BRAVO, Robert! BRAVO!

Pearl:

Just lounging by the pool, Margarita in hand, fighting the good fight.

Thanks for giving me a reason to go and read Hamas's covenant (http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm). It is one scary document, but at least it is honest (as opposed to the PLO convenant (http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm). I only wish their suicide their foot soldiers would emulate the (lack of) courage of the "political" leaders.

Ari:

Yup, the Hamas covenant is nice and straight forward. Personally, in the annals of Israeli Arab relations it's a breath of, er, fresh air.

As to the guys who wrote it, what are you gonna do? Their busy amassing the big bucks, there are already nice fat Swiss bank accounts and Paris apartments. It's the old story.

The foot soldiers are just a bunch of thugs. If they're not killing Jews, they're killing each other, their sisters, their wives, their cousins. The operative word is kill.

Take a look at the Egyptian TV "children shows" I just posted at the end of the article.

How could it be otherwise? Islamic society is built on a foundation of child abuse.

In the same vein, I wrote this Top 5 almost three years ago:

Top 5 Books at Hamas-Run Schools in Gaza

5) Billy and his Lovable, Hugable SUV

4) Madeline and the Infidel Nuns

3) The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Holocaust

2)Curious George Blows up the Zoo

1) Bob the Evil Israeli West Bank Settlement Builder

Jake:

Very fine sylabbus. Hamas would approve.

Love it! (As one spy to another)

Mata Hari:

Zionists spies unite!

Robert,

Eiyahu Asheri z'l was actually murdered by our moderate friends in Fatah,

Joe:

Thanks for the clarification. Which means that Abbas is up for arrest, right?

Sure.

I hear that Hamas has drafted a unique declaration affirming its vision for Palestinian society:
"Death, Submission, and the Pursuit of Misery".

Jeremiah:

And a fine vision it is.

Great article; great comments from readers. Hamas is composed of wimps, bullies -- whatever you want to call them. They have the same type of culture that's found in Cuba or parts of Latin America and Africa, where some guys like to swagger around with pistols stuffed into their crotches. "Death, Submission, and the Pursuit of Misery," as Jeremiah put it, is all that such cultures offer.

Speaking of Hamas' useful idiots -- (i.e.) some Presbyterians and fellow travelers -- one thing has been bugging me. In the recent push toward divestment from multinationals in Israel, spearheaded by the elite within the Presbyterian Church USA, a number of pro-Palestinian/Israel bashing hate festivals were held in some Presbyterian seminaries and colleges around the country. Local groups put them on, with names such as "Friends of Sabeel" (www.sabeel.org).

Where do such groups get their financing? Could it be from any of those venerable Muslim charities? This is a Texas-based Zionist spy who can't help but wonder. Follow the money...

David:

Thanks so much for the compliment. Perhaps our readers are not aware that you were a correspondent in Latin America for quite a while and know these thugs quite well.

Too well.

So, who finances the Presbyterian hate-fests? I understand that they have spent over 4 million dollars of their own budget in the past year working on this divestment--which has made the rank and file quite unhappy.

Is this a responsible allocation of financial resources? Sane Presbyterians would like to know.

And the answer is: Obviously--if your a rabid Jew hater.

I suggest you ask Larry Rued, or go to some of the other End the Divestment websites.

I'll go to my source inside the PCUSA and see if I can get an answer.

Or, why don't you get really crazy and just ask Mr. Prince, the organizer of the hate-fest, and see if he''ll give you a straight answer.

Yeah, sure he will. To the man he dubbed a "Zionist Spy."

Funny how one man's curse is another man's blessing.

Robert,
Speaking of macho cultures, I actually spent eight or so days in Cuba back in the late 90s, not long after it was announced that Pope John Paul would be making a historic visit to the island.

In talking with Cubans, I was shocked to hear that many who were born 30 years or so earlier -- when Castro came to power -- had no memories of a traditional Christmas! It was probably just as well. After all, no practicing Christian in Cuba, at the time, could expect to get a decent job in the country given that the communist state was the only employer.

Accordingly, I can't help but wonder: How did the elite Presbyterians and their conterparts in other mainline churches respond to this? Did they spend much time complaining about Cuba's lack of religious freedom -- or did they focus on complaining about the U.S. trade embargo or U.S. support of Israel?

