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Don’t Give Gaza to the Palestinian Authority  

Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is no better than Hamas. It has celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks.

By Eugene Kontorovich  and  Itamar Marcus, WSJ    Nov. 26, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the West Bank, Nov. 5. PHOTO: JONATHAN ERNST/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Biden administration wants Israel to bring in Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party to rule Gaza when the war is over. Fatah controls the Palestinian Authority, which governs much of the West Bank. Uniting Gaza and the West Bank under a common government is a necessary step in the Biden administration’s seemingly unshakable goal of creating a Palestinian state sandwiching Israel.

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November 29, 2023 | 12:06 am | 1 Comment »

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White House: IDF op in southern Gaza must be ‘different’ than in north  

T. Belman. Why does the US treat the Gazans with kid gloves and didn’t give a shit about the Syrian refugees.

Also they keep putting new impediments in our way.

The Biden administration has “reinforced in very clear language” that renewed fighting must not “produce significant further displacement of persons.”

Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Nov. 22, 2023. Credit: IDF.

The White House says it has made clear to the Israeli government that its military campaign in Gaza’s south must differ substantially from its operations in the strip’s north in the opening weeks of its war against Hamas.

A senior administration official, briefing reporters on Tuesday, said U.S. President Joe Biden and others in his government have “reinforced in very clear language with the government of Israel” that the “conduct of the Israeli campaign, when it moves to the south, must be done in a way that is to a maximum extent not designed to produce significant further displacement of persons.”

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November 28, 2023 | 7:08 pm | 8 Comments »

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THE HOSTAGE DILEMMA  

Peloni: Michael Doran and Gadi Taub provide a thoughtful analysis on the following topics:

  • Will the war continue
  • Costs of the pause
  • The ongoing war against Bibi’s govt
  • Is the consensus of Israelis with or against the hostage deal
  • Ending national funding for Haaretz
  • much more…

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November 27, 2023

ISRAEL UPDATE – ISRAEL AT WAR

The hostage deal has moved forward with a tense pause in the fighting. Michael Doran and Gadi Taub discuss how this can now play out, what pressures will be brought to bear by Israel, the US, Hamas and Iran.

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November 28, 2023 | 6:36 pm | 1 Comment »

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No, The U.S. Shouldn’t Push Israel To Create A Palestinian State  

BY DAVID HARSANYI, FEDERALIST  

Sure, the Israel-Gaza situation is bad right now. But that is no reason to make it worse.

“Ultimately,” contends Sen. Chris Murphy, the next Israeli government “is going to have to put us back on a path to have a Palestinian state. That’s not easy, but it is the only way forward for Israel, is the only way forward for long-term peace.”

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November 28, 2023 | 6:31 pm | 5 Comments »

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Israel-Hamas war: Shin Bet interrogations break open Hamas strategy  

The Shin Bet interrogated dozens of senior Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 slaughter of Israelis in the South.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST > NOVEMBER 22, 2023 12:53


Israeli soldier around the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 30, 2023.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has obtained intelligence regarding the most intimate and sensitive issues related to Hamas operations, their forces’ thinking, and internal dealings, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Further, the agency has interrogated dozens of the more senior Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 slaughter of Israelis in the South.

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November 28, 2023 | 3:01 pm | 1 Comment »

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Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory  

Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in this war and want it to destroy Hamas; the overwhelming majority of lawmakers from both parties share that view.

Caroline B. Glick (November 27, 2023 / JNS)

The time has come to discuss the Biden administration’s relationship with Israel. With each passing day, two things become obvious. First, Israel cannot fight the war without U.S. resupply of the Israel Defense Forces. As a consequence, Israel is beholden to the administration’s directives. And second, if Israel follows the Biden administration’s directives, it will lose the war.

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

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November 28, 2023 | 2:43 pm | 5 Comments »

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Masterclass in Manipulation: Exposing Max Blumenthal’s Lies About Israel and October 7  

T. Belman. Blumenthal is also an antisemite.  Why did Haarets not say so?

Was there really a massacre at Bucha?

