“There Will Be No Peace, Nor Negotiations With the Zionist Entity”

In the following video an esteemed Qatari scholar and legislator named Essa bin Ahmad Al-Nassr expresses his opinions on Israel and the Jews.

From the introduction by RAIR Foundation:

Essa bin Ahmad Al-Nassr, a member of Qatar’s legislative body and a brigadier general at the Emiri Guard, sparked international outrage with his inflammatory rhetoric delivered at an Arab League session on Monday. As a member of Qatar’s legislative Shura Council, Al-Nassr’s words carry significant weight within both political and security circles.

Many thanks to the anonymous translator, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Allah Goes to School

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

State security officials warn against Islamization of schools

A study from Lower Saxony on the attitudes of Muslim students shocks the republic. Now a state security guard is warning against Islamization in the classroom. German children may convert through coercion.

Berlin

A state security official has warned against the Islamization of German schools. “More and more parents of German children are turning to counseling centers because the Christian children want to convert so that they are no longer outsiders at school,” he told the Bild newspaper. The background is the survey by the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, in which 67.8% of those surveyed agreed with the statement: “The rules of the Quran are more important to me than the laws in Germany.” In addition, almost half (45.8%) stated Islamic theocracy is the best form of government.

Such morals are normal among Muslim families, the official explained. The teachings of Islam are strictly followed and family honor is highly valued. The public protector continued: “When girls at school behave too westernized in the eyes of Muslim young people, do not wear a headscarf or meet boys, the male students think they have to defend their honour and warn the girls to act like one, to behave like a devout Muslim.”

TikTok as an accelerant for Islamism

In addition, there might be peer pressure at schools. Teachers, on the other hand, don’t know how to deal with it. “Real parallel societies are emerging in the schoolyards. And if a lot of refugee children come to school again in the summer, the situation will become even more explosive.” [If these teachers were to look into the mirror, they would know who to blame. They voted for this over and over.]

The official takes a critical view of developments on social networks. “There are certain TikTok channels in which Islamist pop stars convince students that they have to oppose the Western way of life and that only a caliphate is the right form of government.” Among other things, the message there is that non-Muslims are less valuable than Muslims. [Anyone who actually bothered to read Islamic scripture would have known that beforehand, now, wouldn’t they?]

A student from Essen told Junge Freiheit about her experiences with radical Islamic classmates . She was beaten and asked not to eat during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Out of self-protection, the 17-year-old followed her tormentors’ instructions. [When self-protection becomes a slavers’ shackle, it’s high time to sharpen the sword.]

Afterword from the translator:

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Purdah and Honor Killings: Life in Islamic Italy

Below is another investigative report by Eugenia Fiore into the plight of women in Muslim ghettoes in Italian cities. One of the cases mentioned is that of Saman Abbas, was murdered by her parents in Novellara (see the bottom of this post for a list of previous articles about Saman Abbas).

Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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It is Almost Certain That Cultural Enrichment Has Reared its Head Again

A student at a secondary school in the town of Ammanford in South Wales went on a stabbing rampage yesterday, wounding three people before being restrained. When I first read the news, I wondered if cultural enrichment might be a factor. Seneca III had similar thoughts, and sends this report (which was written yesterday).

It is Almost Certain that Cultural Enrichment has Reared its Head Again

by Seneca III

A Welsh Language School located in Ammanford, South Wales, was locked down resultant from an incident earlier this morning. The school has 1,800 pupils aged from eleven to eighteen drawn from its local hinterland and also from the city of Swansea, a multicultural hell hole to its SSW. The school is situated north of Ammanford town centre, which is located a few miles north-east of the western terminus of the M4 motorway.

Police and emergency services reports were sparse on facts earlier, which is fair enough as criminal investigations were still underway at the time, but they have since announced that two teachers and a girl were stabbed and that a teenage girl is under arrest.

Headlined “Ammanford school ‘stabbing’: Person is arrested and three people including ‘teacher’ injured after ‘knife attack involving two girls’ as classrooms remain in ‘lockdown’, the Daily Mail[1] reports inside that “Dyfed-Powys Police and two air ambulances were called to the scene. One air ambulance is said to have now left the field and is reportedly flying towards the University Hospital in Cardiff. The second remains on site.” followed by a succession of talking heads, predominantly political ones, waffling on despite their being no better informed than the rest of us as the police were playing this one very close to the chest, which in itself might have indicated that they felt at that time that the age, ethnicity or origin of the perpetrators and/or their victims was a matter of some sensitivity in modern-day Britain.

