UN Schools Notorious for Shielding Terrorists

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As the world screams about the UN school incident in Gaza, here’s a reminder of what goes on at these places: EXCLUSIVE-Gaza headmaster was Islamic Jihad ‘rocket-maker’.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 5 (Reuters) - By day, Awad al-Qiq was a respected science teacher and headmaster at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip. By night, Palestinian militants say, he built rockets for Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli air strike that killed the 33-year-old last week also laid bare his apparent double life and embarrassed a U.N. agency which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state.

In interviews with Reuters, students and colleagues, as well as U.N. officials, denied any knowledge of Qiq’s work with explosives. And his family denied he had any militant links at all, despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home.

But militant leaders allied to the enclave’s ruling Hamas group hailed him as a martyr who led Islamic Jihad’s “engineering unit” — its bomb makers. They fired a salvo of improvised rockets into Israel in response to his death.

(Hat tip: Diamond Bullet.)

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113 comments
1 Kragar  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:57:30am

Need to correct you on this one Charles;

UN NOTORIOUS FOR SHIELDING TERRORISTS

2 Guanxi88  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:57:34am

Boy, and I thought my chemistry teacher was a nut!

3 Peacekeeper  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:57:38am

Live by the sword...

4 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:58:46am

This one is sicker than most. Puke.

5 Hard Right  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:03am

The U.N. is the political wing for terrorists.

6 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:37am

And to think we could see such progressive developments in the US, with Bill Ayers as Secretary of Re-Education.

7 Mini_Burkha_Fan  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:46am

Latest news from Haaretz:

"Hamas militants found amongst the dead at UN school"

Let's see which of the MSM will be the first to print this.

8 Hard Right  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:52am

I'm sure the left will say he didn't try to indoctrinate the kids.
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9 CIA Reject  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:55am

"Respected science professor" eh? I didn't know Hamas had a space program.

/I hope I don't need this

10 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 10:59:55am

"Embarrassed" the UN? Never. To be embarassed, one must have a sense of shame.

11 debutaunt  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:00:27am

re: #5 Hard Right

The U.N. is the political wing for terrorists.

Here ya go - let us validate that for ya.

12 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:00:32am

Who is responsible for the Palestinians still being in "refugee camps" after 60 years? Well maybe the list is long and glorious but either in first or second place is something called the UN. Great Job fellows.

13 Walter L. Newton  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:00:36am

re: #7 Mini_Burkha_Fan

Latest news from Haaretz:

"Hamas militants found amongst the dead at UN school"

Let's see which of the MSM will be the first to print this.

Linky please.

14 Opinionated  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:00:58am

Typical school curriculum.

Reading, Writing, Bomb making shop class, and killing Jews.

15 jorline  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:31am

This may be a stupid question, but why is it labeled a "UN school? Who monitors the school? What is the schools connection with the UN other than they supplied the brick and mortars?

16 Eagle  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:32am

Sorta OT:

If I hear the term "proportional response" one more time, I am going to be sick. What is this fluff that enemy actions during war should only be responded to with an equivalent action?

What.utter.nonsense. Wake up! To have proportional responses means you are granting the enemy the future opportunity to defeat you. A disproportionate response means to completely overwhelm those who attacked you, such that they have zero chance of further attack.

What is with these people who encourage proportional response? They want to encourage future conflict?

You want the enemy to have zero chance of winning. When has war been a game based on a level playing field? Don't they see that war is not about responding to actions, but removing the capacity of action - from those that would harm you?

I am sick of hearing "peace demonstrators" say that Hamas had merely "fired a few rockets". Sick!

Honcos, all of them.

17 Mini_Burkha_Fan  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:41am

Ire: #13 Walter L. Newton

It's currently a scrolling item on the Haaretz front page. Give it 20 minutes and it will be in the main body of Haaretz

18 Kragar  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:41am

re: #5 Hard Right

The U.N. is the political wing for terrorists.

The whole idea of wings is repugnant to me and reeks of bullshit. I suppose if that shit were around back in WW2, we would have been holding meetings with the Nazi and Imperial Japanese Political wings discussing cease fires over Normandy and the Iwo Jima.

19 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:48am
20 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:51am

re: #14 Opinionated

Typical school curriculum.

