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22 wounded as Houthi drone from Yemen hits EilatMagen David Adom medics treated victims at the scene and evacuated them—including two in serious condition—to Yoseftal Hospital.Charles Bybelezerhttps://www.jns.org/five-injured-as-houthi-drone-from-yemen-strikes-eilat/
 Israeli security forces at the scene of a Houthi drone strike in Eilat, Sept. 24, 2025. Photo by Yehuda Ben Itach/Flash90.
(24September2025 / JNS) Twenty-two people were injured on Wednesday evening when a drone launched by Houthi terrorists in Yemen struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
Magen David Adom said its medics treated victims at the scene and evacuated them—including two in serious condition—to the city’s Yoseftal Hospital.
Video circulating online showed people scrambling for cover as air-raid sirens sounded, with the UAV appearing to strike near a major shopping center adjacent to Eilat’s main boardwalk.
The Israel Defense Forces said interception attempts were made, and that search-and-rescue teams were operating at the impact site.
The Israeli Air Force opened an investigation after the two Iron Dome interceptor missiles failed to down the UAV.
דיווח ראשוני על נפילת כטב”ם חותי באילת , שני בתוך שבוע  Itay Blumental-tweet-24September2025-Houthi UAV in Eilat
The Israel Police urged residents to stay away from the crash site and avoid touching debris, warning it may contain explosives.
The military urged the public to continue adhering to Home Front Command guidelines.
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday night wished a full recovery to those injured in Eilat.
“The Houthi terrorists refuse to learn from Iran, Lebanon and Gaza—and they will learn the hard way,” Katz said, adding, “Those who attack Israel will be struck back sevenfold.”  Israeli security forces at the scene of a Houthi drone strike in Eilat, Sept. 24, 2025. Credit: Israel Police.
Last Thursday, an unmanned aerial vehicle that was launched toward Israel “from the east” impacted in the courtyard of a hotel in Eilat. No injuries were reported.
A second drone was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force minutes later, the IDF said.
The term “from the east” is typically used by the IDF to refer to attacks by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
Approximately an hour later, the Houthis fired a ballistic missile that triggered air-raid alerts across central Israel, sending millions of civilians to bomb shelters.
On Sept. 16, the IDF struck Hudaydah Port in Houthi-controlled Yemen, accusing the terrorist group of using the facility to transfer Iranian-supplied weapons for attacks on Israel and its allies.
The strike targeted a “military infrastructure site,” with the IDF saying it was “in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel, including the launch of UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles.”
The Houthis have carried out missile and drone attacks on the Jewish state—including a direct missile hit near Ben-Gurion International Airport on May 4—since the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
A Houthi explosive drone crashed into Ramon Airport near Eilat on Sept. 7, shortly after the IAF intercepted three UAVs launched from Yemen.
Jerusalem has conducted several rounds of strikes against the Houthis, including an Aug. 28 operation that killed their “prime minister” and several other Cabinet officials.
Defense Minister Katz said on Friday that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Houthis, and his government would be sent to “the depths of hell.”
“Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, your time will come,” Katz said, adding that he and his subordinates will meet “all the envoys of the Axis of Evil.”
The slogan “Death to Israel, curse upon the Jews,” written on the Houthi flag, Katz added, “will be replaced by the blue-and-white Israeli flag that will fly in the capital of united Yemen.”
