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-Great Cultural Revolution
Anti-Semitism thrives on lies filling in the gaps created by ignorance
[TheNewNeo] Here’s Douglas Murray:

"Maybe if we come up with a perfect argument," he said. "Maybe if we inform people about the history, and broadly speaking, you’re talking about trying to educate or inform people who are not educated or informed."

Most anti-Israel people aren’t informed about the Peel Commission or the Balfour Declaration, according to Murray. "You’re talking about people who have never heard of any of these things," he said.

The Peel Commission and Balfour Declaration are esoteric knowledge compared to what most people are ignorant about. I’ve previously told the story of a well-educated person I talked to around 2005, a woman a few years older than I am, who did not know that immediately after the state of Israel was created, the Arab world declared war on it and Israel won that war. She knew literally nothing about how Israel was created, and yet she bought every bit of Palestinian propaganda. In her case, she was a follower and admirer of Edward Said. In the case of many other people I know, ignorance is also usually involved, although they’re not all quite as ignorant as she was.

It’s also significant that when I discovered how little that acquaintance of mine knew, I offered to send her a link or two on the subject. She readily acquiesced. But I never heard back from her and I doubt she read what I sent, even though it wasn’t long. People are usually quite dug in in their beliefs.

Murray also says:

Asked why there is so much antisemitism in Europe, Murray replied that many are "working out to have some kind of guilt complex, which ends up attacking the victim."

"It is a desire so deep down, they probably could never identify it even after years of therapy—to blame the Jews and accuse them of the same thing done to the Jews," Murray said.

Much more at the link.
This idea of lies and propaganda filling in the gaps created by ignorance is something I’ve pondered many, many times. In the twenty years since I had that conversation with that acquaintance of mine, the education system and the left have made sure that the young people coming up are even more ignorant than before, and the MSM helps to fill their heads with leftist-approved lies. Anti-semitism is only one aspect of this, because the ignorance affects an enormous number of topics and creates an enormous amount of opportunity for the left.
Personally I believe anti-semitism serves a deep emotional need. Falling societies need scapegoats. And since one is not allowed to be "racist", or "Islamophobic", or "male chauvinist pig"...
Except that Jew-hate precedes modern hypersensibility by 2.5 millennia, going back to the ancient Greeks, who could not abide challenge of the equally universalist but centrally monotheistic worldview of the Jews.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [33 views] Top|| File under:

#1  3.5 and Egyptians, TW (G*d bless Dimona mushroom growers!).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/10/2024 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  "model legislation". Someone had to take a stand and cheers to SD for being the first!

Posted by: Thrineck Cheagum3082 || 03/10/2024 0:23 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
While we scrimp on defence China prepares for war with everything from a huge nuclear arsenal to a vast, mysterious network of bunkers its population could use to survive an all-out atomic conflict
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Superpower China is running out of steam. As delegates from across the vast country assembled last week for the National People's Congress [NPC], the Communist Party's rubber-stamp parliament, Beijing's economic resurgence is in trouble.

The global recession triggered by the pandemic has hit China harder than almost anywhere else. World demand for its products, from high-end electronics to cheap plasticware, has slumped.

Investors have pulled out as supply chains are 'de-risked' to reduce dependence on Chinese imports. And many factories have been caught out by over-production and left with massive stocks that can't be sold.

Population decline means Beijing's astonishingly ambitious national building schemes, with entire cities of skyscrapers springing up where villages once stood, will not now be needed. With millions of new-build homes standing empty, property prices have crashed.

Meanwhile, thanks to the fluctuations of a market economy, China's once-booming middle classes are experiencing a mass recession and trying to cope with a cost-of-living crisis – something this country has not suffered in living memory.

Married couples have responded by deciding not to have children, a trend that only exacerbates China's OAP problem. In ten years, China will have more pensioners than there are people in the US – and since the state pension is negligible, they will be largely reliant on personal savings.

But because the Chinese love to gamble, broad swathes of the middle classes invest their nest eggs in the stock market... and this too has taken a battering recently.

Any one of these factors alone might not have been catastrophic. China's economy – for which its leaders are targeting an optimistic 5 per cent growth this year – was predicted until recently to overtake the US to become the world's wealthiest country, and the dominant force of the 21st Century.

