'Don't Look Away': Israel Releases Video of Hamas Atrocities at Music Festival

. . ."Flying in armed terror squads to a music festival attended by unarmed young women and men from Israel and around the world, who are there promoting peace, and then systematically murdering, raping, kidnapping, and mutilating them in front of an adoring public, who further desecrate those bodies, is not an act of resistance. 

"The level of depravity and hatred it requires for anyone to find solidarity in terrorists hunting and butchering young women and men at a music festival cannot be understated. 

"More than 250 festival attendees are feared dead, with many more missing.

Flying in armed terror squads to a music festival attended by unarmed young women and men from Israel and around the world, who are there promoting peace, and then systematically murdering, raping, kidnapping, and mutilating them in front of an adoring public, who further desecrate those bodies, is not an act of resistance. The level of depravity and hatred it requires for anyone to find solidarity in terrorists hunting and butchering young women and men at a music festival cannot be understated. More than 250 festival attendees are feared dead, with many more missing.

. . . "Witnesses described the utter terror they experienced. An emergency worker named Yaniv said: 

There are at least 200 bodies of Israelis in the area I was in. It was a massacre.

I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was a planned ambush. As people came out of the emergency exits, squads of terrorists were waiting for them there and just started picking them off.

"As RedState's Bonchie reported, some protesters in New York City were supportive of Hamas during rallies Sunday. It's important to remember that this kind of absolute barbarism is what they're cheering for.

"The effects of these horrific attacks will be felt for years, if not forever, and the dynamics of the already-challenged region took a hard turn for the worse. More and more heart-wrenching stories are coming out, and they're difficult to read (or write about). 

"They make one question the very nature of humanity because it's hard to believe that anyone could act with such wanton cruelty and disregard for innocent people. I've tried to put my head into that of a 9/11 terrorist and imagine what could possibly make someone do something like that, and I simply can't do it. The same is true here: I can't imagine a situation in the history of the planet that would make me consider indiscriminately killing hundreds if not thousands of people whom I'd never met and had committed no crime.

"Unfortunately, however, it is clear that terrorists can and do descend into such depths of evil. They have committed unspeakable crimes, though, and for that, they must be stomped out of existence. 

See also:  'Historic Failure' for Israeli—and U.S.—Intelligence: How Did They Not See This Coming?

Scenes from New York Pro-Hamas Rally Are Stomach-Turning

That's THIS Rashida Tlaib.

Jewish Dem Senator Takes Rashida Tlaib and Her GROSSLY Anti-Semitic Takes APART in Straight-Fire Thread – Twitchy   "As Twitchy readers know, even Democrats are getting sick and tired of Rashida Tlaib and her disgusting anti-Semitic takes and antics. Whether it's because it makes them all look bad OR that they really don't agree with what she's saying ... they're definitely pushing back against her."

This is not how Jews view the phrase “from the river to the sea.” This is not how Hamas views the phrase “from the river to the sea.”

Hamas uses it as a rallying cry. And they don’t simply want to displace Jews in Israel. They want Jews dead. https://t.co/pRh8cU55if

— Senator Jeremy Moss (@JeremyAllenMoss) November 4, 2023 

Important video on the history of the people you know as “Palestinians” being kicked out of Arabic nations.

Guess why they were kicked out. Guess. pic.twitter.com/srdNjNb4N5

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 4, 2023

 MUST-SEE VIDEO: Why Muslim nations don’t want ‘Palestinians’ - American Thinker

"When Barack Obama’s policies triggered the disastrous Arab Spring, with massive upheaval in the Muslim lands of Africa and the Middle East, Europe opened its doors to refugees from those wars. Europe did this even though its cultural connection to these refugees was minimal to nonexistent. It was, the Europeans felt, the right thing to do. (It’s also proved to have been a remarkably stupid thing to do, as Enoch Powell predicted, but that’s another story.)

"Here in America, we’re told that our border is meaningless because we have a moral obligation to welcome in refugees from around the world—and not even refugees from war. Just refugees from places these migrants don’t like very much." . . .

From Guardian to Coward: The Journey of Chuck Schumer

Yet now, only five years later, Schumer not only is fighting against the House-approved bill of November 2 to give $14 billion in aid to Israel, but he also refuses to even let it be discussed on the Senate floor. What happened in five years to make Chuck Schumer, whose Hebrew name is Yeshaya ben Avraham, totally abandon freedom, Israel, and his Jewish heritage in favor of socialism, authoritarianism, and terrorists?

