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When an individual is a volunteer, they are questioned about their motivation, and discouraged about becoming a martyr in order to assess their level of their resolve. [7] (Ibid) Recruits are told that once they commit to being a martyr, they cannot change their mind. A person from the supporting group is assigned to monitor the volunteer’s self-discipline, whether he is discreet among his friends, and scrutinizes his “piety in the mosque.” Sometimes, an imam will advocate a particularly passionate youth to become a martyr. During the week before the suicide mission, two “assistants” are delegated to be with the potential martyr all the time. Any signs of doubt or wavering are reported, so that a senior trainer can come to reinforce the person’s determination.[8] Hassan.

Preparation, which includes intensive spiritual exercises, prayers, and reciting the Koran, reinforces the person’s “conviction, which supports his certitude. It removes fear.” The focus is on “Paradise, on being in the presence of Allah, on meeting the Prophet Muhammad, on interceding for his loved ones so that they, too, can be saved from the agonies of Hell, on the houris, and on fighting the Israeli occupation and removing it from the Islamic trust that is Palestine.” [9] (Hassan, op.cit.)

Before leaving on the mission, the candidate prepares a written will, a video and in the past an audiocassette. At times, all three. The volunteer is photographed in front of the sponsoring terrorist organization’s banner and motto. The soon to be martyr, is seen reciting the Koran, posing with guns and bombs, and imploring his friends to emulate his example, while lauding the righteousness of jihad. [10] (Ibid.)

After the bomber succeeds in murdering Jews, the individual’s family and the sponsoring terrorist organization celebrate as if this were a wedding. Hundreds of guests arrive to extend their congratulations. Refreshments specified by the bomber are served. Frequently, the mother “will ululate in joy” to express her elation at the honor Allah has conferred on her family. [11] (Ibid; (Joseph Lelyveld, The New York Times Magazine (October 28, 2001).

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“It Ain’t Easy Being a Terrorist”

Palestinian Arab sheikhs and leaders of terrorist organizations have no qualms about dispatching teenagers to blow themselves up, contends political strategist Aaron Klein, but they hide behind women and children as human shields, drive expensive cars, and reside in beautiful residences, while so many other Palestinian Arabs live in squalor in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria “fostered” by the UN.[12](Aaron Klein, Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans—to a Jew! (Los Angeles, California: WND Books, 2007), 60-61.

Klein, who interviewed a number of terrorist leaders, reported that with few exceptions, all those he spoke to were surrounded by women and children by design. The terrorists know the Israeli army would not deliberately attack a home if civilians were present. [13] (Ibid.) At the same time, when engaged in battle, the Arabs wear civilian clothes, occupy neutral buildings such as mosques, schools and hospitals from which they launch their attacks, and use civilians as human shields. [14](Richard Kemp, “The fact that the IDF killed no civilians in Jenin is a marvel,” The Jewish Chronicle (July 6, 2023).

Klein asked Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ayman, who sent suicide bombers to murder Jews, that it is “pretty easy to send others into population centers to blow themselves up, but if you think suicide bombings are so important, why don’t you become a martyr yourself?” He responded that he was charged to be organizer and recruiter, and not to become a martyr. [15] Klein, op.cit.60.

As a leader in Islamic Jihad, Abu Ayman said he exposed himself to being assassinated by the Israelis, so he was as courageous as a suicide bomber. He then described the personal sacrifices he had to endure so that a suicide bomber life was much easier than his. “To be a [potential] martyr in a bomb attack is an easier life than mine as a wanted man who sleeps every night in different places, many time in forests and caves far from my wife and children this is much harder than the brother who explodes himself.” [16] Ibid. 61.

Klein also met with Sheikh Salem Abu Muumen, considered one of the most important religious leaders in Jenin, who mentored those wishing to become suicide bombers. When asked whether American Jews, who support Israel should be murdered. He said: American Jews are here [in Israel] as part of the Zionist plot against our people and against Islam and they deserve to be attacked, persecuted, and killed like the occupiers, the other Israel Jews. [17] Ibid. 64, 67.

