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Friday, May 11, 2007

Things are different in May in Gaza

I'm not sure how to interpret this, but there are two striking differences between the Qassam calendars I've been keeping this month and last month.

In April and March, there were many more Qassams claimed to have been fired by the Arab terror groups than Israel acknowledged having landed in Israel. It appeared that the terror groups were vying for taking credit and that many rockets didn't even make it over the border.

But this month, the terrorists are less likely to exaggerate. The PalArab newspapers mention Israeli reports of rockets but they are not usually quoting terrorist group claims of more rockets.

Secondly, there are daily reports in the PalArab newspapers of Israeli incursions into Gaza, but very few of these are reported in Israeli media. Again, I don't know if it is Israeli war censorship or if the PalArabs are making up stories to cover up internal fighting and blame injuries/deaths on Israel.

There is no doubt that fighting is starting to increase again between Hamas and Fatah, after a lull. No official deaths yet but lots of kidnappings and injuries.

Take a wild guess who Iran accuses in the 1994 Argentina Jewish Center bombing

Why, it was the Joooooos!!! From Iran's "Press TV":

Zionists behind 1994 Argentine bombing

A former Argentine minister has tied the 1994 bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires to hard-line Zionist nationalists.

Lois Dalias, Argentina's former minister of housing, who attended a court hearing on Thursday, denied any alleged connection between the Iranian government and the deadly blasts in which 85 people were killed.

Thus far the judiciary investigations into the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, has hit an impasse with the powerful Zionist lobby in the country trying to impute it to Iran.

Iran has strongly denied having any thing to do with the terrorist attacks, warning the Argentine government of plots underway to damage their mutual relations.

"When a radical Zionist shot dead the Israeli Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, it would not be impossible to think that some other right-wing nationalists designed a similar plan to blow up the AMIA Jewish cultural center", IRNA reported Dalias as saying.

Last year Dalias was forced to resign after he joined public demonstrations in Argentina as a show of allegiance with Iran in the face of unfounded charges in the case.

Reading between the lines of the propaganda, we see that a former minor anti-semitic Argentine official floated a theory that "Zionists" bombed a Jewish center in Argentina for reasons unknown and Iran's crack journalists translated that into a headline stating it as a fact.

The diplomacy of fear, 1877

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a post called "Diplomacy of fear - the Muslim way" in which I noted that, for decades, Muslims would exert influence on the West by making threats.

It seems that this idea was older than I thought.

This article, from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of October 14, 1877, describes fearful - and literal - Flag of Islam that would signal an all-out war of Muslims against Christians. Supposedly when this flag, housed in a mosque in Constantinople, would be unfurled, it would signal every single Muslim to fight to achieve paradise.

Note the fear that the author shows of the possibility that huge crowds of Mohammedans could be unleashed at a moment's notice to kill every Christian.

Here are some highlights:

Since the commencement of war between Russia and Turkey, the world has several times been startled by the announcement that the "Flag of the prophet" was about to be unfurled in the streets of Stanbul. Such an event, if it should happen (which may Heaven avert), would proclaim a crusade in which all true Musslemans would be bound to take an active part and to fight against Christianity in every part of the world. They may be in India, Arabia, Egypt or wherever else their scattered race has found a home; the raising of the green standard is a call in which none may disobey without, as the Koran lays it down, sacrificing all his hopes of Paradise.

This fearful appeal to all the worst passions of the Eastern races hangs like a menace over the Mohammedan world; and if the word was once uttered and the dreadful flag unfurled, there is no telling to what sanguinary excesses it might lead an enthusiastic people. If may be of interest to our readers if, under these circumstances, we endeavour to make them acquainted with the origin and history of a banner that has not seen the light of day since the Empress Catherine of Russia attempted to reinstate Christianity in the city of the Sultans, and which once unfurled would set the world ablaze.

