The "US Foreign Policy & International Politics" Thread (Ben Shapiro Oxford Hamas Debate)

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16 hours ago, weepaws said:

Very Nice OP, Very Nice.  

 

Thank you, my friend. Stay strong and keep the faith.

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While I find @Blue Horseshoe's penchant for videos to be annoying,  I do think this is a good concept for a thread. Even if, inevitably, it turns into an extended slap fight. Looking forward to some of the conversation. 

But I ain't watching no videos of dead babies. Call me whatever demeaning name you want, but you can't unsee that shlt.

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2 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

The lefties sure love their rules.

Why don’t you find a board that fits your needs rather than changing this board?  You are supposedly the new guy.

 

 

It's curious. I'd say 95 percent of my posts and thread topics in the Geek Club are informational. Articles, video, analysis, legal, data, polls, stats, quotes, contextual history, etc, etc. And there are some people in this forum who can't wait to see me silenced for good. It's not enough that information is presented and just let people explore it ( or not, if they want) and let them come to their own conclusions, it has to be trying to "cancel" anyone who doesn't fit into this very tiny narrative built around woke groupthink. 

They poisoned the other thread about Israel with their backbiting and trolling, and they can't wait to do it here as well. These thread topics aren't a secret. Everyone here knows my posting style now and how I approach information release. They voluntarily enter the thread then are angry that they voluntarily entered the thread and got what's been established as to how these topics are generally handled and constructed. 

My friend, they have no peace in their hearts, and want to drag everyone else down in their level of pure misery. 

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Nikki Haley blasts Biden admin over $6B hostage deal with Iran in light of Hamas attack on Israel

.....Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley on Sunday tore into Secretary of State Antony Blinken for denying any link between the Biden administration’s prisoner swap deal that unfroze $6 billion in Iranian assets and Hamas’ assault on Israel. “.... it was irresponsible for Secretary Blinken to say that the $6 billion doesn’t weigh in here,” Haley told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.....“I mean let’s be honest with the American people and understand that Hamas knows and Iran knows they’re moving money around as we speak because they know $6 billion is going to be released.”

The $6 billion derived from Iranian oil revenue has been locked up in South Korean accounts due to international sanctions. Blinken told CNN earlier on Sunday that “not a single dollar has been spent from that account,” which he stressed was being closely monitored by the US Treasury Department. US officials agreed to allow Iran to tap into money for humanitarian purposes only during the prisoner exchange agreement finalized last month. But GOP critics such as former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have argued that money is fungible. “This terrorism is funded by Biden’s idiotic release of $6 billion to the Iranians. The Hamas war against Israel is now the second war started under Biden’s failed presidency,” Christie posted....“This more recent $6 billion — (they’re) saying this money can’t be used for that..... but money’s fungible…they’ve really empowered some really, really bad people,” DeSantis told Newsmax.....

Haley, who served as US ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018 under the Trump administration, has flexed her foreign policy chops on the campaign trail. She has long casted herself as a stalwart friend of Israel and fierce opponent of Iran.....“I have been terribly worried about the fact that Iran has said the easiest way to get into America is through the southern border,” Haley said. “We have an open border. People are coming through. They’re not being vetted. We don’t need to wait for another 9/11.”....Shortly after news of Hamas’ rampage spread, Haley declared that the attack wasn’t merely just directed on Israel, but that it “was an attack on America” too.

More than 600 Israeli citizens have been killed in the fighting and 2,000 have been wounded, according to Israeli officials. ...Additionally, over 313 Palestinians are reported dead and 1,990 reported missing, including 20 killed and 121 injured children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nikki-haley-blasts-biden-administrations-excuses-on-6-billion-in-unfrozen-iranian-assets/

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Nikki Haley broke with Trump. It could make her a Jewish GOP favorite in 2024.

.....Nikki Haley has finally and decisively broken with Donald Trump in a move that puts her at the front of the potential Republican presidential pack for moderate conservatives, including pro-Israel Jews who mainly stuck with the party over the past four years because of Trump’s foreign policy.....“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley said. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”.....She has also been a star among pro-Israel Republicans for her pledge as U.N. ambassador to “take names” of countries that go against the United States when it backs Israel.....

