As I said in Wednesday’s Meme Overflow, I’m getting enough on Israel – memes and articles plus my desire to add my own comments and references / breaking news – and stuff that’s related – that I’m pulling them out into a standalone post thread. I figure that not everyone is as interested as I am in the situation concerning Israel and to maintain readership of the memes, it’s time to separate them out.
A truly excellent book for background:
The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
WHEN WILL IT END?
Only War – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
RTWT. Wars and conflicts only end when one side is totally defeated.
Israel, like America, doesn’t win wars anymore. It has operations. It takes out terrorist leaders and occasionally terrorist cells. And then it goes home. But when home is within a stone’s throw of where monsters live, then there’s no way to go home. Home is where the monsters are.
A war ends with victory. The destruction of the enemy. The Islamic terrorists have been waging a war meant to end in victory since Israel was reborn. Unless Israel fights to win, it will be lost.
Another voice rhyming:
Minds Of A Feather: Time for a clean slate (italics replaced by underlining):
It is time for Israel to wipe the slate clean, take back all of the land it granted to Palestinians in the name of a peace that will never happen, and tell the remaining Palestinians that they are no longer welcome in the State of Israel. If they wish to stay, then they may stay. But no longer as citizens with the right to vote (which was always granted to Palestinians who lived in Israel – look it up for yourself). And if they wish to leave, Israel should provide them safe conduct to its borders.
Finally, I will say that Hamas needs to be wiped off the face of the earth along with their most vocal supporters, whether they claim to be “civilians” or not. Those who offer support to Hamas, whether it be by fighting with arms or hiding Hamas insurgents are as guilty as those members of Hamas who started this war. None of them have clean hands, and those with unclean hands can not be permitted to exist within the borders of Israel.
True Justice For Israel Is Executing All Members Of Hamas (thefederalist.com)
How Does Israel Fight Savages Who Want to Die? Oblige Them – PJ Media
(Link to AZQuotes per their policy)
The good general has another quote:
If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you’ll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy’s too.
Curtis LeMay
Or make the price they pay in other ways so high they don’t want to pay it:
How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism | Frontpage Mag (bolding added):
General Pershing however wrote in his autobiography that, “These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins.”
(I remember one terror attack in Israel had a woman putting pieces of pork – gotten from where in Israel? – into a dead terrorist’s mouth as she cited this exact thing: a Muslim touched by pork cannot get into paradise.)
One of the issues is that the Arabs know that they can count on the “world community” to jump in and pressure Israel to stop before they’ve really been defeated. We’re seeing it already from multiple sources, including The Potato (bolding added; link on “a truce may be made for ten years if necessary” also added):
For Hamas to be asking for a truce on Monday evening Gaza time, it must have had an extremely bad Sunday and Monday. For Islamic law only allows for a truce if Muslims are weak and need to gather strength to fight later more effectively, or if they’re fighting non-Muslims whom they think may accept Islam. “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud…Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.16). This idea is founded on the Qur’an itself: “So do not falter and cry out for peace when you have the upper hand…” (47:35).
Western authorities never, ever demonstrate even the slightest understanding of this point, but this means that when a jihad group asks for a truce, it is admitting that it is losing and needs time to recover. The last thing that its non-Muslim foe should do at that point is actually grant it a truce. What it should do instead is press on toward final victory.
This has happened numerous times in the past: Israel makes headway against the jihadis, they ask for a truce, and the American government pressures the Israelis into accepting. The Netanyahu government should stand firm against all such pressure from the Biden regime. It should understand Hamas’ interest in a truce as a declaration of weakness, and destroy this evil organization’s power to terrorize innocent people once and for all.
I remember a cartoon from years ago where one person asked another “What does ‘cease fire’ mean in Arabic”? The answer? |RELOAD”.
And while I agree with total defeat for Hamas, this – plus the now-discussed broader look at Iran, while IMHO absolutely justified – is a very fine needle to thread:
How Neocons Could Sleep-Walk Us Into World War III – PJ Media
But total victory is the only option. There’s a reason why, after the shock of the second Punic War and the Roman’s astonishment at how fast the Carthaginians managed to re-arm after what the Romans thought was a crushing defeat in the first one (never mind a treaty that the Carthaginians interpreted differently than the Romans), they went for the whole enchilada after the third one:
Will Israel Do What it Takes to Secure Peace? | Frontpage Mag
One of the moral lessons we learned from bombing Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, is that war is not just about vanquishing the enemy. It is also about inflicting generational damage. Future generations are deterred from enacting a war of vengeance at a much later time or, just as importantly, of repeating the errors of their predecessors. The collective memory of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden is an important reason why other nations will think twice about starting a war with the United States.
But in being merciful to the cruel, the world ends up being cruel to the merciful. Consider that, even until just recently, Israel continued to warn Gaza residents with texts, emails, leaflets, and their for-this-purpose developed micro-munitions that gave a Thump! warning that a building was about to be targeted.
