[Real Clear Politics] In the wake of the barbaric attack on Israel, many Americans have been shocked, angered, and disgusted to see woke organizations express anything other than condemnation for Hamas. On campuses and in our communities, students and organizations like Black Lives Matter have expressed support for the butchers of Jews. Meanwhile, all too many campus leaders, formerly so quick to condemn even the hint of racism, can barely muster even weak condemnation of such savagery. Many Americans find themselves shaking their heads in dismay.
Where does this blindness come from? Why are so many people who think of themselves as crusaders for justice so misguided?
It is a complicated story. But one key part of that story is the way that civil rights, which began as a cause, became an ideology. Eventually that ideology metastasized into "anti-racism," a radical legal doctrine that scholar John McWhorter suggests is nothing less than a secular "religion." The once-noble cause of civil rights changed. No longer merely about ending specific acts of discrimination in voting, employment, and public accommodations, it became a crusade to rectify the wrongs of slavery, Jim Crow, and the lingering legacy of institutional racism. In the view of 21st century progressives this entailed transforming America and the world. It is a reminder that even good things if done in the wrong way, or carried to excess, can turn bad.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate against someone due to their "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." In subsequent decades we have added more categories, notably sexuality, disability, and gender identity. Those categories are "protected classes" in law. But it didn’t take long for the legal category to be transformed into a moral category. Certain people were regarded as having special protections. In the decades since 1964 we have created an ever-expanding and ever more influential bureaucracy of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) workers dedicated to this task.
But there is a problem, especially as the number of protected classes grows, and as the number of non-white Americans grows. (When the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed, whites were roughly 88% of the population. They are roughly 60% today.) What to do when a member of one protected class mistreats or discriminates against another? To cite one infamous example, early civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael said that "the only position for women in the SNCC [Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee] is prone." So Carmichael was both a fighter against segregation and a sexist pig.
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We just got a petition request from Change.org asking us to sign a condemnation of Israel and asking the President to ask them to stop. In the fine print at the bottom it says that actually the petition is not from Change.org, just an affiliate. Equally curious, it turns out is a for-profit organization affiliated with left wing causes. Seems the pain Hamas is feeling is significant!
[IsraelNationalNews] Britain-based author and journalist Douglas Murray appeared on Talk TV and was asked whether Israel’s strikes in the Gaza Strip constitute a "reasonable, proportionate and moral response".
Murray fired back, "There is some deep perversion in Britain whenever Israel is involved in a conflict, and it is the word you just used: Proportion, proportionate, proportionality. Only Britain is really obsessed with this. I’ve heard in for the last few days incessantly."
"Proportionality in conflict rarely exists," he stated, and then explained that insisting on a proportionate response "would mean that, in retaliation for what Hamas did in Israel on Saturday, Israel should try to locate a music festival in Gaza, for instance — and good luck with that — and rape precisely the number of women that Hamas raped on Saturday. Kill precisely the number of young people that Hamas killed on Saturday. They should find a town of exactly the same size as a town like Sderot, and make sure they go door-to-door and kill precisely the correct number of babies that Hamas killed in Sderot on Saturday, and shoot in the head precisely the same number of old age pensioners as were shot in Sderot on Saturday, just to choose one town."
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Americans get the same treatment especially if we are white.
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Former US Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson on a likely large-scale Russian offensive: They [the Ukrainians] are committing suicide on these Russian defense fortifications. And let's see what will happen in the future if Russia bleeds Ukraine so successfully. And there is every chance that this will happen. Then we will “invite” Russia to attack, and she will be able to take significant parts of Ukraine that it never claimed, that it doesn’t want, didn’t want initially.
We should have come to the negotiating table weeks ago for a diplomatic solution. I just hope it's not too late. I hope that we haven't passed the point that I just talked about, where Russia will have a new incentive to take a completely new position in this conflict and say: screw this US election, screw it all, we don't care, we We will take as many territories as we can. And then we will present it to you as a fait accompli. I believe that this is where we are heading. This is how a military conflict develops. This is not what we wanted to get. We don't want an effective Russian crushing force in the heart of Europe.
[LettersFromAustrailia] Voting day was like the Battle of the Mounds, or David beating Goliath - only better
Deep in Sydney’s posh enclave of Double Bay the battle of Sherbrooke Hall raged.
On Saturday, one stood against many.
Bridget alone stood for the No case against a sea of at least 8 Yes-men.
“We are one and free,” she said, holding out pamphlets, ignored by voters, out-flanked on all sides by the patronising and the privileged.
For hours in the hot sun she fought on.
The Sherbrooke Hall vote came down to Yes: 275 and No: 255 with 8 informal. “No” missed by just 20 votes. But like the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, the battle was lost but the greater war was won.
The results are a landslide victory for ordinary working Australians including many Aboriginal people such as Jacinta Nampiginpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine who said ‘No’.
It is genuinely amazing that the ‘No’ vote even won, because the Government together with large corporations spent millions promoting the ‘Yes’ campaign. Even some councils such as City of Sydney spent money on advertising ‘Yes’.
The referendum itself cost the country about $450 million, according to estimates from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) reported by the ABC.
‘Yes’ signs were everywhere, with professional printing and advertising. ‘No’ signs were few and often hand-painted.
The government and corporate class used Aboriginal people like wrapping paper to disguise the new organ of the state they wanted to create.
