T. Belman. I approve of this deal. I also approve of Otzma Yehudah’s negative vote because it is a reminder of the downside.

Frankly, I am surprised that this deal has been acheived. I certainly did not expect it.

Kol Hakovod.

Government approves deal under which 50 living Israelis will be released in batches during a four-day ceasefire. The releases will begin on Thursday.

Israel National News    Nov 22, 2023, 2:53 AM (GMT+2)

Cabinet meetingOmer Miron/GPO

The government overnight Tuesday approved the deal for the release of some of the hostages being held in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian Arab terrorists who are imprisoned in Israel and at least four days of a ceasefire.

The Religious Zionist Party voted in favor of the deal after a consultation among the members of the faction. The ministers from Otzma Yehudit voted against the deal.

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Peloni:  Israel’s future is too important to be sacrificed before the alter of foreign interests who hold only their own interests as being resolute.  Indeed, Israel should be no less resolved than her allies about what her own future should entail.  Consequently, I would argue that the time to determine Israel’s post-war goals is not after the war is ended, but today, before her allies make that determination for her.

Military rule without a settlement presence does not yield results that guarantee calm and stability. Op-ed.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar  Nov 21, 2023, 9:33 AM (GMT+2)
Israel National News

“Something else.” That is how the Prime Minister characterized the entity that will control the Gaza Strip on the day after the war.

We, citizens of Israel, ask, what is that unnamed “something else.”

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Also:  Israel kills deputy Hamas commander in Lebanon airstrike – report

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI Nov 21, 9:22 pm 

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen warns the UN Security Council that a regional war is likely if resolution 1701, which calls for the disarmament of the Hezbollah terror group, is not fully implemented.

“For the good of regional stability and to avoid further escalation, the next session of the UN Security Council must adopt a totally different approach in order to end the dangerous violations by Hezbollah and other terrorist groups on the border,” Cohen writes to the Security Council, Channel 12 News reports.

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T. Belman. I support the deal. Israel is calling it a “truce”: “a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties;” “Ceasefire” is a synomyn.

A political official outlined the agreement for the release of the hostages in Gaza – which may be expanded during implementation. Assessment: The move will begin on Thursday.

By Nitsan Keidar, INN     Nov 21, 2023, 6:27 PM (GMT+2)

Hostages in GazaMiriam Alster, Flash90

A political official presented this evening (Tuesday) the outline for the deal to release dozens of hostages from Hamas captivity and emphasizes that “all the security forces, the Shin Bet and the Mossad are in favor of the outline and also the entire war cabinet is united in favor of the proposal.”

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This video is 2 hours long but it is broken up into the following segments.
Highlights
 00:00 Intro.
01:30 Francisco’s Trajectory
06:06 A shocking connection between Nazism and The PLO
26:25 Why did Francisco get cancelled by UPenn?
47:58 Is the United States an ally or an enemy of Israel?
1:01:05 If Israel falls, does the West fall next?
1:13:50 Is Israel the Last Line of Defense for Democracy?
1:33:10 One thing people supporting Hamas should know.:

I happen to be very connected with Francisco. When he visited Israel a decade ago he stayed with me and I set up meetings for him. He is an original. He is brilliant.
Click on more just below the video to read the full introduction.

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Arab countries also require road map from Israel, described as ‘political plan regarding Palestinian issue,’ according to Israeli media

i24NEWS|13:25

International officials who started planning possible scenarios for Gaza after the defeat of Hamas had turned to Gulf countries, which conditioned financial aid on significant changes in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and a road map from Israel, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reported on Tuesday.

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T. Belman. The prisoners that Israel is agreeing to release, formerly lived in J&S. They will likely go back there.No one has suggested that they be exiled to Gaza.

As likely deal to free women and children nears, far-right minister points to release of Hamas leader Sinwar in 2011 Gilad Shalit deal as example of prisoner exchange ending badly

By TOI STAFF    Today, 12:21 pm

By Frances Martel, BREITBART 20 November 2023

Argentina’s libertarian President-elect Javier Milei confirmed on Monday that he would make visits to both Israel and the United States before his inauguration on December 10, trips he described as “spiritual” and intended to meet with rabbis whom he had consulted during the election.

Milei won the presidency in a landslide on Sunday night, defeating the current Minister of Economics Sergio Massa, a socialist. Massa’s tenure has been defined by inflation of upwards of 140 percent, skyrocketing poverty and joblessness levels, and the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history. Milei, a self-described libertarian, has promised to install the U.S. dollar as an official currency, dramatically cut government spending through the elimination or privatization of agencies, and eliminate the Argentine Central Bank.

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T. Belman.  I am a skeptic. How cab a deal be said to be close when the exzct number and identity of hostages is not known. We are told 50 to 100. Secondly why is Haniyah calling it a “truce”?

Thirdly, “ official said there is an agreement that at least 50 people will be freed, while dozens more could be released in exchange for extending a ceasefire beyond the initial few days.” This suggests to me that the release of hostages will be over an extended period of time  and for each additional release, more pause days and supplies will be demanded. How can you agree to a deal that isn’t specific in which the names and and number of all hostages being included are not fixed. Either it is far too vague or we aren’t being told the whole truth.

Remember, Hamas doesn’t care about the 300 women prisoners being released. Their ultimate goal is a ceasefire. It needed only hours to secret the hostages away. Why are they demanding and getting a ceasefire period of days to be increased for every additional release. They hope they can drag this out long enough to increase world pressure and to decrease Israel’s resistence to a ceasefire.

