According to the AP, those “spiritual” Hamas fighters “dragged vanquished [Fatah] gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style.”
So it goes in Gaza, where the Israelis once supposedly practiced apartheid, if we are to believe that other great “spiritual” leader Jimmy Carter, who, in my view, is one of the great self-righteous fakes in American history and a creepy racist besides. [But how do you really feel about him?-ed. You heard me.] Still, even if we are to buy into Carter’s palaver, the Palestinians must be yearning for a little apartheid these days. Left to their own devices, they have turned Gaza into the charnel house of charnel houses.
And with Hamas taking over Gaza, and declaring an Islamic state, that can only mean one thing - Welcome Ayatollah Khamenei and his Psycho-Dwarf Ahmadinejad. The Mullahs will now be ensconced on Israel’s southern and northern borders. [Maybe someone should call Javier Solana?-ed. I thought I fired you.]
Unlike Jimmuh, I am not, alas, a very spiritual person. I tried Zen for a while, but I didn’t have the discipline. And being inside synagogues and churches doesn’t fill me with awe the way it does others (though I admire the architecture). Being inside a mosque, of course, fills me with the desire to watch my back. But if I were a believer, I’d be thanking God right now I wasn’t born in Gaza, because I think the Palestinians there are about ready to experience a Hell the likes of which even they have never dreamed about. Because Hamas, being basically a psychopathic organization, will be unable to control themselves if they win, especially since they will be the lackeys of their overlords in Tehran. This means they will overreach quickly. This time, I am relatively certain, the Israeli response will be swift and in no way measured, as it was in Lebanon. And no one will make much of an attempt to stop them because almost no one cares much for the Gazans anymore. [What about Jimmuh?-ed. He's hard of hearing.]
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1. este:It looks as if Sharon’s plans regarding the pull out of Israeli forces from Gaza are playing out just as he suspected. The question now is will the Olmert government have the backbone to follow the script through to the final act, or rewrite the ending to ensure a sequel.
Jun 14, 2007 - 3:37 pm 2. Sgt. Mom:Your word.
Jun 14, 2007 - 4:01 pm 3. dougf:God’s ear.
Connect.
Left to their own devices, they have turned Gaza into the charnel house of charnel houses.
Well actually the REAL problem is that they have not exactly done that. I’m sure the intent is there and all, but they really need to work at getting that body count up. This so far is just another day at the office for these guys. A bad day I grant you but still just another day in the big picture. They can’t even hold a decent ‘civil war’.
I mean 100 gunmen more or less is surely a good start, but considering the culture in that ****-hole, it hardly approximates a ‘charnel house’. Multiply that figure by a factor of 100 or so, and we would definitely be on the right road. Gaza is now a place where ‘less is more’ is absolutely a wrong approach. More is more. Much much more.
Come on guys(and I mean either ’side’ here)—– less loosing off those AK volleys into the harmless air(global warming and all), and more discipline.
Get some—
Jun 14, 2007 - 4:20 pm 4. ricpic:The Palestinians. God forbid we should draw any conclusions about them from their behavior. No, it is ordained by our betters that one must go through life a blank slate innocent when it comes to making discriminations between this group and that group based on their behavior. In fact, one must make no discriminations. That would be prejudiced. Peace with the Palestinians? Of course. They’re people, aren’t they? Just like you and me. Better to die than to be prejudicial. And so, of course, tens of thousands of innocents do…die.
Jun 14, 2007 - 5:06 pm 5. Buddy Larsen:This was up on instapundit earlier in the day–it’s Ralph Peters trying to find the words to match the action–good sobering read.
Jun 14, 2007 - 7:31 pm 6. heather:I like the 9 month pregnant woman who -using Israeli policy of human kindness to people in need - tried to get into Israel with her explosive belt to murder a lot of Jews.
But. I am sure there will in our future - be much wringing of hands and long doleful stories and sensitive black and white photos of the suffering Palestinians in such great institutions as the Guardian, The Economist and The New York Times.
I understand that the US has INCREASED its aid to this marvellous bunch of people? So that they can feed their children and send them to school and all???
