Since October 2001 there has been a trend in the "mainstream" news media to cover up acts of terrorism, calling
them "isolated incidents". This attack was much too large to put on the same page with other Islamic
terrorist attacks.
This attack occurred shortly after billions of dollars in frozen assets were made available to Iran,
ostensibly at the direction of "President" Joe Biden. But Joe Biden is far too senile to make such
a decision, so it is reasonable to infer that Iran's old pal,
Barack H. Obama,
is the one who made this dreadful decision which apparently precipitated this attack.
The news media coverage of this attack is unfair and unbalanced,
as usual.
Outrage
at the ICC. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. For "balance,"
the ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The ICC
says the Israeli leaders are guilty of "crimes against humanity" in connection with the war started
by Gaza. The ICC is a bad joke, but sadly, there are countries that take it seriously: [...]
I take it that Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Britain or Canada for the foreseeable
future, if ever. Happily, the U.S. will treat the ICC's "arrest warrant" with the contempt it
deserves: [Tweet]
Documents
found in Gaza detail Iranian sponsorship ahead of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Iran was
an essential part of Hamas' preparations for the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, according to
a report released by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center on Sunday, based
on documents found by the IDF in Gaza over the last year. Though Iran has denied
foreknowledge of the Oct. 7 attack, the documents cited by the Meir Amit Center report
indicate Tehran's involvement in Hamas' preparations. "Hamas documents taken by IDF forces in
the ground operation in the Gaza Strip ... provide a rare glance at the extent of Iran's
penetration into Hamas as part of building its 'axis of resistance' against Israel," the report
states. "The documents teach us about Iran's strategic process of establishing their foothold and
influence in what happens in Hamas specifically and Gaza generally."
Biden
Admin Sent Over $2B to 'Palestinians' Since Oct 7. Kill over 1,000 people
in one of the worst Islamic terrorist attacks in modern history and what do you get? Over
$2 billion and counting. Or around $2 million for every person they murdered on
Oct 7. USAID, which has been repeatedly accused of complicity in funding Islamic terrorism
around the world just bragged that it handed out another $230 million while boasting of its
total of $2.1 billion in 'aid' since Oct 7.
Too
Good to Check: Hezbollah Collapsing As Desertions Skyrocket. So much for Iran's
encirclement strategy in the Middle East, if these reports turn out to be accurate. Not only
did Iran lose much of its advanced air defenses in the Israeli strike over the weekend, their
forward proxy army may collapse soon as its terror troops head for Syria. Arabic media report
mass Hezbollah desertions in the face of a determined IDF ground campaign, and nearly no effective
communications between command and field units: [...] To no one's great shock, the loss of
thousands of command personnel to a rigged-beeper operation does not instill confidence in
command. Neither do continuous and precise Israeli strikes on key command and finance sites
in Beirut. The Israelis have clearly read Hezbollah's mail for a long time, and potential
recruits have to wonder how long it will take to find them if they join up — not to
mention how Hezbollah plans to pay them.
Biden-Harris
Gave Over $1B to 'Palestinians' Since Oct 7. Oct 7 marked the grim
anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since Holocaust. The terrorist perpetrators of it
however could celebrate the over $1 billion in foreign aid from the U.S. 46 Americans
had been murdered on Oct 7 and another 12 taken hostage, but ahead of the Oct 7 anniversary,
USAID announced that it was sending another $336 million in taxpayer-funded 'aid' to the
terrorist occupied territories in Israel behind the killings of Americans. USAID boasted
that this "brings the total U.S. humanitarian assistance announced for the Palestinian
people to more than $1 billion since October 2023." The terrorists had murdered
over 1,000 people and gotten over $1 billion. In 2023, ahead of the Oct 7
attacks, a Freedom Center Investigates expose revealed that Israeli deaths shot up by 900% after
Biden dispensed $1 billion in aid to the terrorist areas. Oct 7 would likely never
have happened without that blood money.
Maybe
our intelligence agencies have misplaced priorities. Iran, Hamas, and other
Iran-sponsored terrorist groups have targeted Israel and the U.S. for destruction for years.
But somehow, our intelligence experts never caught wind of all these meetings by Hamas for years
where they planned the attack on Israel. [...] They also don't seem to spot all the terrorists
coming across the border, even though they know that the Biden-Harris administration has been
letting unvetted people from around the world come in. They know that many people are coming
in from countries that hate us, but we never hear a word about how dangerous that is.
Instead, we are told that Trump and his supporters are the dangerous ones. A.G. Garland also
rarely if ever says much about the gangs and cartels. Instead, he is really focused on
parents, pro-life people, Catholics, and other Trump-supporters. I wonder why the majority of
the country thinks it is going in the wrong direction.
10-07-23:
evil and civilization's thin veneer. The October 7, 2023 attack on Israel should
have been a universal wake-up call, an alarm proclaiming: "civilization's foundations have
crumbled; morality has fallen." People around the world should have been horrified, if
for no reason other than understanding if that attack was not absolutely condemned and all that
participated exterminated, the Jews are only the first to be wantonly slaughtered. That kind
of evil waits its chance to kill everyone and anyone. Civilized mankind should have demanded
all responsible, and their deranged ideologies, be wiped from existence.
How
Many US Muslims Deny Hamas' Crimes on Oct. 7? One year after Hamas terrorists in
Gaza invaded Israel, raping women and slaughtering more than 1,100 people, including infants,
and after video evidence of the slaughter has spread across the world, a shocking percentage of
American Muslims deny these facts and harbor disgusting antisemitic attitudes, a new poll
shows. When asked which statement "comes closest to your view," more American Muslims
selected "Hamas did not commit murder and rape in Israel on October 7" than "Hamas committed
murder and rape in Israel on October 7." More than a third (39%) denied the Hamas murders
and rapes, while only 31% admitted them. Another 30% said they "don't know," in the poll,
provided first to The Daily Signal.
October 7:
A Year of Free Press Stories. October 7, 2023, was many things. It was the
single worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It was the beginning of a war between
Israel and Iran (through its proxies, and now with the Islamic Republic itself) that shows no signs
of abating. It was a litmus test for the civilized world — one that too many have
failed. It was also, for The Free Press, a story that transformed our young company.
Since the day of the Hamas massacre, we have worked relentlessly to bring you news of the war, and
its implications for the Middle East and the free world. In the past year, our team has
published and produced more than 150 stories, podcasts, and videos. Today, on the first
anniversary of 10/7, we want to present all of them for you in one place.
It's
time we stood up against those who defend terrorists. For too long we have harboured
those who hate us. We are now a year on from the October 7 massacre that saw 1,200
innocent Israeli citizens tortured, raped and murdered by barbaric Hamas terrorists. But for
the 101 hostages that remain trapped in the hands of Hamas, including a Brit, the ordeal still
isn't over. Now, as then, we must stand with Israel as they work to rescue the hostages and
defeat the Islamist militant groups on their doorstep intent on their annihilation. The
response here in Britain to this evil attack exposed a profound sickness at the very heart of our
society. Thousands immediately took to the streets here in the UK to celebrate the biggest
loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. Before Israel had even responded, masked protesters
were seen valorising Hamas, throwing projectiles and vandalising buildings. Since then, our
country has become unrecognisable from the liberal, tolerant nation we like to pride ourselves on.
October 7
Opened the Floodgates to Antisemitism from the Left. Since the Oct. 7, 2023
pogrom by Hamas, antisemitism has marched around the world with the Palestinian flag. The
struggle for the rights of Palestinian Arabs comes at the expense of the rights of Israelis to
live. The struggle for the "liberation of Palestine," presented as a struggle against the
"colonialism" of Israelis, has turned into undisguised antisemitism. If antisemitism was
previously taboo in the world of the Democratic Left, it is the campaign for the "liberation of
Palestine from the river to the sea," that has legitimized anti-Jewish sentiment to the level of
carrying out genocide against the Israelis. Before Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitism
masqueraded as anti-Zionism, but after the massive Hamas-led terrorist attack, antisemitism became
a "legitimate" denial of Israel's right to exist through the genocide of the Jewish people in many
parts of the globe.
The
choice is between civilisation and barbarism. We are living through a seismic moment
in our history and the Jewish people will never be the same again. On October 7 —
that terrible day — few would have imagined that one year later Israel would still be under
attack from an eight-front war of extermination led by Iran. Even fewer could have imagined that,
far from sympathy and understanding over the worst single attack on Jews since the Holocaust and the
targeting of Jews once more for genocide, the West would turn against Israel as the aggressor and war
criminal and subject diaspora Jews to an unprecedented tsunami of antisemitism. The scale and
nature of this response indicate that something totally abnormal has been happening. It's not
just the street mobs chanting for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, and every other
university student hurling accusations of genocide at the Israelis for trying to defend themselves
against genocide. [...]
On
Eve of Oct. 7 Anniversary, Kamala Harris Won't Say If Netanyahu Is a Close Ally.
Vice President Kamala Harris declined to say Sunday whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu is a reliable ally, in a clip released by CBS News' 60 Minutes. Harris
was presented with a series of controversial (but effective) wartime decisions made by Netanyahu
against the express public demands of the Biden administration, then asked whether the U.S. still
has any "sway" over Netanyahu.
We
Will Not Let Our Country and Continent Be Destroyed. The hatred of extreme left-wing
agitators and parts of the left-liberal elite in politics and the media against our Jewish
compatriots and the State of Israel since the barbaric massacre of innocent civilians on
October 7, 2023, has directly fueled anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews. It started
immediately after October 7 with inflammatory demonstrations of millions of people with false
flags and slogans in many European capitals, including many non-Western immigrants, who thereby
demonstrated that they do not share any of our values and do not belong here. Then followed
the betrayal at universities and in parts of our media and politics. Both nationally and
internationally, from the [Netherlands] House of Representatives to the EU and UN, as well as in
newspapers and on TV. Every day again. There are now even police officers who refuse to
protect Jewish objects and instead of being fired on the spot, their cowardly police chiefs show
understanding. We are as strong as our weakest link. And there are so many weak links.
Hamas,
Islam, and October 7. On October 7, 2023, Hamas, the Islamic resistance
movement, conducted an unprecedented attack on Israel. This raised the legitimate question of
why Hamas did it, knowing well the expected Israeli response. In what follows, I will stress
a point that is overlooked in many instances in the West regarding religious certainty, which
provided the Hamas leadership with the rationale and the courage to go for October 7. The
responsibility of the attack undoubtedly lies with Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas. A main
reason is that the belief system of a fundamentally religious organization is binding for all,
thereby ensuring the total obedience of the military commanders, such as the head of the military
wing, Mohammed Deif, and his deputy Marwan Issa. For a valid explanation of what happened, we
need therefore to look at no more than at Sinwar's motivations. [...]
Why
Is Hamas So Confident That It's Winning? After nearly a year of suffering and
grievous losses, most Israelis and Palestinian Arabs will likely observe the anniversary of the war
started by Hamas on Oct. 7 with sorrow. But not everyone. An interview The New
York Times conducted with Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas's "political wing," in his
luxurious living quarters in Doha, Qatar, revealed he thinks the war has gone just fine. As
the Times put it, Mashaal thinks that Hamas is "winning the war" and is confident that the
genocidal Islamist organization will, despite the battering it has received from the Israel Defense
Forces, play a "decisive" role in Gaza in the future. [...] Hamas views American pressure on Israel
as its ace in the hole. As Mashaal pointed out, the way that the hostage negotiations have
been handled by Washington has amounted to American "recognition" of Hamas as a diplomatic partner
as opposed to a despised and outlawed terrorist organization. He is right about that.
Dark
Tunnels and Moral Beacons. The names of Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov,
Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin should be seared into the minds of anyone who
wishes to live in a civilized world. Instead, we read headlines in our most storied media
outlets describing these six Israelis as having "died" in Gaza. We are told that those
defending their murderous captors "have a point."
New
Walls to Tear Down. [Scroll down] Trump's tariffs and economic sanctions
crushed Iran's financing of its terrorist proxy's ability to wage war and shut down the world's
largest state sponsor of terrorism. But Biden and Harris lifted Trump's sanctions and flooded
Iran with petro-dollars that then funded its proxy's October 7 attack on Israel.
October 7-type attacks don't just include the collateral civilian deaths of conventional
war. They specifically ignore military targets and instead wage war against civilian
populations with the murder of children and the aged, the rape of women and girls. Terrorism
is an iteration of the hell of war that scars the human spirit. Weakness invites
aggression. New Yorkers know that. Trump bolted shut the door against such attacks with
his peace-winning weapons of economic sanctions. The Biden/Harris administration's policy of
appeasement blew that door right off its hinges. How do American feminists vote for the
ticket that enabled that attack?
Probe
reveals 6,000 Gazans infiltrated Israel during October 7 massacre — report. A
staggering 6,000 Gazans infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre, nearly double the
previously estimated amount, according to a new probe by the Gaza Division that was submitted to
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi and published on Saturday on the N12 News site.
This revelation dramatically increases the scope of what was already considered to be one of the
most severe breaches of the State of Israel's security ever recorded. Of the 6,000 Gazans who
crossed into Israel, some 3,800 were identified as Nukhba terrorists — members of Hamas's
elite forces. Additionally, N12 disclosed that according to the findings, 4,300 rockets were
fired by some 1,000 terrorists in Gaza, a significantly higher amount than earlier believed.
Each
Man's Purpose. What was taken from this earth on October 7 and
September 11, as by the Nazis with their Final Solution, is almost beyond imagining, but it
must be imagined and remembered forever so that it is not repeated. There are elements
in America today who are virulently antisemitic and who would do to Israel, with its population of
9.55 million, what Hitler did to Europe's Jewish people and other targeted populations of his
day. And once they had eliminated Israel, they would turn on the United States and other
Western democracies. Once genocide is turned loose, there is no end to it. The
antisemites of our day must be exposed and brought to heel.
The
Five-State Solution? Conservative Jews who support Israel are known to complain that,
while the League of Nations created a jurisdiction called "Palestine" in 1922 to give life to the
Balfour Declaration of 1917, the League wound up giving 77% to the Arabs (i.e., what became in 1946
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan). This narrative is true according to the League's map of
Palestine — except that map is a fraud, and we know that by comparing it to maps of
"Palestine" as it was known before World War I. However, there's much more to the story of
who's occupying what land. Here's the surprising truth: While Israel is slandered today
for ruling in allegedly "Occupied Palestinian Territory," the cartographical record makes clear
that three Arab states are occupying 53% of the classical map of the Holy Land (not to be confused
with the fraudulent Mandate map).
Why
Has the Biden Administration Donated Close to One Billion Dollars in "Aid" to Hamas since the
October 7 Massacre? The US has donated close to a billion dollars of taxpayer
money to Gaza, ruled by the officially designated terrorist group, Hamas, in the eight months
following October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Iranian
proxies that invaded southern Israel, carrying out this act of war on behalf of the Islamic
Republic of Iran. There, they brutally murdered 1,200 people, raped and mutilated women
and children, burned children to death in front of their parents, and abducted more than
250 people into Gaza. Also, starting on October 7, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic
Jihad — in close cooperation with their allies in Iran's terrorist proxy Hezbollah in
Lebanon — have launched more than 19,000 rockets, missiles and attack-drones at Israel,
a country smaller than New Jersey. And yet, since October 7 the Biden
administration has rewarded Hamas with the gift of close to a billion dollars in US taxpayer money,
disguised as "humanitarian aid", most of which clearly ends up in the hands of Hamas.
IDF
Eliminates Oct 7th Mastermind, Senior Hamas Leader Mohammad Deif. The terrorist
who Gazans dubbed "the man with nine lives" has been taken out by the IDF. Mohammad Deif, the
mastermind behind Hamas' terror tunnels and the massacre of Oct. 7th, has reportedly been
targeted in a successful IDF strike in the Khan Younis area. Initial reports claim Deif was
above ground, something previously considered to be rare, and was positively identified and
confirmed not to be surrounded by hostages. He lived in a building in an open and forested
area near civilian displacement tents. Others were killed in the strike. The IDF claims
that they weighed the risks of causing other casualties, and afterward, they believe that the other
deaths consisted of mainly his security detail. Hamas has yet to confirm the death of the
senior official and of course, claim that all the "martyrs" were innocent civilians. The IDF
said "dozens", and Hamas says "hundreds" wounded or killed — an inflation that should
surprise no one at this point. Deif had been a mysterious figure that the IDF attempted
to assassinate multiple times before.
The
Folly of Basing American Gaza Policy on False Hamas-Reported Casualties. The American
administration continues to apply immense pressure on Israel to stop its defensive war against
Hamas in Gaza, and to pivot to a "diplomatic option" under which it would negotiate with Hamas and
agree to a "two-state solution" which would impose on Israel yet another hostile Arab state.
This "second state" would present a long and indefensible border to Israel's east. The
administration also looks to Israel to accept Arab administration of a post-war Gaza, to include
participation of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The administration states as its motive to
justify this pressure by claiming that "too many" people are dying in Gaza, but this conclusion is
based on false casualty information and statistics provided by Hamas itself. It is
convenient, albeit tendentious and unethical, for the Administration to accept Hamas propaganda as
the driving force to pressure Israel to stop defending itself.
Biden's
Costly Failed Floating Gaza Pier to Be Scrapped For Good. Worth an estimated
$230 million, the floating pier project was conceived by the Pentagon as a "stopgap measure"
before Israel opened land routes for aid to the beleaguered Gaza Strip. The construction
meant to offer a "humanitarian cover" for Biden's support of Israel in its war on Hamas turned out
to be too fragile to handle rough seas. The giant US floating pier off the Gaza shore that
was once touted as a magnanimous humanitarian gesture is about to become history. After being
out of service most of the time anyway, battered by inclement weather due to original
miscalculations, it will now be shut down, said US officials.
Pier
for Hamas Cost Us $11 Million/Day. Cost is no object when other people
pay. So the Biden Regime probably has no regrets about virtue signaling its sympathy for
Hamas with a botched floating peer that ended up costing us $11 million per day: [Tweet]
Why
Are Hamas's Crimes Ignored by Western Media? If you think that the Palestinian
Authority (PA) or any Arab state would agree to take control of the Gaza Strip as long as the
Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas has not been totally destroyed and removed from power, you would
be wrong. Removing the military and governing capabilities of Hamas, however, unfortunately
cannot be achieved as long as the Biden administration and Western countries keep exerting pressure
on Israel to halt the war, which erupted after the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack that
resulted in the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of more than 240 others as
hostages. The Palestinian Authority and other Arab governments have been reminded in recent
days of the reasons why entering the Gaza Strip after the war would be risky, if not impossible,
unless Hamas's military capabilities are first destroyed and the terrorist group is completely
ousted from power.
The
Gaza Famine That Never Was. New evidence indicates that, contrary to claims by top
U.S. officials and international media, the Gaza Strip is not on the precipice of a widespread
famine that Western experts claimed would endanger millions of innocent Palestinians.
"Famine is imminent" in northern Gaza, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a
network of Western governments, the United Nations, and nonprofit groups, warned in March, prompting
unfounded accusations that Israel is using starvation as a war tactic. The IPC's report was
quickly amplified by outlets like the Washington Post, which foretold "imminent famine" in
Gaza. Politico, the New York Times, and CNN alleged Israel is guilty of war
crimes. But on Tuesday, the IPC revised its initial assessment, saying that the projected
famine in Gaza did not come to fruition in May. "The available evidence does not
indicate that Famine is currently occurring," the organization said in its latest report, which
notes that Israel has significantly increased aid and that conditions as a whole in Gaza have
drastically improved. This is the latest example of an international agency walking back its
initial assessment of the situation in Gaza.
Boko
Haram, Hamas, and Caveman Sex. [Scroll down] Muslims seem prone to a
sexual criminality never known in history. Yes, raping the females of a defeated enemy has
been known, but concluding the horror by shooting the victim in the head, then ejaculating into her
corpse? Whoever heard of such behavior? Or, laughing that day, the Muslims enjoyed
slicing off a Jewish woman's breast to throw around like a softball. The Israeli recovery
teams that dealt with the 1,200 victims of the massacre often could not identify the sex of the
victim because the Muslim Brothers liked to fire their automatic weapons into their
genitalia. Some girls were also shot in the face so many times that there was no more
face. Boko Haram and Hamas are just the latest evidence that Islam religiously justifies what
is essentially antediluvian behavior characteristic of Homo Sapiens 1.0, i.e., pre-Flood
humanity. They license themselves to kidnap and rape and turn their victims into sex
slaves. They lack a conscience and human empathy, laughing about and celebrating their
cruelty. This behavior is a kind of group psychopathy. Boko Haram and Hamas are
psychopathic cults.
U.S.
gives up on failed $230 million Gaza humanitarian aid pier — disassembly to begin
as early as July. More government waste is making headlines after the Biden regime
announced that it is giving up on the $230 million Gaza humanitarian aid pier boondoggle in
the Middle East. After operating for just 10 days at a cost of $23 million per day,
the Gaza aid pier is being deconstructed in the latest example of federal government tomfoolery,
compliments of U.S. taxpayers. Remember back in March when President Biden rattled off from
his teleprompter during his State of the Union (SOTU) address about how important the pier was to
alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe imposed by Israel in the Gaza Strip? Well, it seems
the pier was not important after all. "The pier will go down as one of history's costliest
publicity stunts," reported Zero Hedge.
Biden's
Pier in Gaza Has Been a Complete Failure. It has only been about 3 months since
President Biden announced a plan to create a floating pier for emergency aid to Gaza. [...] It took
about 2 months to get the pier in place but almost exactly a month ago the military announced
that the pier had been completed and was ready to start delivering food aid from ships to trucks.
[...] Since then almost nothing about it has gone as planned. Just over a week after the
announcement that it was completed, the pier broke apart. [...] The pier was towed away and
repaired and then returned to duty, but it was only a matter of days before rough seas prompted the
US military to detach it again to prevent another disaster.
U.S.
Pier for Gaza Aid Is Failing, and Could Be Dismantled Early. The $230 million
temporary pier that the U.S. military built on short notice to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza has
largely failed in its mission, aid organizations say, and will probably end operations weeks
earlier than originally expected. In the month since it was attached to the shoreline, the
pier has been in service only about 10 days. The rest of the time, it was being repaired
after rough seas broke it apart, detached to avoid further damage or paused because of security
concerns. The pier was never meant to be more than a stopgap measure while the Biden
administration pushed Israel to allow more food and other supplies into Gaza through land routes, a
far more efficient way to deliver relief. But even the modest goals for the pier are likely
to fall short, some American military officials say.
Sensationalist
blabber from the Washington Post. In The Washington Post's "Genocide is our redline"
(6/9/24, before the title was changed), there are so much manipulation, distortion, and outright
lying that it's hard to encompass it all in a short response. Israel is not only innocent of
this sick crime, but is facing an enemy that boasts in its charter about committing it. This
inversion of thought is right out of George Orwell's 1984. The title is an absolute
lie — even if it's a quote from a Palestinian who makes this charge of Israel.
There is no genocide in Gaza. And no matter how many times it's repeated in chants, legacy
media articles, legacy TV reports, many forms of social media, it doesn't make it so. [...] One
can't rightly be the aggressor and then claim that the other side is committing genocide when it
fights back. What an absurdity. Hamas and Gazan civilians are getting killed because
they initiated a war and are continuing to fight — even if they are losing
terribly. It's on them.
They
turned into monsters. In most narratives about the war in Gaza, the war does not
begin where it began. The war did not start in Gaza. The war began on October 7,
exactly 50 years after Egypt and Syria invaded Israel. Palestinian Hamas terrorists
committed an unimaginable massacre in Israel. They filmed themselves as heroes and celebrated
their bloodbath. Their victory celebrations continued back home in Gaza, where the terrorists
dragged severely abused hostages and presented them as spoils of war to the jubilant Palestinian
population. This macabre jubilation extended all the way to Berlin. In the
Neukölln district there was dancing on the streets and the Palestinian organization Samidoun
distributed sweets. The internet was buzzing with happy comments. More than
1,200 people died in the massacre. After torture, mutilation and rape, 239 people
were abducted. This massacre by Hamas is a total derailment from civilization. There is
an archaic horror in this bloodlust that I no longer thought possible in this day and age.
This massacre has the pattern of annihilation through pogroms, a pattern that the Jews have known
for centuries. That is why the whole country has been traumatized, because the founding of
the state of Israel was intended to protect against such pogroms. And until October 7,
it was believed to be protected.
What
will be the impact of Gantz's departure from the government? Barring any unforeseen
events, War Cabinet member and Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz is expected to take his
eight-member faction out of the Netanyahu government on Saturday night. With his departure,
the national emergency government and the war cabinet formed last October after he joined forces
with Netanyahu will be dissolved. What precipitated Gantz's departure? Are new
elections upon us? How will his decision affect the trajectory of the war? Two forces
are responsible for Gantz's move: the Biden administration and the far-left, anti-government
political campaigners popularly known as the Kaplan force. Gantz joined the government in
response to U.S. pressure and a call from the far left to undermine the government from
within. He is leaving due to pressure from both.
Hostages
Rescued, and Many Truths Revealed. "There was a knock on the door. A voice
said, 'It's the IDF. We've come to take you home.'" This is how former hostage Noa Argamani
described her rescue from Hamas on the Sabbath — Saturday, June 8 —
which also happened to be her father's birthday. Israelis spent the weekend cheering her
rescue, along with the rescues of three other former hostages — Almog Meir Jan, Andrey
Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv. All four, ranging in age from 22 to 41, were kidnapped from the Nova
music festival on October 7, Hamas's notorious day of atrocities. Israeli intelligence
recently determined with certainty that they were being held in two separate buildings in Nuseirat,
in the Gaza Strip.
Why
Did CNN Say the Israeli Hostages Were 'Released?'. This is a story of two contrasting
headlines. When Karen wrote about the rescue of four Israeli hostages by the IDF, she said
"IDF Heroes Rescue Four Israeli Hostages Still Alive." However, CNN initially took a very
different approach during a segment featuring Victor Blackwell and Ian Bremmer. A chyron
appeared during the segment declaring, "Gantz postpones news conference after hostage release."
Pardon me? Did you say... "release?" Hamas didn't release anyone. The IDF undertook
a bloody, dangerous mission to retrieve those four hostages and slay the monsters who had been
holding them as prisoners and terrorizing them for eight months. One soldier died as a result
of the effort. The only people "released" were the souls of the Hamas terrorists who are no
doubt currently on their way to rot in hell. The New York Post noted that plenty of people
"pounced" on CNN's blunder.
A
Daring Rescue and a Surprise from the Ninth Circuit. In a daring feat masterfully
executed, the Israeli Defense Force rescued four of the hostages in Gaza. Most touching of
all was the rescue of Noa Argamani, whose mother is dying of brain cancer, who had prayed she'd be
reunited with her daughter before she died. [...] The hostages were held by Hamas guards in homes
of Arab families (Hamas paid the families to hold the hostages — indicating there are no
innocent bystanders). [...] Over 100 hostages still remain, though their fate remains unknown.
Among them are five Americans, about whom the administration remains silent.
Biden's
Gaza "Pier to Nowhere" a Disaster and National Embarrassment, Breaks Apart. We have
been following the evolution of the Biden Gaza pier disaster right from the beginning announcement,
Biden to Announce Plans to Build Port in Gaza for Humanitarian Aid Shipments, to planning, Gaza
Pier Will Take Around 60 Days and 1,000 Troops to Complete, to criticism of that plan, Biden's
Gaza Floating Port Plan Generating Concern Among Military Professionals. That criticism,
including this gem, "I don't know a single maritime professional who thinks this is a good idea
given the location and conditions ashore, but orders are orders," was, it turns out, totally
justified. First, the concept itself was ridiculous, given the fact that it was
entirely predictable that Hamas would steal any aid provided before it could get to the Palestinian
"civilian" population, meaning that the plan had nothing to do with aiding the Palestinians, as the few
decent Republicans in Congress, and Professor Jacobson, recognized: [Tweets] Second,
even while it was under construction, the stupid Gaza pier came under attack: [...]
Biden's
$320M Gaza Pier Has Detached & Drifted Onto Israeli Beach. A section of the
$320 million floating pier built and erected off Gaza's coast has broken off and floated onto
an Israeli beach. The Saturday mishap is the latest setback for the US humanitarian aid
project, after three US troops were reported injured aboard the pier two days prior, including one
critically. The Times of Isreal's military correspondent Emanuel Fabian has reported that "An
American vessel used to unload humanitarian aid from ships into the Gaza Strip via a floating pier
disconnected from a small boat tugging it this morning due to stormy seas, leading it to get stuck
on the coast of Ashdod, eyewitnesses say." [Tweet with video clip]
The
pier to nowhere. At the end of April, Hamas mortared Joe Biden's pier under
construction in Gaza. Supposedly, no one was injured, though there was much "running for
cover." But on May 23, three US troops were injured, one critically. News reports
characterize those injuries as "non-combat." Surprisingly (snicker), no specific details have been
released. How much has this floating pier cost? Stripes.com, at the end of April,
provided this: ["]The U.S. military's initial cost of the temporary floating pier off
Gaza's coast is about $320 million, a Pentagon official said Monday. 'We've been very
clear this is a temporary solution to help get humanitarian aid into Gaza. This is just one
other way of getting aid in,' Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters. The figure,
first reported by Reuters, has not previously been disclosed about the operation that includes
about 1,000 American troops.["]
Nearly
70% of Gaza aid from US-built pier [was] stolen. Close to three-fourths of the
humanitarian aid transported from a new $320 million floating pier built by the U.S. military
off the Gaza coast was stolen on Saturday en route to a U.N. warehouse, Reuters reported on
Tuesday. Eleven trucks "were cleaned out by Palestinians" on the journey to the World Food
Programme warehouse in Deir El Balah in the central Strip, with only five truckloads making it to
the destination. "They've not seen trucks for a while," a U.N. official told Reuters.
"They just basically mounted on the trucks and helped themselves to some of the food parcels."
According to the United Nations, no aid was delivered to the warehouse from the U.S. military's
pier on Sunday and Monday. [Tweet]
The
Gaza Pier: Humanitarian aid or distraction? The recent construction of a
humanitarian aid pier in Gaza has been widely touted as a crucial lifeline for the citizens of
Gaza. However, few people realize the true nature of this initiative. This pier is
nothing more than a photo op, a charade akin to fake wrestling on steroids, suggesting that Israel
is failing to provide for Gaza's needs and that the U.S. had to step in. This narrative distracts
from the real issues at hand and misleads the international community about the situation in Gaza.
Why
Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza? While in the
U.S. Army and Army Reserves for 29 years, I thought I had seen some pretty stupid things the
military was told by politicians to do. It always begins with politicians deciding the
easiest, most sensible solution to a problem would have too much political baggage and cost them
votes in the next election. So, they look for a politically expedient solution, one that is
invariably very expensive and convoluted. In this vein, all too often, politicians turn to
the U.S. military for a solution to a non-military problem. Then some A-type personality in
the military presents a hair-brained idea to the politicians, probably never thinking that the idea
would be accepted. Then it is accepted to get the politicians out of a jam, and the next
thing you know is that the Rube Goldberg, crazy idea is being funded. This unbelievable
scenario is what has happened with getting humanitarian aid into Gaza for the starving survivors of
the Israeli genocide of Gaza.
Report:
US withholding 'sensitive intelligence' on Hamas from Israel. The Biden
administration will share key intelligence with Israel about the whereabouts of Hamas's leadership
in Gaza if Israel agrees not to go ahead with its military operation in Rafah, according to The
Washington Post. "The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale
Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including
sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find
the group's hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers," said the
report. The United States is seeking to delay the operation, concerned that Israel is not
doing enough to ensure the safety of the over one million Gazans sheltered in Rafah should a
full-scale invasion move forward, according to the sources cited by the Washington Post.
The
UN Should Not Reward the Palestinians for Oct. 7th. The United Nations General
Assembly is expected to vote Friday on one of the worst resolutions to come before that
body — one that would confer upon the "State of Palestine" many of the rights and
privileges reserved for member states. The U.S. and other U.N. member states should reject
it. The resolution is based on false premises, for one thing. It would also invite
financial distress on the UN, throw chaos into the membership process of the General Assembly, and,
most importantly, reward terrorism. Considering the ongoing support for indiscriminate
violence against Israeli civilians by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, a majority vote of the
General Assembly in favor of this resolution is tantamount to encouraging terrorism and endorsing
hostility toward a fellow UN member state.
Oct 7
was 'managed and planned' by Iran's Quds Force, expert claims. Hamas' invasion and
massacre in southern Israel last October was managed and planned by the current and former
commanders of Iran's Quds Force, according to U.S.-based Iran expert, Dr. Hassan
Hashemian. In an interview with the Saudi news channel al-Hadath on Wednesday, Hashemian
said, "I believe that everything that happened on October 7 was managed and planned during the
era of Qasem Soleimani." Soleimani was the former commander of the Quds Force, the secretive
foreign arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) until he was killed by the United
States in 2020. His successor, Esmail Qaani, has been coordinating the attacks on Israel by
Hamas, Iran's terror proxy in Gaza.
Lebanon:
Hezbollah Escalates Rocket Fire on Israel After Biden's Weapons Embargo Threat.
