A Glibertarians Exclusive: License to Kill, Part V
Oahu, June 1946
Paul squeezed the trigger.
The 152-grain M2 ball bullet slammed into the Thompson’s drum magazine, wrecking it and sending the big sub-machine gun flying. The meathead who had been holding let out a screech of agony; his right had had been holding the gun’s pistol grip with his finger inside the trigger guard, and now he held up the mutilated hand, with three fingers broken and his trigger finger degloved by the Thompson’s trigger guard.
“Go!” Paul shouted.
A volley of rifle fire from Henry Houlihan, Dugan Jefferson and Sam Kendall slammed into the trees over the Iowan’s heads.
The meathead who had been wielding the Thompson was on his knees, clutching his ruined hand and screeching in agony. Danny Greene ran to him, took one look at his hand, and grimaced. The other big farm boy crashed through the brush to Danny’s side, looked at his friend’s hand and went pale.
“Come on,” Danny said. “Leave him here. They’re running – can’t you hear them?”
“Yeah, I hear them.”
They pushed through the jungle to the bottom of the ridge they had just crested. “There – up that valley.”
Paul was stumping towards the valley mouth, leaning on his cane with one hand and the Springfield in the other. “Go on,” he called to the others. “Head up to that spot.” Don’t give anything away, he reminded himself. Don’t name anyone or anything in the clear. He looked up – he was in the mouth of the small valley. I sure hope Apikala’s uncle knows what he was talking about. Ahead, dimly, in the dark forest, he could see the old man dogtrotting along, gesturing, calling out in flowing Hawaiian.
Then Paul’s wooden leg tangled in a vine, and he went down, hard. He dropped the Springfield and landed in a pool of stinking, stagnant water.
Danny Greene heard the splash. He looked at the remaining farm boy. Gesturing with the .38 he held in his right hand, Danny ordered him, “Go on – get after the others.” Then, drawing his own revolver, he pushed into a thick patch of undergrowth.
He found Paul O’Doull struggling to regain his footing. “Oh, no you don’t,” Danny told him. He saw the rifle laying in the brush nearby, picked it up, tossed it away. He pointed his .38 at Paul’s head. “Where are the others going? How many of them are there? Where’s Aunt Maggie?”
“Kiss my ass,” Paul told him.
“Not likely.” Danny aimed the .38.
A wailing sound came from farther up the valley. For the briefest moment, Danny Greene dismissed it as the wind, until he heard a startled squawk from the big farm boy he had sent after the others. There was a great crashing in the brush and the farm boy emerged.
“RUN!” he shouted and proceeded to do just that.
“What the hell?” Danny lowered the .38 a tad, looked up at the valley. The wailing grew louder.
Paul reached carefully down to his wooden leg. Just above the hem of his baggy boondocker shorts, there was a small wooden panel on the prosthetic’s thigh; Paul slid the panel open and produced a Colt Pocket Model, a little .32 automatic. He aimed at Danny Greene’s arm.
The wailing was coming closer. Danny squinted. There was something, some things, racing through the jungle, coming straight at him. He raised the .38 and fired.
Paul pulled the trigger on the .32. Danny gasped as the bullet tore through his bicep. His .38 crashed into the weeds.
The wailing things were on them then. They seemed to ignore Paul, but they didn’t ignore Danny Greene. Wailing, insubstantial things, they swirled around the Iowan gangster, wailing, howling, gibbering. Danny screamed in terror and fled, clutching his arm, with the wailing… things still swirling around him.
Paul struggled to his feet as the wailing and gibbering subsided slowly in the distance. He put the .32 back in the hideout compartment in his leg, then retrieved the .38 and dropped it in his pocket. The Springfield lay a few steps away; he was just picking that up when Henry Houlihan and the others reappeared.
“Where did they go?” Henry asked.
“Ran like scalded cats,” Paul told them. “What the hell were those things? What the hell just happened?”
Sam Pualani walked up. “As I told you,” he said. “They are the ʻuhane nahele. I called them to protect the jungle and its people. As my father taught me. I called and they came.”
“And they scared the living shit out of those mobsters,” Paul agreed. “I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.”
“Sure as hell,” Henry Houlihan agreed.
Paul nodded. From somewhere out in the jungle, the wailing of the ʻuhane nahele was still audible, as were the cries of the gangsters they pursued.
“Come on – let’s get back to Sam’s, make sure the girls are all right.”
***
Waterloo, Iowa, August 1946
“You said it was what?” Micah Gilliard looked up from behind his desk at his nephew, who had just arrived from the airport.
