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Israel/Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Along With Joe Scarborough’s Credibility

Posted on | August 1, 2014 | 123 Comments

The 72-hour ceasefire fell short by about 70 hours:

A 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire agreed upon by Israel and Hamas collapsed shortly after it took effect Friday morning.
Mortar shells fired from within the Gaza Strip landed near a border-regioning town some two hours after the truce deal brokered by the United States and the EU kicked in, and shortly thearafter Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 25 Gaza residents were killed and dozens of others wounded by IDF artillery fire directed at the southern Strip. . . .
Gaza militants opened fire at IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip at 9:30 A.M., and it is feared an Israeli soldier has been taken captive by Gaza militants, the IDF Spokesman says. . . .
UN Special Coordinator Robert Serry says he has received word from Israel regarding a “serious incident” that occurred after the cease-fire deal took effect, “involving a tunnel behind IDF lines in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip.”
“The United Nations is not in a position to independently confirm these reports,” said Serry. “However, if corroborated, this would constitute a serious violation of the humanitarian ceasefire in place since 8 A.M. this morning by Gazan militant factions, which should be condemned in the strongest terms.”

So it’s war to the knife, knife to the hilt or — to borrow a phrase from the Beastie Boys — “no sleep ’til Brooklyn.” Israel will continue Operation Protective Edge until the fanatical death-mongers in Gaza are smashed into tiny jihadi smithereens. Selah.

Being old enough to remember watching the Six Day War on the nightly news, I’ve long since given up hope on Middle East peace. To the Palestinian leadership, peace is a synonym for “kill Jews.” It is impossible to negotiate with such hateful thugs.

Meanwhile, on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough accused Israel of “indiscriminate” killing of civilian women and children in Gaza:

“This continued killing of women and children in a way that appears to be indiscriminate is asinine. . . .
“And women and children are being seen because you know what? As much as we all hate Hamas, what is going to replace Hamas is going to be much worse. It is going to be a radical Islamist group instead of just power-hungry, corrupt people that despise Israel. . . .  The United States of America — we cannot be associated with this if this continues. This is so bad, not only for the Israeli people, but for us.”

Today on Morning Joe, Scarborough delivered a non-apology of the most offensive kind, a lecture in which he insisted that his critics are ignorant and simple-minded. Meanwhile, Allahpundit dismantles the “logic” of Scarborough’s argument:

If you take the “whatever comes next will be worse” logic to its ultimate conclusion, though, you’re forever left defending whichever bunch of degenerates is in charge at the time. Israel can’t oust Hamas because then Al Qaeda might take over; if Al Qaeda takes over, Israel can’t oust them or else ISIS might move in. If ISIS moves in, Israel can’t oust them or else a portal to hell will open in the ground and Hitler and Bin Laden will emerge from the earth to rule Gaza together. And so on. Essentially, so long as Eliminationist Group A remains a bit less savage than Eliminationist Group B, they can be as savage as they like and the west’s commentariat will defend leaving them in power.

By the way, if a portal to hell open in Gaza, the IDF will kill whatever comes out of hell. No sleep ’til Brooklyn.

 

Comments

123 Responses to “Israel/Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Along With Joe Scarborough’s Credibility”

  1. RS
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:50 am

    We must remember, in Islam, subterfuge in dealing with infidels is quite acceptable. Indeed, it approaches the level of sacrament. The only way for Israel to survive is to go full “Old Testament.”

  2. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:55 am

    Wisely, the Europeans have booted the Jews out of Europe about 100 times during the last millennium.

  3. JeffWeimer
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:10 am

    O_o? Explain.

  4. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:17 am

    The only way this stops is when Hamas realizes it is not benefiting from it continuing. With the lefty media getting hostile to Israel, the conflict benefits Hamas.

    From Hamas’s perspective so what if some Palestinian eggs get broken, they have plenty of Palestinian children to use as martyrs.

  5. Jeanette Victoria
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:25 am

    The amount of unmitigated hatred for Israel and Jews I see on twitter and Facebook is shocking.

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  8. Mike G.
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:45 am

    No doubt. Felt some of it day before yesterday.

