Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
A number of Israeli companies have recently won UN tenders for reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip, enraging Palestinian contractors who claim they were outbid by the country that destroyed their infrastructure.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Who knew Operation Eat Lead would be so good for business?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
To paraphrase Anita Bryant, breakfast without humiliation is like a day without sunshine:
Egyptian forces on Saturday seized two vehicles in the Sinai peninsula with fuel destined for the Gaza Strip, security sources said.
The vehicles had broken through a checkpoint between the city of El-Arish and Sheikh Zweid before Egyptian security fired at their tires, bringing the vehicles to a halt.
One of the vehicles was carrying 1,100 liters of fuel in nine barrels and 10 jerrycans. The other vehicle contained 900 liters of petrol destined for sale on the black market.
The drivers admitted to police that they were delivering the fuel to smugglers who would transport it into the Gaza Strip.
Last week, Egyptian security forces seized four vehicles transporting unlicensed fuel in the northern Sinai.
In early May, security forces confiscated a truck in the Sinai carrying 10 thousand liters of fuel headed to tunnels under the border with Gaza Strip.
Egypt moved in February to shut down fuel deliveries to Gaza via the tunnel network — used to bring goods into the blockaded coastal strip — sparking a fuel shortage that caused widespread blackouts.
Officials have already agreed to stave off the electricity blackouts by upgrading the sole power plant, a project due for completion this month.
Odd that a so-called friendly country, Egypt, is restricting access to fuel when there’s a shortage.
How does a hostile country handle such a situation?
These deliveries and transfers are made every week, week after week, except when the crossing points are under fire, or so threatened. Let me drop the coy act: Israel is described as an occupier of a god-forsaken (fly) strip it turned judenrein seven years ago, yet has seen fit to supply since that time.
And Egypt is, well, Egypt.
Any questions?
Hey, takes a Nazi to know a Nazi, right Günt?
Islamist group Hamas executed three men on Saturday, hanging two convicted murderers and a Gazan found guilty of collaborating with Israel, the Hamas-run ministry of interior said.
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Under local law, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is meant to have the final say on whether executions should be carried out, but Hamas refuses any such consultations.
Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned the use of the death penalty in Gaza, but Hamas rejects such criticism.
Israel has collaborators, too, but deals with them somewhat differently. Meet Hanin Zoabi and Ahmad Tibi, MKs—two of 14 Arab members of the Knesset.
“Collaborator” might be too strong a word… or it might not:
As cross-border violence flared this weekend, with rocket attacks on southern Israel and Israeli air strikes on Gaza, Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi wrote on his Facebook page: “Gaza is strong, Gaza stands steadfast!”
When a government probe into allegations of treason caused the charismatic Arab politician Azmi Bishara to resign his Knesset seat and flee Israel in 2007, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, a former aide to PLO leader Yasir Arafat, leaped easily to the fore as his community’s most prominent national advocate. Like Bishara, he gained notice, too, as the Arab sector’s sharpest goad against Israel’s self-definition as a Jewish state.
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But now, Tibi has become embroiled in a controversy that goes beyond mere political fisticuffs, after he was shown on video praising Palestinian “martyrs” — a word commonly used in Arab political discourse to describe both terrorists who die while committing acts of violence against Israeli civilians and Arabs who die, unarmed, by Israel’s hand.
The video, released by Palestinian Media Watch on January 18, was purportedly taken last year at a Ramallah rally for the annual Palestinian Martyrs Day. “The occupier wants us to call them terrorists, but we say there is nothing greater than those who died for their homeland,” Tibi declared to the crowd. He also said that the martyr “holds the height of glory.”
Oh yes, and:
Hanin Zoabi seems to be a particularly hard-working Knesset member: After sailing onboard the Marmara with terrorists, celebrating the release of Hamas men from prison and appearing in anti-Israeli conferences worldwide, the Arab MK now wrote a foreword to a new book by Ben White, a British author considered an anti-Semite.
The book, titled “Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy,” presents a blatant anti-Israel approach. In the four-page foreword, Zoabi addresses what she calls the “racist” settlement enterprise, which she says was established on the basis of “ethnic cleansing.” She also refers to Israelis as the people who took away Arab land.
The next Hamass collaborator to be hanged by Israel will be the first.
And now, to further hone my poetic skills, I answer Günter Grass’ intemperate verses with one of my own.
Ahem:
An impressionable youth joined the Nazis,
And played all the Germans for patsies.
To the Waffen SS,
He said “Ach ya, yes, yes!”
And “When can we beat ashkenazis?”
Oh man, this is going to leave a mark!
The Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague announced Tuesday that he rejected a complaint filed by the PA against Israel for alleged war crimes during “Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza in 2009.
The prosecutor explained that only states can file a complaint with the International Criminal Court. “The Palestinian Authority is only an observer at the United Nations and not a member state.
