“ACCORDING TO an article in the magazine Foreign Affairs there supposedly exists an understanding between Washington and Tehran on the Iranian nuclear program, …. the US would bring all its weight to bear on promoting the case of the Palestinian state before its other goals and not, as before, on normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
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As Israel perseveres with its military efforts, the question has already arisen, and now more forcefully, how it views the military-political situation once the war is over. The clear objective outlined by the war cabinet is the dismantling of Hamastan, and Israel, hopefully with the full support of the US, will not deviate from that aim, among other things, ascertaining that in any scenario, security in Gaza will remain under Israeli control, an imperative which could require setting up a temporary military administration in the Gaza Strip (though not a permanent one).
Sources tell Arab media Cairo pressing West, Arab countries to allow Gazans to move to various destinations via the Rafah crossing amid ongoing war
Despite Egypt’s continuous and public opposition to Gazans entering its territory following Israel’s war against Hamas, Cairo is preparing for the possibility such a scenario would happen against its will.
Arab newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted sources on Saturday claiming that Egypt is exploring ways to deal with the Palestinian migration that may begin in early 2024. One option the country is looking into is the possibility that other countries will agree to host the Gazans who’ll be allowed to leave via the Rafah border crossing.
Imagine if you were the parent. She was obviously sodomised and battered.
There are 17 young females still being held hostage. One of them is my girl, Naama. And time is running out.
Naama Levy, 19, was captured on October 7 and last seen in a video released by Hamas.
You have seen the video of my daughter Naama Levy. Everyone has. You have seen her dragged by her long brown hair from the back of a Jeep at gunpoint, somewhere in Gaza, her gray sweatpants covered in blood. You may have perhaps noticed that her ankles are cut, that she’s barefoot and limping. She is seriously injured. She is frightened. And I, her mother, am helpless in these moments of horror.
For far too long, Zionism has been stuck in a defensive mode.
By Howard Rotberg, INN Dec 9, 2023, 11:09 PM (GMT+2)
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
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Dear @UNRWA:
These gentlemen were Hamas fighters who surrendered. Do you recognize anything familiar in the picture?
I've never been to Gaza, but I know a school fence when I see one (decorated with paintings for children). I also recognize the distinctive UN blue color of the… pic.twitter.com/aN5MUtViOR— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) December 9, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allegedly told President Biden that his country will act militarily against Yemen’s Houthi movement if the United States fails to do so, according to a report by Israeli publication N12News.
The Iran-aligned group has been harassing Israeli and U.S. forces in the Middle East since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas.
N12News posted on X Saturday that Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s national security chief of staff, told journalists Amit Segal and Ben Caspit about its intention to respond to the group that has attacked and seized several Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab strait, a sea lane through which much of the world’s oil is shipped.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, meets with members of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the State Departmenton Friday.Credit: Mark Schiefelbein /AP
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Friday with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye, as well as a Palestinian Authority senior official, as part of a delegation representing the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
According to spokesperson Matthew Miller, Blinken reaffirmed the United States’ support for Israel’s right to ensure Hamas can never repeat the October 7 attacks. He then discussed the urgency of addressing humanitarian needs and protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, preventing displacement, and discussed the U.S. commitment to achieving lasting peace and security in the region, including through the establishment of a future Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
T. Belman. “US would “under no circumstances” allow the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza.”
By taking this position, the US is leaving no wiggle room for Israel. Israel should not play ball and not agree to a ceasefire even if ordained by the US or the UN. She should reject these confines and leave it to the US to do the impossible without Israel’s cooperation. Israel should not commit suicide at their behest. She should reject the confines as unacceptable and put the ball back in the US court.
The government needs to stop playing politics and instead outline a vision for the day after in Gaza.
By YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST DECEMBER 8, 2023
Is Israel on a collision course with the United States? It might be, and while there is a way to avoid the clash, it is a step that Benjamin Netanyahu will have a hard time taking.
