Seriously.
Why do we need utterly reprehensible examples of human refuse to compare to the rest of the human race?
We don't need them or any of its equally rancid clones.
The line in the proverbial has been crossed so many times. When DOES the hammer come down?
Hamas is scum. Pure and simple.
But, hey! Don't take my word for it:
A recent social media post shared by Israel’s Embassy in the U.S. underscores the vast reserves of wealth in the hands of the Hamas terror group, and the disparity between its leaders and the Palestinian people they claim to represent.
The 65-second video notes that, with a turnover of $1 billion annually, Hamas is among terrorist organizations second only to the Islamic State, which has an estimated two to three times as large a turnover.
It notes that Hamas uses its funds for tunnel-building rather than basic infrastructure such as wells and water treatment, with the result that 12 per cent of childhood deaths in Gaza are due to contaminated water.
It also estimates the net worth of several Hamas leaders — all of whom, it notes, live hundreds of kilometres from Gaza, in Qatar. Abu Marzuk, deputy chair of the Hamas Political Bureau is worth $3 billion, while senior leaders Khaled Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh are each worth about $4 billion.
The website i24news goes even further, giving a recent estimate for Mashal’s worth of $5 billion, with an investment portfolio that includes banks in Egypt and real estate projects in the Arabian Gulf countries.
It suggests that hundreds of mid- to high-level Hamas leaders have become millionaires, often due to the 20 per cent tax on all smuggled goods brought through the organization’s network of underground tunnels, and through international donors, primarily Qatar.
And then in 2005, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, an area it had similarly occupied since seizing it from Egyptian control during the Six Day War. Until then, Gaza had resembled the current state of the West Bank; a majority-Arab region under Israeli occupation, with the odd Jewish settlement thrown in.
But under Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza, they didn’t just withdraw their military presence — they also forcibly evacuated more than 9,000 Israeli settlers. The operation was so thorough that it even saw the exhumation of a Jewish cemetery that included the bodies of people who had died in Palestinian terrorist attacks.
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The IDF on Wednesday night released a recording of a conversation between a Hamas commander and a Gazan citizen revealing how the terrorist group takes fuel from hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
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The messages kept coming in to Kibbutz Holit’s emergency WhatsApp group.
“Save us, save us,” “Where is the army?” “They are trying to burn down the houses” and “There’s gunfire.”
A seven-year-old girl reported that she was hiding in a closet; a 15-year-old reported that his parents were killed and that he was shot in the stomach; a woman reported that she was suffocating from the smoke in the safe room of her burning house.
And a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor huddled in the safe room of his home with his Moldovan caretaker.
It was the nightmarish morning of Oct. 7 in the kibbutz near the border with Gaza. It had just been overrun by Hamas terrorists.
Pnina Hendler, 64, was visiting her daughter in northern Israel that holiday weekend, while her 91-year-old father, Moshe Ridler, was at home in Holit with his caretaker.
When the alerts started going off at 6:30 a.m., Hendler’s sister, who was with her, contacted the 35-year-old caretaker, Petru Boscov, saying they should go to the sealed room. It was to be the last time they communicated.
“We thought it would be rocket fire and then back to normal,” Hendler recounted in an interview with JNS on Wednesday. It was a feeling shared in homes throughout the area by Israelis used to years of shelling from Gaza. ...
Around 11 p.m., after 15 hours, the sisters learned that Ridler, known as “the grandfather of the kibbutz,” and his caretaker had been murdered in their home.
Search and rescue teams later reported that a rocket-propelled grenade had been fired and a hand grenade had been thrown into the house. The 91-year-old was found dead in the bed in the safe room, while Boscov’s corpse was found just outside.
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The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) released an interrogation video on Wednesday of a captured Hamas terrorist, who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel.
