Bloodthirsty Liberal

Do you want to:

- have all past debts forgiven?
- be a hit with the ladies?
- take care of your family?
- be tight with your God?
- go straight to the top?

Ask me how!

Six privileges, or kindnesses, to be granted the holy Martyr are mentioned in a hadith (tradition attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam) and were explained in a recent Friday sermon broadcast on Hamas TV.

The privileges that are bestowed upon the one who dies for Allah and mentioned in the hadith are:

1- The Shahid’s sins are forgiven
2- He sees his place in Paradise and lives a full life of joy with Allah
3- He is protected from “the Great Shock” on Judgment Day
4- He is crowned with a crown of honor
5- He marries 72 dark-eyed wives
6- He will be able to intervene on behalf of 70 of his family members on Judgment Day, thereby ensuring them the reward of Afterlife

For years, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have promoted the ideal of dying as a Martyr for Allah. The promotion has been successful.
Palestinian Media Watch has collected many examples of Palestinian children and adults expressing belief in and desire for Shahada. Men and women aspire to become Shahids, and parents express pride and happiness when their children fulfill their aspirations and become Martyrs for Allah.

Don’t miss this can’t-miss opportunity to get in on the ground floor (where the blast can do the most damage to the foundations). Women and children especially welcome! (NINA: No Israelis Need Apply)

Hamass: we’re not sorry after all.

The Hamas government in Gaza on Saturday backtracked on its apology earlier this week in which it expressed regret for harming Israeli civilians in rocket attacks.

The apology had signaled a rare deviation from Hamas’ violent ideology, and the subsequent zigzag reflects the Islamic militants’ conflicting objectives.

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“We apologize for any harm that might have come to Israeli civilians,” the Hamas government wrote.

On Saturday, the government claimed the response to the U.N. was misinterpreted.

“The report that was submitted regarding the Goldstone report does not include any apologies and what took place was an incorrect interpretation of some of its wording,” the government said in a statement.

It did not attempt to explain the contradiction and Hamas officials declined comment.

Don’t worry, fellas, we didn’t take you too seriously in the first place.

And for those who did:

A Qassam rocket exploded in an open area in the western Negev, near Sderot on Sunday. There were no reports of injures or damage.

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The last rocket attack from the Gaza Strip came Wednesday, when a Qassam rocket exploded near the border fence in an agricultural field belonging to one of the kibbutzim of Shaar Hanegev Regional Council.

A day earlier, another rocket was fired, and this time landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.

Hamass claimed in its “apology” (now rescinded) that they always aimed at military installations and couldn’t be blamed if their rockets veered off course.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, we’re sorry.

We’re sorry you made us mad:

Hamas, in an unusual move, has expressed regret for the deaths of Israeli civilians in Palestinian rocket attacks during fighting in Gaza a year ago.

Israel, where Hamas suicide bombers have killed hundreds of civilians over two decades, dismissed any apology for the three non-combatants hit by rockets from Gaza in the war as insincere.

In a report by a committee set up by Hamas to examine UN allegations of war crimes by its fighters, the authors said: “We regret any harm that may have befallen any Israeli civilian.

“We hope the Israeli civilians understand that their government’s continued attacks on us were the key issue and the cause,” added the report, of which Reuters obtained a copy.

In response to the report, delivered to the United Nations this week, Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said on Friday: “For years Hamas has boasted about deliberately targeting civilians, either through suicide bombings, by gunfire or by rockets. Who are they trying to fool now?”

You answered your own question in two words, one starting with U, the other with N.

Besides, you know who Hamass considers a “civilian”, right? I think there’s an old guy in Nazareth who keeps bees and plays the clarinet. That’s about it.

And in their next breath…

At least one senior Hamas official, who declined to be named, said the movement remained ready to conduct “martyrdom operations” - suicide bombings of Israeli buses, cafes and the like, which have not, however, been seen for several years.

The Hamas report, after listing Palestinian grievances such as the Israeli embargo on Gaza, reaffirmed comments by officials of the 22-year-old Islamist movement that its improvised rockets were fired purely defensively and were aimed at Israeli military targets. They simply lacked the necessary accuracy, Hamas said.

“It should be noted that the Palestinian resistance…is not an organized army that possesses developed technological weapons,” the report said. “It may target a military site or a tank position and their fire goes astray…and hit a civilian location, despite their efforts to avoid hurting civilians.”

Sorry about those kids and old ladies, in other words, and sorry about the ones to come.

And if the Palestinian “resistance” isn’t an “organized army” with “technological weapons”, then what is it? Freedom fighters? Minutemen?

