I have no space left in my heart to care about the children of the enemy. If I were around during WWII it seems unlikely I would have given a lickety spit for Japanese or German children. In the case of the Palestinian National Death Cult when I think of children. I think of the children born in the wake of Oslo who grew up to murder countless Israelis. And the thousands who are being indoctrinated this very day to murder future Israelis. The war needs to be won and the grotesque Palestinian Death cult needs to disappear. If not then Palestinian children will continue to die. If it's them or us I choose them.
Fully agree and appreciate how well said, Doug. Enough "statistics" from the Hamas propaganda machine. Absolutely nothing is verifiable and much is blantant lies. Combatant death is called civilian death. Civilians are often combatants and prison guards themselves. Numbers are grotesquely inflated. Food and medicine is hoarded by terrorists even if their own families are hungry and ill. Children are raised singing antisemitic verses and learning how to use weapons to kill Jews. This cult is groomed by rich neighbors strictly for their use as terrorists. Those neighbors also refuse to take in any of their murderous lackeys for fear of their own safety at the hands of their unhinged proteges. And the west does not really give a shit about what is true or just. We are in this alone.
I say this all the time. I really don't feel anything for them. We have to stop worrying about the narrative and do what needs to be done (and that includes Iran -jeeez!). Thank you for saying what I've been thinking.
"In the night of 2-3 June 2015, Dutch F-16s bombed the Iraqi city of Hawija. This strike was one of over 34,000 airstrikes carried out by the US-led Coalition in their war against ISIS. The airstrike hit its target: an ISIS bomb factory. However, it led to such a huge secondary explosion that it reduced an entire neighborhood to rubble." Very unfortunate indeed, and I wish better information was available at that time in order to avoid the killing of civilians.
But I do not doubt the decision to destroy this hellish factory.
Collateral damage happens in a war – provided ‘collateral damage’ is not the main result of military action. I have no illusions about the evil intent of totalitarian Hamas, but sometimes more of the same is not the right answer.
It seems to me, the IDF after one and a half year of struggle on a surface of only 365 square kilometer lost its way (or is unwilling to) to end this conflict with force and ‘collateral damage’ is practically the only result.
That’s devastating not only for the inhabitants of Gaza, but also for the international standing of Israel.
The efforts of the IDF aren't all they can do. There is a strategy currently in place that will see the IDF take total control of the strip within months if it is not stopped. It could have been done a year ago but the Biden bunch threatened to cut off weapon supplies. There hasn't been one single strike by the IDF that has been merely "collateral damage" as you put it. The idea that Israel should halt the war now and allow Hamas to survive and regroup to do it again is absurd. And won't happen. And shouldn't happen. However it seems to you. And if Palestinian "civilians" suffer that is entirely the fault of their leaders who have decided to conduct its murder war from within their midst in schools hospitals etc for the exact purpose of causing people like you to react the way you have.
I stand with Israel! i have no sympathy for Palestinians since I heard , during the second intifada, three mothers looking straight into the camera, saying they raise their sons to be suicide bombers. That did it for me.
—In Israel, we don’t have the luxury of pretending everyone is “just like us.”
I think this is a really important point that strikes right at the heart of the Western liberal obsession with "Palestinian babies".
"[P]retending everyone is 'just like us'" is foundational liberal dogma that supports all sorts of progressive policies (and pieties), from education to foreign policy to immigration. There is something in the Western liberal mind that (bc of modern European history, mostly) sees itself as the exalted terminus of humanity, the people who reside at the apex of civilization because they have ascended tribe and god, and that believes devoutly that everyone on earth wants to be just like them and CAN be just like them if provided with the right combo of welfare, education and therapy. Then everyone will abandon all prior allegiances in exchange for liberal-capitalist democracy, human rights, tolerance, reason, legalism, etc to become placid humanitarian socialists, as we were all meant to be.
This is part of the reason why Western liberals cannot look clearly and honestly at the Palestinians and admit that they don't want a state, don't want democracy, but they want to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as they can get their hands on. To admit this would be admitting that an important part of their sacred dogma is false, and also that Islamism is a real enemy that needs to challenged and not a "religion of peace" that needs to be coddled.
