JIPing the Holy Land
May 15th, 2007:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who amazingly does utterly and absolutely nothing to make God's chosen people forget the legacy of King David but does bear more than a passing resemblance to the ass from which Gideon got the famous jawbone, invites the commanders of the Palestinian Authority (the term "leaders" seems somehow out of place) - including Hamas - along with representatives of twenty-two other Muslim/Arab governments, all of which share the Pals' lust for anti-Semitic genocide but have the camelsense to be circumspect about it, to Israel to discuss the Saudi "road map" for "peace".
Recall that the Saudi plan centers on a complete, unconditional, and immediate withdrawal of the Jewish State to its pre-1967 borders, which were barely defensible forty years ago and are utterly indefensible now. At its longitudinal midpoint the country is only nine miles wide, and the surrendered territory constitutes the high ground in that region, with the Israelis left only the low coastal plains. Sheesh, why do people think the IDF attacked first in the Six Day War?
It is precisely the kind of muttonheaded idiocy one would have expected from a "leader" of Olmert's incapacity - and from a government approaching the end of its sixth decade of living under daily siege.
The Palestinians' response is also note-perfectly predictable:
"The Israelis aren't ready"? They were "ready" seven years ago at Wye River when Ehud Barack (at Bill Clinton's bulldozing) offered up Gaza and all but 5% of the West Bank to Yassir Arafat. Arafat said it wasn't enough and ignited Intifada II. Now another Ehud (Yiddish for "Elmer"?), his weak-reed, peacenik, dhimmist bona fides certified by his debacle of a "war" against Hezbollah and Hamas last summer, says to Israel's enemies, "Let's do it again!", his appetite for prostrating appeasement evidently insatiable, and the Pals sniff that the Jews "still aren't serious."
Can the terrorists running the PA be getting lazy? Or have they become so emboldened by a generation of infidel pandering, and made even more contemptuous as a result, that they expect the Israelis to demolish their own cities, towns, and settlements, construct the gas chambers and ovens, and genocide themselves for them?
Even then the Pals would probably think the Jews "weren't serious". But at least they'd be gone.
May 19, 2007:
The Fatah-Hamas Palestinian civil war rages on. Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas, his faction getting the worse end of the fighting, begs Hamas kingpin Khaled Mashaal to intercede with the Hamasis that are kicking his ass.
It works, for the moment. Won't last, Fatah will regroup, and the fighting will begin anew. Hamas knows this, which is why they also launched their trademark rocket attacks into Israel proper, in the hopes of provoking another incompetent IDF romp into Gaza. The Jews don't accomodate them, being content with surgical airstrikes that snuff key Hamas personnel instead.
May 21, 2007:
David Frum writes a column revealing another dose of dismaying information:
Well, first of all, the West would have to stop subsidizing Fatah and Hamas. The UN and EU are incapable of such common sense; one would have thought that such an intuitive epiphany wouldn't be beyond the ken of the Bush Administration, neocon anti-jihadi scourges that they're reputed to be. But after four years of propaganda beatings by the Enemy Media and the rest of the DisLoyal Opposition, they're just plain whipped. Elmer Olmert, by contrast, was born that way.
Admiral Ed asks if the Palestinian people who elected Hamas in the first place have "learned anything yet". But that's not the right question, because the Pals have been conditioned for decades to be pro-terrorist, and now are having that reinforced by Islamic Fundamentalist indoctrination. The question isn't even "Have WE learned anything yet," since Israel's foolish withdrawal from Gaza made this mess inevitable and we keep footing the bill for it.
The question is "Will we EVER learn, PERIOD?"
A, um, pregnant query, if ever there was one....
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who amazingly does utterly and absolutely nothing to make God's chosen people forget the legacy of King David but does bear more than a passing resemblance to the ass from which Gideon got the famous jawbone, invites the commanders of the Palestinian Authority (the term "leaders" seems somehow out of place) - including Hamas - along with representatives of twenty-two other Muslim/Arab governments, all of which share the Pals' lust for anti-Semitic genocide but have the camelsense to be circumspect about it, to Israel to discuss the Saudi "road map" for "peace".
