The Last Exile

The ongoing captivity Gilad Shalit is turning into a virtual propaganda boon for Hamas and its supporters. Ynet News:

Hamas-owned “Falasteen” journal published a “rare and special” interview with captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, an interview, which, only at the end of the report, turned out to be fabricated.
 
The paper’s political analyst Mustafa al-Sawwaf, was allegedly given the opportunity to interview the soldier in captivity, but at the end of his article, the journalist writes, “All this was in a dream, which I woke up from, after recording this interview.”

And what does Shalit learn in al-Sawwaf’s dream interview?

“I would not be exaggerating if I said I didn’t expect the treatment to be so good. Especially after I learned in school and in the army that the Arabs are murderers and criminals and that they deserve to die,” Shalit “said” in the fabricated interview.

“But these years I have spent here have proved to me that what I learned is not true and that they are people with feelings and that they love life and give civil and humane treatment, the opposite of what is said. I would like to end my words with a cry to my people – help me live, from your son, Gilad Shalit.”

If Shalit learned all Arabs are murders and criminals I don’t expect he learned that in an IDF basic training course…although, he might think so given his present circumstances but good thing it’s all a ‘dream’. I suspect Shalit would not necessarily characterize his kidnapping which resulted in the death of two of his comrades and the injuring of three others as particularly ‘civil’ or ‘humane’. Of course, there is also the fact he is held in such isolation that the Red Cross is not allowed to visit contrary to umteen laws regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.

According to this Toronto Star article the Canadian Military is running into staffing issues.

OTTAWA–The military has put up to a dozen international missions on the chopping block as it struggles with a massive personnel shortage, the Toronto Star has learned.

From a five-soldier team training the Kosovo Security Force to the single officer monitoring the 1974 ceasefire in Cyprus, to the 30 personnel deployed on peacekeeping operations in Sudan, all is up for review as Canada juggles the demands of Afghanistan, the Olympics, and the G8 and G20 meetings of world leaders this summer.

“Political will exists to accept downsizing or deactivation of missions whose effects are no longer required, are not meeting their intent, or who can no longer be conducted owing to force generation pressures,” according to an internal report last year laying out the criteria for continuing or cutting the international deployments.

The personnel pinch was first identified by Gen. Rick Hillier, then chief of defence staff, in May 2008. He warned that the Canadian Forces would need to “continuously and ruthlessly rationalize our operational demands.”

So I have a suggestion to help ease the personnel crunch; immediately end Operation Proteus. By this time most of you are probably scratching your heads wondering what the hell Operation Proteus is. I know I was. I never even knew the Canadian Armed Forces had any kind of join venture on the go with the Palestinians until I read the most ridiculous and overall butt-ignorant editorial penned for the St. Catherine’s’ Standard. However, the editorial did allude to a Canadian operational mission with the Palestinian security forces and before I wrote the whole thing off as stuff and non-sense; I thought I should do a little digging.

Operation Proteus is probably the least publicly flaunted operation the Canadian Armed Forces are involved with. Of course, it would probably hurt the current Conservative government’s “Jew-cred” if the Conservatives started to openly tout Operations Proteus rather than doing it on the sly QT. Nothing like using the Canadian army to train the Palestinian security forces to become better trained terrorists police officers. So don’t expect to see this on Sandy Crux’s list of the Harper’s Governments Accomplishments.

Simply put; Operation Proteus is the Canadian military’s contribution for training the Palestinian Security Forces – yes, we are training these guys who with frightening regularity often go postal and run amuck killing Israelis.

I bet you thought only the Americans and Euroweenies were the only ones dumb enough to train (ahem) security forces of the Palestinian thug-a-crats and sundry thieves who run riot through the billions given to the Palestinian Authority.

Yes, this is the same Palestinian Authority who first set in motion the infamous ‘jobs-for-guns’ program to al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade members to ‘lay down their guns’ for jobs in the Palestinian security forces.

