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It's oddly familiar to what the Germans did to the jews in WWII, when you really think about it...the jews are committing humans rights crimes against the people that the jews have put in a 5mile by 25mile open air prison that the jews have fenced off and authorizes themselves to shoot the Palestinians if they get too close to the fence...they're not allowed to leave, vote or even have basic human rights...the jews and US politicians and pundits call the modern day jews terrorists that way they can justify the blatant Geneva Convention laws they flagrantly violate when they dump white phosphorus on the Palestinians...as an American...I can say what the fuck does this have to do with the US? The fight between those two groups of people has-been going on since Abram changed his name to Abraham in the biblew...really other than having Israel as a sphere of influence in the Middle East, and Israel's threat of the Samson option...there's literally nothing good going to come of this...if anything if we get involved directly than the Axis powers of WWIII will engage against us...and with the super stunning and brave Trans woke military we have these days I'm not feeling confident that we will come out of the situation with a W...
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I dont like seeing this, but it’s the truth. Between short attention spans and former/stronger alliances, I hope our support doesn’t get swept under the rug. What Ukraine is enduring is horrific.
Fox host Jesse Watters confidently suggested military plans to counter Hamas on the air tonight that an expert said could very well result in killing Israeli hostages. Let's leave the military strategy to the experts, shall we?
Over at Fox News, some of the hosts are demonstrating their strategic skillset by suggesting military plans on how to respond to Hamas. During 'Jesse Watters Primetime,' host Jesse Watters suggested the idea of flooding the tunnels used by Hamas.
Fox Proposes Plan That Could Kill Israeli Hostages Held by Hamas
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Over at Fox News, some of the hosts are demonstrating their strategic skillset by suggesting military plans on how to respond to Hamas. During 'Jesse Watters Primetime,' host Jesse Watters suggested the idea of flooding the tunnels used by Hamas.
Watters floated his proposition to his guest, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Phillip Breedlove. Breedlove brought up one point that appeared to be missing from Watters' plan.
Jesse Watters Suggests Flooding Hamas Tunnels
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Let's leave the complex military strategy to the experts, shall we, Jesse? Or do we need your mom to check in on you again..
Why Egypt and other Arab countries are unwilling to take in Palestinian refugees from Gaza
JACK JEFFERY AND SAMY MAGDY
October 18, 2023 at 12:22 PM
CAIRO (AP) — As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack, some ask why neighboring Egypt and Jordan don’t take them in.
The two countries, which flank Israel on opposite sides and share borders with Gaza and the occupied West Bank, respectively, have replied with a staunch refusal. Jordan already has a large Palestinian population.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi made his toughest remarks yet on Wednesday, saying the current war was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to ... migrate to Egypt.” He warned this could wreck peace in the region.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II gave a similar message a day earlier, saying, “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”
Their refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for statehood. El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty.
Here is a look at what is motivating Egypt’s and Jordan’s stances.
A HISTORY OF DISPLACEMENT
Displacement has been a major theme of Palestinian history. In the 1948 war around Israel’s creation, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from what is now Israel. Palestinians refer to the event as the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe.”
In the 1967 Mideast war, when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 300,000 more Palestinians fled, mostly into Jordan.
The refugees and their descendants now number nearly 6 million, most living in camps and communities in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The diaspora has spread further, with many refugees building lives in Gulf Arab countries or the West.
After fighting stopped in the 1948 war, Israel refused to allow refugees to return to their homes. Since then, Israel has rejected Palestinian demands for a return of refugees as part of a peace deal, arguing that it would threaten the country’s Jewish majority.
Egypt fears history will repeat itself and a large Palestinian refugee population from Gaza will end up staying for good.
NO GUARANTEE OF RETURN
That’s in part because there’s no clear scenario for how this war will end.
Israel says it intends to destroy Hamas for its bloody rampage in its southern towns. But it has given no indication of what might happen afterward and who would govern Gaza. That has raised concerns that it will reoccupy the territory for a period, fueling further conflict.
The Israeli military said Palestinians who followed its order to flee northern Gaza to the strip’s southern half would be allowed back to their homes after the war ends.
Egypt is not reassured.
