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By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Published: Oct 14, 2023

I was raised to curse Israel and pray for the destruction of Jews, writes AYAAN HIRSI ALI... That's why I know all too well Hamas is another ISIS - whatever useful idiots in the West say

All across the West, there is no shortage of people blaming the horrors in Israel on Israel itself — and openly supporting the perpetrators.

The head of policy at the Community Security Trust, which monitors hate crimes committed against British Jews, has said: 'Anti-Semites are getting excited by the sight of dead Jews... Hamas murdering Israeli civilians has exhilarated them... We've had reports of people driving past synagogues shouting 'Kill the Jews'.'

Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain are currently three times higher than they were this time last year, the charity adds.

'Free Palestine' graffiti has been scrawled on a railway bridge in Golders Green, a Jewish area of north London, while in Oxford Street, one young woman — who may well have been radicalised in England — was filmed ripping down posters that pleaded for the safe return of the babies taken hostage by Hamas. 'Free Palestine, f*** you!' she screamed at an onlooker who dared to remonstrate with her.

On Thursday night in Paris, police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of people at a pro-Palestine rally, in which protesters chanted 'Israel murderer [sic]' and 'End the siege of Gaza.'

Outside the Sydney Opera House, about 1,000 protesters lit flares and waved Palestinian flags — and some were filmed chanting: 'Gas the Jews.'

In the U.S., meanwhile, 31 student groups at Harvard signed an open letter claiming that the 'Israeli regime' was 'entirely responsible for all unfolding violence', while California's Stanford University displayed a banner declaring that Palestine would be made free 'by any means necessary' — a sinister slogan that tacitly justifies Hamas's slaughter of children in pursuit of its aims.

Not to be outdone, the Chicago 'chapter' of the Black Lives Matter movement posted an image of a paraglider alongside the slogan 'I stand with Palestine'. The reference, of course, was to Hamas paragliders who descended on Israel's Supernova music festival last Saturday to rape and butcher at least 260 young people.

In short, anti-Semites the world over have been emboldened by this crisis, and Jews are once again being blamed for their own massacre. And I am not remotely surprised. In my childhood, I was steeped in the Islamist movement's noxious anti-Semitism — which has been on such ugly display this week.

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, I spent my early years escaping political strife after my father was imprisoned for being an anti-government activist. We moved between countries before settling in Kenya.

The worst insult in the Somali community was to be called a 'Jew', not that any of us actually knew one. To be called a 'Jew' was so abhorrent, some felt justified in killing anyone who so dishonoured them with this 'slur'.

As a teenager in Nairobi in the 1980s, I joined the Muslim Brotherhood — the strict Sunni Islamist movement, founded in Egypt in 1928, from which Hamas ultimately descends.

I vividly remember sitting with my female fellows in mosques, cursing Israel and praying to Allah to destroy the Jews. We were certainly not interested in a peaceful 'two-state solution': we were taught to want to see Israel wiped off the map.

When I was 16, my school's teacher of religion was Sister Aziza. She read to us the Koran's lurid descriptions of the everlasting fire that burns flesh and dissolves skin — the place reserved for Jews.

Sister Aziza described Jews as physically monstrous, with horns coming from their heads, out of which flew devils that would corrupt the world. Jews controlled everything, she told us, and it was the duty of Muslims to destroy them.

It was a lot to take in for a teenager who read Western romance novels in secret, but I believed every word.

When the fatwa was issued against the British writer Salman Rushdie in 1989, a small crowd gathered in a Nairobi car park to burn a copy of his novel The Satanic Verses.

Sister Aziza urged us to join in the condemnations of Rushdie and I am ashamed to say I took part in the book-burning. I was certain Rushdie should be killed, but the scene nevertheless made me uncomfortable.

That seed of doubt grew over the next few years as I questioned why, if Allah was so just, women were treated as mere chattels in some Muslim families.

Over time, my questions turned into open rebellion against the Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and, ultimately, my family.

My father sent me to relatives in Germany in 1992 so I could go from there to Canada to join the distant cousin he had married me off to. I ran away from that marriage and travelled to the Netherlands where I sought asylum.

Eventually, I became a member of the Dutch parliament, and later settled in America.

I abandoned my religion, but I have never lost my clear-sighted understanding, forged in my childhood, of Islamism's pathological hatred of Jews, as well as Muslims considered as heretics and non-Muslims in general.

The former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi — a one-time leader of the Muslim Brotherhood — declared that Muslims should 'nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred' of Jews. His organisation has done just that — and the despicable sentiment is the underlying context to Hamas's most recent attacks.

The truth, however, is that Hamas is no more a friend of the Palestinians than it is a friend of Israel.

Those who see the conflict as a simple territorial dispute between a colonial state and a dispossessed minority fail to recognise Hamas for what it really is: a gang of genocidal Islamist thugs backed by a theocratic, anti-Semitic regime in Iran.

Useful idiots on the far-Left in Western countries, who blindly support Hamas because they see it as a freedom-fighting group, harm the very people they claim to defend.

They say they want peace —and perhaps many of them do. But real peace talks based on the 2020 Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab countries have made painstaking but undeniable progress despite the efforts of Hamas.

Until Hamas's recent attacks, Saudi Arabia and Israel had looked set to normalise relations. This murderous incursion was an attempt to derail such talks — and thus ruin any chance of lasting peace.

Ordinary Palestinians want to build a prosperous, functioning society. Hamas, in its obsession with annihilating Israel, doesn't care about that. It wishes only to bring about a genocidal Islamist dystopia.

It is Hamas, after all, that holds Palestinians hostage in Gaza, setting up military installations in — and launching rockets from — civilian areas in the full knowledge that counterstrikes will kill innocent people.

It is Hamas that impoverishes Palestinians by stealing humanitarian aid to fund its terror. This is what 'by any means necessary' truly signifies: supreme callousness towards Palestinian life.

If you genuinely want to see peace between Israelis and Palestinians, or more generally between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East, then Hamas should be your enemy.

And even if — like many in the West, as we can now see — you don't care at all about Israeli or Jewish lives, even if you care only about the lives of Palestinians, Hamas is still your enemy. After all, Hamas ruthlessly persecutes any Palestinians who disagree with it: a 2022 U.S. State Department report found that, among other abuses, Hamas detained and assaulted critical journalists.

It is especially hostile to public figures associated with its rival Fatah, the Palestinian party voted out of office in Gaza in 2006, but which still runs the West Bank.

