Hamas committed crimes against humanity - not Jews, humanity - on Oct. 7. Why are its top officials living in luxury in Qatar's skyscrapers and villas?
Read my "Israel Test." This hostility to Netanyahu is deranged. Netanyahu did not collect and cozzen the Palestinian rabble that became Hamas. That was the UNWRA, its Palestine "Refugee" Project, and American "Peace" Programs that subsidized and puerilized people moving from other Arab nations to steal Israeli wealth and water and destroy Israel. Netanyahu may now cripple Hamas but the UN "refugee" scam continues with our support and sooner or later will produce a new "Hamas" unless it is stopped..
At some point it becomes important for survival to recognize the world as it actually is. The world as it actually is includes the reality that a majority of Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas and buy into the jihadist ideology. Many, perhaps most, hate Jews more than they love their own children based on their actions in choices. Israel has offered protection and money for those willing to help. Will they?
No stable nation wants a bunch of suicidal, nihilistic, jihadists. Arab nations in the area like Jordan and Egypt recognize this. The reality as it actually is also includes that many Jews insist on supporting, funding, and promoting the very people who hate them (BLM, Trans your kid club, the entire DEI industry). I have a ton of Jewish friends and neighbors. They are leftists. Any chance to blame a conservative Christian (like me) or Trump or Netanyahu they’ll take it regardless of objective reality. I don’t find any of them asking themselves if they love their leftist ideology more than their children. Perhaps they should be asking themselves if they should stand for those who think Jews should be brutally wiped from the face of the Earth. Will they?
For Alex to suggest that Netanyahu is the impediment to peace is absurd. Who is the pro-peace alternative to Hamas? There is none. There is only genocidal Jew-hatred. Netanyahu’s failure is that he thought he could “control” Hamas with economic incentives and avoid the need for an all-out assault. He was catastrophically wrong. No economic incentive can trump the hatred in Gaza.
Thank you, Chris Akin, Joe Arnold and others. The Israel Test shows that this crisis is a global revulsion not so much against Jews, the immediate victims, as against all Western Civilization, indeed human excellence, as a result of a tragic trahison des clercs in the Universities and other redoubts of intellectual nihilism.
But, I'm confident the world would feel much less anxious if the Leader of the Free World didn't have DEMENTIA and access to the nuclear missile codes.
This is all about that 100billion, nothing else. We are governed by lying, chicken hawk, warpigs. They have no interest in ever ending any of these wars. They have no interest in killing Hamas leaders that work for them. They have no interest in peace. All they care about is the war machine and the free money that comes back there way because of it. This entire thing is just another psyop to get the masses in a lather, and it’s working. After all who would oppose going after the swine that did this?? Nobody. Especially if they want to be a career politician that’s for sure. Needed to get the Republican base back on board the war train.
I disagree with your comments about Netanyahu. Imagine if America got attacked like Israel and we have Biden in charge? At least Netanyahu is a leader. Of course, He made mistakes but at least they were made in an attempt to keep Israel safe. Whereas Biden is incapable of leading even before dementia. He’s a fool who sold his soul and this country. We’re next and I would feel much better if we had someone like Netanyahu in the White House. Instead we have an absolute joke of a man. I’m scared.
Let's see 9/11. So we went and bombed and went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan even though the narrative says the "bad guys" who attacked the twin towers were Saudis. I agree we do have a joke of a man though. But then he's not running things and if you think he is, you are naive (an understatement).
I agree with you. When America goes to war (after WW2), we don’t fight to win. I think Israel is fighting to win. I hope they do and we remove the democrats in 2024. I feel we are on the edge of disaster and I put much of that blame on the progressive left’s take over.
I don't think you do agree with me. I do not hope the Israelis win. That means hoping they are successful with their genocide. Actually I have been a peace activist all my life. About to be 82, so that's a long time. I never supported war. There are no "good" wars. Sorry.
Your take on Netanyahu is cynical and politically biased. After Israel withdrew from Gaza due to increasing attacks, there were two choices. The first was to blockade it and cause a humanitarian crisis. The second was to work with Hamas to supply essential supplies and electricity and water. Israel did its share here with water and electricity.
