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Israel deports 120 illegal immigrants - 0.01% of what Obama deported

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 07:42 PM PDT

AP reports:
Israel is forcing 120 South Sudanese to leave the country as authorities try to whittle the number of illegal immigrants.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad says all 120, who are being flown out on Sunday, agreed to leave voluntarily. She says they were told they faced arrest if they did not sign a form agreeing to leave.

She says adults will receive 1,000 euros ($1,300) and minors 500 euros ($650) per person.
This has been a big story for a couple of weeks now.

But I saw an interesting statistic accompanying President Obama's recent offer of amnesty for illegal immigrants in the US. As mentioned in this article from last year:
Nearly 400,000 people were deported from the United States in the past fiscal year, the largest number in the history of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the government announced Tuesday.

The year-end removal numbers "underscore the administration's focus on removing individuals ... that fall into priority areas" such as lawbreakers, threats to national security and repeat violators, the agency said in a news release.

Overall in fiscal year 2011, immigration officials said, 396,906 individuals were removed....

"All told, this administration has deported nearly 1.2 million people, leaving a wake of devastation in Latino communities across the nation," Joanne Lin, ACLU legislative counsel, said in a news release.
Which news story has had bigger headlines: the 120 Sudanese who are getting paid to go back to their country, or the 1.2 million (10,000 times higher!) who were forcibly deported under the supposedly liberal Obama administration?

Had leftists been 10,000 times more indignant at Obama before his recent about-face? Or is there something about calling Israel "racist" that they just find irresistible?

Music stars who play in Israel (video)

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT

Well done:



By the way the BDS crowd is going nuts over the upcoming Red Hot Chili Peppers show in Israel; you can show your support by going to this Facebook page and Like-ing it.
5:00pm
(h/t Jennifer)

Pal. expert warns Gaza buildings built with smuggled cement might collapse

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Palestine Press Agency quotes Palestinian Contractors Union chairman Osama Kahil as saying that much of the cement smuggled into Gaza through Rafah is unsafe for building.

Kahil says there is a big risk of building without testing of the quality of cement, confirming that the Hamas government does not perform tests on building materials smuggled from the tunnels.

He claimed that the lab tests confirmed that the smuggled concrete is only half the strength of that necessary to build safe structures.

Why you should care about Iran (Honest Reporting)

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 10:30 AM PDT

It isn't only about nukes....

Why You Should Care About Iran

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Sunday links (Ian and Zvi)

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT

From Ian:
Andrew Bolt covered Kuwaitti MB leader Al-Suwaidan 
on his Sunday TV show The Bolt Report - Ep20 Segment 3 - Video
"What worries me most. How many Muslims here want this kind of preacher?"
A music video of the Kinder Jihadis pictures Why isn't there peace between Israel and the Palestinians?
Romney vows to do 'opposite' of Obama on Israel
"Romney on Saturday told the Faith and Freedom Coalition he believes the president is more concerned about Israel attacking Iran than he is about Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.His hawkish speech was the first time he's discussed policy toward Israel at length since becoming the likely Republican presidential nominee."
Digger graveyard desecrated again in Libya
"THERE has been another war graves attack at a cemetery in Libya which contains the remains of Australian soldiers."

 From Zvi:
"JAIPUR: Israel's Facebook page in India ranks in top three foreign country pages. The Israel in India Facebook page, launched by the Embassy of Israel in August 2010, has received almost 20,000 'likes', a figure surpassed only by the pages of the US and the UK."
"J Street, in addition to undercutting both mainstream Israel and American policy toward Iran, has also mischaracterized the views of those it cites in support of its benighted position.""Either J Street must change its policy, or truth in advertising requires that it no longer proclaim itself a friend of Israel, a friend of peace, a friend of truth or a friend of the Obama Administration."
Good news for Israel this summer... .

