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What it’s like for me and about 1,000,000 others living in Southern Israel after 4+ days of continuous rocket and missile barrage from Gaza…

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Israel eliminates 2 top Popular Resistance Committee terrorist leaders on Friday, thus foiling another massive terror attack on Southern Israel…The palestinians in Gaza reply with more than four days of almost continuous rocket and missile bombardment of Israeli cities and towns…

On today’s show:

What it’s like living through this surreal adventure…

Israel’s fantastic Iron Dome missile defense system stops 90% of the missiles in mid-air…

What is really happening on the ground, here, in Southern Israel…

Also…Israel continues to pay the price in blood for the Gilad Shalit prisoner release swap deal…

Plus…In spite of it all…Record numbers of tourists flock to Israel in February…

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Most of Israeli society is thriving, and the movement is in all the right directions…

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Listen to how the divides and social riffs in Israel are narrowing, as Israeli society and the Israeli economy moves forward on all fronts…How the role of women and the ultra-Orthodox is evolving and advancing…contrary to the much reported problems in the religious vs. secular realm…

Also…As Israeli TV hit “Still Standing” is exported to the US and 30 other countries…A special look at Israeli TV…how it is growing and expanding

And…A riveting feature on Official Palestinian Authority-sponsored TV…From Sesame Street to the praising of murderous terrorists, to Israeli parliament members joining in the praise of terrorist-murderers of Israelis…

Plus…Turkish television breaks ground with their programming…From Holocaust documentaries to Israeli chefs…to Jewish singers representing Turkey to the international community on Eurovision…

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On yesterday’s radio show,
(Click HERE to view the articles and listen to the show) I highlighted U.S. Secretary of State Clinton’s remarks in a recent speech. She expressed serious concerns over a small group of religiously observant Israeli Army soldiers unwillingness to listen to a group of female singers performing at an official army ceremony. Hillary is very concerned over the obvious degeneration of democracy and women’s rights in Israel highlighted by this event.

Tsk, tsk.

I guess training American Marines how to urinate, fart and defecate in a way that does not “offend” the religion of Islam is a sterling example of tolerance and democracy in action…

By the way, did you know that the meaning of the work “Islam” is submission???

US Marines ordered never to spit or urinate toward Mecca, the direction Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray

US Marines: No Spitting Toward Mecca

Reprinted from Diana West

Gen. David Petraeus, Col. David Furness, and Shafiq Mubarak. Mubarak served as Furness’s “right hand” during a recent deployment. “I can’t do anything without him,” Furness said.

And who is Shafiq Mubarak? All I can find out is that he is a Pro Sol contractor (?) hired by the Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning to help implement “the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, the winning of hearts and minds.” At least that’s how Col. Furness puts it. According to the North County Times, Mubarak didn’t come to the US until 2008 — from where the story doesn’t say — but has been working with US troops in A-stan “for much of the past decade.”

How is that? Why is that? Dunno. What the story does report is that Mubarak teaches the do’s and don’t's of sharia — kind of, Islam for Leathernecks.

Mubarak teaches US Marines:

Don’t spit toward Mecca.

Don’t urinate toward Mecaa.

Don’t sleep with your boots toward Mecca.

In other words, Mubarak teaches US Marines to become intensely sensitized to the whereabouts of Mecca, and to be guided by that magnetic North for Muslims as a matter of the most personal habits and hygiene — in accordance with sharia (Islamic law). This goes well, of course, with ISAF’s guidance to all troops to revere the Koran and its teachings.

What next, prayer rugs?

Mubarak told the North County Times:

“We can’t win just by fighting,” said Mubarak, who came to the U.S. less than three years ago after working with American forces in Afghanistan for much of the past decade. “Sitting with tribal elders, learning their problems and helping them is crucial.”

Crucial to what? Solving the problems of one set of tribal elders. Such problems, of course, are likely to differ from those of the next set of tribal elders, particularly when there is a blood feud, a la al-Hatfields and al-McCoys. Talk about tar babies. To coin a phrase: You Don’t Win Hearts and Minds by Losing Your Own.

Meanwhile:

Mubarak and Tremore spent hours walking troops through the nuances of meetings, or “shuras” with key local leaders. Both stressed the importance of those meetings. …

Mubarak taught the troops the proper way to sit during a shura. He told them they should plan on at least 30 minutes for an initial meeting, and that they should always finish their tea and eat any food presented.

And that includes all the intestinal parasites.

“If you don’t, that means to them that you don’t trust them, or think what they are giving you is poison or is unclean,” he said.

Mubarak also said the Marines should never spit or urinate to the west, the direction of Mecca that Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray.

In addition, when sharing a base with Afghan army troops, Marines shouldn’t sleep with their feet pointed west, because that also is considered offensive, he said.

