Reader’s Links for October 12th, 2023

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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63 Replies to “Reader’s Links for October 12th, 2023”

  1. My daughter Dvorah Leah wrote this up Wednesday

    toe tapping
    toe tapping nail picking rapid blinking
    phone checking
    refreshing
    scrolling
    busy eyes
    scanning
    always scanning
    heads down hands clamped teeth clenched
    there is sorrow in the air, kept warm by a cold blanket of tangible fear
    it seeps into our bones curls our spines and dangles it’s feet off our shoulders
    mockingly
    we are scared
    we are scared but we are strong
    because we’ve seen this before
    we’ve heard their silence
    and we’ve begged and pleaded and cried rivers galore
    trauma is generational and grief is in our blood
    we don’t know how to live without it
    but we wouldn’t be living
    without it

    i came across a picture that will end up in history books down the line
    glistening under the desert sun, encased in silver sits a sefer Torah
    securely strapped to the front seat of a tank,
    i picture a soldier sitting proudly next to it
    throwing his arm across at every halt in the road
    giving it a kiss before he exits the vehicle
    just as he had in shul a couple days prior
    i automatically recalled a famous black and white still
    taken just under a hundred years ago
    a menorah peacefully resides on the ledge of a window
    it’s flames waving back at the flag across the street as if to say
    “my light will outshine your darkness”
    kiel, germany 1931

    the answer to mark twain
    and to everyone else who ponders our miraculous, ridiculously impossible existence
    lies behind these photographs
    we didn’t leave Gd in the synagogue after we danced and sang the night away
    on the most joyous of holidays
    our heroic siblings brought Him with them to the frontlines
    whispers of prayer on their lips
    soon realizing that He was there already
    waiting
    in the darkness we reach out desperately
    clawing at the core of our ancestor’s belief
    because in our faith there is unity
    if He is one then so are we
    they will not break you
    they will not break me
    family

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  6. Debunking the Debunker: ‘Community Notes’ that Claimed to Debunk Donald Trump Jr.’s Post Have Been Debunked – Gruesome Video Is Authentic
    by Brian Lupo Oct. 12, 2023 7:30 am98 Comments

    On Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump Jr. posted an extremely graphic and extremely disturbing video that shows a roomful of at least seven men who were brutally murdered. A gunman, just in front of the cameraman, fires several rounds at a body after its arm moved slightly. The post from Don Jr read “You don’t negotiate with this. There’s only one way to handle this. Video from source within Israel”
    Warning: Very Graphic!

    X tagged Don Jr’s post with a “Community Notes” with the claim “Video is not from the current conflict and can be traced back to 2015.” It then posted a link to an Iranian social media site. Several outlets and social media users criticized President Trump’s oldest son.

    Another user posted a screenshot showing dates as far back as 2015:

    WIRED magazine “has now verified that the Community Notes system appears to be wrong.”

    “WIRED has now verified that the Community Notes system appears to be wrong. According to an independent OSINT analysis published on Wednesday, the video Trump Jr. posted is real. It was recorded during Saturday’s attack and does show Hamas fighters shooting Israelis, the analysis found.
    In the case of the Trump Jr. video, the Community Notes user linked to a video posted on the Iranian social media platform Wisgoon as evidence that the video was from years ago, not this past weekend. In the post, the upload date on the video is in Persian, which, when translated, reads “15 Mehr 1402,” a date in the Persian calendar. This date translates in the Gregorian calendar to October 7, 2023—the date Hamas attacked Israel.
    An open source intelligence researcher tells WIRED that they confirmed the video’s veracity by tracking the original video, which was broadcast by a Gaza civilian on a Facebook livestream on Saturday morning.

    Soon after the Trump Jr. note was published, an account…tried to back up the claim about the video being fake, sharing a screenshot that showed the results of a reverse-image search for the thumbnail image of the original video. The results appear to show a series of links to Wisgoon (WARNING: GRAPHIC!) featuring the same image, all of which have dates from seven or eight years ago. However, this is because the recent video was listed in the related videos list of the older videos, not proof that it is an older video.
    On Wednesday afternoon, the note on Trump’s tweet was updated to link to the tweet from the account…”

    Mediaite had originally posted an article about this “note” titled “Don Jr. Goes Viral With Fake News Video of Horrific Violence, Claims It Came From ‘Source’ in Israel” but has taken it down and since issued a correction. However, OK Magazine published an article as well, and it remains up despite the “debunking the debunker.” In it, they write:

    “…X quickly flagged the video as misleading and provided a community note that debunked the context put forth by the former President’s son.

    The note stated that the footage was actually from 2015 and originated in Syria, not Israel. It also emphasized that Don Jr.’s false narrative was being used to promote “violent retribution” against Palestinian civilians.

    Hassan Shibly, a prominent figure in the Muslim community, criticized him for pushing untrue narratives and endangering innocent Palestinians. Shibly argued that the video was being used to justify an escalation of Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas.”

    The rest of the article is basically posts from random users who were misled by the Community Notes, their inability to very simple self-verify the information, or just wanted it to be true because it was a Trump.

    Another X account that has been previously cited by news outlets posted that the video was a 30-minute livestream on Facebook. OSINTtechnical posted a thread in which he describes the live stream through photos. However, towards the end, he describes the scene in Don Jr’s post but without any pictures (likely due to the graphic content). This thread was posted hours before Don Jr’s.

