Billy Blue

Flashback: Two “anti-war” Scandinavian women — Louisa Jespersen and Maren Ueland — were beheaded by Arab Muslim jihadists in Morocco after refusing to convert to Islam. Their killers didn’t care that the women were anti-Islamophobia activists or that they had traveled alone into the Arab world to embrace the culture and prove how “open-minded” they were. None of that mattered. To the jihadists, they were infidels — nothing more. And for that, they were tortured, raped, and slaughtered. This is what happens when ideology blinds people to reality. On December 17, 2018, two young Scandinavian women, Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (24) from Denmark and Maren Ueland (28) from Norway, were raped, tortured, and beheaded by Islamic jihadists in Morocco. Their crime? Camping alone in the Atlas Mountains and not being Muslim. Louisa’s beheading was filmed by the monsters who did it — they sent the video to her mother. In it, she screams in her underwear as one of them saws through her neck, while others chant, “It’s Allah’s will.” These women were indoctrinated to believe Islam is a “religion of peace” and that fear is “Islamophobia.” The price they paid for that lie was their lives. This isn’t just a tragedy — it’s a warning. Silence makes it worse. Never forget Louisa and Maren. Never excuse the ideology that butchered them.

The original reference is to the Philistines, a people who have no relation to modern-day Palestinians. They didn’t call themselves Philistines; the name is derived from the Hebrew term for “invaders”—they were invaders from Europe who settled in the Gaza area. That’s what the indigenous Jews called them. The Greeks who adopted another forerunner of the name “Palestine” were also European. And the manhole cover is from the time the British—also European—ruled the area. Try learning history, not propaganda.

This day (April 24) in 1950: Jordan Illegally Annexed Judea & Samaria After Ethnically Cleansing Every Jew From the Land On this day in 1950, Jordan formally annexed the “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) and eastern Jerusalem — territories it seized by military force during the 1948 Arab invasion of the nascent State of Israel. Jordan had no legal right to the land. The annexation was never recognized by the international community. Only Great Britain and Pakistan gave it any form of recognition — and Britain explicitly refused to recognize Jordan’s annexation of eastern Jerusalem. Even most Arab states rejected the move. During the war that preceded annexation, Jordan carried out a complete ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population. Every single Jew was expelled or murdered from the areas under Jordanian control. The ancient Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem was destroyed. 58 synagogues were desecrated or razed. The Mount of Olives — one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the world, with graves dating back more than 2,500 years — was systematically vandalized: thousands of tombstones were smashed and used as paving stones, building material, and even latrines for the Jordanian army. For the first time in more than 3,000 years of recorded Jewish history, not a single Jew remained in Judea, Samaria, or the Old City of Jerusalem. Jordan even invented a new name for the territory: the “West Bank” (of the Jordan River). Before 1948, the area had never been called that in history. The term was created to erase its ancient Jewish connection and reframe it as an Arab possession. From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was physically divided by Jordanian-built concrete walls, barbed wire, and minefields. Jewish families who had lived in the city for generations were forced to flee with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Jews were barred from the Western Wall and the Old City. Jordanian snipers regularly fired across the armistice lines into western Jerusalem. This 19-year period of illegal Jordanian occupation and ethnic cleansing ended only with Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Jordan’s annexation was eventually annulled at Jordan’s own initiative when it signed the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. But the damage had been done: an ancient Jewish presence was erased, holy sites were desecrated, and a new narrative was born. History does not support the claim that Judea and Samaria were some ancient “Arab homeland.” The record shows something very different: a brief, illegal occupation built on military conquest and ethnic cleansing. The Jewish people’s connection to this land predates Islam by more than a millennium — and it was never extinguished.