Patterico's Pontifications

7/1/2006

Israel Targets Haniyeh

Filed under: International — Patterico @ 8:38 pm



Israel targeted Palestinian Prime Minister Hamiyeh, but missed. (H/t Dan Riehl.)

UPDATE: Or was it just a warning shot?

29 Responses to “Israel Targets Haniyeh”

  1. Isreal has the right to protect thier boundry and people from the HAMAS and muslm terrorism.

    hamas they don’t like peace because very hard for them to understand what is peace because thier religion and they never test before .

    and Hamas always start the attack and after this cry like chicken .

    Jan kristin (c6775f)

  2. Why are they hitting power and water stations? Collective punishment?

    actus (6234ee)

  3. The strike was timed to avoid anybody being in the building. The point was, “…but we could have hit you a few hours later and converted you to raspberry paste.”
    The question becomes, will anything happen beyond the warning shots.
    Interesting datum: more innocent people are killed in any given month during SWAT team raids in America, than there have been civilians killed in this operation to date. Talk about collective punishment.

    great unknown (a90377)

  4. ALa, a very smart (and not bad looking) Philly blogger got it right. She just wishes that President Bush had the cojones to respond to things the way the Israelis do.

    Dana (1d5902)

  5. Obviously a warning shot, given the time of day of the attack. As for hitting power and water supplies, this exerts incredible pressure on the “government” (such as it is), to comply with the demand to release the hostage. By creating increasing problems for the Palestinian “government” to handle, and reducing their ability to handle them (striking government buildings), you create a deterioriating condition. Guess who will get blamed for not taking care of the Palestinian people — the Palestinian “government”.

    Hamas has itself between a rock and a hard place. They have to resist, because that’s all they have as a philosophy. But they can’t stand up to the Israelis. If they give up, they will be seen as weak. The contradictions of having Hamas as the “government” are there for all to see (especially the everyday Palestinian on the street).

    Bill M (d9e4b2)

  6. Guess who will get blamed for not taking care of the Palestinian people — the Palestinian “government”.

    Ya. People will ignore just what it was that destroyed those power and water supplies.

    actus (6234ee)

  7. Well, gee, actus, whom do you blame for everything that goes wrong in America? Are the Palestinians smarter, dumber, more patriotic or less patriotic than you?

    nk (947b03)

  8. maybe hamas is just reacting to the ten or so palestinian children blown up by israel in the last two months. if you didn’t mourn for them, don’t disturb me with your weeping for the israeli soldier if he gets sent home to his family – by fedex, one piece at a time.

    [Wow. there’s some bloodthirstiness in that ugly, despicable comment. You clearly would relish that. Disgusting. — Patterico]

    assistant devil's advocate (7fefa2)

  9. Well, gee, actus, whom do you blame for everything that goes wrong in America?

    Me? I think if we all had voted from Strom Thurmond, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over these years.

    Are the Palestinians smarter, dumber, more patriotic or less patriotic than you?

    I think they know it was israel that destroyed those things. If change comes because of it, it will be because they submit to Israeli power, not because they blame the government they elected.

    actus (6234ee)

  10. “assistant devil’s advocate” and “actus” reveal that they hate Israel.

    Why am I not surprised ?

    Desert Rat (d8da01)

  11. “assistant devil’s advocate” and “actus” reveal that they hate Israel.

    Hate? Why? This is the simple logic of collective punishment. Thats how it works. And work it does: our client states in central america used it with quite a bit of success. Its not hateful to talk about it.

    actus (6234ee)

  12. If change comes because of it, it will be because they submit to Israeli power

    It sounds like you are endorsing the Iraeli actions (up to and including targeting the power and water suppies) to get them to submit to Israeli power.

    Gantry (7e2f86)

  13. It sounds like you are endorsing the Iraeli actions (up to and including targeting the power and water suppies) to get them to submit to Israeli power.

    Endorse? No. I’m describing. Thats what I think the goal is: submission. Thats what I think the goal of most strikes against civilian populations is. Including Hamas’.

    actus (6234ee)

  14. Well, Desert Rat #12, you know that those Jews have horns that they hide under those big hats and tails that they hide under those long coats and they sacrifice Palestinian babies every dark of the moon, don’t you?

    nk (4cd0c2)

  15. Gaza: PM’s Office Suffers Missile Damage…

    Israel’s military incursion into Gaza intensified overnight, when IDF missiles went flying through PA Prime Minister Haniyeh’s office. The strike on Haniyeh’s office took place at a very late hour so as to ensure that the building was empty; Haniyeh…

    PartisanTimes.com (72c8fd)

  16. wow, the israeli attack on the gaza power station is going to cost american taxpayers 48 million dollars!
    http://tinyurl.com/o3cnb
    i think we should take it right out of their aid check.

    assistant devil's advocate (7fefa2)

  17. The Palestinian gangster state has aleady cost us a lot more than that ADA. Forty-eight million is a small price to pay if we now wake up and stop sending them our money so that Mrs. Arafat can spend seventeen million dollars a year on herself in Paris.

    nk (d5dd10)

  18. Forty-eight million is a small price to pay if we now wake up and stop sending them our money so that Mrs. Arafat can spend seventeen million dollars a year on herself in Paris.

