Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
I had doubts about Vivek, however, he has grown on me. He is the only candidate on that stage who deserves to be Trump's VP. He has demonstrated that he can precisely articulate key policy positions and offer intelligent and concise responses to the most pressing issues to date.
This young man will be a boon for the future face of the Republican Party. He doesn't hold back and should be the only candidate offered a spot on the Trump train!
This guy keeps on putting these people in their place.
White Girl Stabbed by Black Girl - Media: Silent Mr Reagan
I'm getting very tired of being reminded every day how much the societal systems here in America are full of people who hate my family and I because of our ethnicity, and they are intentionally fomenting that hatred. The news media, the federal government, academic institutions, and corporate America all seem to have forged this unholy alliance to foment the hatred of white people
My family and I have literally never done anything except work hard, contribute to society, pay our taxes, and scrimp and save for everything we've got....and they all fucking hate us for it. Something needs to change because good people being hated simply for being good is insanely fucked up. No you right Mr Regan .. I was the only long-haired white boy living in all black ghetto I was also the only idiot getting up at 7:00 in the morning to go to work..
Everybody else was barbecuing partying all f**** night shooting guns all night so yeah there is a real problem there.
Everybody Is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza, but Where Do the Numbers Come From?
Robert Spencer : PJ Media - The Israeli defensive action in Gaza has become, we are told, a massive
humanitarian crisis, and it must stop. All the most trustworthy people
in the world tell us so.
āThe United States is unequivocal; international humanitarian law
must be respected. Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed,ā declared
putative Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday. āFrankly, the scale
of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are
devastating.ā
Then on Monday, the Associated Press, with a fine regard for journalistic objectivity, reported
that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Soviet Union) and what it called āa robust
group of Democratic senatorsā were ādone āasking nicelyā for Israel to
do more to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.ā These fearless solons
āwarned President Joe Bidenās national security team that planned U.S.
aid to Israel must be met with assurances of concrete steps from Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuās hard-right government.ā Sanders
thundered, āThe truth is that if asking nicely worked, we wouldnāt be in
the position we are today.ā AP added, āIt was time for the United
States to use its āsubstantial leverageā with its ally, the Vermont
senator said.ā
To buttress their indignation and increasingly
shrill demands, Harris and Sanders and the rest can look to no less an
authority than the United Nations. The UN Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday published
a chart of āReported Casualtiesā in Gaza, and the numbers look grim
indeed: over 15,523 deaths, with 4,257 women and 6,387 children making
up fully 70% of that figure.
The far-left establishment media is putting
out substantially the same figures; the UKās Guardian wrote Tuesday
that āin the last three days, bombing has been heavy, and the total
death toll since 7 October has risen to 15,899.ā
When he said ālook at the blank expressionā in the middle of his next sentence, that was Trump tier trolling. She will not recover. Nimarata her real name aka Niki is stunned. That was straight up brutality. Savage. He has some of the best debate lines since Reagan, maybe even better.
Malaysiakini : Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail brushed off a volley of
criticism after he talked up proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia and linked
it to applying for passports.
Bahasa Melayu ini bahasa kebangsaan.
Rakyat Malaysia kena faham perkara asas ini. Tak perlu sampai baca semua hikayat untuk kita berinteraksi dalam Bahasa Melayu.
YAB PMX pun mewajibkan penggunaan Bahasa Melayu dalam surat menyurat yang melibatkan Kerajaan.
In a brief exchange on social media
platform X (formerly known as Twitter), he told lawyer Michelle Yesudas
that he never said that all Malaysians needed to master hikayat (Malay folklore)
"Bahasa Malaysia is the national language. No compromise.
āMalaysians have to understand this basic thing. No need to read out hikayat to us for interaction, ā said Saifuddin. He also pointed out that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had mandated the
use of Bahasa Malaysia in correspondence involving the government.
BaiJeBo : SAIFUDDIN NASUTION, HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE? Don't divert from the relevant issue.
Just answer: is knowing BM a condition for renewing passport? It's that simple, just answer. Or, do you need a secondary school student to translate this to BM for you?
Yes, I reckon you this pathetic.
I won't even employ you to be my clerk.
The foolishness of some ministers knows no bounds.
But we should not expect too much looking at the quality of the PM Anwar Ibrahim.
apa pun boleh : Any guesses why Anwar's ratings are declining? He does not need enemies. His sidekick is doing it very well. In the civil service they call it 'little Napoleons' or 'bodoh sombong'.
Jaycee : It is not that we do not want to master the language or speak it. For so long because non-Muslims are treated like second class citizens, it makes us resent the language.
