- “Biden says Israel reoccupying Gaza would be ‘big mistake’” – Joe Biden has warned Israel against reoccupying Gaza, the Telegraph says, but he has promised that the U.S. will send everything the country needs to fight Hamas.
- “New York club uses pictures of Hamas assault on Israel to advertise ‘fundraver’ for Palestinians” – The charity event poster shows Hamas terrorists using a bulldozer to punch a hole in the border fence with Israel, the Telegraph reports.
- “Why Israel is unlikely to achieve its aims with Gaza ground invasion” – Former Major General Charlie Herbert gives the Daily Mail an explainer on the difficulties the IDF will face in undertaking a ground assault into the Gaza Strip.
- “Israel is trapped in a dilemma” – Seth J. Frantzman describes the dilemma facing Israel for the Spectator. “Is destroying Hamas worth the risks of a long war?”
- “As Israel prepares massive ground campaign, the end game remains opaque” – “Netanyahu’s cabinet is determined to bring Hamas down, but confounding questions will have to be answered,” says Lazar Berman in the Times of Israel.
- “Why has the Gaza ground invasion been delayed since Friday” – Delaying factors may include tactical considerations, pressure to avoid civilian casualties and concern about Hezbollah, writes Yonah Jeremy Bob in the Jerusalem Post.
- “Netanyahu’s greatest failure” – Limor Simhony Philpott explains in the Spectator why, though Hamas alone is to blame for the attack, “many Israelis are furious with Netanyahu over policies that helped create the monster across the border.”
- “This unholy axis of Iranian thugs and Marxist psychopaths is an enemy of Muslims too” – “Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are vital barriers to the spread of toxic narratives seizing both the West and the East,” says Jordan Peterson in the Telegraph.
- “No10 says Ofcom rules don’t stop BBC from calling Hamas ‘terrorists’” – No10 has dismissed the idea that using the term ‘terrorist’ would breach impartiality guidelines, the Daily Mail reports, piling more pressure on the BBC to use the term.
- “Corporate activists cheered on BLM and lockdown. Now Jews need their support, they’re silent” – Grant Feller asks Telegraph readers to offer their Jewish or Palestinian friends, contacts or colleagues some words of support.
- “Do Israel’s critics understand Evil?” – “Calls for a ‘proportionate’ response are intellectual obfuscation,” argues Jacob Howland in UnHerd.
- “Abomination on the streets of Sydney shamed the N.S.W. government, defiled Australia, and defamed its people” – Ramesh Thakur pens a passionate broadside for Spectator Australia against the antisemitic gathering outside the Sydney Opera House.
- “The reverse Floyd moment” – “I don’t think those of us who aren’t Jews can appreciate the terrible fear of being hunted down,” says Ed West, reflecting on the “psychological toll of the October 7th pogrom”.
- “Can a donor revolt save American Universities” – The Free Press reports that University donors are closing their cheque books after student groups cheered for the Hamas terrorists.
- “Palestinians are expendable to Hamas” – “The plight of Gazans as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive against Hamas is bleak and immediate,” reads this Telegraph leader. “Hamas cares not a jot for the Palestinian people it purports to represent.”
- “As Israel buries its dead, volunteers honour them by digging their graves” – Funerals have been held day and night for the victims of the Hamas attacks, according to the Times of Israel, requiring teams of volunteers to prepare fresh graves.
- “U.K. lockdowns were a policy ‘failure’, health expert tells Covid inquiry” – Professor Mark Woolhouse has told the Covid inquiry that nationwide lockdowns were a failure of public health policy, the Guardian reports, saying that SPI-M-O group, a subgroup of SAGE, failed to assess the negative consequences.
- “Sir Patrick Vallance says release of full diary entries would breach human rights” – Lawyers for ex-chief scientist Sir Patrick Vallence are arguing that full pages from his diaries should not be shown on screen, the BBC reports, saying that only text referred to in the hearing should be released.
- “Moment £190,000 McLaren plug-in hybrid sports car bursts into flames” – A chance to view the scorched wreckage of the McLaren Artura, a plug-hybrid sports car, after it burst into flames on test drive, courtesy of the Daily Mail. Both passengers escaped unharmed.
- “Burning electric cars must be dunked in baths of water to stop fires spreading” – A Government commissioned report has found that battery-powered vehicles pose a medley of risks to indoor car parks, the Telegraph says, and it recommends that parking spaces become wider and burning electric cars be dunked in baths of water.
- “Richard Curtis regrets the way he wrote about women in his films” – Richard Curtis also said he would never use the words ‘fat’ and ‘chubby’ again, according to the Daily Mail, after he was challenged by his activist daughter Scarlett.