“The mission was simply to kill. We weren’t supposed to kidnap, just kill,” Hamas operative Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha told Shin Bet agents. “To kill every person we see and come back.”Asked if he was told to murder women and children as well, Abu Rusha said: “Yes.”“They told us that all the settlers were soldiers. There were soldiers among them. Kill every single one you see,” he said.In the six-minute interrogation tape, the terrorist calmly describes murdering young children hiding in a safe room.“We heard sounds of young children,” he said. “The cries of young children. A young child, something like that.”“I shot and Abu Kamil shot. We shot at the door,” he added. “Until we didn’t hear noise anymore.”The Shin Bet agent asked him what the difference was between him, given he had an order to kill from Hamas’s Nukhba commando forces and ISIS.“In the things the interrogator showed me, there is no difference, in the things I was shown,” Abu Rusha admitted. “I saw videos worse than ISIS. The ones the interrogator showed me.”Some 70 armed terrorists took over Kfar Aza, per Israel Defense Forces estimates. Hamas terrorists killed more than 100 people in the kibbutz, including 40 babies. They beheaded some of the babies.Hamas killed at least 1,400 Israelis in its Oct. 7 surprise attack on communities near the Gaza border. Terrorists wounded thousands more and took at least 240 Israelis and foreign nationals captive.
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Hamas has its supporters in peculiar quarters:
To Mr. Yu and other China watchers, Beijing’s reticence is little more than a facade. Far from being the peace advocate that it asserts to be, he said, the regime is “giddy about all the crises elsewhere in the world” that divert attention away from its own ambitions.
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Responding to a question about calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing war, Trudeau said he finds it "difficult to watch the news every night and see the impacts on civilians, including children, and not want it to stop."
"We need to see a cease-, we need to see a humanitarian pause so we can flow, we need ceasing of the levels of violence that we're seeing," he continued. "We need to see civilians protected, we need to see a humanitarian pause to get aid in, to get Canadians out, to get vulnerable people out, to get hostages released. These are the things that the people around the world are looking for."
In a clip posted to Instagram on Friday, hundreds of people slammed Trudeau for his response.
"What the h— is a 'humanitarian pause'?! You take a quick break to stop killing people and start again when you feel like it? Insane," someone wrote.
"Keep the pressure on him folks. He's starting to crack," someone else shared.
"He can't even get that word past his lips. It wants to come out but he's fighting it so badly," one person penned.
"And another one of those Freudian slips," another added.
"Say it, Trudeau! Why can't you just say it!" a person replied.
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Look what we get to look forward to:
And it could happen anywhere. “These are war crimes we thought we’d never hear of, let alone ever be a part of,” says Lapidot. “You may have never been to Israel, but Israel looks like Toronto. It’s a Western country and, like the Canadian people, we never thought something like this could take place here.”“I have a boy who’s 13 years old and he’s sleeping with us. I’m afraid for him, and he’s asking me if everything will be okay,” says Goren. “For the first time in my life, I don’t know what to tell him, because maybe he will be slaughtered one day. Maybe bombs will kill us or bury my house. I can’t reassure him.”
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In January 2022 – not long after hundreds of Freedom Convoy protesters arrived in downtown Ottawa – it quickly became a point of national controversy that demonstrators had draped the city’s Terry Fox statue with anti-mandate paraphernalia.Images showed the bronze statue with a Team Canada ball cap, a sign reading “mandate freedom,” and an upside-down Canadian flag – a symbol of the Freedom Convoy.The images prompted no less than 10 separate condemnations in the House of Commons or in Parliamentary committees – and inspired statements from Ottawa’s then-mayor Jim Watson and Brad West, the mayor of Terry Fox’s hometown of Port Coquitlam, B.C.“Whatever your cause, you don’t get to appropriate his legacy and you don’t touch his statue. Ever,” West wrote at the time.This week, he was one of the only politicians to strike the same tone in the wake of the statue being draped in Palestinian symbols.“This is wrong. In fact, garbage. Here’s a simple thought: leave Terry Fox’s statue (& veterans memorials alone),” wrote West in a Nov. 2 post to X.com.On Oct. 29, Parliament Hill and surrounding areas saw one of Canada’s largest pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Although framed as rally for a “ceasefire,” the event featured no shortage of open calls for Israeli destruction, most notably through repeated chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
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I don't think they even care about their own people:
Baskin is the director of Middle East operations with the International Communities Organisation, an advocacy group that works in conflict zones, and former columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
A senior official in Joe Biden’s administration said Hamas had repeatedly provided Israel, the United States and Egypt with lists of Palestinians who were wounded and should be allowed to depart – only for it to later emerge during security checks that many of those included were Hamas fighters.
