CBS Derives the Wrong Message (What are the Odds, Eh?) About Hamas-Fired Rockets During Obama's Israel Visit

The leftoids conclude:

Updated 4:10 a.m. ET. JERUSALEM On the second day of a Mideast tour, President Obama was set to emphasize the importance of reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, a message underscored Thursday when Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rockets into southern Israel.

Au contraire, peace-in-our-time-mongers. In fact, this is the message underscored by those Muslim Brotherhood projectiles:

War has an endpoint. Peace does not. A peace in which you are constantly at war can go on forever because while the enthusiasts of war eventually exhaust their patriotism, the enthusiasts of peace never give up on their peacemaking. 

Warmongers may stop after a few thousand dead, but Peacemongers will pirouette over a million corpses. 

Two decades after the peace process has failed in every way imaginable. Two decades after cemeteries on both sides are full of the casualties of peace. Two decades which have created two abortive Palestinian states at war with one another and with Israel. 

Two decades later, it’s still time for peace. 

Peace time means that it’s time to ring up some more Israeli concessions in the hopes of getting the terrorists back to the negotiating table for another photo op in the glorious album of peacemakers. And if the photos are properly posed, perhaps there will even be another Nobel Peace Prize in it for all the participants. 

Wouldn't that--another shiny "peace" prize--make it all worthwhile (the growing pile of corpses be damned)?

"Islamophobia Hurts Australian Multiculturalism"

That's how onIslam puts it. But when you read what the website considers "Islamophobic," you might be inclined to put it another way:

A two-year inquiry into multiculturalism in Australia has found overwhelming concerns on Muslims and their faith. 

It found that out of 513 submissions to the inquiry, 212 raised concerns about or discussed the question of Islam in Australia. 

Some 113 submissions objected to the possible introduction of legal pluralism to accommodate the requirements of Islamic Shari`ah. 

The report says many submissions asserted that multiculturalism was “laying the foundations for ethnic separatism under increased migration from Islamic countries”. 

The parliamentary committee also heard accusations that Muslim imams were encouraging Muslim-only enclaves."

Such Hatey McHatersons, no?

How dare they balk at "legal pluralism to accommodate" shariah?

How dare they believe their eyes and ears?

All that will come to an end, though, once non-Islamophobic multiculturalists get them to knock it off.

Original Zinn

Not so original, really, according to David Greenberg. In a review of a new bio of the radical historian (first name, Howard), Greenberg calls Zinn's most famous book, A People's History of the United State, "a pretty lousy piece of work." Here's Greenberg accounting for the book's unaccountable popularity (hint: Matt Damon's unbridled enthusiasm for the book certainly didn't hurt):

A People’s History caught the imagination of the public, or a portion of it, for several reasons. Foremost was its uncomplicated and ideologically attractive message, enlivened by Zinn’s palpable passion and customarily lucid prose. An easily drinkable blend of the radical history that was now ripe on the vine, the book gave readers the American experience as seen by the losers and the victims. Or as Zinn memorably put it: “the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish … the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America.” In casting himself in solidarity with grassroots movements of protest, Zinn found a winning formula: how could you not root for Zinn and his rag-tag cast of plucky underdogs against the slaveholders, robber barons, imperialists, and protectors of privilege?

Obama Samples Some Fine Palestinian Whine

Channeling their inner Janet Jackson, Palestinians kvetch to Rashid Khalidi's habibi Barry (currently on a glitch-filled trip to the Holy Land), "What have you done for us lately?"

Come One, Come All

You're invited:

University of Toronto Faculty Club Lunch and Learn Featuring:

Barbara Kay and Aruna Papp, authors of Unworthy Creature:  A Punjabi Daughter’s Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love Monday April 16th, 2013 12:00 p.m at the Faculty Club 

($20.00 + tax and 15% gratuity for club members, $27.00 plus tax and 15% gratuity for non-members) 

Barbara Kay is a journalist and author. Writing on a wide range of political, cultural and literary issues, she has been a weekly columnist with Canada’s National Post newspaper since 2003. Barbara recently co-authored Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter’s Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love (2011). She holds an Honours English Language and Literature degree from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from McGill University. Barbara is a Woodrow Wilson Fellowand was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal for “excellence in journalism” (2012).

Aruna Papp has worked as a counselor, trainer, educator and policy consultant for the past 30 years.  She immigrated to Canada in 1972 with a 3rd grade education, two young girls and an abusive husband. Aruna holds two Masters Degrees and founded three agencies which assist abused women. She is also a columnist with two magazines aimed at new immigrants and a research associate with The Frontier Center for Public Policy.  She co- authored Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love. In March, 2013, Aruna represented Canada as a delegate at the 57th session of the United Nations in New York. 