El-Sissi said fighting could last for years if Israel argues it hasn’t sufficiently crushed militants. He proposed that Israel house Palestinians in its Negev Desert, which neighbors the Gaza Strip, until it ends its military operations.
“Israel’s lack of clarity regarding its intentions in Gaza and the evacuation of the population is in itself problematic,” said Riccardo Fabiani, Crisis Group International’s North Africa Project Director. “This confusion fuels fears in the neighborhood.”
Egypt has pushed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, and Israel said Wednesday that it would, though it didn't say when. According to United Nations, Egypt, which is dealing with a spiraling economic crisis, already hosts some 9 million refugees and migrants, including roughly 300,000 Sudanese who arrived this year after fleeing their country’s war.
But Arab countries and many Palestinians also suspect Israel might use this opportunity to force permanent demographic changes to wreck Palestinian demands for statehood in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which was also captured by Israel in 1967.
El-Sissi repeated warnings Wednesday that an exodus from Gaza was intended to “eliminate the Palestinian cause … the most important cause of our region.” He argued that if a demilitarized Palestinian state had been created long ago in negotiations, there would not be war now.
“All historical precedent points to the fact that when Palestinians are forced to leave Palestinian territory, they are not allowed to return back,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Egypt doesn’t want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
Arab countries’ fears have only been stoked by the rise under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of hard-right parties that talk in positive terms about removing Palestinians. Since the Hamas attack, the rhetoric has become less restrained, with some right-wing politicians and media commentators calling for the military to raze Gaza and drive out its inhabitants. One lawmaker said Israel should carry out a “new Nakba” on Gaza.
WORRIES OVER HAMAS
At the same time, Egypt says a mass exodus from Gaza would bring Hamas or other Palestinian militants onto its soil. That might be destabilizing in Sinai, where Egypt's military fought for years against Islamic militants and at one point accused Hamas of backing them.
Egypt has backed Israel’s blockade of Gaza since Hamas took over in the territory in 2007, tightly controlling the entry of materials and the passage of civilians back and forth. It also destroyed the network of tunnels under the border that Hamas and other Palestinians used to smuggle goods into Gaza.
With the Sinai insurgency largely put down, “Cairo does not want to have a new security problem on its hands in this problematic region,” Fabiani said.
El-Sissi warned of an even more destabilizing scenario: the wrecking of Egypt and Israel’s 1979 peace deal. He said that with the presence of Palestinian militants, Sinai “would become a base for attacks on Israel. Israel would have the right to defend itself ... and would strike Egyptian territory.”
“The peace which we have achieved would vanish from our hands,” he said, “all for the sake of the idea of eliminating the Palestinian cause.”
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For more AP coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict: https://apnews.com/hub/israel-palestinian-conflict
Is Biden Right?, that: Israel Needs to Avoid America's 9/11 Mistakes
HUSSEIN IBISH , SENIOR RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE ARAB GULF STATES INSTITUTEWhen Hamas fighters broke through the Israeli border fence on October 7, it was seeking to PROVOKE Israel into miscalculations driven by outrage. When insurgent or terrorist groups engage in spectacular overkill attacks, they typically seek to destabilize the target society and inflame a toxic mixture of shock, outrage, panic and wrath such that the dominant power inflicts much greater blows against itself than insurgents ever could.
Remember the 9/11 attacks?
Al Qaeda leaders hoped to PROVOKE Washington into something profoundly unwise and self-damaging -> Unfortunately, the George W. Bush administration obliged by invading Iraq in 2003, which damaged American credibility and global leadership, undermined public support for U.S. military actions in the Middle East, and greatly empowered Iran. As for terrorism, the misbegotten Iraq war actually produced an even more extreme iteration of Sunni Islamist radicalism in ISIS.
Hamas wants Israel to make the same kind of mistake. Though it may seem counterintuitive, what Hamas really wants is an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza interior.
Since 2007, when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, Israel has been controlling the territory from the outside only, retaining a tight grip on coastal waters, the airspace, the electromagnetic spectrum and all points of exit and entrance except for one small crossing controlled by Egypt.
