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. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.
Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
What if Palestinians don’t want peace? | Washington Examiner
I know I’ve seen videos of people cursing Hamas. That’s good. But then take a look at this poll:
On paper, it is possible to see all sorts of deals. But we need to face up to the fact that none of them has been accepted. Perhaps, instead of projecting our own reasonableness onto the belligerents, we need to face up to the uncomfortable possibility that they are marching to an older and harsher drum. If they are not primarily interested in a normal and peaceful future, it doesn’t much matter what the rest of us say.
In short, the results from the Birzeit poll do not expose a peaceful people interested in coexistence and peace. They present a clear-cut portrait of a genocidal society.
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Westerners assume that the Palestinians seek a future of prosperity and freedom and peace because that is what they aspire to preserve for themselves. But this isn’t the case—or at least not in the way that Westerners think. The Palestinians want a better life. But their conception of a better life is a life of jihad, of killing infidels. What motivates them is not prosperity but genocide. And this is why their hope needs to be extinguished.
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A Ceasefire Deal With Hamas Would Be a Mistake | Frontpage Mag
The only way to justify this operation is to pin Hamas in place and destroy it. The failure to do that will drag this out until international pressure forces an end to it. Hamas forces will slip away, regroup and relaunch their operations.
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On the Moral Rehabilitation of Gaza | Frontpage Mag
Some very interesting points from history… but it’s not quite analogous. Hamas and other Islamic fanatics don’t care about this life; they care about the next life. How do you convince such people to let go and accept the new reality?
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Not made easier by the media taking sides.
(Image from here)
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‘Welcome to Hell’: Israeli Soldiers Troll Hamas From the Ruins of Gaza (freebeacon.com)
OOH, I can see why this could trigger outrage in the SJW set and in Hamas.
OTOH, ridicule and mockery can trigger people to make mistakes. And a clever military capitalizes on those.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
Rockets hidden under a young girl’s bed in Gaza
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Reminder: Israel was obeying the ‘ceasefire’ on October 7, its enemies were not! – American Thinker
Incredibly important point. There was a ceasefire in effect… which Hamas violated.
Correct. How many times do you get a “ceasefire” and then violate it… and expect restraint?
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UN 242 For Anti-Israel Dummies – The Lid (lidblog.com)
The impulse to deceive runs deep.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
I bet this woman – who would instantaneously become a “Captive of the Right Hand” with all that entails were she to truly be in a Sharia state – thinks of herself as good and noble for doing so.
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What ever happened to “Believe all women”. I guess that doesn’t apply to Jewish women. More:
And a former head of Human Rights Watch basically says that Israel / Jews were asking for it:
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The Plight of Jews on College Campuses – American Thinker (link in the original):
Israel has learned to honor Machiavelli’s adage that it is better to be feared than loved. This lesson should be applied to campus life. The lessons of Gaza are relevant: when you attack Jews, they will hit back ten times as hard.
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PALLYWOOD
One of the comments I see is “Why won’t Israel offer to share the land”? Well, dummy, Israel’s offered many times to do so.
You see, Israel used to be controlled by Islam. It is, as I’ve mentioned multiple times with citations, a Koranic command for Muslims to reconquer every square inch of the planet that was once held by Islam – as a milestone marker to conquering the whole thing. But people don’t know that. Likewise, they don’t know about the 800,000-odd Jews kicked out of Muslim countries.
Control the information flow, control what people believe. Oh, and an interesting tidbit question to ponder:
Why, as Israel was giving back the Sinai, didn’t Egypt want Gaza?
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The IDF is presented as this evil force out to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
Hamas HATES this video. Israeli IDF soldiers giving water to Gaza citizens #israel
If the IDF wanted genocide, wouldn’t it be easier to just let them die of thirst? Related:
On the ground inside Gaza, where Israel is trying to save civilians from Hamas (nypost.com)
There’s Genocide And Then There’s ‘Palestinian Genocide’ – American Thinker
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Fake “progressive Jews” stoke antisemitism ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
This is what is known in real Judaism as a “chilul Hashem,” a desecration of God’s name, by making all Jews look bad. There are very few sins that are worse than this.
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Debunking “The Map that Lies” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Remember, the other side is a master of deceit and propaganda:
Israel haters really are master propagandists ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
After all, deceit is hard-coded into Islam:
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
And two videos, links only, from the founder of Political Islam:
Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya – YouTube
Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam – YouTube
And growing from the deception theme:
And peripherally related… who is doing the reporting:
SHOCKING: Western media let Hamas author their ‘news’ stories – American Thinker
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IDF Publishes Trove Of Evidence Documenting 55-meter Hamas Tunnel Under Gaza Hospital – I24NEWS
Dramatic footage: Hostages led through Shifa Hospital on October 7th (israelnationalnews.com)
It’s fascinating that eye witnesses like this are so readily dismissed. Related to medical care:
Infant photos at Shifa are not believable ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
The caption from Reuters says, “Newborn babies in al-Shifa hospital are swaddled and laid down seven or eight to a bed in a desperate effort to keep them warm and alive.”But if you want to keep the babies warm without an incubator, you would swaddle all of them – not leave some naked. You would cover their heads with the knit caps some of us are familiar with.Or, ideally, you would find people to hold them – preferably their mothers – and give them skin to skin contact to keep them warm.You don’t just lie them on a bed, some of them without clothes, one of them (who does not look premature or sickly at all) with their face pushed up against the sharp corner of a box.
