In 1692-93, there were a series of “witch trials” in Salem, Massachusetts (and other towns as well, though Salem is far and away the best known), in which Calvinist Puritans – with Minister cotton mather leading the way – put twenty people suspected of witchcraft to death; most of them women and none of them witches. The Salem witch trials were a case study in religious lunacy, superstition, rumor-mongering, intolerance and hatred.
Welcome to hamas-ruled Gaza.
From an article at Reuters:
Hamasmilitants killed seven Palestinians suspected of collaborating withIsrael in a public execution in a central Gaza square on Friday,witnesses and a Hamas website said.
Thevictims, their heads covered and hands tied, were shot dead by maskedgunmen dressed in black in front of a crowd of worshippers outside amosque after prayers, witnesses and al-Majd, a pro-Hamas website,said.
Another11 people suspected of collaborating with Israel were killed bygunmen at an abandoned police station in Gaza earlier on Friday,Hamas security officials said.
Suspected of collaborating with Israel? That\’s it? No evidence, no nothing. Not even a show trial like in Salem. Just line \’em up and take \’em out?
Yep, that sounds like hamas, all right. And don\’t think the Palestinian Authority (PA) – which punishes any Palestinian Arab who sells land to a Jew with death – is far behind, because it isn\’t.
With this in mind, have you ever wondered why you never hear of dissent in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria (the west bank)? Why you never hear of a critical article or TV commentary by what passes for their media? Why you never hear of a march – maybe of people who would rather live and let live than die as jihadists, or people who remember that the blockade was not always there, it was put in place as a reaction to hamas attacks on Israel?
It is impossible to imagine that every Gazan is on board with using the billions of dollars which flow into Gaza from around the world not for infrastructure and industry, but for armaments and terror tunnels – then firing rockets into Israel until Israel retaliates. Yet never one peep of dissent.
Is it just possible that this is because they know what their fate would be if they dared to speak out?
Put another way, if summary execution is what happens to “suspected collaborators”, what do you think would happen to them?
Never forget that this is what sits on Israel\’s border; what Israel must deal with every day.
Somewhere in the ether, what is left of cotton mather must be smiling broadly.
