Tuesday, June 6, 2006
...and the rest of the international humanitarian establishment...
Here's your Hamas, the group Andover High School physics teacher Ron Francis thinks just gets a bad rap in the Western media:
Trashing the Palestine TV office for reporting a way they don't like: Haaretz: Gunmen shoot up Palestine TV office; Hamas man killed in blast
..."Dozens of Hamas gunmen and members of a back-up force of the Interior Minister ... are setting equipment on fire," said Mohammad ad-Dahoudi, director of Palestine Television, which is under the control of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.
The gunmen shouted accusations against the network, alleging its reports favoured the rival Fatah movement. There were no reports of any injuries during the incident.
Two employees said they were beaten by the gunmen...
They're firing rockets into Israel: IDF believes Hamas members behind Qassam attack on Sderot
Experts say the rockets belonged to the kind developed by Hamas who have a larger warhead and are more precise than those held by Islamic Jihad.
IDF intelligence believes the rockets were fired by members of Hamas acting on their own initiative in defiance of orders from above to avoid carrying out terror attacks against Israel...
One rocket landed on a child's bed: Sderot: Qassam lands on child's bed
Finally, Hamas "scientists" are working on adding new chemicals to their suicide vests: Hamas operatives working on adding toxic chemicals to bombs
The sources said the experiments have involved relatively simple chemicals, and as far as is known, the organization is not yet able to integrate such agents into its bombs effectively. However, they said, Hamas' West Bank cells include several skilled bombmakers who are investing great effort in trying to upgrade their weapons.
The organization also is amassing large stocks of explosives so operatives will be ready to launch attacks immediately should its leadership decide to end the security "lull," the sources added...
...In Gaza, Hamas operatives often assist attacks carried out by Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees. The rockets fired at Sderot last week, for instance, were made by Hamas, and "rebellious" members of the organization helped launch them. The Shin Bet security service also accused senior Hamas operatives of having helped the Popular Resistance Committees prepare a attack in April at the Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel. That plan was foiled by PA security personnel.
There is also one type of attack to which Hamas' leadership has given its unequivocal blessing: attempts to kidnap Israeli soldiers or civilians for use in negotiations over the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel...
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A high school physics teacher. Previously it was Jay Benish (sp?), the geography high school teacher in Denver, Colorado. So many, and essentially in their official capacities, no less, intent upon brandishing their moral bona fides and profundity.
Before long we might expect to hear from kindergarten and pre-school teachers, waxing profound on Palestinian pre-schools. Now there's a subject needing elucidation; haven't seen it explored at all in the MSM.