Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #8

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Adrienne Watson

@NSC_Spox
Official account of the White House National Security Council Spokesperson, serving under the leadership of National Security Advisor @JakeSullivan46


The United States vigorously condemns the antisemitic protests in Dagestan, Russia. The U.S. unequivocally stands with the entire Jewish community as we witness a worldwide surge in antisemitism. There is never any excuse or justification for antisemitism.

https://x.com/NSC_Spox/status/1718800777127297091?s=20

 

[otto]

Adrienne Watson

@NSC_Spox
Official account of the White House National Security Council Spokesperson, serving under the leadership of National Security Advisor @JakeSullivan46


The United States vigorously condemns the antisemitic protests in Dagestan, Russia. The U.S. unequivocally stands with the entire Jewish community as we witness a worldwide surge in antisemitism. There is never any excuse or justification for antisemitism.

https://x.com/NSC_Spox/status/1718800777127297091?s=20

It is a worldwide surge in antisemitism, but it is not that the world has turned against Judaism. It is people with a different religious belief that have turned on Judaism, or have they? This isn't anything new, but it is now more vocal from countries around the world.

We now have loud representations of antisemitism around the world, in the UK, across the USA, in Canada, Russia, France and other countries. Countries like Canada that previously segregated/debated Protestant versus Catholic are now dealing with an aggressive young-adult stance against Judaism. Warring Western Religions is quite different than warring Christian religions.

Share of global population by religion 2022 | Statista

In 2022, around 31.6 percent of the global population were identify as Christian.

www.statista.com

 

[otto]

Posts Online Threaten Jewish Students and Center for Jewish Living

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

cornellsun.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718772732114960746

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[DS2021]

Posts Online Threaten Jewish Students and Center for Jewish Living

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

cornellsun.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718772732114960746

Note: Attached Image contains Graphic Violent Language

Oh. My. God

 

[shotgun09]

Posts Online Threaten Jewish Students and Center for Jewish Living

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

cornellsun.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718772732114960746

Note: Attached Image contains Graphic Violent Language

I feel sick...

 

[PommyMommy]

29min ago

Cornell University police dispatched to kosher dining hall after antisemitic threats​

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According to the Cornell Daily Sun, the alert was prompted by comments to a student forum including a threat “to bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews,” from a user named hamas soldier. Other threats and antisemitic slurs, including a call to follow Jews on campus and slit their throats, were posted on the forum as well, though some posts have since been removed, the paper reports.

The Cornell police department says it is “investigating posts located on a website that contain threats of violence directed at religious groups across the campus.”

Cornell President Martha Pollack sent a statement to students saying that “we will not tolerate antisemitism at Cornell,” the Daily Sun reports.

The incident comes days after anti-Israel graffiti was discovered on campus, and amid an alarming uptick in antisemitic attacks on US campuses thought fueled by the Israel-Hamas war.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718756725401198662

 

[PommyMommy]

Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Gaza humanitarian crisis, IDF on the ground (cnn.com)
59 min ago

Jordan asks US for Patriot air defense system amid fears of regional escalation​

Close US ally Jordan has asked Washington to deploy Patriot missiles to strengthen its air defenses at its borders, a Jordanian military spokesperson told state media on Sunday.

The request comes at a time of heightening tensions in the Middle East due to the war in Gaza as well as clashes on the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

"We asked the American side to strengthen our defense system with Patriot missiles. This system is expensive and cannot be employed with local capabilities, and we need a strategic partner," Jordan army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mustafa Al-Hiyari said on Al Mamlaka TV.

Al-Hiyari said Jordan is facing ongoing threats, including ballistic missiles, from the north, east and west and the Patriot air defense system is “the best weapon to confront such a threat.”

[...]

 

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It sounds like a social media infiltration by Hamas into universities - which is one place where we've seen several uprisings. Are all university related antisemitic protests started with online incitement? Did they all originate on a similar platform where anyone could post using a generic handle?


"The posts come four days after graffiti stating “Israel is fascist,” “Zionism = genocide” and “F*** Israel” was sprayed across Central Campus on Wednesday, Oct. 25.

A Greekrank post titled “Anyone can post” by screen name “Sands” asked if the Greekrank site owners can be held liable for the threats, claiming anyone could make a post without verifying their affiliation to Cornell. A reply to that post by screen name “Answer” included the use of the N-word to refer to Sands as well as crude sexual references.

