The observers at the Gaza border work day and night to guard the southern border, and in the last two days they have been going through a difficult time following the attack by Hamas on Israel. One of them, who was on duty yesterday, reveals the difficult hours in which she had to deal with the uncertainty, friends who were hurt and yet the need to function in one of the most important positions in the sector.
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A ruthless response is absolutely legitimate
I can only add my voice of responsibility to confer legitimacy to as ruthless a military response as Israel can muster. Op-ed.
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This list already is too much, but my point is that I am not a tummler but speak with authority, responsibility, and am recognized as an expert in legal ethics, winner of the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Ethics.
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Therefore I submit my voice, as the Holy Season of Judaism has come to a conclusion in Exile, to validate ethically as ruthless a military response as Israel can muster:
1. It is imperative, if Israel is capable of doing so, that it exterminate Hamas. Again: exterminate. Leave nothing behind of Hamas.
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MAKE GAZA A EMPTY PARKING LOT
#Jordan’s kinglet, Egypt’s Sisi and the fool sitting on a mountain of gold, these three have plotted, planned and then launched this ongoing war, to those three I say; Mark My Words, you will pay DEARLY for every drop of innocent blood https://t.co/mCVx16KBsA
— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 9, 2023
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NO CEASEFIRE
By Ted Belman
NO CEASEFIRE
THE ATTACK ON GAZA SHOULD RESULT IN ALL GAZANS FLEEING TO EGYPT, NEVER TO RETURN.
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Patrick Byrne: Israel was hacked!
ISRAEL WAS HACKED!
(Explanation from a close hacker friend of mine: as yet unreported, please distribute widely.)I should have known something big was about to go down. I wasn’t paying close enough attention but the dates matter. Most of these groups are pro Palestime.
— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) October 9, 2023
3/26/23 – AnonGhost compromised the Israeli Gov and established the backdoor for remote access.
8/21/23 – Iron Dome was compromised by AnonGhost
8/28/23 – The announcement for the creation of the Five Families
— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) October 9, 2023
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Bennett: This is 100x worse than Yom Kippur War. We’re facing equivalent of Nazis
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett calls the current conflict “the harshest event since the War of Independence.”
Speaking to Channel 12 news from southern Israel, Bennett elaborates: “This is not the Yom Kippur War — it is Yom Kippur multiplied by 100, because here we are talking about murder, the systematic slaughter of babies, girls, boys, things that are hard to bear.”
“We set up a Jewish state in this land in order to defend ourselves, and now the time has come to fight back,” he says.
“We have to lift up our heads… we are heroic people,” Bennett adds, citing acts of heroism by residents of Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, Netiv Ha’Asara and other communities where “heroes confronted the terrorists,” killed some of them, and in some cases were killed. “We are a people of lions,” he says.
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Ynet photographer missing, feared kidnapped along with 3-year-old daughter
Palestinians from the Gaza Strip enter Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023 amid a massive assault by the Hamas terror group. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)A Kfar Aza-based journalist whose wife was murdered is missing and feared taken hostage along with his 3-year-old daughter, the man’s sister says.
“We’re waiting for any fragment of information about them,” the sister, Dafna, says in an interview in Ynet, where her missing brother, Roee Idan, works as a photographer.
Neighbors of Roee Idan and his late wife, Smadar, told the family that the child, Avigail, was seen after the incident with blood on her clothes. The blood came from a gunshot wound her father sustained, Dafna says.
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The Biden Regime Should Admit the Real Causes of the Jihad Against Israel
Twenty-two years after 9/11, the jihadis’ best friends are in the White House.
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When Hamas launched its latest jihad war against Israel, the Biden regime’s initial response was mind-numbingly predictable. At 2:58AM on Saturday, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted in Arabic: “The US Embassy is closely monitoring the security situation as a result of rockets being fired from Gaza through southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas activists.” Yeah, “activists” with balaclavas and rifles, committing murder wherever they had the chance.
As if that weren’t bad enough, the same Office followed up at 3:24AM with an even more jaw-droppingly tone-deaf and wrongheaded statement: “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred.” Of course, the low-level Biden regime foreign service wonks who knocked together this boilerplate said nothing about bankrolling the attacks and making them possible. The wonks continued: “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”
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Netanyahu: “What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today (Monday) for the first time since the outbreak of war with the heads of authorities in the southern region and told them that the state will do everything possible to help everyone.
“We are in the middle of the campaign,” Netanyahu said. “I know they have been through terrible and difficult things. “What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible.”
He also said: “We are already in the campaign and we have just started it. Your leadership is very strong in these difficult days. “It will take time and will require a strong stance in the difficult days ahead.”
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Update on War
The govt is reporting that there have now been 2600 wounded since the war broke out. Also, unconfirmed reports in the Hebrew media indicate that the death toll has risen to 800, and the Qatari reports of negotiating a prisoner exchange has been dispelled by Israeli sources. The Gaza border is being reported as being closed, but the enclaves in the surrounding areas are not yet secure. It had been hoped that the border area would be secured yesterday, but it has been a difficult and costly affair with reports of significant casualties taking place in Sderot which was incorrectly reported to be a hostage situation, but was later corrected to be an intense fire fight with the terrorists.
