This is the WSJ but not paywalled. Also not what you’d expect.Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet Trump appears…
Open Thread – Mon 9 Oct 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her
Bit of a tough ask, I reckon… expecting a BATsman to use his BAT in this era of Australian cricket…
Muddy November 24, 2024 9:38 pm Labor never wanted to send a second AIF overseas, but what is often lost…
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob. I’m having an evening inhaling a couple of good single malts, reading John Terraine’s classic…
Displaying the swastika is banned, but chanting ‘gas the Jews’ is ok.
Got it.
It must be tough knowing that if you criticise the slaughter and other atrocities, you could be a target yourself.
The fence you have been sitting on has turned into razor wire – serves you right.
Senior diplomatic source: IDF will eliminate Hamas’ military capabilities
The invasion was ‘worse than 9/11,’ the senior diplomatic source said/
The IDF will eliminate Hamas’s military capabilities over the course of the ongoing war in a way that will prevent a recurrence of the invasion from Gaza for another 50 years, a senior diplomatic source said Monday.
Yet despite being pressed several times, the source stridently avoided being pinned down about the endgame for the Gaza Strip, including multiple refusals to commit to permanently toppling Hamas as its ruler.
Pressed about declaring that toppling Hamas is the goal in advance of Israel’s presumed counter-invasion, which could set clear expectations and reduce global criticism, the source pushed back, saying global critics will always jump on Israel in the middle of a conflict.
Civilian lives vs. surprise advantage
One major change is that the “roof knocking” tactic (firing a loud but empty missile) the IDF has used to systematically evacuate civilians in Gaza in the past will be used less in this round of fighting since it degrades the advantage of surprise.
It also appeared that the IDF will strike Gaza without holding back too much to avoid hitting Israeli hostages who Hamas took.
In general, the source did not put much emphasis on negotiating for a return of the hostages now, with the clear focus being on prosecuting the war against Hamas.
Furthermore, the source said prior concerns from 2014 about potential losses of hundreds of troops would not hold the IDF back after Hamas’s much more severe crimes against Israel on Saturday.
In confronting the intelligence and operational failures that led to Israel being completely surprised by Hamas on Saturday, the source said the IDF was already studying the issue internally, and at a later date, when war was not imminent, there would be wider reviews of the issue.
The source denied that any warning had been given to Israel by Egypt and generally seemed less concerned about the long-term implications of the issue, framing it as more of a military matter.
LOL, this guy make Benedict Arnold look like a genius.
Mike Pence Blames President Trump for Hamas Attack on Israel (8 Oct)
Um Mike there’re these things called the Abraham Accords. And no, if Trump was rightfully President, who you betrayed, this would not have happened.
Have we heard from Monty yet? If we haven’t it’s probably due to him punching Nazi’s in Lakemba at the moment. I’m prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
No shit, Sherlock!
They do, however, represent the views of a rather significant malignancy in our community.
Remarks at Lakemba Mosque
Transcript – 09 Oct 2023
Apologies if this has already been posted here.
Silence is cowardice.
– Gandhi
A true course correction would require a ruthless purge of academic institutions, the reconstitution of trade schools, a proper industry policy, a massive new surge in automation and robotics, and the willingness to bias trade and immigration toward like minded nations and allies. A total rethink of energy policies with governments prioritising cheap and abundant energy instead of the current ridiculous focus on moving carbon dioxide emissions from our countries to whoever else on the planet offers a captive class of slave labourers. It isn’t a transition that any one nation could take alone.
An interesting article from 2015 about living in Nahal Oz, a kibbutz one KM from the Gaza fence.
Why I’ve made my home at a kibbutz near Gaza, on the verge of hell
Yes it was overrun immediately in the attack and suffered many dead and captured.
How Hamas Got The Drop On Israel
That’s still true, but on Sunday we got preliminary casualty figures indicating that Israel had at least 600 dead so far, which makes this roughly the equivalent of several 9/11s for the small country.
And unlike 9/11, this catastrophe has reportedly included mass rape.
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
Survivors of the Hamas attack on the music festival have been interviewed by
@tabletmag
“Women were raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies.
“Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed.”
So Was This All Part Of A Mossad Plan?
That was the argument of a post shared by one of our fellow contributing editors yesterday (“No, the Hamas Invasion Was Not an Israeli ‘Intelligence Failure’”).
Our view is that it was almost certainly a massive military and intelligence failure on the part of Israel, which raises the question we mentioned in the title of this post.
How Did Hamas Get The Drop On Israel?
The thread below gives a cogent explanation of how Hamas managed to launch such a large surprise attack on the Jewish State.
Factor 1: Israel has built a formidable set of fortifications on the border with Gaza.
However, fortifications are useless without people to man them.
A political decision was taken to deploy almost the entire combat force to the West Bank.
In particular…
Factor 2: Of the few remaining soldiers, many had been released home for the holidays, leaving only a skeleton crew defending.
This was made even worse by…
Factor 3: Standard Operation Procedure at Israeli bases called for soldiers to take shelter during rocket attacks.
With the soldiers in bunkers, nobody was manning the perimeter and soldiers were turned into sitting ducks.
Hamas took advantage by…
Factor 4: In advance of the invasion, Hamas fired a massive salvo of rockets as a distraction and suppressing fire.
They used this diversion as cover for…
Factor 5: Hamas blinded Israel in two ways. Large numbers of drones and explosives were used to destroy the extensive array of electronic detection systems that were supposed to offer early warning.
Then they breached the barriers and moved on eight forward bases…
Factor 6: A first and primary target in these forward bases were communications equipment. Destroying these, Hamas took out significant parts of the IDF command and control system, plunging the area into the fog of war.
They sowed further confusion by…
Factor 7: Hamas launched multiple diversion attacks at sea and, using parachute gliders by air. They also attacked and slaughtered civilians further sowing chaos.
Factor 8: It appears that Hamas used civilian protesters as cover to plant explosives by the border fence. These were then used to breach the fence during the assault.
Finally…
The IDF better have a plan to cut Gaza off from Egypt,
find all the tunnels, and pump them full of Fuel Air Explosives.
Over 100 Bodies Found In Israeli Kibbutz; Biden Confirms 11 Americans Killed & “Likely” More In Captivity
BY TYLER DURDEN
Update(1905ET): The numbers of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas has been revised upward to an estimated 150.
By Monday’s end at least 900 Israelis have been reported killed and nearly 2,400 wounded since the Saturday surprise assault from Gaza. Palestinian emergency sources report 560 dead and over 2,700 wounded in Gaza has heavy Israeli bombardment of the strip has continued.
In one single kibbutz near the border, at least 108 bodies have been discovered amid the ongoing Israeli search, rescue and recovery efforts:
Israeli volunteer rescue organization ZAKA said Monday night that it had discovered more than 100 bodies in Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gaza border.
“Large teams cleared bodies all day from kibbutz Be’eri,” the organization said. “There were weapons everywhere, grenades, and RPGs. We cleared 108 bodies and we are not done yet.”
My sister has MS. She also uses an electric wheelchair. As a bonus, she is currently also laid up with a compound leg/ankle fracture courtesy of an MS leg collapse.
She was, though, quite able to go online and get a postal vote, which she duly completed and posted. Oh, and it was a definite NO.
But I guess sliming up some supposed sob story is all that the Yes folk have left. And only the ABC would even be bothered to run with it, of course.
I am beginning to think my 65/35 prediction is off on the high side.
Brutal toon.
Australian National Imams Council supports the voice.
Australian National Imams Council has this latest press release, dated 8 Oct
ooof.
Perhaps its just me but when viewing some (not all) of the building explosions in Gaza there appear to be explosions emanating out of these buildings into the sky…. possibly (?) suggesting the building has explosive material in it or under it…?
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Arky
Oct 10, 2023 11:54 AM
A true course correction would require a ruthless purge of academic institutions, the reconstitution of trade schools, a proper industry policy, a massive new surge in automation and robotics, and the willingness to bias trade and immigration toward like minded nations and allies. A total rethink of energy policies with governments prioritising cheap and abundant energy instead of the current ridiculous focus on moving carbon dioxide emissions from our countries to whoever else on the planet offers a captive class of slave labourers. It isn’t a transition that any one nation could take alone.
