Hamas wages Iran’s proxy war on Israel

Hamas wages Iran’s proxy war on Israel
Marie Colvin – Sunday Times March 9, 2008  

The Hamas commander was in a hurry. Hunched forward in a navy-blue parka, with the wind-chapped skin and drawn eyes of someone who had been outdoors all night, he had just returned from the front line with Israel. The whine of drones overhead signalled that his enemy was hunting for blood.

For someone who had survived the fiercest fighting between Israelis and Palestinians since 2000 and the deaths of scores of his fellow fighters, the commander, already a senior figure in his late twenties, appeared remarkably composed.

He is in the vanguard of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas which is growing into a disciplined army, trained to fight for victory rather than be consigned to the “martyr’s death” of the suicide bomber.

Israel has long insisted that Iran is behind this training. Last week Yuval Diskin, the head of the Israeli internal security service Shin Bet, said as much when he claimed that Hamas had “started to dispatch people to Iran, tens and a promise of hundreds”. He provided no evidence.

The Hamas commander, however, confirmed for the first time that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been training its men in Tehran for more than two years and is currently honing the skills of 150 fighters.

The details he gave suggested that, if anything, Shin Bet has underestimated the extent of Iran’s influence on Hamas’s increasingly sophisticated tactics and weaponry.

Speaking on the record but withholding his identity as a target of Israeli forces, the commander, who has a sparse moustache and oiled black hair, said Hamas had been sending fighters to Iran for training in both field tactics and weapons technology since Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza strip of Palestinian territory in 2005. Others go to Syria for more basic training.

“We have sent seven ‘courses’ of our fighters to Iran,” he said. “During each course, the group receives training that he will use to increase our capacity to fight.”

The most promising members of each group stay longer for an advanced course and return as trainers themselves, he said.

So far, 150 members of Qassam have passed through training in Tehran, where they study for between 45 days and six months at a closed military base under the command of the elite Revolutionary Guard force.

Of the additional 150 who are in Tehran now, some will go into Hamas’s research unit if they are not deemed strong enough for fighting.

Conditions at the base are strict, the commander said. The Palestinians are allowed out only one day a week. Even then, they may leave the base only in a group and with Iranian security. They shop and “always come back with really good boots”.

According to the commander, a further 650 Hamas fighters have trained in Syria under instructors who learnt their techniques in Iran. Sixty-two are in Syria now.

But what Hamas values most is the knowledge that comes directly from Iran. Some of it was used to devastating effect by the militant group Hezbollah against Israeli forces in Lebanon in 2006.

“They come home with more abilities that we need,” said the Hamas commander, “such as high-tech capabilities, knowledge about land mines and rockets, sniping, and fighting tactics like the ones used by Hezbollah, when they were able to come out of tunnels from behind the Israelis and attack them successfully.

“Those who go to Iran have to swear on the Koran not to reveal details, even to their mothers.”

He said the Hamas military, which numbers about 15,000 fighters, was modelling itself on Hezbollah. “We don’t have tanks. We don’t have planes. We are street fighters and we will use our own ways,” he said.

Nodding in agreement was his companion, another senior Qassam fighter, from Hamas’s manufacturing wing. Dressed in a new, olive-green uniform, he said his job entailed “cooking” – putting together the explosive mixture that Hamas inserts into Qassam rockets.

Everyone was working overtime, he added. He too had been out all night. He said he had launched five mortars and faced heavy machinegun fire in return from Israeli lines.

The commander was particularly impressed with advances made using Iranian technology. “One of the things that has been helpful is that they have taught us how to use the most ordinary things we have here and make them into explosives,” he said.

Such technology had been most useful of all in developing the Qassam rocket and mines deployed against Israeli tanks.

Hamas had just developed the Shawas 4, a new generation of mine, with Iranian expertise, he added.

“We send our best brains to Tehran. It would be a waste of money to send them and then have them come back with nothing.”

They travelled to Egypt, flew to Syria and, on arrival and departure from Tehran, were allowed through without a stamp for security reasons.

“Anything they think will be useful, our guys there e-mail it to us right away,” the military technician said. THE latest spiral of violence, which has killed 130 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, including eight students massacred at their seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday, was triggered 10 days ago by a chance event.

