#hamas

[matan4il]

For the Nonnie who asked me to share some of the response to the performative "all eyes on Rafah" campaign, I hope it's okay if I add to the two images you sent me, and turn to the people sharing that AI generated image...

If all eyes are on Rafah, are you seeing Hamas' abuse, torture and even killing of its own Gazan civilians?

("Resistance is justified when people are occupied!" Cool cool, but what kind of a "resistance" attacks its own people?)

If all eyes are on Rafah, where were your eyes on Oct 7?

If all eyes are on Rafah, 'coz Gazan kids being burned alive (by Hamas, even though Israel got falsely blamed for it) is so unacceptable, then where were your eyes when our kids were burned alive by Hamas? In the pic: 2 years old Omer Siman Tov, who was deliberately burned alive by Hamas terrorists together with his entire family, his parents and two older sisters, in their own home.

If all eyes are on Rafah, do you see Kfir Bibas, kidnapped at the age of 9 months together with both his parents and his 4 years old brother Ariel? Kfir is the youngest hostage in the world ever (second youngest ever was Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., who was kidnapped at 20 months old in 1932).

If all eyes are on Rafah, are you seeing our other molested hostages?

If all eyes are on Rafah, are you seeing Hamas' rocket launchers which continuously operate and target our civilians from there? (note the dates vary from Dec 7, 2023 to May 26, 2024)

If all eyes are on Rafah, where the IDF did strike and kill two senior Hamas leaders, Yassin Rabia and Khaled Najjar, near (but not at) a shelter tent camp, are you seeing that Hamas deliberately chooses to risk its own civilians by having its leaders carry out consultation meetings so close to regular people?

If all eyes are on Rafah, why did you see the rescue of two of our elderly hostages (and the killing of the terrorists who tried to prevent the success of this operation) as a massacre? And why did you claim this was Israel invading Rafah back on Feb 12 already, when the actual ground operation in that city only started in May?

If all eyes are on Rafah because you care about the Palestinians so much, where were your eyes when Palestinians were endangered and killed by fellow Arabs?

If all eyes are on Rafah, where almost a million people have been evacuated by May 20 already, then whose eyes are on Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Ukraine among other places, where the murders of hundreds of thousands in each (and altogether, millions) is being carried on unchallenged? Where are the campaigns for the people whose slaughter you can't weaponize against the Jewish state?

If you shared that graphic, but didn't do anything about any of the other things listed in this post, you don't actually care. You just want to seem as if you do.

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[girlactionfigure]

[david-goldrock]

Would you keep me in your closet?

When they tell you that we're the murderers of Christ, blasphemous heretics, who poison the wells and eat christian babies, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're of an infirior race, that our presence destroys culture, that we backstabbed your country, that having kids with us will leave them with the same flaws, that we are inherently and unchanginly evil, and that killing us is a mercy, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're overlords of a secret society, secret cosmopolitiains of the deep state, controlling the media and the economy for our benefit, leaching on the work of good, hard working people, would you still keep me in your closet?

When they tell you we're white supremacists, fanatic nationals, colonizers, explotators, slave owners, oppressors, occupiers, starving, ethnically cleansing, genociding, harvesting organs off of Arab children...

Today, when they knock on your door and asks politely if you happen to hide me in your house or basement, whatever they may call me, whatever excuse they came with

Would you keep me safe in your closet?

[honesty-my-policy]

i'm so infuriated

I'm not Jewish and I'm so infuriated at the world.

I can't imagine how it must feel to be Jewish. Especially as this entire ordeal has made me dive more into educating myself about Jewish history and how the world truly has always blamed everything on the Jews.

How is everything their fault?

Even the crucifixion of Christ has been blamed on the Jews when it was a Roman tradition?

Martin Luther who is known as one of the original reformers in Christianity's history wrote a book called "On the Jews and Their Lies". In which he advocated for burning down synagogues, Jewish homes and if that didn't work, Jewish people!

Apparently, somehow, Jews caused the Black Death despite the fact that the most predominant modern theory is that due to climate change in Asia, rodents began to flee the dried out grasslands to more populated areas which ended up spreading the infected fleas they carried, thus spreading the disease. The fleas infected not just rats but ground rodents in general, so once the rats migrated the fleas could jump to any ground rodent and the infection spread.

Some of the craziest modern stuff though has come mostly from the Middle East (i wonder why)...

