Archive for the ‘Gaza’ Category

‘Fun with terror’

Monday, August 24th, 2009

This is nothing new and yes, most of us have seen these before.  However, that doesn’t change the fact that it never ceases to amaze me that the world continues to blame every Islamic ill on Israel.  Will they ever take responsibility for anything? (rhetorical)  I hope and pray that people all over the world will begin to open their eyes to the hypocrisy and hate that oozes through almost every fabric of palestinian life.

They could have hope, instead these children are only taught hate.

Hamas Woos Gaza Kids from UN Camps to Join ‘Fun with Terror’

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas has embarked on a massive campaign this summer to woo Gazan children away from UNWRA (United Nations Works and Relief Association) summer camps to its own camps. At Hamas summer camps, kids learned to wage war against Israel and were indoctrinated with Islamic ideology.

Hamas has run 700 summer camps throughout Gaza in 2009 at a budget of $2 million, which were attended by 100,000 children. according to a research report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. In contrast, UNRWA ran camps that were attended by between 200,000 to 250,000 kids. Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and other Islamic groups also run Gaza summer camps.

Leading up to the summer, Hamas embarked on a massive advertising campaign which included a designated website designed to encourage parents to send their children to Hamas camps instead of the UNWRA camps.

Hamas council member Younis al-Astel repeatedly lambasted the UNWRA camps for being coeducational, and claimed that campers there used drugs, learned how to dance, and worst of all, were taught about reconciliation between Gaza and Israel.
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Besides learning about Islam and studying the Koran at Hamas summer camps, children also learn to fight in the Jihad against Israel. Children are taught weapons training, hand-to-hand combat, as well as the use of explosive belts for suicide missions.

In one incident in July, children in a Hamas summer camp reenacted the June 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in which two other Israeli soldiers were killed.

“In the war against Israel, there were more than 100 children trained to attack Israeli forces in Gaza,” a source in Gaza told Middle East Newsline. “Some of them ran away and many of them were killed.”

Children in Hamas summer camps also protested the “Israeli siege” of Gaza, some laying on the ground in rows, faking death from starvation.

Flashback:
(07/14/04):

PA summer camps: Featuring the use of summer camps to promote a culture of hatred amongst Palestinian children. Teach Kids Peace calls for an end to end to ALL incitement at PA summer camps. Teach Kids Peace.

(07/31/08):

Gaza summer camps teach kids to fire rockets
Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners

But our “leaders” are more worried about Israelis building homes in a city they created, than to take issue with Palis militarizing children.

pfft!

Hamas Stages Mass Wedding of 450 Little Girls To Adult Men

Friday, July 31st, 2009

It is not often that I am truly shocked by what is going on in Gaza, and with Hamas.  This however has me actually sick to my stomach.  How the world can sit idly by and ignore this sort of thing is mind-boggling.  The fact that the U.S. is probably paying for it is even worse.

This is not Change I believe in!

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SHEIKH ZAYED CITY, Gaza Strip — Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar, one of the militant group’s top leaders, were on hand to congratulate 450 grooms who took part in the carefully stage-managed event.

“We are saying to the world and to America that you cannot deny us joy and happiness,” Zahar told the men, all of whom were dressed in identical black suits and hailed from the nearby Jabalia refugee camp.

Each groom received a present of 500 dollars from Hamas, which said its workers had also contributed five percent of their monthly salaries to add to the wedding gift.

The 450 brides shared none of the glamour, taking seats among the audience of around 1,000 party guests: most couples had already taken part in religious ceremonies elsewhere, with more marriages planned for the next few days.

“We are presenting this wedding as a gift to our people who stood firm in the face of the siege and the war,” local Hamas strongman Ibrahim Salaf said in a speech.

The Gaza Strip has been under Israeli blockade since the Islamist Hamas movement seized control there in June 2007. In December and January 1,400 Gazans and 13 Israelis were killed in a 22-day war that left much of the territory in ruins.

{The Article}

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Notice how the AFP article says nothing about the ages of the girls, ignores what is really taking place at this event, but finds space to stick in a blurb about how “evil” Israel is.  What the heck does Israel have to do with this wedding of 450 old perverts to pre-pubescent girls?  This sort of thing is unheard of in Israel.

