Friday, May 18, 2018

Unappreciative, ungrateful - Israel National News on those refusing to say a prayer for the Chayalim defending Eretz Yisroel. Avraham Avinu, Yaakov Avinu, Moshe Rabbeinu, Yehoshua bin Nun, Dovid Hamelech, Devora Hanevia, the Purim story and the Chanukah Story etc all include a real army fighting for Am Yisroel. Jews were counted according to kol Yotzei Tzava, those elegible to fight. Shevet Gad and Asher were reprimanded for perhaps allowing their brethren to fight alone. Elef leMateh, Elef KeMateh. Why are you exempt?

Netanyahu 'Ready for a shocker? I agree with Hamas' - Israel National News

Fwd: May 18, 2018 - From the Blog: "Middle East and Terrorism" - 10 new articles



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"Middle East and Terrorism" - 10 new articles
  • Gaza's Miseries Have Palestinian Authors
  • The Democrats' Kanye Problem
  • Muslim Candidate for Governor Comes Unhinged Over Sharia
  • The First Pro-Israel Administration
  • Millennial Conservative Candace Owens Ignites Snowflake Meltdown Nationwide
  • Guardian Editorial on Gaza Perfectly Shows the Media's Anti-Israel Bias and Hatred
  • Hamas: Fight to the last Gazan
  • Why Is Hamas So Interested in Palestinian Deaths?
  • VIDEO -- Behind the Smokescreen: Hamas Unrest in Gaza
  • Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj, crime capital of the Negev

  • Gaza's Miseries Have Palestinian Authors
    by Bret Stephens

    There's a pattern here — harm yourself, blame the other — and it deserves to be highlighted amid the torrent of morally blind, historically illiterate criticism to which Israelis are subjected every time they defend themselves against violent Palestinian attack.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/gaza-palestinians-protests.html

    The Democrats' Kanye Problem
    by Walter Williams

    The electoral disaster the Left sees on the horizon.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270208/democrats-kanye-problem-walter-williams

    Muslim Candidate for Governor Comes Unhinged Over Sharia
    by Leo Hohmann

    Says to GOP opponent: 'You may not hate Muslims, but Muslims definitely hate you!'

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270165/muslim-candidate-governor-comes-unhinged-over-leo-hohmann

    The First Pro-Israel Administration
    by Daniel Greenfield

    Why Trump can be pro-Israel when no one else could.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270206/first-pro-israel-administration-daniel-greenfield

    Millennial Conservative Candace Owens Ignites Snowflake Meltdown Nationwide
    by Robyn Dolgin

    Democrats are right to be nervous about Candace Owens, who is driving a stake through the heart of Democratic messaging.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/millennial_conservative_candace_owens_ignites_snowflake_meltdown_nationwide.html

    Guardian Editorial on Gaza Perfectly Shows the Media's Anti-Israel Bias and Hatred
    by Adam Levick

    The Guardian erases Hamas' presence and responsibility for the riots on Israel's border.

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/05/16/guardian-editorial-on-gaza-perfectly-shows-the-medias-anti-israel-bias-and-hatred/

    Hamas: Fight to the last Gazan
    by Dr. Mordechai Kedar

    Hamas has betrayed the residents of Gaza. Instead of an Islamic regime, it has built one based on fear. Instead of hope, it has brought despair.

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22157

    Why Is Hamas So Interested in Palestinian Deaths?
    by Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

    On May 14, Hamas explained the goals of the "Great Return March," which are the elimination of the State of Israel and ethnically cleansing any Jewish presence from the land

    http://jcpa.org/article/why-hamas-interested-palestinian-deaths/

    VIDEO -- Behind the Smokescreen: Hamas Unrest in Gaza
    by Gatestone

    If Palestinians managed to breach the fence, they will presumably kill and capture as many Israelis as possible, while calling it a "return." If Palestinians are killed, Hamas can always blame Israel.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12304/video-hamas-violence-gaza

    Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj, crime capital of the Negev
    by JNS

    Most of the houses of Bir Hadaj were built illegally on Jewish-owned land that was seized by force.

    https://www.jns.org/bir-hadaj-crime-capital-of-the-negev/


    Thursday, May 17, 2018

    Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: Attacking Israel for $100, Defending it for $13


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    Daniel Greenfield's article: Attacking Israel for $100, Defending it for $13

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    Attacking Israel for $100, Defending it for $13

    Posted: 16 May 2018 12:37 PM PDT

    Hamas supporters in Gaza held the world's first peaceful protest with hand grenades, pipe bombs, cleavers and guns. And Israeli soldiers peacefully defended their country leaving multiple Hamas attackers at peace. The Great Hamas March of Return came with instructions to, "bring a knife, dagger, or handgun, if you have one, and to leave them under your clothes and not use them or show them, except if you identify one of the soldiers or settlers."

