The New Romantics: "Being Fair" to Terrorist Groups
It is now fashionable to be anti-Semitic again, so long as you disguise it as anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism. Here, the Romantics can join hands, not only with the Islamists but with the anti-Semitic new Nazis in Europe, where, over the last several years, hatred of Jews has re-emerged as a major political force.David Horovitz: US livid with Israel? Hamas can’t believe its luck
What sort of pink-tinted spectacles do you need to march while chanting, "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas"? Or to march alongside the black flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria that terrorize millions and threaten to slaughter thousands as those who hold them dream of glory and triumph? Throughout Europe, it is not just the new Romantics that bow down to the myth of Islam as the path to peace. Governments, church leaders, do-gooders of every stripe accommodate every demand made by Muslim minorities. "Shari'a Law? No problem." "Islamic banking? Why not?" "Muslim prayer groups obstructing our roads and pavements? They have every right."
This all illustrates a different sort of acquiescence: infatuation probably born out of fear rather than out of revolutionary zeal and hatred of the abominable West. Both are dangerous, but there is still time for democratic publics everywhere to turn back the tide of submission to Islam. Given its history and predilections, the Romantics will cling to the coat-tails of Hamas, Hizbullah, the Islamic State, and the Muslim Brotherhood until they triumph. When that happens, the Gays for Palestine, B'tselem, the Marxists, the Presbyterians, the Socialist Workers Party, EAPPI, the Quakers and everyone else will smile as they are led to the gallows, knowing they have wrought a great change in the world but destroyed democracy, love and liberty, and personal freedom in their tragic journey to romantic fulfilment.
After the abandonment of Israel by the UK, with its promise to limit arms sales to Israel if Hamas restarts its attacks on our civilians, we now learn that the US is already restricting arms sales to Israel, having halted a planned supply of the Hellfire precision missiles that enable Israel to strike at the rocket launchers set up by Hamas in the heart of Gaza’s residential areas.Israeli official confirms US nixed arms shipment; pols argue over who’s to blame
While we seek to ascertain just how grave the crisis now is between Israel and its most important ally — is the case of the non-delivered Hellfires a procedural delay or the beginning of an embargo? is the relationship between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations ruptured or just very heavily strained? — nobody is going to believe the prime minister the next time he claims, as he did two weeks ago, that US support throughout this campaign has been “terrific.”
It becomes ever harder to understand what the US administration thinks it is doing in the Middle East. Its influence is waning across the region. It appears insufficiently robust — to put it mildly — when dealing with the region’s most dangerous regimes, notably Iran. Its ill-judged lack of enthusiasm for Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi — apparently blamed by Washington for ending an elected Muslim Brotherhood presidency, even though president Mohammed Morsi would likely have ensured no further elections — is pushing Egypt ever closer to Russia. And now ties with the region’s only democracy are fraying.
A senior Israeli official confirmed to Israeli media that the US had suspended a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel amid worsening ties over fighting in Gaza.WSJ Hypes False Story About Israeli End-Around The White House To Grab Munitions
The decision to hold off on the transfer was most likely on grounds of increased diplomatic tension, the official said, corroborating a Wall Street Journal report earlier in the day that claimed the White House and State Department had been angered by a transfer of arms to Israel and had ordered greater oversight into future sales.
The report claimed that US-Israeli tensions are at a record high, with US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to hold a “particularly combative phone call on Wednesday” and officials on both sides resorting to name-calling.
The accounts sparked an internal debate between Israeli politicians.
Dominating the front page of Thursday's Wall Street Journal is a story called "Israel Outflanks White House in Pressing Gaza Strategy" which contends among other things that Israel has been doing an end-around the White House by securing munitions directly from the Pentagon. Buried in the twenty-first paragraph of the piece as an end run around is actually standard operating procedure.
On Thursday's Morning Joe, NBC's Pentagon Reporter Jim Miklaszewski agreed that the end around story was not true:
When this issue arose people at the Pentagon were discussing it openly because at the time it was considered a pro forma exchange. These weapons, primarily munitions actually are forward located in a stockpile in Israel that are under the control of the U.S. government so that in an emergency, if the Israeli government needs munitions in a hurry, it's there.
