Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Swords of Iron: sources IIIIIIII (view source)

Revision as of 04:16, December 12, 2025

18,334 bytes added ,  04:16, December 12, 2025
→‎Notes part I: Nov-27, 2025+
Line 3,709: Line 3,709:     
____
 
____
 +
 +
Israel's Druze use AI to present to testimonies of 'sexual terrorism' against Syrian Druze women.
 +
Sheikh Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, also drew the diplomats’ attention to the crimes committed against Druze women in the attacks on Sweida and the nearby Druze villages.
 +
 +
By Danielle Greyman-kennard
 +
December 10, 2025.
 +
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was presented with evidence that Syrian Druze women were sexually assaulted during the recent waves of attacks committed by Damascus-backed militia groups in southern Syria.
 +
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-879807 JPost]
 +
 +
_____
 +
 +
 +
'One Ring' of pro-Palestine propaganda shaping the war on Zionism.
 +
Yisrael Medad, December 10, 2025.
 +
The results of an intriguing study on anti-Israel and anti-Zionist language usage were published on December 2. Veteran blogger Elder of Ziyon displayed a detailed table with results of a study that reviewed the terminology employed in academic papers going back from 2005 through 2024. His findings are that antisemitic and activist anti-Zionist language is used in thousands of academic papers, thus reinforcing a negative subjective narrative.
 +
 +
The phrases and terms used in these papers included “Jewish supremacism,” “Talmudic rituals,” “Israeli Occupation[sic] Forces,” Gaza as an “open air prison[sic],” and “Judaization[sic],” among others. Such language seeps from the academic world into mainstream media op-eds, and then back again. Students and university colleagues are regularized to express themselves by using the exclusionary language of castigation and of animosity regarding Jewish nationalism and Middle East politics.
 +
 +
What is at work here results not in detached independent scientific research, but rather, it eventually locks the public into an ideological entrenchment primed and positioned to disallow any refutation. Moreover, there is no possible defense by those targeted as “colonialists.” Even more dangerous, it is a rhetoric of volatility.
 +
 +
The articulation may seem to be lofty academic verbiage, but it is just a repeat of medieval theological cancellation as when Jews were forced to engage in demeaning, unfair disputations. Today’s anti-Zionist hordes – safe in their self-constructed castles of words that reinforce the visceral animosity they already have in place – always have the advantage.
 +
 +
Raef Zreik, an Israeli Arab who is a senior lecturer of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, wrote a 2023 article titled “Zionism and Political Theology.” It purports to “identify what is unique about the political theology of Zionism” and “explores what the consequences of this uniqueness might be.”
 +
[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-879742 JPost]
 +
 +
_____
 +
 +
 +
More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419161 INN]
 +
 +
Amnesty's Long-Overdue Reckoning: Hamas's October 7 Atrocities Finally Labeled Crimes Against Humanity—But Two Years Late Exposes Deep Bias.
 +
 +
Two years, two months, and four days after Hamas's barbaric October 7, 2023, rampage through southern Israel—leaving 1,221 dead, including over 800 civilians slaughtered in their homes, at a music festival, and in bomb shelters—Amnesty International has finally mustered the courage (or the PR savvy) to classify it as what it always was: 'crimes against humanity' In a 173-page report released today, December 11, 2025, the self-proclaimed human rights watchdog details a litany of horrors orchestrated by Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups, including murder, extermination, torture, enforced disappearance, rape, and other sexual violence. This isn't just "war crimes"—it's systematic extermination, with Hamas's leadership explicitly directing fighters to hunt civilians, abduct 251 hostages (mostly women, children, and the elderly), and even steal the bodies of the dead to torment families further.
 +
 +
The evidence is damning and irrefutable: verified survivor testimonies, forensic analysis of mutilated bodies, and hundreds of videos from the terrorists themselves showing gleeful executions in kibbutzim like Be’eri, Kfar Aza, and Nahal Oz. Over 3,000 Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades fighters, plus goons from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, poured across the border in a premeditated orgy of violence. Even unaffiliated Gazan civilians joined the looting and lynchings, turning a terrorist assault into a pogrom. Hostages endured months of incommunicado hell in Gaza's tunnels—starved, beaten, sexually assaulted—while Hamas withheld even the corpses of 44 dead Israelis taken as "trophies." Amnesty slams this as "imprisonment" and "torture," noting it was all part of a blueprint from Hamas bosses to inflict maximum civilian suffering.
 +
 +
Why Did It Take So Damn Long?
 +
Amnesty's "Palestine" Blind Spot Is a Badge of Shame.
 +
Let's cut the crap: This report didn't emerge from some sudden epiphany of impartiality. It took 'over 26 months' for Amnesty to connect the dots that were glaring from day one—dots backed by Israeli investigations, UN reports, and even Hamas's own boasts. Why the glacial pace? Because Amnesty has spent those years laser-focused on one target: Israel. Just last December (2024), they recycled the Pallyweid "genocide" lie screed against Israel in Gaza, parroting Hamas-run health ministry death tolls that lump terrorists with civilians and ignore how Hamas embeds fighters in hospitals and schools to inflate "civilian" casualties. That report was shredded as propaganda by experts for cherry-picking evidence and ignoring Hamas's human shields. Israel called it "fabricated" and "false"—rightly so.
 +
 +
This Hamas report feels like damage control. After global backlash to their anti-Israel hit job— including from Jewish communities, legal scholars, and even some left-leaning outlets—Amnesty needed a fig leaf to pretend they're "balanced." As one X user bluntly put it: "Better two years late than ever," but let's be real—it's a half-hearted mea culpa that still tiptoes around full accountability. They criticize "investigative failures" by Palestinian authorities (read: Hamas cover-ups) and even nudge Israel on better forensics, as if the Jewish state hasn't already documented every atrocity while fighting a war on two fronts. And note: Amnesty couldn't fully assess sexual violence due to "access limits" in Gaza—code for Hamas stonewalling.
 +
 +
Hamas's response? Dismissal as "lies," of course—proving once again they're allergic to truth. On X, reactions range from sarcastic cheers ("Amnesty discovers Nuremberg trials!") to grim reminders that this "human rights" org has been MIA on Jewish suffering for decades.
 +
 +
The Bigger Picture:
 +
Hamas's Reign of TerrorDemands Justice, Not Amnesty's Timid Nod.
 +
 +
This report, for all its tardiness, is a crack in the facade. It confirms what Israel has screamed from the rooftops: October 7 wasn't "resistance"—it was extermination, a blueprint for genocide straight out of Hamas's charter. The last hostage body, that of soldier Ran Gvili, still rots in Gaza—Amnesty demands its return, as they should. But words aren't enough. The ICC must haul Hamas leaders before The Hague. The U.S. and allies should ramp up sanctions on Hamas funders—Qatar, Iran, anyone bankrolling this death cult.
 +
 +
Amnesty's bias isn't just inconvenient; it's complicit. By dragging their feet on Hamas while sprinting to demonize Israel, they've fueled the very propaganda that justifies more attacks. Too late for redemption? Maybe. But at least now, the world record shows: Hamas isn't "freedom fighters"—they're butchers of humanity. Israel will keep fighting for justice, with or without Amnesty's reluctant stamp of approval. The victims of October 7 deserve nothing less.
 +
---
 +
Sources and Notes.
 +
 +
-  Amnesty's disgraceful 'genocide' slander against Israel disqualifies the group.
 +
JNS. Dec 18, 2024.
 +
https://www.jns.org/amnestys-disgraceful-genocide-slander-against-israel-disqualifies-the-group/
 +
 +
- Amnesty Israel rejects Amnesty International's report accusing Israel of genocide. JPost.
 +
Dec 5, 2024
 +
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832119
 +
--
 +
- Amnesty accuses Hamas of committing crimes against humanity. JPost, Dec 11, 2025.
 +
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-879982
 +
 +
- More than 2 years later: Amnesty concludes that Hamas committed crimes against humanity. INN. Dec 11, 2025. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419161
 +
 +
- Additional coverage confirming the report's release and details: Reuters, The Times of Israel, Le Monde, and others (December 11, 2025).
 +
[https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2025/12/amnestys-long-overdue-reckoning-hamass.html Just sayin'] [https://archive.is/00p0I]
 +
 +
_____
 +
 +
 +
Majority of young American adults 'active in Hamas resistance,' Khaled Mashaal claims.
 +
Mashaal praised the "resistance" of youth on university campuses, and rejected Hamas disarmament as tantamount to "taking away our souls," in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
 +
By James Genm. December 11 2025.
 +
 +
A slight majority, 51%, of Americans between the ages of 18-21 are not only involved in the Palestinian cause, but are active in Hamas "resistance," leader of the terror group Khaled Mashaal said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
 +
 +
"Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia - there has been a great gain for the Palestinian cause," Mashaal claimed.
 +
 +
Israel's image has also been damaged during this period among that demographic, Mashaal stated. "What happened during the two years for the image of the Zionist entity before the world - this Israel which used to glorify how they are a democratic state and a pioneer for Western civilization in the Middle East reared its ugly head."
 +
 +
"You see it in the international area. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has been issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Israel has become a target. It is a killer who committed the crime[sic] of a real[sic] Holocaust[sic] - the massacres," the terror leader accused.
 +
 +
Mashaal reaffirmed his rejection of disarming Hamas's weapons, emphasizing that disarmament is "rejected in the culture of the Palestinian people," because their weapons "represent the spirit of resistance and a means of protecting the people under occupation."
 +
 +
Disarming Palestinians would be tantamount to "taking out their souls," he added.
 +
 +
In addition, he alleged that the "real danger comes from the occupation forces [Israel] and not from Gaza."
 +
 +
He noted that Hamas is confident it can convince the Trump administration of its approach, and that mediators are discussing details with Washington.
 +
 +
Mashaal also commented that terrorist's "resistance" and international pressure is the reason that the Israel-Hamas War is ending.
 +
 +
Mashaal: International Stabilization Force must not impose peace
 +
The Al Jazeera interviewer asked Mashaal on his views towards the International Stabilization Force being proposed as part of Phase II of US President Donald Trump's peace plan.
 +
Advertisement
 +
 +
"There are documents talking about their role being to deal with people and remove weapons, in other words, impose peace. This is unacceptable," he stated.
 +
 +
"It's role should be to ensure that there are no clashes, to preserve peace - not impose it," he affirmed.
 +
 +
"As for the general feeling of having international forces within the Gaza Strip, this would result in an occupational power, according to Palestinian culture," he continued.
 +
 +
The only way the ISF could work, in Mashaal's view, is if "they preserve peace by keeping them [the IDF] on their borders so they don't enter Gaza. Entry into Gaza means a transformation of Israeli occupation."
 +
 +
He also discussed how Hamas, along with "our Egyptian brothers" settled on a group of technocrats who would be able to administer Gaza, including eight that are all "capable and represent the diversity of Gazan society," as well as able to receive support from Gazan police forces. "Israel can't achieve that - we have to stop it," he alleged...
 +
 +
"Did people not hate what happened in Egypt and Jordan? What did they get from normalizing. The general opinion is against normalization," he argued.
 +
 +
The Trump administration is trying to push for normalization through the Abraham Accords in order to "save Israel from itself," and "save its reputation," he alleged.
 +
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-879970 JPost]
 +
 +
____
 +
 +
 +
'Gazan doctors killed my daughter by injecting air into her veins,' father of murdered soldier says.
 +
Avi Marciano said that rather than treat his daughter Noa for her wounds, a doctor at al-Shifa hospital killed her. He was sent a video of her last moments.
 +
 +
By Danya Saperstein. December 11, 2025.
 +
Content warning: This article contains disturbing images including lethal injections, torture
 +
 +
Avi Marciano, the father of murdered IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano, described how he learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared with him on Telegram in an Instagram video posted by Israel activist Shai Deluca on Wednesday.
 +
 +
He recounts how he saw footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into her veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
 +
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-879974 JPost]
 +
 +
____
 +
 +
 +
UK rock band under fire for swastika-Star of David imagery at London show.
 +
Jewish watchdog files police complaint after Primal Scream displays visuals linking Nazi symbols with Jewish iconography during anti-Israel performance; venue launches investigation amid accusations of antisemitism.
 +
ynet|12.11.25 21:42
 +
 +
British rock band Primal Scream is facing backlash after displaying edited images of the Star of David merged with swastikas during a Monday night concert in London.
 +
 +
The controversial visuals were projected on screen during the performance of the band’s 1999 song Swastika Eyes, a track originally written as a critique of U.S. foreign policy. During the performance, footage of Gaza was shown, followed by images of a Star of David containing a swastika.
 +
[https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sjdokzym11l YNet]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Amid dispute over Hezbollah.
 +
Iranian FM accepts Beirut invite.
 +
Elad Benari.
 +
Dec 12, 2025, 5:07 AM
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419198 INN]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
House passes bill with $500 million for Israel missile defense.
 +
“We talked to the secretary of state directly and got guarantees that any NGOs that are funneling American tax dollars to the Taliban are officially going to be cut off,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said.
 +
Andrew Bernard.
 +
(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS)
 +
[https://www.jns.org/house-passes-defense-bill-with-500-million-for-israel-missile-defense/ JNS]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Cabinet approves:
 +
19 new communities in Judea and Samaria.
 +
Israel National News.
 +
Dec 12, 2025, 1:22 AM
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419194 INN]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Pennsylvania, Utah governors decry political violence in joint appearance in DC.
 +
“We need to begin by saying that all leaders must condemn all political violence, not cherry-pick which violence to condemn and which violence to accept,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said.
 +
Jonathan D. Salant.
 +
(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS)
 +
[https://www.jns.org/pennsylvania-utah-governors-decry-political-violence-in-joint-appearance-in-dc/ JNS]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Speaker Johnson ‘The Bible is clear: Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel’.
 +
“I do not understand why we debate this anew every single day,” Rep. Mike Johnson told Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
 +
JNS Staff.
 +
 +
(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS)
 +
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaker of the House of Representatives, told visiting Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan in Washington this week that “Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel,” Dagan’s office stated on Thursday.
 +
 +
“I visited Samaria—both as a member of Congress before becoming speaker, and again last summer as speaker with a small group of colleagues,” Johnson told Dagan, according to a Hebrew readout the Samaria Regional Council provided to JNS on Thursday.
 +
[https://www.jns.org/speaker-johnson-the-bible-is-clear-judea-and-samaria-are-the-land-of-israel/ JNS]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Trump:
 +
'Mideast peace achieved after strikes on Iran’s nuclear program'.
 +
Israel National News.
 +
Dec 12, 2025, 3:21 AM
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419195 INN]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
'The Beautiful Six'
 +
Families of the six hostages reflect on Hanukkah captivity video
 +
Israel National News
 +
Dec 11, 2025, 11:23 PM
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419189 INN]
 +
 +
 +
Chilling video: 6 hostages light Hanukkah candles in captivity.
 +
Newly published footage reveals the six hostages who were murdered in August 2024 lighting Hanukkah candles and singing in a captivity tunnel in Rafah.
 +
Israel National News
 +
Published: Dec 11, 2025, 5:50 PM (GMT+2)
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419173 INN]
 +
 +
 +
Video shows hostages lighting candles for Chanukah in Gaza tunnel months before murders
 +
The footage shows six men and women reciting the blessings over the candles in Hebrew and singing the traditional holiday song “Ma'oz Tzur” (“Rock of Ages”).
 +
JNS Staff.
 +
(Dec. 11, 2025 / JNS)
 +
[https://www.jns.org/video-shows-hostages-lighting-candles-for-chanukah-in-gaza-tunnel-months-before-murders/ JNS]
 +
 +
 +
The full documentation:
 +
How the six hostages tried to hold on to hope.
 +
Additional footage found in the Gaza Strip shows the six hostages who were murdered in the tunnel, embracing, wishing each other a Happy New Year, playing games, cutting hair, and lighting Hanukkah candles.
 +
Israel National News.
 +
Dec 12, 2025, 12:18 AM
 +
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419191 INN]
 +
 +
______
 +
 +
 +
Iran star may miss World Cup over US visa issue
 +
Taremi’s IRGC service, anti-Israel post may bar US entry; Iran warns more players, staff could face 2026 World Cup visa issues
 +
ynet|12.11.25
 +
[https://www.ynetnews.com/sport/article/rjvfhxkzzg YNet]
 +
 +
______
     
Telling
Block, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, Moderators, protect
28,066

edits

Retrieved from "https://www.conservapedia.com/Special:MobileDiff/2177092"

Navigation menu