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 hatred of Jews 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. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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
With some Israel-related materials here:
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Yet again, supporting my argument that Israel needs to wean itself from US support. NO NATION that wants to call itself a free and sovereign state can afford to be dependent like this. And Israel should learn the lesson of Vietnam, where the US promised to replace bullet for bullet, etc., to South Vietnam… and the Democrats cancelled that. Democrats also undermined other efforts; Democrats also abandoned not just Afghanistan, but left billions in weapons there for the Taliban.
Any nation that depends on the US, particularly under Democrats, is making a potentially grave mistake. And there is no question that, currently, Israel is very dependent on the US, which is not a good thing seeing as the Democrats are increasingly dependent on the Islamic vote.
Team Biden Turning Against Israel To Win Michigan (legalinsurrection.com)
Stabbed in the Back: Biden Aide tells Muslims No ‘Confidence’ in Israeli Government (breitbart.com)
Biden Regime Again Shows Which Side It’s On, and It’s Not on Israel’s | Frontpage Mag
Biden can’t have it both ways on the Gaza war – JNS.org
Biden Sends Delegation to Meet With Hamas Supporter (jihadwatch.org)
Backstabbers | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
Related:
A tragic destiny? – JNS.org (bolding added):
A few days ago, it all hit me. First, it took the form of practical terrors: Israel is fighting with strong U.S. support, but how long will it be before the Biden administration snaps? Polls indicate that the Muslim-American community is largely fine with Hamas’s atrocities. The Democratic Party is leaning into the burgeoning genocidal antisemitism of its progressive base and the professoriate regime that created and empowers it. Younger voters appear to be perfectly sanguine about this. Killing Jews has become trendy—just another way to get likes on TikTok and Instagram. With Biden running for reelection, none of this bodes well for us.
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TOP OF THE FOLD
File under Know your enemy. From here:
These are the faces of evil.
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, climbed the ranks not for killing Jews or planning attacks against the IDF, but because he killed Palestinians. For years, Sinwar was known as “the butcher of Khan Yunis.”
In 1989, at just 27, Yahya Sinwar was convicted and imprisoned in an Israeli jail for the murder of dozens of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel.
His brutality in killing innocent Palestinians was horrific. Some were killed because he suspected they collaborated with Israel, while others because they behaved in ways he deemed contrary to Islam.
During his interrogation, he confessed to some of the killings, describing in detail what he did to each of those Palestinians. Here are some quotes from the interrogation transcript:
“He admitted to being in contact with Israeli intelligence… and also admitted to bringing girls to his shop and engaging with them. I decided to kill him,” he said. According to him, they took that Palestinian in a car to the cemetery. “On the way, I tied his eyes with a cloth so he wouldn’t see. I put him in a large grave, strangled him with a chokehold I had. After I strangled him, I wrapped him in a white cloth with a blanket and closed the grave. I was convinced that Rasmi (the collaborator) deserved to die.”
In other cases, Yahya Sinwar personally killed more Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel or behaving in ways he deemed contrary to Islam. One Palestinian was beaten to death with punches, another was strangled with a chokehold, and another Palestinian was shot dead.
In an especially appalling case, he forced a Palestinian from Khan Yunis to bring his brother, whom he suspected of collaborating with Israel, to dig a grave and bury him alive, even though the Palestinian denied collaborating.
An Israeli Shin Bet investigator who interrogated Yahya Sinwar said that Sinwar confessed to these killings with cold-bloodedness, recounting them without flinching.
According to him, it seemed like Yahya Sinwar enjoyed carrying out these killings. In addition to Palestinians Sinwar killed himself, he ordered and sent other Hamas operatives to kill many more Palestinians.
Even within the Israeli prison, Sinwar showed cruelty to prisoners who did not find favor in his eyes.
Yahya Sinwar was born in Gaza, raised in Khan Yunis, and his family lived in a house owned by the UN, and he studied in one of the UN schools in Gaza. “The butcher of Khan Yunis” became such a radical Islamic terrorist within the UN education system, like most terrorists in Gaza.
It wasn’t long after Sinwar was released from prison and returned to Gaza that he became the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
Under Sinwar’s leadership in Gaza, protests and opposition to Hamas were violently suppressed, Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel were brutally murdered, and Gazans who behaved contrary to Islam were also identified as collaborators and murdered. All under the control of Yahya Sinwar and often under his explicit orders.
For years under Sinwar’s rule, Hamas took all the aid money that entered Gaza and built terror tunnels and infrastructure within the civilian population to maximize civilian casualties during war to pressure for a ceasefire.
Yahya Sinwar planned the October 7th attack and sent thousands of Hamas terrorists to brutally murder Israeli civilians.
