Days After Boston, Obama Pressures Israel To Release Terrorists As A 'Goodwill Gesture'

 

Here's more proof that in spite of all the photo ops and rhetoric, the Obama Administration learned nothing from the Boston Marathon bombing. Nor does it particularly want to.

It hasn't even been a week since Islamist terrorists unleashed carnage in Boston,  but the Obama Administration outraged Israeli public opinion and the Israeli government by pressuring Israel to release Palestinian murderers convicted in Israeli civil courts as a goodwill gesture to Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.

Knesset MK Orit Struk from the Bayit Yehudi party said, "the demand is shocking, not just because the peace talks must begin without preconditions, and not just because of the danger that these terrorists will return to terrorist activity once they are released, but because the release of terrorists is an energizing shot of encouragement to terror and terrorists."

"Every release like this," she continued, "causes potential terrorists to make the decision to become one, because they see that they will be given support."

Struk added, "is the America that is asking Israel to release terrorists the same America that has carried the flag in the struggle against terrorism and who recently experienced the hands of terror in their house?!"

This story made headlines in Israel.

Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis promised on the floor of the Knesset that the Netanyahu government would not cave in to U.S. demands in this area.

It's worthwhile taking a look at who the Obama Administration demanded Israel free because they were on the Palestinian's wish list, and what they were convicted of:

Amongst the terrorists that the US is demanding Israel release, are those who burned Amnon Pomerantz alive in his car in 1990, the terrorists who murdered tractor driver Yigal Vahknin in 1993, the terrorist who murdered 39-year-old Gush Katif resident Shaya Deutch in 1993, the terrorists who burned to their deaths Rachel Weiss and her three children; Ephraim, Netanel and Raphael as well as soldier David Delarosa who tried to save them and the terrorist who murdered Professor Menachem Stern in the Valley of the Cross (in Jerusalem) while he was on his way to Hebrew University.

I'm surprised they didn't demand that Israel cut loose the murderers of the Fogel family, who murdered a mother, a father and three of their children in cold blood, including 3-month-old newborn baby girl.

 

Abbas and the PA used the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day last year to have official Fatah-run Palestinian TV glorify the murderers of the Fogels.

 And by the way, our tax dollars paid by the Obama Administration as jizya to Abbas and the Palestinian Authority go to fund the salaries that Abbas and the PA pay to every one of these killers and their families. In fact, the PA considers paying these killers one of its highest priorities, or in th ewords of Mahmoud Abbas 'Our highest joy'.

Don't think for a moment that this is news to Washington. Yet these are the kind of people the Obama Administration is pressuring Israel to make concessions to and make a peace agreement with.

Does he really consider the blood of Israel people that cheap? Did he somehow dial out from the carnage that occurred in his own city of Boston a few days ago? Or is he just clueless?

I can't imagine how this president expects Israel or anyone else, friend or foe to take him seriously about terrorism or anything to do with security issues when he is so shockingly callous. Perhaps he should set an example by releasing the Tsarnaev brothers, Major Nidal Hassan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Blind Sheikh.

What an embarrassment to us all...but at least I have the slight comfort of saying I didn't vote these people into office.

There's a lot more I could say about this, but perhaps it's better I exercise a little self censorship.

Some Ideas To Help The Palestinians With Their Financial Woes

'Palestinian' unelected Prime Minister Selim Fayyad is claiming that the 'Palestinian' Authority is in desperate financial straits:

The Palestinian Authority is "fast approaching the point of being completely incapacitated" by Israel's refusal to hand over tax revenues belonging to the authority, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday.

Israel's freeze on the taxes and fees it collects for the Palestinian Authority at borders has deprived the government of two-thirds of its normal revenue since Nov. 1, making it hard to pay salaries and fix infrastructure, Fayyad said.

"This is our money," he said. "It has nothing to do with donor assistance or anything like that."

Actually Selim, it is donor money, since all of 'Palestine's' infrastructure and the cost of its government has been derived from donor money ever since Oslo was signed at the beginning of one of the most successful con jobs in history . But aside from that, I sympathize. Who would of thought that the 'Palestinians' announcing Oslo was null and void and deliberately breaking the Oslo Accords and the Road Map they signed by unilaterally going to the UN would lead to such dire consequences!

Seeing as the Fatah ruled PA also gives a nice slice of the aid it receives to the genocidal Hamas and is now putting together a unity government with them, one could hardly expect Israel to finance its enemies, can one?

