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Israel/Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Along With Joe Scarborough’s Credibility

Posted on | August 1, 2014 | 123 Comments

The 72-hour ceasefire fell short by about 70 hours:

A 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire agreed upon by Israel and Hamas collapsed shortly after it took effect Friday morning.
Mortar shells fired from within the Gaza Strip landed near a border-regioning town some two hours after the truce deal brokered by the United States and the EU kicked in, and shortly thearafter Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 25 Gaza residents were killed and dozens of others wounded by IDF artillery fire directed at the southern Strip. . . .
Gaza militants opened fire at IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip at 9:30 A.M., and it is feared an Israeli soldier has been taken captive by Gaza militants, the IDF Spokesman says. . . .
UN Special Coordinator Robert Serry says he has received word from Israel regarding a “serious incident” that occurred after the cease-fire deal took effect, “involving a tunnel behind IDF lines in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip.”
“The United Nations is not in a position to independently confirm these reports,” said Serry. “However, if corroborated, this would constitute a serious violation of the humanitarian ceasefire in place since 8 A.M. this morning by Gazan militant factions, which should be condemned in the strongest terms.”

So it’s war to the knife, knife to the hilt or — to borrow a phrase from the Beastie Boys — “no sleep ’til Brooklyn.” Israel will continue Operation Protective Edge until the fanatical death-mongers in Gaza are smashed into tiny jihadi smithereens. Selah.

Being old enough to remember watching the Six Day War on the nightly news, I’ve long since given up hope on Middle East peace. To the Palestinian leadership, peace is a synonym for “kill Jews.” It is impossible to negotiate with such hateful thugs.

Meanwhile, on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough accused Israel of “indiscriminate” killing of civilian women and children in Gaza:

“This continued killing of women and children in a way that appears to be indiscriminate is asinine. . . .
“And women and children are being seen because you know what? As much as we all hate Hamas, what is going to replace Hamas is going to be much worse. It is going to be a radical Islamist group instead of just power-hungry, corrupt people that despise Israel. . . .  The United States of America — we cannot be associated with this if this continues. This is so bad, not only for the Israeli people, but for us.”

Today on Morning Joe, Scarborough delivered a non-apology of the most offensive kind, a lecture in which he insisted that his critics are ignorant and simple-minded. Meanwhile, Allahpundit dismantles the “logic” of Scarborough’s argument:

If you take the “whatever comes next will be worse” logic to its ultimate conclusion, though, you’re forever left defending whichever bunch of degenerates is in charge at the time. Israel can’t oust Hamas because then Al Qaeda might take over; if Al Qaeda takes over, Israel can’t oust them or else ISIS might move in. If ISIS moves in, Israel can’t oust them or else a portal to hell will open in the ground and Hitler and Bin Laden will emerge from the earth to rule Gaza together. And so on. Essentially, so long as Eliminationist Group A remains a bit less savage than Eliminationist Group B, they can be as savage as they like and the west’s commentariat will defend leaving them in power.

By the way, if a portal to hell open in Gaza, the IDF will kill whatever comes out of hell. No sleep ’til Brooklyn.

 

Category: Islam, Israel, Military, MSNBC, Terrorism

Comments

123 Responses to “Israel/Gaza Ceasefire Collapses, Along With Joe Scarborough’s Credibility”

  1. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:48 pm

    Please re-read my post.

  2. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:49 pm

    I think Israel will be less willing to allow any sort of cease fire now. They need to keep pounding on Hamas and allow them no slack or time to do anything.

  3. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:52 pm

    Although Israel needs to take that path, the world would not allow it. OTOH, God also gets a vote and He has said that he will not allow Israel to be destroyed and the consequences of anyone trying will be seen when the prophecy of Ezekial chapters 38 & 39 come to pass.

  4. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:53 pm

    John 8 makes it clear that the spawn of Satan has nothing to do with blood descent but rather belief and action. Now you’re trying to draw people away from God by misleadingly using the Bible.

    Hell has a place for people who do that. Are you looking for a reservation?

  5. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 12:56 pm

    You probably want to read up on your history.

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  7. TotallyPeeved
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

    Sumpin’ wrong with your brain, boy.

