07 Thursday Aug 2014
Hamas’ stated target may only be Israel, but that is deliberately misleading. As the actions of ISIS, which kills Muslims just as indiscriminately as it kills non-Muslims, demonstrate, the philosophy of terrorism knows no loyalty to anything or anyone but itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-sanghoee/what-hamas-and-isis-have_b_5660020.html – 8/7/2014.
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07 Thursday Aug 2014
““We are being slaughtered!” she sobbed, her voice raw and worn out, as seen on this parliamentary video. “We are being exterminated! An entire religion is being exterminated from the face of the Earth. In the name of humanity, save us!””
“Brothers, away from all humanitarian disputes, we want humanitarian solidarity” (1:00)
Kurdish MP Vian Dakhil pleading for life before Parliament, August 5, 2014:
One Yazidis showed al-Jazeera a series of text messages received by Yazidis upon the arrival of ISIS, reading: “Where are you going to go? I swear [to] God I will cut you into pieces… We are coming for you, you pig, you enemy of God.”
The Yazidis took the threat seriously. The Washington Post reports that estimates vary from 10,000 to 40,000 Yazidis currently stranded on a mountain above Sinjar, knowing their immediate death awaits them at the foot of the mountain.
No IPTC data found. Source of download: Breitbart.
Thousands of Yazidis — a Kurdish ethno-religious community — have been trapped on Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq as they attempt to escape the extremists’ grasp. The sole parliamentary representative of the Yazidis, Vian Dakhil, warned that her small community, which has roots in a 4,000 year-old faith, faces the threat of extermination.
Other religious and ethnic groups, including Christians, Shiite Turkmens and Shabaks, have also recently been displaced since the Islamic State began waging a violent campaign against minorities in the territory it controls.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/photos-yazidis-christians-minorities-iraq_n_5658370.html – 8/7/2014.
Yazidis believe in one God and worship seven angels. Melek Taus, known as the Peacock Angel, plays the most important role. Worship of the Peacock Angel is where the label “devil worshipper” stems from. Christianity and Islam view the Peacock Angel as a fallen angel or devil for refusing to bow before Adam. Yazidis interpret this as a test of the Peacock Angel’s commitment to God and see the Peacock Angel as the chief of God’s angels.
David Rubin: Is that then part of it? This is so savage that partly . . . you know, everyone keeps saying the images out of Gaza are horrible, which they are, but there’s this definitive narrative There’s a bomb that drops on something . . .
Nikki DeLoach: It’s a war that we recognize. That’s how we’ve seen war. This is not that. This is savage. It’s like . . . medieval . . . something you would see on Game of Thrones.”
I doubt any will see the mass beheading of children (as has been reported in relation to the slaughter of Chaldean Christians in Iraq) on Game of Thrones.
(CNN) — If you’re following the news about ISIS, which now calls itself the Islamic State, you might think you’ve mistakenly clicked on a historical story about barbarians from millennia ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/meast/stopping-isis/index.html – 8/7/2014.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/08/07/isis-seizes-mosul-dam-threatens-genocide-against-the-yazidis/ – 8/7/2014.
“The heinous crime of the Islamic State was carried out not just against Christians, but against humanity,” Sako told a special church service in east Baghdad where around 200 Muslims joined Christians in solidarity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/isis-genghis-khan-iraq-chaldean_n_5603939.html – 7/20/2014.
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-abuse-of-god-death-and-destruction.html – 8/8/2014 (I continue updating a piece for a little while afterwards as new and telling verbiage appears. As ISIS is basically a raiding party, events move very quickly through its machinations. Where it hustles, Iraq and its allies plod, by comparison, toward getting their act together. At the moment, Aug. 8, 2014, and despite some U.S. activity, ISIS has battlefield resource superiority — arms and ammo, cash, armor and domestic vehicles, a modern enough headquarters, and some techniques in cover and cruelty that have made them especially hard to get at. In their world, the world is running away from them, which for plunder must suit them fine).
http://time.com/3083172/iraq-kurdistan-independence/ – 8/7/2014.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-considers-air-drops-to-15000-iraq-refugees-fleeing-isis/ – 8/7/2014.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/friend-flees-horror-isis – 8/6/2014.
Finally:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/iraq-options/index.html “U.S. drops humanitarian aid in Iraq.”
