The deadlock in negotiations for the release of Israeli captives, coupled with American accusations against the group, has paved the way for the offensive.

(April 30, 2024 / Israel Hayom)

As signs of an imminent IDF operation in Rafah intensify, there is growing concern that Israel will unnecessarily exercise self-imposed restraint by acting with insufficient force, so as not to upset the Biden administration, the Egyptians, or the ICC prosecutor at The Hague.

Meanwhile, Hamas is exploiting the prolonged waiting period and preparing well for the ground operation in this sector, which will undoubtedly pose complex operational challenges for the IDF. Despite the political pressures, Israel’s decision-makers must make it a top priority to attain the objectives with minimal risk to the lives of our forces.

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Journalist Amit Segal explains how the most politically sound move for Netanyahu is to ensure victory over Hamas.

INN    April 29, 2024

Netanyhu

CNN interviewed Israeli journalist Amit Segal about the current status of the hostages negotiations.

“Hamas has been demanding one thing that Israel cannot give – the end of the war. That is why I am pessimistic about the negotiations – they understand that they will be finished if the war continues for just six more weeks.”

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Peloni:  And herein is where the rubber meets the road, as Islamists of every persuasion feel welcomed at the court of the duplicitous Hashemite kinglet.  This is a great distinction from what will characterize the operational phase of the Jordanian Option, as no Islamists will be tolerated by Mudar in Jordan for the simple fact that Mudar and the Islamists, all of them, are mortal enemies.  Hence, the sea change which will take place under the enactment of the JO will see the Islamists completely isolated from a realm in which they have exercised significant influence and in which they still currently hold significant authority.  This is why Marzook stated clearly that if they are forced from the comforts which they currently hold in Qatar that they will seek similar comforts under the protection of the Hashemites.  For those who refuse to recognize that the Hashemites represent an obstacle to peace rather than any solution to it, this revelation should be seen as a significant surprise.  It shouldn’t, however, be surprising to any of us, as Mudar has been warning us of this fact for many years now.

‘We (Hamas) will determine the fate of the war, not the Zionist regime or the USA, who thought they could destroy Hamas in a week.’

INN     April 29, 2024

Mousa Abu Marzook

Mousa Abu Marzook, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, denies reports regarding the Hamas leadership leaving Qatar, calling them ‘media propaganda with no basis in reality’.

In an interview with the Iranian channel ‘Al-Alam’, Abu Marzook said that the reports were intended to pressure Hamas in the context of indirect negotiations on a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange (hostages in exchange for security prisoners).

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Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge    April 29, 2024

Gen. Syrskyi and President Zelensky

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has just issued a new dire assessment confirming widespread international reports that Ukraine forces are getting beaten back from the frontlines.

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‘Each tranche of footage released from Jan. 6 provides a more complete picture of that day and additional transparency to the American people.’

By Joseph M. Hanneman, EPOCH TIMES   April 28/24

The more than 20,000 hours of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol security video made public by a GOP-controlled House committee since November 2023 have started to fill in details long hidden by the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ordered security video be uploaded to publicly accessible servers beginning last November. Eventually, staff from the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight established a channel on the video platform Rumble to store the footage.

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By Caroline Glick, JNS    28 April 2024

Tragically for the country, to stop this left-wing madness, the Trump travesties may not be the end, but the beginning of precisely what the Founders feared.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AMGREATNESS April 29/24.

Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases—prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis—were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right during the 2024 campaign season.

These local, state, and federal Lilliputian agendas were designed to tie down, gag, confine, bankrupt, and destroy Trump psychologically and physically. They are the final lawfare denouement to years of extra-legal efforts to emasculate him.
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By Phyllis Chesler, RUTHFULLY YOURS    29 April 2024

Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Genghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?

By Peter Nichols, AM THINKER April 29/24

The effect of the October 7 atrocity and its aftermath upon Jews in the United States is the ostensible topic of Peter Beinart’s recent op-ed in the New York Times, “The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life.” Actually, Mr. Beinart demonstrates a rupture in the lives of Jewish leftists such as he, who discover that they can no longer be one with their non-Jewish comrades unless they denounce Zionism (i.e., the cause of Israel).

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US Troops to Ukraine After Biden is Reelected?

By Stephen Bryen, WEAPONS AND STRATEGY     25 April 2024

Mercenaries training with wooden guns in Ukraine

NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine.  They are in uniform and mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the actual fighting in the east.  Soldiers from Poland, France, the UK, Finland and other NATO members are arriving in larger numbers.  These troops are not mercenaries.  They wear the flag of their country on their shirts.

Speaking of mercenaries, Russia says there are over 3,100 in Ukraine.

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Peloni:   A must watch video.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, The Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Podcast Apr 25, 2024

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in person with Mosab Hassan Yousef. They discuss the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, the chaos created by Yasser Arafat, how Palestine has globalized their radical cause, Mosabs time as a prisoner, what set him free, and the far-from-paved road going forward.

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Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge    April 28, 2024

Politico Illustration/Photo by AP,Getty Images, iStock

Qatar has had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. While we knew about the EU’s ‘Qatargate,’ investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advancing Qatar’s interests, Politico reports that the Biden family’s ties to Qatar “would constitute some of the closest known financial links between a relative of President Joe Biden and a foreign government,” if courtroom testimony about Jim Biden’s foreign fundraising efforts is substantiated.

