Day: October 18, 2023

Everything You Need to Know About the Israeli ‘Occupation’ Or rather, everything the Left won’t tell you.

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-israeli-occupation;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.


[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

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.

Not to be outdone, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) tweeted, “We know occupation and systematic apartheid is a violation of international law and it must end.” The Larry of this illustrious triumvirate (in case you’re wondering, Ilhan is Moe, the mean one, and AOC is Curly, the funny one), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah), chimed in with this: “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. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”

So all three are in agreement: Israel’s occupation is the problem. It’s a shame that we don’t have any real journalists today, because someone should ask the same question to all three of them: “If Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land?” They all likely assume that there was a previous Palestinian state that the Israelis occupied and destroyed, but in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind, ever, at any point in history. There has been a region known as “Palestine” since 134AD when the Romans applied that name to the land that had previously been known as Judea, that is, the land of the Jews. But “Palestine” was akin to “Staten Island” — it was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire had sovereignty over the territory that is now Israel and the supposedly occupied land as well. The Ottoman Empire was, however, known by this time as “The Sick Man of Europe.” In the early 1920s, just before the empire fell altogether, it conceded control of Palestine and the land that came to be known as Transjordan and now as Jordan to the League of Nations. On July 24, 1922, the League granted administrative control over these territories to Britain with specific instructions to create a “national home for the Jewish people.”

Britain immediately turned over 77% of the Mandate to the Arabs to create Jordan but remained generally committed to establishing a Jewish national home in the remainder. This was known as the Mandate for Palestine. Sometimes Leftists point to it as the Palestinian state that supposedly predated Israel, but this claim relies on the ignorance of the fact that this British territory had been explicitly set aside for Jewish settlement; nine years before the founding of the modern state of Israel, a 1939 flag of “Palestine” sports a star of David.

When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, it immediately had to fight a war for its survival against the surrounding Arab nations that had vowed to destroy it. Then there was finally an occupation — in fact, two: Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (which it renamed the West Bank). Israel won back those territories in the Six-Day War of 1967, but that was actually ending an occupation, not starting one: the only international law governing sovereignty over those territories stipulated that they were to be part of a national home for the Jewish people.

So from whom was the land stolen? Not from the Ottomans, who had ceded it to the League of Nations. Not from the league, which had granted administrative powers over it to the British. Not from the British, who only had it in order to help create a Jewish state there. And not from the Palestinians, who didn’t even exist until the 1960s, when the KGB and Yasir Arafat bestowed Palestinian nationality upon a group of Levantine Arabs as a rhetorical weapon to use against Israel.

And it has worked beautifully. The idea that Israel is occupying Palestinian land was furthered in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords, to which Israel unwisely acceded, and in which it agreed to work toward the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which would only become a new base for more jihad attacks against a diminished Jewish state. But a Palestinian state, if it is ever created, would be the first-ever such entity in the history of the world. There is actually no Israeli occupation at all. The Squad, and the left in general, is either ignorant or malicious. Or, of course, both.

Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey, has adopted a “tiered” policy for classifying students who want to transition their gender without their parent’s knowledge.

A school district in New Jersey has been socially transitioning students behind parent's backs, according to email and video obtained exclusively by OMG. Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey, has adopted a "tiered" policy for classifying students who want to transition without their parent's knowledge. "I had one of my students reach out to me about their preferred name for next year. Do we know how we can input their name into Genesis without it being visible by families?" states an email from School counselor Fallon Corcoran to counselor Michael Schiff, referencing Genesis, a student database. A source within the school recorded Fallon stating, "I am not calling home... everything we talk about stays between us." According to emails obtained from OMG, Kingsway Regional has developed a tiered ranking system to classify students. Students in the second tier are allowed to use the gender and name of their choice, and that information is kept from parents. In one email we obtained, a teacher or school counselor writes that they "heard from a [redacted] student over the summer with questions about sharing her preferred name and pronouns with teachers but does not want her family to be aware." We reached out to Kingsway Regional Superintendent James Lavender, who said the policy was handed down to the district by the New Jersey Department of Education.

THE FUNDING OF “PALESTINIANS”, GAZA, HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, ETC. BY “SYMPATHETIC” COUNTRIES & PERSONS WHO ARE IN DENIAL AND SHOULD KNOW BETTER

EU Responds to Hamas Terror by Tripling Gaza Aid

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/eu-responds-to-hamas-terror-by-tripling-gaza-aid;Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The more Hamas kills, the more money it makes.

There’s a simple formula here. Hamas escalates its attacks, Israel tries to take it out and the “international community” sweeps in afterward to “rebuild Gaza”. The more people Hamas kills, the more money gets spent rebuilding Gaza.

Considering that Hamas controls Gaza, it’s a pretty good deal. The more it kills, the more money it makes.

“The scale of terror and brutality against Israel and its people is a turning point. There can be no business as usual. As the biggest donor of the Palestinians, the European Commission is putting its full development portfolio under review, worth a total of EUR 691m,” the EU’s Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi announced. “All payments are immediately suspended. All projects are put under review. All new budget proposals, including for 2023 postponed until further notice. Comprehensive assessment of the whole portfolio.”

Oliver Varhelyi is Hungarian and the EU quickly overruled him to announce that instead, it’s tripling aid.

The European Commission is tripling its humanitarian assistance to Gaza as the bloc comes under mounting pressure to present a coherent policy on the Israel-Gaza crisis.

European Council chief Charles Michel has convened an extraordinary virtual meeting of EU leaders for Tuesday to establish a “clear unified course of action that reflects the complexity of the unfolding situation.”

The EU’s executive arm will increase its humanitarian funding to Gaza from €25 million to €75 million.

The clear, concise, and coherent policy funds terrorism more. So the EU’s executive arm is upgrading aid from around $26 million to $78 million.

What do you get if you kill over 1,000 people? Your foreign aid gets tripled. Lesson well learned.

The EU will claim that it’s “humanitarian aid” not aid to Hamas, but it’s long since been obvious in Israel and any areas controlled by Islamic terrorists that the two are one and the same. NGOs are either controlled by the terrorists, their allies, or organizations that bribe them. Aid is repurposed by the terrorists to serve their own aims, utilized or resold. And since Hamas controls the Gaza economy, any local economic activity ultimately benefits Hamas.

The question is will the EU keep tripling “aid” if Hamas kills more people?

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Canadian government announces additional ‘humanitarian aid’ to Palestinians amid Israel’s war on Hamas

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/canadian-government-announces-additional-humanitarian-aid-to-palestinians-amid-israels-war-on-hamas;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

This aid inevitably ends up in the hands of jihad-supporting leaders, because Palestinians are essentially ruled by Fatah and Hamas, with regular jihadist activity also from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“Ottawa also announced $10 million in humanitarian assistance on Oct. 12,” while Israel is still reeling from Hamas atrocities against its citizens.

