Read on to find out what the three suggested solutions for the day after the war are – and why the only one that can work is the third. Opinion.

Avi Abelow | INN | Mar 17, 2024

Little by little the Israeli establishment media is talking about the day after, and believe it or not, pushing Israel for new elections in the middle of the war, because they don’t like the direction this government might move in for the day after. And all this with the obvious support of the Biden administration, as President Biden, VP Harris and even Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer have clearly voiced how they think the Israeli people are not represented by our current government.

It is unbelievable how off they are on reading Israeli society today. Israeli society wants total victory and wants the Israeli government to ignore the evil pressure from the Biden administration stopping us from winning this war and freeing our captives in Gaza.

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Peloni:  Notably during the very time in which the US leadership is demanding regime change in Israel, the US has sanctioned Israelis in J&S even as it is provided Iran with $10 Bn sanction waiver with which it will fund its terror war against Israel and the US.  So too the US has been reported to have slowed the delivery of arms to Israel to manipulate Israel’s ability to refuse US demands.   All of this is taking place despite Iran and its proxies having effectively stymied free travel on the high seas and their routine attacks against US forces across the region while US citizens remain among the Hamas abductees.  Thus, it should be unmistakably clear that the US is resolved to pursue their pivot towards Iran irregardless of the cost or damage to itself or its allies.  This is not about moral clarity, but rather it is simply about a US policy which is completely devoid of any moral basis at all.  Indeed, the US continues to facilitate the subsidizing of state sponsored terrorism, even as that terrorism is directed at US interests and US citizens.  This remains very problematic for both Israel and the US.  Despite the many threats leveled at Israel for doing so, Bibi has resolved to act in support of his nation’s interests which are both moral and just, and hopefully in time the US will come to choose better leadership so that they might once again be able to make the same claim.

The PM called out the international community’s moral blindness, asking, “Is your memory so short?”

Charles Bybelezer | JNS | March 17, 2024

Israel will continue to fight until the Hamas terrorist group is defeated in the Gaza Strip, despite efforts to force Jerusalem to end the war immediately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the start of Sunday’s Cabinet meeting.

“It is no secret that international pressure against us is increasing. There are those trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved,” began the premier. “They do this by making false accusations against the IDF, against the Israeli government and against the prime minister of Israel. They do this by trying to bring about elections in the midst of the war.

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New information on why Israel was caught off guard by the scope and quality of the information the terrorists had in planning the atrocities.

By Itay Ilnai, JNS     17 March 2024

A military helicopter flies at sunset near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, March 11, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

In recent years, the Israel Defense Forces, Mossad and Israel Security Agency began to notice an increased awareness on the part of Hamas regarding everything related to the field of intelligence gathering. It seemed that the terror organization, which has always sought to obtain as much information as possible about Israel, was shifting into higher gear in this area in a dramatic way.

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E. Rowell:  The author articulates what the majority of Americans are thinking.  However, I take issue with only one of his ideas: “If in 2016 Trump’s supporters knew something was up, if not quite what…”  In fact, Trump listened and learned from his supporters.  These hard working Americans in flyover country not only realized how different this America was from the America of our founding fathers, but they realized exactly what needed to change.  They were laser focused on policy issues and when they felt Trump had listened to them, and created policies based upon what was needed for their ability to thrive, they became avid Trump supporters.  This is how the movement was built.

By T. J. Harker, MANS WORLD MAGAZINE                                               5 March 2024

For the first time in more than twenty years, the ruling elite’s stranglehold on the nation’s power structures threatens to collapse. Simultaneously, ambitious mandarins in big tech, high finance, big law, and the administrative bureaucracy vie for supremacy in the face of a power vacuum that grows with Biden’s deteriorating mental faculties. Meanwhile, millions of ordinary Americans seek a common political principle around which to organize a coherent defense of their way of life. 2024 is shaping up to be the year in which the existing balance of power between these two groups is consolidated or upended. 2024 will be the year that the new based Americans finally join the battle against the established ruling elite and its regime mandarins.

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Peloni: This is excellent!

There is no word in the psychological lexicon for what happened on Oct. 7 or the new world in which Israelis now live. But “shattered” comes closer than “trauma.”

Pamela Paresky | Jewish Journal | March, 2024

Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

When Israelis speak about Oct. 7, they frequently say “there are no words.” But one word they consistently use is “shattered.”

Israeli psychologists have been treating severe trauma, complex trauma and collective trauma. The word “trauma,” however, fails to convey the scale, the savagery or the sadism of events that day. The term does not encompass the complex mix of disorientation, anguish, emotional overload and the experience of utter brokenness after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.

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The minister said visits will only be allowed if Ankara pressures Hamas to allow similar visits to Israelis held in Gaza.

Amir Ettinger | JNS | March 25, 2024

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir with police at the site of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2023. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has refused a request relayed by the Turkish embassy for information on two Turks serving sentences in an Israeli prison, because of the Anatolian nation’s ties to Hamas.

Ben-Gvir also said Israel would not allow the embassy to visit the inmates, saying that this was due to Turkey’s support of Hamas. He further noted that if the embassy wanted to get the information it would have to pressure Hamas to allow Israel to visit hostages in Gaza. Read more…

By Christine Douglass-Williams | Jihad Watch | March 16, 2024

Gen. Yahyah Safavi, Senior Advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei

Gen. Yahyah Safavi, Senior Advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei, is referring exclusively to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military capability when he declares that the regime must increase its  “strategic depth.” Thousands of kilometres means that Iran would have the capacity to strike the EU and America with long-range missiles.

