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Showing posts with label Hamas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamas. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Paramedic Is Called to the Scene of His Murdered Wife

One day before the Obama Administration succeeded in resuming peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis, Israel was rocked by another terrorist attack.

The West blamed the attack on "militants" who were looking for an opportunity to sabotage the resumption of peace talks. For Israelis, the attack was another indication that peace with the Palestinians is an impossible reality.

In the latest terrorist attack,  a car with four people inside came under fire in the West Bank by Palestinian snipers from Hamas. When it was all over, all four people were massacred with gun shot wounds spearing their internal organs. The four occupants in the vehicle were Yitzhak Ames, 47, and his wife Tali Ames, 45, Kochava Ben- Haim, 37, and Avishai Schindler, 24.  The husband and wife had picked up two hitchhikers. While en route to their destination, the Palestinian terrorists fired on the vehicle from afar and then approached the occupants and fired on them at close range.

When paramedics arrived on the scene, all of the victims bodies were strewn on the street.

In an anguishing turn of  events, completely unaware of what he was about to discover,  Momy Ben-Haim one of the paramedics who was called to the scene of the terrorist attack was shocked to observe  his wife Kochava's body strewn on the ground. Kochava happened to be one of the doomed hitchhikers who was picked up for a ride by Mr. and Mrs. Ames.

When observing his dead wife lying motionless on the ground, Ben-Haim screamed and shouted "That’s my wife! That’s my wife!" He was taken away from the scene immediately to his home. 

Terrorist attacks in Israel are not just attacks on the victims. They are an attack on the entire nation.

If the Palestinians ever have any shot of convincing Israelis that they are committed to peace, they will have to rein in on the terror that killed these four occupants and wrecked the life of an innocent paramedic who had no way of knowing that his life would be changed forever in a matter of minutes as he embarked on the scene of unfortunately a routine terrorist attack.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Obama Doctrine: Talk to Hamas

We were all accustomed to the Bush Doctrine.  The Bush Doctrine pursued the elimination of  terrorism wherever it can be found. Unfortunately, the Bush Doctrine has been replaced with the Obama Doctrine which espouses the complete opposite. Direct engagement with the very terrorists that President Bush vowed to destroy.

Obama Administration officials have praised Hezbollah calling them 'moderate.'  The President has gone out of his way to reach out to Russia  and the European Union who are notorious for powwowing with Arab terrorist-supporting regimes like Syria and Iran.  It is well settled that no love is lost between Obama and Netanyahu Israel's Prime Minister. While Obama has done everything possible to distance himself from Netanyahu, he has done everything possible to cozy up to the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Saudi King.  It is thus quite clear that Obama has reversed the Bush Doctrine completely. Instead of distancing the U.S. from its enemies and embracing its friends which is what Bush believed, Obama distances the U.S. from its friends and embraces its enemies.

One may assert that it is too strong of a statement to state that Obama is embracing enemies of the United States. Well, the previous statement may not be far off if a report from Worldnetdaily is true.  The report states that Hamas officials claim that members from the Obama Administration have already met with Hamas in Europe in secret meetings and that more meeting are planned for the future.

In the meetings, the U.S. officials asked Hamas to accept a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.  The U.S. officials would even  be willing to make their meetings with Hamas public if they became more moderate.

Apparently, a U.S. official is scheduled to arrive in an undisclosed Arab country in the near future to deliver a telegram to Hamas from the Obama Administration.

The Obama Doctrine of reaching out to enemies of the United States originates from a perspective that the Bush Doctrine harmed U.S. interests at home and abroad by alienating the Arab world.  In retrospect, the Obama Doctrine is  the philosophy that is more harmful to U.S. interests at home and abroad.

By attempting to understand the enemy which the Obama Doctrine stands for,  President Obama only intensifies the enemy's  resolve to attack the United States.  The enemy is not deterred by  tolerance and understanding.  Rather, the American drive to reconcile with terrorist organizations is a huge motivator for Hamas and others who share their thinking.

In actuality, these groups have no desire to come to any consensus with America. Hamas's perceived cooperation in meeting with U.S. officials is in fact their stepping stone for more ruthless attacks against the west.  Hamas will ultimately use its connections with the U.S. as a ruse to enter the United States and push forward with its terrorist agenda.

While many were disenchanted with the Bush Doctrine, the Obama Doctrine is certainly a much scarier proposition. People may not have liked the fact that Bush  supposedly meddled in other countries affairs by pursuing endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the crux of the Bush Doctrine centered around protecting America at home and abroad.

The Obama Doctrine may be opposed to pursuing wars as Bush did, but it surely has no proven strategy to keep America safe if it strives to understand the modus operandi of terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Legitimizing a terrorist organization that is responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, is a recipe for disaster that will backfire on the Obama Administration.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Surprise: No Humanitarian Supplies on the Mavi Marmara

For those of you out there who bashed Israel for intercepting a "humanitarian ship," the truth is now out of the bag so to speak.

