This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. And my last Israel-related one.
I don’t just have memes in the Israel ones, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary, so if you didn’t see the last one, please do go look after you’re done with this one. Same thing here: lots and lots of links, info, videos, memes, and my added commentary (that I hope adds perspective and value).
*** Note that while I will attempt discretion in images that I post, not all are “squeaky clean” in terms of the eyes of the innocent. Be warned here. ***
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Hamas in its own words. (From 2009.)
From this post. Good site in general. Almost 15 years ago, and their message is unchanged.
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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
Understand that terror is THE WAY in Islamic warfare. Consider this recent shooting in Brussels. Now, the lesson has been taught: “We Muslims can reach you here, and there, and everywhere.” Here he is saying, “I am a fighter for Allah. We live for our religion, and we die for our religion.” (At least, that’s the translation from the post where I got this from.)
WATCH: Hamas Brutally Tortured Before Murdering Them, Including Children – Geller Report
The next link is to an age-restricted video; warning, graphic, and upsetting content.
Horrifying video shows the moments at the site of Israel music festival
What astonishes me are the “Doubting Thomases” who, despite evidence like this, continually scream for more proof, more proof, more proof. Yet when the Palestinian authorities cite casualty figures, etc., there’s totally unskeptical acceptance. Another distressing video:
Israel-Hamas war: ‘80% of bodies’ found, including children, were tortured
Video. Two women cowering under a table. Shot at point-blank range.
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What did I say at the end of my prior post? Complacency. Underestimation of the enemy.
THE ISLAMIC MENTALITY
Let me be clear, while there are many, many Muslims who do want nothing but peace and all, I know because my wife is one of them the hardline doctrine of Islam is one of terror, rape, and murder of anyone not of the faith.
Robert Spencer’s ‘The Critical Qur’an’ | Frontpage Mag
The Abomination That Is Islam | Gates of Vienna
Make no mistake about it: we are all in the front line of Jihad now and had better find some backbone and start eliminating them en masse before we ourselves are rendered extinct. It really is as simple as that, and the latest example of what are facing can be found in the person of one Feras Al-Jayoosi, he of the dead eyes and a face that defines hatred for us and everything we represent.
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A lot of people complain about the blockade around Gaza that Israel has up. This is an indication – one data point among many – of why that blockade exists:
Police spokespersons:
Watch the documentary: The Israel Police Marines who fought in the south in the face of the terrorist attack, located packages of rice in which the Hamas organization had smuggled ammunition to the Gaza Strip.
The IDF soldiers were among the first to respond strongly to the terrorist attack that occurred on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
The fighters attacked and killed about 200 terrorists in the various fighting points in the south.
After the fighting in the battle centers, the fighters collected weapons and ammunition of the terrorists, which they destroyed and discovered ammunition inside rice packages that were in the terrorists’ equipment.
The suspicion is that the ammunition was smuggled into the Gaza Strip as “humanitarian aid” inside rice bags.
@DesertUnit0777
Truces are for rearming/reloading. Again, read about the Treaty of Hudaibiya and how Mohammed signed a peace treaty… and broke it when convenient. (That’s why I’ve never fully trusted the Abraham Accords – I had hope, but not trust.) The Islamic mentality is of total war, eternal war, against the kaffir. Speaking of war, and terror, repeating this excellent book link:
The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS
Eternal war by any means necessary:
Iran’s Final Solution for Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran
Remember how they pay martyrs and soldiers who kill Jews:
PA will pay $2,789,430 to families of 1,500 dead Hamas terrorist murderers, this month
This means each family of the 1,500 dead Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel will receive 7,400 shekels for this first month. Families of those terrorists who were married and had children will receive even more. The PA will pay at least 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) this month as a reward for participating in last week’s murders and atrocities against Israeli civilians.
In addition, the 50 captured Hamas terrorist murderers will receive monthly salaries in prison starting at 1,400 shekels/month which will eventually rise to 12,000 shekels/month. Terrorists who are married and have children will receive even higher salaries. This month these newly arrested terrorists will receive at least 70,000 shekels ($17,590).
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One of the things I highlighted in my last post was that of rape in Islam. From Mohammed raping the widow of a conquered Jewish tribe in Arabia on the same day he murdered her husband (video of the son of a Hamas official also included in my last post)…
to the fact that rape of captive women is – absolutely – sanctioned in Islam (links in the original quoted paragraphs):
Hamas Jihadi Admits True Motive for Kidnapping Women and Children | Frontpage Mag
Around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also spoke out in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.
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In January 2016, a female al-Azhar professor stated that Allah allowed Muslims to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them.
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Islam’s rhetoric is also consistent… over centuries upon centuries.
