If you want to find a Hamas “warrior” look for him in a school, hiding behind a group of children. He will have set up his Katyusha rocket launcher among the poor children whom he has decided to sacrifice in the name of Allah. Hamas is waging a media war and the media is its gullible accomplice.

To give in now to the monstrous tactics of Hamas would be an unwise move. I have always said that Muslim fanatics do not value their own children’s lives and here once again we have an example of how low these criminals will go. They fire mortars from a U.N school in the hope that Israel will retaliate. Israel has but it is Hamas who has blood on its hands.

I wonder how long it will take before the Palestinians get wise and stop donating their children as ammunition for this terrorist organisation. How long will it take before they say “I love my children more than I hate Israel.”?

If we didn’t use up the two free tickets to the Palace Cinema by next week, they would have been out of date. So that’s how come we went to see “Roman de Gare.” I don’t like movies nowadays for many reasons that I have given in past blogs.

But “Roman de Gare ” is one that I should have seen earlier even if we didn’t have to use up the free tickets. It is very, very, very, good.

I did some post grad research on Alfred Hitchcock’s films a few years ago and this film reminded me of them. Hitchcock was a master of suspense, and Claude Lelouch’s French production comes very close to the master’s high standard.

Just when you think you have worked things out, along comes a twist. Like an itch you have to scratch.

In this film, the audience is led along a tantalising excursion to discover who is the mystery man who turns up at a highway rest stop in France. Is he good? Is he bad? What does he want? Is he dangerous?

He offers a lift to Huguette who has been dumped by her boyfriend, and we wonder if the driver is going to hurt her. Pierre, the mystery man, is played by Dominique Pinon who is excellent in the role. As a leading man, Pinon is the antithesis of pretty boy, Brad Pitt. I’m always impressed by the French who often choose plain men for leading roles. It’s something that the Americans just can’t bring themselves to do except in silly monster movies.

Think of Gerard Depardieu who has been a leading man in countless films. He is overweight and quite unattractive, but somehow the French can make him a star, even a sex symbol, and isn’t that terrific!

Is Pierre the serial rapist who has just escaped from prison? Is he a missing person, a writer? Lelouch leads us along a path and then teases us back to another path. But he does this with such affability that we enjoy being teased. We go along with Pierre for the ride and the trip is well worth it.

I am purposely not telling you all what it’s about because that would spoil it. Take my advice and go see “Roman de Gare” before it disappears because it’s satisfying on many levels. It’s a thriller, a romance, a philosophical discussion about hypocrisy and ambition, and more importantly, it’s very entertaining.

In their attempt to avoid genuine civilian injuries, the Israeli Defence Forces have been warning Gazans to leave Hamas strongholds which are about to be shelled. Of course, Hamas does the opposite in Israel where it intentionally targets civilians without warning.

As an example of Hamas immorality, take the incident which was recounted today in “The Weekend Australian” newspaper. Israel sent the usual warning message to a family home in Gaza which was being used to manufacture rockets so that any women and children would be removed from it for safety. So what did Hamas do? It brought in women and babies to protect its cache. Israel found out and did not attack the site.

So what can we learn from this incident? First, that Hamas relies on the fact that Israel will not knowingly attack civilians. Second, that should these civilians who were brought in intentionally by Hamas, be injured or killed, Hamas can get tons of publicity for its cause. This is the kind of obscenity that Israel has to face. Monsters who use women and babies as human shields, or worse still, as fodder.

Just thinking about these Hamas militants makes me nauseous. They are the same as the religious fanatics who attacked the Twin Towers in 2001. I can never forget the horrifying image of the planes destroying the Towers on September the 11th.

These extremists swear they want to destroy our world and we should believe them for there is no depth to which these creatures will not sink.

This time CNN interviewed the Hamas spokesman in Lebanon. The reporter asked him if Hamas would comply with a truce if one can be arranged. He said that he has heard of no truce and that there is a holocaust in Gaza. For a religion which consistently denies that there ever was a Holocaust, they sure help themselves to the term when some of their own are killed.

I really don’t think that the death of around 400 Gazans, the vast majority of whom are militants, can be described as a holocaust.

As a spokesman this Hamas fellow was abysmally incoherent and refused to answer the questions asked by the CNN reporter.

The desperate reporter tried to get some sense out of him, and asked him if Hamas was prepared to stop firing missiles into Israel. He did not answer but continued raving. Finally she just had to give up.

Perhaps she realised what Israel has always maintained. There really is nobody to talk on the Hamas side.

I look forward to seeing whom CNN will interview next time.

If you want a clear example of the difference between Muslims and Jews, you will see it in today’s “The Age” newspaper. In spite of the fact that this newspaper has the reputation of being pro-Arab, even it could not skew a certain news item. Continue reading →

His name is Sami and CNN interviewed him about the situation in Gaza right now. CNN wanted him to criticise Israel for its reprisal against Hamas. Continue reading →

For those of you who are not familiar with the company called Telstra, this is Australia’s primary telephone and internet supplier. It also has a partnership with Foxtel which is the cable company for cable TV and this part is owned by Rupert Murdoch. I think that most of you have heard of Rupert who used to be an Aussie but for financial reasons is now an American citizen.

These two companies, Foxtel and Telstra, seem to have generated more complaints than anyone else in business in this country.

We too have had our “fair” share of problems with Telstra and Foxtel and I have vented my frustrations with them on this website.

This morning, the Telstra technician replaced a modem which Telstra had supplied to us about four months ago. I do hope that will result in an uninterrupted internet connection. Fingers crossed… or is that wires?