Thursday, November 02, 2023
- Thursday, November 02, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, 2023 Operation Iron Swords, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, framing, Hamas war crimes, media bias, propaganda, psy-ops, The Laws of Armed Conflict, Zionism
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
- Wednesday, October 25, 2023
- Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)
- 07Oct23, Biden history, Black Sabbath, follow the money, hamas, Hamas war crimes, hamas.gaza, iran, JCPOA, Joe Biden, Judean Rose, President Biden, Varda, Varda Opinion
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
On or around September 7, President Biden unfroze
$6b in Iranian revenues. One month later, there was a massacre in Israel,
sponsored by Iran. No less than a Hamas spokesman affirmed that Iran
lent its assistance to Hamas as its proxy to murder Jews.
Was Biden’s generosity to Iran in September responsible for
the war crimes committed by Hamas in October? While White House officials say
that none of the $6b went to Hamas, they have yet to relate to accusations that
Biden’s munificence served as a green light to Iran to do what it always says it
will do: murder Jews.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking from Tel
Aviv, pretended that money was not fungible. The money, he said, had been sent
from South Korea to a Qatari bank, and Iran hadn’t even had a chance to touch
it, yet. “None of the funds that have gone to Qatar have actually been spent or
accessed in any way,” said Blinken to Netanyahu during his diplomatic blitz of
the Middle East in the wake of the atrocities.
Yes, dummy. We know that. But when there’s money in your
future, you can take money from elsewhere to fund what you like. Iran likes to
kill Jews. Tony Blinken knows this, because in reality, Blinken is no dummy. He
is, however, a Biden hack.
Look (as Biden likes to say), it’s called “robbing Peter to
pay Paul.” While Iran could not give the $6b straight into the hands of Hamas,
there’s always a workaround. It’s called creative accounting. You take money away
from a hospital or a school, whatever, and send it to Hamas. Wherever Iran took
the money from, it used it to fund the massacre, secure in the knowledge that
there would be $6b to cover the difference.
This really is not complicated, yet we can expect Blinken will
continue to deliver the same unsatisfactory message each time he is called upon
to answer for the October 7th war crimes. These were acts of war against
Israel, against America and others, with various nationals among the hostages. What
is now happening was brought to us by Iran, directly after they received a windfall
from Joe.
Yes, we know the $6b is not a gift. We know that the money technically
belongs to Iran. This is, however, an irrelevant factoid. Funds have been freed,
released to madmen. Whether the money is a gift or just a case of restoring it
to its rightful owner “in good faith,” matters not. The end result is the same:
money in the pocket to buy weapons and pay savages to kill Jews.
One could write off the $6b as a miscalculation, a mistake
by the Biden Administration. But not really. Joe Biden has been around a long
time (cough). He has an equally lengthy history of browbeating and bullying
Israel’s leaders, in spite of his intimate knowledge of the relevant actors
in the region. President Biden knows that Iran and Hamas are evil. And he knows
that Israel is not.
Israel is Joe Biden’s sacrificial lamb. Perhaps Biden
reasons that everyone would like the Jews to be gone. Whatever his excuse, it is
Joe Biden who strengthened the hand that fed us tragedy, in his final coup de
grâce to the Jews.
We may never know all the ways in which Biden tied Israel’s
hands to keep the Jewish State from defending itself. We don’t know what went
on between Biden and Netanyahu behind the scenes. Rest assured, however, that Joe
is using everything at his disposal to stall Israel as long as he can, from
launching its inevitable ground incursion into Gaza. In so doing, Biden continues
to strengthen the hand of the enemy. Each day that passes without the ground
incursion gives the enemies of Israel that much more time to prepare, more time
to get ready to slaughter the Jews (they will be sorry they tried).
We can see some of what Biden is doing against Israel, for
example, forcing Israel to allow aid to go through to the “innocent
people of Gaza,” unimpeded. Joe Biden himself is providing $100m to Gaza for
humanitarian aid.
What does it mean to give $100m to “Gaza?” It means to give $100m
to Hamas, the rulers of Gaza. The humanitarian aid, as well, is the opposite of
that. Sure, the hundred mil is ostensibly to be used only for things like
water, food, and electricity, but that will never happen. Thanks to yet more “creative
accounting,” the money will not go to civilians. The $100m is right now
literally funding Hamas, funding murder and inciting the world to war—whether
we can see the actual transactions, or not.