Emboldened by President Joe Biden's decision to cut off weapons supply to Israel amid its ongoing
war against terrorist group Hamas, Iran-backed Hezbollah terror militia has ramped up rocket
attacks from Lebanon into northern Israel. "Hezbollah fired a barrage of 35 rockets from
Lebanon at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona sparking fires in the surrounding areas Friday, while
the military responded with a wave of strikes on the terror group's positions," The Times of Israel
reported Saturday. [Tweet with video clip]
Biden
Commits To Saving Hamas. We reported earlier how Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
confirmed earlier reports of a a 'pause' in almost $1 billion in weapons shipments to Israel
over its plans to invade Rafah, Hamas' last stronghold where it's remaining leadership and
battalians are located, along with the hostages. Hamas has been firing rockets from Rafah,
and killed four Israeli soldiers at a border crossing used to ship humanitarian aid. In a CNN
interview today, Biden went even further. He threatened that if Israel entered Rafah, the
U.S. will halt all offensive weapons supplies to Israel, incuding bombs and artillary shells.
[Tweet with video clip]
The
Moral Imperative of October 7. Strangely, anti-Jewish malevolence has
accelerated in the USA following the October 7 atrocities by Hamas. This is because of
the equivocations and partial blaming of Israel by the Democrats. Further, the anti-Israel
madness has ballooned to include outpourings of Jew hatred on our campuses fully reminiscent of
pre-war Nazi Germany. This outpouring of anti-Semitism and Israel hatred has been fostered
and to some degree embraced by the Democrats who have not pictured Israel as the victim it actually
was on Oct. 7. [...] Anti-Israel sources have even questioned the truth that the Oct. 7
massacres occurred. The Washington Post ran an article raising the question of whether
the events of Oct. 7 were a "false flag." American social networks have censored it and
vainly attempted to cover it up by vilifying Israel as a colonial power and aggressor. These
are false but familiar tropes which ought to be repudiated.
Saving
Hamas: Why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel?
Reports are circulating that the Israelis are planning an operation in Rafah to eliminate the last
Hamas stronghold in Gaza. If so, the Netanyahu government will be acting against the very
public wishes of the Biden administration, which has spent the last half year moving heaven and
earth to save a terrorist organization from destruction. Bizarrely, the White House's
statements and actions show that Hamas' survival is more important than the security of a
traditional American partner, Israel; more crucial to American interests than the preservation of
the U.S.-led order of the Middle East; more precious than the dozens of American lives that Hamas
ended on Oct. 7; more valuable than however many Americans and Israelis are still alive in the
terror army's tunnels. Why? As the money and prestige that the U.S. has invested month
after month in protecting Hamas demonstrate, the Biden administration sees the terror group as a
valuable asset.
The Editor says...
Barack H. Obama is a Muslim.
Barack H. Obama is no friend of Israel.
Joe Biden is too senile to make any meaningful decisions, so
Barack H. Obama is apparently acting as Joe Biden's puppeteer. We are living in Barack H. Obama's
third term. That's the answer (to the headline above)
in a nutshell. Connect the dots.
As
Debate Heats Up, the Masks Come Off. Israel has shown incredible restraint in trying
to separate Hamas fighters from the general Gaza population, using its excellent intelligence
capability to direct precision strikes and targeted raids. Civilian casualties are a tragic
part of any war, especially in urban areas where the people are openly in support of Hamas.
But again, only Hamas has genocide as its declared policy backed up by brutal behavior. So,
when activists declare "I am Hamas" and fly their flag and repeat their genocidal slogans, no
sympathy can be accorded them. It is no surprise that leftists would take this stance.
There is a large network of well-funded organizations that side with every enemy of the West. [...]
That there were Israelites 2,000 years before Mohammad was born, making the Jews an indigenous
people to the region, is written out of "progressive" history.
War
is Not Law Enforcement. [Scroll down] The current war between Israel and
Hamas is in fact an exception to everything I just wrote. The vast majority of the combatants
who died in the Second World War, even on the Axis side, were ordinary people who would have
otherwise returned to their families and civilian occupations to contribute to their
societies. Terrorists who disguise themselves as civilians, commit a mass shooting at a peace
concert, slaughter people in their own homes, gang-rape women, and burn babies in ovens are war
criminals who deserve to be killed wholesale. The world is better off without them, and
Israel is simply taking out the world's trash. Another analogy consists of the eradication of
cancer, which almost always involves collateral damage to healthy tissue.
Media
Hoax: No, Israel Did Not Dig 'Mass Grave' At Gaza's Nasser Hospital. Another
day, another Hamas hoax amplified by Democrats and the mainstream media. This time around,
the story is about a mass grave at Gaza's Nasser Hospital that was allegedly only recently
discovered, according to workers for the Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense. CNN, of course, was
among the numerous media outlets to breathlessly report on the story, which strongly insinuated the
IDF dug the graves and, in the process, committed war crimes. Make sure to take note of the
framing: [Advertisement] ["]The United Nations has called for an 'independent,
effective and transparent investigation' into the discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals
that were besieged and raided by Israeli troops this year. The UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights Volker Türk said in a statement he was 'horrified' by the scenes reported from both the
Nasser and Al Shifa medical complexes in the besieged enclave.["] [...] Hamas Caucus leader
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pounced and seized, and demanded to know where the media coverage
was, apparently ignoring the fact that national news outlets had already picked up the ball and run
with it: [Tweet]
Why
Isn't the MSM Talking About the Hostages? If you only paid attention to the MSM
coverage, you could be forgiven for not realizing that there are still American hostages being held
by Hamas. It's not that the fact is exactly hidden; rather, they are barely mentioned.
It's almost as if the media considers them as unimportant as the Americans left behind in
Afghanistan. Remember them? Few do, because the media dropped that story like a hot
potato. [Advertisement] Perhaps is they were transgender, they would get a mention.
But no, they are only Jews for the most part, and Jews are settler colonialists. [Tweet]
When I saw this tweet I decided to do a Google News search for "American Hostages in Gaza" and was
struck by the paucity of coverage and the fact that the stories are so infrequent.
The
Truth About Israel. Hamas is a violent spinoff of the Muslim Brotherhood which has
been deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, and the European Union due to its use of
suicide bombings and rocket attacks against civilians.. It has perfected the military strategy of
embedding their soldiers under hospitals, schools, mosques and children's play areas so that any
attack will cause collateral damage of innocent citizens. The 300 miles of tunnels to
Israel they've constructed under restrictive buildings are meant to shelter their soldiers, not
their citizens, because Hamas does not care for Palestinian lives any more than they care for
Israeli lives. It is one of the most evil, barbaric organization that has ever existed and I
would include the Nazis in that vile collection. They rape, behead babies, slaughter children
and women and I wish the ignorant and brainwashed Americans crying about Israel committing
"genocide" would get their heads out of their butts and actually answer this question —
what choice does Israel have except to eliminate Hamas?
Israeli
military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Oct. 7 attack. The
head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas'
unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the military said, becoming the first senior figure to step down
over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel's history. Maj. Gen. Aharon
Haliva's decision could set the stage for more resignations among Israel's top security brass over
Hamas' attack, when militants blasted through Israel's border defenses, rampaged through Israeli
communities unchallenged for hours and killed 1,200 people, most civilians, while taking
roughly 250 hostages into Gaza. That attack set off the war against Hamas in Gaza, now in its
seventh month.
Iran
Insanity. Two friends of mine comment on the Obama/Biden administration's bizarre
partiality toward Iran. [...] I would like to see Biden endorse massive retaliation by Israel with
a view toward trying to bring about regime change in Iran. But, as I wrote here, I will be
satisfied if Biden stays out of Israel's way. And I assume Israel's leaders will ignore
pro forma calls for "restraint." I hope so, anyway. [...] Israel is in an existential
fight for its survival. It cannot go on, year after year, subject to terrorist attacks by
Hezbollah and Hamas, financed and supported by Iran. Its position will, I assume, be even
more untenable once Iran obtains nuclear weapons, which will be soon.
Hamas
Wants The Land of Israel, But It Also Wants Much More Than That. As I write this,
more than one hundred, (mostly Israeli) Jews are still being held hostage. They have been
imprisoned and are tortured 24/7. They are deprived of food; the males are beaten just for fun, and
the girls, women, and boys are raped. We know this thanks to Arabic language documents IDF
soldiers found when they cleared out Hamas nests. The documents contain explicit instructions
about how to torture and maim and the best way to kill a Jew with a knife by stabbing him in the
neck and/or spine. The same orders tell the captors to keep the captured Jews on the most
meager rations. These instructions also order the captors to show no tolerance to any
hostages who show even the slightest resistance or objection to doing what they are told. If
they do, they must be killed.
Oct. 7
Massacre: Six Months Later. Six months ago today, on October 7, Hamas
terrorists invaded Israel to inflict horrific atrocities on civilians of all ages, committing the
worst single day of massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Yet six months later, much of the
world is sympathizing with the guilty and attacking the victims in the Hamas-Israel conflict!
Six months ago, babies were burned alive and/or beheaded, whole families were gunned down, women
were raped to death, and civilians of all ages were kidnapped. Gazans celebrated the mass
murder, and the Palestinian Authority rewarded the jihadis with cash. How much clearer does
it need to be? Yet leftists have gone wild with anti-Semitic hatred and jihad-empathizing
vitriol. Even a disturbing number of conservatives are repeating Hamas propaganda and falsely
accusing Israel. It is a sad reflection on how divorced many Westerners, including Americans,
are from reality — and how perilously close we are to another Holocaust.
Israel:
GPS [has been] disabled and IDF leave cancelled over Iran threat. GPS is being
blocked across swathes of Israel in order to disrupt missiles and drones, as tensions rise with
Iran. Iran has vowed to respond after a strike on its consulate building in Syria on Monday —
which Israel was widely believed to be behind — killed 13 people, including a senior
general. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also announced it was halting all leave for soldiers
serving with combat units. It comes a day after reservists were called up to bolster air
defence units.
The Editor says...
What is a "senior general?" Are there any junior generals?
October 7th
and the Future of the United States. As we approach the six-month anniversary of the
attacks against Israel of October 7, 2023, we must take stock of the reaction and aftermath of
such attacks and how they impact our own nation. Many of us were rightly outraged at the
October attacks as we compared them to the attacks against America of September 11, 2001. We
have seen the horrifying videos, expressed our solidarity with the Israelis and cheered on long
overdue pushback against media and academic enablement of terrorist sympathizers. But the
leftist response to the October attacks has been more brazen, more immediate, and more entrenched
in recent months than it ever was in response to September 11.
Hamas
Treats Captive Israeli Women as Animals. The Hamas terrorists behind the Oct. 7,
2023 jihadist raid literally view their female Israeli captives as horses and other
animals — to be "ridden." During a recent press conference, IDF spokesman Daniel
Hagari stressed that Hamas members could be heard in their own (now captured) recordings referring
to their female captives as sabi (or sabiya), an Arabic word that in Islamic
jurisprudence refers to non-Muslim female slaves, whom Muslim men could freely copulate
with — in a word, concubines.
Military
Experts Warn of Extreme Dangers to American Troops Building Floating Pier off Gaza
Coast. Military experts are sounding the alarm over President Biden's floating Gaza
pier plan, where the administration will construct an offshore pier to be used to get more food and
supplies to refugees in the war-torn region. Biden announced the operation during his
March 7 State of the Union speech, but it was received with mixed reaction. The
Washington Post revealed in a Sunday piece that military experts have told them the mission will
put our forces at risk: [...]
Gaza:
Truths Behind All the Lies. [Lie #1] "Occupied Gaza." Prior to October 7,
there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans
in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals.
Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted
hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of
military installations. [Lie #2] "Collateral Damage." Hamas began
the war by deliberately targeting civilians. It massacred them on October 7 when it
invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays. It sent more than 7,000 rockets into
Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants. It has no vocabulary for the
collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances
is cause for celebration. Hamas places its terrorist centers beneath and inside hospitals,
schools, and mosques. Why? Israel is assumed to have more reservations about
collaterally hitting Gaza civilians than Hamas does exposing them as human shields.
America's
Stunning Embrace Of Paganism Signals The End Of This Country As We Know It. It's hard
to survey the state of our country and not conclude that something is very wrong in America.
I don't just mean with our economy or the border or rampant crime in our cities, but with our basic
grasp on reality itself. [...] But even less contentious issues are now up for grabs, like mass
rape. After Hamas terrorists filmed themselves raping and murdering Israeli women on
Oct. 7, boasting about their savagery to a watching world, vast swaths of the America left
still cannot bring themselves to condemn Hamas. The same progressive college students who
insist that the mere presence of a conservative speaker on campus makes them "unsafe" are unable to
condemn one of the worst instances of mass rape in modern history. Some even declare openly
that they stand in solidarity with the Hamas rapists.
The
Democrats Have Crossed the Bridge into Unabashed Nazism. In March of 2023, I wrote an
article detailing eight inescapable and disturbing ways the Democrat Party emulates the Nazi Party
of 1927-34 in their underlying ideology and, more importantly, tactics. Subsequently,
Mr. D. Parker further detailed eight additional indisputable similarities. All but two
of these sixteen commonalities (irrational obsession with race, and state/private ownership of all
means of production) also apply to the proponents of Communism. Nonetheless, there had been
no basis to emulate the crudity of the American Left and label them Nazis as there was one bridge
they had yet to cross: unabashed and overt antisemitism and acquiescence to repeating the Holocaust
while mindlessly setting the table for an inevitable global conflict. That bridge now has
been crossed and the time has come to call out these reprobates for what they are: Disciples
of National Socialism or Nazis. A date that will live in infamy in the annals of Judaism's
three-and-a-half millennia, October 7, 2023, has also exposed the Democrat party and the
American left's hitherto unknown depths of antisemitism and de facto support for the underlying
beliefs of Hamas, whose declared sole reason for existence is the elimination of Israel and the
slaughter of all Jews.
The
losers in Biden's America. Prior to October 7 of last year, many Jews believed
they were part of the intersectional fraternity of leftist victimhood, enjoying the benefits of
education, commerce, and the arts without much scrutiny. The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel
and the rape, murder, and kidnapping of many of their fellow religionists/countrymen have caused
many American Jews to come to terms with the fact that they, in the eyes of the left, are
"oppressors." Their allegiance to liberal causes has been overshadowed by the left's binary view
of oppressed/oppressors. Some Jews (Chuck Schumer, and others) are leftists first and Jews a
distant second. If you're not a hardcore leftist, you will be attacked and derided.
"Never again" is happening again.
Battles
rage around Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, Israel says 170 gunmen dead. Fighting raged on
Saturday around Gaza's main hospital where Israel says it has so far killed more than 170 gunmen in
an extensive raid, which the Palestinian Health Ministry says has also resulted in the deaths of
five patients. The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said their fighters were engaged
in battles with the Israeli forces outside and around the vicinity of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza
City. Hamas denies any presence inside the facility.
About
those innocent Palestinian civilians... Among the heart-breaking scenes from the
Middle-East are video reports showing civilian casualties of the current war. In the West, we
cringe at those images, especially the ones showing small children — dead, grievously
wounded, or orphaned. In Gaza, there seems to be little reciprocity of sympathy.
Newsmax reports that more than seventy percent of Gazans approve of the October 7 attack on
Israel, in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed, many by unspeakable torture. More than
eighty percent deny that the atrocities were committed, even after watching the videos sadistically,
and boastfully, recorded by the terrorists themselves. This reminds us of the self-contradiction
that might be stated as "We did not commit the crimes, and we are glad that we did." This is a
case of not cognitive dissonance, but rather moral depravity. It is lethal hypocrisy. In
seeking to justify acts of evil, the evildoers soon discover that neither have they justification for
them, nor do they need it.
Over
70 Percent of Palestinians Support Hamas's October 7 Terror Attack.
Seventy-one percent of Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank believe Hamas made the
right decision in attacking Israel on October 7, according to a new poll conducted by the
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an organization primarily funded by the European
Union and the United States-based Ford Foundation. The percentage of West Bank residents who
support the Hamas attack has decreased slightly since December, when 82 percent of West Bank
respondents said they agreed with the decision, though support for the terror attack has increased
in Gaza, rising from 57 percent in December to 71 percent in March. When asked
whether "the war on Gaza since October 7 has revived international attention to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict that it could lead to increased recognition of Palestinian statehood,"
three-quarters of respondents in the West Bank and Gaza said "yes."
This
could be the devastating proof that Hamas is faking its death figures. One of the
marks of anti-Semitism, George Orwell observed in 1945, is "an ability to believe stories that
could not possibly be true". Which brings us smartly to Hamas and how the broadcast media, aid
organisations, international bodies and world leaders take its disinformation as gospel. Last
week it became clear that this gullibility may have led to a crime against reality. A new
analysis of the group's casualty statistics indicates that the rag-tag terror army may have pulled
off one of the biggest propaganda coups of modern times. The figures, repeated by everyone
from the White House to the BBC, are freighted with familiarity: 30,000 dead in Gaza, 70 percent
of whom are women and children. Yet it now seems overwhelmingly likely that these statistics
are fabricated. Professor Abraham Wyner, a data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania,
has conducted a thorough analysis. He found that Hamas's official civilian death toll was
statistically impossible.
Qatar
Offered to Expel Hamas; Blinken Said No. I have long been wondering about Qatar's
willingness to host Hamas' leadership post-10/7. As non-Western as Qatar is, the Emirate has
been working assiduously to court Western approval and is hardly a radical Islamist state.
This is not to suggest the regime is liberal or Liberal, but rather that they aren't exactly
Iranian-style fanatics. The state is pretty much what you would expect in a country that is
in a dangerous region filled with radicals but with an elite who are Western-educated and
resolutely capitalist. I had long suspected that Western governments had given implicit
approval for Qatar's hosting of the radical Islamist terrorist group's leaders in order to use it
as a back-channel to Hamas. [Tweet]
Biden's
'Trojan Pier' for Gaza: It's not about delivering aid, it's about giving the terrorists a
gateway to the world. Six Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas, and Biden
has sent no troops to help them, but at the State of the Union address, he promised to send troops
to build a pier for Gaza. The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2 months
laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential attack to help transfer aid to the
Hamas supporters living in Gaza. Nothing about this plan makes sense. The media has
taken to falsely claiming that the Arab Muslims occupying parts of Gaza are starving. Vice
President Kamala Harris attacked Israel, claiming that she had "seen reports of families eating
leaves or animal feed." Social media videos however show the locals gorging themselves on
shawarma and other foods in preparation for the Islamic period of Ramadan. But if the Biden
administration really believed that Gazans were starving right now, what would be the purpose of
spending two months building a pier to deliver aid? A program with a two month lead time will
not help people who are starving right now. It would be a grim joke. And the pier plan
only gets stranger from there.
The
Temporary Pier and the Question of Why. Since Oct. 7, 2023, external
humanitarian aid has primarily had to enter the Gaza Strip via the land crossing at Rafah, which is
run by Egypt. [...] But ever since Hamas's horrific attacks on Israel on October 7 that
started this long-needed police action, the global anti-Israel lobby has declared that they need
another way to bring in humanitarian aid — one outside Egypt. They need a seaport,
they tell us, to bring in aid directly from the Mediterranean. Why? The answer is
obvious. The terrorists of Hamas and their fellow travelers have allies in Cyprus, Turkey,
Greece, Iran, and the United Nations. Anyone else who might ship cargo to Gaza
would — intentionally — have weaker security checkpoints than Egypt
has. There's a reason, after all, why Israel hasn't been allowing relief vessels to serve
Gaza, and it dates back to long before October 7. Israel has frequently caught weapons caches
being smuggled into Gaza by sea in the past — always under the guise of humanitarian aid.
A
pier for Gaza. The Biden administration's plan to construct a floating pier in Gaza
to deliver aid represents a significant logistical and humanitarian effort. [...] In contrast, the
Biden administration's approach to domestic border security, particularly the completion of a
border wall, has been markedly different. The wall, intended to enhance national security and
manage illegal immigration, has seen delays and reduced prioritization under the current
administration. Critics from conservative and pro-Israel viewpoints argue that this reveals a
discrepancy in policy prioritization, where significant resources and military expertise are
deployed internationally for a humanitarian mission in an area controlled by a group with a history
of conflict with Israel, while domestic security measures like the border wall face stagnation.
The
left's sickening betrayal of Israeli women. [Scroll down] Surely, I
thought in my naivete, Western leftists would see themselves reflected in these music-loving young
people, who looked like they had stepped out of Haight-Ashbury in the 1970s. Surely, the
sight of 26-year-old Noa Argamani, begging for her life as the butchers ride off with her, would
inspire in the left a sense of identification with these Israelis, and a corresponding fear of
Hamas. How could it not? It did not. Leftist women found nothing in their hearts
to say about it. For months. There was a total failure of the international
feminist community to stand up for the Israeli women who had been sexually brutalised by
Hamas. Despite the preponderance of evidence for mass rapes, there was a code of silence from
the usual suspects.
Hezbollah
Ramps Up Ramadan Attacks; Biden Hardest Hit? So much for that strange demand that
Israel observe Ramadan during its war against Hamas and other Islamist terror networks.
Hezbollah has 'celebrated' Ramadan by increasing the pace of its attacks in the north of Israel,
ramping up the intensity of both sides. Overnight, Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets at
Israel, prompting another round of answering attacks on their positions.
The
Biden administration is trying to topple Netanyahu's government. Biden has never made
a secret of his hatred for Bibi Netanyahu (and it's easy to see why a stupid, draft-dodging man
would hate an intelligent, accomplished warrior). Still, he's now taking that hatred to new levels
as he actively works to interfere in Israeli politics. For decades, leftists told us that it
was morally wrong to try to affect a nation's internal politics, but that doesn't apply when the
nation is a liberal democratic ally, and the world's only Jewish
state. [...] The same essay notes that Biden is undermining Netanyahu with his pier-building plan
and the Gaza supply airdrops. As I have pointed out (and currently seem to be the only one
saying), the pier effectively forces a ceasefire on Israel. That's because Gaza is so small,
Israel cannot risk an errant rocket hitting American troops anchored off of Gaza's coast.
Leftists used to hate it when America interfered in the internal politics of another nation,
especially nations that were hostile to America. Now, though, it's a good thing because
Israel is the left's enemy.
Report:
Biden Trying to 'Collapse' Netanyahu Government, Mid-war. U.S. President Joe Biden is
reportedly attempting to force the "collapse" of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in the middle of a war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and a potential war against
Hezbollah in Lebanon. Biden has been increasingly hostile to Netanyahu in his public remarks,
recently saying that Netanyahu is "hurting" Israel more than he is helping it through his conduct
of the war. (Netanyahu fired back, saying that Biden was "wrong.") Now, New York
Magazine reports that the Biden Administration is actively looking for ways to force
Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, which has been remarkably unified, to fall apart, which would
bring about early elections.
Joe
Biden Marks Ramadan with Sympathies for Muslims and Their 'Immense Pain'. President
Joe Biden marked the beginning of Ramadan by issuing a statement recognizing the "moment of immense
pain" for many Muslim Americans while affirming his efforts to deliver humanitarian aid into
Gaza. Biden, who says he is pushing to establish a truce in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war,
wrote in the statement Sunday evening: ["]Tonight — as the new crescent moon
marks the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — Jill and I extend our best
wishes and prayers to Muslims across our country and around the world. The sacred month is a
time for reflection and renewal. This year, it comes at a moment of immense pain. The
war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people.["]
Biden
Is Spreading Hamas Propaganda. The Gaza Health Ministry's casualty numbers,
incessantly repeated by our media, are fake. Anyone with an ounce of sense or basic
comprehension of the situation knows they're fake. They have always been fake. So, we
must assume one of three things about people who spread Hamas' claims: They are 1) irredeemably
stupid, 2) propagandists for terrorists, or 3) both. Make what you will of the
president, but in a speech celebrating Ramadan, Biden repeated the claim that "30,000 Palestinians
have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children." The president of the
United States now not only rejects the claims of our allies in Israel but accepts the declarations
of a group that is not only on the Justice Department's terror list — one that recently
murdered, raped, and kidnapped American citizens. A few weeks after the Oct. 7 attack,
as Jeryl Bier reminds us, Biden admitted Hamas casualty numbers were fake, saying he had "no
confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using."
How
the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers. The number of civilian casualties
in Gaza has been at the center of international attention since the start of the war. The
main source for the data has been the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, which now claims more
than 30,000 dead, the majority of which it says are children and women. Recently, the Biden
administration lent legitimacy to Hamas' figure. When asked at a House Armed Services
Committee hearing last week how many Palestinian women and children have been killed since
Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was "over 25,000." The Pentagon
quickly clarified that the secretary "was citing an estimate from the Hamas-controlled Health
Ministry." President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that "too many,
too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and
children, including thousands of children." The White House also explained that the president
"was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties." Here's the
problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who
understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women
and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters. If Hamas' numbers are faked or fraudulent
in some way, there may be evidence in the numbers themselves that can demonstrate it.
Hamas
Is Seizing Food Aid Meant For Gazans and Selling It on the Black Market. According to
a new report, the terrorist-backed group Hamas is seizing food supplies from Gazan civilians and
selling it on the black market for extraordinary prices. The editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem
Post Zvika Klein told a senior Israeli defense official that Hamas is exaggerating the country's
food shortage, saying that every family has enough food to survive. However, Klein pointed
out that Hamas is using the supply to its advantage. "The food shortage and use of the word
'hunger' have been exaggerated," the defense official told Klein. He said that the food
Israel has shipped to Gaza has "immediately been taken by Hamas terrorists, who then sell some of
the supplies for ten times more than what it's worth." The official reportedly told Klein that
gangs working for Hamas seize the food and aid supplies that are delivered by Israel and the United
States at gunpoint.
Joe Biden makes it clear whose side he's on. Biden
to announce US military-led mission to build port on Gaza coast to boost aid.
President Biden will announce during his State of the Union address Thursday that he's directing
the U.S. military to lead the construction of a port along the coast of Gaza on the Mediterranean
Sea to boost the amount of aid getting to Palestinian civilians. "We know the aid flowing into
Gaza is nowhere near enough and nowhere near fast enough. The president will make clear again
this evening that we all need to do more, and the United States is doing more," a senior
administration official said on a call with reporters. The port would be able to receive
large ships that can bring in food, water, medicine and other supplies into Gaza, which has been
under fire for months as Israeli forces carry out shellings and military operations in response to
Hamas's attacks last October.
Israeli
envoy: 'UNRWA must be defunded, dismantled'. The head of UNRWA, the scandal-plagued,
Palestinian-only refugee aid agency, told the U.N. General Assembly that his agency is "at a
breaking point" after the United States and others suspended funding, pending an investigation of
UNRWA staff's ties to Hamas. The Israeli envoy to the global body told UNRWA good riddance.
"After all that has been exposed about UNRWA, it's very clear," Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador to
the United Nations, told the General Assembly on Monday. "UNRWA will never again operate in Gaza
as it has prior to Oct. 7. Its role in Gaza is finished and it must be replaced immediately.
UNRWA must be defunded and dismantled."
UN
finally says Israeli women were raped by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Areport
published by the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
Sexual Violence in Conflict indicated that the international body had "reasonable grounds" to
believe that Hamas terrorists raped Israeli women on October 7, according to the Associated
Press. The international body also suggested that Hamas used "sexualized torture" and other
cruel treatment of women during its surprise attack against the Jewish state. The development
comes after Hamas defenders have insisted that the rapes never happened. The report went on
to note that in some of the horrific incidents, the Israeli victims were raped just before being
killed. And in other cases, Hamas terrorists raped women after they killed them.
It's
chilling how quickly the October 7 massacre is being forgotten. he sight of
anti-Israel propaganda, especially stickers and posters about "Israeli apartheid" and various spins
on this slander, is utterly commonplace — and has only become more so since
October 7. Whenever I can, I peel this nasty stuff off station walls, benches, lampposts
and the like. At the end of last week, I plucked a big round one off a bike rack outside a
university in London. It consisted of a giant blue Star of David crossed out with a red bar
reading: "Boycott Israeli genocide". It also featured a red rim around the circle that said:
"Boycott Child Killers... Boycott Terror... Boycott Liars... Boycott Thieves". It was a lot
of anti-Semitic tropes to pack into one sticker. The Jew-menacing tenor of such material has
become considerably more pronounced in the past month or so, as Israel's programme of eradicating
Hamas continues. It is beginning to feel as if the world has dropped all pretence of
acknowledging what started the whole thing in the first place.
Hamas
Isn't a Terror Group, Says UN Relief Chief. No sooner had Martin Griffiths, the UN's
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, declared that
Hamas was not a terrorist group than it came it light that at least 30 UNRWA employees actively
participated in Hamas' Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis. So now we see: of course
Hamas isn't a terror group. It's a UN agency. The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that
Griffiths said: "Hamas is not a terrorist group for us, as you know, it is a political movement."
Yeah, sure, that's it: Hamas is a political movement that engages from time to time in mass
rape and murder. Really, how far off from that are the Democrats? Give our sinister
stateside authoritarians a few years, and they could be giving Hamas a run for its money.
While
Biden Pushes Ukraine To Fight, He Demands Israel Surrender. Joe Biden has not only
promised to veto any standalone Israeli aid, but he's reportedly circulating a draft resolution
within the United Nations Security Council that would compel the Jewish state to stop its ground
offensive in Rafah and, effectively, give Hamas a pass. Beyond that, the U.S. is also
reportedly thinking about circumventing Israel and formally recognizing a Palestinian state.
In other words, while Ukraine is prodded by the United States to fight for every inch of its land,
Israel is prodded to commit suicide. Indeed, anyone who dares to suggest the United States
push Ukraine to negotiate a settlement with Russia is framed as a democracy-hating Putin
shill. Yet, before we even knew exactly how many Israeli women and children had been
murdered, raped, and kidnapped by Hamas, Democrats were demanding Israel negotiate with
Palestinians to create a potential three-front Iranian-proxy terror state on its border.
Radical
Democrats Want The Same Fate For America As Hamas Does For Israel. After I attended a
recent screening of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack footage, it became clear to me that Americans
are overwhelmingly taking the wrong message away from the still-unfolding Israel-Hamas war. [...]
The Oct. 7 footage largely reiterates what we already know: Jihadis find delight in
murder. They quite literally have a religious obligation to slaughter innocent
people — in this case, Israelis — who belong to ethnoreligious groups outside
their own. If you followed along with the events of Oct. 7 as they occurred or viewed
social media footage of the attack in its immediate aftermath, this will sound familiar.
Islamist soldiers gleefully decapitated noncombatants, burned people alive, and slaughtered people
in their homes. They butchered parents in front of their children, giddily stomped on the
heads of those they massacred, and shot people in their backs as they attempted to escape.
When they returned home, they were greeted as heroes. Gazans flooded the streets to run
alongside pickup trucks filled with bodies — some lifeless, some alive for political
capital. All of this was done to victorious shouts of "Allahu akbar."
And the Winner
Is — Hamas! What will happen if Hamas is allowed to win this war? If
Hamas is permitted to accomplish what it intended by its mass murders, kidnappings and rapes?
If the victims of these atrocities — the people of Israel and all countries fighting
terrorism — lose? If the prospects for peace in the region and the Free World are
seriously damaged? If the relationship between the US and Israel, and the loss of faith in
the US as the guarantor of freedom, continues to be fractured? Instead, the Biden
administration may be rewarding Palestinian terrorists by unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian
state, which will, of course, soon become militarized. The failures of UNIFIL to keep peace
in South Lebanon and UNRWA to counter terrorism in Gaza should suggest caution.
Biden
Regime Plans to Give Hamas a Grand Reward for Murdering 1,200 Israelis. It has been
clear for quite some time that the Biden regime, despite its show of support for Israel, is really
on the side of Hamas. Now the regime is in serious talks to respond to Hamas' brutal and
inhuman murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023 by giving it the biggest reward of all: a
Palestinian state. If you are skeptical that Old Joe and his henchmen are really on Hamas'
side, consider the fact that, in November, they enabled the release of ten billion dollars in
frozen funds to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hamas' primary financier. That followed
$100 million in "humanitarian aid" to Gaza and the West Bank on Oct. 18, less than two
weeks after the massacre. Biden huffed and puffed about how that $100 million better not
end up in the hands of Hamas, but really, who else was there in Gaza who could receive it and keep
it from the jihad terror group? Hamas-linked UNRWA? As if all that weren't bad enough,
now the Biden regime is planning to follow it with the worst betrayal of all of our most loyal ally
in the Middle East.
Israel
claims dozens more UNRWA staff took part in October 7 attacks. Israel has
identified dozens more UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) workers who it claims took part in the
October 7 Hamas attacks, the country's defence minister told The Telegraph. Speaking at
a briefing for journalists in Tel Aviv, Yoav Gallant also said more than 1,400 workers from the UN
Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees were members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic
Jihad. The figure amounts to around 12 percent of the agency's workforce. Several
countries, including the UK, suspended their financial aid to UNRWA after Israel provided the
agency with evidence showing that a dozen of its members were involved in the Hamas massacre.
Mr Gallant shared what he said was evidence that more UNRWA workers were involved than previously
claimed. "In addition to these 12 workers, we have significant indications, based on
intelligence, that over 30 UNRWA workers participated in the massacre, facilitated the taking of
hostages, looted and stole from Israeli communities, and more," he said.
