Rifat Audeh is described by Al Jazeera as "a Palestinian-Canadian human rights activist," He directed a film about the Mavi Marmara incident.
This "human rights activist" also advocates murdering anyone who isn't 100% against Israel.
In an article in Hezbollah mouthpiece Al Mayadeen (English), Audeh describes the imagined horrors of the "genocide" in Gaza - and how he wants to see revenge and "justice."
Once again, we see the images of children with their limbs blown off, or under the rubble screaming, or crying over their family and friends killed in the most horrific way such as being deliberately crushed to death by tanks, or worse. The pain they have felt and seen is indescribable and beyond what any human can endure. So do not blame them and the rest of the Palestinians, when they seek revenge. And do not blame us when we seek revenge for them.Do not blame them, when tomorrow, they engage in martyrdom operations -or what the West calls suicide bombings- against those who sadistically and gleefully practiced these horrors against them.
This is a call for a global intifada - and he sure doesn't mean it in a peaceful way.
But he isn't only calling for suicide bombing against Israelis.
It must be kept in mind that all of these crimes and atrocities, culminating in this genocide would not have been possible without the mainstream media propagandizing and parroting the false Israeli narrative for decades, along with the despicable politicians who continue to support this genocide. So when revenge is sought, it must be exacted against everyone who aided and abetted these slaughters, whether they are politicians, propagandists, influencers, or others. These include the obvious ones, such as Genocide Joe and Bloody Blinken, but include many others such as Jake Sullivan ("We do not believe what is happening in Gaza is a genocide") and Lindsey Graham for example, who called for nuclear bombs to be dropped on the 2.3 million people of Gaza. Others include Matt Miller, Nir Muller, Stuart Seldowitz, Michael Rapaport, James Whale & Piers Morgan and Julia Hartley-Brewer (TalkTV), Dana Bash (CNN), and many more.
Do they all think that somehow they are invincible, untouchable or unreachable? Don’t they realize that once this global army of recruits begins its work, these vile, despicable, heartless, soulless individuals will be easily found and held accountable with the same level of mercy they showed towards the children of Gaza?
Anything less than this form of justice is no longer acceptable.
That is a direct call for all anti-Israel protesters to start murdering anyone who knows that there is no genocide in Gaza.
He is threatening me. He is probably threatening you. He is calling on "pro-Palestinian" activists to blow up , stab and shoot most Americans, most Europeans, and a great number of Arabs.
The plot of the movie was rather straightforward. A clown is arrested by the Nazis for making fun of Adolf Hitler. He’s sent to a concentration camp where he is required to lead children to the gas chambers.
We may still see the script filmed in some format: Producer Kia Jam says he has acquired rights to the original, pre-Lewis screenplay. But Lewis is the real draw: the legendary Jewish funnyman directing a Holocaust drama about a clown, combined with the fact that it was filmed and then buried, is the reason for the almost mythical stature of The Day the Clown Cried.
“The original story was a tale of horror, conceit, and finally, enlightenment and self-sacrifice,” script co-writer Charles Denton told JTA. Lewis apparently renamed the clown Helmut Doork. “Jerry had turned it into a sentimental, Chaplinesque representation of his own confused sense of himself, his art, his charity work, and his persecution at the hands of critics.”
According to Denton and his co-writer Joan O’Brien, the decision to keep it buried isn’t actually Lewis’s. By the time he shot the film, it’s not clear his producer still had rights to the script. Plus, O’Brien and Denton “were so horrified by the footage Lewis showed them that they refused to ever grant him, or any entities associated with him, the right to release it — a provision that still holds true today, despite all three parties having died.”
Which means the Library of Congress has limits on what it can release to the public. It does not have the full movie and it will not hold screenings or public exhibitions of what it does have. The materials Lewis gave the library can be viewed with permission by researchers.
The movie’s apparent terribleness is also part of the draw. Holocaust movies are about as rare as Abe Lincoln biographies: Though they can be very different from each other, the genre itself is always producing something. Even oddball takes on it break through. Just consider Quentin Tarantino’s vengeful revisionist bloodbath Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Taika Waititi’s satirical farce JoJo Rabbit (2019).
But a secret flop from a Jewish comedy megastar? There’s a reason it’s among the most famous movies never made. (Or, in this case, never released.) There’s been a ton of theorizing about what actually went wrong, but the writer Devorah Baum probably got it right when she told the BBC that Lewis may have just looked at the raw film he shot and thought, “actually, this wasn’t such a great idea.”
Sunday marked the 200th anniversary of the unveiling of Eugène Delacroix’s Scenes from the Massacres at Chios, a fourteen-by-twelve-foot oil painting now housed in the Louvre. To Martin Kramer, this painting, with its images of huddled survivors and scattered corpses, “cannot but evoke the primal brutality of October 7.” He explains its historical background: In 1822, the prosperous Ottoman-ruled island of Chios, in the Aegean Sea, was seized by Greek insurgents. The Ottomans recaptured the Greek-populated island with a ferocity that shocked Europe. Estimates vary, but the Ottomans massacred, enslaved, and starved as many as 100,000 Greek Christians, leaving the island depopulated. Graphic accounts of savage torture spread across the continent, fueling the philhellene movement with rage and resolve. In composing his painting, Delacroix relied on such reports, as well as conversations with a French eyewitness.