Here's a good article on the Arab refusal to take any Palestinians. This would have been another solution to this problem, probably the best one. They continue to refuse to help their fellow Muslims and its almost criminal.
Where's that true blue brotherly Muslim love? The Arab world doesn't give a hoot about the plight of the Palestinians. They find solace in their shared hatred for the only democracy in the Middle East. Long live Israel!
I hate to quote Rumsfeld (my soul aches a little bit each time), but I'm going to here: "There are unknown unknowns"
One needn't be a conspiracy theorist or have a quilt made of aluminum foil to concede that there are likely forces at play that aren't being revealed or put on the public stage.
I think it would be a safe bet that Israel has a plan in mind o deal with the leadership, but why would they share it with anyone but themselves.
If you were involved in any aspect of this plan, from the leadership to the lunatics driving golf carts, you probably won't have a restful night, right up to the day that you finally are terminated.
The thing that stands out to me is, how did two countries with the most sophisticated intel systems miss the 2 year preparation for this attack? It doesn't seem plausible to me.
There are a lot of crazy or perhaps not so crazy theories floating around, particularly related to how on earth the crack Israeli intelligence missed this for such a lengthy period of time. At this point, it's getting hard to know what to take seriously and what to dismiss. All I can say is I saw several different accounts of what might have happened and they are all somewhat plausible at this point. Everything is crazy.
So much for the student loan debt I believe that Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden created this mess like Michael and Barrack Obama did a few years back. Given Iran's money for humanitarian aid is to destroy Israel that is a chance that should have never been. I asked this same question about Qatar and harboring criminals and I believe that the UK 🇬🇧 MAY have a few as well. I hope we are not getting set up for WWIII this is a feeling that I have had since this all started on October 7th, 2023. I want you to know Alex Berenson that when I say that I see an uptick of patients with cancer most of these patients were diagnosed with cancer years before 2019 and were cancer-free some several years before 2019. Then 2021 came around and I heard of many cases here around me from other nurses and doctors most of them are older and don't want to go through it again or treatment as well only a very few are going on a second round of wanting to survive and fight its exhausting for the patients and family. And you also need to understand not everyone understands critical care nor do most have it to be a critical care doctor because of the costs of more years of college and training to keep up with the times of working with fellowship students as well patients in an ICU PCU 7 days a week for 20 plus years. I can understand your frustration like a brother most of these people are untrainable and they don't appreciate what you do constantly fixing other doctors' mistakes can be boring that's why we all look for and hope for a different challenge. For me, it's like a puzzle I've never seen and figured it out and that's high for me. Most other countries have walked away from the mRNA SHOT I believe that it was unnecessary and pure evil from when they came up with the idea knowing we had medications in place already to treat viral pneumonia globally and this new virus was not antibiotic resistant. I blame Anthony Fauci and the legacy media for what they have done to Alex Berenson because everything he said back at the end of 2019 is true today. I wish I were smart enough to unwind this clock. Regardless of how Uncle Joe gets us in WW3 we will be always talking or reminded of COVID-19 mistakes. We got a message from Hamas they released 2 American hostages is this a Thank you for the money Uncle Joe gave them!? Past 3 years has brought out so much and many evil people this is more the reason for the border should be closed permanently.
I'd still like to understand how a Manhattan-sized border with known mortal enemies on the other side was left so unprotected on Oct 7, in spite of 3 bllion in US aid. Shouldn't the atheist/protestant/catholic US taxpayer in Nebraska have a right to ask how the next 12 billion in aid (that this attack is being used as justification for ) will be used? Why wasn't there a heavily soldiered/armed post every 1/4 mile along the border ? Why was a music festival left completely unprotected, 3 miles from the border? 20 minute walk!