“Swear to God, Uncle Micah. Goddamn ghosts. Spirits. Something, I don’t know what. They came howling down that valley, scared the shit out of us. Never seen anything like it.” Without invitation, Danny Greene went to the sideboard and poured himself a good dose of Micah’s fine whiskey. “All I know is, I ain’t going back there. It’s not just the spooks. That old Marine Aunt Maggie’s hooked up with, he’s got a bunch of buddies. And they all have guns.”
“You’re nuts.”
“I’m not. Ask the boys, they’ll back me up.” He took a slug of whiskey.
Micah looked at his nephew with disgust. “Get out,” he snapped. “Let me think about this.”
“I ain’t going back there,” Danny repeated before he walked out, his whiskey glass in his hand.
Micah Gilliard looked up. Across the office from his desk was a large mirror. Micah didn’t normally pay it much mind; it had been there since before old John Gilliard had dies. Now, Micah looked at his reflection, he saw a man that had managed to rebuild a lot of what old John had lost.
A lot of what he lost was because of Maggie’s running off with that peg-legged wonder, he thought. But we’re into the diminishing returns, now. I need to look ahead. I have to keep rebuilding. The family needs to look ahead, not back.
***
Honolulu, September 1946
Paul and Maggie were enjoying a quiet afternoon when the knock on the door came. Paul pushed himself to his feet. “At least I got that toilet in Unit 4 fixed. Wonder what it will be now.”
He opened the door to find not one of their tenants but a Western Union delivery boy. “Telegram for you, sir,” the boy said. “Sign here please?”
Maggie walked up behind him as Paul signed, tipped the kid a quarter, and closed the door. He scanned the telegram printout.
“Well,” he grinned at Maggie. “What do you know about that?”
Maggie took the message form and read:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. STAY IN HAWAII AND WE WILL CALL IT QUITS. – MICAH GILLIARD
Maggie grabbed Paul and kissed him. “Well,” she said. “What do you know about that?”
“I know we have a lot of carefree, happy years ahead,” Paul said. “I think that things are going our way at last. And I think that’s worth another kiss.”
Maggie demonstrated her agreement with enthusiasm.
***
Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool,
And when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled.
Oh, man is opposed to fair play,
He wants it all and he wants it his way.
Now, there’s a woman on my block,
She just sit there as the night grows still,
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
“I know we have a lot of carefree, happy years ahead,” Paul said. “
Or do they?
/cue dramatic music
Thanks, Animal. Excellent story.
Yup… that was my immediate thought as well. Don’t. Tempt. Fate. (Or poke the bear-author in this case).
Why am I disappointed that Danny Greene got to go home to Iowa?
Animal left out the part where Micah loses all confidence in Danny, and relegates Danny to insignificance while other enforcers are promoted over him, which sends Danny into a spiral of depression and drunkenness, ultimately resulting in Danny dying of untreated syphilis that he caught from a hooker who worked near the ISU campus in Ames.
What really happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpPWEA9Wl8
Fantastic story, Animal! I was on pins and needles when Paul tripped.
The happy ending we all need! And ghosts for Halloween! And RJ with the STEVE SMITH connection!
Missed this yesterday.
The Israeli military is asking civilians near the Lebanese border to evacuate their homes within 48 hours.
Israeli tanks have started engaging Hezbollah on the Lebanese border.
Israel is going to go on an all out offensive
Things seem to be escalating quickly. Israel is surrounded.
According to Razorfist, they’re easing up gun laws to get more people armed. Funny how important that always turns out to be.
Considering their circumstances I assumed they had the most armed population on the planet. I was wrong.
Yeah, there is a reason that the USSR never went after Switzerland.
They are the second most heavily armed people, with the Finns being third. Naturally, the EU hates this.
This is a really good read. According to this, they relied on a high-tech fence for protection. But that system got hacked right before the attack. They’re learning really quick that technology has its limits.
https://www.thefp.com/p/hamas-war-on-israel-everything-you-need-to-know
Technology is great until it’s not.
While I don’t consider the Free Press to be a remotely reliable source, the reports of an informational attack on Israel’s border systems are being repeated elsewhere.
This also could be a cover story from Israel, to excuse them getting caught with their pants down.
Weiss is all in on the neoliberal project when it comes to foreign policy and has a particularly weak spot for Israel.
Keeping the little people disarmed is a universal conceit.
I looked it up, the percentage of people owning a gun is only about 2%. And is usually limited by law to one pistol and 50 bullets.
