Hamas attacks Israel

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There have been more than 20 attacks by the Houthis on commercial vessels since they started striking at commercial ships in November. A U.S. defense official said the sinking of the boats “is the first time we have seen this kind of close combat between the U.S. and the Houthis.”

White House spokesman John Kirby told ABC that the U.S. is “not looking to widen the conflict in the region.” “We certainly do not seek conflict with the Houthis,” Kirby said.

Then the U.S. Navy destroyed three boats carrying militants supported by Iran after they attacked a containership in the Red Sea, while Iran-allied militias struck a U.S. base in Syria, raising the risk that the war in Gaza could drag the U.S. into the broader tensions in the region.

On Saturday evening, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged container vessel that operates between Europe and Asia, came under missile attack, said the U.S. Four boats later approached the vessel, shot at it and attempted to board it, according to Danish shipping giant Moller-Maersk, which operates the containership.

Early Sunday, helicopters from nearby U.S. Navy vessels responded to fire coming from boats controlled by Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group in Yemen, sinking three of them and killing the crews, the U.S. said. The fourth boat fled. The Houthis later claimed the attack and said they lost 10 fighters in the encounter.

The Iranian allies initially said they were targeting Israeli shipping activities in retaliation for the war in Gaza, but have now broadened the attacks to other vessels sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb, a key crossing between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea…because piracy, etc…

“The attacks have lost all connection to Israel completely,” said Ami Daniel, chief executive of maritime artificial intelligence company Windward Ltd. “The Houthis don’t seem to be deterred by the coalition.”
Christopher Long, intelligence director at Neptune P2P and a former British Navy captain in the Persian Gulf, said he was concerned the lethal exchange between the Houthis and the U.S. “will now create a situation where Iran may intervene directly against the U.S. in support of the Houthi.” Because piracy? Yo ho ho & a bottle of non-alcoholic something or another?

Houthi spokesman Mohammad Abd al-Salam discussed “regional security issues” with Iran’s security chief, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, on Sunday in Tehran, Iran’s state news agency IRNA said.

“Ali Akbar Ahmadian?” Seriously? Holy Farm Animal of You Choice! Name like that, he should have his own action figure.
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Ordinary Palestinian citizens aided and abetted Hamas on Oct. 7
People who weren't in uniforms followed Hamas militants into Israel to participate in the barbarity of that dark Saturday

Author of the article:Warren Kinsella
Published Dec 30, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read

Two sides.

One side hasn’t shot up schools for little kids. It hasn’t firebombed community centers and places of worship. Its clergy haven’t called for a deity to slaughter the other side. It hasn’t yelled death threats at people in shopping malls.


It hasn’t targeted businesses with threats and abuse because the business owner belongs to a particular religion. It hasn’t attacked Santa Claus and tried to shut down Christmas. It hasn’t blocked roads to keep people from getting home.

The other side? It has. It has done all of those things. Everyone knows it, too. Everyone.

But not everyone knows this part.

A few weeks ago, this writer was invited to the Israeli consulate in Toronto to see 42 minutes of raw video footage. It was mostly taken from video recorders dead (and uniformed) Hamas terrorists brought with them on the morning of Oct. 7, 2023.


The uniformed Hamas killers wanted to keep a record of what they did in Israel that morning. They were proud of what they did: on the videos, they said so, over and over.

The footage was unedited and had the feel of a snuff film. Which is what it was. It showed 138 Jews being shot, or decapitated, or blown to pieces by grenades. Men, women, children, babies.

The video showed the aftermath, as well. Israeli women and girls, naked from the waist down, their genitals bloody and mutilated. Parents and children, wired together, then burned alive. A baby’s skull, the brain spilling out onto the ground.

With the permission of the victim’s families, some journalists and legislators have been allowed to see the video. To bear witness, the Israelis told us.


We bore witness to something else, however. Something that hasn’t been written about nearly as much, but it is important.

It was easy to spot the Hamas men. As noted, they wore uniforms and looked like soldiers, even though they acted like animals – worse than animals, actually.

