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OAN Staff Sophia Flores
10:22 AM – Monday, October 1, 2024
Iran has launched an estimated 100 ballistic missiles towards Israel and Israeli officials say a second wave of missiles is now underway.
The missiles cover over the entirety of the Jewish State.
The White House warned that an attack against the Jewish State will have “severe consequences.”
“We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran,” a senior White House official said prior to the attack.
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SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-latest-biden-harris-betrayal-of-israel-will-make-your-blood-run-cold/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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The Biden-Harris regime is supposed to be an ally of Israel and occasionally sends signals to that effect, but its real loyalties are not hard to figure out.
The Biden-Harris regime is all about holding and increasing its power, and Israel is in the way of that aspiration right now. In pursuit of votes in Michigan and Minnesota, Kamala Harris just chose Tim Walz as her running mate over a stronger candidate, Josh Shapiro, because Shapiro is Jewish. Qatar has sent billions to the bankrollers of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Republic of Iran and hundreds of millions to Gaza, according to Hamas. It has withheld arms shipments to Israel. And now it is being accused of a betrayal so immense that it makes those others look like friendship.
Amir Fakhravar, a former political prisoner of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) inside Iran and the Senate chairman of the National Iranian Congress, states that shortly after the assassination of Hamas top dog Ismail Haniyeh and a key Hizballah operative, Fuad Shukr, the Biden-Harris regime swung into action. To warn the Iranians that if they attacked Israel, they would suffer serious consequences? That’s what many have assumed. In an opinion piece at Fox News on Monday, Fakhravar revealed that “Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper, citing an unnamed source in Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, reported that a high-level American security delegation, brokered by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran.” That doesn’t sound so bad in itself. But it gets much, much worse.
The mission of this high-level delegation, according to Fakhravar, was not to deter the Iranians from striking against Israel by informing them that America was fully prepared to defend its ally. Instead, the delegation’s job was to “deliver a ‘calming and cautionary’ message to deescalate the situation and ensure the supreme leader of Iran understood that the Biden-Harris administration was ‘kept in the dark’ by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the killing of two major terrorist leaders last week.”
That’s right: the American delegation, if the Kuwaiti report is correct, did not go to Tehran to demonstrate America’s strength; rather, it went there in order to show America’s weakness. The delegation was intent not on warning Iran not to attack Israel, but to insist that America hadn’t had anything to do with the killings of Haniyeh and Shukr, for those nasty Israelis had not taken them into their confidence.
Even worse, these cowardly appeasers reportedly went to the Iranians bearing gifts. Fakhravar states: “The detailed report stated that the American delegation, arriving on a private plane from Turkey, landed at Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj on Thursday and held a two-hour meeting with Iranian officials before returning to Ankara.” At this meeting, the greatest betrayal of all was consummated: “the delegation presented a list containing the names of ten Mossad agents inside Iran, whom the Americans believe were involved in the assassination, directly or indirectly.”
To put this into perspective, recall that on April 18, 1943, in the middle of World War II, American forces shot down the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Imagine if a week or two later, a high-level British delegation had made its way to Tokyo in order to assure the Japanese that they didn’t know about the operation to take out Yamamoto and didn’t have anything to do with it. Imagine further that the British then gave the Japanese the names and whereabouts of ten Americans who were involved in the action against Yamamoto.
If that had happened, it might have been enough to sever the U.S./British alliance. But today, the Biden-Harris regime does not hesitate to extend this sort of gesture of good will to a regime that regularly chants “Death to America.” The Kuwaiti report explains that “this was intended as a good faith initiative in response to the Israeli state’s stunning strike, which was carried out without coordination with Washington.” A “good faith initiative”? To a regime that has never shown good faith and has repeatedly vowed the destruction of America as well as Israel?
The State Department was quick to deny the accuracy of the Kuwaiti report, and as damning as it is, that’s no surprise. Fakhravar notes, however, that “Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that to deescalate the conflict, the Biden administration had ‘engaged in intense diplomacy with allies and partners, communicating that message directly to Iran,’ which largely confirms the Kuwaiti newspaper’s report.”
The effects were seen immediately. “[A]fter the reported visit by the U.S. delegation, more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, military officials, and staff workers at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran, were arrested in response to the assassination of the Hamas leader,” according to the report.
Are those two dozen people suffering unimaginable horrors in Iranian prisons today because of the Biden-Harris regime’s anxiousness to betray Israel? It sure looks like it.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-we-wont-be-able-to-support-israel-in-a-war-with-hezbollah; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Joint Chiefs of Staff head Charles Q. Brown warned on Monday that the US may not be able to help defend Israel against an all-out war with Hezbollah in the same way that it stepped in during the Iran drone attack in April.
Why would Israel's strongest military power in the world be unable to help its most loyal ally, Israel, in its moment of maximum peril, fighting against the terrorists of Hezbollah who have been supplied by Iran with 150,000 rockets and missiles, enough to overwhelm Israel’s anti-missile system? Why wouldn’t fighter jets on American aircraft carriers now in the eastern Mediterranean be able to help the IDF attack Hezbollah’s storehouses of those rockets and missiles, its control-and-command centers, its tunnel systems?
Brown, a US Air Force general, also said that Iran “would be more inclined to support Hezbollah.”
Iran, Brown says, “would be more inclined to support Hezbollah.” It would not merely be “more inclined.” It will support Hezbollah, period, just as it has been doing for decades.. Brown should have said something like this: “Iran has already supplied Hezbollah with 150,000 rockets and missiles, and with billions of dollars in financing, and of course Iran will back Hezbollah to the hilt in any war between it and Israel. We must provide Israel, our most loyal ally, not only with all the weapons it asks for, but make clear to Iran that we will not allow Hezbollah to rain down death on Israeli civilians. We will act to help Israel defend its civilian population against the barrage of missiles from Hezbollah.”
While the Islamic Republic supports Hamas, General Brown said that Tehran would stand more firmly behind Hezbollah, “particularly if they felt that Hezbollah was being significantly threatened.”
In other words, Brown recognizes that Iran would do even more to help Hezbollah than it did for Hamas in Gaza.
Brown also said that any Israeli military offensive into Lebanon could risk triggering a broader war, putting US forces in danger.
What is the “broader war” that General Brown fears? Iran has been engaged in a “broader war” for decades. It has backed the Houthis in the Yemeni civil war, and provided them with the missiles they have fired at Saudi oil installations and at ships in the Red Sea, disrupting 15% of the world’s sea traffic, that has had to be rerouted round the Cape of Good Hope. Iran has supported Syria’s Assad with weapons and money that have allowed him to crush his opposition in the Syrian civil war. Iranian-affiliated militias in Iraq have attacked American bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. What General Brown should have said was that “Iran has been engaged in an attempt to create a Shia crescent, including the Houthis in Yemen, the Kata’ib Hezbollah militias in Iraq, Alawite-ruled Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now Iran wants, through its puppet Hezbollah, to fulfill its dream of destroying Israel. We will not let that happen. There will be no daylight between the United States and Israel if war breaks out with Hezbollah. And the Iranians should be careful not to attack any American forces in the region.”