Reading, Writing, Bomb making shop class, and killing Jews.

But in exactly the opposite order!

21 Guanxi88  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:01:55am

And about that UN agency "which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state":

The UNRWA exists for no purpose other than to allow the Pali's to attack the Israelis while enjoying some measure of safety and security.

Name ONE other refugee group that has its own UN organization; name ONE other refugee group that is not allowed to re-settle in order to keep Arab resentment and murderous hatred alive. You can't because the Pali's are the only ones to be so royally screwed by their Arab brethren and subsidized and defended by the global elite.

The Arabs don't want 'em, and the UN can't give them enough money

22 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:02:14am

re: #14 Opinionated

Typical school curriculum.

Reading, Writing, Bomb making shop class, and killing Jews.

Sorry, Jew Hatred and Killing Jews is the FIRST class.

23 CIA Reject  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:02:20am

re: #14 Opinionated

Typical school curriculum.

Reading, Writing, Bomb making shop class, and killing Jews.

Next thing you know the MSM will be telling us that the rocket attacks were just science lab experiments that got out of hand...

24 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:02:24am

re: #13 Walter L. Newton

Linky please.

20:36 British PM: This is the darkest moment yet for the Middle East (Reuters)

20:35 IDF: Bodies of Hamas militants found among fatalities in strike on UN school (Haaretz)

And I think that Gordon Brown should read a history book one of these days. Asshole!

25 Jinx  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:02:26am

All this Gaza stuff reminds me of a song:

I'll tell you where the four winds dwell
In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
It can ring like fire when you lose your way

Roll away the Juice
Roll away the Juice
Roll away the Juice
Roll away the Juice

/apologies to the Dead

26 Walter L. Newton  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:02:34am

re: #17 Mini_Burkha_Fan

I

It's currently a scrolling item on the Haaretz front page. Give it 20 minutes and it will be in the main body of Haaretz

Thanks.

27 experiencedtraveller  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:03:35am
despite a profusion of Islamic Jihad posters at his home

Listen, all those Britney Spears posters I have don't mean a thing...

28 DistantThunder  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:03:52am

CNN just announced a segment coming upin the next few moments on "The Children of Gaza - caught between Israel and Hamas" - no mention of Israeli children targeted by Hamas.

29 Salamantis  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:04:04am

re: #21 Guanxi88

And about that UN agency "which has long had to rebuff Israeli accusations that it has aided and abetted guerrillas fighting the Jewish state":

The UNRWA exists for no purpose other than to allow the Pali's to attack the Israelis while enjoying some measure of safety and security.

Name ONE other refugee group that has its own UN organization; name ONE other refugee group that is not allowed to re-settle in order to keep Arab resentment and murderous hatred alive. You can't because the Pali's are the only ones to be so royally screwed by their Arab brethren and subsidized and defended by the global elite.

The Arabs don't want 'em, and the UN can't give them enough money

Yep; read all about it:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

30 bnichols10  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:04:13am

So the US pays 25% of the UN budget annually and they use the money to pay Hamas terrorists to teach and build bombs. Nice work US.

31 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:04:26am
32 looking closely  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:04:52am

This science teacher sure takes model rocketry to a whole new level.

33 Peacekeeper  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:05:04am

What kind of martyr has a secret identity? He's not a martyr- he was trying to hide.

34 stevieray  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:05:18am

MSM interpretation of story:

"Israel Kills Scientist: Damage To Islamic Space Program Incalculable"

35 alegrias  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:05:36am

It is a WAR CRIME to use civilian structures as Hamas & the UN do.

Where's the ACLU when children need them?

36 opnion  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:06:00am

Man, my high school science teacher liked cigarettes & footall.
He was a Christian Brother, or so he had us believe.
Come to think about it, what did I really know about him?
Bet he was building bombs the whole time. Yeah, thats it.

37 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:06:13am

re: #16 Eagle

Proportional response my ass! If anyone wants to hear a fantastic monologue on this very subject go check out Mark Levin's show from yesterday. It is free at iTunes. He had been on vacation until yesterday and it had been building up. Really worth the trouble to hear. He knocked it out of the park.

