Egyptians and Jordanians:

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January 4, 2008

Where are you and what are you doing?

Those are your neighbors.

Your land and people are just as vulnerable and yet you stay silent and expect others to calm what is happening and has been happening in your own backyard.

You are just as complicit by doing nothing.

How can you possibly condemn the West?

How many Hamas terrorists have come from within your borders?

How many are seeking refuge right this minute?

How many sick, hungry and injured women and children seeking care and refuge have you allowed through your borders?

How much aid have you sent in?

What has the Arab League done?

How dare you condemn the West when you sit on your hands and do nothing.

Your inaction has allowed this to escalate.

Take responsibility for what you have not done and are still not doing.

You cannot hide anymore.

Your cowardice has been exposed to the entire world.

How long will you allow it to continue?

When is the Arab world going to speak out against Hamas?

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January 4, 2009

Why is there no outrage until Israel defends itself?

Why do we only see women and children when they can be used as propaganda to incite more hate?

Where were the protests against Hamas when they fired indiscriminately without retaliation?

Who in the Arab world has done anything to stop them?

How many other countries have vowed to annihilate Israel?

How many secretly hope someone else will?

Who voted Hamas into power?

Why are they anyone else's fault but the people who brought them to power?

What have Gazans done themselves to root out Hamas?

Who has allowed Hamas to build tunnels and amass weaponry?

What has been done to prevent them from using innocent civilians as a shield to provoke more violence?

How are Westerners to feel when they hear Hamas vow to torture and kill Israelis and hear nothing but silence from the rest of the Arab world?

How can you demand the UN do something when you have done nothing to stop the hate yourselves?

When did the Arab League meet to try to reach a resolution?

And what is Hamas doing now?

Inciting with their words of unvarnished hate.

Words that have not been condemned.

How are these words to be taken?

ISMAIL RADWAN

You entered like rats. Your entry to Gaza won't be easy. Gaza will be a graveyard for you, God willing.

Gaza will not be paved with flowers for you. It will be paved with fire and hell.

A text message sent by Hamas' military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, said "the Zionists started approaching the trap which our fighters prepared for them." Hamas said it also broadcast a Hebrew message on Israeli military radio frequencies promising to kill and kidnap the Israeli soldiers.

Be prepared for a unique surprise, you will be either killed or kidnapped and will suffer mental illness from the horrors we will show you.

Where was the outrage when these evil words were spit?

Where is your concern for the innocents he will allow to be injured and killed because of them?

One condones by saying nothing and doing nothing.

The whole world is watching and in the meantime thousands of people are suffering and more to come.

One week there is jubilance and honor bestowed on a man who attacked President Bush because of his involvement in Iraq and the next week there is outrage for his non-involvement in Gaza.

You can't have it both ways.

One must clean the rats out of one's own house before one complains about the filth in another's.

President Bush's radio address

January 2, 2009

President Bush's radio address:[emphasis added]

Over the past week, I have been monitoring the situation in the Middle East closely with the members of my national security team. Secretary Rice is actively engaged in diplomacy. And I've been in contact with leaders throughout the region -- including the King of Saudi Arabia, the King of Jordan, the President of Egypt, the President and Prime Minister of the Palestinian Territories, and the Prime Minister of Israel.

This recent outburst of violence was instigated by Hamas -- a Palestinian terrorist group supported by Iran and Syria that calls for Israel's destruction. Eighteen months ago, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in a coup, and since then has imported thousands of guns and rockets and mortars. Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, but Hamas routinely violated that ceasefire by launching rockets into Israel. On December 19th, Hamas announced an end to the ceasefire and soon unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortars that deliberately targeted innocent Israelis -- an act of terror that is opposed by the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people, President Abbas.

In response to these attacks on their people, the leaders of Israel have launched military operations on Hamas positions in Gaza. As a part of their strategy, Hamas terrorists often hide within the civilian population, which puts innocent Palestinians at risk. [utter cowards] Regrettably, Palestinian civilians have been killed in recent days.

The United States is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation facing the Palestinian people. Since Hamas's violent takeover in the summer of 2007, living conditions have worsened for Palestinians in Gaza. By spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of roads and schools, Hamas has demonstrated that it has no intention of serving the Palestinian people. America has helped by providing tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid, and this week we contributed an additional $85 million through the United Nations. We have consistently called on all in the region to ensure that assistance reaches those in need. And as I told President Mubarak, America appreciates the role Egypt has played in facilitating the delivery of relief supplies in recent days.

In addition to reducing humanitarian suffering, all nations must work toward a lasting end to the violence in the Holy Land, and a return to the path of peace. The United States is leading diplomatic efforts to achieve a meaningful ceasefire that is fully respected. Another one-way ceasefire that leads to rocket attacks on Israel is not acceptable. And promises from Hamas will not suffice -- there must be monitoring mechanisms in place to help ensure that smuggling of weapons to terrorist groups in Gaza comes to an end. I urge all parties to pressure Hamas to turn away from terror, and to support legitimate Palestinian leaders working for peace.

In the days ahead, the United States will stay closely engaged with our partners in the region, in Europe, and in the international community. My Administration will continue to keep the President-elect and his team informed. And America's objectives in the Middle East will remain clear: We seek security and peace for our allies, the free people of Israel. For the Palestinian people, we seek a peaceful and democratic Palestinian state that serves its citizens and respects its neighbors. For all in the region, we seek an end to terror. And we seek an enduring peace based on justice, dignity, and human rights for every person in every nation of the Middle East.