The clash is already identifiable from remarks made in recent days by top administration officials like Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Both warned Israel against the growing civilian death toll in Gaza and said that the US would “under no circumstances” allow the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza.
Shockingly, the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT do not know that the First Amendment does not protect antisemitic hate speech or support for terrorism.Op-ed.
By Nathan Lewin, INN 7 December 2023
Nathan Lewin, J.D., is a Washington, D.C., attorney with a Supreme Court practice who has taught at leading national law schools including Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown and the University of Chicago.
(JNS) In the wake of the astounding testimony before Congress by the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT, three important questions must be asked:
1) Why are the presidents of leading American universities abysmally ignorant of Supreme Court rulings on the limits of protected speech under the First Amendment?
By Tal Beeri, ALMA ERC 7 December 2023
Three Lebanese army troops were injured and one was killed by IDF fire on December 5, 2023, in the Tel Aweida area of southern Lebanon, west of Kafr Kila and south of Deir Mimas. The event occurred in a location where Hezbollah conducts military action and classifies it as a military zone. From this area, Hezbollah launches mortars and rockets and conducts observations towards Israel. Hezbollah activity in this area was targeted around two months ago, on October 15. A Lebanese Army Forces (LAF) base is located near Hezbollah’s operating area. The IDF outpost “Galgalit” operated there until May 2000.
The first Jewish US secretary of state, and one of the most influential statesmen of the 20th century, claimed shortly before his death at the age of 100 that the two-state solution would not guarantee long-term peace; ‘The two-state solution doesn’t guarantee that what we saw in the last weeks won’t happen again’
Ynet|
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, considered one of the most influential statesmen of the 20th century, died last week at the age of 100. In an interview he gave to the news website Politico shortly before his death, Kissinger – the first Jew to hold the position of secretary of state – suggested abandoning the two-state solution.
Kissinger made this declaration against the backdrop of the Swords of Iron war and the Hamas massacre on October 7. He said that he would like the war to end “peacefully,” but emphasized: “I don’t see a peaceful outcome with Hamas involved in the conflict. I would favor negotiations between the Arab world and Israel. I do not see, especially after these events, that direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are very fruitful.”
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Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe. This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe.
I expected support from the leaders of the Black caucus of America. The disappointment is profound.
In the 60s, in America, three young men were active on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, spent the summer of 1964 registering African Americans to vote in Mississippi where they were brutally lynched by the KKK, their bodies tossed in a shallow grave.
Chaney was African American. Both Goodman and Schwerner were Jewish.
It started off as a typical DeepCapture intrigue, this one set in Europe, with whistleblowers whispering in the backs of airport hotel bars, stakeouts in obscure Swiss hamlets, and back-alley brush-passes in Eastern Europe capitals. It ended with proof that is a liver-punch to Garland’s politicized Department of Justice and its Southern District of New York offices.
Mark Fisher, the founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Rhode Island and chairman of BLM in Maryland has now publicly endorsed President Trump all as the Democrats face a 2024 DISASTER!
Secretary of State claims there is a gap between Israel’s intent to protect civilians in southern Gaza and the results on the ground.
Israel National News Dec 8, 2023, 6:18 AM (GMT+2)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday criticized Israel’s conduct in its operation in southern Gaza, claiming there was a “gap” between its intent to protect civilians and what has been happening on the ground, Reuters reported.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington following a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Blinken laid out concrete steps to ensure civilians are out of harm’s way and the areas they go to are supplied with food, medicine and water.
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By Daniel Greenfield, 07 Dec 03:16 PM
On Nov 5, Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, was killed at a pro-Israel rally in California.
A pro-Hamas protester had previously displayed a gun to intimidate the pro-Israel ralliers. While Kessler lay bleeding on the ground, the Muslim protesters chanted, “Hitler should’ve smashed you ” and threats of violence from Hamas. The media reported none of this, instead it described the killing of Kessler as an accident. Once the killer was arrested, CNN did not interview Paul’s friends, but quoted claims that his Muslim assailant was really a “man of peace”.
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