Demographically [2], Ammanford is as follows:

Male/Female = 57.2%/48.8%.

Ethnic Groups = White 5247; Asian 101; Black 18; Arab 7; Mixed 50; Other ethnics 21.

Religions = Christian 2425; Muslim 25; Hindu 22; Sikh 10; Buddhist 17; Jewish 4; Others 25; No religion 2610.

However, Swansea is a very different kettle of fish. It is a city at the mouth of the river Tawe with a working Maritime Quarter just around the corner from another notorious occupied territory, the Port City of Bristol, and therein lies an enigmatic clue to the conundrum facing the authorities in Carmarthenshire.

The 2021 Census recorded that 91.4% of Swansea’s usually resident population were white (around 218,100 people). The proportion of people with non-white ethnicity in Swansea has increased from 6.0% in 2011 (around 14,300 people) to 8.6% in 2021 (20,400). The largest non-white ethnic group in Swansea in 2021 was ‘Indian’ (around 2,900 people or 1.2%) with ‘Other Asian’, ‘Caribbean’ and ‘Bangladeshi’ also above 2,000.

67.0% of Swansea residents (159,900 people) expressed a ‘Welsh only’ or ‘Welsh and British only’ national identity (Wales 63.3%). This is slightly lower than the equivalent proportions in 2011 (Swansea 69.3%; Wales 64.6%).

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Wokist Socialism

MC includes a discussion of various types of socialism as a preface to his latest update from Sderot.

Wokist Socialism

by MC

Marxism is just the most successful of a long line of ‘socialisms’ and most people have been programmed to perceive Marxism as the only socialism.

This is simply not true. In the period after the First World War, three socialisms started competing against each other for popularity: Class-based socialism (Marxism), Race-based socialism (Nazism) and Nation-based socialism (Italian Fascism and maybe FDR-driven Americanism).

The US Supreme Court scotched ‘Blue Eagle’ FDR’s version of full on socialism pretty quickly.


National Recovery Administration (NRA) logo from the 1930s

Also, other centuries had other forms of socialism; Islamic (religious) socialism and Jacobin (equality-based) Socialism stand out as being highly lethal in their respective heydays. The Spanish Inquisition could also qualify as religion-based socialism, but was by no means as lethal as other forms.

Under pressure from Marxist class-based socialism, Nazi race-based socialism was contorted into a supposed ‘right-wing’ slot, and yes, compared to class-based Marxism, it was a little bit to the right.

Marxists have proven to be extremely good at lies, and their propaganda reflects it. Marxist propaganda creates a fictional fantasy of Utopian ideals, much like the Star Trek picture of the planet free from religion and capitalism.

As Marxists began to grab hold of the institutions, so Marxist socialism began to dominate Western culture, and the other ‘socialisms’ were suppressed and (relatively) demonized.

Race-based socialism (Nazism) was somehow equated to conservatism because of a perceived ‘racism’ amongst conservatives. But it was Democrats (Marxists) who demonstrated this particular racism: Jim Crow, the KKK, etc.

This race-based socialism of the Nazis was particularly focussed on Jews, but also Slavs (whose land was needed for Lebensraum) Gypsies, gays and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Those with non-white skin colours were perceived as just a slave class of Untermenschen.

Jews were ‘dangerous’ Untermenschen and a threat to the Aryan culture, whereas Africans were compliant Untermenschen.

Marxism redefined ‘socialism’ in its own image. To many, it became the only standard of socialism, and Marxism became “king of the castle” as such.

The Moral High Ground of ideas has always been a feature of Marxism. It is like a Wild West street at Universal Studios, a theatrical foreground shielding the Gulag mass killing machine behind the façade. The stars were Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, all mass murderers with a smile for the camera.

They had many acolytes in the West. They infiltrated Defence, Administration and the executive and probably even the FDR White House (Hopkins).

All socialism is a death cult where unbelievers forfeit their right to life and can be exploited as slaves, or just plain exterminated.

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Sharia Is Incompatible with Human Rights, Complaint at U.N. Alleges

The following report by Clare Lopez was published earlier this month by Sharia TipSheet.

