Journal superyooser's Journal: Israel's Bin Laden Killed, World Condemns Jews 11
Hamas has slaughtered hundreds of Jews (see statistics below), and the whole world is reacting like a bunch of Nazis. "Bad Jews! Bad bad bad! Everybody else gets to fight the War on Terror, but not YOU, evil Jew! You're the oppressors. You're the occupiers."
Whether the issue is terrorism, abortion, or the right of ordinary citizens to bear arms, the leftists always side against the victims. Whether the victims, or would-be victims, are threatened democracies, oppressed peoples, babies, or any defenseless persons, leftist policies maximize the bloodshed of the innocents while protecting the perpetrators from punishment. They oppose the defense of life in every place and at every stage, from crime-ridden city streets to despotic torture chambers, from the mother's womb to the hospital ward. With a world in the hands of the Left, hospitals become slaughter houses, wombs become tombs, and rogue regimes become genocide machines. While the liberals scream about Bush starting World War III, they would allow, even facilitate, Holocaust II. (In fact, going by sheer body counts, with over 43,000,000 American babies aborted since Roe v. Wade, we have already had almost a Holocaust x 4 in our own country.)
It's interesting that American liberals said that Bush had failed in the War on Terror because he hadn't yet captured Osama bin Laden. Now, Israel has wiped out their OBL, and the Left is outraged. Hypocrites. It's all about bashing Bush. They'll spin any circumstance as a negative for Bush. Their protests should be ignored because they don't mean what they say.
The REST of the News on Yassin, courtesy mostly of Israel National News
Arch-terrorist Sheikh Ahmed Yassin is dead - following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza at dawn today. Head of the international Hamas terror organization, Yassin met his end together with two of his sons, two other Hamas terrorists, and three others.
Three air-to-surface missiles were fired at Yassin's vehicle around 5:30 AM as he left a local mosque. Yassin, bound to a wheelchair since he hurt his back in a childhood accident, was the charismatic leader and founder of the murderous terror organization.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Hamas terrorist group and personally responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks and the deaths of Israelis, foreigners and security personnel, was killed in an air strike on his car," read a statement released by the IDF this morning, shortly after the strike. "The Hamas leadership, headed by Yassin, is also responsible for the ties and cooperation with the other terrorist organizations," the statement continued.
Since the beginning of the Oslo War in September 2000, Hamas has perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks of various types, killing a total of 377 Israelis and wounding 2,076 civilians and soldiers. Of these, 52 were suicide attacks, murdering 288 people. A full list of all deadly terrorist attacks during this period, including those perpetrated by Hamas, can be seen on the Foreign Ministry website at http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ia50.
Tens of thousands of Gaza residents took to the streets this morning upon hearing the news, while terrorists fired into the air. Continuous shouts of "Allahu Akbar" were heard from the loudspeakers of mosques throughout Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza). These scenes repeated themselves several-fold during the funeral early in the afternoon. "The battle is open, and war between us and them is open. They are the killers of prophets and today they killed an Islamic symbol," said Hamas chief spokesman Abdul Aziz Rantisi.
Arab leaders and PA officials condemned the attack, with Abu Ala - the PA prime minister - actually calling Yassin a "moderate." Abu Ala said that the killing of Yassin was "crazy and very dangerous and opens the door wide to chaos. Yassin is known for his moderation, and therefore this is a dangerous, cowardly act."
In addition to Ahmed Yassin, four other Hamas terrorists were also killed in this morning's attack. These included two of his sons, who accompanied him everywhere, were among his closest confidantes, and were in touch with all Hamas terrorists who came in contact with their father.
Likud MK Ehud Yatom said that Hamas could be expected to try to retaliate for the killing, but that this should not deter Israel from killing terrorist leaders.
The United States called on both sides to show restraint, while Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw condemned Israel for what he called the "unlawful killing." France, the European Union in general and The Vatican also condemned Israel for killing its arch-enemy. "Violence is never the answer," read the statement from Paris.
The IDF imposed a complete closure on all of Yesha following this morning's operation, with all of Israel's cities placed on heightened alert. Security forces have taken up positions inside and outside of the Knesset plenum, and general security has been increased in the Knesset building. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon instructed his forces this morning to respond with "maximum restraint" to various phenomena of "active" mourning, protests and even rioting today. Live fire is not permitted.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was directly involved in the strike against the Hamas chief, supervising the operation personally from his Shikmim Farm in the Negev.
