Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 161 and injured closed to 1,000 people, according to local Palestinian officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPD1QmJS7o?si=MH-GRRIW0dpEMlnb

Israel said earlier it had begun striking targets in the Gaza Strip in response "to the barrages of rockets" that were part of an unprecedented attack by Palestinian militants.

We'll bring you more details as we get them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67037895

So soon...


We go soon start to see pray for...

abc115:
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 161 and injured closed to 1,000 people, according to local Palestinian officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPD1QmJS7o?si=MH-GRRIW0dpEMlnb

Israel said earlier it had begun striking targets in the Gaza Strip in response "to the barrages of rockets" that were part of an unprecedented attack by Palestinian militants.

We'll bring you more details as we get them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67037895

They have not even started...wait let sabbath pass and Hamas would witness the atmosphere of signs and wonders in Gaza...!!

Yeah.......


This is what I like ........


Go Benjamin

Israel should have declared 3 months sit at home and add it to wailing, curses, denial of their faith and waiting for the God of Israel to save them

Former Prime Minister Naftalie has enlisted among the reservist called up for this war.


That's people with purpose.

Palestine go regret why they attack sleeping lion this morning.

uncleinans:
Former Prime Minister Naftalie has enlisted among the reservist called up for this war.


That's people with purpose.

Palestine go regret why they attack sleeping lion this morning.

Within 24 hours , specifically by midnight,the story will change

God bless Israel...

Death to all terrorists and their online defenders.

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Down to terrorist , I support Israel it will be bloody

Iran is deceiving Palestine and other mumu Arab countries, they will soon be wiped out, I just pity innocent kids, women and the weak in Palestine

The number has increased though. This figure was between 6.30am and noon.

Israel will smoke them like rat

Hamas fighters are roaming about southern Isreal and have neutralized one Isreali major.
They should leave women alone and face Hamas. Seems the victory over this overhyped IDF flexing muscles on unharmed Palestinians will happen sooner than we expected

If it is in the east, they will be waiting for the inept and useless police and military to come and defend them from herdsmen, the Israel didn't even wait for morning prayers to hear from God

abc115:
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed 161 and injured closed to 1,000 people, according to local Palestinian officials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPD1QmJS7o?si=MH-GRRIW0dpEMlnb

Israel said earlier it had begun striking targets in the Gaza Strip in response "to the barrages of rockets" that were part of an unprecedented attack by Palestinian militants.

We'll bring you more details as we get them.

The Palestinians are already used to being killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyE_C5FbQcw

The killing of Isrealis being witnessed today is a completely new experience to the current generation of Israeli. Henceforth, they will value peace more.
Let's pray that God will touch their hearts and common sense will prevail.

FreeStuffsNG:

The Palestinians are already used to being killed, the killing of Isrealis being witnessed today is a completely new experience to the current generation of Israeli. Henceforth, they will value peace more.
Let's pray that God will touch their hearts and common sense will prevail.

Surely you don't know Israel, they have been waiting for a very tangible reason to strike hard on Hamas. This is it

Benjamin Netanyahu that likes war is who you're saying will embrace peace 🤣🤣🤣

Wait for scores after 24hrs, you will start seeing pray for Palestine. Palestine and Hamas deserve whatever Israel gives them

You’ve got to hand it to the Israeli Haaretz (The Land) newspaper and its editors, prominent among them are Gideon Levy and Amira Haas.

In a cauldron of madness and turmoil, today Haaretz and the Israeli online blog +972 Magazine (as they have been) are perhaps the only Israeli voices of conscience.

And in its rabid descent into mayhem and chaos bordering on anarchy, Israeli society, under Benjamin Netanyahu and his cohorts of rightwing xenophobic coalition of convicted felons and religious ideologues, is finally unmasking its heretofore shellacked over and camouflaged fault lines of Israel’s past and present.

The Gutsy Haaretz did what no major American or European media dared do.

