Double standards on terrorism
26 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Leftover Left, Osama bin Laden, war on terror
Egypt to double size of ‘buffer zone’ along Gaza border
08 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: blockades, Egypt, Gaza Strip, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy
Where is the international protest movement? Once again, the only explanation is that they must have been kidnapped.
There is no other reason why they are not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in the same way they protest against the breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!
More homes face demolition as Egyptian security forces warn people a buffer zone with Gaza is to be extended.
‘Inside Story’, Al Jazeera, 5 December 2014
Egypt plans to double the size of a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The [Egyptian] government says the measure is intended to put an end to the movement of armed fighters and weapons from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The first phase of the operation began in October, days after 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a checkpoint close to the Gaza border.
Thousands of people in northern Sinai were ordered to move out. Their homes were then bulldozed and bombed. The buffer zone runs for about 13km along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The first phase cleared an area 500 metres wide, destroying homes and tunnels used for smuggling. The security buffer is…
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Egypt takes aim at Hamas’ terror tunnels | Where are the protestors?
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Leftover Left
…Egypt is considering creating a huge, 1,000-meter buffer zone in the Sinai Peninsula – they have already evicted 10,000 people in the process of clearing the first 500 meters — and digging a deep-water trench that would flood any future efforts to carve subterranean routes for smuggling weapons and terrorists in and out of Gaza.
And unlike the fierce resistance and international public relations campaign Hamas mounted against Israel in August, the terrorist group that governs Gaza appears to not be seeking a head-on fight with Cairo.
War, what is it good for: President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority
02 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel
Live launch of missile right behind him forces journalist to discover Hamas war crimes
12 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, war crimes
The most damning footage came on August 5 from Gallagher Fenwick of the TV network France 24. Several days prior, he had been reporting live when a Hamas rocket whooshed over his head.
Returning later to scene, he revealed that it had been a densely populated area 100 meters from a U.N. facility and 50 meters from a hotel frequented by foreign journalists.
Hamas has a simple option if it wants peace
08 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, peace movement, swords into ploughshares
Accept the current borders. Destroy all missiles and stop further imports of military hardware into Gaza.
End all threats against Israel’s territorial integrity and security. Punish all attacks from within Gaza against civilians.
Palestinian revanchism is a recipe for endless wars
06 Aug 2014 8 Comments
in laws of war, Murray Rothbard, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, irredentism, Murray Rothbard, revanchism, warmongering
Why are borders in 1861, 1919, 1945, 1948, 1956 or 1967 or any other time morally superior?
Palestinian revanchism is a recipe for endless wars. Revanchism is the desire to reverse territorial losses.
Revanchism is linked with irredentism, the conception that a part of the cultural and ethnic nation remains “unredeemed” outside the borders of its appropriate nation-state.
• A return of German revanchism would plunge Europe back into war as Germany marched to reclaim Western Poland and the Sudetenland lost after the massive ethic cleansing in 1945 and the moving of Poland 1/3rd to the left after Potsdam.
• The Balkans and Eastern Europe would be plunged into war to revise the 1945 and the 1919 boundaries.
• Irish revanchism and irredentism over protestant Northern Ireland led to war from 1922 onwards.
The just war doctrine of the Catholic Church found in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is a convenient summary as any on what is and is not a just war, lists four strict conditions for legitimate defence by military force:
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated (the power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition).
Hamas does not have any serious prospects of success in its attacks on Israel. Therefore any military action by Hamas is an unjust war
Google maps shows that much of the Gaza Strip is rural – ideal for Hamas missile bases away from civilians as required by the laws of war
14 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, war crimes
see the Google map at http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_palestine.htm which shows that much of Gaza Strip to be rural – ideal for Hamas military and missile bases away from civilians as required by the laws of war.The laws of war also call for uniforms and the carrying of weapons openly so the fact that compliance with these laws of law would make Hamas more exposed to air attack is beside the point.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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