Hamas ARE Evil

The long war. Reflections on cease-fire in Gaza. 

A long post below by Rod D. Martin.

A very good perspective. 

I believe Hamas are evil. They kill and maim Israelis, Jews preferably. They also kill and brutalise their own people. 

Gaza could have been beautiful and rich. It was Hamas, and the people that voted for them, who turned Gaza into the tunnel-riddled charnel house it is today. Who use their own people as shields. Then blame the sword. It doesn’t wash.

Which is why no Arab state wants them. Not Egypt. Not Jordan. Not Syria. Not Lebanon. Nor even their patron death-cultists, the IRGC in Iran. Nobody in the Arab world wants them. Because as soon as they are in a new country they cause mayhem and butchery. No one wants that. Not even a majority Palestinian country like Jordan. Only in the west do we want them. At least a loony lot of us appear to want to invite them into our society. Including, incredibly, many in the LGBTQ community.

I have believed Hamas are evil since I first studied them in 2005. I saw that they followed the ideology of the Nazis. They made nazism even worse. They fused a millenarian, supremacist, misogynist, homophobic ideology to it. They throw in a Sky God who will drown you in virgin beauties if you die in pursuit of “killing Jews wherever you find them” (per the Hamas Charter). Killing Jews and Christians. And atheists like me, too.

Read the Koran. It’s all there. Read the Hamas Charter. This is its foundational and guiding document. Then read the Israel Declaration of Independence. I point out the clear differences in motivation. 

Prove me wrong.

Disclaimer: I don’t buy Martin’s “Trump as a 4-D chess player” narrative. I wish it were true. But I doubt it.

Back to Rod:

Some of you are telling me the Gaza deal can't last. You're not seeing the whole board.

There are two default assumptions at work here. 

The first is that Islamist radicals can just spontaneously produce missiles, guns, and money from thin air. They can't. 

The second is just general black pilling, which is frankly stupid. So you're demoralized: big whoop. You'd have been more demoralized in the summer of 1940, or for that matter of 1942. And you'd have been just as wrong. Get over yourself. Look at the facts.

Ladies on the Black Sea, Israel

Jing, Eva, Michaela. 17 April 2017

"We love death more than the Jews love life". Sam Harris on the essence of Islam.

Sam Harris talks to U.K. host Piers Morgan. In the video above by OtherBarak.

I've been a follower of Sam's for decades now. I've bought his books and followed his podcasts. 

Then I had a falling out with him, mainly over his extreme TDS. 

My obligatory throat clearing is that I'm far from a fan-boy of Trump. He's inconsistent, incoherent and inarticulate. Just better than a Kamala. That's all. While Sam's views on him have at times seemed deranged to me. Like when he said to the Triggernometry lads something like "I don't care if Hunter Biden has dead babies in his basement, that still doesn't disqualify Joe...". 

But I always thought he was spot on with his critique of Islam. He's well-read on it. As am I. We agree on the basic thrust: that there are many, a large minority, probably a plurality of the 2 billion Muslims world wide who are "deranged" -- Sam's word -- by the doctrines of their faith. And, no, it's not "all religions are equal". It's not "all religions have problematic texts". It's not "Jews are just as bad". Or any of that nonsense. The problem of Jihad, of Islam, is "orders of magnitude" -- Sam's words -- worse in the Muslim world than they are in any other religion on the planet and specifically of Jews. 

I wish defenders of Israel -- and I'm glad to see Sam is a staunch defender -- would more often quote the founding documents of both the Israeli state and of Hamas. The Israeli Declaration of Independence sets out their guiding principles, and the Charter of Hamas set out their guiding principles. They could not be more revealing, or more opposite. 

I wrote about before:The Israeli Declaration of Independence. The Hamas Charter

The Israeli Declaration of Independence: 

[Article 13] THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

[Article 16]. WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions. [Here]

The Hamas Charter (Article 7): 

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. (Preamble)

The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Article 7)

Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Muslim wherever he may be. (Article 13)

The Zionist project is a racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist project based on seizing the properties of others; it is hostile to the Palestinian people and to their aspiration for freedom, liberation, return and self-determination. The Israeli entity is the plaything of the Zionist project and its base of aggression. (2017, Article iv).

