T. Belman. My daughter is part of that effort. We have invited a 71 year old woman and her dog from up north to join us for as long as necessary..

Movements set up to oppose government’s judicial overhaul bid metamorphose overnight to coordinate unprecedented civilian rescue and relief effort

By SUE SURKES, TOI      Today, 5:58 am

During the harrowing days since over 2,500 Hamas terrorists poured into Israel to slaughter 1,400 people, injure thousands, commit barbaric acts of atrocity against people of all ages and kidnap more than 200 to Gaza, civil society has quickly mobilized to an almost overwhelming degree.

Around 15,000 Israelis have answered the clarion call of movements that metamorphosed overnight from activists against the government’s divisive judicial reform proposals to coordinators of a massive infrastructure to rescue and support fellow citizens in distress.

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T. Belman. It goes without saying that we have the right to defend ourselves. So the world does us no favour by repeting this refrain. The purpose of such resolution is to limit our ability to defend ourselves.

It is not clear if or when the United States plans to put the draft resolution to a vote.

Israel National News    Oct 22, 2023, 4:40 AM (GMT+3)

The United States on Saturday proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution that says Israel has a right to defend itself and demands Iran stop exporting arms to “militias and terrorist groups threatening peace and security across the region.”

The draft text, seen by the Reuters news agency, calls for the protection of civilians – including those who are trying to get to safety – notes that states must comply with international law when responding to “terrorist attacks”, and urges the “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip.\ Read more…

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BEIRUT — A top official with Hezbollah vows that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and says that his terror group based in Lebanon already is “in the heart of the battle.”

The comments by Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, came as Israel shelled and carried out drone strikes in southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets and missiles toward Israel. Hezbollah said six of its fighters were killed today, the highest daily toll since the violence began two weeks ago.

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STOLEN ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

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By Martin Sherman, IISS

The population of Gaza is not the VICTIM of Hamas;

It is the CRUCIBLE, in which Hamas was formed and from which it emerged

(May 18, 2018 / JNS)

“Hamas supporters in Gaza held the world’s first peaceful protest with hand grenades, pipe bombs, cleavers and guns. Ten explosive devices were peacefully detonated. There were outbursts of peaceful gunfire and over a dozen kites carrying firebombs were sent into Israel where they started 23 peaceful fires. And Israeli soldiers peacefully defended their country leaving multiple Hamas attackers at peace.” – Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Mag, May 15, 2018.

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You’re in an abusive relationship. It’s time to speak out.

By Boaz Munro, TABLET

In the wake of the most savage butchery meted out upon our people since the Holocaust, you’re glued to social media. You may not be able to sleep or enjoy anything. Our deepest wounds were ripped open last Shabbat, and you’ve been learning how few degrees of separation there are between you and the 1,400 innocent Jews who were bound, burned alive, shot, beheaded, and dismembered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th.

And yet somehow that’s not what feels the worst.

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Staff Sgt. (res.) Omer Balva, a dual Israeli-American citizen, flew from US to report for duty, was killed Friday night; 3 others hurt; defense minister meets with troops in north

By EMANUEL FABIAN Today, 1:52 pm

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Smoke rises from inside an Israeli army position which was hit by missiles launched by the Hezbollah terror group, as seen from Tair Harfa village, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, October 20, 2023. Inset: Staff Sgt. (res.) Omer Balva, killed in a Hezbollah missile attack. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar; Israel Defense Forces)

An Israeli reserve soldier was killed on Friday night in an anti-tank missile attack along the border with Lebanon amid renewed skirmishes, the Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday.

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“There have been about 1,200 Israelis that have been butchered by Hamas terrorists. That is the equivalent to around 30,000 or 40,000 Americans, if you adjust for population.”

Karys Rhea is an associate producer of American Thought Leaders on EpochTV and a fellow with the Jewish Leadership Project.

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https://thejewishvoice.com/2023/10/senator-bidens-100-million-humanitarian-help-for-gaza-will-go-straight-to-terrorists/

Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90Adorned in Hamas flags, Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers near Nablus in the West Bank, October 13, 2023.

(WND News Center) A senator is warning that Joe Biden’s proposed $100 million in “humanitarian” help for Gaza will go straight to the terrorists of Hamas.

That’s the terror group that just two weeks ago sent armed invaders into Israel and killed some 1,300 innocent civilians, including families that were burned alive and babies who were beheaded.

Israel now is beginning a campaign to pursue its goal of wiping out Hamas, which is based in Gaza, often concealing its military weaponry in or near hospitals, schools and residential neighborhoods so that innocent civilians are positioned as shields for the Hamas terrorists.
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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER  Oct 14/23

As prominent Zionist Max Nordau once observed, “Logic is a Greek art, and Jews can’t tolerate it. The Jew learns not by way of reason but from catastrophes.” Although the circumstances have changed greatly since those words were written, Max Nordau’s wisdom as applied to Israel has not changed.

In 1947, Arab countries rejected a UN plan to partition the British mandate in Palestine into two states. Armed with British weaponry and guided by British officers, Arabs were convinced they could claim the entire territory by military triumph. If not for comrade Stalin, who supplied the Jews with weapons via Czechoslovakia and dispatched hundreds of seasoned Soviet officers and generals of Jewish heritage to Palestine, all of whom played a pivotal role in the formation, organization, and leadership of the Israeli army, including the air force, Israel would not exist.
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T. Belman. The US and the UK ordered Israel not to start her invasion of Gaza until American and British hostages are released. That was the reason for the “friendly” visit by both Biden and Sunak recently. How long does Israel have to wait? What was Israel promised in return?