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Blogs all over the world are chockers with ‘If I was dictator’ fantasies, as if they meant anything other than childish re-enactments.
While most of us have thoughts along those lines, when it comes to the real world we know that we have to work with what there is.
Talk about ‘slave labourers’ is not helping.
Well I feel assured kind reader.
Albo on the hustings in South Australia saying he is against the protests in Sydney and also against Islamophobia. Detect a little nod and wink for his Lakemba brothers. FMD
Focus group reports are in.
‘Appalling’: Premier Chris Minns slams NSW Greens for encouraging protesters to attend pro-Palestine rally which escalated into wild scenes at Sydney Opera House (Sky News, 10 Oct)
Epithets, eh. Maybe a journo could ask him about Anthony Albanese’s gig last Friday.
Drones and training supplied by Iran, presumably.
Ozzie, I’ve seen some people in Tel Aviv claiming there was a massive internet disruption on Saturday morning prior to the attacks. I’ve also seen Hamas footage of drones dropping individual grenades on each fortification tower along the southern border, thus knocking out shields, men and communications…
Perhaps (?) a contributing factor amidst this sh!t.
He couldn’t give two hoots about Jews or Israel.
It’s just that like many leftists he uses the term “Nazi” to demonise his ideological enemies.
I fully anticipate lodging a No vote via electric wheelchair on Saturday.
It’s getting serious! .. the joke” that heads the UN is, “deeply distressed” cos the neanderthals are expected to pay the bill ……
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was deeply distressed by the announcement of a complete seizure of the Gaza Strip.
“The humanitarian situation in Gaza was extremely dire before these hostilities,” he said. “Relief and entry of essential supplies into Gaza must be facilitated.”
Guterres said he recognised the “legitimate grievances of the Palestinian people” but said nothing could justify acts of terror.
“The killing, maiming and abduction of civilians. I reiterate my call to immediately cease these attacks and release all hostages
“Look…over there!”
Yes, the Greens are despicable.
Now, about your police…
Hope Israel collects DNA from rape victims then identifies those responsible.
It’s extraordinary how our government officials have no idea what is going on in their state or their city while the whole of media was covering the unfolding events. Didn’t his assistants think he should check out what was going on? Is “worked late last night” a code for some other activity?
lotocoti
Oct 10, 2023 12:03 PM
Brutal toon.
Every fuking time the left and the animals of islam are aided and abetted by the virtuous in the West. Even when the virtuous are slaughtered do they learn?
Girlfriend of murdered Brooklyn activist fails to pick out stabbing suspect in photo lineup – as legal experts warn it could be ‘potentially crippling’ to prosecution’s case
I am thinking the PM’s visit to Lakemba mosque last Friday is not going down too well with many people .
Meanwhile in NZ it turns out 11,000 health workers were given exemptions from the vaccine. If so many were that concerned they should have stood up and said so publicly and given their medical opinion to all.
Well, it would appear the fat lady is gargling salt water and doing her warm-up scales.
Just walking the hounds this morning and thinking how this has turned. Yes has the ALP, Greens, half the Liberals, churches, every major corporate and sporting code on board, but still looks like going down 60:40.
What is interesting is the now muted response from corporates and sporting codes. OK, the corporates donated money early on and sporting codes issued statements supporting the Yessirs, but I haven’t seen the sort of strident and vocal support in Coles, Bunnings, bank branches and at footy finals that Luigi was no doubt expecting. I mean, he timed the vote to pick up on heavy promotion during NRL and AFL finals.
And Colesworth started out playing Voicey messages months ago, but dropped it. Even the push for employees to wear Yes badges and t-shirts ran out of steam.
It’s almost as if the corporates and sports codes have smelt the wind and got a whiff of truncated careers.
The comparison with the Gaystapo in 2017 is stark. I can’t imagine a local Bunnings store manager telling a Head Office HR Karen where to stick her rainbow badges back then without repercussions and re-education.
And whose responsibility is that?
Before these attacks, Israel, for its part, had significantly increased the number of Gazans (up to 50 000 iirc) who could daily cross into Israel for work purposes, thus supplying Gazan households with much needed income.
No, but they do represent a certain section of Labor voters.
Nazi’s in Lakemba
Our only hope is Anti-fa.
Hamas has obviously incorporated the residual daesh members and expanded their repertoire of hatred and vicious barbarism.
A beautifully framed word picture from Elizabeth last night at 9.13 pm:
It was quiet, dark, and a bit spooky as the ages hung in the night air.
Yes, the Greens are despicable.
Yes Roger.
She really went there.
Somebody mentioned the Communist Party letter in support of Palestine up at Michael Smith News.
The signatory, Vinnie Molina, forgot to include the fact he is a CFMMEU organiser from WA. The Union has been long time pro Palestinian.
You’re right on the money.
Newspoll has No leading 58-34% in the apartheid referendum with 8% undecided.
If undecideds break 75% in favour of No, that puts No at 64% and Yes at 36%.
FFS, stop sounding like Robespierre on a meth bender.
Of course, it’s much easier than actually working out how to achieve anything. And personally gratifying – I am such a good person!
Stick to science fiction, wanker.
Hamas must believe (rightly or wrongly) a country has their back. There’s no way they haven’t planned out Israel’s likely response.
That’s the big concern here.
Strength with strategy but in this case, game theory says that Israel should do something completely unpredictable.
Invade the Suez?
We have let the enemy in through the front gate and they now live among us. Despite the warning voices, our political betters rolled out the welcome mat.
I’m not sure why anyone at all is surprised, disturbed or shocked by last night’s disgraceful behaviour, from the participants, pollimuppets or ex-librarian*s posing as a police chief.
* I am one. I have not ever thought it was a suitable pathway to a career in law enforcement. Stick to stamping the due date in the back of the book, you mid-wit, nepotistically appointed, piece of human dreck.
From Daily Mail
Radio star Ray Hadley has slammed Sonny Bill Williams for supporting Hamas’s attack on Israel in a blistering tirade in which he told Channel Nine to sack the former NRL and rugby union superstar.
Meanwhile Israel Folau has not been asked for comment.
I support both Israel’s.
Don’t tell anybody but I am actually missing Hadley on 4BC. Bill McDonald very bland.
It’s a lie. Of course he knew – in fact his staff would have been watching every second of it.
Another example of the shallowness of the NSW Labor talent pool.
But strangely enough, if there was a report of a hijab ripping ‘slamophobic event on an outer suburban Perth bus last night, he would have been all over it like a cheap suit.
I believe it is code for – “Doing shots of Jaegermeister from a hookers cleavage”.
Albo having two bob each way, from a Guardian article:
Making every effort to not offend those who he courted last Friday. A true cretin.
Sometimes Hungry Buten has no pineapple for their works burger.
NSW Police have form when it comes to dealing, or not dealing, with this sort of thing.
More like cowardice .. it’s one thing to pepper spray OAPs, break down doors to arrest pregnant women or detain folk carrying national flags but expect ’em to do their job and face neanderthals ……..! way above the pay grade, apparently!
Labor Senator for WA, Fatima Payman, getting some social media heat from the brotherhood for not speaking up for Hamas.
She usually shares a selfie of herself on “Nakba Day” #I Stand with Palestinians.
I don’t suppose she’s having an “Are we the baddies?” moment.
No affiliations mentioned in the news article, so can safely assume it was a Yes supporter assaulting a No supporter. If it was the other way around they wouldn’t be so shy about it.
Between the African National Congress, and the Greens, it’s hard to decide who is the most half-witted of the two.
one week to leave Gaza via its port then flatten the joint building by building.
While I think the events at the Opera House were amongst the most despicable protests I’ve seen in living memory, I was surprised that the right to protest , as a pillar of Judeo-Christian principles/inheritance, was not raised by anyone.
I mean, good luck protesting in a muesli country.
Lately everything Albanese touches – the Voice, Modi, Lakemba Mosque – seems to blow up in his face (no pun intended.
