Monday, July 23, 2007

Absent Subterfuge

There it is now, proud and official acknowledgement from Hamas and its brother-terrorist affiliates that they are indeed, with violence aforethought, assaulting Israel with the deadliest arsenal at their disposal. And armaments they have aplenty. Not only those weapons which they have gathered among themselves, but those they plucked from the possession of a fleeing Fatah, many of which were gifted to Fatah through the kindly auspices of the U.S. and Israel.

An outmanoeuvred Fatah fled the Hamas onslaught in Gaza, leaving Hamas triumphant, well positioned to continue its flagellating of its erstwhile compatriots, and the deadly lobbing of missiles into Israel. Ah, but this is just the beginning. There is no let-up in the smuggling of weapons through tunnels and crossings between borders, nor the determination of Hamas's patrons in Iran and Syria.

The steady and ongoing assaults have resulted in Israel having to take security measures in the hopes of protecting its borders and its citizens. The IDF has engaged in ground assaults to disrupt insurgents' intents to create havoc and mass murder, along with air strikes against identified terrorists in an attempt to halt their attacks.

Islamic Jihad has not hesitated now in identifying its members, among those killed in action by Israeli air strikes; they had been doing what they do best when targeted; firing rockets at Israel.

Two of the rockets they'd fired had slammed into Sderot yet again, one of them hitting a school and injuring an Israeli woman.

Two Hamas gunmen were killed as they approached a fence on the Israeli border. Hamas no longer seeks to disguise its direct involvement, proudly claiming it had dispatched the gunmen for the purpose of planting bombs beside the fence, the better to target Israeli forces. Another anticipated coup that failed.

But there will be more, many more attempts to wreak vengeance. Hamas is feverish with the self-perceived opportunity to assault its enemy. Not to engage, but to bludgeon as bloodily as conceivably possible.

A not-unexpected ratcheting-up of terrorist activities toward Israel. It is in Gaza that Hamas has the bulk of its supporters. It is that territory that hosts the most implacable demographic of Palestinians intent on destroying the State of Israel and reclaiming the land that they feel is theirs alone.

Not land to be shared with another entity, a rank interloper in the landscape. The fervently detested Jewish entity, the Zionist entity.

As though to wipe the history and tradition of Jewish existence in the Middle East so thoroughly from recognized fact, and recent memory.

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