| Al Jazeera cozies up to Hamas for documentary on extensive terror tunnelsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Jun 04:45 AM Al Jazeera got an exclusive | | Al Jazeera got an exclusive look at Hamas tunnels under Gaza, because they are essentially the official news network of Hamas. Hamas partnered with the Qatari channel in order to "prove" that Israel didn't cause extensive damage to the tunnel system. Israel, of course, notes that the Hamas "metro" is hundreds of kilometers and the IDF never claimed to have destroyed it all.
The IDF says that it destroyed about 100 km of tunnels, Hamas claims to have built over 500 km of tunnels - which must make Gazans feel very insecure.
Last week, Hamas gave an award to Al Jazeera for its Gaza war coverage, for not deviating from the stories that Hamas wanted them to do. While I cannot understand the Arabic, it seems obvious that the Al Jazeera reporter didn't ask questions like, "If you can build these tunnels, why don't you build bomb shelters for the people you rule?" or "Can you show me a tunnel that Israel destroyed?" * * * * * *
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From Ian: No Justice, No Republic The French used to be extremely proud of their public administration—arguably one of the most comprehensive, efficient, and honest in the world—as well as of their police force and their judiciary. But over the past four decades, they have perceived a steep decline in these institutions. The decline is the result of various factors, including the transfer of governmental jurisdictions to either poorly organized local powers or to the European Union; the advent of the euro and its corollary, budget cuts; mass immigration; the decay of public education; and the descent into a post-industrial, two-tiered society. The breakdown of public safety, as witnessed in Paris's 11th arrondissement and in many other places, or more recently by a returning wave of jihadist-inspired assassinations, has been more deeply resented than anything else. However, the French people do not blame the police, who on the whole bravely stick to older standards, but rather a politicized judiciary. The extent to which the French magistracy has succumbed to woke ideologies was disclosed in 2013, when a French TV journalist found a "Wall of Bums" displayed at the main judiciary union's headquarters. This was a list of "bums," or citizens demanding justice for themselves or their relatives in cases that the union deemed to be "politically incorrect." As a matter of fact, many of the offenders...Read More |
Left, Jerusalem Day, Damascus Gate, 1968 ( משה מילנר/לע"מ).
Right, Rikudgalim, 2018 (Kobby Dagan/shutterstock)
The 2021 Jerusalem flag march never happened. There was no celebration of the miracles restoring Jerusalem to the Jewish people. No dancing in the streets with flags. And none of this had anything to do with the pandemic. The cancellationof the Jerusalem flag march was, instead, a reenactment of David versus Goliath. But this time, Little David, Israel, was not winning. It was Goliath, the Arabs, who had the upper hand. This in spite of the blood we shed in 1967, and despite the fact that the Jews are, 54 years on, still sovereign over Jerusalem. Jerusalem Day is that day on which we celebrate the miracles that made the Jewish people once more sovereign over the Holy City. As is the case with any people celebrating the liberation of the places they hold dear, anywhere in the world, a parade is in order, complete with flags. We call our Jerusalem flag march, the Rikudgalim, a contraction of "dance" and "flags" and it is the one time of year when Jews can dance, sing, and mingle freely in Jerusalem neighborhoods populated in the main by Arabs. But this year the flag march never happened. Not because the miracle of little David beating the giant Goliath was any less appreciated than in former years, but because Hamas used the pretext of the...Read More |
A press release from the IDF belatedly explains the reason that it destroyed the Al Jalaa building, which housed offices of AP and Al Jazeera: During Operation "Guardians of the Walls" the IDF struck the al-Jalaa building on May 15th, 2021. The site was used by the Hamas terror organization for intelligence R&D and to carry out SIGINT (signals intelligence), ELINT (electronic signals intelligence), and EW (electronic warfare) operations, targeting both IDF operational activity and civilian systems in Israel. One of the main goals of these efforts was to develop a system that would disrupt the Iron Dome aerial defense system. The purpose of the IDF strike was to curtail these enemy capabilities, including destroying special equipment, and preventing their use during the operation. According to IDF assessments, the equipment was in the building at the time of the strike. The strike was designed to collapse the building in order to ensure the destruction of the special means. The target was of high military value to Hamas and was vetted according to rigorous procedures within the IDF, and in accordance with international law. In light of the nature of the target, prior to the strike, the IDF provided civilians in the building advance warning. Significant efforts were made to enable civilians to evacuate the building. The evacuation process was meticulous, and as a result, no civilians were harmed. This event should...Read More |
From Ian: I Worked on the Abraham Accords. It's Time to Free the Palestinians from Hamas—and Iran Still, there is reason for hope. Twenty years ago, the Palestinian cause was priority number one in the region. Now, people in the Gulf see things differently. We still care. We still support support the Palestinians. We believe in the two-state solution. But people in the Gulf no longer believe that this should come at the expense of our national interest. Many activists responded to Hamas- and Jihad- influenced media and social media posts to say, we do care about the Palestinians—but we don't care about these terrorist organizations. What the public doesn't understand is who is behind so much of the media they read—who is funding this misguided narrative, which only serves to protect Hamas, and ultimately, Iran. This past conflict with Gaza should be the last war. We should all learn to speak one language: the language of peace. Now is the time to not just talk the talk, but for us all to walk the walk. Hamas and the Palestinian leadership have hijacked the minds of 2 million Palestinians to sell their political and terrorist agendas. We want the Palestinian people to enjoy what we enjoy, to have what we have and create a better future for a new generation. But we have to do this together, with all the stakeholders in the region, from NGOs to schools...Read More |
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported this little girl being killed on May 14: At approximately 21:30, shrapnel of a missile fell on a house belonging to the sons of 'Issa 'Obaid on al-Nozhah Street in Jabalia. As a result, a girl with disability namely Buthaina Mahmoud 'Issa 'Obaid (6) was killed after being hit with shrapnel in the right side of her head when she was in front of her house.PCHR doesn't mention where the actual "missile" hit, only that 'Obaid was killed by shrapnel from it. This seems to indicate that she was not killed by an Israeli airstrike but from a terrorist rocket that fell short.
It is difficult to estimate how many Palestinians were killed by terror rockets. We know that Iron Dome intercepted over 1400 rockets that were aimed at populated areas and that it had at least a 90% success rate. The IDF says that 60-70 rockets managed to get through Iron Dome to populated areas, killing 12 people...Read More |
Buried in a New York Times article about the claims of both Jews and Arabs to houses in Silwan we see this: In the late 1930s, the site was abandoned. Documents show the British authorities, which then ruled Palestine, evacuated the Jewish residents, fearing they were vulnerable to an Arab insurrection. After the British left and Jordan occupied the West Bank in 1948, Palestinian families moved onto the uninhabited plot.That is a sanitized way of saying that the Jews were constantly attacked by Arabs in Silwan.
Here is the Palestine Post article about their evacuation, from August 15, 1938: The British authorities were supposed to protect the homes. They didn't - Arabs broke into a synagogue and defiled the Torah there several months later: UPDATE: Here is the letter from British officials about the evacuation - and the expectation that the Jews would return shortly. (h/t Stephen) * * * * * *
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