Well, If They Had Just Executed More In The Past, They Might Not Be Forced To Do This Now

Israel's parliament has approved a law that would make the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly terror attacks.

And the useful idiots are up in arms. 

Critics, including UN human rights chief Volker Türk, have described the new law as discriminatory. Türk also said its application would "constitute a war crime".

In theory, Jewish Israelis could also be executed under the law - but in practice this almost certainly would not happen, as the death penalty could only be carried out where the intention of the attack was to "negate the existence of the state of Israel".

Well, there's plenty of liberal self-hating Jews, but they mostly operate from the US and Europe...

The Palestinian Authority, which administers the West Bank, condemned the law, saying it "seeks to legitimise extrajudicial killing under legislative cover".

Israel has only executed two people in its history - one of them the infamous Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who played an important role in perpetrating the Holocaust.

Past time they started again, then! 

The Vehicle They were in, Obviously ..

OUTRAGE! about a shooting in the middle east, because those Jews have had the temerity to defend themselves again:

A spokesperson for the Israeli police said the Bani Odeh family had been killed during a joint operation with the Israeli military. Forces opened fire on the vehicle when they “perceived an immediate threat” after it accelerated, the statement said.

Asked what threat was posed by four young children and their unarmed parents...

The car itself, obviously which could hace contained a bomb.  Still, I expect Nesrine will get another column out of it.

'Not Over', Nesrine? When Did It Ever Actually Start?

A “dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal”, is how Amnesty International’s secretary general, Agnès Callamard, described this post-ceasefire period. Israeli authorities have reduced attacks and allowed some aid into Gaza, she said, but “the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”

The 'genocide that never was', you mean? The 'genocide ' that the Israils aren't carrying out, or the one Hamas itself is doing it's level best to slip though the fog of war, unnoticed by the MSM?

And So What If They Aren’t, If All They Do Is Uncritically Regurgitate Propaganda?

 All the Left wing news outlets were carrying this or some version of it last week:

I've lost count of the images posted by Pallywood that have been uncritically reposted by so-called journalists on Twitter. If you're going to take sides, don't complain when you're treated as the enemy.

And Why Shouldn't They...?

 

Neither is it's head of state, and until Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages, Israel isn't going to stop. From the ‘Guardian’s’ letters page:

The front page of Saturday’s Guardian print edition demonstrated both sides of the genocide in Gaza. The main image showed two western politicians, who could influence their leaders to stop Israel attacking innocent Palestinian people, laughing while they fished for the assembled media cameras, and the main headline was about the planned takeover of Gaza City

’Innocent Palestinian people’, Stuart?  

History will record both men’s participation in this man-made human disaster by the Israeli government, but will either of them actually care?

So says Stuart Finegan,Lewes, East Sussex. Who seems not to be aware that this all started on October 7, when Hamas launched a major terrorist attack. Or knows but simply doesn’t care…

Thanks for playing ‘Out Yourself As a Jew Hater In A Major Newspaper’, Stuart! 

They Just Aren’t Like Us

On the morning of 7 October 2023, the author of the Guardian’s Gaza diary woke up planning to play tennis. “This year I decided to take care of my mental and physical health,” he wrote in his first entry, published six days later. “This means no stress, no negative energy and definitely more tennis.” Instead, with the news full of how Hamas had broken out of the territory, killing 1,200 people, he found himself scrambling desperately for the documents showing he owned his apartment in Gaza City, in the north of the strip. “If our building gets bombed, I need evidence that this apartment belongs to me,” he wrote.

Imagine the stunning narcissism and hatred for a race of people that causes you, on hearing your country has carried out an atrocity, to immediately switch to worrying what effect the inevitable repercussions will have on you personally?

On 13 October, Gaza City’s residents were told to evacuate and head south. “It feels like 1948,” the diarist wrote, a reference to the Nakba (“catastrophe”), when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from a newly independent Israel.

His diaries were full of questions. “Is the abnormal going to become the normal? Is two weeks of misery all it takes?”

Misery for the Palestinians, he means. Of course. The misery of the Israelis mourning their murdered relatives and the hostages means nothing. 

A gentle man, he looks back at what he wrote at that time and says: “I see all these questions I was asking. I had no answers back then. Now I’ve seen how it turned out. And it was horrible.”

Good. Israel would have been entitled to drop a nuke on the wretched place. 

He’s in his 30s, and one of Gaza’s intellectuals: middle-class Palestinians are known for their education throughout the Middle East.

And this is why unless Israel does indeed end it all with a nuke, it will go on and on. Or this wretched 'country' will be feted by idiots in positions of power in the West in order to appease their imported populations. If this is considered an 'intellectual' one can only imagine what the man in the street is like. 

