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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Links - 11th June 2024 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "All the right people are upset at this successful rescue."
Aviva Klompas: "Mehdi having a temper tantrum because Israel rescued hostages instead of releasing hundreds of convicted terrorists who would go right back to murdering Israelis."
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: "Did he say anything about the dozens of innocent Palestinians killed in the raid to rescue them, a raid that wouldn't have been necessary if Netanyahu had agreed to the hostage release deal - for all the hostages, not just four! - that Biden had claimed Netanyahu had agreed to?"
"BREAKING: President Biden welcomes the rescue of the four hostages who were held by Hamas in Gaza. "We will not stop working until all hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. It is essential that it happens', Biden said"
Of course, Mehdi would be scandalised if you suggested that all this wouldn't have been necessary if October 7th hadn't happened
Somehow, he conveniently ignores the fact that Hamas turned down the deal. Terrorism supporters always keep quiet when Hamas rejects deals, and pretends Israel is the only one doing that and so is the only one to blame

Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "An entire industry of media watchdogs will throw a hissy fit over a Washington Post statement. Not a single person who appears on CNN will admonish this. Not a single person paid by this network. This is an editorial choice by CNN. They did this on purpose for a reason. Now ask why."
Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas: "CNN says the hostages were "released" No @CNN they were rescued after 245 days in the hands of terrorists."
"GANTZ POSTPONES NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER HOSTAGE RELEASE"
Terrorism supporters aren't even bothering to pretend now

Gaza journalist who wrote for Al Jazeera was holding 3 hostages in home with family, Israel says - "Abdallah Aljamal, who also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labor ministry, was killed when special forces soldiers stormed his home in central Gaza and rescued hostages Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andri Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, the Israeli military said. Aljamal’s death was originally reported by Rami Abdu, the head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, who claimed Israel Defense Forces soldiers raided the journalist’s home and killed him and several members of his family... “This is further proof that the Hamas terrorist organization uses the civilian population as a human shield,” the IDF said in a statement... Before his death, Aljamal was contributing to the Palestine Chronicle news outlet, where he wrote a plethora of stories covering the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s offensive... The outlet claims its team “consists of professional journalists and respected writers and authors who don’t speak on behalf of any political party or champion any specific political agenda.”... Israel touted the rescue as a success, and estimated there were “under 100” casualties as a result of the raid. However, the Hamas-run ministry of health alleged that 274 were killed, including civilians. Israeli and American officials have blamed the casualties on Hamas’ tactic of holding hostages and storing munitions in civilian spaces."

Hostages go from symbols of tragedy to emblems of hope after rescue - "Who among us held out hope that Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old Israeli partygoer last seen screaming on the back of a Hamas motorcycle, was still alive? Who dared to hope she might be returned to her mother, who is suffering with cancer? In a single day, Noa has gone from a symbol of tragedy to a symbol of hope, that alchemical force on which the Jewish state was founded and that continues to sustain it, even through this darkness. Her rescue, as well as that of Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and 41-year-old Shlomi Ziv, proves the value of military pressure. Hamas needs to hurt. While the world tells Israel to lay down its arms, dreaming up ever more spurious arguments – stop fighting and Hamas will vanish, ceasefire and your daughters will be freed, be kind and they will come to love you, give them a state and they will allow you to live – the IDF must carry on."

Meme - *Rat in Keffiyeh holding "we are winning" sign*

Meme - "Before 07.10.23 *little girl with toy rifle and headband with slogan*
After *little girl holding wooden pole and crying*