For example, all quota system, raced-based policies, Bumiputra discounts, Bumiputra Welfare and on and on.... all favor the majority race. Never before have we seen affirmative actions that choose to protect the majority race and not the minority. And yet, you expect us to show patriotism to the country by mastering BM?
And yet, you want us non-muslims who live here all our lives and contributed significantly to income taxes and the economy to embrace the language with all our heart? Think not, Bahasa Malaysia may be the official language, but we will speak what ever we can.
Be firm : The minister is missing the point no one argues that BM is not official language but BM is not a requirement for renewing your passport . Know the difference Mr Minister. Be a man and admit you were wrong
YellowCondor6925 : Anwar, what do you have to say?? You put a backdoor person as a Home Minister and look at the incompetence he is showing to the world. You are mainly responsible for such a blunder.
Where is the courtesy of your Minister and your so-called "Napoleans" who are blindly showing their power to the rakyat? Not being able to converse properly in BM does not mean not showing loyalty to our country.
This Home Minister of yours is time to move out, the rakyat is getting fed up with this sort of ruling. Tourism is going to be impacted as news has spread out.
MBoleh : He has no mental capacity to recognise poor service standard of civil servants. He should be ashamed that rskyat has been bully by poorly trained front desk civil servants who always think that they are superior than their customers.
PurpleCat9452 : Itās time for the Borneo Bloc MP to take over Home Ministry, Education Ministry, Health Ministry or even PMO. Teach the Pen Msian how to live harmoniously like Sarawak or Sabah. After all, without Sarawak and Sabah there is no Malaysia, there is no Bahasa Malaysia. Put an end to the politicisation of Bahasa Malaysia.
MOE transfers officer who banned Tamil songs from language carnival - Is that all, a tap on the wrist?
Malaysiakini : An Education Ministry officer who banned Tamil songs from being performed at a Tamil language carnival has been transferred out. However,
it was unclear where the officer - whose identity and rank are unknown -
was transferred to, and whether there were any other repercussions.
An
aide to Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek revealed the transfer while
trying to dismiss allegations that the ministry did not take action over
the incident. Instead, Fadhlinaās special officer Thiyagaraj Sankaranarayanan said stern action was taken.
"The officer responsible has been transferred to another department," he said on Facebook yesterday. "Allegations that the ministry did not take action on other officers who had ordered the matter are also baseless. "We have to be aware that any statements on this matter will affect further investigations by the ministry," he added.
Last month, there was an uproar after two Tamil songs were banned from the Tamil language carnival in Penang, which was organised by the Education Ministry. The two songs were 'Kadavul Valthu', a worship song, and 'Tamil Valthuā, which is a song about the Tamil language.
Also banned were banners featuring Tamil literary and philosophical figure Thiruvalluvar. Fadhlina later said the incident should not have happened and apologised to the Indian community over the matter.
Newday : For years and years, this modus operandi of transfer and all of a sudden problems are fixed! Plainly the problem is still with the person. In this case a religious zealot. A transfer will never fix their indoctrination.
A153 : Transfer is "stern action" Hahaha! What a joke. Fadhlina you are an Embarrassment.
OrangeKucing5562 : Transfer is NOT the right disciplinary action. The officer must be given warning letter or better to terminate him or her for committing racial bias and sedition as a matter of fact.
OrangePanther1466 : Minister Fahdlina, this person should have been demoted first and sent to INTAN or a suitable faculty for a re-education course. He should not have been transferred as that would tantamount to shifting the problem to another division. He should stay in the same school and face the humiliation of an official reprimand.
Fair Play : Because they caused interracial tension instead of promoting racial harmony as civil servants - and especially when they are in the Education Ministry. These little napoleons have no place in the civil service where they are constant contact with all communities.
AyuhMy : This shows that whatever the gov does is only a whitewash. Why transfer and not termination or act upon based on 3R laws?
Malaysiakini : The Teoh Beng Hock Association for Democratic Advancement will visit the Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya on Dec 13.
According
to its chairperson Ng Yap Hwa, this was after their attempts to get an
appointment to meet Anwar Ibrahim since the latter took office a year
ago came to nought. "In the past year, the association and Teoh's
family have written to the prime minister and Home Minister Saifuddin
Nasution Ismail.
"We engaged cabinet ministers, deputy ministers,
MPs, and political secretaries about our demand to set up a new
investigation team, but the unity government did not give a concrete
response," Ng said in a statement today.
Last July, DAP national publicity secretary Teo Nie Ching said efforts were still being made to ensure that a meeting between the association and Anwar happens and to get justice.
