Heil Hamas!
Gaza roundup kicks off with Nazis and Hamas, as Hitler scholar Ron Rosenbaum at PJM compares and contrasts. Hamas gets points for honesty. Meanwhile, the hated Zionist entity gets points for greater humanitarian concerns and practices than the WWII Allies. OK, news via JPost:
The IDF is prepared to deepen and escalate its ground operations in Gaza, defense officials said on Sunday, after the army split the territory in half and began surrounding Gaza City. Hamas, the officials said, was encountering difficulties in delivering orders to its forces.
St.-Sgt. Dvir Emmanueloff, 22, from Givat Ze’ev and of the Golani reconnaissance unit, was killed on Sunday by mortar shell shrapnel during clashes with Hamas terrorists near Jabalya.
Another soldier was critically wounded in the attack.
Earlier in the morning, 30 soldiers from Battalion 51 of the Golani Brigade were injured in clashes and on Sunday night four soldiers were shot and wounded by Palestinian snipers.
The defense officials said it was likely that a number of senior Hamas operatives and terror chiefs were hiding and conducting their operations from within Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
“Hamas operatives are in the hospital and have disguised themselves as nurses and doctors,” one official said.
OC Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the cabinet that Hamas was using mosques, public institutions and private homes as ammunition stores.
By Sunday afternoon, the IDF had divided the Gaza Strip into two segments, in a move aimed at cutting off the flow of arms, supplies and fighters to the northern part. Palestinians reported that IDF tanks had taken up positions near the former settlement of Netzarim and troops had began surrounding Gaza City.
Some 40 rockets landed in Israel on Sunday, scoring direct hits in Sderot and Ashkelon, but causing no casualties.
Israel Matzav with the view from Israel … of Europe and other points in the Greater Islamosphere.
Judeopundit rounds up propaganda and absurdity, and very kindly links me under “sensible.”
WSJ’s Levinson, on the Gaza border: This is not your 2006 war.
Kristol at NYT: Gaza 2009 does not equal Lebanon 2006. Not least because Israel 2009 does not equal Israel 2006.
Bolton at WPost: Three-state solution … none of them Palestinian. Gaza reverts to Egypt, the West Bank to Jordan, and we all move on. It’s a thought. Bolton notes obstacles include Egypt and Jordan, who’ve been trying to move on themselves.
Ralph Peters at NYPost: Kill, kill, kill. It’s the argument for eliminating Hamas, plus some strategizing.
Over the past 5,000 years, war may not have been the perfect answer, but there have been countless times when it was the only answer. This is one of those times.
Max Boot at WSJ: Yeah, but Israel’s no Russia, Algeria or Burma.
This one’s fun. Simon Tisdall at the UK Guardian: Obama’s silence is undermining his reputation in the Middle East. It’s kind of a why-they’ll-hate-us-next argument.
Taking that a step further, James Carroll at the Boston Globe charitably notes that Hamas had it coming, but the Israeli reaction is hurtful and unkind when, I think he’s saying, they basically should be a modern, forward-thinking Euro-like nation and just put up with terrorists, because all the reasons for not doing so are so much tiresome blah-blah-blah. Carroll calls on the Messiah, in his first act of water-walking, should heal the lepers, restore sight to the blind, make the lame whoe again, and because we could all use a drink, turn that ditchwater into bourbon.
Topics: Israel, Palestinians
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:44 am on Monday, January 5, 2009
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January 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
It won’t happen, of course, but Gaza going to Egypt and the West Bank to Jordan is an excellent idea, especially if those countries would integrate and assimilate the “Palestinians”. In any case, utter destruction of Hamas is necessary to any sort of peaceful future.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
If Egypt and Jordan were even remotely interested in doing something like that, this issue would have been settled long ago. They are not.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I dunno, Rebecca, I think Jordan and Egypt could use some extra large parking lots. That might vitalize the tourist industry…..in more ways than one.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Why not two Palestinian states, Gaza and West Bank, in their own sort of Switzerland with cantons and various local Arab/ Palestinian leaders?
Gaza is bigger than Monaco — if Egypt and Israel accept its borders, it will be ‘big enough’.
All it needs is private property rights and a functioning contract enforcement mechanism to allow a market… plus peace with neighbors.
January 8th, 2009 at 11:24 am
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