Barrel Strength

Have you noticed the number of secondary in the Gaza footage? The Israelis hit some mosque or school and the explosions keep on long after, indicating that the places were storehouses of munitions. This is contrary to the laws of war. Storage of weapons and munitions in places of worship or education is a war crime, not that anyone is interested in Islamic war crimes. The only way the Arabs fight is by way of surprise attack upon the defenceless, since every time Arab nations choose to stand and fight, they are smeared by every organized army, with the possible exception of the Iraq-Iran war.

In today’s Globe and Mail, there was this about the Israelis hitting the UN headquarters in Gaza:

“The UN compound [which was] struck Thursday houses the UN Works and Relief Agency, which distributes food aid to hundreds of thousands of destitute Gazans in the tiny seaside territory of 1.4 million people.

“I conveyed my strong protest and outrage to the Defence Minister and Foreign Minister [Tzipi Livni] and demanded a full explanation,” said Mr. Ban, who arrived in Israel on Thursday morning from Egypt.

It had only that morning become a makeshift shelter for 700 Gaza City residents seeking sanctuary from relentless Israeli shelling, UN officials in Gaza said.

John Ging, director of UNRWA operations in Gaza, said the attack at the compound caused a “massive explosion” that wounded three people.

“A senior Israeli military officer said troops opened fire after militants inside the compound shot anti-tank weapons and machine-guns. The officer insisted on anonymity pending a formal army announcement later in the day.”

Massive explosion? From food burning? Fuel going up? Or munitions stored at UNWRA headquarters for the UN’s Islamic buddies?

Also of interest is the deafening silence of Sunni Islamic regimes in regard to Israel’s punishment of Hamas. The Shi’ite-Sunni division is their concern. Hamas is Iran’s catspaw, and the Iranians are Shi’ite. So Israel is doing the work for the Sunnis, this time around. See another Globe article to the same effect.

Perhaps even more interesting has been the relative acceptance among ordinary Canadians of what Israel is doing. Imagine taking roughly 15,000 rocket attacks from a neighbouring slum over the last five years, and not doing anything about it? Even Israel’s many enemies in the West cannot get past that fact.

I spent the morning in traffic listening to some fatuous Brit apologist for Hamas try to persuade me that there were moderates in Hamas whose postion was being undermined by Israel’s ferocious counter-attacks. These same useful idiots used to say the same about getting tough with the Soviets, back when the Russians were the relevant threat. The urge of some people in the West to betray it in every decade is a mystery which needs explaining.