(If I had a rocket launcher........)
(will I help? uh, NO!)
The middle piece is definitely from the pro-Hamas side of the ledger - look how easily and simply the following statements are made:
"Israel launched on Dec. 27 a massive offensive in Gaza, killing more than 1434 Palestinians, a third of them children, and wounded at least 5300....In its land, sea and ar offensive, Israel targeted hospitals, schools, mosques and government buildings and destroyed infrastructure system in Gaza, lefting Palestinians without electricity, gas and power.
But Israel imposes heavy blockade on entry of infrastracture materials under the pretext of Palestinians can use them as "weapon" materials."
No context whatsoever - Didn't Israel vacate Gaza lock, stock and barrel in 2005? Hasn't Hamas continually called for the destruction of Israel? Weren't there some rocket attacks from Gaza that happened first? (like 8,000-1,000 over the prior 8 years, aimed at civilian and infrastructure targets?) Didn't Hamas deliberately use hospitals, schools, mosques and government buildings as the infrastructure equivalent of human shields? Hasn't Hamas used everything possible, including what used to be its sewer system, to manufacture rockets?
Oh, and what's more - what about the international voices of concern for Gilad Schalit? Where are the protests against Egypt - it borders Gaza as well.
And someone please tell me what country in the world allows any ship, let alone a flotilla of ships, to simply enter its territorial waters and do what it will? I will bet that Israel will face more international condemnation for whatever steps it takes to maintain its territorial sovereignty and security than North Korea did for recently sinking that South Korean naval vessel.
And by the way - the instigating governments of Turkey, Greece, Ireland and Sweden should be ashamed of themselves. One might think that they had other, internal affairs to deal with. Like Greece - how in the world can the government of Greece be doing anything right now other than trying to figure out how not to take down the entire EU financial system? Turkey - which would not know a genocide if it hit them in the head, and which is busy snuggling up to the newest genocidal maniac on the planet - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Sweden - which is being Islamicized second by second and which will die the death of a thousand cuts? Ireland - what about its beleaguered economy, and the terrible child abuse scandals?
I have a suggestion - mind your own goddamn business. Or, in New Testament terms (if that makes it easier) - try either John 8:7 - "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." or Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
2. Symptom Of A Larger Malaise - or should I say disease. Caroline Glick, makes excellent points regarding the first story above, as well as the insidious background that allows it to flourish - Our World: Reclaiming Language from the Left. This excerpt is especially relevant:
"Over the past generation, the Left has commandeered our language. It has inverted the terminology of human rights, freedom, morality, heroism, democracy and victimization. Its perversion of language has made it nearly impossible for members of democratic, human rights respecting, moral societies to describe the threats they face from their human rights destroying, genocidal, tyrannical enemies. Thanks to the efforts of the international Left, the latter are championed as the victims of those they seek to annihilate."
3. And This Is What You Get - John R. Bolton: Iran and North Korea March On | Facebook. See also - The Rosett Report » Now Can We Put North Korea Back on the Terrorism List?
6. While This Attracts No Comment - from a country with which Israel has made peace, and which receives billions in aid from the US Government - Seraphic Secret: Egyptian TV: “We Must Get Our Children Accustomed to Hating the Jews.”
7. New American Plans In The Mideast - U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Military Acts in Mideast Region - NYTimes.com - naturally - leaked to the press. (here's good commentary on that - Commentary » Blog Archive » Another Day, Another Security Leak and Commentary » Blog Archive » Covert Operations Story Evades White House “Jihad” on Leaks). Israel likely cannot adopt the same approach - Commentary » Blog Archive » The Solution Is in Damascus and Tehran.
8. Good Samaritans - the real thing! Good Samaritans - by Benjamin Balint > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
9. The 9/11 Mosque - update from the front lines - SIOA at Manhattan Community Board meeting on the 9/11 Mosque -- the fix was in - Jihad Watch - the MCB "approved" the construction of the mosque 29-9 (it apparently has no such power) - are you kidding me???
(yeah - 2001 was a long time ago - better get over it......)
10. The Last Entry - as many of you know, I try to end each day's blog posting with something humorous (at least in my eyes) or upbeat - following the general principle (as I understand it) that when the Rabbis designated which parts of the weekly Torah portion were to be read for which aliyah, the intent was that the reading did not end on a negative note. However, it's hard to be positive with the stories listed above - something about today's stories just puts me in a funk. So I am afraid that the best I can do is to post a few cartoons - maybe there's a laugh in there somewhere.
