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The false moral equivalence of ‘settler violence’  

There is no culture of Jewish violence in Judea and Samaria.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF

 

Givat Eitam, near Efrat, September 2007. Photo by Michal Fattal/Flash90.

(December 6, 2023 / JNS) At a time when Israel is reeling from the monstrous Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, it is distressing and more than a bit surreal to see a newfound effort by some to create a moral counterweight to Hamas in the form of “settler violence.”

This obsession has mesmerized many sanctimonious finger pointers, from U.S. President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken to a conga line of commentators desperate to claim: Yes, Hamas is bad, but let’s face it, they’re Palestinians, so what do you expect? But, they say, the Jews, who are trampling the rights and usurping peace-loving Palestinians, are not only morally reprehensible but pose a grave threat to the entire region.

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December 7, 2023 | 6:03 am | Comments »

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“The US is examining the possibility of a settlement process and an agreement between Israel and Lebanon”  

Peloni: The US is looking to solidify their move to reverse the recognition of Israel’s annexation of the Golan which was begun over the  summer as they further their realignment towards Iran at Israel’s expense.  They are even employing the same diplomat who pushed thru Israel’s capitulation on the gas deal while doing so.  As Michael Doran notes, “This is very bad” for Israel.”

Bibi must not be manipulated into capitulating to American demands as Bennet and Lapid did with the Maritime deal.

Aksi see Tony Badran’s comments at the bottom.

Google translation:

*Breaking: The US is examining the possibility of a settlement process and an agreement between Israel and Lebanon on the land border between them, similar to the maritime border agreement signed in 2022, Israeli officials say. They said that White House official Amos Hochstein, who was a key mediator in obtaining the maritime border deal and has been dealing with reducing the chance of escalation in the north since October 7, examining the possibility of convening a similar mechanism to reach an agreement in the border disputes between Beirut and Jerusalem. These disputes refer, among other things, to Mount Dov. The National Security Council and the US Embassy in Tel Aviv did not respond to the matter.

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December 7, 2023 | 2:58 am | 3 Comments »

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Will Israel actively encourage migration of Gazans?  

While there is no talk on forcible transfer and no official plan has been discussed, there appear to be two camps over how Israel should address this question, in view that refugees in a war zone should be allowed to travel to host countries if they want to.

 By  Mati Tuchfeld, ISRAEL HAYOM    Dec 4/23

Gazans move to the south on the humanitarian corridor during Operation Swords of Iron | Photo: Dana Ben-Shimon

When the ceasefire was in effect, the War Cabinet ministers made it clear time and again that this was just a temporary pause. In fact, all the government ministers said that. They made it clear not only to the citizens of Israel but also to world leaders, chiefly among them President Joe Biden.

October 7 was a seminal moment when an entire nation was humiliated and was dealt a painful blow. Even as Cabinet ministers instructed the IDF to cease fire, it was important for them to convey a united front and stress that the fire would resume after the pause. This was maintained even in closed-door security consultations in the larger and smaller versions of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet.

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December 6, 2023 | 6:48 pm | 6 Comments »

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Israel Won Mankind’s First Ever Space Battle by Destroying Houthi Missile Outside Atmosphere  

By Oliver JJ Lane, BREITBART 6 December 2023

ISRAEL – DECEMBER 16: In this handout photo, an Israeli Arrow anti-missile missile is launched in a successful test to detect and obliterate a high-altitude target missile early morning December 16, 2003 from an central Israel Air Force (IAF) base. The test was the sixth in a series examining the operational performance of the Arrow, now deployed by the IAF, intended to protect Israel from ballistic missile attacks. (Photo by Israeli Aircraft Industries/Getty Images)[/caption]

Israel deployed its Arrow long-range air defence missile for the first time last month, shooting down a ballistic missile in outer space, which is being called the first space battle.

Houthi terrorists launched an Iranian-made Ghadr-110 ballistic missile at Israel last month which was intercepted by an IDF Arrow 2 missile. Incredibly, the interception took place well out of Earth’s atmosphere above the 100km (62 mile) Karman Line, which denotes the boundary of outer space.