I wonder what he’ll move on to after Saturday?
Whoever it is should be very nervous.
Reconciliation was never viable and will never be viable with the current self-appointed aboriginal leaders or it would already be in place and this referendum would never have been proposed.
Where have I heard that phrase before. Yes, from the keyboard of the resident fat fascist fool.
Fine. Push the current occupants out and keep them out.
May as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
“There’s no doubt there has been and continues to be Palestinian suffering but the actions of Hamas in this are completely indefensible,”
Albo said, and he’s right. Palestinian suffering caused by Hamas is completely indefensible.
what occupation? Israel pulled out of Gaza and the West bank in 2003, no?
Or is he talking about the Israel part of ‘Palestine’? .. whose occupation can only end by the complete removal of Israel.
More word mastery. Tinta at 6.11 amtoday:
Just sublime.
“alwaysright
Oct 10, 2023 9:08 AM
Dangerous times.
This is one of those points in history where an uncompromising, brutal response is required. Anything less will lead more of the same and worse. It is not a time for good men who do nothing.
Where do you stand?”
For at least 40 years, Israel has made peace deals and kept to them – every single one has been broken by Palis.
As far as I am concerned, after this last effort, Israel should carpet bomb the entire joint into a smoking pile of rubble, then sweep the remains thereof into the sea.
ANYONE who kidnaps children, tortures them, uses them as a human shield and then threatens to execute them to save their own sorry hide deserves nothing less than total annihilation – no retreat, no surrender, and no mercy. You sewed the seeds of violence, now reap the harvest of it you cowardly pigs.
Umm, Albo, there have have been FIVE attempts at a “Two State” solution since the late 1930’s. Guess who has rejected each one, while continuing to call for the total annihilation of the State of Israel?
So what? Laws can and often are changed when circumstances change. One recent example is what happened to Germans outside Germany after WWII.
They are f-cking animals who deserve to glow-in-the-dark:
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/middle-east/hamas-threatens-to-broadcast-executions-as-australia-defends-israel-20231010-p5eb15.html
132andBush
Oct 10, 2023 6:46 AM
Do you have a link for that, 132? I found one to a human breast milk bank set up in 2017, but nothing else.
I’ll put it up on my FB page (total Australian readers = 2.)
That is the whole point. Why else do you think Russia, China and Iran are arming Hamas and Hezbollah? It’s certainly not because they care for Palestinians.
Well that was encouraging. There were so many volunteers at the booth that they sent some of us home to come back on subsequent days.
Two aboriginal Noers in attendance. One hugely tall fellow with an afro set himself up well down the path to greet voters as they arrived. Clever, he is breezy and personable, but not on Noel’s cocktail list so he says.
Since my last session the feeling towards Albanese amongst the volunteers has hardened and is now loudly resentful. The mosque visit has caused great upset.
Lies.
It’s a political right to peaceful protest, not a religious right, based on the political rights of freedom of speech, association and public assembly.
As a political right it is subject to reasonable limitations, public safety being one (yes, this can be abused by authorities, as we saw in covid).
On the one hand, NSW police appear to have made a determination (based on intelligence?) that the protest was a threat to public safety.
On the other hand, they allowed it to go ahead regardless.
The police are defending this as a pragmatic response, leaving others questioning if the principle of protecting the lawful and policing the unlawful (was a permit issued for the march?) has been sacrificed for the sake of expediency.
As much as this solution is attractive, you need to realise that a large swathe of Gazan’s do not support Hamas.
I would suggest they are given an option to leave as refugees (to some other local Muesli country), then your plan is enacted.
A week should be enough.
Isn’t part of the problem, the fact that no other local Mooslime country will accept them?
Islam has been slaughtering Jews and Christians for 1445 years.
Have our leaders woken up to the fact they are not going to stop?
Obviously not.
We need new leaders.
The greenfilth. Despicable collectivist cretins (BIRM).
Again.
Gilas:
Arky, tell me it ain’t so!
Hah! Not just electric car batteries self-destructing.
Bugger, try again,
Try this.
It also exposes the lie of their claim that the anti-Semites are “a tiny unrepresentative minority” of the muesli populace.
They know.
It is a significant majority which has political clout in a few seats.
But why not simply adopt the Textor mantra? That is, “They don’t matter” as they have nowhere to go outside the ALP.
No, it goes much deeper than that.
It is in the DNA of the left of the Labor Party to reflexively back Hamas/PLO/Hezbollah, whatever the towel-head terrorist du jour is at that particular time.
And Luigi is the epicentre of the radical left.
I’m surprised that you’re surprised.
Chanting ‘gas the Jews’ is not protesting.
..
I’ll do something other than draw a giant arse on the ballot paper the day that voting is no longer compulsory in this country Robert.
So I haven’t turned my mind to this referendum much one way or tother,, but it does seem to me that most people object to handing the politicians a blank check to implement gawd knows what with this one. Sensibly so.
Where did the Gilas quote appear?
Tom:
Tom the issue is the wording in the legislation about representation “To whom may conveniently belong” this gives the Union movement monopoly power to represent ALL the wukkas as they may conveniently belong to any of the current unions.
This short sentence refuses the wukkas the right to start their own union.
The Liberals have on the occasions they have been in power, refused to remove this sentence, and have thus promoted the union power structure.
Hence ‘Uniparty’.
This morning I worked from home and I had the television on. I watched that dismal NSW AG, Michael Daley, speak about Israel and “Palestine”, as though they were equal entities. They are not, there is zero moral equivalance. There is good and there is bad.
Hear this, there is no Palestine, and after last weekend’s atrocity there will never be a “Palestine”. You don’t reward human garbage.
Robert Sewell – I just happened to see this a few minutes ago:
Israeli request for breast milk donations.
(Scroll down)
yes – but is that the West’s problem? Make it someone else’s problem.
How, I do not know. It needs to be far enough away from Israel that Hamas plants cannot directly threaten Israel from their new home (ie: not the West Bank).
They really should be Egypt’s problem.
An excellent letter promulgated in Quadrant.
Crossie
One of the ‘someones’ is General Milley who allowed this to happen, by arming Hamas.
Interesting article under this title at the Oz
“Elated’ Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun’s Lakemba comments slammed by political and religious leaders”
Dadoun was tagging PM on Facebook asking if he was friend or foe and calling him a coward.
Article then goes on to mention leader of Dadoun is Sheik Shady. He is the ginger haired guy that had a lot to say about gays and who PM Turnbull apologised for having at his Islamic dinner several years ago.
Shady has appeared in multiple photos with Linda Burney and other Yes leaders during the campaign.
All nicely backfiring on the PM.
“No, but they do represent a certain section of Labor voters.”
Yes they do, and as revealed in the last hour by the Oz, they represent a certain section of Labor politicians and their offspring.
Crossie
Oct 10, 2023 1:02 PM
Roger
Oct 10, 2023 10:05 AM
Noel Pearson:
‘No result will signal reconciliation no longer viable.’
NOEL FROM NOOSA – WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE?
Paul Zanetti
You’d be forgiven if you believed Noel Pearson, one of the leading voice architects and founder of the Cape York Partnership, lives amongst the Cape York community
But you’d be wrong.
Amongst many other of Pearson’s taxpayer funded Cape York entities, the Cape York Partnership is an organisation whose purpose is to promote the economic and social development of Cape York.
The body has been the recipient of around $550 million with very little to show for it.
Veteran Far North MP Warren Entsch recently took a closer look at Pearson, saying he has garnered at least $550m in government funding for his programs with no benefits to the locals.
Speaking in parliament, Mr Entsch said Pearson has never been elected as an Indigenous leader.
“Noel has been on the government’s payroll for decades, advising and influencing Indigenous policy, and I say to government: do we really need the architect of so many policy failures involved in producing another one?
“While he identifies himself as a Cape York Indigenous leader, Noel Pearson has never stood for an election,” Mr Entsch said.
He said Mr Pearson had been “held up as a messiah — like a figurehead for Indigenous Australians”.
