by Alain Destexhe, GATESTONE  October 15, 2023 

The countries of the European Union are divided over whether to continue aid to Gaza. However, the question of whether it is possible to help the civilian population without strengthening Hamas is not part of the current debate.

• Most international aid to Gaza is channeled through UNRWA, a UN agency dedicated exclusively to Palestinian refugees and their descendants… Unfortunately, UNRWA’s very existence and modus operandi directly reinforce Hamas. For this international organization, though there are only a handful of surviving refugees from 1948, supposed “refugee status” is passed down from father to son, so there are now around five times as many “refugees” in Gaza as there were originally.
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October 14, 2023

By Alexander G. Markovsky

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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Hamas’s deception—and our self-deception

The U.S. and Israel continue to base their policies on the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is willing to coexist with the Jewish state. Opinion.

Caroline Glick

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(JNS) Last Sunday, senior Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka told the tale of how Hamas duped Israel and the U.S. into complacency.

In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today), Baraka said, “In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ‘rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join Islamic Jihad in its recent battle, [i.e., its missile assault on Israel in August 2022].

“We made them think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack.”

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TIERNEY NEWS

In this issue, Peg Tierney sets out the history of the land of Israel for the last 3000 years.

She concludes

Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything,

EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE!

https://tierneyrealnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/israels-911-part-3?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=728707&post_id=137897031&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=8t049&utm_medium=email

By David Israel , JEWISH PRESS – 28 Tishri 5784 – October 13, 2023

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday met with ‘Brothers in Arms,’ the crypto-fascist group whose goal has been to topple the Netanyahu government through months of lawless demonstrations and harm to the Israeli public.

The group boasted: “Today we hosted with great pride Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, in our civilian war room at the Exhibition Gardens Expo. We thanked him excitedly for the amazing support of the United States and had the privilege of receiving warm words from him about our contribution to Israel’s civil resilience. In the terrible days we are going through, we were happy to see that our eternal ally, the United States of America, is standing by our side.”

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By Solange Reyner, NEWSMAX    Friday, 13 October 2023 11:03 PM EDT

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told Newsmax on Thursday that the levels of antisemitism he’s seeing is “almost unbelievable.”

Unbelievable that “we would face the antisemitism from the left, from the right, from minorities, from Muslim groups, some state-sponsored, but most particularly the frontline on our campuses where we see the most horrendous ideologies being imparted to our youth,” he said during an appearance on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 14, 2023 at 5:00 am

Iran provides roughly $100 million a year to Palestinian terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and $700 million a year to Hezbollah. Pictured: Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal (center) and Musa Abu Marzouk (left) in Tehran on February 1, 2009. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

• “Look, it’s not even just this $6 billion, which clearly is going to further enrich Iran. It’s closer to $60 billion. If you look at what the Biden administration has done to help this Islamic terrorist regime in Iran by [stopping enforcement of] sanctions, by lifting restrictions, by allowing Iranian oil to increase by 650% over the last year from 400,000 barrels of oil a day to 3 million barrels of oil a day – all of this has strengthened” the Iranian regime. — Former US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Fox News, October 9, 2023.

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The world finally needs to understand the truth behind what the “Free Palestine” movement is really about.

Please share. pic.twitter.com/3bdEXIeXYP

— Lidar Gravé-Lazi (@LidarGL) October 13, 2023

Important testimony. Worth a listen. https://t.co/VpxKzEQ7jr

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 13, 2023

T. Belman. Russia said Hamas attack was “unprecedented in its cruelty”. Til this, both Russia and China did not acknowledge this truth. Putin is going out of his way to call for “the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as it capital.”  Why? He probably thinks it will get Russia more friends in the Muslim World.

Whereas the West has taken the position for the moment that Israel has the right to defend itself.  Here, Putin rules out a ground invasion.  Why? Many suggest Putin welcomed this war so that it would take presure of him in the Ukraine War. This stance says otherwise.

by Reuters • 5h

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) leaders’ summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 13, 2023. Sputnik/Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via REUTERS© Thomson Reuters

BISHKEK (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for an end to the bloodshed in the Middle East and cautioned Israel that a ground offensive in Gaza would lead to an “absolutely unacceptable” number of civilian casualties.

Israel’s military on Friday called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks for an expected ground invasion in response to a devastating attack by the militant group Hamas.

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Along with ammunition and Iron Dome interceptors, US Special ops cell assisting with intelligence, planning and hostage recovery, as pair of aircraft carriers sail toward Israel

By TARA COPP, TOI     Today, 4:27 am

The USS Gerald R. Ford, arrives in Halifax on Oct. 28, 2022. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP, File)<

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the US began moving warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with whatever it needed to respond.

A second US carrier strike group departs from Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday. Scores of aircraft are heading to US military bases around the Middle East. Special operations forces are now assisting Israel’s military in planning and intelligence. The first shipment of additional munitions has already arrived.

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Along with ammunition and Iron Dome interceptors, US Special ops cell assisting with intelligence, planning and hostage recovery, as pair of aircraft carriers sail toward Israel

By TARA COPP, TOI     Today, 4:27 am

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The USS Gerald R. Ford, arrives in Halifax on Oct. 28, 2022. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP, File)<>

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the US began moving warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with whatever it needed to respond.

A second US carrier strike group departs from Norfolk, Virginia, on Friday. Scores of aircraft are heading to US military bases around the Middle East. Special operations forces are now assisting Israel’s military in planning and intelligence. The first shipment of additional munitions has already arrived.

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Daniel Greenfield, 13 Oct 12:36 AM

In 2021, State Department officials warned that “there is a high risk Hamas could potentially derive indirect, unintentional benefit from U.S. assistance to Gaza” and asked for a special exemption from sanctions on funding terrorists.

In 2022, Biden met with Palestinian Authority terror leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.”
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Hamas’s Assault—and Iran’s Role in It—Lays Bare Washington’s Illusions,

By Suzanne Maloney, FOREIGN POLICY       October 10, 2023,

The shocking Hamas assault on Israel has precipitated a beginning and an end for the Middle East. What has begun, almost inexorably, is the next war—one that will be bloody, costly, and agonizingly unpredictable in its course and outcome. What has ended, for anyone who cares to admit it, is the illusion that the United States can extricate itself from a region that has dominated the American national security agenda for the past half century.

One can hardly blame the Biden administration for trying to do just that. Twenty years of fighting terrorists, along with failed nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq, took a terrible toll on American society and politics and drained the U.S. budget. Having inherited the messy fallout from the Trump administration’s erratic approach to the region, President Joe Biden recognized that U.S. entanglements in the Middle East distracted from more urgent challenges posed by the rising great power of China and the recalcitrant fading power of Russia.

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