For weeks, senior Israeli leaders were divided about whether a temporary cease-fire might help Hamas regroup and endanger the remaining hostages.

By Ronen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley, Adam Sella and Aaron Boxerman, NYT

In recent days, thousands of demonstrators marched from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, calling on the government to help free the hostages held by Hamas.Credit…Amit Elkayam for The New York Times

By JOHN HAYWARD, BREITBART   22 Nov 2023

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Wednesday that said China is shuttering mosques in Ningxia and Gansu provinces under a “mosque consolidation” policy that violates the religious freedom of Muslim residents.

“The Chinese government is not ‘consolidating’ mosques as it claims, but closing many down in violation of religious freedom,” said HRW’s acting director for China, Maya Wang.

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T. Belman. More and more EU countries are banning Muslim immigration.
As a rule the more anti-Muslim immigration you are, the more pro-Israel your are.

by Ben Cohen, ALGEMEINER

Dutch politician Geert Wilders of the PVV Party. Photo: Reuters/Yves Herman

Pro-Israel parties found themselves in a commanding position on Thursday morning following the prior day’s elections in the Netherlands which resulted in the country’s main far right leader winning a plurality of votes.

“The PVV can no longer be ignored,” Geert Wilders — leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) and a veteran campaigner against migration — said as his party headed to win 37 of the 150 seats in the Dutch parliament in the surprise outcome. “We will govern.”

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by Matthew Levitt, JS TRIBUNE        November 2023

T. Belman.  This is absolutely fascinating.

The brilliant Palestinian plan to capture the pliable minds of American college students was laid out in front of me 25 years ago, during a very sinister business meeting in Israel.

By Gary Wexler, JEWISH JOURNAL     [Originally posted on November 18, 2023]

City University of New York (CUNY) students and other supporters of Palestine hold a rally in front of the Chancellor’s office in midtown Manhattan on November 02, 2023 in New York City Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The brilliant Palestinian plan to capture the pliable minds of American college students was laid out in front of me 25 years ago, during a very sinister business meeting in Israel.

It was around the time of the Oslo Accords. I had been hired by the Ford Foundation to create a marketing institute for their grantees in the country. Ford was funding the operations of both Jewish and Arab organizations within the Israeli green line, in an effort to help build a vibrant liberal civil society.

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T. Belman.  When Halevi served as Amb to EU in Brussels, my daughter served under him as a diplomat. He certainly feels that America will call the shots and Israel has no choice but to go along. This is the old comception.

Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevi told Ynet that the deal to release the hostages is ‘the best possible at this stage, and this is only the first stage’; Yair Moses’ elderly kidnapped father is not included in the deal: ‘The heart breaks, but we must bring back everyone who can be brought back’

By Alexandra Lukash, Nir (Shoko) Cohen, Moran Azulay, YNET

After it approved the deal with Hamas, which is set to exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, the government on Tuesday night issued an official statement which said that “the government of Israel, the IDF and the security forces will continue the war to return all the hostages, to complete the elimination of Hamas and to ensure that the threat to the State of Israel from Gaza will not be renewed.”

Peloni: It is about damned time.  How many days have these videos been playing in the media.

In recent days, the IDF has published footage showing rooms and tunnels found under the hospital.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF NOVEMBER 23, 2023 08:56

Updated: NOVEMBER 23, 2023 12:56

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T. Belman. Yesterday I made the same point.

Both Netanyahu and Gantz are responsible for allowing this illegal construction to go on and for not demolishing all such buildings. They are also the ones responsible for allowing all the smuggling to take place in Gaza and for  making Israel dependent on the US for resupply.  They are also responsible for the IDF lowering its guard leading to Oct 7.

And they are the people we are looking to to prosecute the War on Hamas.

We need a new conception.

The same people whose mistaken view of the situation allowed the massacre on October 7th, made the decision fot a ceasefire now. Op-ed.

By Cindy Grosz, INN       Nov 22, 2023, 3:39 PM (GMT+2)

Cindy GroszCourtesy

As the news of the so-called “hostage deal” is made public, I can’t help but feel we are being set up! How could our government in good conscience agree to accept only some of the hostages? Don’t they realize this will endanger our soldiers, by accepting a ceasefire as part of the absurd conditions being dictated by none other than Hamas!

Why would we trust them at all? They are negotiating only because we are getting close to their leaders, destroying many of them, and their tunnels. And, exposing them to a world which seems to believe them, regardless of the facts on the ground, and their own camera’s evidence.

