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Friday, February 21, 2025

The failed bus attacks would have killed hundreds, the worst terror attack in Israel's history besides October 7

The Jerusalem Post reports:Several buses exploded in various locations across central Israel on Thursday evening in a planned mass terror bombing attempt. At least three bombs exploded buses in the area of Bat Yam, Israel Police said. The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran, and was carried out by Hamas terrorists...

People really need to understand the Palestinian honor/shame mentality.To Hamas and Palestinians in general, humiliation is worse than death. This is why "honor killings" exist - a twisted morality where one's personal honor justifies murdering a family member. The 1948 war was not simply a defeat - it was a "nakba," a catastrophe. Not because of the number of refugees...

This week, Morocco hosted the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, with representatives from ministers of transportation of many countries participating.Israel's Transportation Minister Miri Regev attended, causing controversy. Moroccans protested her presence and demanded that Morocco arrest her. The BDS movement was upset at the Palestinian delegate, Tarek...

02/20 Links Pt2: The Great Erasure Is Here; Sky News Australia Antisemitism Summit; The Terrorist Propaganda to Reddit Pipeline

From Ian: Their Time Is Up Enough with the sophistry about international laws and human rights. The crucibles in which these ideas were forged, raging with the fires of century-old conflicts, have now cooled down and crumbled. To pretend as if we must now take seriously a torrent of treaties long after the framework guaranteeing their efficacy—if such a framework ever existed...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Civilization weeps After the heartbreak comes a profound anger. The return from Gaza of the bodies of the murdered Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas and her small children, 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel—after a grotesque Hamas propaganda stunt displaying their coffins and accusing Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of killing them—has...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Queers For Palestine Insist Will Be Just Fine In Gaza, Once Trump Empties It New York, February 20 - Activists in a sexual-identity movement that attempts to ally disparate, even clashing, causes in progressive politics assured...

Ultra Palestine reports on explosions in Gaza since the ceasefire. It says they are all from Israeli muitions, but the details sound more like Hamas booby-traps.Ezz El-Din Hijazi (23 years old), one of the victims of the occupation’s remnants, sustained injuries to his face and parts of his body, and a broken foot, as a result of the explosion of what he describes as a “foreign...

From Reuters: For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the handwritten text as if still in awe they were back home.The father and son fled Syria in the 1990s, after then-Syrian president Hafez al-Assad lifted a travel ban...

Last May, Israel sent a letter to UNRWA demanding that they evacuate from their buildings in Jerusalem that were built on state land or land belonging to the Jewish National Fund before 1948.UNRWA's response to these charges are interesting in that they do not deny them. Instead, they attempt to deflect them. From the (anti-Israel) Jerusalem Story site:Israel claims...

Today, Hamas made the handover of Oded Lifshitz and Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri Bibas into a hideous spectacle where it tried to turn even the most depraved terrorist actions into propaganda.Here was the stage Hamas set up:The main backdrop shows a vampire-like Netanyahu with the words "The war criminal Netanyahu and his Nazi Zionist army killed them with missiles from Zionist...

02/19 Links Pt2: Israelis and Palestinians Chose Their Own Paths; BBC accused of using Hamas official’s son in documentary

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Israelis and Palestinians Chose Their Own Paths The phrase “live your values” is a bit of a cliché, but the Jewish DPs did so—and how they did so is one of the lesser-appreciated stories of the struggle for statehood. “The displaced Jews have an almost obsessive will to live normally again, to reclaim their full rights as free men,” wrote Leo Srole...

From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: The Hamas baby killers and a broken global moral compass For generations, decent people have wondered how it was that the citizens of what was arguably the most civilized and scientifically advanced society in Europe—Germany—behaved as they did during the Holocaust. The answer was that they didn’t believe in the humanity of the Jews. Ordinary Germans...