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Hamas blames Israel for defending itself from rockets

Jun 5, 2015 8:33 am By Robert Spencer

Hamas supportersOf course. For Islamic supremacists, it’s always the other guy’s fault. “Hamas Blames Israel for Defending Itself From Rockets,” by Dalit Halevy and Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, June 5, 2015:

The IAF airstrikes in response to Wednesday’s rocket attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli cities is being denounced by the Hamas terrorist organization, which blames Israel of “aggressiveness” in defending itself.

Senior Hamas official Ismail Radwan said Hamas had turned to Egypt and other international sources demanding that they force Israel to maintain the ceasefire agreement sealed after last summer’s Hamas terror war, which Gaza has already breached in several rocket attacks such as the one that prompted Wednesday’s response.

Radwan blamed Israel completely for last summer’s escalation, even though Operation Protective Edge was launched after Hamas cranked up its steady trickle of rocket fire to a torrent of hundreds of missiles within days necessitating the operation.

Wednesday’s attack was claimed by an Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate Salafist group in Gaza, which said it had fired the rockets that led to an Israeli counter strike as an act of revenge for the death of a Salafist leader affiliated with ISIS, who on Tuesday was shot dead by Hamas forces in Gaza City as they tried to arrest him and he allegedly opened fire on them.

Mere minutes after the attack a senior Hamas source reportedly contacted Israel via Egypt, saying that the ISIS-affiliated Salafists had launched the attack to try and provoke conflict between Hamas and Israel.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) responded to the message on Thursday, saying, “even if those firing on Israeli territory are gangs of rebels from global jihad organizations interested in challenging Hamas by firing at us, we view Hamas as responsible for the goings-on in the (Gaza) Strip, and we won’t tolerate attempts to harm our citizens.”…

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 9:05 am

    JW readers may be interested in the power struggle going on in Gaza:

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gazas-next-war-will-isis-inspired-salafi-jihadis-overthrow-hamas-1502336

    Also, remember to keep updated on what is happening in “Palestine” via the people at Gatestone:

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5883/blocking-palestinian-elections

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5847/gaza-blockade

    Once people realize that “Palestinians” and other Arab states are muslims’ worst enemies, the game is up. Meantime, it will probably be necessary for Israel to crush any advance on the part of IS. Again, this is necessary for the world generally to finally acknowledge who the “good guys” really are. Bring it on…..

    • cs says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 3:24 pm

      Thanks for your links, I read them all.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 9:20 am

    The IAF airstrikes in response to Wednesday’s rocket attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli cities is being denounced by the Hamas terrorist organization, which blames Israel of “aggressiveness” in defending itself.

    Of course. How dare the Israelis fight back instead of rolling over and dying? Don’t they know that is spitting in Hamas’ eye, provoking them?

    • rab says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 1:20 am

      I the whole world gone crazy? It doesn’t get any more “islamo-supremacist” then that!
      They don’t follow the dhimmi rule book. poor poor ragheads…….

  3. Don McKellar says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 9:23 am

    Hamas had better step up their game or The Islamic State is going to take over in Paleostine!

  4. Mark Breza says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 10:25 am

    Of course for jews and christians
    it is always the other guys fault.
    Good for Goose Good for Gander
    Eye for Eye
    religious people
    WILL KILL FOR GOD

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 10:05 pm

      No Mark. Muslims kill for their ‘god’. Christians and Jews aren’t killing anybody. Unless, wait! Perhaps you have some knowledge of which the rest of us poor dolts, are ignorant?

      Your cultural relativism is imbecilic.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 10:14 pm

      Mark

      You have caught Ben Affleck syndrome.
      You feel free to criticize Christians and Jews exclusively, but whenever the word Muslim comes up you feel the PC need to include Christians and Jews or at least frame displeasure at (religion in general)

      Islam is the slave trade religion of chains that has absolutely no shame.

  5. Paul says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 10:34 am

    Let us kill you (and brutalise our own people too) or you’re denying
    us our human rights and you’re a racist. Heartbreaking injustice.

    • Paul says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 10:37 am

      * Injustice to the would be killers only, obviously.

  6. Rob says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 10:38 am

    Certainly proves how ready Gaza is for a Two State solution.
    Having control over borders and military attacks would seem to be pretty basic.
    Hamas and its drone Abbass don’t seem able to achieve even the lowest pass mark.
    Then again when Obama is preparing your report card, you don’t need to do much to be touted as valedictorian.