....Many GOP Jews will be happy with Haley’s decision and could help her with her presidential ambitions....Haley made fighting anti-Israel policy the centerpiece of her United Nations tenure, removing the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council because it focused an uneven amount of energy on Israel. She also took the lead in the U.S. decision to cut funding for UNRWA, the U.N.-affiliated body that assists Palestinian refugees, and which Republicans say is perpetuating the conflict. (President Joe Biden plans to reverse both policies.)....Her frontline pro-Israel advocacy has made her extremely popular at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, where she always earned the loudest cheers — the mere mention of her name by another speaker guaranteed applause....

....She has a very warm relationship with Jewish Republican groups, including the Republican Jewish Coalition (at an RJC event last July, Haley urged Jewish voters to ignore Trump’s coarse conduct and focus on the “results” his policies have yielded).....Jewish Republicans are disillusioned with Trump after the Jan. 6 riot, which attracted explicit displays of anti-Semitism. Fundraising among Jewish donors ahead of 2024 likely will be a hard slog for any presidential candidate who is Trump-adjacent....Haley’s 2019 political autobiography, “With All Due Respect,” includes a chapter — and chunks elsewhere in the book — on Israel policy, including her battles with then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom she depicts as resistant to her advice to quit UNRWA....

https://www.jta.org/2021/02/12/politics/nikki-haley-broke-with-trump-it-could-make-her-a-jewish-gop-favorite-in-2024

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8 hours ago, BeachGuy23 said:

While new I recognize terrible posting.

This guy is the epitome of it.  

No sh!t.  You're on your 5th account because of your shitty posting

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SOCIAL MEDIA – A TOOL FOR TERRORISM?

......The post 9-11 “War on Terror” era is characterized by the parallel ascension of social media. Social media has become a strategic tool to communicate and enact terrorism, thereby revolutionizing its impact. It has also been a key medium in the rise of radicalization and the dissemination of online extremist content around the world. This has offered terrorists groups the unprecedented ability to disseminate images and sentiments at a rapid pace to a borderless audience..... 90% of all 18-29 year-olds in the United States (US) used social media, followed by 78% of adults aged 30-49. [1] The direct accessibility to these audiences and the ease of which their attention can be garnered by a few taps on a phone or computer, highlights the possible reach of terrorism propaganda and media....In 2013 and 2014 social media networks such as Twitter overtook internet forums as the preferred space for Jihadist propaganda. Jihadi groups are known to use mainstream media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to post their content and create sponsored accounts where they release news statements and videos. ......The instantaneous nature of social media networks also allow for the immediate, almost real-time viewings of terrorist attacks and their aftermath, which can deliver maximum impact of fear. The 2013 Westgate Mall hostage crisis in Nairobi is an example of how the terrorist group Al-Shabaab used Twitter to narrate their attack while it was occurring and share an alternate perspective to challenge the accounts of those witnessing the terrorist attack from the outside. [5] Al-Shabaab and its supporters were able to garner worldwide mainstream media attention, and broadcasted their attack through engagement on Twitter. [6] Therefore, social media texts and images have become a strategic part of the terrorist attacks as well.....

  .....Propaganda has always been central in communicating terrorism. Perhaps the most central accomplishment of Al Qaeda on 9/11 was not killing several thousand people, but rather instilling fear in millions of people worldwide through the reports and images of the attacks, and the creating a blueprint for modern terrorist practices.....The borderless flow of information enabled by social media has been utilized as a tool by terrorist groups to spread their messages globally, facilitate online social communities and spread fear and disruption. Terrorists have been highly adaptable to changes in how their messages are disseminated around the world. In order to keep pace with the evolution of terrorist strategy, states and social media networks must adapt their counter-terrorism measures to meet these inevitable challenges.....

https://thesecuritydistillery.org/all-articles/social-media-a-tool-for-terrorism

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Why Are Biden Officials Deleting Tweets Calling for Israeli Restraint?

....The Biden administration has sparked backlash for posting and then deleting tweets that called for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.....On Saturday, before the conflict really escalated, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to discuss a solution. Blinken then shared a statement on X, formerly Twitter, saying he “encouraged Turkey’s advocacy for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages by Hamas immediately.”....He quickly deleted the post and replaced it with a statement that said only, “Israel has the right to defend itself, rescue any hostages, and protect its citizens.”

....Blinken’s fast 180 was the second time the State Department backtracked on a statement calling for Israeli restraint.....Hours after the initial attack, the State Department’s Office of Palestinian Affairs said on X that it “unequivocally condemned the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”....The office soon deleted the post and shared a statement saying only that it “unequivocally” condemned the attack.