(…) I don't know that it happened that way but officials here [the Pentagon] at the time, described it as a prearranged pro forma exchange between the U.S. and Israel in terms of providing them ammunition. And I can tell you when we asked questions about it here at the time, there was nobody that was attempting to side step the issue, doing the tap dance. They said, oh, yeah, we did it, blah, blah, and here it is. So I can't tell you if, in fact, there was anybody here at the Pentagon that was trying to undercut the State Department or the White House. And quite frankly, with the iron hand in which the White House rules this building, they don't sneeze here without waiting for the White House to say gezuntheit. That is not far from the truth. For a minute I can't believe personally that people here at the Pentagon were trying to purposely hide this transfer of munitions or undercut the White House.
Politicians weigh in on 'crisis in US-Israel relations'
Likud MK Danny Danon said polls show the American people support Israel. We have to take into account that in two-and-a-half years, Obama will not sit in the White House and we will remain here with the threats and challenges.US customers complain post offices refusing mail delivery to Israel
Deputy Transporation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said that Netanyahu was acting correctly when he declines to compromise on Israel's strategic interests, even when it does not please certain figures in the American administration.
"Israel and the US will continue to share mutual interests despite their differences, especially after the upheavals in the Middle East," she said.
A number of local post offices in the United States have recently told customers that they are not accepting mail for delivery to Israel due to the conflict with Gaza, the Anti Defamation League reported on Thursday.UK Govt 'Encouraging Hamas To Fire At Israel'
The ADL has received complaints in recent days that local post offices in Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey were refusing to send mail to the Jewish state.
“The postal employees have told these individuals that current USPS policy says that mail to Israel cannot be accepted because of the current crisis,” ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said.
“Only once employees sought clarification from supervisors in Washington did these post offices accept packages and letters to Israel,” he added.
An Israeli cabinet minister has accused the UK government of 'encouraging' Hamas to re-start rocket fire from Gaza, following a decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel if fighting resumes.Media: "We're not defending Hamas, but ..." (h/t Alexi)
On Wednesday night, the Department of Business confirmed it would freeze 12 licenses for arms export contracts of UK companies to Israel if "significant hostilities resume".
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said the decision was "exceedingly odd" and warned it could be a motivation for Hamas to refuse an extension of the ceasefire, which came into effect on Sunday night.
"I tell you honestly, I heard it, but although I have a PHD in Philosophy, I didn't understand it. What is the message? I want to understand what is the message?", said Mr Steinitz, addressing the Jerusalem Press Club.
"If this is the message it's exceedingly odd, I don't believe that this is the message.
"If Hamas will resume rocket launching at our cities tonight. If Hamas will choose to resume the fighting and the rocket attacks against Israeli civilians then Britain will put some restrictions on defence cooperation with Israel?
The Left's blind spot over anti-Semitism
All three examples revolve around Israel and its conflict in Gaza. But Israel is the 'Jew among nations' and the country deserves equal treatment in the court of international opinion. Singling her out unfairly demands some form of explanation.Charles Krauthammer: Israel And Hamas: Does No One Remember Anything?
The motive for doing so is not always racist. Anti-Americanism and hostility to western power galvanise the left, and Israel is a bastion of democratic, western values as well as a staunch ally of America. It is also perceived, wrongly, to be a colonialist power. Hence it is a target of leftist discontent with western power. But the effect of such irrational discrimination and disproportionate focus is no less hurtful than a verbal insult.
It is still targeting the Jews.
It is only when we understand the many ways in which antisemitism manifests itself that we can start tackling it properly. It must be confronted warts and all, and with the blinkers and blind spots removed.
To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world’s treatment of Israel (see: the UN’s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance and reflexive sympathy for the ostensible Third World underdog, these eruptions featuring Palestinian casualties ultimately undermine support for Israel’s legitimacy and right to self-defense.Update: Hamas Rockets Kills 1 Child, Injures 2 More… in Sinai
In a world of such Kafkaesque ethical inversions, the depravity of Hamas begins to make sense. This is a world in which the Munich massacre is a movie and the murder of Klinghoffer is an opera – both deeply sympathetic to the killers.
