Israel’s investigation (without PA cooperation) into last Friday’s Gaza beach explosion that killed at least 7 Arab civilians shows the IDF was in no way involved.The most likely culprit is a land mine planted by “Palestinian” terrorists to thwart landings by Israeli naval commandos.

Needless to say, the evidence Israel is presenting is not being reported by the international media with the same enthusiasm and gusto as were the original “Palestinian” claims of an Israeli-perpetrated massacre.

At any rate, the simple fact remains that even if the IDF were responsible for the deadly explosion, the blood of the deceased is ultimately on the hands of “Palestinian” terrorists, who leave Israel with little choice but to respond militarily to their incessant rocket fire.

It is amazing to me how just a few short years after 9/11 so many Americans can have already “moved on” from that event and abandoned their nation’s efforts to defeat the enemy that perpetrated that evil. Continue reading »

A glimpse into the depths of delusion:

1. “Suicide” bomber slaughters nine and wounds more than 60 others in Tel Aviv.

2. Hamas-led Palestinian Authority unsurprisingly endorses said bombing.

3. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares that said endorsement of said bombing is evidence that the PA is no peace partner.

4. Israel will respond by surrendering in return for nothing the lands that the PA had hoped to gain through negotiations, says Olmert.

Is this failing to make sense to anyone else?

Does anyone, outside of Israel’s own delusional leaders, believe this will NOT encourage Hamas and their fellow terrorists to mass murder more Jews?

Or is Jewish blood really less valuable than the very temporary international acceptance and accolades Olmert & Co. believe they will receive for dividing this land at all costs?

According to the Associated Press, Washington Tuesday reiterated its support for Israel’s right to defend itself following Monday’s Tel Aviv “suicide” bombing, but urged Jerusalem to consider carefully the effects any retaliatory action may have on “peace prospects.”

Umm, would someone mind explaining what “peace prospects” these guys are talking about? Mahmoud Abbas, the “moderate,” is all but irrelevant, and the Palestinian Authority is ruled by a group of blood-thirsty terrorist killers who publicly supported the slaughter in Tel Aviv - a virtual declaration of war.

And even when Abbas did matter and was running the show his positions regarding the need for Israel to vacate 100% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, including eastern Jerusalem, and to allow millions of Arab “refugees” to flood the Jewish state did not differ much from the Hamas platform.

Only difference is that while Abbas feigned peace, Hamas is open about its desire to see Israel engulfed in an Islamic tide.

How the boys in Washington can look at the situation over here and imagine there is some prospect for peace outside of Israel reasserting full sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel is beyond me.

According to the Hamas Authority, the Palestinian Arabs are now at war with Israel.

Israel’s decision to this week to close it’s last remaining regional coordination office with the Palestinian Authority in Jericho is a declaration of war, insisted Hamas.

War has only now begun? What has been going on for the past 5 years? The past decade? The past half century?

How is this a declaration of war, but the thousands of annual “Palestinian” terror attacks against Israel - a large portion carried out by Hamas itself - are not?

War was declared a long time ago, but not by Israel.

Further displaying the hypocritical nature of the PA’s position, “President” Mahmoud Abbas also decried the closing of the Jericho office as an Israeli violation of signed agreements.

Right. That move, and not the PA’s long refusal to end anti-Jewish terrorism that led to such measures, is the culprit.

Could they be any more transparent?

PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas is incensed over an Israeli missile strike on an empty building in his presidential compound in Gaza.

To hear him speak, Israel simply launched the attack for fun, because it just loves to see the “Palestinians” squirm.

“The continuous random bombarding in Gaza is not justified. It wants nothing but to disrupt the daily life of the Palestinian people.”

So why did Israel launch the strike?

Well, Israel would argue that all those Kassam and Katyusha rockets being fired from Gaza on a daily basis at Israeli civilians in the Negev are the reason.

To turn Abbas’ accusation on its head - it seems the “Palestinians” want nothing but to disrupt the daily life of all Israelis within their reach.

And the fact Abbas and his regime are doing absolutely nothing to prevent such attacks make them fully complicit.

So, far from a “random bombardment” meant to “disrupt the daily life” of Gaza’s residents, a little cause and effect analysis shows that Tuesday’s air strike was a determined action meant to send a message to Abbas over his ongoing failure to act in accordance with signed agreements.

Can someone please convince the Bush Administration that these truths also hold true in Israel:

In Iraq and around the world, we will never peacefully dissuade those dedicated to violence against us. They must be captured or killed.

Nor are the actual terrorist murderers the only problem:

sympathetic local populations…sustain the insurgency with cash, weapons, and intelligence.

And, in the case of the Palestinian Arabs’ overwhelming elecion of Hamas, with international legitimacy.

The article also provides logic that perfectly explains how and why Hamas managed to score its electoral coup:

Hamas is an “enemy who thrives by delivering empowerment and vengeance to [a population] drowning in poverty, social humiliation, and political marginalization. These masses in return sustain the enemy — passively with cover and actively with fighters.

Where I disagree with the authors is in their view that overwhelming firepower is not part of the answer, but rather greater involvement of local law inforcement.

If the Israeli-Arab conflict has taught anything, it is that in the Muslim world the perception of strength carries much weight.

When the enemy is perceived as strong, the terrorists are deterred. When the enemy is perceived as weak due to its failure to respond strongly to the terrorists’ threat, those terrorists are better able to convince local populations of their own strength, and so gain greater support.

The authors get back on track with their assessment of the need for a re-education of the local population.

The overall strategy, however, should be closer to that implemented again Japan in World War II - a strategy that worked perhaps better than any expected.

The Japanese were a people unquestionably dedicated to war on behalf of their deified emperor. It was overwhelming American firepower that convinced them of their own weakness and the need to lay down their arms, leading to the ability to carry out a true re-education of the general population.

Israel’s approach should be no different - the outright defeat of its enemies, followed by a concerted Israeli-controlled campaign to win the hearts and minds of the local Arabs through education.

This, of course, is unlikely to happen in the current liberal atmosphere of appeasement.

Fortunately, all hope is not lost. One day the overwhelming firepower of the Messiah will defeat Israel’s enemies, and a divine program of re-education will transform not only the Arabs’ hearts and minds, but their very souls.