Israel’s fight against Hamas has been compared to the war against Isis between 2015 and 2019. That war was largely waged in Iraq and Syria, and one of the most important battles was the struggle to retake Mosul from the Islamists in 2017. The city and its outlying areas were home to two million people when Isis conquered it in the summer of 2014, and Isis had embedded itself within the local population. Around two million people live in Gaza today. It’s hard to distinguish Hamas from civilians.
What College support for Hamas reveals.
One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.
More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.
It should be clear to everyone on this grim day that the fashionable rage against Israel is no longer just irrational, it is dangerous. That most peculiar union of woke elites and perma-angry Islamists, wedded together in an implacable loathing for the Jewish State, is not only unsettling, it is also menacing. In the aftermath of the calamity at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, and the rush to blame it on Israel, we can now see that anti-Israel hysteria poses a palpable threat to regional stability in the Middle East and to the social fabric here in the West.
Hamas apologists deserve the scrutiny of Norman Geras
Norman Geras, who died 10 years ago today, was an unusual figure on the Western Left: he was a Marxist who steadfastly and unequivocally opposed militant Islamism and jihadi terrorism. As a free-thinking political theorist, he was as strident in his opposition to the abuses of Western imperial power as he was in his support for individual human rights, especially free speech. But he was also a formidable critic of the worst tendencies of his own side, often making him a pariah in that quarter. This week, his most relevant legacy is this iconoclasm: a willingness to expose the moral and intellectual nullity of Left-wing apologia for terrorism and war crimes.
A far-left French MP who claimed that Hamas is a “resistance movement” faces possible criminal prosecution for making an “apology for terrorism” after French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced he would be referring the MP’s comments to the public prosecutor.
MP Danièle Obono, member of the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) led by former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, spoke about Hamas on broadcaster Sud Radio this week and stated, “Yes, Hamas is a resistance movement. It is an Islamist political group which has an armed wing and which resists Israel.”
Legacy media lies surrounding the bombing of a Gaza hospital are endangering Americans aboard, as Islamic demonstrators throughout the Middle East were reported outside several Middle Eastern U.S embassies on Tuesday evening.
After reports began surfacing Tuesday morning that a missile hit a Gaza-based hospital, regime-approved media wasted no time regurgitating baseless claims issued by Hamas — an Iranian-backed terror group — that Israeli forces fired the missile. Whether it was The New York Times or Associated Press — the latter of which once shared office space with Hamas in Gaza — the media narrative was set: Israel blew up a hospital filled with unarmed civilians, and Hamas’ word is not to be questioned.
⚡️🇯🇴Thousands attempt to storm the US embassy in Amman, Jordan pic.twitter.com/h7I9msAcVX
— KimJongWins (@KimJongwins) October 18, 2023
Earlier…
US Embassy Lebanon….Footage of The United States Embassy in Lebanon being Ablaze…
Thoughts ???? pic.twitter.com/ApmzYWPghW
— We the People… (@77HERCULES77) October 18, 2023
Israeli officials say they are considering plans for the future government of Gaza after their tanks have invaded and carried out their stated plan of “eliminating Hamas” .
Other governments including Israel’s western allies are urging caution and some diplomats are warning it not to make the same mistake as the US-led alliances after the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In both of those conflicts, western armies, backed by fierce bombardment from the air, were relatively easily able to take territory. Governing it safely was another matter.
OTTAWA — Some Liberal MPs are now suggesting they want an end to the hostilities between Israel and Hamas, with at least three calling for a ceasefire between the Jewish state and Hamas and another making an emotional plea to stop what he called the “butchery” in the Gaza Strip.
BREAKING: The @ADL just scrubbed their website to remove information about their intern who was filmed ripping down posters at @nyuniversity of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists. @JGreenblattADL
This is the before and after https://t.co/HeZ28l5tvT pic.twitter.com/5snlN2T2Cv
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 18, 2023
An Israeli TV station has released new footage which it says appears to show rockets fired over a hospital in Gaza just moments before an explosion killed hundreds last night.
It comes after Israel’s military shared footage and analysis which they say shows they were not responsible for the horrifying blast at the Al-Ahli Hospital on Tuesday.
A video clip from a livestream, aired by Israel’s Channel 12 News, shows a salvo of rockets being launched before explosions rock an area claimed to be the medical centre.
VIDEO PROOF: Israeli Channel 12 news anchor @LeviYonit presents footage from the station's cameras at the time of the Gaza hospital explosion definitively showing how a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket is responsible for the terrible incident. pic.twitter.com/mWdcErnpPE
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 18, 2023
Library Assistant at @Penn was filmed walking around campus ripping down posters with images of the missing women and children who Hamas terrorists took hostage pic.twitter.com/esKCOrezwb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 17, 2023
I wonder where the money will come from. US aid funneled through the UN? Perhaps money donated by other countries around the world?
Regardless of who picks up the tab, what we do know is that the Palestinian Authority has a program to pay family members of slain terrorists who died killing or trying to kill Jews.
New York State law makes it next to impossible for Jews and others legally to arm themselves for protection.
Last week, Inna Vernikov, a New York City councilwoman representing southern Brooklyn, was charged with criminal possession of a firearm. The story flared briefly, then faded amid graver breaking developments, but it’s worth retelling, because the story of Vernikov’s plight is the story of why Jews aren’t and cannot be safe in New York or any other major American city. It’s the story of bad laws happening to good people.
Berlin’s Jewish community has been shaken by two petrol bombs thrown at a synagogue amid a spike in antisemitic incidents in some European countries.
Police said two people threw “burning bottles filled with liquid” in what was described as attempted arson.
“We could feel the tensions more and more,” said director Anna Segal. She said the community had felt very threatened in recent days.
On October 7, the terrorist group Hamas initiated deadly attacks against Israel.
Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, near the Gaza Strip. They murdered hundreds of civilians, took hostages (including children and the elderly), beheaded babies, burned people alive, shot children in front of their parents, shot parents in front of their children, and fired thousands rockets and missiles into a country smaller than New Jersey (roughly 22,000 km2). As of this writing, Hamas has killed more than 1,400 people in Israel since October 7; wounded more than 4,200 people, and abducted 199 hostages who were taken to unknown locations in Gaza. Hundreds remain missing.