Women Under Sharia

Sharia Is Incompatible with Human Rights, Complaint at U.N. Alleges

by Clare M. Lopez

UN Called to Respond to Sharia Violence against Women” by Raymond Ibrahim at Gatestone Institute, March 25, 2024

  • On March 8, 2024 — International Women’s Day — a formal complaint addressing how Islamic Law (sharia) is inherently abusive of women was submitted to the United Nations. Attached were the signatures of dozens of men and women worldwide, including victims of sharia, human rights activists, and more.
  • [Editor’s Note — See the Executive Summary of the complaint. It documents sharia-linked violence against women, pegs its source as the Quran and Hadith, and details other aspects of Islamic culture which are demeaning to women (e.g., female genital mutilation). The summary states flat out sharia is incompatible with human rights.]

Impregnating Infidels: Another Form of Jihad”, posted by Raymond Ibrahim at the Virginia Christian Alliance, March 27, 2024

  • “Love Jihad” continues

This month, we have a series of articles documenting the ongoing, increasing atrocities being committed by the Taliban against Afghan women — including flogging and stoning. Flogging and stoning to death are Islamic Hudud punishments for a specific set of offenses enumerated in the Qur’an. This means that doctrinally speaking, Taliban human rights abuses are neither extremist nor radical, but horrific as they are, instead mainstream, orthodox obedience to the doctrine, laws, and scripture of Islam.

Don’t Betray the Women of Afghanistan” by Lisa Curtis and Hadeia Amiry at Foreign Affairs Magazine, March 28, 2024

“Taliban leader says women will be stoned to death in public” by Akhtar Makoli at The Telegraph, March 25, 2024

“Afghanistan: Taliban’s Supreme Leader says ‘We will flog women in public, we will stone them to death in public’” by Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch, March 27, 2024

Taliban vow to Start Stoning Women to Death in Public for Adultery in Afghanistan” at Logan’s Warning, March 26, 2024

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German Muslims Long for Sharia

Anabel Schunke is a young (Millennial) German journalist and influencer. In the following video Ms. Schunke presents the results of a recent survey about Muslim culture-enrichers’ preferences concerning the imposition of Islamic law in Germany. No surprises there.

Not to cast aspersions on Ms. Schunke, but I’ve been reading the same sort of survey results since I first got into this line of work twenty years ago, while she was still at the Gymnasium. Wherever there are enough resident Muslims for a survey to be taken, the majority state their preference for sharia to be the law of the land. They believe that women should be veiled and that anyone who insults Mohammed should be killed. And they want Jews to be eradicated.

These preferences are never hidden. Muslims are quite open about the future they want to see. Our ignorance is our own fault: the information is out there, available for anyone to look at. It seems that Westerners, by and large, simply prefer not to see the truth.

The results are fairly uniform for Muslim populations throughout the West, and they don’t change appreciably over time. In other words, there is no assimilation, or even integration, of Muslim immigrant communities in Western countries.

Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Not Quite the Götterdämmerung I Expected

Update: Thank you all for your kind words. That was not quite the response I expected!

Your comments have given me a lot to think about for future twentieth-anniversary posts.

We’ll be coming up on the twentieth anniversary of Gates of Vienna later this year, and the process of preparing for an anniversary post has induced a sort of reverie in me as I contemplate the events of the past two decades.

Things have changed a lot, both externally and internally. I often feel like I’m too old to be doing this sort of thing. I’m over seventy now, and should be relaxing somewhere pleasant, enjoying the time that remains to me before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

And I sometimes feel like I’m close to burning out — I’ve just seen too way much information, most of it horrible. I wish I could return to the naïve, idealistic state of mind that I had when I started this job, but, alas, that’s not an option. Once you walk through the door of greater awareness, there’s no turning back. And, worst of all, I don’t think I’ve reached the limit of ghastly understanding. It seems likely that the worst is yet to come.

I’ve been working with Vlad for more than fifteen years now, and he says he’s feeling the pressure of burnout, too. We talk on the phone fairly frequently about all this stuff, in an effort to keep each other sane. With mixed results.

Anyway… for the time being, I’ll continue trawling through the hideous news every day and presenting it here, for your delectation (or horror, as the case may be).

The worst part of the recollection process is the growing awareness that all my efforts at Counterjihad have for naught. It’s been coming on gradually, and has intensified over the past few years, as the incidence of jihad in Europe has increased to the point where I can’t cover it all. It used to be that I could post about every major incident when it occurred, but that’s no longer possible — most of the stories get relegated to the news feed, if I have any coverage of them at all. There are just too many of them.

As Islamization has increased, the persecution of those who criticize it — or even just point it out — has intensified concomitantly. A number of Europeans that I worked with have been prosecuted; once again, I can’t keep track of them all. Many of them have now ceased their Counterjihad activities — when the choice is between losing your livelihood and giving up your Islamophobia, it’s not surprising that people decide to quit this line of work. If I actually lived in Europe, I might well have been driven out of it myself.

