By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS    December 17, 2023

Let’s put it this way: if some rare disease had swept through America, killing everyone 25 and older, it would become very inhospitable for Jews. A survey conducted online by The Harris Poll and HarrisX within the United States from December 13-14 among 2,034 registered voters, asked, “Do you think that the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian dispute is for Arab states to absorb the Palestinians, for there to be two states, Israel and Palestine, or for Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians?” and, God help us, 51% of respondents ages 18-24 preferred “for Israel to be ended.”

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By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH PRESS   17 December 2023

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS  17 December 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant./Ministry of Defense

Dozens of IDF war martyrs’ families on Sunday sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war cabinet ministers stating, “We, the families of IDF soldiers who fell in the war since Simchat Torah, parents, spouses, and children, have lost what was most precious to us, but we are proud of the fallen and the legacy of heroism they left behind: they went into battle without hesitation and fought bravely and selflessly, out of love and confidence in Israel’s eternity, to save lives and protect the people and the homeland from the cruel enemy who came to annihilate us.”

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By Ted Belman     Dec 12, 2005,

America was founded by Protestants fleeing from religious persecution. They not only had an appreciation for the need for religious liberty, but also had respect for the Hebrew Bible. As a result, the Constitution of the USA reflected both. One hundred years prior to the Constitution being written, Jews and Protestants in Europe were being burned at the stake for religious heresy.

But before writing the Constitution, America’s founders had to declare their independence from the tyranny of Great Britain. In doing so, they declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” What a powerful expression of the ethos of the America.
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Chris Cuomo, NewsNation Dec 15, 2023

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo is among the journalists who have attended a private screening of raw footage from Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. After watching it, Cuomo says it’s clear that “Hamas wanted war and wanted the Jews to know that they want them to burn. Again.”

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

So many positive news articles last week focused on regenerating life for individuals, communities and in other areas.

Medical regeneration involved rehabilitating wounded IDF personnel; reuniting separated families; two Israeli therapies for regenerating the lives of traumatized children, and another that generates companionship for the elderly. Israelis are able to generate thousands of clinical trial simulations, regenerate eye functionality in glaucoma patients, and can show how dormant bacteria regenerates. An Israeli female Israeli professor is responsible for generating three startups including one that regenerates spinal cords. And an Israeli IDF reservist donated her bone marrow to regenerate a patient’s immune system.
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A combination of reduced combat intensity with increased humanitarian aid could prolong the duration of fighting, certainly if we add to this the morale Hamas can draw from the harm it has inflicted on our forces, the political pressure on Israel, and the bargaining chips it holds. Israel could then find itself slipping into a protracted quagmire, which will necessarily also increase the risk to our soldiers.

By Meir Ben Shabbat  ISRAEL HAYOM  16 December 2023

“Hamas poses an existential threat to Israel.  There’s no question about the need to take on Hamas.  There’s no question about that.  None.  Zero.  They have every right,” President Joe Biden declared once again this week, in a speech he gave at a campaign event, ahead of the presidential elections.

In an attempt to deflect reports about pressure from Washington, he clarified: “We’re not going to walk away from providing Israel what they need to defend themselves and to finish the job against Hamas. He later, at a fundraising event, expressed his concern about the weakening support for it from other countries of the world “following the indiscriminate bombings that occurred.”

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By Majid Rafizadeh GATESTONE  16 December 2023

Iran’s militia and terrorist group in Yemen, the Houthis, has ratcheted up attacks on ships in the Red Sea, and escalated the launching of missiles and attack drones at Israel. Pictured: Guided missiles on display at a Houthi military parade in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 21, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)

• The Houthis have been fortunate to have, as a powerful patron and sponsor, Iran. Their backers in Tehran will not let them run out of ammunition and the Biden administration will not let the Iranian regime run out of funds.
• Iran has been employing every political and military tactic possible — including racing toward nuclear weapons capability — to complete its objectives of annihilating Israel, driving the United States out of the Middle East, and establishing an Islamist caliphate.
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Dr. Steve Turley

‘It’s like asking me how often I drink water. Antisemitism was everywhere.’ Apostates, former Islamists, and an almost-terrorist on how they changed their minds.

