And keep lobbing until the nutso muzzies -- like the Japanese at the end of WWII (and Hiroshima and Nagasaki) -- sue for peace,
I hope the Israeli's have the guts required to finally bring these idiots to the peace table -- or exterminate them.
Posted on 06/15/2007 5:54:04 AM PDT by SJackson
The booms and blasts in the Palestinian territories were the sounds of a baby democracy being murdered. Gone with it is any illusion that radical Muslims are just like us and that all they want is freedom.
Their freedom is the freedom to kill - including other Muslims. The reports of Hamas gunmen summarily executing Fatah rivals mark a low point for Palestinian self-governance and President Bush's democracy agenda.
It also proves that no good deed goes unpunished. Israel withdrew from Lebanon, and Hezbollah crossed the border to attack it. Israel withdrew from Gaza and gets a civil war next door. And we pushed the Palestinians to hold the election that Hamas won.
Only last week, Secretary of State Rice waxed optimistic about the prospects of Mideast peace. Despite the fact that Hamas leaders had refused to recognize Israel's right to exist, Rice professed in a visit to the Daily News to see progress.
"Hamas now looks like a bunch of politicians who also can't make the sewer system work," she said, calling Bush's democracy agenda "both morally right and politically necessary."
It's time we got real about Islamic fanatics. Hamas and its ilk are not interested in making the sewers work or picking up the garbage. They don't want compromises and power sharing and concessions. Those things are the coins of the realm to ordinary people and politicians.
Islamic fanatics are madmen who use terrorism as a means to establish an Islamic theocracy. Anything that stands in their way risks becoming road kill.
That we insist on pretending otherwise is the fundamental weakness in our Mideast policy. Except for Israel, democracy is an alien concept there. We gave the Iraqis their freedom and their first government has used it to steal billions of dollars and sanction sectarian slaughter. The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan and took the country back to the Dark Ages.
They all follow in the bloody footsteps of Ayatollah Khomeini, who started the modern Islamic revolution in Iran by seizing our embassy in 1979 and promptly executing secular Iranians and his Communist political partners. His latest successor is now determined to get a nuclear weapon and use it.
This is not just a problem for us, Israel or law-abiding, decent Muslims. It is the world's problem. As British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, there is an "arc of extremism" that unites Muslim fanatics around the globe. "It doesn't always need structures and command centers or even explicit communication. It knows what it thinks."
We - the civilized people of the world - must decide what we think. While we still have the choice.
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The day terror won
Hamas overruns the Gaza Strip
By MATTHEW KALMAN in Jerusalem
and CORKY SIEMASZKO in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Friday, June 15th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/06/15/2007-06-15_the_day_terror_won.html
Israel has a radical Islamic state sitting on its doorstep.
Hamas militants seized control of the Gaza Strip yesterday and deposed the Palestinian political party that recognizes the Jewish state - and then proceeded to shoot vanquished Fatah Party fighters in the street like dogs.
“The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived,” Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas’ militia, told Hamas radio.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and dissolved his coalition government, firing the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. But Hamas just laughed.
“Hamas rejects the Abbas decision,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said. “In practical terms these decisions are worthless.”
Nizar Rayan, another prominent Hamas official, called on “Abbas’ army of prostitutes to surrender or else they will be executed in public.”
By nightfall, green Hamas flags were flying from the rooftops of the presidential compound and other Palestinian Authority bastions while Hamas fighters boasted they had “executed” Samih al-Madhoun, a close ally of Abbas’ top security aide.
Other Fatah fighters loyal to Abbas were marched half-naked from the hated Preventive Security Service complex in Gaza City. Witnesses reported that some were later executed gangland-style by masked Hamas militiamen. “This is a real coup against the Palestinian Authority,” said Nabil Amr, a top Abbas aide.
Unable and unwilling to intervene, the Israelis watched with growing despair as Hamas - bankrolled by Iran and bent on destroying the Jewish state - took over a territory they had just turned over to the Palestinian Authority in 2005.
“Hamas has to stop terrorizing the Palestinian people,” White House spokesman Tony Snow said.