Israel turns right around and spends most (and sometimes all, see linked article below) of that three billion at American arms companies like Raytheon (the world's largest producer of guided missiles) which, according to the Times of Israel recently "won an Israeli contract to supply $149.3 million in Tamir missiles, the projectiles used in Israel’s Iron Dome defense system." It's very interesting to watch who howls loudest when cuts to US spending on Israel are suggested: It's often the senators who represent the states where companies like Lockheed Martin and Northup Grumman are based.
Also, CTM, yes, the breach of the Israel/Gaza border (in fifteen different places) has Zionists and Israel hands like me wanting to scratch our eyes out.
Israel is mostly (but especially at the Gaza/Israel border) surrounded by an entity which illiterate press people have dubbed "The Wall" but is more accurately described as "the security barrier."
I don't know how much the security fence cost to design, deploy and maintain but that number must have been in the billions. It is a multi-layered contraption combining Human intelligence (manned watch towers at intervals), primitive scouting (a layer of find sand to preserve foot prints), and very sensitive motion detectors. A retired Intel girl recently said on Bret Weinstein's podcast that if "a cat walked by the wall the sensors would pick it up." The signal would be read by 24/7/365 IDF intel kids who would pass the info higher up the chain. The entire military, one thought, was arrayed to respond very quickly to wall breaches. As I said, there is a bigger crisis going on right now but the breach of the barrier will be investigated for YEARS to come
So now that we know from NYTimes reporting that Israel had detailed plans a year ago.... doesn't it seem likely that they were allowed in order to justify taking the entire strip ? What a nice going away present for that slaughterer of Cambodian children, Henry K!
My first trip, the hotel has the usual taxi line. The drivers stand around talking to each other - Jews, Arabs, Christians. Laughing and trading stories. They were all armed with handguns on their hip.
I made a point to talk to each driver that took me to work. To a man, they were all friends - they have been to each others homes for meals or watch games on TV.
They talk politics and news. If the government was antagonistic towards them, I would think they would have had something to say about it. Instead they talked about kids, schools, their guns, their cars, food.
It was very enlightening. It was an Israeli-Arab that pointed out the street signs were in 3 languages, including Arabic.
thank you so much ! I am glad to read, that the people themselves get along just fine. I remember reading the same about former Yugoslavia. Never been there, either, but been to Czechia shortly after the peaceful split. If there were no governments, and no foreign governments to mess up the peace, I think people would get along just fine.
whether that's true or not, we're talking about the largest holocaust of Jews (with Christians and Muslims thrown in, as ethnic Arabs make up 20% of Israel's population) since the Holocaust. So at this moment in time, Who The F--- Cares?
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.” – Benjamin Netanyahu (2019)
Here's some more context, taken from the reference I cited above (see that article for links supporting the statements below):
In October 2023, Israeli newspaper Haaretz discussed a March 2019 Likud party meeting during which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained his strategy of allowing Qatar to keep funding Hamas in Gaza in order to isolate Gaza from the West Bank:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.” () “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
In February 2020, former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman revealed how Prime Minister Netanyahu secretely asked Qatar to keep funding Hamas:
Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and the top officer of the Israel Defense Forces in charge of Gaza, Herzi Halevi, visited Qatar earlier this month on the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to plead with its leaders to continue their periodical payments to Hamas, Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman claimed Saturday night.
“Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas, as though it was an environmental organization. This is a policy of submission to terror,” he said, adding that Israel was paying Hamas “protection money” to maintain the calm. ()
With Israel’s approval, Qatar since 2018 has periodically provided millions of dollars in cash to Hamas to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, allow the group to pay its civil servants and provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families.
Sources: Another Concept Implodes (Haaretz 2023) and Times of Israel (2020)
Ok, context doesn't just include extra information like historical moment, intended audience, and personal style of speaker. **Just as crucial** is the identity of the persons recording the moment for posterity in a daily newspaper like Ha'aretz or the Times of Israel. (By the way you didn't mark which part came from Ha'aretz and which was lifted from a Times of Israel article.) A newspaper reporter (and I have been one) constantly makes selections and what information they use and what they discard is subject to human biases about what needs to be seen
Anyone who follows this issue with any seriousness (and not as a sort of dilettante parachuting in because it happens to be in the news now) KNOWS this important piece of context: Ha'aretz is Israel's most far-left, most anti-Likud newspaper. It has an extreme left wing bias which it does nothing to ameliorate.
