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General Category => In General => Topic started by: RabbiKnife on October 08, 2023, 04:09:09 PM
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Our prayer for the leadership, the soldiers, and the citizens of Israel as they battle the evil unleashed among them. May God protect and give them victory.
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Tragic. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Israel. And it's no coincidence that Hamas' attack comes just a few months after Biden unfroze 6 billion dollars in Iranian assets. While I'm sure the family and friends of the 5 hostages released are happy, their freedom comes at the cost of 1,100 innocent people in Israel. Obama paid $425 million apiece for 4 hostages, which seems like a bargain compared to Biden paying out 1.2 billion apiece for five. We should never play the hostage game with dangerous regimes like Iran, as it results in more hostages being taken in hopes of future paydays.
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More than 700 Jews have been killed, thousands more injured, and more than 100 were taken hostage back into Gaza. There are not enough tears to mourn the tragedy.
My son lives in Jerusalem and is ok, thank God. My cousin's grandchildren had to be evacuated from Sderot by the army.
This is the traditional prayer for IDF.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the Jordan River Valley, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May the Lord cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our soldiers from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen.
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By the great mercy of God, my baby brother, (that's Colonel Baby Brother to all you civilians), who is the senior US military attache to the US Embassy Annex in Tel Aviv, was scheduled for leave months ago.
He, his wife, and his two children left Tel Aviv Thursday night, less than 24 hours before the cowardly and evil attack on Israel began. I've talked with him a couple of times since he landed stateside, and they are well. His communication with his contacts back in Israel ( which are very senior Israeli IDF, government, and unofficially - Mossad - leadership), indicate that although the scope of the intifada is severe, especially as to the kidnappings and hostage taking, there is much going on with IDF and Mossad that you will never hear of in the media that hates Israel so much. Of course, he can't tell me anything that is not public record or in the news, and has never (and will never) violate his security clearance or say anything even that is public that would put others in danger, but brothers have this understanding in what is said as in what is not said.
So I'll leave it here. This is not going to end well for Hamas or Hezbollah or their demonic leadership. Either in Gaza, Dubai, Qatar, Lebanon, Syria, or Iran. Israel's hand is neither short nor weak. And the Israelis are, to put it bluntly, pissed.
Despite rumors to the contrary in some ridiculous ultra-right wing conspiracy theorists websites, the Israeli government and military have not declared the Israeli equivalent of "Broken Arrow" and abandoned all those taken hostage. That's probably the only reason that Gaza is not a smoking pile of volcanic glass at this point.
My brother is not currently begin called back to station during his leave, but he's working the phones pretty hard. SO the situation, although severe, is not dire enough to require the most senior US leadership and coordination on the ground. If the Gulfstream shows up in Knoxville, you'll know that it has truly hit the fan.
Prayers indeed for all of those responsible for the safety and security of Israel and its citizens, including our Jewish friends and the large Arab and Christian populations in Israel (which for me means also inside Gaza and the so-called "West Bank."
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More than 700 Jews have been killed, thousands more injured, and more than 100 were taken hostage back into Gaza. There are not enough tears to mourn the tragedy.
My son lives in Jerusalem and is ok, thank God. My cousin's grandchildren had to be evacuated from Sderot by the army.
This is the traditional prayer for IDF.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the Jordan River Valley, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May the Lord cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our soldiers from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen.
Amen.
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Amen.
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By the great mercy of God, my baby brother, (that's Colonel Baby Brother to all you civilians), who is the senior US military attache to the US Embassy Annex in Tel Aviv, was scheduled for leave months ago.
He, his wife, and his two children left Tel Aviv Thursday night, less than 24 hours before the cowardly and evil attack on Israel began. I've talked with him a couple of times since he landed stateside, and they are well.
I'm glad your brother got out and is well.
Hamas does not understand Israel. They think that can murder some innocents and commit some atrocities, and the Jews will all pack their bags and leave. They don't understand that Israel is the Jewish homeland. They're not going anywhere. They're home. And Israelis are horrified by what has happened. Bu they're not afraid. On the contrary, Hamas is going to learn about the Jewish fighting spirit, which goes back thousands of years.
