False narrtives and unreasonable reasons of Palestinian terrorism

Hello readers,

Today I translate something I wrote few weeks back but it is still very relevant today.

Its about the false narratives that Palestinians and their apologetics use to justify terrorism and violence.

Before that, I want to remind you that the narrative for the slaughter in the synagogue was about the Arab bus driver that committed suicide (According to a palestinian  pathologist/body examiner from the Palestinian Authority). The Palestinians claim he was murdered. And this is justifying the attack.

Also the reason itself is not justifying by any standard, the attack itself don't have characteristics of a crime driven by emotion and revenge but seems more planned and calculated and also the simple fact that it is bullshit, according to the man appointed by their own "government". 

So lets begin:

In the last few weeks we see more terroristic attacks and violence in Jerusalem that is encouraged by the PA. 

According to the palestinians, its reaction to Israel policy and actions in Jerusalems, mainly the building of new apartments and controling the temple mount. 

This is happening while western countries denunciate the building of new apartments, sympolic recognitions of palestinian state and looking the other way when innocents are being murdered.

If we will examine this narrative we will see its filled with lies and manipulation to justify bloodshed and to evoke sympathy.

For example, the commotion about the building of new apartments started early in october with the bid for contractors being published, altough the plans were authorized in september 2012. 

Between the authorization of the plans and the bid we already were after the murder of the 3-months year old Chaya Zissel-Brown and the 22 year old Karen Yemima Muskara.

Another hole in the narrative is that the rise is palestinian terror and violence begin early in the summer with the abduction of the teenagers Eyal, Gilad and Naftaly. 

Most of the attacks were not fully reviewd and reported by the Media (MIF - you can see some short reports in a post I did few weeks ago) and when they did report it, it was more like a small title in a news-flash rollers.

In reality there were many attacks with stones and rocks, molotovs, explosives. Not only against 

security forces but also against civilians. including women and children. 

The Israeli media wasnt so thrilled to fully report every incident and the global media even less.

Incitment for violence by the PA happened before the commotion of the bid.

september 28th Al-Hiyat Al-Jadida the offical PA newspaper mentions that 2 days before (26th) their president, Abbas, chose to finish a speech with verse 39 from the Haj (pilgrimige) Sura of the Quran. Which was translated as a support for "resistance" and call to confront Israel and Israelis.

But maybe its not back enough, lets check what they posted before the kidnapping of the 3 Israeli teens?

In april on Fatah (Abbas' organization) official facebook page they posted a picture of a fighter with a kaffiye covering his face and he is holding a knife with a writing that says "We will never surrender, We will win or we will die".

few days later they posted a picture with a fighter of Fatah and a fighter of Hamas carrying assault rifles and writing that says "Men shoulders were made to carry rifles. We either be great upon earth or be bones inside of earth"

in may fatah published this photo-warning to Israelis in Arabic, English and broken Hebrew:\

The facts speak for themselves. Incitment for violence isn't new. The lastest attacks are part of the terroristic trend of the last few months and it started before the bid for building apartments (also, before the false claims about al-aqsa or the bus-driver), and the bid itself shouldnt come off as surprise since those plans where authorized 2 years ago. 

The building of apartments (or al-aqsa, or the bus-driver, or any other excuse) is just false excuse and way to cover the escalating terroristic activities that are encouraged and backed by the PA.

I invite you to answer the question: When this is the whole picture, who are really the obstacle for peace?

Well this is pretty much it except few remarks I added. Remember it was written few weeks ago!

I didnt mention how they praise attackers, create memes and songs that golrify the attacks, how they hand out candies, how they consider the attackers as heros if they are alive or martyrs and saints if they die. There is more to it. Even more than what I just listed. Think about it carefully.

btw, "fun" fact: Palestinians killed more U,S citizens than ISIS

Dov Trachtman - The Man In Fort

Escalation in terror against Israelis

Hello readers,

It seems that after thursday terrorist assault against Israelis (4 worishppers, 1 policeman dead, many more injured) something has changed. But is there a change? Those who follow my blog, or my activities in Hebrew knows that except for results, there is nothing new under the sun. As I reported before, there are constant terror attacks, assaults and offensivness against Israelis (Jewish and non-Jewish) by palestinians. It still goes on right now. Throwing Molotovs, stones and rocks, riots. But the slaugher of the worshippers is not the first attack resulted in dead people in the last few weeks. 

October 22nd - Run-over with car attack in the light rail station. Chaya Zissel-Brown a 3 months old baby, and Karen Yemima Muskara a 22 old girl were murdered. Others were injured.

November 5th - Run-over with car attack in Jerusalem. Jaddan Assad 39 police officer, and Shalom Aharon Baadani a 17 year old yeshiva student were murdered. Others were injured. 

November 10th - Tel-Aviv's "Haganah" train station a terrorist stabbed Almog Shiloni 20 year old air-force soldier while he was on the phone talking to his girlfriend. 

4 hours later a Run-over and stabbing attack in Gush Ezyon. Dalia Lamkus a 26 year old girl was murdered. Dalia survived injuries of stabbing attacks 8 year before, the second time she didn't survive. Others were injured. 

November 18th - The Slaughter in the synagouge. Moshe Twersky 59 years old. Aryeh Kupinski 43 years old, Abraham Goldberg 68 years old, Rabbi Kalman Levin 50 years old and the policeman Zidan Saif 30 years old.

I also think its important to point out this: atleast 3 of the victims are not Jewish. Karen Yemima Muskara was in a conversion process, Jaddan Assad and Zidan Saif who were policeman (Assad was an officer) are Druze.

Why do I point this out? 

1. Israel is diverse place, Its not home for only Jews or for Jewish faith. There are Druze, Muslims and Christians. There are Arabs, Samaritans, Circassians, Aramaic. There are more people and more faiths.

2. They live everywhere they like and travel wherever they like. They can be in Jerusalem or in Tel-Aviv or Gush Etzyon.

3. They serve (by their own choice, non-mandatory) in the IDF and the Police.

4. Palestinians ofcourse are also aware of that. They don't care that when they attack indiscriminatley by rockets, molotovs, run-overs or other method that they might kill people who are non-Jews, even non-Israelis. By the way, did I mention that atleast 6 of the victims mentioned above are dual-citizens?