And when people are forced to lie and cling to illusions it means they can't argue or reason clearly and have to resort to emotional manipulation and moral blackmail: Thus "Think of the Palestinian babies!" becomes a propaganda campaign and an evasion of reality and responsibility. The Western liberal victim fetish is a debased form of moral vanity and a way for people to pretend they are kind and compassionate when really they just want Israel to surrender so this war leaves their news feeds and they can get back to peacefully shopping and browsing the internet.
Brilliant, accurate exposition of a deeply difficult truth.
Jews are raised on the imperatives of Tikkun Olam (literally "repairing the world") and on the exhortation in Deuteronomy 30:19 : "I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse — therefore choose life!”
Palestinian children suffer from mass abuse by their elders, who teach them to hate, and kill, and to choose death. It's a sickness perpetuated, and exploited, by evil regimes of Hamas, Qatar and Iran. Palestinians cannot be free unless and until they are freed from them.
My wonderful Irish husband says it's as if they are infected by a virus -- for which there is no known cure at this moment. Although, fighting the war the way it should be fought might do the trick. You don't feed your enemy and you don't supply water to your enemy, until the hostages are released.
If you only cry for Palestinian children while ignoring the suffering of Israeli children as folks like Ms. Rachel, Norman Finkelstein, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Dave Smith, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Kurt Metzger, Greta Thunberg, Glenn Loury, and others do, you are either totally misinformed and have been duped or are a sociopath. Folks like them make excuses for the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups by playing both sideism, parroting Hamas propaganda, smear Israel, ignore inconvenient facts, and make no mention of how Israelis are suffering in this war. Hamas have down a masterful job pulling the wool over the eyes of millions of gullible people and leaders all over the world. The Pro-Palestinian Movement and its advocates in international bodies and NGOs and on the internet weaponize the suffering of Palestinian children for their own political agenda. But make no mistake, they are actually helping to perpetuate the suffering of the very children they claim to care so deeply about by ignoring or not being educated or informed enough to know about, the oppression of the Palestinian people by Fatah and Hamas and the apartheid system against Palestinians not in the West Bank, but in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and every other Arab country. How many Palestinian refugees have Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Morrocco, Tunisia, Sudan, Oman, or the UAE taken in? None.
You'll never hear Gideon Levy, Medhi Hasan or Rania Khalek screaming at the top of their lungs about that. Also, how about actual human rights abuses? How about actual genocides? What do they have to say about Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, China putting the Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, Sudan's actual genocide against the black Zaghawa, Fur and Masalit ethnic groups, the slaughter of religious minorities in Syria by its Jihadist government, the gender apartheid in Iran and Afghanistan, the oppression of the Kurds by Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, or the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar? Notta. They don't really care about human rights, they care about money, likes and social media clout. Folks like Anya Parampil, Tim Pool, Jake Shields, Andrew Tate, Piers Morgan, etc. have no real concern for the Palestinian people, they just hate Israel and the Jewish people. If you really care about the Palestinian people and want to see them liberated and receive a state of their own as they deserve, then here is what you need to: call out Hamas, condemn and protest for them to stop the war and give back the hostages!
I have said and will always say that the Palestinian people's best friends are the United States, the West and Israel and the one's responsible for their plight in the past and today is their own government and the Arab countries. It is Palestinian voices like Hamza Howidy, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, John Aziz, Bassem Eid, the Green Prince, and Mudar Zahran that are the ones they ought to be listening to and highlighting. Who was it that opened a humanitarian aid distribution center to feed the people of Gaza? America and Israel. Whose names were the Gazan people chanting and who were they thanking? Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF. Don't let mainstream media propaganda fool you. Palestinians have no greater friends than the land of the free and the home of the brave and the nation state of the Jewish people. You know who was smiling down from Heavan at that distribution center being opened? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion. I guarantee it. As to Hamas and the denial of Islamism as a threat to the West. Stop it! Hamas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and the Houthis have one goal and one goal only: to conquer the world and have everyone around the world worshipping their form of radical Islam. Make no mistake if they could, they'd march down 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, take the Crown Jewels on England as spoils of war, take everything that's not nailed down at the Louvre, sail down the canals of Venice, take a photo-op standing on the Great Wall of China, and seize the Australian Outback as their own private nature reserve. From the Volga to the Red Sea, from Brooklyn to Bangkok, from the snowy peaks of the Alps to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef, they want to rule over it all.
