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Samuel Abady
Bronxville, NY
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Iran-backed Hamas attacked Israeli forces from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) compound today, prompting Israeli troops to fire back. Hamas attacked during the daily humanitarian aid ceasefire instituted by Israel to ensure that Palestinian civilians receive food, medicine and other necessities.
Anyone concerned about the humanitarian crisis facing the jihadi population of Gaza should write the UN and demand it cease facilitating terrorism against Israel.
UNWRA's history of facilitation terrorism includes:
• Jan. 6, 2009 -- IDF forces came under mortar attack from within the UNRWA-run al-Fakhora school in Jabalya. Imad Abu Iskar and Hassan Abu Iskar, two senior Hamas rocket operatives, were inside.
• On Oct. 29, 2007 -- terrorists in Beit Hanoun, Gaza used an UNWRA school to launch mortars into Israel. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon deplored the attack and asked UNRWA to conduct a full investigation.
• In May 2008 -- Awad al-Qiq, an Islamic Jihad rocket engineer moonlighted as a science teacher and deputy headmaster at the Rafah Prep Boys School run by UNRWA, and was killed supervising a factory assembling rockets and other weapons near the school.
• Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attallah, UNRWA's Director of Food Supplies for Gaza, admitted to using his UN vehicle on multiple occasions during the summer of 2002 to transport arms, explosives, and activists from the Popular Resistance Committee to carry out terrorist attacks. Attallah also confessed to contacting members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Syria "in order to obtain money for transferring arms to the Gaza Strip as assistance for the PRC."
• Armed Palestinians have been filmed repeatedly using UNRWA ambulances to transport
terrorists in Gaza.
• 7 UNRWA employees have been convicted of terrorism against Israel since 2001.
• UNWRA's former Commissioner-General Peter Hansen admitted the agency employs Hamas and other terrorists
• On April 25, 2007 the UNRWA representative in New York, Andrew Whitley, revealed to congressional staff that UNRWA provided cash assistance to families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
• According to a November 2003 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report: "During the first 6 months of 2003, assailants occupied or attacked UNRWA facilities on nine occasions.
• Alaa Muhammad Ali Hassan, a Tanzim member affiliated with Fatah, confessed during he carried out a sniper shooting from an UNRWA school in al-Ayn. He also admitted that bombs intended for terrorist attacks were being manufactured inside the UNRWA school.
• In 1982, President Reagan accused UNRWA of allowing its Lebanese camps to become armed bastions of the PLO. UNRWA admitted its camps had been militarized. The Security Council refuses to enfoce UNSCR 1208 in the Palestinian territories
Yesterday, Hamas fired a mortar shell into Israel containing white phosphorous. The shell landed in a field near the Israeli town of Sderot. The deliberate use of white phosphorous against civilians is prohibited by international law. Hamas and all Arab terrorist groups direct their rocket and mortar fire at Israeli population centers in violation of international law.
Palestinian terrorists fired approximately 23 rockets at Israel today. One fell in the city of Beersheba, injuring seven people, including a young boy. The cities of G’dera, Ofakim and Sderot were also hit by the rocket fire.
Since December 27th, the beginning of Israel’s defensive operation in Gaza, Gaza terrorists have fired more than 650 rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians.
If you care about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, write to UN President, Ban Ki Moon and demand the UN stop participating in and facilitating terrorism in Gaza. -
Samuel commented on the article |To Eric MacEachern: You apparently believe in the stereotype of Arab terrorists as underprivileged Islamic youth yeaning to be religious martyrs. If, as you say, "Terror is the war of the displaced and disenfranchised," then kindly explain why most Arab terrorists are urban males, age 22-24, from upper middle-class to rich families, and university educated? See, e.g., Walter Reich, ed., Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Terrorism is capital-intensive; fueled by oil and the drug trade; and made possible by an international network of corrupt Arab dictators, drug kingpins, and megawealthy shiekhs. 9-11 cost al-Qaeda $500,000 to carry out.
