Archive for the 'Hamas' Category

November 12th 2007

Those Whacky Palestinians!

Israel may be a “vile little state” in the eyes of the Islamic world, but it doesn’t generate news like this:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hamas security forces opened fire Monday at a rally commemorating Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, killing five at the largest show of support for the rival Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip since Hamas seized control in June.

At least 31 people were wounded, three critically, including a Hamas policeman who was shot in the head, medical officials and Fatah said.

The violence erupted after tens of thousands of Fatah supporters carrying pictures of Arafat, yellow Fatah flags and wearing trademark black-and-white Arab headdresses, gathered in a courtyard in downtown Gaza City.

Or to recap: The terrorist government of the Gaza Strip got mad that the terrorist citizens were celebrating the wrong terrorist, so they terrorized them.

It’s as if Ehud Olmert sent troops out to “bullet-quell” supporters commemorating Yitzak Rabin. Unthinkable … anywhere but in the wonderful world of Islamist despotism.

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August 18th 2007

PETA Attacks Hamas For All The Wrong Reasons

Gaza-based Hamas TV, al-Aqsa — the same station that brought us a character, Farfur, who resembled Mickey Mouse and advocated Palestinian attacks against Israelis until he was “beaten to death” by an actor depicted as an Israeli — has caught the wrath of PETA.

No, PETA isn’t the least bit concerned that al-Aqsa is actively teaching youngsters to kill Jews. They’ve got their undies in a knot over an al-Aqsa segment that just went too far in teaching kiddies not to be cruel to animals. Reuters:

“It’s shocking and sickening,” said Martin Mersereau, manager of the domestic animal abuse division of U.S.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Speaking to Reuters by telephone, he said PETA was drafting a letter of protest to the Gaza-based al-Aqsa television station, which aired the show — aimed at teaching children not to abuse animals — last week.

A segment of the program was posted on the YouTube video-sharing Web site after being recorded and translated by pro-Israeli group Palestinian Media Watch. …

The YouTube clip shows an actor dressed as a bee mistreating a cat and lions at Gaza Zoo. In the studio, he is reprimanded by the program’s host, who cautions children against mimicking the bee’s “terrible” behavior.

“Any lessons meant to be contained in this segment are almost certainly lost on most children, who are more likely to imitate people they see treating animals cruelly rather than understand this behavior is wrong,” Mersereau said.

If Mersereau can see this, he can certainly see that any child watching the Farfur clip or any of the other violent antisemitic propaganda al-Aqsa airs would be more likely to imitate the people they see espousing the killing of Jews rather than to understand that this behavior is wrong.

Apparently, PETA isn’t antisemitic; if it were, and it didn’t consider Jews to be fully human, it would rally for their protection. But thinking Jews mere humans, PETA finds itself admonishing the Palestinians for taunting some animals, but not admonishing them for blowing up buses filled with school kids.

Welcome to the wonderful world of secular relativism.

Hat-tip: Commenter Robert

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June 16th 2007

Times Of London: Israel To Attack Hamas

Surely a lot of people share my bewilderment about why we’re reading this in the Times of London:

ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there.

According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in days.

The raid would be triggered by Hamas rocket attacks against Israel or a resumption of suicide bombings.

Barak, who is expected to become defence minister tomorrow, has already demanded detailed plans to deploy two armoured divisions and an infantry division, accompanied by assault drones and F-16 jets, against Hamas.

The Israeli forces would expect to be confronted by about 12,000 Hamas fighters with arms confiscated from the Fatah faction that they defeated in last week’s three-day civil war in Gaza.

Details of the plan emerged as Fatah forces in the West Bank stormed Hamas-run buildings, including the parliament in Ramallah, where they tried to seize the deputy speaker.

Israeli officials believe their forces would face even tougher resistance in Gaza than they encountered during last summer’s war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

A source close to Barak said that Israel could not tolerate an aggressive “Hamastan” on its border and an attack seemed unavoidable.

“The question is not if but how and when,” he said.

As of 9 p.m. PST Saturday, neither Haaretz or Jerusalem Post has the story so if you’re thinking the Israelis leaked the story to discourage Hamas from launching rockets or suicide raids, think again. Besides, if history has taught Israel anything, it is that treating Hamas or Hezbollah as if they were rationaly — like giving them a warning, for example — is irrational.

I’m all for Israel trying to take advantage of the Gaza civil war to weaken Hamas, but you don’t start that effort with stories about your troop strengths, triggers and targets — especially after a greatly outnumbered Hamas crushed Fatah in three days.

This leak in the Times of London doesn’t bode well for Israel doing a better job in Gaza than they did in Lebanon last summer.

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April 10th 2007

Things You Don’t See In Israel

I‘m sure there are many in Israel who don’t like news of efforts to work with the Palestinians on peace efforts, but they don’t do this:

Israeli authorities on Tuesday said they have arrested 19 Palestinian militants for planning to set off a huge car bomb in Tel Aviv over the Jewish holiday of Passover. (source)

When was the last time a group of Israelis planned to murder as many innocent Palestinian civilians as they could during Ramadan? Rhetorical question. We read on:

The suspects are all were Hamas members from the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, the Shin Bet security agency said in a statement.

The agency said the arrests took place in late March, but details were only cleared for publication on Tuesday, the day after the weeklong holiday ended.

Shin Bet said a Palestinian man who apparently intended to blow himself up drove a car packed with 220 pounds of explosives into the Tel Aviv area, then, for reasons not yet clear, returned to Qalqiliya where the car later exploded through a technical malfunction. No one was hurt.

Palestinian police say its all a mistake. Oh yes, the 19 are hardly terrorists and they’re certainly not Hamas. How do they know?

Well, they say, their crackerjack investigation showed the car only had two pounds of explosives in it, not 220 — and it’s’ unlikely that Hamas would be involved in a slaying of innocents operation with a bomb that small.

Uh-huh. And all Hamas stands proudly behind that excuse.

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