| Four US synagogues were vandalized in the past weeknoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 23 May 04:45 AM Last Sunday, a Chabad shul in Salt Lake City was d | | Last Sunday, a Chabad shul in Salt Lake City was defaced with a swastika etched into the front door. Also on Sunday, a synagogue in Skokie, IL, saw its window smashed by a man wearing a Palestinian flag and who placed a Palestinian sign on the door. In Tuscon, a synagogue door window was smashed overnight Tuesday. In Brooklyn, police arrested Ali Alaheri for starting fires outside a synagogue and a yeshiva, as well as attacking a Chasidic Jew. The attackers are not white supremacists. These are all done by anti-Israel protesters. Just as three attacks on synagogues and Jewish memorials in Germany were done by "Arab looking men" burning Israeli flags. Or the vandal of a congregation in England that we've mentioned before. People who deny antisemitism from the Left are condoning this. * * * * * *
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From Ian: Peter Savodnik: The New Furies of the Oldest Hatred Take a good look at who is speaking out against Jew-hate. And who is staying silent. Let us dispense with the fiction, once and for all, that hating the Jewish homeland, which contains the largest Jewish community on Earth, is different from hating Jews. It has been exceedingly difficult in our blinkered, hyper-secularized present, so removed from the primal animosities of not so long ago, to conceive of a world in which tens or hundreds of millions of people who have never visited Israel or never met a Jew want Jews dead. We've been blinded by the oceanic success of life under the Pax Americana. We think this is how people are. This is not how people are. This is a wondrous aberration. There were 2,000 years of ghettos, blood libels and pogroms, of dehumanization and second-class citizenship that culminated with the Shoah. For the past several decades — a sneeze in the span of Jewish history — we American Jews have been maundering through the happy, mournful echoes of the recent past. That recent past meant that we weren't shocked to see this violence from the Europeans, who have never stopped hating Jews, but who had been forced, by the camps, to camouflage their Jew hate in their criticism of Israel, their obsession with it. But America? We were not steeped in the Old World hatreds. We were deeply flawed — who wasn't? — but...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The last, overlooked but still active front of World War Two In World War Two, the allies fought an attempt to conquer and destroy western civilisation and exterminate the Jews. Today, the Palestinians of both Hamas and Abbas's Fatah constantly churn out Nazi-style, murderous incitement against the Jewish people. And the Iranian regime, which funds and arms Hamas, has been at war against the west for four decades and regularly announces its genocidal intentions towards the Jews. So today's war against western civilisation and the Jews amounts to infernal unfinished business. But unlike the Second World War, when those in the free world on the side of the fascists were regarded as traitors, such people today march on the streets of London and elsewhere arm-in-arm with those pledged to Islamic holy war against the Jews and the rest of the "infidel" world. In the United States, President Joe Biden told Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America expects an immediate and "significant de-escalation" on the path to a ceasefire. This while the rockets from Gaza were still flying against Israel. The demand was as unconscionable as it would have been to tell the British to de-escalate during the Blitz. Worse yet, after Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) confronted Biden over the Gaza war and echoed an earlier speech in which she accused Israel of "racism...Read More |
From Albawaba: Five MPs yesterday submitted a new draft law stipulating a jail sentence of between one and three years for people and authorities dealing with or traveling to the Zionist entity. The bill, submitted by MPs Adnan Abdulsamad, Hisham Al-Saleh, Ali Al-Qattan, Ahmad Al-Hamad and Khalil Al-Saleh, bans any dealing or normalization with the Zionist entity. It also bans any direct or indirect contacts with the Zionist entity and also bans any Kuwaiti or expat residing in the country from visiting the Zionist entity with or without a travel document. The bill also bans any expression of sympathy with the Zionist entity. It proposes a jail sentence of between one year and three years and a fine of up to KD 5,000 for violators. This is the kind of freedom of expression that is coming soon to the West. * * * * * *
