Footage of apartment buildings in the Gaza Strip crumbling under Israeli airstrikes and suffering Palestinian civilians has filled Russian political talk shows and newscasts for weeks.
“They are razing Gaza to the ground,” state television anchor and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said during a recent show. “We [the Russian army] don’t fight like that, not even close.”
For the past several years, Hamas has often been overlooked in discussions regarding the top global terrorist threats. The Islamic State and its worldwide network of affiliates occupy much of the counterterrorism bandwidth, along with al-Qaeda affiliates such as al-Shabaab in Somalia. Even Lebanese Hezbollah has ranked higher on the agenda of terrorist organizations that the United States and Israel are chiefly concerned with.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raged against Israel in a speech given before a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday in Istanbul. He said he is preparing to introduce Israel as a “war criminal” on a world stage, at a moment the debate over Gaza continues heating up at the United Nations.
Removing even just one oil refinery might also “send a message” and persuade Iran’s ruling mullahs to rethink their plans.
The Biden administration, it appears, has been funding both sides of two wars: Hamas’s invasion of Israel, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Le seul pays qui pourrait détourner l’Occident de l’Ukraine est Israël. Mais les États-Unis et leurs alliés tombent dans un piège existentiel s’ils pensent qu’une victoire au Proche-Orient sera plus facile à remporter qu’une victoire en Europe.
The atrocities witnessed today in Palestine are the consequence of decades of violent events, tragedies, unfulfilled promises, mushrooming illegal settlements and victimhood. Some acts that were committed contradict our Arab culture, as well as Islamic beliefs and values, and resulted in an escalation of violence and misery that brings no gain to anyone – only losses.
Gaza-based Qassam Brigades has been waging an armed resistance against Israeli occupation since its founding in 1992.
Hamas has been in the spotlight since October 7, when its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched an attack on Israeli territory, killing about 1,400 people and taking more than 200 people captives.
The current ominous lull might be an indication of a standoff between Israel’s civilian leadership and the military.
Nearly three weeks after the Hamas attacks in southern Israel, Israel has not yet responded with its promised ground invasion.
La réalité de la nécessité de la guerre pénètre largement la conscience du monde arabe et islamique.
Tom Friedman a lancé un terrible avertissement dans le New York Times jeudi dernier :
«Je pense que si Israël se précipite maintenant [unilatéralement] à Gaza pour détruire le Hamas, il commettra une grave erreur qui sera dévastatrice pour les intérêts israéliens et américains».
Les juifs, en tant que groupe ethnique, sont plutôt pacifiques et non violents. Ils sont essentiellement des Gitans alphabétisés et éduqués. Comme les Tsiganes, ils se trouvent rarement en grandes concentrations mais sont diffus au sein d’une population non juive, qu’ils appellent «goyim» (alors que les Tsiganes appellent les non-Tsiganes «gadje»). Comme les Tsiganes, ils s’intègrent aux non-juifs en leur fournissant divers services : les Tsiganes se concentrent sur la divination, les spectacles musicaux et diverses sortes de travaux manuels, qu’ils effectuent dans le cadre de communautés de travail et contre de l’argent ; les juifs, quant à eux, ont tendance à être avocats, médecins, dentistes, banquiers et ainsi de suite.