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Hamas – Human Shields – Death by Delusion
10 Thursday Jul 2014
Category Archives: Israel
10 Thursday Jul 2014
FTAC:
You know what, J. — I should not type with a glass or Rose next to me — I’ve become or am becoming more aware of the followers in these disasters than the leaders.
We know what Hamas is about.
The constituency of Gaza, whether endorsing or not, knows what Hamas is about.
But Hamas — not as an organization but as an event in the life of community — takes place anyway!
This is near to an historic day because out of the many hate-peace peace groups blathering all around the middle east conflict, we are all just one mouse-click away from chatyping with (what we may perceive as) enemy.
And I thought photography was an adventure . . . . 😀
And throw the calculus out the window because we know (from Vietnam we must know) that the numbers don’t mean nachas! What has meaning are basic principles and values _in the mutual defense of our own_).
What if “The Terrorists” had captured and murder three young men from Alexandria. Virginia. What if?
That’s the only question on the table.
Hamas has a big problem with Arabic. Hanniyah, in video, gets his pecker up exclaiming how “We believe in death as they believe in life!”
Well, bullshit.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-hospital-treats-Hamas-PM-Haniyehs-granddaughter-332193
Hamas believes in life!
Too.
Dictators, like the dictator “Putin-Assad-Khamenei” defend political absolutism in their own right (AKA “unlimited narcissistic supply”) — http://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1 (such a gentle looking soul . . .but don’t overlook Evin Prison or its population).
That’s where we are.
Wherever.
Now we can talk.
Who else is going to talk?
Talk with me.
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10 Thursday Jul 2014
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As missiles rained down on a growing number of Israeli communities this morning and Israel launched a major operation against Gaza, four young children from Gaza were making their way to Holon for lifesaving heart treatment.
Despite threats by Hamas to attack Tel Aviv with rocket-fire, volunteer doctors at the Israeli non-profit organization Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), worked to bring the four children – all under the age of five – to Wolfson Medical Center on the outskirts of Tel Aviv for vital treatment.
http://www.israel21c.org/news/gazan-children-receive-life-saving-treatment-in-tel-aviv/ – 7/8/2014.
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End The Preoccupation!
08 Tuesday Jul 2014
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“Hamas slammed Israel for the escalation. Spokesman Sami Abu Zori: We will continue to defend our people against these crimes. We warn the occupation not to continue its crimes against our people, and we assure the resistance is ready to defend (against) this aggression.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/08/us-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0FC0JP20140708 – 7/8/2014.
Tally from recent days —
Three Israeli teens kidnapped and murdered;
Today alone, more than 120 rocket attacks launched on Israel since midnight;
One assault on Israel by sea and another by tunnel.
Related:
It is unclear, as of this posting, if the explosion was an intentional method of breaking out of the tunnel within Israeli territory.
Residents are being told to shelter in place, as initial reports indicate heavy exchanges of gunfire, and IDF helicopters hovering in the vicinity.
In longitudinal time, the numbers reflecting assaults on Israel’s sovereignty also describe provocation for today’s “exchanges”: http://www.shabak.gov.il/ENGLISH/ENTERRORDATA/Pages/default.aspx
Related (from June 29, 2014): http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/29/isis-now-openly-operating-in-gaza-flags-seen-waving-at-funeral-video/
Israel’s former Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren stepped out on rooftop in Tel Aviv to tell the world in a proprietary Facebook video, ” ” . . . also out having fun . . . going about their lives normally . . . we will not letter terror . . . deprive us of the joys of life . . . .’ ”
“We will not tolerate rocket fire against our cities and townships, and therefore I ordered a significant broadening of IDF (Israel Defense Force) operations against the terrorists of Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/israel-launches-military-offensive_n_5565848.html – 7/8/2014.
Loosely related to “Hamafia”: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/steve-feldman/gaza-prison-or-paradise/ – 11/14/2012.
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Cynically Scripted? East Jerusalem Riots
04 Friday Jul 2014
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anti-Semitism, East Jerusalem, Israel, justice, Khdeir, law, lawless, rioting
Hate, mindless hate, manipulated, ignorant, pointless would seem to course through East Jerusalem at the moment.
While police continue to investigate the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, rioting crowds have erupted in East Jerusalem on the assumption — no evidence — that the crime must relate directly to revenge associated with the murder of three Israeli teens.