The one, the only thing that worries me, is that the politicians might pull the plug on an operation before the job is done. I pray that this does not happen.
God bless you all and thank you for your support.
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Bibi has learned the almost fatal errors of Golda and Dyan from 73…. Caught with their pants down but recovered.
IDF and Mossad are in a mucus stronger position than in 73. And the political situation is very different.
Hamas has, as the Defense Minister said, opened the gates of hell and is getting ready to be shoved headlong through the gates.
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With many saying Israel is responsible for the recent unprovoked and cowardly attack against it, this piece from 2019 is a reminder that historical context is still important with regard to the ongoing Israel-Arab conflict. From the website, AJC. org:
This piece originally appeared in Times of Israel.
Mention history and it can trigger a roll of the eyes.
Add the Middle East to the equation and folks might start running for the hills, unwilling to get caught up in the seemingly bottomless pit of details and disputes.
But without an understanding of what happened in the past, it’s impossible to grasp where we are today — and where we are has profound relevance for the region and the world.
Fifty-two years ago this week, the Six-Day War broke out.
While some wars fade into obscurity, this one remains as relevant today as in 1967. Many of its core issues remain unresolved.
Politicians, diplomats, and journalists continue to grapple with the consequences of that war, but rarely consider, or perhaps are even unaware of, context. Yet without context, some critically important things may not make sense.
First, in June 1967, there was no state of Palestine. It didn’t exist and never had. Its creation, proposed by the UN in 1947, was rejected by the Arab world because it also meant the establishment of a Jewish state alongside.
Second, the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem were in Jordanian hands. Violating solemn agreements, Jordan denied Jews access to their holiest places in eastern Jerusalem. To make matters still worse, they desecrated and destroyed many of those sites.
Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control, with harsh military rule imposed on local residents.
And the Golan Heights, which were regularly used to shell Israeli communities far below, belonged to Syria.
Third, the Arab world could have created a Palestinian state in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip any day of the week. They didn’t. There wasn’t even discussion about it. And Arab leaders, who today profess such attachment to eastern Jerusalem, rarely, if ever, visited. It was viewed as an Arab backwater.
Fourth, the 1967 boundary at the time of the war, so much in the news these days, was nothing more than an armistice line dating back to 1949 — familiarly known as the Green Line. That’s after five Arab armies attacked Israel in 1948 with the aim of destroying the embryonic Jewish state. They failed. Armistice lines were drawn, but they weren’t formal borders. They couldn’t be. The Arab world, even in defeat, refused to recognize Israel’s very right to exist.
Fifth, the PLO, which supported the war effort, was established in 1964, three years before the conflict erupted. That’s important because it was created with the goal of obliterating Israel. Remember that in 1964 the only “settlements” were Israel itself.
Sixth, in the weeks leading up to the Six-Day War, Egyptian and Syrian leaders repeatedly declared that war was coming and their objective was to wipe Israel off the map. There was no ambiguity in their blood-curdling announcements. Twenty-two years after the Holocaust, another enemy spoke about the extermination of Jews. The record is well-documented.
The record is equally clear that Israel, in the days leading up to the war, passed word to Jordan, via the UN and United States, urging Amman to stay out of any pending conflict. Jordan’s King Hussein ignored the Israeli plea and tied his fate to Egypt and Syria. His forces were defeated by Israel, and he lost control of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. He later acknowledged that he had made a terrible error in entering the war.
Seventh, Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded that UN peacekeeping forces in the area, in place for the previous decade to prevent conflict, be removed. Shamefully, without even the courtesy of consulting Israel, the UN complied. That left no buffer between Arab armies being mobilized and deployed and Israeli forces in a country one-fiftieth, or two percent, the size of Egypt — and just nine miles wide at its narrowest point.
Eighth, Egypt blocked Israeli shipping lanes in the Red Sea, Israel’s only maritime access to trading routes with Asia and Africa. This step was understandably regarded as an act of war by Jerusalem. The United States spoke about joining with other countries to break the blockade, but, in the end, regrettably, did not act.
Ninth, France, which had been Israel’s principal arms supplier, announced a ban on the sale of weapons on the eve of the June war. That left Israel in potentially grave danger if a war were to drag on and require the resupply of arms. It was not until the next year that the U.S. stepped into the breach and sold vital weapons systems to Israel.