America and the West must not allow the principles of Islamism to take us over. Instead, we must follow the ideals of the Bible, the Rennaissance, the Enlightenment, the Ancient Romans and the Ancient Greeks, the founding fathers, and the Civil Rights Movement. That's what this war is at its heart: a clash of civilizations. It's the ideals of Jesus of Nazareth, Moses, Muhammad, the Buddha, Confucius, King David, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Adam Smith, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Theodor Herzl, Frederick Douglass, Saint Patrick, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. against the ideals of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat, Osama Bin-Laden, Abu Al-Bakr Baghdadi, Ismail Haniyeh, and Yahya Sinwar. To the people of the United States and the land I'm proud to call home, do NOT be so naive as to think Hamas couldn't do something like October 7th to us! Don't think for a second that Hamas got the chance, they wouldn't do to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, San Diego, Atlanta, Richmond, Minneapolis, Cleveland, or Cincinnati what they did to Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, if they got the chance. If Hamas invaded America here's what they'd do: mass executions of the Amish, Mennonites, Scientologists, the Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses as infidels, destroy the Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, take our President and the members of Congress hostage, sack and burn the Smithsonian and Fort Knox, and force the Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and the Inuit to convert to Islam or else.
My intention there was not to scare anyone or cause panic nor am I saying it is going to happen anytime soon, but rather to just remind Americans and westerners to stay alert and don't think it could never happen to us so it's not our problem too. We must never forget 9/11, the attack on the USS Cole, the bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, or the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Some people are seriously suggesting Hamas are resistance fighters akin to the American colonists in 1776 or the Irish in the 1917 Easter Rising. That's absolute nonsense! They are more akin to the Black Legion, the Symbionese Liberation Army or the Covenant, the Arm and the Sword of the Lord. Furthermore, there is NO apartheid in Israel and Israel is the least racist and most inclusive nation in the Middle East. Being female, black, Palestinian, Bedouin, Jewish, Christian, Kurdish, gay, Trans, or disabled anywhere outside of Israel in the Middle East is a nightmare. Egypt is quite racist towards Nubians and Sub-Saharan African workers. You know what Gamal Abdel Nasser's ministers called Anwar Sadat for being half-black? Nasser's black poodle. The UAE treats Indian guest workers like garbage. Bahrain has a legitimate apartheid against Shi'ite Muslims. Hashemite Arabs in Jordan hate Palestinians and consider them subhuman. Iran persecutes Kurds, Christians, Jews, Baluchis, the Baha'i, women, black people, Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Sunni Muslims, and LGBTQ+ people.
Recent photo circulating of an alleged "Dr." sobbing at the bedsides of her 7 children killed in an Israeli airstrike. Look closely and you'll notice at least 3 of the children are identical and most likely AI generated. Most glaring, none of the children have any of the head trauma that would be expected from an airstrike. Yet the West gobbles up these photos like the morons they are.
It's time we stopped "whataboutism." Sometimes our yiddishe kops default into pilpul. Too much. Make it simple: Evil exists. Hamas is evil. Jihadism has one goal: No Jews at all.
The same women screeching ....at graduation ceremonies, or the 80 year olds code pinks dragged off by Capitol police care nothing for Sudan where millions are dying of famine....no cease fire. The same men draped in table cloths about freedom have turned their backs on their own people and the people of Iran crying for freedom from authoritarian oligarchs. So I'm left with the conclusion you draw, that nothing provokes EU and UK and BBC indignation more than living and ARMED Jews. The hystrionic display by "state of Palestine" rep at the UN which was aired on This WEEK on ABC were it not so hypocritical would be worthy laughter. They show it as part of their campaign against Israel....which is pretty much now the same as the BBC s on going campaign to undo the State of Israel. I could go on...but you covered it.
ah, but yer preachin' to the converted (lol) here....
100% true this:
"The portrayal of “Palestinian children” as passive victims of Israeli cruelty isn’t just misleading; it’s psychological warfare.The image of a suffering child isn’t being shown to stop the war. It’s being shown to stop Israel from fighting it. It is a calculated form of emotional blackmail, meant to neutralize military resolve, demoralize supporters, and guilt-trip the West into funding the very groups that engineer this suffering in the first place. It’s not about empathy; it’s about leverage."
