By Targeting Swiss And German Ships, The Houthi Militants Signaled A Shift In Their Blockade – From Targeting Israel To Targeting The Entire Western World
MEMRI 29 December 2023
On December 17, 2023, Chinese professor and military expert Yun Hua, who is a faculty member at the PLA’s National Defense University, shared a video on his Douyin account in which he said that the Houthis have done China a “big favor” by having “indirectly accelerated the shift from maritime to land transportation for Eurasian trade.” He elaborated that this shift will likely benefit China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which contributes to “China’s international strategy to sever U.S. hegemony, undermine American sea power, and promote global multipolarity.”
Howard Rotberg
Very sad indeed. I can’t stop watching interviews with survivors or relatives of those massacred at the Nova concert.. We Jews have had enough of survivors and the ones who didn’t survive, whether it was from the Shoa or this new Shoah. If you can stand it, watch;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
French-Israeli says she was instructed on what to say in videos; was held by a family that played mind games, withheld food, taunted her; man who operated on her arm told her ‘You’re not going home alive’
By AMY SPIRO and MICHAEL HOROVITZ 29 December 2023, 10:58 pm
Released hostage Mia Schem, 21, described going through “hell” while in the Gaza Strip in a pair of televised interviews that both aired on Friday evening.
Schem was shot in the arm and taken hostage from the Supernova music festival on October 7, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst into southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and dragging around 240 into Gaza. Some 360 partygoers were killed during the assault on the music festival, and another 36 were taken hostage.
Rep. Clay: “These buses were nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capital on January 6.”
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Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel
Ron Ben Yishai|YNET December 29, 2023
Iran was set to deliver sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon in preparation for an expanding confrontation with Israel, including precise weapons, mostly rockets, missiles and drones, to be used against Israeli cities and sensitive sites.
As the U.S. was supplying Israel with military aid, so is Iran delivering weapons to its regional allies, in transports through the Damascus airport mostly, while other weapons transports arrive through other locations.
If it is not a ‘conflict,’ what is it exactly? It is a war against Jews and has been for well over a century.
By Laureen Lipsky, ISRAEL HAYOM 29 December 2023
We often hear the phrase, “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” everywhere – in the media, from Israeli officials, written in articles, repeated by foreign policy think tanks and U.S. politicians. It is ubiquitous. They are all incorrect. A “conflict” indicates two equal sides laying credible claim over a disputed issue.
The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.
By Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine 19 December 2023
Greta Thunberg at a climate march in Amsterdam, Nov. 12, 2023 ROGER ANIS/GETTY IMAGES
Polls showing that Palestinians in the West Bank as well as Gaza continue to celebrate and support Hamas, with nearly 75% backing the Oct. 7 massacre that killed 1,200 in southern Israel, would seem to dash U.S. policymakers’ hopes of gaining momentum toward establishing a Palestinian state.
But for the Palestinians, that’s irrelevant. Why should they bother with arduous negotiations leading to compromise over two noncontiguous plots of land when they already have something far greater and much rarer? Empire.
Peloni: An interesting change of tone from the previous outrageous challenge that Israel has no right to respond to October 7 made before the UN last month. Could this change of tone be related to the recent move by Russia to support UAE’s rights to islands which have been contested with Iran or is it just coincidental?
The fight against Nazism is what historically unites Russia and the Middle Eastern country, the foreign minister said.
RT December 28, 2023
Israel’s declared goals of its ongoing operation against Hamas militants in Gaza seem nearly identical to Moscow’s in its campaign against the Ukrainian government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Thursday.
Peloni: Warning: The article contains frank descriptions of the brutality which victims endured on October 7.
A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.
Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz and Dec. 28, 2023
Gal Abdush’s parents, center, and her sisters. The photograph on the wall shows Gal and her husband, Nagi. The couple had been together since they were teenagers.
At first, she was known simply as “the woman in the black dress.”
In a grainy video, you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes.
The video was shot in the early hours of Oct. 8 by a woman searching for a missing friend at the site of the rave in southern Israel where, the day before, Hamas terrorists massacred hundreds of young Israelis.
Israel Update Decemeber 27, 2023
A precision strike in Syria killed Iranian General Razi Mousavi. Iran blames Israel for the assassination. Why did Israel do it? How will Iran respond? Gadi Taub and Mike Doran discuss the reasons and possible repercussions. Also on this episode: the bizarre political imagination of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and the American attempt to push Prime Minister Netanyahu into a political crisis with his coalition partners. And not least: our picks of the dumbest takes on this week’s news.
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President Abd Al-Fattah al-Sisi. Photo credit: Jakub Porzycki via Reuters Connect.
The grand opening ceremony of Egypt’s new National Museum, reportedly the world’s largest museum space, was postponed. President Abd Al-Fattah al-Sisi had hoped to invite world leaders to gather in Giza outside Cairo, with the Pyramids as the backdrop, and give a boost to both tourism and himself as he begins a third term in office. But the crisis in Gaza put the gala festivities on hold; only a few exhibits of the new museum are currently open to the public. To a large extent, this is a reflection of Egypt’s wider woes.
