The West Is Allowing Hamas To Hijack Its Values
What does the image of white sheets and hoods above remind you of? Yes, the KKK, which we have all reviled for their racist ways. Yet, here in the West, we see so many people siding with the evilness above and rationalize––if not outright supporting––the murder of babies and children. Notice the child in the image. He is being primed to hate Jews and to do so, wearing a suicide vest.
Where is Black Lives Matter in all this? You would think it would be so offensive to the black community in America. On the contrary, BLM is an antisemitic organization which supports Hamas. It's a hypocritical organization based on a faux ideology.
Why can't the West believe Hamas would burn babies?
As the article says, "…a coalition of 34 Harvard student organizations signed a letter saying that they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence" and that "the apartheid regime is the only one to blame."
There is a mass brainwashing going on. These students know nothing about the history but are fed mass propaganda on campuses. The only apartheid regimes are Gaza and several other Arab states where Jews are not welcome. Israel has a heterogeneous society of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Bahai, and all other denominations. They are all citizens and are allowed to vote.
Henry Kissinger finally revealed what many have known, though why it took him so long is perplexing.
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What is troubling is that the West is changing to accommodate Muslim extremism. What happened to the Judeo-Christian values of the West? To allow the radicalization of the population in our midst is offensive. Jews now have to hide their identities so Muslims don't identify them as Jews. Jewish schools in many countries of the West have closed on the "day of rage". Did we vote to totally upend our society? Where have we seen this before, where Jews have to hide for fear of being assaulted or killed?
The Prime Minister of Sweden has admitted that there are "parallel societies" in her country due to mass migration, which we know has resulted in rioting and raping of many women in Sweden.
When we travelled through Europe, we saw these areas in several cities. These no-go zones are Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods. Authorities in these countries have lost control over many no-go zones. Police and ambulance services avoid the areas for fear of being attacked by Muslim youth.
We accidentally drove through one of these areas in Toulouse, France. There were no women to be seen on the front porches; they were mainly young males, and the glare they gave us was not only unwelcoming but downright threatening. We got out of there quick.
Muslim enclaves in European cities also breed Islamic radicalism and pose a significant threat to Western security. This is the by-product of decades of the mass immigration of most people who don't share our values.
The post-war European immigration into Canada, the U.S. and Australia consisted of people who, despite language differences, had an affinity for our way of life. That is why waves of immigrants from Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia and many other countries didn't upset our way of life. This is why it was such a success. Terrorism, though prevalent in some countries, was a rarity in the West.
The West is in grave danger of societal collapse. When you see the majority of young people rallying behind Hamas against Jews before Israel even responded to the horrors of the terror, it speaks volumes. Watch journalist Ami Horowitz ask people on the streets of New York their viewpoint on the massacre.
Notice what Horowitz said; only two out of the 30 people interviewed thought what Hamas did was wrong. This should shock us, but unfortunately, there is nothing new under the sun. History repeats over and over.
In Poland, the ghettos where Jews lived were eliminated in 1942, and the result was the Judenjagd—literally the hunt for the Jews. As Jacob Mikanowski recounts in his book Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land.
"Its initial stages were an orgy of violence, in which wandering Jews were rounded up and shot. German troops and their auxiliaries, the Polish "Blue" Police, directed the hunt, and village watches, construction and fire brigades, and local volunteers executed Jews"
For all those people trying to draw moral equivalency of what Israel is doing with Hamas, or worse, marching in favour of Hamas, this is what Lloyd Austin, U.S. Defense Secretary, said to the Israeli PM about the massacre:
"I know a lot about ISIS, and this is worse than what I saw with ISIS."
The following is from the Hamas Charter:
"The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it." (Article 11)
"Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be." (Article 13)
The call to Jihad:
"The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews' usurpation, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised." (Article 15)
"Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters, and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty, loudly proclaiming: 'Hail to Jihad!'. This cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished and Allah's victory comes about." (Article 33)
Rejection of a negotiated peace settlement:
"[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility." (Article 13)
Hamas' purpose is the elimination of Israel and the Jews within it.