It's good that you also read a more neutral, balanced source like the Times of Israel, but, as I said before, you don't make clear what comes from who
Except Hamas was created by the Muslim Brotherhood primarily out of Egypt, not Israel.
The context of that quote is the undermining of the PA and Abbas. Abbas was coming around to the two state solution. Netanyahu was not saying that should be done, he was saying that those who believe stopping the two state solution is paramount, this is what it will mean. It’s not inaccurate.
The British Empire covertly backed the Muslim Brotherhood and its precursors, in order to secure control over the Suez Canal. The British, masters of divide and conquer, supported both the establishment of a Jewish State via the Balfour Declaration, and they created the role of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, placing and propping up the anti-Jewish Haj Amin al Huseini in that role during the 1920's and '30's.
Read my "Israel Test." This hostility to Netanyahu is deranged. Netanyahu did not collect and cozzen the Palestinian rabble that became Hamas. That was the UNWRA, its Palestine "Refugee" Project, and American "Peace" Programs that subsidized and puerilized people moving from other Arab nations to steal Israeli wealth and water and destroy Israel. Netanyahu may now cripple Hamas but the UN "refugee" scam continues with our support and sooner or later will produce a new "Hamas" unless it is stopped..
At some point it becomes important for survival to recognize the world as it actually is. The world as it actually is includes the reality that a majority of Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas and buy into the jihadist ideology. Many, perhaps most, hate Jews more than they love their own children based on their actions in choices. Israel has offered protection and money for those willing to help. Will they?
No stable nation wants a bunch of suicidal, nihilistic, jihadists. Arab nations in the area like Jordan and Egypt recognize this. The reality as it actually is also includes that many Jews insist on supporting, funding, and promoting the very people who hate them (BLM, Trans your kid club, the entire DEI industry). I have a ton of Jewish friends and neighbors. They are leftists. Any chance to blame a conservative Christian (like me) or Trump or Netanyahu they’ll take it regardless of objective reality. I don’t find any of them asking themselves if they love their leftist ideology more than their children. Perhaps they should be asking themselves if they should stand for those who think Jews should be brutally wiped from the face of the Earth. Will they?
For Alex to suggest that Netanyahu is the impediment to peace is absurd. Who is the pro-peace alternative to Hamas? There is none. There is only genocidal Jew-hatred. Netanyahu’s failure is that he thought he could “control” Hamas with economic incentives and avoid the need for an all-out assault. He was catastrophically wrong. No economic incentive can trump the hatred in Gaza.
The George Gilder? Wow, love your books!
Thank you, Chris Akin, Joe Arnold and others. The Israel Test shows that this crisis is a global revulsion not so much against Jews, the immediate victims, as against all Western Civilization, indeed human excellence, as a result of a tragic trahison des clercs in the Universities and other redoubts of intellectual nihilism.
Yes, read the "Israel Test". Many answers to the conflict if people are willing to listen.
A lot of people are very motivated to go to war. This can't end well.
No, it won't end well.
But, I'm confident the world would feel much less anxious if the Leader of the Free World didn't have DEMENTIA and access to the nuclear missile codes.
Would you prefer the cackling hen instead?
How about exposing the real controllers of US foreign policy? Cackling hen or demented old man is a false choice.
Frightening.
At the moment, it’s Obama, Valerie Jarrett (Iranian), & Neera Tanden. Blinken is mixed in there, but I believe his allegiance is to the CCP.
Do you think there are "bigger" or more influential people than Obama and the others whose identities are hidden from us?
You said that right!
This is all about that 100billion, nothing else. We are governed by lying, chicken hawk, warpigs. They have no interest in ever ending any of these wars. They have no interest in killing Hamas leaders that work for them. They have no interest in peace. All they care about is the war machine and the free money that comes back there way because of it. This entire thing is just another psyop to get the masses in a lather, and it’s working. After all who would oppose going after the swine that did this?? Nobody. Especially if they want to be a career politician that’s for sure. Needed to get the Republican base back on board the war train.
