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

By Meir Ben Shabbat, INN    1 May 2024

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(JNS) 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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The army has already conducted large-scale urban warfare sweeps in Khan Yunis, Gaza City.

By Yaakov Lappin, JNS    2 May 2024

Israeli soldiers in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 14, 2024. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

As the War Cabinet waits for a reply from Hamas to the latest far-reaching, unprecedented Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the IDF has drawn up operational plans for large-scale urban warfare in Hamas’s last remaining bastion in Rafah, southern Gaza.

These plans rely on the massive experience the IDF has gained over recent months while fighting in Gaza City and Khan Yunis, including the ability to evacuate masses of civilians.
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By TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS    1 May 2024

Fraternity brothers were pelted by anti-Israel protesters (terrorists) at UNC Chapel Hill because they were protecting the United States flag. Thank God there are young people who understand what it means to respect our flag.

Pro-Hamas terrorists removed the American flag and replaced it with the Palestinian flag. Then, the terrorists attacked police while the police removed the Palestinian flag. When police moved in, the terrorists started attacking them and the students trying to protect the flag. These are not “peaceful protests.”

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Researchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and treatments.

By Ewen Callaway, NATURE    1 May 2024

A physician tends to a patient who is recovering from COVID-19. Credit: Remko de Waal/AFP via Getty

When Paul Zimmer-Harwood volunteered to be intentionally infected with SARS-CoV-2, he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was ready for a repeat of his first brush with COVID-19, through a naturally acquired infection that gave him influenza-like symptoms. But he hoped his immunity would help him feel well enough to use the indoor bicycle trainer that he had brought into quarantine.

It turned out that Zimmer-Harwood, a PhD student at University of Oxford, UK, had nothing to worry about. Neither he nor any of the 35 other people who participated in the ‘challenge’ trial actually got COVID-19.

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E. Rowell:  At the same time as various US agencies are trying to overturn democratically elected political leaders in Georgia, there are similar attempts being made in Eastern European countries whose people, like those of Hungary, do not want to submit to US and NATO plans for a wider war in Ukraine  or accept the globalist policies that have been funded by George Soros and other NGOs.  Headlines such as “Republika Srpska Moves to Establish new bank to bypass US Sanctions,” and “Slovakia becomes third country to reject EU Pact on Migration and Asylum,” and “Biden Administration continues to destabilize Bosnia,” and “Blinken receives stern warning from Azerbaijan to stop destabilizing the Caucasus.”  ( https://www.thebalkan.press)

By Sundance, CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE    1 May 2024

You may have heard of the protests in Tbilisi, Georgia recently. The protests are framed around what the State Dept and CIA call “Russian favored” legislation.

The Georgia legislation essentially says that domestic lobbyists, NGO’s, entities, groups and individuals who are funded more than 20% by foreign interests need to register as such.

Essentially, the USA law we call the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), is what the country of Georgia is enacting in their own political landscape.  However, the USA is not happy about the Georgia law to disclose the source of foreign funding (most of it anti-government) because the USA (specifically the State Dept and CIA) is the source of that funding.

This Georgia political scheme is yet another U.S. led color revolution in the same hues as 2014 Ukraine.

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By Bruce Thornton, FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE    1 May 2024

The sorry spectacles being staged at our most prestigious universities bespeak the accelerating degeneration of our future cognitive elites. How else do we describe the aggressive ignorance and moral idiocy of protestors who identify with sadistic, savage terrorists, and adopt the rhetoric and tropes of Nazi Germany? Who shamelessly smear Jews––the intended victims of Hamas’ widely publicized and celebrated genocidal aims­––the perpetrators of genocide? Who clearly know nothing of the region’s history, or that of Islam’s “settler colonialism” and millennium of imperialist depredations and slaving, or the Koranic foundations of that sanctified  aggression?

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By Mike Landry, WESTERN JOURNAL  May 1, 2024 at 4:01pm

We’ve learned some new terms in recent years.

“Insurrection” is one of them. And “lawfare.”

“Insurrection” is a favorite word thrown around by Democrats, journalists, squishy Republicans and legacy media consumers when discussing the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

“We saw it all,” they will tell you — an insurrection, with MAGA rioters carrying Trump, American and Gadsden flags climbing the walls of the Capitol, pushing aside police, threatening Congress, committing unspeakable terror on the scale of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or even the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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Peloni:  The US has become the greatest state sponsor of terrorism, not only in the world, but in world history…and this is not likely to change under the current regime in Washington.  Americans, particularly American Jews, should cast their votes with care and consideration in November, as the consequences of making the wrong choice could never be more pivotal than it stands currently.

