“We know Hamas is going to commandeer that money, and Hamas is going to use it to advance terrorism,” stated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presidential candidate.

David Swindle, Menachem Wecker

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their respective governmental teams, meet in Tel Aviv about the war with the Hamas terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip, Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Later this week, U.S. President Joe Biden intends to ask Congress for “an unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense,” he said today at the David Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv. “The world will know that Israel is stronger than ever, and my message to any state or any other hostile actor thinking about attacking Israel remains the same as it was a week ago: Don’t. Don’t. Don’t.”

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Dr Steve Turley

Israel will not stop the food, water, and medication from Egypt from reaching civilians in the southern Gaza Strip as long as it does not reach Hamas.

Israel National News Oct 18, 2023, 6:01 PM

The Prime Minister’s Office summed up the joint cabinet meeting with US President Joe Biden and said that three decisions were made in light of the overwhelming US support and the vitality of the war effort and in light of Biden’s demand for basic humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

The central decision is that “Israel will not allow any humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as long as the hostages are not returned.”

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by Phil Schneider October 17, 2023 

So, how did the conflict in the modern Land of Israel evolve into what it has become today? Is this a new conflict, a 100 year old conflict or an age-old conflict that goes back hundreds and even thousands of years?

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JIHAD WATCH

Biden Regime Sent $2 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

Biden heads to Israel to pressure Netanyahu to go easy on the jihadis

The Palestinian Authority Provides Hamas Killers with $2,789,430 in ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Largesse

EU Responds to Hamas Terror by Tripling Gaza Aid

Canadian government announces additional ‘humanitarian aid’ to Palestinians amid Israel’s war on Hamas

Sadiq Khan’s Palpable Sympathy for the Palestinians, and Want of Sympathy for Israel

Turkey joins Egypt in rejecting Palestinian refugees

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”

Hamas’ anti-Western strategy

*Hamas was established in 1988, as a spin-off of the Muslim Brotherhood, as were ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram and scores of additional terror entities. The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Sunni terror organization, haunting all pro-US Arab regimes, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Africa, Europe and the USA. Its strategic goal is to topple all national Muslim regimes, bring the Western “infidel” to submission, and establish a universal Muslim society.

*Hamas, just like the Muslim Brotherhood, considers Israel as “an infidel” entity in “the abode of Islam,” a US beachhead in the Middle East and a deterring ally of all pro-US Arab regimes.

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She continually interupts Amidror’s answers

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Netanyahu: ‘Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children’

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari gives a statement no October 17, 2023 saying the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group was responsible for a rocket misfire that hit a hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds. (Screenshot)<

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Israeli military did not strike the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip earlier Tuesday and that the facility was hit by a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terror organization.

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T. Belman. Good for Jonathan. I have argued the same thing. I went farther and I suggested that the IDF push the Gazans out of the north 80%  of Gaza before annexing it.  Then Israel should not permit their return.

I think that Jonothan is wrong to suggest that Israel should declare its intention now.

By Jonathan Pollard

As I write this essay, rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza are being intercepted over my home in Jerusalem. And while the successive detonations I hear provide a sense of relief that these enemy rockets are being successfully destroyed by our Iron Dome defenses, I’m reminded that each one of them was launched with the specific intention of murdering innocent civilians in our capital. However, given the fact that Hamas has apparently only used up about a third of its estimated long-range rocket arsenal, they can continue to keep launching missiles at central Israel for quite some time.

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The Caroline Glick Show

BLINKEN AND BIDEN ARE BUSTING OUR BALLS.
THEY ARE DEMANDING THAT WE DON’T DESTROY HAMAS OR HEZBOLLAH
THEY ARE DEMANDING THAT WE DON’T ATTACK UNRWA FACIITIES OR HOSPITALS WHICH USUALLY HOUSE HAMAS ROCKET LAUNCHERS AND TERRORISTS

This war is not about revenge or justice, but about killing murderers so fewer Jews are killed..Find somewhere else for your wreaths.Opinion

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN      Oct 17, 2023, 5:11 PM (GMT+3)

Isn’t it heartwarming that the world loves dead Jews so much? I almost feel guilty for getting that lung transplant. It pains me that I deprived so many members of Black Lives Matter — may they all be damned by G-d Almig-ty — and so many neo-Nazi White Supremacists of a small moment of extra joy.

My gosh, how beautiful their eulogies are! In England, they have projected an Israeli flag image, replete with Jewish star, on 10 Downing. In France, on the Eiffel Tower. In Germany, on the Brandenburg Gate. I could go on. Projecting six-pointed stars in the blue and white. Touching.

