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Thank you, Jamie, for spelling out the distinction and for calling out those who use the term for the Hamas war. I’m hanging onto this one so I can quote you now and then, if that is okay.

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Thanks for the kind words, please do.

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Astute and articulate Jamie..... I will be filing this one

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Yes, I often forget to do that. Thanks for mentioning it.

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Here's a new take. How about Israel finish its mission, hopefully rescue the hostages and ends the war.

Israel does not have to answer to anyone for its survival. If Hamas surrendered on October 8, 2023 and released the hostages, there would be no war and no "casualties." It seems Hamas wanted this war and loves all the attention that comes from it all the while demonizing Israel and all it stands for...

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Exactly my thoughts

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"rescue the hostages" is a fantasy.

I'll be clear: I loathe Hamas and wish it would disappear from the face of the earth but an Entebbe style rescue is out of the question. The two stated goals of the war: get the hostages back, and degrade Hamas militarily (destroying it is similarly impossible) are logically antithetical.

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Israel knows they can't rescue the hostages; the last attempt made Hamas execute six hostages just before they were rescued. Most of the hostages are dead. But Jews believe even getting back the deceased is critical, it is part of the religion. A proper burial is necessary. But this war cannot end with Hamas remaining in power and re-arming. And Israel must also defeat Hezbollah and Iran. The moderate Middle East countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan) are rooting for Israel because they know if the terrorists win and take over the Middle East, they will destroy their countries the same way they have destroyed Gaza, destroyed Lebanon (where the civilians are ALSO hoping Israel wins) and destroyed Iran (the people there are ALSO hoping Israel wins). Neutralizing Iran and her terror network would be a gift not only to the Middle East but the world. I mean--do you really want the current leaders of Iran, a fanatically evil, brutal, regime to get that nuclear bomb they are building? Leaders who have killed a million of THEIR OWN PEOPLE who protest the brutality imposed on them?

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This is an important post. How do we believe these casualties? I think Israel is very careful with its protection of civilians. It goes to extraordinary measures to warn people of an imminent attack. Allowing them to evacuate. This is a war and many people don’t seem to understand that. In the second WW Britain was bombed and civilians died. In Dresden in Germany the Brits bombed everything. Then we have Nagasaki and Hiroshima, all to end a war. I believe the World is not seeing this as a War, that is the issue. However it is a War to end the War that Hamas has against Israel.

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I still get a sort of sad chuckle when I think of that Golden Oldie in which a Pal woman, a murdered victim of Israeli atrocity purported by Hamas, is caught on Cell Phone concluding the video and casually getting up and walking home.

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Remember al Dura case. Outing fabricated derogatory news faulting Israel. Cannot trust local sources or reporters in the Territories (hamas, plo). Apparently also not UNRWA, IRCC, others operating in terrorist territories. Ive heard their reps mouth the same script, practically verbatim, not challenged by media hosts (Joy Reid, others- MSNBC)

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If that disgusts you, check Melanie Phillips, here on Substack today.

She has details proving what we all know, that China Joe is Israel's worst and most powerful enemy.

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If that disgusts you, check Melanie Phillips, here on Substack today.

She has details proving what we all know, that China Joe is Israel's worst and most powerful enemy.

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It is a war on extreme Islamic terror that has seen millions of Muslims die at the hands of terrorists, and thousands of Western countries (including America) with horrific terrorist attacks for the past four decades. Please consider this PARTIAL list:

The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim

The Beltway Snipers were Muslims

The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim

The underwear Bomber was a Muslim

The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims

The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims

The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims

The London Subway Bombers were Muslims

The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims

The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims

The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims

The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims

The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims

The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims

The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims

The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims

The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims

The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims

The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims

The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims

The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims

The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims

The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims

The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims

The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims'

And so on.