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December 6, 2023 | 6:47 pm | 2 Comments »

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Pence’s Role in the Events of Jan. 6 Is Far More Significant Than Many Realize | Truth Over News  

Peloni: History comes from studying  timelines and exploring the stories which are revealed by doing so.  Relatedly, the events which took place on January 6 was not just an event, as it was the culmination of a staged process to make the insurrection of November 3 irreversible.  Do recall that the government assets which were moved into Washington were aware of Pence’s decision long before Jan 6, even as Pence clearly made every effort to obscure his decision til four minutes before the Jan 6 ‘insurrection’ hoax was put into motion.  Indeed, the raised expectations for Pence and the Congress to act and the contrasting revelation that they were not going to do so, was the very atmosphere around which the ‘attack’ was staged.  Hence, the question remains if Pence’s misleading comments which set the stage for the faux Capital attack on January 6 was the limit of his involvement in the events of that day.  Do recall the following as well:

Patrick Byrne: Been telling people this since the start: J6 was supposed to be at the Mall, where sober government scientists were prepared to explain to Congress our concerns. But Pence’s staff took over January 4, cancelled the scientists, and turned it into a vapid pep rally at the White House. Bad judgement, or sabotage?

The answer to these questions will not remain unanswered forever, as I suspect that History will one day come to reveal the full tale of January 6, and the degree to which Pence was knowingly or not involved in setting the stage for that fateful event.

Jeff Carlson, Epoch Times  Dec-01-2023

The recent release of the first round of January 6 tapes by the new House Speaker Mike Johnson, marked an important milestone, and may play a very real role in the upcoming elections.

It was the first real pushback against a fictional story created by the Left and carried by the media. The impact of the tapes, although difficult to quantify, should not be overlooked. Most of us have known all along that the “January 6 Insurrection” narrative was a hoax—albeit a very effective one—that was perpetrated by the Left, but for many the release of the tapes was their first exposure to an alternative version of events that had been force-fed to them by the January 6 Committee and the media.

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December 6, 2023 | 5:52 pm | 6 Comments »

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‘Israeli female soldiers shot in crotch, vagina, breasts on October 7’  

T. Belman.  Force yourself to read this. And watch this video.

“It was often impossible for families to be shown faces – and it seems as if mutilation of these women’s faces was an objective in their murders.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST Dec 6/23

(Warning: This story describes deeply disturbing events and testimonials in graphic detail.)

Expressions of agony survived their deaths, army reservist Shari Mendes said as she described what experts saw when they identified and prepared for burial the bodies of female victims of Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

“These women arrived with their eyes open, their mouths grimacing, their fists clenched,” said Mendes, whose IDF rabbinical unit worked with the bodies, all of which were brought to the IDF’s Shura base.

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December 6, 2023 | 4:45 pm | 18 Comments »

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MK Forer to INN: ‘Legislate removal of terrorists’ families – enough acceptance’  

MK Oded Forer calls on government to pass law to remove terrorists’ families from Israel, prevent terrorists from returning home after release from prison.

By Yoni Kempinski, INN   6 December 2023

Oded Forer

MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu) believes that a bill removing terrorists’ families from Israel should be passed as quickly as possible, and will increase deterrence against terror.

“We do not have a desire to make headlines and media noise, but truly to give another tool to the defense echelon in their battle against terror,” Forer told Israel National News – Arutz Sheva in an interview.

“This bill was legislated and passed its preliminary reading at the start of the year, and since then it has been stuck. I have no intention of allowing this bill to become a declaration of a law – like this government has done many times. We need to advance this bill.”

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December 6, 2023 | 4:41 pm | Comments »

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Ben Gvir: More than 260,000 people have applied for a gun license since October 7  

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI,4 December 2023, 4:30 pm

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says more than 260,000 new requests for a firearm have been submitted to his ministry since the October 7 outbreak of Israel’s war with Hamas.

The requests are in line with Ben Gvir’s successful push to ease eligibility requirements for applying for a firearm license, which his ministry says has increased the potential permitted pool by “tens of thousands.”

“When the war started, we knew that we were right when we said that every place that has a weapon can save a life,” Ben Gvir says at the outset of his Otzma Yehudit faction meeting in the Knesset.