The Voice would not have given a greater say to Aboriginal people, it would have replaced their actual voices with a new government body populated by bureaucrats whose views the government likes.
Why couldn’t people see the actual words of the proposed change on the ballot when they voted?
Elitist enclaves voted ‘Yes’ such as the NSW seat of Wentworth. Double Bay is the electorate of wealthy Teal Allegra Spender, who attended Ascham, a private girls’ school that charges more than $42,000 per year in fees.
Warringah, north of the harbour also voted ‘Yes’ - it is the seat of Zali Steggall, another Teal.
The Teals represent the billionaire class, backed by Simon Holmes à Court, son of Australia’s first billionaire, Robert.
One Warringah ‘No’ voter told Letters From Australia that the referendum was “an attack on the citizens by the government”.
“It was an attack on the middle class, on the workers. We were at work - that’s why we weren’t at meetings. That’s why only old people were there. That’s why they called us ‘dinosaurs’,” he said.
The man was referring to journalist Ray Martin who said ‘No’ voters were “dinosaurs and dickheads” at a speech in Marrickville, Sydney, earlier in October, Radio 2GB reported.
LET’S ACTUALLY HELP REMOTE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INSTEAD
Perhaps now Australia can get on with actually helping Aboriginal people in ways that matter. Sometimes that doesn’t involve money but a change in thinking.
One way would be introducing more 99-year-leases on remote Aboriginal communities to allow individual people to have the security of tenure that comes from private property ownership.
I spent a decade in Darwin and visited six remote communities in the time I was there.
I saw the unintended consequences of separate laws for Aboriginal people. Some of the worst problems come from special rules designed to “help”.
Here is just one example.
Remote Aboriginal people can’t own anything. There’s no security of tenure to use for a loan or insurance, to start a bakery or eco-tourism business or buy a home.
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Hello TW, Fred, rantburgers. Of course, ABC is framing this as a loss for Aboriginal people even though plenty of indigenous people are celebrating the 'No' victory.
This was never going to help Aborigines, it was only ever going to replace their authentic voices with an elitist mouthpiece
Good on themm for saying No!
[American Thinker] Lindsey Graham, the bellicose South Carolina senator full of empty conservative promises and love of mass amnesty for illegal aliens, responded to the Hamas terror attacks in Israel by promptly calling for the U.S. military to attack Iran and destroy its oil refineries.
Of all the ways we could cripple Iran’s (or Joe Biden’s) financing of Hamas (forbidding Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Joe Biden from handing the world’s leading State-sponsor of terrorism billions of dollars each year would be an excellent start), Graham goes straight to the option that will see already exorbitantly high oil prices skyrocket even further. It sure is perplexing (not!) how every policy proposal coming from D.C. (regardless of nominal party affiliation) conveniently advances Klaus Schwab’s "Great Reset" agenda to make private car ownership unaffordable and windmill-powered scooter rentals slightly more appealing. Graham wants $500/barrel oil and a new "religious war" in the powder keg that is the Middle East — quite the splashy platform for winning over the hippy, Birkenstock-wearing, Earth-worshiping slice of the electorate dedicated to waging war against "people of color."
While Sean Penn and Hollywood’s other mental midgets push oil prices up with their steadfast support for death and slaughter in Ukraine, Graham will do the same with his sights set on Iran. And the "Green New Deal" cult will continue to profit from its unspoken creed: "Make War, not Love" in order to "Save the Planet."
Of course, Graham’s target audience is not American peaceniks-turned-Ukraine-war-hawks but rather American patriots willing to shed blood for their countrymen. He seeks to use patriots’ love of God and country to dupe them into fighting for higher oil prices while tap-dancing into yet another endless war with unclear mission objectives and vague definitions of victory. After a decade-plus of Obama, Biden, and Kerry propping up the Ayatollah’s Nazi State with pallets of cash and undeserved geopolitical clout, shouldn’t the Iran-appeasers be the first ones shoved to the front lines of any future conflict? Before American patriots again risk life and limb for D.C.’s deadly policies, shouldn’t those most responsible for elevating Iran’s evil regime to the nuclear club first pay the debt they owe to the rest of the world for their misguided, if not malevolent, assistance in making Khamenei’s theocratic dictatorship even more dangerous?
Fat chance of that happening. It is Washington’s errant policymakers who always march us into war with their malfeasance, but it is ordinary Americans who ultimately pay the price. While the permanent ruling class makes a fortune selling U.S. government influence to our enemies, those same Potomac princelings always find a way to hide far in the back of the pack when hostilities draw near. They cheerlead for war but witness its viciousness only on television screens from the safety of brown leather fainting couches and with the liquid courage that perpetual happy hour provides.
Eisenhower's farewell address (sometimes referred to as "Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation") was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States, delivered in a television broadcast on January 17, 1961. Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science-based public policy by what he called a "scientific-technological elite". This speech and Eisenhower's Chance for Peace speech have been called the "bookends" of his administration. WIKI
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The problem with crying wolf is that right after people stop listening, the wolf comes.
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The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has been matched in its overall corrosive impact upon the old republic as much as the Technological Academic Complex (TAC). Both feast on the money pit that is the Swamp that loots the citizenry.
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Every single thing that the government gets involved in becomed a jobs program and a revenue stream. The jobs side is used to stuff ballot boxes, the revenue is used to stuff pockets.
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Then why are so many commenters strongly on Graham's side and want a new war with Iran?
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^ Sometimes you gotta stop and shake the rock out of your boot.
