Iran’s proxy war continues

A Katyusha rocket that originated in Iran landed in Israel today.

A Katyusha rocket with a 122 millimeter diameter was fired from northern Gaza and landed south of Ashkelon. There were no injuries. This is the first time that a terror organization in Gaza has used this type of Katyusha rocket in an attack.

The rocket is more accurate than the Qassam. At the same time, industrial explosives were found in the explosive. The Katyusha is used by Hizbullah and originates from Iran. (Hanan Greenberg and Shmulik Hadad)

This would be the day after Fatah said they were gunning for Ashkelon with newer, better rockets.

There are no peace partners, only enemies. Not that you could tell from the mainstream media. The AP ignores Hamas’ rejectionism, choosing to focus on their so-called moderation.

He said the Palestinians retained the right to resist Israel’s occupation, but suggested that he was not interested in perpetuating the cycle of violence with Israel.

“We’re not calling for conflict or the continuation of the bloodbath in this region. We are a government that looks out for the interests of the Palestinian people,” he said. He added that he intended to push for an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in what is now Israel.

Those demands are far more moderate than Hamas’ traditional call to replace Israel with an Islamic state. However, the group, which won Jan. 25 elections in a landslide, has stopped far short of accepting demands by the international community to renounce violence and recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Those demands are not any more moderate. They simply don’t call for death, only for Israel’s destruction by demographics. The deaths, of course, would follow. But the AP also did not include quotes like this:

“The Koran is our constitution, Jihad is our way, and death for the sake of God is our highest aspiration,” Hamas lawmaker Hamed Bitawi said.

Interestingly, that was in Reuters.

So were these quotes from the “pragmatist” Haniyeh:

In contrast on Tuesday, Haniyeh said: “We were born from the womb of resistance, we will protect resistance and the arm of resistance will not be touched,” said Haniyeh.

Addressing Mariam Farhat, a newly-elected Hamas lawmaker whose three sons died fighting Israel, Haniyeh said: “This the fruit of the sacrifices by martyrs, including your sons. You’ve got to be proud of this day.”

Some day, the AP will stop lying to its readers and publish the unvarnished truth: Hamas is a group of unrelenting terrorists whose aim is the complete and utter destruction of the Jewish State, and the installation of the Islamic Caliphate over its ashes. Nothing less will do for them.

Iran is now funding Hamas as well as Hezbullah, the Shi’ites in Iraq, and just about any other anti-Israel and anti-Western group they can find. George W. Bush was not wrong to include them in an Axis of Evil.