This is what we're up against.
Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.
Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.
Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.
Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy.
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But we have something powerful on our side.
https://www.christianpost.com/voice/revival-and-restoration-in-the-nineveh-plain-of-iraq-what-part-will-you-play.html
Wife dies after Christian husband lynched by mob incited by false blasphemy accusation.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Not a day passed when Allah Rakhi Bibi would not cry for her husband Nazeer Masih Gill, beaten to death at 74 by a Muslim mob on a false blasphemy accusation a month ago.
On Friday, the grieving widow could bear the suffering no longer, and she died of cardiac arrest, relatives said. She was 72.
Her son, Sultan Gill, told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News that his mother constantly thought and talked about his father since he succumbed on June 3 to his injuries from the May 25 attack. CP.
“Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace” (Num. 6:23b–26).
Quote for the day:
“A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.” —Thomas Brooks.
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Here are some things about the Iranian war against Israel that the objective, balanced and accurate mainstream media may unaccountably have omitted to tell you.
Today, the Iranian proxy army Hezbollah in southern Lebanon fired a massive barrage of more than 100 rockets towards the northern Israeli town of Safed. This attack caused a city-wide power outage.
Swathes of northern Israel are once again on fire as a result of rocket attacks by Hezbollah. One-third of the homes in Metulla have been demolished by rocket fire. The former mayor of the town of Safed, Ilan Shochat, said:
This is Hezbollah's new strategy – intentionally firing on open areas to ignite fires and burn the north.
In 2006, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1701 designed to end hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. Lebanese and UN forces were deployed to southern Lebanon to enforce the peace and the disarmament of Hezbollah and any other armed groups. Yet Hezbollah installed some 150,000 rockets and missiles among the civilian population under the eye of UNIFIL troops, and constructed terror tunnels from southern Lebanon under the border (termed the Blue Line) with Israel.
Since the day after the October 7 pogrom in Gaza, Hezbollah has unleashed around 5000 rockets, explosive drones and anti-tank guided missile attacks at northern Israel, as well as making seven attempts to infiltrate into Israeli territory (just as Hamas did on October 7). This has resulted in the evacuation from their homes of some 60,000 Israeli civilians, who have been living as refugees inside Israel ever since.
The UN has done nothing to enforce its own Resolution 1701. Instead the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who blamed Israel for the October 7 pogrom in which Palestinian Arabs from Gaza slaughtered 1200 Israelis and kidnapped 240 into Gaza, said:
I feel compelled to voice my profound concerns about escalation between Israel & Hezbollah along the Blue Line. The risk for the conflict in the Middle East to widen is real and must be avoided.The people of the region and the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.
The responsibility for stopping that by disarming Hezbollah and holding it to account for flouting UNSC Resolution 1701 lies with none other than the UN, which has refused to do so. We should all feel compelled to voice our profound concerns about the malignancy of the UN and Antonio Guterres.
Israel has been engaging only in precision attacks on Hezbollah targets in response to the onslaught waged upon it from Lebanon. But Hezbollah has been widening that onslaught from northern to southern Galilee and it has even reached Haifa bay. It looks increasingly likely that Israel will soon embark on a military attack on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon to end this intolerable situation once and for all. It has told the civilian population of southern Lebanon to leave, and it looks like many if not most have done so.
The cost to Israel of an all-out war against Hezbollah may be fearsome. Many of the Islamist army’s rockets and other missiles have a precision and reach that would make the Hamas attacks look like a picnic. It is estimated that thousands of Israelis may be killed by Hezbollah’s vast airborne armoury before Israel can gain the upper hand. And Iran may itself seek to defend its most valuable army by launching direct attacks on Israel, joined by its proxies in Iraq and Yemen.
But what choice does Israel have? The rockets are flying, Galilee is burning, tens of thousands of Israelis are refugees in their own country, and the international body responsible for upholding peace and security does nothing to stop this but continues to mount its own obscene war of demonisation and delegitimisation against Israel.
And the world behaves as if nothing is happening other than the war in Gaza and the fate of its Palestinian Arab residents. The western media has told the public virtually nothing about the nine-month onslaught on northern Israel, nothing about UN resolution 1701 and nothing about the UN failure to deal with this.
As a result, when Israel is finally forced to deal properly with Hezbollah, aggressor and victim will once again be inverted and Israel will once again be blamed for unwarranted and disproportionate aggression.
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The war against Israel, which is being waged simultaneously on seven fronts, is being orchestrated by Iran. A constant source of astonishment has been the concern shown by the Biden administration — while professing support for Israel against Hamas — to protect Iran. When Israel wanted to nip Hezbollah’s attacks in the bud soon after October 7, the US told it not to do so. Even now, the US is telling Israel the same thing. It has done everything possible to hamper and prevent Israel’s attempt to destroy Hamas, Iran’s proxy in Gaza. Even after Iran itself unleashed a hail of missiles against Israel in April, the US forbade the Israelis to attack Iran in response.
