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Monday marked the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, geared up for his celebrations by posting a message on X late Sunday evening that he apparently intended to be a taunt of Israel, as he wrote it in Hebrew. His taunt fell oddly flat, however, in light of the facts on the ground one year into the present conflict: the outlook isn’t exactly rosy right now for Iran’s proxies. Nevertheless, Khamenei also had a point — one that should be disquieting to all those who value free societies and the rule of law.
Khamenei wrote: “The ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ operation set the Zionist regime back 70 years.” “Al-Aqsa Flood” is what jihadis call the Oct. 7 massacre. This was more than a little tone-deaf, as at the moment it looks as if Khamenei’s proxies in Hezbollah and Hamas have been set back more than Israel has, despite the generosity of the Biden-Harris regime.
On the other hand, the exalted Supremo has a point: the hatred of Israel and Jews that we see worldwide today is nothing like anything the world has seen since 1945. Almost immediately after the massacre, the left’s well-oiled victimhood propaganda machine swung into action, beginning a barrage of lies and distortions that one year later has made Israel more isolated on the global stage than it has been since the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Chief among these forces were the cadres of student activists who began to agitate for “Palestinians” and in an increasingly open manner for Hamas itself and other jihad terror organizations on campuses all across the country. These miseducated and self-righteous students had been skillfully and thoroughly propagandized, courtesy of the leftist professors who dominate virtually every college and university in the nation. When the massacre took place, these students, generously financed through unseen sources, were ready with claims that Israel was an illegitimate “settler-colonialist” entity, an apartheid state, an occupying power, and so on and on.
The propaganda barrage effectively turned attention away from what Hamas had done on Oct. 7 and focused it on what the Israelis were supposedly doing to the “Palestinians.” Oct. 7 then became an understandable incidence of an oppressed people lashing out at its oppressors. Never mind that it was all nonsense and falsehood. Never mind that in Israel, non-Jews have full equality of rights and that Israel is the only state that has any legitimate legal claim to the territory it is supposed to be “occupying.”
Meanwhile, Hamas chipped in and did its part by publishing demonstrably false casualty figures of “Palestinians” in Gaza. The establishment media dutifully repeated those casualty figures as if they were reliable. Even the UN published them without caveats or even a clear indication of their source. Israel, went the claim, had committed Oct. 7 massacres for years before Hamas carried out its own and was still doing so. Here again, none of this was true, but after all these years of leftist media propaganda and miseducation, a significant segment of the American people are just as incapable as college and university students of winnowing out truth from falsehood and recognizing propaganda for what it is.
This put Old Joe Biden and Kamala Harris under pressure. The party’s far-left base has been in a state of perpetual rage ever since Oct. 7 because even though the Biden-Harris regime has financed the jihad against Israel by sending $10 billion to Iran and one billion to Gaza, the likes of Rashida Tlaib and Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have repeatedly demanded that the betrayal of Israel be more comprehensive and thoroughgoing. They have threatened to bolt from the Democrats’ shaky coalition if they don’t get this full betrayal.
If Muslims stay home and don’t vote, Kamala Harris could conceivably lose Michigan and Minnesota and the election. To try to keep that from happening, both Biden and Harris have cravenly endorsed and parroted the Hamas propaganda and striven mightily to stymie Israel’s war effort and make sure it loses.
Khamenei thus had a point. There is more antisemitism in the mainstream today than there has been in decades. He issued his taunt at a time when Israel has never been so isolated. Its foremost ally hates it, the rest of the world hates it, and only the hated state is standing against the bloodthirsty forces of jihad that also hate the U.S., and will target us next. When these jihad forces do strike the U.S. directly, Khamenei will be ready with more taunts, and the leftist political elites will continue as deluded as ever. They’ll just find some way to blame Donald Trump.
john blackman says
we can only hope that israel eliminates the crown jewel of iran . khamenei hopefully has his affairs in order . ah yes ! the religion of peace and the 2 state solution , the greatest fiction ever perpetrated on gullible useful idiots . the ruling elite are complicit in the death cult that islam is . its unfortunate that they are not the victims of terrorism perhaps then they would be singing a different tune , but alas im not going to hold my breathe . they love death , oblige them ad infini tum . america hasnt got what it takes perhaps the jews will be more successful . reduce them to ash just like their victims of oct. 7
Paul says
Every time I see a picture of Khamenei, with his typical smirk, I have a strong longing to punch that face of his until it bleeds.
Spurwing Plover says
Where’s the WCC to put this Goat Herder on Trial for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity?
Mo de Profit says
“ Even the UN published them without caveats or even a clear indication of their source.”
Even? The UN is run by dictators, islamic dictators, communist dictators, socialist dictators and just plain old dictators.
Talk of sending funds to foreign countries is occasionally mentioned in the legacy media.
What is never discussed is exactly how much taxpayer money is donated to the United Nations.
Blackdog says
Perhaps one day Israel will understand the difference between donating and receiving money. The more you give, the more friends you have. The lower the economic level of the recipient, academic in this case, the more vehement their response in your favor. The funds replace the low social status of the professor. It is his revenge.
fsy says
” Almost immediately after the massacre, the left’s well-oiled victimhood propaganda machine swung into action”
My guess is that they were ready in advance.
Alkflaeda says
They probably knew everything except the exact date that 10/7 would happen.
Aristotle Cam says
If Biden-Harris is actually giving Iran, Qatar, etc. billions of dollars?! Isn’t this treason? If so-why haven’t they been
arrested? Where’s the FBI, Attorney General? Congress has the power of control of the Federal purse? Where are
our elected Republican officials? As usual-CRICKETS!