Its economy might have withstood a global downturn, a lockdown, a demographic shift or a property slump. But all these things together could prove overwhelming.

Already the signs from the NPC point to uncertainty and rising panic. The event, a bogus parliamentary session to confirm what the ruling Communist Party has already decided, brings together the various ethnic groups, from Han Chinese to Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Manchurians and others.

Official photographs depicted smiling representatives in ethnic costumes. But, in an unexpected move, Chinese and foreign reporters were told there would be no press conference by the Premier at the close of proceedings – for the first time in three decades.

Since 1993, this question-and-answer session has been broadcast live, treated as an important shop window to attract overseas trade. It was traditionally headed by the Premier, China's deputy leader under the President, who wields dictatorial power.

Last year, current Premier Li Qiang took the questions for the first time, but his decision not to do so again is being portrayed as 'an act of loyalty' to President Xi Jinping.

The reality is that it signals an even greater transfer of power to the autocratic head of state and a shift to a more insular economy. China has decided, it appears, to pay less lip service to the rest of the world.

One major source of economic strength continues to thrive, however: China's military machine. Opening the NPC on Tuesday, Li said defence spending will increase by 7.2 per cent this year. Beijing excels at taking the long-term view and Xi will see two advantages in pouring state wealth into defence.

First, all of that money will be spent in China, creating jobs and improving living standards. Second, China's international clout will be increased by its burgeoning army, navy and missile arsenals – at a time when most of the West, not least Britain, is scrimping on its defence spending.

The US cannot match the pace of building in the shipyards of Shanghai, which have already turned out two new aircraft carriers with a third expected to begin sea trials soon.

The latest vessel, the Fujian, features catapults to launch heavy, fixed-wing aircraft with immense bomb payloads. These shipyards are also building a new type of amphibious assault vessel, and many roll-on, roll-off ferries, which could have a dual purpose – transporting cars in peacetime, and armoured assault vehicles in the event of an attack on a neighbour, such as Taiwan.

While the West has been scaling back its military spending in favour of welfare and healthcare, China has been building artificial islands as naval bases and airfields. Less obvious but more ominous, it has also been digging a vast network of tunnels and bunkers that make the Hamas warrens in Gaza look like holes scooped by children in a sandpit.

The Chinese tunnels stretch for hundreds of miles and their plans are so closely guarded that Western intelligence agencies have little idea what is down there.

Domestic spies in the pay of the West, who have attempted to smuggle out information, have been caught and executed.

Most alarming of all is the build-up of nuclear missiles. Throughout the Cold War, though China has been a nuclear power from the mid-1960s, its atomic arsenal was limited. By the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the People's Liberation Army had only 30 or 40 long-range nuclear missiles – because that, it believed, was more than enough. As President Deng Xiaoping chillingly taunted American journalists: 'How many Los Angeles can you afford to lose?'

That policy has changed. More than 100 nuclear missiles with multiple warheads have already been built and armed, with production expected to exceed 500 by the end of this decade, if not sooner.

The obvious implication is that President Xi is willing to use them as a threat, most probably against America, to increase China's influence and ward off US intervention. But that also implies Beijing is prepared, if necessary, to provoke armageddon.

Could it be that, thanks to the mysterious underworld of tunnels and bunkers, Xi thinks that some remnant of Chinese civilisation could survive all-out nuclear war?

Taiwan could be his immediate target. China has always refused to recognise this island state's independence. Invasion and overthrow would be a massive military undertaking, one made much easier if America could be cowed into inaction.

Beijing could confront US President Joe Biden with a harsh choice in the run-up to November's election: stand up to China and face grim military and economic consequences, or back off from confrontation and see America's world role weaken dramatically.

Military body-building also gives China greater influence over Russia's gangster government and its other huge neighbour, India. Both Russia and Iran need to sell their sanctioned oil and gas to China, which uses their raw materials to stay independent of the US and its energy allies.

Such a dramatic change of direction, turning away from the outside world and stoking the industrial military complex, is possible because Chinese society is essentially obedient to its leaders. Their middle class does not share the tradition of liberty, democracy and freedom of choice that is second nature in the West.

