The Gaza War: Appearance vs. Reality

It would be good to bombard the Media with quotes from the Hamas Charter which explains why. Its all right there in their words. All people are Hamas, and Hamas is all the people, martyrdom is sacred sublime duty and all will be Educated to such. Etc. The Publicity will help the World join the Jihad against Israel.
But there is another more insidious reason. Hamas wants the Jihad to go on generation after generation. Dead martyrs fuels better fighters. When you family members or friends die all bloody, the Hatred Flames. And children carry the hate to the next generation. Martyrs HURT. Hurt keeps the whole things going. Hurt makes all people fight harder. The leader know this and part of the set up is to create a larger and more hateful Army. It's so ruthless, so sick, to want and depend on your own peoples children to die to make a more fierce Army. Hamas/Islamic Jihad/MB should all be hanged by the UN and every Human Rights Group worth their name.

The IDF captured the Hamas Urban Warfare Manual in the neighborhood of the Shuja'iya neighborhood which had become a terrorist stronghold, and where the IDF fought a major battle. This Hamas urban warfare manual exposes two truths: (1) The terror group knows full well that the IDF will do what it can to limit civilian casualties. (2) The terror group exploits these efforts by using civilians as human shields against advancing IDF forces.

The manual goes on to explain that the "presence of civilians are pockets of resistance" that cause three major problems for advancing IDF troops:

(1) Problems with opening fire
(2) Problems in controlling the civilian population during operations and afterward
(3) Assurance of supplying medical care to civilians who need it

The drip-feed of horrendous graphics has turned opinion against Israel. Weeks of skilful media disinformation plus graphics has proved a most powerful weapon for Hamas.

Hamas is not alone. It is nothing else than the Muslim Brotherhood's jihadist wing in Gaza, where, in 1987, it took a new name under the leadership of Sheikh Yassin. In April 2014, one month after Egypt sentenced to death 529 members of the Brotherhood including its Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, and banned Hamas from its territory, one month after Saudi Arabia declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, Hamas and Fatah reconciled as the two largest parties in the Palestinian Authority, renamed as the State of Palestine after the U.N. granted its predecessor the Palestinian Authority observer status in November 2012.

So you now have Hamas, Fatah, and the Brotherhood. Add to this the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). It operates in Gaza as well, and is gaining ground as Hamas/Brotherhood lost support from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE. It was exiled from Gaza and settled in Lebanon, where it befriended Hezbollah (Sunni and Shi'a jihadist reunite when it comes to the destruction of the two Satans, Israel and the US).

So PIJ is financed by Iran and al-Assad's regime. Add Qatar who, less than a couple of months after it agreed to "host" the terrorist Dream Team Obama and Rice so nicely exchanged for Sgt. Bergdahl (who has still not reunited with his parents, of his own will, and is under continued investigation) wrote us a check of $11Bn to buy some helicopters and air defense systems(to use against whom?).

Qatar is the residence of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. Throw Turkey in there. Its former Prime Minister Erdogan is so anti-Israel and pro-Hamas (he hosted Mashaal several times and refused to recognize the election of Egytpian President al-Sisi). Guess what, Erdogan just became Turkey's President. Now, who is backing al-Assad, Iran, and Turkey? And who has a keen interest in Qatari Gas?

A very well written article that states all the important facts. Any rational person would accept these realities. Unfortunately the world is not working that way. Instead all the world players are making it harder and harder for Israel to survive. Hopefully there is a merciful G-d who will save the Jews in Israel as the world leaders are totally incompetent.

Israel is doing all it can to survive and warn the rest of the world leaders of the dangers. I just read that Dennis Ross and Hillary Clinton enabled Hamas by pushing Israel to ease the restrictions on shipment of cement to Gaza. No one takes responsibility for their bad judgement. The Oslo Agreement and withdrawal from Gaza enabled the enemies to advance their agenda. How can anyone have Peace with people who want to destroy you. It is irrational to expect Israel's enemies to change. They want to destroy Israel, the Jews and the West. They make their goals crystal clear. The West continues to appease them, deny their motivations and enable their goals.

Virtually ignoring chronic Muslim-on-Muslim slaughter, Muslim-on-Christians genocide everywhere else and years of Muslim-on-Jew rocket attacks, Liberal [read Loose-with-the-Truth] Lame Stream Media reporters only start drooling on the rare occasions when Jews fight back. Their virtual declaration of Open Season on Jews casts Gumption in a shadow Forrest Gump would not challenge.

One has to feel for the poor Palestinians who foolishly voted in Hamas as one has to feel for the poor Americans who voted in Obama, victims all of us.