Lots of people work two jobs these days. 'Journalist'
Moonlights As Hamas Operative (Or Is It the Other Way Around?). Many leftists have
made their allegiances clear in the war between Hamas and Israel. This includes members of
the mainstream media who have sought to equivocate between Islamic terrorists and the Jewish
state — and sometimes report outright lies. One journalist has taken his bias
toward Hamas to an extreme, and it won't shock you when you find out what outlet he works
for. The Times of Israel reports that "A Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera
appears to also be a commander in Hamas's military wing, according to images and documents
recovered by the IDF in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war against the terror Palestinian terror
group." [Tweet]
Directly
beneath UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, IDF uncoverstop secret Hamas data center. Beneath
the Gaza Strip headquarters of the controversial United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees,
known commonly as UNRWA, the Hamas terror group hid one of its most significant assets, the Israeli
military has revealed. The subterranean data center — complete with an electrical
room, industrial battery power banks and living quarters for Hamas terrorists operating the
computer servers — was built precisely under the location where Israel would not
consider looking initially, let alone target in an airstrike. The revelation of the server
farm comes amid other accusations of UNRWA collusion with the Gaza-ruling terror group and the
entanglement of the UN body that provides welfare and humanitarian services for Palestinian
refugees from the 1948 and 1967 wars and their descendants.
Double Exposure.
Every day the Israeli Defense Forces find more proof of the perfidy of the UN and UNRWA. Did you
guess that the UN's demand for a quick ceasefire was intended to conceal this? If so, you
guessed right. This week, among other things, the IDF discovered Hamas Intelligence
Headquarters and an enormous tunnel beneath UNRWA HQ in Gaza equipped with a huge server and data
farm which was receiving its electricity from UNRWA sources. I'd hate to prejudge the honesty
of the UNRWA officials who claim they'd no idea what was going on under their feet — I
mean, they might have thought there were giant hordes of very big moles under their HQ. Still,
their denials strain credulity. Indeed, tunnels and tunnel entrances and weaponry and
sometimes even terrorists have been found in every UNRWA facility in Gaza. Ha
UNRWA, the Greatest
Welfare Scam Ever. UNRWA's brief for 75 years has been supporting millions of
"Palestinian refugees" when, truth be told, there is nothing Palestinian about these people.
And neither are they refugees. The historical record is clear: There never was in the
Promised Land a people calling themselves "Palestinians" and were called that by others. A
Biblical generation prior to the first Zionist Congress in 1897, American novelist Herman Melville
in 1857 made a pilgrimage to the Land, then under Muslim rule for twelve of the previous fourteen
centuries, that he described as "a caked, depopulated Hell." A decade later, that other
American writer Mark Twain made his pilgrimage and likewise reported the land "sits in sack cloth
and ashes." Neither in writing of his pilgrimage mentioned running into any "Palestinians."
Prior to the Zionist movement under the Turks, there was no such living political entity called
Palestine. Jerusalem no less was a neglected shamble. It never meant anything to
Muslims except for a miracle story about Mohammad flying in one night on a flying horse.
Biden
Opened the Floodgates of Hell. President Joe Biden's foreign policy has collapsed.
[...] Hamas leaders have fled Qatar and are now hiding out in Qatari diplomatic missions in
Morocco, where they are unwanted by the King, and in Algeria, where they are welcomed by the
regime. Iran, therefore, effectively has operatives at the western end of the
Mediterranean. In December, the regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) publicly
threatened to close off that body of water, just as it has essentially crippled shipping through
the Red Sea. With terrorists close to the Strait of Gibraltar, the IRGC might be able to make
good on what otherwise appears to be a wild boast. Hamas operatives have also fled Qatar for
Turkey, which controls access to the Black Sea, and Lebanon.
Students
at School Run by UNRWA Boast about Wanting to Murder Jews in Shocking Video. Students
at a school in East Jerusalem run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees (UNRWA) were recorded in a recently resurfaced video explaining how they've been taught to
murder Jews and take part in the generational struggle to reclaim land which they believe belongs
to Palestinians. The documentary was shot in 2022 in a school in the Shuafat refugee camp in
East Jerusalem and recently resurfaced amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In the video,
students who appear to be as young as seven or eight years old tell an interviewer "we have been
taught that the Jews kill our children." "Stabbing and trampling Jews brings respect to the
Palestinians," says another child. Another student explains that she is "ready to carry out a
suicide attack." [Video clip]
'Holy'
War Against Israel. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a religious, "holy" war
against Israel, known as Jihad. The principle of Jihad rejects all laws of the Old World of
infidels and calls for a revolutionary struggle for the triumph of Islam. At the same time,
Jihad is interpreted as the use of violence in various forms to achieve a religious ideal.
Hamas called this war the Al Aqsa Flood after the name of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque.
This war was not started under the slogan of liberating Palestine, but as a war with a religious
goal at its core. Hamas is a Sunni organization belonging to the Muslim Brothers
current. The goal of the Muslim Brothers is to remove non-Islamic governments and
establish Islamic rule on a worldwide scale by recreating a Great Islamic Caliphate.
The terrorist organization Hamas, a branch of the Muslim Brothers, has turned the Palestinian
struggle into a religious struggle.
UNRWA
is worse than you think. This is the story of UNRWA — the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. On Friday, it announced that
it was investigating allegations that 12 of its employees in Gaza took part in the Hamas pogrom of
7 October. Israel alleges that these UNRWA staff, people literally on the payroll of the UN,
carried out acts including abduction, distributing ammunition, coordinating attacks and actual
murder. UNRWA says it has dismissed the suspects and is investigating the claims. In
response, some Western nations, including the US, the UK and Australia, have suspended funding to
UNRWA. As well they might. Who wants their hard-earned tax dollars going to an organisation
that reportedly harbours neo-fascists? Which allegedly counts among its workforce Jew-haters
of such a twisted, devoted nature that they're willing to assist in the worst anti-Semitic rampage
since the Holocaust? Suspending the flow of money to UNRWA while officials figure out whether
its staff really did take part in that racist, rapacious onslaught against Jewish men, women and
children seems a reasonable decision to me.
UNRWA
staff took part in Be'eri massacre, kidnapping. Israeli intelligence material handed
to the United States reveals the extent of United Nations Relief and Works Agency staff
participation in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. The New York Times on Sunday published
details regarding the involvement of 12 UNRWA employees in the Hamas-led terrorist attack in
southern Israel — 10 Hamas operatives and one affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Wall Street Journal also reviewed the dossier, publishing additional findings from the
Israeli intelligence reports on Monday, including that around 10% of the U.N. agency's 12,000-strong
Gaza staff have ties to Islamist terrorist groups. One of the UNRWA workers is accused of
kidnapping a woman, another of participating in the Kibbutz Be'eri massacre in which nearly
100 people were murdered, and a third of distributing ammunition. "UNRWA's problem is not
just 'a few bad apples' involved in the October 7 massacre. The institution as a whole is a
haven for Hamas's radical ideology," a senior Israeli government official told the Journal.
Several
Countries Halt U.N. Agency Funds over Alleged Involvement in October 7th Terror Attacks on
Israel. The United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Canada, and Australia have all announced
that they will suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over
allegations that staff actively participated in the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on
Israel. On Friday [1/26/2024], UNWRA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini that his agency
has fired several staff members after receiving Israeli intelligence claiming that at least 12
UNWRA staff members participated in the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that saw the Palestinian
Islamists butcher around 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and kidnap
over 250 more, some of whom remain in captivity to this day.
Why
Biden Wants Israel to Scale Down Its War in Gaza. Young voters are already frustrated
that Joe Biden couldn't deliver on an actual student loan bailout. Biden didn't have the
votes in Congress to pull off something of that scale, and doing so by executive decree was later
deemed constitutionally questionable. He did so on a smaller scale because Joe, like
crackhead Hunter, thinks the rules don't apply to him. Still, it hasn't masked the fact that
young voters are souring on Joe; they think he's too old, and now he's enabling genocide in
Gaza. You know there's no genocide in Gaza. Still, the kiddos and the Muslim voters
here think Treblinka 2.0 is unfolding before our very eyes, blinded to the fact that Hamas
committed an actual genocidal terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Israel is killing
terrorists. The Palestinian people support Hamas and their attacks. I'm not crying over
the death toll. Nevertheless, Biden dared to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose
nation experienced the equivalent of a dozen 9/11 attacks in proportion to population, to scale
down the war... because it's hurting his re-election chances[.]
10
Questions That Will Determine Who Becomes the Next President of the United States. We
can't predict everything, but here are ten critical things to watch as the year goes on. [...]
[#3] How soon does the Israel/Palestinian war end? Biden has both a lot of prominent liberal
Jews and diehard anti-Semites in his base and they're at each other's throats over the war between the
Israelis and Palestinians. He desperately needs to shut that fighting down and gave his base
time to get distracted by something else. So, how long until this war ends? The sooner
that happens, the better it is for Biden and the longer it drags on, the better it is for
Trump. Because of this, you can be certain that the Biden administration is applying heavy
pressure on the Israelis to wrap the war up in the next 30-60 days. We'll have to see
how that works out.
A
world war, not a civil war. Consider the Western world's reaction to the
October 7th invasion by Palestinian soldiers, who broke a cease-fire and entered Israel.
They proceeded to rape, torture, murder and mutilate 1,400 Israelis and foreign visitors.
They also took 240 hostages. Every one of these acts is a war crime. Instead of
universal condemnation of this horror, the world condemned Israel for retaliating. The world
demanded a cease-fire, effectively saying Palestinians may attack Israel without consequence.
The Biden administration then gave the Palestinians billions in aid knowing full well the money
would be used to re-arm.
Kafka
at the International Court of Justice. Hamas recently beat the competition with a
demonstration of savagery unlike the earlier improvised pogroms in Europe to which it has been
compared. October's slaughters were plotted with crucial input from Gazans employed in
Israeli homes they had scouted and mapped for the purpose, making this the first military campaign
designed to culminate in acts of beheading, torture, and rape of predetermined
victims. As attempts to destroy Israel through conventional warfare had only made Israel
militarily stronger, the new tactics aimed at destroying the Jews' will to remain among antagonists
sworn never to leave them in peace. More than to intimidate, these attacks were made to
demoralize. Survivor-witnesses describe new refinements of psychological warfare. Hamas
murdered parents and children in each other's presence so as to sharpen the survivors' agony.
They took hostages — not, as others do, for eventual exchange — but to taunt
the country with images of prisoners' suffering, and fear that many would never be returned.
Oct. 7
Was Worse Than a Terror Attack. It Was a Pogrom.. Eyal Barad was in the safe
room of his home in Nir Oz for more than 12 hours on Oct. 7 while Palestinians went on a
rampage of his Gaza envelope kibbutz, eventually kidnapping or murdering more than a quarter of its
residents. Every so often, Barad, 40, was forced to cover his 6-year-old daughter's mouth
with his hand to stifle her squeals. The little girl, who is autistic, thought the whole
thing was a game. Most of the time, though, Barad was glued to his phone, watching the live
feed of a camera he had recently installed outside his home to monitor speeding cars. Images
from the feed, which I obtained, show Palestinian women and children — some appearing as
young as 8 years old — taking part in the horror of that day. Survivors'
accounts, video evidence, and the interrogation recordings of apprehended Palestinians paint a
[condemnatory] picture of the complicity of Gazan civilians both in the Oct. 7 attack, in which
more than 1,200 people were murdered and 240 people were abducted to Gaza, and its aftermath.
Biden
[is] Forced to Stop Funding UNRWA After Evidence of [its] Agents Participating in Oct 7
Terrorist Attack. Evidence has been shown to the Biden administration and the United
Nations that 12 members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) were actual participants
in the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. Yes, you read that correctly.
The U.N. was an actual participant in the premeditated slaughter of Israeli citizens.
Compilation
of California Imams in Support of October 7th Hamas Attack. Since
October 7, 2023, when Hamas invaded southern Israel, murdered over 1,200 people, and took
nearly 250 hostage, the MEMRI research team that monitors imams' sermons in mosques in the U.S. as
well as speeches and statements by U.S. Muslim leaders and organizations has been finding, and
exposing, some very disturbing content. This content has included antisemitic and pro-Hamas
statements, expressions of support for the October 7 attacks and calls for further violence,
denial of the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas, and anti-Israel and anti-U.S. statements. It
is notable that in our extensive monitoring, our researchers have not found a single sermon
denouncing Hamas or the October 7 attacks. [Video clip]
Setting
Good Money on Fire After Setting Bad Money on Fire in Gaza. We've been told that, in
the slightly over 100 days since the beginning of this war, there have been more than 24,000
civilian casualties at the hands of the IDF. Given that that information is coming from Palestinian
"authorities" which, in Gaza is Hamas, that number is likely highly exaggerated. Even so, if
the actual number is 10% of that total, it's a tragedy. One civilian death, never mind 2,400
or 24,000, is a tragedy. It's not genocide, but it's a tragedy nonetheless. Simply,
it's war, and most wars include civilian deaths, many of them. And how did we get to this
war? As everyone knows, it started on October 7th when Hamas sent terrorists ("freedom
fighters") into Israel who raped, tortured, and murdered some 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians,
with victims ranging from 10-month-old babies to 80-plus-year-old men and women. And they
kidnapped 200 more.
Hamas
Leader: We Reject a Two State Solution. We Demand It All. Consider this
the one point of agreement between Israel and the terror network that has conducted war against it
for nearly 20 years. Although perhaps there could be another point of agreement now as
well — that October 7 changed everything. For Israel, it finally woke them
from their fantasy that Hamas would turn into a governing entity rather than a genocidal terrorist
network. For Khaled Mashal, it marked the first time that Hamas successfully turned the West
into cheerleaders for their genocide, which fuels their fight in Gaza to this day. "From the river
to the sea" means exactly what it states, Mashal asserts in this interview caught by MEMRI —
and that is a radical-Islamist Palestinian state replacing Israel entirely: [Tweet]
'I
was so naïve to think the UN would help us uncover Hamas' rape atrocities'. It
has been over three months since Hamas's attack on Israel, during which terrorists moved through a
music festival and 20 villages and towns, murdering men, women and children. Unequivocal
evidence has since shown how entire families were burned, people were beheaded, how there was the
systematic raping and mutilation of girls and women, along with the dragging away of 240
hostages. Hamas filmed in real time and streamed it on social media. The death toll
currently stands at 1,200. When the news flashes appeared on Israeli television on Oct 7,
40-year-old Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy was at the hospital bedside of her 69-year-old father, who was
deteriorating with Alzeimher's. She was just back from a family holiday in Egypt with her
husband and children, two boys and two girls, aged two through to 13. She had read and swam,
practised yoga and meditated, a last break before her new semester at the Davis Institute for
International Relations at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, where she teaches international law,
gender and the protection of human rights. But with Oct 7, her life was to change overnight.
Gazan
'Civilians' [were] Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme, Freed Israelis Say.
Israeli women and children have in recent weeks begun speaking publicly about what they experienced
during nearly two months in Hamas captivity late last year. In primetime Hebrew TV
interviews, the released hostages have confirmed that ordinary Gazans were deeply complicit in
every stage of the hostage scheme. Unarmed teens helped to abduct Jews from their homes on
Oct. 7, while Gazan women and children held some of the Israelis captive. In other
cases, Gazan doctors collaborated with Hamas terrorists to covertly treat kidnapped Israelis and
imprison them in hospitals. When the Israelis encountered Gazans on the streets, the results
were often terrifying. The revelations underscore the urgency of Israel's 100-plus-day war to
destroy Hamas and bring home the 132 hostages who, officials believe, remain captive in Gaza.
At the same time, though, the released hostages' accounts indicate how difficult it could be to
extricate either the remaining hostages or Hamas from a radicalized population.
Uncomfortable
Truths about 10/7. First, recognize the cause of 10/7. Although it is comforting
to believe that Hamas, a specific group in a relatively small area, was the cause of 10/7, this is
incorrect. The snarky among you will quickly respond that Hezb'allah and Iran were also
responsible. This is also incorrect. The correct answer is that Islam was the cause of
10/7. Second, to understand why Islam was the cause of 10/7, study its history.
Briefly, Muhammad spent the first part of his career as a prophet in Mecca, where he attracted few
followers. Even revealing the verses in the Koran on the virgins in paradise failed as a
recruiting scheme. As a failed prophet, Muhammad moved to Medina, where the verses in the
Koran changed from patience and tolerance to legalization of the murder, rape, and robbery of
non-Muslims. With the new revised Islamic moral code, the number of Muhammad's followers
rapidly increased, and they started attacking caravans and raiding villages. One of
Muhammad's first "successes" was the capture of a caravan going to Mecca, after which he ordered
some of the captives beheaded.
Hamas
tunnels are 100s of miles longer than thought with 5,000-plus entry points. Hamas's
network of terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip is even more extensive than previously thought, The New
York Times cited senior Israeli defense officials as saying on Tuesday, with new assessments
indicating it has upwards of 5,700 entry shafts. In the wake of intensive counterterror
combat operations in the southern Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis during recent weeks, Israel now
believes the Islamist group built between 350 and 450 miles of subterranean terror
infrastructure, up from a previous estimate of 250 miles.
Reuters
and AP 'Journalists' Live-Streamed Themselves Encouraging Gazans to Invade Israel. In
an escalation of earlier reporting that showed multiple "journalists" working for the Associated
Press and The New York Times participating in the October 7th attack on Israel, live-stream
footage has now been uncovered that illustrates even more direct coordination with Hamas
terrorists. As RedState originally reported, Hassan Eslaiah, who was freelancing for CNN,
Reuters, and the AP, filmed himself riding into Israel on October 7th carrying a
grenade. Another "journalist" was also implicated, though the Times defended his work despite
evidence he had advance knowledge of the attack. The claim from the Times was that these
"journalists" had simply been caught up in quickly unfolding events and were merely trying to do
their jobs. That claim has now been proven false.
Our
Incompetent Elite Is Opening Up America to Attack. When October 7 happened, we
saw the Israelis caught unawares by an asymmetrical attack where a determined and cunning foe
leveraged all its limited strengths against the Jewish state's very few weaknesses, allowing Hamas
to execute a short but bloody rape and murder spree. Understand that 10/7 was not a military
assault, though it used violent means. It was an information operation, an operation designed
not primarily to destroy the combat power of the IDF but to attack the will of the Israeli people
and force Israel to change its policies. That did not work. Israel was stronger than
Hamas imagined, and it hit back harder and more consistently than the terrorists expected, despite
the shameful backstabbing by the Biden administration and the screaming of the terrorist wing of
the Democrat Party here at home.
Hamas
Retreats in Hostage Negotiations As IDF Seizes Key Intel Center. Hamas had insisted
in recent days that it would release no hostages until the IDF withdrew from Gaza, a position that
left the Israeli government in firm position to reject. After more losses on the battlefield,
however, Hamas has had second thoughts. Now they want a day of cease-fire for every hostage
released, but without an IDF withdrawal. [...] Hamas still wants to wring strategic value from the
hostages that remain in their hands, but Israel clearly wants to disincentivize future hostage
taking by reducing that strategic leverage. They are still negotiating on a disproportional
1:3 basis, according to reports at the Jerusalem Post and other Israeli media, but even that's
limited to inmates arrested over less-serious charges. And even the 1:3 ratio is another
retreat by Hamas, which had demanded thousands of prisoners exchanged for an estimated 133 hostages
captured on October 7.
The
Girl with Six Identities. Since Oct. 7, the public has been inundated with
allegations of Israeli atrocities and human rights abuses. Israel, we're told, is committing
a "genocide" in Gaza, and, in fact, has been through all the years in which the Gazan population
has grown steadily. The strange story of one young woman, or really, one photograph, is an
object lesson in why such claims of Israeli evils should be taken with a large grain of salt.
What
Purpose does Hamas Serve? Gaza is the singular example of a totally welfare-supported
state that would collapse without this eternal 'humanitarian aid.' To my knowledge, no other
such completely dependent national entity exists. That makes Gaza an artificial statelet with
little hope for future prosperity. Why does Gaza merit this special status? Why is Gaza
not allowed to evolve or devolve towards its natural state of productivity like all other
states? Its status as a beloved ward of international bodies becomes evident from the wails
of pain emitted in sympathy for the Gazans by people like Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of
the United Nations. He had no words of comfort for Israel immediately after
October 7th. It appears to be the contention that even before the holocaust of
October 7th, prosperous Israel has always been the cause of Gaza's poverty.
Innocent
Civilians? Ever since Israel began to retaliate against Gaza's infamous attacks of
October 7, the "international community" has been wringing its hands over the danger to
innocent civilians in Gaza. But few have asked the question, how many innocent civilians are
there in Gaza? Are there any? Mia Schem is an Israeli who was held captive in Gaza for
54 days, and released as part of last month's prisoner exchange. This weekend she gave
interviews to two Israeli television stations. She described how she was shot in the arm and
taken prisoner at the Supernova music festival. She was taken to Gaza, where a veterinarian
operated on her injured arm. Thereafter she was housed with a Gazan family, who tormented her.
All
cultures are equally valuable: a deadly delusion. The October 7, 2023 Islamist
massacre of Israeli men, women, children and even animals, has had a sobering effect on some
possessed of the conceit that all cultures are equally valuable, and none have the moral standing
to criticize another. Seeing women serially raped, tortured, mutilated, beheaded, burned
alive and kidnapped, seeing babies burned alive in ovens, seeing inhuman atrocities thought no
longer possible in "civilized" humanity so gleefully committed and celebrated, tends to make an
impression, at least on those willing to recognize reality. That the demons were not only
Hamas terrorists, but ordinary Gazans, supposed victims of Hamas, was just a little more
jarring. Observing — assimilating — the anti-Semitic "protests" in
colleges and streets, Americans now know exactly how and why the Holocaust happened.
You
can't be a settler or occupier in your own land. The Jewish people's 3,800-year
history in and tie to their ancestral homeland is memorialized in the Hebrew Bible and other
writings. Archaeological findings throughout this tiny land confirm the centuries of history
of the Jewish people in their land. An overview must suffice here. Learn it, share it,
defend it, speak about it, proudly and loudly.
Israel
Is in a Strong Position, Not a Weak Position. At first glance, Israel appears to have
no choice but to buckle under U.S. pressure. After all she needs the resupply of munitions
and the protection of the U.S. veto at the United Nations Security Council. [...] But I submit they
do have a choice. Time is on her side. Let us assume that Israel switches to the
tactics demanded by Biden but takes her time in finishing off Hamas. In the meantime, Israel
should agree to nothing. She should refuse to discuss the day after and she shouldn't agree
to a ceasefire. If so, it is Biden who is left with few choices. Since Israel is
abiding by Biden's demands but slow walking the war, Biden has no option but to wait for the
destruction of Hamas however long it takes.
Media
Omit Criticism, Glorify the Red Cross's Role Amid Israel-Hamas War. Two stories on
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)'s handling of the Israel-Hamas war deserved
coverage last week: Comments on the situation in Gaza by the organization's head and the
filing of a lawsuit against it over its failure to help Israeli hostages. Unfortunately,
major news agencies echoed the former but were completely silent on the latter. This
selective omission focused all attention on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza at the expense of
the suffering of Israelis held hostage by Hamas. This view was further promoted by two
factors: The media's blindness to the Red Cross's responsibility for the Israeli hostages and
the glorification of the organization's humanitarian role.
Waste
Treatment. The Gazans have once again chosen the path of oblivion — and
let's be accurate by calling a spade a spade, because this is the group of "civilian" men who
elected Hamas to govern, these are the women who waved their brothers and husbands good-bye on
October 7th praying for a "successful" jihad, and these are the children who talk of killing
Jews. Having eschewed the opportunity to turn their advantageous strip of Mediterranean
coastline into the showplace of prosperity, independence, and comfortable living it might easily
have been, they instead committed tremendous sums of seemingly endless aid money and other needed
construction resources into creating an extensive sewer system that under normal circumstances
might have been the envy of any teeming metropolis. The human waste of this incredible
subterranean network yields rifles, grenades, and other deadly implements of warfare, and now it
has swallowed innocent hostages within its threatening vastness, under the most hideous of
conditions. It's an artery for the spread of implacable hatred, murder, and corruption of the
human spirit. It offers nothing but the promise of death.
Hostages,
Hospitals, and War. Almost twenty years ago in Iraq, U.S. and coalition forces were
faced with a scenario eerily similar to what is occurring in Gaza today — noncombatants
who desperately needed healthcare were being used as pawns by insurgents with an agenda. This
has happened at al-Shifa, al-Quds, al-Ahli Arab and Kamal Adwan Hospitals, where their director
just admitted that Hamas has been using the facility as a safe haven to hide high-ranking military
operatives. Doctors, nurses, clerks, and even the director were members of Hamas' military
wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. It is more than likely that these Hamas loyalists
have been willing participants in the misinformation campaign regarding casualty counts, which have
been unreliable and do not differentiate between civilian and terrorist numbers.
Gaza
Hospital Boss Admits He's a Hamas Commander, Used Medical Facility as Terror Base.
Ahmed al-Kahlout, the manager of the Kamal Adnan Hospital in northern Gaza, admitted during an
interrogation with Israeli security forces that Hamas used the medical facilities to advance its
military operations. "I know 16 employees in the hospital — doctors, nurses,
paramedics and clerks — who also have different positions in the Qassam Brigades," Kahlout
told Israel's Shin Bet in a video clip released on Tuesday afternoon, referring to the military
of Hamas. "They hide in hospitals because, for them, a hospital is a safe place."
Kahlout, whose hospital is located in the Jabaliya neighborhood of northern Gaza, explained to
Israeli security officials, "They [Hamas] won't be targeted when they are inside a hospital."
Hamas
Admits to Shelling Israeli Hospital. So much for the "white flag" from Hamas.
Last night the Times of Israel reported that rockets were fired from Gaza into Jerusalem and Hamas
has admitted to the attack. One rocket struck near Ramallah hospital. Thankfully no
deaths or serious injuries were reported and the Iron Dome intercepted several of the
missiles. These were the first reported rockets launched across the border into Israel since
October 16. This proves yet again that there is no "ceasefire" in place that Hamas would ever
recognize and it also goes to show that more work remains in Israel's effort to completely wipe
Hamas off the map.
What
to Do With the Terrorists? One of the critical questions emerging among the Western
commentariat regarding the Israel-Gaza war is what to do with the Hamas terrorists captured by the
IDF. Should these be detained as POWs and treated tolerantly, as specified by the Geneva
Conventions of 1949? A second question on which the answer to the first depends entails the
professional nature and capacity of the captives, that is, are they indeed "soldiers" as understood
by the term — members of a nation's armed services that conduct military operations?
Are they members of a resistance "army" who continue to abide by the rules of war, treating captives
humanely, caring for the wounded, and sparing vulnerable civilians? Or are they something else,
requiring the question to be reformulated or dismissed as immaterial or peripheral?
What
Innocent Civilians? The Biden administration is demanding that Israel take even more
extraordinary measures to avoid harming "innocent civilians" as it tries to eradicate Hamas.
Around the world, politicians and others express dismay at the alleged number of innocent civilians
who have been killed by Israeli bombardments, even while admitting that Hamas's casualty numbers
include its own terrorists, people killed by terrorists' awol missiles, and so on. But my
complaint is more fundamental. Watching videos of Israeli captives being paraded through
Gaza, and seeing "civilians" spitting on them, hitting them, joyously celebrating their capture, I
have asked: where are these innocent civilians we keep hearing about?
State
Department bypasses Congress, OKs sale of tank shells to Israel. The State Department
used an emergency authority to allow the sale of approximately 14,000 tank shells to Israel,
bypassing a congressional review process, the Pentagon said on Saturday. According to the
State Department and an online post by the Defense Department on Saturday, the review process is
generally required for arms sales to foreign nations, The New York Times reported. The sale
of the shells is valued at more than $106 million. In its notification, the Defense
Department stated that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had informed Congress on Friday that "an
emergency exists that requires the immediate sale."
WH
Quickly Distances Itself From CAIR After Exec Director Admits He Was 'Happy' Hamas Attacked
Israel. The White House is frantically trying to distance itself from the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after its executive director Nihad Awad claimed he was "happy" to
watch the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack unfold. Speaking at the 16th Annual Convention for
Palestine in the U.S. on Nov. 24, he said that the people of Gaza were merely "breaking the siege":
[...] Now if that's not openly endorsing the savage terror attacks, the rape and torture of women,
the beheading of babies, and the wanton killing of civilians, then I don't know what is. The
Biden administration launched an anti-Islamophobia initiative several weeks after the Hamas
assaults — even though antisemitism is a far worse problem in the country right
now — and listed CAIR as "one of several independent organizations" involved in the
effort. The White House is now "removing their commitment" from the initiative after Awad's
comments went viral.
There
Never Has Been a State of Palestine. There never has been an independent, self-governed
national entity called "Palestine." In Biblical times, the region now encompassing Israel was
known as Canaan, which included the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The term "Palestine"
originally referred to a small area occupied by the Philistines (as one theory has it), from whence
comes the name "Palestine." In Roman times, the area was known as Judea and was ruled by
Jewish kings, and, under the Roman Emperor Constantine, became a Christian province generally known
in Europe simply as "The Holy Land." The name "Palestine" was not legally applied until the
British occupation starting in 1915. And, of course, following the Second World War and the
Holocaust, the region was established as Israel, a Jewish state, although Arab Muslims have full civil
rights in that nation. But an independent, self-governed state of "Palestine" did not exist.
This should have been done six weeks ago: IDF
Chief Suggests Israel May Flood Hamas Tunnels with Seawater. Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi suggested Tuesday that it might be a "good
idea" to flood the Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza with seawater, commenting on a report in the Wall
Street Journal that Israel was thinking about it. The Journal report stated: "Israel has
assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas's vast network of tunnels under the
Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their
underground refuge but also threaten Gaza's water supply, U.S. officials said."
Flush
the Tunnels with the Sea: Israel to Flood the Gaza Tunnels. Jazz pointed out
yesterday that Israel seemed to be preparing to flood the so-called Gaza Metro, the tunnels that
Hamas uses to hide themselves and the hostages from Israel. Today, it seems they are moving
forward with the plan. [...] Of course this whole situation is only happening because of
Hamas. There's no way to guarantee what they'll do when their hideout is flooded. Maybe
they'll execute the hostages and blame Israel. But this approach also seems to be one that
will have the fewest civilian casualties, since as we all know the tunnels are only for Hamas
fighters not for Gazan civilians who were not allowed to use them as shelters.
Biden
Admin Pays Anti-Israel Group That Spreads Lies About Gaza War To Fight 'Disinformation'.
The Biden administration, in its efforts to fight the spread of disinformation in the Middle East,
awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to an anti-Israel nonprofit that has pushed
fake news about the Israel-Hamas war. The State Department gave $573,000 on Oct. 1 to
MENAACTION Inc., a Virginia-based nonprofit, to protect "media and society against disinformation"
and to train Jordanian journalists how to identify "fake news," according to federal spending
records. It's a topic that MENAACTION's founders know all about. Cofounder Chris Aboukhaled
pushed Hamas's claim that Israel bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. The rocket that struck
the hospital was actually fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group in Gaza.
MENAACTION's other cofounder, Mohammed Abu Dalhoum, who also suggested that Israel was behind the bombing,
claimed Israel's military response to Hamas "isn't self-defense" and accused Israel of "genocide."
Experts agree that Israel's targeted retaliatory strikes against Hamas do not constitute genocide.
CBS shows that its goal is to support the Socialist Democrats, not report the truth. CBS
Fears Supporting Israel/Opposing Hamas Will Cost Biden Muslim Vote. On Monday, CBS
Mornings joined ABC and NBC with a hair-on-fire warning for President Biden that if he
continued to support Israel and oppose Hamas, he risked losing the Muslim vote and possibly losing
the 2024 election. Of course, the source of CBS's moral cowardice in standing up to the
terrorist organization was the fear that Democrats could lose the key state of Michigan and former
President Trump could become president again. Co-anchor Tony Dokoupil kicked off the
network's kvetching by warning that "The latest CBS News poll, in fact, finds most Americans do not
approve of President Biden's handling of the conflict" and "that could make a big difference in
Michigan, the swing state where some 200,000 Muslim-Americans live."
American
Kristallnacht? A few weeks ago, I lamented how Americans had gone to bed on
October 7 in 2023 and woken up in Nuremberg 1933. All across the country, activists flooded
the streets and especially college campuses to protest not the bloody massacres of civilians by a
self-professed genocidal terrorist government in Gaza, but to blame the Jewish victims of the
murders, rapes, and kidnappings. Could this possibly get worse, I wondered?
Wondered is probably the wrong word. Predicted is more apropos. Yesterday,
America moved from Nuremberg 1933 to Kristallnacht 1938 or something very close to it, especially
in the City of (ahem) Brotherly Love. Palestinian activists took aim at a Jewish business
that have no connection to Israel, other than the birthplace of its owner: [Tweet with
video clip]
Terror
group's associates are accused of making more than $900 million by shorting shares in Israel's
biggest bank. Hamas-linked financiers made hundreds of millions of dollars of profits
by shorting Israeli stocks before the October 7 massacre, two analysts say. One
unidentified trader 'shorted' 4.43 million shares in Israel's largest bank, Leumi, between
September 15 and October 5, meaning they gambled that the
price of Leumi's shares would fall. After the October 7 attack, Leumi's share price did
indeed plummet as its operations were paralyzed, earning a $900 million profit for the trader,
who is believed to have links to Hamas.
Traders
with prior knowledge of Hamas attacks made millions shorting Israel, claims report.
Investors with prior knowledge of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre earned at least tens of millions of
pounds short-selling Israeli stocks in the days before, according to a report. Traders with
potential links to Hamas put huge bets against the Israeli economy in the run-up to the attack and
could have made more than $100 million (£79.3 million), said the 60-page study by Robert
Jackson Jr, of New York University School of Law, and Joshua Mitts, of Columbia Law School.
While the report did not name the investors, the report said they were understood to be "informed
traders anticipating and profiting from the Hamas attack". Mr Mitts told The Telegraph:
"It's not inconceivable that the profits are above $100 million based on the inferences from the
current evidence." The shorts were unusual as they occurred during the Jewish holiday of
Sukkot, a very quiet period in Israel both in terms of news events and financial activity.
