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‘Palestinian Resistance’ = Beheading Babies

Posted on | October 10, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Palestinian Resistance’ = Beheading Babies

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a campus organization that has been accused of fostering anti-Semitism at American universities. And how do you suppose these undergraduate miscreants have reacted to the recent Hamas attacks on Israel? By issuing this statement on their Instagram account:

“Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity, taking with it the facade of an impenetrable settler colony and reminding each of us that total return and liberation to Palestine is near. Catching the enemy completely by surprise, the Palestinian resistance has captured over a dozen settlements surrounding Gaza along with many occupation soldiers and military vehicles. This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.”

The Daily Caller reports:

In an SJP toolkit, students are instructed to organize protests, sit-in demonstrations, and workshops and share “statements of solidarity” expressing support for “Palestine” following Hamas’ attacks on Israel. In a section dealing with “messaging and framing,” SJP tells students that “resistance is justified” and to “normalize the resistance,” calling it “morally and politically necessary.”
Students are instructed not to use the terms “war” or “conflict” but instead call the situation in Israel a “struggle for national liberation,” according to the toolkit. SJP also argues that “settlers” are not “civilians,” referencing the hundreds of Israelis massacred over the weekend by Hamas, and that all deaths are the fault of the “Zionist entity.”

Well, let’s discuss the details of this “struggle for national liberation,” shall we? Let’s talk about the “armed confrontation with the oppressors,” i.e., helpless women and children who just happened to be near the Gaza border when this “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” occurred.

If you poke around a bit, you’ll find Hamas sympathizers claiming that this is Israeli propaganda, that there is no “proof” of babies being beheaded, as if we must see photos or videos of such atrocities in order to believe they happened. Well, CBS News is reporting it, OK? Maybe you think it’s another Texas Air National Guard thing, I don’t know, but whether or not you believe Hamas beheaded babies, will you at least stipulate that they attacked unarmed civilians? Because, see, SJP wants you to believe that “armed confrontation with the oppressors” means killing any random Jews they happened to encounter.

What about all those young people at a music festival? Were they “oppressors”? Was gunning down these people the “armed confrontation” that SJP is celebrating? Another “win for the Palestinian resistance”?

Your “struggle for national liberation” is a license for mass murder, isn’t that what you’re saying? And you expect people to sympathize with your cause?

Oh, and Israel’s supposed to make a “proportionate” response?



 

Category: Israel

The Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

Posted on | October 10, 2023 | Comments Off on The Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Appreciation Post

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This is the day when we remember the brave Genoese navigator who talked Queen Isabella of Spain into financing an expedition intended to sail west across the Atlantic to the Indies and their fabulous spices, avoiding obstreperous Moors and well-armed Portuguese. As we all know now, there were some sizable continents in the way, which became an abundant source of gold, silver, souls and lands where hungry young Spaniards could found estates of their own. True, Columbus never set foot on North America, but aside from some Portuguese fishermen off Newfoundland, nobody much cared about that relatively worthless land until the English decided to see what, if anything, lay on the shores of the Chesapeake and Massachusetts Bays. So: go read Morison’s epic biography of the great Christopher Columbus, appointed Admiral of the Ocean Sea by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. As for “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”, promoted shamelessly by the shameless wannabee Cherokee from Massachusetts, she who is called Fauxcahontas in the true language of her people, we could care less.
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“In this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero.” Damn right.

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AN ASSORTMENT OF RECENT BOOKS
The latest installment in Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series is out, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever, co-written with Jason Cordova, and like the other novels in the Memoirs series, this is a look into the past of MHI at some of its legendary hunters. In this case, the hunter is Chloe Mendoza, and she’s got a little something extra going for her: she’s a nagualii, a shape-shifter who’s the daughter of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. This comes in handy as she and the newly formed Los Angeles MHI team find themselves up against what initially seems to be a werewolf pack but -as sometimes happens with MHI- turns out to be something far worse, something that has its hooks into the local Monster Control Bureau office. Agent Franks makes a cameo appearance but serves mainly to inject more tension and mystery into an already tense situation. A solid addition to the MHI library.

