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@CptAllenHistory - Captain Allen

In May of 1964, the #Palestine Liberation Organization (NOTE: it’s the “Palestine” Liberation Organization – meaning “from the River to the Sea” – not the “#Palestinian” Liberation Organization) was created as a new means of fighting #Israel. Suddenly – three years before the ’67 Six Day War, and for the first time in history – instead of Israel only fighting #Arab regular armies – such as those in #Jordan (which occupied the “#WestBank”) and #Egypt (which occupied “#Gaza”) – Israel also had to fight a #terrorist group calling itself a national liberation movement for “Palestine.” According to Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa (below), who was a Romanian Two-Star General in the Securitate (the secret police of the socialist republic of Romania) and who was the highest-ranking #Soviet defector to the U.S. (he defected in July 1978), the #PLO was entirely the brainchild of the notorious Soviet spy agency – the #KGB. According to Lt. Gen. Pacepa, the KBG contrived the PLO the same way it did other “national liberation movements,” such as the Bolivian National Liberation Army, to create instability and expand the Soviet sphere of influence. Lt. Gen. Pacepa also revealed the KGB, not any “Palestinian Arabs,” drafted the original Palestine National Charter and that the KGB then handpicked the 422 Arabs who would be members of the “PLO Council” to “rubber stamp” the KGB’s Charter and adopt it as its mission statement. Similarly, the KGB drafted both the Palestine National Covenant and Palestinian Constitution. Thereafter, the PLO adopted the KBG-drafted charter, which – at Article 24 – included the organization’s purpose. Article 24 specifically makes the demand for PLO control over all lands under Israeli control as of 1964, and it specifically excludes those lands already under Arab control – the “West Bank” and Gaza. If you didn’t catch the importance of that, please go back and re-read that sentence. Specifically, Article 24 states: “This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the west Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political, and financial fields.” In other words, Arabs have been saying the “occupation” began in 1948 since, well, 1948; but for some reason (“Westsplaining” – see @EinatWilf and her book The War of Return), Western governments & media continue to say the Palestinians only want the West Bank and Gaza and that those are the only two areas to which they’ve ever referred when complaining about “occupation.” Um….......nope. Just stop re-interpreting and re-wording to make Arab words fit your sensibilities, to put your own spin on it so it sounds the way you want it to sound, and simply LISTEN to what the Palestinians have said repeatedly decade after decade. Lt. Gen. Pacepa also recalled speaking with the Chairman of the KGB at the time, Yuri Andropov, about the PLO’s formation, and Andropov told him: “We need[] to instill a #Nazi-style hatred for the #Jews throughout the #Islamic world, and to turn this weapon of the emotions into a terrorist bloodbath against Israel.” The goal was to use the Islamic world as the KGB’s puppets by instilling this Nazi-style hatred for Jews into the culture to then use the weapon of emotions that would result to turn them into terrorist groups working to destabilize and ultimately doom both Israel and the U.S. According to Lt. Gen. Pacepa, about seven months later (in December 1964), the KGB hand-picked #YasserArafat to be the “Palestinian Arab” in charge of the KGB’s campaign of #disinformation (#dezinformatsiya in #Russian) in the Islamic world. The KGB personally trained #Arafat in the #SovietUnion at “its Balashikha special-ops school east of #Moscow” and decided to “groom him as the future PLO leader.” To make Arafat credible as a leader of the PLO, Lt. Gen. Pacepa revealed that the KGB invented a background story for him that would claim Arafat was born in #Jerusalem – the KGB even created false documents (such as a fake birth certificate for Arafat “proving” he was born in Jerusalem). In reality, Arafat was both born and raised in Cairo, Egypt – as his real birth certificate was later revealed to show unequivocally. As part of its training of Arafat, Lt. Gen. Pacepa revealed the “KGB also selected a ‘personal hero’ for him [Arafat] – the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini.” In fact, the PLO, via the KGB, recruited two former #Nazi instructors – Erich Altern, a leader of the #Gestapo’s Jewish affairs section & Willy Berner, an SS officer who worked in the Mauthausen Extermination Camp. Another former Nazi, Johann Schuller, also supplied arms to the related terrorist organization that ultimately merged with the PLO, #Fatah. After the major humiliation the Soviets felt after Israel’s lightning victory over Soviet-backed & Soviet-armed Arab states in the Six Day War, the KGB turned-up the pressure on the Jewish State via more disinformation campaigns & more guerrilla/terrorist tactics via its KGB-created “Palestinian freedom fighters” instead of relying solely on regular Arab armies to destroy Israel. So, on Dec 11, 1967, the KBG founded another terror group: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (#PFLP). From the very start, the PFLP openly stated it was guided by Marxism and Leninism. The PFLP’s first leaders were Wadi’ Haddad and George Habash. Habash openly and repeatedly stated he viewed the “liberation of Palestine” as an integral part of the world #Communist Revolution. The PFLP’s charter laid out its six main ideologies: (1) Communist Revolution is the People’s War; (2) Communist “national liberation movements” must use “guerrilla war” tactics to achieve their goals; (3) Revolutionary Warfare must be based on Communist Revolutionary Theory; (4) Wars of “Liberation” are “Class Wars” that are guided by Communist ideology; (5) the PFLP’s “main field” of Communist Revolution would play out in and for “Palestine”; and (6) this “Palestinian” Communist Revolution included both “West Jordan” (i.e., Israel) and “East Jordan” (i.e., present-day Jordan). The PFLP, guided by the KGB, also publicly declared its methods to achieve its goals. The PFLP would: (1) carry-out and advocate for armed #insurrection; (2) perpetrate media-oriented attacks against Israel; (3) use airplane hijackings as a means of achieving international attention for the Communist and Palestinian “cause”; and (4) use any means necessary to bring the “Palestinian cause” to the public’s attention. Plane hijackings, in fact, quickly became one of the primary means of KGB-backed Palestinian terror after the Six Day War. In 1969 alone, the PLO hijacked 82 planes. 82!!! In one year (later, after his defection to the United States, when Lt. Gen. Pacepa revealed the KGB was responsible for directing and funding PLO terrorism, including airplane hijackings, both Muammar #Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat offered $1 million each for anyone who assassinated Pacepa). Lt. Gen. Pacepa also revealed that 1969 was the year in which the KGB “asked Arafat to declare war on American ‘imperial-#Zionism’ … it appealed to him [Arafat] so much, Arafat later claimed to have invented the imperial-#Zionist battle cry. But in fact, ‘imperial-Zionism’ was a Moscow invention, a modern adaptation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and long a favorite tool of #Russian intelligence to foment ethnic hatred … The KGB always regarded #antisemitism plus anti-imperialism as a rich source of anti-Americanism.” At the same time, the KGB also launched Operation SIG (Sionistskiye Gosudarstva), which was a disinformation campaign designed to sow worldwide disapproval for the US and Israel as #racist, #imperialist, and #colonialist. Operation SIG eventually included a global clandestine disinformation campaign against Israel that involved a combination of both propaganda and direct military support to any terrorist group that would declare itself the enemy of Israel. As further revealed by Lt. Gen. Pacepa, part of Operation SIG included the KGB’s recruiting of thousands of doctors, engineers, technicians, professors and even dance instructors, who were all told to portray the U.S. as an arrogant & haughty Jewish fiefdom that was being financed by Jewish money, run by Jewish politicians, and whose goal was to subordinate the Islamic world. As for his personal role in Operation SIG, Lt. Gen. Pacepa revealed the Romanians were tasked with infiltrating #Libya, #Iran, #Lebanon, and #Syria—all countries where Romania was contributing to infrastructure—with agents who were trained in antisemitic dezinformatsiya and terrorism. Lt. Gen. Pacepa further explained that the intelligence service to which he belonged, known as the D.I.E., received an Arabic-language translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with “documentary” material “proving that the United States was a Zionist country whose aim was to transform the Islamic world into a Jewish fiefdom.” Lt. Gen. Pacepa also advised that the science of “dezinformatsiya” is a complex, long-term, and patient non-violent attack on a civilization as a whole. As Lt. Gen. Pacepa put it, “As that very clever master of deception Yuri Andropov once told me, if a good piece of disinformation is repeated over and over, after a while it will take on a life of its own and will—all by itself—generate a horde of unwitting but passionate advocates.” Operation SIG’s disinformation campaign ran from approximately 1967 to 1988; and it built and weaponized narratives based on made-up or twisted facts. It distorted history. It employed classic propaganda tools such as deception, guilt by association, and repetition to inculcate the key messages. It also shamelessly played on people’s sentiments, and it used both Soviet Jews and #Muslims as instruments of its #propaganda. Specifically, the disinformation propaganda portion of Operation SIG attempted to (and too-often succeeded in) inflaming and spreading anti-Israeli sentiments by relying on old antisemitic tropes and inventing new ones. The overall goal of the disinformation campaign of Operation SIG was to reframe the modern miracle of Israel – the first successful #decolonization campaign in history – as actually being the prime example in the world of an oppressive, imperialist state that was built unjustly and at the expense of the “native population.” In this way, Operation SIG created an alliance that included Pan-Arabists, Pan-Islamists, and Naziism by focusing on what they all had in common: their hatred for Jews, for Israel, and for #democracy. According to former #CIA Director R. James Woolsey, Lt. Gen. Pacepa helped reveal to the Americans the KGB’s tactics against Israel and the U.S., which included carefully planted false stories about prominent leaders while seeking to convince the public at large that their reported falsehoods were true (both of which, Woolsey noted, the KGB successfully carried out time and time again). As Lt. Gen. Pacepa later wrote, “By 1972, Andropov’s disinformation machinery was working around the clock to persuade the Islamic world that Israel and the United States intended to transform the rest of the world into a Zionist fiefdom.” Lt. Gen. Pacepa also wrote that Andropov told him the goal was to “whip up their illiterate, oppressed mobs to a fever pitch. Terrorism and violence against Israel and America would flow naturally from the Muslims’ antisemitic fervor.” In fact, Lt. Gen. Pacepa remained so concerned by Russian disinformation campaigns that he repeatedly warned they had become “the Bubonic Plague of our contemporary life.” Finally, as part of his warning to the Western world, Lt. Gen. Pacepa expanded on the dangers of Russian disinformation by writing: (1) #Lenin used disinformation to bring communism to life; (2) Hitler used disinformation to “rationalize” the Holocaust; (3) #Khrushchev used disinformation against the pope to “widen the gap” between #Christians and Jews; and (4) Andropov used disinformation to “turn the Islamic world against the United States and ignite[] the international terrorism that threat[ens] us today.”