- “The never-ending cancellation of Kevin Spacey” – Spiked’s Lauren Smith takes aim at the Prince Charles cinema for its decision to back out of screening a Kevin Spacey film even after the actor was twice judged innocent in court.
- “What Shakespeare can teach us about cancel culture” – Douglas Murray introduces Kevin Spacey to perform a scene from Shakespeare apt for the age of cancel culture, part of an annual series of lectures in honour of Sir Roger Scruton. The Spectator has published a transcript of his remarks here.
- “Trans woman wins £25,000 in UK’s first sex discrimination tribunal” – A transwoman has been awarded £25,453 in compensation, including £21,000 for injury to feelings according to the Daily Mail, after Kingston Council took two years to change the employee’s details
- “Past controversies of Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell” – The Daily Mail showcases some of ex Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell’s most controversial pieces of artwork.
- “The new feminism is misandry in disguise” – Victoria Smith in UnHerd, with a reminder that “men aren’t too stupid to fix their own problems”.
- “The ANZACs are back!” – Paul Collitis takes to TCW Defending Freedom to rejoice at the results of the Aussie referendum and the Kiwi election.
- “White Irish Privilege” – Irish Education Minister Norma Foley struggles to answer journalist Ben Scallon’s question about the country’s draft new social education curriculum which would urge students to recognise their privilege as a white person, male or Irish.
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“Burning electric cars must be dunked in baths of water to stop fires spreading”
…or perhaps we ought to have a moratorium about vehicles that spontaneously combust. Perhaps this isn’t the right technology to build our future on.?
They’re not so carbon neutral when they go up in flames, are they! Not to mention all the water needed to put them out. Probably equivalent to growing a couple of avocados for an eco activist’s brunch!
I’d like to see them get a lorry back builders skip and a 20ton crane into and underground car park! The ceiling is only 7ft high at best! Or, all this on a ferry or halfway down the channel tunnel!
“Richard Curtis regrets the way he wrote about women in his films”
I regret the way that Richard Curtis has curled up and died under pressure from his child about the use of the word ‘chubby’ to describe overweight people.
Chubby Checker, Fats Waller, King Tubby, Fats Domino…men who really couldn’t care less about such monikers of corpulence!
The article by Major General Charlie Herbert is a must-read. At last, we hear an expert voice on how the ground assault will not solve anything.
The move into Gaza will produce the desired, planned effect..
A global war..
This is The Great Reset Part 3….
If anything, it will be the breeding ground for even more radicalised terrorists. War begets war, only peace begets peace.
Very powerful piece by Scott Ritter;
https://www.sott.net/article/485173-Why-I-no-longer-stand-with-Israel-and-never-will-again
“Sir Patrick Vallance says release of full diary entries would breach human rights”Funny- he didn’t give a dam about human rights a few years ago.
‘Why has the Gaza ground invasion been delayed since Friday?’
“To achieve victory we must as far as possible make the enemy
blind and deaf by sealing his eyes and ears and drive his
commanders to distraction by creating confusion in their
minds”.
Mao Tse Tung, Protracted War, 1938
Hammas cares so much about the citizens they’re blockading the roads so they can’t evacuate South. More explained in this short video;
”The Israel Defense Force (IDF) slammed Hamas terrorists for blocking Gazan civilians from evacuating south as the IDF readies expanded operations in the strip, calling the move both “sinister and vile.”
“Hamas has both issued warnings to their civilians not to evacuate, and when people didn’t listen to those warnings of Hamas, they have actually stopped civilians, and have stopped convoys of Gazan civilians trying to flee from the situation,” IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus explained in a daily briefing shared to social media.”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/15/sinister-idf-blasts-hamas-stopping-gazan-civilians-evacuating/
This author explains how he thinks the Hamas attack was down to mainly incompetence and that the conspiracy theories are just that;
”Finally, Israel is a small country. A whole lot of people know each other and are related or friends with each other. This conspiracy theory requires you to believe that military personnel who had friends and family living in these communities decided to ignore calls for help and sit around playing cards while they were being butchered. Not to mention ignore attacks on their own bases and allow their fellow military personnel to be murdered, tortured, and taken hostage.
But since it is out there, let’s address it.
Most forms of this ‘trutherism’ claim that Israel’s security is so great and its intelligence apparatus so solid that there’s no way that the Hamas attack could have happened without some sort of complicity.
Sorry, no.
Libertarians, of all people, should know that governments are incompetent. Israel’s security is pretty compared to the United States because it actually tries to secure things. But it’s a long way from being secure. The best evidence of that is how many times it has failed.
