Some revealing man-in-the-street interviews in Iran, where hatred of the regime has put many people on the side of Israel, and made them receive with pleasure the news of Ismael Haniyeh’s assassination, can be found here: “Iranians side with Israel, even against their own regime,” by Emily Schrader, Ynet News, August 5, 2024: For 45 […]
Every Mention of Ismail Haniyeh, as of Mousa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Meshaal, Should Emphasize Their Thievery
The Washington Post ignores Ismail Haniyeh’s Grand Theft of $4 billion, money stolen from the aid given by foreign donors for the benefit of the people of Gaza. “Death of Hamas chief draws mixed reactions in war-battered Gaza,” by Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb, Washington Post, August 3, 2024: He became a protégé of the […]
Israel considers preemptive strike on Iran as threats and tensions escalate
Israel and Iran are in a high noon situation. Iran has given ample warning of an impending attack for “punishment” of Israel and revenge for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, which happened on its own soil, compounding Iran’s humiliation. Vladimir Putin, with whom Iran has become close to since Russia’s war with Ukraine, […]
What the Washington Post Left Out From Its Story on Ismail Haniyeh
Another “in-depth” report from the flailing Washington Post, on how Gazans reacted to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, is more evidence of the Post’s whitewashing of Hamas, and of its animus toward Israel. For the most important thing — the thing which must always be mentioned in connection with Ismail Haniyeh — was left out. That […]
Ismail Haniyeh’s daughter-in-law says he was ‘was born a mujahid and knew he would die as a martyr’
Inas Haniyeh is jubilant in celebrating what the jihadist deems to be the highest calling in Islam: “martyrdom.” In the words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and […]
Iran claims ‘moral duty’ to punish Israel for death of Hamas leader Haniyeh
Iran views “punishing” Israel for the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “moral duty.” The leaders of the terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran claim a “moral duty” as they have chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America,” even just hours before Haniyeh’s death. In the view of the regime, it can murder […]
With Killings of Fuad Shukr and Ismail Haniyeh, Israel Restores Its Deterrence
The killings of Hezbollah’s second-in-command, Fuad Shukr, in the middle of the terror group’s stronghold in southern Beirut, and of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political wing, at a heavily protected government guesthouse in Tehran, have been denounced by some in the West as an “escalation” by the IDF that will lead ineluctably to […]
The ‘Moderate’ Ismail Haniyeh
The chief political columnist for the British online publication Spiked, Brendan O’Neill has a bone to pick with those who describe the late and unlamented Ismail Haniyeh as a “moderate.” More on his furious rejoinder to those nitwits can be found here: “Ismail Haniyeh was a monster, not a ‘moderate,’” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, July […]
Ismail Haniyeh, Hoist with a Well-Planted Israeli Petard
The first version of the dramatic tale about the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, in a Tehran guesthouse, went like this: Haniyeh had been killed by a rocket fired by an Israeli plane. That story turned out to be false. Had it been true, it would have been impressive enough, for it […]
Turkey: Prayers for Hamas top dog recited in mosques all over the country
In the 1990s and the early years after 9/11, when I spoke about the jihad ideology, people would often bring up Turkey as a counter example, and claim that its secularism was the future of the Islamic world. No one says that anymore. Oh, and why is Turkey still in NATO, collaborating with nations that […]