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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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Aside

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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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.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/08/israelis-near-southern-gaza-in-shelters-during-possible-terrorist-infiltration/ -7/8/2014.

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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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://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/02/benjamin-netanyahu-warns-vigilantes-against-trying-to-avenge-slain-israeli-teens-after-abducted-arab-boy-reportedly-found-dead-in-jerusalem-forest/ – 7/3/3014.

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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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.

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.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/three-kidnapped-israeli-teenagers-found-dead-reports-say/2014/06/30/4e6a271a-007a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.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.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/qawasmeh-clan-hebron-hamas-leadership-mahmoud-abbas.html#ixzz369yobDuq – 6/29/2014.

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

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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.

Sharp, Jeremy M.  “Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations.”  Congressional Research Service, May 8, 2014.

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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