Sheikh Yassin is the author of suicide terrorism in Israel. Yassin encouraged the killing of Jews wherever they are found, and recently proposed that Israel be replaced by a Jewish state in Europe. Speaking with Der Spiegel in Germany, Yassin said that the purpose of the "Palestinian struggle is so that all Palestinians can live on their homeland... I am against a Jewish state on Palestinian land. The Jews should found a state in Europe." He was arrested in 1983 for starting to form Hamas, but was released two years later in the Jibril exchange. In 1989, he was arrested again, and was this time sentenced to life in prison - but was released in October 1997 in order to obtain the release of two Mossad agents being held in Jordan for trying to kill Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al.
Israel targeted Yassin six months ago, firing a missile at his house where he was meeting other Hamas leaders. He escaped from that attack with only minor injuries.
Reaction in the Cabinet to today's missile strike was overwhelmingly approving, with some saying it was time for the next step: the fulfillment of the cabinet decision to expel or kill Yasser Arafat. The Mukata compound in Ramallah, where Arafat has been holed up for over two years, has gone on high alert. Senior officials have indicated the strike against Yassin is in fact not the last, and that other terrorist leaders are marked as well.
Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim said that Yassin received his just rewards after overseeing hundreds of attacks by Hamas. "Sheikh Yassin deserved to die for all the terrorist attacks committed by Hamas," Boim told Israel Radio in the first reaction by the government. Boim hinted that more attacks on terrorist leaders were likely, warning that "no terrorist leader will be immune."
Gush Katif spokesman Eran Sternberg said this morning, "Today's killing of Yassin is a good thing, and we call upon the government not to rest on its laurels, but to continue this path. The only disengagement that should be considered is the disengagement of the terrorists from their heads..."
The decision to kill Yassin at the earliest opportunity was made six days ago, two days after the double Hamas attack in the Ashdod port that killed ten Israelis. The suicide explosions not only could have been a mega-attack had they occurred close to fuel or ammonia tanks, but occurred inside a strategic and nationally symbolic site. At a meeting of top Israeli defense and political leaders, it was decided to embark on a full-scale campaign to wipe out terrorism in Gaza, with both religious and political terrorist leaders in the crosshairs. Several relatively minor operations were carried out in the ensuing days - but the ongoing offensive, codenamed Operation Continuing Story - went into high gear when intelligence was received around 4:30 AM today that Yassin had entered a mosque and would soon be leaving. Three missiles were rained down onto his car just an hour later.
Responses to the strike:
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: "Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was among the greatest of the Jewish People's enemies."
Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz: "Yassin was the Palestinian Bin-Laden... The war against Hamas will continue." He was the "Osama bin Laden of the Palestinian people" whose "hands were drenched in the blood of Israeli children."
Trade Minister Ehud Olmert: "Every one of the Hamas leaders who are still alive knows that his days are numbered."
Some Labor MKs, such as Danny Yatom and Eitan Cabel, justified the killing of Yassin. Shimon Peres, on the other hand, said that if he were in the government, he would have voted against the strike: "One leader is killed, another one replaces him." Within Shinui, as well, the opinions are divided. Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) said that the Shinui ministers such as Poraz and Paritzky who express reservations about the killing "are serving the interests of Palestinian propaganda."
The Yesha Council says that the government "must not stop now, but must continue with the killing of the remainder of the terrorist leadership, including Arafat."
Meretz [the most extreme liberal party] MK Zahava Gal'on: "Sharon, who incited the Temple Mount protests [though PA sources themselves said that the violence at the time had been planned well in advance - ed. note], has now poured more fuel on the cycle of murderous violence."
Arafat declared three days of mourning for Yassin, whom he called a "tortured holy martyr." A black cloud covered Gaza cities, as residents burned tires in memory of the slain murderer.
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Plus, pagerank relies on links, and Haaretz unfortunately has those.
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When you see a woman get raped on the street, doesn't any honest, decent person have "bias" for the woman? Bias is not a dirty word when one side is right and the other is wrong. Even-handedness, in this case, means that you would give equal credence and sympathy to both the genocidal, terrorist gangs under the PA and the civilized democracy.
They certainly crossed the line when they screamed 'anti-Semitism
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That's merely your opinion, but HonestReporting's objectives will hold more weight if
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Actually, they started the site out of great frustration over the general bias in the media, and especially in European newspapers. The most blatant one (in the US) was The Photo That Started It All [honestreporting.com]. If you read that and don't believe amazing bias, there is nothing else that will do it.
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I only have 2 regrets about this one... (Score:2)
2) We blew up a perfectly good wheel chair.
This bastard ordered the murder of hundreds of Jews he got exactly what he deserved. And it just proves that Am Y'srael can not count on the nations of the world to protect us, only G-d and our own army.