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Muslims urinate on Torah scrolls

Another lesson in tolerance from the followers of Mohammed.

Jewish worshippers returning to Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs after Muslims were given exclusive access to the holy site at the weekend reported that the cabinet containing their Torah scrolls had been urinated on.

One Jewish resident of Hebron told Israel National News that he and several other men had to move the cabinet to another part of the room because of the strong smell of urine in the area where it is usually positioned.

Additionally, green Hamas flags were found placed in the windows that mark the burial sites of Abraham, Isaac, Sara, Rebecca and Leah.

The Cave of the Patriarchs is split into Jewish and Muslim sections, as both groups revere Abraham.

Several times a year, the holy site is given over to one or the other group exclusively to mark special holy days. Muslims were given exclusive access to the Cave of the Patriarchs on Friday to mark their holy month of Ramadan.

Another Jewish resident of Hebron said that some damage to Jewish religious articles or the Jewish side of the site is found every time the Muslims take over. More @ DW.

Here's a recent example where the graves of Biblical Joshua and Caleb were desecrated.

O'Reilly interviews Obama

 Hat tip, AOW.

If Obama got what we he supposedly wanted and Bush refocused the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, guess what Obama (and the rest of the left) would say.....

Suddenly the left would start criticizing the war in Afghanistan and wondering aloud why we we weren't in Pakistan, or North Korea, and so on... ad infinitum.

It's pure cynicism for partisanship's sake. The Democrats know that no war can remain popular for very long with Americans, so the strategy has always been to quarry favor with that sentiment rather than focus on the mission.

Obama is still pushing diplomacy for Iran, despite the fact they're going nuke and haven't responded to Western diplomacy since the 1979.

He denies a terrorist connection to Iran, and Bill O doesn't call him on it. Obama's reasoning for not invading Iraq is that Saddam supposedly wasn't connected to al-Qaeda, yet Iran's long record of state sponsorship of terrorism, even if they go nuclear, is still no reason for a response.

But Bill is too busy telling us what HE THINKS to pry open Obama. Too bad.

Bill apparently doesn't know that a sanction on Iran would stop the sale of oil to China or Russia, so an economic sanction is worthless.

When was the last time you bought something that said "made in Iran" on it?

I think Obama's denial that he was opposed the surge is a bit revealing. He wants to appear to be a sound foreign policy guy, he really does, but he's not willing to take the necessary measures to institute any kind of workable policy abroad.

He will always try to implement sanctions with enemies that have no economic connection with us in the first place. Laughably naive, frighteningly dangerous.

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Palin at the RNC

It was a great speech, but my favorite moment was this.

Pt.2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4

Rudy Giuliani's speech.

Fred Thompson at the RNC

Just in case you missed it.
Joe Lieberman puts country first.

Undercover Mosque: The Return

Hat tip Always on Watch.

BBC Ch4's Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, The Return.
Background on this controversial program. Watch the original Undercover Mosque.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

25 years ago: KAL 007 Shot Down by USSR

Lest we forget.

Wiki-Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007, was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner shot down by Soviet jet interceptors on September 1, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. 269 passengers and crew[1], including US congressman Lawrence McDonald, were aboard KAL 007; there were no known survivors.

The Soviet Union argued that the aircraft had entered Soviet airspace as a deliberate provocation by the United States, the purpose being to test its military response capabilities, repeating the incursion of Korean Air Flight 902, also shot down by Soviet aircraft over the Kola Peninsula in 1978. There were also claims that the aircraft was "filled with garbage" instead of passengers, as very few human remains were found.

The incident attracted a storm of protest from across the world, particularly from the United States.

Reading the electronic intercept of of the shootdown, it sounds like the Russians were in a hurry to blow KAL 007 out of the sky before it had a chance to leave Soviet airspace.

The following is the actual shootdown transmissions from the Sukhoi-15 as intercepted by the U.S. (NSA), in combination with the commands from Soviet Combat Air Control handed over by the Russian Federation,

Osipovich: (18:22:02) The target is decreasing speed.

Osipovich: (18:22:17) I am going around it. I’m already moving in front of the target.

Titovnin: Increase speed, 805 [call sign of Osipovich’s Sukhoi].

Osipovich: (18:22:23) I have increased speed.

Titovnin: Has the target increased speed, yes?

Osipovich: (18:22:29) No, it is decreasing speed.

Titovnin: 805, open fire on target.

Osipovich: (18:22:42) It should have been earlier. How can I chase it? I’m already abeam of the target.

Titovnin: Roger, if possible, take up a position for attack.

Osipovich: (18:22:55) Now I have to fall back a bit from the target.

Gen. Kornukov: Oh, [obscenities] how long does it take him to get into attack position, he is already getting out into neutral waters. Engage afterburner immediately. Bring in the MiG 23 as well... While you are wasting time it will fly right out.

Titovnin: 805, try to destroy the target with cannons.

Osipovich: (18:22:37) I am dropping back. Now I will try a rocket.

Titovnin: Roger.

MiG 23 (163): (18:23:49) Twelve kilometers to the target. I see both [the Soviet interceptor piloted by Osipovich and KAL 007].

Titovnin: 805, approach target and destroy target.

Osipovich: (18:24:22) Roger, I am in lock-on.

Titovnin: 805, are you closing on the target?

Osipovich: (18:25:11) I am closing on the target, am in lock-on. Distance to target is eight kilometers.

Titovnin: Afterburner.

Titovnin: AFTERBURNER, 805!

Osipovich: (18:25:16) I have already switched it on.

Titovnin: Launch!

Osipovich: (18:26:20) I have executed the launch.

Osipovich: (18:26:22) The target is destroyed.

Titovnin: Break off attack to the right, heading 360.

Osipovich: (18:26:27) I am breaking off attack.

President Reagan called it the Korean Airline Massacre, and ordered the FAA to revoke the licence of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines to operate flights to and from the US. Aeroflot flights to North America were consequently available only through Canadian and Mexican cities. Aeroflot service to the U.S. was not restored until 29 April 1986.

"crime against humanity [that] must never be forgotten" and an "act of barbarism . . . [and] inhuman brutality"