In Kramer’s view, the connection to the depredations of Hamas is more than just visual: The foremost French specialist on Islam and politics, Gilles Kepel, in his new book Holocaustes: Israël, Gaza et la guerre contre l’Occident, has presented October 7 through the lens of its perpetrators, as a ghazwa (razzia in European parlance): a raid deliberately intended to subjugate and dehumanize a non-Muslim adversary. The prophet Mohammad conducted such a raid against the Jewish tribes of the Khaybar oasis in Arabia in the year 628.
The line that connects the years 628 and 2023 (with 1824 along the way) is one of traditionally Muslim and now Islamist supremacism. It not only promises victory but seeks to inscribe it upon the bodies of the vanquished.
In 2018 I claimed that France is the most “dangerous European country for Jews,” noting that antisemitic attacks had increased that year by 74 percent on 2017. I returned to the theme in January 2020 in an article entitled “How long until there are no Jews left in France.”
Since Hamas unleashed it barbarous attack on Israel ten months ago, antisemitic acts have rocketed by 200 percent, according to figures announced this week by Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister. Included in the figures are two attempts to burn down synagogues.
The first was in May when police shot dead an Algerian man as he attempted to set fire to a synagogue in Rouen. The second happened on Saturday when a man wearing a keffiyeh and a Palestinian flag carried out a similar act in a suburb of Montpellier, igniting the building and blowing up two cars on the street outside.
There was the customary condemnation from all political parties, including President Emmanuel Macron and the man who is still filling in as prime minister, Gabriel Attal.
Their words did not go down well with many of the country’s Jewish community. Chief Rabbi Haïm Korsia bemoaned “tears that look more like crocodile tears than tears of compassion.”
He accused Jean-Luc Melenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise of fanning the flames of antisemitism, as did Simone Rodan Benzaquen, director of the American Jewish Committee in France and Europe. “I consider today that La France Insoumise [LFI] has structurally become an antisemitic party,” she said.
Similar accusations were leveled at the party in June by Serge Klarsfeld, France’s most venerable Nazi hunter, who has dedicated his life to bringing to justice those responsible for the Holocaust.
A rising star in La France Insoumise is Rima Hassan. “Outside Western hegemonic thinking, no one considers October 7 an act of terrorism,” she said recently, not long after allegedly attending a rally in Jordan which paid tribute to Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas assassinated last month in Tehran.
Asked who he would vote for if he had to choose between Melenchon and Marine Le Pen, Klarsfeld said the latter because in his opinion she has purged her party of her father’s antisemitism.
Days after that interview, Macron and his government were given a similar choice before the second lround of the parliamentary election. In their case, however, they had a third option: to remain neutral. Instead, the government sided with LFI and the left, telling voters it was their “moral duty” to prevent Le Pen’s party coming to power. Their alliance stretched to grubby agreements in which candidates dropped out in close contests to boost their chances of defeating the Rassemblement National. Gérald Darmanin, for instance, might have lost his seat to the Rassemblement National had not the LFI candidate stood down.
No wonder French Jews are frightened about the future. Do they even have a future in France given that a large swath of the political class is aiding and abetting the terrifying resurgence of antisemitism? I’ll repeat the question I asked four years ago: how long until there are no Jews left in France?
Exile of Hamas from Gaza will appeal to a wide range of actors involved in this conflict. For Israel, it would not only enable a deal that would return the hostages. It would allow for an end to the war in Gaza, which has taken a financial and societal toll on Israel after nearly eleven months of fighting. Ending the war would also allow the Israelis to begin to rebuild the country’s public image after a withering public relations war mounted by Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other malign actors.
For the United States, this would also have great benefits. Ahead of the 2024 election, there is significant pressure on Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden Administration to end the hostilities in Gaza. A Reagan-style deal could minimize (though certainly not eliminate) the risk of a wider war with the Islamic Republic of Iran and its many foreign fighting forces. Indeed, the regime and its proxies have indicated a tentative willingness to stop their war if there is a ceasefire in Gaza. Economically, there is also a clear virtue to this approach. The Pentagon has dispatched significant military assets to the region on several occasions. And the cost of doing so is not small. Importantly, there are also eight American hostages that our government has an obligation to return home.
Finally, a deal would also be in the interest of Palestinians in Gaza, who are desperate for a ceasefire. After eleven months, the Gazans would finally have the opportunity to rebuild—and under a deradicalized government. The Sunni Arab world would also welcome this, and some of the Gulf states may be inclined to support Gaza’s reconstruction once Hamas is officially in exile.
Admittedly, a deal does not come without drawbacks. Hamas would continue to exist. The group would likely work overtime from abroad to stoke unrest in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond. In other words, Israel’s fight against Hamas would continue. But this will likely be the case regardless.
There is also the risk of normalizing Hamas. That turned out to be the fatal flaw in the Reagan plan. In 1982, the PLO was widely viewed as a villainous organization. But after only nine years of exile in Tunisia, Arafat returned to Gaza in 1993 in triumph as part of the Oslo Accords. His PLO was made the backbone of the newly created Palestinian Authority. Despite his efforts to convince the world that he and his organization had turned a new leaf, the old terrorist returned to violence with the Second Intifada of 2000.
Israel and the United States should make it clear that Hamas will never have a future in Palestinian politics. Other countries should be called upon to support this, as well.