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One of the small but important victories for truth during the Gaza fighting came from CNN, when it issued this internal memo on May 17: Superdesk Guidance on Gaza Fatalities We need to be transparent about the fact the Ministry of Health in Gaza is run by Hamas. Consequently, when we cite latest casualty numbers in attribute to the Health Ministry in Gaza, we need to include the fact it is Hamas-run. As an example: "Latest figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health put the number of fatalities at…" From Andrew Carey and Calvin Sims It is of course entirely accurate to say that Hamas runs the Health Ministry and that the casualty figures are subject to Hamas approval. For example, the Health Ministry seems not to have included most dead terrorists in its figures, making it appear that nearly all of the dead were civilians. Hamas has been censoring nearly all mentions of its dead fighters, which Israel estimates to be around 200. (If the cease fire holds, expect headlines next week that scores of "civilians" buried under the rubble were discovered.) Someone at CNN was apparently so upset at a memo asking for transparency that they leaked this memo to Al Jazeera, where Senior Presenter and Producer Dena Takruti tweeted the incredible lie that this makes the Health Ministry a target for Israel: This @CNN internal memo directs staff to say "Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health" when reporting casualty numbers...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: How will we know who won the war? In a press briefing on Tuesday, President Joe Biden's spokeswoman Jen Psaki indicated that the administration is just as unhappy with the Abraham Accords as the Iranians and Palestinians are. In response to a reporter's question about the Trump administration's peace efforts, Psaki pretended that the Abraham Accords don't exist. "Aside from putting forward a peace proposal that was dead on arrival," she said derisively, "we don't think they did anything constructive, really, to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in the Middle East." This asinine statement put paid the notion that Biden will ever opt for an alliance with the Abraham Accords member nations over the Iran/Hamas axis. Just as the administration refuses to even utter the term "Abraham Accords," so it insists on ignoring their political significance for the states of the region and their military capacity to contain Iran. Despite the massive pressure that has been exerted against Abraham Accords member states to disavow their ties with Israel since Hamas opened its offensive last week, so far they have not wavered. The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco have put out mild statements on the Hamas war. Morocco sent humanitarian aid to Gaza. There have been no anti-Israel demonstrations in the streets of any of the Abraham Accords member states. Sudan's leader, Abdel Fattah...Read More |
The IDF put out this infographic of its achievements in the past two weeks: 1. Over 100km of Hamas' underground defensive tunnel system ("the Metro") destroyed. 2. 5 senior Hamas and PIJ division commanders taken out. 3. Some 20 high and medium ranking Hamas and PIJ operatives taken out. 4. Some 200 terrorists reportedly taken out. 5. Some 340 steep-shooting-range capabilities hit.
Some 230 surface-to-surface rockets hit.
Some 70 multi-barreled rocket launchers hit.
Some 35 mortars hit. 6. R&D operatives, workshops and development centers severely hit. 7. 10 Hamas government offices, 11 interior offices and 5 terror-funding banks hit. 8. Dozens of terror camps and outposts hit.
Dozens of command rooms hit.
9 multi-story buildings, used for terrorist activity, hit. 9. Enemy raids,
Dozens of attack tunnels
Dozens of anti-tank attacks
7 aerial threats
2 naval threats prevented. 10. 90% of rockets fired at Israel intercepted. (h/r Yoel) * * * * * *
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Hamas' Felesteen reports: The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Local Government, Eng. Ahmed Abu Ras, called for the necessity of holding a major and central conference for the reconstruction of Gaza on its land. In press statements, he stressed Gaza's readiness to receive supporters and donors, in order to directly see the extent of the damage caused by the occupation during its aggression on the Gaza Strip. Engineer Abu Ras said, "We want the donors and supporters to declare their solidarity and willingness to support the reconstruction of Gaza from its land, so that they would witness the extent of the destruction caused by the aggression." Hamas will have plenty of concrete to rebuild its tunnels! * * * * * *
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