Israel's War on Ghaza - US Opinion Poll

UPDATE added on Nov. 10/11
Military news from Ghaza
Exodus of the Palestinians
A brandnew Book on Israel

استطلاع: انقسام الشارع الأميركي بشأن رد فعل إسرائيل على هجوم حماس
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أمد/ واشنطن: أسوشيتد برس: أصبح الأميركيون أكثر ميلا لوصف إسرائيل بالحليف الذي يشارك الولايات المتحدة المصالح والقيم، منذ بدء الحرب مع حماس، لكنهم منقسمون بشأن تماديها في ردها على هجوم حماس، وذلك وفقا لاستطلاع جديد للرأي أجرته وكالة "أسوشيتد برس" ومركز "نورك" لأبحاث الشؤون العامة.

ويكشف الاستطلاع، الذي أنجز في الفترة من 2 إلى 6 نوفمبر، أيضا عن شكوك بين الديمقراطيين تجاه إسرائيل، الأمر الذي قد يمثل تحديا للرئيس، جو بايدن، خلال محاولته فرض توازن بين توفير الدعم للدفاع عن البلاد والأولويات المتغيرة لحزبه
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لكن 36 بالمئة فقط، قالوا إنه من المهم للغاية تقديم المساعدة للجيش الإسرائيلي لمحاربة حماس. وقال 40 بالمئة من الأميركيين إن الرد العسكري الإسرائيلي في قطاع غزة مبالغ فيه وغير متكافئ

تتذكر رييس أنها سمعت عدد القتلى في الأخبار وقالت "إنه مرتفع جدا، اعتقدت أن هذا لا يمكن أن يكون صحيحا

وتوفي أربعة آلاف طفل في غزة، بحسب السلطات الصحية، وقالت رييس ”هذا هو المدى البعيد للغاية

وهذا الشعور أكثر شيوعا بين الديمقراطيين، حيث يرى 58 بالمئة منهم أن الهجوم المضاد الإسرائيلي مبالغ فيه

وبشكل عام، يرى 38 بالمئة من الأميركيين إن رد فعل إسرائيل كان صحيحا، فيما قال 18 بالمئة إنه لم يكن مبالغا فيه


Poll: American street divided over Israel's response to Hamas attack

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Americans have become more inclined to describe Israel as a like-minded ally of the United States since the war with Hamas began, but they are divided over how it goes too far in responding to the Hamas attack, according to a new poll by The Associated Press (AP) and the Norak Center for Public Affairs Research.

The poll, conducted Nov. 2-6, also reveals skepticism among Democrats toward Israel, which could challenge President Joe Biden as he tries to strike a balance between providing support for the country's defense with his party's shifting priorities.
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But only 36 percent said it was crucial to provide assistance to the IDF to fight Hamas. 40 percent of Americans said Israel's military response in the Gaza Strip was exaggerated and disproportionate.

Reyes (*) recalls hearing the death toll in the news and saying "it's too high, I thought that couldn't be true."

Four thousand children have died in Gaza, according to health authorities, and Reyes said: "This is [going to be] a very long run."

This sentiment is more common among Democrats, with 58 percent saying Israel's counterattack is exaggerated.

Overall, 38 percent of Americans said Israel's reaction was correct, while 18 percent said it was not exaggerated.

(*) = Caroline Reyes, a Democrat from New York
and, as well, a typical voice from the street.
[كارولين رييس، وهي ديمقراطية تبلغ من العمر 36 عاما في نيويورك]

[AMAD أمد, Palestine, on Nov. 8]

The Palestinian news platform AMAD أمد, its name meaning something like 'Extension - Breakthrough - Difference', is 'more than a single website and less than a newspaper'.
The adage of the group behind it: 'Hostility is unacceptable and difference is a right'.

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Daily News:

Israeli authorities announced the liquidation of Ibrahim Abu Mughassib, commander of the anti-armor missile system in the central camps of Hamas. IDF spokesman Avichai Adraee said: "The IDF, under the intelligence direction of the Shin Bet and the Military Intelligence Service, was able to liquidate Ibrahim Abu Mughassib, who is in charge of the anti-armor missile system in the central camps of Hamas." Abu Mughassib "directed and carried out numerous attacks using anti-tank missiles targeting Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," he said. "In addition, during ground operations, the navy attacked a Hamas anti-armor rocket launch site, using monitored operations to target ground forces," he added.

[Al-Ain العين, Dubai, Nov. 9]



أولي لحظات انفجا! اسرائيل تل أبيب وعسقلان واشدود
Initial moments of surprise !
Israel: Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Ashdod

[World Weather News أخبار الطقس العالمية on Nov. 10]
Attention : The related X-account cannot be confirmed
and their YouTube channel says they are specialized in
publishing news and unusual natural disasters around
the world. However, similar rocket attacks on the center
of Israel have been confirmed by various serious news
sources. Places shown are in Israel, spoken comment
is in Arabic while the video is hosted on an Arabic site.


Palestinians leaving Ghaza City
during the hours of a ceasefire.

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that had been published
shortly before Israel's
War on Ghaza began.
Here is the cover text:

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The Final Solution to the Palestinian Question

LAST UPDATE added on November 8:
Overall death toll: 10.500 Palestinians
including 4.300 children for Ghaza only.

قال وزير التراث الإسرائيلي، عميحاي إلياهو، الأحد، إن أحد خيارات إسرائيل في الحرب على غزة، هو "إسقاط قنبلة نووية" على قطاع غزة الفلسطيني

وأكد الوزير اليميني المتطرف، في مقابلة إذاعية، أنه "لا يوجد غير مقاتلين في غزة"، مضيفاً أن تقديم المساعدات الإنسانية للقطاع سيشكل "فشلاً"، معتبراً أن الهجوم النووي على قطاع غزة "خيار محتمل

ورد رئيس الوزراء بنيامين نتنياهو، بالقول إن تصريحات إلياهو "منفصلة عن الواقع" وأن إسرائيل والجيش الإسرائيلي يتصرفان وفقاً للقانون الدولي لتجنب الإضرار بغير المقاتلين

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said Sunday that one of Israel's options in the war on Ghaza is to "drop a nuclear bomb" on the Palestinian Ghaza Strip.

