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It didn’t take long after the Israeli bombing campaign started, for the usual suspects throughout the U.S and the world to start mounting their massive protests.
San Francisco, January 3, 2009 …………………………………NYC December 28, 2008
Washington DC, January 2, 2009 …………………………………Chicago, January 3, 2009
Paris (with car burning in background) Jan. 3rd……………………..……Rome, January 3, 2009
Spain, January 3, 2009 ……………………………………………………Turkey, January 3, 2009
Amsterdam, January 3, 2009 …………….London, January 3, 2009………………..Dublin Ireland, January 3, 2009
There is a propaganda war being fought, and as usual, the good guys are losing. The usual terrorist tactic of using civilian shields is having the predictable result, with the predictable outcry from a gullible public. As Israel warns houses of impending attacks, Hamas uses the intelligence to move women and children into the targeted areas. The newspaper coverage of the conflict has been abysmal, consistently favoring the Palestinian side.
Hamas still benefits greatly from media sympathizers who will unquestioningly run agitprop for Hamas and savaging Israel’s defensive actions. MSNBC is particularly awful at maintaining objectivity in US media. The British media is far worse and I wont even begin to get into the sewers and fever swamps of the state-run propagandists of the Arab world.
And here’s an oped in the Wall Street Journal from Benjamin Netanyahu, today:
Imagine a siren that gives you 30 seconds to find shelter before a Kassam rocket falls from the sky and explodes, spraying its lethal shrapnel in all directions. Now imagine this happens day after day, month after month, year after year.
If you can imagine that, you can begin to understand the terror to which hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been subjected. Three years ago Israel withdrew from every square inch of Gaza. And since that withdrawal, our civilians have been targeted by more than 6,000 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza. In the face of this relentless bombardment, Israel has acted with a restraint that other countries, faced with a similar threat, would find hard to fathom. Israel’s government has finally decided to respond.
For this action to succeed, we must first have moral clarity. There is no moral equivalence between Israel, a democracy which seeks peace and targets the terrorists, and Hamas, an Iranian-backed terror organization that seeks Israel’s destruction and targets the innocent.
In a sane world, one faced with a religious cult that has been responsible for countless incidents of brutality and monstrous assaults on innocent life all over the world, we might see that world unite to rid itself of those responsible for these atrocities. As in WWII or the Gulf War, the civilized nations would put aside their differences and come together in the name of decency to defend the decent.
But in a mad, mad world, the perpetrators are lauded as “freedom fighters” and defended by “human rights” groups. Now, with renewed hostilities in the Gaza Strip, much of the world has incredibly decided that the fault lies with Israel, a people who in sixty short years have gone from earning the sympathy and respect of the world for enduring the Holocaust to being on the receiving end of its hatred and enmity.
In a world that claims to defend the lives of the innocent, any culture that encourages its women to become suicide bombers and straps bombs to its children and the mentally ill would justly earn the scorn and contempt of good men everywhere. Yet, in a crazed world, this behavior is incredibly excused by blaming it on the victims of such ungodly acts.
Think prison…showers….big hairy guys. Yeah, a judge in Sydney, Australia has an interesting way of putting the fear of God into teens arrested for drag racing:
“You’ll find big, ugly, hairy strong men (in jail) who’ve got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you — and your anatomy,” said Magistrate Brian Maloney.
The 19-year-old male appeared in Sydney’s Downing Center Court on Monday charged with driving without a license, failing to stop at a police alcohol check point and driving dangerously.
It was his third time before the courts for driving offences, prompting the magistrate’s warning he would be jailed next time.
Maloney barred the teenager from driving until 2013, placed him on a 12-month good behavior bond and ordered him to do 150 hours of community work.
Breaching any of these conditions would see the teenager jailed where he would “shower with the gorillas in the mist down at Long Bay jail,” said Maloney, his comments confirmed by the court on Tuesday.
I surprised the judge didn’t advise the teen to invest in some soap on a rope, just in case.
The Sydney Telegraph supports the judges warning, as street racing has been an increasing problem in the city.
The newspaper’s editorial backed the magistrate’s warning of life behind bars, saying his comments were “a vision in clarity” and gave the teenager “a reality check of his future.”