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December 6, 2023 | 4:29 pm | Comments »

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Israel now willing to discuss post-war Gaza, U.S. officials say  

People gather around a fire near the rubble of a building in war-torn Gaza.
Palestinians gather around an evening fire amid the rubble left by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza. Photo: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Israel is showing more willingness to discuss plans for Gaza after the war, according to two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of talks this week between the Israeli government and the Biden administration.

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December 6, 2023 | 7:22 am | 14 Comments »

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“Who is the Prime Minister anyway?”  

Google Translation:

Without detracting from the importance of the revelations about the nightly consultation of the heads of the security establishment, about the presentation of the commander of the division and the emails of the counter-intelligence on 8200, and also about the reckless decision not to send an alert to the forces in the field, but in all the revelations and discussions in the studios they make sure to ignore the giant elephant in the room: the decision The unfathomable decision of the top of the security establishment to isolate the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense from intelligence information that is important enough to wake up and put on the line the Chief of Staff, the head of the Shin Bet, the head of the Defense Forces, the head of the Operations Division and the RLS of the head of the IMN.

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December 6, 2023 | 2:43 am | 6 Comments »

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US announces visa ban on ‘extremist settlers’  

Peloni:  This will be the new stick which the US uses to target any Israeli opposing US peace policy.  Notably, the US did not keep Abu Mazen out of the US in spite of his Pay for Slay policy, nor did it keep the Iranians out of the US despite their brutalizing, torture and murder of independently minded Iranian women, not to speak off their assaults on US and allied forces in the region.  Yet, anyone in Israel who is assessed to be “undermining peace, security or stability in the West Bank” will fall prey to this visa ban.  They might as well as hung a sign stating, “Only Lefties Allowed”.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces sanctions against Jews accused of attacking Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today (Tuesday) announced a visa ban on “extremist settlers” who are accused of attacking Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

“We have underscored to the Israeli government the need to do more to hold accountable extremist settlers who have committed violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank,” Blinken said. “As President Biden has repeatedly said, those attacks are unacceptable.”

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December 6, 2023 | 2:20 am | 16 Comments »

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Rockets under relief supplies raise questions about UNRWA  

Released hostages says UNRWA teacher held him captive.

By Pesach Benson,  JNS 3 Dec 2023


Hamas rockets found hidden among boxes of UNRWA relief supplies in northern Gaza, Dec. 2, 2023. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.

“Israeli soldiers found missiles and military gear hidden among U.N. relief supplies in the northern Gaza Strip,” the Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday.

One hundred ten rockets, including 30 Grad rockets, were found hidden among boxes belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which supports Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the IDF said.
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December 6, 2023 | 1:29 am | 3 Comments »

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Hamas in Jerusalem  

The terror organization is using schools and non-profits to spread incitement and terrorism.

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, JNS  Opinion 5 Dec 2023  

Palestinians fly Hamas flags after Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 22, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad

Israel has set the elimination of Hamas as a military threat and a political entity in the Gaza Strip as its primary objective in the current war. But vanquishing Hamas in Gaza is not enough, because Hamas’s tentacles stretch far beyond the Strip. In fact, Hamas’s ideological center and active secondary arena is Jerusalem.

Hamas employs a precise methodology in order to spread its ideology and recruit terrorists. It imitates the practices of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has long incubated radical Islamic movements, including Hamas itself. Now almost a century old, the Brotherhood seeks to win the hearts and minds of Arabs by providing legitimate social and cultural services, and then using them a stepping stone to political power.

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December 6, 2023 | 12:09 am | 3 Comments »

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Biden Unfreezing $6B for Iran Funded Proxy Forces Attacking U.S. Ships, Troops  

Kash Patel, former President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief of staff, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Monday slammed President Biden for reversing the Trump administration’s designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization.

By Kristina Wong,  BREITBART    4 Dec 2023

“The Trump administration prioritized designating terrorist groups as terrorist groups, both at the State Department at Treasury and across all other government agencies. And we designated the Houthis as a terrorist group, even though a lot of people in the media were like, ‘Oh you can’t do that, we won’t be able to provide humanitarian aid.’”

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December 5, 2023 | 4:49 pm | 2 Comments »

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Weimar America  

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS     Dec 4/23

Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

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December 5, 2023 | 7:29 am | Comments »

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