| Hamas rockets killed 16 Gazans on Tuesday, including 8 children noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 May 05:03 AM Defense for Children International-Pa | | Defense for Children International-Palestine, an extraordinarily anti-Israel NGO which has made bald-faced lies in the past, has unwittingly proven that most of the children killed in Gaza so far have been killed by Hamas - and others are killed because they are human shields.
In their report about Tuesday's events, they say: An Israeli drone-fired missile killed 15-year-old Mohammad Saber Ibrahim Suleiman shortly after 6 p.m. while he and his father Saber Ibrahim Mahmoud Suleiman were on their agricultural land outside the city of Jabalia, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International - Palestine. Father and son were both killed instantly. Mohammad's body was subsequently transferred to the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia where doctors reported there were shrapnel wounds throughout his body. Mohammad's father was reportedly a commander in Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, a Palestinian armed group and the armed wing of Hamas, according to information collected by DCIP. Mohammad was a human shield for his father. But what DCI-P admits next is amazing: In a second incident around 6:05 p.m., initial investigations suggest a homemade rocket fired by a Palestinian armed group fell short and killed eight Palestinians, including two children. The rocket landed in Saleh Dardouna Street near Al-Omari Mosque in Jabalia, North Gaza, according to evidence collected...Read More |
From Ian: Matti Friedman: Jerusalem of Glue The idea of a complex place is anathema to the current mood in America and the West, where many people seem to be regressing to a world of childhood, of heroes and monsters. As I sit here typing by a window in Jerusalem, many seem to believe that Israel is attacking Muslim worshippers at prayer and ethnically cleansing the Arab population of this city, which is more than a third of our population and growing. For years, Arabic papers have described routine visits by Jews to the Temple Mount, or Israeli policing efforts there, as Israelis "storming" the Al-Aqsa compound; this wording has now spread to the Western press. In the spirit of 2021, exciting video clips are ripped from their context here and injected into ideological circulatory systems to prove whatever needs to be proved. Explosions in the Al-Aqsa Mosque could mean that Israeli police are firing tear gas inside, desecrating the holy site, or that Muslim rioters are shooting off the stores of fireworks they hoarded inside to use against the police, desecrating the holy site. An Israeli driver hitting a Palestinian man near Lions' Gate on Monday might be attempted murder, or a driver losing control of his car while escaping Palestinians who were trying to kill him. A video of Israelis dancing at the Western Wall as a fire burns on the Temple Mount is evidence of satanic...Read More |
Here are a couple of public domain comics that I changed the dialogue for in the past day. And: * * * * * *
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Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal My granddaughter, Shai, told my wife that she should make her a "Cobra Kai" shirt. We were mystified, so she told us to watch the video series and we would understand. It turns out to be a continuation of the plot of the movie "The Karate Kid," in which (as I see it) the yetzer hara and the yetzer hatov are personified by the competing dojos of Cobra Kai and Miyagi Do respectively. Keep that thought – I'll come back to it. In the real world, the struggle between Israel and her enemies is far more bitter and bloody. For several months now tensions have risen, with demonstrations and riots in several cities by Palestinians and Arab citizens of Israel over various issues. Violent attacks on Jews by Arabs were followed by violence against Arabs by militant Jewish groups. The conflict reached a peak on Monday, Jerusalem Day, when hundreds of police and Arabs fought each other on and around the Temple Mount, the Arabs throwing rocks and shooting fireworks, while the police responded with teargas and stun grenades. At the same time, Hamas issued an ultimatum that if the police did not leave the Mount by 6:00 PM, they would fire rockets at Jerusalem. The police stayed, and Hamas carried out its threat, launching seven rockets...Read More |
From Ian: It's Time to End the Small Palestinian Victories On Friday, Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem chanted on the Temple Mount: "We are all Hamas, waiting for your orders, commander Mohammed Deif. Hamas, shoot a rocket at Tel Aviv tonight." Palestinians think that Israel does not have the perseverance to be victorious. Possibly, there are even Israelis who are beginning to think this way. This is dangerous because it emboldens the violent rejectionists. Palestinians think that Israel does not have the perseverance to be victorious. Victory is obviously not won overnight but by a series of smaller victories that wear out one's opponents. With each small victory, many rejectionist Palestinians see the greater victory at hand. This is the perception, however wild it might seem, which is being perpetuated. Nonetheless, it can be turned back if Israel decides that it will no longer act as if it is in retreat. Israel needs to start winning some small victories of its own. It needs to push back against the rejectionist Palestinians. It needs to first assert control, then provide deterrence against those who would seek harm to its citizens and act in favor of security. In the latest conflict with Hamas in Gaza, "Operation Guarding of the Walls," Israel should massively bombard Gaza and even enter and occupy it until the rocket infrastructure has been completely destroyed. While doing...Read More |
Hamas has been publishing lots of videos showing them shoot volleys of rocket to Israel. But some of them also show rockets falling short - in Gaza.
Here's one from last night: And this one from yesterday shows a smoke trail that reveals a corkscrewing rocket: And here's one more with at least 3 rockets falling short (smoke trail of one or two and two rocket lights going down) These aren't the small rockets of years past. These are very large missiles that can reach Tel Aviv. When they fall in Gaza, they will cause damage, injuries and death.
And they have. Plenty of Gazans have been killed over the years from errant Hamas rockets, even much smaller ones.
The IDF estimates as many as 30% of rockets are falling short in Gaza.
When the media parrots the Gaza Health Ministry - Hamas- claims of civilian victims of Israeli rockets, keep in mind that they are very possibly from Hamas rockets.
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Social media has been filled with anti-Israel statements from people who say that their expertise in morality and the Middle East comes because they are Jews by an accident of birth. Pew Research just released a huge, 248-page report about American Jews that explains this. A large number of American Jews are Jews in name only. Fully 27% of Jews do not call themselves Jewish by religion - and the number increases to 40% for those under 30. Nearly 50% of US Jews hardly ever do anything associated with Jewishness. 25% of US Jews say they have hardly any Jewish friends. Only 11% of Jews who don't identify with Judaism as a religion give charity to Jewish causes. Not surprisingly, the Jews who have the least to do with Judaism are the ones who hate Israel the most. 18% of "Jews of no religion" support BDS, far more than the average. Unfortunately, the survey didn't ask what levels of Jewish education Jews in America had. It seems obvious that those who know the least about their own religion and history are the ones who are the most likely to hate Israel now, and many of those get a thrill out of identifying "as a Jew" to buttress their ignorant opinions of Israel. The survey is sad. It shows an American Jewish community that has utterly failed at attracting and keeping young people (with the exception of Orthodoxy.) Although most Jews still strongly support the Jewish state, the survey shows a growing...Read More |
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