Finally, there is the question of Yahya Sinwar himself. Israel will almost certainly refuse to offer the architect of the October 7 attacks a lifeline. Sinwar may be able to negotiate a life sentence in an Israeli jail. While the Hamas leader may not love this idea, it’s a better alternative to the certain death that currently awaits him should he continue to try and fight Israel from within the tunnels of Gaza.
The Biden Administration’s repeated ceasefire initiatives have tanked, primarily because they lack creativity. Each failed proposal has closely resembled the previous ones. Taking a page out of the Gipper’s foreign policy playbook could be a chance to break that cycle.
Only around 20 of the Israeli hostages are being held by Hamas and these are being kept in handcuffs as human shields around its leader, Yahya Sinwar, intelligence sources have told the JC.
The terror chief has surrounded himself with the captives, who are being held with him underground. Israel has already had several opportunities to eliminate him after locating the tunnels in which he was hiding but the attack was not authorised because of the danger to hostages, intelligence sources have said.
The rest of the captives, both living and dead, are believed to be in the hands of smaller terror groups.
It comes after 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, from the largely Arab city of Rahat in Southern Israel, was rescued by Shayetet 13, the 401st Brigade, Yahalom, and ISA forces under the command of the 162nd Division in a complex operation in the south of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The grim revelation about the other Israeli captives, based on information gathered by Israeli intelligence in cooperation with Gazan informants and captured terrorists, throws new light on the complexity of securing a hostage deal, currently the subject of intense negotiations in Qatar.
Many Israeli abductees are being held by a menagerie of smaller terror groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Mujahideen Brigades, the al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades and the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, intelligence sources have confirmed.
These groups are locked in a dispute with Yahya Sinwar’s Hamas. While Sinwar is demanding the release of Hamas prisoners as a priority, they want prisoners from their own ranks to also be represented on the list. This has led them to contemplate a coup against Hamas in recent months.
They are also arguing that no compromise must be made with Israel, insisting that any deal includes the release of all terrorists from Israeli jails, including 1,236 murderers who have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
When I say Hamas, I really mean Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attacks. Following the funeral of Mr. Haniyeh, he was named the organization’s supreme leader—commander of both its “political” and “military” wings.
Why did Mr. Sinwar say no deal? Likely because his interests would be best served were Mr. Khamenei to widen the multifront and avowedly genocidal war against Israel.
Which brings us to what happened beginning around 5 am local time Sunday. In response to intelligence indicating that Hezbollah was imminently preparing to fire from Lebanon as many as 6,000 long-range missiles at Tel Aviv and other targets, 100 Israeli fighter jets struck 40 Hezbollah missile launch sites.
Since the day following the Hamas invasion, Hezbollah has fired close to 8,000 rockets, missiles and drones at Israeli communities, killing soldiers and civilians, burning towns, farms and forests, and causing more than 80,000 Israelis to abandon their homes.
In retaliation, Israel has carried out precision strikes inside Lebanon, including, on July 30, killing the group’s senior military commander, Fuad Shukr.
Mr. Shukr, you should know, has long been wanted by the U.S. for his role in the killing of 241 American servicemen in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. Our State Department posted a $5 million bounty for information on his location.
Hezbollah still has thousands of missiles left, all emplaced in southern Lebanon in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which was intended to bring the Iranian proxy’s 2006 war with Israel to a halt.
Another all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel would undoubtedly cause significant death and damage in Israel. But it would almost certainly decimate Hezbollah and destroy what is left of Lebanon, a formerly vibrant nation that has become a failing state since Hezbollah seized power.
Mr. Khamenei understands the importance of strategic patience. He demonstrated that in 2015, when he agreed to President Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) because it gave him a patient pathway into the nuclear weapons club, along with tens of billions of dollars.
That same year, Mr. Khamenei spoke of 2040 as the date by which Israel is to be exterminated.
To that end, he has been waging a war of attrition, death by a thousand cuts, most of those cuts made by Arabs whom he is only too happy to martyr in pursuit of his imperial ambitions.
Mr. Sinwar is fine with that. He has said that Gazan civilians are “necessary sacrifices.” But would it surprise you if he’d rather not be among them?
Late last week, a senior Egyptian official told an Israeli reporter that Mr. Sinwar wants a guarantee that he won’t be assassinated.
I don’t think Israeli leaders will make that promise. But I can imagine them giving Mr. Sinwar safe passage to another country, say Turkey (incongruously both a NATO member and Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood supporter), in exchange for the release of however many hostages have not yet been brutally murdered.
This may be a long shot, but nothing would be lost if Mr. Biden’s envoys were to suggest such a deal, conveying to Mr. Sinwar that it is the only way he will ever see light at the end of his tunnel.
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of
the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
Donald Trump has many times reiterated the claim that what happened
on October 7 in Israel would not have happened had he won the 2020 election. I
completely agree. Which is why, to a degree, I blame Donald Trump for what
happened on and in the wake of October 7.
If Trump hadn’t been such a rude bully, perhaps Joe Biden
would not now be pretending to be executive in chief with Kamala Harris waiting
in the wings while contemplating the great significance of the passage of time (why
Joe wasn’t pushed down a flight of stairs and said to be dead from COVID long
ago, I have no idea).
