| The anti-Israel Left makes up new laws, and ignores international law, when it comes to Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Aug 04:45 AM +972 Ma | | +972 Magazine has an article about how awful and immoral the IDF is. The Israeli news site Ynet quoted army officials boasting that the ratio between "non-combatants" and combatants killed was "the best of all the operations." And yet, Israel admits that it killed at least 11 people who had nothing to do with militant activities, including a five-year-old girl. Yes, a five year old girl who was near a top Islamic Jihad target was killed. She was not the target. If there was a way to attack the target without killing the girl, the IDF would have. (Indeed, during Breaking Dan, Israel did abort attacks on legitimate targets when civilians were around - as long as they could wait and attack the same target later without the civilians.) Since it couldn't attack the legitimate target without killing the girl, she was unfortunately killed as well. These are the laws of armed conflict. The presence of civilians do not make a military target immune from attack. The fact that there was a five year old girl near the Islamic Jihad commander does not, under any interpretation of international law, mean that Israel must not attack the commander.
The laws of armed conflict are designed to protect civilians without impeding military efficiency in any way. Those words come from the International Committee of the Red Cross, no tme.
And it has to...Read More |
From Ian: Salman Rushdie on a ventilator, likely to lose an eye after on-stage attack Author Salman Rushdie is likely to lose one of his eyes and is currently on a ventilator after he was attacked on stage at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday, a report said. "The news is not good," the 75-year-old writer's agent, Andrew Wylie, told The New York Times. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged," said Wylie. Rushdie, who is still unable to speak, was attacked by a lone man while speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY, about 55 miles south of Buffalo. He was scheduled to speak about the United States as a place for exiled authors "as a home for freedom of expression," according to the institute. After the stabbing, he was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he underwent surgery. A witness who was in the audience told The Post that Rushdie tried to run off the stage, and the two men scuffled before audience members rushed onstage to subdue the attacker. Approximately 2,500 people were in the audience at the time. Rushdie's alleged attacker, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, of Fairview, New Jersey, was arrested at the scene by a state trooper who was assigned to the lecture.Douglas Murray...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The closing of the university mind It takes a brave academic to call out what's going on. One such is Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at Kent university. On his Substack blog today, he produces startling evidence to illustrate the extent of the problem. He writes:
Since the 1960s, the ratio of left-wing to right-wing academics has jumped from three to one to eight to one today…[Other studies] similarly find that fewer than 20% of academics today vote for right-leaning parties while 75% vote for Labour, the Liberal Democrats, or the Greens. Last year, in my own work, I found that 76% of my colleagues in the world's most elite institutions identify on the left while 21% of that group identify as 'far left'. Just 11% put themselves on the right. And in my own area of political science, a recent study at Harvard found that 72% lean to the left with 14% describing themselves as far left. In America, where this ideological bias is especially pronounced, it is simply no longer unusual to find some departments with not a single registered Republican. Is this healthy for our students? Is this conducive to developing well-rounded, critical thinkers?… One study finds a third of staff would avoid hiring a known Brexit voter while many openly say they would feel uncomfortable mingling with a colleague who holds gender-critical views. Between one third and one half...Read More |
This is very, very typical and mainstream Palestinian fantasy of history and the Israeli Jewish mindset. From Sawalief (Jordan): Giving from those who do not own to those who do not deserve the Balfour Promise , the British Foreign Minister in 1917 AD sought to rid Britain of the evil, malice and deceit of the Jews by establishing a home for them away from Europe in Palestine if Britain would win the First World War on the Ottoman Empire. When the war ended , Britain occupied Palestine and colonized it, and began deporting Jews to it from every country until they multiplied in it. Britain armed them, so they formed armed terrorist gangs such as the Haganah, the Palmach, and the Irgun to frighten and terrorize the defenseless Palestinians of the land. Gradually and with the malicious British methods that met with the evil Jewish methods, Britain succeeded in establishing a state for the Jews in 1948 on a part of the land of Palestine, including the Palestinian coastal plain, by transforming the Haganah gang and its armed terrorist sisters into a state they called "Israel". After that, Britain and its aides continued to invite Jews and foundlings from various care homes in Europe to immigrate to Palestine. Then, with theatrical wars, the emerging Jewish state was able to control...Read More |
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In 1922, a Jew who graduated from harvard in 1900 wrote a letter to the president of the university Lawrence Lowell about newspaper reports that Harvard was limiting the number of Jews who would be accepted at the university.
