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Last Sunday, throughout the Western world, supporters of Hamas – and, presumably, of its Iranian masters – gathered by the hundreds and thousands to celebrate Saturday’s genocidal attacks on citizens of Israel. In Salt Lake City, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation danced. In Montreal, protestors shouted “Down, down, Israel! Free, free Palestine!” In New York, the Democratic Socialists of America (whose members include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib) chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and a bearded preacher screamed “This is the correct religion….We will not stop until it enters every home!”
In Washington, D.C., a crowd intoned “Fight for liberation, bring the whole thing down!” In Brighton, England, a speaker called the attacks “beautiful and inspiring.” In Sydney, the cry was “Gas the Jews!” In Rotterdam, in Atlanta, in the Swedish city of Malmö, in San Francisco, in one city after another, the brutal murder of women and children was cheered as the Palestinian flags waved in the autumn breeze.
Of course, Hamas’s actions on Saturday were far from the first example we’ve seen of Islamic hatred manifested on a massive scale. On 9/11, and on a number of other dark days since – at the Atocha railway station in Madrid in 2004, on the London underground in 2005, at the Boston Marathon in 2013, at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2015, at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice in 2016, at the Manchester Arena in 2017, and on many, many other occasions – naive Westerners were given the opportunity to wise up about the Religion of Peace.
Alas, millions still didn’t get it. The media saw to that. Duplicitous teachers and professors saw to that.
But Donald Trump got it. He wanted to put a brake on immigration from the countries most responsible for jihadist terror. He wanted to build a wall in order to prevent the entry of undesirables into the U.S. In return for setting forth these eminently reasonable objectives, he was branded a racist and xenophobe by the mainstream media, and his plans were stymied at every turn by his left-wing enemies in the D.C. swamp and the federal judiciary.
Trump did more. Where his predecessors had poured tons of cash into the Palestinian territories, thereby helping to fund terrorism, he cut off the flow – and was described as heartless. He canceled Obama’s Iran deal. Plus, making the most of America’s leverage, and ignoring the absurd logic of previous administrations (which had insisted on putting Palestinians at the center of every attempt to make peace in the Middle East and normalize Israel’s status among its Islamic neighbors), Trump engineered the Abraham Accords between Israel, on the one hand, and the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Bahrain, on the other – a historic achievement that the media, and all of his enemies, almost immediately dropped down the memory hole.
Trump put America first – and everything he did, or wanted to do, in relation to the Middle East was intended, above all, to make America safer. But when his enemies managed to install Joe Biden in the Oval Office, the first thing that the new President’s puppeteers did was to reverse Trump’s policies – thereby making an assault on Israel far more likely.
And if what happened in Israel on Saturday was horrible, what happened around the world on Sunday was deeply sobering. Because those demonstrations showed us just how many people living within the borders of free Western societies are, in fact, enemies of freedom and champions of jihad. Some of them are foreign-born. Some are Muslims. Some are ardent Communists, rabid anti-Semites, ignorant bien pensant types who think that being fellow travelers of Islam makes them virtuous. Some, like the “Queers for Palestine,” are outright fools who don’t seem to grasp that they are cheering for people who would draw and quarter them at the first opportunity.
Despite all the pro-Hamas demos on Sunday, there have been several developments that have made me feel as if something positive is happening. I can only hope I’m right.
First, this. In Britain, where shamelessly praising and placating Muslims has been official policy for years – and where critics of Islam have been thrown in prison – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, speaking at a synagogue on Monday night, called Hamas “terrorists,” said that “there are not two sides to these events,” and praised Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. These remarks felt…different. Very different.
I don’t know Charlotte Corbett of South Africa, but on Monday she wrote on Facebook that on Zulu, Xhosa, and Swati media (with “a combined listenership of over 40 million”) support for Israel, thanks largely to “the sharing of videos on social media,” has been well-nigh unanimous, with some listeners saying that they’ve “chang[ed] their opinion completely” about the situation in the Middle East.
Then there’s this. A few weeks ago, I dropped CNN and BBC from my cable TV package out of disgust with their relentless pro-left, anti-Trump propaganda. But I re-subscribed on Sunday so that I could see for myself how they were reporting on the war in Israel. On Monday, I was surprised by the degree to which the reporters and anchors on those networks were willing to call a spade a spade.
