Phone Call from the Gaza Conflict

Arabs are far from being stupid.

Define winning - it won't be the same definition as they have, they look far into the future, the Israelis and the West see only the immediate future.

Also, Israel has completely lost face, which is a major factor in the perception of Israel by most of the world. That too is a Hamas victory.

The Beginning of the End for Israel

By Yvonne Ridley

TRY as he might, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert can not snatch any sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat that are closing down on the failed Zionist project.

This, quite simply, is the beginning of the end for Israel.

The only thing Israel has proved it can do militarily better than anyone else is kill innocent women and children. And in its genocidal drive to wipe the Palestinian people from existence it has dealt itself a fatal blow.

In the belief they would seize an easy victory from the people of Gaza, after retreating broken and humiliated by Hizb'Allah in Lebanon two years earlier, Israel once again learned what happens when you underestimate the enemy.

Gaza has been reduced to piles or rubble in some areas as Zionist bombs pounded the tiny coastal strip by land, sea and air. It was a ruthless, brutal campaign deliberately timed for the final weeks of George W Bush's US presidency and before the start of the Israeli elections.

Olmert and Tzipi Livni, the daughter of a war criminal and terrorist (well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?) boasted how they would crush Hamas and stop the Qassam rockets from being fired into Israel.

And so, playing the victim yet again, the Zionist State unleashed the might of its army - the fourth largest in the world - on the most densely populated piece of land on Earth, claiming it needed to stop a few tin rockets powered by fertiliser fuel heading towards land stolen from the Palestinians in the first place. Oh, the irony of it all.

By trying to win hearts and minds they enlisted the support of Zionist think tanks who would go into overdrive to try and discredit Hamas and its supporters through TV and newspaper columns. Some of the accusations laid against Hamas were plain ridiculous and silly and fooled no one apart from the commissioning editors.

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As I write this article I am watching Olmert on the BBC speaking at a news conference with European leaders saying he wants Israeli troops to leave Gaza "as quickly as possible". Meanwhile Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, is on al-Aqsa TV praising his people for their courage and bravery and saying they have won a great victory over Israel.

And indeed they have.

The drive to crush Hamas has failed - in fact many of the millions across the world who marched against the war proudly and loudly declared: "We are all Hamas".
The cries shocked Olmert, Livni and co who, in their breath-taking arrogance believed the world would stand by and applaud from the sidelines as they went to war with the people of Gaza.

What happened instead was demonstrations, riots, anarchy and outrage from ordinary people pouring out of just about every city on the planet. This was the moment when another battle was launched: People Power versus the politicians. And 'we' the people won it easily.

Leaders who once said they supported Israel began putting a distance between themselves and Tel Aviv. The gaggle of belly-dancing Arab leaders began to dance to a different tune while some of the Arab world's most brutal dictators clamped down even more on their own citizens seeing coups and plots, real or imaginary, at every turn.

Shameful 'scholars for dollars' issued fatwas proclaiming demonstrations were haram ... these same sheikhs were full of praise for those of us who rallied and marched to show our anger over the vile Danish cartoons which ridiculed The Prophet Mohamed (pbuh). Such hypocrisy reveals them for what they are - men without honour or integrity.

Oh how the Middle East could do with some revolutionary figures like Venezeula's Hugo Chavez who kicked out the Israeli Ambassador and then Bolivia followed suit.

But perhaps the most devastating blow to Israel came from one time Gulf ally, The Emir of Qatar who ended trade relations with the rogue state.

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We still do not know how many Israeli soldiers have died ... it is a figure Olmert is trying to keep quiet. No public, ceremonial funerals are shown on TV in Tel Aviv. The Israelis, so used to playing the victim for the American and European media, have not been able to publicly display their mourning to the world. Could it be that mothers, wives and daughters of the dead would want to blame the Israeli government for yet another failed campaign?

It is a far cry from the week before, when Olmert regaled a cheering crowd in Ashkelon about how he telephoned George W Bush and interrupted him in the middle of a speech he was making in Philadelphia and told him to instruct Condaleezza Rice not to vote for a UN resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as he was told, said Olmert to roars of approval.

I hope Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton take note.

And I hope they realise now that the democratically elected Hamas are the only party in town to sit down and negotiate with. Failed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas should now viewed as collateral damage. His credibility has gone and any deal he made with Israel over this shameful period will soon be revealed. By the way, I understand his luxury villa in Gaza is about the only building that is free of shrapnel, shells or bullet marks. It certainly survived the bombing in a district which was attacked without mercy. Funny that!

Gaza will rise again from the rubble with its people even stronger than before. They are an example to resistance fighters across the world and they will go down in history for their bravery and courage.

In a few years time children across the Middle East will be raised on the heroic stories and exploits of the people of Gaza. And as they are safely tucked up in their beds, they'll probably ask: "So what did happen to Israel? Did it really exist?"

wow - you sound so brave, douchebag...

no one wants to kill every Arab - though Islamist groups like AL Qeida proudly want to slaughter all non-Muslims kuffars...

I don't have that problem. Here is how to get rid of this problem - switch to Firefox and get the add-on "Stop Autoplay". :)

i totally agree

Sir,

You could not be more correct, it is amazing what is lost in the passing of a genration, I was appauled by the Dutch placing embargo's. If this were 60 years ago, these follks would be Nazi sympathizer's and condemed by the entire world.

Israel, alone has held on to principles, neglecting the hiding place of cowards in the US. UK and other regions hiding behind the skirts of political correctness.

Thank you for posting this truth, if I were younger I would enlist to help them.

God bless

Tony Dukes

Israel certainly endorses its own use of terrorism and genocide.

Using this term genocide in relation to Israel is a blatant insult to the Jewish people. Why don't you go talk about Africa if you want to talk genocide, take that word out of the vocabulary for this conflict.

like many of veroutchka's posts, this is a racist lie

saying Israel endorses "genocide" is an inflammatory lie
and offensive and should be deleted

Veroutchka's mission to litter current with putrid anti-Israel lies and dehumanize Israelis and Jews is typical of Islamist propagandists and not unusual - in fact, the internet is littered with the armies of global intenet Jihadists whose tactics of lies and insults are now being exposed....but it is nevertheless annoying and brings a foul odor to Current...

i second this response

Not only in understanding the few differences, but in embracing the many similarities.

Yes, what you've said is true, but if you would only heed your own advice here and stop posting the heinous and blatantly anti-semitic emotional responses, that would help to stop the hate.

@ chosen - neither WorldPeaceTV nor I have posted anything that can be remotely labeled as anti-Semitism or hateful. On the other hand, what you and those like you have been posting is profoundly hateful, mendacious, racist, anti-Arab and anti-Islam. So it is clearly a case of pot.kettle.black, you being the pot, of course.

verotchka's posts are filled with lies, hatred, denial and racism

sad.