Action-Items CCXX [Israel]

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Having covered domestic issues [and the GOPs split on Foreign Policy between a neoisolationist and

muscular approach @ the end of the last Blaste-mail], it is vital to provide an update regarding Israel;

the headline on Drudge says-it-all: BIBI TELLS WHITE HOUSE: 'NEVER SECOND-GUESS ME AGAIN!'[This

is eerily reminiscent of the classic-quote from Rush, Dont doubt me!] Highlighted are articles focused

on Kurdistan and Caroline Glicks suggestion [slowly demilitarize Gaza] and my effort to discredit the

smooth-operator who almost destroyed Israel [Dennis Rosswho will be on FNC tomorrow-a.m.]. In the

process, a greater appreciation of the pathophysiologyof the tunnels is emerging, a definable-task.

First is a letter-to-the-editor of the Inqy, which continues to publish Trudy Rubins trash; her narrative is

so devoid of truth, that its difficult to discern what Dr. Cohn would be targeting [and, as usual, he does

quite well]. Just like it was vital to read the Cato-essay on why we shouldnt facilitate NATO membership

for the Ukraine [I disagreed with every syllable], so too is it desirable to scrutinize all the deviations from

obvious-truth exuded by this experienced columnist. [One recalls the phrase Have you no shame?]

Indeed, the obvious question that arises is whether one can negotiate anything with someone who only

wants you deadASAP; deftly, she avoids dealing with such an uncomfortable skewering of her views.

To the editor,

In Trudy Rubins world, the problem between Israel and the Palestinians is that

Gazans are rarely seen as individuals. To the contrary, in the real world, it is Jews and

especially Israels Jews who face a rising tide of anti-Semitic hatred.

Gazans were welcomed at Israeli medical facilities and at jobs throughout Israel, until

they started strapping on bombs or pulling out knives and guns, to murder Israelis,

including at the very healthcare facilities where treatment was provided.

In the real world tunnel building is one of the few new sources of jobs in Gaza,

because that is how Hamas chooses to use its billions of aid dollars and other

resources. Israel has transferred vast amounts of aid to Gaza. Despite import

restrictions, Hamas accumulated and has used thousands of increasingly sophisticatedrockets, turning Gaza into a fortress, building miles of concrete reinforced bunkers and

attack tunnels, rather than schools, businesses, hospitals, homes or civilian shelters.

In the real world, Palestinians are supported by their own special UN relief

agency. Israelis and Jews are vilified and often targeted for random violence across the

globe,while casualties and persecution in bloodier and far more lethal conflicts in Syria,

Darfur, Chechenia, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, has well as years of rockets fired

from Gaza into Israel are largely ignored.

It is not Israelis dehumanization of Palestinians, but ceaseless hatred and the

dehumanization of Israels Jews that drives this conflagration.

John R. Cohn

1015 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

215-923-7685

Worldview: In Gaza, time to stop the blame and recognize the humanity
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By Trudy Rubin, Inquirer Opinion Columnist

Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2014, 1:09 AM

On my refrigerator door I keep a photo of an exceptional Palestinian woman who ran

kindergartens in Gaza in the 1990s for the Philly-based American Friends Service

Committee. Mary Khaas, who died more than a decade ago, would drag her teachersfrom their refugee-camp homes to visit her Jewish friends at a kibbutz just across the

Gaza border. She believed in two states, and wanted each side to stop demonizing the

other.

Attitudes have hardened in Gaza over the last decade, and I don't know how Mary

would feel now. But as U.S. efforts to produce a lasting cease-fire falter, and temporary

cease-fires run down, the photo reminds me that many Americans can't conceptualize

the humanity of the civilians who are dying there. Unless the world starts paying more

attention to the people behind the statistics, the battles between Israel and Hamas will

never end.

Few Americans, except for aid workers, have ever visited Gaza, a 25-by-5-mile spit ofsand crammed with 1.7 million Palestinians, many them descendants of refugees who

fled Jaffa or the Beersheba area during Israel's war of independence.

No one wants the Gaza Strip. The Israelis captured it in 1967 from Egypt and regard it

with disdain. In Hebrew, "Go to Gaza" is the local variant of "Go to hell."

The Egyptians feel the same way. They occupied the strip in 1948 during the Arab war

with Israel, when Gaza was part of mandate Palestine. Given the high unemployment

and sinking economy in Egypt, the last thing its rulers want is to take the strip back.

