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BLESSED LAND GOES WILD
Jewless Gaza remains lawless, for some reason:
Muhammad Sawirki, a 24-year-old officer in the Palestinian Authority’s Force 17 “Presidential Guard,” died Sunday when he was thrown from the 18th floor of a Gaza City building.
PA security officials said Sawirki and another officer were kidnapped earlier in the day by members of Hamas’s paramilitary Executive Force.
The two were taken to the Ghafari Tower, where the Hamas militiamen handcuffed Sawirki and threw him from the highest building in Gaza City, the officials said.
No wonder ten thousand have apparently filed requests to emigrate since the beginning of 2007. That avenue of escape has now been blocked:
Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority’s mufti has issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims to leave ...
“We hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted according to religious law. The people living in these areas must remain in their homes and must not leave them to conquerors. Those who abide by this ruling will perform an honorable deed and will support the Aksa Mosque.”
Those who remain may also get fine jobs as truck disguisers:
In Saturday’s attack, four gunmen drove a white jeep with press markings in English and Arabic to a fence on the Gaza-Israel border, then broke through on foot and attacked a guard tower in an attempt to capture an Israeli soldier.
The attackers, from Islamic Jihad and an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, abandoned the jeep. Associated Press photos show a white armored vehicle bearing red markings reading “TV” and “Press.”
And the fun continues:
Palestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister’s office in factional fighting today that killed 13 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition.
“Fresh doubt”, you say?
“Everybody is shooting at everybody,” a doctor at the Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said as a gunbattle raged between the Islamist Hamas and secular Fatah groups, hours after the latest in a series of ceasefires collapsed ...
In separate violence in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, Jamal Abu al-Jedian, a co-founder of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was killed in a Hamas assault on his house.
“Help us. They want to kill us,” a woman inside the house pleaded earlier in a telephone call to a radio station.
“They want to kill us.” Catchy; it could serve as the region’s official slogan. Either that or “Everybody is shooting at everybody.”
I wonder how many “truces” you could count in the media between hamas and the PLO chaps so far this year?
I know lets give them their own country!!!Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 12 at 08:53 AM • permalinkIt happens everywhere. When fundamentalist Muslims run out of infidels to kill or find killing infidels too difficult, they kill Muslims instead. There is a percentage of regular Muslims who don’t like this and want to clear out, which puts them in the firing line for a fundamentalist fatwa. Not wanting to be killed by a deranged Islamist is in itself a sin again Islam. Chapter 10 of the Koran, I believe, under Love and Peace.
Glad to see that the Israeli withdrawal is working out so well for everybody. See, all you have to do is remove the zionist superstructure, and the result is instant peace, brotherhood, prosperity and probably even lower carbon emissions. Any day now, Palestine is going to turn into the next Hong Kong or Singapore. Here’s some free advice: collect all that lead that’s flying around, melt it down, and make radiation-proof aprons that you can sell to the Iranians for use in their peaceful nuclear facilities. Now, let’s all join hands for a rousing version of, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing . . .”
In Palestine did Arafat an islamo Disneyland decree
With kidnapped Yids ,
and exploding kids,
and Farfur on TVPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 06 12 at 09:21 AM • permalinkWe hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted according to religious law. The people living in these areas must remain in their homes….
Zoinks.
And that’s different from Kim Jong-Il’s barbed-wire beaches, and the Berlin Wall ... how?
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 06 12 at 09:22 AM • permalinkNothing puts a smile on my face in the morning like a nice cup of Java and Palis killing Palis. I’m not distressed as I consider this a natural state of affairs in the Arab world.
Not surprisingly, I read on some moonbat blog recently (sorry no link) about how Hamas was a creation of Israel designed to divide and destroy the Palestinians. Those Jooos sure are clever.
Posted by Mark Razak on 2007 06 12 at 09:33 AM • permalinkThey want to kill us.
So, how does it feel, hmmmmmmm?
And my suggestion for a catchy tourist slogan:
Palestine, the land of ever ending ceasefires!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 12 at 09:34 AM • permalinkHa ha. For years, they’ve been digging tunnels under the border to smuggle in weapons.
Now that the place is full of weapons, they’ll be digging tunnels to smuggle out people.
Irony. What a wonderful concept.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 12 at 09:34 AM • permalinkJust waiting for it to be Israel’s fault for handing Gaza back to the Palestinians. Or Bush’s fault for allowing Israel to hand Gaza back to the Palestinians. Or the EU’s fault for failing to prevent Gaza being handed back to the Palestinians. Or, or or…
Blame anyone, just don’t blame the Palestinians. They have enough on their hands, what with killing each other and shooting anyone who tries to leave.
indeedy yes, ash
fehmi: so you tell me osama planned 9/11 - give me proof
infidel: well, he’s on video explaining how he did it
fehmi: pffft, anyone can claim to have done a deed, but can you always believe them?
infidel: well what would he have to lose by lying?
fehmi: his comfortable lodgings in afghanistan…erm…pakistan… no wait, his 72 virgins…erm…his position as head of a worlwide terror network…ummm…what was the question again? you must remember i am an enfeebled old geezer
The Captain has an interesting take on why the clerics are trying to keep Palestinians from leaving.