Hamas said Monday that it would be open to discussing a truce or “something of that sort” with Israeli officials. The group said it had “achieved its targets.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/176090/state-department-blinken-delete-tweets-ceasefire-israel-gaza-palestine

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 "If the winds of change should blow in an ugly direction, I will always stand with the Muslims."  - Barack Obama

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Israel rave attack survivor says she hid under dead bodies for 7 hours

....A music festival reveler who was at the rave in Israel when Hamas terrorists infiltrated and began killing partygoers was able to survive by hiding for seven hours under the bodies of those who were killed in the attack.....Lee Sasi was attending the all-night rave that drew in a crowd of about 3,000, mostly young Israelis, when Hamas launched their surprise attack Saturday morning, sending festival attendees running for their lives and taking cover in orchards as gunfire rang out for hours.

Sasi and about 35 others had taken cover in a bomb shelter when they were discovered by Hamas fighters, who began shooting into the bunker at random.....Sasi was one of 10 people who survived the horrifying attack by hiding under dead bodies for hours...

https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/israel-rave-attack-survivor-says-she-hid-under-dead-bodies-for-7-hours/

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Nikki Haley blasts Biden admin over $6B hostage deal with Iran in light of Hamas attack on Israel

.....Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley on Sunday tore into Secretary of State Antony Blinken for denying any link between the Biden administration’s prisoner swap deal that unfroze $6 billion in Iranian assets and Hamas’ assault on Israel. “.... it was irresponsible for Secretary Blinken to say that the $6 billion doesn’t weigh in here,” Haley told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.....“I mean let’s be honest with the American people and understand that Hamas knows and Iran knows they’re moving money around as we speak because they know $6 billion is going to be released.”

The $6 billion derived from Iranian oil revenue has been locked up in South Korean accounts due to international sanctions. Blinken told CNN earlier on Sunday that “not a single dollar has been spent from that account,” which he stressed was being closely monitored by the US Treasury Department. US officials agreed to allow Iran to tap into money for humanitarian purposes only during the prisoner exchange agreement finalized last month. But GOP critics such as former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have argued that money is fungible. “This terrorism is funded by Biden’s idiotic release of $6 billion to the Iranians. The Hamas war against Israel is now the second war started under Biden’s failed presidency,” Christie posted....“This more recent $6 billion — (they’re) saying this money can’t be used for that..... but money’s fungible…they’ve really empowered some really, really bad people,” DeSantis told Newsmax.....

Haley, who served as US ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018 under the Trump administration, has flexed her foreign policy chops on the campaign trail. She has long casted herself as a stalwart friend of Israel and fierce opponent of Iran.....“I have been terribly worried about the fact that Iran has said the easiest way to get into America is through the southern border,” Haley said. “We have an open border. People are coming through. They’re not being vetted. We don’t need to wait for another 9/11.”....Shortly after news of Hamas’ rampage spread, Haley declared that the attack wasn’t merely just directed on Israel, but that it “was an attack on America” too.

More than 600 Israeli citizens have been killed in the fighting and 2,000 have been wounded, according to Israeli officials. ...Additionally, over 313 Palestinians are reported dead and 1,990 reported missing, including 20 killed and 121 injured children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nikki-haley-blasts-biden-administrations-excuses-on-6-billion-in-unfrozen-iranian-assets/

Nikki Haley is dangerous.

I can't stand Mike Pence. Everything he says is political and on the edge of even being relevant to the true nature of Islam/Hamas/Palestine vs Israel. No leader in the U.S. seems knowledgeable and smart enough to understand and explain the situation and the vast history and reasons for the current situation in this part of the middle east.

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Feds prevented over 160 people on terror watchlist from crossing US borders illegally — highest total ever recorded: DHS

....Federal law enforcement stopped 160 people listed on the terror watch list from entering the US illegally at America’s borders this fiscal year — the highest number ever — government statistics reveal....The worrying number is a huge increase on the 98 of potentially dangerous assailants nabbed last year as thousands of people continue to flood into the country both legally and illegally, often with little to show by way of identifying papers.