Another thing I should mention, the palestinian terrorists and their apologetics always find new excuses for new attacks. In the last month I heard atleast 3 "reasons" which I will explain in a post tommorrow or in 2 days are very unreasonable to say the least.

For example an arab bus driver commited suicide and pathology reports ruled it as a suicide. But the palestinians keep claiming he was murdered. The thing is, one of the people who ruled it as a suicide is a palestinian pathologist, from the Palestinian Authorithy. 

So, readers, by now we know there is nothing new under the sun, palestinian terrorist attack indiscriminatley, their reasoning is weak and whats more?

Well ofcourse the celebrations after the murderes! So except from declaring them martyrs and saints, creating new memes, praising them in the media, recording new catchy songs glorifying murder there is ofcourse fireworks and candy hand outs! Isnt that awesome?

Thats it for today, I will explore more about this issues in my next posts. stay tuned!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

After the ceasefire - Time line

Dear readers,

I havn't posted anything because I was both busy and needed a break.

But now, evening before Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) I want to get you up to date with things you probably missed in the media(its just tip of the iceberg).

26.8.14 Hamas leadership in Gaza disobeyes their leader Khaled Mesha'al and agrees to ceasefire without terms. Negotiation for a new long term agreement to begin in September.

Ceasefire should've started in 19:00. In 19:00 Hamas declared that the ceasefire is indeed in action.

But in reality they kept firing rockets for over 20 minutes later.

27.8.14 - molotov cocktail thrown near Beitar-Ilit. IDF officer injured by a rifle shooting from Syria. Mortars from Syria hit Golan Heights a civilian injured. A bus was stoned in the entrance to Ariel.

28.8.14 - Arab drug-dealers were arrested for connection and working for Hezbollah to help carry out terror attacks against Israel, ammunition was seized. 2 year old girl injured by stoning the car she was in, 3 molotov cocktails thrown at Israeli cars between Modi'in to Jerusalem. Moltov cocktails thrown at Israeli cars near Atara junction. 2 Bombs. molotov cocktails and stones where thrown at policemen in Jerusalem. 2 molotov cocktails thrown at homes in Jerusalem. Dozens of Arabs rioted in the border of Gaza-Israel assaulting and stoning IDF soldiers. Atleast 30 stoning attacks, 4 of them in one hour in Hebron. 

30.8.14 - 2 Mortars from Syria hit Golan Heights.

31.8.14 - 3 explosives in 2 scenes. IDF equipment and personal equipment of soldiers was stolen.

1.9.14 - Mortar fired from Syria hit the golan heights. 1 injured by molotov cocktail.

7.9.14 - Dozens of Arabs with masks entered a gas-station convience store in Jerusalem broke things in store, stole goods, ruined the gas pumps, took oil and spilled on the roads, ruined security cameras and also thrown a molotov cocktail at the store.

16.9.14 - Rocket from Gaza was fired at Eshkel Regional council. Stones thrown on the light-train in Jerusalem. Stones thrown at cars.

17.9.14 - A school in Jerusalem was vandalised. Hateful slurs against Jews and Israel were written on walls of the school and in other places in Jerusalem. A bus driving in samaria was stoned by stones and rocks.  A private car driving in Mavo-Dotan was stoned. A female soldier was injured and rushed to hospital in a car stoning incident in Atarot. Atleast 34 attacks by stoning against Israelis in one day. 

18.9.14 - A terrorist with an axe on his way to carry out an attack was arrested. 2 minors arrested after stoning cars. 2 Stoning attacks on the light-train of Jerusalem. atleast 21 stoning attacks that day.

19.9.14 - Stoning attack against 2 cars on a road near Yizhar. 

20.9.14 - Stoning attack on the light-train in Jerusalem. 

21.9.14 - Children bus was stoned with blocks and color cans in Jerusalem.

22.9.14 - 7  terrorists were arrested, they admited of planning  to carry out attack in Rosh Hashana (24/25.9.14). In search in their home they had lots of ammunition and knives. A terrorist who threw stones on the light-train was arrested short-after, He had a knife with him.. 3 attacks on yizhar junction with molotov cocktails. 34 molotov cocktails attack that day.

A bus between BeerSheva and Arad was stoned. 

Terror attacks, Rockets, Bombs, Explosives, Firearms, Molotov cocktails, Knives, Stones, Riots, Vandalism.

Threats from the outside and also from the inside. Against not only soldiers and police but on innocent civilians and even small children and babies. This is just a small tip of the iceberg of the last few weeks. But guess what you probably didn't hear it in your local media. Where is the outrage? Is the life of an Israeli child is less sacred and less valued than other children? When Hamas fires rockets from Gaza its not the only issue Israel and its civilians have to deal with. Open your eyes.

STOP TERROR! STOP HAMAS!

The Man in Fort - Dov Trachtman

Kid 4 year old killed by Hamas

Hello readers,

Unfortunatley today Hamas mortar killed a 4 year old.

This is not the first kid to die by Hamas actions.

Finally Hamas admitted kidnapping and murdering the teenagers Eyal, Gilad and Naftaly in early June.

Yesterday a 33 year old man was injured severly while shielding with his body young children.

Today few hours before shabbat services a synagouge in Ashdod was hit by a rocket.

In the meanwhile Hamas keep executing Palestinians who they suspect (with no evidence or trial) for collaboration with Israel. They do it publicly.

Hamas are murderous terrorists!

Hamas must be Stopped!!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas is ISIS/ISIL

Hello readers,

Close to 200 hundred rockets were fired by Hamas at Israel.

Today I will give you brief understanding of why Hamas is ISIS.

1. Both Sunni-Muslim terror organizations with the end goal of forming a caliphate.

2. They fought together in Syria against Assad. Assad was their former patron.

This caused huge tensions with Syrian government obviously and their S's hiite partners in crime in lebanon, hezbollah. Also, apparently some Hamas prisoners told in the interogations that many of their elite units were deployed in Syria and fought Assad and Hezbollah forces. They joined ISIS battalions and were trained by them in variety of weapons and tactics. They got expirience under their belt. Again, Hamas forces joined ISIS battalions in Syria. Thats probably one of the main reasons why Assad and Hezbollah refused to help their war against Israel.

