Palestinian Leader Mudar Zahran: “Most Gazans Have Had Enough With Hamas.”

01 Friday Aug 2014

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Jordanian Palestinian leader Mudar Zahran has been arguing for years for a revolutionary version of the “Jordanian Option”, the idea that the Palestinians should be absorbed by and governed by Jordan, an idea pursued by Yasser Arafat with disastrous consequences, but which in Zahran’s vision promotes a democratic pro-Semitic Jordan.

As King Abdullah II of Jordan would have to abdicate to get to the first leg of such an adjustment, Zahran generally argues his case from London.

Nonetheless, with Palestinian bona fides, Zahran has stepped out of the box that keeps the “middle east conflict” oscillating between temporary accommodation and relative quiet and then the rounds of brutal violence unleashed by the passions fueled by Arab hate in some proportion of the refugee populations.  The dictator generally boasts — and being delusional may believe — that everyone is behind him (and everyone loves him too), but the more level-headed among empiricists may rightly query that boast: truly, provably, how many constituents within the mafia state of theofascist Hamas deeply hate and resent its existence and its power over their lives?

As all autocracies are no-go zones for honest pollsters, no one really knows.

However, with this “different kind of war”, states share in their enmity reliance on general communications networks and devices and word gets in and word gets out — and then it moves quickly.

So one may take it on Mudar Zahran’s word, “Most Gazans Have Had Enough With Hamas”, until Gazans are free of Hamas and free to speak freely.

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The rebirth of the Iranian-led axis provides the essential ingredient for a new explanation of Hamas’s decision to go to war with Israel.

Recent commentary, however, has placed Hamas’s decision in the context of the regional rivalry between the camp of states that back the Muslim Brotherhood, on the one hand, and Egypt, backed by the camp of anti-Muslim Brotherhood states, on the other.

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/558264-hamass-return-to-the-resistance-axis – 8/1/2014.

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Anwar Sadat, reflections

01 Friday Aug 2014

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As the conflict in Gaza mounts, and hopes for ceasefire, let alone peace, seem to fade into the fog of war, my thoughts took me today back to Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian president who, against all odds, made Egypt the first Arab country to officially sign a peace treaty with Israel.

I was but a teenager when Sadat announced he will be visiting Israel. I remember the tension. Some conspiracy theorists in Israel predicted that the door of the Egyptian Presidential airplane will open, and instead of Sadat, a group of terrorists will burst out, shooting at the top Israeli leaders who were awaiting to greet the honorable enemy, turned into a friendly guest. That, of course, didn’t happen. But what I was thinking about today was what must have gone in Sadat’s head. He was an Arab leader who waged an almost successful war against the Jewish state (the…

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01 Friday Aug 2014

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Act I: bigots make bad neighbours.

In the first act, the principal character, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, makes his appearance on stage in the flowing black robes of a war-cleric. He is known by his kunya (name given in respect to an elder) ‘bad knees’ and is seen climbing the stairs in the manner of a man whose time is rapidly degrading and whose end is near. As he delivers a fiery oration, a magnificent digital presentation displays a collage of images from Mosul. Convoys of cars are seen leaving the city. Bakeries are closed and shops are shuttered. Schools are vacant and only men are noted outside the homes.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/01-Aug-2014/shakespeare-in-mosul – 8/1/2014.

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FTAC – Gazans Obtain Access to Israeli Emergency Health Services

01 Friday Aug 2014

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Because of the enforced isolation, much including Arab unwillingness to integrate the same, the residents of Gaza, “Gazans”, a term I am seeing more frequently, are positioned in time to become their own people in their own city-state.

When Hamas is gone — and it appears Hamas is working on that — the culture of Gaza may be open both to Egypt and Israel. Israel, incidentally, may have afterward plans for Gaza in the form of services made ready, starting with medicine — there’s already a built emergency field hospital for Gazans far into construction.

Actually, Israel’s emergency hospital unit for Gaza is open.

So how is this working out?

Walla reports that Hamas has actively prevented injured Gazans from going to the hospital to be treated by Israel. Even worse, on Wednesday Hamas shot ten mortars at the hospital!

Yes, Hamas is targeting a hospital, something that the “human rights” community seems not to care much about in this case.

UPDATE: Yes, the hospital is live and treating Gazans who manage to get there.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/hamas-shells-field-hospital-set-up-to.html#.U9u08-NdV8E – 7/23/2014

From 2012:

At 2:05:

A senior Israeli cardiologist told the group that there are no dilemmas for Israeli doctors in treating children who may be the offspring of enemy combatants: “We treat them as human beings.  We look at them as human beings.  We see their families in their hour of dealing with an extremely sick ill child.  This is a humanitarian program.”

Related Reference

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/18/israeli-doctors-treat-hamas-pm-haniyehs-granddaughter/ – 11/18/2013.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/haniyehs-mother-in-law-treated-in-israel/ – 6/3/2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/15/wife-of-palestinian-president-mahmud-abbas-being-treated-in-israeli-hospital/ – 6/15/2014.

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“Of the 5000 injured [now above 6000] in Gaza, about 30% will be in need of rehabilitation, but there is no offer for them now”, al-Ashi said. He denied that the hospital was used for a military purpose as claimed by the IDF.

Israel says Hamas—which has ruled Gaza since 2007—and militant group Islamic Jihad use civilians as “human shields” and store weapons in schools, mosques, and hospitals. “Civilian casualties are a tragic inevitability of [Hamas’] brutal and systematic exploitation of homes, hospitals and mosques in Gaza”, the IDF said in a statement.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61125-9/fulltext – 7/31/2014.

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Link – Martin Luther King on the Jewish People and Israel – But There’s a Hitch . . . .

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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“. . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely ‘anti-Zionist.’ And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God’s green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews–this is God’s own truth.

“Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so.

“Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031211052106/http://www.mideasttruth.com/mlk.html – August 1967

About seven additional paragraphs follow from the three quoted here.

The hitch?

The body’s a hoax, but not completely inauthentic:

However, because we do not ordinarily rely on anyone else’s research, we decided to double-check, by searching back issues of Saturday Review (Rabbi Shneier’s book had referenced the “letter” as being published in the August 1967 Saturday Review). We found no such letter in any of the August issues, nor do the page and volume numbers cited conform to those actually used by that publication. CAMERA also checked with Boston University, where Dr. King’s work is archived. The archivists, too, were unable to locate any such letter. We can only conclude that no such letter was written by Dr. King . . . Since the message of the letter (anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism) was one Martin Luther King, Jr., had indeed articulated, we can understand why the King family and the ADL did not feel the need to verify the “Letter to an anti-Zionist friend.” This episode is a reminder of the importance of verifying the authenticity and accuracy of sources, even when they appear to be solid.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=369&x_context=8 – 1/22/2002.

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The author of this blog apologizes for slingin’ it a little too fast.

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