Gaza residents fleeing into Israel
- Posted by Beth on June 17th, 2007 filed in General, Islamofascism, Israel, Journalism, The War
Schadenfreude
Palestinians run as they try to cross to the Israel side at the Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Dozens of Palestinians converged on the Erez crossing with Israel on Saturday, trying to leave the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ takeover. At the same time, hundreds of people looted police positions on the Palestinian side of Erez, and at one point Israeli troops fired in the air to keep the crowd at bay. The looters walked off with furniture and scrap metal. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
That’s not all.
“I’m afraid to say this out loud, they may execute me for it, but there are a lot of people, including myself, who think it would be better if Israel came back here. Things would be much better than they are now,” said Samara (alias), a graduate of the Islamic University living in the Gaza Strip.
According to Samara, who lives nearby one of the Fatah strongholds taken over by Hamas in recent days, fear reigns in Gaza’s streets, and apart from gunmen and military officials, no one leaves their homes.
“The children are afraid all the time,” Samara says. “My nephews ask, ‘Why are the Israelis shooting at us?’, and we tell them it’s Palestinians. Then they ask, ‘Why are Palestinians shooting at us?’, and I have no answer for them.
I’m sorry, but didn’t these people vote for the same Hamas thugs who have vowed to destroy Israel? As they say, first they came for the Jews…
Will American media report any of this, or, as what was in a Boston Globe editorial Thursday, spin this humanitarian disaster to be all Israel’s fault?
What to do about Gaza? Adam Haskel in the Jerusalem Post:
First, as someone once suggested, we should disengage from Gaza. Close the crossings, turn off the electricity. No more fuel for the Strip, either. Let them bring it in from Egypt or learn to rely on donkeys. I don’t recall the United Kingdom supplying Germany with electricity during the Battle of Britain.
Exactly. If Hamas wants to run Gaza, let them do it on their own. Why on earth should Israel supply its enemies at all?
They quite correctly see any concession on Israel’s part that does not require them to renounce the “right of return” to within the Green Line as a sign of weakness, that those who govern us lack any normal sense of self-preservation and will continue to reward terrorism by handing over land.
Which brings us to the most important thing that we must do: Stop retreating.
If we want to reproduce the hell of Gaza in Judea and Samaria, all we have to do is follow the same policies there; if we leave the Palestinians in that region to their own devices and provide them with territorial contiguity, the results will be the same, whether the terrorists who run it are from Hamas or from Fatah.
This isn’t just a war between Hamas and Fatah; it’s what happens when Israel lets down its defenses and makes concessions for “peace” with terrorists. If the world doesn’t like seeing “palestinians” being slaughtered by its own, it should finally recognize the fact that these are not innocent, “oppressed” people. They are the oppressors. Or does it just not count when Jews are being attacked?
LindaSoG says:
As Gaza falls to Hamas, and the so-called Unity Government falls to pieces, the world lines up behind Abbas, the Holocaust denier and so-called moderate.
It would do the world well to remember that Abbas and his Fatah party has enjoyed the support of the United States of America and the EU, and UN since he came into power, and before that, Fatah, under Arafat, enjoyed our support.
The end result of that support is terrorism in Israel funded by United States taxpayer dollars. We fund and arm the Al-Aqsa terrorist group, which is part and parcel of Fatah, and they are responsible for many terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens. Even only a few months ago, Al-Aqsa was combining efforts with Hamas to plan and implement terrorist attacks.
It is the Palestinian Authority, run by Abbas and his Fatah party, which brought us things like Suicide Mickey to teach young children to hate and kill, and the United States of America provided at least some of the funds.
Thousands of palestinians hit the streets of Gaza to celebrate Hamas’s victory, but you won’t see that on the evening news. No, you will only see footage of relatively few “peaceful palestinians” running from Hamas. But, they were not just running from Hamas, they were running to Fatah, from one terrorist group to another terrorist group.
They are not choosing peace over terrorism, they are choosing which terrorist group they support. And in choosing Fatah over Hamas, we would do the same.
One man tells the cameras “I wish Israel would come back to Gaza” and everyone makes a big deal out of it, as if that one guy speaks for millions and yet, we have seen millions of them waving guns in the air shouting Death to Israel and Death to America, but we are not supposed to think they speak for themselves. No, instead, we are supposed to look at that one guy and believe he is representative of his people.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Never mind the dancing and celebrations in the street when an Israeli is blown to bits, these people are peaceful! Never mind the dancing and celebrations in the street after 9/11, these people love America. Never mind their persecution of Christians, and the destruction of Christian Holy Places, these people are tolerant of other religions, they attack Christians because they’re mad at the Jews, and they’re just mad at the Jews because of the occupation.
Never mind that they attacked Israel in blood-frenzy to kill Jews and that’s why they lost the land in the first place, they were just mad because of the occupation that was to come after they attacked and lost.
Never mind that the Al-Aqsa Brigade is a terrorist organization that shoots rockets into Israeli neighborhoods and sends suicide bombers into Israel, never mind that Al-Aqsa shoots men and women and children down in the streets, in their homes and in their cars, Al-Aqsa is part of Abbas’s Fatah and therefore, we should support them, arm them and fund them with American taxpayer dollars.
Never mind that they put machine guns into the hands of children and train them to kill starting at age 3. Never mind that they strap bombs on their teenagers and send them into the streets to murder and die. They love their children, same as you do, and they just want to live in peace and have basic human rights like everyone else. That’s why the ones in Israel, who live in peace and enjoy rights that no arab has in any arab country, use their ID cards and their access to help terrorists into Israel to kill Jews.
Are you going to believe what you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears, or are you going to believe what the media tell you?
I have been watching events in Israel with my own eyes and listening to what they say with my own ears for all of my adult life.
The “reporting” of “events” in Israel has not changed over that time. The disinformation that you see now has been happening all along. Thanks to the internet, more people are aware of it, but I have always been aware of it.
My belief system tells me that “As Israel suffers, so shall the world” and the Jews are chosen by G-d to be a light unto nations.
In Israel, the darkness that is islam has that righteous light shining on it right now and the evil is no longer hidden in the shadows. What you see is what you get but the world denies what it sees.
There are training camps all over America for crying out loud, but still, people don’t take the threat seriously.
The future is being shown to the world, and what life will be like if we continue to ignore what is happening.
If we support the terrorists, any terrorists, we will get more terrorists.
Beth says:
All right, you could’ve just put that in a post. ;)
Either way, I totally agree.