We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the grounds of their [Barbary’s] pretentions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation. The ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
Cited here about early America’s first involvement with Islam. That statement from over 200 years ago could have been lifted from modern Muslim statements today. The lesson of not paying DANEGELD was understood before… but it’s been unlearned. As has Churchill’s lesson on appeasement.
More: consider the Battle of Yarmouk, where the “Sword of Allah”, Khalid bin al-Wahid (the guy who barbecued the head of a tribe chieftain, ate his brains, and raped the man’s widow in a pool of her husband’s blood, remember?) said (bolding added):
Before battle, Vahan and Khalid met under a flag of truce to negotiate. The Armenian commander began by diplomatically blaming Arabia’s harsh conditions and impoverished economy for giving the Arabs no choice but to raid Roman lands. Accordingly, the empire was pleased to provide them with food and coin on condition that they return home. “It was not hunger that brought us here,” Khalid responded coolly, “but we Arabs are in the habit of drinking blood, and we are told the blood of the Romans is the sweetest of its kind, so we came to shed your blood and drink it.
More on that battle. But… tasty blood? Why does that sound familiar (bolding added)?
Fox News reports that jihadi web sites are rejoicing over today’s terrorist attacks in Paris. The line we have heard more than once from ISIS-related sites is, “The American blood is best, and we will taste it soon.”
Almost a millennia and a half later, they’re saying the same thing. And, from the article about Yarmouk, not just doing the same blood-drinking, but doing the same beheading (bolding added):
Things came to a head, quite literally, when 8,000 marching Muslims appeared before the Roman camp carrying the severed heads of 4,000 Christians atop their spears. These were the remains of 5,000 reinforcements who had come from Amman to join the main army at Yarmuk. The Muslims had ambushed and slaughtered them. Then, as resounding cries of “Allahu akbar” filled the Muslim camp, those Muslims standing behind the remaining 1,000 Christian captives knocked them over and proceeded to carve off their heads before the eyes of their co-religionists, whom Arabic sources describe as looking on in “utter bewilderment.”
And another terror tactic used now as in the past:
Cannibalism: ISIS Revives Islam’s Original Terror Tactic (raymondibrahim.com)
Closing out, they make it clear that their hatred of us is simply because we are unbelievers (italics replaced by bolding for emphasis, link in the original):
What’s important to understand here is that although some might argue that your foreign policies are the extent of what drives our hatred, this particular reason for hating you is secondary, hence the reason we addressed it at the end of the above list. […] The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you [emphasis added].
Related – understand the Arab / Muslim mentality. They do not think like Westerners:
Why Israel must wage all-out war ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
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In the last post, I brought up Hijra, or conquest by migration and demographics. The great Islamic push into Europe was stopped at Vienna in 1683.
The Other September 11th | Gates of Vienna
As an aside, Muslims are renowned for doing attacks on the anniversaries of great battles. Either to reprise the date as another victory… or to reclaim the date of a loss with a subsequent victory. But what do we make of this? This was in Vienna.
Muslim Girl Beaten Up For Not Wearing Hijab | Frontpage Mag
It was in 1683 that the Muslim Turks, in their invasion of south and central Europe, lay siege to Vienna for the second and last time. They did not obtain their objective; the Viennese withstood the attack. That unsuccessful siege was the high water mark of the Ottoman entry into Europe. Now, in 2023, there are more Muslims in Vienna (236,000) than there were besieging the city (170,000) in 1683. In all of Austria, there are now 840,000 Muslims. They have no need to lay siege with massive cannons as they did in 1683. They have been slowly conquering the country through a demographic jihad. Muslims have managed to arrive, legally and illegally, in Austria, by the hundreds of thousands, economic migrants posing as asylum seekers who came to the country prepared to batten on all the benefits that a generous welfare state can provide: free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, unemployment benefits without needing to have any work history in Austria, and more. In this story, we see the result of that.
And in other places:
Welcome to Hamasburg | Gates of Vienna
And coming to the US through The Potato’s open borders.
Iranian Terrorists Are Coming Across Biden’s Open Southern Border – Geller Report
659 known or suspected terrorists caught at the border in 2023, the most ever (jihadwatch.org)
And worse, potentially, to our schools.
Look up the Beslan attack. Now imagine that happening at your kid’s school. Or the school of a child of a friend or family member. How could this happen? Imagine a bunch of Jihadists dressed as police, showing up at a school (nothing new – they’ve used IDF uniforms before). They’re heeeeeere:
And they’re global:
‘Pro-Palestinian’ rally in Melbourne turns ugly with anti-Semitic chants – Rebel News
And here:
UK: Muslim demonstrators scream ‘Khaybar’ jihad chant vowing new genocide of Jews (jihadwatch.org)
Khaybar? That’s the town where Mohammed raped that dead chieftain’s wife. Remember what I said about them having a long memory?
