Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Heaven forbid they should do such a thing. Of course they could do it if they wanted to, but they won't, because to actually govern and be at peace with their neighbors would be a shameful betrayal. Values and priorities don't you know.
Now if everyone agrees not to launch rockets, that's OK, but of course if everyone agrees on everything, you don't need a government, or police. And of course, Hamas is the one who sets the national priorities, priorities that just happen to include blowing up Jews.
Of course it's irrational. So was the Third Reich's spending resources annihilating people, including people who could have served as a labor force to help them win the war, and prioritizing transport trains to the camps over troop transports even in the waning days of the war. It seems irrational at first, until you consider what it showed, and what it shows, about their values and priorities.
Hamas denies preventing rocket attacks against Israel
The Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement on Monday denied reports that it had decided to prevent any Palestinian groups from firing rockets into Israel from Gaza.
"We don't make such decision without agreeing with all the resistance factions in a national consensus," said Ihab al-Ghussein, spokesman for the Interior Ministry of the Hamas government, which holds sway in the Gaza Strip.
"The factions have the right to respond to any Zionist crime using any sort of resistance and there is no lull with the (Israeli) occupation until the moment," he added.
He explained that his ministry's forces can intervene and stop the rockets "only when there is a national decision to stop them."...
Henny Youngman, perhaps a darker version thereof, could surely come up with some one-line quips to effectively summarize Hamas & Co., combining comedy with illuminating insight.
Take my rockets, please?
Or, take my relationship with Iran, Syria, Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs, please?
Or, a representative of Hamas, a representative of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and a representative of the Twelfth Imam al-Mahdi walk into a bar ...
Ok, so I'm no Henny Youngman, you got your money's worth.
Solomon, your headlines in light blue are very difficult to read on the white backround.. You may want to change them to a darker shade.
White background? Sounds like you're not seeing the background graphic on the headlines?
The rockets in question, so far as I know, are extremely low-tech: angle them correctly, point them in approximately the right direction, and set them off.
Were they higher-tech (e.g. with onboard guidance), I'd entertain a brief fantasy: that Israeli intelligence could reprogram them, so that the rockets would accidentally re-rooute themselves to strike Hamas headquarters and munition dumps.
Would they try to prevent rocket launches then? One can only wonder.
In the meantime, it seems that Hamas is offended by this rumor. Good! Let's keep spreading it. Can we translate "Kumbaya" to Arabic and attribute it to Hamas?
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Im using Opera, if that makes any difference.
If you can email me a screenshot it would be helpful.