Hamas: Blowing Up Civilians Eating Falafel Is Self-Defense
A good article from the blog “Captain’s Quarters”:
The Hamas-led Palestinian Authority underscored the nature of their regime when they praised the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, calling the murder of at least nine civilians and the maiming of dozens “self defense”:…
Mahmoud Abbas rejected the argument and condemned the bombing, but the Palestinians under Fatah management never lifted a finger to disarm the terrorist groups or to stop suicide bombers from targeting Israeli civilians. They issued meaningless promises to increase security, but the only effort that has had any effect at all on suicide attack has come from Israel’s construction of their security barrier. Hamas has the dubious distinction of avoiding hypocrisy in their celebration of this abhorrent crime.
The IDF assumes at this point that the bomber came through the unfinished portions around Jerusalem. People expect the Olmert government to attack the PA in response to this bombing, but they might just accelerate the barrier construction around Jerusalem as an answer. In fact, one possibility for Israeli retaliation may be to encraoch further on the territory claimed by the Palestinians, especially around Jerusalem. The annexation of this disputed territory would signal that Israel has dismissed Palestinian promises and will commence to imposing its solution on the West Bank for good. After all, if the elected representatives of the PA continue to endorse suicide bombing, then negotiations have no rational basis at all.
Here, he shows a number of pictures of the victims lying on the ground, bleeding, wounded or dead, from a slideshow.
Interestingly, and despicably, the Yahoo! News photo slideshow has more than a dozen pictures of the suicide bomber and his family ahead of any of the victims. I gave up on the slideshow at picture 28 after at least half of them were of the dead terrorist or dead-terrorist wannabes signing up for jihad operations, presumably against more of those menacing falafel stands and pizzerias.
There is also one of the commentaries I will reproduce here. It is unutterably sad, but there is some tinge of truth to it, as the respondent is certainly portraying far too large a portion of the Israeli public that would still try to talk to these butchers:
I’m having less and less sympathy for the Israeli public.
If they gave a damn they would be marching in the streets demanding their government take decisive action to end the sacrificial Jew killing.
Yet, they respond with well rehearsed words and the same old lame responses, if not a shrug of the shoulder.
They have accepted the occasional slaughter in exchange for trying to go along to get along.
Frankly, they have become fat, lazy Euro wannabe’s who have lost their will to fight with extreme prejudice.