“There is no doubt that Noel has significant influence over Indigenous affairs, but I, like many others in Cape York who have seen the reality of his influence, have long been critical of governments and bureaucrats that only care to listen for his voice,” Mr Entsch said.
He said over decades, Mr Pearson had received millions “for his pet projects”.
“Many of these remote communities that Noel has used as policy experiments remain dysfunctional, whether it’s Cape York welfare reform, Cape York Employment, Good to Great Schools or a range of other concessions — the list of Noel’s entities and programs just goes on and on,” Mr Entsch said.
He said Mr Pearson labelled dissenters racist.
“The communities in Cape York who have, effectively, banned Noel — like Mapoon — are doing exceptionally well,” Mr Entsch said.
“Those who’ve let Noel’s influence into their communities remain dysfunctional.”
Warren Entsch says the $550m is what he “struggled to find” and that “there is more” that he is trying to find.
Taxpayer money granted to Pearson’s pet projects are not being accounted for.
Warren Entsch goes on, “The money was invested in Noel’s ideas. But they were also invested in his own companies. Because Noel not only came up with the ideas, he also implemented them.
“You’ve got Cape York Welfare Reform that made sure he had control of the finances on indigenous people and communities that participated in it.
“There’s Cape York Land Council. We’ve got the Cape York Institute. There’s Balkanu which is supposed to be their economic developer.
“I asked this question back when Philip Ruddock was Indigenous Affairs Minister, I asked him to give me one example of a successful transition by an individual or an indigenous company from financial support from Balkanu and I’m still waiting for those numbers to come through.
“You’ve got Cape York Employment. You’ve got Cape York Partnerships. You’ve got Good To Great Schools. You’ve got Cape York Timbers. You’ve got PAMA Futures and so on…all of these are controlled by Pearson’s entities.
“At the end of the day I have to shake my head in disbelief. It’s a disgrace.”
“The locals tell me they haven’t seen Noel Pearson in well over a decade or more except for a recent local photo taken holding the hand of an elderly women for the press.
Much like the 1973 invasion of Israel, when Began was aware of intelligence predicting an attack by the Arab nations, but felt compelled to allow the military to be home with their family for the religious festival, and not call up the reserves, for fear of being wrong.
“All nicely backfiring on the PM.”
Yes, remember Malturd’s Iftar dinner at Kirribilli House prior to the election in 2016, when he was pictured at a table with Squaleed Aly, his shiksa wife, and that hideous caricature of a woman, Yassie Abdel-Magied (remember her statement…”Islam is the most “feminist religion”…wonder if Yassie has anything to say about the Jewish women and girls being raped in Gaza as I write (if any remain alive)), that backfired spectacularly on Lord Malturd of Point Piper.
And last Friday, Sleazy from Grayndler made a pilgrimage to Lakemba mosque to parrot garbage that our indigenous and Islam have a long history, and you know what? That’s backfiring too.
Grizzly, just go postal.
The wallopers do have form:
The moment police try to STOP far-right activist Lauren Southern from walking past Lakemba Mosque because she might offend Muslims
I am convinced that he is doing this to make any future LNP government unworkable. It would also make any future Hawke/Keating type Labour government also unworkable. In fact it would fundamentally transform government in Australia into total dysfunction.
Yes, I thought of your grandies yesterday when you said they were back at school. They, and you, were in my prayers this morning.
Stay strong, calli.
You’re a real trouper, Bear. Well done.
And thanks for the kindness about the grandchildren. As I said earlier , it’s a disgrace that children need to be guarded here in this country. Not just at times of crisis, but every. single. day.
Joe Biden’s Brother, Frank Biden, Posted Fully Naked Pictures of Himself and Genitals on Gay Porn Dating Website
October 9, 2023 – Sundance
I really don’t feel like writing about the perversions of the Biden family. However, apparently public portrayal of their “frank and beans” is a common occurrence.
Frank Biden admits to the Daily Mail that the images of him on a Gay Porn dating website are real. However, he denies the sexual solicitation angle.
A siege of Gaza, by Alexander the Great took place in October of 332 BC
A siege of Gaza by Israel is taking place in October 2023
2355 years later what has changed?
Worst interview you’ll ever hear: Clueless minister admits he had no idea about pro-Palestine protest more than 12 hours after wild scenes shocked Australia
Israel-Palestine protest: NSW Attorney General Michael Daley ‘unaware’ of Sydney Opera House protest 12 hours after it happened
. Senior NSW Government figure unaware of major protest
. Hundreds chanted anti-Israel slogans despite terrorist attacks
“As much as this solution is attractive, you need to realise that a large swathe of Gazan’s do not support Hamas.”
Turn about is fair play.
If you keep poking the bear, pretty soon it will gut you with a swipe of its claws.
And maybe some other trite statements about the reality of deliberately pissing off a country next door with much greater military capability, and doing things beyond the pale in the process.
No, this crosses more than a single line, it crosses a whole heap of them and marks the perpetrators as not worthy of mercy. Flatten the whole place into smoking rubble.
Cut off all aid and assistance. Will some innocents be harmed? Sure, and I’m sorry about that, but it can’t be helped – being innocent didn’t help the raped, killed, kidnapped and tortured Israeli’s, did it?
For the record, I am not Jewish, nor do I particularly support Israel in most cases.
In this case though… there needs to be a lesson that such atrocities as Hamas committed have severe consequences, one of which is that you don’t get to play the victim card. In this case, I think the rest of the world is more than justified in looking the other way while the Israeli’s do what they must.
The footage of the Israeli girl being burned alive hasn’t made it off telegram onto other social media (from what I’ve seen).
I’d expect it to be taken down but I thought it would be at least shown & shared for a bit.
I read that was a recycled clip from 2018 Venezuela or somewhere.
Kneel, removing all incentives to murder geriatrics, women, children, babes is necessary.
Who provides the incentives?
@ZK2A:
“Isn’t part of the problem, the fact that no other local Mooslime country will accept them?”
This is the GAME.
Sort of a geo-political “NIMBY” tactic.
(Kill all the Joos you want to, but you are not bringing your open practice of the instructions in the Koran here.)
Daily Mail.
Shirley, Gazans can migrate to friendly muesli country like Australia?
Anthony Albanese rebuked for not condemning anti-Semitism in ‘absolutely appalling’ pro-Palestine Sydney protests
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been grilled after failing to acknowledge the anti-Semitic nature of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Sydney which have left several members of the Jewish community “scared for themselves”.
A pro-Palestine rally outside Sydney’s Opera House on Monday has been widely labelled as a display of anti-Semitism by Australian politicians with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese making no admission about it having prejudicial overtones.
The protest saw Palestinian supporters congregate on the streets of the city in support of the unprecedented attacks launched by militant group Hamas in southern Israel over the weekend.
While it began peacefully it quickly turned wild as the protesters allegedly took to chanting discriminatory slurs like “f**k Israel” and “gas the Jews”, setting off flares and burning Israeli flags.
The demonstrations have raised grave concerns for the safety of the Jewish community across Australia with disturbing incidents already noted within a day of the rally.
Allegra Spender, Independent MP for Wentworth which includes a large Jewish community, spoke of the “appalling” events of the protest and criticised the government for its ineffective handling of the situation.
“I think last night some of those protests were absolutely anti-Semitic, some of the words that came out of that protest were absolutely appalling,” she told Sky News Australia.
“Obviously in this country we have a right to free speech, but I do not support the hate speech, the anti-Semitism that happened last night and the Jewish community should have been able to stand at the foot of the Opera House and look at the colours of the Opera House lit up because so many of them have friends and family in Israel right now who are under attack.
“Now we need to have found a better way to deal with this and I will be raising this with New South Wales Police and reaching out to other ministers in the government to ask why this decision was made.”
Drawing on earlier remarks made by the Prime Minister on Tuesday where he failed to concede the Palestinian protest had exhibited antisemitism, host Laura Jayes said: “He (Mr Albanese) didn’t even seem to be able to admit that they were anti-Semitic… this wasn’t an anti-Israel protest, it was anti-Jewish.”
Ms Spender responded in agreeance and shared how the impacts were already being felt by Jews across Sydney.