The prophet himself predicted that one day, when his followers should number 100,000,000- which they do now with 20,000,000 more added to it- his flag should fly against the advancing power of the northern races; and the Koran Mohammedan Bible says that when its silken folds are flung forth "the earth will shake, the mountain melt into dust, the seas blaze up in fire, and the childrens hair grows white with anguish." This language is of course metaphorical; but it is easy to conceive, by the light of very recent history, that some such catastrophe might take place, as the displaying of this terrible symbol would raise a frenzy of fanaticism in the breast of the Mohammedan race all over the globe.

When once unfurled, it summons all Islam by an adjuration from the Koran that the sword is the solitary emblrm and instrument of faith, independence and patriotism; that armies, not priests, make converts and that sharpened steel is the "true key to heaven and hell"

Upon that fearful ensign are inserted the words which are supposed to have been written at Mecca itself- namely, "all who draw it (the sword) will be rewarded with temporal advantages, every drop shed of their blood, every peril and hardship endured by them, will be registered on high as being more meritorious than either fasting or prayer. If they fall in battle, their sins will be at once blotted out, and they will be transported to Paradise, there to revel in eternal pleasure in the arms of black-eyed hours. But for the first heaven are reserved for the faithful who die within sight of the Green Flag of the Prophet" Then follow the terrible and all-significant words, the fearful war-cry against God and man, "Then may no man give or expect mercy."

This is the outburst of barbarism with which the world is threatened in this year of grace, 1877; and the reader cannot do otherwise than mark the cunning nature of the portentous works inscribed on the prophets banner. What would not most men do, civilized or savage, for "temporal advantages"? While to the eastern people fasting and praying, are looked upon as of so meritorious a nature, than to find something else which, in the eyes of Allah, would be desideratum which none would fail to grasp by any means whatever, if it came within its reach. But Mohammed's wonderful knowledge of human nature, is shown in his picture of Paradise as prepared for the faithful who fall in battle while his declaration that the highest heaven in this so called Paradise will be reserved for those who die within sight of the Green Flag, is a masterpiece of devilish policy unequalled in the annals of mankind.

It scarcely needed the fearful words which follow, to add emphasis to this dreadful appeal to the passions of a semi-barbarous race. Another motto on this sacred flag is not without significance at the present time; "The gates of Paradise are under the shade of swords;" and this alone would, if the flag were unfurled in the Holy Mosque of Constaninople, give to the Turk a moral power over his subordinates the effect of which it would be vain to calculate. Civilized though he partially is , he still firmly believes in the old doctine of kismet or fatality, and in angels fighting on his behalf; not less implicitly than did his ancestors at the Battle of Bender, where this formidable green standard was first unfurled...

PCHR’s preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 9:00 on Thursday, 10 May 2007, the child Shayma Jaser Jarghoun, 7-year old girl from Khan Yunis, was admitted to the European Hospital in the city. She was suffering from moderate shrapnel wounds in the feet sustained when a homemade grenade was thrown during an armed intra-clan clash involving members of her family.

At approximately 8:20 on the same day, Musallam Mustafa El-Sha’er (47) from El-Bureij refugee camp was injured by a bullet in the right thigh, fired by one of his relatives over a financial dispute. El-Sha’er was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir El-Balah for treatment, where his injury was listed as moderate.

At approximately 23:00 on Tuesday, 8 May 2007, Salim Abdel Fattah El-Sharabi (35) from Nablus was killed in Ras El-Ein Quarter in Nablus. Gunmen killed El-Sharabi in a crime motivated by a clan dispute. He was killed by multiple bullets to the upper body.

This brings my count of the number of Palestinian Arabs killed by their own actions up to 200 for the year 2007.

Oh - and a couple of PalArabs got arrested for selling their daughters, aged 12 and 13, too.

UPDATE: PalArab murdered in Qalqiya; his brother suspected.

A "beauty queen" in Hebron strangled her husband. 202.

UPDATE 2: Fatal Hamas/Fatah clashes resume; 2 Fatah members killed in Gaza. 204.

Palestinian Arabs extend their winning streak to 22

For the 22nd consecutive week, more Palestinian Arabs have been killed by other PalArabs than by the IDF. This week's score was 6-3.