You don’t need me to tell you that Trump is (in)famous for
his ad hominem attacks on his opponents. Trump delights in inventing creative attack
nicknames for his competitors, among them:
·Little Marco
·Lyin’ Ted
·Crooked Hillary
·Ron DeSanctimonious
·Low Energy Jeb
·Pocahontas
·Crazy Joe Biden
·Sleepy Joe
·Comrade Kamala
·Tampon Tim
The mean nicknames no doubt delight many Trump voters. For
them, it’s all a part of Donald Trump’s charm. But what about those who take
offense at the name-calling? They also vote. If Donald Trump really cares about
America, shouldn’t he want their votes, too?
Aside from the rude and childish name-calling, there was his
mockery of the way the now-deceased John McCain used his hands. Love or hate Donald
Trump, you have to admit that making fun of the disabled is repugnant, pure and
simple. But it’s even worse when that disabled person is a former prisoner of
war and war hero, whose disability is the result of maltreatment and torture. Is
someone who mocks the disabled, someone who behaves in this fashion, worthy of
being elected to the highest office in the land—a land that John McCain defended
with his body?
My dad was an American hero. An icon. A patriot that will be remembered throughout history. I cannot buy a bagel without someone approaching me about how much they loved and miss him.
Trump is a piece of shit, election denying, huckster whose own wife won't campaign with him. https://t.co/f3RlWLqT9B
The name-calling, crude references to manhood/menstruation,
and public mimicry of the disabled are all problematic and, it must be acknowledged,
at least in part to blame for Trump’s loss to Biden in 2020. Many are now
warning Trump that here too in 2024, he stands to lose voters because of his coarse
behavior. And then we’re really in trouble, because God forbid, we’d end up
with two YUGE antisemites running the show, Kamala Harris and Tim
Walz.
As Victor Davis Hanson explains it, there is only a short
window for Donald Trump to define himself for the voters. When Trump calls
Harris “stupid” without saying why, he only looks churlish. It’s a missed
opportunity to present his case at a time when time is running out, or as
Hanson put it, “No time for invective.”
Despite his at times unpresidential behavior, Trump was a damned
good president according to just about every measure this author can think of.
Think back to what your grocery cart looked like then compared to now, under the
Bidenomics of which Kamala is so proud. Picture the signing of the Abraham
Accords, and then see in your mind’s eye how Biden, instead of fostering peace,
gave Iran the wherewithal to finance Hamas brutality while staying Israel’s
hand from its own defense:
“I will end every single international crisis that the
current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and
Ukraine — which would have never happened if I was president — and the war
caused by the attack on Israel, which would have never happened if I was
president,” said Trump at the RNC.
“Iran was broke. Iran had no money. Now Iran has $250
billion. They made it all over the last two and a half years,” he adds, saying
the Biden administration has provided Tehran sanctions relief.
“I told China and other countries if you buy from Iran, we
will not let you do any business in this country.”
These are not empty boasts. I believe Trump when he says
these things. And he’s right; Hamas would not have attacked Israel on October 7
had he been in office. They wouldn’t have dared; and now they remember all too
well how things were when Trump was in office—and tremble. As they
should.
Trump starved Iran of money, making it impossible for the
Ayatollah to support his proxies, including the one in Gaza, Hamas. Joe Biden,
on the other hand, has fed Iran a constant diet of cash, even as he stays Israel’s
hand from obliterating this cruel enemy. There’s no reason to think this policy
of emboldening those who murder, rape, and brutalize Jews won’t continue under
a Kamala Harris presidency. And by now we must acknowledge that Joe cannot
possibly be running the show. The unseen handler of Joe is likely to become the
handler of Kamala Harris as well, if Trump fails to make his case.
Here in Israel, we feel the terrible strain of the hostage situation.
We pray for the best, but anticipate the worst, and it is unbearable. That
makes me—and I’d venture a lot of other Israeli Jews—feel kind of desperate about
the American presidential election. We are desperate for Donald Trump to win.
And angry that this might all have been avoided, had Trump behaved a little
better in the run up to the last election. Who knows how many lives would have
been saved had Trump kept a civil tongue in his mouth? It makes me ache to
think of it. A good president who won’t behave, and people died.
And still, it is a pragmatic fact that Trump must win,
because he is the president who will act decisively, and extract a price from
Hamas for what it did and continues to do to Americans and American allies both
dead and alive in Gaza. In spite of his rough behavior, it’s obvious that Trump
has a strong sense of right and wrong. He feels the disgrace of what it means
for Biden to have allowed this state of affairs to continue even as Joe helps
it along—helps the terrorists along. Trump also feels the disgrace of
America throwing an ally, Israel, under the bus.
Kamala, on the other hand, will be worse than Joe. She has
expressed sympathy for supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah, again and again.
So we watch and worry. We worry that Trump will say more
nasty, childish thing and that this will affect his chances at the polls. What
will be of our hostages if Trump can’t shut his mouth and restrain himself. “Save
it for Putin!” we want to shout.
Yet we know that in spite of any mean-spirited behavior to
the contrary, in the bigger scheme of things, Trump has more morality in his
little finger than there is in the entire Biden White House.
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The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, announced to our struggling Palestinian people and to the Arab and Islamic nations its heroic knights in the Tulkarm Battalion and its formations.