I used to think that making more people aware of what’s happening would help turn the tide. If a critical mass of understanding could only be reached, especially among elected representatives, the process of Islamization might be reversible. Back in 2007 and 2008 I said I thought we had a window of ten or fifteen years in which to begin the process of reversal. Unfortunately, that window has now closed. The demographics of Western Europe have passed the point of no return. The white natives are having fewer children, while the Muslims are having more, and all the while additional “asylum seekers” are pouring in. Tomorrow belongs to them.

Central and Eastern Europe may well be able to avoid the worst, at least for a while, but Western European countries will metamorphose into Muslim societies. Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, and France will be the first to become Islamic republics, with Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy following close behind. It’s too late to stop the process; it’s only a matter of time.

No one in a position of political power will take action against the inevitable. Anyone who is inclined to oppose Islamization finds out as soon as he rises high enough in the hierarchy that opposition is not permitted. The order comes down from above, and you either give up your opposition (relevant example: Giorgia Meloni), or your career comes to an end. There are always multiple ways to make an independent-minded politician an offer he can’t refuse. I can’t say exactly who the shadowy unelected globalists are who give the orders, but they’re out there giving them. Their gravitational influence is large enough to shift the orbits of our elected leaders.

As we approach 2050, the Islamization process will intensify to the point where civil strife will break out in Western Europe. If nuclear war can somehow be avoided, it may be possible for white enclaves to form where the worst of the Islamic excesses are kept at bay. However, based on the current demographics, the Caliphate will have control of the major cities. If the welfare jizya ceases to flow to the urban ghettos, then the Muslims living there will have to resort to razzias, which is their traditional way of dealing with privation. We can expect well-armed masses of them to descend on the suburbs and rural areas, where they can rape and pillage to their hearts’ content.

They will have the arms, and, sad to say, they will have more military-age men than the white natives will. By that time most of the remaining whites will be geezers. Thus we can expect that their enclaves will gradually shrink, while the culturally enriched sharia banlieues will gradually expand.

And that’s just the Islamization aspect of the coming collapse. One of the ghastly realizations I’ve come to during the past two decades is that Islamization is just one tool in the demonic toolbox accessed by our globalist masters. The culture wars that are raging all across the West feature several other lytic agents designed to break down traditional societies and render them unable to resist the planned apocalypse — Build Back Better, the Great Reset, or whatever they choose to call it.

The most recent destructive fad is the “trans” craze, which is dissolving every social institution it touches so rapidly that it’s hard to take in what’s happening. And that’s certainly not the last such craze — it’s already clear that bestiality, polygamy, incest, and pedophilia are coming up soon. For all I know, necrophilia, necrophagia, and cannibalism may be next on the menu. Cannibals have rights, too!

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Darmanin Orders the Protection of French Jews

The following translation came in a few days ago, but was delayed for various reasons. The news story was published after Iran attacked Israel, but before Israel’s retaliatory attack against Iran last night. The level of protection required to keep French Jews safe today must be enormous, given that at least 15% of the population of France is now Muslim.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Figaro:

Strikes against Israel: Darmanin asks for security reinforcement at places of worship and Jewish schools

April 14, 2024

At the approach of the Passover holidays, the Interior Minister has asked prefects to provide a “stationary and visible” police presence in front of places of worship and “the most sensitive and emblematic” buildings.

On Sunday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin asked prefects to reinforce security in front of Jewish places of worship, as well as in front of religious schools, the day after the attack carried out by Iran against Israel and in anticipation of the Passover holidays. The minister is asking prefects to provide a “stationary and visible” presence of police in front of places of worship and “the most sensitive and emblematic” buildings.

“The security forces [police and Gendarmerie, editor’s note], of course, cannot carry out these missions alone,” the minister writes in a dispatch dated Sunday. “You will also need to requisition the Sentinel soldiers for this purpose,” he adds. On the approach of Passover, the Jewish Easter (22-30 April), he asks them to pay particular attention to the “religious services and gatherings that traditionally concentrate large numbers of people.”

“Stationary guards” and “ regular visits”

The Minister of Interior is also asking that “stationary guards be placed in front of religious schools beginning Monday, systematically, at the hours when pupils enter and leave.” Gerald Darmanin is also calling for the establishment of “regular visits by the police and Gendarmerie” at “specialized businesses”.

