Having served another round as a target range for Hamas, Israel finally attacks the rocket-firing terrorists in Gaza. Does the democratic world say “Thank You” to Israel for taking on the overlords of this nest of terror and repression? Not a chance.
Instead, here comes the usual Western group wallow in Palestinian terrorist propaganda.
We all know the script: Palestinian terrorists attack Israel, again and again and again — as in, Hamas firing some 3,000 mortars and rockets from Gaza into Israel over the past year, some 200 of these since the expiration last week of a six-month “ceasefire.” Finally, Israel strikes back, targeting the terrorists.
And the cogs of the middle-eastern cuckoo clock grind into action. Arab states issue denunciations of Israel. Diplomats lament the imperiling of the “peace process.” The despot-heavy UN takes time out from its day-to-day trashing of Israel to issue calls for “all parties” to end the violence. The U.S. officially backs Israel, but simultaneously undercuts Israel by issuing calls to rush humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, and then joins the gang of appeaseniks pressuring Israel into another “ceasefire” –which gives the terrorists a chance to regroup and attack again. From the media, out roll the articles and broadcasts lambasting Israel for use of “disproportionate force”; out come the photos and the fauxtography; and the further vilification of Israel proceeds under headlines such as this gem from the Washington Post: “Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Strip Imperil Obama’s Peace Chances.”
What a heap of hooey. What’s actually imperiling Obama’s “peace chances” in this sorry landscape is the presence of a terrorist haven operating in broad daylight right next door to Israel, in the form of the Hamas-run Gaza strip. And the continuing exaltation of terrorism by the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank. And another terrorist haven in the form of Hezbollah-infested Lebanon to the north. And yet more terrorist havens right nearby in the form of Syria and Iran, which harbor and help both Hamas and Hezbollah. And terrorist funders such as – according to the U.S. State Department – “private benefactors in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states” (”benefactors” being a strange choice of word, though unfortunately a good indicator of the State Department mindset).
In this configuration, it’s not the Gaza Strip that is the “besieged enclave” (as press reports like to describe it). It’s Israel — a democratic state beset by terrorists, terrorist havens, terrorist supporters and terrorist funders.
These terrorist havens threaten not only Israel, but Europe and America. They threaten any state in which democratic freedoms are inimical to the kind of political thuggery that for decades has beggared and poisoned the Palestinians themselves (who just last year took time out from killing Israelis to make headlines for a while by mudering each other in a manner too public for even the press to ignore).
Israel is not the cause of this terrorism; but it does sit on the frontlines. As Sept. 11 should have made clear, in today’s globalized world these things don’t stay local. And as year after year of “peace process” should have taught the world by now, there are some killers — and the leaders of Hamas richly fit the bill — who are not going to be “talked” into peace. They pocket any gains from the “process,” and attack again.
One might well wonder: If Hamas or its terrorist brethren were to set up enclaves next to Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London, New York and Washington, and fire 3,000 rockets and mortars at such democratic neighbors — what, exactly, would the inhabitants of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London, New York and Washington judge to be the appropriate response?
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Dec 28, 2008 - 8:09 pm 2. Steynianism 301:[...] THE REALIST FANTASY: By Caroline Glick, via The Jerusalem Post; The Real Crisis in Gaza — and It Isn’t Israel …. [...]
Dec 29, 2008 - 3:16 am 3. bengt:the real cause of crisis in Gaza and all territories => is United Nations with its UNRWA branch who instead of funding real development thru direct investing on education and job creation for palestinians, have become instead a direct ATM deposit for Hamas and other terrorist groups, whose members are directly employed by UNRWA in all territories. Billions of dollars are sinked every year, for at least 45 years. 45 years without schools, without hospitals, without proper social structures and support structures, without a peaceful political class. at least 150 Billion dollars have been poured into the territories in the past 30 years, without any result. The only one is that the terrorist organization like Hamas and others continue to reign and breath using the young kids who instead of being the schools (promised by UNRWA) have to go and blow themselves up for Hamas. Peace will come only when all of us will demand accountability for all the money we give UNRWA. Peace will come when we will demand that no UNRWA salary be paid to palestinian fathers, if they don’t oblige their son and daughters to attend schools and be educated. Peace will come when we will demand that no UNRWA Health Services be provided to those who throw rockets at night and demand to be visited and cured for free at UNRWA hospitals during the day.
Stop the UN and UNRWA for 6 months and you will see that the money for terrorism in Palestine will end. Thousand of Hamas followers are in payrolls of UNRWA. If anyone wants peace now, UNRWA should cease to exist. Only then a real peace treaty can be negotiated.
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Dec 29, 2008 - 8:14 pm 5. Shai Samuel:Stop the UN and UNRWA for 6 months and you will see that the money for terrorism in Palestine will end.
Dec 30, 2008 - 12:52 am 6. joeblough:I very much fear that as matters are going, that is to say deteriorating in the direction of the effete and ineffectual, “If Hamas or its terrorist brethren were to set up enclaves next to Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London, New York and Washington, and fire 3,000 rockets and mortars at such democratic neighbors“, they would get away with a lot more than one would normally expect.
Remember, the first attack on the NY World Trade Center was in 1993.
It took a lot of time and blood after that, before America took any positive action.
And don’t imagine that the jihaddis aren’t paying concentrated attention to such facts.
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I’m pretty sure that jihaddis all over the world are gloating over what they see as the weakness of the west. (I’m including India, Israel & Japan in that designation). The most important question of the day is … what course of action on our part would convince them that they are wrong … that they had better back off ?
Dec 30, 2008 - 2:08 pm 7. JACK SPRAT:Oh, i don’t know, CLAUDIA. I support hamas and i support fatah, and i give them the most support when they are killing each other. The problem with that is it doesn’t last long enough. These sub-humans are psychopathic, sociopathic, and every kind of pathic you can imagine.
Dec 31, 2008 - 1:45 pm 8. Diego:They are also pathetic. They are never happy, never pleased with themselves or the world unless they are murdering someone, anyone, but best of all, the Jews. The only person that i can recall who had the right idea was Meir Kahane, but nobody, even back then, had the balls to say he was right, and certainly not to do it.
I’m not going to discuss about politics, although I pretty much disagree with you, but that’s not what I’m here for. I’m a photojournalist and I know codes of ethics in journalism. You are putting under suspicion the work of colleagues by using the statement “fauxography” and linking through it your article to a pseudo-investigation of somebody who actually accuses a journalist of staging a photo with no proofs at all but lame arguments such as “taking too many Hamas pictures” and “the kids look healthy”.
Jan 8, 2009 - 7:20 pmThere are too many ways to reply those stupid statements, but I’m not here for that.
YOU are a journalist and YOU are helping discrediting a colleague with doubtful and false statements. What you’re doing is shameful, unethical and disgraceful for the sake of journalism.