T. Belman. I take this threat seriously.
Reminiscent of infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara protest, large maritime convoy plans to remain in international waters off Ashdod and disrupt sea trade route to Israel
By GIANLUCA PACCHIANI, TOI 21 November 2023,
Approximately 1,000 boats will gather in Turkey on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and disrupt maritime trade coming into Israel during the war with Hamas, in an apparent repeat of similar attempts from over a decade ago.
In an interview with Turkish news website Haber7, Volkan Okçu, one of the organizers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews.”
Tom Nash Report 26 Nov 2023
by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE • November 26, 2023
By Miranda Devine, NEW YORK POST 22 Nov 2023
Ariane Tabatabai, who currently sits in the Pentagon with a high-level security clearance, is reportedly under investigation over an Iranian influence operation.
In the wake of terrorist fears over the car explosion at a US-Canada border control checkpoint Wednesday, the Biden administration’s inexplicable complacency about national security threats must end.
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Far-right fast becoming the mainstream in European politics as Gaza and Ukraine wars shift continental sentiments
By David P Goldman, ASIA TIMES 25 Nov 2023
Geert Wilders’ surprise victory in last week’s Dutch elections portends an upheaval in European politics long in the offing, but provoked by two pressing events.
The first is the mass demonstrations in support of Hamas by Muslim migrants after October 7, a triumphalist assertion of power by a minority that believes that it may become the future majority.
This cast a harsh light on uncontrolled mass immigration, now Europe’s top political issue. The failure of the mainstream parties to address the continent’s most pressing problem opens a path to power for an opposition that only months ago was dismissed as a political fringe element.
T. Belman. At its core is the belief that peace is possible rather than the belief that there will never be peace. The left has long believed that what is necessary is to improve the living standards of the “Palestinians” in order to acheive peace. This a fantasy, not reality. There will never be peace.
This battle is ideological. Rather than build their hope, we should destroy there hope.
By Amnon Sofrin, JS TRIBUNE November 2023
Hamas troops break down the Gaza border fence on October 7, allowing Gazans to cross into Israel. Photo credit: REUTERS.
Hamas’ sudden attack on the kibbutzim and the towns neighboring the Gaza Strip caught the IDF and the country by total surprise. During the first 24 hours, beginning at 6:30 in the morning of October 7, the Hamas Nukhba (name of the commando troops, means “elite”) and those who came in with them conquered and held an area of about 4-5 kilometers depth inside Israel, and in places penetrated well beyond that. The lack of any forewarning accounted also for the confused and disorganized, albeit often individually heroic, actions of the military and the police throughout the day.
‘I will hunt you down’: Miss Universe judge blasted with death threats after on-air debate with anti-Israel activist
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Miss Universe judge who happens to be Jewish has apparently received death threats after she engaged with a Palestinian activist on air amid the war playing out in Gaza.
The New York Post reported that Emily Austin, a Jewish journalist who engages in activism related to the Jewish state, appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” in late October to discuss the conflict playing out in the Middle East.
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By Daniel Greenfield, 26 Nov 12:21 AM
“Deporting The Hope For Peace?” Newsweek asked. The hope for peace was Hamas.
The year was 1992. The Clinton administration was trying to get Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and the PLO’s Yasser Arafat to sign on the dotted line of the Oslo Accords to create a terror state inside Israel. In the name of peace. Unfortunately Hamas kept killing Israelis.
15-year-old Helena Rapp had been stabbed to death at a bus stop on the way to school. A few days later, Rabbi Shimon Biran, a father of four, was similarly murdered by an Islamic terrorist.
By Patrick Webb, LEADING REPORT 24 Nov 2023
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has ruled that a lawsuit against Georgia’s use of electronic voting machines must go to a non-jury trial in January.
According to 11 Alive News, the federal judge’s ruling will require Georgia’s secretary of state to defend the state’s utilization of electronic voting prior to the upcoming presidential primary election in the state. The lawsuit questions whether Georgia’s current system of computerized voting is safe or whether it is vulnerable to potential hacking incidents.
T. Belman. Every second of this rant is priceless.
T. Belman. Wilders is right. “Jordan is Palestine” or soon will be.
Wilders often reiterated the idea that Jordan is Palestine, suggesting that the conflict between Palestinians and Israel could be resolved through the dislocation of Palestinian people to Jordan.
That’s the Jordan Option.
Jordan is Palestine!
Arab states condemn Wilders for push to relocate Palestinians to Jordan https://t.co/U6JjdOk0IK
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) November 25, 2023
Next week, the University of Michigan (@UMich) is forcing its entire student body to vote on an anti-Israel BDS referendum. They’re essentially making students pick if they are pro-Israel or pro-Palestine. BDS activity on campus has led to a rise in antisemitism on campus. It… pic.twitter.com/uzeQYQpVJ7
— (((noa tishby))) (@noatishby) November 24, 2023
A detailed report on the planned invasion was given to the head of IDF Intelligence, who did not pass it on to his superiors.
Israel National News Nov 25, 2023, 11:00 PM (GMT+2)
New details have emerged about the failures of the security forces to prevent the Oct. 7th massacre.
Channel 12 News reports that the attack was originally planned for last Passover Eve, but the IDF detected signs of the attack and raised its alert level to the point that Hamas cancelled the attack.
Hamas was concerned that the IDF had succeeded in infiltrating the command structure and ranks of their organization and worried about the plan leaking out.
by Ivan Katchanovski on Thread Reader November 25, 2023
Now head of Zelensky party faction in Ukrainian parliament & head of Ukrainian delegation in Ukraine-Russia talks confirms that peace deal could have been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality.
T. Belman. VDH makes the same point that I have made. While a very small minority in the US and in the EU is marching in support of Hamas, the vast majority of the people are turning against Muslims in both the US and in the EU.
FOX NEWS IS CLEARLY SUPPORTING ISRAEL
Stephen Gaqrdner interviews Joel Pollack of Breitbart
By Ray DiLorenzo, SUA
Democrat Bizarro World
“The survival of democracy depends on a Democratic presidential victory in 2024, and no one else has stepped up to carry the burden.”
F. Wilkinson, Bloomberg
The quote from Mr. Wilkinson is nonsense, of course. Democrats have been hawking that slogan for years, reliant on your ignorance to apply any meaning. They live in a bizarro world. Everything is opposite. If they say they are fighting for democracy, they are fighting to destroy it. If they say the border is closed, it is open—wide open. If they say they are transparent, they are anything but. Even their name is a misnomer. It is the strategy of the lie—the goal of every dictator, communist, fascist, or anarchist. Repeat the lie often enough, and someone will believe it.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE • November 25, 2023 at 5:00 am
T. Belman. Tobin at his best.
Israel had no choice but to accept a deal to release some hostages. But Washington shouldn’t pressure Jerusalem to let the terrorists run out the clock on a just war.
Israel’s government knew that it had no choice but to accept the deal it was offered in which some of the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 would be freed in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and a temporary ceasefire in the war to eliminate the terrorist group from the Gaza Strip. Pressure from the families of the hostages and a Jewish tradition that prioritizes the redemption of captives swamped all of the objections to giving Hamas what it wanted in exchange for the lives of Jewish women and children.
