John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© January 20, 2024
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'Ahasuerus
(Xerxes) and Haman at the Feast of Esther' [Who was Haman in the
Bible?] by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
There are many Liberty-minded Conservatives for which I
continue to have admiration EVEN THOUGH they condemn Israel for vigilantly as
well as violently making an effort to exterminate the Jew-Hating Islamic
Terrorist organization Hamas. Their reasoning for condemning Israel: “Those
poor innocent Palestinian civilians are in the crossfire so Israel is guilty of
committing genocide.”
REALLY?!?
If anyone bothers to check some facts, those so-called innocent
civilians who are nothing more than Arabs who call themselves Palestinians (There
is NO such heritage of such a people existing with an Arab ancestry!!!)
are not only virulently supporting Hamas terrorism, murder and mayhem BUT ALSO
participating alongside Hamas.
Melanie Phillips shares some details on her Substack Page
that should bring some clarity to Conservatives. NONETHELESS, to those infected
with blame ALL Jews (even though there are both Covenant-Breaking [Leftist]
Jews and Covenant-Keeping Jews) for the woes of the world, blaming Jews for
genocide rather than self-preservation will always be the first option.
AND NOW, learn the Melanie Phillips facts on the NOT so
innocent Arabs calling themselves Palestinians.
JRH 1/20/24
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The west’s lethal error in the war against Israel:
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary”
Palestinians is largely spurious
Typical Gaza deprivation before October 7 [Melanie Phillips Photo]
January 19, 2024
In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a
distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab
residents of Gaza.
This distinction, however, is largely spurious.
An article in The
Washington Free Beacon that drew upon interviews given to Israeli TV
by freed hostages has confirmed that ordinary Gazans were deeply involved in
the October 7 pogrom and subjected the hostages to cruelty, abuse and
starvation.
Nili Margalit recounted how
Gazan “civilians, regular people” took her hostage at knifepoint in the October
7 attack. Margalit said a “boy … 17, maybe 18 years old” and an “older man with
the knife” broke down the door of her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and forced her,
barefoot and in pyjamas, into a stolen golf cart.
Margalit said she saw a “mob, thousands of people,”
including “women and children,” pouring across Israel’s breached border with
Gaza less than two miles away.
She saw two boys, one “no more than four or five years old”
and the other 15 or 16, riding an all-terrain vehicle that belonged to her
father, a cattle breeder who was among those murdered that day. The boys had
apparently already made one trip from Nir Oz to Gaza and were returning for
another round of carnage.
A number of the freed hostages said they spent part of their
captivity in family homes, hospitals and other civilian sites in Gaza where
they were locked into rooms, starved and ill-treated.
Mia Schem, who was shot in the arm and abducted from the
Supernova music festival, said her captors brought her directly to a hospital
in Gaza as she was bleeding to death.
Schem then received no further treatment or even pain
medication. She was taken to a private home where a man and his family held her
captive with “pure hate,” forbidding her to speak, cry or move. She would go
days without receiving food and was never allowed to bathe.
Bad as their conditions were, the hostages’ captors
repeatedly told them that their lives would be at risk if they were discovered
by ordinary Gazans. The hostages hardly needed any such warning.
Sharon Aloni Cunio recalled how
she and her twin three-year-old daughters were mobbed on October 7 as
terrorists brought them into Gaza on a tractor from their home in Nir Oz.
“People start beating everyone who was sitting on the tractor — just beating
us, from all sides. It was horrific,” she said.
The testimony of the freed hostages carries particular
weight because these aren’t extreme nationalists. They are Israelis who, in
general, were until October 7 the most fervent believers in peaceful
coexistence with the Palestinian Arabs, ferrying Gaza residents to hospital in
Israel and establishing many bonds with them.
They believed that whatever the failings of Palestinian
leaders, the Palestinian people just wanted to live alongside them in peace and
security. Now they say something very different. “I experienced hell. Everyone
there are terrorists,” said Schem.
“There are no innocent civilians, not one.”
Agam Goldstein-Almog, who was abducted with her mother and
two younger siblings after Hamas murdered her father and elder sister in their
homes in Kfar Aza, said: “If we previously believed that there was a chance for
peace, we’ve lost all faith in these people, especially after we were there and
among the population.”
