From Pajamas Media:
Chants such as "Nuke Israel" and "Down with Zionism" are ringing out from Los Angeles to Chicago.Click here to read my entire article at Pajamas Media
by Reut CohenLike every other sovereign nation, Israel has the right and obligation to defend its citizens from attack. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks. Israel has been left with no other alternative but to take stronger measures to protect its citizens against Palestinian terrorist attacks. Israel’s actions have specifically targeted Hamas command centers, rocket-launching sites, security installations, weapons stockpiles, and weapons smuggling tunnels. Moreover, Israel is taking painstaking steps to limit civilian casualties, a difficult endeavor when one considers Palestinian use of civilians as human shields. Those who have been killed since Israel’s military operation “Cast Lead” began in Gaza have overwhelmingly been Hamas terrorists.
Regardless of the Palestinian violence, Israel continues to facilitate humanitarian assistance to Gaza. In the past few days, while Hamas has continued to fire rockets into Israel more than 60 truckloads of humanitarian supplies and 105,000 gallons of fuel were transferred to Gaza.
During the past six months, Israel facilitated the transfer into Gaza of more than 14,000 trucks, 185,000 tons of food and medicinal supplies, more than 7,000 tons of heating gas, and more than 10 million gallons of fuel. More than 4,000 people needing medical treatment were permitted to cross into Israel to seek treatment or travel to other nations for health care. Israel also provides 70 percent of Gaza’s electricity.
While it is clear that the Palestinians broke any semblance of a ceasefire through blatant incitement and attacks upon Israeli residents in southern Israel, thousands of Muslim youth and their supporters have taken to the streets over the past few days in condemnation of Israel.
In Iran, volunteer suicide bombers seek government approval to attack Israel. Hard-line Iranian student groups drafted an open letter to Ahmadinejad. The students write: “Volunteer student suicide groups … are determined to go to Gaza. You are expected to issue orders to the relevant authorities to pave the way for such action.”
The depravity of such a statement may seem far-fetched and shocking to those who reside in western nations. Yet sentiments such as these are not restricted to Islamic countries. The American mainstream media chooses to present the protests as “Gaza Peace” events or rallies, when in reality the attendants of such rallies are pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic mobs who have shouted obscenities that would have made the Nazis proud....
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Anti-Israel Protest at UC-Irvine
Today, the Muslim Student Union (MSU) and Society of Arab Students (SAS)at UC-Irvine held an hour long rally on campus to demonstrate against the Israeli military action in Gaza. I am happy to report that there were no unfortunate incidents, nor was there any hate speech. At least I didn't hear any.
I am also happy to report that the local Jewish community turned out to show their support of Israel. There were plenty of Israeli flags handed out (yes, I carried one.) Pro-Israel posters were everywhere including one held by a lady that said, "Proud Mom of an IDF soldier". It was clear that on this occasion, the pro-Hamas people were outnumbered. Yet, we didn't not attempt to disrupt the program. We let the speakers have their say.
As they always do, the MSU opened up the program with a prayer in Arabic and a reading from the Koran. Two or three students who apparently had family in Gaza spoke about their perception of the situation. Thankfully, there were no Amir Abdel Malik Alis, Alim Musas or Mohammed al-Asis present to spout their venom.
Of course, it would not have been complete without the obligatory talk by a university professor. His full name escapes me and I don't know him, so I won't bother with a partial name. Suffice to say, his 15 minute talk was laughable. One would think that a teacher would have some sort of a lesson plan to work with-you know, introduction, body, conclusion. The gentleman began his rambling talk by describing a situation in the Holy Land in the 1940s where Arabs and Jews were working hand-in-hand. Then he made a reference to how it was "all swept away by the events of the 1948 war". Of course, he conveniently left out any mention of how in 1948 the whole Arab world declared war when Israel declared itself an independent state. (I guess he didn't want to bore us with details.)
But bore us he did as he rambled on to talk about imperialism and the "Big Empire", which as it turns out was that certain empire that supplies the F-16s that Israel uses to.........well, you get the message. You gotta hand it to the lefties on our university campuses; they can't talk very long about Israel without launching into an attack on the bad old USA.
At any rate, the good professor mercifully cut short his "speech" because he had a 12:30 class to teach, so he left to go bore his own class. (even the MSU students were left in a daze.)
After an hour, the MSU/SAS formed into a line, shouted something in Arabic and proceeded to march up and around Ring Road that circles around the campus. (That's a long march, so nobody bothered to follow them.)
Thanks and kudos to members of the local Jewish community-many of them senior citizens who had been informed about the event and took the trouble to come and show their support for Israel.
posted by Gary Fouse
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