“ISIS-linked militants kill four farmers in Indonesian village,” AFP, May 12, 2021: ISIS-linked extremists have killed four farmers in a remote village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, police confirmed Wednesday, with one of the victims reportedly beheaded.

Five sword-wielding attackers ambushed a group of farmers who were harvesting their coffee plantation in Kalimago village in Poso regency on Tuesday morning, Central Sulawesi police spokesperson Didik Supranoto said. The police blamed the attack on the Sulawesi-based East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), one of dozens of radical groups across the Southeast Asian archipelago that have pledged allegiance to IS.

“Five eyewitnesses recognized one of the perpetrators as (a man named) Qatar, who is an MIT member,” the police spokesperson said. Locals were made aware of the MIT members by their pictures, distributed by the police in their hunt for suspected terrorists in the area.

The attack was motivated by “terrorism as well as robbery”, according to the police. “Everything the victims had was taken away by the perpetrators including rice, money and other belongings they kept in their huts,” he added.

Local media reported that the victims were from Christian-majority ethnic group Toraja, and one was beheaded. These reports haven’t been confirmed by the police.

The Muslims tried their level best to hide their atrocities. Jawaharlal Nehru aided and abetted this too as he was a Muslim, Indira Gandhi was a Muslim and so was Rajiv Gandhi. Of course aided too by the Marxists and Communist bastards. Jawaharlal Nehru is believed to have died of syphilis. While Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi died violent deaths, ain't karma a bitch ?

“Gojra, Muslims kill Christian who was trying to protect sister,” by Shafique Khokhar, Asia News, May 25, 2021:

Gojra (AsiaNews) – Arif Masih, 32, was killed by a group of Muslims for trying to defend his sister from the harassment of two young Muslims. Days earlier, the two young men had dragged the girl into the street and stripped her naked. Faced with police and the government inertia, his parents exposed the body of their son in the street, asking for solidarity and justice from passers-by.

Arif Masih is the son of Saleem Masih, and resided in the Chak 370 village of Tariqabad (Gojra, Punjab). According to his brother, Rizwan Masih, events began on 20 May. Their sister, Rehana Bibi, 18, had gone to the bazaar to buy some milk. Returning home, two young men, Muhammad Tariq and Muhammad Majid, began to harass her. The girl tried to escape and took refuge in the house. The two broke into the house and got into a fight with Arif. The two young men also took the girl and dragged her to the bazaar, tore off her clothes and mocked her.

District policeman Toba Tek Singh Rana Umar Farooq ordered them to file a complaint. Arif therefore drew up the complaint (first information report # 506/2021) against Muhammad Tariq and Muhammad Majid, citing article 354-A which punishes “anyone who assaults or uses criminal force against a woman and tears her clothes, and in those conditions exhibits her to the public “. The complaint was filed on the same 20 May, but no one was arrested.

Since then, the accused began to threaten Arif with the worst consequences if he failed to drop the complaint. According to several witnesses, on May 23, both perpetrators went to Arif’s home and attacked him. They loaded him onto their motorcycle and then beat and poisoned him, throwing him on the street. Local people informed the family that their son was lifeless in the middle of the road. In critical condition, Arif was first taken to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Gojra; after first aid, he was transferred to Allied Hospital in Faisalabad.

The Rape of Constantinople

Lesser known is what immediately followed this Muslim seizure of “New Rome”—which Turkey is immensely proud of—as described below (note: all quotes are from contemporary sources, mostly eyewitnesses):

Once inside the city on that fateful May 29, 1453, the “enraged Turkish soldiers . . . gave no quarter”:

When they had massacred and there was no longer any resistance, they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions…  There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury…  [The Turks] dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages… Tender children were brutally snatched from their mothers’ breasts and girls were pitilessly given up to strange and horrible unions, and a thousand other terrible things happened. . .

Because thousands of citizens had fled to and were holed up in Hagia Sophia, the ancient basilica offered an excellent harvest of slaves—once its doors were axed down.  “One Turk would look for the captive who seemed the wealthiest, a second would prefer a pretty face among the nuns. . . . Each rapacious Turk was eager to lead his captive to a safe place, and then return to secure a second and a third prize. . . . Then long chains of captives could be seen leaving the church and its shrines, being herded along like cattle or flocks of sheep.”