The far-right minister stressed in a radio interview that "there are no non-combatants in Ghaza", adding that providing humanitarian aid to the Strip would constitute a "failure," considering a nuclear attack on the Ghaza Strip a "possible option."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying Eliyahu's remarks were "detached from reality" and that Israel and the IDF were acting in accordance with international law to avoid harming non-combatants.

Other high-ranking Israeli politicians reacted horrified upon the stance of their colleague. Israel is known to possess nuclear weapons since the 1960ies. It was an 'open secret' until two Israeli lawmakers called for the use of such weapons after October 7, 2023.

[Source: BBC Arabic service, London, November 5, 2023]


An Israeli lawmaker has called for her nation's military to deploy nuclear weapons in response to the Hamas terror attacks that have left 1,200 Israelis dead.

Revital 'Tally' Gotliv, a member of the right-wing Likud party in the Knesset has called multiple times on her social media accounts for her country to wipe Ghaza off the map.

[Source: Daily Mail, London, October 11, 2023]

Mister Nice Guy
"Nuke Amichai"

前以色列议会议员摩西·费格林就说过类似的话，他在社交媒体上贴出了1945年日本广岛市被核弹摧毁后的照片，呼吁对加沙地带使用核武器。

以色列是世界上9个拥有核武的国家之一，据估现在拥有90枚核弹头，是他们可以求助的最后堡垒。

哈马斯头领拉切克回应：埃利亚胡今天所说的正是以政府领导层所想的。

Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said something similar. He posted a photo on social media of the Japanese city of Hiroshima after it had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb in 1945, calling for the use of nuclear weapons against the Ghaza Strip.

Israel is one of the nine countries in the world that possesses nuclear weapons. It is estimated that it now has 90 nuclear warheads and is their last resort.

Hamas leader Rachek responded: "What Eliyahu said today is exactly what the government leadership is thinking."

[Easy Net on Nov. 6]

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News of the Day:

Jordanian air force dropped human aid materials on a Ghaza field hospital operated by Jordan.

[Deutsche Welle, German national radio, on Nov. 6]


当地时间11月5日，美国中央司令部在社交媒体平台发布消息称，一艘“俄亥俄”级潜艇抵达中东地区。
消息人士称，此条信息已得到美国国防部的证实，该潜艇具有动力和核导弹能力，现已驻扎在伊朗附近。

On November 5, local time, the U.S. Central Command announced on social media platforms that an "Ohio" class submarine had arrived in the Middle East.
Sources said this information has been confirmed by the US Department of Defense and that the submarine has power and nuclear missile capabilities and is now stationed near Iran.

[SOHU 搜狐 on Nov. 6]

Turkey's news agency Anadolu reported about a
German Foreign Ministry's press conference that
targeted an Israeli government minister's call for
nuking Ghaza and Israeli troops threatening some
German journalists. However, it was not minister
Baerbock herself presiding over that conference
but her deputy spokeswoman Derschinger. With
such second-rate line-up, the conference passed
almost unnoticed by a broader German public.

وفي 5 نوفمبر الجاري، دعا عشرات الأطباء الإسرائيليين في عريضة الجيش إلى قصف مستشفى الشفاء، الأكبر بقطاع غزة؛ بزعم أنه "يضم مقرًا للمسلحين الفلسطينيين"
وسبق هؤلاء الأطباء عشرات الحاخامات الإسرائيليين الذين وجّهوا دعوة مشابهة للجيش الإسرائيلي بقصف مشافي القطاع، وفق موقع "هامحدش" العبري
وبحسب مكتب الإعلام الحكومي في قطاع غزة، بلغ عدد المستشفيات التي توقفت عن الخدمة بشكل كامل خلال الحرب الإسرائيلية 16 مشفى
فيما تبقى 18 مشفى آخر تعمل جميعها بشكل جزئي وفي ظروف قاهرة، وذلك حتى 6 نوفمبر الجاري

On November 5, dozens of Israeli doctors called on the army to bomb Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. Allegedly, it "houses a headquarters for Palestinian militants."
These doctors were preceded by dozens of Israeli rabbis who issued a similar call to the Israeli army to bomb Gaza Strip hospitals, according to the Hebrew “HaMedash” website.
According to the Government Information Office in the Gaza Strip, the number of hospitals that completely stopped serving during the Israeli war reached 16 hospitals.
While 18 other hospitals remain, all of which are operating partially and under force majeure conditions, as of November 6.

[Yeni Şafak, Istanbul, on Nov. 7]

Palestine - Israeli Atrocities Stepping Up !

Breaking UPDATE added below on Nov. 4

Ghaza Strip:

The Palestinian death toll in the conflict has exceeded 9.200 casualties, most of them civilians. It is said that every 10 minutes one Palestinian child dies.

Atrocities are stepping up at the moment that US foreign secretary Blinken arrived in Israel for consultations behind closed doors. In an interview he said: "When I am looking into the eyes of those children, I am looking into the eyes of my own."

Israeli strikes near three Ghaza hospitals and an ambulance convoy in a single day. The entrance of Al-Shifa hospital was hit, as well as the Indonesian hospital neighbourhood. Two ambulances were hit in an extremely crowded area [Al-Shifa spokesman]. 13 people died.

14 Palestinians including children have been killed on a highway connecting Ghaza City with southern Ghaza while trying to escape on a bus, carrying with them their permits to leave [member of family].

