Missile Fired From Gush Katif
Forget about swords turning into ploughshares. One of two rockets fired into Israel last week by Gazan terrorists was launched from a former Jewish community evacuated in Israel’s 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
The rocket was fired from Netzarim, one of 21 Israeli communities that were known as Gush Katif, where about 8,500 Jews lived in farming blocs in the southern Gaza Strip. The Jews of Gaza were removed, some by force, by the Israel Defense Forces in August 2005.
Within hours of the Israeli retreat, Palestinians burned down the main synagogue in Netzarim and were pictured hoisting Hamas flags over the rubble. Hamas announced plans to turn the Neztarim synagogue into a “museum” that would display weapons deployed against Israeli civilians.
Like most other Gush Katif communities, Neztarim was also home to high-tech greenhouses that, among other things, grew bug-free produce. The existence of the greenhouses was considered a farming coup, since Gaza’s dry, sandy terrain was largely thought to have been unfarmable.
Prior to Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, wealthy American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from the Gush Katif residents at a price of more than $14 million. The Jewish greenhouses were transferred to the Palestinian Authority with the hopes the Palestinians would utilize Gush Katif to continue the successful export of produce started by the Gazan Jews.
Instead, after Israel’s withdrawal, Palestinians looted the greenhouses, “walking off with irrigation hoses, water pumps and plastic sheeting,” the Associated Press reported from Gaza in September 2005. The AP reported Palestinian police “stood by helplessly…as looters carted off materials from greenhouses.”
U.S. Will Likely See Increase In Crime By Illegals
How many Americans will be murdered or violently attacked by the more than 3,700 “Threat Level 1” criminal illegal aliens reportedly released by the Obama administration last year? Those numbers, released earlier this week, pose a grim outlook when compared to previous such releases.
Last week the Washington Times cited new numbers from Congress that show that most illegal aliens released in 2014 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were discretionary. That means ICE could have kept them in detention but utilized an Obama administration policy exemption that allows “prosecutorial discretion.”
Included in last year’s releases are more than 3,700 “Threat Level 1” criminals who were freed despite being classified as top priority for deportation.
Previous release statistics do not bode well for the safety of Americans.
A 2012 House report covered arrests from October 2008 through July 2011. The report analyzed data on 159,286 legal and illegal immigrants arrested by state or local police, including 7,283 illegal aliens who could have been deported but who were not taken into custody by ICE despite being identified as living in the country unlawfully.
The data shows that along with drunken-driving charges, the released illegals went on to commit 16,226 new crimes, including 19 murders, 142 sex offenses, 1,420 drug crimes, 682 cases of burglary or theft, and 48 firearms charges.
Hamas Prefers A Democrat In Office
When it comes to a choice between a Democratic or a Republican president, Hamas prefers Democrats.
This according to senior Hamas leader Salah Bardawil, who is also a member of Hamas’s parliament. In an interview on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM, Bardawil stated: “When it comes to Israel, there is no serious difference between both parties in the United States – they are all pro-Israel and adopt the Israeli policy against the Palestinians. But it is true, and we saw it in the last year when there were some wars were launched against the Arab countries, it was led by a Republican president.