With some viewing Kamala Harris as supportive and others skeptical of her alignment with the increasingly left-leaning Democratic Party, it is essential to consider deeper issues at play.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF | Sept 3, 2024

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia, last week. Harris will embrace Jews of either no narrative or anti-Israel ones, the writer charges.  (photo credit: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

The range of Jewish attitudes toward presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is mesmerizing.

There are those who cringe at her continued obeisance to the increasingly left-wing coterie that is setting the tone and texture of the Democratic Party, and wonder what, if any, support she would provide to Israel and the US Jewish community.

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Security establishment shifts strategy amid rising tensions and recent attacks. “The Jenin operation is just the beginning,” security officials emphasize.

By  Hanan Greenwood, ISRAEL HAYOM     09-03-2024 08:13

Gunmen attend the funeral of five Palestinians killed by an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the West Bank city of Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024 | Photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed

Recent events have triggered a major policy shift in Israel’s approach to the West Bank, Israel Hayom has learned. Previously designated as a “secondary arena” requiring stable maintenance since the war’s onset, recent attacks have convinced top officials that this stance is no longer tenable. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) now operate under a new paradigm, viewing the West Bank as the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza.

While this directive is still in its initial stages, with substantial changes on the ground expected to take time, a series of operations across the West Bank are imminent. “The Jenin operation is just the beginning,” security officials emphasize.

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Peloni: Mike Benz explains how Deep State operators were able to so quickly align its allies in the press to execute sweeping censorship tactics to muzzle its opposition.  In doing so, he walks us thru how the Neocon failures in Ukraine led to the need to completely silence opposition forces by weaponizing the press and pressuring compliance from social media companies to silence all dissenting voices, including those voices of pro-Trump supporters and vaccine injured/opponents.

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Peloni: Great article

Not a right to defend itself. A right to win.

Daniel Greenfield | Sept 3, 2024

“Israel has a right to defend itself,” Kamala told CNN. And then insisted that the “war must end.”

What Kamala was really saying was that Israel has a right to defend itself against an attack, but it doesn’t have a right to win.

Democrats and some Republicans have offered the same formulaic responses since Oct 7.

And long before that.

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by Seth J. Frantzman | August 30, 2024

Israel now faces new strategic choices. It is seeking to cement its defeat of Hamas in Gaza and retain control of the southern Gaza Philadelphi corridor along the border with Egypt. It hopes to blunt terror attacks in the West Bank and Hezbollah’s attacks in Lebanon. At the same time, it faces Iranian-backed attacks from militias in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, as well as Iran’s own threats to carry out more attacks.

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September 1, 2024

To: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Members of the Security Cabinet

For the sake of the hostages and for Israel’s security, Israel must retain control of the Philadelphi Corridor and Rafah Crossing areas while balancing all political considerations.

The IDSF expresses its deep shock at the cold-blooded murder of our abducted citizens by Hamas. Above all else, we commend and appreciate the IDF combatants and all the security services for their dedication, courage, and professionalism, and their confidence in the justice of the cause that brought them to the battlefield in this existential war. We also wish the speedy homecoming of all of our hostages.

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This was an exceptionally important press conference in which Bibi laid out in finite detail that he would not abandon the Philadelphia Corridor and explicitly walked thru his reasons for doing so.

by John Richardson  •  Gatestone Institute •  September 2, 2024

Pictured: A large Hamas tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, beneath the Philadelphi Corridor, discovered by the Israeli military on August 4, 2024. (Photo source: IDF)

• The Biden-Harris administration apparently sees no problem with a Palestinian state being yet another terrorist state, committed to annihilating Israel — as both Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force commander General Esmail Qaani (“Israel is a cancer that must be eliminated”), and senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad have straightforwardly vowed.

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Military shifts focus to Jenin, where troops rip up roads to find bombs, work to establish ‘operational control’; army says 14 gunmen killed, over 25 suspects detained

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI 

IDF troops are seen along a torn-up street in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, September 2, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Troops have been operating in Jenin, considered by Israel to be one of the West Bank’s major terror hotspots, since early Wednesday, making it the longest operation in the territory in over 20 years.

The operation — internally dubbed “Summer Camps” by the army — began with simultaneous raids on Jenin, Tulkarem, and the Far’a camp near Tubas, with the goal of dismantling Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror networks in the three areas of the northern West Bank.

