Hezbollah Targets Israeli Civilians... On Purpose...

Israel Hit by Rockets From Lebanon, Conflict Widens

Lebanese militants [I think we all know that means Hezbollah: QC] fired at least three rockets into Israel early Thursday, threatening to open a new front for the Jewish state as it pushed forward with a bloody offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 700 people.

Two people were lightly injured, and the rockets that exploded in Israel's north raised the specter of renewed hostilities with Hezbollah, just 2 1/2 years after Israel battled the guerrilla group to a 34-day stalemate. Hezbollah started the 2006 war as Israel was battling Palestinian militants in Gaza.

No group claimed responsibility and Lebanon's government, wary of conflict, quickly condemned the rocket fire. Israel fired mortar shells into southern Lebanon in response.

For a second straight day, Israel said it suspended is Gaza military operation for three hours to allow in humanitarian supplies.

I assume the international condemnation of the "Lebanese militants" disproportionate response will be forthcoming? Now? Now? Now? Soon? Soon? Hello? Helloooo.....?

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Let Israel Do What It Needs To Do

Obama Stirs Fears In Israel (by Ralph Peters)

Israel can deal with self-aggrandizing busybodies, such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose irresponsible attempts to force a cease-fire upon Israel benefit only Hamas. (Carla, can't you give that guy something to do?) But Israel would be hard pressed to fight on without American support. [...]

Obama's an unknown quantity, though. While hysterical claims that he'll be pro-Islamist from start to finish are absurd, even minor shifts away from supporting Israel's struggle against terrorists could have catastrophic consequences. And Israel's vaunted intelligence services can't tell their superiors what Obama will do, since few (if any) of the president-elect's supporters know what he intends to do.

In fact, the president-elect may not know himself. He's a babe in the woods, and the woods are full of wolves. Fighting political rivals doesn't prepare you for fighting terrorist fanatics.

For now, Israel must worry that a major ground offensive against Hamas would be halted halfway by the withdrawal of US support, both diplomatic and practical. The IDF even counts on us to replenish reserve stocks of the guided weapons that minimize civilian casual ties or penetrate tunnels and bunkers. Israel could find that it had paid a grim price in the blood of its sons and daughters, only to be robbed of the chance to hand Hamas a meaningful defeat.

As for our president-elect, his all-too-coy insistence that "we have only one president at a time" has been selective from the start. Glad to pontificate on stimulus packages and union benefits, Obama has used the one-president mantra to avoid taking stands on difficult issues that bedevil or bewilder him.

Our president-elect needed to make a clear, prompt statement in support of Israel. He didn't. If I were an Israeli leader, I'd be worried, too.

I'm definitely worried. As Mr. Peters points out: "You can't impress fanatics into surrendering. You have to kill them. Nothing else works." I pray for Israel to have strength and for President Obama to have understanding.

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What Carter Hath Wrought

More chaos:

Heading the Hamas delegation in Cairo were Gaza leaders Mahmoud Zahar and Said Siyam. "This meeting is a message to those who don't recognize Hamas' legitimacy as a movement," Zahar said as he left for Egypt, according to Hamas' Web site.

In Cairo, Hamas spokesman Taher Nuhu told The Associated Press that the purported Thursday meeting would be "a recognition of the legitimacy" of Hamas' victory in the Palestinians' parliamentary election in 2006.

Some say Jimmah is doing all this to build a legacy. I say he already has one, and it will be affecting this nation for at least the next century.

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Senatorial Responses To The Call To Censure Jimmy The Dhimmi

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. ~ Ann Coulter

My Republican senators are wussing out on this issue. Lindsey "The Lapdog" Graham hasn't responded at all (he's probably waiting for a pat on the head and instructions from John F. U. McCain), and Jim DeMint's office sent a "blah, blah, blah...he's a private citizen doing private things...blah, blah, blah" response. I'm very disappointed in Senator DeMint. His normally brass balls must be out for polishing this week.

But take heart, there are members of Congress who aren't just sitting back with their thumbs up their asses:

"America must speak with one voice against our terrorist enemies," Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich., said in a statement from his office. "It sends a fundamentally troubling message when an American dignitary is engaged in dialogue with terrorists. My legislation will make sure that taxpayer dollars are not being used to support discussions or negotiations with terrorist groups."