Nor are most Arabs living in the disputed territories of
Judea and Samaria any different. Between October 7 and January 15, Rescuers
Without Borders recorded more than 2,600 attacks targeting Israeli civilians
and soldiers, including 760 cases of rock-throwing, 551 fire bombings, 12
attempted or successful stabbings and nine vehicular assaults.
The IDF has been fighting heavy battles in these territories
to thwart attacks and destroy terrorist infrastructure. In recent weeks, it’s
been investigating possible infiltration tunnels discovered near Jewish
communities in the Hebron
Hills in Judea and Shiloh in
Samaria’s Binyamin region.
The Palestinian Authority has never condemned the October 7
pogrom; on the contrary, its main party, Fatah, has repeatedly extolled the
atrocities. A poll published
by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research showed support for
Hamas in Judea and Samaria more than tripled after October 7, with no fewer
than 82 per cent of Arabs there supporting the attack and 70 per cent of them
supporting the “armed struggle” against Israel.
In any moral universe, a set of people bent upon
exterminating another would be treated as pariahs by the international
community and their rights would be considered forfeit.
Yet America is even now insisting that the “route to peace”
is through a Palestinian state that must be ruled by a “revitalised” and
“reformed” PA.
There’s zero chance of any such reform. Such a state would
merely revitalise the capacity of the Palestinian Arabs to inflict yet more
genocidal attacks on Israel.
America and Britain remain wedded to the “two-state
solution” because they refuse to acknowledge that this conflict is not over a
division of land. Instead, it is a war of annihilation against the Jewish
homeland that has lasted for almost 100 years.
Moreover, the reason the conflict still endures is the
behaviour of the west itself.
Led by Britain in the 1930s, the west has consistently
rewarded and incentivised Arab aggressors bent on destroying Israel, while it
has prevented Israel from taking the measures necessary to see off the threat
once and for all.
The essential prerequisite for any solution is for the west
to withdraw support for Palestinian aggression and unequivocally back Israeli
self-defence. Deprived of both western funding and validation, the Palestinian
agenda would fall apart.
Instead, the west continues to promote the murderous fiction
that there are “good” Palestinians who deserve a state of their own — which
would be a terror state with Israel at its mercy.
The west’s lethal error goes even deeper. America and the UK
have failed to realise that, just as Hamas can’t be divorced from the
Palestinians but are part of the same genocidal entity, so the war against
Israel is merely the most neuralgic element of a civilisational war between the
Muslim world and the west.
That war was declared in 1979, when the Islamic revolution
in Iran galvanised and radicalised Sunni as well as Shi’ite Muslims across the
world, helping to create al Qaeda.
The new Iranian regime declared war on the west and has
prosecuted that war ever since with virtually no pushback. Instead, western
appeasement has helped finance and bolster Iran’s terrorism, proxy wars and
quest for hegemony.
That catastrophic strategy, combined with the west’s
continued financing and support of the Palestinian agenda, enabled the Hamas
pogrom and onslaught on Israel from multiple fronts in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen,
Judea and Samaria.
This already metastasising conflict is feared to presage a
world war in which Russia and China join Iran against a west which has shown
such lamentable enfeeblement in the Middle East. [Blog Editor: Hmm… Sounds
like a Gog – Magog & Revelation description to me. Perspectives: HERE,
HERE,
HERE, HERE,
HERE
& HERE.]
Britain and America do not only insist that “bad” Hamas is
different from the “good” Palestinians. They similarly claim that al Qaeda,
ISIS and other radical Islamists are merely rogue actors in an otherwise
unthreatening Muslim world.
Both Britain and America have accordingly failed to
recognise how jihadis intent upon conquering the west for Islam — as Hamas has
said is its own ultimate aim —have tunnelled into British and American
democratic structures and institutions as devastatingly as they have tunnelled
into Israel from Gaza and Lebanon.
As a result of myopia, muddled thinking and moral cowardice,
America and Britain are not just aiming to ensure that an Israel they protect
from outright annihilation will nevertheless continue to twist in the murderous
Islamist wind. They have also advertised to the enemies of civilisation that
the west itself is ripe for conquest.
Recent posts
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dangerously blinkered. This is how the piece begins:
Denial
still flows through Londonistan
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Khalifah (Melanie Phillips Photo)
At long last, the British
government is to proscribe the Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir under
anti-terrorism laws. This jihadi group was founded in Jerusalem in 1953 with
the aim of replacing Muslim leaders viewed as not Muslim enough and eventually
establishing a caliphate with world-wide implementation of Islamic sharia law.
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