Report claims US officials want IDF to deploy smaller bombs, use better intel and send commando teams into urban zones, recommending tactics used during Iraq War’s deadliest years

By TOI STAFF    Today, 7:44 am

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A handout photo shows IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip, in pictures distributed on November 4, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

American officials have advised Israel to take several steps to reduce firepower in the Gaza Strip and take a more exacting approach to its war against the Hamas terror group, pointing to its own experiences in Iraq two decades ago, according to a report Saturday.

However, Israeli officials see much of the advice as irrelevant, and the head of the Israel Defense Forces rejected the advice as liable to cause even more casualties, according to a separate Israeli report Saturday.

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BY: ALEX SAFIAN, PHD, CAMERA OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the wake of horrific mass terror attacks against southern Israeli communities, in which up to 1400 Israelis were murdered by terrorists from Hamas-ruled Gaza, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a “complete siege” of the territory:

I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.

Because some have mistakenly interpreted this to mean that Israel supplied — and is now cutting off — all of Gaza’s water, electricity, and food, the facts are outlined below.

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T. Belman.  “Settler violence” is a coined phrase to implicate the settlers into a cycle of violence. This article is long on emotionalcoverage and short on causation. But it does report that ”

Palestinian attacks on Israelis in the West Bank are also escalating, and Israeli officials say there have been more than 550 since Oct. 7.

U.N. officials said that so far this year, at least 23 Israeli civilians had been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is several times higher than it has been in previous years.”

It does not identify how many Palestinians  if any, were killed by settlers, if any.

In any event the settlers have a right to be enraged and to fight back. Ben Gvir supports them.  Bibi wants calm.

Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Rami Nazzal and Adam Sella, NYT   NOV 2/23

T. Belman. To the contrary, Gazans must be forcibly displaced. It is the only thing that will bring permanent peace. Blinken  wants a continuation of the conflict. Blinken is the enemy. No daylight betrween Blinken and Biden.

There is no such thing as “settler violence”. It is an attempt to show complicity of both sides.

US Sec. of State discusses ‘extremist violence against Palestinians with PA chairman after Jewish man murdered by terrorists in Samaria.

Israel National News   Nov 5, 2023, 1:29 PM (GMT+2)

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that Secretary Blinken told Abbas that Gaza’s residents “must not be forcibly displaced” during the current war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in the coastal enclave.

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By Joshua Klein, BREITBART 4 Nov 2023

Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight scolded his daughter, Angelina Jolie, for her condemnation of Israel, claiming she is ignorant of the truth, as he insisted there can be no coexistence with Hamas “animals” who want “Jews and Christians to be wiped from the earth.”

In a slightly over three-minute clip posted Saturday, the Hollywood legend — featured against the backdrop of an American flag — began by expressing his disappointment in his daughter, actress Angelina Jolie, over her recent condemnation of Israel following the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.

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T. Belman. Those who promote the TSS are in reality promoting the destruction of Israel

By Daniel Greenfield, 03 Nov 

“We must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution,” Biden lectured Israelis during his visit.

A two state solution dividing up Israel into a state for the Jews and a state for the Muslim terrorists has been on the minds of Biden, administration officials, EU leaders and the media.

Before his visit to Israel, Biden called Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and scheduled a meeting with him. Secretary of State Blinken had met with Abbas the day before.
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 By Bryan Chai, WESTERN JOURNALISM   November 4, 2023 at 2:25pm

by Michael Freund, JPOST NOV 3/23

In a moving video clip circulating on social media, two Israeli soldiers standing atop a building hoisted the blue-and-white banner, signifying the Jewish state’s return to the strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea.

