T. Belman. This story broke a few days ago.  I looked up Stephen Miller on Twitter and couldn’t believe the vitriol levelled against him for these policies. It was vicious and beyond belief.

“The latest CBS news poll reveals that President Biden and Democrats generally are out of sync with the American people on immigration, with massive majorities of even Independents and Hispanics disapproving of the administration’s handling of the issue. That issue and Biden’s feckless handling of the border present an opening for GOP candidates in the 2024 election,”  Trump is obviously making this a huge issue for next yeart’s election.

This issue will no doubt reverberate in Israel in our fight against the TSS.

A former Trump immigration adviser says that activists ‘won’t know what’s happening.’

By Jack Phillips, EPOCH TIMES  11/13/2023

Then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, then-National Trade Council adviser Peter Navarro, then- Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, then- policy adviser Stephen Miller, and then-chief strategist Steve Bannon watch as former President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci

A former White House immigration adviser proclaimed that a second Trump term would include stricter policies targeting illegal immigration, saying it would be a “spectacular migration crackdown.”

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T. Belman. This deal is good for Israel. The release of 70 women and children is not to be sneezed at. I have no problem releasing 120 convicted female and minor terrorists but I do have trouble agreeing to a 5 day ceasefire.  Hamas desperately wants the ceasefire. That’s why this deal is on the table.  To get it or or even for a few days less, it should be required to release all 100 women and children. I have my doubts that this deal will happen.

Swap would see temporary ceasefire, and the release of some – but not all – hostages held by terrorists in Gaza.

Israel National News  Nov 14, 2023, 8:27 AM (GMT+2)

Messages with photos of the hostages, in Tel AvivMiriam Alster/Flash 90

Israel and the Hamas terror group are close to closing a deal to free some of the civilians held by the Hamas terror group, alongside female and minor convicted terrorists, according to a report by David Ignatius on the Washington Post

The Post article follows a Saturday report by Al Arabiya that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a “humanitarian” prisoner swap under which Hamas would release 100 Israeli hostages, in exchange for Israel releasing female and minor terrorists.

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Vantage with Palki Sharma

They just called for a ceasefire and rejected all punative measures.

T. Belman. Clearly, the US show of force is not a deterrant. Rather than show they mean it, the US prefers to deter Israel from a greater response. Their bluff has been called.

From Israel’s point of view, her first priority is to defeat Hamas. The last thing she wants is a two front war. Israel has limited munitions. She can’t afford to use them on  Hezbollah at this time. Look for Hezbollah to keep increasing the pressure.

Secretary Austin is ordered by the president to deliver to the Jewish state a warning against responding to the enemy in a war that is already close to full tilt.

By Benny Avni, NY SUN    November 13, 202314:12:11 pm

The U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, right, is greeted by Israel’s minister of defense, Yoav Gallant, October 13, 2023, at Tel Aviv. AP/Lolita Baldor

Shortly after Hamas launched war on October 7, President Biden dispatched naval assets to the Mediterranean, hoping to deter Hezbollah and its Tehran patrons from aiding Hamas and launching an all-out regional war. Now, Washington seems intent on deterring Israel instead.

In a phone conversation over the weekend, the secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, warned his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, against escalating tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Mr. Austin “emphasized the need to contain the conflict to Gaza and avoid regional escalation,” according to a Pentagon readout of the conversation.

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JaFaJ INTELLIGENCE November 13, 2023

1.JaFaJ has learned from a senior Israeli military source that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has been able to identify twenty different hospitals in Gaza which Hamas has been using as shields with tunnel military units underneath and also as holding centers for more and estimated 250 Israeli hostages.

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By Gamaliel Isaac, AM THINKER

On October 25, 2023, U.N. secretary general António Guterres said at a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war that he condemns unequivocally the horrifying and unprecedented 7 October acts of terror by Hamas in Israel.  He continued:

Nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians — or the launching of rockets against civilian targets.

He then justified the attacks:

It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.  The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.

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T. Belman. At first , Biden supported our right of self-defense so long asw we followed the Rules of War. (As though he had to remind us). But then he insisted on “humanitain corridors” and then on “pauses”. But now he is upping the ante again ny saying  “The United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire.” Surely the R of W are enough restrictions. But no, he keeps adding to them . No mention  is ever made of avoiding IDF causualties.

Why is Biden tying our hands thus? No such restrictions were put on Zelensky.