The slavers sometimes fought each other to the death over “any well-formed girl,” even as many of the latter “preferred to cast themselves into the wells and drown rather than fall into the hands of the Turks.”

Having taken possession of one of Christendom’s greatest and oldest basilicas—nearly a thousand years old at the time of its capture—the invaders “engaged in every kind of vileness within it, making of it a public brothel.” On “its holy altars” they enacted “perversions with our women, virgins, and children,” including “the Grand Duke’s daughter who was quite beautiful.” She was forced to “lie on the great altar of Hagia Sophia with a crucifix under her head and then raped.”

Next “they paraded the [Hagia Sophia’s main] Crucifix in mocking procession through their camp, beating drums before it, crucifying the Christ again with spitting and blasphemies and curses. They placed a Turkish cap . . . upon His head, and jeeringly cried, ‘Behold the god of the Christians!’”

Many other churches in the ancient city suffered the same fate. “The crosses which had been placed on the roofs or the walls of churches were torn down and trampled.”

The Eucharist was hurled to the ground; holy icons were stripped of gold, “thrown to the ground and kicked.” Bibles were stripped of their gold or silver illuminations before being burned. “Icons were without exception given to the flames.” Patriarchal vestments were placed on the haunches of dogs; priestly garments were placed on horses.

“Everywhere there was misfortune, everyone was touched by pain” when Sultan Muhammad II (“Mehmet”) finally made his grand entry into the city. “There were lamentations and weeping in every house, screaming in the crossroads, and sorrow in all churches; the groaning of grown men and the shrieking of women accompanied looting, enslavement, separation, and rape.”

Critics also claim that the recent move to radicalize the education system will only further embolden radicals to oppress Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and other religious minorities.” Yet the current curriculum does not represent Islam enough, at least not according to Khan.

Khan, despite the contempt and hatred for minorities that he is now hammering into Pakistani children, is one of the loudest voices globally in advancing the “Islamophobia” canard. Christians already suffer under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Conditions will worsen for Christians and all minorities with the implementation of this new curriculum.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan Seeks to Islamize Pakistan’s Curriculum,” International Christian Concern, May 24, 2021:

05/24/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team are preparing to implement a new national curriculum in Pakistan that will Islamize the education system through an emphasis on the Quran and Islamic teaching. The new curriculum will force students to read the entire Quran and memorize a number of prayers and hadith. Schools must also employ a pair of Hafiz, or individuals who have memorized the Quran.

Critics believe that the move will create deeper fault lines within an already-divided population. Religious communities in Pakistan have deep distrust of each other as it is. Pakistan’s religious minorities are regularly persecuted, including by the country’s blasphemy law which is one of the severest in the world. Punishments for blasphemy range from life in prison to the death penalty.

Current Pakistani curriculum already contains bigoted and hateful material and makes derogatory references to various religious minority communities in Pakistan. Critics also claim that the recent move to radicalize the education system will only further embolden radicals to oppress Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and other religious minorities.

One of the "brightest bulb" in the current PN regime (Most of them are DIMWITS!!)

COMMENT | Prasarana Malaysia Bhd chairperson Tajuddin Abdul Rahman's press conference regarding the LRT accident was a cocktail of hubris, arrogance, vulgarity, bigotry and coarseness  - but a fine example of what this regime values in its minions.

Watching the presser was like watching another slow-motion train wreck - which is unfortunate because the last thing the rakyat wanted was another collision, this time between public accountability and a kakistocratic operative of this regime.

The position Tajuddin holds is not a job but a reward. He certainly treats it as such. And no doubt many before him.

After all, the Perikatan Nasional regime was handing out positions like candy to its motley crew of political frogs and supposed allies, and this is part of the mainstream political culture in this country.

Erdogan's Jew Hatred

That hateful rhetoric, which fits the definition of classic anti-Semitism, prompted the US state Department to issue a statement:

The United States strongly condemns President Erdogan’s recent anti-Semitic comments regarding the Jewish people and finds them reprehensible. We urge President Erdogan and other Turkish leaders to refrain from incendiary remarks, which could incite further violence.