Hamas harasses its own dissidents, and has invaded the home of at least one young critical activist, telling his parents to keep their son under control — or else.

As a Dutch MP in 2004 and 2005, I travelled to the West Bank and met Palestinians.

In public, they spouted all the usual lines about Israel being their 'oppressor'. But once the cameras were switched off, they spoke more truthfully.

They complained bitterly about their treatment by Hamas and other radical groups, and told me how money meant to feed the people was being taken to fund those organisations' activities and their leaders' luxurious lifestyles. Arabs and Palestinians alike told me how fed up they were with conflict, and how ready they were for peace.

Hamas, like other Islamist groups, has done its best over the course of decades to stomp all over those wishes.

And it has been successful. The shocking rise in anti-Semitism in the West owes much to the entrenched Islamist networks that have spent years stirring up this ancient hatred.

Europe must now wake up to these fifth columnists who shamelessly celebrate violence and bigotry, promoting hatred of the Jewish minority in Europe.

The West must also wake up to the moral corruption of its own Hamas supporters, from Left-wing university students to flag-waving street thugs.

Meanwhile, elite human-rights organisations need to do far more to name terrorism when they see it.

It is horrifying to see Amnesty International claiming that one of the 'root causes' of the crisis is 'Israel's system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians'.

Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, should do more than merely equivocating in its insistence that no injustice can justify another.

This is not to argue that Israel should be immune from criticism. My point is that much of the criticism is at best misguided and at worst thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

Hamas, like Lebanon's Hezbollah, Isis in Syria and Iraq, Nigeria's Boko Haram, Somalia's Al-Shabaab and several other groups, are fighting not for the liberty and prosperity of Muslims but, ultimately, for the annihilation of Israel and the imposition of an Islamic state.

If Palestinians and other Muslims have to suffer for that aim, then so be it.

Well-meaning celebrities and broadcasters who, out of wilful ignorance and good intentions, hesitate to condemn Hamas as terrorists need to recognise this truth.

These are dark times for Israel and for the world, but there are some reasons to be hopeful.

This week's strong statement by America, Britain, France, Italy and Germany condemning Hamas while recognising the 'legitimate aspirations' of the Palestinians is a good sign.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's condemnation of Hamas is particularly welcome, given that, until recently, his party was led by a man who called these butchers his 'friends'.

And if Israel and the Arab states do not allow their worst instincts to rule them, talks may continue — and might just secure peace in the longer term.

Hamas is another Isis. They are the enemies of Israel; they are the enemies of all Jews; they are the enemies of Palestinians; they are the enemies of peace and freedom. They are the enemies of Western civilisation itself.

It is about time they were recognised as such.

To achieve a two-state solution — with free and prosperous Palestinians and a safe Israel — the first, fundamental step is for people to stop chanting slogans in support of terrorists and murderers, and for everyone to cry in unison: 'Down with Hamas!'

Remember two years ago when everyone was arguing about whether the terrorist assault and takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban was Trump's fault or Biden's fault? Today, people are scolding us not to call the same thing terrorism. It's "liberation" and "decolonization."

Remember in 2014 when Boko Haram kidnapped the children and everyone was campaigning for their safe return because it was an unconscionable act of terrorism? Now kidnapping and murdering children is an act of legitimate revolution.

Remember when kids rushed to support ISIS the instant they rose, and people were appalled and argued over how could it could be possible to support a terrorist state that seized illegitimate power? Online radicalization was blamed, and many didn't want to believe that indoctrination had primed it well in advance. Now, if your Gender and Postcolonial Studies haven't activated you to support a terrorist state that has seized illegitimate power in the region, you're a bigot.

Remember when we cheered on the Iranians for finally fighting back against the regime of terror that hung over them, hoping for them to finally win the war against the regime? Now, Israel has to simply take whatever assaults of terrorism are dealt at them; it is, as Douglas Murray said, is the only country which is not allowed to win a war.

Remember when certain people liked to call everyone who disagreed with them "Nazis" and that punching them was the right thing to do? Now the extermination of all the Jews is the "Be Kind" position.

How morally confused do you have to be, after all this, to side with the terrorists?

Hamas is to Palestine as ISIS is to Syria and the Taliban is to Afghanistan.

As I've posted about before, Islam is a supremacist ideology. Its goal is world domination. They tell us that. Loudly.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-4/Book-52/Hadith-196

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah 's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' and whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,' his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)"

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-1/Book-8/Hadith-387

Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."

Narrated Maimun bin Siyah that he asked Anas bin Malik, "O Abu Hamza! What makes the life and property of a person sacred?" He replied, "Whoever says, 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah', faces our Qibla during the prayers, prays like us and eats our slaughtered animal, then he is a Muslim, and has got the same rights and obligations as other Muslims have."

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/USC-MSA/Book-41/Hadith-6985

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

It has successfully weaponized intersectional shibboleths to trick useful idiots into thinking that the supremacist is the oppressed victim.

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Economic Implications of the Israel and Palestine

Another conflict has broken out between israel and palestine at 6:30 a.m. on the morning of 7th october, while most of the israel is were sleeping soundly in their homes suddenly, the air raid sirens began blaring.Thousands of rockets were fired at israeli cities.The estimate of israel is that 2,200 rockets we're fired at israel. Thousands of people were killed and injured in israel because of these attacks. Hundred died and jose age this surprise attack is the biggest in the last few decades,Exactly 50 years ago and october 1973 egypt and syria had lunched as similar surprise attack on israel.After that a war broke out known as the yom kippur war. From the ground see in their the boundary wall on the israel Gaza order was broken down by a bulldozer. Israel military said at 10:00 am(07:00 GMT) the Palestine fighters penetrated at least three military installations around the frontier. An israeli tank was captured.The israeli soldier were captured and held hostage by the hamas group. Many innocent civilians have been killed here, many are being held as hostages and israel has declared a state of war and response.

•CONFLICT -The only Jewish country in the world is Israel, which only gained official recognition in 1948. However, a lot of individuals link Israel to the current war with Palestine. a bloody conflict over territory, power, and resources. We need to go back a few thousand years to understand why. Strong theological and cultural ties between Jews and Muslims to the area date back nearly 4,000 years to Abraham, who is regarded as the founder of two religions. In accordance with the Old Testament, God instructed Abraham and his people to dwell in a location roughly equivalent to modern-day Israel, known as Canaan.-The Israelite monarchy was created by King Saul in the year 1,000 BCE. It was maintained by King David and his son Solomon, who also built the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The Jewish people's claim to the country of Israel included this historical inheritance. Various peoples, including the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Egyptians, and other nations that dubbed the region Palestine, would continue to conquer and dominate the land. It would eventually be the location of numerous places revered by Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike. Jews were compelled to depart the area throughout these transitions, which led to a dispora, or dispersion of people from their homeland.

