Saturday 28 October 2023

Israel News: Genocide, The true roots of Islamic Jew-hatred.

 

Genocide


The true roots of Islamic Jew-hatred.



October 27, 2023 by David Horowitz, Front Page Magazine

“In the fog of war,” goes an old and time-tested saying, “the first casualty is truth.”

Few comments about the genocidal campaign launched against the Jews by Hamas exemplify this better than Fox News’ anchor Shannon Bream’s on-air statement that the majority of Palestinians do not support Hamas. Oh? Hamas is the elected government of Gaza, and has been so since the Israelis in 2005 voluntarily ended their occupation of what was even then a launching pad for unprovoked terrorist attacks on Jewish population centers –internationally recognized as war crimes.

There are two main parties of Palestinian Arabs, Hamas and Fatah. A September poll shows that in an election the head of Hamas would beat the Fatah leader 58% to 37%. More importantly both openly share the same goal: the destruction of the Jewish state and the elimination of Jews in the land “between the River and the Sea.”

Has there been a Palestinian leader or protest in Gaza or the West Bank, or abroad, that has denounced the Nazi atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Jewish women, children, and entire defenseless families on October 7? Is there a Palestinian Party that recognizes Israel or even the right of Israel to exist?


The campaign to destroy the Jewish state and its Jews has always been a campaign to ethnically cleanse the Middle East the way the Nazis had attempted to cleanse Europe. It’s justifying rationale – “free Palestine from Israeli occupation” is an easily disproven lie. Israel was not created on Arab land. It was created the same way Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Syria were created: out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The Turks are not Arabs let alone “Palestinians” – a national identity which did not exist at the time of Israel’s creation. The language, religion, culture of the Arabs around the Jordan River is identical to that of the other Arabs in the Middle East. The land on which Israel and nations like Jordan were created was controlled by the Turks for four hundred years before the creation of the Jewish state. There was no movement for a nation called Palestine in all that time.

Jordan has a population seventy percent of whom identify as “Palestinians.” They are ruled by a Hashemite minority. There is no Palestinian campaign to free Jordan from its occupation by Hashemites. Nor was there any ‘Palestinian’ campaign to free the West Bank when Jordan controlled it or Gaza when it was under Egyptian rule. The Palestinian movement is a Nazi campaign to destroy the Jewish state and eliminate its Jews. This is the mentality behind the beheading of Jewish babies and the brutal murders of entire defenseless Jewish families.

The actual invention of the Palestine identity for the campaign against the Jews did not take place until 1964 in the West Bank and 1967 in Gaza – 16 and 19 years after the creation of the Jewish state. The newly invented nationality was the brainchild of the KGB and the Egyptian dictator Nasser whose armies spear-headed the 1948 war to destroy Israel at its birth. The cynical calculation behind the invention of a Palestinian national identity was that the PLO call to “Push the Jews into the sea” was not likely to win allies Nasser and the KGB persuaded the PLO that the creation of a national identity called “Palestine” would allow them to portray their murderous plans to kill the Jews as a resistance to oppression and a fight for self-determination.

In other words, “Palestine” is an invented national identity created for the express purpose of making the land between the river and the sea what the Nazis themselves called Juden rein – Jew free. Unfortunately, the world is full of useful ignoramuses and anti-Semites who lap these lies up and support their Nazi agendas.

The roots of Islamic Jew hatred did not originate with the Nazis though the so-called Palestinians often refer to their goal as an attempt “to finish the job that Hitler started.” They actually go back more than a thousand years to the prophet Mohammed, who made this proclamation to his followers:

The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ 

 This proclamation is quoted in full in the 1988 Hamas Charter, otherwise known as the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance, and accurately expresses the religious inspiration of the Jew hatred that struck the innocent on October 7, 2023 and created the worst massacre of Jews for being Jews since the Holocaust.

Pud says we are now at war and must give our support to the IDF to do it's job and prepare to take the fight into Gaza and not continue with our political squabbling.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, Genesis 12:3



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Auto Execs Come Clean: EVs aren't working

Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working



General Motors CEO
General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
  • At earnings this week, several auto execs pulled back on EV targets.
  • Dealers have been warning of slowing EV demand for months.
  • "This is a pretty brutal space," Mercedes-Benz's CFO said this week.
  • With signs of growing inventory and slowing sales, auto industry executives admitted this week that their ambitious electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy, at least in the near term.