That’s on top of the amount that Ottawa announced in June: $100 million to UNRWA over the next four years, after already providing $90 million from 2019 to 2023.

Canada knew that UNRWA produced grossly antisemitic educational materials, but it kept on handing over huge wads of taxpayer cash anyway.

Palestinian kids at UNRWA school even exposed the lessons that they’re being taught: “They teach us that Jews are bad people.”

Canada would do well to remember that in 2019, Trudeau made a sudden switch, after a decade of voting for Israel, to support a “pro-Palestine” UN resolution which was sponsored by the so-called “State of Palestine,” North Korea, Egypt, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe.

“EXPLAINER: What the Canadian Government Funds in Hamas-Ruled Gaza,” by Noé Chartier, Epoch Times, October 16, 2023:

Ottawa has announced additional humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel and subsequent retaliation, while addressing fears the aid could be diverted to fund terrorist activities.

Hamas has been de facto ruling the Gaza Strip since taking over in 2007.

Ottawa provides approximately $55 million annually to “help meet the development and humanitarian needs of vulnerable Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,” says Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The funding is split between $20 million for development aid and $35 million for humanitarian assistance…..

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LONDON: MAYOR Sadiq Khan Makes Clear Which Side He Is On~Palpable Sympathy for the Palestinians, and Want of Sympathy for Israel

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/sadiq-khan-makes-clear-which-side-he-is-on;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

In many cities around the world, the blue-and-white colors of the Israeli flag, or the flag itself, have been projected onto major buildings in an outward and visible show of sympathy and solidarity: the White House in Washington, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Canadian Parliament’s Peace Tower in Ottawa, the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Sydney Opera House and the Federal Parliament House, the Bulgarian Parliament, the Berlaymont, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, and many others have been enrolled in the effort. And in London, the Israeli flag was projected onto both the Parliament Building and 10 Downing Street. But the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, chose not to light up any of the buildings under his control. In fact, he has been most concerned not about the atrocities inflicted on Israeli men, women, and, especially, children, but about Israel’s determination to wipe out, as it must, the terror group Hamas.

Here is what he said on a visit to the London office of Medical Aid for Palestinians: “Sadiq Khan fears a ‘disproportionate’ Israeli response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza,” by Oliver Price, Daily Mail, October 13, 2023:

The Mayor of London has said he fears a ‘disproportionate’ response by Israel to the ‘terrorist’ attacks by Hamas could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza.

What exactly, in Sadiq Khan’s view, would be a “proportionate” response to the decapitation of dozens of babies, the murders of hundreds of children, the rape and murder of young girls, the torture and murder, sometimes by beheading, of 280 IDF soldiers, the kidnapping of Holocaust survivors in wheelchairs? Last I looked, Israel had not decapitated anyone, not a single child in Gaza was deliberately targeted, no Palestinian girls were raped or murdered, and the IDF, in fact, has been making heroic efforts to warn civilians away from places it is about to target, by messaging, telephoning, and using the “knock-on-the-roof” technique. Now it has urged Gazan civilians to move from the northern part of the Strip to the south, in order to avoid being caught in the fighting that will follow the IDF’s imminent invasion. It is Israel that is trying to save civilian lives, and Hamas, by insisting that they stay put in the north, that is trying to endanger them.

Sadiq Khan can hardly be unaware of that longstanding practice by the IDF. We also know that while Israel has dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza, to destroy weapons hideouts, rocket launchers, command-and-control centers, and the offices of Hamas leaders, only 1417 Gazans have died so far, as of Oct. 14, which means that for every four bombs the IAF drops, only one Gazan is killed — an astounding figure that testifies to the care the IAF takes to minimize casualties through its multifaceted system of warnings. And while we know that 85% of the Israelis who were murdered by Hamas were civilians, we don’t know as yet how many of the Gazans killed were civilians. I doubt, judging by the results of the IAF’s previous bombings in the Strip, that more than a quarter of the Gazans killed in this war so far have been civilians. Of course, Hamas lies about its casualties. It always has done so, inflating the numbers of women and children killed, just as it prepares Palestinian families to cry on camera, and provides them with scripts of what to say to foreign journalists. That will all be investigated once the war is over, and Hamas as a military force is crushed. What Sadiq Khan should have said, under the circumstances, is that “I am aware of the enormous efforts Israel makes to minimize civilian casualties and I know that will continue in the coming days” instead of scolding the Jewish state in such an intolerable manner.

Sadiq Khan also called for the Israeli government to reconsider blocking off food, water and electricity to the region in response to the killings and kidnappings by the militant group, which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis [now 1,300] last weekend.

Israel is hoping to bring an end to this war to crush Hamas as quickly as possible, with as little loss of civilian life as possible. The Jewish state is under no obligation to supply anything at all to the people of Gaza, who have produced Hamas, who join Hamas, who support Hamas even if they are not members. The Gazans now have one plant that generates electricity, and have relied on Israel — their mortal enemy, whom they are determined to destroy — to supply the rest of its electricity needs. Israel was willing to do this in the past, but not now, in the middle of a war, and especially not after the atrocities visited upon its people by Hamas. The Gazans could by now have had several electricity plants built and in operation, had Hamas not chosen instead to spend billions on terror tunnels and weapons, and on the luxurious lives of its thieving leaders.

Why should Israel be expected to supply its enemies with any resources? Would the Americans have delivered food and water to Nazi Germany, or to militarist Japan, during World War II? Would we have supplied electricity, food, or fuel to those living in the Islamic State? Gaza has the coastal aquifer to supply some water, and it is not completely, as Sadiq Khan claims, “without water.” Gaza’s chronic lack of water is a result of three things: weak resource management, rapid population growth, and a failure to pay for WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. Is Israel at fault if Gazans have so many children, and that staggering increase in population requires more water? Is Israel to blame for the mismanagement of water resources by Hamas, including its allowing raw sewage to flow, untreated, into the sea? Or should we blame Israel for the billions of dollars in aid siphoned off by a handful of Hamas leaders, with five billion dollars being stolen by just two of them, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzouk? Did Israel force Hamas to spend so much money on war-making rather than on the husbanding and production of water? Hasn’t Israel in the past offered to share with the Palestinians its own advances in drip irrigation, and the Watergen technology that allows water to be produced from the ambient air?

