The Israelis just struck back hard at Hamas in Gaza. In response, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab world (at least publicly) expressed their anger at the killing of over 300 Palestinians, most of whom were terrorists and Hamas officials. For several prior weeks, Hamas terrorists had been daily launching rockets into Israeli towns that border Gaza. The recent volleys of missiles had insidiously become more frequent — up to 80 a day — and the payloads larger. Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists were reportedly supplying their own training and expertise. These terrorists point to the Lebanon war of 2006 as the proper template for provoking an Israeli counter-response that will bog down the Israeli Defense Forces in the streets of urban Gaza and ensure that Palestinian civilians are harmed on global television.

In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university education. Or, if they do, it’s to get Junior into the Saudi-funded Hamas-run Islamic University of Gaza, where majoring in rocket science involves making one and firing it at the Zionist Entity. [Westerners, particularly the diplomatic elite, seem to entertain a fantasy that assumes otherwise. It's not about land, economics, past grievances at all. Steyn explains.]

An Australian woman allegedly set fire to her husband's genitals because she believed he was having an affair, a court heard.

Europe faces energy crisis as Vladimir Putin cuts Russian gas supply Europe has been plunged into an energy crisis after Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's state-run gas company to cut supplies by 20 per cent.

Remember the fauxtographs from Lebanon of Green helmut guy and the old hag posing with her arms up in the air and crying over countless bombed out buildings because they were all her only home? Well now the same BS artists the dhimmis love to read and believe are showing us more faked and staged photos direct from Gaza. Be amazed....or not.

... stupid frogs capture pirates then turn them over to the very "government" they are financing. .... idiots

More than 70,000 Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against Israel, Iran's state news agency reported Monday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request for permission.

Do they offer doctorates in suicide bombings or just an associates of science degree because of the "one-time" thing?

Ruh-Roh! What are the polar bears gonna do now?! They're gonna starve!! hurrrr!!

No more freebies from Venezuelan Santa Claus to the people of Boston, oopsie doppsie, Joe Kennedy. PDVSA must be 6 ft under to suspend this majot propaganda project, or it might be that the mission has been accomplished: Obamamama is in da house... mmmm

I wonder if she was stir fried?

Seven government agencies will work together on the campaign to "purify the Internet's cultural environment and protect the healthy development of minors," said a statement by the information office of the State Council, China's Cabinet. Pornography is banned in China, though the government's Internet police struggle to block Web sites based abroad.

The new rocket attacks have reached deeper into Israel than ever before, bringing an estimated 700,000 Israelis within rocket range, Israeli officials said.

Before the election, many of Obama's backers contended in these pages that Obama would continue America's long-standing support for the Jewish state. If so, he should say so, loud and clear. And while Obama and his advisers are understandably reluctant to undermine the Bush administration's positions by contradicting them before he takes office, as many on the Left passionately desire, there is no such risk in reinforcing Bush's message by echoing it in his own, eloquent way.

HAMAS using ambulances with UN markings and flag bearer. And UN condemning Israel?

Fatah officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post that Hamas militiamen had been assaulting many Fatah activists since the beginning of the operation last Saturday. They said at least 75 activists were shot in the legs while others had their hands broken. No doubt fistintheass will be shattered by this news

A bullshit charge. And even if it happened, shit happens in war.

Dead muzzies. Always make me smile.

UH OH! Al Gore will condem him to hell.

Only 13? Sloppy. Just sloppy. Try harder next time!

U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff said the United States saw no prospect of Hamas abiding by last week's council call for an immediate end to the violence. Therefore, he said, a new statement at this time "would not be adhered to and would have no underpinning for success, would not do credit to the council."

THE threat of winter gas cuts loomed over Europe yesterday as Russia and Ukraine failed to resolve a dispute that led Moscow to cut off gas supplies to its neighbour last week. .... Looks like the stinkies will soon be shitting turdsickles

Israel dramatically raised the stakes in its offensive against Hamas last night by sending tanks into the Gaza Strip. About fucking time!!!!

The rest of the leaders of the civilized world say every nation has the right to defend itself. ... Even the Arabs privately detest Hamas and 85% of them welcome the Israeli clean up of the Gaza rat's nest. ... The EU is officially in favor of it. ... But just hours after the Czech president of the European Union said the action was "defensive, not offensive" France, of course, issued the dreaded CONDEMNATION of Israel for not allowing a continuation of Hamas playfully launching thousands of rockets on women, children, hospitals, tourists, and schools.

Two Canadians were shot in the Mexican tourist hot spot of Cabo San Lucas Tuesday and one remains in hospital in critical condition, Mexican media reported Wednesday.

Just for a lark, I decided to google “international condemnations of Hamas” this morning. You can guess what came up, right? Naturally, searching for condemnations of Hamas, one finds only international condemnations of Israel.