Have The Progressives Realised The Lack Of Sympathy For The Pallies At Last?

 

Burning fossil fuels is causing climate chaos, with increasingly deadly and destructive extreme weather events forcing record numbers of people to migrate. The Gulf region is among the most vulnerable to extreme weather and slow-onset climate disasters including drought, desertification, extreme heat and erratic rainfall, as well as environmental degradation, food insecurity and water shortages.

Now will you start to care, if not for the poor terrorist nation, then for the planet itself? 

It is the third and most comprehensive analysis by a team of UK and US-based researchers into the climate cost of the first 15 months of conflict in which more than 53,000 Palestinians have been killed, in addition to widespread infrastructure damage and environmental catastrophe. It also provides the first, albeit partial, snapshot of the carbon cost of Israel’s other recent regional conflicts.

Just what we were sorely lacking, now can we add to thr 'War is Hell' concept? 

“Whether or not States agree on calling it a genocide, what we are facing is severely impacting all life in Gaza, and also threatening human rights in the region, and even globally, due to the aggravation of climate change.”

You'll note that the 'Guardian ' doesn't use this new research as a lever to insist Hamas release the hostages...

We Can All Answer That, Ahmed…

It's pretty simple, isn't it? Release the hostages and lay down arms, give up the objective of driving every Israeli out of Israel..?

I am terrified for my family. I am terrified for all Palestinians. I am terrified for humanity, because if we allow this to continue, if we stand by and watch as an entire people are destroyed, then what hope do we have?

The irony of a Palestinian activist crying about an entire people being destroyed shouldn't be lost on any scholar of modern day Islamic terrorism. 

You’re Spot On With That Description…

“The Nuseirat market is always crowded, but now more than usual because of the many displaced people,” said Haroun, 29, who is now staying with an uncle. She was looking at outfits for the girls when the first Israeli airstrikes hit, and almost without thinking raced out of the door to go to them. Outside, she found a scene “like the horrors of judgment day”, as panicked crowds tried to escape the coming onslaught.

Yes, it was indeed like judgement day. Which is when the evildoers face consequences.  

El-Nemer, a 37-year-old software engineer originally from northern Gaza, was among the crush of people trying to escape.“I was jogging along the street with other women. We were terrified,” she said. They ran past health clinics and schools where they might once have sought shelter, but now shunned because of Israeli attacks on both types of compound.

And why do they? Because that's where the terrorists are hiding.  

They would not discover for hours that the intense attack was launched to support Israeli special forces on a mission to free four hostages held in apartments near the market. Gaza’s health ministry said more than 270 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 injured in the assault.

I note they don't say 'civilians', this time. Because who was holding these hostages? People like this, drs and journalists. 

The hours of bombardment were ordered at least in part to shield the hostages and Israeli forces, and the attacks intensified after a rescue vehicle carrying the three male hostages was trapped under heavy fire, Israeli media reported.

Under heavy fire from the so-called 'civilians'. 

Abu Youssef, 42, said even living beside the hospital had not protected his family from an airstrike that hit directly next to their home. He had lost his three other children earlier in the war, and doctors said his last son had little chance of survival. “Everyone in my family and my brothers’ families was either killed or injured. Three of my nieces died so far; my sister is still fighting for her life,” he said. “My house is near al-Awda hospital,” he said. “Although it is hundreds of metres away from the building they targeted, there were a lot of airstrikes and all kinds of attacks in the area to cover up their cowardly operation.”

You see the mentality of these people? It's fine and dandy to attack civilians at a music festival and take hostages, but when the other side comes to rescue them, that's 'cowardly'. There's no negotiating with people like this.  

It's Just A Deli, Jay...

When I first came across Freddie’s I was excited. For all my lack of faith or observance these dishes, kept alive by a vestigial memory of the shtetl, root me. Then I hesitated. Could I really write about a Jewish restaurant given the current political turmoil? Would I get abuse for doing so? Surely better to keep shtum.

Good grief, you're a food reviewer. This is a new food outlet (and the dishes look amazing) so why wouldn't you want to review it? 

At which point I knew I had no choice: I had to write about it. The horrendous campaign of the government and armed forces of Israel in Gaza cannot be allowed to make being Jewish a source of shame.

And why are they doing what they are doing?  

When Hamas mounted their 7 October attack on Israel, they committed both an atrocity and a provocation.

Ah, so you are aware of the cause for their action.  

With so many hostages taken, there were no good options for the Israeli government. Nevertheless, they managed to choose the very worst one.