@jonesville - Jason Jones

🚨BREAKING: The Iron Dome is reportedly down in Israel and a barrage of missiles has been launched from Gaza, striking residential areas in Ashkelon. Via @AFpost https://t.co/FMHyWtmhtg

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Hamas paratroopers are landing on settlers’ rooftops and armed militants have broken through Israel border gates by truck. https://t.co/PkuPEf9ujL

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Israeli Defense Forces are engaging with Palestinian resistance fighters as they roam the streets terrorizing and attacking citizens. #PrayForIsrael https://t.co/08BnsDPJl8

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Fox News correspondent @TreyYingst is on the ground in Israel: “This is an unprecedented, coordinated attack by the factions inside of Gaza.” https://t.co/RbcbOUGwEd

@jonesville - Jason Jones

@TreyYingst Update: The Iron Dome is back online and Israel is about to light up Gaza like the 4th of July

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Israeli citizens are now being called to muster a defense against the terrorist invasion. It is times such as these that we should remember the importance of the Second Amendment.

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Eerily reminiscent of what we’re seeing along our own southern border in Texas, Palestinians from Gaza are also illegally crossing Israel’s southern border. https://t.co/aN2jMqpkVB

@jonesville - Jason Jones

New reports are coming in that Palestinian gunmen wearing IDF Uniforms are now knocking on the doors of homes in southern Israel. This is going to get very ugly.

@jonesville - Jason Jones

Hamas has released an official statement, but I’m not going to share it. They don’t deserve to have their message seen by those they are calling to join them in slaughtering innocent civilians. These people are behaving like animals. I’ve seen pictures of elderly men and women shot dead in the streets and videos of Palestinians trampling the body of a dead IDF soldier. Hamas just sealed the fate of countless people who they claim to be defending. I don’t know how there can ever be a two state solution with people who behave like this. If the Palestinians were smart, they’d denounce Hamas and turn on them, but they won’t. Their hate for the Jewish people is instilled in them from a young age and it runs deep. Unfortunately, peace is the last thing they want. God have mercy on their souls.

@jonesville - Jason Jones

🚨UPDATE: The Israeli counteroffensive has officially begun in Gaza https://t.co/8ruYdgcyBK

@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer

Make no mistake. #Hamas is an Islamic terrorist group and their HAMAS Charter/ HAMAS Covenant is the document which outlines their ideology and goals. Their charter explicitly calls for the killing of Jews.

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews. And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it. What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants. What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen. There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.

@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer

There is no such thing as Palestine. It’s always been a figment of the imagination of Islamic terrorists and Jew haters. Israel belongs to the Jews . For the sake of humanity and what is righteous and good in the war on evil, Israel must level GAZA, flatten it into a parking lot, and then glass it. The one state solution doesn’t include a world or a scenario where Israelis can coexist with HAMAS ANIMALS and their sympathizers. They must be shown through IDF force that they don’t exist, and their pretend homeland doesn’t exist. We will not recognize these animals and the entire world must unite in rejecting them and denying them any sense of dignity. There is no reasoning with Islamic terrorists. Every single HAMAS terrorist and terror sympathizer must be killed by the @IDF. IDF can give 24 hours to women and children so they can evacuate, but then GAZA must be destroyed. Palestinian terror must be driven from this planet. There’s a reason why no other Islamic country in the Middle East wants the Palestinians in their country. Their entire existence revolves around hating and killing Jews. There is no peace with these people. We can’t coexist with Barbarians who teach their children to kill Jews from the time they are born. There will never be peace in the Middle East. But there is life, and Israel has a right to protect that life.

@CynicalPublius - Cynical Publius

Let me tell you the only thing you need to know about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, past, present and future: One side of the conflict wants to live peacefully with the other side, and one side of the conflict wants the other side exterminated with literally all of its citizens dead and the nation destroyed. We all know which is which.

@CynicalPublius - Cynical Publius

Here's another important fact to consider: Iran, the public benefactor of the Palestinian Authority, has an annual national holiday called "Death to America Day." Fact. Go look it up if you don't believe me.

@CynicalPublius - Cynical Publius

One more thing... if you follow me and are one of those people who thinks that "the Jooz" are the problem with everything in the world, please identify yourself in this thread so I can block you.