This is all part of what many call the Obama Doctrine, being implemented by an administration whose key Middle East officials are Israel-hating Obama retreads — and whose scenario for a new Middle East order, astoundingly, features genocidal and Islamist Iran as an essential counter-force to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
As explained here by Michael Doran and Tony Badran, this was the strategy behind President Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal which would have legitimised a nuclear-armed Iran with only a few years’ delay. Even when American interests have been attacked by Iranian proxies, as has happened dozens of times since October 7, the US has responded with only a limp flick of the wrist. Indeed, America’s supine and even grovelling posture towards the fanatics of Tehran, who have understood that the Biden administration seeks to appease rather than defeat the various forces ranged against the west, undoubtedly helped pave the way for the October 7 pogrom.
Now new intelligence has suggested that Iran has ramped up still further its nuclear weapon development in order to take advantage of American pre-election paralysis. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has reportedly ordered the reactivation of Israeli teams focusing on Iran's nuclear programme. There are reports that this was prompted by concerns from former security officials about Israel’s recent neglect of the issue. That itself is pretty alarming — if true — in what it suggests about the Israeli government. But here’s the eye catching bit as reported by the Israeli news site Walla:
A source familiar with the matter said: “Recently, the penny finally dropped.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared: “All options are on the table — Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”
Can it really be that, at the fifty-ninth minute of the eleventh hour, the Biden administration has finally connected with reality? If so, things must be even more terrifying than anyone had thought.
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On Tuesday, a physiotherapist called Fadi al-Wadiya who worked for the humanitarian group Médicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza City.
MSF immediately responded with righteous fury. It declared:
We are outraged and strongly condemn the killing of our colleague, Fadi al Wadiya, in an attack this morning in Gaza City. The attack killed Fadi, along with five other people including three children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing care. “Killing a healthcare worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking; it’s cynical and abhorrent,” said Caroline Seguin, MSF operations manager for Palestine.
The IDF then revealed that Fadi al-Wadiya was a “significant operative” in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. It specified that that he had served as a key terrorist in the Islamic Jihad's rocket programme and that for more than 15 years he had been involved in Islamic Jihad's manufacturing operations where he was recognised as an expert in electronics and chemistry. The same year that al Wadiya had joined MSF, he had attempted to leave Gaza with two other terrorists to undergo training in Iran.
And how did MSF react to what was surely a devastating blow to its authority and reputation as a dispassionate and disinterested provider of medical aid? Was it shocked? Was it horrified? Did it have a long night of the soul? Nope, it didn’t miss a beat. It had no indication, it declared, that one of its employees, was a terror operative as claimed by the Israel Defence Forces.
And then the IDF released pictures showing al Wadiya in terrorist fatigues alongside his fellow-jihadists in Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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A clinical figure in Gaza who proceeds seamlessly from treating needy Arabs to the mass murder of Israelis. A humanitarian organisation, funded by millions of philanthropic dollars, that apparently doesn’t know it provides cover for terrorists. Who could possibly have imagined such a thing??
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One of the many assertions made by the UN and western media which has incited hatred of Israel has been the mass destruction of Gaza’s buildings by the IDF. Back in December, when the war was merely three months old, the Wall Street Journal claimed:
Nearly 70 per cent of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who has written about the history of aerial bombing, told the Journal:
Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. It now sits comfortably in the top quartile of the most devastating bombing campaigns ever.
Really? Today, YNet reports:
The IDF disputes UN figures of the scope of destruction in Gaza. Figures revealed for the first time by YNnet on Thursday claim only 16 per cent of buildings in the [Gaza] Strip were destroyed since the start of the war, as opposed to 50 per cent according to UN figures and 70 per cent in foreign media reports. (The data referred to the period ending May 31).
The IDF said, unlike the UN and media outlets, it collects almost daily visual evidence using advanced drones and other technological means in addition to satellite imagery so their data is more reliable and would be presented to the various international tribunals and investigations into Israel's conduct in the war.
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Finally, in this period of utter insanity and moral bankruptcy, let us salute those beyond-brave Arab individuals who are speaking up for truth, decency and Israel. Click here to watch Egyptian scholar Dalia Ziada, executive director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Democratic Studies, talking about how Hamas hides in houses and hospitals and uses people as human shields rather than protecting them in the tunnels or any other shelters. Referring to the “huge death toll” in Gaza, she notes she can’t believe the Hamas statistics or anything they say. She declares:
I’m still supportive of Israel’s war on Hamas, not on Gaza. And I will continue to be supportive of Israel’s war on Hezbollah, on the Houthis, and all the seven fronts of war”.
