By Daniel Greenfield ——Bio and Archives--June 25, 2011
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Hamas terrorist Haytham Battat, who was responsible for the murder of four Israelis, uses his Facebook page to share Jihadi videos from YouTube. PFLP terrorist Saeed Omar, who was sentenced to nineteen years in jail, poses with his favorite soccer team’s banner... Using a 3G smartphone, Omar is able to update his own Facebook ‘fan page’ from prison. Other terrorists use smartphone video to go shopping with their friends and pick out their own clothes, which are then brought to them in prison, and remotely attend family events.Who's paying for it all? Actually you are.
Buying treats and luxury goods isn’t a challenge either. Every convicted Muslim terrorist receives a salary from the Palestinian Authority. Even members of Hamas. That money is provided by American and European taxpayers. As much as 10 percent of the Palestinian Authority’s budget is dedicated to paying the salaries of imprisoned terroristsThose terrorists are dining out thanks to extra money paid to them by the Palestinian Authority which it gets as aid money from America and Europe.
The Obama Administration dramatically escalated aid to terrorists. In 2008, it provided 600 million dollars worth of assistance to the Palestinian Authority. In 2009, it pledged 900 million dollars. By 2010, the PA had pulled in almost 4 billion dollars from international donors, including the US.There are more photos below and a lot more information and context in the article itself. Netanyahu has pledged to end distance learning degrees for terrorists in Israeli prisons. But Iran's useful idiot Yuval Diskin has already rushed to warn that there will be prison uprisings if the terrorists can't get their doctorates. Guess which is getting more play in the Israeli media, this Maariv story or Haaretz's story that Netanyahu's son wrote on Facebook that, "Terror has a religion and it is Islam," Tie that in with the four Golani soldiers jailed for wearing t-shirts that read, ""Golani fights the enemy and does not expel Jews". To the left both statements are equally controversial. Tie all this in with the recent publicized farce that was the Presidential Conference featuring the likes of Peres, Shakira, Amos Oz, Jeremy Ben Ami, Sarah Silverman, Dennis Ross, James Wolfensohn and Livni-- and why complain about the flotilla, when the conference was a flotilla of its own. At state expense. Wolfensohn had recently joined Sandra Day O'Connor and Zbignew Brzezinski to try and make Obama look moderate by finding an anti-Israel position even further than his. Amos Oz sent a copy of his book to a mass murdering terrorist. And Jeremy Ben Ami heads a Soros funded organization dedicated to Israel's destruction. In company like that, who needs a flotilla. Incidentally the death of Peter Falk reminds me of another flotilla.
At the close of World War II, Falk tried to sign up for the armed services but was rejected because of his eye. After serving with the U.S. Merchant Marines, he signed up to go to Israel to fight Egypt.Back then there were people getting on boats to help Israel defend itself.
"Why We Should Care About Bats: Devastating Impact White-Nose Syndrome is Having on One of Nature’s Best Pest Controllers"I won't keep you in suspense, but after five years of study, we still don't know for sure what's killing bats.. .but Fish and Wildlife, the National Park Service (NPS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USGS, as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Defense, and other affected Federal agencies will continue spending as much as it takes until we finally get to the bottom of it. How are we fighting the problem?
U.S. Fish and Wildlife, for example has hired a national coordinator, assistant coordinator, press person, and at least seven regional WNS coordinators. USFWS states that over $11 million of their funds have been spent on WNS, with about $3 million for research. That’s simply the wrong balanceHow can we possibly save bats without a lot of coordinators? The bats may die, but there will be plenty of jobs for bat press coordinators. Did someone say something about the fall of Rome? Good. Let's not hear that kind of talk out of anyone. Things are going great. Just talk to the press coordinator.
House Armed Services Committee member Mike Turner (R-OH) told The Cable that U.S. Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the NATO Joint Operations Command in Naples, Italy, told him last month that NATO forces are actively targeting and trying to kill Qaddafi, despite the fact that the Obama administration continues to insist that “regime change” is not the goal and is not authorized by the U.N. mandate authorizing the war.But remember this war is better because it has UN approval. Just not UN approval for any of this.
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Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.