On October 3, 2023 under the title Prominent Settler Activist Says Spitting on Christians ‘Ancient Jewish Custom’, Haaretz reported that “Israeli settler Elisha Yered, who is suspected of involvement in the killing of Palestinian teen Qosai Mi’tan, made the comment amid a rise in incidents of Jews spitting on or near Christian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Old City.” For the disgusting ocular proof, the reader is invited to view footage of a spree of spitting incidents by Settler and Haredi males of all ages, from the 5-year-old to the elderly.

Elisha Yered’s October 3, 2023 comment on Twitter “that spitting at Christians is ‘an ancient Jewish custom,’” drew Haaretz’s ire. The daring Haaretz report on Yered’s comment is merely an ongoing journalistic investigation reporting on this sordid practice, many of which were filmed on Sunday and Monday. This most recent news report according to the Haaretz, “ gives more evidence to the fact that these attacks have become widespread.”

When I was a child in the early and mid 1950s still living in Jerusalem, my uncle had a much smaller version of a Bed Bath and Beyond store. Located in upper Bakaa, a southwest suburb of Jerusalem, the store was positioned on the Jerusalem Bethlehem road. Because we are Christian Palestinians, my uncle closed his store on Sundays, yet opened it on Saturdays. We, a handful of Palestinian families, and mostly off the ships European Jews, lived in this suburb. Practically all of the Saturday customers were secular Jewish men or women. And on Saturdays observing Jewish men (men only), dressed in their Shabat best, would walk by the store and spit on the inside.

And each Saturday at least three such dastardly acts played out. And yes, there were repeat offenders.

Most of those promenading throughout the day on Saturdays were Haredi Jews of European (Ashkenazi) extraction. Their trademark attire was white shirts, full-length dark suits, and skull caps over which a shtreimel, better known as a fedora, would crown their heads. As a youngster, I always wondered what furry animal had to give up its fur for the massive, round, headdress, akin to a crown of fur. While some of the Haredi men would expectorate on the go, others would take one or two steps past the store’s threshold, stand defiantly on the inside, take a deep breath, and spit their saliva and phlegm on the tiled floor.

Because The Jerusalem Bethlehem Road had inviting wider sidewalks conducive for leisurely promenades, the Sephardic (Oriental) Jewish men would wander from their ostracized and segregated neighborhoods to the south to enjoy their Shabat strolls. Like their Haredi counterparts, the Sephardic men were afflicted with the same spitting malady, and they differed in only one manner: armed with sacks of roasted sunflower, watermelon, and peanuts, the Sephardic men (mind you, only men) would fill their mouths with spent sunflower seed shells, walk by, or step into the store, and spew a jet of saliva and an abundance of slimy shells on the store floor.

So much for tolerance and Shabat behavior after a morning at the synagogue.

Our Saturday family routine was as follows: by 8 a.m. my twin brother and I would trek the half-kilometer distance from our house to Uncle Naim’s store to spend the morning hours; with children out of the way, our widowed mother loaded the tub of her vintage hand-cranked wringer Maytag washing machine and performed the mundane household chores; in between customers uncle Naim would, and in preparation for Sunday morning church attendance, place us in his lap to trim our nails and or cut our hair, but mostly to read to us from his favorite poetry and other books.

Only seven years old at the time, Ramzy and I had to witness and experience the spitting sprees with much anguish. And what surprised us most was Naim’s stoic resilience at the ghastly behavior of adult men and occasionally, their copycat children. And why do they do this sort of thing? Why don’t you tell them to stop? Why don’t you report this ghoulish behavior to the police? And so many other questions our 7 and 8-year-old mouths would utter.

Niam’s responses are deeply inscribed in the cortex of my brain: They don’t know any better, they are misguided, you should never emulate this behavior, one must forgive and forget, and God will forgive them for their unbecoming behavior were some of the responses we heard.

Standing in a corner behind one of the doors was a broom, a mop, and a bucket full of disinfectant. And many times a container of vinegar from which a generous sprinkling was poured as an added cleanser.

