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Hamas Breathes a Sigh of Relief all the Propaganda, None of the Danger

Posted: October 18, 2023 by datechguy in Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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Batman: (To himself as the Joker uses a girl as a human shield and puts a gun to her head) No Joker, you’re playing the wrong game, the old game. Tonight you’re taking no hostages, tonight I’m taking no prisoners.

Batman the Dark Knight Issue 3

When I first heard about the Hospital in Gaza being hit in passing at work my first thought was: Israel Has reached their Dark Knight moment. The moment when they are not playing the old game anymore. A Hamas HQ in a Hospital doesn’t mean a thing to them anymore. If Hamas is there Israel will kill them.

For Hamas such a situation would mean that there is no longer anywhere that is safe for them. No amount of hostages would save them, Yeah they would play the propaganda card but no amount of propaganda would save them, and with all the various middle east countries saying they want no part of the Palestinians of Gaza (which tells you all you need to know about them) it meant they would get their chance to be the martyrs that they claimed they always dreamed of being and I suspect the thought scared them shitless.

But when I got home I got the facts. Apparently an Islamic Jihad rocket fell short and hit the Hospital which produced a bunch of secondary explosions (why it’s as if the Hospital was a gigantic ammo dump or something) and killed a bunch of people. I suspect quite a few of them Hamas.

And Hamas now can breathe a sigh of relief, because now they have the best of both worlds:

  1. Israel still being blamed for the attack giving a propaganda card they can play with the Muslim world that will believe anything they say against the Jews anyways.
  2. Israel not actually crossing the line indicating they are willing to pay any political price to kill them.

Now I actually think that Israel is ready to cross the line and had decided to starve them a bit more before moving in and want them in the maximum state of exhaustion because you can’t stay on full alert for an invasion forever, particularly when your leadership is being decapitated at the same time. When Israel comes they’re going to come big and terrible.

But at least for now Hamas and their sponsors in Iran can breathe a sigh of relief that the end that I believe is coming is not yet a confirmed fact.

At least not yet.

Update: I guess I mixed up my Hospitals in terms of the Hamas Base From Hotair:

Besides, if Israel wanted to target a hospital, it would have been Al-Shifa in Gaza City. Why? Hamas has its command headquarters in Al-Shifa, an open secret for more than a decade. The Washington Post wrote about it in 2014 during the last major Israel-Hamas conflict. Guy Benson also wrote about it here nine years ago, linking a Tablet blast against the media for ignoring it — even though reporters routinely met with Hamas propagandists at Al-Shifa:

Hamas vs Actual Nazis, Hamas is Worse

Posted: October 16, 2023 by datechguy in Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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While there have been murderous tyrannies that have slaughtered millions all though history in modern society the Nazi’s have been held up as the ultimate evil.

A lot of this is because the left doesn’t want to talk about the communists who when it comes to slaughtering and oppressing folks have outdone them on a huge scale both in individual countries (Russia & China) and worldwide, but they are the left allies so they aren’t allowed on the list, but in fairness the Nazi’s are a solid 2nd choice for the worst murderous tyrannies out there from their conquering of Europe and holding countries hostage to repression at home to of course the holocaust (Which based on what we’ve seen on campus this week in the US a good chunk of the campus left would consider the gassing of jews a mitigating factor in their favor, a feature rather than a bug of the Nazi regime) the Nazi have earned their spot in infamy.

So it takes some effort to look worse than the Nazis but Hamas is managing it by this by blockading their own civilians from fleeing Israel’s upcoming attack and even confiscating car keys to prevent their folks from getting out of harms way.

Contrast this with the Nazis’ in the action that resulted in the awarding of the final Knight’s Cross for bravery that was issued by them

So let’s sum up. Members of the Nazi German Navy and Air force risked their lives to evacuate civilians from East Prussia to save them from the attacking soviets and others held the line even after the official surrender to save as many as possible.

Meanwhile Hamas is doing all they can to make sure Palestinians in Gaza can die in an Israeli invasion so they can use their deaths as a propaganda tool in the west.