Just read Hamas is threatening to kill hostages on live TV. I guess since they captured children, we can say they will only execute the adults. Since they are just good natured freedom fighters at heart.
America’s future leaders weigh in on the Middle East.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/thirty-one-harvard-organizations-blame-israel-for-hamas-attack/
I don’t understand why so many people are pessimistic about the future.
Sure… the side that worldwide has been chanting (for years) “From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” (i.e. no Israeli state, no Israelis) is pure as the driven snow.
I’m sure Israel could have done things better (being human and all) — but I’m still firmly of the mindset that they’ve displayed admirable restraint in my lifetime given the provocations they get daily that no other nation would tolerate, and that this attack removes those restraints. I’m not happy about it – I wish Hamas had been deposed and an actual peace process could have gotten going… but I sure as hell know who I consider the instigators here (and honestly, the authors of acts of barbarism).
I have no words. College students have become war-mongering blood thirsty ghouls. I never had this on my bingo card.
No draft — no risk. Those icky boys from the red states will die as needed to handle the problems.
No Mo Slo Joe.
Pathetic.
The new one hasn’t finished growing in the vat. The old one fell apart during the BBQ Sunday.
The next shipment of depends was delayed.
Finally we have an adult (not) in the room.
Hot war in Ukraine
How war in the Middle East
All of Central and South America slows immigrating north into the US.
We still have Africa and China to stick out dick into.
There’s work to do, and Biden is taking a nap.
Time to dig up Hillary’s “It is 3AM, is your President up to a crisis?” ad — only make it noon this time.
A divergence in the narrative
OPEC on Monday raised its medium- and long-term forecasts for global oil demand.
The oil producer group said the crude sector would require a whopping $14 trillion in investment if it is to meet this upswing, even amid a rapid expansion of renewable energy technologies.
OPEC’s long-term forecast for global oil demand diverges from that of the International Energy Agency, the world’s leading energy watchdog. OPEC and the IEA, both big names in the energy industry, are currently locked in a war of words over peak oil demand.
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“Recent developments have led the OPEC team to reassess just what each energy can deliver, with a focus on pragmatic and realistic options and solutions,” OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais said in a foreword to the report.
“Calls to stop investments in new oil projects are misguided and could lead to energy and economic chaos,” al-Ghais said. “History is replete with numerous examples of turmoil that should serve as a warning for what occurs when policymakers fail to acknowledge energy’s interwoven complexities.”
OPEC’s forecasts contrast starkly with those of the IEA, which said last month that the world was now at the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era.
OPEC? What do they know? The energy fairy will wave her magic wand and we’ll have free unlimited clean energy forever!
We do not expect to see or hear from President Biden for the rest of the day.
We do not expect to see or hear from President Biden for the rest of the day.
He’s in a meeting. Do not Disturb.
In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said for the first time that demand for coal, oil and gas would all peak before 2030, with fossil fuel consumption then predicted to fall as climate policies take effect.
Birol’s assessment is based on the IEA’s World Energy Outlook, an influential report which is due out in October.
The IEA chief hailed the forecast as a “historic turning point” but made clear that the projected declines would be “nowhere near enough” to put the world on a path to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
This temperature threshold is widely regarded as critical to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. The burning of fossil fuels is the chief driver of the climate crisis.
Made up claims are made up.
the climate crisis
Not actually a real thing.
The new talking point is “climate damage”:
https://www.kuow.org/stories/dude-where-s-my-train-why-freight-makes-amtrak-late
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Late is par for the course for Amtrak trains nationwide. The passenger rail company blames illegal interference from freight trains for most of its passengers’ often-substantial delays.
Rail advocates say enticing more passengers to take a train instead of driving or flying — and making a dent in the heavy climate impact of American transportation — will require measures to reduce those delays and boost train travel’s speed and reliability.
Riding the rails causes less climate damage than driving alone or flying.
But in Washington state, rail service can be slow and unreliable, in part because freight trains often get to go first.
Most Amtrak trains run on someone else’s property. The Amtrak Cascades rolls above Canadian National Railway tracks in British Columbia, BNSF Railway tracks in Washington, and Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Oregon.
It might seem logical that Amtrak often gets second-class treatment, having to yield the right of way to the property owners’ trains.
But in the United States, freight railroads are not only required to let passenger trains use their tracks, they’re required under federal law to give passenger trains priority when dispatchers have to juggle passenger and freight trains.
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Meh, who cares that freight rail is far more profitable than passenger rail and has been for decades? We must stop the climate damage!