In response, the Turkish Foreign Ministry criticized the U.S. State Department’s statement on Erdogan. “Anti-Semitism has never existed in Turkish society, which respects the co-existence of different religions and beliefs,” the ministry claimed.

Jewish Home Burnt

At least 10 synagogues were attacked and burned in the past week of Muslim riots across the country while 28 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites, the data show. Data from the Central District of Fire and Rescue show that from last Tuesday, 10 synagogues and government institutions in the city of Lod in the center of the country have been set on fire. No mosques were attacked or burned.

The data also show that 28 mosques were exposed as weapons caches, where rocks and Molotov cocktails were prepared and stored. Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented as being used to incite riots against Jews.

112 Jewish homes have so far been burned in Muslim riots, compared to one house of an Arab family in Jaffa, which turned out to have been set on fire by Arabs.

No looted Arab homes have been reported so far, while 386 looted Jewish homes were documented.

A total of 673 Jewish homes were vandalized and 12 Arab homes were damaged.

849 Jewish-owned cars were set on fire, as opposed to 13 Arab-owned cars.

Rana Ayyub

In 2008, the Islamist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a dozen coordinated attacks in Mumbai which claimed 175 lives, leaving over 300 injured, their lives changed forever. Our intellectuals, including politicians and filmmakers, sold these attacks as an execution by the Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamseva Sang (RSS). One of the terrorists, Kasab, was planted in the scene as a Hindu, wearing a sacred thread, the Kalava, on his wrist; his arrest foiled the well-scripted plan of smearing the Hindus.

Ilhan Omar, the Bitch of Somalia

Facebook is getting out of line, and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is enraged. Instead of acting the way it usually does, dutifully carrying water for the far Left, Facebook has had the temerity to allow the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to run an ad criticizing Omar herself. After a public career of virtually unanimous adulation from the media and fawning from her colleagues in Congress, even in the face of her repeated anti-Semitic statements, it must be jarring indeed for the winsome Congresswoman actually to face some negative feedback.

Rejecting Omar’s demands (so far) that the ad be taken down, Facebook is allowing AIPAC to run an ad reading, “When Israel Targets Hamas Rep. Omar calls it an ‘act of terrorism.’” This outrages the soft-spoken Omar because what she actually wrote was “Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism.”

Omar and her henchmen contend that this is a misrepresentation of her position that is not only false, but potentially lethal. Isi Baehr-Breen, her deputy communications director (where was her principal communications director? Down at the border with Kamala Harris?), fumed: “It’s dangerous, plain and simple,” and claimed that the AIPAC ad constituted “anti-Muslim hate speech.”

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Baehr-Breen added: “It’s par for the course for AIPAC to demonize electeds [sic] who stand up for Palestinian rights and an end to the occupation. What’s more surprising is their attempts to link Congresswoman Omar herself to Hamas terror attacks in their own advertising—ads that only target her, a Black, Muslim woman, in this way. It’s dangerous, plain and simple. It is also dishonest since Rep. Omar has been one of the few Members of Congress to condemn war crimes committed by both Netanyahu and Hamas while calling on the United States to actually take steps to end both the current outbreak of violence and the broader occupation.”

It’s true, sort of. Omar issued a statement Monday condemning “far right ethnonationalist Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu,” claiming that he is “now responsible for at least 1,505 casualties in Gaza, including 200 deaths, 59 of them children. He has leveled entire residential buildings, targeting journalists and civilians alike in direct violation of international law.” The statement added: “At least 10 Israelis, including 2 children, have also been killed by indiscriminate Hamas rocket attacks. To be clear, this is also a war crime.”

Notice that Omar’s office could find no pejorative adjectives to heap on Hamas to match those it found for Netanyahu. Notice also that while it condemned Hamas’ “indiscriminate…rocket attacks,” it said nothing about Hamas’ longstanding practice of launching attacks from civilian areas so as to draw retaliatory fire that would harm civilians and be usable for propaganda purposes. This launching of attacks from civilian areas has been abundantly documented, even by the unflaggingly anti-Israel United Nations. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted Thursday: “It’s not easy fighting a terrorist organization that embeds its military infrastructure in civilian areas. We use the latest military technology to precisely strike Hamas targets, while minimizing damage to the surrounding areas.”

