‘It’s like asking me how often I drink water. Antisemitism was everywhere.’ Apostates, former Islamists, and an almost-terrorist on how they changed their minds.
By Madeleine Rowley, FREE PRESS Dec 16/23
Iranian protesters burn an Israeli flag during an anti-Israel rally at Enqelab-e Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square. (Sobhan Farajvan via Getty Images)
The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel. They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).
Read more…
By Daniel Greenfield, JIHAD WATCH DEC 15, 2023 1:00 PM
The betrayal is official. Similar stories appeared a week ago from Israeli media outlets, but the Biden administration is now saying it out loud.
Here it is in the New York Times.
The Biden administration has told the Israeli government that it wants Israel to end its large-scale ground campaign in the Gaza Strip around the end of the year and transition to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, four senior U.S. officials said.
Read more…
T. Belman. This article suggests that Netanyahu is among them but in reality he is the main voice trashing the TSS and the PA, Gantz, Lapid and Herzog don’t want it talked about because they support if but the people don’t.
But in reality,now is not the time for discussing the day after nor who is culpable for Israel’s failure to protect Israelis. Israel should not talk about either until after Hamas is defeated. There is time enough to discuss it once that happens. But Biden wants to talk about it now while the war progresses because he has more leverage against Bibi now. He wants a commitment.
Request not just being made by PM, but Herzog, Gantz and Lapid as well, who argue that framework has no support post Oct. 7; US official says Washington in no position to heed call
By JACOB MAGID, TOI 15 December 2023, at 2:36 pm
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, confers with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, during their meeting with US President Joe Biden, left, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Pool Photo via AP)
WASHINGTON — Israeli leaders have been privately urging the Biden administration to refrain from publicly talking about the two-state solution in the fallout of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, four Israeli and US officials told The Times of Israel this week.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan flew to Israel for emergency consultations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. According to press reports from Israel, Sullivan told Netanyahu that Israel must “transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.”
Netanyahu should ignore Sullivan.
T. Belman. There you have it in a nutshell. Netanyahu is against the TSS and against the PA ruling Gaza. Gantz is all for it. Gantz continues to kiss Biden’s ass, while Bibi stands up against him. This will be the core issue in the next election.
Remember Gantz gave away part of our gas fields to Hezbollah and part of Area C to the Arabs by allowing their settlement there.
Looking to Gaza’s future, National Unity Party leader stresses Israel’s willingness to work with US and moderate Arab nations to build Gaza anew after Hamas rule is toppled
By JACOB MAGID and TOI STAFF Today, 10:06 am
War cabinet minister Benny Gantz appeared to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night, calling out those who harm Israel’s ties with the Biden administration by engaging in “manufactured disputes” amid the war against Hamas.
During a press conference in Tel Aviv, Gantz carefully avoided identifying Netanyahu by name, but he voiced similar accusations as Opposition Chairman Yair Lapid, who in comments Wednesday did make a point of calling out the premier more directly.
Biden administration, Iran, Israel: Interesting times go high order.
By J. E. Dyer OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE 5 December 2023
Sometimes timelines speak louder than argument. We’ve found that on a number of occasions in the last several years, and a fresh occasion has arisen in that regard. Two events on Sunday, 26 November 2023 were end brackets for a timeline that bears at least cursory inspection, and that is our task here. It will be informative.
By Victor Davis Hanson 14 December 2023
Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.
If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.
Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.
By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.
T. Belman. Whatever did he mean by “fake divisions”. Perhaps he is referring to Bibi’s acceptance of possible annexation in whole or in part.
Minister Benny Gantz holds press conference and comments on how, in his eyes, the future in the Gaza Strip should look.
Israel National News Dec 15, 2023, 3:03 AM (GMT+2)
Minister Benny Gantz held a press conference on Thursday evening in which he commented on how he thinks the future in the Gaza Strip should look.
“Our mission, as a political echelon, is to allow the soldiers to continue and complete the mission – in the south as well as in the north, to return the hostages and allow the residents to live safely,” Gantz said. “To that end, we must preserve the legitimacy and freedom of action, and plan the continuation of the fighting. Unlike in the past, we will not end with ‘quiet will be met with quiet.’ In this war, there is no ‘day after’, there is a long, difficult and necessary process, with varying intensities. Days, and months, and years.”
Opinion: US Administration concerned over Israel’s intent to keep forces in northern part of Strip, Netanyahu’s position on the PA’s role there and “settler violence” on the West Bank, all to be elements in PM’s political campaign to remain in power
To understand the comments made in the past days by U.S. President Joe Biden, regarding the diminishing support for Israel in the international community over the war in Gaza and his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, it is vital to understand what senior U.S. officials have been told by Israel.