John Wright’s Null-A Continuum was a wild ride. People familiar with Wright’s work may see some similarities to his Eschaton series (Count to a Trillion, etc.) but on balance it is faithful to the first two of A.E. van Vogt’s Null-A novels, The World of Null-A and The Players of Null-A*. Continuum starts with a murder that Gilbert Gosseyn appears to have committed, but he has no memory of doing so -and this is the least of his problems, since Enro the Red is on the loose again and there are apparently some non-human aliens who would like to eliminate humanity and take our galaxy for their own. Still, Gosseyn has an extra brain, Null-A training, the ability to replicate the distorter effect with his extra brain, and allies in unexpected places. This is a really good combination of A.E. van Vogt’s wild imagination and Wright’s gift of descriptive prose, and if you liked the first two Null-A novels, this will be a welcome treat.
* We will not discuss Null-A Three, for reasons Wright explains in the foreword.

The conversion of Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold Humanity! epic from posts on r/HFY into actual books continues with Ashes, Ashes, the eleventh book in the series. The alien Atrekna, time manipulators from a dying universe and creators of a previously unseen form of berserkersPrecursor Autonomous War Machines, make their appearance in the midst of the Confederacy’s war against the Lanaktallan Great Herd, and almost immediately make a pair of serious mistakes in dealing with Terran Descent Humanity (quite aside from meddling with time, which our Universe Does Not Like) although at first it seems they’ve managed a killing blow as first the SUDS devices that allow dead Terrans to revive in new bodies go offline, and then a temporal attack aimed at “gentling” Terrans goes awry in a fashion lethal to 90% of Terran Descent Humans. This series has been an amazing mulligan stew of influences and shoutouts to all manner of science fiction and horror works from the last sixty years, and I’ll be sorry when it finally comes to an end. Highly recommended.

I met Rebecca Kuang at a Balticon some years ago, when The Poppy War had just come out, and I was so excited by the idea of a fantasy loosely based on the Second Sino-Japanese War that I went down to the dealer’s room, bought the book, and spent much of the convention reading it. Well, here we are in the third and final book of the trilogy, The Burning God, and to quote Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket, “I am already in a world of shit.” I should have known better than to accept a Washington Post review at face value, because the war our protagonist (I hesitate to call her a heroine at this point) is fighting looks a lot less like the war that started at the Marco Polo Bridge than it does like a hellish combination of the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion, the Opium Wars, and (to a very,very tiny extent) the war the Post reviewer thought they were seeing. This is a brutal book with a lot of nasty, horrible things happening in it, much like all the aforementioned wars, and I am taking a break from it because the amoral carnage got to be a bit much for me. I’ll finish it, if only because after reading the first two books in the trilogy I want to know how it ends, and the idea of spending $15 on a book I’m not going to finish is just Wrong. Still, if you’re not comfortable with genocide, near-constant treachery, and a very unhappy protagonist who’s not sure she’s doing the  right thing, this may not be the book for you. 
(Portions of the preceding book reviews appeared in somewhat different form in Esmeralda County Line #5, an apazine for N’APA #266.)

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Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans

Posted on | October 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans

In case you wondered whatever happened to this particular scumbag — who, just a few years ago, was busy defending pedophiles as “MAPs” (minor-attracted persons) — he seems now to have latched onto his buddy Aaron Rupar’s blog Public Notice, where today he declared: “Republicans have used the crisis [in Israel] to indulge in monstrously irresponsible lies and inflammatory conspiracy theories that seem designed to hobble peace efforts and encourage dissension, confusion, and war.”

Thanks for this information, Mister Pedophile Defender.

To recount a bit of history, I first took notice of Berlatsky in 2015, when he was doing a “male feminist” trip that annoyed Meghan Murphy. A few years later, in January 2020, I asked a simple question: “Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?”

Look, I’m not making any accusations here, and far be it from me, an award-winning journalist, to engage in irresponsible speculation. There is no actual evidence that Noah Berlatsky is a pedophile, as far as I know, and it would be reckless to attempt to infer anything about his sexual preference based merely on a few messages on Twitter, taken out of context. Rather, if anyone seriously suspected Berlatsky of pedophilia — which, as I say, there’s no specific reason they should suspect this — it might be more productive to consider his overall oeuvre of work, including his oft-noted status as a so-called “male feminist.”
If you get my drift. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.

