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December 13, 2023
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IDF arrests hundreds of terror suspects in multi-day Jenin raid
Israeli soldiers have so far searched more than 400 buildings in Jenin.
(December 13, 2023 / JNS) Israeli security forces operating in the Samaria city of Jenin have detained hundreds of Palestinian suspects in a major counterterrorism raid that has already lasted some 30 hours, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday.
The suspects were transferred for questioning by Israel’s security agencies, added the military.
IDF soldiers, as well as officers from the Israel Border Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), have so far searched more than 400 buildings and confiscated 30 weapons, large amounts of ammunition, explosives and other military equipment, the IDF said.
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Israel’s comptroller finds security gaps in wake of October 7 massacre
State Comptroller Matanyahu Engleman tours border fences in the north, south, and in the Jerusalem area, highlighting gaps in the security barrier, and in the nation’s security.
By Jerusalem Post Staff, 13 December 2023
View of the Separation Wall and the Al-Aqsa compound in the background on February 02, 2020/OLIVIER FITOUSSI
After touring along the southern and northern borders, State Comptroller Matanyahu Engleman visited the security fence in Jerusalem, the Sharon region, and Samaria, in the West Bank.
Engleman stated, “The massacre in the Gaza border area should never happen in Jerusalem and Gush Dan. It is the government and the army’s responsibility to thoroughly examine the effectiveness of the security barrier.”The State Comptroller emphasized that he would present security authorities with the weaknesses in the border that require urgent refortification, following extensive surveys since the outbreak of Operation Swords of Iron on the southern and northern borders and in bordering communities.
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Israel dismantles the PA without declaring it. Also Hamas expected to surrender in two weeks.
T. Belman. This is a site in Hebrew that was recommended to me. If anyone can find other articles about what’s happening in Jenin in Hebrew of otherwise please provide me with the url.
Yesterday’s activity in Jenin is an exception (for the better) compared to the pattern of the last few weeks which was based on spot raids.
Yesterday the pressure and measures were deep and continuous.
Israel immediately needs a type of “protective wall” model 2023 and similar events in other areas of Judea and Samaria as well.
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‘Hamas’s central government has completely collapsed’
Gaza resident: Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar “are sons of dogs.”
By Baruch Yedid, JNS 13 December 2023
Israeli troops operating in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: IDF
As Hamas’s ability to rule the Gaza Strip crumbles, Palestinian fear of the terror group is disappearing, leading towards anarchy.
Gaza residents openly criticize Hamas in front of TV cameras—once unthinkable—and call the Iran-backed Hamas “betrayers of the Palestinian people.”
In one notable incident, a resident of Gaza told Radio Hebron, which also broadcasts from the Strip, that Hamas leaders Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar “are sons of dogs.”
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After Hamas is destroyed, here are the five things that must not happen in Gaza
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Israel is resolved to remove Hamas and its terrorist infrastructure from the Gaza Strip permanently, and for much of the world, its determination raises one question more than any other: What comes next in Gaza? For those who disapprove of Israel’s actions in the war or those who either passively or actively support the role of Hamas as the Strip’s governing authority, the lack of answers provides a pretext not only to demand a permanent cease-fire but to suggest (often quietly and with a furrowed brow indicating supposed realpolitik wisdom) that the path Israel seems to be making for itself is a dead end from which it needs to be saved.
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In Dueling Remarks, Biden and Netanyahu Spar Over Gaza’s Future
Israel’s prime minister says he won’t allow the Palestinian Authority to take over Gaza
By David S. Cloud, Carrie Keller-Lynn, Summer Said and Andrew Restuccia, WSJ Dec. 12, 2023 4:40 pm ET
President Biden met with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv in October. MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/SHUTTERSTOCK
President Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clashed Tuesday over who should govern Gaza after the war, in a remarkable public display of differences emerging between the two leaders over the conflict.
Speaking during a fundraiser in Washington, Biden made his toughest remarks since the war began about Netanyahu’s government. He suggested that its hard-line stance has prevented Netanyahu from accepting the Biden administration’s postwar plan to have the Palestinian Authority take over Gaza, and that it would also obstruct progress toward political, economic and security arrangements that could spawn a separate Palestinian state—an outcome the U.S. president sees as a long-term solution to the conflict.
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Naomi Wolf Pulls Back Curtain on the Last 3 Years of Chaos
American Thought LeadersDec-12-2023
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“People think democracies die with a sudden shock, and you see Black Shirts or Brownshirts goose-stepping in the streets. That’s not how democracies die. Democracies die through a thousand cuts,” says Naomi Wolf, CEO of DailyClout and author of the new book, “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age.” “…
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Full text of Biden remarks on Bibi, Ben Gvir and ‘bringing Israel together’
US president promises to give Israel what it needs to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas, but decries ministers in Netanyahu coalition who want ‘retribution against all Palestinians’
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Full White House text of remarks by President Joe Biden at a Campaign Reception, December 12, 2023
President Biden: Thank you all so very much. Many of you have been my personal friends and political friends for a long time. I know I don’t look it, but I’ve been around a long while. (Laughter.)
And I want to thank you all — all of you — for — for your steadfast support. And, Rosy, particularly, thank you for that introduction and all the work you did to make this successful.
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Claudine Gay Should Go
By Peter WoodDavid Randall, NAS
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) calls on the Harvard Corporation to remove Claudine Gay from Harvard College’s presidency.
