Author: Blazingcatfur

My terror as Hamas bombs fell on us at desert rave

Partygoers at a rave in the desert near the border with Gaza have told how the first hint of the horror raging towards them in the early hours of Saturday was a barrage of rockets roaring through the morning sky, as it emerged more than 260 people had died in the attack.

It was 6am. Most of the attendees, including a British and a German citizen, had not been to bed and were dancing to trance music under multicoloured tents set up for the Nova festival.

The music stopped briefly and they dropped to the floor – a well-rehearsed drill for Israelis in the south of the country used to frequent cross-border exchange of fire with the Hamas militant group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

WARMINGTON: Jewish groups call for end to ‘heinous’ pro-Hamas rallies in Canada

Celebrating Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists’ evil slaughter of helpless victims in Israel is not protesting.

It’s backing mass murder and it’s dangerous.

I do not blame the Jewish community for asking for the ban but nothing will be done.

Things will almost certainly get as bad in Toronto as in London, Stockholm, Brussels, Paris or Berlin and they know that. 

Possible Pro-Hamas Rally at Nathan Phillips Square Toronto 2PM Thanksgiving Day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada, Hamas, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israeli - Islam Conflict

A Brief Education in What Just Happened in Israel

Hamas’ terrorist attack this weekend took everyone by surprise, but it did not occur in a vacuum. How did we get here?

Here’s a brief annotated reader.

First, let’s look at the last major Gaza war, in 2021, which started, not coincidentally, shortly after Joe Biden took office:

As with the conflagration before that, in 2014, the strategic backdrop for the war was simple: the foreign policy pivot, initiated by Barack Obama and revived by Biden, to create a “realignment” in the Middle East by partnering with Iran. Four days before the rocket fire started, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a triumphalist speech, declaring that “the balance of power has swung.” The Iranian framing of a new “balance of power” fits seamlessly with the U.S. administration’s declared priorities. As part of its regional realignment doctrine, the Biden administration has moved away from the Abraham Accords as fast as it can. As all the actors involved understood, the Abraham Accords represented the framework for a U.S.-led camp of regional allies to cooperate in the face of common challenges, specifically those posed by Iran. This security architecture is what Team Obama-Biden’s realignment doctrine fundamentally rejects. The point of realignment is to create the opposite regional order of that imagined by the Abraham Accords.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

CUPE Deletes Statement Praising Palestine ‘Resistance’ in Wake of Terrorist Attacks After Wide Condemnation

A branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, CUPE Local 3906, has deleted a social media message it had posted a day earlier to celebrate Palestine “resistance” following terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel that killed over 350 people.

“Palestine is rising, long live the resistance,” the union local, which represents academic workers including research assistants and sessional faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Oct. 7.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

Number of kidnapped Israelis may be higher than previously believed

In the last few hours the government authorities have begun contacting the families those whom have been abducted to Gaza.

According to the information provided by Kan News, the government is concerned that the number of hostages is above 130, the number provided yesterday by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Sasha Aryev, whose sister is missing, said that during the night, she received official notification that her sister has been kidnapped.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

She buys all her groceries across the U.S. border — and finds big savings

With the average grocery bill rising despite slowing inflation, Canadian shoppers are doing whatever it takes to lower food costs, including, in the case of one B.C. mom, making a run for the U.S. border.

Brandi Dustin lives in Roosville, B.C., which is located just a 15-minute drive to a supermarket in Eureka, Mont.

Even with the weak Canadian dollar and the gas she spends crossing the border twice a week, Dustin says she saves about $300 a month buying all her food in the United States.

I’m surprised Justin hasn’t called her a white supremacist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Goal of ‘Death to Israel’ Will Be Tested in Coming Weeks, as War Is Laid to Effort To Foil Prospects for Peace Between Saudi Arabia and the Jewish State

“Death to Israel,” an ideology and goal shared by Iran’s Islamic Republic, Hamas, and Hezbollah, will be put to the test in the coming days and weeks — and America is yet to fully connect the dots, which may include the much-advertised drive to promote Saudi-Israeli peace.