Palestinian Information Minister Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi has played down the reaction to the news that his ministry has banned the broadcasting of a children's program on Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV because it conveys political messages.

Barghouthi said in conversation with Ma'an that Al-Aqsa TV stopped broadcasting the program itself after they reviewed the program in regards to its message. Barghouthi also denied issuing an order to end the program.

He stressed the need to be cautious when making children's programs so that these programs would not be exploited by bodies that monitor these programs in order to incite international public opinion against the Palestinian people and harm the Palestinian cause.

So the Information Minister, who according to all accounts is far more moderate politically than Fatah, is not saying that the program was wrong to teach children to kill themselves. He's got no problem with inciting tots to hate. Demonizing Israelis and Americans is A-OK. And, of course, he would never try to stop such a show from broadcasting on the TV channels he is partially responsible for.

The problem is, you see, that certain "bodies that monitor these programs" happen to translate and publicize them. And, in the strange and twisted PalArab universe, telling the truth publicly about these sorts of things is incitement!

The legal definition of incitement is "the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime."

In normal English, that means that teaching kids to murder and blow themselves up in the process is incitement.

Telling the world about real incitement is not incitement unless you are a member of the professional victimhood society that comprises the Palestinian Arab leadership.

UPDATE: Hamas refused to drop the program. It will show this Friday as usual, inshallah.

Photo: one of those oppressive checkpoints

Prepare to get angry as you see heavily armed IDF soldiers randomly stopping a Palestinian Arab car, scaring its occupants:

Palestinian security forces stop a car to a random check in the streets of Gaza City, late Wednesday, May 9, 2007. Thousands of Palestinian police began deploying in Gaza City late Wednesday, the first phase of a security plan approved by the Cabinet, a Palestinian official said.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Oh, it wasn't the IDF?

Sorry for calling these moderate, peace-loving policemen "oppressive." Checkpoints are only oppressive when they are meant to save Jewish lives.

It just ain't normal

Omri asks an interesting question about the Salafist shooting at a school in Gaza over the weekend:

What on earth is compelling the Palestinians to post that many guards at an elementary school? ...Has the situation in Gaza gotten so bad that Palestinians are now posting guards at schools? And if so, shouldn't more people be talking about this?

After immersion therapy in Palestinian Arab newspapers for a number of months, I'm almost used to the many things in the territories that are taken for granted that simply do not exist elsewhere and that the West is clueless about.

Here's a tiny example, in a story about a missing boy:

The family searched in the police departments and in the neighbouring fields and deserted areas, but they could not find the missing boy.

Zeidan said that it is unlikely to be a politically motivated abduction as his family has good relations with all parties and political factions.

Well, of course every family in Pallywood must keep the local militias, political parties and clans happy so as not to have their children kidnapped.

Or this story:

Assault rifles, pistols, hand grenades, pipe bombs and assorted ammunition are now on sale in Gaza's bustling used car market. "Come along, come along, a bullet for eight shekels ($2) and a stun grenade for seven shekels ($1.75)," Hassan, a 17-year-old arms dealer shouts. Dozens of cars are still being offered but the 25 weapons competing for business show the extent to which the rule of the gun has largely become the rule of law in the Gaza Strip. "Anarchy, what anarchy?" Hassan says when asked for his view about the lawlessness that pervades the impoverished territory where Palestinian militant groups hold sway.

I've mentioned before the major difference between Palestinian Arab newspapers and those of the rest of the Arab world: There's no crime section. The PalArab police are so weak, and the judicial system close to nonexistent, that there may be articles about murders and kidnappings but not small crimes like arson or thefts that are so endemic that they do not merit being mentioned at all.

This is a small taste of what things are like in that wonderful part of the world.

Hamas pulls Terror Mickey

Today's Genocidal Mickey Mouse news:

Walt Disney's last surviving daughter declared how horrified she was at Terror Mickey.

And Hamas denied that they dislike Jews:

"Our problem is not with the Jews,'' Yehia Moussa, a Hamas leader in the movement's Gaza Strip base, told The Associated Press.

"Our problem is with the (Israeli) occupation and the occupiers.''

Too bad Farfur the Rat disagrees:

Sanable: We want to fight.
Farfour: We got that. What else?

Saraa: We want to...

Sanabel: We will annihilate the Jews.

Even though Farfur was such a wholesome, non-Halal example of Islamic supremacy, the PA decided that the media glare was a bit too much:

A program using a Mickey Mouse-like character to urge Palestinian children to fight Israel and the West and work for world Islamic domination has been pulled off Hamas's television station for "review," Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti said Wednesday.

Barghouti said the use of the cartoon character in such a role represented a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.

Rest assured it would not be considered "mistaken" if Farfur the Rat hadn't appeared on the cover the the New York Daily News and on numerous TV shows over the past couple of days.

The dangers of Islam (1884)

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article in February 3, 1884 about the political intrigues and wars being fought in Northern Africa at the time. The last paragraph of that article is most interesting:

From this summary statement of facts the reader will at once perceive that the nature of the great question of the day is not the recovery of a revolted state, nor, the chastisement of a refractory people, nor even the suppression of the slave trade, but a conflict between Christian civilization and Mohammedan barbarism. The triumph of Tel-el-Kebir did not by any means establish a conquest of Moslem fanaticism. The hatred of the Mohammedan against the Christian and against civilization is innate and irrepressible. This hydra-headed monster will ever raise its head at the slightest provocation, and under the least pretext, to devour all that may come in its way. If at times quite, it lies dormant, and not dead, ever dreaming of Alhambraand the walls of Vienna and over-running, one day, the civilized world.

Encore presentation of Farfur, the Genocidal Mickey Mouse

MEMRI found more interesting stuff about Farfur, the Mickey Mouse clone we mentioned who preaches Islamic supremacy and genocide of the Jews:

Host Saraa, a young girl: Sanabel, what will you do for the sake of the Al-Aqsa Mosque? How will you sacrifice your soul for the sake of Al-Aqsa? What will you do?
Sanabel, young girl on phone: I will shoot.

Farfour, a Mickey Mouse character in a tuxedo: Sanabel, what should we do if we want to liberate...

Sanable: We want to fight.

Farfour: We got that. What else?

Saraa: We want to...

Sanabel: We will annihilate the Jews.

Saraa: We are defending Al-Aqsa with our souls and our blood, aren't we, Sanabel?

Sanabel: I will commit martyrdom.
[...]

Farfour: My dear youngsters, we're back. We always miss seeing you on your weekly program "The Pioneers of Tomorrow," in which we are placing together the cornerstone for the ruling of the world by an Islamic leadership.

You can watch the clip here.

Mosa Al Ghriz: my kind of martyr

The Hamas Al Qassam website is an unending source of mirth and merriment. Especially interesting is the "Martyr" section, where brief biographies of the lives and grisly deaths of Hamas terrorists are detailed.

I just stumbled onto the biography (not autotranslated - this is from the English website) of Mosa al Ghriz:

Name: Mosa Abed Al Fattah Mohammed Al Ghriz.

Resident: Rafah.

Hometown: Maghar.

Birth

Mosa Abed Al Fattah Mohammed Al Ghriz was born in 1968. His roots back to "Maghar", which was occupied in 1948. He was brave since his childhood. His mother died since he was a child and he never saw her. His father raised him on the good manner and virtue. He was careful to obey his father.

Education

He finished his primary and preparatory studying in UNRWA schools in Rafah. He finished his high school with high marks. But the difficult situation didn’t give him the opportunity to continue his studying . He got married to his cousin. He has five children, one of them is disable. He worked in a social association that was interested in helping the poor families.