Think of this :

Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem

Hindus living with Christians = No Problem

Hindus living with Jews = No Problem

Christians living with Shintos = No Problem

Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem

Confusians living with Baha'is = No Problem

Baha'is living with Jews = No Problem

Jews living with Atheists = No Problem

Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem

Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem

Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem

Hindus living with Baha'is = No Problem

Baha'is living with Christians = No Problem

Christians living with Jews = No Problem

Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem

Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem

Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem

Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem

Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem

Muslims living with Hindus = Problem

Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem

Muslims living with Christians = Problem

Muslims living with Jews = Problem

Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem

Muslims living with Baha'is = Problem

Muslims living with Shintos = Problem

Muslims living with Atheists = Problem

MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM

This leads to :

They’re not happy in Gaza

They're not happy in Egypt

They're not happy in Libya

They're not happy in Morocco

They're not happy in Iran

They're not happy in Iraq

They're not happy in Yemen

They're not happy in Afghanistan

They're not happy in Pakistan

They're not happy in Syria

They're not happy in Lebanon

They're not happy in Nigeria

They're not happy in Kenya

They're not happy in Sudan

So, where are they happy?

They're happy in Australia

They're happy in England

They're happy in Belgium

They're happy in France

They're happy in Italy

They're happy in Germany

They're happy in Sweden

They're happy in the USA & Canada

They're happy in Norway & India

They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic!

Who do they blame?

Not Islam... Not their leadership... Not themselves... THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!! They want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from, where they were unhappy.

Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION

And many more.

Think about this :

20 things that psychopath Muslims do :

1] Kill any one who insults Islam or Moham-mad. (Koran.33;57-61).

2) Kill all Muslims who leave Islam. (Koran.2;217/4;89/Bukhari.9;84-57).

3) Koran can not be doubted. (Koran.2;1).

4) Islam is the only acceptable religion. (Koran.3;85).

5) Muslims must fight (jihad) to non-Muslims, even if they don't want to. (Koran.2;216).

6) We the non-Muslims are pigs and apes. (Koran. 2;62-65/Koran.5;59-60/Koran.7;166).

7) We the non-Muslims cannot be friends with Muslims. (Koran.5;51).

We the non-Muslims sworn enemies of Muslims and Islam. (Koran.4;101).

9) We the non-Muslims can be raped as sex slave. (Koran.4;3 & 24/5;89/23;5/33;50/58;3/70;30).

10) We the non-Muslims the vilest of creatures deserving no mercy. (Koran.98;6).

11) Muslim must terrorized us (non-Muslims). (Koran.8;12 &59-60/ Bukhari.4;52;220).

12) Muslims must strike terror into non-Muslims hearts. (Koran.8;60).

13) Muslims must lie to us (non-Muslims) to strengthen and spread Islam. (Koran.3;28?16;106).

14) Muslims are allowed to behead us (non_Muslims) (Koran.47;4).

15) Muslims are guaranteed to go to heaven if they kill us (non-Muslims). (Koran.9;111).

16) Marrying and divorcing pre-pubescent children is OK. (Koran.65;4).

17) Wife beating is OK. (Koran.4;34).

18) Raping wives is OK. (Koran.2;223).

19) Proving rape requires 4 (four) male Muslim witnesses. (Koran.24;13).

20) Muslims are allowed to crucify and amputate us (non-Muslims). Koran.8;12/47;4).

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I agree, it’s a never ending litany of murder, from a single religion!

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Of course Hamas is lying.

The fact that Hamas is still capable of lying worries me.

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Not surprised at twisting truth. I am distressed that the words of terrorists are repeated, unchallenged; while those speaking for Israel, our ally, are challenged, interrupted incessantly, and treated with cynicism as if they are lying.

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Fantastic read! I so tire of the false accusations of genocide against Israel! It's gotten to the point where so many can't tell the difference between REAL genocide & false ones

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I left the pizza on the counter and by the time I came home my teenage son and his friends had genocided it all.

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Brilliant!

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At least it wasn't the Dog...

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'LMAO!!

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Great post, but I'm a little surprised that you had hundreds of cancellations. I would have thought that most of your subscribers are relatively supportive of Israel. People talk about Churchill having mobilized the English language for war. Clearly those people accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide are using words to wage war, making up unique definitions for old words.

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Not hundreds of cancellations, but it generated thousands of comments and messages.

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Apparently, closed minded people do that a lot.

Radio Far Side recently sent out an article bemoaning all the subscribers a Jew Hate screed had cost him. Other sites sharing the near inexplicable commonality of ordinarily providing useful and well researched info descending into drooling idiocy on Israel have not vocalized this concern, but have markedly pulled back from honking endlessly about Genocide and Stolen Land.

