Månad: augusti 2011

Igår läste jag ett bra inlägg på Commentary Magazine om problemen med raketer från Gaza:

The claim “there’s no military solution to rocket fire” is patently absurd. During those same years when Gazan terrorists fired more than 7,000 missiles at Israel, not a single rocket was fired from the West Bank. So unless you believe that West Bank terrorists, unlike their Gazan counterparts, never wanted to launch rockets,  the obvious conclusion is the IDF’s continuous, proactive presence has thus far prevented West Bank terrorists from acquiring rocket-launching capabilities.

The diplomatic arguments against such a move are far more serious: The international outcry would be enormous. But continued delay will only further embolden the terrorists, further accustom the world to the idea terrorists are entitled to shoot rockets at Israel with impunity, and make war with Egypt more likely. Indeed, the Eilat attacks put the diplomatic consequences of inaction on stark display: Though Israel had precise intelligence about the attacks, itsgovernment rejected a Shin Bet security service recommendation to thwart them via a preventive strike on Gaza, fearing Egypt’s anger. In consequence, the attacks went ahead and several Egyptians were killed – outraging Egyptian public opinion far more than a strike on Gaza would have.

Gaza’s terrorist regime must be destroyed. Israel can no longer afford any other outcome.

Varje dag som går med raketer som lossas är ett slag i ansiktet mot de som lever nära Gazas gräns. Och dessa blir bara fler och fler, i takt med att Hamas raketer når längre och längre.

Att dra sig tillbaka från Gaza var ett naivt misstag. Israel har inte vunnit ett smack internationellt för detta ensidiga och storslagna steg. De Israelkritiska västländerna kritiserar idag Israel lika hårt som tidigare. Knappt någon i väst vet ens om att detta har skett.

Fatahgrupper på Västbanken skulle självklart lossa raketer och göra andra terrordåd om de kunde – men de kan inte. Samma sak måste ske i Gaza.

En lite äldre artikel om FNs särskilda organ för palestinska flyktingar, UNRWA. En op-ed i Jerusalem Post av Anav Silverman ger först en bakgrund till organisationen:

Operating under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNRWA is the only UN organization responsible for one select group of refugees. While the UNHCR is mandated to “promote durable solutions” for refugees worldwide, which include such alternatives as “resettlement in third countries”” UNRWA has followed a fundamentally different policy.

Throughout UNRWA’s 60 years, the agency has done nothing to promote creative resolutions to the Palestinian refugee problem. Instead, it has done everything possible to support the Palestinians’ “right of return” aspirations. The agency has fermented a policy that seeks to maintain the Palestinians’ refugee status. UNRWA is the only UN body that assigns the refugee definition not only to refugees but also to their descendants. Thus, from the original 750,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948, UNRWA has now registered 4.7 million living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza.

UNRWA har egna skolor där man undervisar barnen. Men skolmaterialet kommer från Palestinska myndigheten:

UNRWA schools use Palestinian Authority textbooks, which teach anti-Israel attitudes, and implicitly encourage and praise jihad against Israel while promoting the refugees’ return to 1948 homes. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACTSE), has analyzed these books and found that peace is not mentioned at all. Israel is presented as a usurper, occupier and aggressor, and Jews and Israelis as cunning and deceitful.

Men det finns ytterligare problem, FN anställer lärare med terrorkopplingar:

Take for example, Awad al-Qiq, a respected science teacher and deputy headmaster at the Rafah Prep Boys School run by UNRWA in Gaza. Al-Qiq, who taught at UNRWA schools for eight years, worked by night as a leader of a rocket engineering squad for Islamic Jihad. […]

Another noted Hamas extremist, Sayed Seyam, was an UNRWA math and science teacher for 23 years from 1980 until 2003. […]

According to Bassem Eid, director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, UNRWA has many Gaza employees who belong to Hamas. Eid explains […], that Hamas made clear to UNRWA that if the agency did not accept its members as employees, UNRWA would be kicked out of Gaza. “In order for UNRWA to survive, they accepted [Hamas’s] conditions because they wanted to continue their activities, to continue corrupting Palestinians…” said Eid.

Jerusalem Post rapporterar:

Seven people were injured in south Tel Aviv early Monday morning, when a terroristfrom the West Bank carjacked a taxi and rammed it into a police road block protecting a Tel Aviv nightclub, before going on a stabbing spree.

Police said the terrorist, a 20-year-old Nablus resident, entered a taxi near the beginning of Salameh Street, and carjacked the driver, stabbing him in the hand. He then drove for approximately a kilometer down Salameh Street towards the Haoman 17 nightclub, which was filled with high school children at an end-of-summer party. At the time of the attack, almost all of the teenagers were inside the club.

Border Police had set up a road block ahead of time at the entrance to the club on Abarbanel Street, in Tel Aviv’s Florentine neighborhood. The terrorist rammed the road block, and struck a number of civilians and a border policeman.

“He then got out of the car, screamed Allahu akbar, and went on a knife attack,” a police spokeswoman said.

Det är personer som denna 20-åring som sitter på palestinska myndighetens avlöningslista för terrorister.