    Actually, we’d be sending it to the american company that owned the power plant.

    actus (6234ee)

  19. Actus, how do you vote “from” Strom Thurmond and what does it have to do with anything here, aside from your attempt to be smart which failed, as usual.

    “No. I’m describing. Thats what I think the goal is: submission.”

    I think the phrase your looking for is “the goal is: no more bomb attacks, suicide bombers, kidnappings, etc. by Palestinians.” Yeah, that would be the truth.

    “Actually, we’d be sending it to the american company that owned the power plant.”

    Better than sending it to suicide bombers.

    sharon (fecb65)

  20. You know, even if the Palestinians ever get a nation of their own, it’ll be the poorest, worst country in the world. Their children have absolute garbage for education, which means that the new “Palestine” won’t be able to compete in anything. Add to that the fact that Hamas, supposedly becoming responsibe ’cause they’re now part of the [choke] government, keeps doing stupid stuff that they know leads to the Israelis blowing up part of their infrastructure.

    They’ll have a country with rubble for bridges, rubble for power plants, rubble for government buildings, poorly educated people who depend on the largesse of Westerners for survival, and prospects that would make them envy Somalia.

    So, naturally, the only thing left to do will be to attack Israel — again.

    Dana (1d5902)

  21. hey hank k., i didn’t “glorify” anybody’s dismemberment, and according to news reports he wasn’t a “child” but an armed soldier. real children get killed all the time by israeli actions. do you feel for them too, or are you just a hypocrite?

    assistant devil's advocate (91805a)

  22. ada,

    You said: “if you didn’t mourn for them, don’t disturb me with your weeping for the israeli soldier if he gets sent home to his family – by fedex, one piece at a time.” The glee was evident. And appalling.

    Patterico (2586cd)

  23. you can imagine whatever you want.
    the point i was making is that the life of an israeli soldier is worth no more than that of a palestinian child (certainly not $48 million more). if anybody doesn’t agree, please explain why. there will never be peace until enough people realize this. israel needs to moderate its approach here, its unlimited aggression cannot continue to be rewarded.
    to whomever is holding the soldier: if you’re reading this, i’m an american taxpayer who wants his country to be reimbursed for its $48 million obligation on this power plant – please add that to your list of demands for releasing him.

    assistant devil's advocate (91805a)

  24. You’re suggesting a new demand for people holding an Israeli soldier captive.

    I’m going to leave these comments up, so people can see the face of the fringe left. It’s people like you, who speak with evident pleasure at the prospect of people being chopped up into pieces, and who suggest new demands for kidnappers. Your comments are despicable and disgusting.

    Patterico (2586cd)

  25. alert reader hank k. is having trouble commenting, but sends this by e-mail:

    hey hater: Your palestinian friends blow up children ON PURPOSE all the time–that’s why they’re called terrorists. Then those same cowards hide behind children as they prepare the next strike and when the israelis righfully strike at them in self-defense they go crying that children got hurt. To top it all off, the terrorist amen corner(that would be you) then attacks israel, the victim, for defending itself.

    As to your happiness about the possible dismemberment of the 18 year old israeli child-draftee, that’s going to have to be between you and your G’d. To me you’re nothing but filth.

    Patterico (2586cd)

  26. “assistant devil’s advocate” and “actus” are cheerleaders for the people who promise to wipe Israel off the map.

    “a.d.a.” and “actus” passionately accept and repeat the lies, distortions, and propaganda told about Israel, the IDF, MOSSAD, etc.

    My friends, there’s no sense in debating them on this particular issue.

    Desert Rat (d8da01)

  27. for the record, i support the existence of israel. i just wish there would be peace over there, it’s in our interest too. i grinned at hank k.’s use of the term “amen corner” and wonder if he knows where it originated.
    your indifference to the slaughter of palestinian children is noted. i find it appalling.

    assistant devil's advocate (91805a)

  28. “a.d.a.” and “actus” passionately accept and repeat the lies, distortions, and propaganda told about Israel, the IDF, MOSSAD, etc.

    Hi, what have I repeated?

    actus (6234ee)

  29. Peace in Israel? Has any apologist for the Palestinians noticed that their organizations split into however many ‘wings’ to commit however much violence are Johnny One Notes. If Israel withdraws from territory, their response is confidence in their methods and a call for more violence. If Israel in conciliatory in negotiations, their response is more violence, perceiving Israeli weakness. If Israel defends itself by killing their leaders, they respond with violence to revenge the killings. Have they ever responded to any situation on the ground in any matter other than increased violence? Doesn’t the one response fits any number of events in reality betray a kind of psychosis, a mass psychosis? And why do they insist on attacking Israel from within a shield of civilians and children? I suggest that those critical of the Palestinians probably have more empathy for their childen than they do themselves. Personally, if I was fighting a ‘war of liberation’ I would want the kids as far away from the fighting as possible. I wouldn’t be teaching them to grow up to be walking explosives. As a parent I would not be proud that my child blew him or herself up to kill people eating falafel. A caring person would see the depth of the pathology. Not noting this cultural cruelty towards children is noted and found to be appalling.

    naftali (8a7151)


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