So Gaza's men, women, and children remain locked up in a virtual prison. Since Hamas

took control in 2007, Israel has kept the strip under a punishing economic blockade; theIsraelis control its sea space, airspace, and borders, except for the Rafah crossing with

Egypt. Gazans are rarely allowed to exit for medical treatment or to study.

Tens of thousands of Gazans who once worked as laborers inside Israel were locked out

of Israeli jobs nearly two decades ago for security reasons. Unemployment is sky high,

and local businesses, such as flower, fruit, and juice exporters, have been crippled by

the blockade, or by previous battles between Israel and Hamas. Gaza lives off the

international dole.

One reason for the amazing extent of Hamas' underground tunnel network - which

Israel is trying to destroy - is that digging tunnels is one of the few new sources of jobs.

The awful realities of Gazans' lives get lost in the blame game between Israel and Hamas

over their deaths.

Israel portrays the civilian victims, including children, as "human shields" forced by

Hamas to stay in harm's way despite advance Israeli warnings. Hamas says the

responsibility for their deaths lies totally with Israel. Each side accuses the other of war

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Both narratives are simplistic.

Hamas has indeed exposed Gazans to peril - by firing rockets that indiscriminately target

Israeli civilians; this fits the definition of a war crime. By firing from built-up areas,

Hamas puts its own population at risk, since it knows Israel will try to eliminate the

rocket threat.

So Hamas is culpable for Gazan casualties, but the story doesn't end there. There is no

evidence Hamas is forcibly preventing Gazans from seeking shelter. Some Gazans stay

put to protect their modest homes - which represent their entire life savings - or

because it is simply too difficult to flee with huge extended families, or because they

believed they were safe as they ate their post-fast meal during Ramadan.

As for prior warning, anyone who has been to Gaza (I have been there many times,

though not recently) knows the tiny strip is so densely populated that civilians are hard

pressed to escape the shelling and bombing. We've seen the videos of frantic families,

children in tow, desperately trying to figure out which street is safe. We've seen them

get blasted in a U.N. school shelter, in a hospital, and - in the case of four young boys -

while playing on a quiet beach.

The satirical publication the Onion caught the reality brilliantly in a July 23 headline:

"Israel: Palestinians Given Ample Time to Evacuate to Nearby Bombing Sites."

One reason the bombing has gone on so long, and aroused a limited international

outcry, is that Gazans are rarely seen as individuals, but as a lumpen mass that is to

blame for its own troubles. That view is especially prevalent inside Israel. Amira Hass, a

courageous Israeli journalist who covers Gaza and the West Bank for Haaretz, and

whose moving book Drinking the Sea at Gaza details ordinary life inside the strip, is

often excoriated. Israeli artists who have expressed sorrow over deaths on both sides

have been pilloried on social networks.

Mary Khaas' photo brings back many memories of Gazans I knew whose stories would

surprise Americans. There were Hatem Abu Ghazaleh, an eminent Western-trained

surgeon who returned home to help handicapped children, and Eyad El-Sarraj, a

psychiatrist, who fought for Palestinian human rights.

There were the Fatah members I met in the 1990s who had spent years in Israeli

prisons, learned Hebrew, and had come to believe the only way forward was two states.

More recently, there was an impressive group of young academics and Ph.D. candidates

I met in Philadelphia, who encouraged young Gazans to channel their anger into writing

short stories, collected into a volume called Gaza Writes Back. And there is the majority

of ordinary Gazans who just want to get on with living.

The bottom line: It's time to stop playing the blame game for civilian deaths in Gaza, or

citing statistics and focus on this: Too many innocent people are dying. The bombing

can't continue.

There is no way to eliminate Hamas' tunnels and rockets by military means alone -

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reputation. Absent a negotiated solution that gives ordinary Gazans some hope for the

future, this problem won't end.

U.S. Betrays Syria's Opposition

The World from Here: Kurds, Jews and a new Mideast

Kurdish-Canadians Call on World to End Silence and Help Syrian Kurds

The World According to Syrian KurdistanSherkoh Abbas, a veteran Kurdish dissident, calls for dismantling Syria into ethnicity based areas.