And finally, after winning the war of self-defense, Israel hoped that its newly-acquired territories, seized from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, would be the basis for a land-for-peace accord. Feelers were sent out. The formal response came on September 1, 1967, when the Arab Summit Conference famously declared in Khartoum: “No peace, no recognition, no negotiations” with Israel.
More “no’s” were to follow. Underscoring the point, in 2003, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. was quoted in The New Yorker as saying: “It broke my heart that [PLO Chair] Arafat did not take the offer (of a two-state deal presented by Israel, with American support, in 2001). Since 1948, every time we’ve had something on the table, we say no. Then we say yes. When we say yes, it’s not on the table anymore. Then we have to deal with something less. Isn’t it about time to say yes?”
Today, there are those who wish to rewrite history.
They want the world to believe there was once a Palestinian state. There was not.
They want the world to believe there were fixed borders between that state and Israel. There was only an armistice line between Israel and the Jordanian-controlled West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
They want the world to believe the 1967 war was a bellicose act by Israel. It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops. All wars have consequences. This one was no exception. But the aggressors have failed to take responsibility for the actions they instigated.
They want the world to believe post-1967 Israeli settlement-building is the key obstacle to peacemaking. The Six-Day War is proof positive that the core issue is, and always has been, whether the Palestinians and larger Arab world accept the Jewish people’s right to a state of their own. If so, all other contentious issues, however difficult, have possible solutions. But, alas, if not, all bets are off.
And they want the world to believe the Arab world had nothing against Jews per se, only Israel, yet trampled with abandon on sites of sacred meaning to the Jewish people.
In other words, when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, dismissing the past as if it were a minor irritant at best, irrelevant at worst, won’t work.
Can history move forward? Absolutely. Israel’s peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 powerfully prove the point. At the same time, though, the lessons of the Six-Day War illustrate just how tough and tortuous the path can be—and are sobering reminders that, yes, history does matter.
David Harris is the CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
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Hamas carried out a pogrom against Jewish civilians. They murdered whoever they could find. Men, women, children, the elderly. Even infants in their cribs.
I don't want to see the pictures and videos. But I must watch them. To see, to know, to bear witness.
Hamas must be obliterated.
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Hamas carried out a pogrom against Jewish civilians. They murdered whoever they could find. Men, women, children, the elderly. Even infants in their cribs.
I don't want to see the pictures and videos. But I must watch them. To see, to know, to bear witness.
Hamas must be obliterated.
It's been awful to see those things. Hamas deserve nothing less than annihilation.
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There's been an international petition started calling for a stop to civilian targeting. I signed it but it's useless. Hamas doesn't care about public opinion.
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The end of the story will be that Israel gets all the blame, as usual.
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Yes, heads commence to talking while one glaring question undercuts all the talk of retribution (which is due). How did the highly regarded system of Israeli security, including U.S. intelligence and a very costly Gaza wall fail to intercept such a massive build-up?
And has Iran-supporting Putin, whose double-sided, self-incriminating mouth has also opened in the guise of statesman, also entertained ambitious exploits in the region? All speculations must be considered.
Hamas stormed through that useless wall like a squadron of hell's angel look-aliikes while neither Kibbutz nor music-festival were adequately guarded.
An highly uncharacteristic lapse of security which needs to be honestly addressed.
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The end of the story will be that Israel gets all the blame, as usual.
Israelis don't care at this point. Hamas has to go.
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Yes, heads commence to talking while one glaring question undercuts all the talk of retribution (which is due). How did the highly regarded system of Israeli security, including U.S. intelligence and a very costly Gaza wall fail to intercept such a massive build-up?
Hamas played the long game. They pretended to be a rational actor while planning for genocide. I suppose there was groupthink on the Israel side, which unfortunately even intelligent people can fall into.
An highly uncharacteristic lapse of security which needs to be honestly addressed.
After Hamas is smashed, I expect that it will be.
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More than 700 Jews have been killed, thousands more injured, and more than 100 were taken hostage back into Gaza. There are not enough tears to mourn the tragedy.