3. Hamas and ISIS patron is Qatar.

Yeah, many news outlets, intelligence sources and governments point to Qatar for funding those groups. Lately a german minister joined this finger pointing. 

Also worth noting that the arab world turn his back to Qatar while some start support Israel against Hamas more openly. Recognizing its the same threat as ISIS because they are the same.

Share it! Hamas Is ISIS! Stop Hamas! Stop TERROR!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas breaks ceasefire 11th time

Hello Readers,

I took some time off to focus on other projects, and during that time we had 2 ceasfires, 2 of them broken by Hamas. The second one was broken today.

So they broke 11 ceasefires untill now. 

Today in the afternoon Hamas started firing again thus breaking the ceasefire. Since then they fired dozens of rockets to the south, to the center (Tel aviv area) to Jerusalem area and continue right now.

But about a week ago Hamas broke another ceasefire, few hours before it was suppose to end. than in a short while a new ceasefire began.

Living like this is hard to explain. We already know that Hamas cant be trusted to keep their words.

During this ceasefires espcially in their last days everything becomes so tense. You feel it in the atmosphere.

Actually ceasefire was suppose to end last night but they agreed to extend it to this night.

But few hours before that I went to meet up with volunteers in the volunteer center.

Went out, I barely saw 4 people along the way, very quiet, very tense, you could cut the suspense with a butterknife.

Also reported yesterday was that Hamas recruited cells with chemists and engineers in 46 towns in Judea and Samaria and east jerusalem to start a 3rd intifada with the goal of overthrowing the Fatah from the palestinian authority control, and taking over Judea and Samaria.

Some people were trained in malasyia for this operation.

The Cheif of the operation resides in Turkey. The Turkish government knew about this plan.

This adds to Hamas-Fatah tensions, after apparently Hamas put all Fatah members in Gaza in home detention during IDF operation. Those who tried to live were shot in the legs.

Hamas is terror, they dont care about palestinians, they dont care about people lives, they dont care about the results of their actions. They are just violent terrorists who wants death and destruction.

Stop Hamas now!!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas breaks ceasefire again and resumes firing rockets at Israel

Hello readers,

Sorry I havn't posted for a while I couldnt access a computer for few days.

So here is some updates:

More reporters and outlet admit they didnt fully and honestly reported in Gaza because they feared Hamas will kill them. 

Hamas was firing purposley from populated areas, near UN facilities, schools, hospitals, hotels, church, mosques and more.

Hamas killed children.

More than 160 children died digging tunnels for Hamas.

Hamas execute protestors. 

There were number of terror attacks against Israeli civilians. Also some attempts that were thwarted.

Hamas broke ceasefire at 04:00 AM which is 4 hours before the minimal 72 hours agreement. Over 35 rockets were fired. I heard that one of the injured is the CEO of my college.

Hamas is war criminal and criminals againt humanity. They share the same goals with ISIS.

Stop Terror! Stop Hamas!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Difficult weekend in Israel

Hello readers,

Sorry I didn't write this weekend. It was a very sad, anxious long  weekend in Israel. The events that took place between Thursday to Monday around the Hamas-Israel conflict have brought Israelis to mourning and worrying once more. I will try to summarize it the best I can:

Thursday: dozens of rockets were fired at Israel. Iron dome didn't intercept all. In sderot man was injured by sharpel. in kiryat gat rocket hit parking lot 3 injured one severly. mortar hit eshkol 2 injured. another mortar in eshkol 8 injured. 5 of them died.

Friday: 08:00 ceasefire 08:07 hamas fired on eshkol. 09:30 Hamas attacked soldiers 2  killed one kidnapped. 10:05 hamas fired at eshkol. hamas broke this ceasefire and exploited it. dozens of rockets were fired at Israel.

Saturday: dozens rockets fired at Israel. soldier was hit by mortar in eshkol. civilian severly injured by a mortar in eshkol. in hamas terror tunnels that were planned to use to kidnap  Israelis or to make a bombing deep in Israel.   Sunday: IDF declared that the kidnapped soldier have been killed. one injured by a rocket in shaar hanegev. dozens of rockets were fired on Israel.   

Over 60 IDF soldiers were killed by Hamas by now. May they rest in peace.

Now, Monday there was terror attack in jerusalem one killed others injured, rockets being fired as I write this. Hamas must be stopped!! Stop Terror!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Childhood memories under rockets

Hello readers,

I know that you want to hear directly what its like living under the fire of rockets, how it is like to grow up with fear of death every single day for 14 years. I decided to share with you some of my memories growing up this way, since the first rocket at 2001 (I was almost 10 years old).

So here it goes:
The first time

I remember it was evening and I was at my friend's backyard we were playing.

We didn't hear that rocket falling but my friend's father called us to get inside the house quickly.

It was on the news, our small city Sderot, back in the days it was so small that hardly anyone heard about it. The reporters were talking about rocket hitting Sderot launched from Gaza.

And I? Coudln't understand, couldn't process it. Why would anyone will try to fire rocket at us?

What should I do now? How will I get home now? Its evening, its dark outside, and honestly I am afraid from another rockets being fired maybe hitting me.

After about 15 minutes just standing there looking at the TV screen but not really watching or listening, I tell my friend I have to go but I am afraid. He decides to walk with me (our houses aren't that far). We go outside we start walking and in the middle of the way we start to hear shootings. Its the first time I heard that sound, piercing through the night. We froze for a second didnt know what to do. We decided to split and we both run to our homes. Man I ran faster than Forest Gump. The next day at school, needless to say everyone talked about this. Everyone were confused. Many were still shaken by this. That night marked the change of our city and the change of our lives.

Guess what, your home exploded, or not

I remember that morning, I was about to enter school when I heard explosions. 

At this point, its nothing new hearing rockets explode in Sderot. Well, what can I do? I go to class.