 From Guardian to Coward: The Journey of Chuck Schumer – PJ Media   "There are a lot of true villains in politics: people who are filled with hate and are true supporters of evil — Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, Pressley, et al. They seek to destroy Western culture and the United States and to prop up evil regimes and terrorist organizations. It’s especially easy to see them right now as they try to justify the evil of Hamas, as they try to destroy Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, and they strive to tear down our country with riots on college campuses and even the Capitol.

"But none of them disappoint or anger me as much as Chuck Schumer, a man who has a significant Jewish educational background aware of the history of his people and the world. He has throughout his career pointed out that his last name means “guardian” and that he would always be the “guardian of Israel” in Washington.

I write this as a Rabbi who is deeply saddened by the fall of this man. While I have never agreed with much of his politics, he was for many years someone who deserved respect for acting on his beliefs. But he has truly fallen from that status, seduced by seeking personal power over personal values. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in his abandonment of Israel.

"For most of his career, Schumer did try to embody his name and protect Israel. He campaigned hard to revoke the tax-free status of a Palestinian charity in 1994. He harshly criticized Gaza for electing the terrorist organization of Hamas, calling on Israel to “strangle Gaza economically until they see that’s not the way to go” and repeatedly and publicly supported Israel’s blockade of Gaza." . . .  

Barack REFUSES to pick a side: Obama condemns 'horrific' actions of Hamas but says 'what's happening to Palestinians is unbearable' |

  Daily Mail Online            "Former President Obama has condemned the actions of Hamas against the state of Israel but has also expressed sympathy for innocent civilians in Gaza. Speaking on the Pod Save America podcast about the conflict in the Middle East, the former president suggested the war was a 'moral reckoning for all of us'. 'If you want to solve the problem, then, you have to take in the whole truth', the president said.'And you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,' the former president continued." . . .

However one must be aware that the lion tamer is a Democrat, particularly in this case Joe Biden. AKA "Joey Baby!"  TD

A Jewish Political Realignment?

Following the terrorist massacre of Israeli civilians and even before the military response, young woke progressives turned stridently against the Jewish State.

 Power Line (powerlineblog.com)   "Gaza’s genocidal war against Israel has torn the Democratic Party apart by revealing the anti-Semitic core of its dominant left wing. Axios headlines: “Biden’s 2024 team roiled by Israel-Hamas war.”

Part of President Biden’s political team is in turmoil over the Israel-Hamas war, as some aides see the White House as abetting an immoral attack on Palestinians — while others believe Biden is showing “moral clarity” in protecting Israel from terrorists.

… The strife within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) — which Biden is leaning on for his re-election campaign — reflects larger generational and political divisions among Democrats.

Those divisions are chiefly between older pro-Israel Democrats and younger progressives who are more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians.

"And are entirely indifferent to mass murder, gang rape and the beheading of infants, where the victims are Jews.

"At the Daily Mail, Alan Dershowitz writes that the relationship between Jews and the Democratic Party has been profoundly altered:

The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have forever fractured any political alliance between centrist and liberal Jews and woke, anti-Israel progressives.

It’s either them or us.

The coalition is at civil war." . . . 

Because they will not bear the truth of those who hate Jews and their actions. TD 

As the end of daylight saving time looms this year, the U.S. Congress is still hung up on whether to make it permanent.

"When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time, the Old Indian said,

"Only the government would believe that you can cut a foot off the top

of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and get a longer blanket.' 

This Saturday, Just Say No To The Clock-Changing Madness: It’s Pointless And Dangerous – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)   "This weekend, hundreds of millions of Americans will dutifully set their clocks back one hour, convincing themselves that they’ve “gained” an hour – despite spending at least part of it resetting all their timepieces.

"Americans should instead refuse to play along. Few government mandates combine such utter pointlessness and serious public health harms than the twice-a-year switch on and off Daylight Saving Time. It’s time to end the madness.

"First, despite its label, “Daylight Saving Time” does not save daylight. It doesn’t even save energy. Two studies looked at energy use before and after changes in DST laws. Indiana went on daylight saving time statewide for the first time in 2006, and in 2007 when President George W. Bush’s godawful energy bill started DST three weeks earlier.

"Both found no energy savings. Energy use in Indiana actually went up when it went on DST. So if switching back and forth each year doesn’t save energy, what does it do?

"What is clear is that it is a real public health hazard.

"A study in Health Economics found that “springing forward” causes “the suicide rate to rise by 6.25% and the death rate from suicide and substance abuse combined to increase by 6.59% directly after the time change.”