The names and identities of those on the list is a closely guarded secret as revealing them could cause diplomatic incidents with rogue states, tip off terrorists and cartels about US border strategy or invite retribution thus posing a grave threat to national security, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).....“Terrorists and criminal actors may exploit the elevated flow and increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States,” the DHS admitted in its annual Homeland Threat Assessment report.

The number of people on the watch list trying to enter the country through the US’s northern border with Canada and southern border with Mexico has exploded since Pres. Joe Biden took office.....Many have tried to hide among the unprecedented numbers of people arriving at international borders, which included 2.5 million arriving at the border this year, 2.7 million last year and 1.9 million in 2021, according to US Customs and Border Protection, for whom the fiscal year ends in September...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/160-people-on-terror-watch-list-stopped-at-us-border-in-2023/

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Stuart Varney: DHS Secretary Mayorkas failed the country, but he didn't fail Biden

.... Stuart Varney discusses the job Alejandro Mayorkas has done at the border, arguing that while Republicans want him impeached, he's doing what Biden hired him to do..... arguing that while Republicans say he is "failing miserably" and want him impeached, the DHS secretary is doing exactly what Biden hired him to do...... In Congress Tuesday, he was told, "You are failing miserably."

In fact, he has speeded up the migration process. He's streamlined it with an app. He's made it more efficient, so even more migrants can come in. Here's how it works. A migrant gets the app before they get to the border. The app allows them to schedule an appointment at a U.S. port of entry, and from there, they're given a court date for their asylum request. They're in. In New York, court dates are booked up through 2033. Almost everywhere in the country, the wait times are measured in years, and while they wait, they are eligible for work permits. Does anyone seriously believe that asylum seekers who are rejected will be deported? Dream on. 

They never wanted to keep illegals out. They wanted to get them in quickly ..... and that's what they've done.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/stuart-varney-dhs-mayorkas-failed-country-didnt-fail-biden

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BH you really should add "as seen only through the alt right, danger to America lens" to the title.

Your copy pastes are nothing but alt right propaganda that thankfully the vast majority of americans are never exposed to and/or reject.

Just like this thread is getting rejected as a source of nothing but lies and misinformation.

You spend A TON of time digging these things up from the dangerous, alt right, disgusting corners of the web you must constantly seek out.

I'll bet you can find MUCH better uses for your time. 

Just trying to be helpful friend. 

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1 hour ago, BeachGuy23 said:

BH you really should add "as seen only through the alt right, danger to America lens" to the title.

Your copy pastes are nothing but alt right propaganda that thankfully the vast majority of americans are never exposed to and/or reject.

Just like this thread is getting rejected as a source of nothing but lies and misinformation.

You spend A TON of time digging these things up from the dangerous, alt right, disgusting corners of the web you must constantly seek out.

I'll bet you can find MUCH better uses for your time. 

Just trying to be helpful friend. 

And that 95% of this forum doesn't read because even the people who agree with him, don't have the time to view the dozens of videos and article links he post. He has never grasped that bombarding people with excessive and redundant information is not the way to win any argument or persuade anyone to enter into a discussion. 

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Former Hamas leader calls for 'Jihad' across Arab world this Friday

.....The former leader of Hamas has issued calls for Muslims across the world to "take to the streets" in a global day of protest against Israel on Friday. Khaled Mashal, who was the leader of Hamas for three years from 2014-2017 and is now based in Qatar, issued a statement to Reuters early today saying that this was a "moment of truth" for the Arab world.

He said: "[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday....“To all scholars who teach jihad … to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application [of jihad],”.......He also made a special plea to Muslims living in the countries surrounding Israel saying: “Tribes of Jordan, sons of Jordan, brothers and sisters of Jordan … This is a moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility.....”

Mashal has been living in exile in Qatar since 2012 when he was forced out of Syria by Bashar Al Assad. He was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh who has been the leader of Hamas since 2017.

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/former-hamas-leader-calls-for-jihad-across-arab-world-this-friday

 

 

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On 10/10/2023 at 4:33 PM, Blue Horseshoe said:

 

Thank you, my friend. Stay strong and keep the faith.

Hey, Its good to see you posting again. A lot of very interesting articles. I'm glad I ventured back over here.

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On 10/12/2023 at 7:37 AM, iambuttugly said:

Hey, Its good to see you posting again. A lot of very interesting articles. I'm glad I ventured back over here.