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T. Belman. Jacoby said “It has already said that after Hamas is defeated, residents will be free to return to Gaza City and other communities in the north.”. If so, Israel must cancel this commitment.

By Jeff Jacoby, BOSTON GLOBE

The plight of innocent civilians in Gaza, who are suffering greatly in this war caused by their Hamas rulers, is genuinely terrible. The distress of families displaced by attacks on their neighborhood can’t help but evoke pity. Images of babies killed in airstrikes are heartbreaking. Israel’s warning on Thursday that residents of the northern Gaza Strip head south to avoid the coming violence has sent many thousands of people fleeing in search of safety. Who could look at such upheaval and fail to be moved?

Apparently, the entire Arab world.
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BIBI IS TO BLAME
DON’T INVADE
SUPPORT THE HUMANITARIAN EFFORT.
TURN GAZA INTO A REFUGEE CAMP AND KEEP IT THAT WAY.
HEXZBOLLAH IS JUST SHOWING SOLIDARITY.
iRAN HAS NOT YET TOLD THEM TO START FIRING THEIR MISSILES.
iF THE MISSILES START iSRAELI CASUALTIES AND DESTRUCTION WILL BE ENORMOUS.
IF SO iSRAEL WILL TURN LEBANON BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

By MAYA YAUL EGOZI

THE WRITER takes in requests and coordinates the delivery of packages to soldiers and civilians in the South and North of the country.© (photo credit: Amit Egozi)

As I sit at the volunteer center in Petah Tikva, it’s been nine days and counting; and I’ve been coordinating donations and needs. Volunteers are pouring in, bringing an abundance of supplies, equipment, and funds. The willingness of people to help is overwhelming, and it showcases the true beauty of the Israeli spirit.

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The West Must Stand United Against Both Hamas and Iran

by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE  •  October 17, 2023 at 5:00 am

• The precise details of Iran’s direct role in authorising the attack are gradually coming to light, with officials involved in the investigation insisting that both Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah (a terrorist organization Iran controls) were involved in the planning of the Hamas terrorist operation.
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T. Belman.  Biden is visiting Israel today. Israel will not be able to start the ground offensive so long as he is here .

State Department Press Release

President Biden has appointed former Ambassador David Satterfield as the Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues. Special Envoy Satterfield will lead U.S. diplomacy to urgently address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including work to facilitate the provision of life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable people and promote the safety of civilians, in coordination with the United Nations and U.S. partners. He will lead a whole-of-government campaign to mitigate the humanitarian fallout of Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel, supporting critical efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. His role builds on the long-standing U.S. commitment to supporting peace and stability in the region.

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T. Belman. The world does not want to solve the humanitarian crises by removing the Palestinians from Gaza because that would mean that Israel would reclaim sovereignty there and it would mean the end of the TSS.  Thus the world is working to protect the Palestinian cause and is using a future humanitarian crises to achieve its end.

At a minimum Israel should push the Paelstinians to the bottom 10% of Gaza and reclaim sovereignty over the rest and absolutely refuse to allow the Palestinians to return. The water israel has agreed to be allowed in should be limited to the bottom 10%. It will encourage people to go there.

PM’s inner circle has indicated that it hasn’t thought that far ahead, leading US officials to warn that failing to do so could result in IDF being bogged down in Gaza indefinitely

By JACOB MAGID Today, 2:26 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center left) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv after talks on October 16, 2023 ((Haim Zach / GPO)

US President Joe Biden’s administration has privately been pressing Israel in recent days to flesh out its strategy for the day after it completes its stated war goal of toppling Hamas, a US official and an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday.

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T. Belman.  The bad news is that a resolution for a ceasefire will pass tomight. Remember the UNSC has not called for a ceasefire in Ukraine since the war began. Luckily its not a Chapter VII resolution which is binding. But it will add to the propaganda war being waged against Israel.

4 countries vote with Moscow; four — including the US — vote against and six abstain; members will vote on second resolution proposed by Brazil, which does pan Hamas, on Tuesday

By AFP and JACOB MAGID    Today, 6:15 am

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Illustrative: A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on New York City on September 21, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)<

The UN Security Council on Monday rejected a Russian resolution calling for a ceasefire to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza with delegates refusing to back a motion that did not single out Hamas for its surprise onslaught in Israel that left at least 1,400 people dead.

The council huddled as Israel readied for an expected ground assault on the Gaza Strip, after air and artillery strikes that officials say have killed at least 2,750 people.

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