Allow me to translate: get away from me, kid, you bother me.
Israel tries not to gloat—and fails:
The Foreign Ministry responded to the decision, “Israel notes the decision of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court, that it does not have jurisdiction to hear complaints from the PA at this time.”
“Israel made it clear from the beginning that the ICC had no jurisdiction to hear such complaints and welcomes the prosecutor’s decision to that effect,” it added.
Israel is rightly suspicious of the ICC. Name me another international body that does not routinely and ritually demonize the Jewish state. I’ll go take a shower, walk the dog, and derive the last decimal of pi while I wait.
But for now, take a seat at the kids’ table, PA, and don’t speak unless spoken to.
Note the lower case h.
The German city of Frankfurt on Sunday elected its first Jewish mayor since the Holocaust. Peter Feldmann became the first Jewish mayor of any major city in the country, in fact, receiving 57 percent of the vote.
Feldmann, 53, a member of the Social Democratic Party, won the election against the incumbent mayor. He will take office on July 1.
The new Lord Mayor-elect has visited Israel in the past; from 1979 to 1980 he learned the science of gardening in the Jewish State. He then returned to Germany to complete a degree in political science at the University of Marburg, later becoming a lecturer at the institution.
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He has described himself as a “liberal Jew.”
Frankfurt’s previous and only other Jewish mayor, Ludwig Landmann, was a member of the German Democratic Party and served as head of the city from 1924 to 1933. He, too, considered himself a “liberal.”
We’ll let that pass. But though I think Jews (and everyone else) are done a disservice by liberalism, it does not in and of itself presage a (lower case) holocaust.
A man who murdered a female relative in a Gaza hospital last Friday is claiming the murder was to preserve “family honor” to “escape judicial punishment.”
The Palestinian Authroty amended its laws to end leniency for so-called honor killings in Judea and Samaria in May 2011, but the law has not been changed in Hamas-run Gaza.
The Gaza-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said reduced sentences – a maximum of 24 months in jail for severe crimes like murder – had made “honor” crimes “prevalent in the Palestinian society and has resulted in opening the door for undermining the principle of the rule of law.”
Ooh, that sounds pretty holocaust-esque, at least if you’re female. But this sort of thing has been going on for years. The only thing that’s changed is that the world has noticed, and some people are complaining.
“Jews are being attacked all the time,” she said.
“Children, in the buses, in the Metro, going to school, coming from school, couples in the street – this is just an unbearable situation. And we are talking about France, we are not talking about some kind of jungle. This is one of the main countries of Europe.”
As Aggie and I have been telling you guys for six years now. But if France is so unbearable, you can always try Frankfurt, Germany!
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
The Associated Press (AP) retracted a story that was discovered to be based on a Hamas lie, claiming that an Arab baby died due to the fuel shortage in Gaza.
It turns out that the story was based on a complete manipulation and distortion of the facts and that the story of Mohammed Helou’s death first appeared on March 4 in the local Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds — before the shortage that allegedly caused his death.
The AP issued a statement saying, it “has withdrawn its story about a 5-month-old baby who was said to have died Friday after the generator powering his respirator ran out of fuel, the first known death linked to the territory’s energy crisis.”“The timing and reason for the death were confirmed to the AP by a man identified as the baby’s father and a Gaza health official, but the report has been called into question after it was learned that a local newspaper carried news of the baby’s death on March 4,” the statement continued.
“A substitute story will be filed shortly reflecting the new information,” added the AP.
Can’t wait!
I don’t blame the AP for getting the story wrong; people get things wrong. But to believe anything coming out of Gaza without discounting, discrediting, and dissecting it first amounts to journalistic malpractice. Fool you once, shame on Hamass; fool you umpteen times, shame on AP and the rest of the press.
PS: And I didn’t even mention the subhuman behavior of using the tragedy of a child’s death to exploit an antisemitic political philosophy. There, I just did.
Israel could use a friend in the Muslim world—but Turkey isn’t going to be it:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took advantage on Tuesday of the escalation in southern Israel to once again attack Israel, as he has done on a regular basis in recent months.
Speaking at the headquarters of his Justice and Development Party, Erdogan accused Israel of committing a “massacre” in Gaza and called Israel’s citizens to speak out against the government.
“A slow but methodical massacre has been taking place in Palestine since the early 20th century,” said Erdogan, according to a report on Channel 10 News. “I reiterate the call for Israel to stop the inhumane attack on Gaza and the Palestinian territories.”
The Turkish prime minister also directly turned to the citizens of Israel and, referring to the Holocaust, said, “I call on the citizens of Israel, themselves victims of genocide, to oppose any attempt of genocide against the Palestinians and to ask their country to stop the terror.”
Erdogan said Turkey will continue to stand firmly against the “injustice” and alongside the people of Gaza.
He left out the fact that terrorists in Gaza have been constantly attacking Israel with rockets. More than 200 rockets were fired at southern Israel in four days of hostilities. Despite a ceasefire which began Monday night, terrorists continued to fire rockets and missiles into Israel throughout the day.
A 15-year-old boy was taken to hospital in Israel on Tuesday, after he was injured on Monday morning in the Jabalya area of Gaza, according to a statement by the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
The boy was taken to the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, according to the statement.
The evacuation took place after contacts between the Coordination and Liaison Administration at Erez Crossing and representatives of the Health Ministry.
The statement noted that the boy’s injury is related to the death of another 15-year-old boy, who initially claimed that he was wounded by IDF forces. However, this claim was denied by the IDF Spokesperson, who said that the IDF was not operating in the area.
The evacuation took place despite constant rocket attacks on southern Israel by Gaza terrorists. During four days of hostilities terror groups fired more than 200 rockets at Israeli civilians, while the IAF responded by targeting the cells firing the rockets.
Stick that in your hookah and smoke it.
When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything:
The Popular Resistance Committees terror group adds further evidence to reports that Hamas cannot control other terrorist groups in Gaza.
A video released by the IDF shows a Hamas television interview last Saturday with “Abu Mujahed,” spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Abu Mujahed admits that Hamas allows his group complete freedom of action in Gaza.
Asked by the interviewer to respond to suspicions by “Arabs on the street” that Hamas restricted the PRC’s ability to stage attacks against Israel, Abu Mujahed responded, ”What I can say is that the government in Gaza didn’t prevent us from doing a thing with regard to our resistance activity. No one can prevent this activity. That’s one point. The other point is that the government in Gaza truly didn’t prevent us from responding to this aggression.”
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry Director Yosef Kuperwasser recently told an Israeli security conference that Hamas “is not capable of implementing this responsibility.”“It is not in control of what happens in Gaza. Islamic Jihad does what it wants, the Popular Resistance Committees do what they want, and the Fatah military wing does everything it wants,” he said.
Hamas seized control of Gaza nearly five years ago in a bloody militia war that ousted the rival Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.By allowing the PRC to operate as an ostensibly independent group, Hamas is able to carry out terror attacks against Israelis while maintaining an official stance of “restraint,” said a spokesmen for the IDF, which holds Hamas accountable for all terrorist attacks from Gaza.
I wonder if the “international community” are even vaguely aware of what braying jackasses they are. Israel is pressured to negotiate with terrorists who can’t (won’t) control other terrorists—even the “good” terrorists of Fatah! There’s no statehood among the Palestinian Arabs, there’s just hood.
If you appease something, you only get more of it. It seems that’s a lesson the West will never learn.
It’s Friday, you ain’t got no job, and you ain’t got [bleep] to do!
Southern Israel was hit by a barrage of at least 35 rockets and missiles on Friday evening, resulting in casualties.
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The escalation in the rocket and mortar attacks began after the IDF hit and killed several Gaza-based terrorist gangs, including a senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror group.
Shortly before 5:00 p.m. (Israel time) on Friday afternoon, IAF aircraft struck and killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committees, Zuhir Musa Ahmed Qaisi and his deputy, Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Hanani.
Shortly after 8:00 p.m. (Israel time), the IDF struck two additional terrorist cells, one in central Gaza and one in northern Gaza. According to reports in the Israeli media, two terrorists were killed in this attack, both from the Islamic Jihad.
The members of both terrorist cells had been planning to fire rockets into southern Israel when they were struck, according to an IDF statement. Direct hits at the targets were identified.
We here in Bloodthirstan call on Israel to show restraint. Tomorrow. Or next week. July at the latest.
And for those without rockets or mortars at hand, more local targets:
Three reporters were attacked by Hamas security forces while covering a mass wedding in Gaza City on Thursday.
Reports identified the three as local Sky News reporter Mohammad al-Mashharawi, BBC reporter Adnan al-Dorosh and Amer Abu Omar, a Gaza-based journalist.
Witnesses told the Bethleham-based Maan News Agency that the the three were severely beaten in a nearby playground.
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Local human rights activists say Hamas has increasingly targeted journalists in Gaza for violence over the past year.
Maybe it’s a local tradition to beat reporters at a wedding. It wouldn’t be the strangest one I’ve heard of.
Since the end of Operation Cast Lead, 670 rockets and 404 mortar shells have been fired into Israel.
Israel has been counting.
While the liberal Western powers take to their day beds and huff smelling salts every time a Jew puts up a pup tent, they have remained mute at the launching of over 1,000 projectiles at Jewish civilians. To say nothing of the overwhelming (and entirely illegal) arming of Hezbollah up in Lebanon—under the indifferent eye of the United Nations. Imagine the massed forces of North Korea on the Canadian border: that’s what Israel faces with the fascist falangists of “The Party of God.”