This is what gestures of good will get you. "Prisons 'schools' for Hamas, say security sources," by Amos Harel in Haaretz, July 27:
Security forces have received a number of warnings of possible terror attacks in the West Bank and within the Green Line by Hamas activists recently released from Israeli jails, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer said over the weekend.The IDF and the Shin Bet security service have seen efforts by Hamas over the past few months to rehabilitate its military infrastructure in the West Bank. The organization was hit hard by a wave of arrests and targeted killings undertaken Israel between 2001 and 2005.
Previously, in the intifada's early years, Hamas had been dominant in terms of the scope of terror attacks it initiated. The balance of power shifted due to the damage Hamas suffered, and since 2004, Islamic Jihad, particularly its network in Jenin and Tul Karm, has become the most dangerous group in the territories.
Now the picture has changed again, thanks to two developments: Islamic Jihad itself has been hit hard in recent years, and a large number of lower-level Hamas activists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five years for relatively minor, intifada-related crimes.
An undetermined but apparently large number of these ex-convicts return to terrorism, employing new techniques picked up on the inside from veteran prisoners. The army and the Shin Bet say that most of these activists are quick to begin setting up new networks to carry out major attacks....
This is all out war. It has been going on since 1400. Even after 9/11 and all these Nations preparing to fight terror making agreements. Where are he results of THAT! It is real BS. Ordinary people in the west and other non Muslim countries have been taken for a ride by the very governments whose sole purpose is to protect the lives of their citizens from any attack any foreign or domestic army. These Jihadis are the world wide Army of Mohammedans their allegiance lies with allah and Saudi Arabia. Their mission is to further the rule of Islamic Imperialism. Just by this fact any country that harbors them are in fact legitimate targets of defensive attacks by Israel, India and US. I would not mind seeing the whole world wide Infidel population becoming a unity and combat this menace.
Surprise, surprise; not.
Let us hope technology was available to plant little GPS devices under their skin before their releases, the better to target them when necessary.
Now that would be poetic justice.
My guess is that the more intelligent of the army will now simply capture the Hamas fighters and execute them on the spot. They could do this rather than "catch and release" like our border guards do now.
How does Israel expect to beat the enemy if they keep on releasing prisoners who then come back to fight them even more fiercely. This is illogical.
And why were those members of Hamas released by the terminally-confused government of Olmert, which is, by the way, merely an extreme case, an almost parodic case, of the last few Israeli governments, each one insistent on doing things to win over the "Palestinians" with whom they wanted so desperately to peace-process, to peace-process with until the cows came home?
Oh, the release of those terrorists waa undertaken as part of "confidence-building measures" by the government of Israel. And whose "confidence" in peace-processing, or in "taking risks for peace" (put in whatever dreary and phony phrase you wish, right here) were the Israelis concerned with? With the "confidence" of the likes of Arafat's henchman, henchman who knew all about, for example, Arafat's order to have two American diplomats killed in Khartoum, an order captured on audiotape, and one the Americans know all about but choose to ignore, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, whose Moscow doctoral thesis -- you can get the summary of it on-line now -- was one long effort to deny the Nazi murders of Jews, has re-ermged for the Americans and Europeans as no-one-here-but-us-accountants Mahmoud Abbas, the colorless technocrat, who wouldn't know what a gun or a bomb is if you presented them to him on a platter.
And why does Israel have to build his "confidence" or that of other local Arabs, whether Gazan Arabs or Arabs in the "West Bank," whom Shimon Peres perhaps still likes to describe as "our partner for peace"? Well, because you see, if it doesn't free all those hundreds or thousands of prisoners, then it would not win "the confidence" of Mahmoud Abbas to "take risks for peace"? What "risk"? It is Israel trhat is giving up, by not standing firm on, its legal, mortal, and historic rights, rights that are becoming, after several decades of Arab progaganda, again clearer, to the clear- headed, in the Western world because those clear-headed people are now seeing Islam for what it is, and beginning to realise -- it's slow going -- that the war against Israel is not about the "legitimate rights" of these recently-invented "Palestinian people" (that's all propaganda and blague, and is vitiated by so many statements coming from the Arabs themselves), but is, rather, a classic Jihad, and always has been, against the Infidel nation-state of Israel. And a Jihad does not accept the existence of a defiant Infidel nation-state, even in the tiniest sliver of land (Israel is already that tiniest of slivers), but demands its removal. For the two metaphors that the Arab Muslims use in describing of Israel is that the country is either a "cancer" or "a knife plunged into the heart of the Arab world." You don't "partly" remove a cancwerous tumor, for fear it may again metastasize; you don't "partly" pull out a knife stuck in you, but pull it out altogether.
And Mahmoud Abbas is not one whit different, in his attitudes, nor are his henchman and lesser warlords of Fatah, from the goals of Hamas or for that matter, any other terrorist group -- including the redundantly-named "Islamic Jihad" that is merely the "terrorist wing" of the "armed wing" -- Fatah -- of the "Palestinian" Authority, with its "technocrats" and its "accountants," eager to grasp in their grasping hands the latest installment of apparently inexhastible Western aid which, when it goes to the "Palestinians" -- as it has for so many decades, does not go to others, to the truly deserving and poor Infidel wretched of this earth.