For weeks, Hamas had been launching rockets into Israel to little effect. But then a rocket aimed at Sderot, a town in the western Negev desert, killed Roni Yichia, a 47-year-old mature student, as he stood in his college car park. The next day, Israel launched the fierce ground and air assault on Gaza dubbed Operation Hot Winter.

Its targets, as Hamas intensified the rocket attacks, ranged from Qassam launchers in the northern Gaza Strip to the interior ministry in the centre of Gaza City. Last week, as the blasts and counter-blasts subsided, it was not only Hamas that was counting its losses. As many civilians as fighters had died.

Ra’ad Abu Seif, a 40-year-old lorry driver, had herded his family into an interior room as their street exploded. His 12-year-old daughter Safa ran to an upstairs flat to fetch her uncle. An Israeli sniper shot her just below the heart, he said.

Abu Seif heard screams and ran to find her lying on the floor. “I didn’t see the bullet hole so I picked her up and then I felt the blood on her back,” he said. “We put her by the water tank and opened her clothes and found the bullet holes.

“We tried to close the holes by holding them and putting cotton on them,” he said. Safa lived for two more hours. “Then her head went back, and her eyes rolled,” he said, covering his face with his hands. “The one who shot her, I just want to ask him, how can you be a human being and shoot a little kid?”

Abu Seif blames not only Israel but Hamas as well. “They have been firing these rockets for seven years, and look what happens,” he said. “Hamas should admit it has made a mistake and try another path.”

A short distance away, Mohamed Abu Shabak was mourning his daughter Jacqueline, 17, and son Iyad, 16. He sat gaping at a hole in a second-floor window that he said had been made by an Israeli sniper. His hand shook and he could not speak for a while.

Iyad was the first to die. He had got up at about 1am to go to the lavatory and was hit in the chest by a single shot through the window. Jacqueline came running in and was shot in the head.

Their father was in the West Bank city of Ramallah, having fled Gaza because he was an official in the Fatah administration deposed by Hamas last year, and was on the militants’ wanted list.

The last time he spoke to Jacqueline, who wanted to be a doctor, she had minutes to live. “She called to tell me, father I am so scared, there is shooting everywhere. She was worried about her 12-year-old brother, Mohamed,” he said.

When the Israelis withdrew last Monday, Hamas claimed victory, but it did not seem like one to many in Gaza. Attacks continued from both sides last week.

One of them would claim the youngest victim of the conflict.

Mohamed Abu Asser, a 37-year-old taxi driver, and his wife, Nadia, 30, took their two youngest daughters, two-year-old Nadine and 20-day-old Amira, to visit a sick friend of the family last Tuesday.

This weekend, however, Nadia lay in a hospital bed. Large tears spilled from her eyes as she described how Amira had died.

“We heard fierce shooting,” Nadia recalled. “The Israelis called over the microphone to evacuate the house. But when I went out, holding up my baby, a small red light came on me and they shot me. They didn’t let the ambulance come for three hours.”

Her husband told the same story. “We decided Nadia should go out first, with the baby – they would be less likely to shoot her,” he said. “Now my first photo of my smiley baby is when she is dead.”

Tragedy came to Israel as well. At 8.30pm on Thursday, Alaa Abu Dheim, a 25-year-old driver from largely Palestinian east Jerusalem, arrived at the entrance to Mercaz Harav seminary, carrying a big television box. He took an AK47 out of the box and shot his way in, carrying magazines as well as two hand guns.

While a student whispered for help to emergency services over his mobile, Abu Dheim was calmly replacing his AK47 magazines, one after another, and killing students trapped in the library with shots to the head.

He was eventually killed by David Shapira, an Israeli para-troop captain on leave, who had been reading a bedtime story to his children when he heard the shots and ran to the seminary.

Yehuda Hillel Shulman, 19, was one of the nine wounded who were still in hospital this weekend. His mother Miriam said that when the first shots were heard, a rabbi had turned off the lights and told his students to jump from a balcony.