COMMENT | Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah’s appeal to Malaysians to “self-lockdown” is a sad attempt to rally an apathetic public enabled by an incompetent political system. And by the political system, I mean Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Pakatan Harapan.

The reality is that much of the damage this pandemic has wrought has been brought upon by the current government, individual state governments but most importantly, by a public who has no problem using the incompetence of the political system with their inconsistent rules to flaunt public safety guidelines.

When the rakyat sees political operatives breaking SOPs, or when the government rolls back on restrictions, it makes the pandemic less serious and it becomes a partisan issue, rather than a health emergency.

There is a strong mistrust for what the government is doing and the statements and strategy coming out from the occupants of Putrajaya do nothing to allay those fears and mistrust. 

Take the issue of testing. Earlier on when we had this under control, the Health Ministry director-general claimed that the system is under such a burden and that the ministry has decided to scale down on testing. This was in January of this year. 

Since then, not only have the numbers gone up because of the ineptitude of Putrajaya, but also because the rakyat decided that they had enough of this pandemic and they were enabled by the lax enforcement of the state security apparatus and a political class, to busy engaging in internal political feuds.

Political operatives like to say that this is a war and one of the most important aspects of any war, especially one waged in the homeland, is an informed public that supports the war effort and which has the self-discipline to mitigate the damage brought upon by the enemy.

But as it was explained to me, on line 3, the coin says in Hebrew, Haaretz Israel, or,

The outspoken son of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair, expressed his outrage at Turkey’s support of Hamas by saying that the country is founded on the Genocide of Greek Christians.

He uploaded a graph on Twitter which depicts the composition of Muslims and Christians within today’s Turkey over the centuries.

In another tweet directed towards Turkish bots on the internet, he said “you are not native to Anatolia, you came from Central Asia and did a genocide to the local Greek Christian population.

“Istanbul is actually Constantinople and you illegally occupied it,” he said.

Quo Vadis Malaysia : I wrote elsewhere that should the orang asli retaliate, they end up in jail. Yet we say that the Palestinians have a right to their land and can launch rockets at the aggressors. How hypocritical is this?

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | I had a school friend who came from Beirut, an Arab girl called Nadine, who wore her crucifix with pride. Today, I still have trouble convincing some Malays that not all Arabs are Muslims.

I experience the same difficulty trying to persuade other Malays that the word "Allah" has been used by Arab Christians for centuries, even before the advent of Islam.

According to Nadine, Beirut city was both sophisticated and cosmopolitan, a melting pot of cultures, where East met West, where an influx of foreigners enriched the city's cultural and social life.

The local population of predominantly Muslim and Christian Arabs lived happily side by side. It was a city of tolerance. The people of Beirut could swim in the Mediterranean, then take a two-hour drive to ski on the slopes of the mountains overlooking the city.

Russian Model as Palestinian Child Killed But Still Alive

COMMENT | On May 16, why did opposition MPs sign a letter meant to highlight the cause of Palestinians promising a myriad of policy initiatives that were unworkable for various reasons (refer to R Nadeswaran's excellent piece) and did so under the cover of anonymity?

Furthermore, calling for the boycott without having the gumption to carry out such policies (for oftentimes logical reasons) merely makes a mockery of the plight of the Palestinians and provides ammunition for those who claim that supporters of the cause are insincere.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia once hosted a thriving Jewish community? For almost a thousand years (three times longer than the Jews have been in America), Jews lived in the oases of Teyma, Khaybar, and Yathrib (later known as Medina), in the northern Arabian Peninsula. According to Dr. Hagai Mazuz, an Orientalist specializing in Arabic language, Islam, and Islamic culture, “The Jewish community of northern Arabia was one of the largest ancient Jewish communities in the history of the Jewish people.”