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/sadiq-khans-palpable-sympathy-for-the-palestinians-and-want-of-sympathy-for-israel;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has been most concerned not about the atrocities inflicted on Israeli men, women, and, especially, children, but about Israel’s determination to wipe out, as it must, the terror group Hamas. “Sadiq Khan fears a ‘disproportionate’ Israeli response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza,” by Oliver Price, Daily Mail, October 13, 2023:

During a visit today to Islington-based charity Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP), the Labour mayor said: ‘I’ve spoken to Londoners who lost family members in Gaza and Londoners who’ve lost family as a consequence of the Hamas terrorist attack last weekend, so we’re feeling the pain here.

Khan refers first to the Palestinians who died in Gaza (the family members “lost” by Londoners), and only after that, in a tortuous locution, he refers to “Londoners who’ve lost family as a consequence of the Hamas terrorist attack last weekend.” No. Say it straight, Sadiq: “Londoners whose family members were murdered by Hamas.”

‘But we are worried about the response of the Israeli government being disproportionate (and) leading to the sort of suffering which is inexplicable.’

Mr Khan added: ‘We’re talking about human suffering on a scale which this charity, who has worked in that area for decades, hasn’t seen.’

The “human suffering” Khan is talking about is not that of the Israelis. No, he’s talking only about the ”human suffering” in Gaza, which is a direct result of Hamas’ murders, rapes, mutilations, and desecrations of the dead. Khan might better have directed his sympathy at the Israeli victims, instead of exaggerating the “suffering” of the Gazans, many of whom were celebrating the Hamas murders. And why is their “suffering” described by Khan as “inexplicable”? Israel’s response is perfectly explicable. It is what the U.K., or the U.S., or any Western state, if its people had been attacked in a manner similar to what Israel endured on Oct. 7, would do in response. The only difference is that no other country would make it a policy to warn enemy civilians away from targets, as Israel routinely does. Think of how many tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan were collateral damage, killed by the American army in an attempt to hunt down terrorists and their supporters.

Speaking to an ITV journalist at the same event, he added: ‘The concerns many of us have is the response from the Israeli government and its disproportionality in relation to the suffering in Gaza.

The response of the Israeli government can hardly be described as “disproportionate,” given what Israel has suffered. Despite having endured every conceivable atrocity at the hands of Hamas, the Israelis still continue their policy of warning civilians away from targeted structures, which also allows Hamas members to escape. And Israel still provides medical care, albeit in prison hospitals, to wounded members of Hamas.

According to Sadiq Khan:

‘No child has joined Hamas to my knowledge. Those people who are in hospital aren’t members of Hamas.

No child has joined Hamas, and no child in Gaza is being targeted by Israel. Some of them live in or near buildings where Hamas has weapons, or offices, or hideouts for its fighters. The IDF tries to minimize harm to these human shields held hostage by Hamas. No child is being targeted by the IDF, and Sadiq Khan knows that. As for the people in Gazan hospitals, he knows, too, that Hamas has for decades hidden weapons and fighters in and beneath hospitals (as it has, too, in schools, apartment buildings, and mosques); the IDF warns the staffs of those hospitals well in advance of targeting buildings near them so that both the medical personnel and the patients can be moved out. And why is Sadiq Khan so sure that the people now in Gazan hospitals are not members of Hamas? I would guess that thousands of the wounded belong to Hamas.

‘Of course, Israel must go after Hamas but what’s happening in Gaza is suffering on a scale which this charity has never seen.’

Perhaps this Palestinian charity has never seen such “suffering,” but the rest of the world saw the suffering of the Israelis last week, a suffering that is incommensurable with any suffering the Gazans may have endured. Sadiq Khan seems to have forgotten all that; after all, nearly a whole week has passed. He’s forgotten what happened to the Israelis; now his attention is focused on “suffering” in Gaza that is “on a scale which this charity [Medical Aid for Palestinians] “has never seen.”

 The Labour mayor urged the British Government to put pressure on Israel to practice restraint, adding: ‘I’m hoping the Israeli government will reconsider, understanding the pressure internationally, when you hear what the United Nations is saying, what the World Health Organization is saying, and when you listen to those people on the ground.

Israel doesn’t need Sadiq Khan, or anyone else, to tell it to exercise restraint. Every time the Israelis give a warning to the inhabitants about a building about to be targeted, knowing that such a warning will also allow Hamas terrorists to escape, it exercise restraint. Every time an Israeli pilot calls off an attack because he’s detected the presence of too many civilians, he is exercising restraint. There is only one side in this war that is unrestrained in its murderous depravity — Hamas. Sadiq Khan is posting his letter to the wrong address.

‘We should use our good relationship with the Israeli government to remind them of the importance of responding proportionately, allowing food, water, and medicine to reach the people of Gaza, and explain the unreasonableness of expecting over one million people, a population the size of Birmingham, to leave their homes and go south.

Why is it unreasonable for Israel to try to minimize civilian casualties by warning Gazans that remaining in the north will be dangerous, for it is there that the war will soon explode? It is Hamas that is urging the people in the north to stay put, in order — so Hamas hopes — that many of them will be killed, thus providing a propaganda victory for the terrorist group. We have seen hundreds of thousands of Gazans have already been moving south, showing that they trust the Israeli warning, and know that in the south they will be relatively secure, while they have no faith in Hamas, which actively seeks to endanger them.

‘Speaking to people here, there’s no way for them to go south.’

That’s what Sadiq Khan said, just the day before the movement southward was underway in Gaza. Apparently, the Gazans did find “a way for them to go south.” Almost half a million have now done exactly what Sadiq Khan said there is “no way” for them to do.

On Twitter, Sadiq Khan showed where his sympathies lay:

Good to spend time with Medical Aid for Palestinians who are doing essential humanitarian work supporting civilians in Gaza. The situation in Gaza was already incredibly difficult, but what Palestinians are facing now is dire.

Khan has also written to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, calling for “humanitarian aid” for Gaza. Khan posted his letter to Cleverly on Instagram with a comment:

I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary about the situation in the Middle East, and to call for urgent action to deliver humanitarian access and support to and from Gaza, echoing the @unitednations and @who.

Why doesn’t Sadiq Khan ask for the obvious? That is, why doesn’t Egypt open up the Rafah Crossing at the Egypt-Gaza border to let some Gazans out, to live temporarily in tent cities in the Sinai, and at the same time, to let humanitarian aid flow freely into Gaza? Doesn’t Sadiq Khan realize that Egypt will as of now neither let Gazans in so that they may take refuge in their country while hostilities are ongoing, nor will Cairo allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza through the Rafah Crossing?