Mr Albanese said at a press conference at Port Lincoln he had not seen the Sydney demonstrations and did not specifically comment on them, but said he was “concerned” about increasing hostility towards Jews and other ethnicities broadly across the nation
“There has been a rise in anti-Semitism in recent times, in Australia. I have been shocked by some of it,” he said.
Each Way Albo – Sleezy as They Come
“I’m concerned about the rise in anti-Semitism, I’m concerned as well about Islamophobia which has impacted in this country as well.
“We need to make sure that racism has no place in Australia. We are a tolerant, multicultural nation who have been enriched by our diversity.”
From the Comments
– Albo Schultz I see nothing, I know nothing, I hear nothing
Ok Chris.
Thanks for that.
‘No application for the protest to go ahead’: Rally in support for Palestinian people went ahead illegally
NSW Police’s response to the pro-Palestinian rally that took place at the Sydney Opera House on Monday night has been slammed with the latest development revealing the protest went ahead illegally.
A new revelation over the pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House has heaped more pressure on NSW Police, after the protest reportedly went ahead illegally.
On Monday night up to 1,000 angry protesters marched to the famous landmark in support of Palestine, chanting “f**k Israel” while the Australian Jewish Association reported some chanted “gas the Jews”.
The Opera House was lit up in blue and white – the colours of the Israel flag – to support the nation after Hamas’ attack left more than 900 residents dead.
NSW Police confirmed to Skynews.com.au an application which takes about seven days to be processed, was not lodged in time for the rally to take place.
“I can advise the organisers did not submit a Form 1 within the required time,” a spokesperson said.
Ray Hadley erupted after hearing the same admission from the NSW Police Commissioner’s office.
“Last night’s protest was illegal from start to finish,” he said. “There was no application for the protest to go ahead. Somehow assistant commissioner Tony Cooke has stood before the media, unaware there was no Form 1.”
NSW police minister Yasmin Catley was in frequent contact with Cooke on Sunday and Monday and was kept up to date as events unfolded at the protest, negating the assistant commissioner’s claims he hadn’t spoken to the minister prior to the rally.
She told NSW parliament in question time that while the march was not approved, police were aware it was going to be happening.
“The NSW police force has engaged with community groups as they monitor the situation here and of course overseas. I know that the Jewish community have an excellent relationship with the NSW police and that the police have been in constant contact with the community over the last few days,” Ms Catley said.
She also said police did not condone or facilitate the protest however they were “managing the situation to maximise the safety of all concerned.”
Warren Mundine, one of the main advocates for the No campaign to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament condemned the police for failing to protect the Jewish community.
“I call on the NSW police Minister to resign or be sacked. How the hell can the Minister and the NSW Police not be able to protect Jewish ppl,” he said on social media platform X.
NSW Premier Chris Minns to speak with Attorney General Michael Daley after ‘stay home’ remarks aimed at Jewish community
The NSW Premier has come out against comments from Attorney General Michael Daley which drew a “false equivalence” between the Jewish community and the “abhorrent” actions of pro-Palestine protestors in Sydney on Monday.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said he would speak with Attorney General Michael Daley following his warning for Sydney’s Jewish community to “stay home” in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Minns condemned the “abhorrent” actions of protestors on Monday night, who chanted slurs and reportedly burned an Israeli flag on the steps of the Opera House in Sydney.
“I want to start this media conference by speaking about the protests in Sydney last night,” he said.
“I think that they were abhorrent, I think they were the opposite of what we want in our modern, multicultural community.
“To have some people celebrate atrocious, indiscriminate killing and kidnapping in Israel is appalling.”
However, just hours earlier the NSW Attorney General had struck a markedly different tone while speaking to 2GB radio’s Ben Fordham about Monday’s events.
“I think everybody just needs to calm down and, as you say, do stay at home,” Mr Daley said when asked about statements from NSW Police given to the states Jewish community for their safety.
“This sort of dividing into camps and barracking over what is a horrific situation in the Middle East is just not acceptable.
“What everybody needs to do is show restraint and respect and just calm down.”
His comments caused immediate backlash, especially given the Attorney General had admitted early on in the interview he was “not really across” what had unfolded on the Opera House steps.
Pressed by reporters on Tuesday morning, Mr Minns said he did not “support” Mr Daley’s remarks, criticising the Attorney General for drawing a “false equivalence” between the actions of pro-Palestinian protestors and members of the Jewish community.
“I want to make it clear that I don’t support those comments, I will be speaking to the Attorney General today,” he said.
The media want to make the Israel situation out as more complicated than it is.
In 1967 & 1973 Israel won.
But we’re not allowed to solidify their victory like the US & Soviet Union were after WWII.
If they were, the issues over the past 50 years would not have happened.
“Who provides the incentives?”
Look, the Palestinian’s could have achieved peace and prosperity decades ago had they gone down the path of non-violent civil disobedience – a “sit down” protest blocking traffic in many places and waiting patiently and then not resisting being arrested would have seen the world come down on their side, especially given that there would have been at least one place were the Israeli’s turned violent against them.
The sort of obscene violence they have demonstrated sees them on the wrong side for most people, and I am certainly one. This is not the first time they have done this, but it is certainly one of – if not the – worst one yet. Time for the gloves to come off.
Zulu beat me to it on Ado Carr.
People who support Palestine are entitled to that view. I happen to disagree.
However they need to be careful how they express that support. The better way would be to start off by condemning the slaughter of innocent Israeli civilians including women and children and say that is not the way to achieve their aims. Then say support Palestinian people and emphasise the people not Hamas.
Unless of course they really do think like Shiek Dadoun etc.
One thing is apparent and it is there does appear to be plenty of “sovereignty” type Aboriginals who are not fans of Israel. Lydia Thorpe being the most obvious.
Mark Liebler may care to note.
1. The Greens don’t even pretend to be environmentalists.
2. Nothing couched as “alleged” when describing the flares and the burning of a flag, but as soon as the racial epithets are voiced out comes the “allegedly” disclaimer. Really, what is less certain about that observation than the flares and the flag?
Cassie of Sydney
The little fat focker is still exhausted after staying up late, masturbating over pictures of dead Israelis.
It’s only a flesh wound!
Get back over here ya yellow-bellied naysayer! I’ll nibble your fingers off!
‘No application for the protest to go ahead’: Rally in support for Palestinian people went ahead illegally
This is going to be a big test for NSW Premier Chris Minns whose personal popularity exceeds that of his Party. He has already condemned the despicable and illegal rally of the supporters of Hamas at the Opera House. He now needs to support his words with action and have both his Police Minister and Chief of Police offer a grovelling apology to both the Jewish community and the lone protester bearing the flag of Israel who was arrested.
Why would he look at news of the Opera house? After all he still keeps insisting Uluru statement is only one page and he has not read further. Too much information for him to digest.
“Mr Albanese said at a press conference at Port Lincoln he had not seen the Sydney demonstrations and did not specifically comment on them”.
I’m interested in Antarctica — mostly because of the danger it poses to aviation as regulators now allow carriers to like Qantas to fly so far south that jet aircraft can now legally be nearly six hours flying time – on one engine – from the nearest airport.
So I was fascinated by a doco that popped up on Foxtel channel 115 about Ernest Shackleton’s heroic and successful mission a century ago to rescue a group of fellow explorers stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
Fascinating it was – but unfortunately peppered with excruciating self-hatred by modern-day wannabe explorers retracing Shackleton’s steps who are consumed with a frenzy about “climate change” and the comical fiction that an atmospheric trace gas is driving global temperature because of the evil human race’s war on nature.
Shackleton died young in 1922 but he would be saddened that the 21st century admirers of his courage and leadership are quasi-religious zealots who wouldn’t know what empirical science was if it jumped up and bit them.
I can’t believe the arrest and removal of the Jewish man with the flag. Did they march him off to the Sydney gas chamber? The actions of these police justifies calling them Nazis and follows on from the police treatment of Australian citizens during the covid farce.
This country is going down a very dark path, at the direction of the left.
Surely this craven and barbaric attack on Israeli and international visitors proves beyond doubt that a “Two State Solution” with the partition of Israel into the states of Israel and Palestine will not work.
