No to Capitulation

Newly Freed 'Heroes' of the Palestinian 'Resistance' 

Aside from the September 13, 1993, Oslo Accords, the worst self-inflicted damage done to Israeli security was implemented by Binyamin Netanyahu on October 18, 2011, when he released the most blood-thirsty terrorists in Israel’s prisons in exchange for one captive IDF soldier.

Many of these individuals went on to rebuild Hamas in Gaza, including Yahya Sinwar, who was serving four life sentences, and to conduct terror operations in the West Bank. Others have played a role in Hamas “outside” operating from Turkey and Qatar.

Thousands of Israelis have been killed and wounded as a result of Netanyahu’s catastrophic surrender to terror.

Now, under similar pressure, Israel’s weakest Prime Minister in history is toying with another prisoner release in return for some of the 200-plus captives taken by Hamas on October 7.

Any such release would torpedo our entire war effort, insult the sacrifices made by the families of IDF fallen, undermine Israel's efforts to rebuild its shattered deterrence, and send a message to our enemies that we have entirely lost our resolve to survive in this region.

Rather than capitulate, Israel’s message must be: All Israeli and non-Israeli captives and remains must be released unconditionally.

The devastation, dislocation, and suffering in Gaza is the exclusive responsibility of Hamas.

If you want to end the suffering – call on Hamas to surrender unconditionally.

Netanyahu, do not capitulate – again.

My Open Letter to Jewish Quislings

 

Jewish Quislings

An Open Letter.

To Juice Voice for Peas, IfWhatWhat, Grand Rabbinic Council of Reconstructionists, NefelUK, JustJuice, JewEat? AsaJew, Juice Red Guard Corbyn Brigade, et al.

My Wretched Juvenile Quislings,

Not to worry. I will not be adulting you. I will not try to change your mind about the Gaza War. You have made your morally relavatist bed. And you will be known forever for your October 2023 choices.

Jewish civilization is a big tent. It is decentralized, and there are many contending tribes. I do not believe in excommunication; no one is authorized to serve as our civilization’s gatekeeper. 

Yet there have always been some general rules of the game. For example, if you accepted Jesus as your savior, you became a Christian. A Meshumad might be Halachically Jewish, I don’t know for sure, but they were dead to the community.

For many of you, Baptism is not an option. You are atheists, so embracing Islam or Christianity to win the acceptance of the non-Jewish world is not an alternative. You might dabble in Buddism, but that doesn’t buy you creds on the street. 

Vidkun Quisling

My Wretched Juvenile Quislings, what you want is acceptance in the woke world. You want to march with the masses who are asses. To chant, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be [Jew] Free.” You were raised and educated woke. You have little, if any, Jewish education. What precious little Jewish literacy you have emphasized the Holocaust and Tikun Olam. And either your teachers were themselves ignoramuses, or you willfully misunderstood the significance of the Shoah and the meaning of Tikun Olam.

If I threw you in a synagogue, you wouldn’t know which way to face or how to hold a prayerbook. 

Or maybe you are among those who did get a limited Jewish education and, like the apostates of medieval times, use what you know to harass your people. You recall the perfidious turncoats who incited the Christian clergy to burn Jewish books.

For most of you, however, your Jewish identity is rooted in having eaten bagels, lox, and cream cheese and – let’s not forget – having a good sense of humor.

You hook up with Islamists who would slit your throat if you landed on their turf. You somehow can accept 23 ethno-Arab states (see Arab League) and 61 Islamic states (see Organization of Islamic Cooperation) that identify as Arab or Muslim. However,  somehow, one Jewish state is too much for you. Too ethnic. Too parochial.

Your essential “Jewish” identity is rooted in the negative. What makes you Jewish, by your definition, is opposition to Israel and Israeli policies. If you get your way and Israel is destroyed, what happens then to your “identity,” you vacuous putz? Like the Wicked Witch of the East, you’ll melt away.

You say you are doing Tikun Olam. How, in your twisted, woke minds, will the world be repaired if Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PLO triumph and Israel is defeated? Have you read the PLO Charter or the Hamas Covenant? Oh, sorry. They are probably not on your Instagram feed.