Early in the day, a CNN anchorwoman choked back tears as she introduced a report about the massacre at the Nova Music Festival in the southern Israeli desert. Later, the usually execrable Christiane Amanpour ended an interview with a young survivor of the music festival by saying: “Thank God you had a guardian angel.” Still later, Anderson Cooper actually called Hamas a “terror group” (not “fighters” or “militants”); after Becky Anderson interviewed a tearful young Israeli woman whose family was missing, Cooper was so palpably moved that he couldn’t speak for several very long seconds. Even later, Jake Tapper used the words “depravity” and “barbarism” and “inhumanity” and told an Israeli woman who runs an emergency medical services organization: “God bless you.”
These are people who, in reporting on jihadist terror over the years, could be counted on to downplay any mention of Islam, to ascribe reasonable-sounding motives to the evildoers, to practice moral equivalence, and to express concern about anti-Muslim “backlash.” I wondered: could it really be that this time around, the monstrousness of Hamas’s actions had finally awakened at least a few of Islam’s longtime media apologists and enablers? Or were they already preparing to pivot on a dime? Was this, in short, just a passing phase that would end when Israel started taking Gaza apart?
Alas, by Tuesday afternoon at least some of the CNN talking heads already seemed to be on the verge of returning to their old ways. As the Israeli journalist Caroline Glick pointed out on Tuesday evening, people in the West are quick to sympathize with Jews when they’re victimized, but they hate “courageous Jews…who stand up for themselves and their rights and fight for their country.”
Here’s a question: now that it’s clearer than ever that rabid fans of jihadist butchery proliferate in pretty much every major city in the Western world, will Western governments do anything at all about it? In the U.S., devout Catholics, parents who don’t want their kids taught transgender ideology and Critical Race Theory, January 6 “insurrectionists,” and Trump voters generally have been treated by the FBI as threats to American freedom and security. What are these noble G-men going to do about the armies of jihad enthusiasts who showed their true faces on Sunday and who truly are threats to American freedom and security?
On Tuesday, in the Dutch House of Representatives, Geert Wilders noted the pro-Hamas rallies that took place in several Dutch cities last weekend and asked Prime Minister Mark Rutte what he plans to do about these enemies within. That is precisely the question that should be posed to every Western leader: what are you going to do about this? What are you going to do to protect our country from experiencing an atrocity, sooner or later, like the one Hamas perpetrated on Saturday?
A couple more questions. If Donald Trump isn’t returned to the White House, is there any hope at all for an America containing heaven knows how many Hamas aficionados? If he is returned to the White House, will he be able to deport enough of these people to make a difference?
Finally, is it possible that the sheer savagery of Saturday’s attacks will awaken long-dormant citizens around the Western world to the reality of Islam and persuade them, at long last, to save their own countries before it’s too late? Or will this moment pass, just as the post-9/11 feeling of unity, rage, and patriotism did, and give way to yet more whitewashing, pusillanimity, self-censorship, and appeasement?
If the atrocities committed by hamas doesn’t awaken people then there’s no hope for those people. Would it take having one of their OWN family slaughtered like those babies – BABIES – do the trick??
Probably. It’s not the first time it has happened, and in a few days, they will have forgotten.
Such atrocious behavior is of ancient lineage as the Bible references Ishmael, the bastard spawn of Jewish patriarch Abraham and the progenitor of Arab nations, as follows: “And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren” (Genesis 16:11-12).
God also blessed Ishmael abundantly with twelve kings that will rise up against the nation of Israel: a thorn in their side
Yeah, and when Christ returns with His armies, most of the nations that are destroyed at His return are the descendants of Ishmael or those linked to Ishmael by MOO HAM HEAD.
I’ve heard some people say they think the Antichrist will be a Muslim. Funny how THEIR Mahdi is our version of the Antichrist.
And they think Isa (Jesus) will return to punish Christians for worshipping Him. The Koran is BIZZARO WORLD.
No, don’t blame Ishmael. Among the rabbis in Israel, the consensus is that these are the children of Amalek.
