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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

12/26 Links Pt1: The UN’s Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza; How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists; Human rights groups’ hypocrisy on Hamas rape

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: The UN’s Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza

The United Nations’ bias against Israel is both obvious and, at times, poorly understood. So we should be thankful for moments in which top UN officials seemingly conspire to make the nature of their corruption clear and plain.

The best examples are when senior UN figures operate against their own organization’s guidelines, definitions, and regulations in order to stick it to Israel, proving that its corruption is intentional and that its other claims to authority on international law are wholly illegitimate.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the demonization of Israel, recently sat for an interview with Jewish News Syndicate. This was to her credit, making it arguably the first and only thing in Albanese’s UN career that is to her credit. Unfortunately, in the course of the interview, Albanese revealed that she does not know the meaning of any of the key terms relevant to her job.

When asked why she speaks as if Gaza is occupied even though Israel’s occupation ended two decades ago, Albanese says that Israel’s blockade of some goods proves there’s an occupation—an insane assertion on its own, but one that conveniently is also debunked by the UN’s own guidelines and definitions. “Because in order to have an occupation, the determining factor was effective control under article 42 of the Hague Regulations,” she said. As the JNS report points out in a note appended to the interview transcript, according to the UN itself,“three elements are identified as being necessary for the existence of an occupation for the purposes of international law.” According to article 42 of the Hague Regulations, the first of these is “the unconsented-to presence of foreign forces.” Those would be the forces that left Gaza 18 years ago. Albanese’s insistence otherwise is an important window into the minds of the fraudulent forces that have long since hijacked the concept of international law in order to sanction unethical behavior by governments that have UN support. The UN doesn’t believe that Gaza is occupied, but the UN nevertheless will say Gaza is occupied at every opportunity.

Presumably this is why, in the same interview, Albanese gives the OK to Hamas soldiers crossing the border to murder Israeli soldiers on Israeli territory during a ceasefire. In any event, it is helpful to have such extensive on-the-record documentation of UN venality at the highest levels.

Bassam Tawil: How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists

By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest resources in building tunnels and manufacturing weapons.

"They [UNRWA] teach us that the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to us [Muslims], that Palestine belongs to us," said Atif Sharha, a student at an UNRWA school.

"Yes, they teach us that the Zionists are our enemy," said Nur Taha, a third-year student from Kalandia. "We should carry out an [terror] operation against them [Zionists]."

"The Palestinian matriculation exams [at UNRWA] have become a finishing school in extremism. It is as if the Palestinian Authority is cramming as much hate into the tests as possible, to ensure the twelve previous years of indoctrination stay with them into adulthood." — Marcus Sheff, CEO at the Institute for Cultural Peace and Tolerance in School Education, i24news.tv, July 23, 2023.

Despite years of considerable condemnation of the textbooks, newly produced editions, approved by UNRWA, are exponentially worse....

Whatever hopes that anyone may have held for the trustworthiness of UNRWA have long expired, and were arguably misplaced at the outset. UNRWA, in its current state, has proven itself irremediably defective, unworkable and yet another massive stain on the already scandalously stained UN.

It is high time for the international community and those who actually want a better future for the Palestinians to liquidate UNRWA and take actions that truly help the Palestinians move forward to a golden life.

Hamas is in control of UNRWA aid group in Gaza, Palestinian man says: recording

A man identified as a Palestinian living in Gaza told the Israel Defense Forces on audio tape that Hamas has direct control over the United Nations group coordinating the delivery of humanitarian aid in the territory.

In recordings of the phone call, obtained by The Post, the man accused the troubled Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, of being under Hamas’ power, telling an IDF officer that the terrorist group has been hogging all the supplies.

“The situation is terrible because the humanitarian people, those responsible for the humanitarian aid, are thieves,” the frustrated Gaza resident said in the recording.

“Hamas has their hands on UNRWA administration workers, and it manages UNRWA,” he alleges. “From the day they [Hamas] rose to power they took control of everything.”

The man also claimed that Hamas has made sure the incoming humanitarian supplies were distributed to its own people first as opposed to the more than one million civilians who have been displaced by the war.

An IDF official told The Post the call between the soldier and civilian was recorded when the officer was making his rounds to inform Palestinians of where to evacuate to and seek aid supplies as Israel continues its bombardments in Gaza.

The allegations, which reveal the civilian’s frustration over the lack of aid arriving in Gaza amid the war, was just the latest in a troubling series of discoveries made by the Israeli forces during its offensive, including the presence of UNRWA-labeled bags carried by Hamas operatives, the IDF official said.

UNRWA did not respond to The Post’s request for comment Sunday.

It has now been some 36 hours since Gaza Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar issued a statement aboutthe war in Gaza - his first such statement since the war began.

As mentioned previously, his statement was filled with obvious lies combined with bravado - claiming that Hamas s attacked about 5,000 Israeli soldiers, “a third of them died, a third were seriously injured and the last third was permanently disable." he also claimed Hamas destroyed 750 armored IDF vehicles.

How has the mainstream media covered these statements?

For the most part, they remain ignored. The live coverage sites of the New York Times, AP, CNN and NBC News did not think that a statement from Hamas' leader and mastermind of the October 7 attacks was worth mentioning.

The media that did cover it generally buried his lies.

The Telegraph wrote "He falsely claimed that his terrorist forces had killed more than a thousand Israeli soldiers. According to Israel, 156 soldiers have died in the ground operation in Gaza."

Other second-tier media simply quoted other sources, like WION quoting the Times of Israel's report. The Hindustan Times reported Sinwar's claims alongside Israel's count of soldiers who fell, without opining on which is more accurate.

The theme seems to be that the Gaza Hamas government is trustworthy when making up casualty figures, but when they say things that are provable lies, then it is just Arabs being Arabs and it is not worth taking seriously or even calling attention to them.

