Israel says much of Hamas’s military defenses, its command and many fighters are concentrated in Gaza City

By David S. Cloud, and Dov Lieber, WSJ   Nov. 6, 2023 5:45 pm ET

TEL AVIV—Israel pushed further into Gaza City, sending troops into an urban Hamas stronghold that is still packed with civilians after one of the most intense bombing barrages of the monthlong war.

Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces “are continuing to deepen the pressure into the depths of Gaza City.” He didn’t say during a briefing Monday where Israeli soldiers are operating, and Israeli officials have been careful not to disclose the location of their ground forces in Gaza.

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They’re shouting their goals from the rooftops.

by David Horowitz, FPM November 6, 2023

Quiz:What is the difference between Hitler’s Nazis and Palestinian supporters of Fatah and Hamas? Both are national socialists, both have embraced the totalitarian oppressors of their respective peoples and elected them whenever they were given the chance. Both are driven by a demonic hatred to exterminate the Jews. Both deploy “Big Lies” to justify their malignant cause.
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The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus

by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE    •  November 6, 2023

Hamas terrorists on their way into Israel from Gaza Strip, on their mission to murder Jews, on the morning of October 7, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images)

• A pause or a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and prepare new attacks against Israelis.
• On November 4, Hamas took advantage of a humanitarian window of opportunity… and carried out attacks with mortar fire and anti-tank missiles against Israelis.
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T. Belman. So much for recognizing our right of self defense.

Biden administration sold Israel M16s on conditise.on they would not be distributed to security squads in Judea and Samaria, report says.

By Victor Sharpe   November 5, 2023

It is worth remembering that the “Two-State” paradigm was born in infamy over a century ago.

Big Power errors which have led to so much misery and today’s Gaza War.

The front page of proposed Mandate for non-state Palestine and Transjordan memorandum, presented to the British Parliament in December 1922, prior to it coming into force in 1923.

With both friends and enemies of Israel still exercised over what we know as the “Two-State solution,” it’s worth remembering that the very first such solution was enacted in infamy 102 years ago.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

One of the things the left is desperately downplaying as it demands that Israel allow Hamas and its supporters to go unpunished and, ideally, cede to the Arabs the entire land of Israel is the fact that the surrounding Arab nations are refusing to take Gazans in as refugees. The reason is that nobody wants these “Palestinian” Arabs who have proven to be as destructive to Arab nations as they are to Israel.

When Barack Obama’s policies triggered the disastrous Arab Spring, with massive upheaval in the Muslim lands of Africa and the Middle East, Europe opened its doors to refugees from those wars. Europe did this even though its cultural connection to these refugees was minimal to nonexistent. It was, the Europeans felt, the right thing to do. (It’s also proved to have been a remarkably stupid thing to do, as Enoch Powell predicted, but that’s another story.)
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By Yinon Weiss October 20, 2023

In his NYT Opinion article, Thomas Friedman attempted to make a case for why Israel should not invade Gaza. He states that forgoing a Gaza invasion will “… give Israel and its allies time to think through how to build — with Palestinians — a legitimate alternative to Hamas.” This implies that the last four decades have not been enough time to think this through, and that somehow a little more time will finally succeed in peacefully ridding the world of a well-armed totalitarian terrorist group whose mission is to kill Jews.

To Mr. Friedman I would pose the following question: How many Jewish civilians does Hamas need to torture and murder to justify its full destruction? Is it 10,000 Jews? A million Jews? Six million Jews? Is there any number which would justify Israel’s complete destruction of Hamas in self-defense?

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T. Belman. The fact that Hamas was able to arm themselves to such an extent is another of Israel’s big failures. And the IDF is  paying for it in blood.

Militant group returned in force with drones, homegrown missiles and fortified tunnels; ‘armed to the teeth’

By Benoit Faucon, WSJ

Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a parade this July to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel. MAJDI FATHI/NURPHOTO/ZUMA PRESS

Life, Liberty and Levin

In order to understand what “a two-state solution” means and what its implications could be, there is no need to open the files of the pogroms that have been thwarted in Judea and Samaria. It’s enough to take a quick look at the terrorist attacks they did manage to carry out.

 By  Nadav Shragai    Oct 30/23

Before we get confused again, before we construct another flawed paradigm on Gaza, before we bring the Palestinian Authority to Gaza instead of Hamas, or be tempted to believe President Joe Biden and ourselves that the Palestinians in the West Bank are “something else,” we should look at the bare fact right in front of us; we should know how to distinguish between an enemy and a hater, and between an ally and a collaborator.

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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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