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Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”
Esther Ohana, H”YD, a 20-year-old girl who was driving to her wedding rehearsal when she was murdered by rock throwing. Vardi Bamberger, 25, was severely injured when rocks were thrown at the vehicle in which she was riding at the same spot where Ester Ohana was killed. Bamberger suffered a fractured skull, but B’H survived. Yehuda Haim Shoham, H”YD, just five months old, was hit by a rock to the head while he was strapped into his car seat killing him. Eleven year-old Chava Wechsberg, H”YD, was killed when the car in which she was riding was attacked by rocks in the Gush Etzion region on February 24, 1993, causing it to crash. Amnon Pomerantz, H”YD, drove by mistake into the Arab town of El-Bureij on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 1990. Arabs stoned the car until he crashed. Then, as he lay slumped unconscious over the driving wheel, they burned him alive. Yeshohua Weisbrod, H”YD, made a wrong turn into Rafah on March 4, 1993. Arab rock-throwers attacked, causing the car to crash. A terrorist with a machine-gun then walked up to the vehicle and finished him off. Asher Palmer, H”YD, and his baby son Yonatan, H”YD. On September 23, 2011, they were driving on Highway 60, on their way to Jerusalem to meet Palmer’s wife, who was then expecting their second child. Near the village of Halhoul, rocks were thrown at their car from passengers in an Arab car traveling towards them from the opposite direction. The tremendous impact of the rocks smashed the front windshield of Palmer’s car and fractured Palmer’s skull, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. Both he and his son were killed in the crash.  Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-21October2025-Remember all those killed by ‘Just throwing rocks’
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Israeli forces kill two PIJ terrorists in SamariaAlaa Ga’udat Bani Ouda and Mohammad Qassem Suleiman were part of a cell planning an imminent attack.JNS Staffhttps://www.jns.org/israeli-forces-kill-two-pij-terrorists-in-samaria/
(25September2025 / JNS) Israeli forces operating overnight Wednesday in the Palestinian town of Tammun, eight miles northeast of Nablus in Samaria, neutralized a terrorist cell planning an imminent attack.
Acting on intelligence, the forces located members of the cell affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including Alaa Ga’udat Bani Ouda and Mohammad Qassem Suleiman, both armed operatives involved in planning shooting and explosive attacks.
During the operation, forces encircled the building where the terrorists had barricaded themselves, engaged them with precise fire, and killed them.
During Israeli operations on Wednesday in the Anzah area, near Jenin in northern Samaria, a terrorist hurled an explosive device at soldiers. The troops returned fire, killing the assailant. No IDF injuries were reported.
A day earlier, Israeli forces identified a rocket in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, in western Samaria. The Israel Defense Forces said the rocket was neutralized by Border Police sappers, while troops scanned the area. The military has opened an investigation into the incident.
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BACKGROUND: What Israel has to deal with. Mein Kampf
 Elder of Ziyon-tweet-4February2025-What Israel has to deal with-Mein Kampf
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Mein Kampf in ArabicMein Kampf in Arabic in Gaza
IDF forces found a copy of Hitler’s antisemitic work “Mein Kampf” in a child’s room of a home in Gaza used by Hamas as a terrorism hub. The terrorist highlighted portions of the book and included his own notes. It starts with words. It ends with Jewish blood in the streets.  Israel-tweet-12November2023-Mein Kampf in Gaza
They found “Mein Kampf” in every second house in Gaza
How much more proof do you need that lying comes as naturally to them as breathing?  Dr. Simon Goddek-tweet-16October2025-They found Mein Kampf in every second house in Gaza
Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
This is a school textbook based on Hitler’s “Mein Camp”, on the extermination of the Jewish people, with additions, upgrades and streamlining suggestions for the jihadist Muslims known as “Palestinians”. We fight monsters. #AINewsIL #MuslimInvaders #TheWestIsNext  Rubi Yona-tweet-15October2024-Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian storesSEE: From 9January2014 Sales Of Hitler’s Mein Kampf Are Surging
When you hear how many Palestinians talk about Hitler, you quickly understand why. Listen to Yussuf from Bethlehem.  Eli Kowaz-tweet-4January2024-Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian stores
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Who’s afraid of diplomatic isolation?There is no Palestinian state not only because Israel maintains full control over the territory, but also because of the Palestinian Authority’s failure to establish functioning governing institutions, and Hamas’ dominance.by Prof. Eyal Zisser – Published on 09-28-2025 10:05 – Last modified: 09-28September2025 10:15 https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/whos-afraid-of-diplomatic-isolation/
On December 13, 1949, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and ordered the transfer of state institutions there from Tel Aviv. In the UN Partition Plan of November 1947, Jerusalem was not included in the Jewish state’s territory. During and after the 1948 War of Independence, proposals were even raised internationally to place the city under international rule, or to hand it over to Jordan. Israel effectively set its capital in Tel Aviv, where the president, government, Knesset and other state institutions sat.
