The War Wages on Despite Ukrainian Ceasefire

Night Watch / Townhall Columnist

 

Ukraine: Ukrainian and rebel sources agree that the new ceasefire is holding in most regions. Both also agree that fighting continues for control of the Debal'tseve pocket.

 

Eduard Basurin, spokesman for the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said that the situation was calm during the night and that it is calm in the southern and in the northern regions. "The ceasefire is largely observed, but the enemy artillery is shelling our positions near Debal'tseve..."

The leader of the DPR, Oleksandr Zacharchenko, said, "The cease-fire regime applies to the Debal'tseve area as well. A group of several thousand Ukrainian troops remains blockaded in this area. All Ukrainian servicemen in Debal'tseve and the adjacent population centers must leave the city without weapons or equipment."

He said that any attempts to break through onto Ukrainian territory or to storm the DPR's positions in that area would be cut short. "We are calling on Kyiv to strictly abide by all the clauses of the Minsk agreements dated 12 February 2015," Zakharchenko said.

A Ukrainian spokesman said rebel shelling intensified during the afternoon and the evening of the 15th. He confirmed that Debal'tseve is the hot spot which was shelled 32 times. He claimed to have intelligence that the rebels still intended to capture Debal'tseve.

Update on monitoring. On 15 February, the contact group for implementing the package of measures in the Minsk agreement and representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine met and decided on a mechanism to ensure the safety of movement of the OSCE mission on the territory of the DPR. DPR police officer will be their escorts, but no other details were disclosed. The announcement indicated the monitoring operation will begin on 16 February.

Ukrainian rebels denied OSCE monitors access to Debal'tseve. The local rebels said the ceasefire did not apply to that region. The OCE mission chief said Debal'tseve and Luhansk were the areas where worst fighting continued.

Yemen’s last Jews may leave: Houthis’ motto “curse Jews, victory to Islam”

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

This Reuters article is deeply anti-Israel: “Yemen’s Jewish community numbered over 40,000 until 1949, when Israel organised their mass transfer to the newly-established state. Those who stayed say they had lived in peace with their neighbours in the Muslim Arab country.”

This is not the whole story by any means. Professor Shmuel Trigano fills in some of the gaps: “In Yemen, sharia law was instated in 1913, worsening the situation of the dhimmi. Decrees specifying forced conversion for orphans were issued between 1922 and 1928, while Jews were excluded from public service positions and the army….In Yemen, a series of riots and lootings took place in 1931 and 1947 (with eighty people killed). An accusation of ritual crime was leveled against the Jews in Sana’a in 1948….Yemen prohibited Jews from leaving the country in 1949.”

The ones who remained in the country were subjected to ongoing harassment and discrimination. But for Reuters, their problem is not with Yemen, but with Israel.

“Yemen’s last Jews eye exodus after militia takeover,” Reuters, February 15, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

SANAA: A few worried families are all that remain of Yemen’s ancient Jewish community, and they too may soon flee after a Shia militia seized power in the strife-torn country this month.

Harassment by the Houthi movement – whose motto is “Death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews, victory to Islam” – caused Jews in recent years to largely quit the northern highlands they shared with Yemen’s Shias for millennia.

But political feuds in which the Jews played no part escalated last September into an armed Houthi plunge into the capital Sanaa, the community’s main refuge from which some now contemplate a final exodus.

Around six Yemeni Jews from the same family arrived in Israel on Friday, members of the community told Reuters.

Terror-tied Muslim groups like CAIR attack White House CVE Summit Before it Starts

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

No matter how much accommodation, self-censorship, and appeasement to Muslim sensitivites, it is never enough.

President Obama has, for the whole of his presidency, implemented sharia-adherent restrictions on the “man-made disasters.” No “war on terror,” no Islam, no jihadic doctrine: all counter-terror materials were stripped of Islamic references and ideology.

Not good enough.

In light of the unimaginable toll of the global jihad and the now daily body count in Islamic wars — Obama declared a 3-day summit ridiculously named Countering Violent Extremism. That’s like calling America’s involvement in WWII countering U-boats or kamikaze pilots. 

Absurd. And still not good enough. Even before the...

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It’s National Because They’re Black Month!

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.com

Bernadeia Johnson is a name you might not recognize immediately but I’m sure many of the readers here will remember who she is shortly.

Johnson was…WAS…the Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent but she resigned last December over flaps with her policies and criticism regarding a $400,000.00 plus no-bid contract she awarded to a political activist group.