And how maddening it must be for these poor --in sub-Saharan Africa, in parts of Asia, in Latin America -- to see Western countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Egypt, in Jordan, in the "Palestinian" "territories," (that is, those parts of the land allocated for the Jewish National Home that the Arabs seized in the 1948 War, and that Israel finally took rightful possession of in the 1967 war), when the Arab Muslim oil countries have been the recipients, since 1973, of about 11-12 trillion dollars -- none of it the result of any effort on their part -- but somehow have gotten away with, have managed to inveigle the Western Infidel lands, into thinking that they, the Infidels, owe Muslims a living, and a permanent living to boot, because inshallah-fatalism encouraged by Islam ensures economic underdevelopment. At the very least, it is Saudi Arabia, it is the U.A.E., it is Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, and the others, that should have attention focussed on them for their fantastic wealth, their fantastic greed, and, what's more, their fantastic selfishness in refusing to share, save for a few tiny highly-visible public-relations bits, their unmerited wealth with all those fellow members of the Umma, the Community of Believers.
That "confidence-building" through release of murderers and would-be murderers is one more example of the nonchalance, the essential unseriousness, the nearly criminal negligence, of the Olmert government, and of previous Israeli governments, toward its own citizens. It appears that it is more important to build "confidence" (a comical notion when it comes to the cunning Slow Jihadists around malevolent "technocrat" Mahmoud Abbas, and his grasping and lying warlords and minions, his crew, his meynie, his retinue)among the enemy, instead of in protecting the citizens of Israel. No other Western country would free people who are a certain threat to its citizens, the way the government of Israel not once, but repeatedly, has done. No other country would be so cavalier with the lives of its citizens, in order to behave with superhuman solicitousness --- those 23 Israeli Reservists who died so unnecessarily in Jenin because the Israeli government doesn't allow the Israeli army to flatten enemy redoubts -- compare how the American army has been known to use its air power in Iraq and Afghanistan -- thereby forcing soldiers (Reservists, and not professional soldiers) to risk their own lives in the warren of Arab towns like Jenin. One's fury at this is as nothing, of course, as must be the fury of the relatives of the Israeli soldiers who are killed because of this fear of using power correctly. And one's fury at the government, because of the future victims of the Hamas people set free, in a
"confidence-building" measure that should, were the Israeli state rightly run, lead to a motion of "no confidence" in the Knesset, is even greater.
Meanwhile, Western governments, still avoiding Islam, and thus still clinging to the dreamy belief in a "two-state solution" for what is a matter unsuscetible of solution, but merely a situation to be permanently endured, with the peace kept by the power -- the perception of its overwhelming power that must be backed up to the hilt, and always reinforced, and not only by Israel itself -- of the IDF, which is the only true peace-keeping force, or keeper of the peace, between Israel and the Muslim Arabs who would, if they could, at a moment's notice, wipe that supreme offense to their sense of themselves, and to what is right, what is just, off the face of the earth.
Mahmoud Abbas and his men are very interested in power and money, but they are also Muslims; they believe in Islam, they take Islam seriously. They will use, now and again, though not quite as Arafat used them, the odd islamochristians who can be so useful with Western audiences, such as Naim Ateek and Hanan Ashrawi and Michel Sabbag, perfect emodiments of the islamochristian phenomenon. The men of Fatah want dough, and they can only get it from the Infidels -- no one suggests that fellow Arabs start sharing their oil wealth -- and so they want, they need, Western governments to turn on the tap of aid, letting the billions flow to them (despite all the fabulous corruption that has been reported, and despite the billions that simply disappeared -- poof! -- when Arafat died).
But Abbas and those who follow Abbas, all the Slow Jihadists of Fatah, share exactly the same goals as Hamas, and their real quarrel is over power and loot (two rival criminal gangs, essentially, but criminal gangs that reflect the
beliefs of those they rule over). The Slow Jihadists of Fatah differ only in tactics and timing (and in the main question: Who Gets To Grab The Biggest Share Of The Infidel Jizyah-Aid) from the Fast Jihadists of Hamas.
If this is understood, whose "confidence" needs "
building"? Surely it is the Israeli side that needs its confidence to be built. And the American government, showing it does not understand Islam, prating about how wonderful Islam is, telling Muslims everywhere -- as part of "outreach" -- that Muslims thrive in the United States, and are welcome, and that Islam itself is wonderful, is just what Muslim propagandists tell us it is, and all we need worry about are those "extremists" ("extreme" about what? using what texts? misinterpreting those texts of Islam in what "extremist" way? Please tell us-- we keep waiting to hear, but somehow we never do hear) whom Bush, Rice, McCain, and of course Barack Obama (who judiciously estimates that there are about "40,000 hard-core Jihadists" in the entire world), all equally deplore, and all appear to believe, or at least pretend publicly to believe (and both are intolerable -- it's hard to say which is worse) that Islam itself is swell.