They were powerful and wealthy. They were respected by the local Arabian tribes for their religion, culture, erudition, and literacy. They built castles on mountaintops and developed productive plantations. They had military prowess, horses, and advanced weaponry. And they were almost totally annihilated in the short span of a few years.

Their story should make every Jew shudder.

The Jews of Medina were divided into three groups: The Banu Qaynuqa were blacksmiths, weapon wrights, and goldsmiths. The Banu Nadir had date plantations. The Banu QurayUa were wine merchants. These groups often quarreled. Sometimes the hostility among them broke out into actual fighting.

Turkey has memories of the old empire Prior to World War 1. How a nation who hosts the resting place of Noah's Ark can side with godless thugs having the moral equivalent of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao shows a leadership unfit to judge.

IDF Artillery

If you won't listen to us, listen to them: pic.twitter.com/6NkklMHWh8

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 17, 2021

Among those targets is Hamas’s Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif, who the IDF believes it has a chance of killing if the operation continues. Military sources told The Jerusalem Post that Dief had been targeted more than once during the last week of fighting but that he had succeeded at the last moment to get away.

COMMENT | The chance meeting between Wanita Umno chief Noraini Ahmad and Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming (above), characterised by some as some sort of “normalisation” of a possible political hook up and denounced as fitnah by others, is the kind of immature politics that defines mainstream narratives in this country.

The reality is that there are elements in the Malay political establishment that do not want to see any cooperation between the two biggest race-supported parties in this country.

Those who wish such support are compromised and therefore have to walk that fine line between trolling the current Perikatan Nasional (PN) government and establishing some sort of rapport till a possible post-election game-changer would necessitate an Umno/DAP hook up.

“After 87 years, Eid prayers resonate in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia,” Asia News, May 15, 2021:

Istanbul (AsiaNews) – For the first time in 87 years, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, converted into a mosque by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last year, hosted the recitation of the Eid-al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan, the holy month of Islamic fasting and prayer.

Hundreds of worshippers gathered on the day of celebration in the square in front of the building, which is located in the historic Sultanahmet neighbourhood.

Most of those present followed the rite outside the mosque, due to the anti-gathering measures imposed by the authorities to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst a small number were able to participate inside. Leading the prayer on Tuesday was Ali Erbaş, the head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Turkey’s highest Sunni institution, who climbed the minbar – mosque pulpit – wielding a sword.

During the service, the faithful began chanting and shouting slogans against Israel and in favour of the Palestinian cause, in response to the escalating violence that has been going on for days between the Israeli army and Hamas forces. Delivering the sermon and leading the prayer, Ali Erbaş said that religious feasts are days of happiness and enthusiasm for those who belong to the same faith, history, and civilisation.

He also expressed sadness at the “cries raised from the aggrieved lands of the Islamic geography,” from Yemen to Syria, via Palestine. The events currently inflaming the Holy Land, in Jerusalem and al-Aqsa, the third holiest place in Islam after Makkah and Madinah, received special mention. Ali Erbaş then said that “the symbolic city of religions, languages, cultures and civilisations is being plundered” and “our innocent Palestinian brothers and sisters are evicted from their houses by force, [. . .] subjected to massacres.

Muslims in prison

“Prison imam arrested on terror charges,” ANSA, May 13, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(ANSA) – TURIN, MAY 13 – Italian police on Thursday arrested a prison imam at Alessandria for allegedly hailing jihad and calling for the destruction of the Vatican. The man, a Moroccan detainee, allegedly praised terrorist attacks like those on the offices of Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after it published cartoons of Mohammed.

The man has been charged with instigation to commit crimes, especially terror offences, as well as propaganda and instigation to offend on ethnic and religious grounds. As well as calling for the destruction of the Vatican, the imam also expressed admiration for Osama Bin Laden and Twin Towers pilot Mohammed Atta. He also called for the elimination of the Jewish people, sen as the sworn enemy of Islam.

Given the ferocity of the far-left’s hatred of Israel and its increasing propensity for violence, this was perhaps inevitable: earlier this week in midtown Manhattan, right outside the New York Public Library, a Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” violently assaulted a Jewish man, leaving him bleeding from a head wound.

Posting video of the incident on Twitter, Times of Israel contributor Joshua Washington labeled it: “Attempted lynching of a Jewish man in New York.”