There are two main themes for Hamas: Jew-hatred and deception. October 7 showed that they are experts at both. And they know that the media is reluctant to emphasize either one of those themes.

Which is why they are so effective.

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"Doctors Against Genocide" - brand new pro-Hamas, antisemitic Muslim front group

This flyer stunned a lot of people over the past day.

"Doctors" will accuse Israel of "genocide" at the Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday. THis is a paradigmatic example of Holocaust inversion, of accusing Jews of being worse than Nazis.

It will surprise no one that "Doctors Against Genocide" was created not in response to any actual genocide but only in the past month, and only for one reason: to make this sort of antisemitism mainstream and acceptable.

Their website does not list the name of one doctor or member. No founders, no committee, no spokesperson.

The "Donate" page of "Doctors Against Genocide" gives a hint as to who is behind it. "Doctors Against Genocide is a program of Jetpac, a 501(c)3 nonprofit," it says.

Jetpac is a Muslim political advocacy group. "Jetpac (Justice Education Technology Political Advocacy Center) seeks to build a strong American Muslim political infrastructure and increase our community’s influence and engagement. Our philosophy of change is rooted in a community-based approach, grassroots mobilization, civics training, and technology application. We have developed our own training curriculum, as well as proprietary social media technology and automation tools, to give our Fellows the skills and resources they need to win elections."

Jetpac was founded by Nadeem Mazen, a Cambridge, MA city council member and leader of CAIR Massachusetts. CAIR has links to Hamas and indeed has never condemned Hamas by name.

So these aren't doctors against genocide against Jews.

Mazen himself is an expert at trying to sneak antisemitic propaganda into mainstream discourse, which is the entire purpose of DAG. He even suggested to cast members of Saturday Night Live how they can create a "funny" sketch about Israel's "baby murder addiction.."

That is how propaganda is done, and that is the entire purpose of Doctors Against Genocide.

Not that "Doctors Against Genocide" doesn't attract useful non-Muslim idiots. Earlier this month they joined other anti-Israel protesters in Washington, and Code Pink has a video where three people who claim to be healthcare workers - again, without full names - weigh against Israel by pretending to care about healthcare. One of them, "Lana," absurdly claimed said that Israeli actions could cause a new worldwide pandemic because of mosquito-borne diseases from decaying bodies of Gazans under rubble could spread throughout the planet.

Anti-Israel members of Congress were thrilled to claim that they had doctors on their side in speeches.

A frightening article in Tablet last month showed how the medical profession in the US is succumbing to DEI-type philosophy that leads to antisemitism.

Needless to say, these "doctors" have nothing to say about thousands of Israelis injured and killed, or the mental health of Israelis who witnessed the massacres, or the lifetime trauma of being raped by the Islamist savages that they defend.

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Arabic media antisemitism keeps getting worse

I reported yesterday about explicit incitement to murder Jews in Arab media. Arabic language media has always been antisemitic, but I've never seen this level of hate, and I've been looking at this for a long time now.

Al Jazeera has an op-ed describing how Jews have taken over the West over the past few centuries, mostly using the Freemason movement that so many are convinced is really a Jewish front:

The genocidal war waged by the Zionist-American alliance against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and the massive Western alignment with it, reveals to us the extent of deception and historical falsity that the world experienced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD, where history was falsified and rewritten to suit the new Jewish era, which began its rise in the 17th century AD, established its rules in the 18th century AD, and then continued building on these rules in the 19th century AD. And the first half of the 20th century AD politically, economically, legally, socially, and intellectually, before it embarked on a process of escalating hegemony in the second half of the 20th century AD until now. In order to understand the nature of this war and the true motives of the Western countries for supporting it, we urgently need to reread Western history in this period that witnessed massive bloody transformations, from which the Jewish movement was not far removed under its Masonic cover, which they had the upper hand in establishing, financing and spreading and developing it.

Yes, Jews control the world. And this is what the half billion Al Jazeera consumers are reading.

Meanwhile, Jordan's Ad Dustour continues in its own antisemitic traditions, with an article titled, "Do the Jews want to kill Jesus twice?"

In a march in solidarity with Gaza in an American city, an American girl carried a sign reading: "Do you want to kill Christ twice?"

It seems that the American girl's question angers and annoys Biden, Blinken, and the Washington administration more than the kings and rabbis of the Kingdom of David. 50 million Americans belong to Christian Zionism. These people's ideological conviction says: that Israel is the smaller America, and that America is the greater Israel. When Biden said that he is a Zionist, it is not necessary for a Zionist to be a Jew... and he was not delirious or hallucinating.

Biden, Blinken, and Austin rushed to Israel in the first days of the Al-Aqsa Flood War and after October 7, armed with the doctrines of the Torah and the ideology of the rabbis of the Kingdom of David, the divine promise, and Greater Israel.

What America, Britain and France are doing is an implementation of the divine biblical promise. ...The bodies of children and women in Gaza are offered as an offering to the Jewish gods... a Palestinian Holocaust stained with the blood and dignity of all Arabs

Yes, Christ was killed twice and more.. Today, if Christ were to descend again on the land of Palestine, the leaders of the Kingdom of David would kill him and prevent him from returning to heaven.

These are articles that would make David Duke blush.

Antisemitism in the Arab world is a hugely underreported story. And that is because the media simply does not want the Western world to know this, because the "anti-Zionist" flavor of antisemitism is perfectly acceptable and protected, while the traditional Russian Elder of Zion or Christian Christ-killer versions are not - so reports of them must be suppressed.

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I found this 2015 article from the New York Times:

A new training regimen for fighters in Hamas’s armed wing employs slide presentations and a whiteboard rather than Kalashnikov rifles and grenades. The young men wear polo shirts instead of fatigues and black masks. They do not chant anti-Israel slogans, but discuss how the Geneva Conventions governing armed conflict dovetail with Islamic principles.

