Enemies of Israel and Freedom
January 8, 2009 / 11:24 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierI can hardly bear to read and hear the news. Israel had been fired upon by Hamas, again, and this time, Israel decided, again, to do something about it (pictures here). As usual, everyone in the world, except, it seems, American conservatives, believe Israel shouldn’t defend her children. They blame Israel for having the temerity to exist or for winning past conflicts or fill-in-the-blank wrong. It’s Israel’s fault.
Israel should crush Hamas in Gaza and end this nonsense once and for all, because Hamas won’t quit. They should win this war. And it is war. And then, or maybe simultaneously, they should crush Hezbollah in Lebanon. And by crush I mean this: kill every fighter and any who sympathize and root out the evil. Take land if they must. Make it their own and clean out the riff-raff. Peace will not come until one side is vanquished. It has yet to happen.
In the meantime, the world’s sentiment and American leftists and the media and Muslims (we had our own anti-Israel rally held by ostensible pro-peace Muslims here in Houston) give proof that democratic ideals only exist in a moral climate. When evil and good get mixed up and when citizens defend, lie and promote evil, the end of a democracy surely can’t be far behind. European leaders moral equivalence is absolutely sickening. And the UN’s existence is a joke. These people, many in number, should be noted and ignored. They are not friends to their own freedom. No one can expect them to be friendly to another democratic nation who fights for hers.
I have a random sampling of what’s being said about Israel. First Kathy Shaidle illustrates the nonsense with a story:
We “stole their land” so now they can murder their kids with impunity:
It was almost a year ago, on Jan. 29, 2008, that an intoxicated Pauchay left his Yellow Quill First Nation home some time after 12:30 a.m., when wind chill values had dipped into the -50 range.
He brought with him daughters Kaydance, 3, and Santana, 16 months, who were dressed only in light T-shirts and diapers despite, the blizzard-like conditions.
Around 5 a.m. local time, Pauchay was found alone and incomprehensible on a neighbour’s doorstep, suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.
He was aggressive, so RCMP went to the house along with paramedics.
Mr. Pauchay was sedated and taken to hospital with serious frostbite on his back, front and fingers.
It was not until about eight hours later that it was discovered the girls had been with him…
What? It’s their culture!
Shame those smallpox blankets were just a myth, eh?
PS: wouldn’t it make for a nice change if the idiots angry about my “tone” in this post had expressed a tenth of that outrage over the deaths of two innocent children at the hands of their drunken, good for nothing father on a crappy reservation?
Oh wait: that would make sense.
Misplaced outrage and moral posturing (with the requisite dollop of personalized white guilt glurge about their kids, who get dragged out with predictable regularity like combination weapons/props — sort of like stuffed dinosaurs, come to think of it…) that’s all unthinking liberals can manage.
Hamas fired mortars from a school. They hid their weapons caches in a place of worship, a Mosque. And yet, we have American Muslim legislators lamenting the bombing of schools and mosques. Gasp! It is fine and dandy to use civilian refuges as cover for one side, but the other side dare not engage the enemy on the field he chooses. Here we have Keith Ellison on Al Jazeera trying to appear reasoned and sounding very much in bed with those who kill their own children for the “cause”.
H/T Dana Report
In Denmark, Jewish parents are urged to take their children out of school for safety. Meanwhile, the Muslim Arab children stay. If a certain group of angry children can’t keep control of their emotions shouldn’t they be the ones going home? No, if you’re Jewish and bullied, you’re expelled. If you’re Muslim and the bully, you’re tolerated. Why? Because everyone is afraid of inciting violence. Why aren’t schools worried about inciting Jewish violence? Actually, if you’re Muslim and violent you’re a “youth“. The destruction of the language is just one more step to muddy the moral waters.
Finally, a question: Why does The world have a “Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure” and ignore the Palestinian moral failure such as this?
One more thing, speaking of pornography — we’ve all seen endless pictures of dead Palestinian children now. It’s a terrible, ghastly, horrible thing, the deaths of children, and for the parents it doesn’t matter if they were killed by accident or by mistake. But ask yourselves this: Why are these pictures so omnipresent? I’ll tell you why, again from firsthand, and repeated, experience: Hamas (and the Aksa Brigades, and Islamic Jihad, the whole bunch) prevents the burial, or even preparation of the bodies for burial, until the bodies are used as props in the Palestinian Passion Play. Once, in Khan Younis, I actually saw gunmen unwrap a shrouded body, carry it a hundred yards and position it atop a pile of rubble — and then wait a half-hour until photographers showed. It was one of the more horrible things I’ve seen in my life. And it’s typical of Hamas. If reporters would probe deeper, they’d learn the awful truth of Hamas. But Palestinian moral failings are not of great interest to many people.