However, five months after the pledge, the meeting was yet to materialise, Ng lamented. "Since
the prime minister has no political will to meet Teohās family, the
association and the family will visit the PMO in Putrajaya at 3pm on Dec
13.
"We urge members of the public who care about justice for
Teoh to join us in this visit. We hope the door of the Prime Minister's
Office is opened for Teohās family," Ng said.
Teohās demise
Teoh
was found dead on July 16, 2009, on the fifth-floor service corridor of
Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after being questioned overnight on the 14th
floor of the Selangor MACC headquarters.
At the time of his
death, Teoh was a political aide to Selangor state executive councillor
and incumbent DAP Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Ean Yong Hian Wah.
In
2011, a Royal Commission of Inquiry determined that Teoh was driven to
commit suicide following aggressive questioning by the MACC. In
2014, the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that Teoh's death was caused
by the act of āa person or persons unknownā, including the MACC
officers who questioned him overnight before he was found dead.
AT-SIXX :
Deepest sympathies to the family for their loss and endless roadblocks in their search not just for justice, but simple answers.
I regret that I feel that this Gomen will not do anything.
PMX is too busy being more conservative than ever before and DAP is, well, morphing into the animal it once heavily critisized (MCA).
Malaysia to me is a symbol of missed opportunities on so many fronts.
If it weren't for our abundant natural resources previously (squandered also), we'd have been like Zimbabwe already by now.
A Rabbi from Montreal spoke to the crowd, and also did not mince words. Which is more what one might be used to until recently. These speeches smacked of defiance. And that was refreshing.
Gotta say, the vibe was great. And VERY different from the communist-Muslim protests against Israel.
A 95 year old Holocaust survivor.
There were two parents of murder victims from the music festival who spoke, as well as a couple of members of the federal parliament of Canada.
She found out she was going to be actually held accountable for something she did! Justin is taking notes in how its done when he canāt run and hide. She's had all her boosters and we know 100% that it had nothing to do with it.... because the government said so.
Israel and Hamas fight house-to-house battles across Gaza
BCF : Israeli forces and Hamas are fighting house-to-house battles along
the length of the Gaza Strip, with devastating consequences for the
civilian population amid a complete collapse in humanitarian relief.
As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been fighting their way
through badly bomb-damaged urban areas in northern and southern Gaza,
Hamas has increasingly relied on improvised bombs to inflict casualties
and slow down the assault.
Gazaās hospitals have reported a flood of civilian dead and injured,
many of them women and children, as medical supplies dwindle, while the
spread of ground combat to the south has stopped any delivery of
humanitarian aid much further than the Rafah crossing point with Egypt.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said 1,207 Palestinians had been killed since the collapse of a temporary ceasefire at the beginning of the month, and that 70% of the dead were women and children.
The ministry said more than 100 bodies were currently awaiting burial inside the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, which it said was without fuel and was coming under fire.
āThe entire north of the Gaza Strip is left without health services,ā Munir al-Bursh, the director, said.
The focal points of the fighting over the past two days have been the Jabaliya refugee camp and the Shujaiāiya district in northern Gaza, and Khan Younis and Bani Suheila in the south.
The IDF has taken control of most of the Salah al-Din Road, the main north-south highway running down the middle of the coastal strip.
German cops go ballistic on pro-Palestine protestors. Fascism returns?
Many western governments are cranking up repression of pro-Palestine activists in response. In Europe, Germany has set a grim bar in brutalizing protestors and violating their civil liberties. The Real News reports from Berlin's largely Arab and Muslim Sonnenallee neighborhood.
Israel says its troops have been engaged in some of the most intense fighting of the war with Hamas. It comes as Israeli forces have entered Khan Younis, the Gaza Stripās second largest city. Israel says its aim is to eliminate the group regarded terrorist by the EU and other countries.
US College Heads Refuse to Accept Genocide Calls as Harassment
Presidents of three elite American colleges testified before the US Congress on December 5. All three refused to accept that calls for genocide of Jews constitutes bullying or harassment. This is moral bankruptcy of the highest order.
BREAKING NEWS The Israeli Eagles are in The Air! Red Alert in Iran! Enemy Airfield Burning Like Hell
Israeli forces are continuing their onslaught across the border against militants supported by Iran in an unrelenting display of power.
Not long ago, the Israeli Air Force delivered yet another crushing blow to these terrorist groups in the Middle East. Since the tragic day of October 7th, when the storm of assaults initially started, the Israeli Air Force has relentlessly pursued justice. As time goes on, their resolve intensifies, and they continue to wreak havoc...
Why do you call them "militants?" You are adopting the pro-Hamas media terminology.
