"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Fisking Fisk

by Lee

Robert Fisk, hero journalist to disaffected left-wing idiots the world over, and man who was the inspiration for the term “fisking,” shows just why he’s such a reliable supporter or terrorists and Islamofascism when he writes drivel like this.

It doesn’t take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchair. But it takes only a few moments to absorb the implications of the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin yesterday.

Note the use of the term “murder” to describe the systematic termination of a legitimate militry target.  Besides, while it may not have taken courage, all it took was a couple of American-made missiles.

Yes, he enthusiastically endorsed suicide bombings - including the murder of Israeli children. Yes, if you live by the sword, you die by the sword, in a wheelchair or not. But . . .

There’s always a “but” with guys like Fisk, isn’t there?  “Yes Hitler was an evil man, yes he exterminated six million Jews, but. . .”

. . . something went wrong with the narrative of the news story yesterday, and something infinitely more dangerous - another sinister precedent - was set for our brave new world.

Take the old man himself. From the start, the Israeli line was simple. Yassin was the “head of the snake” - to use the words of the Israeli ambassador to London - the head of Hamas, “one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organisations”.

But then came obfuscation from the world’s media. Yassin, BBC World Service Television told us at lunchtime, was originally freed by the Israelis in a “prisoner exchange”. Then, later in the day, the BBC told us that he had been freed “following a deal brokered by King Hussein”.

Which was all very strange. He was a prisoner of the Israelis. This “head of the snake” was in an Israeli prison. And then - bingo - this supposed monster was let go because of a “deal”. So let’s remember what the “deal” was.

Yassin was set free by no less than Benjamin Netanyahu when he was prime minister of Israel. King Hussein wasn’t a “broker” between two sides.

Two Israeli Mossad agents had tried to murder a Hamas official in Amman, the capital of an Arab nation which had a peace agreement with Israel.

They had injected the Hamas man with poison, and the late King Hussein called the US president in fury and threatened to put the captured Mossad men on trial if he wasn’t given the antidote to the poison and if Yassin wasn’t released.

Netanyahu immediately gave in. Yassin was freed and the Mossad lads went safely home to Israel.

So the “head of the snake” was let loose by Israel itself, courtesy of the then Israeli prime minister - a chapter in the narrative of history which was conveniently forgotten yesterday. Which is all very odd.

Actually it’s not very odd, it’s quite simple.  Back when this exchange took place the Israelis were still operating under the delusion that the Palestinians (a) wanted peace, (b) were prepared to live side-by-side with Israel, and (c) would negotiate.  This was the mindset held by Ehud Barak when he went in to negotiate with Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton.  Barak ended up getting the intifada for his troubles, and Israel has now rightly decided that their only recourse is to fight back militarily.  So the prisoner exchange was a sign of goodwill and Israel’s belief that there could be a negotiated peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  How wrong they were. 

Far from being any sign of a huge conspiracy on the part of Israel, this clearly shows which side actually wants there to be peace and which side wants to wipe the Jews from the face of the Earth.  And it shows why Robert Fisk is, once again, wrong about everything.

No one has begun to work out the implications of all this. For years, there has been an unwritten rule in the cruel war of government-versus-guerrilla. You can kill the men on the street, the bomb-makers and gunmen, but the leadership was allowed to survive.

Perhaps allowing the leadership to survive has been one reason that nobody has made any real strides against Islamofascism.  It’s easy to find losers to go and blow themselves up, but it’s hard to become an experience terrorist and mastermind these types of operations.

Now all has changed utterly. Anyone who advocates violence - even if they are palpably incapable of committing it - are now on a death list. So who can be surprised if the rules are broken by the other side?

There it is in black and white, folks.  Israel has somehow changed the rules of warfare because they have dared to (gasp!) target “anyone who advocates violence,” as if terrorist violence against innocent women and children eating in outdoor cafes was somehow a legitimate military operation. 

How the hell can anyone take anything that Fisk says seriously?  What a vile, disgusting human being.  He’s no better than the Palestinian terrorist vermin that he so lovingly coddles.

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