•WHAT IS GAZA?The Gaza Strip, which some people have referred to as "the world's largest open-air prison," is a small area of land situated between Egypt and Israel. One of the densestly populated areas on earth, the 140 square mile enclave is home to more over 2 million Palestinians.

•WHAT IS HAMAS AND WHO THEY ARE?Hamas, formally known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a political and military Sunni Islamist group in charge of the Palestinian territories' Gaza Strip. Its headquarters are in Gaza City, but it also has a presence in the West Bank, which is under the leadership of its secular foe Fatah. Aiming to "free Palestinian prisoners, stop Israeli aggression on al-Aqsa Mosque, and break the siege on Gaza," according to Hamas, a militant organization that has ruled the densely populated Gaza Strip since 2006.

•WHO HAS THE LEADER OF HAMAS?In 1962, Haniyeh was born in the Gaza Strip's Al-Shati refugee camp. In 1987, after completing his undergraduate studies at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he had joined Hamas, he received his degree in Arabic literature. He rose through the ranks of Hamas after being selected to lead an office in 1997.

•PALESTINE It is thought that a large portion of the local Palestinian people in the Nablus region is derived from Samaritans who embraced Islam. It is unclear if Islamization of Palestine occurred before or after the Crusader era.ISRAEL Israel is the first Jewish state to exist in more than 2,000 years. After the long period of exile that followed the fall of the Herodian monarchy in the first century ce, it stands for the Jews' return to their ancestral home. It continues to be the principal destination for significant Jewish immigration.

•WHO ARE THE SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL? American support for Israel is strong and growing as a result of the recent attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, which has sparked an open conflict in the Middle East.

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Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

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BEIRUT, Oct 31 (Reuters) - With dozens of Hezbollah fighters killed in three weeks of border clashes with Israel, the Lebanese group is working to stem its losses as it prepares for the possibility of a drawn-out conflict, three sources familiar with its thinking said.

The Iran-backed group has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon's frontier since its Palestinian ally Hamas and Israel went to war on Oct. 7 - about a fifth of the number killed in a full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.

With most of its fighters killed in Israeli drone strikes, Hezbollah has unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. The missiles are part of an increasingly potent arsenal.

The Israeli military has not commented on Sunday's reported drone incident. But Israel said on Saturday it had stopped a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon at one of its drones and that it responded by striking the launch site.

One of the sources familiar with Hezbollah's thinking told Reuters that the use of anti-aircraft missiles was one of several steps taken by the Shi'ite Muslim group to curb its losses and counter Israeli drones, which have picked off its fighters in the rocky terrain and olive groves along the border.

Hezbollah had made "arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs", the source said, without offering further details.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is due to deliver a speech on Friday, in what will be his first address since the Israel-Hamas war erupted.

Since the Gaza conflict flared, Hezbollah's attacks have been calibrated to contain clashes to the border zone, even as it has indicated a readiness for all-out war if necessary, sources familiar with its thinking say.

Israel, which is waging a war in the Gaza Strip that it says aims to destroy Hamas, has said it has no interest in a conflict on its northern frontier with Lebanon, where it has said so far that seven of its soldiers have been killed.

"I hope we will be able to keep the quiet on this front," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told a briefing, adding that he believed Israel's strong defence forces and their actions in Gaza had deterred Hezbollah till now.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would unleash devastation on Lebanon if a war did start.

FORMIDABLE FORCE

Hezbollah, the most formidable Iranian ally in Tehran's "Axis of Resistance", has long said it has expanded its arsenal since 2006 and warned Israel that its forces pose a more potent threat than before. It says its armoury now includes drones and rockets that can hit all parts of Israel.

In border clashes since Oct. 7, Hamas, which also has operatives in Lebanon, and a Lebanese Sunni Islamist faction Jama'a Islamiya have both fired rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel.

Hezbollah itself has refrained from firing rockets, such as unguided Katyushas and others that can fly deep into Israeli territory, a step that could prompt an escalation.

Instead, its fighters have been firing at visible targets across the frontier with Israel, using weapons such as guided anti-tank Kornet missiles, a weapon the group used extensively in 2006, the three sources said.

Hezbollah's television channel, Al-Manar, has regularly replayed footage from the latest clashes showing what it says are strikes on Israeli military installations and positions visible across the border.

While Hezbollah's tactics so far have helped contain the conflict, the attacks mean its fighters need to be close to the frontier, which makes them more vulnerable to Israel's military.

The sources said some fighters had also underestimated the drone threat after years of combat in Syria where they had fought insurgent groups with nothing like the Israeli military's hardware. Hezbollah played a decisive role in helping President Bashar al-Assad beat back Syrian insurgents.

"The technical superiority of the Israeli drones is making Hezbollah pay the price of this number of fighters," Nabil Boumonsef, deputy editor-in-chief at Lebanon's Annahar newspaper, said, in reference to Hezbollah's hefty death toll.

CONFLICT CONTAINED SO FAR

Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah have broadly stayed contained in a narrow band of land that runs along the border, generally staying within three to four kms of the frontier.

However, Israeli shelling has expanded in recent days, according to security sources in Lebanon. They said this included a strike on Saturday on Jabal Safi, a mountainous area that lies about 25 km (15 miles) from the border.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the Jabal Safi strike. Hezbollah has not commented on the reports of that strike either. The Israeli army has said it has been responding to sources of fire in Lebanon.

Hezbollah lost 263 fighters in the 2006 war, when Israel hit sites all over Lebanon during a more than month-long conflict. The war erupted after Hezbollah launched a raid into Israel and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

The Hezbollah death toll of 47 this time, in such a relatively contained conflict, has shocked the group's supporters. The group's al-Manar television has broadcast daily funerals of fallen fighters being buried with military honours, their coffins covered in the group's yellow and green flag.

Hezbollah released a handwritten letter from its leader Nasrallah to media last week, saying the fallen fighters should be called "martyrs on the road to Jerusalem".