Afghan compounds of tribal elders are always neutral ground, Mubarak said. There is no need to wear protective vests, because the custom is that any person inside the compound will have the full protection of the Afghans who live there.

Mubarek said that when Marine Col. David Furness led Camp Pendleton’s Regimental Combat Team 1 during a recent deployment, Furness was able to win over 200 tribal families through shuras. What began as a violent deployment ended with little shooting, Mubarak said.

At what cost? That is, in exchange for what baksheesh, what edge over the next tribe, what amounts of money or local public works projects? We don’t know. How permanent this little piece of shura-peace is, we don’t know, either. But it all impressed Col. Furness, who gave a service award to Mubarak in June 2011 on behalf of the Regimental Combat Team – 1st Marines (RCT-1) CULAD. In the presence of Gen. Petraeus, Col. Furness said:

“General, this is my cultural advisor, Mr. Shafiq Mubarak. Mr. Shafiq is my right hand and I can’t do anything without him. Mr. Shafiq directly assists in direct engagements with Afghan leaders and political decision makers. He has been instrumental in the pursuit of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, the winning of hearts and minds.

Or, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

What do all three of these “statesmen” have in common? (other than having been appointed to jobs for which they are incompetent to perform by an incompetent president)

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They have all made headline-grabbing statements about Israel in public forums in the past week…All of which were mis-informed, ignorant, wrong and harmful to the Jewish State…

Find out what they said and why they should have kept their mouths shut…

Also…Honor killings in England…Driving women in Saudi Arabia…

Plus…Barbara Streisand to sing to Israeli soldiers…

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Those pesky checkpoints that check for bombs, knives and what-not carried by palestinians crossing into Jewish population centers in Israel …

Israel keeps removing them, under U.S. and European pressure, of course…confidence-building measures to reassure the palestinian enemies of Israel that they have true partners in their quest for peace…

The removal of checkpoints seems to inevitably lead to a successful terror attacks and the spilling of innocent Jewish blood
…and the IDF checkpoints keep on preventing the murder of Israeli Jews on a daily basis…

Palestinian shot trying to stab Israel soldier

A Palestinian was shot and injured on Sunday after he apparently tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank, the Israeli military said

Reprinted from vancouversun.com

“Today, a Palestinian rushed in the direction of an Israeli soldier shouting Allahu Akhbar (God is greatest) and trying to stab him. The soldier opened fire and wounded him in the leg,” a spokeswoman told AFP.

“The Palestinian was evacuated to an Israeli hospital and an investigation has been opened,” she added.

The military said the incident occurred near the Ariel settlement in the northern West Bank, south of the Palestinian city of Nablus.

Palestinian security sources confirmed that their Israeli counterparts had notified them of an incident in the northern West Bank in which they said a man tried to stab a female soldier,

But the sources added that they had no details or independent confirmation.

In January, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man at the Hamra checkpoint northeast of Nablus.

Initial reports claimed the man had tried to stab soldiers but the military later said troops had opened fire when the man entered an unauthorised lane at the checkpoint, apparently wielding a bottle.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Palestinian+shot+trying+stab+Israel+soldier+army/4971620/story.html#ixzz1PjGRGyjt

A special report, live from Israel…

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Unfortunately, that is the case in Egypt and the other Arab countries…

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Where is the concern for women’s rights in the liberal press and Western democratic societies?

Lara Logan

Why did the brutal sexual assault on CBS reporter Lara Logan go unreported in the media for 3+ days?

The euphoric optimism across the political spectrum in the West is preventing hard, objective reporting of the realities on the ground, as the largest Arab country in the Middle East moves inexorably towards islamo-fascist, Islamic Sharia Law, this time under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood…

To face the truth would spoil too many dreams, shatter too many illusions…Too bad, because, as always, to be forewarned is to be prepared…for the (likely) worst…

Lindasy Lohan

Plus…The Doors (what’s left of them) coming to Israel, and Lindsay Lohan on the Middle East situation…

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A special look into some of things that make Israel’s Army mighty…mighty human…

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Israeli military medics delivering palestinian babies…

Plus…Women in the IDF…

Israeli Model Anna King

The story of Israeli Christian model Anna King…

Model Anna King in the IDF

IAF Airborne Mechanic

The fighting female airborne mechanics of the Israeli Air Force…

IDF Bedouin Trackers

And…Bedouin trackers in the Israeli Army…Israeli Arabs securing the wide-open border with Egypt…

Jonathan Pollard

Also…Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle joins the long and rapidly growing list of prominent Americans calling on President Obama to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard…You, too, must join the list…

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Further proof, if you still need it, that the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) is the most humane army in the world…

Things like this occur on an almost daily basis here in Israel…And I am darned proud of it…

IDF Paramedic Helps Palestinian Woman Give Birth

Early this morning, IDF soldiers helped a Palestinian woman give birth to a
baby inside a military ambulance.