But that is not what he said.
In the event of war, Brown said the US would likely not be able to provide the same assistance as it did when Iran carried out a missile and drone attack on Israel earlier this year. He also said it was hard to fend off the shorter-range rockets that Hezbollah fires across the border into Israel.
Why let Hezbollah know that the US would not be able to provide “the same assistance” to Israel as it did during the missile and drone attack by Iran on April 13? This will only encourage Hassan Nasrallah to attack the Jewish state. Or is Brown trying to frighten Israel into avoiding a war that most Israelis think will be necessary if the 80,000 Israelis who have fled northern Israel to avoid Hezbollah’s barrages of rockets are to be able to return home?
He asserted that the safety of US forces was a priority and reiterated that no attacks had been carried out on US bases in the region since February.
Are the few thousand American troops in the region of greater concern than the eight million Jews in the state of Israel? In addition, not a single attack on US bases in the region has been launched in the past five months. It seems that Iran and its proxies have learned a lesson— not to attack the American military — the hard way.
Brown said the U.S. continued to warn Israel against going to war with Lebanon.
“Think about the second order of effect of any type of operation into Lebanon, and how that might play out and how it impacts not just the region, but how it impacts our forces in [sic] regions as well,” Brown reportedly said….
The Bidenites still do not understand: Israel does not want war with Hezbollah. But it cannot tolerate a situation where, because of Hezbollah missile and rocket barrages, 80,000 Israelis have had to leave their homes in northern Israel and will not be able to return until those barrages seize. It is Hezbollah that needs to be persuaded to stop those barrages, and the Americans ought to be warning Hezbollah, not Israel, of a war that will otherwise ensue, and likely leave much of Lebanon in ruins.
All that Israel wants, in essence, is that Hezbollah stop firing at civilians in the north, so that the 80,000 Israelis who have left may now return home, and that it pulls back its forces a few kilometers from the Lebanese border with Israel, creating a buffer zone between Israel and the terror group.
Prime Minister Netanyahu told Channel 14 on Sunday night that Israel is open to a diplomatic resolution to the Hezbollah threat, but he stressed, “It must be on our terms.”…
A diplomatic resolution might be crafted by France, which has historic ties to Lebanon. The Quai d’Orsay could enroll fellow members of the European Union to threaten an economic boycott of Iran unless that country directs Hezbollah to stand down, and end its daily barrages into northern Israel.
The Israelis are resolute, determined to put a stop to Hezbollah’s continued aggression in the north. This is the time for the Bidenites to declare their full-throated support for Israel, to deliver at once the shipments of weapons that have been deliberately withheld or slowed down, and to offer to help defend the Jewish state against the massive armory of rockets and missiles that Hezbollah is prepared to rain down on the Jewish state, hoping to overwhelm by sheer numbers the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. The Americans could use their own ship-borne anti-missile defenses in the eastern Mediterranean to intercept Hezbollah’s missiles.
Instead, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has publicly distanced the Americans from such support, warning Israel that the Americans do not want Israel to take any action that could potentially endanger American forces in the region. But what are those forces for, if not to support our allies and frighten our adversaries in the region?
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/after-hot-rebuke-of-netanyahu-us-admits-to-cutting-military-shipments-to-israel-by-50; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
The video provoked a temper tantrum from Biden reps. A U.S. official said that Netanyahu’s “decision makes it clear that there are consequences for pulling such stunts,” but who does this unnamed individual think he or she is? Israel is not inferior, nor the subject of the Biden administration.
Biden did withhold weapons from Israel, but expected Israel to be silent about it, and to reduce itself to a beggar’s gratitude, ostensibly so as not to stir up disapproval from the pro-Israel voting bloc.
A few days later, “US officials confirmed that there has been a steep decline in weapons and ammunition provided by the US.”
Iran, Hamas, Hizballah and all jihadists are enemies of America and the infidel West, as jihadists seek global conquest.
Israel is on the frontline to secure its own existence, but it also battles by proxy for all free societies, which benefit from Israel being on the front lines.
The Biden administration is unreliable, and is a stumbling block to Israel.
“US admits cutting shipments of military aid to Israel by 50%,” by Vered Weiss, World Israel News, June 23, 2024:
US officials confirmed that there has been a steep decline in weapons and ammunition provided by the US to Israel in recent months.
At the outset of the Gaza war, the US sent 240 shipments of military aid to Israel, but more recently, the number has dropped to 120, resulting in a 50% reduction.
Both US and Israeli officials confirmed that there has been a decrease in US arms shipments to Israel.
Addressing the situation at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “There has been a dramatic decrease in the supply of munitions from the US.”‘
Although Netanyahu thanked the US for its support at the beginning of the war, “both in spirit and in material means,” he says he has had to urge the US to “speed up the shipments.”
The Israeli Prime Minister expressed his frustration, “We did it again and again. We did it at the highest levels, at all levels, we did it in closed rooms. ”
He added, “They gave us all sorts of explanations, but we didn’t get one thing – the basic situation hasn’t changed. Certain items trickled in, but the great mass of weapons remained behind.”…
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/biden-outraged-netanyahu-mentioned-his-blocking-aid-to-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Act 1. The stage is set. The key players are Barack Obama, who wants to manufacture a break with Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, looking to navigate a hostile administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Joe Biden.
During Biden’s visit to Israel, the Obama administration staged a scandal, claiming that it was deliberately insulted because the local Jerusalem municipality routed some housing that the administration belatedly opposed through an approvals process.
Hillary Clinton spent an hour (and later brags about) yelling at Netanyahu over the phone. Biden refuses to come down for an hour to the event and a glass trophy being awarded to him ends up being broken. The media played up a scandal that had been purely invented while spreading the narrative that it was Netanyahu who was creating a crisis.
Act 2. Dramatis Personae. Joe Biden. Benjamin Netanyahu. Barak Ravid, the Axios-employed propagandist acting as a point man for the Biden administration’s influence operation to remove Netanyahu and stop the war on Hamas while preventing any action against Iran.
Here’s how it plays out.
Biden publicly blocks previously approved military aid to Israel. And is slow-walking other aid. Netanyahu mentions this in a video. The Biden administration fumes and cancels meetings over Iran. Barak Ravid writes all of this up with lots of “anonymous sources” in the administration and the Israeli Left.
Act 2 is even more absurd than Act 1 because Biden was touting his “extreme pressure” on Israel in a recent video.
But when Netanyahu mentions it, it’s a “scandal” and an “insult”.