My son lives in Jerusalem and is ok, thank God. My cousin's grandchildren had to be evacuated from Sderot by the army.
This is the traditional prayer for IDF.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the Jordan River Valley, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May the Lord cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our soldiers from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen.
Hooah and Amen!
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"Father of compassion", a Jewish prayer composed almost a thousand years ago, after the First Crusade devastated Jewish communities in Western Europe:
Father of compassion, Who dwells on high, in His profound mercy, He will be compassionately mindful of the pious, the upright, and the blameless ones; the holy communities who gave their lives for the sanctification of the Divine Name. They were beloved and pleasant in their lifetime, and in their death are not parted from Him. They were swifter than eagles and stronger than lions to do the will of their Possessor and the desire of their Rock. Our God will recall them favorably together with the other righteous of all time. And will avenge the blood of His servants that has been shed. As it is written in the Torah of Moses, the man of God, “O nations, make His people rejoice for He will redress the blood of His servants
He will retaliate against His enemies and appease His land and His people.” And by the hands of Your servants, the Prophets, it is written saying: “Though I forgive, their bloodshed I shall not forgive When God dwells in Zion.” And in the Holy Writings, it is said, "Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let it be known among the nations in our sight that You avenge the spilled blood of Your servants. And it says: "For He who exacts retribution for spilled blood remembers them He does not forget the cry of the humble". And it says: "He will execute judgement among the corpse-filled nations crushing the rulers of the mighty land; from the brook by the wayside he will drink then he will hold his head high"
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Hamas has killed 1200 civilians so far, including 40 Israeli babies--some beheaded. The mindless, wanton brutality of these murderous fanatics reveals an uncivilized mindset befitting a more primitive era. I'd call them animals, but animals normally only kill for food or in self-defense, not out of blind hatred.
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Contrary to typical, frenzied propaganda, the IDF ground forces will not storm in, smashing Palestinian citizens. Neither will they bomb their own troops.
They will need, however, to extract Hamas operatives, one square foot at a time. Locals must necessarily be moved.
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All those people and their moral hand-wringing. Yes, war is awful. It's war. What were they doing during their post-9/11 bloodlust?
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I remember Muslims dancing and celebrating in the streets in the aftermath of the 9/11 events. One Muslim official, when questioned about the inappropriate revelry, said the reports were inaccurate, and that only a few children were celebrating, and were disciplined. I remember thinking at the time that no response would have been better than that explanation. Besides, you gonna believe him or your lying eyes?
There is a primitive, barbaric mindset inherent in violent Muslim activists and their supporters that is out of place in a modern, civilized era. Engaging an enemy honorably on the battlefield is one thing. But people have to be unbalanced and devoid of humanity to wantonly massacre innocent civilians and see it as bringing glory to their god. And a brain wired to casually behead innocent babies and children is simply beyond my comprehension.
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There are huge pro Hamas rallies going on all over the world. It's shameful that nobody rallied when Jews were being slaughtered. Only when Jews defend themselves is it a problem.
I feel sick.
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Likewise.
Colonel Baby Brother is still stateside but returning to post in Tel Aviv soon.
We are having coffee this afternoon as he travels
Will be interesting (and likely sickening) to hear what official DOD and State Dept ( hack. Ptuiey. Spit) is
As opposed to what the real folks making decisions on the ground with Mossad and IDF are…
Continuing prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, the protection of God’s people, and the safety, security, and safety of the brave mens and women of IDF.
24 “‘“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Amen
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"as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion."
"No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD."
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and all other haters of Israel labor in vain and to their own peril. When the dust finally settles, they will learn who the true God is.
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Likewise.
Colonel Baby Brother is still stateside but returning to post in Tel Aviv soon.
May God watch over him and keep him safe, along with all of Israel.
State Dept ( hack. Ptuiey. Spit)
It's my understanding that Blinken is running around the middle east getting other countries to pressure Israel (not Iran) to ease up.
I guess they want things to go back to the way they were on October 6.
Which won't ever happen in Israel.
Continuing prayers for the peace of Jerusalem, the protection of God’s people, and the safety, security, and safety of the brave mens and women of IDF.