Palestinians sources say 50-100 civilian hostages would be released in exchange for 300 jailed Palestinians, five-day ceasefire and entry of 300 aid trucks to Gaza Strip

By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF    Today, 10:57 am

by Jonathan Spyer, JS TRIBUNE     November 2023

US soldiers in eastern Syria, 2019. Photo credit: ABACA via Reuters Connect.

In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7^th and during Israel’s counter-offensive into Gaza, Iranian proxy militias in Iraq and Syria have escalated attacks on US positions in both countries. Fully 60 such attacks have taken place against US forces since October 7. 56 American personnel have suffered injuries in these attacks so far, ranging from minor wounds to traumatic brain injuries. One contractor died of a heart attack in the course of one of the bombings. Reports of conversations with US personnel based in facilities in Iraq and Syria indicate a near constant state of alert, with troops spending considerable amounts of time in bunkers and shelters.

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Over the past year, the Israel Defense Forces’ spotters situated on the Gaza border, all women, warned that something unusual was happening. Those who survived the October 7 massacre are convinced that if it had been men sounding the alarm, things would look different today

Yaniv Kubovich, HAARETZ Nov 20, 2023 7:47 pm IST

Three days after the October 7 massacre in southern Israel, Mai – a spotter who serves in the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza Division and survived the murderous Hamas assault on her army base near the border – received a phone call at home.
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Tierney’s Real News 20 November 2023

A riveting new documentary was just released that basically proves that what we were told happened to George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020 was all a lie to rig the election & take over America – as I said over 3 years ago.

It’s called The Fall of Minneapolis and it was produced by Liz Collin, a former local news anchor at WCCO-TV – the local CBS affiliate in Minneapolis. She was a well-respected journalist in Minnesota and worked with icon Don Shelby. That is – until she TOLD THE TRUTH about George Floyd. Then she was shunned. Now she works for Alpha News.

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Peloni: A very informative interview with an officer who fought at one of the IDF bases overrun by Hamas on Oct. 7.  As a member of those first to respond, he offers an important perspective from the Gaza Division.

Caroline Glick Show

Caroline spoke with reserve Lt. Col. Yaron Buskila, operations officer for the Gaza Division. Col. Buskila shared his first-person account of the battle at division headquarters on Oct. 7. They discussed the gap between the Southern Command’s understanding of Hamas’s intentions and preparations for a worst-case scenario and the far worse scenario that unfolded on Oct. 7.

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By Jonathan Tobin JNS  Nov. 20, 2023

Six weeks after the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7, the Biden administration is still sticking to a policy of support for Israel’s war to eliminate the terrorist threat in the Gaza Strip. Contrary to the expectations of many observers, both President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have not wavered in their support not just for Israel’s theoretical right of self-defense but for its campaign against Hamas.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

By Antony Blinken, our current Secretary of State, appears to be an unimpressive man. My most vivid memory of him is of him being excoriated by a Chinese official and sitting there and taking it. Blinken is also a genetically Jewish person who likes to talk about the fact that he is related by blood or marriage to people who survived the Holocaust. More significantly, though, Blinken is a leftist, and that is his true faith. That faith explains why, as Mark Levin writes, Blinken’s allegiance isn’t to America’s security or the survival of the world’s only Jewish state. Instead, he’s all in for Iran and its satellites, including the violent, blood-thirsty people who call themselves “Palestinians.”

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Moshe Feiglin attributes the war against Hamas to a great chasm of consciousness, beginning with an attempt to detach the People from its identity, and repairing this chasm will also provide the long-term answer to the predicament in which the People of Israel finds itself now.

Former Deputy Speaker of Knesset, Chairman of the Zehut (Identity) movement, Moshe Feiglin, also took part in the Sovereignty Movement’s series of Zoom interviews on the events of the Swords of Iron War.

As he began his remarks, Feiglin was asked about the significance of victory in the war and he summarizes with the words “Flatten (Gaza) plus annexation equals victory” and from here he expounds, stating that any result that is less than this will not bring about victory, rather, it will invite the next round and the next disasters.
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By Daniel Greenfield, 19 Nov 

Participants hold signs as they stand on the National Mall at the March for Israel on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

On a Tuesday in November, around a third of a million American Jews left their jobs, skipped class and headed to Washington D.C. Some didn’t make it. In Detroit, bus drivers deliberately stranded hundreds of Jews heading to D.C. Others ran into less widely reported problems.

Even among those who arrived, tens of thousands never made it through into the secured area. In the final count, 290,000 people passed through the metal detectors at the ‘March for Israel’.
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By Madeline Brooks, AM THINKER<

It is gut-wrenching to have to revisit the events of October 7 in southern Israel. But new evidence emerges that should shake our foundational thinking about Gazan civilians’ presumed innocence.

The Free Beacon has collected survivor reports. One of the survivors filmed the attacks:

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Where is the outrage from Save the Children or UNICEF when underage girls are savagely raped in front of their mothers by sadistic Hamas terrorists?

By Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,

Days after the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel, Representative Derrick Van Orden, a former Navy SEAL and combat medic, turned congressman from Wisconsin, visited Israel after the attack and commented, “I can speak with authority. I’ve done multiple combat tours. People were slaughtered at a level not seen since the Holocaust.” The analogy was not an exaggeration. The terrorists burned babies alive in kitchen ovens.

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