#19 Failure to open the crossings will "lead to disastrous consequences" and an "atmosphere of hopelessness and despair in which extremism is likely to take hold," he cautioned.
As if what has preceded this is not extremism? How in hell can anyone not interpret Hamas' intent to "kill the last Jew" as anything but extremism?
This is nothing more than the usual sniveling about how killing terrorists only breeds up more terrorists. In this new interpretation not appeasing extremism somehow only breeds up more extremism. Islam represents a statistical polarity. There is nothing more extreme than the naked lust for global domination. All that's missing is the nuclear arsenal Islam requires to impose its will.
As Wretchard so presciently observed:George Bush's counterstroke, which history will either judge as an act of supreme folly or genius, was to go beyond Afghanistan into Iraq. In a worthy riposte to Osama's, he escalated the struggle to the point where it was mutually mortal. If the fall of the Twin Towers was a gauntlet in America's face, the fall of Baghdad was a glove shoved down the Islamist's throat. Both Bin Laden and Bush have made compromise impossible. If the jihadis believed they could control the tempo of the conflict they were misinformed; American forces in the Arab heartland have forced a zugzwang to compel the game to the bitter end.
Yassin's assasination serves the same purpose. Israel's main problem was to escape the cycle of murder and negotiation that was slowly bleeding it to death. No matter how horribly Israel was attacked it was always expected to return, in an attitude of abjection, to the negotiating table. The Jihadis learned that any Israeli counteroffensive could be aborted by throwing the prospect of further talks into its path. Israel's superiority on the battlefield would be nullified because it would always be restrained by the "Peace Process", a misnomer if ever there was one. But the operation against Yassin reverses the dynamic. By striking at so senior a terrorist target, the Jihadis will be in no mood for negotiations. They themselves will cast away the Peace Process and sheer fury will make them forswear their favorite tactic, the faux hudna -- thereby granting Israel a meeting on the battlefield. For this is Israel's mortal challenge to Hamas which has often said it would kill the last Jew. The message, now ringing in their ears, is that the Jew will kill the last terrorist, beginning at the top.
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For better or worse, Islam has been made to paint itself into an ideological corner. It must either foreswear central tenets of militant jihad and imposition of the global caliphate or openly embrace them with all the concomitant consequences. For those of us who wish to survive, it can only be for the better that Islam has been forced to tip its hand while it is still in a position of weakness.
So it has been with Gaza. By destabilizing the Palestinian power structure, Israel has accelerated Hamas' intentionally lengthy narrative of hudna and false negotiations towards its true logical extension. Namely, that of perpetual mayhem, genocidal bloodlust and parisitism upon the Palestinian people themselves.
In a similar fashion, the Global War on Terror has taken Islam's preferred formula of zero-sum equations and fed it back to them by the fistful. Gaza's implosion is but one small demonstration of what awaits an Islamically dominated world. The global community owes Israel a tremendous debt for so deftly unmasking the true intent and end results that Islam embodies.
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The Gaza Strip will soon become entirely dependent on foreign aid and face "disastrous consequences" if the Hamas-controlled territory remains sealed off, a senior UN official warned Thursday.