24 “‘“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Amen
Amen!
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"as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion."
"No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD."
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and all other haters of Israel labor in vain and to their own peril. When the dust finally settles, they will learn who the true God is.
Amen. this is beautiful.
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Thanks for the prayers for the Colonel. He will be back in Tel Aviv soon. Has been in contact with his normal sources.
The Israelis are shocked at Biden’s surprising support so far; of course, that probably changed with his asinine statements yesterday.
Col. Brother shared some of his WeChat group photos and videos. He was getting live feed from a friend in a kibbutz while they were hiding from and evading the Hamas inhumane terrorists. His photos from folks on the ground in real time are worse than a human can imagine.
Hamas is toast. Crispy, crumbly, blown away into the trash and dumped on the dung pile.
Everyone strap in. This is going to get really difficult to watch. Today the Hamas demons are killing people trying to escape Gaza.
Continue to pray
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I'm reading that the Pentagon is sending 2,000 US soldiers to Israel to take part in support and planning. I do not believe that this is a good idea, and worse, I believe that the reason for this is malicious. I think this would give the Biden administration a veto over the IDF's actions. Biden is still "all in" on playing nice with Iran and will prevent Israel from dismantling Hamas (his public statements notwithstanding).
The US Armed Forces have never taken part in defending Israel and there's no need for that to change now.
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I hope not
Only this Pentagon could be that stupid.
My brother is going to lose his mind.
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Biden administration just hit the brakes again.
They're pressing the Israeli government as to what their plan is for what happens after they topple Hamas.
Israel is a sovereign nation and doesn't need to clear its plans with Joe Biden, the UN, or anyone else.
I'm afraid of a very bad outcome here. One that leaves Hamas in power and with ~200 Israeli hostages to bargain with.
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Israel is a USA ally. They should be treated as such. Any reading of the OT we can learn how God sent them to war to win. USA has not fought a war to win since Korea . USA monies go to Ukraine to cover Branden's business.
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Should not come as a surprise
Hamas actions are war crimes, could constitute genocide – international law experts
Over 100 authorities from Israel and abroad say terror group’s massive attack was intended to destroy part of a national group, hostage-taking involved multiple crimes
By STUART WINER
15 October 2023
Over 100 experts on international law issued a statement Sunday assessing that the Hamas terror group committed multiple war crimes in its massive assault on Israel last week and that its actions in slaughtering 1,300 people likely amounted to genocide.
“These acts constitute gross violation of international law, and, in particular, of international criminal law,” declared the document, signed by academic figures and legal authorities in Israel and abroad.
“Videos, released mostly by Hamas, posted on social media, document acts of torture, sexual violence, violence towards children and molestation of bodies,” the document specified.
“As these widespread, horrendous acts appear to have been carried out with an ‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part’ a national group – Israelis – a goal explicitly declared by Hamas, they most probably constitute an international crime of genocide, proscribed by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,” it added.
Among those who signed the document was Prof. Irwin Cotler, the former justice minister and attorney general of Canada.
Dan Eldad, who served as Israel’s acting state attorney from February to May 2020 and who helped put the letter together, told The Times of Israel that it may have key diplomatic value should Israel seek to persuade other countries or international organizations that remain on the fence to come down on its side, and in confronting those who express support for the Palestinian position.
“They can go to them and say, ‘Look, it was genocide,'” he said.
On October 7, over 1,500 Hamas terrorists stormed Israel’s border around the Gaza Strip and murderously rampaged through southern areas, taking over communities and killing the men, women and children they found, as well as overrunning military sites with similar deadly results. The toll from the bloody assault, which came alongside a widespread barrage of 5,000 rockets fired indiscriminately at towns and cities across Israel, has swelled to more than 1,300, the vast majority of them civilians. Thousands more were injured, hundreds of them seriously.
Among the dead were dozens of babies. Some of the victims, including entire families who were butchered, were reportedly beheaded. At an outdoor music festival, surrounded by the attackers, 260 people were systematically mowed down. In addition, the terrorists abducted around 150 people of all ages, including children and elderly women, dragging them to Gaza as captives. Hamas has continued to indiscriminately rain rockets on civilian areas of southern and central issues since the attack started.
