The Urban Grind

Not content to sue an American state trying desperately to protect its citizens and its sovereignty, Obama has now included the controversial Arizona immigration law that was largely gutted (thanks to an activist judge appointed by Bill Clinton) in its first ever report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Of course our POTUS had the help of left wing, anti-American organizations in putting together this report.

The report – which now goes to the U.N. for review — was drawn up following a series of consultative sessions between January and April involving federal agencies and civil society organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, NAACP, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Human Rights First.

The report’s compilation is part of the “universal periodic review” (UPR) process in which the HRC probes every U.N. member-state’s human rights record once every four years.

Here’s what was written about the Arizona immigration law:

– On immigration, the report says the U.S. seeks to build an effective and fair system of enforcement, and last year began a major overhaul of the immigration detention system. It notes ongoing court action contesting the controversial Arizona immigration law. “President Obama remains firmly committed to fixing our broken immigration system, because he recognizes that our ability to innovate, our ties to the world, and our economic prosperity depend on our capacity to welcome and assimilate immigrants.”

Of course the great Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is not taking this lying down. She demanded the White House take back the reference to the Arizona immigration law be taken out of the report to the UNHRC.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.

“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.

Here’s what Governor Brewer had to say on the Greta Van Susteren show.

Now while I’m on the subject of the U.N., here’s what one Arizona sherif had to say about them.

(CNSNews.com) – Sheriff Larry Dever, whose officers patrol Cochise County along the border between Arizona and Mexico, said he finds it “amazing” that the U.S. State Department would refer the recently passed immigration law in his state to the United Nations Human Rights Council for review.

“Well, it’s just amazing to me,” Dever told CNSNews.com. “Course, I have about as much regard for the U.N. as I do the vermin that hides in the rocks around my house here and reaches out and tries to bite me every now and then.”

Right on, sir!

Bwahahahahaaaa! It’s about time.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hamas officials are confirming that an Israeli airstrike killed the Hamas interior minister, who oversaw thousands of security agents in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army confirmed the airstrike.

Hamas television says Interior Minister Said Siam was killed in a strike that flattened a home in Gaza City. A top aide, Siam’s brother and his brother’s family were also killed.

Siam is considered to be among Hamas’ top five leaders in Gaza.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas militants opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded.

“It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it,” he said. “I don’t think it should have happened and I’m very sorry.”

A senior Israeli military officer had also said Israeli troops shelled the compound after coming under fire from Palestinian militants there — an account dismissed by a U.N. official there at the time as “nonsense.”

Frankly, those U.N beasts are filthy liars. The UN has always been an active accomplice to Arab terror against Jews. The U.N. ambulances have been used in the past to transport terrorists.

Furthermore, UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) has been known to employ Hezbollah terrorists as policy advisers and body guards.

If only the U.N. could be thrown out of America for good. They’re nothing but a terrorist mouthpiece.

This article in the ultra liberal Washington Post was written by Sudarsan Raghavan and Islam Abdel so that should tell you right away that this is not so much news, as a bash Israel peace by two Muslims. And just so you know, the word “abd” in Arabic beings slave. The last name Abdullah thus mean “slave of Allah.” And “Abdel” is just another variation of that name.
Anyway, this sob story is about how five children whose families lived right next door to a mosque, were killed by Israeli air strikes.

Throughout this nauseating whiney piece, everyone whines about why they were hit. As usual Amnasty Intershithole chimes in about how Israel and Egypt should allow some kind of ceasefire for the purposes of “humanitarian” relief.
But the thing that these journalists and their lefty sympathizers with their walnut sized brains conveniently ignore is that these Arabs wouldn’t be in the mess that they’re in if they didn’t encourage their children to hate and die murdering Jews. That would be a start. Or how about electing a terrorist organization as their government? When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. The fact is, these people wouldn’t be dead if Ham-Ass hadn’t been constantly firing rockets into Israel. So take that!

Another thing this article omits is that Hamas have been preventing people from leaving Gaza.

