Reader’s Links for October 11, 2024

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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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18 Replies to “Reader’s Links for October 11, 2024”

    • Thanks for that one, looking forward to this, the putrid stench of Angela Merkel is still hanging around in the EU, the fully corrupt Ursula von der Leyen too, passed through the casting couch of Merkel, as did half of the Stasi feminazis who are driving Germany against the wall as we speak.

  4. ‘Quds Force chief suffers heart attack in Iranian detention’

    Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, suffered a heart attack while being questioned as part of Tehran’s probe into intelligence leaks, Arab media reported on Thursday….

    Sky News Arabia, citing Iranian sources, said that the commander had been moved to a hospital by the Islamic Republic’s security forces.

    The investigation into Ghaani was opened following suspicions that the head of his office was in contact with Israeli intelligence “through an intermediary living outside Iran…”

    Iran has “serious suspicions” that Jerusalem has infiltrated the IRGC’s ranks, the commander of one Iranian-backed terrorist group told the website, adding that “everyone is currently under investigation.”

    Ghaani, who took control of the elite Quds Force after his predecessor Qassem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in 2020, was last seen in public visiting Hezbollah’s offices in Tehran on Sept. 29.

    According to reports in Israeli and Arab media over the weekend, the Iranian may have been wounded or killed in an IDF airstrike in Beirut.

    According to three Iranian officials cited by The New York Times, Ghaani traveled to the Lebanese capital to assist Hezbollah following a series of devastating Israeli attacks that have disrupted its chain of command, including a Sept. 27 airstrike that killed its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

    Ghaani was notably absent from an Oct. 4 prayer service in Tehran commemorating Nasrallah and led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    An IRGC member stationed in Beirut told the Times that the silence from Iranian officials is “creating panic among rank-and-file members.”

    https://www.jns.org/quds-force-chief-suffers-heart-attack-in-iranian-detention/

  5. Intifada, Intifada!
    Globalize the Intifada!
    Do you know what they’re saying?

    WAR HAS CONSEQUENCES: 20-YEAR SCARS OF THE SECOND INTIFADA

    20 years ago, on the first night of Passover 2002, the most infamous suicide bombing in Israel took place. That night, and the weeks that followed, marked a dramatic turning point in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians which still dictates the contours of the conflict today. Options for a political settlement that might have existed before, disappeared into a new reality.

    In March 2002 alone, more than 100 Israelis were killed in suicide bombings; hundreds more were injured. Sitting at a cafe, riding a bus, walking through an outdoor market became imbued with a feeling of danger.

    When Israel responded, protests against Israel erupted in all the major Western capitals, though there were few, if any, protests against the Palestinian suicide bombings. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling for sanctions against Israel. International media coverage of the operation was overwhelmingly negative.

    The 1993 Oslo Accords were pitched to Israelis with a promise that they would improve security. And if that first promise remained unfulfilled – even after Israel recognized the PLO and carried out the withdrawals from Gaza and the West Bank as called for in the Agreements – then the whole world would see who the bad guys really were and stand by Israel.

    Neither promise was realized and this left deep scars on the Israeli psyche. An enormous skepticism emerged about peace with the Palestinians. Moreover, the broad center of Israeli politics no longer is moved by expectations of global support.

    https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/07/06/war-consequences-20-year-scars-second-intifada/

    • Matti Friedman, NYT, 2019:
      The One Thing No Israeli Wants to Discuss

      JERUSALEM – When trying to understand Israel’s election on Sept. 17, the second in the space of six months, you can easily get lost in the details – corruption charges, coalition wrangling, bickering between left and right. But the best explainer might be a small film that you’re unlikely to see about something that people here prefer not to discuss….

      No single episode has shaped Israel’s population and politics like the wave of suicide bombings perpetrated by Palestinians in the first years of the 21st century. Much of what you see here in 2019 is the aftermath of that time, and every election since has been held in its shadow.

      The attacks, which killed hundreds of Israeli civilians, ended hopes for a negotiated peace and destroyed the left, which was in power when the wave began. Any sympathy that the Israeli majority had toward Palestinians evaporated.

      More than any other single development, that period explains the durability of Benjamin Netanyahu, which outsiders sometimes struggle to understand. Simply put, in the decade before Mr. Netanyahu came to power in 2009, the fear of death accompanied us in public places. There was a chance your child could be blown up on the bus home from school…

      Given the centrality of those years, it’s striking how seldom they actually come up in conversation…

      It isn’t officially considered a war, even though it killed more Israelis than the Six-Day War of 1967. And no one can say exactly when it began or ended. The attacks picked up in the mid-1990s, as Israel pursued a peace deal and ceded land, but the worst came between 2000 and 2004. Though other forms of violence persist, the last Israeli fatality in a Palestinian suicide bombing was in 2008.

      This repression of memory has helped the Palestinian leadership pretend that none of it ever happened, and few of the foreign journalists covering the country right now were here at the time.

      Why are moderate Israelis afraid to pull out of the West Bank? Why has the once-dominant left become a meager parliamentary remnant? Why is there a separation barrier? Why is the word “peace” pronounced with sarcasm while the word “security” carries a kind of supernatural weight?

      If you weren’t in Israel then and can’t access the national subconscious now, the answer will be elusive.

      https://archive.ph/rwTRS#selection-4567.0-4573.578

  6. Xi Jinping’s Decision To Risk War: Gordon Chang
    American Though Leaders – The Epoch Times – October 9, 2024

    • The Strategic Thinkers Series | 13 | Dr. Charles Burton – The Canada-China Situation – Policy Insights Forum – April 24, 2023

  8. Where did the Charlie Kirk and Steve Louden videos disappear to? I was just here moments ago, watched both pieces of content, went to send the link to others because of the importance of the videos, received an undeliverable content message from my email server (private domain), and now they are gone from here. What happened?

    • I am sorry. I published before my contractual obligations had been met. Put another way, I had mistakenly thought that the owner of the interview with Loudon had published it last night, and I was therefore free to publish.

      But when I went back, it was another post and this one had not been published, so I had to delete the post.

      I agree it was a very important post.

      I hope to the maximum possible that I am able to post it again today.

  10. .
    GT Communications’ Gemma Tognini says most Australians are in “disbelief” over the Labor government’s handling of pro-Palestine and pro-Hezbollah demonstrations.

    This week marked the grim 12-month anniversary of the October 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israel.

    “Our governments, state and federal, have been so flaccid in their response to the ugliness and the evil that has been on our streets,” Ms Tognini told Sky News host Steve Price.

    “Particularly, those marches taking place on the 6th and the 7th of October – disgraceful, Australians don’t want that.”

    https://youtu.be/8KAjfmBZHhg?si=0RvVb6U9-zr3DwX1

    Oh, and I wished we would stop calling these marches “pro-Palestinian”… They are PRO-HAMAS, PRO-HEZBOLLA, PRO-AYATHOLLAS, PRO-ISLAMIST TERRORISM, PRO-Jew-Hatred.