Bombing Israelis

On that tiny radical Muslim minority:

"Palestinians who support bombing attacks against Israeli civilians rose from 44.8% in June 2006 to 48% in September 2006 and to 50.7% now."

"Again, more Gazans support these operations (65.1%), compared with 42.3% of Palestinians in the West Bank" (LGF).

6.5 tons of "sugar"

The European Union "is the largest supplier of humanitarian assistance" to the Palestinians in Gaza. Some humanitarian assistance! Israel just discovered 6.5 tons of potassium nirtrate--used to make explosives--sent to Gaza and hidden in bags marked as sugar.

Where's the outrage? Read the brief article in Reuters.

Palestinians and persecution

The United Nations, European governments, and Leftists are so concerned about the treatment of terrorists at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, why don't they say anything about Muslim persecution of innocent Christians in Palestine?

A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and
talk openly about what they describe as Muslim persecution of the Christian
minority in this city.

The move comes as a result of increased attacks on Christians by Muslims over the past few months. The families said they wrote letters to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Vatican, Church leaders and European governments complaining about the attacks, but their appeals have fallen on deaf ears.

According to the families, many Christians have long been afraid to complain in public about the campaign of "intimidation" for fear of retaliation by their Muslim neighbors and being branded "collaborators" with Israel.

But following an increase in attacks on Christian-owned property in the city over the past few months, some Christians are no longer afraid to talk about the ultra-sensitive issue. And they are talking openly about leaving the city.

Read the rest in the Jeruslaem Post.

86 million of your tax dollars!

The Bush administration "has asked Congress to authorize 86 million dollars in military aid to boost security forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas".

Moderate? A man who tells his supporters to use their guns against Israel is moderate?! (See CNSNews). Take a look at the picture in this LGF post. Isn't sending money to Abbas a little like financially supporting one street gang in an effort to marginalize another street gang?

Have we really learned nothing from our past efforts to support one evil regime over against another? Is our government really unable to think of a better use for 86 million of our tax dollars? My advice to the Democratic Congress: Just say NO!

More on declassified Arafat document

A few days ago Recliner Commentaries commented on the recently de-classified document on Yasir Arafat. Today, Caroline Glick asks some very insightful questions about the U.S. government, our State Department, and the media. Please take time to read the entire article in the Jerusalem Post but if time doesn’t permit, an excerpt is copied below:

"On the face of it, the released cable, which calls into question the very foundation of US Middle East policy for the past generation is simply stunning. The cable concludes...The emergence of the United States as a primary fedayeen target indicates a serious threat of further incidents similar to that which occurred in Khartoum."

"The media's silence on the issue does not merely raise red flags abut their objectivity. By not availing the American public to the knowledge that Fatah and the PLO have been specifically targeting Americans for 33 years, the media has denied the American people basic knowledge of the world in which they live."

"The media's abject refusal to cover the story raises an even more egregious aspect of the episode. Specifically, what does the fact that under seven consecutive administrations, the US government has covered up Arafat's direct responsibility for the murder of American diplomats while placing both Arafat and Fatah at the center of its Middle East policy, say about the basic rationale of US policy towards Israel and the Palestinians? What would US Middle East policy looked like, and what would have been the results for US, and international security as a whole, if rather than advancing a policy that made Arafat the most frequent foreign visitor to the White House during the Clinton administration, the US had demanded his extradition and tried him for murder?"

"How many lives would have been saved if the US had not been intent on upholding Arafat's big lie? How would such a US policy have impacted the subsequent development of sister terror organizations like Hizbullah, al-Qaida and Hamas, all of which were founded by members of Arafat's terror industry?"

"Sadly, the release of the cable did not in any way signal a change in the US policy of whitewashing Fatah. In contravention of US law, for the past 13 years, the State Department has been denying that Fatah, the PLO and the Palestinian Authority are terrorist organizations, and has been actively funding them with US taxpayer dollars"

"This policy went on, unchanged even after Fatah gunmen murdered three US embassy employees in Gaza in October 2003. This policy continues, unchanged still today, as Fatah's current leader, Arafat's deputy of 40 years Mahmoud Abbas works to form a unity government with Hamas. Indeed, the central component of the US's policy towards the Palestinians today is the goal of strengthening Fatah by arming, training and funding its Force 17 terror militia."

