Marxist, Extremist Support for Palestinian Terrorism Leads to Jew-Hate Throughout West

by Guy Millière • July 11, 2021 at 5:00 am

For decades, most articles on the Middle East have portrayed Israel in a negative light, not as a democracy under constant threat. Willfully or not, they promote Jew-hate. Hamas is often described as a "Palestinian militant group," almost never as a terrorist organization.
Israel completely withdrew from Gaza in 2005. All the same, Israel is accused of imposing a "blockade" on the coastal strip -- without a mention that everything necessary for the residents of Gaza is allowed, or that what is being blockaded are deadly weapons. Also never mentioned is the extreme brutality of Hamas operatives towards their own residents of Gaza, who are all Arabs, or that the Palestinian Authority still supports and finances terrorism. The Palestinian Authority's rewards and incentives for murdering Jews are also always left out.
On June 24, The New York Times published yet another biased report: "Gaza's Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 People". The Times stated that "on May 16, Israeli airstrikes destroyed three apartment buildings, decimating several families". It never noted that Hamas had attacked Israel, that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, or that Israel invariably warns residents in advance about buildings set to be destroyed, to provide time for the residents to leave rather than be injured or killed.
On May 18, when Israel was being subjected to some of the 4,000 missiles fired at it by Hamas, French Prime Minister Jean Castex... announced that he was "worried about the fate of the civilian populations in Gaza". He did not even touch on what Hamas and Iran are planning for Israel's population.

Recent anti-Israel protests all over the Western world indicate that those imbued with Jew-hate no longer hesitate to make false and delusional accusations against Israel and Jews -- sadly, a long tradition in Europe. Jew-hate is out in the open now, along a readiness to physically attack Jews. Pictured: Policemen guard the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen, Germany during a vigil of the Initiative against Anti-Semitism Gelsenkirchen on May 14, 2021, the day after a highly aggressive group of at least 200 people brandishing Palestinian and Turkish flags and shouting anti-Semitic slurs gathered in front of the house worship. Police were deployed to prevent the mob from entering the building. (Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images)

London. May 23. An organization called The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign organized a protest against Israel. 180,000 people turned up. Placards compared Israelis to the Nazis, and black flags of jihadist movements, accompanied by cries of "Allahu Akbar", fluttered alongside the Palestinian flags. "Israel, the new Nazi state", some read; and "Nazis are still around, now they call themselves Zionists". This kind of comparison is now common among many in Europe who also seem sympathetic to Marxism, in which there always has to be an "oppressor" and "oppressed", never a "win-win" or a "making the pie bigger." Do these new Marxists, who compare Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, to the Third Reich and the Zionists to the Nazis, really not know what the Nazis did to six million Jews, or what Communists and Marxists today, in China, Russia, Cuba, or Venezuela, are still doing to their own citizens?

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Taliban on the Way to Kabul? Not so Fast....

by Amir Taheri • July 11, 2021 at 4:00 am

Worse still, US diplomats continued to mumble about a "peace accord" with an outfit that has no notion of peace, while US military commanders publicly warned that withdrawing without a sober step-by-step plan could persuade the Taliban that they could secure all power without a deal that, at best, would give them only a slice of it.
Forgetting years of denial that Iran had any relations with Al-Qaeda and Taliban, the IRGC analyst now says "Iran has succeeded in persuading them to cooperate in securing Iran's interests."
Immediately afterwards, Afghan parliament member Abdul-Sattar Husseini presented a report showing that Tehran had resumed shipping arms and money to Taliban.
President Vladimir Putin has set up a special task force to devise a strategy for Afghanistan after the US and allies have left.
To complicate matters further, China is also making eyes at the Taliban.

Pictured: Militiamen gather with their weapons to support Afghan government security forces against the Taliban, on July 9, 2021 in Herat, Afghanistan. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AFP via Getty Images)

September 11, 2021: All US and allied troops have left Afghanistan and Taliban gunmen are already at the ports of Kabul; one more push and they will be back where they were in 2001 just before America and Afghan allied forces sent them running like rats jumping out of a sinking ship. Once again darkness falls on Afghanistan.

Or does it? Not so fast.

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