The Grayzone editor has a history of denying war crimes, so it’s no surprise he provided a piece that very selectively uses facts, includes purposely edited quotes to change their meaning and grossly plays down the atrocities against Israelis

By Michal Perach, HAARETZ      Nov 27, 2023 12:43 pm IST


Personal belonging left at the location where the Nova festival massacre took place on October 7.Credit: RONEN ZVULUN/Reuters

Max Blumenthal, the editor of The Grayzone website, wrote a piece on October 27 that can only be described as a master class in manipulation. His article provided the basis for the now widespread conspiracy theory denying that Hamas murdered hundreds of Israeli civilians.

No one who knows Blumenthal or The Grayzone was surprised by this: They have a history of denying war crimes committed by Russia, China and the Assad regime in Syria, so this new episode was almost unavoidable. The Grayzone denied the March 2022 massacre by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine, and accused the Syrian aid group the White Helmets of war crimes that were actually committed by the Assad regime.

November 28, 2023 | 9:38 am | 4 Comments »

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Hostages return to Israel, undergoing examinations at Ichilov Hospital  

Peloni: The evil which led to the Simchat Torah massacre is inherent in the Pal population, their education, their culture and their entire society.  Failing to learn such truths and deal with them equitably is why the massacre took place on October 7.  Ignoring this reality only serves to maintain the threat into the future, the elimination of which should be the true objective of this war.  They must go. 

Ron Krivoi’s aunt revealed on Monday that Gazan civilians located Krivoi and brought him back into Hamas captivity.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF     
Roni Krivoy, returned to Israel from Hamas captivity on November 26, 2023 (photo credit: Hostage and Missing Families Forum)It was like a scene from an action movie: Newly-freed hostage Ron Krivoi escaped his captors by extricating himself from the building where he was being held after it was bombed and collapsed on top of him.

Fleeing the rubble of the destroyed Gazan building, Ron attempted to escape the Gaza Strip on his own, managing to stay hidden for four days straight before being recaptured, his aunt disclosed to KAN’s Reshet Bet radio on Monday morning. A 25-year-old Israeli Russian with dual citizenship, Krivoi was released by Hamas on Sunday evening following the Russian government’s intervention, in addition to 13 other Israelis and three foreign hostages released on the third day of the ceasefire with Gaza.

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November 28, 2023 | 9:34 am | 1 Comment »

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PM lobbying Likud MKs, saying only he can prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza, West Bank – report  

27 November 2023

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 22, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 22, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly met with at least 10 backbenchers in his Likud party over the past week in an effort to ensure their continued support, as the ruling party drops further and further in the polls since the war.

“I am the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza and [the West Bank] after the war,” the Kan public broadcaster quotes Netanyahu as having told the lawmakers.

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November 28, 2023 | 4:47 am | 1 Comment »

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The Brutal Reality About Palestinians the Media Ignores | David M. Friedman  

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Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman about the current situation in Israel and the Middle East; his experiences during the recent conflict; his criticisms of the current U.S. administration for its perceived weakness and for lifting sanctions on Iran, which he believes has emboldened groups like Hamas; the challenges Israel faces in dealing with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the West; the importance of Israel’s biblical heritage and the need to protect it; and much more.

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November 28, 2023 | 3:34 am | 1 Comment »

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Sad about Sa’ad  

A dozen years after a Hamas attack on a school bus, peace-loving Kibbutz Sa’ad sees more evil. 

By Howard Rotberg, INN    Nov 26, 2023, 7:06 PM (GMT+2)

Sa’ad: Celebrating harvest with balloonsSa’ad archives

In this article I wish to go back to 2011 to fill in the back story of the Hamas murders of Jewish children. The barbaric massacre of October 7th, was so horrific and so meticulous in its planning and execution, that we must study all of the facts to help ensure it never happens again. Some new facts have emerged from some recently found documents showing the detailed level of planning that seems to have taken the IDF by surprise.
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November 27, 2023 | 3:43 pm | 2 Comments »

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Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online  

L. Goudsmit. Without free speech there are no freedoms at all. Alex Newman has documented globalism’s sinister plan to impose its totalitarian, planetary, Unistate  managed by the lethally corrupt United Nations. This extraordinary article exposes the Chinese communist surveillance state as the model  for globalism’s dystopian Unistate. American Marxism, funded and fomented by the globalist elite, is the weapon currently bludgeoning America into submission. Indoctrinated millennials and their low-information children are surrendering America’s precious freedoms to the global predators. The  globalist New World Order is planetary feudalism. Its New Normal eliminates any and all individual freedoms, and reduces the world’s population to serfdom.

