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"I learned that in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at state, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor who lost his family in the Holocaust - Nobel Prize Author
Socialism - Liberalism Quotation
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas
Nothing like a mosque in Manhattan full of thousands of Arab men who think marrying girls of six to nine years of age is just fine. This video shows a Hamas mass wedding, a long line of grown men holding a little girl's hand - she all dressed in white - no clue of her abhorrent future. The creepy imam explains that Muslims use Muhammad's marriage to Aisha as the example to follow. Muhammad married Aisha when she was six and had sex with her when she was nine years old. Thousands of Arab men will gather in the Grand Zero mosque and "community center." If you think these despicable behaviors do not follow the mosque-dwellers to the U.S., you are naive. If you think these men aren't ecstatic at the thought of sleeping with a nine year old, because the Prophet did it, you are dishonest. It's what civil people call pedophilia.
Mass Wedding of Girls Ages Six to Nine
Hamas Mass Wedding of Grown Men to Girls Ages Six to Nine (video)
For the last week rockets fired from Gaza have been a daily occurrence. Although they have caused limited damage to property and no one has been hurt or killed. (Frayed nerves and a couple of neurotic cats.) It is only a matter of time before someone is killed.
A Grad rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit an open area near a residential neighborhood in Ashkelon on Friday morning. No physical injuries were reported, although several people suffered shock and required medical attention. A vehicle was also damaged.
Ashkelon had experienced relative quiet following the Cast Lead counterterror operation in Gaza in early 2009.
The attack follows an attack last week that was carried out using an imported rocket more sophisticated than the short-range “Kassam” rockets produced in Gaza. In that case, the rocket failed to explode, and no injuries were reported.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has followed a policy of quick response to attacks from Gaza. Air Force planes have demolished smuggling tunnels and weapons factories in the region following previous rocket attacks.
Sderot is the only town and the Western Negav is the only region in the world, where missiles are fired towards civilian population in the 21st Century.--Sderot Media Center
If you are planning a visit to Israel, plan a side visit to Sderot. You can contact the Sderot Media Center for a tour.
On one of my Jeremiah Wright posts, a reader has asked if I am aware that "Rev. Wright created the largest congregation in a predominately white denomination 94%+, the United Church of Christ? Trinity UCC's association with the denomination is totally voluntary, as is the 100s of thousands of dollars the congregation donates to support the denomination?"
Jeremiah Wright
If I understand the question correctly, he is saying that former Trinity United Church of Christ, when pastored by Jeremiah Wright, is a part of a mostly white denomination, the United Church of Christ. I fail to see any Christian denomination by the color of its majority body. An exception might be the African Methodist Episcopal. Perhaps my reader is trying to tell me that Wright is mainstream as the pastor of a huge body of churches. And perhaps my reader is right, as United Church of Christ is a part of the far-left and dangerous National Council of Churches.
To me it seems Wright is getting closer and closer to a call for violence, although the reader says he has listened to many of Wright's speeches and sermons and said Wright has never advocated violence. Wright is quoted in the New York Post saying Martin Luther King was wrong to advocate for non-violence. Reader is doubtful of that quote. When I listen to Wright, time after time, and knowing that he embraces and defends Black Liberation Theology (BLT), consider this quote by James H. Cone, the founder of BLT.
James H. Cone: If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.
What we need is the diving love as expressed in black Power, which is the power of Black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by an means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
Cone is an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Black Liberation Theology is said to combine some Christianity with Black Power. I believe the movement is growing closer to The New Black Panthers with heavy Islamic influences. I ask if it is possible we are heading for another Black Power movement? Pick any YouTube New Black Panther video and tell me how much of a Christian influence lingers. Also consider Wright's Hamas sympathies - a terrorist organization.
If Wright is not advocating for violence, he surely has to know that many, many young black men are listening to him, are converting to Islam, and if he has any authority at all among blacks, he is fueling the hate that so often turns to violence.
For those wanting to criticize me for pointing out Wright's racism, his breathtaking lack of patriotism damning America, deriding being born in "the oven of America," praising socialism, and little or no respect for whites, okay, but as I said to my reader, Wright's own words represent who he is. After all, to quote Barack Obama, "words matter."
