Yet no one, no one, seems to care that the jihadists fire rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. Only the military force that takes more care than any other in the world to avoid civilian casualties is criticized for targeting civilians.
"Rockets hit Beersheba as youths head to school," by Ilana Curiel for Ynet News, January 11 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
Two rockets landed in the southern city of Beersheba at around 7:20 am Sunday, only a few second after an air raid siren sounded in the city. One of the rockets hit an open area inside the city.There were no injuries, but Magen David Adom emergency services treated four people for shock. A car and a building sustained damage. An electric pole collapsed and the power supply to the area was cut. Another rocket caused damage in a different part of the city.
The rockets were fired just half an hour before the city's high schools were to reopen after being closed for more than 10 days. Some 65% of Beersheba's 11 and 12th graders (about 2.700 students) were to return to school Sunday and study in bomb shelters.
Ronit, who lives in the area hit by the rocket, said the entire neighborhood trembled. "There was one big boom. There's no electricity on the street now. The shutters moved after the pole fell on a car. There's a great commotion here: Police, ambulances and firefighters.
"The children here were nearly killed. My daughter is shaking. She has been clinging to me for two weeks now. She was supposed to go to school today, but I didn't send her and I won't send her until the commotion ends."...
My daughter is currently visiting Israel. I'm glad the IDF is finally taking action to halt the rockets, though she may have to duck for a few more days.
According to US Secretary of State, Condi Rice, these rockets are 'legitimate resistance'.
Hamas is making the choice to fight to the death.
Israel is trying hard to oblige them...
In the meantime, the world of Islam, and it's supporters, collaborators, fellow travelers, useful idiot cohorts, and just plain Jew haters, have hissy fits, and what amount to public orgasms.
There must be a law against public orgasms.
The last time I had one, I got arrested...Why are all these orgasming Mahounds getting a free pass?
Where are the 'tack squads', clearing the streets, making mass arrests, when protesters get violent?
Well, there may be some of that kind of police activity in some places, but more of it is needed.
It won't be long till some lunar-tics carry it to the next level and start killing people...
I have been seeing news stories on the MSM, discussing the psychological wounds in Gaza, as well as the physical casualties. They never seem to interview people in Sderot and other Israeli towns, where the children suffer PTSD from the daily bombardment.
While the Israeli children study in bomb shelters, I remember a headline about a teenager killed by an air strike in Gaza. He was not in the basement but playing on the roof!
It was a kindergarten. I heard it on Fox just now.
It was a kindergarten. I heard it on Fox just now.
Posted by: jdamn
I can hear the cheers and Allahu Akbars from here.
I basically don't like the idea of turning this conflict into 'The War Against Children'.
That's not what it is, but some are trying to make it so, with Israel as the disproportionate aggressor.
Hamas is only second because they are not strong enough to be first.
If Hamas could kill more Jewish children they would. One despot already called for the killing of Jewish children everywhere.
Since Hamas insists in sending rockets, Israel has no choice but to shut down the Allahu Akbar factory...
Mark Steyn puts out another incisive column - really worth a read:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjkwNjVlNmE5MWUyOTVhMWIyODkzNWNlZGM1YjU2Zjc=
The media is too caught up with attacking Israel that it doesn't pick up on this news.
Christopher Hamilton
The Right Opinion, for the Right Wing
Robert Spencer wrote: "Yet no one, no one, seems to care that the jihadists fire rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. Only the military force that takes more care than any other in the world to avoid civilian casualties is criticized for targeting civilians..."
BUSH, RICE: 'ISRAEL IS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM'.
Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, said the United States abstained.... Nonetheless, Rice said Friday, there were elements of the resolution that were positive.
"For the Council to address that THERE SHOULLD BE A CONDEMNATION OF ALL ACTS OF TERRORIMS, we thought was an important feature," she said.
{The Muslim-Arab world has got to love this condemnation. After all, Israel is a state sponsor of terrorism. -- W.J.}
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/11/1002145/groups-slam-bush-on-un-resolution
Groups slam Bush on U.N. resolution
By Ron Kampeas · January 11, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Jewish groups expressed disappointment in the Bush administration for failing to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on the Gaza Strip war.
If Gaza was bordering Russia instead of Israel, all there would be left of Gaza City by now would be rubble.
Mark Steyn puts out another incisive column - really worth a read:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjkwNjVlNmE5MWUyOTVhMWIyODkzNWNlZGM1YjU2Zjc=
Posted by: sanman
It is a good piece. Thanks for posting it.