Red Crescent: 20 Palestinians have been killed when an UNWRA operated school was hit during Israeli shelling. That school is embedded into Jabalia refugee camp.

Ghaza health ministry: 16 of the 35 hospitals and 51 of the 72 primary healthcare clinics are forced to close due to Israeli bombing and lack of fuel.

UN: 690.000 displaced Palestinians are sheltering in 150 relief & works agency facilities across Ghaza.

UN relief & works agency says 72 of its employees have been killed in the Ghaza Strip since October 7.

Occupied Westbank:

Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian shops and cars.
Israeli incursions into Jenin refugee camp deliberately damaged traffic infrastructure.



Israel:

Palestinian workers in Israel imprisoned, beaten and later released into Ghaza strip.
Thousands of them are being expelled from Israel where they had been working on Oct. 7.

Lebanon:

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warning Israel that 'Total War' is a real danger.

Global Protest:

Mass demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and elsewhere in Amman, Beirut (2), Doha, Islamabad (1), Madrid (4), Paris, Sydney (3), India and Yemen.
(1-4) = Demonstrations in the order presented in a video from AP:



A rare voice from Europe: Ione Belarra Urteaga (born 25 Sept. 1987)
is a leftist Spanish politician and psychologist from the election alliance
Unidas Podemos who currently serves as Minister of Social Rights and
2030 Agenda in the government of Pedro Sánchez. She has been her
party's leader since June 2021. => Video content confirmed by NTV.

Honduras recalls its ambassador from Tel Aviv.

Turkey temporarily recalls its ambassador for consultations. Turkey already opposed Israel when it tried to deliver human aid into Ghaza during => Israel's siege on the Ghaza Strip in 2016 <=.

[Main source for the above article: Al-Jazeera, evening news on Nov. 3 at 19:00 GMT.]

Ghaza Atrocities - International Repercussions

UPDATE added on 3rd Nov.

Jordan and Bahrain withdraw their ambassadors from Tel Aviv. [Akhbarelyom, Cairo, Nov. 2]

Honduras withdraws its ambassador from Tel Aviv. [Al-Jazeera, Qatar, Nov. 3]

Both Chile and Colombia announced - on Tuesday evening (Oct. 31) - the withdrawal of their ambassadors from Israel in protest against its continued aggression against Ghaza , which led to the death of more than 8,500 'martyrs', most of them women and children.

Earlier, the Bolivian government decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Israel, in protest against its aggression against Ghaza.

[Al-Jazeera, Qatar, 1st November 2023]

=> Link to the original article of the Buenos Aires Times <=

Argentine, Mexico and Peru are criticising Israel for their bombing of Ghaza.
[Deutsche Welle, German national radio, 2nd Nov. 2023]

ردود فعل دولية غاضبة من انتهاكات إسرئيل

وقال أنطونيو جوتيريش، الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، على منصة التواصل الاجتماعي X إنه "يشعر بقلق عميق إزاء تصاعد الصراع"

وأدانت وزارة الخارجية الأردنية العدوان الإسرائيلي على جباليا، وقالت إنها تحمل إسرائيل، القوة المحتلة، مسؤولية هذا التطور الخطير

وأشارت الصحيفة إلى أنه على الرغم من أن الاجتياح البري الإسرائيلي لغزة بدأ منذ يوم الجمعة الماضي، إلا أن إسرائيل لا تزال مترددة في تقديم أي تفاصيل عن نتائج هذا الغزو

وقالت منظمة الأمم المتحدة للطفولة (يونيسف)، إن غزة أصبحت مقبرة لآلاف الأطفال، وجحيما حيا للجميع

وأضافت أن غزة توفر الآن 5 في المائة فقط من إنتاجها الطبيعي من المياه وأن وفيات الرضع بسبب الجفاف تمثل تهديدا متزايدا

وحذر مسؤول كبير في الأمم المتحدة هذا الأسبوع من أن الحرب "ستمتد إلى سوريا"... قد بدأت بالفعل"

وأشار جير بيدرسن، مبعوث الأمم المتحدة إلى سوريا، إلى الغارات الجوية الأخيرة على مطاري حلب ودمشق، والتي يعتقد على نطاق واسع أن القوات الإسرائيلية هى التي نفذتها

Angry international reactions to Israel's violations

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said on the social media platform X that he was “deeply concerned about the escalation of the conflict.”

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Israeli aggression against Jabalia, and said that it holds Israel, the occupying power, responsible for this dangerous development.

[The newspaper Al-Dostor (?) pointed out that] although the Israeli ground invasion of Ghaza began last Friday, Israel is still hesitant to provide any details about the results of this invasion.

The United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF) said that Ghaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children, and a living hell for everyone, ...

... adding that Ghaza now provides only 5 percent of its natural water production and that infant mortality due to drought represents a growing threat.

A senior UN official warned this week that the "war will spill over into Syria ... has already begun".

Geir Pedersen, the UN envoy to Syria, referred to the recent air strikes on Aleppo and Damascus airports, which were widely believed to have been carried out by Israeli forces

[Al-Dostor, Cairo, 1st November 2023]



Only 3 days ago, the UNO General Assembly voted
for a humanitarian truce in the Israeli-Ghaza Conflict.

IDF really Flooding Hamas Tunnels with Nerve Gas ?

As to the projected flooding of the Hamas tunnel system in Ghaza with nerve gas, in order to rescue the missing 220 hostages, Egyptian media expressed their disbelief.