Posted to YouTube yesterday:
By AFP yesterday:
Posted to YouTube about an hour ago.
The basis: martyrdom, for the sake of martyrdom.
Without investigation, without process in the courts, the explanations for the murder are many, including a Palestinian false-flag operation to provoke and condone today’s rioting.
Prove it’s not so.
Prove the Palestinians now rioting are not being played into doing just that by their own handlers.
No investigation?
No proof of anything.
Additional Reference
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ 7/4/7014.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.602736 – 7/3/2014.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ – 7/3/2014.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Comment-After-the-horror-361106 – 7/1/2014.
FTAC – Hebron – Three Dead
30 Monday Jun 2014
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commentary, Israel, kidnapping, political, politics, triple murder
A confection celebrates the kidnapping of two Israeli and one Israeli-American teenagers. The photo had been posted by the IDF prior to today’s discovery of the bodies.
As I type, there are ugly murder stories all over the web, from ISIS in Iraq to children raped and swung from tree limbs with their own scarves (India). Some not Jewish, not Israeli, not American must wonder why these get so much attention (three dead Jews — who cares?). The answer is these would have cared about others far from themselves and would have been part, one way or another, of inspiring good and justice and then been a part of drawing down all that other injustice, mayhem, and murder in the world.
That’s a lot to suggest . . . perhaps a lot to promise . . .but I think it comes with the territory, from Pharaoh to now.
I don’t like everything I read about the Jews and Israel. As a matter of fact, I was earlier this afternoon reading about Sabra and Shatila and the IDF both controlling access to those camps and standing aside as Christian Phalangist militia slaughtered in that Palestinian refugee camp old men, women, and children. That event was not among the Jewish State’s finer moments (September 1982), but here’s the thing: perhaps we learn even from — or starting with — our own failings and missteps and trespasses. I would not expect as much from ISIS today as it has indulged itself in the most wanton orgies of killing; Hamas seems equally unable to repair or restrain itself or related loose energy running around the Gaza Strip (which over the weekend launched multiple rockets against Israel). Name them all, they seem to raise their children with a murderous hate for others, Jews first (thank you very much), and when their children do as they have been trained . . . .
I am wondering: are we — is the whole world — going to see celebration photos this time?
I’ve no further comment.
Reference
http://pamelageller.com/2014/06/dead-bodies-three-jewish-kidnapped-teens-found-near-hebron.html/ – 6/30/2014.
http://www.commdiginews.com/news-2/sons-of-israel-gilad-shaar-eyal-yifrach-and-naftali-fraenkel-found-murdered-20608/ – 6/30/2014.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4536458,00.html – 6/30/2014 (IDF seals off Hebron).
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4536477,00.html – 6/30/2014.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/netanyahu-vows-hamas-will-pay-after-bodies-of-3-kidnapped-israeli-teens-found – 6/30/2014.
http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=7830 – 6/30/2014.
At this point, it is quite possible to believe Meshaal when he says that he knew nothing about the kidnapping and that he has no idea what happened to the teens. But Meshaal and the leaders of Hamas have a problem. As long as they don’t denounce the Qawasmeh family, and as long as they let the family take them down a dead end time after time, the leaders of the movement will be forced to pay the price.
Related on anti-Semitism from earlier this month (same subject): http://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/eyal-gilad-naftali-klinghoffer-the-new-blood-libel/ – 6/23/2014.
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alt.palestinian – Mudar Zahran
09 Monday Jun 2014
Related: U.S. Department of State. “Foreign Military Financing Account Summary.” Current
The United States has provided economic and military aid, respectively, to Jordan since 1951 and 1957. Total U.S. aid to Jordan through FY2013 amounted to approximately $13.83 billion. Levels of aid have fluctuated, increasing in response to threats faced by Jordan and decreasing during periods featuring political differences or reductions of aid worldwide. On September 22, 2008, the U.S. and Jordanian governments reached an agreement whereby the United States agreed to provide a total of $660 million in annual foreign assistance to Jordan over a five-year period, ending with FY2014. In the year ahead, both parties may try to reach a new five-year aid deal.
Under President Barack Obama-who seeks to expand PA paramilitary units-the United States has pledged to continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars a year into Abbas’ coffers, with large sums dedicated to the security forces. This is despite objections from Congress and appeals by Palestinian human rights organizations. Obama has exercised waivers to continue to fund the PA security forces.