President Gay is at the center of the controversy that followed her December 5 testimony to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, in which she found herself unable to give a clear answer to questions about what Harvard could or would do in response to calls for genocide against Jews. Her answers on that occasion were far from satisfactory, but they are not the only reason why she should be removed from the presidency.
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Netanyahu: I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo
Netanyahu acknowledges there is disagreement with the US about how Gaza will be run after the war: Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening commented on the disputes between Israel and the US regarding the management of the Gaza Strip after the war.
“I greatly appreciate the American support for destroying Hamas and returning our hostages. Following an intensive dialogue with President Biden and his team, we received full backing for the ground incursion and blocking the international pressure to stop the war,” said Netanyahu.
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December 12, 2023
The US, Israel, and the Ongoing War in Gaza
INSS Insight No. 1798, December 12, 2023
By Eldad Shavit and Chuck Freilich
The US administration continues to support Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas, which is why it has thus far refrained from calling for a ceasefire and even went so far as to use its veto power to block a Security Council resolution. However, the administration has presented Israel with clear boundaries, especially when it comes to ensuring humanitarian aid to Gaza and the protection of civilian lives. It has also expressed some degree of frustration with what it sees as Israel’s insufficient response to US concerns and with the lack of a vision for “the day after” the war, following the administration’s presentation of what it believes should guide the postbellum discussion on the future of the Gaza Strip.
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Gallant: Hamas battalions once ‘considered invincible’ now ‘on verge of collapse’
IDF says 500 terror suspects held in past month, some took part in Oct. 7 slaughter; Kerem Shalom crossing to open to ease aid flow as clips show apparent theft, looting of goods.
By Emanuel Fabian and TOI STAFF, 12 Dec 2023
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with soldiers near the Gaza border, October 19, 2023. /Chaim Goldberg
Hamas battalions in the Jabaliya and Shejaiya neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip were on the verge of collapse Monday, said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, amid ongoing heavy fighting in and around the terror stronghold of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and rocket fire on central Israel during the day.
“We have encircled the last strongholds of Hamas in Jabaliya and Shejaiya, the battalions that were considered invincible, that prepared for years to fight us, are on the verge of being dismantled,” Gallant said at a press conference Monday.
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Palestinian state – is it consistent with US interests?.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
Contrary to the State Department’s eagerness to establish a Palestinian state, all pro-US Arab leaders have refrained from tangible steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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J Street lobbies against Israeli war on Hamas
It took J Street a week to turn on Israel. In less than two weeks it was lobbying against Israel.
By Daniel Greenfield, JNS 12 December 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers a speech at the J Street National Conference in Washington, DC., Dec. 4, 2022. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysuch
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacres hit hard at communities where many of the residents were left of center. As a result even some of the usual anti-Israel types temporarily came around to the idea of fighting Hamas.
That included the anti-Israel lobby group J Street.
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Is DEI Doomed? Carol Swain on New Allegations Against Harvard’s President
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“This person has risen to the leadership of a major university, but I don’t believe that the moral guidance is there or the intellectual integrity that you would expect. And I’m not calling for her to resign or to be fired, but I’m calling on the board of trustees of Harvard to look very seriously at these issues, and hold her to the same standard that they would hold a white male or a white female to.”
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Netanyahu Spokesman Denies Existence of Plans to Expel Palestinians From Gaza
Amir Tibon, HAARETZ
This denial is welcome for Israel’s Western allies, following both coded and explicit references to the transfer of Palestinians from Gaza by multiple Israeli ministers
A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that Israel had no plans to move the Palestinian population out of the Gaza Strip, calling such claims “outrageous and false accusations.”
Eylon Levy made the comment in a talk with the foreign media, during which he was asked about remarks made by Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi earlier in the day. “What we are seeing in Gaza is not just simply the killing of innocent people and the destruction of their livelihoods [by Israel] but a systematic effort to empty Gaza of its people,” Safadi said at a conference in Doha.
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Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals
Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.
In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—“The Treason of the Intellectuals”—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism. By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler was still six years away from power in Germany and 13 years away from victory over France. But already Benda could see the pernicious role that many European academics were playing in politics.
Those who were meant to pursue the life of the mind, he wrote, had ushered in “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds.” And those hatreds were already moving from the realm of the ideas into the realm of violence—with results that would be catastrophic for all of Europe.
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Where are the ‘peaceful’ citizens of Gaza?
The Palestinian Arabs support Hamas not because they have to, but because they want to.
Dr. Alex Sternberg Dec 11, 2023, 5:02 PM
(JNS) Beginning on Oct. 8, immediately after the Hamas massacre the day before, the Hamas choir worldwide cried out for a ceasefire, supposedly to protect the peace-loving citizens of Gaza.
Thankfully, the Biden administration stood fully behind Israel and loudly supported Israel’s right to defend herself. But it didn’t take President Joe Biden and his advisers long to realize that the Arab vote could be lost due to this support for Israel. Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Vice President Kamala Harris immediately began to demand Israeli restraint. Unfortunately, the Democrats know they can always count on the Jewish vote, and thus take the Jews for granted.
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MK Deri: When we achieve our goals – we will stay in Gaza
Shas chairman: The Palestinian Authority is unable to control Judea and Samaria – it does not have the capabilities to control Gaza.
Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri said on Monday that there is no restriction on the IDF’s activity in Gaza and it will continue until Hamas is eradicated.
“Time is no timeframe. We will act as much as we need to, according to the needs of the army. Of course we do this while conversing daily with the Americans. When we achieve our goals we will stay in Gaza – to keep it demilitarized,” Deri stated in an interview on Reshet Bet radio.
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