October 1 through October 6 is the week of Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday during which the fall harvest is celebrated. And sadly 70 years after my Jerusalem sojourn this uncivilized behavior of spitting on non-Jews has become a brazenly institutionalized behavior by Israeli Settlers and some of their Haredi supporters. The Haaretz reported that “tens of thousands of Jews joined in events and prayers for the Sukkot holiday during which many of the spitting incidents were recorded.” Footage of the Haredim, men only, of course, and children of all ages are seen spitting on Christian tourists (from Latin America and the Philipines) on their pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Dressed in their traditional Haredi orthodox attire, The videos depict Haredim of all ages marching in the narrow streets of Jerusalem and spitting on Christian tourists carrying crucifixes.

How come American media ignores this egregious behavior? And, are there any adults in Israel’s ultra-religious community?

In his post, Yered states “It’s a good time to mention that spitting near [Christian] priests or churches is an ancient Jewish custom, and there’s even a special blessing in Jewish law that should be recited when you see a church.” He goes on to say “Perhaps under the influence of Western culture we have somewhat forgotten what Christianity is, but I think the millions of Jews who suffered in exile from the Crusades, the torture of the [Spanish] Inquisition, blood libels and mass pogroms – will never forget.”

To his credit, Tourism Minister Haim Katz condemned this thinking and iterated that even though this “is an ancient and even acceptable custom,” it “ is horrible. The actions of a handful of extremists make people hate Judaism, damage Israel’s image and affect tourism.”

Likewise, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel David Lau and Religious Services Minister Malkieli condemned the repeated spitting attacks on Christian tourists.

And I am still waiting to hear similar condemnations of spitting attacks on Palestinian Christians and attacks on their churches and cemeteries, including the unconscionable attacks on the Al Aksa mosque.

Concerned about the spitting phenomenon “ Last week, chief of the Israeli army’s Central Command, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, ordered Yered to be barred from the West Bank for a period of five months and prohibited him from contacting five known settler activists.”

In closing, had the incident involved Christians spitting on Jews anywhere in the world, those doing the spitting would be accused – as they should be – of being anti-Semitic, and it would have been a 24/7 news cycle.

Until and unless Israelis and their supporters around the world have an honest discussion about justice, xenophobia (in all its forms), colonial settler expansionism, tolerance, pogroms and daily killing sprees sanctioned by a government attempting to change its political system so as to get a corrupt Netanyahu off the hook and give its religious fanatics more power, Israel is on its way to more chaos, more anarchy, and certainly more fragmentation.

Raouf J. Halaby is a Professor Emeritus of English and Art. He is a writer, photographer, sculptor, an avid gardener, and a peace activist. halabys7181@outlook.com

Spitting on Jews is an ancient Jewish tradition

Jews stone christians


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDUA7L8dh4?si=iljaokfV6phYfBRK

Spitting on Jews is an ancient Jewish tradition - Yered

The reason why this war can never be won is because innocent people are killed instead of the guilty. The real terrorists will always live to cntinue with terrorism while the innocent are killed as vengeance.

Killing christians is justified

Published 9:05 PM GMT+1, April 13, 2023
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview that the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has made life worse for Christians in the birthplace of Christianity.

The influential Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told The Associated Press that the region’s 2,000-year-old Christian community has come under increasing attack, with the most right-wing government in Israel’s history emboldening extremists who have harassed clergy and vandalized religious property at a quickening pace.

The uptick in anti-Christian incidents comes as the Israeli settler movement, galvanized by its allies in government, appears to have seized the moment to expand its enterprise in the contested capital.

“The frequency of these attacks, the aggressions, has become something new,” Pizzaballa said during Easter week from his office, tucked in the limestone passageways of the Old City’s Christian Quarter. “These people feel they are protected … that the cultural and political atmosphere now can justify, or tolerate, actions against Christians.”

Kseeker:
Jews stone christians


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzDUA7L8dh4?si=iljaokfV6phYfBRK

Even if Jews stone christians we will still not support Aboki people war against the Holy land of Israel

Burning christian churches is justified -- Israel Jewish leader


Burning of Christian churches in Israel justified, far-Right Jewish leader says
Head of Lehava, known for violent campaign against Jew-Arab assimilation, risks arrest with public defence of setting fire to Holy Land churchesAlso arrested was Meir Ettinger, grandson of the late Meir Kahane, a Jewish rabbi notorious for racist beliefs who was murdered by a Palestinian in 1990.

Mr Gopstein, Lehava's founder, is a one-time member of Mr Kahane's Kach party, which was banned because of its racist philosophy.

However, Shin Bet - Israel's domestic intelligence agency - recently concluded that there are no legal grounds for similarly outlawing Lehava, despite a request from Mr Ya'alon to consider doing so.

Two of the group's members were recently jailed for setting fire to Jerusalem's Jewish-Arab Max Rayne Hand in Hand school last November. Hebrew graffiti reading "Kahane was right" was sprayed on a wall of the school.

Mr Gopstein was arrested along with 20 other Lehava members for suspected incitement to violence last last year but has so far not been charged.

Lehava - whose name means "flame" but is also the Hebrew acronym for "prevening assimilation in the Holy Land" - regularly holds open gatherings in Jerusalem's Zion Square, where members distribute literature warning of the dangers of relationships between Jewish women and Arab men.

The group held a demonstration at which members chanted "death to the Arabs" outside a wedding between a Muslim and Jewish woman who had converted to Islam during last summer's Gaza war.

It also staged a protest against last week's gay pride march in Jerusalem, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man attacked six participants, leading to the death of a 16-year-old girl.

Kseeker:
Killing christians is justified

Published 9:05 PM GMT+1, April 13, 2023
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview that the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government has made life worse for Christians in the birthplace of Christianity.

The influential Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told The Associated Press that the region’s 2,000-year-old Christian community has come under increasing attack, with the most right-wing government in Israel’s history emboldening extremists who have harassed clergy and vandalized religious property at a quickening pace.

The uptick in anti-Christian incidents comes as the Israeli settler movement, galvanized by its allies in government, appears to have seized the moment to expand its enterprise in the contested capital.

“The frequency of these attacks, the aggressions, has become something new,” Pizzaballa said during Easter week from his office, tucked in the limestone passageways of the Old City’s Christian Quarter. “These people feel they are protected … that the cultural and political atmosphere now can justify, or tolerate, actions against Christians.”

This one is on a ranting spree on Christians trying desperately to turn our mind against Isreal 🤣

So what exactly do you expect Christians here to do? Support Hamas? Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣

Whiteangel1234:


Even if Jews stone christians we will still not support Aboki people war against the Holy land of Israel

That's why a slave will always be a slave

RomanGreen:


Surely you don't know Israel, they have been waiting for a very tangible reason to strike hard on Hamas. This is it

Benjamin Netanyahu that likes war is who you're saying will embrace peace 🤣🤣🤣

Wait for scores after 24hrs, you will start seeing pray for Palestine. Palestine and Hamas deserve whatever Israel gives them

Continue console yourself.
And hiding your pain under laughin emoji

RomanGreen:


Surely you don't know Israel, they have been waiting for a very tangible reason to strike hard on Hamas. This is it

Benjamin Netanyahu that likes war is who you're saying will embrace peace 🤣🤣🤣

Wait for scores after 24hrs, you will start seeing pray for Palestine. Palestine and Hamas deserve whatever Israel gives them

Smh. You still think the Israeli killed today are play .

Isreal is less than 10m in population and their main protector, US, is in disarray locally and internationally. Even funding for Ukraine war was not approved last week.
US has consistently told Israel to accept the 2 state solution but hardliner Zionists in Israel said No and eventually got back power in last election in Israel.

You really don't understand the real issues. Isreali are voting out the current coalition and will pursue the option of peace. They can not be a pariah nation for ever. They are the only nation on earth that it's citizens can not even travel to any of the nations surrounding it. The Isreal nation is not even a Christian country or pretend to be so like US and the EU

Kseeker:



That's why a slave will always be a slave

You that is supporting Palestine/Hamas, you are also a slave, or your slavery is higher than that of Christians abi?

Cry 🤣🤣🤣