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I have long been wondering about Qatar's willingness to host Hamas' leadership post-10/7. As non-Western as Qatar is, the Emirate has been working assiduously to court Western approval and is hardly a radical Islamist state. This is not to suggest the regime is liberal or Liberal, but rather that they aren't exactly Iranian-style fanatics. The state is pretty much what you would expect in a country that is in a dangerous region filled with radicals but with an elite who are Western-educated and resolutely capitalist. I had long suspected that Western governments had given implicit approval for Qatar's hosting of...

When anti-Israel activists swarmed the plant that prints The New York Times, The Post and other newspapers the other day, aiming to stop the papers’ distribution, cops passed on making arrests because this was supposedly “peaceful protest.” No: It was a forceful attack on a private enterprise (on private property, too), and on the freedom of the press. But city government refuses to protect the peace, and has even signed away its ability to restrain out-of-control “protest” mobs. Heck, City Hall agreed to pay $13 million to “protesters” — nearly $10K per rioter — arrested during the looting, arson, and...

(New York)The hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched a campaign against Donald Trump this weekend, through a video, and website(OpTrump2016.com), which they are using as a public countdown to??? This past December, in response to statements made by Trump regarding not allowing Muslims to enter the United States, Anonymous launched a similar attack against Trump by taking down the website for Donald Trump's trademark New York City skyscraper. You can read what CNN had to say about it here. Though Anonymous hasn't said specifically what they intend to do if Trump doesn't drop out of the race for presidency, some are...

1947 reports: Arab Nazism & "Palestine" "Arabs With UN Charged With Being Pro-Hitler." The 75-page memorandum accuses the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Wasef Kamal and Emil Ghouri, two of his followers now attending sessions at Lake Success. Arabs With UN Charged With Being Pro-Hitler Herald-Journal May 12, 1947. Nation Editor, Graham of UNC Issue Accusing Memorandum. Lake Success, N. Y., May 11 (UP) . - A pro-Zionist organization charged tonight that former Axis collaborators, saboteurs and spies now sparkplug the Arab delegation to the United Nations meeting on Palestine. The charge came from the Nation Associates, which is headed...

But even the Israelis have yet to absorb the full scope and magnitude of Biden’s accommodation of Iran. The problem is not that Sullivan and Blinken are failing to restrain Malley, but that they are marching in lockstep with him. A consensus reigns inside the administration, not just on the JCPOA but on every big question of Middle East strategy: Everyone from the president on down agrees about the need to complete what Obama started—which means that the worst is yet to come. If the control that Obama’s project exercises over every mind in the Biden administration is not already...

Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA WHY IS "PRO-PALESTINE" SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENCE? And this person is also involved in BRINGING PEOPLE FROM GAZA on visas issued by the Labor government! Makes you wonder what sort of people she might facilitate into Australia. A high profile "pro-Palestine" activist has been charged with "kidnapping, false imprisonment, common law assault, unlawful assault by kicking and unlawful assault" in Melbourne. Mar 12, 2024 X "Australia: Shocking details emerge of assault by pro-Palestinian activists." I24NEWS | 03.14.24. Laura Allam, Mohammad Sharab abducted a Melbourne man, stomped on his head, hit him with a hammer because...

Gadi Taub @GadiTaub1 There are two reports out now, about the participation of Palestinian Authority personnel in terror attacks against Jews. Apparently, some are "police" by day, and terrorists by night. @Doranimated and I discuss the latest. Plus: how serious is the rift between Biden and Netanyahu? @tabletmag's #IsraelUpdate, in cooperation with the @HudsonInstitute. Watch it here: https://rumble.com/v4izqju-martyrs-does-the-palestinian-authority-support-terrorism.html Mar 13, 2024

This long piece in the London Times describes the efforts of some British Muslims to prohibit blasphemy, either through legal action or through mob violence:Britain faces an alarming rise in intimidation and threats of violence against those perceived to have insulted Islam, a new report will warn.Protests condemning acts of apparent blasphemy have become more frequent and radicalised, according to independent research commissioned by the government’s counterextremism chief.The report, seen by The Times, exposes links between activists at the forefront of recent protests in the UK and an extremist Islamist political party in Pakistan whose members have regularly called for...

The attacker took a dagger-like object from his pocket and chased them yelling… ‘All Jews are the (he said) devil’ and ‘All Jews must die.’ Florida police arrested a suspect originally from Jordan for allegedly attacking Jews in the area and are considering treating the incidents as suspected hate crimes, according to Local 10 News. Mohamed Al Saccal (39) threatened an Orthodox Jewish couple in Sunny Isles Beach as they were headed to a synagogue on the Sabbath. As he approached them, Al Saccal withdrew a sharp, dagger-like object from his pocket and chased them yelling… ‘All Jews are (he...

A New York Democrat seeks to revise public school lessons about 9/11 to focus them on the 'xenophobia' and anti-Muslim hate crimes that followed the deadly terrorist attacks, DailyMail.com can reveal. Catalina Cruz, an assemblywoman who came to the US illegally as a child, has drafted a bill to shift the focus of K-12 classes away from the Al-Qaeda terrorists who murdered thousands of people in September 2001. Her bill would require schools to teach kids more about the 'aftermath' of the attacks, a rise in 'Islamophobia and xenophobia' and 'hate crimes and discrimination' against Muslims and other minorities linked...

