Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘double tap’

Soft bigotry doesn’t make you morally superior

I support Israel, but there are times when Israelis make me think that it’s a wasted effort. Specifically, I despise the Israeli penchant for national displays of histrionic self-loathing. The current reason to scream and rend one’s garments is because an IDF soldier shot to death a wounded Palestinian terrorist. All the Israelis wailing about…

 

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Deny the accuser. It won’t change reality

The bassist for “Weird Al” Yankovic is Stephen Jay, a musical genius. One of his best songs is titled “Deny the Accuser.” I’m being flooded with attempts to talk me out of my contention that Thomas DiMassimo’s attack on Donald Trump was an Islamic State dry run. You need to understand something: I wrote that…

 

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A ruminative loop

Yesterday a journalist called and told me that I was correct about the murders of Ismail, Mohammed, Ahed, and Zakaria Bakr. The four boys were part of a deception operation that Hamas carried out against the Israeli Defense Forces on the Gaza beach, July 16, 2014. The person told me that the foreign reporters who…

 

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No, the Israelis don’t “double tap” ambulances

Gaza 2014: Findings of an Independent Medical Fact-Finding Mission makes the outrageous, absolutely unsupported, and moronic claim that the Israeli Defense Forces deliberately target first responders such as medical personnel. The term they use is “double tap,” meaning the IDF first attacks a target, then waits until the first responders arrive. Then the Israelis attack…

 

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