“We haven’t yet seen direct evidence that Iran was behind this particular attack, or involved,” Secretary Blinken told ABC News, adding, however, that Iran’s support of Hamas over the years “is clear.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Hamas Confirms Iran Backed and Supported Surprise Attack on Israel

A spokesman for Hamas confirmed to the BBC that the terrorist group received aid from Iran. The invasion has been interpreted by many observers as an attempt to scuttle the ongoing peace talks between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the wider Middle East.

The revelation has led Republicans in both chambers to denounce the Biden administration for its ongoing talks with the Islamic Republic, including unfreezing $6 billion worth of Iranian assets in early August in exchange for five imprisoned Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas

A couple of possibilities to explain Israel’s (and America’s) intelligence failures

For a sneak attack of the size Hamas launched against Israel to have happened (5,000 rockets, parachuters, towns infiltrated, Iranian and, possibly, Ukrainian involvement), there must have been an absolutely epic intelligence failure both in Israel and, to the extent the U.S. helps Israel with information, here in America, too. I have two ideas about how that could have happened, both of which are premised on significant problems within the two country’s intelligence services (especially Israel’s). I’ll start with the one that bespeaks actual evil and then get to the more likely one, which reflects human nature.

Some local colour …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Why Hamas’s attack will backfire

Iran’s regime may find that it only strengthens the coalition against them

Some Israelis are calling it their 9/11, but the images this weekend were more redolent of the 1968 Tet Offensive, when Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops took over towns and military bases across the South, including laying siege to the US Embassy in Saigon.

Of course, in that case it was aimed against foreign military forces propping up what was essentially a puppet dictatorship, whereas this time it featured external aggression aimed at killing and capturing as many civilians in as sensationalist a manner as possible.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Cheerleaders for Hamas

The woke left’s response to the Islamist assault on Israel has exploded their phoney moral superiority for good.

First, the horror. No sooner had Hamas rolled into Israel on Saturday, murdering and kidnapping those they came across, than images of their depraved exploits were plastered across social media. Innocent people executed on the streets. A pensioner kidnapped and driven into Gaza on a golf buggy. A young woman’s lifeless body, stripped almost naked, paraded on the back of a pick-up truck as men spat on her and chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’. Ordinary people slaughtered and taken for no other crime than being Israeli, than being Jewish. Then, the sewer. Just as social media had confronted us with such unspeakable evil, it then confronted us with those in the West who looked upon these barbaric, blood-thirsty scenes – from the comfort of safe homes 2,000 miles away – and thought to themselves: Good.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Hamas

Israel at War: Over 700 Israelis murdered in Hamas massacre

This link will take you to the Jpost running storyline.

Arutz Sheva live updates: Over 3,000 rockets fired towards Israel; 100 soldiers and civilians estimated to be held in Gaza.

Death toll rises to more than 1,100 after surprise Hamas attack on Israel

The Israeli death toll after the surprise attack by the militant group Hamas on communities in the country’s south has risen to at least 700, including 44 soldiers, as the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel was embarking on a “long and difficult war”.

In Gaza, which was pummelled by Israeli airstrikes, officials reported at least 413 deaths.

With thousands of Israelis and Palestinians wounded since Saturday morning, Israel said more than 100 Israeli citizens, including women and children, were believed to have been abducted at gunpoint by Hamas to Gaza.

Two Israeli tourists and local guide shot dead in Egypt, Israel says

Two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide have been shot dead in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, the Israeli foreign ministry says.

Another Israeli was wounded in the attack on Sunday morning, which the ministry said a “local” carried out.

There was no immediate confirmation from Egyptian authorities.

But the private Extra News TV channel reported that a policeman had opened fire on a group visiting an ancient Roman site known as Pompey’s Pillar.

The assailant fired “at random” using his personal weapon, it cited a security source as saying, adding that he was detained at the scene.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Shame on BBC and CBC: Fake news and blood libels while the Jewish people are fighting bestial Hamas terrorists.

To the BBC:

Greetings

Yesterday was a very dark day for the Jewish people. Hundreds of armed terrorists penetrated from Gaza into the sovereign territory of the State of Israel, shot and murdered hundreds of defenseless people, women, children, old people and more.

These are war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBBC, CBC, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Israeli rescue service says it retrieved about 260 bodies from a music festival attacked by Hamas

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed about 260 bodies from a music festival attended by thousands that came under attack by Hamas.

The total figure is expected to be higher as other paramedic teams were working in the area.

Video aired on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas