Sunday, December 28, 2008
Via YNet News: Hamas threatens Israeli leaders
"We will reach that Zionist in her house, inside the Knesset compound. We will also get to the traitors in the Muqata compound in Ramallah and to all those in the Arab world that had a hand in the scheme against us. We will hunt Barak down and reach all of them," Hamad said.
"Today we are sending a message through the sea of blood that was spilled here and we will not surrender and we will defeat the enemy. From here, from within the proud Strip, we say to all our enemies: We will get to you, defeat you, and hunt you down one by one.
"We will reach the Zionist leaders in their homes, we will get to you, the collaborators in the Muqata in Ramallah, and we will settle the score with you one by one."
Hamad added that "Hamas and the organizations will settle the score with anyone who was involved in the attack on Gaza, in the participation in this scheme and in supporting this attack.
"We will settle the score with you one by one"? Why has anyone ever taken these goons seriously? One commenter had it right when he said that these Islamist 'leaders' make Robert Mugabe look like a respectable statesman.
Hamas' gangsta-style threats were a reaction to Israels' recent, precisely targeted airstrikes against the organization. Hopefully, these airstrikes (and Hamas' blundering reaction) are a sign that things are changing in the Middle East.
Hamas' gangsta militia is just one weapon in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Syria's long-running war against Israel. Other weapons include the Pallywood propaganda machine, the petrodollar lobby and their militias, like al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah.
As Mark Steyn said, the strength of the Arab armies combined make Belgium look butch. For decades the Arab/Islamists have been trying to compensate for their embarrassingly small armies by using every meager resource they have. All they have to show for this is a reasonably efficient propaganda machine, mobster governments and some of the most backwards social systems and economies in the world.
All Israel has to show for their pursuit of peace is a bad neighborhood filled with propagandists, mobsters and power-hungry zealots. It's about time things changed.
For years, Israel has following the British model of dealing with terrorism - legitimizing the sonuvabitch who is "our friend" and trying to pit him against the sonuvabitch who is "our enemy". They've been trying to negotiate with the supposedly moderate Abbas and the supposedly moderate Saudis in the hopes that these enemies of Hamas and Iran (respectively) will offer a working peace.
When Israel realizes that Abbas and Saudi Arabia are just as dangerous as Hamas and Iran, when Israel realizes that these enemies have been working together for years and that they give their war against Israel a higher priority than their war against each other, they can finally abandon the British model and take effective action against the enemies who hope to eliminate them. Hopefully, these targeted attacks against Hamas are a sign that Israel is changing course.
If Israel has given up all hope that the British model will work, we'll all benefit, because we all need to abandon this failed model.
The war against terror-supporting nations is bigger than Israel vs. the Palestinians. It's India vs. Pakistan, its the Taliban/Pakistan vs. Afghanistan, it's Iran/Hezbollah vs. Lebanon. It's America vs. al Qaeda, it's Europe vs. Hizb-ut-Tahrir and the Muslim brotherhood and it's Thailand vs. Islamist 'separatist militants'. These wars follow the same pattern as Israel vs. the Palestinians - an established state is threatened by a weak, petrodollar-funded Islamist militia that has few real weapons, no real offensive capability and few soldiers who can shoot straight. The established state ignores the fact that it could easily wipe out the Islamist threat using decent intelligence work and the destruction of enemy infrastructure. It tries diplomacy and dumb alliances with 'moderate' Islamists and enemies-of-enemies. This prolongs conflicts that should have been finished years ago.
We need to stop prolonging these conflicts, for Israel and for ourselves.
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Re, Jimmy Carter and Hamas
In addition to other aspects of the conflict, it may be a good time to remember Jimmy Carter's meetings with and support on behalf of Hamas.
April, 2008, Carter, in Damascus, meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Mishal, excerpt:
"Imagine the Alice in Wonderland scene that will take place later this week, when U.S. Secret Service agents entrusted with protecting former president Jimmy Carter stand guard over a meeting with the head of a designated terrorist group responsible for near daily attacks targeting civilians, including numerous attacks in which American citizens have been injured and killed."
Likewise, Carter providing moral and PR support to Hamas's terrorism, excerpt:
"His blatantly anti-Israeli and simplistic "hate-Bush" stance enabled Hamas terrorists to enjoy some propaganda in the Arab world by showing an ex-U.S. President renouncing the laws of his country governing dealings with Foreign Terrorist Organizations and designated terrorists."
Another aspect of this moral and PR support Carter has served is the financial support aided by front groups such as CAIR and the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Another excerpt from the second link above:
"[Readers are invited to] review the numerous Counterterrorism Blog posts about the activities of Hamas deputy political director Mousa Abu Marzouk (or "Marzook"), one of Carter's "hosts," while he was in the U.S. before he was convicted and deported. To quote from our panel on Decemmber 11 on the Holy Land Foundation case,"
Those are two or three, readily found examples only.Israel: Abandoning failed policies?
the title is right.
after failing to encourge the people of gaza to overthrough hamas, through blockade of food and money and electricity. militery is the the new policy.
hamas and gazans martyaers to heaven, your dead to hell.
ofcourse the 2006 war lead by the same people with hizboullah will have the same ending
ex: we didnt studey, our soliders ran away and are not loyal as the previous genertion exc....
countries lead by women are doomed to wrong policies, hyrray for : enough is enough.
ofcourse we call for stop of this barbarity.
arabian, your typicaly laughable boasting reminds me of "The Black Knight" in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLEWHRbIMxU
"A mere flesh wound."
Remember arabian, your islamofascist hamass-nazis were defeated by JOOZ.
That's ANOTHER Nakbah for you.
Michael B - Jimmy Carter and Zbig Brzezinski also came up with the idea of allying with Islamofascism to fight communism. And, of course, there was his 'headless chicken' reaction to the hostage crisis in Iran.
If there's any president that can be blamed for the mess that is the Middle East, it's Carter.
hamas and gazans martyaers to heaven, your dead to hell
Paraphrasing Billy Joel, I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Shaheed. If Islamist martyrs are in heaven, then hell is a better place.
countries lead by women are doomed to wrong policies, hyrray for : enough is enough
arabian, your mood seems to be a bit sour lately. I guess things aren't so good for everyone back home, with low oil prices, collapsing real estate markets and all...
Yes, Mary, I do agree, though that echoes back to a timeframe wherein more subtle arguments need to be invoked.
In recalling Carter as recently as this year, in April, 2008 in the two instances invoked, it serves to reveal much more blatant episodes of willful and intransigent positions. The post-Oslo, post-intifada, post-9/11, etc. world, not to mention the post-Gaza (2005) world, among other salient factors still, serves to throw a harsh light upon Carter's naivete, a "naivete" that is forever excusing wanton criminal elements such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, etc.
So I agree, at least to a point, but I was attempting to throw a more obvious and harsher light upon Carter by referring to a more recent era and set of developments.