  8. TotallyPeeved
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

    Hope you don’t use any products or scientific advances devised by Jews, you stupid cretin. Sure, them eurapeons is pretty dang smart, importing all them pisslamics into their midst. Name one good thing koranimals have EVER done. And the insane commie koranimals in charge of this country are following suit.

  9. TotallyPeeved
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:10 pm

    You mean the pisslamics, right?

  10. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:13 pm

    So are you for finally finishing the Final Solution devised by Hitler?

  11. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:16 pm

    So you really want to perpetrate genocide against the Jew, then, finishing the FInal Solution that Hitler started.

  12. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

    The only way to stop the bloodshed is if Hamas acknowledged Israel’s right to exist, as Arafat did on 1988…

    “On 15 November 1988, the PLO proclaimed the independent State of Palestine. Though he had frequently been accused of and associated with terrorism,[76][77][78] in speeches on 13 and 14 December Arafat accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel’s right “to exist in peace and security” and repudiated ‘terrorism in all its forms, including state terrorism’.[79][80]”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat

    So, in essence, PLO has already recognized Israel’s right to exist.
    If Hamas recognized that right, too, bloodshed will be averted immediately.

  13. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

    You must be a Nazi skinhead.

  14. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:49 pm

    So are you saying that Jesus Christ is not a Jew? Because it would seem in your statement that you are separating Christ from being Jewish.

  15. Lemuel Vargas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:50 pm

    Yep, he is a Nazi skinhead.

  16. ZZZZZZZZ
    August 1st, 2014 @ 1:55 pm

    zzzzzzz……

    Ach du Himmel! Another anti-Semitic Arschloch troll!

    zzzzzzz……

  17. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:13 pm

    You might want to read the Bible and see in what context Christ uses the term.

  18. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

    Please read what I posted. The first sentence says what context Christ used the term in.

  19. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:17 pm

    The Beasties make better foreign policy than the WH.

  20. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:22 pm

    Wish I could’ve given that answer 100 upvotes.

  21. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:38 pm

    It’s…certainly…justified? Genocide is justified, you say? Wow, that’s a mind-boggling thing to say.

    “Jew ideology is hostile foreign ideology.” Careful there, Bucko. My God says the Jews are the apple of His eye. You’re entering anti-Christian territory here. Though, I guess, once the Jews are gone, the Christians ought to be next. Not sure what the difference in ideology is between you and Hamas.

  22. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:44 pm

    Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees in John 8:44. He was not tarring all Jews, including Himself, with the same brush.

    You should stop quoting Scripture. You don’t understand it.

  23. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

    According to the data furnished by the Soviet press, out of 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik State there were in 1918-1919: 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Lets, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 2 Poles, 2 Finns, 1 Karaim, 457 Jews.

    How about that data?

  24. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:46 pm

    The only people calling for genocide are the Jews.

    Do they really want to go down that road?

  25. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:47 pm

    Act 1, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” provides more insight into the visceral hatred that Jews have for Christians.

  26. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:48 pm

    When Hamas comes after us, that’s all they’ll do, too. This is just an example of things to come.

  27. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:49 pm

    The people calling for genocide in the Middle East are the Jews.

    Do you they really want to go down that road?

    Keep in mind – the only people in the world standing with the Jews, today, are those who are easily fooled by the foreign propaganda being put out by said Jews.

    Most of the world is not fooled by the racist band of sodomites and robbers who call themselves the Jews.

  28. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:50 pm

    Do you have any examples of the Jews “calling for genocide”?

  29. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:56 pm

    No because they have made such a call. They simply want to be left in peace, and the Arabs refuse to do so.

  30. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:58 pm

    While the PLO supposedly granted Israel’s right to exist, he did not concede it in actuality. The Israelis ended up keeping him holed up in Jericho until just before he died. The PLO didn’t start settling down until after Arafat quit this mortal coil for the beginning of his non-air conditioned existence.

  31. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

    And you have provided another example of lying.

  32. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

    And it didn’t save a one of them.

  33. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 3:16 pm

    Saul Alinsky was a Russian Jew.

  34. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 3:17 pm

    Saul Alinsky, a Russian Jew, is perhaps the most influential mind behind today’s marxists.

    Wherever you find Jews, you will find the religion of Marxism.

  35. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 4:54 pm

    If you were actually paying attention to what is going on you wouldn’t be asking that question.

    But, you’re not.