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aizelpaglinawan · 6 months

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“Economic Implications of the Israel and Palestin

→Another conflict has broken out between israel and palestine at 6:30 a.m. on the morning of 7th october, while most of the israel is were sleeping soundly in their homes suddenly, the air raid sirens began blaring.Thousands of rockets were fired at israeli cities.The estimate of israel is that 2,200 rockets we're fired at israel. Thousands of people were killed and injured in israel because of these attacks.Hundred died and jose age this surprise attack is the biggest in the last few decades,Exactly 50 years ago and october 1973 egypt and syria had lunched as similar surprise attack on israel.After that a war broke out known as the yom kippur war. From the ground see in their the boundary wall on the israel Gaza order was broken down by a bulldozer. Israel military said at 10:00 am(07:00 GMT) the Palestine fighters penetrated at least three military installations around the frontier. An israeli tank was captured.The israeli soldier were captured and held hostage by the hamas group. Many innocent civilians have been killed here, many are being held as hostages and israel has declared a state of war and response.

CONFLICT -The only Jewish country in the world is Israel, which only gained official recognition in 1948. However, a lot of individuals link Israel to the current war with Palestine. a bloody conflict over territory, power, and resources. We need to go back a few thousand years to understand why. Strong theological and cultural ties between Jews and Muslims to the area date back nearly 4,000 years to Abraham, who is regarded as the founder of two religions. In accordance with the Old Testament, God instructed Abraham and his people to dwell in a location roughly equivalent to modern-day Israel, known as Canaan.-The Israelite monarchy was created by King Saul in the year 1,000 BCE. It was maintained by King David and his son Solomon, who also built the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The Jewish people's claim to the country of Israel included this historical inheritance. Various peoples, including the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Egyptians, and other nations that dubbed the region Palestine, would continue to conquer and dominate the land. It would eventually be the location of numerous places revered by Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike. Jews were compelled to depart the area throughout these transitions, which led to a dispora, or dispersion of people from their homeland.

•WHAT IS HAMAS AND WHO THEY ARE?

Hamas, formally known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a political and military Sunni Islamist group in charge of the Palestinian territories' Gaza Strip. Its headquarters are in Gaza City, but it also has a presence in the West Bank, which is under the leadership of its secular foe Fatah. Aiming to "free Palestinian prisoners, stop Israeli aggression on al-Aqsa Mosque, and break the siege on Gaza," according to Hamas, a militant organization that has ruled the densely populated Gaza Strip since 2006.

•WHO HAS THE LEADER OF HAMAS?

In 1962, Haniyeh was born in the Gaza Strip's Al-Shati refugee camp. In 1987, after completing his undergraduate studies at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he had joined Hamas, he received his degree in Arabic literature. He rose through the ranks of Hamas after being selected to lead an office in 1997.

•PALESTINE

It is thought that a large portion of the local Palestinian people in the Nablus region is derived from Samaritans who embraced Islam. It is unclear if Islamization of Palestine occurred before or after the Crusader era.

•ISRAEL

Israel is the first Jewish state to exist in more than 2,000 years. After the long period of exile that followed the fall of the Herodian monarchy in the first century ce, it stands for the Jews' return to their ancestral home. It continues to be the principal destination for significant Jewish immigration.

•WHO ARE THE SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL?

American support for Israel is strong and growing as a result of the recent attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, which has sparked an open conflict in the Middle East.

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ferrerkate · 7 months

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ISRAEL VS PALESTINE

Before we proceed on our main topic lets take a look on the backround of the conflict between israel and palestine and when did it started.

It's started in october 7,2023 the group of palestine known as hamas (terrorist group) attacked people in israel by Rocket Attacks, Hamas has launched rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip into Israel, targeting Israeli towns and cities. These attacks have resulted in civilian casualties and property damage.

-They sabotage israel when israeli people attended nova music festival (marking the Jewish holiday Sukkot and touted as an event celebrating “unity and love.”)in the middle of the event they set a surprise attack on Gaza strip city.they been killing at least 260 people and taking an unknown number hostage.Later that day israel cabinet formally declared war against hamas .Netanyahu vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas. “Every Hamas member is a dead man,” he said in a televised address. that's where the battle between the two sides began.

RELIGION

One of the main causes of the conflict is religion .

-The majority of Palestinians are Muslim, including those living overseas. All residents in the Palestinian Territories are required to declare a religion on an identification card issued by the Israeli government. According to this record, 98% of Palestinians identify as Sunni Muslims.

-According to the country's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) classification system (2021 data), approximately 73.8 percent of the population is Jewish, 18 percent Muslim, 1.9 percent Christian, and 1.6 percent Druze.

-The main religion in modern Israel is Judaism, with 73% of the population identifying as Jewish.

>they have different cultures that affect their country to become one.they both proclaim that their beliefs are the one who can state the fact because israeli believe that .Extreme religious Zionists in Israel increasingly see themselves as guardians and definers of how the Jewish state should be, and are very stringent when it comes to any concessions to the Arabs. On the other hand, Islamist groups in Palestine and elsewhere in the Islamic world advocate the necessity of liberating the “holy” territories and sites for religious reasons, and preach violence and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.In Jewish and Biblical history, Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel during the reign of King David. It is also home to the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall, both highly sanctified sites in Judaism.

BORDER

The Israel-Palestine border is a contentious issue. The borders are not officially defined, and there is ongoing conflict regarding territory. The main areas of dispute are:

-Gaza Strip: While Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it still exerts control over its borders, airspace, and waters, which has led to disputes over its status.

The Israel-Palestine conflict is marked by its complexity, historical grievances, and deeply rooted national aspirations. Finding a mutually acceptable resolution to the border issue remains a significant challenge in the quest for a lasting and peaceful settlement.

TERRITORY

Territory is the main conflict between israel and palestine because they are both claiming that they are the first people who live in the country one of their bases is Jerusalem; they claimed as the capital by both Israelis and Palestinians. The city is divided, with the western part under Israeli control and the eastern part, including the Old City, being a focal point of contention.

-The territory between Israel and Palestine is a complex and highly disputed area in the Middle East. It primarily refers to the West Bank, which is a region located between Israel and Jordan, and the Gaza Strip, which is along the Mediterranean coast. These territories have been at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many decades.

RESOURCES

Israel has natural resources that essential for the country’s economy and development.here are some of their natural resources:

• Natural gas below the seafloor, oil shales for energy.

