Jihadists hit Israel with rockets, breaking "truce"

Arafat played this game to perfection. The Name Game. 'It wasn't us, it was This or that splinter group that attacked Israel' Maybe, if you gave us more money and more weapons we could stop them....yadda yadda yadda.

What amazes me is that the Palestinians have been setting up the same 3-card monte game (guess the card and you win peace!) almost twenty years and it STILL gets Israel to play along!

The same outcome, over and over again, just like an instant replay. Really, what was expected?

Hamas wants the illusion of truce so it can rearm and regroup. Abbas wants the illusion of truce so he can wring some more cash out of Bush/Rice, and he (Fatah) can also arm and regroup. The purpose of all this arming and regrouping, is to continue the jihad against Israel.
Now that the 'truce' was broken,(again) what is Olmert going to do about it?

"the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas group says it remains committed to the truce."
-- from the article above

What government of Israel will dare to mention the Treaty of Al-Hudaibiyya, first to itself, in its own deliberations, then to its public, and then to other Western leaders, and put it them, chapter and verse, that the model of Muhammad, the very basis of Muslim life -- for what is the Sunnah if not, in the main, the example of Muhammad, uswa hasana, al-insan al-kamil -- is also the basis of Muslim treaty-making with Infidels, and so, sad to say, Israel can't put its faith in princes or in fine print, but will have to realistically act on the understanding that the Jihad against it is without end, as the Jihad against all other Infidels is also without end, but entirely manageable, if its promptings in the texts, and its varied instruments, and the attitudes natural to Muslim Man, which are very different from those of Western, non-Muslim Man, for Muslim Man does not accept, as desirable and understandable, the very idea of compromise, but takes all yieldings and surrenders by the other side as a sign that a certain strategy is working, and is impelled to make further efforts, further demands, in other words finds that the appetite is not sated but whetted by what Western Man is accustomed to seeing as a sensible splitting of supposed differences.

The Qur'an, hHdith, and Sira do not say: Accept that the non-Muslims will always have their own lands. The Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira do not teach: claim only this land for Islam, or only this part of this land for Islam. The Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira do not teach: take Gaza, take "the West Bank" for Islam, but leave the Jews their own state in the pre-1967 lines which, of course, Islam happily and forever accepts. No, that is not what the Qur'an, the Hadith, and the Sira say. And the sooner that penetrates the brains of the political and media elites of Israel, and of the entire Western, or entire non-Muslim world, the better for that world, and the happier its future prospects, and the more likely the avoidance of major open war, will be.

The Israelis, and those who push and pressure them from the outside, have always assumed that the same rule of treaty-making, and treaty-observance -- the principle of Pacta Sunt Servanda (Treaties are to be obeyed) is a universal principle. It is not. It is a principle of Western international law. See Lauterpacht, see De Visscher. The world of Islam insists on a different rule: the rule based on the model of Muhammad when, in 628 A.D., he made a "hudna" lasting ten years with the Meccans, and within 18 months, once he felt his forces had been sufficiently strengthened, he found an excuse to break the treaty. He is hailed, in the literature of Islam, for his cunning, his ability to do what he famously told Muslims they must understand as their basic principle. "War," Muhammad said,
"is deception." Many of his adherents today, in the Western lands, the lands known as the Bilad al-kufr, are devoutly following his prescription, and are past masters at it. It is the Infidels who need to catch up, and if they need not necessarily practice the same thing in their own treaty-making, at the very least they should understand how pointless, given that melancholy Muslim view, is all that "peace-processing" that provides jobs and a reason-for-being for assorted aaron-millers and dennis-rosses, who have managed the feat -- oh, and what a feat -- to be deeply immersed in all this stuff without apparently even once stoppiing to consider the relevance of the texts and tenets and teachings of Islam on Muslim minds, on the minds of the Arab and Muslim side that, they keep telling themselvges, will indeed honor a treaty if..if...if only the Israelis give, and give, and give, on the (as Aaron Miller likes to breathlessly put it) "fourcoreissues" which "everyoneknows" are "settlementsjerusalemrefugeessecurity" or possibly "securitysettlementssecurityrefugees" or...well, you get the idea.

Not a hint, in the brains of aaron-mimllers, of Islam and how it affects the Muslim view of the universe. Why, these people have always enjoyed school productions of "Hamlet" without the Prince. Why should they be any different in the hectic vacancy of their pointless professional lives, lives that give them meaning and a false importance, and if they were ever to own up, to admit at this point, to how silly it had all been, based as it all was on a complete misunderstanding of, or rather criminally negligent indifference to, Islam -- my, what will others think of them, and their place in history? And isn't that really what it is all about, for the dennis-rosses and the aaron-millers, and martin-indyks, and all those others who have behaved, when they laid down the law, or tried to, to various Israelis, as shuttle-diplomats, or even diplomats in the American Embassy, behaving like smug satraps (Indyk used to behave, I recall one Israeli columnist writing, like a "Viceroy"), and they are still at it, quite a few of them having found refuge, and a fat regular check, in various Washington Institues for Thisandthat whose donors, I am afraid, from mighty-morph-rangres tycoons to others, if they themselves bothered to find out more about Islam, would realize they are not getting their money's worth, they are getting the very opposite of value, from those indyks, those millers, those rosses.