About two or three years, incidentally, hundreds of Cuban intellectuals were rounded up and tossed into jail with common criminals -- all for campaigning for rights that we take for granted in this country -- and in Israel. I'd like to know how much effort the Presbyterian elite expended to protest these mass arrests and abuses of basic human rights -- all that took place right off Florida's coast. I remember reading of a Cuban writer being hauled off to jail by some Cuban goons, as his wife yelled to jearing neighbors: "Now there goes a real man!"

Speaking of Christmas, what must it be like to celebrate that sacred Christian holiday in the Palestinian territories, Saudia Araba, or other such charming countries? Perhaps a "fact-finding" missions of Presbyterians could go to these countries next Christmas and find out for themselves.

Hey, how about if we all take up a collection to send them there? This is one Zionist Spy who'd like to help them out -- provided it would be a one-way ticket.

David:

Speaking of that worker's paradise Cuba, let us not forget the enlightened way they deal with AIDS patients: they shove them into hospital gulags. Never to get out--except in boxes.

PCUSA, to my knowledge, has never protested Cuban dictatorship or its horrendous oppression of Chrsitians and yes, Jews. I have this sneaking suspicion these people just adore ol' Fidel.

As for Christians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, well, they are being slowly but surely strangled out of existence. They blame Israel publicly, but they have to because Arab gunmen will kill them when the NY Times reporters leave after the interviews.

And the NY Times reporters have not the spine to tell the truth for fear of being denied acess by the various gunmen who control the various neighborhoods, and make their living through extortion, selling drugs, and prostitution; the old Al Capone game. You know, Jihad, Palestinian style.

As for Saudi Arabia. All religions are banned save for the fanatical brand of Wahaabism. Jews are officially banned from the kingdom. There are no churches and Christian services are forbidden--on pain of death.

Presbyterian Church USA, again, to my knowledge has never protested Saudi Arabia's vile religious intolerance.

The whacky Saudis don't even permit blood-thirsty Shia, or Sunni Muslims to worship in the kingdom, they are, apparently, not fanatical enough!

By the way, the House of Al' Saud killed about 400,000 Bedouin tribesman in order to secure their kingdom. We're talking men, women and children. And then stole their tribal lands.

Oh, Saudi Arabi didn't get around to abolishing slavery until about 1964.

And they still enslave foreign domestic servants. Untold number of Indian, Indonesian, and Philipino women commit suicide in Saudi Arabi every year by jumping off high-rise balconies. Their bodies are never even shipped home.

And no one seems to find anything wrong with this loony state. Nope, Israel gets accused of being the big meanie on the block.

I'm getting a migraine just writing about the Saudis.

They are probably the most vile country, actually not a state at all--just an extremely dysfunctional family corporation--in the mideast, a geographical freak who, if not for their oil, would be ignored and laughed at by America for they are nothing but a bunch of corrupt barbarians and Islamic fanatics who advocate the genocide of Jews and Chritians--a label that apparently no longer applies to many elements of the PCUSA. They seem to worship at the altar of Marx, and Arafat.

I certainly wish that the US would end our relationship with the Saudis. They are not our friends.

Ozzie:

Not going to happen, we get 12% of our oil from the Saudis.

Foreign Policy is, overwhelmingly, based on self interest rather than morality and feelings of outrage.

However, I strongly believe that the more Americans know about this evil land, the better.

I plan a to write a Seraphic Secret series about the bloody and merciless history of the House of Al Saud; its bottomless intolerance for all who do not submit to their brutal form of Islam, and the current dysfunctional society that has never truly made the psychic adjustment from the 7th century to the 21st.

What we should say to the Saudis, (quoted from oil analyst Peter Beutel):

"We're getting our oil and energy from somewhere else very soon. But you still have lots of oil and sand, so why don't you make some glass? Maybe we'll buy some."

Dear Saudis:

We're getting our oil from Israel now. Yup, they just discovered a huge deposit in Tel Aviv, on Dizengoff Street. So --

-- Duck!

-- Incoming!

All the tribes you butchered and enslaved to steal power are coming for revenge. And they are also faithful adherents of the Religion of Peace.

So... Peace out, brother.

P.S. America could care less.

I neither love nor hate Hamas. I view Hamas as a threat. And threats need to be eliminated. Hamas targets innocent, unarmed civilians while hiding behind other civilians. All that is left is to eliminate the threat. The time for talk is over.

Rob:

Not only do we share the same first name, we share the same idea about too much talk.

Thanks so much.