And who could forget Mosab Hassan Yusuf, the “Green Prince” whose father was a founder of Hamas but who now tirelessly delivers blunt truths about Hamas and scathingly demolishes the west’s useful idiots who attack Israel instead. In his latest post on X/Twitter, Yusuf writes about the “Hamas nightmare”:
The UAE and Egypt are prepared to participate in the postwar security force in Gaza. The IDF, Shin Bet, and Mossad will continue to hunt Hamas fleeing forces, leaders, and anyone who participated in the Oct. 7 attacks for months and years to come. Hamas leaders’ request to move from Qatar to Turkey or Jordan has been rejected. Sinwar is losing his leverage over a hostage deal, soon he will be left with one option, to free the hostages in exchange for his exile. It will take 15-25 years and $Billions to bring Gaza back to where it was on Oct. 6.
The pro "Palestine" activists can eat falafel and STFU.
Wow. Would that the defeatist, appeasement-minded west had a fraction of this man’s spirit, and his courage. Thank you, Arab heroes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65374137
"Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families." Philip Yancey
"And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across." Bear Grylls.
The driver of western Jew-hatred.
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Jew-hatred in the diaspora is out of control and escalating.
In Los Angeles last Sunday, a vicious mob swarmed the Adas Torah synagogue and violently assaulted pro-Israel counter-demonstrators and Jewish locals.
With many faces masked by keffiyehs, the mob prevented Jews from entering the synagogue. The attackers used pepper-spray and bear-spray. Some of their victims required medical treatment.
It took an hour before the police finally pushed back the attackers. Then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved on to target two smaller synagogues attended by Iranian Jews.
Targeting these synagogues showed that the mob’s real agenda was not to attack Israel but to attack Jews. This was not a protest against policy but an antisemitic onslaught against people.
It’s routinely claimed that the violence and intimidation perpetrated by mobs in the name of “Palestine” ever since the October 7 Palestinian Arab pogrom is anti-Israel rather than anti-Jew. This is a demonstrable fiction.
Jews are being actively discriminated against in the literary and cultural worlds, with publishers refusing to publish Jewish authors and with the homes of American Jewish museum directors vandalised.
Jews are being picked on by companies, such as the firm of British plumbers that refused to work for someone because she had opposed the BDS movement and given “cover to the state of Israel”. And Jews are being personally attacked or abused by individuals or institutions.
In London this week, several students at the Jewish boys’ school Hasmonean were attacked at an underground station. The mother of one of the boys said one was kicked to the ground, another was elbowed and hit his head against a wall, and a third pushed towards the edge of the platform amid shouts of “Get out of the city, Jew!”
At the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, a female doctor was heckled with repeated shouts of “shame” after she said she was Jewish.
Around one in 10 policy proposals being put forward at the meeting was removed from the debates on legal grounds because it related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and was said to risk “being perceived as discriminatory, more specifically antisemitic”.
The BMA was accused of becoming a “vehicle for Jew-hatred”. Such is the scale of this bigotry among doctors that some British Jews are now hiding their Jewish identity when admitted to hospital.
The notion that such unambiguous attacks on Jews are an unfortunate but essentially fringe by-product of the “protests” over “Palestine” is a bad misreading of the situation. What’s been unleashed in the west ever since the October 7 atrocities is an insurrection against the Jews that isn’t marginal to these “pro-Palestine” demonstrations and antisemitic incidents. It’s fundamental.
The alliance between left-wingers and Muslims that’s behind such attacks has been put down to “intersectionality”. This is the doctrine of overlapping victim groups which divides society into victims and oppressors, based on a Marxist view of the powerful and the powerless in which Jews are deemed to be the most powerful of all.
This venomously distorted and paranoid characterisation of the Jews makes “intersectionality” itself a prime source of antisemitic bigotry. However, the Palestinian cause that’s promoted not just by these extremist culture warriors but also by the entire “progressive” world is innately anti-Jew.
This is not confined to Hamas. The Palestinian cause itself is based on the aim of exterminating Israel and falsely appropriating historic Jewish identity in the land of Israel as its own. The Palestinian cause writes the Jewish people out of their own history.
That programme of cultural extermination is what all who support the Palestinian cause are actually signed up to. They may heatedly deny it. They may believe they are supporting two states existing in harmony side by side. They may claim that most Palestinian Arabs merely want to live peacefully alongside their Israeli neighbours. They may tell themselves there would be peace in the Middle East if only wasn’t for Israel’s “right-wing” prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
They are delusional. They have not merely contributed to the madness that is now sweeping the western world. They have sanitised and legitimised it. They have enabled the world to claim that Palestinianism is respectable because it is anti-Israel and not anti-Jew.
This was never true.
