[SpinStrangenessCharm] Last Sunday’s Jerusalem Day, Israel was widely expected to get HamAss or P*sslamic Jewhate rockets like last year, when this triggered an 11-day war. Bomb shelter rooms at work were prepared. Not wanting to sound "I told you so" but I was a bit skeptical from the beginning, and in the end nothing was fired. Why? The JPost’s longtime Arab affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh, one of the newspaper’s few trump cards, considers several factors.
- the organizations haven’t recovered from the thrashing they received in last year’s war
- severe diplomatic pressure was applied, especially by Egypt, possibly by Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
too
- the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
economy is in the toilet, and the 12,000 daily commuters into Israel are a source of revenue that cannot be spared
Related: The full Jerusalem Post article can be read here. |