TOI 25 December 2023,

US-supplied military equipment arriving in Israel, December 2023. (Ministry of Defense Spokesperson’s Office)

Two hundred and forty-four US transport planes and 20 ships have delivered more than 10,000 tons of armaments and military equipment to Israel since the start of the war, Channel 12 reports.

The Defense Ministry has made NIS 40 billion (almost $2.8 billion) in additional purchases from the US, it says.

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By pursuing only Israel’s alleged crimes, the International Criminal Court gives free rein to terrorists

By Rabbi Shlomo Levin, LLM DEC 26, 2023, 3:15 AM

The flag and the International Criminal Court at the International Criminal Court building. The Hague, Netherlands – March 27, 2016. 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created to make sure those who commit the most serious of atrocities are punished, in the hopes this would help deter these crimes from happening at all. Unfortunately, the ICC is having the opposite effect. It may even be partly responsible for Hamas’s hostage taking and other war crimes taking place in Gaza now.

The ICC only has jurisdiction in countries that accept it, which Israel does not. But the Palestinians have long desired to use the mechanisms of international justice to hold Israel accountable for what they claim are war crimes. In 2015, the Palestinian Authority acceded to the court with jurisdiction going back to the start of the 2014 Gaza war. In 2020, one of the court’s judicial chambers ruled that the Palestinian Authority did in fact have the right to do this and that the prosecutor could investigate any alleged crimes that took place on the Palestinian side of Israel’s pre-1967 border from 2014 on.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AM THINKER  27 December 2023

Because it spotlights the current state of affairs in the West — and all the key players — the recent uprising in Dublin should not be so quickly forgotten.

Background: on Nov. 23, 2023, a Muslim man of Algerian origin, with a known criminal record, knifed  a group of preschool children attending Saint Mary’s, a Catholic school in Dublin.  Three children — two girls and a boy aged between five and six — and a care assistant who tried to defend them, were stabbed in the assault. Knifed near the heart, a five-year-old girl was critically injured and, as of the last reporting from December, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

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Truman’s decision to recognize the new country of Israel was fundamental for the existential question of Israel’s right to exist.

By Richard Dean Young, THE FEDERALIST  26 December 2023

Government Press Office/Flickr

Fifty-one years ago, on Dec. 26, 1972, one of our most surprising presidents, Harry S. Truman, slipped out of life into eternity at the age of 88. Even in his ’70s and ’80s he was admirably fit and journalists had trouble keeping up with him on his morning walks. Truman left a legacy of not only a fit retiree but of a principled person who could change, not so much with the times, but when his principles confronted new challenges and required sometimes courageous stands on the issues of his day.

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“During the terrorist assault on my people in southern Sudan, in which millions of black Africans were slaughtered and enslaved by jihadists, only one nation—the Jewish State of Israel—helped us, with arms, tactical and military support,” Simon Deng said.

AMERICAN’S FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE

A South Sudanese expression of solidarity with Israel in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Credit: Courtesy.

On December 11, Charles Jacobs published an article in Tablet urging black Americans to re-evaluate their “intersectional” alliance with Arab and Muslim Americans given that Arabs and Muslims today — as they have for centuries — own Africans as slaves.

The normal American instinct to fight for the liberation of slaves is blocked and forbidden by woke ideology which insists that all Muslims and all Arabs are “victims,” thus their conduct — and even the conduct of their “cousins” in Africa and the Middle East — cannot be criticized.

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By Elizabeth Volberding, OAN         Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Rapper Kanye West apologized to the Jewish community online following his anti-Semitic remarks throughout the years where he has previously expressed his support for Adolf Hitler.

On Tuesday, 46-year-old West apologized to the Jewish community in a social media post, which was written in Hebrew, after he had criticized “powerful” Jewish individuals several times on various online platforms.
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By Pamela Geller, THE GELLER REPORT    26 December 2023

Israel is on the front lines of the global jihad. She is the thin blue line that keeps jihadi terror at bay against the West. Look at how Islamic terror proxies are turning major cities in the West (USA and Europe) into war zones. Denying Israel cripples the West’s war in defense of freedom and Western civilization. This will come back to bite us – in spades.