Than all our teachers start sending all of us to the school shelters. The teachers talk to themselves mostly, we know its because rockets hit Sderot this morning. I remember they brought a TV and VCR and they put Lion King on for us to distract us. But kids will be kids and the rumors game started,

Eventually I get a rumor that the rocket hit my house and there are possible injuries. Guess what? You don't have a smartphone, the teachers don't tell you anything, you ask around and some kids confirm this rumors while others say something different.

In the meanwhile many parents come to take their kids home.  Others call the teachers to check up if their children okay. Time goes by, no contact from my parents, with all those thoughts running through my head of a rocket hitting my home. Its one of the worst times in my childhood I recall.

I somehow got a cellphone from another kid and called home. Well guess what? my parents were okay

they thought the school will know how to deal with us so they were not worried too much about me.

Apparently, that day the rocket hit a house only few meters from my school. Literally there is a fence between the school and the the house back yard.

The first one killed by rocket was a 4 year old child, right after him a 49 year old

I remember that day, it was summer vacation for me between 8th to 9th grade.

I remember hearing the explosions. It fell close to the kindergarden that is also near my elementry school. I remember everyone freaking out that day a 4 year old, Afik Zehavi-Ohayon died, His mother was injured severly, also a 49 year old man Mordechai Yosepov died by the same hit. May they both rest in peace. It was very harsh day, Its hard to describe the atmosphere. Me and my family were getting phonecalls all day long from friends and family all over.

2 weeks ago, a friend of mine that literally lives near where it happened told me the details of that day (he witnessed everything). Seriously, if there's a hell this is how it feels and this is how it looks.

Drag people to shelter under fire

So now its not a specific case but many different cases, in Junior high and in High school.

I never really gave it to much thought until lately when I was asked in interviews about growing up in Sderot under rockets fire.

So it took few years before we got the Code Red alarm (originally it was named "Red Dawn").

It was supposed to help us know its time to get cover or run for shelter if possible.

I

The problem was, that after years growing up and living with this stress, and now the added stress from hearing the alarm (which is an anchor that activates the same symptoms people have after rockets hitting or seeing people get injured or even die).

Some people had so hard time dealing with this that people actually fainted in place. 

So I remember times when us (teenagers 12 to 18) and teachers sometimes had to drag people to shelters because they fainted outside. And remember we had 15 seconds or less to do so.

Its sounds really crazy for me thinking about this now. But this is our reality, this is how we had to grow up. We had no choice.

Remember, This is our reality for 14 years. Many children, teenagers and even young adult don't know a different reality than this. This is what they are growing to. Because of Hamas and other terrorists organizations in Gaza. It has to stop now.

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

conflict #hashtags meanings and celebrities

Hello readers,

So I have decided to write so soon after the last post because its time for people to understand some 

of the meaning of the hashtags going around in facebook and twitter and why some celebrities were actually dumb to use them.

#FreePalestine - The meaning of this hashtag quite simply means: Israel should not exist, exterminated the Jewish state. You see, the bast majority in the muslim and particularly in the arab world calls the land of Israel "palestine", and basicly saying "free palestine" means there is a state that should not exist there, thus its call for the extermination of the Jewish homeland and only country (in our rightful home).

Rihanna tweeted this but soon enough deleted it. Why? probably because she has no understanding of whats going on in this conflict and escalation, and when she figured out what she said she regreted and tried to minimize damages. Rihanna visited Israel few times in the past few years holding concerts.

Zayin Malik (one direction) also tweeted this hashtag. Zayin a muslim from pakistani heritage. Many pakistanis have anti-Israel views, and they know what the hashtag really means. It is possible, that he shares those views, and he decides to keep his tweet on. Hindu-Indians and Muslim-Pakistanis have their own debates about this conflict while most Indians pro-Israel and Pakistanis are anti-Israel. (Yeah pakistanis are more about anti-Israel, anti-west ideology, not pro palestinian do not make this mistake).

#PrayForGaza - A call to pray for Gaza. Praying about what? this "hashtag" basicly means that only people in Gaza are hurt and suffer, and it implies its someone outside fault, someone like Israel.

Yeah, so like we proved again and again, Hamas kill its own, and when he doesn't he puts them in the line of fire. They are human shields that Hamas are responsible for their death. Also Hamas don't want to cease its fire. But wait, if you pray for Gaza, why dont you pray for Sderot and Israel, what about the children that died in Israel because of Hamas? what about the children that lived under the threat of rockets for 14 years? What about the 3 teenagers kidnapped and murdered last month by Hamas?

Its pretty stupid and hypocrite to pray for only one side if you want peace and humanity for all.

Selena Gomez was ignorant and un affected by the loss,  suffering and tragedy on the Israeli side. She prayed for Gaza and when she learned she is ignorant like her friends. Its not about just being trendy (because its seems most celebrities tweet what seems trendy without further exploration and studying not because their opinions are actually solid and based on something)

She then corrected this for praying for all humanity and peace. 

#GazaUnderAttack - So this hashtag basicly says Gaza is under Attack from the outside. Its based on the #IsraelUnderFire hashtag really. So is Gaza is the target of the attacks? No. Hamas is the target of Israeli attacks. Who choose to put his facilities, rocket launchers, weapons storage, and hide and fight from a city and populated areas? Hamas did! They chose the battleground. Who put civilians in the line of fire? Hamas. Who destroyed schools, hospitals and neighborhood by their own fire in the last few days? Hamas. Yeah Gaza is under Hamas attack.

So those are the main anti-israel hashtags - used ignorantly by naive and ignorant people, or maliciously by pro-terrorists. Their major goals are:

1. Associate and link between Hamas the terrorist organization and the palestinian people. The palestinians don't want Hamas themselves anymore. Hamas don't protect the palestinians, they dont fight for them, they fight to kill Jews and destroy Israel, and according to Mossab Yousef a former high-ranking Hamas officer and the son of one of its founding members the end goal of Hamas is to destroy western civilization and create a new Islamic caliphate.
2. De-legitemize Israel, its existence and its right to defend itself. They try to portray Israel as the offensive side, ignoring facts like Hamas refusal for peace with Israel or acknowledging Israels existence,  Hamas escalated this situation, Hamas killing palestinians and using other as human shields, Hamas trying to commit a genocide to the Jewish people. They ignore the fact that Israel is trying to disarm Hamas, Israel wants to end this conflict, Israel do all it can to save lives in both sides, Israel protecting its citizens.