The three-day workshop, conducted last month by the International Committee of the Red Cross, followed numerous human-rights reports accusing both Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, of war crimes in their devastating battle last summer, and came as the International Criminal Court prosecutor conducts a preliminary inquiry into that conflict.

...Red Cross leaders say they have seen an increasing commitment from Hamas leaders and linemen alike, if only because they now consider their international image a critical component of their struggle.

Mamadou Sow, who heads Red Cross operations in Gaza, said that in April he presented a critique of Hamas’s conduct during the 2014 hostilities to its top political and military leaders, and that they “welcomed it” and “indicated that they are a learning organization.” He said they also “challenged us to keep in mind the topology of the Gaza Strip,” one of the most densely populated patches on the planet.

“For the first time,” said Jacques de Maio, director of the Red Cross delegation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, “Hamas is actually, in a private, protected space, expressing a readiness to look critically at a number of things that have an impact on their level of respect for international humanitarian law.”

He added, “Whether this will translate into something concrete, time will tell.”

Besides participating in the workshops, Hamas has altered its propaganda in the aftermath of the war. New talking points stress that tunnel attacks last summer targeted military positions, not civilian communities, and argue — dubiously — that rockets fly toward civilian areas because the Gaza groups lack guiding technology.

Still, Hamas leaders routinely praise attacks on Israelis, and there are widespread reports that Qassam is rebuilding tunnels to infiltrate Israeli territory.

Last week, in announcing the arrest of a Qassam fighter in July, Israel’s security service said that he had told interrogators “the organization’s fighters endanger many civilians by storing explosives in their homes, on the instructions of Hamas commanders.”

In 2011, the media reported that Hamas accepted a two state solution. In 2015, that Hamas accepts international law. In 2017, that Hamas replaced its charter with one that isn't antisemitic.

There is such a desire to judge a hateful, genocidal terror group as positively as possible. And, not coincidentally, to judge Israel as harshly as possible.

Because wishful thinking often trumps reality. Hamas has never moderated its rhetoric in Arabic. Its messaging has always been crystal clear. But Western media and Western politicians turn their desire for a moderate Hamas into a conviction that that know Hamas better than Palestinians do; and that Hamas cannot possibly be lying to them when they say what they want them to hear.

I have not seen one of these reporters or pundits or "experts" apologize after October 7 and say, sorry, we thought they really had changed and we were wrong. This is an unrepentant group of murderers and liars and we cannot trust a word they say. They manipulated us and played on our desire for peace. We were fooled.

On the contrary: Hamas statements are still accepted and published without caveats, as if they have somehow changed since October 7 from a murderous, rapist terror group into a respectable government. Maybe the masked fighters cannot be trusted, but surely their doctors wouldn't lie, wound they? Even when those doctors themselves praised the massacres?

The willingness to give Hamas every benefit of the doubt is part of the reason for the war today. And, yes, the government of Israel was fooled too. But surely, after October 7, the world should have learned their lesson, right?

If Hamas was fighting anyone but Jews, probably. But there is a layer of antisemitism that assumes that Jews are even less trustworthy than Hamas terrorists, and that is a big part of why the media is more tolerant of Hamas' obvious attempts to deceive them than Israel's mostly transparent explanations (within security requirements) of what they are doing.

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12/25 Links: The UN’s Disgraceful Response to Hamas Massacre Can’t Go Unchallenged; The failure of Holocaust education; Red Cross refused medicine for Gaza hostages

From Ian:

The UN’s Disgraceful Response to Hamas Massacre Can’t Go Unchallenged

Just two days after the October 7 massacre, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) demonstrated exactly why it is one of the UN’s most notorious and hypocritical organizations. The Pakistani representative, Zaman Mehdi, called for and received a minute’s silence to remember the victims in the “occupied Palestinian territories” and elsewhere, saying it was a result of more than “seven decades of foreign occupation, aggression and disrespect for international law.” He didn’t mention Israel, and he also failed to mention Hamas — the perpetrators of the massacre. By referring to “seven decades,” he made it very clear that he attributed all blame to Israel’s very existence since 1948.

Also disturbingly, despite the overwhelming forensic evidence of sexual assault against Jewish women, including videos, these rapes were completely ignored by the United Nations, including by groups whose entire purpose is to protect women. Only after two months and an international campaign to call attention to the UN’s complete failure to even acknowledge the sick sexual violence, did the UN Women organization finally issue a weak condemnation.

Then there is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, whose staff, officials and teachers have long been exposed for involvement in terrorist violence in the past. Despite its supposed pretext of helping Palestinian refugees, it is one of the major impediments to any kind of peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

The majority of UNRWA’s $1.6 billion budget, of which Australia contributes $20 million, promotes policies that support the “right of return” for Palestinians into Israel — meaning ending the existence of the State of Israel.

During the current conflict, it was revealed that UNRWA staff celebrated the massacre, and weapons caches have been discovered in UNRWA facilities. It was also revealed that a UNRWA teacher held a hostage captive in their attic. UNRWA denies all this, saying they are being defamed.

Finally, there is the most powerful person in the UN hierarchy, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who had the nerve, even as Hamas terrorists were still running wild and massacring civilians throughout towns and villages of southern Israel, to call for “maximum restraint” from Israel. He cemented his continued descent into the moral abyss by encouraging “understanding” of the attacks by Hamas, saying they “did not happen in a vacuum,” and were a result of the “occupation.”

What happened on October 7 in southern Israel was pure unadulterated evil. The UN had a chance to choose to stand on the side of good against that evil, but as it’s so often done in the past, it made the wrong choice, adding to its ever-growing shame.

Melanie Phillips: The failure of Holocaust education

Since the Hamas pogrom of October 7 in southern Israel, a tsunami of hatred against the Jews has surged across the west. Decent people everywhere are aghast and astonished that this should be the response by so many to the greatest single act of mass murder against Jews since the Holocaust.