As IDF advances in Gaza, Jake Sullivan says ‘we don’t want to see firefights in hospitals,’ accuses Hamas of acting ‘in way that’s outside the bounds of any civilized concept’

By TOI STAFF   Today, 6:44 am

People stand outside the emergency ward of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Khader Al Zanoun/AFP)

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday said the Biden administration has shared concerns with Israel about potential civilian casualties in an operation to capture Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, where Hamas allegedly has a key command center.

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Braverman stirred controversy in Britain when she criticized pro-Palestinian protests, and accused the police of adopting ‘double standards’ in its treatment of them

Ynet, Reuters|11:45

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired Home Secretary Suella Braverman on Monday, a government source said, as part of a wider reshuffle after she criticized the police’s handling of a pro-Palestinian march.

Reports of the dismissal come after Braverman has in recent weeks aligned herself alongside Israel. In an article published last week in The Times, she claimed that the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Britain since the outbreak of the war had turned into “hate marches.” She also accused police of being too soft on left-wing protesters compared to right-wing protesters. Braverman’s critics said the article she wrote increased tensions and encouraged right-wing activists to take to the streets and confront pro-Palestinian protesters. They called on Sunak to remove the senior minister from her post.

The Tom Nash Report

| Israel War Day 37 Updates

B’NAI BRITH PRIMER

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T. Belman.  ITS ABOUT TIME

Professor Alan Dershowitz blasts former US President who called for end to “Israeli occupation”: He always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart.

T. Belman. Amir Avivi is the most important voice in Israel outside of the government. He is the founder of IDSF whci consists of 16,000 reserve officers and operatives from all branches of the Israeli security forces dedicated to guiding the narrative of Israel’s national security needs and ensuring that Israel’s security in the homeland of the Jewish people is never taken for granted. Martin Sherman is part of their think tank. He and Martin both support the removal of the Gazans and the annexation of Gaza. He also said that this war could easily take another year. Hopefully Trump will be reelected as President giving rise to a whole new world.

T. Belman. Michel Cotler -Wunsh is the daughter of Irwin Cotler who served for many years as Canada’s Justice Minister. She is an Israeli politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Blue and White alliance from 2020 to 2021. She currently is special envoy for combating antisemitism for Israel.

T. Belman. Israel is committed to destoying Hamas. That much is certain. Biden is on board for this, so far. But he is forcing Israel to take more casualties to reduce the Gazan casualties.

At the same time, Israel has pledged that she will not annex Gaza or any part of it. This is not good enough for many Israelis. They believe Israel has the right to reclaim Gaza, that the Palestinians must lose land to know they have lost. The Rules of War provide that in a defensive war, the country that has been attacked has the right to acquire land from the aggressor. Unfortuneately, Biden is opposed to any annexation.

By  David M. Weinberg, IH     11-12-2023 14:46

Pressures on Israel from Washington and other Western capitals are mounting to curtail the campaign to destroy Hamas, because of the humanitarian toll in Gaza.

Israeli government leaders must resist these pressures with all their might. They must persist in pounding Hamas-ISIS to smithereens until every last Hamas commander is dead, every last Hamas terror attack tunnel is destroyed, and every last Hamas missile bunker is obliterated.

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T. Belman.This article is the opposite of what I thought it was. It highlights the opposition to Biden’s “decision to aggressively back Israel’s war against Hamas.” While Israel complains Biden is screwing us, many in the US administration are complining he is doing too much for Israel.

It’s a much better discussion than the one taking place in public.

By MICHAEL SCHAFFER, POLITICO    11/10/2023 05:00 AM EST

Amid news of vast in-house dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s Israel-Palestine policies, Washington is getting all the umbrage and sense of betrayal that accompanies a leaked internal divide — but none of the benefits that flow from a strenuous public debate.

Consider the fallout from my colleague Nahal Toosi’s report this week about State Department staffers signing a formal dissent cable. The political reaction was a pretty good Rorschach test of America’s ideological divide.

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T. Belman. I’ve had it with Bibi. Are we really so weak that we have to take orders from Biden?

With these goals, invading Gaza was a mistake.  What’s the point?  To put the Gazans in power sans Hamas. We should just be bombing the shit out of the place.

Jerusalem and Washington share ‘common goal’ in war, PM tells Fox News, accuses Rep. Rashida Tlaib of calling for ‘genocide’ of Israelis

By JACOB MAGID, TOI 10 November 2023,