In the past year, Hamas became increasingly uncomfortable. The momentum of the Palestinian confrontation with Israel had shifted strongly to the West Bank, led by unaffiliated ad hoc armed youth groups like the "Lions' Den." And they were noticing a subtle erosion of support from Turkey and Qatar.
Since its founding in 1987, Hamas' primary goal has not actually involved battling Israel. That's a means to the real goal, which is to marginalize secular Palestinians in Fatah and take over the national movement. Hamas wants to dominate all territories under Palestinian control, impose ultraconservative religious social policies, and, above all, take over the Palestine Liberation Organization and its priceless global diplomatic profile, including UN observer state status and over 100 embassies around the world.
From 1987 to 2000, Hamas was distinctly secondary within the Palestinian national movement, which was dominated by Fatah. But the Second Intifada that began in the fall of 2000 following the failed Camp David summit radicalized both sides. The Israeli "peace camp" collapsed and Ariel Sharon became prime minister. Among Palestinians, Hamas finally became a contender for national leadership.
After two elections in which Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas overwhelmingly won the presidency but Hamas-backed candidates twice emerged as the biggest legislative bloc, Hamas violently expelled Fatah from Gaza. The Palestinian split continues to this day, but compared to the West Bank, Gaza is far less culturally and historically significant.
Hamas obviously thinks that if it wants to take over the Palestinian movement, it needs another sustained insurgency against Israeli occupation. Hamas is hoping to lure the Israeli military back into the interior of Gaza for the urban combat that favors insurgent groups. Hamas hopes a sustained insurgency can eventually result in a steady drip of killed and captured Israeli conscripts, allowing Hamas to claim that it alone is actively fighting for Palestine.
What this means is that in trying to fulfill the pledge to "eliminate Hamas," Israel could well deliver everything Hamas is counting on.
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Instead, it would behoove Israel think carefully about how to deny Hamas what it seeks from a prolonged insurgency in Gaza.
It's not just a matter of restraint. Israel must rethink its whole approach to the Palestinians. Israeli governments have gone out of their way since the Oslo Accords in 1993 to make Fatah and the PLO look like feckless failures as they pursue a fruitless campaign to obtain statehood through negotiations. Israel has frequently promoted Hamas over Fatah, not just inadvertently but quite deliberately.
No one is guiltier of this than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2019, he patiently explained to his Likud Party's Knesset members that, "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas." In case anyone didn't fully understand, he added, "This is part of our strategy—to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."
Many Israeli governments have pitted Hamas against Fatah since its founding in 1987, hoping to split and thereby cripple the Palestinian movement.
If Israelis finally realize how catastrophically misguided this policy is, then there are three obvious correctives.
First, Israel does not actually benefit from promoting a potent Palestinian radical Islamist party.
Second, Israel should do its utmost not to fall into the trap Hamas has set in Gaza.
And, third and most crucially different from long-standing Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, if it wants to defeat and marginalize Hamas, Israel must begin treating Fatah and the Palestinian Authority with respect and seriousness.
Anyone truly appalled by the terrorist attacks must actively reward those Palestinians who are committed to talking to Israel as opposed to those who are committed to shooting Israelis.
Instead, it would behoove Israel think carefully about how to deny Hamas what it seeks from a prolonged insurgency in Gaza.
It's not just a matter of restraint. Israel must rethink its whole approach to the Palestinians. Israeli governments have gone out of their way since the Oslo Accords in 1993 to make Fatah and the PLO look like feckless failures as they pursue a fruitless campaign to obtain statehood through negotiations. Israel has frequently promoted Hamas over Fatah, not just inadvertently but quite deliberately.
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Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
No one is guiltier of this than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2019, he patiently explained to his Likud Party's Knesset members that, "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas." In case anyone didn't fully understand, he added, "This is part of our strategy—to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."
Many Israeli governments have pitted Hamas against Fatah since its founding in 1987, hoping to split and thereby cripple the Palestinian movement.
If Israelis finally realize how catastrophically misguided this policy is, then there are three obvious correctives:
First, -- Israel does not actually benefit from promoting a potent Palestinian radical Islamist party.
Second, -- Israel should do its utmost not to fall into the trap Hamas has set in Gaza.