"Another study published in Sleep Medicine found a significant increase in traffic fatalities on the Monday after the switch to DST, because people are sleep-deprived by having to get up an hour earlier.

"But the study also found that traffic fatalities climbed on the Sunday after everyone “falls back” to standard time. As the researchers noted:" . . .

As the end of daylight saving time looms this year, the U.S. Congress is still hung up on whether to make it permanent.

The Climate is Indeed Changing – Grab a Warm Jacket

The mini-ice age of around 1500 A.D. led to the fall the Ming Dynasty, freezing of the River Thames, and generalized famine. History teaches us that civilizations and humans prosper during warmer periods, and struggle when temperatures drop and kill off food crops.

 Brian C. Joondeph - American Thinker   "Over the past few years, we have been lectured to by professed scientists to “follow the science,” echoed by the corporate media that often sees financial gain in following particular views of science.

"For example, Pfizer is alleged to sponsor 15 television news shows, a sure fire way to get their version of “the science” (and their products) out to the masses.

"Much of the COVID dogma broadcast by the medical establishment and health authorities turned out to be wrong, from masks and lockdowns to vaccine efficacy and safety. Yet these views could not be challenged without threat of losing one’s employment or licensure, in the case of health care workers. And as time goes by, we learn that much “science” was propaganda.

"People are catching on, perhaps explaining why, “Less than 3% of eligible Americans have gotten the new COVID booster this fall” according to the CDC.

"Or Steve Kirsch’s recent unsettling analysis, “The data is clear and consistent. The COVID vaccine killed 3.5X as many people as the COVID virus.”

"What are other examples of science morphing into propaganda? How about global warming, a.k.a. climate change?" . . .

. . ."Shouldn’t scientists and government agencies be looking forward to how humankind will manage and survive the next cooling period and mini-ice age, not to mention the future glacial period which is on schedule in the next few centuries based on historical precedent?

"Rather than listening to ill-informed progressive legislators or cranky Swedish teenage climate scolds, here is where it would be helpful for government agencies and the media to truly “follow the science.”

. . ."The only “consensus” in climate science is that governments must spend taxpayer dollars and increase centralized power in an ill-fated effort to stop Mother Nature and planetary forces. Any efforts of Al Gore, Bill Gates, King Charles, or Greta Thunberg is mere spitting in the wind of Earth’s billions of years of climate cycles." . . .

'The Science On Climate Change Is Settled,' Says Man Who Does Not Believe The Settled Science On Gender, Unborn Babies, Economics | Babylon Bee

. . ."Facts don't care about your feelings on the climate, bro," he added, though he ignores the fact that there are only two biological genders. He also hand-waves away the science that an unborn baby is 100% biologically human the moment it is conceived and believes economics is a "conservative hoax foisted on us by the Illuminati and Ronald Reagan."

"That whole thing is, like, a big conspiracy, man," he said." . . .

Biden: one state or two?

 Biden pushes Mideast leaders to consider two-state solution after Israel-Hamas war ends | PBS NewsHour   . . ."The push for a two-state solution — one in which Israel would co-exist with an independent Palestinian state — has eluded U.S. presidents and Middle East diplomats for decades. It’s been put on the back burner since the last American-led effort at peace talks collapsed in 2014 amid disagreements on Israeli settlements, the release of Palestinian prisoners and other issues.

"Palestinian statehood is something that Biden rarely addressed in the early going of his administration. During his visit to the West Bank last year, Biden said the “ground is not ripe” for new attempts to reach a permanent peace even as he reiterated to Palestinians the long-held U.S. support for statehood.

"Now, at a moment of heightened concern that the Israel-Hamas war could spiral into a broader regional conflict, Biden has begun to emphasize that once the bombing and shooting stop, working toward a Palestinian state should no longer be ignored.

"Until recently, Biden had put far more emphasis on what his administration saw as the achievable ambition of normalizing relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors than on restarting peace talks." . . .

However: The Masochist in Chief: Biden, Israel and the Middle East | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera   

Diversity Is Where Nations Go to Die

'Diversity' is not a virtue; it's morally neutral: A group of five white upper-middle-class liberal NPR-listening women is non-diverse; a group of four white upper-middle-class liberal NPR-listening women plus Sudan's leading clitorectomy practitioner is more diverse but not necessarily the better for it.

