A very interesting thing happened in Gaza today that was totally overlooked by the media.
According to merchants in Gaza, Hamas charges $3,000 for every truck that enters the strip. In addition, it requires merchants to sell approximately 30% of their goods in cash, which enables the organization to gain control over the proceeds. At 600 trucks per day, this translates to at least $1.8M per day. What can I say? Every don in Sicilia would be jealous.
Now, a merchant refused to pay this protection money and in response Hamas kidnapped his son. Following this incident, other merchants have announced they will suspend all coordination of goods entering the Gaza Strip through the private sector, effective immediately.
I have no doubt Hamas and its allies in the West are going to use this to accuse Israel of starving Gaza again, so keep your eyes open.
I am not Jewish.
I am not Israeli.
I am a Druze from Sweida.
I am a Zionist!
Because without Israel, Druze, Christians, and Alawites will disappear from the Middle East.
Today, an Israeli child was killed and several injured when an unexploded Hezbollah cluster munition detonated during a school trip.
Had Palestinian children been killed by Israeli ordnance in Gaza, imagine the @bbcnews coverage.
But this tragedy? Not even a mention.
World: It is absolutely imperative that Israel elect a new leader
Also world: It’s regrettable that Palestinian elections have been postponed for over 20 years, but whatcha gonna do 🤷♀️
@Delta in the delta one lounge now. This gentleman gives new meaning to the words service with a smile. Really outstanding as deltas people almost always are. But he’s a cut above.
There was a situation at my daughter’s school last week which left her in tears. I went in to the school the day after to let them know we were removing her with immediate effect. The head teacher tried to explain but I had no interest in her excuses or reasons.
The school had a play and an open evening for next year’s new pupils, and my daughter’s class were asked to take the potential new pupils and their parents for a tour of the school and classes.
My daughter is the most softly spoken, polite and friendly child you’d probably ever meet. She’s one of just 40 Jewish pupils at the school out of over a thousand children. My wife wanted her to go to a non Jewish school because she felt concerned about the security threats at Jewish schools, and I don’t have much say in the matter as I’m just the dad. Our youngest goes to a Jewish school and the security simply isn’t anywhere good enough. This would be both their last year at school in this country because we’d already made the decision to leave the country before their next school year.
My oldest wears a tiny discreet Star of David pendant. It’s so inoffensive to anybody but allows her to express her Jewish faith in a small way.
When it was her turn in line to greet the family she would show around, the family was a Muslim family. My daughter has no personal issue with anybody and is friendly with two Muslim girls in her class who aren’t bothered by her being Jewish. But this family clearly were. In front of everyone, the father refused to be shown around by “a Jew”. He apparently, according to several parents and a teacher, raised his voice at her, and demanded that another child show them around. Instead of the head teacher condemning his behavior and telling him to leave, she asked my daughter to step aside and asked another pupil to show them around. Nobody except other parents, non Jewish parents, came to my daughter to ask if she was even ok. She was in a flood of tears, frightened and confused.
My wife got a phone call from another parent and insisted she would go fetch our daughter because she already knew what I would do had I gone there myself. But this is what we live in now. This is the new normal.
For reasons of what will come next, I won’t name the school. But this is going to escalate, a lot.
My father and mother also met none of their grandparents all were slaughtered by the Nazi’s along with my grandfathers wife and children amongst a myriad of other family.
@cenkuygur Hi Chunk. Pollard got a much harsher sentence than others who did much worse. Also he did not murder or try to murder anybody. But yes your target audience probably doesn’t understand the difference.
Palestinians have not voted in a national legislative election since 2006.
Arab citizens of Israel have voted in nine Israeli elections since then.
Guess who gets lectured about democracy.
If you ask the average Gazan if they want Israel flattened, they would without hesitation say yes.
If you ask the average Israeli whether they want Gaza flattened, they would immediately call you an extremist and walk away.
If you ask the average Arab living in Ramallah whether he thinks Jews should be able to walk around freely, he might actually physically assault you.
If you ask the average Israeli whether he thinks Arabs should be able to walk around freely, he would look at you confused and ask you why that’s even a question.
If you ask the average Arab in Jenin whether he wants all Jews dead, his response would be “obviously“.
If you ask the average Israeli whether he wants all Muslims dead, he would probably report you to the police.
If you ask 99% of Israeli society whether they want peace with their neighbors, they would not even understand the question because the answer is obviously yes.
If you ask the average Arab whether they want peace with Israel, again, they would probably physically assault you and call you a dirty Zionist.
If you ask the average religious Israeli what he wants for his children, he would tell you how he wants them to grow up and make the world a better place.
If you ask the average religious Muslim what he wants for his children, he would tell you that he wants him to die as a shahid, but not before killing as many Jews as possible.
If you ask the average Israeli how he thinks his country should be run, he would respond that he wants a liberal democracy with freedom for all.
If you ask the average Muslim how he thinks his country should be run, he would say Sharia law.
If you go to an average Israeli march or protest, you will see many people waving flags, singing songs, and embracing.
If you go to an average pro-Palestine march or protest, you will see violence, anti-Semitic chants, and a whole lot of hate.
If you hear a Christian saying “Praise the Lord“, you say “Amen”. If you hear a Jew saying “Baruch Hashem”, you smile. If you hear a Muslim saying “Allah Akbar”, you better run for your life.
If you ask a person who identifies as Palestinian to show you any history of his people, any archaeology, any inventions, any proof that Palestine ever existed, he would either call you names or actually assault you.
If you ask an Israeli to show you any history of his people, he will show you deep roots, endless contributions to the world, Nobel prizes, and breakthroughs in every area of life.
Tell me again who is the obstacle to peace.
Tell me again who is responsible for all the chaos in the West today.
Tell me again who is guilty of genocide and apartheid.
You’ve been duped.
Radical Islam is hands-down the most serious challenge to the continuity of Western civilization.
Wake up.
@piersmorgan Hey piers how many Jews have to die for them to be able to wipe out the terrorists trying to kill them. Also the gazans celebrating in the street beating and spitting on Israeli bodies are they innocent bystanders?
There is not enough condemnation of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They participated in October 7 too in a big way.
My hypothesis is that Western media doesn’t like to mention them too much because the name is a little too overt.