Here too, a Biden hack offers an irrelevant response to
criticism of Biden for sending aid and comfort to the enemy. This time it is Matthew
Miller, the State Department spokesman who pretends that money is not fungible.
"Not a penny has been spent, and when it is, it can only go for humanitarian
needs like food and medicine," says Miller.
Habibi, you are not fooling us. The hundred mil can only go to Hamas, the government of Gaza. And even if this filthy lucre is channeled through UNRWA, it will still go to Hamas. One way or another, wherever it lands in Gaza, that $100m will be lining the pockets of Hamas’ worst, the dutiful proxies of Iran.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
- Tuesday, October 24, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", 07Oct23, hamas, Hamas war crimes, Holocaust denial, memes, Progressivism, silence is complicity
Monday, October 23, 2023
- Monday, October 23, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, 2023 terror, CAIR, double standards, fifth column, gaza, hamas, Hamas war crimes, Islamic Jihad war crimes, Israel under attack, NGO silence, supporting terror
Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, Forest Rain, hamas, Hamas war crimes, IDF, Islamic Jihad war crimes, jihad, Never Again
By Forest Rain
The IDF is the Israel Defense Force (not the Israel Attack Force) for
good reason. We have no desire to attack anyone. The mission of our military is
to defend the Nation of Israel – our State and our People. To protect our
homeland so that Jewish people everywhere know that, in a world that is
dangerous for Jews, there is one place on earth where Jews can defend
themselves and are not left to the mercy of others.
The IDF is supposed to fulfill the promise of “Never Again”.
The problem is that the world, including many Jews, have not
learned the lessons of the Holocaust. Lessons, sharp and clear (though different
for Jews and non-Jews) have been diluted and universalized to the point of
being meaningless.
The Hamas massacre of October 7th, 2023 is a harsh
reminder.
This isn’t a general issue. It’s a particular issue.
This is about me. My family. My friends. My home. And Never Again is NOW.
For Jews, the promise “Never Again” means that never again we put
our safety in the hands of others, no matter how civilized they seem. Never
Again will we wait for other people to rescue us. It is up to us to be powerful
enough to defend ourselves.
For non-Jews, “Never Again” was supposed to be a promise to never
again remain silent while Jews are being abused, tortured, and slaughtered. To
not remain silent when they see evil occurring. To never again, turn away and pretend
they don’t see what is happening – no matter how frightened they are of the
people committing the atrocities.
Because there will always be someone eager to commit horrendous
acts against Jews.
And what happened?
Jews built the State of Israel, powerful enough to defend herself from invading
armies, prevent enemy states from building nuclear bombs, and even fly across
the globe to rescue Jews, targeted for being Jewish. And then we allowed
ourselves to be convinced to hand our security over to other people and let
monsters live on our doorstep.
Over and over, we were attacked, innocent people brutally
murdered, our country bombarded with missiles and the “civilized” nations of
the world told us to stand down, that the “stronger side” can swallow abuse for
peace. That the monsters on our doorstep were our chance to live in peace.
And we, because we want peace and hate war, because we want to
live in a kind world, decided to believe them.
The problem is that this decision was immoral.
It is one thing to be proud of succeeding in eliminating murderous
terrorists without hurting bystanders because that is more moral than carpet
bombing. It is another thing to know that the people on your border want to
wipe you off the face of the earth and allow them to have hope that one day
they will succeed.
We knew the problem existed. We watched it grow. We suffered the
results of it when it was still small. Worst of all, we listened when we were
told “The world is condemning you. Don’t retaliate. Lick your wounds and
pretend it never happened.” We wanted to be loved.
The Hamas Charter states that it will eliminate the Jewish State
through jihad. On October 7th, Hamas showed the world what that
jihad looks like – they came with Go-Pro cameras and proudly filmed their
actions for posterity.
Well-trained Hamas commando units broke through our borders under
the cover of a missile bombardment. That opened the way for swarms of regular
Gazans, eager to join in.
"Crimes against humanity" is too mild and technical a term to
describe the atrocities they committed.
They slaughtered men, women, and children and chopped their heads off.
They entered homes, tortured the parents in front of their children, children
in front of their parents, gouging out eyes and chopping off fingers – all
while eating the family’s food and laughing.