• Groundwater.

•Dead Sea minerals and phosphate for fertilizers.

• Magnesium and copper metals.

• some of the genius people are living in israel.

•they are known for intelligence.

•they are also known for high technology.

In other hand

Olive trees, grapevines, almonds, figs and citrus are the major types of fruit trees planted in Palestine. They occupy 90% of the total fruit tree area and produce 79% of total fruit production.

-compare to palestine israel rich in natural resources.

ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE

•Much of what scholars know about Israel’s ancient history comes from the Hebrew Bible. According to the text, Israel’s origins can be traced back to Abraham, who is considered the father of both Judaism (through his son Isaac) and Islam (through his son Ishmael).The word Israel comes from Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, who was renamed “Israel” by the Hebrew God in the Bible.

•Palestine, area of the eastern Mediterranean region, comprising parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (west of the Jordan River).

NOVA MUSIC FESTIVAL

They sabotage israel when israeli people attended nova music festival (marking the Jewish holiday Sukkot and touted as an event celebrating “unity and love.”)in the middle of the event they set a surprise attack on Gaza strip city.they been killing at least 260 people and taking an unknown number hostage.

PRO ISRAEL OR PRO PALESTINE

Being Pro-israel i want you to know that i stand israel because base on the Historical Perspective:Point to historical context of ths establishment of Israel in 1948.Israel creation was a response to the persecution of jews and ths holocaust,providing them with a homeland.

"The Lord promised Joshua that the original extent of the land promised to Abraham was to be given to Israel ."

(see Genesis 15:18; Joshua 1:4).

"God of light and salvation, our refuge and our strength, We pray for the people of Israel and Palestine amid the escalating violence. We pray for those killed and injured by rockets from Gaza in southern Israel. May your rod and staff comfort them."

That's all thank you i hope you all appreciate it -your author.

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The History Conflict of Israel and Palestine.

In the 17 centuries BC, the call of God, Abraham,Isaac and Jacob, came in Canaan that later on known as the Land of Israel. King Saul established the Israelite monarchy, which was later split into the Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Juda, but the Roman Empire in 63 BC gave the name of "Palestine to Judah. In the 636 the Arab conquest begins to spread in Israel. In 11th century,Christians in Europe launched several campain to bring back the Holy City back in the hands of Christian while from the 16th century, more and more Jewish were joining a movement of "Zionism" to create Jewish national state in the ancient homeland.

WW1 exploded in 1918 and ended with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Its land in the Middle East was carved by the British and French Empires. The region under the control of Britain was what it called the British mandate for Palestine. Tensions between the Jews and the Arabs who both claimed the land grew, which even led to acts of violence.

In 1947, the UN partitioned Palestine into two independent states: a Jewish state and an Arab state with the City of Jerusalem becoming an international zone with a special status. Less than one year after that, Israel declared itself an independent state. Right after the declaration, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War broke out and ended when a cease-fire agreement was reached in 1949, giving more than two-thirds of historic Palestine, including West Jerusalem, to Israel.

There came more wars and fighting in the following decades, namely the Six-Day War ending with the victory of Israel, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon kicking the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of Beirut, the First Intifada ending with the Oslo Accords, the Second Intifada ending with Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.

Then came the establishment of Hamas, a Sunni Islamist militant group founded in 1987, aiming to destroy the state of Israel and create an Islamic state. After the Battle of Gaza (a conflict between Hamas and Fatah), Hamas split from the Palestinian authority and gained power in the Gaza while the West Bank was separately controlled by the PLO.

Israel put Gaza under a suffocating blockade, leading to several bloody war: between Israel and Hamas, the military group in control of the Gaza Strip till today. Until now, the war between Israel and Palestine had always make away to start. The Palestinian Hamas, came attack in October 7 to claim back the Gaza strip and West back during the Nova Festival, it killed a lot of people especially foreigners who came visit in Rave, which is near at the border with Gaza. The Israel fight back as the war started in October 7, 2023 during the Nova Festival. And until now, the fight between Israel and Palestine still continued.

#behumans #stop war #israel and palestine

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Alevis and Yazidis in Afrin threatened with extinction

Situation of Yazidis

Before the Turkish occupation, there were about 20,000 to 30,000 Yazidis living in Afrin. Now, there are only 1500 Yazidis left. Almost all Yazidi villages or villages with a Yazidi population in the region between Afrin and Mount Simon – such as Basufan, Baadi, Barad, Kimar, Iska, Shadere, Ghazzawiya, Burj Abdalo, and Ain Dara – were attacked by the Turkish air force at the beginning of 2018. The Yazidi village of Qestel Cindu had already been attacked by IS and other Islamist groups in 2013. Even back then, Turkey supported or tolerated Islamist fighters in Northern Syria. Many Yazidi olive groves and fruit trees were destroyed, and their livestock was killed. During the clashes between rivaling pro-Turkish Islamist groups in early June 2010, it had become known that the Arab-Sunni Hamzat militia was operating secret prisons for women in Afrin. Pictures of naked women being held there circulated in social media. Five Kurdish women, among them a Yazidi woman, were identified in videos and pictures.

Situation of Alevis

Before the Turkish occupation in March 2018, Afrin was inhabited by a tolerant Muslim population. Under the Turkish occupation regime, the situation changed fundamentally. Turkish President Erdogan uses religion – in this case Islam – as a weapon, inciting against anyone who rejects a strict interpretation of the Quran.

In March 2018, a new era in Afrin’s history began. Within two years, much of what the people had built up over centuries was destroyed. The Kurds are suffering under the Islamization and Turkification policy practiced by Turkey. For the few Alevis who stayed in Afrin, but also for the Yazidis, Erdogan's policy could lead to complete extermination.

Afrin's Alevis speak "Kurmanci" – the same Kurdish dialect that all Kurds in Afrin speak – and feel closely connected with other Kurds. Many Alevis identify themselves Muslims, but want to be recognized as an independent religion. The Alevis strictly reject the Islamic Sharia law. Also, other rituals of Islam play no role for them. While women are usually seen as inferior to the men in Islam, men and women are equal in Alevism. They pray together at the "Cem". Also, women are not required to wear a headscarf.

Even though Afrins Alevi community was only a small minority until the Turkish occupation, they played a major role in the political, cultural, and economic life of Afrin. One of the founders of the first "Kurdish Democratic Party" in Syria was the Alevi Muhammad Ali Khojah (1916 - 1965).

