Hamas Rationalizes Their Insane Behavior

by gahooch | February 4, 2009 at 02:33 pm
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Hamas is insane and this is borne out by how they rationalize their actions.  Below are two examples and while you read them imagine if an Israeli said it.  The first, reported by Reuters is about the stealing of UN supplies (denied and then rationalized by Hamas)

"This took place after UNRWA personnel had earlier refused to hand over the aid supplies to the Hamas-run Ministry of Social Affairs. The police subsequently broke into the warehouse and seized the aid by force," the (UNRWA) statement said."

(Hamas Welfare Minister Ahmed al-)"Kurd, accusing UNRWA of being reluctant to cooperate with his ministry, told Reuters: "Not a single policeman nor any employee of the Welfare Ministry entered any facility or centre belonging to UNRWA."

"He said UNRWA had given some of its aid to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a political agenda, alleging the agency lacked 'neutrality and transparency'".

Hello...Hamas is justifying theft of aid purchased with North American and European taxes on the grounds of "neutrality and transparency"???  When Hamas fires rockets into Israel or dispatches suicide bombers are they operating on the grounds of "neutrality and transparency"?   If Israel robbed UN supplies would they be able to get away with it by saying it was because the UN isn't neutral and transparent?

 
The second, reported by AP is the Gazan justification for firing rockets into Israel.
"Hamas spokesman...called Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel towns "a means of self-defense."

"Those are not civilians. They are all soldiers," Barhoum said of the residents of southern Israel. "We are firing at places that bring us the F-16s, the warplanes and the tanks."

Unbelievable. Firing rockets at kindergartens and nursing homes is justified because they're populated by soldiers and F-16s?  Imagine the hand-wringing and outcries of Hamas' fellow travelers if Israel justified attacking civilians with "We are firing at places that bring us the suicide bombers, the rockets, and the mortar shells.

Sources

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSL4273371._CH_.2400

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_GAZA_LAWS_OF_WAR?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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uuencode

my comment was removed. NowPublic is pandering to hate and racism as the opinion above bears out.

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israel mass murdered in Warsaw Ghetto style 420 Gazan children, many could not even spell Hamas. the human shield excuse, like the playground in the front of the UN school where Isreal massacred childen at play, is a w ar crime.

the innuendo of rockets that are self defence as aiming in the direction of.... is repulsively misleading and reveals the inhumanity of the articla above.

israel is clearly a war criminal and truly terrorist nation, for any who dispel some racist cliche of a terrorist as someone dressed in arabaesque garb. israel child murdering soliders, all who killed 12 children a day over the past invasion are the terrorists.

NowPublic vetoes those who speak up for human rights, and allows such racist opinions as those by the writer above to flourish with no critique. it only results in angry replies likes this, which is exactly what the rockets are. context is everything. israel is a cruel and ruthless forgetful nation that sponsors child mass murder, massacres of palestinians and war crime weaponry.

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Nice comment, that!

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NowPublic is apparently trying to seek an equilibrium, since it has been infiltrated with cyberwarriors linking to one-sided Israeli military, government and media information agencies, while those who criticize that are openly called anti-Jews.

I will check now if the term anti-Jew has been removed from the dozens of NowPublic replies, up until now not edited out, whereas those who bring up NowPublic into the news and the danger of propaganda watering down citizen journalism, as well as calling Israel war criminal or child mass murderer, which are in fact common issues in online news and for the most part true enough to be investigated, these bloggers are banned by NowPublic as they are considered by the color of their opinion to be unsavory.

Unsavory is when open source news is vetoed by biased editors. NowPublic must take great care that IRC wizard grumps and the many US Texas army wikipedia wizards blocking entries by their bias do not infiltrate NowPublic. There are ways to assure a balance. Number One rule, never hire any journalist to the staf with any bakground in what NowPublic is leaving behind - BBC, CNN, any mass media junky journalist. They should not be in a position of any power or influence in NowPulbic. They will only tivialize this cherished space with cheap distracting news stories, like the schizoid spectacle stuff that cleanses conscience cheaply with stories of car crashes in Timbuktu and organic cooking tips picked up on the car radio driving driving driving, such schizoid stuff that makes TV what it is.

Look at the sotry above. It is classic fasciod racist propaganda. How could one lead any reasonable story saying arrogantly and sweepingly that Hamas is insane? they were elected so the writer implies the electorate is insane to. And the context of their election, campaigns of mass murder and media innuendo against any chance that Noam Chomsky would see for a Palestinian state, and the siege even today on the heels of mass child murder in Gaza by israel, a war criminal's sancuary, is not balanced in. 

Hamas is provoked from the frustration of having their voters incarcerated in their own land, no chance for socio-economic development while they constantly deal with death of children, loss of limbs, and no medical aid adequate for even a modicum of human rights to be rectified with medical care, since the cruel country oppressing them does so by the irony of a complaint that their abused prisoners, blockaded into Gaza, are acting up and crying out and firing some rockets in a vane self defence for freedom and tolerance and the end of israel anti-Palestinian racism and cheap rhetoric, too much of which draws such angry replies as this. but wait until the world realizes the game and the good will out, that is the story of humanity. israel will be put into balance and morally bankrupt that balance will cause their deniers to shout anti-jew and all that they shout on the blogs in disrespect of those like 20th century jews who knew what real racism meant, their smokescren exploitation of their own tragic history will lose credibility, along with the citizen journalism sites that do not develop software that assures a 'liquid democracy'.

Mr. Tippett are you listening?


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