38 MJ  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:06:54am

re: #29 Salamantis

Yep; read all about it:

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

On UNRWA, read:

UNRWA: Refuge Of Rejectionism


UNRWA: Refuge Of Rejectionism
Barry Rubin, Asaf Romirowsky, and Jonathan Spyer
May 8, 2008
A Report from the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

On the surface, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) seems a humanitarian group helping Palestinian refugees. In reality, it actually helps destroy the chance of Arab-Israeli peace, promotes terrorism, and holds Palestainians back from rebuilding their lives.

Unique in history, UNRWA's job is to keep Palestinian refugees in suspended animation--and at low living standards--until they achieve the goal set for them by the PLO and Hamas: Israel's extinction. In the meantime, their suffering and anger is maintained as a weapon to encourage them toward violence and intransigence.

UNRWA schools become hotbeds of anti-Western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic indoctrination, recruiting offices for terrorist groups. UNRWA's services are dominated by radicals who staff and subsidize radical groups while potentially intimidating anyone from voicing a different line. UNWRA facilities are used to store and transport weapons, actually serving as military bases.

In this process, UNRWA has broken all the rules that are supposed to govern humanitarian enterprises. Consequently, UNRWA is the exact opposite of other refugee relief operations. They seek to resettle refugees; UNRWA is dedicated to blocking resettlement. They help refugees to live normal lives so that they can move on with their existence; UNRWA's role is to ensure their lives remain abnormal so they are filled with anger and a thirst for revenge that inspires violence and can only be quenched by a victorious return. They try to create stable conditions for refugees; UNRWA's mission is to enable radical political activity and indoctrination by armed groups which ensures a continual state of near chaos.

The time has come, especially given the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, which also signals a Hamas takeover of the UNRWA facilities there, to reevaluate the role of UNRWA. If it is indeed very much a part of the problem--a barrier to resolving the refugees' status and returning them to normal lives; a barrier to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict; and a source of violence--it should be dissolved and replaced by something better.

Three basic steps are required to do this. They would improve the refugees' lives and strengthen moderate Palestinian forces.

First, UNRWA should be dissolved.

Second, all services it provides should be transferred to other agencies within the UN, notably the UNHCR, which has a long and productive experience in this area.

Third, responsibility for normal social services should be turned over to the Palestinian Authority. Most UNRWA staff should be transferred to it. Donors should use the maximum amount of oversight to ensure this be done effectively.

People often wonder why violence and instability persists and why the Arab-Israeli conflict is so seemingly impossible to resolve. One important part of the answer is that UNRWA perpetuates the problem. All those seeking real progress toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians need to take a close look at this unacceptable situation. All those with responsibility for the management of these issues need to work for a change of course.

INTRODUCTION

What could be more appealing as an agency to help refugees? The image summoned up is one of suffering people bereft of homeland, traumatized, insecure, and badly in need of help receive humanitarian assistance given altruistically to ease their plight. Who could object to such an enterprise, when presented in those terms?
More here:
[Link: www.gloriacenter.org...]

39 Kragar  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07:20am

re: #33 Peacekeeper

What kind of martyr has a secret identity? He's not a martyr- he was trying to hide.

By day, a mild mannered school teacher. By Night, and with the power of Allah, he became...

Captain Qassam!

40 CIA Reject  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07:24am

re: #35 alegrias

It is a WAR CRIME to use civilian structures as Hamas & the UN do.

Where's the ACLU when children need them?

Why, they're out defending Jack Kevokian's "right" to "practice medicine" of course!

41 alegrias  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07:25am

re: #37 freedombilly

* * *
VP Dick Cheney on "proportionate" anything: One party's a UN sanctioned country, the other's a terrorist organization.

(Any more dumb questions?)

42 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07:26am

re: #36 opnion

Man, my high school science teacher liked cigarettes & footall.
He was a Christian Brother, or so he had us believe.
Come to think about it, what did I really know about him?
Bet he was building bombs the whole time. Yeah, thats it.

Jihad upon the Jesuits!
/

43 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07:28am

re: #35 alegrias

It is a WAR CRIME to use civilian structures as Hamas & the UN do.

Where's the ACLU when children need them?

They are too busy being on the wrong side of EVERY issue. Literally. That would keep anybody busy.