But here’s something else we witnessed: people who weren’t in uniforms, at all, flooding into Israel to participate in the barbarity of that dark Saturday.


In the Hamas footage, a Palestinian in civilian clothes uses an oversized green garden hoe to decapitate a foreign agricultural worker who is still alive. There are videos of Palestinian civilians beating hostages – some elderly – with sticks and their fists. And there is footage of corpses of Israelis being desecrated by Palestinians, on the back of a truck.


The Hamas video footage – some now online – also shows non-Hamas Palestinians looting and vandalizing the homes and bodies of Jews.

Multiple videos document Palestinian citizens flooding into Israeli, following Hamas. At Kibbutz Be’eri, near the border with Gaza, video footage – mainly taken from home security cameras – shows dozens of Palestinian citizens following ten truckloads of Hamas killers into the kibbutz.


Some Palestinians came by car, and some on foot and on bicycles. Some are armed. Some are children. They can then be seen stealing agricultural equipment, televisions, motorbikes and more.

Not every Palestinian is Hamas. That’s true. But it’s also true that – on that terrible day – many, many Palestinians were supporting Hamas.


Before that day, too. Before, and as everyone has seen by now, Hamas had tunnels snaking seemingly everywhere in Gaza – tunnels with armoured doors concealed in Palestinian hospitals, schools and even children’s bedrooms. With, one can only assume, the knowledge and approval of Palestinian citizens.

That’s not all.

One of the reasons why Hamas mass murder on Oct. 7 was so effective and efficient was because Palestinian civilians – Palestinians who had been working alongside Israelis in those kibbutzim farms – had told Hamas how to disable the Israeli security and communications systems. They had told them who to kill first, and where victims could be found.

Palestinian civilians did that.


Now, it goes without saying that some Israeli citizens are not blameless, either. Innocent Palestinians have been targeted for violence by far-Right Israeli settlers in the West Bank. That is in evidence, too, and it is indisputable. The wrongdoers must be brought to justice.


But Hamas did not act alone on Oct. 7. It did not act alone before or after that date, either. Palestinians – ordinary citizens – aided and abetted Hamas.

The best way to conclude, here, is to quote an extraordinary book written a few years ago by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

“It is a grave error to refuse to believe that people could slaughter whole populations – especially populations that are by any objective evaluation not threatening – out of conviction. Why persist in the belief that ‘ordinary’ people could not possibly sanction, let alone partake in wholesale human slaughter? The historical record, from ancient times to the present, amply testifies to the ease with which people can extinguish the lives of others, and even take joy in their deaths.”

Ordinary Germans did.

Ordinary Palestinians, too.
 
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Hamas brutality was evident as it slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, raped women, butchered babies and confirmed its commitment to destroy Israel “from the river to the sea.” No peace can come until Hamas is neutralized and ceases to be an existential threat to Israel.
Terrorist leaders prosper by keeping their people in poverty and misery to blame an external enemy. The acceptance of Israel as a scapegoat is likely why the majority of Gazans are reported to support Hamas, despite the harm the group has done to Palestinians. Hamas’s leaders live in opulent luxury, while their siphoning-off of aid leaves their supporters in dire poverty.
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When Israel goes after those who would destroy it, there is furious condemnation. When Turkey murders Kurds, China kills Uyghurs, Iran and Russia murder dissenters, there is polite and limited disapproval. When the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s resulted in more than one million deaths as Arabs killed each other, did we see protests and marches in North American streets? Where were the demonstrations at Harvard? Where were the protests in 1971, when King Hussein of Jordan cracked down on Palestinian extremists in Jordan, killing about 3,000 and expelling 20,000? Weird that…
Israel isn’t going to eliminate all of the tens of thousands of Hamas terrorists, let alone their non-combatant suppliers in the Gazan population. At best, it can degrade their ability to launch more attacks by destroying infrastructure, eliminating Hamas leadership and restricting the influx of new weapons. Hamas will only stand down when it is on the brink of failure and its remaining leadership wants to survive. Hopefully, that day is near.
 

