From Victor Davis Hanson
There is something especially nauseating about the latest Middle East war — scenes of worldwide Islamic protests with photos of Jews as apes, protesters (in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida of all places!) screaming about nuking Israel and putting Jews in ovens, parades of children dressed up with suicide vests and fake rockets, near constant anti-Semitic vicious sloganeering, Gaza mosques stuffed with rockets to be used against civilians — all to be collated with creepy Hamas rhetoric about the annihilation of Israel. This is the world in which we now live.
Almost no other issue in recent memory has illustrated the moral bankruptcy of much of the international community. Hamas has no pretensions, like the PA, of being a governing authority; it used violence to rout the PA and then bragged that its charter pledging the destruction of Israel remained unchanged. Israel evacuated Gaza; Gazans in response looted their own infrastructure, alienated both the PA and Egypt,and then sent off more than 6,000 rockets against Israeli civilians, while eagerly becoming a terrorist puppet of theocratic Iran.
Nothing could be more clear: either the fact that a constitutional republic was trying to avoid civilian casualties while a terrorist organization was intent on killing Jewish civilians as it used its own citizens as shields to protect mostly young male terrorists; or the world's craven reaction to all this.
Again all very creepy — the stuff of Tolkien's Mordor. It is now clear that the so-called and much praised "international community," the hallowed U.N., the revered EU, all pretty much are indifferent to the survival of a democratic Israel, or are actively supportive of its terrorist Hamas enemy. Only the U.S. (for now) stands by a constitutional state in its war against a murderous terrorist clique, with annhilation its aim and religous fascism its creed.
Mark Steyn on Clashing Civilizations although that is quite a misnomer. We are civilized. Those we and the Israelis clash with are barbarians.
according to President Ahmadinejad’s chief adviser Hassan Abbassi, his geopolitical trategy is based on the premise that “Britain is the mother of all evils” — the evils being America, Australia, Israel, the Gulf states, Canada, and New Zealand, all of which are the malign progeny of the British Empire. “We have established a department that will take care of England,” said Mr. Abbassi in 2005. “England’s demise is on our agenda.”
2 comments:
Hi Kirly,
I attended a counter-protest to a Hamas demonstration last week, and nearly got into a physical altercation with hamas supporters.
300 or so snarling, foaming-at-the-mouth Hamas supporters yelling epithets. I literally was physically sick from it all. And the world ignores it and does not care.
Sad and sick. Thank you for this post.
Hi Red Tulips,
It really is as much like 1938 as it have ever been since that time. It has to be frightening to many of our Jewish brethren. We must do all we can to defend them in word and deed if it comes down to it. It's not an option.
Thanks for posting.
Kirls
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