44 lifeofthemind  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:08:33am

Any undergraduate should be able to spin out the psychosexual themes at play here with the fixations on power, children, explosions, secrecy, submission and hate.

45 alegrias  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:08:37am

re: #40 CIA Reject

* * *
Hey CIA Reject. I nominate YOU to head the CIA, instead of Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of Mischief.

46 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:08:52am

January 06, 2009
Categories: Networks

Coulter booked for 'Today' show
Conservative author Ann Coulter will appear on Wednesday’s “Today” show, according to an NBC spokesperson.

Coulter has been talking up being bumped by NBC for the past two days, both on other networks and the radio. A controversy erupted when Drudge splashed that she’d been “banned for life,” leading NBC to deny that she was banned, and later offering her a new segment.

On her website, Coulter writes that "Drudge gets results: Today show changes mind." She'll be appearing during both the 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours.

So in the end, NBC will probably get more viewers and Coulter will sell more books—or at least further convince those in her camp that the MSM isn’t on her side. Either way, it should be entertaining.

47 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:09:43am
48 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:09:50am

re: #41 alegrias

* * *
VP Dick Cheney on "proportionate" anything: One party's a UN sanctioned country, the other's a terrorist organization.

(Any more dumb questions?)

Ohh! Ohh! I have one! So if we had a "proportionate response" to 9/11, we would have flown airliners into, say, the Petronus Towers in Malaysia & called it day & that would have been just?

49 Peacekeeper  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:09:51am

re: #39 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

By day, a mild mannered school teacher. By Night, and with the power of Allah, he became...

Captain Qassam!

Now he's a bloody spot.

50 FrogMarch  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:09:51am

The UN is a corrupt pro-nazi Hamas organization.

51 winston06  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:09:56am

crush Hamas. Ship UN to Gaza now

52 looking closely  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:10:25am

re: #44 lifeofthemind

Any undergraduate should be able to spin out the psychosexual themes at play here with the fixations on power, children, explosions, secrecy, submission and hate.

And don't forget "rockets".

53 MJ  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:10:42am

Mitchell Bard posted this at the Huff Po:


Hamas Is Responsible for the Civilian Casualties in Gaza

Israel cares more about the Palestinian people in Gaza than Hamas does. Yes, I know this statement will get jeered and mocked by those who support the Palestinians, but, in my view, the facts bear out my assertion.

Hamas made the decision to fire rockets at Israeli civilians on a daily basis, even after Israel completely pulled out of Gaza (and violently uprooted some of its own citizens in doing so). It is ludicrous to believe that Israel would sit back and accept the daily attacks on its civilians without reacting. It seems clear that Hamas's rocket fire was intended to bring upon an Israeli offensive, a strategic decision to draw the Israelis into Gaza so that the Israelis could suffer casualties and, more importantly, to push international opinion and pressure against Israel. Further, Hamas has used mosques, schools, private residences and even hospitals as locations to manufacture, store and launch weapons at Israel and hide its leaders. By placing what are obvious military targets in civilian areas, Hamas put its own people at risk. By choosing tactical advantages over the safety of its citizens, the terrorist organization chose its military goals over the safety of its fellow Palestinians in Gaza.

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

54 albusteve  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:10:44am

re: #14 Opinionated

Typical school curriculum.

Reading, Writing, Bomb making shop class, and killing Jews.

except not in that order

55 alegrias  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:10:47am

Repeating from previous threads: How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem

Nowhere on earth do terrorists get so much help from the Free World.

Reagan's refusenik buddy Scharansky rocks!

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

56 Leonidas Hoplite  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:11:16am

That's not the Qiq I knew.

I hope this is cached somewhere...surprised Reuters hasn't sent it down the memory hole already

57 Peacekeeper  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:11:20am

re: #47 buzzsawmonkey

Burning out his fuse up there alone...

58 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:11:33am

re: #44 lifeofthemind

Any undergraduate should be able to spin out the psychosexual themes at play here with the fixations on power, children, explosions, secrecy, submission and hate.

All of the missiles (very phallic), most of which fail to do their job - you may have a point.

