Appropriate activity for Genocide Day

gary ashton

these are disturbing developments and the west, europe, and america needs to wake up from it's trance like delusion that israel can be sacrificed for the sake of global stability, appeasement is the hypocrites way out, either you have a principle and stand by it or you don't. it's time for israel to wake up and realise that it is alone, become totally self sufficient, with hold all technological, medical and computer innovation and tell the governments of the world to 'get real.'
it will have support from decent people no matter what country they live in. but to continue playing the diplomatic game with the west is to bang it's head against a brick wall. the bbc should be sued for inciting hatred. the guardian should be sued for calling itself a newspaper. israel needs to organise some pr and address the world with it's perspective rather than depending on the media, the media war is being lost because it has been asleep at the wheel. the battlefield is the mind and hearts and israel has not got the weaponry to win this yet, although poor old mark regev does his best. suing the bias media and hauling them through courts will work better than any counter attempt to argue in the media. hit them where it hurts. this has gone on far enough, if people are not waking up to the war against israel now, then i doubt they ever will. unbelievable. thank fully journalists like melanie can provide us with some balanced information.

Edward in the USA

From the River to the Sea
palestine Will Never Be!

AY

..modest charm of human cattle.
That doesn't look like serious therat, and if continued will backfire. For Israelis, it might be convenient casus belli, to take out Syrian missiles.

And in hte West, not everyone is dummy dhimmi

http://europenews.dk/en/node/43264

ShimonB

The term "Nakba" has entered the present-day narrative as known truth that cannot be denied. However we must do just that, and repeat constantly that the "Nakba" is the Arab commemoration of its failure to destroy the state of Israel at birth (within its UN-approved borders) and exterminate its Jewish population: these are still current Arab aims.

pete

an excellent snippet on 5live breakfast, this morning around 8am, a rep from fatah, and spokesman for israel.
the usual tirade against the state of israel,palestinian land etc followed by a statement of situational fact, then suddenly a change of tack.
rep, "of course we recongnise
the state of israel",(this gentleman may now be out of a job :-)
and is answered clearly with,"then why have you aligned yourself with a terrorist organisation dedicated to it obliteration..sooner than working with us?"
i think thats called checkmate
before an answer could emerge
the wonderful bbc,
"we ll have to leave it there"
ooo somethings never change :-)

Thom

I have asked this question of the author directly, but could you link directly to the source which states that the driver implicated in the Tel-Aviv traffic incident shouted, "shouted ‘Allahu Akhbar’ and ‘Death to Jews!’. I cannot find this reference anywhere.

John

From Canto I of John Keats' "The Fall of Hyperion":

"Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect".

Kermack

Thom, It was reported quite widely on Israeli TV - one of the eye witnesses, another truck driver - who stopped thinking there had been an accident, subsequently saw the driver attack a young woman with a piece of the wreckage of traffic light screaming Allah Akbar & death to Jews…

DavidD

Waiting now for the inevitable wailing about a "disprortionate response" by Foreign Secretary Vague and calls for Israel to "show restraint".

John Edwards

"But being Palestinians they could not resist resorting to violence" says Daniel Pipes

Of course if I were to say "The "IDF" being Israelis could not resist shooting and killing yet more Palestinians" that would be anti-semitic

John Gerard

And this morning on the radio I heard Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Dhimmi-in-Chief, barely able to contain himself in declaring "Israel looks increasingly isolated". How excited they must be as well at The Guardian and The Independent! Israel's destruction is at hand! Rejoice!

Okey

Historically, every time that Arab aggressors have initiated hostilities, their rank and file have suffered Naqbas.
When will the populace of these tyrranocracies learn that their leaders lead them only into disasters and misery?

Thom

@kermack thanks for that. I couldn't find this full reference in any of the articles (Hebrew/Arabic/English language)in the press and was hoping for a link.

Raymond Douglas

Yes Melanie . It IS September I am really worried about. Our witless prime minister, seems set to "recognise" a Palestinian State at the UN. This will put Israel in an almost impossible situation. Give in, and put her vital security at risk. Or suffer, once again, the worlds hatred. I say to Israel, stand firm. The God of Israel will still have something to say on the matter ! And woe to those nations that "Poke the apple of His eye " ! And I say that as a citizen of one of those nations.

Gershon

@John Edwards

No, it would simply be a lie!

Matt

@John Edwards

"Palestine" is a nationalist political movement, and in case you hadn't noticed, a rather violent one championed by some extremely dangerous men. Pipes's statement was not a comment about Arabs in general, be they Syrian, Lebanese, Jordanian, Egyptian, but about people who get sucked into the Palestinian nationalist cause.

