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Newsletter n°118

October 2023

There was a festival, a Peace Music Nova Festival. A rave party, in the wilderness. “The event will take place in a powerful natural location full of trees, stunning in its beauty and organized for your convenience, about an hour and a quarter south of Tel Aviv” had promised the organizers, omitting to warn it was situated three miles only from Gaza.

Paris BaTaClan on November 13, 2023. And for the same reasons. Because any music festival is regarded as « haram » , as a deadly sin, by those who hold their sharia above any human standards. Be it in France, Israel, or Afghanistan. 

It did not « stop » there. They also kidnapped girls, women, the way they do in Nigeria, in the name of Allah and Boko Haram. Boko meaning everything that is related to Western ways and manners.

In Nigeria, just a few years ago, scores of young girls and women were abducted. This clearly had nothing to do with Israel and the alleged « desecration of holy sites » in « occupied Palestine ». Sickening rationale and « moral » speechifying, be it in Nigeria, 2014, or Israel, 2023.

Or in Irak, in 2017, when hundreds of Yazidi girls and women were likewise kidnapped, and later sold, used, as sexual slaves, by Daesh, in the North of Iraq.

Daesh, the Islamic State, born in Iraq in 2006, from the consequences of the American invasion, installed as a Caliphate in 2014 over the North of Iraq and the South of Syria, had the one and only aim of eradicating everything non-Islamic on its way.

October 7, 2023 : with the massacre of hundreds of Israeli civilians in a few hours, and the abduction of a hundred, unequivocally, the perpetrators – Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in Palestine – have placed themselves on the same footage as Daesh and Boko Haram, regardless of their surface claims.

The bottom line of their strategy is clearly seen in the way they operate. We hear there are over 220 hostages as of October 23, 2023.

Kidnapping not only women but helpless grandmothers, children and infants, babies. Parading them half-naked in streets. Spitting on them, for what they are supposed to be, disbelievers.

Kuffar… Kaffirat… Infidels all. Nonbelievers. The opposite of, the enemies as such of all Muslims. The word Kafir (singular for kuffar) is used 134 times in the Quran. Verbal extensions of Kafir are used 250 times. Such is the fate of all deniers, kuffar and kuffirat (fem.) They are not exactly human, are they. In Gaza, a common way of calling Jews is « pigs », « monkeys ».

Dafna Zin, 15. Her sister Ella is 8. Adi and her baby.

Ariel, 4, and his brother Kfir, 9 months, from kibbutz Nir Oz. Likewise snatched from their home.

“Islamic values command us not to imprison women, children and elderly people. This is a humanitarian action [releasing them] that must be implemented immediately.”
Mansour Abbas, Head of Israel’s Islamic party Ra’am and Member of the Knesset.

Do people know that 10 Members of the Knesset out of 120 are Israeli Arabs ?

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My name is Yaakov Armagani, from Beer Sheba, Israel.  This is what I have to say after my only daughter Noa was kidnapped from the Nova rave party in Re’im , on October 7, 2023 :

« I think that a negotiation is good for both sides. What’s the use of killing each other ? Vengeance brings nothing. We have to think with our heart, not with logics. There are dead people in Gaza, people who also cry. What’s the point of it ? The best is to sit down, talk, and shake hands. That’s what we did with Egypt, Jordan. With the Palestinians, we are like brothers. We have the same blood, sort of. »

The author of these lines now does not think he would shake hands with whoever would have been one of the abductors. But then, he does not have a daughter captive in Gaza.

The very aim of our longest campaign (2015-2019), Open the Doors, was against taking people hostages. Israel must end the Gaza blockade, end all killings, and enable Gaza to open to the world, so as to guarantee the possibility of a viable economy, and improve the humanitarian situation.

The Palestinians must end all attacks against Israel and the Israelis.

Human beings are not bargaining chips.