I disagree with your comments about Netanyahu. Imagine if America got attacked like Israel and we have Biden in charge? At least Netanyahu is a leader. Of course, He made mistakes but at least they were made in an attempt to keep Israel safe. Whereas Biden is incapable of leading even before dementia. He’s a fool who sold his soul and this country. We’re next and I would feel much better if we had someone like Netanyahu in the White House. Instead we have an absolute joke of a man. I’m scared.
Let's see 9/11. So we went and bombed and went to war with Iraq and Afghanistan even though the narrative says the "bad guys" who attacked the twin towers were Saudis. I agree we do have a joke of a man though. But then he's not running things and if you think he is, you are naive (an understatement).
I agree with you. When America goes to war (after WW2), we don’t fight to win. I think Israel is fighting to win. I hope they do and we remove the democrats in 2024. I feel we are on the edge of disaster and I put much of that blame on the progressive left’s take over.
I don't think you do agree with me. I do not hope the Israelis win. That means hoping they are successful with their genocide. Actually I have been a peace activist all my life. About to be 82, so that's a long time. I never supported war. There are no "good" wars. Sorry.
I support your desire for peace.
Your take on Netanyahu is cynical and politically biased. After Israel withdrew from Gaza due to increasing attacks, there were two choices. The first was to blockade it and cause a humanitarian crisis. The second was to work with Hamas to supply essential supplies and electricity and water. Israel did its share here with water and electricity.
Here's a good article on the Arab refusal to take any Palestinians. This would have been another solution to this problem, probably the best one. They continue to refuse to help their fellow Muslims and its almost criminal.
https://theins.ru/en/society/266130
Where's that true blue brotherly Muslim love? The Arab world doesn't give a hoot about the plight of the Palestinians. They find solace in their shared hatred for the only democracy in the Middle East. Long live Israel!
An open air prison that both Hamas and Egypt hold a set of keys too. But nobody ever mentions that
Who is to say they aren't focused on them?
I hate to quote Rumsfeld (my soul aches a little bit each time), but I'm going to here: "There are unknown unknowns"
One needn't be a conspiracy theorist or have a quilt made of aluminum foil to concede that there are likely forces at play that aren't being revealed or put on the public stage.
Well - I could barely get past the second sentence: "But after bin Laden planned the Sept. 11 attacks from camps in Afghanistan . . . "
Really? Are there people who still believe that?
.
I think it would be a safe bet that Israel has a plan in mind o deal with the leadership, but why would they share it with anyone but themselves.
If you were involved in any aspect of this plan, from the leadership to the lunatics driving golf carts, you probably won't have a restful night, right up to the day that you finally are terminated.
The thing that stands out to me is, how did two countries with the most sophisticated intel systems miss the 2 year preparation for this attack? It doesn't seem plausible to me.
There are a lot of crazy or perhaps not so crazy theories floating around, particularly related to how on earth the crack Israeli intelligence missed this for such a lengthy period of time. At this point, it's getting hard to know what to take seriously and what to dismiss. All I can say is I saw several different accounts of what might have happened and they are all somewhat plausible at this point. Everything is crazy.