More like desirous of finally finishing the old war that Iran’s Mullahs have been prosecuting since 1979. my dear. But you knew that, disingenuous old thing that you are.
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There may be plenty of reasons for a person supporting thumping Iran. Because Graham said so is not one of them.
Graham is a salesman. He makes money from wars. He makes more money if the war streches on. Quick, decisive wins are bad for business. A drawn out USA/Iran war is bad for everyone except people like Graham.
In his corner are those pushing a war to show that the WokeSA military is up to the challenge as validation, even though our Secretary of Defense thinks Air Force flies from carriers and their generals can't sit in their skirts correctly.
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The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) has been matched in its overall corrosive impact upon the old republic as much as the Technological Academic Complex (TAC).
What's the one thing they have in common? A government that has grown too large and too empowered to stop. The TAC and MIC are symptoms, not causes. The cause is the destruction of Federalism, beginning with the 16th and 17th amendments, and the death of the 9th and 10th amendments in the courts.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... has a story for every occasion. But there is one problem - somehow these stories look strange
But nothing - “people are eating,” as they say. For example, just after becoming Secretary of State, he told how his stepfather, an escaped prisoner of Auschwitz, fell to his knees when he saw an American tank and passionately exclaimed “God bless America!”
It’s a beautiful story, especially since the American tanker was black (a sort of nod to BLM), but this story is very hard to believe. If only because from Auschwitz to the place where Blinken’s stepfather could see an American tank, it was necessary to walk many hundreds of kilometers. In the territory where any burgher or bauer could hand over a Jewish boy.
But what's interesting is that in his stories, Mr. Blinken never misses a chance to kick Russia. For example, he says about his great-grandfather that he escaped from Russia from Jewish pogroms. By the way, Blinken repeated this story now, when visiting Israel.
Blinken's great-grandfather, who may have had the last name Blinken, actually lived in the Russian Empire. In the Kyiv province, in the city of Pereyaslavl. And there actually were pogroms. In general, they happened quite often in Little Russia. Only they were arranged by those whom Blinken now loves and supports very much. They were organized by the current Ukrainians.
Anti-Semitism in those territories is a long-standing and commonplace thing. He's centuries old. Read Gogol, there is a lot on this topic. And with the advent of the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, anti-Semitism became one of its cornerstones. And it remains so to this day.
Although... What am I? “They have a Jewish president!” (joke).
I am sure that Tony Blinken is well aware of the nature and history of political Ukrainian hatred towards Jews. He just knows it by heart. And they probably told him about his great-grandfather that the pogroms in Pereyaslavl were not carried out by Ryazan or Kursk men, but by the very same ones who later grabbed the trident and the yellow-blakite flag. But within the framework of current American politics, it is necessary to say that the great-grandfather “fled from pogroms in Russia,” without specifying the details.
Tony Blinken is a clinical liar. Yes, just a bastard, to be honest. Now in Israel he flaunts his Jewish origins, but in fact, he doesn’t care about the Israelis. In the end, it was the US Democratic Party that has always been extremely loyal to the Palestinian liberation movement, which includes numerous, openly terrorist groups.
And what happened in Israel, in the areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, is the result of the hypocritical, vile policy of the United States, which seemed to simultaneously support Israel, but also did everything to ensure that Arab hatred of Jews did not subside. This is understandable - it’s easier and simpler to keep the Middle East under control. True, this control is now pouring down like sand from the Negev desert.
Tony Blinken is simply the personification of this deceitful American policy, both towards Ukraine and towards Israel. Wherever Blinkens like this stick their noses in, streams of human blood flow. Under the very beautiful stories that the Blinkens tell you.
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I wonder what Tony’s grandfather would say about Tony’s Iran Powerball payout. The black tanker tale is total baloney; it did not happen short of time travel.
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He works for the State Department, and is therefore a liar. Part of the job description.
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Blinken's, Obama's and Biden's (and others) efforts to get $$ to Iran and the PA is plausibly based on the belief that the leaders of these places get hooked on the funds coming in and thus tamp down their aggression to keep the funds coming in.
A lot of Rantburgerians understand that this theory requires that the terrorists think like, say, union bigshots even though it should be obvious that terrorists think like terrorists.
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Ref #2: There is a second requirement. It's not mandatory, but it is preferred.
[Hindustan Times] Former US president Donald Trump claimed that an unnamed "they" are using cocaine to "pump" Joe Biden up for speeches after a small amount of cocaine was found during a routine security check at the White House by the secret service. Pushing the theory that the drug was "for" the current president or his son Hunter Biden, a recovering cocaine addict, Donald Trump said that Joe Biden is "a president that's on cocaine".
The cocaine found in the White House is just the tip of the iceberg, Donald Trump said, adding that the US president's speeches showed clues that he was under the influence of drugs.
"You know, you watch Joe at the beginning of his speech and he's got a little life. Not much, but he's got a little life. By the end of the speech, he's a disaster. He can't even find his way off the stage. So there's something going on there," Joe Biden said.
I think they mean Donald Trump there.
The cocaine was left at the White House for both Joe and Hunter Biden, Donald Trump said. "It's just my opinion," he continued, saying, "I think they pump him up, absolutely. And we can't have a president that's on cocaine when you're dealing with nuclear weapons and everything else ... It's very dangerous."
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They have some recipe that they think works. If this is working, normal has got to be awful. With respect to Kamala the laughing looks like gummies to me.
