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2025-08-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas Launches ‘Stones Of David’ Counter-Offensive In Gaza City
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…against ground troops.

Explosions, ambushes, and hit-and-run tactics mark the resistance push from Palestinian fighters.

The name echoes a biblical underdog story, but this battle is live, and far from over.

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King David was Jewish. As a shepherd boy he used a slingshot to throw stones at the hero of the enemies of the Israelites and win the battle which led to the defeat of the Philistines. Later as king he made Jerusalem the capitol of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel. In every way Hamas gets this wrong.
Posted by Fred 2025-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [437 views ]  Top
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#1 Palestinians WILL join Philistines!
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-22 02:07||   2025-08-22 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 To be fair Hamas ain't exactly a Goliath... more like locusts.

Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust have eaten, the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmerworm my great army which I sent among you.”
Posted by Mercutio 2025-08-22 08:27||   2025-08-22 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 “Stones of David”

Cojones?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-22 12:15||   2025-08-22 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Palestinians ARE Philistines. The name "Palestine" is and Anglicization of the Romans Latinization "Palestinium" which is the "Land of the Philistines." Which they invented to replace the name "Judea" after crushing the Jewish Revolt.
Posted by RoberttheBrucie 2025-08-22 12:28||   2025-08-22 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 “Stones of David”

Seems to me it worked just fine as designed, it defeated Israel enemies!
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-08-22 12:33||   2025-08-22 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 I post these facts periodically.
Palestine/Israel: A Primer: What were the demographics of Ottoman Palestine?
In 1914: Muslims 602,377; Jews 38,754; Christians 81,012

So less than 700000 Arabs in 1914. 14 million today. That's 20-fold increase in 110 years.
For comparison: The estimated world population in 1914 was around 1.7 to 1.8 billion people. It is 8.142 billion today. That is, 4.8 fold increase. That is "Palestinians" reproduce 4.175 faster than the rest of the world.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-22 12:48||   2025-08-22 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 “ The Philistines were one of the Sea Peoples, likely of Aegean origin, who settled on the southern coastal plain of Canaan (modern-day Israel and Gaza).”

Palestinians are Arabs. They are not the same.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-22 12:49||   2025-08-22 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Palestinians ARE Philistines.

Not genetically or culturally, RoberttheBrucie. The people who now call themselves “Palestinian” are primarily the Arabic-speaking descendants of migrant workers from the surrounding Arab, Egyptian, and Levantine communities in the region who came to work for the Jews (they can claim the label so long as an ancestor arrived by 1945), plus the local tenants of distant Ottoman landowners, and a few Bedouin tribes. They insisted on calling themselves Arabs as members of the greater Arab nation that together were going to drive the Jews into the sea until Yasser Arafat got back from his training course in Moscow as a revolutionary communist in the 1960s. Before that, under the British Mandate it was the Jews who had Palestinian stamped on their paperwork, a reference to the Roman renaming of Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove on paper the Jewish connection after the Third Jewish Revolt, led by Bar Kochba, was put down in 135 AD.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-08-22 15:54||   2025-08-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Stones of David? Who does their marketing, Disney?
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-22 17:21||   2025-08-22 17:21|| Front Page Top

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