It may be coincidence, but it sure looks like it didn't go over well and they took the hint.

I don't want to take too much credit, but my making monkeys of them may have had something to do with the conclusion they came to...

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A very important essay; thank you. I happened on a YouTube talk by journalist Chris Hedges, whom I used to respect, in which he not only describes Israel's actions in the current war as a Holocaust and a genocide, he extends the metaphor on and on, with unparalleled erudition (Hedges being Hedges) and minute detail, for I don't know how many minutes because I cut it off after thee or four. I think that this sort of behavior (not unlike what you are reporting) is what my mother would call "sticking the knife in, and twisting."

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Hedges belongs to that Chomskyite wing of the left who make a lot of sense when Western neocons are running amok, but are revealed to be unhinged isolationists who almost unconditionally side with every non-Western party in the face of international conflict.

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In Canada our PM, the wokest political leader on the planet Justin Trudeau, the man who has jumped on every woke bus that has traversed the city of Stupidopolis (Ottawa), said that the killing of indigeneous women by indigenous men was genocide by white people because native lives were made so hard by residential schools that their grandfather went to in 1969. Great article but Canadian politicians can always outstupid you.

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You sound like someone who could benefit from a subscription to Rebel News.

Unless you already have one...

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In his interview, New Year's interview with Barri Weiss, linguist John McWhorter predicted 2024 would include a battle over the meaning of the word "genocide." The fact is that language has been so degraded over the past twenty years, so driven by irresponsible hyperbole, that I can't help but think the battle against redefining "genocide" will be a losing one. The word will, in fact, come to mean to defeating your enemy, and its origins in the Jewish experience of the Holocaust will be all but forgotten. "Genocide" will be genocided. That having been said, I encourage you to keep fighting the good fight.

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Genocide is actually a less dramatic term for what Israel has been doing.

Also Genocide isn’t just massacring civilians it’s also kicking them all out of your country by force is technically a genocide like with how the Myanmar government kicked out the Rohingya Muslims the UN classified that as a genocide and Israel is doing that at the moment.

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Great points raised here, but I don't see anything curious about it, personally.

Some folks have God as their Father, others have Satan.

God's Children love each other. Satan's children are definitionally devoid of love

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"No, winning a war is not genocide."

It isn't but is Israel really winning? Are they actually destroying Hamas?

Recall the aid truck debacle. It's unclear what exactly happened but I read accounts which claimed that armed militants started the stampede. Which raises the question: what were armed militants doing in an area that Israel had supposedly conquered/pacified, whatever word you want to use.

This always happens with guerrilla movements. Melt away, let the conventional army win, and then resurface at a time of your choosing.

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Hamas has killed their own to commandeer aid supplies to sell them; kill those who interfere.

Note attack at Karen Sharon by hamas as soon as openedbto increase deliveries.

Israel is fighting on multiple fronts.. defeating is not the same as holdholding... maybe a problem with religious exempted???

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"For genocide there must be a plan or pattern to destroy all or part of the Palestinian population.", according to prof. Knoops, lawyer at the ICC. Which, of course, there is none.

But from a military point of view, the IDF's operations in Gaza are a disaster.

After 5 months of action there still is no knock-out, and the ratio of casualties fighters/civilians 1 : 2 is totally onacceptable by any standard and a hunanitarian and public relations nightmare.

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Actually, the international average of civilian to combatant deaths is 9-to-1, according to the UN.

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That's why they lie about it.

Write back when you have evidence.

Hamas lies are evidence of Hamas lies.

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Using hamas numbers is not a valid basis to compare. Now being challenged as nonsensical.

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You forget Hamas uses civilians as human shields, so naturally more are killed. The blood is on the heads of Hamas, not Israel who bends ever backwards to avoid innocent deaths.

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Tunnels under all of Gaza used for military purposes, holding hostages, munitions; launching strikes from residential, religious, healthcare and other civic structures, sounds to me like all sites become legit military targets. Hamas has been reported to forcibly restrict gazans from evacuating despite Israel's warnings.

Not aware that any representative from international UN related agencies include nor acknowledge this on their reporting.nor that they are asked.

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What I stated is the truth.

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Terrific article.

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