Gaza burns
Israel is in yet another conflict with Palestine, and, like many of the previous ones, it a mess almost entirely of their own making. Israel’s continual and unrelenting campaign to crush the Palestinian cause has ensured continued resistance from the beleaguered residents of the Gaza Strip.
While they talk about ceasefire and detente, the Israelis seem bent on a darker course; a Carthaginian peace.
This endearing term comes to us from a long lasting conflict between Rome and Carthage. After several wars, Rome decided that it was time to put the Carthaginian problem to bed forever. At the end of the third Punic War Roman soldiers rounded up the Carthaginians and slaughtered them or sold them into slavery. Then the Romans burnt Carthage to the ground and, according to some accounts, salted the earth, so nothing would ever grow there again. The state of Carthage was permanently crippled, slaves to their Roman masters in perpetuity.
While things have not gone that far yet, the ominous echoes of that campaign, fought not far from the shores of Gaza, are hard to ignore.
The Gaza Strip has been under interdiction (by land, sea and air) by Israel for years, creating a humanitarian nightmare within the borders of this tiny, tormented part of the state of Palestine. Attempts to bring this illegal and immoral blockade to an end have been met with swift military action on the part of the Israelis, amply illustrated by the IDF raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. This peaceful attempt by the Turkish people to help Palestinians was met with cold blooded murder.
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Oh my gosh…the crazy far left nutjob returns. They say that a broken clock is still right twice a day, but nutjob Lucy Raed can’t even surpass that. Now she is a shill for the Islamic terrorist group Hamas as she spreads antisemitic hate on Israel. Somehow the fact that all of this started with the kidnapping and murder of three teenage boys by terrorists linked to Hamas seems to elude her. After the Israeli Security Agency made multiple raids to conduct arrests, Hamas started launching rockets into Israel. Israel retaliated and it has continued ever since. Hamas started it.
Not only that, but Egypt brokered a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, but Hamas refused to sign off on it. Israel agreed to end hostilities, but Hamas did not. Israel also does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties. It takes the unusual step of calling the person whose home targeted so he or she has time to leave. Hamas, on the other hand, intentionally puts civilians, especially women and children, in harm’s way. They hide missiles in hospitals, schools, mosques and bunkers. They even booby-trapped a donkey with explosives so it would become a suicide bomber. (Talk about cruelty to animals!) Yet Hamas gets almost no blame and zero condemnation. It is excused as being a “symptom.”
Wrong. The Palestinians knew what they were getting with Hamas when enough of them voted them into office. It’s charter seeks the destruction of Israel, which should make it obvious to anyone with an I.Q. higher than a walnut’s that it doesn’t want peace. Hamas and Fatah both brainwash children by teaching them to hate Jews and Israel from birth. Hamas, for those who don’t know, is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, which Egypt recently had the sense to get rid of. The Muslim Brotherhood, in turn, comes out of Nazified Muslims who supported Hitler. They continue to love his book “Mein Kampf” as well as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Several years ago the most popular song in much of the Middle Eastern Muslim world was “I Hate Israel.” This is the mindset of Hamas. It is no better than ISIS, which is set to commit genocide against Christians and Shiites.
Yet, like other brain-dead ultra far-left extremists, Raed blames the victim and pretty much ignores the aggressor. Hysterically she cites the tyrannical left-wing dictatorship in Venezuela and newly Islamist Turkey for support. Maybe she can call up David Duke and cite his opinion too.
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The Romans were very smart. They destroyed Carthage and sold its survivors into slavery. Carthage never bothered Rome again.
Israeli politicians are stupid. They let Gaza attack Israel again and again. Just destroy Gaza and end the conflict already!
The rantings of an Israeli Nazi…..!