UN
and Hamas: Partners in Crime. Since October 7, when Hamas terrorists
invaded southern Israel and massacred at least 1,200 and kidnapped another 240 Israelis and people
of other nationalities, the United Nations has been acting as the unofficial propaganda arm of the
Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization. The propaganda campaign's main aim —
besides smearing Israel — appears to be to build overwhelming international pressure on
Israel to agree to an indefinite ceasefire, which will give Hamas the needed time to regroup and
replenish to continue its terrorist activities and to avoid being eliminated by the Israeli Defense
Forces. To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important
to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA), is effectively embedded with Hamas in the Gaza Strip: it can be difficult to
make any meaningful distinction between the two organizations. On October 7, in fact, as
the Hamas massacre of civilians in Israel unfolded, UNRWA employees in Gaza celebrated.
Reporter claimed
Gaza couldn't use cell phones, spokesman proves her wrong. Major Doron Spielman from
the IDF spoke to Sky News about the resumption of fighting against Hamas in Gaza. [...] On the
question of Gazan residents being notified of IDF targets while not having power to power up their
mobile phones or Wi-Fi, Major Spielman responded, "I think that you and all of your viewers saw our
hostages being paraded through the streets as they were released to Israel over those seven
nights. Hundreds of Gazans were holding their phones and videoing them, so clearly, there's
enough power to power their phones when they're parading our hostages throughout Gaza. Now
that same power to their phones will be used to get the maps downloaded and look at the flyers
[giving them information on IDF attacks]."
Why
Anything Short of Total Eradication of Hamas Isn't Enough. There is the concrete
threat of the convicted terrorists freed from Israeli prison. Among those freed during the
Shalit swap was Yahya Sinwar, the current leader of Hamas in Gaza and mastermind of the Oct. 7
pogrom. (He is subordinate to Hamas' Qatar-based top brass.) On Thursday, in his first
publicized statement since the assault, Sinwar minced no words: "The leaders of [Israel]
should know, Oct. 7 was just a rehearsal." That's quite a threat. How many future
Yahya Sinwars have already been freed this go-around? The Times of Israel noted that 55% of
the first 117 terrorists released during the current swaps had been held for violent crimes,
including attempted murder, and 21% belonged to a jihadist outfit. Tragically, it is not
difficult to see what this looks like in practice. On Thursday morning, two terrorist
brothers killed three Israelis and wounded six others at a Jerusalem bus stop. Hamas claimed
credit, and it turns out the brothers had previously been imprisoned for planning terrorist attacks
on behalf of Gaza-based jihadists.
The
Torture Stories are Starting to Trickle Out and It's Gut-Wrenching. It was
inevitable. The propaganda campaign by Hamas to force its young hostages from Israel to
pretend that they were treated well in captivity is coming to an end. The truth tells a
different tale. As I have said before, Hamas is winning the propaganda war. Biden is
cowed by Muslim voters threatening to abandon him in the 2024 presidential election. He's
gone wobbly in his support of Israel. The hard truth is that we have a feeble old man in the
White House who is unable to be the commander-in-chief. He is historically wrong on foreign
policy. His underlings are running the show and a lot of them are anti-Israel. Joe
Biden is only interested in winning re-election. Jill Biden isn't ready to retire to
Delaware. This is a mess, y'all. Hamas forced the hostages to wave and smile for the
media covering their release. With the release of the first group of hostages, the press
reports noted that the older women were appreciative of how well they were treated by their
captors. One woman gave a little hug to one of the Hamas animals and the press swooned.
It was sickening. Who in their right mind would believe that that poor woman did that on her own?
Women's
Groups Silent As Rape Is Used As an Act of War. The United Nations is useless.
In case you needed another example of that statement, look no further than the silence from the
organization as women's groups document the use of rape as a weapon of war. Israeli women
were raped by Hamas during the October 7 attack. The silence of the United Nations has
been deafening. For example, Sarah Weiss Maudi, a senior diplomat and legal adviser in
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recently said that women's rights groups and Israeli
officials have documented the stories of women in Israel who were raped by Hamas and shared graphic
documentation with the United Nations and groups that claim to protect and empower women.
Weiss Maudi said they have received nothing but silence. "Their silence is so deafening that
it's sickening."
Hamas
Also Slaughters Muslims. The Hamas terrorists who attacked Israel on October 7
did not slaughter Jews alone. The terrorists also murdered and kidnapped scores of Muslim
citizens of Israel, including members of the Bedouin community. The terrorists' murder spree
made zero distinction between young and old, Muslim and Jew. More than 1,200 Israelis were
murdered in the massacre, while another 240 were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip as
hostages. Of these, scores of Arab Israelis were murdered, wounded or taken hostage.
Among the kidnapped is Aisha al-Ziadna, a 16-year-old Muslim citizen of Israel. The first
wave of Hamas's attack hit a music festival at Kibbutz Re'im which had an estimated 3,500 young
people in attendance. The magnitude of the onslaught became apparent as bloodied and panicked
people staggered into the medical tent screaming for help. Finally, the medical staff was
ordered to flee along with everyone else.
Blacklisting
is no longer enough, now the goal is justifying mass murder. It seems the rising
effort of many — mostly on the left but not entirely — to blackball and
censor their opponents in the past decade is no longer satisfied with these ugly goals. Now
it seems the goal is to justify mass murder and the rape and torture of women and children.
We can see this by what happened during a city council event in Oakland, California
yesterday. When one Jewish council member, Dan Kalb, attempted to add language condemning
Hamas to a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, he was greated by boos and an unrelenting
stream of locals not only opposing his amendment but denying that the mass murder by Hamas had even
occurred, that it was instead committed by Israeli troops, and that anyone who dared disagree with
them was a "white supremacist." The video below provides a quick selection of this hate and
ignorance: [Video clip]
The
American kidnap victim released by Hamas is a great-niece of Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a major
Democratic party donor who paid handsomely for Hunter Biden's art. The American
kidnap victim released by the terrorist group Hamas during its ongoing ceasefire with Israel is a
great-niece of Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a major Democratic party donor who paid handsomely for
Hunter Biden's art and won an appointment to a plum cultural post from President Biden. Hirsh
Naftali had publicly advocated in a series of nationally televised interviews for the release of
her 4-year-old grandniece, Abigail Mor Idan, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen whose parents were
murdered by marauding jihadists in southern Israel on Oct. 7. She is the only American
thus far among the 61 mostly women and children exchanged for Palestinian Arab prisoners in a
fragile negotiated truce. While noting that the Biden administration has worked with Qatari and
Egyptian mediators to free all the hostages, a senior administration official told
RealClearInvestigations that "U.S. officials insisted that Abigail be included on an early list as
well as the other two Americans in this category [of women and children]."
Top
CIA official posted pro-Palestine picture on Facebook two weeks after Hamas' terror attack on
Israel. A growing revolt within the Biden administration at his handling of the
Israel-Hamas war has reached the top ranks of the CIA after a top analysis chief changed her
Facebook profile to a Palestinian flag. More than 400 administration staff signed an
anonymous letter earlier this month demanding the President seek an immediate ceasefire in
Gaza. Another 1,000 employed by the US Agency for International Development echoed the call,
but State Department officials have refused to crack down on the dissent, instead holding
'listening sessions' with staff as unrest grows.
A
Primer for the Perplexed: The Nine Big Lies Against Israel and What They Really Mean.
While fabricating here and there may be every general's pastime, Palestinian terrorists and their
enablers have taken lying to a whole other level. Yet, despite building so much of their case
on a foundation of falsehoods, they keep conning the world. Everyone "knows" that Israel
occupies Gaza — despite disengaging from it in 2005; that "From the River to the Sea"
envisions a democratic Palestine — when it envisions an exterminated Israel; and, most
outrageously, that hundreds of innocent Israelis, young and old alike, deserved to be massacred,
maimed, raped, and terrorized — while others denied all the evidence that the atrocities
happened. This primer picks nine of the most popular New Big Lies Palestinians and their
enablers propagate. Let's leave the number ten for more godly commandments, while stressing
that despite being debunked repeatedly, these lies have countless lives.
The
UN's rot laid bare in Israel-Hamas war. The United Nations is again underlining its
systemic moral and political rot. Since Hamas's Oct. 7 atrocity, an assault of murder, rape,
and kidnapping which took approximately 1,200 Israeli lives, the U.N. has utterly failed in its
core mission to preserve international peace and justice in service of sovereign nations.
Instead, under the waffling weakness of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the U.N. has presented
Israel as the guilty party in this crisis. Disregarding Hamas's battlefield tactic of using
schools and hospitals as arms depots and closing his eyes to Hamas's use of Palestinian civilians
as human shields, the U.N. chief claims that Israel is committing war crimes. Addressing
Israeli military action in Gaza, he asserted this week that "We are witnessing a killing of civilians
that is unparalleled and unprecedented in any conflict since I have been secretary-general."
Cotton:
Biden 'Weakness' Resulted in Americans Being Taken Hostage, Iran Attacking. Senator
Tom Cotton (R-AR) said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that President Joe Biden's
"weakness" has resulted in "Americans being taken hostage" and Iran attacking American assets in
the region. Cotton said, "It seems like President Biden puts more pressure on Israel than he
does on Hamas."
Israel
and Gun Control. There are recent headlines and talk about Israel relaxing gun
control laws and arming citizens since the Hamas terrorist attacks October 7th. But
these narratives can be deceiving. One Israeli tactical expert, Yonatan Stern, has exposed
some concerning actions on behalf of the Israeli government that tell a different story. [...]
According to Stern, "almost nobody is allowed to own guns at all" in Israel. But most
citizens enter the Israeli military at 18, and they are issued a rifle. Americans who enter
the military are also issued rifles, but the difference is that American soldiers aren't permitted
to keep their rifles in their possession off base. "But in Israel it doesn't work like that, in
Israel, the soldiers usually leave their bases carrying their rifles with them," says Stern.
Upon discharge from the IDF, however, the rifle is taken from the Israeli soldier. And from
the sounds of it, that soldier may never be able to even get a handgun, never mind a rifle, again.
The
Insidious Reason Why Hamas Is Releasing Hostages. 13 Israeli hostages are now under
Israeli supervision and on their way home, and 39 criminals are returning to Gaza. Israel
made this exchange because of the Jewish value of treasuring each individual life. But given
that Hamas repeatedly demonstrates that they have no respect for life, even for their own civilians
whom they use as human shields, why is Hamas actually making this exchange? There is the
obvious reason that it gives Hamas days to recover and regroup, but there is another, more
insidious and dangerous reason for Hamas to make this exchange. A reason that has nothing to
do with the military war against Israel that they cannot win. This is regarding the war that
they can, God forbid, win: the war to hurt the world's opinion of Israel. Hamas has been
winning that war of public opinion since the moment Israel started going into Gaza after the
depravities of October 7. Quickly, the world forgot and ignored the horrors they perpetrated
in favor of focusing on the "innocent victims in Gaza" who were being killed in the crossfire with Israel.
Where
Are the Americans? On October 7, Gaza murdered 31 Americans and is believed to
have kidnapped 13 more, including a three-year-old child. Yesterday an initial exchange of
hostages for prisoners was carried out. Ten Thais and one Filipino were let go, but no
Americans were released: ["]The U.S. does not know when the Americans held hostage would
be released or all of their conditions, Mr. Biden said.["] We don't know what their
conditions might be, because they have been held incommunicado by murderous, anti-American thugs
for more than a month and a half. This is a disgrace. The U.S. currently has two
Carrier Strike Groups, bearing almost unimaginable striking power, in the eastern
Mediterranean. If our president were not a senile, half-witted fool, he would have told Hamas
long ago that if all Americans were not freed within 12 hours, Gaza would be reduced to
rubble. Not to mention that Gaza would never get another nickel of American money.
Manipulating
with Lies and Manufactured Sob Stories. As has been the case since the barbarous
attack on Israel by Hamas aided by Palestinian civilians, international organizations have chosen
by their silence to ally themselves with the butchers instead of condemning the 10/7 attack.
Canary Mission, which tracks anti-Semitism (and these days it's not untoward to equate anti-Zionism
with anti-Semitism, because it comes from the same fetid font: hatred of Jews and the
globalists' anti-nationalism) notes the silence of those entities from whom we were led to expect
more: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking as head of the WHO (World Health
Organization); Amnesty, the International Red Cross, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human
Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur, Human Rights Watch, the EU Commission, Malala Yousafzai, chief
of UN women. Canary Mission is not alone in this observation.
A
Monstrous Conundrum in the Middle East. Rather than be filled with joy that some of
the hostages in Israel are released, I'm sick to my stomach at the monstrous nature and sheer
audacity of the "deal." Biden is squarely on the backs of the Israelis, who know better than to
become handmaidens of Hamas. Dozens more, perhaps hundreds more of Israel's soldiers and
thousands more civilians in Gaza will be killed as a result of this "kindness." Seven-plus
weeks into what history may eventually consider one of the most sadistic, cruel, and calculated
terrorist events in world history, the Free World's common sense will continue to be in question.
[...] Examine for a moment the crazy reversal of priorities and strength we are witnessing:
• Israel values life; Hamas does not.
• Israel is a pluralistic, democratic country, and Hamas is a Hitler-like
autocracy. Copies of Mein Kampf have been found in the tunnels under Gaza.
• Israel grants the same rights and responsibilities to its Arab citizens,
while Hamas kills Arab collaborators, whether Arab citizens in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank.
• Israel provides free advanced medical care for Arabs, from the West Bank,
Gaza, and from within Israel. Hamas kills any Jews it gets its hands on and will often prevent
its people from accessing hospitals and medical care in Israel.
• Israel teaches its children (including Arabs) about the world at large
and without hate. Hamas teaches the destruction of Israel and the Jews from birth. [...]
• Israel is Western-facing and life-affirming. Hamas is a death cult.
Hamas
broke the ceasefire about 15 minutes after it began. The ceasefire between Hamas and
Israel, per the deal to release hostages, went into effect last night. Shortly after it
began, it was reported that Hamas broke the ceasefire. According to those reports, rockets
were fired into southern Israel 15 minutes after the ceasefire started: [Tweet]
U.N.
adopts eight resolutions condemning Israel, none condemning Hamas — or anyone
else. The U.N. recently adopted eight resolutions condemning Israel for various
alleged human rights violations, yet made no condemnation of other nations or groups, including
Hamas. This, after Hamas slaughtered nearly 1,500 innocent Israelis during a surprise attack
on October 7. And at a time of inexplicably rising anti-Semitism. This tells you
all you need to know about the "world body." It is nothing more than a wretched hive of scum and
villainy. Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, said via press release: "The U.N.'s
assault on Israel with a torrent of one-sided resolutions, just one month after the largest
massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, is surreal."
And morally repugnant.
Taking
Pride in Murder. [Scroll down] In other words, 97.8% of Gazans were proud
of the attack that murdered 1,200 Israelis, including many babies, women, and elderly —
the vast majority unarmed civilians. The pride question shows what Palestinians feel in their
gut about murdering Israelis. Another question asks about supporting the attack itself,
letting the respondent deal with the possibility that murdering Israelis may prove
counterproductive to Palestinian interests. When asked if they thought the attack was a good
idea, or as the poll expressed it "do you support the military operation carried out by the
Palestinian resistance led by Hamas," the results were therefore more mixed. In Gaza, 46.6%
strongly support the attack and 17% "somewhat" support it. About 35% show various levels of
reservation regarding the attack, apparently because of its devastating results in Gaza. In
the West Bank, where Palestinians have not felt anything like the power Israel has used in Gaza,
about 83% support "the operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance led by Hamas."
What
the 'Hostage Release' Ceasefire Proves. For the first time since Hamas attacked
Israel on October 7, 2023, a temporary ceasefire has been announced, and the details confirm
everything we knew or suspected about the contradictory cultures of the Israelis and the so-called
"Palestinians." It has been reported that the deal was brokered by Qatar. Not a quite
a client state of Iran, Qatar is nevertheless one of Iran's few friends and is often therefore not
on speaking terms with its other muslim neighbors. When we refer to Hamas as a client terror
group of Iran, they like to protest that they're really an independent group, but whom do they turn
to whenever a mediator is needed? Funny how often it's either Qatar or some other country in
Iran's orbit.
IDF
Arrests Director of Shifa Hospital over Evidence of Terror at Facility. The Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) arrested Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza
City, in connection with an ongoing terror investigation, as he attempted to evacuate to the
southern Gaza Strip along a humanitarian corridor. In recent days, the IDF uncovered the
terror tunnels beneath the hospital, which had tapped into the hospital's own electricity and water
supplies. The IDF also concluded that soldier Noa Marciano, who was taken captive by the
Palestinian Hamas terror organization on October 7, had been murdered in the hospital.
The IDF also discovered surveillance footage of other hostages being moved through the hospital by
armed Hamas terrorists on the day that they were abducted from Israel during the attack. And
the IDF had uncovered weapons stored within the hospital[.]
Hamas
admits it has no idea how many hostages it has — because plenty are held by actual
criminals. Amid all of Hamas's bluster and gun-waving as a bigshot military
organization taking on the Israeli war machine, negotiations for its hostages have revealed that
actually, Hamas isn't quite sure how many hostages it's holding, owing to the fact that actual
criminals are holding some of them. What? What is Israel dealing with here?
Congress
Must Investigate Antony Blinken, The Great Traitor. Antony Blinken is a despicable
con who is organizing Arab and European countries and the U.N. around the backs of our Congress and
Israel to carve up Israel and gift the Palestinians massive swaths of Israel's country, including
Judea and Samaria. That's his response for the Palestinians' murderous slaughter of
Israelis! Blinken is using Israel's need for weapons to threaten and blackmail Israel
diplomatically and impose his policies and will. Utterly contemptible. This is not how
foreign policy is conducted — as a weapon against our great ally in the middle of a
war. Blinken's driving the Obama-Thomas Friedman agenda, continuing to rearm Iran, prop up
the PLO, sabotage Israel's war effort, and deceive the American people. Blinken is a dangerous
ideologue and stupid man as John McCain warned years ago. He is obsessed and unrestrained.
He was also the architect of the disastrous and deadly surrender in Afghanistan, but has no
capacity for circumspection or recalculation. He's a committed ideologue.
IDF
Releases Extensive Footage of Hamas Tunnels Under Hospital — Bathrooms, Weapons, Even
A/C. Stunning video posted to social media by Israel Defense Forces shows extensive
Hamas tunnels underneath the Shifa Hospital complex, complete with air conditioning, bathrooms, and
large caches of weapons. In the first clip, a young soldier faces the camera and says the
footage proves that Hamas used the hospital as a terrorism base: [...] She starts by showing a
massive trove of weapons Israeli forces discovered. "We see all the equipment that the fighters
found here," she says. Then she descends into a "major shaft" of the tunnel system, which she
says connects to the larger network under Gaza. Watch as she takes us down into the
subterranean lair, passing multiple rooms, extensive wiring, sinks, an A/C unit, even
toilets: [Tweet with video clip]
How
many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it? Hamas used
Gaza City's Shifa hospital as a base of terror operations. That's the obvious conclusion
following Sunday's discovery of a large terror tunnel under the hospital along with videos of Hamas
bringing Israeli hostages inside. Now comes an important question for Congress: Which
US-funded international organizations knew the truth about Shifa and helped Hamas conceal its war
crimes? The Israel Defense Forces this weekend discovered a tunnel beneath Shifa hospital
that extends 10 meters down and 55 meters across — leading to what might be a
booby-trapped door. Special units that specialize in handling explosives have been summoned
to break through to the next section. Meanwhile, Israel also released security footage
showing two hostages brought through Shifa by Hamas terrorists following the Oct. 7 massacre
as hospital workers looked on — suggesting a widespread conspiracy to conceal both the
presence of hostages at Shifa and Hamas' terror infrastructure within the compound.
IDF
Reveals: Hamas Murdered Noa Marciano in Shifa Hospital [and] Abducted Hostages [are]
There. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released evidence Sunday that Hamas murdered
captured soldier Noa Marciano at Shifa Hospital in Gaza. It also showed surveillance footage
of terrorists taking other hostages to the hospital. As Breitbart News reported last week,
the IDF recovered Corporal Marciano's body during operations near Shifa Hospital. Hamas had
forced her to make a propaganda video in which she appeared alive one moment, and was shown dead
the next moment. Hamas claimed that she had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. On
Sunday, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari revealed that forensic analysis of Marciano's
body showed that she had minor injuries on October 7 and had been murdered at the hospital.
The
BBC's Israelophobia is out of control. Never trust a Jew. That was one of the
adages that we thought had mostly faded into history. But it has been back in vogue ever
since 7 October, when 1,200 Jews in Israel had the temerity to be massacred in their homes and
hundreds got themselves taken hostage. For years, it has been common knowledge that Hamas's
subterranean command centre in Gaza lies underneath al-Shifa hospital. It even appeared in
season two of the Netflix show, Fauda. Yet, as Israeli forces entered the hospital
yesterday and then shared pictures of weapons and tunnels, the world was still sceptical. The
IDF's images 'have not proved the existence of the sprawling Hamas base that the Israeli military
said the hospital had concealed, and which Hamas and the hospital leadership have denied', insisted
the New York Times. 'That claim has been central to Israel's justification for the
death toll in Gaza... which has killed more than 11,000 people, according to Gazan health
officials.' Gazan health officials? You mean Hamas, the same lot that decapitated the
babies? Great source.
Israel
finds Hamas rockets under children's beds, in strollers. Israeli forces found rockets
hidden underneath the beds in a child's bedroom at a Hamas terrorist's Beit Hanun home, the IDF
said on Thursday. The raid was carried out by the IDF's 551st Reservist Brigade following
intelligence gathered amid Operation Swords of Iron. In addition, dozens of kilograms' worth
of explosive material and devices were found in the terrorist's home. The explosives were
safely detonated following the raid. The IDF previously reported that it uncovered a weapons
production site near schools in Gaza, publishing footage showing the weapons storage site next to
rooms where children sleep.
Biden
Admin Pushing Coup in Israel. The Biden administration keeps talking about the urgent
need for Israel to have a post-war plan for Gaza. What that really means is that it wants the
PLO to take over Gaza. Netanyahu has opposed that for now. The Palestinian Authority is
run by Fatah, the body behind the PLO, and is just another Islamic terrorist group. And parts
of it claimed to have taken part in the Oct 7 massacres. But none of that is stopping the
Biden administration from its obsession. The thinking is that if the Palestinian Authority
takes over Gaza, it can force negotiations on a Two-State Solution and finally bring peace by
empowering terrorists. A policy that has brought nothing but terror for 30 years. And
now that Israel's government is in the way, it's time to get it out of the way.
Marching
Arm in Arm. [I]n the aftermath, of October 7th, when Hamas, funded by the ideal
faith of Iran, invaded Israel and took the lives of 1,400 people — 1,100 of whom were
unarmed, 539 of whom were too young to fight, and 83 who were too old — while 5,400
other Israelis were wounded and an unaccounted number of young women raped, we should not be
surprised that Hegelians in the American Democrat party are defending the carnage and vowing
support for the murderers. The socialist media of the United States is doing its part,
[condemning] the Israelis for defending themselves, while acting as the marketing arm of Hamas in
America, taking every statistic Hamas announces at face value and every photo image they send in
attempts to demand an immediate cease-fire, claiming any further fighting is inhumanity on the part
of the Jews — the invaded, murdered, and assaulted nation! While the unofficial
leader of the Democrat party, Barack Obama, openly states with an unabashed face that "everyone,"
including Israel, "has blood on their hands."
Israel
says it found evidence of Hamas base at al Shifa hospital during raid. Israel
officials claimed they found "concrete evidence" of Hamas operating a military facility beneath al
Shifa hospital during their overnight raid — as the military released photos Wednesday
showing a jaw-dropping cache of weapons and combat gear recovered during the search. The IDF
carried out a "precise and targeted operation against Hamas" Tuesday night inside the hospital
complex, which is housing more than 600 patients, 600 staffers and thousands of refugees displaced
by the war. The Israeli military claimed it killed several Hamas gunmen during the raid and
recovered a stash of weapons hidden around an MRI lab, including automatic weapons, grenades,
ammunition and flak jackets. A laptop was also discovered and taken for study.
Hamas' Hospital Hideout.
Turns out Hamas was always doing what Israel and opponents of jihad terror accused them of
doing: Operating out of hospitals to avoid being bombed (in violation of international law).
[...] There should be no cease in Israeli operations until they've finished the tasking of killing
or capturing every Hamas terrorist they can lay their hands on.
Democrat
Media Arm Scrambles As It Becomes Clear They Knew About Hamas Invasion Of Israel Before It
Happened. Reports have been bubbling up that the various tentacles of the Democrat
hacktivist media actually had pro-Hamas activists 'journalists' embedded with Hamas before and on
October 7th. [...] What were they thinking? What were they doing? Why didn't they
alert Israel about the impending attack or alert Israel when the true evil taking place in front of
their "embedded with Hamas" eyes became crystal clear? Obviously, U.S. intel knew about these
intel-directed 'journalists' embedded with Hamas, so there was no need to alert the White
House. They already knew.
Nazi
Revivalism in America. Until October 7, Jews were living relatively free of
religious persecution within Israel but in a region rife with antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
Responses to the October 7 massacre indicate that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are
global. Shamefully, this includes the United States, where politicians, college students, and
other protesters, many of whom were BLM protesters who protested to end racism, now participate in
protests that stoke racism and incite violence against the most persecuted people in the world.
October
7 revealed the new Nazis. [Scroll down] As for Israel, the Neo-Cons side
with the people who broke the ceasefire, turned the Rave for Peace into the Rape for War and hide
behind (actually beneath in tunnels) women and children to shield them from a counterattack.
Our support for Israel no longer can be financial. We ran out of money somewhere in the
second Bush administration. But certainly American should stand by Israel and instead of
calling for a ceasefire, lobby to finally end the Palestinian terrorist war by destroying the
terrorists. International law should require it. Let us review the war crimes of the Palestinians.
[#1] Attacking civilians instead of military targets.
[#2] Not wearing uniforms.
[#3] Rape, torture and mutilation.
[#4] Taking civilian hostages.
[#5] Using schools, hospitals and mosques to shield military personnel, equipment and bases.
But marchers and rioters for Palestinians portray Israel as the war criminal because that fits their
narrative. This is dangerous.
Be sure to check for another one under the orphans' home. IDF:
Hamas command center found under Gaza children's hospital; hostages were likely held there.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Navy's elite Shayetet 13 commando unit and the
401st Armored Brigade have raided Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, which treats children, and that
Hamas operatives were holed up there. He says he has just returned from the hospital, having
filmed there, and that the IDF has evidence indicating that hostages were held there.
"Underneath the hospital, in the basement, we found a Hamas command and control center,
suicide-bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and other weapons,
computers, money, etc," Hagari says, in an English-language press conference. "We also found
signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages here," he says, adding that "this is currently under
our investigation," but that the IDF has intelligence to verify it.
It's
an open secret what's really going on in al-Shifa Hospital. Reports of al-Shifa
Hospital coming under siege by the IDF are not the only fishy thing going on. The media has
conveniently been leaving out the well-known fact that Hamas uses the site as a base of
operations. As Israel fights Hamas, Hamas hides behind civilians and has even been preventing
the hospital from receiving fuel offered by Israel — all while Israel has been
attempting to evacuate civilians from the tyrannical rule of Hamas terrorists. [Video clip]
No surprise here. It would be news if the subterranean infrastructure had NOT been found at mosques and schools. Hamas
terror infrastructure found in Gaza university, mosque. Israeli forces on the ground
in Gaza continue to find Hamas terrorist infrastructure located within civilian sites, including at
Al-Quds University and the Abu Bakr Mosque, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday. Israeli
forces uncovered a section of the mosque housing a large number of explosive devices and flammable
materials, according to the IDF. Soldiers also confiscated dozens of weapons, military equipment
and Hamas operational plans. [Tweet with video clip] IDF troops also found a
"large number of weapons" inside the children's room of the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic
Jihad terrorist. During operational activity in Beit Hanoun in the northeastern Gaza Strip,
IDF troops located a tunnel shaft, Hamas intelligence materials and weapons. IDF Spokesman
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said during his regular evening press briefing on Sunday that "troops
continue to strike the Hamas strongholds in the heart of the Shati Camp and to deepen the raids in
the heart of Gaza City."
It's
not about Israel: We are the target. Realize that Israel is a distraction; the
U.S. is the target. The October 7 atrocities were not a spur of the moment attack, but a
deliberate plan to force Israel into war. The attack was not initiated by Hamas. Iran
uses Hamas as a tool in their quest to destroy Israel and the United States and further their plans
to take over the world. Using deception to turn an enemy's focus away from a sneak attack,
and corrupting leadership from within, are tactics recognized by both the Iranians and the Chinese,
who signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement in 2021. Israel is the "Little Satan,"
but the United States is the "Great Satan." We are the real target. Something more
devastating than 9/11 will happen soon and it will be blamed on Hamas, not Iran and/or China.
Israel
Pushes Back on 'Misinformation' on Fighting near Gaza Hospitals, Hamas HQ. Israel
pushed back on what it called "misinformation" about fighting near hospitals in Gaza such as Shifa
Hospital, where Hamas has established its headquarters, saying that it was not targeting hospitals
and was helping patients and personnel to evacuate. It has been undisputed fact for more than
a decade that Hamas uses the hospital site for its underground headquarters, and also as a facility
to to torture and kill political dissidents. The IDF also presented evidence of Hamas tunnels
underneath other hospitals, and Hamas rocket launches near hospital facilities.
If
America Does Not Win, Its Enemies Do. [Scroll down] As the Israeli
military started targeted strikes in the Gaza Strip to destroy rocket launchers and other weapons,
Hamas broadcast images of destroyed buildings and injured Gaza residents, the Hamas leaders in Gaza
began to present themselves as the "real victims". "Forgetting" the atrocities that had just
taken place in Israel, Western European leaders started to say that Israel's response must be
"proportionate". None of them, however, explained what a "proportionate response" is. What
proportionality is not, is that Israelis should be permitted to kill the same number of babies and
rape the same number women as the Palestinians did. It simply means that any strike has to be
proportionate to a legitimate target. It is not proportionate, for instance, to use a nuclear
bomb to take out a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. While it is important to try to
ensure that there will be as few civilian causalities as possible, it is a war crime to use
civilians as "human shields".
Israel
is Defending the Living, Not Avenging the Dead. Israel, like any civilized society,
is not retaliating for the unspeakable crimes committed against those who are now dead, who were
tortured and burned alive in the most savage and systematic fashion on October 7. No
amount of warfare will bring them back. Israel is defending the living, not avenging the
dead. After the wildfire of savage butchery was extinguished by Israeli personnel, security
services discovered that Hamas was turning the killing fields into staging grounds for an even
greater assault on the rest of Israel. Massive ammunition dumps, field hospitals for
jihadists, and other bases of forward operations showed that their goals were the annihilation of
Israeli civilization. So how are we to judge the way Israel conducts its war in Gaza?
On what basis are we to decide whether the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is making correct ethical
decisions? What other wars can we compare it to?
This
Is Iran's Mullahs' War Against Israel and the United States. The Biden administration
continues to turn a blind eye to Iran's involvement in the war against Israel, the Jews and in fact
all "infidels" — not least of which is "the Great Satan," the United States. In
recent weeks, Iranian proxies have attacked not only Israel and the Jews, but also at least 41
strikes against US forces in Syria and Iraq, during which 46 US servicemen were wounded and one was
killed by a drone; and with more than 83 attacks on US troops since Biden became president.
These assaults came in addition to an attempted assassination on US soil by the Iranian regime of a
foreign diplomat in 2012, and threats to assassinate former US officials, complete with a $1 million
bounty, in 2022. The US responded to these attacks by cancelling sanctions on Iran,
thereby enabling it to reap close to $60 billion by exporting its oil and gas — and
comfortably to finance its terrorist proxy war on Israel and attacks on US forces in the Middle East.
The US also issued countless bland warnings and struck four unmanned weapons depots in Syria.
Hamas
[is] Shooting Civilians to Prevent Evacuation. Hamas desperately needs "martyrs" in
order to carry on their propaganda campaign. I was a bit skeptical of the claim until I saw a
number of videos demonstrating that it is, in fact, almost certainly true. I was skeptical
because, in war, all sides engage in narrative building. Hamas has proven quite adept at it,
and as far as I can tell Israel has no version of "Pallywood" (can you imagine what kind of
fine-toothed comb the MSM would subject Israeli propaganda to?), but it is important to do your
best to avoid seeking things that confirm your priors. We all do it, of course, so I try to
be skeptical when possible. Hamas representatives themselves have made clear that civilian
casualties are not their concern, and even that they consider them a good thing since "martyrs" go
to heaven. [Tweet] Hamas' plea to the world for a cease-fire is based on the claim that
Israel is committing a "genocide" in Gaza. Such a claim is absurd on its face for many
reasons, not the least of which is that Hamas is all in favor of genocide as long as the victims
are Jews.
Associated
Press Cuts Ties with Gaza Freelancer Accused of Being Embedded with Hamas Terrorists.
The Associated Press (AP) issued a statement Thursday in response to serious allegations against
freelancers who contributed to AP's coverage of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration is demanding answers from several
prominent news agencies after criticism emerged of their photographers and their links to Hamas on
the day of its barbaric attack.