Heaven knows, without the Palestinian Security Forces propping up one of the most innately corrupt gang of thugs and thieves the Palestinians have ever seen – what chance will any Palestinian know what it is like to enjoy justice without having to bride police, the judge or jury?

Furthermore, I would love to know what exactly is the Canadian military’s vetting process to ensure they are not training known terrorists? Although, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Canadian Armed Forces defers all Palestinian candidate decisions to the Palestinian Security Forces’ leadership.

So now the next time Palestinian Police decide to lynch a couple of directionally challenged Israeli reservists – or when a Palestinian security force personnel goes postal or even when a Palestinian military courts carries out the legal execution for the capital crime of selling land to a Jew; we call all sit back in safe and smug in Canada knowing how our government and army did its part. But for me, I am just sick about it.

Speaking of Jew killers – jailed multiple murder mastermind Marwing Barghouti is contemplating run for President of the Palestinian Authority from his Israeli prison cell. Seems entirely apt for a mafia like organization which the PA so closely resembles. Ynet News

Following doubts surrounding Abbas’ political future, the source said that Marwan Barghouti’s camp has started looking into the option that he will run for Palestinian Authority president. The source said that Barghouti passed a message on to his associates saying that he will announce his candidacy if there are any developments with Abbas.
 
The source said that though the chance that Abbas won’t run “does not actually exist, Barghouti sees himself as the natural candidate, and really the only candidate, for whom there is broad consensus within the movement. His associates have started examining the possibility.”
 
According to him, this position is bolstered by reports recently received by Barghouti and his associates from Hamas claiming that Barghouti will be included in a prisoner swap deal with Israel. “We understood from people close to Barghouti that he believes his chances of being released in a deal are more than 90%.”

I have no idea if the Israelis will ever let him on a prisoner exchange or not but I cannot help but smile at the thought of mulitple world leaders and foreign ministers having to make the trek into an Israeli jail to ‘commune or communicate’ with Barghouti. Pity the poor slob who has to frisk Hillary Clinton, but then again, maybe it could be arranged that the guards in charge of frisking the visiting foreign dignitaries just so happen to have been the parent, spouse, or sibling to one of Barghouti’s many, many victims. It appeals to my sense of justice. Besides I am ready to the coming campaign to free Barghouti by world leaders twisting themselves into knots trying to justify the unjustifiable and I have a whole collection of pictures to remind the world of the gruesomeness of the blood from his handiwork.

Photo Credit – NY Times

I know the title sounds cynical, but really people, when does it stop? I mean, when does the whole ‘killing Jews’ thingie ever get too old? Apparently never. Ynet News is reporting that an extremist Somalian group is threatening to carry out attacks against the Israelis for the imaginary attacks commited against the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

A militant Islamist group affiliated with al-Qaeda has for the first time threatened to attack Israel, on the backdrop of reports that the Jewish state is carrying out excavations in east Jerusalem, the CNN network reported Sunday.

According to the report, the al-Shabab rebel group, which is fighting to control the east African country, accused Israel of “starting to destroy” the al-Aqsa Mosque. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” said Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, a prominent al-Shabab commander.
 
Abu Mansur’s threat was part of a series of fiery sermons delivered after Friday prayers in Baidoa in southwest Somalia, CNN said. Other leaders of the group also threatened Israel, the first time the group is known to have done so. “We will transfer and expand our fighting in the Middle East so we can defend al-Aqsa Mosque from the Israelis,” al-Shabab commander Abdifatah Aweys Abu Hamza said in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
 
According to the report, it is not clear whether al-Shabab has the capacity to carry out its threats against Israel, but international organizations have already warned that the group should be taken seriously. We should not underestimate the capacity of Al-Shabab,” said Rashid Abdi of the International Crisis Group. “This is a deadly organization, a formidable foe.”

It may be a deadly organization and a formibable foe but I say – get in line and make it orderly.