Given the barbaric fascination Hamas has with such things as crucifixion and the lead-up to this conflict, this cry from a grieving Palestinian mother over the loss of her daughter is understandable.
h/t – The Jawa Report
Make no mistake: Hamas is responsible for the violence and loss of life in this conflict, not Israel. They have tortured and murdered hundreds of their own people, Israelis and others for years now. There is no agreement, no ceasefire, nothing that they haven’t violated in their quest for Israel’s destruction. Peace cannot be had with a group like Hamas. This Palestinian mother is right: Hamas must be exterminated.
— John (Average Gay Joe)
Strange Bedfellows: Pat Buchanan, Andrew Sullivan, and the Radical Left Queers for Palestine agree that Israeli is the bad guy. In other words, they agree with the Islamists.
Of course they do. Buchanan is an anti-Semite while Sully and Radical Left Queers do not give a crap about anything other than their leftist agenda.
The vast majority of Hamas defenders in the US are ultra liberals and fly high in the loonisphere. Pat Buchanan is an ultra conservative who trolls deep in the loonisphere.
Buchanan is a smart guy with no particular future on the political stage and the author of books that hit the remainders shelf in a very short time. He has some irrepressible itch to see America as an isolationist nation that only acts internationally when it is clearly forced to act. Buchanan would pull US funds out of Israel and let the chips fall where they may. (I suspect he would sell Israel all the arms they could pay for.)
Hamas is going to “win” this thing, because there is no populace to rise up against it and say “enough.” The Palestinians have had billions of dollars in aid that never reached the people. But the people have been fed a steady diet of hating Israel and they blame everything in their lives on Israel.
The best Israel can hope for is to teach the Gaza residents that shooting rockets into Israel is an open invitation for a thunderous response. Everyone is capable of learning about sticking a finger in the fire.
The Palestinians are generally egocentric and group as a family or clan society. They are not educated to examine other points of view or build a sophisticated society. The Israeli’s are a sophisticated people with flourishing universities and great international experience. The point is, the Palestinians are played by Hamas the same way Jesse Jackson pimps welfare to his rent-a-mob chumps.
Hamas must be destroyed for the Palestinians to grow up and out of their squalor. But Hamas and the Palestinian family are so intertwined that it is hard to see how Hamas can be curtailed. The crippling aspect of it all is the role of radical Islam as the moral code of death and destruction and misery.
If Israel were to be wiped out, the Palestinians would rush in and live in the rubble for centuries, all the while blaming Israel for not have built better buildings.
Odd, I posted a very anti-Hamas comment on this site hours ago. It has yet to appear. What is going on here?
Moral clarity, rendered justly… Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Sidebar for John in Dublin: You’ve run into the GP site’s hyperactive spamfilter… it bites everyone from time to time.
The spam filter, and it is possibly the most hyperactive spam filter on the net, will block any comments that contain expletives, the words l-e-s-b-i-a-n, l-e-s-b-o, and apparently two-thirds of all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, articles, and punctuation.
Hamas is getting exactly what it deserves – unfortunately it is too little, too late to save Israel.
And The Snob will not be much help in the next 4 years, either.
Regards,
Peter H.
Exterminate? Really? You really want to use that kind of language? Do you not see the sick and twisted irony of such language?
Hamas should not be exterminated. No person or group should ever be exterminated. They should be stopped, confined, contained, disassembled.
Extermination = genocide. I don’t think the Jews really want to transition from the victim to the victimizer.
Yes, they have the right to defend themselves. But exterminate? Seriously?!?!
Did we not learn from history?
May the IDF grant this grieving mother’s wish and exterminate Hamas.
#5 That’s funny AE
#6 Peter H, I disagree (no surprise there) this will not destroy Israel.
Here’s one from the left who agrees. There are tons of things in his column that you will find reason to criticize but I think the main premise is much the same as what is said on here.
http://www.365gay.com/opinion/besen-the-mess-in-the-middle-east/
#9 – I pray that you are right (for once) about Israel not succumbing to a second Holocaust. The first one was bad enough.
Regards,
Peter H.
The Palestinians have received billions and billions from the US and European nations to get on with building their country. Their “leaders” have stolen it and left them crumbs. Hamas is not separate from the Palestinians. If the Palestinian civilians were innocent, they wouldn’t find the huge crowds to dance in the streets when Radical Islam flexes its muscles. Jordan and Egypt are good role models for showing the Palestinians how to coexist with Israel. But the Palestinians are more inclined to stay angry and victims and nurse ancient injustices than they are to pick up and move on.
There is no end to this Hamas mess, because Hamas is a Palestinian virus. If Israel were to be defeated and cleared, the Palestinians would live in its rubble for centuries. They are not welcome by their Arab brothers and they are seemingly incapable of building a dynamic society and culture.
One more point. Radical Islam thrives in places of fetid ignorance and cauldrons of hate. Israel is not defending its religion, it is defending its sovereignty. Hamas and Radical Islam are fighting the “infidel.” Those who rant on about “proportional response” seem to overlook that Hamas calls for extermination and obliteration.
Exterminate? Really? You really want to use that kind of language? Do you not see the sick and twisted irony of such language?
Why, I’m just being “culturally sensitive” here and agreeing with this grieving Palestinian mother.
Hamas should not be exterminated. No person or group should ever be exterminated. They should be stopped, confined, contained, disassembled.
If they lay down their arms and renounce terror, not only from their lying lips but also in verifiable deeds, then extermination can be a point for negotiation. However, unless they do they are getting exactly what their own covenant wishes to dole out to the Jews: extermination.
Extermination = genocide.
Wrong. Hamas is a terrorist group, not a population. If I had said “let’s exterminate the Palestinians” than you’d have a point. Yet wanting to completely eradicate Hamas, just like we did with the Nazis and is our stated aim with al Qaeda, is right on the ball.
Did we not learn from history?
Yep, which is why Hamas needs to be treated exactly like the Nazi Party: wipe it from the face of the earth.
So much more easily said than done. Functionally, it means: they should be allowed to go free. Because no person, group or nation can or should be expected to keep tens of thousands of terrorists in in prison. To keep even one person in prison, humanely, requires enormous moral, physical and financial effort. Terrorists – by which I mean, combatants who both intentionally target civilians and intentionally hide behind civilians – don’t deserve that kind of effort, and will totally exhaust the person, group or nation who tries to give it to large numbers of them. At which point, the terrorists win.
Yeah and I think Israel will do their damndest to keep it from happening again. Now if they could just bury Hamas and move on to the UN….
They should be stopped, confined, contained, disassembled.
This from the people who screamed that imprisoning terrorists, especially at Guantanamo, was a massive violation of human rights.
And who were also aiding and abetting terrorists to operate from their prison cells.
Mark Levin points out that the same folks who hate Israel are the same folks who hate America.
Rush wonders how al-Qaida can blame Comrade Obama for Gaza since everybody’s supposed to love us now.
#7: “They should be stopped, confined, contained, disassembled.”
I think the word you’re looking for is “appeased.”
My thoughts exactly.
Of course, all of the “check-the-closet-at-night-for-Zionists” types will accuse the poor woman of being an “Israeli agent.”