Washington has raised two major matters. The first is the failing of the Palestinian Authority and the second is a concern that the Israelis will hold on to territory in the Gaza Strip indefinitely. On both, Israel’s stated positions have been disappointing to American ears and in fact have been cause for anxiety.
New poll finds the Yesh Atid Party is falling to 10 seats. A party led by Naftali Bennett wins 12 seats.
A new poll published on Thursday evening finds that the Yesh Atid Party, led by Yair Lapid, continues to collapse.
In the poll, which was published by WBN Group, carried out through iPanel and analyzed by Elad Wolf, the National Unity Party led by Benny Gantz continues to gain strength, winning 33 seats.
T. Belman. As a result of Israel doing what the US demanded, Israel is taking more casualties. Ten soldiers were killed Tuesday. That follows five Monday and seven Sunday.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan meets with Israeli leaders
By Gordon Lubold, Andrew Restuccia and Dov Lieber, WSJ DEC 14/23
National security adviser Jake Sullivan told Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv on Thursday their campaign needed to transition to more precise, target military operations in Gaza, according to U.S. officials. Photo: Israeli Government Press Office/Anadolu/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—National security adviser Jake Sullivan pressed Israeli leaders to shift from a reliance on airstrikes and ground assaults in Gaza toward targeted military operations and warned that a protracted conflict would make the Palestinian territory harder to govern after the war, U.S. officials said.
T. Belman. Its good to see the WSJ is on our side.
The IDF takes grave risks to satisfy the U.S. President’s demands on how to fight in Gaza.
By The Editorial Board, WSJ Dec. 14, 2023 6:31 pm ET
Israeli troops conduct military operations in the Gaza Strip, Dec. 5. PHOTO: XIN HUA/ZUMA PRESS
President Biden made headlines by declaring on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has to change.” As is typical with the President, his subsequent remarks were hard to follow, but many heard them as a call for a new Israeli government coalition willing to jump-start a two-state solution.
By David Mark, PULSE OF iSRAEL dEC 14/23
Israel was prevented from unleashing its full fire power on Hamas from the air, which allowed the Gazan enemy to prepare accordingly.?While Israel was allowed to use artillery in the beginning -?it has since been discontinued due to the Biden administration’s continued threats.?The most concerning of them is the potential discontinuation of a resupply of weapons and munitions to Israel.
The US State Dept. is still deluded on UNRWA’s role in educateding Palestinian Arab youth to enact another October 7 massacre. Not us.
By David Bedein, INN Dec 14, 2023, 2:54 PM (GMT+2)
On September 27, 2023, less than two weeks before all hell broke loose in Israel. three officials from the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs met with four researchers who have spent their careers studying different aspects of the strategic threat posed by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency).
UNRWA oversees 59 refugee camps that comprise more than five million descendants of Arab refugees relocated by the 1948 war.
ETTINGER DISCUSSES US-ISRAEL RELATIONS
Support for the Palestinian cause is not about human rights, but a fear that Israel’s democratic values will spread across the region
By R. Raza and M. Rizwan, NAT’L POST 12 Dec 2023
Iranians burn a U.S. flag during an anti-Israeli rally to show their solidarity with Palestinians, in Tehran, on Oct. 13/ AFP
The pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, anti-Israel rallies on the streets of Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East are nothing new. Ever since the creation of State of Israel in 1948, Arab politics has largely been defined by Palestinian question.
The question for the rest of us is: what drives this sentiment? Is this expression of political support driven by sympathy and affinity for Muslims in Palestine? Is this a question of human and religious rights? Or is it a decades-long attempt to change a regional geopolitical situation that Arab rulers believe is unfairly tilted towards a lone Jewish state in a sea of Arab monarchies?
by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, THE HILL
The U.S. is ramping up pressure on Israel to end the Israel-Hamas war. But is our country ready for the next phase?
I am not speaking about the inevitable reappearance of Hamas terrorist cells in Gaza or an escalation of Hamas’s activities in the West Bank, but about Israel’s war with Iranian proxy Hezbollah in the north.
The war in the south is just one phase of the battle of annihilation, jihad against Israel, orchestrated by Tehran.
By Hana Levi Julian JEWISH PRESS 14 Dec 2023
In 2019, the IDF saluted the soldiers who monitored the Gaza border from the Nahal Oz military base, and specifically one who spotted four armed terrorists infiltrating in an attempt to carry out a lethal attack that year/IDF
An investigation into the deaths of IDF surveillance soldiers at the Nahal Oz military base on October 7 has discovered that Hamas terrorists used chemical (gas) weapons to kill Israelis.
According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12 News, investigators examining the bodies of the surveillance soldiers at the base reportedly revealed they died from the effects of toxic gas.