No other military in the world takes steps like this to try to minimize civilian casualties.
British Colonel: “IDF is most moral army in the history of warfare”
THE ISLAMIC MENTALITY
Understand something about Hamas and its view of Israel / Jews (links in the original, bolding added):
In July 2005, Mahmoud al-Zahar, the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, stated that his organization would “definitely not” be prepared for long-term coexistence with Israel, even if the Jewish state were to agree to return to the borders it had in 1967 — i.e., before Israel had repelled the invading armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and taken control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. “It [coexistence] can be a temporary solution, for a maximum of 5 to 10 years,” said al-Zahar. “But in the end Palestine must return to become Muslim, and in the long term Israel will disappear from the face of the earth.”
Note well that the Hamas Charter contains this:
“We do not leave any part of the Palestinian’s land, under any circumstances, conditions or pressure, as long as the occupation remains. Hamas refuses any alternative which is not the whole liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.” (New Charter 2017, Article 19)
Which exactly reflects the Law of Reconquest in the Koran: that any land once controlled by Islam must be retaken (bolding added):
Bin Laden opened his videotaped statement with this sentence: “Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalusia would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will become Jewish.” The “tragedy of Andalusia” refers to the conquering in 1492 of the Muslim Kingdom of Granada by the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. It was a central moment in the Islamic empire’s quest for political and military power: Muslim expansion was not just checked; it was reversed.
From later in the article above (“Hamas and its view of Israel”):
“We do not and will not recognize a state called Israel. Israel has no right to any inch of Palestinian land. This is an important issue. Our position stems from our religious convictions. This is a holy land. It is not the property of the Palestinians or the Arabs. This land is the property of all Muslims in all parts of the world.”
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After his organization had launched some 150 missiles against Israel during one particular week in mid-May 2007, Hamas official Nizhar Riyah declared that “Hamas is determined to wipe Israel off the map and replace it with the state of Palestine.” He vowed to persevere “until the last Jew is expelled” from “all of Palestine.”
An organization dedicated to your entire annihilation. Sounds like “coexistence” to me. Not.
And on their use of human shields – who, if they are killed in the service of jihad, are guaranteed instant paradise (links in the original):
Many of the rockets that Hamas (and Hezbollah) fired into Israel were launched from civilian areas, making it impossible for Israel to retaliate without causing civilian casualties; the terror groups then exploited those casualties for propaganda purposes. This has been standard procedure for both Hamas and Hezbollah in every military conflict they have ever had with Israel. In many cases, these organizations deliberately plant civilians, including children and the elderly, in locations likely to be targeted by the Israeli military — so as to manufacture atrocities. (Hamas’ willingness and even eagerness to use such “human shields” was articulated in 2008 by its interior minister, Fathi Hamad: “For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ‘We desire death like you desire life.’”)
And:
Ahead of airstrikes against targets belonging to the terror groups, and out of a desire to minimize civilian casualties, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has been sending warning messages to the residents of the Gaza Strip urging them to evacuate areas that are about to be targeted in strikes. In response to these messages, media outlets operated by Hamas and PIJ have been instructing residents of the Gaza Strip not to heed these warnings and not to share them or forward them to others.
There’s only one reason to tell people not to leave. You want more dead bodies to show off.
With one more addition from a previous article:
Lastly, the [IDF-discovered Hamas] manual emphasizes that when the homes of Palestinian civilians are destroyed, Hamas benefits in terms of propaganda and world opinion: “The destruction of civilian homes: This increases the hatred of the citizens towards the attackers [the IDF] and increases their gathering [support] around the city defenders [i.e., Hamas].”
Hence my term CAMERA FODDER.
It’s a RELIGOUS WAR. And has been since Mohammed. History matters:
This is Not About Israel, It’s About Islam (jihadwatch.org)
The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
Concluding, let’s recall that beheading is an ancient thing, not done today. Right? Right? These next links have extraordinarily-gruesome videos – NOT for the faint-hearted so warning warning warning! But it highlights the Koranic doctrine of “Strike at their necks”:
BEHEADERS-IN-TRAINING: Muslim children’s division (barenakedislam.com)
Remember, this is done in modern times by Muslims to infidels. To terrorize. (I remember some American Muslim being interviewed years ago, and he said “It’s a command from Allah to terrorize the infidel”.) And it’s in the Koran itself:
Beheading in Islam – Political Islam
When you hear of beheading, do you assume that Islam is involved? Beheading is an integral part of Islam. Mohammed repeatedly ordered people beheaded and the Koran even includes beheading. Beheading is threatened to settle arguments about Islam. Men were threatened with beheading if they did not become a Muslim. Beheading is mentioned nine times in the Hadith of Bukhari, once in the Koran and 41 times in the Sira. Beheading is recommended and common in the doctrine of Islam.