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Ophir Falk, an advisor to the Prime Minister, explains why the world’s pressure to stop the offensive in Gaza is both unfounded and counterproductive.

Israel National News | INN | Mar 17, 2024

IDF forces in Gaza

Ophir Falk, an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that victory for Israel in Rafah was not as far away as it seems.

Falk began by declaring that international disapproval would not affect Israel’s strategy for the continuation of the war. “Mounting international pressure to end the war won’t weaken Israel’s resolve to accomplish its mission of destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages, and guaranteeing that Gaza will never pose a threat to Israel again,” he wrote.

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CBN | March 15, 2024

Fallout after Sen. Chuck Schumer’s comments on Israel. Netanyahu vows victory in Rafah. Analysis from former Ambassador David Friedman and journalist/podcaster Caroline Glick.

Elizabeth Rimini | March 16, 2024

The documentary that documents the horrors of October 7 from the terrorists’ cameras (without the sexual atrocities or explicit graphic photographs), from documents that were discovered and from the testimonies of the captured terrorists.
Not recommended for children.
English Subtitles.

Caroline Glick In Focus | JNS | March 14

A US Intellegence Report warns that Bibi’s rule is unstable just as an old foe joins his government and a new shocking report shows that terrorism is “baked in” to the Palestinian Authority.

Documents and minutes from closed-door meetings reveal the scale of complacency and mistaken preparations by Israeli top defense officials regarding Hamas

An unusual event took place one wintry day on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. The top brass were present: from the chief of staff to major-generals. Even Israel’s Defense Minister made sure to take part in the event which was for the most part kept under wraps: the Defense Ministry asked the local media not to report on it before it took place. “This is a reality-altering event…,” the chief of staff said in his speech. “What came before will no longer exist.”

By Caroline Glick, JNS                                                                                           16 March 2024

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s obscene call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster from power on the Senate floor on Thursday was the latest sign that Hamas’s strategy is working. On the “Caroline Glick Show” this week, U.S. Military Academy professor Col. John Spencer, who chairs West Point’s Urban Warfare Studies Program, explained that the terrorist organization’s goal for victory is a concerted political-military strategy.

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Israel inside the OODA Loop: Roll or get rolled.

THE OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE                              14 March 2024

Some things are very simple to see, if they’re just illustrated.  That’s why this update should be short.  What we will see is the impact on Israeli security policy of the expanding rush to send aid to Gaza by sea.

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By Jonathan Pollard, MACHON SHILO                       14 March 2024

Peloni:  David Wurmser and Frank Gaffney discuss the purpose of the new port being built in Gaza. Wurmser raises the dual concern that either a possible altercation between the US and Israel might result, or that the US may use the port as the injection point from which to place US forces between Israel and the Gazan Pals.

Center for Security Policy | March 14, 2024

DAVID WURMSER, Senior Analyst for Middle East Affairs, Center for Security Policy, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander

• Why is the U.S. building a new port in Gaza?
• A “food distribution” issue caused by Hamas
• Will the new port help ultimately defeat Hamas?

Peloni:  It would appear that the Biden political court was pleased with its Court Jew’s blood libel against the Jewish State.  This sort of Jewish self emulation to appease a political master is among the threats to the Jewish people which gave rise to the Zionist movement, which in turn later gave rise to the rebirth of the Jewish State.  In fact, Schumer the Shomer’s attempt to falsify nearly every aspect about what he spoke stands as a very important teaching moment, even as it stands as a complete betrayal his every Zionist fiber.  His new title should be Schumer the Shamed.

US president backs up Senate majority leader who called the prime minister an obstacle to peace and said he’d ‘lost his way’

Jacob Magid | TOI | March 15, 2024

File: US President Joe Biden, center, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, talk to reporters before a lunch with Senate Democrats on his upcoming budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Chuck Schumer had made a “good speech” on Thursday, when the Democratic Senate majority leader called for new elections in Israel to potentially replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he branded as an obstacle to peace.

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John Spencer | February 27, 2024

John Spencer, a leading expert on urban warfare, interviews PM Netanyahu on the war in Gaza.

Mike Benz,  October 9, 2023

E. Rowell:  For every plan in wartime there are advantages and disadvantages; and there are advantages that can be salvaged from a potential disaster.  We have posted a number of different perspectives on the Biden Gaza pier project.  I think it should be looked at as part of a greater whole:  the whole Biden political agenda in the Middle East.  In action after action undertaken by Mr. Biden, Iran and her proxies benefit.  While the US has not outright blocked military aid to Israel, it has sought to use this aid as a goad, a cudgel, if not an actual stranglehold, around the body politic of Israel and her ability to win the war.

Biden’s floating port scheme is a potential trap for both the United States and Israel, as well as an opportunity for terrorists to exploit sympathy for Palestinians.

By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS                                                 13 March 2024

Displaced Palestinians pitch tents next to the Egyptian border with the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

After months of pressure from left-wing critics and liberal media outlets that seem to only highlight the suffering of Palestinians since Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden felt he had to respond with something big. What he needed was a gesture that would be a tangible demonstration of his sympathy for Gaza civilians, as well as a scheme that would allegedly provide aid to them without helping the terrorists. What he came up with was a plan to build a floating port for the Strip from which food and other supplies would flow to alleviate the shortages that have produced a steady stream of appalling images and heart-rending stories about conditions there.

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