Hundreds
of anti-Israel protesters accuse Biden of backing 'genocide' as they swarm NY Times
building. Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters descended on Bryant Park Thursday
afternoon and later occupied the lobby of the New York Times building as they called for the
elimination of the Jewish state and accused President Biden of backing "genocide." The crowds
of demonstrators labeled Israel a "terrorist state" while chanting "From river to the sea,
Palestine will be free" — a phrase known to call for the eradication of Israel —
as they marched through midtown on Thursday evening. The large rally is the latest in a series
of fiery protests to engulf the Big Apple since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack that led Israel
to launch retaliatory strikes.
Journalist
Participated in Hamas massacre, Ecstatically Displayed Soldier's ID Card, Helmet and
Magazine. This video shows Gazan journalist and actor Ali Nasman ecstatically
celebrating the abduction or killing of an Israeli soldier, by displaying the soldier's ID card,
helmet and ammunition magazine, while he participated in Hamas' massacre on October 7. [...]
This journalist who participated in the terror attack was subsequently killed by the Israel army in
an airstrike. Other journalists also reported live from the invasion and the Israeli Prime
Minister's Office has demanded clarifications from the bureau chiefs of the media organizations
that employed them, among them AP, Reuters, CNN and The New York Times.
Squeezing
the World's Vulnerable Peoples. The population of Israel is about 10 million.
This represents about half of the world's Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel
was to offer a sanctuary for Jews in their biblical home in the Middle East, in the aftermath of
Nazi Germany's mass murder of 6 million Jews. Yet currently, 78 years after the Holocaust,
anti-Israel protestors throughout the Middle East, the great cities of the Western world, and
iconic American universities chant death threats and "Palestine will be free from the river to the
sea." Their signature slogan is shorthand for the erasure of the Jewish state and everyone in it.
If
Palestinians Wanted Peace And Prosperity, They'd Already Have It. In 2005,
Palestinian Arabs were given autonomy over the Gaza Strip for the first time in their
history. To make it happen, the Israeli government forcibly removed thousands of Israelis
from the area. Without military protection, Jews would be murdered by Palestinians, who
prefer their land Judenfrei. As Jews were being evicted from their homes, some began
to dismantle the farms and hothouses they'd built, reluctant to hand over years of hard work.
In the name of peace, however, American Jewish donors purchased the 3,000 remaining greenhouses
that stood over 1,000 acres for $14 million and gave it to the Palestinian Authority,
gratis. A large portion of the donations were earmarked for "crucial equipment like
computerized irrigation systems" and other modern farming systems for Palestinians. As soon
as the Jews were gone, mobs of Palestinians showed up and broke windows, stole irrigation hoses,
water pumps, and everything else they could get their hands on, destroying everything they could,
as "police" stood by and watched. This happened before Hamas came to power. Before any blockades.
Israel
Shoots Down Ballistic Missile Fired From Yemen in Huge First. On Monday [11/6/2023],
Israel shot down a ballistic missile in flight outside of the Earth's atmosphere. This marks
a historical first time that an anti-ballistic missile has successfully intercepted a target in
space during combat. The missile was fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen and was targeting
Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used their Arrow anti-ballistic missile defense
system, which is a joint American-Israeli project first deployed in Israel over 20 years ago.
Welcome
to Biden's Kabuki Theater starring Hamas. While the Hamas wing of the Democrat party
takes to the streets to unabashedly support the annihilation of Israel, Biden and Shadow President
Obama keep playing the "two-sides" equivocation game. [...] Don't let the equivocators continue in
the bad faith arguments. Time to speak the truth to power and shut them down. This
ain't just Hamas. Everyone who mouths the phrase "Free Palestine" takes Hamas' side in the
wholesale murder of Jews because they are Jewish. Time to confront Democrats on their their perfidy.
His
Name is Mr. FAFO, Crisis Actor. The other day I wrote about Hamas' use of crisis
actors to generate sympathy for the Palestinians in Gaza and by extension Hamas. One man in
particular stood out, both for his ubiquity and for his less-than-Oscar-worthy acting skills.
He now has a name: Mr FAFO. [...] Well Mr. FAFO has been popping up all over the
place, including in a New York Times story and a video clip on the BBC. In both cases, he was
presented as a victim of Israeli aggression. German TV, on the other hand, did an entire
story about FAFO's fraud.
Geert
Wilders: "It is an Ideological Conflict, Not a Conflict Over Land". Geert Wilders,
the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, is a
well-known philosemite, possibly due to the fact that he lived in Israel during his formative years
when he was a teenager. In the following clip from Dutch TV, the interviewer uses
Mr. Wilders' experiences in Israel as the jumping-off point for a discussion about his views
on the Jewish state and the war in Gaza. [Video clip]
Was
October 7 an Earthquake for the Democrats? [Scroll down] Then Hamas
attacked Israel, and everything changed. October 7 was "the big one." It was the
tectonic shift needed to reveal the cracks in the foundation of [the average] Joe's
worldview. Now he's watching the nightly reports (including pictures and video) of all manner
of depravity. In the name of "freedom fighting" Hamas had committed genocide, femicide,
infanticide, kidnapping, and torture. It was far too much savagery for the propagandists to
hide. Hamas screwed up. It showed the world what true evil looked like. Didn't
the Palestinians just want to be free? Why burn a baby in an oven to achieve freedom from
Israelis? In Joe's mind, such acts were not relative or even necessary evil. They were
absolute, unacceptable evil. The earth shifted beneath Joe's feet a bit. Then a major
aftershock happened. A huge number of Joe's political brethren came out in support of the
attack — because it was against Jews. They said that the attack was Israel's fault.
Is
Hamas Caving? It looks like Hamas realizes that is is outmatched by Israel's military
power, and is getting desperate. According to recent reports, Hamas is now offering to
release civilian hostages in exchange for a short, five-day ceasefire. "Although the terms have
varied in recent weeks, Hamas has indicated most recently that it would release all civilian
hostages in exchange for a five-day pause, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions who
spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive matter. Israeli military captives,
whose precise number is unknown, would be retained, possibly to eventually be offered in trade for
Palestinian prisoners in Israel," reports The Washington Post.
Flood
the Gaza Tunnels. The biggest problem confronting Israel in its war on Hamas is how
to destroy the Gaza tunnel networks and the terrorist operations therein. Bombing
works — mostly — but there's a better way. Not only would it
dramatically reduce Israeli military and Gazan civilian casualties, but it would effectively
destroy the tunnel systems for the long term. That solution is to flood the tunnels with
seawater from the adjacent Mediterranean. [...] The geography of Gaza argues strongly for the
stratagem of flooding the tunnels. It would force the enemy above ground where they can more
easily be destroyed, dramatically reduce the Israeli casualties required to accomplish that task
and resolve the problem of dealing with parts of the tunnels that are too deep to destroy through
bombing. Most importantly, flooding is a permanent or near-permanent solution to the Gaza tunnel
problem. Once accomplished, pumping them out enough to be usable again would be both extremely
costly and — especially in conjunction with bombing — exceptionally difficult.
One
word explains the ugly of hypocrisy of Hamas apologists: antisemitism. Throughout
European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and
students, and radical leftists chant nonstop "Free Palestine from the River to the Sea." More
recently, they are also yelling, "Israel, you can't hide, we caught you in genocide." Consider
the hypocrisy of that dual messaging. Hamas and its supporters are openly and eagerly calling
for the genocidal end of Israel by wiping it out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean
Sea. Yet at the same time they also claim it is Israel that is committing genocide —
the very current self-described agenda of Hamas and its expatriate community of devotees!
Barbarism:
Hamas guns down its own people fleeing to safety in south Gaza. Every day a new
bottom drops out on the depths of Hamas depravities. Now we learn that Hamas is gunning down
its own people for fleeing to refuge in the south of Gaza. [Tweet] The logic of Hamas is
pretty straightforward: They want those people to serve as their human shields. Fleeing
to a safer refugee camp in the south outside the war zone throws a spanner into the works on that
plan. They wanted their human shields and those human shields did not consent, so they gunned
them down. Civilians are being forced to decide whether they should flee to safety where they
will become targets along the way, or take their chances in the war zone. It shows what a
sick, psychopathic organization this is.
IDF
Has No Plans to Enter Hamas' Tunnels, So What Are the Options? The Washington
Post has a story today about the network of tunnels dug beneath Gaza by Hamas fighters.
The entire network is estimated to stretch over 300 miles despite the Gaza strip being on[ly] 25 miles
long. It's where Hamas fighters have been hiding out since the start of Israel's military response
to the 10/7 attack. But the IDF has no intention of entering the tunnels which are likely booby-trapped.
China
Joins Hamas, Erases Israel From Map. No greater proof of John Dalberg-Acton's famous
quote about power tending to corrupt and absolute power tending to corrupt absolutely exists today
than the leadership of the People's Republic of China. Lord Acton added in his letter to
Bishop Mandell Creighton, "Great men are almost always bad men." Well, the "great men" who
rule the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have achieved what Hamas, despite its endless chants of
"From the river to the sea," was unable to do. They have wiped Israel off the
map — literally. The Wall Street Journal reported: "Internet users in China are
expressing bewilderment that the name Israel doesn't appear on leading online digital maps from
Baidu and Alibaba, an ambiguity that matches Beijing's vague diplomacy in the region and contrasts
with its attentiveness to maps generally."
Who
Gave Hamas the Cement for Tunnels? Hamas has built "a labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza, as
wide as a city," CNN reported on October 14. The tunnels were used to facilitate the Hamas
pogrom, and the 150 Israelis whom Hamas kidnapped probably are being held there. So how did
Hamas acquire the cement, despite Israel's blockade of such materials? Apparently Hamas had
some help from former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross — according to Ross himself.
Ross has been appearing as an expert commentator on major media outlets in recent days, including
on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" on October 8, CNN's "Amanpour and Company" on October 13, and
Fox News on October 14, among others. Yet Ross did not think it was relevant to mention
in any of those interviews that he himself pressured Israel to let Hamas obtain the cement —
a role he admitted in a Washington Post op-ed on August 8, 2014.
Hamas
Official: We Will Repeat October 7 Terror Attack Until Israel is Annihilated.
A senior political official in the Palestinian Hamas terror organization told Lebanese television
last week that the group intends to repeat its October 7 terror attack until Israel is
annihilated. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated the interview.
In it, Hamas political official Ghazi Hamad says that attacks on Israeli civilians are justified;
that the cost in terms of Palestinian "martyrs" is worth the ultimate goal of ending Israel; and
that Hamas will continue to mount such attacks.
Hamas
Official: We Will Repeat the October 7 Atrocities Again and Again. "Israel
is a country that has no place in our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told the Middle East's LBC
International news network on Tuesday. "We must remove that country." "It constitutes a
security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation and must be finished."
Hamad added, completely unnecessarily after the attacks on Israeli civilians we all witnessed on
the weekend of October 7, "We are not ashamed to say this, with full force." Selections
from LBC's interview with Hamad were translated and posted by the Washington-based Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI). I've been relying on their good work since shortly after
9/11/2001. [Tweet with video clip]
Hamas
Keeps Making a Clear Case for Destroying Hamas. Those of us who harshly criticize
Islamic terrorist groups are reflexively called "Islamophobic" by leftists who inhabit an
alt-reality where suicide bombers are simply misunderstood and the people they blow up probably had
it coming to them. The thing about the Islamic terrorists is that almost all of them are
pretty clear about why there is nothing "phobic" about being concerned that they might start
killing innocent people. Maybe American leftists should establish some sort of "Adopt a
Jihadi" program that, for just a few dollars a month, would allow them to get to know these killers
they champion. They'd soon find out that their pet terror projects hate Americans too and the
"Islamophobia" nonsense might finally come to an end.
Remarkable
Report: 300 Miles of Hamas Tunnels, 200 ft Below Gaza. Again, something not feeling
right about this story from The Daily Mail relay. Apparently, at some recent moment before
the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack, a reporter from Russia Today was given a tour of
Hamas tunnels below Gaza. According to the article, there are approximately 300 miles of the
tunnels, with some reaching 200 ft below the surface. The engineering to build tunnels at a
depth of 200 ft (60 meters) below the surface is a remarkable claim (think proximity to sea level).
The scale of the tunnels at 300 miles under such a small geographic region is another element that
seems quite remarkable. The report, originating from Russia Today, coming on the heels of
western intelligence trying to frame Russia in connection to an alignment with Hamas, puts
another element into the Suspicious Cat review. The report almost seems too defensive and
conveniently timed. That said, it's not impossible, just remarkable if true.
When
History is Rewritten, Look Out. With bodies yet unburied, millions of people believe
that the attack by Hamas never happened or is overblown. How is this different from the
belief that the Holocaust never happened or that the number of dead was wildly inflated or was no
worse than for other groups during that war? Freedom of speech is no longer universally
true. Words and meanings are being twisted as was done in Germany during the run-up to World
War II. [...] Are we so stupid and insular that we no longer recognize our enemies? Enemies
like Iran use the Koran to justify butchery, deceit, lying, and holy war against the infidels.
Iran hides behind Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and over a dozen other named front organizations.
"The
White House Admitted Hamas Is Holding Nearly 500 Americans Hostage in Gaza".
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke the plain truth about the nearly 500 Americans in Gaza not
being allowed to leave by Hamas: They are being held hostage by the Islamist Palestinian
terrorist group. The nearly 500 are in addition to the "less than ten" Americans known to
have been taken hostage in the October 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israel. The Biden
administration has said Hamas has been making demands for their release that the U.S. is not
prepared to meet. Only two American have been allowed to leave Hamas-controlled Gaza since
the October 7 attack that saw 1,400 Israelis and 33 Americans killed. Over 200 Israelis
and "less than ten" Americans were taken hostage in the attack and are being held by Hamas.
Four hostages have been released: the two Americans referenced above and two Israelis. One
Israeli was rescued this week by the IDF and Shin Bet.
I think option #2 is more likely to produce permanent results. Israel
to Hamas: No Cease Fire — Surrender Unconditionally or Die. "This
machine cannot be stopped," declared Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant earlier today. At
the very least, Israel will not stop the IDF, now fully unleashed in Gaza, short of total
victory. Instead, Gallant offered Hamas a different deal, which sounds remarkably like Hamas'
true 'offer' to the Israelis. "Die or surrender" sums both up nicely, no? [Tweet
with video clip] This is the same 'deal' that Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran have offered
Israel for decades. It's the same deal that the other Arab nations offered between 1947 and
roughly 1979, too.
Israel's
war against Hamas is a battle for civilization. The most barbaric and widescale
terror attack in decades took place on October 7, when Hamas Nazis invaded southern Israel and
embarked on a killing spree, massacring 1,400 Israelis and taking over 220 hostages. I will
never forget the unfathomable images of death and destruction. Hamas is a jihadi terror group
and the atrocities they committed were exactly like those of ISIS and al Qaeda. It
deliberately targets civilians and children. It is savage. And these terrorists are
solely responsible for the situation in Gaza. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from the
Gaza Strip, removing all Israeli civilians and soldiers from the territory. Instead of
becoming a peaceful entity alongside Israel, Gaza became a terror machine. Hamas is
internationally recognized as a terror organization by Israel, the United States, the United
Kingdom, the European Union and many other countries.
Netanyahu
tells foreign press: Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza are calls
for Israel to surrender to Hamas. "Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities after
the horrific attacks of October 7," says Netanyahu in comments in English to the foreign
media. "Calls for a ceasefire are a call for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terror,
to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen. Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible says
that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war." Netanyahu
says nobody would have called on the US to agree to a ceasefire following the Pearl Harbor attack
during World War II.
Hamas
Chief Tells Gazans to Die Fighting While He's Safe in Qatar. The evil madman who
leads Hamas lives in luxury with his family in Qatar. Yet he said, "Women, children, and
elderly" must die in Gaza to help our fight against Israel. He lives the good life and tells
his people to die. They should tell him to go to Hell. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
called for Palestinian civilians to die in Israel's strikes against Hamas terrorists inside of
Gaza. Why doesn't he come to die with them? The man's a psychopath. Hamas has
been committing war crimes against its own people. They shoot people in the back as they try
to leave because they use them as human shields. They continue to falsely claim Israel bombed
a hospital. They did it to themselves with a misfired rocket.
Report:
Biden Admin Threatens to Quit Supplying Rifles After Israel's Ben Gvir Purportedly Arms
Civilians. The Biden Administration became upset and threatened to quit supplying
rifles to Israel after photos emerged of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir passing them
out to "community security squads," according to Haaretz. Photos of the rifles being passed
out were posted on Ben Gvir's social media and "led to a diplomatic incident that threatened to
stop the arms shipments from the United States to Israel." The Biden Administration reportedly
does not want guns passed out to civilians nor distributed during "political events."
The Editor says...
Ri-i-i-ight. Unless the "political event" is in Ukraine.
The
West is Facing Another Munich Moment. The world is yet again staring at the near
inevitability of another global conflagration. The flashpoint is in the Middle East and the
Hitler of our time: the Mullahs of Iran. The West, led by Barck Obama and Joe Biden, have
chosen to follow in the footsteps of the self-absorbed European leaders of the 1930's in dealing
with Iran and their terrorist legions of Hamas, Hezb'allah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Ansar
Allah (Houthis) among others. The Obama/Biden policy in dealing with Iran has been to
facilitate Iran in becoming a dominant player in the region in the naïve belief that if the
West, and in particular the United States, treats the Mullahs of Iran as equals, they will evolve
into non-belligerent leaders who can be trusted. Even if that means the acquisition of
nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles and sacrificing America's only resolute
ally in the region, Israel.
How
to Defeat Hamas Fast, Cheap and Easy. According to the reports, the IDF is evaluating
two distinct options. The first option involved a full-scale assault on Gaza by infantry and
Special Forces supported by tanks, heavy artillery, and aerial bombardment aimed at destroying
Hamas positions, the infrastructure, and a wide network of tunnels with deep-penetrating
bombs. The problem with this approach is that the tunnels in Gaza are fairly
sophisticated. They boast an impressive level of engineering, constructed from reinforced
concrete, divided into separate self-contained sections by steel doors, and reaching depths up to
100 feet. The tunnels are also equipped with modern ventilation systems powered by
generators. They were built under buildings, hospitals, schools, and other civilian projects.
[...] To eradicate Hamas and ensure safe passage for the hostages, the IDF should flood the tunnels
with seawater.
The Editor says...
Just flood the mosques with seawater. My guess is that all the tunnels connect to mosques,
since the Muslims assume nobody would dare attack a mosque.
This
Halloween, ask yourself "What am I celebrating?". [Scroll down] Animals
living in the stink hole they made for themselves invaded one of the most civilized nations on
earth, a civilization founded by the survivors of a Holocaust that murdered six million of their
wives, fathers, children and friends for nothing other than their religion. The animals
invaded that Jewish nation to shoot people in cold blood, to laugh as they raped daughters, to
cheer as they burned elderly women alive, and to celebrate as they slit the throats of fathers in
front of their children. And then just for amusement, they beheaded babies in front of their
mothers. Such premeditated, grotesque, sadistic atrocities had not been seen in this world
since the rape of Nanjing nearly a century ago. The animals took hundreds of civilian
hostages, and still hold them in underground tunnels. They took the hostages not as
prisoners — they still plan to murder them — but for their own sick fun and
to use them as bargaining chips. These acts are not just allegations. The terrorists
(oops, the media now disavows that pejorative word in favor of "militants") admit it. Nay, they
boast of it. They wore Go-Pro cameras to record it all, and posted the recordings on the internet.
Chomp
Chomp, Gulp Gulp. Of course, you realize that if this tragic business in the Middle
East gets out of hand millions of people might die, maybe even you and me. Any way you cut
it, looks like Islam wants to rumble. Basic problem: the little slab of land on the
Mediterranean at issue is in the possession of one group of people and another group of people
wants to drive them out. There is no "two state solution" because there is only one place in
that place. The world has already forgotten the butchery of October 7. Islam won't
even go so far as to acknowledge that something happened there, or that it matters.
It's
not really about Israel; It's about God! [Scroll down] Oh, but to even
declare a binary world of good and evil makes global elites and leftists foam at the mouth decrying
any mention of morality. The world hates black and white assessments insisting everything is
grey because they embrace relativism — that amorphous space where anything can be
rationalized. They assert morality is individual and pliable, so any rigid concept of right
and wrong is oppressive. It's a cynical ruse to give the wicked license to excuse their
depredations and enslave their people. At its core, man just wants to do what he sees best in
his own eyes without being encumbered or obstructed by the universal axioms of a higher power; or
in short, the world rejects God.
October
7th was the manifestation of the left's foreign policies. Barack Obama, Joe Biden,
and all the rest of the Democrat Inc. worked very hard to secure financial stability for Iran with
the Iran nuclear deal. Why would you ever give a country that spreads terrorism around the
world, pledges death to Israel and death to America, access to hundreds of billions of
dollars? What, in their history, have Iranian tyrants done to indicate that they should be
trusted on anything, no matter what piece of paper they sign or what promises they make?
Obama even shipped $1.7 billion in cash to the tyrants to help facilitate the deal. I am
sure the tyrants used that money for humanitarian purposes for the people. In its efforts to
sweeten the deal with Iran, which is the biggest terrorist sponsor in the world, Obama put the
kibosh on a years-long investigation into the terrorist organization Hezbollah and its
billion-dollar-a-year crime syndicate activities.
Biden
is Obstructing Israel's Fight Against Hamas. Biden and administration officials began
pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli officials to avoid civilian casualties almost right
after the Hamas attacks. Warnings that were initially relayed in phone conversations were
leaked to the media. And shortly after they became public warnings. During his speech,
three days after the attacks, Biden introduced the emphasis on following the "laws of war" that
everyone in his administration would echo. Administration officials took up the theme with
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin lecturing Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on "the
importance of adhering to the law of war, including civilian protection obligations, and addressing
the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza." Avoiding civilian casualties while fighting
terrorists whose defensive strategy is hiding behind civilians and embedding their infrastructure
around mosques, schools and hospitals is impossible. But as a result of Biden's pressure
campaign, Israel issued more warnings, allowing civilians, but also Hamas terrorists, to abandon
areas and infrastructure they knew were targets. But that still wasn't good enough.
Ten
more statistics to ruin your day. [#2] We read in Breitbart that a poll shows that a
majority of Americans aged 18-24 say the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians was 'justified.'
Note, this is not because they don't know what Hamas did: "62 percent of that same group say
that the attacks were "genocidal," ...and 51 percent said it was still justified." This
doesn't seem fair to me. If you or I go and murder, or decapitate, or burn people alive, we
would not get a pass. But Hamas is about 'decolonization', bursting out of an 'open air
prison,' paragliding to annihilate people you don't like — so that's justice!
House
Passes Resolution Condemning Hamas For 'Unprovoked War On Israel'. The House of
Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution in support of Israel on Wednesday following
terrorist attacks on the country by Hamas that began on Oct. 7. House Resolution 771, titled
"Standing with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other
terrorists," condemns Hamas for beginning an "unprovoked war on Israel" and accuses them of
"slaughtering Israelis and abducting hostages in towns in southern Israel, including children and
the elderly." After the House elected Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana's 4th District
as its speaker following a three-week deadlock over the position, the resolution was quickly
brought to the floor under a motion to suspend the rules, which required a two-thirds majority to
approve. [...] Those who opposed the resolution included Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of
Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri and
Jamaal Bowman of New York — some of whom have been criticized by Democrats for their
apparent support for Gaza and criticism of Israel's response to the attacks. One Republican,
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, voted against the resolution.
How
the Hamas Attack Took Israel by Surprise. The agreement reached between Yom Kippur,
the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and Sukkot, the conclusion of the High Holy Days season,
offered an end to the explosives and rocks being hurled at Israeli soldiers on the border and the
incendiary balloons starting fires on Israeli farms. And terrorist attacks on civilians like
the murder of Batsheva Nigri: a kindergarten teacher shot and killed while driving in her car with
her 12-year-old daughter. Qatar, a state sponsor of Hamas and an ally of the United States,
claimed that it had "succeeded in de-escalating the situation in the Gaza Strip by mediating an
understanding." Hamas ended the border riots and Israelis went into the Sukkot holiday with
an apparent calm. The Israeli army and security forces continued to focus on the West Bank,
where much of the violence appeared to be coming from, rather than the Gaza Strip which seemed
quiet. But the border attacks and the negotiated ceasefire had all been part of a
feint. Hamas had been working on a large-scale attack for two years. During this time
it had calculatedly tamped down some of the violence and appeared amenable to informal truces in
exchange for benefits.
A
Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism. This afternoon [10//23/2023], at a military base
north of Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces held a grisly matinee screening of 43 minutes of
raw footage from Hamas's October 7 attack. [...] It was, as IDF Major General Mickey Edelstein told
the press afterward, "a very sad movie." Men, women, and children are shot, blown up, hunted,
tortured, burned, and generally murdered in any horrible manner you could predict, and some that
you might not. [...] The videos show pure, predatory sadism; no effort to spare those who pose no
threat; and an eagerness to kill nearly matched by eagerness to disfigure the bodies of the
victims. In several clips, the Hamas killers fire shots into the heads of people who are
already dead. They count corpses, taking their time, and then shoot them again. [...] "What
we shared with you," Edelstein said, searching for words, "you should know it." And he said he
struggled to understand how some journalists could present the IDF and Hamas as comparable.
This footage would refute that false equivalence. "We are not looking for kids to kill them,"
he said. "We have to share it with you so no one will have an idea that someone is equal to another."
All Options
Grim. On October 7, thousands of Hamas terrorists together murdered over 1,300
Israelis in villages near the border of the Gaza Strip. Most of their victims were
civilians. Among their infamies, the terrorists torched the homes of families hiding in
in-home bomb shelters, burning the families to death; they killed 260 partygoers at a music
festival and raped many of the young women in attendance; and they took some 200 Israelis into
captivity in Gaza, including toddlers and grandmothers. All told, Hamas was responsible for
the largest and most horrific attack on Jews since the Holocaust ended in 1945. Two days
after Hamas's murderous raids, Israel announced that it was shutting off the Gaza Strip's water,
gas, and electricity supplies. World leaders soon warned that the Israelis were creating an
"untenable" humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while a European Union official condemned Israel's
"indiscriminate attack on civilians."
San
Francisco Suburb's City Council Stands With Hamas. The City of Richmond, California
became the first city in America to openly choose sides in the Israel-Hamas war, and unsurprisingly
it chose the wrong side. Richmond was the first city, but rest assured: it won't be the
last. Leftist-dominated cities will begin adopting resolutions like this soon enough.
It was your typical virtue-signaling move, enhanced by the slander of Israelis and the embrace of
Hamas lies about a supposed "ethnic cleansing" of Gaza. Gaza, which houses no Jews at all, is
supposedly being ethnically cleansed by Israel, which has Arab citizens with full civil rights and
representation in its parliament. The "facts" put forward in the resolution are a perverse
inversion of the truth on the ground. Insane. [Tweet]
Obviously Obama never "left off." He's still pulling the strings. On
Israel, Biden Picks Up Where Obama Left Off. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
contends that Hamas would gain no "greater" victory "than allowing its brutality to send us down a
path of terrorism and nihilism. We must not let it." You can hear echoes of Barack
Obama's insufferable moral equivalencies imbued in that statement. The contention is a
not-so-subtle warning to Israel, who will almost surely enter Gaza and try to dismantle the Hamas
terror state — which has been indirectly and directly funded not only by Iran, the
European Union, and the United Nations but also by the Obama and Biden administrations. The
insinuation, of course, is that Israel needs to temper its inclination to engage in "terrorism and
nihilism." It is a blood libel. It is not "terrorism" to seek justice for the pregnant
woman who had her baby cut from her body or the elderly couple who was burned alive. And
eliminating those who committed Nazi-like atrocities against your citizens is no more nihilistic
than tracking down Eichmann or demanding Emperor Hirohito unconditionally surrender. Yet,
only days after the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Biden was already lecturing
Benjamin Netanyahu on how "democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more
secure when we act according to the rule of law." The insinuation, again, is that there is
something nefarious about winning a war against those who massacre your citizens.
Israel
withholding visas for UN officials after Hamas comments. Tensions between Israel and
the United Nations are heightened after a series of comments about Hamas led to U.N. visas being
denied. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Tuesday during a meeting of the
Security Council the terrorist attacks against Israel Oct. 7 "did not happen in a vacuum."
Supporters of Israel took offense to the assertion, and critics claimed the U.N. was blaming the
Jewish state for the slaughter of its own civilians by Hamas.
Israel
Delays Ground Invasion Because US Is Unprepared to Defend Itself. The story about why
Israel has yet to make a ground invasion of Gaza is becoming clear, and it is yet another
embarrassment for the United States under Joe Biden. Israel has been prepared to enter Gaza
to eliminate Hamas, but the ground invasion keeps getting delayed. The reason why? The
US is unprepared to defend US military installations in the area. [Tweet] This is
pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. However, I am not sure that the Biden Administration
isn't just pressuring Israel to delay for other reasons as well, given their neverending
expressions of concern for Gaza.
Anti-Semitic
Nuts are Coming Out of the Woodwork in California [and] New York. We've seen this
sort of thing happen before. Just a couple years ago there was a wave of anti-Semitic attacks
with notable incidents in New York City and Los Angeles. Now it seems to be happening
again. Last night a deranged man broke into a Jewish family's home in Studio City, CA and
threatened to kill them. The couple's four children were home at the time. [...] Was this guy
trying to reenact the murder of Jewish families is Israel? Fortunately, the husband forced
the man outside where police found him still ranting when they arrived. He was armed with a
kitchen knife and kept shouting "Free Palestine!" as he was arrested.
Dershowitz:
The Gay and Trans 'Students for Palestine' Should Go Volunteer in Gaza. On
Wednesday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "The Record," Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz urged the
students who have blamed Israel for the Hamas terrorist attacks against it to go volunteer in Gaza,
especially members of groups representing gay and transgender students for Palestine. He also
argued that the willingness of these groups to overlook Hamas' treatment of women, gay people, and
transgender people is the "best proof that this is all antisemitism" because "these protestors are
willing to give them a pass on these core issues, as long as they also hate Jews and the
nation-state of the Jewish people." [Video clip]
Magically
Disappearing Missiles in Gaza. Now that the New York Times has issued something that
sort of looked like a correction, though not an apology over their front-page coverage of
the explosion at the al-Ahli hospital, in Gaza City, we can get down to a serious investigation of
what really happened there. Or so you would have thought. After all, something clearly
came down in the hospital's parking lot, damaging the pavement and some cars. So allowing an
independent group of journalists and weapons experts to examine the remnants from the site should
clear things up in a reasonable amount of time. But that's not on the Hamas agenda,
apparently. You see, there are no remnants from the alleged missile or rocket. They've
simply vanished or, as the Free Beacon describes it, they were "conveniently vaporized." There's
literally nothing to see here so it will apparently remain a mystery shrouded in the passage of time.
Not
the time for a ceasefire in Gaza, says US, with Hamas still holding hostages. The US
has said now is not the time for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as the UN reports that some
Palestinians who fled their homes in the north of Gaza have returned due to a lack of food and
shelter in the south. The White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told CNN on
Monday that Israel still had "work to do to go after Hamas leadership", echoing comments from the
US president, Joe Biden, that any discussions of a ceasefire could only take place if Hamas freed
all its hostages in Gaza. The statement from the White House was at odds with comments from
UN and EU officials who on Monday called for a humanitarian pause in fighting so that aid could be
delivered into Gaza.
Guess
What 'Dangerous' Info Big Tech and Big Media Fought to Suppress This Week? Every
mainstream media outlet in America fell for a Hamas propaganda hoax eight days ago, reporting that
Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza and demolished it, killing over 500 people. Our MSM
"misinformation" censors amplified that hoax and sent it around the world before the sun rose in
Gaza, touching off riots at US embassies and violent demonstrations here in the US. Most of
these media outlets began retracting the story when the sun rose and the hospital clearly remained
standing. The New York Times — the "paper of record"! — still hasn't
yet admitted to being a Hamas repeater station. As of yesterday, the most that the NYT would
admit was that Hamas had not yet "made its case" on an Israeli attack, despite ample evidence that
the parking lot damage came from a stray rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Meanwhile, the rest of the media seems more interested in circling wagons than in admitting
complicity in a hoax that touched off violence around the world.
Leftwing
Cancel Culture Devours Its Own, and the Cries for Help Are Pathetic. Amidst a rash of
antisemitism emanating from the left following the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas on
October 7th, those who championed cancel culture are now being devoured by it. Somewhat
surprisingly, corporations have decided that championing the largest slaughter of Jews since the
Holocaust is a bridge too far. Most would consider that a justified standard. Yet, the
same people who once lauded cancel culture as a necessary consequence are now demanding that
conservatives come to their aid. Claims of hypocrisy are ringing out, claiming that because
the right broadly opposed cancel culture, they should now go to bat for those who created it.
Herzog
reveals to Sky News: Hamas had instructions on how to produce chemical weapons.
President Isaac Herzog reveals in an interview with Sky News that Hamas had planned to use cyanide
agents against Israeli civilians. Herzog shows off materials recovered from USB drive on the
body of a Hamas terrorist in Israel which was copied from al-Qaeda and included "detailed
instructions on creating chemical weapons," including "precise instructions for preparing a device
for dispersing cyanide agents," the President's Office says. "This is material which was found
on the body of one of those sadistic villains. It's al-Qaeda material, official al-Qaeda
material," Herzog tells the TV network. "When dealing with ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hamas, this is what
we're dealing with. And in this material, there were instructions, how to produce chemical weapons."