@Ike_Saul - Isaac Saul

People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It certainly doesn't capture mine. I have a lot to say. I’ve spent the last 72 hours writing, texting, and talking to Israelis, Jews, Muslims, and Palestinians. Much of my reaction is going to piss off people on "both sides," but I am exhausted and hurting and I do not think there is any way to discuss this situation without being radically honest about my views. So I'm going to try to say what I believe to be true the best I can. Let me start with this: It could have been me. That's a hard thought to shake when watching the videos out of Israel — the concert goers fleeing across an empty expanse, the hostages being paraded through the streets, the people shot in the head at bus stops or in their cars. I went to those parties in the desert, I rubbed shoulders with Israelis and Arabs and Jews and Muslims, I could have easily accepted an invitation to some concert near Sderot and gone without a care, only to be indiscriminately slaughtered. Or, perhaps worse, taken hostage and tortured. I don’t believe Hamas is killing Israelis to liberate themselves, nor do I believe they are doing it to make peace. They're doing this because they represent the devil on the shoulder of every oppressed Palestinian who has lost someone in this conflict. They're doing it because they want vengeance. They are evening the score, and acting on the worst of our human impulses, to respond to blood with blood — an inclination that is easy to give in to after what their people have endured. It should not be hard to understand their logic — it is only hard to accept that humans are capable of being driven to this. Not defending Hamas is a very low bar to clear. Please clear it. It’s not possible to recap the entire 5,000 year history of people fighting over this strip of land in one newsletter. There are plenty of easily accessible places you can learn about it if you want to (and, by the way, many of you should — far too many people speak on this issue with an obscene amount of ignorance, loads of arrogance, and a narrow historical lens focused on the last few decades). But I'll briefly highlight a few things that are important to me. In my opinion, the Jewish people have a legitimate historical claim to the land of Israel. Jews had already been expelled and returned and expelled again a half dozen times before the rise of the Muslim and Arab rule of the Ottoman Empire. Of course it’s messy because we Jews and Arabs and Muslims are all cousins and descendents of the same Canaanites. But Arabs won the land centuries ago the same way Israel and Jews won it in the 20th century: Through conflict and war. The British defeated the Ottoman Empire and then came the Balfour Declaration, which amounted to the British granting the area to the Jewish people, a promise they’d later try to renege on — all before the wars that have defined the region since 1948. That historical moment in the late 1940s was unique. After World War II, with many Arab and Muslim states already in existence, and after six million Jews were slaughtered, the global community felt it was important to grant the Jewish people a homeland. In a more logical or just world that homeland would have been in Europe as a kind of reparation for what the Nazis and others before them had done to the Jews, or perhaps in the Americas — like Alaska — or somewhere else. But the Jews wanted Israel, the British had taken to the Zionist movement, the British had conquered the Ottoman Empire which handed them control of the land, and America and Europe didn’t want the Jews. As a result, we got Israel. The Arab states had already rejected a partitioned Israel repeatedly before World War II and rejected it again after the Holocaust and the end of the war. They did not want to give up even a little bit of their land to a bunch of Jewish interlopers who were granted it all of a sudden by British interlopers who had arrived a hundred years prior. Who could blame them? It had been centuries since Jews lived there in large numbers, and now they wanted to return in waves as secularized Europeans. Many of us would probably react the same way. So, just as humans have done forever, they fought. The many existing Arab states turned against the burgeoning new Jewish state. One side won and one side lost. This is the brutal and broken and violent world we live in, but it is what created the global world order we have now. Are Israelis and British people "colonizers" because of this 20th century history? Sure. But that view flattens thousands of years of history and conflict, and the context of World War I and World War II. I don’t view Israelis and Brits as colonizers any more than the Assyrians or the Babylonians or the Romans or the Mongols or the Egyptians or the Ottomans who all battled over the same strip of land from as early as 800 years before Jesus’s time until now. The Jews who founded Israel just happened to have won the last big battle for it. You can’t speak about this issue in a vacuum. You can't pretend that it wasn't just 60 years ago when Israel was surrounded on all sides by Arab states who wanted to wipe them off the face of the planet. Despite the balance of power shifting this century, that threat is still a reality. And you can't talk about that without remembering the only reason the Jews were in Israel in the first place was that they'd spent the previous centuries fleeing a bunch of Europeans who also wanted to wipe them off the face of the planet. And then Hitler showed up. American partisans have a narrow view of this history, and an Americentric lens that is infuriating to witness. As Lee Fang perfectly put it, "Hamas would absolutely execute the ACAB lefties cheering on horrific violence against Israelis if they lived in Gaza & U.S. right-wingers blindly cheering on Israeli subjugation of Palestinians would rebel twice as violently if Americans were subjected to similar occupation." And yet, many Americans only view modern Israel as the "powerful" one in this dynamic. Which is true — they obviously are. It isn't a fair fight and it hasn't been for decades because Israel's government is rich and resourceful, has the backing of the United States and most of Europe, and has an incredibly powerful military. At the same time, Israeli leadership has made technological and military advancements that have further tipped those scales — all while the Israeli government has helped create a resource-thin open air prison of two million Arabs in Gaza. Conversely, Palestinians are devoid of any real unified leadership, and the Arab world is now divided on the issue of Palestine. Israel is unwilling to give the people in Gaza and the West Bank more than an inch of freedom to live. These are largely the refugees and descendents of the refugees of the 1948 and 1967 wars that Israel won. And you can't keep two million people in the condition that those in the Gaza strip live in and not expect events like this. I'm sorry to say that while the blood on the ground is fresh. The Israelis who were killed in this attack largely have nothing to do with those conditions other than being born at a time when Israel and Jews have the upper hand in this conflict. Some of the victims weren’t even Israeli — they were just tourists. This is why we describe them as “innocent” and why Hamas has only reaffirmed that they are a brutal terror organization with this attack — an organization that I hope is quickly toppled, for the sake of both the Palestinian people and the Israelis. But as someone with a deep love for Israel, with friends in danger and people I know still missing, it breaks my heart to say it but I'm saying it again because it remains perhaps the most salient point of context in a tangled mess full of centuries of context: You cannot keep two million people living in the conditions people in Gaza are living in and expect peace. You can't. And you shouldn’t. Their environment is antithetical to the human condition. Violent rebellion is guaranteed. Guaranteed. As sure as the sun rising. And the cycle of violence seems locked in to self-perpetuate, because both sides see a score to settle: 1) Israel has already responded with a vengeance, and they will continue to. Their desire for violence is not unlike Hamas’s — it’s just as much about blood for blood as any legitimate security measure. Israel will “have every right to respond with force." Toppling Hamas — a group, by the way, Israel erred in supporting — will now be the objective, and civilian death will be seen as necessary collateral damage. But Israel will also do a bunch of things they don't have a right to. They will flatten apartment buildings and kill civilians and children and many in the global community will probably cheer them on while they do it. They have already stopped the flow of water, electricity, and food to two million people, and killed dozens of civilians in their retaliatory bombings. We should never accept this, never lose sight that this horror is being inflicted on human beings. As the group B’Tselem said, “There is no justification for such crimes, whether they are committed as part of a struggle for freedom from oppression or cited as part of a war against terror.” I mourn for the innocents of Palestine just as I do for the innocents in Israel. As of late, many, many more have died on their side than Israel's. And many more Palestinians are likely to die in this spate of violence, too. Unfortunately, most people in the West only pay attention to this story when Hamas or a Palestinian in Gaza or the West Bank commits an act of violence. Palestinian citizens die regularly at the hands of the Israeli military and their plight goes largely unnoticed until they respond with violence of their own. Israel had already killed an estimated 250 Palestinians, including 47 children, this year alone. And that is just in the West Bank. 2) Every single time Israel kills someone in the name of self-defense they create a handful of new radicalized extremists who will feel justified in wanting to take an Israeli life in retribution sometime in the future. Half of Gaza’s two million people are under the age of 19 — they know little besides Hamas rule (since 2006), Israeli occupation, blockades, and rockets falling from the sky. The suffering of these innocent children born into this reality is incomprehensible to me. They will suffer more now because of Hamas’s actions and Israel’s response, all through no fault of their own. There is no way out of this pattern until one side exercises restraint or leaders on both sides find a new solution. Israelis will tell you that if Palestinians put their guns down then the war would end, but if Israel put their guns down they'd be wiped off the planet. I don't have a crystal ball and can’t tell you what is true. But what I am certain of is that every time Israel kills more innocents they engender more rage and hatred and recruit more Palestinians and Arabs to the cause against them. There is no disputing this. So, why did this happen now? I'm not sure how to answer that question except to say it was bound to happen eventually. It was a massive policy and intelligence failure and Netanyahu should pay the price politically — he is a failed leader. Iran probably helped organize the attack and the money freed up by the Biden administration's prisoner swap probably didn't help the situation, either. Israel's increasingly extremist government and settlers provoking Palestinians certainly didn't help. Nor has going to the Al-Aqsa mosque and desecrating it. Nor do blockades and bombings and indiscriminate subjugation of a whole people. Nor does refusing to talk to non-terrorist leaders in Palestine. Nor does illegally continuing to expand and steal what is left of Palestinian land, as many Jews and Israelis have been doing in the 21st century despite cries from the global community to stop. A violent response was predictable — in fact, plenty of people did predict it. Israel is forever stuffing these people into tinier and tinier boxes with fewer and fewer resources. But if you want to blame Israeli leaders for continuing to expand and settle land that does not belong to them (as I do), then you should also spare some blame for Palestinian leaders for repeatedly not accepting a partitioned Israel during the 20th century that could have led to peace (as I do). Please also remember this: Hamas is still an extremist group. The Palestinian people do not have a government or leaders who legitimately represent their interests, and it sure as hell isn't Hamas. Will some Palestinians cheer and clap at the dead, or spit on them as they are paraded through Gaza? Yes they will. And they have. Many will also mourn because they loathe Hamas and know this will only make things worse. This is no different than how some Americans cheer at the dead in every single war we've ever fought. It's no different than the Israelis who set up lawn chairs to watch their government bomb Palestine and cheer them on, too. This doesn't mean Palestinians or Israelis or Americans are evil — it means some of them are giving in to their violent impulses, and their zealous feelings of righteous vengeance. Solutions, you ask? I can’t say I have any. If you came here for that, I’m sorry. The two-state solution looks dead to me. A three-state solution makes some sense but feels out of the view of all the people who matter and could make it happen. I wish a one-state solution felt realistic — a world of Israelis and Arabs and Muslims and Jews living side by side with equal rights, fully integrated and defused of their hate, is a version of Israel that I would adore. But it seems less and less realistic with every new act of violence. Am I pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? I have no idea. I'm pro-not-killing-civilians. I'm pro-not-trapping-millions-of-people-in-open-air-prisons. I'm pro-not-shooting-grandmas-in-the-back-of-the-head. I'm pro-not-flattening-apartment-complexes. I'm pro-not-raping-women-and-taking-hostages. I'm pro-not-unjustly-imprisoning-people-without-due-process. I'm pro-freedom and pro-peace and pro- all the things we never see in this conflict anymore. Whatever this is, I want none of it.

@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson

The Late, Great Hamas Finally Got Its Wish–And . . . ? Ever since Hamas was “elected” to run Gaza, and then followed the usual “one election/one time” Middle-East formula, it has bragged nonstop that its agenda was to erase Israel off the face of the earth (cf. the wall map in the office of our Representative Tlaib). Its unabashed nihilist boasts resonated throughout the Palestinian “movement.” Its fiery threats delighted the Arab street. Indeed, Hamas was soon celebrated as the most “authentic” of the radical Palestinian terrorist movements. Which cadre of thugs could top its end-of-days rhetoric, its assured and steady supply of money and weapons from Iran, its satanic eagerness to mutilate and dismember, and the sanctuary and financial wherewithal offered to it by our “ally” Qatar? None. Since it was viewed as the most “volatile” and creepy of the Palestinian factions, and the most useful to Iran, the Obama and Biden Administrations appeased its murderers. Was it not part of their hare-brained grand strategy of empowering theocratic Iran, and its Syrian, Hezbollah, and Hamas hirelings? Their campaign (remember the “they literally know nothing” media and the Obama “echo chamber” created by a boastful Ben Rhodes?) was to forge these disparate Islamists into a crescent of resistance to Israel and any “moderate” Arab regime (recall the Obama-Biden transitory hatred of the Gulf sheikdoms). The result would be “creative tension” —as well as payback for the Israeli election of Netanyahu. Through this formula, Obama believed he could always pressure Israel to grant concessions to radical Palestinians, thanks to the looming threat of an ever menacing (and soon to be nuclear) Iran, with help from Obama’s other friends—the then Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt and his pal, the neo-Ottomanist and anti-Semite Erdogan of Turkey, Obama’s self-described personal liaison to the Islamic world. Yes, of course, this was sheer madness—if perhaps characteristic of Obama’s well-known orneriness. Perhaps someday soon, a few disinterested historians might even record that the current nightmare in Israel is the logical end-result of what Barack Obama, John Kerry (remember his Trump-era Paris reconnaissance with the Iranians?), Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Robert Malley, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, and a host of other incompetent but otherwise haughty and dangerous people once conjured up. A defiant, and empowered murderous Hamas was one of the many dividends of their appeasement and grand Middle-East schemes—given the eagerness of the Obama and Biden administrations to send hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza, despite warnings from their own experts that such cash would enhance terrorism and abet the  evil work of Hamas with an American financial stamp of legitimacy. Hence, a soon to be nuclear Iran, freed from sanctions, had enough money  (remember the nocturnal cash pallets on the Tehran tarmac?) to fund its surrogate global death squads. Hamas has killed Jewish civilians for nearly two decades, always escaping the full wrath of Israel retaliation by appealing to the amoral consciousness of leftwing European and American governments. It counted on ample help from both Iran and Arab regimes, along with Turkey, which always screams “instability” at the first sign of Israeli retaliation. The blustering Hamas has now murdered 1,000 Jews in their homes, preferring especially to gun down children, reportedly behead babies, torture the doomed, rape the helpless, execute the elderly, and brutalize women—and topping the killing off in good SS fashion by gleeful dismemberment and desecration of Jewish corpses. So, they finally got their wish for their own version of the Holocaust, for what they had always bragged would be the “final” Israel-ending war—as their cowardly elders announced last Saturday from their protected enclaves. Yes, Hamas promised their mass killing of innocents would ignite the Muslim world, incite simultaneous attacks on Israel from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and perhaps Egypt—all as their planned anniversary replay of the Yom Kippur War’s first 48 hours. And it may—or may not. The ebullient people of Gaza seemed initially enthralled at videos of mutilated Jews, and showed their zeal by spitting on hostages carried back home for supposed Roman-like triumphs before their public sacrifices. Videos of the gruesome killings of Jews were hot downloads on Gaza mobile phones. Now mutilating dead Israelis, now boasting how brave their sons were in slaying unarmed jews inside Israel, Gazans assumed a shocked Israel would capitulate. Would not its megaphones in the West characteristically protect them and restrain Israel? Could not they themselves always ensure a few thousand of their own civilians be sacrificed as expendable human shields of their missiles pads, and thus become necessary fuel for their boilerplate accusations of “war crimes” that usually curtailed Israeli retribution? But now the Israeli retaliation seems oblivious to all that. It may not be like the past incursions into Gaza that were manipulated by a cowardly Hamas to gain media sympathy for “collateral damage” that they themselves had engineered. Predictably, as Israel ramps up the air attacks and prepares for the ground assault, the global media is showing a concern for civilian collateral damage in a way it never quite did for murdered Jewish innocents and beheaded infants. Western governments are terrified of Middle East killers who may return to their previous attacks on their European citizens. After all, Western leftwing suicidal immigration policies have  ensured large unassimilated Muslim populations. Millions have fled the self-created violence and tyranny of the Middle East only to cheer it on from a safe distance in their adopted Western homelands, whose welcoming of these “refugees” is now so often reciprocated with sheer contempt for the apologetic hosts. Nonetheless, the Gaza crowds of 48 hours ago who were boasting their sons murdering with impunity and spat on bound defenseless women, are now aggrieved. But they might as well be barking at the moon about the supposed “unfairness” of the Israeli air counterattack. Among the rubble of once Hamas high-rises they are weeping for media cameras, calling on a corrupt and anti-Semitic UN for accustomed relief, threatening on spec the West with who knows what (is it now infant beheading or body dismemberment?),  and in general suddenly quite unhappy about their “final” war they just recently boasted was all but won. Will the heroic legions of Hamas who beheaded and raped now pour out in the streets to fight the IDF and push them into the sea as promised? Perhaps not? Some final thoughts: Why has Iran gone from bragging three days ago about its training and tutelage of the Hamas killers suddenly to pleading that while it is certainly delighted about the beheadings, rapes, executions, and mutilations, it technically had no actionable role in ensuring them? The truth is that a Hamas right now is alternately threatening and begging Western governments, beseeching its suddenly mum Iranian suppliers, whining that Hezbollah and the PNA have not yet sufficiently shared the bloodletting of this war, and generally railing for more jihad from a few of its increasingly so-so, nonplused Middle-Eastern sponsors. Hamas fears it may have boxed itself in, with two American aircraft carriers between it and Iran, with private satisfaction from many Arab states that their nuisance Hamas might at last have committed suicide through its mass homicide, with even fanatic supporters hard-pressed to make their “moral” case for the beheading of babies, and with a half-million IDF soldiers headed their way to deliver upon them divine justice, perhaps in the Lincolnesque Second Inaugural sense of  “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” Translated, that means for the first time in its existence an unholy Hamas may not get out of its self-created rendezvous with what it has so duly earned, given there is now no assurance of third-party relief and thus no restraint on Israel. Even a shaken and shamed Biden administration—guilty of an open border and its de facto support for Hamas and Iran, but suddenly scared of a furious election-cycle American public—may for a while not call off Israel. The arrogant but half-educated Harvard crowd, the European Islamists, the woke and pampered anti-Semites on Western campuses, the AOC socialists, the pro-Hamas Squad, the BLM chorus who cheered on the Hamas glider death attack, of course CAIR, and all the usual suspects for now are as furious as they are impotent—petulant that for once, just this once, and for a while longer at least, no one is listening to their oh so tired amoral defense of the indefensible.

@KatKanada_TM - Kat Kanada

Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Zahar: “The entire planet will be under our law; there will be no more Jews or Christian traitors.” Tell me again, how this is just about land?

@Inversionism - Inversionism

We should never stop asking the question "How was this allowed to happen?" and must always keep it in the context of what was going on in Israel before the attack with the judicial reform, protests, and calls for investigations into Netanyahu from the Israeli people. It's too conveniently timed, like PBD speculates about in this clip. The entire narrative and justifications for the indiscriminate carnage in Palestine rests on this and we cannot forget it like we did immediately after 9/11. We're getting lost in the forest fire of lies and ignoring who and what started the fire in the first place. Did the Netanyahu government seriously let his people get slaughtered because it would help him retain power? Did they let it happen to justify the now unified emergency government, which gives them the powers they were seeking before the attack? The same powers the Israeli people were staging mass protests against weeks ago? Israeli defenses let Hamas just ride or fly into their country, terrorize the street, take hostages, and leave with said hostages. No response in defense of citizens until 8+ hours after the attack according to the official timelines from MSM like the New York Times. We should all be starting to wonder if Hamas might be an intentional orchestration of intelligence agencies to fulfil it's purpose of radicalization into attacking Israel and then justifying the destruction of Gaza like we are now seeing. Just as Al Qaeda and ISIS was an orchestration of intelligence for the war on terror. We know the US Bush administration plotted to overthrow Hamas after it won the election, which was obviously in coordination with Israeli intelligence. Did it truly fail? Or was it supposed to fail? What happens after Israel fully "eliminates" Hamas? Are they going to take the land in Gaza and never give it back? Are they going to try and do elections again to install another government that hates Israel? Didn't work out the first time obviously, and the only Israeli solution right now just seems to be mass genocide. Saying the end goal is to just stop terrorism and defend yourself is a gross oversimplification of the situation and dishonest. It's starting to seem like they just want the land and WW3, like they've always wanted.

@emilykschrader - Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر

“Well first of all Hamas is not a terrorist group…every single thing that they do is justified” - Murdering babies - Burning children alive - Beheading civilians - Kidnapping children - Raping and murdering at a concert - Shooting dogs is “justified”

@HilzFuld - Hillel Fuld

Let me say this in the clearest possible terms. If you’re concerned with Israel’s response, if you’re focused on the people of Gaza right now, you’re either ignorant or intentionally hypocritical. 2005: Israel handed Gaza over on a silver platter. No “occupation”, no Israeli presence, nothing. 100% theirs. If they wanted anything other than dead Jews, they had the chance. In what world is it normal to demand a country provide water and electricity to its enemy when there is clear evidence that they are using those water pipes to create rockets that then kill Israelis? You’re worried about the electricity and water in Gaza? You can provide it. Don’t want to? Then keep your mouth shut. They have nowhere to go those poor Palestinians? Why don’t you go look at a map? They have a border with Egypt. Let them take them in if they care so much. Oh, Egypt doesn’t want them? Did you hear that? That was my heart breaking for them. Egypt can take them. They don’t want them? Not my problem. You’re worried about a disproportionate response by Israel? Kindly tell me what a proportionate response would look like. Because if we did what they did to us, that would require the murder, abduction, and rape of over a thousand people. Is that what you’re recommending Israel does? Because that’s pretty sick of you. And once and for all, we need to unequivocally reject the false narrative of “They’re not all Hamas supporters so Israel has no right to attack Gaza.” A- The Palestinian people elected Hamas. Make up your mind. If they’re a people who you believe deserve a state then it’s time you held them accountable as a people. They elected Hamas. They will pay for that tragic decision. B- The Palestinian people, not 100, 1,000, or 10,000 of them, give out candies when innocent Jews are murdered. Have you seen thousands of Palestinians speaking out against Hamas? I haven’t. Where are they? Their silence is all I need to know. C- In every war in the history of the world, innocent people die. That fact, as sad as it might be, has zero relevance to whether the war is justified or not. Need I remind you how many innocent Germans died in WWII? Israel is fighting Nazis now. Zero difference. In war, innocent people die. D- And finally, don’t come at me with the whole “They can’t speak out. Hamas will kill them.” Where have we heard that before? “I was just fulfilling orders. I had no choice.” Oh yes, that was what the Nazis said. It was not a legit argument then and it’s not a legit argument now. What Israel experienced on October 7th was the equivalent of 9/11 times 50. Israel WILL retaliate accordingly and it will not stop no matter how much you throw your double standard at us. We not only have every right to do whatever we can to obliterate Hamas, we have a moral obligation to do so. You might not know this now, but a world without Hamas is a safer world for you and your children. If you didn’t complain when ISIS was defeated, if you think WWII was justified in order to defeat the Nazis, then you can either stand with Israel while we cleanse the world of Hamas savages or you can go ahead and keep your mouth shut while we do the work from which you will benefit. If you have any integrity at all, go read the charters of Hamas and the PLO. If you’re honest, ask yourself what “From the river to the sea” means. Look at a map if you can’t figure it out. It means no Israel. Do you support that? Throwing all Israelis into the sea? Because that’s what that means. If you are still delusional enough to think they want a state, go Google The Partition Plan. They had one. They rejected it. Then google how many times Israel offered them a state. And if, after all that, you still think the Palestinian’s agenda is anything other than total genocide of the Jewish people, congratulations, you have earned the privilege of being named a flaming antisemite who supports murder and rape. I’m sure your mother is proud.

