Hanson tells the truth
A great, irrefutable article by Victor Davis Hanson exposes the world's evil and hypocrisy toward Israel.
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A great, irrefutable article by Victor Davis Hanson exposes the world's evil and hypocrisy toward Israel.
David Hazony has a fine, concise piece at Commentary on Israeli leftist novelist A. B. Yehoshua's ongoing demonstrably delusional statements about how Israel is supposed to cope with the jihad.
The difference between Israel having control of territory vital to its defense and not having control of territory vital to its defense. Whenever Israel has not been in control of Gaza it has been a source of terrorism and war. Anyone who wants peace would want Israel to be defensible and to control indispensable territories.
George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has died--peacefully in his home, how else--and Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority--darling of George Bush and Ehud Olmert, recent recipient of $7 billion in international aid--has declared three days of mourning. As IsraelNationalNews.com reports,
All PLO flags will be at half mast and there will be an official "house of mourning" in Abbas's Ramallah office.
The PFLP was founded in 1967.... In 1968, PFLP terrorists hijacked an El Al plane that was en route from Rome to Tel Aviv. Its passengers were held hostage for 39 days before being released. This was the first time an El Al plane was hijacked. One month later, the PFLP attacked another El Al jet on the ground at Athens airport. One passenger was killed.
These are some of the PFLP's crimes in 40 years of existence:
In April 2005, the Shabak (General Security Service) told the press that it had successfully uncovered a plot by a PFLP cell to murder Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadya Yosef.
These--Habash's death, the record of the PFLP, the Abbas-led official mourning--are not right-wing or left-wing, hawkish or dovish facts. They're just facts.
Since 1988 when Yasser Arafat "recognized Israel's right to exist," the U.S. and Israeli (it took them slightly longer) governments have lavished praise, legitimacy, land, funds, weapons, and military training on the Fatah movement.
Here's one of the many results:
Fatah: More attacks to come
Al-Aqsa Brigades' spokesman tells Ynet group plans more attacks in response to 'Israeli crimes'
Ali Waked
Fatah activists belonging to the "Brigades of Return" and to "Black September" claimed responsibility for carrying out the shooting attack in
Shoafat Thursday evening. The attack left one Israeli dead and another one seriously wounded.
A spokesman on behalf of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's
military wing, told Ynet that the attackers "returned to their base
safely." [i.e.: their base within Fatah chieftain Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority]
The Fatah spokesman called a Ynet reporter to claim
responsibility for the attack and said it marked the continuation of
the organization's new policy, as reported last week in another talk
with Ynet. In that talk, the group said it was no longer committed to
the calm with Israel and added that small cells were again active across the West Bank in order to prepare for a series of attacks.
"This is our proof that we are no longer committed to the calm
and that we do not intend to continue handing over our weapons," the
spokesman said. "We are only committed to resistance against the
Israeli occupation. The next attacks are already underway, we promised
a response within a few days and this is the first operation in a
series of operations...."
George, Condi, Ehud, and Tzipi--keep the funds, military support, and "final status negotiations" coming! The victims don't get to negotiate their "final status"--but, details, details....
Thanks for recent nice comments on this page by Chaya, Howard, and Kenneth.
Read all about it--the Arab media has found an analogy for Gaza after a few days of a partial cutoff of fuel in response to seven years of rocket attacks . . . Auschwitz! "In Israel, political officials were furious over the comparisons made to Nazi Germany." Furious? I'm not furious because I'm used to it. From time to time I look into what Arab media are saying about Israel--in the Internet age it's not hard to do--and it's always the same and has been the same since 1948. These "political officials" are furious because they're surprised--they expected something better. That is: they're ignorant. Israel is being run by people who are too cowardly and ignorant to keep up with the world that surrounds us.
A superbly illuminating article by Kenneth Levin.
John Bolton at the Herzliya Conference in Israel said yesterday the chances are "close to zero percent" that the Bush administration will take any action against Iran in its time left in office. Even beyond that, he expects that "for the next few years the United States will be a bystander to the process." So he says "The questions come to Israel, whether it will use military force to stop Iran." The cheese stands alone.
In the same article Israeli security maven Yuval Steinitz blasts the NIE. Three peacenik State Department bureaucrats write a sentence and catastrophe hovers.
Read all about it here.
Speaking of the UK, the BBC keeps looking out for Gazans now that Israel is taking some timid measures after seven years of Gazan bombardment of Israeli civilians. (The word "Gazan" is appropriate. The terrorist organizations are conducting the bombardment but the Gazans vote for them and support them.) The foreign media moralists don't ask themselves what they'd do if their own towns were being bombarded for seven years. Or maybe they do, but don't see it as relevant. They would have a right to life and to defend their lives; but Israelis--or, Jews living in national independence--don't. Jews should die passively and be eulogized and commemorated, but they should not live--except maybe as grateful, passive wards of others' protection.
From that standpoint, the funding of Palestinian genocide textbooks makes sense.