That 2020 post proved to be rather prophetic, because by the summer of 2021, Berlatsky had become “the Communications Director for Prostasia, a not-for-profit group that is reportedly attempting to legitimize pedophilia under the guise of helping children.” In the words of feminist Anna Slatz, “all of Prostasia’s goals and campaigns lead to the exact same conclusion: The total normalization and acceptance of pedophilia in wider society.”

Berlatsky’s association with this pro-pedophile group got renewed attention a few months ago when he published an opinion column at Bloomberg that attacked the popular anti-trafficking film, The Sound of Freedom.

As I have said before, far be it from me to accuse anyone of being a pedophile without evidence, but on the other hand, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you should consider the possibility it’s actually a duck.



 

Category: Progressivism

Politics Is a Team Sport

Posted on | October 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Politics Is a Team Sport

Saturday evening on The Other Podcast, I found myself ranting furiously about the idiots who decided that what the conservative movement needed was for eight House Republicans to join the Democrats and vote the GOP Speaker out of office. It prompted me to invoke Casey Stengel who, frustrated by the ineptitude of the 1962 Mets, asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

The problems with our team are bad enough, but at least we no longer have the problem of Bill Kristol, Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and the rest of the #NeverTrump crew who quit the GOP in a childish tantrum and now are allied with Democrats and the Somnambulist-in-Chief, Sleepy Joe Biden.

Does any friend of Israel think Biden’s Middle East policy is better than Trump’s? And how do Messrs. Kristol, et al., feel about their current alignment with the party of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib? Not happy, I’ll bet.

Kristol is stuck with grumbling about what he claims are “some GOP misrepresentations” about Biden’s Iran policy, because it would not do for a #NeverTrumper to admit the reality that he is now on the wrong side. The pathetic fate of the #NeverTrump crew reminds me of nothing so much as one of those hotshot college football players who, having failed to win the starting quarterback job as a freshman at a major conference powerhouse, decides to enter the “transfer portal,” only to end up at some third-rate program.

To join the Democratic Party team — as the #NeverTrumpers have done, whether they’re willing to admit it or not — requires one to tolerate (if not indeed to embrace) the left-wing fringe movements that provide the Democrats with their grassroots energy. And what is the left-wing fringe doing now?

If you look closely at those signs, you’ll notice the branding of the Workers World Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation:

These are actually two factions of the same fringe Marxist cult. Sam Marcy quit the Socialist Workers Party which wasn’t totalitarian enough for his taste. Marcy founded the Workers World Party (WWP) in 1959. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the WWP joined forces with Ramsey Clark to form International ANSWER (“Act Now to Stop War and End Racism”), a front group that has spent the past 30 years organizing protests against U.S. policy. In 2004, ANSWER leader Brian Becker and others (including Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman) “left the Workers World Party in June 2004, announcing that ‘the Workers World Party leadership is no longer capable of fulfilling [the] mission’ of building socialism,” and thus was born the Party for Socialism and Liberation. One may well ask, how does supporting Hamas help the socialist “mission” that the WWP and PSL seek to advance? It doesn’t matter. To these fringe kooks, “socialism” always turns out to be whatever is bad for America. There is no anti-American movement they will not support. Because Hamas hates America, the kooks are pro-Hamas — a logic not too unlike the anti-Trump hysteria that led Kristol and his friends to become pro-Biden.

Now they’re all part of the same coalition. The worst people always end up together somehow, and they certainly deserve each other.



