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“Inspired by God, Hamas fighters battle on“

That’s the headline of a Reuters news piece that features an interview with a Hamas fighter on “the Gaza Strip’s front line.” Apparently, Hamas is no longer a terrorist organization that desires the genocidal extermination of the Jews of Israel; at some point, it evidently became a beleagured band of freedom fighters struggling to free its people from the yoke of Zionist oppression. I must have missed that memo.

Update: Screenshot of the article taken this morning, just in case it “happens to change” later on:

An important trial in France revealed the Pallywood fauxtography machine and its media pipeline. Last week, expert testimony supported media critic Philippe Karsenty’s claim that France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin’s coverage of the Mohammad al-Dura affair was doctored and staged.

Karsenty appealed a verdict that he libeled Enderlin when he questioned the claim that Israel killed the boy who was crouching behind his father during a gunfight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian shooters. 

Al-Dura’s iconic image sped around the world and sold stamps, T shirts and the Second Intifada. It inspired violence, riots, terrorism and became a 21st century blood libel. On March 3, Israel’s Haaretz reported the stunning news that if the boy and his father were actually shot at all, the bullets could not have come from Israel’s position, only the Palestinians’.

Not that there should ever have been a reason to trust footage emerging from Palestine, but it’s nice to know that when an independent researcher finally gets a chance to look at the situation, the falsehood of the Palestinian claims is easily demonstrated. Mohammad al-Dura’s “murder” was what launched a wave of terror attacks against Jews and Israel…and it was all a lie.

Update: Welcome, Steynians! Welcome, WebElf readers!

So the IDF goes into Gaza Strip to deal with terrorist elements, meets the challenge 100-2, and then pulls out before the job is even half-way finished.

Meanwhile Hamas uses the IDF pull-out to simultaneously do three things: 1) Announce victory, 2) call for a ceasefire, and finally 3) continue to launch rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.

Until and unless the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah are wiped out, and all who espouse their poisonous views killed or incarcerated (or somehow, miraculously, compelled or inspired to change their warped views), there will be no peace in and around the state of Israel. I don’t think we should delude ourselves into thinking otherwise.

Just what it says, O Reader:

Six Qassams were fired from the northern Gaza Strip towards the western Negev since Sunday morning. All the rockets landed in open areas, without causing injuries or damage. The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees‘ military wing, claimed responsibility for firing the rockets. The organization’s spokesman, Muhammad Abed al-Aal, told Ynet that the firing operation, dubbed “the lines of fire”, was a response to the “crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians,” but also “in response to the cartoons published in Denmark degrading the memory of Prophet Muhammad.

“The Palestinian resistance has committed to respond to the cartoons, and this is our initial response,” he added. Asked why the residents of Sderot and the Negev should pay the price for cartoons published in Denmark, Abed al-Aal responded, “The Jews have also hurt Islam and have also hurt the Koran in their prisons, as part of the plot to harm Islam and the memory and status of Prophet Muhammad. “The Palestinian resistance will not let Israel’s crimes and the smearing of Islam’s symbols go unanswered,” he said.

Makes pefect sense, doesn’t it, O Reader: the Danes publish some pictures of the (false) prophet Muhammad, and the Palestinians launch rockets at the Jews in Israel in response. And we’re trying to negotiate with these savages, and sending them aid packages? How much of that aid money gets transfered to Israel in the shape and form of Qassam rockets, I wonder?