The Al-Quds Brigades stated in a press statement, on Tuesday evening, that the martyrs are the martyr leader Mujahid: Muhammad Al-Sheikh Yusuf (Abu Al-Muhandis), one of the field commanders in the Tulkarm Battalion, the martyr cub Mujahid: Adnan Ayser Jaber, one of the Mujahideen of the confusion unit affiliated with the Tulkarm Battalion, and the martyr cub Mujahid: Muhammad Alian, one of the Mujahideen of the confusion unit affiliated with the Tulkarm Battalion.
"Cub" means "young boy." And indeed, those two children were 15 and 16 years old, respectively.
The "confusion unit" is meant to distract Israeli troops with fireworks, flash bangs and burning tires to protect the more heavily armed adult terrorists.
This isn't spontaneous demonstrations by local youth: they are recruited as part of the battle. And since they are on what Islamic Jihad considers the front lines, they are treated as cannon fodder - their lives are not only expendable, but their deaths are strategic.
Amnesty, HRW and the UN will never condemn Islamic Jihad for purposefully sacrificing children. Because they want to make sure that they can count these "mujahadeen" as "children" in their databases, and by mentioning that they were engaged in military activities at the time, that would ruin their entire goal of demonizing Israel.
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The IDF released photos of some of the Hezbollah launch sites from the attack on Sunday. One of them was only 150 meters from the UN facility, and dozens of others were nearby within 500 meters of the UN site.
Hezbollah has built a massive rocket launch infrastructure right under the UN's nose - and the UN is silent about it.
The only press release from UNIFIL and UNSCOL since the attacks was a generic "both sides" statement that did not mention that Hezbollah is using the UN as human shields.
Even though the IDF released this photo and a press release detailing how Hezbollah rocket sites were near various civilian structures, practically no media covered this. Part of the reason is that unless the UN itself makes a statement about the gross violations of UNSC 1701 that these represent, the media isn't interested in IDF statements alone.
But if the UN would complain about the rockets sites under its nose, it would look bad.
So no one reports this.
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You know how the media loves to quote Gaza doctors and hospital officials?
The New York Times published an op-ed by Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia last year about how awful things were in Gaza from his vantage point at the Kamal Adwan medical center in Gaza. Clearly they thought he was a reliable witness, as most media treats Gaza doctors.
But if you read what some of them say in Arabic, one wonders about their truthfulness.
Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia pointed out that medical teams detected diseases that were foreign to the sector and were unable to diagnose them due to the lack of medical equipment.
He also stressed that they are facing germ warfare, calling for activating the vaccination system in the Gaza Strip.
Yeah, sure. Israeli scientists are devising germs that do not perish when they are dropped in bombs. Or maybe IDF soldiers are spending time dropping germ-infested objects around Gaza.
This is just another blood libel. But good luck waiting for the New York Times to admit that the person they platformed is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
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Qadi’s ordeal is a reminder of that fact. The hostages are moved around underground and often held there as well. Yahya Sinwar can, of course, simply release the hostages and surrender. He has instead insisted on the war’s continuation, and this is what that looks like.
But the tunnels aren’t only for hostages. The tunnels, in fact, are at the center of the ceasefire negotiations. Israeli troops have secured the Gaza side of the Philadelphi corridor and the tunnels leading from Rafah to Egypt. It is not hyperbole to say that those specific tunnels are the reason for the perpetual state of hostilities and the regularity of war between Israel and Hamas. Without them, Hamas would be unable to rearm and resupply in perpetuity, to say nothing of the opportunity the corridor presents to move terrorists into and out of the war zone.
Militarily speaking, logically speaking, it is nothing less than insane to ask the Israelis to relinquish the corridor without some demonstrable way to maintain its deactivation process. Leaving the corridor in the hands of Hamas and Egypt means war; sealing the corridor is the only possible path to peace.
Yet the pressure on Israel to abandon the corridor continues. The Biden administration has convinced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to redeploy some troops from part of the corridor, in the hopes that Hamas will accept those terms and agree to the ceasefire. So far, Hamas won’t agree to anything that leaves the IDF in “operational control” of the corridor.
So let’s put in plain English what the fight over the tunnels is really about. Israel is asking for a commitment to long-term peace, and Hamas and its patrons are proposing permanent war. We can attempt to elide those differences all we want, but it won’t change the fundamental issue of these negotiations—and of the wider war.
You are either for Hamas rearmament or you are against it. You are either for the continued taking and holding of hostages or you are against it. The tunnels are the instruments of rearmament and hostage taking. The Israeli-Palestinian future depends on their dismantlement.
UNRWA was actually created to settle the Arab refugees in Arab countries, the same way that international organizations settled refugees of the Korean War in Korea, and tens of millions of other refugees were resettled after World War II. The Arab states simply said no. [Read Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf’s excellent The War of Return for details.]
Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai in 1982 reestablished a border between Gaza and Egypt — the Philadelphi Route — which divided the city of Rafah. (If you think the tunnels of Rafah were built by Hamas, you’re way late.) The 2005 Gaza disengagement was accompanied by the Philadelphi Agreement, under which Israel and Egypt pledged to work together to “stem terrorism, arms smuggling, and other illegal cross-border activities.” Israel was supposed to have access to the goods brought in by the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was, for a while, the government of Gaza.