Rest assured, I am not trying to sway or deprogram you. I mean only to disparage you and express my contempt, not just to you. Your parents have much to be ashamed of. They had a choice about what values to inculcate, and the outcome speaks for itself.

And don’t think you are absolved if you hide behind “bothsiderism.” Maybe suggesting that under certain circumstances, Israel might (maybe) have a right to exist, or under qualified circumstances, Israel might (maybe) have a right to (gasp) defend itself. And then taking a stance that makes survival and defense impossible. Or maybe you’ve paid lip service to the “hostages” while supporting a ceasefire to save Hamas so that it can fight another day.

Bothsiderism is the choice of ethical weaklings. It’s rooted in Obama-babble, “What is also true is that” countered by “And what is true is that”... Intellectual Yada. Yada. Yada.

And so, my wretched juvenile quisling, there ain’t no coming home. There is a right and a wrong, a good and an evil. Israel is imperfect. The Zionist enterprise is flawed. But Hamas is evil. You picked Hamas.

Besides knowing right from wrong, one of life’s most elemental lessons is not to betray your civilization. No matter how full of self-loathing or how alienated from your heritage – do not hand over your people to the enemy in their time of distress.  

You have done that. You are a 21^st-century Meshumad. Don’t let the door slam your ass on the way out.

 

 

 

 

Gaza War - Aggregation & Commentary

Yehya Sinwar in subterranean hospital compound.

Priestess of Jewish anti-Israelism Perhaps the most hard working, skilled, and well-funded anti-Israel Jewish voice on X is @LaraFriedmanDC, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace @FMEP. @FMEP, in its various incarnations, has since the 1980s been instrumental in working to debilitate Jewish support for Israel among American Jews. You’d be surprised who has been in and out of their doors and coffers. While Friedman also plays a role with the U.S. wing of Peace Now, most of its supporters have no clue about the real work of @FMEP and how the two instruments are linked.

What would Engels do? Bernie Sanders -  I saw a young socialist holding up a pro-Hamas sign at some protest in Washington, lamenting how Bernie was standing with Israel against a ceasefire in Gaza. Against a ceasefire in return for nothing. Against a ceasefire that would save Hamas without releasing the captives taken on October 7. I had no idea what she was talking about until I came across this interview. The woke socialists look set to excommunicate Bernie. But I welcome his late-in-life epiphany. Let’s see if it is lasting.

Congratulations The great genda philosopher Judith Butler, an expert in ethix “third-wave feminism” and “queer theory,” has been awarded the “Sheik Yassen Chair in LBGTQRA-T” studies at the Islamic University of Gaza الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة It is expected to be a brief tenure. Writing in the anti-Zionist London Review of Books, Butler, an “AsAJew,” engages in tedious woke bothsiderism and doublespeak. But let me try to summarize her position. Israel=bad. Hamas=not ideal. Hamas= hideous Hamas=do not deserve to be blacklisted or threatened.Israel=settler-colonial Hamas= terrifying and appalling answer to Israel=racist framing of contemporary violence Israel=recapitulates the colonial opposition between the ‘civilised ones’ and the ‘animals’ who must be routed or destroyed  Solution= an end to the state of Israel that was itself founded in violence no future can be imagined Peace= a euphemism for normalisation which means keeping structures of inequality, rightlessness, and racism in place. Got all that? And, yes, she makes a nice living from teaching and writing this stuff.

Let’s keep Detroit’s Samantha Woll in mind as we await a determination if her murder was related to the antisemitism and anti-Israelism sweeping America and Europe. Mass rallies against Israel that often devolve into orgies of antisemitism have been held in London (on the Tube and in the street), NYC, and Washington, DC. In Sweden, “bomb Israel” rallies are staged outside synagogues.

The Washington Post hones the art of the micro-aggressive headline. “As Gaza death toll soars, secrecy shrouds Israel’s targeting process. Experts say Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza, which are classified, appear to include a higher threshold for civilian casualties than in past wars.”  So, IDF operations have not been signaled to the Post in advance, and the Post disapproves of the unwillingness of the IDF to sacrifice its soldiers to protect the human shields Hamas has taken. Thousands of willing human shields sat on plastic chairs outside a hospital for a screening of the “best jihadist attacks on occupation soldiers,” cheering the explosions.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (J Street) – is what you need to understand in parsing The New York Times complaint that “U.S. Officials Fear American Guns Ordered by Israel Could Fuel West Bank [Settler] Violence” J Street planting stories in the more than willing NYT.

