Category Archives: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Jews To The Ovens!

Anti-Semitism, IMMIGRATION, Islam, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jihad

A pinko awakens to the reality of importing savagery by mass immigration (via VDARE.com):

“This morning I watched a frightening episode in the public life of America. It was a demonstration by, say, 200 Muslim immigrants in Fort Lauderdale against the Israeli air strikes over Gaza. Now, the first amendment protects such demos, and I would not for a moment want to curb them. But I ask each of you to pay attention to the details of what was being shouted. Especially by the young women screaming, ‘Jews to the ovens.’ No jihad in America, huh? Do we want such immigrants in our country?”

The images:

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And this from a 2004 VDARE.com column of mine, “Muslim Immigration Time Bomb Ignored by American Jews”:

“A gathering danger threatens the Jews of America—to whom George Washington promised peace and goodwill in a 1790 address to a synagogue congregation in Newport, Rhode Island.” …

“In Canada, Muslims now greatly outnumber Jews. What remains of a European Jewry devastated by the Holocaust comes under daily assaults and threats, mostly from the 20-million strong Muslim community.”

“American Jewry is next. Second only to another immigrant constituency—Latinos—the relatively new (roughly 30-year-old) Muslim community is the most anti-Semitic community in the U.S.”

“But its exponential growth through immigration has failed to alarm Jewish leaders. Listening to them, you would think that the chief dangers to Jewish continuity are marauding Mormons (their sin is converting dead Jews) or Mel Gibson, whose movie The Passion of the Christ, they predicted, would unleash “pogroms in Pittsburgh.'”

Updated: Palestinian Propaganda

Africa, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jihad, Palestinian Authority, Propaganda, War

Jihad Watch has the goods:

Human Shields Update: “OC Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the cabinet that Hamas was using mosques, public institutions and private homes as ammunition stores.”

And:

Perhaps all this is painfully obvious, but the mainstream media has become a full-bore organ of “Palestinian” propaganda. This CNN article is just one egregious example out of many. It goes on for paragraph after paragraph about the civilians wounded in Gaza, with only one skeptical sentence giving the other side of the matter: “Israeli leaders say they are trying to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza.” They “say” they’re “trying” — but as the rest of the article shows, obviously they’re not succeeding.

What could CNN do if it had any interest in actually being an organ of respectable journalism? CNN reporters could have asked about the Palestinians’ admitted use of civilians as human shields. They could have gone to Meshaal and Haniyah and asked why Hamas is launching attacks from civilian areas.

Read on.

Here’s an antidote to the mainstream media propaganda on Israel and Gaza:

If you or someone you love is falling prey to mainstream media propaganda about the jihad against Israel and the rest of the world, get the facts in this flash video from the Horowitz Center.

Update (Jan 5): You’re wrong about the enemies of the Palestinian people, Myron. You err in making the same split that commentators carrying on about Mugabe commit: the bifurcation between the good people of Africa and Arabia and their wicked leaders.

In the latter case, the Arab Street has always been more radical than the leadership. Witness the muted reaction from Muslim heads of state to the Israeli incursion, compared to that of the seething Street.

As to the people of Africa versus their leaders: Do you know of any opposition leaders du jour, favored by the wise West, who’ve departed in conduct from the Strong Man they’ve usurped? Almost every African, the little guy too, considers “public office as an exercise in scavenging.”

Take a look at Africa’s affairs. Its people need no special encouragement from their leaders to shed blood.

Update III: Bush Bolsters Israel, Makes Policy Change Hard for Barack

Barack Obama, Bush, Democracy, Economy, Individual Rights, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Neoconservatism, War

“President George W Bush called the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an ‘act of terror’ and outlined his own conditions for a ceasefire in Gaza, in his weekly radio address to the American people.”

Listen to the president’s radio address. This is a very emphatic statement from George Bush. Such a forceful position in support for Israel makes it hard for the incoming president to deviate, or chart a new course.

Update I: The backdrop to the Israeli offensive:

A quarter of a million Israeli citizens have been living under incessant terror attacks from the Gaza Strip with thousands of missiles fired over the past eight years.

Israel left Gaza in 2005, giving Palestinians the chance to run their own lives. Despite this, more than 6300 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel since then.

During the past year alone, more than 3000 rockets and mortars have been launched into Israel.

As US President-elect Obama stated during a visit to Sderot five months ago, “If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I would do everything to stop that, and would expect Israel to do the same thing.”

More…

Update II (Jan. 4): Regarding Bush and the comment by “gunjam” (may his gun never jam): Bush’s support for Israel’s self-defense need not be psychologized. The president’s violation of the negative rights of Iraqis; and his support for those of Israelis is not courageous, but craven and contradictory. As I observed in “Conservatives For Killing Terri“:

I can think of only two occasions on which I agreed with George Bush. Both involved the upholding of the people’s negative, or leave-me-alone, rights.

The first was his refusal to capitulate to the Kyoto-protocol crazies. Not surprisingly, some conservatives denounced this rare flicker of good judgment. And I’m not talking a “Crunchy Con” of Andrew Sullivan’s caliber—he does proud to Greenpeace and the Sierra Club combined. No less a conservative than Joe Scarborough commiserated with actor Robert Redford over the president’s “blind spot on the environment.” (Ditto Bill O’Reilly.)

The other Bush initiative I endorsed was the attempt by Congress to uphold Terri Schiavo’s inalienable right to life—a decision very many conservatives now rue.

Update III: Did I hear Bush claim Hamas took over Gaza by violent coup? This is what the neoconservatives would like their acolytes to believe. This pie-in-the-Palestinian-sky helps neocons downplay the failure of their democratic evangelizing. Hamas, of course, won the 2006 elections fair and square. Even J. Carter conceded that much, if I’m not mistaken, as did other observers like him, who rushed to the PA to watch their Palestinian protégés practice democracy. The neocons will never admit that a democratic heart does not beat in every breast. In their cultural relativism they are no different from the lefties. Neocons are simply lefties who like war.

