Immediate Effect
Following yesterday’s decision to declare Gaza a hostile entity and disrupt electricity and fuel supplies, we are already seeing results.
Deposed Palestinian Authority prime minister Ismail Haniyeh met in the Gaza Strip with leaders from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Thursday, in a bid to bring about a halt to Qassam rocket fire from from the Gaza Strip.
Bear in mind that Haniyeh is leader of Hamas, an organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction. Yet he is now feeling compelled to prevent rock fire against Israel.
So while United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the usual chorus complain that our measures constitute collective punishment, real lives will be saved.
Update: I should note that the terrorists are currently not heeding Haniyeh.
Despite this, the militant Islamic Jihad group said it would keep firing rockets at Israel, after the groups leaders met with Haniyeh Wednesday in his attempt to convince them to halt the rocket fire.
The way I see it, they will either change their mind after electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza are restricted and the people put more pressure on them to stop, or Haniyeh’s Hamas will use force to try and prevent them from firing rockets, and we’ll have a terrorist org vs terrorist org smackdown.
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Discussing the Old Testament with my friend’s son, who had to cover Moses’ story for homework, I saw afresh that Jews were slaves under Pharoah in the middle east centuries ago. Slaves whose Exodus is marked annually in the Passover ceremony. Indeed, the whole story is the Book of Exodus Chapter 2.
It seems unfair that this piece of Judeo-Christian history serves to prove that we have been in middle east and that this presence more recently was re-established by the UN in 1848 is never brought to light.
Besides, we don’t use suicide bombers – the Muslims do. And a pugnacious lot they are. But it couldn’t be that seven virgins promise suicide bombers get ignites as many of these terribly handsome (duh!)suicide bombers to do the anti Judeo-Chritain thing.
Only chapter 2 of Exodus, the UN in 1848 and only 7 virgins?
Fun with numbers.
Of course they won’t stop firing, even though the attacks are virtually useless: firing on schoolhouses from a safe distance is the closest they will ever come to feeling like men.
On a related note, virginity is only important to men who are afraid of comparison…
So they turned off the water and the electricity? Good move … and yet another reason to own a T-shirt that says “everything I need to know about the middle east I learned from reading Leon Uris’ The Haj over 20 years ago and its still true”. Of course that would be an XXL size shirt, but this move is straight out of that book, just on a slightly larger scale.