After four years, the U.S. Senate has called on Hamas to "immediately and unconditionally release Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. The action comes in the form of a non-binding resolution, and does as much good as did Hillary and Barack's non-binding resolution that John McCain was a natural born U.S. citizen. They knew McCain had natural-born status. I suggest the U.S. actually do something about Hamas that is productive, such as cutting all aid, noticing when they kill by suicide bomber and doing something about the rockets that rain into Israel.
Gilad Shalit
After years of allowing U.S. aid to Palestine end up in the hands of Hamas, this is a disgraceful move on the part of the Senate. Also disgraceful is Nancy Pelosi's "pledge" to keep the issue alive. And another disgrace, if this report from Al Quds Al-Arabia via YNet News is true - that the U.S. is secretly working with Hamas through a contact in Damascus.
News is out that the Obama administrative is actively working with Hamas, and specifically with exiled Hamas official in Damascus. That person is likely Musa Abu Marzook. Marzook was a darling of Jeremiah Wright during the time the Obama family attended Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. In fact, Wright reprinted a Marzook manifesto in one of his Sunday bulletins. Marzook, also known as Mousa Abu Marzook (Marzouk, Marzouq, Marzuq) is a founder of the precursor to CAIR, and the Deputy Chief of Hamas' political bureau which is based in Damascus. He was directly involved with The Holy Land Foundation which provided funding for Hamas with the help of the U.S. Treasury. Marzook is American educated and had permanent residency status here. He is a force to be reckoned with.
Musa Abu Marzook
Knowing that the U.S. is perhaps now working with Hamas, brings another possible revelation: as you know, many of us have been advocating for the Department of Homeland Security to grant Palestinian Mosab Yousef political asylum, rather than deporting him. His deportation hearing is tomorrow (June 30th) in a San Diego court. The question has been, why would DHS even think of deporting this young man, especially when his own people (Hamas) have called for his death, and knowing that Yousef saved many lives in Israel, including the life of Shimon Perez. The answer is likely due to the cozy nature of the Hamas-Obama Administration relationship.
It surely doesn't help they've been secretly meeting with Hamas leadership for months, either- could this morally-warped and strategically-incompetent administration be offering-up the life of MosabYousef in their greasy, Chicago-style wheeling and dealing?
Yousef, in some of his writings, made the point that DHS is "embarrassed" at his presence in the U.S. because he, the son of a Hamas founder, applied for and received a visa to come to the U.S. Something we might think DHS would not allow without knowing about it and sanctioning it. Until he went to the DHS office, they didn't know he was in the country. This is what Mosab believes is behind his immigration hearing.
It must go much deeper than that. Administration officials have tried to silence Hamas, but if you are familiar with Islamic braggadocio, you know that dog won't hunt. TheBlogProf has the details of the YNet report on the Administration connection to terrorism, along with the quotes. Bob Belvedere at The Camp of the Saints [where I first read of the Hamas-Obama co-habitation] has the story about the possible impact on Mosab Yousef, and a report on the help of our legislators to help Mosab Yousef stay in the U.S. Actually Bob points out the first place he saw the story of the connection was at Reaganite Republican. Same for me, but I must admit I completely missed the story, which I choose as the outrage of the last 18 months.
Organizers of the next Free Gaza Flotilla are filling at least the first boat with women, because the "thieving enemy" [Israel] won't use arms against woman. Women are the "secret weapon." That, in stark contrast to the habit of Hamas in Gaza habitually using women and children as human shields. Stay with this because the news has changed many times in the last 24 hours.
Women the Secret Weapon
The Turkish organizers have been added to Israel's terror watch list, known as The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid (IHH).
A Lebanese lawyer, Samar Alhaj is also a female activist with ties to Hizbollah, is heading the group of female floaters. She says her ship Mariam, named after the Virgin Mary will transport her secret weapons. Alhaj did not mention that an Arab newspapers are quoting Lebanese sources saying it is illegal for a ship leaving Lebanon to dock in an Israeli port.
Asked on Radio A-Shams by Zohair Bahloul why the ship, Mariam, would only be carrying women, she said, “We are women in order not to give the thieving enemy an excuse to use arms against the ship.” She said the ship would be carrying cancer medication for children, and women suffering from breast cancer and cancer of the uterus due to “chemical bombs” dropped on Gaza by Israel...