Yes let’s give passenger train riders a priority over freight trains, causing more shippers to turn to trucks. Clog up our interstate hiways so Grammie and Gramps can take in the splendor of Nebraska from their subsidized Amtrak seats.
Time to start air-dropping our trans-people into Gaza to fix the situation.
They seem to support Palestine, which is ironic to say the least.
RFK Jr. just announced he’s running as in independent. Like him or not, it was a really good speech. And I like this extra wrench being thrown into the works.
Anything that makes it harder for the dems to get away with stealing votes.
*grabs popcorn*
But the Dems might actually Kennedy him now.
Will he be able to get on all the state ballots like Perot and Anderson did?
No. Those lessons have been learned.
See also: debates.
“WWIII Kicking off and the Presidents brothers nudes leaked onto a gay dating website. “
Family, amirite?
“Blackmail fears.” Give me a break. Those folks are shameless, and the even if the media reports it nobody on the left cares.
They’ll just bring out AOC to be outraged, OUTRAGED! that people would talk about this while the government might shut down.
Dudes in pretty good shape for 70…
As fucked up as all of the Biden brothers are, can you imagine how bad their father was?
You rang?
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Biden Sr. worked for a company that made sealant for merchant marine ships during World War II, but had difficulty finding work in the decades that followed.
…
The family ended up moving to a suburb of Wilmington, and Biden Sr. worked initially selling used cars.
***
Can’t say I’m surprised.
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a33573986/who-was-joseph-r-biden-sr/
Wasn’t he a used car salesman? Honest Joe, the name you can trust.
recently posted on Al-Jazeera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHnTI6bBb50
It’s all about how Hamas developed their rocket forces with Iranian help and hid them from the Israelis despite the blockade. Their new rockets have enough range to hit every part of Israel. This video was posted 2 years ago.
gist: They steadily improved the range of their rockets and dug up old Israeli water pipes to make rockets. They also used divers to dredge up British artillery shells from WW2 to make warheads.
That part was rather clever. 80% of intel comes from open sources.
Nice to know my Arabic is still functional despite very little practice.
RFK Jr. just announced he’s running as in independent. Like him or not, it was a really good speech. And I like this extra wrench being thrown into the works.
Based on that Politico long form smear job I linked earlier, some people in the Inner Party must be taking him very seriously.
He’s a wildcard. He can take votes from Trump or Biden or whoever replaces Biden’s corpse.
The Uniparty does not like unpredictability.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. STAY IN HAWAII AND WE WILL CALL IT QUITS. – MICAH GILLIARD
Hmm….
I thought I was black-pilled a month ago. It’s seems the pills come in ultra-black as well.
Vantablack
Indeed. We need to take up a fund and get some Vantablack for UnCivil to paint a figure with.
He can get this for $23. Real Vantablack is expensive and hard to come by.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225696281851
Paint wraiths, hollow eye sockets, etc
23 for 100 ml. Use sparingly.
IIRC people have used it on cars. That had to be absurd.
OPEC vs IEA:
Whose numbers are based on wishful thinking? I know how I’d bet.
Kinda makes my day.
A tribute to TP from a band I like
Excellent. Thanks!
Happy to share!
TP comes on the radio, and I start bobbing to the music. And yet, I never go looking for his music. I don’t own any of his albums, nor do I have any interest in getting any.
I was fortunate to see him a couple times. One of my faves.
My first “real” concert was TP and the Heartbreakers touring after the release of Full Moon Fever as the Summit in Houston. Cheap seats way up high, I was 16 or 17. Great show…even before the contact high from being in a full on cloud of smoke.
I saw him in concert once. All night it was, “Oh I forgot about this song!” Over and over and over. He put out a ton of really good work.
A huge portfolio of good songs I enjoyed while listening to them but then forgot about when they weren’t actually on the radio.
Emperor Hirohito Calls For Ceasefire After Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
UCS, did you have a chance to see the painting test pics I posted in the overnight thread? Open to feedback. I need to work on mixing paints more and figuring out a bit about what order to do the paints/washes/contrasts/etc. But that was really just a color test – some of them definitely needed more water.
And some staffer’s full-time job for the foreseable future is keeping Harris away from any microphone, because with hundreds of Israeli civilians (and some Americans) murdered, and others (women, children, and oldsters) taken hostage, they know good and well her performance would be a melange of Proggie word salad and “death to Israel” that devolved into cackling.
