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Jerusalem News-838
Jerusalem News-838
1 Shevat 5769, 26 January 2009
Contents:
1. New Poll: Less than One-third of
Americans Support Establishing Palestinian State
2. 'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza'
3. DENIS MACEOIN:
Marching for Hamas
4. Sharon Lindstrom: Abortion Industry Bailout
5. Hannah Newman: The Rainbow Swastika
1. New Poll: Less than One-third of
Americans Support Establishing Palestinian State,
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), Morton A. Klein
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=3551
2. 'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in
Gaza'
Jan. 22, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292938156&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead did not exceed five
or six hundred, Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy's Corriere della
sera reported on Thursday.
Cremonesi based his report on tours of hospitals in the Gaza Strip and on
interviews with families of casualties. He also assessed the number of wounded
to be far lower than 5,000, the number quoted by Hamas and repeated by the UN
and the Red Cross in Gaza.
"It is sufficient to visit several hospitals [in the Gaza Strip] to understand
that the numbers don't add up," he wrote.
In the European hospital in Rafah, one of the facilities which would presumably
be filled with wounded from the "war of the tunnels," many beds were empty,
according to Cremonesi. A similar situation was noted in the Nasser Hospital in
Khan Younis, and in the privately-run Amal Hospital Cremonesi reported that only
five out 150 beds were occupied.
Cremonesi interviewed Gazans who echoed Israel's insistence of how Hamas gunmen
used civilians as human shields. One Gazan recalled civilians in Gaza shouting
at Hamas and Islamic Jihad men, "Go away, go away from here! Do you want the
Israelis to kill us all? Do you want our children to die under their bombs? Take
your guns and missiles with you."
"Traitors, collaborators with Israel, spies of Fatah, cowards! The soldiers of
the holy war will punish you. And in any case you will all die, like us.
Fighting the Zionist Jews we are all destined for paradise. Do you not wish to
die with us?" the religious fanatics of Hamas reportedly responded.
Other Palestinians told Cremonesi of Hamas operatives donning paramedic uniforms
and commandeering ambulances. A woman identified as Um Abdullah, 48, spoke of
Hamas using UN buildings as launch pads for rockets.
Cremonesi reported that he had difficultly gathering evidence as the local
population was terrified of Hamas.
3. Marching for
Hamas
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292940460&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jan. 22, 2009
DENIS MACEOIN
Hamas is a bully aided by a bigger bully, Iran. And, just as strident and
threatening human bullies get away with their aggression so long as no one
calls their bluff, so Hamas has been getting away with murder and torture
because the UN and many states won't call its two-faced self-portrayal as
the victim in the piece. In the struggle to take over Gaza from Fatah, it
went on a rampage that killed hundreds of Palestinians. Even during this
most recent assault, in early January, it executed Fatah members for
violating their house arrest. A few weeks ago, Hamas determined to hurt
yet more of its compatriots by introducing Islamic hudud punishments to
the Strip, from amputations and stonings, to crucifixions and hangings.
Like all bullies, it likes to taunt its victims. It did just that for
years after Israel left Gaza, firing rockets every day into towns like
Sderot or Netivot. No one who has dismissed these rockets as harmless
homemade toys has ever had the guts to spend a few weeks in Sderot,
scurrying from shelter to shelter. And, oh yes, it also built up an
arsenal (supplied by Iran) of Grad missiles that certainly aren't
anybody's toys.
Like all bullies, Hamas likes to make boastful threats. Its 1988 Covenant
is replete with them. It threatens to destroy the State of Israel by
violence and violence alone. It says it will never accept the work of
conferences or peacemakers, and only jihad will solve its problems.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians see their lives drained away in a culture that
embraces death and martyrdom, their children exposed to a steady diet of
military training and preparation for violent death as suicide bombers.
Even if the Palestinians want peace, Hamas won't let them have it, because
Hamas knows best, and jihad "is the only solution." Don't believe me, read
the Covenant. It likes nothing better than killing Jews, and the bigger
bully in Teheran thinks that's a damn fine thing too. No one says a word,
because the UN is dominated by the Islamic states, and the Western
governments know where the oil comes from, and nobody likes the Jews much
anyway. The people calling for the end of Israel while they march on the
streets of London and Dublin aren't all Muslims by any means.
There can be no greater indication of this boastfulness than what has
happened in recent days. Having taken a heavy battering from Israel, Hamas
now proclaims a "great victory," and its supporters dance in the ruined
streets of Gaza, drunk on their own demagoguery. For all its bluster,
Hamas, like all bullies, is a coward at heart. Watch those films of Hamas
gunmen dragging screaming children along with them to act as human
shields, watch how they fire from behind the little ones, knowing no
Israeli soldier will fire back. And even as they put their own children's
lives at risk, they shout to high heaven that the Israelis are Nazis and
the Jews are child-killers. This blatant pornography spreads through the
Western media, and people never once ask "what does this look like from
the other side," because they are addicted to the comforting news that the
Yids are baby-killers as they'd always known, that they do poison wells,
that no Christian child is safe come Passover. Hamas has become proficient
at resurrecting the blood libel, just as its fighters use the Nazi salute,
just as their predecessor in the 1930s and '40s, Haj Amin al-Husseini,
conferred with Hitler about building death camps in Palestine and raised a
division of SS troops in Bosnia to fight for the Reich.