"A group of Arabs from Tel Aviv have erected anti-Assad billboards in Nazareth, calling the Syrian leader an animal."
Some Israeli Arabs are angry about this.
(and yet leftists hate Israel)
"Shluhot, located in the fertile and intensely hot Beit She'an Valley, isthe source of 30,000 tons of carrots annually, 85 percent of them for export to Europe and Scandinavia. The kibbutz has grown carrots for morethan 60 years, and Kanner has run the factory for 20 — an unusually long term for a kibbutz company CEO. A second-generation son of the kibbutz, born to parents who came to what was then Palestine by way of Austria and Poland, Kanner has always been around carrots."

1972 Munich terrorists had help from German neo-Nazis

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT

From Times of Israel:

The Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics were assisted by a German neo-Nazi, a German newsmagazine reported Sunday. The neo-Nazi, Willi Pohl, helped forge passports and ferried one of the Black September terror cell ringleaders around Germany in the weeks before the Olympic massacre.

Based on recently released files from Germany's security service BfV, der Spiegel reported Sunday that Pohl had met with Saad Walli, an "Arab-looking man" who boasted of his contacts to the radical wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization, seven weeks before the massacre in September 1972. Saad Walli was the code name of Abu Daoud, one of the masterminds behind the attack.

The 2,000-page report, which the police of the city of Dortmund sent to the BfV and other national authorities, does not mention any efforts made by any of the contacted officials to apprehend Abu Daoud in the weeks prior to the massacre, the weekly reported.

In October 1972 Phol was arrested by the police and was found in possession of grenades, arms and ammunition. The weapons were thought to be held in keeping for Black September to be used in a retaliatory attack against German targets. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

Pohl, who today makes a living writing crime novels and has "credibly distanced himself from terrorism," according to Der Spiegel, helped Abu Daoud in several ways. He helped him forge passports and other documents and drove him "across the country, where he met with Palestinians in several cities," the magazine quotes Pohl as saying.

On the occasion of the attack's 40th anniversary this summer, some Israeli politicians, alongside various American and Canadian colleagues, are currently lobbying the International Olympic Committee to honor the Israeli victims of the terror attack with a minute of silence during the upcoming Olympics in London. So far, the IOC has refused to do so.
More detail in Der Spiegel.

Remember that Mahmoud Abbas was behind the financing of the Olympic massacre.

And that both Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad honored one of the architects of the massacre during his funeral two years ago.

(h/t Yoel)

Report: Egypt arrests 22 Arabs planning terror attacks, including PalArabs

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Arabic media, including Al Gareda in Egypt, report:
Authorities have arrested 22 people from Arab countries who were preparing to carry out a terrorist attack after the presidential elections this weekend. A source said they were "seized with sophisticated weapons to carry out terrorist operations in Egypt after the end of the presidential election."

He added that those arrested were Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian and that they were arrested on Saturday; on Monday, they will be brought to the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Cairo for interrogation.

Saturday's papers have published statements from the Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim Yousef in which he said that the ministry received information about people planning to commit hostile acts while wearing army and police uniforms.
There have been statements in Egypt's media about Hamas members planning attacks in Egypt as well, but with the amount of sectarian rhetoric at a peak during the elections and Supreme Court rulings, it is hard to know what is true and what is rumor. Islamists have always been among the first to take advantage of any chaos in the Middle East so these reports cannot be so easily dismissed, either.

Jordanian citizens of Palestinian descent insist they are "refugees" in US embassy protest

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 12:18 AM PDT

Palestinian Arabs in Jordan - who have citizenship - protested outside the US embassy in Amman on Saturday.

They sent a letter to the US ambassador complaining about the initiative in Congress to change the definition of "Palestinian refugee" to be consistent with the definition of every other kind of refugee.

The protesters stated that "this resolution would be a burden on Jordan and the countries where there are camps for the Palestinians in terms of expenditures" and that the international community must pay for the Palestinian Arabs expenses since it created the problem.

They also held signs saying that the "right to return" to Palestins is sacred, and that one way or another, they will return (and, of course, destroy Israel.)

They further said that they will continue to protest as long as anyone dares to contest their refugee status.




Keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs in Jordan are full citizens of the state and would not be considered refugees by any definition except the skewed "working definition" of UNRWA that is accepted by the world without question for only this one group of people.
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