They are even more perplexed that a recurring characteristic of such attacks is to tear down the posters of the Israeli hostages that have been pasted up in public areas in a forlorn attempt to keep their fate alive in the public mind so that they may be returned home.

The reason for such driven and unhinged behaviour against posters stuck on walls is as obvious as it is appalling. Certain people simply cannot tolerate the fact of Jewish victimhood. So intolerable do they find this, they have to literally tear down the evidence with their own hands. No less significant is the way they do so, with both verbal and facial expressions of the most intense disgust. They find the idea of Jewish victims disgusting. And that’s because they find the very idea of Jews disgusting. What they are doing to those posters is what they would like to do to Israeli Jews.

For evidence of that, watch this video by Avi Horowitz who went to San Francisco State university to “raise money to kill Jews”. He found 28 out of 35 people with whom he engaged supported this aim, and 17 out of 35 actually offered him money “to kill Jews”.

How is such abhorrent behaviour to be explained? A major reason is that many if not most of these Jew-haters subscribe to the doctrine of “intersectional” identity politics and victim culture, which holds that some groups of people are oppressed and others are oppressors. The “oppressed” can never be held responsible for bad things they may do; the “oppressors” can never be victims of the “oppressed” or of anyone else. The haters believe that the Jews are all-powerful, that they drive capitalism and thus control the levers of world power which they manipulate in their own interests and against those of everyone else.

Why do they believe that? Because “intersectional” identity politics is the product of an education system which has long been captured by Marxist ideology, at the root of which lies an exterminatory hatred of the Jewish people. In other words, those who subscribe to identity politics are motivated at root by Jew-hatred.

And that also motivates those who are indifferent to identity politics but who believe — because historic Christian culture embedded in the west tells them so — that the Jews are motivated by vengeance and blood-lust. So they have eagerly swallowed the demonisation and defamatory lies of the Palestinian narrative, parroted day in, day out by the Hamas Broadcasting Corporation, Sky News and certain posh newspapers which spread the libel that the Israelis are wanton child-killers.

The fact that more than 1200 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7 by the supposedly “oppressed” Palestinians and more than 230 taken hostage, with an unknown number subsequently tortured, raped and murdered by those “oppressed” Palestinians while more than 100 remain captive in the hell-holes of Hamas, gets in the way of that narrative.

‘Tis the season for United Nations to see Jewish holidays as less equal

Leading with a tree emoji, the official United Nations account on X posted on Sunday to its 16.4 million followers: “Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating!”

A JNS review of prior holiday messages on the United Nations account revealed a single instance where the international body—which has long been accused of antisemitism and of unfairly targeting the Jewish state—appeared to celebrate a Jewish holiday.

That lone instance, from last April, came when the United Nations managed to lump a Jewish holiday together with several others.

“‘Peace is needed today more than ever.’ During a special interfaith ‘Prayer for Peace’ moment, António Guterres,” the U.N. secretary-general, “says that even the calendar is sending a message of unity, as Ramadan, Easter, Passover and the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi coincide this month,” the United Nations posted on April 14.

The United Nations shared something similar again on April 14 and on April 6. Those appear to be the only times that the United Nations has posted about a Jewish holiday.

A search of all the handle’s posts on X yielded no other results for “Passover,” and no results for “Pesach,” “Hanukkah,” “Chanukah,” “Shavuot,” “Shavuos,” “Sukkot,” “Sukkos,” “Purim,” “Yom Kippur,” “Rosh Hashanah” nor “High Holidays.” “Jewish holiday” and “Jewish holidays” also returned no results.

“Festival of lights,” returned four results, but none related to the Jewish festival of lights. “During Diwali, the festival of lights—celebrated in India and by followers of many faiths across the world—clay lamps are lit to signify the victory of good over evil,” the United Nations posted on Nov. 11. The U.N. account also mentioned “festival of lights” and wished a happy Diwali in 2022, 2020, 2019 and 2018. (It also wished a happy Diwali in 2021, and two more times in 2020, without mentioning “festival of lights.”)

Times of Israel reports:

In his first public message since the massacres of October 7, Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar on Monday remained defiant, while grossly inflating the terror group’s achievements in the war.

Sinwar falsely claimed that the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, had “targeted” over 5,000 Israeli soldiers and officers, and killed about third of them — that is, over 1,500.

The actual figure of IDF deaths is one-tenth of what the terror leader alleged. According to the IDF, 156 soldiers have so far been killed in the ground operation in Gaza. Over 300 members of the security forces were killed in Hamas’s initial October 7 onslaught.

The terror leader also gave inflated claims of the number of Israeli soldiers injured in the war, and the amount of Israeli military equipment that has been destroyed. He claimed that around 3,500 troops were seriously wounded or disabled, whereas that figure according to the IDF stands at less than 200.

He further said that Hamas had completely or partially destroyed 750 Israeli military vehicles. While the IDF has not provided official figures, the commander of the IDF Technology and Maintenance Corps, Brig. Gen. Ariel Shima, said in early November that very few IDF vehicles had been severely damaged beyond repair, and that most vehicles that are hit return to fighting.

Al Jazeera published Sinwar's message, and then deleted it. It may be because it was not meant for the public but only as a message to Hamas' political bureau, and Al Jazeera follows Hamas' instructions to the letter.

Certainly no one is reporting that the statement was a hoax.

While the statement has been widely covered in Israeli media as well as Arab media, the liveblogs of mainstream media have not mentioned it as of this writing. Nothing in the New York Times or CNN's liveblogs of the war. Also nothing at NBC or AP, all of which are updated several times a day.

Isn't it newsworthy that the leader of Hamas is Gaza not only breaks his silence, but his message is filled with obvious falsehoods?

If you cannot trust what he says - even when he is reporting to his own superiors abroad - how can anyone trust a word that is ever released by Hamas to the media or the public, ever?

