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Category Archives: Hamas
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Hamas leaders Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are keeping the tunnels, Qatar offices, and surviving military councils humming right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign hammering Iran for a second month, Khamenei martyred, IRGC supply lines shredded, and the broader Axis of Resistance taking … Continue reading
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The Hamas Power Industrial Complex: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Authority Within Hamas
Members of Hamas do not compete for authority by saying they want control over Gaza’s governance revenues, international donor pipelines, military procurement networks, and the symbolic capital of armed resistance. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority … Continue reading
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Nobody Runs Society
Philosopher Michael Huemer writes Sep. 7: * While Joe Biden was still running for President, people were saying that he was a puppet, controlled by some other forces. A popular theory on the right is that this was “Obama’s third … Continue reading
Decoding The Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine Campus Protests (5-5-24)
01:00 My analysis of campus protests: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15496103:00 National Review: Since When Does Criminal Law Not Apply to College Campus Protests?,https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/since-when-does-criminal-law-not-apply-to-college-campus-protests/10:00 New York Times podcast on campus protests, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1_3EovQZs13:00 Journalist Lydia Polgreen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Polgreen16:30 Victor Davis Hanson: Radical Far-Left Palestine protests threaten … Continue reading
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Let’s Go Gay For Gaza (3-17-24)
01:00 Gay for Gaza03:00 Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza, https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-must-can-and-will-win-hamas-defeat-rafah-war-gaza-22e9a19d?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s06:00 Israel-Hamas war: IDF eliminates 15 terrorists in 24 hours, amid Hamas aid attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvBbZt91AY09:00 A WTF Moment in the Middle East (US Dock in … Continue reading
Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza
Ophir Falk writes in the WSJ: Israel has already dismantled 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions, incapacitated more than 21,500 Hamas terrorists—about two-thirds of its force, including two of the top four leaders—and destroyed significant terror tunnels. By contrast, it took … Continue reading
Mearsheimer: ‘Israelis wouldn’t mind a general conflagration because that would facilitate ethnic cleansing.’
Different groups have different interests. When you believe your enemy threatens your existence, as Israelis believe about Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, no cards are taken off the table. What people are happy with the existence of enemies within them and … Continue reading
Israel vs Hamas
* Is there anything good about the events of the weekend in Israel? Yes, they return us to reality. Different groups have different interests, and when the clash of interests is intense enough, you get war, which is the continuation … Continue reading