Man arrested for allegedly supporting establishment of M'sia-Israel ties
Malaysiakini : Police have confirmed the arrest of a 36-year-old man to assist in
the investigation regarding his statement suspected to support the
establishment of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Israel.
Bukit
Amanās CID director Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain said the man is suspected
of making the statement during an online interview with an Israeli
social media influencer named Hananya Naftali, which was uploaded on a
local media portal's TikTok. According to him, the man has been placed under remand for three days starting today until Friday.
"The
investigation into this case is being carried out by the CID's
Classified Criminal Investigation Unit, Law/Prosecution Division (D5)
under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal
Code, and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998,"
he said in a statement tonight. Shuhaily added that as the case is still under investigation, he
advised the public not to make any comments or speculations about it.
Bukit Amanās CID director Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain
"The
police remind the public to be wise users of social media and not to
misuse these applications for purposes that violate the law," he said. Recently, a video went viral showing a man believed to be a Malaysian citizen engaging in an online interview with Naftali.
He was alleged to have said that Malaysia should have diplomatic
relations with Israel and requested the opening of the Israeli embassy
in the country.
- Bernama
Falcon : 1. Those who robbed our coffers with faulty ventilators? Have they been arrested? Detained? Bank accounts frozen?
2. A mother seeking the return of her child despite a Federal Court decision, still waits?
3. What is the lastest on the pastor and others victims of forced disappearance? Are they alive, or murdered and buried? And if so, where, by whose instructions?
4. A young UUM student found dead in her room still unaddressed.
Where comes such barbaric and mean silence for grieving parents and others?
5. Have we forgotten raped and murdered Norietta and others?
But - Wow, a man allegedly supporting establishment of M'sia-Israel ties in 2021 is arrested under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948, Section 505(b) of the Penal Code, and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998!
Friends - are WE missing something here?
One thing certain, the attention of governments and international media has us on their radar!
Enjoy! In the meantime, several prestigious US university's leadership are facing grand jury probes and calls for their resignations for aiding, abetting directly, indirectly or by elegant silence antisemitism!
We already have Hungary, Poland and the Netherlands moving to shut migration doors and mass deport certain migrants who according to their statistics have contributed to antisemitism and crime.
The US and UK seem moving in the same direction with homeland security pressures.
The recently concluded UN based conference of hostages raped, tortured and crimes against women and children has put previous noise makers and mass demonstration organisers, on the defensive since Oct 7th, in view new evidence and recorded images on the medieval barbarism of Hamas and others.
The last thing Malaysia needs is to be tagged an antisemitism nation.
It will have far reaching impact and implications for diplomatic, bilateral and trade issues, least we forget trying to appease local haters of Jews and their state!
Political class' weaponisation of Bahasa Malaysia By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : āLet us resolve this after decades of independence, that we are here
committed to our national language and committed to languages that would
be important or critical to enhancing the quality of life and economy
of this country.ā
- Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
COMMENT |
The recent incident where a woman was allegedly scolded by an
immigration officer for not speaking Bahasa Malaysia and the home
ministerās subsequent defence of such conduct, although toxic, could be
easily ameliorated if we had the political will to do so.
Keep in
mind that everyday engagements between the civil service and normal
citizens are fairly mundane and the reason why these incidents crop up
is because the unprofessional behaviour of certain officials from the
civil service (at any level) is condoned by their political overseers
because they fear losing the support of the civil service, which is an
influential voting bloc.
If certain low-ranking factotums from the civil service engage in
such behaviour, it is because they take their cues from the political
class.
Keep in mind everyday interactions between the ordinary rakyat are relatively civil and convivial.
While
on social media, you get agitators questioning everything from the
patriotism and fluency of the national language of the non-Malays, this
is all part of the greater political narrative of the political class
which uses language and any other issues to demonise the non-Malays.
"A Christmas Carol, Sarawak in Diversity" is a biggest Christmas Carol gathering in Malaysia, as won and written in the Malaysia Book of Records on 3rd December 2023 at Padang Merdeka Kuching, Sarawak with a total of 2479 participants in a Christmas carol singing event. Everyone participate in singing of the famous classic Christmas song together and dance with the music.
Re-post : This is on tomorrow !!! Do NOT forget to turn up on the 7th December 2023 to support the Veterans and Major Meor Rosli, especially those in the Federal Territory and Selangor - The Malaysian Military Veterans Had Been Sodomised, Are Being Sodomised And Will Continue To Be Sodomised By The Past And Current Regimes
Veterans case to streamline Pensions to be heard on the 7th December 2023 @ High Court KL.Do NOT FORGET. Please wear your PSPRM black t-shirt. Please do turn up to show your support for those battling for your well being. I have given instructions to all my PSPRM State Chairman that every state in Semenanjong to send minimum 500 PSPRM members to gather at the KL Court Complex Carpark wearing Black shirt.
