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

[Personal views not connected to this site]

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.

Cheney: Israel didn't seek clearance or approval

January 4, 2008

AP's BEN FELLER

VP DICK CHENEY:

[Israel] didn't seek clearance or approval from us, certainly.

They have said, now, for a period of months — they told me on my last trip over there — that they didn't want to have to act, where Gaza was concerned. They had gotten out of there three years ago. But if the rocketing didn't stop, they felt they had no choice but to take action. And if they did, they would be very aggressive, in terms of trying to take down Hamas. And that's exactly what's happened.

HARRY REID:

I think what the Israelis are doing is very important. I think this terrorist organization, Hamas, has got to be put away. They've got to come to their senses.

MITCH MCCONNELL:

Hamas is a terrorist organization. Imagine in this country (the U.S.) if somebody from a neighboring country were lobbing shells at our population. We'd do exactly the same thing. I think the Israelis are doing the only thing they can possibly do to defend their population.