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?BREAKING: Smotrich threatens to bring down the government if the Egyptian hostage deal is accepted. He demands an immediate assault on #Rafah?? #Gaza #Israel #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/n3WNsYtJko

— Dr Lens Veritatis (@LensVeritatis) April 28, 2024

Wash away the madness with logical evidence.

By Conrad Black, NATIONAL POST    April 27, 2024

I have written here and elsewhere countless times before of the dangers of responding prematurely to alarmist concerns about climate change. Dr. Benny Peiser of the British Global Warming Policy Foundation spoke to the Friends of Science Society in Calgary earlier this month, warning that Europe’s extremist net zero carbon emission policies may get to Canada even though they are now running into extreme problems in Europe. The North American media has not much reported on the widespread and often violent farmer protests in Europe, which has caused every government that has been put to the test to scale back their aggressive climate-change policies.

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by Michael Makovsky, PhD and Gen Charles “Chuck” Wald, USAF (ret.), JINSA  April 28, 2024

An obscure bureaucratic change enabled the extremely successful, coordinated defense of Israel against the recent Iranian attack. President Donald Trump’s January 2021 decision to transfer Israel to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) ensured the unprecedented Israeli-American-British-Arab collaboration that repelled 99 percent of Iran’s missiles and drones.

Prior to 2021, Israel was assigned to the U.S. European Command’s (EUCOM) area of responsibility. Based on geography and threats, Israel belonged to CENTCOM, the U.S. military’s Middle East command. Arab countries, however, did not want to be part of a forum with Israel, and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) leaders were satisfied and didn’t request a CENTCOM transfer. Until the last decade, the CENTCOM commander didn’t generally travel to Israel, his EUCOM counterpart’s turf, though the two American commanders began to meet periodically with the Israeli military chief.
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E. Rowell:  As a young teenager I asked my stepmom a question to which she replied, “It all depends on what you want out of life.”  I remember feeling a bit dumbstruck.  It hadn’t yet occurred to me that I could choose what I wanted out of life!  That simple, seemingly offhand comment of my stepmom’s made a huge difference in my life:  it was empowering, for which I will always be grateful.

By J. B. Shurk, AMERICAN THINKER    28 April 2024

Image via PickPIk.

Every once in a while, someone expresses to me the feeling that all is lost.  Politics and current events are a daily gut punch, and it is impossible to avoid the cultural revolution exploding just outside our windows.  These are, indeed, troubling times for weary souls.

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E. Rowell:  The motive of the Obama-Biden Administration to foil Israel’s ability to win the war against Hamas is clear.  The sum of all their efforts on a regular basis goes to preventing Israel from completing the mission in Gaza while protecting Iran and her proxies.  They want to prevent a triumphant Israel at all costs.  This is unacceptable to the majority of Americans who support Israel.  In addition, the efforts which they created and now support, to cultivate anti-Zionism and Jew hatred on college campuses, has led directly to the genocidal groups on campuses, threatening Jews and Israelis.  This is psychological warfare against Jewish people everywhere.  Now even democrat voters are disgusted with both the Pro-Palestinian rioters and this administration’s craven Jew hatred.

Mishaps and mortars and cargo and kitchens.

By  J. E. Dyer, THE OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE   26 April 2024

It’s tempting to place a major focus on the mishaps now besetting the U.S. temporary pier project off Gaza.  But we’re going to get past that lightly, for a brief, even more important discussion of a couple of unbudging realities in the overall situation.

One is that the Biden administration continues to try to thwart Israel’s strategy for Gaza, which is to eliminate Hamas as a factor there and reset post-Hamas conditions for long-term arrangements as advantageously as possible for stability and Israeli security.

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By Barry Shaw

In February 2024, Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Defense Minister, revealed that at least 12 UNRWA Gaza staffers actively participated in the 7 October butchery of rape, torture, murder and hostage taking, and that at least 1,500 UNRWA workers had active ties to terror groups stating that UNRWA  has “lost all legitimacy and can no longer function as a UN body” in good faith.

UNRWA, in an attempt to persuade governments to reinstate their funding for this corrupt anti-Israel organization, is preparing what they call an impartial committee to produce a report intended to whitewash this Hamas infected organization of all its sins by claiming there is no truth to the claims that UNRWA has been guilty of indoctrinating a generation of Palestinians to hate Israel and a world without Israel.

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By Isabel Vincent, NEW YORK POST    26 April 2024

ISRAEL HATE CAMPS EXPLODE-FUNDED BY SOROS

George Soros is paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

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A Rubicon has been crossed, and advance troops are already besieging various outposts of our taken-for-granted institutions and assumptions about our social lives. 

By Roger Kimball, AMGREATNESS

Iwould wager that a million or more words have been written about the trials and tribulations—but especially the trials—of Donald Trump. I have written quite a few myself, here at American Greatness and elsewhere.

Some stories from the left are of the gleefully salivating variety. “Goodie! The Bad Orange Man is Getting His and Might Even go to Jail.  Hallelujah!”
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