  7. RonaldB says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 10:46 am

    Not to say that Hamas is yummy or anything, but…

    It’s obvious that Hamas does not have complete control of the Gaza strip. The Islamists are control freaks, so they would if they could.

    Every attack by Israel weakens the possibility of Hamas gaining control over the whole territory. But, once Hamas gains control, it becomes a government and like any government, gets an interest in maintaining itself as an institution, which means to eliminate the revolutionary elements that threaten to provoke conflicts with other states.

    In other words, perhaps Israel should consider letting an attack or two go unanswered if the result is to let Hamas totally consolidate its control over the territory. I’m fully aware that Hamas has in its charter a commitment to destroy Israel. But, any treaty with Muslims anywhere has to be considered a Hudna, rather than a treaty, and subject to being broken when the benefits are over for the Muslims. In this case, it would be to Israel’s benefit to deal with a government in charge, even one like Hamas, rather than a plethora of small, fanatic groups with no stake in maintaining any sort of peace.

  8. Myxlplik says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Take a close look, our immigration policies will bring this to a neighborhood near you within several generations.

  9. Buraq says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 11:36 am

    Israel should announce that the attack on the clowns in Gaza was the action of a renegade IDF group operating in the shadows. However, the government is doing all it can to find them before they use the atomic weapon missing from the inventory!

    That’d shut up these clowns!

  10. somehistory says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Devout muslims beat their wives…they are not only allowed to, they are commanded to and can even enjoy doing it. What if the wife were to fight back and give the guy a black eye or broken nose, even a broken finger?
    He would blame the wife for his injuries and accuse her of starting it. He would then beat her to death.

    They follow the same pattern in their outside dealings. In this case, with Israel. They are commanded to kill the Jews and this they try to do. The Jews are not allowed to fight back; otherwise, *they started it.*
    Much like the wife who is supposed to shut up and take the beating…Israel is supposed to shut up and accept the killings without trying to defend themselves.

  11. Sam says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    There is no morality in Islam. Anything goes for a Moslem to better himself.

    • No Fear says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 1:32 am

      Well said. “Good” in Islam is “whatever benefits Islam”.

  12. Foolster41 says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 5:40 pm

    This is why anyone who stands with the “Palestinians” over Israel, complaining about “poor” Palestinians and Israeli “abuses” are either ignorant or plain evil. This what they do. It baffles me that people still take this position.

    About a month ago when I was in my local large city I saw a bunch of protesters for “occupied Palestine”. Nevermind the genocide on their TV and rocket attacks behind civilians!

    • Judi says

      Jun 6, 2015 at 3:13 am

      The truth is these people couldn’t care less about the “palestinians’. They are pure and simple anti-Semites who have found a good excuse to bash Israel.. Same with the BDS movement.

      • Paul says

        Jun 6, 2015 at 9:32 am

        The perpetrator makes all the difference. If Israel or any Western
        forces kill Muslims then it’s bad, but when Hamas kill their own
        or when the Taliban kill schoolchildren it’s fine and they turn a
        blind eye. Bottom line, for Islamists and the left, the fanatical
        murderers are a protected species and are above all criticism.
        They are perfect people.

  13. Gwayne says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    I love the way the U.N. tried to blacklist the IDF as being an organization responsible for endangering the lives of children. Yet during attacks against groups like HAMAS when Israel fights back, these terrorist groups use children to shield themselves from attacks by the IDF. So when one of these bombs hit an intended target, as it should, HAMAS yells to Human Rights Activists that Israel is killing innocent children. And the U.N. is likely going to fall for this cherade and blacklist the IDF putting them on the same list as The Taliban, ISIS, and Boko Harem. How backward is this logic I ask you?

  14. qedlin says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    It is self-evident in islamo-world that any resistance to any action by islam in the name of Mo the Pro and moon god allah is the same as an act of war, an affront deserving of whatever depraved treatment the islamist feel is commensurate with the insult. All in the name of “peace.,” of course

  15. No Fear says

    Jun 6, 2015 at 1:31 am

    Defend yourself from Jihadis firing rockets?
    How Islamophobic !

  16. rab says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 1:23 am

    I hate to say it, but Israel may be the only thing to save them form isis……….(like reverse dhimmitude)

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