The talking point of the week for opponents of Israel is that it should accept a ceasefire with Hamas in order to pursue a political solution, rather than a military one. That is the theme even of the UN ceasefire resolution proposed by Russia (that noted opponent of armed conflict) and supported by China, which was voted down in the Security Council earlier this week due to united opposition by the U.S., Britain, France, and Japan.
A Hamas fugitive who “ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank” and served on its ruling body lives in London in a council property he recently bought with a £112,000 discount.
Muhammad Qassem Sawalha evaded Israel’s security services using a relative’s passport and fled to the UK in the 1990s, later obtaining British citizenship.
Upon arrival, Sawalha, 62, continued to work for Hamas, holding secret talks about “revitalising” terrorist acts in Israel and helping to launder money to support activities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a US Department of Justice indictment in 2004.
Anti-Semites see Jewish people as the personification of evil.
Why do they want to kill us? It is a question most Jews have probably asked themselves in private. Perhaps when among a group of close confidantes.
It is an understandable question. The Holocaust posed it in the most brutal manner possible, after six million Jews were systematically slaughtered by the Nazis. They murdered others, too, including Roma and Sinti, of course. But it was always Jews who were the Nazis’ primary target.
It’s no surprise that terrorists support terrorists. Like birds of a feather, Antifa anarcho-communists and Islamist extremists are bound by a shared goal of overthrowing the U.S. constitutional republic and its institutions that enforce law and order. Despite being divided by varying ideological differences, they’re united by an agenda to wage war against the common enemy: America.
Exactly two weeks ago, waves of Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, torturing, maiming, murdering and raping innocent civilians. Babies, children and the elderly were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Many watched their family members slaughtered before being kidnapped by Hamas.
Toronto – October 21st – Pro-Hamas rally organizers "Toronto4Palestine" harass diners at Jewish-owned Cafe Landwer and demand to boycott the "Zionist Cafe". #Antisemitism #AntisemitismCanada @TorontoPolice 1/2 pic.twitter.com/ISjlkyX0Xg
— Documenting Antisemitism (@AntisemitismCA) October 21, 2023
In one day, Hamas militants massacred, tortured, and abducted residents of a kibbutz, leaving their homes charred and their community in ruins.
At 6:31 a.m. on Saturday, October 7th, Gal Cohen’s morning run was interrupted by a flurry of rockets. Cohen, who lived in Kibbutz Be’eri, barely three miles from Israel’s border with Gaza, was used to the projectiles, and to the sound of their midair interceptions by Israel’s missile-defense system. But this barrage was unusually loud and intense. His dog, running beside him, went wild. Cohen, who is fifty-eight, bald, and soft-spoken, returned home and went to pick up his daughter—who also lived in the kibbutz and who, his wife had told him, was frantic. On the way over, Cohen spotted two men on a motorcycle, carrying rifles. They wore camouflage uniforms and “those green Hamas bandannas,” Cohen told me this week. Ducking his head out of view, he spoke to the kibbutz’s chief security officer, Arik Kraunik, by phone to report what he’d seen.
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Whose idea was it to import this? Why aren’t they in chains.
Toronto for Palestine protest and march today. Not sure how many of us were there but it looked like thousands. #FREEPALESTINE #StopGazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/1yZQZxEVJy
— special k🌻 (@neonbliss) October 21, 2023
Thousands came out for Palestine in Toronto pic.twitter.com/SeiI7baTXT
— rawan (@LaRawanblabla) October 21, 2023
And no one eats at Moxies after this
Restaurant workers show solidarity with National March for Gaza. #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel pic.twitter.com/wrSG0fWhXW
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) October 21, 2023
The anguish over some 200 people kidnapped by Hamas in its brutal attack on Israel is in the spotlight – but Hamas has been holding at least two Israelis for years.
Very little has been heard about Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin Arab Israeli Hisham al-Sayed, seized in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
The relatives of two dead Israeli soldiers are also tormented by the fact that Hamas has been holding their remains in Gaza since 2014. Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul were killed during a war between Israel and Hamas that year.
In 1930s, Britain pursued a policy of appeasing Hitler and Nazi Germany in the hope of avoiding a war. To the contrary, as we know, by empowering the Nazis to invade and attempt to take over other nations, this policy of appeasement led to World War ll.
Unfortunately, the European Union and the Biden administration have long been pursuing policies of appeasement with Hamas’s paymaster, the Iranian regime. This policy has only emboldened and empowered Iran’s ruling mullahs and their terrorist proxies, such as Hamas, to an extent that that on October 7, they launched one of the most barbaric attacks of our generation against Israel and Jews. Iran is now threatening to join the war against Israel, and may well be hoping that this is the moment they have effectively been planning since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
York University says it will begin a process that could lead to the school withdrawing its recognition of its student unions in response to a controversial statement the groups issued about this month’s Hamas attacks in Israel.
In a written notice Friday, the university’s administration said it suspects the student unions have breached their responsibilities under a university regulation, by failing to act in an open, accessible, democratic and non-discriminatory manner.
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a “die in” protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas.
The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the student saying “don’t grab me” and “don’t touch my neck” as protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with keffiyehs.
h/t MW
Protest in front of the US consulate in Toronto right now… Free Free Palestine ! pic.twitter.com/AjZJZ6ffn9
— Noorain (@Noorain07987878) October 21, 2023
THOUSANDS in TORONTO occupy University Ave in front of the U.S. Consulate condemning Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.#StopPalestineGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #Palestine#Toronto pic.twitter.com/SWw7uehcJT
— Javier Dávila #FreePalestine #NoOneIsDisposable (@XjusticeXpeace) October 21, 2023
Great turnout at the Palestine rally at Toronto Metropolitan University yesterday. Students and workers united to show our solidarity with Palestinian people against imperialism and genocide. pic.twitter.com/sTzVbS5lmP
— Fightback (@CanadaMarxists) October 21, 2023
Thousands of people are taking part in a pro-Palestinian protest in London for the second consecutive weekend.
The Met Police estimated up to 100,000 people had joined the march, which was due to end in a rally near Downing Street, as of 14:00 BST.
Smaller demos took place in Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff and Salford.
It comes as aid deliveries reached Gaza for the first time since Israel imposed a blockade following a Hamas attack which killed 1,400 people in Israel.
Holy moly!
An absolutely gigantic turnout in London right now to say, “Free Palestine!”🇵🇸
— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 21, 2023
Meanwhile in the USA …
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged divergent views, and common fears, among his Liberal MPs over the Israel-Hamas war on Friday, when he also faced an unfriendly crowd during a visit to a mosque.
Some Liberal MPs are joining calls by Muslim groups for Canada to push for a ceasefire in the region, while major Canadian Jewish groups have demanded Trudeau retract an earlier comment they view as lending credence to the claim by Hamas that Israel was responsible for an attack on a hospital in Gaza City.