Tourism is one of Egypt’s main sources of income but following October 7, It has dwindled to a trickle from the Gulf and some European countries, while American, Japanese and other Asian tourists seem to have taken Egypt off their maps. Tourist revenue has been cut to a third of pre-Gaza war levels.
A demonstration against the Israeli bombardment in Gaza on December 23 in Istanbul, Turkey. (lker Eray via Getty Images)
JERUSALEM — In the days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, triggering the current war in Gaza, many believed that Hamas had erred. The word “miscalculation” recurred in news analysis and in statements from Israeli leaders. People here in Israel were galvanized into action by the massacre. Western governments responded with shock and revulsion. The civilians of Gaza were staring at a looming catastrophe. Hamas was in for it now! What were they thinking?
Through the tunnel system under the Philadelphi Route separating the strip from Egypt, massive amounts of arms have been delivered to Hamas. The extent of Egypt’s knowing what was going on there may be revealed in the future. One thing is certain – the Israeli intelligence did not know the severity of the smuggling situation before the war.
By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM 27 December 2023
An Egyptian Army guard tower and armored personnel carrier look out across the Egyptian side of the border at the Gaza Strip beyond in the Herzallah district of the Rafah border crossing in Egypt/AP/Ben Curtis
Despite the prime minister, the defense minister, and other officials stressing in no uncertain terms that Israel will “eliminate” and “destroy” Hamas, there is still one major card that Israel does not currently intend to take from Hamas: the Philadelphia Axis, which runs along the border with between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Historic 15-justice panel reportedly split 8-7 in favor of nullifying reasonableness law; judiciary slams leak, says ruling still being written; coalition MKs pan brewing decision
By Jeremy Sharon and Michael Bachner, TOI 28 Dec 2023
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and all 14 other judges hear petitions against the ‘reasonableness law’ at the court in Jerusalem on September 12, 2023. /DEBBIE HILL
The High Court of Justice is likely to strike down the highly controversial reasonableness law passed by the government this summer as part of its judicial overhaul program, according to a draft decision leaked to the media on Wednesday evening, in what would be a bombshell ruling marking the first time Israel’s top court nullifies a quasi-constitutional Basic Law.
The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus
Israel has vowed time and again to eliminate the group responsible for the brutal Oct. 7 attack, but critics increasingly see that goal as unrealistic or even impossible.
By Dec. 27, 2023
An Israeli artillery unit in October near Netivot, Israel, firing toward Gaza. Credit…
Standing before a gray backdrop decorated with Hamas logos and emblems of a gunman that commemorate the bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Osama Hamdan, the organization’s representative in Lebanon, professed no concern about his Palestinian faction being dislodged from Gaza.“We are not worried about the future of the Gaza Strip,” he recently told a crowded news conference in his offices in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “The decision maker is the Palestinian people alone.”
The United Nations’ bias against Israel is both obvious and, at times, poorly understood. So we should be thankful for moments in which top UN officials seemingly conspire to make the nature of their corruption clear and plain.
The best examples are when senior UN figures operate against their own organization’s guidelines, definitions, and regulations in order to stick it to Israel, proving that its corruption is intentional and that its other claims to authority on international law are wholly illegitimate.
By Shoshana Bryen, AM THINKER December 28, 2023
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, coordinating commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, has announced that Iran will close the Mediterranean Sea in retaliation for “U.S. war crimes” in Gaza. “They shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, (the Strait of) Gibraltar and other waterways.”
It is an expansion of attacks — both verbal and military — by Iran and its proxies for years but ramped up since the Hamas atrocities against Israel on October 7. U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 150 times since President Joe Biden took office, two U.S. defense officials told VOA. More than 103 rocket and drone attacks have occurred since Oct. 17.
T. Belman. Amir Avivi also complained that there are those who say we have already lost. There are also many reports that we have never been so united. Forget the happy talk.
Bombshell leaked draft ruling shows High Court set to nix key judicial overhaul law. So much for how united we are.
Accepting a ceasefire will be our undoing.
Arab affairs analyst Zvi Yehezkeli warns against allowing Gazans to return to northern Gaza: ‘Terrorists will return in civilian clothing, place RPGs on porches, booby-trap buildings.’
Israel National News Dec 28, 2023, 10:16 AM
Arab affairs analyst Zvi Yehezkeli on Wednesday night posted a summary of the first 82 days of the Hamas-Israel war, contradicting the voices claiming that Israel has already lost its war against Hamas.
“I hear a lot of disagreements within Israel, which say that we lost, we didn’t win. It hurts our soldiers and our fighting spirit,” he explained. “First of all, if there is a question of whether we won – apparently, we didn’t win. We lost on October 7, we will not lose any longer. So we must understand the concept we held has collapsed and brought us to this situation, and why it is repeating itself now.”
It’s largest investment ever by a company in Israel; Intel says expansion plan for its Kiryat Gat site where it has an existing chip plant only 42 km (26 miles) from Hamas-controlled Gaza is important part of company’s efforts to foster a more resilient global supply chain
Israel’s government agreed to give Intel a $3.2 billion grant for a new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel, both sides said on Tuesday, in what is the largest investment ever by a company in Israel.
It also is a big show of support by a major U.S. company and a generous offer by Israel’s government at a time when Washington has increased pressure on Israel to take further steps to minimize civilian harm in Gaza.