    Which is precisely why you ask that question and precisely why you are so easily fooled by foreign propaganda.

    Israel is not the United States and this imprudent Israel-first nonsense and unwise (so-called conservative) media Jew-pandering needs to cease.

  36. DeadMessenger
    August 1st, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

    If you don’t have an answer and can offer no examples, then just say so. I pay close attention to what is happening in the ME as it has prophetic significance, and I have not once seen any indication of a desire to commit genocide (on the part of the Israelis). The desire for genocide comes from your Islamic buddies who openly admit to wanting to wipe Israel from the face of the earth.

  37. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 5:13 pm

    Read it for yourself:

    http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.1.3.html

  38. Jeanette Victoria
    August 1st, 2014 @ 6:10 pm

    I’ll make this simple YOU are an EVIL man. It is people like you who justify genocide.

  39. Jeanette Victoria
    August 1st, 2014 @ 6:13 pm

    One only need to real Islamic holy book to know there can NEVER be peace with Islam because Islam calls for the genocide of non-believers

  40. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 6:28 pm

    Well, if Lois Lerner doesn’t open your eyes to the fact that the Jews are a hostile foreign tribe, you’re likely to remain blind forever.

  41. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 6:30 pm

    Except that’s not true. Where have I called for genocide against the hostile racist foreign tribe who call themselves the Jews? Nowhere.

    On the other hand, the hostile, racist, foreign tribe who calls themselves the Jews has openly called for genocide in a publication

    known as the “Times of Israel”.

    You’re not paying attention.

  42. ZZZZZZZZ
    August 1st, 2014 @ 7:21 pm

    Nein, nein, Jeanette is paying attention mein Arschloch! Die gute Dame is fully aware of the realpolitik around us.

    You are the one with your head up your trollish behind.

    And do stop interrupting my naps with your hateful bile.

    zzzzzzz…….

  43. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 7:23 pm

    I’ve read it before. Those plays are fiction and prove nothing. You’re simply a liar.

  44. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 7:24 pm

    And if it weren’t for Jews you’d find another scape goat.

    Jews are not the only people that are progRats. The overwhelming majority of the progRat nation are gentile.

  45. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:13 pm

    How about it, troll? It’s a classic instantiation of the same scapegoating phenomenon. The Bolsheviks were jew heavy during those war communism years when the bolsheviks did some unbelievably brutal things and then they went off and shot a lot of communist jews. 30 years later the ethnic balance in the Soviet party was quite different.

    Citing hundred year old data but not taking account of the intervening century of data that moves in a direction very inconsistent with your thesis is the mark of a very stupid and unscientific mind.

    Friends don’t let friends become antisemites. It rots the brain.

  46. Robert Morris
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

    Art imitates life.

  47. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:16 pm

    I just did before I posted that earlier comment. John chapter 8 is not a long read.

    Who was a jew is a very specific legal question that had been settled long before Jesus arrived on the scene. By the rules of the time, Jesus was a jew. He was circumcised. He prayed in the Temple and preached there as jews did in those days.

  48. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:19 pm

    There was a difference between the nation and a Jew in Christ’s usage. This is seen throughout the Gospels. The question you think was answered back then was not.

    Only to a Greek or Roman was all Israel “Jews.”

  49. Quartermaster
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:19 pm

    In sick minds such as your own, yes.

  50. TMLutas
    August 1st, 2014 @ 8:59 pm

    Do even read your own sources? The book is in public domain and the title typed into Google yields a PDF copy. I confess I didn’t read all 222 pages of this zionist tract for the sake of this thread but I found the text, which is on page 155. The man, in 1924, was making the point that jews have and would continue to gravitate towards rebellious movements of all types and be disappointed in them because what they were really yearning was Israel, and until they got it, they would not be satisfied. They would remain ‘destroyers’, rebel types.

    So what we have here is another case where you’re beclowning yourself. In case it slipped your intellect, Israel now exists and if Maurice Samuel was ever right, the danger he warned about no longer is a problem because the jew who wants to build Israel no longer has to make do with some other movement so the numbers are padded out to viability. He can just get on a flight to Tel Aviv.

    The book looks interesting though, an eye into a world that died with the creation of Israel, died because of the creation of Israel.

    As a reciprocal gesture of good will, in gratitude for letting me know about this author, I won’t comment on your last paragraph.