Ben-Gurion’s announcement came, naturally, as the UN General Assembly was meeting in New York to debate the Middle East. At the time, Israel was waging a tough diplomatic battle to preserve the gains of the War of Independence, against most of the world, which demanded territorial concessions and the return of Palestinian refugees as the only path to peace.
But Ben-Gurion did not back down and decided to move the capital to Jerusalem. As expected, the world erupted in protest, condemned Israel harshly, and threatened retaliatory steps. Leading the opposition, as usual, were European countries, joined by the United States, whose ties with Israel in those years were cool and even hostile. But the die was cast, and Jerusalem became the capital. Inside Israel, too, many opposed the move. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett even submitted his resignation to Ben-Gurion, perhaps as protest, having warned that the step would bring disaster, or perhaps, as he later claimed, because he had not foreseen the diplomatic tsunami that swept over Israel.
Today we are once again warned that Israel is on the verge of diplomatic isolation, highlighted by the recognition of a Palestinian state by Britain, France and other Western countries. But such warnings should be taken with a grain of salt. First, most of the world, 147 of the UN’s 193 member states, has already recognized a Palestinian state for years, yet it has not come into being nor is it likely to in the near future. Second, a Palestinian state has not emerged not only because Israel controls the territory, but also because of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing failure to maintain functioning institutions and, above all, because of the looming threat of Hamas, which could seize control of any area handed over to the Palestinians.
In 1955, as Israel battled waves of terrorist attacks while being urged to exercise restraint out of fear of international criticism, Ben-Gurion declared: Only the courage of the Jews established the state, not some ‘UN-shmun’ decision… Our future depends not on what the nations say, but on what the Jews do. Still, Ben-Gurion was mindful of limits and the need for alliances. He launched the 1956 Sinai Campaign only after securing French backing, which for a time provided Israel with political cover and military aid.
The historical lesson is clear. A country like Israel, facing existential security challenges in a complex and hostile regional and global arena, cannot base its actions solely on how the world will respond.
The decision by some European states and others to recognize a Palestinian state stems from political calculations, appeasing the radical left and Muslim immigrant communities. It carries no real weight or meaning and will ultimately fade into history. Yet Israel must know what it seeks and can achieve, what is worth fighting for, and where to show flexibility. With all due respect to Gaza, it is not Jerusalem. As Menachem Begin once put it: Learn from Masada how not to reach it, and from Modiin how to build it.
The real question we must keep in sight is how to preserve cohesion and unity within Israeli society, and around what shared principles and goals to forge broad national consensus.
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Politicians Are Speaking Out! A Massive Awakening is Happening in Israel…Posted 28September2025 JNS-TV: Most people outside of Israel probably don’t realize what’s happening right now. In the middle of a war, with the country on edge, one unexpected name has suddenly been thrust into the spotlight: David Zini. He’s not a politician or a public figure, but a career IDF general who has just been appointed to head Israel’s most powerful security agency, the Shin Bet. In this episode, we break down who he is, why this move surprised so many, and how his sudden rise is already sparking political battles inside Israel.
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Nearly 50,000 Jews celebrate Sukkot in HebronFifty percent more worshippers than last year visited Judaism’s second-holiest site during the first days of the Feast of Booths.JNS Staffhttps://www.jns.org/nearly-50000-jews-celebrate-sukkot-in-hebron/
 Israel flags decorate the 2,000-year-old Cave of the Patriarchs complex in Hebron in anticipation of Independence Day, May 2018. The same Herodian masonry is used for the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by Yishai Fleisher
( 12October2025 / JNS) Almost 50,000 Jews visited the Cave of the Patriarchs in the Judea city of Hebron Octoberduring the first two days of the joyous Sukkot festival on Oct. 7-8, according to Israel Defense Forces data.