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Eliminating Social Incentives

“Eliminating the social incentive – be it the poignant humanizing of a perpetrator’s failed life or the serious consideration of one’s adopted cause – delegitimizes the incentive,” advises Michael Welner, forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner. “If those who now dream of carrying out their own spectacle killings were to recognize at this stage that they and their agenda would be resoundingly vilified, such tragedies would be deterred by the very organs that supply the oxygen to spectacle and mass murder.” [18]

To this end, Welner urges the media to refrain from showing their faces or revealing their names. They should only be mentioned “for their weirdness, hostility, self-absorption, and in ways where no one could possibly WANT to identify with. No one copies a pervert; if we can report about rapists and child sex crimes with an inherent contempt for the offender, we MUST do the same for the mass shooter.” [19]

As long as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other forms of social media provide a venue for incitement, recruitment and glorification of suicide bombers, “Israel is in the midst of a cognitive war, which is part of a new strategic challenge,” declared former Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan. This “battlefront is social media,” he said. [20]

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This is a traditional dance of Yemenite Jews called Atari Dance.

 

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One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (blue map).

Moreover, the sudden and extremely rapid increase of the Arab population in the 1920’s and 1930’s in this barely populated backwater region (this was the highest population increase rate in the world in 1931/2) was only in part due to immigration spurred by Zionist development of the land. The major share of the massive Arab population increase was thanks to Malaria eradication, which was the work of the Galician born famed microbiologist and ardent Zionist Dr. Israel Kligler (credit to the great historical work of Anton Alexander). With this knowledge it remains even a greater tragedy that the now much more numerous Arabs of the land directed their efforts towards brutally fighting Zionism rather than choosing to live side by side with an emerging Jewish state.

In the shadow of the Oct 7 massacre we mark once more the Nov 29 moment when the Jews said yes to the UNGA plan of partition (having prioritized having a state, even if tiny and mostly desert and lands reclaimed from malaria and no Zion and no Judea) and the Arabs said no and proceeded to wage a brutal war to the present day (having prioritized - still - the goal of the Jews not having a state at all and of any size).

(Note on map titles: for twenty centuries, before a camoaign of denial was underway, it was well understood that the name “Palestine” merely denoted the geographic region where the Land of Israel was and was therefore deeply associated with Jews and the their continuous connection to the land. Hence the League of Nation in establishing the mandate recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine" as the "grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” and which is why the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra of Jewish musicians became the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra…)

 

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8 years ago: district judge Tawfik Kitili, prevented solitary confinement from the terrorist of today's attack in Jerusalem

From Haaretz in 2015:

2 years ago, the Hamas activist Tawil al-Namar was judged for solitary confinement.

Then according to district judge Tawfik Kitilli, the state hasn't presented sufficient evidence to justify solitary confinement to "cause drastic deterioration to the rights of the prisoner".

ביהמ"ש בצעד חריג: דחה את בקשת המדינה להאריך מאסר בהפרדה של אסיר ביטחוני

לפני שנתיים נידון למאסר בהפרדה פעיל חמאס, מורד נימר. כעת, לטענת ביהמ"ש, המדינה לא הציגה מידע רלוונטי להמשך החזקתו בהפרדה "המובילה לפגיעה דרסטית בזכויות האסיר"

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Egypt's El Watan News describes Chanukah:

The headline says it all:

How do Jews celebrate Chanukah?..The "Festival of Lights" is the season of provoking the feelings of Palestinians..

The article continues:

Tomorrow, Friday, Jews will celebrate the season of Hanukkah or “Festival of Lights,” the last Jewish holiday of this year, which coincides annually with great restrictions on the entry of Palestinians into Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to practicing Talmudic prayers inside the Al-Aqsa campus, and holding provocative dances in the alleys of the Old City of the holy city.

Every dance is a provocative dance. So we might as well dance.
Here's a Chanukah dance video in Jerusalem from 2009, a flash mob by Nefesh B'Nefesh.