Congats Hamas, you have managed to be so evil that even actual Nazis can look at you, shake their head and feel morally superior

Today’s elitist college students are good at standardized tests, but they can’t figure out good and evil

Posted: October 15, 2023 by John Ruberry in education, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics, war
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By John Ruberry

Sherman McCoy, the Yale-educated lead character of Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities–and an old money WASP–saw himself as a “Master of the Universe.”

But as the Book of Proverbs says, “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”

At America’s elite universities, such as Yale and the rest of the Ivy League, as well as NYU, Stanford, and some others, there are thousands of students who see themselves as Masters of the Universe. In reality, they have the right family connections, and they are very good at taking standardized tests, such as the SAT. Or, instead of being old money types like McCoy, they check the right woke boxes. 

Ryna Workman, who is non-binary (box one), Black (box two), and a leftist (box three), in her (Workman prefers they/them pronouns) role as president of the NYU Student Bar Association president, wrote a hateful anti-Israeli statement about the October 7 attacks that, among other things, said that the Jewish state “bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.” Among those murdered were babies. The Nazi’s Einsatzgruppen also indiscriminately killed babies–and many others–during the Holocaust.

People calling their political enemies Nazis is as old as the Nazi movement and almost always it’s an overstated charge–but calling Hamas members Nazis is accurate. 

Fortunately, there has been some pushback. Winston and Strawn, an elite Chicago law firm where Jim Thompson, Illinois’ longest-serving governor–and a Republican–once served as CEO, repealed its job offer to Workman. 

Good.

After former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who had previously served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, decried the dozens of Harvard student groups siding with Hamas over Israel in a statement, some of those organizations retracted their support. 

Summers, on X, said, “In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.” 

These so-called Masters of the Universe are playing with half a deck of cards, one filled with jokers, not the harmless harlequin types, but evil clowns of the Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix ilk. 

In the words that Dan Bongino uses so often, “They are stupid smart people.” These young elitists don’t know the difference between good and evil.

So many of them are the evil Jokers of the Universe.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

I’m Old Enough to Remember When the Left Insisted “All Lives Matter” is a Racist Dog Whistle!

Posted: October 15, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east, Uncategorized
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For the last four years I’ve been reliably told by the left that anyone who insisted that or Tweeted out “All Lives Matter” was a racist, a bigot and a person who hated blacks.

Now while that’s of course nonsense since all men are created in the image of God and thus their lives matter, my opinion on this subject was ignored and the “new rules” were put in place by people of the left like the folks at Vox:

Offensive political dog whistles: you know them when you hear them. Or do you?

Or USA Today:

#AllLivesMatter hashtag is racist, critics say

Or Distractify:

Maybe You Mean Well, but This Is Why You Shouldn’t Say “All Lives Matter”

Or even the Washington Post

The racist roots of the dog whistle

In fact do a search for the phrase: “All lives matter is a racist dog whistle” and you will find pages of results of our friends on the left declaring that under their rules (not mine) the phrase “all lives matter” is a racist dog whistle and a reliable sign that the person who utters it is beyond the pale.

Well lo and behold apparently now that Israel is about to invade Gaza to destroy the babykillers of Hamas guess what phrase is acceptable again:

Why I’m shocked SHOCKED that Congresswoman Talib would DARE to suggest that “all lives matter” after all the best and the brightest of the elites have told us for almost half a decade now that any person who dares utter this phrase must be a horrible racist who should be shunned and disreguarded.

Now of course I don’t believe that myself but these aren’t my rules, these are the rules that the left in media, academia and Politics have insisted on so how can it be that Talib can say this without being denounced.

Why anyone might suspect that they don’t actually believe in these new rules that they’ve prorogated and only apply them when there is a political advantage and toss them aside as soon as any ally, like say Mass murderers who slaughter helpless women and children and behead babies allies, might be held responsible for their actions.

I look forward to reading the numerous columns in the left media denouncing Congresswoman Talib as a racist.

I’m sure they’ll be ready to print the day after Iran declares that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself from terrorist attacks.

Unexpectedly of course.

Update: Instalanche: Thanks Glenn, Welcome all take a look around check out how Hamas compares unfavorably to the actual Nazi’s and how parts of the shocked left is a great example of how Hell works.

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