Cue the media narrative campaign.
Barak Ravid / Axios: Scoop: White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video
Barak Ravid / Axios: White House baffled by Netanyahu’s claim Biden is withholding weapons
Baffled!
Barak Ravid / Axios: Scoop: U.S. puts a hold on ammunition shipment to Israel
All of this is a scam. The goal is to abandon Israel and convince liberal American Jews to blame Israel for the breach.
It’s the same Obama playbook being run again.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/coca-cola-distances-itself-from-israel-falsely-claims-it-has-factory-in-palestine; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
So now Coca-Cola has taken the art of pandering to Muslims to a whole new level. The company launched ad campaigns in many predominantly Muslim markets, and then falsely claimed that it was operating in Muslim countries where it wasn’t, as well as in “Palestine.” Its deception was so far-fetched that the company even managed to irritate “pro-Palestinian advocates.”
Meanwhile, Coca Cola’s chief competitor, Pepsi, owns SodaStream, which puts the company on the hit list for BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions) activists. In Egypt, two top stars, Amr Diab and Mohamed Salah, are being slammed “for appearing in a controversial Pepsi advertisement,” intensifying calls for a boycott of the “Israel-friendly” company.
“Coca-Cola takes a hit after dishonest pro-Palestinian ad falls flat,” World Israel News, June 18, 2024:
The soft drink giant Coca-Cola has come under fire after the company debuted an advertisement which critics say is misleading at best, if not outright dishonest – in addition to angering supporters of Israel worldwide.
Following the October 7th invasion of Israel and the subsequent war between the Jewish state and the Hamas terror organization, Coca-Cola has faced growing calls for boycotts in Muslim-majority countries around the world, with anti-Israel activists citing the company’s operations in Israel.
In an effort to curtail further losses, Coca-Cola has launched local advertising campaigns in a number of predominantly Muslim markets, including a 60-second video commercial run in Bangladesh, where local media has reported a 23% decline in Coca-Cola sales since October 7th….
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/lawsuit-by-october-7-victims-against-two-pro-palestinian-groups-for-aiding-and-abetting-hamas; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Now a group of nine victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7 are suing two of the most important anti-Israel groups on American campuses, the umbrella groups National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJUP) and American Muslims For Palestine (AMP), for aiding Hamas as “collaborators and propagandists.” More on their lawsuit, which will bring great grief to both NSJUP and AMP, including possibly bankrupting both groups and their officers, as well as leading to the expulsion of both groups from the United States, can be found here: “Israeli Terror Victims Sue Anti-Semitic Campus Groups for Aiding Hamas,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 2, 2024:
Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7th terror spree are suing two anti-Israel campus groups, alleging they are partially liable for the attack due to their role “as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court Wednesday, seeks damages for nine American and Israeli victims of Hamas’s unprecedented terror assault. It targets two campus umbrella groups—American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)—that are responsible for fomenting a tidal wave of antisemitic protests on college campuses across the country.
The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country.
“Survivors of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians still under fire from Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism have been, and continue to be, injured because AMP and NSJP knowingly provide continuous, systematic, and substantial assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of international terrorism,” the lawsuit states.
In a joint statement, the terror victims and their families said the AMP and NSJP should be held legally liable for Hamas’s terror campaign and face expulsion from the United States….
Arsen Ostrovsky, an attorney and CEO of the International Legal Forum, one of several groups supporting the lawsuit, said that NSJP “has effectively become the U.S. campus arm of Hamas.” The suit is jointly being handled by Greenberg Traurig, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Schoen Law Firm, and Holtzman Vogel.
These groups are “directly aiding and abetting the terror group on American colleges, and facilitating the conditions necessary for Hamas to continue carrying out acts of terror and the holding of hostages, including American nationals,” Ostrovsky said. “Enough is enough, we must bring to justice not only the perpetrators of the most heinous massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but hold accountable all those who enable, support, and collaborate with them, like NSJP and AMP.”
The legal team arrayed against the Hamas “collaborators” AMP and JSJP is formidable. It is led by lawyers from Greenberg Traurig, one of the biggest firms in the world, with 2750 lawyers. It should not be hard for those seasoned lawyers — who are going to be relentless, because for them, given their backgrounds, far more than billable hours are at stake — to prove that both groups have aided and abetted Hamas, providing It on hundreds of campuses with moral and political support, justifying and praising the October 7 atrocities, vilifying Israel, and acting as propagandists for the likes of Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh.
A world of woe awaits AMP and NSJP in the courtroom. It will be a pleasure to observe.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/hizballah-launches-rockets-drones-into-northern-israel-in-largest-attack-since-october-7; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
In a report by Foreign Affairs:
Iran understands that Israel is a nuclear state with superior conventional capabilities and that war with Israel would ultimately mean war with the United States. Israel, for its part, knows that a larger conflict with Iran would compel Hezbollah to fire many more missiles at Israeli cities and military facilities. Still, if a tenuous truce between Iran and Israel is to be held, Washington must remain deeply engaged.
At a deeper level, it also comes down to America versus Iran, a nightmare scenario for the Biden administration as it faces upcoming elections.
The latest Hizballah attack, described as the largest since October 7, is testing the Biden administration’s resolve in the war on Gaza. So far, the administration has waffled, which sends the message to Iran and its proxies to continue advancing. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has warned Israel against attacking Lebanon. But Israel has proven that it will defend itself.
“Residents of the North are used as cannon fodder’: Local leaders respond to Hezbollah’s barrage,” by Yael Halfon and Maya Gur Arieh, Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2024:
Following multiple rocket sirens and hostile aircraft alerts sounded in northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, local leaders responded to the barrage and lack of government response.
Moshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council, said, “The North is attacked continuously and non-stop." The residents of the north are used as cannon fodder for Nasrallah’s whims, and the Israeli government is falling asleep while standing.”
“We demand the government present an immediate plan to maintain the security of northern residents. It was also decided that if such a plan is not presented by the beginning of July, we will take a series of steps to be announced later.”
Lobby 1701, a group representing thousands of northern residents, also responded to Thursday’s Hezbollah barrage, stating, “The Israeli government is endangering the settlements of northern Israel." Destruction, fires, and not a word from the government.”
Israeli forces have rescued four hostages from two locations in the central Gaza area of Nuseirat. NEWSMAX Jerusalem Correspondent Daniel Cohen has the details.
The militant Hezbollah group downed an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon and fired heavy rockets at an Israeli military base. Hezbollah continues to target militants and civilian homes. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Forces continue to push on Gaza's city of Rafah. Hezbollah fighters struck a Hermes 900 Kochav drone while firing along the Lebanon-Israel border. According to Israel war room, Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Sunday, with sirens sounding in northern Israel. Israeli Defense Forces fired at Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday. IDF warned civilians to remain in bomb shelters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on X, 'Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas' military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.'