#27: Haw! Love that “vow a la Zsa Zsa”!
Incidentally, I wonder if it might not be time for Prudential Assurance Coverage Overseas to go “off-cover” in Palestine. Premiums on life insurance policies, with the defenestration rider, are likely to fall short (so to speak) of claims paid in this quarter.
We hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted according to religious law.
Isn’t it amazing how, in Islam, you can make religious law say anything you want it to say?
I’m with the Captain. Let the Pals fight it out where they are until nothing is left but rubble. Egypt and Jordan are just asking for trouble if they let in hordes of refugees, carrying all their grievances with them.
“Muhammad Sawirki, a 24-year-old officer in the Palestinian Authority’s Force 17 “Presidential Guard,” died Sunday when he was thrown from the 18th floor of a Gaza City building.”
Tim, you’re over-reacting. His palestinian buds just did it as a joke on him! Quit misunderstanding those huggable palestinians! It’s all peace, love, and joy over there.
And some pretty big firerockets…The civil war is already on. Both sides have attacked each other’s leadership. Every round of diplomacy creates another cease-fire, which lasts as long as it takes to restock the ammunition. Ordinary Palestinians, who created this situation by supporting Hamas in their last elections, have no way to put an end to the fighting themselves, and the Israelis have learned not to do anything other than target terrorists who target Israel.
Was it Napoleon who said, “When your oppponent is making a serious mistake, do not interupt him”?
Let Gaza collapse. We can’t stop it anyway, and our efforts to intercede will by definition leave terrorists stronger in the region. Only when Palestinians tire of bloodshed will it end.
As Golda Meir quipped, “Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” They’re currently slaughtering their children, so “peace” ain’t gonna break out any time soon.
Quotable quotes.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 12 at 10:46 AM • permalinkMuhammad Sawirki, a 24-year-old officer in the Palestinian Authority’s Force 17 “Presidential Guard,” died Sunday when he was thrown from the 18th floor of a Gaza City building.
HEY! That’s MY peoples shtick, knock it off, damn it!
Remember, Jimmy Hoffa? He didn’t get the toss, he got the woodchipper, shtick.
Are they certain it wasn’t a genuine press vehicle?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 06 12 at 10:56 AM • permalinkWe could call it the Defenestration of Gaza, but do rooftops count, or only windows?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 12 at 11:14 AM • permalinkA truncated quote from Churchill’s The River War.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men…The influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 06 12 at 11:15 AM • permalinkPersonally, I think the overall level of gunmanship in Gaza is terrible. Seriously. 2 dead and 19 wounded in an INDOOR gunfight? Was everyone blindfolded? Were there only 3 guns? WTF?
Here’s my contribution to the Gaza peace process: Make sure its loaded. Eyes open when firing. Just because you can empty a magazine in one long burst doesn’t mean you have to. Set it to 3-shot burst. Aim. Aim for the center. Anyone worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Dead guys can’t shoot back.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, U.S. judges continue to demonstrate that justice, whether or not blind, is frequently half-witted. I assume that this decision will be overturned by adults at some point in the judicial food chain.
Just in time! Another important fatwa! And no, Paco Bottlers, Inc., resolutely refuses to market a soda pop called Prophet Dew.
We hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted
Ah, the blessed lands is losing its supply of martyrs.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 12 at 12:42 PM • permalink#46 Um, yeah, ewwww.
” “Umm Ayman drank the urine of the Prophet, and the prophet told her: ‘This stomach will not be dragged through the fire of Hell, because it contains something of our Lord the Messenger of Allah…’(1)
“This blessing,” Al-Gum’a added, “[can also] be done with the honorable saliva, sweat, hair, urine or blood of the Prophet.”To go blue for a moment, I suspect this is how Mohammed got the girls to swallow.
#40 Perhaps the decolumenation of Gaza
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 12 at 01:12 PM • permalinkPalestinian gunmen battled inside a hospital and fired on the prime minister’s office in factional fighting today that killed 13 people and cast fresh doubt over the future of the unity coalition. - Jerusalem Post
“Fresh doubt”, you say? - Tim Blair
Yes Tim, fresh doubt. When it comes to the future of Palestine or of anything good coming out of the Muslim world, there’s a constant churning out of doubt.
This stuff is today’s doubt. The 24 hour doubt has been marked down and is on “must sell now” table beside Margo’s and Lowenstein’s best sellers. All the rest of the doubt is being packed and stocked in warehouses. When it comes to the Muslims, that’s the only product their corrupt lands can reliably make.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 12 at 01:15 PM • permalink#50: Order yesterday’s doubt at our already low, low prices, and get a free pair of tater mitts!
