Horrifying atrocities in the Age of Nihilism

In the age of nihilism, no bona-fide spiritually good practice is immune from virtual or direct meddling by the dark forces, whether it is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or any of its parent-child offshoots (eg. Protestants, Falun Gong, Alawites). This is why prayers and petitions are needed, along with nonviolent support for the resistance.

Division (sowing dissent) and hating is so persistent in certain so-called civilized societies that everyone has dismissed Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. Those lands belong to the Greater Israel Project, with shares going to the Turkish Caliphate, and the United States protectorates. Meanwhile, the Westerners are too busy shopping for their de-spiritualized form of Christmas to care about the suffering children of Gaza, who according to the evil forces, deserve their miserable fate.

However the people inside Gaza do not want to be resigned to their fate! They are trying to fight back. One young lady who has gained quite a following is Bisan, an AJA+ journalist with a girlish-dreamy face, whose feisty broadcasts are gut-wrenching and conscience-provoking.

Recently, AJA+ is even trying to post on Palestinian food-epicureanism, even if in these somber times, one scarcely has a thought about food, seeing the long lines of children lined up hungrily begging for a bowl of soup. Rather than attend school (many of which are destroyed or converted to long-term shelters) or sing in a chorus, these children must patiently and courageously risk their lives.

Courage is need because of the risks even in obtaining basic daily necessities, however thin the broth that is served. In Southern Gaza, the situation is acute because the IDF has forced everyone southwards, so the further south, the more overcrowded the facilities, and the more inflationary the prices for flour. Rafah crossing was even forced closed due to repeated robbing of UN food and aid truck convoys. Desperate Gazans, long known for their patience, spirituality, community self-organizing, are mobbing the trucks as they enter. But even when the trucks arrive safely and are unloading, the IDF will also send in drones for attacks.

According to Middle East Eye, the latest of Israel’s targeted attacks against humanitarian convoys and aid workers occurred on December 12th:

“An Israeli drone attack on an aid convoy in Southern Gaza killed at least 15 people, including several aid workers and aid guards, compounding a hunger crisis in the enclave. The strike on Thursday has also left more than 30 people injured, including some in critical condition, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.”

The drone attack killed aid guards and others standing along the street to help guard the trucks from being looted. This kind of attack is not uncommon; evidently it is not enough to take hours upon hours inspecting aid trucks as they are allowed in, removing any non-certified materials, or banned items. Malicious entitities alert the evil forces to coordinate these attacks on innocent Gazans, whether it is 19 year-old Hassan Adel Zorob, or Maher Rizq al-Farah, killed on the day of his wedding.

Flour distribution line or soup line, nothing is secure

Various reports by the United Nations (OCHA) detail the extent of desperation, malnourishment particularly among infants, and pregnant mothers. Mothers and children are having to forage for scraps of food often barefoot and without gloves, which heightens their risk for disease and infection from injury. Teenaged girls are even engaging in survival sex in exchange for food. Maternal deaths, miscarriages, and pre-term births are on the rise, while hospitals are short on many necessities, such as incubators, medical supplies, and electricity.

However caring for the patients inside the hospitals in Gaza has become a crime against humanity, according to the evil forces. This is why they target the hospitals (where residents congregate for help and for community), shooting up the water tanks, destroying mechanical-electrical systems, and laying siege around the hospital grounds. This has happened to such an extent that while there used to be 36 hospitals throughout Gaza, now there are only 4 that can claim professional operability. Medical clinics are having to operate ad-hoc or as pop-ups to escape the persecution, and to provide a semblance of a healthcare network.

A recent testimony by visiting Dr. Victoria Rose from the U.K. describes the wretched condition that the hospitals have been degraded into, the type of report that the evil forces hate very much and will even try to retaliate against, such as by detaining and imprisoning the doctors and medical staff. Enough have been arrested and never seen again that the doctors and medical staff are wary. For instance, the brave Dr. Adnan al-Bursh was martyred for sharing on social media that in hospitals that the IDF had lain siege to, the doctors were still performing operations using lighting provided by their pocket phones. The video clip went viral, and Dr. al-Bursh was evidently added to the IDF hitlist, even if it was weeks later.

