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 also that these posts generally 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: 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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This year Purim will not be the same. It’s not Haman’s ears but Sinwar’s ears. Speaking of Purim, Connections Israel, a charity I’ve donated to for over a decade, is collecting for Purim baskets for IDF soldiers:
(Don’t worry Steve, not going to push this too much… but Purim is getting close.)
IF you donate, please tell them you heard about this through me. I don’t get anything, but at the end they’ll tell me how many donations were activated by me.
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TOP OF THE FOLD
From this post:
In 2008, 700,000 Gazans breached the Rafah border and entered Egypt.
80 Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The first thing they did? They took down Egyptian flags and replaced them with flags of Hamas.
“Why won’t Egypt open the border”
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Insulting Israel Is A State Dept. Tradition – The Lid (lidblog.com)
The lesson for Israel? Blinken’s insult about “Israel dehumanizing Gazans” is consistent with what we have come to expect from the State Department. Many secretaries of state seem to have believed that coldness to Israel is part of the job description. But Israel has outlasted them all.
There’s a lesson here, in reality: Israel cannot depend on the US. Related:
US seeks to boost Gaza aid deliveries with new port – Insider Paper
Biden to open Gaza port | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
How much smuggling through here?
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
From here:
Hamas Senior Official:
“WE ARE VERY ACTIVE IN THE WEST BANK”
Hamas boasts about having terrorists in Judea and Samaria. Another reason why Israel is spending a lot of time pulling these terrorists out of their homes at night.
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Ibrahim Kharuba, an Arab Israeli hero, defended his IDF base against a Hamas attack, saving lives by neutralizing 17 terrorists.
A devoted father and husband, his bravery and sacrifice will never be forgotten. 💔🇮🇱
And then hope again. And another:
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Fundamental to understanding the widespread destruction is the fact that rocket launchers and tunnels, etc., are everywhere:
Look how many locations or rockets launchers, terror tunnel shafts and weapons storage sites were found in one single neighborhood in Gaza City in last 2 days by the 401th armored brigade. Now you understand how much this place is infested with terror (above & under the ground).
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Also, a war crime. But condemnation only for Jews, not for the Arabs:
Hamas has weaponized ambulances. The terrorists use ambulances as mobile units to maintain freedom of operation in the war zone. They go from the combat zone, to hospitals with tunnels, then into the tunnels to command centers and back to combat.
This is the modus operandi.
This is a war crime.
Abuse of the medical mission jeopardizes civilians in need and they intentionally use protected symbols to conceal their actions.
International organizations, such as ICRC WHO must publicly condemn these actions and hold Hamas accountable.
So far they are silent.
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I wonder where all this money – $1.5 million – found in Khan Yunis tunnels was going:
Oh, wait, to pay the bill in Qatar?
The invoice for the 11-day stay of the Hamas organized crime group team led by Ismail Haniya in Doha Qatar, when hostage release negotiations were on.
At the top hotel Mandarin Oriental.The total expenses of the delegation are $1.045 million.
Including for restaurants and bars – $315.5 thousand.
For SPA – $26.5 thousand.International humanitarian aid allocated to the Hamas organized crime group is not lost.
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Here’s a kiddie parade. Looks just like marches, etc., I did when I was a kid. Not.
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The terrorist that killed the two Israelis today was a member of the Palestinian authority police force. These are the people Biden want us to give control over Gaza!
More:
Following yesterday’s terror attack performed by Muhammad Yosef Diab, a captain in the Palestinian Authority’s investigation department, their telegram channels boasts in 51 terror attacks done by 51 members of the “security forces” of the Palestinian Authority! Yes, that’s who the world gives billions of dollars to!
Related, two videos about UNRWA workers here – voice calls, translated:
OUTRAGEOUS: Incriminating tapes reveal UNRWA teachers in the October 7th massacre shouting: “I’m inside with the Jews! We have female hostages, I captured one!”
Over 450 terrorists worked for UNRWA. #Israel
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Building a Decent Gaza :: Middle East Quarterly (meforum.org)
Long with many thoughtful points and questions.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
“Israelis build. Palestinians destroy.” Period. (barenakedislam.com)
Video.