Sadiq Khan’s palpable sympathy for the Palestinians and his want of sympathy for Israel, have both been on display this week. Let us hope that despite the Muslim bloc of voters who will support him, the indigenous British, who still constitute 85% of the electorate in London, will take note of his views, and in 2024 vote him out of office. He’s been mayor since 2016; it’s long past time he was shown — unceremoniously — the door.

Jordanian pol: A Palestinian father is a man who says ‘I want my son to die’

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/jordanian-pol-a-palestinian-father-is-a-man-who-says-i-want-my-son-to-die;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

“Say, O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are favored of Allah apart from mankind, then long for death if you are truthful.” (Qur’an 62:6)

Talal Abu Ghazaleh also says: “Let them destroy [Gaza]. What is destroyed can be rebuilt. I think that the goal of [Hamas’s] lions of humanity was to cause the demolition of those buildings so that they could be rebuilt properly, according to more aesthetic and newer engineering standards.”

It was all about aesthetics, you see.

“Jordanian-Palestinian Businessman And Politician Talal Abu Ghazaleh: We Welcome Death; So Far Gaza’s Losses Haven’t Even Been In The Thousands, The Russians Lost 27 Million In WWII; Hitler Left Some Jews Alive So We Will Know Why He Had To Kill Them,” MEMRI, October 12, 2023:

Jordanian-Palestinian businessman and former senator Talal Abu Ghazaleh said on an October 12, 2023, show on NBN TV (Lebanon) that the Israelis fear death, “we on the other hand welcome death.” He continued to say that Palestinians want their children to die as martyrs, and that this does not exist in the Israeli mentality. Abu Ghazaleh added: “People who flee death cannot defeat people who seek death.” Abu Ghazaleh continued to say that Russia willingly sacrificed 27 million of its people during World War II so it could survive. He explained that until now, Gaza has only lost thousands of people, and Israel cannot possibly kill all the two million people in Gaza, because half of them are in the underground tunnels. Abu Ghazaleh continued to claim that a German cabinet minister had told him that Hitler left some Jews alive “on purpose” so that people would understand why the Holocaust was justified.

Talal Abu Ghazaleh: “Israel would not sacrifice a single person. There isn’t a goal for which it would sacrifice a single person. They are afraid of death. Death for them is strange and loathsome. We, on the other hand, welcome death. A Palestinian carries his son on his shoulders, with a headband on the kid’s forehead, which his father inscribed: “Martyrdom Seeker.” This is a man who says: ‘I want my son to die.’ A [Palestinian] mother says: ‘I have given birth to six children, so that three could die in the revolution. I gave birth to children so that they would be martyred.’ This does not exist in the Zionist mentality.”

Interviewer: “So this is not a battle on equal terms. The [enemy] cannot have the same determination as the Palestinians.”

Abu Ghazaleh: “You cannot defeat someone who wants to die. People who flee death cannot defeat people who seek death. What happened in Germany in the World War? Entire cities were destroyed. But didn’t Germany become later one of the five most wealthy countries in the world? Let them destroy [Gaza]. What is destroyed can be rebuilt. I think that the goal of [Hamas’s] lions of humanity was to cause the demolition of those buildings so that they could be rebuilt properly, according to more aesthetic and newer engineering standards.”

Interviewer: “This would be true if it wasn’t for the multitudes of innocent civilian victims [in Gaza]…”

Abu Ghazaleh: “How many? How many victims?”

Interviewer: “The number goes up every moment…”

Abu Ghazaleh: “How many? Two thousand? The casualties always accumulate, unfortunately… Fine. How many people did Russia sacrifice in its war against the Nazis? 27 million. Not just a thousand… We haven’t gotten to thousands yet. Russia knowingly sacrificed those people. It was no coincidence. It is not that Russia did not know that these people were going to die. It wanted 27 million people to die so that Russia could survive. We, Palestinians, are the same. There are two million people [in Gaza]. If one dies…I hope I will be one of them. It would be an honor to die as a martyr. But there are two million people in Gaza. Will [Israel] kill two million people? How? Half of them are hidden underground, in tunnels.

“We are facing a problem that has an easy solution. The [Israelis] will not become refugees, because they have their own countries. They have [foreign] passports. All the enemies have dual citizenship. So, we can solve the problem of the [Palestinians] who wait to return to their country, and the Israelis will go back to their countries. After all, they were either forced to come to Palestine or were led astray.

“The Jews do not have any ideology. All they care about is money and interests. I had a friend who was a German cabinet member. I once asked him: ‘When Hitler, may God forgive him, carried out the Holocaust, why didn’t he finish the job and kill all the Jews?’ He said to me: ‘It’s the other way around, but don’t tell anyone I said this. He left a group of them on purpose so that people would know why we carried out the Holocaust. When you would be tormented by them, you would know the reason.'”

The Palestinian Authority Provides Hamas Killers with $2,789,430 in ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Largesse

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/the-palestinian-authority-provides-hamas-killers-with-2789430-in-pay-for-slay-largesse;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The Palestinian Authority has just shown what it thinks of the 1,500 Hamas murderers who were killed during the recent attack on Israeli civilians. Starting now, it intends to lavish large monthly sums, for life, on the families of those who died after torturing and murdering Israeli civilians. And the Bidenites, instead of cutting all aid to the PA, as it is required to do under the Taylor Force Act, if the PA continues with its “Pay-For-Slay” policy that rewards past, and incentivizes future, terrorism against Israel, have instead been increasing their aid to the PA.

Here are the latest figures on those additions to the “Pay-For-Slay” recipients, including those being made to the families of the 1,500 Hamas murderers who were killed during their attacks on Israeli men, women, and children: “PA will pay $2,789,430 to families of 1,500 dead Hamas terrorist murderers, this month,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, 

The PA will pay $2,789,430 to families of 1,500 dead Hamas terrorist murderers, this month.

Under Palestinian Authority law, every terrorist who is killed attacking Israel is defined as a “Martyr” whose family is immediately rewarded by the PA with a 6,000 shekels ($1,511) grant and a 1,400 ($353) per month allowance for life.

This means each family of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel will receive 7,400 shekels for this first month. Families of those terrorists who were married and had children will receive even more. The PA will pay at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month as a reward for participating in last week’s murders and atrocities against Israeli civilians.

In addition, the 50 captured Hamas terrorist murderers will receive monthly salaries in prison starting at 1,400 shekels/month which will eventually rise to 12,000 shekels/month. Terrorists who are married and have children will receive even higher salaries. This month these newly arrested terrorists will receive at least 70,000 shekels ($17,590).

