You can’t gussy up what’s going on in Gaza ~ilana
Murder with majority approval is still murder, whomever the perpetrator. Whether it is committed by actors within or without The State; by the designated ‘good guys’ or by the ‘bad guys’; murder of innocents is still murder ~ilana
Total War: total warfare is a war … in which the laws of war are disregarded ~The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
December 3: The Devil is now unleashing on the “safe” Southern Gaza. If you care not about Gaza’s civilians, spare a thought for animals dying: dogs, cats, little grey donkeys carting their owners to … nowhere. For the Devil is now unleashing on the ‘safe’ South.
I wrote a column for tomorrow. Did some interesting calculations for it; for you, the reader. My numbers are already out-of-date. “316 Palestinians have been killed since the cease-fire ended, and … fatalities have surpassed 15,500. According to Reuters, the prominent scientist Sufyan Tayeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike.” (Haaretz, Israel News, Sunday, 03.12.2023)
G-d help anyone who dares to justify the IDF’s total war on Gazans. Their souls will be consigned to purgatory.
As of November 28, the butcher’s bill is 14,532 Gazan civilians dead, a third of whom are children. “At least,” because many are buried beneath the rubble. There ‘are now over 1.7 million displaced persons in Gaza.’
These include the littlest of children: Babies in incubators, their tiny bodies pierced by IV drips (which must be deftly inserted by dedicated healthcare providers), evacuated; shuttled from hospital to hospital, in constant peril. Gaza’s preemies are now in Cairo, most without their parents for the babies may be orphans. Egyptian doctors will try to stabilize critically ill, malnourished neonatals who have been deprived systematically of oxygen, nutrients, and medicine.
As the usual merry band of media hacks grinds on about the evil of abortion, one must ask: What about fully formed little people? Is it okay to make repeated attempts on their lives?
GAZA IN TWEETS:
Israel’s offensive against Gazans, by any other name, is evil incarnate. You cover up this truth at your peril—fail to bear witness to it; and your soul is doomed ~ilana
Gaza is a “moonscape in war,” uninhabitable for years to come, reduced to rubble by “one of the most intense air campaigns since World War II.” (AP)
Jamon Van Den Hoek and Corey Scher are two scholars who utilize satellite-radar technology to map the damage: Fifty percent of buildings in the compact Northern Gaza; 5 percent in Southern Gaza, rising and expected to rise. The two “leverage science and open data” to highlight that, so far, between 56,000 and 74,300 buildings have been damaged or destroyed throughout the Gaza Strip, approximately one building in five.”
Israel’s newspaper of record, Ha’aretz, had intellectual ballast in the Israel of my youth. It has turned into a shill for the State. It dubs “billionaire Elon Musk, a serial endorser of antisemites,” and approvingly reports that Musk has been summoned to “PM Netanyahu” and “President Isaac Herzog.” One of the world’s wealthiest men is allowing himself to be submitted to reeducation; incapable of articulating the American core value of free speech, clearly unappreciated in Israel. Our US Constitution is meant to let everyone have their say, haters too.
It’s difficult to divine what the Israeli public thinks about mass murder of civilians committed in its name, as no poll poses direct questions. All Google allows into the “Israeli public support” search is that, “More than 90 percent of Jewish Israelis support the twin goals of crushing Hamas and saving the hostages.”
#JamesElder @1james_elder. Heroic. Not only kids are dying but all civilians & pets. If you care not about #Gaza's #civilians, spare a thought for animals dying: dogs, cats, little grey #donkeys carting their owners to nowhere. For the #Devil is now unleashing on the 'safe' South https://t.co/OrRv5UAc58
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) December 4, 2023
UPDATE (11/29): HAMAS, however, is not ISIS: As an AP essay points out, likening Hamas to the Islamic State group “misses the mark in key ways”:
Hamas is an exclusively Palestinian movement. Its members are Palestinian and its ideology, albeit violent, is focused on liberating what it says is occupied land through the destruction of Israel. While branded a terrorist group by Israel and its Western allies, its deadly attacks have been focused on Israeli targets.
The #Gazans who started "It" on #Oct7 are not the ones being killed in their tens of thousands.
But you make perverse sense: An army of cowards, #IDF, that drops bombs from above on #civilians, will be defended by cowards & cretins: natural constituentshttps://t.co/ln0kYlZbTU https://t.co/yvRNgPUDj3 pic.twitter.com/vrAZYlZOG5— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 29, 2023
I summarize from Hebrew: The scorched home #Netanhayu is touring with #ElonMusk belongs to Itamar Cohen, who hid behind its walls on #Oct7, forsaken by #Bibi's #IDF & government. The #Israeli gov never asked Cohen for permission to use his home as a PR arena; cancelled him out. https://t.co/mqj1EnjyUI
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 28, 2023
UPDATE (11/27): Grotesque burlesque was Tal Heinrich, mouthing to CNN (November 25, 2023 – 18:00 ET). Said the spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
…we are a nation that unlike [Hamas] values life, and I can tell you that we are very proud to be part of this nation that is so committed to the principle of leaving nobody behind. That is really the epitome of the difference between us and these terrorists that we’re fighting up against.
To any substantive question posed, this she-devil’s replied, “I can’t comment on anything like that.” In addition to the butcher’s bill courtesy of the life-loving Israeli military (15,000 civilians so far):
1 of the world's wealthiest men, #ElonMusk, allows himself 2be submitted to reeducation; incapable of articulating the American core value of #FreeSpeech, clearly unappreciated in Israel. Our #US #Constitution is meant to let everyone have their say, haters too. #EthnicCleansing https://t.co/4sNBRuIMIQ
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 28, 2023
UPDATE (11/25): PBS reports that “Hamas released 13 Israelis and 11 Thai and Filipino workers kidnapped in the October 7 terrorist attack.” While Ha’aretz reported that “Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners on Friday—17 minors and 22 women,” Ha’aretz failed to flesh out their stories.
Via PBS & Al Jazeera, we learn that Israel will free “33 Palestinians who had been detained at Israel’s Ofer Prison in the West Bank; 150 will eventually be freed.” And that, “Palestinian Sawsan Bkeer’s daughter Marah had been jailed in Israel for eight years.” “When the October 7 attacks took place, she was moved into solitary confinement.. ..Israel’s security forces used tear gas to disperse those waiting to see the exchange, but some finished their long wait at home.”
UPDATE (11/23): Journalist Ayat Al Khaddour vlogged heroically from her home in Gaza until she was stopped by an Israeli “precision” bomb.
Told to flee to Southern Gaza—Palestinians are coming under intensified attacks there, too. There is nowhere left to run.
UPDATE (11/22):
I hope with all my heart that this here is Fake News, but here you can listen to an authentic Israeli reservist pilot, Col. Nof Erez, speaking in good Hebrew, not in the anglicized Pidgin Hebrew heard from most of the dumbed-down TV operatives out of Israel; describing the Israeli army’s response to Oct. 7 as “MASS HANNIBAL.” G-d help them if this is so. Save their souls. Is a doctrine such as “Hannibal” still extant? The IDF needs to say! After observing what has been done in Gaza—an obscene, operationally idiotic offensive against mostly civilians—almost anything appears possible.
Yasmin Porat, also a decent orator, bore witness to the same:
1st #Oct7 survivor eyewitness to confirm that #IDF forces shot their civilians was #YasminPorat to #AryehGolan. Porat is calm, logical (speaks fine Hebrew, no ugly, excitable Anglicisms). https://t.co/4loBUy4OMm
Her experience is now confirmed: https://t.co/x1PWbgFShC
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 20, 2023
REMEMBER: Republicans and Israel Firsters will Always Be AWOL in your life:
#Trump has lead so he may decide he needn't promise decent #foreignpolicy principles.
But if a #GOPer wanted to capture young, #Democratic vote:
Promise to stop/never greenlight another such travesty as #Israel's #CrimesAgainstHumanity in #Gaza.
WIN.https://t.co/VcnnCgu5Sg— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 20, 2023
“Mildly sociopathic” I called perpetrators of the war on Gazans and those running interference for Israel’s war. Was I too mild?
DEMOLISH WE MUST the demented 'argument' that #Hamas bunking down in a hospital gives #Israel the right to drop 2000 lb bombs on #Gazan #doctors & patients.#CollectivePunishment doesn't hold up in logic or ethicshttps://t.co/caxVgkO8Y4
Brilliant @normfinkelstein below: https://t.co/YTbpJuxPEJ— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 19, 2023
If you are born B’Tselem (in The Image; His Image)—you’d be crying for the Palestinians right now, not justifying their murder. Norman Finkelstein:
'If you had any heart in you, you'd be crying for the #Palestinians right now, not justifying their murder '?@normfinkelsteinhttps://t.co/oPumiTZySl
That one has to state the obvious is the true tragedy.#JewsAgainstGenocide #Gaza https://t.co/wc1W5UDogl
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 19, 2023
December 5:
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 18, 2023
Ha’aretz admits:
Ya think? #Haaretz admits:
'Diaspora #Jews Are #Hostages to #Israel's Behavior':https://t.co/faWNEjjU5u#JewsAgainstGenocide #JewsAgainstEthnocide #JewsAgainstWarOnGazans
Decent Jews & #Christians shld reject root-and-brunch the grotesquerie carried out by #IDF in #Gaza pic.twitter.com/CHl2i7nGe0
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 19, 2023
“…As to the utilitarian aspect of its mission; the IDF is handsomely equipped to fail. ‘To be very good at something inherently stupid …is not the mark of high intelligence.’