Stop being a victim of our current government. Listen to Major Meor Rosli in this latest video.
10 Jewish Discoveries and Inventions That Changed The World
22% of all Nobel prize winners are Jewish people. Also they have great impact in art and culture. I'm a Christian from Eastern Europe, but I admire Jewish people so much. I guess we will all vote for populists like in Netherlands to protect our western culture and values.
The Israelis also developed/invented drip irrigation due to the fresh water shortage in Israel for their crops, orchards etc/farming, agriculture. The use of the method of drip irrigation spread rapidly throughout the world especially used in drier climates to grow trees, crops etc.
Great people, have always admired them and I am an Ethiopian Christian.
"It All Goes Back to Isaac (Ishak) & Ishmael (Ismail) " - Israel At War
Historian and Rabbi Ken Spiro joins J-TV to share shed light on how the Torah's narratives around Isaac and Ishmael - the birth of the Jewish and Arab nations - sows the seeds for the times we are in today.
SECRET ROOTS OF THE ISRAEL AND PALESTINE CONFLICTS
Discover the deep roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the complex ties between Jews, Ishmaelites, Isaac, Abraham and Ishmael. This video explores the shared genealogy between Arabs and Jews, revealing a surprising connection.
From historical events to genetic research, we uncover the complexity of the Middle East and how it influences conflicts between Israel and the extremist group Hamas. A perfect narrative of the facts in complete accordance with the Holy Bible. Itās a complex problem that started thousands of years and made much more complicated with religious divisions. Brave hearts on both sides are required to come together and agree on a 2-state solution which will benefit millions of people living in perpetual fear and poor economic conditions.
May God bless them to take the first courageous step towards establishing lasting peace in the region.
WHY ARE JEWS AND ARABS ALWAYS AT WAR?" Almost daily, newspapers around the world report the endless legal attacks between Israelis and Palestinians and the various international initiatives to try, unsuccessfully, for peace between the two peoples. The conflict between Arabs and Jews, despite the current ones, has ancient origins and carries a long history of religious disagreements and land disputes.
"Since biblical times, Jews and Arabs, who are two among several Semitic peoples, have occupied parts of the territory of the Middle East. After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, migration Jewish access to the region grew dramatically.
The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, a growing international demand for creation of Jews in an Israeli state meant that the United Nations (UN) approved, in 1947, a plan to divide Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the remaining land.
"This sharing, unequal in relation to historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker.
In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but were defeated.
āThe conflict allowed to Israel increased its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)ā, explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many arrived under Israeli authority.
āOther wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem.ā Despite some attempts at agreements and peace plans, the current situation is still very impasse, mainly due to the fact that the Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, do not consider Israel's right to exist.
In Alexandre's opinion, "the war between Palestinians and Jews will only come to an end when a Palestinian state is created that occupies, equally with Israel, the entire territory as it appeared in 1917."
After 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany and the increase in persecution against Jews in Europe, Jewish migration to the region grew dramatically.
The Palestinians, in turn, resisted this occupation and the conflicts worsened. After the Second World War and the end of the Holocaust, which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews, the growing international demand for the creation of an Israeli state led the United Nations (UN) to approve, in 1947, a plan for division of Palestine into two states: one Jewish, occupying 57% of the area, and the other Palestinian (Arab), with the rest of the land.
"This sharing, unequal in relation to the historical occupation, displeased Arab countries in general", says Alexandre Hecker.
In 1948, the British finally vacated the region and the Jews founded, on May 14, the State of Israel. A day later, the Arabs, dissatisfied with the partition, declared war on the new nation, but ended up defeated.
"The conflict allowed Israel to increase its territory to 75% of the former Palestinian lands: the rest was annexed by Transjordan (the part called the West Bank) and Egypt (the Gaza strip)", explains the professor. As a result, many Palestinians took refuge in neighboring Arab states, while many remained under Israeli authority. "Other wars followed over borders, with advantages for Israel and always without a solution to the refugee problem."
Despite some attempts at agreements and peace plans, the current situation is still very impasse, mainly due to the fact that the Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic movement Hamas, do not recognize Israel's right to exist.
US State Department says Hamas wonāt release female hostages because they will tell about jihadisā sex crimes
Matthew Miller
Robert Spencer : This is quite likely. Hamas enjoys a vogue right now and the world loves
it. But too many horrific rape stories might sour the affection of even
the most ardent Leftist. āUS State DepartmentāHamas wonāt release women hostages because they will tell about sex crimes,ā by Vered Weiss, World Israel News, December 4, 2023:
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller revealed in a
press conference that Hamas wonāt free the remaining women because they
donāt want them to talk about possible sex crimes in captivity.