BUT I counter that the way forward is since they've weaponized their "innocent child'run" an' literally gained the empathy of the whirled by so-doin', NOTHIN' Israel kin say/do ta counter the power of these images 'CEPT:
1. Hirin' a TEAM of AI-detectors an' fakery scannin' young'uns to find all PALLYWOOD malarkey--all the old "rehashed" images, all the AI manipulations, all the impossiblities (like babies with bullets in their brains when we know the heads would'a--sorry gruesome--exploded or the bullets would'a gone out the other end--i.e. mediCULL fakery!)
2. Hirin' a TEAM of lie exposers...with big well-funded websites an' prominent "search results" in the DoobieEvilGoogle an' other engines to DISPROVE lies! Show all the food trucks bein' delayed, robbed. Show that it was HamAss & not IDF that fired at those tryin' ta git food (IDF fired at the sky), SHOW what happened ta jooish kids not via photos (not right) but via axe-u-all medical reports... I hear fer the poor Bibas babies there were outside parties--objective ones. MUST be shown... proof of hostage starvation, etc.
3. Findin' non-graphic ways for Israel to have "good PR" that's troothful... stories about Israel TREATIN' injured pali-babies & kids an' given 'em surgeries... stuff folks do NOT know 'bout...
That's just the ice-breaker.... PR firms sorely needed ta counter "bloody babies on parade" (not ta diminish their humanity but to show that we joos are not monsters...b/c lord'a'moses everybuddy & his brother thinks we are!)
Hamas starts a war then immediately turns around and cries “think of the children.” The same kids Hamas is happy to use as human shields. The same preemie babies whose NICU incubators contained live grenades! Hamas are cowards. Let the people leave who want to leave. Send the kids to safety. Then fight like men.
I have no space left in my heart to care about the children of the enemy. If I were around during WWII it seems unlikely I would have given a lickety spit for Japanese or German children. In the case of the Palestinian National Death Cult when I think of children. I think of the children born in the wake of Oslo who grew up to murder countless Israelis. And the thousands who are being indoctrinated this very day to murder future Israelis. The war needs to be won and the grotesque Palestinian Death cult needs to disappear. If not then Palestinian children will continue to die. If it's them or us I choose them.
Fully agree and appreciate how well said, Doug. Enough "statistics" from the Hamas propaganda machine. Absolutely nothing is verifiable and much is blantant lies. Combatant death is called civilian death. Civilians are often combatants and prison guards themselves. Numbers are grotesquely inflated. Food and medicine is hoarded by terrorists even if their own families are hungry and ill. Children are raised singing antisemitic verses and learning how to use weapons to kill Jews. This cult is groomed by rich neighbors strictly for their use as terrorists. Those neighbors also refuse to take in any of their murderous lackeys for fear of their own safety at the hands of their unhinged proteges. And the west does not really give a shit about what is true or just. We are in this alone.
I say this all the time. I really don't feel anything for them. We have to stop worrying about the narrative and do what needs to be done (and that includes Iran -jeeez!). Thank you for saying what I've been thinking.
You are all incorrigible sociopaths.
"In the night of 2-3 June 2015, Dutch F-16s bombed the Iraqi city of Hawija. This strike was one of over 34,000 airstrikes carried out by the US-led Coalition in their war against ISIS. The airstrike hit its target: an ISIS bomb factory. However, it led to such a huge secondary explosion that it reduced an entire neighborhood to rubble." Very unfortunate indeed, and I wish better information was available at that time in order to avoid the killing of civilians.
But I do not doubt the decision to destroy this hellish factory.
Collateral damage happens in a war – provided ‘collateral damage’ is not the main result of military action. I have no illusions about the evil intent of totalitarian Hamas, but sometimes more of the same is not the right answer.
It seems to me, the IDF after one and a half year of struggle on a surface of only 365 square kilometer lost its way (or is unwilling to) to end this conflict with force and ‘collateral damage’ is practically the only result.
That’s devastating not only for the inhabitants of Gaza, but also for the international standing of Israel.
I dont know what sources have led you to this conclusion but try some others. Your conclusions are not correct.
It seems to me, Hamas is (unfortunately) alive & kicking despite all efforts by the IDF.