This is a world in which the UN ignores humanity’s worst war criminals while incessantly condemning Israel, a state warred upon for 66 years that nonetheless goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid harming the very innocents its enemies use as shields.
It’s to the Israelis’ credit that amid all this madness they haven’t lost their moral scruples. Or their nerve. Those outside the region have the minimum obligation, therefore, to expose the madness and speak the truth. Rarely has it been so blindingly clear.
10:50pm A child was killed and two other children were injured from a 9:57pm rocket launch from Gaza, according to a Reuters report.1,000 gather in LA at memorial for Max Steinberg
The rocket landed in the Sinai.
The rocket hit their home in the town of el-Mattallah south of Rafah.
The murdered child was identified as Sara Salama, 13, and the injured children wwas her brother Khaled, 8, and her sister Rahaf, 2.
It is not clear if the rocket was a misfire, or a deliberate message to Egypt.
It’s a rare event where a memorial service not only references Bob Marley, but also gets an audience on its feet singing along to one of his greatest hits, “One Love.”Hamptons synagogue raises $1 million for Israel in one night
But that’s what happened on Tuesday night when over a thousand flocked to the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills to honor the memory of lone soldier and Los Angeles native Max Steinberg. A sharpshooter with the elite Golani 13 brigade, Max, 24, was killed during Operation Protective Edge alongside six of his colleagues in Gaza on July 19.
The event was designed to educate about Max: the former little boy with an enormous smile was a prankster, a scrappy youth, standing barely 5’3” with a huge heart. A man whose Hebrew wasn’t good enough to join the Golani unit on his first try but who studied hard enough to join a month later; a man who adored Bob Marley and whose love of Israel and the Jewish people led him to lay down his life for them.
Congregants at a synagogue in the Hamptons on New York’s Long Island pledged more than $1 million at a fundraiser for Israel.IAF pegs Iron Dome's interception rate at 90%
The money raised at the August 9 gathering following Shabbat at The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach will go to the UJA-Federation of New York’s Israel Emergency Fund, which assists organizations that provide medical treatment and economic support for Israelis in the wake of conflict.
“I am humbled and overwhelmed with gratitude and pride over the show of support by our congregation, that realizes the depths of the trauma — of the pain and suffering of Israelis — and reached deep to help however they could during this tragic and terrible crisis,” the synagogue’s rabbi, Marc Schneier, said in a news release.
The Iron Dome defense system noted a 90 percent success rate during Operation Protective Edge and was even able to intercept 10 mortar shells, a senior Israeli Air Force officer said Wednesday.B'Tselem banned from National-Civilian Service
Iron Dome was designed to detect projectiles fired to distances ranging from 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to 70 kilometers (43 miles). As mortal shells have a much shorter range and a flatter trajectory, they usually do not register on the system's radar.
The Iron Dome is also designed to determine whether rockets are headed toward a populated area or an open one. Projectiles recognized as headed toward open spaces, where they can cause no harm, are usually allowed to hit the ground.
B'Tselem will no longer be able to have National-Civilian Service volunteers work in its organization, the National-Civilian Service Authority decided Thursday, saying the NGO engages in anti-Israel activity.Ben-Dror Yemini: Cooperating with UN's Gaza probe would be a wasted effort
National-Civilian Service Authority Director-General Sar-Shalom Djerbi wrote a letter to B'Tselem Director-General Hagai El-Ad criticizing the NGO's "activity against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers in Israel and around the world."
"This is especially relevant now, when, the State of Israel is dealing with the threat of thousands of rockets and missiles on millions of its citizens and is in the middle of a comprehensive campaign to remove the threat on its citizens," Djerbi wrote.
Djerbi said B'Tselem is helping those who delegitimize Israel by lying and inciting against it and the IDF, which he called the most moral army in the world.