No humanitarian supplies were found on the Mavi Marama. 

What transpired here were terrorists who used the canard of a "humanitarian" mission to frame Israel as the aggressor. It has now been proven that their story which they told to the world over was a complete and utter lie as the intent of the ship passengers could not have been to deliver humanitarian supplies when no such items were found on board.

As Prime-Minister Netanyahu stated quite eloquently, the Mavi Marmara was no love boat but rather it was a hate boat committed to aiding and abetting Hamas terrorists in their desire to smuggle weapons. 

Read more about this unbelievable story here.
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Monday, June 7, 2010

IDF Saved Arab Left for Dead by Hamas


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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Question and Answer of the Day

Question: If the NYPD or the LAPD or any police officer in America had his gun stolen by a criminal only to be fired upon by the gun that was once in the police officer's position, would that police officer hesitate to kill the criminal if he could in self-defense?

Answer: Of course he would  not hesitate and there would be no U.N. condemnation nor would there be any outcry from the European Union  nor would the President of the U.S. ask the police force to get their facts straight. There would be no discussion. The police officer would have the absolute right to defend himself  if he had his gun stolen or if he was beaten with metal rods or if he was thrown to the ground and assaulted.

Next Question: Why should the IDF be treated any differently when their soldiers are attacked by terrorists masked as humanitarian activists?

Answer:  Because Jews are not allowed to defend themselves in the eyes of the international community. Instead, Jewish police officers/soldiers  must permit the criminal/terrorist  to beat them to death with metal rods, thrown them overboard in the water, and steal their guns without a reprisal attack.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Video of the day

THE MOST HUMANE ARMY IN THE WORLD

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

No Criticism of the Palestinians

A day after Israel announced the building of homes in Ramat Shlomo which is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem in the midst of a visit to the region  by Joseph Biden, the chorus of criticism are growing louder by the minute. Morocco has weighed in, England has weighed in, France has weighed in, Germany has weighed in, so has the EU, and of course America has weighed in all criticizing the East Jerusalem Construction Project.

The fact is that Israel has an absolute right to build homes within its legal borders the same way that New Yorkers have a right to build homes in Manhattan or Britons have a right to build homes in London. And, as far as timing is concerned, it would not have mattered whether Israel announced its decision to build homes in East Jerusalem five weeks after Biden's visit, the U.S. would be condemning the decision with as much of an equal furor as they are now in claiming that Israel embarrassed Biden by making this decision to coincide with his visit to the region which the Israelis emphatically deny.

Noticeably absent from Biden's visit was any criticism of the Palestinians. After Biden's botched performance in Israel (See "Biden's Poor Performance in Israel"), Biden went over to Ramallah and hardly made any critical remarks of the Palestinians if he did at all. Instead, he chose to criticize Israel once again for the East Jerusalem Construction Project.

In a joint news conference with Abbas,  Biden said:  "Yesterday the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in east Jerusalem undermines that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin ... profitable negotiations." According to Biden, Israel's decision to build in East Jerusalem was "undermining the Palestinians faith in new negotiations."  In turn,  Abbas urged Israel to commit to peace and claimed that the Palestinians are committed to peace  as a strategic choice.

Biden went on to say that the Palestinians deserve a "viable independent" Palestinian state with contiguous territory whatever that means.

Now, in that press conference, Biden never once criticized the Palestinians for naming a square after a Palestinian terrorist who killed dozens of Israelis. Biden never criticized the PA for using its media and school system to indoctrinate Palestinian children with vicious anti-semitic blood libels. Biden never raised the issue of  a reconciliation with Hamas and the PA. He never discussed the growing influence of Hezbollah in the region or the Iranian threat.

Unfortunately, Biden allowed Abbas to portray Israel as the peace breaker when over the years Israel has gone out on a limb to make peace with the Palestinians only to be rebuffed by two Intifadas, scores of homocide bombings and terrorist attacks, a PLO charter which still rejects Israel's right to exist, a Palestinian media that promotes violence against Israelis, and a Yasser Arafat and now a Mahmoud Abbas who claims to want peace in English but in Arabic who wants the destruction of the State of  Israel.

The fact is that there is no feasible way to have a Palestinian state and a Jewish state living side by side with each other in peace.  The Palestinians will not accept anything less than Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state, which would also include the Dead Sea and parts of the Negev plus the entry millions of "refugees" to flood the Palestinian state. This proposal is nothing short of the end of Israel as the Jewish state which is exactly what the Palestinians want.

For Biden to assert that the Palestinians deserve a viable Palestinian state with contiguous territory that will in all likelihood undermine the character of the State of Israel as a  Jewish State is unacceptable. And for Biden to be complicit in allowing the Palestinians to portray Israel in  a negative light while allowing a terrorist-supporting Palestinian entity to be portrayed as being peaceful and positive is also unacceptable.

Remember when Biden said during the 2008 campaign that the Jewish community has nothing to worry about because he was on the ticket with Obama.