Could it be that the media is reluctant to share this message because it shows that its "he said, she said" reporting where Israeli statements are treated with skepticism while Hamas' statements are given respect hs utterly misled their audiences?

Maybe they will cover the statements, but it will sure be interesting if they mention that Sinwar is obviously lying.

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Antisemitism embraced by Palestinian Christians just as much as by Muslims

At Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac set up a crèche with "Palestinian" baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh and lying in a pile of rubble.

As a supporter of the Kairos Palestine, Munther Isaac is an antisemite who espouses replacement theology. But I wondered if this Christian "peacemaker" ever once criticized Hamas.

He certainly didn't after 10/7.

His first tweet after 10/7 was a lie: condemning Israel for the jihadist rocket strike on the Al Ahli hospital. He never clarified or apologized for the slur.

To find a single word against Hamas, you have to go ten years back in his timeline, where he responds to a story about Hamas with the single word "Shame!" What did Hamas do? They cut off the hair of Gazans.

On the contrary - Isaac is at the very least a passive supporter of Hamas. The Washington Post described a group of Palestinian Christian leaders of which he is a member as considering Hamas "an organization that is part of the fabric of Palestinian society and seen as a standard-bearer of resistance."

So to this moral paragon, who has hundreds of anti-Israel posts and videos and articles, murder and rape and kidnapping and injury of thousands of Jews by Hamas is literally nothing to condemn on his timeline, with only a wishy-washy generic condemnation of violence when asked directly.

Isaac wrote an article about Gazans saying, "Where are they to go? There is no place for them in this world!" The irony is that according to some Christian sources, Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt shortly after the scene shown in Christmas crèches.

Yet Isaac certainly doesn't say that Gazans should be able to seek shelter in Egypt themselves if they want to. His concern for their lives doesn't extend quite that far.

A further hypocrisy is that this person who says Jesus was a "Palestinian" tweets about how it is awful for Zionists to use the Bible as support for their position. Yet Kairos Palestine uses the Bible to support Palestinian nationalism.

The problems go way beyond Munther Isaac and Kairos. Here is an antisemitic cartoon created by a Jordanian artists but published by a Western "pro-Palestinian" group that evokes the charge of deicide for Christmas and echoes Isaac's crèche scene:

Other Western cartoonists pretend that Jews are murdering Santa Claus' aid to Gaza, when in fact Hamas is the one murdering those trying to obtain aid - and has a history of stealing and attacking aid meant for Gazans, which is never condemned by Palestinian Christians.

Being an antisemite is bad enough. But doing it under the guise of being a good Christian, using the same justifications that Christians have used to persecute Jews for centuries, is unconscionable.

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Nazi-level incitement to genocide against Jews is now mainstream in the Arab world

There has been plenty of publicity about how antisemitism is skyrocketing and becoming normalized in the West, although not much is being done about it.

But at the same time, the already virulent antisemitism that has been pervasive in the Arab world has been morphing into justification for, and towards incitement to, the genocide of Jews as a whole.

Here are two examples from the past day alone that go beyond even what the Nazis published publicly.

Jordan's Ad Dustour newspaper briefly summarizes a brand new book, Jews and Violence - Book One - How Religion Becomes Evil

Author Munir Al-Aksh draws a complete historical picture of the Jewish mentality and argues that it is not a religion but rather an ideological hallucination or a “political programme” in the words of the philosopher Kant, and that it was formulated at a late date to measure the needs of its desert society that is cruel and expressed its spirit and the reasons for its violence and self-worship, and its dreams of inheriting other people's countries and depriving them.

These dreams and ambitions are what made these clans a functional religion, the most prominent of which is deadly violence, and which has:

(a) a sacred centrality called “the covenant”
(b) and a goal that sanctifies conquest, plunder and annihilation called “the Promised Land”
(c) and a sacred obligation called “self-worship”
(d) An exceptional hereditary (genetic) myth called “divine choice.”
(e) an absolute innocence from its Lord regarding “the right to sacrifice the other” and the permissibility of its existence called “The Curse of Canaan.”
(f) A ritual of worship that they call prohibition (slaughtering, destroying, and burning), thinking that their Lord is pleased with the smell of roasted corpses
(g) a warrior god obsessed with annihilation who “pushed” before her whatever nations of the earth she wanted to annihilate.

The texts from which the mentality was woven and centered around the idea of Israel, the “promised land” (occupying someone else’s land and replacing one people with another), put us before a genocidal ideology that can only be achieved through lethal violence. It is embodied today by the Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist movement. What the world is witnessing in Gaza today is a live ritual display presented by the religious government with audio and video of this genocidal and prohibitive ideology, which was and still is a cult of theirs that has haunted the idea of Israel since the day they believed that their Lord announced His marriage to Israel.

That's not even the worst example from Sunday.

Iraqi Shiite news site Baratha imagines a world without Zionists - and without Jews:

What would the world lose if the Jews became extinct?! Quite the contrary, humanity will have a good opportunity to live quietly and without the evils of this malicious sect. The idea is so wonderful that I can almost see the desert blooming, the earth getting excited, and millions of beings losing their minds from extreme happiness!

Jews are the curse that came from the worst dreams of the accursed Devil. Without them, humanity would not have known atheism, the theory of evolution, and racism. With their help, the prophets were killed, usury and immorality spread, wars broke out, and nations perished. With their dirty thinking, epidemics developed, the death trade became widespread, and the world turned into an arena of conflict in which man eats man and death spreads everywhere. .

If humanity had not known this malicious sect, it would not have known socialism, capitalism, and Nazism. It would not have known Zionism, Freemasonry, Illuminati, and Wahhabism. It would not have known the Cold War, nuclear and hydrogen bombs, and it would not have known corruption, anomalies, drugs, cancer, global warming, the right to veto, America, injustice, and oppression.