The media, and the liberal establishment behind it, should be ashamed of themselves.  They are so blinded by Israel hatred, Islamist sycophancy, multiculturalism and their rudderless leftism that they have completely forgotten the universal principles of decency their liberalism is supposed to stand for.  Instead they help Hamas turn the mass rape, and enslavement of over 400 pre-pubescent little girls into into some sort of glorious rebellion against a mythical oppression.  This is really sick!

The following video shows the true age of the “brides”.


Britain ’should approach Hamas’

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Britain ’should approach Hamas’

The UK government has come under rising pressure from MPs to start making contact with Palestinian group Hamas.

A Foreign Affairs Committee report also said it was “regrettable” UK-supplied military items were “almost certainly” used by Israel in the Gaza conflict.

The cross-party group, which monitors foreign policy, called on the EU to make relations with Israel conditional on its peace-making efforts.

Relations with Israel are conditional, but relations with Hamas are not? The goal of Hamas is to wipe out all of Israel. It is no secret.

Hamas was also criticised for its use of rockets on Israeli civilian targets.

Hamas came into criticism for its rocket attacks, but MPs concluded that Israel’s military action in Gaza was “disproportionate”.

Mr Gapes said: “Rocket fire from Gaza by Hamas and other Palestinian groups on civilian targets in Israel is unacceptable.

“It generates the risk of a renewed escalation in violence, and constitutes a central obstacle in the way of Israeli willingness to move forward towards a two-state settlement.”

Oh. I thought it was unacceptable because they were FIRING ON CIVILIAN TARGETS INTENTIONALLY. Silly me.

Also: ‘Record rise’ in UK anti-Semitism

Move Over Pallywood

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Hamaswood is taking over.

Hamas makes feature film about slain militant

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Gaza movie premiere drew an exclusive crowd with local celebrities posing for jostling photographers — and that’s pretty much where the similarities end between Hollywood and the fledgling film industry of Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

The Islamic militants’ first feature film — an action-packed homage to a top Hamas militant — cost only $200,000 to make and is being shown to segregated audiences of bearded men and veiled women.
“It’s Hamaswood instead of Hollywood,” Fathi Hamad, Gaza’s Hamas interior minister, said after the film’s first showing Friday evening at Gaza City’s Islamic University. “We are trying to make quality art that is Islamic and about the resistance, without provocative (sexual) scenes.”

Hamad doubled as producer, and the screenplay was penned by Mahmoud Zahar, the Gaza strongman seen as one of the architects of the group’s violent takeover of Gaza two years ago.

Despite his fierce reputation, Zahar, a physician, has always had an artistic streak, with three novels and two screenplays to his credit.

Oh, well then.

In the two-hour movie, titled “Emad Akel,” there’s plenty of action. The hero frequently leaps out of cars to open fire on Israeli soldiers, prompting bursts of applause from the audience each time. There’s no romance, however, and the female actors all wear long robes and headscarves.
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Rabin frequently yells at an inept Barak — now Israel’s defense minister — who can’t stop Hamas fighters. Israeli soldiers always seem asleep. Sleazy Israeli handlers try to persuade Palestinians to collaborate by offering them women and alcohol.

Geeze.

Palis: What is this “truth” people speak of?

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Hamas says Israel dumping aphrodisiac gum on Gaza

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to “corrupt the young,” an official said on Tuesday.

“We have discovered two types of stimulants that were introduced into the Gaza Strip from Israeli border crossings,” Hamas police spokesman Islam Shahwan told AFP.

“The first type is presented in the form of chewing gum and the second in the form of drops,” he said.

The Islamist movement that has run the densely populated and impoverished Palestinian territory for the past two years said it has detained members of a gang that helped to bring in the products.

“They admitted during the investigation they were linked to the Zionist intelligence services,” he said.

Something tells me that Israel is not interested in having the Palistinians making more babies.

Israel ‘Destroyed’ Gaza Hospital that Never Existed

Another anti-Israeli campaign, this time charging that the IDF destroyed a Christian hospital in Gaza earlier this year, has gone up in smoke following an investigation by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA). One question remains: what was supposed to happen with the $1.67 million raised for “rebuilding” the hospital?