Secretary of State Rice telephoned Abbas in the West Bank but could do little more than voice her support for the beleaguered Palestinian leader.
Meanwhile, there was mayhem in Gaza City as Hamas murdered Fatah men - sometimes while the victims’ wives and children looked on, witnesses said.
“They are executing them one by one,” a witness who gave his name as Amjad told The Associated Press. “They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting.”
Abbas, who had been banking on his far more numerous Fatah fighters to hold off Hamas, ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back. But the order came too late.
His forces were already routed by the better-armed and better-disciplined Hamas fighters. The death toll was at least 80 and expected to climb.
Fatah and Hamas have battled sporadically since Hamas shocked the world last year by winning the parliamentary elections. The latest
Built walls around the palestinan enclaves and shut off sewage, water, electricty, traffic and money. Let them rot there and whenver they target Israel, lob bombs on them.
The booms and blasts in the Palestinian territories were the sounds of a baby democracy being murdered.Actually, Hamas won the election, and were just enforcing that electoral victory with some particularly vicious executive actions.
I'm not sure you can say that democracy was murdered in this case, though certainly a lot of human beings were murdered.
Look, if you have a nation of Adolf Hitlers, and an Adolf Hitler gets elected president, do you say the democracy failed?
In this case, we are forced to conclude that, for the Palestinians --- a nation of thugs, murderers and mass-murderers --- democracy simply looks and feels like totalitarianism.
>> Only last week, Secretary of State Rice waxed optimistic about the prospects of Mideast peace.
Thus further cementing her position as an incompetent. But what else is new... Gates, Rice, Chertoff, Gonzalez, none of them are worth a tinker’s damn. Judging by his leadership picks and pans, W prefers to be surrounded by losers.
And keep lobbing until the nutso muzzies -- like the Japanese at the end of WWII (and Hiroshima and Nagasaki) -- sue for peace,
I hope the Israeli's have the guts required to finally bring these idiots to the peace table -- or exterminate them.
Thus further cementing her position as an incompetent. But what else is new... Gates, Rice, Chertoff, Gonzalez, none of them are worth a tinker’s damn. Judging by his leadership picks and pans, W prefers to be surrounded by losers.
Hmmm.... one thing we don't hear much of these days, are those Freepers who used to be here chanting "Condi for president", "Condi v. Hillary", etc.
Wonder where they've gone?
Some time ago, I posted a first on Free Republic, saying that Condoleeza Rice was the equivalent of Colin Powell in a skirt. Still true.
- John
The only things Hamas CAN make work are AK-47’s, RPG’s and suicide bombs.
Absolutely true. The entire State Department is full of these clowns. John Bolton is a shining exception. Bush should have made Bolton SecState in 2005, and send Condi to the UN.
Perhaps so, but the 'Rats in the Senate might have filibustered Bolton's nomination and denied him confirmation.
War this summer? Nothing would suprise me less.
They live off Western technology.
It will be interesting to see just how the Palestinians react to this.
Precisely.
As far as Israel goes I agree, they both want to kill Jews.
Hamas are the ones behind the bombing of internet cafe’s...etc. They are hardcore Islamists, whereas Fatah is not.
It will come to that I believe. Muzzies have been getting way with barbarism for 1300 years but this time it’s all or nothing.
from wihtin their insanity their satanic death wish clearly glitters.
I have a rather unconventional question; is there such a group on our side, that believes so strongly in this country and it’s God-inspired history/legacy that they would deliberately put themselves in harm’s way, strap bombs on themselves, infiltrate a known terrorist gathering place do what needed to be done? Sort of like an American kamikaze(?). Just curious. Thank you for for your time.
>> is there such a group on our side, that believes so strongly in this country and it’s God-inspired history/legacy that they would deliberately put themselves in harm’s way
Darn good question.
Hypothetically speaking... if I had some sort of terminal disease or was just feelin’ too damn old... and there were an immediate need (say, an Islamofascist takeover)... I could probably be talked into something like that. Kinda weird to think about. But I’d only do it against terrorists themselves; I would NEVER EVER even CONSIDER taking innocent lives the way the terrorist scum routinely do.
You know what else is kinda weird? That you signed up today just to post that question...
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