“They all jumped out of the second floor and that’s how they saved their lives, before Abu Dheim reached their room. The rabbi was the last to jump,” she said.

Gaza’s gunmen poured into the streets on hearing the news, shooting into the air in celebration of the massacre. CAN anything be done to stem the bloodshed? Tortuous negotiations in which Egypt acted as an intermediary produced a truce that was still in place yesterday. But any further incident could result in another Israeli incursion.

Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, also persuaded Fatah’s Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume talks with Israel, but he has not said when.

Hamas, which is pledged to destroy Israel, remains excluded from any negotiations. But it emerged this weekend that senior members of the Israeli security establishment were urging the government of Ehud Olmert to talk to Hamas. They believe any agreement made without Hamas would fail.

Fundamentally, however, the real problem may be that much of Hamas seems willing to fight on for “liberation”, no matter how hopeless the cause.

The conflict is further complicated by the role of Iran which, by supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, has created two potential fronts for Israel. If Israel’s military is occupied with an internal threat, its reasoning goes, Olmert will be loath to mount the attack Tehran fears on its nuclear programme.

As for the Hamas commander, he is focused on making sure his forces are equipped and trained for the next Israeli incursion. “They are occupying us, we are not occupying them,” he said. “We will never stop resisting.”
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3512014.ece

QURAN- word of God? or Man-made?

QURAN- word of God? or Man-made? 

 1. First of all, the Quran itself, at a number of places and in different ways, says that it is a Revelation from God (Quran 56:77-80; 53:4; 20:4; 36:5; 45:2; 32:2; 26:192-4; 16:102; 14:1; etc.). One of the claims runs thus: “This is indeed a Quran most honourable, a Book well-guarded…a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.” (Quran 56:77-80)(Here, one ought to know the features of the Quran to understand the claim better. For instance, if the Quran had consisted of a number of books, and each book was made up of a number of chapters, then each of the books had to claim that it was from God in order to render the WHOLE volume as coming from God. But, this is fortunately not so with the Quran. The Quran is just ONE Book made up of 114 chapters. So, if the Quran claims, in any of its chapters, that the Book is from God, then the WHOLE Quran is from God. Yet, the Quran does not make the divine claim only once, but several times in different phrases and in different chapters.)

2. The Prophet was unlettered. However, even if he was educated and had written the Quran, how could he be bold enough to make this statement: “Do they not consider (ponder over) the Quran (with care)? Had it been from other than God, they would surely have found therein discrepancies”. (4:82)Abdullah Yusuf Ali, commenting on this verse (verse 4:82) in his English translation of the Quran, says: “From a mere human point of view, we should have expected much discrepancy, because (1) Prophet Muhammad who promulgated it was not a learned man or philosopher, (2) it was promulgated at various times and in various circumstances, and (3) it is addressed to all grades of mankind. Yet, when properly understood, its various pieces fit together better than a jigsaw puzzle even when arranged without any regard to chronological order. There was just the One Inspirer and one inspired.”

3. If the Prophet had written the Quran - a Book par excellence - surely he would have claimed credit for it, but he did not. He could not claim what was not his. Indeed God says: “This Quran is not such as can be produced by anyone other than God.” (10:37) 

4. The Quran took 23 years to complete. Had the verses of the Quran (which contains more than 6,000 verses) been written by the Prophet, he would have needed a number of drafts and the work would have needed editing, updating, etc. But this did not happen, yet the information is consistent throughout the Quran. The verses were taken down as dictated by the Prophet only once and no redrafting, editing or updating took place after that. 

5. At a number of stages during the 23-year period, challenges to reproduce, even a chapter of the Quran, were made. If the Prophet had written the Quran, he would not have made the challenges, for fear that the learned Arabs and eminent poets of his time would have taken up his challenges and shamed him. One of the challenges goes thus: “And if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed (from time to time) to Our servant (Muhammad), then produce a chapter like thereunto…” (2:23) 

6. The Quran says that the Prophet was not learned (62:2; 7:157-158). So, if the Prophet was educated in some institution but mentioned in the Quran that he wasn’t, he would have been accused of being a liar and his mission would have fallen through. 