With increasing reports about the frequency and severity of sexual
crimes, including rape and genital mutilation, perpetrated by Hamas on
October 7th, Matthew Miller has posited the hesitancy of releasing
female hostages, the main issue that led to the end of the ceasefire and
the resumption of fighting, is to prevent them from revealing similar
crimes during their confinement.
In a press conference, Miller said, āThe fact that they continue to
hold women, hostages, the fact that they continue to hold children,
hostages, just the fact that it seems one of the reasons they donāt want
to turn women over theyāve been holding hostage, and the reason this
pause fell apart, is they donāt want those women to be able to talk
about what happened to them during their time in custody.ā
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller
suggests āone of the reasons [Hamas doesnāt] want to turn women over
that theyāve been holding hostage ā and the reason this pause fell apart
ā is they donāt want those women to talk about what happened to them.ā pic.twitter.com/GOlM3PHgVR
āThere is very little that I would put beyond Hamas when it comes to
its treatment of civilians, and particularly its treatment of women,ā he
adds.
Last week, 110 elderly women, mothers and their children, and foreign nationals were released by Hamas.
As of last Friday after the ceasefire, 136 hostages remain who are
mainly male, but there are still a number of women, including one who
was seen in October 7th footage revealing blood on the seat of her
sweatpants as she was shoved by terrorists into a vanā¦.
Robert Spencer : Israel has no choice but to eliminate Hamas and send the message far
and wide that Israel intends not only to continue to exist, but to stand
strong as a Jewish state.
The Hamas-linked
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has for many years viewed
the Democrats as friends who kowtow to them, as well as to other Muslim
lobbies. Biden has given Muslim Brotherhood-linked lobbies abundant reason to believe this.
Now these groups expect more from Biden: that he facilitate the Muslim
Brotherhoodās desire to see Israel destroyed, because that is what will
happen if Israel halts its war on Hamas ā which is a Muslim Brotherhood
offshoot. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks a global caliphate.
āCAIR Calls on Biden Admin to Demand Ceasefire Extension After Israeli Bombing Kills 100+ Civiliansā, CAIR, December 4, 2023: (WASHINGTON, DC ā 12/1/2023) ā The Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today condemned the Biden
administration for giving the Israeli government the āgreen lightā to
resume bombing Gaza and called on the United States to join other
governments in demanding the resumption of the ceasefire and
negotiations to secure a just, lasting peace.
Israelās renewed bombing
campaign has already killed more than 100 Palestinian civiliansā¦.
Erdogan calls Netanyahu ābutcher of Gaza,ā says heāll be tried as āa war criminalā By Christine Douglass-Williams
Robert Spencer : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also recently declared that Israel is a āterrorist stateā and Hamas is a āpolitical party.ā Speaking at a pro-Hamas āGreat Palestine Rally,ā Erdogan threatened Israel: āWe can come at any night unexpectedly,ā while the massive crowd chanted āTurkish military to Gaza.ā Erdogan has also declared Hamas āa group of mujahideen fighting to protect their lands.ā
Erdogan views the Taliban as having the same views
as Turkey, which is enough to demonstrate exactly where he stands.
Erdogan considers the Gaza war to be a holy war, so it should come as no
surprise that he calls Netanyahu as a āwar criminal.ā It is also
noteworthy that Turkey has shut it doors
to Palestinian refugees, as their plight is likely to contribute to the
propaganda war: as the war goes on, Palestinian death and displacement
increases, and so do anti-Israel, anti-Jewish global sentiments.
Israel is surrounded by skillfully manipulative jihadist movements and countries which support the Palestinian āresistance.ā āTurkeyās Erdogan says Netanyahu will face āwar criminalā trial after Israel-Hamas war,ā by Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, December 4, 2023:
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Monday that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be tried as a āwar
criminalā after Israelās war against Hamas has concluded.
Erdogan does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization and has
been deeply critical of Israelās campaign in Gaza. He compared Netanyahu
to genocidal dictators of the past during a speech during a meeting of
the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.
