Strength and resolution rather than weakness and appeasement. Always the preferable route.
“Ahead of U.S. Embassy Opening, Israel Doubles Number of Troops in Gaza, West Bank,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, May 13, 2018 (thanks to Ken):
TEL AVIV – Ahead of the inauguration of the relocated U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli troops have been deployed to Gaza and the West Bank amid concerns of violent clashes with Palestinian protesters, the IDF said Saturday.
An extra two brigades are being deployed to the Gaza Strip and another in the West Bank.
Israeli officials have speculated that more than 100,000 Gazans will attempt to breach the border with Israel. The army said they were expecting to contend with several dozen “terror kites” carrying petrol bombs flown over the border as well as gunfire aimed at soldiers and explosive devices planted at the border fence.
Hamas has called for “a million martyrs” to sacrifice their lives to reclaim the land.
“We will place a million martyrs on this land until, God willing, we liberate it,” Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas, vowed this weekend. “We don’t care about [President] Donald Trump’s moves or the indifference of the Arab world.”
Hamas’s Gaza chief Yihya Sinwar also said last week that he expected hundreds of thousands of Gazans to breach the fence. Sinwar vowed that he and other senior Hamas officials were “ready to die” to end Israel’s hold over Gaza.
Recent days have seen two brush fires as a result of Gaza’s attack kites. On Friday, Gazan rioters blew up the gas pipes supplying Gaza with fuel as well as electricity infrastructure and a conveyor belt used to transfer goods into the coastal enclave from the Kerem Shalom crossing, resulting in tens of millions of shekels of damage, the IDF said.
The IDF later blew up a terror tunnel in northern Gaza.
The weekend also saw two car-ramming attacks in the the West Bank, with a soldier lightly wounded in one of them. Four firebombs were hurled at the road near the Etzion bloc outside of Jerusalem Saturday night, with no injuries reported.
On Sunday evening, Israel will celebrate Jerusalem Day, marking 51 years since the city was reunited. Monday sees the embassy opening, and Tuesday marks “Nakba” day – Arabic for the “catastrophe” of the establishment of the Jewish state. This year, Nakba day will also coincide with the start of the month of Ramadan, which usually sees a rise in clashes….
jihad3tracker says
I LIVE IN THE WASHINGTON DC AREA —
The mainstream network news (ABC – CBS – NBC) always, always, always repeats the fiction about “Palestinians” actually being a valid historical cohort.
NEVER — IN MY 40 YEARS OF VIEWING — HAS ANY PUSHBACK FROM TRUTH TELLERS HAPPENED.
Guy Jones says
It’s scary, how so much of the mainstream (admittedly Leftist) media perpetually parrot the “Palestinians’ ” (AKA, Arab) narrative of fallacious and contrived victimhood.
I’m talking not only about predictable Islamic sympathizers and anti-Semitic useful idiots, such as the BBC, MSNBC, NPR and the like, but, also, formerly respectable and (relatively) objective news outlets, such as the Associated Press, Reuters, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Fictitious narratives, the whitewashing of Islam’s transparent supremacism and pathologies, and, hostility towards Jews and Israel, are now mainstream conceits on the Left.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO GUY — Thank you for expanding my short comment.
As Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer has written many times, U.S. campuses are no longer places where open inquiry is encouraged.
For at least 20 years, they have become bastions of hard-left indoctrination, with no straying from an “all religions deserve equal respect” pathological mantra.
So we ought not be surprised if graduates who go on to get reportorial jobs then propagandize that global-culture agenda.
And, understandably, if they hope for promotions, such constant deception boosts them up the ladder — in the eyes of their Leftie C.E.O. bosses.
Guy Jones says
All very valid observations, indeed.
bonnie louise loranger says
I absolutely agree with you
Guy Jones says
“Sinwar vowed that he and other senior Hamas officials were “ready to die” to end Israel’s hold over Gaza.”
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Haven’t these people had control over Gaza for almost a decade, at this point? And, they’ve squandered all of their foreign aid on funding terrorist infrastructure and activities, instead of building businesses and infrastructure and the foundation for a peaceful and prosperous society.
At what point does the utterly ridiculous victim posturing of these reprobates get called out? They have no one to blame but themselves and their allegiance to a totalitarian, supremacist and belligerent ideology of hate, for their perpetual miseries and cultural and technological bankruptcy.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely jihad3tracker and Guy Jones.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO AGAIN TO GUY AND MARK —
In JW comments during the last several years, I mentioned these 3 resources to understand the reason Muhammad’s bloodthirsty subconscious (Allah) seldom — if ever? — creates any genuine contribution for our planet:
1. “The Terrifying Brilliance Of Islam”. That long item is often posted at www [dot] inquiryintoislam [dot] com AND www [dot] citizenwarrior [dot] com.