In Al Qassam Brigades

He joined to Al Qassam brigades in the first intifada in 1987. the brigades leadership saw his courage and his commitment so they agreed to let him a member in the Brigades. He participated in defending many areas in Rafah as "Al Salam", "Brazil" neighborhoods, and the east side of Rafah. He was the friend of the martyrs "Ayed Al Bashity" and "Yousif Al Mallahi".

Life full of actions

He participated in digging many tunnels as " Hardon" military location, "Tarmid" military location near Salah Eddeen gate in Rafah. Mosa participated in sniping the Zionist soldiers on the border. He also was watching the Zionist vehicles near Al Salam neighborhood. He shared in digging a tunnel for Rafah cross. His friends said that he was always ready for any an emergency situation. They added "he was a leader".

Interested actions in his life

He was guarding his neighborhood. Suddenly, a man come and started to shout on him. And pronounced with bad words towards Mosa. But Mosa didn’t become nervous. He talked to him quietly. The man understood why Mosa and his friends stood in that position.

Before Martyrdom

Before a day of his martyrdom, he came back to house and found that his children playing with the family pictures. He stand and said" don’t play with it, you will need it ". He told his elder son "keep the land, even if the Zionist army destroyed the house". He said to his wife " today is the last day" as he was knowing that he is going to be a martyr.

The martyrdom day

Mosa went to execute a mission against Zionist tank. He went with two of his friends to shell RBG rocket toward the tank. The rocket wrongly exploded and caused his martyrdom .

Don't you love happy endings?

I'm only disappointed that they didn't provide the date that he met with his virgins so I could verify that I had counted him as one of the PalArab self-deaths.

Man kills sister in Gaza in an "honor killing"

From PCHR:

On Tuesday morning, 9 May 2007, the Palestinian police arrested ‘Alaa’ ‘Owaida after he had murdered his sister in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah allegedly to save “ his family honor.”

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 02:00 on Tuesday, 9 May 2007, the police arrived at a house in Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of Rafah after receiving information that a woman was killed for “family honor.” The police found the body of Khawla Ahmed ‘Owaida, 35, inside the house. She was killed by a gunshot to the head. Her brother, 32-year-old ‘Alaa’, confessed committing the crime to save his “family honor,” and the police arrested him.

This brings our count of PalArab victims of PalArab violence this year up to 198; 16 of them women.

Time to show that PalArab peace flag again:

UPDATE: A 32-year old. Salim Al-Sharabi, shot dead in Nablus by those "unknown gunmen." 199.

Also a clan clash in Gaza; 9 injured, one critical.

Burning down charities? No biggie!

An interesting follow-up on the UN Gaza school shooting Sunday:

Unknown gunmen have burnt a charitable association affiliated to the fundamentalist 'Salafi' Islamic group in Rafah refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip.

One of the Salafi group's spokesmen said in a phone call with Ma'an that the association had been totally burnt down with no injuries.

At the same time, the condemnations continue of the attack on a school run by the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, in Rafah on Sunday. Armed men opened fire on the school during a celebration, attended by high-level UNRWA staff, which the Salafi group considered to be contrary to Islamic traditions.

So the revenge that PalArabs exact against the Salafists who are suspected of the school violence is to burn down their charity organization building.

And while everyone is condemning the attack at the school, nobody says a word of condemnation for this little bit of arson.

Which means that either Arabs burning Arab charities is not very important news, or that even Palestinian Arabs know that some charities are not really charities.

Hamas lie of the day

The Hamas Al Qassam website asks "Why does Al Qassam target civilians?"

The answer? It doesn't!

Sheikh Salah Shehada , the first general leader of Al-Qassam Brigades , was asked "What is the criteria of a selecting any target? And what do you say about killing civilians?"

He replied " We do not deliberately target children, the elderly or houses of worship despite them being houses that teach hatred against Muslims. We do not target schools and do not order the killing of children. We do not target hospitals although they are easy targets for us. We do not fight Jews because they are Jews. We fight them because they occupy our land. We don’t fight them for their faith but for taking our land. And if children fall during operations, it is beyond our control.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to see if Hamas ever targeted civilians.