Elsewhere I read that the humanitarian corridor has been opened in exchange for American and British citizerns to be let out. Hopefully these humanitarian supplies  will remain in the south forcing all Gazans to go south to get them.  But of course Hamas has other plans and this is Hamas controlled territory.

by Victor Rosenthal

My heart is breaking. What I surmised yesterday, but was afraid to write has turned out to be true. I have never wanted to be wrong more than I do this morning. But I can’t pretend that “it will be OK,” as Israelis like to say.

The IDF has been ready for some time to begin the operation to eliminate Hamas from Gaza. The plans were made long ago, and updated regularly. Hundreds of thousands of reservists have left their jobs and families, at great expense to the government. The tanks are poised near the border. Why aren’t they moving?
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POMPEO IS LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST IRAN.
HE IS TOTALLY ON ISRAEL’S SIDE.
HANNITY DEMANDED THAT THE MSM CORRECT THE STORY IT PUT OUT ON ISRAEL BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HOSPITAL ATTACK.
HE CALLED IT A BLOOD LIBLE THAT MUST BE CORRECTED BY A FULL SCALE APOLOGY.

By Huck Davenport   October 20, 2023

Beneath the seemingly civilized exterior of man lies tribal hatred, desperately trying to claw its way out. When it does, man can easily rationalize even the most heinous of his acts as virtuous. His target invariably becomes a demonized, marginalized group he can scapegoat as needed. No group has suffered more of this tribal hatred than the Jews.

The Twelve Tribes of Israel, descendants of Jacob, inhabited the land now known as Israel since antiquity. Ten of those Tribes ruled the Kingdom of Israel until the Assyrians expelled them in 722 BCE. The other two tribes ruled the Kingdom of Judah until the Babylonians dispersed them in 586 BCE. Jews restored Judah by around 538 BCE. It was only in the Second Century AD that the Romans ended the Jewish Kingdom, starting 1,800 years of colonial occupation.

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In these difficult times, we need clarity of thought and we must reconsider the values we have gone by over the past decades. Seven thoughts about the situation.

 By  Dror Eydar     10-20-2023 10:01

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People mourn by the coffins of five members of the Kutz family, Aviv, 54, Livnat, 49, Rotem, 19, Yonatan, 17, and Yiftach, 15, who were murdered by Hamas | Photo: AFP / Oren Ziv

1. Genocide

The earth is still running with rivers of blood from our brothers and sisters who were raped and slaughtered and burned alive. Their blood cries out from the ground calling for the elimination of the evil that caused their deaths and to avenge them. When reality is so difficult to accept, we turn to ancient sources to help us mediate that reality. We are in an event of biblical proportions, an event that goes way beyond a terrorist attack against Jews. What happened on October 7 in the Jewish communities along the Gaza border was genocide, a shocking proof of what these savages would do to us all, given half a chance.

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T. Belman.  Just as I advised 15 years ago, Israel is bombing Gaza before invading. Some people are already complaining about the collateral damage i.e., the deaths of civilians.

Let me remind you that so long as Israel is targeting a miltarly object, it is not a war crime if civilians are killed in the process.

By Ted Belman  2008

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Hamas is concealed within a network of fortified tunnels

BY EDWARD LUTTWAK, UNHERD

When conventional armies take on enemies who have neither uniforms nor overt bases, and who impolitely refuse to assemble in conveniently targetable mass formations, the inevitable problem is how to find them. Indeed, such a task is often impossible, a reality that otherwise intelligent tacticians have mysteriously refused to accept, from Napoleon in Spain to the US in Afghanistan.

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In fiery speech, Israeli American Professor Shai Davidai alleges Columbia U has taken a pro-terror stance.

Israel National News Oct 21, 2023, 12:15 AM

An Israeli American professor at Columbia University’s business school blasted his employer in a fiery speech on campus on Wednesday in which he ripped the university and its president for not publicly denouncing pro-Palestinian Arab student organizations, The New York Post reported.

In his remarks, assistant professor Shai Davidai alleged that Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, has not spoken out against the student groups.

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For Egypt, Gaza is a forward outpost that keeps IDF forces occupied in the south, disturbs Israel, and prevents it from strengthening. Op-ed.

By Tzachi Levi, INN  Oct 20/23

Rafah border between Egypt and GazaFlash 90

The diplomatic tug-of-war between Israel and Egypt over the opening of the Rafah Crossing has the potential to decide the future of the Gaza Strip and the war altogether.

The question is as follows: Which side will succeed in forcing the other to take responsibility for the residents of the Gaza Strip? Israel has demanded the opening of the Rafah Crossing in one direction, and according to several media outlets, has offered Egypt, along with the United States and the United Arab Emirates, a series of economic benefits in exchange for opening the crossing.

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by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2023

On Monday, October 16, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian issued what sounded like a direct threat that Tehran’s proxy Hezbollah organization in Lebanon would imminently intervene in the war against Israel.

In a statement made to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Abdollahian said that the “Axis of Resistance” (the Iran-led regional bloc’s preferred term for itself) might carry out “preemptive measures” against Israel within “a matter of hours.”

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T. Belman. I am more surprised and disgusted with the support Hamas is getting throughout the world than I am with the depravity of Hamas.

As we reel from both evil and its facilitators, we salute those who publicly call this out

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

The news at present is unrelentingly grim. The Hamas pogrom in Israel two weeks ago didn’t just visit a very great evil upon that nation. It also revealed that this evil is embedded in the west.

Onto the streets of Britain, America, Germany and elsewhere have poured tens of thousands of people baying for the destruction of Israel, celebrating the depraved Hamas atrocities against Israeli men, women, children and babies and bringing the pathological Jew-hatred that’s been coursing through the west now for many years to a terrifying crescendo.

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