Egyptian FM Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit stated that Egypt has been preventing wounded Gazans from being transferred to Egypt for treatment.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated that Hamas is against opening the Rafah crossing only to the wounded, and called on Egypt to open it unconditionally.
Source: Al-Ahram (Egypt), December 29, 2008

Meanwhile, the U.S. is forking over another 85 billion dollars to help these beasts.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States announced Tuesday it is providing Palestinian refugees with 85 million dollars, including a portion to help ease the plight of Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip.

The State Department said the funds would be channelled through the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) whose role it commended in “meeting the emergency needs of civilians in Gaza at this very difficult time.”

The US government is contributing 85 million dollars to meet UNWRA’s appeals for 2009, with 60 million dollars going to its general fund and 25 million dollars to its emergency fund, according to a statement.

Here’s more background on UNWRA

I’ve always wondered why the U.N. couldn’t be kicked out of New York, and kicked out of America. I mean, what do they really do but coddle dictators, and terrorist leaders? Granted, when they’re not doing that, they’re criticizing America and Israel. Why should American tax payers have to foot the bill for this corrupt organization to refurbish their building?

Luckily, Rep. Tom Tancredo seems to think as I do. He put forth a bill dubbed The U.N. Eviction Act.

( WASHINGTON, DC ) – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly.

“The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,” Tancredo said. “The U.N.’s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for this ineffective organization to pack its bags and hit the road.”

The United Nations is hosting dictators from around the world this week, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s brutal dictator. His speech has drawn thousands of protestors in New York City.

Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the U.N. Eviction Act, would direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to initiate condemnation proceedings against all United Nations properties within the United States, and sell the property to the highest bidder on the open market. The proceeds will be given to the Treasury Department to pay down the national debt. The bill would also bar the future purchase of property in the United States or U.S. territories by the U.N. or any of its agencies, and revokes the diplomatic privileges and immunities that U.N. officials and representatives currently enjoy.

“I refuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to host Islamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so they can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks from Ground Zero,” Tancredo continued.

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“If the U.N. is so keen to accommodate the foreign policy demands of rogue nations and dictatorships, perhaps the world body might be more comfortable relocating to one,” concluded Tancredo. “I’m sure Ban Ki-Moon will have no trouble securing a new location in downtown Pyongyang or Tehran.”

Now if only there was Tom Tancredo/Duncan Hunter Republican presidential ticket. McCain still seems to be sleepwalking through his campaign. And if he wins, it will only be due to Sarah Palin.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at what goes on with this organization of hoodlums, thugs, and terrorists.

A few days ago, U.N. inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a chemical choking agent called phosgene.

The vials were discovered at the headquarters of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), which led the inspections of possible chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. The items were recovered from a former Iraqi chemical weapons facility, Al Muthanna, back in 1996, but just noticed on an inventory list yesterday, according to UNMOVIC.

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The United Nations said today that following the discovery of the items, “UNMOVIC chemical weapons experts sealed the packages and placed them in a safe, which was then isolated in a secured room.”

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“If it is properly sealed, it should not pose much of a threat unless it is dropped,” said former New York City emergency services director Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant.

“They need to get it out of there and put it in a safe canister,” Hauer said. “It shows immense stupidity to have that kind of thing sitting around as a souvenir.”

Well I would like to know whose office if was where the vials were found. And I would like to know what on earth they were thinking of by bringing this poison into the U.S.

Furthermore, an internal investigation has revealed that those vials of poison were store in that U.N. office for more than ten years. Now if those vials could go unnoticed for ten years, what’s to stop a terrorist from sneaking it on a plane in a bottle of after shave lotion?

This is just another reason why the U.N. needs to be thrown out of the U.S. and their building needs to be torn down.

Recently, I posted about how UNIFIL had filmed Hezbollah terrorists kidnapping (and later killing) three Israeli soldiers in the year 2000. The Israeli government begged the U.N. for the film, which could have helped them find the soldiers, but they would not budge. Anway, a documentary about the kidnappings has been made.

