Moslem Brotherhood not some nice brotherhood

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The Brotherhood's True Colors - Tariq Alhomayed (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)
    In Egypt, the president has granted himself new powers not held by any ruler since the pharaohs.
    We have seen the pro-Brotherhood bloc suddenly emerge on some satellite channels, in newspapers, and on social networks.
    A wave of misinformation and incitement has spread to trigger chaos across the Gulf, with Brotherhood members and those allied with them trying to normalize the Muslim Brotherhood model in the Gulf, taking heart from what has happened in Egypt.
    In addition to the great incitement in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Jordan was also targeted.
    Anyone who went to the trouble of reading one book about the Muslim Brotherhood would not have been shocked by what they have done. 

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The cease fire

Who is #1 and 2 in standard of living in Arab world?
Gaza #2, West Bank #1
Things to know about the ceasefire
Cease fire between Israel and #GAZA holding perfectly...well, except for 12 rockets fired at 1 million people #IsraelUnderFire

It may be today, or a few months or years, [but] #Gaza will have to be penetrated by #Israel to destroy Hamas" http://bit.ly/JPost2066 

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Mofaz: Hamas won upper hand, ceasefire is a mistakehttp://bit.ly/UmOM4u

Majority of Israelis did not want ground invasion

Natanyahu resigned from Sharon's government in protest of leaving Gaza in 2005

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I was wrong in 2005

I confess. The Israeli Council General invited the Rabbis to the Chicago consulate in 2005, fed us and showed us a fancy power point that explained why unilateral pullout from Gaza was a good thing and then sent us back to our congregations so sell it, which I did. One member quit over it, saying i was being used and Israel would regret it. I was wrong. My very smart girlfriend teases me that she is a better Zionist because she knew then the Gaza pullout was a mistake Israel would regret. Read this and remember if any liberal tries to sell you on why Israel must hand over the West Bank. Remember too Jordan will probably fall to Muslim Brotherhood within 2 years. Turkey leader today called Israel a terrorist state. 
The Truth about Gaza - Bret Stephens
In 2004 as editor of the Jerusalem Post, and in 2006 in a Wall Street Journal column, I made the case that Israel was smart to withdraw its soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip. I was wrong. If Israel had maintained a military presence in the Strip, it would not now be living under this massive barrage.
The diplomatic and public-relations benefit Israel derives from being able to defend itself from across a "border" and without having to get into an argument about settlements isn't worth the price Israelis have had to pay in lives and terror.
Put simply, Israel's withdrawal from Gaza yielded less security, greater diplomatic isolation, and a Palestinian regime even more radical and emboldened than it had been before. (Wall Street Journal)

Truth not lies about Gaza

Attention CAMERA E-Mail Team:

On a regular basis, The Huffington Post is a wasteland of biased and context-free reporting about Israel. Editors regularly publish articles and opinion columns based on falsehoods. Readers regularly post antisemitic rants. But during the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, The Huffington Post has hit a new low.

One recent piece in particular stands out. On November 15, Mehdi Hasan, political director of The Huffington Post UK published, “Ten Things You Need to Know About Gaza.” In the article, he got at least 13 things wrong. (Please see "In Detail" for more information.)

The real things you need to know about Gaza are:  

1.  Operation Pillar of Defense is in retaliation for the thousands of rockets, missiles and mortars fired into Gaza in recent years, over 1,100 in 2012 alone.

2.  There are no Israeli soldiers or civilians in Gaza and it has a boundary with Egypt not subject to Israeli control.

3.  Israel's last operation in Gaza had the lowest civilian casualty rate of any known conflict of its kind.

4.  Hamas was not elected to run Gaza on its own. The terrorist group won a plurality in the 2006 Palestinian legislative council elections, then ousted political rival, Fatah, from the territory in a bloody conflict.

5.  The United Nation's Palmer Commission affirmed the legality of Israel's blockade of Gaza. Richard Goldstone discounted the initial report of the U.N. commission that he led saying, “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document.”

6.  Israel trucks in tons of food and other supplies into Gaza on a weekly basis.

7.  Gaza children are healthier than their counterparts in Egypt.

8.  The unemployment rate in Gaza is not out of line with unemployment in other Arab countries, which have the highest unemployment in the world.

9.  Israeli children suffer from post traumatic stress disorder at twice the rate of Gaza children.

10. Ahmed Jabari, the Hamas leader killed by Israel on Nov. 14, helped plan the operation that resulted in the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and the murder of two other Israeli soldiers. He participated in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis during the second Intifada.