Gaza was conceded to the Palestinians. I thought at the time that it wouldn’t secure safety and peace – and it didn’t. So why do the apologists for Hamas think that it will be any different if an independent state of Palestine is conceded ? As the militants have stated on many occasions – they will not rest until Israeli citizens are driven into the sea.
And in a months time, the media and the government will be making the usual calming noises and the people will go back to sleep.
Islam counts on that, and our political class enable it.
First, we need to clean our own stables out.
WSJ – Israel Was Prepared for a Different War
The Israeli military’s focus on intelligence, air power and technology left it vulnerable to a low-tech ground assault
TEL AVIV—Israel spent three years building a 40-mile-long, state-of-the-art, high-tech security barrier along the Gaza Strip, with radar and sensors designed to detect furtive incursions by Palestinians bent on carrying out covert attacks in Israel.
On Saturday, Hamas used bulldozers and other rudimentary means to punch through the 20-foot-high fence and flooded men through the gaps in pickups and on foot, a frontal assault on southern Israel that was the largest breach of the country’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
It was a stark illustration of the limits to the Israeli military’s shift in focus to cyber capabilities, intelligence-gathering and advanced weaponry and its concentration on countering terrorist attacks.
The armed forces were caught off guard by a relatively low-tech ground assault.
Now, the Israeli military is preparing for the possibility of a large-scale operation in Gaza, where it will have to rely more heavily on infantry and conventional artillery, areas deprioritized in recent years, and where it could be drawn into street-by-street fighting and urban warfare.
Israel’s military “has been preparing for the wrong war,” said Avi Jager, a researcher at the Israel-based International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Recent military attention was directed at the West Bank, where Israel deployed forces to quell a Palestinian militant insurgency. Israeli intelligence warnings of potential war had focused on the north and the threat from Hezbollah, Hamas’s Lebanese ally, military analysts said.
Until Saturday, Israeli officials widely believed a policy of boosting Gaza’s economy meant the leaders of Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., Europe and Israel, had no interest in launching the kind of cross-border attack it staged.
At the same time, as the weekend’s events showed, Hamas has become more sophisticated.
Saturday’s assault used a combination of missiles, naval vessels, drones and armed fighters who reached as far as the city of Ofakim, more than 20 miles inside Israel.
“Israel has suffered a strategic surprise, despite all its sophisticated high-tech, weaponry, spyware and world-renowned intelligence agency,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator with the Palestinians and president of U.S./Middle East Project, which works to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict. “Israel cannot keep its people safe anymore—and that will be hard to recover from.”
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said the armed forces are focused on prevailing in the current conflict and that they would talk about the run-up to the Hamas cross-border attack once the fighting is over.
While Israel has long focused on gaining a technological advantage over its enemies—it is widely thought to have first developed nuclear weapons in the 1960s—the military has accelerated a shift toward advanced air, defense and intelligence systems over the past two decades.
For the Israeli army, the 2006 war with Hezbollah, where it fought guerrilla fighters on the rocky hills of southern Lebanon, illustrated the limits of superior bombs and artillery in counterinsurgency battles, similar to the U.S. experience in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Israel’s leadership began to believe the main threats to security were no longer ground invasions like the country saw in previous wars with Arab nations such as Egypt and Jordan—with which it signed peace treaties—but unconventional threats from rockets and insurgent attacks by nonstate groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, according to Jager.
To that end, the military invested in intelligence, cyber and defensive capabilities to deal with the threat from Hezbollah and Hamas and blunt the risks of a growing missile arsenal in Iran. It deployed Iron Dome in 2011, which targets short-range rockets, and invested in developing other systems to tackle longer-range missiles.
As Iran entered the Syrian civil war, Israeli pilots carried out thousands of airstrikes in Syria that disrupted Tehran’s efforts to supply its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon with advanced missiles. The Israeli signals intelligence unit, known as 8200, became one of the military’s biggest and best-known, also helping to drive the country’s economy by seeding computer whiz kids into the technology sector.
Still, in 2014, Hamas surprised the Israeli military by launching attacks on its territory from Gaza via a network of tunnels burrowed under the wall. The two sides fought a 50-day conflict as Israel launched ground operations in Gaza to destroy the tunnels.
In response, the Israeli military again turned to technology. It began working on a system called the “Obstacle” that could help detect tunnels, and later unveiled the border fence system. Israel’s defense minister at the time, Benny Gantz, said the barrier placed an “iron wall” around Gaza, protecting Israelis from Hamas militants, just as the famed antimissile system, Iron Dome, shielded them from rockets.
In 2015, the military began working on a revamp plan that would cut combat troops and reservists, according to Jager, who has published a study on the transformation. The number of noncommissioned officers was cut by 10% to 40,000 and the length of conscripted service for men was shortened by four months to 32 months.
A spokesman for Gantz, who is now a member of Israel’s parliament and the leader of the National Unity party, declined to comment.
“At the end of the day, you have to decide: do you invest in technology or not,” said Yaakov Amidror, who served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser. “Investing in technology means less money for other issues.”
Subsequent heads of the military took up the baton of shifting it to become nimbler and more technologically focused.
“We are talking about a longstanding process where the ground forces of the IDF were weakened,” said Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
As the Israeli military went higher-tech, Hamas and Hezbollah, which has fought for a decade in the Syrian civil war, began to operate more like conventional military foes, rather than scrappy insurgents. Hamas, in control of the Gaza Strip for more than a decade, built a warren of underground bases as a command-and-control center for a future conflict, and became more accurate in firing rockets on Israel.
Iron Dome once again emerged as a success story in 2021 when it intercepted thousands of projectiles fired at Israel. The Israeli military’s heavy response via airstrikes, knocking out parts of Hamas military infrastructure, left Israeli officials convinced the Islamist group was tired of repeated rounds of violence with Israel.
Complicating the situation ahead of Saturday’s attacks was an upsurge in violence in the West Bank, fanned by Hamas. The Netanyahu government, backed by settler leaders living in the West Bank, had turned their attention toward Palestinian attacks there.
In June, the Israeli military expanded the number of battalions on the ground in the West Bank, which had increased from roughly 13 to 25 over 18 months, according to Israeli media—equivalent to thousands more ground troops.
Israeli commentators blamed the sluggish response to the Hamas attack on the border of Gaza on the fact that so many troops were in the West Bank.
Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters that the deployment of forces between Gaza and the West Bank wasn’t connected. “We had also forces deployed near Gaza,” he said.
The surge in West Bank violence now appears to be a calculated move to distract attention from the planning in Gaza, said Mark Dubowitz of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.
“It is true that the scenario of a strategic surprise of hitting Israel on its southern border and through the infiltration of over 1,000 Hamas fighters was a lower priority on the IDF’s top planning scenarios,” he said.
“the Jewish community should have been able to stand… and look at the colours of the Opera House lit up”
Seriously, this is the benchmark of liberty in Australia? Just doing Facebook filter stuff, but like, in real life, until the next Current Thing eclipses it and gets its fifteen minutes of performative compassion projected on the Sails Of Australia’s Most Iconic Thing?
…don’t get me wrong, I’m as angry as the next man about the “War in Israel”- read, terrorist intifada- being waged by “Armed Group Hamas”- read, ethno-fascist terrorists enabled by the military-industrial-financial Democrat Lizard People.
But the shallowness of the Inner City Green Teals, for whom every ill of the world can be fixed by importing the most foetid dregs of the third world- and yes, i mean people as well as creeds- is stunningly shadow. The political class who have spent their lives trashing Christ, capitalism, and humility, who make a big show of banning the display of Nazi symbols, but can’t get in front of the ‘roided up and entirely predictable Allah-A-Go-Go crowd. All to dominate the headlines, be seen to be Right On On The Right Side Of History.
The actions of these police justifies calling them Nazis and follows on from the police treatment of Australian citizens during the covid farce.
The road block we encountered when travelling to our farm during the Covid lockdown, the necessity for “travel documents” reminiscent of East Germany, and the aggressive manner of the police was a shock from which I doubt I will ever recover.
