Some genocide
Arab hyperbole.Define Genocide (I’m not recommending folliwing this link.) Well this isn’t it.
At Karni crossing, 145 truckloads of basic food items were transferred to Gaza. At the Nahal Oz fuel terminal, the following quantities of fuel and natural gas were transferred: 500,000 liters of diesel, 90,000 liters of Gasoline, 175 tons of natural gas (for cooking).
Nor is this.
Approximately 115 trucks and 24 containers basic equipment and food products crossed during the past day from Israel into the Gaza Strip with the facilitation of the Coordination and Liaison Administration. In addition, 700,000 liters of diesel fuel, 100,000 liters of benzene and 175 tons of gas were brought into Gaza.
And not this either.
Last week, more than 200 truckloads of basic food items, more than 1,500,000 liters of fuel, and more than 400 tons of natural gas passed into the Gaza Strip through the different crossings. Over the past three days, more than 2,000,000 liters of fuel and 496 tons of natural gas were passed into the Gaza Strip through the Nahal Oz crossing. More than 90 tons of milk products, 40 tons of flour, 15 tons of oil, 120 tons of sugar, a truckload of medicines, 134 gas balloons used for medical purposes, 65,000 liters of chlorine, more than 1,000,000 liters of fuel and 170 tons of natural gas, were passed into the Gaza Strip through the different crossings. The water supply from Israel to the Gaza Strip continues uninterrupted.
And, finally, not this.
Eleven tankers carrying 440 thousand liters of diesel fuel, two tankers carrying 100 thousand liters of benzene and eight gasoline tankers were allowed into the Gaza Strip through the Nahal Oz crossing. From indications from the field and in view of these supplies, it is quite evident that there is no humanitarian trouble and no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. By IDF estimates, with the current influx of goods there will be no shortage of supplies in Gaza for the next two weeks even if the IDF is forced, against its will, to continue operating against terror organizations there to bring home the kidnapped soldier and stop terrorism and rocket attacks against the people of Israel. The IDF opened the Karni crossing to allow critical supplies to reach the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, despite repeated terror threats against the crossing. It is plain to see that the motivations and actions of Palestinian terror organizations stand contrary to the interests and needs of the Palestinian population.
Technorati tags: Israel, Humanitarian Aid.
Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.
Well, if Condi Rice has her way, then genocide is coming to an Israeli town near you, courtesy of Iran’s evil tentacles that stretch throughout the Middle East. Rather than confronting Iran in the most simple and effective way imaginable– by militarily crushing the Iranian- and Hezbollah-allied Shiite militias in Iraq, who are effectively turning Iraq into an Iranian colony– the Bush Administration supports them wholeheartedly.
This is in part due to the cowardice of George W. Bush– it’s politically messy, at least on the surface, to take on Iran’s vulnerable yet dangerous Shiite militias and agents in Iraq, who now control the country, creating an anti-Israeli Shiite superpower that supports Hezbollah and other Iranian agents from the Persian Gulf. A much easier and lazier solution is for Bush to just sacrifice Israel quietly while the cameras aren’t looking, by just further conferring power in Baghdad to the Shiite militias that are already in effective control of the capital and the country, especially the most oil-rich regions. Bush figures that the average American is too dumb or attention-impaired to figure out that he’s effectively making Iran the ultimate master of Iraq and the Persian Gulf in general– and thereby of the world economy– in preparation for launching it’s attack on Israel. So he just continues to blunder and stumble in his idiotic plan to give Iran rule-by-proxy in Iraq.