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Its only bizarre, Hindustan Times, if your first thought is him doing rails off of Kamela's ass. He isn't capable of doing rails anymore.
He's on something; you'll see him pre-speech and he is shuffling, then like a toddler on a sugar binge he is triple speed for about an hour, then thunk.
I'd guess he has on something which is like those soccer player bras which monitor vitals, and there is a control drip of different medications they can ping when needed.
I present as evidence: his first State of the Union speech, back when he wasn't saturated with medication.
[NYPOST] The brutal success of the Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... terror attack and the failure of Israeli intelligence rank as the biggest shocks of a horrifying week.
But not far behind are the open and chilling expressions of antisemitism in the United States and around the world.
Hordes of ignorant Americans, most of them college students who couldn’t find the Mideast on a map, played the role of Hamas stooges by skipping school and denouncing Israel.
Whether they know it not, their chanting of "from the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free" is a call for the elimination of Israel.
That puts them in sync with the charter of Hamas and makes them supporters of terrorism.
When did it become socially and morally acceptable to defend the slaughter of Jewish civilians, including children?
Is this what colleges are teaching?
Yet if they are appalled by their students, most administrators are doing a good job of concealing it.
Their reputations for spinelessness are confirmed given their sanitized expressions of sympathy for everyone "impacted."
The leader of the pack is Harvard’s new president, who churned out three statements of pure mush that managed to please no one.
The blowback from donors and potential future employers was a wake-up call from the real world.
It turns out that pushing for a second Holocaust and defending rape and torture aren’t good career moves even if you have an Ivy League degree.
Youthful ignorance is certainly no defense at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , which always treats the only Jewish state as a pariah.
It stayed true to form, warning frantically about the danger to civilians in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , but made nary a peep about dead civilians in Israel.
After all, they’re just Jews.
Fortunately, amid the distressing din and signs the whole world has gone mad, some people managed to see through the fog of war to separate good from evil.
Here are three reassuring examples of wisdom in a time of turmoil.
My favorite phrase cuts like a knife and comes from Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres.
He represents parts of The Bronx, but last week, Torres, a longtime supporter of Israel, became a voice of sanity when many in his party had their heads screwed on backward or played Chicken Little.
"There are those who are skeptical about words like ’moral clarity’ and ’evil,’ " Torres wrote on X.
"But there’s a danger of becoming so skeptical that one loses moral common sense."
’HAMAS IS EVIL’
"Hamas is evil," he added.
"Its cold-blooded murder of Israeli civilians and children is evil. Both the actor and the act must be condemned with nothing less than moral clarity."
Earlier, Torres also blasted the Democratic Socialists of America, part of the Dems’ far-left flank, which held a pro-Paleostinian rally that drew open antisemites.
It later apologized, but Torres wasn’t having it.
The apology, he wrote, was so weak it couldn’t "even be bothered to mention, much less condemn, Hamas and its mass murder of Jews."
He called the DSA "despicable, detestable, disgraceful, and disgraced."
Now that’s moral clarity!
Mayor Adams also cut through the BS with an inspired speech at a "New York Stands with Israel" rally.
Hizzoner does give a good speech.
He began by saying that when an aide, presumably Jewish, said that "we are not all right," it hit him in "my soul."
"We are not all right when Hamas believes that they are fighting on behalf of something and their destructive, despicable action they carried out," the mayor said.
"We are not all right when we still have hostages who have not come home to their family. We are not all right, and we’re not going to say we have a stiff upper lip and act like everything is fine."
"Everything is not fine. Israel has a right to defend itself."
His passion rising, Adams, speaking without notes, went on:
"Your fight is our fight. And right here in New York we have the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. This is the place that our voices must raise and cascade throughout the entire country. We will not be all right until every person responsible for this act is held accountable."
’YOU MARCHED WITH US’
The speech lasted just four minutes, but managed to cover every base, including the historic alliance between blacks and Jews.
"Your fight is my fight," the mayor said.
"That swastika not only displays the pain of antisemitism, it displays the pain of racism among African Americans."
"You marched with us with Dr. King. You stood with us with all the fights we have. And I’m saying we’re going to stand with you and stand united together."
"And we don’t have to be all right. We should be angry at what we saw."
Bravo! It was Adams at his best, and there’s a must-see video online.
The third public person who got it right is Ben Sasse, a former Republican senator from Nebraska and now the president of the University of Florida.
In the same spirit as Torres and Adams, his letter to alumni is a model of moral clarity that shames his cowardly colleagues.
He begins: "I will not tiptoe around this simple fact: What Hamas did is evil and there is no defense for terrorism. This shouldn’t be hard."
"Sadly, too many people in elite academia have been so weakened by their moral confusion that, when they see videos of raped women, hear of a beheaded baby, or learn of a grandmother murdered in her home, the first reaction of some is to ’provide context’ and try to blame the raped women, beheaded baby, or the murdered grandmother."
’SICKENING’ THINKING
"This thinking isn’t just wrong, it’s sickening. It’s dehumanizing. It is beneath people called to educate our next generation of Americans."
"In the coming days, it is possible that anti-Israel protests will come to UF’s campus. I have told our police chief and administration that this university always has two foundational commitments: We will protect our students and we will protect speech."
