Hamas Wanted War, They Got It

And here we were all told the election of the one was going to spread good will and peace throughout the globe. Doesn’t seem to be working. I mean Hamas wanted a war when they ended the truce with Isreal last week and sent in almost 200 rockets.

They wanted this, now they got it.

After sending wave after wave of rocket attacks into Israel (3,000 rockets since the beginning of the year), including this one:

A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.

Israel decided enough was enough and sent warplanes in to demolish every known Hamas compound, killing hundreds:

Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing nearly 200 people and wounding 270 others in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.

Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were also among the dead. Hamas said all of its security installations were hit and responded with several medium-range Grad rockets at Israel, reaching deeper than in the past. One Israeli was killed and at least four people were wounded in the rocket attacks. With so many wounded, the Palestinian death toll was likely to rise.

The air offensive followed weeks of intense Palestinian rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel, and Israeli leaders had issued increasingly tough warnings in recent days that they would not tolerate continued attacks.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would expand the operation if necessary. “There is a time for calm and there is a time for fighting, and now is the time for fighting,” he told a news conference. He would not comment when asked if a ground offensive was planned.

But asked earlier if Hamas political leaders might be targeted next, military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich said, “Any Hamas target is a target.”

The strikes caused widespread panic and confusion in Gaza, as black clouds of smoke rose above the territory, ruled by Hamas for the past 18 months. Some of the Israeli missiles struck in densely populated areas as children were leaving school, and women rushed into the streets frantically looking for their children. Most of those killed were security men, but civilians were among the dead.

Right on!

Here is Nidra Poller on Atlas Shrugs giving more details:

…Metulla News Agency (www.menapress.com… for those who read French) release reports that 50 targets were hit simultaneously in the first wave of bombing, scoring 97% of direct hits in the space of 3 minutes. 50 additional targets were hit in the second wave. Most of the command posts, military bases, arms factories, and arsenals were damaged or destroyed. Tunnel personnel came scurrying out of their underground enterprises near the Egyptian border as the bombings shook the earth. Noting that Hamas spokesman Fawzi Baroum gave shooting orders—over the radio– to rocket launchers near the Israeli border, the Metulla reporter supposes that the military communications network was destroyed. An airstrike against a building where Hamas military and political personnel had just gathered for an emergency meeting indicates, according to the same source, information gathered from human intelligence on the ground. The Metulla News Agency release concludes that Hamas, caught by surprise by “the timing, the scope, and the precision of the attack,” is desperately searching for some civilian victims to display as proof of an Israeli massacre.

By 5.30 PM, Le Figaro had lined up an impressive list of condemnations. The U.E., Javier Solana, President Sarkozy, PM François Fillon, Ban Ki-Moon, Leila Chahid, Turkey, Mahmoud Abbas, Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, Moubarak, the Arab League, Iran, Ghadaffi, Syria… Le Figaro tucked the U.S. and the U.K. into the list, trying to assimilate them with these accusations of everything from carelessness to war crimes. They must have missed this exchange with Egyptian MFA Ahmed Aboul Gheit, at a Cairo press conference. Asked if he’d known the attack was imminent, About Gheit replied, “Didn’t you? Didn’t you hear the declaration of Tzipi Livin last Thursday?” He said Hamas had been warned, and shouldn’t be surprised at getting what they asked for.

And somehow this strong condemnation of “Israeli’s massacre against Gaza Strip reported by the Kuwait news agency didn’t make it onto the honor roll. Why? Isn’t Sudan part of the elevated conscience of international opinion?

Night has fallen here in Paris. Time to light the Hanukah candles. They will burn so brightly as the evildoers writhe in pain and cry over their broken lethal toys. A few days ago they reinstated crucifixion in the sharia arsenal of their rump Islamic republic. Today our haverim burned their punishing crosses!

Jihad Watch has an excellent post on the “condemnation” of the Israeli attack, including the fact that these same people wailing about todays attack did nothing to condemn the rocket attacks. Same as our MSM. Amazing how that happens….eh?

Hamas wanted this. Practically begged for it, so let them have it. The world needs to step aside and watch from the sidelines as the terrorists get their just desserts. As long as Hamas exists they will spread this kind of violence but destroy them and it stops.

UPDATE

Check out this hypocrisy from the NYT’s h/t Cheat Seeking Missiles)

Still, there was a shocking quality to Saturday’s attacks, in broad daylight on about 100 sites, as police cadets were graduating, women were shopping at the outdoor market and children were emerging from school.

But nothing from the NYT’s when Hamas missiles attacked during “broad daylight” while children were in school and women were shopping.

No hypocrisy there.