T. Belman. This move is entirely political. International law sets out certain criteria which should exist to justify recognition, none of which exists here.
by Drieu Godefridi, GATESTONE • December 3, 2023
T. Belman. This movement calls for resettling Gaza in the north. I go further. Israel should empty out the north 80% of Gaza of all Gazans and annex the same. To just reestablish Gush Katif, will leave us with the same problems that got us to leave in 2005.
There is no legal or historical basis that favours the Gazans mkeeping Gaza. Gaza is simply a big refugee camp in Israel
As some supporters cite ideology and others defense needs, a coalition forms after Hamas’s October 7 massacre with the goal of renewing Jewish presence in the Strip, gone since 2005
Though US President Joe Biden said it would be a “big mistake” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the idea “unrealistic,” hundreds of activists at an Ashdod gathering in late November called for reestablishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 massacre orchestrated by Hamas.
“I call from here to all the ministers of the government and to their head, the prime minister — make your voices heard now, lift up your heads,” declared Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, to robust applause.
The IDF is fighting in Gaza and the world wants to set impossible ethical limits. Rabbi Pruzansky speaks about the twisted sense of ethics that prevents victory and becomes a tool for the terrorists to use.
T. Belman. Read it and weep.
by Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2024
Judging by the way Netanyahu has managed Gaza in the last 13 years, it is not certain that there will be a clear policy going forward.— Tal Schneider, Times of Israel
“Everything changed” in Israel on Oct. 7. But did it? Understanding the mistakes that led up to the Hamas massacre provides a basis to evaluate Israel’s long-term response to that day. Contrary to general opinion, I shall argue that the presumptions behind those mistakes remain in place and will not change unless Israelis adopt a radically different attitude toward the Palestinians.
Idea said aimed at preventing future terror attacks after October 7 onslaught; Washington has insisted Gaza territory cannot be reduced
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian and TOI Staff, 2 Dec 2023
Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 30, 2023. /Avshalom Sassoni
Israel has told Middle Eastern neighbors that it seeks to create a buffer zone in the Gaza Strip to prevent future Palestinian terror attacks after the current war concludes, according to media reports Friday and Saturday.
Jerusalem has informed Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey of the plans, three unnamed sources from the region told the Reuters news agency.
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A controversial presidential post on X highlighted the White House’s attempts to simultaneously support Israel and signal its opposition to continue the fighting.
By Jonathan S. Tobin 11-30-2023
This isn’t supposed to be the president with the social media problem. For four years, President Donald Trump bypassed the press by tweeting his thoughts to more than 87 million followers on what used to be called Twitter. Trump’s feed was must-reading for anyone who followed politics or just wanted a good show as he shared his unfiltered thoughts about just about anything. The chattering classes hated it, considering it unpresidential and crude. But Trump’s willingness to be outrageous or to go for his opponent’s jugulars only endeared him to his supporters.
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The Palestinian cause is damaged
By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS November 27, 2023
We know the multifaceted strategy of the monstrous Hamas operation of October 7.
In precivilizational fashion it wished to kill and mutilate the most vulnerable of all Israeli civilians and thus to shock the world that it was capable of—and proud about— anything, from decapitation to necrophilia. Such animalistic savagery, in the reckoning of Western therapeutic society, was supposedly to be seen as forced upon Hamas murderers by the “occupation.”
As the Israel-Hamas war rages, sources claim Russians stoking an already tense situation – a strategy used by the country’s security services against the West since the Cold War
By DAVID I. KLEIN, TOI Today, 1:13 am5
Students for Justice and Peace in Palestine, aka, violent Jihad, is one of many of HAMAS’ fronts.
By ANDREW BENJAMIN DEC 2, 2023
Israeli military says it hit more than 400 terror targets over past day, including mosque used as command center by Islamic Jihad; IDF asks Gazan civilians to move to safe zones
ByEMANUEL FABIAN and TOI STAFFToday, 11:54 am
A picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 2, 2023, shows destroyed buildings in the Palestinian territory. (Jack Guez/AFP)
The Israel Defense Forces carried out “extensive” strikes against the Hamas terror group in south Gaza overnight, while calling on Palestinians on Saturday morning to evacuate from zones near the Israeli border, indicating ground operations in the southern part of the Strip were due to start soon.
