December 31st 2008
Hateful New Year
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s I type this, it’s four minutes before midnight in Israel and an ugly 2008 is ready to pass over to what looks like it will be an even uglier 2009. As the new year dawns, we see everywhere more evidence of Islamic/Palestinian refusal to shun hatred and act like a civilized nation (and if they act like a civilized nation, maybe they’ll become one).
From the front:
[Shin Bet Chief Yuval] Diskin also noted that large numbers of Hamas operatives are hiding in hospitals and that some are posing as medical staff. “Some are also hiding in mosques and some of those have been turned into headquarters, since they assumed Israel won’t attack them there. Their weapons’ labs have been completely destroyed and their tunnel system has been severely damaged.
The IAF reported Tuesday of several sightings of cells operating in densely populated areas and attempting to use Palestinian civilians as human shields.
Cells have been detected in neighborhoods in Gaza City, Jabalya, Khan Younis and Rafah. (YNET)
Anyone for following the rules of the Geneva Convention?
From Beersheba:
The army official said the rocket that struck the school in Beersheba was manufactured in China, is heavier than the Qassam and can “potentially cause much greater damage.” He said the rocket contains metal pallets that can spread out across a radius of up to 100 meters (about 328 feet) from the point of impact. (YNET)
From Denmark:
A gunman wounded two Israelis working at a packed central Denmark shopping mall Wednesday, Danish police said.
The two wounded men are Israelis in their 20s, police spokesman Lars Thede said. He said it was too early to speculate on whether they were targeted because of their nationality.
One of the wounded was shot in the arm and the other in the leg, police said. Their condition is unclear. …
The men, who were selling hair-care products, had been harassed by a group of youths in recent days, Denmark’s Ritzau news agency said.
According to the B.T. newspaper’s Web site, a man shouted something in another language and opened fire. Another Israeli inside the hairdressing shop threw a chair at the gunman, the newspaper said.
The shooter escaped in a dark vehicle.
The Foreign Ministry believes that the attack was related to anger over Israel’s offensive on the Gaza Strip. (Haaretz)
Something in a foreign language … harassed by a “group of youths” earlier … related to anger over the situation in Gaza … Gwarsh, do you think they just might be Palestinians or other radical Islamists?
From Tehran:
Thousands of Iranians, joined by high-ranking Iranian officials and military commanders, shouted “Down With USA” and “Down With Israel” in Tehran on Monday. Many carried banners reading “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth” and “We should all rise and destroy Israel.”
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday urged Muslim states to punish Israel. (AFP)
And finally, from Ft. Lauderdale:
It was pandemonium. Muslims dress in full jihad garb juiced with …. hate.It looked like Halloween in Gaza. Throngs of young Muslims drunk with ….. hate. It was madness in America. You had to see it to believe it (watch video for the feel)
Across the street was an anemic counter protest. Where were the Jewish kids? NOWHERE. Jewish leadership and the diaspora have failed miserably in the education of our youth. The entire Muslim rally was young, wild — frenetic. Itchy fingers on hair triggers.
Jewish lay leadership should be thrown out on the dhimmi asses. They have failed an entire generation of slackers. (Atlas Shrugs)
And this video from Tom Trento, aslo of the Fort Lauderdale Palestinian demonstration. Check out the woman with the “Nuke Israel” sign at 1:55 and ask yourself, “Fort Lauderdale?!”
Meanwhile, the (London) Times buys the Palestinian line:
Who or what is Hamas, the movement that Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, would like to wipe out as though it were a virus? Why did it win the Palestinian elections and why does it allow rockets to be fired into Israel? The story of Hamas over the past three years reveals how the Israeli, US and UK governments’ misunderstanding of this Islamist movement has led us to the brutal and desperate situation that we are in now.
The story begins nearly three years ago when Change and Reform – Hamas’s political party – unexpectedly won the first free and fair elections in the Arab world, on a platform of ending endemic corruption and improving the almost non-existent public services in Gaza and the West Bank. Against a divided opposition this ostensibly religious party impressed the predominantly secular community to win with 42 per cent of the vote.
Palestinians did not vote for Hamas because it was dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel or because it had been responsible for waves of suicide bombings that had killed Israeli citizens. They voted for Hamas because they thought that Fatah, the party of the rejected Government, had failed them. Despite renouncing violence and recognising the state of Israel Fatah had not achieved a Palestinian state. It is crucial to know this to understand the supposed rejectionist position of Hamas. It won’t recognise Israel or renounce the right to resist until it is sure of the world’s commitment to a just solution to the Palestinian issue.
This somehow makes ceaseless rocket attacks – with ever more sophisiticated, foreign-purchased rockets, somehow legitimate? Elections are “fair and free” if Hamas orders the wholesale slaughter of Fatah members in the weeks leading up to the election?
And the fact that Palestinians voted for Hamas does not take away the fact that it is dedicated to the destruction of Israel and is responsible for countless terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. How can we ignore all this and treat Hamas as if it doesn’t deserve to be retaliated against?
I have little optimism that 2009 – YOTO 1 (Year Of The One 1) – will make things better. My wife shoveled aside her considerable knowledge of Obama today and said she hoped he just might be a Lightworker of some kind, able through the power of his personality to accomplish things others can’t. To which I, regrettably, answered “hooey.”
The hatreds and history of the Middle East are too deep, the teachings of radical Islam too full of jihad, for mere mortals, even ones as charming as Obama, to overcome, so I’m afraid that 2009 will merely serve to teach us that we elected a man, not a demigod, and that we’re in for another hateful year.
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December 31st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
2009 is a new year in the world of Islamist terror. Let’s try a new term! Genocidal Tribalists. After all, that seems to be their predominant motivation. Kill everyone who’s not of my blood or my religion.Hutu vs. Tutsi; Rawanda on a global scale with more than machetes.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:12 am
AOA Islam is peace full religion read following article about islamic new yearhttp://khurramjadoononline.blogspot.com/2008/12/islamic-new-year-by-mohamed-elmasry.html
Khurram
January 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Yeah sure Islam is a peaceful religion. Do you dare to have the crimes and terror carried out in the name of Allah chronicled, Khurram?