Nevertheless, the humanitarian in me feels compelled to offer some helpful suggestions to the 'Palestinian' Authority to help improve things:

Get Abbas and Fatah to use the $1.75 billion Palestine Investment Fund for the people that it was intended for. I'm sure Abbas and his cronies from the Fatah Old Guard would gladly want to replace the money they umm..'borrowed' for 'Palestine'. All Selim Fayyad probably needs to do is ask them and I'm certain they'll be more than willing to empty all those bank accounts in the EU and the Emirates and come across.

Right now, the 'Palestinian' Authority sends Sufa Arafat $100,000 per month to support her in her tony apartment in the best part of Paris. Perhaps she could learn to downgrade her lifestyle and live on a bit less.

Neither Jordan or Israel is going to attack 'Palestine'. A large part of the 'Palestinian' budget goes for 'security forces' many of whom are outright terrorists by any definition of the word whom belong to groups like the Tanzim and the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade.One almost gets the impression that the large sums of money spent are more to protect Abbas and his cronies than the people they rule over,but of course that couldn't be true. Large cutbacks would seem to make sense.

The 'Palestinian' Authority payroll is crammed full of no-show jobs and people who get a paycheck for no discernible reason except they're connected to someone in the regime. When the Saudis gave their first financial aid to 'Palestine' they insisted on an audit and Fayyad found over 30,000 paychecks on the PA payroll going out to people that didn't exist before Abbas and the rest of the Fatah Old Guard made him stop. Even the World Bank admits that probably half of the donor money given to the 'Palestinians' ends up being, in the World Bank's words, 'diverted'. A complete audit would likely find millions of dollars worth of savings and money the PA could use elsewhere.

The 'Palestinian' Authority spends millions every month in generous salaries to jailed terrorists convicted in Israeli civilian courts of the most inhumane murders of civilians. Now, I realize that to Abbas and the 'Palestinians', people like the sniper who targeted and murdered 10-month-old Shalhevet Pas in her stroller or the two ghouls that butchered the Fogel family are Holy warriors. But it occurs to me that since their room and board is already paid for by the State of Israel, a great deal of money can be saved and used for more worthy purposes if these killers were axed from the payroll. Ditto with the money Fatah sends to Hamas every month, another savings..

As a side benefit, doing this might even convince the Israelis that the 'Palestinians' aren't trying to encourage terrorism or make it pay for the perpetrators. Call it a sacrifice for peace,no?

As a matter of fact, along those lines here's another suggestion. Since the 'Palestinians' insist this money is theirs, they could encourage the Israelis to put these monies into a fund that would pay damages from civil judgments obtained in Israel's courts by Israeli victims of terrorism who have suffered property loss, lost loved ones or whom need lifetime medical care because of injuries suffered in things like homicide bombing perpetrated by the 'Palestinians'.

Think what a magnanimous and lovely gesture it would be on the part of the 'Palestinians' to suggest this or to at least acquiesce to it! It would cost them nothing since it's money they're not getting their hands on anyway, it would build good will among Israelis and world opinion and it would help make the impression that the bad old days of the 'Palestinians' committing and abetting terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians are a thing of the past.

Just look at how much mileage the Germans got out of what were relatively scant reparations for what was done to the Jews during the Nazi era! This is nothing less than an opportunity for the 'Palestinians' to score a major propaganda coup.

To summarize, steal less, cut the unnecessary fat in the budget and make a few gestures and concessions towards the Israelis 'for peace'.

Yes, yes, I know, afwan, mafi mushkila ‌Sadiqi, you're most welcome.

After all, I'm here to help. Peace!

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Fogel Family's Murderer Sentenced

Hakim Awad was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for the murder of five members of the Fogel family,(HY'd) including a 3-month-old infant. He expressed no remorse during the trial.

Awad and his cousin, Amjad Awad murdered Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, and their children, Yoav, 11; Elad, 4; and Hadas, 3 months, in a Shabbat eve attack on their home in Itamar, Israel. Amjad Awad has already been convicted of the murders and has yet to be sentenced.

Three of the Fogel children survived the attack: Two were sleeping in a side bedroom and were not discovered, and the Fogels' 12-year-old daughter, Tamar was out of the house visiting a neighbor at the time of the killings. It was Tamar who discovered the bodies of her parents and siblings when she returned.

The judges called the attack "an atrocious, bone chilling and terrifying act."

Israel does not havecapital punishment, but so horrified were the judges by the crime and the murderer's lack of any remorse that the judges said in their decision that they had actually considered sentencing Awad to death.

