04 Monday Aug 2014
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IDF forces in the Gaza Strip found a Hamas manual on “Urban Warfare,” which belonged to the Shuja’iya Brigade of Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The manual explains how the civilian population can be used against IDF forces and reveals that Hamas knows the IDF is committed to minimizing harm to civilians.
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/08/04/captured-hamas-combat-manual-explains-benefits-human-shields/ – 8/4/2014.
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03 Sunday Aug 2014
Are they even aware that most of the Christian community in Gaza have fled –out of fear of Hamas? Gaza Christians were and are driven away by intimidation, death threats, forced conversions and scrutiny by Hamas “Torquemadas” who check to make sure these new converts are attending Mosque on a regular basis. Have they seen the videos recently smuggled out showing Hamas henchmen beating up Palestinian men, women and children trying to evacuate their homes, (as the IDF asked them to do), and being driven back inside by Hamas henchmen so their deaths can become fodder for naïve, unquestioning western eyes? For every Palestinian – except their most dedicated supporters, Hamas rule in Gaza has become akin to the inquisition. Has it ever occurred to these new lefties that their unquestioning support of Gaza is actually enabling Hamas and other similar tyrants to continue doing what they do best – namely rule through intimidation and terror?
http://israelsvoice.com/article.php?id=294&t=1407101450 – 8/3/2014
For good reason, I refer to it as the “New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left”.
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01 Friday Aug 2014
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.
01 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Islamic Small Wars
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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01 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Islamic Small Wars
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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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31 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Islamic Small Wars, Journalism
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS —
“40 questions for the international media in Gaza
Saul O, July 31st 2014, 2:07 pm
1. Have you or any of your colleagues been intimidated by Hamas?”
Thirty-nine tough questions follow.
http://hurryupharry.org/2014/07/31/40-questions-for-the-international-media-in-gaza/ – 7/31/2014.
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31 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Politics
. . . the governor wasted no time translating his beliefs into law. Because the governor believed that homosexuals were “a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick,” he outlawed them, instructing his police officers to seek, capture, beat up, and imprison every gay individual in the state. Similarly, women were deemed better off tending to their families than wasting their time with such corrupting pursuits as jobs. A special educational program was devised and approved to teach young girls the fundamentals. These future wives and mothers, read the governor’s statement, “must be fully capable of being aware and of grasping the ways to manage their households. Economy and avoiding waste in household expenditures are prerequisites to our ability to pursue our cause in the difficult circumstances surrounding us.” The men of the state reveled in this new way of life, asserting themselves as lords of their manors; before too long, nearly half of them took to regularly battering their wives.
How many of those who define themselves as liberals would support the governor?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180947/liberals-who-oppose-israel#undefined – 7/31/2014.
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30 Wednesday Jul 2014
Posted in Anti-Semitism
Some of the trapped Jews fought their way out as the riot police dispersed the crowd. Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, condemned the attack in “the strongest possible terms”, while Joel Mergei, a community leader, said he was “profoundly shocked and revolted”. The words had no effect. Two weeks later, 400 protesters attacked a synagogue and Jewish-owned businesses in Sarcelles, in the north of Paris, shouting “Death to the Jews”. Posters had even advertised the raid in advance, like the pogroms of Tsarist Russia.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/08/exodus-why-europes-jews-are-fleeing-once-again-261854.html – 7/29/2014.
Darabni wa-baka, sabaqni wa-ishtaka.”
It is a rhyme in Arabic that means:
“He hit me and quickly cried: ‘He attacked me,’ he lied.”
It aptly describes the way Palestinian thugs and leaders—from the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas to the maniacs of Hamas—attack or try to cheat someone and then rush to complain about being beaten up or victimized.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-widlanski/from-arafat-and-abbas-to-hamas-lying-and-crying-for-terror/ – 7/30/2014.
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