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Our double-talkin’, Muslim-lovin’ prez

Posted on November 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Our double-talkin’, Muslim-lovin’ prez

JoshuaPundit claims inside information (probably Israeli politico sources) on what Barry was saying out the other side of his mouth while the one side was publically supporting Israel’s defensive operations against Hamas:

“According to a couple of my notorious lil’ birdies who are very much in a position to know, the Israelis fully intended to go into Gaza and eradicate Hamas. A country like Israel doesn’t call up that many reserves and affect its economy unless they were serious about the matter.

“But then the Obama Administration intervened.

“They were perfectly happy for Israel to go in to Gaza and take out Hamas, but insisted that they then turn Gaza over to the Palestinian Authority. This was supposed to strengthen PA President Mahmoud Abbas as ‘Palestine’s savior’ . As as a kicker, President Obama insisted that Israel immediately declare a Palestinian State in Gaza and most of Judea and Samaria, including areas currently under Israeli sovereignty from which the Jewish residents would then be removed. These were also to be turned over to Abbas.

“If the Israelis were unwilling to have the IDF do Mahmoud Abbas’ dirty work for him and then give up large areas populated by Jews, then the Obama Administration told the Israelis the U.S. would not back an IDF ground assault in Gaza.”

I doubt we can expect our pathetic Democrat news media to follow this up, or present any equally-believable scenario. So far they haven’t bothered to note that Barry is now negotiating with terrorists, if only as a silent partner. Despite laws to the contrary he has also (since July) allowed Hamas and other Jihadi backers to raise money for weapons in the U.S.

So we’ll take JP’s angle  for now. It makes as much sense as anything else we could expect our Muslim-lovin’ prez to do. Some have suggested he’s probably embarrassed that his Egyptian interlocutor Morsi has now revealed himself as a dictator. But I doubt it. Barry himself hasn’t been at all  scrupulous in following the U.S. Constitution.

Via Simply Jews, where Mr. Goon has his own good, if unhappy, analysis.

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Cut off their electricity

Posted on November 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Cut off their electricity

When Hamas violates the cease fire, which is to say when it is finished reloading its rocket launchers and replenishing its rocket stockpile, Israel will have a choice: either start bombing again or launch a ground invasion to take over the strip until Hamas is destroyed—with attendant high IDF casualties.

A simpler way would be to renew the bombing, yes, to solve the immediate problem, but also to cut off Gaza’s electricity which Israel (rather incredibly) supplies their enemies. Leave the water (which, likewise incredibly, Israel also supplies) running, so the not-so-innocent populace doesn’t start dying off within a week or two.

Spengler reminds that another option is what is known in the military as counter-battery fire. The IDF used it recently against the Syrians who were lobbing missiles on the Golan. It would be simple enough to use it on Gaza, simply (and immediately) launching a missile or an artillery shell at the site of the latest rocket launch. Preferably with a pre-announced policy. Civilians would be killed, of course.

Which is why I’d prefer cutting the electricity. It will slow the Hamas terror machine by making command-and-control very difficult, and it will have the added benefit of driving the populace into the Sinai, once their supply of batteries runs out. Who can get along without electricity today? Hardly anyone. Of course the international “community” will howl. But, really, it’s past time for Israel to fight to win instead of always looking over its shoulder while fighting to lose.

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Bible lesson

Posted on November 24, 2012 | Comments Off on Bible lesson

“If only King David were alive today he may have been spared his problems caused by watching a hottie take a bath. Sure, Uriah [the Hittite] still dies but the story would only be about some saucy e-mails and a few laughable talking points.”

Commenter Matt Clegg, on the Petraeus-Broadwell-Allen-Kelly “sex” scandal, at the Orange County Register where Mark Steyn is merely funny, as usual.

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Barry rewrites policy on terrorists

Posted on November 23, 2012 | Comments Off on Barry rewrites policy on terrorists

“In one stroke, the Obama administration has overturned thirty years of American policy, which rejected negotiations with Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

“Secretary of State Clinton, to be sure, did not negotiate directly with Hamas, but rather with Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, who supported Hamas unequivocally and encouraged its attacks on Israel…he first sicced his dog on his neighbor, and then called the dog off.”

Not to mention the pressure Barry applied to Bibi, whatever it was, to go along. With the LSM deep in its usual slumber whenever a Democrat is president, we may never know.

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Hamas gets its breather

Posted on November 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Hamas gets its breather

It’s called “a cease fire,” the thing the international “leaders” like our lying president with his hollow words fall all over themselves to “achieve” when Israel dares to fight back.

I don’t suppose we’ll ever know how much tax money Barry and the Hildabeast promised the puppeteers in Egypt to “restrain” their Hamas proteges for however long they actually do it. A week? Less?

Or what threats Barry made to Bibi to get him to go along? The end of American military support? No more parts for those stretch, two-seat F-16s? Or Blackhawk troop movers? Opening an American consulate in Ramallah or Gaza?

Bibi wouldn’t have folded easily because now his government teeters and his political career is in jeopardy from a fed-up Israeli electorate. Including for the first time the distracted seculars of Tel Aviv whose “bubble” those Iranian rockets finally pierced.

When Hamas (hamas in Hebrew means “violent robbery”) finishes reloading and, inevitably, breaks the “ceasefire,” perhaps whoever has replaced Bibi will have the cahones to cut off Gaza’s water and electricity. Until the go-along (hardly innocent) populace forces their Jihadi masters to surrender. How old mannish of me, thinking rational rules could still apply.

UPDATE:  Starting back in January and at least twenty times this year Jerusalem asked the Dictator’s Club (otherwise known as the U.N.) to condemn and stop the rockets from Gaza bombarding Southern Israel. No response. No action. So the IDF fights back and, suddenly, the UN comes flying in to save Hamas.

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Irony alert

Posted on November 21, 2012 | Comments Off on Irony alert

Anti-War Protest in Israel Interrupted By Sirens

Via Tablet

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Israelis: Return to status quo with Gaza won’t work

Posted on November 20, 2012 | Comments Off on Israelis: Return to status quo with Gaza won’t work

Amid talk of an impending cease fire over Gaza, three prominent Israeli observers indicate that something fundamental changed when Hamas targeted Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a return to the status quo is unacceptable.

They hope Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood can be convinced to restrain its terror-protege Hamas and cut off future smuggling of unguided rockets and guided anti-tank missiles. Otherwise, an IDF ground invasion will be necessary.

Retired IDF Brigadier General Michael Herzog thinks most of the rockets and anti-tank guided missiles Hamas had were destroyed in the first air strikes, and if Egypt can be persuaded, a ground invasion might be avoided.

Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy agrees that Egypt’s intervention is necessary, but also thinks it’s time for the Israeli government to development a comprehensive Gaza strategy.

And Brett Stephens, former editor of the Jerusalem Post, who wishes he had not supported the Israeli government’s peace-seeking 2005 withdrawal of IDF troops and Israeli settlers from Gaza adds: “Israel can afford to watch only so many reruns of this same, sordid show.”

UPDATE:  Residents in Beersheba, under rocket assault most of the year, don’t want to see any truce until Hamas is whipped once and for all.

MORE: So Barry-the-double-gamer got what he wanted: a ceasefire, so Hamas can live to rocket another day. How long it will last is anybody’s guess. Not long, I’d wager.

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