Posted on 03/06/2008 12:52:44 PM PST by forkinsocket
Gaza's streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands on Thursday evening following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary in which eight people were killed.
In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many residents went to perform the prayers of thanksgiving.
Armed men fired in the air in celebration and others passed out sweets to passersby.
Hamas stopped just short of claiming responsibility but issued a statement saying the group "blesses the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last,'' Hamas said in a statement.
An Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Ahmed told Ynet the blame for the attack lay with Israel for its operations in Gaza. "The responsibility lies with those who killed 130 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them children," he said. "We welcome this heroic act and strengthen the hands of those who carried it out. This is only the first of many responses the Palestinian people are planning."
The spokesman, a member of the organization's military wing – the al-Quds Brigades – said Israel is "reaping what it has sown in the Strip. Those who carried out the attack have brought great pride and raised the heads of the Palestinians."
They’re, no doubt, also celebrating the three candidates that the American people have foolishly nominated for President. The only candidates they would like even more would be Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Murtha, Schumer, Durbin, et al.
Palestinium delindum est.
He will negotiate a “peace” alright.
Of course, “peace” means “surrender” in arabic.
Does Israel return the bodies of the attackers in these “missions?”
They should only return the cremated ashes. That would really freak out the muslims.
It is an unspoken understanding among them not to criticize communists, developing countries, or jihadists....
Absolute proof that no one should worry about collateral damage when it comes to muslims. There is simply no such thing.
Mix the ashes with lard..
liberal handbook, page 203
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“I don’t think I have ever seen large crowds of Israelis running riot in the streets celebrating the deaths of Palestinians.”
That’s because Israelis belong to the group known as “humans”...
Pigs.
Better to sew them into body-bags along with pig carcasses and then send the “warriors” home.
EXACTLY!
No doubt! I dated a socialist very briefly in 1980. She had enough honesty left to explain it to me when I noted the discrepancy in liberal/leftist behavior..
Pork fat instead of napalm. It burns pretty well and by their own admission it deprives them of entering “paradise”.
And the same people who were celebrating on 9/11. ....with Obama's pastor cheering them on.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Delicious Lard!
Why not just tear down the wall between Egypt again, announce that the Gaza is being converted to a security zone, and pulverize everything in it until there is no object left that could not be passed through a 12" ring. Start at the south end and work to the North.
Hopefully the brave martyrs will live up to their talk and die fighting the IDF in the tens or hundreds of thousands. The survivors can become second, third and fourth wives in Egypt.
It does make one long for ancient times. Can one imagine (well you don't have to really, there is history) what they would have done to a group that acted this way. Slavery would have been the humane end of the spectrum for what was available.
Of course we don't have to just refer to Roman history, we have the Bible too. It's pretty clear on the "philistines" as they were called back then:
(I got this on the web, here)
The Bible especially illustrates the Philistines’ great cruelty in the book of Judges and the first book of Samuel. For instance, Biblical authors mention in explicit detail the torture and humiliation of an Israelite judge, Sampson, whom Yaweh endowed with great strength. The Bible tells us that, by treachery, Sampson’s Philistine wife caused Sampson to lose his strength. After Sampson’s strength left him, the Philistines reportedly “seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza.”
... Apparently, since Delilah, Sampson’s wife, is the source of his downfall, even association with the hated Philistines gains the disapproval of Yaweh.
Later, the account of Saul in thirty-first chapter of first Samuel also illustrates the cruelty of the Philistines. In this text, after enduring many defeats, the Israelites choose Saul as their king who will deliver them from their Philistine “oppressors.” Saul is able to successfully defeat the Philistines on several occasions, but Saul’s disobedience to the Lord eventually causes his downfall. Saul and his sons eventually die in a battle around Mount Gilboa, and, as a result, the Philistines take the surrounding Israelite towns and settle there. They also brutally desecrate the bodies of Saul and his sons, which the following passage from 1 Samuel 31:8-10 details:
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people. They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
These passages in first Samuel show the “barbarianism” of the Philistine people by emphasizing the fact that they worship idols. It also graphically depicts the harsh treatment of Saul and his sons’ bodies to emphasize the brutality of the Philistines To add insult to injury, the Bible also mentions that the Philistines place the armor of Saul, whom Yahweh anointed to rule the Israelites, in the temple of their pagan gods. All these actions serve to vilify the Philistine culture.
It is my personal experience that Yaweh is an excellent judge of character. I suggest he was right about these people 4,000 years ago, and obviously they are getting worse, not better.
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