By Debbie Schlussel

The “you give an inch, they take a mile” adage isn’t new.  Nor is it new with regard to Palestinian Muslims and their endless attacks on the Jews, Israel, Christians, Americans, the West, etc.  It shouldn’t be news to the peace-nik “We Are the World” crowd.  But sadly it is.  Here’s yet another example of how the most peaceful Jewish Israeli treatment and outreach to Palestinian Muslim and HAMAS terrorists results in more murder of Israeli Jews. The consequences of the blind embrace of peace are deadly. Fatal.

Shuki Sofer, Zichrono LiVrachah [Blessed Be His Memory]: Murdered by HAMAS Terrorist Whose Daughter Was Just Treated By Israeli Doctors, Jewish Charity

A HAMAS terrorist who ambushed and murdered an Israeli police officer, last month, is the father of a six-year-old girl who was treated by Israeli Jews at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.  Just two weeks before he murdered 39-year-old Israeli police officer Yehoshua “Shuki” Sofer, the terrorist’s daughter had a tumor removed from her eye by Hadassah doctors.  The whole operation was paid for by an Israeli charity.  And I guess this makes her all the more healthy to hate Jews in her future, just like daddy.  Her father and the rest of their terror cell were planning to dress up like religious Jews and kidnap Israelis.  Thanks to IMRA’s Dr. Aaron Lerner for pointing this out.

Yes, so much for peace, love, and understanding. Thanks for saving my daughter. Now, I’m gonna kill you.

IDF Spokesperson Announcement
For Immediate Release
July 19th, 2010 16:00

Terrorist Cell Behind Murder of Policeman Arrested:
Planned Additional Attacks and Abductions

Newly released information

On 22 June 2010, the IDF, ISA and Israel Police, arrested the Hamas terrorist cell responsible for the killing of policeman Shuki Sofer during a shooting attack on 14 June 2010, on route 60 near the Israeli community of Otni’el. Two other policemen were injured in the incident.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Hmmm . . . it’s gotta be embarrassing for Barack Obama’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), when two Utah state workers can instantly do the job his immigration enforcers refuse to do.  It’s yet another example why Arizona’s immigration law was necessary and needs to be spread nationwide, as well as an analysis of state databases.

For nearly a week, Utah officials–including the state’s attorney general–have been up in arms over a list of 1,300 alleged illegal aliens, which was mailed to law enforcement and the media. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, a Republican, is launching an investigation and a task force to look into how the list was compiled and the info obtained to create it. Hmm . . . if only he worked this hard to actually locate and deport the illegal aliens on the list.  He likens the list to a “hit list” and says it makes it harder for his investigators to go after illegal aliens.  No, it exposes that he and his investigators aren’t doing their jobs.

Although some of the list allegedly have green cards, most reports indicate that the list of 1,300 is largely accurate.  Most of the people on it are here illegally and are collecting oodles of state and federal benefits.  That’s why they are in the database.  They’re collecting food stamps and plenty of other costly entitlements.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Since it’s the weekend, you might go out for dinner with friends or your significant other.  And sometimes people don’t have good manners.  I feel bad for them because they probably didn’t have parents who cared enough.  And someone can still be a good person and a food slob at the same time.  Still, it’s not something I’ll suffer gladly or at all.  For me it’s an absolute deal breaker.  What’s the grossest thing someone has done during a meal or that someone has eaten?  Is it a deal breaker for you in your relationship?

A guy I once dated displayed horrible manners at a restaurant during dinner.  He drooled, didn’t use his utensils correctly (or much), and used his fingers to wipe his mouth.  I’m being nice in the description.  It made me sick, and I never went out with him again.  Like I said, for me, it’s a deal breaker.  Low class.  A complete turn-off.  Eeuuww.  I thought I might have been too tough on a nice guy, but I just couldn’t take it.  Sorry, but drooling and using your fingers this way is for babies, not mature adults.  GUH-ROSS.  If you don’t have the most basic of manners, hit the road, Jack.  Does this make me a snob?  If so, then snobbery is vastly underrated, and you would do well to acquire some.  Ditto for eating and/or chewing gum with your mouth open.  There’s a certain conservative commentator who chews gum with her mouth open, and it’s disgusting.

Wall Street Journal “On Relationships” writer Elizabeth Bernstein writes about some of the biggest “couples food fights.”  And again, eeuuww.  I really don’t know how these people can be together.  Or why their parents didn’t teach them the most basic human behavior that separates us–or is supposed to–from animals.  Or why they agreed to give their real names.  For the record, I feel for these people, so I’m removing the surname of at least one of these couples.  And I think the jab at the guy who grew up on a farm is uber-snobby.  I know plenty of people who grew up on farms or other rural settings and have the highest of manners. Here are some excerpts of the food freak show.