"This is always true: Our Constitution protects the rights of people to make abject idiots of themselves. . . . When evil raises its head, as it has in recent days, it is up to men and women of conscience and courage to draw strength from truth and commit ourselves to the work of building something better — to the work of pursuing justice and pursuing peace. That is what we aim to do through education, compassion, and truth here at the University of Florida."
Given the horrors of the last week, optimism is in short supply in the civilized world.
With Russia’s continuing war in Ukraine and now with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... pulling the terror strings, Israel and the West are entering into an extremely dangerous period.
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[ArnoldKling] I wrote the other day that I cannot hate Gazans. I have no regrets about saying that. Ordinary Gazans are not the people I hate the most.
Hamas are not the people I hate the most.
The supporters of Hamas who celebrate the atrocities they committed and thirst for more Jewish blood are worse than Hamas. But even they are not the people I hate the most.
The people I hate the most are those who say, "I condemn. . .but."
You say you condemn atrocities but you will get off the train should Israel not live up to your expectations for moral conduct during war. You were never on the train.
You say "I condemn. . .but" and then play the whataboutism card. What about "open-air prison? apartheid? occupation?"
Let’s turn around this whataboutism. Did you ever use "open-air prison" to describe a country that is surrounded on all sides by enemies who periodically have launched unprovoked wars? Did you ever use "apartheid" to describe the way that Jews were treated by Arab countries before Israel became a state? Did you ever use "occupation" while making it clear to Arabs and Muslims that it only refers to land acquired in 1967? Or did you let them indulge in drawing maps without Israel, to teach Jew-hatred to their schoolchildren, to chant "from Jordan to the sea," and to use "occupation" to refer to every square inch of land claimed by the Jewish state?
When you say "I condemn. . .but" I imagine you saying it in 1948, as Arabs launch a war of annihilation on the day that Israel declares its independence from a colonial power.
I imagine you saying it in January of 1942 as Germany conducts the Wannsee Conference, articulating the "Final Solution."
I have a dream:
That one day the Arabs and Muslims who condemn and express shame over atrocities committed in their name will outnumber those who celebrate those atrocities and express solidarity with the perpetrators.
For now, you ask only Jews to condemn or express shame over evil they have committed. You treat Arabs and Muslims with the soft bigotry of low expectations.
And you keep repeating "I condemn. . .but." Those are the words that disturb me the most.
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Some historical review - stuff we all know.
Now, the interesting part:
[PJMedia] ...And now comes the seed that leads to the current support from the left of "Palestine." In the early 1960s, the Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a "victim," a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the Palestinian cause was born.
At Anderson’s advice, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established on May 28, 1964. This is the start date of the "Palestinian cause": 1964. After the 1967 war, when Israel kept Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, the concept of the Palestinians as victims became more popular. Note that before Six-Day War, neither Egypt in Gaza, nor Jordan on the West Bank, made any attempts to establish Palestinian state.
While ultimately Egypt made a land-for-peace deal with Israel and has kept that peace, the other nations refused to do the same. "Palestine" has always, and continues today, to define itself as "from the River" (Jordan) to the Sea (Mediterranean) and refuses to accept the State of Israel as a neighbor. The Arab schoolbooks in Gaza, the West Bank, and many Arab nations do not even include Israel in their maps as taught to children in 2023.
As for Gaza? In 2005, the Israelis, in their eternal quest for peace, gave self-governance to the people of Gaza. In 2007, the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their leadership by over 90%, and they have reelected and kept Hamas in power for these 16 years. Please do not cry for a distinction between the citizens of Gaza and Hamas, for Hamas was and has been elected by the people of Gaza for almost two decades.
"But," says the leftist that wants to destroy Israel, "the people of the region consider themselves Palestinian, and we need to act according to their self-identification based on the last few decades." So when confronted by the history that "Palestine" and "Palestinians" are made up, the response is that self-identification is the real determiner. This is beyond absurd, as we can see with a simple analogy.
We are currently being confronted with a media, supported by the same Marxist agenda, that claims that if a man self-identifies as a woman, he should be treated as a woman in all ways. Anyone with common sense realizes this is ridiculous. But as this agenda continues unchecked, more and more people are concerned about this craziness that is becoming commonly accepted.
A pig can call itself a chicken all day, but it is still a pig. Drag queens can call themselves women, but they are not. And an Arab born in Gaza is an Israeli or Gazan but not a Palestinian, no matter what the media has been pouring down our throats for decades. It is cultural suicide to allow self-identification to control the actions of the culture: be it drag queens calling themselves women or accepting "Palestine" as a historical reality.
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There's no such things as most any of the points on the rainbow alphabet compass, but the left is intent on tearing society apart with celebrations and worship of them. This is just a precursor of that.
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I know that there's going to be less of them in the near future.
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This is the start date of the "Palestinian cause": 1964.
Gee, a global phenomena.
Almost like it was planned.
Wonder if it will turn out like they wanted it?
Guess they could just open the borders and let the malcontents cluster.
(JNS) Last Sunday, senior Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka told the tale of how Hamas duped Israel and the U.S. into complacency.
In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today), Baraka said, "In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ’rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join Islamic Jihad in its recent battle, [i.e., its missile assault on Israel in August 2022].
"We made them think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack."
In other words, Hamas pretended it was a credible partner for negotiations, and that the only problem was Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its Iranian-founded spin-off.
One of the frustrating aspects of Baraka’s admission is that there was nothing new about Hamas’s deception. Deception is an integral part of the jihadist doctrine, going back to the days of Muhammad. Just as important, and frustratingly, even those who are unaware of—or willfully blind to—the centrality of Islamic jihadist doctrine and beliefs for Hamas, should still have been familiar with Hamas’s tactic.