We dare not let them in here. Let in a million people who view America as the power behind the agent that displaced them from their homes? And then think they’ll assimilate without any drive to take revenge?
Republicans ready bill to bar Palestinian refugees on national security grounds | World Israel News
And a critical lesson on Palestinian refugees comes through Brigitte Gabriel’s book BECAUSE THEY HATE, wherein she recounts how Lebanon – formerly a majority-Catholic country – was taken over by the Muslim migrants that were taken in because of western sentimentality and empathy. Only to have those self-same advocates held down and killed even as they pleaded “But we helped you; we were on your side”! The reply? Stupid Infidel. Here she is speaking from knowledge:
Islam: principi di guerra – Islam: principles of war.
Cut them off too:
Conservative Leaders Urge Defunding Palestinians of Foreign Aid (dailysignal.com)
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Some are critical of this. I think it’s a wise move – not militarily, but rather from a public relations standpoint. Israel’s already getting hammered in the “court of public opinion”. How hammered?
Here’s a sampling of videos.
Florida:
Michigan (Dearborn of course):
Around the country… around the world, Islamists are now deeply embedded. And many governments are becoming increasingly critical too. Israel is having to juggle eggs while on a bouncy-house floor.
MORE ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
When considering the support of the Left for Hamas, understanding their mentality is necessary. This seminal transcribed speech by comedian Evan Sayet is critical:
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” | The Heritage Foundation
Here he is speaking. I’ve skipped the intro.
Evan Sayet – Regurgitating the Apple how Modern Liberals “Think”
PALLYWOOD
Just on a lark… go to Tripadvisor and search for hotels in Gaza, Palestine. This one looks nice. Or restaurants.
And a tidbit about Gaza when it was controlled by Egypt:
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One of the recurring comments that I’ve seen over the years is how – under Ottoman Rule, for example – the land saw Muslims, Christians (the Armenians, as one group, might differ), and Jews peacefully coexisting… until, of course, the dread wave of Zionists started coming in. On the incoming Zionists “displacing” Arabs… on the contrary Arabs flocked to the land after Jews started arriving (bolding added):
It shows that Arabs flocked to Palestine because of Jewish economic success, and that there was essentially no negative effects of Jewish immigration.
More:
Were the Arabs Indigenous to Mandatory Palestine? :: Middle East Quarterly (meforum.org)
Read the whole thing. It’s eye-opening that many of the current Arabs were descended from labor-migration Arabs coming in because of the Jews.
More on the claim that, over centuries, Jews and Muslims lived in peace side by side. A specific example of this is the rule of the Moors in Spain. About that:
The reality is not quite as presented. Non-Muslims were dhimmis (link to a book), under the thumb of Muslim rule under the Pact of Umar (links in original, bolding added):
After the rapid expansion of the Muslim dominion in the 7th century, Muslims leaders were required to work out a way of dealing with non-Muslims, who remained in the majority in many areas for centuries. The solution was to develop the notion of the “dhimma,” or “protected person” which applied to the “People of the Book” – Christians and Jews. Though not forced to convert or treated as harshly as other non-believers, the dhimmi were, in the best of times, second-class citizens and, at certain times and places severely persecuted and murdered.
So as you hear people or videos discussing this purported “Golden Age” of relationship between Muslims and Jews (and Christians)… understand there’s some missing background.
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Another piece of background is on the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries.
Why Jews Fled the Arab Countries :: Middle East Quarterly (meforum.org)
And again I refer you to the excellent book Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight
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As I understand it, hiding military functions in a hospital is a war crime. More on international law:
TERROR COMING HERE?
Spain:
It’s flags now. And it will be Synagogues soon. Wait, now:
Molotov cocktails thrown at Berlin synagogue, no damage: police – Insider Paper
And people soon after that. And if the US shows support militarily, not just supplying arms & money but actual troops? Watch out – not just Synagogues. Malls. Schools. Downtowns. Churches. Individual people. Total terror… but then, that’s what Islam does.
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
Nothing specific seen as noteworthy.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Let me clear on something. I do not relish the idea of razing Gaza. I do not relish the prospect of all the dead civilians – and there are civilians – among that community. I am aghast at the blast at the hospital, for example, though there are conflicting data on the cause. I will say this, repeating something I’ve said earlier:
Cui bono?
Who benefits?
Israel’s reputation is now in a free-fall, just as it was setting up for an enormous crushing of Hamas. Furthermore, one must take into account the fact that Hamas is known for putting its own people into harm’s way as CAMERA FODDER.