Speaking of Israel, she said, “the entity that was not defeated will be defeated by women that will come on the boat. Our weapon is cancer medication.
Alhaj said that the boat will have some 50 women, “more Christians than Muslims,” and will be coming from Lebanon, the US, France, Britain, Japan, Kuwait and Egypt.
But now we hear Israel may allow aid ships directly into the port of Gaza after inspection, rather than Israel transporting the cargo.
So, we'll see how that works out for Israel. This from the man who funds the flotillas:
He said he had a message for Israelis: ‘Get on the ships we are sending you and go back to your lands. Don’t let the moderate Arab leaders delude you, [you] cannot make peace with us. Our children will return to Palestine, you have no reason for coexistence. Even if our leaders will sign a peace agreement, we will not sign.’”
On Lebanese television, he also referred to Israelis as "Europe's refuse."
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister says there is no need of an "aid flotilla."Israel is opening the way for use of legitimate existing land crossings." Nevertheless, Israel has continued their warnings, saying they will "use all necessary means to stop the vessels, so in light of all this, someone made an executive decision and decided to float the boat to Cyprus. And now - more decisions, the flotilla may not float at all.
This post is from the Save Mosab Yousef website. The author is Bob Belvedere, the Humble Dispatcher Extraordinaire at The Camp of the Saints. Mosab talks about his family, and among the many things I have read about him, this was my first time to see this. Bob's comment at the end is one of those 'Amen' moments. I doubt that any of us have come close to being where Mosab is in his life, and maybe even his spiritual journey.
One of the reasons I got involved
with this effort to publicize the case of Mr. Yousef is because of the
strength he found within himself to do what was right despite of the
awful consequences to himself and his family. He was able to see that
his duty to truth and justice far outweighed any personal considerations
of comfort or happiness.
Try to remember how you felt whenever your mother or
father told you how proud they were of you when you accomplished some
little thing, won an award, graduated from school, got a good job or a
raise. Now imagine that your picture is on the front page of the
newspaper, along with a story exposing all of your secret sins in
agonizing detail. Imagine your shame and embarrassment, how your family
would look at you then, how your friends, neighbors and coworkers would
treat you.
And that is small, compared with the fear and guilt and shame heaped
upon Muslims by their god. The god of the Qur’an is not tolerant,
understanding or forgiving. He hates furiously and punishes without
mercy everyone who crosses his red lines.
The shame my decision to go public has brought on my family can never
be scrubbed clean. I broke their hearts and ruined their lives. Who
will marry my sisters now? How can my brothers return to their schools?
And why? Because of me. I cannot help feeling like Israel’s King
David who cried out, “My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too
heavy to bear.”
My family has already suffered so much. Why did I have to be
responsible for piling on even worse suffering?
But I did not feel that I really had a choice. More than 1.6 billion
Muslims live sincerely and ignorantly in the pitch darkness of Islam.
And I was in a unique position to set many of them free. Son of Hamas
was my shot, and I had to take it, no matter what the cost.
So what have I gotten out of writing a bestseller?
The U.S. government has rejected my plea for political asylum, saying
that I was connected with a terrorist organization, even though I was
never a member of Hamas. I can never become a citizen, and if I leave
the country, I cannot return.
Because I became a Christian and helped to save Israeli and
Palestinian lives, I am condemned to death by the Qur’an and its god,
making it the duty of every good Muslim to kill me.
By going public, I put the lives of my mother, brothers and sisters
at extreme risk. They still live in the West Bank, which is ruled by the
Fatah faction of the PLO. Fatah hates Hamas because it killed many of
its members in Gaza after the 2006 elections. What if Fatah members,
afraid that I will reveal more secrets about them, go out of control and
start shooting at my parents’ house?
Even Christians in the Middle East are tainted because of me. Now,
every Muslim will accuse them of collaborating with Israel, threatening
their lives.
Mosab Yousef will never know much in the way of Earthly happiness –
certainly not as much as we Americans and citizens of The West do and
have the potential to enjoy. However, because of the service he has
performed for the freedom-loving peoples of Israel and, by extension,
the freedom-loving peoples of Western Civilization, he deserves to get
whatever happiness is possible.