Like all separatist nationalist movements (ETA, IRA, LTTE, etc) violence is used as an alternative to logic, justice or common sense. This is the only reason anyone listens to them. Without the suicide bombings, random attacks on Jewish communities, aeroplane hijackings, weekly attacks on checkpoints etc, their cause wouldn't be very interesting and wouldn't gain anywhere near as much sympathy from naive westerners with too much time on their hands.

(By the way have you looked into the conditions in which refugees from the '48 war are kept in Syria and Lebanon? You should.)

Matt

@Thom: Don't you find it strange that this kind of thing doesn't get reported over here? Quite significant, I'd say!

Augustus

This looks very much like a co-ordinated performance by the Iranian puppet axis (Syria, Lebanon, Gaza), a la Mavi Marmara, against borders where terrorists camouflaged
as 'demonstrators' are sent out to attack Israel and provoke it until it is obliged to
shoot because of being heavily outnumbered.
Israel can then be disgraced in the eyes of the world when injuries and deaths invariably follow, while their own stirred up masses can then conveniently be used again as amunition for future skirmishes.

This was not 'Nakba Day' but 'Nakba Terror Day', a new phase in the continuing war against Irael's existence, and as far as one can tell the worst incident on the Syrian border since the 1973 war. And a serious threat, because not only did thousands manage to cross the border, but scores, possibly hundreds, attacked a Druze
Israeli village and its inhabitants. Israel
should come down very hard on such provocations and use extreme force against them. A few extra policeman is no use when
borders and villages are attacked.

Estelle

kol hakavod Melanie. There was no mention on any of the news channels in the UK yesterday that any Israelis were killed or injured- only arab injuries and deaths were reported.Bias do you think?

ahad ha'amoratsim

From what I read, he shouted "Itbach al yahud". Perhaps someone more familiar with Arabic can tell me, but 'itbach' appears related to the Hebrew root zayin-bet-chet, which is the word used for slaughtering an animal by slitting its throat. If that is the case, a better translation would be "slaughter (or butcher) the Jews."

guildford Anne

You put it just like I would like to tell. It is terrible that Syria can say anything against Israel considering what is happening there.
Thanks for reporting the truth.

logdon

Watching that rabble walking across open ares reminded me of a landborn Camp of the Saints.

In that tale a huge ship full of masses of illegal immigrants landed unopposed in Southern Europe, eventually swallowing the local population. Read it as allegory on the failure of pc and multiculturalism.

Fortunately the IDF in this case had other plans and this provocation of sovereign borders was met by armed resistance.

No doubt the provocateurs either expected zero resistance which would have exposed a border weakness or to be fired upon thus confirming to the world how Israel is prepared to shoot unarmed civilians.

Either way in todays establishment idiocracy, which passes for either an impartial media or a Third World centric UN are win, wins.

Taking this into account Israel got it more or less right. Ignore the idiocracy.

A precedent has been set. Cross our borders illegally and en mass and you'll get shot.

JOHN ROOSEVELT

JOHN EDWARDS: what I so love about your posts is that their crassness only highlights the brilliance of so many others.

Here is one blast from the eminent past of the by far the best poster to grace Mel's blog (he shall remain nameless since I dont wish to incite any anti semitism, of course):

" Antisemitism - the hatred that dares not speak its name. Or rather, the hatred that dares its victims to speak its name, so that the antisemite may gasp and reel at the abuse, and then claim courage for overcoming Jewish plots to stifle him when he rallies sufficiently to produce the next round of anti-Jewish tropes."

Michael

Defensive measures - razor wire on fences
helicopters spraying indelible colouring on the actual invading groups.Non lethal measures are possible. Surround and cage in invading groups until a little bit of hunger and thirst under the sun cools thier ardout.Poor Israel !!!!!

Jared

Can anyone please enlighten me how there isn't a more generalized fear for what's to come, if the worlds governments of today don't take the Jihad threat more seriously? Why would the media shield us from this? It isn't creating naive nations, it's creating poorly informed, doomed citizens!

Stewie

Thinking the whole mess over it would seem prudent for the IDF to create a 0.5 mile deep buffer zone on the borders, fenced and signposted, densely mined with both anti personnel and anti vehicle munitions.
Game over.

Drakken

Jared
Perhaps I might be able to enlighten you, the govts of Europe are scared of the natives and what they are about to do to the non-natives. The natives are restless and no matter how much the govts try to appease the non-natives, the non-natives look upon this with weakness. The coming unrest is going to be shortlived but extremely brutal, once you wake that sleeping dragon, there will be no going back.