Comments on: Operation Cast Lead – Arab World I http://occidentalisraeli.com/2009/01/03/operation-cast-lead-arab-world-i/ If you’d believe that, you’d be wrong. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nobody http://occidentalisraeli.com/2009/01/03/operation-cast-lead-arab-world-i/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Nobody Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://occidentalisraeli.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-107 00911x, no offense, but that analogy is pretty dumb. If anything, establishing the state of Israel in 1948, a rejection of the historic dhimma, could be compared to a slave revolt by black slaves in the southern states against their white plantation masters, but even that would be useless because the Jews are sui generis. 00911x, no offense, but that analogy is pretty dumb. If anything, establishing the state of Israel in 1948, a rejection of the historic dhimma, could be compared to a slave revolt by black slaves in the southern states against their white plantation masters, but even that would be useless because the Jews are sui generis.

]]> By: Steve http://occidentalisraeli.com/2009/01/03/operation-cast-lead-arab-world-i/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Steve Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://occidentalisraeli.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-105 Here is an interesting television show. Escape from Hamas. Part 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td8YdfNoPBk Part 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqIg0Tnav5o Part 3 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M09nLJvoX9U Part 4 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4kmK1aDLpg Part 5 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEf9DUW8fMU Part 6 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXLskhpKXW4 Here is an interesting television show.

Escape from Hamas.

Part 1 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td8YdfNoPBk

Part 2 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqIg0Tnav5o

Part 3 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M09nLJvoX9U

Part 4 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4kmK1aDLpg

Part 5 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEf9DUW8fMU

Part 6 of 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXLskhpKXW4

]]> By: 00911x http://occidentalisraeli.com/2009/01/03/operation-cast-lead-arab-world-i/comment-page-1/#comment-106 00911x Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://occidentalisraeli.wordpress.com/?p=433#comment-106 Gaza blows opportunity of millineum. Imagine it's 1964. President Lyndon Johnson just signed the landmark Civil Rights Act. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrates by order­ ing his supporters to launch missiles from black neighborhoods into white communities. Picture the rockets' red glare as they rise from Watts and land in Beverly Hills. Up they soar in Harlem, and down they rain on the Upper West . Side. Such mayhem would have triggered a white crackdown on black areas. The squandered opportunity for greater racial equality and economic prosperity would have hobbled black progress, probably for decades. Barack Obama's presidential victory might have been a non-starter had King taken this low road. Thank God Almighty, he did not. While imperfect, this analogy approxi­ mates today's conflict between Palesti­ nians and Israelis in the Gaza Strip. Is­ rael's recent military retaliation violence would have been unnecessary had Gaza's leaders capitalized on the excellent hand they were dealt. - Israelis withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. Israeli soldiers literally dragged de­ vout Jews kickirtg and screaming from land they believed the Torah granted them. Authorities evacuated 21 Jewish I settlements, dismantled 38 synagogues, and even excavated 47 deceased Jews from Gaza's Gush Katif cemetery. Gaza's leaders had the opportunity of a millennium. "Free at last, free at last:' they could could have said. "Now, watch Deroy Murdock us flourish!' A Gazan MLK could have asked J.P. Morgan Chase to help con­ struct the Middle East's most modern fi­ nancial system. He could have called Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic to . help build world-class hospitals. Teams from Georgetown, NYU, and Stanford could have helped establish universities whose graduates could outthink anyone from Cairo to Kabul. Estonian experts could have jetted in to explain how free trade and a flat tax can enrich small na­ tions with powerful neighbors. The world would have come running to help elevate this benighted, Denver-sized ter­ ritory into an oasis from which the mi­ rage of Middle East peace could blossom into reality - if Gazans only asked. But no. Top Gazans had a different develop­ ment strategy: Fling rockets at Israel. Between Israel's disengagement from Gaza through last Nov. 30, Palestinian forces fired 3,123 rockets into southern Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs calculates. Since Hamas seized control in June 2007, Gazans have shot 1,685 rockets into Israel - 1,2U of them be­ tween Jan. land Nov. 30, 2008. Ramas fired 177 missiles at Israel, even during a June 19-Dec.19, 2008, "state of calm." In­ deed~ rockets are Gaza's chief export. Gazans also fired 2,299 mortar shells into Israel since 2005. Israelis traded land for peace. Instead, they got land for pieces of shrapnel. Since Israel withdrew, Gaza's rockets imd mortars have pum- . meled southern Israel, killing 17, wound­ ing 851 and terrorizing some 200,000. Israel has had it with these explosions and casualties. It is defending itself ap­ propriately, despite complaints that Is­ rael's response is not proportional. If pro­ portionality is key, may Israel shoot 5,422 missiles and mortars indiscriminately into Gaza's residential neighborhoods? Israel's critics hush up when Ramas uses Gazans as human shields. Ramas' TV broadcasts ask civilian men, women and children to protect suspected terror sites from expected Israeli strikes. "This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine:' . Hamas parliamentarian Fathi Rammad said on Al-Aqsa TV last Feb. 29. Israel's self-defense will be tough on rank-and-file Palestinians. Some of them will get stuck in the cross-fire as Israel disarms Hamas. This is sad, but inevi­ table. As Gazans curse Israel's jets, they should remind themselves that they had a perfect chance to make the world proud, and they blew it. * Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Gaza blows opportunity of millineum.
Imagine it’s 1964. President Lyndon Johnson just signed the landmark Civil Rights Act. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrates by order­ ing his supporters to launch missiles from black neighborhoods into white communities. Picture the rockets’ red glare as they rise from Watts and land in Beverly Hills. Up they soar in Harlem, and down they rain on the Upper West