Grok summary of Sam's points:

Sam Harris’ key points:

• Hamas’s actions and widespread Muslim support are primarily driven by religious (jihadist/Islamist) ideology, not just politics or grievances.
• Large numbers of Muslims worldwide are “powerfully deranged” by religious identity/symbols, prioritizing them even over their own children’s lives.
• Gaza/West Bank schools (many UN-funded) teach young children the love of martyrdom and hatred of Jews, producing a culture of suicide bombers and child bombs.
• Society accepts mocking other religions but not Islam, due to the risk of violent “psychopathic rage” over perceived insults to religious symbols.
• Religious fanaticism exists among a tiny minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews/settlers (settlements are provocative), but it is orders of magnitude smaller; most Jews are secular.
• Radicalization stems mainly from ideas of martyrdom and jihad that cross borders and recruit people with no personal grievances.
• Israel is fighting a “suicidal death cult” that uses human shields, embeds among civilians, and sees its own civilian casualties as a PR advantage because believers expect paradise.

It's not a land war in Gaza. It's a religious war. Hamas doesn't want more land for "two states". It wants the annihilation of Israel, the killing and displacement of Jews, so that they can reoccupy "from the River to the Sea". And so does the Palestinian Authority. And so does Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They all do. All the countries surrounding Israel. The all want it.

And what's the west's reaction? On the Left it's to say: "Ok, let's recognise Palestine as a state". Which Australia has done. To its shame. Though at their current Labor Party Conference they seem to be proud of what they've done. I say: Shame. 

Why claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza are legally false

John Spencer, Chair of War Studies, Madison Policy Forum

Why claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza are legally false 

Rich Lowry: Tucker Carlson is wrong

No compromise Arabs

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was written. The Arabs rejected it because they wanted all the land. They refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty on the land.

In 1920, the League of Nations gave Britain the official Mandate for the land that had belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The entire area was set aside as the Jewish homeland. This included what is today Israel (with Gaza, Samaria and Judea) and the whole of Jordan.

The Arabs rejected this too. 

They wanted all the land and refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty.

In 1922, the Saudi Hashemite royals and other Arabs made a secret deal with Britain behind the Jews’ backs, and without the approval of the League of Nations. 

Britain then carved out Transjordan and gave the entire area to the Arabs. This was 77% of the total land that had been promised as the Jewish homeland.

The Arabs happily accepted and took Transjordan, but they still rejected the remaining 23% for the Jews. They refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty on the land.

Now ask yourself this question:

If the Arabs were already given 77% of the land that was meant for the Jewish state, why are we still talking about carving up the last 23% and giving them even more?

When you see the truth, you understand who the real problem is, and why we will fight to keep the little land we have left.

Refugee crises since 1900

I asked Grok for a list of world refugee crises since 1900. 

It came up with 54 countries that have suffered refugee crises since the first one, in Armenia, in 1915.

All but one are resolved. The one not resolved is highlighted below: Palestine. Just one. Out of 54. The Palestinians. 

The Palestinian refugee crisis remains unresolved because we let it. It was we, the west and the United Nations, that allowed this. The Arabs in the Levant (i.e.”Palestinians”) made maximalist demands, with maximum denial of compromise. And we accommodated them. We went along with it.

We, the United Nations, allowed:

1.  UNWRA: the only U.N. refugee body specifically for one people, the Palestinians. All the rest are handled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

2.  We allowed 1948 refugees to pass on their refugee status to their descendants. No other group of refugees, not a single one of the other 53, is allowed to do this. Thus the number of Palestinian refugees has increased from 700,000 to well over 2 million today. All looked after by UNWRA.

3.  We allowed the surrounding Arab states, those surrounding Israel, to refuse to accept or give citizenship to fellow Arab refugees from the 1948 Israel-Palestine war. 

4. We allowed UNWRA to become a creature of Hamas. It runs Hamas schools that are violently anti-Jew. It helps and covers for Hamas theft of food and foreign aid. So much that Hamas leaders are billionaires living in Qatar. UNWRA even had staff taking part in the October 7th killings, rapes,looting and kidnapping. 

