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A few main principles of Hamas' ideology, as articulated in its Charter and in statements by its leaders and spokespersons, are the following:
--The conflict with Israel is a religious war between the Muslims and Jews that will continue until the End of Days.
--Jihad and martyrdom are the only way to liberate Palestine "from the river to the sea"
--All of Palestine, "from the Jordan river in the east to the Mediterranean in the west" is waqf land (i.e. a religious endowment sacred to Allah), so the religion forbids relinquishing even an inch of it. Peace negotiations and normalization with Israel are forbidden and anyone who engages in them is a traitor against Allah and His Prophet and is destined for Hell.
--Israel has no right to exist, and jihad against it must continue until it is eliminated and all of Palestine is liberated
--No Israelis are civilians. All Jews in Palestine, including children, are combatants and may be killed by every means: stabbed, beheaded or bombed, including in suicide operations.
--Tahdia (a temporary lull in fighting) with Israel is possible as a tactic, but the overall strategy is ongoing jihad
--Martyrdom is a supreme value and part of jihad. Martyrdom-seekers (i.e., suicide attackers) "love death as much as the enemy loves life" and are rewarded in Paradise.
--Antisemitism: Jihad is against the Jews, who are destined for annihilation.
--The Jews are "the descendants of apes and pigs"; they are subhuman or "microbes."
https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-charter-%E2%80%93-ideology-behind-massacre
“Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.”
--Jay Bhattacharya
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry cost millions. It finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear.
They’ve learned nothing, even while watching millions suffer from lockdowns and vaccination.
Worse, they may not want to learn. The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain’s pandemic response was fundamentally misguided.
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
US Marine General Smedley Butler, reflecting on his 35-year career as a soldier
Bill Madden writes, "Refusing illegal orders in the military is difficult to do because they normally are generated high in the chain of command and very few officers in the chain really know what is or is not a legal order. Immediate superiors can be very demanding and the orders are usually given in high pressure environments. Refusing an illegal military order is tantamount to whistleblowing and, as much good as it does for the concept of truth, the whistleblower’s life is made miserable as a punishment for his honesty and a warning to others."
I watched this happen with Army Spec Michael New during the Clinton years. He disobeyed an illegal Clinton order, was arrested on base in Germany, was then given an unjust, unconstitutional trial, and then a Bad Conduct Discharge. But he stood his ground the whole time and has been proven right since.