Several months ago a fundraising campaign was conducted in Greece, with a star-studded telethon for the hospitals that Israel allegedly “destroyed with their bombs” during the Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign from last December through mid-January.

The JTA revealed that the supposed hospital was not on United Nations and Red Crescent Society lists of damaged structures. Officials of non-government groups (NGOs) in Gaza told the American Jewish news network that only one Christian hospital was used during the campaign and that it did not sustain any damage.

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After the investigation began, a financial newspaper in Greece published a small article that “a project is being sought in Gaza to be financed by the money” that was raised in the February telethon.

They don’t even care. On to the next project!

“Moderate” Fatah Official: “Our Goal is Not Peace, but Rather Palestine”

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Photo:<!--###IMAGE_BRIEF###-->Palestinian Media Watch once again proves that the terrorists from Fatah (”Moderate” Mahmood Abbas/Abu Mazen’s Party and the ones the U.S. are building a professional army for, with your tax dollars), openly admit their true intent, and state that any “peace” created will only be a means to their ultimate goal of destroying Israel.

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This discussion on public “Palestinian” T.V.  again proves that despite the West’s continuous desires, Fatah is no less committed to Israel’s destruction than Hamas.

Kifah Radaydeh, the deputy head of the Jerusalem chapter of Fatah, says openly that the PA will resume violence and terror against Israel when Fatah is “capable,” and “according to what seems right.” “It has been said that we are negotiating for peace,” she further stated, “but our goal has never been peace. Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine.”

Just like their founder Yassir Arafat, they know to say one thing to the usefull West, and to work for another with their fellow Arab Muslims.  Kifah Radaydeh however is not a lone “extremist”, as her statements are part of the overall Fatah policy.

Fatah MP Najat Abu Bakr said in a PA TV interview last year that Fatah’s goal remains the destruction of Israel, but that their political plan is to focus on returning to the 1967 borders. He stated “It doesn’t mean that we don’t want the 1948 borders,” Abu Bakr said, referring to all of Israel,” but rather that “our current political program is to say that we want the 1967 borders.”

Also, just four months ago, senior PA official Mohammed Dahlan stressed that Fatah adamantly refuses to recognize Israel, and that even the Palestinian Authority’s recognition is only for the sake of receiving foreign aid: “…the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel, even today… [such recognition is] required of the government but not of the Fatah, so that this government will be able to offer the necessary assistance, to carry out the necessary reconstruction, to offer assistance to the sick, to bring relief to needy families… This can be dealt with [only] by a government that has relations with the international community, one that is acceptable to the international community, in order that we can work together and benefit from the international community.”

{A Related Article From Arutz Sheva}

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The terrorists of Fatah/PLO have been lying to the West, and getting away with it, for decades.  It is never the Arabs whom state that they are going to accept a “two-state” solution, or “peace” as their ultimate goal.  This is simply what the West, including our current administration, wants to hear – so they do. Even today the West demands a “settlement freeze” from Israel, stating it is a requirement for “peace” even though the Phakestinians openly state that this won’t make a difference.  On these confused beliefs of what the Phakestinians want, and what will bring about a resolution to the Arab-Israel conflict, despite the Arab’s own statements to the contrary, the EU is even calling on the UN to impose “peace” on Israel.

If the world listened to the actual words of the Arab/Muslims, and not just what they want to hear, they would see why all of their attempts at gaining “peace in the Middle East” have failed miserably.  The Arab/Muslim goal since the increased influx of Jews to the region, (even before 1948) has always been the same: destroy Israel (kill the Jews).  Carl in Jerusalem posted a brilliant video showing how little the aims of the PLO and Fatah have changed over the last sixty years since Israel’s creation, and another evidencing how the charges Israel was being called to answer to fifty years ago are remarkably similar to the charges made against her today.

The PLO/Fatah/Abu Mazen/Mahmood Abbas policy hasn’t changed, and was placed on paper, and made “official” in the 1974 PLO Phased Plan.

They keep saying it……so when will the West start listening?

Hard times for Islamic Jihad

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Hamas nabs two Islamic Jihad men preparing to fire mortars at Israel

Two militants preparing to fire mortars into Israel were detained Saturday by interior security officials of the Islamic Hamas movement, reported a group to which the militants claim membership.

