By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

The other day, someone posted a video on Facebook of Sweden back in the 1960s. It was incredible footage of an immaculately clean country filled with beautiful blond people. There are still a lot of blond people in Sweden, but it’s also a country that voluntarily opened its doors to Muslims, at which point it went from one of the world’s safest countries to one of the rapiest countries in Europe. Now, though, Sweden is joining with four other Nordic nations to end its little experiment with multiculturalism.

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American Thought Leaders, EPOCH TIMES

Mr. Jekielek: Victor, I want to do a primer here on what’s happening in the Middle East right now, what’s happening with the Israel-Hamas War, how this all came to be, and how you view this from your unique military history lens.

Mr. Hanson:

The Iran deal fell through, as we knew it would. That gave them certain assumptions that were impossible given their neighborhood, so they had a political disagreement in the fashion that we do. Perhaps Netanyahu is as controversial as Trump, so they’re going through this political and civil war almost. But we’re safe, we have Canada and Mexico, and we’re away.

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Breaking News: Just now, #Hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south #Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to…

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“…we are strangers to ourselves: we Israelis, who almost never agree on anything, are suddenly so united.”

Israel’s post-October 7th identity crisis

by Dorit Rabinyan, TABLET Nov 3/23an>

And on the third day of the war we went to one of the hotels where they had evacuated those who had fled the disaster on Saturday. We brought pacifiers and diapers and illustrated books. We invited the children to gather in a circle and tried to ease their minds with a story time.

As soon as you entered the lobby, you could recognize them, “the evacuees”: many families from rural and urban areas, adults, children and teenagers. Distinctive in their transience, in their bewilderment. The place was a resort and the setting was of a family vacation, but somehow everything was distorted, too serious, not the way it should be.

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Heads of Jewish communities and organizations from around the world are calling for Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.

Israel National News     Nov 3, 2023, 2:51 PM (GMT+2)

The leaders of Jewish communities and organizations from around the world sent an unprecedented letter of support to the Israeli government, with a joint call to defeat Hamas and settle the Gaza Strip with Jews.

“We are shocked by the brutal attack in which women, children and men were slaughtered, by the destruction of settlements, and the continued shelling of cities and towns throughout the country,” they wrote.

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AFTER MEETING, BLINKEN HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE.

IN ESSENCE HIS BOTTOM LINE IS THAT PALESTINIANS MUST BE PROTECTED. AND THE TSS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION

https://www.c-span.org/video/?531630-1/secretary-state-holds-news-conference-tel-aviv

Good afternoon, everyone. Days after 7th, I came to Israel followed soon thereafter by President Biden to make clear that as long as the United States stands, Israel will never stand alone today. In my fourth visit to Israel since October 7th, I reiterate that in all my discussions with Prime Minister Netanyahu President Herzog, the security cabinet, I re read it and made clear our support for Israel’s right to defend itself. Indeed, its obligation to defend itself. That includes through the additional assistance that we work with Congress and we’re working with Congress now to provide for Israel’s defense as well as for urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza.

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How to Defeat Hamas Fast, Cheap and Easy 

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The pivot reflects Indian domestic politics and new interests in the Middle East

THE ECONOMIST NOV 2/23

FOREIGN NEWS usually gets short shrift in India. Yet for the past month the country’s television channels have been dominated by wall-to-wall coverage of events in Israel and Gaza, mostly from Israel’s perspective. News anchors in bulletproof vests stand in the desert delivering breathless reports on the aftermath of Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7th. Talk-show hosts restage the Palestinian terrorist group’s attack from Gaza with toy soldiers and miniature bulldozers. Weeks into the war, coverage remains intense.
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Yair Avital, a member of the kibbutz’s civilian security squad, who fought down to their last bullets, offers harrowing testimony of October 7 ordeal

By TOI STAFF  2 November 2023, 12:28 pm

Members of the tactical unit of the Yamas patrol in Kibbutz Be’eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, on October 22, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel Defense Forces troops refused to engage terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 and left members of the kibbutz to fight them off alone, amember of the community’s civilian security team recounted.

