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“Palestinian” rocket strikes Israel, Israel strikes CAIR-linked Hamas positions

Aug 21, 2016 8:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Note the marked pro-Palestinian bias of the AP report: the focus on the Israeli retaliation, the mentioning of the 17-year-old wounded boy (what was he doing?), implying that the Israeli strikes were disproportionate, indiscriminate, and targeted at civilians, etc. Only way down in the story do we hear that the rocket struck in an Israeli residential area — because the jihadis do actually target civilians. Nonetheless, it is clear from the report which side was the aggressor, as always.

Palestinian rocket

“Palestinian rocket strikes Israel, drawing Israeli reprisal,” Associated Press, August 21, 2016:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, targeting Hamas positions in response to a Palestinian rocket attack that hit an Israeli border town earlier in the day.

Palestinian Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Qidra said two Palestinians, including a 17-year-old boy, were lightly wounded.

Palestinian officials said nearly all of the airstrikes took place in northern Gaza, near the Israeli border. While most of the attacks targeted Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, one struck a military camp used by the smaller Islamic Jihad group.

Lt. Col Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said the operation was meant “to bring quiet to the people of southern Israel.” He accused Hamas of trying to “inflict pain, cause fear and to terrorize” Israelis in the middle of the summer vacation period.

Sunday’s rocket attack struck the Israeli border town of Sderot in the middle of the day and disrupted what has been a quiet summer in the volatile area. The rocket landed in a residential area, exploding next to a house. There were no injuries.

Israel responded quickly with airstrikes and tank fire, and then carried out a second round of airstrikes shortly before midnight….

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  1. John A. Marre says

    Aug 21, 2016 at 8:28 pm

    “17-year-old boy” I’m surprised they didn’t say “Israelis kill teen.”
    Since the article doesn’t say what the “boy” was doing, we have to assume that he was part of the rocket attack. Since they use children to kill infidels, this would not be surprising at all.

    • Myrtle Linder says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 8:45 am

      Very true, they have not respect for their children, they use them as tools!!

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 10:00 am

      “17-year-old boy”

      I wonder , what is the age of ‘Clock Boy’

  2. Custos Custodum says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 12:11 am

    Israel’s approach is decent, humane and WRONG.

    Retaliatory strikes should be aimed at maximizing pain on those who can affect the Gaza government, especially mid-tier officials.

    Similarly, Westerners are conditioned to deplore injury and death inflicted on women. Women who enable their men-folk to engage in terrorist atrocities – if only by packing a lunch, or failing to avoid the stationing of Hamas rockets near their apartment block – are not “innocent” in any real sense of the word.

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 1:51 am

    Above, ‘sham’ tries to get up a pity party for the “poor ‘palestinians”, that is, the local Muslims in and around Israel.

    He hopes we will not remember that recently, in their propaganda mag ‘dabiq’, the Islamic State made it crystal clear that *the* primary reason why they hate, hate, HATE infidels (which includes Jews, the Jews of Israel and jews everywhere else) is not because of this or that land dispute, etc, but … because said Infidels reject Islam and insist on practising other non-Islamic belief systems. Because we are not dhimmis in a Muslim state, grovelling and kissing the feet of the Muslim psychos who kick us for fun and kill us when they feel like even more fun. I just heard Mark Durie explaining, with copious references, that this hatred is… orthodox, classical, historic Islam. It is *the* casus belli not only for Islamic State but for *every* Muslim entity that has ever waged or is currently waging war upon infidels anywhere.

    That’s ALL it takes. *The* grievance of the local Muslims – Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, P.A., etc – is the same grievance as that of all Muslims… the fact that, for now, they (the Muslim Mob) do not *rule*, as absolute dictators in a sharia despotism, the whole of planet earth.

    everything else is just excuses, got up to try to press guilt buttons and demoralise us (we Infidels, whether Jewish or non-Jewish).

    • Custos Custodum says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 3:41 am

      Anyone remember the chief complaint against the U.S. that Osama bin Laden raised in his first major manifesto?

      Phakestinians? Nope.

      Osama biggest gripe was about the presence of infidel women (soldiers) to protect Saudi Arabia from Iraq and Iran. The poor Phakestinian snowflakes were added as an afterthought way down OBL’s list.

      (Osama was right, of course – we should not have station any infidel women soldiers in Saudi Arabia. No men, either.)

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 7:08 pm

      Excellent post, Dumbledore’s Army.

  4. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 2:39 am

    What a slanderous headline: “CAIR-linked Hamas”. Trying to blacken the reputation of Hamas by linking it to the disreputable CAIR? Whenever we’re feeling low, we can turn to the Hamas charter to perk ourselves up:
    http://www.hamascharter.com/assets/hamas-covenant-1988-source.pdf
    Especially inspiring are the references to the Lions and the Rotary Clubs in Article 22 (what, no Kiwanis?).

  5. dsinc says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 3:01 am

    dda, your comment above, in a nutshell, explains exactly what Islam is all about. I think it would be difficult to word your message better. We must thank sham for drawing this short, but sweet, comment from you.

  6. Makenomistake says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 7:33 am

    The long and facile islamic deceptive litany no longer can fool us.It may do good to sham if he remembers it in future,before going to feed people with such trash.
    . It has been adequately documented that the criminal muslims of organised criminal gangs of Gaza ,masquerading as political workers, are the root of their own despicable conditions . They never wanted peace in the homeland of the Jewish people. Israel has always been the land of the Jewish people from ancient times. The nomadic desert Arabs came from the south-east as the plunderers ,organised by barbaric mohamad,the so called prophet of the criminal Arab nomads of the desert, and started to settle in Glilee and Cannan and Judea. In fact the plunderer Arabs are the true occupiers of the land. The left-liberal historians never uttered the truth about the fatherland of the Jews ,out of their criminally corrupt envious attitude towards truly intelligent people . This was further aggravated by the criminal deception of the muslims .
    To be true to history, one must admit that Israel is our only hope in this darkening times we are passing through. The islamist are all set to take on the current civilisation . Europe is in the process to surrender before the islamic onslaught . If history is anything to go by, the final defeat of the islam will be in the hands of Israel and India, who have suffered the most of islamic brutality .
    And the time is not very remote . We are only to see if Europe can overcome its PC illusion and join the great war to save civilisation .

  7. Dennis says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Oh, you evil Israelis. You should allow the Palestinians to stab you, run over you, fire rockets. C’mon be good sports and do nothing against them. Actually an “eye for an eye” philosophy is best when dealing with these folks. Of course the world will curse you. Let them, it is your country not America’s or Europe’s. well done!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm

      Yes–Muslims are demanding that we just roll over for every atrocity.

  8. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Here is a link to a sarcastic comment not so much on the rockets fired by the murderous Hamasniks, as on their malevolently-intended tunnel-digging.

    http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/sometimes-it-really-is-that-simple.html

    Click on the link and be amused. I *love* Jewish humour.

  9. Champ says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    “Israeli reprisal”? Should read …Israeli JUSTICE!

    Go Israel!

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 22, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    Food for thought.

    Because it shows that this monster *can* be beaten if the world’s free societies just wake up and get to work.

    (You will note that the author rarely mentions Islam and what Spencer’s friend Hugh Fitzgerald has sometimes called “the atmospherics of Islam” but it’s *the* reason for all the other stuff he discusses… and it affects not only the Arabs but every other Islamised ethnos. Other totalitarian societies are similarly sick, but none to the degree that Muslim societies are, because Islam is *the* worst and most thoroughgoing totalitarian system around).

    http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars

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