The efforts of the IDF aren't all they can do. There is a strategy currently in place that will see the IDF take total control of the strip within months if it is not stopped. It could have been done a year ago but the Biden bunch threatened to cut off weapon supplies. There hasn't been one single strike by the IDF that has been merely "collateral damage" as you put it. The idea that Israel should halt the war now and allow Hamas to survive and regroup to do it again is absurd. And won't happen. And shouldn't happen. However it seems to you. And if Palestinian "civilians" suffer that is entirely the fault of their leaders who have decided to conduct its murder war from within their midst in schools hospitals etc for the exact purpose of causing people like you to react the way you have.
I stand with Israel! i have no sympathy for Palestinians since I heard , during the second intifada, three mothers looking straight into the camera, saying they raise their sons to be suicide bombers. That did it for me.
—In Israel, we don’t have the luxury of pretending everyone is “just like us.”
I think this is a really important point that strikes right at the heart of the Western liberal obsession with "Palestinian babies".
"[P]retending everyone is 'just like us'" is foundational liberal dogma that supports all sorts of progressive policies (and pieties), from education to foreign policy to immigration. There is something in the Western liberal mind that (bc of modern European history, mostly) sees itself as the exalted terminus of humanity, the people who reside at the apex of civilization because they have ascended tribe and god, and that believes devoutly that everyone on earth wants to be just like them and CAN be just like them if provided with the right combo of welfare, education and therapy. Then everyone will abandon all prior allegiances in exchange for liberal-capitalist democracy, human rights, tolerance, reason, legalism, etc to become placid humanitarian socialists, as we were all meant to be.
This is part of the reason why Western liberals cannot look clearly and honestly at the Palestinians and admit that they don't want a state, don't want democracy, but they want to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as they can get their hands on. To admit this would be admitting that an important part of their sacred dogma is false, and also that Islamism is a real enemy that needs to challenged and not a "religion of peace" that needs to be coddled.
And when people are forced to lie and cling to illusions it means they can't argue or reason clearly and have to resort to emotional manipulation and moral blackmail: Thus "Think of the Palestinian babies!" becomes a propaganda campaign and an evasion of reality and responsibility. The Western liberal victim fetish is a debased form of moral vanity and a way for people to pretend they are kind and compassionate when really they just want Israel to surrender so this war leaves their news feeds and they can get back to peacefully shopping and browsing the internet.
And after Israel, they want the rest of the world to be ruled by a caliphate. Make no mistake.
that is a fact that 99 percent of the Western world just doesn't seem to grasp.
Brilliantly said.
Spot on!! Another beautiful piece, Joshua!
Brilliant, accurate exposition of a deeply difficult truth.
Jews are raised on the imperatives of Tikkun Olam (literally "repairing the world") and on the exhortation in Deuteronomy 30:19 : "I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse — therefore choose life!”
Palestinian children suffer from mass abuse by their elders, who teach them to hate, and kill, and to choose death. It's a sickness perpetuated, and exploited, by evil regimes of Hamas, Qatar and Iran. Palestinians cannot be free unless and until they are freed from them.
My wonderful Irish husband says it's as if they are infected by a virus -- for which there is no known cure at this moment. Although, fighting the war the way it should be fought might do the trick. You don't feed your enemy and you don't supply water to your enemy, until the hostages are released.
If you only cry for Palestinian children while ignoring the suffering of Israeli children as folks like Ms. Rachel, Norman Finkelstein, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Dave Smith, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Kurt Metzger, Greta Thunberg, Glenn Loury, and others do, you are either totally misinformed and have been duped or are a sociopath. Folks like them make excuses for the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups by playing both sideism, parroting Hamas propaganda, smear Israel, ignore inconvenient facts, and make no mention of how Israelis are suffering in this war. Hamas have down a masterful job pulling the wool over the eyes of millions of gullible people and leaders all over the world. The Pro-Palestinian Movement and its advocates in international bodies and NGOs and on the internet weaponize the suffering of Palestinian children for their own political agenda. But make no mistake, they are actually helping to perpetuate the suffering of the very children they claim to care so deeply about by ignoring or not being educated or informed enough to know about, the oppression of the Palestinian people by Fatah and Hamas and the apartheid system against Palestinians not in the West Bank, but in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and every other Arab country. How many Palestinian refugees have Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Morrocco, Tunisia, Sudan, Oman, or the UAE taken in? None.