How the IDF does those dirty doctors using heinous methods

Dr. al-Bursh had continued to work in hospitals in northern Gaza, probably operating by the Good Samaritan Law (treat all-comers in good faith), something the evil forces could not abide by as it is too civilized. In November 2023, the IDF lay siege to al-Shifa hospital north of Gaza city, and cut off its fuel, electricity, and medical provisions. Doctors bravely stayed and lived inside, and continued to treat their patients, with Dr. al-Bursh continuing his work as an orthopedic surgeon, and doing extra volunteer work, such as helping dig fresh graves for the patients who didn’t make it or had been shot dead.

After the IDF emptied the al-Shifa hospital and told everyone they must travel south, Dr. al-Bursh decided that he must try to remain in North Gaza, so he took a detour and ended up at Indonesian Hospital, trying to help amid the mayhem and overflow of patients there. However in late November, the IDF went into al-Awda hospital and picked off who they wanted to detain. Dr. Bursh was picked out along with four other medical staff, and they were marched outside. Soon, as video footage is recorded and shared by his colleague, Dr. Obeid, the detained were forced into prisoner position and stripped of their clothes, and shown being marched away with their hands held above their heads.

Sky News investigators discovered that the popular London-trained doctor was first sent to an Israeli army base, Sde Teiman, a notorious center used for processing detainees. Prisoners are tortured here by subjecting them to being bound and blindfolded for long periods; one favorite past time offered for Israeli citizens is going on prison-tours to film and taunt the prisoners. As one former inmate, Dr. Hamuda, recalls to Sky News, at this camp there was an unusual percentage of doctors, nurses, and technicians, and he also recalled having to help carry Dr. Bursh to the toilet. His legs had been beaten very badly, and he confided that he thought he had broken a few ribs, with internal injuries as well.

There are also allegations that at this camp “mental and sexual abuse are rife.” But in April 2024, Dr. Adnan al-Bursh was transferred to Ofer Prison near Jerusalem, where he died shortly after his arrival. The prisoners inside the institution are treated exceptionally harshly as the prison tour guide stated that “they’re all murderers, all terrorists” even though many had not yet been charged. Dr. Bursh’s wife and family have not received the body for burial, but one fellow prisoner-witness told human rights lawyer Nadia Dhaka that in the moments leading up to the surgeon’s death, “He had been screaming, he had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body. The prison guard threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there.”

However the evil forces never admit any kind of wrongdoing against those they murder without fair trial or official charges. The IDF denies any responsibility for the death of Dr. Bursh or countless other cases. The Israeli Prison Service also denied any responsibility stating that “All basic rights required are fully applied by professionally trained prison guards. We are not aware of the claims you described and as far as we know, no such events have occurred under IPS responsibility.”

In fact, Sky News reported that medical NGOs are very concerned, having heard that colleague Dr. Mohammed Obeid was also recently detained, and his whereabouts unknown.

Dr. al-Bursh is survived by his wife Yasmin, and six children, even though they are also internally displaced refugees living inside in Central Gaza; however this is yet another method that the evil forces have of attacking the good of the community. They must destroy the symbols of life, heroism, and cultural role models in order to maximize bad karma.

Exporting violence is the brand of Satan

While the brainwashed hedonistic residents of Israel proper continue to sun-bathe and dance to the bomb-shelters each time an air-raid siren sounds (as if special orgiastic rituals are offered there for the scantily clad beach-goers), the brand of violence and wickedness of lust are being exported not only via Hollywood, but also via gaming, Disneyfication of the school systems, and censorship against Christian prayer, while encouraging paganism and doxxing against truth-tellers.

Baal and Moloch lusts for the blood of freshly slaughtered Palestinian babies and women and teens, but they need some palpable economic excuses: Gas and natural reserves off the coast of Gaza; Lush retirement living for Israelis only, such as in a “redeveloped” Beit Lahiya oasis.

