By Michael Ordman, VGNI

The photo (TY Aubrey) is of a Hebrew sign that translates as “We will win in Gaza”.  The sign can also be translated as “We will win with God’s help”.  Amen.

As 2023 comes to an end, I unashamedly write this introduction with much emotion. There are now definite signs that Israel is winning the war against Hamas in Gaza. It cannot fail, thanks to a winning team of supporters in Israel and across the globe who, like the many thousands of readers of this newsletter, have been donating time, money, skills, accommodation, essential supplies, and more, to help the IDF fight against those wishing to destroy the Jewish State and civilization as a whole.

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Peloni: The rising alliance between Israel and India is both impressive and important.

The new geopolitical landscape following the October 7th terror attacks has highlighted a crucial yet largely unrecognized alliance between Israel and India. Increased Indian interest in the Jewish state should serve as a signal for Israel to broaden its diplomatic focus beyond its traditional allies in the West.

Yeshaya Rosenman

Never before Oct 8. had Israel been flooded with so many Indian reporters. Of the few thousand foreign journalists who rushed to Israel to cover the war, over a hundred arrived from India, including many of the most famous faces of Indian media.

I received multiple offers for reporting positions, and I chose Republic TV, India’s most viewed and most right-wing TV network. When I traveled to the residence of President Yitzhak Herzog to request an interview with our anchor in Delhi, they informed me that they were not intentionally ignoring my channel’s previous requests, but were simply swamped by inquiries from no fewer than 37 Indian outlets, each claiming it was the biggest in India.

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Foreign Ministry document detailing gradual plan to be presented to cabinet in near future

By TOI STAFF    29 December 2023, 8:56 pm  

The Caroline Glick Show

Hello, officer? I just witnessed the murder of @cenkuygur by @DouglasKMurray…yes I’ll hold ?pic.twitter.com/fUEexOlIlH

— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) December 22, 2023

By Samantha Chang, The Western Journal Dec. 29, 2023

Pro-Black Lives Matter corporate giants Google and Meta joined a growing list of virtue-signaling companies that slashed their “diversity” budgets in 2023 amid a rough year for the tech industry.

“Some companies have laid off DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] staffers and leaders of diverse employee resource groups, downsized learning and development programs and cut budgets for external DEI groups by as much as 90 percent in 2023,” CNBC reported Friday.

The DEI cuts are a laughable reversal of the virtue-signaling bluster some companies trumpeted in the wake of the BLM riots following the May 2020 death of George Floyd.

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For weeks, the American people have been relatively silent as they digested these ongoing catastrophes. But at some point, their patience will run out.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS   December 28, 2023

At the end of the year, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up.

Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes.

All were predicated on the perception of foreign interests purchasing from the Biden family the influence of then-senator, vice president, and possibly soon-to-be President Joe Biden.

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By Caroline Haiat, i24 NEWS    30 December 2023

Volunteers in Tel Aviv/Caroline Haiat/i24 News

Participants, from all generations, sit down for hours to serve the IDF and be part of the immense outpouring of solidarity seen throughout the country.

Friday morning, in the basement of the synagogue at 86 Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, there was excitement: around fifty French, Israeli, Anglo-Saxon volunteers, children and adults were making chargers for the soldiers of IDF who are fighting at the front.

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By Targeting Swiss And German Ships, The Houthi Militants Signaled A Shift In Their Blockade – From Targeting Israel To Targeting The Entire Western World

MEMRI  29 December 2023

On December 17, 2023, Chinese professor and military expert Yun Hua, who is a faculty member at the PLA’s National Defense University, shared a video on his Douyin account in which he said that the Houthis have done China a “big favor” by having “indirectly accelerated the shift from maritime to land transportation for Eurasian trade.” He elaborated that this shift will likely benefit China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which contributes to “China’s international strategy to sever U.S. hegemony, undermine American sea power, and promote global multipolarity.”

