Arab Israel conflict
November 16, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I know, that isn’t exactly a news flash. But has there ever been more definitive proof than the silence of most feminists in the face of Gaza’s brutal assault on Israeli women? Caroline McCaughey writes in the New York Sun: One of the first videos uploaded to social media of the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 showed the kidnapping of a 26-year-old Israeli, Noa Argamani, on the back of
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November 15, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Britain’s BBC has been left-wing for as long a I can remember, and in recent decades, being left-wing means hating Israel. Every time there is a conflict in the Middle East, the BBC can be relied on to carry water for the Arabs and to denigrate Israelis. Within the last couple of days, the network reported–absurdly–that the IDF had entered Gaza’s main hospital, and was targeting medical teams and Arab
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November 13, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Lately there hasn’t been a lot of hard news about Israel’s progress in destroying Hamas. But this is a watershed moment: Israeli soldiers pose in Hamas’s “Parliament” building, which they have captured: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant describes the campaign’s progress: “There is no force of Hamas capable of stopping the IDF. The IDF is advancing at every location. The Hamas organization has lost control in Gaza: Terrorists are fleeing south,
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November 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Our “elite” universities–a designation that doesn’t mean their students know anything about history, can do math, know anything about science or are acquainted with Western (or any) literature–have come down heavily on the side of Hamas in the current Middle Eastern conflict. This may be due to the fact that Islamic countries have poured billions of dollars into their coffers, or maybe it is just the usual perversity of American
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November 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The IDF is methodically destroying Hamas’s military capability in Gaza. That is, in a sense, the easier part. The obvious question is, what comes next? Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will need to maintain a presence in Gaza indefinitely: “I think Israel for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it. When we don’t have that security responsibility, what
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November 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday, many thousands of Islamofascists and leftists turned out across the globe for pro-Hamas demonstrations, celebrating the massacre of October 7 and demanding the extermination of Jews. Trafalgar Square was packed to overflowing: Hundreds of thousands turned out in Paris: Some might find the idea of a “kill the Jews” rally in Berlin alarming: And, of course, many thousands rallied to support genocide against the Jews in Washington, D.C. It
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November 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The root cause of the violence we have seen in Israel and Gaza over the past month is the sick culture that prevails in Gaza. Jew-hatred is the only value in that culture, and terror its only product. You can see the insane hate that prevails in Gaza in the video below. I don’t know whether the Israeli was killed in Israel and his body brought to Gaza for this
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November 3, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be no temporary cease-fire until the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas are released. The fact that the Biden administration is pressuring Israel to stop its offensive is a disgrace. You don’t
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November 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Noa Cochva won the Miss Israel/Universe pageant in 2021, the last year, sadly, of that pageant’s life. I am not sure whether she is currently serving in the IDF, but in the video below she wears a uniform and carries a rifle. (Steve, take note for an upcoming TWIP.) In simple form, she lays out the facts about Hamas, its tyranny over Gaza, and the horrific nature of its October
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October 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In the three weeks that have gone by since the Gazan massacre of October 7, the United Nations Security Council has not been able to adopt a single resolution relating to the massacre or the resulting war: For weeks, the Security Council has been riven by divisions over the war and its impact, rejecting four draft resolutions about the conflict. Some texts were blocked by the United States, a close
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October 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This morning, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on behalf to the Biden administration’s supplementary funding request for Ukraine and Israel. Blinken’s testimony was repeatedly interrupted by pro-genocide protesters. The protesters timed their interruptions so that every couple of minutes the hearing would be suspended: Blinken is a partisan hack, but this outpouring of anti-Semitism was outrageous. It is
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October 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As much as anyone, Shani Louk became the face of Gaza’s vicious assault on Israel. She was a 23-year-old German-Israeli girl who also had lived in the United States. She attended the music festival (or “rave”) that was held close to the Gaza border and was attacked by terrorist paragliders, who hunted down and murdered more than 200 festival attenders. Louk became famous because of this short video, which showed
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October 27, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Actually, it doesn’t. Hamas’s deputy foreign minister, Ghazi Hamad, sat for an interview with the BBC’s Middle Eastern correspondent. Hamad asserted the insane claim that Hamas had no intention of killing civilians when it invaded Israel. One question later, he got up and walked out: The thousands who have demonstrated on Hamas’s behalf in the U.S. and across the world should ponder the fact that Hamas itself is utterly unable
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October 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times has taken a great deal of criticism for uncritically parroting Hamas propaganda about an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital, when it turned out that it was an errant terrorist missile that fell short and landed in the hospital’s parking lot. Every detail of the event was lied about by Hamas, and the Times, along with many other news outlets, swallowed Hamas’s fake news. Most news
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October 25, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Britain’s BBC has taken flak for refusing to call Hamas’s fighters “terrorists.” The network’s management has stood fast on this point, arguing that to stigmatize Hamas as terrorists would constitute taking sides in the conflict, and the BBC is staunchly neutral. But that mildly pro-Hamas stance is nowhere near enough for many of the BBC’s employees. The Times of London offers a frightening glimpse into the mentality of many young
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October 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This is a recording of a phone call that a Gazan terrorist made to his family as he was butchering Jews during the October 7 invasion. He boasts that he has personally killed ten Jews, and his parents express their pride in his exploit. This illustrates why Israel must not be content with killing a few Hamas leaders. The problem with Gaza is not Hamas. Hamas is a symptom. The
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October 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Bari Weiss is one of America’s top independent journalists, with a popular podcast. We have followed her work here for a while. The Gazan invasion of Israel, with its attendant horrors, seems to have pushed her over the edge. Read the whole thing; it is eloquent: Journalist Bari Weiss, a Jewish liberal who quit the New York Times over its anti-Semitism, writes: ”As a Democrat who has been left homeless,
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