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Hamas Guilty of Capital War Crimes in Gaza Conflict by Bill Levinson U.S. Code Title 10, § 950v. “Crimes triable by military commissions” speaks for itself. Hamas is guilty of multiple war crimes, all punishable by death in the United States, during the recent Gaza conflict. (9) Using protected persons as a shield.— Any person subject to this chapter who positions, or otherwise takes advantage of, a protected person with the intent to shield a military objective from attack, or to shield, favor, or impede military operations, shall be punished, if death results to one or more of the victims,...

Israel: Stop Apologizing by Bill Levinson “Israel Shells U.N. in Gaza” (January 15) reports, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas militants opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded. “It is absolutely true that we were attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it,” he said. “I don’t think it should have happened and I’m very sorry.” Ehud Olmert is clearly not capable of managing Israel’s public relations, and we will try to help him out with the correct public relations...

Islamic Supremacists Like Hitler, So Let’s Give them Hitler by Bill Levinson We have read recently that Islamic supremacists in Europe and even the United States have expressed their admiration of Adolf Hitler with slogans such as “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,” “we need a bigger oven,” and “Heil Hitler.” There is an ancient adage that says, “Be careful what you wish, you are likely to get it,” and we consider ourselves sufficiently proficient in organizational psychology and psychological warfare to give the Islamic supremacists what they are so ardently asking for. If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels could...

Tania Chernova’s Lesson for Israel by Bill Levinson Tania Chernova (the sniper portrayed by Rachel Weisz in “Enemy at the Gates”) was actually an American who went to Russia to rescue her grandparents during the Second World War. The Nazis, however, murdered her grandparents (not her parents as depicted in the movie). As a result, After serving with the partisans, she made her way to Stalingrad, determined to kill as many Germans as she could. Many of the savage German reprisals led her to dehumanize the enemy. She called them sticks, fit only for breaking. It is believed that Tania...

The unspoken truth about the fighting in Gaza, which began on December 19 2008 when Hamas rockets broke a voluntary truce, is that this is the frontline of a much larger war. This war began thirty years ago with the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is now global in scope. Its agenda is the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of the West. The Islamic terrorist organization Hamas makes no secret of this agenda. Its Egyptian founders and Palestinian inspirers were active followers of Adolf Hitler and enthusiasts of the Nazi Holocaust. The founding charter of Hamas, which promises...

WASHINGTON -- Israel's leaders have purposely obscured their war aims in Gaza. But there are only two possible endgames: (A) a Lebanon-like cessation of hostilities to be supervised by international observers, or (B) the disintegration of Hamas rule in Gaza. Under tremendous international pressure -- including from an increasingly wobbly U.S. State Department -- the government of Ehud Olmert has begun hinting that it is receptive to a French-Egyptian cease-fire plan, essentially acquiescing to Endgame A. That would be a terrible mistake. It would fail on its own terms. It would have the same elements as the phony peace in...

Much of the world buys the line -- peddled by the Palestinians and the Arab Muslim world and, indeed, many Western countries -- that paints Israel as the bad "Goliath" that "stole" the land from the "Palestinians." Israel gave Gaza self-rule in 1994, unilaterally withdrawing the last of its citizens and soldiers from Gaza in 2005. Hamas, voted into power via free elections in 2006, fought and defeated their political and military rival, Fatah, to seize de facto control of Gaza in 2007. In the past eight years, Hamas has fired more than 10,000 rockets and mortars into Israel --...

"Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!" This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely. You can watch it on YouTube if you like. But why bother? The Fort Lauderdale outburst is just one window on the upside-down world of Israel hatred. Across the Islamic world, and in too many points West, it is still considered a penetrating and poignant insight to call Zionists the "new Nazis." For instance, in Sunday's Gulf...

