The Armies Of The Easily Offended

Lets start out with offensive words in America...


Intent to offend vs straightforward opinion...



Quid huic sacri umquam fore aut quid religiosi fuisse putatis qui nunc tanto scelere se obstrictum esse non sentiat, qui in iudicium veniat ubi ne precari quidem Iovem Optimum Maximum atque ab eo auxilium petere more omnium possit? Do you think anything will ever be sacred to this man or anything was taboo, who now feels he is not barred from such wickedness, who comes to court where he cannot even pray to Jupiter Optimus Maximus and ask him for aid by everyone’s custom? —Cic. Ver. 4.71 MERRY CHRISTMAS! Ho! Ho! Ho! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYO3FrNuREc http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-From-Being-So-Easily-Offended When feeling offended becomes institutionalized, countries go to war.

The antidote to feeling offended is to feel good about one'self. So, get HAPPY!

What Can Be Said...

When opinions differ? When a power struggle turns deadly? Why is there no peace in the Middle East? Bashir al Assad wants to move forward toward democracy, but rhe Ieaq war disrupts reqional security? Not only terrorists engage in beheadings? Barbaric reaction?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

List_of_people_who_were_beheaded Arab Spring in Syria?
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/airstrikes/index.html

The Yemen Explained

Yemen is an ancient place, populated by ancient cultures. Today, Yemwn is another field hosting proxie wars. The history of the Yemen is convelouted... Arabia Felix Ancient city, Sanaa

Allah Will Raise An Army Of Non Arabs And Victory Is Soon

Video that inspired the Boston Marathon Bombers Fourty days and fourty nights and they will destroy the Saudi Kingdom and raise their Black Flags in Jerusalem. Al Sham is Lebanon, Syria, Palastine, Jordan and Yemen. "We will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people." Reportedly AQ In Yemen moved their sophisticared bomb development experts to Syria, due to US drones success in Yemen, and Houthis imminent takeover of Yemen government. Folks, you might remember our Ambassador in Libya reporting that he say the Al Q black Flags flying allover government buildings in Benghazi?

Sunni Scholars Accuse Takfiris of Non Islamic Behavior

"Several countries have started expressing their concerns over the security threats posed by the presence of these groups in Syria," Nasrallah said, positing, "Do we not have the right as Lebanese in Syria's border to worry, take measures and make a preemptive move? Why do we not have the right to intervene to fend off the threat of Takfiri crimes?" Nasrallah went on to blame Israel and the US for using Takfiri groups in the Middle East to achieve their own goals in the region. "Of course, Israel has infiltrated these Takfiri groups. The Americans are using the groups and, of course, have used them in Iraq and also elsewhere for a long time," Nasrallah said. He added that Saudi authorities regularly arm and fund the Takfiri groups in order to sow sectarian discord throughout the region. Nasrallah described the al-Qaeda-linked groups, the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as the best examples of the Saudi-backed Takfiri mindset. The Arab League has announced its full support to "all initiatives" that look to fight the Islamic State, also known as Daesh. As initially had been reported, this group was originally supported by the United States and various members of the Arab League. However, the change in stance in the Arab League is questioned by many in the region since Syria has had to deal with the Washington and Saudi-backed Daesh since its inception. Here are some of the so called moderate rebels fighting in Syria to topple Assad... However, the Free Syrian Army has stated they will not join Obama's plan to degrade ISIL, because their only target is Assad. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140912/syria-rebels-non-aggression-pact-near-damascus

Israel's Popular Rabbi Rules Jewish Law Permits the Extermination of Civilians In Gaza

Al-Monitor: What you are essentially saying in your legal ruling is that the killing of civilians isn’t always a war crime. Bahar: That’s right. There can be complications resulting from a justifiable military operation that was proportional in terms of military exigencies. As bad as it sounds, harming civilians is permissible. Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/israel-international-law-war-time-legal-opinion-shin-bet.html#ixzz38IoFdf3R

The Right To Return

No doubt about it, Pinpoint Accuracy! The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR How the West Chose War in Gaza Gaza and Israel: The Road to War, Paved by the West By NATHAN THRALLJULY 17, 2014 JERUSALEM — AS Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities and Israel follows up its extensive airstrikes with a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the most immediate cause of this latest war has been ignored: Israel and much of the international community placed a prohibitive set of obstacles in the way of the Palestinian “national consensus” government that was formed in early June. That government was created largely because of Hamas’s desperation and isolation. The group’s alliance with Syria and Iran was in shambles. Its affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt became a liability after a July 2013 coup replaced an ally, President Mohamed Morsi, with a bitter adversary, Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Hamas’s coffers dried up as General Sisi closed the tunnels that had brought to Gaza the goods and tax revenues on which it depended. Seeing a region swept by popular protests against leaders who couldn’t provide for their citizens’ basic needs, Hamas opted to give up official control of Gaza rather than risk being overthrown. Despite having won the last elections, in 2006, Hamas decided to transfer formal authority to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. That decision led to a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization, on terms set almost entirely by the P.L.O. chairman and Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas. Israel immediately sought to undermine the reconciliation agreement by preventing Hamas leaders and Gaza residents from obtaining the two most essential benefits of the deal: the payment of salaries to 43,000 civil servants who worked for the Hamas government and continue to administer Gaza under the new one, and the easing of the suffocating border closures imposed by Israel and Egypt that bar most Gazans’ passage to the outside world. Yet, in many ways, the reconciliation government could have served Israel’s interests. It offered Hamas’s political adversaries a foothold in Gaza; it was formed without a single Hamas member; it retained the same Ramallah-based prime minister, deputy prime ministers, finance minister and foreign minister; and, most important, it pledged to comply with the three conditions for Western aid long demanded by America and its European allies: nonviolence, adherence to past agreements and recognition of Israel. Israel strongly opposed American recognition of the new government, however, and sought to isolate it internationally, seeing any small step toward Palestinian unity as a threat. Israel’s security establishment objects to the strengthening of West Bank-Gaza ties, lest Hamas raise its head in the West Bank. And Israelis who oppose a two-state solution understand that a unified Palestinian leadership is a prerequisite for any lasting peace. Still, despite its opposition to the reconciliation agreement, Israel continued to transfer the tax revenues it collects on the Palestinian Authority’s behalf, and to work closely with the new government, especially on security cooperation. Continue reading the main storyContinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story But the key issues of paying Gaza’s civil servants and opening the border with Egypt were left to fester. The new government’s ostensible supporters, especially the United States and Europe, could have pushed Egypt to ease border restrictions, thereby demonstrating to Gazans that Hamas rule had been the cause of their isolation and impoverishment. But they did not. Instead, after Hamas transferred authority to a government of pro-Western technocrats, life in Gaza became worse. Continue reading the main story RECENT COMMENTS Horow001 2 days ago There is/was a simple solution all along. Hamas needed/needs to change its charter and recognize Israel rather than calling for its... HapinOregon 2 days ago Pray tell or explain why any nation should aid and abet the avowed intentions of its enemy in the destruction of that nation? Kevin Cahill 2 days ago What a fabulous article! Thank you Nathan Thrall and NYT. SEE ALL COMMENTS Qatar had offered to pay Gaza’s 43,000 civil servants, and America and Europe could have helped facilitate that. But Washington warned that American law prohibited any entity delivering payment to even one of those employees — many thousands of whom are not members of Hamas but all of whom are considered by American law to have received material support from a terrorist organization. When a United Nations envoy offered to resolve this crisis by delivering the salaries through the United Nations, so as to exclude all parties from legal liability, the Obama administration did not assist. Instead, it stood by as Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, called for the envoy’s expulsion on the grounds that he was “trying to funnel money” to Hamas. Hamas is now seeking through violence what it couldn’t obtain through a peaceful handover of responsibilities. Israel is pursuing a return to the status quo ante, when Gaza had electricity for barely eight hours a day, water was undrinkable, sewage was dumped in the sea, fuel shortages caused sanitation plants to shut down and waste sometimes floated in the streets. Patients needing medical care couldn’t reach Egyptian hospitals, and Gazans paid $3,000 bribes for a chance to exit when Egypt chose to open the border crossing. For many Gazans, and not just Hamas supporters, it’s worth risking more bombardment and now the ground incursion, for a chance to change that unacceptable status quo. A cease-fire that fails to resolve the salary crisis and open Gaza’s border with Egypt will not last. It is unsustainable for Gaza to remain cut off from the world and administered by employees working without pay. A more generous cease-fire, though politically difficult for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would be more durable. The current escalation in Gaza is a direct result of the choice by Israel and the West to obstruct the implementation of the April 2014 Palestinian reconciliation agreement. The road out of the crisis is a reversal of that policy.