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Posted on February 16th, 2006 at 11:00 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Israel

No money for Hamas from Israel. But there will be money from Europe.

They’re visiting Jordan. And Turkey.

Meantime, this video, where Hamas suicide bombers say they’ll drink the blood of Jews (hello, who deserves the blood libel thing here?) will be ignored by the mainstream media.

Kissinger is writing about them.

Congress voted to halt all aid to the palestinians until they renounce terror. (Don’t get excited, Bush can still overrule them.)

European nations are trying to destroy the U.S.-Israel efforts to derail Hamas by spreading lies about a collaboration between the two nations to starve the palestinians.

The rockets are still landing in Israel. The world is still ignoring them.

Hamas is still openly calling for the destruction of Israel. So how’s that moderate-watch going?’

That should give you enough reading for the day.

The difference between Hamas and my comments threads

Posted on February 16th, 2006 at 7:59 am by Meryl Yourish.

Filed under: Terrorism

Every so often, I get comments from morons. I generally delete them without approving, because these are the types of people I’m not interested in debating on my weblog. This one is from an anonymous coward who found a two-week old post and had this to say about it:

I’d love to know the difference between the Hamas pledge to drive Israel into the sea and the posters here saying “nuke iran” or “nuke the SOB’s (in gaza)”?

On the surface, the question seems quite logical. Gee, one group calls for the death of Israel, the other for the destruction of millions in Iran.

Except there’s a problem. A big one. You see, Hamas is a terrorist organization that has already killed hundreds of Jews. Its charter states that it intends to destroy the state of Israel and replace it with an Islamic caliphate “from the river to the sea,” allowing only those Jews that accept their second-class status to remain.

My commenters are typing nasty words. None of them has been involved in terrorist acts against Iranians or anyone else, for that matter, and, in fact, have been chastised by me who has told them to stop with the “nuke ‘em” comments.

I’m still waiting for any member of Hamas to give up the sword and chastise his people for murdering schoolchildren on buses.

So, Anonymous Coward from northern Virgina: Are you starting to get the difference, yet, between Hamas and a comments thread of angry people expressing their anger in an inappropriate matter? Or do I need to spell it out for you some more?

This is why I have moderated comments. To keep out the riff-raff and the morons.