While a high-ranking Hamas official is being quoted as saying that "the occupation [power] is promoting this news to create panic and fear", an Egyptian military expert, Major General Samir Faraj, is expressing his doubts more detailed. [Egypt Today on Oct. 27/28]

علق عضو المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس الفلسطينية، حسام بدران، على التقارير التي تتحدث عن استخدام إسرائيل غاز الأعصاب في الأنفاق لإجبار مقاتلي حماس على الخروج منها

A member of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Hossam Badran, commented on reports that Israel used nerve gas in tunnels to force Hamas fighters to leave them.
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وأوضح أن حماس جاهزة من الناحية العسكرية لكثير من الاحتمالات، موضحًا أن الاحتلال يروج لهذه الأخبار تهدف إلى إثارة الذعر والخوف بين صفوف المقاتلين والشعب الفلسطيني

وتابع عضو المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس: «شعبنا، حتى الطفل الصغير لم يعد يخشى هذا الاحتلال ولا تهديداته ولا نيرانه، نحن أصحاب الحق، وسنمضي في هذا الطريق إلى النهاية»

He explained that Hamas is militarily prepared for many possibilities, explaining that the occupation is promoting this news aiming to create panic and fear among the ranks of the fighters and the Palestinian people.

The member of the Hamas political bureau continued: “Our people, even the little child, no longer fear this occupation, its threats, or its fire. We are the owners of the right, and we will continue on this path until the end.”
[Egypt Today مصريا اليوم, Oct. 27]

Major General Samir Faraj, a strategic thinker, ruled out the use of nerve gas by the Israeli occupation forces in their war with Hamas.

Faraj said during a phone call to the “On My Responsibility” program, via “Sada El Balad” satellite channel, this Saturday evening, that the occupation forces cannot use nerve gas against the Hamas movement in the Gaza tunnels in order to protect the prisoners.

He pointed out that the most powerful weapon possessed by the Palestinian resistance is the tunnel weapon, in addition to its possession of a large number of prisoners.

He explained that the occupation forces use seismic bombs in their war on the Gaza Strip to demolish tunnels, noting that these bombs were used in World War II and were developed to demolish the nuclear reactors that Iran is building underground.

Faraj added that the occupation forces were unable to advance, for fear of heavy losses, stressing that Israel failed in its operation yesterday in Gaza, and is in a difficult situation and does not know how to move its affairs.
[Egypt Today مصريا اليوم, Oct. 28]

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خطة إسرائيلية لإغراق أنفاق "حماس" بغاز الأعصاب

Israeli plan to flood Hamas tunnels with a nerve agent. [Al-Mashhad المشهد Oct. 28]

The video link is no longer available on the republished Arabic
site of Al-Mashhad, but it can still be accessed on YouTube.

For the liberation of hostages, being hidden in 'Ghaza Metro', the legendary underground system of Hamas tunnels comprising some 500 km, Israel plans to flood these tunnels with a nerve agent intended to 'immobilize' Hamas fighters for some hours. The operation should be under supervision of US Delta Forces. This is what Al-Jazeera and Middle East Eye MEE have already reported. In the video of Al-Mashhad the gassing of Hamas fighters is being compared with the nerve gas attack on 'Tokyo Metro' using Sarin in 1995.

The republished news page of Al-Mashhad on Friday Oct. 27 came with a confirmation of such plans while already omitting the video link:

أكدت وسائل إعلام بريطانية أن مصادر قريبة من البنتاجون كشفت أن الولايات المتحدة والجيش الإسرائيلي سيستخدمان غاز الأعصاب لإغراق الأنفاق تحت غزة

وبحسب موقع «ميدل إيست آي» البريطاني، فإن هذا هو السبب الرئيسي لتأخير العملية البرية للجيش الإسرائيلي في غزة، والتي تنتظر تسليم الغاز المحظور عالميًا، ووصول الطواقم الأمريكية التي ستتولى التعامل معه

وكان الهدف هو إحداث تأثير المفاجأة، ما يسمح بإطلاق سراح الرهائن وقتل أكبر عدد ممكن من مقاتلي حماس

British media confirmed that sources close to the Pentagon revealed that the United States and the Israeli army will use nerve gas to flood tunnels under Ghaza.

According to the British Middle East Eye website, this is the main reason for the delay in the Israeli army’s ground operation in Ghaza, which is awaiting the delivery of globally banned gas and the arrival of the American crews that will handle it.

The goal was to create an effect of surprise, allowing the hostages to be released and the largest possible number of Hamas fighters killed.

Ghaza - Displaced Civilians - Hamas-Hezbollah Meeting

LATEST UPDATE added below on Oct. 27 / 28

The town of Khan Junis in southern Ghaza is crammed with people queuing for bread and drinking water. The situation has been accelerated due to brutal raids in the time of Israeli occupation. A report from The New Arab, Cairo, on October 23.

=> Link to the Original Video of The New Arab Below ! <=

In case the video is not properly embedded,
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عضو المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس غازي حمد
Hamas movement's Political Bureau member Ghazi Hamad
in an interview after the Hamas-Hezbollah meeting in Tehran
[English language interview on October 26]

On Oct. 27, Asharq News in Riyadh & Cairo reported on the situation of public health in the Ghaza Strip after Israeli bombardment. They quoted Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee as having said that Hamas is keeping its headquarters under Ghaza's main hospital Al-Shifa, an extended compound in the center of Ghaza City. Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat al-Rishq denied the Israeli army’s claim. [Editor: Asharq News is affiliated to the Bloomberg network.]

=> Link to the Original Video of Asharq News Below ! <=

بسبب عجز سيارات الإسعاف عن تلبية نداءات الاستغاثة بغزة.. سيارات مدنية لنقل ضحايا القصف الإسرائيلي المتواصل على القطاع

Because ambulances were unable to respond to distress calls in Ghaza, civilian vehicles are transporting victims of the continuous Israeli bombardment of the Ghaza Strip.

On Oct. 27, Wisal News, a Saudi Arabian TV station, reported on the spread of infectious diseases in the Ghaza Strip.