Apparently, Israel has remote control sharks that can attack Egyptian civilians and tourists, at least that's what a Governor of Egypt things. source

According to a fundamentalist group of Muslims called the Wahhabis, the Jews have a secret ally they've been conspiring with... the Gharqad tree. A tree, they call it the Jew tree. source Which is identified as either nitre bushes or Lycium which is part of the nightshade family, it's such a thing that the TREE WIKI PAGE TALKS MORE ABOUT THAT THAN THE TREE ITSELF source

Palestine once said that Israel was breeding super rats that could grow twice the size of a normal rat - just to chase Arabs out of Jerusalem, note this was in like 2008, where are these super rats NOW? source

The Nation of Islam (an organization) accused Jews of tricking people into thinking slavery exists??????? Sorry, "still" exists. This was originally in 1996, the gall this motherfucker had in 1996 to say "Where is the proof?" - oh, his name is Louis Farrakhan btw and there is an entire section dedicated to him on the anti-slavery website iabolish.org - his page

Also, Pokémon is a Zionist conspiracy plot to overthrow Saddam Hussein, at least, in 2001 that was what some Iraqi security personal reported. source

listen... I won't lie. I love a good conspiracy theory because to be honest, the amount I trust my government or anyone in authority is so small that just about anything could come out as true and I'd be so un-phased.

but blaming the Jews for everything when they make up an estimated 0.2% of the population versus say the 23% that is Muslim? Which there are approximately 50 Muslim-Majority countries in the world, though depending on sources the exact number differs.

If anything Christianity (32%) and the unaffiliated (16.3%) should be eyed at. Also, how come no one ever gives the folk religion people a hard time? Not that anyone deserves to be given a hard time as long as they aren't hurting anyone, it just boggles my mind to be honest.

sources for numbers cited came from this website: https://worldpopulationreview.com/

anyway, woke up this morning and just wanted to say this cause I'm mad and I want to show my support but also call out stupid people. I'm here to fight for Israel and the Jews, fuck off pro-palestine simps.

[jewelleria]

stop infantilizing palestinians.

it’s just fucking racist. it contributes to the (false) idea that palestine were so oppressed by their evil colonizers that they had “no choice” but to act like barbarians. it promotes the belief that senseless violence is the only way palestinians, a supposedly primitive and backwards people according to the uneducated westerners that defend them, know how to resist—and therefore excuses terrorism against jews in the name of “freedom fighting.” it paints jews as evil oppressors when in fact they are the oppressed, it shifts the focus away from hamas, the real oppressors of palestinians, and it places the blame entirely on israel.

you know what that is? it’s racist, it’s antisemitic, and it’s absolute bullshit.

hamas is not a group of unorganized and primitive barbarians who “just don't know any better,” or who were “forced” into making the genocidal choices that they did. they are adults who have the autonomy, free will, and political power to make their own choices. they have the power to end this conflict, and they choose instead to perpetuate it.

hamas been the governing and influential power in the gaza strip for almost twenty years. they are a sunni-islamist, fundamentalist, and genocidal terrorist organization hell-bent on burning israel to the ground and bringing the rest of the world's jews with it—and they know exactly what they are doing.

[alwaysisrael]

This comes from aish.com and I found it interesting 🤔

To date ,It has the lowest civilian -to -combatant causality rate in the history of warfare !

Let me say that again for those who still think Israel is committing Genocide......

The lowest-to-civilian causality rate in the history of Warfare !!!

Amazing right ???

Truth Matters 🌟

[taviamoth]

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Gary Willig

The accusation that Israel is committing genocide is just as much a lie as the blood libels, well poisoning, and world domination accusations were. In theory, perhaps one could believe this lie and not be an antisemite, just as in theory, one could be an opponent of Zionism and not hate Jews. But in practice, both are impossible.

If it is antisemitic to believe that Jews murder gentile children to bake matzah with or that Jews have a secret cabal that controls the world, then it is antisemitic to believe that Israel is currently committing genocide.

Any factual examination of the war between Israel and Hamas would quickly and definitively show that Israel is not fighting to exterminate the residents of Gaza and is going to great lengths to keep civilians safe. Israel has given up enormous military advantages in order to warn civilians to leave before combat starts, most recently evacuating about a million people from Rafah before launching an operation to crush the last Hamas stronghold. Israel has allowed tens of thousands of trucks carrying food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid into Gaza over the course of the war and has worked with other countries and humanitarian organizations to increase the amount of aid that goes in.

And despite Hamas’s strategy of deliberately using human shields to protect its weapons and its fighters, Israel has achieved a civilian to combat death ratio of 1:1.5, possibly even 1.1, a historic achievement in the protection of civilians in modern warfare, where on average nine civilians are killed for every combatant death.