7. Even if the Prophet was learned, how could he have written such an inimitable Book of Information and Wisdom without resorting to consultation with prominent scholars and the best books from the best libraries in the world?! If he did this, it would surely have been known, since every move he made was known to people. The Prophet was a historical figure, not a mythological figure. 

8. The Prophet was the busiest and most active person in history. So, how could he have found the time to write (even if he were educated) such a comprehensive and extensive Book of Guidance which would have needed years of seclusion and concentration to complete? 

9. In the Quran, in Chapter 111, it is mentioned that Abu Lahab, one of the Prophet’s uncles who was always against Islam, would never accept Islam. This Revelation came some ten years before the death of Abu Lahab. How could the Prophet have dared to write this chapter because all he (Abu Lahab) needed to do to prove that the Quran was not the Words of God, was to accept Islam dishonestly? 

10. The Prophet was mentioned by name in the Quran only five times whereas Jesus Christ’s name was (honourably) mentioned 25 times. Could the Prophet go to such an extent of honouring someone more than himself if he had written the Quran? 

11. There is a chapter in the Quran entitled and dedicated to Mary, a Jew and the mother of Jesus Christ, while there is no chapter called, or dedicated to, the Prophet’s own mother, Aminah, or daughter, Fatimah, nor were their names mentioned in the Quran. Could this have happened if the Prophet was the author of the Quran? 

12. Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is glorified in the Quran as a “woman of all nations”. Why would the Prophet glorify a Jewish woman he had never seen and one from another race, saying that she was chosen (by God) above all women unless the formulation of the verses had nothing to do with the Prophet’s own authorship but that he only repeated what was inspired to him by God? 

13. In the Quran, God is called “Allah” (in Arabic). He is also referred to by His Attributes, like the Cherisher, the Merciful, the Almighty. There are 99 such Attributes but none of these is “Abba” (Father) by which the Arab Christians of the Prophet’s time (and even today) refer to God. If the Prophet was the writer of the Quran, he would surely have used “Abba” as one of the names for God because of its familiarity and also because it was easier to say “Abba” than many of the Attributes. 

14. Although the Quran’s objective is basically religious, it does touch on certain principles and laws governing the universe. A French scientist, Maurice Bucaille, in his book, “The Bible, the Quran and Science”, says: “What initially strikes the reader confronted for the first time with a text of this kind (the Quran) is the sheer abundance of subjects discussed:

the Creation, astronomy, the explanation of certain matters concerning the earth, and the animal and vegetable kingdoms, human reproduction …I could not find a single error in the Quran. I had to stop and ask myself: if a man was the author of the Quran, how could he have written facts in the 7th Century AD that today are shown to be in keeping with modern scientific knowledge?”

Sauce For The Goose

March 7, 2008 

 

A ‘crazed Muslim fanatic’ entering the holy of holies–a ‘seminary’ (the Christians will better identify with that word than they will the word yeshiva) and kills 8 soon-to-be Rabbis whom the Jewish Talmud says are even smarter than God Himself…The world is brought to a standstill…The news media is on the scene and covering it as if nothing else where taking place anywhere…Scenes of wailing Jews, crying out to the God in heaven who loves them more than anyone else ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken us?…’

Boy THAT sure was a lucky coincidence for Israel, huh? Right in the ‘knick of time,’ as they say…I mean, what could have been more timely and fortuitous, and particularly with what just took place last week? All that bad press that this ‘shitty little country’ (as one diplomat once described the Jewish state) was getting after it invaded Gaza and murdered over 100 people, to say nothing of the fact that before murdering them they tortured them for several months by preventing the most basic necessities such as food, fuel and medicine from entering the most densely populated area on the planet.

How on earth do they do it? Every time they need something to ‘pop up’ in order to take the heat off them or in some way facilitate some demand on their part, it arrives with great fanfare as if it were gift-wrapped from heaven and hand-delivered by an army of angels marching in perfect syncopation. They wanted US troops out of Lebanon in the early 1980’s, and ‘BATTA-BING!’–a crazed Muslim fanatic drives an explosives-laden truck into a Marine barracks and kills a few hundred. The UN is just about to declare Israel a racist state and, BATTA-BANG!–crazed Muslim fanatics fly airplanes into the Twin Towers. Now, Israel issues a decree saying she is going to bring a holocaust upon the Christians and Muslims of Gaza, goes in and kills over a hundred, a ‘BATTA-BOOM/BOOM/BOOM!’ a crazed Muslim fanatic enters Jerusalem and shoots up the place.

