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 [...]

Willful ignorance.

Hamas is a pretty disgusting organization. Backed by Iran, their sole purpose is to leverage innocent Palestinians (such as they may be) into concessions by the Israeli government by any means necessary. This is pretty obvious stuff to anyone paying even the most disinterested attention to matters there. Except of course to the AP:
International and [...]

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 [...]

Out of his league.

This from Reuters today:
[Former Senator George] Mitchell, who helped to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict, was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week to lead U.S. efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mitchell’s tour will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Britain. He said he would later [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Big Picture.

Mike Gallagher : Hamas, Israel and the American Media – Townhall.com.
On the question of why so many liberal Americans are siding with Hamas in Israel’s war of self-defense (how’s THAT for an anti-AP headline!), the Author, Mike Gallagher, points to Bill Gertz’s explanation, which to me, makes “big picture” sense:
But perhaps the most astute observation [...]

You can’t make this stuff up—wait a minute, apparently you can!

They Never Learn: CNN Withdraws Apparently Faked Video of CPR Attempt on ‘Dead’ Palestinian Child | NewsBusters.org.
I’ve got nothing to add to this. Just read it (and watch it) and weep. It’ a race to the bottom now, and we’ve got front row seats. The hope is that not too many innocents get dragged down [...]

The voices of Hamas

Hamas in Their Own Voices
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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 [...]

Boom.

Israel blasts suspected tunnels near Egypt border.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Israel resumed its Gaza offensive Wednesday, bombing heavily around suspected smuggling tunnels near the border with Egypt after a three-hour lull to allow in humanitarian aid. Hamas responded with a rocket barrage. Despite the heavy fighting, strides were made on the diplomatic front [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ground game.

They’re going in.

Knee-jerks

Mona Charen : The So-called International Community – Townhall.com.
The so-called international community has a script already prepared for any news from the Middle East. In this script, there is only Israeli violence, Israeli repression, Israeli guilt. The script reads as follows: Palestinian violence and terror against Israel is not to be condemned because it is [...]

Act locally, think globally.

Somali insurgents take over police stations.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Islamic insurgents took over police stations in the Somali capital Saturday as Ethiopian troops pulled out, raising fears the Ethiopians’ departure will set off a violent scramble for control over the country, witnesses said.Ethiopia has been propping up Somalia’s weak government for two years, but vowed [...]

More of this, please.

Bush: Hamas attacks on Israel an ‘act of terror’.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President George W. Bush on Friday branded the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an “act of terror” and outlined his own condition for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying no peace deal would be acceptable without monitoring to halt the flow of smuggled weapons to [...]