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

If "from the river to the sea" meant a 2-state solution, why is the common companion chant: "We don't want two state. We want all of '48" so common? Why would so many marchers at demos brandish maps on their banners and logos and clothing with Israel erased? 1/

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

Why would the terrorist PLO – whose charter declared that the British Mandate territory is "an indivisible territorial unit" (though only claiming Israel and renouncing any claim of West Bank to Jordan, Gaza to Egypt, and Golan Heights to Syria) adopt it as its slogan? 2/

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

When the terrorist Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin said that "Hamas seeks to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine from the river to the sea and from Al-Naqurah to Rafah in order to raise the banner of God on Earth” – was he really just asking for bilingual ingredient labels? /3

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

Were the murderous PFLP advocating for a two-state solution when they put the plane-hijacking terrorist Leila Khaled on a poster with the slogan? Maybe it was their idea of a good tourist ad campaign for peace and coexistence? /4

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

What about when the rocket scientists at Palestinian Islamic Jihad say: "the liberation of all of Palestine, from the river to the sea, and from Rafah to Ra’s al-Naqurah; the Israeli entity, established on its territory, should be wiped out from existence.”? Are they Zionists? /5

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

So when Nasrallah, terrorist leader of Iranian proxy Hezbollah, said: “Jerusalem and Palestine, from the river to the sea, are for the Palestinian people, for the Arabs, and the Muslims," was he just meaning metaphorically? /6

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

If it means a two-state solution, why would the Iranian regime – who repeatedly promise to "wipe Israel off the map" and have a clock in Palestine Square in Tehran counting down until Israel's destruction – use it in their official statements regularly? /7

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

If it means two-state, why would Osama Bin Laden have said: “It is Jihad to liberate all of Palestine from the river to the sea, Allah permitting, placing our hands in the hands of the truthful Mujahideen there from the foundations of Hamas and the other factions...”? /7

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

When Saddam Hussein said: "Palestine is an Arab territory that must be fully liberated from the river to the sea. All the Zionists who immigrated to the land of Palestine must leave." Did he just mean to leave the Super-Sol in Hadera so they could restock the hummus? /8

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

When the Neo-Nazi Identity Evropa leader posted on his Telegram: "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!” after the Hamas massacre of Jews ten days ago, was he advocating for a two-state solution? /9 https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/hamas-attack-draws-cheers-extremists-spurs-antisemitism-and-conspiracies-online

Hamas Attack Draws Cheers from Extremists, Spurs Antisemitism and Conspiracies Online As the deadly assaults on Israel continue, extremists, antisemites and conspiracy theorists are flocking to online spaces to cheer for Hamas. adl.org

@adammaanit - Adam Ma’anit

Of course not. We're all used to this blatant gaslighting. It may well be that there are 1000s of useful idiots who believe it's a call for a 2-state framework. But it doesn't make it any less bad anymore than if someone sang the 14 words thinking it was a Sesame Street song./END

@LizaRosen0000 - Liza Rosen

Hamas leader, Ha-mad Al-Regeb, calls for the genocide of Jews, and prays to Allah to help Muslims behead Jews: "Oh Allah, Enable Us to Get to the Necks of the Jews". https://t.co/io5qVKrqVA He explains that the conflict is not related to land disputes, but to the sins of Jews according to Islam. He claims Jews murdered prophets and are also an evolutionary source of "filthy animals" such as chimpanzees and pigs. Hamas is the obstacle to peace in the Middle East!

@BallsInYaMe0wth - 2012 Lefty - Ph.D

We both know that the practical outcome of a ceasefire at this point is a victory for Hamas. Despite all of the damage, Hamas is sitting pretty in their bunkers completely untouched. If we stop now, Hamas gains a PR victory which therefore incentivizes more of these attacks on Israel in the future. It is incredibly unfortunate, but we must continue this campaign, and we must destroy Hamas to secure Israel and reestablish deterrence. Hamas could end this by releasing the hostages, and disarming, but they won't. Because for as much as they say they care about their people, they are a jihadi death cult that is happy to spend innocent lives to support the cause. The fact that you're not even calling on them to release the hostages shows that you know they won't.

@apocalypseos - 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉

Chris Hedges: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced to evacuate to southern Gaza. He left his camera behind. He trained it on Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex. It is night. Israeli tanks fire directly towards the hospital compound. Long horizontal red flashes. A deliberate attack on a hospital. A deliberate war crime. A deliberate massacre of the most helpless civilians, including the very sick and infants. Then the feed goes dead. We sit in front of the monitors. We are silent. We know what this means. No power. No water. No internet. No medical supplies. Every infant in an incubator will die. Every dialysis patient will die. Everyone in the intensive care unit will die. Everyone who needs oxygen will die.  Everyone who needs emergency surgery will die. And what will happen to the 50,000 people who, driven from their homes by the relentless bombing, have taken refuge on the hospital grounds? We know the answer to that as well. Many of them, too, will die. There are no words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is one of the pinnacles of horror. The indifference of Europe is bad enough.  The active complicity by the United States is unfathomable. Nothing justifies this. Nothing. And Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life. Israel and the United States are sending a chilling message to the rest of the world. International and humanitarian law, including the Geneva Convention, are meaningless pieces of paper. They did not apply in Iraq. They do not apply in Gaza. We will pulverize your neighborhoods and cities with bombs and missiles. We will wantonly murder your women, children, elderly and sick. We will set up blockades to engineer starvation and the spread of infectious diseases. You, the “lesser breeds” of the earth, do not matter. To us you are vermin to be extinguished. We have everything. If you try and take any of it away from us, we will kill you. And we will never be held accountable. We are not hated for our values. We are hated because we have no values. We are hated because rules only apply to others. Not to us. We are hated because we have arrogated to ourselves the right to carry out indiscriminate slaughter. We are hated because we are heartless and cruel. We are hated because we are hypocrites, talking about protecting civilians, the rule of law and humanitarianism while extinguishing the lives of hundreds of people in Gaza a day, including 160 children. Israel reacted with indignation and moral outrage when it was accused of bombing the al-Ahli Arab Christian hospital in Gaza, which left hundreds of dead. The bombing, Israel claimed, came from an errant rocket fired by Palestine Islamic Jihad. There is nothing in the arsenal of Hamas or Islamic Jihad that could have replicated the massive explosive power of the missile that struck the hospital. Those of us who have covered Gaza have heard this Israel trope so many times it is risible. They always blame Hamas and the Palestinians for their war crimes, now attempting to argue that hospitals are Hamas command centers and therefore legitimate targets. They never provide evidence. The Israeli military and government lie like they breathe. Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which has staff working in Al-Shifa, issued a statement saying patients, doctors and nurses are "trapped in hospitals under fire." It called on the “Israeli government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system.” “Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries,” the statement read. “The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.” Three other hospitals in northern Gaza and Gaza City are encircled by Israeli forces and tanks, in what a doctor told Al Jazeera was a “day of war against hospitals.” The Indonesian Hospital has reportedly also lost power. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that 20 of 36 hospitals in Gaza no longer function. Israel and Washington’s cynicism is breathtaking. There are no differences in intent. Washington only wants it done quickly. Humanitarian corridors?  Pauses in the shelling?  These are vehicles to facilitate the total depopulation of northern Gaza. The handful of aid trucks allowed through the border at Rafah with Egypt? A public relations gimmick. There is only one goal – kill, kill, kill. The faster the better. All Biden officials talk about is what comes next once Israel has finished its decimation of Gaza. They know Israel’s slaughter will not end until Gazans are living in the open without shelter in the southern part of the strip and dying because of a lack of food, water and medical care. Gaza before Israel’s ground incursion was one of the most densely populated spots on the planet. Imagine what will happen with 1.1 million Gazans from the north piled on top of over 1 million in the south. Imagine what will take place when infectious diseases such as cholera become an epidemic.  Imagine the ravages of starvation. The pressure will build to do something. And that something, Israel hopes, will be to push the Palestinians over the border into the Sinai in Egypt. Once there, they will never return. Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza will be complete.  Its ethnic cleansing of the West Bank will begin. That is Israel’s demented dream. To achieve it, they will make Gaza uninhabitable. Ask yourself, if you were a Palestinian in Gaza and had access to a weapon what would you do? If Israel killed your family, how would you react? Why would you care about international or humanitarian law when you know it only applies to the oppressed, not the oppressors? If terror is the only language Israel uses to communicate, the only language it apparently understands, wouldn’t you speak back with terror? Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.