“About a third of the wounded Palestinians on the first lists were Hamas fighters,” reported The New York Times.
The inclusion of the fighters was not acceptable, said the official, resulting in delays to the evacuation which only started this earlier week – more than three weeks into the war.
None of the 76 wounded Palestinians who were ultimately evacuated in ambulances out of Gaza on Wednesday were members of the terror group.
Rather, they were ordinary Gazans requiring “advanced surgeries that can’t be done here because of the lack of capabilities, especially women and children”, said Nahed Abu Taeema, director of the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is also trying to smuggle equipment into Gaza within aid shipments in a bid to bolster its war effort, say officials.
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The video source had sensitive content, which is why I didn't upload it. As you can see from the post, the usual one to blame. They said, "airstrikes"? Does this look like airstrikes?https://t.co/7TzFih7sfZ
— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) November 3, 2023
And what of the evil people who simultaneously support and deny such atrocities?:
One of the people watching college students cheer Hamas and tear down posters of kidnapped Israeli children commented that this was not just “dumb kids wearing Che t-shirts”.
But it is.
The ‘dumb college kids wearing Che t-shirts” were supporting mass murder, atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Latin America. They were cheering on the murder of women and children. And an international Communist movement responsible for the deaths of millions.
Before they were supporting Hamas, they were backing BLM while cities burned, streets filled with broken glass and people were violently assaulted. And before BLM, there was Mumia Abu Jamal and the Gitmo terrorists, further back there were the Sandinistas, the PLO, the Weathermen, the BLA and the Viet Cong. And before them Mao and the Bolsheviks.
‘Dumb college kids’ have been supporting the mass murder of millions for at least a century.
There is something different here.
Never before have the atrocities been as graphically documented with so many videos taken by the monsters themselves committing their crimes that were broadly distributed in graphic and gory detail to the public in ways that could not be censored or suppressed.
The victims of Marxist dictatorships or the Soviet Union and China were mostly faceless figures, sometimes caught in grainy black and white photos, often with no names or backstories. Here there are full color photos and videos, personal stories of families, mothers and children, and the elderly, all looking from the ‘Kidnapped’ posters being torn down from college campus walls.
But the smiling children looking back from the posters might as well have been kulaks in Russia or intellectuals in Cambodia for all the empathy they elicited. Seeing them only infuriates college kids busy righteously advocating for Hamas as a queer liberation movement. It spoils their plans for a class walkout while chanting, “Free Palestine” and waving their puny fists in the air conditioned air.
Hamas understood that documenting its atrocities would make it more appealing, not only to fellow Islamists, but also to leftists. The ‘dumb college kids’ aren’t alienated by atrocities, they’re drawn to them. And it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the last century to think otherwise.
The dumb college kids may be dumb, but so was your average Nazi goose stepper or Bolshevik thug. The mobs who clamored to see heads roll around the guillotine were not geniuses. But much like the Gaza civilians that crossed the fence to take part in the murder and rape, they know what they like. And what they like is chaos, violence and seeing things burn.
Your average dumb college kid isn’t born evil because she misses BLM rallies and traded in her black power fist banner for a PLO flag, but neither were the German teens who filled stadiums to listen to Hitler or their Chinese counterparts who giggled while their teachers were beaten during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. As Alinsky said, “a good tactic is one your people enjoy.” And, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
Consequences are things that come along later. Some people grow up enough to realize that they had been part of something monstrous.
The Germans tried to excuse their support of Hitler, too.
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