    While OSINTTechnical does not link to the Facebook account directly, he posted screenshots showing that the account has been suspended until next month for violating community guidelines. The post also said the streamer was shot “but survived.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/debunking-debunker-community-notes-claimed-debunk-donald-trump/

  7. After Backlash Against 31 Student Groups Supporting Hamas Killers and Threats of Wall Street Boycott – Harvard University President Releases Statement Condemning Hamas
    by Jim Hoft Oct. 12, 2023 8:15 am135 Comments

    31 Harvard University student groups signed a letter blaming Israel as “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ barbaric slaughter of innocent Israelis including 260 young adults at a concert on Saturday morning.

    The Harvard students stand with those committing war crimes, shooting children in bed, and cutting babies’ heads off.

    Over 1,000 Jews were killed in the mass murder spree including 20 Americans.
    The youths at Harvard support this.

    What a wonderful university!

    The public reaction to this public letter by Harvard students has been near-universal disgust,

    Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman called on Harvard on Wednesday to release all of the names of the students that are members of these 31 anti-Semitic campus groups.

    Hackman wants to make sure these young Hamas supporters are never hired by a Wall Street firm.

    As Michael LaChance reported last night – several of the young Harvard minds are now worried about their careers.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/after-backlash-against-31-student-groups-supporting-hamas/

  8. Fr. Frank Pavone: Five Talking Points About the Abortion Initiative in Ohio
    by Guest Contributor Oct. 12, 2023 8:45 am3 Comments

    Voting has begun on “Issue 1” in Ohio, and it must be rejected. Issue 1 would invent and impose a “right to abortion” without restrictions onto the State’s Constitution. This is consistent with efforts that abortion advocates are making throughout the nation, having already put such measures in place in Michigan and elsewhere, and preparing such efforts in about eight other states for 2024.

    Here are a few things to keep in mind when discussing this effort.

    This is a sign of weakness. If you think this is a sign of the strength of the abortion “rights” movement, think again. If they really believed their own rhetoric that most people are on their side, they would simply introduce a law, as the Dobbs decision says they can do, and make abortion as widely available as they and the citizens and lawmakers who agree with them want.

    But in most of the states they are targeting, they have already lost on the legislative level, and they know they would lose again.

    That’s because the lawmaking process involves hearings, extended debate, witnesses, documentation, questions and counter-questions, amendments, a moveable timeline, and the opportunity for each citizen to lobby their lawmakers and persuade them of their position.

    That’s an intense process. And it might make people think about what abortion is, what harm it does, and what reasonable limits most people support.

    The abortion lobby is scared of that. That’s why, for 50 years, they hid behind the robes of the Justices. “It’s a Constitutional right!” was the mantra, the false dogma, that shut down arguments generated by the clear evidence that abortion kills children and harms their families.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/fr-frank-pavone-five-talking-points-about-abortion/

  9. (Richard: Pay close attention to the video, out Marxist governments have allowed thousands of the same type of savages into our countries, how many of them are just waiting to carry out the same type of attack in our countries? We don’t know because we are forbidden to investigate what the uninvited savages are doing. If you live in a big city get out and prepare for attacks like this, prepare to the fullest extent that your laws allow you to prepare.)

    DON’T. LOOK. AWAY. State of Israel Official Twitter-X Account Releases Gruesome Video Compilation from Saturday’s Pogrom in Israel by Hamas – HERE’S YOUR PROOF!
    by Jim Hoft Oct. 12, 2023 9:00 am0 Comments

    The official State of Israel Twitter-X account released a video composite of the barbaric slaughter of innocent Jews by Hamas on Saturday.

    Over 1,000 Jews are dead. Over 20 Americans are dead. Over 260 young adults were slaughtered at an outdoor concert.

    The video includes footage of terrified young Jews after they are captured by Hamas barbarians and before they are transported back to Gaza.

    The footage also includes Jews burned in their cars, many of them were massacred as they attempted to flee Hamas at the concert.

    Never forget that Hamas planned the attack for months, if not years, and they they purposely planned to massacre kids at a concert.

    God save us all from this barbarity.

    May this footage shine a light of truth on the evil Hamas cult in Gaza.

    We downloaded this video incase it disappears on Twitter-X.
    We understand there is enormous pressure being put on Twitter to hide this truth from the public.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/dont-look-away-state-israel-official-twitter-x/

  10. Newsom signs laws to fast-track housing on churches’ lands, streamline housing permitting process
    TRÂN NGUY?N
    Wed, October 11, 2023 at 7:35 PM CDT·3 min read

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California will be allowed to turn their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing under a new law aimed at combating the ongoing homeless crisis.

    The law, signed by Gov.

    Wednesday, rezones land owned by nonprofit colleges and religious institutions, such as churches, mosques, and synagogues, to allow for affordable housing. Starting in 2024, they can bypass most local permitting and environmental review rules that can be costly and lengthy. The law is set to sunset in 2036.

    California is home to nearly a third of all homeless people in the U.S. The crisis has sparked a movement among religious institutions, dubbed “yes in God’s backyard,” or “YIGBY,” in cities across the state, with a number of projects already in the works.

    But churches and colleges often face big hurdles trying to convert their surplus land and underutilized parking lots into housing because their land is not zoned for residential use.

