THREE ARTICLES on January 28 prove that Jews don't need enemies outside the flock; we have more than enough who claim to be Jews - some also Israelis.
Article #1: Goldberg: Bibi's Congress Speech was Israel's Idea
Article #2: Week After Tel Aviv Stabbing, Jew Smuggles Arabs Into Israel
Article #3: B’Tselem accuses IDF of violating laws of war in Gaza
From Article #1, author Jeffrey Goldberg penned an article that tears into Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for his upcoming speech before Congress, which, he says, is a “desperate-seeming end-run around" US President Barack Obama.
The idea for delivering the speech without consulting the White House was “concocted” by Israel's US Ambassador Ron Dermer, he claims, despite the speech invitation coming from House Speaker John Boehner.
The article continues: “Obama administration officials have already felt disrespected by Netanyahu (recall his condescending, and public, Oval Office lecture to the president), and so this latest violation of protocol set their teeth on edge,” claimed Goldberg. “Barack Obama will be president for two more years, and it makes absolutely no sense for an Israeli leader to side so ostentatiously with a sitting American president’s domestic political opposition.”
Goldberg conveniently ignores the several snubs Netanyahu suffered from the Muslim president. He also ignores the reality that Israel, not the U.S., is Iran's primary target and likely will be the testing ground for any nuclear weapon Iran is allowed to develop - or buy from its equally crazy ally, North Korea.
He is correct that, unfortunately, Obama will remain in office for two more years - he may be better than the alternative, VP Biden - but at least he may be reigned (cq) in by the Republican congress, which he already is antagonizing with veto threats.
Article #2 documents the absolute stupidity of some Israelis as it describes a haredi man who tried - and fortunately failed - to smuggle three PA residents into Israel.
The Israel National News (a/k/a Arutz 7) article leeds (cq) off with There have been two high-profile stabbings in Tel Aviv in recent months committed by Arab residents of Judea and Samaria who illegally crossed the 1949 Armistice line - and yet a Jewish resident of a haredi suburb of the city on Tuesday was arrested bringing Arab illegals into the Tel Aviv area in his car trunk.
A 32-year-old Jewish resident of Bnei Brak, a haredi suburb of Tel Aviv, was arrested on Tuesday evening at a security point in Samaria on Highway 5.
The article also notes that There is a long history of similar attempts to smuggle in Arab illegals.
In October 2014, an Israeli woman was arrested while trying to smuggle three Arab illegals past the 1949 Armistice line in her car, along with a stash of drugs. At a checkpoint one of the three was found hiding under a blanket in the backseat, and the other two hiding in the trunk.
In May 2014, a Tel Aviv woman was arrested trying to smuggle in two Arab men, while riding in a car with her three daughters.
The article adds that November 2014 an Arab terrorist who had entered Israel illegally and stabbed to death an Israeli soldier; a year before that, a 16-year-old Arab terrorist stabbed another soldier to death,
PA Arabs are allowed into Israel after being vetted, so this is not a case of closing the border to all PA residents.
Finally, Article #3: B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization accused the Israeli government and the military on Wednesday of violating international humanitarian law during last summer’s war against Hamas, by allegedly adopting a deliberate policy of launching air strikes on homes and other civilian buildings in Gaza — strikes that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
A hallmark of the fighting in Gaza this summer was the numerous strikes on residential buildings, destroying them while their occupants were still inside,” a 49-page report by B’Tselem read.
It acknowledged that Hamas and other Palestinian terror operatives had fired at Israeli civilians from within civilian-populated areas, and frequently did their utmost to entrench themselves within the Palestinian civilian population. Yet even in such a situation, the organization argued, Israel is obliged to abide by international norms, “because violations of international humanitarian law by one party do not grant the other party permission to breach them as well.”
Frankly, I always am confused by the term "rules of war" especially when they are applied to one side and not the other. The U.S. failed to observe "rules of war" when it decimated the indigenous population; the nazis and Japanese failed to obey the "rules of war"; Hamas and its Islamist look-alikes only apply the "rules of war" to their enemies; they don't practice the " international humanitarian law" so loved by B’Tselem.
As long the combatants fight by different "rules," where one has it's figurative hand tied behind its back, then "rules of war" are just so much hot air; useless words. In order to defeat an enemy it must be fought on the enemy's terms. To defeat Hamas, et al, we must think and act as Hamas thinks and acts.
Israel could, Israel should do that, but the Left in the U.S., Europe, and, sadly the Ashkenazi Left in Israel, prevent Israel's full self defense.