They are a dirty, atheistic sect that claims faith, a dirty race that considers itself the only one worthy of life, and a strange society that contains the essence of meanness, malice, and deception accumulated over thousands of years. Their history is rotten, their books are false, their principles are evil, their morals are malicious, their methods are satanic, their goals are ominous, their presence is dangerous, and their survival is not good for man or animal.

These people never lived among a people without their corruption, unrest, and devastation spreading, and they never moved to any country without carrying evil with them to it.. So it behooves all humanity to be hostile to them until it is safe from their evil, and I am not exaggerating here if I say that their disappearance is life and good, and their survival is death and evil. If humanity wants to live in peace, it must first stop their evil; And everyone who stands against them is on the side of truth, goodness and peace.

There is no alternative to God’s laws, and the path of Satan and his servants will end in failure. Everyone who stands against them will be helped and supported by God’s care. Goodness, which is the path to salvation, is in standing against evil, not by standing by and watching. The responsibility that one cannot escape from bearing is through awareness, work, and patience, and the outcome is survival and victory in This world and the hereafter, God willing..

Unlike the resurgence of antisemitism in the West, there are next to no articles condemning the incitement to violence that is now widespread. The pretense that arab media had in separating Jews from Zionism in the past 25 years has all but disappeared. The Jews remaining in Tunisia are frightened to death that they will be slaughtered at any time.

Western NGOs who claim to be supportive of human rights do not say a word against these explicit calls to rid the world of the evil of Jews.

In the competition of ideas in the Arab world, Hamas is winning by a landslide.- because there is next to no competition at all when it comes to Jew-hatred.

It took years for the Nazis to bring Germany, which was already predisposed to antisemitism, up to this level of hate towards Jews. We are witnessing the same level of indoctrination in hate in only weeks.

Unless something dramatic happens, I am afraid that we will see the small Jewish communities in Morocco and Tunisia subject to the sorts of attacks that were routine in 1948 and earlier.

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Abbas' Christmas message: Lies and libels

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas released his annual Christmas message today

As usual, it is filled with political opportunism and lies, dressed up as a message for peace on Earth where he pretends to represent a Christian community that has been fleeing in droves since the Palestinians ruled over them politically.

The birth of Jesus Christ comes this year, and the city of birth, Bethlehem, is experiencing a sadness that it has not seen before this day. The occupation forces oppress and kill the children of Palestine, and snatch the innocent smiles from the faces of the living among them, as none of our people, women, men, and the elderly, were spared. From this killing, terrorism, attempts at forced displacement, and the destruction of thousands of homes, it reminds us of what happened in the Nakba of 1948.

In 1948, Arab nations were places of refuge for their fellow Arabs from Palestine. In 2023, they have uniformly shut their doors. And not one Palestinian leader will say a negative word about them.

We hope that the anniversary of Christmas will come, and with it the beginning of a new year, with which hope will be renewed, life will be renewed, and the forces of evil will be defeated.

Guess who the "forces of evil" are? Hint: It isn't Hamas.

Here I say to our people and to our families who take refuge in the church in Gaza, and who were not spared from the barbarity of the Israeli aggression, and to all the people of Gaza, that your torments, and the torments of our people at home and abroad, will not be in vain, and that the sun of freedom and the independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital will inevitably come. But it's just around the corner. The river of blood, great sacrifices, suffering, and heroic steadfastness of our people on their land is the path towards freedom and dignity.

A reminder that on October 6, the Gazan economy was improving, thousands of Gazans had jobs in Israel, imports and exports were at record levels, and there was peace. Instead of talking about that, Abbas is singing praises for the Hamas murderers and rapists as people who are making sacrifices and suffering.

The brutal bombing committed by the occupation affected the Evangelical Baptist Hospital in Gaza,

Not Israel.

the Orthodox Cultural Center, the Greek Orthodox Church Hall,

Not targeted by Israel.

and the Holy Family Church,

Not Israel.

in addition to mosques, schools, and hospitals

Turned into military targets by Hamas.

...did not differentiate between a Muslim and a Christian, and the occupation’s aggression also affected the Christian presence...

Most Christians have fled Gaza since Hamas took over. When Israel wasn't there.

As for you, peoples of the world, we salute you and thank you for taking to the streets all over the world, demanding freedom for Palestine, and this is a pride for us and a defeat for tyrants.

Yes, shutting down highways and bridges so hard working people in the West cannot reach their jobs or their families is a strike against tyrants.

As usual, it is propaganda sprinkled with lies and libels. And no one seems to have a problem with that.

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12/24 Links: Hamas Failed, Israelis Are More United After October 7; Freed Hamas hostage: 'I was a prize'; Israel finds Hamas bomb belts adapted for kids

From Ian:

Netanyahu to Biden: ‘We will fight until absolute victory’

The Gaza war will continue for “however long it takes,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday night.

Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on Sunday, the premier said, “Last night, I spoke again with President Biden. I appreciate the steadfast U.S. position—which supports our war effort—in the U.N. Security Council. I told President Biden yesterday that we will fight until absolute victory—however long that takes. The U.S. understands this.”

The prime minister denied “erroneous reports” claiming the U.S. had prevented Israel from taking action against other hostile entities in the region. (The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that Biden blocked Israel from attacking Hezbollah on Oct. 11, four days after the Hamas attack on the northwestern Negev.)

“Our decisions in the war are based on our operational considerations, and I will not expand further. They are not dictated by external pressure. The decision on how to use our forces is an independent decision of the IDF and nobody else,” the prime minister said.

Netanyahu referred to the 14 IDF troops killed in action this weekend, including 10 on Saturday: “This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza. On behalf of all members of the government and the entire people of Israel, I would like to send condolences to the families of our heroic soldiers.”

He said IDF soldiers have killed “many thousands of terrorists” and will continue to grind away at the Hamas terrorist group until it is destroyed, the hostages are returned and Gaza “will never again constitute a threat to the State of Israel.”