Ben [surname redacted by DS] slurps sauces, sucks on bones, smacks his lips and licks his fingers while eating. “You want to get the chipmunk effect,” says the 48-year-old software consultant, of stuffing his cheeks full of peanuts, his favorite food.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Many people have asked me what I think of the YouTube video of Holocaust survivor Adolek Kohn, dancing to “I Will Survive,” with his daughter and grandchildren, in front of Auschwitz Nazi death camp and other scenes of Holocaust tragedy.  The video, made by his daughter, Australian artist Jane Korman, is posted below.

You might be surprised by my take, as the video has stirred much controversy and anger because many people say it is making light of the Holocaust.

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By Debbie Schlussel

If you thought low-flow toilets were bad, wait ’til you use “Islamic toilets.”  Forget Islamic foot baths and burqas/niqabs.  This is where it’s at.

It’s not just that Islam is filled with hate and intolerance that’s objectionable.  It’s also extremely annoying and backwards that a strong and growing group of Muslims rebel against all modern technology, no matter how basic or necessary for standard Western sanitary conditions.

Yes, Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, Hezbollah, etc. have all embraced TV, the Internet, cell phones, and other modern technology for their terrorist recruitment and operations, but as we all know, many Islamic views and traditions–such as treatment of women and legal fictions to create shariah loans–are backward and so 13th Century.  Even Bin Laden family members note that the Al-Qaeda leader himself, Osama Bin Laden, partied like it’s 599, with his absolute disdain and hatred for modern technology, dress, and other mores of modernity.

And so it goes with a growing number of Muslims in Great Britain . . . er, “Asians,” as the British press calls ’em.  Because the Brits needs to be “culturally sensitive,” an upscale shopping mall has replaced modern toilets with what’s known as “squat toilets,” “Turkish toilets,” or “Nile pans.” Try not to eat lunch while reading this:

All in the name of cultural sensitivity. From next week, shoppers in Rochdale who push open the cubicle door expecting the reassuring sight of a modern, clean lavatory could instead be faced with little more than a hole in the ground.

Bosses of the Greater Manchester town’s Exchange mall have installed two as part of an upgrade costing several thousand pounds after attending a cultural awareness course run by a local Muslim community activist.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Though both were too long–my pet peeve with movies–I liked both of this week’s new offerings, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” and “Inception.”  Here are my reviews:

*  “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice“:  This movie–which opened in theaters yesterday–has practically nothing to do with the animated Disney short set to symphonic music on which it is supposed to be based.  There is one scene with dancing mops and other household cleaning items that pays tribute, but that’s about it.  Regardless, it’s charming, cute, and a good-versus-evil fairy tale that you expect from Disney.  And it’s funny and witty, too.  Great for your kids, great for the whole family.  Enjoyable.

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By Debbie Schlussel

In June, I told you the story of Sharam Amiri a/k/a Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist, who worked as a CIA agent and is the reason we know the Iranian nuclear program is so far along.  I showed you an interesting ABC News “Nightline” report on the competing videos made by Iran and the CIA regarding Amiri, whom the Iranians claimed was a prisoner here.  Yesterday, news reports showed Amiri returning home to Iran as a “hero.”

But this is no victory for Iran.  Instead, it’s the story of how Iran splits families, hurts people, and threatens their lives.  Amiri willingly fled to the U.S. and defected here.  Before that, he willingly spied for the U.S. and shared Iran nuke info with us.  But when he left the Muslim hajj in Mecca to come to the U.S., his family wasn’t with him.  He missed them, especially his young son and wife.  And Iran threatened to do all kinds of things to them, while keeping them prisoners there. Watch the video, and you’ll see what’s really going on here.

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By Debbie Schlussel

You knew that sooner or later some hip hop rapper dude would make a rap “song” out of the Mel Gibson rants.  Ras Kass has a new rap, “Why You Be Dressing Like That.”  No way I’m posting it on this site, since it doesn’t bleep out any of Gibson’s disgusting lunatic utterances, which are filled with the p-word, n-word, etc.  Hey, who needs filthy rappers, when you can just use Gibson’s sewer of a mouth.

But you can hear it and watch the video here.  In my view, it’s not a very good rap, and that’s saying a lot, since all rap stinks.  Translation:  this is the stinker of stinkers.

By Debbie Schlussel

Why is the History Channel broadcasting a show with an openly anti-Semitic Muslim host, who denies history and tries to rewrite it?  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:  anti-Semitism is acceptable in America (especially in the entertainment industry), whereas racism is not.

