Destroy Hamas

Demons rule Gaza.

On Monday, more than 200 rockets were fired at Israel, from Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip. In particular, Ashkelon was hit. Predictably, few news outlets covered it, but as my friend Ardie Geldman predicted, Media would soon join the pack of those condemning Israel. Why?

Israel is going to launch a counter-offensive. That’s sure to get Anderson Cooper on-air with a report about how “Israel fired on Gaza today.”

Breitbart had a small item about the Hamas rockets. Then FOX chimed in with this headline: “Botched Israeli operation in Gaza Strip turns deadly”.

How sick.

One Hamas rocket hit a parked bus which moments before had been transporting 50 Israeli troops.

A home in Netivot was hit.

Of course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is huddling with his cabinet and will soon issue orders for the IDF.

We’ve discussed this situation many times, and so have many others. But it is now clear that unless Israel totally dismantles Hamas and eliminates the leadership, this madness and murder will continue. All the while, the world yawns when Israelis are in danger. They howl when a Palestinian is killed.

Yet Palestinians are creating and stoking the violence.

There is another serious problem in the midst of it.

According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

“On Friday, November 9, 2018, another ‘return march’ was held in the Gaza Strip along the border with Israel. The events took place after funds from Qatar had been taken into the Gaza Strip, for the salaries of Hamas employees. Ten tankers of fuel for also entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

“On November 9, 2018, a Palestinian crossed the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and went to the community of Netiv HaAsara (north of the Gaza Strip), where he set fire to a number of greenhouses. He was apprehended by an IDF force summoned to the site. During interrogation he admitted it was not the first time he had attempted to cross the fence into Israeli territory.”

The Palestinian Arabs are unhinged. They deserve a state? What evil is this?

And it is unconscionable that Israel allows transfer of payments from Qatar to Hamas!

“On November 8, 2018, Mohammed al-Emadi, chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza entered the Gaza Strip, bringing with him $15 million in cash. The money earmarked for the salaries of Hamas employees. The money was brought into the Gaza Strip through the Erez Crossing under UN supervision and in coordination with Israel. The PA did not intervene (al-Quds, November 8, 2018).

“The following day the money was paid to employees of the Hamas administration through branches of the post office. The Qataris conditioned the payment on the cancellation of Friday as holiday and asked that the payments be made no later than Saturday. In the meantime, ten fuel tankers carrying diesel fuel paid for by Qatar entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.”

Hamas has 43,000 people on its payroll; blood money provided by oil-rich Arab states and the West. Almost pathetically, Israel refused to allow payments to 5,000 Hamas employees, because they “belong to the military wing.”

It’s all the military wing!

How long will this evil be allowed to fester?

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

Persian Nights

Well, things aren’t so fun in Iran these days, only a few years after Obama’s diabolical aid to Iran. A new president is getting in the way. That’s just one obstacle for the mullahs.

The U.S. just imposed a second round of tight sanctions on Tehran. Iran, of course, is the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. The menacing group leading the country to ruin had enjoyed a green light from the West, until Trump showed up.

Now Israel has done it again.

Years after Iran’s leadership promised to wipe Israel off the map, the Jewish state continues thwarting the Iranian goal of having operational nuclear weapons.

“Iran’s telecommunications minister accused Israel of a new cyberattack on the Islamic Republic, the same day that US sanctions (which were lifted by the 2015 nuclear deal ) were reimposed.

“This comes days after Iran said it had neutralized a new version of the Stuxnet virus.”

Israel, which does not take official credit for these cyber attacks on Iran, has gotten under the mullahs’ skin.

“In a series of tweets, Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Javad Azeri Jahromi blamed Israel for the attack, saying it targeted Iran’s communications infrastructure and that Iran would sue for the cyberattack via international bodies.

“’The Zionist regime, with its dark record of using cyber weapons such as Stuxnet computer virus, launched a cyberattack on Iran on Monday to harm the country’s communication infrastructures,’ Jahromi said in a tweet on Monday, adding that ‘thanks to the vigilance of [Iranian] technical teams, it [Israel] returned empty-handed.’”

Really? Doubtful. Israel is always three or 30 steps ahead of her enemies. And notice this final hilarious tidbit:

“According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, Jahromi’s deputy Hamid Fattahi said that more details of the alleged Israeli cyber strikes would be made public in the coming days. Last week, General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of the military unit in charge of combating sabotage, said that President Hassan Rouhani’s cell phone had been tapped, and would be replaced with a more secure device.”

Rouhani’s personal cell phone was tapped! Genius.

There are other disturbing signs that Iran continues to make mischief, and one in particular is worrisome:

“In a meeting with families of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fighters killed in Syria and Iraq, the Supreme Leader of Iran once again justified Iran’s military involvement in the region. He declared that if it were not for the Iranian fighters who enthusiastically joined the campaign, Iran’s enemies would have reached locations only a few kilometers away from the holy Shi’ite sites in Iraq.

“Following the establishment of the new government in Baghdad [of incoming Prime Minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi], senior Iranian officials congratulated the incoming Iraqi leadership and called for deepening of ties between the two countries. Last week, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took part in pilgrimage to Shi’ite holy sites in Iraq held forty days after the Ashoura’ fast (Arbayeen).”

Iran has had designs on taking over Iraq ever since Saddam was swinging from the end of a rope. Sometimes unintended consequences create real problems. Decimating Saddam’s regime left Iraq greatly weakened with regard to her neighbor, Iran.

It isn’t inconceivable that the two countries will one day team up to present a lethal threat on Israel’s doorstep. I’ve never believed Iraq would join the community of freedom-loving countries.

But in the meantime, Israel is keeping its promise to never allow another Holocaust.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com