Freak Show in Fort Lauderdale by Bill Levinson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Xl68kP4wo&yt Note the Che Guevara poster, and how they bray like a herd of animals. December 30 was, incidentally, a normal work day in the United States, so these individuals are doubtlessly welfare parasites in the bargain. Although they have the right to say things like “you need a bigger oven,” it was clearly a mistake for the United States to admit these parasites and leeches.

find the current situation deeply sorrowful, harrowing. There is one aspect of it that I think needs clarification, a clarification that will help thinking about the situation as a whole, and that is the analogies between Hitler, the Nazis and Hamas. So, as the author of Explaining Hitler , having spent some time studying the subject, I thought I would point out a few differences.

Israel assassinated a Hamas strongman Thursday in its first assault on the top leadership of Gaza's rulers, escalating a crushing aerial offensive even as it declared it was ready to launch a ground invasion. The airstrike targeted the eight-story apartment building in the Jebaliya refugee camp that was home to Nizar Rayan, 52, ranked among Hamas' top five decision-makers in Gaza. The attack killed 12 other people including two of Rayan's four wives and four of his 12 children, Palestinian health officials said. The Muslim faith allows men to have up to four wives. While escalating its 6-day-old military offensive...

As soon as the first Israeli bomb destroyed a Hamas building the dhimmi's across the world started screaming Disproportionate Response. Of course that argument is about as real as the Screaming Old Lady that was photo-shopped into all bombing sites in the Lebanon war, and just so happened to show up at the anti-Israel protest in Jordan yesterday. None of those same voices screamed disproportionate response at the 7,600+ Rockets/Mortars fired from Gaza over the past 7 years or the nearly 700 launched since the "cease fire" was announced in June (through today). Israel is defending her citizenry from attack....

JERUSALEM: Israel's defence minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Israel was in an "all-out war against Hamas" as the Jewish state continued its massive bombardment of the Islamist movement's installations in Gaza. "We have nothing against Gaza residents, but we are engaged in an all-out war against Hamas and its proxies," he said. "This operation will expand and deepen as much as needed," he said. "We went to war to deal a heavy blow to Hamas, to change the situation in the south." "We will avoid as much as possible hitting civilians while the people of Hamas and other...

December 28, 2008 UK and Vatican Call for Cease Fire in Gaza by Bill Levinson The United Kingdom has called for an “immediate halt” to violence in Gaza, while the Pope called upon “all sides” to end the violence. We do not recall either Britain or the Vatican speaking up when Hamas was pouring rockets and mortar shells into Israel. We therefore do not see why Israel should even listen to anything that either entity has to say now that Hamas is reaping what it has sown.

Israel: Heed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris by Bill Levinson Now that Israel has FINALLY retaliated against Hamas for Hamas’ ongoing litany of mindless violence and breaches of regional peace, it needs to heed the advice of the British air marshal who supervised the bombing campaigns of the Second World War. With regard to justification of the bombing campaign in the first place, just replace “Nazis” with “Palestinians” (easy enough) and the names of the Allied cities with those of the Israeli cities at which the Palestinians have fired rockets. The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion...

If it's December, it's time for the left to throw another shameless pity party for convicted American jihadist John Walker Lindh (aka Suleyman al-Faris, aka Abdul Hamid). Every Christmas season for the past four years, the Taliban accomplice and his parents have asked President Bush to pardon him. This country should save its tears and mercy for the defenders of freedom. The farther we move from the September 11 attacks, the cloudier our collective memory of Lindh's case becomes. Sympathetic journalists have rewritten the history, embracing him as a naive young hippie-dippie from Marin County, Calif., who was just caught...

Just two months after the twin towers fell, the armies of the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul. The Taliban fled. The triumph was total in the "splendid little war" that had cost one U.S. casualty. Or so it seemed. Yet, last month, the war against the Taliban entered its eighth year, the second longest war in our history, and America and NATO have never been nearer to strategic defeat. So critical is the situation that Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Kandahar last week, promised rapid deployment, before any Taliban spring offensive, of two and perhaps three combat brigades of the...