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Our taxes at work: From Qatar to Hamas

Posted on August 3, 2014 | Comments Off on Our taxes at work: From Qatar to Hamas

Wonder why the IDF is concentrating on hitting Hamas command and control centers, most of which are located under schools, hospitals and mosques?

Qatar, the oil-rich sheikdom to whom the White House recently gave $11-$14 billion in American arms, has provided Hamas with sophisticated computer-controlled equipment. Sensors embedded in the attack tunnels to remotely monitor incursions and set off booby-traps. And remote-firing systems for their rockets. All done from those command and control centers tucked into a Palestinian kindergarten or UN medical clinic.

We sure know how to pick ’em when it comes to foreign aid, eh? That $47 million check Wormtongue recently gave Hamas was just icing on the Qatari cake. Sure, Qatar may been of some help in getting Hamas to the negotiating table, little as that was worth. But billions in arms as a reward? Arms that will only wind up in terrorist hands?

Do we have a genius in the White House? Or what? How about his co-genius in the House of Representatives?

Via Times of Israel, Allen B. West, and Arutz Sheva.

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The IDF’s beleagured boys

Posted on August 2, 2014 | Comments Off on The IDF’s beleagured boys

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Hard enough to fight a war against Islamic terrorism in July-August and in the Gazan desert. But especially for the IDF’s beleagured  boys. The enemy is not only trying to kill them but to capture them for bargaining chips.

“Every Hamas squad that ventured into Israeli territory through underground tunnels to carry out an attack was accompanied by a second squad with orders to capture, armed with anesthetics, syringes and handcuffs.”

May the Guardian of Israel bless them all, the living and the fallen.

Via Haaretz.

UPDATE:  Two touching funerals stand for all of the fallen.

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The Bibi-Barry tape

Posted on July 29, 2014 | 2 comments

Sure sounds like the imperious Wormtongue “demanding” an Israeli ceasefire in this transcript by Arutz Sheva:

Obama: Within a week of the end of Israel’s military activities, Qatar and Turkey will begin negotiations with Hamas on the basis of the 2012 understanding [following the end of Operation Pillar of Defense – ed.], including Israel’s commitment to removing the siege and restrictions on Gaza,

Netanyahu: Qatar and Turkey are the biggest supporters of Hamas. It is impossible to rely on them to be fair mediators.

Obama: I trust Qatar and Turkey, and Israel is in no position to choose its mediators.

Barry’s and Bibi’s minions have issued denials, calling the tape/transcript a fabrication. Curiously, however, according to Artuz Sheva, the wording of their denials is almost exactly the same. Makes you wonder what’s really up with that.

UPDATE:  More on the denials at Times of Israel. Don’t miss the comments below the report. I repeat, sounds just like Wormtongue. He always makes demands. He doesn’t negotiate with anyone.

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Refusing to ride on an M-113

Posted on July 29, 2014 | 3 comments

That’s what thirty IDF reservists have done, using the Israeli military reservist reputation for independent (okay, insubordinate) action, to help get their fellows out of the death traps laughingly called M-113 “armored” personnel carriers.

Funny only if your life doesn’t depend on them, like the six seven Golani soldiers (one of them from Texas) killed in one a week ago. The first time I rode in a 113, way back in Army training in 1967, I thought: how efficient, cheap and convenient, all the soldiers inside can be quickly buried in the thing.

Then I heard that the slab-sided, box-on-treads—an easy target for even a pathetic marksmen—was even worse: it was made of bullet-permeable aluminum. I vowed to walk when the real time came and always did.

UPDATE:  According to Haaretz: “Chief of Staff Benny Gantz is already leveraging the attack on the obsolete armored personnel carrier, in which seven Golani soldiers were killed, to ask for an upgrade of all the army’s APCs.”

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Israel’s most dangerous enemy, indeed

Posted on July 28, 2014 | 3 comments

That would be the community organizer-in-chief. Friend to terrorists and anti-Semites worldwide. Master of the idiot Lurch, slanderer of a generation of Vietnam veterans as “baby killers.”

They are now bent on saving Hamas, having recently awarded the terrorists of Gaza a check for at least $47 million—just what Hamas needed. And now they are demanding that Israel immediately and unconditionally cease fire—-backed up by the louts of the Dictator’s Club, aka the United Nations. We can assume they are threatening Bibi with a restriction, if not an outright cancellation, of the usual resupply of expended American arms.

Which, when it gets out, as it surely will, should cost the Democrats the Senate. In the meantime, since together Wormtongue and Lurch have infuriated the Egyptians, whose military hardware also is American, Israel might even even get its resupply from Cairo.

The duplicitous Obama/Wormtongue has a talent for turning things upside down. As commenter MenachemBenYakov says: “Never has a man of lower moral character sat in the Oval Office.”

Via PJMedia

UPDATE:  So far, Bibi, no doubt bolstered by 87 percent approval of Israeli citizens, is fighting back.

MORE: Leftist flagship Haaretz columnist, Ari Shavit: “The Obama Administration proved once again that it is the best friend of its enemies, and the biggest enemy of its friends.”

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Israel’s Sky Rider

Posted on July 27, 2014 | 2 comments

The IDFs Sky Rider drones are small, about fifteen and a half pounds, and hand-launched. With quiet, electric motors. Operating in front of the ground forces, above them and in constant communications with them, they are indispensable in the Gaza fighting.

“Drones have transmitted back live footage of terrorists firing anti-tank missiles from windows of Gazan buildings, and have helped direct ground forces to an accurate counterstrike…We also provide them with alerts before threats materialize. A good proportion of tunnel shafts have been identified by the Sky Rider drone unit…”

The JP article (quoted above and available at the link below) doesn’t say, but one imagines Sky Rider also is a big help to Maglan, the IDF’s behind-the-lines special forces.

Via Jerusalem Post.

UPDATE:  More here, with video.

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Hamas needs destroying

Posted on July 26, 2014 | 6 comments

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If Israel lets Hamas live to fight another day, or gives in to Lurch’s and Wormtongue’s insistence that they do (like the Worm succeeded in twisting Jerusalem’s arm to do back in 2012), the fire next time will be devastating.

Iran and Syria already have GPS-guided rockets which Hamas surely wants and keeps trying to get smuggled in by land or by sea. If they survive this confrontation, they will surely get them, perhaps even learn to make them as they already do some of their rockets now, and then they will: hit selected government and popular shopping targets in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with pinpoint barrages of so many rockets Iron Dome can’t cope. Then go on, say, to wipe out a loaded airliner waiting for takeoff at Ben Gurion Airport.

Of course, the IDF could then pile on and destroy them. It should do so now. Waiting will only insure greater casualties on both sides. Israel lost so-called “world opinion” years ago. Really, the leftist news media, academia and other political radicals such as the Dictator’s Club called the United Nations. It’s not worth risking the future for public relations nonsense.

Hamas needs destroying: leader by leader, rocket by rocket, tunnel by tunnel.

Now. Nothing less will do.

Via Spengler.

UPDATE: Author and former Israel ambassador to U.S. Michael Oren says: “…to send an unequivocal message to terrorist organizations and their state sponsors everywhere, Israel must be permitted to crush Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”

Permitted? Who could stop them but themselves?

MORE:  Wormtongue and the UN move to save Hamas after Lurch’s attempt failed. Only question now seems to be will Bibi defy them long enough to finish destroying the attack tunnels?

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