This is the man whom those calling for a ceasefire want to allow to continue to rule Gaza, the man who, if there is a ceasefire, will continue to kill Jews and behave with such cruelty to Gaza’s Palestinian residents.
These are the faces of evil.
(Ori Miller on X)
Yes and no. How about this view of Gaza from 2010?
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Gaza death count ‘systematically manipulated’ by Hamas, report shows | World Israel News
“Although thousands of Palestinian noncombatants, including military-age males, have undoubtedly been killed in the Hamas-initiated conflict, the world must also recognize that the group has manipulated and exploited civilian fatality claims for its strategic benefit, in an attempt to truncate Israel’s air and ground operations and stir international outrage,” the report’s author, researcher Gabriel Epstein, wrote.
About casualties:
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Biden parrots Hamas casualty numbers
Yet another overlooked component to the simplistic claim that “the Jews took the Arabs’ land” is that many hectares of land in Israel were purchased by Jews from Arabs. As Robert Spencer points out, Jews who returned to Israel “in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries didn’t come as armed marauders, seizing land from its owners by force. They obtained the land in a far more conventional and prosaic way: they bought it.” Spencer quotes one British government report from 1930 that smugly notes they overpaid for it.
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From the “You just can’t make this stuff up” file (barenakedislam.com)
A small tidbit about Sinwar. He was treated for cancer in an Israeli hospital.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
America and Britain Cross a Treacherous Red Line – The Jewish Voice
How’d that whole “Give the Sudetenland to Germany” thing work out?
This is not a war about LAND. It is a RELIGIOUS WAR. A reminder – Jew hate is hard-coded into the Koran:
Islamic Jew-Hatred – a religious mandate – Geller Report
Antisemitism in the Qur’an – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
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And, of course, silence about this from the media:
ABC, CBS, NBC Omit Israel Unearthing Hamas Data Center Under U.N. UNRWA Facility (newsbusters.org)
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The question is WHY they can’t agree to co-exist. 2:191. Take back what they took. I.e., reconquer what infidels took from Islam.
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Why do we need absolute victory? Just listen to Nasrallah, right now: “It is very important that Israel emerges from this war defeated and deterred,” the Hezbollah Secretary General clarifies.
Yes, even in Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold, the Dahaiah, you can clearly hear the defeatist discourse of “sometimes the victory is in the understanding that there is no victory” (copyright: Nahum Barnea, an Israeli journalist), and there they understand very well that they have a historical opportunity to undermine the very existence of the State of Israel.
This is what is at stake, no less. Nasrallah understands it, Khamenei understands it, Sinwar understands it; And those who insist on not understanding it and continue spouting October 6 clichés simply will not be able to survive here. period.
(Tamir Morag on X)
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Forget the Two-State “Solution” | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
When liberals demand a cease-fire from Israel, my answer is, “So, has Hamas surrendered then?” To be honest, though, even if Hamas should in the end try, desperately, to surrender, Israel should finish the job. And continue to ignore the idiocy that proceeds from western liberals.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
Understand the enemy. Related:
World wide Islam is always their goal.
To Understand the IDF and Hamas, Look at Their Military Texts | HonestReporting
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Video.
ATROCITIES
I’ve seen a four-minute video sampling. How can anyone look at this footage, mostly shot by the terrorists themselves, and still condemn Israel for its response? Related:
Spencer Video: The Cry-Bully Tactic Against Truthtellers About Islam | Jamie Glazov Productions
As I understand it from people like Bill Warner and Robert Spencer (above link) and others, this was a tactic Mohammed himself used – provoke, provoke, provoke, and then scream They’re attacking us! when the natural reaction finally came. This is not new.
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Compare and contrast this image (Syria civil war):
And this:
With the image and joyful cries by this crowd on Oct. 7.
And these images. Three hard-to-look-at images of children Hamas murdered on Oct. 7 (links only):
And some other images – again, links only – to keep your memory alive of what Hamas did.
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According to the tests at the hospital for the abductees who were released last night – the abductees did not receive the medication that the State of Israel gave them in the deal with Hamas almost a month ago. There is no better proof than this of the violation of the agreement – that we took our step and delivered to them entire trucks with medicines that probably also helped treat wounded terrorists and they did not take the small step of bringing the individual medicines to our abductees. After slaughtering, raping, torturing and kidnapping they continue with their terror and now we also got proof that they lied… Hamas must be destroyed!
(Yosef Haddad)
I am certainly not an international law expert. But my understanding is that denying POWs needed medicine – assuming it’s available, which in this case it was – is a war crime. So when will all the bleeding-hearts criticize Hamas. (I know: half-past never.)