Well, what can be said, except that either they REALLY ARE God’s chosen people (as they are always telling us) or else they must have made a deal with the devil.

We’ll remain silent on that last one for now.

In the meantime, what words can we offer in commentary over this latest event, other than the usual? War is hell…You win some and you lose some…Another one bites the dust…that’s the way the ball bounces…Life in the big city…C’est la vie…

Too insensitive? I beg to differ. I am only repeating what the rest of us have heard these last 40 years IN EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE when Israel murders innocent civilians, whether in Palestine, Lebanon or elsewhere. And not just a handful (something that happens EVERYDAY) but sometimes TENS OF THOUSANDS. Time after time after time ‘the most moral army in the world’ (as they call themselves) drops a 1,000-lb bomb on an apartment complex, killing dozens and maiming hundreds for the duration of their lifetimes, and what do we get?

A shrug of the shoulders, an expression of disconcern mixed with a sense of mild aggravation as if a mosquito had just been swatted followed by a slight, smart-assed smirk on the collective Jewish face as if to say ‘Screw you, Gentiles, Israel does whatever the f*** she wants and don’t you open your f****** mouths about it.’

So spare me the outrage over what appears to be the blasé tone of my statements concerning the execution of the 8 soon-to-be Rebbe. I am only ‘following orders’ and ‘going with the flow’ as they say, and being a big believer in the notion of ‘equality for all with favoritism towards none,’ what I’m saying is that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Besides, let’s put a few things in perspective here. Imagine for a moment that instead of a Yeshiva, it was a ‘Madrassa’, one of those EEEEEEVIL schools where Muslim children are indoctrinated through the study of the Koran to ‘wage jihad’ and become suicide bombers so that they can get their ‘72 virgins’. Let’s say that there were a few Imams in the school filling the heads of these young jihadists with all these EEEEEEVIL ideas of taking over the world, and instead of someone going in with a gun and carefully selecting his targets, Israel drops one of her made-to-order hellbombs on the place and kills everyone in the village, including women and children. Those not killed instantly suffer a long, tortuous death after the skin is burned off their bodies. Would there be any outrage? Would there be anything near the kind of coverage this event is getting? Again, the response and the mood surrounding the whole thing would be one of the aforementioned sentiments–War is hell…You win some and you lose some…Another one bites the dust…that’s the way the ball bounces…Life in the big city…C’est la vie…Going a step further, the entire murderous affair would be justified with ‘Hey, you want an omelet? You gotta break a few eggs…’

Proof for my hypothetical? Consider the cheering that took place when Saddam Hussein was hanged, the killing of his two sons, the killing of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, etc, etc, etc, not to mention the whole ‘shock and awe’ bombing campaign that resulted in tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians being killed.

And just in case some would accuse me of equivocating between those ‘EEEEEEVIL’ Madrassas and the Yeshivas or between the ‘EEEEEEVIL’ Imams and the pure-as-the-wind-driven-snow/soon-to-be-Rabbis, I’ll say up front that I’m not equivocating at all. The fact is, the Rabbis are worse. FAR WORSE. There is no comparing a Rabbi to an Imam. Give me the worst Imam in the world and he wouldn’t hold a candle–or rather, a Qassam rocket–to any yeshiva-educated Rabbi. Whatever evidence can be brought forth concerning the ‘jihadist Muslims’ and their ‘book of hate’ called the Koran–whether this ‘evidence’ is real or concocted–it does not begin to compare with the evil that takes place in the Yeshivas.