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07 Thursday Aug 2014
To suggest that the “field is confused” might understate the reality. However, distilled to structural themes, it might look a little bit like this:
1. Kingdom of God — >Sunni-Shiite rivalry : Saudi-Iranian rivalry
2. Contemporary Governance –> The Despotic vs The Democratic
3. Political and Social Psychology and Topology –> Extremists vs Moderates
Official Iranian hatred of the “Zionist entity” has has maintained a flow of war making machinery and materiel to Hamas from well before present hostilities. IDF interdicted at least one shipment and one may be sure analysts are reverse engineering back to sources the arming of Hamas.
How the above suggested themes are arranged in any given mind and heart seems to me as invisible a matter as it may be personal, and in the field as much account for mistrust and paranoia as related attitudes remain inaccessible to detection except out in battle space where the same becomes quite clear as to who has embraced what cause and with what attitude.
As appears to happen with “Islamist-style” Islamic overlay, the society that existed prior to onset becomes suffocated and hidden (to greater or lesser extent). Despite the onslaughts of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Iran, so _____ frequently points out, retains many facets of its pre-revolutionary modernity, and what the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei have done is dealt themselves their own kingdom (see “Reuters, Khamenei, wealth” on that) with themselves at the center of its universe.
As long as the dictator can keep the engines of wealth in his state operating and pursue his dream of himself unmindful of the suffering he causes, that’s all that matters. Iranians may have a problem with this — the modern are the competing interest — but not the Ayatollah, not any more than Baghdaddi or Putin or Assad. They’re very different in their ambitions, but they are of the same personality, and that may be what bonds them albeit along the Shiite axis, loosely speaking.
While oil plays a mighty role in these politics, it may be much less important than the protection of the immense (and fragile) ego of the despot.
The weight of American interest in Israel’s survival probably should not be credited too greatly to the evangelical Christian community: all of the open democracies feature a majority culture, but they are all democracies in function as well as spirit, and Israel stands with them.
Brotherhood-style “democracy” as exhibited in Egypt and perhaps illustrated by Erdogan’s work in Turkey, is inherently anti-democratic and despotic primarily because the intellectual, political, and social machinery exploited is itself kleptocratic or piratical.
Human language programming and scripting get into this right about here: how is one to navigate so confused a world? Adhering to instructions might seem a good idea, but when the same promote such as Baghdaddi the Butcher to star power, one might well question the validity of those charts as well as the functioning of that most perverted “moral compass”.
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05 Tuesday Aug 2014
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Philology
A discriminatory, over-and-above hatred, inexplicable in its hysteria and virulence whatever justification is adduced for it; an unreasoning, deranged and as far as I can see irreversible revulsion that is poisoning everything we are supposed to believe in here – the free exchange of opinions, the clear-headedness of thinkers and teachers, the fine tracery of social interdependence we call community relations, modernity of outlook, tolerance, truth. You can taste the toxins on your tongue.
Often in the rush that comes with appreciating a well known writer’s voice on a cogent topic, I’m wont to overlook the date or catch up with that detail after posting. Not this time. February 18, 2009 — the last war involving Hamas! Same evil — same useful idiots out on the street embarked on their very own experience of that syndrome well known to the Tutsi of Rwanda: Paranoid Delusional Narcissistic Reflection of Motivation AKA “Reflection” or “Reflection in a Mirror.”
Try a hall of mirrors, for this habitual mode known well to the rank and file of the New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left (start with the rabid anti-Semites of the International Solidarity Movements, please) would seem well related to both the grandiose messianic delusions of malignant narcissists and the methods launched against others to get whatever it is they want, never mind that whatever they get, it’s never enough, for the damage in their souls is located elsewhere: nonetheless — flattery and patronage on one hand; intimidation, theft, and murder on the other.
And in between, “Gaslighting” with that capital “G”, i.e., the effort to produce so closed and pervasive an information environment — add an equally perverse communal group-think environment (bounded by ostracism or violence) — that their marks actually swallow their garbage.
Would that the manipulation had to do with only garbage, but these that fabricate their own “hall of mirrors” without end, who aggrandize themselves on their martyrdom of children and whole families, have ways of “taking off” that bring ruin to their worlds.
The case I make with that date and the persistent relevance of Howard Jacobson’s fine observations: what Hamas does in setting itself up and what it does to others by way of exploiting their energies and ultimately ruining their lives has to do with “habits of mind”.
Break those habits in the head suspended in cliches and tropes, and the criminality and the warring will diminish; keep them going — another six months or another sixty-six years — and they will grind down the humanity that keeps those habits in its possession.
Related from Pat Condell and posted to YouTube today:
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03 Sunday Aug 2014
Are they even aware that most of the Christian community in Gaza have fled –out of fear of Hamas? Gaza Christians were and are driven away by intimidation, death threats, forced conversions and scrutiny by Hamas “Torquemadas” who check to make sure these new converts are attending Mosque on a regular basis. Have they seen the videos recently smuggled out showing Hamas henchmen beating up Palestinian men, women and children trying to evacuate their homes, (as the IDF asked them to do), and being driven back inside by Hamas henchmen so their deaths can become fodder for naïve, unquestioning western eyes? For every Palestinian – except their most dedicated supporters, Hamas rule in Gaza has become akin to the inquisition. Has it ever occurred to these new lefties that their unquestioning support of Gaza is actually enabling Hamas and other similar tyrants to continue doing what they do best – namely rule through intimidation and terror?
http://israelsvoice.com/article.php?id=294&t=1407101450 – 8/3/2014
For good reason, I refer to it as the “New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left”.
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01 Friday Aug 2014
Jordanian Palestinian leader Mudar Zahran has been arguing for years for a revolutionary version of the “Jordanian Option”, the idea that the Palestinians should be absorbed by and governed by Jordan, an idea pursued by Yasser Arafat with disastrous consequences, but which in Zahran’s vision promotes a democratic pro-Semitic Jordan.
As King Abdullah II of Jordan would have to abdicate to get to the first leg of such an adjustment, Zahran generally argues his case from London.
Nonetheless, with Palestinian bona fides, Zahran has stepped out of the box that keeps the “middle east conflict” oscillating between temporary accommodation and relative quiet and then the rounds of brutal violence unleashed by the passions fueled by Arab hate in some proportion of the refugee populations. The dictator generally boasts — and being delusional may believe — that everyone is behind him (and everyone loves him too), but the more level-headed among empiricists may rightly query that boast: truly, provably, how many constituents within the mafia state of theofascist Hamas deeply hate and resent its existence and its power over their lives?
As all autocracies are no-go zones for honest pollsters, no one really knows.
However, with this “different kind of war”, states share in their enmity reliance on general communications networks and devices and word gets in and word gets out — and then it moves quickly.
So one may take it on Mudar Zahran’s word, “Most Gazans Have Had Enough With Hamas”, until Gazans are free of Hamas and free to speak freely.
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31 Thursday Jul 2014
Posted in Politics
. . . the governor wasted no time translating his beliefs into law. Because the governor believed that homosexuals were “a minority of perverts and the mentally and morally sick,” he outlawed them, instructing his police officers to seek, capture, beat up, and imprison every gay individual in the state. Similarly, women were deemed better off tending to their families than wasting their time with such corrupting pursuits as jobs. A special educational program was devised and approved to teach young girls the fundamentals. These future wives and mothers, read the governor’s statement, “must be fully capable of being aware and of grasping the ways to manage their households. Economy and avoiding waste in household expenditures are prerequisites to our ability to pursue our cause in the difficult circumstances surrounding us.” The men of the state reveled in this new way of life, asserting themselves as lords of their manors; before too long, nearly half of them took to regularly battering their wives.
How many of those who define themselves as liberals would support the governor?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180947/liberals-who-oppose-israel#undefined – 7/31/2014.
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28 Monday Jul 2014
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Mudar Zahran: I think Egypt must take responsibility for Gaza. Egypt must take responsibility for Gaza the same way Jordan must recognize its responsibilities towards the Palestinians. And I do see Egypt intervening to booth protect and save Gazans as well as provide to them.
BackChannels: To protect them from Hamas or from Israel? Our small world should not want to continue the Hamas-style Islamist enterprise and the anti-Semitic cant that forms a part of its character. That way of speaking — to demonize and slander the Jews (above all) — is in part everyone’s enemy.
From correspondence with Mudar Zahran, Jordanian Palestinian and peace activist, July 27, 2014
The HamaNazi part of the Islamic Botherhood goes.
Gazans — refugees proven unwanted by and not actively integrated into the rest of the Arab world — decidedly stay.
A new culture is born.
Occupation: yes — a real one, not a phony baloney political slogan.
Occupiers: Egyptian and Israeli military.
Transition: from God Mob mafia state to responsible and responsive local governance with foreign policy overseen by an Egyptian-Israeli-Gaza partnership.
Guaranteed: Gazan freedom and self-determination; real respect in the world.
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