    Several C-Suite leaders at some of the biggest carmakers voiced fresh unease about the electric car market's growth as concerns over the viability of these vehicles put their multi-billion-dollar electrification strategies at risk.

    Among those hand-wringing is GM's Mary Barra, historically one of the automotive industry's most bullish CEOs on the future of electric vehicles. GM has been an early-mover in the electric car market, selling the Chevrolet Bolt for seven years and making bold claims about a fully electric future for the company long before its competitors got on board.

    But this week on GM's third-quarter earnings call, Barra and GM struck a more sober tone. The company announced with its quarterly results that it's abandoning its targets to build 100,000 EVs in the second half of this year and another 400,000 by the first six months of 2024. GM doesn't know when it will hit those targets.

    "As we get further into the transformation to EV, it's a bit bumpy," she said.

    While GM's about-face was somewhat of a surprise to investors, the Detroit car company is not alone in this new view of the EV future. Even Tesla's Elon Musk warned on a recent earnings call that economic concerns would lead to waning vehicle demand, even for the long-time EV market leader.

    Meanwhile, Mercedes-Benz — which is having to discount its EVs by several thousand dollars just to get them in customers' hands — isn't mincing words about the state of the EV market.

    "This is a pretty brutal space," CFO Harald Wilhelm said on an analyst call. "I can hardly imagine the current status quo is fully sustainable for everybody."

    EVs are getting harder to sell

    But Mercedes isn't the only one; almost all current EV product is going for under sticker price these days, and on top of that, some EVs are seeing manufacturer's incentives of nearly 10%.

    That's as inventory builds up at dealerships, much to the chagrin of dealers. While car buyers are in luck if they're looking for a deal on a plug-in vehicle, executives are finding even significant markdowns and discounts aren't enough. These cars are taking dealers longer to sell compared with their gas counterparts as the next wave of buyers focus on cost, infrastructure challenges, and lifestyle barriers to adopting.

    Just a few months after dealers started coming forward to warn of slowing EV demand, manufacturers appear to be catching up to that reality. Ford was the first to fold, after dealers started turning away Mach-E allocations. In July, the company extended its self-imposed deadline to hit annual electric vehicle production of 600,000 by a year, and abandoned a 2026 target to build 2 million EVs.

    In scrapping plans with GM to co-develop sub-$30,000 EVs, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said the shifting EV environment was difficult to gauge.

    "After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV," Mibe said in an interview with Bloomberg this week.

    For some, this pullback is no surprise.

    "People are finally seeing reality," Toyota Motor Chairman Akio Toyoda said at the Japan Mobility Show, the Wall Street Journal reported. Toyoda has long been skeptical of his peers' pure-electric blueprints.

  • https://www.businessinsider.com/auto-executives-coming-clean-evs-arent-working-2023-10


Friday 27 October 2023

Escape from Egypt 🐪🗻 moment on the Coconut Whisperer: Woman accidentally uses glue instead of eye drops

 

Woman accidentally uses glue instead of eye drops


A Californian woman mistakenly applied glue to her eyes for 3 seconds.


Shamans, paid to place evil enchantments on enemies, go on strike

Curses! Shamans paid to place evil enchantments on enemies go on strike after lord of destruction fails to intervene in their pay dispute

  • The Shamans are from Seenigama Devale, a shrine off Sri Lanka's southern coast
  • They host daily ceremonies providing offerings to deity Devol
  • Nine Shamans halted the ritual to protest new rules that cut their earnings 

Sri Lankan Shamans, known for helping pilgrims place curses on their enemies, today went on strike after appeals to the lord of destruction failed to resolve a pay dispute. 

Seenigama Devale, a shrine on a small islet off Sri Lanka's southern coast, hosts daily ceremonies in which celebrants guide the grinding of fiery peppers over a millstone.