 

Category: Politics, Progressivism

Rule 5 Sunday: I’m In Love With Shouko’s Mom

Posted on | October 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: I’m In Love With Shouko’s Mom

— compiled by Wombat-socho

One of the more endearing characters in the manga Komi Can’t Communicate is the tongue-tied title character’s mom, Shuuko, who is (almost) everything her daughter isn’t: chatty, flirtatious, and a rebellious teen who somehow gets her heart captured by Shouko’s strong (but very silent) dad Masayoshi. On the other hand, like her daughter, she’s pretty cute, and fan art of the “Forever 17!” mom on r/Komi-san usually inspires the comment section to break out into a slightly modified version of the famous Fountains of Wayne song.
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“Shouko, can’t you see/You’re not the girl for me…”

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Israel and ‘The Godfather’

Posted on | October 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Israel and ‘The Godfather’

“Barzini is dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene. Stracci. Cuneo. Today I settled all family business, so don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Admit what you did.”
— Michael Corleone, The Godfather (1973)

In the comments on yesterday’s post about the Hamas attack on Israel, we learned something new: Dianna Deeley has never watched The Godfather, which is why she didn’t get a reference to a key plot point in the movie, when Don Corleone finally realizes that “it was Barzini all along.”

After I saw the comment, I actually called Dianna to express my shock that she’d never seen The Godfather. “I don’t like mob movies,” she said. And I was outraged. The Godfather is a “mob movie” in roughly the same sense that Casablanca is a “World War II movie.” The mafia context of The Godfather is merely the background for a Greek tragedy about family loyalty and personal honor. Although Michael’s father had hoped to spare his youngest son from the family’s crime business, a series of crises makes it necessary — inevitable, a matter of fate — that Michael step in to become the family’s next leader.

This attack came on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. For young people in Israel, that war is something they study in history class, but now its significance — Israel’s struggle to survive when hit by a sudden attack from its enemies — must be perfectly apparent to them.

The flippant comment that provoked this consideration — dismissing Hamas as “pimps,” like Tataglia, so that Iran is the Barzini behind the scenes — was actually a clever analogy, but the larger drama is this: A younger generation of Israelis must finally abandon the illusion of “peace” with the Palestinians.

Shani Louk, a victim of Hamas

One of the most horrific images of the first 24 hours of this war was the naked corpse of a young woman being paraded around by Hamas terrorists. Because her tattoos were visible, it was possible to identify this victim as Shani Louk, a German citizen who had come to celebrate a holiday music festival:

Hundreds of Israelis and foreigners came together in Kibbutz Re’im near the Gaza Strip for a vibrant celebration of music and culture — the Tribe of Nova — intended as a means of united human expression and connection. And the music trance festival was being held to celebrate the end of the Jewish holiday Sukkot.
But the atmosphere of joy and festivity was interrupted by the horrific sounds of gunfire and soon after, troops of Hamas militants swooped in, terrorising the festivalgoers. A place that was teeming with life was turned into a scene of devastation, echoing with cries and reverberating with shock and loss. Several videos surfaced on social media showing panic-stricken people escaping from the music festival as shots of gunfire were heard in the background when the Hamas militants launched a sudden attack.
In one video, Noa Argamani, a 25-year-old Israeli woman, is seen carted away on a motorcycle of a Hamas militant while she pleads for her life. “Don’t kill me! No, no, no,” says Argamani, who was present at the festival. The camera pans to her boyfriend, Avi Nathan, who looks on at his girlfriend helplessly while being held hostage by the militants.
In another video, the naked and battered body of a German woman, Shani Louk, a tattoo artist, was paraded in the back of a pickup truck by Hamas. Amidst a raucous crowd, the militants spat on the woman’s body.
Shani’s sister Adi Louk confirmed that it was her sister in the video. Her mother appealed to people for more information regarding her whereabouts. According to Shani’s first cousin, the victim had been reportedly missing after militants took control of the Tribe of Nova festival on Saturday morning.

No more festivals. No more dance parties. Nothing but all-out war now — the young people of Israel ultimately have no choice. They must kill or be killed.

Do you see how The Godfather is relevant? It was not Michael’s choice. That choice was made for him by his father’s enemies, who first attempted to assassinate Don Corleone, and then succeeded in assassinating Michael’s older brother Sonny. But Michael was the smart one, and with cool cunning he waited for the right moment to retaliate, to “settle all family business,” including with his brother-in-law Carlo Rizzi, who had betrayed Sonny to Barzini.