Not only is the genocide accusation an easily disproved lie, but those who created it are in fact projecting their own genocidal desires onto Israel. The purpose of the accusation has never been to protect civilians, but to protect Hamas and provide to support for Hamas’s openly genocidal goals.

[proudzionist]

Wow does this mean they will stop murdering the LGBTQIA+community ?

Does this mean they will stop torturing them ?

Putting them in prison for 10 years ?

Does this mean Hamas won't be-head them anymore ?

🤔

I sure hope so but I won't hold my breath !

[acti-veg]

I agree Israel is committing war crimes, but is that the same as genocide?

I don’t think that their actions can be justified, but how can we know for sure that genocide is their aim?

If Hamas are deliberately positioning themselves near civilians, and retreat to a network of tunnels, how do we know Israel aren’t genuinely trying to target Hamas (and showing indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians, rather than actively targeting them)?

You can never know for certain what anyone else’s intention is, nobody ever says they are aiming to carry out a genocide. But we can reasonably judge what their intentions are by observing their actions, and Israel has been crystal clear with us in that regard.

Israel have been claiming the use of human shields for decades, and even if true; they clearly use it as a convenient smokescreen. Nobody can say for sure since Israel continue to restrict and allegedly target journalists, but Amnesty International investigated the claim back in 2016 and found no evidence for it. Israel has never been able to supply sufficient evidence to prove this in court. That doesn’t mean it isn’t happening now though, and there have allegedly been some eyewitness reports that point to them doing so, at least in places. Amnesty point out:

We’re monitoring and investigating these claims but we don’t have evidence of this during the current hostilities. In previous conflicts, we have documented that Palestinian armed groups have stored munitions in and fired indiscriminate rockets from residential areas, which is in violation of international humanitarian law.

During the current hostilities, Hamas spokespeople have reportedly urged residents in some areas of Gaza not to leave their homes after the Israeli military warned people in the area to evacuate.

However, the lack of clarity from Israel on safe routes for evacuation, the lack of shelters, and numerous reports of civilians who did heed the warnings and flee doing so under Israeli fire, such statements by Hamas officials could have been motivated by a desire to avoid further panic.

International humanitarian law is clear – even if they did direct civilians to remain in a specific location in order to shield military objectives, Israel’s obligations to protect these civilians would still apply.

Even if Hamas are using civilians as human shields, civilians are entitled to protection regardless. Here is a good excerpt on this:

Marc Weller, chair of international law and international constitutional studies at the University of Cambridge, said that if 1,000 people were sheltering at a site that was proven to hide a Hamas presence, Israel would have to send soldiers in to only hit the enemy assets (principle of distinction). If it instead opted to bomb the compound from the air, it must be able to prove the existence of enemy assets and to argue that the “incidental” loss of life was proportionate to the military advantage gained (principle of proportionality).

Issuing an evacuation order to 1.1 million people and then considering an entire population as a legitimate target also contravenes the same principles. “Knocking on a building [to ask its residents to evacuate] may be reasonable, but telling a million people that they all have to get out because you are bombing everything is unreasonable,” the Cambridge professor told Al Jazeera.

“Israel cannot discharge its obligation of distinction by wishing the civilians away. This places the burden of protection on victims, rather than attackers.”

We can also look at what the judges who have seen more evidence than we have had to say, another excerpt here:

The ICJ ruling refers to the possibility of genocide without using the word. But it does quote the Genocide Convention directly, stating that ‘Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’. This was supported by 13 of the judges. Only two opposed it, including the former president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Aharon Barak.

The ICJ ruling states that Israel must actively ensure that in any Rafah operation the lives and basic needs of civilians are protected. The court stated that 800,000 Gazans have been displaced several times before and have already fled Rafah fearing for their lives; that many of these were responding to the IDF’s ‘encouragement’ to do so; and that most of them are living in inhuman conditions lacking access to food, water, sanitation, medical services and in most cases proper shelter.

Even if you don’t believe Israel are actively trying to commit a genocide, the conditions in Gaza are such that they could lead to the destruction of the Palestinian people in part or in whole - that is genocide, and it is deliberate because Israel have intentionally and knowingly created these conditions, ostensibly as a way to fight Hamas. What Hamas are or are not doing is ultimately irrelevant for the protections Palestinian non-combatants are entitled to, which make up the majority of those killed by the IOF.

Even if every claim about Hamas building ‘terror tunnels’ underneath hospitals and using civilians as shields are all true, even if they are committing every war crime Israel says they are, the collective punishment of the Palestinian people for the actions of Hamas are a war crime. A genocide is being carried out, regardless of the reasons for it.

The ICJ are right to tell Israel they must halt the offensive and are right to issue a warrant for not only Hamas leadership, but Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant as well.

[matan4il]

what do you, as an Israeli, think of Standing Together? asking entirely in good faith because I see things supporting them a lot, but it's always from American Jews and (no offense to us), I don't totally trust that we're informed enough to know what we're talking about and what their perspective and usefulness truly is in the way that someone who actually lives there would. so many orgs are untrustworthy or covertly antisemitic and it made me curious for your perspective. thank you for everything. <3

Hi Nonnie!

Sorry it took me a moment to reply, but I hope my answer can still help you!

As an idea, Standing Together is a movement that I should have been all for. They are pro-coexistence, and so am I. There's no doubt in my mind that Jews aren't going anywhere, and neither are Arabs, and we are all better off working together for a good future for all. Supposedly, that's ST's message, so they absolutely should be an organization that I would be all for.

BUT from everything I've experienced, the narrative that they adopted is way more one-sided than their official stance, they're closer to being anti-Israel than balanced, which makes them problematic for me. Especially when you look at the individual actions and statements of many of this movement's leaders, it's evident that coexistence to them comes at the expense of historical facts, as well as certain Jewish rights. Obviously, the leaders' personal positions influence the movement's stance and actions.

For example, in this interview from Nov 2023, a Jewish leader of the movement falsely calls Israel's 2014 operation in Gaza against Hamas, "a war against Gaza and its people" (brief summary: Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Jewish teenagers in Judea and Samaria, Israel launched Operation Brother's Keeper during which it arrested some of Hamas' terrorists in that area looking for intel on where those 3 kids were and what happened to them, Hamas fired rockets from Gaza at Israel to get its terrorists released and used terror tunnels, including ones that crossed the border from Gaza into Israel, to kill and kidnap our people. That's what Israel ended up fighting against in Operation Protective Edge), while an Arab leader of ST defines their way as one which rejects "maintaining violent military control over millions of people," but says nothing against the terrorism that's used against millions of Israelis and Jews.

In terms of the recent war, since Oct 7 they have come out calling for a ceasefire now very early on in the war (I can't remember when they started it, but I know by Dec 7, 2023 they'd already put out a vid calling to stop the war, when really the ground operation only started about a month earlier, before it could possibly achieve anything), meaning this call was undermining Israel's right (and duty!) to defend its citizens, and asking us to surrender our goals of returning all the hostages and destroying Hamas' rule (only the latter can prevent Hamas from fulfilling its promise to carry out more massacres of the type that started this war, and has claimed so many lives on both sides). Another thing you can see in that vid is ST participating in spreading the false narrative that Israel is intentionally starving the Gazans (you can see the same thing in this poster, which says in Hebrew, "Thou shalt not starve." It's a poster for humanitarian aid they were supposedly bringing into Gaza, as if the IDF would ever let anyone bring anything they want unchecked into a war zone, or as if the amount of aid a few Israeli cars could bring is more than the hundreds of trucks Israel has been allowing in, checked. ST's just posturing and spreading an anti-Israel libel). Helping to spread a libel against one side is NOT being pro-coexistence. Imagine if they were spreading a libel that all Gazans are Hamas terrorists, and took part in the massacre! I think it's clear that, even if it's not simple to tell them apart, there are people in Gaza who are complicit, and people who are uninvolved and innocent. So if ST were spreading such a libel against Gazans, I'd oppose them. I am not going to do less when ST is spreading a libel against my own people.

I hope one day they correct course, but I can't currently support them. Give me REAL solidarity between Jews and Arabs, which sees and recognizes the humanity of both, not a repeat of the de-humanization of Jews, and a surrender of Jewish rights to an anti-Jewish narrative. That's not real peace, it's not real coexistence, it's a return to the way that we Jews have had to live for centuries in exile: always dependent on the good will (or lack of it) of the majority under whose will we lived, forced to bend ourselves, our rights, our dignity, too often even our very lives, to our subjugators, in the hope (and without any guarantees) that they will show us some kindness.

Many of the movement's leaders have not only expressed themselves in a way that reflects an acceptance of the anti-Israeli narrative, and took one-sided positions I can't agree with, they also acted in ways that have left me feeling quite unsafe.