The Palestinian Arab agenda targeted Jews from the start. During the Nazi period the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, who declared Islamic holy war against the Palestinian Jews, allied with Hitler and pledged that if Germany won the war the Mufti would exterminate every Jew in the Middle East.
The Palestinian Authority, whose leader, Mahmoud Abbas, hero-worships al Husseini, teaches Palestinian children that their highest goal is to murder Jews and take their land. The PA couches its murderous incitement against Jews in the language of Islamic holy war and Nazi-style demonisation.
The Palestinian Arabs are the true heirs to the Nazis. As a consequence, well-meaning people in the west who fondly believe they are supporting Palestinian rights are in fact supporting Islamo-Nazis.
Politicians who hand on heart profess their horror at today’s upsurge in antisemitism but push a state of “Palestine” that will have the power to destroy the Jewish state — and who then punish Israel for resisting this — are themselves deeply complicit in fuelling Jew-hatred.
President Joe Biden has condemned the mobbing of the Los Angeles synagogue as “appalling”, “unconscionable” and “antisemitic”. Yet his administration does everything it can to prevent Israel from eviscerating the “appalling”, “unconscionable” and “antisemitic” regimes of Hamas and Hezbollah, while also forbidding Israel from striking the head of the genocidal snake in Tehran.
Moreover, not only does America continue to fund the PA despite its murderous Jew-hatred, but the Biden administration also continues to promote the Islamo-Nazi entity as the worthy rulers of a post-Gaza war Palestine state.
In Britain, the Labour party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, who is expected to become prime minister in next week’s general election, has written affectingly about sharing Israel’s current trauma through his wife’s Jewish relatives.
Nevertheless, Labour’s election manifesto suggests, albeit in ambiguous and deniable form, that a Labour government might unilaterally declare a state of Palestine — a supremely hostile act that would greatly imperil Israel’s security still further and is promoted by those who want the Jewish state gone.
In a party election broadcast, Starmer also pledged to London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, that a Labour government would have a “zero tolerance approach” to Islamophobia.
Since “Islamophobia” covers any criticism of the Islamic world, Labour’s policy appears to mean stamping upon any critic of Islam with the force of law — including anyone who dares call out the wildly disproportionate level of Jew-hatred in the Muslim world.
The never-ending war between the Palestinian Arabs and Israel has been created and perpetuated by the west’s behaviour in sanitising, excusing, legitimising, funding and incentivising the Islamo-Nazis and their preposterous, mendacious, brain-frying “Palestinian” cause.
In the Wall Street Journal this week Seth Cropsey, president of the Yorktown Institute and a former US deputy under-secretary of the Navy, wrote that Iran has activated a network of global Islamist sympathisers to ramp up public pressure on Israel as an essential element of its strategy of attrition to destroy the Jewish state.
Tehran’s goal, he wrote, is to get western politicians to back a ceasefire. “By slowing the conflict down and splitting Israel from the US and its allies, Iran aims to make Israel an international pariah,” he said.
The Palestinian cause has been manipulated by Iran into a wedge issue. It has turned America against Israel, lined up liberals with Islamo-Nazis and set Jew against Jew. And after Iran finishes with Israel, the west is next.
Palestinianism hasn’t just been used to give a veneer of respectability to Jew-hatred. It is being weaponised against civilisation.
T20 World Cup semi-final, Guyana
India 171-7 (20 overs): Rohit 57 (39), Suryakumar 47 (36); Jordan 3-37
England 103 (16.4 overs): Brook 25 (19); Kuldeep 3-19, Axar 3-23
India won by 68 runs
England's defence of the T20 World Cup is over after they slumped to a 68-run thrashing by a superb India in the semi-final in Guyana.
Set 172 on a difficult pitch to make Saturday's final, England's batters folded and were dismissed for 103 in 16.4 overs.
Captain Jos Buttler gave them a solid start with 23 but his wicket was the first of four for 20 runs.
Phil Salt fell for five, Jonny Bairstow a three-ball duck and Moeen Ali eight from 10 balls.
When the superb Kuldeep Yadav, who took 3-19, bowled Harry Brook for 25, England were 68-6 and the game done, although there was still time for two dismal run-outs.
Buttler's side were also guilty of allowing India to get to a score above par, although that was largely down to the excellence of Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav.
They overcame a slow surface that also kept low in a fine partnership of 73 from 50 balls that took India to 171-7 - Rohit hitting 57 and Suryakumar 47.
India, who have not won a World Cup for 13 years, will play first-time finalists South Africa - a meeting of the tournament's two unbeaten sides in Barbados.
England will fly home on Friday and are next in action in a three-match Test series against West Indies, starting on 10 July.
Blogger: it is all very accurate slating the batsmen but a number of bowlers could not manage basic line and length.
Well played India!
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