Hillel Fuld on X - "Some public service announcements.
- Starting a war and losing doesn’t make you a victim.
- Self defense against a brutal, savage, and barbaric enemy isn’t genocide.
- Siding with the weaker side even though they started the war in the most atrocious way imaginable doesn’t make you compassionate or moral. Quite the contrary.
- Fighting for human rights only when the victim isn’t Jewish doesn’t make you a human rights activist. It makes you an antisemite.
- Denying events that were documented and proven because you think they were somehow justified makes you a liar.
- Someone who murders, rapes, burns, and kidnaps innocent people is not a freedom fighter. You spelled terrorist wrong.
- If you think rape or burning a family alive is ever justified under any circumstances, you are morally bankrupt.
- If you chant ‘Believe all women’, but refuse to believe Jewish women, you’re not a feminist or a women’s rights activist, you’re a Jew hater.
- If you support Hamas, you’re not progressive or liberal. You are a fundamentalist and an extremist.
- If you think an Arab state of Palestine ever existed, you’re fabricating history.
And finally, if you think this war is about a state, if you think giving them land will satisfy them, then you are ignoring the many times that they had a chance for a state and rejected them. If you think Hamas and Hamas supporters want anything less than every single inch of Israel, and every single Jew dead, you’re not paying attention, which makes you an ignorant fool."

Meme - Hot Takes Nobody Asked For: "she stopped going to an israeli owned restaurant starting on the day israel was attacked by hamas. most citizens of israel are required to complete mandatory military service. the conscription applies to both men and women, with some differences in the length and nature of service."
Willow Naomi Curry @willathewisp: "If you live in DC, Boston, or NYC and love the restaurant Tatte, you should know that the owner is an Israeli woman who served in the IDF and then worked for Israeli media. I haven't been there since October 7."
Willow Naomi Curry must be able to predict the future - on October 8th, she knew that Israel would commit "genocide" on Gaza in the future, which is why she decided to boycott the restaurant. Ditto for all the "pro-Palestinian" terrorism supporters who demonstrated against Israel immediately after October 7th

Wilfred Reilly on X - "Israel annihilating Hamas is totally just and "moral" - and who cares, anyhow? If another person hits you brutally hard and without provocation, after promising to do so whenever they can...and you are sane.....you respond until they are unable to hit you anymore. Enough of letting gerbils and hamsters write rules for humans.
"War is not genocide" is like "Men aren't women."  STOP pretending to believe nonsense, and you will very very often soon enjoy that positive sensation of realizing no one else ever REALLY thought that either."

Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ on X - "Ok, this is hilarious. https://okdiario.com/espana/hasta-2-millones-palestinos-pueden-pedir-asilo-espana-acusar-gobierno-israel-genocidio-12913408  "Minister of Foreign Affairs has asked the ministers, internally, to stop using the term "genocide": it opens the door for Palestinians residing in Gaza, and there are around two million in the entire Strip, to appear at an embassy or Spanish consulate to request asylum. And a ruling from the Supreme Court obliges Foreign Affairs, in those cases, to put the applicant for protection on a plane to Spain."  Nothing like a little skin in the game to force the populists to stop parroting Hamas propaganda."
Danno on X - "Drop leaflets in Gaza telling them to apply for asylum in Norway, Ireland and Spain! That would be hilarious!"

‘Get pregnant’: Sick video of captured soldiers - "Ms Levy’s mother, Dr Ayelet Levy Shachar, was stunned by the video, and said that her daughter was a proponent of peace between Israelis and Palestinians and had participated in several demonstrations calling for peace... The harrowing video of the women at Nahal Oz comes as Norway, Ireland and Spain announced a joint decision to recognise Palestine as a state despite backlash that such acknowledgment rewards Hamas for the brutal October 7 attack.  Speaking at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the European leaders were essentially “giving a prize to Nukhba [Hamas’s elite commando unit] murderers and abusers”"
Terrorism supporters hate "Zionists" who want peace, so it doesn't matter