By Madeleine Rowley, FREE PRESS Dec 16/23

Iranian protesters burn an Israeli flag during an anti-Israel rally at Enqelab-e Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square. (Sobhan Farajvan via Getty Images)

The following five ex-Muslims grew up in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, but they were all indoctrinated, they say, with the same views on Jews and Israel. They remember a childhood shot through with antisemitic moments ranging from the mundane (one woman recalls her aunt claiming Jews put cancer in her vegetables at the market) to the deadly (a former extremist went as far as to pick a location in London for a terrorist attack he planned to carry out at 17).
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T. Belman. This article suggests that Netanyahu is among them but in reality he is the main voice trashing the TSS and the PA, Gantz, Lapid and Herzog don’t want it talked about because they support if but the people don’t.

But in reality,now is not the time for discussing the day after nor who is culpable for Israel’s failure to protect Israelis. Israel should not talk about either until after Hamas is defeated. There is time enough to discuss it once that happens. But Biden wants to talk about it now while the war progresses because he has more leverage against Bibi now. He wants a commitment.

Request not just being made by PM, but Herzog, Gantz and Lapid as well, who argue that framework has no support post Oct. 7; US official says Washington in no position to heed call

By JACOB MAGID, TOI     15 December 2023, at 2:36 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second right, confers with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, during their meeting with US President Joe Biden, left, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Pool Photo via AP)

WASHINGTON — Israeli leaders have been privately urging the Biden administration to refrain from publicly talking about the two-state solution in the fallout of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, four Israeli and US officials told The Times of Israel this week.

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by Michael Rubin, Washington Examiner December 15, 2023

National security adviser Jake Sullivan flew to Israel for emergency consultations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. According to press reports from Israel, Sullivan told Netanyahu that Israel must “transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.”

Netanyahu should ignore Sullivan.

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T. Belman. There you have it in a nutshell. Netanyahu is against the TSS and against the PA ruling Gaza. Gantz is all for it. Gantz continues to kiss Biden’s ass, while Bibi stands up against him. This will be the core issue in the next election.

Remember Gantz gave away part of our gas fields to Hezbollah and part of Area C to the Arabs by allowing their settlement there.

Looking to Gaza’s future, National Unity Party leader stresses Israel’s willingness to work with US and moderate Arab nations to build Gaza anew after Hamas rule is toppled

By JACOB MAGID and TOI STAFF    Today, 10:06 am 

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz appeared to criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night, calling out those who harm Israel’s ties with the Biden administration by engaging in “manufactured disputes” amid the war against Hamas.

During a press conference in Tel Aviv, Gantz carefully avoided identifying Netanyahu by name, but he voiced similar accusations as Opposition Chairman Yair Lapid, who in comments Wednesday did make a point of calling out the premier more directly.

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Biden administration, Iran, Israel: Interesting times go high order.

By J. E. Dyer OPTIMISTIC CONSERVATIVE  5 December 2023

Sometimes timelines speak louder than argument.  We’ve found that on a number of occasions in the last several years, and a fresh occasion has arisen in that regard.  Two events on Sunday, 26 November 2023 were end brackets for a timeline that bears at least cursory inspection, and that is our task here. It will be informative.

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By Victor Davis Hanson  14 December 2023

Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.

If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.

Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.

By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.

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T. Belman. Whatever did he mean by “fake divisions”. Perhaps he is referring to Bibi’s acceptance of possible annexation in whole or in part.

Minister Benny Gantz holds press conference and comments on how, in his eyes, the future in the Gaza Strip should look.

Israel National News        Dec 15, 2023, 3:03 AM (GMT+2)

Minister Benny Gantz held a press conference on Thursday evening in which he commented on how he thinks the future in the Gaza Strip should look.

“Our mission, as a political echelon, is to allow the soldiers to continue and complete the mission – in the south as well as in the north, to return the hostages and allow the residents to live safely,” Gantz said. “To that end, we must preserve the legitimacy and freedom of action, and plan the continuation of the fighting. Unlike in the past, we will not end with ‘quiet will be met with quiet.’ In this war, there is no ‘day after’, there is a long, difficult and necessary process, with varying intensities. Days, and months, and years.”

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