We should put things in the right order: Without a clear anti-Israel stance, William Schabas would not have been selected to chair the UN commission probing Israel's crimes.Netanyahu indicates Israel won’t cooperate with UN probe
Schabas and the UN Human Rights Council, which decided to appoint the committee, have a common denominator: Regular anti-Israel stances.
When the decision was made to appoint a commission of inquiry into Israel's crimes, the European Union ambassador told the UNHRC that "the final draft text continues to be unbalanced, inaccurate, and prejudges the outcome of the investigation by making legal statements."
It turns out that even the EU, which cannot be suspected of overly sympathizing with Israel, is capable of setting red lines. The UNHRC, like the commission of inquiry operating on its behalf, is a completely different story.
In a filmed statement uploaded to his official Facebook page, the prime minister blasted the UN rights agency for failing to probe Hamas’s attacks against Israeli civilians and its use of the people of Gaza as “human shields,” as well as Syrian President Bashar Assad’s “massacre” of Syrian civilians and what Islamic State fighters are doing to Iraqi Kurds.Netanyahu: UN Grants Legitimacy to Terrorists
“Instead, the UN has decided to come and investigate Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy that acts in a legitimate way to protect its citizens from murderous terrorism,” Netanyahu said.
“This commission’s report has already been written, the one leading it [Canadian Prof. William Schabas] has already decided that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, and that’s why there is nothing for them to do here,” he said.
“First, let them visit Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli. Let them see the Islamic State, the Syrian army, let them see Hamas — that’s where they’ll find war crimes, not here.”
'UN funds organization that seeks to prosecute IDF soldiers'
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor revealed Wednesday evening that the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs helps fund a Palestinian NGO that works to put Israeli army officers on trial and to delegitimize Israel.NGO Monitor: William Schabas - Head of New UN Gaza Commission - and the anti-Israel NGO Network
The organization in question is the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, but according to Prosor, it is not the first anti-Israel initiative to receive assistance from the U.N. body.
Prosor requested that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office ensure that U.N. funds do not go toward harming Israel and its soldiers, calling the transfer of funds to the PCHR a clear breach of the international body's behavioral code.
Schabas also authored the foreword of a volume entitled "Is there a court for Gaza: A Test Bench for International Justice," in which he endorsed the discredited 2009 Goldstone report, and repeated his call for ICC prosecution of Israelis.EXPOSED Amid laughter, U N Gaza Inquiry chair mocks Israeli PM
Schabas's biases were particularly evident during the "Russell Tribunal on Palestine," (RToP) session in October 2012. The tribunal was widely recognized as a "kangaroo court," labeling Israel as an "apartheid state," as part of the 2001 Durban strategy of demonization. In this event, Schabas stated his desire to see Prime Minister Netanyahu stand before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He then explained this as relating to the January 2009 Gaza conflict, during which Ehud Olmert, and not Netanyahu, was Prime Minister.
Schabas's decision to participate in the RToP demonstrates the depth of his hostility toward Israel and his willingness to exploit a pseudo-judicial framework in order to advance this goal. RTop consisted of "jurors" and "witnesses"- all of whom with extensive histories of Israel-bashing, including Schabas.
Hundreds of Sderot Residents File UNHRC Complaints against Hamas
Hundreds of residents of the southern town of Sderot have signed complaint forms against terror group Hamas, to be sent to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.Canada Slams UNHRC Gaza Committee 'Sham'
Volunteers and representatives of grassroots Zionist movement Im Tirtzu went to the open air market in Sderot Tuesday to help residents fill in complaint forms against Hamas and Qatar, Hamas’ main financial sponsor.
Im Tirtzu will send out an international petition calling for Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to prosecute the leaders of Hamas. The petition already has more than 13,000 signatures from dozens of countries around the world.
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird sharply criticized the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointment of a committee to investigate accusations of "war crimes" in Operation Protective Edge - a committee headed by an outspoken opponent of the Jewish state.UN Watch: “End the siege in Gaza!” – But there is no siege
The "UN Human Rights Council continues to be a sham for advancing human rights. It's an utter shame and will do nothing to promote peace and dignity in Gaza for the Palestinian people," wrote Baird on his Twitter account Monday.