. Side.

Such mayhem would have triggered a white crackdown on black areas. The squandered opportunity for greater racial equality and economic prosperity would have hobbled black progress, probably for decades. Barack Obama’s presidential victory might have been a non-starter had King taken this low road. Thank God Almighty, he did not.

While imperfect, this analogy approxi­ mates today’s conflict between Palesti­ nians and Israelis in the Gaza Strip. Is­ rael’s recent military retaliation violence would have been unnecessary had Gaza’s leaders capitalized on the excellent hand

they were dealt. -

Israelis withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. Israeli soldiers literally dragged de­ vout Jews kickirtg and screaming from land they believed the Torah granted them. Authorities evacuated 21 Jewish

I settlements, dismantled 38 synagogues, and even excavated 47 deceased Jews from Gaza’s Gush Katif cemetery.

Gaza’s leaders had the opportunity of a millennium. “Free at last, free at last:’ they could could have said. “Now, watch

Deroy Murdock
us flourish!’ A Gazan MLK could have asked J.P. Morgan Chase to help con­ struct the Middle East’s most modern fi­ nancial system. He could have called Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic to . help build world-class hospitals. Teams from Georgetown, NYU, and Stanford could have helped establish universities whose graduates could outthink anyone from Cairo to Kabul. Estonian experts could have jetted in to explain how free trade and a flat tax can enrich small na­ tions with powerful neighbors. The world would have come running to help elevate this benighted, Denver-sized ter­ ritory into an oasis from which the mi­ rage of Middle East peace could blossom into reality – if Gazans only asked. But no. Top Gazans had a different develop­ ment strategy: Fling rockets at Israel.

Between Israel’s disengagement from Gaza through last Nov. 30, Palestinian forces fired 3,123 rockets into southern Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs calculates. Since Hamas seized control in June 2007, Gazans have shot 1,685 rockets into Israel – 1,2U of them be­ tween Jan. land Nov. 30, 2008. Ramas fired 177 missiles at Israel, even during a
June 19-Dec.19, 2008, “state of calm.” In­ deed~ rockets are Gaza’s chief export.

Gazans also fired 2,299 mortar shells into Israel since 2005. Israelis traded land for peace. Instead, they got land for pieces of shrapnel. Since Israel withdrew, Gaza’s rockets imd mortars have pum- . meled southern Israel, killing 17, wound­ ing 851 and terrorizing some 200,000.

Israel has had it with these explosions and casualties. It is defending itself ap­ propriately, despite complaints that Is­ rael’s response is not proportional. If pro­ portionality is key, may Israel shoot 5,422 missiles and mortars indiscriminately into Gaza’s residential neighborhoods?

Israel’s critics hush up when Ramas uses Gazans as human shields. Ramas’ TV broadcasts ask civilian men, women and children to protect suspected terror sites from expected Israeli strikes.

“This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine:’

. Hamas parliamentarian Fathi Rammad said on Al-Aqsa TV last Feb. 29.

Israel’s self-defense will be tough on rank-and-file Palestinians. Some of them will get stuck in the cross-fire as Israel disarms Hamas. This is sad, but inevi­ table. As Gazans curse Israel’s jets, they should remind themselves that they had a perfect chance to make the world proud, and they blew it.

* Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.

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