The Unistate is a binary political structure of rulers and ruled where “you will own nothing” because they will own everything––including YOUR SELF! The unacknowledged World War III convulsing the current world order is Globalism v. Nation-States. The United States must exit the UN and reject its sinister schemes for planetary totalitarian control.  Any independent sovereign nation is welcome to exit with us. The world’s freedom clock is ticking from freedom to serfdom. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.

The UN is escalating its war against ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘misinformation’ by creating an ‘internet of trust.’ 

by Alex Newman, EPOCH TIMES Nov 24/23

A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers.

In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.”

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November 27, 2023 | 3:04 pm | 2 Comments »

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The West has gone mad – and evil  

What is this evil acid that corrodes Western humanism, and where does it come from? 

By Giulio Meotti, INN   Nov 27, 2023, 6:33 AM (GMT+2)

According to French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, heir to the great liberal thinkers, from Raymond Aron to Albert Camus, “we have slipped into hatred towards our world. The woke spirit, which has taken the place of communist ideology, defines white supremacism as absolute evil and makes the Israeli the quintessence of this evil.”

Hence the assault on the history and culture of the West to dismantle and disperse them both.

And this West now hates itself to the point of generating crazy paradoxes every day. Under these circumstances, how long can our house, the increasingly divided house of the civilized world, stand?

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November 27, 2023 | 1:01 pm | 12 Comments »

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NYT: Kristof on Gaza  

 T. Belman. The authors do a great job of dismantling this article.  They show how ludicous it is. Unfortunately, it is typical of the NYT.

By Alan G. Futerman and Walter E. Block

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, in his important essay “What Does Destroying Gaza Solve?” (October 14, 2023), poses a series of important challenges which must be faced by all those, such as the present authors, who favor the present Israeli bombing of, and then incursion into, that troubled area.

First off he states: “Israel’s demand that more than one million people leave their homes in northern Gaza, when they have nowhere to go, could constitute the war crime of forced removal…”

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November 27, 2023 | 12:32 pm | 6 Comments »

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Netanyahu responds to Gantz: Budget will be brought for approval as scheduled  

Prime Minister’s office makes clear the amended budget will be brought before the government for approval despite Gantz’s threat to vote against it.

Gantz and NetanyahuChaim Goldberg and Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office made clear on Sunday night that the amended budget will be brought before the government for approval on Monday, despite Minister Benny Gantz’s threat to vote against it.

“Tomorrow, we will submit to the Government an unprecedented NIS 30 billion budget for a month-and-a-half, which meets the needs of the war,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.

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November 27, 2023 | 9:09 am | 2 Comments »

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1,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’  

T. Belman. I take this threat seriously.

Reminiscent of infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara protest, large maritime convoy plans to remain in international waters off Ashdod and disrupt sea trade route to Israel

By GIANLUCA PACCHIANI, TOI       21 November 2023,

FILE: Palestinians waving national flags wait aboard small boats off the port of Gaza City on May 30, 2010, to greet the so-called ‘Freedom Flotilla.’ (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.

In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”

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November 27, 2023 | 8:09 am | 7 Comments »

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Biden About To Betray Israel?  

by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE  •  November 26, 2023

  • Seven weeks into Israel’s military offensive to destroy Hamas as a military and political entity, the Biden administration now seems to be adopting a very different stance, one where it appears ready to scale down its commitment to supporting Israel’s right to self-defence, and destroying Hamas, in favour of a ceasefire deal that would essentially gift victory to Hamas.
  • Netanyahu has made no secret of his personal reservations about the hostage deal, arguing that any pause in Israel’s military offensive would simply allow Hamas to regroup. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in particular, had been opposed to the deal because they wanted to maintain the pressure against Hamas on the ground in Gaza.
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November 27, 2023 | 2:44 am | 1 Comment »

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