Al-Jazeera reports on why the Iron Dome failed; supposedly the reason is that it is optimized to intercept rockets with a range of 4 km. Also, there was a lack of overlap in the radar systems which caused it to fail to detect small objects. They also say that a hacking group called Anonymous Sudan was involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc_r8TyrQqA
Pictured.
The gun compartment in the prosthetic leg was a nice touch. The Before Place wrote about it:
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If they weren’t used as weapons themselves, hollow appendages could contain lethal contraband. In 1904, the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette discussed the case of a man shot to death in Spain. When police apprehended a nearby beggar, “no weapon could be found upon him.” But it eventually emerged that the killer had stashed a firearm within one of his wooden legs.
***
https://reason.com/2017/11/24/prosthetic-limbs-make-great-weapons-a-hi/
European markets down and Dow up.
The capital flight has begun.
Time to talk about what is really important:
I met up with some friends in Athens, Georgia, to watch the UGA game last year. I don’t care for Auburn, so seeing them lose 42-to-10 was enjoyable, especially since I was spending time with longtime friends, as well as two Auburn fans who really thought they had a chance that year. Once the game was over, it was time to leave. As I headed back to my car, I had to cross the street, and when the walk sign came on, I did exactly that. And it nearly ended with me in the hospital.
While I was already in the crosswalk, the driver of a Lincoln Navigator decided that was the perfect time to turn right, coming terrifyingly close to hitting me. And, of course, he decided it was my fault because, I, a pedestrian, was in his way. How dare I cross the street? Streets are for cars. Thankfully, he didn’t run me over, but sadly, as anyone who’s ever walked anywhere can tell you, it’s the kind of thing that happens all the time. I can’t even count how many times drivers turning right on red have almost hit me, many of whom didn’t bother to stop at the intersection before barrelling on through.
He had it coming.
People turn on red even if it’s not allowed, I see it happen constantly. The other day I was waiting at red light with no right turn allowed, and the dude behind me started leaning on his horn because I wasn’t turning.
when the walk sign came on, I blithely stepped into the street without looking around at all, because I think we can all agree I’m really not competent to be responsible for my own safety.
You didn’t expect him to look away from his phone for the half second that would have taken, did you?
It was your fault, because you failed to look both ways before crossing the street like Mommy and Mommy’s Boyfriend should have taught you.
Streets *are* for cars, and what needs to be banned is the automatic assumption of right-of-way for pedestrians.
If you get smeared on the pavement does it really matter who was at fault?
Pay attention, dumbass.
^This. Are you so sure of yourself that you’ll just walk out into a busy street because a light bulb changed color? Cars have massive A pillars now, that easily hide pedestrians. And two, nobody may be looking for your ass.
I’m not going to disagree — but at the same time, intersections that have walk buttons should allow for 30 seconds of a “full red” when the walk signal is lit, maybe a yellow turn arrow when not or something. I’m in favor of right-on-red where no pedestrians are crossing or no oncoming traffic, and I’m fully in favor of pedestrians having right of way if they properly request it from the traffic signals — we just need a system to signify it.
And yes — as I frequently think when a semi goes through a 4 way stop when I don’t think it is its turn, or just merges poorly on the highway or whatnot… “He who has the most mass, wins.”
I don’t dispute he had the right of way. He could debate that in heaven for the next millennia if he got run over. I make eye contact before I walk in front of a car at a stoplight. Otherwise you have no way of telling if a driver saw you.
Years of riding a bicycle taught me that right-of-way just means a large settlement check for the next of kin.
In NYC if you don’t step out and block all the wheeled vehicles of both the two and four wheel variety they won’t yield to you. It’s the wild fucking west.
OT:
Florida drivers doing Florida things…
Holy shit!
Yes, I liked the comment that the (likely old) person that caused the havoc caused a “miss and run”.
That’s not far from me. 27 sucks, but I have to use it to get anywhere.
They figured out how to use drones to destroy Israeli tanks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3cwVhU_ds
They overran an Israeli outpost and captured a bunch of vehicles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_UA-RBL-4Y
Trying to figure what the bomb is. Thermite? Shaped charge?
Whatever it is, they’re neutralizing a shit-ton of military investment at a very low cost.
Heh. Used Lithium Ion car batteries?
Samsung Galaxy 7s
Haha. Yes, just slingshot it into the tank with a lit cigarette taped to it.
Probably a warhead from a Yasin RPG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasin_(RPG)
From the drone cam – top-attack shaped charge. Not hard to do if you have the raw materials. Also, would be no more than a nuisance against an operational ADS.
In that second one, you can see where Hamas ran into the tents and just gunned down the IDF at point blank range.