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Howard Rotberg

Very sad indeed.  I can’t stop watching interviews with survivors or relatives of those massacred at the Nova concert..  We Jews have had enough of survivors and the ones who didn’t survive, whether it was from the Shoa or this new Shoah.  If you can stand it, watch;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCQqVqBtdR4‘ and

French-Israeli says she was instructed on what to say in videos; was held by a family that played mind games, withheld food, taunted her; man who operated on her arm told her ‘You’re not going home alive’

By AMY SPIRO and MICHAEL HOROVITZ     29 December 2023, 10:58 pm

Rep. Clay: “These buses were nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capital on January 6.”

Start at 2min.  4min video

Rumble  November 15, 2023

Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel

Ron Ben Yishai|YNET  December 29, 2023
Iran was set to deliver sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon in preparation for an expanding confrontation with Israel, including precise weapons, mostly rockets, missiles and drones, to be used against Israeli cities and sensitive sites.

As the U.S. was supplying Israel with military aid, so is Iran delivering weapons to its regional allies, in transports through the Damascus airport mostly, while other weapons transports arrive through other locations.

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If it is not a ‘conflict,’ what is it exactly? It is a war against Jews and has been for well over a century.

By Laureen Lipsky, ISRAEL HAYOM   29 December 2023

We often hear the phrase, “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” everywhere – in the media, from Israeli officials, written in articles, repeated by foreign policy think tanks and U.S. politicians. It is ubiquitous. They are all incorrect. A “conflict” indicates two equal sides laying credible claim over a disputed issue.

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The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.

By Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine  19 December 2023

Greta Thunberg at a climate march in Amsterdam, Nov. 12, 2023 ROGER ANIS/GETTY IMAGES

Polls showing that Palestinians in the West Bank as well as Gaza continue to celebrate and support Hamas, with nearly 75% backing the Oct. 7 massacre that killed 1,200 in southern Israel, would seem to dash U.S. policymakers’ hopes of gaining momentum toward establishing a Palestinian state.

But for the Palestinians, that’s irrelevant. Why should they bother with arduous negotiations leading to compromise over two noncontiguous plots of land when they already have something far greater and much rarer? Empire.

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Peloni: An interesting change of tone from the previous outrageous challenge that Israel has no right to respond to October 7 made before the UN last month.  Could this change of tone be related to the recent move by Russia to support UAE’s rights to islands which have been contested with Iran or is it just coincidental?

The fight against Nazism is what historically unites Russia and the Middle Eastern country, the foreign minister said.

RT December 28, 2023

Peloni:  Warning:  The article contains frank descriptions of the brutality which victims endured on October 7.

A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella, NYT  Dec. 28, 2023

Gal Abdush’s parents, center, and her sisters. The photograph on the wall shows Gal and her husband, Nagi. The couple had been together since they were teenagers.

At first, she was known simply as “the woman in the black dress.”

In a grainy video, you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes.

The video was shot in the early hours of Oct. 8 by a woman searching for a missing friend at the site of the rave in southern Israel where, the day before, Hamas terrorists massacred hundreds of young Israelis.

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Israel Update Decemeber 27, 2023

A precision strike in Syria killed Iranian General Razi Mousavi. Iran blames Israel for the assassination. Why did Israel do it? How will Iran respond? Gadi Taub and Mike Doran discuss the reasons and possible repercussions. Also on this episode: the bizarre political imagination of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and the American attempt to push Prime Minister Netanyahu into a political crisis with his coalition partners. And not least: our picks of the dumbest takes on this week’s news.

By Matti Friedman, FREE PRESS

A demonstration against the Israeli bombardment in Gaza on December 23 in Istanbul, Turkey. (lker Eray via Getty Images)

JERUSALEM — In the days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, triggering the current war in Gaza, many believed that Hamas had erred. The word “miscalculation” recurred in news analysis and in statements from Israeli leaders. People here in Israel were galvanized into action by the massacre. Western governments responded with shock and revulsion. The civilians of Gaza were staring at a looming catastrophe. Hamas was in for it now! What were they thinking?

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