I.D.F. vets train U.S. Jews to protect their communities

From Israel National News:

IDF Vets Train U.S. Jews to Protect Their Communities
by Maayana Miskin


Kitat Konenut in action (Israel news photo: Kitat Konenut)

Starting in late July, a group of Israeli combat veterans will be holding a training camp in New York to teach advanced self-defense techniques to Jews in U.S. communities. An increasing number of American Jews have expressed interest in the program following a wave of anti-Semitic incidents worldwide over the past year, organizers report.

The group calls itself Kitat Konenut New York – a reference to the “rapid response teams” active throughout Judea and Samaria. Rapid response teams in Israel, comprised of local civilians who are IDF veterans, have often been the first on the scene of terrorist attacks and other emergencies, and have prevented casualties.

It was founded in 2006 in response to a shooting attack at a Jewish center in Seattle, Washington. One woman was murdered in the attack, and several others were wounded.

The group is apolitical, and does not take part in demonstrations. “Our agenda is to protect Jews,” says group member Yonatan Stern.

However, the group does have a firmly held political belief. “We believe in the constitutional right to bear arms,” Stern says. Kitat Konenut encourages all American Jews to learn how to use weapons, and to purchase their own firearms for self-defense.

Trainees learn the IDF's unique martial arts style, known as Krav Maga, and learn to identify suspicious objects and dismantle improvised explosives. They are also trained to use a variety of both non-lethal and lethal weapons, including assault rifles and sniper rifles. Trainers review techniques to deal with situations ranging from knife fights to urban warfare.

Training this year will begin on July 31 and conclude on August 9.

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Teacher, Can We Leave Now? No. (Afghanistan)

You may be repelled at the idea of reading a Thomas Friedman column, but this one deserves your time and attention:

Teacher, Can We Leave Now? No.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Pushghar, Afghanistan
Published: July 18, 2009

"I confess, I find it hard to come to Afghanistan and not ask: Why are we here? Who cares about the Taliban? Al Qaeda is gone. And if its leaders come back, well, that’s why God created cruise missiles."

"But every time I start writing that column, something stills my hand."

Seriously. This is worth a read. Good fodder for those of us who support the War.

How can anybody say we declared war on Islam?

Al Qaeda and the Taliban did!

Update July 21:

Along this same vein, Michael Yon has just posted some interesting photos with ample captioning, covering the Eastern European troops in Afghanistan and their roles and opinions about the work there. Highly recommended.

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Fun with anagrams!

I love anagrams:

• President Barack Hussein Obama = A Democrat speaks inane rubbish
  (seen here, hat tip to Notoriously Conservative)

• John Sidney McCain = Hen Joins Mad Cynic
  (source unknown)

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Dear Senators, Please vote against Judge Sotomayor. Here's why:

Dear Senators,

PLEASE represent your State and your country well by voting NO on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

I hate to get personal, but she has very clearly been duplicitous on critical issues.

In her rulings and in her prior public pronouncements, she has shown a haughty disdain for the true role and meaning of the Constitution.

In the current hearings before the judiciary committee, she had either dismissed or claimed to be confused about the inseparable natural and civil rights to life and the defense of life, especially innocent life.

I could possibly respect her a little if she would at least be honest about her beliefs and philosophy.

But I have little tolerance for someone who would willfully and deliberately deny or even infringe our liberties.

In the immortal words of John Adams, "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

Her cynical and dismissive comments about courts making law were utterly reprehensible and disgusting:

"(The) Court of Appeals is where policy is made," she said. "And I know, and I know, that this is on tape, and I should never say that. Because we don't 'make law,' I know."

Please vote against her nomination. America needs leaders who respect and uphold our Constitution and traditions, not mock them.

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U.S. Soldier Challenges Deployment, Citing Obama's Birth Certificate (or lack thereof)

I've included a video excerpt from tonight's Special Report broadcast on Fox News, and to help prevent this from being labeled some right-wing hatchet job, I've also excerpted a blog post from the CBS News Web site.

