Allah brings to my attention this subhead from an ABC News report: “Lack of Fund and Support May Force Hamas to Return to Violent Ways.”
Which, were one to restate it more directly, would look something like this: “Failure to Give in to Terror Group May Force Terror Group to Turn to Terror.”
But I guess that kind of directness makes one appear to have an ideological agenda with the needle pinned permanently on “blowback” as a way to justify any eventuality that manifest itself in physical violence.
After all, these people were simply provoked into violence by our refusal to fund them because of their history of violence. Which we no doubt provoked. QED.
LUNCH BREAK!
My lunch just ended. How about an open thread instead?
So wait…..
We pay them = they attack Israel.
We don’t pay them = they attack Israel.
We wear fruity hats = they attack Israel.
Shannon Elizabeth and her nipples are revealed = they attack Israel.
Is there any equation in existence that equals “and Hamas doesn’t attack Israel” besides
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The Jews voluntarily march in to the sea = Hamas doesn’t attack Israel?
Let’s see…there’s some kind of loop that the Israelis are stuck in. Pretty soon they’re going to get tired of running in circles.
Oh…consider this my obligatory ignore acthole comment. Preemptive.
BTW, if returning to terrorism pays so well, why don’t we ask “who is paying them?”
Oh yeah, because we already know.
Well we all know regardless of funding the overall outcome. Let’s just get it over with. Happy hunting IDF!!!!!!!!!!
FAILURE TO PAY RANSOM FORCES KILLING OF LINDBERGH BABY.
Sheesh.
I guess if Hamas is going to fight, no matter who pays or not, we might as well fight ‘em while they are poor. “The first requirement in war is unlimited money” -M. Tullis Cicero (or was that my Brigade commander commenting on my constant CERP requests?).
Fucking ABC:
I did a little checking on the author of this story, one Mr. Wilf Dinnick. Seems as if he has quite a history of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist reporting…nice of ABC News to make him their Jerusalem Bureau Chief!
Towards the middle-end of this post:
http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2006/04/hamas-lunatics-running-asylum-or-abc.html
Tman,
“Israel executes every motherf*cking last one of them” = Hamas does not attack Israel.
Extortion Racket Implies Grave Consequences for Lack of Cooperation in Shakedown Operations.
“Things break, Colonel” crash! “Oh, sorry about that, my brother Luigi is so clumsy”.
BTW, Tman, if you are right, why don’t we just go ahead and have Ms. Elizabeth, you know…show.
Tman,
France sends all the Muslims back to Africa, and the EU gives, oh I don’t know, Belgium to the Jews. Would that satisfy them?
Hell, no. What part of submit or die have we forgotten? Giving these savages a nickel is sort of like an eight grader being mugged for his lunch money by, say a kindergarten girl with a big mouth.
Not one cent for tribute.
Unfortunately, Hamas would get it on with a civil war with Fatah over the scraps…Israel is still attacked, if just the ashes and bones.
I wish I was being funny.
Since 9/11, I feel like I’m having one of those dreams where something absolutely hilarious is happening (like Hamas saying “IF you don’t give us money, we’ll get violent”), and NO ONE ELSE GETS IT.
You know, you can’t stop laughing and everyone else is confused or looks embarrassed by you… like the reporters who take this bullpuckey seriously.
I had a flash when I read this, of some gang shooting someone in front of a restaurant and then sending ransom notes to the press that if they don’t get a million dollars, something really bad will happen to that guy.
Reporter: “The kidnappers have restated their demands that the Smith family pay them one million dollars for the return of their son. We only wonder how long the family can hold out, wondering what might become of their beloved son.”
Officer: “Lady, the guy’s dead. He’s already dead, they’re not holding him captive…”
Reporter: “Yeah, whatever. Back to you, Susan!”
We DO live in Bizarro-World!
Merovign, maybe you were channeling a certain 1977 collaboration involving John Landis, Jim Abrams, and the Zucker brothers? Specifically, the scene midway through:
[Klahn decapitates the prisoner]
Master Klahn: Now take him away to be tortured!
Hey, if I was asked to trade Mediterranean beachfront property for frigging Antwerp, I’d fight to the knife, and the knife to the hilt…
Now Ibiza, maybe.
so wait… wouldn’t hamas returning to violence require them to have left violence at some point?