ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE
Omri Ceren, The Israel Project 16:19

by Jack Kelly, To The Point News

Starvation has claimed the lives of 128 people – 18 of them children or babies – in the Palestinian refugee camp since the conflict began. But the Yarmouk camp is in Syria, where images of atrocities go viral only whenmisrepresented as coming from Gaza, so the world has paid little attention to their suffering.”My Twitter and Facebook feeds would have me believe that the only noteworthy military conflict in the world today is that between Israel and Hamas,” said Jonathan Messing of the Stanford Business School.

“Either many of you care about war only when it involves a Jew holding a gun, or you are woefully unaware of what else is going on in the world,” Mr. Messing said. At the time he wrote, about 170,000 had died in ongoing violence in Syria; 600 in Gaza.
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You won’t want to miss this rant.

Era Levant speaks his mind on Sun News.

VIDEO

Media Action – Shirley Ann Haber comments:

The talk below by Ezra Levant on Sun TV explains so vividly the truth about Hamas in Gaza and that all of the Islamic Terrorists, IS, Iran, Boko Haram, Nigeria are all part of the same crew – they want to kill all of the Jews – Ezra Levant refers to them as Nazis – interesting that Barry Rubin before he passed away wrote a new book called: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East – you can get it on Amazon.ca. 

Most people will have forgotten that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Arafat’s uncle) al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini meeting with Hitler on November 28, 1941 “…concluded the pact of Jewish genocide in Europe and the Middle East…” page 6…you see al-Husaini told Hitler that he wanted to learn and apply Hitler’s ideas to the Middle East when he went back home to Jerusalem. When Ezra asks whether Hamas and Iran are serious about the genocide of the Jewish people (notice Hamas doesn’t say Israelis but Jews) he is correct.

Ezra is brilliant in this YouTube account…

By Ted Belman

I submit that the answer to both those questions is “no”. That is so long as Israel and the US do not waiver on the demand for demilitarization. From the point of view of Hamas, effective demilitarization will be the death of them. For them, chances of staying alive are better if they keep fighting.  They may reason that as the war gets more bloody, they might get a better cease fire.

On the other hand they might accept quiet for quiet and avoid demilitarization. But that won’t get the borders open for them.

There is another issue that should be put on the table. As it is, Gaza is a prison for the Arabs living there or at least a pressure cooker. They number 1.8 million, 40% of whom are children. A solution must be found to facilitate their emigration. This is a problem that won’t go away. It will only get worse. Read more…

Just as I forecast. This is a big victory for Netanyahu. Israel is permitted to continue destroying tunnels and its military can stay in place. Ted Belman

DEBKA

The 72-hour hour unconditional, humanitarian ceasefire announced by the US and UN, was scheduled to begin at 8 am local time Friday. The US State Department said that military forces will stay in place. The US and UN said they had assurances that all parties to the conflict had agreed to an unconditional cease-fire during which there would be negotiations on a more durable truce.

This was confirmed early Friday by a source in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. The Paletinian Hamas and Jihad Islami also confirmed acceptance of the ceasefire, following which they fired two rockets into Israel.

Israeli and Palestinian delegations will “immediately” be going to Cairo for negotiations with the Egyptian government to try at reach a more permanent cease-fire, the State Department said. Read more…

[Indeed, one day Obama was against disarmament and the next day he embraced it. Nevertheless we much watch his actions. Ted Belman]

Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn, ALGEMEINER  7-31-14

President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam War was a lost cause when Walter Cronkite, America’s most respected television news anchor, turned against it. This symbolized for Johnson that a large portion of the American public had likewise turned negative. President Barack Obama may have just had his own “Walter Cronkite Moment,” involving the Gaza War and the Washington Post.

The date was February 27, 1968. Cronkite, the anchor of the CBS Nightly News, was the most-watched, and most-admired newsman in America. He concluded an update on the Vietnam situation by declaring his opinion that “we are mired in stalemate…it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.” Cronkite’s message was crystal clear: America could not win, and therefore should negotiate its withdrawal from the region. Read more…

By MELANIE PHILLIPS, JPOST 07/31/2014

The US is simultaneously supporting both the Sunni and Shia wings of the Islamic jihad against the West

While war in Gaza rages on and the West dumps on Israel for having the effrontery to defend the lives of its people, attention has strayed from the most important actor in the region, Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is actively involved in the Gaza war. Relations with Hamas which had deteriorated over Syria are back on track. Iran armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad with rockets and other weapons and is reportedly now directly instructing Hamas commanders in the Gazan tunnels.

Osama Hamdan, who runs Hamas’s foreign relations, says it is continuing to coordinate its positions with Iran and its proxy army in Lebanon, Hezbollah.