Jordan was a bit different, but not much. It illegally annexed the West Bank and the eastern side of Jerusalem in 1950, giving citizenship to some resident Arabs, including some refugees. In 1972, the PLO tried to overthrow the King of Jordan; Israel stepped in to prevent Syria from taking advantage, but King Hussein knew the Hashemite Kingdom had no long-term future in the territory. In 1988, he renounced Jordan’s claim and stripped most of the people of Jordanian citizenship. No one seemed to have noticed.
Over the years, King Hussein not-quite-jokingly referred to Yitzhak Rabin as “Jordan’s Defense Minister for the West Bank.” [His heir, King Abdullah II, relies on Israel for economic assistance as well as security control.] Then, in 1994, he had the same discussion with Yitzhak Rabin in advance of the Jordan-Israel peace treaty that Sadat had with Menachem Begin: keep the West Bank and have a treaty, or push it on us and there won’t be one.
It was still going to be Israel’s problem to solve.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has exposed some serious shortcomings by Israel in the security of the Gaza Strip. Those will, no doubt, be the subject of a serious post-war assessment. But consider Egypt, Israel’s alleged peace partner and recipient of billions in US aid.
The Egyptian government refused to permit Palestinians displaced by the war to enter northern Sinai, even temporarily. Cairo claimed it would not be secure — although the mostly-empty area would easily hold Egyptian military camps for temporary refuge. Even NPR was critical of the decision.
The world later discovered that Gazans could buy their way out, though, for several thousand dollars, which tells you something about Egypt’s motives.
Egypt also delayed passage of aid trucks into Gaza after Israel took over the crossing, demanding a Palestinian presence restored on the Gaza side of the border.
After a (rare) rebuke by the US, Egypt agreed to reopen the crossing, but after another slowdown, Middle East Monitor reports that talks with the US and Israel in July failed to resolve the new impasse.
A week ago, an Israel-Egypt border agreement for Gaza was announced.
On Monday, Egypt reneged.
Israel will have to make the determination that serves its security interests. It would be in the interest of the United States and the Palestinian people to support a strong Israeli presence and control of the border to help break the control of the territory and the people of Gaza by Hamas.
Arabs refused to live in peace
Indeed, this is exactly what happened: the Arabs refused to live in peace alongside the Jews.
Years later, there was the involvement of the Arab spearhead, Amin al-Husseini (the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Muslim Council), in the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe.
Al-Husseini arrived in the German capital, Berlin, in the second week of November 1941. He had come from Italy, where he had met with Mussolini, Germany's strong ally.
On November 28 of the same year, Hitler received al-Husseini at the Reich Chancellery, describing him as "the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and one of the most influential men in the Arab liberation movement."
Before he met with Hitler, al-Husseini met with Joachim von Ribbentrop, one of the Nazi regime's leaders in Germany. Days later, al-Husseini was personally escorted on a tour to observe the genocide in the gas chambers at Auschwitz alongside Adolf Eichmann.
Al-Husseini commented on the visit, saying that there was consensus between them and that Hitler told him, "The Jewish problem should be solved step by step."
Al-Husseini received a promise that once the Middle East was occupied, "Germany's sole goal would be the extermination of the Jewish element residing in the Arab region under British protection." Al-Husseini's visit to Germany was engineered by his Lebanese secretary, Othman Kamal al-Haddad.
It is important to highlight a crucial point: all proposed solutions were always rejected by the Arab side, and the idea of two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was consistently discussed.
This confirms that there was never a state called Palestine in any historical period. The Partition Plan itself, issued by the UN General Assembly under Resolution 181 on November 29, 1947, stipulated two states, one Arab and one Jewish. If the Palestinian state existed, why was it not explicitly included in the resolution?
The Arabs' rejection of the Partition Plan "at that time" and the actions of Amin al-Husseini, "the head of the Supreme Muslim Council," in his quest "to eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth" all align with the mentality that still persists today.
This mindset continues to reside in the minds of Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Nasrallah, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, and all the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the destructive arms of Iran in the Middle East, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Houthis.
These Islamic terrorist organizations and movements share the same approach, driven by ideologies of hatred and hostility towards others. They embrace the delusions and hallucinations of global supremacy and the establishment of a supposed caliphate state.
A letter sent recently by the Palestinian "resistance" groups in Gaza to Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hizbullah militia, serves as a reminder that Iran and its terror proxies view the conflict with Israel as a Jihad (holy war) to eliminate the Jewish state.
For Iran and its allies, the conflict does not concern borders, refugees, prisoners, settlements, or checkpoints. It is actually about their contention that Israel has no right to exist on Muslim-owned territory and that all Muslims must work toward wiping out Israel. In their eyes, this is a religious war between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Hizbullah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad regularly describe their slain members as "mujahideen" (warriors or Jihadists), devout Muslims who sacrificed their lives against the "enemies of Allah and Islam."
In mourning its slain men, Hizbullah has announced that each of them was killed "on the road to Jerusalem." These Muslim warriors were on a sacred mission to liberate Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Jews. By calling its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel the "Al-Aqsa Flood," Hamas is reminding everyone that the conflict against Israel is a religious one. Accordingly, any ceasefire or truce will only serve as a reprieve before they resume the Jihad to destroy Israel.
A war without civilian casualties is impossible, even for those who try hard to avoid them. During World War II, between 350,000 and 635,000 Germans died in Allied strategic bombing. Germany's cities were reduced to rubble. The German people brought Hitler to power and were his willing accomplices in a war of subjugation and annihilation. In the end, Germany had to be bombed into submission.