An alternative history is this: the Palestinian refugees handled in the same way as all the others refugee groups in the last century. We should jabs said “NO” to the maximalist Arab demands. No, to all of the above accommodations. 

We would not now be facing the calls to “globalise the intifada”, to “kill all Jews”, to “destroy Israel”

In this alternative history, everyone would be better off. Economically and politically. Also mentally. This region could be a hub of innovation and growth. With peace. And a logical, realistic, handling of the “Palestinian Refugee Question”.

Grok:

Here is the list of 54, sorted alphabetically, with the earliest major refugee crisis for each group (focusing on well-documented, large-scale events):

•  Afghans: 1979–1980 (Soviet invasion)

•  Albanians: 1990s (post-communism/Kosovo conflicts)

•  Armenians: 1915 (Armenian Genocide)

•  Azerbaijanis: 1988–1990s (Nagorno-Karabakh conflict)

•  Bangladeshis: 1971 (Bangladesh Liberation War)

•  Bosniaks: 1992 (Bosnian War)

•  Burmese (Myanmar): 1962–1980s (military coups/ethnic conflicts)

•  Burmese Chin/Karen: 1980s–1990s (ethnic insurgencies)

•  Cambodians: 1975 (Khmer Rouge takeover)

•  Central Africans: 1990s–2000s (civil wars)

•  Chechens: 1994 (First Chechen War)

•  Chinese: 1949 (Chinese Communist Revolution) / earlier waves in 1930s–40s

•  Colombians: 1980s–1990s (drug war/insurgencies)

•  Congolese (DRC): 1960s (post-independence conflicts) / major in 1990s

•  Cubans: 1959–1960 (Cuban Revolution)

•  Czechs/Slovaks: 1938–1939 or 1968 (Prague Spring)

•  Eritreans: 1961 (war for independence from Ethiopia)

•  Ethiopians: 1970s (Red Terror / Ogaden War)

•  Georgians: 1990s (post-Soviet conflicts)

•  Germans (post-WWII): 1944–1947 (expulsions from Eastern Europe)

•  Guatemalans: 1960s–1980s (civil war)

•  Haitians: 1950s–1960s (Duvalier dictatorship) / major in 1990s

•  Hungarians: 1956 (Hungarian Revolution)

•  Indians: 1947 (Partition of India)

•  Iraqis: 1980s (Iran-Iraq War / Anfal campaign) or 1991

•  Kazakhs: 1920s–1930s (Soviet collectivization/famine)

•  Kosovars: 1998–1999 (Kosovo War)

•  Libyans: 2011 (Libyan Civil War)

•  Malians: 2012 (Tuareg rebellion / Islamist insurgency)

•  Nicaraguans: 1970s–1980s (Sandinista Revolution / Contra War)

•  Nigerians (Boko Haram affected): 2009–2010s

•  North Koreans: 1950–1953 (Korean War)

•  Pakistanis: 1947 (Partition of India)

•  Palestinians: 1948 (Arab-Israeli War)

•  Poles: 1939 (WWII invasion) or earlier partitions

•  Romanians: 1940s–1950s or 1989

•  Rohingya (Myanmar): 1978 or 1990s (major 2017)

•  Russians: 1917–1922 (Russian Revolution & Civil War)

•  Rwandans (historical): 1959–1961 or 1994 (Genocide)

•  Salvadorans: 1970s–1980s (Salvadoran Civil War)

•  Serbs/Croats (Yugoslav wars): 1991–1995

•  Somalis: 1970s–1980s or 1991 (civil war)

•  South Sudanese: 1955 or 1983 (civil wars) / 2013

•  Sri Lankan Tamils: 1983 (start of civil war)

•  Sri Lankans (beyond Tamils): 1980s

•  Sudanese: 1955 or 1983 (civil wars)

•  Syrians: 2011 (Syrian Civil War)

•  Tibetans: 1959 (Chinese annexation / uprising)

•  Ukrainians: 1930s (Holodomor) or 1940s / 2022

•  Uyghurs: 1930s or 1950s / major 2010s

•  Venezuelans: 2014–2015 (economic/political collapse)

•  Vietnamese (boat people): 1975 (Fall of Saigon)

•  Yemenis: 1960s or 2014–2015 (civil war)

Starmer bans Israel critics. Bad move | Shabbos Kestenbaum

I’ve posted Shabbos Kestenbaum before. He debates well. My posts on him here. 

