Was there any pause when the US decimated Fallujah and Mosul? Is the UN demanding ceasefire in Papua? Myanmar? No ceasefire, no pause.Op-ed.

By Michael L. Wise, INN     Nov 10, 2023, 8:40 AM (GMT+2)

No more crossings and no more supplying, he says. But first of all, Hamas leaders need to be eliminated, and those who are abroad remain legitimate targets. 14:53

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST 

“We don’t seek to govern Gaza, we don’t seek to occupy it, but we seek to give it and us a better future, and the entire Middle East…

What we have to see is Gaza de-militarized, de-radicalized, and rebuilt.  And all of that could be achieved.  We don’t seek to conquer Gaza, we don’t seek to occupy Gaza, and we don’t seek to govern Gaza.  We will have to find a civilian govt that will be there but in the foreseeable future, we have to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.  So we have to have a credible force, that if necessary will enter Gaza and kill the killers because that is what will prevent the reemergence of a Hamas-like entity.  But what I expect to see is a rebuilt Gaza for the Gazans.”

Caroline Glick In-FOCUS

BIDEN IS SUPPORTING HAMAS
BIDEN IS USING ISRAEL TO DESTROY HAMAS SO HE CAN INSTALL THE PA THERE AND USHER IN THE TSS.

GLICK AT HER BEST

T.Belman. To the extent that these “pauses” facilitate the exodus southward, I support them. But I don’t trust Bibi to prevent the Gazans from returning. So far, Israeli spokepersons have said they will be allowed to return. This must not be.

Official confirms plan for 4-hour pauses in different northern Gaza neighborhood every day, allowing civilians to either restock or evacuate south via humanitarian corridors

By JACOB MAGID, TOI Today, 11:51 pm

Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip along Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel has agreed to formalize and broaden localized pauses in the IDF’s fighting in Gaza for the first time since the outbreak of the war against Hamas, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Thursday.

The “tactical, localized” pauses that Israel agreed on Thursday to implement each day will build on the humanitarian corridor that it began operating on Sunday to allow Gazans to evacuate from northern to southern Gaza, away from the most intense areas of fighting, the senior Israeli official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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by Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum Webinar
October 30, 2023

https://www.meforum.org/65184/

Jim Hanson, chief editor of the Middle East Forum (MEF) and author of Winning the Second War: Without Firing a Shot and Cut Down the Black Flag: A Plan to Defeat ISIS, spoke to an October 30 Middle East Forum Webinar (video) in an interview with Benjamin Baird, director of MEF Action. The following is a summary of their comments:

Although the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operate in accordance with international treaties and the Geneva Conventions, the media and international left spread misinformation by lying about lawful operations and accusing Israel of engaging in “occupation” and indiscriminate killing of civilians. Because all of Gaza is a “large armed terrorist encampment” under Hamas control, shutting off services in a siege is the “proper way” to conduct an offensive, not a war crime.

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For Benjamin Netanyahu, a conclusive victory on the battlefield is critical to Israel’s future as well as his own political survival.

By ALEX TRAIMAN  (November 7, 2023 / JNS)

By Shoshana Bryen, JPC November 6, 2023

The Biden administration, steeped as it is in military prowess and full of great military thinkers who understand both military strategy and tactics – and American military history – has dispatched General Antony Blinken to Jerusalem to help Israel fight its war against Hamas. Because the United States knows better.

First, according to General Blinken, the IDF should use smaller bombs to try to protect Gaza civilians “while still achieving its objectives of finding and finishing Hamas terrorists.” The US, according to The New York Times, is preparing to ship smaller bombs to Israel. Furthermore, according to The Times, U.S. officials have been encouraging Israel to use the tactics of US Special Operations forces against in Iraq: targeting Hamas leaders “using small teams of commandos, combined with precision strikes from drones and manned aircraft.” [Note: In Mosul, US and allied forces killed upwards of 9,000 civilians in the battle against ISIS.]

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1. Summary: Since the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel’s Southern villages and kibbutzim, the Palestinian terror group Hamas has been shaking under an unprecedented Israeli military campaign that is compounded by an angry population that is suffering the consequences of Hamas’s recklessness. JaFaJ has learned that Hamas, with hostages in hand, was expecting to have the upper hand over Israel, but Israel didn’t take the bait and budge. As a result, Hamas has proposed two ceasefires to the USA and Israel. Both were conveyed to United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Israeli leadership.

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Click here for video of the testimony

Delivered today before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and International Organizations, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on United Nations’ Bigotry Towards Israel

Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Wild, members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify at this important hearing. I have come here from Geneva, from the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Council, to report to you on how that and other key UN bodies, as well as high UN officials, are engaged in the systematic demonization of Israel, even in the aftermath of last month’s massacre by Hamas.

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The Middle East is the point of gravity of the world, the Levant on the other hand is the point of gravity of the Middle East. Therefore, the evil globalist forces have deliberately destabilized, impoverished, and torn apart this region in order to ensure the continuation of…

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After war, Blinken seeks ‘Gaza unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority,’ no use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism, no blockade or reduction in Gaza’s territory

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on Israel not to reoccupy the Gaza Strip once its war with Hamas ends.

His remarks came amid a flurry of statements from Washington officials against such a scenario after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will have “indefinite” overall security control of the Palestinian enclave once it has destroyed Hamas and removed it from power.

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Dr. Steve Turley

1. Can/should Israel defy US pressure to act against its (Israel’s) own most critical national security interest (e.g., allowing a ceasefire in the war to obliterate the anti-Western Hamas Islamic terrorism; bolstering the Palestinian Authority despite its terror-driven policy and education system; allowing a non-Israeli security control of Gaza following the current war) while the US extends Israel a highly-appreciated(!), vital support, militarily, financially and diplomatically?

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T. Belman. That’s what I have been saying. Bomb Gaza before Invading.

Mothers of combat soldiers to PM: “The lives of our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters are more important than the lives of the enemy’s civilians”

Israel National News  Nov 7, 2023, 9:12 PM (GMT+2)

After seeing how Hamas terrorists hide behind civilian populations, a group of mothers of IDF combat soldiers called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We are not prepared under any circumstances to accept a situation in which the lives of our soldiers will be in danger; the lives of our soldiers come before the lives of the enemy’s civilians.”

A group of mothers whose children are serving on various fronts appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to endanger the safety of their children due to a fear of harming the enemy’s civilians.

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