In fact, Bisan of AJA+ in “It’s Bisan from Gaza, and We’re Picking Olives in a Genocide” explains how olive-oil production has reduced by 75% since the war on Gaza began. The food shortages are due to targeted destruction of olive trees in Gaza (and the West Bank) by Israelis. In former days, Bisan and her relatives would harvest olives from their orchard near Beit Lahiya, where her father once owned 500 olive trees.

Bisan is so familiar with the harvesting process she can teach the children how to carefully harvest all the olives. Even though this is a happy event, it is marred by finding oddities such as empty rocket-bomb casings, and the palpable concern that the IDF, who have no deep-rooted appreciation of the land (especially as the olive trees might harbor terrorists and the olive-oil tainted by the loving touch of Palestinians), will decide that after this wonderful podcast, they had better accelerate their destruction of farms, orchards, vineyards, and wells.

Northern Gaza to be sterilized for the People Without a Land

Northern Gaza is particularly targeted by the onslaught of the IDF as it is first in line for the eventual sterilization of Gaza, in keeping with the slogan, “A land without a people for a people without a land.” The number of attacks and violence in North Gaza is deliberate and calculated to push the residents South or risk annihilation. Here are just a few facts from the UNOCHA “Situation Update #245” with respect to North Gaza (10 Dec 2024):

• Life-saving aid to besieged areas in North Gaza governorate has been largely blocked for the past 66 days; recently, about 5,500 people were forcibly displaced from three schools in Beit Lahiya. [These schools are serving as shelters for internally displaced people (IDP).]
• In the North Gaza governorate, the Israeli military has been carrying out a ground offensive since 6 October 2024, with fighting reported between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups. Israeli forces have continued to impose a tightened siege on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and parts of Jabalya and humanitarian assistance has been largely denied for 66 days, leaving 65,000 and 75,000 people without access to food, water, electricity or reliable health care, as mass casualty incidents continue to be reported. Large-scale forced displacement from Beit Lahiya was reported over the past week, including 5,500 people forcibly displaced on 4 December from three schools in Beit Lahiya to Gaza city.

The following are among other deadly incidents reported between 3 and 8 December:

• According to the latest data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners, 19 out of 21 attacks on schools, which mostly serve as shelters for internally displaced people (IDP), documented in November were in North Gaza and Gaza governorates. An estimated 73 people were killed in these attacks, many of them children.
• On 5 December, at about 11:15, seven Palestinians were reportedly killed when a house was hit behind Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in North Gaza
• On 5 December, at about 15:15, 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Beit Lahiya, in North Gaza
• Attacks on health facilities across the Gaza Strip continue to be reported, particularly in North Gaza governorate, where hospitals are barely functioning amid severe supply shortages and ongoing hostilities. On four occasions between 3 and 7 December, Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, which currently hosts 90 patients and 66 medical staff, was reportedly attacked by fire, bombs and shells, resulting in the killing of seven people including four medics and a child, the injury of at least three medical staff as well as patients and companions, and damage to water and fuel tanks and the oxygen station. According to MoH (Ministry of Health), the 16-year-old boy who was killed at the hospital’s entrance was in a wheelchair and on his way to the radiology department. On 6 December, Israeli tanks reportedly surrounded the hospital and ordered people to evacuate. The Indonesian Emergency Medical Team (EMT), which had been deployed to the hospital by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 1 December following five access denials, was forced to evacuate as displaced people, caregivers, and many injured people began fleeing the hospital and panic spread, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO chief added that 33 people were killed just outside Kamal Adwan amid intense bombardment and hostilities near the hospital, which he described as one of the last lifelines for the people of North Gaza. Moreover, on four occasions between 2 and 8 December, the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya was attacked, resulting in the injury of three medical staff and six patients and damage to its electricity generator and water tank. Also in North Gaza, the fifth floor and courtyard of Al Awda Hospital in Jabalya were reportedly hit on 3 December, with no casualties reported.
• In response to the dire health situation in North Gaza, on 3 December, WHO completed a three-day mission during which it delivered to Kamal Adwan Hospital 10,000 liters of fuel, 200 food parcels from the World Food Programme (WFP), blood units and medical supplies, and evacuated 23 patients to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza city. WHO also delivered 24,000 liters of fuel and medical supplies to al-Shifa Hospital for further distribution. On 6 December, ICRC (Red Cross/Red Crescent) delivered medical supplies to Al Awda Hospital in Beit Lahiya and evaculated 11 patients to Gaza city.
• …Looting and attacks on humanitarian convoys continue to strain aid delivery in southern and central Gaza, while ongoing attempts by Food Security Sector (FSS) partners to deliver lifesaving aid into the besieged areas of North Gaza continue to be largely blocked after 60 days of tightened siege…
• Planned aid movements across Gaza Strip require coordination with Israeli authorities, but between 1 and 9 December, out of 197 planned aid movements, only 30 percent (60) were facilitated. Those planned to pass through Israeli military-controlled checkpoints on Al Rashid or Salah ad Din roads to reach areas north of Wadi Gaza (including both North Gaza and Gaza governorates) received only 16 percent (nine) facilitated. Aid missions to the North Gaza governorate were particularly disrupted, especially those seeking to reach Jabalya, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun. Between 1 and 9 December, the UN attempted to reach these besieged areas 17 times, of which 16 attempts were denied and one was impeded. The impeded mission took place on 1 December, deploying an emergency medical team to Kamal Adwan Hospital and evacuating patients following long delays…
• Emergency responders and aid workers continue to encounter severe challenges in delivering assistance across the Gaza Strip, often facing grave risks to their own safety. On 4 December, a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic was reportedly shot and killed in the Khan Younis area while returning from a mission to transport patients to his post at the PRCS ambulance station at the field hospital in Rafah. On 7 December, a PCD staff was also reportedly killed at the entrance of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya in North Gaza governorate, where he stayed to help medical teams in provided life-saving services. Based on information collected by OCHA from humanitarian partners, since October 2023, at least 356 aid workers, including 349 Palestinians and seven foreigners have been killed; this includes 255 UN staff (of whom 251 were UNRWA staff members), 34 PRCS staff and volunteers, and at least 67 other aid workers with national and international NGOs.

Bear in mind that the IDF government has no love whatsoever for UNRWA operating in Palestine and in his past term, President Trump even tried to defund them, following the wishes of Prime Minister Netanyahu. It has also accused UNRWA of harboring Hamas terrorists, and because of the negative publicity of these kinds of factual reports, probably wishes the UN to stop publishing Gaza/West Bank situational updates. The IDF has also attacked UN headquarters and schools throughout Palestine; but these reports are most likely now partially collated from data carefully collected by Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Is it any wonder? Their schools and higher education institutions have suffered a “scholasticide” with the buildings bombed, numerous teachers and professors targeted or murdered, and even UN educators are persecuted. Thus, with so many professionals out of work, they have a lot of time for volunteer work to help keep their communities operational. Video footage reveals that the Gazans also keep trying to build sanitation tells, septic system mounds, and establish safe distances between water collection points and the countless mass graves.

AJA+ has also documented the growth in all kinds of skin diseases and ailments stemming from limited access to sanitation, sleeping on the ground year-round, and exposure to the elements. Bisan of AJA+ even has a video “Skin Infections Rise as Heat Inside Tents Soars” from August 2024. Here, she even shows the itchy ulcers that have erupted on her own legs as many others have contagious ulcers that can become infected and leave them feverish and fatigued.

The evil forces do not look upon these human beings as meriting human rights of any kind, and especially nefarious is how they deliberately target any kind of local movement that has gained popularity, even if it does not have anything to do with Hamas. One example was discovered while reading about “Beit Lahia” at Wikipedia; the ancient historical oasis in northeastern Gaza Strip. There was a mention of Gaza Soup Kitchen, a successful grassroots organization based in Beit Lahia, Gaza, founded by brothers Hani (living in Virginia, USA) and Mahmoud Almadhoun in early 2024.

Hani Almadhoun was in charge of fundraising for the soup-kitchen, and he was so successful, they garnered several write-ups in mainstream media, including NPR and Washington Post. Ultimately they had fundraised nearly two million dollars, with extra funds going to help found a school, deliver meals to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, and plans to expand operations. The man on the ground (in Gaza) was Mahmoud Almadhoun, and despite having lost an estimated 150 family members during the recent war on Gaza, they were managing to feed up to 3,000 people per day by April 2024.

However, nothing whets the appetite of the IDF monsters as much as people overcoming adversity and spreading hope and cheer among the beleaguered community of Beit Lahiya, even if those standing in line for hours for their bowl of soup were so patient because it was the only meal of the day they would receive. What made things bad for Mahmoud was that thanks to Hani and the publicity he provided, the IDF had been forced to release Mahmoud from arrest and detainment in later December 2023. The arbitrary detainment probably was just because Mahmoud had previously been a successful mobile phone businessman. Anyway, the evil forces do not like being bested. So recently, on November 30th, while Mahmoud and his assistant were delivering food to the Kamal Adwan Hospital, he was targeted and martyred in an IDF drone attack.

Gaza Soup Kitchen wrote that, “Mahmoud was targeted and assassinated, killed because of his unwavering dedication to solving problems for Kamal Adwan Hospital and ensuring they had everything they needed.” Hani stated, “My brother slowed down the ethnic cleansing of north Gaza, and that’s why he was taken out.”

According to various sources, this is not the first time that food aid workers had been targeted by evil monster IDF drone attacks. Before this, the evil entities had also launched attacks upon World Central Kitchen food convoys, and also Save the Children aid workers.

At least UNRWA USA, New York restaurant chain Ayat, and various establishment media newspapers have offered a parting tribute for Mahmoud Almadhoun. And typical of the hardy Bedouins of North Gaza, instead of giving up, they have redoubled their efforts to offer food, hope, and cheer for the residents of Beit Lahiya. They now have almost 45 staff people working in North and South Gaza; with great difficulty and risk, the Gaza Soup Kitchen transfers the funds for purchasing and obtaining food. In Gaza, food comes at a high cost, and frequently also involves barter, trade, foraging, to supplement purchases. For instance, the cost of 25kg of flour in South Gaza has risen from $8 to $245 in Khan Younis, and up to $280 in Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza.

Despite the best efforts, food scarcity is growing, according to World Food Programme Palestine Country Director, Antoine Renard. On December 5th, Renard described the situation:

“The levels of hunger, devastation and destruction in Gaza…are now worse than ever before…markets are empty, barely any food is coming in, and worsening weather conditions are forcing people into a daily struggle for survival.” — World Food Programme Palestine Country Director, Antoine Renard

WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE EVIL ENTITIES

Unfortunately, hasbara is in full-control of most of the major institutions inside the United States; it is a policy that they must have full-spectrum dominance of all syndicated media; and even with controlled opposition, experience has shown that they also expect to rise to the top because the talking heads in mainstream media prefer to talk with their own tribe, so even if there is not a full cover-up with blaming everything on the Hamas terrorists, then there is often some form of insidiously crafted limited-hangout.

The only hope is to fully recognize that this is NOT so much a battle of race or ethnicity but of good versus evil. Evil loves to generalize, demonize, and otherize for the sake of killing. Whereas the good try to honor societal principles based on the Golden Rule (Do to Others What You Will Have Done to You). A good person has empathy, and their circle of inclusion, in the Buddhist sense, embraces the Big Dharma Wheel wherein Agape binds all of us together, and over our lifetimes, we maximize our reduction in greed, pride, ignorance, poor faith, and lack of love. Our hearts must grow (xinxing) so our minds think properly.