So now you know more about the anti-Israel and pro-terror hashtags. Don't fall to this trap.

#IsraelUnderFire #StopHamas #SaveTheChildrenofGazaFromHamas #StopTerror

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas publicly kill palestinians

Hello readers,

So, Hamas aren't even trying to hide the fact that they kill palestinians themselves.

Also 25 palestinians executed by hamas two days ago

Also another thing not reported yet by global media, Hamas also killed 2 palestinians and injured dozens while buying food.

Yeah, So on official levels, Hamas kill palestinians, also un-officialy they actually fired rockets at their own schools, hospitals and neighborhoods in the last few days.

And more over than that, they sacrfice palestinians civlians, including women and children as human shields to protect their own facilities and officers:

Hamas is trying to commit double genocide. They want to kill all the Jews, and in the same time killing palestinians.

So seriously, if you want peace, if you want to stop the bloodshed, STOP HAMAS! STOP TERROR!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Israelis killed by Hamas rocket and also palestinians were killed by Hamas rockets

Hello readers,

So much things happened today and in the last few hours here.

5 soldiers were killed today. 4 of them by a rocket hit in Israel, many were injured. May they rest in peace.

Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel through terror tunnels today, their attack was thwarted.

Hamas tried to fire rockets at Israel today and hit Al-shifa hospital and Al-shati refugee camp.

It is proved that on July 24th Hamas is the one who shot 16 palestinians at the UNRWA school in beit hanooun neighborhood.

Hamas is a dangerous, evil, terrorist and criminal organization that needs to be stopped. No country will allow to its citizens to live under threat of rockets or murderous terrorists. Since 2001 Israel is under the fire of rockets from Gaza by Hamas and their friends. Israel tries to save lives, while Hamas tries to destroy. Israel Accepted 4 ceasefires since the beginning of the operation and followed through. Hamas kept shooting rockets at Israel. Even prior to Protective Edge Israel asked from Hamas to stop.

Israel warned the residents of Gaza to evacuate. Israel treats sick and injured in both a field hospital they opened in Gaza and in Israeli hospitals. Hamas encourage civilians to act as human shields, and using the hospitals in Gaza as launching pads. They even shoot their own hospitals. If you want to stop this bloodshed YOU GOT TO STOP HAMAS.

And the hypocrisy of the world just killing me. Here is the kicker that no one tells you:

All that nonesense by different states blaming Israel for disproportional response?

Do you know how many military officers from the same states are actually right now sitting near IDF officers, to learn the same techniques and strategies used now, for their effectivness, accuracy, morals, and more? They want to copy this same techniques and strategy for their own confilicts. And when this operation will end, they will keep sending their soldiers to Israel to train and learn from our troops. 

Now on personal news:
Today I joined another Sderot Media Center activity, I will probably post about it tommorrow.

Today I was also interviewed for one of NBC's channels, if they will upload it I link it don't you worry :)

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Sexy Selfies: Standing with IDF campaign of modern day pin-up girls

Hello readers,

I am going to talk about the fast growing trend of sexy selfies supporting the IDF soldiers.

The facebook page "Standing with IDF" started that buzz and I got in touch with the man behind it and asked him to tell about his campaign.

Gavriel Beyo is a 27 years old owns a small advertising company and an investments company.

He is experienced in marketing online and offline, in Israel and abroad, and also expertise in branding.

Gavriel told me about the campaign: I started it. I reached few of my amazing friends for the first photos and thats how it started. I got the idea after I received a photo of someone I dated in the past. I then remembered the old "pin-up girls" photos soldiers used to look at before they were sent to battle.

The page and the campaign have goals to help in Hasbara and also raise the morale of the soldiers. This were the main goals. I wanted to show that Israel is not just about rockets and terror and I wanted to romanticize the IDF. It worked, we got alot of support from abroad even by non-Jewish, all over the world. We wanted the soldiers in the front lines to know we support them and also to give them a little distraction from the battlefield. It also worked, we got tens of thousands of likes, and thousands of "thank you" messages.  We also decided to use the campaign for more objective like fundraising and getting help for different needs of the soldiers. We got over 30,000 likes in 3 days and we have been covered in global media, so yeah, we reached our goals. I hope that we have more goals and reach even larger audiences soon.
The reason so many women keep taking explicit pictures of themselves for this campaign is patriotism, supporting the soldiers and also taking part in the effort of IDF.
I think the page and the campaign became so popular in such short time because we market both the most moral army in the world with the most beautiful women in the world.
As for reporters claiming that people feel less intersted in sex and have less sex activity because of the escalation, I can understand. Personally, I felt down, and my campaign is a way I try to help in some way. Did it work? from the responses its seems that yes. Personally, I am in relationships so I don't deal with the photos. I have volunteers to manage to content. The Main editor is the amazing Yafit Duer. They are amazing and invested alot of time from their own free time for this project. They also have conversations with soldiers, and Yafit also decided to show her face.  

I then asked Gavriel if the campaign have influence on people opinions and he answered:

Wow!!! Yes! For example a pakistani who had a cover photo "Stand with Gaza" with hands covered in blood he changed it to a cover photo of "I Stand with Israel", and countless more around the world.

I later asked him why in the last few hours the page is down and Gavriel said: We keept it a secret for now, prepare for a surprise :)

Gavriel, I want to thank you so much for sharing and wish you good luck with the campaign! 

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Noad "Neo" Lahat returns victorious from the UFC cage to the front lines against Hamas

Hello readers,
Before our post few updates:
1. Hamas broke ceasefire yesterday.
2. Israel exapnded ceasefire in 4 hours (with willing to expand for another 24 hours) - than Hamas shoot more rockets at Israel.
3. Hamas requested today a 24 ceasefire for a muslim holiday. Israel agreed to their request. Hamas broke that ceasefire as well shooting more rockets.
4. Israeli Border Guard near Jerusalem thwarted a terror attack security personnel at checkpoint stop suspect with large explosive device, several gas cylinders in vehicle.
5. 42 IDF soldiers were killed in action. May they rest in peace.