And, third and most crucially -- different from long-standing Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, if it wants to defeat and marginalize Hamas, Israel must begin treating Fatah and the Palestinian Authority with respect and seriousness.
Anyone truly appalled by the terrorist attacks must actively reward those Palestinians who are committed to talking to Israel as opposed to those who are committed to shooting Israelis.
President Biden Is Right: Israel Needs to Avoid America's 9/11 Mistakes
Hamas' primary goal is not battling Israel but marginalizing secular Palestinians in Fatah and taking over the national movement.
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1. When it comes to terrorism, the U.S. is a certifiable genius; how else can you keep millions of people shackled to some land providing free labor.
2. Once we got our freedom, it was lynching/Jim Crow, cross burnings.
3. Than you have the Civil Rights era where terrorism was used to suppress freedom drives in the South.
4. Now we are getting into the modern era.
I don't think the U.S. has the moral authority to denounce the actions of Hamas. Our terrorism does not look like the traditional Middle Eastern style but they are all the same. What Hamas did recently reminds me of the louisiana slave rebellion of 1811, leaving their plantation and going on a murder spree. Now the Israeli are doing this to them with their heads as a reminder.
War is terrorism. It is a basic primal instinct that you see with animals like primates to display your lethality to force submission without having to kill everybody. When this does not happen, than the stakes are raised.
2. Once we got our freedom, it was lynching/Jim Crow, cross burnings.
3. Than you have the Civil Rights era where terrorism was used to suppress freedom drives in the South.
4. Now we are getting into the modern era.
I don't think the U.S. has the moral authority to denounce the actions of Hamas. Our terrorism does not look like the traditional Middle Eastern style but they are all the same. What Hamas did recently reminds me of the louisiana slave rebellion of 1811, leaving their plantation and going on a murder spree. Now the Israeli are doing this to them with their heads as a reminder.
War is terrorism. It is a basic primal instinct that you see with animals like primates to display your lethality to force submission without having to kill everybody. When this does not happen, than the stakes are raised.
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Anytime you see some form of inequality, there is terrorism whether overtly, or in the case of the U.S. covertly being done to a group. South Africa is a perfect example, the only way you can keep a population unequal like that is extrajudicial killings, secret police/disappearing people, and other acts of violence. The white South Africans covertly terrorize the population to get all the farmland and other resources. Nelson Mandela/Hamas comes along and launches a bunch of rockets, and butchers people up.
Even though there is no evidence, it can be inferred that the population was subjected to terrorism due to the inequality. If the Boers go on TV claiming victimhood, and calling people savages. I would see both groups as being coequal responsible for the tragedy.
The U.S. lacks the moral authority, but what it can do is when another mass shooting happens targeting us, it needs to call it terrorism and repudiate the act.
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Fox News reporter Trey Yingst limits grisly details of Hamas terrorist’s confession about Israel massacre
ByAlexandra Steigrad
Published Oct. 23, 2023, 12:11 p.m. ET
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Yingst obtained a video of what the terrorist told Israeli forces, but spared viewers the most disturbing details from his confession of the Oct. 7 massacre that killed more than 1,400 Israelis.
“I do need to warn our viewers, what I am about to describe is incredibly graphic, but it gives new details on what took place two weeks ago,” the visibly shaken reporter said during Saturday’s broadcast.
The terrorist told interrogators their “commanders said they could do whatever they felt like doing and that this was a suicide mission, telling them they should not plan on coming back,” according to the video, which was first reported on by Mediaite.
“He says commanders told them to step on the heads of civilians, to behead them and do whatever they felt like,” Yingst said. “He went on to talk about how Hamas and ISIS are being compared. The interrogator asked him about this comparison, and he agreed. He said, we burned, we slaughtered, and beheaded people.”
4Yingst said he could not reveal all the gruesome details from a video Fox News obtained of an interrogation of a captured Hamas terrorist who described Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli civilians.FOX News
4Terrorists in a pick-up truck with German-Israeli Shani Louk on Oct. 7.AP
4Blood is seen splattered in a child’s room following Hamas’ attack in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel.AP
4A mourner grieves during the funeral of a person killed by Hamas terrorists.AFP via Getty Images
He recounted that the terrorist told the interrogator: “We became animals — [we did] things humans do not do.”