Open warfare plays into HAMAS hands politically.
A double standard is obvious concerning Israel. I suppose part of the reason is how easy things can be to see what you want to. Prejudice can only be countered by hard work, if you want to work at it. Many do not.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424911751&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I am astonished by everyone who posts on jihadwatch! Absolutely astonished.
"The elephant in the room (also elephant in the living room, elephant in the parlor....) is an English idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored or goes unaddressed. It is based on the idea that an elephant in a room would be impossible to overlook; thus, people in the room who pretend the elephant is not there might be concerning themselves with relatively small and even irrelevant matters, compared to the looming big one."
There is an elephant in the room! Hello. Anyone home?
Jan 11, 2009 0:48 | Updated Jan 11, 2009 19:28
Analysis: The world, US included, wags an angry finger
By DAVID HOROVITZ
"The United Nations Security Council resolution that passed overnight Thursday, demanding "an immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza," was followed almost right away by further rocket fire on Israel from Gaza and resumed Israeli military operations in the Strip.....Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza, a rank-and-file participant in the large, seething demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in London told the BBC on Saturday evening.
"There must be a free Palestine," said another.
The UN vote will only confirm to such "ordinary" protesters that they are the upholders of morality, and that Israel is the ethical sinner, unjustified in claiming that Hamas bears root responsibility for all those Gaza deaths and that Hamas is deliberately waging war at the expense of the very people it purports to represent...."
I have been seeing news stories on the MSM, discussing the psychological wounds in Gaza, as well as the physical casualties. They never seem to interview people in Sderot and other Israeli towns, where the children suffer PTSD from the daily bombardment.
While the Israeli children study in bomb shelters, I remember a headline about a teenager killed by an air strike in Gaza. He was not in the basement but playing on the roof!
This is what I've been asking people who are still pro-Hamas. Israel built bomb shelters, they have sirens, they built a fence, they have underground hospitals - in Gaza there is none of this.
Either they didn't really feel threatened, or they don't care.
One "documentary" I saw about "Palestine" noted there were no trees in Gaza...?? And why don't they plant some?
Oops- first two paragraphs from CTYankee
Get-back? Hamas must be making a point, but I haven't figured out what the point is, yet. Oh yeah, that they are terrorist thugs, that's right. Hamas is so evil. Islam is so evil. Hmm, is there a connection? Methinks so.
Islam be gone.
Go Israel!
From above: I am astonished by everyone who posts on jihadwatch! Absolutely astonished.
'Everyone'?
Well, I certainly hope so, we go out of our way to be astonishing.
I don't know what this astonishment is in reference to, but astonishment is our forte.
I am astonished that so many kufrs have their heads up their... where the sun don't shine.
I am equally astonished that the dhimmi's in charge are not charging.
It is astonishing that the rabid Mahoundians can riot in western/American streets with near impunity.
I am astonished that in many cases the police refuse to enforce the law.
I am astonished that so many Mahoundians only have one shoe.
I am astonished that in spite of every kind of evidence, Mahoundian immigration continues.
Reinforcements are on the way...
Astonishing ain't it...
Astonishing ain't it...
Posted by: duh_swami
The point is duh_swami, George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice betrayed Israel. They did it in the United Nations. Rice implies, the U.S. needed to condemn terrorist atrocities committed by both sides; Hamas and Israel. This means Bush administration considers Israel a state sponsor of terrorism! You aren't outraged at the Bush White House?
Anne Bayefsky wrote:
7. The resolution condemns "all acts of terrorism"--without mentioning the identity of the terrorist--leaving Islamic countries to claim that Israel is the state terrorist and that the condemnation has nothing to do with Hamas.
"Shame On Bush And Condi"
Anne Bayefsky, 01.09.09, 02:22 PM EST
America throws Israel to the wolves.
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/09/security-council-israel-oped-cx_ab_0109bayefsky.html
Batefsky:
1. The resolution she supported makes no mention whatsoever of Israel's right of self-defense.
2. The resolution calls for a ceasefire while Israel is still under fire, thus gutting the right of self-defense.
3. The resolution puts a right of "all" states "to live in peace"--though Israel is the only state under fire--in its preamble instead of in the operative section of the resolution, where it would have carried substantive weight.
4. The resolution expresses grave concern only about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. No concern is expressed over the humanitarian crisis in Israel that has forced half a million people into underground holes for eight years and left Jewish children growing up with the trauma of fleeing and hiding throughout their young lives.