Now for the post:

Noad "Neo" Lahat won a UFC battle last night (against Steven Siler).

Noad told after his victory about the last 2 months in training, worrying for his family and friends back home (Israel). He tells about his sister serving as paramedic and his brother as special forces. Hes younger brother being drafted in a year. How his grandmother have about 15 seconds to get to a shelter because of rockets.

Noad suffered from insults on his social media accounts by pro-hamas and anti-israel crowd.

Noad is a proud Israeli, a professional athelete and fighter, and a reservist paratrooper in the IDF.
Noad we all wish you the best, return safely to your family from the war against Hamas, and keep representing Israel in the MMA sport.

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Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Get to see Sderot Media Center's work

Hello readers, 

So I am a little bit late but I will share with you some of the work done by Sderot Media Center

to share the reality of living under the threat of rockets for over a decade.

But first few updates:

1. Israel accepted a ceasefire today between 8 AM to 8 PM.

2. Foreign worker was murdered by Hamas rockets couple days ago. May he rest in peace.

3. 36 IDF soldiers killed in action. The MIA soldier was now officially decalred dead by the IDF. May they rest in peace.
4. 150 Hamas' terrorists surrendered themselves to IDF couple of days ago.

Now, get a glimpse to some of Sderot Media Center work.

NOTE: PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY ME. USE ONLY WITH CREDIT TO ME AND LINK TO THE BLOG.
Couple of days ago I joined my friends from SMC Kosta Monastirsky and Yaniv Friedman

while reporters from the USA came to Sderot to see in their own eyes whats going on.

Kosta lead the tour.

We began at the Sderot PD, in their "rockets museum" collection of hundreds of rockets that fell in Sderot over the years.

Kosta briefed about the rockets, what are they made, their development over the years, radius of imapct, and how different terror groups mark them to get themselves "street cred"/making name for themselves and building their reputation among the other groups.

Later we continued to a home hit by a rocket 2 days prior to the reporters visit. The Iron Dome didn't intercept that time. There were children in the house. Except from a lady and a very young baby everyone got to the shelter. It was a miracle that the lady nor the baby were not hurt that time.

The reporters were shocked by the damage to the house, inside and outside, discussed with the resident (a widow mother) and her challange and trouble with this situation going for years, and now that her home was ruined by a rocket.

Later on we continued to the famous hill from where all the reporters like to report, and show the gaza border. The Hill was empty, the reporters were down while the cameras kept rolling.

rThose reporters standing down the hill wore vests for protection.

We get up to the hill to show them how close gaza is (in straight line its about half a mile)

We talk about the closeness, the rockets range, and also, the terror tunnels used in the previous days to infiltrate to Israeli towns by Hamas' and the threat it pose to Israeli civilians. 

While we were talking Code Red Alarm was going on. Near by we had no shelter only seconds to get cover. We ran down a little bit, layed down on the ground, cover our heads and waited to what comes next. Apparently this time the rockets were intecepted successfully. 

The reporters got a real taste of life under rocketss threat.

ISo tell me, what would you do if rockets were fired over a decade at your city? What would you do if terrorists enter your town through tunnels to massacare and slaughter everyone? Its time to stop terror, STOP HAMAS!

Stay tuned for more posts, news, details, experiences and photos.
Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Know the difference

Hello readers,

Not a long post today, probably tommorrow.

This is week the Sderot Media Center (or the Media Center in the most fortified city in the world) are working hard as usual. Many reporters, diplomats and politicians from around the world are coming.

They come to witness, and hear and speak with the people who have to live under the threat of rockets, and terrorists getting in through tunnels for over a decade.

Today, I joined a news crew from USA. We had our action as well. I will post about it tommorrow and post pictures I took.

The next few days I might find myself busy again.

On other news: 32 IDF soldiers have been killed in action so far. 1 is still missing (Hamas claims they kidnapped him)

And here I want to let you know the difference

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Awake at nights

Hello readers,

Yesterday I didnt post but it was a crazy day here in Sderot and the surroundings.

Terrorists dressed as IDF soldiers infiltrated Israel through tunnels HEAVILY ARMED FROM HEAD TO TOES.

Fortunatley their attack was thwarted 10 of them were killed. Unfortunatley some IDF soldiers were killed and injured. 

Right now we know 27 IDF soldiers were killed in action (may them rest in peace) and one is missing in action for 3 days. Hamas claims they kidnapped him.

Yesterday was the funeral of Sean Carmeli. He immigrated to Israel from texas 3 years ago.

He was a lone soldier. his friends from Macabi Haifa FC fans called people to come to his funeral so there will be atleast 10 men over 13 to complete a "Minyian". Over 20,000 from all over Israel answered that call.

Awake at nights 

A piece about what happened yesterday that went viral in Hebrew on facebook:

I am awake at nights.

Every night for about a month, especially for the last few days.

No, its not because its summer, or because I am such a party animal.

Its not because I work nightshifts to make a living.

Me and tens of thousands of people, from day old babies, to grey haired 3 digits aged people, Jews, Christians and Muslims, Israelis and Foreigners are in a WARZONE. Not on the sidelines, but IN THE BATTLEFIELD.

Not only that rockets are fired on us at nights, the sounds of explosions, the battle between the IDF and Hamas, the shockwaves.

How can I describe the shockwaves? Your house is shaking (like an earthquake).

All your windows are about to be shattered to pieces, and so is all glasses in the house. Doors of the rooms and closets are about to be ripped from their hinges.

And literally there is nothing you can do about it. 

Yeah, take all your family to a small crowded shelter. It will not make the shockwaves and explosions sounds go away.

So instead I sit, and think, and read, and write, and watch trash tvshows in online streaming.

Just to make myself tired, make my body to surrenders to the SandMan that will send me to sleep.

And suddenly this night (note: night before last night) I fell to sleep. 4 precious and priceless hours of sleep, Interrupted by the sound of machineguns. It sounds close. Very close. Very. Close.

In the next couple of hours the details were revealed. 2 Squads of Hamas' terrorists infiltrated Israel through tunnels. They were the amount of a small company. Only couple of miles from my home! 