https://x.com/PatrickByrne/status/1712536185065844775?s=20
...a selfish inside job by ideologues (with the usual US gov meddling)
So much for the student loan debt I believe that Uncle Joe Robinhood Biden created this mess like Michael and Barrack Obama did a few years back. Given Iran's money for humanitarian aid is to destroy Israel that is a chance that should have never been. I asked this same question about Qatar and harboring criminals and I believe that the UK 🇬🇧 MAY have a few as well. I hope we are not getting set up for WWIII this is a feeling that I have had since this all started on October 7th, 2023. I want you to know Alex Berenson that when I say that I see an uptick of patients with cancer most of these patients were diagnosed with cancer years before 2019 and were cancer-free some several years before 2019. Then 2021 came around and I heard of many cases here around me from other nurses and doctors most of them are older and don't want to go through it again or treatment as well only a very few are going on a second round of wanting to survive and fight its exhausting for the patients and family. And you also need to understand not everyone understands critical care nor do most have it to be a critical care doctor because of the costs of more years of college and training to keep up with the times of working with fellowship students as well patients in an ICU PCU 7 days a week for 20 plus years. I can understand your frustration like a brother most of these people are untrainable and they don't appreciate what you do constantly fixing other doctors' mistakes can be boring that's why we all look for and hope for a different challenge. For me, it's like a puzzle I've never seen and figured it out and that's high for me. Most other countries have walked away from the mRNA SHOT I believe that it was unnecessary and pure evil from when they came up with the idea knowing we had medications in place already to treat viral pneumonia globally and this new virus was not antibiotic resistant. I blame Anthony Fauci and the legacy media for what they have done to Alex Berenson because everything he said back at the end of 2019 is true today. I wish I were smart enough to unwind this clock. Regardless of how Uncle Joe gets us in WW3 we will be always talking or reminded of COVID-19 mistakes. We got a message from Hamas they released 2 American hostages is this a Thank you for the money Uncle Joe gave them!? Past 3 years has brought out so much and many evil people this is more the reason for the border should be closed permanently.
One might ask: Why isn't Biden taking out ... never mind.
his brains? his 2 brain cells?
I'd still like to understand how a Manhattan-sized border with known mortal enemies on the other side was left so unprotected on Oct 7, in spite of 3 bllion in US aid. Shouldn't the atheist/protestant/catholic US taxpayer in Nebraska have a right to ask how the next 12 billion in aid (that this attack is being used as justification for ) will be used? Why wasn't there a heavily soldiered/armed post every 1/4 mile along the border ? Why was a music festival left completely unprotected, 3 miles from the border? 20 minute walk!
Israel turns right around and spends most (and sometimes all, see linked article below) of that three billion at American arms companies like Raytheon (the world's largest producer of guided missiles) which, according to the Times of Israel recently "won an Israeli contract to supply $149.3 million in Tamir missiles, the projectiles used in Israel’s Iron Dome defense system." It's very interesting to watch who howls loudest when cuts to US spending on Israel are suggested: It's often the senators who represent the states where companies like Lockheed Martin and Northup Grumman are based.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-02/israel-to-buy-25-lockheed-martin-f-35-jets-in-3-billion-deal
Also, CTM, yes, the breach of the Israel/Gaza border (in fifteen different places) has Zionists and Israel hands like me wanting to scratch our eyes out.
Israel is mostly (but especially at the Gaza/Israel border) surrounded by an entity which illiterate press people have dubbed "The Wall" but is more accurately described as "the security barrier."
I don't know how much the security fence cost to design, deploy and maintain but that number must have been in the billions. It is a multi-layered contraption combining Human intelligence (manned watch towers at intervals), primitive scouting (a layer of find sand to preserve foot prints), and very sensitive motion detectors. A retired Intel girl recently said on Bret Weinstein's podcast that if "a cat walked by the wall the sensors would pick it up." The signal would be read by 24/7/365 IDF intel kids who would pass the info higher up the chain. The entire military, one thought, was arrayed to respond very quickly to wall breaches. As I said, there is a bigger crisis going on right now but the breach of the barrier will be investigated for YEARS to come
So now that we know from NYTimes reporting that Israel had detailed plans a year ago.... doesn't it seem likely that they were allowed in order to justify taking the entire strip ? What a nice going away present for that slaughterer of Cambodian children, Henry K!
Does it seem reasonable to ask for an explanation before sending 12 billion more in tools to slaughter and maim? Is it true that the IDF took seven hours to respond? The manned watched towers, were they not manned? Did they not have a cell phone or two? It beggards comprehension. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/11/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-attack-timeline.html
what if Israel paid Hamas to commit this crime? then they can kill all Palestines and annex the whole country.
