March 25, 2006

Palestinians Say it Out Loud: They Refuse to Arrest Terrorists Who Attack Israel

From Olah Chadasha's weblog, Greetings from the French Hill:

Hamas - the best thing to happen to Israel

If anyone had a doubt that Hamas winning the elections in the PA was a good thing, we got final proof of it today.

Reuters has quoted Incoming Palestinian interior minister Saeed Seyam, chosen by Hamas to oversee three security services saying-"he will not order the arrest of militants carrying out attacks against Israel."

Finally an honest Palestinian. After years of dealing with the 2 faced Fatah and Co. Telling us one thing and then going and doing the exact opposite, we got a party that truly has no problem to say what they think.

No more games, no more fake negotiations that they never fill, no more lies, and no more fake love. They hate us, we know they hate us, they SAY they hate us. This is someone I can Deal with (and I have just the weapon to do it - F-15 anyone??).

Hamas has managed to do what no one in the Israeli Right has been able to do for years, Shut the Crazy Israeli left up. It's amazing how quiet it is around here since they have won. I don't hear the Bailin's and the Peres's whining about giving them another chance and that they really do want peace, but don't know how to show it.

I suspect that the Mid-East is changing faster than most of us realize. From Victor Davis Hanson:

Even our current clinical depression is typically American. In July 1864, Lincoln was hated and McClellan and the Copperheads who wished a cessation of war and bisection of country canonized. Truman left office with the nation's anger that he had failed in Korea. As George Bush Sr. departed, the conventional wisdom was that the budding chaos and redrawing of the map of Eastern Europe would prompt decades of instability as former Communists could not simply be spoon fed democracy and capitalism. During Afghanistan by week five we were in a quagmire; the dust storm supposedly threatened our success in Iraq - in the manner that the explosion of the dome at Samarra marked the beginning of a hopeless civil war that "lost" Iraq.

The fact is that we are close to seeing a democratically elected government emerge, backed by an increasingly competent army, pitted against a minority of a minority in Zaraqawi's Wahhabi jihadists.

While we worry about our own losses, both human and financial, al Qaeda knows that thousands of its terrorists are dead, with its leadership dismantled or in hiding - and most of the globe turning against it. For all our depression at home, we can still win two wars - the removal of Saddam Hussein and the destruction of jihadists that followed him - and leave a legitimate government that is the antithesis of both autocracy and theocracy.

Syria is out of Lebanon - but only as long as democracy is in Iraq. Libya and Pakistan have come clean about nuclear trafficking - but only as long as the U.S. is serious about reform in the Middle East.

And the Palestinians are squabbling among themselves, as democracy is proving not so easy to distort after all - a sort of Western Trojan Horse that they are not so sure they should have brought inside their walls. When has Hamas ever acted as if it has a "sort of" charter to "sort of" destroy Israel? We worry that Iran is undermining Iraq. The mullahs are terrified that the democracy across the border may undermine them - as if voting and freedom could trump their beheadings and stonings.

Ever since 9/11 we have been in a long, multifaceted, and much-misunderstood war against jihadists and their autocratic enablers from Manhattan to Kabul, from Baghdad to the Hindu Kush, from London and Madrid to Bali and the Philippines. For now, Iraq has become the nexus of that struggle, in the heart of the ancient caliphate, rather than the front once again in Washington and New York. Whose vision of the future wins depends on who keeps his nerve - or to paraphrase the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, "Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest."

Shariah Culture Uses Violence to Forbid Freedom to non-Muslims

You know you're doing some good blogging when you are getting comments that are as good as blog posts. Today once again I'm quoting a comment from Olah Chadasha.   Olah commented on this post, in which I quoted the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. as admitting that Saudi Jews and Christians are forbidden to congregate for worship, are forced to worship only in their own homes, and are forbidden to have churches or synagogues.

Olah adds:

Did he mention the fact that Jews are NOT allowed to be buried in Saudi soil? Or, as you pointed out, that any-one of another faith are not permitted to publically pray or show any symbols or behavior(s) of their faith, outside of Islam? Who does this guy think he’s kidding?!? Even with government controlled press in Saudi Arabia, what’s happening in there is trickling out to the rest of the world. Is he actually convincing anybody with his meaningless diatribes?

And let's be specific about what it means, that non-Muslims are forbidden to do such things in Saudi Arabia. It means, that if the non-Muslims do such things, they will be physically attacked. They will be jailed and subject to severe punishment.