T. Belman.  That’s encouraging news.

UN spokesperson: It impossible for such a movement to take place without humanitarian consequences. Meanwhile, IDF strikes on Gaza continue.

Israel National News Oct 13, 2023, 6:13 AM (GMT+3)

The United Nations said early on Friday that it has been told by the IDF that some 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza should relocate to the south within the next 24 hours.

“The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement quoted by Reuters.

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The US may finally be prepared to let Israel defeat the Islamist terror group. But we will not allow a Palestinian state after that. Op-ed.

By Jonathan S. Tobin,    Oct 12, 2023, 11:08 AM (GMT+3)

(JNS) At last. After 17 years of Western diplomatic pressure from the United States to limit its responses to Hamas terrorism, it appears that Washington may be finally prepared to let Israel strike a decisive blow against the Islamist group in Gaza. The scale—the death toll now exceeds 1,200 murdered—and the depravity of the atrocities committed during the Oct. 7 assault seem to have convinced the Biden administration as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a maintenance of the status quo with Hamas isn’t an adequate response.

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T. Belman.  Blinken surprised me. He delivered a good speech.

Secretary invokes family’s Holocaust history as he urges world to condemn Hamas massacres of Israelis; pleads to avoid harm to civilians; Netanyahu: Sanction nations that host Hamas

By LAZAR BERMAN Today, 4:16 pm

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after their meeting in Tel Aviv, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, pool)<

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged in Tel Aviv on Thursday that Israel will never have to defend itself alone for as long as America exists.

Having flown to Israel in the wake of Hamas’s devastating assault Saturday on southern Israel, in which over 1,300 were killed — most of them civilians — Blinken expressed horror at the killings, invoked the Holocaust and his own family’s experiences in the Nazi era, and said he was working energetically to ensure the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict did not spread.

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by Victor Rosenthal October 12, 2023

Never do an enemy a small injury – Niccolo Machiavelli

Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt, how they surprised you on the road and cut off all the weak people at your rear, when you were parched and weary, and they did not fear Hashem – Devarim 25:17

There is a great deal that is unknown about the horrific attack on Israel that took place last Shabbat, both regarding the methods and objectives of Hamas, and Israel’s failure to predict or properly respond. But there are some inferences that can be drawn from the timing of the event – and from its viciousness.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
October 12, 2023,

No common-sense-observer of the volcanic Middle East and Islamic terrorism, in general, and Hamas/Palestinian terrorism, in particular, should be shocked by the October 2023 Hamas’ atrocities, which are not driven by the size of Israel and its policy, but by the aim to uproot the “infidel” Jewish State from the “abode of Islam.”

Ignoring the nature of Hamas

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Dear Ted,

Last night on The Ezra Levant Show, I gave a half-hour presentation on the horrors of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

Normally my show is behind a paywall, for subscribers only. But what happened this weekend in Israel was of historic significance — in some ways like 9/11 and even the Holocaust. It certainly had elements of each. So we have unlocked last night’s episode.

You can watch it for free by clicking here.

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Military sources confirm intelligence reports of imminent attack

by Yudi Sherman,FRONTLINE NEWS OCT 11, 11:45 pm

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Convoys of Muslim women and children were spotted traveling to Jordan Wednesday from Samaria, raising concerns from the area’s residents about an impending attack.

Standing alongside his partners in Israel’s newly announced war cabinet, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday pledged to obliterate Hamas, at the close of the fifth day of war against the terror group controlling the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Hamas terrorists burst into southern Israel and carried out a devastating assault on Saturday, killing at least 1,200 people, most of whom were civilians, and many of whom were massacred.

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Our founder, @bariweiss, on @morning_joe sets the record straight on the Israel massacre. “The Nazis tried to hide their war crimes. Hamas is livestreaming theirs.” pic.twitter.com/7iDFVz4Vr5

— The Free Press (@TheFP) October 10, 2023

Reuters
October 11, 20233:18 AM EDTUpdated 16 hours ago

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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gestures as he announces a new policy document in Doha, Qatar, May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

DOHA, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal called for protests across the Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinians and for the peoples of neighbouring countries to join the fight against Israel.

“[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,” Meshaal, who currently heads Hamas’s diaspora office, said in a recorded statement sent to Reuters.

Meshaal, who is based in Qatar, said the governments and peoples of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt have a bigger duty to support the Palestinians.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant, and State Camp chairman Benny Gantz give their first statements after establishing an emergency unity government and special war cabinet.

The move reflects broad support for war against Hamas.

David Isaac

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 28, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

(October 11, 2023 / JNS)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz reached a deal to establish a unity government on Wednesday, the fifth day of Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

According to the agreement, a war cabinet will be established to include Netanyahu, Gantz and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, while Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Knesset member Gadi Eisenkot, a member of Gantz’s party, will serve as observers.

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Our intelligence sources confirm: The drones used by Hamas in Southern Israel are American-made and supplied by the US to Ukraine, where Jordanian intelligence bought them from the Ukrainians and delivered them to Hamas upon orders from Rania Antoinette (the Kinglet’s wife) with…

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 11, 2023

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Moral reflections on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden – and Gaza.

October 11, 2023 by Jason D. Hill

The joint aerial bombing by the British and the United States of Dresden, Germany between February 12-15, 1945, killed up to 25,000 people. They were mostly civilians. The bombings had a devastating effect on Hitler’s Germany and played a key role in Germany’s surrender in the Second World War on May 8, 1945.

On August 6^th and 9^th of that same year, the United States of America detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The explosions killed between 129, 000 and 226,000 people. Less than a month later, the Japanese surrendered, thereby ending World War II and Japanese imperialism.

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HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Black Lives Matter Grassroots organization showed support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday as the terrorist group launched the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which represents 26 local BLM chapters across the country, issued a lengthy statement “in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

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T. Belman.  This is a strange article coming from the NYT.  It seeks to explain how the Ukraine War has affected Russia- Israel relations.

Vladimir Putin has long projected friendly ties to Israel. But his silence since Saturday’s assault illustrates how the war in Ukraine has strained the relationship between the two countries.

By Anton Troianovski, NYT OCT 10/23

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has long cast himself as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people.

He helped establish visa-free travel between Russia and Israel in 2008, presided over the construction of a sprawling Moscow Jewish Museum in 2012 and, side by side with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2020, unveiled a memorial to the victims of Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad.

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T. Belman.  That’s what I have been wanting hear.

Minister Yoav Gallant meets soldiers who fought in the south, tells them they will not be restrained in the war against Hamas.

Israel National News   Oct 10, 2023 845 PM

Gallant tours devastated southAriel Hermoni/Defense Ministry

Defense Minister Yoav Galant toured the Gaza envelope today (Tuesday) and arrived at the headquarters in the Re’im area, where he held a situational assessment with Defense Ministry director-general Major General Eyal Zamir, the commander of the Southern Command Brigadier General Yaron Finkelman, and other commanders in the region.

Later, the Defense Minister visited Kibbuts Be’eri and met with the soldiers in the field, who he praised for their actions in defending Israel and its citizens.

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