āBeyond being a war criminal, Netanyahu, who is the butcher of Gaza
right now, will be tried as the butcher of Gaza, just as Milosevic was
tried,ā
Erdogan said, referencing a former Yugoslav president. āThose
who try to skip over the deaths of all those innocent people by using
the excuse of Hamas have nothing left to say to humanity.āā¦
Germany: Cologne gives in to Muslims, monument to the Armenian genocide is finally being removed
Robert Spencer : They donāt want to offend their new overlords. āCologne gives in to Islamists: monument to the Armenian genocide is
finally being removed,ā translated from āKƶln knickt vor Islamisten ein:
Denkmal für Genozid an Armeniern kommt endgültig weg,ā by Jerome Wnuk, Apollo News, December 2, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
urkish extremists rejoice: the Cologne monument to the
Armenian genocide, which Turkey does not recognise, has been repeatedly
erected and dismantled over the years. Sometimes the city had the statue
removed on the grounds that a cycle path was to be built and sometimes
for fear of āsocial upheavalā. After a march by Turkish nationalists,
including supporters of the far-right Grey Wolves and DITIB
associations, at the end of October, the city finally decided that the
memorial should be removed.
The memorial was erected in Cologne in 2018 to commemorate the
victims of the Armenian genocide between 1915 and 1918. At that time,
between 300,000 and more than 1.5 million people were murdered in
massacres and death marches under the responsibility of the Young Turk
government of the Ottoman Empire, which was formed by the Committee for
Unity and Progress. For international historians, the genocide is
indisputable, but Turkey does not recognise the crime.
Since its inauguration next to the Kaiser Wilhelm equestrian statue, the
memorial of the āRemember Genocideā initiative has repeatedly caused
disputes with Turkish nationalists, who have successfully put pressure
on the city. Following protests, the memorial was repeatedly removed by
the city and rebuilt by activists from the initiative ā although the
cityās reasons for not granting the memorial permission and removing it
often varied from time to time. Sometimes it was said that a cycle path
was to be built and sometimes they were a little more frank ā speaking
of fear of āsocial upheavalā.
For example, Cologneās mayor Reker recently justified herself with
the ādiverse interests of our pluralistic urban societyā, which had to
be taken into account. However, this did not stop the āRemember
Genocideā initiative from putting the sculpture back up in the city
centre on April 24 this year, Remembrance Day. The city then issued a
special use permit until May 24. However, this was not sufficient for
the campaign and they filed a legal complaint.
In addition to denying the genocide against the Armenians, the
participants in the demonstration did not distance themselves from the
atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel and even denied them. The
chairman of the youth organisation āFatherland Partyā spoke to public
broadcaster WDR about the right of Palestinians to defend themselves,
explicitly including Hamas terror.
Just weeks later, the city council decided to finally abolish the
āThis pain affects us allā memorial at the end of 2023. Instead, a new
memorial is to be erected to ācommemorate the victims of oppression,
racism, violence and human rights violationsā. At its meeting on
December 7, the city council will decide on the funding for a dialogue
process in which a new memorial is to be developed. This process is
expected to take two years and cost up to 350,000 euros, according to
the Kƶlner Stadtanzeiger.
For the Turkish right-wing extremists, who have been fighting against
the memorial for years, the Cologne city governmentās caving in is a
complete success. On Facebook, nationalists euphorically wrote: āThe
defamation monument will now be removed. We congratulate the Cologne
city council on their decision in favour of justice!ā
This is not the first time that political pressure from Turkish
nationalists or diplomats in Germany has led to success: in 2005,
Brandenburg removed the topic of the Armenian genocide from the
curriculum due to the intervention of Turkish diplomats. In 2011, the
University of Stuttgart refused to allow a lecture on the genocide due
to Turkish āprotests from Berlinā ā the university stated that it wanted
to āremain neutralā.
In 2014, due to protests against a play by Edgar Hilsenrath, āDas
MƤrchen vom letzten Gedankenā, which deals with the genocide, the event
poster at the theatre in Constance was taken down and a statement from
the Turkish consul was read out before each performance. The premiere
had to take place under police protection.
Sweet victory for Lina Samuelās children in citizenship battle By Raveena Nagotra - This is a frigging joke when Arabs (Camel Jockeys) can be converted to Melanaus in Sarawak
Malaysiakini : It's a sweet victory for the children of late Lina Samuel, a cancer
patient from Lawas, Sarawak who made headlines earlier this year, in
their battle for citizenship as they are now confirmed Malaysian
citizens.
According to Parti Bangsa Malaysiaās (PBM) Agnes Padan, all four of Linaās children were granted MyKads last month. āNo words can be expressed when finally all four children of the late cancer patient Lina have received their MyKads.
āSpecial
thanks to (Home Minister) Saifuddin Nasution Ismail for his attention
and effort in solving their citizenship issue, (as well as) the Sarawak
National Registration Department and the media that covered the issue,ā
she posted on Facebook on Nov 24.