The parents of the murdered soldiers have the following to say about UNIFIL and Hezbollah:

Avi Avitan’s father Ya’akov declared that a UNIFIL member filmed the kidnappings and then sold the film to Hizbullah terrorists.

Avraham?s father said bluntly after seeing the film of his son?s capture that Hizbullah terrorists had murdered the three soldiers in 2000 in cold blood ? ?the ones who were alive,? he added. He also accused the U.N. of having cooperated in the killing.

?Hizbullah made sure to erase the United Nations? cooperation in the film ? but the U.N.?s lies become clear here. They filmed the kidnapping and knew what was happening all along,? he charged.

In other news, the mother of one young man murdered by palewhinian terrorists eleven years ago says Israel should not release Arab terrorists in exchange for kidnapped soldiers.

“But on the other hand, if we release terrorists, they simply return and commit more attacks, for there is nothing to deter them. They sit in prison, get fatter and bigger, graduate high school, and then an Israeli soldier is kidnapped and the government has pity on his parents and the terrorists are released. This is what happens time and again.”

Right on, Ma’am!

Now if only these people could have a genuine right wing government in power that wouldn’t be obsessed with vivisecting their country.

I mean, if you aid terrorists, doesn’t that also make you, and your organization a terrorist as well?

What else was UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon doing during this most recent war except for allowing hezbo terrorists to hide behind their skirts? It turns out that this supposedly neutral force broadcasted the IDF troop movements in Lebanon on its web site.

UNIFIL–the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978–is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.

Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah “fired rockets in large numbers from various locations” and Hezbollah’s rockets “were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations” are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got.

And this wasn’t the first time that UNIFIL was actively aiding the Hezbollah terrorists.

On October 7, 2000, three IDF soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah just yards from a UNIFIL shelter and dragged across the border into Lebanon, where they disappeared. The U.N. was thought to have videotaped the incident or its immediate aftermath. Rather than help Israel rescue its kidnapped soldiers by providing this evidence, however, the U.N. obstructed the Israeli investigation.

For months the Israeli government pleaded with the U.N. to turn over any videotape that might shed light on the location and condition of its missing men. And for nine months the U.N. stonewalled, insisting first that no such tape existed, then that just one tape existed, and eventually conceding that there were two more tapes. During those nine months, clips from the videotapes were shown on Syrian and Lebanese television.

Explaining their eventual about-face, U.N. officials said the decision had been made by the on-site commanders that it was not their responsibility to provide the material to Israel; indeed, that to do so would violate the peacekeeping mandate, which required “full impartiality and objectivity.” The U.N. report on the incident was adamant that its force had “to ensure that military and other sensitive information remains in their domain and is not passed to parties to a conflict.”

Stymied in its efforts to recover the men while they were still alive, Israel ultimately agreed to an exchange in January 2004: It released 429 Arab prisoners and detainees, among them convicted terrorists, and the bodies of 60 Lebanese decedents and members of Hezbollah, in exchange for the bodies of the three soldiers. Blame for the deaths of those three Israelis can be laid, at least in part, at the feet of the U.N., which went to the wall defending its inviolable pledge never to share military intelligence about one party with another.

It’s about time this evil terror organization was thrown out of America.

That’s according to the New York Times, who paints a flattering portrait of how they are stepping in to the pay for the rebuilding of peoples homes and neighborhoods.

A major reason ? in addition to its hard-won reputation as the only Arab force that fought Israel to a standstill ? is that it is already dominating the efforts to rebuild with a torrent of money from oil-rich Iran.

Nehme Y. Tohme, a member of Parliament from the anti-Syrian reform bloc and the country?s minister for the displaced, said he had been told by Hezbollah officials that when the shooting stopped, Iran would provide Hezbollah with an ?unlimited budget? for reconstruction.