  9. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:48 am

    As Gavrila Derzhavin noted, the Jews are nothing more than a band of clever robbers.

    It’s pretty obvious to anyone who is actually paying attention.

  10. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:49 am

    If Lois Lerner and Gyorgy Schwartz aren’t enough to open your eyes to the fact that the Jews are a hostile foreign tribe, you’re likely to remain blind forever.

  11. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:55 am

    “…peace is a synonym for “kill Jews.”” No Salaam means Judenfrei, and that only locally. Salaam applies only to the Umma, not the rest of the world where only infidels reside. No peace is possible as long as Islam is allowed to exist.

  12. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:57 am

    It’s not just Saducees we have to worry about guy. The entire progRat nation is a problem, and most of that nation is not Jewish.

  13. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 9:58 am

    Just for the record, I believe that misusing a cease fire in this fashion is a war crime. It means that the next humanitarian cease-fire will be harder to set up and, of course, people will die of that delay.

  14. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:04 am

    It’s so nice to see an *open* classic anti-semite. It’s like old school week.

    For the record, the proper term is scapegoating. European kings borrowed money from jews, hired some jews to be their enforcers of unpopular edicts, and booted the whole community out when it was convenient to improve the royal public image. It especially bore down on the majority of jews who did not profit because they weren’t being hired by the king and thus got none of the benefits in the good times but all of the blame.

    For the kings it was wise at the time to keep a convenient scapegoat but they burn in hell for it. Do you really seek to join them?

  15. M. Thompson
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:04 am

    From Gen. Sherman’s letter to the city of Atlanta, it would be wise to remember:You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

  16. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:11 am

    The academic and media vanguard of liberalism consists almost exclusively of Jews. Here’s an introductory list:

    – Gyorgy Schwartz (Soros)
    – David Axelrod
    – Mark Potok (SPLC)
    – Cass Sunstein
    – Paul Krugman
    – Michael Bloomberg
    – Ezekiel Emanuel (Obamacare)
    – David Coleman (Common Core)
    – David Pook (Common Core)
    – Robert Reich
    – Bernadine Dohrn
    – Louis Michael Seidman
    – Andrew Stern (SEIU)
    – Stephen Lerner
    – Fox-Piven
    – Lois Lerner
    – Sandra Korn
    – Arie Perlinger
    – Bill Maher
    – Dan Savage
    – Mikey Weinstein

    Keep in mind – Karl Marx’s grandfathers were both rabbis.

  17. richard mcenroe
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:12 am

    Don’t humor the troll-in-a-box.

  18. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:12 am

    I think the Europeans are moving in the right direct by beginning the process of kicking the Jews out of Europe again.

    Why should the Europeans tolerate a hostile foreign tribe occupying their midst?

  19. richard mcenroe
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:13 am

    Lemme go down to the Texas border and look into that.

  20. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:14 am

    As Maurice Samuel noted in “You Gentiles”, radical international socialist movements are nearer to the modern Jew than to anything else in the gentile world.

  21. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:16 am

    John 8:44 is very clear about the Jews being the spawn of Satan. Nothing new under the sun, I suppose.

  22. FenelonSpoke
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:19 am

    Can we please boot the Stormfront troll?

  23. M. Thompson
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:30 am

    His posting history is set to private. Troll behavior.

  24. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:47 am

    As Pope Gregory the 13th observed, “… the Jews are moved by an intense hatred of the members of Christ.”

  25. John_LC_Silvoney
    August 1st, 2014 @ 10:47 am

    Classic.
    Moby.
    Post.

  26. Sulli159
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:08 am

    I can just hear Hanoi John and Organizer-In-Chief screaming to Bibi:
    STAND DOWN STAND DOWN………………

  27. Sulli159
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:10 am

    I just flagged him

  28. Sulli159
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:12 am

    It’s just everywhere; the Third Reich revisited

  29. arch
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:14 am

    John was a jew.

  30. Jeanette Victoria
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:15 am

    Me two.

