Not a Cold Peace; Just Cold
Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has criticized Hamas for firing rockets at Israel.
Because they haven’t actually hurt anyone.
The Egyptian foreign ministry on Thursday criticized Hamas for its “cartoonish and comical” attacks on Israel and reiterated his warning to Palestinians not to provoke the Egyptian soldiers positioned on the Gaza Strip border.
Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in comments carried by
the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) on Thursday that Egyptian efforts were continuing with Israel and the European Union to re-open the Rafah border crossing “in a legal way.”Aboul Gheit blasted Hamas for recent fighting with Israel that it called “cartoonish and comical”.
He said Hamas rockets that were “lost in the sands of Israel” were simply prompting Israel Defense Forces to strike at Gaza, causing harm to Palestinians.
Of course, the Qassams are deadly, and are no laughing matter. It is only luck Divine protection that has prevented more Israelis from being killed by them. For instance, just today, two rockets landed near a school, and several people suffered shock. Hardly comical.
But the real issue is not the accuracy of the Egyptian Foreign Minister’s statements. It is the fact that he made them at all.
Good peace partners are just so hard to find.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
Calling the lack of casualties in Sderot “devine protection” implies that the people (including small children) that have been killed were somehow unworthy of G-d’s protection.
I just spent a month in Sderot. I heard several people talk about Devine protection. I cringed each time I heard it.
That being said, and having seen Kassam attacks first hand, I do not understand how so many rockets fired into a densly populated city can cause so few casualties. My logic tells me the rockets should be killing people everyday. After thousands of rockets, it is hard to attribute this to dumb luck.
Stan
Stan, If Israel fired back a like number of the KASSAM brainless rockets on a tit for tat basis; Photo Shop/Palestine would claim HUGE death tolls.
And it would be all over MSM like a pox.
Unguided artie is wasted artie Stan.
Except of course as a ham-ass terrorist tactic.
Best Regards,
jn
Stan,
I think you should know that is NOT what I was implying. I was focusing on the fact that logic would dictate more people should have been killed.
I have read your blog for a long time. So, I know that you would never believe that the victims were not worthy of protection.
The statement however implies that.
If G-d were intervening here why would some children be spared and others saved?
While watching a Kassam being pulled out of a deep sandpile next to a children’s playground and some houses (it landed in the one spot in the area where it could do no damage), a freind said the same thing you said about devine intervention. I said the same thing about the children that have been killed. We both came to the conclusion that the world moves in mysterious ways that we can’t understand.
My biggest concern is for the parents that lost children. What do they think of a G-d that protects other children but not theirs.
Stan
Stan,
It is not for me to speculate on G-d’s ways. But don’t assume that if someone dies, they were punished by G-d. Perhaps their time had come – they had done what they needed to do in this life – and it was time to go to a better place.
Let’s leave it at that and just agree that it is amazing that more Israelis have not been killed by the constant Qassam fire aimed at population centers.
Sorry but Stan has his knickers all in a knot over total BS and does not see the big picture.
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Aussie Dave: I have deleted the rest of the comment since Stan was not expressing anything offensive, and was being genuine. Hence why start a flame war?
Sorry Dave, my bad.
jn
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