Ah...brotherhood.

However, the Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas group says it remains committed to the truce.
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Well, see, Hamas is still committed to the truce--which means that it's Israel's fault if the truce is over! sarc/off

Poetcomic1 wrote:

Arafat played this game to perfection. The Name Game. 'It wasn't us, it was This or that splinter group that attacked Israel'
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Yes--this is exactly what I said before the truce went into effect--Hamas can always claim that they weren't the ones responsible--it was just some free-lance jihadists!

Speaking of the name game--here's more "me against my brother, my brother and me against my cousin" stuff:

. . . Islamic Jihad says it "cannot keep its hands tied" when its "brothers" in the West Bank are being targeted.
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Yeah, their "brothers". One minute they are throwing their "brothers" out of windows to their deaths, kneecapping them so they can't run away before shooting them dead, and even persuing them into hospitals to finish them off--all tactics used by Hamas against Fatah in their brutal takeover of Gaza this time last summer--and the next they just can't bear to keep to the truce, since they have to avenge their Fatah "brothers" against Israel.

The whole truce was a farce. It was entirely pointless except for making Israel seem weaker for falling for it. It also legitimized Hamas, because no matter how faithless Hamas proved in negotiations, they are now someone to "negotiate with"--a precedent has been set. Israel cannot go back to claiming that Hamas is just a terrorist organization, and not a legitimate governing body. They cannot go back to isolating them. That particular evil genie is out of the bottle for good.

And for what? Less than *a week* of respite for Sderot and Ashkelon. All I can say is good luck on the next pointless and humiliating round of negotiations--as there surely will be another round, and probably at the urging of my own clueless government.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-Einstein-

"FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME"

Well, they've been fooled more than twice already, so why is Olmert negotiating with terrorists? ....got me

Let's see if I have this right.

Israel take a rocket attack from their Islamic neighbors. Next: World leaders and media want to know what Israel did to provoke the attack.

Then: The world decides that Israel should show their Islamic neighbors more love.

I think I've got it now.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office says the cease-fire that took effect last week has been broken.

Frankly I'm surprised it lasted this long.

I hope they at least closed the crossings and shut off the lights again.

Hamas, who claim control of all Gaza, is responsible for all activities, of all the people in Gaza. It is no longer acceptable to make these flimsy excuses for hostile activities from those "splinter groups" who, for all practicable purposes, share the same Goals.

The time will come where Israel will force these people into Egypt. Then we will see how far Egypt will go to make a distinction between them.

Five days...

Better than the old record.

Why are they negotiating with scum that has vowed to kill them. Carpet bomb Gaza and plant fruit trees in the rubble.

Amr Moussa calls for end to international siege against Hamas now that truce with Israel in effect:

Rice responds: 'You cannot have peace if one partner does not respect right of other partner to exist'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3559730,00.html

This was utterly predictable!

It didn't last a week. Monday and now today rockets have been fired. In a truce, both sides must stop fighting, not just one.

It is time for Israel to attack. They broke the truce, show them the true dogs of war for it.

Shoo the Palestineans out of Gaza and then level it into oblivian.

Why can't Bush, Rice, Zarkozy & Olmert study Islam a little and realize that a dual state peace between Israel & nearby Arabs (Palestinians) is just NOT POSSIBLE? It's against the Koran and fundamental Islamic teachings which mandate that Israel has to go and the land taken back to dar al-Islam, and it's against the desire for vengence for the humiliating Arab defeats of the pervious wars.

Israel is just being played like a violin by its enemies.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/786381/a-breathing-space-for-terror.thtml

IMHO final elimination (not arrest) of all Hamas in Gaza is Israel's only real choice, which might eventually require its nuclear weapons should parts of the Arab world try to defend Gaza.

Gosh, I bet no one saw that coming.......

Why can't Bush, Rice, Zarkozy & Olmert study Islam a little and realize that a dual state peace between Israel & nearby Arabs (Palestinians) is just NOT POSSIBLE?
.. posted by FM above.

Bush has studied Islam enough to pocket petro-dollars thru Arbusto and Harken Energy. You see, he learnt Islam early enough to play the game. All Bush has to do is parrot this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html and sell America to his masters in Riyadh. What a sweet deal! Yup, Bush has stuied Islam just right!
As for Condi, all she has to do is what her boss asks her. "Take Care" of Saudi Arabia and Palestine and everything will be fine. So what if Saudi Arabia terrorisez Infedels and Palestinians tarrorize Israel? It is all a part of the "sweet deal", you see, Condi?
And Americans? Oh, they'r stupid! They'll back a "sitting president/commander-in-chief", they elected, even as he sells them out to "mujahedeeens" and "compadres".