59 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:11:44am

re: #51 winston06

crush Hamas. Ship UN to Gaza now

Ya know that is not a bad idea. That would get the EU and other quasi commies to want to clean that cesspool up?

60 CIA Reject  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:11am

re: #45 alegrias

* * *
Hey CIA Reject. I nominate YOU to head the CIA, instead of Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of Mischief.

Thanks but no, thanks. That is one thankless job I would not take for anything. Even though Panetta is woefully unqualified and will most certainly make a huge mess out of CIA I actually sort of pity him because he is in for one hell of a ride- in the worst sense of the term.

61 albusteve  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:16am

re: #47 buzzsawmonkey

That would be...Martyrman!

By day, a mild-mannered science teacher--by night, a committed jihadi, building engines of death.

When there is trouble, Martyrman explodes into action! Hurls rocks faster than a speeding bullet; concocts lies more powerful than a UN press release; is able to leap security fences at a single bound!

His one weakness...he is robbed of his power when confronted by pork products.

excellent spoof amigo!

62 winston06  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:18am

re: #59 Nevergiveup

yup

63 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:34am

re: #51 winston06

crush Hamas. Ship UN to Gaza now

No; Israel should get Gaza. Ship the UN and the current denizens of Gaza to some other desert shithole.

64 alegrias  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:47am

Just give the poor kids VOUCHERS so they don't have to attend UN schools.

The UN is like the teachers unions, only more international and ghastly overpaid.

65 madisonsfriend  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:12:54am

Spokesman Christopher Gunness said UNRWA, which spelled its teacher's surname al-Geeg, was looking into the matter.

"We have a zero-tolerance policy towards politics and militant activities in our schools. Obviously, we are not the thought police and we cannot police people's minds," he said.

well, UNRWA doesn't consider HAMAS and firing rockets on Israel politics or "militant". It is all education.

66 winston06  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:04am

re: #63 Kosh's Shadow

nope. keep'em there along with UN

67 Wishing  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:08am

re: #37 freedombilly

Proportional response my ass! If anyone wants to hear a fantastic monologue on this very subject go check out Mark Levin's show from yesterday. It is free at iTunes. He had been on vacation until yesterday and it had been building up. Really worth the trouble to hear. He knocked it out of the park.

Do you have a link pls?

68 albusteve  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:12am

re: #50 FrogMarch

The UN is a corrupt pro-nazi Hamas organization.

as said they are criminally complicit...the US should pound them over this issue

69 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:18am

re: #63 Kosh's Shadow

No; Israel should get Gaza. Ship the UN and the current denizens of Gaza to some other desert shithole.

The sand trap at the public course near my house comes to mind...

70 lifeofthemind  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:24am

re: #52 looking closely

And don't forget "rockets".

No more crude "do it yourself" pocket rockets, now its the big boy long range high impact Iranian weapon aimed at the Big Nuke by the Dead Sea. Don't you get a tingle just reading that?

71 Kenneth  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:13:34am

These Gaza schools have a nice exchange program, too:


Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave
February 03, 2007

Seven Iranian weapons experts were seized yesterday in a raid by Fatah-affiliated security forces on the Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City. Amid an escalation in the confrontation between Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions, an eighth Iranian was reported to have committed suicide rather than be taken prisoner.

Sources close to President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah said the Iranians included intelligence and chemical experts and a senior military officer.

The Israeli news site Y-Net quoted a Palestinian source as saying the officer was a general.

Although Hamas and Islamic Jihad are known to have sent agents to Iran for training, this is the first report of Iranian personnel in the Palestinian territories.

Note: this was the same university that the IAF bombed a few days ago.

72 notutopia  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:14:39am

Moonlighting Scientist....Teacher/scholar by daylight,
Bombmaker for Hamas at night.

What happened to second jobs, like throwing the morning newspaper?

73 albusteve  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:14:56am

re: #69 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

The sand trap at the public course near my house comes to mind...

the NewGaza Corp...tons of money to be made...let everyone get a cut

74 tackle  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:15:06am

I've said this before on a DT: "For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians. " -Krauthammer
Funny how Hamas depends on the morality of Israel not to bomb schools and mosques. And when they do bomb them, they can parade their dead children around. It's a win-win! I can only hope there will be a shift in opinion when these things are brought to light.