Somebody on the Daily News site is unkind enough to point out that he’s quite comfortable, and done very well out of, a game that was introduced by his “oppressors.”
Countering the lie that ‘Israelis are Western colonizers’
Across the West, Muslims and their socialist allies claim that Israel is a Western colonizer. That’s a lie. Here’s a very slimmed-down history of the last 4,000 years.
The original indigenous people of the land we now call Israel were the Canaanites. When the Jews migrated to that land roughly 4,000 years ago, tribal warfare ensued, and the Canaanites lost. Since then—for around 4,000 years—the Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel. They are the indigenous people with a claim to the land older than any other living people. In ancient times, they held that land despite wars with and occupations by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Greeks.
Finally, in 70 A.D., the Romans fully conquered Israel, erasing its identity as a nation. To symbolize that conquest, Rome renamed the land Palestine after the Philistines whom the Jews had destroyed in David’s time. In subsequent centuries, Christians, Persians, Umayyad Muslims, Abbasid Muslims and, eventually, Ottoman Muslims invaded the land and ruled as imperialist colonizers. Through it all, Jews continued on the land.
Does the term “foreign fighters” not apply to terrorists on domestic soil?
ZK2A:
No, Mister Dutton – they are all too imaginable, because that’s what the Political Classes have given us for years.
Remember the Bondi riots? Because we all do. And that was just a small taste of what was to come – the police arresting Australians, and escorting Muslim mobs to the riots.
It hasn’t stopped.
Australians should be alert and probably quite a bit alarmed. The illegally organised “gathering” of the usual suspects at the Opera House last night will embolden followers of the religion of peace, in my opinion. This rubbish will not end quickly and most likely lead to blood being spilled somewhere more than just once. I can just imagine the rousing Friday Prayer speeches and I hope there will be monitoring.
I stand with Israel. They must do what they must do and the rest of us in the so-called civilised world have to watch out. I think masses of scorpions, having been somewhat restrained are now unleashed
Did someone mention Albo Schultz?
😀
Sadly JMH, I think you’re right.
Come Friday for Mosque day… there’ll be several unhinged Snackbars getting a little overzealous…
Interesting post – “Jerusalem became the capital of Israel, over 3,000 years ago – 1600 years BEFORE the birth of Islam…”
About that $6 billion to Iran…
Apparently it hasn’t actually been transferred yet and the Republicans are raising hell about stopping it.
Marsha Blackburn Is Actually Looking to Do Something About That $6B Biden Released to Iran
Another opportunity for Biden to prove what a douche he is.
Angry Kez (JMH), is there ever a moment in your life when you’re not scaring yourself to death? Also, and I’m not exaggerating when I say this, you sound like a serial killer. I’m not kidding, you’re the creepiest individual who’s ever posted at the Cat. You really sound like you have a bunch of bodies buried in the backyard or nearby bush land
NRL star Josh Addo-Carr has posted his support for Palestinians amid the major conflict between Israel and Hamas, linking their struggle to that of Indigenous Australians.
Daily Mail
I saw this as well, Tom.
Shackleton is a particular hero of mine. If you edited out the climate trash, the piece was quite good, I guess. Couldn’t stomach the trash if I’m honest.
Here we go again…
And now with today’s Freedom Forecast here’s Jody.
Thanks, Tracy, good morning. Overnight we saw more cases of Hamasvirus in Cabramatta and Bennelong Point. That’s additional to those Hamasvirus cases we saw in Lakemba earlier in the week. So of course MiniTrue expects lockdowns to commence in… erm… Vaucluse and Mosman. Please wear your masks, uh I mean, balaclavas, to protect yourself against arrest and help sow the spread. Back to you, Tracy.
The civilised world is akin to a man in a crowd, who turns after he has been punched in the back, to find a thug with a grin on his face, and a policeman watching his every move.
Listen here you POS ingrate.
What depths of the moral bankruptcy account do you have to draw down to to think you had any right to protest or rally or do anything other than STFU, given what’s happening?
Particularly at the Oprah House. Absolutely no sense of decency or humility, just hate.
FMD! I’m sick of this bullshit.
I see Spender has read the room and stood up on her hind legs today.
From Wali:
Agreed. This is puerile stuff. It gives no comfort, knowing that next week another crisis, another fad, another projection.
What is more genuinely symbolic of NSW’s reaction was
– the vile demonstrations at the Sydney Town Hall and the Opera House
– the instruction that Jews stay home for their own safety
– the arrest of a Jewish man who had the temerity to hold Israel’s flag in defiance of the mob
– the Anglican minister who held Israel’s flag on the steps of St Andrew’s Cathedral and was chased by a mob of Islamic hooligans
This is our state. Cutesy Facebook signalling posing as genuine empathy while despicable louts roam the streets looking for someone to beat up while chanting vile slogans.
And the Rum Corps allowed them to do it.
Warning: Graphic:
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1711531166405177366?s=20
Dashcam footage from Rave party. Makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
flyingduk
The above mindset would have cancelled the Allies bombing German and Japanese cities during WW2.
What it really is, is the EU determining that every Hamas terrorist is safe as long as he is hiding behind a civilian.
In other words, the EU is sheltering Hamas Terrorists.
Time to get rid of the EU.
Yes. It will get a whole lot worse. Wait till the violence opens up in other states, urban or rural settings. Islam is everywhere within Australia.
Melanie Phillips
Israel/Palestine: An Honest Conversation
I’m it’s everywhere. Buried in backyards and bushland even.
Dashcam footage from Rave party. Makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What this horror has shown the world is that these “combatants” for Hamas are little more than cowardly, barbaric thieves and plunderers. We saw the same depth of depravity from Islamic State.
H B Bear
Oct 10, 2023 11:20 AM
HB. Citizenship can be removed. What is the process to make a person Stateless?
Israel should offer Pali’s for identity and whereabouts of 10 hamas, for residency in Israel. The headquarters, tunnel entrances, ammo dumps, etc. See what happens. If it doesn’t work nothing lost but hamas will be slowed down from watching their backs.
Since Iran is backing hamas and the Chinese are backing Iran for oil it is time for Israel to take out a few oil terminals.
I had a hard time trying to figure out why Hamas went nuts. Sure, they’re unstable Jew-hating maniacs, but they aren’t dumb dumb.. I suspect it was a setup by Hamas and Iran to tilt Saudi Arabia away from making nice with Israel.
Here’s a hunch. I reckon Israel will attack Iran before the end of the year in an attempt to take out the senior leadership there. In fact, they have to take out the leadership and neuter their nuclear aspirations in some way. In fact, Iran has to be hit this year.
= sure
No. Never trust a smiling Palestinian. Once Gaza is obliterated, bring in the bulldozers.
and bury the bodies.
Vicki
And as they are pushed towards the sea, the Samson Option will be invoked.
Never again.
JC, you’re forgetting that Islam is a political death cult. They haven’t gone nuts, there’s just ebbs and flows in the activities of the mullahs, their suppliers, and their supply of fighting age men.
Russell Brand
Oh Sh*t, They KNEW This Was A Lie ALL ALONG
That will do wonders for the Yes vote (not!), linking the “struggle” of “Indigenous Australians” with a murderous terrorist attack.
JC
Or a preemptive on Hezbollah?
I’d rule out superficial charm. The Triad describes three behaviors as a child. Cruelty to animals, starting fires and lots of bed wetting.
Bush, Dunno on that one as I reckon it depends on what happens at their boarder. Could.
Absentee voted in the ACT.
AEC all very professional, made sure I observed my vote being placed in the box. Yes spruikers were too slack to speak to us.
Nos well represented. Said we were all good.
IN-DEPTH: US Gives More Than $4.1 Billion in Grants for LGBT and Transgender Initiatives Worldwide
Freya Leach, daughter of Mark Leach (who briefly waved the Israeli flag near Town Hall)
Yesterday Freya strode through the University of Sydney removing pro-Palestine posters (i.e. pro-Hamas, pro-pogrom)
Honi Soit collective chucking one big sad whinge about it. Oh boyo boy were they wailing.