After all, what is being taught and studied in these schools where the shooting took place? Love thy neighbor? Turn the other cheek? What you do unto the least of these, my brethren you do unto me? Blessed are the peacemakers?…

Perish the thought, gentile readers…If there were ever a place where hatred–pure, distilled, and undiluted–was taught, it is in the yeshivas. This is the reason why the Jewish media is referring to the locale as a ‘seminary’, for fear that if they use the word ‘yeshiva’ curious people might look up the word, find out it’s a place for studying the ‘Talmud’ and from there, look up the word ‘Talmud’ and find out about the hatred for non-Jews contained in it. The ‘cat would be out of the bag,’ as they say and suddenly upon seeing with their own eyes the hate that drips from every word on every page of the ultimate ‘book of hate,’ all the answers to all questions concerning why the Jews have been hated throughout history would suddenly snap into place with a click loud enough to be heard around the world instantaneously.

‘Seminary’ sounds so much better. A place where humble, charitable, God-fearing young men live in seclusion from a corrupt, violent world so they can study and commune with the Almighty and upon graduation, go forth and preach the Good news for the benefit of humanity.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The yeshiva is the well from which flows the poisonous waters of the Talmud, the source of all the unrest in the Middle East and now elsewhere. It is the place where Jewish men are taught the Jihadist mentality of Judaism which states the Jews are God’s chosen people, that Gentiles are beasts in human form created to serve the Jews and that anything may be done to the Gentiles, including murder, genocide, theft, rape of their women and children and much more. It is a factory that cranks out spiritual pimps and drug dealers who–upon graduation, go forth and perpetuate the trafficking in the highly addictive, soul-destroying narcotic known as Judaism that, like a radioactive element, brings death everywhere it goes. This being the case, it is easy to see therefore why some people–and particularly those who have suffered the 60-year long campaign of murder and oppression at the hands of God’s chosen people might see the Yeshivas as military targets in the same way as some might see the School of the Americas (where assassins for clandestine operations around the world are trained) as one also.

After all, consider just a smattering of what these Yeshivas have produced in recent years. Religious leaders saying that the ‘blood of the Jew is superior to that of the Gentiles’ and that ‘a million Arabs aren’t worth one Jewish fingernail’…Who could forget those ‘nice Jewish girls’ who made the news a few years ago by autographing high-explosive warheads with sickeningly-violent statements such as ‘From Israel, With Love’ before these weapons of mass destruction were launched into Lebanese villages…Ask the Christians in Jerusalem sometime about the spitting and cursing they endure from the Yeshiva students at the encouragement of their Rebbe. These are just a small portion of the ugly fruit the Yeshiva produces, and if these aren‘t enough then one need look no further than the daily carnage taking place in the area as a result of the corrupting influence these schools produce for further proof.

Now, I know some conspiracy theorists might (with good reason) suggest that Israel did the job herself and that this was just one more in a long string of similar events that have taken place in the last 60 years where ‘adventurous,’ ‘dedicated’ and ‘patriotic’ Jews instigated violent acts against other Jews for propaganda purposes in order to create certain political outcomes. The truth is, it’s easy to see why such persons would embrace such an idea. After all, it is the motto of Israel’s Mossad ‘By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Do War’ , and it was Ariel Sharon, ‘the Butcher of Beirut who himself stated–

“Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care. What you don’t seem to understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.”

And so it’s understandable why people would suspect that all is not Kosher with this latest story, or rather that it WAS Kosher, depending on how you view it.

For the moment however I won’t go there–YET. Right now I’ll give Israel the benefit of the doubt she doesn’t deserve and temporarily suspend my disbelief by holding to the conventional wisdom which says the guy did it. Curious though that he DID follow the pattern of all lone, crazed gunmen throughout history, which is that he was killed on the spot before he could open his mouth.

What I will say though is that Israel bears the responsibility for it, or as one famous anti-Rabbinic activist once said, ‘what you sow also shall you reap.’

The death of 8 soon-to-be Pharisees is a drop compared to the sea of blood Israel has shed in the last century, and since we are constantly getting the ‘tit-for-tat’ lecture from Jews as they justify the violence they shed on innocent people because of the supposed suffering they endured (maybe) ‘all’s fair in love and war,’ as the saying goes.