Hamas would like the world to believe that it launched its rockets at Israeli cities and towns in an attempt to “end the siege.” It would like the international community to think it is acting in the interests of residents of Gaza. Nothing could be farther from the truth.The unraveling of the Gaza blockade?
If Hamas cared about the welfare of the civilians in Gaza, it would not have started the current hostilities with its rocket barrages. It would have agreed to the Egyptian-proposed ceasefire already on 15 July (before the ground operation began), saving many lives on both sides. It would have respected the numerous humanitarian ceasefires Israel initiated for the benefit of the residents of Gaza. Most tellingly, it wouldn’t have launched frequent rocket and mortar attacks on the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the main entry point into Gaza for goods and humanitarian aid.
What Hamas truly cares about is advancing its agenda to destroy Israel. This terrorist organization seeks to end any control or supervision over what enters and exits Gaza so that it can freely import offensive weapons, including long-range rockets, explosives, military technologies, terrorist trainers, funds and supplies for its terrorist infrastructures. None of these things will help the residents of Gaza; rather, they will only serve to ignite future conflict.
The negotiations in Cairo, apparently renewed for five days Wednesday amid rocket fire and counterstrikes at the midnight hour, have been conducted behind closed doors. There is much to discuss – the role, henceforth, of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, the return of the remains of two Israeli soldiers, the fate of the Palestinian gunmen arrested during the operation, the notion, perhaps, of the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, the duration of the ceasefire. But at the heart of the discussion, quite likely, is the blockade, the mechanism that restricts, to a small extent, the goods entering Gaza, and, to a great extent, everything that leaves the 140-square-mile enclave boxed in between Israel, Egypt, and the sea.Palestinians blast ‘terrible’ Israeli ceasefire proposal
A look at the different crossings, for people and goods, may help paint a picture of the current situation, the way it has evolved over the past several years, and where it might develop at the close of the current campaign.
Having agreed to a five-day extension of the ceasefire with Israel, Palestinian negotiators in Cairo have called an Israeli proposal for a permanent agreement “terrible,” outlining the Israeli demands on Thursday.Which will come first, truce talks Saturday night or a rocket launch from Gaza for which Hamas will say, “Huh? Us?”
Speaking to Lebanese news station Al-Mayadeen, unnamed Palestinian sources involved in the negotiations said that Israel conditioned the expansion of activity in its border crossings with the Gaza Strip on a detailed agreement with the Palestinian Authority, not Hamas, and has refused to provide a timetable for their opening. The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is not mentioned in the Israeli paper.
You can’t keep up with this game without a scorecard, or make that two scorecards because of the extra innings. Every cease-fire, even the one that ended last night and was extended at the usual last minute, has been broken by rocket launches followed by IDF retaliation.MKs Call for Strong Response to Rocket Attacks
Remember that before the cease-fire before the last cease-fire, which was after the first cease-fire that wasn’t a cease-fire, Israel insisted it would not attend talks unless there are zero attacks from Gaza?
The Jewish Press asked Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, if that policy still is in effect.
“Definitely,” was his one-word answer. Copy, paste and save in “favorites.”
Gaza terrorists were not able to hold on to their rockets for 72 hours in this week’s cease-fire. Nearly three hours before its expiration midnight Wednesday, three rockets were launched at Israel, followed by another volley a couple of hours later.
Nationalist MKs on Wednesday night called for a strong Israeli reaction in the wake of Hamas’s latest rocket attacks on Israel.Hamas: Israel Will Pay for Violating Ceasefire
Hamas violated a 72-hour ceasefire hours before it was set to expire at midnight, then continued firing rockets even after an extension was announced.
Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) said that as long as the residents of southern Israel continue to feel afraid, the military operation in Gaza was not completed.
"Israel cannot be a prisoner of Hamas. Operation Protective Edge must end with a mortal blow to Hamas’s capabilities, eliminating the leaders of Hamas and achieving deterrence," she said.