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/fbi-director-met-with-hamas-supporters-asking-him-to-lock-up-jews;
Islamic pro-terror groups reacted to the Hamas terror attacks of Oct 7 not only with riots and public pressure campaigns aimed at politicians, but also by privately meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to demand that they lock up Jewish political opponents.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s investigative arm exclusively reported last month that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamist group whose leader had celebrated Oct 7, had been meeting with attorney generals around the country trying to convince them to arrest journalists and activists who had been investigating and exposing Hamas supporters.
Based on our past history with CAIR, the Freedom Center could be one of their targets.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has been caught meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland and senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including FBI Director Christopher Wray and Associate Attorney General Lisa Monaco, to also discuss targeting Jews.
The meeting, originally reported by Militant Islamic Monitor, represents another part of what appears to be a larger effort by Islamist groups to weaponize prosecutors against their critics.
On May 22nd, top Department of Justice officials and the FBI Director met with Arab American Institute boss James Zogby and MPAC founder Salam al-Marayati. Both men have been accused of supporting terrorism, including Hamas, in accusations going back decades.
Zogby, a Lebanese Arab activist, had described Hezbollah, which was responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans, as “the Lebanese armed resistance”.
“By criminalizing attempts to send money to Hezbollah or to support it, the FBI is confusing and alienating people here who could be allies in the war on terrorism,” he had warned the FBI.
Hezbollah’s crimes included the torture and murder of Colonel William R. Higgins, whose castrated body was found near a mosque with the”skin on his face partially removed.”
When Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847, they tortured Robert Stethem, a Navy diver, by “jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken.”
“They put the mic up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world,” a stewardess described.
But rather than expelling or arresting terrorist supporters, the FBI was meeting with them.
Salam al-Marayati had defended Hamas, blamed Israel for 9/11 and claimed that Hezbollah was not engaged in terrorism, but “ legitimate resistance… that could be called liberation movement.” When Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut killing 241 military personnel, he argued that “tt was a military operation, producing no civilian casualties.”
(Al-Marayati was not telling the truth. The attack also killed Lebanese employees in the area.)
“Yesterday’s terrorists in the Middle East are today’s leaders,” he had argued and “Hamas in terms of its social and educational operations is doing exactly what the PLO was doing 35 years ago, as well as its quote unquote military operations.”
MPAC, the organization Al-Marayati had co-founded, had issued policy papers calling for the removal of Hamas and Hezbollah from its list of terror groups. At a meeting of the Palestine Committee’ of Hamas supporters in America, MPAC had been described as a “sympathetic” group that could be used as “an entry point to use them to pressure Congress and the decision-makers in America.” Was that what MPAC was doing here?
Normally, the FBI should have been interrogating MPAC, but instead MPAC was interrogating it.
Salam al-Marayati filmed a video outside the Attorney General’s office in which he falsely claimed that the Hamas campus encampments had been “peaceful” and that the violence had come from the police, and urged an investigation to “hold law enforcement accountable”.
But at the meeting arranged by Zogby, Al-Marayati, based on MPAC’s account of events, went even further off the rails and claimed that Muslims were under attack by Jewish “terrorists” allied with the “Proud Boys” and demanded that the FBI do something about them.
This bizarre screed should have ended the meeting, but instead the DOJ and the FBI took it seriously. And that is every bit as troubling as meeting with terrorist apologists in the first place.
Al-Marayati’s only example of Jews fighting back against Hamas supporters occurred at UCLA when, after a female Jewish student had been knocked unconscious and multiple Jewish community members had been assaulted, with no response from the university, campus police or the LAPD, some young Jewish men showed up and took on the terrorist encampment.
However, according to the MPAC account, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he would pass on the case to the FBI's Los Angeles field office. This is troubling because a previous exclusive Freedom Center investigation found that the FBI LA office had treated assaults against Muslims and by Muslims against Jews very differently. Any FBI investigation by UCLA prompted by Islamists to focus not only on Muslim antisemitic violence, but only on the response to that violence by a small handful of young Jewish men, would be a civil rights violation.
Attorney General Garland and the DOJ leadership should be fighting Islamic terrorism. Instead they’re meeting with groups like MPAC that have a history of defending Islamic terrorism. And not only are they meeting with them, they’re taking cues about investigations from them.
The DOJ and the FBI have gone from fighting Islamic terrorists to taking orders from them.
CAIR’s efforts to influence state attorney generals and MPAC’s attempt to manipulate the United States Attorney General and the FBI to target political and religious opponents, especially Jews, are in line with Islamist supremacist groups who, in their own home countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, routinely lock up opponents and repress non-Muslims. But that should have no place in America. The Biden administration has opened the doors of the federal government to the worst possible extremists in the hopes of winning another term in office.
Had Al-Marayati not filmed his video, we might never have known what the Biden administration was doing. Instead, a private meeting has gone public and the investigative arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center will continue monitoring the secret alliance between Islamists and government officials, exposing their events and holding them accountable.
Even as the Biden administration promises that it is fighting antisemitism, it’s holding covert meetings with antisemites who demand that the FBI go after the Jews.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/nyc-muslim-migrant-screaming-im-gonna-kill-all-the-jews-tries-to-run-down-jewish-students; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
TERROR: Middle Eastern man attempts to ram Orthodox Jewish students outside their school in Brooklyn, NY. He was arrested by the NYPD. If this were a group of migrants, @AOC would be saying something.pic.twitter.com/5YFYnOl1rW
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 29, 2024
“Maniac screams ‘I’m gonna kill all the Jews’ as he tries to run down students outside NYC Jewish school in antisemitic hate attack,” by Joe Marino, Reuven Fenton, Desheania Andrews and Amanda Woods, New York Post, May 29, 2024 (thanks to Andrew Bostom:
A maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school Wednesday while allegedly yelling “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking anti-Semitic attack, sources told The Post.
Video footage supplied by the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol shows the crazed driver revving his engine and mounting the curb as he swerved toward Orthodox Jews milling around a Yeshiva in Canarsie at about 11:25 a.m.
Police and sources identified the alleged attacker as 58-year-old Asghar Ali, a Pakistani immigrant livery cab driver with a history of mental illness.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the case, and detectives were interviewing the driver Wednesday night.
The Brooklyn man faces more than a dozen charges, including attempted murder, attempted assault and hate crime charges.
Cops do not believe the attack was terror-related and on Wednesday night did not have evidence he was tied to radical groups online, according to sources.
The man was driving a 2011 white Crown Victoria and making a turn onto East 55th Street in front of the Mesivta Nachlas Yakov School when he suddenly veered toward students dressed in Orthodox garb, according to the NYPD and video footage.
He then drove around the block and back toward the school – this time targeting two more students standing outside and a rabbi.
