Let’s check in on the Jewish contingent at a Palestinian protest

You don’t have to be a body language expert to tell that they were lucky to get out of there alive.
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18 Responses to Let’s check in on the Jewish contingent at a Palestinian protest

  1. Lee says:

    Turkeys voting for Christmas.

    Don’t they understand that Islamist extremists want to kill all Jews, regardless of whether they support Palestine or not?

  2. C.L. says:

    I suspect they get a frisson of virtuous excitement by supporting so radical a cause – at least from the comparative safety of an Australian rally.

    I think we’re well beyond “Islamist extremists,” by the way. It takes a certain type to perpetrate sickening violence, certainly, but the last week has shown (for the zillionth time) that its practitioners are not especially extreme in the Muslim world. The were – and are – mainstream.

  3. C.L. says:

    The face of diversity:

    At the tea-towel ‘n’ terrorism rally in Melbourne yesterday, this dragon.

  4. Jannie says:

    I think this sort of thing used to be called cognitive dissonance. Now its normal. But if you think its weird for Jews to support Hamas, this is even weirder. Trans Lesbian supports Hamas:

    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1712961565480399303

  5. Rosie says:

    Of course they are CL.
    Jihad martyrdom is the only certain path to jannah in islam.

  6. John of Mel says:

    When I see “Justice for Palestine” signs, I want to ask a question – isn’t that what Israel is doing right now?

  7. Megan says:

    When I see “Justice for Palestine” signs, I want to ask a question – isn’t that what Israel is doing right now?

    Boom! So to speak.

  8. Franx says:

    OK, so ‘Justice for Palestine’ is as a matter of irony the strafing of the homes of Palestinians – the infirm, children, infants, the elderly, women – and to either force the population to leave (when there is nowhere to go) or to bomb them to kingdom come.

    Biblical justice was never mere revenge, never simply genocide. And yet there are now pretensions to that to that effect, that getting even is justified.

    Well may there be antipathy to Islam, yet the issue is not about theological differences but primarily about the universal and natural law of humanity.

    And just as an aside, not all those killed in the bombings end up in some Islamic paradise for we don’t know which of the dead have asked that, ‘ … and after this our exile, show unto to us … .’

  9. Entropy says:

    It seems Israel is going to make sure the border is as wide as possible to avoid future rocketry and other acts of gross malfeasance. Possibly down all the way to the Egyptian border with Gaza.
    It’s the only way to be sure.

  10. Lee says:

    Via Zulu, on Dover’s blog:

    1 hour ago
    Greens, teals accuse Israel of war crimes
    Ben Packham
    Ben Packham

    Sydney teal independents Kylea Tink and Sophie Scamps, and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie joined with the Greens on Monday to accuse Israel of war crimes.

    The independents backed Adam Bandt as he unsuccessfully tried to amend a statement of support for Israel with one condemning “war crimes perpetrated by the State of Israel, including the bombing of Palestinian civilians”.

    Confirms my opinion once again that the Greens and Teals are the arsewipes of Australian politics.

  11. Franx says:

    It seems Israel is going to make sure the border is as wide as possible to avoid future rocketry and other acts of gross malfeasance.

    There may be other reasons for making borders as ‘wide as possible’, one reason being that of expropriating Gazan territory.

  12. Rosie says:

    The homes of Palestinians are not being strafed.
    Israel targets hamas sites and warns civilians to leave first, by text by phone.
    Not to say that innocents have not been killed.
    Lay the blame where it belongs, at the feet of hamas terrorists who use Gazans as human shields and have no regard for the sanctity of life.

  13. Franx says:

    The homes of Palestinians are not being strafed.

    And yet, and yet, since truth will out,

    Israel targets hamas sites and warns civilians to leave first, by text by phone

  14. Rosie says:

    You implied Israel was targeting

    – the infirm, children, infants, the elderly, women

    Israel is not.
    Not truth then, but a lie.

  15. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “OK, so ‘Justice for Palestine’ is as a matter of irony the strafing of the homes of Palestinians – the infirm, children, infants, the elderly, women – and to either force the population to leave (when there is nowhere to go) or to bomb them to kingdom come.”

    I’ve noted your reluctance to condemn what happened last week in southern Israel, and I’ve noticed your silence here on this forum about the ‘strafing of the homes of Israelis, the butchering and slaughter of the Jewish infirm, the Jewish children, the Jewish infants, the Jewish elderly, and the Jewish women’.

    By the way, two years ago, in May 2021, Muslim men in cars drove through Jewish suburbs in North London screeching on loudspeakers that they were coming to “rape Jewish women, rape Jewish girls’. It was, of course, a very clear warning, because that’s Jihad, that’s what they do, and that’s they did last week in Israel.

    Carry on Franx, your mask has fallen.

  16. Cassie of Sydney says:

    Israel is not.
    Not truth then, but a lie.”

    Correct Rosie, his mask has fallen off.

  17. Tel says:

    Is it true that Benjamin Netanyahu himself supported Hamas only a few years back? It was out of pragmatism obviously, but when you read the article it goes into detail about work permits and who controlled cash coming in from foreign sources … presumably USD that later could be spent somehow? Articles like this one …

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

    I must admit that all the intricate backstabbing in the Middle East is not a healthy subject to study … I can understand why people thow their hands in the air.

  18. Franx says:

    As an ironic observation, not necessarily cruel, it was said here that there is now ‘Justice for Palestine’ in Gaza being strafed. Yes, if revenge is the name of the game.

    And because it is revenge, what is implied is that atrocities provoked the revenge.
    And there were atrocities, entire families in Israeli guarded compounds killed by Hamas. And more. Babies beheaded is the story that has galvanised the response.

    Yet in order for Hamas to carry out the atrocities, they had first to break out through massive barbed wire and concrete walls which had imprisoned them and the entire Gazan population, all indicative of terrific power imbalance, of political influence, and also of deliberate cruelty.

    It remains that Israel created Hamas, in more ways than one.
    Mary Shelley was onto something.

    It would be most comforting to be able to simply take a side and get on with name-calling anyone of differing or uncertain stance.

    I am no fan of Pope Francis but of his namesake, the man of Assisi who saw fit to befriend the Saracens simply as an ultimately transcendent act, not primarily for the sake of friendship but for the love of God. But there, that sounds very weird.

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