‘UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians’ – What you need to know if you are just joining us is that UNRWA is the only refugee agency whose mandate is NOT to resettle refugees permanently. It is tasked to keep Palestinian refugees, whether in Palestine or abroad, refugees in perpetuity. Almost all its employees are Palestinian Arabs. Its schools teach the Palestinian curriculum of political agitprop: no to permanent resettlement or even permanent housing in "refugee camps." Its buildings have sometimes been used to store weapons and to shoot at Israelis.

Summarizing This war will not be quick. Israelis are paying a heavy price—soldier funerals. Air raids sirens over metro Tel Aviv. Hezbollah attacks in the north, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad launches from the south. Jerusalem is comparatively quiet of sirens. This is a war of “no choice”. It is either us or them. People who want a ceasefire without getting our hostages out and the removal of Hamas are, in effect, siding with Hamas. There is no room for both-sider-ism.

 

Want me to beg you to side with Israel? Fuggedaboutit

This is what 'Never Again' means. Get over it.

There is not enough Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, email, or WhatsApp to change one mind about which side to support in the Gaza War.

Those who identify with the Islamist cause, the Palestinian Arabs, global socialism, the woke of various hues, and their strange bedfellows, white supremacists – and a not insignificant number of Jewish apostates and quislings – will do everything in their power to save Hamas from destruction.

They will send around dead baby pictures but not a single image of an Islamist launching a rocket or shooting an automatic weapon. They do not want to end Gaza’s suffering by calling on Hamas leaders to crawl out of their million-dollar sewers. Do the honorable thing and give up. Hands up. White flag. Save their people from further suffering. Face the firing squad. Collect their 72 virgins. 

They will not blame Hamas for the humanitarian plight in the Strip. For placing command centers below hospitals, weapons stockpiles in mosques, and only Allah knows what they have hidden in UNWRA buildings. 

In the pro-Hamas narrative, this war began when we hit them back. 

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And then there is us. Much fewer in number. 

Israelis from across the political and religious spectrum, pro-Israel Diaspora Jews, and neo-Jews -unaffiliated types, like liberals and the woke mugged by the reality of the past several weeks. Some folks who never saw themselves as Israel-centric.

Plus, non-Jewish Philo-semites of various hues. And Christian Zionists.

That more or less covers our side. Did I forget somebody?

We need to keep telling each other our message. Because we are swimming in an overwhelmingly anti-Israel, let’s face it, anti-Jewish sea. Our safety is threatened. Attempted pogroms at airports and in business districts. Marchers outside our windows with blood in their eyes and venom in their throats.

We hunker down, awaiting terrorist attacks against our institutions.

In that context, we must remind ourselves that we are in a zero-sum conflict. It is either Israel or Hamas. It is either Israel or Islamic Jihad. Both Islamist groups exist not to build on Palestinian Arab autonomy but to destroy the Jewish state. There is no compromise with Hamas, with Islamic Jihad, with ISIS, with militant Islamism.

Hamas is responsible for the safety of its citizens – Israel is not.

Hamas hides behind Arab civilians. Al Jazeera covers for it. Qatar is the paymaster of both. Both discourage the innocents from leaving danger zones. Hamas controls Gaza’s health authority and hospitals. No one speaks publicly to the media in Gaza without the tacit approval of Hamas.

Hamas carried over 200 Israelis and others into captivity – men, women, and children. 

Hamas butchered hundreds of innocent civilians and first responders.

Since day one of the war, Hamas has never stopped launching rockets at our civilian population, forcing the evacuation of Israeli towns and villages. The upheaval they unleashed has caused terrible internal dislocation in Israel.

Hamas has destroyed our tourism and is intent on devastating our economy, including the high-tech sector.

Behind Hamas stands Iran. Then Russia, China, Turkey, and North Korea. Plus, Pakistan and most of the Muslim and Arab world. Did I mention Qatar?