They were heavily armed, from head to toe. Murder was their motivations. The smell of innocent children blood filled their noses as they came closer. 

The battlefield is not only in Gaza. Sderot, and the towns, kibbutzs, villages surrounding Sderot are part of this battleground.

I am proud that in my side of this conflict, I am not used as a human shield, I am the human being shielded. And although this nights are horrifying, horrible and full of stress, fear and anxiety, I am willing to endure. Because this sounds of struggle and fight are the sounds of a battle for my life. 

I want the IDF will beat the Hamas' terrorists. I don't want that in the future the soldiers will have to deal with bigger danger by Hamas. 

I am awake at nights, I could've been dead.

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

I lost 15 relatives today

Hello readers,

Im sad because when I woke up today I found out 15 relatives of mine died.

No, not really my relatives, you have to be Israeli to understand this kind of grief, but I will do my best to explain.

Israel and the Israelis are different kind of people, different values order, different mentality.

See, despite our differences and disagreements we are grown to see each other as brothers in spite of everyyhing, the most used word in Hebrew is "Achi" literally "my brother".

In our mandatory service we feel this bond stronger than ever. It is said that the IDF is the fusion point of Israeli society. You meet different people you never thought you will, you make strong bonds with them. What you share with them us the symbols and experiences you go together.

Moreover, soldiers in Israeli culture are viewd as either your brothers and sisters your sons and daughters. Even if you never met them. They are respected for their hardwork and sacrifices. 

Today I woke up to the deaths of 2LT. Bar Rahav and SGT. Benaya Roval.

Later or on rummors spread about 13 soldiers from the Golani brigade that died. Around 06:30 pm Israel time it was officially published. Their names were not published but my friends knew 2 of them.

Golani brigade commander Colonel Rasan Aliyan (he is Druze btw) was injured in action and hospitalized but demands to return to his soldiers, his children ASAP.

Golani itself is the oldest infantry brigade in the IDF. Their symbol is the olive tree. The loss of 13 soldiers from same brigade especially this brigade felt like a bullet to the heart to many citizens.

So far 18 soldiers died in Gaza.

I know you cant understand why and how this is so painful, like losing your family but I hope I gave you a glimpse.

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas manipulating media with photographs

Hello readers,

Its night here, but I can't sleep. There are loud explosion sounds and shockwaves that make my home including windows and doors shake. Honestly its frightening. I am afraid that while I will sleep I will be hurt by my window glass if it breaks. So I keep writing my papers to college or catching up on social media.

I don't know if I have told you, but I study culture, creation and production.

One of the courses I took this semester was about Stories and Narratives. 

And in this course we learned about stories, narratives what makes them, about the reader taking part in the process by processing details, filling in blanks, arousing his emotions and empathy, activating prior knowledge or experience. Story or narrative doesnt only have to be a text as in written text. It can be picture, photograph or movie.

You know who really is good at story telling? Hamas. 

So let me tell you how Hamas manipulating media with photographs

Hamas and their supporters work very hard over the internet, social/new media and news to tell a story, delievering a specific message to the world. Their agenda is to protray Israel as bad and themselves as defenders of palestinians. Although the facts speak for themselves, they had luck in the past and present, they had success manipulating the media and peoples mind.

So how they do it?

#1 Well first of all they use photographs that activate empathy and emotions.

Some of the photographs are staged, some of the photographs are from other places (syria/iraq/lebanon), some are very old, and some are "authentic".

#2 Triggering emotions is the most powerful motivator for someone to interpret a picture as a narrative, story or if you will as a fact. They add some details. Such as people injured in Gaza.

Now let me remind you many of those pictures are actually either taken from movies like final destination, staged, or from another country. But still saying this is from Gaza, they trigger your emotion and associate it with what happens in Gaza.

#3 Not sharing the whole details. They don't share the fact that they started escalation against Israel and target Israeli civilians. They don't mention they didn't agree to ceasefire twice and broke the third they "agreed" to. They don't mention that the IDF asked multiple times from citizens to evacuate and they avoid hitting civilians as much as possible. They don't mention they threatend civilians that if they evacuate after the IDF asked them, that Hamas will later on kill them. They don't mention how they ask civilians to ask as human shields. No, They don't share the details because they want you to "fill in blanks". Yes, They Trigger your emotions, Associated it to prior knowledge about Gaza, and the fact that Israel is running operation, but "forgot" to mention their responsibility for wanting to fight Israel, and that they refused cease fire before and during Israel operation, or using human shields, some of them children, in many cases against their will.

#4 They flood the internet and social media with those pictures hundred of thousands of time. They want people to forget or not to look up to most of this pictures and accepting them as "true" and delievering their "story" to as many people as possible. 

If you want to know more: Hamas reporting guidelines: The dead are always "innocent civilians"

So now you understand a little bit how Hamas use photographs for manipulating media and masses.

Share the truth!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort 

2 Soldiers murdered by Hamas this morning may the rest in peace

Hello readers,

As I said Im keeping you posted as much as I can.

I am very sad to say that 2 soldiers were murdered this morning by Hamas terrorists in the morning

when Hamas infilitrated Israel to massacare civilians. Their attempt was thwarted. But 2 soldiers died.

photo from Ynet website

The first is Major (reservist) Amotz Greenberg 46 years old from Hod HaSharon, father of 3. May he rest in peace. 

The Second is Sergeant Adar Barsano 20 years old from Naharia. May he rest in peace.

Earlier today as I mentioned a 32 year old civilian was murdered by a rocket. May he rest in peace.

I hope no more innocent will die. HAMAS MUST BE STOPPED!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas murders a man, his children injured. Hamas tried to commit another massacare in Israel.

Hello dear readers,

Today a rocket launched by Hamas hit a Bedouin (Muslim) family near Dimona.

The Father 32 year old, died (may he rest in peace). Baby couple of months old injured severly. 4 year old injured as well, and 2 other women injured in the same hit.

Also, soldiers were injured again. Some of them injured while thwarting an infiltration through terror tunnel by Hamas. Again, Hamas used tunnel to infilitrate to Israel, heavly armed to commit a massacare in an Israeli town.

Let's pray for the speed recovery of the civilians and soldiers hurt by Hamas.