Israel must not only destroy Hamas, but they must also retaliate against Iran, which sponsors Hamas. Nothing personal. “It’s strictly business.”



 

Category: Israel

FMJRA 2.0: Lepanto

Posted on | October 8, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Lepanto

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today is the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary, originally known as Our Lady of Victory. On this day in 1571, an alliance of Catholic states including Spain and Venice faced off against the Turkish fleet led by Ali Pasha. Under the command of Don John of Austria, the smaller Catholic fleet won a stupendous victory over the Turks, forestalling a major invasion of Italy and forever ending Turkish naval domination in the Mediterranean. Credit for the victory is variously attributed to the Venetian galleasses, the Spanish arquebusiers, the leadership of Don Juan, but most of all to the intercession of the Blessed Mother. G. K. Chesterton’s epic poem “Lepanto” excellently summarizes the battle and the context of the times in which it was fought. For best results, read it aloud. Victor Davis Hanson’s chapter on the battle in Carnage & Culture is also very much worth reading.
The less said about the Senators’ week, the better. We lost both games to the Red Sox on Monday, and were swept by the Phillies on Friday.
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Hamas Attacks Israel

Posted on | October 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Hamas Attacks Israel

More than 100 people have already been killed, according to reports from Israel, which is under a sustained attack from Hamas terrorists based in Gaza:

The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched unprecedented terror attack on Israel, which has included the firing of thousands of rockets onto the Israel and the infiltration of Israeli territory by land, air, and sea. Responding to the surprise attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the nation is “at war” and the terrorists “will pay a price it has never known before.” Thus far, the attacks in Israel have left 100 people dead and 900 wounded. Hamas claims it has captured Israel Defense Force soldiers and civilians during its assault on Israeli border towns outside Gaza. Israel’s military response–“Operation Sword of Iron”– has led to the deaths of 198 Palestinians and 1,610 people injured.

UPDATE: When Democrats like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar declare their support for the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement, this is what they’re really supporting — rocket attacks and terrorism against Jews. BDS is objectively pro-Hamas, and anyone with two eyes and a brain can see that Hamas exists for exactly one purpose, to kill Jews. Really, when you see left-wing students marching with “free Palestine” banners, what do you think that slogan ultimately means? Two words: Dead Jews.

UPDATE II: Associated Press:

The Israeli military says that fighting is continuing in 22 locations in southern Israel 12 hours after Hamas militants carried out a surprise infiltration into the area.
In a statement, the army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said “there is no community in southern Israel where we do not have forces.” He said Israel has regained control in some communities but the army is still conducting scans to make sure they are safe.
Hagari also confirmed ongoing hostage situations in two towns — Ofakim and Beeri.
“There are special forces there with senior commanders and live fire fights are going on there,” he said.
Hagari said that Israel was striking targets in Gaza from the air and that ground operations were imminent. He did not elaborate but said an additional four divisions of troops, as well as tanks, were being deployed to the already heavily fortified area.

UPDATE III: John Nolte connects the dots:

The terrorist state of Iran kidnaps five Americans. Biden then chooses the anniversary of September 11, 2023, to pay the terrorist state of Iran a ransom of $6 billion. This ransom payment comes in the form of releasing $6 billion in assets seized from Iran. So, Iran now has $6 billion it didn’t have before, and Iran funds Hamas. And now, less than four weeks after Joe Biden paid that $6 billion, Hamas is flush with enough resources to launch an unprecedented attack on Israel.

Far be it from me to “pounce” or “seize” upon this merely as an excuse to score political points, but can you imagine what Democrats would be saying if the shoe were on the other foot? And, in point of fact, Biden’s policy is being blamed by people who can’t be dismissed as right-wing extremists.

Jake Simons is editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Can’t wait for Biden supporters to smear Simon as a “Nazi,” the way they do all other critics of Biden.

Meanwhile, one of our commenters invoked “Saint Pancake,” a/k/a Rachel Corrie, the left-wing “peace” activist who went to Gaza and became a Sacred Martyr of the Intifada, flattened by an IDF bulldozer.



 

Category: Israel, Terrorism
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