@kiyahwillis - Kiyah Willis

Hamas: “We will not stop until we destroy Israel!” The left: “All Hamas wants is peace!” Hamas: “No homosexuals will ever be allowed in Gaza!” The left: “Queers for Palestine!” Hamas: “Allahu Albar! We will fight until we can claim this land for Islam!” The left: “Hamas is a secular organization!” Hamas: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free… of Jews. We wrote it in our charter to make sure everyone knew this” The left: “If Hamas wins, they will create a multiethnic state with equal rights for everyone!” Hamas: “Let's livestream ourselves murdering people so the world knows how dangerous we are!” The left: “All footage from October 7 is Zionist propaganda! But also if it's real it's 100% justified!” You can only lie to yourselves for so long before you face the consequences of avoiding reality. Hamas is an Islamic terrorist organization that wants to destroy not only Israel but the entire West (which means they want to kill you too)

@ASimplePatriot - American.357

The idea that Hamas is a resistance movement is a fairly tale. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Nothing to resist. Hamas chose to turn Gaza into a terrorist fortress and rocket launching base. They could have peace at any moment, but they choose war. https://t.co/mUAxpNUw17

@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk

Let's get our FACTS straight: A new poll by the Arab World for Research and Development, a Palestinian research org, finds that 75% of Palestinians support the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 Hamas official Ghazi Hamad has said they will repeat October 7-like attacks until Israel is annihilated. "River to the Sea" is a call to genocide and to destroy Israel — ignore any claims that it's not. If it wasn't about genocide, they'd pick a new slogan. A two-state solution has been offered to Hamas and Palestinians multiple times — 4 times in the last 20 years alone. Every time, it's been rejected in favor of more terrorism and more war. The Hamas charter openly calls for genocide and the destruction of Israel. Keeping this charter has repeatedly been what keeps Hamas from making peace. There was a cease-fire on Oct 6 that Hamas broke on Oct 7. In an unprovoked attack, Hamas killed 1,400 Jews; took 241 Israeli, US, and EU citizens hostages, wounded 5,300, and fired more than 10,000 rockets at Israel. Why did they do this? One reason was pure bloodlust, but the other was precisely to invite an Israeli attack, so they could wail and act the victim. Hamas's entire strategy is to max out victimhood. They commit horrible atrocities so that Israel will beat up on them, and then they complain about how helpless they are and how many civilians are in danger — when Hamas intentionally puts those civilian lives at risk for political gain. There is ZERO moral equivalency between Hamas and Israel.

@benshapiro - Ben Shapiro

All who are now proclaiming that because Israel was able to obtain the release of 50 hostages at the cost of 150 terrorists, "de-escalation" is now possible -- you're out of your minds. Israel will not stop until Hamas is destroyed. That is Israel's political and moral duty.

@DrewPavlou - Drew Pavlou 柏乐志 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼

Hamas supporter: “Freeing Palestine will ensure no Jews are safe anywhere.” This is what does serious damage to the Palestinian cause. Idiots like this who gleefully boast online about future anti-Semitic revenge killings and massacres https://t.co/43IQKMChDu

