From his luxury condo in Qatar, billionaire Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad says that October 7 was well worth it, given the backlash Israel now faces.
Imagine hating Jews so much that you consider tens of thousands of your own people dying to be a win.
Les socialistes espagnols et LFI, même combat (antisémite) : le jour de l’anniversaire du 7/10, ce crachat (pas d’autres mots) de l’ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères de l’UE, @JosepBorrellF qui ne trouve rien de mieux que d’insulter la mémoire des civils innocents massacrés par des terroristes islamistes (des mots qui manquent dans son tweet) en retournant l’accusation de génocide contre Israël.
My @TimesRadio monologue on the anniversary of October 7th:
It’s two years to the day since that barbaric attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel, when Jews were murdered, raped, mutilated, tortured and taken brutally hostage in the worst single atrocity inflicted on the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.
Hamas must have known that Israel’s retaliation would be merciless and that the people of Gaza would bear the brunt since Hamas forces and bases were embedded in their schools, hospitals, shops and homes, making civilian casualties inevitable.
Perhaps they had hopes — even indications — that their Islamist allies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Iranian theocracy in Tehran, would come to their aid in a united front to weaken the Jewish state and put it on the defensive. If so, it was a miscalculation for the ages.
For the consequence of that invasion on October 7th 2023 has been to turn Israel into the Middle East’s superpower, crippling its historic enemies in the process. Not only has Israel destroyed Hamas, it has severely degraded Hezbollah, humiliated Iran, whose military leadership, missile and nuclear programmes — plus its regional reputation — have been seriously damaged, and it's overseen the collapse of the militantly anti-Israeli Assad regime in Syria.
Game, set and match to Israel, you might say. Its military predominance in the region has never been greater, its enemies never in more disarray.
And yet, and yet. It may have won the war but it’s in danger of losing the peace. The death and destruction of Gaza, a relentless retribution meted out by Israeli forces which, even two years on, might not yet be over, has turned much of the world, appalled by what happened to it two years ago, against Israel.
It is becoming isolated politically, there is a growing international consensus against it, a new generation hostile to it which, in turn, has led to increased antisemitism and a renewed Islamist radicalism, as the anti-Israel protests that have swept Western nations illustrate all too dismally.
Anger at Israel has spread from the Muslim world to Europe and even to its most important ally — the only one that really matters — America, where a burgeoning student movement, a large chunk of the Democratic Party and even a growing part of President Trump’s MAGA movement are now all downright hostile to Israel.
So Israel is paying a price for its regional supremacy, a price that could haunt it for years to come. The pictures of carnage coming out of Gaza have seen to that. You do not need to swallow Hamas propaganda exaggerating the scale of the killing or go along with the global Left’s smear of genocide to know that something terrible and inhuman has been unfolding in Gaza — and unfolding for too long.
Israel is now short of allies. The idea of Palestinian statehood is now back on the agenda with more adherents than ever, even though it cannot be properly defined. A young generation in the West has been sparked into a political awareness by events in Gaza which it will not quickly forget. And, worst of all, there is every risk of a new cadre of jihadists emerging from the Gaza rubble.
Of course Israel was within its rights to retaliate — retaliate hard. Of course those students and older protestors who should know better should be ashamed of themselves for carrying Hamas and Hezbollah flags and mouthing vile anti-Semitic chants. Of course there are too many grandstanding politicians who know nothing.
But two years on from that fateful day it is time for Israel to change course — for the current one is doing it no favours. Its enemies have been largely vanquished as never before. So it can afford to take stock.
The path to even a semblance of peace will not be easy. Mr Trump is optimistic. I’m not so sure. I hope the President is right and I am wrong. The important point is that it is time for a victorious Israel to give peace a chance — and not to be the one to blame if that chance is squandered.
@laflammerouge16 You know of course that the Spanish goverment wanted this to happen. UCI should sanction Spanish races as a consequence. Refusing to guarantee rider‘s safety is no joke
Elle ne veut pas la paix… elle cherche à attiser la haine envers les Juifs. Elle est un fervent soldat de l’idéologie du Hamas, bercée par la culture du martyr et du djihad, mais présente de grandes lacunes en histoire. Peut-être devrait-elle commencer par s’instruire pour éviter de finir avec des posts d’islamistes de bas étage, prétendant ignorer qui est le peuple indigène de Judée. Elle n’a jamais soutenu la solution à deux États.
En tant qu’Iraniens, nous connaissons l’histoire de notre pays et savons que, il y a 2 500 ans, le fondateur de l’Empire perse, Cyrus le Grand, a permis aux Juifs de retourner en Judée (Israël) pour reconstruire leur temple après avoir été chassés par les Babyloniens.
De nombreux envahisseurs ont tenté d’éradiquer les Juifs de leur terre ancestrale, et elle devrait mieux le savoir que personne. Peut-être que cette chère pseudo-députée européenne finira un jour par comprendre que la haine qu’elle nourrit, et que beaucoup partagent, n’a conduit qu’à des guerres initiées par les Arabes… et toujours perdues par eux.
Apprenez à coexister un jour… cela vous coûtera moins cher, même si la culture du martyr et du djihad reste profondément enracinée.
🔴🇮🇱| #GAZA > L’enfer du 7 octobre. Voici Yagel Yaakov, 13 ans, arraché à son domicile en sous-vêtements, capturé et entouré de terroristes palestiniens répugnants.
◾️Ce jour-là, il était seul avec son frère Or, chez leur mère, à Nir Oz. Leur père, Yair Yaakov (« Yaya »), a été exécuté devant chez lui. Son corps avait été enlevé et n’a pu être inhumé qu’en juin, après avoir été retrouvé par Tsahal le 12 juin.
◾️Chaque image comme celle-ci rappelle pourquoi Israël combat à Gaza : pour empêcher que cela ne recommence. Les accusations de « génocide » lancées par les relais du Hamas sont une inversion perverse de la réalité.
📌Rien ne justifie le 7 octobre. Et ceux qui le justifient, le nient ou le minimisent, sont les complices du terrorisme. Leur place est devant la justice, pas dans les hémicycles des assemblées parlementaires européennes ou nationales.
#YagelYaakov #NirOz #7octobre #Hamas #PasDePaixSansMémoire
Le Parlement danois a adopté jeudi, sans forte opposition, une loi relevant l'âge de la retraite à 70 ans à partir de 2040, contre 67 ans actuellement. Au Danemark, depuis la réforme de 2006, l'âge légal de départ est indexé sur l'espérance de vie et révisé tous les cinq ans #AFP
Eastern Europe has outperformed Western Europe in the last decade (from a lower base). Austrians and Germans rightly feel that the last decade was largely a lost one. Source: https://t.co/1OPdyCp1K9
Drosten gehört zu denen, die anfangs am vehementesten die Möglichkeit eines nicht-natürlichen Ursprungs ausschlossen. Sein Umschwenken ist bemerkenswert.
https://t.co/bUOujuk6AM