Attempted lynching of a Jewish man in New York.

This should be literally everywhere. pic.twitter.com/JmMGf7i8TQ

— Joshua Washington (@JoshWashIBSI) May 12, 2021

Yet nothing is more certain in our morally confused age that the attackers went away thinking they were on the side of righteousness.

Another video of the incident that was posted on Rumble shows the mob that attacked the man screaming “Allahu akbar,” “F**k you, Zionist pig,” and “Palestine’s too strong for you.” Independent journalist Elad Eliahu reported that “According to one protester, a passer-by made really hateful comments towards free Palestine protesters which allegedly lead to one throwing a chair at this man as he was mobbed by others. He was eventually led into a store by an officer after being chased.” This is Bill de Blasio’s New York, and so it was no surprise that, as Eliahu noted, “According to sources the NYPD’s riot squad caught the protester who allegedly threw the chair, proceeded to not arrest and let him go.”

Of course they did. The left is on the side of the Palestinians, and so Palestinian protesters assaulting a Jew are going to have a hard time getting arrested in the far-left one-party oligarchy that New York City has become. We should just be grateful that de Blasio doesn’t give the chair-wielding thug the key to the city. After all, he and his comrades believe that the Palestinians are acting on a righteous cause.

The protesters who mobbed this Jewish man obviously believe that as well: their screams of “Allahu akbar” make that clear. “Allahu akbar” does not mean “God is great,” as the establishment media frequently claims, but “Allah is greater,” that is, the god of Islam is superior to the god of the infidels, or to any other infidel entity. It is a declaration of the victory and superiority of Islam, which is why jihad terrorists so often shout it. Its usage by the mob in New York City also underscores the fact that Palestinian activists tend to see the conflict in Islamic terms.

There is more.

After an airstrike struck a building with terrorist tenants that included Hamas and Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, a backer of Hamas, the main story in the media was about… the media. Specifically the AP’s presence in the same building.

“We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP’s bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit,” the AP’s statement says.

Jihad Watch :  Some on Twitter are claiming that this video has been doctored.

This is disgusting antisemitism.

There is no place for this hatred in the UK.

I expect @metpoliceuk to be taking this seriously. https://t.co/O1nXJ7Fk0z

— Priti Patel (@pritipatel) May 16, 2021

Jihad Watch : This will not, of course, stop the international media from repeating “Palestinian” jihad propaganda as fact.

In this exclusive PMW video, an official Palestinian Authority source confirms the Israeli policy of warning Palestinian civilians to evacuate buildings that house terrorists and terror infrastructures in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, before they are destroyed. This has been a long held Israeli practice, even if it enables the terrorists to escape. Now an official Palestinian Authority source also confirms this.

A PA TV reporter recounts what he witnessed in Gaza:

Official PA TV reporter: “When they were informed that this tower will be attacked… the site was completely evacuated. The block, the street, the civilian buildings, and the residential buildings in the area – completely – including children and women, and we saw it…

The guard who works in this tower was warned through a phone call from the Israeli Security Agency. They told him word by word: ‘Evacuate the tower and tell them that this tower will be attacked. It will be attacked any moment.’ After this conversation this tower was attacked about two hours later.”

[Official PA TV, May 11, 2021]

In addition, Israel TV Kan11 got hold of a video of the guard during his actual conversation with the Israeli Security Services. In the conversation, he is heard repeating the instructions he received from Israel:

“How much, how much time do you need?… At least two or three hours? No one should come in? In other words, [I should] go to the tower, go to the tower and not let anyone come in?”

[Twitter account of Israeli TV Kan11’s reporter Nurit Yohanan, May 11, 2021]…

Mossad’s Biblical motto  ‘by way of deception shall you make war’

This was despite the fact that heavy armor and infantry reservists were massing on the border. I decided to hold the story and break it in the morning.

Within hours, however, the official Israeli army Twitter account had suggested to the world that ground troops had gone into action. ‘IDF (Israel Defense Force) air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip,’ it said.Read it all here.....