He’s discussing the issue of the U.K. government banning the entry to the U.K. of his debate partners Cenk Uygur and his silly champagne-communist nephew Hasan Piker.

Of course you can criticise the Israeli government. Israelis do it more than anyone.

But also: Jews have been in this region for 3,000 years. Of course they are connected to the land. 

Judea = Jews.

To claim that they are not part of the land is crazy and simply untrue. No. 1 historical inaccuracy.

Still Shabbos wanted to debate Cenk and Hasan. He’s against the ban. As am I.  That they were banned by the U.K. government is crazy. 

The ban was not because Israel demanded it, as the Jew-obsessed Cenk and his silly nephew believe. It’s because P.M. Keir Starmer’s Britain is increasingly censorious. Keir Starmer himself is increasing censorious. Proudly so.

Rich Lowry makes the same points: “Are the Jews to Blame for Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker Getting Banned from the U.K.?”

The Ugly Truth about Palestine

I've followed Einat Wilf for some time. (My posts about her here)

What I didn't know, till the vid above, is that she made the same mental journey in life as I have: moving from the crazy left to.... Not the Left.

If you can hack it, she goes into detail about the Israel-Palestine issue, its history, its current affair; its "then", its "now". From the POV of an insider, as she was to the Oslo Accords process, with Yasser Arafat, Bill Clinton, and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993. 

About which, by the way, Bill Clinton felt betrayed by Arafat and has talked about his bitterness at the betrayal. 

The betrayal served to wake Clinton up to the reality that the Arabs of the Levant (aka the "Palestinians") do not want any deal, any "land for peace", any "Two State solution", any "recognition". No, what they want, what their dream is: death to Israel and death to all Jews. 

That’s the truth. And of course it’s ugly. That your neighbour wants you dead. No ifs, no buts. No negotiations. Wants you dead. 

Bill Clinton: "They don't want a State. They want dead jews". 

It was never about Israel

Fast and True. Ben Shapiro. 

It was never about Israel. It was and is about hating America. Because... well, because "the Long March through the institutions". By European neo-Marxism. Of the Frankfurt School, of Marcuse, of Foucault, of Gramsci.

Neo Marxism. Cultural Marxism. Which you can read all about in Christopher Rufo’s “America’s Cultural Revolution”. 

Why I still support Israel

There are too few young Americans like Jacob Smith. Able to analyse and think for himself. And have the same conclusion as me. “He agrees with me! He must be right!”. 

The conclusions being: that Israel has the right to exist; that it has the right to continue to exist; that it has the right to defend itself from genocidal attacks. That it has the right to stop a regional theocratic-tyranny from invading, occupying, bullying and converting “infidel” states throughout the world. 

Jacob labels himself a “Christian Zionist”. I’m not, because I’m not Christian. I’m atheist. But still Zionist. So I identify as an “Atheist Zionist”.

Using  “Zionist” in an updated sense of the term. Not that Israel simply has a right to exist. Because that’s a done deal. Israel exists. Updated “Zionism”: Israel has the right to continue to exist. Against the surrounding Arab-Muslim states that seek its destruction. Which destruction, were it to happen, would be the first and only state to be liquidated since the founding of the United Nations. 

From Smith’s Show Notes:

I'm a Christian American. I'm not Jewish. I have no personal stake in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And yet I've spent years debating anti-Zionists online, sitting across people whose mission is to delegitimize Israel and dehumanize the Jewish people — while receiving death threats daily across every platform I'm on. This video is my answer to the most common question I get: why do you even care?

My journey started on October 7th, 2023. I was in class when a Reuters notification came through about the Hamas attack. Within minutes I was watching people online cheer for it, spreading ahistorical narratives and anti-Zionist propaganda. I started responding. I haven't stopped.

 

The core of my argument is this: anti-Zionism is not a principled political position. It is a double standard applied exclusively to one people. If you scrutinize Israel's founding but not how the United United States was created, how Arab states were drawn up, or how any other nation in history was created, you don’t have a standard. You have a bias. And Israel’s independence is actually one of the most legally and morally defensible positions in modern history. 

