Achieving the goals that Israel has defined will take a long time. The elimination of Hamas’ rule and the destruction of its military capabilities will not be achieved in a single defined and limited operation. They will be the results of a process that will involve many prolonged and continuous actions. It is important to formulate plans and manage expectations accordingly.

 By  Meir Ben Shabbat, ISRAEL HAYOM     10-27-2023 10:

“People do not choose war; they are forced into it. Those who do not know how to submit and subordinate everything to the needs of the war, when there is no other option, are doomed. War is the ultimate test not only of strength but of the will to live.” These words, by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, were spoken a few months before the declaration of the state in 1948. They still resonate strongly, 75 years later.

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T. Belman. Haetzni nails it.

The reason for the delay was that Israel wasn’t prepared for a ground invasion. She just knew how to mow the lawn. She is playing catch-up.

We’ll know within a few days whether the current leadership will find the ability to start coping with the dramatic situation, namely, if it will give the order to move forward with a ground invasion of Gaza.

 By  Nadav Haetzni, ISRAEL HAYOM      10-25-2023 20:52

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters purported to classify him as a modern-day Winston Churchill of sorts, but history has already cemented his legacy as the Israeli Neville Chamberlain. Like the British prime minister who deluded himself and his nation by concluding the Munich accord, Netanyahu surrendered and led us to where we are now. Netanyahu isn’t alone on the stand; together with him are the high-ups of the left-center camp along with most of Israel’s defense leadership in the past generation.

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The Caroline Glick Show

Also, hear Lord Verdiarme’s interview Exporting prisoners, is Joint Enterprise racist, and Gaza-Israel

Hillel Neuer:  “Must-read speech on the legality of Israel’s fight against Hamas, delivered in  House of Lords yesterday by Lord Guglielmo Verdirame KC, professor and barrister in public international law”:
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Bennett excels at handling tough questions.

T. Belman. Mudar told me about this clip. He has been telling me for months that the queen is worse than the king. They are both amoral individuals and liars. They are also behind the Hamas massacre.

Megyn Kelly on the other hand is one of our best defenders.

Liberman called on Israeli politicians to stop being silent with Jordan after the country’s top officials, including the foreign minister and the Queen, criticized Israel.

Survivors of massacre on IDF base say they passed information up the chain of command on digging, mapping, training near the fence long before mass onslaught, but were ignored

By SHIRA SILKOFF, TOI    Today, 4:17 pm

Hamas members pictured at the border a month before the terror group’s October 7 onslaught (screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The brutal Hamas massacre on October 7 was preceded by months of warning signs noted by IDF surveillance soldiers and disregarded as unimportant by intelligence officials, according to eyewitness accounts given in recent days.

At least three months prior to the attack, surveillance soldiers serving on a base in Nahal Oz reported signs that something unusual was underway at the already-tumultuous Gaza border, situated a kilometer from them.
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The small, cheap, and technologically simple drones used by Hamas in the October 7 attack caused major damage. Clearly, Israel was not adequately prepared to confront the threat posed by the “poor man’s air force” possessed by terrorist organizations. What conclusions should Israel draw from this lapse, and to what other areas do they apply?

INSS Insight No. 1772, October 26, 2023

By Liran Antebi and Matan Yanko-Avikasis

The use of drones by Hamas at the outset of its terror attack in the western Negev, which developed into the Swords of Iron war, illustrated the enormous danger posed by these devices, although they are based on simple, cheap off-the-shelf technologies. It is imperative to examine ways of dealing with this threat and other readily available technologies that could also pose strategic threats, for example, AI (artificial intelligence) applications.

The Drones Used by Hamas: The Attack “Vanguard”
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The Israel Defense Forces’ novel chemical device produces a foam explosion that can seal off gaps and tunnel entrances

ByDominic Nicholls, TELERAPH,    25 October 2023 • 9:12pm<
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Israel will use novel “sponge bombs” as it fights through the network of Hamas tunnels under Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been testing the chemical bombs, which contain no explosives but are used to seal off gaps or tunnel entrances from which fighters may emerge.

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by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE  •  October 26, 2023

• The hundreds of millions of dollars the Qataris have given Hamas during the past decade have been instrumental in helping the terrorist group to develop the infrastructure that enabled it to carry out its murderous assault on Israel in the first place.
• Qatar would like the world to believe that it is acting as an honest broker with its efforts to secure the release of the Gaza captives. But the reality is that it deserves to be condemned by the West as a state that sponsors global terrorism, so long as it maintains its indefensible support for Hamas.

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The Caroline Glick Show IN Focus

BY YEHEZKEL LAING    October 23, 2023

The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price

BY David Mamet

I grew up in a tiny Jewish enclave on Chicago’s South Side. When I first saw New York, in the Sixties, I was awed as by no subsequent marvel of nature: stretching north from Columbus Circle, up the West Side, was a Jewish metropolis.

New York, in my lifetime, had always been a Jewish city: the rhythms, the accent, the humour always felt to me like home. Because they were home. The populace, of whatever ethnicity, was formed or noodged by Yiddishkeit, much as the Chicago of my youth was by the culture of the Irish and the Poles.

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Israel has surrendered land, but it hasn’t received any peace

By Sean Durns – – Tuesday, October 17, 2023 

OPINION:

There is a saying that has become popular in recent years: When someone shows you who they are, believe them. The barbarity of Hamas and other Iranian proxies leaves no doubt about their murderous intentions. Islamists consider any Jewish social and political equality an “occupation.” History tells us as much.

On Oct. 7, Hamas and other Gaza-based terrorist groups launched hundreds of rockets and infiltrated the Jewish state. More than 1,400 Israelis were murdered, thousands wounded, and hundreds taken hostage and brought back to Gaza. At one music festival, more than 260 attendees were shot, beaten, and stabbed to death. Women were raped on the corpses of their friends.

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Turkish President and AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a sign showing the evolution of lands in Israel on maps at his party’s group meeting in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara on October 11, 2023. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Speaking to a gathering of his AK party faction in parliament, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Israel “can view Hamas as a terrorist organization along with the West. The West owes you a lot. But Turkey does not owe you anything.”

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TOI     SEPT 12. 2023

US said to transfer armored vehicles, weapons to PA to clamp down on West Bank terror

Are Jewish towns equipped to fend off ‘first strike’ attack by surrounding PA forces?

by Frontline News Staff   October 24, 2023

Hundreds of Israeli citizens Thursday blocked a convoy of armored vehicles and weapons to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Shechem. This, despite initial IDF orders to facilitate safe transfer for the materiel.

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