 

 

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Good to see you RC. Thread topics are being deleted and people are being banned, so it appears others less diplomatic as you have also filled the ranks here. They'll burn it to the ground. 

Hope you have been well, again, good to see you. 

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Israel war live updates: Israeli forensic teams report signs of torture, mutilation on bodies of 1,300 murdered by Hamas

....Israeli forensic teams working to identify the bodies of more than 1,300 people murdered by Hamas since last week's sneak attack said they've found widespread signs of abuse ranging from physical torture, to rape and mutilation, military officials confirmed....."We've seen dismembered bodies with their arms and feet chopped off, people that were beheaded, a child that was beheaded," a reserve officer told reporters Saturday, according to Reuters....She added that numerous victims showed signs of rape...

...The bodies of Hamas' victims have been brought to an army base in Ramla, in central Israel, where specialists set to work identifying them and determining causes of death....Nearly 90% of the military dead brought to the base have been identified so far, and about half of the civilian casualties have been named, according to Rabbi Israel Weiss, an official overseeing the process.....Hamas has denied carrying out any abuses against the victims of its attack, despite considerable photographic evidence and accounts emerging in the past week....The latest figures estimate about 1,400 Israelis have been killed in the conflict, according to CNN. At least 2,670 Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory strikes on Gaza....

https://nypost.com/2023/10/14/israel-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-hamas-and-gaza-2/

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IDF releases video of Hamas gunman storming Israeli homes before he’s taken out

....The Israel Defense Forces released footage from the perspective of a Hamas gunman who crossed the border into Israel and shot up homes of innocent civilians before he was taken out by Israeli security forces.....The IDF posted the three-minute clip — which appears to have been filmed by the militant’s body-worn camera — to X on Sunday along with a trigger warning. “RAW FOOTAGE: Hamas jihadists squad invasion and killing spree of an innocent Israeli community,” the Israeli military captioned the video. “The filmed terrorist was neutralized by Israeli security forces.”....The footage shows heavily armed Hamas terrorists riding on motorized bikes through a cut opening in the border fence separating Gaza and southern Israel.

The militants fire guns as they pass by a security booth, which has a gunshot hole in its window, and then enter a neighborhood where they fire into civilians’ homes, according to the clip.....The gunman who is filming the attack shoots at a shadowy figure moving inside a home through the building’s screen door and then blasts a bullet through the tire of a parked ambulance, the edited video shows.....The terrorists walk past a children’s playground as they reload and shoot into families’ homes. They break into a home where music is still playing and a phone, tablet and drinks were left haphazardly on a dining table as they search for residents, according to the footage.

The video — which appears to be edited down and pieced together — ends with the Hamas fighters outside as the sound of gunfire fills the air. A gunshot rings out the filming terrorist yells out in pain and falls to the ground....Several more gunshots can be heard in the clip as the man cries and reportedly exclaims “I bear witness that there is no God but Allah” in Arabic and the camera points upwards to a blue sky....

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/video-shows-hamas-gunman-storming-israeli-homes-before-hes-taken-out/

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Israel kills Hamas commander behind one of heinous kibbutz attacks — another top leader also taken out

....Two more Hamas leaders have been killed in targeted airstrikes in Gaza – including the commander who orchestrated one of last week’s heinous deadly assaults on an Israeli kibbutz, Israel’s military said Sunday....Israel Defense Forces claimed they “neutralized” Billal Al Kedra, the commander of the southern Khan Yunis Nukhba forces, in the Gaza Strip late Saturday....The military said Al Kedra was behind the massacre of dozens of innocent Israelis when Hamas terrorists stormed the Kibbutz Nirim community Oct. 7 as part of its sneak attack on Israel...It wasn’t immediately clear how many men, women and children were slaughtered in the attack on their farming community....But a painter who lived in the ravaged community told CNN afterward, “They just slaughtered everyone....They killed kids, babies, grandmothers.”

Footage released by the IDF showed a missile obliterating the building where Al Kedra was said to be holed up....“Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives were also neutralized,” the military said in a statement.....“The IDF also struck over 100 military targets located in Zaytun, Khan Yunis, and west Jabaliya,” the post said. These strikes impacted the capabilities of the Hamas terrorist organization by targeting its operational command centers, military compounds, dozens of launchers, anti-tank missile launch posts and observation posts.”