The ritual offering is made to Devol - a deity whose duties involve comforting the faithful and unleashing great suffering on their enemies.

But the temple's chief shaman, D.M. Kumara, said he and his nine colleagues had halted the ceremonies to protest new rules that sharply cut their earnings.

Administrators ruled that Kumara and his colleagues could now only take 30 percent of the cash, gems and jewellery offerings made to Devol - down from the complete share they took earlier.

Shamans from Seenigama Devale, a shrine on a small islet off Sri Lanka's southern coast, are today on strike after appeals to the lord of destruction failed to resolve a pay dispute

Shamans from Seenigama Devale, a shrine on a small islet off Sri Lanka's southern coast, are today on strike after appeals to the lord of destruction failed to resolve a pay dispute 

He said all 10 shamans had appealed to the deity to intervene on their behalf, adding that the strike was necessary in the interim.

'We have taken our grievance to god Devol, but we are taking direct action because we have not seen immediate results,' he said.

'Divine influence will take a little time to work.'

The temple's interim administrator, Sarath Disenthuwa Handi, told AFP that the strike was unnecessary because celebrants would still be earning around $1500 per month - 10 times the average salary of a new employee in the state sector.

Sri Lanka is predominantly Buddhist, a faith that does not typically recognise deities but in local practice incorporates elements of Hindu and animistic worship.

It is common for Buddhist priests to invoke the blessings of 330 million gods during their sermons, a reference to the Hindu pantheon.

Devol is one of the more popular deities in Sri Lanka, with more than 1500 people visiting Seenigama Devale each day, according to Handi.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12675315/Curses-Shamans-evil-enchantments-enemies-strike-pay-dispute.html


Thursday 26 October 2023

Israel News: Israeli ground forces raid Hamas sites in Gaza, withdraw - IDF

 

Israeli ground forces raid Hamas sites in Gaza, withdraw - IDF


The military statement posted online said the incursion was carried out "in preparation for the next stages of combat."


Israeli ground forces operated within the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, attacking multiple Hamas targets before withdrawing, the military said in a statement on what Israel's Army Radio described as the biggest incursion of the current war.

Video of the overnight action issued by the military showed armored vehicles proceeding through a sandy border zone. A bulldozer is seen leveling part of a raised bank, tanks firing shells, and explosions are seen near or amid a row of damaged buildings.

Israeli soldiers around the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel. October 25, 2023 (photo credit: YOSSI ZAMIR/FLASH90)
Israeli soldiers around the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel. October 25, 2023 (photo credit: YOSSI ZAMIR/FLASH90)
             IDF Armored Forces operating just inside the Northern end of the Gaza Strip


The military statement posted online said the incursion was carried out "in preparation for the next stages of combat", a possible reference to the large-scale invasion that Israeli leaders have threatened as part of the war to destroy Hamas.

"The soldiers have since exited the area and returned to Israeli territory," the military statement added.

Israel began localized ground incursions on Sunday as the war, triggered by an October 7 cross-border rampage by Hamas terrorists, entered its third week. Israel's Army Radio described Thursday's incursion as the biggest yet.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas in Gaza.





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Muslims Scam the Marxachusetts Lottery for 20 million Bucks

How Massachusetts family scammed the lottery for $20 million by cashing more than 14,000 winning tickets before their luck ran out

  • Ali Jaafar, 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, were found guilty by a federal jury on Friday on several tax evasion and money laundering charges 
  • The Jaafars cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a roughly 10-year period, laundered more than $20 million in proceeds before lying on tax returns
  • They used a scheme known as 'ten percenting' where they were tipped to winning tickets, paid off the winners and store operators and kept the profits 

A network of convenience store owners and tax dodging lottery winners helped a father and his sons in Massachusetts commit what officials have called 'the biggest money laundering operation that the lottery has seen.' 

Ali Jaafar, 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, were found guilty by a federal jury last December on several tax evasion and money laundering charges.

Ali was sentenced to five years in prison, while Yousef received a sentence of more than four years. They were also ordered to pay $6million in restitution and forfeit the profits from their scheme. 