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL
Israeli Arabs and Druze Fighting For Israel | Frontpage Mag
But… but… but apartheid! Related:
And:
EoZ posters for “Apartheid Week” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Great images here! Here’s one. Last time I checked, South Africa in its apartheid years had no blacks as judges. Certainly not over whites.
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Media Reframe Israel’s Dramatic Rescue of Gaza Hostages | HonestReporting
And this is an amusing cartoon on the media playing a role:
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Videos and comments/text from here:
What is happening in Gaza’s Rafah city looks like a horror movie. As you can see in this video that went viral on social media, dozens cameramen standing at the entrance of a medical center in Gaza. They start running to the entrance along with a boy who seems to be carrying his little brother. Instead of leaving the camera and helping him they just film the whole scenario.
Fortunately, the doctor quickly removes the bandage that someone tied on the child’s head before the cameras started rolling. As you can see with your own eyes, there was no injury under the bandage.
Too many camera crews, it’s supposed to be a hospital, isn’t it? This woman has certainly not been treated by a doctor. There is no reason to put a bandage on a Hijab. If these two really had head injuries, I doubt they would be able to go wild like that in front of the camera crews.
The Palestinians know they can’t win militarily. Just like the Vietnamese knew they couldn’t win militarily. So they “win” in the minds and hearts of the West. The problem is that the media, and all the “useful idiots”, just eat it up.
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This is a video from a few years back, not sure how many – holiday shopping in Gaza. The humanitarian “concentration camp” horror of it all! Oh, the humanity!
And Gaza in general.
You know, that doesn’t look bad at all! Also on my Rumble channel:
Video – “Thank you Hamas” – from a few years ago (rumble.com)
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
Here already.
Is Dearborn really America’s jihad capital? – The Jewish Voice
Indeed, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any hate in the article. It was just all coming from the other side. Stalinsky’s article notes that “a local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read ‘Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.’” He shows Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit in Dearborn calling for the “demise” of Israel, which, if it ever happened, would result in the murders of millions of Israelis.
Stalinsky also points out that another Dearborn-area imam, Usama Abdulghani, “called Oct. 7 ‘one of the days of Allah’ and a ‘miracle come true.’ He described the attackers as ‘honorable.’ He said they were ‘lions’ defending ‘the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger.’” Also, “the Islamic Center of America, a leading Dearborn mosque, held a memorial service on Dec. 30 for a Hezbollah operative killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Yes.
The Truth About the Jihad in Dearborn | Frontpage Mag
And more.
Anti-Israel protesters take over library at Cornell, police called in | The College Fix
The last time I was in Dearborn, c. 2008, it was like I stepped into a whole different country.
Jew-Hating Jihad Lynch Mob Target, Attack Mount Sinai Hospital – Geller Report
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Also in Europe:
Germany: Muslim migrants terrorize residents with robberies, drugs and rape (jihadwatch.org)
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Biden Protects ‘Palestinian’ Illegal Aliens From Deportation | Frontpage Mag
So if they manage to get here, they’re a protected class.
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TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
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US Should Be ’Stupid’ No More: Trump Calls for End to ‘No Strings’ Foreign Aid – The Jewish Voice
I’ve said it before: long-term Israel needs to voluntarily wean itself off the US. Not only because aid to Israel engenders animosity in the US, but it makes Israel a client state of the US. And thus subject to the whims of US politics.
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360 Degrees of Hostility: The Biden Administration and Israel – The Jewish Voice
As the weeks and months passed, it turned out that the latter had it right. The administration has never let Israel alone to win the war whose outcome will determine whether the Jewish state can long survive. At every turn, in every quarter, the United States is constraining, undermining, subverting and coercing Israel to make moves that, as Shahar said, are “against the interests of the citizens of Israel.”
Anger at Biden’s attempting to leverage American aid to Israel grows. Long with a lot of content.
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Hey Jewish voters – still think Biden’s with Israel?
MISCELLANEOUS
UNEXPECTED ALLIES AND WELL KNOWN ENEMIES
Very linky post. Related to enemies:
Israelis refuse to be erased – JNS.org
Echoed in this quote:
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
Golda Meir
Another quote by her:
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Both Israel and most average Persians are the enemies of the mullahs.
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What Have You Done For Us Lately, Israel? | Frontpage Mag
Mostly good. The whole 3-D printed meat, for example… not so much.
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
You can’t go wrong with a donation here:
And please share this post far and wide. There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know. Post it, email it, share widely. If you can please donate to this year’s Purim drive.
This is a unit I sponsored to get gifts in a prior year:
Also, if you’re willing:
A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Why are there still Palestinian refugees after 75 long years? – JNS.org
From its very founding – and fundamentally different standards / nature than the other refugee-oriented policies and agency – this clearly was set up to perpetuate as an eternal grievance against Israel.
So, as an open question… WHY would Israel be singled out like this?