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Dome of the Rock was neglected in 1870, Jerusalem.
Only after Israel captured Temple Mount, the place went to complete neglection to clean and shining.
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Palestinians contradict Quran in order to deny Israel’s right to exist
Well, this is awkward!
ATROCITIES
Note this well – civilians were in on the raid. From here.
Palestinian “civilians” participated in Hamas’ massacre on Israeli innocents—kids, grandparents, families.
Shocking celebrations of cruelty. Pure evil. Stand against terrorism!
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Never ever forget what the Amalek did to you. Continue until total victory, annihilation of Hamas and return of our hostages!
Link only. Be warned.
Also:
UN Report: Palestinians Raped Women’s Corpses On October 7 (legalinsurrection.com)
UNRWA Staff Recordings Prove Hamas Treated Young Women ‘Like Animals’ – Geller Report
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From here:
Hamas terrorist threw a grenade into a place where an innocent woman was hiding, injured her, dragged her outside, shot her in the head, and proceed smash her head open.
Link only.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
Video here (somewhat long so not downloaded):
The pro-Hamas mob attached itself to a women’s march in Toronto for Womens History Month. The bitter irony is that Palestinian women suffer terribly under Hamas:
❌ Women are subjected to honor killings
❌ There is no law in Gaza that prohibits violence against women, including sexual violence
❌ A women’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s
❌ Hamas enforces a “code of modesty” that severely restricts basic freedoms of expression and movement
❌ Women have virtually no pathways to financial independenceHamas’s 1988 charter states that Muslim women are important in that they “manufacture men.”
You have to wonder… the Left has the vapors over the male-dominated world of the “Handmaiden’s Tale” yet seems to have no issue with the above. Cognitive dissonance here. Related:
Israel-Hater Shocked To Discover Her Muslim Allies Dislike The Gay Ones – Israellycool
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I remember some years ago, being at an anti-racism protest, watching the leaders of the protest getting the chant going.
Hey hey, ho ho, racism has got to go.
OK, IMHO a good sentiment. But then I noticed something interesting, to wit that once the chant had a life of its own the leaders stopped, and started observing the crowd. I’ve watched similar events, such as when the police are arresting someone, and the chant goes up Let him/her go!
There’s a reason for chants: they suspend thinking.
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From here:
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
Of course there’s aid going in. But it’s stolen. Hamas terrorists steal nearly every aid truck that enters Gaza.
In parallel, a video about the medical aid that’s getting shipped in:
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ILTV’s Viewpoint: Douglas Murray (youtube.com)
Douglas Murray video – 25 minutes.
Douglas Murray Dismantles Israeli ‘Genocide’ Claim And Exposes Hypocrisy (youtube.com)
This is an information war as much as anything.
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A few scenes of the “food desert” in present-day Gaza (last one is a repeat):
Though I prefer chicken shawarma. Used to be a place near where I lived in the Detroit metro area. Amazing Middle Eastern food!
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What’s that old saying, beggars can’t be choosers? Here’s a Gazan’s choice:
Gazan man throws food in the garbage because it was parachuted into Gaza by the US Air Force.
Aren’t they grateful and peaceful people?
‘Starving ‘Palestinians’ Throw American Aid Food Into The Garbage – Geller Report
Oh, those poor starving Palestinians (barenakedislam.com)
Good video in the second link.
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The Jews who witnessed the attacks are cross-checked with forensic evidence and photos and videos, verified with other witnesses, and anything that doesn’t pass their supposedly professional standards is not even mentioned. But the Palestinian accusations are published in detail, with absolutely zero corroborating evidence. Their use of the word “allegations” does not water down the next sentence where the “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Palestinians in detention” is published as fact.
The Arab enemy plays dirty. It cheats and it lies and it inverts the truth. But we know what happened. “The evidence is abundant and beyond compelling. Through survivors coming forward, witnesses, video footage and independent analysis, we know that Hamas’s use of sexual violence including rape, mutilation, and brutality was not an anomaly. It was a premeditated part of its strategy to purposefully use sexual violence as a weapon against innocent civilians,” said Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, regarding the horrific sexual crimes of Hamas.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
Here already.
In Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
Note what it says. Not “Israel”. Not “Zionists”. Not “Settlers”. Jews. As in every one. Also see here:
Over the past day, a Jewish man was attacked and called a “dirty Jew” in Paris and another was stabbed while the assailant shouted “death to all Jews” in Zurich.
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Before the lawyer could leave, however, two fully masked protesters jumped onstage and approached him with their hands in their pockets, without interference from security, and saw where he and his wife were going. Bar-Yoshafat said his university escorts showed him down the corridor, opened the door to the street, and left him and his wife outside alone with a “good luck.” The couple had no idea where they were or how to get to their car until a staff member for the group sponsoring Bar-Yoshafat’s U.S. speaking tour found them.
These are people baying for blood. The administration clearly is on the side of those seeking it. And sooner or later, they’ll get it. Related:
Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down Penn trustee meeting | The College Fix
Apparently, earlier this year, there was a Molotov cocktail thrown around there – some Jewish site in Montreal.
A feminist open letter justifies Hamas rape – JNS.org
The dark secret of Jew-hatred: Pleasure – JNS.org
There’s a very important lesson in this quote from Huxley:
That, and the dopamine hit the punishers get from being praised. See my third essay on the biological roots of civilizational collapse, and the role dopamine plays in that (sorry, all-caps formatting carried through, link in the original):
IT’S NORMAL TO WANT TO HURT OTHERS WHOM WE UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE HURT US. IN AUGUST, 2004, SCIENTISTS PUBLISHED “THE NEURAL BASIS OF ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT” IN SCIENCE MAGAZINE. RESEARCHERS INSTRUCTED TWO SUBJECTS TO PLAY A GAME. IF PLAYER B CHEATED PLAYER A, PLAYER A WAS OFFERED A CHANCE TO RETALIATE AGAINST PLAYER B. PLAYER A WAS ATTACHED TO A PET SCANNER. THE RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED THAT WHILE PLAYER A CONTEMPLATED REVENGE AGAINST PLAYER B, HIS DORSAL STRIATUM WOULD BECOME ACTIVE. IF PLAYER A DECIDED ON A LARGE PUNISHMENT, HIS DORSAL STRIATUM FIRED INTENSELY. “MANY PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY INCUR COSTS TO PUNISH VIOLATIONS OF SOCIAL NORMS,” THEY WROTE. “EVOLUTIONARY MODELS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE INDICATE THAT SUCH ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT HAS BEEN A DECISIVE FORCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COOPERATION … PEOPLE DERIVE SATISFACTION FROM PUNISHING NORM VIOLATIONS”
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It’s been speculated that one reason The Potato is handling Iran with kids’ gloves is because of the threat of terror in the US by such cells.
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Importing Islam Means Importing Violence | Gates of Vienna
Here’s a girl in Germany describing life for an ethnic German. And there are people – including too many Jewicidal Yidiots – who want to let more migrants in.
You’ve lost your survival instinct – and it will lead to civilizational collapse. On the threat of Islam:
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
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So, so, so pandering to the Islamic vote base. Remember from the last post:
And I don’t believe in coincidences:
My theory? That through “back channels” The Potato (and his master, Obama) have told Iran they’re going to cut off aid to Israel because of “war crimes”. Also, land-grab crimes:
When the US supported Zionist territorial claims – opinion – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) (link in original):
Of course, one could ask Blinken whether “old” settlements are legal or whether it is only “any expansion” of Jewish communities that would be illegal. That, however, might trip him up. What could also stump him up is former secretary of state Madeleine Albright’s television interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today show on October 1, 1997. When pressed on the legal aspect of building beyond the Green Line, she admitted, “It’s legal.”
Also, State Department spokesman James Rubin declared on September 17, 1997, that while moving Jews into the Ras al-Amud housing project “is not helpful…we don’t think this is a question of law.”
Fifteen years earlier, in February 1981, president Ronald Reagan stated that the settlements were “not illegal,” despite the infamous 1978 Hansell Memorandum that president Jimmy Carter demanded be formulated.