The statement, from the Saraya al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, announced the arrest of their members Saturday, reporting that the two men had been arrested as they engaged an Israel Defense Forces unit along the border of Israel and the eastern Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which has held de facto control of the Gaza Strip since June 2007, has stopped rocket attacks on Israel, in an unofficial, unannounced and fragile ceasefire with Israel that was reached January 18 at the end of the last Israeli military offensive into Gaza.

I wonder if this had anything to do with that:

Hard time for Islamic Jihad: Budget cut in Syria means terror group can’t meet payroll

GAZA CITY — The Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad is down on its luck due to a financial crisis.

Palestinian sources said Jihad has failed to acquire most of its budget from headquarters in Syria. The sources said this has resulted in Jihad’s failure to pay operatives and purchase weapons for attacks on Israel.

“Only aid from Iran continues to come in, and that too is only for bereaved families and charities,” Islamic Jihad deputy secretary-general Ziad Al Nahla said.

Al Nahla said Israel and the Palestinian Authority have confiscated millions of dollars in donations from Arab and Muslim states. In an interview to the Saudi-based daily A-Sharq Al Awsat, Al Nahla said the funds had been transferred to Palestinian and Jordanian banks in the West Bank.

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The funding shortage has not paralyzed Jihad activities in the Gaza Strip. But the sources said Jihad has been forced to curtail missile and rocket strikes on Israel from the Gaza Strip amid the decline in funding.

“We can still guarantee minimum requirements,” Al Nahla said. “The money reaches the Gaza Strip via the tunnels, just like the weapons.”

Iran was said to be the largest donor of Jihad, established in 1987. Several Gulf Cooperation Council states, particularly Qatar, were said to have sent funds to Jihad as well.

The sources said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has proposed a joint command of Hamas and Jihad. They said IRGC envisioned Jihad establishing units in Hamas’s military in the Gaza Strip in an effort to enhance the combat ability of Iran’s proxies.

Jihad leaders have been divided over the IRGC proposal. Critics said Jihad would be eliminated in any merger with Hamas.

Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

JERUSALEM (CNN) – The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate.

The boat’s crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, according to the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group that sent the boat it calls “Spirit of Humanity” from Cyprus.

Along with McKinney, who served six terms in the House of Representatives from Georgia and was the Green Party’s presidential nominee in 2008, Israeli authorities took 20 people into custody, the group said.

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IDF said the Israeli navy contacted the boat, which it called the Arion, while it was still at sea and warned the crew they would not be allowed to enter Gazan waters “because of security risks in the area and the existing naval blockade.”

Disregarding all warnings, the boat entered Gazan coastal waters, IDF said. An Israeli navy force intercepted, boarded and took control of the boat, directing it toward Ashdod, Israel, IDF said.

The boat’s crew, the military said, would “be handed over to the proper authorities.”

Without naming individuals on the boat, IDF confirmed the incident it described was the same one detailed by the Free Gaza Movement.

According to the Free Gaza group, McKinney said, “This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” before authorities confiscated cell phones.

No shame.

(hattip and thanks to Speranza!)

Update by m (quoting WrathofG-d):

LETS COUNTER THEIR PURPOSE! Call, write, or otherwise contact your elected officials, and encourage them to supports Israel, her right to keep her borders with Gaza closed, and her need to take the steps she did against the “Free Gaza” organization, etc.

Hamas Ready For Peace…With A Muslim Israel

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The Obama Administration, along with most of the Western world, continues to fool itself into thinking that the Arabs want peace with Israel, and two states living side-by-side.  This is despite the fact that the Arabs themselves have never explicitly said so.

Here is Hamas’ most recent example.

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http://infidelsparadise.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/hamas_rally.jpgHamas head Khaled Mashaal gave a speech Thursday evening in response to a policy speech given by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu several days earlier.  Mashaal proclaimed that Hamas is ready to cooperate with the international community in order to reach a deal with Israel, but only under conditions it deems favorable.

Specifically, Mashaal rejected every proposal supported by Israel, including Netanyahu’s insistence that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state.  Hamas will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, because it hopes to see millions of descendants of Arab residents of pre-state Israel “return” to the area, potentially turning Israel into a majority-Arab state, Mashaal explained.