Hamas on Wednesday night placed the blame on Israel for violating a ceasefire, warning that it will pay the price for doing so.Report: Israeli source says Hamas's Mashaal torpedoing long-term truce
The group’s spokesman in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, warned that Israel had “blatantly violated” the ceasefire with its airstrikes in Gaza and "will bear responsibility".
Another Hamas official, Izzat Al-Rishq, followed by saying Hamas had not violated the ceasefire.
"There is no violation of the calm from any Palestinian side and nobody in Gaza has heard rocket fire," Rishq, a Hamas official who is in Cairo for Gaza truce talks, told Reuters.
"We denounce the Israeli shelling of Gaza which is continuing. This is a violation of the calm," he declared.
According to the Israeli official quoted by Channel 2, a long term deal could have already been reached, but Mashaal "was and remains the source of friction that is torpedoing a deal."ADL reports ‘dramatic surge’ in anti-Semitism during Gaza op
Mashaal, who resides abroad in Qatar, is enmeshed in a disagreement with the local Hamas leadership in Gaza, the report added.
Members of the Palestinian delegation said they would return to Cairo on Saturday night to begin more talks on Sunday. Israel's Security Cabinet was set to meet on Thursday at 5 p.m. to discuss cease-fire efforts.
In a report released Wednesday, the ADL listed dozens of incidents internationally, which include physical assaults on Jews, threats and intimidation, damage to synagogues, public hate speech, declarations invoking blood libels and Nazi atrocities, and anti-Semitic political cartoons.New York Governor Underscores Support for Israel
The majority of the incidents occurred throughout Europe, but others were reported in South Africa, Australia, Turkey, Canada, Morocco and several Latin American countries.
“There was a dramatic surge in violence against Jews and Jewish institutions around the world during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. From France to the Argentina, from Canada to Chile, synagogues were attacked, Jewish cultural centers were vandalized, Jewish shops were threatened and identifiably Jewish individuals beaten on the street. Anti-Semitism was in the air, and in the streets,” Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, said.
The report emphasizes that it “focuses on actions and speech which extend far beyond the bounds of criticism into violence and bigotry.”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Israel on Wednesday, where he met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, among others.Why Governor Cuomo Should Visit the Palestinian West Bank
Cuomo, who was accompanied by a delegation of American lawmakers, underscored Washington’s commitment to Israel.
"We know that you're going through a very difficult time right now and Israel is going through a very difficult time. And that is precisely why we're here: Because we want to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel, we want to stand in solidarity with you,” he told Netanyahu.
“The delegation that has come forward is unprecedented in some ways. We have both sides of the legislature, the Assembly and the Senate. It's a bipartisan delegation. We have business representatives, [unclear] leaders, and we all wanted to come as one, in solidarity, in unity, to say to Israel: We understand the situation you're in, we understand what you are facing and we support your right, your leave to defend your people against terror,” said Cuomo.
The Palestinian Authority has invited him to visit the areas under its control, and the New York Times and others have been quick to accuse the governor of bias for refusing.PA accuses the US of establishing radical terror organization ISIS
In our view, the governor would actually be performing a great public service if he did visit certain PA-controlled areas – some of the ones they don’t want him to see. That would help clarify many of the issues that need to be considered before the PA is handed a more dominant role in Gaza in place of Hamas.
