Diana West surveys the world's mad reaction to Israel's defending itself -- including that of putative U.S. allies Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's quite simple, really: Israel strikes back at jihad, finally, and the world takes sides. So far, the sides looks like this: On Israel's side in its strike against jihad are the US and Australia (here); against Israel's strike on jihad are, well, just about everyone else, from France to Iran, from Russia to the UN, from Iraq (hat tip Andrew Bostom) to Afghanistan.Hey--aren't Iraq and Afghanistan, after all that American blood and billions spent "democratizing" them, supposed to be allies in the "war on terror"? And isn't Hamas a terror organization? So, wouldn't that make Iraq and Afghanistan opponents of the Hamas jihad on Israel? (Insert hysterical peals of laughter here.)
Answer: Not if the teachings of Islam on jihad and dhimmitude have anything to do with it. And they do, despite the West's cowardice to face these politically incorrect, politically inconvenient, politicially demanding facts.
For the record, here's what the Foreign Ministry of what President Bush styles as the "young democracy" of Afghanistan said:
The Afghan Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday strongly condemning Israel's air raids on the Gaza Strip of Palestine that left hundreds of civilians dead and injured, Xinhua reported.
"The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is following the recent attacks by Israel on the innocent people of Palestine with great concern and strongly condemns these attacks," the statement said.
The statement noted that "the bombardment and killing of civilians cannot be justified with the policies of Hamas."
That's just great. Really glad to know the incoming Obama administration will be sending thousands of American troops to Afghanistan to attempt to shore up this stalwart Afghan "ally" in global war on terror, or whatever they're calling it now. And how different would a Taliban statement on Gaza be from the Afghan government's? Never mind.
Then there's Iraq--the same Iraq President Bush has long predicted will be (when?) "an ally in the worldwide struggle against the terrorists" and a "strong ally in the Middle East." Already, the Iraqi government, a spokesman for the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party and the country's Biggest Cheese, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have all condemned Israeli airstrikes on terror targets in Gaza.
Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said condemnation didn't go far enough.
"Expressing condemnation and denunciation for what is going on against our brothers in Gaza and expressing solidarity with them by words only doesn't mean anything in the face of the big tragedy they are facing," he said in a statement released by office in Najaf.
"Now more than at any other time, both Arab and Islamic nations are required to take a practical stance for the sake of stopping this repeated aggression and to break the unfair besieging of these brave people," the statement said, without giving details of the proposed stance.
Only a child in a fairy tale would expect anything else.
Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,-"Expressing condemnation and denunciation for what is going on against our brothers in Gaza and expressing solidarity with them by words only doesn't mean anything in the face of the big tragedy they are facing,"
I think yesterday, Turkey also expressed similar sentiments against the Israelie strike...wait a minute.. what is the difference between Israel bombing Hammas and Turkey bombing Kurds in Iraq? Well that is exactly what Turkey did yesterday and today, they bombed Kurds in Iraq. Where is the outcry? What do the condemning powers have to say? Absolute silence from all corners. I have no idea who these Kurd folks really are, but they get always beaten by their Islamic friends.
"Now more than at any other time, both Arab and Islamic nations are required to take a practical stance for the sake of stopping this repeated aggression and to break the unfair besieging of these brave people," the statement said, without giving details of the proposed stance"
Possibly follow the example of the iranian ship carrying "humanitarian supplies" now making its way to Gaza to "break the siege." Nothing to do with the events of Saturday, it has left last week before the Israeli attack and is supposed to arrive in about a week. But if it does arrive, no doubt the ayatollahs will capitalize on that to the maximum.
Memo from Muslim countries to U.S. and the West:
~we'll take you're money like a greedy hog
but never forget you're an infidel dog.
Nothing kaffirs... unbelievers... do will~ not aid to the Tsunami victims or foreign assistence by the billions or freeing millions of people from tyrannical maniacs~ nothing infidel dogs do will ever make them anything but suckers and targets for Islamic terror.
I am pleased to note that my country (Australia) acknowledges that Hamas is reaping what it sowed.
Not so very long ago, Wafa Sultan, no-nonsense apostate from Islam, flew into Australia 'under the radar', and met with a good many of our politicians from both sides of politics (this was well before our last set of elections).
Ms Julia Gillard was, I understand, one of those who met with Ms Sultan.
Maybe she learned just a little something.
Aussie jihadwatchers: emails and letters to the Deputy PM would be in order. Express polite approval that she has at least recognised that Hamas started this brawl and that Israel is acting in self-defence.
Further educate her as to why ANY 'truce', 'ceasefire' or 'treaty' between Israel and the local Arab Muslims - and, indeed, between any Infidel entity or polity, and a Muslim entity or polity, is perfectly meaningless: written on toilet paper in disappearing ink.
Tell her about the Treaty of Hudaybiyya.
Quote Jacques Ellul at her, his line about Islam being "fundamentally warlike". Tell her to check out Bostom's 'Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism' - quote her that line from the Moroccan pogrom-inciter who said, 'Love of the Prophet [Mohammed] requires hatred of Jews'. Quote her the Hamas Charter with its frankly genocidal intentions toward Jews, and its insane citation of the Protocols.
Then, perhaps, she might just possibly begin to grasp that what the Israelis are doing to Gaza is no different from, and as fully morally justified as, what the Allies did to Hitler's Berlin. And that the best and most moral thing that Australia can do is to stand back, ignore the howling and wailing from the Muslim world, and let Israel get on with the job of hammering a mob of viciously antisemitic wannabe mass-murderers into the ground.
If we truly believe Israel has a right to self-defence, we (the Australians) must also be prepared to stick out our necks and vote a resounding NO to any anti-Israel resolutions that may be proposed, within the next days or weeks, by the Islamintern at the UN.
Defending the West requires action based on reality not slogans that sugar coat our termination. We have to think out what leads to our actual survival. Then do it.
Muhammad figured out a plan to subjugate the world. He wrote his plan down in a book called the Koran. He gave his plan a name, Islam.
We need to be as realistic and objective if we are to survive. That means offending Charles Johnson and the PCers, left or "right" as they may be.
Just emailed the Deputy PM and thanked her for stating that Hamas had brought Israel's might down on its own head through its ceaseless efforts to destroy Israel and the Jewish people.
Jewcat
I sent my email too, just this morning, after double-checking what she said, in the ABC news site; a proper letter on paper with signature, will follow it up.
Might also be worth sending an email to Michael Danby, who is one of our Jewish MPs (he represents a seat in Melbourne). He belongs to an Israel/Australian friendship association.
I suspect that you may inhabit our national capital - if so, do you have any allies? Some sort of 'We Support You' rally at a respectful distance from the Israeli Embassy might be a good idea. I say, a respectful distance, because right now they're probably feeling pretty antsy and ASIO will be hovering around the place, too.
It would be best if some Indian Australians, Jewish Australians, philojudaic Christians and other decent people all got together.
Best of all, if a rally could include people from other regions and groups that have suffered/ are suffering from Jihad violence: e.g. Sudanese Christian refugees, Copts, Assyrian Christians, Thais, Filipinos, Hindus, Sikhs, Malaysian Chinese (Christian and Buddhist), Serbs, Cypriot Greeks, Armenians...
Indeed, the Resisters of Jihad could consider doing a march from the Indian to the Filipino to the Thai to the Israeli embassies, at each 'stop' expressing solidarity with the victims of jihad terror and affirming that each jihad-beleaguered kafir nation has a right to sovereignty and self-defence.