This decision was taken due to the “very high level of terrorist threat,” “the continuing high level of acts of an anti-Semitic character,” and “the persistence of tensions at the international level, including the attack by Iran upon Israel,” during the night between Saturday and Sunday, he detailed in the dispatch.

Tomorrow Belongs to Me

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from JournalistenWatch. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Germany belongs to Islam: CDU buckles

The CDU has once again managed to follow the example of its chairman Friedrich Merz and immediately cave in to any criticism from the Left. The new basic program from December initially said: “Muslims who share our values belong to Germany,” said the CDU’s draft program. This was actually a clear sentence, with a clear offer to Muslims that they are welcome if they follow the values of the country to which they came voluntarily. But of course it didn’t take long before the usual outrage from left-wing politicians, media and Islam lobbyists began. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil rambled on about the rhetorical exclusion of an entire population group, while Aiman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, accused the CDU of using the formulation to fish for the right-wing fringe of voters.

Over the weekend, the CDU weakened the sentence and reworded it in a complicated manner. “Muslims are part of the religious diversity of Germany and our society,” it now says. It was also added: “An Islam that does not share our values and rejects our free society does not belong to Germany.” But of course that wasn’t enough for Mazyek and Co., either. The new version is also “another attempt by the Christian Democratic Union to fish in murky waters in order to stigmatize Muslims.” [Nobody needs to stigmatize Muslims; they are perfectly capable of doing that themselves and show it DAILY, especially contempt for anyone outside Islam.] For him, “if at all,” only a formulation that addresses all worldviews and religious communities, rather than just to single out a specific one and mark it negatively”. SPD parliamentary group deputy Dirk Wiese explained that the program was “not a program for the future, but a journey into dusty yesterday.” In these “challenging times” “cohesion and mutual respect are needed more than ever”. But the Union is doing the opposite and “consciously pushing for a policy of prejudice”.

No prejudices, just unbiased bloody experiences

The fact that reservations about Islam are by no means prejudices, but rather the results of decades and even centuries of experience with Islam’s claim to total dominance and its ongoing intolerance, willingness to use violence and refusal to integrate, is naturally not communicable to the historically and culturally illiterate leftists. They would rather continue to wallow in their multi-cultural dream dance and hope for Muslim votes that they have long since lost forever among the local population. Even left-wing media, which are forcibly financed by the general public, such as Radio Bremen, which is part of the ARD, make fun of letting young Muslim women loose on passers-by to ask them whether Germans in Germany speak German, whether they are Christians, because they look German or whether they distance themselves from the — allegedly — right-wing attack in Hanau. A young woman actually declared: “As a German, I distance myself from German violence.” This shows how far left-wing indoctrination has already progressed, especially among young people. The Union simply cannot manage to finally take a clear stance and express people’s concerns.

According to a current INSA survey, 55% of Germans and even 21% of Muslims (!) fear the Islamization of Europe. However, the Union allows itself to be driven by leftists and figures like Mazyek and can only bring itself to use waxy, completely meaningless formulations regarding Islam. Thorsten Frei, the parliamentary secretary, claimed that the changes were “certainly not a stigma, but a clarification”. One is “not prepared to accept every form of Islam”. That’s why “a clear announcement is necessary here”. However, it remains to be seen exactly. The Union has nothing to offer apart from airy talk of a “leading culture” that “everyone who wants to live here must recognize without any ifs and buts”. They do not explain what exactly is meant by this dominant culture and what its cultural foundations are. [I rather doubt that they even know their own culture, these puppeticians are so far removed from reality that one can no longer blame their ideological retardation which made it possible for Islam to plant a beachhead again.]

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Magdi Allam: The Islamization of a Decadent Civilization


Magdi Allam is an apostate from Islam who was born in Egypt and now lives in Italy. He converted to Roman Catholicism and was baptized during the Vatican’s 2008 Easter Vigil service in St. Peter’s Basilica, which was presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Long-time readers will remember that Mr. Allam was a featured speaker at our Brussels Conference in 2012.

In the following video Magdi Allam talks about Islam’s demographic conquest of Europe. Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Junior Sharia Police Enforce Ramadan in Alsace

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche:

An adolescent (13) attacked for not respecting Ramadan

In Achenheim, (Bas Rhin [Alsace]), a 13-year-old minor was beaten by four Muslim minors who reproached her for not respecting the Ramadan fast while getting off a bus going to their school. Accompanied by her father, the adolescent filed a complaint Tuesday afternoon for the acts of group violence.