Let’s have a look:

Weapons, missiles, uniforms… and anybody wonder why the Israelis occasionally bulldoze orchards?

Yeah, but three little rockets—

Okay, 17 or 18 little rockets… come on, Israel, what about proportional response?

Okay, maybe hundreds and thousands of little rockets—what harm could these little toys do?

Yes, toys:

This kind of harm:

I will say this for Hamass: if they are sorry, at least they have much to be sorry for!

We interrupt the Scott Brown Show to bring you this important announcement.

When a right and proper leftist is abused by Egypt, what is she supposed to do?

Say it with me, now: blame Israel

Oh the shame of it all. Last month, 1,300 pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe came to the region in the name of peace and social justice to demonstrate their solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. Led by the self-declared feminist, antiwar group Code Pink, the demonstrators’ plan was to enter Gaza from the Egyptian border at Rafah and deliver “humanitarian aid” to the Hamas terrorist organization.

But it was not to be. Led by Code Pink founder and California Democratic fund-raiser Jodie Evans, the demonstrators were not welcomed by Egyptian authorities. Many were surrounded by riot police and barbed wire as they demonstrated outside the US and French embassies and the UN Development Program’s headquarters. Others were barred from leaving their hotels.

Those who managed to escape their hotels and the bullpens outside the embassies were barred from staging night protests in solidarity with Hamas on the Nile. In the end, as the militant Israeli pro-Palestinian activist Amira Hass chronicled in Haaretz last week, all but 100 of them were barred from travelling to Gaza.

The lucky few allowed into the Strip included neither Evans nor her friends, former Weather Underground terror leaders Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayres. But they bore no grudge against Egypt. The Egyptians were mere puppets of the real culprit: Israel. As Evans said, “It’s obvious that the only reason for [Egypt’s treatment of the demonstrators] is to make Israel happy. Israel is behind the refusal [to allow the demonstrators into Gaza] - what other excuse could there be?”

I was tempted to make a joke here about blaming Florida for being denied admittance to Wyoming—but we’re past education here. Past logic, discourse, debate.

What we are left with is rank, unadulterated Jew-hatred. Even “anti-Semitism” seems too clean and clinical—we need the Germanic (appropriately), not the Latin, to describe the bitterness from the Left.

Which is when they are at their happiest:

Unfortunately for the lucky 100 who were permitted to enter Hamastan, the diversions didn’t end at the Egyptians border. Hamas immediately placed them under siege. The Palestinian champions had planned to enjoy home hospitality from friends in Gaza. But once there they were prohibited from leaving the Hamas-owned Commodore Hotel and from having any contact with local Gazans without a Hamas escort.

Rather than being permitted to judge the situation in Gaza for themselves, they were carted onto Hamas buses and taken on “devastation tours” of what their Hamas tour guides claimed was damage caused by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead. And then these international protesters were forced to participate in a Hamas-organized march to the Erez crossing.

As Hass tells it, in “a slap to many feminist organizers and participants,” no Palestinian women were allowed to participate in the march, which “turned into nothing more than a ritual, an opportunity for Hamas cabinet ministers to get decent media coverage in the company of Western demonstrators.”

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Hass’s participation in the pro-Hamas propaganda trip is a bit surprising. In November 2008, she was forced to flee from Gaza to Israel after Hamas threatened to kill her. At the time, Hass appealed to the Israeli military - which she has spent the better part of her career bashing - and asked to be allowed to enter Israel from Gaza, after sailing illegally to Gaza from Cyprus on a ferry chartered by the pro-Hamas Free Gaza outfit.

But I’m getting tired of this. These skanks and skunks are such loathsome and detestable company (Latin has its uses, too), I can’t stand to be around them, even to expose their execrable language and behavior.

I like to be more positive (you know me!):

COGAT Announcement: Summary of 2009 Shows 28% Rise in Humanitarian Aid To Gaza

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During 2009, international organizations were more active in the Gaza Strip despite the complex security situation in Gaza. There was an increase of 125% in the number of internationals crossing into the Gaza Strip and some 400 delegations of foreign officials, including activists and diplomats, who have entered Gaza Strip in coordination with the Gaza CLA.

Furthermore, there was a 28% increase in the transfer of humanitarian goods from Israel to Gaza via the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings.

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During the operation there were approximately 1,600 cases where the Gaza CLA coordinated the evacuation of populations from combat areas, and of casualties via international organizations, including the Red Cross. In addition, 1,400 truckloads of humanitarian goods were transferred from Israel into Gaza Strip through the crossing points, during the fighting, coordinated by the Gaza CLA and supplied by international organizations.

During the conference, Gaza CLA commander Col. Moshe Levy, said: “the fruitful cooperation between the Coordination and Liaison Administration and the international organizations allows us to respond to the needs of the Palestinian population in Gaza, which currently lives under a regime of terror.”

“Because of the cooperation and the support given by international organizations, there is a wide and varied supply of food and medicine in the Gaza Strip, a fact well established by in official reports of UN personnel,” added Col. Levy.

There I go getting all logical again. Israel not only allows aid to the Palestinians (unlike Egypt), it allowed aid and medical treatment during its war on Hamass, Operation Eat Lead. And the hoors in Code Pink would have known that if they had asked to be among the 400 delegations of diplomats and “activists” Israel allowed to cross its border.

Logic, BTL, stop it!

You’re right, you’re right… I’ll just call them the names they deserve. But as a gentleman with too much respect for the fairer sex, I’ll have to log off to carry on as I must.

Keep that title handy. Something tells me we’ll be seeing a lot of it. (Something tells me we already have.)

Today’s installment:

At a Hamas ceremony honoring the families of the martyrs in Jabaliya, in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the families said: “We are willing to sacrifice our children, ourselves, and our money to say ‘There is no god but Allah’ and to free the homeland.”

But can you blame ‘em?

Israel has complained to the US administration that the Palestinian Authority’s President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are engaging in incitement by honoring a woman responsible for the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history, and calling the men who killed Rabbi Meir Avshalom Chai last month martyrs.

Israel’s complaint came, ironically, shortly before US Middle East envoy George Mitchell heaped praise on Fayyad and Abbas Wednesday night during a US television interview.

Twice during the interview, on the Charlie Rose show, Mitchell called Fayyad an “impressive leader” and said that he and Abbas represented “strong and effective leadership for the Palestinian people.”

God, what an idiot.

Far from being punished for ram-rodding their children into the cannon’s mouth, they are rewarded for it. I blame them first, their enablers second, and Israel not at all.

We get criticized here occasionally for not showing enough sympathy to the plight of the Palestinian people (I know, right?).

Let the word go forth, from this time and place, to friend and foe alike—we do not think Palestinians should be slapped across the face.

By other Palestinians:

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns measures taken by the security services in Gaza against activists of Fatah Movement in the Gaza Strip to prevent them from commemorating the 45th anniversary of the establishment on the movement on the 1st of January. Security services in Gaza arrested dozens of activists of Fatah movement during the last week of December 2009. A number of detainees were violently beaten and were subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.

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They confiscated kefiyehs (mufflers) and mobile phones from a number of students. Dr. Riad al-’Eila, Dean of Students’ Affairs, and Dr. Jaber al-Da’our, Deputy President of the University, intervened to in an attempt to persuade security officers to such attacks, but the security officers moved towards the campus of female students to storm it. When Dr. al-’Eila intervened again, a security officer insulted and slapped him on the face.

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“On 31 December 2009, the police arrived at my home and arrested me accusing me of possession of flags of Fatah Movement. They took me to a police station in al-Shati refugee camp. When I arrived there, they covered my head, and a police officer hit me on my head. When I resisted him, many police officers kicked me and violently beat me using sticks and gun butts until I fainted. I woke up when they sprinkled cold water over my body. They then took me to an interrogation room, where they ordered me to take off my upper clothes. They questioned me about the possession of flags of Fatah Movement. They violently beat me on the feet and thighs. The interrogation and beating lasted for an hour, after which they tied me and beat me again. At midnight, they took me to al-Nazara (a fenced space area that is used as a detention place). They detained me there naked although the weather was so cold. On the following day, I was subjected to several rounds of interrogation about the same issue. The interrogation continued until midnight, after which they forced me to sign a pledge not to participate in activities of Fatah Movement, to comply to decisions of the government in Gaza and to abstain from violating order, otherwise I would pay a fine of 3,000 NIS. They then released me.”

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On 02 January 2010, the police investigation bureau summoned a number of students from Hayel ‘Abdul Hamid Secondary School in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip. The students, aged 16, were interrogated about the distribution of a statement of Fatah Movement at school. During the interrogation, they were violently beaten. One of the students sustained a fracture to the right hand and bruises throughout the body, and another one sustained bruises throughout the body.

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On 03 January 2010, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Eihab al-Ghussain, stated that the Ministry did not prevent any local activities in the Gaza Strip related to the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Fatah Movement.