He deserves to stay in The United
States Of America and to eventually become a citizen. He asks only
these two things. He does not ask for a government handout. We can
take comfort that he has been embraced by a loving God and be assured
that when he passes on he will be greeted in the Kingdom Of Heaven with
the words ‘Well done, good and faithful servant, well done’. But there
will be no comfort for us if we don’t fight for this good and brave man.
Please write to your representatives in the Congress. If you are a
friend or acquaintance of any member of the media [mainstream or new],
please write to them; they have the power to get the word out, to put
the pressure on those who will be deciding Mr. Yousef’s fate.
UPDATE on 17JUN2010 at
0805…
Over at No Sheeples Here, Carol has featured this
posting in her IN THE SPOTLIGHT sidebar. It’s a
fitting tribute to Mr. Yousef who is certainly no sheeple. Thank you,
Carol.
Israel trucked the cleared aid from the terrorist flotilla to the Gaza border, but Hamas refused to accept the delivery. Apparently, Gaza doesn't-need-no stinkin'-aid until Israel has released all detainees, including all al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood members.
Israel-Gaza-Egypt Borders
Twenty trucks of aid were refused. Will Israel truck it back to the border when Hamas gets in the mood?
If you believe Israel is "occupying," do some research, because you are wrong. "Occupation" aside, Hamas and Hizbollah charters call for the extermination of Israel. Until that changes, there will be no peace. It won't change, so get used to the fact that there will be no peace - which is exactly the way Hamas wants it.
Is the fancy restaurants and Olympic-size pools kept hidden from the West!
Yes that is the truth. Some Concentration Camp! That is what the Main Stream Media and the pro-Palestinian anti-Semites in the Free Gaza Movement call Gaza: The World's Largest Concentration Camp!
What they (The Main Stream Media) won’t tell you about are the fancy new restaurants and swimming pools of Gaza, or about the wind surfing competitions on Gaza beaches, or the Strip’s crowded shops and markets. Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn’t fit with the simplistic story they were sent to write.
Here, courtesy of the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, is a report on Gaza’s new Olympic-sized swimming pool . (Most Israeli towns don’t have Olympic-size swimming pools. One wonders how an area that claims to be starved of water and building materials and depends on humanitarian aid builds an Olympic size swimming pool and creates a luxury lifestyle for some while others are forced to live in abject poverty as political pawn refugees?)
If you pop into the Roots Club in Gaza, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, you can “dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu”.
The restaurant’s website in Arabic gives a window into middle class dining and the lifestyle of Hamas officials in Gaza. And here it is in English, for all the journalists, UN types and NGO staff who regularly frequent this and other nice Gaza restaurants (but don’t tell their readers about them).
And here is a promotional video of the club restaurant . In case anyone doubts the authenticity of this video, I just called the club in Gaza City and had a nice chat with the manager who proudly confirmed business is booming and many Palestinians and international guests are dining there.
In a piece for The Wall Street Journal last year, I documented the “after effects” of a previous “emergency Gaza boat flotilla,” when the arrivals were seen afterwards purchasing souvenirs in well-stocked shops. (You can also scroll down here for more pictures of Gaza’s “impoverished” shops.)
But the mainstream liberal international media won’t report on any of this. Playing the manipulative game of the BBC is easy: if we had their vast taxpayer funded resources, we too could produce reports about parts of London, Manchester and Glasgow and make it look as though there is a humanitarian catastrophe throughout the UK. We could produce the same effect by selectively filming seedy parts of Paris and Rome and New York and Los Angeles too.
Of course there is poverty in Gaza. There is poverty in parts of Israel too. (When was the last time a foreign journalist based in Israel left the pampered lounge bars and restaurants of the King David and American Colony hotels in Jerusalem and went to check out the slum-like areas of southern Tel Aviv? Or the hard-hit Negev towns of Netivot or Rahat?)
But the way that many prominent Western news media are deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault, can only serve to increase hatred for the Jewish state – which one suspects was the goal of many of the editors and reporters involved in the first place.
Olympic-sized swimming pools and fancy gourmet restaurants just like the type that Auschwitz and Dachau had. And what about those starving children?