About the book: 

Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love  shows rather than tells what it is like to grow up in a culture where girls and women bear the burden of their family's honour. In a culture obsessed with the primacy of sons, daughters are valued for nothing other than their reproductive functions. Aruna Papp speaks out for the thousands of South Asian girls and women who suffer in silence within this retrograde cultural matrix, not only in the first but in the second and third generations- and goes where feminists and multiculturalists fear, out of political correctness, to tread.  

FOR RESERVATIONS:  Tel: (416) 946-7052 or

faculty.club@utoronto.ca

"Is This Saudi War on Islam's Heritage Engineered by the Zionists?"

Kooky American truther poses an intriguing question on one of the Grandiose Aytollah's media websites. I particularly enjoyed this bit, a relic of old time Jew hate that might have come from the mouth of A. Hitler (had be been alive at the time):

The Western usury-based banking system, dominated by the Rothschilds - the founding family of Israel - has been propped up by Saudi oil money since 1970. That is the year that Henry Kissinger took the Rothschild Federal Reserve dollar off of the gold standard, and made it a Saudi-backed petrodollar.

To boil the above--and the entire article--down to its essence: "It's the Jooooos!" (Well, isn't it always?)

U.S. Shafting the UN "Human Rights" Council for Being Anti-Israel? Swell. But How About Growing a Pair and Resigning from this Disgusting Racket?

On the one hand, I commend the Obama administration for noticing that the UN's odious "human rights" body has an irrational/pathological obsession with Israel:

The Obama administration refused to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for its "disproportionate" focus on Israel.

The Geneva-based council on Monday debated a January special report on the settlements that called for Israel to immediately withdraw from the West Bank and suggested Israel may be liable for war crimes if it does not leave.

U.S. delegates would not speak during the debate, according to DPA, the German news agency, and in separate comments Eileen Donahoe, the U.S. ambassador to the body, said "the United States remains extremely troubled by this council's continued biased and disproportionate focus on Israel."

Israel no longer associates with the Human Rights Council, in part because of last year's fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements that culminated in the report. Israel did not cooperate with the council on the settlements report.

The council repeatedly singles out Israel for criticism and has ignored major human rights abusers, some of which are members of the council.

On the other hand, I condemn the Obama administration for stupidly reversing Dubya's policy of giving this repellent body the cold shoulder:

The Obama administration reversed its predecessor's policy of not participating in the council and has noted some progress in having the body address abuses in countries such as Iran.

Obama's Sly Cartographers Redraw Israel's Map

And not in a good way.

Syrian-Canadian Fails in Bid to Head Syria's "Rebel" Gov't, Warns Canada It'll Be Sorry (For Failure to Cough Up Dough for "Rebels") When Assad Falls

I dunno--sounds like a threat to me:

A Canadian of Syrian origin, who was a leading contender to head Syria’s interim rebel government, is critical of Canada’s lack of support for the rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and form a new government in the war-ravaged country. 

“Syrians are very frustrated by the lack of Canadian support,” Osama Kadi said on Monday from Istanbul, following a day of discussions on the composition of a new government. “Canada talks the talk but won’t walk the walk, and Syrians will remember who stood with them in their struggle and those who did not.”  

Mr. Kadi, an economic adviser from London, Ont., and a former president and co-founder of the Syrian Canadian Council, was one of three leading candidates seeking to become interim prime minister in the Syrian opposition’s new government. Ghassan Hitto, a Kurd with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, was elected in the early hours of Tuesday at a meeting of leading opposition figures of the Syrian National Coalition...

The Muslim Brotherhood, eh? 

Sorry, Osama, there's no way we infidels have to back that "struggle"/jihad.

A Porkalicious Seder in Paree

How do you say "oopsy" in French?:

PARIS — A Seder in Paris should never be boring. So when Roger Yvon, an upscale butcher, proposed his signature deboned duck decorated with pitted green olives for the Passover dinner, I ordered two.          

Roger knows that my husband, Andy, is Jewish and that we take seriously “the Jewish feast,” as Roger calls it. But when our first guests arrived and I proudly removed the ducks from their aluminum foil, I saw that they had been stuffed with a suspicious ground-meat filling.   

For a second, I considered pretending that everything was fine. Maybe no one would mention the stuffing. Or I could say it was veal. But what if it wasn’t? I sneaked into the bedroom and called Roger.       

“What’s in the stuffing?” I whispered.  

“Pork,” he said.       

“How could you use pork?” I hissed. “I told you it was for the Jewish feast!”  

He had forgotten. My husband does not keep kosher, but I hail from one of the most superstitious strains of Roman Catholicism (the Sicilian), and I worried that knowingly serving pork to Jews on Passover might be some sort of mortal sin. “I’m on my way over,” I told Roger. By the time I got to the butcher shop, he had cut and trussed a lamb gigot...

Talk About a Colossal Waste of Cash

USAID is set to spend $300 million for women's rights in Afghanistan.