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Israel’s government approved land seizure targets 12.7sq km (4.9sq miles) of land in the Jordan Valley. This increasing the total amount of West Bank land that Israel has stolen this year alone to 23.7sq km (9.15sq miles). That makes 2024 by far the peak year for Israeli land seizures. 1- Land stealing at the highest record. 2- Settlers’ violence in the West Bank against civilians and even the aid conveys at its highest. 3- Ethnic cleansing against Palestinians everywhere and by any means possible at its highest 4- Terrorist speeches from the leaders of the occupation to wipe out an entire nation at its highest. All of that doesn't matter, what matters is October 7th.

Regarding the situation in Gaza, the sheer lunacy of negotiating a "ceasefire" is extending a war that should have long ago been over. The terminology is problematic. The side that is winning, Israel, should not negotiate a "ceasefire". Why release convicted terrorists to be free to murder again? Why allow any remnant of Hamas, whose charter calls for the uncompromising destruction of Israel as its raison d'etre, to ever walk or breathe freely again? Why give up anything at all? The side that is getting its butt kicked back to the middle ages should be negotiating its "unconditional surrender". But Hamas would happily accept the deaths of every Gazan as long as they think there is even the possibility of Israel letting up before completely destroying the terrorist organization and its ability to exist, let alone govern. And this is substantially the fault of the US, EU, the terror-supporting UN, and others in the west who can't stomach the idea that jihadism is an evil that is irreconcilable with freedom and civilization. Diplomacy doesn't work with martyrdom-driven sharia-imposing "cultures". War is not wonderful. But in this case, war is necessary. And just. #neveragain #noceasefire #hamasisisis #destroyhamas #bringthemhome #bringthemhomenow #goodvsevil #terror #israel #campusantisemitism #sjpiskkk #israelnowandforever #metoounlessurajew #Metoo_unless_UR_A_Jew #idf

Questions into the void: What will it take for you to speak out? Do the dead need to look like you? Speak your language? Do the survivors need to cater to your definition of resistance? Choose their words carefully as their families are massacred? Will you only speak up when it’s the blood of your kin? When your children are murdered en masse? Attrocities allowed through silence WILL come to you next. Is that not enough to wake you from your peaceful slumber of individualism and lack of empathy? Sleeping soundly as the world burns down around you? How do you breathe with the smoke in your lungs? Is the smoke the cause of your inability to speak? People tend to die from the smoke before the fire even touches the skin. Do you not want to escape? Do you want to crawl to freedom? Or do you want to pretend that nothing is wrong as you slowly but surely meet your inevitable end?

THE DEADLIEST TERRORIST ATTACK PER CAPITA IN MODERN TIMES I have seen a lot of articles published and comments made on the fact that October 7th was really "nothing extraordinary" but an ongoing event in the Middle East. It is important that just 100+ days after it happened that the true narrative is not lost. This table says it all!!!! No country would tolerate this and we shouldn't either.... I want peace as much and probably more than most people and I genuinely mourn for the innocent lives in Gaza killed resulting from Hamas actions (both the attack and the cynical use of human shields) but it doesn't change the fact that those who committed this act (who still hold 136 hostages who we want home now) must be stopped from ever being able to doing it ever again. Those supporting Hamas must know they are on the wrong side. Table from Center for Strategic and International Studies in a December study Link to Article --> https://lnkd.in/dUmjkgFy

Is this really what we've become? Isn't that crazy? Isn't that awful? Ask yourself, supporters of terrorism, what are you really? October 7th is a day that will never be forgotten or forgiven. Here's the fact: 🔴 According to the poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, support for Hamas has risen in Gaza from 38% to 42%, and more than tripled in the West Bank from 12% to 44%. 🔴 The poll also found that 72% of Palestinians believe Hamas' decision to launch the October 7th attack on Israel was "correct", and 52% of Gazans and 85% of West Bank respondents expressed satisfaction with Hamas' role in the war. 🔴 Another poll by the Arab World for Research and Development found that 68% of Palestinians supported Hamas' October 7th attack. As a Muslim, I stand with Israel and stand against anti-Semitism. 🇮🇱

The UNRWA-Hamas Linkage United Nations probe confirms participation of UNRWA staff in 7.10 massacre The probe by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) proves that Israel's assertions about the involvement of UNRWA employees in the October 7 massacre are credible and true. In addition to the nine employees that the UN's investigative team determined were involved in the October 7 massacre, other workers - about whom the team claimed there was insufficient evidence - were also involved in the massacre. They are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the United Nations must fire them immediately and not sweep the issue under the rug. By not firing them, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres & UNRWA's Commisioner General Philipp Lazzarini are brazenly demonstrating their determination to continue employing members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad even after having been presented with incriminating evidence to this effect. It is time for donor governments to wake up and stop funneling their taxpayers' money to members of designated terrorist organizations.

Genocide and Suicide Terrorism - Part 2 Part 1: https://buff.ly/3Tcq7Wr In Gaza, after the separation barrier was completed and the Second Intifada had begun, most militants were in fact compelled to turn away from suicide bombing and toward guerilla attacks and the launching of Qassam rockets and mortar shells at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and Israel proper. No such launches were recorded in 2000, but 516 took place in 2001. Their number rose steadily for the next three years to 1,475 in 2004 and then tapered off somewhat to just over 1,000 in 2005 (Intelligence and Information Center 2006, 24; Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2007). In the West Bank, the situation was different. The rate of killing of Palestinians by Israel was only about half as high as in Gaza. At the same time, the frequency of Palestinian deaths was more sensitive to the threat level than was the case in Gaza. The correlation between the monthly number of Palestinian deaths and the monthly number of suicide missions originating in the region was strong and in the direction that Marshall’s rational choice theory would lead one to expect. Thus, when threat was high in the West Bank, the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli state rose. When threat was low, …