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By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  December 26, 2023

• By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest resources in building tunnels and manufacturing weapons.
• “They [UNRWA] teach us that the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to us [Muslims], that Palestine belongs to us,” said Atif Sharha, a student at an UNRWA school.

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Former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon is the leading proponent of enabling the voluntary emigration of Gazans to other countries.

By DAVID ISAAC

Palestinians flee Khan Yunis to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 25, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

(December 26, 2023 / JNS)  South American and African countries have already expressed interest in taking in Palestinian Arab refugees from the Gaza Strip in return for monetary compensation, Likud Knesset member Danny Danon said on Monday.

Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, who has floated the idea of the transfer of Gazans as part of his five-point plan for the post-war period, told Israeli broadcaster Kan Reshet Bet that Israel should “make it easier” on those Palestinians who wish to leave the Strip for other countries.

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Promoting antisemitic Public School Supervisors has been going on for years. 

By Cindy Grosz, INN Dec 25, 2023, 11:33 PM (GMT+2)

Why is anyone surprised that a Jew hater employed by the New York City Department of Education was not only retained, but is heading to a new job with more responsibility and better benefits.

Last week, Hillcrest High School principal Scott Milczewski, leader in the school where a violent riot broke out attacking a Jewish teacher for attending a pro-Israel rally, announced that he is leaving the Jamaica school for a new job in the city Department of Education bureaucracy.

“It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that I have been offered, and accepted, the position of Director of Teacher Development and Evaluation within the Division of Teaching and Learning,” he wrote in a letter circulated among students, staff and parents.

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By Tal Beeri, ALMAY REC      26 December 2023  

On December 25th, 2023, Iranian Brigadier General Reza Mousavi (known as “Sayed Reza”) was killed in Damascus by an airstrike. He served as Iran’s logistical liaison (Revolutionary Guards/Quds Force) in Syria and was active in Syria for many years, possibly since the 1990s.

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Oct 12/23

The Sinai Peninsula comprises one of the most suitable places on Earth to provide the people of Gaza with hope and a peaceful future.

By Joel Roskin, JPOST,    DEC 25/23

The 365 km² Gaza Strip has remained a hot potato in Israel-Egypt relations since its conquest by the Egyptian Army in 1948 as part of Egypt’s failed attempt to annihilate the newly-born State of Israel. Egypt invaded Israel along two main axes, reaching the outskirts of Jerusalem and only 20 km. short of Tel Aviv, but the Israel Defense Forces pushed off this offensive. These battles generated a wave of refugees that found haven in the Gaza Strip, which remained under Egyptian military control until 1967.

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By Barak Ravid, AXIOS

Ron Dermer on Nov. 6, 2021. Photo: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer is expected in Washington on Tuesday for meetings at the White House and State Department about Israel‘s plans for eventually scaling down the war and transitioning to a low-intensity operation in Gaza, two Israeli and U.S. officials told Axios.

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By Emmet Barry, WORTHY NEWS   25 December 2023

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they executed ‘wide-scale’ strikes against Hezbollah targets on Sunday in response to a series of rocket attacks from Lebanon that targeted various communities in northern Israel.

The IDF reported that their fighter jets targeted and struck military structures, rocket launchers, and additional assets owned by the Iran-supported terrorist organization in retaliation to the rocket assaults. They also mentioned initiating gunfire in various border regions to neutralize perceived threats.

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By Andrew Bostom, MD, MS,     17th December 2023

—For two decades, ADL has been documenting, then downplaying, this uniquely Muslim scourge

I was introduced to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s global Antisemitism survey data, indirectly, in 2006. An analysis of ADL’s 2004 Western European data was published August, 2006, in the The Journal of Conflict Resolution. The study authors confirmed their rather mundane a priori hypothesis: Anti-Israel sentiment was a strong, independent predictor of Antisemitism. De-emphasized, and noted only in passing by these authors, was a much more original, and striking finding: In a controlled comparison to Western European Christians, Western European Muslims were nearly 8-fold more likely to evidence extreme Antisemitism, as gauged by agreement with at least 6 of 11 Antisemitic stereotypes. More disturbing, and auguring a pattern of deliberate minimization which persists to this day, the original 2004 34pp. ADL survey report of 2004 made no mention of the Muslim sample at all!

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