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On Saturday evening, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged container vessel that operates between Europe and Asia, came under missile attack, said the U.S. Four boats later approached the vessel, shot at it and attempted to board it, according to Danish shipping giant Moller-Maersk, which operates the containership.
On the non Hamas crybaby aspect of WW3...International shipping rates skyrocketed today and US and UK plan missle strikes on Yemen.
Early Sunday, helicopters from nearby U.S. Navy vessels responded to fire coming from boats controlled by Houthis, an Iranian-backed rebel group in Yemen, sinking three of them and killing the crews, the U.S. said. The fourth boat fled. The Houthis later claimed the attack and said they lost 10 fighters in the encounter.
PS Israel is mean
The Iranian allies initially said they were targeting Israeli shipping activities in retaliation for the war in Gaza, but have now broadened the attacks to other vessels sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb, a key crossing between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea…because piracy, etc…
So the Iranian backed Houthis initiated initially Piracy against Israeli shipping, which quickly evolved to anything that might be even vaguely associated with Israeli interests, which quickly evolved to any shipping of any financial interest, in under two months?? Sounds about right.
“The attacks have lost all connection to Israel completely,” said Ami Daniel, chief executive of maritime artificial intelligence company Windward Ltd. “The Houthis don’t seem to be deterred by the coalition.”
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Christopher Long, intelligence director at Neptune P2P and a former British Navy captain in the Persian Gulf, said he was concerned the lethal exchange between the Houthis and the U.S. “will now create a situation where Iran may intervene directly against the U.S. in support of the Houthi.” Because piracy? Yo ho ho & a bottle of non-alcoholic something or another?
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So the Iranian backed Houthis initiated initially Piracy against Israeli shipping, which quickly evolved to anything that might be even vaguely associated with Israeli interests, which quickly evolved to any shipping of any financial interest, in under two months?? Sounds about right.

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There are aboot 100 naval vessels from 10 countries surrounding Yemen
Are they playing (coordinating) well with each other? Sounded weird a week or two back as several countries where sending boats, but the didn’t want to be associated with America or Americans? Something about who’s the boss or cooties, etc…
 

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Are they playing (coordinating) well with each other? Sounded weird a week or two back as several countries where sending boats, but the didn’t want to be associated with America or Americans? Something about who’s the boss or cooties, etc…
That was before their own financial interests were in jeopardy.
 
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Japan showed up with their big boy navy.
The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will return to its home port, the U.S. Navy said on Monday, ending its deployment to the eastern Mediterranean, which started in support of Israel after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants.
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The nuclear-powered Ford, the Navy's newest carrier with over 4,000 personnel and eight squadrons of aircraft, became a powerful symbol of American support by rushing closer to Israel after the Palestinian militant group's attack. Palestinians aren't all Hamas, or Hamas at all, but Hamas are Palestinians, or some of them are, or something like that, when convenient

The attacks (by whomever) triggered a war in Gaza with Israeli forces reducing much of the territory to rubble, killing thousands and plunging its 2.3 million people into a humanitarian disaster.

Israel says the Hamas attack killed 1,200 people. The Hamas run Palestinian health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say Israeli forces have killed nearly 22,000 people.

"DoD (Department of Defense) will continue to leverage its collective force posture in the region to deter any state or non-state actor from escalating this crisis beyond Gaza," the Navy said.

The Ford will return to its home base in Virginia.
The US last month launched Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational US-led force to protect the sea lanes. Although many western countries contributed a token number of sailors, only the UK has provided ships. Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United Arab Emirates announced they were joining the coalition, reflecting the domestic risks involved in being seen to do anything that supports Israel.
 