It comes right out of the PLO’s playbook.
Five days after Hamas’s slaughter of more than 1,300 Jews in southern Israel, and on the eve of his meeting Friday in Amman with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, P.A. chairman and PLO/Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas released a statement.
"We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides because they contravene morals, religion and international law."
Abbas’s statement is notable for many reasons. It doesn’t name Hamas. It draws a moral equivalence between Israel’s counterattack in Gaza and Hamas’s orgiastic rape, torture, murder, immolation and kidnapping of babies, children, women and men. And it came after five days in which Abbas and the rest of Palestinian Arab society did nothing but celebrate and defend Hamas’s atrocities while blaming Israel for the crimes against humanity Hamas conducted against its people.
In his speech on Oct. 10, President Joe Biden intimated that Hamas isn’t representative of the aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs. In his words, "Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination."
The subtext was clear. Hamas is the bad guy. The Palestinian Authority is the good guy. And if that weren’t apparent as Biden spoke, Blinken’s decision to meet with Abbas made the point explicit.
FATAH AND HAMAS
For five days, Abbas had nothing but praise for Hamas and condemnations for Israel. As Palestinian Media Watch reported, the day after Biden’s speech, Abbas issued a statement of solidarity with Hamas. On Oct. 11, Abbas promised that the P.A. will "stand by our people, the Gaza Strip will not be alone."
The PLO’s ruling Fatah faction (which Abbas also leads) gave gushing praise to Hamas. As MEMRI reported, on Oct. 9, Fatah’s Central Committee praised Hamas for its slaughter and called for national unity—that is, unity between the P.A. and Hamas.
The goal, Fatah stated, is "to rally in a real and conscious fashion around the possibility of national unity, unity in the struggle on the ground, political and diplomatic unity with all means possible to us in order to wage this campaign in a united fashion."
Fatah also called for all Palestinian Arabs to join Hamas’s jihad against Israel.
"The public must answer calls to confront and stand up to the aggression and crimes in Gaza and the West Bank and to escalate all the conflict zones with the occupier [Israel] throughout our homeland Palestine, in order to defend our people and stand with our residents in the Gaza Strip."
Fatah’s terror franchise, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, posted Koranic calls to jihad on its Telegram pages that are indistinguishable from Hamas’s propaganda. Quoting the verse from the Koran calling for the annihilation of all Jews that Hamas uses in its charter, Fatah exhorted, "Strike the sons of apes and pigs ... slaughter everyone who is Israeli."
Following along the lines of "diplomatic unity" that the Fatah Central Committee called for, the P.A. is serving as Hamas’s foreign ministry. On Tuesday, its U.N. ambassador Riyad Mansour wrote a letter to the Security Council accusing Israel of carrying out "war crimes," and called its decision to stop providing Gaza with free water and electricity "nothing less than genocidal."
On the ground in the Palestinian Authority, the crowds greeted the news of Hamas’s atrocities with jubilation. Celebrations, victory marches and public parties were held from northern Samaria to the South Hebron Hills. Palestinianb Aras mocked the Jewish victims on their social media accounts and celebrated their mass murder. In Huwara in Samaria, a pizzeria posted an advertisement featuring a Holocaust survivor grandmother who is now a hostage in Gaza, holding a pizza. (It was destroyed by the IDF, ed.)
SUFFICIENT TO CONVINCE BLINKEN
The fakery of Abbas’s milquetoast condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities is self-evident when seen in the context of his actions and statements and those of the P.A., PLO, Fatah and the Palestinian Arab public. But it was clearly sufficient to convince Blinken that it is reasonable to meet with him and continue to base U.S. policy on the fiction that the P.A. represents a moderate force within Palestinian Arab society that is willing to peacefully coexist with the Jewish state.
Abbas’s lies and deceptions are his modus operandi just as they were the modus operandi of his predecessor Yassir Arafat and their comrades in the PLO and Hamas. It is a testament to Abbas’s confidence, and his contempt for the U.S., that he felt strong enough not to bother with a full-throated fake condemnation of Hamas.
In the P.A.’s early days in the 1990s, Arafat would routinely condemn Hamas terror attacks against Israel in English and then call for the Palestinian Arabs to slaughter the Jews through jihad in Arabic. Just months after the P.A. was formed in Gaza and Jericho in 1994, Arafat sent his security chief Mohammed Dahlan to negotiate a cooperation pact with Hamas. The deal that was forged gave Hamas a free hand to slaughter Jews so long as the PLO wasn’t implicated.
At the same time, Dahlan was the head of the PLO’s negotiations team on military affairs with Israel. He charmed his Israeli interlocutors by speaking to them in the pigeon Hebrew he learned in Israeli prison, where he was jailed on terrorism convictions in the 1980s. They viewed Dahlan as a moderate, as the tough guy who would take out Hamas for Israel. Dahlan smoked cigarettes with IDF generals at the same time that he closed a cooperation deal with Hamas terror master Mohammed Deif.
In times of calm, Hamas and the P.A. operated separately. And U.S.-funded and trained P.A. security services gave Israel valuable intelligence that led to the break-up of many Hamas cells. But in times of terror offensives, they worked together. The most murderous terror group that operated during the 2000-2004 Palestinian terror war (aka the Second Intifada) was the so-called "Popular Resistance Committees." It was composed of terrorists from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Now they call them Joint Commands in Gaza, and the Lions something-or-other in the West Bank — united in effort, regardless of the name on the t-shirt.