Mark Steyn (jewishworldreview.com)   

 ~Forget the Fall of Kabul; America's joke military has moved on to losing the next war:

Naval Academy seeks 'Gender and Sexuality Studies' professor

~No such diversions from strategic priorities at the Hamas Military Academy. Our friend Laura Rosen Cohen is impressed by the sophisticated analysis such as one finds at New York magazine:

Maybe the babies cut their own heads off? https://t.co/sDkM5i58BS

— Laura Rosen Cohen 🪬 🪬 🪬 (@LauraRosenCohen) October 22, 2023

Sad to watch a man self-decapitating in public.

When I get weary of the BBC et al framing this story solely in terms of mawkish sob-sister drivel about the humanitarian toll in Gaza and I pine for more balanced coverage, I turn, of course, to Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya. Here's the spunky Rasha Nabil showing the West's grisly Hamas suck-ups how to do it. You won't see this on the Beeb:"

The left’s Palestinian cover girl has revealed herself to be a proud, ghoulish Nazi - American Thinker

Tamimi

"Despite their fealty to “People of Color,” members of the media just love blonds, especially when those blonds are photogenic young women who slap around Israeli soldiers. No one was more beloved than Ahed Tamimi, a young woman from a village in the West Bank who got the star treatment after a video of her violent act went viral. The same outlets that once thrilled to her dynamism, though, have been strangely silent since she’s revealed an openly expressed, antisemitic genocidal bloodthirstiness that makes actual Nazis look kind of colorless.". . .

"Western leftists fell in love with her. Here’s just a sample of articles over the years from a variety of leftist outlets celebrating the “lioness” of Palestine:". . .

She wrote: "Come on settlers, we will slaughter you. We are waiting for you in all the cities of the West Bank. What Hitler did to you was a picnic. We will drink your blood and eat your skulls."    This is the Palestinian version of blonds have more fun."

Here she is again: ‘We Will Drink Your Blood and Eat Your Skull’: A Legacy of Islamic Savagery - Raymond Ibrahim     . . ."Much, as usual, can be said here, but of curious interest to me are the cannibalistic references, and the fact that they are common among Muslims -- and, as can now be seen, not just of the so-called “radical” variety.

The Islamic State, for instance, has repeatedly stated that “American blood is best, and we will taste it soon.” Nor was this just “picturesque” language. According to a 2017 report, “Islamic State terrorists are teaching their fighters to eat non-Muslims, it has emerged.” (I managed to save one picture, since likely expunged, of an Obama-sponsored Free Syrian Army “rebel” digging into the heart of a fallen Syrian soldier in 2013.)" . . .

Biden is still President. Still.......

 Biden can stall until the next president - hopefully a Republican - replaces him and then, with squinted eyes and clenched teeth, condemns anything he, or she- does as cowardly. TD

Iran attacks U.S. troops 28 Times, Biden administration fails to seriously respond - American Thinker'. . ."Hamas butchered more than 30 American citizens. Another baker’s dozen or so are unaccounted for, likely being held hostage inside Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza. Yet the Biden administration hasn’t seriously or effectively pressured Hamas to return them. Disgusting. The Biden administration is, however, constantly pressuring Israel to be measured—or “proportionate”—in its response to the Hamas terrorist attacks.

I am anything but a warmonger. But this isn’t Ukraine. We are talking about repeated direct attacks on American troops. 28 and counting. No other American president, with the exception of Obama, would have been so unconcerned with attacks such as these. (But, what do we expect after the Afghanistan debacle?) Every other one of them, from George Washington to Donald Trump, would have retaliated in one substantive way or another. Though that likely wouldn’t have been necessary, as Iran would have known that, so the attacks probably wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. Does the Biden administration have a bizarre case of Stockholm Syndrome?

Teddy Roosevelt admonished us to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” The Biden administration often yammers on loudly…but can’t even find its twig."

. . ."We’ve been clear. The president’s been clear-- and I have been clear right here-- that if this doesn’t stop, then we will respond. And so we maintain the right to respond. We have the capability to do that. And we will respond at a time and place of our choosing."  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin 

 

Rashida Tlaib Accuses Biden of Genocide in Gaza in Incendiary “Ceasefire” Video That Features Genocidal Anti-Israel Chants

  The Gateway Pundit | by Kristinn Taylor  "Just days after Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was given a pass for her anti-Semitism by her fellow Democrats in Congress–and a handful of Republicans–on a motion to censure her, Tlaib posted an incendiary Gaza ceasefire video on Friday that accuses Joe Biden of supporting “genocide” in Gaza while featuring video of pro-Hamas marchers in the U.S. chanting genocidal chants against Israel such as “From the river to the sea…” and “No peace on stolen land.” (UPDATE at end of article. Tlaib adds her explanation of “from the river to the sea.”