أصابت أمراض واسعة النطاق الاف النازحين الفلسطينيين في قطاع غزة, بسبب انعدام الضروريات الأساسية و النظافة الناجمة عن الغارات و الحصار الإسرائيلي, الأمر الذي يهدد بتحويل مراكز النزوح إلى بؤر للأوبئة

Widespread diseases have infected thousands of Palestinians in the Ghaza Strip, due to the lack of basic necessities and hygiene resulting from Israeli raids and siege, such threatening to turn displacement centers into hotbeds of epidemics.

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خطة إسرائيلية لإغراق أنفاق "حماس" بغاز الأعصاب

Israeli plan to flood Hamas tunnels with a nerve agent. [Al-Mashhad المشهد Oct. 28]

The video link is no longer available on the republished Arabic
site of Al-Mashhad, but it can still be accessed on YouTube.

For the liberation of hostages, being hidden in 'Ghaza Metro', the legendary underground system of Hamas tunnels comprising some 500 km, Israel plans to flood these tunnels with a nerve agent intended to 'immobilize' Hamas fighters for some hours. The operation should be under supervision of US special forces. This is what Al-Jazeera and Middle East Eye MEE have already reported. In the video of Al-Mashhad the gassing of Hamas fighters is being compared with the nerve gas attack on 'Tokyo Metro' using Sarin in 1995.

Whether the deployment of German special forces to the region (i.e. on Cyprus), reported by Deutsche Welle on Oct. 28, is related to the joint Israeli-US operation, remains unknown up to now.

What about Anti-Semitism ?

The term 'Anti-Semitism' is an ambivalent expression referring to a suspected racial component and another indisputable language component. Both should not be mixed up because they are not necessarily describing the same group of people.

..... there remains no archaeological or scientific evidence of a common Semitic people. Because Semitic-speaking peoples do not share any traits aside from language, use of the term Semite to refer to the broad range of Semitic-speaking peoples has fallen out of favour. For this reason, some critics even encourage the removal of the hyphen in the term anti-Semitism to help dispel any pseudoscientific notions of a "Semitic race". They advocate instead for the use of 'Antisemitism' to describe the hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

In addition to that, here some Basic Genetics:
Even though Jewish identity is traditionally passed on to their children through their mothers, there is no reason to relate genetic kinship among Jews to one of seven primordial mothers described by Bryan Sykes in his book 'Mitochondrial Eve' (2002).
When it comes to the term primordial mother, one should be aware that it refers only to the inheritance of the female mitochondria DNA (mtDNA). Although they have their own genome, it only accounts for about one percent of the genetic information of humans. The majority of human genetic information is located in the cell nucleus and is a mixture of genomes of countless great-great-great-great... grandmothers and grandfathers, which is not taken into account in Sykes' book. In addition, mutations occur at random intervals. Genetic kinship means not only having the same mitochondrion as someone else, but also having sequence similarities in DNA with someone else. If you want to do genealogy research, you should create a family tree based on DNA sequences and refer to old family documents.

The Jewish community of Israel is composed of different ethnic extractions. Israelite populations were always geographically dispersed, so that by the 19th century, Ashkenazi Jews were mainly located in Eastern and Central Europe. Sephardi Jews were largely spread among various communities which lived in the Mediterranean region. Mizrahi Jews were primarily spread throughout Western Asia, and other populations of Jews lived in Central Asia, Ethiopia, the Caucasus and India. As there is no common feature in ethnic diversity, it must be religion itself that makes the difference. In fact, what most non-Jews know of Jews is about their conviction of being 'Jehovah's Chosen People'. Unfortunately Jehova is identical to Allah in Islamic belief and Godfather in Christian belief while being the God of Abraham, the predecessor of all prophets. And who likes to be the 'second choice' of his God ? Such it needs nothing more than the observation of a strange behaviour or the outward demeanor of an orthodox Jew, seen as a manifestation of Jewish arrogance and pride, to trigger off feelings of inferiority and the urgent need to 'pay it back'. And here we have the origin of antisemitism. The feeling becomes even more intense when these non-Jews belong to a disadvantaged class of society.
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Among other publications referring to the 'Holy Qur'an', there is a book in Arabic named
' The Characteristics of the Jews in the Holy Quran سيمات اليهود في القرآن الكريم ':

إن النعم الإلهية تفيض باستمرار على الخلائق، خصوصاً الإنسان، غير أن الله تعالى قد خص اليهود من بين سائر الأمم بعنايات خاصة وبارزة، وأتم عليهم الحجة في هذا الطريق، لكنهم بدلوا النّعمة كفراً وعناداً، وواجهوا نعم الله تعالى باللجاجة والتذرع حيناً، والإصرار على العناد في المواقع الخاطئة والمواقف غير المناسبة أحياناً، حتى استحقوا العذاب الإلهي على أفعالهم هذه؛ من كفران النعمة إلى عبادة الأهواء وحب الدنيا

" Divine blessings are constantly pouring out upon creatures, especially man. However, God Almighty has singled out the Jews from among all other nations for special and prominent blessings, and has completed the proof for them in this way. But they retaliated the blessings with disbelief and stubbornness and faced the blessings of God Almighty with persistence and pretext at times, and insistence on stubbornness. In the wrong places and sometimes inappropriate situations, to the point that they deserved divine punishment for their actions: From denial of grace to the worship of desires and love of worldly matters. " [Chapter 2: History of the Jews]
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As 'Antisemitism' is a personal attitude, difficult to grasp by legal means because of its ambiguous definition, it is difficult to prosecute as well. For historical reasons, German lawmakers felt obliged to find a way to prosecute the manifestation of an 'antisemitism directed against the people of Jewish belief'.

