Crooked in Canada

Israel is really taking it to Hamas as they should be, and unfortunately for the Palestinian people, the innocent ones anyway, are going to pay a heavy price. That’s what happens when you allow terrorists operate from within your neighbourhood, the latter proven by the fact that for about four or five days around Christmas Hamas was firing about 80 rockets a day into Israel communities, none of which by the way were military targets or strategic. Hamas has been targeting civilians, which as the entire world knows in the aftermath of 9/11, is a strategy that terrorist organizations resort to when looking to intimidate world leaders into seeing things their way.

Sheik Hassan Yousef, a man whose own son has disowned him because of his penchant for  targeting innocent people, including Palestinians, to make his point is nothing more than a war criminal as far as I’m concerned, and he will one day be held accountable for his actions. Assassination will bring him down, as it will the other the other demented leaders in the Hamas hierarchy, not to mention the heads of state from Syria and Iran who support Hamas acts of terrorism against Israel.

And what about the media coverage on this story, isn’t that a joke and more than a little one-sided? Nothing like making it look like Israel is the “bad guy” in all this because of collateral damage, the innocent Palestinians being blown to bits, shot at and maimed. If it wasn’t for Hamas using the Palestinian people as human shields, innocent Palestinians casualties would be virtually non-existent.

Media coverage has been brutally unfair to Israel and this despite the fact that credible journalists are unable to gain entry into Gaza. Right now the news services only have unreliable third party accounts to rely on for their news headlines, and those accounts are hardly credible, but hey they are credible enough to paint the Israelis in a bad light so who am I to argue.

Speaking of Israel being made out to be the bad guy, would somebody reading this blog mind explaining to me why that is, being sure to check their facts first before responding to my request.

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Yesterday while I was lambasting, deriding and abusing protesters against Israel’s actions in Gaza I failed to mention why I support Israel’s actions, something I am going to do now.

First and foremost, and I made this perfectly clear yesterday, Israel has a right to defend itself, protect its borders and it’s civilians within those borders.

If North Dakotans were firing mortars and rockets into Saskatchewan and Alberta you can bet Canada would retaliate. Of course relations between the U.S and Canada is a little more civilized than that and the likelihood of something like that ever coming to fruition is slim and none, at least I hope so anyway.

Then of course there’s Russia, who if they wanted to could fire rockets and mortars into Canada’s north they could, and given their technology their rockets can travel a hell of lot further than the 6000 plus rockets Hamas and Hezbollah have fired into Israel during the past few years. Canada would definitely retaliate if Russia was fire rockets within her sovereign borders don’t you think?

There is something terribly wrong with people who don’t feel Israel is justified in their actions in Gaza, or that their actions are disproportionate to those of Hamas. This is war people. He with the biggest military might wins. Hamas picked the fight and now they are going to pay the price. Unfortunately innocent Palestinians will die, but it won’t be because they are being deliberately targeted by the Israelis.

Besides the 6000 plus rockets that have been fired from Hamas and Hezbollah on the Gaza Strip, there has been the suicide bombers hitting restaurants and cafes in Israel, not that that has happened in recent years.

Some of those suicide bombers have been women and children who didn’t know any better by the way, the kind of innocent Palestinians who can be manipulated into committing mass murder in the name of their God and for martyrdom. I don’t care what God people believe in, no God condones the mass murder of innocent people, not a legitimate one (if there is such a thing) anyway.

Then there’s the little known fact that the western media rarely mentions, that fact being that when the recent ceasefire ended, it was Israel that wanted to extend the ceasefire, but Hamas wanted no part of it, and immediately after the ceasefire deal expired they began firing rockets into Israel.

They fired up to 80 rockets a day for four days  into Israel, targeting innocent civilians instead of military and strategic targets. Now how is that not justification of Israel’s current actions?

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There are four things Israel wants to do in Gaza and none of them have to do with occupying the West Bank.