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Gaza beaches packed as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds | AFP
(Restricted: must watch on youtube)
Two years ago. That’s one harsh-looking “concentration camp”… related, a couple of other videos from the heart of the “open air prison”:
A Stroll Through Gaza | Islamic Relief Canada – YouTube
While propaganda for Islamic Relief Canada, not the markets filled with food and other interesting tidbits.
Ramadan: Gaza’s green markets are alive with colour – YouTube
The Best Ramadan Food in Gaza – YouTube
OMG the privation and starvation!
5 places to visit in Gaza – YouTube
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Highlights of Hamas Propaganda (barenakedislam.com)
Short clips. Reprise this post:
The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool
TERROR COMING HERE?
Minds Of A Feather: … to the shores of …
And yet, today, we welcome them in and then wonder why there are so many anti-Americans of Muslim descent here in the US.
We have learned nothing in the past 300 years…
Meanwhile, terrorists here… do bad things while watching 10-7 footage (no graphic content, but graphic/adult discussion):
Manhattan Muslim describes doing bad things while watching the Oct 7 footage (link to video)
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Just When You Thought Hamas’ Savagery Couldn’t Get Any Worse (legalinsurrection.com)
And another GRAPHIC image (link only – be warned):
And this video (Link to short vide0):
Pay attention to the next murder by Hamas in the … [below video], the citizens flee from a terrorist who pursues them, shoots one of the Jewish citizens and then shoots the girl.
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
I was right about Massie – Gun Free Zone
According to Open Secrets, Israel is rabked (sic) number nine for foreign lobbying dollars, after Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
But Massie says ISRAEL is the problem. Lest anyone thing I’m ONLY pointing anti-Semitism out on the Left.
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Biden must call out antisemitism on the left – The Forward
He won’t. He can’t. There are too many Islamists entrenched in the Left now… and they need those votes as Jews are starting to wake up:
The Israeli Left woke up to find it had no progressive friends – www.israelhayom.com
Not just the Israeli Left. Quote from the article:
The global Left turned out to be very progressive in its antisemitism. In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, for example, many were deeply offended. There are many editorials from left-wing supporters explaining their disappointment with the global left-wing community. Suddenly they discovered that Western universities are a poison swamp and of twisted incitement against Jews in the name of universal justice.
If you go where extreme leftists hangout, they’re comfortable with spewing out their bigotry among their echo chamber comrades. It’s just now these same people are feeling bold enough to verbalize their once internal dialogue of hatred and have now gone public. They are the cult of hate and destruction. They are university marinated minds of fools and anti-American immigrants. They are Dan Goldman’s people.
Heads-Up Jewish Americans–Democrats Are Your Enemies! (independentsentinel.com)
Yes, they are. More:
Bringing American Jews to the right side of politics – American Thinker
MISCELLANEOUS
A few topical memes:
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Watch Host’s Face as Thomas Sowell Exposes the Real Origin Jews Are Hated
This is a chapter in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Sowell is an incredible intellect and one of my goals in life is to read every book he’s written. Right now I’m reading A Conflict of Visions. Not an easy book. Here’s a little about that book and what it contains by one of my favorite internet commentators:
The Battle of Big Ideas, Part 1: CONSTRAINED vs. UNCONSTRAINED
Another by him about “Palestinians”:
TERRORIST NATION
And he is the voice-over for this:
Debunking the Palestine Lie
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Everyone loves the perceived underdog. That’s why it was an oh-so-shrewd shift from BIG ARAB WORLD against TINY ISRAEL… to POWERFUL ISRAEL against HAPLESS PALESTINIANS.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
As I plan, this week, to cook the turkey and other things for my family for Thanksgiving – I’m the family cook – I think of people without. Without or low on food and other things I take for granted. Without homes. Possibly without countries. And… I think of the families and friends who are missing relatives who were taken hostage or were killed in Israel and I am grateful that nobody I know – my friends and my family – have been directly impacted. I also weep for those who have been impacted; them, and their loved ones were were caught in the attacks themselves.
And in truth I also mourn those in Gaza who are afraid of Hamas. Though poll after poll shows enormous support for Hamas and its genocidal plans for Israel, I have to believe – I am driven to believe by faith – that there are those who do, genuinely, wish for a way out and for coexistence side-by-side. But I am a realist: I understand these people are a minority, likely a vast minority.
I’ve asked this question before, with no cogent answer: How do you coexist side-by-side with someone whose foundational wish is your destruction?
