After war, Blinken seeks ‘Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,’ no use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism, no blockade or reduction in Gaza’s territory
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on Israel not to reoccupy the Gaza Strip once its war with Hamas ends.
His remarks came amid a flurry of statements from Washington officials against such a scenario after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will have “indefinite” overall security control of the Palestinian enclave once it has destroyed Hamas and removed it from power.
Dr. Steve Turley
1. Can/should Israel defy US pressure to act against its (Israel’s) own most critical national security interest (e.g., allowing a ceasefire in the war to obliterate the anti-Western Hamas Islamic terrorism; bolstering the Palestinian Authority despite its terror-driven policy and education system; allowing a non-Israeli security control of Gaza following the current war) while the US extends Israel a highly-appreciated(!), vital support, militarily, financially and diplomatically?
T. Belman. That’s my position as well. But not Blinken’s:
The left in Israel agrees with Blinken.
HaBithonistim chair Amir Avivi doesn’t see alternative other than for southern Gaza’s population to move to Sinai. ‘Egypt must open its border, from a humanitarian perspective.’
INN Nov 7, 2023,
HaBithonistim chairman Brigadier-General (res.) Amir Avivi believes that in the current war with Hamas, Israel will be required to conquer all of Gaza, until the Egyptian border – or the goals of the war will not be achieved.
In an interview with 103 FM Radio, Avivi said, “There is definitely an amazing increase in the army’s power. There is fog of war, and that is a good thing.”
He added, “We need to understand that we are conquering an entire city. Around it there are many crowded camps. We are advancing towards the operational heart – there are a few secondary hearts which will be taken care of.”
T. Belman. That’s what I have been saying. Bomb Gaza before Invading.
Mothers of combat soldiers to PM: “The lives of our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters are more important than the lives of the enemy’s civilians”
Israel National News Nov 7, 2023, 9:12 PM (GMT+2)
After seeing how Hamas terrorists hide behind civilian populations, a group of mothers of IDF combat soldiers called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We are not prepared under any circumstances to accept a situation in which the lives of our soldiers will be in danger; the lives of our soldiers come before the lives of the enemy’s civilians.”
A group of mothers whose children are serving on various fronts appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to endanger the safety of their children due to a fear of harming the enemy’s civilians.
By Daniel Greenfield, 07 Nov 10:26 AM
World War III is everywhere and nowhere. Politicians and pundits predict it and warn about it as they’ve been doing for 70 years. And for all of that time we’ve been fighting World War III.
Is WWIII in Iran or Ukraine? Yes in its own way. Is it in the confrontations in the South China Sea, the Hamas attack on Israel or in the riots in the streets of our own cities? Also all yes. Not to mention cartels smuggling drugs and foreign influence operations being run in D.C.
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T. Belman. It is plain for all to see. Thanks for admitting it. Bibi is speaking weakly. On the one hand he says no ceasefire before we destroy Hamas but goes on to sayno ceasefire before the hostages are returned. Is he suggesting that the return of the hostages will end the war with Hamas standing?
He is also saying that Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, That’s no solution at all. Liberman is saying “turning over Gaza to the PA is dellusional”.
Bibi should be planning to annex Gaza sans Gazans but not saying it.
Bibi is not standing strong again.
He is trying t manage the problem rather than end the problem..
Shas chairman says he believes Lapid and Liberman will ultimately join the government, just as Gantz did.
Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri spoke about the war in an interview with Channel 12 News on Tuesday evening and stated that, in his opinion, the government and the defense establishment both failed.
American Thought Leaders, EPOCH TIMES
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a month ago, 6 billion goes to Iran. And now their number one ally against the United States of America, writ large, Hamas, is doing a coordinated strike to America’s number one ally, Israel.”
By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF Today, 5:46 am
This image from House Television video shows the vote total Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, as the US House of Representatives votes to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war. (House Television via AP)
The US House of Representatives votes to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, in an extraordinary rebuke of her rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war.
The 234-188 tally comes after 22 Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House.