Citizenship should be removed from our congressional squad and they should then be deported to the Gaza or Yemen, or a ME nation of their choosing. They are utterly despicable and not worthy of one iota of respect.
This barbarism was so horrific, even CNN told the truth for a change (well…more or less, anyway)..
When ISIS took over much of Iraq…only a few years back…they massacred those who they did not like…they massacred the Yezedis…and enslaved their women and children. ..cut off people’s heads…Islamists have been behaving like this for a long time…in Africa…the Middle East. and elsewhere…their brutality and supremacist death cult mentality is appalling. We now see outbreaks of this same mentality in Western Europe…Australia…Indonesia…Scandinavia and elsewhere. Hamas are no different…a nihilist death cult…they behave like animals…the rest of the world is only slowly waking up to these Islamist types and their bestial behaviour… to which no tolerance whatsoever should given….this is probably the results of many years of first cousins marrying first cousins…consanguinity…alas these Islamists from any logical perspective…have something seriously wrong with them…that goes beyond mere hatred…as shocking as this is…years of inbreeding has created a large Islamic grouping of mental defectives…
Bruce,
The answer to your question is no. Being “awake” would change nothing, if not backed by an individual’s nation state. It’s too late in most cases; compromise and co-option seem to be the order of the day. What power the individual has left in deciding on governance polices in their respective countries, is in danger of being totally consolidated by worldwide governmental collusion and usurpation. New strategies must be found.
Last night I had a wonderful dream.
I dreamt that it was around the year 570 in the town of Mecca. A man and a woman were expecting a baby. But a demon has entered the womb of the woman, and the parents have been told that the baby to be born will wreak misery upon misery upon mankind for millennia to come. The baby would bring death, poverty, ignorance, rape, and never ending hatred.
And then the parents made the agonizingly right decision….and aborted the baby.
And mankind breathed a sigh of relief, and in the majestic words of Churchill: “..the world would be free and the life of the world could move forward into broad, sunlit uplands”.
What a wonderful dream.
Unfortunately, the simple answer to the question is no. The left loves Jews, dead Jews.
Caroline Glick said just this in her video at JNS today. But the world hates living, independent, courageous Jews.
I am compiling a list of those on the “right” who feel theres no special reason to help israel because “muh money” Israel is not money laundering like Ukraine and needs help briefly to simply survive. When not under attack she has an economy and can pay back funds. . Plus, there are Islamic monies and goods to confiscate. And that 6 billion to take back from Iran. They speak smugly and angrily as if theres no special historic, humanitarian, or spiritual reason for Jews to survive. Nor no similarity between FDR’s hesitant response last century and these supposed ‘right to lifers’ who show no compassion for Jewish babies…..beheaded and burned alive. “We have problems at home`” they say. Yes, the same problem.
Sad to say my list is getting longer.
In the future, when asked the annoying and anti-Semitic question about why some Jewish Americans stay leftwing, I can present my list as one reason.
Us conservative right-wing “scumbags” were alerted to the evils of islam a long time ago.
We’ve grown used to leftist dumbshits trafficking in excuses for it from their gated palisades a long time ago.
Unfortunately, leftist dumbshits will continue to keep their heads shoved firmly up their dogmatic asses – as “I got 51 names” Blinken has already signaled.
I hope BB knows Sleepy’s administration has Hamas’s back & not Israel’s (they just can’t say it.)
I hate to say it, but the only way that the lefties will learn is when they suffer a direct attack upon themselves or their own families.
I don’t want anyone to be harmed, but, I’m sorry, it will be the only way that they will ever understand.
Your’s is a truth of life.
It is difficult to feel compassion for a politician who pushed for defunding police who then gets attacked by a wild barbarian. This has happened recently. One can only smile for such good karma.
Muslims are very intimidating. I doubt if most people would drive around
with a bumper sticker portraying Mohammed and criticizing Islam – out
of sheer fear of what would happen to them. Their thuggery is part and
parcel of their Koran – and depictions of their Prophet elicit murderous
responses. One thinks of cartoonist Molly Norris who’s still hiding from
Muslim death threats after more than ten years – journalist Pamela
Geller living with expensive increased security after a thwarted murder
attempt by Muslims – French teacher Samuel Paty beheaded by a Muslim
for showing his students images of Mohammed, in the name of free speech.