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Hezbollah?s reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network ? as opposed to the Lebanese government, regarded by many here as sleek men in suits doing well ? was in evidence everywhere. Young men with walkie-talkies and clipboards were in the battered Shiite neighborhoods on the southern edge of Bint Jbail, taking notes on the extent of the damage.

No mention is made of the fact that the hezbos started all this destruction when they kidnapped the two Israeli soldiers and fired rockets at Israel. Not that it would make any difference since these terrorists always come out smelling like Chanel No. 5 no matter what they do.

Hezbollah is now refusing to disarm and withdraw from Southern Lebanon.

The makings of a compromise emerged from all-day meetings in Beirut, according to senior officials involved in the negotiations, and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora scheduled a cabinet session Wednesday for what he hoped would be formal approval of the deal. Hezbollah indicated it would be willing to pull back its fighters and weapons in exchange for a promise from the army not to probe too carefully for underground bunkers and weapons caches, the officials said.

Hasan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, had insisted that any disarmament of his militia — even in the border area — should be handled in longer-term discussions within the Lebanese government, according to government ministers. But the Lebanese army, backed by key political leaders, refused to send troops into the just-becalmed battle zone until Hezbollah’s missiles, rockets and other weapons were taken north of the Litani River, the ministers said.

At stake in the standoff was implementation of a crucial provision of the U.N. Security Council cease-fire that went into effect Monday. The accord called for quick deployment of 15,000 Lebanese army troops south of the Litani River along the border with Israel. They were to take up positions under the aegis of a reinforced contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, to form a peacekeeping corps with a total strength of about 30,000.

On another note, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is acknowledging that some mistakes were made in this latest war with the hezbos.

“There have been failings and shortcomings,” Olmert, with deep circles under his eyes and a haggard look on his face, told a special session of the Israeli parliament. “We need to examine ourselves in all aspects and all areas. We will not sweep anything under the table, we will not hide anything. We must ensure that next time things will be done better.”

Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced he would “conduct a deep and wide investigation on all that occurred before the war erupted and through its duration.”

How about a lack of testicular fortitude? Can that be considered a shortcoming? Or how about worrying more about Lezbollese civilians than your own citizens? That sounds a lot like a shortcoming to me.

Meanwhile in Iran, thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate Israel’s retreat.

Unfortunately, the cease fire has been approved by the Israeli government, and it went into effect this morning, Lebanese time. And so far, it seems like business as usual.

Israel said it would maintain its air and sea blockade on Lebanon to prevent re-supply of Hezbollah before an international force arrives to monitor the borders.

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The leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has said that Hezbollah will continue to fight Israeli troops as long as they are on Lebanese soil. Israel is committed to stopping all its offensive military actions, but has pledged to respond to attacks.

Israel has also said its troops will continue to destroy Hezbollah facilities and supplies in the areas it controls until they are handed over to the Lebanese Army and United Nations troops.

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It was not clear just when an expanded United Nations force, known as Unifil, would be ready to deploy, nor has an agreement been reached on which country would lead the force.

Israeli forces are expected to pull back gradually from Lebanon as the Lebanese Army and Unifil move together to take over sectors Israel now holds.

In other words, the Israelis can fire if fired upon until UNIFIL arrives, at which point the hezbos will launch further attacks while hiding under their skirts.

But a Lebanese cabinet meeting set for Sunday to discuss the enforcement of the United Nations Security Council resolution, including the disarmament of Hezbollah and the deployment of the Lebanese Army southward, was postponed indefinitely, apparently because of objections by Hezbollah, which has two ministers in the cabinet.

No, no no! We musn’t let our beloved hezbo benefactors be disarmed! How else will they kill all those pesky JOOOS?!?? Luckily for Lebanon, there is nothing in the latest UN resolution calling for the disarming of Hezbollah.

This is what happens when lefites try and fight against terrorists. Olmert deserves to have his a– thrown out. I mean, what sovereign country is really obligated to the UN?

Still, there was a tiny bit of good news, as the IDF managed to kill six hezbo terrorists just before the cease fire went into effect.