T. Belman. Chuck Freilich said a lot of things that I disagree with but was he more realistic then I tend to be. In other words, am I living in a fantasy world?

INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with INSS senior researcher Prof. Chuck Freilich, who served for over 20 years in Israel’s national security establishment, as a senior analyst and then as deputy national security adviser.

Peloni: The same people who exposed the systemic ballot harvesting described in 2000 Mules have won a very important victory for election transparency against the combined opposition of Stacy Abrahms, Marc Elias, and the Biden DOJ in  a judgement handed down by an Obama appointed judge.

Catherine Englebrecht and True the Vote (TTV) announces a major court victory in Georgia for their efforts to ensure voting integrity.

 Sundance, Conservative Treehouse | January 2, 2024 |

Hamas is a less significant existential threat than the collapse of US leadership

By DAVID P GOLDMAN     DECEMBER 21, 2023

And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. – Jeremiah 1:13-14

Strictly speaking, Israel’s Gaza war is not a tragedy, but rather a hideous accident. Many wars wait for years to happen until they can’t be stopped. Those are the tragedies.

The Israel Democracy Institute’s yearbook on the Haredi sector, which has been published for eight years and reviews the changes that have taken place in recent decades in various fields in ultra-Orthodox society, sheds light on just how far along Haredi women have come in joining the workforce.

By  Sonia Gorodeisky     01-02-2024 14:09

In recent weeks, the importance of core studies in the Haredi sector has been widely discussed in the context of coalition funds, which include billions of Shekels for Haredi educational institutions that do not teach core studies, thus reducing the chances of Haredi children integrating into the future job market.

In the meantime, data on the ground show a considerable improvement in recent years in some of the numbers related to Haredi education and employment.
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Senior official says Jerusalem working on postwar resettlement of Palestinians from Strip; some ministers tout Saudi Arabia as destination for Gazans seeking construction work

By SHALOM YERUSHALMI Today, 12:09 pm

Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

The “voluntary” resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the government, with a senior official saying that Israel has held talks with several countries for their potential absorption.

Zman Israel, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew sister site, has learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is conducting secret contacts for accepting thousands of immigrants from Gaza with Congo, in addition to other nations.

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Mudar Zahran tweeted,

With one strike, the complete removal of the Hamas West Bank operations command, HQ targeted was based in Beirut, Lebanon. In total, seven top Hamas leader were killed during a supposedly “secret” meeting they were having… Here they are 1-Commander Saleh Al-Arouri 2-Commander Samir Fendi 3-Commander Azzam Al-Aqra’ 4- Mahmoud Zaki Shaheen 5-Mohamed Al-Rayes 6-Muhammad Bashasha 7-Ahmed Hammoud

Dr. Gada Ennab tweeted

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When encountering Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, surveys show an 80%+ likelihood that they are terrorists, supporters, or sympathizers.

By Dr. Avi Perry, INN  Jan 3, 2024, 8:06 AM

The international community, encompassing the global media, social media, political figures, and even supporters of Israel, tends to criticize the Jewish state’s defensive war for causing harm and casualties among “innocent” civilians in Gaza, rather than holding Hamas accountable. There is often a disregard for the reality that eliminating Hamas involves unavoidable collateral damage, given their use of civilians, hospitals, schools, private homes, mosques, and other civilian infrastructure for military purposes.

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Defense minister says Hamas battalions in northern Gaza ‘destroyed,’ fighting in Strip’s south to remain at ‘high intensity’ until goals achieved; Staff Sgt. Sufian Dagash killed

By EMANUEL FABIAN, TOI     2 January 2024, 9:52 pm

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is seen with IDF troops in the central Gaza Strip, January 2, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

His comments came a few hours before top Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed in a blast in Beirut widely attributed to Israel.

Gallant’s remarks were made during a tour of the Strip’s main north-south highway, Salah a-Din road, in the central Gaza Strip, where the 99th Division has been operating over the past week.
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By JNS, JEWISH PRESS,  2 January 2024

Hamas deputy political chief Salah al-Arouri presents an image of Jerusalem to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, July 22, 2019.

An Israeli drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut eliminated top terror chief Saleh al-Arouri on Tuesday night, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Radio announced.

The explosion rocked the south Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold. In addition to al-Arouri, at least three other Hamas terrorists were also killed in the blast, Reuters reported.

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The Caroline Glick Show

TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS  Jan 2/24

By Jeremy Sharon, TOI   1 January 2024

All 15 High Court justices preside over a court hearing on petitions against the government’s ‘reasonableness law’ at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 12, 2023. /Yonatan Sindel

In a monumental, highly controversial decision, the High Court of Justice strikes down legislation passed earlier this year that curtailed judicial oversight of the government, annulling for the first time in Israel’s history an element of one of its quasi-constitutional Basic Laws.

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E. Rowell:  Among other points made in this video, Nash also reviews the idea that Qatar has lost her cache and now hostage negotiations are taking place in Cairo.  He believes that Iran decided to sacrifice Hamas in the hopes that the attack on Israel would scuttle the Israeli-Saudi peace negotiations.  Instead, with Israel’s assassination of General Razi Mousavi and the assassination of eleven other senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, Israel has assured the Saudis and others in the Middle East, that Israel does have outstanding intelligence and offensive military capabilities.

By Tom Nash,  YOUTUBE

‘Gaza has hundreds of thousands unemployed, in Europe there is a lack of manpower – this is the most humane solution, and will prevent much bloodshed,’ Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu says.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of the northern city of Tzfat, published an op-ed offering a long-term solution for the residents of Gaza.

Quoting a suggestion from former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Rabbi Eliyahu said that Haley “sees how hundreds of thousands left Gaza in recent years. Not everyone, because Hamas stopped the emigration. It demands a lot of money for emigration – money that they don’t have. And so she suggested helping them to fulfill their desire to leave Gaza.”

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Peloni: Following Carlson’s interview with Candace Owens, this should not be surprising, even as it is it remains quite disturbing: “They don’t care about their country at all”

Carlson’s comments came during an interview with Saagar Enjeti, the conservative host of the popular web series “Breaking Points.”

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, JPOST  DECEMBER 31, 2023 

Tucker Carlson, the populist pundit who led Fox News’s evening lineup until his ouster in April 2023, said in an interview this week that Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire “[doesn’t] care about the country at all,” accusing him and other pro-Israel voices of being “focused on a conflict in a foreign country as their own country becomes dangerously unstable.”

The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus

by Howard Rotberg, NER

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” -Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

The masters of our culture, the elites from academia, media, entertainment and politics understand that the contemporary culture war is all about power.  And so every culture clash revolves around power and a determination of who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed, who is the victim and who is the victimizer.  And our words, which should be the key to good communication and erudite thought have become a tool to shut down communication and thought.  Do we not see the irony in the term “cancel culture”?

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