So much of the world, especially the young, has been propagandized to
feel boundless sympathy for the Palestinian victimhood hoax. But those
“long dormant citizens of the West” might wake up to Islamic atrocities
in the wake of Hamas’ barbarity towards Israel but waking up is one thing.
People standing up to speak out against it is another. And if some brave
souls manage to do so, they could face hate speech charges with an
insistence from our globalist Communist authorities that “Islam is a
Religion of Peace”.
“Allah-u-Akbar” sounds remarkably like “Heil Hitler”, the way the terrorists scream it out!
The people who are behind Iran and who ultimately created many Jihadi groups like Hamas, are the organisation known as the Muslim Brotherhood. They have been researched thoroughly by author Cynthia Farahat, and the research contents are not pretty. Her book, The Secret Apparatus, describes all in vivid detail.
The West needs to wise up and look behind the scenes of it is to find that snake and remove its head.
Israel needs to attack every single military target of the surrounding Arab states that they know of, starting with Iran.
Definitely, something needs to be done to Iran, even more so now that Biden has provided them the $6billion + the reported $10billion. Soon they will build or purchase a bomb. As stated before, Israel is known to be a ONE bomb nation. Unlike Brandon, they can NOT afford to sit around while evil is loading the rocket.
Iran is not an Arab state.
They ought to attack Mecca and other “holy” sites too. One after another after another.
People miss the point of Hamas’ barbarism. This isn’t just how that fight, this is what they are fighting for. They explicitly say that want to kill the Jews until Israel is judenfrei. Doing this on any scale is a spiritual act that reaffirms the faith & galvanizes the movement. Hamas is ISIS in Gaza.
If ISIS did wake people up to that nature of Islam, neither will this.
People miss the point of Hamas’ barbarism. This isn’t just how they fight, this is what they are fighting for. They explicitly say that they want to kill the Jews until Israel is judenfrei. Doing this on any scale is a spiritual act that reaffirms the faith & galvanizes the movement. Hamas is ISIS in Gaza. (fixed typo)
I was perplexed by Mr. Bawer in reference to Israeli journalist Caroline
Glick saying people in the West are quick to sympathize with Jewish
victims but they hate courageous Jews who stand up for themselves
and fight for their country. Then I happened to watch Ms. Glick’s
latest video from Tuesday in which she said that.
She referred to the top echelon in D.C. including Biden saying all the
right things to firmly support Israel now – while their second-tier
underlings are saying things completely different. Also referred to
some hotshot from the White House who went on Jake Tapper’s show
and said the most supportive things about Israel – while his assistant
went on some other show and said firmly that Israel must toe the mark.
I wouldn’t trust the top echelon of our government as far as I could
throw them, nor any of their spokes people. They’re backing up Israel
now because the world will be initially horrified by the Hamas
barbarism towards the Jews. They – and the legions of Palestinian
supporters throughout the world – most definitely hate ‘courageous
Jews who stand up for themselves and their country.’ They are
globalist Communists. So, in that sense, she is right. But it doesn’t
include the good-thinking people she spoke of too – who not only
sympathize with Israeli Jews but stand with them and with Jews
throughout the world.
You have presented no evidence that Israel or the us knew.
Even if they did, you seem to believe this exculpates Hamas and the people of Gaza who support them. Wrong!
If Israel goes so far as to kill the Gazians by depriving them of food and water, then they too will have crossed a line. It is not clear to me the could if they wanted to since Israel does not control the Southern border of Gaza.
I find it interesting how many “Conservatives” endlessly make excuses for Muslims. They blamed 9/11 on Bush and the CIA even though Muslims took credit for it and celebrated all over the World.
Even when an Iraqi Muslim lied that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and British Intelligence believed it enough for Tony Blair to go to war, it is Bush that got blamed as a “liar”.
Now they are blaming the CIA for the massacre in Israel, giving the Muslims another pass. They are so busy hating on our own government that they refuse to see that we both internal AND external enemies, and you don’t ignore one to fight the other.
Nice propaganda to protect the Iranian terrorists.