The Tunnel War Begins as Israeli “Weasels” Take on Hamas’ “Rats” in the Notorious Gaza Metro
According to both Hamas and Israel, the much dreaded, or anticipated depending on your perspective, battle for the extensive defensive tunnel network beneath Gaza known locally as the “Gaza Metro” has begun. Israel announced on October 29th that the I.D.F. (Israeli Defense Forces) attacked Hamas gunmen in a tunnel and destroyed Hamas fighters who emerged from a tunnel to attack their position in northwest Gaza. Remarkably, Hamas has posted a video of what appears to be the same attack from the vantage point of fighters moving across a sandy beach towards the Israelis.
Support for Hamas originates in the heart of darkness of Western consciousness, There are more fans of Hamas in the West than in Gaza.
Hamas is an Islamo-Nazi sect that intended to destroy Israel and its people before attacking the West when the time comes. But it found million of helpers among Western people. Sorcerers’ apprentices, new converts and useful idiots…
MEMRI
Source: The Internet – “SNN.ir”
Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani said in a November 5, 2023 video posted on SNN.ir (Iran) that the Americans are worried and wish to save themselves and the “usurping Zionist regime.” He continued to say that Iran has always advised America against supporting Israel and that they must implement a ceasefire. Gharaei Ashtiani stated that America is pleading for Iran’s help to get out of the bind they have found themselves in.
On October 7, 2023, we witnessed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. We got a glimpse of what a Muslim ‘return’ looks like and what it means for our children.These horrific attacks will continue as long as the “Occupation Lie” remains.
Now is the time for Israel to declare Yom San Remo and finally debunk the Occupation Lie.
I see the drag queens, black-masked thugs, and vagina hat wearing spinsters at every Democrat party event. I know the Dems are the party of radicals, community organizers, and the occasional posse-organizing bartender. But there are also a great many average Joes who habitually vote Democrat. The average Joe is a law-abiding, churchgoing family man who votes Democrat because he wants to make the world better — and has been led to believe that the Dems want that also.
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Jihad in action.
We keep being told by Palestinians and their supporters that Gaza is “running out of fuel” — told that, in fact, every day, though it never happens. What we do know is that the IDF has photographs of oil storage tanks where 500,000 liters of fuel are being kept by Hamas. And now the IDF has had confirmed by a Palestinian health official that there are in addition at least another 500,000 to one million liters of fuel stored by Hamas under Shifa Hospital.
In 2015, the so-called Arab Spring, which Barack Obama helped foment, turned into the Muslim march on Europe. As you may recall, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, from her powerful position as head of the EU’s most powerful nation, invited in all the displaced refugees from across the Muslim Middle East and Africa. It was an invasion by invitation, and now Germany may soon become a Muslim-controlled country.
It’s almost impossible to describe the stupidity (or evil) of Merkel’s decision to invite Islam into Europe. Think about it: The welcome mat came from the country that had sparked the biggest war in the history of the world by seeking world domination and determining to wipe out the Jewish race—and the people she invited into Europe come from an ideology that is open about acquiring world domination (“the global caliphate”) and is determined to wipe out the Jewish race.
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Yossi Dagan, Head of Shomron Regional Council, responds to report that Israel agreed that rifles purchased from US won’t be supplied to Judea and Samaria.
Israel National News Nov 7, 2023, 5:16 AM
Yossi Dagan, Head of the Shomron Regional Council, responded on Monday to a report which said that the Biden administration agreed to allow Israel to purchase thousands of M16 rifles from US companies, on condition that the weapons would not be distributed to community security squads in Judea and Samaria.
Israel says much of Hamas’s military defenses, its command and many fighters are concentrated in Gaza City
By David S. Cloud, and Dov Lieber, WSJ Nov. 6, 2023 5:45 pm ET
TEL AVIV—Israel pushed further into Gaza City, sending troops into an urban Hamas stronghold that is still packed with civilians after one of the most intense bombing barrages of the monthlong war.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces “are continuing to deepen the pressure into the depths of Gaza City.” He didn’t say during a briefing Monday where Israeli soldiers are operating, and Israeli officials have been careful not to disclose the location of their ground forces in Gaza.
They’re shouting their goals from the rooftops.
by November 6, 2023
Quiz:What is the difference between Hitler’s Nazis and Palestinian supporters of Fatah and Hamas? Both are national socialists, both have embraced the totalitarian oppressors of their respective peoples and elected them whenever they were given the chance. Both are driven by a demonic hatred to exterminate the Jews. Both deploy “Big Lies” to justify their malignant cause.
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