Bridges of Trust between Israelis and Palestinians Have Been Blown to Smithereens

I live in Kibbutz Nirim, less than two km. from the border with Gaza. People from my community have always held our hands out in peace to the residents on the other side of the border. I have participated in a number of projects and interactions with Palestinians, to try to build bridges. I've worked with people from Gaza who understand that we in Israel genuinely believe in coexistence with anyone who wants to live in peace with us. I always tell whoever will listen that it is in our best interest to see them thrive and prosper and have good lives.

On Oct. 7, many of those bridges collapsed. People on Nirim were reporting in the kibbutz's WhatsApp group that they were hearing automatic machine gun fire and shouting in Arabic outside their houses. We were alerted to shutter and lock doors and windows, then lock ourselves in our safe rooms. The problem was that the doors of the safe rooms, which were built to keep us safe from mortars, rockets and shrapnel, as opposed to infiltration by terrorists, do not lock. When we were finally evacuated from Nirim on Oct. 8, we had to drive through an active war zone.

I had believed, when the Qatari suitcases of dollars were allowed into Gaza, that all our lives would be safer. In light of the discoveries made by our troops now fighting inside Gaza, clearly the money was invested in building an underground terror network instead of helping Gazans. I had faith in the belief that if we allow thousands of Gazans into our country for work, they would be able to feed their families and live better lives. We now understand that it was many of those people whom we were hiring who were busy at the same time betraying us, mapping out our communities, including names of residents and where they lived, in order to weaponize that knowledge on Oct. 7.

The trust we put in them enabled the slaughter of over 1,200 people and the kidnapping of over 240, many of whom were and are my friends. It is also what has caused those of us who live on Nirim and the other border communities to be refugees in our own country. Can any of us ever trust any of the Gazans on the other side as not being Hamas collaborators, or not betraying my safety because Hamas terrorists have forced them to, by threatening them or their family by putting a gun to their head?

I fear that the bridges so many of us strived to work towards have been blown to smithereens. In their place are the dark shadows of doubt and suspicion of our neighbors, and for that, I have Hamas and what they did to us on Oct. 7 to blame, as well as misguided citizens and countries of the world who embolden and support these terrorists.

I Just Sent Five of My Children to War

For the first time in my life I drove on Shabbat, taking my son to defend our people. The scene repeated itself three more times as I sent my other sons off to war.

I woke up at 6:30 AM this past Shabbat/Simchat Torah to the sound of thunder and my light fixtures shaking. I opened the blinds and the sky was blue but the thunder continued. I went outside and saw streaks across the sky.

I woke up my wife and said, “Miriam, get up, I think we are at war.” Neighbors slowly started to come outside to see what was happening. We all have kids in the army or on reserve duty. Most of our kids were home for the Jewish holiday. Since we hadn’t heard any news we didn’t know what was happening and we went to synagogue as usual.

There were booms and clear signs of the Iron Dome throughout the service. At 8:45 AM we had our first of what would be many air raid sirens. After a few minutes in the bomb shelters we emerged and went on with the prayers. We danced a little, completed the reading of the Torah and started Genesis.

During this time young men in my shul started to get called up from the army. I asked my youngest son who is in active duty in the tank brigade called Shiryon if he got a call. He went and checked his phone and that moment his commanding officer called him. He said that things were very serious and that he should start packing a bag as he would be called in later in the day.

My wife and I have five children (four sons and a daughter); three of them are married, and two granddaughters from my oldest son. I’m privileged that all four sons or ours are in the infantry and a daughter-in-law in the air force.

I was asked to lead the prayers for the welfare of the State of Israel, and the welfare of the soldiers, and the Mussaf service. As I put on my white kittel for the special prayers for rain recited on Shmini Atzeret and sang the words “to life and not death,” I could not stop thinking of the prospect of my son being deployed. The day felt more like Yom Kippur than Simchat Torah.

Over the past couple of weeks, nearly all of my tweets have been responded to - often immediately - with bots.

These bots almost always post in Hebrew, and their accounts pretend to be Israelis their names spelled in Hebrew. Many use names like "Schwartz" and "Cohen" and "Levy" and "Goldstein." The accounts will put lots of Jewish and Israeli symbols on their profiles, and even retweet pro-Israel accounts here and there. But their main thrust is to post Hebrew tweets that try to turn Israelis against the government and the IDF, and indeed against each other.

They claim Hamas is winning the war, showing Hamas videos; or that Israel isn't doing anything to free the hostages; or that Netanyahu must go. The messages are repeated verbatim among different fake accounts.

You can see here a number of bot responses to my "Shabbat Shalom" message on Friday.

And they have hundreds, maybe thousands, of bot accounts. Many were created only this month, but they appear to be related to pre-existing bot accounts that are more generic (no Hebrew names).

Many of the accounts follow each other, giving the impression of being a little less "bot-like."

I've reported and blocked hundreds of them but more are generated every day. Occasionally I'll see that some have been suspended, but it is a tiny percentage.

It costs money to set up a campaign like this. Not a huge amount - it could probably be done for a couple of thousand dollars - but large enough to see that there is an organization, or a government, behind the campaign, and someone who is refining the messages depending on the reactions. Laughable mistakes from two weeks ago are rarely being repeated (like someone with the name "Yaakov Rochel.")

Who might be behind it? I suspect Iran or Iranian proxies, and this article in Hezbollah's Al Madayeen seems to support that theory.

It talks about the importance of using the language of the Zionist enemy, and to understand their mentality, to sway their opinions.

Our tendency as Arabs and as Palestinians, specifically, to learn the Hebrew language is a very important strategy and method of resistance in managing the essence of the long-term Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not only from a military security aspect, but also from cultural, societal and historical aspects, it is necessary to understand the language of our opponent....Just as the resistance in southern Lebanon did in employing the Hebrew language and using it within the framework of the “psychological strategy” that expresses its doctrine regarding “media” and the importance of the cognitive and psychological aspects of the conflict between the resistance and “Israel,” so the Palestinian resistance did in the context of the current ongoing confrontation with the enemy. It seemed that the resistance’s mastery of the Hebrew language goes beyond describing it as a tool for communication and communication, but rather comes within its cultural and cognitive context as a tool for understanding others and their ways of thinking.

