Hamas officials sheltered by Red Cross in Jerusalem
Photo by Chameleons Eye / Rex Features
It appears that, for the better part of the last year and a half, officials at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Jerusalem have been sheltering two wanted Hamas officials.
Hamas, you’ll remember, is a designated terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip and which unabashedly calls for the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish people. When not engaged in genocidal anti-Semitism, they also like to endanger their civilian population, degrade and subjugate women, and commit violence against their political enemies.
Israeli police arrested the two men this morning.
Funny…even with that level of cooperation, the ICRC still couldn’t manage to get into Hamas-controlled Gaza to visit with kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit during his captivity. Or, perhaps because of that level of cooperation, they just weren’t trying all that hard. Kind of makes it tough for Israelis to trust them, huh?
Comments (8) »Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 10:17 AM | Stand for Israel
Hamas says Gaza not “occupied”; U.N. disagrees
Gaza
Recently, Hamas “foreign minister” Mahmoud Zahar said what everyone with eyes has known since 2005: Israel no longer occupies the Gaza strip.
You’ll remember that, in summer of 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in a controversial and wrenching event that witnessed the terrible images of Jewish soldiers removing Jewish residents from their homes – often by force. Whatever your position on that action, the result was obvious to anyone: Israel ceased to occupy Gaza.
Even senior members of Hamas get it. But the U.N. still doesn’t.
Comments (2) »Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 2:43 PM | Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg
Terrorist on Tour
Senior Hamas leader Haniyeh surrounded by his bodyguards (Photo: Reuters)
A telling sign of the times in the wake of the Arab Spring:
Comments (2) »Buoyed by the rise of the Islamists to power in the Arab world, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is planning a tour of Arab and Islamic countries – the first of its kind since his movement came to power in 2006.
Yusef Rizka, political advisor to Haniyeh, said that the emir of Qatar has invited the Hamas prime minister to visit Doha, but no date has been set yet.
According to Rizka, Haniyeh is currently considering visiting not only Qatar, but also Turkey, Bahrain, Tunisia and a number of Arab countries. He pointed out that Turkey had also invited Haniyeh.
Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 4:15 PM | Stand for Israel
Hamas’ terror tactics in Gaza
Via the IDF Spokesperson, here’s a revealing video explaining how Hamas amasses arms in the Gaza Strip — and use those arms to terrorize Israel.
Comments (15) »Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 9:43 AM | Stand for Israel
Israel held hostage to international community’s double standard
Rockets strike Ashdod, Israel (Photo: Anatoly Pogoreli)
According to remarks made by Israeli cabinet minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday, Israel is “close to a dramatic decision” that would put an end to the rocket attacks that have bombarded southern Israel over the last few days. While the IDF responded to the initial attacks by targeting and killing a few members of Islamic Jihad, their overall response has been restrained. Israel has, however, reportedly agreed to give Egypt 24 hours to attempt to mediate an informal ceasefire with the terrorist factions operating in Gaza.
One million Israelis have come under fire in the latest round of rocket attacks from Islamic Jihad terrorists, who operate from the Gaza Strip under Hamas’ jurisdiction. School closures have been in effect for 200,000 children, and residents were instructed to remain within close proximity to bomb shelters.
Earlier in the week a missile struck and killed a father of four in Ashkelon as he was exiting his car, while other attacks left eight Israeli civilians injured. A school in Ashkelon was directly hit by a rocket; thankfully no children were inside the building at the time of the attack.
Israelis I’ve spoken to over the last few days are infuriated with the situation. They believe that the Israeli army should unleash its full capacities to bring down Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We understand, however, that a military response of such caliber is extremely unlikely because the international community does not support Israel’s right to self-defense unless it has incurred a major loss of life, and even then we are warned not to respond disproportionately.
Israel is being held hostage to the international community’s idealism of evenhandedness, which equates terror attacks against Israeli civilians with Israeli military operations targeting terrorists. Any sovereign nation besides Israel would have the full backing of the international community to destroy a neighboring terrorist organization that is actively seeking its destruction. Yet, Israel is held to a double standard unlike any other nation in history.
Read More » Comments (11) »Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 3:53 PM | Amichai Farkas
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