BLSinSC says
One thing for sure – the muslim influence on Our Nation must be eliminated! We either have to deport every muslim migrant (preferable), every muslim politician (preferable), and NEVER allow their IDEOLOGY to take root (too late I know, but REVERSE it while under that “magic %” where they attain control)!! We wouldn’t tolerate Baptists or Methodists or even the snake handling rednecks to assert CONTROL of Our Nation so WHY tolerate the muslims and their 7th century ideology??
CTripps says
Let them taunt. Mossad’s noose is closing tighter.
Every enemy of Israel should be losing sleep by now, including those in the US government ie; State Department.
With every Mossad victory the State Department list of allies shrinks.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic- minded Ayatollah Khamenei hates the Jewish people, he hates the State of Israel, he hates music he hates dancing, he hates people having fun.
Therefore, it’s of no surprise that he liked and enjoyed those Islamic mass murders and carnage that the jihadists Hamas inflected on the peaceful, unarmed Jewish citizens of Israel on October 7th 2023.
For in in the House of Islam there’s no room for festive activities, music, dancing, happiness fun or humor in that religion. Moreover, the follower of that death cult will not even tolerate such things for people who are not Muslims.
For example, Ayatollah Khomeini had declared, “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
Alkflaeda says
Your Khomeini quote sounds as if he would not have voted for Kamala, had he been American.
Walter Sieruk says
History has a tendency to repeat itself , as seen in the following examples.
First, there was that horrendously evil and murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester, England on May, 22, 2017 in which 22 people had been murdered and many more severely injured, most of the victims had been young girls and young women.
Then on October, there was those horrific murders by the jihadists of Hamas at a music festival in the State of Israel on October 7, 2023 in which 260 young people had been viciously murdered by those jihadists, who also committed many other many other Islamic atrocities.
Now just this year on March 22,th. on the outskirts of Moscow at another music concert there were more jihadists shootings and mass murders in which 137 people had killed by Muslim terrorists of ISIS in their jihad and at least 145 more people had been harmed.
Islam which its jihadists hates music and it also hates people. It hates them to death.
Alkflaeda says
I seriously wonder if Mohammed was tone deaf. Either that, or he knew that he could not compete with Hebrew cantors and Christian choirs. The IDF should pipe music through the tunnels in Gaza. It would cheer up any hostages who are down there and inflict aural and spiritual suffering on their captors.
Walter Sieruk says
The terrible reality about the actual doctrine of Islam about its brutal cruel heinous vile and murderous jihad violence against the peaceful people who are the Citizens of the State of Israel , at that music festival ,on October 7th 2023 by the Muslim terrorist of Hamas.
All that deadly jihad cruel and deadly violence is based on the theology of Islam with it Islamic terrorism has its entire foundation on the Qur ‘an. Which instructs in the use of violence and killing of disbelievers for the advancement of Islam. As found in , for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Furthermore, teaches hate for and towards Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Qu ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Therefore, the violent jihadist and devote jihad-minded Muslims despise the Jewish State of Israel.
That murderous demonic jihad entity, Hamas is based on Islam . That’s the actual, teaching of Islam regarding this Israel – Hamas war.
Kasandra says
All true. But when you have opinion leaders in the West, including the former U.S. President George W. Bush, ritually incanting “Islam is a religion of peace” and no one pointing out the ACTUAL precepts of Islam which include world domination until the entire planet is brought, by conversion or conquest, into Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) and is ruled by sharia, what can you expect?
Gabrielle says
This has been a hugely important event within Israel. All our illusions of being an accepted people in the world have been shown to be nothing more than the film flam of others who knew how to use our intelligence, ingenuity and $$$ to appear to value us when that was furtherest from the truth.. They have capitalized upon our contributions while covertly hating us. After G-d Almighty exiled us from our land for our idolatrous worship and engagement in baseless hatred against one another, we have wandered from one expulsion to another simply to live peacefully and practice our faith while making numerous contributions in those countries. That a world of 8+ billion people finds our entire population of Jewish people amounting to approximately 19 million worldwide an existential threat should be sufficient for the world to be asking the critical question WHY?
We, the Jewish people, should now understand that regardless of what we give, the world has no love for us. So, now that we are in our homeland again, we have been forced to understand that we have G-d Almighty and ourselves to manage our nation and our security. We must build our own factories for our weaponry, perhaps keeping our many advancements as needed secrets allowing for our decisive advantages against ANYONE attempting to threaten us. Our society must be purged of our enemies within and our people educated about the lies and propaganda that facilitated our attempted destruction. No longer should the leftist mules carrying the drugs of submission to foreign ideologies be tolerated. We are the 3 million mixed multitude who heard G-d Almighty at the foot of Mt. Sinai following our rescue from abominable slavery in Egypt. We were given and have maintained, through all types of attempted annihilation, the continued transmission of G-d’s eternal values as revealed in the Torah/Tenakh; transmitting our values through our sages and scribes to each generation.
Why? Why? Why is the world so threatened by us and needing to blame us for all your self-created ills?
If you can’t manage your own problems and find intelligent solutions that facilitate bettering life in your countries stop blaming us.
And our tzedakah to the world? Let that leftist altruism die and let us do for our people what no one else can…and let the world watch as we continue living in our homeland peacefully and securely while the G-d of Israel watches over us,
Alkflaeda says
Satan hates anyone who acts as a vehicle for the things of God. And, unfortunately, he seems to have rather a lot of vehicles of his own.
Richard Cravatts says
I think it’s the appropriate time for Khamenei to meet his 72 virgins.
Alkflaeda says
He may find himself confronted by a divine Judge attired in a tallit rather than a keffiyeh, instead.
Deplorable Me says
I do not wish death on anyone, but I will be quite pleased when I hear he has checked out.