A reply by screen name “glory to hamas” to another Greekrank post by screen name “Lol” titled “Yall [sic] are sad” called for bringing weapons and “slave women in hijab” [sic] to make parties at Cornell more fun.

“Brother bring many ak 47 [sic] and slave women in hijab to make party [sic] more fun!” the reply said. “[A]lso no alcohol, alcohol haram.”

CornellSun

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Israeli forces strike targets in Syria and Lebanon; 33 aid trucks enter Gaza (theguardian.com)
46m ago01.35 GMT

Palestinians in northern Gaza have reported fierce air and artillery strikes in the last few hours.

Palestinian media reported Israeli air strikes had hit areas near Gaza City’s Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals, and that Palestinian militants and Israeli forces had fought in southern border areas east of Khan Younis. The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that it had received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate al-Quds hospital...

On Sunday evening the IDF had delivered a briefing saying its ground operation was continuing and intensifying. The spokesman also said its call for Gaza residents to evacuate to the south – ahead of military targeting of the north - was now “a matter of urgency”.

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Universities like Harvard have had funding cut by people offended due to pro-Hamas support. Perhaps that's exactly what Hamas wants. That lost income could be replaced with antisemitic funding, which would result in greater antisemitic ideology spreading through the universities.

I'm curious how some universities became strong pro-Gaza Hamas government within a day or so of the slaughter of 1400 civilians by Gaza Hamas militants in Israel's farm communities.

I'm curious whether there's an antisemitic pro-Hamas Government of Gaza social-media PR machine happening behind the bombs and in universities around the world.

What was that at the airport earlier today? Why were there hundreds of young men ready to tie and quarter plane passengers from Israel? How did that happen if not through social media ... who is behind social media inciting violence against people who practice Judaism?

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Israeli forces strike targets in Syria and Lebanon; 33 aid trucks enter Gaza (theguardian.com)
2m ago02.38 GMT

All living former prime ministers of Australia, except Paul Keating, have co-signed a statement regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

The statement condemns the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, calls for the unconditional release of hostages taken by Hamas, and for sustained humanitarian access for Palestinians.

On the battlefield in Israel and Gaza we do not presume to give strategic advice to Israel. But the legitimate objective of defeating Hamas must be accompanied by support and protection for the civilian population of Gaza. Israel promises it will do all it can to avoid civilian casualties, we urge it to do so with all of its humanity and skill.

The former prime ministers also endorse a two-state solution “as the basis for long-term lasting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples”.

 

[PommyMommy]

OCT 27, 2023

'His heart broke:' Driver who saved children from Be'eri found dead

Beloved bus driver Haim Ben Aryeh, who lived through the Disengagement from Gaza, found dead weeks after witnessing scenes of massacre.

www.israelnationalnews.com

Haim Ben Aryeh, a bus driver beloved to the children of Gush Katif and the Lachish Regional Council as "Haim the driver", was found dead.

Ben Arye was witness to the scenes of devastation in southern Israel on the morning of Simchat Torah, October 7, when he came to rescue the children of Kibbutz Be'eri.

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... Haim drove families and children from Kibbutz Be'eri and his heart broke again, he saw such horrible sights and his heart cracked and broke into pieces. He had such a sensitive soul that couldn't bear this pain.

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... "And when they brought me the bag with the equipment he had on the bus, they asked me to look for his identity card. I didn't find the card there, but I did find a complete beit midrash. Many holy books, the Humash, the Bible, Mishna, Gemara and much more."

Shomron concluded his eulogy by calling Ben Aryeh "another victim of the war."

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Haim was one of the bus drivers who evacuated survivor children from the Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7th.He witnessed horrific scenes. He has since committed suicide.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718794681260167500

 

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You are right. High unemployment, war (lots of Dagestanis were drafted), low level of living. Not too educated, either. Someone compared with Tatarstan and Bashkiria, well, never say never, but the latter two are very educated. Not so Dagestan.

They don’t need to know about the Jews. In fact, the incoming people don’t need to be Jews. I read in Russian press about a guy who arrived from Smolensk and looked Jewish. He said he was Uzbek but didn’t speak mother tongue as he was born in Russia. I don’t know how he persuaded them but he is a cardiologist, ethnic Uzbek, working in Moscow. Looks slightly Middleeastern, so…at least he survived to tell the story. Crazy times.