We watch The Diary of Anne Frank on television, and some of us attend
Holocaust Remembrance Day events, and others pay lip service to Jewish
victimhood; we like our Jews emaciated and helpless under the SS boot. But
the moment real Jews stand up and show themselves the stronger for all
their deaths, it awakens an atavistic fear, and people recoil from them.
Jews in uniform, how unseemly. Jews beating the bully, how unheard of.
Jews with their own state, what upstarts.
IN MY home country of Ireland, we glamorize the great nationalist heroes
who rebelled against the bullying forces of imperial Britain in the
uprising of Easter Sunday 1916. In France, they venerate the heroes of the
Resistance against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany. In Spain, they
have not ceased to heap praise on those who fought against the forces of
fascist bullies and lost. To stand up against an enemy bent on your
destruction is everywhere counted an act of bravery. But not when it comes
to Israel. In 1948 and 1967 and 1973 and 2006, Israel fought off
overwhelming forces who made no secret of their plans for an imminent
massacre of the Jews. But nobody now seems to care, no one lauds the
courage the Israelis displayed, and no one praises the extraordinary
restraint they showed in victory.
In a bizarre reversal of all their commitment to human rights and the
struggle of men and women for independence and self-determination, the
European Left has chosen again and again to side with the bullies and to
condemn a small nation struggling to survive in a hostile neighborhood. It
is all self-contradictory: The Left supports gay rights, yet attacks the
only country in the Middle East where gay rights are enshrined in law.
Hamas makes death the punishment for being gay, but "we are all Hamas
now." Iran hangs gays, but it is praised as an agent of anti-imperialism,
and allowed to get on with its job of stoning women and executing
dissidents and members of religious minorities. If UK Premier Gordon Brown
swore to wipe France from the face of the earth, he would become a pariah
among nations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatens to do that to Israel and is
invited to speak to the UN General Assembly
Israel guarantees civil liberties to all its citizens, Jew or Arab alike,
but it is dubbed "an apartheid state"; Hamas, ever the bully, kills its
opponents and denies the rest the most basic rights, but we march on
behalf of Hamas. The Left prefers the bully because the bully represents a
finger in the face of the establishment? Almost no one on the Left has any
understanding of militant Islam. Their politics is a politics of gesture,
where wearing a keffiyeh is cool but understanding its symbolism is too
much effort even for intellectuals.
I have personally had enough of it all. The whining double standards, the
blatant lies, the way their leaders have forced Palestinians to suffer for
60 years because peace and compromise aren't in their vocabulary and
because they won't settle for anything but total victory. Painful as it
was, in the 1920s Ireland created a republic by compromising on the status
of the North. Ireland subsequently became a prosperous country and, in due
course, one of the hottest economies in the world. When the Israelis left
Gaza in 2005, they left state-of-the-art greenhouses to form the basis for
a thriving economy. Hamas destroyed them to the last pane of glass. Why?
Because they had been Jewish greenhouses.
The writer is the incoming editor of the leading international journal
Middle East Quarterly and the author of a blog entitled 'A Liberal Defence
of Israel.'
4. Sharon Lindstrom: Abortion Industry
Bailout
I suppose you've heard the news by now... Obama gave the abortion industry a
bailout. Way to go first few days in office with the economy going so great!
It's just beyond me how justifying tax funds for abortion are in any way related
to Roe v Wade. Roe v. Wade was about a woman's right to choose what to do or not
do with her own body. Why then are taxpayers funding her choice? Not only
funding her choice within our own borders but funding it internationally as
well! There are only two logical answers:
1) Abortion is an industry: PORK for health insurance groups, NGOs and foreign
governments.
2) Forced Compliance: force taxpayers to pay for abortions and it is legitimized
and blessed.
I am not against terminating a pregnancy if a woman's life or health is in
danger (her physical health), or if she's a child (under 15) who was coerced or
raped, or if the unborn child is proven to be so physically deformed that it
could not survive the womb without extreme suffering, pain and certain death. I
have no problem financially or morally supporting this type of termination. But
the majority of abortions performed are for the purpose of birth control only.
How can WE justify choice being a taxpayer responsibility??
This is SICK.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090123/NEWS-US-OBAMA-ABORTION/
Sharon
5. The Rainbow Swastika
by Hannah Newman
an Israeli housewife who did her homework
http://philologos.org/__eb-trs/
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