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May 25, 2007
It Just Happened
Some of the 11,000 refugees who escaped from Nahr al-Bared reported that the militants had threatened to shoot those who left, effectively using the camp’s civilians as a human shield to prevent an all-out assault.
But Elias Murr, the Lebanese defence minister, insisted that the militant group, which has been linked to al-Qa’eda, must surrender or face an army onslaught.
“We won’t negotiate with terrorists,” he said.
To read the entire story, please click here.
A few observations:
The Lebanese army shut off the water and electricity to the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp. In fact, this was their very first siege tactic. Though reading yesterday's Page 6, N.Y. Times, article: "Refugees Pour Out of Camp in Lebanon" by Hassan M. Fattah and Nada Bakri, one would have no idea how the power was switched off:
As many as 40,000 Palestinians had been trapped inside Nahr al Bared with no running water or electricity and dwindling food supplies since the fighting erupted Sunday.
Notice the passive use of language: with no running water or electricity...
And:
since fighting erupted...
This is what we like to call The Jerry Springer Effect. Have you ever watched the toothless morons on The Jerry Springer Show?
Of course not. Okay, we'll fill you in.
Here's what happens. Billy Ray sleeps with Crystal, his brother's wife or with his step-mother. Incredulous, Jerry asks: "How could you do this?"
Billy Ray and his slatternly partner look at Jerry and blankly answer: "It just happened."
Well, that's what Fattah and Bakri would have us believe.
The power went off.
How?
It just happened.
Fighting erupted? Who? How? Why?
It just happened.
Now, why do these two N.Y. Times reporters refuse to divulge the obvious?
Well, that's obvious.
No matter how brutal, how barbaric Arabs are to other Arabs, the narrative The N.Y. Times, Western Leftists, and the Arab world supports is that Israel is the bad guy on the block. And so, through the clever manipulation of language, these two graduates of the Yassir Arafat School of Journalism spill ink that is a tissue of half-lies designed to convince the world that Arab on Arab violence is, well, acceptable.
In fact, in days past, Mr. Fattah went to great lengths point out that the Lebanese army would not enter the refugee camp in order not to "evoke memories of the Israeli Army."
Yes, like all good anti-Semites, Mr. Fattah always manages to conjure the image of the evil Jooz.
Never mind that the Israeli army never entered any Lebanese refugeee camps.
But Mr. Fattah and the N.Y. Times have their pre-determined narrative, and neither facts nor history will stand in the way of their anti-Israeli propaganda.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese army are killing more innocent civilians than the Israeli army has ever killed, and not one voice in the Arab world, nor the U.N., will rise in protest. Amnesty International? Well, those Jew-haters are too busy condemning Israel for phantom human rights abuses and letting truly evil regimes like Hamas, Fatah, Sudan, Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Iran and Syria off the hook.
And the N.Y. Times won't even cover the slaughter in Lebanon.
That's right, in today's N.Y. Times, not one article about Lebanon. Instead, they have a front page picture of a crater in Gaza from an Israeli air-strike.
You see, to the N.Y. Times, national self-defense against Hamas, a self-confessed genocidal regime, is big news.
By the way: why are there refugee camps in Lebanon?
Why are Muslims forced by fellow Muslims to live as second-class citizens all over the Arab world? These people are crammed into cinder-block villages; they are not allowed to own property nor hold passports; they are forbidden most business enterprises, and barred from higher education. They cannot travel in their host countries without special ID's. The fourth generation is now living on UN welfare.
They live under a system of apartheid.
The million Arab citizens who live in Israel have far more freedom.
There are hundreds of thousands of so-called Palestinians living in America. We don't shove them in refugee camps. We don't make them dependant on the UN for every scrap of food and clothing. We don't make them second-class citizens.
Why does every Arab country condemn their beloved Arab brothers to generation after generation of poverty and misery?
Just asking.
Karen and I wish all our Seraphic Friends a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at May 25, 2007 08:42 AM
Comments
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1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
"Why does every Arab country condemn their beloved Arab brothers to generation after generation of poverty and misery?"
Because it makes Israel look bad in the eyes of the ignorant media, and making Israel look bad is much more important than saving their own peoples' lives.
Imagine a Jewish community in America putting Jews trying to escape from Germany into some kind of refugee camp in Wisconsin during WWII in order to make the Nazis look bad. Ridiculous.
It's just as Golda Meir always said: "There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arab mothers want their boys to live more than they want Jewish boys to die."
We aren't even close to that. In fact, with documented evidence of Arab mothers celebrating the news of their childrens become suicide bombers, we are clearly a lot further from it than ever.
Posted by: Jake at May 25, 2007 10:10 AM
Jake:
Gee, and I thought they crammed them in refugee camps because of convenience; the Arab states just want to have them, y'know, accessible for slaughter every once in a while.
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at May 25, 2007 10:31 AM
>> The Lebanese army shut off the water and electricity to the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.
Something like this might make sense in gaza - it would not have to be all hours either.
Posted by: Sammy Finkelman at May 25, 2007 11:09 AM
Sammy:
Seraphic Secret has already suggested this tactic:
http://www.seraphicpress.com/archives/2007/05/death_in_sderot.php
Does the IDF listen to our advice?
No, they do not.
Have a wonderful Shabbos.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at May 25, 2007 11:32 AM
Top 10 Classes Offered at Palestinian Refugee Camps
by Jake Novak
10) "Crying on Cue"
9) "A.P. Embezzling"
8) "Tire Burning for Dummies"
7) "Elementary Techniques in BBC Correspondent Kidnapping"
6) "Shooting in the Air 101"
5) "Duping Peaceniks"
4) "9/11 Celebration Street Folk Dancing"
3) "Do-it-Yourself Honor Killing"
2) "How to Impress the Yale Admissions Officer"
1) "Rock Throwing for Tots"
Posted by: Jake at May 25, 2007 11:52 AM
Sad to say that I am not surprised by any of this.
Posted by: Jack at May 25, 2007 12:07 PM
Jake
What about "Mice and Mascots for Jihad 101; how to use innocent appearing cartoon and fuzzy-wuzzy-cute characters to teach hatred"?
Posted by: Maurice at May 25, 2007 12:14 PM
Jack:
When it comes to the Arab/Muslim world, nothing surprises anymore—least of all their Western Liberal enablers.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at May 25, 2007 01:32 PM
I often write about how the Arabs called Palestinians were put into concentration camps (l'havdil) by their fellow Arabs after 1948...
And generally, no can figure out what the heck I'm talking about.
It is so strange.
The Ways of Hashem are truly mysterious but, it ought to be obvious that the only peoples on the planet who are being held in these self same concentration camps, by their own co-religionists and ethnic brothers, generation after generation, are those that are claiming Eretz Yisroel as their own and are pledged to destroy those Jews living in the Land today.
Then again, I strongly suspect that were 51% of all Jews living in Israel to recognize that they are, indeed, living in G-d's House, there would be no "Palestinian" refugee problem. It would simply vanish...
Posted by: Moishe3rd at May 25, 2007 04:07 PM
Moishe:
It is amusing that Liberals insist on going along with Muslims in labeling their religion "the religion of peace" in the face of all evidence to the contrary. But such is the hold of theory over reality.
As for our Jews in israel. I do have hope for the secular Jews are quickly breeding themselves out of existence. The average religious family has 6 children. The average secular family has 1 child.
You do the math.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at May 25, 2007 04:34 PM