67% of survey respondents say there should only be a ceasefire if all hostages are freed and the Gaza-ruling terror group is removed from power — Israel’s key aims in the war

By TOI STAFF JAN 24/24

Flags displaying a message of American-Israeli solidarity are displayed at a rally and vigil marking 30 days since the Hamas-led terror onslaught, in New York, November 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie)

A new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll published this week of over 2,300 registered US voters found overwhelming support for Israel over Hamas in the ongoing war, triggered by the terror group’s October 7 murderous rampage.

In the poll, 83 percent of respondents said October 7 was a terror attack, while 17% said it was not. Broken down by age group, 94% of respondents aged over 65 said the attack — in which some 1,200 people were killed and 253 were taken hostage — was terrorism, while 74% of those aged 18-24 said the same.

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L, Goudsmit. History as a double helix – what actually happened and what people believe happened – is an extraordinary metaphor for war. It describes the weaponization of information in wartime and demonstrates Sun Tzu’s maxim that all war is deceit. Until people recognize that we are a world at war, Globalism vs. Nationalism, they cannot understand the tactical purpose of fake news, revisionist history, educational indoctrination, and history as a double helix. The 21st century is the era of unspeakable savagery committed against Israeli civilians that is rationalized worldwide by globalism’s corrupt politicans and its useful idiots. The only thing Gwythian Prins missed is the third alternative: the October 7th attack was an inside job funded by the globalist elite and perpetrated by the Israeli leftist politicians to remove nationalist Bibi Netanyahu from power.

Part I: Double Helix over Gaza

by Gwythian Prins, GATESTONE  •  January 24, 2024

A Hamas terrorist holds two of the many Israeli children that Hamas murdered or abducted and brought as hostages to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Image source: Hamas/X [Twitter])

• History has the form of a double helix: history is indeed the DNA of living memory. There is what actually happened and there is what people believe happened. They are not the same but they are inseparable….
• Hamas had told Israel that it intended to focus on helping its people in Gaza and that it did not want war. Israel, to show good faith, had even provided work permits for thousands of Palestinians to enter Israel every day for better wages than in Gaza. What Israel did not know was that many of them were spies who would tell Hamas exactly where in the villages to attack.
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By Avi Abelow                                                                      22 January 2024

“We get it [new technology] first, and we make sure it is viable in the field,” Sgt. Maj. A. told Breaking Defense.

By Seth J. Frantzman, BREAKING DEFENSE       22 January 2024

A soldier in the IDF’s Multidimensional Unit aims around a corner. (IDF)

JERUSALEM — As the conflict in Gaza stretches beyond 100 days, members of the Israel Defense Forces’s Multidimensional Unit say their combat operations have been a proving ground for the novel use of new technologies on a tactical level — with some revelations that could spread to the rest of the IDF.

“We have executed what we have been training on, and I can tell you it works,” one member, identified only as Maj. R. for security reasons, told Breaking Defense during a phone interview. “The whole concept of multidimensional battlefield is working at a tactical level. We in Israel were the first to execute something like that at a tactical level at the unit level.”

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by Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Strategic Tribune  January 2024

IDF troops in Gaza, November 2023. Photo credit: EYEPRESS via Reuters Connect.

When the war broke out in Gaza, observers made a number of comparisons to the challenges faced by the US-backed anti-ISIS coalition in the battle of Mosul. I was in northern Iraq when it began in October 2016, and I covered the battles leading up to the liberation of the old city of Mosul in March and April 2017. I also reported on the ISIS war in other areas and was able to see how ISIS used tunnels to hide from US aircraft, much as Hamas uses tunnels in Gaza, although the ISIS tunnels were much less extensive. ISIS brutality was similar to the crimes of Hamas.

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Peloni:  So much for Haley being the most conservative choice.  Also, it is very important to note that a majority of voters in the Rep primary recognize that 2020 was a stolen election, and that the distinction between the choice of those voters could not be more clearly displayed.

by Nick Robertson, The Hill – 01/23/24 8:20 PM ET

Peloni:  This is well worth a listen.  Kari Lake is priceless.

Sundance, The Conservative Treehouse January 23, 2024

T. Belman.  For starters the US should aupport Israel’s fight with Hamas and ensure that Israel is the victor. Secondly, the US should abandon the Palestinian cause and the TSS because the Palestinians will draw closer to Russia and its partners.

Thirdly, The US should cause the brakeup of Syria so that Russia and Iran remain in control of aonly a small part of it.

Fourthly, the US should force Abdullah II to abdicate the throne in Jordan and enable Mudar Zahran to take over the country as Israel’s ally.

America needs a strategy that can effectively counter the authoritarian collaboration between China, Russia, and Iran.

By CORBAN TEAGUE, & DANIEL TWINING,  NATIONAL REVIEW   JAN 23/24

The United States once again finds itself locked in a great-power competition with hostile revisionist powers. Like the first iteration, Cold War II is at its core an ideological clash over the future of the global order. Does Washington want a world in which the balance of power tilts toward freedom and individual liberty, or a world dominated by brutal autocrats oppressing their own people and terrorizing their neighbors?

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TOM NASH REPORT

By AMWAJ.MEDIA                                                             22 January 2024

Funeral procession held for Iranian troops killed in Syria whose bodies were recently identified, Tehran, Iran on Dec. 2, 2023. (Photo via Tasnim News Agency)

The story: In another major attack on senior Iranian military officers in Syria, five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed in suspected Israeli airstrikes. This comes barely a month after the most influential commander of the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force in the Levant lost his life in a similar incident. While Israel has long attacked Iranian positions in Syria, the recent string of brazen assassinations and the seniority of the targets have raised questions about Iran’s deterrence strategy.