    Proponents said the new law will serve as another tool to help build much-needed housing in the state. A recent study by the University of California, Berkeley, Terner Center for Housing Innovation estimated California religious and higher education campuses have more than 170,000 acres (68,797 hectares) of land that would be eligible under the bill.

    Several cities opposed the bill and said it would take away local control over housing developments.

    Newsom also signed another high priority housing bill authored by Sen. Scott Wiener to extend the life

    https://news.yahoo.com/newsom-signs-laws-fast-track-003514032.html

  11. People from 23 countries killed, missing in Israel-Gaza war: What to know
    By Annabelle Timsit
    Updated October 11, 2023 at 2:03 p.m. EDT|Published October 11, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. EDT

    Among the thousands of people who have been killed, injured or taken hostage in Israel and the Gaza Strip in recent days are foreign nationals and dual nationals from nearly two dozen countries. A number of them were attending a music festival in the desert in southern Israel when Hamas militants stormed the grounds, shooting and abducting revelers.

    https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lJAQTG6bIDIJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-war-foreign-nationals/&hl=en&gl=us

  12. Hamas’ Rave Massacre Was Better Planned Than You Know: ‘We Are on the Way’
    Nancy Dillon
    Tue, October 10, 2023 at 7:11 PM CDT·6 min read
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    The trance music festival in southern Israel where Hamas militants killed 260 people on Saturday was supposed to be an escape — a tightknit community’s peaceful celebration of love, nature, and electronic dance music, event staffers who spoke to Rolling Stone say. It turned into hell on Earth.

    Offering new details of the worst civilian massacre in modern-day Israel, festival staffers say the tranquil open-air event quickly devolved into a chaotic, bloody nightmare. They described Hamas fighters descending from the sky on motorized paragliders and heavily armed militants chasing terrified festivalgoers with trucks and motorcycles.

    “It’s crazy to do a massacre like that on innocent people. Young people with dreams. Not one of these people wanted war,” Chen Mizrachi, a music manager who was working backstage at the Supernova Sukkot festival, an offshoot of Brazil’s Universo Paralello, tells Rolling Stone. “I knew so many of them. They just wanted peace, love, and to travel the world. They were people of love, like Woodstock people.”

    Mizrachi, 34, helped plan logistics for the gathering, including parking for security. At one point, he found himself inside the security RV as rockets flew overhead and grenades tore through the trees outside.

    “We called the Army to let them know we were in the security station, stuck. We asked, ‘Where are you?’ Then we heard in Arabic Hebrew, ‘We are on the way for you,’” he said, explaining Hamas had overheard the radio communication and responded with an ominous threat.

    While trying to get to a vehicle, Mizrachi saw what looked like an Israeli policeman stop a car. He quickly realized it was a Hamas fighter wearing a uniform likely stolen from a kidnapped or dead officer. “I could see just two in the car. Then shooting. After that, the car was still moving, but he killed them. The car was driving in a straight line without anyone [steering],” he said.

    He said the paragliders wasted no time attacking revelers fleeing in vehicles. “I saw them landing and shooting at the cars,” he said.

    “I see the look in their eyes, just murdering people,” he said of the militants. “I didn’t see even one percent peace in their eyes. They just wanted to kill innocent people. You don’t mess with young, unarmed people like that. This is not human.”

    He said watching so many people being “slaughtered” in the dusty field near Kibbutz Re’im on the border with Gaza, he kept thinking, “How am I alive?” It seemed like death was closing in without escape. “I told myself, ‘Don’t look back, just run.’”

    Mizrachi linked up with friends, broke through a fence, and jumped into a police officer’s van. His two friends were hit by bullets shot through the exterior, he said. A rocket propelled grenade hit the back of the vehicle, wounding some passengers with burns and lacerations, he said.
    Chen Mizrachi Sofia Nikitin israel supernova festival hamas
    Chen Mizrachi (with wounded friend) and Sofia Nikitin. The friend has since been released from the hospital and is recovering.

    The badly damaged van stopped near an abandoned Israeli tank. They took cover behind the tank and were pinned down in a firefight. Mizrachi said he tore his shirt into strips to make tourniquets. He also helped carry a young woman to a hiding spot after she had been run over by a Hamas vehicle and couldn’t walk, he said.

    Eventually, Israeli forces arrived to rescue them. Mizrachi sent his wounded friends ahead first. He later rode with a wounded soldier who kept passing out. Mizrachi roused him back into consciousness to keep him alive, he said.

    Now back home in Ramat Gan, Mizrachi is grateful his friends made it to the hospital and will survive, but he’s consumed with worry for those who were kidnapped.

    “My best friend living in Costa Rica, his two sisters are missing. Who gave them the free passes? It was me. It’s on my heart,” Mizrachi said. “We’re talking with the police, to get the information, but they don’t have information. I think Hamas doesn’t even know how many prisoners they have.”

    https://news.yahoo.com/israeli-festival-staff-details-massacre-001148238.html

    • I just don’t understand why they wanted a concert right next to Gaza….how many other places are there where they can forget the stresses of the threat of attacks?

  13. The Optimistic Conservative
    Winds of war: Why is this “Hamas” attack different from all other attacks?

    And suddenly, nothing would be the same again

    Winds of war: Why is this “Hamas” attack different from all other attacks?

    [Note: I am going to post this as-is, although several updates from Tuesday would merit discussion. This just needs to get posted, for the initial point if for nothing else. I’ve added a “Bonus tweets” section at the end with additional topics worth commenting on. We’ll get this done one way or another. – J.E.]

