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Operation Karameh: Israeli Orders, Civilian Warnings, and the Targeting of Fatah Forces in 1968 Historical analysis based on contemporary reporting, later historical works, and archival sources. Introduction The Israeli operation against Karameh in Jordan on March 21, 1968, followed a period of escalating Arab terror attacks across the Jordan River and, most immediately, the March 18 destruction of an Israeli school bus full of children by a land mine. Two people were killed and 28 were wounded. Three days later, Israeli forces crossed the Jordan River and attacked the Arab Palestinian terror Fatah infrastructure centered in the Jordanian town of Karameh. Sources provide evidence concerning the instructions given to Israeli troops regarding civilians, the warning issued before the ...

 On October 9, 2023, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced what he described as a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. In the same statement, Gallant said: “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.” The immediate context reported by _The Times of Israel_ explicitly identified the conflict as Israel’s fight against Hamas.  The Times of Israel  Contemporary reporting and subsequent statements by Israeli officials placed Gallant’s “human animals” characterization in reference to Hamas and its fighters rather than Palestinians or Gaza’s civilian population. _The Times of Israel_, reporting Gallant’s October 9 remarks, introduced them specifically in the context of Israel fighting “the Hamas terror group.” The same outlet subsequently reported Gallant repeatedly identifying Hamas as the organization Israel intended to eliminate.  The Times of Israel+2  This contextualization is also reflected i...

CELEBRATING EVIL: Sick celebration of "Palestinian" Islamic Oct 7 atrocious attacks @MEMRIReports MEMRI @MEMRIReports Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank Celebrate on October 7, Hand Out Sweets, Fire Guns in the Air, following Hamas's Invasion and Massacre in the Gaza Envelope #Palestinians #Hamas #Gaza #Israel. Oct 29, 2023 https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1718530441412551030 'Your son killed Jews!' Hamas terrorist celebrates killing Israelis in phone call to parents. by KRISTINA WATROBSKI | The National Desk. WCIV. Tue, October 24, 2023 at 3:09 PM https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/your-son-killed-jews-hamas-terrorist-celebrates-killing-israelis-in-phone-call-to-parents-israel-palestine-gaza-terrorism-invasion-middle-east-conflict The Evil Ideas Behind October 7. Mike Cosper. The Hamas attacks in Israel have a grotesque ideological history and deserve unflinching moral judgment. M...

IDF Targeting Practices: Intelligence, Behaviour and the Laws of Armed Conflict The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), its targeting process is an intelligence-led, human-supervised system designed to identify military objectives while applying the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution. This system operates in an exceptionally difficult urban battlefield in which Hamas embeds military personnel, weapons, command infrastructure and tunnel networks within densely populated civilian areas. Any assessment of Israeli targeting practices needs to distinguish between several different questions: how Israel identifies military targets, how intelligence is processed, who authorises strikes, how civilian presence is assessed, and what precautions are taken before weapons are employed. The IDF's own published explanation states that information systems are used to help intelligence analysts gather and analyse information from multiple sources. The IDF specifically re...

Yakov Malik: The Soviet Anti-Zionist Propaganda Campaign and UN Controversies Yakov Malik’s diplomatic record on antisemitism represents a dark chapter in Cold War history , merging state anti-Zionism with anti-Jewish prejudice as a weapon to court Arab allies [Wien, 2024]. The 1965 UN Hijacking: Equating Zionism with Nazism In 1965, during human rights drafting on racial discrimination, the US sought to add antisemitism, but the USSR proposed a separate article, embedding Zionism alongside Nazism and racial hatred [Wien, 2024]. This marked the first public state attempt to equate Zionism with Nazism for political advantage [Wien, 2024]. The 1971 Diatribe and International Backlash In September 1971, Ambassador Malik launched personal attacks at the UN Security Council against Israeli representative Yosef Tekoah, telling him not to stick his "long nose" into the Soviet garden and calling the "chosen people" concept a racist theory [Ne...