In total, the PA will pay at least 11,170,000 shekels ($2,807,021) in payments under the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” program to the Hamas terrorists this month. This is a low estimate since as the war continues there will be additional Hamas terrorist “Martyrs” and prisoners. This figure is added to the more than 100,000,000 shekels/month the PA already pays in salaries to imprisoned terrorists and families of terrorist “Martyrs.”

The Palestinian Authority should be sending a big thank you to the EU countries and Norway, currently the largest funders of the PA because the PA could not possibly make these terror payments without them. These donor countries like to pretend that it’s not their money rewarding terrorists, but everyone knows that the PA could not reward terrorists without this generous foreign funding. When payments to teachers, police, and street cleaners are taken care of by international donors, the PA has the hundreds of millions available it needs to pay for terror.

The Bidenites have blatantly ignored the Taylor Force Act that Congress passed in 2018. That act was meant to halt all American aid to the Palestinian Authority, as long as the PA continued to fund its “Pay-For-Slay” program. “Pay-For-Slay” provides generous subsidies — much larger than the average Palestinian wage — to imprisoned terrorists, and to the families of terrorists who were killed while committing their terrorist attacks. Thus “Pay-For-Slay” both rewards past and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism. Mahmoud Abbas has made clear he will not end that program, announcing  that he will continue the program even “with my last penny.” And the Bidenites, instead of adhering to the clear intention of Taylor Force, have chosen to simply ignore it and to continue to provide aid to the PA both directly, and indirectly through UNRWA and other organizations. Since Biden took office, more than half a billion dollars has been given in that manner to the PA, even though “Pay-For-Slay” remains.

The Bidenites have claimed that since this money is “for humanitarian purposes” and is not given directly to the PA, then it is not covered by the Taylor Force Act. But money is fungible; American aid given to the Palestinians through non-governmental groups does free up other PA money that funds “Pay-For-Slay,” and thus that aid violates the intention of the Taylor Force Act to halt aid to the PA as long as “Pay-For-Slay” continues. The Bidenites are flouting the will of Congress and the aim of Taylor Force.

If the Bidenites were serious about enforcing the Taylor Force Act, they would not be relying on intermediaries to continue funding the PA but would halt all payments, both to non-governmental groups, no matter how “humanitarian” their claimed goals, and to UNRWA, because in the end such payments relieve the PA of certain expenses and thus allow it to continue funding Pay-For-Slay. It’s not just the letter, but the spirit of Taylor Force, that must be upheld, and Congress should be angry at the Bidenites for ignoring both. Of course, the Taylor Force Act is not working as it was supposed to. The PA in just the last year has given close to $200 million to its “Pay-For-Slay” program. It can afford to do so because of all the money the Bidenites have supplied to the PA indirectly, through non-governmental “humanitarian” programs, including UNRWA.

Biden heads to Israel to pressure Netanyahu to go easy on the jihadis

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/biden-heads-to-israel-to-pressure-netanyahu-to-go-easy-on-the-jihadis;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

All this talk about making sure that Israel avoids civilian casualties is a calculated insult. Israel is the most careful military in the world to avoid civilian casualties. Old Joe should be pressuring Hamas to stop launching attacks from civilian areas. But he is more likely to slip them a few billion.

“How Joe Biden got on board with a wartime trip to Israel – and what he hopes to accomplish,” by Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak, Kayla Tausche, MJ Lee, Jennifer Hansler, and Alex Marquardt, CNN, October 17, 2023:

It took an explicit commitment from his Israeli counterpart to open Gaza for humanitarian aid for President Joe Biden to agree to make an extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv.

While the trip will amount to a dramatic show of support for Israel as it prepares its response to last week’s Hamas attacks, it will also act as Biden’s strongest push for easing the suffering of civilians and allowing those who want to leave Gaza out.

The high-stakes diplomacy with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his interlocutor of four decades, underscores the delicate balance Biden is striking as he embarks upon the last-minute wartime visit later on Tuesday evening.

At stake are the lives of millions of civilians, including Americans, currently stuck in the coastal Palestinian enclave where a humanitarian crisis is underway as Israeli troops mass at its borders ahead of an expected ground invasion.

While there was no explicit stipulation from the US that Israel does not launch its invasion until Biden leaves the region, that’s the understanding among American officials who have spent the past several days debating and planning the president’s visit, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

American officials want humanitarian plans for Gaza fully signed off on and implemented before start of the invasion, the people said, describing that task as among Biden’s main objectives during his visit to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
While Biden has stopped well short of encouraging a ceasefire – the word hasn’t been used at all in the administration’s response so far – he has issued steadily stronger warnings about protecting civilian life, including during his telephone calls with Netanyahu.

Traveling to Israel in person may provide Biden – who despises Zoom calls and has long espoused the importance of face-to-face meetings – a better opportunity to convey those views to his Israeli counterpart, a leader with whom he believes he has a deep understanding.

Ultimately, Biden and his senior aides believe that they need to be in the room with Netanyahu to influence the prime minister and his team – requiring unequivocal support for Israel’s right to defend itself and eliminate Hamas….

Biden Regime Sent $2 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/biden-regime-sent-2-billion-to-afghanistan-since-taliban-takeover;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Meanwhile, the Taliban arrest an American woman for “promoting Christianity”

What was the purpose of Biden’s pullout from Afghanistan again? So we could send them money without any inconvenient terrorist attacks getting in the way? I’ve spent a lot of time reporting on Biden’s betrayal but these numbers are still staggering.

After the latest earthquake, the Biden administration is sending another $12 million in aid.

The money, like much of our aid, is going through “USAID humanitarian partners”, which is to say NGOs that the Taliban allow operating, which either pay money to the Taliban or are the Taliban.

Samantha Power’s USAID boasts that “the United States is the single largest humanitarian donor in Afghanistan, providing nearly $2 billion in humanitarian assistance for Afghans since mid-August 2021, including more than $1.46 billion from USAID.”

Abolishing USAID would be a fantastic way to defund terrorists and save a lot of money.

$2 billion. To a terrorist-controlled entity. It’s incredible.

In August 2021, I predicted that, “Biden Will Fund Taliban Through ‘Humanitarian Aid’”, but even I’m blown away by the sheer scope of this.

Meanwhile, the Taliban are doing things like this to American aid workers.

Almost 20 staff members of a charity organization operating in central Afghanistan, including one U.S. national, have been arrested by regional officials in the Taliban-controlled nation, a spokesman for the provincial government in Ghor province told CBS News. The 18 detained aid workers were arrested for “propagating and promoting Christianity,” a violation of the Taliban’s strict regulations on all non-governmental groups, according to Abdul Wahid Hamas, the spokesman for the regional administration in Ghor province.