    The short answer to the title question is: because this isn’t a terror-harassment campaign. This is the opening attack in a war, one intended to amplify and accelerate the destructive effects on Israel, with devastating consequences in view.

    This is a hybrid war, and it’s being waged by Iran, with Hamas as its initial proxy.

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/

  14. ‘Gas the Jews’ doesn’t qualify as hate speech?
    By Eric Utter

    Muslims and anti-Semites around the world have gathered in recent days to celebrate the mass slaughter of Jews in Israel by Hamas terrorists. Several cities in Europe, including London and Berlin, have been the sight of these unspeakably appalling — yet joyous — gatherings. Various cities in North America, such as Montreal and New York, have also been witness to such madness and depravity. BLM has thrown its support behind the Palestinian cause, as have, unsurprisingly, many campus groups across America.

    In Australia, thousands of “Australians” gathered outside the Sydney Opera House to lose themselves in such zesty chants as “f— the Jews!” and “gas the Jews!” One person was arrested…for “breaching the peace” of the wannabe Jew-gassers by having the audacity to possess an Israeli flag. Good on the local constabulary for dealing with him!

    But might not “f— the Jews” be considered hate speech in this day and age? I mean, nearly all locales across the former penal colony have laws regulating hate speech as regards race and religion. If “gas the Jews” doesn’t qualify, what would? “Misgender the Jews”?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/gas_the_jews_doesnt_qualify_as_hate_speech.html

  16. Hillary’s deprogramming scheme
    By Barret Tillman

    The railroad cars squealed to a stop where lines of police and soldiers stood by to receive the deplorable passengers. The human cargo — nearly all middle aged to seniors — debarked with their few permitted possessions and turned where the uniformed guardians directed. Those using crutches or wheelchairs took separate routes for greater efficiency.

    Some of the deplorable detritus still sported red hats rather than yellow stars.

    Welcome to Hillary Clinton’s Amerika.

    In a CNN interview earlier this month Clinton said, “At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the (Trump) cult members.”

    That sentiment is from a former Democrat presidential candidate who has been in the public eye, holding national offices, for thirty years. Perhaps she still does not realize that in 2016 by characterizing Donald Trump voters as “a basket of deplorables” she energized the GOP base and fence sitters.

    A few salient points that the former First Lady omitted from her deprogramming scheme:

    Establishing legality (perhaps a minor concern on the Left.)
    Providing considerable funding (perhaps a minor concern on the Left, which has run our debt north of an unrecoverable $32 trillion.)
    Establishing the institutional and physical infrastructure.
    Providing qualified deprogrammers for untold millions of Deplorables.
    Identifying the offenders other than by their red MAGA hats or bumper stickers.
    Convincing the Deplorables to board trucks and trains.

    Since millions of Deplorables are not voluntarily going to board transport to deprogramming camps — Clinton is appalled that they cling to their guns — the process would immediately turn confused, messy, and loud.

    As a Yale-educated lawyer, Clinton surely knows that in the American justice system, the accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty. How to prove who were/are “cult members,” and how to square that accusation with First Amendment rights?

    Obviously: you do not. But it doesn’t seem to matter. Clearly, Clinton’s political zealotry has overcome any residual trace of rule of law.

    The foregoing reflects what the Wall Street Journal properly labeled “the totalitarian heart of Hillary Clinton.” That phrase reflects upon the two-tiered justice system now institutionalized in the United States.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/hillarys_deprogramming_scheme.html

  17. Ending Anti-White Discrimination – the Asheville Case
    By Janet Levy

    Over the past few decades, two extreme ideas have unfortunately gained wide acceptance: that racism is systemic in America; and that if you are white, you are by default privileged and racist.

    As a result, many young whites are ridden with guilt. Meanwhile, leftists and radical blacks are advancing reverse racism – active discrimination against those who happen to be white.

    No wonder a 2021 Gallup poll found white-black relations at a 20-year low: 57% of the respondents said relations were “somewhat” or “very” bad. In The War on Whites, author Ed Brodow attributed the downturn to Barack Obama and his focus on racial division. Harping on white supremacy and privilege fomented animosity and engendered an inquisition against whites, aimed at exorcising unconscious biases through a “racial justice shakedown.”

    Examples abound of institutional level discrimination by exclusion of whites, unthinkable a decade ago and sure to provoke widespread outrage if blacks or Latinx were excluded. Perhaps the most glaring instance is the establishment of quotas by the city of Asheville, North Carolina, for its Human Relations Commission. Five white residents, represented by attorney Ruth Smith, have sued the city for employing “illegal discriminatory policies and procedures.”

    More on the Asheville lawsuit later. Before that, some other examples of the effrontery with which institutions are testing the waters on anti-white discrimination, perhaps in the hope of normalizing it eventually:

    To mark the second anniversary of her inauguration as mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot announced that she wouldn’t be granting one-on-one interviews to white reporters. Her justification: the City Hall press corps was overwhelmingly white in a city where more than half the people identify as black, Latino, Native American, or Asian Pacific Americans.
    In August, retail giant Best Buy released a memo about a mini MBA-style training program for employees from which whites were specifically prohibited. The social-media blowback was such that its CEO Corie Barry made her Twitter account private.
    Last year, Brown University offered an online teacher-training course meant only for black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). It removed the restriction after a complaint.
    The University of Minnesota established a summer internship to prepare students for graduate school that excluded whites and offered stipends of $6,000 to black and Native American students. The university is re-evaluating the program after a complaint.
    In 2021, Cornell University created a BIPOC-only rock-climbing course. An instructor claimed it wasn’t discriminatory but aimed at making minorities comfortable in a white-centric sport.