They couldn’t have been more distressed had someone surreptitiously replaced the soy in their coffee room with full cream milk.
Heh. & heh again 🙂
Wali
You have to be off balance to behave like that. At least the leadership is. As far as the people are concerned , their completely brainwashed from early school and at home.
Also following on the prediction about Iran. I heard a stat today that 50%… 50% of the Gaza population are children.
I suspect Israel will pummel the crap out of Gaza. In order to turn Gaza into a much reduced threat, the focus is Iran. It has to be Iran.
Arky:
First, before we try to save the limb that is in danger of gangrene, we must remove the shit coated nail that caused the problem in the first place.
All the ones who marched yesterday in the anti Jewish protest must be gaoled – if they are Australian citizens, and those not, removed from our lands. Anything less is just a bandaid on the moral corruption threating the nation.
damn….
= they’re.
To put the Hamas/Palestinian urge to kill Jews into a cheap analogy:
They have an internal urge to kill Jews. This is not always planned well & does not work out well for them. They blame Jews for starting it.
JC is unable to control his urge to stoush, to abuse & belittle others in spittle flecked rants. He blames others for starting it.
There’s a similarity in the base animal urges & the denialism.
Raw barbarism. They are only after loot, rapes and murder. That’s it.
Don’t forget the Islamist’s hate for Christians, Sal. Anything but Islam is on their deranged radar.
“Freya Leach, daughter of Mark Leach (who briefly waved the Israeli flag near Town Hall)
Yesterday Freya strode through the University of Sydney removing pro-Palestine posters (i.e. pro-Hamas, pro-pogrom)”
Kol hakavod to Freya and her father, Mark. I knew Freya had Jewish heritage but didn’t know her father is the same Anglican priest who waved the Israeli flag near Town Hall last night.
Thank you to both.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jeez, mate.
That’s a tough one.
Am I allowed a couple of guesses?
I guess America could have warned people to leave Hiroshima before they dropped the bomb but saving enemy lives it wasn’t the purpose now was it.
Well you do 95% of the time and John W Gacy’s twin 100%. However, I’m not abusing anyone. It’s an observable fact , Kez suffers from all those traits with one exception and it’s a question mark on the Triad.
I am not sure there’s a whole lot of brain cells competing in Josh’s head.
Can run quickly, good league player, towering moron.
**Some** good news:
Israel takes recontrol of border fence.
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/middle-east/hamas-israel-conflict-live-updates-hamas-threatens-israeli-hostages-as-fighting-continues-in-gaza-strip-20231009-p5eavp.html
Had to chortle at Luigi standing in front of Ayers Rock in his suit jacket and the immaculate hat.
Just a stupid moment.
Well, at least we won’t have to worry about the 251s & education when the VOICE fails cos somehow that part of the system is working! …….
Josh Addo Carr being able to read and write speaks volumes for the, in-place, 251 education curriculum ……….
Granted, I don’t watch the TV ‘news’ but the media reports I’ve come across regarding the outrageous brutality inflicted upon Israel seem tepid in tone at the most & some simply express a detached disinterest. I thought my former workplace was deeply stained with an organisational psychopathy, but perhaps the mesozoic* media is also.
* Fossilized outline of a once-relevant organism.
Now, getting back to the Islamic issue, His Leadership wants to ban expression and jail those participants.
How many people would those loons have persuaded to their cause yesterday? I’d suggest the opposite was the case. Average Australians, reading and watching the news about the demonic actions against Israelis, would have been repulsed by them. Free speech and free expression are great. In this case, it showed just how repulsive those lunatics are, and they dissuaded people against their cause.
Only pussies are afraid of free expression.
As far as (similar) “pollie fails” go… very similar to Lord Waffler eating a pie with a knife and fork at a cafe.
JC, are you having a George Brandis moment? 😛
(But I agree with all of your sentiments except for one additional consideration: “Most” Aussies haven’t seen the atrocities and are being fed palestilogical* fallacies.)
*it’s a Lysander term so pls acknowlege it when using it 😛
Zatara
Ta, Zatara. Appreciated.
However, the article suggests the milk is needed for nursing mothers who have been called up for duty.
I understood nursing mothers are not called up. The fact that they are nursing disqualifies them from duty on religious grounds.
Can someone clarify this?
How does Addo-Carr’s tweet compare with Israel Folau’s? Congratulations for the mass murder of civilians vs. the belief that gays will not be accepted into Heaven?
Very poor taste to use the tragic situation in Israel for childish point scoring, SIP.
A light-hearted look back to what kind of people we call woke:
Sunday I went to the Highland Gathering at Armadale, now a southern suburb of Perth.
There were lots of cool things – pipe bands, little girls doing Hielan’ Dancing, feats of great strength by men in kilts.
16 Battn tent, some dozy young diggers wearing kilts and supervising playtime with F88 and a couple of LMGs.
Weaving and costume making and embroidery and illumination painting from the Book of Kells and all kinds of Viking to modern things; at least six tents of swords, shields, armour, bows, and dressed-up re-enactors; some of them in arenas doing armoured battle (NO RULES!).
And standing mulishly next to one of these tents of bold armoured young men with kilts, swords and targes was a little, fat, grumpy-bum young woman with vaguely blue hair holding a torn piece of carboard box with written on it a life-altering accusation:
I smirked.
Well day one for a quick tour of London all done. Today we have a coach trip to Paris.
Given recent events in Israel it seems rather glib to write about it.
My heart goes out Israel as I’ve always been a passionate supporter of that magnificent country. My thoughts are with all the Jewish contributors on this site, particularly the marvellous Cassie.
Interestingly yesterday on our tour we passed Australia House and the tour guide commented on the queues wondering what they were. Had no knowledge of the referendum and said the only local knowledge of Australia at the moment is the cricket and rugby teams at their world cups.
He did comment that he saw the pro-Hamas demo in Sydney and wondered “What the hell is going on in your country”.
My guess is the world is more away of that disgraceful episode than any Voice. Albo and the other black armband Aussies should take not and be ashamed of themselves.
People like Bob Carr, NSW Greens, Lydia etc are not scum they are simply lower than that.
“Two more mortgage shocks forecast for Aussies in 2023.”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/interest-rates/two-more-mortgage-shocks-forecast-for-aussies-in-2023/news-story/ffe5f29f3da5cba54fac2366a5be7bb0
I reckon interest rates will rise at least once before the end of the year.
Lysander
I did say reading and watching.
Even if they didn’t read about it, the news carried stories about atrocities and even those who didn’t read or watch news, they would have heard about it from others.
Does the NRL support their players publicly expressing admiration for misogynist homicide?
Can someone on X ask Addo-Carr if he’s disappointed at missing the opportunity to spit on the German-Israeli woman’s body?
Huh? But, but, but, the world is watching us.
Oic, the world is watching us.
Very appropriate. A popular name for the Mesozoic is the Age of Reptiles.
Gutfeld is without a doubt the best social commentator going round. His take on The Five about the Hamas atrocity is brilliant. The left’s nomination of victims who are justified in anything they do prevents condemnation of hamas’s attacks; but so to in the West where there is a slow boil with encroachments everywhere in social values such as criminality and destruction of conventions. The impact of those must be borne by the oppressors and like Israel the West will be condemned if it resists. From 11.47:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KScJzCVB8J4
I expect going fwd Israel will require additional barriers to entry for Hamas. No barrier is impenetrable and eventually the attacker with enough resources will overcome. However If well constructed the barriers slow progress enabling the defender time to respond. This quite often requires two or more different barriers. It also requires space between each barrier. The same technique to get thru the first barrier should be ineffective against the second. Likely IDF will build multiple walls, with generous space in between to enable other devices to slow progress (razor wire, mines, military tech, dragons teeth…).
…and lets not forget the tunnelling. This seems to be a go to for many.
IDF have definitely underestimated their enemy but I expect this will not be repeated.
Wolfman, enjoy your holiday.
London is just as degraded as Sydney, they just have more space to hide it in. Paris ditto.
Please keep us informed of your travels. It brings a touch of sanity and proportion to the ghastliness of world events. Cats at large are always interesting.