You'll never hear Gideon Levy, Medhi Hasan or Rania Khalek screaming at the top of their lungs about that. Also, how about actual human rights abuses? How about actual genocides? What do they have to say about Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, China putting the Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, Sudan's actual genocide against the black Zaghawa, Fur and Masalit ethnic groups, the slaughter of religious minorities in Syria by its Jihadist government, the gender apartheid in Iran and Afghanistan, the oppression of the Kurds by Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, or the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar? Notta. They don't really care about human rights, they care about money, likes and social media clout. Folks like Anya Parampil, Tim Pool, Jake Shields, Andrew Tate, Piers Morgan, etc. have no real concern for the Palestinian people, they just hate Israel and the Jewish people. If you really care about the Palestinian people and want to see them liberated and receive a state of their own as they deserve, then here is what you need to: call out Hamas, condemn and protest for them to stop the war and give back the hostages!
I have said and will always say that the Palestinian people's best friends are the United States, the West and Israel and the one's responsible for their plight in the past and today is their own government and the Arab countries. It is Palestinian voices like Hamza Howidy, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, John Aziz, Bassem Eid, the Green Prince, and Mudar Zahran that are the ones they ought to be listening to and highlighting. Who was it that opened a humanitarian aid distribution center to feed the people of Gaza? America and Israel. Whose names were the Gazan people chanting and who were they thanking? Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF. Don't let mainstream media propaganda fool you. Palestinians have no greater friends than the land of the free and the home of the brave and the nation state of the Jewish people. You know who was smiling down from Heavan at that distribution center being opened? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion. I guarantee it. As to Hamas and the denial of Islamism as a threat to the West. Stop it! Hamas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and the Houthis have one goal and one goal only: to conquer the world and have everyone around the world worshipping their form of radical Islam. Make no mistake if they could, they'd march down 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, take the Crown Jewels on England as spoils of war, take everything that's not nailed down at the Louvre, sail down the canals of Venice, take a photo-op standing on the Great Wall of China, and seize the Australian Outback as their own private nature reserve. From the Volga to the Red Sea, from Brooklyn to Bangkok, from the snowy peaks of the Alps to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef, they want to rule over it all.
America and the West must not allow the principles of Islamism to take us over. Instead, we must follow the ideals of the Bible, the Rennaissance, the Enlightenment, the Ancient Romans and the Ancient Greeks, the founding fathers, and the Civil Rights Movement. That's what this war is at its heart: a clash of civilizations. It's the ideals of Jesus of Nazareth, Moses, Muhammad, the Buddha, Confucius, King David, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Adam Smith, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Theodor Herzl, Frederick Douglass, Saint Patrick, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. against the ideals of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat, Osama Bin-Laden, Abu Al-Bakr Baghdadi, Ismail Haniyeh, and Yahya Sinwar. To the people of the United States and the land I'm proud to call home, do NOT be so naive as to think Hamas couldn't do something like October 7th to us! Don't think for a second that Hamas got the chance, they wouldn't do to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, San Diego, Atlanta, Richmond, Minneapolis, Cleveland, or Cincinnati what they did to Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, if they got the chance. If Hamas invaded America here's what they'd do: mass executions of the Amish, Mennonites, Scientologists, the Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses as infidels, destroy the Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, take our President and the members of Congress hostage, sack and burn the Smithsonian and Fort Knox, and force the Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and the Inuit to convert to Islam or else.
My intention there was not to scare anyone or cause panic nor am I saying it is going to happen anytime soon, but rather to just remind Americans and westerners to stay alert and don't think it could never happen to us so it's not our problem too. We must never forget 9/11, the attack on the USS Cole, the bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, or the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Some people are seriously suggesting Hamas are resistance fighters akin to the American colonists in 1776 or the Irish in the 1917 Easter Rising. That's absolute nonsense! They are more akin to the Black Legion, the Symbionese Liberation Army or the Covenant, the Arm and the Sword of the Lord. Furthermore, there is NO apartheid in Israel and Israel is the least racist and most inclusive nation in the Middle East. Being female, black, Palestinian, Bedouin, Jewish, Christian, Kurdish, gay, Trans, or disabled anywhere outside of Israel in the Middle East is a nightmare. Egypt is quite racist towards Nubians and Sub-Saharan African workers. You know what Gamal Abdel Nasser's ministers called Anwar Sadat for being half-black? Nasser's black poodle. The UAE treats Indian guest workers like garbage. Bahrain has a legitimate apartheid against Shi'ite Muslims. Hashemite Arabs in Jordan hate Palestinians and consider them subhuman. Iran persecutes Kurds, Christians, Jews, Baluchis, the Baha'i, women, black people, Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Sunni Muslims, and LGBTQ+ people.