To all those supporters of Hamas, you need to ask yourself the question. Suppose any cause can be an excuse for brutally slaughtering women and children. Why not those in Northern Ireland committing the same against British citizens? We could rationalize the Native Americans killing babies and children of white Americans. We could say the same about Hungarians and Romanians since they occupy lands that initially belonged to the other. Taken to the extreme, what about a neighbour with whom you have a dispute? Should you proceed to exterminate their children because they intruded on your space?
We seem to hold Israel to a standard that no other country would comply with, and it's impossible to ever satisfy the terrorist savages. Israel is supposed to tolerate rockets fired at civilian centres and atrocities committed against its citizens.
There are two big illusions that the West has:
Israel occupying land is a blockage to peace. Israel has not occupied Gaza since 2006. Hamas does not want peace!
It's about the Zionists, not Jews in general. This is wrong because the Koran, taken literally by the extremists, demands Jihad, the killing of Jews and their supporters.
Spot on Ely. Thank you.
On a total sidenote, I’m so glad about the new New Zealand coalition! Glad Jacinda Party gone!
Good to hear the voice of reason - and humanity!
The Hamas attack itself was horrifying, but seeing and hearing people support them, justify this behaviour, and deny or minimise the savagery has been in many ways even more shocking.
Back in 1981 I travelled in this region, down from Turkey through Syria to Jordan by bus, and thence to Israel via the Allenby Bridge. I was inspired by the Israeli stories of experiments in communal living in the Kibbutzim, and the experimental regenerative agriculture, making the desert bloom. I delved into the history of this region, and just yesterday, I reviewed it from 3 different sources.
Both the Jewish people and the Arab peoples have arguable historical claims to this land, and once you start to give validity to those claims, you run into trouble and an impossible situation. (Sort of like Australia right now, but that's another story.)
But let's start in the early 20th century, when the Ottoman Turks controlled all this part of the Middle East. There were Jewish settlers, and Arab settlers, and most of the time in those days they co-existed fairly peacefully together. At the time of WW1, the British enlisted the help of both Jews and Arabs to fight the Turks, promising the land to both groups. The British withdrew, leaving the UN to sort it out, and a plan for partition was proposed. The Jews accepted, the Arabs did not. Then a coalition of Arab countries launched at attack on the newly formed state of Israel - but the Israelis won that war, and claimed more territory as buffer zones in order to protect their own lands (a bit like Russia in Ukraine).
This was the "Six-Day War" in 1967.
And so it continued, with sporadic fighting and eventually the Yom Kippur war in 1973, which resulted in another redrawing of Israel's borders (this time relinquishing the Sinai back to Egypt, etc).
Both parties - Israel and Palestine - have also had to deal with huge influxes of refugees, Jewish refugees not just from Europe after WW2 but from other Arab countries, and Arab refugees from all the various wars in the region (not all of them caused by Israel). This has had a further destabilising effect. But Israel assimilated the Jewish refugees, while the Palestinians weaponised the Arab refugees, until this whole smouldering mess developed and festered in the settlements.
The current situation in Gaza is horrible, but it's a lot more complicated than simply an oppressed people trying to fight for their homeland (though it's more popular these days to frame it that way).
The Palestinian people have refused all offers of negotiation, right from the beginning, and instead they were (and are) fixated on trying to wipe out Israel and all Israelis.
Some say Hamas was created by Israel to counter the PLO (which I think is true, though Israel lost control of Hamas way back).
And some are saying that Hamas is the legitimate elected government of Gaza (which is technically true, though it is not clear just how much organic support they have) - in which case, it rather strengthens the Israeli case for a retaliatory attack.
My feelings of support and admiration for Israel lessened over the past 40 years, and my sympathy for the Palestinians grew - but that has all changed in the past 10 days.
Seeing and hearing the pro-Palestinian rallies - including here in Australia - has re-activated my concerns about Islam and its Jihadic agenda. And the anti-semitic sentiment has been particularly shocking.
I want to stand for peace, not one side or the other. But I fear that the reality is that the Palestinians are not amenable to peaceful co-existence. In which case, the Israeli government does not have a lot of options.