Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers must remember that Israel is not an American vassal state. 

By Caroline Glick   Jan 10, 2024, 9:39 PM

(JNS) At his press conference Tuesday evening, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken showed that contrary to popular belief, the Biden administration is not Israel’s ally. It is the greatest obstacle to Israel’s victory.

Blinken began his remarks by drawing a moral equivalence between the suffering of Israeli hostages and their families and that of the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza. The Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, who overwhelmingly support Hamas, are just as innocent as the hostages, Blinken insisted.

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T. Belman. Natasha is a star. She has agreed to participate in my upcoming conference. Read about her here.

UKLFI CHARITABLE TRUST STARRING NATASHA HAUSDORFF

Pollard is always worth listening to.

Peloni:  A very important conversation between Caroline and Wurmser where they discuss, among other things, how the US is pushing its hostile position upon Israel and that the Israeli elites have utterly failed to challenge the US support for the existential threats being leveraged against Israel.

Caroline Glick, JNS  January 10, 2024

Has there been a paradigm shift in US policy towards Israel since the beginning of the war with Hamas? What is US policy towards Hezbollah in the North? Is the Biden administration out of touch with the reality in the Middle East?

Caroline Glick talks with the Center for Security Policy’s David Wurmser to discuss all of this and more!

Regavim discovered tens of thousands of illegal structures along the Judea and Samaria security barrier, much of it constructed in the last 10 months.

By DAVID ISAAC Jan 10/24

Illegal Arab construction at the security barrier near Al-Ramadin in Judea. Photo: Courtesy.

An alarming increase in illegal Arab construction along the Judea and Samaria security barrier has come to light thanks to research by Israeli NGO Regavim.

Analyzing photography obtained through aerial reconnaissance, Regavim discovered tens of thousands of illegal structures built along the barrier, which runs roughly along the Green Line, the 1949 armistice line that followed Israel’s War of Independence.

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By Caroline Glick,  IN FOCUS  –  JNS TV    9 JANUARY 2024

By Daniel Greenfield, GATESTONE       10 January 2024

If anyone is watching, armed Hamas fighters have hijacked aid convoys in videos taken both by the IDF and civilians in Gaza. In video after video, Hamas terrorists seize aid and assault civilians who, in some cases, respond by hurling abuse and stones. Pictured: Hamas terrorists on a pickup truck “escort” trucks carrying humanitarian aid that they intend to loot, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)

A week after the horrors of October 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it.

“If Hamas in any way blocks humanitarian assistance from reaching civilians, including by seizing the aid itself, we’ll be the first to condemn it. And we will work to prevent it from happening again,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged.

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The former president seeks to shift the blame for the attack on Israel. He ought to look in the mirror.

By Elliot Kaufman, WSJ    Nov. 6, 2023

Even Barack Obama supported Israel in dismantling Hamas, a senior Israeli official was eager to tell me early in the war. The former president said so in a 73-word statement on Oct. 9.

But on Oct. 23, in a 1,130-word statement, Mr. Obama called for Israeli restraint. Now, on the “Pod Save America” podcast, Mr. Obama counsels “an admission of complexity.” In a part of the interview released Saturday, Mr. Obama says: “What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.” To get to the full truth, “you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.” He adds: “As hard as I tried—I have the scars to prove it—but there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?’ ”

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T. Belman.  IDIOTS!!

The survey, designed to understand the perspectives of the US Jewish electorate, has unveiled a significant generational divide in political opinions among American Jews.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF   JANUARY 9, 2024 21:10

Approximately 47% of younger Jewish voters, aged between 18-35, feel that President Joe Biden is overly supportive of Israel, according to the latest November 2023 National Survey of Jewish Voters, conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute with GBAO Strategies. This contrasts sharply with the generally favorable view of the older Jewish electorate towards the President’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas.

T. Belman.  This is an excellent summary of the history of Gaza and the international community’s hatred of Israel.

Or does it simply hate Israel so much it is willing to use Gazan Arabs as pawns and cannon fodder. The MUST READ concise history of Gaza.

