcohol, but leave the water behind. The vapor is then condensed back to liquid in a spiral pipe. Just be careful you leave the “top and tail” - the undesirable parts of fermentation at the beginning and end, including the poisonous alcohol, methanol.

You’re done. Now you just need an old barrel and five years of patience.

Eyeglasses

Collect these if you can. Like Eldon Blaine in PKD’s Doctor Bloodmoney, you could make some cash off the former contact lens wearers. Better still, try to pick up some stronger lenses, or magnifying glasses.

With a lens you can use the sun to heat things, and set them on fire - you know, like you did to ants when you were a kid. Equally useful is the parabolic mirror, found in the wild in electric bar heaters but easily made with the right math and a shiny piece of metal. This can be used as a solar oven. Mmmm, barbecue. Now you just need to catch some critters, and for that you’ll need some…

Read the comments for other ideas. Alcohol and bullets make great “trading” commodities.

And, of course, you will need to be able to get around. So here are the 10 best post-apocalyptic vehicles.

This one is my favorite

This one comes in a close second. Powered by a Corvette engine it comes with its own UAV!!

The base vehicle is a highly modified Mercedes Benz Unimog chassis with a custom body, completely new power plant, computer controlled suspension, and integrated electrical, hydraulics and electronics systems. Many of the onboard navigation, power, lighting, communications, computation and electro-optics systems were developed specifically for this vehicle.

The system can ford five feet of water, climb a 45 degree slope and provide a comfortable living and work environment at -70F to +130F. It is also intended to be a field testbed for new mobile technologies.

The diverse range of accessories include a high performance Motorbike, an electrically powered UAV aircraft which can fly up to 10 miles away from the MaxiMog® while transmitting back it’s position and live video, and an ROV teleoperated undersea vehicle.

The trailer is a fully custom insulated composite structure which can accommodate two interchangeable Swingout® side compartments, rack mount electronics bays, and rear-mounted major accessories. Typically, a bathroom, kitchen, communications/computing rack and motorbike system would be loaded for an extended expedition.

 
Here’s a story agonizing over the trials, tribulations and inhumanity dealt the Palestinians living in Gaza who resort to tunnels to smuggle goods from Egypt into Gaza.

Abu Ali vows that once the war in Gaza ends he will quickly repair his tunnel under the frontier with Egypt, one of the many underground links used by Palestinian smugglers that have been blasted by Israeli warplanes.

“Life cannot go on in Gaza if the tunnels are destroyed — they’re our only opening to the outside world,” he said, speaking inside the Palestinian enclave that has been blockaded by the Jewish state for more than two years.

Hundreds of tunnels have been carved out beneath the Gaza-Egypt frontier, providing a vital conduit to bring basic needs into the territory which has suffered an increasing stranglehold in the past 18 months.

Foodstuffs, building materials, medicines and electric equipment are all brought from Egypt through the passages — as well as weapons, notably rockets, and ammunition.

Such contraband provides smugglers with a profitable business. It is also a source of income for Hamas, the Islamist movement which has been the sole ruler in the Gaza Strip since June 2007.

The movement levies taxes on the smugglers’ income from the tunnels which are linked to the territory’s electricity grid with the blessing of Hamas.

Conscious that the goods, particularly weapons, flowing under the border are vital to Hamas in its conflict, Israel has bombed dozens of tunnels since Israel began its offensive on the Gaza Strip on December 27.

Abu Ali vows that he will fix the bomb-damaged tunnel that he shares with four partners, including a chief of Hamas’s military wing. But for the moment, he dare not approach the area because “Israeli planes are attacking anyone approaching the frontiers.”

Nowhere in this piece does anyone ask the question: “Why won’t Egypt allow the Palestinians (fellow Arabs) to trade legally across their borders?”

All this agony would end right away.

And if Egypt is afraid of world condemnation in supporting terrorists like Hamas and Fatah then why aren’t they taking action to destroy those tunnels themselves?