American alliance with the Kurds

Syria After Assad: Interview with Sherkoh Abbas, the leader of the Kurdnas

Syrian Kurdish leader Dr. Sherkoh Abbas on looming US attack and its consequences

Europe is Breeding Jihadists, Warns Syrian Kurdish Leader

Syria jihadists fight Kurds, Sunni tribe

Iraqi Kurds battling ISISpress US for arms

Dr. Sherkoh Abbas on the Kurdish Engine of Middle Eastern Democracy

Quest for an Independent (Israel-friendly?) Kurdistan - Part I

Below-the-surface coordination between the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hamas,Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan.

Into the fray: Far too little, much too late

Israel Should End Hamas Rule in Gaza

Israels Endgame inGaza[By Caroline Glick] is disarmament by attrition.

Caroline Glick's Capitol Hill briefing

Caroline Glick: Israel, Hamas and Obamas Foreign Policy

Caroline Glick: How to win in Gaza- Israel doesnt have to reconquer Gaza to destroy Hamas. We just

have to humiliate Hamas and knock out capabilities like the tunnel networks that immediately threaten

us. And then let the Gazans fight it out.

Hamas kidnapped Israeli soldier and killed 2 others 90 minutes into US-UN ceasefire

Israel: Truce is Over As Israeli Soldier Captured

US and UN: Israel and Hamas agree on a 72-hour truce from Friday, immediate talks inCairo

Hamas says missing Israeli soldier is likely dead- Group claims it has lost touch with the cell that took

part in the Friday ambush that scuttled a planned cease-fire.

Hamas Accepted the Truce Specifically to Kidnap a Soldier

White House: Hamas Attack 'Barbaric' Violation of Gaza Ceasefire

US seeks Qatari, Turkish help to free reportedly abducted IDF soldier

Tory Support For Israel Wanes As Senior Conservatives Object To Gaza Action

Netanyahu to Kerry: Hamas bears responsibility for consequences of its actions

Israeli soldier feared kidnapped as IDF names 2 others killedCEASEFIRE EXPLODES

Diplomatic Contretemps in the Israel US Cease Fire Negotiations

Phillips: As I see it: Iran is the real threat, and the US is on itsside- The US is simultaneously supporting

both the Sunni and Shia wings of the Islamic jihad against the West

the media bear moral responsibility for the Gaza civilian casualties

Free GazaFrom Hamas

Journalists receive death threats after reporting Hamas uses human shields
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Kerry, to his credit, envisioned the cease-fire he was trying to arrange as one in which fightingwould stop but Israel could finish destroying the tunnels. It has not worked yet, but if the U.S.works exclusively through the Egyptians, it may yet happen.

{Ross sinks further into the world of saccharine obeisance when praising Kerry for ANYTHING hehas either intended to do or actually did, particularly because the idea he ascribes to Kerry wasnot in the Qatar-plan he espoused a week ago (for it was announced by BB a few days ago);

again, he fails to address how much all Egyptians despise BHOs paradigm of regional policy.}

The administration needs to approach the Middle East with the broader goal of how it can ensurethat U.S. friends in the region are stronger and their adversaries (and ours) are weaker.Ultimately, President Obama and Secretary Kerry would be wise to approach the current conflict,and its end, with that objective in mind. The writer served as special assistant to PresidentBarack Obama from 2009-11.(Politico)

{His coda is as nondescript as was the rest of this think-piece; there is no coherent theme.}

Media Watchdog Asks Why WSJ Reporters Deleted Twitter Photos Implicating Hamas in War Crimes

Feds to Give Company $84M for Destroyed Gaza Power Plantdespite the fact that it was destroyed by

Hamas [a point not explicitly made in the article]

Israel is focused on eradicating the terrorist group Hamas, while the Palestinian group's prime concern iswaging a successful public relations campaign to the world

Why Netanyahu doesnt want to go all theway[This was written prior to the abduction.]

Stand with Israel [Rick Perry] America's reaction to the Israeli-Gaza conflict is being watched and

gauged by nations like Iran, and our failure to stand firmly beside our ally will only embolden the Islamic

Republic to continue its criminal efforts to develop and build a nuclear device.

EvenMSNBC's Chris Hayes called Israeli-Nazi comparison 'disgusting nonsense,' faces blowback

Defund UNRWA

Saudi King Condemns Gaza Conflict, But Not Israel

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has called Israels destruction of Gaza a war crime which

is brutally disproportionate and so grossly indiscriminate; Labour politician Lord Prescott censured

Israel for acting as judge, jury and executioner in its quest to mute Hamas terrorists, turning Gaza

into what he says is a concentrate camp.