"A case such as this tempts the use of such a punishment," the judges wrote in their decision. "The imprisoned criminal, whose life would be taken after being sentenced to death, might turn into a martyr, a shaheed in their terms, with all the meanings that are attached to it."

I understand the judge's reasoning, but this is not justice. The murderers of the Fogels are already considered heroes by their fellow 'Palestinians',and they and their families will immediately begin receiving a nice fat salary from the Palestinian Authority just like the other murderers now sitting in Israeli jails, if they're not already on the payroll.

You see, the Awads are some of the 'heroes and martyrs' Mahmoud Abbas is insisting he wants freed as part of any peace settlement with Israel. So there's no upside to keeping them around.

By far the best treatment for these scum now that they're found guilty would be a public hanging with a piece of pigskin shoved in their mouths.

Want to bet that would be a deterrent for future jihadis thinking about emulating them?

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Fogel Family's 'Palestinian' Murderers And Their Accomplices Arrested

The 'Palestinian' murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar have been caught and have confessed..along with their accomplices.During questioning, both killers said they made no distinction between the adults and children they murdered and would have killed the two surviving Fogel children if they had noticed them.

From a briefing by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office:

Following the 11.3.11 murders of five members of the Fogel family in the Samarian community of Itamar, the ISA, the IDF and the Israel Police began a joint operation to apprehend the murderers. During the operation, dozens of suspects from Awarta – approximately 2 kilometers southwest of Itamar – were detained for questioning. The investigation and intelligence efforts led to the arrest of two young men, residents of Awarta, who confessed to planning and perpetrating the murders, and reconstructed them:

Hakim Maazan Niyad Awad, born in 1993, a minor under Israeli law, was arrested on 5.4.11. A high school student, he is affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He was involved in the October 2010 stabbing of youths from Awarta; the motive was a personal dispute.

Awad's father, Maazan, is a PFLP terrorist who, in the late 1990's, served approximately five years in a Palestinian Authority prison in connection with the murder of his niece and the burning of her body.

Yes, Dad committed an honor killing...

Awad's uncle, Jibril Awad, was a PFLP terrorist who was killed in a December 2003 clash with IDF soldiers. He had been involved in the 20.6.02 terrorist attack in Itamar, in which Rachel Shabo (40) and three of her children (Avishai – 5, Zvika – 13 and Neria – 16), and their neighbor Yosef Twito (31), were murdered.

Amjad Muhammad Fawzi Awad, born in 1992, was arrested on 10.4.11. A student, he is affiliated with the PFLP. He had previously worked as a laborer in Israel.

Hakim and Amjad planned to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Itamar several days before March 11. To this end, they tried to acquire a firearm. They turned to Muhammad Said Awad (now under arrest), a PFLP militant in Awarta, and asked that he procure weapons for them; he did not do so.

On March 11, Hakim and Amjad set out for Itamar, armed with knives and tools to cut the perimeter fence and cover their tracks. They crossed from Awarta to Itamar and climbed/jumped over the fence. Once inside Itamar, they proceeded to approach the first row of houses. They broke into a home adjacent to the Fogel residence but found nobody inside. They stole an M-16, clips and a flak jacket. They exited the home and thereupon burst into the Fogel residence. Having spotted children while still outside, they murdered 11-year-old Yoav and 4-year-old Elad. The assailants thereupon entered the bedroom where the parents, Ruth and Udi, were sleeping with 3-month-old Hadas and murdered all three, following a struggle. Before leaving the house, the murderers stole another M-16.

The murderers returned to Awarta on foot and went to the home of Hakim's uncle, PFLP militant Salah E-Sin Awad, and informed him of what they had done. Salah helped them hide the stolen weapons and knives, burn their bloody clothes. During the investigation, it arose that various members of their families were extensively involved in helping them and were fully aware of what they had done.

After March 11, the murderers returned to their daily routines. Salah gave the stolen weapons to Jihad Abid, a resident of Ramallah, who hid them in his home. The latter was arrested on 14.4.11; the weapons were recovered.

Arrested as accomplices were:

* Salah Aladin Salim Awad – born in 1979, a PFLP militant, Hakim's uncle;
* Hassan Salim Awad – born in 1972, a PFLP militant, Hakim's uncle;
* Maazan Niyaz Awad – born in 1967, a PFLP militant, Hakim's father;
* Jihad Abid – born in 1979, friend of Salah Awad, who hid the stolen weapons for Salah; and
* Muhammad Said Awad – born in 1984, a PFLP militant, whom Hakim and Amjad asked to provide them with a weapon.