    "We will tear down the border," Hamas Prime Minister Yahya Sinwar had peacefully vowed. "And we will tear out their hearts from their bodies."

    But the only hearts his terror thugs tore out were already bleeding with sympathy for Islamic terrorists and bile for the Israelis they were there to kill with those knives, daggers and guns.

    The Hamas mob chanted, "Allahu Akbar" and the genocidal racist threat of, "Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud," a reference to the primal Islamic massacre of the Jews. While IDF soldiers held back the invaders, the jets of the IAF targeted the snake's head striking Hamas compounds and outposts. By 5.30 PM, the Hamas organizers changed course and began urging the thugs away from further fence attacks.

    Hamas had offered $100 to every rioter. During previous violent assaults back in April, the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group had been offering $200 to anyone shot by Israelis, $500 for severe injuries and $3,000 to the dead.

    $100 a day may not seem like a lot, but the Israeli teen soldiers they're trying to kill, earn $13 a day.

    The Hamas supporting thugs are depicted as helpless, starving victims who can barely lift the firebombs they're throwing at Israelis, but they make ten times as much as the Israeli soldiers they are there to kill.

    Hamas can write all those checks to its aspiring killers because the cash is coming from Iran.

    Last year, Senwar, whom Israel had released in exchange for captured Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit, had boasted that Iran was once again "the largest backer financially and militarily".

    That comes out to an estimated $100 million a year.

    With as many as 50,000 Hamas supporters in Gaza participating in the day's attacks at $100 a head, over 1,000 allegedly injured at least $200 each, and another 52 allegedly killed at $3,000 each (there is no reason to treat Hamas casualty figures coming out of Gaza as anything other than propaganda), the whole thing cost Hamas and Iran $5.3 million. The unmarked cargo plane filled with foreign currency that Obama dispatched to Iran carried $400 million. That was part of a known $1.7 billion cash payment.

    But the total Obama terror payments to Tehran may go as high as $33.6 billion.

    Despite media misreporting, the Hamas mass fence attacks began back on March 30 and even though their Great March of Return was supposed to end in mid-May, the show proved to be unexpectedly popular in Tehran, Brussels and Berkeley, and the attacks will continue through at least June.

    Even a single one of Obama's cash smuggling runs to Iran is enough to fund attacks just like these for two and a half months. And the $100,000 that an Iranian group offered to anyone who blows up the embassy? That illegal cash run can pay for bounties on every American diplomatic facility in the world.

    Lefties bemoaning Israel's moral authority can look up and follow the money trail from Iran's IRGC (the terror mothership whom Obama resisted sanctioning), to the unmarked cargo planes from Obama, and to their own greasy little fingers that pushed the button or marked the ballot for him. The Israeli teens in IDF khaki with rules of engagement for using force longer than some graduate thesis papers are dealing with a problem from hell created by Democrat voters who wanted to feel inspired by Obama.

    The cost of that inspiration today ran to dozens dead. If the Israeli teens shooting in self-defense lack moral authority, where is the moral authority of the Obama voters whose votes financed the attack?

    Those Israeli teens in green earn $408 a month if they're in a combat unit. Before a raise a few years ago, they weren't even earning $300. Support units earn $327 and rear units $225. Not only is that far lower than the average civilian salary, but if often hardly covers living expenses. Dodging the draft isn't hard these days. The average red-shirted hipster does it easily, putting in a few years at a fake startup before heading to Berlin to protest Zionism. And those who serve know if that they make a single mistake, if they shoot an attacker who turns out not to be armed, Israeli leftists will see them jailed.

    Hamas supporters charge at them for $100 a day. And IDF soldiers hold the line for $400 a month.

    So why for $400 a month, do Israeli soldiers face down mobs of tens of thousands of Hamas supporters baying for their blood? The average IDF soldier who reports for duty comes from one of the Judean communities (slurred as settlements) under attack by Hamas or from development towns in the north under attack by Hezbollah. He is often a religious settler who sees the hand of G-d in the high hills or a descendant of Mizrahi immigrants whose recent ancestors were oppressed under Muslim rule.

    When your family lives under fire, holding the line on the Hamas mob isn't an abstract idea of duty.

    The Hamas invaders were there to kill Israelis. The Israeli soldiers were there to protect Israelis. The attackers were invading someone else's land while the defenders were protecting their own country.

    That's why Hamas has to pay its rioting thugs ten times as much as Israeli soldiers earn to attack them.

    While the $100 a day thugs threw rocks and firebombs, the professional terrorists hung back waiting for a breach in the fence. Some were caught planting bombs. And killed. They are among the 10 known Hamas terrorists killed in the Gaza fighting and bemoaned by the media as victims of a Jewish massacre.