Hamas’s deputy political head Mousa Abu Marzouk says he hopes “the Lebanese front will open and together we will fight” against Israel. The Hezbollah chieftain Hassan Nasrallah has pledged “all means of support” to the Palestinian “resistance.”
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By Ted Belman

My good friend Mordechai ben-Menachem was interviewed on FOX Radio about the tunnels and he advised that:
– 60 tunnels have been found
– 5000 tunnels are estimated to exist.
– the cement for the tunnels was ordered and paid for by UNWRA
– the US funds 37% of the UNWRA budget.

MP John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, assembled a pile of vicious slanders against Israel, which he accuses of war crimes in Gaza, and presents it as informed comment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/john-prescott-israels-bombardment-gaza-3918413

Please read it and, if you disagree with most of what he wrote, vote NO at the bottom of the page.

By Gidon Ben-Zvi, ISRAEL HAYOM 

It’s official: The Democratic Party has abandoned Israel to its fate. This development ?has nothing to do with that most ancient of hatreds, anti-Semitism. Rather, in an age ?when a compelling narrative increasingly trumps a cold, hard history lesson, Israel’s ?version of the events leading up to Operation Protective Edge, while factually sound, ?is a snoozer.?

The results of a recent Pew Research Center poll revealed the largest partisan gap in 40 years on the issue of supporting Israel.?

Conducted July 8-14, the week Israel began its air operation against Hamas in ?the Gaza Strip but before its ground invasion, the poll asked 1,805 respondents: “In ?the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side to you sympathize with ?more — Israel or the Palestinians?”?
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By Ted Belman

PM Netanyahu gave a speech today and pledged to destroy the tunnels with out without a ceasefire.

Haaretz reports on the speech;

“We have so far neutralized dozens of terror tunnels and we are determined to complete this task. Therefore, I will not agree to any cease-fire that does not enable the IDF to complete this very important task. Hamas has been hit hard by both the IDF and the Shin, who are closely coordinated. We have delivered harsh blows to thousands of terror targets, rockets depots, manufacturing sites, and launching sites, and hundreds of terrorists have been killed. These achievements and the operation to neutralize the tunnels are only the first step in demilitarizing the Gaza Strip. The United States and the European Union have accepted our stance, and though it was difficult to achieve, we have done so, through hard work.”

This is what I surmised yesterday in my post Washinton has changed its tune . Nice to see he is confirming it.
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ALGEMEINER

As many as 25 percent of Hamas rocket attacks against Israel in the current Israel-Hamas war don’t make it out of Gaza and strike civilians inside the coastal enclave, Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune asserted in an interview on Real News TV on Friday.
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[ACTUALLY THEY ARE SUPPORTING ISRAEL]

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, NYT

CAIRO — Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting.

Not this time.

After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states — including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed.

“The Arab states’ loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu,” the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. Read more…

‘We must beat Hamas until it waves a white flag,’ MK Ze’ev Elkin declares.

By Benny Toker, Tova Dvorin, INN
7/30/2014, 10:46 PM

ZOA July 30, 2014: 

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By Ted Belman

A couple of days ago Obama said the demilitarization has to wait for a peace agreement. Yesterday Hagel Secretary of Defense delivered a different message;

On Wednesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke by phone with his American counterpart Chuck Hagel, who called for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza that would lead to a permanent end in fighting along with the disarmament of Hamas.

The US secretary of defense stressed that any comprehensive resolution to the over three-week conflagration would need to result in the demilitarization of Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza.

If this is the last word, it is hugely important.

I believe a deal is in the making. Israel is being given extra time perhaps a week to finish the demolition of the tunnels. Then there will be a ceasefire, with all issues on the table. i.e., full demilitarization with continuous oversight and full opening of borders. That way both sides get what they want. But Hamas will pay a very steep price.
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YNET asks, “Digging for tunnels, attacking commanders”

[..] Despite the fact that by definition this operation was tasked with taking out tunnels used for terror (as opposed to smuggling) it is wrong to view it solely through that prism.

The IDF, namely the air force, promised the public a short and strong offensive in which targeted attacks would hit high quality targets. The IDF had emptied its target bank from the last Gaza operation a year and a half ago – Operation Pillar of Defense – and has since banked an additional 1,257 targets which the IDF put in its sights upon embarking on Operation Protective Edge. Read more…

HERB KEINON, JPOST
LAST UPDATED: 07/30/2014 22:31

Israel will continue to declare limited humanitarian cease-fires, says senior diplomatic official; IDF has made “significant achievements” in degrading Hamas infrastructure.

Maj. Gen. Shlomo Turgeman of the Southern Command notes that the IDF has successfully destroyed tens of terror tunnels.

By Uzi Baruch, Tova Dvorin, INN
7/30/2014, 8:30 PM