The resistance today realizes that victory is achieved not only by fighting on the battlefield on the ground, but also in the “media and psychological” battlefield. Propaganda in the “battle of awareness” is what creates victory, and because it is so, it must be managed in an intelligent way to yield the best results. In this context, knowing the enemy's language constitutes a great help in understanding him and identifying his weaknesses or strengths, which makes it possible to exert strong pressure on him...

The resistance emphasizes the importance of the “visual medium” that it broadcasts, which affects thousands of Israelis. Therefore, it is keen to film its actions and broadcast them in all available media, accompanied by Hebrew translation, victory music, or poignant comments directed, such as scenes of targeting enemy soldiers and vehicles, and pictures and videos of prisoners, Which the resistance continues to broadcast in parallel with developments in the internal Israeli scene, has a psychological importance that is equivalent to “combat achievement.”

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Is Hamas shooting Gazans while dressed in IDF uniforms?

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Hamas has its terrorists putting on IDF uniforms to murder Gazans and blame Israel.

Last week, the UN Human Rights Council issued a press release claiming that the IDF rounded up 11 men in Gaza City on Tuesday, separated them from their families, executed them in front of their families and (depending on the "witnesses") either shot at or threw a grenade into the room with the women and children.

The claim is beyond absurd. The men are worth much more to Israel alive than dead. If the med were suspects, Israel would get valuable intelligence from captured prisoners, and they wouldn't miss an opportunity to see if any of them know anything about the hostages, as well as current command and communications situation with Hamas and other groups. If they weren't suspected terrorists, there is no reason at all to act this way and it violates all IDF regulations and policies.

There is no upside, no gain, no possible advantage to murdering 11 men in front of their families and then attacking women and children, and huge downsides (media, NGOs, being charged in Israel, soldiers running to "Breaking the Silence" and Haaretz and more.) It is unlikely but conceivable that an individual soldier would act this way by cracking under pressure; it is literally impossible to imagine a group of IDF soldiers all doing this together. This story fits how antisemites view the IDF, but it is not at all how the IDF acts in reality. It is a sick fantasy and conspiracy theory that conforms to Palestinian propaganda but not reality.

Beyond the illogic of the accusations, the IDF strongly denied even being in the Rimal neighborhood that day. They didn't say that they killed terrorists who were ambushing them or that there was activity nearby that might have spilled over as they have with other incidents - they simply said that there wa no activity there, period. (Of course, the UN never reported that denial. The press release remains on its sites saying the IDF has not released any information on the incident.)

As Sherlock Holmes says, "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Al Jazeera did interview injured women and older men who "testified" about the incident. Their accounts are wildly different. Some say they were machine gunned; other say that an Israeli tank shot rounds at the fourth floor, or that the IDF shot mortars directly at them. Some say women were killed, which the UN did not say.

A conspiracy to make up a story like that is conceivable but the injuries appear to be real.

Now, we know that Hamas uses IDF uniforms to attack - that's what they did on October 7. The survivors would not be able to tell the difference between a real IDF soldier and a Hamas member wearing a uniform with the wrong helmet, boots and weapons. We have reports and videos from other incidents that Hamas shoots at their own people. We know for sure that they steal aid from Gazans. We know they are not even wearing uniforms anymore and pretending to be civilians. And we know that they employ huge levels of deception in their war strategy - that's how October 7 was so deadly.

Given all that, why would anyone doubt that Hamas is capable of staging a massacre of Gaza men - men who have not joined their ranks, and who may have even been suspected of collaborating with Israel - in such a way that the world would blame Israel? It is not as if they have any moral qualms about such a move. October 7 proved they have no morality altogether. And they've used war as a cover to kill Gazan men who they regard as their enemies in the past.

Hamas is not adhering to a single customary rule of war, yet the media still treats them as if their military activities and statements are consistent with how a legitimate military acts.

Sacrificing a few Gazans for propaganda purposes is certainly something Hamas would do. It is far more likely than the IDF massacring innocent people at point blank range. And it achieved the desired effect: the UN publicized the incident the exact way Hamas would have wanted.

The media and much of the world has still not accepted the idea of Hamas as monsters who happily sacrifice their own people's lives to hurt Israelis. But that is the definition of what Hamas is. Their entire war strategy is built around using Gazans as human shields, and using their deaths as a means to pressure Israel to stop fighting or to leave parts of their military assets intact. Israel is facing an enemy that is abusing its own civilians in ways never before seen in any war in history.

Hamas dressing up as IDF and shooting Gazans dead is perfectly aligned with how Hamas acts in all other aspects of this and previous wars. And it happens to be the most logical explanation of what happened last Tuesday.

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From Lebanon's Naharnet:

The head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has stressed that his party is “not the resistance that awaits the Americans and Israelis to decide its fate.”

“We are the ones who decide the fate of the South, the border and the future of this country at the level of confronting the enemy, whom we will not allow to attack Gaza undeterred,” Safieddine said.

This is as clear a statement I've ever seen from Hezbollah telling the government of Lebanon to go screw themselves.

This is what happens when you allow terror groups to grow unhindered out of a misguided desire to keep the peace. Either there will be far more bloodshed down the line - or surrender.

If Israel would have destroyed Hamas in the 2009 war, countless lives would have been saved. But none of the "experts" or "analysts" can see the truth: the longer you wait to destroy evil, the more powerful evil becomes. Thinking it is morphing into a responsible and legitimate government or part of government, as the so-called experts insisted with both Hamas and Hezbollah, is wishful thinking substituting for real analysis.

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