Recall that the Saudi plan centers on a complete, unconditional, and immediate withdrawal of the Jewish State to its pre-1967 borders, which were barely defensible forty years ago and are utterly indefensible now. At its longitudinal midpoint the country is only nine miles wide, and the surrendered territory constitutes the high ground in that region, with the Israelis left only the low coastal plains. Sheesh, why do people think the IDF attacked first in the Six Day War?
It is precisely the kind of muttonheaded idiocy one would have expected from a "leader" of Olmert's incapacity - and from a government approaching the end of its sixth decade of living under daily siege.
The Palestinians' response is also note-perfectly predictable:
"I think it will take time before they meet again. The Israelis are not ready. All we've been told it that they are willing to prepare for the next meeting," Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said.
"The peace process is frozen, but what we are looking for is seeing a real serious step from the Israeli side to sit at the table to negotiate what the roads map and the Arab peace initiative are calling for," Rdeneh added. [emphases added]
"The Israelis aren't ready"? They were "ready" seven years ago at Wye River when Ehud Barack (at Bill Clinton's bulldozing) offered up Gaza and all but 5% of the West Bank to Yassir Arafat. Arafat said it wasn't enough and ignited Intifada II. Now another Ehud (Yiddish for "Elmer"?), his weak-reed, peacenik, dhimmist bona fides certified by his debacle of a "war" against Hezbollah and Hamas last summer, says to Israel's enemies, "Let's do it again!", his appetite for prostrating appeasement evidently insatiable, and the Pals sniff that the Jews "still aren't serious."
Can the terrorists running the PA be getting lazy? Or have they become so emboldened by a generation of infidel pandering, and made even more contemptuous as a result, that they expect the Israelis to demolish their own cities, towns, and settlements, construct the gas chambers and ovens, and genocide themselves for them?
Even then the Pals would probably think the Jews "weren't serious". But at least they'd be gone.
May 19, 2007:
The Fatah-Hamas Palestinian civil war rages on. Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas, his faction getting the worse end of the fighting, begs Hamas kingpin Khaled Mashaal to intercede with the Hamasis that are kicking his ass.
It works, for the moment. Won't last, Fatah will regroup, and the fighting will begin anew. Hamas knows this, which is why they also launched their trademark rocket attacks into Israel proper, in the hopes of provoking another incompetent IDF romp into Gaza. The Jews don't accomodate them, being content with surgical airstrikes that snuff key Hamas personnel instead.
May 21, 2007:
David Frum writes a column revealing another dose of dismaying information:
It is a little-known fact that international aid to the Palestinian territories has actually risen since Palestinians elected a Hamas government in January, 2006. According to International Monetary Fund and UN figures, the Palestinian areas received a total of $1.2 billion in official aid in 2006, up from $1 billion in 2005.
America's contribution rose from $400 million in 2005 to $468 million in 2006. Aid from the European Union and other international organizations also increased handsomely, and the UN has called for still greater increases in aid in 2007.
Look at the incentives that have been created for the Palestinians: vote for terrorism, get an increase in your foreign aid. The Palestinian areas now receive more than $300 per person, per year, making them the most aid-dependent population on Earth. (The people of sub-Saharan Africa receive only $44 per person per year.)
These incentives allow Hamas to present itself both as the unyielding enemy of the Jewish state—and also as a provider of generous social welfare benefits to the Palestinian people.
What if those incentives changed? What if Hamas's misconduct produced a loss rather than a profit?
Well, first of all, the West would have to stop subsidizing Fatah and Hamas. The UN and EU are incapable of such common sense; one would have thought that such an intuitive epiphany wouldn't be beyond the ken of the Bush Administration, neocon anti-jihadi scourges that they're reputed to be. But after four years of propaganda beatings by the Enemy Media and the rest of the DisLoyal Opposition, they're just plain whipped. Elmer Olmert, by contrast, was born that way.
Admiral Ed asks if the Palestinian people who elected Hamas in the first place have "learned anything yet". But that's not the right question, because the Pals have been conditioned for decades to be pro-terrorist, and now are having that reinforced by Islamic Fundamentalist indoctrination. The question isn't even "Have WE learned anything yet," since Israel's foolish withdrawal from Gaza made this mess inevitable and we keep footing the bill for it.
The question is "Will we EVER learn, PERIOD?"
A, um, pregnant query, if ever there was one....
posted by JASmius at 8:39 AM
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