My favourite city in the world: Jerusalem

Phil does a good job of a day or two around Jerusalem. A city I visited only in 2017 and loved. I think this Phil guy, who I didn’t know until today, does a pretty good job of showing us around, without any gratuitous politics or religion. 

The city is multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural. All of which is not known by the Hamas-nicks in the U.S.. In American colleges. In the western media. Who continue to push the “apartheid” lie, and that it’s a story of White Oppression against the Brown Oppressed. Look at the people! They’re from all over. 

It’s Jerusalem that’s the melting pot of the world. Where people make a successful effort to be tolerant and kind to each other. It’s something they have to work at. And doesn’t come easy. But it does come and it does show the bright side of Israel. 

Israel, especially Jerusalem: a place in the Middle East I could live. Whereas there’s nowhere else I could actually live, as opposed to visiting. Not Egypt. Not Jordan. Nor Lebanon. And certainly not Syria. Not even Turkey. All of which I’ve visited and enjoyed. Great to visit. But to live? No way. But I could absolutely live in cosmopolitan Israel, especially magical Jerusalem. 

Ask any person, ask any Muslim living in Israel, where they’d rather live. If Israel is a choice, then they’ll choose Israel. People are not stupid. They can see how much better Jews run a country than Muslims do. Fact. Uncomfortable as it may be. Fact.

Phil does Tel Aviv. Another place I’ve been to, and could live in. Where I would live in preference to other places I’ve lived in: Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, New York, London, Sydney. ‘Nuff said?

Zionism = the right to CONTINUED existence

Israel’s right to exist is based on:

• History
• International recognition 
• Morality
• Law: Uti possidetis juris
• Power

And… the Old Testament of The Bible. Not persuasive to an atheist like me (also a Zionist), but persuasive in a region steeped in religion. Where even the enemy, Islam, recognises the Bible. Indeed the Koran is a hodgepodge of half understood cribs from the Bible. Including the Jewish Torah. 

Israel is older than 70% of the countries in the United Nations. It is a living place. An important and influential country politically, technologically, economically, strategically, existentially. 

Jing and Judah. Judea & Samaria. Dead Sea. Israel. April 2017

French poison. The “logic” that created Woke

An Occasional Reader, an Israeli, resident in Tel Aviv, asked me the other day: “why did the world turn so suddenly and completely against Israel?”. She thought it was “difficult to understand”. 

I said I thought it was easy to explain. Even if each of the individual reasons is complex, the overall is easy to understand. It’s the “Red-Green alliance”. Red being the lefties. Green being Islamist. 

They share a common enemy. The west. 

The West is Enemy to the Reds because they believe in socialism, communism, and so the need to overthrow capitalism. Which means overthrowing the West.

The West is enemy to the Greens because Islam must dominate the whole world. The West defends freedom of religion, especially Judeo-Christianity. So they must overthythe West to overcome their main enemies, the enemies of Allah.

Part of the brainwashing of the Left, so that they buy-in to overthrowing the West, has been “the long march through the institutions” by a soft and sneaky form of Marxism. The Marxism of post-Modernism. Cultural Marxism. Neo-Marxism. 

Which Brivael Le Pogan describes below. Writing in French. Translated by X:

I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).

We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.

We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity.

Taken individually, these are debatable theses. Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison.

For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.

Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberlé Crenshaw inherits the framework and invents intersectionality. At every step, the matrix is French: there is no truth, there is only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every institution is oppressive, every norm is violence, every identity is constructed and thus negotiable, every majority is guilty.

That’s how three Parisian philosophers, who probably never imagined their practical consequences, provided the operating software to an entire generation of activists, university bureaucrats, HR managers, journalists, and legislators. That’s how we ended up with a civilization that no longer knows how to say whether a woman is a woman, whether its own history is worth defending, whether merit exists, whether truth can be distinguished from opinion.

It’s shit for one simple reason, and it must be stated calmly. A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three. Not out of malice. Out of intellectual play, fascination with suspicion, hatred of the bourgeoisie that had nurtured them. But the result is there. An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.