    Now for the details of the Asheville case. In 2018, the city established a Human Relations Commission of Asheville (HRCA), a voluntary advisory board to “promote and improve human relations and achieve equity among all citizens.” When it was set up, the commission was to have nine members; this was then raised to 15 members. The membership criteria were: six African Americans; two Latinx; two LGBTQ; two aged 18-25; two to three living in public housing; two with disability; and three recognized as community leaders.

    Last year, city attorney Aairn Miles and equity consultant Alayna Schmidt recommended the removal of these racial qualifications, recognizing them as constitutionally problematic and amounting to race quotas, not permitted under federal and state law. At the time, Tanya Rodriguez, the HRCA chair, expressed concern that “our color” shouldn’t be “diluted out of the commission.”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/ending_antiwhite_discrimination__the_asheville_case.html

  18. Why are Arabs so filled with rage?
    By Jerold Levoritz

    The Squad in Congress, the president of Columbia (country), a minority of students at Harvard, Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, the Socialists of America, and other sundry anti-Semites have started criticizing Israel for its wartime measures against Hamas. The interesting thing here is that they want Israel to accept responsibility for what is happening to the Gazans. While not surprising, it is very interesting. If they were truly concerned about saving the Gazans from the ravages of war, the correct response would be to advocate for Hamas to surrender. War would stop if they laid down their arms and released their hostages. The Hamas members might have to leave Gaza, but they would leave with their lives.

    Of course, surrender is not an acceptable solution because that gives a victory to Israel and cannot be allowed. Death is preferable. If the death of Israeli Jews cannot be achieved, the death of Hamas fighters is the second-best solution and, indeed, is a virtue. When a member of Hamas dies in battle, he immediately becomes a martyr.

    When anger is so great, only death is an acceptable outcome. Why? Why is no one asking the question, “What allows a member of Hamas to cut off a baby’s head while still smiling?”

    What is the source of Arab anger? It is not just anger at Jews. It’s anger, in general, that seeks an object for the overwhelming internal boiling rage. Before the October Catastrophe that continues as I write, the news in Israel was frequently focused on inter-Arab anger. In the first eight months of 2023, there were approximately 180 murders in Arab communities. Of course, that is dwarfed by Chicago or St. Louis, but it is significant in Israel, a country with a low violent crime rate. Except for an occasional deranged wife or husband, this is not how things proceed between Jews, even among career criminals.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/why_are_arabs_so_filled_with_rage.html

  19. Echoes of Afghanistan? Biden faces criticism for lack of U.S. evacuation operation in Israel

    Fend For Yourselves: Harrowing tales emerge about Americans seeking escape from Hamas onslaught and no support from a U.S. government caught with no contingency plan or answers for endangered Americans.

    Former congressional staffer Yitz Friedman and his newlywed wife were wrapping up their honeymoon in Israel on Saturday with a religious holiday celebration at a synagogue near Jerusalem when the rabbi abruptly halted the service.

    “In the middle of the prayers, the rabbi got up and he announced to the entire synagogue that anyone who’s a reservist had to go home and check their phones, see what their orders were, because war had broken out,” Friedman recalled.

    Soon, Friedman realized he and his bride were in peril as Hamas terrorists were hunting down American and Israeli citizens for executions or hostages. More bad news was in the offing. Friedman, a communications manager for the American Accountability Foundation nonprofit, was alerted a few hours later that the couple’s return flight Sunday to America was canceled amid the violent outbreak: All major U.S. airlines had suspended operations in the country.

    https://justthenews.com/government/security/thuechoes-afghanistan-biden-faces-criticism-lack-us-evacuation-operation-israel

    (Richard: Once again Biden and company are putting Americans last, we have civilians in harms way and the things running our government could care less.

    They have destroyed our military,
    they have destroyed most of our police,
    they have destroyed our Criminal Justice system
    they have destroyed our educational system
    they have let millions of potential terrorists into our nation
    they are working hard to destroy our right of self defense
    they have destroyed our large news organizations

    Having done all of the above they had fomented at two wars that are probably going to spread to the rest of the world. We are back in the old days when your safety depended on your own preparedness, prepare to the best of your ability and pray it will be enough.)

  20. Elite University That Scolded Supreme Court For Ending Race-Based Admissions Refuses To Condemn Hamas
    By Daily Caller News Foundation October 12, 2023

    Northwestern University does not plan to make a statement condemning Hamas’ deadly terrorist attacks against Israel despite it scolding the Supreme Court for its ruling on race-based admissions.

