Now pick 300 pounds of that per day, every day, in the Alabama heat. If you fail, you will be whipped. Keep in mind that the tip of a whip breaks the sound barrier (hence the cracking sound) so the feeling is not unlike being shot. Now pick 300 pounds again.
It’s not. Cars get mistaken for VBIEDs in combat zones all the time. It’s as terrible as it is common.
There is one similarity though: these are both young women whose lives were cut short because someone decided to commit genocide against the Jewish people.
Hamas did not invent its way of fighting in 2023. It learned it, one war at a time, and the lessons are all on the public record.
In 2009 it listed its dead fighters proudly on its own websites, and a few bloggers used those lists to show that a third of the “civilians” in the NGO casualty count were armed men. By 2014 the Interior Ministry had issued written instructions: every dead person is “an innocent civilian,” no photos of commanders, no pictures of rockets fired from neighborhoods. The NGOs kept counting the way Hamas told them to. B’Tselem’s method for deciding whether a dead man was a fighter was to ask his family - they wouldn’t lie!
The rest followed the same pattern. Commanders kept their children beside them, and the children’s deaths were charged to Israel. Shifa Hospital became a command post, and the correspondents filming the wounded walked past the gunmen in the corridors. A Spanish reporter explained why no footage from Gaza ever showed a launcher: “they would simply shoot at us.” Hamas shelled the crossing its own food came through, and the world went on calling it a siege. Human Rights Watch rewrote the definition of “human shield” so that Hamas could not meet it.
Every technique worked, and nothing was ever punished. By October 7 Hamas had a doctrine tested in four wars, and every part of it depended on the world responding exactly as it had before. Chapter 5 of the series “Everything You Know About Gaza Is Wrong” goes through the lessons one at a time, with the sources.
Link follows.
Alin was shot and murdered by Hamas on her way home with her family on the morning of October 7. Her father, mother, and five-year-old brother were also murdered.
We will never forget. 🥀
If you want to comprehend just how incredible the Jewish people’s restoration of their sovereign homeland is, consider this:
In the year 1649, the Huron people of what is now Canada were overrun and driven into exile by their powerful and imperialist neighbors, the Iroquois.
Now, imagine if for the next two millennia they rigorously maintained their religion and culture despite constant attempts at forced assimilation, endured consistent persecution through their whole time in exile, and then managed to resurrect their ancient language and re-establish their independence though a massive war in the year *3649*.
What the Jewish people have accomplished is absolutely incredible. Nobody else in history has ever done anything remotely like this.
And every day we- you- keep doing it. You keep fighting and winning the daily war for survival of our nation and people despite being hideously and hopelessly outnumbered.
The enemy sputters, tongue tied, to explain his constant and persistent failure, his inability to destroy you. His excuses are as innumerable as the stars, the humiliation of defeat driven into him every time you draw breath- You, the sons and daughters of David, the strength in my right arm, the holders of my dreams.
Funny how "Arab lands" expanded & anyone who lived there BEFORE Arab conquest gets their identity coercively redefined, & yet OP only takes issue when Arabized people DARE reject imposed Arab identity.
Also, by their own logic, I assume they identify as ENGLISH & NOT Éireannach?
Virtually the entire Middle East is comprised of ethnostates. Even in Europe, countries such as Greece and Ireland have official religions and preferential immigration policies on the basis of ethnicity.
Mehdi's opposition to Israeli nationalism is about third-worldism
This non-Jewish schoolbus driver learned Hershy Weinberger songs just to make the Jewish kids on his route smile.
"The kids are like, are you Jewish??!"
"I work in the Jewish community, so I should know something about the culture" 💙💙💙
Only 3 data centers into what will surely be a campaign of dozens, and Ukraine's strikes are already creating chaos in basic services all across Russia, with Putin's centrally planned North Korean style internet even more vulnerable than expected.
A thread of Russian chaos:
HE WAS JUST 2 YEARS OLD; THE MEN OF GAZA BUπNED HIM ALIVE
This is Omer Kedem Siman Tov from Kbbutz Nir Or.
He was just 2 years old on October 7th when the men of Gaza invaded Kibbutz Nir Oz and came to the home where Omer hid in the safe room with his family.
The men of Gaza sh0t and severely wounded Omer's parents Yonatan and Tamar Kedem Siman Tov.
The men of Gaza then set the entire house on fire, k!lling Omer, his 5-year-old twin sisters, Shahar and their injured parents Yonatan and Tamar.
Omer's grandmother, Carol Siman Tov, a nurse from Pennsylvania who made Aliya in the 1970s and was mπrdered inside her own home in the kibbutz.
3 generations of the kindest and most innocent people in the world, whose lives were taken in the most cruel way possible.
We will never forget.