Gallant has orderd a complete siege of Gaza, “There will be no electricity, no food, no gas – everything is closed”. Meanwhile the IDF has continued its air assault on Hamas targets in Gaza. There has not yet been a statement related to a land assault on Gaza, though Gen. Avivi, who previously served as Deputy Division Commander of the Gaza Brigade, has noted that it Bibi has little choice but to do so.
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Blinken Joins Hamas Ally in Calling for ‘Ceasefire’
T. Belman. Biden should be asking what Israel wants to do rather than ignoring what she wants and once again imposing the US on Israel
Despicable even for this administration.
It didn’t take long.
On October 8th, Secretary of State Blinken tweeted that, “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and I spoke further on Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel. I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately.”
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Massacre in Nir Oz: Entire family, mother, father, children, butchered by terrorists
Tamar, Yonatan, 6-year-old Shachar and Arbel, and 4-year-old Omer were all murdered by Arab terrorists in Nir Oz in southern Israel.
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Tamar Kedem-Siman Tov, her husband Yonatan (Johnny), their two six-year-old daughters Shachar and Arbel, and their 4-year-old son Omer were all murdered by Arab terrorists in Nir Oz in southern Israel.
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NYT: How the Hamas Attack on Israel Unfolded
‘There Were Terrorists Inside’: How Hamas’s Attack on Israel Unfolded
Palestinian militants from Gaza raided Israel on Saturday, killing and abducting hundreds. Survivors have begun to recount the most complex attack on their territory in half a century.
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An observer at the border in Gaza: “I did my best until they shot Pascal”
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The female observers in Gaza had a difficult time following the attack by Hamas. One of them uploaded a post to the web, in which she talks about the difficult hours she went through in the last two days. “I’ve been preparing for this moment for two years, but nothing prepares you for the moment of truth,” she writes
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Amb. Erdan: Hamas gunned down Jewish revelers just like Nazi death squads in the 1940s
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Israel’s UN Ambassador holds press conference following Hamas attack on Israel: This is Israel’s 9/11. Nothing will be the same from now on.
Israel National News Oct 9, 2023, 4:12 AM (GMT+3)
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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, held a press conference in the UN on Sunday ahead of the Security Council’s meeting on the surprise Hamas terror attacks against Israel.<
The Ambassador presented shocking photos and distressing videos of civilians who were murdered or kidnapped from their homes by Hamas including children and the elderly, among them Holocaust survivors. He emphasized that this is Israel’s 9/11 and that from now on, nothing will be the same.
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Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut
by Summer Said, Benoit Faucon and Stephen Kalin, WSJ
Updated Oct. 8, 2023 7:32 pm ET
DUBAI—Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.
Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions—the most significant breach of Israel’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War—those people said.
Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.
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Israel at war
JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman discusses the latest events in Israel.
(October 8, 2023 / JNS)
What exactly happened in Israel with the unprecedented Hamas attacks on Oct. 7—a Shabbat morning and Jewish holiday—including a massive barrage of thousands of rockets, an infiltration across the border with the Gaza Strip, and the taking of civilian and military hostages?
What’s happening now? What is at stake?
Find out the latest news with JNS CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman.
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October 8, 2023
Death toll from Hamas onslaught passes 700, over 100 kidnapped, as Israel strikes Gaza
2,200 wounded, relatives of missing issue impassioned pleas for help; after 36 hours, IDF still tackling terrorists in several communities; some Israelis evacuated from border areas
Today, 5:18 pmUpdated at 8:09 pm
Israeli forces cross a main road in an armored personnel carrier (APC) as additional IDF troops are deployed near the southern city of Sderot following an assault by Hamas terrorists, October 8, 2023. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
Israel formally declared a state of war on Sunday as the death toll from an unprecedented Hamas attack a day earlier rose above 700 and was expected to rise further, with the fate of over a hundred people abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip still unclear.
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TERROR ALERT: LIKELY TERROR ATTACK IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH-EGYPT
A WARNING FROM THE JORDANIAN OPPOSITION COALITION
TERROR ALERT: LIKELY TERROR ATTACK IN SHARM EL-SHEIKH-EGYPT
——————————————————— The Jordanian Opposition Coalition (JOC) has received advanced intelligence confirming of an elevated threat of… pic.twitter.com/bgGyY1GITE— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 8, 2023
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HAMAS ATTACK WAS PREDICTABLE
IISS predicted/warned–time and time again–that a major strategic fiasco over Gaza was imminent (see below). Sadly, these warnings were never heeded. Help IISS gain more traction by supporting its incisive and insightful work.
Israel’s stark option: Arabs in Gaza or Jews in the Negev?
If back in 2005, on the eve of the “disengagement,” some far-sighted individual had predicted that reality would be as it is today, his caveats would have been disdainfully dismissed as unfounded scare-mongering.
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