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Of course, they’re people and should receive all of the consideration that people anywhere should receive. But, there’s nothing special about being P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-I-A-N. And, that’s according to Fathi Hammad, Minister of the Interior and of National Security for Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.

Now, Fathi didn’t mean for us to take his statements in just quite that way. He was speaking in Arabic and was not expecting to be understood by a Western audience – especially, the Western audience that he’s been crying to about the ‘ancient’ Palestinian people with their ancient rights to Palestine (whatever THAT is).

Of course, they’re people and should receive all of the consideration that people anywhere should receive. But, there’s nothing special about being P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-I-A-N. And, that’s according to Fathi Hammad, Minister of the Interior and of National Security for Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.

Now, Fathi didn’t mean for us to take his statements in just quite that way. He was speaking in Arabic and was not expecting to be understood by a Western audience – especially, the Western audience that he’s been crying to about the ‘ancient’ Palestinian people with their ancient rights to Palestine (whatever THAT is).

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One of the things that fascinates me about our civilization today is how completely gullible we are.

We are being played by a bunch of sick, islamo-fascist psychopaths, and we don’t seem to really care. In fact, all that we really seem to care about is that there is some target that we can channel pent up outrage into. And nothing makes a better target than a tiny little country full of Jews in some nowhere backwater like the Middle East.

One of the things that fascinates me about our civilization today is how completely gullible we are.

We are being played by a bunch of sick, islamo-fascist psychopaths, and we don’t seem to really care. In fact, all that we really seem to care about is that there is some target that we can channel pent up outrage into. And nothing makes a better target than a tiny little country full of Jews in some nowhere backwater like the Middle East.

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This is something that we’ve been worried about for a while – the Sinai border with Israel.

It is routinely used by Bedouin to smuggle all kinds of things into Israel – drugs, prostitutes, weapons and terrorists. Until now, Egypt has had a tight control on access to the Sinai and few weapons and terrorists have been able to gain access. Not so now.

Libyan weapons are flowing unchecked into the Sinai and terrorists are having a field day – with a free hand to do what they want. This is NOT good news to anyone that wants to see peace in the Middle East. Hamas no longer needs to just shoot rockets into Israel from Gaza, they can now launch attacks over land on Eilat and into southern Israeli cities.

This is something that we’ve been worried about for a while – the Sinai border with Israel.

It is routinely used by Bedouin to smuggle all kinds of things into Israel – drugs, prostitutes, weapons and terrorists. Until now, Egypt has had a tight control on access to the Sinai and few weapons and terrorists have been able to gain access. Not so now.

Libyan weapons are flowing unchecked into the Sinai and terrorists are having a field day – with a free hand to do what they want. This is NOT good news to anyone that wants to see peace in the Middle East. Hamas no longer needs to just shoot rockets into Israel from Gaza, they can now launch attacks over land on Eilat and into southern Israeli cities.

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It is a sad fact that whenever Israel withdraws from a territory, that territory becomes a threat to Israel’s security. When Israel withdrew from Lebanon, Hezbollah moved in and rained missiles down on Israel. When Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, Hamas moved in and rained missiles down on Israel. When Israel began withdrawing from Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria, terrorist bombings skyrocketed – and Israel had to put a wall around the Palestinians.

And now, as Egypt descends into Islamism, our only exception to this rule may cease to be an exception. When Islamists take over in Egypt, they have promised to tear up the peace treaty with Israel. And guess what the Sinai will become?

It is a sad fact that whenever Israel withdraws from a territory, that territory becomes a threat to Israel’s security. When Israel withdrew from Lebanon, Hezbollah moved in and rained missiles down on Israel. When Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, Hamas moved in and rained missiles down on Israel. When Israel began withdrawing from Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria, terrorist bombings skyrocketed – and Israel had to put a wall around the Palestinians.

And now, as Egypt descends into Islamism, our only exception to this rule may cease to be an exception. When Islamists take over in Egypt, they have promised to tear up the peace treaty with Israel. And guess what the Sinai will become?

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Helping people see what is real is a long, exhausting (and frustrating) process. Reality is such a harsh environment to live in, most of us would rather spend time with the alternative. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live a place where the sky is always blue and everyone is just so… nice.

However, spending too much time in a fantasy world can kill you. Living lives of fantasy killed the US economy. Clinging to the fantasy that Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy killed six million Jews. The fantasy of a world without God killed even more via communism.

Helping people see what is real is a long, exhausting (and frustrating) process. Reality is such a harsh environment to live in, most of us would rather spend time with the alternative. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live a place where the sky is always blue and everyone is just so… nice.

However, spending too much time in a fantasy world can kill you. Living lives of fantasy killed the US economy. Clinging to the fantasy that Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy killed six million Jews. The fantasy of a world without God killed even more via communism.

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