Underneath all this nonsense is simple hatred. Antisemitism gets cloaked in noble calls for peace from Israel while the Palestinians are never called to task. The vast majority of the citizens in Gaza voted for Hamas, remember. And rather than reform the government and care for its own people, Hamas has used and abused their own in the service of violence with the express purpose of exterminating the Jews in Israel.
That anyone defends Hamas actions is absolutely disgusting. The people defending evil will always be enemies of freedom–even, their own.
12 Responses to “Enemies of Israel and Freedom”
January 8 2009 / 8:51 pm
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Melissa, could you link the picture you meant to link to?
January 8 2009 / 11:17 pm
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I think I’d say this to your face… well, in all seriousness, if you seemed courteous enough, I’d probably not be able to ask you this: are you really a doctor? a doctor of what? I’m sorry, Dr. Melissa, but you don’t seem very bright.
Plenty of conservatives are now raising their voices to question the efficacy, not to mention the ethics, of Israel’s invasion. These conservatives are just not of the neocon variety.
January 8 2009 / 11:24 pm
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Really, Mo, who? Not that that would change my opinion. This madness has got to stop. Half measures over and over have not worked. Israel is hated no matter what, might as will a war for once.
January 8 2009 / 11:43 pm
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I find the divisive way that various people and organizations use this situation to further their own selfish aims and goals.
Hama, like Hezbollah and Iran and many others, are engaged in a holy war. They have no soldiers – all, men, women, children, are actively involved in fighting, or supporting or hiding fighters. There are no ‘photo opportunites’ in Gaza, only wartime propaganda releases.
The mainstream media here in the United States is free to report Hamas’ atrocities and intransigence – because radical liberals believe that “Two rational men can always come to a consensus”. Bleeding heart liberals will not and can not accept that both men have to be rational, and have respect for the other’s values. Hamas continues to pledge to destroy Israel and Israelis. That doesn’t sound very respectful.
If we could get NBC and the New York Times and others to call Hamas “pirates like those Somalian murderers”, the picture might clear up for many. That simple change would solve many problems. Or even “terrorists” and mean it, as if violent, indiscriminate, murdering vigilantes were a threat to others.
Blessed be.
January 9 2009 / 12:32 am
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I find it rather amusing that mo starts a post with an insult and then expects the rest of it to be taken seriously.
January 9 2009 / 2:06 pm
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Melissa, I’ll add onto that (will probably piss off Mo in the process). I think the Israelis should drive the Palis right into the Med and be done with it. Yes, I know that I’m a big meany for saying this.
January 9 2009 / 2:59 pm
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I’ll concur with Mat: Go Israel. Destroy Hamas. Kill every last one of those terrorist scaumbags.
January 9 2009 / 7:05 pm
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Naqamel, While I agree with your objective, something about your statement bothers me.
I developed scientific software for 17 years. Now, when I stand in line at Wal-Mart or Lowes (mostly at Lowes), and the cashier or customer come awry of the register, and fixing something is cumbersome, someone is likely to comment, “danged computer” as if the computer made things difficult. For me the picture looks a bit different.
For every computer executing a program, there is a programmer or team that build the code driving the computer.
That programmer or team has a supervisor. That supervisor is the one that said, “Stop! Ship it now!” Any dissatisfaction with the computer is mis-directed – nothing will get back to the supervisor or his/her boss, and get the problem (shipping the software before it was finished is the underlying problem; the annoying thing it does is just details).
Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Quaeda, etc., are all ongoing organizations. They purport to follow a belief system. The people doing the central teaching, the organizing, the fund raising, are the ones directly responsible for the attacks and violence. Those are the ones that “all need to have their minds changed or be put down as vicious dogs of war.”
In the short term, stopping Hamas’ activities has to happen, and will be best if stopped quickly and in a way that changes Hamas’ leaders’ minds – whether that be killing them all, isolate them from the means to carry out their piracy and genocide, or convince them they and their teachings and goals are wrong. So far none of that has happened, and just killing all the Hamas fighters, if possible, would not correct the problem of people creating turmoil and organizing groups like Hamas.
This week I would settle for destruction of all Hamas’ weapons, and all the trigger pullers that can be found. As long as the larger problem is then pursued.
January 11 2009 / 9:12 am
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Israel has a right to defend itself. Current statistics show however that since the current conflict began the Israelis have suffered less then 10 civilian casualties compared to nearly 1000 Palestinian civilian casualties. Their actions against the Palestinian people are thoroughly reprehensible and recall the days of the second world war such as the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto and the use of dehumanisation and violent indiscriminate reprisal.
