EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Turns Gaza Hospitals and Schools Into Torture Chambers as It Reestablishes Police State: Gazans Describe Horrific Interrogations, Beatings

From Free Beacon.com (June 10):

Hamas has built makeshift torture chambers inside Gazan hospitals and schools where its men are interrogating and abusing fellow Palestinians suspected of disloyalty. The reign of terror comes as Hamas moves aggressively to reassert its power over the Gaza Strip, according to video testimonials and official government documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

More than eight months after a fragile ceasefire with Israel left Hamas badly wounded, the terror group has largely turned inward, establishing a strict police state and moving internal security operations—its dreaded "Interior Ministry"—back into the same civilian outposts it commandeered to wage war on Israel. Eyewitness accounts from three Gazans reveal that Hamas has again laid claim to al-Shifa hospital, the Gaza Strip's largest medical complex, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, and the al-Ma'amadani Hospital in Gaza City. The terror group has done the same with schools across Gaza, turning classrooms into prisons and detention centers where civilians are often subjected to brutal beatings and more creative forms of torture.

"They have prisons inside the schools, rooms that function like prisons," recounted one Gazan activist who says he was abducted by Hamas and beaten for several days. "The same goes for hospitals. They have rooms underground in the basement that they use as a prison, as if they were military and security sites." At the Nasser Hospital, said a second Gazan woman, "inside the Hind al-Daghma Dialysis Center, people are beaten and shot in the legs. If they send someone to the renal department at Nasser, it basically means it's over."

Jonathan Schanzer, a veteran regional analyst and executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, said it is no surprise that Hamas is again staking claim to Gaza's most important civilian centers.

"Hamas has always exploited the civilian infrastructure that it has wielded to deter Israel from attacking its military structures," he said. "The co-opting of institutions is a long-standing practice of this terrorist organization dating back to its very founding."

Like others quoted in this report, the Gazan witnesses to Hamas's torture operation have asked to remain anonymous in order to protect themselves from Hamas retaliation. The video testimonials were secretly filmed inside Gaza by Jusoor News, an independent Arab-run media outlet that frequently documents life under Hamas control, and provided to the Free Beacon along with Hamas-run Interior Ministry documents that show civilians being summoned to hospitals for interrogation.

The testimonials and documentation provide some of the firmest evidence to date that Hamas is not only torturing Palestinians, but also continuing to breach international law by using civilian buildings as military outposts. Israel targeted several of the aforementioned hospitals during the war in Gaza and provided extensive evidence that Hamas used these medical facilities for its operations, with Hamas operatives often working alongside humanitarian aid workers.

At the same time, anti-Israel elements of the international community and the media have paid little attention as Hamas rebuilds its authoritarian state and have focused instead on criticizing Israel. The New York Times last month published a largely discredited opinion column by Nicholas Kristof, which alleged that Israelis were raping "Palestinian journalists" with carrots and dogs. [read more]

Evil sheep-screwing bastards!  President Trump should just let Israel destroy Hamas. The world (other than the crazy Mullahs) wouldn’t miss them.

Trump Praises Boeing Jet That Survived FlyDubai Attack

From Newsmax.com (Oct. 1):

President Donald Trump on Thursday commended Boeing for building a plane that withstood a dramatic midair incident on a flight headed to Israel.

Shortly after midnight, Trump praised the Boeing 737 MAX after the FlyDubai aircraft survived a violent cockpit altercation and a dramatic plunge before making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

"Congratulations to the GREAT Boeing Company for producing a plane, the 737 Max, that was able to withstand G Forces and Strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump called the incident an "amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design" and said Boeing deserved credit for the aircraft's "incredible 'genius!'"

He also congratulated Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and the company's employees.

FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 was traveling Wednesday from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 people aboard when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed Capt. Smit Machchhar and tried to crash the aircraft, according to Israeli officials.

Most of those aboard were Israelis.

Flight-tracking data showed the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plunging thousands of feet during the emergency.

The aircraft reportedly sustained rudder damage and endured an exceptionally steep descent before control was restored.

Despite being seriously wounded, Machchhar reportedly managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to confront the alleged attacker.

Passengers reportedly helped overpower the suspect, and other FlyDubai crew members aboard the aircraft ultimately took control and diverted the plane to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the suspect, an Omani national, was detained in Saudi Arabia.

Netanyahu praised those who intervened, saying they prevented a major disaster.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described the incident as an attempted terrorist attack, although authorities had not publicly established a motive.

The passengers later boarded a rescue flight to Israel, where Netanyahu welcomed them at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Machchhar, an Indian national, was hospitalized and reported in stable condition.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed him as a hero for continuing to protect those aboard despite his injuries.

FlyDubai has suspended flights to and from Israel while authorities investigate the incident.

The UAE's aviation regulator also opened an investigation into what it described as a security incident.

Trump's praise marked a high-profile endorsement of Boeing and its 737 MAX following years in which the aircraft manufacturer faced intense scrutiny over safety and quality control issues. [source]

Bravo to all those heroes who saved the plane from the terrorist. Prayers and thoughts go out to the pilot who got  attacked. A speedy recovery for him.

More on the story:

• Israel PM Hails Indian Pilot of Rerouted Flight for Averting Disaster
• Netanyahu says Flydubai attacker had 'Islamist radical indoctrination'
• Omani copilot’s social media ‘talks about killing Jews’; Israel will take part in probing him — official
• Flydubai hijacker researched airlines, planned killing pilot, crash into Tel Aviv skyscraper
• What If Those Passengers Had Stayed In Their Seats? [video]

Remember 9/11

 

Islamic extremists disguised as military separated Christians from crowed, slit their throats: bishop

From Christian Post.com (Oct. 7, 2022):

Suspected Islamic extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people in Mozambique’s Nampula province, then separated the Christians from the group and tied their hands before slitting their throats, a Catholic bishop said.

Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula of Nacala told the Catholic group Aid to the Church in Need this week about the killings that occurred last month as was told to him by one of the Christian survivors who managed to flee.

The survivor told the bishop that the terrorists were dressed in military uniform and they gathered people saying they were there to save them.

“When they were all gathered, they started asking who is Muslim and who is Christian. Those who identified as Christian, they started tying their hands behind their back and they cut their throats,” the bishop was quoted as saying.

The bishop said the killings took place on the night of Sept. 6 and the following day, and that “11 people were murdered in total and they left a trail of destruction and a lot of fear.”

On Sept. 6, an 83-year-old Italian nun, Sister Maria de Coppi, was killed in Chipene city when gunmen stormed a Catholic mission compound and set fire to buildings, including the church and hospital, according to reports.

The attack lasted five hours as the militants ransacked and burned the Diocese of Nacala’s mission church, school, health center, dwellings, library and vehicles, Aid to the Church in Need reported earlier.

Aréjula said he knew the nun, “and she was the image of a mother, she was really helping everyone with simple love and humility.”

“Sister Maria de Coppi was a nurse who would help malnourished children in a little room where there was milk and flour, and they destroyed that room as well.

According to reports, the gunmen were likely running away from security forces from Mozambique, Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community.

At least 24 countries have sent troops to support the fight against insurgents in Mozambique, whose army has been accused of being corrupt and having 7,000 “ghost soldiers,” according to the BBC.

Islamic State-affiliated insurgents in northern Mozambique, a Christian-majority country, have internally displaced more than three-quarters of a million people, according to the United Nations.

In the coastal province of Cabo Delgado, Islamic extremists have been exploiting the crisis after a civil war started in 2017. The area is rich with gas, rubies, graphite, gold and other natural resources. Protesters demonstrated at the time against what they say is profits going to an elite in the ruling Frelimo Party, with few jobs for local residents.

“In 2017, jihadist insurgents began in the Cabo-Delgado province, winning over some locals due to the fact that they gave back resources to villagers from the government and killed no one,” the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern reported earlier. “This did not last, however, as IS started setting fire to Christian villages, and killing those who lived there.”

Cabo Delgado is a mostly Muslim region where at least 300 Christians have been killed for their faith, according to ICC. There have also been over 100 attacks on churches in the area.

In March 2021, the United States labeled Islamic State-Mozambique as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” ISIS-Mozambique is also known as Ansar al-Sunna and known locally as al-Shabaab. The group reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State as early as April 2018 and has killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians.

In November 2020, Islamic State-linked militants beheaded over 50 people, including women and children, and abducted others in weekend raids in the Miudumbe and Macomia districts of the Cabo Delgado province.

Last December, Human Rights Watch revealed that insurgents had enslaved more than 600 women and girls, many of which had been abused and sold as sex slaves for as low as $600. [source]

Pure intentional evil.

IED near Alabama reservoir detonated after officials warn of 'unprecedented' critical infrastructure threat

From Fox News.com (May 15):

A grenade-type improvised explosive device was discovered and detonated in an Alabama reservoir that serves as the sole drinking water source for roughly 350,000 people, officials said Thursday.

Divers surveying the Converse Reservoir Dam for routine maintenance discovered the bomb, which the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) described as a "grenade-type IED," and immediately alerted the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), according to authorities.

The device was secured and detonated by a multi-agency team of operators including personnel from the FBI Bomb Squad, Mobile Police Department Explosive Ordnance Detail, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's Bomb Squad, MCSO and the Daphne Search and Rescue Team, according to MAWSS.

MAWSS Director Bud McCrory called the IED discovery "an unprecedented threat" to the area's drinking water, adding "we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals."

The Converse Reservoir is the sole source of drinking water for the Mobile area's 350,000 residents, according to MAWSS.

"We are grateful for the professionalism and competency of our law enforcement partners – as well as the quick thinking of our contractors and divers – in identifying this device and safely destroying it," McCrory said.

MAWSS said it is working with law enforcement agencies to investigate how the bomb got in the reservoir and how long it had been there. The agency will also work with law enforcement to increase security around the dam.

The Converse Reservoir and its dam are federally designated critical infrastructure. The dam is classified as a high hazard potential, according to the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.

The high hazard designation means a structural failure would "probably cause loss of human life," according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Fox News Digital contacted MAWSS, MCSO and the FBI for additional comment. [source]

Glad the divers found the IED in time. 

5 Christian evangelists traveling to plant new church thrown off boat and drowned in Uganda

From Christian Post.com (Sept. 9, 2022):

NAIROBI, Kenya — Muslim extremists killed five Christian workers by throwing them off a boat into central Uganda’s Lake Kyoga, sources said.

The evangelists from End Time Word Ministry church were traveling on Aug. 10 from Nakasongola District to Apac District on a commercial transport boat with plans to plant a church in the Aduku area, a Christian survivor of the attack told Morning Star News.

The survivor, Amos Kyakulaga, a deacon at a church in Namutumba who was acting as a guide, said the five evangelists began proclaiming Christ to a group of 10 Muslims in Islamic attire aboard the boat.

“On our way, Tonny Ankunda started preaching to the people on the boat, which resulted in a huge argument between Muslims and the missionaries concerning the Sonship of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Kyakulaga told Morning Star News.

He said one of the Muslims, identified only as Bashir, began threatening the Christians, saying, “If you continue insisting that Jesus is the Son of God, then Allah will kill all of you.”

Citing Scripture, the evangelists continued affirming the sonship of Christ and, according to Kyakulaga, Bashir told them, “We are giving you one last minute to stop your blasphemy and to convert by confessing the shahada (Islamic creed), or else your lives are at risk.”

When the five evangelists refused to renounce Christ, the Muslims seized them and pushed them off the boat one by one, Kyakulaga said. While the lake is only 4 to 5.7 meters deep, they were 200 meters from shore, and all five Christians drowned.

The 10 Muslims aboard were in agreement that the Christians should be killed, and neither they nor the boat’s pilot did anything to intervene, Kyakulaga said.

The Muslims asked him if he was one of the missionaries, sparing him when he said he was not part of the church-planting team, he said. When the boat docked, he took a motorcycle to the church in Aduku that had invited them, where an elder obtained help from local officials and a fishing group to find and remove the bodies from the lake.

Morning Star News has obtained photos of the bodies of the five victims: Ankunda, 44; Peter Agaba, 28; Juliet Ashaba, 39; Johnson Karungi, 27; and Julius Lweere, 52.

Police have contacted officials in Nakasongola District and leaders of the sending church of the Christians, a church source in Aduku said.

Along with Bashir, two other suspects were identified as Jamil Budde and Juma of Nakasongola.

The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12% of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country. [source]

Pure evil.

Hitler, Islam, Iran, Hezbollah and 9/11

One twentieth-century European, however, was disappointed that Charles Martel had defeated the warriors of Islam, for the same reason that Gibbon was relieved. He exclaimed:

Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers—already, you see, the world had fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing was Christianity!—then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens the seventh heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.

The man expressing that regret was Adolf Hitler.

…….

[U.S. District judge George B.] Daniels found that Iran and Hezbollah had cooperated and collaborated with al-Qaeda before 9/11 and continued to do so after the attacks.

Before 9/11, Iran and Hezbollah were implicated in efforts to train al-Qaeda members to blow up large buildings—resulting in the bombings of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000.

Shortly after the Cole attack, the 9/11 jihad plot began to come together—and Iran was involved. Former MOIS operative Abolghasem Mesbahi, a defector from Iran, testified that during the summer of 2001, he received messages from Iranian government officials regarding a plan for unconventional warfare against the U.S., entitled “Shaitan dar Atash” (“Satan in Flames”).

“Satan in Flames” was the elaborate plot to hijack three passenger jets, each packed full of people, and crash them into American landmarks: the World Trade Center, which jihadis took to be the center of American commerce; the Pentagon, the center of America’s military apparatus; and the White House.

A classified National Security Agency analysis referred to in the 9/11 Commission report reveals that eight to ten of the 9/11 hijackers traveled to Iran repeatedly in late 2000 and early 2001. The 9/11 Commission called for a U.S. government investigation into Iran’s role in 9/11, but none was ever undertaken. Kenneth R. Timmerman of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran was, in his words, “engaged by the Havlish attorneys in 2004 to carry out the investigation the 9/11 Commission report called on the U.S. government to handle.”

Timmerman noted that during the 9/11 hijackers’ trips to Iran, they were “accompanied by ‘senior Hezbollah operatives’ who were in fact agents of the Iranian regime.” Iranian border agents did not stamp their passports, so that their having been inside the Islamic Republic would not arouse suspicion against them when they entered the United States.

The CIA, embarrassed by its failure to recognize the import of these trips, tried to suppress this revelation. But Timmerman contends that even the available evidence is explosive enough, revealing that the Islamic Republic of Iran, in his words:

• helped design the 9/11 plot; 
• provided intelligence support to identify and train the operatives who carried it out;
• allowed the future hijackers to evade U.S. and Pakistani surveillance on key trips to Afghanistan where they received the final order of mission from Osama bin Laden, by escorting them through Iranian borders without passport stamps;
• evacuated hundreds of top al-Qaeda operatives from Afghanistan to Iran after 9/11 just as U.S. forces launched their offensive;
• provided safe haven and continued financial support to al-Qaeda cadres for years after 9/11;
• allowed al-Qaeda to use Iran as an operational base for additional terror attacks, in particular the May 2003 bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

The Ayatollah Khamenei knew about the plot. During the summer of 2001, he instructed Iranian agents to be careful to conceal their tracks and told them to communicate only with al-Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Imad Mughniyah of Hezbollah.

Source: The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS (2018) by Robert Spencer.

More reasons why Trump felt compelled to stop Iran.

Bondi Beach hero’s inspiring words before tackling terrorist revealed

From NY Post.com (Dec. 15):

Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43-year-old father of two from Syria, was seen in a heart-stopping video as he crept up and tackled one of the father-son terrorists who killed 15 people Sunday night at a Hanukkah celebration at the popular beach just outside of Sydney, Australia.

Just before rushing in, the hero predicted he would pay the ultimate price for his bravery, a cousin, Jozay Alkanj, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” the cousin said.

El Ahmed was hit at least five times, and could even lose an arm, according to Sam Issa, the immigration lawyer who helped get him citizenship in 2022, six years after he had moved Down Under.

“He’s not well at all. He’s riddled with bullets,” Issa told the Sydney outlet after visiting him in the hospital Monday. “Our hero is struggling at the moment.”

His heroism remains even as “the pain has started to take a toll on him,” the lawyer stressed.

“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again,” Issa said.

Still, “He’s a lot worse than expected,” the lawyer said of his “humble” client and friend. “He has lost a lot of blood.”

More than 25,000 people have raised the equivalent of just over $1 million for Ahmed on GoFundMe — with the biggest single donation from US billionaire Bill Ackman, who gave the equivalent of nearly $66,500.

“No one expects to be a hero, but when the moment came, he was,” the fundraiser’s organizers wrote.

The fruit stand owner was photographed with his entire left arm bandaged as he was visited by New South Wales Premier Chris Minns at St George Hospital in Sydney on Monday.

“Ahmed is a real-life hero,” Minn said. “His incredible bravery no doubt saved countless lives when he disarmed a terrorist at enormous personal risk.”

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed, also spoke of his pride at his son preventing more bloodshed. [read more]

Hero, indeed.  He just reacted without hesitation without thinking about his own safety. He instinctively knew the right course of action to save lives. God speed his recovery.

Other articles on the terrorist attack:

• ‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
• Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him: report
• Heroic detective killed Bondi Beach terror suspect with ‘once-in-a-lifetime shot’ from over 100 feet away
• Australia Police See Evidence of Islamic State–Inspired Terror in Bondi Massacre
• Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem
• There’s No Evidence Australia’s Strict Gun Control Laws Are Effective
• Why the Australia beach shooting should terrify EVERYONE [video]
  

History of Slavery Part 1

Speaking in July 1773 at the Virginia Constitutional Convention, George Mason described slavery as “that slow Poison, which is daily contaminating the Minds and Morals of our People.” Two years later, Patrick Henry urged his fellow Southerners to look for a time “when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.” This was the tone. And Southern states joined Northern states in excluding slavery from the Northwest Territory and in abolishing the African slave trade.

The tone persisted through the early nineteenth century. “Until the 1820s,” John Blassingame writes in The Slave Community, “many planters, convinced of the immorality of bondage, joined with clergymen in seeking its abolition.” During this period, the South had more than a hundred antislavery organizations, and manumissions of slaves were fairly common, especially in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Yet historian Stanley Elkins points out that by the 1830s “the hostility to slavery that had been common in Jeffersonian times . . . all but disappeared.”

How did this happen? According to Blassingame, planters launched a massive campaign to uphold slavery in the wake of the abolitionist and antislavery pressures generated by the Revolution. The goal was to unify the slave community in defense of the plantation. Mob attacks were organized against antislavery ministers. “By the 1840s,” Blassingame writes, “the propagandists had largely succeeded in silencing the churches.” Then they began browbeating the clergy into becoming advocates of slavery.

Around the same time, planters organized a campaign throughout the South—largely successful—to block literature from antislavery societies from being delivered through the mail. In response to political pressure, every Southern state except Maryland and Kentucky passed laws prohibiting teaching slaves to read and write. Many Southern legislatures adopted measures banning manumissions, some forced free blacks to leave the state, and a few even invited free blacks to enslave themselves. By the 1850s some slavery apologists like William Yancey and Robert Barnwell Rhett were calling for the reopening of the African slave trade.

This was a new and different South, and to the incredible good fortune of the planter aristocracy, there was a political party, the Democratic Party, to represent their interests and press their claims, both at the local and the national level. Working with and through this party, the planter class found itself equipped with a full-blown moral, legal and political philosophy of the plantation, one that historians say no previous class of slave-owners ever developed.

Source: Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party (2018) by Dinesh D'Souza.

Progressive group busted instructing pro-Hamas students to recreate 2020 “Summer of Love”…

From Revolver.news (May 2):

Those “organic” pro-Palestinian protests aren’t looking so organic after all. It appears a progressive group from New York City has been stirring up trouble, rallying angsty, violent students to channel the infamous “Summer of Love” from 2020. Remember that? During the George Floyd riots, left-wingers set cities ablaze in the name of a career felon and drug addict, leading to 20 tragic deaths. It seems history might be trying to repeat itself, and the same liberal instigators are at it again.

According to a new report, just before a group of aggressive pro-Hamas students charged into a building at Columbia University, they were urged to channel the “Summer of 2020.”

It looks familiar, doesn’t it? Just like Chicago during the “Summer of Love.” It all seems to follow the same script.

This directive supposedly came from a nonprofit based in Manhattan known as “The People’s Forum,” which has received a hefty $12 million from Goldman Sachs’ charity wing. This massive funding can be traced back to a figure named Neville Roy Singham, a man with strong Marxist ties.

Ryan Saavedra:

BREAKING:

Anti-Israel Group Encouraged Columbia Protesters To Re-Create ‘The Summer of 2020′ Hours Before Students Stormed a Building

A New York City nonprofit that received more than $12 million from Goldman Sachs’ charitable arm encouraged anti-Israel activists to re-create the violent protests of “the summer of 2020,” just hours before rioters stormed and occupied a building on Columbia University’s campus.

The People’s Forum’s operations are made possible in large part by a $12 million donation from Goldman Sachs’s charitable arm. The source of that money is likely Neville Roy Singham, a communist who has “long admired Maoism.”

Singham, an American businessman who lives in China, reportedly helps finance the Chinese Communist Party’s “propaganda worldwide,” according to the New York Times. His wife, Jodie Evans, is the leader of the activist group Code Pink. Under her leadership, the group has celebrated China as “a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.”

“As with any donor advised fund, the prior donation was made with the client’s money, at the client’s direction,” a Goldman Sachs spokesman told the Free Beacon. “This was not firm money.”

This coordinated effort shouldn’t surprise anyone. There’s always a group lurking in the shadows, just waiting for their “marching orders.” As Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, aptly notes, it seems the Biden regime might be employing the CIA’s “rent-a-riot” crew to push forward their Marxist agenda.

It’s essential to understand how these puzzle pieces fit together—seeing the big picture is our first step toward gaining control and outsmarting this machine at its own game. We don’t need to resort to violence or become unhinged to win. Our strategy should be to shine a light on their shadowy operations. These types thrive in darkness, and once exposed, their power significantly diminishes. Let’s reveal their hidden webs for the world to see and strip them of their power. [source]

Not surprising. The Left has to spread their Marxist gospel/virus to other people. I think I even saw an Antifa thug join the rest of the bully protestors/agitators.

Other articles on the anti-Israel anti-American protest:

• The Treachery Behind the Protests
• The Opportunists
• Evil Wins
• Let Them Destroy Each Other
• Try a Little Honesty About Israel
• The ‘death to America’ crowd
• Student Protests and the Old Gods
• 13 Federal Judges Announce Boycott of Hiring Law Clerks from Columbia University, Citing Rampant Antisemitism and Campus Disruptions
• UNC faculty to withhold final grades for all until suspended protesters are re-instated
• Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
• Iranian college offers free tuition to U.S. students booted amid anti-Israel riots
• Cops in riot gear storm anti-Israel ‘tent city’ on UPenn campus
• Anti-Israel protester, 16, arrested for vandalizing Central Park WWI memorial
• College student cries after finding out punishments following arrest at ASU encampment
• Fake corpses, bloody toys placed by Gaza protesters at University of Michigan regents’ homes
  

What Were the Hamas Monsters Thinking?

From AM Greatness.com (Nov. 27, 2023):

We know the multifaceted strategy of the monstrous Hamas operation of October 7.

In precivilization fashion it wished to kill and mutilate the most vulnerable of all Israeli civilians and thus to shock the world that it was capable of—and proud about— anything, from decapitation to necrophilia. Such animalistic savagery, in the reckoning of Western therapeutic society, was supposedly to be seen as forced upon Hamas murderers by the “occupation.”

The killers felt they would shock the Israelis into concessions given their eagerness to commit the unspeakable. They took captives for tripartite reasons: to barter children and the elderly for their kindred terrorist murderers in Israeli jails; to use captives to force the Israelis to grant cease-fires and pauses in their retaliation; and to bank them as shields to protect Hamas kingpins from retaliation.

Hamas invaded during a holiday in the early hours, in a time of peace, and on the iconic 50th-anniversary of the Yom Kippur surprise Arab attack. Their aim was to prove that  Israeli soil was for the first time porous and 2,000 killers could enter sacred Israeli ground with impunity and kill in one day more Jews civilians than at any day since the Holocaust.

The terrorists shot thousands of rockets into Israel to overwhelm Iron Dome and terrify the entire civilian population.

All these tactics were aimed at long-term strategic goals: stop the Abraham Accords; obey the directives of Hamas’s Iranian terrorist masters as payment for their arms; discredit the radical Palestine Authority and Arab moderate nations as anemic in their opposition to the supposedly shared hated Zionist entity; and prompt an Israeli response that by necessity would involve collateral damage to human shields, and schools, mosques, and hospitals atop subterranean Hamas headquarters.

Yet if we know their despicable methods, aims, and strategies, why did they think the civilized world would support their barbarity or at least excuse it?

One, Hamas assumed anti-Semitism was prevalent throughout the West and was canonical in the Middle East. Palestinian authorities count on the fact that being an enemy of the Jews of Israel wins them empathy of the world and creating their own unique rules of passive-aggressive victimhood. [read more]

Not sure if monsters can think or not... Another great article by Victor Davis Hanson.

Three Explosive Attacks on Washington DC Businesses July 4th Weekend

From Daily News Planet.com (July 2023):

In a series of early morning attacks on Sunday, June 2, three businesses in Washington, DC were targeted with explosive devices and a Molotov cocktail.

These incidents occurred within a 15-minute time frame. The locations included a Truist Bank, a Nike shop, and a Safeway grocery store, with the Nike store just blocks away from the US Supreme Court and Capitol buildings.

The first explosion occurred around 4:30 a.m. at the Truist Bank, where a device was detonated on the sidewalk near the ATM. Shortly afterward, at 4:36 a.m., another explosive device was set off in front of the nearby Nike store on H Street. Approximately nine minutes later, at 4:45 a.m., the suspect arrived at the Safeway store on 40th Street and threw a Molotov cocktail-style object through a window.

Fortunately, no people were present at the businesses during the early morning hours, and no injuries have been reported. Metro police believe that the suspect’s intent was to harm the businesses themselves, rather than directly targeting people. Law enforcement authorities have not released any further information about the suspect or a potential motive for the attacks.

The investigation into these incidents is being conducted by the Metro Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The DC police have offered a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone providing information that leads to an arrest and conviction. [source]

I don't remember hearing or seeing this on the news.

China Is Fueling Hamas Attacks | Opinion

From Newsweek.com (Nov. 26):

One of China's most cynical strategies in its all-encompassing struggle against the United States is to cast itself as a peacemaker while claiming that America fuels conflict. Beijing propagates this false narrative even as it ignites bonfires.

This Chinese doublespeak was on display at the BRICS virtual summit last week, when President Xi Jinping proposed a six-point plan to permanently stop the fighting in Gaza. The Chinese ruler called for an end to "all violence and attacks against civilians," the securing of "humanitarian corridors" and additional aid for Gaza, "the establishment of an independent State of Palestine," the convening of an "international peace conference," the adoption of U.N. General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, and the implementation of "practical measures to prevent the conflict from spilling over and endangering stability in the Middle East as a whole."

Many foreign observers are buying Beijing's China-desires-peace propaganda line. "What China really wants in the Middle East is order," writes Omer Aziz, a former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in the Globe and Mail. "A regional war is not in China's interests if it wants to grow economically and keep its own interests—principally Taiwan—in line."

Yet Xi Jinping is not promoting peace in the Middle East. He is rather continuing to stoke war. China's actions in recent years reveal not just that China has been pushing war in the Middle East, but that it knew it was doing so. China, after all, has been continually backing Iran's militant Shiite regime, which openly talks about war and consistently works to destabilize the Sunni states in the Gulf region.

China has for decades been aiding the relentless drive of the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Iran received Chinese uranium-enrichment technology and equipment through the China-sponsored nuclear-black-market ring of Pakistan's A. Q. Khan. And China-proxy North Korea could never transfer ballistic missiles to Iran without Chinese approval, something it has done consistently in recent decades.

Moreover, China has been supplying arms used by proxies of the Islamic Republic. Hamas, for instance, appears to possess old Chinese-made weapons, presumably supplied through Iran. Likewise, the U.S. Navy in 2021 and this year seized Chinese weapons in transit to the Houthi militia in Yemen, another Iranian proxy. Richard Fisher, a China military analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told me that Beijing also provides weapons to Hezbollah, Iran's third major proxy. [read more]

Not surprising. The Chi-Coms will do just about anything to hurt America and our allies. Definitely not a friend. And yet they will discriminate and oppress the Uyghurs.

Hamas terrorists 'murdered 40 babies' including beheadings, says report

From The JC.com (Oct. 10):

Bodies of young Israeli babies, including some with their heads cut off, have been found by IDF soldiers in a southern Israeli kibbutz, according to reports.

Soldiers discovered the bodies among burned out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars after Hamas terrorists attacked Kfar Aza kibbutz near the Gaza border.

In a video on X/Twitter, an i24 journalist said: “Talking to some of the soldiers here, they say what they witnessed as they’ve been walking through these communities is bodies of babies with their heads cut off and families gunned down in their beds.

“We can see some of these soldiers right now, comforting each other.”

Kfar Aza was one of the hardest hit areas when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Saturday morning.

Israeli troops were now going house to house to retrieve civilian bodies in body bags. They had not been able to take them before as they were still fighting gunmen and working through booby-traps.

In a statement on Tuesday, Israeli Major General Itai Veruv said: “You see the babies, the mothers, the fathers, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms and how the terrorist kills them. It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre, it's a terror activity.

"It is something that I never saw in my life. It's something that we used to imagine from our grandfathers, grandmothers in the pogrom in Europe and other places. It's not something that happens in new history."

IDF soldiers had taken the foreign press through Kfar Aza kibbutz. Pictures from i24 news show soldiers comforting each other after making the discovery.

The JC has been unable to independently confirm these reports. [source]

Horrible. Hamas is a gang of evil psychopathic goat fornicating thugs. Even the goats are saying get away from me you SOBs. Anyone who uses women and children as human shields are freakin’ cowards.

Other articles on this gang:

• Hamas atrocities expose peril of liberals’ long embrace of Palestinians and Iran
• Israel vs. Hamas: There's only one thing Israel must do now to Hamas
• A 50th anniversary war?
• The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement
  
• Hamas and Amoral Clarity
• The Atrocities of Hamas and the Reality of Evil
• How Hamas uses hospitals, churches, schools, kids as 'human shields'
  
• Stop blaming the Jews
• Terrorism Is Terrorism
• 'Top secret' Hamas documents show that terrorists intentionally targeted elementary schools and a youth center
• US, Qatar Agree to Keep Iran From $6 Billion
• Netanyahu: Hamas Beheaded Soldiers, Raped Women
• How the Nazis helped to inspire Hamas
• The Moral Duty to Destroy Hamas
• Israel war: Iran seeks to rally 'all Arab and Islamic countries' to back Palestinian terrorists
• Analysis: Where Hamas may be holding Israeli hostages
• Israel-Gaza: There’s only one solution
• Israel Says Its Forces Killed Hamas Leader Who Spearheaded Massacre
• Is THIS why Hamas choose WAR with Israel NOW? [video]

Taliban Had Sex With Dead Bodies After Taking Over Afghanistan, Escaped Woman Alleges

From IB Times.com (Aug. 23):

A woman, who fled Afghanistan after the country was taken over by the Taliban, has revealed the group's fighters had sex with dead bodies. 

The woman, identified only as Muskan, had left Afghanistan after the Taliban overthrew the government and took control of Kabul. She had worked for the police force in Afghanistan, and is currently in India.

Speaking to local media in India, Muskan revealed the horrific condition of the country. The woman claimed the Jihadist group would kidnap women or shoot them dead, and added they were also involved in necrophilia, the practice of having sex with corpses.

“They rape dead bodies too. They don’t care whether the person is dead or alive... Can you imagine this?” Muskan said, according to the North-Eastern Chronicle.

Muskan claimed she herself was under threat while in Afghanistan and had to leave her job and escape the country to survive. She added the women working for the government in the country are highly likely to face a terrible fate if they do not flee, News 18 reported.

Muskan's claims come just days after reports surfaced that members of the Taliban shot and killed a woman after she went out in public without wearing a burqa. This was just hours after the Islamist terrorist group vowed to respect women's rights. [read more]

Really? There weren’t any goats around? So much for the new and improved Taliban I guess. Well, they are improved since they’ve commandeered America’s weapons, equipment and transportation. The weapons, equipment and transportation should have been destroyed or booby-trapped. 

Other stories about the Taliban:

• U.S. Pushed Afghan Government To Release 5,000 Taliban Prisoners, Many Of Whom Are Now Terrorizing The Country
• Former Afghan minister claims Taliban killing children in reign of terror
• The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs
• Taliban Asks Women To Stay Home Because Their Fighters ‘Have Not Been Yet Trained’ To Respect Them
• ALERT: The Taliban Is Now Blocking Westerners From The Airport!
  
• CENTCOM Commander Reveals U.S. Intelligence-Sharing Operation with Taliban
  
• Biden TURNED DOWN Taliban offer to let America secure all of Kabul after President Ashraf Ghani fled country, report claims
  

These Key Similarities Between Lenin’s Red Terror and America’s Woke Culture Reveal Left’s Blueprint For Complete Takeover

From Revolver.news (April 24):

Thursday marked the 151st birthday of the most successful revolutionary of all time, Vladimir Lenin. With only a tiny cabal of diehard followers, Lenin seized control of the world’s largest country and inaugurated a reign of darkness and terror that lasted seventy years.

There are many lessons to draw from the blood-soaked life of Lenin. But one of the most important is this takeaway for the terrifying “woke” moment America is living through right now. Things are not going to naturally get better. Things will not organically “calm down.” Until there is a fundamental reset of America’s treasonous leadership class, today’s unthinkable witch hunt is merely a prelude of an even darker globalist terror to come.

The Bolsheviks were indisputably more murderous than today’s left (if only because they lived in a more violent age), but even they had to ramp up how much terror they engaged in.

At the beginning of their rule, in fact, the Bolsheviks were even willing to run a fair election. Just days after the October Revolution, they held the preplanned elections for Russia’s Constituent Assembly, anticipating an easy win. To their surprise, they were easily defeated by the Socialist Revolutionaries. And so, like any good leftists, they simply nullified the election and dissolved the Constituent Assembly. Since it was 100 years ago and the Bolsheviks were well-armed, it was enough to simply announce that the Constituent Assembly was closed. Today, they might concoct a more elaborate narrative, perhaps that the Socialist Revolutionaries engaged in “collusion” with a foreign power.

Once they had taken power, the Bolsheviks didn’t immediately launch Stalin-style mass purges. Instead, the Bolsheviks started off in a way modern Americans would find disturbingly familiar: By legitimizing criminal anarchy and co-opting the justice system.

In their earliest days, the Bolsheviks framed their political abuses as a “war on privilege.” In a tactic eerily reminiscent of 2020’s riots, the Bolsheviks of 1918 encouraged a decentralized campaign by the masses to plunder and crush class enemies.

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Lenin’s Red Terror carries important lessons for America in 2021.

Every time the terror in America seems to have peaked, it gets worse.

In 2017, people lost their jobs for attending the Charlottesville march. It didn’t matter if they engaged in any violence or broke any laws. Merely being there was enough.

Many normal Americans shrugged.

“It was some racist march anyway,” thought most conservatives. “They should have known better than to go.”

But of course, it didn’t stop there. Throughout the Trump administration, it became acceptable to target people for pettier and pettier offenses: Anonymous posts online, leaked emails, decade-old articles (or decade-old tweets), attending conferences with the wrong people.

April 2021 has brought us to a new low. In Minnesota, Derek Chauvin is going to prison, likely for decades, for using a routine policing method to subdue a man twice his size who was resisting arrest. In Virginia, a police officer’s twenty-year career has ended in termination after he sent a $25 anonymous donation to the defense fund of Kyle Rittenhouse. [read more]

More articles on the woke culture:

• The New Business of Woke Corporate Consulting
• 3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe
• Woke Politics: The Democrats’ Plan for a Permanent Majority
• My Woke Employees Tried to Cancel Me. Here’s How I Fought Back and Saved My Nonprofit.

Chinese Christians Held in Secretive Brainwashing Camps: Sources

From RFA.org (April 1):

Authorities in China are detaining Christians in secretive, mobile "transformation" facilities to make them renounce their faith, RFA has
learned.

A member of a Christian "house church" in the southwestern province of Sichuan who asked to be identified by a pseudonym Li Yuese said he was held in a facility run by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s United Front Work Department, working in tandem with the state security police, for 10 months after a raid on his church in 2018.

"It was a mobile facility, that could just set up in some basement somewhere," Li said. "It was staffed by people from several different government departments."

"It had its own (CCP) political and legal affairs committee working group, and they mainly target Christians who are members of house churches," he said.

The Chinese Communist Party, which embraces atheism, exercises tight controls over any form of religious practice among its citizens.

State security police and religious affairs bureau officials frequently raid unofficial "house churches" that aren't members of the CCP-backed Three-Self Patriotic Association, although member churches have also been targeted at times.

The CCP under Xi Jinping regards Christianity as a dangerous foreign import, with party documents warning against the "infiltration of Western hostile forces" in the form of religion. [read more]

Another article on the subject:

You Won’t Believe What the Chinese Communist Party is Teaching About Jesus

Piece of Wright brothers' 1st plane now on Mars

From Live Science.com (Mar. 7):

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in February, it carried a bit of the Wright brothers' first airplane with it.

A swatch of fabric from the airplane, known as the Flyer, is secured beneath the solar panels of an experimental helicopter, which in turn is strapped to the underside of the rover, according to a statement from NASA. The helicopter, called Ingenuity, is attached to the rover for now, but soon, if all goes well,  scientists will pilot the aircraft remotely over the surface of the Red Planet.

This flight will be attempted "no earlier than April 8," NASA said. The rover must first transport Ingenuity to a designated airfield and deploy the chopper; once dropped off, the helicopter must gather enough solar energy to power its internal heaters and prevent its instruments from freezing. [read more]

The Problems with Marx's Dialectic

Commentary From Allen Gindler on Mises.org:

Dialectic! What a powerful concept that explains everything and nothing at the same time in the Soviet reality. Any changes in the economic, social, foreign, or military policies of the Soviet Union were considered in their natural movement and rationalized by the materialist dialectic. For example, the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) after war communism was dialectic; the conclusion of the nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany after many years of mutual dislike and criticism was dialectic; even the chronic lag of the Soviet economy in providing essential goods also found dialectical justification.

Eventually, however, the word "dialectic" became a subject of jokes for those of us living under Marxist regimes.  We could see the enormous difference between the theory and the reality, and we ridiculed Marx's dialectic, as it was perceived to explain everything and nothing simultaneously.

But what is "dialectic," anyway? Antony Sammeroff had an excellent article on the subject of dialectical materialism and Mises's critique of it. It is, simply put, a specific way of using historical events to illustrate why the world is the way it is. In the Marxian context, it often involves showing why the status quo was always inevitable, and has proceeded according to Marxist economic "science."

Sammeroff writes:

Marx theorized that human history is best viewed as a series of class struggles between social forces that have contradictory interests. For example, the class struggles between slaves and their masters, between feudal lords and their subjects, and—in his day—the class struggle between capitalists and their workers. He believed that seeing history as the history of class struggle had better explanatory power than viewing it through other lenses, such as the history of ideas, technological innovations, or military conflicts.

In fact, properly viewed through the lens of class struggle, history would naturally subsume those other ways of seeing the world and illuminate the context in which they unfolded, particularly when it came to technological innovation, which Marx thought would ultimately determine the struggle of the age. He wrote, “The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.” Mises summarizes Marx's view as follows: “These forces are the driving power producing all historical facts and changes.”

Dialectic has a long history and different interpretations. Still, we will rely on Hegel's version, as he authored three laws of dialectic: the unity and conflict of opposites, the mutual transformation of quantity into quality, and the negation of the negation. He suggested a path of arriving at the truth that has a triadic structure: a particular phenomenon (thesis) is manifested within its contradictory aspect (antithesis), which requires a resolution (synthesis) that negates their logical opposition. Concerning one of the main questions of philosophy—what is primary, matter or idea?—Hegel was a representative of idealism, and his philosophy was better described as dialectical idealism.

On the contrary, Marx was an adherent of materialism, and his disagreement with Hegel's idealism had to be resolved dialectically. In other words, Hegel's idealism could be considered the thesis, and Marx's materialism, which he borrowed from Feuerbach, was the antithesis. As a result of the third stage of the triad—synthesis—the birth of a new thesis was expected, since it is assumed that synthesis will resolve the contradiction and lead to the creation of a new paradigm.

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Arbitrary Descriptions of Class Groups

One of the key problems with Marx's imprecise use of the dialectic can be found in his arbitrary use of economic classes.

In general, many parties can participate in a conflict, but Marx preferred to limit himself to the realm of dichotomy, according to the dialectical law of the unity and conflict of opposites. In a capitalist society, he saw two opposing sides—the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Mises repeatedly stated that the classification of the members of a capitalistic society according to their position in the social division of labor was unwarranted and made sense only in the framework of Marxism itself but not outside of his teachings.

But even if we accept the Marxist classification, one may ask why the doctrine did not address peasants, who constituted a significant section of the populations of Germany and England during the time of Marx, and of course, the so-called petty bourgeoisie.

Marx abstracted himself from the uncomfortable strata of the population that did not fit very well into his theory of scientific socialism. Instead, he hypothesized that the poor would get poorer and the rich richer, which, at the limit, would lead to all the wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few. The majority would be the poor proletariat. That is, all the peasants would lose their land and become farm laborers, and the petty bourgeoisie would also cease to exist. Mathematicians have a method in which a function's behavior is investigated in the limit, but studying society is not math, and such operations are unscientific. [read more]

In the article the author says that Marx predicted the self-employed small business owner would disappear. Or maybe he wished they would… After all they are less dependent on the State. And the socialists and far-Left can’t have that.

Other articles on Marxism:

• Marxism: A Breeding Ground for Useful Idiots
• How Modern Education Makes Good Little Marxists
• MUST READ: Democrats Are Doing Exactly What Marxist Did Before Joseph Stalin Seized Control
• Warning for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020
• It’s Not Just ‘Gender Dysphoria.’ It’s Now ‘Rapid Onset Marxism.’
• The Gender Feminist–New Left–Marxist Axis Attacks All Civil Society
• How ‘Wokeness’ Is a Product of Marxism
• Soviet Terror Was the Natural Evolution of Marx's Communism

Excerpts from the book Red Famine–The Brigades

Local party leaders, their careers on the line, organized groups of activists and sent them, village by village, to begin confiscating whatever grain they could find. A peasant in the village of Sobolivka, in the western part of Ukraine, wrote to his Polish relatives describing how this worked:

The authorities do as follows: they send the so-called brigades which come to a man or a farmer and conduct a search so thorough they even look through the ground with sharp metal tools, through the walls with matches, in the garden, in the straw roof, and if they find even half a pood, they take it away on the horse wagon. This passes for life here... Dear brother Ignacy, if it is possible, I ask you to send me a package, as it is very needed. There is nothing to eat and one must eat.

All these methods recalled the events of the past: in the days of "War Communism" the Red Army had searched peasants' property with similar violence, and with similar disregard for their lives. But they also foreshadowed the immediate future: these were the first of what would bc thousands of many intense, destructive searches, conducted by activists all across Ukraine a year later, in the winter of 1932—3. The use of violence, the smashing of walls and furniture in search of hidden grain—these were a harbinger of what was to come.

Source: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (2017) by Anne Applebaum.