What do you expect from a Muslim President?
Posted on 06/09/2016 4:41:04 AM PDT by SJackson
An Israeli parliamentarian who arrived on the scene of Wednesday night’s Palestinian terrorist attack at an upscale outdoor mall in Tel Aviv summed up in a phrase what terrorism is all about.
“Uneaten birthday cakes next to pools of blood,” is how Likud MK Amir Ohana described what he first encountered in the immediate aftermath of the shooting spree at the Max Brenner chocolate shop/café in the outdoor Sarona mall, committed by two relatives from the village of Yatta near Hebron.
No matter how precise the details of such attacks Israelis experience on a regular basis – and despite the accuracy of eyewitness accounts of fear felt, screams heard and killing observed – it is rare for words to capture carnage so well.
Yes, “uneaten birthday cakes next to pools of blood” tells us everything we need to know about the setting itself and its significance in the twisted, brainwashed minds of young people in the Palestinian Authority. It is precisely what the two young men who brought makeshift assault rifles with them to an eatery on a summer’s eve had envisioned. It was exactly their goal to slaughter Jews, some of whom would be out and about in flip-flops, merely enjoying respite from the oppressive heat of the day, and others dressed to the nines, celebrating personal milestones.
Indeed, “uneaten birthday cakes next to pools of blood” says it all. It is a reminder of the funerals that will devastate entire families for the rest of their lives; the months of physical rehabilitation and post-trauma awaiting those in induced comas; and the tears of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters praying at bedsides.
“You never get used to it,” a surgeon from the Ichilov Medical Center, where the wounded – among them one of the two terrorists – are being treated.
The rest of us in Israel, meanwhile, will be treated by the international community to reprimands about the need for peace, just as we are already being bombarded on local talk shows with the urgency for “an agreement with the Palestinians.” Like the terrorist attacks themselves, these pronouncements are repeated virtually without let-up.
The difference this time is the addition of the discussion about how Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s new defense minister, who assumed his role only 10 days ago, is going to meet the challenge, particularly as a proponent of the death penalty for terrorists, which the Jewish state does not have. Natch.
This is something the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, east Jerusalem and Gaza are keenly aware of, along with the knowledge that if they engage in particularly gruesome violence, they will be hailed as heroes by their society and leaders. Those who are killed while murdering Jews can look forward not only to paradise in the after-life, but being martyrs after whom sports arenas, cultural events and streets are named.
Thankfully, Lieberman – whose alleged first order of business over the weekend was to strike terrorist bases in Syria — did not talk politics. Instead, he gave a brief press conference at the scene of the attack with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Netanyahu had literally just landed in Tel Aviv from a two-and-a-half-day trip to Russia, ostensibly to mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of full diplomatic relations with Moscow, but really to cement growing ties with President Vladimir Putin. This is the sad but necessary upshot of the Obama administration’s attitude towards Israel in particular and the Middle East in general.
Netanyahu understands that he has to have an alternative ally on whom to rely when it comes to safeguarding Israel from the dangers posed by the civil war in Syria, chief among them Iran’s presence and Palestinian proxy Hezbollah. Oh, and there’s ISIS, too, which is also increasing its foothold in the Sinai, along Israel’s southern border, adjacent to Gaza. You know, where Hamas continues to build tunnels through which to smuggle weapons and kidnap and kill Israelis.
For his part, Putin is only too happy to oblige, and replace the United States as the world’s superpower, a status his country lost when the Soviet Union fell 26 years ago. And the Palestinian “problem” was no more connected to that past event than it is to today’s global reality. It is simply a convenient excuse employed to hold Israel accountable and responsible for all ills. It is the politically correct contemporary antisemitic outlook, according to which Jews control the world.
What a hoot. We can’t even eat our birthday cakes at a chocolate bar without pools of our blood being spilled.
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Uh, no. The USSR was never THE superpower, it was A superpower.
What do you expect from a Muslim President?
Let me check my local rag to see if they say that the murders were done by palestinians, or by gunmen.
Nothing in the local rag.
There’s room tho to trash Trump.
Later
Put a bulldozer blade on the front of every tank and push them until you’re no longer on Israeli soil.
Is there something about muzzies and chocolate as yet unknown? Thinking of the Lindt café attack in Sidney...
I'm not going to give them that much credit, it involves reading beyond the internet. However you could find some of the connections and piece things together yourself. The Carribean was a sanctuary for Sephardic (Spain and Portugal) fleeing the inquisition. Imposed in Brazil at a date later than in Spain. Many were traders, some cultivated the local crops. Cocoa was new to Europe. Gained a market, but was bitter. Sugar was also an export to Europe. But bitter as a drink. Many of the traders were Jews. It's suggested that the idea of combining the two to add value was a Caribbean experiment, transported to the low countries, the one area where Jewish merchants could trade. Dutch chocolate? You can probably find information on Benjamin d'Acosta de Andrade, a Portugese converso who returned to Judaism in Brazil, then when the inquisition was established there, fled to Martinique. Where he owned two of the largest sugar plantations on the island. He also established a cacao processing plant, and is credited with advancing the technology, the cacao mostly grown in Spanish colonies. By the late 17th century "chocolate", don't know if it was processed cocoa or combined with sugar as the term referred to both, was Martinique's largest export. Did d'Acosta no good, the French government "nationalized" export through an influential company. And interestingly banned export of the raw materials to Amsterdam. Guess Amsterdam made better chocolate. Must have been profitable because by 1680 or so France threw the Jews out. Local Jews also pioneered the extraction of vanilla, which became an exclusive product of the Jewish communities of Jamaica, Barbados and Amsterdam for awhile in the mid 17th century.
Interesting stuff, but no, I don't think Muslims know about that
Thanks, interesting train of thought.
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