Many Alevis found refuge in Afrin when they were forced to flee from Turkey. Thus, one of the most famous leaders of the Kurdish freedom movement, the Alevi Dr. Nuri Dersimi (1892 - 1973), was able to find a new home in Afrin. Many of Dersimi's relatives were massacred by the Turkish military in 1937/38. Dersimi worked as a veterinarian in the northern Syrian metropolis of Aleppo for several years. According to his wish, he was buried in a cemetery not far from Afrin. His wife was buried there as well. Before his death, Dersimi made sure that a burial place was established there. The last time a member of the STP visited Dersimi's grave was in 2015. Dersimi's grave was desecrated following the Turkish occupation. The cemetery chapel was looted and partly destroyed.

Other Alevi cemeteries and sanctuaries were destroyed as well. The existence of many places with the addition "Dede" or "Baba" shows that many Alevis lived in Afrin. Gradually, the Alevi community was forced to convert to Islam in the Ottoman Empire. The recent Turkish occupation could mean an end to Alevism in Afrin – as the Turkish state is continuing its policy of Islamization inside and outside of Turkey with all its rigor. The disappearance of the Alevis, Yazidis, and Christians in Afrin will lead to an end to religious diversity there.

#ezidi #alevi #alevism #kurdish #afrin #txt

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The link between the anti-Rushdie fatwa and Islamist Sayid Qutb

14 February 1989 was the fateful date when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran pronounced a fatwa, or death sentence, on Salman Rushdie, author of the supposedly blasphemous work, The Satanic Verses. Rushdie lies critically injured in hospital following an attempt on his life 33 years later. ‘Blasphemy against Islam’ has long been a favourite pretext for persecuting Jews in the Arab world, dissident Muslims and western satirists. But with its doctrinaire adherence to, and aggressive advocacy for, sharia law, the forces of political Islam have declared lethal war on freedom of expression in the West. Sephardi Ideas Monthly points to the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayid Qutb: From Egypt it is a little-known fact that Qutb’s ideology has travelled to Iran, where four of his books have been translated into Persian. (With thanks: Edna)

Salman Rushdie, sentenced to death by the Ayatollahs

Sephardi Ideas Monthly traces the little-known but very consequential line of influence that transcends the traditional Sunni-Shi’a divide and connects Sayyid Qutb to the Islamic Republic of Iran (IR). Qutb met with and encouraged Iranian revolutionaries and his writings played an important role in the Iranian Islamist revolution.

The current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, translated four of Qutb’s books into Persian! One scholar summed up the issue concisely: “The influence of Sayyid Quṭb on the Islamist movement and the revolutionaries of Iran is still not acknowledged sufficiently and remains largely unknown in the West.” (See: “Sayyid Quṭb in Iran: Translating the Islamist Ideologue in the Islamic Republic.” Yusuf Ünal, Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (November 2016), pp. 35-50).

Qutb’s connection to Shi’ite activists dates back to the early 50s, when Iranian cleric Navvab Safavi, leader of the Iranian “Fedayeen of Islam,” visited him in Egypt. Safavi was impressed by Qutb, took his ideology back to Iran, and promoted the vision of an Islamic state among Iranian revolutionaries. Translations of Quṭb’s works soon followed. In many cases, the Persian-language translators were also activists who went on to play important roles in the Iranian revolution, the most prominent being Safavi’s student, Khamenei. Among the books that Khamenei translated was, The Future of This Religion, a work in which Quṭb:

…argues for the political supremacy of Islam, which will lead to the future submission of all humanity to Islamic ideology, and calls upon all Muslims to fight against the imperialist powers.

In order to honor Qutb’s thought and influence, in 1985 the Iranian regime’s postal service issued a stamp showing Qutb behind bars during his 1966 trial in Egypt. That trial ended in Qutb’s hanging.

It’s true that, in recent years, Qutb’s writings have inspired revolutionary Sunni jihadi groups that mercilessly target Shi’a. The difficulty in reconciling Qutb’s influence on both the Iranian revolution and anti-Shi’ite jihadis was examined at a February, 2015, conference held in Iran dedicated to “Re-reading and Re-viewing the Views of Sayyid Quṭb” (See Unal, p. 36). The willingness to re-engage with Qutb’s writings in such a charged geo-political context testifies to the depth of their impact in the IR. In addition, it’s important not to overstate the problem: other Sunni Islamist groups influenced by Qutb are more than happy to maintain positive relations with the Iranian regime, the most obvious example being Hamas.

Why isn’t the Qutb-Iran connection more well-known among Western observers of the MENA region? Perhaps the answer is connected to a related question: How is it that there isn’t a single English-language biography of Khamenei? Sometimes written off as “the chief apparatchik backed by the Iranian deep state” Khamenei has ruled Iran for thirty-three years. That’s a long time in a very unstable region. It’s reasonable to wonder if Khamenei is more competent than often perceived, and if his political acumen is connected to Qutb’s influence. Either way, if we wish to prepare for an extended conflict with the forces of Political Islam, it would be prudent to wonder how much of the revolutionary energy that animates portions of the Iranian regime is still being generated by its encounter with Qutb.

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Taliban Kill ISIS Terrorist Who Planned Attacks On Diplomats In Kabul

The terrorist "directly masterminded recent operations in Kabul, including against diplomatic missions, mosques and other targets", Taliban said.

Kabul: Taliban forces killed a top ISIS terrorist who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan's capital, a government official said. Violence in Afghanistan dramatically dipped after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

But in the past year, security has worsened, with a spate of mass casualty attacks claimed by ISIS's regional chapter.

Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional IS "intelligence and operations chief", during an operation on Sunday night, the Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement on Monday.

Fateh "directly masterminded recent operations in Kabul, including against diplomatic missions, mosques and other targets", Mujahid said.

Another ISIS terrorist was killed in the operation against the cell, which was based in Kabul's Khair Khana area, according to Taliban.

Residents in that neighbourhood had reported loud gunfire on Sunday night.

Taliban officials posted footage on Twitter of two bodies lying in debris.

A United Nations Security Council report in July 2022 described Fateh as a key ISIS leader, charged with military operations in an area spanning India, Iran and Central Asia.

ISIS has emerged as the biggest security challenge to Taliban rule, staging attacks on foreigners, religious minorities and government institutions.

