The only thing Hamas likes better than a starving Jew is a starving Gazan child.
Dear everyone,
A number of you have asked about Tali, so this evening, I will be sharing an update on Talia’s current health condition (which is a kidney infection) along with her latest “adventure” in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Robyn is with her, and they are both grateful that I am not there – not sure how I feel about that sentiment. Hopefully, her stay there will yield a speedy return to her more usual lifestyle of happy and healthy living, perhaps in another 3 or 4 days. And I hope to see everyone this evening.
Seth
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and now onto: “Out, Out Dmn Spot, I say!”
The famous quote “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” is from William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. It is spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 1, while sleepwalking. She is hallucinating blood on her hands from the murders she and Macbeth committed, and attempts to wash it away, but the spot will not disappear.
The quote is significant because it reveals Lady Macbeth’s guilt and the psychological toll of her ambition and actions. The “damned spot” symbolizes the stain of guilt that cannot be removed, despite her attempts to cleanse herself physically.
While the Western World does indeed love dead Jews, they have, however, been unable to wash the embedded stain of their complicity and their actions, and in wiping the JewBlood off their hands in all of these years, until now.
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If you think “all of this” is about “Justice (sic) for Palestine (sic)”, then think again:
Indeed, while the Western World loves dead Jews, and they have more than demonstrated that, yet the more shocking is that Hamas and its Western World enablers love starving Palestinian children even more.
From the Wall Street Journal:
“The only thing Hamas likes better than a starving Jew is a starving Gazan child.”
In the war between the Jewish state and its enemies in Gaza, one side is deliberately starving innocent people to the point of emaciation. One side irrevocably denies the right of its adversary to exist. One side would, if it could, conduct a genocide against the other, wiping every last remnant off the face of the planet.
That side isn’t Israel.
In the past 10 days, two images have told two ostensibly different but paradoxically identical truths about this conflict.
Hamas Starves Jews and Palestinians, and Israel Gets Blamed
The Western press and politicians play along with the terror group’s ghastly propaganda campaign.
On July 25 decent people everywhere were shocked by the image of a desperate Palestinian child, skeletal and frail, cradled by his mother, published, among other places, on the front page of the New York Times. His mother told the paper that her child was born healthy but was now suffering from malnutrition. Muhammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq was portrayed as a victim of a famine induced by the Israeli government’s restriction of food distribution in Gaza.
This weekend, to predictably less global attention, another image was published, this one of an Israeli man who was abducted by Hamas on the day they murdered 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped hundreds of others. He was one of the young people seized while attending the Nova Music festival in southern Israel. Unseen for several months, he appears in the video seriously emaciated, ghostly pale and gaunt—a once-vibrant young man who has spent nearly two years in the hell of a Hamas prison.
The first image, we now know, was a misleading one. The child wasn’t a previously healthy victim of Israeli starvation. He was born with cerebral palsy, which was primarily responsible for his debilitated state. The Times clarified this in an editor’s note a few days later, though it was likely seen by a fraction of those who saw the original story.
The second image wasn’t misleading at all: Evyatar David, 24, terrified and helpless, peering out of the darkness of a Gaza tunnel, in a picture reminiscent of an inmate of Bergen-Belsen in 1944.
It says so much about the enemy Israel is up against that both images are part of the campaign against Israel. The only thing Hamas likes better than a starving Jew is a starving Gazan child. Both are useful for their ends. The former horrifies a credulous world so it puts international pressure on the Israeli government to end the combat. The latter taunts Israeli hostage families so they put similar pressure on the government. If there were a Goebbels prize for propaganda, Hamas would win it every year. It should be a source of shame that so much of the West’s media is gulled or persuaded into playing the Leni Riefenstahl part in the campaign.
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Taken from the writings of comtemporary Romans: not simply in loving Dead Jews, but in fearing Dead Jews arising from the ground:
“After destroying Jerusalem and callously decimating its Jewish population, Titus, (the Roman general), returned home with only a portion of his Tenth X Legion (Legio Decomanus X Frentensis). When asked whether he had lost all of his other men on the battlefield, Titus gave assurance that his men were alive, but that they were still on combat duty. He had left them to stand guard over Jewish corpses in the fields of Jerusalem because he was sincerely afraid that their bodies would be resurrected and they would reconquer the Holy Land as they had promised.