In August 1945, Japan's war Cabinet was planning to mobilize the entire civilian population to resist an expected invasion, resulting in a "glorious death" for the nation. That's what Hamas envisions in Gaza, which is why it keeps rejecting proposals for a pause in fighting.
Like Germany in 1939 and Japan at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war in Gaza started with an act of naked aggression, resulting in 1,200 deaths, many in the most savage fashion, including rape and torture, as well as more than 240 hostages taken. The Palestinians brought the war into Israel on Oct. 7. Where did they think it would lead, and what right do they have now to complain about the way it's being fought?
The principle "to defend itself with its own forces" is fundamental to Israel's concept of national security. There is no contradiction between this basic Israeli principle and Israel's comprehensive cooperation with the U.S.
American military aid constitutes 16% of the Israeli defense budget and about 2% of the general budget. It also entails Israeli access to the American security system, with its wide dimensions and possibilities.
Calling Israel "America's continental aircraft carrier" was an exaggeration, but the facts that Israel is the only democratic and stable country in the Middle East and that it has a developed technological, scientific, and military capacity have increased its value to the Americans.
From time to time, the idea of a defense agreement between Israel and the U.S. has been floated, but its critics see it, rightly, as a possible violation of Israel's freedom of military action, without adding much to the existing security arrangements.
The Israeli concept of security, designed by David Ben-Gurion, is based on the transfer of war to the enemy's territory. Ben-Gurion strove to prioritize deterrence actions and to strive for decisive victory as quickly and overwhelmingly as possible.
On Oct. 7, and in fact well before it, Israeli deterrence lost many of its components. This was the result, in part, of Israel's refusal to act strongly against the terrorist attacks of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and its reliance instead on the economic benefits of a more tolerant approach.
he Daily Targum (Rutgers) reports, "Multiple resident assistants walked out of a University-mandated training session on Tuesday that some say under- and misrepresent Palestinian people, according to an Instagram post by Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers—New Brunswick (SJP)."
3. Mentioning antisemitism that occurred since October 7. (SJP clearly cannot read English.)
4. Quoting the ADL. (Whether the information is accurate or not is altogether irrelevant.)
5. Talking about antisemitism in any context outside the Holocaust.
This last slide shows the truth - the Israel haters are sick and tired of people talking about antisemitism.
This is how Israel haters pretend to be victims - by redefining and trivializing real antisemitism.
To these presumably Palestinian students, anything that doesn't center them as the main victims of racism in the world today is, by definition, "anti-Palestinian racism."
Clearly, if these are examples of anti-Palestinian racism, then there is no such thing as anti-Palestinian racism on campus.
(h/t Brad)
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After the last post, I looked at the Santa Ana Unified School District Ethnic Studies program materials they have online.
They have "Six Guiding Pillars For Interdisciplinary Learning" that all ethnic studies courses in the district must adhere to. They include positioning ethnic studies as a counterweight to the presumably false dominant narrative:
Ensure the study of how colonization has lead to neocolonial ideology,
systemic and structural racism and present day mainstream culture
resulting in dehumanization, genocide and ecological destruction.
Critique empire-building in history and its relationship to white supremacy,
racism and other forms of power and oppression.
Analyze and articulate concepts such as race, racism, racialization,
ethnicity, equity, ethno-centrism, eurocentrism, white supremacy,
self-determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism,
settler colonialism, and anti-racism etc.
Challenge Hegemony and Normalization
Co-construct learning spaces with students to develop critical historical
literacy in order to counter the normalization of the master dominant
narrative
There are a lot of problems with these. Most groups throughout history have exhibited antipathy towards other groups, whether they are different colors, tribes, cultures, languages or castes. The hate for the "other" is not only a function of white vs. non-white; it is almost universal. In fact, the entire idea of equal rights and anti-racism is a Western concept. In fact, some native American groups would engage in "slave raiding" and steal members of other groups to be slaves to them.
I don't think the ethnic studies curriculum teaches that.
Additionally, "colonialism" is also not a Western concept. Indigenous peoples expanded their territories and took over other lands and their people.
The ethnic studies program pretends to give a counter-narrative to classical Western history, but it is at least as biased and political as any other.
I was struck by their first pillar, though, about indigeneity:
Cultivate Indigeneity and Cultural Roots
● Recognize diasporic indigeneity, pre-colonial ancestry, and roots.
● Place high value on the pre-colonial, ancestral knowledge, narratives, and
communal experiences of Indigenous people, communities of color, and
groups that are typically marginalized in society.
By this definition, Jews should be celebrated: they maintain their culture, their traditions, their customs, and their languages even when dispersed. And they have always remained deeply connected to the land of their birth, Israel. Zionism and the rebirth of Israel was a victory for anti-colonialists and for indigenous peoples worldwide. It is an inspiring story, not an example of white supremacy and colonialism.
I had a friend, sadly recently deceased, who was partially native American. He would pepper me with questions on how Jews managed to keep their unity throughout the Diaspora, because he saw in real time how today's native Americans were forgetting everything about their own culture and customs and he wanted to stem this loss.
That is the irony of ethnic studies. If they weren't designed by antisemites and anti-Zionists, students could look at the Jews in their own communities as role models for how an ancient culture maintains its unity, uniqueness, peoplehood, religion, customs and language and yet still be productive members of the larger society.