11. Gaza is far from "impoverished." According to news reports, its population of 1.5 million people includes more than 600 millionaires; in recent years shopping malls and private resorts have opened there.

12. Palestinian refugees are defined differently from refugees from any other conflict, including Iraqi or Syrian refugees. They maintain their status even if they are settled in another country and pass on refugee status to children and grandchildren so their numbers grow, not decline, over time. When Israel was established, approximately 850,000 Jews were driven out of their homes in Arab countries. This is greater than the number of original Arab refugees from Israel.

13. The war of 1948 was intended by Arab leaders to be an ethnic cleansing of the Jews and result in their annihilation. Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, on Oct. 11, 1947, declared to Egyptian newspaper Akhbar al-Yom, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” 

That's 13 big mistakes in a "Ten Thing" column. Not only can’t Mehdi Hasan and The Huffington Post get anything right about Gaza, they also can’t count. 

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How Obama undermines Israel again

Will Israel settle, in effect, for the status quo?

Posted: 19 Nov 2012 09:46 AM PST

(Paul Mirengoff)

The big news over the weekend was that Israel did not launch a ground invasion of Gaza. Israel says it held off on the invasion to allow time for efforts at reaching a long-term cease-fire to continue. But Israel has also said that, although it prefers a diplomatic solution, any agreement must erase the threat of rocket attacks against Israel’s southern residents.

This would seem to be an obvious point. It makes no sense for Israel to back down without having obtained real protection for its citizens.

Unfortunately, the goal of securing southern Israel from rocket attack cannot be achieved through an agreement. Promises by Hamas to stop launching rockets would be meaningless after a few months. The same is true of promises by others to stop supplying Hamas with rockets; nor would be most dangerous party, Iran, be a party to such an agreement. And it is difficult to imagine an inspection regime that would accomplish Israel’s objectives, much less one that Hamas would agree to absent a crushing military defeat.

Accordingly, Israel must either finish the military job it started, which would accomplish its security objective for a few years anyway, or leave its southern citizens vulnerable to bombardment in the short term.

A cease fire agreement at this juncture, then, would represent another failed effort by Israel to obtain security from its weaker enemies, even as its only powerful enemy moves ever closer to developing a nuclear weapons capability.

As Hillary heads to Israel, reports are that she is THREATENING ISRAEL that if they go in on the ground, USA will SLOW resupply of spare  parts for Iron Dome. 

From Heritage
President Obama spoke out on the fighting yesterday, saying Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas's missile attacks from Gaza. But he urged Israel not to launch a ground assault in Gaza, saying it would put Israeli soldiers, as well as Palestinian citizens, at greater risk and hamper an already vexing peace process.

"If we see a further escalation of the situation in Gaza, the likelihood of us getting back on any kind of peace track that leads to a two-state solution is going to be pushed off way into the future," Obama said.

This public statement will only strengthen Hamas's determination to continue its rocket terrorism and reap the propaganda benefits from Israeli retaliatory air strikes, because the President's statement lowers the perceived risks of an Israeli ground intervention. Moreover, it is continued Palestinian terrorism that is the chief barrier to peace, not Israel's legitimate efforts to protect its own citizens from indiscriminate Palestinian terrorist attacks.

Egypt, Turkey, and the Arab League have heavily criticized Israel and called for a halt of air strikes. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and hopes to pull in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-dominated regime to tilt the balance against Israel. Egypt’s government will seek to have its cake and eat it, too, in the sense that it will use the crisis to denounce Israel, support Hamas, and play to anti-Israeli sentiments at home while trying to mediate a ceasefire behind the scenes that enhances its influence and justifies continued U.S. and Western aid.

If they genuinely wanted to stop the bloodshed, then these leaders should pressure Hamas to stop the bombardment, which triggered the crisis.

Obama, too, should aim primarily at restraining Hamas, not Israel.

Hamas, as usual, is bent on advancing its radical Islamist agenda at the expense of Palestinian national interests. It is a revolutionary movement more interested in destroying Israel than in building a Palestinian state or protecting Palestinians from another humanitarian tragedy that it has engineered.

Israel has called up 75,000 reservists and massed armor and at least 30,000 troops along the border, underscoring that it is serious about launching a ground intervention if Hamas continues its indiscriminate bombardment of Israeli civilians.

The U.S. needs to stand with Israel against terrorism and support its right to defend itself against a ruthless enemy that hides among Palestinian civilians to launch rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians. Hamas routinely uses children as shields. There can be no Israeli–Palestinian peace until Hamas and other Islamists are defeated and discredited.

James Phillips is the Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern issues and international terrorism since 1978.