But Bush’s apparent cowardice and stupidity, are only one part of the story here. After all, there are still courageous people in the Bush Administration like Dick Cheney and even Donald Rumsfeld who, whatever their flaws and their own errors of analysis, nonetheless have no qualms about standing up to Iran in general, and specifically in hitting Iran hard at its most vulnerable point– the Iranian-allied Shiite militias and power centers in Iraq. They understand that the best way to thwart the evil, hate-filled plans of Hezbollah and Iran is to attack the Iranians’ weak yet crucial and dangerous link in Baghdad. Yet instead of listening to good sense, Bush has been brainwashed by Condoleezza Rice and the other Israel-haters at State in capitulating to Iran and in not only acquiescing to, but actively assisting Iran’s agents in Iraq. The US and the generally useless British should be pounding the Shiite militias and Iranian-backed power centers in Iraq with all their might, as these institutions are nothing more than “little Hezbollahs” in Mesopotamia, while supporting and backing the anti-Iranian Sunni guerrillas. But instead, Bush just stupidly muddles along with the same failed and incredibly disastrous (for Israel especially) Iraqi policy. Rice and the other Israel-haters know that they only have to continue snowing Bush for another couple years or so, before someone even more pliable takes power in the US and Iran’s power in Iraq and elsewhere is consolidated. If someone like John Kerry or Hillary Clinton or Joseph Biden were to take power following the 2008 elections, then Israel and the world Jewish community in general would be facing our worst crisis since the existential conflict of 1948.
Condi Rice needs to be given her walking papers. If the Republicans are stupid enough to even think about nominating Condi Rice for the GOP ticket in 2008 for either slot on the ballot, then they’ll be finished, destroyed, utterly moribund as a political party– or as a viable political organization in any sense. It would also help if Bush would manage to grow a spine, or at least listen to the people in his Administration who actually have one and can see Iran’s lethal plans for what they are.
Comment by Kantrowitz
— July 21, 2006 @ 3:24 am
With all that aid Israel is pumping into Gaza, sounds like potential self-inflicted Genocide to me.
Comment by Shy Guy
— July 21, 2006 @ 3:34 am
Kantrowitz,
Concerns with Bush’s foreign policy in the Middle East is warranted.
In spite of the fact that the problems in the Arab world rarely, if ever have anything to do with the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Arab/Muslim Middle East uses that conflict to unite their citizens anger in their common hatred of Israel, spiced up with hatred of America, to distract them from venting at their own leaders for the very serious problems ordinary Muslims have to contend with daily.
The Arab/Muslim lies to their own people are too big and too ingrained to ignore and the lies become a reality the Bush administration, just like other Western nations must contend with and tip toe through.
Before this war began, the Bush administration had more than enough reason to attack Iran, because Iran’s support of terrorism has cost many American lives in the past, Iran’s refusal to curb its nuclear ambitions and program development given the U.N. inability to deal with Iran and Iran’s supporting terrorism or the milder and ridicuous euphemism Iraqi insurgency that has led to many Iraqi and American deaths and which is costing America a fortune in lost and injured lives, money and political capital.
The Americans are perfectly positioned to launch strikes at Iran from both Afghanistan and Iraq, but for now Bush has not even poised U.S. troops and airforce to even sabre rattle on the borders with Iran.
The Bush administration (and probably other Western nations) perhaps fears the laws of unintended consequences, should they attack Iran.
That fear robs America of the will to fight against its avowed enemy Iran that continues unabated to sponsor terrorism that greatly costs many nations in addition to America and Israel, a very great deal.
Each time Iran appears to be extracting too high a price from the West, the West caves and appeases Iran more. No wonder Ahamdinejad can continue to act like the ranting raving bully he has and still not only get away with it, but gain more for himself in the process.
Too often the the Bush administration and prior American administrations have pressured and seemingly forced Israel to make choices or to act against its best interests.
I find I must disagree with you Kantrowitz however in terms of your main premise as regards the Bush administration and Israel.
The Bush administration, like administrations before does sometimes force Israel to concede certain positions and territory, sometimes because America and indeed many American Jews, really does think it is best in terms of Israel’s big picture interests.
Usually however what America pressures Israel to give up is in furtherance of the broader scope of American Middle east foreign policy in relation to America’s global dealings with other nations and therefor it is in furtherance of American interests.
In my view, the Bush administration’s foreign policy in the middle east is not all about Israel and in particular I do not agree that Bush is being manipulated by Jew haters within his administration to facilitate the death of Israel.
One cannot lose sight of the significance of years of American support has enabled, if not assured Israel’s ability to survive. It makes no sense to believe that America would continue to make a big display of its support for Israel that is, in large measure responsible for Israel’s survival while covertly plotting and planning to facilitate Israel’s destruction.
Comment by Bill Narvey
— July 21, 2006 @ 8:47 am