But we already know the answer to that, don’t we?

There go those EEEVIL JOOOS again, repressing those poor Arabs. (Snort!)

But seriously, while Israel has been pounding Gaza by air and by land, Israeli doctors have managed to save a baby in Gaza.

(IsraelNN.com) As operation Cast Lead continued in Gaza and Hamas fired rockets on the south, Israeli doctors worked to help their Gaza counterparts save a newborn baby. The baby, Jafar el-Khoudry, was born with a severe heart defect and needed immediate surgery.

A Gaza doctor who realized the gravity of Jafar’s situation contacted Dr. Akiva Tamir of Save a Child’s Heart. The call came in at 11 a.m. Monday last week, and by the evening Jafar had been transferred to the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

Doctors performed an emergency catheterization on the week-old baby, after which he spent several days in intensive care. His grandmother stayed with him in the hospital, while his parents remained with the rest of their family in Gaza.

Save a Child’s Heart was created with the goal of improving medical care for children with heart conditions worldwide. “We really do not differentiate people by their source or their religion or what their parents do,” Dr. Tamir explained.

The group has operated on approximately 2,000 children, half of them Arab children from areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Seventy of the children treated are from Iraq.

Save a Child’s Heart is currently treating more than 20 children, including eight from Zanzibar, eight from Iraq and three from areas controlled by the PA.

Besides providing free surgery, the group runs a free weekly clinic for Arab children from PA areas who suffer heart problems that cannot be treated at PA hospitals, sends surgical teams abroad to teach and to operate on sick children, and runs an training program for foreign cardiologists in Israel.

Both the Washington Post and The New York Times are really going all out for their beloved fakestinian “civilians.”

Now what I want to know is how these journos determine who is or is not a civilian. I mean, it’s not like the Hamas and Fatah terrorists go around in uniforms. They use young men, or women who do their bombings, then blend into the “civilian” population.

So I guess the answer would be to look at the names of the people writing this stuff.

The Washington Post Shifa sob story is written by one Abdel Kareem from Gaza City.

The five-member al-Jarou family decided to make a break for it around midday Sunday. They abandoned their home in the Shaaf neighborhood east of Gaza City and dashed by car to a relative’s house a mile and a half away, thinking it would be safer, according to interviews with family members and neighbors.

For a little while, it was. Then came a series of explosions. Concrete and debris hammered through the air. Hassan al-Jarou, 10, was struck in the head. “I was in the house, with my uncles, my dad and my grandfather, and I saw stones flying,” he said as nurses attended to his injuries at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I don’t know what happened after that.”

Hassan’s grandfather and father were injured as well. Husam al-Shurafa, 26, a neighbor, helped rush them to the hospital. He said he had seen enough mayhem on the streets to persuade him to head back home and take his chances there. “I’d rather die with my family in my house,” he said.

What do these people expect when they elect a terror organization to govern them? But NOOOOO! They wanted their “freedom” from those EEEVIL JOOOS!

Anyway, moving along…

The Shifa hospital sob story that The New York Times put out was written by a Taghreed el Khodary.

The scene on Sunday at the hospital, a singular and grisly reflection of the violence around it, was both harrowing and puzzling. A week ago, when Israel began its air assault, hundreds of Hamas militants were taken to the hospital. Yet on Sunday, the day Israeli troops flooded Gaza and ground battles with Hamas began, there appeared not to be a single one.

The casualties at Shifa on Sunday — 18 dead, hospital officials said, among a reported 30 around Gaza — were women, children and men who had been with children. One surgeon said that he had performed five amputations.

Look how easy it is to play the victim card with this Muslim loving media. If the government these people elected wasn’t bombarding Israel with rockets, none of this would have happened.

So despite these sob stories, here’s what Hamas (and Fatah) really want.

See also, Why The Hush When Rockets Fell On Israel.

Right Wing News has their list up now. Let me know in the comments section who you would like to see there.