The investigation is ongoing.

These murderers will face justice, sort of.

They'll have a trial, after which they'll be sentenced to prison, because Israel has no capital punishment.

By far the best treatment for these scum when they're found guilty would be a public hanging with a piece of pigskin shoved in their mouths.

Want to bet that would be a deterrent for future jihadis thinking about emulating them?

(hat tip, FP)

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Breaking: US -Trained Members Of Abbas' Security Forces Arrested In Connection With Itamar Killings?

Warning...this is from a semi-reliable source, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true..especially since the al-Aksa martyrs Brigade who are on Abbas' payroll claimed initial credit for the murder of the Fogel family.

According to what I just heard, two members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ official, US Trained security forces were arrested by the IDF in conjunction with the murders.

They're cousins..Ahmed Awad is an officer in Abbas’ Preventative Security Services in the northern West Bank city of Nablus and Iyad Awad is an officer in Abbas’ General Intelligence services in Ramallah.

If this is legit, it should be public in the Israeli media within hours.

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Mark Steyn: Dead Jews Is No News

Mark Steyn has a few things to say about the Itamar murders...and more importantly, the world's reaction to it:

On Friday night, twelve-year old Tamar Fogel came home to find both her parents, Ruth and Udi Fogel, two brothers Yoav (11) and Elad (four), and her three-month old sister Hadas murdered in their beds. They had had their throats cut and been stabbed through the heart.

That’s not shocking: There is no shortage of young Muslim men who would enjoy slitting the throat of a three-month old baby, and then head home dreaming of the town square or soccer tournament to be named in their honor.

Back in Gaza, the citizenry celebrated the news by cheering and passing out sweets.


That’s not shocking, either: In the broader Palestinian death cult, there are untold legions who, while disinclined to murder Jews themselves, are content to revel in the glorious victory of others.

And out in the wider world there was a marked reluctance to cover the story.

And, if not exactly shocking, that was a useful reminder of how things have changed even in a few years. On 9/11, footage of Palestinians dancing in the streets and handing out candy turned up on the world’s TV screens, and that rancid old queen Arafat immediately went into damage-control mode and hastily arranged for himself to be filmed giving blood. This time round there was no need for damage-control, because there was no damage: The western media simply averted their eyes from their Palestinian house pets’ unfortunate effusions. The Israeli Government released raw footage from the murders, but YouTube yanked the video within two hours. The hip new “social media” are developing almost as exquisitely refined a sense of discretion as the old Social Register.

As Caroline Glick writes: A decade ago, the revelation that French ambassador to Britain Daniel Bernard referred to Israel as “that shi**y little country,” was shocking. Now it is standard fare.

Today the delegitimization of Israel is all but universal: Indeed, these days Palestinian leaders pay more lip service to the “two-state solution” than Europeans. On Israel’s national day, prominent Britons of Jewish background write to The Guardian to deplore the existence of the Jewish state. And “Israeli Apartheid Week” is multiculti Toronto’s gift to the world.

Demonstrating his uncanny ability to miss the point, the head of the Canadian Jewish Congress tweeted today: 'Anonymity breeds ugliness online.'

You would think even this sad, irrelevant fool might have noticed that the striking feature of today’s “ugliness” is how non-anonymous it is. Year on year, the world is more cheerfully upfront about its anti-Semitism. Maybe he could ask John Galliano, or Julian Assange.

But sometimes, as when a baby has her throat slashed, what’s not said is just as telling. Recently I was talking to a Hungarian Jew who lived in hiding in Budapest during the Second World War: By 1944, the pro-German government was running short of ammo, so they were obliged to get a little creative. They’d handcuff Jews together in a long chain, stand them on a bridge, put a bullet in the ones at each end, and then push them into the Danube to let the dead weight drag down the ones in between. You have to have a strong stomach for such work, perhaps almost as strong as for killing three-month olds. But, as my friend told his tale, I thought not of the monsters on the bridge, nor even those on the banks cheering, but about the far larger numbers of people scurrying about their business and rationalizing what was going on. That’s what made the difference, then as now.

Read the rest here.

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Glenn Beck On The Itamar Murders

I have my differences with Glenn Beck, but here, he's exactly on target.

(H/T, the Elder of Ziyon)

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Abbas And The PA's 'Condemnation' Of The Itamar Attack - And The Reality

Mahmoud Abbas finally had something to say about the Itamar attacks, in an interview with Israel Radio.