A local employee of The International Assistance Mission (IAM) in Ghor province also told CBS News, on the condition that he not be named, that the detained foreign employee was a U.S. woman who works at the office.

Has she been released? Did the Biden admin even threaten to hold up its latest cash infusion until she is? Don’t bet on it.

Israel Kills Top Hamas Commander In Morning Airstrike

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People mourn the body of Hamas commander Ayman Nofal during his funeral in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, on October 17, 2023. “Ayman Nofal, ‘Abu Ahmad’, a member of the general military council and commander of the central command in Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed” in an Israeli strike on the central Gaza Strip, Hamas said in a statement on October 17, referring to its military wing. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s James Meyers
1:54 PM – Tuesday, October 17, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/israel-kills-top-hamas-commander-in-morning-airstrike/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that they have taken down one of Hamas’ top commanders in an airstrike. 

The announcement was shared in a post to X (Twitter) on Tuesday by the IDF, saying that Hamas Commander Ayman Nofal was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday morning.

“We just eliminated Ayman Nofal, a senior Hamas operative,” IDF posted to X on Tuesday, formerly known as Twitter. “Nofal was the Commander of Hamas’ Central Brigade in Gaza and the former Head of Military Intelligence. Nofal directed many attacks against Israeli civilians and besides being one of the most dominant figures in the terrorist organization, he was involved in the planning of the abduction of Gilad Shalit. We won’t stop until we eliminate Hamas.”

Hamas confirmed Nofal’s death, according to the Associated Press. The death comes as the IDF has started targeting Hamas hideouts, command centers, and different infrastructures.

Additionally, another airstrike in Gaza reportedly killed 14 people at a home belonging to the family of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, including his brother and nephew. Haniyeh lives in Qatar.

According to the IDF, Nofal was an integral part of the terrorist group and he carried out “numerous attacks against Israel and security forces.”

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that members of Hamas had two options in the war: “to surrender or die.”

“Our warplanes will reach everywhere… every missile has an address. We will reach each and every one of the members of Hamas,” Gallant told pilots and technicians of the Israel Air Force’s F-35 fleet at the Nevatim airbase.

“Hamas members have two options: Either die in their positions or surrender unconditionally. There is no third option. We will wipe out the Hamas organization and dismantle all of its capabilities,” Gallant said.

President Joe Biden will be visiting Israel on Wednesday to meet with top officials to discuss the war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken also announced that the United States has agreed to send humanitarian aid to residents in the Gaza Strip without fears that the aid may fall into the hands of Hamas members.

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Iran Says Action Is Imminent And ‘Resistance’ Will Stop ‘Any Action In Gaza’

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OAN’s James Meyers
8:11 AM – Tuesday, October 17, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/iran-says-action-is-imminent-and-resistance-will-stop-any-action-in-gaza/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Iranian officials warned Israel that an invasion of Gaza would be met with action. 

“The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with the enemy Israel … in the coming hours, we can expect a preemptive action by the resistance front,” Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a live broadcast on state TV.

Israel delayed their ground invasion into Gaza and it was reportedly because of fears that Hezbollah would intervene once Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were distracted in the south.

Meanwhile, Iran has denied any involvement in the Hamas terrorist attacks, which killed over 1,400 Israelis.

Iran has supported Hamas and backed the plight of Palestinians since 1979.

“Leaders of the resistance will not allow the Zionist regime to take any action in Gaza. … All options are open and we cannot be indifferent to the war crimes committed against the people of Gaza,” Amir-Abdollahian added, in reference to a meeting he had with Hezbollah leaders Saturday.

Additionally, Amir-Abdollahian claimed it is essential to fight Israel over Gaza.

“If we do not defend Gaza today, we should defend our cities tomorrow. Mr. Nasrallah has also said that if they do not take preemptive action, they will have to fight with Zionist forces in Beirut,” he said, referring to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. “The issue is that what has happened to the Zionist regime was an earthquake. … The Zionist regime collapsed on Oct. 7.”

Since the horrific attacks, Israel has sent in continuous airstrikes resulting in 2,808 people being killed in Gaza, according to its health ministry. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei celebrated Israel’s “irreparable” military and intelligence defeat, he said last week.

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IDF: Rocket Misfire From Hamas Hits Gaza Hospital, Fatalities And Injuries Reported~Hamas blames Israel

A Palestinian child injured on October 17, 2023. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Brooke Mallory
2:54 PM – Tuesday, October 17, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/idf-rocket-misfire-from-hamas-hits-gaza-hospital-fatalities-and-injuries-reported/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

A Gaza hospital was hit by a botched rocket strike from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which the IDF verified on Tuesday. The exact number of fatalities is still unknown.

Despite claims made by Hamas and several other nations, the IDF claimed to have numerous intelligence sources that proved Islamic Jihad, not Israel, was to blame for the attack.

“The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF. Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children,” Netanyahu declared on Tuesday.

Before confirming their security evaluation and claiming that PIJ was in fact the facilitator of the explosion, the IDF took two hours to investigate and confirm the details.

“An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

The number of casualties, according to Gaza officials, ranged from “dozens to hundreds,” and video footage from the site showed a number of vehicles going up in flames close to the hospital.

The explosion was reported while intense rocket fire from Gaza was being directed into central Israel.

In the Gaza Strip, missile storage facilities are frequently located within or close to hospitals, schools, and mosques as Hamas and other Palestinian organizations launch rockets from within civilian areas.

In previous times of warfare, many fatalities were reported in similar events when rockets fired by Islamic groups hit structures in Gaza, frequently missing their true target.

During Operation Breaking Dawn in August 2022, two individuals were killed when a missile shot from Gaza collided with a clinic.

Four Palestinians were also murdered in May when an Islamic Jihad missile missed its target. The IDF made video available of the incident’s unsuccessful launches.

However, Hamas still accused Israel of being the perpetrators of the rocket launches, and a number of Democrats and leftist Congress members, like Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), chimed in with the false narrative.

“We call on the international community and the Arab and Islamic countries to assume their responsibilities and intervene immediately now to stop the arrogance of the occupation and its fascist army,” Hamas said in a statement.

“What is taking place is genocide. We call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this massacre. Silence is no longer acceptable,” read a statement issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

There are livestreams online showing feeds from Gaza City, Jerusalem, and Ashdod. The rocket fire occurred from 19:59:00 until 20:00:11.

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Hamas and its Etymology

Why many today say the Hamas murderers “are not human.”

