Humanitarian crisis alert: Toldja so.
Gaza is three days away from a deadly humanitarian crisis unless Israel promptly restores fuel and electricity to the densely populated area after its offensive to free an abducted soldier, the United Nations aid chief warned on Thursday.
So, with all these tanks, mortars, and missiles going off, is anyone in Gaza dead yet?
Israeli warplanes struck more than a dozen times in Gaza in the hours after midnight, hitting the Palestinian Interior Ministry and a Fatah office in Gaza city, as well as a Hamas training camp in the city’s outskirts.
Israel Air Force aircraft early Friday struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza City, Palestinian witnesses said, setting it on fire.
Palestinian hospital officials said a 5-year-old girl was wounded in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza early Friday, the first casualty in more than two days of military action. Doctors said her condition was not serious.
But—but—I don’t understand! What about the humongous civilian casualty toll? Where are the bodies? WHERE ARE THE BODIES?!!?!?
Thousands gather to mourn teenage terror victim Eliyahu Asheri
Oh. That’s right. The only death so far has been an Israeli boy. Yes, boy. Child. Eighteen-year-old Eliyahu, which would be Elijah in English. Not a settler. A boy. Complete with baby fat, uncertainty, hopes, dreams, and a life ahead of him. Cut short by terrorists who kidnapped him and put a bullet in his brain within the hour, then held out his identity card and pretended he was alive and they were going to kill him, knowing full well they already had.
But nobody cares about Eliyahu, because he is a “settler.” Via Israellycool, Eliyahu’s mother said this:
Hours after she was notified of her son’s death, Miriam told Israel Radio, “The pain is great, almost too great to bear. But one thing I feel, despite all this…is that in the wake of disagreements between our brethren, with our different worldviews and different relationships to the land of Israel that creates a lot of conflict, a lot of anger, a lot of argument – many times, I’ve asked G-d that he should first of all grant me love for everyone in my heart, and … that He should show me the special quality of the nation of Israel, and that I should succeed – that we should all succeed in loving each other…truly from the heart.”
The difference between us and them: We love life, whereas they love death. They tell us this is our weakness. They are wrong. This is our strength. Miriam Asheri is an amazing woman.
Thank you Meryl for telling it like it is!
The blatent hypocrisy of the “news” media controlled by the left is unprecedented. Their vision of utopian standards when it comes to Israel, and the gutter standard for Arabs is offensive to anyone that thinks logicaly.
I am happy that I can count on your site to expose the sob’s and air the truth.
Please continue your Blog, you serve an important purpose for the lovers of Israel.
Well the usual suspects are lining up at the UN to denounce Israel’s very right to defend itself as a sovereign nation, including Iran. And the claims that the Israelis were engaging in collective punishment by taking out power stations and bridges is also out there as well.
Never mind that all this was instigated by Palestinian terrorists (masquerading as the Palestinian government) who breached the Israeli border and killed two soldiers, and kidnapped Shalit. That’s on top of the constant barrage of rockets and missiles fired in to Israel. And the thwarted terrorist attacks as well.
What all these clowns seem to be ignoring is tht the satanic death cult that passes for a government of “Palestine” claims to be at war with Israel and gives reality to that claim by committing acts of war against her. When Israel strikes back everybody whines that she had no right to do so. It’s like complaining that the British had no right to fight back against the Nazis in 1940.
The Palis wanted war with Israel. Now they have it (very tepidly so far). They should have remembered, when they voted for the satan worshippers of Hamas, the old adage about the possible undesirablity of getting what you wished for.
Meryl…
I recently became aware of your blog via instapundit. You are terrific. I especially liked the reporting on the moron Ted Stevens from Alaska.
As a Conservative Republican, he infuriates me. I also have lived in NJ for a long time but will be moving to a Red State.. in about a year – probably Tennessee. You made the correct decison leaving when you did.
Keep up the excellent work.