There are those who continue to believe that the PA is Israel’s trustworthy peace partner. Governor Cuomo could shed some light on that question by asking to visit these ten sites:
The Palestinian Authority official daily has published five articles in the last six weeks accusing the United States of establishing the radical Islamic movement Islamic State (ISIS or IS) that has conquered vast territory in Syria and Iraq in recent months. ISIS has declared itself a Caliphate, thereby claiming religious authority over all Muslims; its goal is to bring much of the Middle East, including Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Cyprus under its control. To this end, ISIS has used extreme terror tactics, including decapitations, crucifixions and mass murders that were filmed and posted on YouTube.Palestinian Islamic Scholar Explains Alleged Jewish Control of America
The articles claim that the US has a long term goal of controlling the Arab-Muslim states by dividing them through conflict and wars. ISIS's war and other conflicts are all said to be the work of the US:
Hamas helping thousands leave Strip via Rafah
Hamas authorities are aiding thousands of Palestinians who want to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt, but “movement is very slow,” a senior official said on Wednesday.Iranian Parliament Speaker Congratulates Hezbollah on Anniversary of 2006 ‘Victory’ Over Israel, Urges Hamas to Continue Fight in Gaza
“The crossing is open for eight hours per day, but the actual working hours are only four, during which people can move to the Egyptian side. The Egyptian side leaves the gates open in order for those who are not given access [to Sinai] to return [to Gaza],” Maher Abu Sabha, the director of Gaza’s Department of Crossings, told the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
Abu Sabha said his department is running on an emergency basis to facilitate the transfer out of Gaza of critical medical cases. He said, however, that even though the crossing is open, “it is akin to being closed.”
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday congratulated Hezbollah on the eighth anniversary of its 2006 “victory” over Israel and urged Hamas to continue its “resistance” in Gaza “against the Zionist enemy.”Hamas TV Showcases Rocket Production, Anti-Semitic Mouse
“Today the only power that can resist against the Zionist enemy and change the equations is resistance,” Larijani told the Arab-language Al-Ahd news website, according to Iranian state news agency Fars.
Fars reported that Larjijani “further underlined that the brilliant victory of the resistance movement indicated efficiency of people’s faith and patience against deadly modern weapons” and quoted French journalist and author Thierry Meyssan as saying in 2013 “that Hezbollah’s military capacities and capabilities against Israel have grown 400 times” since its 33-day war against Israel in 2006.
Hamas’ Al Aqsa television station aired footage on Wednesday night of long-range M-75 rockets being manufactured by Hamas members as “irrefutable proof the Zionist enemy did not achieve its goals,” according to Israel Hayom.Hamas TV Report on Ongoing Rocket Production in Gaza
During Operation Protective Edge, Hamas fired M-75 rockets as far as the Tel Aviv and Dimona areas.
Wednesday’s broadcast appeared to be an attempt by Hamas to show that it was continuing to build rockets, even under Israeli fire. In the background of the images broadcast by Hamas, a television is seen airing a report that appeared on Al Jazeera on August 7.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri said of the report: “This is irrefutable proof that the Zionist enemy did not achieve the goals it set for itself. The production of rockets is continuing all the time. … The resistance will keep fighting to thwart the Zionist enemy.”
Hamas Spokesman: We Will Continue to Develop Our Arsenal
Europeans Pandering To Muslims: Appeasement Has Worked So Well Before (satire)
High-ranking officials in countries such as Britain and France are openly siding with Palestinians against Israel in an effort to maintain political power by appealing to Muslim immigrants, recalling the pre-World-War-II days when appeasing the uncompromising demands of Nazi Germany was so successful in stemming Hitler’s expansionist ambitions.Call For Genocide A Metaphor, Says Man Trying To Kill As Many Jews As Possible (satire)
“Our own history demonstrates the wisdom and prudence of this approach,” said George Galloway, a British politician who has taken a staunch anti-Israel stance. “It was only when Europe stopped resisting Nazi Germany’s rightful territorial claims that all the tension melted away and the continent enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity.” He noted that just a few years later, American investment in Europe skyrocketed, highlighting the advantages and growth that await a Europe willing to sell out its liberal values for vague promise of avoiding further unrest.
Claiming that the flowery Middle Eastern rhetoric of his organization has been misunderstood, Qassam Brigades commander Muhammad Dieff, who spearheads Hamas’s efforts to wipe Jews off the map, told reporters that the language of his group’s charter calling for the extermination of Jews should not be taken literally.The One About Hamas (a classic from 2010)
“You must understand that we Arabs are a deeply poetic people, and the power of the word to convey emotion often overshadows the true intent,” he explained. “The Hamas charter in the strict sense calls for a genocide of the Jews, but that is simply a poetic way of saying we intend to kill them all,” said Dieff, supervising the manufacture of rockets to be launched at Israeli towns.