"In a November 14, 2006 interview on Palestinian television, Ahmed Hales Abu Maher who serves as Secretary of Fatah in Gaza, bragged of Fatah's role in the development of international terrorism."

"Imagine what the world would have looked like if, rather than clinging to Arafat's big lie that he and his Fatah terror organization were central components of Middle East peace, the US had captured and tried Arafat for murdering its diplomats and worked steadily to destroy Fatah."

"Imagine how our future would look if rather than stealthily admitting the truth, while trusting the media not to take notice, the US government were to base its current policies on the truth, and the media were to reveal this truth to the world."

Declassified document: the Arafat murders

A report in yesterday’s WorldNetDaily (hat tip: LGF) cites the release of a de-classified document demonstrating that Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat was responsible for the murders of U.S. diplomats. Excerpts of the WND article appear below:

"After 33 years of secrecy, the U.S. State Department has finally declassified a document admitting it knew the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, plotted and supervised the murders of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973, a cover-up first exposed by WND in January 2001."

"The document, released earlier this year, with no fanfare, makes it clear the Khartoum operation 'was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval' of Arafat, a frequent visitor to the White House throughout the 1990s who died in 2004."

"A primary goal of the attack, it says, 'was to strike at the United States because of its efforts to achieve a Middle East peace settlement which many Arabs believe would be inimical to Palestinian interests."

This report raises numerous questions: For example, why was the report kept secret for all these years? Why did the U.S. continue to push Arafat as if he were some kind of great peacemaker when we knew the truth all along? Why has America continued to pressure Israel to give up more and more concessions to terrorist entities like Arafat’s Fatah or Hamas or Hezbollah that have absolutely no interest in peace whatsoever?

Our government’s endless appeasement Palestinian terrorists—apparently based on a naïve faith in the goodwill of its radical Muslim leaders—has not brought about peace but has only perpetuated the bloodshed.

Foreign aid Hamas

Below are excerpts of a January 26, 2006 letter by Gary Bauer on the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews website:

“The stunning victory by the terrorist group Hamas in this week’s Palestinian election has sent shock waves from the White House here in Washington, D.C., to Tel Aviv and the capitals of Europe. Some observers are trying to put the best face possible on the horrifying election returns by pointing out that Fatah, the main alternative to Hamas in the election, has a history of corruption and incompetence. But that argument just won’t fly…As election day approached, Hamas left no doubt that it would not moderate its positions nor lay down its arms. It remains committed to a “one state solution,” the creation of essentially a “Hamastan,” run by fundamentalist Islamic law that would occupy all of the territory from “the river to the sea.” In other words, Hamas’ agenda is the destruction of the State of Israel, as well as the defeat of U.S. interests in the Middle East…As the votes rolled in, celebrations broke out all over the Palestinian territories... And there was cheering in other places too, including Tehran, Iran…My personal view is that the U.S. and Europe need to go much further than merely saying ‘we won’t talk with Hamas.’ It is immoral for the U.S. or the European Union to force its citizens to pay for the kind of hatred Hamas espouses. Now is the time to stop sending your hard-earned tax money into the Palestinian territories in the form of multi-million dollar subsidies.”

I agree. The 350-400 million in government foreign aid we send to the Palestinians should stop immediately until Hamas changes its position on the existence of Israel.

Palestinians and Hamas

On Wednesday, Palestinians voted for members of their parliament for the first time in a decade. The Palestinians had to choose between members of the corrupt Fatah party which is now in power, and Hamas which provides education, health care and food to poor Palestinians—Oh, they also call for the destruction of Israel and are responsible for the slaughter hundreds of innocent Jews.

This morning, CNN is reporting that Hamas is claiming victory, winning 80 of the 132 seats. The Washington Post cited unconfirmed reports that Prime Minister Qureia and his cabinet have conceded defeat and have resigned.

I’d like to think that Hamas won only because all the “peaceful” Muslims stayed away from the polls, but indications are that 77% of eligible voters turned out to vote. It seems that Israel and the West will now be contending with a democratically elected terrorist government.