They gang-raped girls and then ripped their limbs off.
They ripped open a pregnant woman’s stomach and stabbed the baby.
They tied children together and burned them alive.
They did more and worse. It is not possible to detail all the horrors.
And then they stole money from the wallets of the people they
murdered, looted their homes, taking everything from TVs to tractors, identity
cards, and passports.
And then they took as many hostages as they could get their hands
on - including babies and elderly people, entire families, and dead bodies.
They came with maps and details about homes, how many people in
each family, whether there was a dog or not - all spelled out by individual Gazans
who Israelis had employed for years, doing construction work and odd jobs in
their communities.
They didn’t come as an army trying to conquer an enemy state,
soldiers fighting against soldiers. They came as a tidal wave of death, to
exterminate everything living in its path and before doing so - humiliate and create as much suffering as
possible.
They know that we love life and hold it sacred. They know that we
honor the dead, putting supreme importance on respectful burial. This is why
they hurt us where it would be most painful.
They violated the sanctity of our homes, showing that Jews are not safe
anywhere.
They violated our past, terrorizing Holocaust survivors and bringing the
Holocaust into the present with fire and sending Jews into hiding where they
had to hold their hands over the mouths of babies, praying that they wouldn’t
make a sound so the monsters wouldn’t find them.
They committed mass rapes of women, grandmothers, and children as
more than a by-product of vicious bloodlust – in the context of people who come
from an “honor culture”, this is the deepest violation, the theft of our honor,
a display of utter disgust and domination, “dirtying” our beloved, grinding
them into the earth – and mocking our men who were not able to save them.
Dismembering bodies, scattering them, and burning people is not
just a matter of gruesome cruelty. The terrorists were given deliberate
instructions to commit these acts by people who understand how serious Jews are
about respecting our dead and bringing them to a proper burial.
They know us well and they deliberately used everything we care
about most to hurt us.
And after all this, around the world, we are seeing people
marching in the streets, chanting their support for the Hamas Massacre. Jews
are being marked in “civilized” countries. Homes marked with Stars of David,
businesses smashed, and students humiliated and abused because they are Jews.
Never Again is NOW.
For years we have said that had Israel existed, the Holocaust
would never have happened. Now it is time to make sure that is true. That is
what the IDF is for.
The IDF must fulfill the promise of Never Again. This is not about
revenge (though well warranted). This is about the survival of Jews everywhere.
It is necessary to crush Hamas so thoroughly and completely that all
enemies of Israel will learn that there is no impunity and no safe haven for
those who dream of our extermination.
And that, unfortunately, is just the beginning because they are
just one of the monsters on our doorstep. We are surrounded (and some are
within our borders) and they are watching us. Without utterly crushing them,
Israel will not survive.
Without Israel, no Jew, anywhere on earth, will ever be safe
again.
Fulfilling the promise of “Never Again” doesn’t look nice on TV.
Already the “civilized” nations are telling us to wait, delay, and consider the
humanitarian needs of Gazans. It is crucial to retain our morality and fulfill
our obligations.
Being merciful to the cruel ultimately makes you cruel to the
merciful.
Allowing our enemies to have hope that they can succeed in wiping
us off the face of the earth is immoral. We allowed this evil to grow too
large. It must be stopped now, no matter how bad the process looks, no matter
what our “friends” say.
“Never Again” is the moral obligation of the IDF.
The obligation of decent individuals everywhere is to make sure
everyone else knows this.
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Friday, October 20, 2023
- Friday, October 20, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, 2014, Al Ahli Hospital, analysis, Antony Blinken, corruption, Daled Amos, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press, hamas, Hamas war crimes, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, retraction, unrwa
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a social media post Monday morning that expressed support for a "cease-fire" in Israel after Palestinian militants invaded the nation late last week.While the tweet was deleted, it did not go unnoticed -- and was saved for posterity:
The now-deleted post, which appeared on Blinken's X account late Sunday, described a conversation Blinken reportedly had with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
Shifa has indeed “become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices,” the Washington Post reported on July 15. The Wall Street Journal‘s Middle East correspondent, Nick Casey, wrote on Twitter that Hamas uses Shifa “as a safe place to see media,” but removed the post afterwards.Some journalists even tweeted about it -- even if they did delete those tweets later.
Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati said he was able to speak freely about witnessing a Hamas misfire that killed nine children at the Shati camp, confirming the Israel Defense Forces version of events, but only after leaving Gaza, “far from Hamas retaliation.”
The answer has implications for the reporting by the journalists who stay in Gaza.
As to whether AP was aware of Hamas involvement with the building, Matti Friedman wrote in his 2014 Atlantic piece: “When Hamas’ leaders surveyed their assets before this summer’s round of fighting, they knew that among those assets was the international press. The AP staff in Gaza City would witness a rocket launch right beside their office, endangering reporters and other civilians nearby — and the AP wouldn’t report it.”
Friedman claimed the Hamas militants would regularly “burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff — and the AP wouldn’t report it.”
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)
- "Gaza Blockade" lie, Egypt, hamas, Hamas war crimes, hamas.gaza, iran, Joe Biden, Judean Rose, Moloch, Not Elder, President Obama, Varda, Varda Opinion
Moloch statue from Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914), National Museum of Cinema (Turin) |
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
Hamas is going to rue the day it decided to rain down pogroms on Israel. Israel is going to obliterate every trace of Hamas from the face of God’s earth, and when these two-legged beasts arrive in Hell, they will discover no brown-eyed virgins waiting for them, but only searing heat and fire that will scald and burn their ugly flesh without surcease for an eternity. I am already preparing popcorn to snack on as I watch the sick mothers of these Moloch terrorists weep and wail over the mutilated remains of their twisted terrorist children. The people who democratically elected Hamas to lead them should be begging Egypt to lift its blockade NOW, and let them in, because Israel is so going to carpet bomb Gaza and retake it for its rightful owners, the Jews.
The entrance to the Temple of Moloch in Carthage in Cabiria (1914) |
Similarly, the two-legged beasts who rule Iran will die,
painfully, at the hands of the Jews. As they well know, God favors the Jews,
and will strengthen the hands of His people as we inflict the worst pain
imaginable on Khameini, far worse than that of the 40 Jewish babies his Hamas
employees murdered and beheaded. Hashem was there to receive and comfort those
babies, because they are Jews and God therefore loves them. But beware His
wrath, for all those who raise a hand toward His people will die hard deaths,
hard! And all of the evil ones will die a thousand deaths by the hands of
Israeli heroes, JEWISH heroes, made strong like iron by the God of the Jews
whom you erroneously refer to as “Allah.”
Offering to Molech (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster). The illustration shows a typical depiction of Moloch in 19th century illustrations. |
Does a similar fate await Joe Biden, who incentivized the pogroms that stole Jewish lives with his $6b gift to Iran? Despite his administration’s repeated assurances that the money didn’t go to Hamas, everyone knows these billions served as a green light to attack the Jews. America’s handout told Iran that America supports its foolish, evil campaign to ethnically cleanse the world of Jews. Whether or not Joe meant to give Iran incentive to murder Jews matters little, if at all. Iran has repeatedly and publicly stated its intentions in this regard, and as everyone knows and many American officials have stated, money is fungible.
"The idol Moloch with seven chambers or chapels," from Johann Lund's Die Alten Jüdischen Heiligthümer (1711, 1738), showing elements derived from the medieval rabbinical tradition |
Before Joe (and perhaps the man sitting behind the curtain in the Oval Office) was Barry O with his pallets of cash in exchange for . . . nothing. Barry likely thinks the Iran crocodile will eat him last. What he doesn’t know, and Joe doesn’t know (because Joe doesn’t know much of anything now, including how to walk) is that the crocodile will eat them NEXT and good riddance to them, too. Those who fund evil, are evil. Those who voted for this man, are also culpable, because the Jews told them this would happen, and they didn’t listen, and Jews themselves, those who vote in American elections, overwhelmingly voted Democrat.
They didn’t listen when we told them. Instead, they praised themselves for giving Israel Iron Dome, which Obama gave Israel not as a kindness, but as a means of preventing the Jews from taking care of the mess in Gaza in the first place. As a result, pogroms were deliberately perpetrated on the Jewish people on a Jewish holiday. Those Americans who are now grumbling about their tax dollars aiding people far away, when they themselves are suffering terrible inflation, have no idea that they funded pogroms, and now their leaders are compelled to pay blood money on their behalf.
