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June 14, 2007
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It's over.
Gaza has been overrun by Hamas. Fatah has been soundly defeated, and some serious slaughter will now commence.
But fear not, Muslims killing Muslims is, well, okey-dokey. It's their culture, y'know. Now, if the Jooz had racked up such a mighty Muslim body count there would be marches in the streets of Paris, London, Beirut and Beirut-light: Berkeley. The N.Y. Times would be runnning Op-Ed pieces up-the- kazoo damning Israel for their aggression, and there would be fiery resolutions in the U.N. from the Organization of Islamic States.
By the way, does this, ahem, peace-loving Islamic gang, bother no liberals out there? I mean what would happen if there was an Organization of, um, Jewish States?
You have to ask?
Is it possible that Muslims get preferential treatment over Jews in the world politic?
Anywhoo: The slaughter in Gaza
What's that I hear?
Nothing.
What a shock.
Could it be that there's one standard for Jooz and another for, um, everyone else?
I, for one, welcome the fall of Fatah. I kind of chuckle ever time the MSM refers to Abbas as a moderate. This is a man whose Ph.D is a dopey, barely literate, Holocaust denial document. This is a man who says one thing to the western media and quite another to his own people. In short: like Arafat, he's a gold-plated liar; Abbas just wears better clothing than the dead terrorist.
I welcome the clarity of Hamas' genocidal charter.
They hate Jews.
They hate Israel.
They hate America.
They hate Christians.
They hate women.
They, y'know, hate.
The so-called Palestinians elected Hamas. The so-called Palestinians are responsible for their choices. This is called: taking political responsibility.
Further, a national movement is always judged by the leaders they choose.
Hamas and those who elected them have set their own fate in motion.
Here's the absurd part of the equation: even now there are voices in the West and in Israel (who said Jews are smart?) urging that Israel surrender Judea and Samarai (The West Bank) to... well, to whom? Fatah? Not likely. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Al Queda? Which of these Islamic cut throats would you like to see running Judea and Samaria?
I can only conclude that those who view this as a political solution are either fools or simply blood-thirsty. For the only counter-weight to Hamas, Fatah, Al Queda and Hizbullah in Judea and Samaria are Jews and the IDF. Without their presence, we would have Gaza a hundred-fold, slaughter on an unimaginable scale—and make no mistake about it, Jordan would invade rather than see her borders destabilized by jihadists who hate the Hashemites as much as they hate Jews.
And I'm not even going to start plumbing the depths of the Shia/Sunni warfare (genuine Islamophobia) that would explode in Judea and Samaria if Israel were to withdraw. It would make Iraq look about as violent as a Girls Gone Wild video.
Here's the latest from the Arab/Muslim paradise that is Gaza now that it is Judenrein:
Fatah gunmen out of the building, some shirtless or in their underwear, holding their arms in the air. Several of the Fatah men flinched as the crack of gunfire split the air.
A witness, who identified himself only as Amjad, said men were killed as their wives and children watched.
"They are executing them one by one," Amjad, who lives in a building overlooking the Preventive Security complex, said by telephone. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting."
The killers ignored appeals from residents to spare the men's lives, said Amjad, who declined to give his full name, fearing reprisal.
To get the full body-count, please click here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at June 14, 2007 12:22 PM
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I expect to see things get worse.
Posted by: Jack at June 14, 2007 02:51 PM
BTW, I am not convinced that Abbas will survive this. Wouldn't surprise me to see his head on a plate.
Posted by: Jack at June 14, 2007 02:52 PM
It's not a preference for Muslims, it's a hatred of Jews. If the Israel-haters in the West were motivated by a desire for peace or even a love of Palestinians there would be outrage at the Palestinian civil war because innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire. But there is hardly anything on the major news networks about the Hamas-Fatah civil war. It's only interesting to left-leaning Westerners when they can accuse Israel of genocide or of being an apartheid state. They don't really give a rats patooty about anyone in the Middle East.
Posted by: Fern R at June 14, 2007 04:39 PM
Jack:
Here in the ME things don't ever seem to get better.
Posted by: David at June 14, 2007 08:53 PM
Jack:
Gaza will descend into a Hobbesian field unlike anything ever imagined—setting new standards even for an Arab/Muslim failed society.
As for Abbas: he's just another totalitarian thug.
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at June 14, 2007 09:16 PM
Fern:
Good to hear from you. It's been far too long.
I think we can all agree that the idea of Jews fighting in self-defense is completely unaccepatable to a large portion of the world. But Muslim on Muslim violence—which predominates in the world—is actually politically correct.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 14, 2007 09:22 PM
I believe it was Claudius in "I, Claudius" who said "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."
I detect a certain uneasiness amongst the citizenry of the world at this gleeful orgy of Muslims and Arabs ripping out each other's throats. I do believe the vast majority of the world simply wishes to be left alone and hopes that it will simply "all go away."
As the folk murder each other in the streets of Hamasistan and Fatachland and Lebanon and Iraq and elsewhere, I do believe that the masses are beginning to hope that "someone" will do "something."
I have a perverse hope that the world citizenry will yet be mored scared of Arab Islamist madmen than they are of... the Jooz. Or even than they are of Americans...
Posted by: Moishe3rd at June 14, 2007 09:49 PM
It's not over, it's just beginning. I suspect this will be a kind of Iran '79 "redux". No glee from me. Only wariness.
Posted by: Jeremiah at June 14, 2007 10:55 PM
Moishe:
You are quoting "I Claudius" correctly. I don't detect uneasiness in the world. I just think the world is just waiitng for Israel to kill a few Arabs so they can jump back in and blame Joozl for the whole mess. That is the general strategy that is used, hence the thudding silence as the massacres in Gaza continue in full sight with the usual suspects saying not one word.
Helloo Presbyterian Church USA! I thought you so loved the Arabs in Gaza.
Bunch of low-rent Jew-haters.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 15, 2007 12:32 AM
Jeremiah:
Yup, this is only the beginning of a descent into a Hobbesian state. Of course we have to be wary—we're dealing with jihadists.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 15, 2007 12:37 AM
This joke of mine this morning was sent out to 100,000 CNNMoney.com readers... gotta love the business news readers; they have brains:
"Hamas says it has defeated Fatah and has controlled all of Gaza for a week. Second prize is controlling Gaza for two weeks."
Posted by: Jake at June 15, 2007 06:30 AM
LOL. I spent a week in Khan Younis one day....
Posted by: Jeremiah at June 15, 2007 10:28 AM
Robert,
Elder of Ziyon uses all public sources (news accounts, human rights orgs, etc.) for (what seems to be) the most complete ongoing body count. See the upper right hand corner.
He also maintains Qassam calendars each month so people have a sense of how effective the ceasefires are.
Posted by: soccerdad at June 18, 2007 12:46 PM