You obviously know nothing about Israel and Jews. Please stop posting ignorant and hateful comments.
you can hardly pretend that the israeli govt is caring for its people. If you know the truth, please tell
Have you ever been to Israel?
no
It’s worth the visit.
My first trip, the hotel has the usual taxi line. The drivers stand around talking to each other - Jews, Arabs, Christians. Laughing and trading stories. They were all armed with handguns on their hip.
I made a point to talk to each driver that took me to work. To a man, they were all friends - they have been to each others homes for meals or watch games on TV.
They talk politics and news. If the government was antagonistic towards them, I would think they would have had something to say about it. Instead they talked about kids, schools, their guns, their cars, food.
It was very enlightening. It was an Israeli-Arab that pointed out the street signs were in 3 languages, including Arabic.
thank you so much ! I am glad to read, that the people themselves get along just fine. I remember reading the same about former Yugoslavia. Never been there, either, but been to Czechia shortly after the peaceful split. If there were no governments, and no foreign governments to mess up the peace, I think people would get along just fine.
Bibi sold Israel to fizer. Any one commenting on that?
whether that's true or not, we're talking about the largest holocaust of Jews (with Christians and Muslims thrown in, as ethnic Arabs make up 20% of Israel's population) since the Holocaust. So at this moment in time, Who The F--- Cares?
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.” – Benjamin Netanyahu (2019)
https://swprs.org/why-israel-created-hamas/
I just loooooove seeing single comments taken out of context proffered as key evidence. I just hope you're not a trial lawyer, sister
Here's some more context, taken from the reference I cited above (see that article for links supporting the statements below):
In October 2023, Israeli newspaper Haaretz discussed a March 2019 Likud party meeting during which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained his strategy of allowing Qatar to keep funding Hamas in Gaza in order to isolate Gaza from the West Bank:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.” () “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
In February 2020, former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman revealed how Prime Minister Netanyahu secretely asked Qatar to keep funding Hamas:
Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and the top officer of the Israel Defense Forces in charge of Gaza, Herzi Halevi, visited Qatar earlier this month on the instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to plead with its leaders to continue their periodical payments to Hamas, Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman claimed Saturday night.
“Both Egypt and Qatar are angry with Hamas and planned to cut ties with them. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas, as though it was an environmental organization. This is a policy of submission to terror,” he said, adding that Israel was paying Hamas “protection money” to maintain the calm. ()
With Israel’s approval, Qatar since 2018 has periodically provided millions of dollars in cash to Hamas to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, allow the group to pay its civil servants and provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families.
Sources: Another Concept Implodes (Haaretz 2023) and Times of Israel (2020)
Ok, context doesn't just include extra information like historical moment, intended audience, and personal style of speaker. **Just as crucial** is the identity of the persons recording the moment for posterity in a daily newspaper like Ha'aretz or the Times of Israel. (By the way you didn't mark which part came from Ha'aretz and which was lifted from a Times of Israel article.) A newspaper reporter (and I have been one) constantly makes selections and what information they use and what they discard is subject to human biases about what needs to be seen
Anyone who follows this issue with any seriousness (and not as a sort of dilettante parachuting in because it happens to be in the news now) KNOWS this important piece of context: Ha'aretz is Israel's most far-left, most anti-Likud newspaper. It has an extreme left wing bias which it does nothing to ameliorate.
It's good that you also read a more neutral, balanced source like the Times of Israel, but, as I said before, you don't make clear what comes from who
Except Hamas was created by the Muslim Brotherhood primarily out of Egypt, not Israel.
The context of that quote is the undermining of the PA and Abbas. Abbas was coming around to the two state solution. Netanyahu was not saying that should be done, he was saying that those who believe stopping the two state solution is paramount, this is what it will mean. It’s not inaccurate.
The British Empire covertly backed the Muslim Brotherhood and its precursors, in order to secure control over the Suez Canal. The British, masters of divide and conquer, supported both the establishment of a Jewish State via the Balfour Declaration, and they created the role of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, placing and propping up the anti-Jewish Haj Amin al Huseini in that role during the 1920's and '30's.