Yingst also reported that the Hamas terrorists used Telegram to communicate and “share videos in real time” while committing the attacks, which included beheadings, rape, slaughtering babies and other unspeakable acts.
Some of the videos shot by the terrorists have been obtained by Israelis, and on Monday, will be shown to reporters, Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said on a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
Fringe groups have cast doubt on the horrific violence, including whether babies had been beheaded during the attack, despite reports confirming it.
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Levy called it a “Holocaust denial-like phenomenon unfolding in real time” as people are “casting doubt on the magnitude of the atrocities that Hamas has committed against our people” and said journalists who could “stomach it” would be able to view the footage.
“It’s sickening that the government has to do this, even after the many eyewitness accounts and the journalists allowed into morgues,” noted Jerusalem Post’s political correspondent Lahav Harkov on Sunday.
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I remember watching Band of Brothers on HBO years ago. When Easy Company came upon a concentration camp for the first time, and the outrage they felt. The allies forced the Germans to go and work in the camps, to bury the dead and to be witness to what their country was guilty of... so it would never be forgotten.
Seems we need that lesson again. It should be required on college campuses. Show those pictures and film from the Holocaust... and then show these image from 10/7 to those screaming little entitled babies. We'll see if there is a safe space they can crawl into to deal with the images.
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I remember watching Band of Brothers on HBO years ago. When Easy Company came upon a concentration camp for the first time, and the outrage they felt. The allies forced the Germans to go and work in the camps, to bury the dead and to be witness to what their country was guilty of... so it would never be forgotten.
Seems we need that lesson again. It should be required on college campuses. Show those pictures and film from the Holocaust... and then show these image from 10/7 to those screaming little entitled babies. We'll see if there is a safe space they can crawl into to deal with the images.
Jewish Americans are flocking to learn gun safety and buy firearms amid war in Israel
ByMelissa Koenig
Published Oct. 23, 2023, 12:39 p.m. ET
A growing number of American Jews are taking courses on firearm safety and going to shooting ranges around the country as they fear for their safety following Hamas’ attack on Israel.
More Jewish customers have been buying guns amid the rise of antisemitism following the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, according to David Kowalsky, who owns the Florida Gun Store in Hollywood, Fla.
“We’ve definitely seen a tremendous increase in religious Jewish people, Orthodox people purchasing firearms,” Kowalsky told NBC News.
“I’ve seen a surge in individual training as well as group training.”
Many of those Kowalsky and other firearms instructors throughout the country have been teaching have never picked up a gun before, including many women. Some have even spoken in favor of gun control.
“These are mothers, teachers, the majority of them are mostly people who have never interacted with firearms or thought about owning them,” Kowalsky said.
“There’s a safety concern,” he said. “I think people are nervous about what’s going on and what can happen.”
Among those seeking out guns is Henya Chein, who attended a gun safety seminar at her synagogue in Florida last week and went on to attend a one-on-one session at a local shooting range.
4A growing number of American Jews are taking courses on firearm safety and hitting up shooting ranges around the country as they fear for their safety following Hamas’ attack on Israel.Getty Images
She said she has always been afraid of guns, but felt “forced to do it because Jewish people are not safe anywhere now.”
Endi Tennenhaus, a preschool director and mother of seven in Hollywood, Florida, also helped organize a gun safety training for women at her synagogue.
Her husband, who serves as the rabbi of the congregation, had already organized a men’s group to go to a local shooting range.
“I said, ‘What about the women? I’m sure some of the women would love to do that as well,” Tennenhaus told NBC News.
“If all of our husbands are buying guns, we want to make sure we also know [how] to use them and also be able to protect our children and be able to keep guns safe in their homes.”
4Many of the Jewish Americans whom firearms instructors throughout the country have been teaching over the past week have never picked up a gun before, including many women. Some have even spoken in favor of gun control.Sygma via Getty Images
Tennenhaus said about 25 to 30 women attended the introductory class, and a shooting range session is scheduled for next week.
An unidentified 41-year-old woman in Miami Beach told NBC News she is pro-gun control and had no desire to ever pick up a gun.