China's cities are so highly technological that every individual is watched and tracked, as a matter of course.

Break even a minor rule in remote Xinjiang or central Nanjing, such as crossing the road without waiting for a green light, and your face can be flashed up on to an electronic billboard for all to see – along with your name and ID number. That's a powerful incentive to obey the authorities – so is the traumatic memory of genocidal and chaotic slaughter under the Communist Party's first dictator, Chairman Mao.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/10/2024 01:35 || Comments || Link || [59 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  China prepares for war with everything from a huge nuclear arsenal to a vast, mysterious network of bunkers its population could use to survive an all-out atomic conflict

IMO, these are preparations for the war with Russia. For war with USA, China just buys American opinion makers to promote DEI in US military.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/10/2024 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ good bet. Visions of the Mongol Yuan empire dance through their heads.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/10/2024 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Ref #1: Agree, why go to war with an economic ally and cash cow ?

Off to Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, and Target this afternoon. Do you want me to pick up anything ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2024 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Targeting in China has got to be a problem. They have entire cities with no one living in them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/10/2024 15:02 Comments || Top||

#5  This is like the run up to WWII between the US and Japan except this time we are the country with lousy supply lines and inadequate manufacturing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/10/2024 18:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Vigilant Fox: Tucker Carlson, "They're Going to STEAL the Election"
[TCN via Gateway] "And we know they’re going to steal the election because they’re now saying so out loud."

Carlson declared, "Joe Biden can’t win in a fair election. Joe Biden will lose in November. He cannot win. That’s the thing that nobody in any media wants to say out loud. In a fair election, Joe Biden cannot win."

He highlighted that media pundits like Chris Hayes are gaslighting the public by saying things like "Joe Biden is good at politics." But Carlson contested how Joe Biden can be "good at politics" when Trump is crushing him in the polls.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2024 09:06 || Comments || Link || [47 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "And we know they’re going to steal the election because.....

Likely the game plan for many years. It's worked for decades, might as well try it again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Obvious to anyone that has been paying attention.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/10/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I should have put my #11 here instead.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/10/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember when Brrrnie was booted for Hillary!

Biden collected more votes than Barry the Savoir?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/10/2024 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Duh?
Posted by: Phuth Turkeyneck6614 || 03/10/2024 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Gateway - Repeal of Ranked-Choice Voting Makes Ballot in Alaska
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2024 14:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course they'll going for the steal. This time it will be all but impossible to cover up except for the usual koolaid drinkers who don't care as they have already othered us. Their attitude will be 'so what', 'what are you going to do about it'. When they say "Trump will end democracy" what they avoid so far is to say further "cause it will force us to execute a coup to retain power".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/10/2024 17:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Elections in America are mostly organized and run by county. It is worth getting interested in how things are run within your county. The Precinct Project and other grassroots orgs are worth supporting.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/10/2024 18:29 Comments || Top||


Trump's Brilliant Move to Host Viktor Orban at Mar-a-Lago
[Townhall] Now in general election mode, former President Donald J. Trump is playing three-dimensional chess against a sitting president who can barely manage to play checkers as his controlling staff shouts out which pieces to move.

Former President Trump just demonstrated his mastery of campaign tactics, geo-political implications, and winning domestic policy by inviting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Mar-a-Lago this past Friday for a wide-ranging meeting.

In one fell swoop Trump sent a strong signal to our allies and adversaries alike; fired a shot across the bow of the failing White House, Biden campaign, and the Deep State; gave the impression to the American people that he is already on par with — or ahead of — their current president; and struck a populist message around the world with those yearning for the rule of law, sovereign borders, legal and controlled immigration, and national and economic security.

While many -- to all -- on the left and in the liberal corrupt media dislike Prime Minister Orban — a badge of honor for him — those in and out of his country who do care about sovereign and protected borders, legal and controlled immigration, the rule of law, personal safety, and the need for a national identity believe him to be an exceptional leader. A view former President Trump not only shares but loudly echoed from Mar-a-Lago when he said: "There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban. He’s fantastic..."

Prime Minister Orban then not only thanked former President Trump but also did something that infuriated those controlling President Biden. He endorsed Trump.

