Anti-Israel Hate Rears It’s Ugly Head
Someone using the name Joanna Pardue posted tried to post the following comment to a post on anti-Israel hated:
If it’s okay to kill Palestinian women and children – [collective punishment]
then it’s okay to kill Jewish women and children – outside Israel.
If a few bombs go off in Jewish daycare centers around the world… this conflict will CEASE -
Diaspora Jews will then have some skin in the game… and stop financing the genocide.
I deleted her comment from the moderation cue since in my opinion it violates the comment policy. However sunlight is still the best disinfectant and hate filled comments like Ms. Pardue’s need to see the light of day so that they can be addressed.
Ms. Pardue civilian casualties are an unfortunate reality of war, the Israelis do everything humanly possible to avoid or minimize civilian casualties. They are however locked in battle with terrorist groups like Hamas who intentionally use the civilians as human shields ensuring they will be caught in the cross-fire.
Hamas on the other hand deliberately targets Israeli civilians with indiscriminate rocket and mortar fire.
There is no moral equivalence between the two… Attacks like you’re calling will not end the conflict, they will intensify it. The international community will no longer be able ignore or rationalize the actions of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Pat Buchanan: Anti-Semitic Crackpot
There was a time when I liked Pat Buchanan (although I can’t remember when or why) but over the years he’s said a variety of things that caused me to classify him as an crackpot… Like this summer when he blamed America for Russia’s invasion of Georgia. Or like last night on MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” when he accused Israel of carrying out a “blitzkrieg” against Gaza and turning it into a “concentration camp.”
This isn’t the fist time Buchanan made thinly veiled anti-Semitic comments the Anti-Defamation League has a catalog of his comments on American Jews and the pro-Israel lobby and on Nazis and the Holocaust.
Pat Buchanan does not speak for me or the majority of conservatives, the fact that MSNBC continues to give him pulpit from which to spew his hatred speaks volumes about their motivations.
Rockets Fired into Northern Israel From Lebanon
At least two rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon today. It’s not clear from media reports who was responsible for the attack.
Hopefully this was an isolated attack by small group Palestinian militants and not attempt by Hezbollah to open a second front.
From Fox News:
A Hezbollah minister in Lebanon’s Cabinet denies any involvement by the militant group in the firing of rockets from Lebanon into Israel.
At least three rockets were fired Thursday, and Israel responded with a few artillery shells into Lebanon, which borders the country to the north. The exchange threatened to open a second front as Israel continues its offensive against the militant group Hamas on its southern border, in the Gaza Strip.
Two people were lightly injured, and the rockets that exploded in Israel’s north raised the specter of renewed hostilities with Hezbollah, just 2 1/2 years after Israel battled the guerrilla group to a 34-day stalemate. Hezbollah started the 2006 war as Israel was battling Palestinian militants in Gaza.
No group claimed responsibility and Lebanon’s government, wary of conflict, quickly condemned the rocket fire. But Hezbollah has been suspected in the past by Israel and its opponents in Lebanon of using allied radical groups to irritate Israel with a lower risk of retaliation.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary I’m willing to take Hezbollah at it’s word… I doubt Hezbollah is any hurry for a rematch with Israel. Their 2006 war may have ended in an effective stalemate but Israel did significant damage to Hezbollah’s manpower and materials.
CNSNews.com, the Wall Street Journal and Ynetnews.com have additional details on the rocket attacks.
The Hate Just Keeps Rolling
Little Green Footballs has photos from another hate filled anti-Israel rally… This time in Melbourne, Australia.
I’ll repeat what I said before, as long this kind of hatred exists there will never be peace.
More Anti-Israel Hate
I posted video from a hate filled pro-Hamas rally in Fort Lauderdale yesterday. Today Michelle Malkin points out reports on two hate filled protests in San Francisco… One from Zombie the other from The Back of the Hill.
I’ll repeat what I said yesterday, as long as this kind hatred exists there will never be peace.
Disgusting: “Get Back to the Oven!”
This video has been making the rounds on a few blogs so thought I might as well post it here. It was shot at a pro-Hamas demonstration in Fort Lauderdale, FL on December 30, 2008.
The defining moment comes at around the 3:20 mark.
There’s a lot of things I could think to say but I think the video speaks for itself… As long this kind of hatred exists there will never be peace.
H/T: AoS.
Breaking: Israeli Troops Enter Gaza
Israeli troops have begun moving into Gaza.
From the Jerusalem Post:
For the first time since the start of Operation Cast Lead, IDF ground troops entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, exchanging fire with Hamas gunmen.
The IDF said that a large amount of troops from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and Infantry Corps entered the territory with the purpose of destroying Hamas infrastructure and preventing rocket fire by taking control of launching pads “in order to greatly reduce the quantity of rockets fired at Israel and Israeli civilians.”
The IDF warned that terrorists using civilians as human shields would bear full responsibility for their fate. The IDF spokesperson emphasized that “anyone who hides a terrorist or weapons in his house is considered a terrorist,” adding that “the residents of Gaza are not the target of the operation.”
The army reiterated that the operation was in line with “decisions of the Security Cabinet,” saying that this stage of the operation was “part of the IDF’s overall operational plan, and will continue on the basis of ongoing situational assessments by the IDF General Staff.”
The cabinet also approved the call-up of thousands of reservists, mostly from combat units, but also from the Home Front Command.
Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal and Hot Air have more.
Israel and Hamas
So far I’ve resisted the urge to comment on Israel’s ongoing operations against Hamas… I just don’t see any value in playing armchair general or armchair diplomat.This morning though I picked up my local paper and read this bit of idiocy in the Letters to the Editor:
The Israeli attack on the Gaza Ghetto, much like the Nazi attack on the Warsaw Ghetto, is in the words of Israeli leaders “the beginning” and is intended “to send Gaza back decades.”So far, more than 300 have been killed and more than 1,000 injured (200 of those critically), 35 percent women, children and elderly, along with many homes, police stations and civil society buildings destroyed.
According to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, most Gaza Ghetto victims, like Warsaw Ghetto victims, are civilians.
And just like the Nazis who tormented them, the Israeli government blames the victims.
Enough! Our United States government must stop the Israeli tail from always wagging the American dog and pull the leash once and for all on Israel.
After all, with spying AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) friends like that, who needs enemies?
Owen M. Sullivan
SOUTHBURY
I have a question for Mr. Sullivan and others on the left… What exactly would you have Israel do? Lets remember a few things:
- Israel has an absolute moral right to defend its citizens.
- Hamas has fired thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel from Gaza over the last several years.
- Hamas has never acknowledged Israel’s right to exist. In fact Hamas still seeks Israel’s destruction.
- Hamas deliberately stores weapons in civilian areas and launches its rocket and mortar attacks from civilian areas.
Civilian casualties are an unfortunate reality of war, my heart goes out to the citizens of Gaza… If we’re going to place blame place it where it belongs – on Hamas. Israel has bent over backwards to meet the demands of the international community in the “peace process” and made concession after concession but Hamas has acted in bad faith every step of the way. Hamas wanted this war and now they’re going to have to face the consequences. Mr. Sullivan is right about one thing the citizens of Gaza are the victims they’re caught in the cross fire between the terrorists of Hamas and the state of Israel which is rightfully defending its citizens.
As Alan Dershowitz notes in an Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal:
Until the world recognizes that Hamas is committing three war crimes — targeting Israeli civilians, using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and seeking the destruction of a member state of the United Nations — and that Israel is acting in self-defense and out of military necessity, the conflict will continue.
On related note the IDF has launched a blog @ idfspokesperson.com.
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