While Hamas fired 690 rockets at Israeli civilians during the recent flare-up, Israel is careful to warn civilians away from its own targets. As Hamas always places its warehouses of weapons, including rockets, and its fighters, too, in the midst of civilian neighborhoods, and even in the same buildings as civilians (including schools and […]
The waBenzi of the West Bank and Gaza (Part 2)
No, it’s not just aid money that they steal. The Palestinian waBenzi have a finger in every pie. Hamas leaders control the tunnels from Gaza to Egypt (and to a lesser extent, from Gaza to Israel), and treat them as their private property, charging exorbitantly for their use. “Elad [he Israeli scholar who has studied […]
The waBenzi of the West Bank and Gaza (Part 1)
In southern Africa, the black Africans have a sardonic name for their corrupt leaders. They call them the “waBenzi” — the “People of the Mercedes-Benz” –who drive their luxury vehicles up and down the handful of paved roads in the countries they rule over, the countries from whose treasuries they help themselves to the money […]
Israeli response to cyber attack is a building demolition
I bet Hamas is crying “foul”, they never saw that coming, it’s been convention to counter Cyber Attacks with further Cyber Attacks, but there are no rules, and to be honest Hamas would have no online infrastructure to attack back anyway, there’s not exactly some high tech network around their major industries of rocket and […]
Hamas kill baby and pregnant Palestinian, blame Israel
The Gaza News Agency that shared this Tweet is no friend of Israel, but it does correctly apportion blame for the death of a Palestinian baby and pregnant mother on a Hamas rocket that fell short of killing some Israeli baby and pregnant mother, the intended targets. But for Hamas this would normally be a […]
600 rockets fired in 24 hours, Trump declares “we support Israel 100% in defense of its citizens
What a way to start Ramadan: over 600 rockets have been fired at Israeli citizens from Gaza, racking up the death toll. “Ramadan is the month of Jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently.” “The death toll continues to rise …on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border in one of the […]
Palestinian jihadists fire over 250 rockets into Israel before the start of Ramadan
As Robert Spencer notes: “Ramadan is the month of Jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently.” Just before it begins on Monday, Palestinian jihadists fired over “250 rockets into Israel on Saturday, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes in a round of intense fighting”. “For Gazans, the violence continued as they prepared […]
Flareup in Gaza: Hamas and Islamic jihad fire 200 rockets towards Israel
Renewed fighting has escalated in Gaza: “approximately 200 rockets have been fired by Gaza militants towards Israel over the course of a few hours…In response, the IDF says it has carried out airstrikes on more than 30 militant targets in Gaza, including rocket launcher sites and other military compounds used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.” […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Netanyahu vs. Lieberman on Gaza (Part Three)
Netanyahu doesn’t want Israel to become preoccupied with its Southern Front. A cease-fire, that was first called for by Hamas, will satisfy him now, on the assumption that it will last a few years, as did a similar ceasefire in 2014. Meanwhile, he can, with less distraction, turn his nearly full attention to the arms […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Netanyahu vs. Lieberman on Gaza (Part Two)
A report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA) Hybrid Warfare Task force, which is headed by several retired senior U.S. military officials, outlined this striking strategic threat that Israel will face in its next war with Hezbollah. According to the report, the next conflict with Hezbollah will “bear little resemblance to […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Netanyahu vs. Lieberman on Gaza (Part One)
Last November, Avigdor Lieberman resigned as Israel’s Defense Minister. At the time, he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who after two days of fighting had agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza, of not responding forcefully enough to Hamas. Netanyahu wanted to inflict enough pain to force Hamas to agree to a cease-fire, but did not […]
Germany: Police raid offices of Islamic charities suspected of financing Hamas
In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities. “German Police Raids Offices of Islamic Organisations Suspected of Financing Hamas,” Reuters, April 10, 2019 (thanks to Lookmann): German police on Wednesday raided […]
Hamas top dog: Israel “won’t evacuate just the towns bordering Gaza, but also Ashdod, Ashkelon, and even Tel Aviv”
Hamas makes no secret of its genocidal aspirations, and has increasing support among the American Left. What does that tell you? “Hamas: Israel will evacuate Tel Aviv in next war,” Arutz Sheva, April 6, 2019: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar warned Israel that “if the Strip is dragged into war, Israel will suffer. It won’t evacuate […]
Hamas leader praises violent riots, states “we want to bomb Tel Aviv”
“Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza, on Saturday praised the violent riots along the Gaza-Israel border” as tens of thousands of Palestinians massed along the border on the first anniversary of the “Great March of Return.” The Palestinians, despite their aim to obliterate Israel “from the River to the Sea,” are demanding […]
Ohio: Muslim dentist jokes about torturing her Zionist patients “with my pleasure”
Canary Mission has some eye-opening material about an individual named Nessreen Zayed, who describes herself on Linkedin as a dentist in the “Cincinnati, Ohio Area.” Is she employed? Is her employer aware of her intentions to harm her Zionist patients? Are her gleefully evil statements tolerated because any other course of action would be “Islamophobic”? […]
Hamas TV: “Scatter” Israeli body parts, “make skulls fly in the sky”
Hamas lies habitually. It initially stated that “the rocket launched from Gaza that leveled a private home in central Israel on Monday was a mistake and that Hamas had ‘no interest’ in firing projectiles at Israel.” Meanwhile, while Hamas was busy “launching missiles at Israel’s civilian population….Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV was broadcasting calls to murder Israelis.” […]
Hamas official: “Our goal is jihad for the sake of Allah”
Jihad for the sake of Allah is violent jihad waged against non-Muslims. It is an Islamic religious imperative. It cannot and will not be negotiated away. Yet most mainstream Western “Middle East experts” at all points on the political spectrum still believe that the proper formula can be hit upon in order to bring peace […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Gaza, Hamas Beats and Tortures Those Who Protest Its Misrule (Part Two)
Fatah simply doesn’t have the presence in Gaza it once did. Hamas has threatened, imprisoned, expelled, or killed, many Fatah members in Gaza over the last dozen years. Until these latest protests began, it appeared to have an iron grip over the territory. In the dozen years since Hamas seized control of Gaza, it has […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Gaza, Hamas Beats and Tortures Those Who Protest Its Misrule (Part One)
In Gaza, it is not Israel, but Hamas that is the great oppressor of the local Arabs. That became clear in mid-March, with spontaneous protests against Hamas erupting all over Gaza. The story is here: Hamas is facing the biggest demonstrations yet against its 12-year rule of the Gaza Strip, with hundreds of Palestinians taking […]
Hamas-linked CAIR, pro-Palestinian jihad Jewish Voice for Peace rally for Ilhan Omar before anti-Semitism vote
Several anti-Israel, jihad-supporting groups are coming together to promote an event “in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), including a Muslim and a Jewish group that both have controversial records on terrorism.” The groups include CAIR, with its associations with Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood organization, and Jewish Voice for Peace, “a radical left-wing organization that […]