Posted the Prime Minister in part after the meeting: "It was a pleasure to visit President [Donald Trump] today. We need leaders in the world who are respected and can bring peace. He is one of them! Come back and bring us peace, Mr. President!"
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#1  Orban is one of the few sane men of Europe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/10/2024 3:13 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden and the war on truth
[THESPECTATOR] I had been told that Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
, the president of the United States, would be delivering the 2024 State of the Union Address on Thursday, March 7. As it happened, he didn’t. Instead, he indulged in a surreal, medically enhanced species of primal scream therapy. This was laced with liberal dollops of what Freudians call "projection," accusing his political opponents of stifling democracy when everyone outside the orbit of the state propaganda machine knows that the surveillance apparatus over which Biden presides — ex officio, at least — is a self-perpetuating machine for extinguishing democracy and its prime nutrient, frank commitment to the truth.

It was a truly bizarre performance in which the angry, semi-coherent maunderings of an angry old man again and again collided with the irrefragable wall of mundane, historical fact. The collision was dissonant. The compliant, poodle media obviously got the memo that the speech was to be described as "fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
." I hope that the PR genius who came up with that adjective as a synonym for "partisan incontinent hectoring" gets a bonus. He deserves one. But the rest of the world was appalled by the spectacle. (It saddens me to acknowledge that Senator Katie Britt’s ASMR response to this mess was less angry, though no less surreal than the original.)

Biden’s speech focused on two things: 1) perpetuating and extending the war in Ukraine and 2) fantasizing about the non-existent policy achievements of his administration while simultaneously castigating Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
and all his works. About the State of the Union, Biden had almost nothing to say.

I did not see this performance live because, such are the workings of providence, I attended the inaugural Samizdat awards gala sponsored by the RealClear Media Fund. The conjunction of the two events was revelatory.

At the gala, the journalists Miranda Divine and Matt Taibbi, together with the epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, were honored for their courageous truth-telling about Hunter Biden’s laptop, government censorship of social media and Covid. No one reading this column needs a primer about their important work.

What was arresting was the inauguration of a "Samizdat Prize" at a moment when the chief megaphone of the state affirmed that something like "samizdat" — the covert, "self-published" literature that helped unseal the Soviet Union — would henceforth be required if the truth would be allowed to circulate in the United States. "Samizdat" was necessary for the truth in a Stalinist regime. It may just be necessary in the increasingly totalitarian regime of the ruling class the United States.

Reflecting on this reality, Matt Taibbi noted two things. First, when the New York Post published their first exposé of Hunter Biden’s laptop on the run-up to the 2020 election, left-wing social media administrators, eager to assure Biden’s election, went all in on trying to suppress the story. For the first time, Taibbi observed, Twitter and Facebook experimented with "disappearing a major political story in the middle of an election year."

Not only did both platforms suppress the story, but as I later found in internal correspondence, Twitter used tools previously reserved for child pornography to prevent individuals from sharing the story in direct messages — the digital version of a Cheka agent intercepting that copy of a Solzhenitsyn or Voinovich story before one person could hand it to another.

Taibbi’s second point underscores the larger political point and shows why "samizdat" is not a hyperbolic term for our burgeoning neo-totalitarian dispensation. "Then Trump came along and destroyed the whole system with one stroke," Taibbi notes,

getting elected in spite of the blunt disapproval of media. His single Twitter account allowed him to bypass the press and speak to people directly. When that worked, and similar episodes like Brexit caused panic abroad, governments decided to take the anarchic potential of the Internet and turn it on its head. What was something like the "Self-publish" culture of the Soviet Union suddenly became, as we saw in the Twitter Files, an instrument of surveillance and social control.

"An instrument of surveillance and social control." That’s where we are, isn’t it? It has been widely reported that Steve Nikoui, father of Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, killed in Afghanistan during the catastrophe of Biden’s disastrous withdrawal, was arrested for heckling Biden during the State of the Union address.

Arrested for heckling. That’s what they do if someone heckles a dictator, right? Why, yes, it is.
Posted by: Fred || 03/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Joe Biden or “the White House”, Skidmark?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/10/2024 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3  'An undocumented person. I shouldn't have used illegal, it’s undocumented,' the president continued.