A total of 47,000 Jews visited Judaism’s second-holiest city during the first two days of the weeklong Feast of Booths—1.5 times as many worshippers as last year, the data cited by Arutz 7 on Sunday indicated.
The Cave of the Patriarchs (“Mearat Hamachpela“) is the burial place of the Jewish patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. According to the biblical account, the cave was purchased by Abraham from Ephron the Hittite more than 3,000 years ago.
Hebron is home to some 800 Jewish residents—there is a waiting list to move there—who live surrounded by some 200,000 Arabs.
At dawn on Wednesday, thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Cave of the Patriarchs for a traditional Hallel prayer led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed in the Upper Galilee, and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Schwartz, the chief rabbi of Hebron-Kiryat Arba.
Among those attending the service were bereaved Israeli families, IDF troops and their relatives, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu and other senior officials.
Eliyahu told attendees at the prayer service, “The Zohar [book of Jewish mysticism] teaches that in the future, the enemies of Israel throughout generations will reappear in the enemies of today. At the same time, the patriarchs themselves are revealed through the righteous of our time.”
He added that this includes “all the righteous and soldiers who risk their lives not just to save one soul, but to save an entire people—and through them, an entire world.”
Also on Wednesday, Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, declaring victory at the holiest site in Judaism two years after the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist invasion of the northwestern Negev.
“We are two years after the terrible massacre—here at the Temple Mount there is victory, in every house in Gaza there is a picture of the Temple Mount, and we today, two years later, are victorious at the Temple Mount,” the leader of the Oztma Yehudit Party exclaimed.
Almost 70,000 Jews ascended the Mount in the Hebrew year 5785, a 22% increase compared to the previous year and a modern-day record, the Beyadenu—Returning to the Temple Mount group stated on Sept. 24.
According to the Israeli advocacy group, 68,429 Jewish worshippers entered Judaism’s holiest site since the previous Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, on Oct. 2, 2024. In 5784, 56,057 visited the site.
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Michael Eisenberg: ‘Aliyah is about growth, not just integration’Speaking with Arutz Sheva at the Ministry of Immigration’s conference, Michael Eisenberg called on Israeli companies to lead a ‘million Olim’ initiative to boost growth.Israel National News / Published: 22October2025, 10:13 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416663
Aleph Venture Capital Co-founder and General Partner Michael Eisenberg stopped by the Arutz Sheva-Israel National News broadcast booth at a special conference organized by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration titled ‘Aliyah as a Growth Engine for the Israeli Economy,’ and spoke about the vital role of Israeli industry and the private sector in supporting new Olim and strengthening Israel’s economy.
Eisenberg emphasized that Aliyah should not be viewed merely as an integration process, but as a key driver of national growth. “This is about growth. This is about economic growth. Olim, with the talent that they bring to Israel, are an incredibly rare asset, and one that we need here to grow our economy,” he said. “A strong Israel, both from a defense perspective and from an economic perspective, is what will enable us to be safe in this area.”
He cited remarks by President Trump in the Knesset, saying, “You are a small country, and that is a problem. You know how we can become a big country? In three ways: innovation, a strong economy, and Aliyah – and of course, having babies. We do that well. Now we need immigration to increase, and particularly bring talent that grows the economy.”
When asked about the role of Israeli companies in the process, Eisenberg stressed that Zionism itself includes building a sustainable economy. “This is Zionism. When Herzl writes Altneuland, he talks about the economy too, a uniquely Israeli economy. This is Zionism. Zionism is building this country. They built railroads. They built roads. They built hospitals. They built a labor union that we’re still stuck with. It always needs to build the economy,” he said.