“I’m gonna kill all the Jews,” the driver allegedly seethed, according to police.
The victim managed to run into a building that also had as dorms before being hit, the clip shows…
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-top-dog-antony-blinken-sends-a-stern-demand-to-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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I hate to say “I told you so” — well, no, actually I don’t mind saying it at all. On May 8, I wrote:
“Yes, we’re on Hamas’s side now. It’s as official as it can get without Old Joe Biden asking Congress for a declaration of war against Israel: the Biden regime has thrown the weight of the United States government behind the effort to save Hamas.”
If you thought that was hyperbole or hysteria, consider the fact that on Sunday, senior Biden regime apparatchik Antony Blinken made it unmistakable, issuing a demand to Israel that could have been spoken by Hamas top dog Ismail Haniyeh: “Get out of Gaza.”
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Blinken was not content to slam Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and demand that the Israelis “get out of Gaza”; he also accused the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of “violating international humanitarian law.” If you think that this isn’t the kind of language that the U.S. government has used with allies in the past, you’re right.
Blinken did couch his investigation of Israel in terms that made it seem as if it was just a bit of friendly advice about how best to conduct the war effort as if the secretary of state during the U.S.’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 would know anything about it, but it was an investigation nevertheless.
Blinken warned that “an Israeli military operation in Rafah” might have some “initial success,” but he said that the Israelis would not be able to sustain that success and would end up “holding the bag on an enduring insurgency.” The secretary of state in this era of America’s national humiliation explained that this was “because a lot of armed Hamas will be left, no matter what [the Israelis] do in Rafah, or if they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do. Then you’re going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again.”
And so the alternative that the State Department is offering to Israel is to refrain from entering Rafah. This would allow Hamas to regroup there and strike Israeli civilians again, as its leaders have vowed to do. The Israelis reject this because they have declared that their goal is the complete destruction of Hamas. All Blinken is offering in response is defeatism, a claim that the Israelis won’t be able to destroy Hamas completely, so they shouldn’t even try.
There is no reason why this must be so. There were numerous predictions in 1945 that National Socialism (that’s what “Nazism” means, folks) would continue as an insurgency in the ashes of Germany, but no one was saying that the Allies shouldn’t enter Berlin and end the war anyway. There was indeed a small-scale insurgency after the fall of Berlin and the end of the war, but it was overcome. As long as there are believers in Islam in Gaza, there will be jihadis, but the organized and persistent jihad force the Israelis have faced in Gaza since 2005 hasn’t always existed and need not exist forever.
Blinken’s warning is of a kind that is usually issued by one’s foes in a war, not by one’s friends. And the hard-left apparatchik made it even worse: Blinken added that “it was reasonable to assess that, in certain instances, Israel acted in ways that are not consistent with international humanitarian law.”
Blinken’s timing couldn’t have been worse. The UN cut in half the number of women and children it claims that the Israelis have killed in Gaza — figures that anyone could have seen were unreliable in the first place, since they came from the Gaza Health Ministry, which Hamas runs. There is no serious case that Israel has violated international law; if there were, it would already have been made in the International Criminal Court when Israel had to defend itself against bogus charges of “genocide.”
So why is the Biden regime so anxious to prevent Israeli forces from going into Rafah? Are you afraid of what the IDF might find there? Has the U.S. support for Hamas not been confined solely to “humanitarian aid” to Gaza? The immense anxiety in the White House over this military operation is, to use a word that the media likes to use of Israel, “disproportionate.”
It’s too bad we only have leftist propagandists and not journalists in this country anymore. Someone should ask Blinken to explain himself. But no one will.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/biden-administration-withholds-sensitive-intelligence-on-hamas-from-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden said, “If they [the IDF] go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities—that deal with that problem.”
He went on to state that his administration wasn’t walking away from Israel’s security and would “continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of the Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East [i.e. Iran] recently,” such as Iran’s April 14 ballistic missile attack.
However, with regard to offensive armaments of the type that would likely be used in Rafah, “it’s just wrong,” he continued. “We’re not going to—we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells,” he said….
Is it “just wrong” for the Israelis to want to finish off Hamas by dismantling the last four intact? Battalions of its combatants known to be in Rafah? Do the Bidenites want Hamas to still be standing in Rafah when the war sputters to its end, crowing about its “victory” over the “Zionist entity” and preparing to regroup — as Hamas is now doing in northern Gaza, which the IDF had thought had permanently cleared out months ago?
Biden’s CNN announcement came a few days after Israel was blind-sided by Hamas’s public “acceptance” of a ceasefire deal the Jewish state had not even seen.
According to Axios, Israeli officials were reportedly surprised to see “many new elements” in the deal that were not contained in the previous proposal to which Israel had agreed and which had been presented to Hamas by the American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators 10 days earlier.
Among the “new elements” added by Hamas to the proposed deal was the demand not merely for an immediate ceasefire but for an end to the war, and a complete withdrawal of IDF troops from Gaza. Another new element was a reduction in the number of hostages Hamas would be willing to free, reduced from 33 to a mere 20.
The U.S. and the other mediators had drafted “a new deal” and were not transparent about it, two Israeli officials told Axios. The officials went on to state that they suspect the Biden administration gave Hamas guarantees via the Egyptians and Qataris about ending the war, which the terror group demands but which Jerusalem says is a nonstarter until Hamas is defeated, the hostages are released and Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.
The most disturbing news is not that the American mediators were working hand-in-glove with the Egyptians and Qataris, and not keeping Israel abreast of the latest talks, nor of Hamas’ changes to a previous proposal that Israel had agreed to. No, the most disturbing aspect of all this was the Bidenites’ offer to provide intelligence on the three senior Hamas leaders still hiding in Gaza — Yahya Sinwar, his brother Mohamed, and Mohamed Deif. Why has this information been withheld so far from Israel? Had the IDF been given that information, and acted upon it, the war in Gaza might have ended, with a clear Israeli victory, months ago.
Bidenites instead have withheld such critical information from Israel, and they are now proposing to supply it, but only if Israel agrees to their demand that the IDF not enter Rafah. This is not how Washington should treat a loyal ally, one that has always supplied the Americans with whatever information about the Gaza hideouts of Hamas, its security services, especially Mossad, manage to obtain on terrorist plots against America. These information leaders should now be turned over to Israel without delay, and without making it conditional on an Israeli promise not to enter the center of Rafah. Israel is now in the fourth war for its very survival — the first three were in 1948, 1967, and 1973 — and has a right to expect that information critical to its war effort will not be withheld by its American ally, or perhaps one should now put that last word between doubting quotation marks, as in American “ally.”
