#Israel under attack

[matan4il]

On Friday, during Passover, a terrorist attack took place in Israel. The terrorist attacked an 18 years old girl on the streets of Ramla, stabbed her in the back, leaving her seriously wounded, as he ran away. The girl was in the city visiting a friend, whose father and brother heard the girl's screams and chased the terrorist. The dad, a civilian with a personal weapon, neutralized the attacker. The girl's state has since improved, but she's still hospitalized.

There is footage of the terrorist chasing the young girl down the street, stabbing her in the back without even stopping, causing her to collapse to the ground, as he continues, and flees the scene.

The anti-Israel protests on college campuses in the west are horrifying to watch. They were bad enough when they started on Oct 8, while Israel wasn't even counting its dead yet, because we were still fighting terrorists invading our country and endangering our civilians, so Israel's army was still not free to do anything in Gaza, but these protests have somehow gotten so much worse. They've become more openly antisemitic (we've seen more and more people doing the Nazi salute, and using signs calling for a "final solution," the whitewashed Nazi term for their intended annihilation of all Jews):

They are now more openly calling for blood (in the past week or so, we've seen no calls for a ceasefire, instead we've heard chants to kill Zionists, to burn Tel Aviv, for Iran to fire rockets at Israel, meaning at its civilian population, and to globalize the intifada, a wave of anti-Israel terrorist attacks. During the second intifada alone, over 1,200 people in Israel were murdered). They've also become more physically violent, with more and more Jewish and pro-Israel people being assaulted, and even requiring medical care:

I've been seeing so much, and it's being talked about on the news here more than you can imagine. The presidents of Israeli universities even did something unprecedented, that they've never done during any of Israel's former conflicts, no matter how bad those got. After publishing repeated calls for foreign universities to fight antisemitism and protect their Jewish students, the presidents of Israeli universities have now published an open letter, lamenting that the problem might be beyond the capacity of university presidents abroad to solve, and addressing Jewish students, stating they have a safe space here, offering them any assistance with pursuing it.

The worst protests are in the US, at Ivy League universities of all places, but I've heard horrifying things about universities in Canada, France, Australia as well... I feel like I can't really do this subject justice in just one post, so if I only share with you one last thing about it, this following vid would be it, because it's bigger than just the protests, and at the same time, partly explains how so many people have been recruited into them. It's a typical example of how in this complex conflict, real facts (such as vids filmed on the ground) are often taken out of context and manipulated to present a simplistic narrative, in which Zionists (i.e the overwhelming majority of Jews) are presented as intrinsically violent and evil, while ignoring and even lying about the anti-Jewish violence at play:

Jews and Jewish allies abroad, please take care of yourselves! And don't let all the hate get to you... Just because there's a lot of them, doesn't mean they're right. Or even that they're the majority. They just give that impression by being more vocal than anyone else, and taking over public spaces, pushing everyone else out.

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[dragoneyes618]

"The real question is not why people are silent on Gaza (they're not), but why they seem so much more agitated by this war than by any other of recent times. There's been a tsunami of media coverage on Gaza. Far more than there was for the Saudi-Yemen war, every African war of recent years, or the horrific return of Azerbaijan-Armenia hostilities last year. Our activist class have obsessively devoted themselves to the cause of Gaza, to the exclusion of every other issue on earth.

Where were these people when tens of thousands of Muslims, including Palestinians, were slaughtered in the war with Syria? Or when the mullahs of Iran massacred hundreds of their own citizens for the sin of standing up for women's rights? Do the lives of young women in Iran who want to show their hair in public have a "different value" to the lives of people in Gaza? The lives of Syrian dissidents?

Why did they not make as much noise over those violent assaults on Muslim life as they have done over Israel's war against Hamas? Because it is only when the Jewish state is involved in the loss of Muslim life that people take to the streets in vast numbers."

- Brendan O'Neil, Spectator-UK, January 25

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[elder-millennial-of-zion]

Praying for Israel

Praying for the Jewish people around the world

The antisemitic, anti-Israel victim blaming for Iran’s attack has already begun. Give yourself permission to ignore it and to shut it out. The opinions of people who have never cared and will never care about our humanity don’t matter. All that matters is supporting each other and remembering that we are a beautiful people, stronger and more resilient than our enemies can possibly imagine.

No nation or empire in three thousand years has succeeded in wiping out the Jewish people. They have all tried and they have all failed.

We will outlive them

עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱

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[aviya932]

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[shinishmermaid]

I can't believe how naive I was when I thought that this time, they will understand. Because what normal human being will justify the murder, beheading, raping, genocide of over 1,400 people?

I don't have faith anymore in goyim, and I will never trust them. I thought that maybe they learned their lesson after the Holocaust, but they didn't. My great grandparents didn't service the Holocaust for this.

I have never been happier to be an Israeli. I have never experienced antishemism in my country, and never needed to hide my Jewish identity.

I just hope that in the future, 90 years from now people, from every religion, will learn about what is happening since October 7 and the world's reaction to it. I want them to think "what kind of psychopath would justify it".

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[floralcavern]

”Why won’t Israel agree to a ceasefire?!”

Hey.. hey guess what?

Israel has had MANY ceasefires with Hamas. But.. you wanna know a secret?

Hamas has broken every single ceasefire.