Take Mohammed Atta, for example. He was the 9-11 ringleader. He spoke fluent English and German, was educated at two universities and the son of a prominent Egyptian lawyer.
Displaced and disenfranchised, indeed. -
Samuel commented on the article |
To Gordon Clark: your "argument" -- the Talmud is evil, Judaism is a cult, Jews are a clan who hate gentiles, only shmucks care about the Holocaust, etc. -- suffused, as it is, with overt racism and bigotry, speaks for itself.
You'd find fellowshipwith with HAMAS [Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya] as they share the same outlook. HAMAS just enacted amputation and crucifixion to punish offenses against Shari'ah [Islamic law] in matters like theft and adultery. In a recent pronouncement, HAMAS boasted it has made an industry of death and "the women exceed at this, and so too, do the mujahideen [fighters in jihad] and the children."
You approve, right?
The real issue is this: how would Americans respond in like circumstances?
Imagine a fanatical religious party wins a string of elections in Mexico's northern states, and then stages a civil war to drive out the federal government and take full control of Mexico. The party's charter demands a return of the occupied Mexican territories of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas. The party’s gunners fire homemade rockets and advanced missiles into the U.S. These projectiles were smuggled in from Iran and China. They target a total of one of every seven Americans, or 43,598,000 people, in a broad swath which includes Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Austin, San Antonio and Houston, and Las Vegas. In all of these areas, pre-schools, grade schools, and universities are all forced to shut down. American families sleep in bomb shelters and return to them several times a day during air raids. Businesses are shuttered and the economy shuts down.
What would the U.S. government do?
Here’s another analogy. A man comes into your home. You were once his landlord. There is much bad blood between you. He has a homemade gun. He points it at your family. He fires, but misses. The gun has little accuracy. He fires again and misses repeatedly. You own a much better gun made in a real factory. It is in the drawer in your bedroom. Demonstrators in London and San Francisco - distant relatives of the man across the street - stage a protest, calling you a murderer and demanding that you keep your factory-made gun in the drawer because using it would be “disproportionate.” The man sends out his older son, nicely dressed, to knock on your door. Your older daughter opens the door. The man’s son greets her politely and presses the detonator on a homemade bomb, killing himself and your daughter. The man and his wife dance in the streets in joy that their son has become a martyr while you mourn your murdered daughter. Demonstrators claim you got what you deserved because you kept the man and his family locked in their house across the street, and at times, you failed to pay his water, gas and electric bills – both of which are untrue. As you are no longer the landlord, the man across the street obtains a larger, accurate weapon he smuggled in through his basement. His compatriots in an adjoining neighborhood give it to him. You cannot stop it because you are no longer the landlord. The man across the street shoots this accurate weapon from behind his younger son and wounds your second daughter. You take out your factory-made gun. You aim for him and hit the son, killing the boy. The demonstrators are now calling you a Nazi and chant “Slaughter the Landlord!”
How would Americans respond?
To be "proportionate," can Israel fire 10,000 missiles into Gaza, given that is how many HAMAS and Islamic Jihad have fired into Israel? After all, fair is fair.
You believe the argument turns on missile accuracy because only twenty-five Israelis have been killed. This reveals your thinking: you believe military inferiority equates with moral superiority. Great logic.
You are right about one thing: Palestinian children are not terrorists. Instead, according to HAMAS, they are the mujahadeen of tomorrow, and bullet shields of today.
So who should we blame for that, Israel or their parents? -
Samuel commented on the article |
No one on this Blog protests Hamas-ide, only Israel's legitimate actions in defense. Why haven't you protesters howled when thousands of Israels were displaced into air raid shelters each time a Hamas rocket landed? There are now nearly 1,000,000 Israelis in range. Medical studies show that nearly all Jewish children in the Gaza border communities suffer from trauma-induced illness. Hamas has launched over 10,000 rockets altogether, and nearly 7,000 since it took over Gaza.
Or is it that Jewish suffering doesn't move you, only the suffering of those who would commit genocide?