Update III: Israel Attacks The Dalai Lamas of Gaza

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Terrorism

Or so the Hamasniks will, indubitably, be depicted in the course of the offensive Israel has launched against its terrorist neighbors.

DEBKAfile reports:

Israeli bombers hit Hamas’ film center in southern Gaza Saturday night, Dec. 27, after massive air raids destroyed Hamas compounds across the enclave leaving 225 killed, 330 injured and thousands of shock victims. The operation followed a week in which Hamas fired 200 missiles at Israeli civilian targets.

“Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert defined the objective of the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip as “improving the lives of citizens in the South and giving them a normal life.”

You see, Hamas cannot be prevailed upon to desist from firing rockets into Israeli population centers. Egypt knows as much. It “has condemned Israel for its military attack, but held Hamas responsible for refusing to heed warnings.”

The Israeli Air Force planes struck Hamas security headquarters in Gaza City and compounds, police stations and ports. Several Hamas commanders were killed in the bombardment of a Hamas military passing-out ceremony

What else do we know?

That “Hamas appealed to Tehran and Hizballah Thursday, Dec. 25, asking for Iran’s support by threatening to intervene if Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip.”

That “Lebanese sappers defused 13 rockets pointing at N. Israeli cities.”

And that “Hizballah handed rockets to Hamas terrorists at the Ain Hilwa camp in south Lebanon and guided them to the exact launching site for hitting the two Israeli towns. Their point was to demonstrate that Hamas could hit Israel with rockets not just from Gaza but also from a second front in Lebanon in the event of an Israeli military operation against Hamas.”

Update I (Dec. 29): Al Arabiya reports: “World stands united against ‘genocide’ in Gaza.” Some characteristically florid journalism there. The images from across the world, curiously, depict demonstrators punching the air, many in the traditional keffiyehs etc. Muslims around the world, safely ensconced in their host countries, are out in force, protesting the right of another western government to respond to ongoing aggression against its people.

“The reticence of Arab states” to be more vocal about evil Israel is being criticized by assorted Islamic organizations and by protesters.

As election results across the Arab world have proven, “the Arab Street tends to be more militant than its leadership, a propensity the Arab-American scholar Fouad Ajami was wise to. ‘It is a peculiarity of the Arab political order,’ he wrote in the Wall Street Journal, ‘that many of the rulers and the dynasties are more moderate than the populace.'”

“Nobody in their right mind would accuse ordinary Palestinian moms and pops, the kind that encourage their kids to go out with a bang, of moderation.”

Mindful of swelling the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood in their midst, Egyptians were adamant about preventing Palestinians from infiltrating their territory: “A crowd of Palestinians trying to flee the Gaza Strip were stopped by heavy machine gun fire from Egyptian forces.”

Where’s the universal outcry over the refusal of the (rather wise and wily) Arab nations to accept fleeing Palestinians?

Mind you, there was never much of a reaction when the late King Hussein of Jordan massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians for fomenting a coup against the monarchy. He then expelled the PLO and thousands of Palestinian troublemakers to Lebanon. The world clearly understood that wise man’s need to avert anarchy.

In Iraq, a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives in a crowd of around 300 anti-Israel protesters. A teenage boy was killed, and 17 people wounded in the attack in Mosul.

Clearly, the instincts of the natural-born killer can become confused, thrown off-scent.

Update II: Debbie Schlussel has an interesting analysis of the Israeli offensive, one I cannot dispute:

“Anyone who thinks this latest “salvo” against HAMAS is of any significance whatsoever, really doesn’t know much about Israel and hasn’t been paying attention to goings on there for the last couple of decades, especially the last several years. …You’re buying into the latest campaign tactic of losing candidate for Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni–a complete doompa a/k/a Olmert in a skirt and makeup.

You must ask yourself why Israel suddenly chose to strike back now after years of HAMAS sending these rockets to kill the poor, working-class Israelis of Sderot–most of them descendants of Jews expelled from their homes and property in Arab Muslim countries. Why did it not matter that HAMAS sent rockets every day to kill Jews during the faux-truce and before then? Why does it suddenly matter now? What was different about now versus two months ago or two months from now?

Schlussel then swoops down for the kill:

“Binyamin Netanyahu … is whipping Livni in the polls, and the elections are just two months away. This is Livni’s and Olmert’s attempt–after several years of capitulation to Islamic terrorists, after practicing Judenrein in their own country and yanking Jews from their homes and businesses in Gaza and cities like Amona in the so-called West Bank–to try to look tough to Israelis with short attention spans. That’s all it is.”

Update III: Lawrence Auster reserves similar, studied contempt for the Israeli awakening:

“Gosh, I guess Hamas has finally gone ‘too far.’ Fifty or 70 mortar shells and rockets fired into Israel from Gaza over a period of a few days is ok by the Israelis. And the same rate of attack going on for month after month is ok by the Israelis. But a hundred such attacks in a few days–well, that’s too much! That’s going over the line! There’s a limit, after all! Having become thoroughly left-liberal and universalistic, having become a people without chests, the Israelis no longer believe in their nation’s inherent right of self-defense. They will only defend themselves when the enemy’s aggression becomes literally unbearable, when the imperative to take action becomes an unreflective, instinctive necessity, not a matter of right and duty. Then the Israelis will act, not on the basis of the non-liberal moral principle of self-defense (because liberalism prohibits any appeal to non-liberal moral principles), but on the basis of the unprincipled feeling, ‘We just can’t handle this any more, we’ve got to do something.'”