Every time Iranian terrorist regime is in the crosshairs of the world powers. The same lies and propaganda starts circulating. Claiming that “most” Iranians are anti-islam.
“…Iran also has benefited from its close ties with Russia. Russia reportedly has offered to share critical information on missiles and air defense with Tehran. But perhaps most importantly, Iran has received direct feedback from the battlefields in Ukraine on the most effective ways to employ the weapons systems Iran has provided the Russians to fight in Ukraine. These lessons learned were evidently shared with Hamas as it planned and executed its brutal attack against Israel, including the use of overwhelming rocket attack barrages, drone-dropped munitions, and kamikaze drones. Iran, while still advocating “Death to America,” is not only exporting its military hardware but also its battle-tested military tactics, techniques and procedures, including to Latin America.”
Ref: Gatestone Institute
They try to resist from time to time but so far the gov’t crushed their effort.
It’s so hard to predict … it’s like the fall of Communism after once a decade rebellion in Eastern Europe.
The Iranian people hate their gov’t but so do those in Gaza (from my sources.) Let’s see if they blame Hamas for their fate or Israel. I hope the former.
They’ll blame Israel. Of course. It’s always the fault of those perfidious Jooze.
//sarc off//
Majority of the people in the west know what kind of blood thirsty savage ideology islam is.
The main problem is the leadership. Most are bribed, threatened or stupid enough to be brainwashed.
When people elected Trump to make America great again every terrorist cell was activated (BLM/ANTIFA) and the foreign and domestic enemies’ propaganda and lies machine started working 24/7 with their anti-American, pro-crime, pro-terrorist agenda.
The point is, it’s not just West’s leaders who are compromised, cowards or stupid. The media and education system has been compromised to the max too.
The final point is, The People know the devil is at their doorsteps, but they are being silenced. The evil islamic dictatorship has already cast it’s shadow on the West.
To reverse the damage and to save the entire civilization one thing needs to be done first: BAN ISLAM. If Nazism, Racism and such can be banned so can islam.
Those two words should start popping up everywhere: BAN ISLAM.
“Ban Islam.” Has a nice ring to it.
“neonazis in Ukraine,”
Does this include Putin’s Russian separatist neo-Nazi DSHrG “Rusich” in occupied eastern Ukraine? Or PMC “Wagner” cofounded by Nazi-tattooed thug Utkin (recently deceased following a plane crash thanks to his former Moscow paymaster?
Agree.
Putin is NOT what the establishment here, the elites in gov and media, have painted him to be.
He is far more rational than almost anyone in our gov or media.
It is simply true.
The reader may or may not like what I have to say, but from everything I’ve learned about Putin (especially his speeches) he may well be the only Adult in the room. Putin is a long range planner.
“Russkies don’t take a dump with out a plan, son. What’s his plan?” –Hunt for Red October
Given the destructive influence of the Left on Western culture, the short answer to the question posed in the sub-headline is, unfortunately, “no.’l
I was watching one of these darling children spitting on the corpse of a raped and murdered woman.
The blood shedding murderous jihadists of Hamas with their death and misery inflecting demonic evil are so horrendously wicked that they are the mirror reflection of the most despicable horrific villains describe in the Bible.
Which reads “There feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known.” Romans 3:15-17, [N.K.J.V.]
I’ve already posted this as a comment on Jason Hill’s article, but it is worth repeating here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-10/evidence-mounts-israeli-intelligence-allowed-hamas-attack-occur
Someone knew.
Theres no way Netanyahu sacrificed Israeli citizens. You are ignorant of who he and Israel is both from a religious and secular perspective. Your ignorance is offensive on many levels and it lets Hamas off the hook. So, you’re not only a Hamas fan but one who maligns Jews with lies.
Gross Intelligence failure occurred. I do not know any inside info but it is logical to suspect 1. Biden administration individuals with known documented terror group ties in high places connected to intelligence sharing and policy. who deliberately knew but did not share intelligence and 2. The Biden funded Israeli left which has been trying to crack a rift in Israeli society. Israel has lefty top brass in their military and leftwing media and academia much like we have here.
What I suggest is horrific, shameful, ugly and very sad, but not bizarre and hate based like your fantasy.