BTW, Wronwright, you’ve been immortalized by Jules Crittenden .
# 44
#41 Mystery meat: strange how almost anything one could write about the world or religion or politics at the time Churchill wrote The River War would now be outdated, except for that passage you quoted, which is still spot on.I believe that would be because the muslims are spiritually and culturally evolved so far
behindbeyond us that history and those that study it couldn’t possibly keep up“And now, back by special fatwa from his explosive engagement in the West Bank, turn east and face Mecca for the Hardest Working Muslim in Show Business, a man who really knows how to get down….
Muhammad Sawirki and the 18th Floor Elevators!!!”
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 12 at 02:08 PM • permalink#42: Personally, I think the overall level of gunmanship in Gaza is terrible. Seriously. 2 dead and 19 wounded in an INDOOR gunfight? Was everyone blindfolded? Were there only 3 guns? WTF?
Brett, I think these guys must be the ancestors of the Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 06 12 at 02:10 PM • permalinkOh yeah, and…
a gunbattle raged between the Islamist Hamas and secular Fatah groups ...
In separate violence in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, Jamal Abu al-Jedian, a co-founder of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was killed in a Hamas assault on his house.
I suppose “secular Fatah” is one of those things that just can’t be doubted in a MSM article.
Could there be any doubt that these people mean it when they say they worship death?
Philosophies of suicide are predictably short-lived; any particular philosophy dies with its adherents. Unfortunately, this bunch is taking a lot of non-believers with them. Perhaps we ought to do more to help them on their way. Send them some kool-aid.
IF we had leaders with two brain cells among them, we’d have already insured that our energy needs would be met (as opposed to shutting down every effort to do so, and working hard to make things even worse) without the Middle East and Venezuela; AND IF it were not for Israel, we could just leave the Middle East to blow itself up in the war of all to have power over all. The first, on energy, we ought to be doing regardless of Israel.
The immorality of this religion is truly stunning. It is a very dangerous thing to submit your independence to the will of people claiming the authority of God. The evidence of this truth is undeniable in Gaza.
Aiiieeee. I hate it when Crittenden does that. I don’t trust him, being that he’s a journalist (remember Mary Mapes?) and from Boston (the Irish!). And all his readers are probably Webdiarist refugees. I don’t trust them.
Next thing that happens is he will start spouting off about the, you know, “space time continuum transport device”. And I don’t want that to happen!
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 12 at 03:50 PM • permalink#45: Yes, they are.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 12 at 04:29 PM • permalinkIsn’t there something we can do for these poor people? Like send a ship full of ammunition and Semtex to both sides?
Oh, and Paco, this made me spit my iced tea:
There once was a Mufti of Gaza,
Whose mind was a tabula rasa,
He issued a fatwa,
Then Fatah said, “Got ya!”,
His last thought? “Shoulda gone to Mombasa”.Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 12 at 05:45 PM • permalinkOne thing I never understand is that how piss-poor people have so much weapons, ammunition, etc.
I’d more understand a civil war in Switzerland, where people could afford machine guns, rocket launchers, etc.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 06 12 at 06:18 PM • permalinkMuhammad Sawirki, a 24-year-old officer in the Palestinian Authority’s Force 17 “Presidential Guard,” died Sunday when he was thrown from the 18th floor of a Gaza City building.
They still have buildings over 2 storeys high still standing?
Quick, send more artillery.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 12 at 07:52 PM • permalink#64 Hammer of Hon kie, realise that the EU(SSR)_ and the UN(SSR) both pour piles of moneyn into a few square miles of UN sponsored terrorist trainign camps.
Where do they get the money? From US, bloody hell. Stop giving it to them.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 12 at 07:53 PM • permalink#67
Apologies for the alphabetic infitada I have become a victim of. Damn peaceniks.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 06 12 at 07:54 PM • permalinkJust where are the human shields when you need ‘em.
Does anyone know their exit strategy?
...surely it’s all troops out by christmas!
Posted by Craig Burden on 2007 06 12 at 09:30 PM • permalinkThere was a news item this morning on CNN (Asia) where they fired a rocket into Israel and it hit a food storage warehouse. The warehouse was leased by the Red Cross and the food was destined for the Palestinian Territories.
Oh, the irony.
Posted by Craig Burden on 2007 06 12 at 09:40 PM • permalink#65, paco - put me down for three industrial-strength models.
Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 06 12 at 11:44 PM • permalink#63
Isn’t there something we can do for these poor people? Like send a ship full of ammunition and Semtex to both sides?
And popcorn for Israel?
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 06 13 at 01:25 AM • permalinkIsraelis should sit on their rooftops watching the show & cheer!
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 06 13 at 06:45 AM • permalink
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“We hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted according to religious law. . .”
Well, who would want to leave this land of milk and honey?