First, they want to take out as many stockpiled rockets, rocket launchers and the factories that manufacture them as possible. Then they want to obliterate Hamas’ senior military and political leadership, who have been ordering and organizing the rocket and mortar attacks on Israel.  Shutting these guys down is a good start to ending the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. If it wasn’t for these murderous thugs this news story wouldn’t exist.

Thirdly, Israel wants to show Hamas that there are consequences for their actions, the kind of consequences that if Hamas doesn’t stop firing rockets into Israel or greatly reduces their frequency, the costs will be high.

Lastly, Israel wants to destroy as many tunnels as possible under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, tunnels that are being used to smuggle weapons into Gaza.

With the Israeli offensive there will be Palestinian civilian casualties, but unlike Hamas, the Israeli military isn’t going out of their way to cause civilian casualties, in fact they are going out of their way to avoid them. If it wasn’t for Hamas’ actions, and this is what people need to get through their fat heads before blaming Israel for the casualties, there wouldn’t be 500 plus civilian casualties. There are conflicting reports on the number of civilian casualties by the way, but my point is still the same. If it wasn’t for the cynical, extremist Palestinian leadership none of this would be happening.

That leadership I should mention is either corrupt or wildly extreme, and leaders are only too happy to sacrifice the interests and the lives of their people, to assuage their own ideology of hatred, or to advance their own personal interests and agenda.

The Palestinian leadership is also the reason why the Palestinian people don’t have their own state, something past Israeli governments have worked hard to make happen, but to no avail thanks to people like Yasser Arafat, Sheik Hassan Yousseff, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi and Mohammad Taho (Muslim Brotherhood) just to name a few of the self-serving deviants of fundamentalist ideologies.

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Did you know that President Bill Clinton had brokered a deal with Israel in the last months of his presidency, but Yasser Arafat didn’t want any part of the deal?

In that deal Israel agreed to recognize a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, and almost all of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem would have been its capital. Israel was only going to keep small amounts of land on the West Bank where Jewish settlements, most of which are now suburbs of Jerusalem, exist. Palestinians would have also received land from Israel to compensate for land taken up by those settlements.  Israel was also prepared to hand back other settlements on the West Bank, as they did when they withdrew from Sinai and Gaza.

Had Arafat not snubbed his terrorist nose at the deal that was offered in 9 years ago, the Palestinians would have had a state on virtually all the land they could possibly claim, international recognition and aid.

So before anybody goes and blames Israel for what is happening to the Palestinian people right now, they really need to think twice about it, get their facts straight before getting on their high horse and pointing fingers.

Life would have been at least a thousand times better for Palestinians if it wasn’t for their leadership, and they would have had Palestinian sovereignty by now had Arafat agreed to the deal.

The only reason Arafat and his terrorist cronies snubbed their noses at that deal was because they would have been forced to abandon terrorism, and they knew that the fight to abandon terrorism would have seen them die at the hands of their own extremists.

When it came to accepting the deal Bill Clinton brokered with Israel, it was all about what was in it for Arafat and his cronies; their preservation of life, power, and wealth. It was never what was best for the Palestinian people.

There isn’t much more I can say about the PLO except that Hamas‘ acts of terrorism, at the rate they are going, will one day dwarf Arafat’s PLO acts of terrorism.

Hamas, if they aren’t shut down now, will become more feared than Arafat’s PLO terrorist organization.

Israel going into Gaza to shut down  the most extreme Palestinian political/terrorist movement in the region, and whose charter is full of anti-Semitic hatred,  conspiracy theorists, and racial abuse, is the sensible thing, if not the right thing to do. The West Bank would be a better place for Palestinians to live without Hamas, and the rational people in the world know that.

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Anybody who is condemning Israel or protesting Israel’s actions need to climb back under the rock from where they came from, or maybe they might want to take up a cause they actually know something about.

Israel is and has been getting a raw deal when it comes to their relationship with the Palestinians for many, many years now and I for one think it’s high time it stopped.

Just my opinion and no I’m not Jewish.