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-and-its-etymology/;

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The word Hamas made its first appearance in print in a book named in English (if not Hebrew) Genesis, 6:11: “Now the earth had become corrupt before God, and the earth had become filled with robbery.” (Artscroll translation)Robbery, not theft, which implies physical aggression against a victim. At other times in the Jewish Bible, Hamas has been translated as “violence/unprovoked aggression.” Before the Great Flood, man was given to desiring something belonging to someone else and did not scruple to take it by force and even kill the other with no sense of guilt. The behavior of Hamas before the Flood was the “last straw” for the Almighty, the worst sin of man that made God decide to scrap the experiment, immerse the world in a globe-encircling cleansing ritual bath, and start again.

In Hebrew, ham means hot, as in hot-headed. Ham was also the name of Noah’s “problem child,” the world’s first sex criminal. (Genesis, 9:20-24)

Versus the word as used in Arabic, where it references the ultimate in religious passion that drives a man to want to murder lots of Jews and be killed in the act, which will launch him into Muslim paradise where he will spend eternity violently raping and deflowering virgins, seventy-two them, who miraculously afterward reconstitute their hymens and return to the status of a virgin to be raped repeatedly for all eternity, with the shahid/martyr drunk all the time because, unlike in this life where alcohol is forbidden to a Believer in the One True Faith, in Muslim paradise the streams flow not with water but wine.

Medieval Spanish Rabbi Avraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1089-1167) said Arabic was a form of corrupt Hebrew spoken by illiterate nomads, and that was surely true for the first two thousand years of the Jewish nation living by hundreds of written laws in the nation’s constitution, the Five Books of Moses received at Mt. Sinai in the year 1313 BCE. For two millennia of Jewish life, the spawn of their half-brother Ishmael, expelled from the country — promised to his father and the nation that would come from his loins and the womb of his wife Sarah — remained an illiterate nomad who did not produce his first book, the Koran, until the seventh century, which is also blatantly a plagiarized version of the Bible, but still did not settle down and cultivate the land.

After his expulsion, he went to live in a desert, with a weapon (Genesis 21) whose livelihood was, according to Rashi, the greatest of Biblical exegetes in the 11th century, that of an armed robber who preyed upon defenseless, innocent travelers. Into the 20th century, nomadic Arab tribes also raided one another for booty without an ounce of guilt. Wealth for them is not created but stolen, as today the ahistorical “Palestinian” people claim to be the authentic, indigenous owners of Palestine the villainous Jews stole from them.

The Arabs are people of endless, bloody strife. In this writer’s lifetime alone, of now eight decades, the Moroccans and Algerians have fought over the western Sahara; Libya under Gaddafi bombed neighboring Tunis in an attempt to overthrow the government and annex the two countries; and since Gaddafi’s gruesome assassination in 2011, the two parts of the country have been at war.

Modern Egypt has since the colonels’ coup in 1952 had to constantly suppress the Muslim Brotherhood which is congenitally opposed to all secular governments that are experienced as imitative of infidel systems, a.k.a. nationalistic democracies. Islam demands that a Believer’s greatest allegiance not be to a geographical nation but to the Umma, the trans-national congregation of Believers.

In Yemen, one has lost track of the attempts over the last century to unite that only have led to civil wars; today’s Shiite Houthis backed by Iran fight are fighting the Sunnis.

Lebanon’s fratricidal war between 1975 and 1989 took the lives of 150,000 of its people, as in Algeria in the 1990s a rebellion led by the Muslims against the Marxian dictatorship of the FLN resulted in a civil war costing 200,000 dead. In both countries, the dead were not soldiers in uniform who fell in combat on a battlefield but ordinary civilians murdered in sneak attacks, every death a terrorist homicide.

In 1958 in Lebanon, President Eisenhower sent in the U.S. Marines in fear of a hostile take-over of the regime. In 1963 in Syria, air force pilot Hafez-al-Assad led a coup and became a ruthless dictator. In 2000, he died and his son Bashar replaced him. In 2011, the country rose up against Bashar and the killing and destruction began so that today, half of the Syrians in the country in these dozen years of bloodbaths are homeless, their homes destroyed.

In Israel and the world this week, in response to news reports from the Gaza envelop communities in Israel, one of the most common expressions out of people’s mouths worldwide was, “They are not human.” Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to the media said the same.

On FOX-TV their man on the scene Trey Yingst said he had been in numerous wars but never saw scenes like what he saw in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Grim and grisly massacres of families, of parents asleep in their beds butchered, likewise their children in theirs, when surprised by invading Hamas killers who machine-gunned them to death; Jewish children were burnt alive, and scores of babies were decapitated.

The magnitude of the massacre on the Sabbath and festive holy day was such that four days later, all the bodies of the hundreds of victims and Hamas assassins had yet to be removed thus producing the worst smell known to man; that of a human corpse decomposing. The air in and over Kfar Aza stinks of death.

Also on FOX TV, their reporter in Washington Hillary Vaughan tailed and pestered Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib in order to get her reaction to the decapitation of babies, to which Tlaib refused to answer. And one can understand that. What her critics don’t get is that for her to express pity for Jews is apostasy for which she can be murdered. Jews are never to be pitied because they are the greatest evildoers in the world. The Koran explicitly says the Jews are a Believer’s greatest enemy. (Sura 5:82)

In the Bible, Ishmael is described as a “wild ass of a man,” meaning he is biologically a man but with the soul/spirit of an undomesticated jackass ( and I would add one afflicted with rabies) physiologically human but one lacking human empathy.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology in a class with Nazism and Communism, all three of them rooted in delusional Jew hatred. Tlaib’s soul sister Ilhan Omar has said the Jews have “hypnotized” the world, which in her culture means the Jews had the power of wizards to get the world to believe there was a Holocaust—when there wasn’t – in order to make the world feel guilty and allow them to steal Palestine from the “Palestinians.”

In fact, the president of the so-called Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas was even given a PhD by the antisemitic Soviets for writing a book denying the Holocaust, that is, he wrote that the number of Jews exterminated was wildly exaggerated, and those that were killed during the war were targeted by Zionists collaborating with the Nazis who wanted to terrify Europe’s Jews into fleeing to Palestine to help them steal it from the “Palestinians.”

Even this week, Sky News interviewed Basem Naim, a former Hamas director of international relations who said reports of a massacre of hundreds are Israeli propaganda. “We didn’t kill any civilians.”

This is a common mental maneuver among such primitive Muslim minds. They say all Israelis are or have been soldiers and therefore are legitimate targets. “We do not consider a settler in the occupied West Bank who carries a gun and burns the city of Huwara as a civilian.”

But what about those decapitated babies? Muslims like him reply, “They will grow up to be soldiers and kill Believers.”

In sum, these Muslims are so intellectually and psychologically primitive and so empty of human empathy for others, that it is understandable that many people today say of the hundreds of Muslim Hamas murderers, “They are not human.”

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hardcover or Kindle ebook. His podcasts of the same name can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.

Hamas Wants to Trade CAIR Leader in Federal Prison for U.S. Hostages

“Only recently, it did one with Iran. Why wouldn't it conduct a prisoner swap with us?”

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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-wants-to-trade-cair-leader-in-federal-prison-for-u-s-hostages/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.


[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

There are an estimated 14 American hostages being held in Gaza. (This number may rise or fall as Hamas continues to release videos of the hostages and Israel continues identifying bodies, some of which have been charred beyond recognition, by using DNA samples from family members.) As of this time, there are 20 Americans missing and bodies are being tested.

Biden spoke with some family members on a Zoom call. “It’s my personal commitment to do everything possible, everything possible to return every missing American to their families,” he said,  “we’re working around the clock to secure the release of Americans held by Hamas.”

But the Biden administration has currently ruled out sending rescue forces, instead it is using Hamas allies, Qatar and Turkey, to conduct negotiations with the Islamic terrorist organization.

While Israel has refused to trade hostages for terrorists, Biden may be more willing to do so.

Senior Hamas leader Ali Baraka told Russia’s RT propaganda network, “There are also prisoners in the U.S. We want them. Of course. There are Hamas members sentenced to life in the U.S. We want them too. Of course. We demand that the U.S. free our sons from prisons. The U.S. conducts prisoner swaps. Only recently, it did one with Iran. Why wouldn’t it conduct a prisoner swap with us?”

Barakeh went into more specifics about which Hamas members he meant in another interview.

“There are Palestinians held in America. We will ask for their release. There are Palestinians who are detained by the United States on charges of supporting the resistance in Palestine. They were detained in America because they were accused of running charity organizations that support the people besieged in Gaza.”

This almost certainly refers to the Holy Land Foundation case in which key figures in the largest Islamic charity in America were convicted of helping to send millions to Hamas.

Hamas would have a special interest in at least one of the terror convicts. Mufid Abdulqader, the half-brother of Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, is currently serving out his 20 years of prison sentence in a low-security federal prison in Seagoville, Texas. Funding terrorists and a history of chanting terrorist threats apparently netted Abdulqader an easy ride at a low-security prison.

Islamists in the United States had lobbied for his release during the pandemic by claiming that the 60-year-old is an “elderly” man facing imminent death at a “virus-ravaged prison”. Abdulqaderf was denied early release, he got COVID, survived it, and he’s set to be out in 2025.

Qatar, acting once again as an intermediary for Islamic terrorists, will be likely to argue that Mufid Abdulqader is only a few years away from being released anyway.

Perhaps the Hamas family member will resume his musical career in which he toured America to sing to Muslim communities cheerful ditties such as, “With Koran and Jihad, we will gain our homes back… the agony of death is precious, killing Jews … Death to Jews, is precious.”.

But it’s another of the Holy Land Foundation terror funders who is far more explosive.

Ghassan Elashi was a founding board member for CAIR in Texas. CAIR’s D.C. office was funded by money from the Holy Land Foundation and the trial led to CAIR being named “an unindicted co-conspirator” in terror funding. It’s a label that the group is still trying to shake off.

But the FBI stated that “evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and Executive Director) and the Palestine Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestine Committee and Hamas, which was designated as a terrorist organization in 1995.”

CAIR founder and executive director Nihad Awad responded to the Hamas attacks by posting, “a unique Palestinian day. Never say ‘impossible.'” And Awad reacted to Biden’s speech condemning those atrocities by posting, “there is no moral equivalence between the occupied and the occupier. You must condemn the occupier not the occupied.”

Awad had previously stated, “I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO.”

Ghassan Elashi was sentenced to 65 years in prison. At the age of 69, he’s serving out a sentence that would only see him released in 2068.

Senior Hamas leader Ali Baraka mentioned that the Hamas terrorists he wants to be freed are serving life sentences. While Elashi isn’t technically serving a life sentence, he is currently scheduled to spend the rest of his life at McCreary Federal Prison in Kentucky (it’s unclear if he’s in the maximum or minimum security part of it) before beginning an even more hellishly extended sentence in a much more secure facility that offers neither parole nor virgins.

Only two of the Holy Land Foundation terror fundraisers received sentences this long making it almost certain that Hamas wants to trade the former CAIR board member for a U.S. hostage.

A Hamas proposal to trade a CAIR leader for a hostage would reopen the question of CAIR’s terror ties again and would be particularly awkward for the Biden administration which welcomed CAIR so enthusiastically that it was assigned to help with security for its antisemitism strategy. Furthermore, the statements by the senior Hamas leader that the men it’s trying to extricate are Hamas members would overturn over a decade of lies put out by CAIR and its Islamist allies that the HLF terror fundraisers were innocent victims of ‘Islamophobia’.

Such a request would also establish that a Hamas member had served on a CAIR board.

CAIR had already advocated for Mufid Abdulqader, claiming that the half-brother of a Hamas leader who had called for the murder of Jews was an innocent victim of ‘Islamophobia’. The terrorist fundraiser was seen on video in a skit in which he “plays a Hamas member who kills an Israeli after saying, ‘I am Hamas, O dear ones.’” Good thing he’s in a low-security prison.

Other Holy Land Foundation defendants whose release Hamas may demand include Shuri Abu Baker, scheduled to be released from a high-security prison in Eastern Texas in 2064, whom CAIR had also defended. Abdulrahman Odeh and Mohammad El-Mezain, who had received shorter sentences, were already released in 2021. This did not stop CAIR from signing on to a petition next year to have them set loose even though they were already out of prison.

If Hamas were to request the release of Abdulqader, Abu Baker, and Elashi, it would put the Islamist terror group enlist in the same effort as not only CAIR but also other pro-terrorist organizations that signed the petition like Human Rights Watch, the National Lawyers Guild, Jewish Voice for Peace, ICNA and the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network which has been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel. Individual signatories include Ramzi Kassem, a Gitmo terror lawyer who once threw stones at Israel, and was named by the Biden administration as a Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council.

By holding Americans hostage, Hamas has more leverage to free its members than the Muslim Brotherhood front groups that operate by pretending to be civil rights organizations.

Will Biden make such a trade? After making similar deals with Russia and Iran, it seems possible. But with Iran, Biden could argue that he wasn’t directly negotiating with terrorists, there is no such argument when it comes to Hamas. We will be negotiating with terrorists.

Trading for hostages creates a market for them. Biden’s deal with Iran encouraged Hamas to take Americans hostage and try to trade for them. And the more hostages we trade for, the more hostages Islamic terrorists will launch attacks to try to take.