Many mysteriesare solved in these excerpts from the Daily Alert.

Col. Kemp: Israel Is Standing Against the Onslaught of International Jihad- Col. (ret.)Richard Kemp in the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan.{This says it all.}Hamas' use of human shields is possibly thekey element of their strategy. So you see images ofdead babies, women screaming about their children, and no reality can overcome those images.It is heart-wrenching. The problem is that there's no reference, no open-mindedness to the factthat the only reason that these children have been killed is because of Hamas' aggressiontowards Israel.

Israel is at a disadvantage too because while Israel might understand the need to come ouwith a rapid message of the truth of what's happening in the conflict, it still has to be utterlyfaithful to facts and cannot afford to get it wrong, or to exaggerate. Hamas, on the other hand,

can say whatever they want and it doesn't get challenged, and if it does get challenged it doesn'tmatter for them because they're not accountable to anyone.

A few days ago I spoke to an Israeli pilot that told me that the same morning he had abortedan enemy target a total of 17 times because there were civilians in the target zone, andeventually he abandoned the operation. That to me, is one of the best things about the Israel AirForce - that the very last thing they want to do is bomb a target and have that on theirconscience for the rest of their lives. And it was the same thing with infantry soldiers. In fact, interms of civilian casualties, the attitude of IDF solders is the exact mirror image of the waythey're portrayed to the world.

British soldiers lives have also been saved by Israeli battlefield medical technology and also byIsraeli counter-bomb technology, that is, technological equipment that stops or detects
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improvised explosive devices like roadside bombs. British soldiers' lives in Afghanistan have beensaved and are being saved by that technology. Beyond that, British and Israeli intelligencecooperation is extremely tight and that has saved the lives not just of soldiers but of Britishcivilians as well.

The Jewish people should be extremely proud of the State of Israel. They should try their bestto disregard the terrible anti-Israeli propaganda that is designed solely to contribute to theconspiracy to exterminate the State of Israel. Israel is the one country in the Western worldtoday that is standing up for its morality and for its values against the onslaught of international

jihad.The Cheap Cement Goes to Building Gaza Homes, the Good Cement to Build the TunnelsWhere did Hamas get the cement to produce its concrete-lined attack tunnels, especially in lightof the Israeli blockade and an overall shortage of cement? While the civilian sector in Gazasuffered from a lack of building materials, Hamas had no problem obtaining thousands of tons ofcement. Unfortunately, part of the cement that Israel allowed to enter Gaza for humanitarianneeds ended up in Hamas' hands.

In addition, cement was brought in through smuggling tunnels from Egypt for years, especiallyduring the period when the Muslim Brotherhood ruled Egypt (June 2012 to June 2013). Duringthat time, an average of between 400 and 3,000 tons of cement, iron, an building stone enteredGaza daily via the tunnels. High-quality cement came from Turkey to the port at El-Arish in Sinai.The Egyptian authorities at the time were aware of the flow but did nothing to stop it.

Beginning in 2011, complaints by Gaza contractors about the quality of the cement comingthrough the tunnels started appearing in the Palestinian press, with concerns voiced that newlybuilt homes would one day collapse. It appears that in the private sector, cheaper Egyptiancement was often switched for what was labeled as high quality cement. One cement merchant inGaza explained that suppliers would deliver a truckload of cement sacks. The outer ones wereTurkish cement, while those beneath were Egyptian. Anyone who complained or tried to returnthe cement quickly found himself threatened by the military arm of Hamas, and dropped hiscomplaint.

Two years ago, Israel approved Qatari financing of reconstruction projects in Gaza at a cost o$400 million. A large amount of Egyptian military grade cement was allowed into Gaza throughthe Rafah crossing. The moment the cement entered Gaza, Hamas took control of it. The Qatarisdidn't really care what happened to the cement and the other building materials they paid for.

When the Egyptian army closed the smuggling tunnels, a serious delay in Qatar's buildingprojects in Gaza was announced. The local reaction was surprise, since Egypt had sent to Gaza allthe materials that were needed for the Qatari projects.

Behind Hamas' Guns, a Serious Problem of FundingUntil 2011 Iran was Hamas' "sugar daddy," with an estimated 80% of the aid from Tehran goingdirectly to the military wing of Hamas. Syria, another source of funds, cut off Hamas after it

backed the Sunni forces fighting the Assad regime in that country's civil war, as did Iran for thesame reason. Qatar has taken up some of the slack, as has Turkey, which has spent $350 millionon projects in Gaza. In contrast to the money from Qatar, it is clear the Turkish funds actuallyreached their intended recipients.