Nobody noted the careful ambiguity.Within minutes, the news had spread across the world. ‘Israel goes in,’ screamed the Mail Online, the world’s biggest newspaper website. ‘Israeli troops have entered the Gaza Strip as conflict with Palestinians escalates, Israeli military says,’ tweeted the distinguished Washington Post.

In a state of exasperation, I almost deleted my source’s number from my phone. By morning, however, the truth was coming out. My source had been on the money. The delicately-worded IDF tweet had actually meant that ground forces were shelling from inside Israel, not that they had crossed the border; but the fact that it produced headlines suggesting that an assault was underway played into Israeli tactics.

The Pussy Macron all talk

It was signed by 25 retired Generals and “1000 officials of different rank and files in the military, police and gendarmerie,” who stated that they could not remain “indifferent” and “passive spectators” under the current circumstances.  The second letter has gained over 93,000 signatures, including an undetermined number of active military personnel.

“Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of Macron, slammed the letter as a ‘crude manoeuvre’ and accused its anonymous signatories of lacking ‘courage.'” But given the threats by French leader Macron to “punish the generals” over the first letter, the anonymity is clearly for the sake of self-preservation.

France’s mainstream Muslim groups accused the government of “Islamophobia” in the face of its crackdown on “Islamic separatism,” which followed the beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty for “blasphemy.” Condemnation of the Muhammad cartoons (which Paty had shown in class) and of France came from as far away as Egypt, where Al Azhar in Cairo condemned Macron’s plan for fighting “Islamic separatism” as an “explicit call for racism and hate.” But Macron came out in defense of the “right to blaspheme.” In Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also came out in support of this right to blaspheme.

Let’s hope that France is at the crossroads of real change. The government has carefully maneuvered in a manner calculated to balance its popularity (especially in light of the rise of populist leader Marine Le Pen) with appeasement of Muslim groups. Clearly a significant element of the French military has had enough of this.  “‘Civil war is brewing’: In second letter, French soldiers accuse Macron of according ‘concessions to Islamism,’” Dawn, May 10, 2021:

Sky News host Rowan Dean says everything people need to know about the history and future of the current conflict in Gaza and Israel can be condensed into a single photo. The conflict in the Middle East has continued to broaden with violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis spreading across the West Bank.

“On the right-hand side of the photo, you can see the deadly rockets being fired out of Gaza in an aggressive and deliberately offensive act of war, designed to kill and maim as many innocent everyday Israeli citizens as possible,” Mr Dean said. “On the left-hand side of the photo, looking like something out of Star Wars or Close Encounters, you see the Iron Dome, a technological miracle that allows Israel to shoot those Iranian and Hamas rockets out of the sky in a purely defensive act designed to save citizens' lives.

“That is the story of the Gaza conflict and the history of Israel and Palestine. Pretty much everything else you will hear is obfuscation, distortion and lies, laced with the insidious moral relativism of the left.” Mr Dean said the rockets were supplied by Iran and funded in part by the Obama-Biden administration.

Malaysiakini : An explosion inside a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 12 people during Friday prayers as worshippers gathered for the Aidilfitri holiday during a ceasefire.

The Taliban insurgent group, which declared the three-day truce for the holiday, condemned the attack in a statement. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday through its Nasheer news agency on Telegram. Ferdous Faramarz, spokesperson for the Kabul police, said the mosque’s Imam was among the 12 dead and at least 15 people were wounded in the blast in the capital's Shakar Dara district. The blast came less than a week after an explosion at a school killed 80 people, most of them schoolgirls from the ethnic Hazara Shia Muslim minority. The Taliban also denounced that attack and no one claimed responsibility.

Your copious tears and passionate beating of breasts for Gaza is supposed to reflect compassion for fallen Muslim brothers. Like bloody hell it is. The driving force behind this so-called concern is pure hatred for Israel and the Jews.

Mahathir Mohamad, when referring to the hostilities in Gaza, you piously said “People who are praying are not a danger to anyone.” How about the dead who were praying in the Kabul mosque? Hishamuddin Hussein Onn, are you going to lead a diplomatic mission to resolve the troubles in Afghanistan? And Hadi Awang, an Aid4Kabul Fund from you?