For example, one of ST's founders, Yeela Raanan, joined and supported the violent Palestinian riots on Israel's border with Gaza, organized by Hamas, meant to breach the border fence, which started in 2018. Today we know these riots were a part of Hamas' preparations for the Oct 7, 2023 massacre, as they were getting the IDF used to them coming closer and closer to the fence. TBH, those of us listening to the statements of Hamas' leaders, we didn't need to wait for the border to be breached in order to know that it would be a bloodbath if they succeed. Sinwar's promise that they will reap out the hearts of Israelis with spoons from our chests was enough. Also, the repeated use during these riots of flags and kites with swastikas was pretty telling. So yeah, I can't trust anyone who supported that.

The movement is also financially supported in part by funds, such as the New Israel Fund, which finances a lot of good causes, but also many anti-Israel ones, and the German fund Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, which supports the antisemitic BDS movement (it's antisemitic first of all because one of its stated goals is to put an end to Israel as a Jewish state, another reason is their use of antisemitic tropes in characterizing the Jewish state).

The ironic thing is that, despite how imbalanced against Israel ST is, it was still the so-called pro-Palestinians who actually started a campaign to boycott the organization. Not because of anything specific ST said or did. It was simply for being an Israeli organization, showing the diversity of Israeli society, which is apparently bad 'coz it "normalizes" Israel's existence. That shows you the anti-Israel nature of this opposition, that no amount of willingness to cooperate with the de-humanization of Jews and erasure of our rights will ever be enough for people whose real motivation is antisemitism, that wishes to see an end to the Jewish state.

I hope this helps, Nonnie! Once more, my apologies for how long it's taken me to reply. Be well!

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[girlactionfigure]

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸 🚨

HAMAS WELCOMES CEASEFIRE PLAN STATES OCCUPATION FORCES STAYING IN GAZA WOULD BE "UNACCEPTABLE"

The Hamas Resistance movement welcomes the US proposal for a ceasefire plan, but also declares it would "unacceptable" for the Israeli occupation forces to stay in Gaza long-term.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV, senior Hamas leader, Osama Hamdan, spoke about the joint American-Qatari-Egyptian proposal for ceasefire on Saturday.

In the interview, Hamdan said the Resistance welcomes the proposal and evaluated the opinion of other leaders of the Resistance on the subject as "positive".

"We are investigating it in order to respond to it, and Hamas has not yet received an official proposal for a cease-fire plan from the American president" Hamdan added.

He emphasized that the general framework mentioned in the statements of the three mediating countries is generally positive, but said they will need to know the details.

Hamdan says it would be "unacceptable" for the occupation army stay in the Gaza Strip, or to manage the Rafah border crossing, clarifying that the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior previously managed the crossing, and must do so after the war ends.

Further, he points to the goal of a ceasefire as mentioned in the statements of the leaders of the US, Qatar and Egypt, and added that we need a complete agreement.

"Calling for an agreement is a positive step, but we cannot achieve this goal by just hoping," Hamdan said of the proposal.

Hamdan went on emphasized the need for a complete end to the war, the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from Gaza, and the free flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

He also conveyed his salutations to the Resistance fronts in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq, pointing to their bravery, calling it a turning point in the path of the Palestinian cause, the Resistance, and the stability of the Palestinian nation.

Commenting on the war in Gaza, Hamdan says of the Israeli occupation, "Now Zionism has become synonymous with Nazism and the usurping regime should be defined as a Nazi Zionist regime."

#source

#photosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[honesty-my-policy]

things people think are okay if it's "for the cause"

(being antisemitic)

Arson

Assault

Rape

Murder

Death threats

Harassment

Breaking and entering

Rioting

Boycotting businesses based solely on if they are Jewish owned

Calling for the death of an entire people

Things the Nazis did to the Jews in Nazi Germany? All of the above. Wow. Look at that. It's almost like all of you are lying pieces of shit that as soon as any person with authority tells you it's okay to target another human does, you go for it.

Humans are the most dangerous animals because they turn on each other just because they are told they can and it is morally right.

[yjlom]

Does… does Israel not realise the meaning of the word "ceasefire"?

from Al Jazeera's Palestine news feed: [X]

[alwaysisrael]

All eyes on Rafah ?

Keep a look out for the BIBAS family and for the hostages that have not come home .

Where the HELL we're your eyes when Oct 7th happened?

Huh ?

Why is it ok to murder ,rape ,torture ,kidnap Jews but when Israel responds to it ?

They are the bad guys .

So over it !

This hypocrisy has got to stop .

Yarden Bibas 🎗️

Shiri Bibas 🎗️

Ariel Bibas 🎗️

Kfir Bibas 🎗️

BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!!!!!