I apologize because we French bear a particular responsibility. It’s our language, our universities, our publishers, our prestige that gave this nihilism its chic packaging. Without the legitimacy of the Sorbonne and Vincennes, these ideas would never have crossed the ocean. We exported doubt the way others export weapons.

What is being built now, in Silicon Valley, in AI labs, in startups, in workshops, in all the places where people still make things instead of deconstructing them—that is the response. A civilization is rebuilt by builders, not by commentators. By those who believe that truth exists and is worth devoting oneself to. By those who embrace a hierarchy of the beautiful, the true, the good, and are not ashamed to transmit it.

So, forgive us. And back to work. 

H/t @Brivael

”America’s Cultural Revolution” by Christopher Rufo, covers this topic. A good read.

Silence of the Dogs

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times puts his name to a Hamas-sourced alllegation abkit mistreatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Including alleged rape by dogs. 

Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz discusses with JNS podcast.

Timed to cover and overwhelm a much more soundly sourced and exhaustive report on the October 7th invasion, mass murder, mass raps, mass tortures. Canine Complicity by silencing the real crimes. 

The New York Times has a long anti Israel and anti Jew history. There’s books about it. I’ve read a couple. The most recent and most authoritative being Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon. 

Defending the West | Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager is a brave man. Paralysed below the neck in a horrific fall in the shower… he still speaks up with passion and erudition.

Above he talks of Israel as the tip of the spear in defending the west. And western values of the enlightenment.

Something I’ve banged on about here over many years. It is true. 

Mushroom clouds over Jerusalem. The Tucker “imminent threat”

The wolf really is there. 

So, No.

We cannot allow Iran’s “imminent nuclear threat” be a mushroom cloud over Jerusalem. Or Tel Aviv. 

No matter how much the Jew-hating Hamas and Jew-hating Western Hamasnics may pine for it. To “liberate Palestine”. To “globalise the intifada”.

Emily Schrader of JNS TV explains why in the above vid. And how much Israel has done to stop Iran’s nuclear threat. A threat to the world, by the way, not just to Israel.

It’s not “crying wolf “. You see the wolf in a distant copse. It’s approaching. You fire warning shots and build defences. It keeps coming. You keep firing and defending. That’s why the wolf hasn’t arrived. Not because it’s not there. But because you kept it at bay. Then comes the day you must kill it. Which is where we are today.

Aid to Israel is not a thing

Emily destroys the furphy that a few billions a year in U.S. tied aid is somehow critical to Israel. It’s not. It’s been steadily reduced over the years, with no ill effect on Israel. Bibi Netanyahu has announced he will stop it entirely. Good. 

Emily shows Tucker Carlson predicting this or that. I remember Carlson making wild predictions about all sorts of things, which turned out just as wildly wrong. 

• How Israel would collapse without U.S. aid. 
• Trump killing arch-terrorist Qasem Soleimani in 2020 was going to lead to regional war. 
• Trump’s “Midnight Hammer” operation in June 2025 was going to lead to World War III. 
• The “Epic Fury” operation would fail at the cost of tens of thousands of American lives. 

None of Carlson’s perfervid imaginings is true. None is acknowledged. None apologised for. 

Tucker Carlson is a foolish empty vessel. He is loud only because his very emptiness echoes and reverberates his delusions. 

Israel controls America…

 

Not.

Jeremy Boreing touches many of the points I’ve made on this here blog. (Jeremy, fwiw, is Christian).

I’ve been asked by Occasional Readers why I still support Israel. 

My answer: Because it’s still right. Because it’s still good. While Hamas is still wrong. Hamas is still bad. While Iran’s tyrannical theocracy is still wrong. Is still bad. 

All the noise, all the constant repetition of hate on Jews and hate on Israel, doesn’t make it right. It’s just proof, yet again, of Joseph Goebells “Big Lie” theory. Tell a big lie. The bigger the better. And tell it often. People will believe it. And today, weirdly, the Big Lie is coming from both Left and Right. (The latter now called the Woke Reich).

Well, I don’t believe the Big Lie. Nor the one about Israel. And the Jews. Or about how Hamas are brave “resistance fighters”. 