Hamas’s pretend separation from Islamic Jihad, and its use of Islamic Jihad to persuade Israel and the U.S. that it had moderated, was the same trick.
THE LIE OF PALESTINIAN MODERATION
Israel and the U.S. have refused to acknowledge that they have been played by the P.A. the same way they were played by Hamas for the past two years, and Hamas was able to deceive Israel and the U.S. for two years because they wanted to be deceived. Israel’s generals wanted to believe that the Palestinian Arabs aren’t implacable foes. They can be appeased. We don’t have to defeat them.
And the Biden administration, like most of its predecessors, wanted to believe the deception—and to still believe it in the P.A.’s case—because they want to believe that Israel is to blame for the violence waged against it. The lie of Israeli culpability is the foundation of 50 years of U.S. Middle East peacemaking efforts. The lie of Palestinian Arab moderation is the rationale for 50 years of near-continuous U.S. pressure on Israel to concede territory to the Palestinian Arabs. It has been the justification and rationale for the U.S. opposition to any effort by Israel to defeat the PLO on the battlefield.
The constant assertion "There is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel" is predicated on the notion that there is a political solution. There IS a political solution - Arab countries should take their own back.
[American Greatness] One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.
More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.
But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.
Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.
Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.
Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza.
These monies were channeled to tunnel into Israel, to obtain a huge rocket arsenal, and to craft plans to wipe out Jews.
The Biden administration has blood on its hands.
As soon as Biden took power, he resumed massive subsidies to radical Palestinians, canceled by the prior Trump administration.
He ignored warnings from his own state Department that such fungible moneys would soon fuel Hamas terrorism.
[IsraelTimes] .... I am beginning to understand that my jihad, like Israel's, is a lifelong undertaking. My struggle is Israel's struggle; our struggle is our compass, our true north, our true religion.
As an observant pluralist Muslim who rejects all forms of Islamism; radical Islam; whether nonviolent or not, I remain on a personal crusade to delegitimize every Islamist who claims to speak for me, who claims to speak for Islam, who dares injure or slay any of God's viceregents on earth; my fellow mankind.
Atrocities committed against the Jewish people are atrocities committed against me; atrocities committed against Israelis are atrocities against me; atrocities against all of humanity.
----------------------------------- I've seen a few opinion pieces like this from Muslims but none of them are clerics Qanta Ahmed, MD, is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a life member, Council on Foreign Relations and an Honorary Fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is the author of 'In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom'
She’s both British and American, as it turns out. Born a Pakistani-Brit and now a dual citizen American, medical professor and prolific columnist Qanta Ahmed sees the world through the lens of anti-Islamism and “accidental Zionism”. Her articles and appearances are archived at www.qantaahmed.com.
Yahya Sinwar, 60, is the current leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip: IDF spokesman Richard Hecht said he was the Palestinian version of Bin Laden Is he of Saudi origin?
He has been arrested by Israel multiple times and spent 24 years in prison: He was released by Israel in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011
Hecht said Sinwar was 'the face of evil' and vowed that Israel's armed forces will not rest until he was killed
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[RIA] In Brussels, whose grandees of the executive (European Commission head von der Leyen) and legislative (Speaker of the European Parliament Metsola) authorities went to Israel the day before, are constantly trying, as they say there, to choose “the right side of history.” Attempts almost always fail because the “right side of history” is constantly changing. Depending on the European elite’s own business interests and relations, and on how the position of the European Union is viewed from the other side of the Atlantic.
The modern Western European political bloc was conceived by the founding fathers in order to eliminate the possibility of military conflicts both on the continent itself and on a global scale, and to avoid the temptation to become one of the parties to the conflict.
The role of a lightning rod, a scarecrow - and part-time "bad guy" - was played by the USSR . They bought resources from the “bad Russians”, but fought with us ideologically.
As soon as the “Red Project” ceased to exist, the EU was at a loss - the enemy was defeated, there was no other of the same scale, but, having looked around the continent and decided that now it was necessary to fight with the “remaining Soviet influence,” the Brussels began to rock the Balkans . They rocked up to the civil war in Yugoslavia and the disappearance of a country called the SFRY. And they became quiet for a while. The source of tension - with the help of Russia , among other things - in the Balkans was at least defused.
At the same time, responsible Israeli politicians concluded an agreement with the Palestinians, which went down in history as the Oslo Accords. The main idea of the document was the principle of peace in exchange for territory, as well as a declaration of commitment to the UN two-state resolution.
A Middle East that is at least superficially pacified is a death sentence for the business interests of those who make money from chaos. It was necessary to bring the situation to a bloody absolute, and it was necessary urgently. Two years after the signing of the agreements with Palestine, one of the architects of the peace process, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated. And even earlier, knowing that peace negotiations through Norwegian mediators had begun, those who did not agree with Rabin began to flirt with the other side, also representing the Palestinians, but, unlike Arafat, fanatically religious. Then this movement received the name Hamas.
European politicians, who then still retained at least a semblance of independence in foreign policy, actively supported Palestine, the one represented by Arafat and his Fatah movement, financially. Out of a sense of self-preservation, first of all, since both the votes of the Muslim population in the elections and the supply of oil and gas mattered. By skillfully maneuvering, the grandmasters of the Old World managed to maintain a balance of likes and dislikes. Although accusations of “European anti-Semitism” were heard from time to time, in discussions – open and closed – it was possible to find a compromise.
