"Old News" From Yesterday

[eumelia]

I didn't write about this yesterday because I was all about ME, which is sometimes what this LJ is for.

This is "old News" by now, but Sderot and Kibbutzim of the Western Negev were bombarded yesterday with over 50 Qassam Rockets.
50 Qassam Rockets.
At least one person died and several other have been critically injured, maimed and traumatized.
The retaliation and in these cases it always a retaliation, was the usual IDF and IAF maneuvers.

What I find most interesting is that in the International News sites, the retaliation was written about first, giving the obvious impression that that the Qassam rockets were launched in retaliation to the military action done by Israel.

Such. Utter. Bullshit.

I'm a big talker and I'm all for talking with Hamas, but when the complete and utter disregard they show towards their own people by launching rockets that are designed to hurt my people, because my people have the Big Guns and on TeVi, Big Guns look much worse than little rockets despite the damage wrought by both.

The ones who suffer the most are the civilians on both sides of the border. It doesn't matter if they're Israeli, Palestinian, Jewish, Muslim, Bedouin or Christian.

Hamas' goal isn't to liberate Palestine, it never was, it is to recreate the Caliphate and bring the Umma together and then go out on a Holy War against the West.
And like most of these kinds of groups (al-Qaeda, the Taliban, etc.) they were created in order to fight the real enemies... the Communist or Marxist Identified groups - or in the case of the Taliban the Soviets themselves.

Old News? Ancient History?

Maybe, but it's certainly a way to see the interconnectedness of it all.
Until the USA decides that it no longer supports Nations that give money to Hamas and Hizbulla (and it's not just Iran, far from it) and that "spreading Democracy" is not the way to go, but co-operation and actual fucking communication; you can bet that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict will continue.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what your point is here, I did get the memo, because I was just talking about how American interests often put them in the place of supporting terrorist activities, such as all the money Sinn Fein raised for the IRA with their American fund-raising activities. (Which, actually, for all the talk about who solved the Irish Troubles, it was really Bill Clinton when he made an effort to stop Sinn Fein raising money in America, which essentially forced them and the IRA to the negotiating table and brought about a cessation to hostilities.)

I don't necessarily have a problem with the US funding and supporting terrorist activities, as all nations operate under terms of absolute self-interest, and will do whatever they think best for themselves. No nation is the 'good guy' in this respect. I think what annoys me most about the Americans is that they portray themselves as being the good guys all the time, when really they're just as mired in the sewer as the rest of us.

[familydog.livejournal.com]

right, it was kind of off-point and not commenting on anything you said.