    The $400 a month Israeli teenager with a rifle is there as the front line in case the fence is breached. Hamas wants to take more hostages to free more terrorists. If it can't do that, it will kill them. And if the attackers make it past the soldiers, they will hit Israeli towns and villages hoping to kill anyone they find.

    While the fence holds up, the Hamas terrorists and their supporters sent flaming kites in the hopes of setting Israeli farms and fields on fire. One such attack had already destroyed 400 acres of wheat.

    A sympathetic New York Times piece from last week described the "flaming-kite squadrons" prepping hundreds of fire kites, but unfortunately, "The wind was blowing the other way."

    "The wind is still against us," Ismail al-Qrinawi whined. "We are waiting for it to pick up so we can fly tens of kites and burn their crops." Instead, "the direction of the wind not only thwarted the kites, but also blew copious amounts of Israeli tear gas toward the protesters."

    Pharaoh and his legions had the same bad experience with the wind. G-d must be an Islamophobe.

    Hamas organized the invasion. It urged its human shields to head to the fence telling them that the Israelis had run away. That was the same way Egypt's Nasser had tricked Jordan's King Hussein during the Six Day War. Instead of defeating the Israelis and salvaging Gaza, Nasser's scheme led to the liberation of Jerusalem, along with Judea and Samaria by the indigenous Jewish people. And it also had disastrous consequences for this latest attempted invasion by Egyptian-Jordanian settlers into Israel.

    While the Hamas supporters were destroying their own crossing point infrastructure, as they had previously trashed their own gas lines, the United States was inaugurating the opening of an embassy in Jerusalem. Despite media misinformation, the riots predated the embassy and will postdate it.

    The media used contrasting photos of the embassy opening and the Pallywood fake photos of protesters crying for the cameras and pretending to limp on crutches to smear Israel and America. And as usual they missed the real story. While Israelis and Americans were building something, Muslim terrorists were destroying everything they could get their hands on. While Rabbis and Pastors blessed, Imams cursed.

    Hamas Sheikh Iyad Abu Funun had sworn on the Koran that, "We will not leave a single Jew on our Islamic land." It did not matter, "whether left-Wing, right-wing, secular, religious, or extremist."

    That is what this is about.

    The dedication of the embassy is a leap of faith. Faith in building rather than destruction. Faith in life instead of death. Faith in the G-d who watches over Jerusalem, not the Allah for whom Gaza burns.




    UPDATE: New Israeli information states that it's a $100 subsidy per family for rioters.



    Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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    Wednesday, May 16, 2018

    Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: How Not To Get Shot by a Soldier


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    Daniel Greenfield's article: How Not To Get Shot by a Soldier

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    How Not To Get Shot by a Soldier

    Posted: 15 May 2018 06:49 PM PDT

    The following is intended to serve as a useful guide to various activists, protesters and other completely non-violent folk who happen to be packing knives, guns, rocks and grenades. You will encounter various law enforcement and military personnel-- this is how not to get shot by them.

    First of all it's important to remember that if you attack an armed man in a uniform, he will very probably shoot you.

    Even given the most restrictive Rules of Engagement in the world which forbid him from opening fire unless he is outnumbered 600 to 1, and only when he has been given specific authorization by the UN to use deadly force-- there will still come a time when he will open fire on you. This will occur when he feels that he or his comrades are in danger. At this point there will be bullets headed your way, and no matter what you learned at your Madrassa or in Protest Studies at Evergreen State High University, you are not bulletproof. Really, you're not.

    The good news is that there is a very easy way not to get shot.

    Step 1. Don't attack soldiers.

    Step 2. When in doubt, see Step 1.

    That means not trying to disembowel them with your peaceful knife and not throwing rocks at their head. Because while you might think that legal activism includes attempted murder, the men in uniform think that attempted murder should result in sudden death. And when that happens you will realize that fanatical passion for your poorly thought out cause and a medieval weapon are no match for trained soldiers who have guns and know how to use them.

    The thing to remember is that while just about every revolution you read about does involve a crowd of people rushing at armed men, those people usually end up dead or in a lot of pain. You should expect to have the same thing happen to you. Putting on a Kefiyah or a pair of Birkenstocks does not exempt you from the laws of physics, or the code of common sense. Putting your wacky beliefs about a pedophile who rode a flying horse in a dream aside, if you attack someone, you should expect them to respond. And if they have a gun, they will respond with bullets.

    At that point you will either become a martyr or the world's ugliest man.

