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Fifteen Seconds…

by savage ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists, Israel, Terrorism at January 2nd, 2009 - 11:00 am

I found this on Jihad Watch.

It’s powerful

Oh, you should sign that petition, unless you are a filthy Islamist.

The mother of all wraths?

by Kafir ( 20 Comments › )
Filed under Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism at January 1st, 2009 - 6:19 pm

Hamas declares ‘day of wrath’

Gaza City – Hamas called on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem to mark a “day of wrath” on Friday by demonstrating against the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Then they won’t have time to fire rockets.

At least 414 Palestinians, most Hamas members but including scores of civilians, have been killed in the Israeli blitz on Hamas targets in Gaza that started on Saturday.

You get that when that is where they work from. Nizar Rayan, for example and either two or four of his wives, and four , nine or ten of his twelve children, which may be six of his seventeen children or one of his wives and three of his children.

update: 8:49 pm

UK groups prepare major Gaza demo

Protesters are preparing for a major UK demonstration calling for a halt to the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

More than 30 organisations, including the British Muslim Initiative, the Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, are joining forces for Saturday’s protest and a rally along the Embankment in central London.

They are being supported by MPs and celebrities, including the singer Annie Lennox, activist and former model Bianca Jagger and the comedian Alexei Sayle.

The demo will be the culmination of days of smaller protests around the country as well as outside the Israeli Embassy in London.

Disproportionate Restraint

by savage ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Islamists, Middle East, Palestinians, Terrorism at December 30th, 2008 - 2:35 pm

Found this on Jewish World Review

I condemn Israel’s disproportionate attack on Hamas because, so far, it has only lasted four days and I would like to see a proportionate response that terrifies Hamas for seven years, the years that have filled Sderot and neighboring towns with nightmares, death, amputations and trauma coming from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza.

Perhaps a proportionate response would have Gaza’s leaders fearful of being killed every day for the next two years, as Gilad Shalit has been terrified of torture and death every day for the last two years in his solitary Gaza dungeon.

A proportionate response would have Hamas mothers and fathers as fearful for their children’s lives as Shalit’s mother and father have been fearful for Gilad’s life.

A proportionate response would have Gaza’s children crying for their mommies and daddies, the way at a Hamas pageant earlier in December a Palestinian actor dressed as Shalit got down on his knees, mock-begging in Hebrew for his Ima and Abba while the Gaza crowds laughed.

A proportionate response would so intimidate Hamas that they will grovel and, as a “gesture,” send cocoa and jam into Sderot, the way Israel has groveled in response to rockets from Hamas, sending cocoa and jam into Gaza. Imagine Churchill sending cocoa and jam into Berlin as a humanitarian gesture after – during – the bombing of London.

A proportionate response would be one that will convince Hamas there is no military solution, no solution but surrender. They can then call surrender a “peace process,” if they like, just as the mostly unanswered attacks on Jews have convinced some Jews that there is no military solution but surrender to any and all demands. They suggest a euthanasia by the euphemism of “peace process,” that Israel become what some are already planning to call “Canaan,” a non-Jewish state of all its citizens.

A proportionate response will convince Palestinians that if they insist that the starting point to peace negotiations is that no Jew be allowed to live on the West Bank, the proportionate response will be that Israel’s starting point in negotiations is that no Arab be allowed to live in Tel Aviv. Horrible to contemplate? Fine, let there be a proportionate negotiation.

A proportionate response to Hamas, one might gather from the European scolds, would be as if the United States, after Pearl Harbor, would bomb just a few Japanese fishing boats and call it a day, believing the war would have ended with that.

A proportionate response will begin to remind Jews that there is no peace process like victory, just as Israel’s decade of disproportionate restraint and self-doubt has convinced young Palestinians that their victory is inevitable, like Aryan youth in 1933 singing “Tomorrow Belongs To Me.”

Let it be said to Israelis and Jews everywhere, in the words of Churchill: “You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something.” But remember: A war (and Hamas has repeatedly said this is war) is never won if you are disproportionately kind to someone who wants to destroy you and, failing in that, demands with indignation that you not destroy him.

When meeting that enemy, be proportionate.

Hat Tip to Jihad Watch and Robert Spencer

War to the bitter end…

by savage ( 16 Comments › )
Filed under Hamas, Israel at December 29th, 2008 - 1:06 pm

“We have stretched our hand in peace many times to the Palestinian people. We have nothing against the people of Gaza,” Ehud Barak said to a special session of parliament. “But this is an all-out war against Hamas and its branches. The restraint that we have demonstrated is the source of our strength when it is time to fight.”