In a statement Saturday morning, the IDF said it carried out airstrikes against over 400 targets across the Gaza Strip in the past day since Hamas violated the truce and fighting resumed.
T. Belman. This reminds me of The Inside Story of How Palestinians Took Over the World which desribes a Plan from 1998 to make the world pro-Palestinian.
It also reminds me of Sold out by liberal Jews and their establishment in which Rabbi Spero wrote: “Many of those running Jewish organizations and non-Orthodox synagogue and temples have for decades made helping other minorities the centerpiece of their ideological life and, thus, will never spotlight the anti-Semitism coming from members of the minority community, since it would shatter all they believe in.”
How anti-Israel activists hoodwinked American Jewish leadership
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James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, interviewed on Jordanian state television, about 1990.
Circa 1990, James Zogby, the head of the Arab American Institute, explained in a now-obscure interview how he planned to defeat America’s Jewish establishment.
GREAT QUESTIONS
THIS INTERVIEW IS FOLLOWED BY THE INTERVIEW OF MARK REGEV. WORTH WATCHING ALSO.
BOTH VERY SHORT.
By Caroline Glick JNS 30 Nov 2023
Caroline Glick makes the case that these two men be fired now. It cannot wait, as the successful prosecution of the war depends upon their not being in positions of command.
By Tal Beeri, ALMA REC 29 NOV 2023
Logo of Hezbollah’s specialized force they call “Radwan”
For the past two years, it seems that Hezbollah has been preparing for a confrontation in the north. We have written and published quite a bit about it. In the summer of 2022, in the final stages of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon on the maritime agreement, the name of the Radwan unit made headlines, since its operatives were put on alert and deployed, openly and unusually, in static positions along the border with Israel under the familiar cover of the “Green Without Borders” association. Radwan Unit operatives joined operatives of Hezbollah’s geographic units “Nasser” and “Aziz,” which are permanently stationed adjacent to the border with Israel.
Like that of ISIS, Hamas’s idea is a genocidal, imperialist one, which must be eviscerated if we are to live in peace.
By David Hazony, JEWISH JOURNAL 30 Nov 2023
“Hamas is an idea, and you can’t destroy an idea.”
This is one of the most pervasive bromides emerging in the last month from both pro-Hamas apologists and a wide range of well-meaning commentators and analysts grappling with the complexities of the war.
Yet it is not only false, but also exceedingly dangerous.
by Guy Millière, GATESTONE November 29, 2023
Geert Wilders’ landslide victory in the Netherlands has shocked Europe. It didn’t shock Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Evelyn Markus.
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Evelyn Markus, FREE PRESS November 29, 2023
Europe is in shock. Geert Wilders—variously called “far-right,” an “anti-Islamist populist,” and the Dutch Donald Trump—won last Wednesday’s election in the Netherlands. His party is now the biggest in the Dutch parliament. For years, Wilders has been an outcast, considered too toxic by mainstream politics and too extreme by the overwhelmingly liberal media. And yet he has won—and not by a small margin.
Israel must destroy Hamas for its own sake and to preserve its credibility as ally of Sunni states in their conflict with Iran.
By Dr. Michael Wise, INN Dec 1, 2023, 12:06 PM (GMT+2)
Victory in a war requires either a peace treaty, unconditional surrender, or totally neutralizing the enemy. The World heretofore has not permitted an Israel victory. The fact that Israel has been prevented from ever winning a war has encouraged its enemies to try try and try again! Ending wars with armistices, ceasefires and pauses guarantees that the next war will be around the corner.
The 1947-48 War of Independence ended in series of ceasefire agreements with Egypt (Rhodes, February 1949), Lebanon (Rosh ha-Nikrah, March 1949), Jordan (Rhodes, April 1949), and Syria (Ma?anayim, July 1949). No Peace Agreements, no recognition of Israeli victory, just Green Lines, Blue Lines, and No lines.
Mudar eloquently praised, Israel the Jewish state, and condemned the PA, Jordan and the EU. He was passionate and persuasive.
THAT’S MY GUY