These children look starved, malnourished, and depressed!
Depression really has taken hold on these children of Gaza.
Compare those pictures to these of actual starving children.
These children starved to death. There have been no reports of massive starvation or malnutrition coming out of Gaza. If anyone can show me reputable source (None Palestinian or Free Gaza loonies. WHO, or International Red Cross is acceptable.) I will post a retraction. But they don't
acknowledge any incidents.
Before one condemns, one should learn all the facts.
On Tuesday, Israelis were warned to get out of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula...now. Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned of plans to kidnap Israeli nationals and smuggle them to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah tunnels I've mentioned several times.
Families of Israelis now in Sinai are requested to make contact and update them of this travel warning."
The Bureau issued warnings before Passover and asked Israelis not to travel to the area:
Despite the warning, Israel's Airports Authority recorded a 36% jump in the number of Israelis traveling to Sinai this Passover compared to last. Some 20,000 Israelis passed through Israel's souther border during the holiday.
How can that be explained???
Despite the Bureau warnings, few Israelis were seen leaving Sinai through the central border crossing in Taba.
Nuriel [Brigadier-General Nitzan Nuriel] added that Israel believes that whatever organization is behind the latest abduction warning, it is being operated by Hamas, adding that an adbucted Israeli may end up being tranfferred to Gaza via Rafah's tunnels...
New and up-to-date intelligence information accumuated, and it points to a terror cell completing its preparations, marking a target, receiving the green light, and carrying out the act -- or en route to carrying it out," he said
Rumors are already spreading that some Israelis have been kidnapped, although the rumors have not been confirmed.
This report says thousands of Israelis routinely vacation along the Red Sea coast [the one that Moses parted].
Maher Udda, a high-ranking Hamas operative, believed to be a military commander in Ramallah, headed a murderous West Bank cell that killed dozens in Israel.
During the second intifada, Udda assumed a leadership role in Hamas' armed wing in Ramallah....During the subsequent several years, Udda worked primarily in financing and directing attacks against Israeli targets and was thought at some point to have served as a deputy to the head of the armed wing of Hamas in Ramallah, Ibrahim Hamed.
Hamed was arrested by Israeli forces four years ago and is considered one of the most prominent prisoners that Israel is refusing to free in connection with a deal for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Udda is implicated in two suicide bombings in 2003: the attack on Cafe Hillel and the hitchhiking station at the entrance to an Israeli army base.
Rusty at The Jawa Report points out that Udda tortured his own Palestinian brothers:
In addition to murdering Israeli citizens, notice who Udda is suspected of torturing. Not Israelis, but Palestinians. This is exactly how all Islamist insurgencies operate. They hate the the kuffar (unbelievers), but they hate the murtadeen (apostates) even more....gives them religious grounds for murdering their political enemies since under Islamic law apostates are killed.
Udda (47), the father of 4 children, is the last on the list of those sought by Israel for killings in the second infitada.
For over a year I have been writing about the rockets that are fired and have been fired into the city of Sderot in Israel from Hamas in Gaza. These rockets have no guidance system in them. It is point, fire, hope that they kill someone. What they really do is to instill terror into a CIVILIAN POPULATION.
For 8 long years these rockets have fallen, they are falling now even though there is suppose to be a cease-fire in effect.
I received this letter last night. The author, Itzik Yarkoni asked me to pass this along to you, my readers.
With the result that Goldstone present to the UN Hamas’ response to the Goldstone report that the missiles sent to Israel were “by mistake”, I want to know if you would be interested in publishing my personal testimonial of life under Palestinian rocket fire, or life under the Hamas’ “mistakes.
Can it all be just a mistake?
By Itzik Yarkoni
Thursday, February 3, 2010, Jerusalem
Hamas officials said that a 52-page document has been compiled to testify that the offensive missiles fired during Operation Cast lead were “an accident” due to their weapon’s lack of aiming capabilities toward military installations.
However, section 1687 of the “Goldstone Report” presents that, “indeed, Palestinian armed groups, among them Hamas, have publicly expressed their intention to target Israel civilians…. claimed responsibility for the deaths of each of the Israeli civilians killed by rocket fired during the operations in Gaza”.