Arab media: Chanukah the holiday for provoking Palestinian feelings

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But now this shocking campus response itself has its own “context” and “root causes.” In my view the twenty-year-long campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) campaign of lies against Israel combined with the more recent expansion of progressivism (aka Critical Race Theory, DEI, Wokeism, etc.) has amounted to a campaign to delegitimize and dehumanize not just Israeli Jews but all Jews; and the clear success of that campaign explains why so many are somehow unable to see that the torture, mutilation, rape, and murder of babies, children, women, pregnant women, the disabled, and the elderly is a straightforward moral atrocity constituting a mass terror attack. If every Jew is fundamentally guilty, then their torture and murder is not merely permissible but even obligatory; if every Jew is guilty, then nothing you do to the Jew can make the Jew a victim.

So what does this have to do with 1948?

The dehumanization campaign above in fact ultimately rests on the premise that the 1948 establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the State of Israel was a massive injustice. For consider: if that establishment were perfectly just, then the efforts to prevent it then and the 75 years of nearly continuous “resistance” to it since, whether military, terrorist, diplomatic, cognitive, or other, would be unjust. In turn, many of the measures that Israel has taken over the years that detractors cite as “root causes” above—as Israel’s “oppression” of Palestinians, as mechanisms subserving its “occupation” and “apartheid,” etc.—would be seen not as illegitimate aggressive measures of domination but as legitimate reactive measures of self-defense. Take just two examples, the security barrier along western Judea and Samaria and the blockade on Gaza instituted after Hamas took power there by an illegal violent coup. Detractors call the former an “Apartheid Wall” and say of the latter that it makes Gaza an “open air prison.” But to those who see the establishment of Israel as just these are legitimate defensive measures justified by the unremittent preexisting violence directed toward Israelis by Palestinians.

If Jewish sovereignty there is legitimate, in other words, then Jews are ordinary human beings with ordinary human rights including the right to defend themselves, by walls or blockades as need be. But if Jewish sovereignty is not legitimate then Jews are simply evildoers who, per campus dehumanization, lack even the basic human right to defend themselves, and all such measures become aggressive mechanisms of an unjust occupation. On this view every Jew is guilty and therefore worthy even of the atrocious harms of October 7, including the babies, and Hamas is not a genocidal Jew-hating terrorist group but “freedom fighters” fighting for “decolonization.”

If 1948 is just, in short, then 2023 is a terrorist atrocity; if 1948 is unjust then 2023 is political liberation.

So 2023 really still is about 1948.

This point has actually been clear for some time. Those who follow the campus scene know that the anti-Israel movement long ago gave up on the demand merely for a Palestinian state alongside Israel in favor of undoing Israel entirely. The popular chant, “We don’t want two states, we want 1948!,” states that about as clearly as can be. But it took October 7 to see how profound and visceral that demand is, as it manifested itself in the celebration of the slaughter. For them, the massive injustice of 1948 means that the Israeli Jews of today have it coming to them, as the M.I.T. student above quoted her antagonists.


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Many of those justifying the October 7 massacre do so on the basis of supporting “decolonization.” As one representative professor, Marc Lamont Hill of CUNY, put it shortly after, “So many … academics who insist upon doing performative, virtue signaling ‘land acknowledgements’ at every public event are eerily silent as real liberation struggles are happening. Guess decolonization really is a metaphor for some folk…” He clearly derides those who are all talk and no action, so for him, at least, decolonization apparently justifies the slaughter. Similarly Students for Justice in Palestine, the national campus group with some 200 chapters, defended the massacre by proclaiming that “decolonization is a call to … actions that go beyond … rhetoric,” including “resistance … in all forms,” including “armed struggle,” and illustrated their social media with images of the homicidal hang gliders in case we missed the point. So all that slaughter is apparently fine for them and so many others, if it’s for “decolonization.”