So how was your holiday season? Over in Gaza, whether or not they’re putting the Christ back in Christmas, they’re certainly putting the crucifixion back in Easter. According to the London-based Arabic newspaper al Hayat, on December 23rd Hamas legislators voted to introduce Sharia — Islamic law — to the Palestinian Territories, including crucifixion. So next time you’re visiting what my childhood books still quaintly called “the Holy Land,” the re-enactments might be especially lifelike.

Afghanistan's southern rim, the Taliban's spiritual birthplace and the country's most violent region, has for the last two years been the domain of British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers. That's about to change. In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected.

Bring on the Pain!

Come on! We were told to get free these people! Ah fuck it, send them to the firing ranges.

Sri Lankan attack helicopters have bombed Tamil Tiger positions in the north of the island, a day after ground forces seized Kilinochchi, the separatists' headquarters. The military says it is following up the seizure by targeting the port town of Mullaitivu and other rebel strongholds in the north.

An Israeli airstrike Saturday killed a senior Hamas commander, Reuters reported. Hamas said the airstrike in Gaza killed Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, a senior leader of the armed wing of the militant group.

A Saddam Hussein house of horrors museum is set to open in the New Year in Baghdad, it emerged today – the second anniversary of the dictator’s hanging. The exhibition includes a man-shaped iron cage used to torture unsuccessful athletes, bloodstained noose and battle plans for the extermination of rebellious Kurds. It is designed to send a clear message that even the most feared dictator cannot hope to evade justice. Saddam

The director of this house of horrors commented, "Madame Tussauds ain't got nothing on us." Western Leftists who volunteered as human shields to protect the Saddam regime, loved visiting the house of horrors. They were able to reflect on what they tried so valiantly to protect from the mean old coalition troops.

In the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, 1.5 million Palestinians are unable to escape the conflict. Residents face bombs, missiles and flickering electricity, and queue for bread along streets littered with broken glass and other debris.

After many months of sending rockets to Israel in hopes of killing anyone who happens to be in it's way (and all this during a cease fire) a Hamas leader is ready to fight back?? The MSM is, of course, horrified Jews dare to protect themselves and try to build up the aggressors as the victims. Poor helpless paleosimians voting in Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. I cry for them every time they cheer on another terrorists attack and especially remember them dancing in the streets after 911. They started it so playing the victim card isn't an option.

What goes around, comes around.

As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other world leaders try to broker a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, one former member of the militant Islamic organization said there will never be lasting peace between the two groups. Yousef, son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the most influential leaders of the militant group, said the organization betrays the Palestinian cause and tortures its own members. Yousef said he was indoctrinated at an early age to use violence to challenge Israeli control in the region. As a teenager he moved up within the organization and became the leader of the radical Islamic Youth Movement that fought Israeli tanks and troops in the streets, celebrated suicide bombings and recruited young men to the cause. Yousef, 30, said he realized the true nature of Hamas and radical Islam during a stint in an Israeli prison. He renounced his Muslim faith, left his family behind in Ramallah and converted to Christianity. "Islam is not the word of God," said Yousef. Brave bastard that Yousef...

The Euros are starting to figure out that Obama can't bring world peace. Gosh,, I thought war was Bush's fault??

He was too busy showing Elian Gonzalez his Michael Jacksom impersenation.

Jewish-French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy was listed by a Belgium-based Islamist group as a target for assassination alongside other leading Jewish personalities in Europe, the Belgian daily La Derniere Heure reported earlier this week. The planned assassination was apparently thwarted after group leader Abdelkader Belliraj, a Belgian of Moroccan ascent, was arrested last February in Morocco, the newspaper reported. Belgian authorities found the list during a raid on homes of local Muslim community members last November, according to the report. The hit list mentioned the names of five other well-know Jewish figures in Belgium and France: Josy Eisenberg, producer of the A Bible ouverte (Open Bible) television program on FR2; Simone Susskind, a leader of Belgium's secular Jewish community; attorney Markus Pardes, president of the International Association of Jewish lawyers and jurists; Belgian writer Jean-Claude Bologne and La Derniere Heure reporter Edmond Blattche. (No doubt the Belgian Frog authorities will try and blame these jews for "provacative" actions - like simply being jews or something...)

A must read article about X-mas is EUrabia. Between being perverted by fags and fought against by ragheads, traditional Christmas is on its way out.

At the docks here, the stacks of shipping containers that used to loom above the highway overpass are gone. Logistics managers say they negotiate deeper discounts every week on ships that are leaving half empty. In nearby Guangdong Province, so many factories are closing without paying employees that some workers are resigning pre-emptively and demanding immediate pay before their employers go bankrupt. In Sichuan and other interior provinces, municipal officials are desperately searching for ways to provide jobs for millions of out-of-work migrant laborers whose families no longer need them for farming. Those are the effects of millions of Americans' cutting their spending. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Chinese empire has got to go!

In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected. New construction at Kandahar Air Field foreshadows the upcoming infusion of American power. Runways and housing are being built, along with two new U.S. outposts in Taliban-held regions of Kandahar province.