Knollenberg said the Carter Center has received about $19 million in taxpayer funds since 2001. He named his bill the Coordinated American Response to Extreme Radicals Act — or CARTER Act, for short. The Carter Center is housed at Emory University in Atlanta.

The non-binding legislation was forwarded by Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa. If adopted, the bill would express the "sense of Congress" that it "disapproves of former President Jimmy Carter's freelance diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, which contradict the stated foreign policy position of the current Administration."

The new legislation is the latest embodiment of scorn directed at Carter over meetings he plans this week with leaders of Hamas, which both the United States and Israel recognize as a terror organization and with which they refuse to negotiate.

Contact your representatives and senators and ask them to support the CARTER Act. And don't forget to sign the petition for the censure of Mr. Carter. I'm not taking "no" for an answer; neither should you.

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Jimmah And Hamas, Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

You couldn't make this shit up if you tried...

A group of more than 50 congressmen from both sides of the aisle have sent a letter beseeching former president Jimmy Carter not to meet with Khaled Meshal, the head of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

The letter, sponsored by Reps. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Shelley Berkeley, D-Nev., and signed by congressional leaders including House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, and veteran representative Barney Frank, D-Mass., lists the 26 Americans who have been killed in terrorist attacks launched by Hamas.

"President Carter, do not meet with the man who ordered their deaths," wrote the congressmen.

Carter reportedly hugged — and kissed — a Hamas leader Tuesday in the West Bank town of Ramallah on a Mideast visit that is to culminate in a meeting Friday with the group's exiled leader in Damascus, Syria.

Carter's embrace of Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, at a closed-door reception organized by Carter's office was reported by several news outlets Tuesday. Carter has been widely criticized over the trip by both U.S. and Israeli officials, who have listed Hamas as a terror organization.

Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom he praised as a man who fought for "just causes" in the world. The Bush administration and many Israelis blame Arafat for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.

Yeah, that's what immediately leaps to mind when I think of Arafat..."just causes." Like driving Israel into the sea. Like living off the backs of the Palestinian people to become a billionaire Parisian. Like ordering the assassination of United States diplomats.

Carter. Is. An. Idiot. He is a disgrace to this nation.

I contacted both of my Senators today, Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham (aka McCain's Lapdog) to request that they introduce a Resolution of Censure against former President Jimmy Carter. You can contact your Senators here. You can sign a petition to censure Jimmy the Dhimmi here.

ht: Gay Patriot

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Jimmy "Dhimmi" Carter Meeting With Terrorist Group Hamas

This of course isn't big news. Carter has never met a despot or terrorist he didn't absolutely love (unless they were pro-America).

Speaking from Katmandu, Nepal, where he and a team of observers from the Carter Center monitored national elections, Carter said the U.S. and other parties should not require "pre-requisites" before meeting with the terror group. Hamas has not renounced violence, regularly bombs Israeli towns near its stronghold of Gaza and refuses to recognize Israel's existence.

"Well, you can't always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even talk to them," Carter said in an interview taped Saturday but aired Sunday on ABC News' "This Week." [...]

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized his plans. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington lists as a terrorist organization.

"I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace," Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

My favorite line though is Carter calling for "peace with justice." It shows just what a naïve dumbass he is. Why? Because there's only one kind of peace, and it comes with victory, not justice. You win a conflict when your enemy has been utterly demoralized and beaten and asks to stop fighting because they simply cannot go on. Anything else is just a ceasefire.

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Everyone Should Have A Dream

Hamas TV's Children's Show Star Says She Would Be Proud To Be A Martyr

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bellbottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light bounced off the sparkly outlines of butterflies on her frilly top, and a colorful hijab framed her 11-year-old face.

Saraa wants to be a doctor. If she can't, the young star of Hamas television's best-known children's show said, she would be proud to become a martyr.

How sad. What does it say about the world that Saraa lives in, that they encourage her to dream of killing herself and other people as a legitimate goal in life. What chance is there for us to reason with a culture like that? M-A-R-T-Y-R. . .

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