Isn't that what they want from every minority group?
When students study racism, they could learn how antisemitism has been the prototype for all hate - how Jews have been hated by being associated with every society's biggest ills, even when they contradict each other. And how that hate has morphed into "social justice" today, and even the biggest self-avowed anti-racists can themselves fall into the trap of hate - a much more powerful lesson in how ordinary people can become bigots than studying the Holocaust is.
If ethnic studies wants to accomplish what it claims it wants to accomplish, Jews should be near the center of the coursework. Because what happens to Jews will eventually happen to all other minorities.
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We know in a general sense that the progressive mindset is antisemitic while pretending to be only anti-Zionist, but it is relatively rare that people can point to specific examples of blatant antisemitism from the woke crowd that makes that link explicit.
A lawsuit filed last year against the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) by the ADL, AJC and others now includes discovered text messages between members of the district and consultants they hired for create an ethnic studies curriculum leave no doubt whatsoever that these people are antisemitic to the core.
They disparage Jews as Jews. They intentionally schedule meetings on Jewish holidays to keep Jews from knowing what they are doing. They insult, and laugh about insulting, Jews from both the school district and the larger Jewish community.
Here is part of the text of the lawsuit, along with examples of text messages found during discovery:
For four years and counting, the Santa Ana Unified School District (“SAUSD”) has
unlawfully worked behind closed doors to create a mandatory ethnic studies program for its students,
and has done so with the deliberate goal of avoiding public scrutiny of its work. In June 2020, the
SAUSD Board of Education (the “Board”) created an Ethnic Studies Steering Committee (the
“Steering Committee” or “Committee”) consisting of two Board members and several SAUSD staff
members. The Board created the Steering Committee—a legislative body under California’s open
meeting law, the Brown Act—to develop ethnic studies courses it mandated for students. ...
[I]t has been dominated by two Board members—along with their personal friend, an ideologue
paranoid of dissenting views—who have run it “like a dictator” to push forward their specific vision.
As such, the Board rubber-stamped the courses created by the Committee in violation of the Act....
Discovery in this case has revealed not only how SAUSD failed to comply with the Brown
Act, but also why SAUSD kept the creation of the ethnic studies curricula behind closed doors.
SAUSD did not want members of the Jewish community or the public generally to know what was
going on. The Steering Committee sought to exclude any voices—especially Jewish ones—that
might stray from so-called “liberated” ethnic studies orthodoxy, which classifies Jewish people as
“White—regardless of their actual skin color or historical perceptions of Jews as non-white—and the Jewish people as oppressors....
Petitioners have uncovered deeply troubling evidence of extreme bias and antisemitism within
the Steering Committee. For example:
• In text messages, two senior SAUSD officials discussed scheduling ethnic studies course
approvals by the full Board on a Jewish holiday so Jews could not attend and comment on the
course content. One stated: “on a good note…no public comment on ethnic studies. We may
need to use Passover to get all new courses approved.” The other official responded: “that’s
actually a good strategy.”
• In discussing the removal of the only Jewish member from the Steering Committee, a
Committee leader referred to him in a text message as a “colonized Jewish mind” and a
“f---ing baby” for expressing concerns over antisemitism on the Steering Committee.
• In discussing a potential meeting with the Jewish Federation of Orange County, a Committee
leader (and SAUSD curriculum specialist) said “someone has to guide [Committee members]
or they will cave in to . . . the racist Zionists.” . Despite using such language to
describe Jews who support the State of Israel, this same Committee member refused to call
Hamas a terrorist organization even after it perpetrated the horrific terrorist attack of October 7, 2023, arguing that it would be “dehumaniz[ing]” to call Hamas fighters “terrorists.”
• Senior members of the Steering Committee reportedly stated, among other things, that “Jews
are not a disadvantaged ethnic group in the U.S. because they were never slaves,” that “Jews
greatly benefit from white privilege, so they have it better,” and that “we don’t need to give
both sides. We only support the oppressed, and Jews are the oppressors.”
• When made aware of Jewish community concerns, Committee members wrote in an official
agenda of a (private) subcommittee meeting how to “address the Jewish question.”
• Without conducting any due diligence or a competitive bidding process, the Steering
Committee retained an external consultant to train SAUSD teachers on ethnic studies.
SAUSD hired this consultant despite a serious prior domestic violence charge and unhinged
social media rantings in which he used antisemitic tropes about “Zionist control,” claimed that
“the Zionist Jewish Caucus hijacked Ethnic Studies,” and asked “how TF can anyone support
the settler colonial state of Israel?”
Later it adds how this affected Jewish staff members:
The antisemitism was palpable to Jewish staff members at SAUSD. The lone Jewish
Committee member texted that he was “sick of [Employee 1]’s thinly veiled antisemitism.” He also expressed dismay when, just days after the October 7 attack, Committee members
“ma[de] it sound like Jews never lived in Israel or had any history in the region. Just random Jewish
[Z]ionists suddenly deciding to take over Palestine.” . He reported how Committee members
spread an antisemitic myth about a former Israeli prime minister commenting on eating Palestinian
children. And when he told his colleagues that their comments were “personally offensive and
racist,” he was told to “‘check [his] tone’ so as not to ‘ruin the spirit and mood of the room.’”
Scratch an "anti-Zionist," find an antisemite.
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