The Borneo Post previously reported that all four of Linaās
children received their birth certificates in June, affirming that they
were Malaysian citizens.
Lina, who passed away
in April, had alleged that her identity card was seized by a National
Registration Department (NRD) officer in November 2022, when she visited
the department to change her address in the lead-up to the 15th general
election.
However, Saifuddin had said Linaās MyKad was impounded
by the NRD on Oct 8, 2019, because it was found that she is not a
citizen as her children's birth certificates showed that her nationality
is Indonesian.
Lina was from the Lun Bawang group.
After a
meeting with officers from Kuching NRD, she was issued a temporary
MyKad, which would allow her to travel by air or land from Lawas to Miri
where she was being treated for colon cancer.
Steven Ong : Its about the ugly cruel reality in Malaysia. A country hijacked by selfish, abusive and discriminating warlords who enrich themselves and cronies and families while the rest received lip service or peanuts. . They all had been deceived. Pray and set them free as slaves to the liar.
Since Iran imposed an ultimatum on Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, demanding their complete disarmament and relocation away from border areas, tensions have been running high.
Brewing Islamic Storm: Geopolitical Fallout in India as Palestinian Conflict Sparks Alarming Rise in Calls for Ghazwa-E-Hind and Muslim Genocidal Aspirations Against Hindus (Videos)
RAIR Foundation : The Hadith of Ghazwa-e-Hind, ascribed to Muhammad, prophesies a future conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Indian subcontinentāa prediction of Islamās ultimate triumph, promising paradise to Muslims for killing all Hindus in India.
The aftermath of the hostilities and violence that are taking place between Israel and Hamas continues to have a far-reaching impact within the complex and ever-changing domain of geopolitics. This conflict has triggered intense, passionate debates, reactions, and responses around the world, including in India.
A large section of the sizeable Muslim community in the country has become increasingly radicalized against Jews due to decades of extremist indoctrination that is carried on primarily in Islamic madrassas and mosques. Therefore, the social and cultural implications transcend far beyond the regionās boundaries and have some profound consequences.
The Middle East conflict has brought forth into public discussion the deep underlying divisions and tensions that exist between two of the largest religious groups in the country, the native Hindus and the Muslims.
After the Hamas terror attacks, there have been frequent instances where several Muslim social media influencers, clerics, and religious leaders in India have added fuel to the fire by polarizing their followers against Jews and also taking the jihad to another order of magnitude by inciting genocide against the Hindus in India.
Muslims in India specifically have been very vocal about the issue, and religious fundamentalism amongst the Muslims has led to a zealous support for the anti-Israel, pro-Hamas cause.
Various Muslim political parties, NGOs/Activist Groups, and student organizations have also used this as a golden opportunity to engage in inflammatory rhetoric against their old enemies, the Hindus. Post the attacks on Israel, several rallies, marches, and demonstrations across the country in support of Hamas were organized by Indian Muslims.
India has a very long and violent history with Islamic invasions for centuries and Muslim riots even in modern times, post its independence in 1947.
In September-October 1969, riots occurred between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. It was a major riot that involved death, arson, looting, and rapes committed by Muslims.
A dispute in Ahmedabad involving a Muslim shrine led to widespread riots not just in other districts of the state but also across several states of India. Although the official death tally stood at 660, unverified estimates went as high as 2,000.
More recently, in 1984, Bhiwandi, a town in Maharashtra, witnessed another chapter of rioting started by Muslims. The official number of casualties stood at 278, while unofficial reports estimated it at over 700, most of them being Hindus.
āI donāt think itās morally evil to own somebody,ā
Jonathan Brown explained to attendees at his lecture. āSlavery cannot
just be treated as a moral evil in and of itself.ā To a man who argued that slavery was wrong, Brown retorted, āHow can
you say, if youāre Muslim, the Prophet of God had slaves. He had slaves.
Thereās no denying that. Was heāare you more morally mature than the
Prophet of God? No youāre not.ā
When Brown had been asked in the past about the women and girls sold
and raped by ISIS based on Islamic law, he defended the Islamic practice
of sex slavery, āThere is no doubt that the Quran and Sunna permit
this.ā āYou cannot say from a Sharia perspective that what the
prophet did was wrong because the prophet canāt commit sins.ā
āA male owner of a female slave has the right to sexual access to
her⦠her āconsentā would be meaningless since she is his slave,ā Brown
had also explained in the past. āSlave women do not have agency over their sexual access, so their
owner can have sex with them,ā he appears to have written on Facebook.
Had anyone tried to justify southern slavery, they would have been
canceled until the end of their days, but defending Islamic slavery is
okay and so Brown remains a respected scholar.