Now many of these same people—those who openly celebrated October 7, who more gently justified it, and even who remained silent—have spent the weeks since October 7 angrily demanding a ceasefire, meaning that Israel should cease its military activity against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Among their main arguments is that this military activity constitutes “collective punishment” against the civilians of Gaza, who, they claim, were not responsible for Hamas’s actions. Now there’s much to be critiqued in this argument, including its presumption about the degree of civilian complicity and its poor grasp of the international norms and laws of warfare. But let’s grant them the principle, that collective punishment is morally objectionable, i.e. unjust. For surely it is unjust to punish people who are not themselves responsible for the injustice for which they are being punished?

But that is just the point. For now what is their ongoing “decolonization” campaign against Israel, in particular in its October 7 manifestation targeting mostly Jewish civilians including babies and children, but a massive example of the injustice of collective punishment?

Even if we grant that 1948 was itself an injustice, those babies and children, those dancing teenagers, and almost every single one of the 1200 killed on that day could in no way be held responsible for it. They were born long afterward, and even if they were “partying on stolen land,” as the M.I.T. antagonists above claimed, they were in no way responsible for that. They were born there, to parents who were born there, to parents who were likely born there, and so on—and so have every right to be there, to be raised there, to live there, and to defend themselves from the violence directed against them. Nor do the Hamas militants have any right to reclaim that land from them, for they themselves were born long after it was allegedly “stolen”—and may well themselves be descendants of colonizers who earlier stole that land from others.

The entire campus anti-Israel campaign—which overwhelmingly endorses not a “two-state solution” but the replacement of Israel with “Palestine,” “from the river to the sea”—is one large campaign of collective punishment against the vast majority of contemporary Israeli Jews. Like it or not, there is simply no way to violently undo Israel, and thus rectify or compensate for the alleged injustice of 1948, that does not ultimately perpetrate an equal or likely even greater overall injustice.

The campus anti-Israel campaign is therefore not, despite its self-description, motivated by human rights and principles of justice, but in fact by flagrant violations thereof. That is why the campus anti-Israel campaign is, at its heart, nothing more than a hate campaign against the Jews.

7. A Short Legal Interlude

This is not the place for a legal brief, but there’s a very important point that is both widely misunderstood and which coheres with the arguments just above. Detractors are fond of the principle that “resistance” to “occupation, apartheid, etc.,” including “by any means necessary” (i.e. violence), is justified by international law. When pressed for a legal source for that principle they invoke United Nations Resolution 37/43 (3 December 1982), in particular the clause that “reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.” With this in hand, along with the (counterfactually) granted assumption that the establishment of Israel was unjust and thus that contemporary Israel “occupies” Palestine either in part or in whole, it’s a small step to openly justifying the October 7 massacre.

Except that that is entirely wrong.

First, General Assembly resolutions do not have the force of law, merely of “recommendations.”

More importantly, the Fourth Geneva Convention, which does have the force of law, is precisely designed to protect civilians in the time of war. Article 33, for example, is unambiguous: "No protected person [i.e., civilian] may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited." There is no exception to this rule. The Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, article 51(2), is even more explicit: "The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack.” Period. The article goes on in detail to proscribe almost every sort of action that Hamas undertook on October 7 and has generally undertaken in its years of terrorist activity.

Even further, UN Security Council Resolution 1566 (2004), passed under Chapter 7 thus with the force of law, condemns all acts of terror “irrespective of their motivation,” and states explicitly that “criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages … are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature” (italics added).

And finally that same year, addressing these very issues, the UN Secretary General determined that “there is nothing in the fact of occupation that justifies the targeting and killing of civilians.


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The Palestinian Authority is desperate for a history that connects them to the Land of Israel to claim a right to nationhood and to deny Israel’s right to exist. So, it lies repeatedly that Jesus the Jew living in the Land of Judea/Israel was a Palestinian, brazenly contradicting the Christian Bible, in the hope that its own people and its supporters worldwide will believe them.



What does the Christian Bible say about the life of Jesus?
For example:

• Jesus was of the Judean nation (Matthew 2)
• He lived in the land of Judea/Israel (Acts 1)
• He practiced Judaism (Matthew 12)

In short, the Christian Bible says Jesus was a Jew.