Meme - Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold: "A Facebook group for Chicago therapists was asked whether anyone would be comfortable taking a Zionist client.  Those who volunteered to help the person were then added to a list of suspected Zionists run by a second group of "anti-racist" therapists."
"When someone posted in a private Facebook group for Chicago therapists in March, asking whether anyone would be willing to work with a Zionist client, several Jewish therapists quickly responded, saying they would be happy to be connected to this person.   What happened next sparked fear and outrage among Jewish therapists in Chicago and across the country, and illuminated the atmosphere of intimidation and harassment faced by many Jews in the mental health world who won’t disavow Zionism. Those who replied, offering their services to this unnamed client, soon found themselves added to a list of supposedly Zionist therapists that was shared in a group called “Chicago Anti-Racist Therapists.”  “I’ve put together a list of therapists/practices with Zionist affiliations that we should avoid referring clients to,” Heba Ibrahim Joudeh, the document’s author, wrote. (A request for comment sent to the practice she runs with her husband did not receive a response.) The administrator of the anti-racist group chimed in, praising the list as a way “to be transparent about clinicians who promote and facilitate White supremacy via Zionism.” The comments came quickly: “Amazing, thank you,” one person wrote. “Omg a place I was looking at is on here,” another wrote, with angry emojis."
Similarly, the left think that defense lawyers should not represent clients who are an impediment to the left wing agenda. Next up, doctors who treat "Zionists" need to have their licences taken away

Graphic artist Miriam Libicki has been banned by Vancouver Comics Arts Festival due to her past service in the IDF - "The Vancouver Comics Arts Festival has permanently banned artist Miriam Libicki from appearing in the event because of, in the words of the festival’s directors, “this exhibitor’s prior role in the Israeli military and their subsequent collection of works which recounts their personal position in said military and the illegal occupation of Palestine.”... “I am, and I have consistently, publicly, been pro-peace. I am in favour of a Palestinian state via negotiations. Because of the vulnerable populations I work with, I prefer not to discuss my specific political views in public. I believe all policing of artists’ personal identities and nationalities is wrong. VanCAF’s illegal ban, and defamation directed at me, is bad for all artists of all political orientations and backgrounds,” she added...   Having her appear in the festival, VanCAF added, “fundamentally falls in absolute disregard to all of our exhibiting artist’s, attendees and staff, especially those who are directly affected by the ongoing genocide in Palestine and Indigenous community members alike. Upon examining these concerns and conducts, this exhibitor will not be permitted to return to the festival.”... Some members of the British Columbia literary community have expressed their dismay and disbelief at VanCAF’s statement and decision to keep Libicki out of the festival. Charlotte Schallié, the chair of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria who spearheaded the But I Live project, said, “Miriam is an artist of utmost integrity and humanity, and I am deeply saddened and troubled that she was banned from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival.  “Especially in times of deep polarization and divisiveness in public discourse, freedom of artistic expression has to be upheld as a fundamental principle and practice. Any form of suppression and censorship of artistic freedom stymies our own ability to engage in critical dialogue and hold space for diverse and differing viewpoints.” Alan Twigg, the author Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia and the founder of the newspaper BC Bookworld, said, “When I watch CNN and learn about the latest book-banning nonsense in the United States, I want to believe such ignorance and prejudice could not happen in Canada.  “The idiotic excuse for prejudice in this case, it appears, is that its author or illustrator has spent some time within the Israeli military. Do they not realize that some form of military service is mandatory for all young Israelis? We should not countenance such absurdity.“"
Clearly, conscripts are responsible for everything the armed forces they are forced to serve in on pain of criminal penalties will ever do for the rest of eternity. Meanwhile, glorifying terrorists is good because the left approves
Time to shut down the festival, since everything affects the "Indigenous community"

Jesse Brown on X - "It's true. The cowards who saw fit to ban and smear artist Miriam Libicki in public without the courage to put their own names to their words have now disappeared those words without explanation. Laughably, it was titled "Accountability Statement"."