This begs the question: If Hamas weapon’s suffer from inaccuracy, maybe the information that was given to Goldstone is also off target?
I remember the first time that I heard about Sapir college was when I was traveling in the United States after the army. When I asked about the whereabouts of the college, a friend replied, “It is a nice place next to Sderot. However, the situation is a little strange. Rockets are launched towards the city daily”. I did not know what lay ahead for me at Sapir College, but I decided that I would take the risk. After all, I figured something would be done, eventually, to stop the rockets.
Eight years have passed since the first rocket was launched towards Sderot. The situation has not changed, I was wrong. More than ten thousand kassam missiles, grad, and mortar shells have been fired from Gaza, of which eighty-four fell in Sderot during Operation Cast Lead. Moreover, the “military installations” Hamas speaks of are nowhere to be found in the city. Where exactly were the rockets intended to fall?
I have witnessed firsthand the "mistakes" that have not only produced several deaths, but continue to affect hundreds, if not a thousands, of people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSD) as a result of the constant threat of incoming rocket attacks to the city.
What has been the result of the poor aiming capabilities of Hamas rockets?
As a student in Sderot, I awoke every morning to begin the usual routine of my day. However, my routine was not morning coffee and a newspaper. My routine, drenched with fear, caution, and preparation for the next rocket aimed towards my city, was different than the average student from other areas of the world.
Like clockwork, I was awoken at the same time, with the same target hit, and with the same color red alarm. This alarm notified me that I had only 15 seconds to take cover of my life. As I ran to the nearest bomb shelter, I passed the same children on their way to school. Once inside the crammed shelter, I heard the whistle.
That whistle of a rocket falling to my direction quickly became an all too familiar sound. Maybe this time the rocket will fall in my neighborhood? Maybe this time it will land in the home of someone that I know?
While waiting in a bomb shelter, praying for safety, the fire continued. It was not one rocket, or one “mistake”, that came to my direction. Many mistakes were fired towards me through the city. According to the Sderot Media Center, “Palestinian rockets directly hit more than 1,500 Israeli homes and buildings in the south. Three synagogues were hit, in addition to nine educational facilities, which include high schools, kindergartens, and elementary schools.
Can these cases actually be a malfunction in Hamas’ original plan?
After a day full of color red alarms, or after three weeks of 140 alarms during the Operation, the residents of Sderot and myself gathered to listen to the news. We heard about the mistakes that hit our loved one's homes, the mistakes that kept children from going to school the next day, and the mistakes that are expected to continue.
As a student and as a resident, we had to use our nights to recover from our day. There was homework to be done, relationships to build, our homes that we needed to continue to keep alive. We had to continue to live. However, our nights were full of their mistakes as well, for the nightly news had the highest Sderot ratings, and Hamas chose without fail to use that time for mistakes as well.
Maybe I shouldn't complain, for if Hamas had indeed aimed correctly, the extent of the destruction, the mental disorders, the loss of hope would be far greater. With that, I must say I have luck.
Last week Hamas issued a statement saying that the rocket attacks on Israel were not aimed at civilian centers in Israel, only military ones. (Somebody check the woods for constipated bears, and check Rome, the Pope has converted to Judaism.)
They retracted it a day later.
Make no mistake, the so-called Palestinians have a single goal:
The total destruction of the State of Israel and the death of every Jew living in the land.
To achieve this goal they will lie, cheat, steal, and murder anyone who gets in their way.
You can help in the battle against Hamas. Become vocal. Don't be silent on this subject. Let others know about what is and has been happening to Sderot. Tell your family, friends, church/synagogue, pastor/rabbi, your Congressman or woman, your Senator, the President, your local newspaper. But don't be silent!
Secondly, remember people like Itzik Yarkoni and the other residents of Sderot in your prayers. You could sign up for Code Red Alerts, reminding you of the terror the men, women, and especially the children experience every day.
How long does any people have to be terrorized by the neighborhood bully before they will strike back?
This month has been busy for the residents of Sderot (pronounced: STAY'rot). Let us start with this bit of optimism.
Sderot, Israel (31.12.09): Hours before the new year, as hundreds of pro-Palestinian and Arab demonstrators gathered at the Erez Crossing chanting "Katyushas on Ma'alot, Qassams on Sderot," while Israeli demonstrators at another Gaza viewpoint a few meters away gathered together to communicate a very different message.