  31. Sulli159
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:15 am

    And this is what God “said”

    Ezekiel 38

    17 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. 19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.20 The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. 22 I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

  32. Jeanette Victoria
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:17 am

    So was Christ our Savior

  33. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:24 am

    The “Jews” Christ was addressing were the religious leaders, not the nation as a whole. The Romans referred to them all as Jews, but not Christ, nor did the Apostles. The Nation as a whole came to be regarded as “Jews” only after the Romans dispersed them.
    If you really want to deal with a subject, you need to acquire a modicum of knowledge on that subject. Anti-Semites are not a good source of knowledge on the subject at hand.

  34. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:25 am

    Only by our current way of regarding who is a Jew. Christ was not regarded as a Jew in His time because only the Religious leaders, particularly the “Scribes and Pharisees” were regarded as Jews. When the Gospels refer to “Jews” that is who is being referred to.

  35. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:28 am

    @Troll

  36. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:46 am

    You don’t know how to read an ethnic map do you? Land occupied by a hostile foreign tribe describes a majority of the european land mass. Your ignorance of how small european tribes actually are along with how many of them there are within the present day national boundaries is astounding.

    You are advocating blood letting at a level greater than the 30 Years War, though you seem to be completely ignorant of the implications of what you’re saying in your quest to get at the jew.

    Antisemitism does make you stupid.

  37. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:46 am

    You don’t know how to read an ethnic map do you? Land occupied by a hostile foreign tribe describes a majority of the european land mass. Your ignorance of how small european tribes actually are along with how many of them there are within the present day national boundaries is astounding.

    You are advocating blood letting at a level greater than the 30 Years War, though you seem to be completely ignorant of the implications of what you’re saying in your quest to get at the jew.

    Antisemitism does make you stupid.

  38. Zohydro
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:47 am

    For not being a Jew, Jesus certainly did a lot of “Jewish things” while on Earth…

  39. Zohydro
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:47 am

    For not being a Jew, Jesus certainly did a lot of “Jewish things” while on Earth…

  40. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:48 am

    He’s not even a very good troll. Good trolling requires real knowledge of your subject matter.

  41. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:48 am

    He’s not even a very good troll. Good trolling requires real knowledge of your subject matter.

  42. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:49 am

    It’s certainly justified.

    Keep in mind – it was Maurice Samuel who noted in You Gentiles, that “freedom means nothing to the Jew”.

    Jew ideology is hostile foreign ideology.

  43. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:49 am

    It’s certainly justified.

    Keep in mind – it was Maurice Samuel who noted in You Gentiles, that “freedom means nothing to the Jew”.

    Jew ideology is hostile foreign ideology.

  44. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:49 am

    Keep in mind – it was Maurice Samuel who noted, in You Gentiles, that Jews are destroyers who will remain destroyers forever.

    No Jews, no problems. Know Jews, know problems.

  45. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:49 am

    Keep in mind – it was Maurice Samuel who noted, in You Gentiles, that Jews are destroyers who will remain destroyers forever.

    No Jews, no problems. Know Jews, know problems.

  46. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:50 am

    As the recent Hobby Lobby SCOTUS decision demonstrates, the three Jews on the Supreme Court have a profound visceral hatred for the religious liberty of Christians.

  47. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:50 am

    As the recent Hobby Lobby SCOTUS decision demonstrates, the three Jews on the Supreme Court have a profound visceral hatred for the religious liberty of Christians.

  48. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 11:53 am

    Fortunately, this is in the public domain:

    http://bit.ly/WPwqjQ

  49. texlovera
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:21 pm

    Funny how he makes no arguments, only assertions, and has zero to say about Islamic terrorism. His whole schtick is “TEH EVIL JOOOS!!!”.

    Pretty pathetic that he’s aping dead Nazis. Can’t he at least bring some THOUGHT to his blind Jew-hatred???

  50. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:41 pm

    Still can’t read an ethnic map and I forgot to mention appear to be ignorant of european tribal history, especially their tribal enmities.

    Diversions into irrelevancies will continue to be ignored.

    You’re just not very good at this game.

    I’m just curious whether you’re an inept lefty provocateur or an inept troll.

    So please, do give me more data.