What the hell was the IDF doing? I understand the Israeli civilians being lulled under a false sense security (although I don’t personally see how even civilians living on a war-torn border couldn’t be on alert 24/7), but the soldiers too?
Was that one taken on Saturday?
But they still should have been at least somewhat alert.
Hamas trained thoroughly, it seems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qy8DGhvi0
Now is not a time to lose one’s head.
The Hamas terror group is threatening to begin executing hostages in response to Israeli strikes in Gaza carried out without warnings, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades says, according to Gaza’s Shehab news outlet.
“From this hour, any targeting of our people in the safety of their homes, without warning, will be met with the execution of civilian hostages, which will be broadcast with video and audio,” says the spokesperson, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida.
“If you harm a single hostage we will level your cities and salt the earth.”
But you and Omar have been smacking the clam to this all weekend.
“I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day,” Tlaib said. “I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.
“The failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and apartheid makes no one safer,” she said. “No person, no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity in each other. As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”
Israel is not an apartheid state, yet that terms is repeated endlessly without basis.
“…peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity.” – The Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in any of that. None. Were they to have their way they would slaughter every living Jew and have said so many times. They have also said that they would not only slaughter all Jews in Israel but every Jew everywhere in the world. So long as one Jew lives they will be at war. There is no appeasing them, no terms short of exterminating all Jews that would satisfying them. Of course we all know that were they to accomplish that they would simply turn their bile on another group of infidels.
Sadly, there is only one way you can deal with such a psychopathic culture.
Eh, large communities of Jews existed throughout the Middle East prior to the formation of Israel. In the 1930s, there were 150,000 Jews in Iraq alone. The Germans stirred up anti-Semitic sentiment there during WW2, which although present already, was marginal enough to permit peaceful coexistence.
The Germans wanted to provoke the Arabs into fighting the British in the hope the conflict would block the Suez Canal and tie up British troops in the region.
Like the US, the British spent 20+ years occupying Iraq.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
Prior to WWII large communities of Jews lived in every ME country. During the war the Germans were attempting to root them out and there are stories too numerous to count of Muslims helping Jews escape the grasp of the NAZIs . Now, several generations later the families of those Muslims tell stories about it but flip the stories on their heads telling it so that their forefathers helped the NAZI’s rather than the Jews.
Here in the west but especially the ME anti-semitism has only grown since WWII. With this most recent development it is being revealed that that hatred has reached a fever pitch that I have not seen in my lifetime.
“carried out without warnings”
Umm….Im pretty sure you guys knew this was going to happen.
Not to mention I read somewhere (too many articles to parse browser history and find it) that Israel did broadcast / text spam Gaza with warnings — and Hamas proceeded to tell the citizens to ignore them, that Israel was just trying to foment fear or somesuch. So that’s an extra layer of talking out of both sides of their mouths.
And yeah — at this point, sucks to the hostages – but Israel needs to either wake Mossad up and get them back and back fast or consider them “already dead”. I’d say that Hamas isn’t going to win friends executing them on live TV… but from reports of the Arab street over the year… yeah, some of them will celebrate. Of course, those yahoos were almost certainly on Hamas’s side anyway.
Definitely one of those “I could really learn to hate humanity” days. Bestial barbarity.
Christian baker faces new lawsuit over gender-transition cake after Supreme Court
Jake Warner, attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) defending Phillips, said that the lawsuit from the beginning was “clearly a set-up” with the intent of “targeting” Phillips and his beliefs.
In 2018, Autumn Scardina, who identifies as transgender, asked Phillips to make a cake celebrating a gender transition – pink on the inside, blue on the outside. When Phillips declined, Scardina asked for a cake depicting Satan smoking a marijuana joint – which Phillips also declined.
During the trial phase, “Scardina promised Phillips that, were this suit dismissed, Scardina would call Phillips the next day to request another cake and start another lawsuit,” legal documents state.
Some judge needs to throw this piece of trash into jail.
Examples must be made.
One would think that losing the court case meant paying the other groups’ fees, which would keep stuff like this from happening.
You think that Scardina is paying his/her own legal bills?
Sounds like a frivolous and malicious lawsuit. Counter sue this person into poverty.
My fear is that this person has nigh-infinite backing via GoFundMe from other psychotic peoples.
The big list of Israeli airstrikes on Syria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_conflict_during_the_Syrian_civil_war
10 years of that and what good did it do?
Also, had the 2nd Iraq War not happened, Iran would not have been able to cross Iraq into Syria by land or air.