MORE ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
One of the great mysteries to me is the support by gays of a religion that, in Islamic / Sharia run societies, throws them bound and gagged from rooftops, or crushes them under walls pulled onto them.
Beating your wife is approved in Islam:
The same for feminists who rush to embrace Islamic migration. How’s that mass migration – particularly from Islamic areas – worked out for countries that have done it?
The truth about the Swedish rape crisis. (substack.com)
Iraqi migrant arrested for rape of 11-year-old Greek girl (rmx.news)
Just a couple of examples from many nations’ experience with mass migration. Also see Tommy Robinson’s series The Rape of Britain. (Very disturbing image and story at this link about a woman feeling the full force of Islamic / migrant diversity – be warned.) But “progressives” are natural allies with Islam – they’re both authoritarian, missionary, and expansionist. And will remain allies until the possibility that Western Civilization itself falls… any takers on who wins between the Left and Islam?
But there’s another question that has never been properly answered in all the years since the Six-Day War of 1967. That’s when the Jews of Israel committed an unpardonable offence against Euro-American high society decorum: they refused to remain merely the plucky kibbutzim of folk songs and maudlin caricature. Instead, Israelis defended themselves against a war of encirclement and beat the stuffing out of Egypt, Jordan and Syria in less than a week.
Israelis will never be forgiven for that. Jews are supposed to be servile, and just lay down and die. Except the lessons of the Shoah, and other events even more recently, highlighted the need for strength.
Nor will founded-to-be-Socialist Israel be forgiven for its act of apostasy in rejecting key elements of Socialism to become a free-market / capitalist powerhouse. A Start-Up Nation, even.
Funny how the SJWs love identity politics… except for:
PALLYWOOD
Deception is foundational in Islam in the jihad against the infidel.
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
Deception in Islam: Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman and Muruna – Trevor Loudon’s New Zeal Blog
Consider these two videos by the founder of Political Islam (links only):
Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya – YouTube
Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam – YouTube
As I addressed in a prior meme post’s section on Gaza being an “open air prison”, I noted the plenty found in its markets. Here’s another example:
Wow that sure looks like desperation and crisis. Not. More on the utterly horrific conditions in Gaza:
Funny how an “open air concentration camp” has obesity being one of the primary health issues, specifically among women. And last time I knew Auschwitz et al had no plastic surgery industry:
In Gaza, demand grows for a plastic surgeon’s services (yahoo.com)
Remember that all the casualty figures come straight from Hamas-controlled ministries. You think they are totally impartial? But wait, there’s more! A very famous picture – widely circulated – gives an example of a cruel Israeli soldier stepping on a child and it sure does look bad:
And while it’s a bit of military trivia to note that the boots are not IDF issue, the fact that the guy is holding an AK47 – definitely NOT IDF issue – is more telling. As is this broader picture:
People calmly watching some street theater – I believe in Bangladesh. But presented as an actual event – repurposing with selective editing and all. Like this:
Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool
And:
Pallywood is famous for recycling too:
But the creme de la creme of Pallywood, IMHO, is this image.
Which, after some investigation, is actually a screen capture from one of the Final Destination movies. For more on Pallywood see this piece:
The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool
And this report:
Pallywood
It’s my opinion that one of the reasons such deception is so widely accepted is the racism of so many of the elites in thinking that “little brown people” couldn’t possibly be so deceptive and shrewd to fool the uber-educated, uber-elite set.
TERROR COMING HERE?
Thousands of “special interest aliens” from numerous countries, including the Middle East, have been arrested by Border Patrol agents while attempting to cross the U.S. southern border illegally over the last two years, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data leaked to Fox News.
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That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between October 2021 and October 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria.
Agents also encountered 13,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 139 from Yemen, 123 from Iraq and 15,594 from Mauritania. The data does not include information on how many of those migrants were removed or who were released into the U.S. with a court date.
Meanwhile uncategorized Arabs flow through Darien every hour. Including “Palestinians” I personally encounter.
Others might join in too if things kick off here in a serious way:
I just saw a video on Telegram by a black guy talking about how they’re going to “get rid of” all the colonizers. And if spicy time does start, we’d better do what’s necessary to win. Or else.
Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.
That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.
A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
As I noted above, Hamas wants dead bodies and destroyed cities, all the better for camera fodder. The lives of their people mean nothing.
But as Israel has turned off power and water to Gaza – a dual-edged blade; effective militarily but a disaster-in-the-making PR wise – understand that the leadership and Hamas soldiers likely have stocks and food and water. Their people don’t… and now, understand this to your core, THEY DO NOT CARE.
Every dead child, every starved person, every person dead from thirst or exposure is a weapon against Israel. Ever soul lost is, in the Islamic way of thinking, a soldier killed in action against the most-hated infidels of all, Jews. Thus these dead – to them – have been blessed with martyrdom.
Understand your enemy. Understand what motives them. Understand how they think.