Section 130 of the German criminal code therefore criminalizes certain types of hate speech. The law bans incitement to hatred and insults that assault human dignity against people based on their racial, national, religious or ethnic background. In post-World War II Germany, it has been used to prosecute racist and antisemitic threats and slurs.

Germany’s laws on hate speech and Holocaust denial stand in a sharp contrast to the U.S.A., where the First Amendment limits the role of government in restricting speech.

Distribution of Semitic-speaking peoples.

Semite is a name given in the 19th century to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews [generally referred to as 'Jews'], some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans), and Aramaean tribes.

Palestinian Westbank - Incursion of Israeli Forces

LAST UPDATE added below on Oct. 23

مواجهات بين شبان فلسطينيين وقوات الاحتلال
في مخيم شعفاط بالقدس المحتلة

قال مراسل الجزيرة إن مواجهات اندلعت بين شبان فلسطينيين وقوات الاحتلال في مخيم شعفاط بالقدس المحتلة

Clashes between Palestinian youths and occupation forces
in Shuafat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem.

A correspondent of Al-Jazeera [TV station in Qatar] said that clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and occupation forces in Shuafat [مخيم شعفاط] refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem.

The 'Demographic Wall' (Separation Wall) at Shuafat Refugee Camp.

Al-Jazeera life coverage on October 20, 2023

=> Israeli bombardment near Al-Quds Hospital in Ghaza City on Oct. 23, 02:00 GMT <=

=> Scenes at Rafah hospital, southern Ghaza, after local Israeli bombardment on Oct. 23 <=

Quds Press seems to be a Hamas-near publication located in Britain. The same source is mentioning an Israeli incursion in the Jericho area.

Here is a summary of mass demonstrations in support of the Palestinians that took place in Arab countries, given by Quds Press on Oct. 21, 2023:

ففي مصر، خرجت مظاهرات حاشدة في عدة مدن وميادين ومساجد منها "ميدان التحرير" والجامع الأزهر بالعاصمة القاهرة، ردد فيها المتظاهرون هتافات نصرة للفلسطينيين ورفضا لتهجيرهم

ومن بين هذه الهتافات: "أرضي أرضك دينك ديني"، "بالروح بالدم نفديك يا أقصى

وطالب المتظاهرون بسرعة إدخال مساعدات إنسانية إلى قطاع غزة الذي يشهد حصارا مطبقا منذ أسبوعين من القوات الإسرائيلية التي قطعت عنه الكهرباء والغذاء والدواء والماء والوقود

وفي الدوحة، نظم المئات وقفة تضامنية مع غزة في ساحة مسجد الإمام محمد بن عبد الوهاب بعد صلاة الجمعة.

وفي الأردن، شارك الآلاف في فعاليات تضامنية مع غزة بالعاصمة عمان، منها بمنطقة "الرابية" حيث مقر السفارة الإسرائيلية، رافعين أعلام فلسطين، ومرددين "بالروح بالدم نفديك يا أقصى"، وغيرها من الهتافات، وفق مراسل الأناضول

وفي المغرب، أعلنت الجبهة المغربية لدعم فلسطين ومناهضة التطبيع (غير حكومية)، انتظام أكثر من 114 وقفة ومظاهرة في عدة مدن بالبلاد، دعما لفلسطين وتنديدا بما سمته "التواطؤ العالمي
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وفي اليمن، تظاهر الآلاف في مدن عدة، منها مأرب وتعز وعتق تضامنا مع الشعب الفلسطيني، وتنديدا بما يحدث في قطاع غزة، رافعين العلم الفلسطيني، ورددوا هتافات من قبيل "لبيك يا أقصى

In Egypt, mass demonstrations took place in several cities, squares and mosques, including Tahrir Square and Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, in which demonstrators chanted slogans in support of the Palestinians and rejected their displacement.

Among these chants are: "Satisfy your land, your religion is my religion", "With soul and blood we redeem you, O Al-Aqsa".

The demonstrators demanded the rapid entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for two weeks by Israeli forces who cut off electricity, food, medicine, water and fuel. [Editor's Note: Meanwhile 20 trucks with aid materials have been allowed into Ghaza at the Rafah checkpoint.]

In Doha, hundreds held a stand in solidarity with Gaza in the courtyard of the Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab mosque after Friday prayers.

In Jordan, thousands participated in solidarity events with Gaza in the capital Amman, including the "Rabieh" area, where the Israeli embassy is located, raising Palestinian flags, chanting "With soul and blood, we redeem you, O Al-Aqsa," and other slogans, according to an Anadolu correspondent [Anadolu: Turkish press agency].

In Morocco, the Moroccan Front for Support of Palestine and Against Normalization (non-governmental) announced the organization of more than 114 vigils and demonstrations in several cities in the country, in support of Palestine and condemning what it called "global complicity."
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In Yemen, thousands demonstrated in several cities, including Marib, Taiz and Ataq, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and to denounce what is happening in the Gaza Strip, raising the Palestinian flag, and chanting slogans such as "Labbaik Ya Al-Aqsa".

Ghaza Underground - The Underworld of Palestine

A couple of years ago, some "diplomatic and military observer" published the following text on a Chinese military news site. Parts of that text have been translated and could serve as some kind of an expert comment about Hamas using "Ghaza Underground" to fight Israeli incursions into the densely populated Palestinian settlements of Ghaza:

揭秘加沙特色的地道战：哈马斯令以军损失惨重
Uncovering the unique tunnel warfare in Ghaza:
Hamas caused heavy losses to the Israeli army.

Starting in early July [2014], the Israeli army launched a large-scale ground offensive into the Gaza area controlled by Hamas, code-named "Operation Protective Edge." In addition to the standing army, the Israeli army also mobilized 86,000 reserve soldiers with the goal of completely clearing Hamas rocket launch sites in Ghaza. However, since the battle started, the Israeli army has only achieved the "result" of killing hundreds of Hamas militants at the heavy cost of 61 dead soldiers. The exchange ratio has hit a new low, surprising everyone from all walks of life.

In this battle, Hamas's armed resistance actions featuring "tunnel warfare" were talked about by all parties because of their special tactics and outstanding results: not only Hamas repeatedly broadcast news of sneak attacks on Israeli troops through tunnels , the Israeli army itself has made destroying Hamas tunnels its top priority. In China, the media's constant exaggeration and the lasting influence of the classic military-education film "Tunnel Warfare" made it regarded as a "good recipe" for Hamas to defeat the enemy.

In Palestine, which is full of deserts, the elusive tunnel warfare of Hamas has some similarities and more differences with its distant Chinese cousin, the Ranzhuang tunnel warfare. What are Hamas's tunnels and tunnel warfare like? This has to start with the blockade of Ghaza.

Ghaza Blockade and Tunnels
As a traditional human construction project, tunnels have played a significant role in war. In military history, tunnels have played various roles: During the Anti-Japanese War, the Ranzhuang Tunnel in the North China Plain provided shelter for villagers when the Japanese and puppet troops invaded; during the Vietnam War, thousands of people's troops lived, marched and even fought in hidden tunnels; To this day, the Syrian opposition continues to destroy fortresses by digging tunnels and planting explosives beneath enemy positions. In Gaza, the two most important types of tunnels are the most basic traffic tunnels.

Gaza faces the sea on one side and borders Egypt and Israel on land. After Hamas gained full management rights over Ghaza in 2007, Israel completely blocked Ghaza and carried out intermittently shelling and "targeted killing" operations in Ghaza; Egypt also nominally closed the border between Egypt and Ghaza.

Ghaza was obviously unable to support itself with only a small amount of humanitarian aid, so it started a large-scale tunnel smuggling business. In the first quarter of 2013, the tunnels provided Ghaza with 65% of its flour, 67% of its consumer goods, 98% of its sugar, and 100% of its steel and cement. It also provided Hamas with important weapons and financial support - to 800 militants annually. The taxes levied by many smuggling tunnels are equivalent to 40% of Hamas's fiscal revenue. Firearms, ammunition, rocket launcher parts and even anti-tank missiles and other weapons continue to flow into Hamas's armed forces, greatly enhancing its strength.

Most of these smuggling tunnels lead to Egypt, and a few extend into Israel. The tunnels are usually wide and sturdy, and can generally accommodate two people or one person and a cart. Large ones can even pass small cars. The tunnels are reinforced with steel beams, reinforced concrete prefabricated panels or cement hollow bricks to prevent collapse or bombing. Due to the actual connivance of the Egyptian government, most of the tunnels leading to Egypt are semi-open, while the smuggling tunnels leading to Israel are strictly covered both at the entrance and exit.

Coexisting with smuggling tunnels are military tunnels. At present, it seems that such tunnels were dug by Hamas specifically for sneak attacks on Israeli troops. This kind of tunnel is smaller in size and is reinforced with cement boards, but the exit can only accommodate a single person crawling. Even close to the entrance, the tunnel is still several meters deep, and the entrance is carefully camouflaged. Such tunnels usually penetrate deep into Israel, and after the Israeli army attacked Gaza, they became Hamas' main means of harassing the Israeli army's rear areas.

No matter what kind of tunnel, it is very expensive and expensive to build. It is dangerous to dig tunnels in places where there is a lack of geological exploration and safety equipment. Many young people have died in landslides during the 12 hours of tunnel excavation every day. Normally, a tunnel consumes 350 tons of concrete, and the excavation cost for an average tunnel of 700 meters is as high as US$250,000. A tunnel to Israel or Egypt costs millions of dollars. This is why many tunnel diggers joke about having millions (assets) but not even a million dollars in cash.

Underground Infiltration and Short-Range Artillery
Unlike the one-time blast tunnels that frequently appear on the Syrian battlefield and are specially used for government forces to fly "earth planes", most Ghaza tunnels can now be used repeatedly as long as they are used properly (Before 2012, Hamas tried to use them repeatedly. Blasting tunnels to blow up Israeli military outposts, but this type of tunnel excavation is expensive, easy to be discovered by the Israeli army and can only be used once, so it was gradually abandoned by Hamas). Through these tunnels, Hamas penetrates into Israeli military positions or behind frontline troops in teams of less than 10 people, and launches sneak attacks on Israeli military posts or small groups of troops in areas far away from tunnel entrances.

The Ghaza border is long and the Israeli army is short of troops. It can only ensure that there are sufficient troops at the front and only a few people are stationed at the rear post. The fast-moving Hamas team can easily succeed and evacuate from the tunnel before Israeli reinforcements arrive. Even if the sneak attack fails and the assault team is annihilated, as long as they are not in a position to enter the tunnel, the tunnel will not be easily exposed. In order to solve this problem, the Israeli army recruited a large number of reserves and tried to protect these rear strongholds by increasing the density of troops and the number of patrols. Unexpectedly, this move actually increased the probability of Israeli casualties.

In the past few years, with the continuous expansion of the smuggling tunnel business, Hamas, which has become richer in financial resources, has begun to reflect on its combat experience in resisting Israeli invasions and strengthened its armed forces in a targeted manner. An important step is to equip portable anti-tank missiles on a large scale. As Libya, Egypt, Syria and other countries fell into civil strife, a large number of weapons, including anti-tank missiles, were dispersed into the arms market. Together with the imitation Soviet-made anti-tank missiles purchased from North Korea, Hamas's anti-tank strength has greatly increased. .