But the PA has never been concerned with truth. Click here to view a video of some of the many times that official PA TV told its people the lie about “Jesus the Palestinian.” The text of the video follows below.

PMW also reports that as part of the PA’s reinventing Jesus in its own image, it gave Jesus what to the PA is the highest honor by turning him into a Paestinian terrorist. The PA defines Jesus as a “Fida’I” – a “self-sacrificing fighter,” a PA euphemism for Palestinian terrorists. The PA also defines him as a “Shahid” an Islamic Martyr, which means that according to the PA Jesus was rewarded in Paradise with the 72 “Dark-Eyed,” the virgins of Paradise.

In the following chart examples on the left are terms Palestinians have used to honor Jesus and, on the right, the same terms used to honor terrorist murderers:

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Is Jesus a Palestinian? The PA lies to its own people and to the world | PMW Analysis

Is Jesus a Palestinian?

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It’s that time of year when we reflect on the last 12 months, revisiting the articles, interviews and television packages that were so blushingly bad that we feel they deserve some kind of special recognition.

However, the Dishonest Reporter Awards will be slightly different this year. Despite the current Israel-Hamas war dominating the media, and with it a depressing avalanche of skewed, misleading and outright false stories published, these Awards will not be featuring any news published since October 7.

As Jews around the world face antisemitism on an unprecedented scale in recent times, it would be wrong to make any kind of lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek commentary about the very stories and articles that have contributed to creating this hostile atmosphere.

We will address the war in its entirety at a later date when we have had time to take stock of the loss, anguish and suffering that so many have endured.

Until then, we invite you to sit back, relax and raise a glass to all of our worthy dis-honorees.


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Vahid Beheshti with MKs Sova and Tal, at the Knesset Israel Victory Caucus. Photo: Michael Katz

At a meeting of Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset, discussing the plans for a post-Hamas Gaza on Tuesday, an Iranian opposition leader told Israeli lawmakers that Israel should not hesitate to “attack the heads of the Iranian leadership” in Tehran itself.

The meeting of the Knesset Israel Victory Caucus — which was attended by Vahid Beheshti and Israeli ministers, Knesset members, security officials, and diplomatic leaders — marked the first time an Iranian opposition figure has addressed Israel’s parliament.
Beheshti, who grew up in Iran but now resides in London, is known for his 72-day hunger strike calling for the UK government to categorize Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terror organization. At Tuesday’s meeting, which was jointly hosted with the Israeli Victory Project, Beheshti urged Israel to confront the Iranian government directly.

“Soon you will have to deal with the elephant in the room, which is the Iranian government, and you should not be afraid of attacking Iranian bases in Iran. Do not be afraid to attack the heads of the Iranian leadership in Iran. This is the only language they understand,” he said.

Beheshti highlighted the support of “80 million Iranians who are thirsty for freedom and democracy” who have failed to overthrow the Islamist regime and its “barbaric violence.”
“If you support the Iranian people, you will see how they will lower the head of the octopus and we will all experience peace,” he said.

Beheshti claimed that the Iranian regime, which was the “weakest it’s been in 44 years,” miscalculated Israel’s response to Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 — of which he said it was “aware in advance” — expecting to achieve a “total” ceasefire within two months. Nearly three months have passed since the war broke out with the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel.

Iran is the main international sponsor of Hamas, providing the Palestinian terrorist group with funds, arms, and training.

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In First, Iranian Opposition Leader Addresses Israel’s Parliament, Urging Jewish State to ‘Attack Iran’s Leaders in Tehran’ - Algemeiner.com

At a meeting of Israel's parliament, known as the Knesset, discussing the plans for a post-Hamas Gaza on Tuesday, an Iranian opposition leader told Israeli lawmakers that Israel should not hesitate to "attack the heads of the Iranian leadership" in Tehran itself. The meeting of the Knesset...

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PA government declares budget "emergency," will prioritize paying terrorists

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This is why there can never be a Palestinian state.

 

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This is why there can never be a Palestinian state.

They never wanted one. They want an Islamic Caliphate WITHOUT Israel around.