He rejected Netanyahu’s proposal that the PA form a demilitarized state within Judea, Samaria and Gaza. “A demilitarized state is a miserable state, not a serious entity,” he stated.

Mashaal also insisted that an Arab state in Judea and Samaria be granted Jerusalem as its capital.

While stating his readiness to cooperate, Mashaal compared Israel to Nazi Germany and expressed support for terrorism. “[Israel] failed in its Nazi war on Gaza, just as it failed in Lebanon,” he said. “This was due to the resistance, not to dialogue, which serves only to hide the true face of occupation.”

Mashaal praised United States President Barack Obama for “using new language” with Israel, but called on the U.S. leader to do more. “We’re hoping for real pressure on the Israelis,” he said.

{The Rest of The Article}

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What the Arabs want is not two states living side-by-side in peace, but instead a Phakestinian State created so it can be used to destroy Israel – all according to the PLO Phased Plan.

The Arabs have never wanted “two states”, and have honestly never stated such.  “Two states” is simply what the West wants to hear, and thus we pretend that it has been said.  Every act by the Arabs regarding Israel (as acknowledged again by Hamas) is in furtherance of their goal to destroy Israel.  They want Judea, Samaria and Gaza to chip away at the body of Israel, and they insist on Jerusalem as their capitol because they know it will destroy Israel’s heart and soul.  The “demand of so-called Return” is to create a cancer within the Jewish state.

Every Arab act of “peace” is to destroy Israel.  It is about time the West (especially the U.S.) woke up to this fact.

When Egypt Occupied Gaza

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u-AKWDZaYso/R9dC65Cmp1I/AAAAAAAACMM/MpasBVcWE0Y/s400/Palestinian_lynch.jpgFollowing the footsteps of all Western leaders before him in recent history, President Obama has waxed poetic on the need to fulfill the dreams of every Phakestinian by providing them with a ”much deserved” State.  (Even comparing Phakestinian suffering to the Jews in the Holocaust)

His statements, and policy is based on many false assumptions, but none more influential than the repeatedly proven false belief that the Phakestinians are suffering from an unprecedented “occupation” by Israel, and that they actually want to live side-by-side with Israel in peace within their own Country.

Carl In Jerusalem, does a fantastic job explaining the folly of this assumption, and gives a bit of a history lesson on the Arab-Israel conflict from an angle that is often not discussed: When Egypt Occupied Gaza.

Below are excepts from Carl In Jerusalem.

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Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip from 1948-67.  Had they chosen to do so, and if the real goal of the ‘Palestinians’ and the Arab countries had been to do so, Egypt could have granted Gaza independence as a ‘Palestinian’ state. (Jordan could have done the same with the ‘West Bank’).

But that was not Egypt’s goal and the Arab countries have no interest in the ‘Palestinians’ or a ‘Palestinian state.’ Here are a couple of examples of how the ‘refugees’ in Gaza were treated in the 1960’s, long before there was any ‘occupation.’

Egypt’s policy for the Strip was succinctly spelled out by the deputy governor, Muhammad Flafaga, in an interview appearing in the Danish newspaper Aktuelt on February 9, 1967:

  • Question: Why not send the refugees to other Arab countries? Syria would no doubt be able to absorb a vast number of them. Are you afraid that national bonds with Palestine will be loosened, that the hatred against Israel will vanish if they become ordinary citizens?
  • Answer: As a matter of fact, you are right. Syria could take all of them, and the problem would be solved. But we do not want that. They are to return to Palestine.

UNRWA reported in 1956: “One of the obstacles to the achievement of the General Assembly’s goal of making the refugees self-supporting continues to be the opposition of the governments in the area.”

Ralph Galloway, an UNRWA official who quit in frustration, observed bitterly: “The Arab states don’t want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”

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No discussion about the Arab-Israel conflict would not be complete without mentioning the 1974 P.L.O. Phased Plan.

One of the major reasons why the Arab-Israel conflict has yet to be resolved is because we don’t allow ourselves to properly understand it, and instead naively cling to baseless assumptions regarding the Arab goals; namely destroying Israel.

The “Disengagement” from Gaza in 2005 is a recent blaring example of this.