Here's the "confidence-building" measure that Israelis need. They need an American govnement willing to use its power to destroy, or severely damage, and soon, within a few months, Iran's nuclear project. They need, and now, an American government that, if it won't assume its responsibilities as the most powerful Infidel nation, to deal with Iran, at the very least, to help the Israelis in every way, and not stand in their way, not attemp[t to prevent them -- as hideously appears to be the case -- from doing the job, with far less resources, and far less chance of the kind of success one would like -- that the Americans should rightly be doing.
All those trillions for the military . All those Stealth bombers, and un-stealth bombers, and fighter jets. All those missiles, short-range, mid-range, Intercontinental and able to go ballistic. All those spy satellites. All those aircraft carriers. All those thisses and those thats. And for what? In order to keep unified, and then, build up Muslim Iraq? In order to build up Muslim Afghanistan, a hopeless case (see Rory Stewart's excellent cover article on Afghanistan in, of all unlikely places, this week's Time). But when it comes to a clear threat to all Infidels, not only does the American government show no signs of dealing, after five years of talk and "negotiation" with an evil (and islamically chiliastic regime, and therefore willing to suffer, willing to sacrifice, for the greater good of Islam, as long as certain goals can be achieved, and those who smooothly assure us that the "Iranians are rational and deterrence will work" are simply not paying attention to the specific people, and doctrines, and worldview, of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Communist rulers were rational. Muslim rulers, or those maddened by the Total Belief-System of Islam, are more akin to Hitler, when he attacked the Soviet Union, and did other things that someone less mad would never have done, or not done at the time he chose to do it), a man sometimes quite calculating, but at other times dangerously drunk on his own dreams, his own world-conquering ideology. Churchill understood this; Chamberlain, and all the many supporters of Chamberlain, did not.
Oh, and one other "confidence-building" measure for the Israelis is necessary. It is necessary for the Arabs, the Arabs of Gaza and of the "West Bank," and the Arabs outside of the area, the other Arabs, to publicly address a question that the Israelis must raise:
"Why should we, the people and government of Israel, ever trust in treaties with you, if you take as your model the Treaty of Al Hudaibiyyah, as scholars of Islam, Muslim and non-Muslim, all inform us that you do, and that in Islam, it is not only permissible, but laudable, to break whenever possible any treaty with an Infidel enemy?
Please explain. In writing, if you wish, or in speeches.
We really can't continue to peace-process with you unless you tell us clearly whether or not the model of Muhammad's treaty-making with the Meccans in 628 A.D. still stands as a model for all subsequent treaty-making by Muslims with non-Muslims. We refer you to Majid Khadduri's "Law of War and Peace in Islam." Sorry, the exact page numbers escape us, but you should not have any trouble finding them.
And once you have answered that question, there is just one other little one. Could you explain to us, the people and government of Israel, whether or not those who deeply believe in Islam can permanently acquiesce in the existence of an Infidel nation-state, on land once possessed, however short or long the duration of that possession, by Muslims? This is not a theoretical question. We need to know. So please -- do let us know.
You see, after all the "confidence-building" measures on our side, we need a "confidence-building" measure -- or two -- from you.
Just for fun, here's the Ha-aretz article rewritten as it might have read, had the soldiers and the reporters not had their heads full of fog:
"Security forces have received a number of warnings of possible jihad terror raids in Muslim-occupied Judea and Samaria, and within the Jewish state, by Hamas jihad terrorists recently foolishly released from Israeli jails, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer said over the weekend.
'The IDF and the Shin Bet security service have seen efforts by Hamas over the past few months to rehabilitate its military infrastructure in Judea and Samaria). The organization was hit hard by a wave of arrests and executions undertaken by Israel between 2001 and 2005.
'Previously, in the intifada's early years, Hamas had been dominant in terms of the scope of jihad terror attacks it initiated. The balance of power shifted due to the damage Hamas suffered, and since 2004, Islamic Jihad, particularly its network in Jenin and Tul Karm, has become the most dangerous group in Judea and Samaria.
'Now the picture has changed again, thanks to two developments: Islamic Jihad itself has been hit hard in recent years, and a large number of lower-level Hamas jihadists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five years for relatively minor, intifada-related crimes.
'An undetermined but apparently large number of these ex-convicts return to the Terror Jihad, employing new techniques picked up on the inside from veteran prisoners. The army and the Shin Bet say that most of these jihadi mobsters are quick to begin setting up new networks to continue the endless Jihad..."
Isn't it amazing what happens when one clarifies the terms?
Of course, if the GOVERNMENT didn't have its head full of fog, also, this report would not exist at all, since the jihadists would be either dead or still in prison, and if in prison, they would most certainly not be getting 'contact' with veteran Muslim POWs who had committed major acts of war against Israel. Said 'veterans' would, indeed, most likely have been publicly executed and would not be in a position to pass on their killing arts to anyone.
Once muslim terrorist, always muslim terrorist. It is not likely that these terrorist muslims will apply to work at McDonald somewhere cleaning toilets. They were raised to be muslim terrorists.