Even if international law doesn’t agree with The Potato (video, link only):
Does Israel Occupy the West Bank? (youtube.com)
And an article too:
Israeli Settlements Are Not Illegal – Tablet Magazine
Another video, broader, about the IDF and compliance with international law:
Attention International Law Experts (rumble.com)
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Pressuring Israel. Not Hamas, the people who started it. Related:
Erdan slams the UN General Assembly for its repeated calls for a ceasefire with no pre-conditions, proving they are committed to the survival of a terrorist organization…and UNRWA…the UN’s so-called “refugee” organization, from which 12% of its staff are active members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Israel and the dangerous blindness of the Biden administration. – American Thinker
It’s NOT blindness or stupidity. It’s deliberate.
MISCELLANEOUS
Hashem bless these women! And the male soldiers. And all Israel.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Much is being made of the recent calamity regarding aid and Gazan casualties as a mob pushed to get to the trucks.
First, from this post:
Here’s the background to the deadly stampede. Hamas is hijacking aid, UNRWA is covering up for it, so Israel is coordinating humanitarian operations to get aid directly to civilians in northern Gaza. Thursday’s convoy was the fourth night in a row we were securing.
Israel wants humanitarian aid to reach Gazan civilians in need. Because this is a war against Hamas, which started this war—not the people of Gaza, suffering from this war Hamas dragged them into.
The IDF’s initial review of the stampede incident confirms most Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede, with civilians trampled to death and injured as they charged to the aid convoy. No strike was carried out by the IDF towards the aid convoy.
The initial review indicates that following warning shots fired to disperse the stampede, and after IDF forces had started retreating, several looters approached our forces and posed an immediate threat to them. The soldiers responded towards several individuals.
The IDF has opened an inquiry, which will help us reduce the risk of such a tragic incident from occurring again during one of our humanitarian operations. The incident will be examined in the Fact Finding and Assessment Mechanism: an independent, professional, and expert body.
Second, here is an IDF press release about this:
More:
Why is Israel Subject to a Standard Imposed on No One Else? | Frontpage Mag
Did Israel Target Civilians at Aid Distribution Site? | Frontpage Mag
And, of course, the truth of Twain’s observation that a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth can pull its boots on:
Yes, Israel was slow to respond to the blood libel that it massacred Gaza civilians who mobbed an aid shipment. Nonetheless, the truth came out. The real massacre was the massacre of truth. The headlines spewing the lies were everywhere, declaring that Israel had wantonly fired on the mob. It was the old and cliched campaign to delegitimize Israel, incite hatred of the Jewish state, and promote the fashionable antisemitism now gripping the world.
But now… as background, look at how the aid trucks are greeted:
Palestinians in Gaza loot humanitarian aid truck and killed the Egyptian driver.
Pure barbarism.
And related:
Palestinians throw rocks on humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza.
And:
Egyptian truck drivers who entered Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Gazans share the horrific stories how they were treated by Gazans.
So, it is A GIVEN that these people will use violence, even against those trying to bring food and water and supplies to them.
But… there’s another factor.
Axiom 1: To die in jihad against the Infidel is the highest honor a Muslim can hope for.
Axiom 2: Hamas dresses, moves/maneuvers, and even attacks in civilian clothes.
Axiom 3: Hamas, like others before like the Viet Cong, know that the battle that matters is the military will and support of the American public. A will greatly effected by manipulated emotions, as ably described by Brigitte Gabriel:
So given what we know – that the IDF is known and renowned for taking measures to reduce civilian casualties – and given that Hamas is slowly being backed into a corner, what better way to relieve that pressure on them, and dial it up further on Israel, than to stage a riot, force IDF soldiers to respond, and if you get killed in the process of that, instant access to your 72 virgins.
MHO: The “riot” was deliberately instigated and set up to cause a reaction, that would then be excellent CAMERA FODDER for the enemedia.
Know your enemy. Think like your enemy. Assimilate to your core what their motivations are.
Then you’ll understand them and their actions.