Beit Lahiya once harbored a great ancient eremite, Saint Hilarion, also known as Hilarion the Great. This early hermit miracle-worker is venerated in the Oriental Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Roman Catholic Church. According to his follower and hagiographer, Jerome: “Hilarion heals people, drives out demons, forsees the future, performs miracles, and speaks divinely inspired words of wisdom.” Hilarion the Great is the patron-saint of Gaza; in his formative life he dwelt in Gaza, even though he was familiar with the territory of Judea and had even studied in Alexandria.

More than his healings, Saint Hilarion offers spiritual training in monasticism, and offers Westerners insight into the many varied sects and traditions of the Christian Orthodox faith. Today the traditions continue and are spread thanks to the ministry and diplomatic outreach of models such as Father Dave Smith (the Fighting Father) from Australia. Father Smith has been interested in helping people from the Holy Land since at least 2006. He has also visited Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, so he knows many clergy there.

Among his memorable interviews, one which is of particular interest in light of the latest developments, including the takeover of the government of Syria, is his interview with the Grand Mufti of Syria, Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun from April 25th 2015. The Sunni cleric is unusual for his pluralistic views, something almost immediately evident in his speech to Father David. He is inclusive and loves all faiths, so long as they fit under the umbrella of the One-Heavenly-Monotheistic-God. As for those who do not believe, or follow perverse faiths, this Dr. Hassoun is not a pessimist: he believes that they are like sick patients, that they need care and prayer. We must have hope for them. The Grand Mufti stated:

“His Grace believes that he is a messenger, and he does not ask the community or the society a reward for it…His brothers and sisters are not actually only those who reside in Aleppo; it is the seven billion others who reside on Earth, and they are actually two different kinds. The first is actually believers: His Grace would actually always pray for the good and success of those believers, and happy for them. And others who are actually patients, who did not find the Way yet. So for His Grace, we always treat those in a similiar way to a doctor in the hospital when he has a patient…So it is the duty of His Grace to give him medicine. And feel actually, sympathize with him, because God actually is the one who will judge that person and not His Grace…And it’s His Grace’s duty to treat him, not to kill him. Those who are killing in the name of God basically do not know God.” — Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, past Grand Mufti of Syria, April 25, 2015

Unsurprisingly, even though he no longer serves as the Grand Mufti of Syria, Dr. Hassoun continues to actively promote interfaith, intercultural dialogue; and in this way, his outspokenness against the war on secular Syria, with its Christians, Alawites, Sunnis, Shia-Muslim, and Jews is in keeping with Syria as a historic crossroads, deserving of dignity and respect for its sovereign rights, just as much as Palestine merits.

A more proletarian focus and speech was offered by Bishop Riah Abu El-Assar, retired Archbishop of Jerusalem during the one-hour webinar with Father David on April 3, 2024. Bishop Abu El-Assar was born in Nazareth at a time when it was still under the British Mandate of Palestine. He was appointed the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem between 1997-2007. For his work for peace in the Middle East as an Arab-Palestinian, he has received an endorsement by Peace Mala. Bishop El-Assar understands and has experienced first-hand the pain and suffering of becoming refugees. His family was prevented from returning to the family home in native Nazareth after the Israeli takeover in 1948. He is pan-religious, having studied and developed an appreciation for Islam, as well as Judaism. He has such a long and interesting history, his biography, Caught in Between, is probably well worth the read.

Here was his closing prayer blessing at the “Palestine and Global Peace” webinar, to help bring an end to what is happening in Gaza, to try to revive at least some form of the Oslo Accords, to try to find some middle ground and reduce the gross generalities on the Palestinians being “all of one mind”:

“Make us Lord, instruments of Your Peace,
Where there is War, Where there is Conflict,
Help Us to be Your Instruments,
To bring about Peace, Harmony, and Reconciliation,
Among the Palestinians, and the Israelis,
In the Land You Have Chosen to be Born in,
To Die and Rise Again,
In Your Name, Jesus, I Pray,
Amen.” — Bishop Abu El-Assar

Screenshot from CGTN 18 Dec 2024, Op-ed by AGN, for the advancement of world peace