But she decided to sign up for a gun training session after receiving death threats from unknown accounts on Instagram, where she had previously posted about being Jewish.
Some contained graphic images of dead bodies, she said.
“It’s not like, ‘Hey, I’m proud and happy and want to do this,’” said the woman, who wished to remain anonymous for her family’s safety. “I have no choice, it’s a very sad thing.”
4Some synagogue congregations in the United States have organized firearm safety courses and outings at local shooting ranges.Getty Images
The rise in American Jews buying guns and seeking out gun safety courses is not just limited to Florida.
In Los Angeles, California, Rabbi Yossi Eilfort said the nonprofit he runs to provide classes and firearm training to the Jewish community has received more than 600 calls in the past week.
And Danniel Lombard, a Chicago police officer who runs DAVAD Civilian Defense, a firearms training company, said he has seen a massive uptick in interest from the local Jewish community, and will “definitely” add more classes to meet the demand.
Meanwhile, David Prince, who runs the Eagle Gun Range in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, said demand at his two locations has skyrocketed 300% since Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel.
“It’s been a really big change these last three or four days,” he told WFAA. “The people coming in and saying they are scared for their lives, because of their religion they are expecting to be attacked.”
4The uptick in gun sales and training lessons among American Jews comes amid fears of antisemitism.Getty Images
The uptick in gun sales and training lessons marks a change for the American Jewish community, Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran New York-based political strategist and Orthodox rabbi, told NBC News.
“The majority of Jews in the country historically have been liberal on the left, pro-gun reform, pro-gun control, opposed to personal gun ownership,” he said, claiming: “Jews with guns were always seen as an odd event.”
But now, he said, it seems the long-held belief that the US is “one place in the world where Jews were safe, is coming to an end.”
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Since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, there have been 107 recorded antisemitic incidents across the US, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
It also found that there were 347 messages on Telegram from extremists calling for violence against Jews, Israelis and Zionists in just the first 18 hours after Hamas’ surprise attack — up approximately 488% from just the day before.
yea the many GOOD jewish people should turn it on their leadership,
and the other die hard zionist thats making their whole culture look
like Evil Demons!!!
and the other die hard zionist thats making their whole culture look
like Evil Demons!!!
Day 17 - Israel at War | Northern Front with Hezbollah May Represent Israel's Biggest Challenge
Obama Warns Israel's Strikes on Gaza Could Backfire
Story by Thomas Kika
Above, a photo of former President Barack Obama during a visit to Israel. Obama on Monday cautioned Israel against a response to Hamas that inflicted suffering on innocent Gaza civilians, which he warned would "backfire."
Former President Barack Obama on Monday spoke out about the Israel-Hamas conflict, warning that Israel's strikes against Gaza could backfire.
On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, with Israel subsequently launching its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza in response. As of Monday, over 1,400 people in Israel have died, the Associated Press reported, in addition to more than 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is "at war" and has cut off food, fuel, electricity, and medicine supplies to Gaza. Israel has called up 360,000 army reservists as it prepares for a likely ground offensive into the territory, which has an estimated population of around 2.3 million.
In a Medium post published on Monday, Obama spoke out about the ongoing situation in Gaza. To start, he reaffirmed his past comments supporting Israel's right to defend itself from the likes of Hamas and expressed support for President Joe Biden's response to the situation.
"As I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend its citizens against such wanton violence, and I fully support President Biden's call for the United States to support our long-time ally in going after Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities, and facilitating the safe return of hundreds of hostages to their families," Obama wrote.
Despite that, the former president added that "how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters," and urged that the country abide by international "laws that seek to avoid, to every extent possible, the death or suffering of civilian populations," lest its efforts "backfire."
"The world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire," Obama added. "Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes."
He continued: "The Israeli government's decision to cut off food, water, and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis; it could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel's enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region."
Obama also conceded that the task would be difficult, given that "many Israelis have demanded that their government do whatever it takes to root out Hamas," and given Hamas's operations are "deeply embedded within Gaza...and its leadership seems to intentionally hide among civilians, thereby endangering the very people they claim to represent."
Newsweek reached out to Israeli officials via email for comment.
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