But those sitting in front of the black and white checkered board and moving the pieces on it had no idea that their Atlantic partners preferred crowbar blows to all “Sicilian defenses”. So that your own costs are minimal, and the blood of others is shed to the maximum. Because it's easier to do business this way. The main thing is to choose the right moment. And accurately calculate the blow. In fact, the entire foreign policy of the EU’s American partners boiled down to endless violence— Washington has no other way.
The current round of the crisis in the Middle East has forced the European bloc to retreat - so far in words - even from attempts at peacemaking, which requires maintaining relations with Palestine. Brussels turned a blind eye to the fact that the US allied obligations towards Israel were not fulfilled. Although where, if not in this decision-making center, is it well known that the American NSA is listening to the entire planet, and even for them, who are thoroughly loyal to Washington, it is difficult to exclude that for some reason the US National Security Agency did not listen to those whom it considered military and Hamas political leaders.
And she did not report the wiretapping data to the Israeli authorities.
In the same way, it is difficult to imagine that Washington does not understand that the European Union, with its fairly large Jewish and Muslim communities,
...there are possibly as many as 759,000 Jews plus those related by marriage and descent but not members of the Jewish community in the EU, compared to a total EU population of 448 million. But to be fair, only America and Israel have more. The EU has perhaps 27 million Moslems...
and even taking into account a possible new wave of refugees, could simply be torn apart from within. And this danger is no less significant than the shortage of the same petroleum products, if and when the oil-producing countries of the Arab East impose an embargo on the EU for, so to speak, a change in geopolitical orientation.
In the event of an even greater aggravation of the situation and even greater casualties and blood, America can very easily make a scapegoat from the EU .
We have seen how this happens: Washington has accumulated sufficient experience.
Yes, so far this looks like a frightening hypothesis. But the assumption that Hamas would kill more than a thousand Israelis and take hundreds hostage seemed just as incredible just a week ago. Therefore, Europe, which once knew how to show miracles of diplomatic resourcefulness, apparently should prepare for the development of events within the bloc itself according to the worst - if not the worst - of scenarios.
From the V Kontakte page of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots
In addition to the expansion of the geography of attacks, there are other features that were not present in the first days of the Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... attack on Israel.
What is the situation in Israel at the moment?
There are no critical changes in Israeli control over the territory. IDF ground forces are amassing behind the Meitar-Beersheba line and are not attempting to penetrate closer to the borders of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, staying 35 km away from the Paleostinian enclave. At the moment, the IDF does not control the gray zone with an area of 1.3 thousand square meters. km. Israeli security forces in this zone are either not present at all or are limited to military aircraft flights and rare groups of light equipment.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... this presence may soon fade away: over the past 48 hours, Hamas attempts to shoot down Israeli Air Force F-16 fighters have been reported several times. The use of IDF AH-64 helicopters after a series of short attacks on Paleostinian infantry was also significantly reduced due to the use of MANPADS.
Where is the Israeli army now?
While the IDF is amassing troops for an attack, Hamas is preparing to take the fighting to the ground, while simultaneously taking asymmetrical measures. One of these measures was the recent shelling of the city of Beit Shemesh, 50 km from the Gaza Strip. For the strike, Hamas used both short-range missiles and longer-range systems of its own production. The profile of the missile attack was built according to the classic principle for military operations: the first echelon was launched by inexpensive missiles, then, when the Iron Dome air defense system intercepted some of them, a second wave of missiles was launched. At the same time, the Israeli Ground Forces are already faced with isolated cases of drone attacks.
Presumably, on October 12 and 13, in the vicinity of the Hatzerim airbase, as well as near the city of Ofakim, Israeli patrols were attacked by Hamas drones with drops. One of these drones destroyed an Israeli Merkava Mk.4 tank on the first day of the attack.
In the same way, patrols were attacked in the Netivot-Tkuma area, and in the Ruhama area, an Israeli patrol was attacked by Zouari loitering munitions. It is noteworthy that in the northern part, on the border with Ashdod and Sderot, Hamas uses both ground mobile groups and underground tunnels for attacks and fire attacks on Israeli security forces.
Where is this going?
The first cases of drones being used on Israeli patrols indicate several important things. This suggests that the IDF has not yet bothered to deploy effective electronic warfare systems. A significant part of the suppressors on Israeli equipment were designed to protect against radio-controlled bombs, but Hamas practically does not use them, and all destruction of military equipment and vehicles was carried out either by anti-tank systems or in the air using quadcopters and drones.
At the same time, the Paleostinians are clearly relying on the use of drones not only for strikes, but also for adjusting fire: along with kamikaze drones, the activity of aircraft-type UAVs is recorded, from which Hamas operators receive real-time images and data on the activity of Israeli troops. The very fact of the widespread use of drones by Paleostinians suggests that the IDF does not take this threat seriously.
In addition, Hamas is gradually moving towards widespread tactics of mixed strikes and the use of long-range rockets (150 km or more). So far, these threats have been partially countered by Israeli air defense forces, but as attacks scale up, the IDF may have difficulty repelling them.
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Hamas has a new tactic called being a bullet sponge. It is possible to predict future Hamas tactics by fishing around in the entrails of their fighters with a stick.
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