Israel’s intelligence has been hyped a lot, but it’s mostly offensive intelligence. That means it’s pretty good at doing what it does now, learning the locations of enemy targets and taking them out. Its defensive intelligence has been a mixed bag at best. Israel’s track record at preventing terrorist attacks using intelligence is only a little better than ours.
Ask where a particular terrorist is and they stand a good chance of being able to answer, ask where the next terrorist attack is coming from, and the answer is no more useful than our color-coded homeland security alerts. There’s usually ‘chatter’ and some ‘sources’ say something, but ‘other sources’ say something else. Analysts pore over it and then someone higher up settles the debate.
Without having boots on the ground, Israel was relying on passive intelligence collection and on sensors and cameras, rather than on human intelligence sources and people who were actually paying close attention to what was going on.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/the-hamas-inside-job-truthers-dont-understand-israel-or-war
Lots of Israelis injected other Israelis with the experimental untested gunk.
Yes and that’s one good reason just in and of itself why Netanyahu has shown total disregard for the people of Israel, he turned that place into ‘Pfizer Nation’ and went full ‘Nazi’ on the citizens regarding the restrictions too, and if a bomb dropped on his head tomorrow I’m sure there’d be a party on the streets over there. I’m wondering if there was a poll just what his popularity would look like these days. If this current epic disaster is ‘political suicide’ then it’s a tragedy that he’s had to take so many innocent civilians with him, but he’s the one who at least still has breath in his body.
Struck by how the down-tickers have yet to explain why the don’t like your post. Can’t help feeling we all need to stand back and look at the bigger picture, the history and context of what’s going on. None of us can know the full details and social media just exacerbates the fear-mongering and division. So many lies, speculation and hatred that does nothing to help ordinary Israeli or Palestinian people, or humanity in general
Yes exactly. I just keep an open mind and listen to all angles really. Straight away I didn’t discount the idea it was an ‘inside job’ and found it hard to believe the IDF would not have had intelligence or let their guard down, so to speak, so that such a slaughter could ensue. Then when I heard Efrat Whatsername speak, who also is very doubtful this was just incompetence on the part of the military, I gave her more credence because she’s both Israeli and has served, whereas the above chap is American and I’ve no idea what his military expertise is, if any. However, he is allowed his opinion the same as anyone else, popular or not. But as you say, none of us know and it’s all just conjecture at the end of the day. Will the truth ever come out? Either way Netanyahu is finished.
‘U.K. lockdowns were a policy ‘failure’
No cost benefit analysis…..over £400bn spent with no cost benefit analysis…..bungling incompetence is far too generous an assessment. But it would be the triumph of hope over experience to expect this inquiry find in favour of criminal negligence…..which it so clearly should……
‘…..the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O)….failed to adequately assess the negative consequences of a nationwide lockdown.’
“The harms of the social distancing measures – particularly lockdown, the economic harms, the educational harms, the harms to access to healthcare, the harms to societal wellbeing … just the way we all function … mental health – were not included in any of the work that SPI-M-O did and, as far as I could tell, no one else was doing it either,”
“The question of how to avoid lockdown was never asked of us and I find that extraordinary.”
‘I think it’s fair to describe lockdown not as a public health policy, but as a failure of public health policy. [Lockdown] is what you do when all those other things you know you can do haven’t worked, it’s a last resort and it should always be that in my view.”
Reminds me to post this link to an excellent and succinct talk by Nick Hudson of Panda reviewing the evidence on the lockdowns and vaccines from an actuarial standpoint.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcWbO1tY_E
Interesting 2min vid. It’s not all about the land therefore giving them more land is not the solution.
https://twitter.com/Lionroyboy/status/1714076217760981108
Double warning, by J Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lyeO9IqJzc&list=WL&index=1 About the emerging abuse of power by the WHO & others.
This is very concerning – Reiner Fuellmich has been arrested:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/breaking-reiner-fuellmich-taken-from
https://www.europereloaded.com/reiner-fuellmich-taken-from-german-embassy-in-mexico-on-passport-errand-flown-to-frankfurt-and-arrested/
Indeed, very concerning especially as most judges in the West are corrupted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67125230
Oh dear, showing copies of his written diary entries will contravene Unbalanced’s human rights, yet arresting someone – and looking towards prosecution – of someone just having thoughts, doesn’t?
Strange world.
I want to see the diary entry about the exponential growth graph. Is he so thick he believes epidemics grow exponentially never mind the laws of Maths nor the prior art from 1927 onwards.
Then butt out of Syria, Joe, and stop stealing their oil.
Hamas are terrorists. FACT
Ah, but facts can be partial. BBC