"I'm not capable of seeing a four-month-old baby girl murdered, or a woman slaughtered," he said. "Any person who has a sense of humanity would be pained and driven to tears by such sights."

Oh, really? Perhaps Abbas might want to explain why the 'Palestinian Authority' made an honorary citizen out of child murderer Samir Kuntar and held a celebration for him after the Israelis swapped him for the tortured remains of two IDF soldiers captured by Hezbollah. Or why Abbas referred to the many child murderers held in Israeli prisons as 'heroes of freedom' and insists they all have to be freed in any peace deal...and that includes the Tanzim sniper who shot little 10-month-old Shalhevat Pas in her stroller.



Abbas also said he telephoned Netanyahu to offer condolences as well as help from his security force in finding the perpetrators. Frankly, I think the Israelis can do without that help, thank you. As Abbas proved just a little while ago, the 'Palestinians' don't consider murdering Jews of any age to be a crime, and if the 'Palestinians' happen to get the murderers first, they'll simply be released after a decent interval.

No one has ever been punished by the 'Palestinians' for murdering Jews.In fact they actually have a ministry that pays a monthly salary to terrorists convicted in Israeli civilian courts of of killing Israeli civilians.

In broadcast remarks to Israel's cabinet, Netanyahu said on Sunday that "alarming incitement in Palestinian schools, mosques and media" had prepared the ground for the Itamar attack.

In the interview, Abbas denied the 'Palestinians' are involved in incitement against Jews and Israel, saying his Palestinian Authority was "the only place in the Arab and Muslim world" where mosques used sermons pre-approved and disseminated by the government.

Abbas, of course, was lying through his teeth.

This Sunday, while the Fogel family were being buried, the 'Palestinians has a ceremony of their own. They dedicated a square in the town of El Bireh - next to Ramallah - in honor of Dalal al-Mughrabi, the terrorist who led the squad that perpetrated the Coastal Road Massacre on March 11, 1978, a bus hijacking that murdered 37 Israelis, many of them children. Al-Mughrabi is touted in Palestinian textbooks and media as a national heroine of 'resistance' and used as a role model.

Nor is she the only terrorist murderer honored by the 'Palestinians' in this fashion.

Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch has been chronicling the hatred distributed by the Palestinian Authority for years, and recently presented a comprehensive report on Capitol Hill called From Terrorists to Role Models: The Palestinian Authority’s Institutionalization of Incitement .

That aside, while Abbas is lying ( as would be expected from Yasser Arafat's second in command) I don't particularly blame the 'Palestinians'. They are simply behaving according to their basic nature.

But I do blame successive Israeli governments for continuing to ignore that nature and continue to give them concessions and act as though they were anything other than a current manifestation of Amalek.

Evil is evil, and sometimes one has to simply accept that and react accordingly.

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Video: Netanyahu Visits With Members of the Murdered Fogel family

Simply heartrending.

Israel is still, in many ways, a very small country where people tend to know each other.The brutal murders inspired a day of national mourning in Israel, with something like 30,000 people at the funerals.



It's notable that rather than voice a clear condemnation for the 'Palestinians' for glorifying this kind of inhumane terrorism, the UN was quick to condemn Israel for approving the building of homes in their own country.

To paraphrase Melanie Phillips, Western elites are complicit in these murders. So is the government of Israel, for allowing them to dictate where Israel may build and what Israel may do to protect its people from these savages.

Bibi has a clear choice, as I wrote earlier. He can either keep shufflin' to Obama's fiddle, or he can protect the land and the people of Israel.If he continues to dance on cracks, the Jews of Judea and Samaria, the Yesha, are going to take care of this themselves.

Enough.

-selah-

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Liveblog Of The Fogel Family Funeral

Carl In Jerusalem is live blogging the Fogel family funeral in Israel.

There are no words..Am Yisrael Chai.

Horror Returns; Sleeping Israeli Family Murdered by Arabs, Including An Infant

Itamar is a small, close knit Jewish community in Samaria.

Today, it became a scene of horror, as Arab terrorists infiltrated it, broke into a home and massacred the Fogel family. May a Righteous G-d avenge their blood.

Here's what occurred, based on what I'm hearing form my sources.