In its early years, before it was designated a terrorist organization and banned from receivingfunds, Hamas raised most of its funding openly, from wealthy Muslims in Europe and the U.S.Tha route has been closed, but money continues to enter Gaza in cash-filled suitcases, throughthe tunnels from Egypt. (Ha'aretz)

Israel Is Fighting on Behalf of the Free World"Israel in the Middle East is fighting on behalf of the free world," declared Mosab Hassan Yousef,the outspoken son of Hamas leader Hassan Yousef. "Hamas does not care about the lives ofPalestinians, or the lives of Israelis, or Americans; they don't care about their own lives," Youseftold CNN. "They consider dying for their ideology a way of worship."

"Their goal is to conquer the globe and build an Islamic state on every inch of the

globe....[Hamas] is willing to sacrifice as many Palestinian lives as it takes.""Hamas is not seeking co-existence and compromise. Hamas is seeking conquest and taking

over. And by the way, th destruction of the State of Israel is not Hamas' final destination.Hamas's final destination is building the Islamic caliphate, which means an Islamic state over therubble of every other civilization." (New York Post)

The "Gaza Generation" Seems Worried about Arab Deaths Only When Jews AreInvolvedIf one were primarily concerned about Palestinian children - whose deaths are indeed anabomination - one would demand that Hamas operatives leave the hospital basements wherethey have buried their command centers, move the rocket launchers that they have installed in
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the doorways of UN schools, and stop threatening parents who wish to evacuate their homeswhen an Israeli leaflet informs them that a strike is imminent.

Bluntly anti-Semitic slogans have marred most European demonstrations "in support of thepeople of Gaza." Residents of Frankfurt and Dortmund were horrified in mid-July to see neo-Nazigroups join hands with Islamists in a grim chant: "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas." The centerof London was blocked on July 19 by thousands who gathered in front of the Israeli embassy inKensington to shout their hatred for Jews.

No Better Friend in the World: The U.S. and Israel Have Each Other's Back {Yeah, tell thisto BHO.}Israel plays a role in advancing just about every vital American interest. It's an unsinkableaircraft carrier in the Eastern Mediterranean at a time when our Pentagon is cutting back onactual ships. The Israelis have built defensive technologies like Iron Dome, which is now co-produced in the U.S. and will make its way to our other allies.

Most immediately, and daily - we and the Israelis share the same terrorist enemies and thesame core values. Iran's leaders decry Israel as the Little Satan, but in their marches andspeeches they still refer to the U.S. as the Big Satan. Israel's work undermining the Iraniannuclear program also protect the U.S. Jihadiststhroughout the region seek to destroy Israel as away-station to attacking the American homeland. When Israel launches counter-terror operationsagainst those terrorists, they remove the threat posed to us as well.

Khamenei Mends Relations with HamasArm Hamas. That was the main message of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's speech on the

occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the month of Ramadan. The support forHamas marked a shift in rhetoric for the Iranian leader. Ties suffered because of Iran's supportfor Bashar al-Assad. The Hamas external leadership left Damascus in 2012.

"A rabid dog, and a predatory wolf has attacked innocent people," Khamenei said, referring toIsrael and its current war against Hamas in Gaza. He accused "the usurping and infidel Zionistregime" of committing "genocide," and demanded "punishment" for the "perpetrators of thesecrimes and their backers."

Finally, Khamenei said: "The entire world, and in particular the world of Islam, is obliged to doeverything in its ability to arm the people of Palestine." The renewed partnership should serve asa warning to those who believe a negotiated solution to the nuclear crisis would lead to changesin the regime's policy of supporting violent non-state actors. The writer is a senior fellow at theFDD.(Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.)

The Road to a Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran

The decision to extend nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 beyond the July 20deadline, giving Iran access to an additional $2.8 billion of its restricted assets, sends aproblematic message that there are no negative consequences for not reaching a deal.

With absolutely no indication of any softening of Iran's steadfast intransigence on the nuclearfront - if anything, positions have hardened - what could have convinced the Secretary of Statethat there was suddenly reason to believe that the next four months might see the significantIranian concessions that had proven elusive in the previous six? There is ample reason to believethat an agreement wit Iran will be no more achievable in four months than it is now.