Eisenberg highlighted that the government alone cannot carry the responsibility for absorbing new immigrants. “The world is moving so fast, the government cannot do this on its own. I question whether it can do it at all. They can kind of point the direction and clear the bureaucracy. Citizens need to take responsibility for this. Businesses need to take responsibility for this. High-tech entrepreneurs need to take responsibility for this. We can do this. We can bring one million Olim in the next 10 years.”
Asked what should happen next, Eisenberg called for a shift in mindset and an appreciation of Israel’s achievements. “There’s a tendency sometimes in Israel to look at the glass half empty. The glass is not only half full, it’s very full. It’s been a very difficult two years, but also very inspiring. We have the greatest citizens in the world. This is the greatest place in the world to raise a family. This is one of the most innovative economies in the world, top three. This is an incredible place to live. And we need to say that openly to people. Come here. This is the best place to raise a family on planet Earth.”
He urged company leaders to take practical steps and personally reach out to potential immigrants. “I told 150 people in there, leaders of companies: get on a plane. You take Australia, you take France, you take the UK, you take the United States, you take Argentina – get on there. Tell them there’s economic opportunity here. Tell them you can help them. Be their best friend. Because when you land here, look, I’m an immigrant, you’re an immigrant. I came 32 years ago. I still have an accent in Hebrew. There are still things I don’t understand. I struggle to read my bank statement. People need help when they come here.”
Eisenberg concluded with a call for collective responsibility: “When they land here, you actually encounter the reality and the bureaucracy, and everyone needs help. We have to help these people. We have to stand by their side. Before the end of the plane and when they get here, everyone needs to take responsibility for an Oleh.”
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Israel will build ‘Independent Arms Industry’ amid worry of international constraints: NetanyahuPosted 25September2025 The Economic Times: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday (September 16) that Israel will create an “independent arms industry” that can “withstand international constraints”. In his address, Netanyahu spoke about the Israeli economy and that it withheld through two economic crisis, the COVID and the two year war on Gaza. He also added that President of the United States, Donald Trump had invited him to the White House in two weeks, after his speech at the U.N.
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Amid embargoes, how independent can Israel’s defense industry be?Analysts agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could become more self-sufficient, but there are clear limits to the push.By Seth J. Frantzman on September 30, 2025 12:43 pm https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/amid-embargoes-how-independent-can-israels-defense-industry-be/
JERUSALEM — Facing foreign arms embargoes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for Israel to become far more self-reliant on homegrown defense products, describing his vision of the Middle Eastern power as a “super Sparta.”
But analysts told Breaking Defense that while it would be in Jerusalem’s interest to build more defense components and platforms at home, there are clear limits to what the defense industry is capable of on its own.
“Israel will not be totally independent,” Yaakov Amidror, who served as Netanyahu’s national security advisor between 2011 and 2013, told Breaking Defense. “It will not produce F-35s or submarines, for example, but Israel can be and should be less dependent on others regarding munitions and spare parts.”
In a speech on Sept. 15 Netanyahu acknowledged that economically Israel is “in a sort of isolation.”
“I am a believer in the free market, but we may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries are blocked. We will need to develop arms industries here — not only research and development, but also the ability to produce what we need,” he said. After the comments sparked a vocal backlash, Netanyahu clarified that the defense industry was already “soaring,” but reiterated Israel needed to “achieve security independence.” (Days later, scores of delegates walked out ahead of Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly.)
Eran Lerman, a former deputy for foreign policy and international affairs at the national security council in the Israeli prime minister’s office, noted “there is a reason Netanyahu quickly walked back his earlier comment about becoming generally self-reliant — it simply cannot work in an economy fully geared towards export.” Lerman, who is vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, added that in more narrow terms relating to military supplies, “it does make sense to generate alternatives to the occasionally problematic chains of supply. But to wrap this in the red battle cloak of Sparta was an obvious mistake.”