Reprinted from IMRA.org.il

The woman, who lives in the Jordan Valley, called for medical assistance
around 2 this morning. An IDF medical crew, consisting of a paramedic, three
medics, and the Deputy Commander of the Valley Brigade, Lt. Col. Shalom
Eisner, were called to the area. Since the area was unreachable by
ambulance, the woman was brought to the vehicle on a stretcher, and during
the drive on Route 90 prematurely began to give birth.

The paramedic, Sgt. Gilad Nesher, began delivering the baby; a difficult
procedure considering there was no birthing equipment in the ambulance. The
situation was further complicated by the baby initially not breathing.
However, after an hour of intensive CPR the baby began breathing
independently.

The mother and child were taken in an IDF helicopter from the 669 Search and
Rescue Unit to the Hadassa Ein-Kerem Hospital and are currently resting
there.

In fact, it’s being re-written on a regular basis by anti-Israel activists…

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And the new, improved anti-Israel, anti-Zionist versions are being created, produced, directed and disseminated by…ISRAELI JEWS!!!

But the funding is from, of all places…foreign governments around the world.

This show explores the myths, the 21st-century blood libels…

The tale of the murdered pregnant ewes…that were burned by their palestinian owner…

The palestinian woman murdered by Israeli Army tear gas while participating in an anti-IDF demonstration…that she did not even attend…

The rampaging settlers of Yitzhar…What in the heck happened there???

The Israeli Knesset/parliament will finally be investigating the NGO organizations fueling these malignant tall tales…

The alleged “Israeli grassroots” organizations that are, in fact anti-Israel fronts funded by, among others, foreign governments and foreign government agencies…

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They Say That Supplying Israel’s Enemys with $60b of Arms Won’t Change the Region’s Strategic Balance…

Yeah…Right….I guess the next deal is to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to Israel…

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It would be nice if there were some mechanism in place to enforce the American law banning export of arms to countries that would change the strategic balance of the region. It’s an empty, ignored, un-enforced law. Just because Israel feels it is futile to object doesn’t make it okay…

Also…The AACI…Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel…They’re bringing Shakespeare to the Negev Dessert…

And…Israel on Twitter, the IDF on Flickr, YouTube and Facebook…and all of the above filled with hatred for Jews and Israel…

Plus…A new study shows the palestinian web landscape is dominated by radicalism…Danger signs for a potential imposed peace settlement on Israel…

Oh, yeah…and there’s Quassam rockets in Beverly Hills…

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The Marty Roberts Show for July 27, 2006 – part 1
Marty updates you on yesterday’s heavy fighting in Southern Lebanon, as Israel ground troops take on the Hizbullah enemy in close combat…What are the enemy tactics?…How they use innocent civilians to protect Hizbullah soldiers while causing greater Israeli casualties…The strategy of “human shields” at its cruelest…

Plus…Rockets continue to fall on the Israeli homefront in record numbers…

Also…The Israeli combat ethos…Officers cry, “Follow me!”…What are the implications?…

And…Is the Israeli government tying the hands of the military?…Is it costing us Jewish lives?…

All this and MORE…

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She’s planning on paying a LOT of money for a place in Rosh Pina, or so sources say…Does she REALLY think that she is Queen Esther?

Also…The Hermon ski resort in Israel is closed due to bad weather (again)…Another good reason to visit the Holyland?…Marty says “yes!”…

And…As the Iran nuclear threat is turned over to the UN’s able auspices (NOT!), Israeli generals reveal plans to thwart the potential atomic holocaust…What are they saying around the world?…How does a secret agreement with Syria fit into the picture?…As usual, Marty tells all…

Plus…Quakers in Pennsylvania attack IDF (Israeli Army) t-shirts in their schools, the students protest…
All this and MORE…

Madonna

Queen Esther

The Hermon Ski Resort

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Also…An Eye-Opening Encounter at an Israeli Army Security Checkpoint!!!

Israeli Army Security Checkpoint

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Anybody Paying Attention?…Anybody Care?…Israel?…

Bushehr

Iran officially goes nuclear in just 3 days…Will anybody stop them?…

Plus…New York Knicks’ NBA star Stoudemire comes to Israel…and Tweets “I am Jewish”…

And…Miami Heat NBA star Lebron James gets a Rabbi…

Question…Is Israel…A happy country?…The survey says…Guess so…

Also…Boney M…Censored in Ramallah, new carpets for Al Aqsa Mosque, safe waters for baptism in the Jordan River, shortage of high-end coffee and tea on the horizon for Israel’s malls?

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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