Of course not. Anyhow, they all got off easy:

Fatah supporters light candles to celebrate the anniversary of the movement because the security services in Gaza prevent them from organizing celebrations on this occasion. A dispute arose between the policemen and the victim’s sons Sami, 40, ‘Amer, 27, and Mohammed, 22; the policemen beat the three civilians and arrested Mohammed and ‘Amer. In his testimony to PCHR, Sami al-Sweirki stated: “When she saw my two brothers in the jeep, my mother - who was in the shop - tried to pull them out of the jeep. My mother suffered from a heart disease and from high blood pressure and diabetes. One of the policemen hit her on the back and another policeman pulled her into the jeep. Then they drove away at a very high speed.”

‘Amer al-Sweirki testified: “My mother began to suffocate and told my brother and me to take her to hospital. The policemen did not respond to her appeals and continued to drive to al-Tufah Police Station. She began to lose consciousness. Then the policemen took her to al-Shifa Hospital in the jeep. Her condition continued to deteriorate until she died before arriving at the hospital.”

That’s terrible.

Sympathetic enough for you?

And let us be the first in Bloodthirstan to wish Fatah a Happy Birthday. Forty-five, and lookin’ good!

If it weren’t for the tragedy of two lives lost, I’d be laughing my ass off over this.

Oh, you all know me too well. I’m laughing my ass off precisely because of the tragedy of two lives lost.

Hizbullah communicated “deep disappointment” to Hamas leadership over the discovery that the party was conducting military drills in a residential building in Lebanon without the party’s knowledge, the country’s An-Nahar newspaper reported Wednesday.

Information around the training was uncovered during the course of an investigation into an explosion in Haret Treik that killed two Hamas members last week, the paper said. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Al-Murr said the blast targeted Hamas Representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan.

According to the London-based Arabic daily Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, the attack was carried out as Hamas members received live ammunition training in the basement of the building under Hamas control.

The daily said Hezbollah told Hamas it would not intervene, and that Hamas “would have to resolve the problem on its own.”

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat also reported that Hamas decided to close its office in Haret Hreik until the situation was resolved.

This is from a Palestinian “news” source, so the syntax is a little confusing, but I think Hamass people killed each other while trying to kill someone else (also Hamass), and Hezbollah is pissed because this was on their turf—in a residential neighborhood.

I love the use of the term “office”. Like it had computers and faxes and a coffee machine. Anyway, two dead terrorists sounds like the problem resolved itself.

Clean up in aisle three!

The cleaning lady says she doesn’t do windows or pools of blood:

New Year’s means Dick Clark to some, Guy Lombardo to others.

To the Palestinians, it means blood libel (literally):

Following are excerpts from a Hamas TV anti-Semitic cartoon, which vilifies the PA. The cartoon aired on Al-Aqsa TV on January 1, 2010. [Anti-semitic? We’ll be the judge of that.]

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Cut to a Jewish settler, brandishing a sub-machine gun, and his elderly father

Father: Son, the five most delicious things in the world are three…

Settler: I know.

Settler and his father: Palestinian blood.

Father: Go, son. Drink their blood, and come back safely.

Settler: I will do it for you, father.

Father: This is a map of Hebron. Take it. You may need it.

Settler: I will not need it, because I am not Gilad [Shalit], and the West Bank is not Gaza. Calm down. Shalom, father.

Father: Shalom, son.

The settler heads through the military checkpoint, firing his sub-machine gun. The wall bears a poster of Ahmed Qurei, with the words “Qurei’ Company for Building Materials.” This is a reference to accusations leveled against Ahmad Qurei’, aka Abu Alaa, that his company supplied building materials to settlement activities.

Settler: I am getting loooooooost…

Israeli officer (to Bahlool): Go after him.

Bahlool: Yes, sir.

Israeli officer: Go get him!

Bahlool races after the settler, who is walking to Hebron, brandishing his sub-machine gun. The settler fires several rounds. When Bahlool arrives on the scene, there is a pile of Palestinian children lying in a pool of blood. A girl’s decapitated head lies next to a doll. The settler licks a drop of blood that escaped his lips.

Bahlool: Listen you… You Jew who got lost, you’ve killed my people before my eyes. I will respond with… more peace. Are you done?

Settler nods

Bahlool: Thank you very much.

Sounds anti-Semitic to me. But maybe you had to see it.

As this fellow points out, Hamass doesn’t hate just Jews, they hate everybody (Jews most of all):

Following are excerpts from interviews with retired Egyptian Generals Husam Sweilem and Nabil Babawi, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on December 25, 2009 and on Al-Alam TV on December 23, 2009.

