By Kenneth Timmerman, AFPI                                    23 January 2024

THE OCTOBER 7 ATTACKS: HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?

October 7, 2023 was the single largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. “Never again” actually happened—again—for every Jew in Israel to see.

Three generations of Israelis have grown up believing that the events of the Third Reich were history and that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) protected Jews from similar massacres. On October 7, they woke up to see the atrocities happening again, but this time inside Israel.

The sheer size of the October 7 attack—15 times as many causalities per capita as 9/11 in the U.S.—has affected every Israeli. In addition to the families of those killed and taken hostage are the families of some 300,000 IDF soldiers and reservists currently fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in northern Israel. Every Israeli family has someone directly involved.

How could Israel so thoroughly have let down its guard?

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T. Belman. “This is the best plan that there is for the future. No other Plan comes close”. That was my first assessment..  I have since changed my mind. Wise wants to allow 1.8 million  Palestinians into Israel in the belief that they will abandon their hatred of Israel.  He doesn’t even discuss how this is to be done. The predominat thought in Israel is Israelis don’t want to live next to a palestinian state let alone invite them into Israel.

Turning the “Day After” into Lasting Peace: 

Israel Must Declare Sovereignty and Preserve the Rights of the Palestinians  

1.     Introduction

There is a raging debate with respect to the “Day After” plan for Gaza and the West Bank.  What will be the status of Gaza and West Bank after Israel accomplishes its mission in Gaza? President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have adamantly supported the creation of a Palestinian state as a critical element of the “Day After” Plan. They believe that the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people can only be realized with the creation of a Palestinian state encompassing Gaza and the West Bank (Judea & Samaria) and that a two-state solution is critical for future peace in Israel.

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By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE                                    25 January 2024

• “It’s disheartening to know that among the fallen heroes are Bedouin and Druze soldiers, Muslims, and Christians who courageously defended our country. The Bedouin community mourns all civilian victims, regardless of their background — Jews, Christians, or Muslims. This brings me to a crucial point: we all share the same destiny, and our strength lies in unity. Unfortunately, there are those who seek to undermine cooperation between different sectors, sowing seeds of mistrust. I urge you not to be swayed by such attempts and to stand strong in our shared commitment to unity.” — IDF Sergeant First Class (reserve) Ahmed Abu Latif, 26, a husband and father to a one-year-old baby, who was killed on January 22 during the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Facebook, November 13, 2023,

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‘Let me know of one Palestinian in Gaza who tried to save a Jew and maybe I’ll change my mind’

By Deborah Danan, TABLET    24 January 2024

Palestinians cross the Gaza-Israel border fence in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 7, 2023/© YUSEF MOHAMMED/IMAGESLIVE VIA ZUMA PRESS WIRE

Eyal Barad was in the safe room of his home in Nir Oz for more than 12 hours on Oct. 7 while Palestinians went on a rampage of his Gaza envelope kibbutz, eventually kidnapping or murdering more than a quarter of its residents.

Every so often, Barad, 40, was forced to cover his 6-year-old daughter’s mouth with his hand to stifle her squeals. The little girl, who is autistic, thought the whole thing was a game. Most of the time, though, Barad was glued to his phone, watching the live feed of a camera he had recently installed outside his home to monitor speeding cars. Images from the feed, which I obtained, show Palestinian women and children—some appearing as young as 8 years old—taking part in the horror of that day.

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T. Belman. I met with the author of this article who happens to be a long time friend of mine for well over an hour. He is pushing the One State Plan as the answer to Oct 7. It involves the annexation of A, B, and C. All Arabs living there would be given Blue Cards. This article explains it further.

T. Belman. This idea is far from dead,Currently activists are approach ing
Ted Cruz and Michael Johnson to pas a resolution demanding all Arab states that receive US Aid to take in Gazans or have their aid cut.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS  jAN 2/24

The debate continues in Israel about voluntary migration as the only effective solution for the festering humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, and even as a whopping majority of Israelis tell pollsters that they support the move (68% in a December 24 Direct Polls survey supported it strongly, and 15% were quite supportive), the political echelon is far from reflecting the public’s mood on the subject.

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T. Belman.  I agree with the government.  No more work permits. I am not concerned about a potential intafada, I do not believe it will happen. But if it does they will get their asses kicked.  Why should we want to strengthen the PA?

In unusual move, officials speak-out against decision made by political leadership including to prevent Palestinian workers from entering Israel, ignoring and weakening PA further amid financial crisis, while Hamas funnels funds into West Bank

By Elisha Ben Kimon, YNET

Security officials have been voicing concerns over a possible flare-up in the violence on the West Bank that could lead to a third intifada, Palestinian uprising, due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to further prohibit Palestinians from entering Israel for work.

In an unusual move, a defense official spoke out against the political leaders who are preventing a discussion on the matter. “The same politicians who are inciting, calling for the Palestinian Authority to be dissolved and insisting on preventing Palestinian workers from entering the country, are knowingly and maybe intentionally, leading to a third intifada,” he said.
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By Bret Stephens, NYT

A house destroyed by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel.Credit…Ohad Zwigenberg/Associated Press

In recent decades, as many as three million people perished in a famine in North Korea that was mainly government-induced. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were gassed, bombed, starved or tortured to death by the Assad regime, and an estimated 14 million were forced to flee their homes. China has put more than a million Uyghurs through gulag-like re-education camps in a thinly veiled attempt to suppress and erase their religious and cultural identity.

But North Korea, Syria and China have never been charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice. Israel has. How curious. And how obscene.

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Caroline Glick, JNS January 24, 2024

How do the left and right see Oct. 7th? Is the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and the aftermath putting American Jews in an uncomfortable position?

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BY TYLER DURDEN, ZERO HEDGE  WEDNESDAY, JAN 24, 2024 – 12:00 PM

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