Mohamed Jaafar, another of Ali Jaafar´s sons who once interned for Democrat Senator John Kerry, pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme in November 2022 and got six months in prison.

The Jaafars cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a roughly 10-year period, laundered more than $20million in proceeds, and then lied on their tax returns to cheat the IRS out of about $6million.

Ali Jaafar (pictured), 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, were found guilty by a federal jury last December on several tax evasion and money laundering charges, in what officials called 'the biggest money laundering operation that the lottery has seen.'

Ali Jaafar (pictured), 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, were found guilty by a federal jury last December on several tax evasion and money laundering charges, in what officials called 'the biggest money laundering operation that the lottery has seen.' 

Ali Jaafar moved to America in the early 90s after a stunning childhood and early adulthood which had led him to credit his family as the 'luckiest in Massachusetts,' according to the Boston Globe.

He was born in Lebanon in 1958 and eventually moved to Sierra Leone after facing war and violence on the streets growing up.

There, he met wife Souraya and had three children but were forced to uproot again after Liberian rebels invaded Sierra Leone. 

The couple obtained US visas through Ali's parents, who had moved to America years earlier. They settled in Massachusetts in 1992, with Souraya ironically later saying they'd won 'the visa lottery.' 

Ali Jaafar was driven by a desire to provide for his family, despite not speaking much English and not having a high school education. For a time, he worked as a gas station attendant. 

He eventually made his way by saving enough money to invest in his own taxi cab and a prepaid phone card company during their rise in popularity in the 1990s, which allowed him to buy a $206,000 home in 1997. 

The rest of his family was also flourishing. Son Mohamed attended the prestigious Northeastern University and eventually got a master's in business administration. 

After working as an intern for then-Senator John Kerry, Mohamed fully entered his father's business. 

Yousef Jaafar (pictured), 29, received a sentence of more than four years, while father Ali received five years

Yousef Jaafar (pictured), 29, received a sentence of more than four years, while father Ali received five years

Mohamed Jaafar, another of Ali Jaafar´s sons who once interned for Democrat Senator John Kerry, pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme in November 2022 and got six months in prison

Mohamed Jaafar, another of Ali Jaafar´s sons who once interned for Democrat Senator John Kerry, pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme in November 2022 and got six months in prison

No one seems to understand why Ali Jaafar started the scam but by 2011, it was known what he was up to, claiming $217,000 in winnings, increasing to $367,000 in 2012 and $1.3million in 2013, when Yousef and Mohamed joined him in claiming tickets. 

The family's strategy was not a new one - winners are occasionally worried about publicly claiming winnings out of fear of having to give up money to the IRS. They use people known as 'ten percenters' to help.

These middle-men pay cash for a winning ticket and take a 10 percent cut - sometimes 15 to 25 - and would be able to claim the official prize, while the original winner took cash under the table.

The scheme was considered tax evasion in the eyes of the law because the 'ten percenter' would try to avoid taxes in their end of the year statement by claiming gambling losses at the same rate as their winnings or submitting a fake ID.

Mohamed confessed to the scheme in court, saying that they would get phone calls from store operators whenever there was a ticket over $600.

One of the men would stop by, purchase the ticket for a previously agreed fee and let the real winner sneak away and giving a small fee to the operator.  

During those three years, Ali Jaafar would claim over 1,000 tickets before increasing both his ticket claims and his prizes through 2019, using the tried and true method of claiming his losses to avoid paying taxes on the winning tickets.  

They claimed so many tickets, it didn't matter that the men were buying these tickets for 75 to 85 percent of their value. 

Michael Sweeney, then the executive director of the Mass Lottery, hired new staff to lead a crackdown on the types of schemes the Jaafars were running

Michael Sweeney, then the executive director of the Mass Lottery, hired new staff to lead a crackdown on the types of schemes the Jaafars were running

Massachusetts State Lottery Commission Director of Compliance Dan O'Neil had been asking lottery agents to keep an eye on the family, who were by then well known within the commission

Massachusetts State Lottery Commission Director of Compliance Dan O'Neil had been asking lottery agents to keep an eye on the family, who were by then well known within the commission

After an investigation into 'ten percenting' led the lottery to take the practice more seriously, then-commissioner Michael Sweeney began assembling a team investigate the Jaafars and suspending them in May 2019. 