2. “How Islam Creates Monsters”. Psychologist Dr. Nicolai Sennels wrote a summary for his research in Dutch prisons — interviewing Muslim incarcerates.
3. “The Psychology Of Islam — Part 2”. Dr. David Wood explains how Muhammad’s childhood of loss & cruelty warped his development, creating a hafeful “god”.
jihad3tracker says
A LINK TO ONE TRUTH-TELLING RESOURCE —
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html
A favor requested by me to all Jihad Watch commenters: please read that long CITIZEN WARRIOR article when you are not multi-tasking or otherwise distracted.
Send it to family, friends, senators, representatives, pastors, rabbis, priests. Remind them of the DAILY SLAUGHTER by devout faithful Muslims who obey Qur’an commands for subjugation and slaughter.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
All of it happening at the same time. Still pondering on the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38-39 and if this is finally…after thousands of years…the time for these things to take place.
Rarely says
Haven’t you heard? These are “peaceful” marches For a “just” cause.
It’s unconscionable for Israel to have fewer casualties than the Palestinians during these “peaceful” demonstrations.
Israel is not being “inclusive”.
Whatever action Israel takes will be wrong in the eyes of the western media.
So the answer to your question: “At what point…” is never.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mr spencer, Judea and Samaria has been locations within palestine, not first inhabited by Israelites as history established. moving the Embassy of the evil united states to those locations cannot legitimise the illegal recognition of Jerusalem as capital of fascist evil zionist state of Israel by jewish slave savage mad devil trump.
Rarely says
Here’s one for you. Until 1947 the term “Palestinian” was used to refer to the Jews living in the area.
mgoldberg says
Judea and Samaria are ancient terms- the only terms that actually apply. Palestine was a term used after
135AD, when the Romans attempted to erase judea, and jews from the land. They named it after the aegean sea peoples defeasted some 700yrs earlier by King David, who were not from the middle east.
Arabs refused to call themselves palestinians as it was always a name for jews. You are a presenter of
falsehoods
duh swami says
I don’t know about you, but I trust no one who believes Allah is god…
gravenimage says
Judea and Samaria have been inhabited by Jews for thousands of years. The term “Judea” might give you a clue, for starters…
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
Ibrahim itace muhammed dropped out of muhammed’s hairy arse once again
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
infidel, when last the satan you Call holy spirit has anus sex with you?I can feel bad smells coming from your anus right from here.
FYI says
{sniff….sniff….sniff}
Those horrible smells filled with sulfur seem to be coming from your deranged comments.
That’s your “prophet” speaking to you from your posterior..
WPM says
You can feel bad smells?? even your basic senses are off ,do you hear colors ,taste sounds ,hear heat and cold? Is Islam faith like LSD for you it throws the whole world into a hallucinating nightmare for you? No wonder your so angry all the time and cannot put your postings into any logic or coherent order on this website.
gravenimage says
+1
Adam says
I support Israel.
Matthieu Baudin says
Hopefully there will be a few more foreign embassies operating in Jerusalem this time next year to add to the celebratory mood created by the EuroVision song competition.
Stacy Girl says
I’ve heard there will be. And I hope each one has a battalion of marines ready to greet the paleos who yearn for martyrdom.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is only the embassy of evil united states that will remain there in isolation.Countries are now distancing themselves from the rascalities of evil united states under savage mad devil trump, more especially now with collapsing economy. fools!!
gravenimage says
Nope–sorry:
“After US embassy makes controversial move to Jerusalem, more countries follow its lead”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/after-us-embassy-move-to-jerusalem-more-countries-follow-its-lead.html
duh swami says
If you don’t support Israel, you are supporting Allah…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Duh swami, yes iam not supporting fascist evil zionists unjustly occupying palestinian land and slaughtering them líke rams as decreed by the satan (holy spirit) in yahweh and his wife Ashera hero gods pursuant to obnoxious talmud. Allah says all races are equal and allows every race to stay anywhere it chooses. He never donated the land exclusivesly to evil Jews
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Duh swami, yes iam not supporting fascist evil zionists unjustly occupying palestinian land and slaughtering them líke rams as decreed by the satan (holy spirit) in yahweh and his wife Ashera hero gods pursuant to obnoxious talmud.
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What Ibrahim itace muhammed means is that neither Jews nor any other Infidels have the right to defend against Jihad. He has said that Muslims have the right to destroy civilized Israel.
More:
Allah says all races are equal and allows every race to stay anywhere it chooses. He never donated the land exclusivesly to evil Jews
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Of course, this has nothing to do with race.
And this vicious Mohammedan has said that Muslims have the right to invade and conquer every land on earth–and to enslave and mass slaughter the Infidels there.
He has also said how much he is looking forward to personally taking part in the genocide of the Jews.
gravenimage says
Israel doubles troops in Gaza, Judea and Samaria ahead of US Embassy opening
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Good for them–but insane that this is necessary.