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The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will return to its home port, the U.S. Navy said on Monday, ending its deployment to the eastern Mediterranean, which started in support of Israel after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants.
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The nuclear-powered Ford, the Navy's newest carrier with over 4,000 personnel and eight squadrons of aircraft, became a powerful symbol of American support by rushing closer to Israel after the Palestinian militant group's attack. Palestinians aren't all Hamas, or Hamas at all, but Hamas are Palestinians, or some of them are, or something like that, when convenient

The attacks (by whomever) triggered a war in Gaza with Israeli forces reducing much of the territory to rubble, killing thousands and plunging its 2.3 million people into a humanitarian disaster.

Israel says the Hamas attack killed 1,200 people. The Hamas run Palestinian health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say Israeli forces have killed nearly 22,000 people.

"DoD (Department of Defense) will continue to leverage its collective force posture in the region to deter any state or non-state actor from escalating this crisis beyond Gaza," the Navy said.

The Ford will return to its home base in Virginia.
The US last month launched Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational US-led force to protect the sea lanes. Although many western countries contributed a token number of sailors, only the UK has provided ships. Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United Arab Emirates announced they were joining the coalition, reflecting the domestic risks involved in being seen to do anything that supports Israel.
Gerry Ford was in the Mediterranean. Eisenhower is still Red Sea/Indian Ocean with the Carl Vinson 3 days away in South China Sea.
 
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Gazan Mickey Mouse knock-off preaches hate, Islamic world domination

Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jan 01, 2024 • Last updated 13 hours ago • 2 minute read
HEY KIDS! Farfour the Mouse taught kids in Gaza to hate Jews. SCREENGRAB
HEY KIDS! Farfour the Mouse taught kids in Gaza to hate Jews. SCREENGRAB
Farfour the Mouse isn’t much interested in Donald Duck’s antics.


Instead, the Gazan Mickey Mouse knock-off extols Palestinian children to kill Jews and the glorious future of Islamic world domination.


The Sesame Street-flavoured show appeared on Hamas-controlled Gazan TV in 2007.

Fun-loving Farfour often engages in “violent and anti-Semitic activities,” the Daily Mail reports. And the punchline is always the same when his schemes go awry — blame the Jews.

In one episode, Farfour is pinched for copying another student’s classroom work. When asked why he cheated, the radical rodent replies: “It was against my will, because the Jews destroyed our home and I couldn’t find my notebooks.”

Islamic world domination is another empowering theme.

He tells viewers: “We, tomorrow’s pioneers, will restore to this nation its glory, and we will liberate Al-Aqsa and Iraq with Allah’s will, and we will liberate the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers.”


The central theme is, of course, blame the Jews for the problems of the world. This week’s guest, Hitler.

OH NO! A duplicitous Israeli martyrs Gaza’s favourite mouse. SCREENGRAB
OH NO! A duplicitous Israeli martyrs Gaza’s favourite mouse. SCREENGRAB
According to the Mail, Farfour sports a creepy, high-pitched Mickey Mouse-style voice. The show was aired on the Hamas-run network Al-Aqsa.

The propaganda channel is helmed by former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad, who has been designated a terrorist by the U.S. which described the channel as an outlet designed to brainwash and recruit kids to team terror.

But the maniacal mouse’s run was short-lived. He was whacked by the Israelis.

A Mossad agent sat across from Farfour and tells him: “Farfour, we want to buy the land. We will give you a lot of money.”

Firm Farfour responds: “No, we don’t sell our lands to terrorist.”


The Israeli then stabs our hero to death.

A child then tells viewers: “Farfour became a martyr while protecting his land.”

The anti-Semitic vermin was just one of the entertaining shows on Al-Aqsa. In a music video, a young girl sings to her mother, who later kills four Israeli soldiers.

The girl later holds explosives and sings to the camera: “I am following mommy in her footsteps.”

There was, thankfully, no suicide vest singalong.

The latest mayhem in the Middle East kicked off on Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked a music festival and kibbutzs. More than 1,200 Israelis — mostly civilians — were slaughtered in the bloody attacks. Countless women were raped and tortured.

As a result, for nearly three months Israel has been pulverizing Gaza in an assault that has killed more than 21,000, many women and children.

bhunter@postmedia.com

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