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

Alexander Maistrovoy   A. Maistrovoy

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

The Biden administration compromised the fate of Israeli and international hostages for the sake of political gain. They could have pressured Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to extradite Hamas leaders. Instead they gave Hamas legitimacy and pressured Israel to negotiate with terrorists,…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef (@MosabHasanYOSEF) September 1, 2024

Peloni: The following is a summary of some of the details revealed in a shocking report by Avi Weiss, which was recently aired on TOV.  We are all familiar with the absence of the air force during October 7 Massacre, but Weiss revealed that it was due to the intervention and supremacy of the Judiciary and more specifically, the Attorney General, over the political leadership which prevented the IDA from engaging the Army of Terrorists which were raping, murdering, mutilating and kidnapping innocent Israelis that day.  It is a twisted form of legal intervention which was applied to supplement the efforts of the enemy as they slaughtered the innocents of October 7, and in which the AG prevented Israel’s airforce from responding to the terrorists, specifically because of the potential that civilians might be harmed.  It is a gross aberration of logic, justice and morality which maintains a caring concern for civilians when in fact it was the Pal civilians who were streaming across the border to merrily participate in the ongoing Pogrom in the Otef and which was thereby facilitated by the efforts and interventions of Israel’s own AG and broken legal/judicial system.  Hence when air support was requested by the defenders of the nearly undefended communities under siege, even as this support was authorized by the political establishment, such authorization was overruled by the established supremacy of the AG and judiciary.

The protesters of Judicial Reform appeared to be well informed of what to expect when they predicted that when Israel would be attacked around the time it actually was attacked, and then predicted that there would be a deafening silence of any support for the Israeli people from the military, which they further predicted would lead to many dead Jews. Despite all this well informed foreknowledge by the protesters, they persisted with their protests, thus preventing the reform from being implementedwhich could have prevented the predicted slaughter from being realized.  Following this, as Israel was attacked as predicted, the preserved broken system which was so well cherished by the protesters was utilized to force all of these predictions made by the protesters into reality, and thereby providing them with a false pretense by which they subsequently blamed Bibi and the political leadership for failing to act and prevent October 7, when in fact, Bibi had been restrained from acting, specifically due to the successes of the very same anti-Judicial reform activists who were now charging him with the full burden of October 7.

Judicial Reform is an immediate and existential necessity which must be implemented as soon as possible.

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Details released about Israeli hostages recently murdered by Hamas.

Peloni:  As we mourn the murders of these hostages, do not forget that their murderers have been receiving billions of dollars in US funding, before and after the slaughter of October 7.  Harris used the family of Hersh Goldberg Polin during her campaign, while the barbarians who murdered him were still receiving support from her govt, even as her govt is sanctioning Israelis who have not committed crimes, who have murdered no one, who have kidnapped no one.  Politics has consequences, and Harris’ connection with the Islamists in her govt and in her close association, including those who are pressing her to cut all weapon transfers to Israel, must have a consequence.

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WATCH

Prime Minister Netanyahu: "I say to the Hxmas terrorists who murdered our captives and to their leaders—your blood is on your own heads. We will not rest, and we will not be silent. We will hunt you down, we will find you, and we will hold you accountable." pic.twitter.com/z0xHCzjZ0I

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 1, 2024

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Peloni: It remains an inconceivable aspect of our current state of affairs to have the greatest naval power in the world coordinate the greatest naval coalition in modern history, only for them all to act as little more than guardians overseeing the promotion of the greatest act of piracy in modern history.  All of this, while the US is voluntarily facilitating the payment of billions of dollars to masters of these pirates, who are in fact the center of a regional network of terrorists which are actively involved in the murder and maiming and kidnapping of American citizens and American servicemen.  Taking in all of this in turn, it does suggest that there is something far greater at play than the lack of political will to deal with these barbarians.

by Jonathan Spyer | The Jerusalem Post | August 30, 2024

An explosion erupts aboard the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea after it was attacked by Houthis from Yemen on August 21, 2024. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s strike on the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah on July 20 appears to have had the desired effect, at least for now.

According to the Houthis, the attack struck an electricity generation station, an oil refinery, and fuel storage depots at the port. Israel, in its laconic statement taking responsibility for the operation, noted that “fighter jets struck targets of the Houthi terror regime.”

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