Israel can also be considered a victim; first since it is surrounded by enemies sworn to destroy Israel and secondly because Israel has within itself unrealistic, downright suicidal groups of people who feel they can negotiate peace with an enemy sworn to destroy them. If the latter can't be confined and controlled, and Israel does not now completely destroy Hamas, including its leaders in Turkey and Qatar, Israel may indeed someday cease to exist. A lot of victims all around.

Just as Chamberlain's "peace in our time" opened the gates for Hitler's World War II, so the lilly-livered cowardice (or is it collusion?) of today's "world leaders" will lead inevitably to the annihilation of hundreds of millions of "non-believers".

The Arab Spring has evolved into the Islamic Terror.
If the rule of Hamas is so intolerable to the Gaza citizens why don't the Gazans rise up against Hamas? They are being forced to die as shields, why are they unwilling to die to save their families from death and destruction. Some of them are willing to put on vests of bombs; why not aim those bombs against Hamas.
Are the people of Gaza cowards letting themselves be led about by Hamas?
Why aren't is Mossad and the CIA, aided by the PA, making an effort to lead a counter-revolution in Gaza and kick out Hamas?

The west now seems to have adopted a policy of appeasement vis-a-vis Hamas, in some ways similar to that expounded in the 30s in the face of Hitler's plans.
This can do no good; Hamas and allies will no doubt cast scorn on western attempts to accommodate their demands and will celebrate their successful manipulation of politicians and public opinion.

They are winning the PR conflict: anti-Semitism is spreading-hiding behind human rights protests and attempts to demonise and delegitimise Israel; calls for arms embargoes apply only to Israel; Iran continues to run rings round the western negotiators hoping to contain its nuclear aspirations.
The old adage "be careful what you wish for" now seems all too appropriate.

When faced with pictures of dying children, the West is so quick to believe that a moral army of a democratic state is bloodthirsty and targets women and children. Yet, they will not believe that a terrorist group who applauds martyrdom, selects civilian women and children as human shields in their quest to win the war fought in the media.

Israel needs a good eye-popping PR campaign, to be spread out over many years. I can think of any number of things it should and could say, comparing Israel to Gaza or to Muslim lands generally. For instance, how many people know that Palestinians refused Christians in Bethlehem permission to repair their churches. This kind of religious intolerance is commonplace among Muslims. Get a good PR firm, do stories of human interest, etc.

Clearly, the Hamas boys have won the propaganda war here in the West. This is especially unfortunate, since the Hamas boys are inveterate liars and opportunists that think nothing of committing the most heinous crimes against their own people. There is no such thing as freedom of speech in Gaza, or, for that matter, the so-called West Bank.

When the next episode of Hamas perpetrated violence begins, as it will, I suggest that the Israelis initiate an aggressive campaign using totally fabricated evidential photos of Israeli victims of whatever Hamas violence takes place - and the bloodier and grosser, the better - especially pets.

Anyone savaging people's pets, and especially dogs, is going to lose the next propaganda war.

Everything you write is true! But what value has truth today!? And who cares about facts?!

I am perplexed: the media purports to cover news and yet it has become so politicised and biased, it rarely tells the truth but increasingly becomes a propaganda tool.
The UN purports to represent and police its nation states, but actually incite and target the one state that tries to comply by the rules implemented by the UN.
Democracy is delegitimised under pretence of freedom, terrorists are lionised as if they were freedom fighters and good people are criticised for not dying!
The world has turned on its head: black has become white and I am fearful there is more to come if we do not stand up and realise we must defend our way of life or we will become canon fodder and seek martyrdom as if this was noble and honest and valuable!

Why does the UK government support Hamas at the expense of the people of Gaza?
The majority of Muslim countries have expressed criticism of Hamas and the desire for it to be defeated. Hamas
• Took control of Gaza by force, throwing members of Fatah from rooftops;
• Leaders live in luxury while the people live in poverty;
• Take aid, oil, petrol sent for the people, and give it to their fighters only;
• Have begun to establish a Sharia state;
• Force women, including Christians to wear headscarves, have burnt down Christian schools and libraries, have raped Christian women;
• Use cement imported legally and illegally to build tunnels, rather than to build hospitals, schools, clinics;
• Use children to build tunnels, 160 dying so far in the process;
• Use children as fighters;
• Murder the builders of tunnels to prevent them divulging their locations;
• Have shot dead in the street 30 Gazan civilians for demonstrating against Hamas;
• Beat with rods and sticks those Gazans who heed Israeli warnings to leave a building about to be bombed;
• Boast that they use human shields;
• Use their dense urban areas, mosques, schools, hospitals, power plants, UN and Red Cross facilities, graveyards and playgrounds for weapon storage and launching;
• Threaten, intimidate and expel foreign journalists who report them firing rockets from these places;
• Leaders hide in tunnels while the civilians have no shelter from Israeli attacks;
• Is plotting to take over the West Bank;