Biden #3
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/10/2024 13:40 Comments || Top||


'Loser's speech about chips.' What Biden said in his State of the Union address
Direct Translation via Google Translation. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan

[REGNUM] US President Joseph Biden delivered the State of the Union Address, the annual speech in which the head of state is expected to tell the country and the world about the state of affairs in the United States. Actually, the literal translation of this message - State of the Union, or “the state of affairs in the Union” (that is, in the USA) - is conducive to this.

He approached this speech, to put it mildly, not with the best ratings. As The New York Post correctly wrote, a loser. Only 39% of Americans generally approve of his job performance, while 56% believe he is not doing a good job. The share of Americans who believe the country is moving in the right direction under Biden is even smaller—only 23%. And 67% of citizens are sure that it is wrong.

With numbers like these, it's no surprise that Biden's electoral prospects look bleak. Based on current sociology, Trump wins most of the disputed states and eventually gains 293 electors (versus Biden’s 245). And this is even before the debates, before the open election campaign, the pace of which the current head of state may simply not be able to withstand.

That is why in his address to the nation - in fact, a grandiose election speech that the whole country will definitely watch or read - Joseph Biden tried to somehow play out the situation.

First, to show the population that the country and the world are at a critical point. Biden directly compared himself to Franklin Roosevelt, who “at an unprecedented moment for the United States” addressed the nation in January 1941. "Roosevelt's goal then was to wake up Congress and warn the American people... that freedom and democracy were under attack in the world," the president explains. And he claims that the situation is the same now and he has the same goal: “Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy in the United States been under such threat as they are now.”

And as sources of the threat, Biden named two players who, judging by his words, are either one or at least playing with four hands.

Vladimir Putin has been appointed the main foreign policy evil. And Joseph Biden dedicated the entire first part of his speech to him. The American president insists that the Russian president is “invading Ukraine, wreaking havoc throughout Europe and beyond,” and “if anyone in this room thinks that Putin will stop in Ukraine, he won’t.”

And, accordingly, through the image of Vladimir Putin, Biden demonstrates himself as a tough, decisive leader. Ready to resist the “Russian evil” to the bitter end. “My message to President Putin, whom I have known for a long time, is very simple: we will not leave. We will not bow down. I will not bow,” Biden said, apparently cosplaying as someone from House Martell.

But at the same time, he wants to appear as a reasonable, sober leader and not ready to drag the United States into a direct military conflict with Russia. “The Ukrainians are only asking for weapons, not American soldiers. In fact, there are no American soldiers in Ukraine, and I intend to make sure that there are none,” Biden said.

In his opinion, only those who do not allow these weapons to be supplied to the Ukrainians, that is, internal political evil, stand in the way. They were appointed by Republicans and specifically by former US President Donald Trump, who, according to Biden, bowed down to Putin. And whom Biden, by the way, never called by name throughout his entire speech - only “Republican President” or “my predecessor.”

And this is not a matter of resentment or fear of saying his name out loud, but of ordinary political technology. Biden's speechwriters want to show Trump as a Republican, not an American president. A predecessor whose time has passed, and not a candidate for a new term. And, finally, they strive to dehumanize him by depriving him of his name.

In fact, direct and indirect criticism of Republicans was the core of Biden’s entire speech. After all, in his opinion, they interfere not only with defeating Russia, but also with overcoming all the country’s problems - from illegal migration to reducing the number of chips in bags. Yes, Biden also talked about chips.

Unfortunately for the president, American experts and journalists were not particularly impressed with his speech. Yes, someone appreciated the punctuation in the speech. “Mr. Biden has had to defend not only his reputation and his plans, but also a worldview based on American strength and optimism. And due to his great energy—his text contained 80 exclamation points—Biden largely succeeded, ” explains The Washington Post. However, those who commented on the substance of the speech were more skeptical.

Thus, The Wall Street Journal calls Biden’s speech not the State of the Union, but the State of the Disunion (a play on words that loosely translates as “a state of division”). “In most of these speeches, the president tries, or at least pretends to try, to overcome partisan differences. This year, this was not done even on the issue of assistance to Ukraine, where Biden most of all needs the support of Republicans, ” the publication explains.

