In 1915, two years before the Balfour Declaration announcing the creation of a “Jewish national home” in Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, then an employee of the British Foreign Office, called for the creation of a Jewish state in order to mobilize the diaspora in the service of His Majesty’s Empire. He specified that this state should never be able to provide for its own security and should always be dependent on military support from London.
The same Herbert Samuel, who had become His Majesty’s High Commissioner to Mandatory Palestine, chose the anti-Semite Mohammed Amin al-Husseini as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, while he sent his own son, Edwind Samuel, to serve in the Jewish Legion of the revisionist Zionist Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
This policy continues today when the “revisionist Zionist” Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister and son of Jabotinsky’s private secretary, made sure to provide Hamas with $2.7 billion between 2012 and 2023 (cf. VIN 2505), i.e. to prepare for the “surprise” attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Blood calls for blood. The exterminating madness that is taking hold of part of the Israeli population as the majority lays down their arms (cf. VIN 3270) finds its answer in the madness seizing part of the Pakistani population.
• Likud MP Moshe Saada said on Channel 14 television what he wanted for the Gazans: “Yes, I want to starve the Gazans. Yes, it is our duty.”
Kobi Peretz, a popular singer, is convinced that Israel has been ordered by God to annihilate [the biblical enemy Amalek]. “I have no mercy on any civilian in Gaza, young or old… I have no mercy,” he said on the cover of Yedioth Ahronoth.
• Our friend, Gideon Levy, can only observe in Haaretz [1]: “Slowly but surely, the long-term damage caused by the October 7 attack is being revealed. Beyond the horrific personal and national tragedies, it has completely turned Israeli society upside down. It destroyed, perhaps forever, all vestiges of the camp of peace and humanity, legitimizing barbarism as a noble commandment.”
• At the same time, two very influential religious figures in Pakistan, the Grand Mufti of Pakistan Muhammad Taqi Uthmani and the former chairman of the Islamic Calendar Commission Muneeb-your-Rehman, issued a fatwa calling for the holy war of Muslim states against Israel because of its inhumane attitude in Gaza, during the national conference for Palestine, on April 10 >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SmF5F-mq0]», YouTube.]].
Leader of the parliamentary opposition Fazal-your-Rehman [2] cursed the United States whose “economy is running after the Jews.”
• Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis marched in Karachi on 13 April in support of jihad, while the National Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution [3] calling for the recognition of the State of Palestine and the withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces.
• Unexpectedly, the jihad against Israel has already found an echo in Bangladesh, where attacking US retail chains has become a national pastime.
• The spilling blood spreads inexorably.
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