75 eschew_obfuscation  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:15:10am

re: #57 Peacekeeper

Burning out his fuse up there alone...

Thank you! I've idly wondered what that lyric was for years....(too lazy to look it up obviously).

76 NelsFree  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:15:18am

You know, if one is setting booby traps, one should arm them...
AND THEN LEAVE THE AREA!

77 descolada9  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:17:24am

And terrorists are notorious for using schools and hospitals as shields. If anyone is still taken in by the blatant hypocrisy and PR stunts then they are true tools and idiots. As for this bomb maker, hope you met your maker in Hell and those 72 virgins all looked Helen Thomas!

78 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:17:44am
79 CommonCents  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:17:59am

re: #16 Eagle

Sorta OT:

If I hear the term "proportional response" one more time, I am going to be sick. What is this fluff that enemy actions during war should only be responded to with an equivalent action?

What.utter.nonsense. Wake up! To have proportional responses means you are granting the enemy the future opportunity to defeat you. A disproportionate response means to completely overwhelm those who attacked you, such that they have zero chance of further attack.

What is with these people who encourage proportional response? They want to encourage future conflict?

You want the enemy to have zero chance of winning. When has war been a game based on a level playing field? Don't they see that war is not about responding to actions, but removing the capacity of action - from those that would harm you?

I am sick of hearing "peace demonstrators" say that Hamas had merely "fired a few rockets". Sick!

Honcos, all of them.

Unfortunately I can only up-ding that once. My sentiments exactly.

80 tackle  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:18:05am

re: #71 Kenneth

These Gaza schools have a nice exchange program, too:

Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave
February 03, 2007

Note: this was the same university that the IAF bombed a few days ago.

Good find. I'm beginning to wonder if the only way to finish this thing is to get Iran. And I think that might be above Obama's pay grade.

81 Kenneth  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:18:37am
82 Soona'  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:19:49am

re: #5 Hard Right

The U.N. is the political wing for terrorists.

No! Really?
//

83 Kenneth  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:20:23am

re: #80 tackle

The Iranians are willing to fight to the last Palestinian.

84 Eagle  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:20:27am

re: #37 freedombilly

Thanks. Will check iTunes.

Listened to Levin a few times. He doesn't mince words.

85 Soona'  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:21:54am

re: #68 albusteve

as said they are criminally complicit...the US should pound them over this issue

That time has come and gone. :(

86 Wishing  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:25:50am

re: #78 freedombilly

Mark Levin Show 1/5/09

Thank you!

87 freedombilly  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:25:55am

re: #84 Eagle

Thanks. Will check iTunes.

Listened to Levin a few times. He doesn't mince words.

That he does not. He is one of my heroes.

88 Maximu§  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:26:24am

Ah, I knew there was more to this story than what Reuters was reporting. Their headline screamed:UN SCHOOL HORROR IN GAZA; TANK FIRE KILLS DOZENS..., but I turned to LGF to find the facts and Charle's website did not disappoint.

89 Mini_Burkha_Fan  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:29:49am

Missiles found in Gaza School, 6 Jan. Plus picture!
IDF Spokesperson

90 maddogg  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:33:32am

Martyr used to be someone who died for their faith under persecution for said faith. Now it just means some scumbag murderer who got caught.

91 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:39:06am
92 FabioC.  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:50:21am

I see that the western media are full of pictures of overly drmatic pictures of grieving Palestinian women.

The old trick again...

93 Quilly Mammoth  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:51:07am

There is not a single organization in Gaza or the West Bank that is not either owned by or infiltrated by terrorists.

94 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:52:59am
95 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:56:51am

re: #94 ploome hineni
(claim almost 5 million arab refugees)

UNRWA

Interesting; only 600,000 left Israel when it was formed.
What a genocide!

96 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:01:29pm
97 uncc_compman  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:02:23pm

re: #65 madisonsfriend

Spokesman Christopher Gunness said UNRWA, which spelled its teacher's surname al-Geeg, was looking into the matter.

"We have a zero-tolerance policy towards politics and militant activities in our schools. Obviously, we are not the thought police and we cannot police people's minds," he said.

well, UNRWA doesn't consider HAMAS and firing rockets on Israel politics or "militant". It is all education.