To mark the occasion, someone off camera noted that three weeks had passed since the Hamas invasion and massacre of 1,400 Jews and that “soldiers of the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Brigade are raising the flag of Israel in the heart of Gaza on the beach. We will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will not stop until victory.”
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Karys Rhea:

Great conversation with Irina & Naomi on @Coalition_Radio

about my 10-part article in @WestJournalism

exposing a critical dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict most people are completely unaware of. Thanks for having me on @RegavimEng

By Pamela Geller – on November 3, 2023

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

The other day, someone posted a video on Facebook of Sweden back in the 1960s. It was incredible footage of an immaculately clean country filled with beautiful blond people. There are still a lot of blond people in Sweden, but it’s also a country that voluntarily opened its doors to Muslims, at which point it went from one of the world’s safest countries to one of the rapiest countries in Europe. Now, though, Sweden is joining with four other Nordic nations to end its little experiment with multiculturalism.

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American Thought Leaders, EPOCH TIMES

Mr. Jekielek: Victor, I want to do a primer here on what’s happening in the Middle East right now, what’s happening with the Israel-Hamas War, how this all came to be, and how you view this from your unique military history lens.

Mr. Hanson:

The Iran deal fell through, as we knew it would. That gave them certain assumptions that were impossible given their neighborhood, so they had a political disagreement in the fashion that we do. Perhaps Netanyahu is as controversial as Trump, so they’re going through this political and civil war almost. But we’re safe, we have Canada and Mexico, and we’re away.

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Breaking News: Just now, #Hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south #Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to…

— Amjad Taha ???? ?? (@amjadt25) November 3, 2023

“…we are strangers to ourselves: we Israelis, who almost never agree on anything, are suddenly so united.”

Israel’s post-October 7th identity crisis

by Dorit Rabinyan, TABLET Nov 3/23an>

And on the third day of the war we went to one of the hotels where they had evacuated those who had fled the disaster on Saturday. We brought pacifiers and diapers and illustrated books. We invited the children to gather in a circle and tried to ease their minds with a story time.

As soon as you entered the lobby, you could recognize them, “the evacuees”: many families from rural and urban areas, adults, children and teenagers. Distinctive in their transience, in their bewilderment. The place was a resort and the setting was of a family vacation, but somehow everything was distorted, too serious, not the way it should be.

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Heads of Jewish communities and organizations from around the world are calling for Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.

Israel National News     Nov 3, 2023, 2:51 PM (GMT+2)

The leaders of Jewish communities and organizations from around the world sent an unprecedented letter of support to the Israeli government, with a joint call to defeat Hamas and settle the Gaza Strip with Jews.

“We are shocked by the brutal attack in which women, children and men were slaughtered, by the destruction of settlements, and the continued shelling of cities and towns throughout the country,” they wrote.

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AFTER MEETING, BLINKEN HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE.

IN ESSENCE HIS BOTTOM LINE IS THAT PALESTINIANS MUST BE PROTECTED. AND THE TSS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION

https://www.c-span.org/video/?531630-1/secretary-state-holds-news-conference-tel-aviv

Good afternoon, everyone. Days after 7th, I came to Israel followed soon thereafter by President Biden to make clear that as long as the United States stands, Israel will never stand alone today. In my fourth visit to Israel since October 7th, I reiterate that in all my discussions with Prime Minister Netanyahu President Herzog, the security cabinet, I re read it and made clear our support for Israel’s right to defend itself. Indeed, its obligation to defend itself. That includes through the additional assistance that we work with Congress and we’re working with Congress now to provide for Israel’s defense as well as for urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza.

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How to Defeat Hamas Fast, Cheap and Easy 

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The pivot reflects Indian domestic politics and new interests in the Middle East

THE ECONOMIST NOV 2/23

FOREIGN NEWS usually gets short shrift in India. Yet for the past month the country’s television channels have been dominated by wall-to-wall coverage of events in Israel and Gaza, mostly from Israel’s perspective. News anchors in bulletproof vests stand in the desert delivering breathless reports on the aftermath of Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7th. Talk-show hosts restage the Palestinian terrorist group’s attack from Gaza with toy soldiers and miniature bulldozers. Weeks into the war, coverage remains intense.
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