Western countries are wobbly at best in their support for Israel. Most are hypocritical. They say we have a right to defend ourselves. Yet they know the constraints they place on us make overcoming Hamas impossible. 

Most EU countries either abstained or voted against us at the UN General Assembly this past Saturday. I get it. They don't want the streets of Berlin, London, and Paris to explode.

Under the guise of humanitarian intervention, they want to see Hamas fight another day. Under the guise of a ceasefire, they want to see Hamas fight another day.

During WWII, no one held a stopwatch to Churchill and Roosevelt. No one told them to be mindful that only card-carrying Nazis get hurt. No one warned them not to be disproportionate. Because everyone understood they had to win or the world would be benighted. Collateral damage is unavoidable since the enemy uses its own population as human shields. 

No. At this point, I will not try to convince anyone to side with us. People have made their moral beds. Let them be known forever by which side they chose. 

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

“Stop the killing on both sides” is a dribble you say to cover your ass. It's bullshit.

There ain’t no neutral here. There ain’t no crawling into a hole and waiting for the unpleasantness to pass. 

It’s judgment time in the adult leagues.

Meantime, all we can do is give each other strength, support one another, and maybe cut each other a bit of slack.

And we must – each in our way – fight on. Fight on until Hamas and Islamic Jihad are wiped out.

This is what Never Again means.

 

Sunday - October 29 - Gaza War - Aggregation & Commentary

Netanyahu: No Apology. No Responsibility

 

Better baptism.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones, chief woke officer at The New York Times, has been positively kvelling on X (formerly Twitter) over the number of marchers for “Palestine” in London and New York City who are of Jewish ancestry.  Ms. Wells, let me explain. When baptism isn’t an option, and neither is embracing Islam, the next best thing for apostate Jews and quislings is marching for “Palestine.” You can think of them as queers for conversion therapy or chickens for Colonel Sanders or Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive or @IfNotNowOrg. 

While on the subject of the Times, I can report that the paper’s op-ed pages, at least in the international edition, are back to being Palestinian-occupied territory. There is a comfort in the familiar, I suppose. 

Londonstan 2023

Ramallah beckons

Hamas director of ecumenical and interfaith relations Ismail Haniyeh has a special message to his Jewish supporters concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Here is the link (or copy and paste) 

https://x.com/IsraelinUSA/status/1718021899056210213?s=20

For all the talk of solidarity and high-level visits right after Black Saturday by Germany’s Olaf Scholz, the UK’s Rishi Sunak, and France’s Emmanuel Macron, when push comes to shove, Germany and the UK ‘abstained’ from backing Israel at the UN GA. France voted outright against Israel. So, let's do the math: 120 countries are maliciously anti-Israel; 14 stood with Israel, including the US, and 45 have no backbone and abstained... like people who see and hear a street mugging but roll down their Venetian blinds.

UK and Germany Abstain. France against Israel.

"I'm with them."

Last night saw the first news conference since Binyamin Netanyahu took office in December 2022. As anticipated, he changed the subject in response to the six or seven questions from Israeli reporters in Hebrew. In perhaps his only direct reply, he falsely asserted that it had never been his policy to boost Hamas to the detriment of the PLO. And he refused to apologize or take direct responsibility for Black Saturday. The wizard of bollocks had hoped that appearing with his nemesis DM Yoav Gallant and the well-meaning Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz would inure him from looking guilty. It didn't. Meanwhile, Gallant and Ganz looked desperate for the entire charade to be over.

Portentously, Bibi glossed over the fact that he had freed practically the entire current Hamas leadership in Gaza, Turkey, and Qatar (link to list) in the Schalit deal. 

Now, I fear that under comparable public pressure, our weakest ever prime minister, encouraged by his overbearing wife, appears to be mulling freeing every Palestinian Arab convict in Israeli prisons with blood on their hands – up to and including the butchers who carried out the Black Saturday massacres - in return for most of the captives Hamas took. 

That would be a mistake of catastrophic proportions. 

Yet Bibi might try to ascribe the original Schalit deal to Ahad Ha'am, Ben-Gurion, or Yair Lapid, and say their mistakes forced him to do the latest prisoner exchange. 

You never know what a spineless serial liar will say. But you can be sure many of his bespelled followers will believe him.