“The thing I remember the most, and the most traumatizing thing for me from this ordeal, was [being evacuated after hours of fighting and] arriving at the entrance to the kibbutz and seeing 500 soldiers stationed in an organized and orderly manner, standing and looking at us,” Yair Avital, one of the surviving members of the kibbutz’s security team, told Channel 12 in a segment aired on Wednesday, referring to the situation at 6.30 on the evening of the massacre.

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By Lauren Frayer, Eleanor Beardsley abd Rob Schmitz, NPR October 30, 20234

Reactions to the Israel-Hamas war vary across Europe, determined by each country’s unique history and perspective. Here’s what governments are saying in Britain, France and Germany.

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:

Let’s look at how the war between Israel and Hamas is perceived outside the Middle East or the United States, specifically in Europe, where politics and culture were heavily shaped by war in the 20th century. Joining us are three NPR correspondents – Lauren Frayer in London, Eleanor Beardsley in Paris and Rob Schmitz in Berlin. Hi to all of you.

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By Matt Wolfson, AM THINKER

Banner headline events almost always flow from quieter real-life causes, and the worst attack on Israel in fifty years is not an exception.  The coordinated raids and massacres on October 7 were possible only because of more subtle interventions over two and a half years in rooms at the State Department and the White House, with indirect help from nonprofits like the Soros-funded International Crisis Group.  These interventions were driven by a small network of government and interest group insiders whose actions have gone unreported in establishment media.  Though their further consequences aren’t yet clear, they’ll almost certainly involve a push to weaken both Israel and an Israeli government resistant to accords with Iran.

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by Bassam Tawil , GATESTONE •  November 2, 2023

Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate in support of Hamas, on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

• Every Palestinian child knows that if presidential elections were held today, the terrorist group Hamas would win. The most recent PSR poll, published one month before the Hamas massacre, showed that 58% of the Palestinians would vote for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh as opposed to 37% for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The poll also showed that 58% of the Palestinian public supports “armed confrontations and intifada” against Israel.
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Russia ready to send troops to Gaza to stop Israel

Based on credible information, Hezbollah and Iran have notified the United States that they will lead a multi-front war against Israel, unless Israel immediately stops the war in Gaza.

Decades of communist subversion by China underlie the terror currently witnessed in the Middle East.

By Eva Fu, EPOCH TIMES Nov 1, 23

Try searching for “Israel” on China’s biggest search engine Baidu—the nation’s name is no longer on the map, although the names of its major cities are still there.

The discovery, which caught many in China by surprise on Oct. 30, is the latest twist in a calculated silence by the regime in Beijing, in contrast to other major world powers that have rushed to Israel’s side.

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October 12, 2023

Will Hezbollah join the war against Israel? Has US foreign policy led to the emboldening of terrorists in the region? 

Is the most brutal attack on Jews since the Holocaust a simple outgrowth of Palestinian culture and education? In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin is joined by Hezbollah expert Tony Badran.

They discuss – the American foreign policy since Barack Obama that strengthened Iran and its proxies in the region – the reversal of the Abraham Accords – whether or not Hezbollah will join the war.

The museum’s bizarre opposition to comparing the crimes of today’s Islamist killers to the Nazis is a betrayal of its mandate to preserve Jewish history.

Jonathan S. Tobin (November 1, 2023 / JNS)

Magen David (“Star of David”). Credit: Dziurek/Shutterstock.

In 1990, just as the age of the Internet was beginning, the term “Godwin’s law” was coined by author Mark Godwin. He observed that the longer any online discussion goes, the more likely it is that someone will make a comparison of something to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. And the person who goes there first usually loses the argument. But Godwin, who is also credited with the invention of the term “meme,” was more prescient than he could have known.

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