So at this point, why should Israel bother when Hamas has proven time and time again that they will not abide to any forms of peace?

#Fuck Hamas #Hamas are terrorists #pro Israel #ceasefire #free palestine #Free Palestine from hamas #Israel under attack

[karlrincon]

İ Want peace, that's all.

There are no winners in war, there's always loses.

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[marinalor]

how’s it feel to be siding with the killers of the most children in history ever?

I can't really know right?

Maybe you mean the nation where the most children were murdered in history?

Ask someone from Nazi Germany 80 years ago or Hamas.

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[qaraxuanzenith]

on moral equivalency

I've seen a lot of comments, most recently from one of the most well-intentioned people, listing hamas and hezbollah and the Israeli military all in one sentence as parts of the problem, and here is why that is not remotely okay or acceptable:

hamas and hezbollah are terrorist organizations that actively invaded civilians homes to torture, assault, murder, and abduct; who beheaded babies and paraded mutilated bodies through the streets and actively celebrate these atrocities.

the israeli military is the military of a sovereign country acting in what is a war situation, to counteract the threat of atrocities and war crimes being actively perpetrated by terrorist organizations, in order to restore safety to the citizenry.

and whether one is a pacifist who disagrees with the existence of militaries in general, or whether one disagrees with specific choices taken by the israeli military in particular, it is devastatingly misleading and unacceptable to phrase a sentence that makes it seem like accountability here is evenly divided between the israeli military, and the terrorists actively perpetrating AND CELEBRATING atrocities and war crimes against civilians.

and, with respect*, no matter anyone's perspective on the israeli government's attitude and actions toward palestinians, by no stretch of the imagination can those attitude and actions be described as war crimes, let alone gleeful celebration of war crimes.

there is a difference between "this is negative and i don't like it" and "these people are actively celebrating the mutilation of bodies, the torture of disabled, elderly, and children, the murder of hundreds including slaughtering an entire cohort of teens enjoying a concert as a holiday."

i respect not liking war and not liking militaries in general

but it's naive to be like "i don't like war and therefore the military that is responding in self-defense to the slaughter of hundreds of citizens and the wounding and abduction of hundreds more is also in the wrong."

there is doubtless nuance to every situation, but in this SPECIFIC case, statements that equate the two sides are misleading, insulting, and frankly dangerous inasmuch as they seem to offer some measure of justification to the actual war crimes being perpetrated and glorified on one side

all the things i alluded to are things that hamas has actually done, AND PUBLICIZED, in the past 72 hours.

right now, hundreds of people have literally been murdered in their homes by hamas, and hundreds of people have been literally dragged from their homes by hamas, assaulted, paraded through the streets, and abducted

including a good friend of my uncle, who is still missing.

i hope she returns home safely. i hope she is able to return to doing peace activist work.

but the israeli military ATTEMPTING TO ENSURE HER SAFE RETURN HOME is not part of the problem in this specific scenario.

in fact, when the IDF does operations to take out hamas targets, they actually notify the area through several methods in advance, and ask all civilians to go somewhere else where they will be safe.

whereas hamas has been known to store weapons in the basements of schools and to shoot rockets from hospitals, and to prevent civilians from leaving

*with respect to the very well-intentioned if naive person whose comment initially sparked me saying that; no respect at all to people who definitely know better and are still trying to frame this in moral equivalency terms on purpose

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[alwaysisrael]

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[lostinsidelostoutside]

Prime Minister Rishi sunak 👋👋👋

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[matan4il]

On May 7, 9 and 11, the 2024 Eurovision will be held in Malmo, Sweden. I wrote a bit about the song that will represent Israel this year, which you can find here.

Still, the story of this music contest, at this time, and in this specific host city, deserves more attention. I found a great Israeli news piece in two parts, with English subtitles. The first part deals with how hostile Malmo is to Israelis and Jews, the second part revolves around meeting the local Jewish community in Malmo, and hearing from them about their fears ahead of ESC 2024. Both I think are worth watching, in part because they say a lot about the situation of Jews in Europe specifically and in the west in general nowadays.

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[dragoneyes618]

"There is no future for the Jewish People or the State of Israel in a world in which an army of terror can reduce whole families to human ash and get away with it.

No future if Hamas emerges free and emboldened to do it again, as the hate parades through London want it to emerge from this war it started.

And so we fight, not because we want to, but because we must.

We don't want the world's sympathy. Israel exists because we're sick of its tears..."

- Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy in a speech given at Trafalgar Square in London, January 17

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[lifeisnowx]

✡️❤️ The artwork with the Star of David on the Berlin Wall in the East Side gallery has often been the victim of antisemitism and is regularly desecrated. The painting has been there since 1990 and there have been more than 61 anitsemitic damages since then. It's still happening in 2023, and it shouldn't be! ❤️✡️

To celebrate and be happy that innocent people are being killed and kidnapped is disgusting. If anyone from my mutuals rejoices in this, please unfollow me. I find it disgusting that so many anti-Semites are using the "Pro-Paelstine" movement to blatantly spread antisemitism. Shame on you!

Hamas is a radical islamic terror organisation that aims to eliminate Israel and establish an Islamic state. Israel has to defend themselves.

Free Israel from Islamic terror!!! 🇮🇱

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[aviya932]

Oh yes, please tell me again about how Hamas cares for the people of Gaza

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[shinishmermaid]

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