A group of Israelis singing songs of peace versus a group of Arabs calling for the bombing of these people. And the idiots on the left (especially the ones in the White House, Speaker's Office and the Senate Majority Leader) all have concluded that Israelis don't want peace, only Arabs do.
And black is white, good is bad, up is down. Nothing to see here folks...just move along.
Since Operation Cast Lead, over 306 rockets have been fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. On Sunday, January 10, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu told cabinet ministers that he regarded the recent escalation of rocket attacks very seriously.
Rocket attack in Sderot. (Photo: Hamutal Ben Shitrit/Sderot Media Center)
"Last week 20 rockets and mortar rounds were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. The Government's policy is clear: Any firing at our territory will be responded to strongly and immediately."
Both Netivot and Ashkelon were hit by Grad rockets in the recent rocket escalation. On New Years' eve, two Russian-made Grad artillery rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip and struck Israel, with one hitting the southern town of Netivot, a city of about 26,000.
The Color Red system did not go off at the time of attack, and Netivot residents had no warning of the incoming rocket attack. No damages were reported but one woman suffered shock.
The last Grad rocket to strike Netivot had exploded near a synagogue nine months ago, causing heavy damage to the building.
A week later, on Thursday, January 7, a Grad-type Katyusha rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a field south of Ashkelon, causing no damage or injuries. Air sirens, however, did sound, sending Ashkelon residents into panic.
Ashkelon, a coastal city with over 100,000 residents, has been a target of Palestinian-fired Katyusha rockets for nearly four years.
Since the start of 2010, tens of Iranian-supplied mortar rockets have also hit southern Israel. Terrorists also fired an anti-tank missile at IDF troops on the Gaza border.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility for the recent firing of the rockets.
Hamas boasted on Friday Jan. 8, that it had managed to smuggle new types of weapons into the Gaza Strip. Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, published photographs on its website of the new weapons. The weapons include missiles with a double warhead, 107-mm caliber missiles that are designed to penetrate fortified structures and a new type of armor piercing RPG missile.
Abu Ubeida, the Hamas spokesman stated that the group "has thousands of fighters and good weapons capable of harming Israel."
Former OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yom Tov Samia predicted on Sunday that another war with Hamas was inevitable.
"We are before another round in Gaza," Samia told Army Radio in an interview.
"I am very skeptical about the possibility that Hamas will suddenly surrender or change its ways without being hit much more seriously than it was during Cast Lead."
Will someone please explain the meaning of the word CEASE-FIRE to Hamas! In a cease-fire both side stop shooting at each other. If one side starts shooting again, then the cease-fire is over, battle begins anew.
Now for a little good news:
A new rocket-proof daycare center was inaugurated in the southern city of Sderot on December 27. The money for the furniture, equipment, and toys was donated by 13 year-old Thomas Cole of Toronto on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah.
United Israel Appeal of Canada’s website reported that the dedication ceremony was attended by 35 members of Cole’s family, including his parents and grandparents, as well as by Sderot Mayor David Buskila, who unveiled a plaque of recognition and affixed the mezuzah together with Thomas.
The daycare center was built to withstand rocket attacks and contains three classrooms. It will serve approximately 45 infants ranging in age from three months to four years. The center will specifically serve the Reut community, a group of 150 young families who have made Sderot their home over the last decade.
Eran Shmueli-David, director of UIAC’s Israel Emergency Campaign, said that “this gift was implemented thanks to the tireless efforts of Eddy Azran, UIAC’s local coordinator in Sderot. It was his persistence and determination that pressed the municipality to open the new building as soon as construction was completed.”
Thomas Cole personally chose to dedicate the money to the Sderot Daycare Centre out of several options given to him by the B’nei Tzedek program of UJA Federation.
Young Thomas Cole of Toronto not only is on his way in life to becoming a man of good character, but has shown to the world the true meaning of becoming a man. The unselfish giving unto others. In Master Cole's case, his generosity will help many children to have a better life.
His parents MUST be busting at the seams with pride.