Both groups share an austere Sunni Islamist ideology, but ISIS is fighting to establish a global "caliphate" whilst the Taliban have a more inward-looking goal of ruling an independent Afghanistan.

ISIS claimed responsibility for a December gun raid on a Kabul hotel that wounded five Chinese nationals.

Also in December, the group attacked the Pakistani embassy in Kabul. Islamabad described it as an "assassination attempt" on its ambassador.

And in January, the group claimed a suicide bombing near the foreign ministry in Kabul that killed at least 10 people.

Two Russian embassy staff members were killed in a suicide bombing outside their mission in September last year, another attack claimed by ISIS.

The Taliban have blamed the group for a September 2022 suicide attack in Kabul that killed 54 -- including 51 women and girls.

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What's the difference between a Shia & Sunni? And why do they hate each others? (I'm an atheist so I don't know shit about religions)

Keep in mind that this is no way trying to shame or denounce my Sunni siblings, but I do believe it's important to highlight a historical fact and how it's detrimental to the current geopolitical situation, since we're embittered by historical events, while at the face of imperalism and colonialism.

Shi'as are a political group of people who iunitially held that Ali (a), the cousin of Muhammed (pbuh&hf) was the successor of the Prophet. This is evident in numerous hadiths, such as Hadith Ghadeer Khumm, the Hadith of Mubahila and the Hadith at Thaqalayn. Nevertheless, the issue steems from the incident at Saqifa, which was a council met by some companions by the Prophet, who held an abrupt meeting, discussing who'd lead the Muslim nation following the Prophet's death. The meeting was held without consulting Ali (a) and they chose Abu Bakr to become the caliph. As a result, Ali (a) did nor approve of the selection and did not pledge his allegience to Abu Bakr. the incident at Saqifa serves as a catalyst to the incidents that would befall the Muslim community, such as Fatimah's (a) miscarriage and the subsequent wars against Ali (a) by some of the Prophet's companions, Ali (a) and his sons Hassan (a) and Hussain's (a) martyrdom.

This caused the rift in the nascent Islamic community, the Shi'as were any Muslim who held that Ali (a) was the successor by divine right, and swore their allegience to Ali (a), while the rest of the Muslims were nonpartisans. Sunni Islam is the standardization of Islamic scholastic and jurisdictional opinions which were formed in the Abbasid caliph. So it's errounous to assume that there was a split between Sunnis and Shi'as, when Sunni Islam was formed a few centuries later.

The reason for the hate is because of fundamentalist attitudes toward Shi'as. Some Sunnis and Salafis believe that Shi'a Muslims are heretics, because of their veneration of saints and the importance of Shrine visitations, the other reason is because Shi'a Muslims practice the doctrine of dissociation, which is the belief that any of the enemies of the Prophet's household should be cursed, thus some of the personalites of the Sunnis are cursed by Shi'as. Ancient scholars, suchs as Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Qayyim placed some fatwas declaring Shi'a Muslims to be heretics. These scholars' opinions are still popular today and used as pretext for prejudice against Shi'as.

In a geopolitical context, Iran is often considered to be rivaling power to Saudi Arabia's Wahhabism, and have often threatened the Saudi hegemony. Because of the Axis of resistance and their growing influence in the SWANA region, the Gulf States have attempted at all cost to undermine the growing sympathy for Shi'as. Bahrain is upholding an apartheid against it's Shi'i majority, The Saudi refuses to ackowledge the Shi'i Houthis in Yemen, but supported the Hadi government, thus imposing a devastating blockade. The Iraqi war saw the Shi'as gain power, while the Sunnis were often a disenfranchised group following the Blackwater massacre, which contributed the rise of various militias and terrorist groups, such as ISIS. While in the Syrian Civil War, Shi'as mostly made up the bulk of resistance fighters that sided with Assad against the Free Syrian army and Salafi Islamist groups, such as, Tahrir al-Sham, Jaysh al-Sunnah, Islamic front, Ahrar al-Sham and etc. These have contributed to the increase of tension between Sunnis and Shi'as. However, the fight against Israel have united Muslims, but the biggest obstacle the Muslim community must get through are the Salafist and Wahhabi clerics, espousing tayyafiyah (sectarianism)

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"I think that we should all give an applause right now to Hamas for a job well done. When they (Israelis) woke up in the morning and they found the field hands in the house, with a knife, ready to cut their fucking throats! I was late to the news, but when I heard it, I smiled. I don't want to hear that bullshit 250, 250 innocent Israelis today. Fuck them! Again, I swear. I salute Hamas. A job well done."

"They want to paint it here in America that what happened yesterday was terrorism. What happened yesterday was freedom fighters fighting for freedom. And I want to make one point: every person that died yesterday was not innocent. It's our job, it's our job here in the West to wake people up. It's our job to show people who are the real terrorists. It's our job to show what's right..."

@mcfuzzyfuzzface said:

You think fundamentalist islamic terrorists are leftist, huh?

So, is it still terrorism? You yourself referred to them as "terrorists."

You have an American hate-preacher spouting Intersectional and Critical Race Theory rhetoric (e.g. master's tools, slave allusions, oppressor/oppressed) celebrating both the act and the organization that did it, and looking forward to more.

You have a hijabi shouting, to applause, that no Israeli is innocent. They're all fair game. That terrorism is "what's right." An overt call to support ethnic cleansing.

Is it still terrorism when American progressives are cheering it on?

A persistent gaslighting tactic is the idea that "nO oNe iS sAyInG tHis!!" No, they're not saying it. They're shouting it through bullhorns.

Do not take people for fools and try to lie to them.

Reminder: Hamas is not some fringe group, they're a religious group that is the literal elected government of the Gaza Strip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

Hamas officially the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Sunni Islamist political and military organization currently governing the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian territories. While it is headquartered in Gaza City, it also has a presence in the West Bank (the larger of the two Palestinian territories), in which Fatah exercises control. It is widely considered to be the "dominant political force" within the Palestinian territories.

In 1987, shortly after the outbreak of the First Intifada against Israel, Hamas was founded by Palestinian imam and activist Ahmed Yassin. It emerged out of his Mujama al-Islamiya, which had been established in Gaza in 1973 as a religious charity involved with the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas became increasingly involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by the late 1990s; it opposed the Israel–PLO Letters of Mutual Recognition as well as the Oslo Accords, which saw Hamas' secular rival Fatah renounce "the use of terrorism and other acts of violence" and recognize Israel in pursuit of a two-state solution. Hamas continued to advocate Palestinian armed resistance. Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, gaining a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and subsequently took control of Gaza Strip from Fatah in 2007.