Although these 1970s-era missiles are incapable of destroying the heavy armored vehicles and main battle tanks of the Israeli frontline troops in a direct confrontation, they have a unique opportunity in the face of the called-up reserves: the old M113 armored vehicles for the reserves can only defend themselves against attacks from old-style rocket launchers and are powerless against anti-tank missiles. Hamas can launch missiles relatively covertly from one kilometer away, and as long as they hit, they can cause "mass casualties." Compared with rocket launchers that are not powerful enough and have to get as close as 100 to 200 meters, yet only hitting by luck, anti-tank missiles have become a "nightmare" for the Israeli army.

This tactic is generally the same as that of the Lebanese Hezbollah. In 2009, Hezbollah used 500 anti-tank missiles to destroy more than 50 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, causing the Israeli army to pay huge casualties.

Another use of tunnels by Hamas is to conceal rocket launch sites. Among the Hamas tunnels discovered by the Israeli army, one had four rocket launchers installed at the entrance of the tunnel. Not only is such way of launching more concealed, it can also increase the range of the rocket with the help of tunnels. - Half of the indigenous rockets of poor quality land on Ghaza's own territory due to their insufficient range. Moving the launch site underground to Israel will increase the rocket's probability of reaching Israeli territory to 100%. Because the ballistic trajectories of Turkish rockets are unstable, it is difficult for the Israeli military to accurately determine the location of these launch positions and attack them.

Of course, these two tactics are not enough to stop or even contain the Israeli army. They only make the Israeli army pay a higher price and bear greater domestic pressure. Judging from the fact that the Israeli military has shifted its focus to attacking tunnels, this kind of attack is still effective.

الليله || مصر الجزائر كندا بلجيكا - وشعب الاردن مصمم على فتح الحدود
Tonight in Egypt Algeria Canada Belgium
[Thousands are shouting their motto]
"The People of Jordan demand a border opening"

Demonstration of pro-Palestinian activists in Amman, Jordan, demanding the opening
of the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in southern Ghaza to enable the entrance of aid
delivery into Ghaza. The people of Jordan comprises 98% Arabs, including 370,000
Palestinians who are living in UNRWA refugee camps after having to flee from Israel.

Black Friday News - Decay of the Jewish State ?

Last Update: Oct. 15

Israel is mourning after the deadliest attack in its 75-year history, as more than 1,500 Hamas members attacked through the Gaza security barrier in their coordinated land, air and sea attack on the Jewish Sabbath.

Hamas' ability to remain undetected while preparing and launching such a big, complex assault from the closely monitored and heavily guarded Gaza strip could serve as kind of evidence of an => unprecedented intelligence failure for US ally Israel <=.

One Hamas official claimed that when they got into southern Israel they were surprised by the [Israel Defense Forces] IDF’s weak response: “We were planning to make some gains and take prisoners to exchange them. This army was a paper tiger.” It would be granting too much to Hamas to assume that it had no interest in murdering local civilians and no plans to do so. But with the IDF absent there was nothing to prevent them going on a rampage, moving into nearby towns and villages, shooting whoever they found and breaking into houses to kill residents. [Financial Times, October 14]

Israeli authorities say Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,200 people and wounded over 2,700 as they swept into small towns and kibbutzim and indiscriminately killed residents who hid in their homes or died defending their communities.

Israel has been relentlessly pounding Hamas targets in Gaza in response, and the war has already claimed the lives of more than 3,700 lives of Israeli and Palestinian civilians, soldiers and combatants.

=> Why We Refused <= is an article published in Israel's newspaper Haaretz on Sept. 25, 2002. It's about three Israeli bomber pilots who refused to bomb civilian areas and non-military targets in Lebanon.

In Washington, President Joe Biden has pledged to send more US munitions and military hardware and expressed revulsion at the "sheer evil" of the slaughter of civilians.

Republican Congressman Michael McCaul (Foreign Affairs Committee / before: Committee on Homeland Security) said the attack may have been planned as long as a year ago. "We're not quite sure how we missed it. We're not quite sure how Israel missed it," he told reporters.

Cairo has not commented officially on suggestions that it may have offered an early warning. But Arabic media quoted senior security sources from Egypt on Monday Oct. 9, confirming that such warnings had been issued.

However this is not all !

Israel's army has undergone a loss of qualified personnel due to dramatic changes in society. Qualified young Israelis are not willing any longer to join the army for a rather low salary while well-paid jobs are waiting for them elsewhere.

But there is even more when it comes to severe changes planned for Israel's judicial system on behalf of prime minister Netanyahu. His efforts to cling to his outstanding government position seem to be => Netanyahu's way to avoid prison for corruption charges <=. To serve his purpose, he doesn't even refrain from building an alliance with the most questionable hardliners to be found in Israel's society.

If Netanyahu was ever charged and sentenced with corruption, this would not be the first time for a high-ranking Israeli politician to commit a criminal offence: On 22 March 2011, Moshe Katsav was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years' probation for rape, indecent acts, sexual harassment and obstruction of justice, in this way becoming the first former President of Israel to be sentenced to prison. I still find it difficult to believe that such extent of criminal attitude and behaviour on the highest level of society, deeply rooted in the personality of a public leader, could be observed in a nation we have to call 'civilized'.

So there is something foul in the state of Israel !

Above: Latest News from BBC on October 14.

Below: Footage of the Hamas attack on Israel
by Erem News إرم نيوز including pictures from
people fleeing the youth music festival where
Israeli hostages were taken. Pictures taken
of cheering Palestinians at a border breach.
Inside Israel, 2 fighter jets of Israel's air force
were removed on low-loaders to protect them
during Hamas attacks with Qassam rockets.
Foreigners are being shown, trying to leave
Tel Aviv in a hurry from Ben Gourion airport.

"Safe region" of Israel

By the way, all that is necessary to know
about the Hamas attack can be found in
my repeatedly updated blog from Oct. 7, the
original address of which has been corrupted.
This should have something to do with firewall
synchronization, a subject of cyber security.