Daytona Beach Morning Journal, May 19, 1947, p. 2 Meet The ArabianazisBy Walter Winchell. For many months now the front pages of the world have- been crowded with the blow by blow description of a struggle which has finally reached the United Nations . . . The problem has been how to find a place under the warm Palestinian sun for the living skeletons who, from 1933, suffered the foul tortures of Hitler's fevered brain. Arrayed against this pitiful group of human beings is a wicked clique of men who, despite their hostility to the Allies, have been granted powerful...

The Washington Post published a report Wednesday that the Biden Administration may limit arms transfers to Israel if it attacks the remaining four Hamas battalions in Rafah, a city on the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel must enter Rafah to destroy Hamas and win the war. His war cabinet is considering a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians north of the city before a military operation. David Ignatius, a columnist known for his sources in government, published the story, likely leaked from the White House: The Biden administration, worried about...

The first rule of Islamic fight club is that non-Muslims aren’t allowed to talk about it. And if it must be talked about, it has to be treated as a local phenomenon. That means insisting that Hamas is attacking Israel for political reasons, the Houthis are shooting at ships for political reasons, the Fulani are massacring Christians in Nigeria for political reasons, the Pakistanis, the Taliban, the Iranians, the Syrians, the Iraqis, ISIS and Mohammed who decided to stab someone on a train are all doing it for completely unrelated reasons. On the other side, devout Islamic leaders focus on...

Already about 30 years ago: this is how Sinwar planned the invasion and the massacre. The untold story of Sinwar: the competition - who kills more Jews. In the United States, they may try to pressure Hamas even more through Egypt and Qatar, and are debating whether to order the government in Doha to expel Hamas representatives from the country if they fail to convince the organization's senior officials in the Gaza Strip to release the abductees. This is what veteran commentator David Ignatius reported today (Thursday) in the "Washington Post". "This is the real devil, the new Nazi," Kobi...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas, his most definitive position on the conflict since the terror group killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7. “You’ve got to finish the problem,” Trump said on Fox News on Tuesday when asked about the war. “You had a horrible invasion that took place that would have never happened if I was president.” When asked on the program whether he supported a cease-fire in Gaza, Trump demurred, avoiding an explicit position on Israel’s military...

Priest battles ‘hate crime’ charges for criticizing IslamA Spanish priest is facing up to three years in prison on “hate crime” charges for his heated words about Islam.Last month, Father Custodio Ballester and two other individuals received a summons from a provincial court in Spain to answer charges of an alleged “hate crime” for criticizing Islamic extremism. If convicted, Ballester could be forced to pay a fine of more than $1,600 and serve up to three years in prison. The charges date back to 2020, when the Court Prosecutor’s Office in Catalonia accused Ballester of a “hate crime” based on...

Italian Catholics reverting to ancient Roman gods, seers and sorcerersA startling number of lapsed Catholics in Italy are reverting to the deities of ancient Rome and turning to pagan seers, astrologers and psychics, attesting to a potentially catastrophic collapse of Catholicism in its traditional bastion. Over 160,000 sorcerers are doing brisk business in the occult and New Age practises, with over three million Italians consulting the so-called “maghi” every year for advice. This involves shelling out an astronomical €8 billion, according to data from the Osservatorio Antiplagio. Between 10 to 13 million Italians – almost all of them baptised Catholics...

Officials say Sheher Bano, an assistant superintendent of police in Lahore, risked her life to rescue the woman after Arabic calligraphy on her outfit was mistaken for verses from the Quran. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A police officer in Pakistan is being hailed as a hero after she protected a woman from a furious mob accusing her of blasphemy over what she was wearing. Sheher Bano, an assistant superintendent of police in the city of Lahore, “put her life in danger” to rescue the woman after colorful Arabic calligraphy on her outfit was mistaken for verses from the Quran, the Muslim...

PBS NewsHour, Mar 4, 2024. ClipBennett: Separately the UN released today a report about sexual violence on October 7th. What did it say? Schifrin: Yea, this report is horrific. It concluded that there is clear and convincing information that sexual violence, including rape, sexualized torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment has been commited againat hostages, and that echoes of course what Israel has been saying happened by Hamas militants on Oct the 7th in Israel. But the report also concludes this, that there are, quote, reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing to those hostages in Gaza...

An incident in Lahore Pakistan stands as a damning indictment of modern Islamic society. From distant Pakistan, an NBC news story surfaces that serves to remind us of everything we need to know about our current crisis. A week ago, a female police officer in Lahore, Pakistan, patrolling a shopping district in the busy muslim city, saw a crowd gathering, to taunt, accuse, and threaten a young woman in a colorful Kurta (a long shirt-dress). Her dress was covered with bright and abstract calligraphy that the crowd assumed was an improper quoting of the Koran. In Pakistan, when a crowd...