Robert Spencer, Front Page Magazine    May 1, 2024

It’s all out in the open now. The House voted 366-58 on Saturday to send $9.1 billion to Gaza, and that means $9.1 billion to Hamas. This isn’t the first time that the Biden regime has made clear which side it’s on, and it likely won’t be the last. But this time, Old Joe and his henchmen are getting some pushback.

The $9.1 billion is earmarked, of course, as “humanitarian assistance,” but that ruse is fooling fewer and fewer people. Just The News reported Friday that the bill is “under scrutiny” in the first place because the amount that Gaza will be getting is “significantly more than the annual gross domestic product of the Gaza Strip,” and no safeguards are in place to ensure that the money will not fall into the wrong hands: “critics say the U.S. is essentially funding Hamas through the bill.”

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By Cristina Laila, GATESTONE PUNDIT       May. 1, 2024 5:20 pm

James O’Keefe last Friday warned he was about to release the most important story of his entire career.

“I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it’s on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career,” O’Keefe said on Friday.
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Caroline Glick, JNS    May 1, 2024

Antisemitic riots break out across US college campuses while the Biden administration and some university leaders do nothing.

It is unlikely Israel’s Patriots will head for the Scrap Heap

Stephen Bryen, Weapons and Strategy Substack    May 1, 2024

GEM-T Missile Launch

While Europe is in the process of setting up a production line to manufacture GEM-T missiles for European Patriot batteries, Israel has decided to take its Patriot systems out of service. Do the Israelis know something the Europeans do not?

The GEM-T, or Guidance-enhanced tactical missiles, are part of the Patriot PAC-2 air defense system. This missile can intercept aircraft, drones,helicopters and some tactical missiles. It may be able to hit glide bombs like the ones being used by the Russians in Ukraine.

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Former president Donald Trump has blasted “brainwashed” anti-Israel protesters arrested by the NYPD after the Columbia University campus was raided on Tuesday night (local time).

NYPD officers dressed in riot gear were filmed climbing through the window of the university campus which was being occupied by anti-Israel protesters.

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Maya Platek calls for dialogue at a school overrun by an angry and defiant mob.

By William McGurn, WSJ April 29/24

Main Street: Joe Biden may be in for a rerun of 1968, with a ruinous Democratic Chicago convention. Image: Jaime Carrero/ZUMA Press Wire

Meet the surprising president-elect of the student body of the School of General Studies, one of Columbia University’s four undergraduate colleges. Her name is Maya Platek. She is a proud Israeli who once worked for the Israel Defense Forces spokesperson’s unit.

Anyone watching the goings-on at the university’s Morningside Heights campus these past two weeks might easily mistake Columbia for a wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas Inc. Ms. Platek’s election throws a wrench into the protester narratives. It signals that at least some at Columbia want students to be able to walk the campus without harassment—and life to get back to normal.

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T. Belman.  It looks like Pennsylvania is in the bag for Trump.

By Cristina Laila, GATEWAY PUNDIT Apr. 30, 2024 5:40 pm

Last month the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail-in ballots with no dates cannot be counted by Pennsylvania election officials.

Democrats use this tactic frequently to add more ballots to their candidate’s totals following election day.
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By Jennifer Van Laar | Red State |     April 30, 2024

Parent @UCLA gave permission to release this audio of her phone call with @UCLAPD as they describe the school's directive to allow protestors to restrict the movement of Jewish students.

"Are the protestors allowed to block students who are paying tuition from classes? No, but… pic.twitter.com/qBo9TKci3v

— Stephanie? (@stephsvox) April 30, 2024

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By Matthew Xiao, FREE BEACON APRIL 30/24

A Monday poll found that nearly three-quarters of Americans support Israel’s planned military operation to enter the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and eliminate the remaining Hamas terrorists there.

Seventy-two percent of Americans think Israel should “move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties,” while 28 percent believe the Jewish state should “back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza,” according to the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll.

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by JERUSALEM POST STAFF,    April 27, 2024

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Columbia University has elected Israeli student Maya Platek as Columbia student government president for the 2024-2025 school year, the organization Students Supporting Israel (SSI) announced Friday.

The election of an Israeli student for the role comes as the Columbia campus experiences an overwhelming wave of anti-Israel protests and encampments.

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T. Belman. Of course, that’s before election fraud kicks in.

Trump leads Biden in the seven swings states both in a head-to-head matchup, as well as when third-party candidates are added in.

By Johnathan Jones, WESTERN JOURNAL  April 30, 2024 at 8:05am

While universities across the country have let anti-Israel demonstrators take over their campuses, the University of Florida has taken a different approach.

Not only will school administrators not think twice about removing disruptive agitators from university property, but a UF spokesman tacitly fired off an insult at pro-Hamas, American lost youth on Monday.

Nine people were arrested in Gainesville after protesters chose to ignore warnings from the school in regard to what would and wouldn’t be allowed on campus.

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