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/democratic-donor-haim-saban-on-bidens-threat-to-withhold-weapons-for-israel-a-bad-bad-bad-decision; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
It’s domestic politics. He has seen a squalid display of anti-Israel and antisemitic protesters on nearly 100 American campuses, and instead of calling for moral nitwits, at least half of whom are not even students, to be promptly expelled from the campuses, he; merely criticized the disruption they cause to campus life. who want to see Israel destroyed and replaced by a twenty-third Arab state. But instead of denouncing them and demanding that universities call in the police to close those protests down, Biden has chosen to take their “concerns” seriously. He’s worried, you see, about the Muslim and Arab-American vote, especially in the battleground state of Minnesota, home of Ilhan Omar and a large Somali population. Biden wants to hold onto the state by distancing his administration from Israel. Many Democrats, including Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Congressman Ritchie Torres of New York, have deplored Biden’s decision. Republicans across the board have been unstinting in their criticism of Biden’s withholding of weaponry to our closest ally, which they rightly point out “will only help Hamas.”
Now a major donor to Biden’s reelection campaign, the Israeli American billionaire Haim Saban, has come out swinging, declaring that Biden threatening to withhold weapons shipments to Israel is “bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels.” More on Saban’s reaction, that is likely to be shared by many of Biden’s biggest donors, can be found here: “‘Bad, bad, bad,’: Major Israeli-American Biden donor criticizes US threat to halt weapons,” by Yuval Barnea, Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2024:
A major donor to President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has criticized his handling of the weapons shipments to Israel, calling it a “Bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels” in a text published online on Thursday.
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American billionaire and long-time supporter of Israel and Jewish political causes and has been a consistent donor to the Democratic party since the 1990s.
“This sends a terrible message to our allies in the region, and beyond that, [that] we can flip from doing the right t[h]ing to bending to political pressure.”
He then reminded Biden that “There are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas.”…
Where appeals to common sense and decency don’t work, a hint from deep-pocketed Democrats that they will no longer be contributing to the care and feeding of candidate Biden might prove persuasive. And Saban is not alone; he’s a harbinger of disaffections to come.
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/columbia-university-custodian-defends-academic-building-from-anti-israel-mob; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
This viral image captured the clash between anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia and campus workers who tried to stop them. As the mob invaded Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, a facility worker was photographed pushing a demonstrator against a wall.
Later, it emerged that the protester was a 40-year-old trust fund kid named James Carlson, who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. The man who tried to hold him back was Mario Torres, 45, who has worked at Columbia—where the average janitor makes less than $19 an hour—for five years.
Now, in an exclusive interview with The Free Press, Mario Torres describes the experience of being on duty as protesters stormed the building in the early hours of the morning, breaking glass and barricading the entrances. “We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves,” he said.
“They came from both sides of the staircases. They came through the elevators and they were just rushing. It was just like they had a plan.” Mario said protesters with zip ties, duct tape, and masks “just multiplied and multiplied.”
At one point, he remembers “looking up and I noticed the cameras are covered.” It made him think: “This was definitely planned.”
There was nothing spontaneous about the takeover of Hamilton Hall. The pro-Hamas demonstrators came prepared with zip ties and duct tape to be used on any employees in the building attempting to prevent their assault, and with masks to hide their identity, and just to make sure they would not be identified, they had quickly managed to cover all the CCTV cameras in the building.
Torres was trying to “protect the building” when he ended up in an altercation with Carlson: “He had a Columbia hoodie on, and I managed to rip that hoodie off of him and expose his face.” (Carlson was later charged with five felonies, including burglary and reckless endangerment.) “I was freaking out. At that point, I was thinking about my family. How was I gonna get out? Through the window?”…
About half of the demonstrators at Columbia who have so far been arrested have turned out not to be Columbia students at all, but outside agitators, determined to swell the ranks of the mob in Morningside Heights. Torres managed to push one of the protesters against the wall and pulled away his face-concealing hoodie. That “student” was discovered to be James Carlson, 40-years-old man who had nothing to do with Columbia, but was eager to participate in any anti-Israel pro-Hamas demonstration that might be in progress. Torres wasn’t having any of the disruption. He wanted to do his job as custodian. Having pushed back against the mob, he now worries about whether, for opposing the law-breakers and defending Hamilton Hall, he might be in trouble with the pusillanimous administrators who had been so reluctant to arrest the demonstrators holding the building hostage.
Mario Torres should be asked to appear on news programs such as the “Hero of Hamilton Hall,” a Hispanic male version of Barbara Frietchie, protecting university property from the frenzied hate-animated mob. He needn’t worry about losing his job; Columbia’s trustees and alumni, and the wider public, too, wouldn’t stand for it. In fact, he’s due for a raise, for defending his building against those who, according to plan, smashed its windows and doors, and were preparing to do even more damage once inside. Fortunately, the Columbia administration finally called in the NYPD, which cleared Hamilton Hall in a five-hour operation. The cost to the NYPD was $200,000, One hopes that the City of New York will be able to recover that amount from fines leveled on hundreds of demonstrators.
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/iran-calls-on-islamic-nations-to-sever-ties-with-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
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Virtually all of the states in the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (56 nations and “Palestine,” which is not a state) support the interests, causes and ambitions of their Palestinian “brothers,” with no acknowledgement of Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023. This was crystal clear at the recent OIC summit in Gambia. “Gaza tops agenda at Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit,” Africa News, May 5, 2024:
The 15th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation got underway on Saturday in the Gambian capital, Banjul, with the conflict in Gaza at the top of the agenda….
The OIC condemned Israel’s attacks on Gaza and reaffirmed the organisation’s support for, and commitment to the people of Palestine.
The rogue nation of Iran, the main funder of Hamas, which is embraced by the OIC, was present. Less than two weeks prior to October 7, the Secretary General of the OIC, Hissein Brahim Taha, emphasized the need for unity among Muslim nations, stressing the importance of Iran’s place in “Muslim unity” in dealing with “common threats,” as he referenced “the Zionist regime.” In mid-October, the OIC accused Israel of “crimes against humanity,” with no mention of Hamas atrocities.
Saudi Arabia is a key member of the OIC, and it included Iran in its commitment to host Arab and Islamic summits in order to promote “peace” and discuss Gaza the conflict. With talk frequently circulating in the West about Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel, the Saudis have already laid out their demand for Israel to return to the pre-1967 Auschwitz borders, and blamed Israel as “occupiers” on the very date of Hamas’ savagery, October 7. Until Israel signals that it is willing to return to the pre-1967 borders, which it has not done, normalization with Saudi Arabia is in question, despite the subject being a focal point of the Biden administration, with many following along. It is up to Israel to normalize the negotiated conditions, not to the Biden administration working with Saudi Arabia in Israel’s absence.