Sadly though, Jews around the world will not see this latest attack as such. They will not draw the obvious conclusion that this is what happens when you oppress and murder an entire group of people day in/day out for decades and that eventually someone gets mad and strikes out. No, this latest will be blamed on the usual suspect–‘anti-Semitism’, rather than on the fact that Israel, the angel of death in the Middle East, is reaping what she has sown.

And perpetuating this big lie will be the rabbis, the fruit of the Yeshivas where the Talmud and its core teaching of Jewish superiority is taught, and WHEN Israel uses this latest event to justify launching a war against innocent Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, or whoever, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, their response will be what it always is–

‘War is hell…You win some and you lose some…Another one bites the dust…that’s the way the ball bounces…Life in the big city…C’est la vie…’

…When what they are really saying between hypocritical words, pretending to nurse a mild sense of regret over the whole incident is–

‘Screw you, Gentiles, Israel does whatever the f*** she wants and don’t you open your f****** mouths about it.’

© 2008 by Mark Glenn

Correspodent, American Free Press Newspaper

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Mystery surrounds role of Hamas in attack on Jerusalem seminary

Mystery surrounds role of Hamas in attack on Jerusalem seminary 

News Commentary – March 8, 2008

Confusion persists over who was really behind the attack on the Jerusalem seminary which left eight Israelis dead.

Although Reuters has quoted an annonymous source as saying Hamas was responsible for the attack, the organisation itself has yet to officially declare responsibility.

Hours after the anonnymous source was quoted by Reuters however, a spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Abu Ubaida, told Al Jazeera television the attack was “an honour we have not claimed yet”.

The confusion has led to speculation in some quarters that the attack was an Israeli covert false flag operation.

Israel has yet to explicitly name Hamas as being responsible for the attack. Although it has cited the group’s praise of it as proof that it was “not only the enemy of Israel but of all of humanity”.

Hizbollah’s satellite television station Al-Manar reported that a previously unknown group called the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh was responsible for the yeshiva atrocity. But the claim has not yet been verified and it is still not clear that the group even exists.

The attack came a week after Israeli incursions into Gaz left 120 Palestinians dead, many of whom were civilians, including children and a toddler too.

The Israeli operations in Gaza generated a groundswell of opinion against the Zionist state in the West. Leading to speculation that Israel was behind the seminary attack in an effort to redeem itself and again cast Israel as the victim of terror rather the its perpatrator.

Thursday’s killings were carried out by by a ‘lone gunman’ armed with a pistol and a Kalashnikov AK47 and he had planned his attack with considerable attention to detail. He clearly knew where most of the yeshiva students would be congregated, and probably that a large number had gathered for celebrations on the eve of the Jewish festival of Purim.

He also somehow managed to evade the tight security surrounding the West Bank and infiltrate the Jerusalem seminary, with some reports suggesting that he did so dressed as a yeshiva student.

Either way the attack has provoked a strong response on both sides.
In the aftermath of the killings a Hamas message –”this is God’s vengeance” – was transmitted over loudspeakers in the Gaza, presumably referring to the Israeli offensive in Gaza which ended on Monday,

While Avi Dichter, the Israeli Interior Minister, told mourners at Friday’s funerals that Arabs in East Jerusalem should be expelled to the West Bank if found to be involved in militant activity.

Nonetheless the idea that Israel may have been behind Thursday’s attack is not so absurd. After all the Zionist state has a history of launching false flag attacks on friend and foe alike.

Israeli covert operatives have frequently masqueraded as Palestinians and Israeli military commanders have openly admitted that units impersonating terrorists are a key asset in the West Bank.

A damming list of supposed “terrorist” atrocities have been linked to Israel and its Intelligence service Mossad: whose motto by the way is “By way of deception thou shalt wage war”.

Included on this list are 9/11 and Mossad’s involvement in the September 11 outrage. The attack on the USS Liberty and Mossad’s involvement in staging “Palestinian” terror attacks.

All of which should tell us that any terror attack on Israel or its citizens should be viewed with the utmost scepticism and caution.

So ultimately the real beneficiary of Thursday’s attacks may be Israel itself. As the Zionist state seeks to restore its image as the beleaguered victim of terror rather than its covert sponsor and perpetrator.