Middle East Violence Linked To Shameful YouTube Video

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Palestinians have a fierce new song to accompany their intensified conflict with Israel. “Strike a Blow at Tel Aviv,” recorded by Shadi al-Bourini and Qassem al-Najjar, was posted last week on various Palestinian websites, including the Facebook page of the TV show Fenjan Al-Balad, which describes its mission as “trying to influence young Palestinian society for the better.” The video, which features images of wounded Israelis and massed Qassam artillery rockets, opens with these lines:

Strike a blow at Tel Aviv.
Strike a blow at Tel Aviv.
Strike a blow at Tel Aviv and frighten the Zionists.
The more you build it, the more we will destroy it.
Strike a blow at Tel Aviv.

Jeff Jacoby makes the point in the linked column that any neutral observer of the Israeli/Palestine conflict should arrive at: the Palestinians are the aggressors and their goal is the destruction of Israel. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

By now it shouldn’t come as news that Hamas means what it says. By now it should be obvious even to the congenitally naïve that so long as Hamas rules Gaza — a de facto Palestinian state, no matter what anyone calls it — it will never end its quest for Israel’s annihilation. To Western eyes that may seem an improbable objective, given Israel’s enormous military edge. But Hamas understands the value of terror. When it can send hundreds of rockets slamming over the border, when it can force Israelis to listen constantly for the siren that means they have just 15 seconds to find shelter, Hamas inches toward its goal. And when Israel finally retaliates and only then does an international uproar ensue, Hamas inches closer still.

I know it's Thanksgiving week and all, and Ace is encouraging us to think happy thoughts. But sometimes world events just don't cooperate.

So in this holiday season of peace and love, I exhort the Israelis to go Old Testament (SWIDT) on Hamas. Or, in the words of Gen. Curtis LeMay, "If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting."

posted by Andy at 08:36 AM

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