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Incoming missiles from Iran to Israel.

Two ballistic missiles launched by Iran at northern Israel were successfully intercepted by air defenses a short while ago.

Ok Israel is the Big Bad and therefore it’s just fine to lie about Israelis and say they eat babies. No no it’s not standard-issue blood libel, because this time the Jews— sorry, Israelis— really ARE doing it!

"I WILL RETURN TO MY VILLAGE AND RAISE MY CHILDREN THERE" 10/7 For 52 days and nights, Yagil Yaakov, just a child was held in captivity, completely alone.  He was 12 and a half when Hamas terrorists dragged him from the safe room of his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7th 2023 and kidnapped him to Gaza.  He was imprisoned and starved for 52 days.  His "crime" according to Hamas?  Existing as an Israeli in the kibbutz, where he lived since he was born.  Now a teenager, he recently opened up to Ynet about his experiences in captivity.  “The loneliness was the hardest part,” Yagil told Ynet's reporter Hagar Kochavi.  “There was hunger, beatings and threats, but being alone eats you from the inside.” One morning, when his captor was asleep, Yagil accidently angered his captor — and what resulted left him so scared he became suicidal.  “When I came back, he was waiting for me with a wooden plank,” he recalls. “He grabbed me, threw me onto the couch and beat me." He says the dreams of returning home to his family kept him alive.  “To return to Nir Oz,” he says. “And to build a family.” “I will make it happen" 🎗️

I’m reminded again of how kids in Iran, as young as 14, went out into the streets demanding basic human rights and were gruesomely shot and tortured for it.

It's about the Arabs never, in their history, granting any non-Arabs or non-Muslims equal rights and then throwing a tantrum whenever these second degree citizens asked for their own countries.

Forget Israel v Palestinians. 

Check out the Syrian "Arab Republic," even after the collapse of the Baath Party. See how the Druze (Arab non-Muslims) and the Kurds (Muslim non-Arabs) have been treated like unwelcome guests in Syria. See how the Christians in Iraq vanished while the Kurds are always treated as an unwanted presence. 

The problem is not the 1948 Independence of Israel. It is the inability of the Arabs to treat each other, let alone others, in the ways of modern states. Blaming imperialism for their failure is not convincing. 

If Arabs (minus the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco) want to continue living in Medieval times, why hold back everyone and drag them to misery too?

Hezbollah claims it was created as a response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, implying that prior to the invasion, Lebanon was a peaceful neighbor.

This leads people to imagine Israel decided to cross the border and “steal” Lebanese land out of the blue, though one wonders towards what purpose, since no Israeli settlements were created in Lebanon, nor was the population deliberately displaced. 

Did Israel start a major war just for fun?

The reality of the matter is that Israel never attacked a country that didn’t attack it first or supported attacks against it, and Lebanon is no different. Just like Israel’s current invasion of Lebanon, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a defensive response to annihilaionist aggression against the Jewish state.

Before 1982, hundreds of attacks were launched against Israel from South Lebanon, mostly by Palestinian militants who were expelled there from Jordan in 1971. One wonders why they didn’t attack Jordan just as hard for expelling them, but that’s a subject for a different story.

These attacks have killed hundreds of Israelis and injured over a thousand between 1970 and 1982, the vast majority of them civilians and many of them children. Often, attackers from Lebanon went out of their way to target Israeli children. In some cases, they literally snatched babies from their cribs.

In many ways, their level of sadism was a precursor to the atrocities of October 7. In fact, until October 7, one of these attacks was the bloodiest in Israeli history.

Below are five of the most infamous attacks launched from Lebanon against Israeli civilians before 1982. 

Shove them in the face of anyone who tries to gaslight you by claiming the only reason Hezbollah exists is to “resist” Israel.

A soldier carrying his wounded sister from the Ma’alot massacre.

Avivim School Bus Massacre (1970)

Palestinian militants from the Marxist PFLP-GC movement armed with rifles and RPGs crossed into Israel from Lebanon and opened fired on a school bus near the Lebanese border.

The terrorists then fled the scene, leaving behind them dozens of dead or dying children.

18 Israelis were killed, including 9 children, and 25 were wounded.

Ma’alot Massacre (1974)

Palestinian terrorists from the Marxist DFLP movement infiltrated from Lebanon. They attacked a van, killing two Arab-Israeli women and entered an apartment building in the town of Ma’alot, where they killed a couple and their four-year-old son.

From there, they headed for the Netiv Meir Elementary School in Ma’alot, and took hostage 115 people including 105 children and demanded the release of 26 terrorists from Israeli prisons or else they would kill the children. 

During the rescue operation, which defense minsiter Moshe Dayan personally oversaw, the terrorists murdered 22 children and injured 68 more. 

One soldier was killed in the fighting.

31 Israelis were murdered and 70 were injured in the attack. Most of them children.

Kiryat Shmona Massacre (1974)

Palestinian terrorists from the PFLP-GC movement (notice how many of these massacres were committed by Communists) crossed from Lebanon into the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona and went door-to-door through apartment buildings, shooting residents and throwing children from the top floors.

They were later when the backpack of one of them exploded during a gunfight with the IDF.

18 Israelis were killed, including 8 children, and 16 were wounded.

The Coastal Road Massacre (1978)

Palestinian militants from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement sailed from Lebanon and landed on a beach near the kibbutz Ma’agan Michael and murdered American photographer Gail Rubin who was the niece of US Senator Abraham Ribicoff. 

From the beach, they walked to the highway and hijacked a taxi after murdering its occupants. Next, they hijacked a bus and murdered its occupants as well as firing into a passing car, murdering a teenager and injuring his father. 

Time characterized it at the time as “the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history.” Until the Nova music festival massacre, this was the deadliest terrorist attack in Israeli history.

38 Israelis, including 13 children, were murdered and 76 were injured in the attack.

The remains of the hijacked bus after the massacre

Misgav Am hostage crisis (1980)

Palestinian terrorists from the Arab Liberation Front infiltered the kibbutz of Misgav Am. They murdered Sammy Shani before entering the children’s sleeping quarters and murdering two-year-old Eyal Gluska. They then snatched two babies from their cribs and ran up to the second floor, where they barricaded themselves with five more toddlers and an adult the took hostage.

Luckily, the rescue operation mounted by the IDF was successful. One Israeli soldier was killed but there were no more civilian casulties.

3 Israelis were killed, including 1 toddler, and 25 were wounded.

All these attacks, as well as hundreds others, happened against the backdrop of repeated Katyusha bombardments of Israeli towns throughout the 70s and 80s.

So no, Israel didn’t invade Lebanon in 1982 for the sport of it. 

Israel invaded it to stop a decade of atrocities and mass murder which the Lebanese state at best turned a blind eye on and at worst actively supported. 

The only thing Lebanon had to do to avoid this invasion was simply not let terrorists use its territory to invade Israel and kidnap babies from the crib and bask in the blood of children.

It was true in 1978, it was true in 1982, and it’s true today.

URI KURLIANCHIK

Shabbat Shalom

 Blessings for peace, safety and good health.

Stay safe.

there have never been enough jews in the history of the world, there are not enough resources, there is not enough time for it to be even remotely possible that we do unto you what you have done to us

secondly:

and what if we did? would it not by your own estimation be justified?

thirdly:

this only comes to your mind because if this happened to YOU, then YOU would want to take exact revenge. we aren’t like you. we want to live. all we have ever wanted is to live and be free to determine our own futures. we want independence, self-determination, and peace.

we are not like you. and even if we took revenge in some impossibly small and limited capacity, it would never be enough. i don’t know that enough suffering has ever existed for you to be punished for what you’ve done to us.

Photographers and people are kept unknown due to the security of the protesters' identity.

A man sits on an office chair in the middle of the street, after setting a governmental office on fire; Ilaam city.

A man celebrating their victory after setting a governmental grocery store on fire. (The bags of "7$ rice per month" are torn and that is rice all over the ground. "We are protesting, not begging"); Malekshahi county

An arrestd young boy in the police car, feeling victorious even when he's arrested; location unknown.

A man using a gas-filled fire extinguisher to set the police on fire; Hormozgan.

Teenage girls sitting still in front of the police; city unknown.

A girl and a boy, standing in front of the police together, location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

A man sitting in front of the armed police, alone. Location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

people of Abdanaan celebrating their victory after taking over a governmental state, holding up a man sitting on an office chair.

3 of the photos above are enhanced by AI so the details are visiblble, but no other changes.

为了我们的良心自由

For the freedom of our conscience

永不忘记，永不放弃

Instead of despair, he saw something extraordinary. The Land had refused to accept any other people since the Jews were exiled.

He wrote:

“Many are Israel’s forsaken places, and great is the desecration. The more sacred the place, the greater the devastation it has suffered. Jerusalem is the most desolate place of all.”

And then the profound truth:

“Our Land will not accept our enemies ... Since the time that we left it, [the Land] has not accepted any nation or people, and they all try to settle it ... This is a great proof and assurance to us.”

At age 72, after fleeing Christian persecution in Spain, Nachmanides immediately began rebuilding Jewish life. He established the Ramban Synagogue and a yeshiva that drew students once again.

That small but determined effort helped rekindle nearly 700 years of continuous Jewish presence in Jerusalem — until the Jordanians destroyed the Jewish Quarter and ethnically cleansed its Jewish residents in 1948. 

After the liberation of the Old City in 1967, the Ramban Synagogue was rebuilt on the site of the ruins.

Even in exile and ruin, one of Judaism’s greatest minds understood the eternal reality: 

The Land knows its children.

a) Cool, name one country that doesn't bribe Congress through lobbying, including over a dozen Arab countries. Israel ain't special.

b) Cool, look up how many BILLIONS Qatar has donated to American universities over the last two decades.

c) Look up where most Hamas leaders are staying.

d) Which American demographic supports Hamas the most--oh, you'll never guess! University students, and college age kids.

Hamas lives in Qatar, Qatar bribes universities, university-aged kids support Hamas.