People from Hamas have agreed to annex northern Sinai to Gaza. They want to turn this area into a base for Hamas resistance against Israel. They want to launch the resistance from there, strike within Israel, and return to the safety of Egyptian territory. Then Israel will retaliate against them, by attacking their bases in northern Sinai, and by occupying northern Sinai again. Then, Sinai will become a second Afghanistan, a second Jizan, or like the Swat Valley in Pakistan, and we will have to establish camps for the Palestinians. This is what they plan for Egypt. Does this correspond with Egyptian national security?

Whatever you do, Egypt, don’t build a wall. The human rights mob hates walls.

PS: What did I say about Hamass hating everybody?

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the PA has information that Hamas wants to carry out violent operations in the West Bank.

PPS: Sorry, one more. Can’t resist.

Hamas political bureau head Khaled Mash’al said in Saudi Arabia that Hamas is in the final stages of the reconciliation with Fatah, and that everyone agrees that the signing will take place in Cairo, but at the same time the document must be changed so that it meets everyone’s demands.

Oh yeah, sounds like you guys are ready to commit (suicide, maybe).

Which do you want first?

The good?

Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank have stopped torturing Hamas prisoners, ending two years of systematic abuse, Hamas inmates told The Associated Press in jailhouse interviews.

Oh dear, I think I just gave away the bad news, didn’t I?

Human rights groups say their public pressure campaign helped bring about change, and US President Barack Obama’s no-torture policy might have helped set a new tone. However, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the decision to halt any abuse was an independent one, part of an effort to make sure a future state is built on the right foundations.

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However, they said the worst behavior - prisoners beaten with clubs and cables, suspended from the ceiling while tied up in painful positions and forced to stand for days - has ended.

Sounds like thet were just making their Hamass guests feel at home.

No, seriously:

A religious ruling in support of the construction of a massive steel wall on the Egypt-Gaza border is drawing fire from fellow clerics.

The steel wall intended to stop smuggling across the Egypt-Gaza border was declared permissible in a religious ruling, or fatwa, by the Islamic Studies College of the renowned Al-Azhar institution, drawing angry responses from other Muslim figures in Egypt, including from within Al-Azhar itself.

“This fatwa is not legitimate,” critical clerics of Al-Azhar said. “It contradicts previous decisions made by the Islamic Studies College in 1965 and in 1970, which prompted the defense of Palestine and the provision of assistance to Palestinians.”

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The Islamic Studies College ruled last Thursday that the steel wall did not go against Shari’a, or Islamic law, and upheld Egypt’s right to build barriers on its territory in order to maintain its security, borders and rights.

“It is part of Egypt’s legitimate rights to set up barriers, which will prevent harm caused by tunnels built underneath the Egyptian town of Rafah,” the ruling said. “These tunnels are used to smuggle drugs and other things that undermine the country’s security and pose harm to its interests in a way that leaves us no choice but to fight it.”

Several clerics in Al-Azhar, including those in the college itself, condemned the decision to build a steel wall.

“This wall is haram (not permissible by Islamic Law),” the clerics said. “It aims to besiege the brothers in the Gaza Strip and block off all the options the Gaza Strip has to break through the Israeli siege, imposed three years ago when the crossings were closed. They prevented vital products from entering such as food, medicine and fuel, and this is a way of pressuring them to eradicate the resistance and Hamas.”

I think it’s fair to say that the Palestinians are the despised among the Arabs. And Hamass are the despised among the Palestinians.

That’s life in Gaza, if you’re a chick:

The vast majority of women in Gaza face violence of varying types, a new survey has found.

The study, by the Gaza-based Palestinian Women’s Information and Media Center, found that violence against women in Gaza has increased since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in the June 2007 coup and Israel subsequently imposed restrictions on the coastal enclave.

The study found that 77.1% of Gazan women have experienced violence of various sorts, with almost half experiencing violence of more than one type.

A quarter of the women said they do not feel safe in their own homes because of violence and more than a third said they were unable to fight back as they had more urgent priorities to deal with.

67% of the women surveyed said they had encountered verbal violence, 71% mental violence, 52% physical violence and more than 14% sexual violence.

The report tries to pin the appalling level of violence against women on poverty. But Gaza was never exactly 5th Avenue. No, the real cause of change, it seems certain, lies in these words: “violence against women in Gaza has increased since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip”. I’ll leave it to the psychologists and sociologists to explore the correlation between radical Islamists and abuse of women (and child abuse, and racial hatred, and gay-bashing, and mobocracy, etc., etc.).

I’ll just observe that it undoubtedly exists.