America’s new world order has empowered its enemies
Israel’s forces are massed at the border awaiting orders to launch a “full offensive” against Gaza. For days, airstrikes and artillery have been bombarding the Gaza statelet where Hamas has its warfighting machinery honeycombed inside city blocks. “You will have the ability to change the reality here,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told the waiting Israeli soldiers on Tuesday. “Gaza will never go back to what it was.”
So it’s come to this. Israel has felt moved to release images of the bloodied and charred corpses of babies – of murdered infants – to try to convince a cynical online world that even its most defenceless, tiny citizens were among the 1,300 people killed by Hamas last weekend.
Last night, Israel’s official social-media accounts posted three images. One picture shows a slain baby, his or her face blurred, covered in blood in an open body bag. Another two pictures show pint-sized corpses, burned beyond recognition. ‘This is the most difficult image we’ve ever posted. As we are writing this we are shaking’, said the text accompanying one image. ‘We went back and forth about posting this, but we need each and every one of you to know. This happened.’
All across the West, there is no shortage of people blaming the horrors in Israel on Israel itself — and openly supporting the perpetrators.
The head of policy at the Community Security Trust, which monitors hate crimes committed against British Jews, has said: ‘Anti-Semites are getting excited by the sight of dead Jews . . . Hamas murdering Israeli civilians has exhilarated them . . . We’ve had reports of people driving past synagogues shouting ‘Kill the Jews’.’
Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain are currently three times higher than they were this time last year, the charity adds.
The scariest outcome of the attacks in Israel may also be the most likely: that this one is just the first of its kind.
I spent last December in Jerusalem. It’s a vibrant city unlike any other, ebbing and flowing with ancient religious passions yet still youthful—and filled with the political extremism common to the young. Violence hovers here, enough to be felt, but not enough to paralyze. That’s how Ilya Sosansky, a bartender, 26, told me he felt.
Ilya said that he never felt safe in Jerusalem, though he accepted this as a fact of life. He was born in Ukraine but raised in Israel after his parents fled anti-Semitism there. He was jealous of those, like me, who grew up in quiet America. (My parents left Russia for America instead of Israel.)
Some Second Amendment proponents are criticizing the policies of an Israeli music festival that was attacked by Hamas militants over the weekend.
Thousands of people were dancing at the Supernova festival early Saturday when the surprise assault on Israel took place. After hearing sirens and rockets go off, festival-goers heard a barrage of gunfire that halted the music and sent crowds scrambling to get to safety. At least 260 bodies have been recovered from the festival site in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, according to rescue agency Zaka.
h/t DG
One of the lesser-known heroes of the Holocaust was a man named Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who managed to escape from Auschwitz in 1944. Together with fellow escapee Alfred Wetzler, Mr. Vrba put together a collection of sketches, stories and descriptions of the concentration camp where he personally saw Nazis murder thousands of Jews. Their report would eventually wake up the world to the mass exterminations happening at Nazi death camps.
Pic above ‘Hamas Attack Aftermath’ – Warning, assuming video is still up – it is extremely graphic.
There was long been a swell of sympathy for Hamas in the West. A certain leader of the opposition, you will remember, referred to them as his ‘friends’ and said that the UK government classifying them as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was a ‘big, big historical mistake’. He did not condemn Hamas this week. And he is not alone. The mass rallies on the streets of Britain in recent days have shown the level of support for a barbarism that for years has been quietly accommodated in this country.
When, on October 7, the terrorist group Hamas launched an unprovoked attack on Israel, killing more than 1,300 Israeli men, women and children (and wounding thousands more), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, rather than dusting off his usual inflammatory anti-Israel rants, uncharacteristically advised both sides for restraint. That was, after Erdoğan’s vow to isolate Israel internationally had brought Turkey a heavy geopolitical cost, This was Erdoğan’s pragmatist-self.
A government audit of one of Canada’s largest Muslim charities alleges some of its directors and employees were involved in “an apparent Hamas support network.”
Canada Revenue Agency auditors cited the “troubling” allegation as one of the reasons it felt there were grounds to revoke the charity status of the Muslim Association of Canada.
The March 2021 audit document, obtained by Global News, details the concerns the CRA charities branch raised about the federally-funded Muslim Association of Canada (MAC).
The Muslim Brotherhood helping Hamas? No Way!
BREAKING: Hamas publishes footage of its fighters keeping Israeli children as human shields in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/AvhLj3WOwH
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 13, 2023
Push them into the sea. Sink their boats and rafts.
First, let me state the obvious: there is nothing inherently wrong about any ethnic group having one or multiple organizations represent their interests, and that is as true for Arabs as it is for anybody else.
Not the opening line I would have written for an article detailing the latest CAIR outrage.
OTTAWA – Canada’s foreign affairs minister has arrived in Tel Aviv as she visits Israel and Jordan to hold talks on the impacts of Hamas’ attack on Israel and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Global Affairs Canada says in a statement that Minister Mélanie Joly travelled to the Middle East through Greece, the destination of the first two airlifts of Canadians out of Israel.
The statement says Joly will “reaffirm Canada’s support for Israel and its right to defend itself in accordance with international law,” while pushing forward collective efforts to ensure the swift passage of humanitarian aid and the protection of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.
Sick text messages have been sent from a cellphone belonging to the kidnapped boyfriend of Shani Louk, the German Israeli woman who was abducted alongside him and then paraded semi-naked on a pickup truck.
The 22-year-old tattoo artist and her Mexican boyfriend, Orión Hernández Radoux, have not been heard from since they attended the overnight Supernova rave, where 260 people were slaughtered on Saturday.
Canadian universities face challenges navigating Israel-Hamas war
MONTREAL – In the days since Hamas launched violent attacks on Israel, Canadian universities have been grappling with how to address a deeply divisive subject that has sparked grief, anger and heated debate on campuses and in wider society.
Several universities have faced backlash for public statements, while others have been forced to respond to groups who expressed support for the militant group’s actions.
York University Student Unions praise Hamas terrorists’ actions as “necessary” and condemn “so-called Canada” and “so-called” Israel as fundamentally illegitimate “settler-colonial states”.
“From Turtle Island to Palestine […] these events serve as a reminder that resistance… pic.twitter.com/urkCidPzD1
— Anthony Koch (@Anthony__Koch) October 13, 2023
Israel’s military has delivered sweeping evacuation orders for almost half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people before an expected ground offensive aiming to eradicate the Hamas militant group after its unprecedented assault on Israel and the seizure of dozens of hostages.
In the blockaded enclave, the evacuation notice issued in the early hours of Friday sent panic through civilians and aid workers already struggling under intense Israeli airstrikes, and a blockade in which no food, fuel or medical supplies is being allowed in. The UN considers the tightened siege a war crime.
Hamas tells Gaza residents to stay home as Israel ground offensive looms
Mosques called on residents of the Gaza Strip not to leave their homes on Friday after Israel’s military told all civilians, more than 1 million people, to relocate south ahead of an expected ground invasion that risks high casualties.
This may be the pivotal moment in fighting between the Israeli military and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which on Saturday launched the bloodiest attack on the country since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