Jun 14, 2007 - 9:24 pm 7. Terrye:There is an old saying, beware your heart’s desire, for surely you will get it.
I have read {somewhere} that both Egypt and Jordan are thinking of taking over parts of the occupied territories themselves. I doubt they would be as concerned about the human rights aspects of the situation as Israel would.
Yes, things would be very different if Jimmy Carter had gone after the mullahs when they were still in training.
Jun 15, 2007 - 3:19 am 8. jedrury:Jim Lehrer Newshour regulars, UN peace brokers and Brookings Institute egg heads will soon blame
the president by his refusal to engage the Palestinians. “A failure of the Bush road for peace” will be the line. All failures lead to Bush. Remember when Fatah were the bad guys,
now they are the victims.
There was an inevitability to this and Sharon saw it and disengages Israel to his credit.
There is even talk of a UN led troop initiative but the press commented troop strength is “questionable.” No nation would ever send their boys to this “charnal house.”
Jun 15, 2007 - 4:00 am 9. Lem:In a long bitter, suicidal divorce the Palestinians got pretty much what they wanted from Israel.
Now a live in lover wearing a mask with guns, unwilling to share living arrangements set by the Palestinians themselves, has taken over completely.
The lover Hamas is a devout Muslim and imposes his austere (to put mildly) brand of religion. Some say (Boston Globe) this is Israel’s fault for leaving.
“The Hamas campaign to eradicate Fattah from Gaza is certainly not the sole cause of Gazans’ misery. They long suffered from Israel’s suffocating occupation, and then from Ariel Sharon’s foolishly unilateral withdrawal in 2005, a move that allowed Hamas to bid for power with the misleading claim that its rockets and suicide bombings had driven Israeli soldiers and settlers out of Gaza.”
The Globe blames Israel for both the marriage and the divorce.
Jun 15, 2007 - 7:15 am 10. Henry Bowman:Israel in the meantime has disconnected the phone and is not talking to the lawyers. I for one don’t blame them.
Well, the many of the Brits as well as the usual MSM scumbags are already blaming the Bush Administration for the current Hamas-cide. “If we had only given Hamas the money that was its due…” and crap such as that. IMHO, if we have given them more money, they would have started the “civil war” that much quicker.
Jun 15, 2007 - 7:52 am 11. MarkD:I thought we were insane to give these people aid, especially military aid. What were we thinking?
Now that the circular firing squad is in effect, I reluctantly concede that we might have done the right thing.
May both sides be evenly matched, and may they fight to the last man. Not because I wish them ill, but because I want them all to have their just rewards. They don’t want peace enough to stop killing each other.
Jun 15, 2007 - 8:45 am 12. ras:If one were to design a policy to eliminate the threat to Israel by amalgamating the Palestinian territories into Egypt & Jordan, one could hardly top current events: The people will want an end to the civil war and the Sunni govts will want to prevent an Iranian takeover.
To hide their failure, the Palestinians will blame others (e.g. Israel, the US, Iran etc) cuz it’ll let help them save face, at least in their own eyes, but then perhaps they can settle down to a real life, and the grand UN project in permanent refugee camps will be at an end.
Jun 15, 2007 - 11:34 am 13. Buddy Larsen:Let’s see, three generations the UN has been rewarding high birthrates, so that finally the 70% unemployment rate means big absolute numbers of more or less futureless young people. So, what again, was the UN trying to do? I forget.
Jun 15, 2007 - 12:11 pm 14. Mike K:I can even recall when the Gaza Strip was a Mort Sahl joke. Tom Lehrer may even have had a song about it. The Palestinians that are left are the dead enders. The ones with any initiative, plus of course, the Christians left years ago. Thomas Hobbes would understand perfectly. I wonder how many Iraqis are watching this and learning ?
Jun 15, 2007 - 1:07 pm 15. rverdi:What if Israel had done even a tenth of what Hamas is doing live in front of the tv cameras? What would the reporting be like? On a side note, good thing the British Academic Union has decided that boycotting Israel is the key to helping Palestine.
Jun 19, 2007 - 6:42 pm