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BY NITSANA DARSHAN-LEITNER,  – 01/15/24

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the Muqata in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

More than three months have passed since the Oct. 7 attack against Israel, and officials have warned that eradicating Hamas and its military capabilities will take many months, if not longer. Hamas spent 17 years and untold billions of dollars establishing a terror mini-state inside and underneath the Gaza Strip. Destroying the hundreds of miles of terror tunnels, eliminating battalions of trained killers and searching for hostages, all the while trying to avoid civilian casualties, is a slow-moving deliberate process. But still, as the fighting rages on, the talk in many world capitals — especially inside the beltway of Washington, D.C. — is about what to do the “day after” Hamas is removed from power.
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The Air Force has a central place in our concept of security, but in the surprise attack it clearly failed. The Air Force must make the necessary repairs as soon as possible. An open letter to the corps commander

Meir Most and Ofer Shalev, Mida  January 22, 2024

Where were they at the moment of truth? Photo: IDF spokesman

On Shabbat morning Simchat Torah, when the war broke out, they took from the military, generals, junior and senior commanders in the armor, the infantry brigades and the Harmash of the Tshal tanks and tigers and without any order they charged, shot the terrorists and when they ran out of ammunition they rushed forward and ran over the terrorists with their chains. The impressive example , of many kinds, are three tanks under the command of commanders and air defense units that raced dozens of kilometers, arrived, shot and ran over fifty terrorists. Heroes and heroines, soldiers and civilians who understood the gravity of the event and despite the vague and partial picture of the battle took a personal risk to save the residents of the surrounding area and fighters who were surprised A complete surprise. There are many examples in which we saw resourcefulness and an impressive personal initiative of soldiers, policemen, and other citizens who, without a battle image, and without any explicit guidance/order, took their personal weapons and flew to the surrounding area to rescue and save settlers and soldiers who were attacked in their beds.

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MEMRI

October 7 Proved That Liberating Palestine From The River To The Sea Is Realistic And Has Already Begun’

In a three-part interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki, posted during the second week of January 2024, Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas abroad, rejected the two-state solution. He said that there is a consensus among Palestinians that they will not give up their rights to Palestine from the Mediterranean River to the Mediterranean Sea. Mashal said that October 7 has renewed this dream and hope and shown that it is a realistic idea, not merely a dream. He stated that taking control of the Gaza Strip following the 2006 elections was necessary in order to build up the resistance, its weapons production, and tunnels, without any hindrance from the Palestinian Authority.

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By Jonathan Schanzer and Natalie Ecanow, NY POST   22 January 2024

Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured the Middle East this month in an effort to prevent a wider regional war.

But while Blinken was there, Jordanian jet fighters struck Iran-backed militias and narco-traffickers in Syria.

Jordan’s narco-battles have received scant attention but are part and parcel of Iran’s multifront offensive against the United States and its allies across the region.

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The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus

MK Danon to Arutz Sheva: We have to count only on ourselves

 “We should tell our allies in Washington that we appreciate their support, but we have to do whatever is necessary to win this war”.

“I think we should go back to the same way we acted at the beginning of the war,”

Explosion possibly caused by RPG attack as IDF prepared structures for demolition using explosives, with nearby tank hit by a missile; death toll in ground op reaches 219

By EMANUEL FABIAN, TOI

T. Belman. A new block has been formed consisting of Russia, China, Iran and Syria,  It will also include much of Africa. Will America abandon the ME or make moves to counter it,

By Simon Watkins, OIL PRICE – Jan 22, 2024, 8:50 AM CST

• Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei gave his official approval to a new 20-year comprehensive cooperation deal between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia.
• The agreement will replace the 10-year-deal signed in March 2001 and has been expanded not only in duration but also in scope and scale.
• The new deal includes far-going agreements on defense and energy.

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T. Belman. Russian SU-35 jets will be delivered to Iran in March.

By  admin, DEFENCE/STREET

F-35 vs Su-35: The comparison between the F-35 and the Su-35 is a subject of intense debate and speculation within the defense and aviation communities. Both fighter jets belong to different countries and represent advanced capabilities in their respective ways. The F-35, developed by Lockheed Martin for the United States and its allies, is a fifth-generation multi-role stealth fighter designed to excel in air-to-air combat, ground attack, and reconnaissance missions. On the other hand, the Su-35, manufactured by Russia’s Sukhoi, is a fourth-generation heavy-class fighter renowned for its maneuverability and advanced avionics.

Obsessive hatred of Israel by Hezbollah, the Houthis, Syria, and Iraqi militias threatens their own societies.

by ERIC BORDENKIRCHER, AMERICAN SPECTATOR ,      21 Jan 2024

The Israel-Hamas war has placed a spotlight on the absurdity enveloping the parts of the Arab world subjected to Iranian interference: Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.

Despite being afflicted by deepening financial and humanitarian crises and not having been attacked on October 7, leadership or entities in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq have responded to the Israel-Hamas war with aggression against Israel and its American ally. The response demonstrates the continued devaluation of standards, obscene priorities, the absence of accountability, and the rendering of life in these societies as meaningless. The disregard exhibited by the leadership and militias for the welfare of their country and their peoples, particularly ones already facing abject conditions, signals the presence of environments willing to entertain pyrrhic victories.

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