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Jihadia Salafiya is suspected of attacking a United Nations school in Gaza last month, after the school allowed boys and girls to participate in the same sporting event. One person was killed in that attack.
‘Christians Must Accept Islamic Rule’

Here’s a post from January 2006 where I encouraged Israel to act immediately to secure Gaza in advance of Hamas’ governance (well…sort of). But did they listen to me? Now they are here and push has come to shove.

Unfortunately, Israel is still under the vapid leadership of Ehud Ohlmert who gave Israel it’s only military defeat in the modern era last summer against Hezbollah. Then to add insult to injury, Ehud Barak was sworn in as defense minister Monday evening. (His defense plan is to give Israel away so it does not need to be defended)

Palestinians have no compunction about telling lies and see truth as irrelevant, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has claimed in an interview.
Guardian Unlimited 5/23/2002

Iran still acts with impunity continuing to develop it’s nuclear weapons program which is aimed at the destruction of Israel by their own admission. Hezbollah operates unhindered to her North, further emboldened by last summer’s route of the Israel Army, and the West Bank pushes in the fences and leans into the walls seeking to gobble up more land as it’s reward for the murder of innocents.

The people of Israel wisely want elections advanced so they can dump Olhert for Benjamin Netanyahu and the assurance that a military solution to Israel’s problems are NEVER off the table.

Look, to be honest with you I have tickets to visit Israel in September 2008, so just do me favor; elect Netanyahu, re-occupy Gaza, clean up the northern borber with Lebanon and finish that wall around the West Bank.

Result? A big victory for Democracy, civilization AND I get an uneventful , enjoyable trip to the holy land.

Come on - waddaya say? Hmmmm?

I know - it’s been a long time, but I have been so disgusted with Republicans I got tired of trying to stay with them on their long, strange trip into Democratic appeasment-land. So, I’m waiting for us to find our gonads and be re-energized or else nominate Juiani McCain and slit my throat (that’s hyperbole, by the way, not a promise). With all the Republican self flagellation going on, I couldn’t help but let someone know there is one left who believes.

I’m sorry that there appears to be a state of civil war in Iraq, but what does it have to do with anything really? In the past 60 years Iraq has been in a constant state of war of some sort - starting with a violent military revolution in 1958, another violent coup in 1963, war with the Kurds in 1974, a 9 year War with Iran in 1979 and the invasion of Kuwait & the succeeding Gulf war in 1990. Not to mention the requisite purgings after each coup and Saddam, Uday and Qusay’s dalliances with mass murder.

Frankly, a civil war beats the hell out of your government just unilaterally killing you as Saddam Hussein did. At least in a state of civil war you have a fighting chance to survive and redeem your nation.

That is not my point, however. Although I know it is de rigueur to decry the current state of affairs in Iraq whether you are liberal or conservative, I am happy with the outcome of this war right now. If we left today, I think it was a success. Here’s why:

First off, we did not go into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, we went in to ascertain that there were, or were not such weapons. Saddam had ample opportunity to present proof of the destruction of those weapons and he chose not to do so. The United States required the assurance of their non-existence for obvious reasons. We tried to find out the nice way.

We have rendered Iraq unable to make war – on us or her neighbors. They also no longer host terrorist training camps, hide terrorist leaders or support terrorist groups around the globe financially. This is a good thing.

Iraq is now a democracy and thus, as an entity in the world community, is inherently more stable than it ever was as the brainchild of one evil maniac. It doesn’t look like America, but then, America didn’t look like America in 1779 either.

An undisputed, brutal and oppressive dictator who was responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen is dead. Yesssssss!

And finally, thousands upon thousands of Islamic terrorists from around the globe have come to Iraq to allow our soldiers, marines and sailors to send them to Allah. (Now that’s a win – win situation).

Unfortunately, Iraq has not stabilized the way we would like. That’s too bad, but it certainly doesn’t tip the scales over to a defeat. As Iraqi wars go, this “civil war” if that is what it is, is a cake walk. If Iraq will hold fast, those insurgents will leave because they ultimately cannot hold Iraq even if they were to win it. They can only disrupt it, and there are far better places to disrupt than Iraq in their fevered economy once the U.S. leaves.

By any reasonable accounting, this war is a success for America and for the world. George Bush should be lauded as a visionary and a man of courage to have seen it through in the face of such resistance.

I guess neither the Democrats nor Republicans will have me now.

More Israelis blew up today while a Palestinian suicide bomber was trying to make a justified political statement. The European Union has demanded that Israel apologize for having less than 10 people die in this effort.

Palestinians: Tel Aviv Bombing Justified

The European Union, which has cut off aid to the Hamas-led government, also denounced the bombing and called for restraint by both sides.

Breitbart.com

Restraint by both sides? Meaning what - that the Israelis should restrain their bodies from blowing apart too violently?

And this from the “enlightened ones”! A little American common sense would go a long way for these useful idiots.

You might think it was a bad idea for the Palestinians to elect Hamas to run their..what?..country? Is it a country? a nation? An idea?