The international community cannot enable Iran to continue the interim situation indefinitely inthis manner, with a very short breakout time. It must clarify to Iran that this is not an option.

Israel's Doctrine of Proportionality in Gaza- Dore Gold (Los Angeles Times)

The images of destruction in Gaza have caused many to declare that the Israel Defense Forcesare behaving "disproportionately" and using excessive force in the Shajaiya neighborhood in

Gaza. These accusations have no merit.Shajaiya was crisscrossed with an elaborate network of underground bunkers and tunnelscontaining equipment for the manufacture of rockets, storage facilities for rockets and otherweapons, and launching sites from which the rockets were fired at Israeli towns.Israel had three choices in how to deal with Shajaiya:

o First, it could have decided that it had every right to use overwhelming force toneutralize the neighborhood with air power, ignoring the question of collateral damageto civilians, much like the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II, or NATO's three-month campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, in which 40,000 homes were destroyed.This option was not considered.
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o Second, Israel could have decided there was nothing it could do, thus allowing Hamas tostrike at Israeli population centers with impunity. Such a decision would have grantedHamas a license to kill Israelis, something no Israeli government - or, indeed, anyaccountable democracy - could do.

o Finally, Israel decided to separate, as much as possible, the civilian population from theHamas fighters and arms in their midst. This required getting the Palestinian populationto evacuate potential target areas, by dropping leaflets with evacuation routes, breakinginto Hamas radio broadcasts with warnings about specific areas, Arabic-language

telephone calls to homes, and text messages to cellphones. An Israeli drone would hoverover the area to ensure that residents had left.

Against this Israeli effort, Hamas employed a counter-strategy of trying to prevent civilians fromheeding Israeli warnings. On July 8, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called on Gazans to serveas human shields against Israeli air attacks, and Hamas enforcers sought to dissuade civiliansfrom fleeing.Anyone who complains about "disproportionality" must explain exactly what the IDF should havedone to neutralize the terrorist threat while causing less destruction than what occurred.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in its weekly-report, contains myriad/excellent links.

Instead of Bombing Gazans, Pay them to Leaveby Moshe Feiglin

The Self-Inflicted Hamas 'Massacre' Blamed By the Media on Israel

The Jews Refuse to Play the Victim

Israel's Tech Scene Continues to Thrive

Israeli Cyber StartUp Closes $10 Million Funding RoundQuestions for the International Media in Gaza: How do you feel about the Spanish journalist who said

Hamas would kill any journalist if they filmed rocket fire? When Hamas Health Ministry statistics

contradict Hamas' own propaganda and reveal that mostly men of fighting age have died so far in Gaza,

does it give you pause? Were you aware that Hamas executed dozens of anti-war protesters in Gaza?

Human Rights Activistsmarch along the streets, yelling Jews and Israelis are murderers,

war criminals, and baby killers; these are Leftist Liberal, Crying-for-the-poor-

children, Israel-hating, Hamas-forgiving, marcher, celebrity, news anchor,

journalist, writer, media star, politician, head of state anti-Semites.You think you are

telling us who we are. But actually, you are telling us who you are. You are telling us that

you are ignorant.

Ukrainians Get the Gaza Connection; Why Doesnt the West?

Evelyn Gordon

Much of the world appears to view the current fighting in eastern Ukraine as totally

unconnected to the fighting in Gaza. And since the Ukrainian government is desperately

seeking support from both Europe and the Obama administration, neither of which is

enamored of Israels Gaza operation, one could have forgiven Ukrainian officials for

seeking to nurture this illusion. Instead, they have repeatedly gone out of their way to

dispel it.

Three weeks ago, Andriy Parubiy, the head of Ukraines National Security andDefense

Council, compared eastern Ukraines situation to what Israel faces and warned that

terrorists would likely adopt similar tactics in other countries if the West didnt take a

firm stance against them.

We, of course, studied the experience of both Croatia and Israel, but here alot of new

features are added, Parubiysaid. And, if Russia sees that this experience is successful,
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this experience can very easily be used in any Baltic countries, and even in Belarus and

Kazakhstan.

Yesterday, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Henadii Nadolenko made both the

comparison and the warning even more explicit in an op-ed in Haaretz. Unambiguously

titled Ukraine and Israel: Together in fighting terrorism, itdeclared, We, the

representatives of Ukraine, have, together with the people of the State of Israel,

personally felt the totality of the threat posed to civilians by the criminal activities of the

terrorists.