Lowell's response was that limiting the number of Jews at universities was good for Jews.
The logic is convoluted and recognized at the time as being absurd, but this is how antisemites who don't consider themselves antisemites think.
The exchange of letters was published in the New York Times and various Jewish publications in June of that year. Here is Lowell's initial reply:
Dear Mr. Benesch: There is no need of cautioning you not to believe all that you see in the newspapers. As a colleague said to me yesterday, there is perhaps no body of men in the United States, mostly Gentiles, with so little anti-Semitic feeling as the instructing staff of Harvard University. But the problem that confronts this country and Its educational institutions is a difficult one, and one about which I should very much like to talk to you. It is one that involves the best interests both of the college and of the Jews, for I should feel very badly to think that these did not coincide.
There is most unfortunately, a rapidly growing anti-Semitic feeling in this country, causing—and no doubt in part caused by—a strong race feeling...Read More |
From Ian: Mark Regev: Middle East peace will come despite US policy PRESIDENT Barack Obama entered office in 2009 with aspirations to aggressively move forward on the Israeli-Palestinian track. But despite the efforts of his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, no breakthrough was achieved. On the contrary, Obama left the White House after eight years with the negotiations collapsed and any expectation for an early resumption seemingly illusory. Notwithstanding this failure, Obama inadvertently made an immeasurable contribution to peace. His responses to the Arab Spring, to the Syrian civil war, and to nuclear diplomacy with Iran, all negatively impacted the confidence of America's traditional Arab allies in the US commitment to them. Moreover, the repeated declarations of a "pivot to Asia" implied the de-prioritization of the Middle East – this when pro-Western Arab states had for decades based their national security on American protection. Feeling less certain of Washington's support in a crisis, Arab states sought new security partners – the Jewish state becoming the unintended beneficiary. After his predecessor unwittingly laid the foundations, president Donald Trump embraced the opportunity. His active engagement produced the 2020 Abraham Accords with the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan, and the normalization of ties with Morocco. This while Trump's much-hyped plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace remained...Read More |
Al Resala's headline is, "Palestinians enjoying their time on the seashore of Gaza City after life returned to normal and the Israeli aggression stopped." Nearly all of Gaza was untouched by Israeli weapons, and the Gazans know it, even though the Israel haters (in Western and Arab media) try to pretend that there was massive devastation and permanent psychological damage. I had seen lots of photos of horses on Gaza beaches, but never a camel before now. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
Here is my latest database of those killed in Gaza. I will keep this one updated. Some of the circumstances are still unclear but this is the best information I have. I'm belatedly adding some links to show where I get my information from. 1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza. With PIJ 2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza.
PIJ 3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City.
PIJ 4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza.
PIJ 5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City.
With PIJ 6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza.
Likely rocket ("artillery shell"), see below 7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers.
PIJ 8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis.
PIJ 9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis.
PIJ 10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip.
PIJ 11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana.
PIJ 12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila.
PIJ 13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia.
PIJ/DFLP 14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia.
Unclear, IDF may have targeted a car nearby 15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 Jabalia
Likely IDF (Qassam Brigades) 16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed.
Jabalia rocket 22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia.
Jabalia rocket 23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal...Read More |
The Fallujah cemetery in Jabalya, where 5 children were killed by an Islamic Jihad rocket.
Note the spray pattern of tiny holes from the shrapnel that PIJ uses to maximize death and damage.
The response of "human rights groups" to the fighting in Gaza last weekend proves, beyond any doubt, how they try to obscure the truth about Islamic Jihad's killing of over 20 civilians, including at least 12 children - even though they know the truth quite well.
No fewer than four human rights groups have investigated every death in Gaza last week. If you parse their statements carefully, every one of them know that Islamic Jihad rockets killed most of the kids.
And not one will say this explicitly, because that would water down their criticism of Israel.
Gaza's Health Ministry says that 48 were killed over the weekend (and from their wounds since) including 16 children. PCHR issued their summary in their weekly report yesterday, after they have had four days to investigate the deaths. They count 27 deaths in Gaza - and say "Meanwhile, PCHR is still investigating other incidents that inflicted casualties and damage to property." They list only 3 children. They completely ignore the deaths of (by their count) 21 civilians, including 12 children (the last one may have died after their report was prepared.)
What kind of a human rights group ignores the violent death of 12 children, not even mentioning them beyond a laconic mention of "other incidents that inflicted casualties"?
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