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Instructing Israel

"Shame on you [European Union; specifically the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium and Poland]."
"The Golan Heights and Jerusalem and the Land of Israel [have] been the home of the Jewish people thousands of years before France was the home of the French and the United Kingdom the home of the British."
"So we will continue building our amazing country. We will continue defending the free world from radical Islam, even though you do not deserve it."
Education Minister, head, New Right party, Naftali Bennett

"The EU must stand together courageously with the US and recognize that the Golan will forever be part of Israel."
"What is their alternative? To give the murderer Assad control of strategic Israeli territory? This won’t happen."
Yair Lapid, co-leader, Blue and White joint list

"We now allow those who keep the Iranian terror regime’s economy afloat to preach morality to us."
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon

"It is definitely possible that senior Hamas leaders were not informed of the attack [though insrructions came from Iran]. However, the leaders of the military wing of Hamas were notified and even coordinated with the Islamic Jihad’s leadership, which was responsible for the preparations [for the attack]."
"In Gaza, it was believed that Israel would not launch a major operation in Gaza two weeks before the elections. [Hamas was surprised when Israel responded overnight with a series of airstrikes on Gaza, rejecting Hamas overtures delivered via Egypt for] quiet in exchange for quiet."
Egyptian senior intelligence official involved in mediating talks between Israel and Hamas

Scene of attack in Moshav Mishmeret    Israeli Police

Nations of the world are pretty well united in continual condemnation of a tiny country whose neighbours are determined to extirpate its presence from the Middle East. Israel, they thunder, reacts "disproportionately" to "provocations" from Hamas, from Hezbollah, from Iran, from Syria. Why Israel cannot just sit there and let the rockets fly is beyond understanding. After all, Germany, France, Belgium and the U.K. have millions of Muslims and Arabs living amongst them, and they have never found it necessary to react with the kind of military force that Israel does.

Needless to say, though Islamists do run amok and engage in all manner of criminal activity in Europe, including jihadist attacks, most of their venom is directed against Jews and Israel evidenced in the mounting anti-Semitism prevalent in all those Muslim-occupied sectors of Europe. Europe finds it can live comfortably with that, although it does make noises decrying the presence of anti-Semitism and vowing to 'fight' it. As for Poland, well, that nation has made it a point to exclude the presence of Muslims in that firmly Christian nation.

And its current spat with Israel over the matter of wording and responsibility around the issue of "Polish death camps" which Poland would prefer be referred to as "German death camps", and its irate response to the reminder by undiplomatic Israelis that Poland hosted its very own distinctly Polish-populated assaults against Polish Jews during the pre-and-post Nazi occupation as well as throughout the occupation has resulted in a political rift that has given Poland the pleasure of now refuting Israel's claim to the Golan Heights as a protective measure against Syrian attacks.

Poland, which itself went through generations of being handed off to other occupying European neighbours, now zealously guards its borders against incursions by migrants flooding Europe. Israel has accepted the presence of non-Jews as citizens with equal rights to Jews in a Jewish state, be they Druze, Kurds, Bedouin, Arab or Christian. Yet other countries which have a long record of warring with one another feel justified in sternly counselling Israel how it should act and react.

Europe, which became a bleak, dark and bloody charnel house for its Jewish populations whose ashes now fertilize European agriculture. Israel has indulged in extraordinary efforts to reconcile its return with the presence of resentful Arabs and Muslims, from vacating Gaza to providing the Strip with water and power in hopes of alleviating the misery that Hamas's rule has imposed on Palestinians there. Fatah in the West Bank is no less threatening to Israel, but far more circumspect in its intentions if celebrating 'martyrs' and paying their survivors and those imprisoned for murdering Jews can be classified as 'moderate'.

Israel defended itself from invading armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria when it gained the Golan Heights from which Syria shot munitions down upon Israel and its citizens. It no longer can, though Iran does its utmost to arm Syria and Hezbollah with stockpiles of advanced weapons against a future war. The rockets which Hamas and Islamic Jihad aimed at Israel in the past week were provided by Iran and those attacks were spurred by Iran.

When increasingly more advanced rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel the Jewish border communities go into emergency lockdown, with all residents evacuated to bomb shelters, schools and businesses close, and people live in overwhelming fear of death and injury. This is called terrorism. Europe does not face these constant tests of a people's resolve to endure and to survive. Hypocrites of the first order, all of them.

Shame, indeed!

A missile (top L) from Israel's Iron Dome air defense system lights the sky as rockets (C and R) are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on March 25, 2019. (Said KHATIB / AFP)

Labels: Conflict, European Union, Gaza, Golan Heights, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Syria, United States

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, March 28, 2019