Gosh, how sad they never thought to seek the opinion of the 'Guardian's' corpulent food reviewer, I'm sure you'd have steered them better...  

Funny how you don't say what they should have done instead.

They have killed thousands, starved many more, destroyed homes and turned their country into a pariah.

It's not a pariah at all, It's the only country in the Middle East that's not a complete basket case. The only country I'd feel safe to visit.  

As it happens, they have also made life for Jews who live outside Israel and have no responsibility for the decisions its government takes, so very much harder.

I deplore what Israel is doing.

No, Jay, sadly we have done that, the UK, by not clamping down at the first signs of what a fifth column we've been stupid to invite into our country believes and wants. And that is something I feel shame about.  

Oh Dear How Sad Never Mind...

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said he followed “reverse due process” in sacking nine staff members accused by Israel of being involved in Hamas’s 7 October attacks.

Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commissioner general, said he did not probe Israel’s claims against the employees before dismissing them and launching an investigation. At a press conference in Jerusalem, Lazzarini was asked if he had looked into whether there was any evidence against the employees and he replied: “No, the investigation is going on now.” He described the decision as “reverse due process”, adding: “I could have suspended them, but I have fired them. And now I have an investigation, and if the investigation tells us that this was wrong, in that case at the UN we will take a decision on how to properly compensate [them].”

But we should totally trust the UN on everything else, right? 

“Indeed, I have terminated without due process because I felt at the time that not only the reputation but the ability of the entire agency to continue to operate and deliver critical humanitarian assistance was at stake if I did not take such a decision,” he said.

How's that reputation looking now? 

Thankfully, You Won’t Be In The Job By Then…

The UK could officially recognise a Palestinian state after a ceasefire in Gaza without waiting for the outcome of what could be years of talks between Israel and the Palestinians on a two-state solution, David Cameron has said.

Although I suppose Labour could keep you on, you really aren't a Conservative, after all...

“What we need to do is give the Palestinian people a horizon towards a better future, the future of having a state of their own.”

Why would we want to do that? If ever a populace has squandered every chance they've ever been given to prove they deserve one... 

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly rejected the creation of an independent Palestinian state after the war, and has even boasted in recent weeks that he was instrumental in preventing Palestinian statehood.

Well, Ben, I think they've had a hand in that too... 

Shouldn’t Be A Surprise…

…surely he saw one earlier? Like, on 7th October?

A London surgeon has described witnessing a “massacre unfold” during 43 days spent under bombardment in Gaza, saying the destruction of the Palestinian health system was a military objective of the war.

Turns out the description 'London surgeon' is working a little too hard here... 

“Having seen this massacre unfold, the creation of an uninhabitable Gaza Strip was the aim and the destruction of all the components of modern life at which the health system lies was the main military objective,” said Abu-Sittah, who has a practice in west London and has worked in Gaza since 2009, as well as in wars across Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

He clearly fancies himself a military strategist too…

When asked about Israel’s claims of being at war with Hamas and its denial of targeting civilians in Gaza, he said: “Statistically, it appears that the numbers tell a different story.”

Any numbers coming out of Hamas are 'telling a story', alright!

Since leaving Gaza 10 days ago, Abu-Sittah said he felt an overwhelming sense of guilt for those left behind. “My fear is even those who are steadfast enough to stay will eventually leave on their own and we will have what the Israelis want, which is another 1948,” he said.

“This war is the continuation of the 1948 Nakba.”

Not such an overwhelming feeling he opted to stay, one notes… 

Seems Appropriate, Today...

I nearly cancelled my usual humourous Sunday posts, in view of the news yesterday. But then I remembered this one: 

I hope they are swift and terrible. And they finally lance this Iran-backed boil once and for all.

Oooh, I Just Can't Put My Finger On It...

They sound genuinely baffled. Are they that stupid? Or do they assume their readers are?

Maybe It's Decided It Doesn't Need Them, Jonathan?

Those 'it needs most' being...those who don't live there:

Second is the impact of all this on the Jewish diaspora, especially in the US. The American Jewish attachment to Israel is profound, but US Jews also tend to be liberal with a strong sense of social justice. They will find Feiglin and Bennett hard to stomach. The Haaretz blogger who asked, "Will 2013 be the year American Jews secede from Israel?" may have got ahead of himself. Diaspora Jews will not break from Israel, but they will surely recoil from this one, albeit dominant, Israeli political camp. Feiglin's Israel is not the Israel their parents taught them to love.

It's very easy to be a wet liberal pacifist when you don't face any threat. When you are many, many miles away.

Not quite so easy when the rockets are falling...