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The entire policy of Israel’s elite after 7.10 boils down to twisting the government’s arm and preventing victory over Hamas. Before 7.10, it threatened to destroy the country from within. And what about 7.10 itself?

Alexander Maistrovoy | Sep 1, 2024

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According to Hegel’s dialectics, at a certain stage of development “quantity inevitably turns into quality.” This is what happened to the ruling class of Israel.

For 30 years, the Israeli establishment (judicial, military, political, Academy and media) played with the destinies and lives of its people cynically and unceremoniously in favor of its interests and ideological preferences. The Shamir-Arens government was the last one allowed to be guided by the responsibility for the country’s future. Then the games began: gambling and bloody.

Here they are – the elite “Hunger Games”:

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Looking back to see who else got it wrong is important – not because of the I-told-you-so opportunity, but because so many of those people are today still in positions of influence, or are still being quoted by the major news media as “experts.”

Moshe Phillips | September 2, 2024

People wave Israeli flags during the ‘Flag March’ at the Damascus Gate in the Old City in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024 | Photo: EPA/Atef Safadi

Lt. Gen. (ret.) H.R. McMaster reveals in his new book that as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, he warned that there would be terrible consequences if the US embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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T. Belman. I do not think we should give up our goal of victory as emphasized by Netanyahu many times. These protestors would have you believe that there are enough hostages alive to warrant giving into their demands. I think otherwise.

A majority of Israelis support the goal of victory. Over 700 IDF soldiers have lost their lives to the cause of winning. We must not let them down.

Israel’s survival depends on it.

The vice president came off as fragile, evasive and inarticulate.

Daniel Greenfield | August 30, 2024

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, enjoy music by members of the marching band at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, Aug. 28, 2024, as they travel across Georgia for a two-day campaign bus tour. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

The outpouring of fawning media narratives (they can’t even be described as stories), the hundreds of millions spent building an insta-cult of personality through social media and the joy-themed DNC were meant to transform Vice President Kamala Harris from an unpopular number two into Obama number two.

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Not just words of sympathy, but action. Biden-Harris must immediately urge more and stronger attacks on Hamas. Louder. Now. Today.

Ronn Torossian | Sep 1, 2024

were kidnapped and murdered in captivity    Courtesy of the families

The bodies of Eden Yeryshalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alex Lubnox, Ori Danino and Hersh Goldberg-Polin, hostages who were kidnapped and murdered by bestial and cruel Hamas-ISIS terrorists were discovered dead.

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JaFaJ INTELLIGENCE September 1, 2024

Overview

This briefing outlines 5 possible scenarios for Iranian attacks on Israel and include how they might coordinate with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. The report covers the unfortunate projected loss of life, infrastructure damage, and financial impacts, along with political, social, and economic consequences for Israel, the United States, as well as country’s in the region. The analysis also presents strategic highlights from our previous document entitled: 5 Strategies for Preventing an Iranian Attack on Israel 

Attack Scenarios

Scenario 1: Coordinated Missile, Drone and Rocket Assault

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Peloni:  This is a very important briefing with Gen. Avivi.  He explains the situation on the Jordanian border as well as the importance of Israel maintaining the Philadelphia Corridor.  Avivi also addresses the recent murder of hostages by Hamas, explaining that Hamas wants to see Israeli society unraveling.  He reminds us that this is not a political debate, but a national security debate, one which must be focused upon achieving the established goals of the war, and all that is needed to be determined is what strategy should be pursued following the murder of the hostages:  should Israel surrender to Hamas or should Israel make Hamas pay a price for their continued murder of innocents.  Surely, the answer must be to have Hamas and their Iranian masters pay the ultimate price.  Hunt them down and kill them all!

Peloni:  Schanzer is absolutely correct.  The response to the slaughtered hostages must be the same as the response to the slaughtered from October 7.  The US and Israel must both focus on the problem which is centered in Tehran.  Notably, the US simply wants Israel to capitulate, but the problem will not be resolved with an Israeli surrender – it will in fact get far worse and irrevocably more impossible to resolve.

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Americans will wake up today & learn that Hamas murdered another 6 Israeli hostages, including one American-Israeli whose story was highlighted at the DNC.

Some thoughts to follow that will *not* focus on the heartbreak/trauma in Israel.

Let’s focus on who bears responsibility.

— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) September 1, 2024