Hamas fires indiscriminatley. They target civilians and children. They don't care if you are a Jew, Muslim, Christian or something else. They don't fight for muslims, They don't fight for palestinians.

They fight because they are bloodthirsty. Because they are violent. Because they love war and death.

They always mention the fact that they love death, they teach children in Gaza to love death, they teach them violence, they educate them to become suicide bombers. 

How can a sane, normal person side with this kind of people?

STOP TERROR! STOP HAMAS! SAVE CHILDREN OF BOTH SIDES!
UNRWA strongly condemns placement of rockets in school

Also, Hamas seems to again exploit animals for terrorists attacks.

IDF reported the use of an explosive donkey by Hamas.

Not only that Hamas rockets hit civilians, they have killed many animals in the Israeli side, caused them trauma and damage, now they exploit animals in Gaza for their terrorist attacks.

Really I don't know how to explain it to you people. Hamas must be stopped. They don't care for any living thing. They are literally out of their minds. Targeting civilians, using human sheilds, educating for suicide, death and violence, exploiting animals and killing them. They are psycopaths.

I will do my best to keep you in the loop of what's happening in here.
Again, my thoughts and prayers are with the civilians and the soldiers, hopes your's too.

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Ground phase of "protective edge" have started, RIP Staff Sergeant Eitan Barak

Hello dear readers,

Last night the IDF ground forces entered Gaza to destroy the terror tunnels used to infiltrate to Israel

for killing spree's and kidnapping of civilians.

Sgt. Eitan Barak a 20 year old from Herzeliya was killed in action. After his death in combat he was promoted and be put to his final rest as a staff sergeant. May he rest in peace.

photo of Eitan from the website pzm/mako

Needless to say, I am very sad and worried. I am sad for the death and all the soldiers injured protecting us, I am worried about all of them. Those soldiers are our fathers, brothers, uncles, cousins, nephews, friends.

The sound of explosions by both Hamas strikes, rocket launching and IDF's strikes and Iron dome interceptions are being heard in Sderot non stop since last night. The sound of war is hard to describe.

Please I ask from all my readers, when you read or study a chapter from the Jewish bible ("old testament") or read a psalm please do it with the intention in your heart and dedicating that reading or study for the safety of the IDF soldiers, for their health and for peace. Ofcourse keep them in your prayers! Do the intention also if you are donating or making any mitzvah or commandment.

I will try my best to keep you posted on the situation here.

I will end with this song:

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort

Hamas targets CHILDREN

Hello readers,

Before today's topic here is some information.

Yesterday Israel agreed to cease its fire today between 10:00-15:00 (10am to 3pm).

Hamas apparently also agreed to ceasefire. But in the early morning they sent a team of atleast 13 terrorists

through a tunnel heavily armed to Israel to murder and kidnap Israeli civilians. 

Fortunatley, the IDF thwarted that attempt.now

in 12:00 (2 hours into the ceasefire) Hamas launched rockets at Israel.

few minutes before 15:00/3pm Hamas resumed fighting.

this is the face of Hamas, targeting innocent civilians and not giving a crap about international laws, morals, or anything similar to this.

Now lets go into todays topic: Hamas Targets CHILDREN!
UPDATE: After I posted this entry I found out this: 
unrwa strongly condemns placement rockets school

As we know, this escalation began in June 12 2014, Hamas kidnapped the 3 teenagers Eyal, Gilad and Naftaly, murdering them minutes later and buring them in a hole, for later using their bodies for "negotiations".

Meanwhile, Hamas kept shooting rockets, rockets they shoot indiscriminatley, many of them fall in Gaza, some in palestinian villages, some hit the power lines between Israel and Gaza. 

Also, in many places in Israel that Hamas targets like Sderot, Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv there are many Arabs, Muslims, Christians and other ethnicities and faiths. Synagouges, Mosques and Churches are in their range, including the Al-Aqsa mosque in the temple mount in Jerusalem, which they claim is holy for them.

But as I said Hamas don't care, they only want death, violence and bloodshed.

More than that, Hamas bring children to launching sites, or send them and other civilians to stand between IDF and weapon storage rooms, launching pads, Hamas commanders and more, they put them in danger, using children as human sheilds. 

While in Israel, summer camps have been canceled in southen Israel, the boyscouts canceled their main summer event, teenagers been underfire during high school finals, rockets hit schools.

in July 10, rocket hit play-ground, a 9 year old was saved from shrapnels because a tree was standing between him and the shrapnels.

In July 9-10 teenagers 12 and 14 had broken limbs after falling when running to shelter.

July 10, a 3 months old baby was hurt falling when his mother fell down the stairs taking him for shelter.

In July 12, a husband and wife driving to hospital to give birth to her baby were caught in alarm in the middle of the road. He Had to deliver his daughter under fire.

In July 12, a 16 year old and 19 year old girl were injured while running for shelter.

In July 13 a 16 year old was injured severly from a rocket hit.

In July 14, 10 and 13 year old girls who are bedouin muslims were hit and injured severly by rocket.

This are not the only children harmed by Hamas, there are more.

Beyond this physical injuries, do you know what is like for a child to live with trauma?

Whats its like for him to suffer from PTSD? Always thinking about his death, or his loved ones dying, feeling depression, crying alot, being constantly afraid, having nightmares, not sleeping, losing control of their body like bladder, feeling physical symptoms. Would you let your child grow up in this reality?

Let him be at risk everyday? Not knowing if he will ever return from school? Not being able to enjoy summer vacation? Can't hangout with his friends? Or maybe let him live in constant fear of death, like the sword of Damocles is hanging above is head, all the time?

Or maybe would you like your child to hangout with murderers, hangout in a launching pad that might explode, or a rocket will hit him? maybe send him to be a human sheild for a weapon storage room? 

Maybe you him to be educated to believe that there is nothing as noble, awesome and great as comitting suicide and that death is beautiful? Or maybe you want him to be a good old terrorist planning to kill thousands? 

Children of both Israel and Gaza suffer from the terrorism, and the sick, twisted, hateful, violent minds of Hamas.

SAVE THE CHILDREN! STOP TERROR! STOP HAMAS! 

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort