Sunday, March 28, 2004
Yeah? Well that's not what I heard. I heard Jesus thinks Rantisi sucks donkey you-know-what. Please, someone drop an anvil on this guy's head already.
New York Times: Hamas Leader Says God Has Declared War on U.S.
Hamas has long said its battle is with Israel, and has directed its attacks, and most of its heated rhetoric, against the Jewish state. But since Israel's killing last week of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the Islamic movement has issued bitter denunciations of the United States, though it has stopped short of saying it will strike at American targets.
"We knew that Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims," Dr. Rantisi told several thousand Hamas supporters attending a rally at the Islamic University in Gaza City. "America declared war against God. Sharon declared war against God, and God declared war against America, Bush and Sharon."...
This reminds me of some kind of Three Stooges routine. OK, let me get this straight...If America declared war on God, and Sharon declared war on God, and God declared war on America, Bush, and Sharon, then who's hand is that on my shoulder?!?! AAAHHHHH! (Sorry, that probably only makes sense to me...long day.)
And when does the guy in Syria get taken out? Will we demand Syria hand him over? Shaa, right. Will Israel do it with an airstrike into Syria? Just wait for the hew and cry over that if it were to happen.
Also, note how this article tries to frame the confrontations with the terrorists as post-Yassin escalation:
In the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli troops arrested today a 16-year-old, Taher Hariwi, who was suspected of planning to carrying out a suicide bombing, the military said.
In a highly publicized incident on Wednesday, Israeli troops confronted a 16-year-old Palestinian who was wearing a suicide bomber belt at a checkpoint on the edge of Nablus. The youth was arrested and the bomb was detonated safely...
The uninitiated don't understand that the Israelis had already been foiling multiple terror attempts per day as it was. The events indicated in the article are just business as usual, even though the impression the author tries to leave is that this is all a recent response to events. It's too bad the terrorists don't have to "call their shots." Like, "OK, we're gonna go for one at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon." That way, when the Israelis foil it, it's obvious to all as a failure. As it is, eventually, sadly enough , one strike will get through, and the terrorists can say, "OK, yeah, that one. That one was for Yassin! The other ones were just Zionist lies. Never happened."