#BibiNetanyahu May Find Himself In the Dock, In #TheHague
"…As to the utilitarian aspect of its mission; the #IDF is handsomely equipped to fail. 'To be very good at something inherently stupid …is not the mark of high intelligence.'”https://t.co/IjLYIgpktu #Gaza
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 17, 2023
GAZA CITY IS GONE: Yes, Ha’aretz; Americans See It. The World Sees It.
An #Israeli op-ed scribbler asks readers to ponder the heft of an 'insight,' in plain sight, at which he alone has arrived.#GAZA CITY IS GONE: Yes, Ha'aretz; Americans See It. The World Sees It. pic.twitter.com/Msxzkk8rlY
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 15, 2023
A hospital should never be demolished; DEMOLISH WE MUST, instead, the demented ‘argument’ that says Israel has the right to drop 2000 lb bombs on Gazan doctors and patients, who are, apparently, custodians of Hamas, too.
Sorry, corrupt #IDF & #MainstreamMedia: This pitiful cache of arms, while annoying, doesn't begin to justify the grotesque, disproportionate attacks on #Gaza's #AlShifaHospital, murder of more patients. Ditto in other #Hospitals. G-d, I'm gonna be sick.
https://t.co/4D8gHAlGge pic.twitter.com/b9xSu6CXsJ— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 15, 2023
I hope this is Fake News:
I have not found credible confirmation via an English source for this barbaric letter. I translate from the Hebrew:
"Tens of Israeli doc & profs urge the bombing of 'nests of terror' & #Hamas stations within #GazaHospitals." https://t.co/OZG9oOptRL pic.twitter.com/nof9FDqOxV— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 14, 2023
It’s too late now, but, “Was it possible to defeat Hamas and prevent the carnage in Gaza”? Yes. IN A HARD TRUTH PODCAST, David Vance and I detailed a smarter, more effective response that targets only the culprits of October7 slaughter, not innocents. Do Follow.
Outlined in the podcast https://rumble.com/v3t9lwv-how-to-defeat-hamas-and-stop-the-carnage-in-gaza.html was a worldwide judicial plan. It’s prefaced with a caveat: The plan seems lefty and weak. NOT! It’s strong and just and woudl have been far and away more effective than the Gaza mass murder and Ethnic Cleansing, which equals recruits for Hamas ad infinitum.
It's too late now, but “was it possible to defeat Hamas and prevent the carnage in #Gaza”? Yes. IN A HARD TRUTH PODCAST, we detailed a smarter, more effective response that targets only the culprits of #October7 slaughter, not innocents. Do Follow. https://t.co/ZyD2QlolsT https://t.co/4wQPYNwEoi
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) November 20, 2023
Thanks, Tom Piatak, fellow warrior. Judging by the consistency in which my recent columns on Israel have been promptly rejected by publications on the Right—these people know the column’s predictability and ethical veracity—my value in swaying the Israel First knaves is … zero. But thanks.
Ilana Mercer is both right and fearless. https://t.co/FcM6ON1fwU
— Tom Piatak (@PiatakTom) November 10, 2023
War On Civilians Is War On Civilization. The offensive in Gaza is as close to Total War as modern war gets.
READING & VIEWING:
“Bibi Netanyahu May Find Himself In the Dock, In The Hague” 11/14/2023
https://www.ilanamercer.com/2023/11/bibi-netanyahu-may-find-dock-hague/
“Bibi Obliterates Memory Of October 7 Martyrs; Creates New Martyrs In Gaza” 11/02/2023
https://rumble.com/v3t9lwv-how-to-defeat-hamas-and-stop-the-carnage-in-gaza.html
“Hamas, Israel And The Anatomy Of State Treason” 10/12/2023
https://rumble.com/v3oicx4-hamas-israel-and-the-anatomy-of-state-treason.html
October-7 Israeli Survivor Reports Deaths By ‘Friendly’ Fire Nov 20, 2023
https://barelyablog.com/october-7-israeli-survivor-reports-deaths-by-friendly-fire/
“GAZA CITY IS GONE: Yes, Ha’aretz; Americans See It. The World Sees It.” Nov 15, 2023
https://barelyablog.com/gaza-city-is-gone-yes-haaretz-americans-see-it-the-world-sees-it/