Gun
Control: The End Results. [Scroll down] The BBC adds, "Israeli gun
ownership is low at about 2% of the population. ... Usually citizens are allowed to hold a pistol
and a limit of 50 bullets" which underscores the gross incompetence of the Israeli legislators who
were responsible for the laws in question. Ongoing attacks and infiltration by Hamas made the
events of last week easily foreseeable but the government left this law in place. Israel's
"commonsense gun laws" resulted in hundreds of preventable fatalities which brings to mind phrases
like "dereliction of duty." Israeli voters need to hold those responsible for this disaster
accountable in the next election.
Hamas
Fighters Were Promised $10,000 And An Apartment For Taking A Hostage, Captured Terrorist Tells
Israelis. A captured Hamas terrorist told Israeli interrogators the terrorists were
promised $10,000 and an apartment for taking hostages, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
"[W]hoever brings a hostage back [to Gaza] gets $10,000 and an apartment," one captured Hamas
fighter who stormed Israel on Oct. 7 told his interrogators, the outlet reported. Israeli
intelligence announced their interrogations resulted in a number of similar themes. While
Hamas commanders remained in Gaza, all Hamas agents who breached Israel's borders Oct. 7 were given
instructions to kill and kidnap Israelis, The Jerusalem Post reported. When it came to
killing Israelis, the agents were reportedly told not to distinguish between civilians and
soldiers. When the Hamas terrorists were pressed on whether Islam permitted the acts they
carried out, they responded, "No. Islam does not permit the killing of women and children,"
The Jerusalem Post noted.
"Formerly
clandestine Nazis will continue protesting, sometimes violently". The headline sums
up the situation. It is a quote from an article about the Israeli army's green light to
invade Gaza and take as long as necessary in order to utterly destroy Hamas. In its
conclusion that article couldn't help noting the expected and guaranteed enraged protests from all
the usual suspects when that invasion begins. The attempt by Israel to defend itself after a
brutal terrorist attack by Hamas, torturing and killing what appears to be more than a thousand
people, including many women, children, and babies, has accomplished one and only one good
thing: It has caused the Nazis among us — almost all of which are on the
left — to finally make clear their true feelings and goals: It's all right to kill
Israelis, especially if they are Jews. And it's also all right to torture little children
before you do it.
Hamas
in 'No Way' Would Have Invaded Israel under Trump. Hamas's unprecedented invasion of
Israel would in "no way" have transpired under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to
world-renowned military historian and professor Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, who also argued that
Russia would not have invaded Ukraine and China would not have sent spy balloons over the U.S., as
he urged America to take back its international standing. Speaking on former Deputy Prime
Minister of Australia John Anderson's "Conversations" podcast Wednesday, Dr. Hanson suggested
that "to his credit," former President Donald Trump demonstrated American deterrence and
determination through his assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and
destruction of the Islamist terror group ISIS. In response, "Iran did not do anything," and
"there would be no way Hamas was doing this between 2017 and January of 2021," he argued.
"They had a small war, but they never did anything like this."
The
European Union Rewards Terrorism. Israel had not even buried its dead from the
horrifying jihadist pogrom that Hamas terrorists unleashed on Israeli civilians in south
Israel — beheading babies, burning them alive, torturing, raping, kidnapping,
murdering — before the European Union decided to reward the terrorists by tripling its
assistance to Gaza. "The Commission will immediately increase the current humanitarian aid
envelope foreseen for Gaza by 50 million euros," European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen
said. "This will bring the total to over 75 million euros. We will continue our close
cooperation with the UN and its agencies to ensure that this aid reaches those in need in the Gaza
strip." Oh really? How? The terrorist group Hamas, a proxy of Iran, the "worst
state sponsor of terrorism," is wholly in control of Gaza and will take what shows up and
dribble it out slowly to a chosen few, mainly in their military.
Evidence
on Display at Israel's Forensic Pathology Center Confirms Hamas' Atrocities.
Warning: Graphic images. Stifling the urge to retch became a difficult task as I walked
through the lower levels of Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel
Aviv. The smell of rotting human remains, much of which was completely unrecognizable as
human due to the brutality of the attack, was at times too much to bear. In light of the
growing international interest in (and denials of) the Palestinian terror group Hamas' October 7
massacre in southern Israel, representatives of the global press were invited to see the horrors
for themselves. Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from
abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them. Despite every effort to remain
objective and detached — as called for by the profession — many broke down
into tears throughout the day.
Israeli
army releases footage of first operational use of 'Iron Sting' munition destroying rocket
launcher. Israeli forces released footage of the "Iron Sting" system launching a
mortar bomb to take out a rocket launcher in its first-ever use in an operation on Sunday.
The Iron Sting, described as "an innovative and accurate mortar bomb," is one of a variety of
weapons being used to thwart dozens of terrorists, the Israeli Air Force posted on X, along with
video it said showed the 120mm mortar decimating an enemy rocket launcher. The Israeli army
used the weapons system in conjunction with the Israeli Air Force. The weapons system uses a
"precise, laser and GPS guided mortar munition" to engage targets in dense, urban environments
while "reducing the possibility of collateral damage and preventing injury to non-combatants,"
Elbit Systems, which developed the system, said in a 2021 news release.
Israel
Foils 'Significant And Imminent Terror Attack' By Striking Terror Tunnels Under Mosque.
Israeli officials say that they executed an aerial strike on a mosque inside Gaza that was being
used as a command center for terrorists who were preparing to carry out "a significant and imminent
terror attack." The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it launched the attack on the command
center located under the Al-Ansar Mosque early Sunday local time in conjunction with Shin Bet, an
Israeli intelligence agency. "In a joint IDF and ISA activity, the IAF conducted an aerial
strike on an underground terror compound in the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin," the IDF said in a
statement. "The mosque contained a terror cell of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror operatives who
were organizing an imminent terror attack." The statement said that these were the same
terrorists who were responsible "for several terror attacks over the last months."
The Editor says...
I'm sure there's a really good explanation for the tunnels under the mosque, but a lot depends
on the descriptions and the contents of the other buildings connected to the tunnels.
Gaza
Hospital Misinformation Is One More Reason To Destroy The Censorship Complex.
"Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say," The New York Times proclaimed on
Tuesday, following an explosion outside a Gaza hospital. Two sitting congresswomen, Ilhan
Omar and Rashida Tlaib, quickly spread the story on X, with Tlaib posting, "Israel just bombed the
Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that." The
Israel Defense Force or IDF promptly countered the claims, stating Hamas was responsible for the
rocket. Throughout the afternoon, IDF provided evidence that the explosion resulted from a
misfired Islamic Jihad rocket, including videos of the rocket launch, pictures of the parking lot
of the hospital which showed only minor damage from the explosion, inconsistent with IDF weapons,
and an intercepted communication between Hamas terrorists discussing the Islamic Jihad misfire.
Mike
Pence says U.S. boots should be on the ground in Gaza to free American hostages from Hamas.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence said Sunday he would send troops into the Gaza Strip to free
American hostages from the grips of Hamas if he were in the White House. "We've got Americans being
held by bloodthirsty terrorists in Gaza, and if I was president of the United States, I would have directed
the Joint Special Operations Command to stand up Delta Force, to stand up the Navy SEALs, who do the
best hostage rescues in the world," the former vice president said on NBC's "Meet the Press." While
the U.S. has not sent troops into the Middle East region — at least to the public's
knowledge — the Biden administration has reaffirmed its support to Israel and is pushing
for a military and humanitarian aid package.
China
Moves Six Warships into the Middle East Amid Rising Tensions. Please remember the
global economics of the thing always aligns with the motives and outcomes of the thing.
Remember, Saudi Arabia just joined the BRICS coalition, BRICS+. A new report shows China is
moving six additional warships into the Middle East amid concerns the Israeli War could expand into
a larger regional conflict. China is aligned with multiple interests; and cunning Panda also
supports the Biden administration end goal of a two-state solution in Israel.
China
is Clearly Winning the Israeli-Hamas War. Early on 7 October, the Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli border communities through the
fortified border fence separating the Gaza strip and Israel, killing over 1,200 people including at
least 29 Americans and committing barbaric atrocities on innocents. Israel subsequently
declared war on Hamas a day later and conducted air strikes on 800 targets in the Gaza strip,
killing at least 400. Israeli Defense Force ground assets are preparing for a massive
counter-strike into Gaza. Hezbollah appears to be conducting sporadic attacks from
Lebanon. Pro-Israeli and pro-Hamas protests have erupted around the world. The UN
Security Council called a closed-door emergency meeting. The US response has been modest to date.
The
First U.S. Military Engagement in an Expanded Israeli War Has Begun. Today, the
sketchy Pentagon statements about the USS Carney are starting to make sense. The initial
suspicions within the originating statements are well founded. Today, the Pentagon is
admitting the events in the Red Sea were "much more significant" than originally outlined. [...] The
USS Carney is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer assigned to USS Ford Carrier Strike Group 12.
As part of the October 8th deployment into the eastern Mediterranean, the USS Carney took up a
defensive position for the strike group by going through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea.
Fortunately, the Carney arrived in the Red Sea, on mission, Wednesday, just hours before four
cruise missiles and 15 drones entered the established defensive perimeter airspace. The
Carney's interceptions, the defensive activity against the missiles and drones, took place over
9 hours on Wed/Thursday. All of the interceptions happened in commercial airspace,
meaning the drones and missiles were targeted to fly at altitudes of commercial air travel.
Open
Sources Demolish the Legacy Media. In the days before online media, particularly Elon
Musk's X, the storyline was a familiar one. Israel would be attacked and the mainstream media
would be flooded with accounts from local reporters and photographers and embedded compromised
national reporters of civilian injuries and deaths during any response. The emotional
response would follow: a call would come for Israel to pull back before taking effective
charge of the enemy, and the United States would force its hand. Not this time. This
time, we could see accounts from both sides, from the pictures and bios of the murdered, injured,
and kidnapped civilians, who hailed from countries around the world. This time we could see
the videos of the Israeli response. This time we could see the pictures of the bloodshed and
hear the accounts of among others, the forensic scientists who examined the butchered bodies of the
victims. This time we could hear the voices of, not only Jews, but Bedouins, Moslems, and
Druze in Israel and Moslems in neighboring countries as anti-Hamas as you can find anywhere.
This time we could see who was supporting this butchery in the West. This time, those who
spread the blood libel are fully exposed.
Report:
Israel Creates Special Unit to Hunt and Kill Every Participant in Hamas Terror Attack.
Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, has created a new unit, "Nili," whose mission is to
find and kill every single individual who participated in the Hamas terror attack on October 7,
which saw over 1,400 Israelis murdered. [...] Israel has carried out such operations before, notably
in the effort to track and kill every Palestinian terrorist who participated in the kidnapping and
murder of Israeli athletes at the Olympics in Munich, Germany, in 1972.
Shin Bet has new
unit to eliminate perpetrators of the Hamas massacre. In Israel's ongoing effort to
track down all those involved in the brutal terrorist attack that left more than 1,400 Israelis
murdered, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) has established a new unit named Nili, an acronym
in Hebrew for "The Eternity of Israel Will Not Lie." The unit is dedicated to hunting down
and eliminating every individual who played a role in the massacre in the western Negev settlements
two weeks ago. This force was specifically set up to target members of a special commando
unit within Hamas's military wing called Nukhba ("elite") who infiltrated Israel, executed mass
killings in various villages and IDF outposts, and then returned to the Gaza Strip.
U.S.
sends additional air defense missiles to the Middle East and Pentagon orders more troops to prepare
for potential deployment. Washington pledged more air defenses to the Middle East in
response to recent attacks on U.S. troops in the region after Israel pounded southern Gaza with air
strikes early on Sunday and promised to intensify its attacks in the enclave's north. The
U.S. said it would send more air defense assets, including a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
(THAAD) system and additional Patriot air defense missile system battalions to the Middle East and
would ready more troops. Drones and rockets targeted two military bases housing U.S. forces
in Iraq last week, the latest in a series of attacks after Iraqi militants warned Washington
against intervening to support Israel against Hamas in Gaza.
Gaza
Hospital Misinformation Further Undermines Public Trust in Media. Most people trust
the mainstream news media far more than social media. The percentage of people in the United
States who say they have "some or a lot" of trust in the information they get from social media is
just 36% among those between the age of 30 and 49, 25% among those between the age of 50 and 64,
and 20% among those 65 and older, according to a new poll from Pew. But younger people trust
social media significantly more than their elders. Fifty-percent of 18- to 29-year-olds
surveyed told Pew that they have some or a lot of trust in from social media sites. That's
almost the same share as the 56% who say they have some or a lot of trust from national news
organizations. And given that young people are, by definition the future, it suggests the
social media revolution, is still just beginning.
Hamas
Massacres: The New Face of Gun Control. On October 7, the day Hamas attacked
Israel, Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, a 25-year-old security coordinator at the Kibbutz Nir Am settlement
located near the Gaza Strip, saved lives because she had a gun. After the kibbutz came under
attack, Inbal hurriedly opened the armory and distributed guns to the twelve-member security
team. She caught the Hamas murderers unawares because they were not expecting to meet armed
resistance. Lieberman killed five terrorists while the others gunned down twenty-five before
the Israeli Defense Force arrived. Because of her actions, Nir-Am was the only settlement
bordering the Gaza Strip that did not suffer Israeli casualties during Hama's attack. The
number of Israelis killed in the terrorist attack is over 1,400. How many of those deaths could
have been averted had more Israelis owned guns? Israel has draconian gun-control laws, worse
than those in New York City. Only three percent (3%) of Israeli citizens own guns (compared
to about thirty-two percent (32%) of U.S. citizens).
The
Internal Boil Of Israel. More and more, one sees people saying that, given Israel's
massive intelligence failures in the lead-up to the Hamas massacre, perhaps what happened wasn't an
accident. Perhaps discontented political factions in Israel wanted it to happen as a way to
force political change. [...] Regardless of military malaise, the elaborate border protection
system that had been built over the years should have worked, at least in some places.
However, it turned out to be totally paralyzed absolutely everywhere, in all areas.
Completely and simultaneously! This simply couldn't happen, but it did happen! I
suspect that there was a good reason for this, and the name for it is "sabotage." History
knows cases when the top leadership of a certain country, to achieve some political goals,
deliberately exposed their country to attack and made sacrifices among their own population.
Our
utterly bankrupt "mainstream" press. The so-called bombing of a hospital in the Gaza
strip yesterday has revealed better than anything the utter bankruptcy of our modern press.
Without any confirmation mainstream sources like CNN and MSNBC accepted without question the claims
by Hamas that the bombing was an "Israeli strike" and that 200 to 500+ people were killed.
The graphic to the right illustrates CNN's dishonesty. The report itself seemed eager to
accept the Hamas claims, without any checking, while simultaneously treating the Israeli reports
(that evidence showed that the impact was caused by a misfired Hamas rocket) with great skepticism
and doubt requiring double and maybe triple verification. MSNBC immediately reported the
claims of Hamas, without any verification, while also exaggerating the damage incredibly, as shown
by the second graphic to the right. The reporter first claims "the images coming out of Gaza
are absolutely harrowing," then notes that the known damage was in "the courtyard area of this
hospital," even as the video being shown during his report shows no damage, just ambulances
arriving at a hospital with a variety of patients. The irony is that not only have video and
audio evidence confirmed without question now that the rocket was from Hamas (including audio of
Hamas' agents admitting to this fact), the impact itself didn't appear to hit the hospital itself,
just that courtyard/parking lot. As noted at the tweet, "How did 500 people die in a parking
lot?" In fact, the death toll remains very unclear indeed. It could very well be that
very few were killed, though determining that fact will not be easy.
Intelligence Failures — Again.
In light of the devastating and deadly terrorist attack executed by Hamas against Israel on October 7,
many are correctly calling the failure to intercept and prevent the assault an "intelligence
failure." Many are especially surprised given the vaunted, basically legendary, status almost
universally accorded Israel's national security apparatus. This, however, is not the only
recent intelligence failure, or failure by political leaders to anticipate emerging threats.
According to a Brookings report examining the U.S. intelligence failure and reorganization
following the 9/11 terrorist attacks against America: "In the aftermath of 9/11 everyone, from
elected officials and national security experts to ordinary citizens had one question: how
could this happen to a nation with such an enormous and expensive military and intelligence
architecture?" Despite warnings from the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Biden administration
failed to anticipate or plan for the dramatic and quick collapse of Afghanistan's government when
U.S. troops were withdrawn. And while the Intelligence Community correctly and publicly
warned of Russia's impending invasion of Ukraine, it failed to predict the tenacity of Ukrainian
fighters defending their homeland and instead forecast an almost Afghanistan-style collapse in a
matter of days.
Who
Is — and Isn't — Ready To Change Their Minds About the Gaza Hospital
Blast? [Scroll down] It is considered to be a reasonable default position
that all Muslims in the region believe the hospital bombing was Israeli "genocide" (as labeled by
Hamas), a "hideous war crime" (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas), or "the latest
example of Israel [being] devoid of the most basic human values" (President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
NATO member Turkey). Only an unattainable standard of evidence could begin to pry open minds
currently snapped shut; until then, let those embassies burn. The Israelis, with some level
of detail, say that their bombs leave much bigger craters than the divot in the parking lot, that
video evidence shows a Gaza-fired rocket that exploded and went sideways, that the damage is
consistent with how Hamas rockets damage Israeli targets, that there is no physical evidence of
Israeli munitions on the scene, that they have no record of firing anything in that time/place, and
that they have intercepted Hamas audio from Gaza discussing the misfire in real time. The
best case against Israel's hospital claims ("about as good as it gets," says the disgraced NBC
"disinformation" hunter Ben Collins) comes down to saying that the audio sounds fake, some of the
information was contradictory, and that the Israelis have lied in the past. The exculpatory
evidence on the Gaza side is far less impressive. But as can be observed every day in less
consequential political discourse, we just don't believe you is among the most potent of
overrides when it comes to assessing factual claims.
The road ahead for Israel,
America, and everyone else. The Hamas attack seems to have ignited the possibility of
a new era of global jihadism, following several years of relative global calm. Simply put,
the continuing ramifications of the October 7 attack cannot be understated. It has sparked a
fervor that may have a global spillover effect. [...] Over the course Israel's military campaign,
there will be all kinds of chaos consuming the Palestinian Territories and the broader
region. As we witnessed on social media Tuesday, with the attempts in the corporate media and
elsewhere to blame Israel for a malfunctioning Hamas rocket smashing into the vicinity of a
hospital, it's not difficult to spark outrage in the Islamist world. This is especially true
when it involves the "Zionists," the preferred pejorative of the English speaking jihadi crowd, so
as not to make their motives so obvious. So you can expect much more propaganda and fake news
to come from the "Pallywood" apparatus, with the hopes to further activate Islamist fundamentalists
and turn international sentiment against Israel and the West as a whole.
Rashida
Tlaib Repeats False Claim that Israel Bombed Gaza Hospital in Speech to Pro-Palestinian
Protesters. Videos show Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) riling up a crowd of
pro-Palestinian protesters outside of the Capitol on Wednesday by spreading the false claim from
Hamas terrorists that an Israeli airstrike killed 500 Palestinian civilians at a hospital in Gaza. "We
cannot continue to watch people think it's okay to bomb a hospital with children," she told the crowd
through tears. "... And so I'm telling you right now, President Biden, not all America is with
you on this one, and you need to wake up and understand that."
Where
There is No Respect for Life, Evil Flourishes. The heinous actions of the Hamas
terrorists on October 7, 2023 can unequivocally be described as evil. It had as its genesis
the inculcated belief that Jews are malevolent and subhuman, therefore, they are deserving of
death, destruction and being conquered by any means possible including the unconscionable and
premeditated slaughter of women, children and the elderly. In keeping with a tactic almost as
old as mankind itself, the self-appointed leaders of Middle Eastern Islamic terrorist groups and
the political leaders of nations such as Iran have manipulated their maleducated followers or
citizenry into believing Israel and the Jews have either taken what is rightfully theirs, are the
personification of evil, or are responsible for their misery.
The
UK doesn't have a duty to take in a single Gazan refugee. Pity the people of
Scotland. Humza Yousaf is their First Minister, but the beleaguered SNP chief appears to have
mistaken himself for head of the UN, and is busy telling the world that the UK should be first in
line to welcome Palestinian refugees. What utter madness, when this country is worryingly
divided over the dreadful conflict, and unable to cope with all the refugees and asylum seekers we
already have. With his wife's parents and other close relatives trapped in Gaza, Yousaf is
feeling this crisis very personally, and is naturally desperate to do whatever he can to
help. It would take a peculiarly cold heart not to be moved, as he is, by the fate of all the
innocent civilians cowering in Gaza as their homes and streets are reduced to rubble. Living
on a strip of land no bigger than the Isle of Wight, many are without food, water or light, and
have no way out. As a mother, I too wish there were a way of scooping up all the terrified
little ones and whisking them to a place far from the terrible reach of Hamas. Such safe
havens must be found — but emphatically not here.
There's
More to the DeSantis Airlift Story Than We Realized. Yesterday, we reported that
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis cut through the red tape to rescue Floridians stranded in
Israel. What we didn't know is that he's also planning to pick up non-Floridian Americans, as
well as those Joe Biden dumped in Greece. On Monday night, DeSantis told Megyn Kelly, "We
knew there'd be people that wanted to get back, many hundreds, maybe even more than 1,000. And
they were not getting any luck with the State Department or with the embassy. So I did an
executive order last week, activating Florida emergency response to be able to bring planes in
there and take people back home." "So we had the first plane of 271 on Sunday night," he
added, noting that there were 91 children onboard. "You know, I had mothers that were stranded with
three or four kids. I had one family with ten kids that they were trying to get back to Florida."
Walter
Russell Mead: The Obama-Biden Policy on Iran Led to Hamas-Israel War. Wall
Street Journalist [sic] columnist Walter Russell Mead published a column Monday in which he
argues that the policy of trying to appease Iran, followed by Presidents Barack Obama and Joe
Biden, led directly to the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the war. While Biden is
currently showing strong support for Israel, saying it has a "duty" to destroy Hamas, and sending
two aircraft carriers to deter Iran from expanding the conflict, his policies encouraged terror
after four years of calm under Donald Trump.
Ramaswamy
funds charter flight getting Americans out of Israel. Republican presidential
candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has joined the effort to get Americans out of Israel as war rages in the
region following Hamas' horrific attacks. Appearing on "The Faulkner Focus," Ramaswamy
revealed he had partnered with Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., to fly over 200 Americans from Tel
Aviv to Cyprus on Monday. "I believe in standing as an American for our fellow Americans to
get them out of harm's way," Ramaswamy told FOX News' Harris Faulkner on Tuesday. "And we were
proud in our version of having lived the American dream to do our part to help those fellow Americans."
Report:
NYT Twice Changes Reckless Headline. The New York Times reportedly edited a
headline twice on Tuesday about a blast that blew up a Gaza hospital, changing the title each time
to reflect less blame against Israel for the tragic explosion. After the blast, multiple
pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast
was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike. As the evidence came to light,
the Times altered its headline.
The
Hamas 'Inside Job' Truthers Don't Understand Israel or War. There have been two kinds
of conspiracy theories circulated by 'truthers' after the Hamas massacre of Israelis. The
first kind essentially denies there was an attack or nitpicks the details. Those arguments
are made in obvious bad faith by people who simply hate Israel and side with the terrorists.
Any evidence presented to them is dismissed as fake. The second kind of conspiracy theory is
of the "inside job" variety most often involving a "stand down" order that allowed Hamas to
massacre over 1,000 people without any military intervention. Some of the people pushing this
stuff are the usual suspects, alt-righters and anti-semites, some of it's coming from anti-war
leftists and libertarians who treat every war as a vast conspiracy, and some from fringe figures in
Israel. The idea that Prime Minister Netanyahu or top generals would have issued a "stand
down" (apart from being horrifying) makes no sense.
Biden's
Weakness and Incompetence Strengthened Iran — and Hamas. The barbaric and
evil terrorist attacks on Israel are a horrific reminder that the world is safe when America is
strong — but when we have a weak president in the White House, the costs can be greater
than our worst nightmares. If we hope to prevent further shedding of innocent blood, the
United States must learn the painful lessons of these savage atrocities. As we pray for the
Israeli people in this hour of anguish and give them our complete and total support, we must also
confront the absolute failure of the Biden administration, whose incompetence and ignorance invited
this heinous and deadly assault on civilization itself. The only thing Biden is good at is
the weaponization of the justice system against his political opponents.
Israel's
Work Permits for Gaza Enabled the Hamas Attack. Among the litter of guns, korans, and
maps discarded by the Hamas terrorists whose bodies lie alongside bullet-riddled vehicles and dusty
roads are green Gaza IDs with work permits. Normally residents of the Hamas territory can't
enter Israel, but work permits allowed over 20,000 Gazans to enter Israel. When some
returned, it was as Hamas rapists and killers. The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because
the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had
worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed
maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas
terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned
dogs. Last year, Secretary of State Blinken addressed a J Street even and told the
anti-Israel lobby that the Biden administration had pushed Israel to "improve the lives of
Palestinians" by, among other things, "issuing thousands of work permits for Palestinians in Gaza".
The
Rocket Hit the Parking Lot — NOT the Hospital. On Tuesday evening a rocket
reportedly hit the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza causing a massive explosion and resulting in the deaths
of allegedly several hundred Palestinians. The Palestinians, Islamic Jihad terror group and
Western media immediately blamed Israel for the explosion. This comes ten days after the
largest slaughter of Jews since World War II. Over 1,300 Jews were massacred by Hamas and another
200 Jews were taken hostage back to Gaza on October 7. The international media immediately
blamed Israel for the rocket attack "on the hospital."
When
Gaza has Money, Hamas has Rockets. On Oct. 7, 2023, a horde of Islamofascist
terrorists known as Hamas launched simultaneous, carefully coordinated attacks on Israel.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into civilian communities in Israel. Crowds of terrorists
charged across the border and attacked private residences, shooting up apartments and houses,
raping and beating innocent individuals and families. Squads sought out the partygoers at a
music festival, slaughtering the unarmed with abandon. Hamas killed or injured thousands that
day — mostly unarmed, unsuspecting civilians. [...] Someone is buying Hamas all these
missiles. Someone provides them with training and gear, intelligence and equipment, rifles
and grenades. And these people who ship them money and weaponry, fully intending that the
recipients will use them against innocent Israeli civilians, are just as guilty as the homicidal
maniacs pulling the trigger. [...] And where exactly does Gaza's funding come from? The
governments of Iran and Qatar are major donors, plus a global network of expats who either identify
with the Gazans (a mixture of arab ethnicities, but primarily Egyptian) or with Hamas' very public
goal of destroying Israel and emptying it of Jews.
PA
to immediately reward families of Oct. 7 terrorists with nearly $3 million. The
Palestinian Authority will pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who
slaughtered civilians in Gaza border communities on Oct. 7, Palestinian Media Watch reports.
The corpses of 1,500 Hamas terrorists were found after the massacre in which more than 1,400
Israelis were killed and more than 4,100 others were wounded. At least 199 captives were
taken back to Gaza. [Tweet] Under P.A. law, every Palestinian terrorist who is killed
attacking Israelis is classified as a "martyr" and the family is rewarded with a 6,000 shekel
($1,511) grant and a monthly stipend of 1,400 shekel ($353) for life.
Very
bad things are about to happen, on all fronts. [Scroll down] For example,
for the last week decent people on the right found themselves being forced by the left to debate
the absurd question of whether Hamas terrorists beheaded babies or merely killed them, as if that
distinction mattered. And in Gaza the destruction of a hospital by a missile is immediately
being used as a propaganda weapon against Israel. First the claim by the Hamas-run Gaza
Health Ministry that "500+" people were killed is immediately accepted without question, without
evidence. Second, it is immediately accepted that the missile likely came from Israel, though
there is evidence otherwise. You need to read the AP report at the link to grasp the full
flavor of this anti-Israeli propaganda. Somehow only Israeli is killing civilians, while
Gazans huddle in fear and helplessness against that evil empire throwing bombs and missiles at
them. The bottom line however is that none of these details should matter. Hamas,
with the support of the people of Gaza, declared a merciless war of genocide on every Israeli, no
matter how old. Why should anyone expect that this declaration should not be met with equal
force from the other side?
Misfired
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rocket Responsible for Hospital Explosion, IDF Says. The
IDF said Tuesday that a hospital blast that reportedly claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians
earlier in the day was caused by a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ),
a terrorist group operating within the Gaza Strip. "On October 17, at around 19:00, the PIJ
fired a missile salvo toward Israel," Israel's Foreign Ministry wrote in an official statement.
"One of the missiles misfired, landing on the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, causing severe damage,
killing at least several Palestinians and injuring many more." "According to intelligence
information, from several sources we have, the PIJ organization is responsible for the failed
[rocket] fire that hit the hospital," the IDF said. According to the Israeli military's
analysis of "operational systems, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which
passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit," the statement added.
Israel
denies it was responsible for blast at Gaza hospital that 'killed 500'. Israel has
denied it was responsible for the blast at a hospital in Gaza that the Hamas claims killed at least
500 people and has more trapped under rubble. Intelligence information revealed that the
strike which hit al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was a rocket misfired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad
terrorists, the Israeli army has claimed. But a spokesman for Islamic Jihad has said this is
'completely incorrect' and accused the IDF of 'trying to cover for the horrifying crime and
massacre they committed against civilians'.
The
media run with Hamas propaganda about a bombed hospital. Thanks to support from Iran,
Hamas is fairly well-armed and, of course, it makes up in viciousness what it lacks in technical
sophistication. However, Hamas's greatest weapon is propaganda. In the latest
conflagration, it engaged in a single orgy of killing. Now, though, it's looking forward to
weeks of anti-Israel propaganda that the world's media will unhesitatingly accept and relay.
The latest example is Hamas's claim that Israel killed 900 innocent people in a Gaza hospital.
The story was almost instantly debunked but don't expect that to change the narrative.
King
Abdullah II of Jordan Lays Down the Hammer, No Palestinian Refugees in Jordan or
Egypt. King Abdullah of Jordan is speaking directly, forcefully and without
pretending on the eve of Barack Obama and Joe Biden launching an effort to use the Gaza crisis to
stir up regional trouble. This video snippet is absolutely perfect, from the position of
those pragmatic nationalists who want a long-term solution that applies pressure on the Palestinian
people to solve their own problems. They want Hamas; they have Hamas. King Abdullah,
along with Egyptian President al-Sisi, are not going to be pawns in the refugee games Obama and
Biden intend on playing. Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz had requested Jordan take in
Palestinian refugees; Abdullah shut that down immediately and without equivocation. King
Abdullah, speaking on behalf of President al-Sisi, just crushed Scholz in front of the
international media and draws a red line. [Video clip]
King
of Jordan tells Olaf Scholz: We won't take refugees from Gaza. The king of
Jordan poured cold water on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's hopes that neighboring Arab countries
could take in Palestinian refugees who are fleeing the Gaza Strip ahead of an anticipated ground
offensive by the Israeli army. The rebuff by King Abdullah II was made Tuesday morning at a
press conference with Scholz following a meeting in the chancellery in Berlin, which Scholz also
used to issue a warning to Iran and to Hezbollah against intervening in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
"I think I can speak here on behalf of Jordan ... but also our friends in Egypt: This is
a red line ... no refugees to Jordan and also no refugees to Egypt," King Abdullah said at the
press conference.
IDF official statement:
It is clear that the IDF did not strike the hospital in Gaza. The IDF Spokesperson
officially confirmed on Tuesday night that the IDF did not attack the Ahli Baptist Hospital in
central Gaza and that the explosion was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket. "Following an
additional review and cross-examination of the operational and intelligence systems, it is clear
that the IDF did not strike the hospital in Gaza," the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.
"The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist
organization." "The terrorist organizations within the Gaza Strip fire indiscriminately toward
Israel. Since the beginning of the war, approximately 450 rockets launched toward Israel have
fallen within Gaza, endangering and harming the lives of Gazan residents," the statement said.
Evidence
Suggests Misfired Hamas Rocket Hit Gaza Hospital, Killing Hundreds. In the aftermath
of a blast at a hospital in Gaza City, Hamas accused Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of launching a
strike against innocent civilians. However, something wasn't adding up. Contrary to the
claims made by Hamas, which obviously can't be trusted, there has been evidence contradicting the
allegations being made against Israel's military. In fact, evidence suggests that Hamas may
have been responsible for the rocket that hit the hospital, causing a potential mass casualty event.
Hamas
Provides a Clarifying Moment. Do you think that things have clarified somewhat over
the last week since the Hamas massacres in Israel? I get the feeling that our beloved leaders
are caught, just a little, between a rock and a hard place. They would like to equivocate on
the Palestinian Question, but the Hamas atrocities make it just a little more difficult.
A
Time for Good People to Fight Back. It took Iran-appeaser (and embarrassingly
undeserving Nobel Peace Prize awardee) Barack Obama three days to condemn Hamas's butchering of
Israeli women and children. Pompous student groups at elite universities across the U.S.
continue to ignore the barbarity of Islamic supremacists and instead blame Jews for their own
murders. John Kirby, a former rear admiral in the Navy and a longtime national security
spokesman for both Obama and Biden, assessed the carnage in the Middle East and concluded that
"climate change" remains humanity's most dire threat. A former American president is not
capable of moral leadership. Students at some of the best schools in the world are not
intellectually prepared to comprehend anything of history or geopolitics beyond trite political
slogans written on cardboard signs. And a military man fears the weather more than the
prospect of regional tinderboxes in Israel, Ukraine, and the South China Sea igniting widespread
nuclear conflagration — an event that would, indeed, affect the world's "climate"
dearly. Taken together, these weak and grotesque reactions to the bloodiest attacks on Israel
in half a century show how a vacuum in American leadership has left the next generations
dangerously unmoored from reality and unprepared to survive the threats from our increasingly
volatile world.