Here is a video of that ^^^ incident...

mob which stormed the airport in Dagestan, Russia to search for Jews as a plane was landing from Tel Aviv has found its first “suspected Jew”He tells them he is Uzbek, but they don’t believe him“Take his passport, search his phone”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1718706238416962007

 

[katydid23]

"Mob storm Dagestan Airport to ​

'try and intercept Jewish passengers from flight from Israel' ​

in worrying new incident in Russian republic."​

Protestors storm airport to 'intercept Israeli passengers'

Hundreds of protestors stormed the Makhachkala airport in the Russian republic to protest the landing of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Russian news agencies and social media reported.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Can you imagine if crowd of Jews mobbed a foreign country's airport, searching for Palestinian travellers to assault them?

 

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The terror that Hamas instilled in their living and deceased victims is probably worse than what the West experienced when we saw journalists like James Foley beheaded by ISIS in Syria. Hamas terrorized their victims before killing them in the most brutal ways imaginable.

The bus driver must have known the community children as they got older - he probably couldn't get their living and dead images out of his head.

 

[katydid23]

I know a bit about the region. Considering that they have closed the airport for a week, I think there is more going on. I think they are rioting and revolting against the Russians. (They are not ethnic Russians. They are an ethnic minority in Russia)


That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. There are too many real threats going on right now in Israel/Palestine and the rest of the ME than to dwell on this mob.

I think it is very important. The videos are abundant and very telling.

It is a scary sign of the times that a mob formed upon hearing that a plane from Tel Aviv had landed and may have Jews onboard. That was enough to spur hundreds of locals to mob the tarmac, urgently searching for any Jews they could find.

Some in the crowd threatened they were going to Lynch them if they find them. There is audio in the videos.

When airport security forced them out of the airport they took to the streets and began searching cars and buses leaving the airport. They overturned one car that wouldn't hand over their passports.

I am not dwelling on it but I am sharing the info because it is a very bad sign of where things are right now. It is shocking, IMO.

 

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Can you imagine if crowd of Jews mobbed a foreign country's airport, searching for Palestinian travellers to assault them?

A crowd of any religion bursting through airport gates to assault passengers from another country due to religion is bizarre off the scale nuts. Hindus go on rampage mobbing airplane from Spain, or Christians mob plane from Iran in Amsterdam. It's nuts, but it's happening with mobs of antisemitic gangs around the world - out of the blue after 1400 people in an Israeli farm community were murdered by Gaza militants.

What incited so many young men in that area to mob the airport? Social media seems likely. What social media, and is it set up with a generic anonymous open-source user name? Who is behind it? Why is there such an unusual and sudden uprising of antisemitic people in so many countries around the world?

Middle East war is nothing new, yet the global reaction is newly vocal taking sides and inciting violence against those who have a different set of values.

 

[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live: Israeli forces strike targets in Syria and Lebanon; 33 aid trucks enter Gaza (theguardian.com)
4m ago04.03 GMT

More information about the unrest at the Makhachkala airport in Dagestan has come through.

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Local authorities have said that 20 people were injured before security forces contained the protest, but the passengers on the plane were safe. The Dagestani government has said that it is strengthening security measures across the republic, which is home to about 3 million people.

Sergei Melikov, the head of Dagestan, said the incident was a gross violation of the law, even as Dagestanis “empathize with the suffering of victims of the actions of unrighteous people and politicians, and pray for peace in Palestine”.

“There is no courage in waiting as a mob for unarmed people who have not done anything forbidden,” Melikov said on the Telegram messaging app.

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In the past few days, a Jewish centre under construction in Nalchik, the capital of the nearby Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was set on fire, emergency officials said.

There were also reports on social media of small anti-Israeli gatherings over the weekend in Dagestan and across the North Caucasus in Russia’s south.

 

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[PommyMommy]

Israel-Hamas war live updates: Thousands break into Gaza aid warehouse (nbcnews.com)
4m ago / 9:07 PM PDT

Hostage negotiations stall over Hamas demand for fuel deliveries to Gaza​

Talks to free some of the hostages held by militant group Hamas stalled over Israel's unwillingness to send fuel to Gaza, its base, and Hamas' objection to guaranteeing it would release a large number of foreign captives.

This according to a former U.S. official with knowledge of the ongoing negotiations over the release of some of the estimated 230 hostages believed to have been kidnapped by militants during Hamas' Oct. 7 incursion into Israel from Gaza.

“Hamas has been insistent on receiving fuel,” said the former U.S. official, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to talk publicly. “The Israel and U.S. side, plus other countries, want a large batch of their citizens released.”

Read the full story here.