No Country For Anyone

Israel is the only country that has to justify its own self-defense:

🚨 JUST IN - Here are the extraordinary details of the Hostage rescue operation by the brave IDF:

At 11am Israel time, the order was given to raid two multi-story buildings in central Gaza's Nuseirat where 4 hostages were being held.

The buildings were about 200 meters apart… pic.twitter.com/yl7sB1602D

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) June 8, 2024

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Not a victim but a collaborator:

Three of four hostages rescued by special forces from the central Gaza Strip over the weekend were being held at the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a Palestinian journalist and member of the Hamas terror group, the Israeli military confirmed on Sunday.

 

A collaborator who did this:

The Israeli hostages who were rescued at the weekend were beaten while in Hamas captivity and left malnourished by a lack of food, the doctor in charge of their treatment has revealed.

“It was a harsh, harsh, experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr Itai Pessach told CNN at the Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan outside Tel Aviv. “Every hour, both physical, mental, and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”

Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were all kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct 7 and taken into Gaza.

According to Dr Pessach, the hostages were moved on several occasions and kept under the watch of different guards. The supply of food and water was unstable and there were periods where they got almost no food at all.

“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he said.

 

 

Hamas has been caught in yet another lie:

The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has found, a trend that both coincides with Israel’s changing battlefield tactics and contradicts the ministry’s own public statements. 

The trend is significant because the death rate for women and children is the best available proxy for civilian casualties in one of the 21st century’s most destructive conflicts. In October, when the war began, it was above 60%. For the month of April, it was below 40%. Yet the shift went unnoticed for months by the U.N. and much of the media, and the Hamas-linked Health Ministry has made no effort to set the record straight. 

Israel faces heavy international criticism over unprecedented levels of civilian casualties in Gaza and questions about whether it has done enough to prevent them in an 8-month-old war that shows no sign of ending. Two recent airstrikes in Gaza killed dozens of civilians. 

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The Health Ministry announces a new death toll for the war nearly every day. It also has periodically released the underlying data behind this figure, including detailed lists of the dead. 

The AP’s analysis looked at these lists, which were shared on social media in late October, early January, late March, and the end of April. Each list includes the names of people whose deaths were attributable to the war, along with other identifying details. 

The daily death tolls, however, are provided without supporting data. In February, ministry officials said 75% of the dead were women and children – a level that was never confirmed in the detailed reports. And as recently as March, the ministry’s daily reports claimed that 72% of the dead were women and children, even as underlying data clearly showed the percentage was well below that. 

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The ministry said publicly on April 30 that 34,622 had died in the war. The AP analysis was based on the 22,961 individuals fully identified at the time by the Health Ministry with names, genders, ages, and Israeli-issued identification numbers. 

The ministry says 9,940 of the dead – 29% of its April 30 total – were not listed in the data because they remain “unidentified.” These include bodies not claimed by families, decomposed beyond recognition or whose records were lost in Israeli raids on hospitals. 

An additional 1,699 records in the ministry’s April data were incomplete and 22 were duplicates; they were excluded from AP’s analysis. 

Among those fully identified, the records show a steady decline in the overall proportion of women and children who have been killed: from 64% in late October, to 62% as of early January, to 57% by the end of March, to 54% by the end of April. 

Yet throughout the war, the ministry has claimed that roughly two-thirds of the dead were women and children. This figure has been repeated by international organizations and many in the foreign media, including the AP.

 

This is Canada: 

Dozens of anti-Israel protesters attempted to infiltrate a Jewish community centre through a ravine after the “Walk with Israel” on Sunday in Toronto.

(Sidebar: this Walk for Israel.)

“Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!” masked anti-Israel demonstrators chanted as they hiked through a wooded area behind the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre, where people of all ages congregated following Sunday’s event.

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"You’re a baby killer. You support genocide...Dirty Zionist"

I used to live in this Toronto neighborhood. The mob arrived - faces covered, cloaked in keffiyehs - to intimidate and harass Jews.

This isn't political protest. This is Jew hatred.

Elected leaders are not doing… pic.twitter.com/eL3i7AZqX0

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) June 11, 2024

 

It wasn't always this way, though.

The police let the Hitler Youth do what they wished.

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The Liberal government's position is that Jews are liars:

The federal government says it has raised concerns directly with Israel over allegations of a “co-ordinated” and “Islamophobic” misinformation campaign that targeted Canadians online. 

The government disclosed this to the Star when asked about a recent report in a prominent Israeli newspaper, which alleged a branch of the Israeli state hired a private firm that conducted an operation to sway public opinion in Canada and the United States over its conduct during the ongoing war in Gaza.  

In a statement to the Star, Global Affairs spokesperson James Emmanuel Wanki said the department’s Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) — a body that monitors for “foreign state-sponsored misinformation” — is investigating the allegations, but has not been able to “decisively attribute” the campaign to a state actor. Still, Wanki said, the RRM has corroborated “elements” of the allegations, which he later declined to specify.

“Global Affairs is concerned by reports of a divisive, co-ordinated, Islamophobic, and inauthentic information campaign targeting Canadians on social media platforms,” Wanki’s statement said. 

“We have conveyed our concerns over these allegations directly to the Government of Israel.”

The Israeli embassy in Ottawa did not respond to a request for comment from the Star on Monday. The Israeli government has denied involvement in the alleged campaign.