Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:48:42 PM
Gaza has plenty of natural advantages. It enjoys a picturesque coastline on the Mediterranean with sandy beaches and a rich classical history. There is a contiguous border with Egypt, the Arab world’s largest country and spiritual home of pan-Arabic solidarity.
The Palestinians are a favorite cause of the oil-rich Middle East, and would seem to be in store for at least a few billions that accrue from $100 a barrel oil. In short, an autonomous Gaza might have been a test case in which the Palestinians could have crafted their own Singapore, Hong Kong, or Dubai.
Instead, despite Palestinian rule of Gaza, Hamas has continued its civil war with the Palestinian Authority, and looters have ruined infrastructure that was left by the United Nations and the Israelis. Mobs crashed the border crossing with Egypt. Hamas-led terrorists have launched over 2,500 mortar rounds into Israel, as well as over 2,000 Qassam rockets.
We all now know the familiar Gaza two-step. The Israeli Defense Forces respond to Hamas rockets with targeted air strikes against terrorist leaders or small-rocket factories. Hamas makes certain both these targets are intermingled with civilians in the hopes of televised collateral damage.
Hamas counts on the usual sympathetic European and Middle Eastern media coverage and commentary. Terrorists deliberately trying to murder Israeli civilians are seen as the moral equivalents of Israeli soldiers trying to target combatants who use civilians as shields. To the extent that the IDF kills more of the terrorists than Hamas kills Israeli civilians, sympathy goes to the “refugees” of Gaza.Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians and provoke Israeli counter-responses — and perhaps start another Middle East war.
This is not the way some imagined Gaza two and half years after the Israelis withdrew both civilians and soldiers from the territory in September 2005. At the time, the Palestinian Authority controlled Gaza, but in early 2007, Hamas took over in a violent civil war, claiming legitimacy after once winning a popular election.
Also, the Palestinian just love, love, love to murder Jews. If Hamas and the Palestinians could not murder Jews they would simply start murdering each other even more just like the rest of Islam in the Middle-East. There's no grand idea propped-up by set of complicated circumstances perpetuating the ongoing war in Israel. There's Palestinian blood lust and that's it! We don't need to search and search for answers to the "Palestine question." They do what they do because the Qur'an tells them to. The very foundations of their religion commands them through Allah to murder Jews and anyone else who will not submit to his violent and perverted rule.
Palestinians murder Jews because that's what Palestinians do. The day Israel removes the Palestinians from their lands is the day that Palestinians will cease to murder Jews from within their own country. The situation in Israel is akin to us giving the Nazis and the Japanese a few towns to occupy here inside the United States during WWII then attempting to figure out ways to live with them instead of rounding them up and deporting the ones we didn't kill first. Insanity!