Since 2007, Hamas has fought several wars with Israel. It historically sought an Islamic Palestinian state over the combined territory of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, rejecting the two-state solution. Hamas began to accept negotiations with Israel and the 1967 borders in the agreements it signed with Fatah in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Many scholars reported that Hamas' 2017 charter accepted a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Under the ideological principles of Islamism, it promotes Palestinian nationalism in an Islamic context; it has pursued a policy of jihad (armed struggle) against Israel. The Hamas government has pushed through changes that gave greater influence to Islamic law in the Gaza Strip. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

If Hamas is a terrorist organization...

You think fundamentalist islamic terrorists

... then Palestinians chose terrorists as their legitimately elected government representation. Right?

And this is what I said when previously asked: this is Islamic religious holy war, as commanded by Allah. There's no sharing, there's no backing down, there's no co-existing. Islam doesn't allow it, even if Palestinian and Israeli individuals do support it.

Islamists have weaponized western intersectional nonsense - "white adjacent," oppressor/oppressed, shallow takes on "colonialism" - to create a narrative that supports ethnic cleansing, under the benign-sounding academic term, "decolonization." And convinced people who subscribe to this deranged theology to endorse and defend terrorism.

And still people wonder how the Third Reich rose. You're looking at it. Remember, Hitler's manifesto translates as "My Struggle."

Believe them when they tell you what they're up to.

#antisemitism #terrorism #decolonization #ethnic cleansing #genocide #hamas #israel #palestine #islam #islamism #religion is a mental illness #i love being right #but i hate being right #peaked yet?

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God's Chosen People Israel

Is the rise of anti-semitism in the United States and other parts of the world a sign that the end of the age is drawing near? Click/Tap the link to read more.

“For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”~ (Isaiah 41:13)Last October, the world witnessed a horrific attack on the Israeli people by the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas. Reports state the attack killed more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationalists and seized more than 253 hostages. In response, Israel, and rightfully…

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Events 3.22 (after 1950)

1955 – A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster crashes into Hawaii's Waiʻanae Range, killing 66. 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. 1963 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me. 1970 – Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park. 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. 1988 – The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. 1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election. 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. 1996 – NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76. 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.[34] 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. 2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station. 2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. 2017 – Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa. 2019 – The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General. 2019 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people. 2020 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. 2020 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

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Everything was at stake in a country where the judiciary now does little more than rubber-stamp policy dictated by the president. It would be an understatement to say that for rights defenders, five more years under Erdoğan is a daunting prospect. Women’s and LGBTQ+ rights groups especially will find themselves in the immediate line of fire. During his first victory speech in Istanbul last night, Erdoğan targeted LGBTQ+ groups again. “Could those LGBT elements ever find their way into the AK party?” he asked to a resounding “no” from the crowd. “Family is holy to us,” he continued.

Ahead of the runoff elections, the women’s rights group Left Feminist Movement warned that the choice between Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu was one between “darkness” and “light”. A statement signed by several dozen well-known female musicians, actors, writers and rights defenders said: “We either succeed in tearing apart the darkness and glimpse the light of dawn, or we will suffocate.”

Many have argued that Turkey has never had a more ultra-conservative and misogynistic parliament than it does now. Two radical Islamist fringe parties have joined the national assembly on Erdoğan’s side. His AKP has not only brought the New Welfare party (YRP) into its alliance, but also nominated four senior members of the Kurdish Free Cause party (Hüda-Par) under its parliamentary candidate list. All four were elected to parliament on 14 May. The Free Cause party is closely affiliated with Kurdish Hezbollah, a Sunni militant group that originated in the Turkish south-east and gained notoriety in the 1990s when its members tortured and killed hundreds of Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) members and supporters, as well as others who opposed its ideology, though it has since officially renounced violence. Free Cause calls for gender segregation in schools and has argued that state services for women, such as healthcare or education, should only be rendered by female employees.

Meanwhile, in the New Welfare party’s manifesto, it demands that “morals, chastity, mercy, devotion and productivity” should be strengthened among women through female “role models”. Both parties have aggressively lobbied against LGBTQ+ rights, targeting them as “perversion”, as well as for the criminalisation of adultery. They have also vowed to scrap law 6284, introduced by the AKP government in 2012, which aims to prevent violence against women. Women’s rights activists have accused them of aiming for “Taliban-style” rule.

Despite almost unfettered presidential powers, Erdoğan may need the support of these parties to push through legislative changes in parliament. Their presence further normalises discriminatory attitudes, already rampant among the governing bloc, towards women and LGBTQ+ people both inside and outside state politics.

The dangers facing women and LGBTQ+ people in Turkey have already increased in recent years. Femicide and gender-based violence are on the rise. Erdoğan compared abortions to murder in 2012, and although he failed to introduce a law that would have banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, women across Turkey still struggle to access safe terminations. Women’s rights groups speak of a “de facto abortion ban”. Women’s Day marches have increasingly been met with police violence and the Istanbul Pride parade has been banned since 2015. Feminist and women’s rights groups have been increasingly sidelined. Many civil society organisations fighting against discrimination and gender-based violence have been shut down since the 2016 military coup attempt.

In 2021, Erdoğan unilaterally withdrew Turkey from the Istanbul convention, an international treaty to fight gender-based discrimination and violence. Women’s rights groups reported that police officers had refused to assist victims of domestic violence, citing the withdrawal from the convention.

Last year, bogus charges of “acting against morality” were brought against We Will Stop Femicide, a feminist platform that fights gender-based violence and keeps a monthly count of murdered women. If found guilty, the group will be shut down. The next hearing will take place on 13 September.

On Sunday night, rights activists took to social media to declare that the election results should not deter people from fighting. “Our hopes should not be broken, but we need to be aware of the consequences,” tweeted Fidan Ataselim, general secretary of the We Will Stop Femicide platform. “We have no other choice than to keep organising, to give voice to reason and to stick together.”

At the same time, political leaders around the world rushed to congratulate Erdoğan on his election win. EU politicians are perhaps a little too relieved that the Turkish president, who has been a willing partner in their project to keep refugees out of EU states, will remain in power. . For them, Kati Piri, a Dutch MP and former Turkey EU rapporteur, had one question: “What’s your message to the 25 million people who voted for restoration of democracy and rule of law?”

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