Good point. Hard to imagine even more "rage" amongst these animals. They are already at a peak, might as well add to it.
"This one goes to eleven"
Posted on 03/22/2004 10:21:08 PM PST by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON - The United States braced for a wave of potential retaliatory strikes by Hamas yesterday in the wake of Israel's assassination of the extremist Palestinian group's leader, a killing that provoked widespread furor in the Arab world.
The White House struck a hard line against Hamas, expressing concern about Israel's deadly strike against militant leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, but stopping far short of directly condemning the killing.
``Let's remember that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Sheik Yassin himself has been heavily involved in terrorism,'' Bush national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told CBS News.
Urging restraint amid rapidly escalating violence among Arabs across the Mideast, the White House said it was ``deeply troubled'' by the strike against Yassin.
``We urge everyone to remain calm in the region,'' said White House spokesman Scott McClellan as hundreds of thousands of enraged mourners poured into the streets of Israel's West Bank and Gaza Strip. Yassin helped found Hamas, which advocates the destruction of Israel as its goal, in 1987.
But senior Bush administration officials refused to denounce the strike - and asserted Israel's right to defend itself against terrorists. ``Shiek Yassin was personally involved in terrorism,'' said McClellan. ``That's very well-documented.''
The United Nations and many U.S. allies flatly condemned Israel for the missile attack on the sheik, a quadriplegic, after he exited a Gaza Strip mosque in a wheelchair. Some critics said Israel's strike was tantamount to state-sponsored terrorism.
``Words cannot describe the emotion of anger and hate inside our hearts,'' Ismail Haniyet, a Yassin deputy, told reporters in Gaza.
The White House insisted it had no advance word about Israel's attack on Yassin or his group, which it branded as a terrorist organization.
Hamas, meanwhile, threatened America for the first time and hinted it might recruit outside assistance in mounting strikes against U.S. targets. Hamas considers America a major backer of Israel that should be held responsible for Yassin's death.
``All the Muslims of the world will be honored to join in on the retaliation for this crime,'' according to a written statement from Hamas. ``Israel has exceeded all red lines with this cheap and dirty crime.''
I hope the American Jewish voter remember, that Bush is the best friend Israel ever had in a US president.
I believe this, all right.
Standing Ovation over here...
Why do we show some guts and applaud it
Say what?
I know somebody on FR has a map of the US showing all the locations where Hamas has organized within the US.
Yep, there's a bit more work to be done (besides that which you already mentioned) --- Palestinian population transfer (back to their homeland in Jordan). .........The elimination of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Fatah, the PLO, etc.
Quite a bit, indeed.
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You could be saying what you believe to be true, but be mistaken in that belief.
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There are a great many liberal Jews who hate Israel in the same way that liberal Americans hate America. Generally, they fall into a category that I don't believe even deserves the title "Jewish", because they are usually completely secularist, just as I don't believe many liberal "Christians" deserve the title Christian, because in truth they are completely secularist and think Jesus was just a liberal social worker.
I concur. There is also a tiny grain of truth to the self-hating/masochistic Jew stereotype - some Jews (far from all) get so used to being persectued (in their minds or in fact) that when they see other Jews fight back, they resent it as an implicit indictment of their passivity. Also, Judaism has a long history of compassion for the oppressed, which is sometimes perverted into compassion for losers, no matter how deserving such losers are of their fate.
Most religious Jews I know of do support Israel. The ones who call themselves Jewish because their grandfather on their mother's side was Jewish, and who believe that an expression of their Jewishness is eating bagels, they are the ones who don't support Israel, and adopt the self-hatred of the liberal ideology.
Again, I concur. There are tiny fringe sects of Judaism, such as the Neteuri Karta, who believe the State of Israel is illegitimate because it was not established and ruled by the Messiah, but these are no more representative of mainstream Judaism than Jim Jones was representative of mainstream Christianity.
Amen to that. As a Jew I say proudly: Abe Foxman--NO (hell no), George W. Bush--YES!
Good point. Hard to imagine even more "rage" amongst these animals. They are already at a peak, might as well add to it.
"This one goes to eleven"
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