Physics problem.

/

98 [deleted]  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:07:11pm
99 Fighton03  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:33:51pm

Let's see which headline should we run with "Israel bombs UN school" or "Israel bombs Hamas ammo dump"......hey either one works right?

100 wiffersnapper  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:35:09pm

down with the un

101 JCW  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:40:42pm

In response to this post, I sent the following to my congressman:

Rep. Wolf,

A Reuters report from last year, which I came across recently, has me concerned that the United States government is providing financial support to the terrorists that we fight.

The Bush Administration has been more successful than any prior one in getting co-operation from our allies in curtailing international financing of terrorism through private charities. However, in our humanitarian expenditures, has our own government and its agents like the UN financially aided the terrorists?

The new administration has promised increased humanitarian aid, and indicates that this would help reduce terrorism. However, to paraphrase that great American Donald Rumsfeld, are our public humanitarian dollars creating more terrorists than they are stopping?

As the ranking member of the House Appropriations subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, I would expect for you to have an idea of how many enemy terrorists are being financed by the money you appropriate.

Apparently, the Israelis were aware that a UN employee was a chief bomb maker for Islamic Jihad. If UN employees and aid recipients were subject to post hoc screening by intelligence services, could this prevent our financing their terrorist activities?

As our more intrusive oversight over our own money would be unwelcome, we should thoughtfully terminate our humanitarian funding that counterproductively undermines vital and important American interests.

The relevant story from Reuters
Gaza Headmaster was Islamic Jihad ‘Rocket-maker’ by Adam Entous 5/5/2008
[Link: www.reuters.com...]

102 Stinky Beaumont  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:57:53pm

Testing...

103 Stinky Beaumont  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:59:13pm

Again...

104 runrabbitrun  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 1:05:14pm

I've been disturbed to see how the email comments in the Wapo have been running about 20-1 in favor of Hamas/Israel's destruction. Then I realized that many of the letters appeared to be from Europe, predominantly the UK. I guess that is what happens when you financially support radical Islamists, their many wives and children on the dole. You get thousands of haters with nothing better to do than to get to work and drum up their supporters (like the Muslim students organizations and International Answer) to protest in every forum possible, against Israel, and the U.S. It will always be in the nature of leftists to be collectivists/activists, so they generally get a far better public showing than conservatives.

The result from leftists is always more innocent deaths, since the more civilians Hamas murders, the more the left will rise up to beg the world to leave the thugs alone to get on with their agenda. Very effective.

105 Stinky Beaumont  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 1:11:38pm

Testing...

106 Stinky Beaumont  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 1:12:03pm

Again...

107 MJBrutus  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 1:18:23pm

Just another innocent, ruthlessly murdered by shameful Zionist entity.

/sarc

108 Airedale  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 2:27:04pm

we've seen how Hamas uses UN supplied ambulances to transport 'fighters'. any surise they also own the keys to UN built schools ?

109 Fluffster  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 2:40:44pm

Here is nice photographic proof of palestinian terrorists firing rockets from densely populated areas:

[Link: seattlepi.nwsource.com...]

110 robin  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 3:21:56pm

The UN is a disgusting organization. Israel can't keep worrying about world opinion. Jews will always be hated. They need to press on and break the back of Hamas. To hell with the UN.

111 Mr Spiffy  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 6:02:37pm

re: #34 stevieray

MSM interpretation of story:

"Israel Kills Scientist: Damage To Islamic Space Program Incalculable"

Don't forget:
"Women and minorities hardest it"

112 Mauser  Tue, Jan 6, 2009 7:55:02pm

It should have been a dead giveaway when he took out his salary in C4 and Rocket fuel.

113 Ledger1  Wed, Jan 7, 2009 1:25:47am

I believe Israel’s number one priority is to protect its citizens. This does not include protecting the enemy’s citizens.

If the enemy attacks Israel’s civilians with rockets and mortar bombs then Israel must liquidate the enemy terrorists regardless if the enemy chooses to uses its children as human shields.

Everyone knows the Hamas “Human shield” trick is only for vile propaganda proposes. It is only done by stone age Hirabi barbarians to feed Taqiyya to the world.


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