How else do you explain Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Antiquities Minister (and–suprise!–a Muslim), as host of the History Channel’s “Chasing Mummies,” which debuted on the channel last night?  As I’ve noted before, Hawass said in a videotaped interview on television:

They [the Jews] went to America and took control of its economy. They have a plan. . . .  they control the entire world.

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By Debbie Schlussel

Sadly, the left doesn’t have the monopoly on plagiarists, intellectual property thieves, and rip-off artists.  For example, Monica Crowley–who worked for Richard Nixon as an intern–had nothing new to write about Nixon, so she ripped off an article, word-for-word from writer Paul Johnson, even copying his Britishisms. That’s why the Wall Street Journal never again published “her” work.

Washington Times Editor David Mastio Shamelessly Defends Plagiarism

And, today, I learned that Washington Times “reporter” Anath Hartmann believes that if you change a couple of words and phrases, you can rip off my work.  Flat-out steal it. It isn’t the first time, but that doesn’t make the robbery any better. Two years ago, I spent several hours researching and writing about the Hoping Foundation, a British pro-Palestinian foundation that funds ostensibly Palestinian kids’ art programs. My exclusive research and reporting found that, in fact, the money goes to HAMAS- and Al-Qaeda-controlled refugee camps to programs that masquerade as “art, but are really anti-Western, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American propaganda.

Sadly, the very lazy, unethical and dishonest Washington Times ganif [Yiddish for thief] Anath Hartmann didn’t feel like coming up with her own ideas or crediting my hard work. Instead, she did it the Jayson Blair way, she stole it. Below, is the main rip-off.

Debbie Schlussel Original Reporting, DebbieSchlussel.com, June 23, 2008:

The Hoping foundation is a virulently anti-Israel charity, which funds programs throughout Gaza and Palestinian refugee camps, including Ein Al-Hilweh, Burj Al-Barajneh, and Nahr Al-Bared, which are hotbeds of Al-Qaeda and HAMAS activity. . . .

The Hoping Foundation camouflages the programs as “art” and “creative writing,” claiming they spread peace. But, in fact, the programs are administered by members of HAMAS.

The Washington Times’ Plagiarist Anath Hartmann’s blatant rip-off, July 13, 2010:

The Hoping Foundation is a wildly anti-Israel group that funds various “arts” programs for children in Palestinian refugee camps throughout the West Bank and Gaza. These camps include Nahr Al-Bared, Ein Al-Hilweh and Burj Al-Barajneh, all known centers of Hamas and al-Qaeda activity.

The children’s programs – funded by leftist faux do-gooders like Ms. Moss and the rest of her long-culturally-irrelevant charity posse – are run by Hamas members.

I guess if you change the word “virulently” to “wildly” and “administered” to “run,” that makes your plagiarism okay with the Washington Times, which defends her obvious stealing. Moreover, Hartmann deliberately reversed the names of the refugee camps I researched and reported, a sleazy move designed to hide her blatant, willful rip-off. And you can bet that Hartmann–whose “work” has previously appeared in the Georgetown Hoya, the American Journalism Review, and the Jewish Press–has done it before. What else has she stolen? You can bet pretty much every word that’s ever appeared under her name and byline. You don’t just begin plagiarizing in your late 20s. By then, it’s an old habit. Most of her college and high school papers are probably total rip-offs.

Yup, clearly stolen, and sanctioned by her plagiarism-loving editor Washington Times Deputy Editorial Page Editor David Mastio (a former Bush speechwriter), who thinks the theft is A-Okay. (How many Bush speeches were rip-offs?) He says that because there is a tiny link to my site on the word “anti-Israel,” it’s okay to rip off an entire paragraph of my work and research word-for-word, without credit. He calls that “citing my work.” It is no such thing. Contrast that with the liberal New York Times, which finally fired Jayson Blair, after the outrage of conservatives for doing the same thing, ripping off the writing of other reporters and writers. Where’s the outrage now? I knew someone would rip this piece off, which is why I posted at the top of it:

By Debbie Schlussel Copyright 2008
**** Must Cite Debbie Schlussel and link to DebbieSchlussel.com;

I guess I posted that for my health?

Well, Mastio has something of a weird fetish for plagiarists–mostly women plagiarists. He was an editorial page editor at USA Today, when Reason’s Cathy Young famously plagiarized, nearly word-for-word a USA Today editorial for her then-Detroit News column, and an online column of mine for another Detroit News column. Mastio gushingly defended her plagiarism in online comments at the Poynter Institutes website. Then, when Jack Kelley, USA Today’s star “investigative reporter,” famously plagiarized hundreds of reports and op-ed columns for the paper, Mastio, I’m told, is one of those at the top of USA Today, who looked the other way and excused it, despite complaints from reporters . . . for YEARS.  For Dave Mastio, honor among thieves in journalism is honor among plagiarists.  He’s got your back.

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