I still support Israel. Unequivocally. Staunchly. 

For reasons I’ve often repeated here. Which Jeremy handily summarises for me. 

Jeremy’s take down of Tucker Carlson’s ludicrous claim that America has “no strategic interest” in Israel is spot on. If Israel, if the Middle East is not strategically relevant, then the term has no meaning. Of course it’s relevant. Hugely so. Israel is very much the bulwark against a major victory for extremist Islam. 

Jeeemy doesn’t mention the economic benefits to America and the world of israel. It’s inventions and investments. On the high tech NASDAQ index, for example, Israel has the third highest number of companies listed, after only China and America itself. 

On a recent YouTube talk, Ambassador Mike Huckabee listed the number of Israeli-Jewish inventions that have benefitted mankind. Tell me a similar list from the Arab-Muslim world. Heh… 

Here’s a list from AI:

•  Drip irrigation system

•  USB flash drive (Disk-on-Key)

•  PillCam (capsule endoscopy)

•  Waze navigation app

•  Israeli emergency bandage

•  Mobileye driver assistance system

•  ReWalk exoskeleton

•  Cherry tomato

•  Polio vaccine (Jonas Salk)

•  Ballpoint pen (László Bíró)

•  Oral contraceptive pill contributions

•  ICQ instant messaging

•  Firewall technology (initial versions)

•  Solar water heater advancements

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A "Binational, Democratic, State" in Israel run by Hamas?? | Einat Wilf

 

Dr @EinatWilf

This is a response to all those who think that if Hamas takes over Israel, if the Intifada does work to overthrow the Jewish state, if Islamists rule "from the River to the Sea", then all will be fine and well. That there will be a return to some pre-1948 time when apparently all was sweetness and light between Muslims and Jews in this area of the Levant. 

People believing this, calling for this, include pretty much all the Left in the west, the media, all of Europe, all the Muslim countries. ie, pretty much everyone. Including the loopy fringe group of fundamentalist Jews, the Naturei Karta, recently seen on New York streets, together with Hamas and other "Palestinians" calling for the downfall of Israel, and shouting Allahu Akbar. Go figure. 

Einat Wilf I've posted about before. She's super shart. Intelligent, eloquent. And not blinded by any false delusions about what might happen if Hamas or the PA took over. Which, to be clear, would be genocide -- and actual genocide -- of all Jews in the area, just as a first up, followed by killing all Jews and all non-Muslims they could get their hands on. 

How do I know this? Because they say so. Over and over. It's part of their founding document, the Charter of Hamas. 

Hezbollah is the model for Iran proxies world wide | Loay Alshareef

Lebanon was known as the "Pear of the Levant", "the Paris of the Med"... the "Switzerland of the East". Now it's a basket case. Terrorised by well-armed murderous religious lunatics. 

It was Palestinian terrorists wot done it. In the shape of Hezbollah, the "Party of Allah". Hezbollah invaded Lebanon after being kicked out of Jordan -- a Palestinian state itself! -- for being too radical even for Jordanians. 

Hezbollah proceeded to be a parasite on the body of Lebanon, to change its character, to ruin it for Lebanese and foreigners alike. 

This is the Iranian IRGC's model. A state within a state. An armed group stronger than the military of the country it parasitizes on. All funded by Iran.  

All of which non-US westerners seem happy to go along with. 

Iran's ambitions don't stop with the Middle East. They explicitly go to Europe and then to the rest of the west. That's what this war, Operation Epic Fury, is all about. Preventing more Hezbollahs all over the world. More Hamas' all over the world. More Houthis all over the world. More Palestinian Islamic Jihads all over the world. 

We don't have to guess or speculate about this. Iran has been saying it clearly for fifty years. It says it still. It will go on saying it until their last breath. 

The guy in the Short clip above is Loay Alshareef (Arabic: لؤي الشريف; born 11 November 1982), a UAE-based Saudi-born Egyptian activist who advocates for the Arab world to normalise relations with Israel.

Get that! There are Arabs willing to have better relations with Israel. If you can imagine it, it would be a huge improvement to having a terror state bent on killing everyone that doesn't accept their radical Shia Twelver Islam.