You can HELP too. It isn't hard. Just a few dollars can and does go a long way. Just click here and follow the instructions. Your donation to the Sderot Media Center will help the people of Sderot and the Western Negev. People who have been under rocket attack for the last 9 years.
The Children of Sderot sent out messages of peace and hope.
The Children of Gaza send out rockets to destroy them.
Yet Hamas screams bloody murder whenever the Israelis strike back at them.
Not this time.
The time is coming when the people of Israel will have had enough. When they will attack in retaliation, and not stop until Hamas is fully destroyed. This next time nothing will be able to stop the IDF from achieving their directive. Not the UN, not the EU, and definitely not Barack Hussein Obama. Let Hamas and their anti-Semitic allies on the left cry all they want. They will cry, scream, and throw a temper tantrum like they did last year. But things are different now. Europe is fed up with their antics. The US isn't buying their lies. And there will be elections this year. Now Hamas will have to contend with that.
And the Children of Sderot truly might have a peaceful childhood.
by Findalis of Monkey in the Middle
Sderot (pronounced sderr-ROHT) is the only town and the Western Negev is the only region in the entire world in which missiles are fired towards civilian population in the 21st Century.
Yet in spite of the lie by Hamas that they will not fire rockets into Israel again, a promise to the world in fact, missiles have been fired and one exploded inside the city of Sderot.
The Israel Air Force carried out an air strike against terrorist operations in Gaza overnight in retaliation for a Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev on Saturday. The rocket exploded in the city of Sderot, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office, but caused no injuries or damage.
In response, IAF fighter jets targeted and identified hitting two weapons factories in the northern and central regions of Gaza early Sunday. They also struck one smuggling tunnel located in the area of Rafiah, along Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
The air strikes were carried out despite an announcement Saturday by Hamas "Interior Minister" Fathi Hamad that the terror organizations had cut a deal with allied groups to temporarily halt the rocket attacks. Hamad told reporters at a news conference in Gaza the decision had been made in order to give people time to "rebuild" following the IDF's counterrorist Operation Cast Lead.
"The IDF will not tolerate any attacks by terror organizations against Israel and its citizens," said the IDF in a statement.
Nearly 270 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel since the end of last winter's counterterrorist operation on January 18. This is in comparison to more than 3,300 rockets and mortars fired in the year before the IDF carried out the operation, the IDF spokesman pointed out.
In the past month, Hamas terrorists have again slowly begun increasing the number of rocket attacks on Israel, with approximately 15 rockets and mortar shells fired to date.
While 15 is not a large number, they do help to create the atmosphere of terror to Sderot. Sderot is the only town in the world in which between 74% and 94% of children aged 4-18 exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress, says Natal, the Israel Center for Victims of Terror and War. Those numbers are not present in Gaza where according to the Lame Stream Media Anti-Semites, the children of Gaza have experienced the most vicious and inhumane attacks in the history of the world. Where is the PTSD and other psychiatric disorders in these children?
Sderot children want missile fire to stop!
View the video here.
Just imagine this is your home:Just imagine this is your kitchen on Thanksgiving:Just imagine this is your bathroom:
Not a pretty picture is it.
There is much you can do. Write your Congressman and Senator, write the President. Tell them that Hamas' constant attacks on civilians (they very seldom target military personal) is unacceptable under The Geneva Conventions of War and other International Agreements.
Contact your local newspaper, especially after they write a story condemning Israel for attacking Gaza in response to the Hamas attacks on Sderot.
Become informed. The people of Sderot have been on the forefront of the War on Terror for the last 8 years. They have put their families at risk, sacrificing good physical and mental health in this war. It is time their stories, their struggle comes out. The Sderot Media Center is a good place to start. Their on-line resource page is full of facts (not propaganda) for you to use, especially if you are a blogger. You can find it here.
I ask all who read this to keep the people of Sderot in their prayers. Pray that G-d will send a miracle to them. That they can live in peace and quiet.
And if you are able to, please send a little donation their way. The funds are used to help the people of Sderot. Each penny you send will bring comfort to citizen of that beleaguered town. Just click here and follow the directions. For those who wish to sponsor one of their projects, just click here. You will discover the projects that the Sderot Media Center is working on.
Just one thing, don't just do nothing.
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