It may not be such a bad idea after all. First, because it doesn’t really matter who runs Palestine - they produce nothing - no industry, no natural resources, no GDP; nothing but bombs and babies - boy, do they produce babies. That’s how they can afford to waste so many by teaching them to throw rocks at people with guns. They are not even getting the $25,000 per suicide bomber that Iraq used to send them. Their economy is entirely dependent on the U.N. and the U.S..

That kind of “quasi-detente” where Israel has to pretend that Palestine is a legitimate nation and Palestine has to pretend that they don’t want to blow Israel off the map can be put aside now and Israel can face her enemy as her enemy. And that could be a very good thing. Not for Palestine, though.

So, why did they do it? Why did they overwhelmingly elect Hamas to run their govenment? I believe it is a direct result of Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal and capitulation to the terrorists. Disingagement indeed! Their enemies emboldened, they seek now to confront Israel directly. Hamas has made no secret that they believe terrorism is the resaon Gaza was given to them and they intend to stay the course until they control Jerusalem.

In Palestinian-controlled Gaza last week, virtually everyone The Sunday Telegraph spoke to said that Israel’s indihar, or retreat, had been forced by the scores of young suicide bombers who have killed more than 1,000 Israeli civilians in the five-year-long intifada, or uprising.

In Beirut, a Hamas spokesman, Khaled Mashaal, was defiant. “The resistance and the steadfastness of our people forced the Zionists to withdraw,” he declared last week. “The armed struggle is the only strategy that Hamas possesses. As long as Palestinian lands remain under occupation, Hamas won’t lay down its weapons.”

With many Palestinians genuinely believing that the intifada forced Israel’s withdrawal in Gaza, there is widespread support for using similar terror tactics to prompt the Israelis to withdraw from the West Bank.

news.telegraph

The best part of a Hamas run government , however, may be that even the most liberal politicians in Israel must now face reality. Iran’s intentions towards them are clear. Their arch nemeses now control their closest neighbor. the UN is feckless and impotent and the U.S. is busy engaging their common enemy elsewhere in the world.

Only a fool would stand and throw rocks at a tank, unless they knew for certain the tank would not fire on them.

Push the red button Mr. Tank Driver!! Push the red button!!

I have 2 sons - very dissimilar in many ways. First off, the youngest is a mental sponge. He remembers everything, quotes everyone, and his vocabulary passed mine when he was in high school. The other is extremely athletic and can play any kind of game you throw at him immediately and kick your butt soundly on the second try.

The one thing these two like to do together is play Scrabble. Now you would imagine that my youngest would be an automatic scrabble guru with his vocabulary, but not so. Likely as not, the oldest whips him by strategically playing “ax” or “qat”. (He doesn’t know what it means, but it’s worth 36 points on a triple word score block).

Scrabble is not unlike geo-politics in this way - you don’t have to be as smart as the guys you are playing with as long as you know how to win.

The rap, of course, is that President Bush is a dummy. How dumb can you be as a Yale grad? That notwithstanding, it’s irrelevant. He plays this particular game better than anyone in modern history. A democracy in the Middle East? Who would have predicted THAT even when the Berlin wall fell?

And now with a lunatic in charge of Iran, and a whole party of lunatics in charge of Palestine, It is clear that the President knew exactly what he was doing by taking out Saddam Hussein. This president has not been deterred by any amount of critisism and neither of these extremist governments can be sure that they won’t be drug out of a hidey hole by a US Marine if they don’t behave.

The Republicans control both houses and the White house, the Democrats don’t even control the Democrats and they have no more hope of owning an issue in the near future than Ted Kennedy does of being sober on Saint Patrick’s day.

Not only is Bush no dummy, he’s winning. Not only is he winning, he’s setting up a win for his replacement.

That’s right - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the middle eastern equivalent of Larry the Cable Guy but with automatic weapons and a pathological hatred for Jews.

The former Revolutionary Guardsman has made a string of verbal attacks on Israel since taking office in August.

In October he called Israel a “tumor” which should be “wiped off the map .” In subsequent speeches he suggested Israel should be moved to Europe or North America and called the Holocaust a myth.

ynet news

He is all the redneck stereotypes; ignorant, racist, violent, a bully. But unlike the worst American redneck, this guy is so racist he advocates the destuction of an entire country.

If you were this good ole boy’s neighbor and he was fixin’ his shotgun so he could come git ya, what would ya do? Break his shotgun or his head?

Israel should take her pick and…git ‘er done!

I’m wondering how much help will be offered from the international community in the wake of Katrina. Seems we’re only part of the “community” when we offer up the bucks. The rest of the time we’re characterized as the bully, or imperialists; sticking our nose where we don’t belong.

I am thankful we don’t need the help, but it would be good for America and the rest of the world if many of them DID offer financial and humanitarian aid in Louisiana and Mississippi. Every investment any country has ever made in America has paid off. I hope many countries around the globe will take advantage of this opportunity to stand with us in a humanitarian effort.

But, they won’t.