Bedein, David. “On the Brink: Decline of U.S. trained Palestinian Security Forces.” January 9, 2013
The unspoken truth is that the Palestinians, the country’s largest ethnic group, have developed a profound hatred of the regime and view the Hashemites as occupiers of eastern Palestine—intruders rather than legitimate rulers. This, in turn, makes a regime change in Jordan more likely than ever. Such a change, however, would not only be confined to the toppling of yet another Arab despot but would also open the door to the only viable peace solution—and one that has effectively existed for quite some time: a Palestinian state in Jordan.
Zahran, Mudar. “Jordan is Palestinian.” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2012.
Coffman, Tamara. “The Obama Administration’s Middle East Policy.” Brookings, June 8, 2014.
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Gaza, West Bank – ICHR Reports on Human Rights in the Preoccupied Territories
29 Tuesday Apr 2014
In March 2014, ICHR monitored 22 deaths, 15 of which took place in the Gaza Strip and the remainder in the West Bank. The causes of death were distributed as follows:
(1) death in a detention center (Gaza Strip);
(3)deaths under mysterious circumstances (1/West Bank; 2 cases of women/Gaza Strip);
(7) deaths due to negligence of public safety precautions (4/Gaza Strip; 3/ West Bank);
(3) deaths due to family disputes (West Bank);
(7) deaths due to misuse of firearms and internal explosions;
(1) death due to a tunnel incident (Gaza Strip).
Related: Toameh, Khaled Abu. “Palestinian Authority Human Rights Violations Ignored by Media, West.” Gatestone Institution, International Policy Council, February 11, 2014. Toameh’s article summarizes aspects of the January monthly report:
The report also lists cases of torture and mistreatment in PA and Hamas prisons. ICHR pointed to an increase in the number of torture cases in prisons belonging to the PA’s much-feared Preventive Security Service in the West Bank.
During January, ICHR wrote that it received 56 complaints about torture and mistreatment in Palestinian prisons: 36 in the Gaza Strip and 19 in the West Bank. In addition, the human rights organization received innumerable complaints about arbitrary and unlawful arrests of Palestinians by the PA and Hamas.
Link to “Monthly Reports” (current for 2014), The Independent Commission for Human Rights.
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The “Middle East Conflict (MEC)” — it’s never about Syria, for example, is it? — has been both a real and potential vortex for me since co-moderating an “Israel-Palestine Peace Group” (the initial creator and moderator of the forum turned out a lawyer contracting in the territories and positioned opposite the Jewish State — “Zionist Entity”, “Jewish-majority state”, “Little Satan”, yawn, etc.). hosted on a Georgetown University computer serving an “International Peace and Collaborative Development Network” community. Now defunct, so both co-moderators may hope, that endeavor bogged down, as do so many of what I call “hate peace peace groups” on Facebook, in deeply bigoted banter.
For the most part, I leave the MEC’s online “intellectual battlespace” to others for scrapping, but it finds me now and then as it did this morning while chatyping with a correspondent about the two-state solution and the impossibility of creating that reality given an 1) Arab bloc that refuses to accept the possibility of a “Jewish State”, 2) the architecture and economy of two governments and multiple entities that derive both substantial income and power from keeping the conflict sustained — no matter what the cost to the refugee generations from 1948 — and 3) the continuing threat of violence against politicos (like Mudar Zahran) positioned as realistic peacemakers but essentially meddling and muddling from exile.
Add the match: Arab Islamic supremacist thought undergirding Arab anti-Semitism in service to Islamic supersession.
Related and recent on that last note: Cohen, Richard. “Hamas must repudiate the anti-Semitism in its charter.” Op-Ed. The Washington Post, April 28, 2014: “And yet in a corner of the world, the Holocaust is considered no mystery at all. The Jews did it to themselves to foster the creation of Israel. This is what Hamas believes”.
Additional Reference
Bowen, Jeremy. “Have MidEast talks failure killed two-state goal?” BBC Middle East, April 29, 2014. “Both sides say they want peace, and there is no reason to doubt them.” Yes, Mr. Bowen, there is. Judaism and Israel stall Islamism and Hamas; democracy and Israel stand against pan-Arab nationalist ambition and further dictatorship. Which is the anachronism: democracy, Judaism, Israel? Autocracy, Islam, blood-and-soil nationalism, Fatah and Hamas?
FLAME. “Muslim Arab Anti-Semitism: Why it makes peace very difficult — almost impossible.”
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