Yaakov Katz, author of Shadow Strike, a book about Israel’s raid on Syria’s nuclear program and a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, said that Netanyahu was right regarding Israel’s need to be more self-reliant in terms of weapons production. However, he agreed with Amidror that when it comes to major platforms like warplanes, it won’t be possible.
“Take the Air Force as an example: All of the IAF’s aircraft except the trainer aircraft are US made. [These] are F-15s, F-16s, F-35s and so much more. Without spare parts, maintenance and more from the US, Israel will not be able to fly and hence, will not be able to fight. So while independence is important, so is ensuring we have bipartisan support in the US for decades to come.”
While some European nations have announced embargoes on arms sales to Israel over its conduct in Gaza, Washington has maintained its close relationship with Jerusalem, even if President Donald Trump appears at times to have been frustrated with Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister concluded a visit to the White House on Monday, after which Trump presented a 20-point plan to end the conflict in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israeli defense firms have been logging record export sales, despite the ongoing war against Hamas. Israel has also been plowing funds into local defense contracts, which Israel’s Ministry of Defense says is part of an attempt to invest in what are called “blue and white” local industries to create “manufacturing independence.” This has included everything from manufacturing munitions to repairing and producing tanks.
One way Israel is responding to the new self-reliance drive is to establish a National Armament Council. Israel Ministry of Defense Director General Amir Baram said on Sept. 15 that the new council would “accelerate our preparedness for third- and fourth-tier threats dramatically. This comprehensive body will unite all stakeholders around a unified table: the defense establishment, Treasury officials, the Ministry’s R&D directorate, defense industries, and additional relevant entities.”
Speaking that day — a day before Netanyahu’s controversial comments — about Israel’s outlook, Baram noted that “security and economic strength are inextricably linked, particularly in Israel. Fundamental security is a cornerstone of national security — alongside robust economics, social cohesion, and cutting-edge technology.”
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Biased media fuels American Jewish opposition to IsraelA poll shows that liberals and those who think being Jewish is unimportant are more likely to believe Hamas propaganda that the mainstream press reports as facts.https://www.jns.org/biased-media-fuels-american-jewish-opposition-to-israel/
Jonathan S. Tobin
(10October2025 / JNS) The data is staggering. No matter how you look at it, a Washington Post poll conducted last month showing that 61% of American Jews believe that Israel has committed “war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza” is shocking for those who worry about declining Jewish support for Israel. The same survey shows that 39% of American Jewry believes that Israel is committing “genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
The headline on the article discussing the results characterized them as demonstrating that “many American Jews are sharply critical of Israel on Gaza.” It fits with the results that showed them disapproving of Israel’s war in Gaza by a slender but still telling 48% to 46% margin.
The ‘genocide’ blood libelThe answers to the questions about “war crimes” and “genocide” demonstrate that—at least as far as the respondents in question—the state of American Jewish opinion about Israel has gone far beyond criticism. It’s one thing for Jewish liberals living in the United States to think ill of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his coalition of nationalist and religious parties, whose supporters have very different worldviews about a variety of topics, not the least of which is their support for U.S. President Donald Trump.
But if a critical mass of those who self-identify as Jewish is willing to swallow blood libels that allege that Israelis are attempting to wipe out an entire people, then clearly something is very wrong. That’s the sort of news that should be enough to send Jewish leaders and organizations into a state of panic, as well as worry Israelis, many of whom have already begun to conclude that their Jewish brethren are far less reliable supporters of their right to live in peace and security than evangelical Christians.
This data will, like many other surveys over the years that have provided results that demonstrate a decline in Jewish support for Israel, provoke discussions and plans for more projects aimed at reversing this trend. While efforts along these lines are, in principle, praiseworthy, those friends of Israel who are panicking about this particular poll—and those antisemites and other enemies of Israel that are rejoicing over it—need to place it in perspective.