Although the Saudis will continue to push for normalization to benefit from its economic growth, so far it has presented its own conditions and interests, not Israel’s. Saudi Arabia is more loyal to the Muslim ummah, and proved it in spades at the Gambia OIC summit, where its Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan reaffirmed “the Kingdom’s call for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, safe humanitarian corridors, and the fulfillment of Palestinians’ legitimate rights, including their right to self-determination and an independent state.” Faisal also “expressed regret over the failure of the UN Security Council and the international community to halt Israeli attacks on Palestinians”; and just in case there is still any ambiguity where the Saudis stand, Faisal added: “The Palestinian cause has remained a priority for the OIC since its inception,” adding:
“It is unfortunate to witness the failure of the Security Council and the international community to halt unprecedented Israeli attacks, which have escalated through indiscriminate shelling, destruction of hospitals, schools, shelters, and infrastructure in Gaza, leaving thousands of innocent civilians, including children, women, and the elderly, as victims,”
Iran meanwhile, called on Islamic countries “to sever ties with Israeli regime.” Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian delegitimized the State of Israel in his speech:
Because the Israeli regime is not a legitimate government. It is only occupying apartheid power…Passage of time is not going to lend legitimacy to an occupying power.
There is no doubt that severing diplomatic and economic relations and practical arms and trade embargo is an important tool in stopping Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its crimes in the West Bank and Al-Quds Al-Sharif. We sincerely appreciate the Muslim and freedom-loving governments and countries that took action in this direction…
Abdollahian’s words echoed Article 19 of the Palestinian National Charter:
The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations; particularly the right to self-determination.
The Palestinian “resistance” against Israel “from the River to the Sea” means the obliteration of Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The Palestinian cause remains central to the OIC. In remarks at the summit, Gambia’s President Adama Barrow blamed Palestinian oppression and “endless human suffering” on Israel from the day of Israel’s founding. The OIC stood unified in condemning “Israel’s attacks on Gaza and reaffirmed the organisation’s support for, and commitment to, the people of Palestine.”
But where was the condemnation of Hamas?
In the next stage of the 15th OIC session, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar “expressed his deep concern over Israel’s ‘brutal military onslaught.’” He also urged OIC member states “to formulate a joint strategy to fight Islamophobia at the global level, work together to bring in an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and implement its ‘Action Plan’ on Jammu and Kashmir.” Pakistan, known for its cruel blasphemy laws, zeroed in on the rise of “Islamophobia,” while ignoring, of course, the antisemitism has risen to alarming proportions since October 7.
The goals of obliterating Israel, the conquest of India, and pushing Islamic blasphemy laws globally — using the “Islamophobia” subterfuge — have been primary concerns of Islamic supremacists everywhere.
In keeping with the principle of striking the iron while it’s hot, expect an increase in collective antagonism to emerge from the OIC summit, not only toward Israel, but against Western interests, particularly in the face of a weak leader such as Joe Biden. Days ago, Biden was ripped for bringing up “Islamophobia” amid the worst outbreak of antisemitism in decades. His alignment with OIC interests is certain to be noted globally.
Christine Douglass-Williams is Associate Editor of Frontpage, regular writer for Jihad Watch, a nine-time award-winning journalist, past Canadian government appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Office of Religious Freedom; author of "The Challenge of Modernizing Islam" and "Fired by the Canadian Government for Criticizing Islam".
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/palestinian-authority-officials-accuse-jews-and-israelis-of-being-worse-than-nazis; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Palestinian leaders pay terrorists to murder Israelis, regard these murderers as “martyrs,” and then call the victims of the Holocaust worse than the Nazis who killed them.
Jibril Rajoub, secretary general of Fatah’s Central Committee, has also justified the October 7 massacre “as an act in the context of the defensive war. Our people are waging.’” His comment in the article below that “the Jew is not ‘a victim’ but ‘a criminal, a terrorist, and a new form of fascism and Nazism of the last century,'” isn’t new. Years ago, he stated that Israel is “running its own Auschwitz' in Palestinian cities.” Rajoub is himself a terrorist, criminal, and a man who “played a central role in the torture and brutal murder of American citizen Azzam Rahim in 1995.” Only in a jihadi government could a man such as Rajoub exist as an official.
“When the victim of the Nazis is accused of being worse than Nazis,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, May 6, 2024:
Top PA official Rajoub: The Jew is not “a victim” but “a criminal, a terrorist, and a distorted form of fascism and Nazism of the last century”
PA daily: Israel’s “barbaric and insane war of annihilation” [in Gaza] “has exceeded all the German Nazi and Italian Fascist crimes”
PA official: Israeli PM Netanyahu is like Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister
PA TV broadcasts libel twice: “The Israelis are doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them” – Egyptian international relations expert
Libel: Conditions in Israeli prisons “are unprecedented anywhere but [in] the Nazi camps of the 1940s” – PA official
While Israel today commemorates the 6 million victims of the Nazis in the Holocaust, it is at the same time constantly confronted with libel by PA leaders and officials claiming Israel is “acting like the Nazis” and worse. These lies have intensified since Hamas launched the current war against Israel with its attack and massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The official PA daily stated that Israel’s defense war against Hamas “has exceeded all the German Nazis and Italian Fascist crimes of annihilation”:
“The Zionist-American war (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war; see note below) is targeting the annihilation of the Palestinian people or exiling it from the land of Ribat (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic)… and eliminating its national cause in order to spread darkness, wars, terror, and religious conflicts… Will the [Arab] brothers, the free world, and the supporters of peace stop the barbaric and insane war of annihilation that has exceeded all the German Nazi and Italian Fascist crimes of annihilation known to history?”
[Column by regular columnist Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 12, 2024]
Two months into the war, top PA official Jibril Rajoub stated that Jews are not “victims” but “criminal[s], terrorist[s], and a distorted form of fascism and Nazism of the last century” and that the West has been “deceived” about this. He added that the war in Gaza is part of “the defense that the Palestinian people have waged and has been waging for 75 years” – in other words, since Israel’s establishment:…
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/al-qaeda-joins-hamas-in-the-jihad-against-israel; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
Al-Qaeda is currently fighting in Gaza as Jaysh al-Ummah is on the side of Hamas against the Zionists.
A Jaysh al-Ummah-Statement from 8. December, 2023, announcing to have repelled the 'Israeli' army in fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip and in Sheikh Radwan in Gaza-City. https://t.co/g3o29r8OJG pic.twitter.com/Dq5ilzZzBJ— I.P. (@Asr23267077) May 5, 2024
It’s unclear how large this al-Qaeda affiliated group is, and whether it has formed a formal alliance with Hamas. It is most likely a small branch that was operating covertly in Gaza for a long time, but has recently decided to conduct operations more overtly, because the IDF’s military operations in Gaza have given al-Qaeda the opportunity to wage jihad against Israel and assure Muslims that al-Qaeda will not neglect its duty to wage jihad against the Jewish state.