"Tlaib warns Biden he will lose her support as well as other pro-Hamas Americans in his 2024 reelection bid if he does not support a ceasefire in Gaza." . . .

"The video opens with Joe Biden, flanked by Kamala Harris, saying, “We stand with Israel” and cuts to footage of explosions in Gaza followed by images of bodies in sheets and an injured child covered in dust and then a dead child.

"The video switches to pro-Hamas marches in the U.S.: Michigan, California and Pennsylvania. Followed by an Ohio protest chant captioned, “No peace on stolen land!” and an Illinois protest chant captioned, “Free! Free! Palestine!” and “The occupation has got to go!”

"Tlaib is then seen speaking addressing Joe Biden, “Mr. President, the American people are not with you on this one.” . . .

Hamas started the conflict by sending death squads of 2,000 killers into Israel at a time of peace to surprise murder more than 1,000 Israeli civilians.There was no precivilizational, unspeakable atrocity that the butcherers did not commit—torture, beheading, rape, mutilation, and necrophilia.   "The best way of understanding it is that Israelis are Jews and the ancient plague of anti-Semitism is again sweeping the globe" Victor Davis Hanson

"As Hamas gunmen moved through the kibbutz, the sounds were terrifying – the sounds of a massacre now underway.

“We heard them going house to house and spraying the people with gunfire,” said Dor, another security team member. “We heard them talking, shouting ‘Allahu akbar,’ laughing. There was the sound of endless automatic gunfire, fires burning, kibbutz residents screaming.”

 Hunted by Hamas: reconstructing the attack on Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri (reuters.com)

27 hours of slaughter and survival inside Israel’s Kibbutz Be’eri

Barbarism: Tape emerges of Hamas terrorist 'playing' with severed heads - Monica Showalter

Disturbing content:
They played with heads they severed and then were asked to document it.
Hamas must be eradicated. pic.twitter.com/20yUpzux2x

— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 2, 2023

The source of the above is vehemently anti-Israel and prolific in its refutations. Yet it fails to disprove the bloodshed of all ages in the kibbutz Be' eri.

"By the time the brothers found the old man in his rocking chair, more than 80 residents of Be’eri were dead – almost one in 10 members of the kibbutz – and at least 30 had gone missing. Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people in communities, army bases and at a music festival in the south of the country on Oct. 7, and took at least 240 hostage, Israel said." . . .

"In response to questions from Reuters, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official in Lebanon, said the organization “totally and utterly” denies “all the Israeli claims mentioned in this report.” Several days after the Oct. 7 attack, Hamdan told Reuters the assault showed Palestinians had the will to achieve their goals “regardless of Israel’s military power and capabilities.”

PLO claims Israel planting bloody knives near the bodies of Arab terrorists | JTF

Kfar Aza kibbutz attack: Children, women, elderly 'butchered' in Hamas attacks on border communities, IDF says | CNN

Jewish students report fear as antisemitism rises on college campuses - The Washington Post

WATCH: Hamas Terrorists Relate How They Would Commit Atrocities Against Israeli Citizens (freebeacon.com)

Nearly 100 Ohio churches leave UMC amid homosexuality schism

  Church & Ministries News (christianpost.com)

"Nearly 100 congregations in Ohio have left the United Methodist Church amid the denomination's ongoing debate over homosexuality, joining thousands of other churches in the United States that have done the same.

"At a special session of the UMC West Ohio Conference held last weekend, 96 churches were granted their request to disaffiliate from the mainline Protestant denomination.  

"The session was held at Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, with around 800 clergy and laity in attendance. Bishop Gregory V. Palmer presided over the gathering.

"In addition to the 96 disaffiliations, the session also dealt with budgetary issues, recommending the sale of two camping properties and electing additional delegates to the UMC General Conference.

" 'We were empowered to make some challenging decisions," said Palmer in a statement. "We brought glory to God by the patient, honest, and respectful way we engaged one another. In spite of the challenges, we have come through, our future is open because God is able."

"In June, the West Ohio Conference voted to allow 172 congregations to disaffiliate from the UMC, having allowed 80 churches to leave the denomination last year. It is estimated that, at present, the regional body covering over 50 counties has a little over 600 member congregations remaining." . . .