A few brief observations about this latest Palestinian terror attack on Jews:
1. Terrorism is part and parcel of Arab Muslim culture.
2. The murder of Jews, Christians and other infidels is always justified by Islamists on religious grounds.
3. The moderate Muslims we hear so much about are about as useful and effective as the Germans who claimed they really didn’t support Hitler. In short, they are irrelevant to local and geopolitics.
4. Support for another Palestinian state—we already have happy-go-lucky Gaza—is defacto support of an Islamist state whose strategic goal is the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people as enshrined in the Hamas covenant.
5. As Israel goes so goes America, and, I might add, India. Islamic terrorists are constantly evolving andf adjusting their tactics. The slaughter in Mumbai, the murder spree in Fort Hood, this attack in Tel Aviv; these types of atrocities will proliferate unless the West gets serious about counter terrorist operations.
6. Obama is planning on slashing U.S. military spending. Another example, no doubt, of leading from behind. Our armed forces are deeply alarmed and intelligence agencies are horrified. We do not need the job-killing EPA or the political thugs of the Dept. of Education, but now, more than ever, we need a well-funded military to annihilate global Islamism.
7. Because if we don’t destroy these human monsters they surely will destroy us.
A Palestinian attacker wounded eight Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub early Monday, slamming into a police checkpoint with a stolen taxi and then stabbing others, police said.
The attacker was a Palestinian in his twenties from the city of Nablus, according to police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
Just before 2 a.m., the attacker stole a taxi in south Tel Aviv and then drove into a police checkpoint securing the street near a popular nightclub, she said.
He then got out of the car and stabbed passers-by, she said, while shouting “Allahu akbar” – Arabic for “God is great,” a phrase often used as a battle-cry by Islamic terrorists.
The wounded included four policemen and three civilians, Samri said.
One of the eight people hurt was listed in a serious condition in hospital and the others suffered light to moderate injuries, Samri said.
The Palestinian told police that he had planned the attack in advance and chose the ‘Haoman 17′ nightclub, where over 1,000 revelers celebrated the end of the summer vacation. He also bought the knife and carefully planned the taxi attack. Only the police’s presence, he claimed, disrupted his plans.
Full story at Ynet.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Robert,
Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational transmission of poverty prevalent in our inner-city underclass (a poverty of values leading to success … or a preponderance of self-destructive values … whichever way you want to look at it) is a mandatory two-year stint in our armed forces, just like they have in Singapore and Israel.
Not only would this tough love rudely foisted upon young men who have never had a positive male role model in their lives teach them self-control, it would also teach the younger generations about the constant threats to our liberty. Young men and women would learn self-discipline and have tangible experience in the defense of our country.
What do you think?
Thomas
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As I flew to New York last week… As my children flew to Seattle last week… As my son flies to Israel today…
I keep on remarking that the world is spending trillions – Trillions! (damn… that doesn’t even mean anything…) of dollars in time and money for airport security – to protect the lives and properties of perhaps 20 or 30 thousands of possibly innocent; possibly guilty, Arabs and Muslims…
Understand.
We are paying to protect THEIR lives.
We are paying instead of killing these people or, at the very least, rounding up a hundred thousand or so and imprisoning them…
Why?
This makes no sense at all.
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Moishe:
Every time I stand on line in an airport I feel like announcing that these checkpoints are brought to you c/o the Palestinians.
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Gosh, you certainly can’t say anything so commonsensical in polite company in L.A.
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The problem is (collectively) with us
I have used the parable of the Attrition Mill. In an attrition mill, grain or other substance to be milled is crushed between two steel cylinders which are rotating in opposite directions at high speed. In the parable, one cylinder represents the terrorist enemy; the other represents the forces of surrender and disintegration in our own society.
Without “progressivism” in the West, the radical Muslim threat would be inconvenient but manageable. WITH “progressivism,” the situation is much more dire.
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Without “progressivism” in the West, the radical Muslim threat would be inconvenient but manageable. WITH “progressivism,” the situation is much more dire.
Agreed.
The problem is that ‘progressives’ are often quite refractory to any reasonable discourse that attempts to point out their double standards, and are silent in the face of any and all incontrovertible factual evidence that shows them that they themselves are not supporting the ideals of ‘progressivism’ when it comes to attacks on innocents of ‘less-favored’ groups that are perpetrated by ‘more-favored’ groups.
A pragmatic approach would be to just give up on them, and act as necessary.
Here is a preliminary suggestion that could be accepted with minimal disagreement by people who are not yet prepared to go ‘all the way’, that might be quite effective against lone terrorist attacks:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147316
Use specially trained dogs, rarely hampered by politically correct insanity.
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David:
One of the probems is with our political class who have turned appeasement into an art. But the main problem can be found in Islam.
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“Obama is planning on slashing U.S. military spending”…with his grade-school-level Keyensianism, Obama believes any spending whatsover is a worthwhile “stimulus”…with the single exception of military spending. Building sidewalks in areas where nobody will use them is a stimulus; building an aircraft carrier is not.
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David:
I have quite a few friends and readers who are serving in the military and they are appalled, but hardly surprised by Obama’s proposed budget cuts. Meanwhile a high-ranking Israeli officer told me that they are concerned about Iran and its nuclear program, but they are absolutely terrified of a second Obama term.
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“Because if we don’t destroy these human monsters they surely will destroy us.”
The problem is (collectively) with us
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The terrorist problem in Israel could be fixed with little difficulty, if the government and the people would just do what is necessary, and not be hampered by the insane leftist Israelis.
(somehow, B’Tselem doesn’t think that Jews are also created in the image of G-D, only Muslims, and never protest any Muslim attacks on innocents…)
Israel has enough resources and capability on its own, that if it stood firm, and reacted to threats as any resonsible country would, it would be fine, and in a relatively short time, the actual attacks on Israel, would disappear.
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