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The Caroline Glick Show IN FOCUS  (November 22, 2023 / JNS) –

Journalist, columnist and author Caroline Glick analyses the deal made between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization to free Palestinian prisoners “without blood on their hands” for the freeing of some of the hostages.

Is this a good deal for Israel or a trap to defeat the war effort against Hamas?

T. Belman. Bastards. How is Israel supposed to win the war if protecting the civilians is first and formost. Rules of War say that so long as we are targeting  Hamas, we are not responsible for collateral damage. Biden is screwing us. What did he promise Hamas for making this deal?

Israel must have a plan to protect the civilians in southern Gaza before proceeding with the war, says U.S.National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby.

(November 22, 2023 / JNS)

The White House says it won’t support Israel’s plan to expand its operations into the south of the Gaza Strip unless it shows it will protect the Palestinian civilians there.

In a Tuesday press call, U.S. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby said the United States won’t support Israel “moving forward with operations in the south absent a clearly articulated plan for how they’re going to protect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people” there. Read more…

The cabinet’s 35-3 vote shows ministers believed there was no better arrangement, and were persuaded the war will resume afterward; Yahya Sinwar may have other plans

By DAVID HOROVITZ    NOV 22/23, 3:55 pm

At the very start of Israel’s war against Hamas, an Israeli official told reporters that the IDF would strike Hamas everywhere in Gaza, even at the cost of possibly harming some of the 240 hostages being held there. If the IDF had information on a specific location where hostages were believed to be held, it would not target that location. But otherwise, its operations would not be limited by fears of inadvertently harming the hostages.
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By: Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS Nov 20/23

It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe.

Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly encountered college graduates who were poorly educated in basic skills and lacked general knowledge—and yet highly politicized and intolerant of different views and opinions. Ignorant but arrogant is a sad way to start an adult life.

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T. Belman. Both Netanyahu and Gantz are responsible for allowing this construction to go on and for not demolishing all such buildings. They are also the ones responsible for allowing all the smuggling to take place in Gaza and for  making Israel dependent on the US for resupply.  They are also responsible for the IDF lowering its guard leading to Oct 7.

And they are the people we are looking to to prosecute the War on Hamas.

We need a new conception.

Regavim reveals that the PA has built 18,899 illegal buildings in Area C on the Judea and Samaria border.

By Shimon Cohen, INN   Nov 22, 2023, 9:30 AM (GMT+2)

T. Belman.Vic states emphatically “The deal is a disaster”. I pray that he is not right. “All the security forces, the Shin Bet and the Mossad and also the entire war cabinet are united in favor of the proposal.” They considered the same things and concluded differently.  Time will tell. The die has been cast.

One thing is certain. Hamas would never have agreed to this deal if it was not in their interests. They must have figured that the time delay was important for all the reasons Vic gave, some of which I set out.

by Victor Rosenthal    NOV 23/23

The government of Israel has agreed to a stupid, shameful deal with Hamas. If the government continues along this path – and it seems almost certain to do so – it will mark the turning point of the war in Gaza. In retrospect, it will be seen as the point at which it became clear that Hamas will retain control of the Gaza strip.

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T. Belman. I approve of this deal. I also approve of Otzma Yehudah’s negative vote because it is a reminder of the downside.

Frankly, I am surprised that this deal has been acheived. I certainly did not expect it.

Kol Hakovod.

Government approves deal under which 50 living Israelis will be released in batches during a four-day ceasefire. The releases will begin on Thursday.

Israel National News    Nov 22, 2023, 2:53 AM (GMT+2)

Cabinet meetingOmer Miron/GPO

The government overnight Tuesday approved the deal for the release of some of the hostages being held in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian Arab terrorists who are imprisoned in Israel and at least four days of a ceasefire.

The Religious Zionist Party voted in favor of the deal after a consultation among the members of the faction. The ministers from Otzma Yehudit voted against the deal.

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Peloni:  Israel’s future is too important to be sacrificed before the alter of foreign interests who hold only their own interests as being resolute.  Indeed, Israel should be no less resolved than her allies about what her own future should entail.  Consequently, I would argue that the time to determine Israel’s post-war goals is not after the war is ended, but today, before her allies make that determination for her.

Military rule without a settlement presence does not yield results that guarantee calm and stability. Op-ed.

Yehudit Katsover & Nadia Matar  Nov 21, 2023, 9:33 AM (GMT+2)
Israel National News

“Something else.” That is how the Prime Minister characterized the entity that will control the Gaza Strip on the day after the war.

We, citizens of Israel, ask, what is that unnamed “something else.”

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