Well, that assurance seems to have gone out the window.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Son of Hamas Reveals the Truth



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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Hamas Finds Safe Haven in Britain

Right beneath the eyes of the European Union, Hamas has become a major force in England over the last ten years according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.  Hamas is said to be behind the threats by British officials to arrest Israeli political leaders if they deplane in Britain.

Britain issued an arrest warrant for Opposition Kadima Leader Tzipi Livni's arrest last December and General Almog of the IDF was told that he may be arrested if he disembarked from his plane in England in 2005.

England has allowed Hamas to take over the British political, legal system to spread their radical anti-Israel ideology despite the fact that the E.U. has put them on a terrorism list which clearly has had no effect in stopping Hamas from manipulating the British to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

The report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center explains that Hamas has been  largely successful in promoting their vitriolic rhetoric because they have been able to take advantage of  Britain's open democracy, including using the Arab media in the UK, to spew its propaganda across the British spectrum.

Unfortunately, British democracy  has given Hamas free reign without questioning whether a democracy should be so expanisve that it can allow a terrorist organization to promote hate and violence . The courts in Britain have even opened up their courtrooms to suits by Hamas against the Israeli leaders showing great tolerance for the terrorist organization.

This same openness for Hamas and other terrorist organizations exists all over Europe and even in the U.S.

While free speech is definitely an integral and welcomed aspect of democracy and should be permitted under most circumstances, it can also lead to the downfall of a nation if the right to free speech is not curtailed to protect the security and well being of its citizens.

Clearly, permitting Hamas to hijack British democracy to  indoctrinate the free world with its hate and violence exceeds the boundaries of accepted free speech and will undoubtedly lead to the downfall of England and the rest of the westernized world unless Hamas's nefarious plans are thwarted.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Palestinian Indoctrination of Children

Despite that the fact that the mainstream media refuses to cover the ongoing indoctrination of Palestinian children, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas continue to inculcate their children with vicious lies about Jews and the State of Israel  encouraging them to hate Jews and destroy the State of Israel. It is even considered a lofty aspiration for Palestinian children to desire to become "martyrs"  and to want to die for Allah while hunting down Jews on the streets of Jerusalem.

The psychopathic manipulation of children by cold-hearted propagandists imbuing in them a callous deisre to become mass murders is nothing short of child abuse. It is one of the worst longstanding crimes of humanity. In some instances by the time a Palestinian child comes out of the wound, he will already have had a gun placed in his hand and crowned a "Shahid" or a "Martyr for Palestine."  This colluding and destruction of a child's mind should outrage the U.S., the U.N., the E.U., and every other entity and humanitarian organization of the world. There should not be any call for a renewal of peace talks until the Palestinians put an end to their cycle of indoctrination. 

Unfortunately, there will not be any Goldstone reports any time soon decrying the barbarism in the Palestinian leadership systematically creating a whole generation of young killers.  Therefore, those of us who remain appalled as to how the Palestinians can get away with polluting the minds of their children without any condemnation from the U.N. or calls for the Palestinian leadership to be tried at the Hague, are left with the only other viable option which is to continue reporting the truth hoping that someone out there with a conscience will finally come to their senses and take action against these Palestinian child abusers.

For the record, this past January, the following video was seen on Al Aqsa TV.   In this video, a host asks a ten year old girl whether she was afraid during the last Gaza War in 2009. She responded that she was not afraid and wished for Shahada or Martyrdom for Allah.  The host jubilantly responded "she is not more than ten years old, and wants to die as a Shahida (martyr) for Allah. We all wish for this.”

Here is another recent  video of a Palestinian boy describing how he desires to take over Israel with "weapons and stones."

These examples are just a drop in the bucket. Over the years, there have been hundreds if not thousands of videos on PA TV and Hamas TV encouraging children to die for Allah and to kill Jews in the process.

For more information on this current ongoing topic, visit palwatch.org.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Mahmoud Abbas shows his true colors

In a speech on Sunday,  the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated that the only difference between his party Fatah and the PA's rival organization Hamas is that Fatah is in power. In speaking to his people, what Abbas was asserting is that it does not  matter which party you support or belong to(e.g. Hamas or Fatah), we  [ the Palestinians] are all united in eradicating Israel and even support the use of terrorist attacks on Israelis to accomplish that goal if necessary.

Abbas lauded the fact that Arab leaders have not made any concessions to Israel since May of 1988. He defended his decision to honor a Palestinian terrorist who murdered 37 Israelis including 10 children. And, he vowed to continue to hunt down Arabs who sell property to Jews. Many of these Arabs have been executed without a trial for selling property to Jews.

It has long been argued by many in the international community that Fatah led by Abbas is the moderate party in the Palestinian  territories. We heard this same argument about Yasser Arafat who supported peace in English while actively supporting homicide bombings in Arabic when the West was not looking.

Abbas, who has long history of supporting terrorist attacks against Israelis, is no different than Arafat.

He showed his true colors in this speech.
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