Dan O'Neil said that it was job number one for him when Sweeney hired him as new director of compliance and security soon after.

'My first day — this was my directive. There were a couple internal issues that I had to deal with, but the overall, general issue facing the lottery — in Michael Sweeney's eyes — was ten percenters and the integrity of the game.' 

O'Neil asked lottery agents to keep an eye on the family, who were by then well known within the commission, according to the Boston Globe

'We're just going down the line,' O'Neil says, noting that 40 other frauds have been suspended in the last year. 'and now we have the tools. We have the precedent.' 

The Jaafars were known as 'high-frequency winners' and had even been suspended by the commission, leading to the men to hire legal counsel. 

The lottery had studied their winnings and discovered that the Jaafars would have had to buy 22,859 of just one brand of lotto ticket to win as much as they did. That's 952 tickets an hour and 16 tickets per minute. 

O'Neil eventually confronted Yousef Jaafar back in the summer of 2020, when he'd brought three new winning tickets to cash. 

Ali Jaafar, and his sons, who are considered to be high-frequency winners, were confronted in 2019 after a judge ruled that the Massachusetts Lottery can suspend high-frequency winners

Ali Jaafar, and his sons, who are considered to be high-frequency winners, were confronted in 2019 after a judge ruled that the Massachusetts Lottery can suspend high-frequency winners

Another son, Mohamed Jaafar was also involved in the scheme, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the IRS on November 4, 2022 and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8, 2023

Another son, Mohamed Jaafar was also involved in the scheme, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the IRS on November 4, 2022 and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8, 2023

The official refused to cash his tickets, angering Yousef, who believed he was legally entitled to the payout. 

Mohamed has since referred to himself as 'naïve and weak' and even 'pathetic,' believing he should've stood up to his father's 'dark path' and protected his brother. 

After pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge in New Jersey in 2016, he went into therapy for depression but continued helping his father, until eventually telling him he was out in 2017, according to Mohamed's lawyer, John F. Palmer. 

Palmer argued that Ali Jaafar had put 'substantial psychological pressure' on Mohamed and Ali allegedly kicked Mohamed out of their home, unless he continued with the family business, Palmer claimed. 

In October 2019, Yousef Jaafar had started using friends to cash tickets, adding another level to the scheme. 

Both the lottery commission and the IRS began getting involved after connecting the friends to the Jaafars. The investigation fully began at the end of the summer of 2020.

Yousef Jaafar brought the three winning tickets that sealed his fate to lottery headquarters June 26, 2020. Within the next two weeks, both his sons were also told to take a hike by O'Neil. 

One of Yousef's friends, Nicholas Frenkel, agreed to testify against the Jaafars, saying he'd coached him on the scheme. Frenkel worked out an immunity agreement with the state.

O'Neil said investigating the Jaafars and 'ten percenters' like them was job number one for him when Sweeney hired him

O'Neil said investigating the Jaafars and 'ten percenters' like them was job number one for him when Sweeney hired him 

Between 2011 and 2020, the Jaafars cashed more than 14,000 lottery tickets and claimed more than $20 million in Massachusetts lottery winnings. Ali Jaafar is pictured being confronted in 2019

Between 2011 and 2020, the Jaafars cashed more than 14,000 lottery tickets and claimed more than $20 million in Massachusetts lottery winnings. Ali Jaafar is pictured being confronted in 2019

The Jaafars were soon indicted on conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and multiple counts of filing false tax returns. 

Mohamed took a deal to cooperate with federal prosecutors in November, just a month before their trial. 

In December, after a five-day trial, Yousef and Ali Jaafar were convicted by a federal jury and sentenced a short time after. 

The defendants paid the owners of dozens of stores that sell lottery tickets to facilitate the transactions, and the state lottery commission is in the process of revoking or suspending the licenses of more than 40 lottery agents, authorities said. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12669257/How-Massachusetts-family-scammed-lottery-20-million-cashing-14-000-winning-tickets-luck-ran-out.html