5. The resolution makes no mention of any need to return Hamas kidnap-victim and Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. It does not even demand that Hamas or the Palestinian Authority abide by the humanitarian requirement under international law to permit a single visit to Shalit from the International Red Cross or any other international agency.
6. The resolution calls for "unimpeded" provision and distribution throughout Gaza of myriad forms of humanitarian assistance--which obviously makes the conduct of war against Hamas terrorists impossible.
8. The resolution places no mandatory responsibility on Egypt to stop the trafficking of weapons into the terrorist-controlled Gaza strip. It merely "calls for member states to intensify efforts" to stop the trafficking.
9. The resolution promotes further international intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict, rather than a negotiated settlement between the two parties, by "welcoming…an international meeting in Moscow in 2009." Code language for shoving U.N. terms and conditions down Israel's throat.
10. The kicker is that the Security Council "decides to remain seized of the matter." This means Israel's failure to abide by any of the points in the resolution is grounds for more and more Security Council meetings designed to thwart Israel's right to defend itself against the terrorism that threatens all civilized societies....ect.
Aren't you outraged duh_swami? I am.
Melanie Phillips, has been nominated for "Best U.K. Blogger 2008". The left are mounting a campaign, to have people vote for the opposition. I hope Robert that you can put a link/story on this article, so that she can get increased visibility in Britian.
Keep up the good work.
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-uk-blog/
Aren't you outraged duh_swami? I am.
Posted by: Wild Jew
First, 'Let me make this perfectly clear'...That's Richard Nixon talk...I was not criticizing your post, only commenting on the inclusion of 'every poster' on JW. So I thought I would list a few of the long list of items I am astonished about.
Aren't you outraged duh_swami? I am.
Posted by: Wild Jew
Usually I get astonished first and then outraged. I have already been astonished, and now I share your outrage...Bush and his wonder girl don't speak for me, and neither does that putrid organization the UN.
Stabbing Israel in the back has become Bush's legacy...We will see if Prophet Obama (PBUH) removes it or gives it a twist...
Stabbing Israel in the back has become Bush's legacy...We will see if Prophet Obama (PBUH) removes it or gives it a twist...
Posted by: duh_swami at January 11, 2009 4:01 PM
I agree.
"Stabbing Israel in the back has become Bush's legacy...We will see if Prophet Obama (PBUH) removes it or gives it a twist...
Posted by: duh_swami at January 11, 2009 4:01 PM
I agree."
First, Obama is no prophet. He is the duly elected president-elect of the USA, with 52.87% of the PV to McCain's 45.62%, a margin of +7.25%. And in 8 days he will be inagurated.
And I doubt he is very interested in the muslim (PBUH) blessing, since everytime the muslims wish someone peace there is only death and destruction in their wake.
And I doubt that Obama will forsake Israel.
I have been reading this website for a few years now because I like to get my news from several sources because its impossible to get unbiased news.
You say that Israel is the military force that most worries about civilian casualties? How is that so? They have killed almost 900 people and will kill many more, while Hamas, even after launching 4,000 rockets, has killed I think 2. You really this Israel is being fair here?
I think Israel is crossing the line and its going to have huge problems with the International Community for years to come.
Also, you keep repeating that there are "pro-hamas, pro-jihad" protests... when I have been to one in madrid and it was clearly protesting the military incursion and disproportion of attacks, NOT supporting JIHAD or HAMAS.
This fight will never end, and if it does, its because one side exterminated the other.
"You say that Israel is the military force that most worries about civilian casualties? How is that so? They have killed almost 900 people and will kill many more, while Hamas, even after launching 4,000 rockets, has killed I think 2. You really this Israel is being fair here?"
How would you like to live under that lottery of death, with rockets coming in everyday to terrorise you? What would you do with this elected terrorist government to make them stop? If Israel stopped now do you think the 900 killed would have any effect at all in making the terrorist government change its policy and stop shooting rockets into Israel? If that won't do it, (which it won't) my Lord, what do you think it will take? Or maybe they should just suck it up and live the rest of their lives with the lottery of death.
"This fight will never end, and if it does, its because one side exterminated the other."
And Who's fault is that? Do you honestly think Israel has any interest in attacking its neighbors because it's committed to destroying them? If the surrounding muslims permanently ceased all hostilities, do you really think Israel would attack them? If Israel just laid down their arms, dissolved the IDF, and declared, "we will fight no more", do you think they would not be annihilated as promised.....honestly?