Hateful Bee

Nahoul the Bee, star of a children's show on Hamas-run TV in Gaza, calls for the liberation of Al-Aqsa from the criminal Jews and Zionists by means of "prayers, blood, sacrifice, and pain."

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Gaza's Christians fear for their lives

The battle to “drive the Jews into the sea” took a time out over the weekend with an attack on Christians living in Gaza:

Christians living in Gaza City on Monday appealed to the international community to protect them against increased attacks by Muslim extremists. Many Christians said they were prepared to leave the Gaza Strip as soon as the border crossings are reopened.
The appeal came following a series of attacks on a Christian school and church in Gaza City over the past few days.

Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the small Latin community in the Gaza Strip, said masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin Church.
"The masked gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the main entrances of the school and church," he said. "Then they destroyed almost everything inside, including the Cross, the Holy Book, computers and other equipment."

Musalam expressed outrage over the burning of copies of the Bible, noting that the gunmen destroyed all the Crosses inside the church and school. "Those who did these awful things have no respect for Christian-Muslim relations," he said.

He estimated damages at more than $500,000. "Those who see the destruction will realize how bad this attack was," he said. "Christians have been living in peace and security with Muslims for many years, but those who attacked us are trying to sabotage this relationship."
He said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas phoned him on Sunday night to express his strong condemnation for the attack. "President Abbas promised that he would do his utmost to prevent such attacks on Christians here," he said.
Fatah officials blamed Hamas militiamen for the attack on the church and school. However, Islam Shahwan, spokesman for Hamas's Executive Force in the Gaza Strip, denied responsibility.

He nevertheless admitted that a large group of Hamas militiamen had been near the area during the attack. "We have instructed all our men to withdraw from the area," he said. "We will punish anyone who targets churches and public institutions."

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Kindergarden Graduation from Hell!

"I just happened across a video on YouTube that pretty well takes jihadist pageantry (and child abuse) to another level entirely. It's got a child suicide bomber, jihadist rhetoric, a child (convincingly) playing Hassan Nasrallah, and lots of kids with guns.I blame BushCo and the Iraq War for this.


Link via Newsbucket

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Israeli Intelligence Chief: Iran Training Hamas

Los Angeles Times: TEL AVIV -- The head of Israel's domestic intelligence agency said Monday that Iran was giving advanced military training to members of Hamas, a move he called a "strategic danger" to the Jewish state. Yuval Diskin, the director of Shin Bet, said that the militant movement had dispatched "tens" of fighters from the Gaza Strip to Iran for "months, maybe years" of instruction, and that Iran had promised to train hundreds more. A Hamas spokesman denied the assertion. The training, if confirmed, would mean that Iran is expanding its alliance with Hamas, which Israel and the United States list as a terrorist organization and which has controlled the Palestinian Authority government for nearly a year.

Since Western nations cut off funding to the Palestinian government last spring because of Hamas' ascendance, Iran has given it at least $120 million in aid. Reports of Iran training Hamas militants, previously attributed to unnamed Israeli and Palestinian officials, have been circulating for weeks. Diskin's remark at a rare briefing for foreign reporters was the first such official claim and echoed a drumbeat of charges by the Bush administration that Iran exports terrorism. The intelligence chief, a burly man with a shaved head, said Hamas was continuing to stockpile weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip through Egypt. But he said Hamas' development of arms factories in Gaza and its alleged training in Iran were greater long-term threats to Israel. Mushir Masri, a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, said Diskin was spreading a false allegation about training to undermine Hamas and build a case for renewed attacks in Gaza. Israel fought a five-month offensive in Gaza last year after Hamas-linked militants captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid. Diskin said Hamas was taking advantage of a cease-fire accord reached with Israel last November to prepare for a future military confrontation. The soldier is still being held. Whether Israel continues to abide by the cease-fire depends on Egypt's ability to stop weapons smuggling into Gaza, Diskin said. With support from the Bush administration, Israel has tried for months to isolate Hamas politically by strengthening Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah movement and engaging him in peace talks. That strategy hit a roadblock last month when Fatah, seeking to end months of armed clashes with Hamas, agreed at a meeting in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to join the Palestinian government as a minority partner, despite having failed to persuade Hamas to recognize Israel and forswear violence against the Jewish state. "Hamas is the big winner in the Mecca agreement," Diskin said in one of the starkest official Israeli assessments to date.

The accord, he noted, keeps the prime minister's job in the hands of Hamas, along with ministries involved in education and social welfare, which are crucial to spreading the movement's influence. Diskin predicted that Saudi Arabia's role in the accord and its pledge of financial support would not shake Iran's influence over Hamas, which he said would happily take aid from rival Middle East powers. The intelligence chief offered an unusually blunt public assessment of Abbas. Israel's Palestinian ally "doesn't have a clear strategy … doesn't know how to run a political movement," he said, and has allowed Fatah to "disintegrate" rather than building its military prowess to gain the upper hand over Hamas. Diskin said it was still possible that the power-sharing accord would collapse amid lingering factional bloodshed and disagreements over who will control Hamas' and Fatah's various security services and militias. He said the rival factions were amassing forces against each other — a "ticking time bomb inside this unity government." On Monday, the two sides waged a gun battle for control of a police training compound in Gaza City. Meanwhile, Ismail Haniyeh, who has retained his job as prime minister, said negotiations on the makeup of a new Cabinet would take at least another two weeks.

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Iran Helping The Taliban

Julian Borger is surprised that Iran is building alliances with Talibans and Hamas. Why? What universe these so-called experts live in? Don't these people study how Islam become to establish itself as an empire?


When Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed this week to hit back at American interests around the world if Iran was attacked, it was no empty threat.
More than at any time in the life of the Islamic republic, Iran is positioned to inflict significant pain on the US and its allies in many places at the same time.
US stumbling in the Middle East has strengthened and emboldened Iran. On top of an array of patron-client relationships with powerful Shia groups, like Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Badr brigades and the Mahdi army in Iraq, Tehran has built a new layer of alliances with some more surprising partners among the Sunni jihadists. It has forged a relationship with Hamas in Gaza, and even appears to have developed links with the Taliban.


In the wake of anecdotal accounts of would-be Iranian jihadists turning up in Afghanistan, western intelligence sources believe official contacts have been made between the erstwhile enemies. Iranian intelligence is thought to be providing some money and training to the Taliban and giving safe passage for jihadists travelling from the Iraqi to the Afghan front.

Seth Jones, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corporation thinktank, who has just returned from Afghanistan, said: "There are indications the Iranians have opened contacts with insurgent groups, including the Quetta Shura (the Taliban command council for southern Afghanistan)".
He said there was so far no evidence Iran had supplied what the Taliban need most, modern surface-to-air missiles. He also stressed that Iranian backing for the Taliban was barely significant compared to the support it enjoyed in Pakistan, while Tehran enjoyed strong relations with the Karzai government in Kabul. "What Iran in my view is doing is pursuing a hedging strategy," he said. "The Iranian government would prefer to keep a close relationship with the Afghan government, but also wants to protect itself from a strike from the US or Israel." Iran could make life more difficult for the US, Britain and their allies in southern Afghanistan. "If the Taliban got surface-to-air missiles, it would really change things in Afghanistan."

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