To understand the context of the latest Israeli-Hamas war requires some knowledge of the history that led up to it — a history of never-ending conflict between Israel and its internal and external enemies.
On May 15, 1948, the day after Israel became an independent state, the armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Transjordan (now Jordan) and two Palestinian irregular forces launched their initial attempt to “drive the Jews into the sea.”
Few things are as dangerous as the newsroom that wants a story to be true.
An overzealous editor is how the really dangerous stuff gets printed.
The argument remains. On one side are those who credit and feel indebted to President Biden and his administration for the unbridled moral support and the massive military aid, worth millions of dollars, the U.S. is giving to Israel to assist in our war against Hamas (and Hezb’allah). On the other side, the position is that if this administration had been much tougher with Iran from the outset, actually maintaining the policy toward Iran during the Trump administration, the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel would never have happened. The Biden administration’s conciliatory gestures and language further empowered Iran, leading to Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel. This surprise incursion was one of Iran’s tactics to weaken Israel over time through sporadic attacks by its proxies, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezb’allah, and even Yemen. If not for Biden’s efforts to placate Iran, goes this argument, all the people murdered in that attack would be alive today. All the hostages taken would be home with their loved ones and friends.
The videos should be shown to our progressives who read these mass murders through the lens of their “social justice” ideology.
Videos analyzed by The Washington Post show Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during their unprecedented jihadist incursion into Israel and killed soon after being captured. We are in the Be’eri kibbutz: in the first video we see Israelis held hostage by terrorists in military uniform. Their hands are tied behind their backs, some are blindfolded. The person filming the video can be heard shouting at them as they are taken towards an intersection with a gate. In a second video, the same hostages are killed near the gate.
Peter Drucker, the Austrian-American management guru, once said: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence — it’s acting with yesterday’s logic.” The unfolding events in Israel are a sharp reminder that we keep making our future a hostage to yesterday’s logic. This is because we are overconfident in our dazzling technological prowess. The belief persists that big armies and expensive high-tech weapons are always the solution — even though the world keeps being destabilised by small armies with cheap low-tech weapons.
The Western left’s failure to denounce Hamas confirms its abandonment of secularism and reason.
The more you think about it, the more horrendous it becomes. Yesterday, on the two-week anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, thousands of people gathered in London to shout out the slogan of the killers. A mere fortnight after 1,400 men, women and children were massacred for the crime of being Jews in Israel, people amassed in central London to give voice to one of the mottos of the men who carried out that massacre. ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, the protesters in London cried. It’s a controversial call, to say the least, and it’s one Hamas loves.
The Cygnal poll is unique in that it polled Muslims in America as a separate group about the Hamas attack on Israel during which the Islamic terrorists massacred civilians, raped and kidnapped women, and killed and kidnapped children.
28% of Muslims in America strongly agree that Hamas was justified whle 29% somewhat agree. On the other side, 16% strongly disagree while 25% somewhat disagree.
I doubt Canada would be any different.
In the hills of northern Israel, a tank emerged from its hiding place beneath the pines, leaving the musk of churned earth hanging in the air.
Here on the border with Lebanon a conflict is brewing, one that the West is so desperate to avoid that President Biden has sent two US aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean.
Hezbollah, the well-organised Shia militia based in southern Lebanon, is under pressure from Iran to join the war that Hamas, the Sunni militia based in Gaza, initiated when it broke out of the territory to butcher Israeli civilians two weeks ago.
Braverman to challenge Met chief after jihad chant allowed at Palestine rally\
Suella Braverman will challenge the Metropolitan Police commissioner over officers’ decision to allow a jihad chant at a pro-Palestine rally, insisting that “there can be no place for incitement to hatred or violence” on UK streets.
The Home Secretary will hold a meeting with Sir Mark Rowley on Monday after officers took no action when supporters of an extremist Islamist group chanted: “Jihad, jihad, jihad” during a protest in London on Saturday.
After analysing an online video, the Met said jihad had “a number of meanings” and concluded that no offence had taken place.
Oh I see, “a number of meanings.”
Remember that although ‘Jihad’ is a very unclear term, the English flag is a clear hate-symbol. @metpoliceuk https://t.co/1e56uaba2a
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) October 22, 2023
In Toronto we’re more likely to see Chairman Chow siding with Hamas.
When Toronto has Jewish businesses being vandalized or targeted with a boycott, it’s clear these protesters have gone too far.
But how far will Toronto let this go?
The police do not have control of the streets.
Nothing is stopping the Hamassholes from going ape if they choose to.
Toronto – October 21 – Additional footage as protestors affiliated with "Toronto4Palestine" swarm outside of Cafe Landwer and demand to boycott the "Zionist Cafe". Protestors have posted pictures targeting staff working at the cafe 1/2 #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/9iCWSgSekQ
— Documenting Antisemitism (@AntisemitismCA) October 22, 2023
Is it expecting too much to hope that our prime minister and foreign affairs minister will act in a fair, principled and impartial manner? The answer, unfortunately, appears to be yes.
Perhaps Justin Trudeau is hobbled by his caucus, his own beliefs, or an inability to move as quickly as world events warrant, but the evidence is mounting that he is clearly motivated by an anti-Israel bias.
The protests we are seeing have nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with problems here at home
There is a good rule about anti-Semitism. One reason it isn’t better known is because its best expression comes at the mid-point of the 20th century’s towering work of historical fiction: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman.
That novel, which takes the reader from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Nazi death camps, traverses the entire dark heart of the 20th century. Yet in the very middle of its 900 pages, the great Russian writer examines the question of anti-Semitism. He says almost everything.
Anti-Semitism is something which, as Grossman writes, can be met “in the marketplace and in the Academy, in the soul of an old man and in the games children play in the yard”. He describes it as always a means rather than an end, “a measure of the contradictions yet to be resolved”.
Those militants obviously need a new realtor.
I hope I don’t come across as being angry.
For what Hamas did to my People, I guess it’s okay to be sad, horrified, dismayed…but not angry.
As the Rebbe says, all other nations may fight to win, but only Jews must turn the other cheek. They must not be angry.
That was Biden, appropriately providing military equipment to the Israelis, then by degrees, backtracking and backsliding.
The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide “proof of life” questions in case of kidnap. I’ve been to some unusual festivals — earlier this year I found myself discussing war-rape, ancient and modern, with the classicist Mary Beard on a barefoot island in the Maldives — and had some unusual festival encounters, such as the woman who asked me to sign a book to her dead husband, adding that he was reading it when he died. This, however, was my first in a war zone. There was a polite warning from the Lviv Book Forum organizers: “If there is an airstrike, we will interrupt the event.” It’s all part of the resilience of Ukrainians, determined in the face of Russian aggression that life must go on.
The fruits of ADL’s failed policy are playing out in real time on American streets and college campuses this week.
Failed? Hell one of the ADL’s former interns was caught ripping down hostage posters. Tell me they aren’t working for Hamas;)
One week after Hamas’s brutal terror attacks in Israel, white supremacists continue to rail against Israel and the Jewish community, gathering in cities nationwide to promote their racist, antisemitic propaganda. 🧵
— ADL (@ADL) October 19, 2023
Check out the tweet on Twitter the ADL added several images of Massive nationwide White Supremacist anti-Israel protests with participants numbering in the low to mid Twenties as proof of their delerious claim.