After enumerating the losses both countries have suffered, Nadolenko continued, I am

convinced that the huge loss of civilian and military life might have been avoided had

the activities of terrorist organizations had been condemned by the international

community. Then, citing the recent downingof a civilian airliner over eastern Ukraine,

he drove the point home:

I would like to emphasize once again that the crime, which killed

298 innocent civilians from around the world, is another confirmation ofthe fact that todays terrorism is not constrained by borders

In this regard, once again I would like to appeal to the thinking

and caring people of the world to demonstrate their support for

these peoples, who came upon a fight with an evil that threatens the

security of everyone, regardless of nationality or place of residence.

I believe that the countries that are faced with terrorism and who try

to fight this evil should support each other, and should join their efforts

in order to draw the worlds attention to our cause. We must begin

to receive real help and support from international organizations inorder to combat this threat.

Clearly, Nadolenko understands what too many European and American officials seem

to have missed: The Wests fine shades of distinctionunder which some terrorist

groups, like al-Qaeda, are utterly shunned; others, like Hamas, are denounced but

deemed to have legitimate grievances that mustbe addressed; while still others are

positively feted, like Mahmoud AbbassFatah, whose Gaza branch boasts of its

contribution to the rocket fire at Israelare meaningless. All terrorists are equally

enemies of the civilized world, and all of them learn from each others tactics. Thus if

the West rewards a given tactic in one location, terrorists in other countries will

soon replicate it.

For Hamas, launching rockets at Israel has so far paid handsome dividends: No less a

personage than U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged that if it ceases its fire, he

will personally see to it that all its economic demands are metincluding opening the

border crossings, paying Hamas employeessalaries, ensuring the social and economic

livelihood of Gaza residents andproviding major humanitarian assistancewhile not

insisting that it forfeit any of its military capabilities (all Kerry offered Israel was a vague

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Kerry clearly hasnt grasped that if targeting Israeli civilians with rockets payseconomic

and diplomatic dividends for Hamas, this will encourage other terrorists worldwide to

adopt similar tactics. Nadolenko and his fellow Ukrainians, in contrast, understand this

very well. The question is whether anyone in the West is listening to them.

Pamela Gellers Insights:

o Higher . on an open thread

o Sweden: Police lured into ambush in Muslim area, stoned by hundreds

o Video: American Muslim Suicide Bomber Warns Obama, Other Leaders We Are

Coming For You

o War Theater: Hamass Self-Inflicted Massacre at Shijaiyah and the Ensuing Blood Libel

against Israel

o VIDEO: Muslims Call for Genocide at Death March in Canada: Yell Heil Hitler at Jews,

Police Do Nothing

o U.N. condemns Israel, U.S. for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas

o

VIDEO: The Return of Islamic Spain: Muslim Jew-Hatred Demo and their dhimm-wittedcelebrities

o The Fallen

o Hamas Breaks Ceasefire, Kills Two Israeli Soldiers, Kidnaps One

o UKs largest supermarket chain banning Israeli products

o Hamas: We love death for Allah We love death like Israelis love life

o UK: Families barred from cinema for not being Muslim

o Israeli Discount Bank on NYs 5th Ave Vandalized, Defaced with Fake Blood by Pro-

Hamas Jew Haters

o NYU Professors Blame Jews for Stereotyping Muslims

o American Muslim suicide bomber spent months back in US before returning to Syria to

self-detonate in the cause of Allaho Turkish Humanitarian Aid to Gaza: Ball-Bearings, Cement Mixers

o Crowdfunding an Iron Dome!

o Adolf Hitler: How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?

o It must be so awkward having to check whether the dead child is from Gaza or Syria

before deciding whether to be morally outraged

o Terrorist Hamas Urges Human Sacrifice, New Campaign Reveals

o Cursed for Being Jewish, Dutch Woman Severely Beaten For Displaying Israel Flag on

Her Balcony. Well Cut Your Throat!

o Obama Attacks Israel for Indefensible Deaths

o Nuts!

o UN Clinic in Gaza booby-trapped with bombs built into walls, 3 Israelis dead

o

Chicago Imam Calls for Jihad against Israel Cites Quran Chapter and Verse

o Newsmax Headline Gets It Wrong

o Somalia: Muslima Shot Dead for Refusing to Wear a Veil

o Why are Western liberals always more offended by Israeli militarism than by any other

kind of militarism?

o IDF Forces Find & Destroy Terror Tunnel In Gaza Mosque

o U.S. troops told not eat or drink in front of Muslims, and learn more about Islam
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Arlene Kushner depicted the days events

August 1, 2014

Written with Great Weariness

Our whole nation is weary strong, determined, clear about who we are, but

weary. How could it be otherwise? We are contending with both an evil enemy and an

insane world.