@SimplyonWorld - SimplyTheBest 📯

Unbequeme Fragen zum Gazastreifen und Israel!! Ein sehr langer Thread, aber es wäre schön, wenn wir diese Fakten bei Diskussionen anführen würden. Krieg ist furchtbar. Die aus dem #Gazastreifen kommenden Bilder bringen uns Tränen in die Augen. Uns schaudert, wenn wir die massive Zerstörung sehen und die Zahl der Opfer täglich steigt. Wir können alle zustimmen, dass die Gewalt in der Region aufhören muss. Aber jedes Mal, wenn wir anfangen zu diskutieren, warum es überhaupt Gewalt gibt und wer dafür verantwortlich zu machen ist, verlieren wir uns in den Komplikationen dieses Konflikts. Die Argumente werfen uns in der Geschichte zurück und verwirren unseren gesunden Menschenverstand. Also lasst uns das ein wenig vereinfachen: Eine Seite strebt einen Völkermord an und die andere leistet Widerstand und kämpft darum ihre Freiheit zu behalten. Ich bin sicher, wir können erahnen, welche Seite welche ist. Und ich bin mir auch sicher, wir betrachten das als mehr als vereinfacht, übertrieben und einseitig. Ich meine, immerhin gibt es bei jeder Geschichte zwei Seiten, richtig? Und beide Seiten haben Blut an den Händen. Stellen wir also weiter Fragen! Ich verstehe, wir alle sind gegen alle Formen der Gewalt. Wir/Sie haben aber immer noch das Gefühl vergleichen zu müssen, also können sie entscheiden, welche Seite weniger im Unrecht ist. Hier ist das Problem: Du musst dich nicht auf einen Seite stellen. Es ist nicht wichtig, dass du dich auf eine Seite stellst. Aber es ist wichtig, dass du an deinen eigenen Werten festhältst. Wichtig ist, dass du die Wahrheit begreifst und dich nicht von beliebten, gefährlichen Narrativen mitreißen lassen. Stellen wir Fragen, die andere nicht stellen. Stellen wir Fragen, die unbequem sind. Stellen wir Fragen, die helfen aufzudecken, wer die Wahrheit sagt, wer die Wahrheit verbirgt und wer schlichtweg lügt und wann. 1.) Fragen zur Zahl der zivilen Opfern. Zur Zeit, als dies geschrieben wird, gibt es die Zahlen. #Israel: Mehr als 1.200 ist nicht endgültig, denn bis heute sind noch nicht alle Leichen identifiziert und niemand weiß sicher, wie viele der Entführten am Leben sind (nicht einmal das Rote Kreuz), viele sind noch vermisst. Darunter befinden sich 340 Soldaten und anderes Sicherheitspersonal. Weitere 38 Soldaten wurden bisher bei der Bodenoperation getötet. [Stand 06.12.23: 80] Gazastreifen: Vielleicht 10.000, vielleicht 11.000, vielleicht mehr, vielleicht weniger? Die einzigen verfügbaren Zahlen sind die, die die Hamas angibt. Keine unabhängige Person hat Zugang oder Informationen. Interessanterweise bezeichnet die #Hamas sie alle als Zivilisten, keiner von ihnen scheint ein Kombattant zu sein (?). Also sagt der #UNO-Generalsekretär @antonioguterres , dass mit diesen Zahlen etwas nicht stimmen kann. Er hat Recht! Und das ist der Punkt, an dem wir anfangen sollten Fragen zu stellen. Stattdessen werden uns diese Zahlen weiter ins Gesicht geschleudert, als würden sie etwas beweisen. Tun sie das? Wenn ja, was genau beweisen sie? Der US-Kongressabgeordnete und Militärveteran @RepBrianMast stellte einige der Fragen, die jeder stellen sollte: a.) Fragen zum Schutz von Zivilisten!! b.) Wie viele Bombenschutzräume gibt es? Israel: zahllose Die meisten Wohnhäuser in Israel haben einen Bombenschutzraum. In jedem Viertel gibt es öffentliche Bunker. Jedes nach 1992 gebaute Wohnhaus hat einen Schutzraum. Das Heimatschutz-Kommando bietet eine Vielzahl tragbarer Schutzräume und verteilt sie in der Öffentlichkeit und Wohngebieten. Wenn all diese Dinge NICHT existieren würden, glaubt mir, die israelischen Toten würden in die Zehntausende und die Verstümmelten in den 6-stelligen Bereich gehen. Gazastreifen: keine Gibt es weitere Mittel die Zivilbevölkerung zu schützen? Israel: Das Raketenabwehrsystem Eiserne Kuppel fängt Kurzstrecken-Raketen mit einer Zuverlässigkeit von 95% ab und deckt das gesamte Staatsgebiet Israels ab. Andere Systeme gegen Mittel- und Langstrecken-Raketen (z.B. #Arrow) Mehr als 🇮🇱100.000 Menschen wurden angewiesen ihre Heime in gefährlichen Gegenden zu verlassen und staatlich subventioniert vorübergehend Wohnung in Hotels und Gästehäusern überall im Land zu nehmen. Und wieder - wenn all diese Dinge NICHT existieren würden, glaubt mir, die israelischen Toten würden in die Zehntausende und die Verstümmelten in den 6-stelligen Bereich gehen. Gazastreifen: keine Das wirft die nächste Frage auf: Warum tut die Hamas nichts zum Schutz ihrer Zivilsten? Lasst uns darüber etwas nachdenken. Denken wir über Folgendes nach: Der Konflikt besteht seit Jahren. Es hat fünf große Operationen gegeben, seit die Hamas 2007 die Kontrolle über den Gazastreifen übernahm. Jedes Mal behauptete die Hamas, es habe eine große Anzahl ziviler Opfer gegeben. Dennoch hielt es die Hamas nicht für angebracht auch nur einen Bruchteil der Millionen Dollar und Euros, die sie von der #EU, #Deutschland den #USA, #Qatar und anderen erhielt, in den Schutz ihrer Zivilisten zu stecken. Warum? Die Bevölkerung bleibt arm und ungeschützt. Die Hamas setzt die Bevölkerung des Gazastreifens potenziell tödlichen Luftangriffen aus, obwohl sie behauptet, Israel sei der Aggressor und schieße absichtlich auf Zivilisten. Wenn Israel derart bösartig ist, warum zur Hölle schützen sie ihre eigenen Leute nicht vor ihm? (Wenn man an der Antwort interessiert ist, wird man davon überrascht sein, was ein Hamas-Sprecher dazu zu sagen hatte. Lest bitte is zum Ende weiter.) Warum FORDERT niemand, auch nicht die #UNO, dass die Hamas ihre Bürger schützt? Liberale Länder wie auch fundamental-islamische Republiken pumpen jede denkbare Währung in den von der Hamas kontrollierten Gazastreifen. Sie alle behaupten, sich um die Zivilbevölkerung des Gazastreifens zu sorgen. Jeder ist sich der explosiven Lage und der wiederkehrenden „bewaffneten Zusammenstöße“ überaus bewusst. Dennoch dachte keiner der großzügigen Spender, keine Menschenrechtsorganisation und kein pro-palästinensischer Aktivist je daran zu fordern, dass die Hamas etwas dafür tut ihre Zivilisten zu schützen. Was ist das Problem zu sagen: „Ihr bekommt Geld unter der Bedingung, dass ihr es in den Bau öffentlicher Bunker investiert“? Stattdessen wird der Schutz der Zivilisten im Gazastreifen als Aufgabe der israelischen Armee angesehen. Das führt zu einer absurden Situation. Eine Situation, die die Hamas-Terroristen ermutigt für ihre Sache ihre eigene Bevölkerung zu opfern. Je höher die Zahl der zivilen Opfer auf ihrer Seite ist, desto lauter die Verurteilung Israels. Je mehr Leid, desto mehr Mitleid, Unterstützung und schließlich Hilfe aus dem Westen und der liberalen Welt. Was mich zur früheren Frage zurückbringt. Warum unschuldige Zivilisten schützen, wenn ihre Leichen der Propaganda und dem Budget so viel nützen? Was unternehmen die Seiten, um zivile Opfer auf der Seite des Feindes zu verhindern? #IDF: Die IDF verbreitet aus der Luft hunderte Flugblätter in Bereichen, die angegriffen werden sollen, um die Zivilisten zu warnen und ihnen die Chance zur Evakuierung zu geben. Die IDF ruft Leute direkt auf ihren Handys an (soweit das möglich ist) und schickt SMS-Nachrichte, um sie vor Luftangriffen zu warnen. Israel richtet sichere Korridore ein, um Einwohnern sicheres Geleit aus Kampfzonen im nördlichen Gazastreifen in den Süden des Gazastreifens zu ermöglichen. Regelmäßig werden Luftangriffe abgebrochen, wenn offensichtlich ist, dass Zivilisten Schaden zugefügt werden könnte. „Anklopfen auf dem Dach“: Ein nicht explosives Mittel wird auf das Dach eines Gebäudes abgeworfen, bevor die Luftwaffe scharf schießt. Jeder in dem Gebäude hat die Zeit es zu verlassen. Diese Praxis ist die letzten fünf Jahr über angewandt worden, wurde aber nach dem Massaker vom 7. Oktober aufgegeben. Hamas: (ernsthaft?) Und immer noch erscheinen Euch die Zahl der Opfer außergewöhnlich hoch? Man sagt also, wenn die IDF all das tut, wie kommt es dann , dass so viele getötet werden? Warum werfen wir nicht einen Blick auf einige der aggressiven Maßnahmen, die die Seiten ergriffen haben? Welche aggressiven Maßnahmen sind getroffen worden? Israel: Beschuss von Hamas-Infrastruktur und –Akteuren. Hamas: Brach den Waffenstillstand, der im August 2022 die Operation „Tagesanbruch“ beendete. (De facto brach sie alle Waffenstillstände, die vorherige Operationen beendeten. Selbst in Waffenstillstands-Perioden war der Süden Israels wahllosen, sporadischen Angriffen ausgesetzt, auf die Israel nicht reagierte und brauch auch den in diesem Krieg erneut) Massakrierte Zivilisten und Soldaten mit unsäglicher Grausamkeit (erschoss sie in ihren Häusern, fesselte Kinder und Familien zusammen und verbrannte sie bei lebendigem Leib, massenvergewaltigte Frauen, schnitt ihnen Hände, Füße und Genitalien ab und ließ Menschen langsam qualvoll verbluten, stach Augen aus, köpfte Babys und Erwachsene, buk Babys in Backöfen, während ihre Mütter auf dem Küchenboden davor vergewaltigt wurden,…) Nahm willkürlich 240 Geiseln (Babys, Kinder, Verletzte, Behinderte, alte Menschen, Holocaust-Überlebende,…) Schießt Raketensalven in dicht besiedelte zivile Bereiche, darunter Krankenhäuser und Schulen (das #Barzilai-Krankenhaus in #Aschkelon ist mehrfach getroffen worden – wenn sie nichts darüber gehört haben, dann wahrscheinlich deshalb, weil es keine Opfer gab, denn die Patienten waren zur Sicherheit unter die Erde verlegt worden). Verbreitet Lügen über und falsche Anschuldigungen gegen Israel (z.B.: behauptete ein Krankenhaus im Gazastreifen sei von einem israelischen Luftangriff getroffen worden, wodurch 500 Menschen getötet wurden, was sich später als Falschinformation herausstellte. Eine Hamas-Rakete explodierte auf einem Parkplatz des Krankenhauses und niemand weiß, welcher Schaden verursacht und ob Menschen verletzt wurden). Greift die IDF-Truppen an, während diese sichere Korridore für Zivilisten vorbereiten. Wie gehen sie mit ihrer eigenen Bevölkerung um? Israel: Siehe oben Ermittelt bei Behauptungen von Siedlergewalt gegen und führt sie der Gerechtigkeit zu. Lässt freie Meinungsäußerung und diskutiert offen ihr Handeln. Hamas: Benutzt die Zivilbevölkerung als menschliche Schutzschilde: Hält die Menschen davon ab ihre Heime zu verlassen und in den südlichen Gazastreifen in Sicherheit zu ziehen. Sie halten sie sogar davon ab Lebensmittel zu bekommen, die als Teil der humanitären Hilfe gebracht werden. Ermuntert Zivilisten sich zu opfern, indem sie sich bei Luftangriffen auf die Dächer stellen. Richtet Straßensperren ein, um die Menschen davon abzuhalten in den sichereren südlichen Teil des Gazastreifens zu ziehen. Benutzt öffentliche Gebäude wie Schulen, Krankenhäuser und Moscheen als Munitions- und Waffenlager. Schießt Raketen aus Wohngebieten, einschließlich von Schulhöfen, Privatgrundstücken, Kindergärten usw. Die „Gaza-Metro“: Geschätzte 500km Tunnelsystem, die die Hamas nutzte, sie selbst schützt und die Zivilbevölkerung an der Oberfläche ungeschützt lässt. Leitet ihrer Operationen aus Kommandozentren unter Krankenhäusern. Bedroht und tötet jeden, der sich gegen sie ausspricht, sie kritisiert oder ihr Tun infrage stellt. Jetzt könnte ein guter Zeitpunkt sein sich zu fragen, ob Sie, sollten Sie sich Sorgen um palästinensische Zivilisten machen, die Hamas unterstützen sollen. Weitere Fragen zu Völkermord-Behauptungen Ich weiß nicht einmal, wo ich hierbei anfangen soll. Aber ich habe versprochen, dass ich es einfach halte, also bleibe ich bei ein paar einfachen Fakten und Zahlen: Palästinensische Araber, die mit israelischer Staatsbürgerschaft in Israel leben: fast 1,9 Millionen (21% der Bevölkerung), davon 82% Muslime (18% der Bevölkerung Israels) #Juden, die im palästinensisch beherrschten Gazastreifen leben: 0 #Gazaner, die in Israel arbeiten: 17.000 (Stand August 22; die Zahlen variieren abhängig von der Sicherheitslage. In den Wochen vor dem Massaker vom 7. Oktober war die Zahl der Arbeiter aus dem Gazastreifen, die täglich nach Israel gingen, höher, danach allerdings verständlicherweise nicht mehr). Juden, die im Gazastreifen arbeiten: 0 Unter welchen Umständen wird Gazanern die Einreise nach Israel erlaubt: Gazaner können Genehmigungen erwerben, um in Israel zu arbeiten, um medizinische Behandlung zu erhalten (Selbst die Hamas-Bosse wurden in Israel behandelt und ihr Leben gerettet.) oder wegen anderer humanitärer Fälle. Können Juden in den Gazastreifen einreisen? Nein. Können arabische Muslime in der IDF dienen? Ja, und sie tun das. Außerdem viele #Beduinen und #Drusen. Wie viele Palästinenser sind Abgeordnete in der #Knesset (dem israelischen Parlament): derzeit 10 (vollständige historische Liste im Kommentarbereich) Können arabische Muslime in Israel Richter werden? Ja; Beispiel: Khaled Kabub, Richter am Obersten Gerichtshof Können sie Ärzte, Polizisten, Manager oder alles sonst werden, was sie wollen? Ja,, Palästinenser mit israelischer Staatsbürgerschaft haben volle, gleiche Rechte, einschließlich der Sozialleistungen, Arbeitslosengeld usw. Die vielleicht wichtigste Zahl, die man sich ansehen sollte, ist diese: Wikipedia gibt an „Die Wachstumsrate der arabischen Bevölkerung in Israel beträgt 2,2%, während die Wachstumsrate der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Israel 1,8% beträgt.“ Und hier (im Kommentarbereich) ist eine Vergleichsgrafik, die ich bei Statista fand; sie beinhaltet Daten der UNO: Quelle: Statista – Palestine and Israel population growth - Bevölkerungswachstum in Israel und den Palästinensergebieten von 1960 bis 2020. Ich denke, das der Punkt klar ist. Die gesamte Völkermord-Debatte ist völlig lächerlich. Leider ist nichts daran lustig. Und das vielleicht Traurigste daran ist, dass – wie man aus den hier gezeigten Quellen erkennen kann – alle Informationen nur eine Google-Suche weit entfernt sind. Was wollen sie? Am Anfang dieses Artikels behauptete ich, dass eine Seite Völkermord begehen will, während die andere sich verteidigt. Was will Israel? Israel verteidigt seine Existenz. Ob wir oder Sie (oder ich oder sonstwer) zustimmt/en, dass die Juden einen Anspruch auf dieses winzige Stück Land als Heimat haben, ist völlig irrelevant. Niemand fragt nach unserer Meinung dazu, ob die Deutschen Anspruch auf einen deutschen Staat haben oder die #Libanesen auf ihr Land. Fakt ist: Israel existiert als souveräner Staat, ganz so wie die #USA oder #China. Alles, was Israel will, ist in Frieden zu leben und seine Position als Start-up Nation und Führer im Hightech-Bereich auszubauen. Was will die Hamas? Die Hamas hat seit 2007 die volle Kontrolle über den Gazastreifen gehabt, als die Bevölkerung von #Gaza sie an die Macht wählte. Das passierte, nachdem Israel 2005 abzog und der #PLO (heute heißt sie #Fatah und herrscht in der Westbank) überließ. Israel hat keine Kontrolle über was auch immer, was innerhalb des Gazastreifens geschieht. Welcher Mangel an Freiheit auch immer im Gazastreifen vorhanden ist, er liegt komplett außerhalb des Einflusses Israels. Im Süden hat der Gazastreifen eine Grenze zu #Ägypten, die genauso schwer bewacht und gesichert ist. Wir/Sie könnten glauben, die Behauptung, sie würden #Genozid anstreben, sei etwas weit hergeholt oder islamophobe Hysterie. Wenn das der Fall ist, sollten Sie vielleicht mal in Google den Begriff „Hamas-Charta“ eingeben. Dieses Dokument lässt keinen Raum für Spekulation über die Absichten der Organisation. Die Hamas ist eine zutiefst religiös-fundamentalistische Organisation mit dem Ziel die Juden zu töten, die von imperialistischen Kräften (Kapitalisten im Westen und Kommunisten im Osten) unterstützt werden. Hamas-Mitglieder müssen ihr Leben Allah widmen und bereit sein in seinem Namen zu sterben. Märtyrer zu werden – mit anderen Worten: für die Sache zu sterben ist die höchste Errungenschaft, die sie anstreben. Sie wollen keinen Frieden. Glauben Sie nicht mir, glauben Sie IHNEN. In Artikel 13 steht: „Eine Verhandlungslösung ist nicht möglich. Jihad ist die einzige Antwort.“ Diese „Freiheitskämpfer“ haben jetzt ihre Masken abgenommen und stellen unverschämte Behauptungen auf. Ghazi Hamad, ein Mitglied des Politbüros der Organisation, war in seinem aktuellen Interview im libanesischen Fernsehen geradeheraus und erklärte, die Hamas würde das Massaker vom 7. Oktober immer und immer wiederholen, bis Israel ausgelöscht ist. „Wir müssen das Land beseitigen.“ Er ist stolz darauf Märtyrer zu opfern und bezeichnet die Palästinenser als Nation von Märtyrern. Er fährt damit fort Israel für alles Schlechte die Schuld zu geben, was im Gang ist und „alles, was wir tun […] ist gerechtfertigt“. Israel war also nicht nur Opfer des furchtbarsten Massakers in der jüngsten Menschheitsgeschichte, sondern ist auch noch Schuld daran. Hier (Im Kommentarbereich) ist das Interview mit Hamad. Epilog Ich habe eine Antwort auf die Frage versprochen, warum die Hamas ihre Zivilisten nicht beschützt. Hier ist das, worauf ein weiterer Hamas-Sprecher, Mousa Abu Marsouk, zu sprechen kam. Zivilisten liegen nicht in der Verantwortung der Hamas, sondern der UNO, weil 75% von ihnen Flüchtlinge sind. Ich versuche immer noch jemanden zu finden, der mir diese Verzerrung der Realität erklären kann. (Hier - im Kommentarbereich ist das Interview mit Abu Marsouk.) Es gibt immer noch viele unbeantwortete Fragen. Zur Unterstützung der Hamas, wie stark die Zivilisten am Massaker beteiligt waren. Was hat die Geschichte mit der „Besatzung“ und den „Siedlungen“ zu tun? Warum die „Blockade“ des Gazastreifens? Wie verdienen die Gazaner ihren Lebensunterhalt – gibt es Landwirtschaft oder Industrie? Und wer regiert den Gazastreifen überhaupt? Das lasse ich für einen anderen Post. Aber ich möchten Ihnen noch ein letztes kurzes Video mitteilen, über das ich stolperte, während ich diesen Artikel schrieb. Ich denke, es fügt ein wenig Perspektive hinzu und demonstriert die ideologische Tiefe. Hier sind einige Beispiele für Unterrichtsmaterial in #UNRWA-Schulen im Gazastreifen: Wie sie Grammatik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften lernen. https://youtube.com/shorts/8qGGEWVM20Y Quelle: https://ruthtonline.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/uncomfortable-questions-about-gaza-and-israel/ #IStandWithIsrael #IStandWithUkraine #HamasisISIS #IsraelFightsTerror #RussiaIsATerroristState #HamasMassacre #HamasTerrorists #HamasRapists