April 9, 2024

The day before Eid-al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, a female adolescent (13) was accosted by four minors in Achenheim (Bas-Rhin). On a bus heading to their school, she was accosted by four other pupils of the school who reproached her for not respecting the fast imposed by Ramadan. While getting off the bus, the victim, of North African origin, was beaten, according to our information from a judicial source. The adolescent was lightly injured, her face showing redness.

Complaint filed

After the attack the four minors, of Muslim faith, fled. As they are still in the process of being identified, the victim went to the police headquarters of Wolfisheim, accompanied by her father. She filed a complaint for the acts of group violence. With the matter in hand, the Gendarmerie brigade will begin an investigation.

The Play’s the Thing

Concerning the events of the last 24 hours: the Iranian attack on Israel resembles an extravagant theatrical production. Just look at all the media hoopla about an operation that didn’t kill or seriously injure anyone.

Iran was behind the Hamas attacks last October 7. It has also been behind the recent Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, which have driven thousands of people from their homes. Those two operations (and many others) show that the Iranians can be very effective at harming Israel when they want to.

Conclusion: the mullahs didn’t really intend to do any serious damage to Israel last night.

I’m not sure what the motivation was for all the theatre, but I’m convinced it’s theatre. Mark Steyn has reached similar conclusions. And so has Sundance at Conservative Tree House. (That last link features some plausible speculation about what’s behind the scrim.)

Everything I say here is pure speculation. I’m no expert. I don’t know what’s going on. I just know there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Whenever I encounter indications of skullduggery, the first question I ask myself is: Cui bono? In this case, the answer is not at all obvious. There are, however, some data points that are worth examining.

According to The Jerusalem Post:

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”

Turkey, which has denounced Israel for its campaign on Gaza, said earlier on Sunday that it did not want a further escalation of tensions in the region.

The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.

So the USA gave the green light for Iran to attack Israel “within certain limits”. And what might those limits have been? Based on what eventuated last night, it seems that Iran was enjoined not to cause significant Israeli casualties or do serious damage to the infrastructure of the Jewish state.

Those are pretty hard terms for a jihad-based entity like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Why would the mullahs agree to such humiliating restrictions?

After all, the Israelis did severe damage to Iranian honor by attacking that building in Damascus and killing major Iranian assets. Iran was honor-bound to mount a decisive response against Israel. They needed something to that would make faithful Muslims take to the streets all over the world, shouting with joy and handing out candy. But they also knew that if they were effective in their actions, Israel might do them significant damage. The Jewish state is quite capable of doing grievous harm to Iran. Doing so might trigger World War Three, with mushroom clouds waiting just over the horizon, but Israel can certainly nobble Iran if the situation is dire enough to require it.

Knowing all this, the State Department made Iran an offer that would allow it to salvage its international honor without ushering in Armageddon. Presumably the panjandrums at State also had enough leverage to persuade the Israelis to go along with the dirty deal.

So that’s a possible explanation for what Iran got out of the deal. What did the USA and its British mini-me get?

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Where Do We Go From Here?

As you all know by now, last night Iran launched an attack against Israeli territory using drones and missiles (see, for example, this Daily Mail report). MC sends this brief update on the situation from Sderot.

Where Do We Go From Here?

by MC

The Middle East game just changed. The war-crime and terrorist country Iran just upped the ante with a botched raid of hundreds of missiles of various sorts fired at Israeli CIVILIANS.

At about 11pm we got notice of a huge launch of missiles including UAVs, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Thanks be to Yah, none landed and we must thank US and UK forces for their assistance along with the Jordanian and Saudi air forces.

At about 1:45am we started to hear far-away explosions, as if we were bombarding Khan Yunis way down south.

My second son called this morning. They were in the middle of it; they live near an IAF base in the northern Negev desert and are not far from the nuclear facility at Dimona.

He, along with my granddaughter (7) arrived back to the sound of air raid sirens. Luckily she slept through most of it. He is of the impression that some of the missiles were intercepted in ‘inner’ space.

So Iran now joins the ranks of the Islamic war criminals, but of course nothing will be done about it. As we all know, Islam is a religion of extreme violence anyway, so only Israel gets chastised.

The O’Biden administration, having financed this attack, now seems to be forbidding any retaliation. Strange — it is as if this were a preplanned attack sanctioned in Washington DC to be a showcase for a senile pseudo-statesman. If so, he was prepared to risk the lives of millions of Israeli ‘innocent civilians’ in order to demonstrate his effulgent virility.

What a mess. As Buffy sang: “Where do we go from here?”

MC lives in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. For his previous essays, see the MC Archives.