    The elite university, located in Evanston, Illinois, told concerned Jewish alumni it does not plan to address the attack which left over 1,000 people, including 22 Americans, dead, Benson tweeted Wednesday evening. University officials have made statements on the Supreme Court’s race-based admissions ruling, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, social justice and the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building. (RELATED: ‘Too Little, Too Late’: Dershowitz Rips Harvard President’s Response To Student Orgs Blaming Israel For Hamas Attack)

    “Northwestern does not intend to make an institutional statement,” said an email obtained by Townhall’s Guy Benson.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/10/12/elite-university-that-scolded-supreme-court-for-ending-race-based-admissions-refuses-to-condemn-hamas/

  21. Defund-the-police activists celebrate massacres in Israel
    By LU Staff October 11, 2023

    Progressive politicians, activists, and journalists who support defunding the police are happy about the massacres of civilians in Israel by Hamas fighters. They view it as a successful form of “decolonization.”

    In Colorado, Democratic “Representative Tim Hernandez, a Marxist who advocates for defunding the police, has not only expressed support for the Hamas attack but has also joined in the pro-Palestinian rally at the state Capitol.”

    BLM Chicago, which supported defunding the police, posted a tweet in support of Hamas, celebrating paragliding Hamas terrorists who slaughtered 40 babies at an Israeli Kibbutz.

    As a moderate Democrat notes, “I’ve noticed an overlap between people who are celebrating/justifying/defending Hamas’ violence here and people who call themselves ‘abolitionists’ and have ‘Stop Cop City’ hashtags in their bios.”

    A staffer of a magazine that promotes “criminal justice reform” noticed that many people in her social circles seemed gleeful about the slaughter in Israel on Instagram.

    “It’s particularly disturbing to me to see some BLM chapters cheerlead the slaughter of Jewish civilians, including children. Jews have historically been among the first to march with blacks and to this day Jews are consistently among the most receptive audiences for antiracism,” says the black writer Thomas Chatterton Williams.

    As Erika Sanzi points out, It is “Incredible but sadly predictable to see the ‘words are violence”‘ crowd either a) have nothing to say about the murder, rape and kidnapping of Jews in homes, cars, at the bus stop, at at a music festival or b) say they aren’t sure how they feel or c) defend it or d) celebrate it.”

    In addition to killing over 800 Israelis, Hamas terrorists also killed dozens of European or Asian people, including ten students from Nepal and “12 Thai workers.” And they kidnapped tourists or nationals from many countries, such as 10 Italian citizens.

    Among the hostages seized this month by Hamas were at least four Americans. Hamas also killed at least 14 Americans in southern Israel.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/10/11/defund-the-police-activists-celebrate-massacres-in-israel/

  22. Hamas Goal In Capturing Jewish Women, Children, and Babies Was To “Dirty Them, To Rape Them”, Admits Terrorist

    Mass rape has been a key part of the terror of Hamas, just like ISIS, even the children and babies were to be raped.
    Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 06:59am 63 Comments

    The savagery of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists has included mass rape. That was the goal of capturing Jewish women, admitted a captured terrorist being interrogated, including the children and babies.

    Mass rape has been a key part of the terror of Hamas, just like ISIS.

    This is the “Resistance” being celebrated on the streets of major cities and on college campuses.

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/hamas-goal-in-capturing-jewish-women-was-to-dirty-them-to-rape-them-admits-capured-terrorist/

  23. Hamas “raped the women then they burned them alive”

    We have shown some images and videos in prior posts, while being sensitive to the dignity of the dead. None of them have been as horrifying as this. Much like the Holocaust, it’s important to document what has happened because there will be deniers, and there already are.

    It’s difficult to decide whether to post images and video showing Hamas’ butchery. We have shown some of them in prior posts, while being sensitive to the dignity of the dead.

    None of them have been as horrifying as this. There are documented reports of mass rapes, and a captured Hamas terrorist admitted that was the purpose of taking women, children, and babies hostage – to “dirty” and “rape” them all. A widely shared video showed Hamas dragging into a car in Gaza an Israeli woman bleeding from her crotch area, obviously the result of rape. As hard as it is to see those, this one is worse.

    You can click on the video in this tweet or not. It shows an Israeli woman who was raped, still in the position of sexual assault, and then burned alive. I don’t know how long it will be before social media takes it down. We are posting it because there already are widespread attempts to claim the reports of Hamas butchery are misinformation.

    I have saved a copy of the video, in case social media takes it down. Much like the Holocaust, it’s important to document what has happened because there will be deniers, and there already are.

    (added)

    Hamas is ISIS. Hamas are Nazis. So are the people supporting and celebrating what just happened.https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/hamas-raped-the-women-then-they-burned-them-alive/

  24. Border Patrol Arrested Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ in Past Two Years

    How many got away? Sources told Fox News that there have been over 1.5 million gotaways since Biden took office.

    The Border Patrol has arrested thousands of “special interest aliens” at our southern border in the past two years.

    Fox News received the data:

    That data, confirmed by multiple CBP sources and which reflects apprehensions between ports of entry between Oct. 2021 and Oct. 2023, shows that agents encountered 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan in that period, as well as 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria.

    Agents also encountered 12,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 123 from Iraq and 15,594 from Mauritania. The data does not include information on how many of those migrants were removed, or who were released into the U.S. with a court date.

    How many got away?

    Sources told Fox News that there had been over 1.5 million gotaways since Biden took office.

    The Border Patrol agents also lack resources to vet the people who come across the border from those special interest countries.

    The agents cannot do anything unless the person has a criminal record in the U.S. or a spot on the federal watchlist.

    Without those, the agents do not know if the person has a criminal record or ties to a terrorist organization.

    Those countries do not share that information with the U.S.

    The Biden administration has decided to finish the border wall, even waiving numerous federal laws to eliminate any delays.

    DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said: “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.”

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/border-patrol-arrested-thousands-of-special-interest-aliens-in-past-two-years/

  25. What Hamas Was Really Out To Do
    This was not a terrorist attack; it was an annexation.

    October 12, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 15 Comments
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    After the Hamas atrocities, experts scurried to explain why it had embraced “ISIS tactics”. Many saw the attacks purely as a way of sabotaging Israel’s talks with Saudi Arabia. Others argued that Hamas had tried for a small attack that escalated when Israel failed to promptly respond. Some express bafflement at what Hamas could have hoped to gain from such an attack.

    The experts as usual are wrong because they don’t understand Hamas. And their ignorance stems from their inability to grasp Islamic terrorism because they don’t understand Islam.

    Hamas, like the PLO and other Islamic terrorist groups, had spent much of its existence promising to do exactly what it tried to do, invade Israel, and seize and occupy its territory, taking Jewish villages and towns by stages over the years until one day besieging Jerusalem.

    The Palestinian Authority, funded by American taxpayers, still airs Arafat’s old speeches in which he calls for “millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem”. Americans and Israelis refused to take such rhetoric seriously. The cost was over 1,200 lives when Hamas tried to carry it out.

    In operational terms, Hamas transitioned from a terrorist organization to a guerrilla force like ISIS or Hezbollah. Israel had been conditioned to expect small hit and run raids. It was not expecting an actual invasion. A hit and run raid with this many Jihadists makes no sense.

    This wasn’t a hit and run raid.

    Israeli military leaders are now saying that Hamas had not come just to attack, but to occupy and take over the Jewish communities that it invaded. It brought heavy firepower and some of its best trained Jihadists to not just attack, but to hold, fortify and annex those areas.

    What the world witnessed was mostly the first stage of a three stage plan. In the second stage, Hamas Jihadists would have secured the captured communities while in the third stage, Hamas civilians, especially women and children, would have been brought in to occupy them. The Israeli military would have had to choose between firing on enemy civilians crossing the border or trying to fight Hamas once it was operating from behind its own human shields.

    The captured villages would have been functionally annexed. Even if Israel had recaptured them, it would then have to expel the Muslim civilians now living inside them. Human rights groups and international pressure might have prevented Israel from taking such a step.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-hamas-was-really-out-to-do/

  26. Savages
    Civilization and savagery are fundamentally at war.

    October 10, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 112 Comments

    We’re in a war between savages and civilization. Everything else is a detail.

    Some of us woke up to that war when planes crashed into skyscrapers. Others when we saw beheading videos spread across social media. What we saw in Israel, Hamas terrorists raping, mutilating and defiling corpses, is another bloody wake-up call. There will be many others.

    Beyond the politics and the geopolitics, we still haven’t come to terms with what we’re fighting.

    The barbarism of murdering women and children, taking them as hostages, and posting photos of their dead bodies to social media, is not a byproduct of Islamic warfare, it’s the whole point.

    Cruelty, beheading, burning to death, torturing and mutilating are the essence of Islam. This is how Islamic warfare was practiced beginning with Mohammed for over a thousand years. It’s how it continues to be practiced, whether it’s ISIS fighting other Muslims, Azerbaijani troops killing Armenians, Hamas attacking Israelis, or Islamic terrorists plotting carnage in Western nations.

    Islam was born out of a war by barbarians against the civilized societies of Persia and Byzantium. Despite academic mythmaking, its vision never extended beyond rape and slavery, its empires fell into power struggles, beginning with Sunnis and Shiites, and its cultural and scientific accomplishments were all looted from conquered peoples. When civilization finally toppled the Ottoman Empire with some help from its internal barbarians, the cycle began again.

    Israel is just one front in a global war between savages and civilization. And not all of the savages bow to Allah. There are inner city gangs across the American hemisphere that behead and torture their victims. And there are children of civilization that turn into savages. Savagery is not a condition of birth: it is a choice. People born into savagery can become civilized and those born into the highest echelons of civilization can prey on us like the worst vicious animals.

    The question is how do civilized societies confront savagery? Do we blame ourselves for having made the savages what they are through our capitalism and colonialism even though they have behaved this way long before modern western civilization amounted to anything? Or do we set forth to reeducate them, to build modern nations for them and teach them to become civilized?

    We have sent forth our sons and daughters to make peace with them and to educate them. Our societies opened themselves to embrace and celebrate the virtues of the noble savage. When we realized that we could not coexist with savages, we tried to remake our societies to serve them. All of that has been tried and civilization is still drowning in the violence of the savages.

    The fundamental truth is that civilization and savagery are innately at war with one another.

    Savages are offended by the existence of civilization. When they see one, they want to destroy it. There can be no peace with savages because, contrary to Islam, peace is a condition of civilization. To have peace, you must be civilized. Savages don’t even view peace as a value apart from the conclusion of a successful conquest which then sets the stage for the next one.

    Civilized people develop complex mechanisms of exchange, but savages see no reason why they shouldn’t take something or someone if they are too weak to defend themselves. No amount of lectures will ever convince a savage that anything other than clan relations should prevent him from stealing a car or raping a woman if there will be no clear consequences.

    That’s because savages, unlike civilized people, have no conscience, and therefore no soul.