Basically, she was forced out of her job but don’t feel sorry for her…Berdadeia Johnson’s severance package entitles her to three months’ worth of her salary, roughly about $47,500, which will be spread out over a 6 month period ending in June and she will ALSO be awarded a juicy consulting contract totaling yet ANOTHER $12,000 PER MONTH that will, as her extended salary does… end in June.

But that’s not all…She is ENTITLED to a principal’s position within the school district from which she just resigned.

That’s a pretty sweet deal isn’t it? Especially for someone who wasn’t exactly playing by the rules. In fact, many of her critics said she was just making up the rules as she went along.

You probably still don’t remember who this woman is but…perhaps THIS will jog your memory…

Read full article here:

http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2015/02/17/its-national-because-theyre-black-month/ 

Op-ed: 
Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and a Traitor Occupying the White House 
By: Diane Sori

Hypocrisy thy name is Barack HUSSEIN Obama, his administration, and his muslim-sympathizing media.

And how so...here are but a few examples. Let's start with the January attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris. Coming directly on the heels of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, muslim islamist terrorist Amedy Coulibaly... who claimed he was an operative of and was acting upon orders from both AQAP and ISIS...targeted and murdered four innocent people...all Jews...slaughtered while he shouted "allahu-akbar." Yet along comes Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his Israel-hating, Jew-hating administration to immediately announce...and who continue to do so...that those slaughtered were just “folks randomly shot in a deli in Paris." Saying how would Coulibay have targeted and known that those whom he killed...inside a KOSHER supermarket frequented predominately by Orthodox Jews...were of the Jewish faith.

Give me a break...Obama knows this is terrorism NOT a random shooting as well as he knows that this is a true hate crime, but he simply does NOT care nor does he care that virulent anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe and corresponds directly with the influx of muslim immigrants.

Recently we learned of the death of Kayla Jean Mueller...the 'supposed' American aid worker held hostage for over a year and half in Syria. And while ISIS claimed she died in the recent Jordanian air strikes common sense dictates this as highly unlikely, but how she died or when she died is NOT the issue right now...what is the issue is how the Obama administration and the Obama-controlled media keeps referring to her as some sort of saint who could do NO wrong. The fact is that Kayla Jean Mueller was...like Obama...an Israel-hating, Jew-hating, Palestinian-loving islamic operative who was willingly and proudly part of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a designated terrorist group that aids and supports al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. But to the media and the bleeding-heart liberals she was little 'Mary Sunshine' spreading the fairy dust of peace and love wherever she went.

And while Obama and the media knows well the truth about this young woman the reality that is the truth does NOT keep the party loyal faithful nor does it assure ratings or sell newspapers...lies do so lies it is.

And last week we saw the murders of three muslim students in North Carolina being committed by Craig Stephen Hicks, a man who was obviously insane. This man reportedly had problems with almost everyone in his apartment complex regardless of their race or religion... regardless if they wore a hajib or NOT. Yet now there is a worldwide outcry from muslims who demand these murders be deemed and investigated as a 'hate crime' NO matter that male victim Deah Barakat's allegiances lied with the jihadis...NO matter that this crime occurred here and NOT in a muslim cesspool of a country.

Witnessed as fact by his over 8,000 for the most part hateful tweets where he reveled in anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionist sentiments, as well as his fondness for 9/11 conspiracy theories, this vile man also loved to post his thoughts comparing the Palestinian situation to the Holocaust. And never mind that Barakat especially loved to retweet anti-Semetic cartoons...the man who damned those who posted anti-mohammed cartoons of course found NOTHING wrong with retweeting anti-Jewish cartoons and at times even adding his own vile comments to them. And Obama again was quick to jump on his brethren's bandwagon calling these murders a hate crime all while his puppet media keeps heralding Barakat and his family as a shining example of 'moderate' muslims.

Barakat's tweets say it all and remember there is NO such thing as a moderate muslim NO matter how the media tries to shove that nonsense down our throats...muslims are mulims just as islam is islam...period.

Above were just three recent examples of Obama's and the in-his-pocket media placating the enemy...making excuses for the enemy...basically excusing the enemy as they move forward in their goal of trying to kill us all.

Now let's look at three previous cases all here in America which are just as grievous if NOT more so as in these cases the Obama administration and the media actually tried to paint the victims as the the guilty and the guilty...who are having the last laugh as they will live decades more on our taxpayer dime before they are rightfully executed...as the poor misunderstood victims.

Let's start with the 2009 Fort Hood Massacre where 13 soldiers were targeted and murdered at the hands of Nidal Hasan...a U.S. Army major, psychiatrist, and devout muslim. And while the media and the administration tried to claim he was a mere loose cannon at the same time playing down his islamic ties and ignoring the fact that he shouted "allahu-akbar" while shooting his victims...reports started to surface that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been well-aware of a series of e-mails between Hasan and Yemen-based former imam of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, and NSA deemed national security threat, Ansaw al-Awlaki (killled in a 2011 drone strike).

And most grievous is that the Obama administration had the audacity to deem this act 'workplace violence' instead of terrorism...which it clearly was. And the sad fact is that by Obama and crew refusing to designate this horrific act as 'terrorism' those slaughtered were denied for years their much deserved Purple Hearts which would have provided their families with benefits equal to those receiving combat injuries. It was only recently after a non-stop public outcry that the Purple Hearts were finally awarded...but...and this is a big but...the Obama administration so NOT happy with the outcome still classifies Fort Hood as an act of 'workplace violence'...for they must continue to placate the brethren one way or another or face their ire.

Remember now the beheading of Colleen Hufford by Alton Nolan. A recent convert to islam, Nolan had just been fired from his position at Vaughn Foods for continuously trying to convert his fellow employees to islam. Also shouting "allahu-akbar" as he snuck up from behind and stabbed Hufford several times before severing her head from her body, then moving on to stab Hufford's co-worker Traci Johnson a number of times, this too was deemed an act of 'workplace violence' by this administration and reported as such in the media...a media who claimed there was NO connection to terrorism as there was NO evidence of what they called 'worrisome travel.'

NO connection to terrorism...I do NOT think so for the simple fact is that beheading someone is the very hallmark of today's islamic terrorists and islamic terrorists alone...so forget all the nonsense spewed forth by this administration that this was an act of 'workplace violence'...it simply was NOT...it was terrorism...period.

And lastly, let's NOT forget the horrific event of April 15, 2013, where during the 117th running of the Boston Marathon two bombs went off near the finish line killing three spectators, including an 8-year old boy, and critically injuring more than 260 other people. Claiming the bombing was in retaliation for the U.S. wars in muslim countries, and motivated by their extremist islamic beliefs, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev learned how to build bombs on the internet. And while NO official connection to any known terrorist groups has to-date been found, the brother's act remains an act of terrorism because it was done to strike fear into the heart of America and to shed American blood. And Obama's saying that any individuals or groups responsible for the "senseless" bombing will "feel the full weight of justice," the words 'islamic terrorists' NEVER crossed his lips. And NEVER forget how the media tried to paint the younger brother as some sort of teenage heartthrob with that despicable Rolling Stone cover and story.

Words...it's all about words...words that become even more powerful when connected to actions or in Obama's case connected with inactions. And while the Obama administration and the media are experts at manipulating words to suit their nefarious purposes NOTHING can change the fact that there remains a huge difference between terrorism and workplace violence with the two NOT being interchangeable NO matter how hard Obama tries to make them so. Terrorism being the systematic and planned use of both extreme violence and dehumanizing intimidation to achieve some self-perceived or group goal, differs greatly from workplace violence as workplace violence while threatening and sometimes resulting in physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site is NOT systematic in its intention nor does it necessarily occur to forward a particular agenda, meaning workplace violence is more of a personal vendetta-type action against a self-perceived injustice.

And when words are used to either promote or ignore terrorism or worse...to demote terrorism to an act of workplace violence...as do the words of Barack HUSSEIN Obama who praises islam every chance he gets while still refusing to say the words 'muslim islamic terrorists'...you just know there is a traitor in our midst. Ignoring the power of words this most vile of men...in conjunction with an easily manipulated media...helps move forward the islamic agenda of world domination through their very act of NOT speaking words that need to be spoken...of NOT taking actions that need to be taken. And when the two are added together this makes Barack HUSSEIN Obama complicit in every drop of American, allied, and civilian blood shed in the name of allah...in the name of islam...something the media again will NEVER say.

So as hypocrisy remains the order of the day in today's Obama controlled America, hypocrisy in this day and age of 'muslim islamic terrorists' might just be the thing that gets us all killed...a sad fact that we can NO longer ignore.