That photo is not of innocent children but of terrorists in training.
Recent photo circulating of an alleged "Dr." sobbing at the bedsides of her 7 children killed in an Israeli airstrike. Look closely and you'll notice at least 3 of the children are identical and most likely AI generated. Most glaring, none of the children have any of the head trauma that would be expected from an airstrike. Yet the West gobbles up these photos like the morons they are.
It's time we stopped "whataboutism." Sometimes our yiddishe kops default into pilpul. Too much. Make it simple: Evil exists. Hamas is evil. Jihadism has one goal: No Jews at all.
From the River to the Sea, just let Jews BE.
The same women screeching ....at graduation ceremonies, or the 80 year olds code pinks dragged off by Capitol police care nothing for Sudan where millions are dying of famine....no cease fire. The same men draped in table cloths about freedom have turned their backs on their own people and the people of Iran crying for freedom from authoritarian oligarchs. So I'm left with the conclusion you draw, that nothing provokes EU and UK and BBC indignation more than living and ARMED Jews. The hystrionic display by "state of Palestine" rep at the UN which was aired on This WEEK on ABC were it not so hypocritical would be worthy laughter. They show it as part of their campaign against Israel....which is pretty much now the same as the BBC s on going campaign to undo the State of Israel. I could go on...but you covered it.
There is no place called Palestine since 1947. Please stop using the term
ah, but yer preachin' to the converted (lol) here....
100% true this:
"The portrayal of “Palestinian children” as passive victims of Israeli cruelty isn’t just misleading; it’s psychological warfare.The image of a suffering child isn’t being shown to stop the war. It’s being shown to stop Israel from fighting it. It is a calculated form of emotional blackmail, meant to neutralize military resolve, demoralize supporters, and guilt-trip the West into funding the very groups that engineer this suffering in the first place. It’s not about empathy; it’s about leverage."
BUT I counter that the way forward is since they've weaponized their "innocent child'run" an' literally gained the empathy of the whirled by so-doin', NOTHIN' Israel kin say/do ta counter the power of these images 'CEPT:
1. Hirin' a TEAM of AI-detectors an' fakery scannin' young'uns to find all PALLYWOOD malarkey--all the old "rehashed" images, all the AI manipulations, all the impossiblities (like babies with bullets in their brains when we know the heads would'a--sorry gruesome--exploded or the bullets would'a gone out the other end--i.e. mediCULL fakery!)
2. Hirin' a TEAM of lie exposers...with big well-funded websites an' prominent "search results" in the DoobieEvilGoogle an' other engines to DISPROVE lies! Show all the food trucks bein' delayed, robbed. Show that it was HamAss & not IDF that fired at those tryin' ta git food (IDF fired at the sky), SHOW what happened ta jooish kids not via photos (not right) but via axe-u-all medical reports... I hear fer the poor Bibas babies there were outside parties--objective ones. MUST be shown... proof of hostage starvation, etc.
3. Findin' non-graphic ways for Israel to have "good PR" that's troothful... stories about Israel TREATIN' injured pali-babies & kids an' given 'em surgeries... stuff folks do NOT know 'bout...
That's just the ice-breaker.... PR firms sorely needed ta counter "bloody babies on parade" (not ta diminish their humanity but to show that we joos are not monsters...b/c lord'a'moses everybuddy & his brother thinks we are!)
Hamas starts a war then immediately turns around and cries “think of the children.” The same kids Hamas is happy to use as human shields. The same preemie babies whose NICU incubators contained live grenades! Hamas are cowards. Let the people leave who want to leave. Send the kids to safety. Then fight like men.