Shabbat is coming within hours for which I thank Heaven. I had thought perhaps a

brief post today, one that simply provided background. No way...

What I wrote the other day about how I would really need to post every two hours to

keep my readers informed continues to be the case. I will send this out as late as

possible before Shabbat and post again after, as necessary.

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A brief chronological re-cap of todays events:

The US and the UN jointly announced a 72 hour unconditional ceasefire, consented to

by both sides, that would begin at 8 AM here. During those three days, it was said, there

were to be negotiations on extending the quiet more permanently.

What? Another ceasefire? Another attempt by our prime minister to show that we

were on the right side and had humanitarian concerns? I was deeply unsettled by the

involvement of both the US and the UN, but the fact that Egypt would mediate talks was

a good sign.

My first thought as the ceasefire began was with regard to work on taking out the

tunnels. Just yesterday, Netanyahu had said work on the tunnels would not stop even if

there were to be a ceasefire (and I have to assume he knew it might be coming when he

said that).

Via official channels it was hard to come by this information. Aaron Lerner pointedly

asked a question about whether continuing to work on the tunnels, meant just filling

them with sand, or using explosives to properly blow them up.

Unofficially, from a source with connections inside the government, I was told that we

would be continuing to blow them up and hoped that information was correct.

Following this, it then seemed important to monitor what would be happening with

regard to the teams going to Cairo for the negotiations and the issues of

demilitarization, which Netanyahu had spoken of yesterday. I saw that Egypt would not

entertain the participation of Hamas without a PA presence, and that the Israeli

delegation would include Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen and the head of the Policy and
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Political-Military Affairs department in the Defense Ministry Maj.-Gen. (Res.) Amos

Gilad.

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All of this became moot within two hours, however, when Hamas broke the ceasefire: in

the Rafah area of southern Gaza (near the Sinai) terrorists emerged from a tunnel and

began to shoot at IDF soldiers. Reports followed of a fierce battle there. Israel declared

the ceasefire formally at a end; from the prime ministers office came a statement about

how the UN and the US can now see how Hamas conducts itself. Hamas meanwhile

attempted to point a finger at Israel the occupier as the one who broke the

ceasefire.

Reports of a fierce battle in the Rafah area then followed a suicide bomber apparently

emerged from the tunnel with the others and blew himself up, killing two.

After this, came the chilling news that in the course of the fighting, an IDF soldier has

been kidnapped. He was grabbed during that battle, when the terrorists emerged fromthe tunnel (in the course of a ceasefire). The IDF has identified him: Second

Lieutenant (Platoon Leader) in the Givati Brigade, Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba.

There are enormous intelligence efforts and an intense search on-going in order to

locate Goldin; the period of time from when he was grabbed until it was known that he

was gone was shortwhich increases the possibility that he may yet be found. A search

is being done house to house in the area. It is not known if he had been wounded.

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Hamass Moussa Abu Marzouk announced that Hamas had captured a soldier, but a

spokesman for the Hamas military wing has denied a kidnapping.

Netanyahu has informed Kerry that Hamas will bear the consequences for whatever

follows. Kerry termed the kidnapping during a ceasefire barbaric We are currently

hitting Gaza very hard.

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Miri Regev (Likud) released a statement on the question of Israels participation in

ceasefires today (emphasis added):

We call on the Prime Minister to return Israel her sovereignty. We

must stop these cease-fires - they give over a message of hesitancy.

"We must not accept a single condition in a cease-fire. We must either

demilitarize or retake Gaza; there is no middle ground. Now is the

time."

Im with Miri. After this kidnapping, I trust and pray that Netanyahu will be as well:

The apparent goal of the kidnapping is so that Hamas can go to Cairo to negotiate a

permanent truce from a strong bargaining position. In their dreams.
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With the amount of cement Hamas used to build its tunnels, it could have built two

hospitals, 20 clinics, 20 schools, and 100 kindergartens.

Is your mind boggled yet? Getting the picture of the obscene neglect of the people

visited upon them by Hamas?
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