This and the following are memes I saw on the evening of October 10, Day 4 of the war. The memes describe taxpayer grumbling at being expected to send aid to Israel. |
Why must Biden now pay blood money to Israel from taxpayer dollars? Because otherwise, it looks really, really bad for this administration. There were pogroms. And things are already looking bad for Biden what with his coke-addicted pervert son; the naked selfies of his brother; his refusal to acknowledge his grandchild; and his creepy predilection for nuzzling and sniffing children.
Trust God on this, if you helped in this, you will get what is coming to
you. Harm one hair on the head of a Jew—even by proxy—and God will make sure
you pay, all the more so when atrocities are inflicted on His beloved nation.
Illustration of the interior of the temple of Moloch from Gustav Flaubert's Salammbô by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (c. 1900) |
Europe, too, funded these Iran/Hamas/et al crimes against
humanity, against the Jews. We are not impressed with your light displays of
Israeli flags on your buildings. We are not impressed when you tell us we have
the right to defend ourselves, as if this were somehow in doubt. We see it
all—how you allowed a Holocaust to occur, and then, to assuage your guilt,
helped fund the creation of the Jewish State, thus reserving the right to a
future, more successful attempt at ethnic cleansing, this time with the Jews
conveniently concentrated in a single space.
Stelaes from the tophet in Carthage, where Moloch sacrifices or rituals are attested via inscription |
Tombs in the Valley of Hinnom, the location of the tophet where Moloch rituals were performed according to 2 Kings 23:10. Deror Avi |
Be assured that it is the Jews, who will once again arise
victorious to outlive the evildoers. The bad guys are doomed to vanish from the
face of God’s earth. Just like the other occupiers of Jewish land. Like those
before you, you failed to learn an important lesson: History repeats.
As a result, all will now witness the valor and strength of
God’s Chosen People, the Jewish people. None will succeed in their
campaign to demoralize us or steal our land. If you try, you will die horrible
deaths, and God will not save you. The Nation of Israel lives all Am Yisrael
chai in your face!
And it is this [covenant] that has stood for our Forefathers and us. For not just one enemy has stood against us to wipe us out. But in every generation there have been those who have stood against us to wipe us out, and the Holy One Blessed Be He saves us from their hands.
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Monday, August 28, 2023
- Monday, August 28, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Adam Ayyad, child soldier, Hamas war crimes, HRW, ICRC, Islamic Jihad war crimes, Mahmoud al-Sadi, Mohammed al-Sleem, NGO lies, NGO silence, The Laws of Armed Conflict
The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability.Last year, 2022, was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the West Bank in 15 years, and 2023 is on track to meet or exceed 2022 levels. Israeli forces had killed at least 34 Palestinian children in the West Bank as of August 22. Human Rights Watch investigated four fatal shootings of Palestinian children by Israeli forces between November 2022 and March 2023.
In the other cases investigated, the security forces killed boys after they had joined other youths confronting Israeli forces with stones, Molotov cocktails, or fireworks. While these projectiles can seriously injure or kill, in these cases, Israeli forces fired repeatedly at chest-level, hitting multiple children, and killed children in situations where they do not appear to have been posing a threat of grievous injury or death, which is the standard for the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers under international norms. That would make these killings unlawful.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
- Thursday, August 24, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- child soldier, DCI-P, Fake Civilians 2023, Felesteen, glorifying terror, hamas, Hamas war crimes, IED, Jenin, NGO lies, Othman Atef Abu Kharj, supporting terror
[His brother] Mahmoud, 22, could hardly complete his talk about his younger brother, saying, "Othman was throwing his "elbow" IEDs one after the other towards the armored jeeps.
The young men resort to using various tools to confront the repeated incursions of the occupation forces into the cities and governorates of the West Bank, in whose camps and villages the resistance action is escalating. Among these means are Molotov cocktails, stones, "elbows", igniting tires and closing streets with them.
But Othman had mastered making "elbows" and using them in several confrontations against the occupation soldiers, which they did not like, so they decided to assassinate him.
It consists of a short, serrated tube and is closed at both ends with two metal pieces, one of which contains a hole through which the ignition fuse passes into the interior, which is ignited with sulfur. It is stuffed with gunpowder or black sulfur.
His family knew that he went out if his way to attack soldiers. "They all knew his courage, which always put him at the forefront of confrontations against soldiers heavily armed and fortified with armored vehicles," the article adds.
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