Lt. Col.(res.) Maurice Hirsch, INN  Jan 8, 2024, 6:37 AM 

Over the last 500 years, at least, the Gaza Strip has been a backwar. No one has ever truly invested in Gaza or the Gazans. For the last 100 years, Gaza and the Gazans have increasingly been used as pawns, by both the Arabs and the international community, in their efforts to vilify Israel and the Jews.

When push came to shove, the international community, led by the United Nations, preferred dead Gazans over losing leverage against Israel. Paradoxically and entirely contrary to common perception, Israel did more for the Gazans and the Gaza Strip than any of its many rulers, and had the international community not hated the Gazans so much, their situation today could have been drastically different.

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T. Belman. No Israeli plan for the day after.  Great. Best news I have had all week. Blinken’s visit was a bust for him.

Smotrich to Blinken:

“US Secretary of State Blinken, welcome to Israel. We greatly appreciate the US’s support for Israel, but as far as our existence in our country is concerned, we will always act according to the Israeli interest.”

“That is why we will continue to fight with all our might to destroy Hamas, we will not transfer a single shekel to the Palestinian Authority that will go to the families of the Nazis in Gaza and we will work to allow the opening of the gates of Gaza for the voluntary migration of refugees as the international community did to the refugees from Syria and Ukraine.“

The U.S. and Egypt have both put forward ideas on what the future government of Gaza could look like, but it seems that Israel is refusing to even discuss a future beyond ‘ongoing Israeli security control.’ As the war enters its fourth month, the future is as up in the air as it was when it started.

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ Jan 9, 2024 2:48 pm IST

Palestinians gather at a tent camp in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, in December.Credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/ Reuters

Without public declarations or official statements, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi “to coordinate positions ahead of the meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.” News reports said the two “discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip and agreed to categorically reject the possibility of Palestinians emigrating outside the Strip.”

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T. Belman. You must listen to Dalia. She is courageous, informed and intelligent. She has put her life seriously at risk for telling the truth and coming to Israel’s defense.  I wish her well.

T. Belman. So what if we are putting the squeeze on them by withholding funds.  Once again, the IDF wants Israel to ease their condition to avoid a flare-up. I say, I hope there is an explosiion. Time we went on offensive in Judea and Samaria. We must demilitarize it and deswtroyt Hamas there also.

TV report: The military echelon explicitly warned Netanyahu and the Cabinet ministers about a slippery slope in Judea and Samaria: We may end up with a third intifada there.

Israel National News    Jan 9, 2024, 5:37 AM

Herzi Halevi at Judea and Samaria divisionIDF Spokesperson’s Unit

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS       8 January 2024

A man standing near a hole in the security fence, in Kfar Ezion, in the West Bank, on October 2, 2022. Photo by Gershon Elinson

The entire country of Israel, with a few noted exceptions, was led down the path of false promises of security between the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005 and the murders in 2023 of the very kibbutz members who supported the expulsion. It was a hard lesson on the need for vigilance, as well as on the sad fact that for the foreseeable future, Israelis will have to continue fighting for their lives as their neighbors in the immediate surrounding Arab countries will refuse to accept them.

Now, it appears that the hard lessons have yet to be integrated, and another October 7 massacre is waiting to erupt. They fooled us in 2023, will they fool us again in 2024?

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By Victor Davis Hanson, AMERICAN GREATNESS   8 Jan 2024

In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic moments evidencing the collapse of American culture.

The signs are everywhere and cover the gamut of politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the military. These symptoms of decay share common themes.

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T. Belman. My sentiments exactly.  GREAT ARTICLE.

What Tolstoy might very well teach us is that we must ultimately look to the individual soldiers and their feelings, senses, and perceptions of how the war went.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF, JPOST  JANUARY 9, 2024 02:59

T. Belman.  What the fuck!!!

Civil Administration forces raided numerous Israeli homes in Gush Etzion this morning, confiscated mobile phones, and demolished several buildings.