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Brookings – Doha – Bwahahaha – Overlooking Hamas’s Use of Noncombatant Human Shields

14 Monday Jul 2014

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Seemingly, then, the only lasting effects of air strikes are civilian casualties. As a recent Washington Post editorial argues, “The latest mini-war between Israel and the Hamas movement is as unwinnable for either side as previous rounds in 2009 and 2012.”

As usual, Washington’s response to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza has been little more than justification and support of Israel’s “right to defend itself,” as exemplified by the U.S. Administration’s stock condemnation of Hamas rocket attacks on Tuesday. What White House spokesman John Earnest failed to clarify, however, is whether Palestinians are also afforded the right to protection — and who exactly Washington is expecting to provide that protection.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/07/11-palestine-right-to-defense-sharqieh – 7/11/2014.

Hamas’s “Human Shields” murders noncombatants but seems to support disingenuous argument.http://www.brookings.edu/…/11-palestine-right-to…  … Dishonest. Despicable.

Evil starts with a lie, and lying has to do always with hiding something or getting something.

We may not think of failing to mention the Hamas tactic and strategy to place noncombatants between its weapons manufacturing and storage elements and the Israeli Defense Forces, but, and we call as much a “sin of omission”, that’s exactly what it is.

To even think that sacrificing families and their children to portray them as victims of so-called Israeli aggression should pull a sympathetic response from anyone in Washington — apart from the Muslim Brotherhood — seems to me breathtaking.

From The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, posted today:

Related Reference

http://www.danielpipes.org/14574/israel-hamas-war – 7/11/2014: “What explains this role reversal? Are Islamists so fanatical that they don’t mind losing? Are Zionists too worried about loss of life to fight? / Actually, Hamas leaders are quite rational. Periodically (2006, 2008, 2012), they decide to make war on Israel knowing full well that they will lose on the military battlefield but optimistic about winning in the political arena. Israeli leaders, conversely, assume they will win militarily but fear political defeat – bad press, United Nations resolutions, and so on.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-accuses-hamas-of-using-human-shields-1.2706122 – 7/14/2014.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/hamas-human-shields/ – 7/14/2014; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kohn/operation-human-shield_b_157837.html – 1/14/2009: ” When terrorists use areas such as schools to teach their children hatred and use places of worship to hide and store weapons, it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep civilians safe” (note from 2009 — the last time).

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/surreal_in_the_middle_east_hamass_human_shields.html – 7/14/2014: “As with previous assaults and conflicts orchestrated by an array of regional Islamic terrorist groups against Israel, not much attention is being paid to the way Hamas uses its own Palestinian citizens as human shields, or its deliberate and intentioned strikes on Israeli civilian neighborhoods and population centers.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28302539 – 7/14/2014: “Palestinian officials say at least 175 people in Gaza have been killed by Israeli air strikes since the offensive began last Tuesday. / Israel says nearly 1,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza in that time.”

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=18803 – 7/15/2014: “The piece, titled “Lowest deeds from loftiest heights,” disregards the extensive efforts made by the Israel Defense Forces to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza Strip, as well as Hamas’ repeated use of Gazans as human shields.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4543634,00.html – 7/15/2014: “Hamas Got Rich as Gaza Was Plunged Into Poverty”.

An Addendum on Israel as an Apartheid State

Documentary producer Corey Gil-Shuster has a raft of clips on YouTube.  I happened to be watching this one from February 2014 this afternoon and thought it might fit in here.  The Islamist Muslim claim focused on the Jewish persecution of Muslims would seem to play primarily with and to the criminal, deluded, and ignorant — or some combination thereof.  Are there issues?  Yes.  Are they civilizational?  Not really.  The Arab barbarism displayed by the artifice of the Palestinian liberation movement has been consistent over the years, but it would seem the liberation wanted is liberation from either a racist pan-Arab nationalism beloved of dictators or a religious fanaticism reliant on a deeply anachronistic and decontextualized approach to Islam.  The refugees of 1948 have been drowned between those two political streams.

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13 Sunday Jul 2014

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The 2006 elections were hotly contested as to their legitimacy and then fought over.  As the present conflict develops, any underlying unknown political topology will at first be irrelevant — because there’s a war on — and then relevant IF Israel goes the full measure, perhaps with Egypt, of completely overhauling the area’s cultural infrastructure that instills, develops, and operationalizes Islamic terrorism.  The step after that follows the Imperial Japanese model, but God forbid the modern world cannot repair its fascist and feudal enclaves, Hamas in Gaza being but the edge of a scythe designed to destroy the humanity of humanity.

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13 Sunday Jul 2014

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FTAC –

My campaign is not against Muslims.

What I attempt to address, in general, is a deeply feudal intellectual environment and system that subjugates and destroys humanity by promoting and sustaining in its place the ruthless force that is the will of tyrants.

There’s portal enough right here for covering the region from “narcissistic mortification” to “malignant narcissism” to “narcissistic supply”.

We may not fully understand how or why fascists develop their “popularity” through the subjugation and sadistic control of their minions, but they do, and while events on the ground play out, some will circle these processes in mind — and processes in political psychology — to continuously draw down the reach and scope of that deeply anti-human, anti-God, and anti-social but globally distributed behavior.

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13 Sunday Jul 2014

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FTAC —

From long experience, the Jews have a saying: “What starts with the Jews doesn’t end with the Jews.”

The signal in that is that the form in persecution is always barbarism — it’s bullying — and the bully’s problem cannot be solved merely by the disappearance of one of his targets. That kind of person and the mentality that person carries has its own internal narrative that can be hard to — and, look around at the fronts of the Islamic Small Wars, simply cannot be reached.

In the United States, Christian evangelicals form a political block of millions enthused by the support of Israel. In Ireland, despite Galloway’s best rhetoric, I suppose, “Irish for Israel” exists. Numerous other seemingly nominally antagonist blocks (including Nonie Darwish’s “Arabs for Israel”) _stand with Israel_ by way of their own idealism and self-interest. As much, I think, amounts to civilizational growth accompanied by declarations of independence.

The Jews may wish not to be “loved to death” either — we have some problems with, say, “Messianic Judaism”, which is an aesthetic Christianity latched to a Jewish holiday schedule.

As an American Jew — an American who is Jewish — I cannot question the ethnic identification on a personal level (Polish Jewish mother –> Jewish son) but I can question the relevance and role of ethnic exclusiveness in the adoption and comprehension of the tenets of the religion.

I just don’t believe that x nominal affiliation x cultural legacy that any here by cosmic definition are slated for lifelong or inter-generational enmity. That is what can, may, and perhaps is being stopped here with the broad spread of Zionist alliances of which this group is a part.

That we are each pioneering something new in mind . . . good.

We’ll all be a little bit different after facing those other forces that revel in blood and their own boundless self-aggrandizement.

Where the middle (mild and moderate) have proven without defenses of their own, the “political absolutists” — dictators and fanatics — had had a field day, and oh what a field of inhumanity and misery they have made all around themselves.

Hamas now uses the blood spatter of the children of families it has placed in harm’s way for its own anti-Israel propaganda.  In fact, when it comes to “exceeding limits”, that mafia has proven particularly incapable of restraining itself.

Of the mirror opposite the god mobs, what need one say of Bashar al-Assad but to look at how he has “saved” Syria thus far:  http://www.genocideinsyria.org/

As long as Assad is left to save Syria, there will one day be nothing left but its war torn stage for the perpetuation of infinite cruelty by those who believe themselves especially, in Mobarak Haider’s words, “God’s darlings”.

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13 Sunday Jul 2014

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The infantile aspect of dictatorship is to view the whole world as a responsive extension to one’s own glory and power.  http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/03/gaza-arbitrary-arrests-torture-unfair-trials  The social architecture spun around the “malignant narcissist” occupies the core drive of the Islamic Small Wars in their every form, from the Brotherhood in America to the shifts in destruction wrought in Syria by the Assad regime and the assembly of opposed fanatics (of those two sets: different talk — same walk: they are of the same personality invested in their own over-the-top absolute authority).

Compression and distillation may make for good web talk but quite dissatisfying scholarly consideration.

However, our Global Awesome Conversation would seem predicated on our ability to package thought — call it “signal” — with exceptional brevity.

So done.

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FTAC – A Comment on Crazy Hamas Determination

12 Saturday Jul 2014

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Here’s one description of the beginning of the end for Berlin in the final days of WWII:

“The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler’s Third Reich began on April 16, 1945 when Stalin unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing German resistance and capturing Berlin.”

The Japanese had the good fortune of having a religion and an emperor one step removed from battle. It took _two_ atomic bombs on top of the decimation of the state to bring the emperor to surrender a martial ambition that could not be left to fester and redevelop.

Think about these immense wars of the previous century: Germany — untold dead, rails cut, ports bombed, army defeated in area after area after area — and right to the last, until out of bullets (except two for Adolph and Eva — the last decent thing he ever did was marry and right afterward attended the double-murder, one of them his own), the Nazis fought. For Japan, battered by allied bombing raids, also pushed back, Hiroshima, where the first bomb was dropped, didn’t produced surrender. It took Nagasaki, and no one doubts that “Curtis” would have continued until nothing was left.

There’s madness in the heads of “malignant narcissists”, and some really cannot believe they’re evil or that they are losing until they’re gone, and I’m not certain even then that they’re convinced.

Related: http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

Hamas secures weapons in a variety of built noncombatant / non-military locations.  Israel delivers warning calls and warning shots, and then what it bombs it destroys in its entirety.

Have the “bug-out bag” read and (even if without) flee: when that army comes knockin’, get out of its way.

Not coincidentally, Pakistan’s Defense Forces have been active recently in North Waziristan”

(CNN) — Pakistani troops launched a ground offensive against militants in the capital of the country’s North Waziristan area Monday, starting a new phase of a 16-day fight that has seen more than 450,000 people flee the area.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/30/world/asia/pakistan-north-waziristan/ – (video) 7/1/2014.

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FTAC – A Note on Friendship Across Boundaries

11 Friday Jul 2014

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Friendship is long work.

Between communities, it involves, in part, choices in the tension that may exist between principled integrity. to which all nod with affirmation at first, and loyalty, which the powerful may abuse or abuse on the way to becoming powerful (as with mafia) and to which the less powerful but prudent, either as regards ambition or survival, pay heed.

When “Caliph Ibrahim” demands acknowledgment and fealty, he is doing what criminal “godfathers” have done long, long before him and what other dictators do beside him: he emasculates and subjugates any potential rivalry (and his self-aggrandizement has but one goal: continuous narcissistic supply, but that’s another topic). The main this is his WILL rather live with a loyal lie than venture with an uncomfortable truth.

Iran has remained deeply involved in arming Hezbollah, maintaining Bashar al-Assad, which has twisty politics but all would at this point acknowledged that he’s a proven a monstrous dictator as ever existed, and smuggling to Hamas (http://freebeacon.com/national-security/israeli-ambassador-hamas-using-iranian-rockets-to-attack-israel/). The ideals of Shiite Islam may differ but the realpolitik obsessed with the development and maintenance of absolute power and control would seem to make a lie of a friendly face, loyalty being ultimately the enforced principal of this kind of power.

Time buys all of us time to visit faith and reason together — because we are in it together — and through argument and conversation approach a stance through which we may diminish or even head off what looks like a coming train wreck. While we get to work on that, some things just get worse, and there’s little we can do to influence malevolent processes running beside our own reparative ones.

I have yet to retire from this mode, but know I need to do so.

In the meantime, I may stand by my observations, starting with the notion that languages are invented or incubated and sustained in some kind of bounded space. Some may remain near pure or aged in isolation; others become complex amalgams from many streams in speech, but they’re more than merely functional and far more than the same in all but sound.  Along the way, perhaps, an unhampered “cultural technology” may be its own exclusive and heady world.

With English a somewhat globalized but far from universal medium for intellectual exchange, cultural differences in belief, cognition, and social behavior may become dramatically apparent but not easily accelerated toward compatibility or resolution, and we’re in that muddy region.  Part of that involves the conceptual space between feudal comprehension and the related appreciation of power and associated criminality, such absolute power being likened to mafia rule, and modern reliance — perhaps too much so — on social idealism and principle.  Nonetheless, for great cause, I’d much rather live in the modern world than crawl along in the feudal one or even have at command its levers that obligate pandering and patronage on one hand while encouraging immense brutality, ruthlessness, and sadism on the other.

To cross this bridge that crosses time demands a completely new and democratized bonding that itself becomes reflected in the next politics shaping the overall experience of the human journey.

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FTAC – Gaza, Hamas, Any Subject Search

11 Friday Jul 2014

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Hamas has embraced a genocidal mission based in the theft of religious precepts and related successionary ambition. It’s very flattering to itself, and while it has gotten fat and built mansions on skimming funds and collecting tunnel tolls and various forms of taxation, it has demonstrated its love of people by making sure to put noncombatants between its operations and “blast and battle”.

The New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left (see “International Solidarity Movement” for example) has been getting money from somewhere and puffing itself up for just this kind of glorious man-the-barricades moment. It too doesn’t offer much beyond the grandstanding.

As I have read that Allah favors those who restrain themselves, I may do just that and refrain a while from posting my own opinion from elsewhere, which practice has just gotten weird.

I have a blog, for pete’s sake!

My prayers to Gaza noncombatants, non-Hamas residents who have asked for jobs, built businesses, taken care of their homes, and lived peacefully and would go on doing so were it not for the fire starters among them who literally bring war into their homes.

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Warning tactics used by the Israel Defense Forces to apparently avoid civilian casualties in Gaza have been captured on camera. In a video published on LiveLeak, an IDF aircraft fires a loud, nonlethal bomb on a building to alert residents that they’re in the area of a target, allowing them to leave quickly.

http://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-gaza-residents-acting-human-shields-israeli-forces-258223 – 7/10/2014.

. . . as Israel has stepped up its efforts to try and spare civilians even as it seeks to silence the terrorist fire, Hamas has also increased its efforts to ensure that as many inhabitants of Gaza as possible are hurt in the fighting.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/07/10/hamas-human-shield-war-gaza-israel-missiles/ – 7/10/2014

Smuggled Syrian-made rockets based on a Chinese design have boosted Hamas’ 10,000-strong arsenal which is dominated by crude homemade devices, officials and experts say.

A surface-to-surface weapon that struck the coastal town Hadera – 30 miles north of Tel Aviv and 70 miles from the Gaza Strip – is an “M-302 type rocket” similar to a shipment of rockets Israel intercepted at sea in March, the Israeli Defense Forces said Wednesday.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hamas-firing-china-designed-syria-made-m-302-rockets-israel-n152461 – 7/10/2014.

Hamas faces an unprecedented economic and political crisis. The Egyptian government regards it as an enemy, has clamped down on smuggling activity, and kept the Rafah border crossing mostly closed. It has lost its Syrian base and Iranian support as a result of the Syrian civil war. Now its authority is weakening inside Gaza: it is on the point of bankruptcy and has been challenged by jihadist groups buoyed up by the success of Isis.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/10/gaza-air-strikes-necessary-force-israel-hamas-bankrupt – 7/10/2014.

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