15 Tuesday Jul 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.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=18803 – 7/15/2014.
15 Tuesday Jul 2014
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“In other words, Abbas demanded that the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades be dismantled. Needless to say, from Hamas’ perspective, that was not going to happen. And there was something else Abbas did, he refused to pay the salaries of some 46,000 Hamas government officials and police officers.”
http://avimelamed.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/muqawama-money-missiles/ – 7/15/2014.
Related from 2012: http://avimelamed.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/hamas-kingdom-of-crime/
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15 Tuesday Jul 2014
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That fanaticism may be rooted in a decontextualized and literal reading of the Qur’an, the will to express power by definitively superseding other religions while obtaining absolute control over the lives of others and their assets and otherwise productive energies.
That the Islamic enterprise either contains or has enabled this political program should go without saying; the extent to which the main body either abets, enables, or impedes the progress of “Islamist” elements is arguable. Egypt, for example, reversed the course of the Brotherhood (in Egypt), which handily proved itself anti-democratic and unconcerned with practical and progressive governance; the appearance of the “Islamic State” in Iraq appears to have met either widespread Sunni cooperation or plainly insufficient resistance north of Baghdad despite the development of a military vastly outnumbering the fighters within the incursion.
The comment responded to Adnan Oktar’s latest deploring Islamist aggression in the middle east and Muslim failure to protect Christians and Christian assets in the region: http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2014/07/christian-church-middle-east/ – 7/15/2014.
In relation to my assertion about a “decontextualized and literal reading of the Qur’an”, fate would have me post the following prior to the above:
How ISIS thinks: ““We haven’t given orders to kill the Israelis and the Jews. The war against the nearer enemy, those who rebel against the faith, is more important. Allah commands us in the Koran to fight the hypocrites, because they are much more dangerous than those who are fundamentally heretics.” http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.605097 – 7/15/2014.
Is the Islamic State’s reading of the Qur’an valid or invalid?
If the interpretation is invalid, what are the proofs supporting that position?
While the world may be uncomfortable with the projection of the Islamic superhero who defends all that is “truth, justice, and the Islamic way”, to parody another well known trope, it may prefer a little bit of that to the mindless cruelty of the cookbook Islam whipped up by the host of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates that have expressed their presence in the world through blooms of blood and horror.
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14 Monday Jul 2014
Where Jesus was born.
Clashes in the mixed Muslim-Christian city, usually last for at least four hours every night and in recent days have pushed Palestinian Authority police to appear. When they do, however, they are able to do very little and stand armed but largely impotent against young men wielding rocks. This is in sharp contrast to the Israelis who have moved increasingly from utilising tear gas and rubber-coated-steel-bullets, to instead shooting off deadly live ammunition. In recent days, at least 20 protestors have been shot with live fire, mostly in the feet and legs.
Note the stepped measures the IDF has taken to preserve the lives of protesters.
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14 Monday Jul 2014
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:
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”.
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
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
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
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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