Incendiary device thrown at Canadian temple entrance - "An incendiary device was thrown at the front doors of a Vancouver synagogue on Thursday evening, causing minor damage and no injuries, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver announced.  The Vancouver Police Department and Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services conducted a search of the Schara Tzedek synagogue after the arson attack damaged the building's entrance at around 9:30 p.m., according to the Federation, and the emergency services declared the site safe for use... "We are far, far past the need for words and condemnations," Csaplaros said on X on Thursday night. "If our elected leaders do not immediately act, it is only a matter of time before people are injured, or worse."  The arson attack comes after a Montreal Jewish school, located in a synagogue, was hit by gunfire on Monday night but did not result in casualties. Only two days prior, two men opened fire on a Jewish girls’ school in North York, a Toronto suburb, causing no injuries but leaving bullet holes in the building. Montreal has seen three other incidents of shots fired at Jewish houses of worship since October 7.  Toronto has seen repeated acts of vandalism and arson against its synagogues, with a vandal smashing the Kehillat Shaarei Torah synagogue's windows for the second time in a month on May 17. The synagogue’s window had previously been smashed on April 19. Another Bayview Avenue area synagogue had signs set on fire on April 26 and April 28."
Damn censorship of pro-Palestinian voices! Time to crack down on Islamophobia

Meme - Visegrád 24 @visegrad24: "Lend Gaza Your Vote says Akhmed Yakoob’s electoral campaign billboard in front of a dilapidated building in Birmingham, UK."

Meme - Oli London @OliLondonTV: "This is not Gaza. 🇵🇸  This is not Rafah. 🇵🇸  This is Montreal. 🇨🇦  A group of children and a baby dress as Hamas terrorists as they march in the streets of Montreal, Canada.   H/T @LawrenceMuscant"
We are still told that no one supports Hamas

Yale-NUS convocation took an unexpected (or expected) turn : r/SingaporeRaw - "Glad they shut down this school; I don't need my taxpayer money subsidising some bunch of woke activists with nothing to contribute and no solutions."
Yale-NUS convocation took an unexpected (or expected) turn : r/SingaporeRaw - "WAW SO BRAVE SPEAKING OUT FOR GAZA VICTIMS IN THE SAFEST COUNTRY! 👏👏 I CAN TOTALLY SEE HER FIGHTING IN THE FRONTLINE FOR GAZA IN THE WAR 💪💪  Strong, independent, birthing person speaking out the quiet part. Really much respect waw. I creamed in my pants."
Yale-NUS convocation took an unexpected (or expected) turn : r/SingaporeRaw - "It's a good thing Yale-NUS is no more, brought nothing of value and only raised a bunch of SJWs."
Yale-NUS convocation took an unexpected (or expected) turn : r/SingaporeRaw - ""Close vantage point"? What she talking? They had to take their exams in Gaza?
"She sees the news and watches the videos from her iPhone 15 Pro. The distance between her and her phone is within 1 meter. That's what she meant"
Yale-NUS convocation took an unexpected (or expected) turn : r/SingaporeRaw - "Is there a virtue signalling skillsfuture course?"
"Yes, it's called a "Liberal Arts Degree at Yale-NUS". But the school is closing down...I wonder why..."

Avi Mayer אבי מאיר on X - "The facts about the Israeli airstrike in Rafah and the fire that followed are starting to become clear, and they totally change the story:
The Israeli airstrike that targeted senior Hamas commanders in Rafah was more than a mile away from the safe zone for Palestinian civilians and more than 550 feet away from shelters Hamas had falsely claimed were targeted in the incident
The munitions used were the smallest possible: two warheads of 37 lbs each, far smaller than what other Western militaries use in comparable situations
The munitions could not themselves have ignited a fire of the size that resulted in the deaths of Palestinian civilians, indicating that Hamas weapons stored in or near the targeted structure—of which the IDF was unaware—may have exploded and caused the fire
Footage of the scene taken by Palestinians and uploaded to social media platforms appears to show secondary explosions, further indicating the presence of weapons in the area
A phone call within Gaza intercepted by Israeli intelligence contained the admission that the structure targeted by the airstrike served as an ammunition warehouse, that secondary explosions took place, and that the Israeli airstrike wasn't powerful enough to have ignited the fire
Hamas has been operating from the area since October 7; a rocket launcher used to fire rockets into Israel was located 150 feet from the targeted structure, suggesting that additional weapons were likely stored nearby and may have caused the fire
While none of this makes the heartbreaking results of the fire any less dreadful, it does call into question a lot of the reporting surrounding this tragic incident, which appears to have been based on false information put out by Hamas, rather than the facts on the ground. You'd think news organizations would learn. You'd be wrong."

Andrew Fox on X - "Well, here we are again. Bit of a familiar pattern by now. We now know for certain that Israel didn’t drop 2000lb bombs on a refugee camp. Doesn’t matter:
1. Something happens in Gaza.
2. Hamas-supporting bot farms and super-spreaders flood social media with appalling photos/videos (real or not? Who knows? Usually a wild exaggeration of the truth) attached to a fake narrative.
3. Ordinary people take up fake narrative. Horrible photos/videos go viral.
4. International media runs the fake narrative without proper journalistic checks. Celebrities and politicians comment on the fake narrative before they’re in full possession of the facts.
5. IDF issue a rebuttal, but it’s too late as the fake narrative has already taken hold.
6. Protests on Western streets to put pressure on policy makers.
Hamas are absolute masters at this. Palestinians do, of course, have the unusually huge advantage of decades of KGB information operations aimed at the Western political left, from Arafat/PLO days. They’re pushing at an open door. This is a good model of the pathway a disinformation strategy needs to counter."

Hen Mazzig on X - "According to a new report released by CNN, reporters have corroborated the IDF's claims that small, precise munitions were used in the strike. They also confirm that munitions of that size would not have resulted in the deadly blast, meaning that the IDF was correct and the initial strike tragically set off a larger blast via Hamas's own munitions.  Of course, it's a little hard to glean that from the headline "US-made munitions were used in deadly strike on Rafah tent camp, CNN analysis shows," which insinuates that Israel used US-made munitions when really the munitions were sold to Egypt and then given to Hamas.  I'm sure the title was in no way purposely worded like that for political reasons. Surely."

Thread by @natalie_Zion_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I have found the FAFO family. They keep dying and coming back alive. Their same home has been bombed many times and magically rebuilt to be bombed again. The children keep dying, coming back alive and dying again in a new bombing. THIS PALLYWOOD THREAD WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
Remember this photo that we posted about showing the children in different positions after moving the other child's hands? Well, suprise apparently the Al-Attar family lost 7 children in this (fake studio) bombing. Here their home in Deir al-balah city was bombed back on the 23rd March. Here the same home was bombed on the 5th of March. Here their home was bombed again in May. Apparently in Oct 2023 killing al-attar a teacher. In Feb 2024 too. Oct 2023. One the Al-Attar family are used as "stock images" sold to media companies and two they make up stories for each family member. Firefighters, domestic violence every story. Journalists. Vice Presidents In Syria. Yes HAMAS LEADERS. This family member was apparently killed in 2018. Here's another bombing that apparently the Al-Attar children died in. Oh look the house was bombed again on the 6th of May only 2 months after the last one. Deaths but without photos? I wonder why? It is clear that not only are this family a major part of Hamas with actual leaders but also UNRWA......ITS TIME TO EXPOSE THE PALLYWOOD PROPAGANDA. This is the photo I mentioned where it was claimed that 7 Al-Attar children lost their lives. This is a very famous photo in the Pro-Palestinian world. I checked to see if this name is common. I checked both Al Attar and Al-attar and it came out in both instances that just over 2,000 people worldwide have this name, its not a common name and they all live in Egypt, Saudi, Bahrain etc. There is no orange or red on the Forebears site to even suggest that many (if at all) Al-Attars live in the Gaza Strip. So, there's two options either there is a small family with this name in Deir al-balah used by journalists to share the photos and videos or they don't exist at all and the names are used to prop up the casualty numbers and for Pa||ywood"

