Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/19

[SVPete]

Gazans Describe Hamas’s Habitual Sex Abuse of Their Own People

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/18/gazans-describe-hamass-habitual-sex-abuse-of-their-own-people-n4951940

As genocidal Islamic terror group Hamas is once again consolidating power in Gaza, some Gazans are breaking their silence on how abusive Hamas jihadis are even of their own people.

A quote attributed to the late Israeli politician Golda Meir is, "We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us." But since Islamic sacred texts explicitly endorse and approve jihad, sex slavery, pedophilia, domestic abuse, and polygamy, it's not exactly shocking that many of the conglomerate of Muslim Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians continue to use and abuse their own women and children. The Daily Mail has a new report of Hamas sex abuse of Gazan women, as companion to the reports of horrific Hamas abuse of Israeli captives.

As of Oct. 2025, 80% of Palestinians supported jihad against Israel, and 70% opposed Hamas disarmament, but there is a minority of Gazans who are tired of being always the sex slaves and human shields of Hamas. Hamas co-founder's son Mosab Hassan Yousef has repeatedly emphasized how Palestinian jihadis will willingly sacrifice even their own children to the cause of jihad and how different factions in Gaza will fight and exploit each other when not actively fighting Israel. This is all the backdrop of the sad stories published on the Daily Mail.

There has been a rise in child marriages and adolescent pregnancies in Gaza, the Daily Mail noted, and a common trend of sex exploitation partly fuels the pregnancies. The Gazans who spoke to Jusoor News, which then passed the stories on to the Daily Mail, spoke in anonymity. One Gazan man said he was asked to locate a widow who had requested aid from a commander in Hamas's terrorist Qassam or al-Qassam Brigades, "but he took advantage of her." The Gazan man called it "disgraceful," and said he found the widow "in a tent in the Gharabli area where a bunch of Qassam members were taking advantage of her. We informed the leadership, but we were told we had to keep silent about it."

Islam at its heart, sadly, is a raiders and plunderers and enslavers religion. That does not encourage benignant governance.

[SVPete]

IRGC Closes Strait Again, Calls Iran's Foreign Minister an 'Idiot,' Fires on Oil Tankers

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/irgc-closes-strait-again-calls-irans-foreign-minister-an-idiot-n3814049

The Iranian government is at war with itself as much as it is at war with America, Israel, and the Gulf states.

As I have been writing for days now, there is not one Iranian government in charge, but two, battling it out over who controls the entire country.

The IRGC appears to be winning at the moment, which is utterly unsurprising.
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It's pretty clear that the civilian Iranian government was well on its way to a deal with Trump, and even announced that the Strait of Hormuz was open for business again. They had announced it to the world on X, and the Iranians had given ships actual clearance to transit the Strait.

Then, all of a sudden, the IRGC didn't just close the Strait, but sent boats out to fire on ships that were in the midst of transiting.

This is not entirely surprising. The Iranian government got beheaded, and now the lower-downs are scrapping among themselves for the vacant places of power, making contradictory statements and actions. Those new wannabes are split between assertion of POWER and trying to rebuild a nation out of the rubble.