http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=4624
Given the current obsession with health care reform, here are medical questions. If your doctor prescribed a medication with no therapeutic effects but with side effects which almost killed you several times, how would you respond if he wanted you to try it again? Suppose you had a critical but curable disorder and instead of dealing with it your doctor insisted on amputation? What would you do?
Okay, I know the answers, but that is exactly what Dr. Obama and his “death panel” for Israel are doing, pushing prescriptions which bring Israel closer to extinction.
Smug George Mitchell and cheerleaders like Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rahm Emanuel, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk (and assorted Jewish shills) are bending every effort to extract living wills from a stressed and desperate Israeli population. It’s routine by now. The more Israel concedes, the more the Arabs ratchet up their demands and terrorism against Israeli civilians. Follow the dots from Camp David to Oslo to the “Road Map” to the Gaza withdrawal to Obama’s "settlement freeze"--what journalist Cal Thomas has aptly called “Quid but no Quo.”
Once, dividing Jerusalem and creating what George Will once called “Arafatville” in Judea and Samaria raised hackles among Israel’s supporters, but now they are “acceptable” concessions. Soon to follow are the so called “right of return”, read, a flooding of Israel with Arab population, then a binational state, then dhimmitude for the Jews of Israel, and finally end of life counseling. Each disastrous move by Israel produces a new poster boy for Arab “moderation”--from Sadat to Arafat to the new golden boy, Mahmoud Abu Mazen Abbas.
Fatah, we are reassured, unlike Hezbollah and Hamas, is ready to cut a deal with Israel. In fact Fatah is ready to cut Israel’s throat, and its leader, “moderate’ terrorist Abu Mazen, holds the knife. Why is Israel asked to trust a man whose college thesis published by Moscow University denies the Holocaust; a man who masterminded the Munich Massacre in 1972; whose ties with rogue regimes and international terrorist networks is documented; whose “education ministry” produces the identical anti-Israel incitement that is the trademark of Hamas/Hezbollah; and who, for good measure, still refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and routinely promises a return to all-out violence if his demands are not met.
Why? Because so many of Israel’s supporters, including Alan Dershowitz and the grandees of the Presidents’ Conference, and the media and the think tankers and the same-old-same old State Department are hell bent on implementing the two state [dis]solution. By their reasoning, if Israel amputates itself deeply enough, Arab swords will turn to plowshares. But no. They will turn to shovels for burial.
Hello? Does anyone remember Gaza? Since the beginning of 2009 about 715 Qassam rockets, mortars and Grad missiles have been fired into Israel. What has been the response of the world? An increase in fulminations about the “settlements” and the “occupation” and more calls for boycotts of Israel in every sphere--the academies, the churches, financial institutions and the media.
And the peace loving Arabs of Judea and Samaria? They had a holiday greeting on Rosh Hashana. They set fire to Givat Gilad, a town in Samaria, which resulted in panic, evacuation, severe damage and several wounded and homeless residents. And that’s just a small taste of what Fatah would do if they gain total control of the area.
The Mideast is on the brink of conflagration. Iran steadily and surely is obtaining nuclear arms; Lebanon is a tinderbox, hostage to Hezbollah; Syria and Iraq, Iran and Libya are bonding over hatred of Israel and desire to humiliate the West; radical Islam is emboldened in its goal of a world-wide caliphate; the Taliban grows stronger and more defiant; and the sugar daddies of jihad, namely the Saudis and the Emirates continue to fund the spread of the ideologies that foment terror.
Fiddling while the Moslem world burns with hatred, the Obama administration exercises all its foreign policy muscle against Israel. What is behind this Fatahlistic approach? Why has our government gone beyond any previous administration in its antipathy to Israel?
Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger asks:
“What’s in it for the United States?
What has transformed Israel into an American liability? It is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, which requires no U.S. personnel, which can`t be sunk, which is the most battle-tested and cost effective, which is located in a most critical area for vital U.S. national security interests and which is sparing the U.S. mega-billion dollars annually and the stationing of additional real aircraft carriers in the Middle East?
Why would the U.S. Administration punish the Jewish State for fulfilling its security requirements, thus cutting off its (U.S.) nose to spite its (U.S.) face?”
The answer, I fear, lies in the President’s outreach to Moslems. The President understands what Bat Ye’or and Moshe Sharon and Raphael Israeli and Robert Spencer and Andrew Bostom know. Islam’s price for a temporary and tenuous accommodation with the West is Israel.
And our President is willing to cut the deal.
Given the current obsession with health care reform, here are medical questions. If your doctor prescribed a medication with no therapeutic effects but with side effects which almost killed you several times, how would you respond if he wanted you to try it again? Suppose you had a critical but curable disorder and instead of dealing with it your doctor insisted on amputation? What would you do?
Okay, I know the answers, but that is exactly what Dr. Obama and his “death panel” for Israel are doing, pushing prescriptions which bring Israel closer to extinction.
Smug George Mitchell and cheerleaders like Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rahm Emanuel, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk (and assorted Jewish shills) are bending every effort to extract living wills from a stressed and desperate Israeli population. It’s routine by now. The more Israel concedes, the more the Arabs ratchet up their demands and terrorism against Israeli civilians. Follow the dots from Camp David to Oslo to the “Road Map” to the Gaza withdrawal to Obama’s "settlement freeze"--what journalist Cal Thomas has aptly called “Quid but no Quo.”
Once, dividing Jerusalem and creating what George Will once called “Arafatville” in Judea and Samaria raised hackles among Israel’s supporters, but now they are “acceptable” concessions. Soon to follow are the so called “right of return”, read, a flooding of Israel with Arab population, then a binational state, then dhimmitude for the Jews of Israel, and finally end of life counseling. Each disastrous move by Israel produces a new poster boy for Arab “moderation”--from Sadat to Arafat to the new golden boy, Mahmoud Abu Mazen Abbas.
Fatah, we are reassured, unlike Hezbollah and Hamas, is ready to cut a deal with Israel. In fact Fatah is ready to cut Israel’s throat, and its leader, “moderate’ terrorist Abu Mazen, holds the knife. Why is Israel asked to trust a man whose college thesis published by Moscow University denies the Holocaust; a man who masterminded the Munich Massacre in 1972; whose ties with rogue regimes and international terrorist networks is documented; whose “education ministry” produces the identical anti-Israel incitement that is the trademark of Hamas/Hezbollah; and who, for good measure, still refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and routinely promises a return to all-out violence if his demands are not met.
Why? Because so many of Israel’s supporters, including Alan Dershowitz and the grandees of the Presidents’ Conference, and the media and the think tankers and the same-old-same old State Department are hell bent on implementing the two state [dis]solution. By their reasoning, if Israel amputates itself deeply enough, Arab swords will turn to plowshares. But no. They will turn to shovels for burial.
Hello? Does anyone remember Gaza? Since the beginning of 2009 about 715 Qassam rockets, mortars and Grad missiles have been fired into Israel. What has been the response of the world? An increase in fulminations about the “settlements” and the “occupation” and more calls for boycotts of Israel in every sphere--the academies, the churches, financial institutions and the media.
And the peace loving Arabs of Judea and Samaria? They had a holiday greeting on Rosh Hashana. They set fire to Givat Gilad, a town in Samaria, which resulted in panic, evacuation, severe damage and several wounded and homeless residents. And that’s just a small taste of what Fatah would do if they gain total control of the area.
The Mideast is on the brink of conflagration. Iran steadily and surely is obtaining nuclear arms; Lebanon is a tinderbox, hostage to Hezbollah; Syria and Iraq, Iran and Libya are bonding over hatred of Israel and desire to humiliate the West; radical Islam is emboldened in its goal of a world-wide caliphate; the Taliban grows stronger and more defiant; and the sugar daddies of jihad, namely the Saudis and the Emirates continue to fund the spread of the ideologies that foment terror.
Fiddling while the Moslem world burns with hatred, the Obama administration exercises all its foreign policy muscle against Israel. What is behind this Fatahlistic approach? Why has our government gone beyond any previous administration in its antipathy to Israel?
Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger asks:
“What’s in it for the United States?
What has transformed Israel into an American liability? It is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, which requires no U.S. personnel, which can`t be sunk, which is the most battle-tested and cost effective, which is located in a most critical area for vital U.S. national security interests and which is sparing the U.S. mega-billion dollars annually and the stationing of additional real aircraft carriers in the Middle East?
Why would the U.S. Administration punish the Jewish State for fulfilling its security requirements, thus cutting off its (U.S.) nose to spite its (U.S.) face?”
The answer, I fear, lies in the President’s outreach to Moslems. The President understands what Bat Ye’or and Moshe Sharon and Raphael Israeli and Robert Spencer and Andrew Bostom know. Islam’s price for a temporary and tenuous accommodation with the West is Israel.
And our President is willing to cut the deal.
October 1, 2009 http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/10/oh-joy-hamas-has-acquired-advanced-anti.html
Oh joy! Hamas has acquired 'advanced' anti-tank missiles
World Tribune is reporting that Hamas has acquired 'advanced' anti-tank missiles during mid-2009. The missiles were smuggled in from Egypt through the tunnels (Hat Tip: Free Republic). The report is based on 'Israeli military sources.'
Israeli military sources said the intelligence community has tracked the arrival of advanced Russian-origin anti-tank missiles in the Gaza Strip. The sources said the ATGMs reached the Gaza Strip through Egypt in mid-2009.In the picture, the (black) missile is mounted on a Polish infantry fighting vehicle.
"These are missiles with a significantly longer range than Hamas has deployed until now," the source said.
The sources said the ATGMs have a range of at least three kilometers. They identified some of the weapons as the AT-3 Sagger, a wire-guided missile with a range of three kilometers and long used by the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah in Lebanon.
The Israel Army has been placed on alert for Hamas anti-tank attacks along the Gaza border. The sources said the army has briefed Israeli communities along the Gaza border on how to respond to Hamas attacks.
Israel's Channel 2 television has reported that Israelis who live along the border have been ordered to leave their homes. The television did not say whether the evacuation, linked to Hamas's new ATGMs, would be permanent.
The anti-tank missiles used by Hamas in Operation Cast Lead had a range of 800 meters.
I have not seen confirmation of the evacuation on other Israeli web sites. But if this is true, it's obviously not good news. The Saggers caused significant casualties during the Second Lebanon War. They were one of the weapons that Yasser Arafat attempted to have smuggled into Gaza on the Karine A weapons ship.
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