(Fox News has been very reluctant to report on this, but once news gets so big, I guess they just have to...)

You can download the main 23-page court filing here: http://microwavedisplay.com/Stefan_Frederick_Cook_vs_Obama_et_al.pdf

(I have a Federal courts Web account that allows me to look up and download official court documents across the country)

From the Political Hotsheet CBS News blog:

"Here's a story tailor-made to burn up the Internet: A soldier is objecting to his deployment to Iraq because he believes President Obama wasn't born in the United States."

"Conspiracy theories about where Mr. Obama was born abound in some quarters despite the fact that the Obama campaign posted the then-candidate's Hawaiian birth certificate online last year. Skeptics call the certificate a forgery, though their claims have been repeatedly debunked."

No, it has not been debunked!

The core issue is that they issued a facsimile of a Certification of Live Birth, which is a virtually worthless document that even a non-citizen can be issued.

The core issue is that he has not shown or released his Certificate of Live Birth

You can't even work as a janitor in the White House without showing one of those!

Certification vs. Certificate: Words means things.

The CBS blog continues:

"Now comes word that U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, a reservist who lives in Florida, is challenging his deployment based on that argument. Reports the Ledger-Enquirer out of Columbus, Georgia: "Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client."

"Cook is arguing that because Mr. Obama isn't really the president (and thus isn't the commander in chief), the soldier "would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President's command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties."

The CBS blog says the soldier is being deployed to Iraq. Wrong. He's being deployed to Afghanistan.

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UPDATE: 4:19 AM 7/16/2009

An amendment to the case:

"Major General Carol Dean Childers retired but subject to lifetime recall, and Lt. Col David Earl Graeff – Medical Surgeon in US Airforce Active Reserves, subject to recall any day, join in this Application for Preliminary Injunction because it is a matter of unparalleled public interest and importance and because it is clearly a matter arising from issues of a recurring nature that will escape review unless the Court exercises its discretionary jurisdiction."

The retaliation begins:

"Upon receipt of the revocation (of his deployment orders, without explanation - pupista), Plaintiff Major Cook called his civilian boss, the CEO of Simtech, Inc., a closely held corporation that does DOD contracting in the general field of information technology/systems integration, at which Plaintiff Major was employed until taking a Military Leave of Absence on Friday July 10, 2009, a senior systems engineer and architect, in preparation for his deployment to Afghanistan. (Plaintiff has five Cisco Systems certifications in information technology dating from 2000 and just recertified in June 2009 for the Cisco Certified Design Expert qualification exam.)

"The CEO of Simtech, Inc., Larry Grice, explained to Plaintiff over a series of four conversations within the next two hours, that he had been terminated."

Wouldn't it be funny if folks called to see if they're taking applications for any Cisco-certified I.T. folks?

Simtech, Inc.
17608 Pasture Rd
Odessa, FL 33556
Phone: (813) 240-0296

More here at attorney Orly Taitz' blog.

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EternalMoonWalk.com REJECTED my Michael Jackson moonwalk video tribute! WHY?

EternalMoonWalk.com REJECTED my Michael Jackson moonwalk tribute video!

WHY?



This is so unfair!!!

I just wish I had more exclamation points on this keyboard!!!

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Here Come the Camps?

"National Emergency Centers Establishment Act"

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Disgrace) has proposed an ominous amendment to HR2647. The text of the proposed amendment as introduced says,

“A person associated or affiliated with a group associated with hate-related violence against groups or persons or the United States government, as determined by the Attorney General, may not be recruited, enlisted, or retained in the armed forces.”

Of course the key phrase here is "as determined by the Attorney General".

No due process, just a declaration by a bureaucrat, and you belong to a hate group, are discriminated against, and the "hate group" members and associates (just because Holder says they are, mind you) will have their rights infringed.

Couple that with Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) recent bill, HR2159, and you lose your gun rights, too.

references:

ttp://www.rules.house.gov/111/AmndmentsSubmitted/hr2647/hastings82_hr2647_111.pdf

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2159

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