Now that the IDF has left Gaza, it’s time for the poor, poor Palestinians stories. Pull out the stock footage, boys, like Flat Fatima and Dances-with-AK. Nevermind that they not only voted for Hamas but sat by while their government rained unguided rockets on Israeli towns, civilians, schools, daycare centers, etc. None of that matters to Big Media. Any Israeli retaliation is disproportionate, don’t you know. Illegal, etc.
No, in my support of the IDF, I haven’t forgotten the innocents of Gaza. Namely the children who suffered and died during the late unpleasantness. But it’s not enough to say they were the victims of the fighting, which Hamas started and continued even after the IDF took them under fire. Hamas, and the PLO before it, have long sacrificed the children of Gaza and the West Bank in the name of a higher hate. They call it jihad. But it’s really much older. It’s Moloch, the child destroyer, come again.
MORE: Meanwhile, the unilateral IDF truce in Gaza isn’t open-ended. If fired upon, they fire back.
As the IDF continues to push infantry into densely-populated Gaza City, where the brave leaders of the Hamas jihad are believed to be hiding in the basement of a hospital, Washington apparently is working on yet another doomed-to-fail ceasefire to keep the dictator’s club happy.
You’d think American politicians would be smart enough to have figured out what the secular liberal newsrooms of Big Media can’t: that Hamas is a religious movement intent on taking all of Israel back for the Muslims who once controlled it. That’s the reason for their rockets and why no ceasefire will work for long or do anything but allow them to resupply until they can start all over again.
UPDATE: It’s official. Happily, there are no immediate plans for the IDF to withdraw, however. Good thing, as Hamas followed the announcement by launching eight more missiles. And young IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is still their prisoner. Some Israelis feel betrayed by their own government.
Funny how kids, even Palestinian ones, can always pick out the democratic soldiers.
Via Monkey In The Middle.
Israeli consul general Belaynesh Zevadia of Houston was the most interesting aspect of Thursday’s well-attended service of solidarity and hope at the JCC. A good rebuke for the uneducated who think Jews are a particular race, she is one of fourteen thousand Ethiopian Jews who have immigrated to Israel. Alas, the microphone wasn’t that good and she was hard to understand, but she epitomizes something she said in San Antonio in 2006: “Everybody knows about the Israeli conflict. Nobody knows about what’s going on in Israel.” Thank Big Media’s laziness for that. She also said the first word she spoke as a child was "Jerusalem." Mr. B. and I enjoyed the service, especially the cantorial singing and the prayer for the safety of the IDF. But we had to leave early to get home in time to make supper for Mrs. Charm.
That’s what Meryl Yourish calls the double standard the world applies to Israel. Every other democratic country has the right to defend itself from attacks. Israel doesn’t. Indeed, the obvious instigator of the attacks becomes at worst a controversial player. Thus the daily’s report this morning on yesterday’s JCC rally, which Mr. B. and I found to be part information, part religious service, is shocking in its timidity: the fulltime religion reporter feels she has to attribute every sentence and make clear that the Jewish views are outliers. This is Hamas we’re talking about, people, a terrorist organization with a service club’s veneer. Where are your guts? Where is your humanity? Whose side are you on? Bleh.
MORE: Whatever, military strategist Edward Luttwak, himself something of an outlier, has a refreshing view: that the idea that Israel might as well quit Gaza because they can’t win is b.s. He says Israel essentially won the 2006 battle with Hezbollah and is winning this one with Hamas. Krauthammer agrees.
You can believe Al Reuters, which never stops shilling for the jihadis, when it says the school was a hiding place for refugees frightened from their homes. Or you can take the IDF’s word, which is that it was another Hamas ammo dump with an active mortar tube and rocket launcher. I’ve made my choice.
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