These statements have been made by hundreds of people who are of the Jewish faith, specifically hasidic Jews. Many holocaust survivors of the Jewish faith and many who suffered during the brutal invasion of the soviet union and the rest of europe have had memories of those terrible days reawakened by the actions of the Israeli military.
I do not recall my government carpet bombing Irish hospitals and schools and refugee camps every time an attack on the mainland was carried out. If Israel is refusing to honour its treaty’s it should at the very least conduct itself in an honourable and appropriate manner. As it is the IDF seems more suited to the targeting of civilians and UN aid stations then it is at actually facing combatants. They should go back to their pre 1967 borders and begin stamping out the racial hatred of Arabs and their apartheid against them. The Palestinians have had their land stolen and been brutalised for the last sixty years. It is time for Israel to compromise and start conducting itself as a civilised country. America needs to salvage its reputation by condemning the acts of Israel as well as Hamas or sanction them.
In my personal opinion the rogue state of Israel is an insult to the millions of brave Soviet and European soldiers who died in the second world war. Oh and to matt I can only assume that you are mentally challenged or a child with no comprehension of violence or genocide so I would ask you kindly to shut up and let the adults talk.
January 11 2009 / 11:54 am
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Oliver, interesting position that you take.
Myself, I see Hamas as a thug, lawless gang. They have been promising, and committing illegal acts, brutalism, and using deadly force against individuals.
They attempted to take a stand on the world stage, by violently breaking the law and overthrowing their government. Instead of using their position to secure their borders, protect their people, and assure prosperity for their own – they hid amongst the citizens in their “territory” and continued to harass and provoke Israel, loudly and repeatedly vowing and acting to wrest land and superiority, and ultimately the death of Israel.
The legitimate government of the Palestinians abandoned the people that elected Hamas, that provided that stage for continued atrocities. How innocent can they be?
For years the Muslim nations, including the Palestinian government that ostensibly holds responsibility for that area, have failed or neglected to take control of the international provocations uttered and committed by Hamas. Why would Israel expect the Muslim community to do more than it has done, when clearly Iran and others are backing Hamas?
The people in the Gaza region living under Hamas’ rule haven’t fled, haven’t expressed an interest in leading a peacefully co-existent life, or even obeying international treaty and law. Why would Israel now care about what the UN says, when it essentially tells Israel to stop resisting while Hamas continues to kill and threaten, and re-arm?
If the argument goes that “all it takes for evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing,” then the hapless people hiding Hamas in Gaza are criminally derelict, to each parent and adult and half-grown child, in permitting Hamas to establish and persist among their homes. The UN and Muslim nations are criminally derelict in *failing* to end traffic in weapons and supplies to Hamas.
Israel has their own agenda; I don’t know what it is. Judging from their past record, though I imagine they intend to act like policemen – to pursue the perpetrators until all persons involved are identified and restrained from being a menace to others.
Don’t look at what Israel is doing as an invasion of war. What we are seeing is cops and robbers. Played out in blood and slanted news media.
In my life time, the world community pressured Israel into withdrawing her citizens and her sovereignty from Gaza, granting lands and independent statehood to the Palestinians.
Appeasement. It still doesn’t work.
No politician, no world leader, no petty bureaucrat will accept a concession from another – and continue to pursue their goals, looking for that next concession or outright victory. Israel was promised, when the Palestinians took power, that the Palestinians would police their own. That Israel’s security would be protected. Instead, Israel lost the control they had maintained over flow of resources to the lawless elements in the region. The promises have fallen flat, and Hamas and other radical groups continue to hammer for more concessions.
Let the Muslim nations, the United Nations, the Palestinian nation, and the people living in Gaza take responsibility for their lives and for the actions of the neighbors and militants living among them. No one gets killed in a school harboring a terrorist thug, if everybody vacates the building and someone calls the Israelis and says, “Room 105″. This is a police raid, into savagely hostile territory. There are no innocents when hiding thugs and criminals like terrorists. If you want to keep your children safe, keep the criminals far away. Demand better protection, better security, better government.
Hamas can end this in an hour – just call Israel, say, “Oops! We are sorry. No more rockets or shots or anything.” Until then, the perps are still out their, still acting criminally.
January 11 2009 / 11:56 am
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January 16 2009 / 3:17 pm
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I totally agree with you! It is very important that Israel protect it’s citizens and permanently silence their enemies from any other wrongful and intolerant actions. Keep up the excellent work!