In a separate strike Sunday, Muetaz Eid — the commander of the Hamas Southern District of National Security – was also taken out during a slew of wide-scale strikes on Hamas military targets.....“Throughout the day, the IAF struck approximately 250 military targets – mostly in the northern Gaza Strip,” the air force said.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/billal-al-kedra-hamas-honcho-behind-one-of-heinous-kibbutz-attacks-is-killed-israel/

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Illinois man stabbed 6-year-old Muslim boy 26 times in hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war: police

...A 71-year-old landlord killed a 6-year-old boy and wounded his mother because of their Muslim faith and in response to the war between Israel and Hamas, police say. Will County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call in Plainfield Township, Ill., late Saturday morning and found suspect Joseph Czuba sitting in front of a home near South Lincoln Highway and Lily Cache Road.  Czuba was bloodied from a cut on his forehead, and inside the home, police discovered the body of little Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American boy who had recently celebrated his sixth birthday. 

The boy suffered 26 stab wounds from a large military-style knife, according to the autopsy, while his mother, Hanaan Shahin, 32, survived being stabbed more than a dozen times. Czuba allegedly shouted, “You Muslims must die!” at the family ahead of the stabbing, according to text messages sent to the boy’s father. ...“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

CAIR-Chicago described the stabbings as the Muslim community’s “worst nightmare,” calling it part of a disturbing spike in hate crimes targeting them after Hamas’ attack on Israel and the Jewish State’s subsequent declaration of war.  The group said the landlord “had been angry with what he was seeing in the news” and went to knock on the family’s door.  When Shahin opened the door, he allegedly attempted to choke her and then went on to stab her and her boy with a knife, CAIR said.   “What we have is a murdered Palestinian child, created by the radicalization,” said CAIR president Ahmed Rehab.....He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crimes and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon....

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/illinois-man-stabbed-muslim-boy-6-26-times-in-hate-crime-motivated-by-israel-hamas-war-police/

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I actually don't agree with all of this. 

Palestine and Hamas are not the exact same thing. There is a complex geopolitical context in which Palestine does have some, IMHO, legitimate concerns and complaints about Israel. Do I think that should escalate to terrorist attacks? No. But I also don't think treating all of Palestine and all it's previous issues as a pure "monolith" lumped up with Hamas is a completely fair position. 

But what I will say is this is the product of the "cancel culture" Some people who are getting run over by the cancel culture right now over Israel/Palestine are likely some of the same folks who didn't mind cancelling others when it fit their own political agenda. 

The "cancel culture" is what some on the activist radical left wanted. Well once you let that beast out of the cage, you don't quite know where it will end up. Thus the saying "The Left Eats Itself" 

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Berkeley law professor asks employers not to hire 'my antisemitic law students': It’s ‘your duty’

.....University of California Berkeley law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon called out some of his students for supporting "antisemitic conduct" on campus. ....."My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers," Solomon wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Sunday. "But if you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley."

The article is titled, "Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students." ....Solomon's criticism of antisemitism on university campuses is part of a national conversation and controversy that was sparked after some Harvard Law students were linked to anti-Israel activist groups. ....Solomon similarly slammed a student group, Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine, for asking "other student groups to adopt a bylaw that banned supporters of Israel from speaking at events." ...."It excluded any speaker who ‘expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine,'" Solomon explained, adding that 9 other student groups signed onto the measure.....

"The bylaw caused an uproar," Solomon wrote. "It was rightly criticized for creating ‘Jew-free’ zones. Our dean—a diehard liberal—admirably condemned it but said free-speech principles tied his hands. The campus groups had the legal right to pick or exclude speakers based on their views. The bylaw remains, and 11 other groups subsequently adopted it....The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible," the law professor continued. "It is shameful and has been tolerated for too long."

"Legal employers in the recruiting process should do what Winston & Strawn did: treat these law students like the adults they are," Solomon wrote. "If a student endorses hate, dehumanization or anti-Semitism, don’t hire him. When students face consequences for their actions, they straighten up.".....He also advocated for legal employers and law firms to ask students "what organizations they belong to."......"Ask if they support discriminatory bylaws or other acts and resolutions blaming Jews and Israelis for the Hamas massacre," he said. "If a student endorses hatred, it isn’t only your right but your duty not to hire him. Do you want your clients represented by someone who condones these monstrous crimes?"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/berkeley-law-professor-asks-employers-not-hire-my-antisemitic-law-students-your-duty