The
Problem Of Totalitarians Using Our Freedoms Against Us. Like most Americans, I was
shocked by the vicious inhumanity that the coward terrorist group Hamas carried out in Israel last
weekend. Unfortunately, organized evil is neither unique nor surprising. The Nazis were
equally evil across Europe, as were the Japanese at Nanking, Stalin with Ukraine, and Mao with his
own people. Sadly, evil happens, devils exist, although, thankfully, they are rarely
celebrated. But "rarely" doesn't mean never, and the most shocking thing last week wasn't the
evil Hamas perpetrated but, rather, the extraordinary support it has received. Not only is
Hamas's evil finding exuberant support in places like Iran and Qatar where you might expect it, but
there were tens of thousands of Muslims — and their liberal comrades — in
places like New York, Detroit, and Washington out en masse vocally demonstrating their support for
these monsters. And it wasn't just on the streets, in places like Harvard and Yale and NYU,
you had students and professors and organizations blaming Israel for Hamas's inhumanity.
What does a
'proportionate' response to Hamas look like? As the world stumbles through the fog of
war following the savage attacks on Israel by Hamas last week, I thought it might be worth
pondering two things. First, since the news is full of headlines warning against Israel's
conducting a "disproportionate" response, I wonder what a "proportionate" response to the wholesale
murder and mayhem perpetrated by Hamas would look like? Second, I know that I am not alone in
sensing that the attack, though brutal, was but the opening gambit of a plan whose origin and
course is, as of this writing, still unknown to the public.
There
Is No Such Thing As 'Palestinians'. The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/"Palestinian"/LGBTQ/BLM/hate-filled
alliance are nothing if not predictable. After expressing shock and dismay that their
Palestinian friends in Gaza specifically targeted civilians, in under a week, they have quickly
shifted back to their repeated old rhetoric. They are now blaming Israel for the horrific
attacks from Hamas, calling Israel's counter-attacks on Hamas a "terrorist siege," blitzing the
media with images of wounded from Gaza, and attacking Israel in all ways as an 'apartheid state'
and, as Ocasio Cortez defined Israel, a nation devoted to "ethnic cleansing". We cannot let
them try to control the narrative with their blatant lies. The best way to dismiss falsities
is to educate. And so the purpose of this piece is to do just that: to give accurate
information that is in direct contradiction to the lies of the Marxist alliance that seeks to
destroy Israel, the United States, and Western Culture.
It's
Time to Crush Gaza. When a country is invaded by a foreign power, the only sane
response is to retaliate with massive, overwhelming, disproportionate force. And when an
invader commits the kinds of atrocities that we have seen over the last week, unprecedented in
modern times, vengeance must be the order of the day. War is a terrible thing. But the
Gazans started this war, and war is what they are going to get. Every resulting casualty
should be laid at the foot of Hamas and all Gazans who have supported and collaborated with
Hamas — a large majority, by all indications. But there is something else going
on, something beyond even Israel's need to win the war or the entirely appropriate desire to exact
revenge. The Palestinians, and Gazans in particular, have the sickest culture on Earth.
Little productive work is done; Gaza exists largely as the beneficiary of international
welfare. Instead of goods and services, the main product of Gaza is ideology — the
perverted ideology of Jew-hatred.
Reports:
Hamas Kills Palestinian Civilians Trying to Flee; Won't Let Americans Leave. Reports
are emerging that the Hamas terrorist group is preventing civilians from evacuating northern Gaza,
killing innocent Palestinians who try to leave, and preventing American citizens from using the
Rafah border crossing to escape to Egypt. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Jonathan
Conricus has been warning for days that Hamas is preventing civilians from leaving Gaza ahead of an
anticipated ground war. He cited both Israeli and international sources in an interview on
CNN Sunday: [Tweet with video clip]
The
Attack on Israel is Religious, Meant to Awaken Islamic Messiah Mahdi. It's entirely
understandable that most Westerners believe the current 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel is simply
lust for revenge and anger over Gaza's conditions. But, wait! Instead, it's astounding
to know the ultimate impulse in Iran funding Hamas is to usher in the age of the Mahdi, as their
mighty savior. This war to utterly destroy Israel is now led by Iran's Shia Islam and seeks
to bring the End of Days. So,Biden's gift of $6 billion to Iran guaranteed war would
result, given their theology.
Reality
Sets In and Iran Walks Back Its Threat to Enter the Israel-Hamas War. Iran has made a
significant move to back away from the threat of war with Israel, which it made only
Saturday. On Saturday, it was reported that Iran had threatened Israel that a ground invasion
of Gaza would bring Iranian Intervention. [...] While I'm not sure anyone took Iran's threat of
military intervention seriously — I know I didn't — seeing the public
walk-back of a patently ridiculous threat is interesting. Iranian troops can only reach
Israel overland unless they want to risk running the gauntlet of flying into Syria.
Israel:
No Negotiations over Hostages; We Are Eliminating Hamas. The Israeli government said
Saturday that it would not negotiate with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas over the release of
between 100 and 200 Israeli and international hostages, because it was destroying the organization
and not trying to save it. Tzachi Hanegbi, the head of Israel's National Security Council,
said that the days of negotiating for hostages were over. While Israel was trying to rescue
the hostages, it would not hostage prisoner exchanges or stop its military operation in Gaza.
Biden
Claim About Halting $6 billion Dollars In Terror Funds Appears to Be a Ruse.
Yesterday it was reported that the U.S. and (terror sponsor) Qatar were halting the obscene six
billion dollar payout to Iran. U.S. officials and the Qatari government have agreed to stop
Iran from accessing a $6 billion account for humanitarian assistance in light of Hamas's
attack on Israel, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats on Thursday.
The deal, financed by Iranian oil sales, allowed Iranian entities — not the Iranian
government — to access the funds, and only if they provided extensive documentation
showing the money will be used for humanitarian purposes. U.S. officials would have to
approve each transaction under the agreement. The money had been transferred to Qatar from
banks in South Korea to facilitate the arrangement. Now that appears to be a ruse.
There
are no civilian bomb shelters in Gaza. There is one reason why Gaza citizens are in
the line of fire, why they are being subject to bombings, why they will be in the streets during
vicious street-to-street fighting shortly, and why their hospitals and schools are getting
destroyed: Hamas wants it that way. Hamas builds bunkers and tunnels, stores ammunition
in schools and hospitals, and plans its evil among civilians. It tears up its water
infrastructure to build rockets. It demands citizens act as human shields and parades the
bodies of Palestinians who got killed for the sole purpose of providing propaganda benefits.
They do it so that their allies in the West can claim that Israel is the real aggressor.
[Tweet with video clip] Hamas is pure evil. Not only does Israel have to fight its
way through the human shields to get to the terrorists who slaughter innocents, but they have to do
so because Hamas demands that Gazans be part of the Jihad whether they want to or not.
Detailed
planning and practice went into the Hamas attack on Israel. It's becoming clear that
Hamas had been preparing and planning for the attack which took place last weekend for a long time,
more than a year. Last night, CNN reported on videos released by Hamas which show the group
practicing for the attack at six sites prepared for that purpose inside Gaza. As you'll see,
they built a mock-up of one of the border gates and practiced getting through it and taking hostages.
MSNBC
Ratings Nosedive as People Slam Their Horrible Israeli-Hamas Coverage. We've seen a
lot of problematic responses from the left when it comes to the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
But some of the worst from media have come from MSNBC. People have called them out for their
horrible takes, including trying to "both sides" the attack by Hamas on Israel. [...] I love this
network," [Jonathan] Greenblatt said. "But I gotta ask, who's writing the scripts?" "Hamas,
people who did this are not 'fighters,'" Greenblatt said. "They are not militants, and I'm looking
right at the camera. They are terrorists." Newsmax summed up how the ADL leader was
calling out the network for their coverage, except the Newmax person tagged them as "MSDNC" for their
coverage. Many others were also clearly troubled by the coverage if the ratings are any judge.
UN
still does not label [and/or] sanction Hamas as terror group despite murderous
attacks. As Israel reels from the deadliest terror attack in years by Hamas, the
United Nations Security Council still does not recognize or sanction Hamas as a terror
group — despite multiple other nations declaring it to be so. "The U.N. Security
Council votes to impose sanctions and designations on groups like al Qaeda, the Taliban or ISIS.
But no such sanctions or designations exist for Iran's axis of terror groups, including Hamas and
Hezbollah," Richard Goldberg, senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox
News Digital. The Council, under resolutions passed in 1999, 2011 and 2015, sanctions ISIS
and al Qaeda, along with associated individuals and groups. The Council's committee on those
resolutions oversees sanctions measured imposed by the council.
Everything
You Need to Know About the Israeli Occupation (That Is, Everything the Left Won't Tell
You). There would be peace in the Middle East if Israel just ended its occupation,
right? That's what the Squad wants you to think, anyway. The statements of the three
primary members of this winsome leftist House coalition on the Hamas massacres in Israel had the
distinct odor of canned talking points. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Make Mine A
Double) issued a statement that said, "I condemn Hamas' attack in the strongest possible terms."
That was a good start, but she then turned on a dime to blame it all on Israel: "No child and
family should ever endure this kind of violence and fear, and this violence will not solve the
ongoing oppression and occupation in the region." Ongoing oppression and occupation, see? If
Israel would just ease up on the poor Palestinians, Hamas jihadis would all open restaurants and
shops, and peace would dawn upon the region.
What
Hamas Was Really Out To Do. After the Hamas atrocities, experts scurried to explain
why it had embraced "ISIS tactics." Many saw the attacks purely as a way of sabotaging Israel's
talks with Saudi Arabia. Others argued that Hamas had tried for a small attack that escalated
when Israel failed to promptly respond. Some express bafflement at what Hamas could have
hoped to gain from such an attack. The experts as usual are wrong because they don't
understand Hamas. And their ignorance stems from their inability to grasp Islamic terrorism
because they don't understand Islam. Hamas, like the PLO and other Islamic terrorist groups,
had spent much of its existence promising to do exactly what it tried to do, invade Israel, and
seize and occupy its territory, taking Jewish villages and towns by stages over the years until one
day besieging Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority, funded by American taxpayers, still airs
Arafat's old speeches in which he calls for "millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem". Americans
and Israelis refused to take such rhetoric seriously. The cost was over 1,200 lives when
Hamas tried to carry it out.
Minnesota
Woman Who Advocated for Palestinians Was Murdered by Hamas. Cindy Flash —
a 67-year-old Minnesota native — and her 66-year-old husband, Igal Flash, were among
more than 1,300 people murdered by Saturday's brutal Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
Flash's family described her as a "staunch advocate for the rights of Palestinians" and an
outspoken opponent of Israeli military action. Cindy Flash hailed from St. Paul,
Minnesota, while Igal Flash was the son of Holocaust survivors and an Israeli citizen. She
relocated to the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel many years ago after visiting as a college student.
Hamas
Awakens Celebrities from CNN-Induced Coma. Hamas is too embroiled in its perverse
cycle of barbarity to understand it is perpetuating its own public-relations nightmare. The
events of the past week have made it abundantly clear — even to brainwashed
celebrities — the true nature of Hamas' endgame. They have jolted many of the
A-List celebrities out of their CNN-induced comas to condemn the atrocities of Hamas. The
violence unleashed by Hamas was best viewed from the vantage point of the terrorists who brazenly
filmed or live-streamed their grisly crimes. The Nazis attempted to keep a lid on their
atrocities, but Hamas had a different strategy in mind. One can only guess at the mentality
behind the terrorists picking and choosing the footage to upload on social media: The graphic
scenes (some live) ranged from slaughtering entire families, including at least 40 babies and small
children, and releasing the most incomprehensible act of beheading some of the children.
You
Cannot Coexist With Evil. No sane person would behead babies (unless he's an
abortionist, but I repeat myself). Then, add in raping women in the presence of the bloody
bodies of their babies, then killing the women. I don't care who you are, this is not the act
of a civilized entity. It is the act of sub-humans devoted to the service of a false god who
demands obedience at the point of a sword. It is pure evil. No words can properly
convey how utterly depraved such a god and his followers are. And this is where our
compassion must be replaced by cold calculation.
Why
the Left can't think straight on Hamas. The sheer depravity of Hamas's attack on
Israel, during which its terrorists murdered close to 1,000 people and beheaded babies, is causing
acute discomfort and splits in America's Left. For many, this is not the same discomfort as
is felt on the Right and in the center, where there is simple horror and instinctive sympathy with
terrorized people who otherwise live freely and peaceably in a high-functioning democracy under the
rule of law. For them, appalling cruelty and sadistic gloating by Hamas murderers
unambiguously distinguish evil from good. Common decency and humanity incline ordinary people
to side with the victims. These swift reflexes are supported by inescapable conclusions based
on considered assessment of the facts. Most people see nothing about which to
equivocate — and they are right.
Report:
Hamas Began Planning Attack on Israel Two Years Ago — After Afghanistan.
Hamas began planning Saturday's terrorist attacks across Israel two years ago, according to an
interview Sunday by a senior Hamas official. Senior Hamas official Ali Baraka told Russia
Today on Sunday (via the Middle East Media Research Institute) that Hamas had been secretly
planning the invasion of southern Israel for two years — which would mean after
President Joe Biden took office, and after the disastrous, deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Joy
Reid and Her Guests Blame Israel for Hamas Massacre. Hamas's barbarism was on full
display last Saturday. [...] At one news outlet, however, the most prominent feature of its
reporting was victim-blaming. On Monday evening, October 9, MSNBC aired an episode of Joy
Reid's program that would have been right at place if it had aired on Iranian state TV
instead. Her guests Peter Beinart, Ayman Mohyeldin, Ali Velshi and Lt. General Stephen
Twitty ignored Hamas's dedication to genocidal violence as expressed in its charter and in its
leaders' rhetoric, omitted any mention of offers of Palestinian sovereignty and independence, and
sought to imply that the carnage was inevitable due to Israel's actions — therefore
excusing and justifying Hamas's barbaric attack. For all of the complaints about the closed
border between Israel and Gaza, or the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank (the
so-called "apartheid wall,") now it's undeniable what happens when those walls are breached.
The prevention of atrocities like those we saw Saturday was exactly the reason such measures
existed. But Joy Reid and her guests continue to reverse cause and effect.
A
Few Years Ago, The EU Funded New Water Pipelines In Gaza Which Hamas Dug Up And Made Rockets Out
Of. Hamas is using European Union-funded water pipelines in Gaza for manufacturing
missiles. The first article supporting this claim has been made in the UK-based Telegraph by
its Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes. In the article, Ben writes, "The European Union helped
to build more than 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians despite Hamas terrorists boasting
of their ability to forge an arsenal of home-made rockets from pipes." [Video clip]
Bill
Ackman wants Harvard to name the students blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks so that he and other
CEOs don't hire them by accident. Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and
founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has asked Harvard University to reveal the names of
students who signed a statement holding Israel "entirely responsible" for the deadly conflict in
the country. Ackman put pressure on Harvard University in a post on X, saying he —
and other high-profile CEOs — wanted to see the names so that "none of us inadvertently
hire any of their members." A Harvard graduate himself, Ackman continues, "the names of the
signatories should be made public so their views are publicly known." Critics pushed back on
Ackman, saying he was acting against the students' right to free speech. But Ackman,
reportedly worth $3.6 billion, shot back that he is "100% in support of free speech," adding: "I
do, however, object to students putting out a statement holding Israel 'entirely responsible' for
terrorists' heinous and despicable acts, but doing so anonymously under a corporate veil while
leveraging the Harvard brand."
The Editor says...
As a practical matter, the students have the right to free speech, as long as it isn't conservative speech.
Do they also have a license for hate speech? When they publish hateful messages, is their anonymity guaranteed?
The
Intersection Of Evil: Hamas, Antifa, BLM, Harvard And Barack Obama.
[Scroll down] While Antifa conspicuously stays out of sight, Black Lives Matter, the
darling of the Democrats, shows up in party hats and whistles, with "chapters across the country,"
Mediaite reports, "celebrating the terrorist attacks that have claimed hundreds of innocent lives
in Israel." Harvard students made a splashy appearance, as well —
nearly three dozen campus groups have sided with the barbarians. According to the media, a
coalition of 34 Harvard student organizations issued a joint statement in which they said they
"hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," as "millions of
Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison," and "the apartheid regime is
the only one to blame." Harvard President Claudine Gay says that the groups don't speak "for
Harvard University or its leadership." But don't they? Aren't they saying out loud what most
administrators and professors — not just at Harvard but at universities and colleges
across the West — want to say, but don't yet feel free to publicly voice? Isn't
contempt for Israeli Jews exactly what the students have been taught?
Israeli
billionaire Idan Ofer quits Harvard board, blasts university's president over Hamas student
letter. Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife are resigning their posts on the
executive board of Harvard's Kennedy School in protest of school President Claudine Gay's belated
lukewarm response to the student letter blaming Israel for the massacre committed by Hamas
terrorists on Saturday. Ofer, the shipping and chemicals magnate whose net worth was valued
by Forbes at $14 billion as of Thursday, said that he and his wife were quitting the board,
according to the Hebrew-language news site TheMarker. Ofer and his wife, Batia, who is also a
member of the executive board, said they resigned "in protest of the shocking and insensitive
response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student
organizations who blamed Israel for the massacres."
13
Basic Facts to Defend Israel. [#1] Until 1964, the word "Palestinian" rarely
described Arabs who once lived in Israel. That was when KGB Agents of Communist Russia
created and funded a terrorist group called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Its
leader, Yasser Arafat, was born and raised in Egypt. The PLO was as artificial as other
effective and deadly groups communists used during the Cold War to take over Algeria, South Africa,
Kenya, Vietnam, and Cuba. During this time, the KGB even gave money, weapons, and training to
the IRA in Ireland. [#2] "Palestine" was never an Arab nation. Until the Roman Empire
crushed a Jewish revolt there in the year 132, the land was known as Israel, Judah, or Judea.
The Romans renamed the province Palestine to punish the Jews. The Arabs and the Turks kept
that name when they conquered and occupied the province. However, they ruled it from distant
Mecca, Medina, Baghdad, or Istanbul. [#3] Israel or Palestine was ruined and mostly empty after
the Jewish revolt. The Arabs and Turks did little to rebuild its cities or irrigation
canals. The goats and camels of Arab nomads or Bedouins stripped the land of trees, vegetation,
and topsoil. Once rich farmland became malaria-infested swamp or dry wilderness.
Hamas
pounds city of Ashdod with rockets and death toll from conflict climbs past 2,200.
Hamas launched a fresh wave of rocket attacks in Israel this afternoon, destroying a children's
hospital and a supermarket. Shocking footage from the southern city of Ashkelon shows the
Barzilai Medical Centre in ruins with the children's wing taking a direct hit. Pictures also
show the remains of a supermarket in the city, surrounded by debris and marked by a large
crater. The strikes were among many launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who
targeted multiple locations across the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
later shared a harrowing image of a child's bed with its sheets soaked in blood, along with the
caption: 'Hamas is worse than ISIS.'
On
Israel, Hamas, and what happens now. The world will hate Israel no matter what it
does. As Hamas showed yet again on Saturday, the world is not a friendly place for Jews who
can't defend themselves. All the peace treaties in the world don't mean anything unless
Israel can guarantee its own security. Its conventional weapons go a long way toward ensuring
that countries like Jordan and Egypt won't attack it. Its deeper security comes in the form
of a nuclear arsenal that spells the destruction of Amman and Cairo if Arab armies take Tel
Aviv. No one talks about this. No one needs to. Nor does Saudi Arabia threaten
Israel's existence. Saudi Arabia has not attacked Israel since the initial 1948 Arab League
war on Israel. No, the real threat to Israel these days comes from Hamas — and Iran.
For 15 years, Israel has tried to manage Hamas, precisely because it does not want to have to
invade Gaza. But Hamas cannot be managed. Iran is doing everything possible to create
its own nuclear arsenal and negate Israel's. And Hamas believes Israel is soft and weak and
ripe for slaughter. The Hamas attack Saturday had an element of sexual brutality that cannot
be papered over: we will take your women. Can you stop us? Are your men men
enough to stop us?
Years
of subterfuge, high-tech barrier paralyzed: How Hamas busted Israel's defenses.
Israel long thought the high-tech security barrier dividing it from the Gaza Strip —
bristling with razor wire, cameras and sensors, and fortified with a concrete base against tunnels
and remote-controlled machine guns — was impenetrable. But in the aftermath of the
devastating surprise Hamas onslaught that killed over 1,200 people — the vast majority
of them civilians — Israeli military officials speaking anonymously to media outlets
have revealed some of the severe intelligence and operational deficiencies that enabled the
surprisingly easy mass breach of the fence. Meanwhile, IDF soldiers who were on guard duty
have been recounting the shocking moments when the terrorists launched their complex operation to
breach Israel's "Iron Wall" around the enclave in multiple locations.
Biden
admin will only rescue American citizens in Israel if they agree to sign a promissory
note. Joe Biden's state department will only rescue American citizens in Israel if
they agree to sign a promissory note to repay the money it costs to get them out. [...] The Biden
administration spends tons of our money on all kinds of crap, including student loan
forgiveness, but when it comes to rescuing American citizens who are in harm's way because an
evil terrorist organization is raping and murdering jews just because they are jews, they won't
spend a dime to do it. Unbelievable. I thought Biden's top priority was the safety of
Americans, whether home or abroad. Doesn't sound like it.
The Qatari
elephant in the room. Three days ago, militants from the Palestinian terrorist group
Hamas launched a large-scale invasion against several Israeli communities on the Gaza border,
proceeding to massacre an untold number of Israeli civilians, indiscriminately butchering women,
children, and the elderly. Early reporting on the massacre continues to investigate the
possibility that the invasion was planned, directed, and funded by the regime that rules Iran,
which has long acted as a financial and political benefactor for Palestinian jihadists and several
of Israel's additional neighboring jihadist entities. While much attention in U.S. political
circles has been paid to Iran, notably, lots of policymakers and influential D.C. actors and
organizations are failing to mention the Qatari elephant in the room. The political
leadership of Hamas does not live in Gaza, nor do they live in Tehran. They live in Qatar,
one of the richest countries in the world, where they are protecting by the jihadist-allied regime
in Doha.
This should have been done no later than October 8. Senate
Republicans Introduce Bill to Freeze $6 billion in Iranian Funds. In the wake of
recent Hamas attacks on Israel, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Tom
Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a new bill Wednesday to immediately freeze $6 billion in Iranian
funds. The funds currently are being held in South Korea and are due to be released to Iran
following a prisoner swap with the United States.
Update: US
blocks Iran from $6 billion fund after Hamas attack: Report. The Biden
administration is preventing Iran from accessing the $6 billion the U.S. recently transferred after
Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, launched a brutal attack against Israel, The Washington
Post reported Thursday. The Biden administration originally cut a deal with Iran to transfer
$6 billion in previously frozen assets in exchange for five American prisoners. The
administration is now working with fund manager Qatar to hold up the $6 billion after Iran's ally
Hamas launched a wave of attacks against Israel on Saturday, killing over 1,200 Israelis and at
least 25 Americans and kidnapping hundreds more.
Biden
Blocks $6B Iranian Bribes After Embarrassing Pressure Campaign. President Joe Biden
has made the decision to block the release of $6 billion in frozen assets that were recently
transferred to Iran as part of a contentious prisoners' swap. The move follows the barbaric
terrorist attack against Israel by Hamas, an Iranian-backed group based in the Gaza Strip.
These funds were granted in the wake of Iran's agreement to release six American citizens from
custody. Bipartisan congressional critics suggested Iranian involvement in the recent
terrorist attack on Israel.
How
Hard Is It to Condemn Atrocities? After Hamas terrorists murdered 260-plus mostly
young people enjoying a "peace" concert near the Gaza border and slaughtered families in their
homes, normal people were utterly outraged and sympathetic to the Israeli victims.
Others — mostly university professors, progressive activists and "journalists," and even
some members of Congress — couldn't bring themselves to condemn the violence. Some
even excused it. [...] Even if you have no sympathy for the Jewish victims, despise the Israeli
government and its treatment of Palestinians, and have no problem with Hamas extremism, it's still
wise to offer a statement acknowledging that murdering and kidnapping ordinary people is
horrific. Otherwise, you sound like a terrorism-supporting barbarian. It's hard to, you
know, complain about the very real suffering of ordinary residents of Gaza when you make clear that
you have no real problem with civilian suffering as a general principle.
The
US Has Poured Hundreds Of Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Into Gaza Since Hamas Took
Over. The United States has sent hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to the Gaza
Strip since the territory has been under the control of the terrorist group Hamas. Hamas,
which took over Gaza in 2007, launched a series of attacks against Israel starting on Saturday,
resulting in the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of hundreds of others, some of
whom have been tortured or raped. The U.S. has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to
improve Gazans' welfare, and the Biden administration plans to send more taxpayer funds to the
region in the coming years despite the risk that some of it is being stolen by Hamas, according to
a review of publicly available records.
Anyone
Who Rejoices Over the Butchering of Babies and Children Is Evil. The Daily
Wire reported that, "The largest network of campus anti-Israel groups is organizing a 'Day of
Resistance' on Thursday to rally support for the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, calling
the murder of nearly 1,000 Israelis, including women and children, a 'historic win for the
Palestinian resistance.'" Babies beheaded by Hamas. A win! Little children
slaughtered in front of their weeping mothers. A win! Ninety-year-old grandmothers shot
in the head. A win! Women raped and abused. A win! And all this in the name
of "justice," as indicated by the name of this network: Students for Justice in Palestine
(SJP). They stated, "Our people choose resistance over negotiated cages on our homeland.
Fearlessly, our people struggle for complete liberation and return." Resistance? The
willful, intentional, even gleeful butchering of whole families in cold blood is resistance?
And it is "fearless" to murder hundreds of unarmed people pleading for their lives?
Hamas
and Fatah Explain What Their War Against Israel Is All About. Why are the Islamic
jihad groups fighting against Israel? Why do they think that committing the dismaying actions
we saw in Israel on Saturday is the right, and indeed the righteous, thing to do? As the
death toll from Saturday's jihad massacres in Israel continues to mount, the world looks on in
horror at the atrocities that were committed — the wanton massacre of people at a peace
concert, the beheaded babies, and so much more. It is hard for Americans and Europeans to
fathom how or why any human beings would do such things. Now, however, two jihad groups,
including the one that was behind the massacres, Hamas, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas' Fatah, have issued statements that clarify exactly what they think they're doing. As
you might expect, they both make for chilling reading.
Leftists
Want the Same Massacre to Happen Here. Understand that our foreign and domestic
enemies not only eagerly support the frenzy of rape and murder we saw in Israel but that they want
it repeated here in America. When they talk about "the consequences of colonialization" or
complain that Israel has defended itself, they are normalizing mass atrocities by their purported
allies against their actual enemies. Their enemies in Israel are Jews — men,
women, and children — and here, their enemies are normal Americans — again,
men, women and children. Denial simply empowers these monsters, and attempts by the goo-goos
to appeal to our enemies' morality, or to point out facts and argue in good faith, will end in
abject failure. What matters to our enemies is that we suffer and die. Nothing less
will satisfy them.
Rep.
Michael McCaul Confirms Egypt Sent Warning To Israel Three Days Before Attack.
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas in a press conference Wednesday confirmed Egypt warned
Israel of a possible attack three days before Hamas breached Israel's southern border. "We
know that Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,"
Rep. McCaul said after a classified briefing. An anonymous Egyptian official also
claimed his country had warned Israel in advance something big was coming, per The Associated
Press. Rep. McCaul also expressed his uncertainty over how both Israeli and American
intelligence missed this.
True
Justice For Israel Is Executing All Members Of Hamas. The deeds of Hamas —
rape, torture, murder, even beheading babies — are comparable to the worst of the
Holocaust, and the perpetrators of these acts deserve to be executed just as much as the Nazis who
were running extermination camps. This extends to all members of the terrorist
organization. Every member of Hamas merits prompt execution, and only deliberate mercy or
Israeli self-interest should spare them. Only Hamas sympathizers could possibly dispute that
the Israeli military has the moral right and duty to kill Hamas members on the battlefield.
The more complex question is whether the guilt extends only to the personnel that actively
participated in rape and baby murder or whether the entire terrorist organization is complicit in
these evils.
The
Savagery of Hamas. Over the coming weeks, Israel will likely seek to depose the Hamas
government that attacked it — and rightly so — and civilians will die.
Israel must ensure that as few as possible do. Each death will be as gruesome as the deaths
of Israeli civilians at the hands of Hamas — for there is no pretty death and there is
no pretty war. Leftists will see in the equivalence of death the equivalence of cause.
This will be wrong. The last bomb America dropped on its way out of Afghanistan did nothing
but kill ten innocents, seven children among them. This made America incompetent, perhaps
even callous, and certainly reckless. But, it did not make it the Taliban.
The
problem with fences. [Scroll down] Talking of fences, an obvious failure
was on October 7, when Hamas terrorists bulldozed the fence separating Gaza from Israel, and came
across on motorcycles and in pickup trucks. They also bypassed the fence on paragliders and
boats. Once in, they successfully killed over 1,000 people, wounding thousands more, and even
killed 40 babies (many decapitated) in one kibbutz alone. Hamas had shown imagination in the
past when dealing with the Israeli security fence — they've dug tunnels under the fence,
launched rockets over the fence, and finally, in the invasion a few days ago, they simply bulldozed
over the fence. Israel thinks of itself as a place where Jews can defend itself, but it also
has strict laws regarding gun ownership. There was no second line of defense when the fence
was breached. Behind the Gaza fence had long been a growing tsunami, an enemy that
indoctrinated its children and trained from their early years to use weapons.
Biden
administration gave money to Hamas-linked groups. President Joe Biden's decision to
restart aid programs for Palestinians has drawn fresh criticism this week amid questions about how
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization in control of the Gaza Strip, acquired the resources
to launch an attack on Israel. Biden has pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward
Palestinians since taking office, reversing a decision by former President Donald Trump to cut off
nearly all aid to Palestinians, in part because of concerns about Hamas's influence. Whether
U.S. aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank ended up boosting organizations linked to
terrorism remains a key question after Hamas fighters killed more than 1,000 Israelis, most of them
civilians, in a surprise incursion into Israel on Saturday. Less than a month before the
attack, a Biden administration watchdog warned that there was not enough transparency surrounding
the influx of funding that Biden approved for Palestinians starting when he took office in 2021.
The
Forever War. Israel has declared war for the first time in 50 years. At least
260 bodies were recovered from a music festival, just one of the places attacked by Hamas near the
Gaza strip. Given Israel has a very short mobilization endurance, they may immediately strike
the enemy center of gravity which, for both the proxy forces Hamas and Hezbollah, is thought to be
Iran. This may widen the war from COIN to regional conflict with incalculable results.
Reports that Tehran was deeply involved in planning the attack added fuel to the speculation.
Even if Iran is not involved directly but the IDF takes the hammer to Hamas, the ayatollahs will be
under pressure to save their proteges. That hammer arrived in the form of news the Israelis
would besiege Gaza. No electricity, food, or fuel would be allowed into the city of two
million. Not since the nine-month siege of Mosul in which ISIS was destroyed have there been
urban operations of this magnitude in the world.
AOC-Backed
Starbucks Union Cheers for Hamas Terror Attacks. As armed Hamas terrorists are
beheading Jewish babies, raping innocent women, and executing civilians in the street, Starbucks
union workers — backed by far-left Squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-VT), socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and brain-dead Sen. John Fetterman
(D-PA) — have proudly signaled public support for the terrorist invasion of
Israel. Starbucks Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union
(SEIU), voiced "Solidarity with Palestine!" in a series of since-deleted posts across social
media. Over the weekend, Starbucks union chapters in progressive strongholds, such as Iowa City,
Chicago, and Boston, promoted "Long Live Palestinian Resistance" rallies supporting the Hamas attacks.
Democratic
senators break with Biden and call to refreeze $6 billion Iranian 'ransom' funds after horrific
Hamas terror attack on Israel. Influential Democratic senators have publicly pressed
the Biden Administration to try to find a way to freeze $6 billion in Iranian funds over Tehran's
support for Hamas. The pressure from within the president's own party comes as the White
House says there is no confirmation of Iran's support for the gruesome Hamas attack —
even while acknowledging Iran's longstanding support for the group. Sen. Jon Tester
(D-Mont.), a Democratic centrist who is up for reelection in 2024, is among those calling for the
funds to be refrozen.
Hamas
and Iran: Slaughtering Jews for Decades. Hamas's October 7 war on Israel did not
surprise those who have been following the actions of Iran and its regime-backed Islamist terror
group since it was founded in late 1987. Since then, Hamas, with Iran's help —
Hamas does not have a productive economy in Gaza — has carried out countless terrorist
attacks, killing and wounding thousands of Jews by suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings and
car-rammings, as well by firing tens of thousands of rockets into Israel, a country the size of New
Jersey (roughly 22,000 km2). In 2002, Hamas committed one of its deadliest
massacres during the Jewish holiday of Passover in the Israeli city of Netanya. Thirty
civilians were murdered and 140 wounded when a Hamas terrorist, disguised as a woman, detonated a
suitcase filled with powerful explosives in the dining room of a hotel where Jews were celebrating
the Passover holiday. Most of the victims were senior citizens (70 and over). The oldest
victim was 90 and the youngest, 20. Over the past three decades, Hamas officials never
concealed their group's ambition to destroy Israel through Jihad (holy war).