The legal opinion released Sunday was organized by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer-based organization that was formed after the attack and is striving to secure the return of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
Eldad said the document was composed by a number of professors in Israel who then distributed it to their peers across the world.
“The taking of hostages is defined as a war crime,” the statement said, clarifying that laws regarding the right to hold prisoners of war do not apply to terrorist organizations.
“Thus, holding both civilian and soldier hostages constitutes a war crime,” the document continued. “The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of all hostages, civilian and soldiers, reveals that they were taken with the purpose of holding them hostage. Hamas must release all hostages immediately.”
Further, “the abduction of people without provision of information regarding their whereabouts constitutes the [war] crime of enforced disappearances.” Available information indicates that “many abductees were tortured by their captors” and as those acts were committed as part of Hamas’s policy to attack civilians they “constitute crimes against humanity, for which perpetrators must bear full accountability,” the experts said.
Until the hostages are released, Hamas is obliged under international law to provide information about the captives including their medical condition, as well as providing medical care, they stressed.
They called for the International Committee of the Red Cross and “all relevant UN agencies” to demand Hamas grant access to the abductees.
“These organizations must also do their utmost to ensure that essential foodstuff and appropriate medical treatment are provided,” they said.
The international community and organizations have a duty to use all means to pressure Hamas to give precedence to the immediate release of protected groups, such as “children, women, older persons, people with disabilities and those in need of medical treatment,” the document urged.
Israel has retaliated to the attacks with artillery and airstrikes, and officials from the Hamas-controlled health ministry estimated more than 2,000 Palestinians dead. Israel says it is targeting terrorist infrastructure and all areas where Hamas operates or hides out while issuing evacuation warnings to civilians in regions it plans to attack.
A coded document found in a vehicle used by Hamas terrorists in their shock assault on Israel showed they were instructed to massacre civilians and take captives, according to a television report Saturday.
The Kan public broadcaster reported that the document was recovered at Kibbutz Re’im, outside of which at least 260 people were killed and an unknown number taken hostage at a music festival.
The report came a day after Kan revealed a different document left behind by a Hamas terrorist in southern Israel that ordered terrorists to kill as many civilians as possible in their takeover of Kibbutz Alumim.
On Saturday, NBC News reported on additional documents recovered from terrorists showed extensive Hamas plans to target an elementary school and a youth center, kill “as many people as possible” and take hostages quickly into Gaza from Kibbutz Sa’ad.
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song we sang in Sunday School
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone!
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known.
If Israel does not show force it will happen over and over.
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Oh! Children perishing in Gaza! Who on Earth is responsible for this? And are Palestians merely hapless sheep?
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In this particular crisis, I'm proud of the U.S. and very proud of President Joe Biden. He has my prayers for certain.
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Representative of the distorted perspective of the current situation in Israel, Jewish college students are currently facing antisemitism from their classmates and a cold, apathetic silence from university officials. Some Jewish students are even fearful of going to class because of the hostile environment. Boisterous anti-Israel rhetoric is common, along with rallies supporting Hamas, as well as denials the atrocities were committed against Israel. It's disheartening to see such an irrational, warped view of the tiny nation's circumstances growing.
Shortly after the horrific truth of the Holocaust became public, empathetic supporters vowed, "never again." Unfortunately, that sentiment has faded, and the dark, sinister spirit of antisemitism is once again proliferating around the world. Yet again, the nation of Israel faces an existential threat as the victim becomes the villain, and support for the murderous transgressors flourishes. You expect such a mentality from Muslim activists and their staunch allies. But the magnitude and scope of skewed perception and lack of judgment we are witnessing defies logic.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jewish-college-students-scared-class-blame-universities-silence-antisemitism
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Many too many Christians turned our kids over to the government schools to: Pro_22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it
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We often forget Islam is a clear and present manifestation of evil.
As for these terrorists, the capacity for brutality seems proportional to an unbelievable stupidity.
Just sayin what should be said.
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Shortly after the horrific truth of the Holocaust became public, empathetic supporters vowed, "never again."
It seems as if the phrase "Never Again" actually means "Never Again will we allow the Nazis to murder Jews in Europe in the 1940s".