On Friday night around 10:30 PM,during the Jewish Sabbath, the terrorists cut through the fence and entered the house through the living room picture window. They didn't notice the 6-year-old boy sleeping on the couch and continued on to the bedroom where they cut the throats of the father, Udi, 36 and newborn baby girl Hadas, 3 months, who were sleeping there together. The mother, Ruth, age 35 came out of the bathroom and was stabbed there multiple times, on the threshold. Forensic evidence indicates that she tried to fight for her life. The Arabs then proceeded into another bedroom, and slit the throat of the 11-year old-son Yoav who was reading in bed. They did not see the 2-year old asleep in his bed, but murdered the 3-year old Elad with two stabs to his heart. After that, they locked the door, exited through the window and escaped.

The Fogels' 12-year-old daughter, Tamar who was visiting a neighbor returned home an hour or so later and found the door locked. She asked a neighbor, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen, of the Itamar Yeshiva, to help her. The Rabbi noticed tracks and mud near the house, so he came armed. The two woke up the 6-year old sleeping in the living room by calling through the window and when he opened the door, the Rabbi returned to his home. When she entered the bedrooms, the young daughter saw what had happened to her family and ran out of the house screaming, after which the Rabbi ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert Itamar's security.

Within a short time, the police and IDF forces arrived and began searching for the killers. At 03:30 AM, military trackers discovered footprints leading to the Arab village of Avrata.

Magen David Adom ambulance service teams were promptly called in, but could do nothing. MDA spokesman Zaki Heller said the ambulance service got the call around 1 AM.

“When rescue forces entered the house they encountered a very difficult sight...There were five people there who were hurt. We could do nothing but pronounce them dead,” he said.

Paramedic Kabaha Muayua was among the first responders at the site and described the horrific scene he encountered.

“We could not help the first four stab victims. Following an inspection of the scene I spotted an infant of about three who still had a pulse. We engaged in lengthy resuscitation efforts but had to pronounce him dead,” he said. “The murder scene was shocking. Kids’ toys right next to pools of blood.”

I thought about this for a long time, but I decided to post these photos, even though they're quite graphic. They were released with the permission of the family, who had the courage to allow this so that so you can see exactly what was done to the Fogels and what sort of enemies we are up against.They could be your family.











In the aftermath, residents in Gaza celebrated this latest 'operation' in typical fashion handing out candy to passerbys, honking their automobile horns, firing guns in the air and ululating.

To them, this is a holy act, sanctified by the Qu'ran and the Hadiths:

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).


When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. - 47:4

“Thou wilt indeed find them,[The Jews] of all people, most greedy of life,-even more than the idolaters: Each one of them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due) punishment. For Allah sees well all that they do.” (2:96)

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177:Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”

According to another source, it wasn't Hamas at all, but a unit of the Al-Aksa Martyr's brigade, who are on Fatah's payroll. In the end, it hardly matters who actually committed the murders.

'Palestinian' unelected Prime Minister Selim Fayyad said "...we categorically oppose violence and terror, regardless of the identity of the victims or the perpetrators."

That, of course, was his way of equating the IDF with the murderers of the Fogel family.

And the White House essentially said almost the same thing: "There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home. We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack."

Needless to say, when the 'Palestinians' give honorary citizenship to child murderers and make them national heroes, 'condemnation' is pretty meaningless, especially in English.

You might also recall that the last the time 'Palestinian Authority' arrested terrorist murders, they freed them after keeping them in 'jail' for four months.

Fortunately, the IDF recaptured four out of five of them in an overnight operation in Hevron, but that was no thanks to Israel's 'peace partners.'

Shomron Regional Council Head Gershon Mesika blamed Defense Minister Ehud Barak for removing check points in the areas between the Palestinian Authority in Shechem (Nablus) and the Jewish communities in the area. I agree with him.

Ron Nachman, mayor of the city of Ariel, arrived in Itamar Saturday noon and said:
"We need to find those behind the attack and give them the death penalty. I can't recall such a horrific terror attack," he said.

National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau said that 'Palestinian Authority' President Mahmoud Abbas was responsible for the terrorist attack in Itamar because he continued to allow incitement against Jews and Israel in the schools, mosques and media.

"Behind the murderer of the family in Itamar stands Abu Mazen [Abbas], the "peace partner," who founded the official educational system in the Palestinian Authority, which teaches hatred of Jews and presents child killers as role models," Landau said in a statement.

Any other country would have broken off all relations with the 'Palestinians' long ago.

Netanyahu is going to have to make a decision. What comes first, protecting the people and the land of Israel or shuffling to President Obama's fiddle? I appreciate his position, but the time for dancing on cracks is over. And if he continues to do it, the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are going to take matters into their own hands, that I guarantee you.

With evil this direct, this implacable, one cannot compromise or negotiate.

Melanie Phillips has more, here.

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