Black
Lives Matter Group Deletes Tweet Showing Support for Hamas. The Black Lives Matter
Chicago chapter on Wednesday deleted a controversial pro-Hamas tweet, but doubled down on its
support for the Palestinian cause as Hamas launched a violent terror attack on Israel. The
BLM Chicago chapter posted a graphic online Tuesday that said, "I stand with Palestine." The
graphic also featured a paraglider with the Palestinian flag, which is notable because Hamas
terrorists paraglided into a music festival in Israel and attacked the attendees.
Donald the
Inevitable. People have asked me what the difference between Israel and Ukraine
is. It's simple. Bibi ain't running around the world in a green shirt demanding
money. He is in Tel Aviv fighting a war. This isn't a grift; this is a battle for
survival. [...] This weekend's massacres by Iran and Palestine against Israel — funded
by Biden and the deep state — proves we need a President of America, not a bribed career
politician beholden to Muslim terrorists and Red China.
Bernie
Sanders criticizes Israel's offensive in Gaza, calls it 'serious violation of international
law'. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., criticized Israel on Wednesday for cutting off
electricity, fuel, food and water to residents in the Gaza Strip, calling it a "serious violation
of international law." "The targeting of civilians is a war crime, no matter who does
it. Israel's blanket denial of food, water, and other necessities to Gaza is a serious
violation of international law and will do nothing but harm innocent civilians," said Sanders.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday ordered a "complete siege" on Gaza following the
killing and kidnapping of civilians in southern Israel by Hamas terrorist fighters on Saturday.
Rashida
Tlaib Has No Comment When Asked About Hamas Beheading Israeli Babies. On Tuesday
morning we learned that the bodies of 40 babies slaughtered by Hamas had been found in the southern
Israeli town of Kfar Aza, some of them having been beheaded. Throughout the day, mainstream
journalists and Hamas sympathizers accused Israel of having made it up, and claimed it was
propaganda. However, the CBS News and CNN eventually reported on the horrific discovery, and
President Biden referenced it in his address to the nation. Fox News' Hilary Vaughn asked
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who was visibly emotionally distraught while talking about migrant
children being separated from their parents at the U.S. border in 2019 and called it "traumatic"
and "inhumane," about Hamas beheading babies and burning children alive, and she had nothing to say. [Tweet]
Israel
Reaps What Jimmy Carter Sowed. The war launched by Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah
against Israel has roots that go back centuries, but a more recent critical node in the story is
the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when militant Islam achieved state power in the ancient Persian
land. Then, the world watched as a longtime American ally — the shah of Iran and
the Pahlavi dynasty — was ousted from power with the tacit acceptance of the Carter
administration, which had been critical of the shah (and other American allies) for "human rights"
violations. The revolutionary regime backed "students" who seized the U.S. embassy and 52
American hostages for 444 humiliating days, while President Jimmy Carter belatedly responded with a
deeply flawed rescue mission that ended in disaster and further humiliation for the United
States. Since then, the Islamic regime that has governed Iran, as Michael Ledeen noted in
2008, has been at war with Israel and the United States. Today, Israelis (and Americans in
Israel) are reaping what Jimmy Carter sowed.
How The US Funded
Hamas. Millions of dollars from the United States ended up in Gaza, which is governed
by Hamas, despite the Biden administration's best attempts to keep the topic primarily under
wraps. Israel has been the target of numerous terrorist assaults. There have been about
a dozen conventional wars against the Jewish state, all of varying sizes. And both have been
present more frequently in combination. However, no gangs of hundreds of killers in black
have ever planned to flood Israel with the intention of picking up random Jews off the street and
out of their houses, killing them, and then throwing their bodies in the street. In fact, the
Rwandan mass murder of 1994, when hordes of Hutu militia killers went on a preplanned killing spree
against thousands of Tutsi people, is the closest analog to the methodology Hamas is today
embracing. The bloodlust of the Gaza audience is a recurring motif in these horrifying films
of the murder of young women. There doesn't seem to be a single Gazan objecting to the
collective killing of a civilian, despite a natural desire among ordinary Gazans to record the
mutilations, an embrace of spitting on the dying, and a frantic endeavor to mutilate the dead.
All the feminist leaders are silent about this. Rashida
Tlaib Silent When Asked to Condemn Hamas for Decapitating Babies, Raping Women.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib stayed silent when asked to condemn Hamas for decapitating 40 babies raping
women in the street. I remember in 2020 when people said "silence is violence" and if you
remain silent, you agree with the travesties around you. I guess Tlaib is okay with
Hamas. Then again this is the same woman who has the Palestine flag outside her office.
A map in her office has a Post-It note with Palestine on it covering Israel. Former
Rep. Justin Amash is a Palestinian-American. I only see him talking about his heritage
on the anniversary of his father coming to America. I only see Amash praising America and
loving the Constitution. I wish Tlaib had the same appreciation as Amash. [Tweet with
video clip]
Israeli
Soldiers Show Journalists Aftermath of Hamas Terror. Israeli soldiers report finding
the bodies of babies, some of them decapitated, in the ruins of a town ravaged by Hamas terrorists
in their surprise attack on Saturday. Israeli Defense Force soldiers took dozens of foreign
journalists Tuesday to Kfar Aza, a town about 1.5 miles southeast of the Gaza border.
Journalists surveyed the devastation, with explosions and artillery fire occurring in the
background. "It's not a war," Gen. Itai Veruv, head of the IDF's Depth Command, told
reporters. "It's not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers in their
bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists kill them." "It's not a war ...
it's a massacre," Veruv added. [Tweet]
Biden
Administration Accused of Illegally Funding Hamas. A new interesting bit of
information has surfaced in Israel's war against Hamas, which began when it launched a surprise
attack on Saturday, killing more than a thousand people and taking hostages. The Biden
administration has faced scrutiny over its release of $6 billion in frozen funds to Iran, which has
been found to have helped Hamas plan and execute the assault. It appears the White House also
helped to fund Hamas directly, despite being warned about the consequences of doing so.
America First Legal published a post on social media in which it announced that it was filing a
lawsuit against the Biden administration and was initiating the discovery process to find out what
the White House knew about their plan to send aid to Palestinians.
Hamas'
Terrorist War Against Israel: There Is No 'On the Other Hand'. Fact one:
Hamas openly declares it hates Jews. It is an openly bigoted, anti-Semitic
organization. Its public charter, which it calls its "Covenant," states: "Our struggle
against the Jews is very great and very serious." The Covenant actually endorses the notorious
fraudulent anti-Semitic rant, used in part by Hitler to justify the Holocaust, the "Protocols of
the Elders of Zion." Fact two: Hamas' invasion is not about supporting an independent
Palestinian state. Hamas denies Israel's right to exist. It rejects a two-state
solution. The head of its political bureau, Khaled Meshal, stated this plainly at a 2012
rally in Gaza: "Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north.
There will be no concession on any inch of land."
Iran's
Role in Hamas' Attack on Israel. On Saturday, Israel suffered the worst attack on its
civilian population in 50 years. Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists in Gaza launched thousands
of rockets at Israeli population centers and stormed through the security barrier into Israel where
they massacred hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children. An untold number were also taken
captive and thousands are seriously injured. Fifty years ago, Israel was also caught by
surprise when Arab armies invaded on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. This
time, the Palestinian terrorists chose to attack on Simchat Torah, the most joyous holy day in the
Jewish calendar, when Jews celebrate the completion of the annual cycle of studying the Torah and
then immediately begin it again. Their choice of this date is no coincidence. It is a
sign that Hamas, like their predecessors, sees itself at war not only with the government of
Israel, but also with the Children of Israel and the God of Israel — the Jewish people
and Judaism itself.
Iran
sends deadly message to Biden with Hamas attack on Israel. The U.S. has yet to
confirm a direct involvement from Tehran in the operation, but officials acknowledge Iranians are
indirectly complicit in training, funding and supporting Hamas. The Hamas invasion, the worst
attack on Israel in 50 years, shows Tehran is increasingly willing to damage U.S. allies and, in
effect, try to weaken American influence through proxy groups. It comes as Iran's influence
as a regional power appears on the rise.
Ted
Cruz Speaks Hard Truths on Hamas' Attack on Israel: 'Paid for By Joe Biden and the
Democrats'. On Saturday, Hamas attacked Israel, making it the bloodiest day in the
country's history and resulting in more Jews dead since the end of the Holocaust. Meanwhile,
the Biden administration's response was less than ideal in many ways. This is especially with
regards to the $6 billion that the United States released to Iran as part of a prisoner exchange, a
move that was announced on the anniversary of September 11, no less. Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX) in his Monday edition of "The Verdict," was among those calling out the administration for
this, but also other, moves. Early on in the podcast, Cruz emphasized how "infuriating" the
brutal attack on Israel was. And, it has to do with the role Democrats played. "I'll tell you
what is infuriating about this. This was paid for by Joe Biden and the Democrats," Cruz
pointed out, mentioning "this is something that the corporate media desperately wants to avoid,"
though he nevertheless wished to "be clear."
Starbucks
Union Backed By Prominent Dems Claims 'Solidarity With Palestine' After Hamas Terror
Attack. A Starbucks labor union with past ties to prominent members of the Democratic
Party expressed "solidarity" with the people group that backed an unprecedented terrorist attack on
Israel. A social media account for Starbucks Workers United posted "Solidarity with
Palestine!" following the deadliest terror attack on Israeli soil in the nation's history,
according to The Washington Free Beacon. The attack was carried out by Hamas, an Iran-backed
terror group elected to lead Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The attack left over 1,200
civilians dead and thousands wounded, marking the deadliest single day for Jews since the
Holocaust. The union has since deleted the post, made on X, formerly known as Twitter,
according to the Free Beacon, which captured a screenshot of the image. Starbucks Workers
United is an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and represents roughly
9,000 baristas.
Did
Hamas just jump the shark? Just as the latest invasion began in Israel, swarms of the
usual suspects began protesting in front of Israeli consulates in various American cities.
Some of the anti-Israeli demonstrators were themselves Jewish... being committed leftists first and
Jews second. They were of particular interest to the mainstream news media. Then news
of horrific atrocities being carried out by the Hamas militants began to surface. Shooting up
a harmless music festival is way too much for even woke progressives — let alone
flaunting the naked bodies of freshly murdered women. As I write, the revulsion on the Left
is still lurking below the radar. But there really is no turning back.
$6
Billion in Iranian Assets Buys What, Exactly? In mid-September, the United States
authorized the release of $6 billion to Iran in the form of unfrozen Iranian assets to help secure
the return of five U.S. citizens. Seeing as how we provided a metric crap-ton of money to a
country that literally funds Hamas and Hamas executed hundreds of innocent Israelis, we
should probably know a little bit about these people.
Take this for what it's worth: Evidence
Mounts That Israeli Intelligence Allowed Hamas Attack to Occur.
[Scroll down] Of course, one should not need confirmation from Egyptian intelligence or
any other source to understand that an attack emanating from the most surveilled region on Earth
roughly the size of two Washington D.C.s involving tens of thousands of operatives, months if not
years of planning, tons of equipment including tens of thousands of rockets imported and stockpiled
in Gaza, and an influx of cash to make it all happen could have possibly occurred without the tacit
blessing if not active facilitation by Mossad and/or the CIA[.] Almost immediately after the
attack, the corporate state media launched a propaganda blitzkrieg to offer all manner of excuses
for how Israeli intelligence "failed" to detect the most obvious buildup possible, precisely
because it's so patently obvious to anyone with common sense that nothing of the sort was possible
that such a PR blitz is necessary to get out in front of the narrative. The provable untruth
is any corporate state narrative is directly proportional to the intensity with which is is forced
down the American public's throat. They claimed the IDF was caught off-guard because of Yom
Kippur — despite the fact that Israel's enemies launched a surprise attack decades ago
on the same holiday. They offered the excuse that the IDF had moved its forces to the West
Bank to quell uprisings against settlers. The excuses defy basic logic.
President
Pallets-of-Cash Pretends to Care About Dead Israelis. If your goal is a pile of dead
Israelis, send money to Iran. The more money you give to Iran, the more dead Israelis.
Former President Barack Obama knows this, and still he sent the terrorist state of Iran pallets of
cash. "On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally admitted something its critics had long
suspected," my colleague John Hayward reported in late 2016. "The entire $1.7 billion tribute
paid to Iran was tendered in cash — not just the initial $400 million infamously shipped to
the Iranians in a cargo plane[.]" "[A]t the same moment," Hayward adds, "four American
hostages were released."
Democrats
support Palestinians over Israel, GOP overwhelmingly stands with US ally: 2023 poll.
More Democrats in the United States support Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank than
Israel, the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to a 2023 poll. Democratic
sympathies for Palestinians has increased over the last decade, and a Gallup poll published in
March 2023 found their affinity toward the Palestinians finally eclipsed their support of Israel,
49% to 38%. The attitudes from March reflected a continued decline in Israeli support, from
40% to 38% and an 11-point surge of support for Palestinian people, from 38% to 49%.
Hamas
and the Military Logic of Sexual Violence. Hamas broke through a fortified border,
had unchallenged freedom of movement inside Israel for a shockingly long time, and attacked a dance
music festival and some kibbutzim. Not airfields, not fuel depots, not power stations, not
army motor pools to deny mobility to the enemy. They went after soft targets first, and
focused especially on women and children. Eyewitness reports and footage of female hostages
are telling us that Hamas engaged in sustained sexual violence, and took care to make it known.
[...] Hamas is dirtying the memory of the Jewish spaces bordering on the Gaza Strip. They're
marking southern Israel in the memory of future families, and especially women of childbearing age,
with the deliberately cultivated images of murdered children and the mass rape of young women, so
that young women regard the place with dread and don't return to have children there. They're
making a dead zone, and they intend to make a dead zone.
Israel's
intelligence failure is a warning for America's politicized agencies. Some people are
calling it "Israel's 9/11." That makes sense, in that Hamas' massacre was a totally
unexpected massive terrorist attack with a huge body count of innocent people. Not as many
people died as on 9/11 (though proportionately to Israel's population it was worse than 9/11 was
for America). Because the assault involved shootings, rapes and kidnappings, it seems somehow
more personal than the jets of 9/11. But there's one way in which it was identical, and
that's the "totally unexpected" part. Like American intelligence agencies before 9/11,
Israel's security services were caught flat-footed. Both American and Israeli officials have
said it was a complete surprise.
The
real problem is Elon letting people see what Hamas videotaped themselves doing. Hamas
operatives made the videos of the wholesale, wanton slaughter. Hamas made and distributed the
videos of kidnapped babies in cages, of dragging screaming women off, stripping and defiling a
girl's corpse in a truck before trawling it through the streets. Hamas made the videos abusing
a young boy and laughing, of terrorizing a captured geriatric, crippled, reported Holocaust survivor.
Israel
Loosens Strict Gun Control Laws To Arm 'As Many Citizens As Possible'. Israel, the
tiny democracy in the Middle East with terrorists along all its borders, has more stringent
gun-control laws than anywhere in the United States. Unlike our Second Amendment, there is no
recognition of the right to keep and bear arms. After the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas
from Gaza, Israel's government suddenly made it slightly easier for its citizens to own firearms
for self-defense. Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Sunday in
Hebrew an emergency declaration that will "allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves."
Currently, a mere 1.5 percent of the civilian population has a license to own a gun.
Palestinians'
War on Israel and US Senators' Delusional 'Two-State Solution'. Less than 48 hours
after 20 US Democratic Senators urged President Joe Biden to push for the establishment of a
Palestinian state as part of a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran's
Palestinian terror proxies launched a massive attack on Israel, killing more than 700 Israeli men,
women and children, and wounding thousands more. An unknown number of Israelis (estimated at
more than 100), including infants, toddlers and an elderly Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair, have
also been kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip. This war, as reported on October 8 by the
Wall Street Journal, was caused directly by Iran, which has made no secret of its desire to
"eradicate" Israel — and America — and which funds and directs Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and by the appeasement of the Iranian regime by the Biden
administration and its allies.
Now
Hamas Wants a Truce. Here's Why Israel Shouldn't Give Them One. Just hours
after the Hamas jihad massacres began, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted an
astonishingly tone-deaf statement: "We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and
the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and
retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing." The Office deleted this tweet
after people started to point out how monstrous it was to urge that Israel not retaliate after
being hit with the most devastating attack in its history. Despite this embarrassment,
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted Sunday that he had met with Turkish Foreign Minister
Hakan Fidan; he added, "I encouraged Túrkiye's advocacy for a cease-fire." (Túrkiye
is the new official name of the country formerly known as Turkey; [...]) Blinken later took
that one down as well, but other leftists continued to call for a ceasefire at a time when that
could only have meant that Hamas would hit Israel and Israel would do nothing in response.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Socialist Ditzville) released a statement on Saturday
afternoon, as Israeli authorities were still tracking down all the Hamas jihadis who had managed to
get inside the country and start killing indiscriminately. AOC said, "An immediate ceasefire
and de-escalation is urgently needed to save lives."
Leftists
Come Out in Support of Hamas Massacres, Send Money to Palestinians. After the
horrifying images of what Hamas did in Israel on Saturday went around the world, it's hard to
believe that anyone came out in support of the Palestinian jihad. But numerous leftists found
a way and seized the opportunity of the bloody massacre of hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians
to advance anti-Israel talking points. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) led the way with
a statement that was a masterpiece of blame-shifting and displacement of responsibility.
After seeing ordinary Israelis massacred wholesale at a peace festival, on the street, and in their
homes, Tlaib began by putting the perpetrators and their victims on equal footing: "I grieve the
Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day. I am determined as ever
to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom,
equal rights, and human dignity."
Israel
Must Treat Gaza like Berlin and Hamas like Nazis. After the worst attack on the
Jewish people since the Holocaust, Israel has three choices: First, Israel can do what it's
done in the past, and that's retaliate until the Jew-hating Christiane Amanpour crowd starts their
pressure campaign with words like "disproportionate." The result will be what it's been for
50 years... Islamic terror attack after Islamic terror attack against Israeli civilians until
another massive attack is brought off. Second, Israel can follow America's lead and launch a
namby-pamby forever war. Year after year, decade after decade of "humane war" resulting in a
humiliating defeat, more dead Israelis and civilians than an all-out war could ever cause.
But at least the Military Industrial Complex and cable news get fatter and happier. Or.
Israel can do the smart and humane thing: Remember World War II, which means treating Gaza
like Berlin and Hamas like the Nazis they are.
CNN
Hosts Hamas Propagandist, Airs His Deranged Claims About Israeli Targets. Israel has
already begun an assault on the Gaza Strip in response to the brutal invasion by Hamas terrorists
that left upwards of a 1000 civilians dead. The largest number of dead came from an attack on
a dance festival, with Hamas gunmen mowing down people in cold blood as they retreated. Many
of the atrocities committed have been documented on video, leaving no doubt as to what occurred.
Still, some people are shameless enough to pretend otherwise. [Tweet with video clip]
Hamas
Terrorists Threaten Mass Execution of Civilian Hostages (Including Americans) on Live TV as Joe
Biden Takes the Rest of Monday Off. Hamas is threatening to escalate their war crimes
further while Joe Biden refuses to perform his sworn duties as commander-in-chief. As
Cristina Laila previously reported, the Biden regime called a lid before noon. The so-called
president will be prioritizing nap time over doing his job. The Regime made this move for the
feeble Joe even as Hamas kidnaps young women, abuses the bodies of the victims, beheads Israeli
soldiers, and slaughters innocent civilians at peace gatherings. The news gets even worse,
though. Hamas is now threatening a mass execution of innocent hostages in Israel on live
television each time an Israeli defense force strike hits a "civilian" in Gaza.
Muslims
In New York City Celebrate The Slaughter In Israel. Pro-Palestinian protesters took
over New York City's Times Square on Sunday, just one day after terrorist organization Hamas
callously attacked Israel, leaving hundreds of civilians dead. Irate counter-protesters
waving Israeli flags clashed with 300 seething placard-clad demonstrators, one of which was
spotted on the front line holding up a swastika. [Video clip]
Is
Hamas a state actor? Hamas is not a recognized state actor or national military
force. It is designated as a terrorist organization by countries including the U.S., EU,
Canada, and Japan. The Geneva Conventions only give prisoner-of-war status to combatants
captured in armed conflict between two or more states. The conventions do not apply to
non-international conflicts with non-state actors like terrorist/rebel groups. People
detained by Hamas have not necessarily engaged in lawful combat against Hamas. They could be
civilians rather than enemy combatants. POW status requires being a lawful combatant.
Hamas does not follow the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of detainees. So it does not
confer POW rights even if detainees would otherwise meet the criteria. The circumstances and
motives surrounding Hamas detentions are often illegal (kidnapping, extortion, political leverage).
This differs from lawful detention of combatants. Individuals captured and held by Hamas
are hostages, detained civilians, or unlawfully detained combatants denied their rights under
international law. But they do not meet the legal definitions to be granted prisoner of war
status under the Geneva Conventions.
Biden
Admin in the midst of crisis: climate change still the biggest threat US and world
faces. The Biden Administration is the biggest threat to America right now. Not
Russia. Not China. Not Iran or North Korea. Biden. Why? Because the
Biden Administration is profoundly stupid and evil and keeps creating disasters wherever it turns
its attention. Biden could easily mumble, stumble, and bumble us into a world war at any
moment. Biden has made every other threat to the country much worse. Those guys may be
the enemy, but Biden is better placed to actually harm the US and is too stupid to keep our foreign
adversaries at bay. In the midst of all the crises America and the world face, listen to what
Admiral John Kirby says is the biggest problem America faces. It is the most profoundly
stupid thing I have heard since AOC opened her mouth and spoke. [Tweet with
video clip] I would have expected Kirby to resign in disgust, but he has instead
defended Biden's "successful" exit from Afghanistan, his failure to prevent the Ukraine war, and
his border policies which have invited millions of military-age men and even terrorists into the US
through an open border, and just handed billions of dollars to Iran as it planned and authorized an
invasion of Israel.
Why
Hamas Attacked, and Why Israel Was Taken by Surprise. On the morning of Saturday,
October 7, the Palestinian group Hamas carried out a surprise attack on Israel on an unprecedented
scale: firing thousands of rockets, infiltrating militants into Israeli territory, and taking an
unknown number of hostages. At least 100 Israelis have died, and at least 1,400 have been
wounded; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country was "at war." As
Israeli forces responded, around 200 Palestinians were killed and around 1,600 wounded. For
insight into what this means for Israel, the Palestinians, and the region, Foreign Affairs turned
to Martin Indyk, the Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy at the Council on
Foreign Relations. Indyk has twice served as U.S. ambassador to Israel, first from 1995 to
1997 and again from 2000 to 2001. He also served as U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy for
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from 2013 to 2014. Earlier, he served as special assistant to
President Bill Clinton and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National
Security Council, and as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs in the U.S.
Department of State. Indyk spoke with Executive Editor Justin Vogt on Saturday afternoon.
What's
Behind Israel's Intelligence Failure? Israel is known for its excellent intelligence
capabilities and its high tech tools. But there was a fatal mistake. Israel believed
that it had hermetically sealed off Gaza and contained the threat from there. Even the rocket
threat was understood to be controlled by Israel's Iron Dome, minimizing the chance of damage to
Israeli population centers. This belief is the root cause of what has just happened in
Israel. It has let things fester in Gaza for decades. Israel never wanted to send in
ground forces and clean out the enemy. Now the people of Israel are paying a terrible
price. Indeed, the slowness of the ground forces response is indicative of unpreparedness
because attacks like this were not supposed to happen. There were plenty of reasons why
Israel adopted a defensive, passive policy on Hamas and the threat from Gaza.
Did
the Biden administration withhold intel from Israel? Palestinian terrorists (no,
that's not necessarily redundant) in Gaza launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel
yesterday. They slaughtered at least 800 Israelis, many of them unarmed women and
children. Some were taken hostage back to Gaza where they were paraded through the streets
and beaten. It was a massive and highly coordinated attack with incursions by land, air and
sea. From a thousand miles away, Iran was likely funding and coordinating it. There had
to be a lot of cyber chatter preceding the attack. Yet Israel was apparently caught by
complete surprise. The question being rightly asked is, how could Israel's intel
operations — one of the most sophisticated in the world — have been caught so
off-guard? The answer may be in Washington. The Biden administration has never gotten
along with the Israeli government, nor did the Obama administration where Biden ws Vice
President. Biden and Obama have both seemed determined to let Iran — a terrorist
state that has vowed to destroy Israel — get a nuclear bomb, and experts think that at
any given moment they could have one in a matter of months. Biden just gave Iran six billion
dollars in exchange for American hostages that Iran had taken.
No,
the Hamas Invasion Was Not an Israeli 'Intelligence Failure'. One would have to be
almost hopelessly naíve to buy the corporate state media line that the Hamas invasion yesterday
morning was an Israeli "intelligence failure." Mossad is one of, if not the, most powerful
intelligence agencies on the planet. It routinely shares intelligence, furthermore, with the
"Five Eyes" intelligence services. It has its tentacles deep inside of every ally and foe of
import. Its spies are littered across the Gaza Strip, which is an effective open-air prison
into which goods do not flow but for the blessing of the Israeli state. The Gaza Strip is
arguably the most heavily surveilled geographic area on Earth. The Hamas invasion of Southern
Israel yesterday was an operation involving tens of thousands of operatives, at least, across land,
sea, and air, using all manner of equipment and weaponry — drones, thousands of rockets,
countless firearms, and even bulldozers that were positioned to knock down Israeli fencing.
And MSNBC and CNN would have you believe this was all a big "intelligence failure" by Mossad.
Report:
U.S. Weapons from Afghanistan Ended up with Palestinian Groups Operating in the Gaza
Strip. A claim in a news report that American weapons seized in Afghanistan have
ended up in the hands of Palestinian groups operating in the Gaza Strip has taken on renewed
significance after Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, launched an attack on Israel on Saturday.
According to a Newsweek report published in June, an Israeli commander said some of the
U.S. small arms seized in Afghanistan have already been observed in the hands of Palestinian groups
operating in the Gaza Strip.
Stop
Pretending — It's Not the "Fungibility," It's the Location of the $6 Billion Returned to
Iran. You want to go deep weeds, let's go deep weeds. Almost all of the
conversations about the $6 billion given back to Iran have focused on the fungible aspect of
money. While true, that focus misses the key and essential point, where the money was
delivered. The captured $6 billion was held in a South Korean bank, the result of sanctions
violations. What the Biden/Blinken crew did, was move the money from South Korea to a bank in Qatar.
Code
Pink Endorses Hamas Attacks on Israel. The masks are finally completely off of the
communist front groups that have led the "anti-war" movement the past two decades. The
communist group Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the U.S. liberation of Iraq from the regime of
the mass-murdering, genocidal, war-mongering tyrant Saddam Hussein, posted the group's endorsement
of the Hamas attacks on Israel Saturday as other "anti-war" groups announced plans for pro-Hamas
rallies to be held across the U.S. over the long Columbus Day holiday weekend.
Iran
helped plan Hamas attack on Israel. Senior members of Iran-backed militant group
Hezbollah claimed that Hamas' surprise attack on Israel that killed at least 700 people was given
the green light by Iranian security officials. Hamas plotted the air, land and sea invasions
with help from officers of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a Wall Street
Journal report. Israel has since branded Iran a 'terrorist state.' The official
go-ahead for the attack was allegedly given at a Monday meeting in Beirut.
The
Blood Deal. Iran and its proxies state that Israel is a pariah nation with no legal
standing to exist, and that Allah has promised them that they will be returned to their "rightful"
lands. This is the basis for all the terrorism that has been the hallmark of the Palestinian
experience since 1948. Missing from the debate is that there has never been a Palestinian
country...ever. Upon the creation of Israel in 1948, the grand mufti in Egypt ordered all
Arabs living in the new State of Israel to leave or be killed.
Yom
Kippur War 1973, Gaza 2023 — Anniversaries Matter To Palestinians. Back on
June 5, 1968, Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had
just won the California Democratic presidential primary by promising 50 fighter jets to Israel, to
commemorate the first anniversary of the Six Day War (June 5-June 10, 1967) in which Israel
attacked its Arab neighbors. It took me the rest of the century to figure out Sirhan's
motivation. On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, Egypt under Anwar Sadat attacked Israel's
occupation troops in the Sinai, crossing the Suez Canal in a brilliant feat of arms by using
two-man teams of infantry, one firing a shoulder-launched wire-controlled anti-tank missile, the
other controlling the joystick, to demolish Israeli tanks. The Egyptian Army had trained
intensively to win this battle to overcome the shame of 1967. But they won so quickly, sending much
of the Israeli government into a panic, that it suddenly became a problem that the Egyptians didn't
have much of a plan for what to do next. There were hundreds of miles of bad road across the
Sinai between them and Israel proper, plus an increasing number of angry Israelis.
CAIR,
SJP, American Muslim Groups Back Palestinians After Terror Attack in Israel. The
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a variety of other Muslim and pro-Palestinian
groups in the United States failed to condemn the Hamas terror attack on Israel on Saturday, and
instead offered their support. The Palestinian terror attack happened on the Jewish holiday
of Shemini Atzeret, the final day of the annual High Holy Day cycle. In a statement, CAIR
expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, and did not condemn violence against
Israel. Over 300 Israelis were murdered, and over 1,500 wounded, in an unprecedented terror
attack on civilian targets.
Biden
NSC Spox Claims $6 Billion in Funds Joe Biden Sent to Iran Have "Absolutely Nothing to do With"
Hamas Attacks Against Israel. Joe Biden's NSC spox on Saturday went into damage
control after Hamas surprise ambushed Israel in a horrific terror attack. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war against Hamas after the militant group fired over 5,000
rockets at Israel on Saturday. [Tweet with video clip] Hamas militants launched a
surprise attack on Israel, catching the country off-guard during a major Jewish holiday. The
attack involved thousands of rockets and dozens of fighters infiltrating Israeli towns near the
Gaza Strip. Horrifying footage has emerged showing women being marched into vehicles,
bloodied and bruised. Earlier reports showed Israeli civilians including children, being
captured and taken into the Gaza Strip, Daily Mail reported.
Joe
Biden's $6-billion war on Israel. In 2015, under then-Democrat president Obama, the
United States danced around Iran's overt hostility toward Israel and the United States and
encouraged Iran to temper its work toward creating a nuclear bomb. As a result, two months
later, Iran entered into a soft agreement with the five members on the U.N. Security Council plus
Germany. This agreement was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. In
return, against Republican opposition and even some Democrat misgivings, Obama dropped U.S.
sanctions on Iran in return for Iran's purported slow-walking its quest for a nuclear bomb.
Wink, wink. Additionally, Obama displayed overt antagonism toward Israel. He refused to
acknowledge an American Embassy in Jerusalem and declared, obnoxiously and illegally, that Jewish
children born in Jerusalem were not considered Israeli and could not be issued Israeli passports,
as they had not been born on Israeli ground.
Republicans
blast Biden for releasing $6 billion in frozen Iran funds ahead of Hamas attack on
Israel. Republicans in the House and Senate are tearing into the Biden administration
for unfreezing $6 billion in Iranian assets months before Hamas terrorists launched a deadly and
massive attack on Israel early Saturday — criticism that the Biden administration called
"false and misleading." "Just weeks ago, the Biden administration handed over $6 billion to
Iran, and today, innocent Israelis were murdered by Iran-backed terrorists," Sen. Marsha
Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in a statement. "We must continue to support our strongest ally in the
Middle East and their right to defend themselves against these unprovoked, horrific attacks."
Blackburn spoke after Hamas terrorists invaded areas of southern Israel. Thousands of rockets
were fired into Israel and dozens of fighters infiltrated through the border. Local Israeli
media reported that at least 100 people have been killed in the assault.
Top
Biden Adviser Bragged Of Quiet Middle East One Week Before Hamas Attacked Israel. One
week before Hamas launched a surprise attack in Israel, a top aide to President Joe Biden touted a
relative calm in the Middle East. "The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in
two decades," said U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, according to The Atlantic.
He went on to stress that "challenges remain," citing Iran's nuclear weapons program and "tensions"
between Israel and the Palestinians, but added, "the amount of time I have to spend on crisis and
conflict in the Middle East today compared to any of my predecessors going back to 9/11 is
significantly reduced." Sullivan, a former Obama administration official, was speaking at
The Atlantic Festival. He had just talked about how the larger region had reached a semblance
of peace after the Biden team "walked into" a chaotic situation dating back to the prior
administration. "And what we said is we want to depressurize, deescalate, and ultimately
integrate the Middle East region," Sullivan said, as seen in a video of the remarks.
Wiping
Israel off the map. [I]t appears that Islamic Jihad and Hamas (and no doubt others)
in Gaza have conspired to destroy Israel and wipe her off the map, something they have been
threatening to do for ages. They took the first step today in a massive, unprovoked attack on
civilian areas inside Israel. More than 2,000 rockets managed to overwhelm Israel's famous
Iron Dome defense. [Video clip] Foaming-at-the-mouth bloodthirsty Jihadis have
gone into Israeli neighborhoods and taken dozens of men, women, and children hostage.
[Video clip] Armageddon has begun and it's going to get worse fast. Israel will be
swift to retaliate and it will be devastating. One of the finest fighting forces on the
planet, Israeli soldiers, pilots, warriors will fight and destroy large swathes of Gaza and beyond.