Uncomfortable questions about Gaza and Israel It’s not important that you take sides. But it is important that you stick to your own values.  That's why asking uncomfortable questions is critical. ruthtonline.wordpress.com

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Der US-Kongressabgeordnete und Militärveteran @RepBrianMast stellte einige der Fragen, die jeder stellen sollte: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8qGGEWVM20Y

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Anklopfen auf dem Dach“: Ein nicht explosives Mittel wird auf das Dach eines Gebäudes abgeworfen, bevor die Luftwaffe scharf schießt. Jeder in dem Gebäude hat die Zeit es zu verlassen. Diese Praxis ist die letzten fünf Jahr über angewandt worden, wurde aber nach dem Massaker vom 7. Oktober aufgegeben. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_3j_WNQKXw

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@RepBrianMast Wie viele Palästinenser sind Abgeordnete in der Knesset (dem israelischen Parlament): derzeit 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset

List of arab members of the knesset - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org

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@RepBrianMast Und hier ist eine Vergleichsgrafikbei Statista sie beinhaltet Daten der UNO: Quelle: Statista – Palestine and Israel population growth - Bevölkerungswachstum in Israel und den Palästinensergebieten von 1960 bis 2020

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@RepBrianMast Ghazi Hamad, ein Mitglied des Politbüros der Organisation, war in seinem aktuellen Interview im libanesischen Fernsehen geradeheraus und erklärte, die Hamas würde das Massaker vom 7. Oktober immer und immer wiederholen, bis Israel ausgelöscht ist. https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-official-ghazi-hamad-we-will-repeat-october-seven-until-israel-annihilated-victims-everything-we-do-justified

Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified In an October 24, 2023 show on LBC TV (Lebanon), Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas political bureau said that Hamas is prepared to repeat the October 7 "Al-Aqsa Flood" Operation time and again until Israel is annihilated. memri.org

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@RepBrianMast Hier ist das, worauf ein weiterer Hamas-Sprecher, Mousa Abu Marsouk, zu sprechen kam. Zivilisten liegen nicht in der Verantwortung der Hamas, sondern der UNO, weil 75% von ihnen Flüchtlinge sind. https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-official-mousa-abu-marzouk-tunnels-gaza-protect-fighters-%20not-civilians

Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: The Tunnels In Gaza Were Built To Protect Hamas Fighters, Not Civilians; Protecting Gaza Civilians Is The Responsibility Of The U.N. And Israel Member of the Hamas Political Bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk said in an October 27, 2023 interview that aired on Russia Today TV that the tunnels in Gaza were built to protect Hams fighters from airstrikes, not civilians. memri.org

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@RepBrianMast Hier sind einige Beispiele für Unterrichtsmaterial in UNRWA-Schulen im Gazastreifen: Wie sie Grammatik, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften lernen. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8qGGEWVM20Y

@havivrettiggur - Haviv Rettig Gur

There are simply too many data points that have accrued at this point showing that these activists are literally pro-Hamas - and thus, yes, in favor of the mass-killing of Israeli civilians, which is Hamas’s fundamental impulse and strategy, which it has done repeatedly and vows to do again - for any of us to pretend otherwise. Those among the campus activists who don’t support the deaths of civilians, and I have to think there are a great many, are remaining silent as their brethren in the encampments raise this banner time and again. Perhaps they think they don’t matter enough to the reality on the ground for what they say to matter, that my children are safe from them and so it doesn’t really matter if they telegraph a desire to see my kids murdered. If that’s the thinking that allows for this rhetoric, then they’re absolutely right. They can’t harm me. But they can harm Palestinians terribly. The Israeli psyche, not the American college campus, is the central arena in which the fight for Palestinian self-determination will be decided. The Palestinians’ single greatest strategic predicament - follow me here if you care about the Palestinian future - is that factions like Hamas have convinced the vast majority of Israelis, including those on the left who yearn for Palestinian self-determination, that they will transform any step toward liberation into a bloodbath for Israeli children. That’s what happened in the second intifada. It’s the end result of Hamas’s takeover of Gaza. And now the only thing Israelis see coming out of these encampments - the thing that actually gets broadcast to Israelis from these protests - is that even Western left-wing support for the Palestinian cause is functionally (and often also explicitly) support for the death of Israeli children. It’s hard to exaggerate how catastrophic this is for Palestinians. Imagine a best-case scenario for the anti-israel movement: The Israeli economy cut in half and Israel’s high-tech elites fleeing en masse to Silicon Valley. Even then, Israelis will fight and win wars to prevent Palestinian factions like Hamas from holding territory. Palestinian self-determination cannot advance as long as ordinary Israelis see it as code for their extermination - i.e., as Hamas sees it. Any activist for Palestine who doesn’t understand that is part of the generations-old and so far continuing failure of the Palestinian cause. I know they’re not listening to me. But it’s worth creating the paper trail they can follow when they go looking for the reasons for their failure down the road.

@realMaalouf - Dr. Maalouf ‏

Hamas terrorists: “Our issue is not just Palestine, our mission is to kill every infidel. We will follow Jews and Christians all over the world. Either they convert to Islam or we’ll kill them!” Hamas is a terrorist organization and must be destroyed! https://t.co/z3wYd7KDEH

@StaceyLynne_0 - JClynne

Ding ding ding. Always has been, folks.