    Since the dawn of time, men have guarded the borders of their nations. The border indicates that the lands within are the possession of their tribe and their chieftain. That border may only be crossed with the permission of the laws of the people who rule over it. To cross that border without their permission is to invite war, or at least a shower of arrows, spears or more lately, bullets. To cross that border for hostile purposes is to take your life in your hands. And unless you have an army with you, those hands are slick, greasy and operated by a mind completely devoid of common sense.

    Similarly since the dawn of time men have responded blow for blow, rock for rock and fist for fist. If you claim to be non-violent, that may remove from you the risk of suffering preemptive violence, but it does not give you license to engage in violence yourself under the dubious shield of words. Because words are only good for fighting other words. Once you have a weapon out, then you have put words such as "non-violence" or "pacifist" or "youth" aside. You have given up the moral protection of presumed innocence, for a life and death struggle. And if you do not have the stomach for the consequences of that struggle, then you should not raise that knife or that stone. Because there will be no use complaining afterward about disproportionate violence.

    It is also written in the codes of common sense, that only the attacker can be guilty of disproportionate violence, not the defender.

    It is the business of the defender only to repel you with as little damage to himself as possible. If you have a rock, you should not expect him to put down his gun, and throw rocks at you. And if you have a knife, you should not expect him to set aside his gun for a sharp blade. This is not a duel of honor, but an exchange of force intended to result in injury or death. His business is not to mete out an equivalent level and method of force to yours, but to dispatch you as quickly as possible. Prior to your attack on him, his concern was for your safety. After your attack on him, his concern is only for his own.

    What you need to understand is that for you violence is political. To soldiers and law enforcement officers, violence is only a tool. In your mind, your attempt to kill is noble, while his attempt to kill you is vile and cruel. In his mind however there is an equation, violence set against violence.

    He does not particularly care what you believe, just that you not attack him while you are believing it. To you he is only a rage puppet in a political or religious narrative. To him, once you attack you are nothing more than a moving target. Understanding this will help you to not get shot. Failing to understand this is how martyrs are made. But the thing about martyrdom is that the health plan is terrible and there's no long term prospects to it at all.

    The difference between terrorists and and soldiers, is that terrorists want to kill people, but lack the necessary skills to do it well. While soldiers have the skills to kill people, but would rather not do it. When angry people with rocks, knives, crowbars and a few guns attack trained personnel with guns, the victory goes to the people who are trained to kill, not to those who want to kill. And when the blooded radicals complain about disproportionate force, what they're really doing is whining about how surprisingly hard it is to kill people.

    The average radical, lefty or Islamic, is as stupid as he is vicious. His cleverness exhausts itself in invective and rhetoric, which he discovers has surprisingly little application in a firefight. What is left is a would be murderer who rather late in the game discovers that he is trying to kill people, who are better at killing than he is. And that he came woefully unprepared for the encounter. Part of his misguided thinking is the belief that a knife or a rock are more moral weapons than a gun. They are not. A gun is the most moral weapon invented because it is efficient, quick and deadly. Killing a man with a knife is positively horrifying compared to shooting him in the head. Soldiers and law enforcement officers understand this. Subconsciously so do radicals, which is why they long for the knife, the rock and the nail studded bombs. If they kill, they prefer to be brutal and cruel about it.

    The terrorist is utterly terrible at the art of war, but excels at the art of making his innocent victims suffer. The soldier dispatches his targets quickly and cleanly. For the terrorist however, inflicting agony is the sadistic purpose of the entire exercise. The suicide bomber gives himself a quick death, while mutilating those in his vicinity. He spreads horror and shock. And of course terror.

    But the media finds something awful about the soldier who executes his target with one round to the head, and something faintly heroic about the suicide bomber "making a statement" by taking away the arms of a 13 year old girl. Because the media radicals admire murderous passion, but find something horrible about the detachment of the soldier just doing his job. To kill horribly because of passion is somehow better in their eyes, than to kill cleanly and dispassionately to keep the people around you safe.

    But terrorists only exist when they are tolerated. And they are tolerated by people who do not think like soldiers, but think like the media. Who want to find ways of making terrorists less angry, rather than finding ways to make more terrorists dead. Such people write narrowly restrictive rules of engagement, prosecute soldiers for defending themselves, and are outraged when a bullet prevents a massacre, rather than being outraged by the planned massacre instead.

    But let us be clear about it. When you pick up a knife or a rock or a gun, you are not facing the politicians or the generals who answer to them. You are facing men who bear you no particular ill will, but do want to get home to their families that night or that month or that week. And if you do anything that risks interfering with that, they will shoot you.

    They are just guarding the front lines. They are not politicians. They just have guns and know how to use them. And if you attack them, you will die. And in that moment you will realize that neither your moving poems or your Koran, will do you the least bit of good. Because while you have the passion, they have the training. And the best to not be shot by men trained in the art of violence, is to put down the knife, the rock or the gun and walk the other way.
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