    Islam, unlike Judaism and Christianity, is not a religion of the soul, but entirely of power. From its genocidal chant, “Allahu Akbar” that proclaims the physical supremacy of Allah to all other religions through the military victories of its followers, everything is reduced to conquest. The truth of Islam is validated through war. When Jihadists conquer and rape non-Muslims, they are proving that Islam is true and that the religions of the conquered are false. That’s why ISIS Jihadists would tell the Yazidi girls they were raping that rape brought them “closer to Allah”

    Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?

    These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.

    But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.

    Much like a hurricane reminds us of the alternative to houses and famine reminds us of the alternative to food, savages remind us of the alternative to civilization. Unfortunately truly decadent civilizations need constant reminders of all of these things. We have to be constantly told that food doesn’t magically emerge from a supermarket, that houses are not the natural state of being and that not being murdered by savages in your home is a new way of life.

    Tolerate savages, give them enough rope and they will do all of these things to you. And more.

    Savagery should not be confused with stupidity. Civilizations have been brought down by savages and civilizations were built by savages who became civilized. Savages are clever and cunning. They are alert to the weaknesses of civilized people and experts at finding ways around whatever walls and security systems that civilized people build to protect themselves.

    Civilizations that spend enough time allowing savages to hang around will fall. Tolerating savages is actually a sign that a civilization has turned decadent. Welcoming and advocating for savages means that the end is nigh. Viable civilizations drive savages away. They do it not just to protect themselves but because banishing savages is what makes a civilization civilized.

    When civilizations forget what the difference between themselves and the savages are, they lose their sense of right and wrong, and they can no longer explain why savagery is wrong. When faced with the worst imaginable crimes, they can still equivocate a case for the criminals.

    Hamas terrorists can rape and kill their victims, and defenders will rally to explain why the issue is actually more complicated than it seems. This happens with Islamic terrorists all the time.

    Savages and decadent civilizations have no firm concept of right and wrong. Everything is subjectively opportunistic and there can be scenarios in which raping a woman, killing her and then posting a photo of her body to social media so her family can see is actually right.

    That is why civilization has to defeat savagery, without equivocation, apologies or sympathy, not only to win, but to revive its own soul. Negotiations and laws of war are for peer civilization. Savages offer nothing and so are owed nothing. They keep no agreements except when it suits them. Their word is worthless and their morality is non-existent.

    A civilization that does not understand all this will learn it the hard way.

    Civilizations are built on the suppression of savagery: both internally and externally.. When civilizations defeat savages, learning, art, science and ideas thrive. And when civilizations allow savages to ravage them, they lose their people, their morality and eventually their existence.

    No form of war is more sacred than that of civilization against savagery. It is these wars that made Christianity and Judaism, not to mention all the ideas of western civilization, as well as those of Asia and India, possible. This is once again the defining struggle of our age.

    Either civilization or the savages will prevail. Any attempt at a middle ground is suicide.

    Our grandchildren will either make great things or they will be hunted by roaming savages like the teenage girls at a concert in Israel or those similarly hunted in venues in Europe.

    All the hopes of mankind depend on the utter and total defeat of the savages, not just in Israel, but in America, in Europe, in India and Asia, and around the world. This is not the struggle of any single nation, but the crisis of mankind. Either humanity will rise or we will fall.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/savages/

    • I’m here.
      Just said lehitraot – paka, dasvidaniya – hasta la vista to my dearest Russki.
      A veteran of the Soviet Army won’t do war on WhatsApp. His son is mobilized; he’ll be there for all the families.

      A mob of friends chartered a plane. Medical professionals, military vets, people who speak Hebrew +/- Russian, anybody who could be useful.

      Some bad news. There will be more.
      But faith is the Tree of Life, we hang on.
      Ps. 91:

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  39. I always believed Iqra Khalid should have got an Oscar for her portrayal of the what she believed Islamophobia is “the irrational hatred of Muslims that leads to discrimination”. It was the most obvious case of “seed planting” I thought I might ever see. A Muslim member of parliament, introducing such a motion, what could possibly go wrong?

    All the NDP and all the Liberals voted in support of the motion, except Justine who, just poof, disappeared the day of the vote. The majority of the Conservatives voted against, with the exception of a couple who abstained.

    The story Canadians were quietly told, the MSM did not seem to know about the motion, they certainly did not report 24 / 7 which they should have done, until after it was passed and then there was very little reporting on such an important moment, the beginning of the demise of free speech.

    M-103 called on the government to “condemn ISLAMOPHOBIA and all forms of systematic racism and religious discrimination “ asks government to recognize public climate of hate and fear and request for the commons Heritage Committee to study how the government could develop………..the Muslim motion passed.

    I have a problem with the whole jest of this horse pucky bill in that we have a man who is the Leader of Hibz, a terrorist group in Canada, Mazin Abdul-Adhim, an obvious hater of all things Canadian, has been allowed for years to continually spew hatred about he Jews — calling them apes, pigs, monkeys, lowliness……….

    We now have peoplekind in many cities in Canada wrapping themselves in Palestinian flags, blocking traffic and shouting f*ck the Jews, kill the Jews. Abdul-Adhim has now turned his hate to the Catholics, Christians, the Evangelicals. Should Justine Trudeau consider the Emergency Act to stop the “fringe minority” of migrants he invited into Canada. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH HATE IN CANADA. I want them all arrested for hate speech — deportation would be a good start to save this CHRISTIAN nation.

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