Even if there is no actual formal alliance between al-Qaeda and Hamas, al-Qaeda has clearly been assisting Hamas by virtue of attacking IDF troops in Gaza. This benefits Hamas because it forces the IDF to divide its attention into multiple different jihad groups, as well as buying time for Hamas.
This would not be the first time that al-Qaeda has tried to attack Israel, but as of this writing, it appears to be the most recent example of al-Qaeda doing so. This should have gotten more media coverage, because it shows that even though twenty-two years have passed since September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda is not only still active, but is participating in the Israel vs. Hamas war, and is one of the many jihad groups that are assisting Hamas.
Many might think al-Qaeda is a washed-up group that has become a spent force, because al-Qaeda doesn’t get anywhere near as much attention and media coverage as it did 20 years ago. Hamas and Hezbollah have been getting most of the media coverage and focus since October 7, but media coverage of a jihad group is not a reliable indication of its strength and activity.
Al-Qaeda is still around; it never disappeared.
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“It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be!” ~ Plato.
A long-time friend, currently living in the LA area, called yesterday expressing concern for the physical safety of himself and family.
He is Jewish, and like most of my Jewish friends, not particularly religious. Only rarely does he (at least marginally) observe Jewish holidays. In fact, in our conversations, he often expresses cynical skepticism concerning all religions.
However, he is understandably concerned about the current, well-orchestrated, well-organized, violent anti-Jewish fervor, which is now unmistakable in every corner of our nation, and by no means confined to college campuses!
I don’t like, nor do I use, to term, “anti-Semitic.”
It comes from “Shem,” the first son of Noah of the Old Testament Flood Story. One of Shem’s ascendants was Abram, who was re-named Abraham. One of Abraham’s ascendants was Judah, the fourth son of Jacob (Jacob was later re-named “Israel”), from whom the term “Jew” originates.
The first time we heard the term “Jew” in the Old Testament, the State of Judah (southern kingdom) is at war with its former brethren (northern kingdom), now the State of Samaria. The two family groups suffered an unpleasant territorial break-up around 930 BC and thereafter were not on speaking terms.
The point is that modern-day Jews can thus surely claim to be “Semitic,” but Shem had many children and grandchildren, so every other ascendant of Shem, including most Arabs and many Europeans (probably including me), can make the identical claim.
Hence, today, the term “Semitic” is so non-specific as to be meaningless, much like the term ”Gentile,” which loosely translates to: “… not related to anyone in particular”.
“Anti-Jewish” more precisely describes the violent hatred embraced by Nazis in the 1930s, and what is rearing its ugly head once again, now in the USA, and is promoted by the same people!
My Jewish friend forwarded me a letter (email) he received yesterday from a Jewish academic organization listing several “precautions” American Jews should be taking these days.
Most are related to lowering your personal profile.
It’s all sound advice, of course, but the admonishment to “go armed” was conspicuously absent from the list—a glaring omission I pointed out!
I continued that the pernicious malady of “Learned Helplessness” seems to infect the entire Jewish community here in America universally and in Europe!?
“Learned Helplessness” is when a person repeatedly faces stressful situations but makes no effort to exercise control, even when means of control are available.
Many Jews, it seems, have institutionally convinced themselves that they are forever helpless victims and thus stubbornly refuse to change their circumstances, even when change is possible.
My friend, of course (being one of my students) does not fit that mold, does go armed, and even has “weapons of war” at his disposal. In the same way, all my Jewish students audaciously reject “Learned Helplessness,” but many among their brethren continue to obstinately cling to it, despite what they know of world history and what they plainly see happening abound them now!
Just as took place in Germany in the 1930s, leftist politicians in America (particularly in CA) have created conditions that favor violent criminals, simultaneously punishing/hobbling good and decent citizens, with whom leftists (themselves being neither good, nor decent) feel no connection.
We’re presently witnessing “Learned Helplessness,” in action. Self-declared sheep needn’t imagine they’ll die of old age!
It is time for Jews, who have deliberately imposed “sheepdom” upon themselves, to wake up. Sheep face a bleak future!
“… either you get eaten by a wolf today, or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf, so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow” ~ Ogden Nash.
/John
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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/05/a-palestinian-visits-auschwitz-tells-jews-you-belong-here; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:
As his contribution to the Nazi war effort, Hajj Amin el Husseini is known to have raised several Waffen SS battalions consisting of Bosnian Muslims. He also broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda to the Arab world throughout the war.
In January 2020, in quite a different spirit to that exhibited by the Mufti, a group of 25 Muslim faith leaders visited Auschwitz, in what was at the time called a “groundbreaking” visit. “To be here… is both a sacred duty and a profound honor,” the Saudi head of the Muslim World League said during a tour of Nazi death camp with members of the American Jewish Committee.
Now another Palestinian has just been in the news for his visit to Auschwitz, not undertaken in the spirit of sympathy for the victims that the delegation of Muslim faith leaders exhibited but, rather, in a triumphant mode, demanding that Jews everywhere “return” to where they belong — that is, to the Nazi death camps. Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this latest example of a Palestinian expressing murderous antisemitism that can be found here: “Palestinian man visits Auschwitz, publicly calls on Jews to return there ‘where they belong,'” Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2024:
A video was posted on X earlier this week that showed footage of a Palestinian man visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he called on Jews to return to the site of the extermination camp, a place he claimed where they belonged.
Footage of the man can be seen walking through the Auschwitz memorial, calling to free Palestine.
“From these ghettos from which the Zionists came, I say Allah have mercy on all the Palestinians and our martyrs." Free Palestine,” he exclaimed….
These were not ghettos, but death camps. And so very few survived them. But that doesn’t bother the unnamed Palestinian who filmed his visit. He only sees these as places from where “the Zionists came” to inflict pain on poor Palestinians. And he wants “the Zionists” — the Jews — ideally to return to Auschwitz where they can be dealt with appropriately, that is, put to death. But if that is not possible, then at least the Jews must leave the land they stole from the Palestinians and go back, he says “to your countries.”
Though the campus brats accuse Israel of a “genocide” in Gaza, the only “genocide” that has been attempted was that carried out by Hamas on October 7, when 3,000 Hamas operatives smashed into Israel from Gaza, in cars, on motorbikes, and on paragliders, and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israeli men, women, and children. A great many Palestinians — 82% — have expressed approval of what Hamas did on that day. Now we have a Palestinian, cheerfully videotaping himself as he tours Auschwitz, so that his fellow Palestinians, and indeed all Muslims, can see him calling for “the Zionists” — he means “the Jews” — to “all [be returned] to the concentration camps” where, Allah willing, they can be put to death.
Would any of the thousands of campus nitwits now chanting “Say No To Genocide” care to comment on this Palestinian’s heartfelt desire to send Jews back where he knows they belong — to Auschwitz?