Jacob Ben-David Linker 🪬🕎✡️🕎🪬 on X - "Eventually the hope is the pressure will force Israel to stop.   Israel gets no hostages back. Hamas reasserts control, and spends ensuing month scanning social media and torturing gazans to identify informants to Israel and public dissenters. Hamas will kill thousands.  Then, next to nobody will want to invest in the rebuilding. Gaza will be in ruins, and Hamas will use control over aid flows to impose further political domination over the strip.  Meanwhile idiots in the West Bank will chant “hurray! Hamas won!” Hamas will gain further control of the West Bank. The PA is already unstable and Abu Mazen is old. Another 10/7 will occur down the line from Gaza and the West Bank and we’ll be back to square one. Except the death toll will be tens of thousands worse.   And nobody cares to see the future here. What good was yelling halt in Beirut in 1982? It ended nothing. Lebanon burned for 8 more years. Abdullah and Arafat squabbled. The second intifada saw Gaza and the West Bank burn. And we ended up with October 7th. Lebanon is occupied to this day.   And there’ll be so many horrifying images preventing anybody from sleeping at night.  And people like Sinwar, Haniyeh, and Khamenei will lose no sleep over it."

Thread by @HillelNeuer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Meet Hind Khoudary. Tonight she's a star reporter for Channel 4. She's also famous for having informed on Rami Aman & other Gaza peace activists, getting Hamas to arrest them for the crime of doing a zoom with Israeli peace activists. Shame on you @Channel4 @C4Dispatches."
Of course, all the terrorism supporters supported her

Less than one fifth of Canadians support anti-Israel protest encampments at universities : r/canada - "Our government hasn’t been funding and arming hamas’ war crimes. Just Israel’s."
"Lol yes it has. US and Canadian governments are 2 of the largest donors to Palestinians. Who do you think administers those funds when they get there?"

Less than one fifth of Canadians support anti-Israel protest encampments at universities : r/canada - "Do you hate the US and Canadian Armies too? Just checking, because a shitload of civilians and children died when they went after Al Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS."

Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas - "Unlike some of Iran's past cyberattacks, all of its destructive cyberattacks against Israel in this war—real or fabricated—were complemented with online influence operations"
Operations by foreign powers only discredit a cause when it hurts the left wing agenda

Meme - "Patient. Singer. Soldier. Reporter. Radiologist. Corpse"
Who is Mr FAFO? The 'Pallywood' actor from Gaza who is a radiologist one day, air strike victim the next, and a dead body sometimes - "Saleh Aljafarawi claims to be a Palestinian national and a resident of Gaza. Infamous as "Mr FAFO", the 25-year-old "Pallywood" actor is the newly created social media portmanteau combining Palestine and Hollywood to make Pallywood, often makes videos to manipulate public sentiments and garner sympathy for Palestine and Hamas.
Amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a ‘crisis actor’ from Gaza has become a viral meme on social media for his videos featuring him in various roles ranging from a singer, a radiologist, an air strike victim, a media person to whatnot. The video content creator Saleh Aljafarawi has earned the moniker “Mr FAFO” online after a video of him rejoicing over Hamas airstrikes and later crying over Israeli retaliation went viral online...   On X (formerly Twitter), many social media users highlighted Saleh Aljafarawi alias Mr FAFO’s ‘unparalleled’ acting skills. The Palestinian YouTuber has become a war meme.  In one such X post by “King of Israel”, Mr FAFO is seen posing in an army uniform and singing a song while a Palestinian and Hamas flag is seen in the background... “Hamas Crisis actor spotted with his Film Crew in Gaza preparing for his next role. The actor, who has appeared in dozens of staged propaganda videos for the terror group has taken on various roles. • Radiologist • Singer • First Responder • Air Strike Victim • Hospital Patient • Gas attack victim • Father of airstrike victims.”"

Meme - "Gaza. School. Amusement Park. Hospital. Mosque *Weapons everywhere*"

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