That is, instead of looking for compromises, Biden, playing out the image of an inflexible, unbending, non-surrendering president, issues ultimatums to the Republicans on each of the points. And he demands that they agree with the position of the Democrats or sign for the betrayal of the American population. “There was nothing here for Nikki Haley voters or Republicans who don’t want a second Trump term and might consider voting for Biden,” The Wall Street Journal summarizes.

Thus, by delivering a similar message to Congress, Biden may have convinced some of his toughness and determination. But in the medium and long term it did not score any political points.

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#2  Hey, if you can't trust Petey Ballgag's judgement, whose can you trust?
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/10/2024 15:05 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Tablet: The Gaza Ministry of Health Casualty Numbers Don't Add Up
A lovely little analysis, expanding on a point we keep making here at Rantburg.
[HotAir] Since Israel entered Gaza in response to the 10/7 attack by Hamas, the Gaza Ministry of Health has been putting out casualty numbers. It was big news when those figures passed 30,000 at the end of February.

...The numbers are routinely taken as factual, even though they come from a health ministry controlled by Hamas. And as mentioned, none of the dead are listed as Hamas fighters even though Hamas fighters are the primary opponents Israel is targeting.

This week, Tablet published a story written by a professor of statistics at Wharton. Abraham Wyner argues that the Hamas-approved numbers don't make sense and are almost certainly fabricated.

...One sign that something is wrong with the numbers: There seems to be no correlation between the number of women killed and the number of children.

...on the days with many women casualties there should be large numbers of children casualties, and on the days when just a few women are reported to have been killed, just a few children should be reported. This relationship can be measured and quantified by the R-square (R2 ) statistic that measures how correlated the daily casualty count for women is with the daily casualty count for children. If the numbers were real, we would expect R2 to be substantively larger than 0, tending closer to 1.0. But R2 is .017 which is statistically and substantively not different from 0.

There are other problems:

Finally, on Feb. 15, Hamas admitted to losing 6,000 of its fighters, which represents more than 20% of the total number of casualties reported.

Taken together, Hamas is reporting not only that 70% of casualties are women and children but also that 20% are fighters. This is not possible unless Israel is somehow not killing noncombatant men, or else Hamas is claiming that almost all the men in Gaza are Hamas fighters.

...For Israel's part, they claim to have killed as many as 12,000 Hamas fighters since the start of their entry into Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that troops have killed some 12,000 of Hamas’s estimated 30,000 gunmen in the Gaza Strip since war erupted on October 7, after a Qatar-based official for the terror group claimed it had lost half that number — some 6,000 fighters — during the four-month-old conflict.

Hamas is also believed to have thousands of operatives who are seriously wounded and unable to fight.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 03/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [44 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Science & Technology
Battle of the Hampton Roads - The Fury of Iron and Steam
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Who's in the News
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Sat 2024-03-09
  US military strikes anti-ship missiles and drone in Yemen
Fri 2024-03-08
  Troops arrest 34 in overnight West Bank raids
Thu 2024-03-07
  Nikki Haley officially drops out of 2024 election, challenges Trump to win back her supporters
Wed 2024-03-06
  Houthis announce strike on two US destroyers in the Red Sea
Tue 2024-03-05
  Hundreds of Feral Youth Riot at Six Flags Over Georgia
Mon 2024-03-04
  Supremes Rule on Trump's Ballot Eligibility
Sun 2024-03-03
  IDF says troops operating in Khan Younis captured dozens of Hamas operatives hiding in a school
Sat 2024-03-02
  Ship attacked by Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea
Fri 2024-03-01
  Hamas leader Sinwar said to believe his forces are on road to victory against IDF
Thu 2024-02-29
  IDF carries out airstrikes against Hezbollah posts in southern Lebanon
Wed 2024-02-28
  Mitch McConnell Stepping Down From Leadership Position
Tue 2024-02-27
  Another 10 kilometer long terror tunnel in Gaza revealed by the IDF
Mon 2024-02-26
  Gaza Corpse Count breaks 30K
Sun 2024-02-25
  Hezbollah attacks Israeli headquarters in Kiryat Shmona


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