What Israel fights against.

This video released by the IDF illuminates the ugly nature of the enemy it faces daily and against which it finally struck back last year in Operation Cast Lead. It is the enemy that is otherwise painted as martyrs and innocents by the world press, likely in the paper you read every day. If, that [...]

Inescapable conclusion.

Did you know that Hamas is negotiating a ceasefire with Israel?
There has been speculation that a cease-fire deal is close.
However, Hamas official said Saturday that new problems have come up. Hamas wants an 18-month cease-fire. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum says Israel created new obstacles by seeking an open-ended cease-fire.
Yes, you read that right. Hamas is [...]

Cease fire?

How to fix this?
Violence marred the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Hamas gunmen fired mortar shells into Israel and opened fire on IDF troops who remained inside the Palestinian territory.
In the afternoon, IAF aircraft bombed a mortar launcher in the Gaza Strip that had been used hours earlier to fire some eight [...]

Eyeless in Gaza.

And we get all bent out of shape when our government listens in on our phone calls to terrorists. Imagine the outrage on the left if our government did this:
Hamas militiamen have rounded up hundreds of Fatah activists on suspicion of “collaboration” with Israel during Operation Cast Lead, Fatah members in the Gaza Strip told [...]

January 10?

Ok, this is more than a little creepy.
On January 10, the war between Israel and Hamas became a global conflict. No longer confined to the Gaza Strip, the fighting spread to cities around the world: what were billed as “anti-war” demonstrations from Los Angeles to Copenhagen and beyond were in fact overtly pro-Hamas demonstrations, and [...]

Context.

Regarding the plight of Gaza, remember this: Between 1948, when Israel was created, and 1967, when Israel captured Gaza in a defensive war, the Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt. During those 19 years, the Egyptians never offered citizenship to the Palestinians living in Gaza, nor did they permit them free transit from the Strip [...]

Good. Now finish them off.

Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel’s response to the escalation in missile attacks on Israeli targets that preceded Operation Cast Lead. One of them, a 52-year-old victim of a premature detonation who had already done time in an Israeli jail, said, “Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at [...]

Israel cleaning house.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Witnesses say Israeli ground troops are advancing into crowded residential areas of Gaza City and thousands of terrified residents are fleeing their homes.
Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy guns thrust deeper into the city than ever before Thursday to seek Hamas fighters, they said.
It wasn’t clear [...]

Maybe they’ll just burn pictures of anyone in Iran?

“Radicals” burn Obama posters in Iran (Wizbang).
The irony for me is that when pictures of any Republican (ie. Bush) were burned in various parts of the Middle East for any one of a number of assumed offenses, it became the media’s symbol that we were not liked around the world and that this was [...]

Animals

Hamas, of course. For booby trapping a zoo. Oh yeah, and a school too. With children and stuff.
Real freedom fighters, these.
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This is heartening.

IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out – Israel News, Ynetnews.
Is Hamas falling apart? A senior IDF officer estimated Saturday that roughly 300 Hamas men have been killed since the army launched its ground incursion in the Gaza Strip. The military official said IDF troops were able to wipe out whole battalions belonging to the Gaza [...]

Red-handed.

Power Line – War Crimes.
More on that UN School bombing the other day. Was it a school or was it a Hamas base? Watch the video and see for yourself.
One wonders, too, what was going on at the UN-run school. Why were dozens or hundreds of children present? Is the UN unaware that Gaza is [...]

Anatomy of a hoax.

Anatomy of a Hoax.
This is stunning to see laid out as it is. With the time that Hamas spends lobbing rockets into civilian cities like Sderot and then fabricating “evidence” of “atrocities” by Israel, you’d think they’d get around to setting up a useful and productive civilization for themselves at some point.
The message they should [...]

Self defense and proportionality.

Deadly And Proportionate Force: The Tragedy Of Hamas – Forbes.com.
The claim is that it is not permissible for the Israelis to kill many individuals, including civilians, to stop sporadic deaths from rocket fire. Sorry. As with individual aggression, proportionality has no place in dealing with deadly force, where the right rule is that all necessary [...]

The voices of Hamas

Hamas in Their Own Voices
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Disgusting.

Barack Obama administration ‘prepared to talk to Hamas’ | World news | guardian.co.uk.
The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s ­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.
The move to open contacts with Hamas, which could be initiated through the US intelligence [...]

Pride and prejudice?

Dennis Prager : Minorities Should Express Shame, Not Only Pride – Townhall.com.
Why does one almost never hear expressions of group shame from members of any American group other than white Christians (specifically, white Christian male heterosexuals)? Are the only evildoers in America white male heterosexual Christians? Is there something inherently wrong about members of minorities [...]

Faux the love of the game.

Little Green Footballs – A Staged Scene in a Gaza Hospital?.
Did you have any doubt? Not that there isn’t violent stuff happening in Gaza, but if it was reported in CONTEXT, the world would see that Hamas is responsible for most all of it. Not when they fake photos and stage videos, however. That’s when [...]

What, he couldn’t blame global warming?

Report: Al-Qaida No. 2 blames Obama for Gaza fight – Yahoo! News.
In the comments, which were posted on a militant Web site and obtained by the SITE Monitoring Service, al-Zawahiri described Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “crusade against Islam and Muslims” and called it “Obama’s gift to Israel” before he takes office later this [...]

Israel–A roadmap to victory.

‘Breaking the Will of the Palestinians’ by Andrew C. McCarthy on National Review Online.
Andrew McCarthy does a very good job outlining just what Israel must do to win in Gaza. It’s especially interesting in light of the context. To ‘win’, Israel must do more than ‘win’. They ‘won’ in Lebanon against Hezbollah, but actually lost [...]

Indefensible.

Hamas moves on Fatah ‘collaborators’ | Confronting Hamas | Jerusalem Post.
Fatah officials in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post that Hamas militiamen had been assaulting many Fatah activists since the beginning of the operation last Saturday. They said at least 75 activists were shot in the legs while others had their hands broken.
Wisam Abu Jalhoum, a [...]

What do the Israelis say?

Palestinians say Israeli raids near school kill 34.
Who’s job is it to pick headlines at the AP anyway?

GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) – Palestinian medics said 34 people were killed in an Israeli strike outside a U.N. school in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya. The United Nations confirmed 30 were killed and 55 injured.
An [...]

Beware…..

Little Green Footballs – Staged Photos Pouring Out of Gaza.
In any closed society like Gaza, there are no random people wandering around with cameras objectively shooting events. They are all “in on it”. When the photos are eventually run by “respected” news outlets, what they should do is acknowledge this.
They do not. Giving the impression [...]

Separated at birth?

RonRosenbaum.com » Some Differences Between Hamas and the Nazi Party.
Hamas and Nazis, that is. In case you were wondering how 2 different Jew-hating organizations went about the business of Jew-hating.
The Hamas founding covenant explicitly calls for the extermination of all Jews. Hitler never made total extermination an official plank of the the Nazi party platform. [...]

Hamas strategy.

Melanie Phillips’s Articles » War is terrible, but the alternative in Gaza was worse.
What people find so hard to grasp is that Hamas actually want to maximise the number of Palestinians who are killed because, as they boast: ‘We desire death as you desire life.’
Despite this fanaticism, many fear that Israel’s attack will merely create [...]