It tells us a lot more about the state of American Jewry in 2025 than it does about Israel’s conduct of the post-Oct. 7 war against Hamas in Gaza.
Just as important, the survey answers are in large measure a direct result of the biased coverage of Israel and the war in the Gaza Strip that has been provided by corporate legacy press outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. So, as much as anything else, what the Post is revealing in this poll is that people who depend on mainstream liberal media for their information are frankly ignorant of the truth about the war, believing what the misleading and often downright lying coverage about Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs tells them. No wonder they believe the misinformation they are being fed about the Jewish state committing “war crimes” and “genocide.”
The survey’s breakdown of their respondents’ beliefs helps us understand why they are so “critical” of Israel.
Decline in Jewish peoplehoodLike more detailed studies of American Jewry, the Post’s sample showed that a significant portion of those who identify as Jewish don’t consider their identity to be very important to them, with 29% saying it meant little or nothing to them and 24% saying they did not consider Judaism to be their religion. Some 42% of them said they had little or nothing in common with Israelis, and 44% said they were not emotionally attached to the Jewish state. If you drill down further into the numbers, you see that those who are not “Jewish by religion” are much more likely to blame Israel for the suffering in Gaza than those who do claim Judaism as their faith.
The point being that those who are either more likely to be religious or deeply connected to Israel—or are politically conservative and reject the toxic leftist myths of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism that claim Israelis and Jews are “white” oppressors—are more likely to have alternate sources of information about the war and Israel. As a result, they are also less likely to believe the Hamas blood libels about Israeli war crimes and genocide that have been normalized and mainstreamed by international media.
Not all the results in the poll are bad news for the U.S.-Israel relationship. A whopping 76% of the respondents say that Israel’s existence is vital to the future of the Jewish people, although considering that about half of the world’s Jews live there, that’s a fairly obvious truth. More of them believe that Hamas—the side that started the war with unspeakable atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023—is more responsible for the war than those who blame the Israelis, who were attacked in the early-morning hours that Saturday, and their leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But most of the results simply reflect what anyone who depends on liberal media like the Post for information, with otherwise little knowledge about the conflict, would be expected to think.
It’s also true that the way the questions were framed and the sequencing of them were designed to produce “both sides are bad” answers that inflated the number of those who supported the most egregious accusations against Israel.
Yet at its heart, the poll is a reflection of not so much failures in Israel’s information policy and the success of Hamas propaganda (or even genuine evaluations of the shortcomings of Netanyahu’s government) as it is American Jewish demography.
As Jews assimilate, drop Judaism as a religion, and even more importantly, lose a sense of Jewish peoplehood in which they identify with and feel responsible for the safety of other Jews and Israel, it stands to reason that fewer of them are supportive of a Jewish state under fire. For these reasons, it’s not surprising that so many of them are willing to believe the outrageous lies about Israel that have gone viral amid a worldwide surge of antisemitism primarily aimed at demonizing the one Jewish state on the planet and its supporters.
But their lack of a sense of Jewish peoplehood and the left-leaning tilt of the majority of American Jews also makes them more likely to be consumers of anti-Israel mainstream media, rather than the few independent and/or Jewish news outlets, like JNS, that reject the pro-Hamas spin, and whose coverage tells the truth about the care Israeli forces take to avoid civilian casualties and the way the Palestinian terrorists seek to sacrifice as many of their civilians as possible.
Biased coverage influences opinionsIt’s simply a matter of “garbage in—garbage out” as with any system. If people are fed biased coverage produced by a generation of liberal editors and writers more interested in activism than journalism, and who have already been indoctrinated to believe that Zionism is racism, then why be surprised that a demographic slice of their most loyal readers and viewers—liberal Jews—have been heavily influenced by their efforts?<
So, what should be the response of the Jewish community to these troubling results?
While an increased campaign to combat anti-Israel disinformation on social media is important, let’s not kid ourselves. Clever use of the tools of modern communication certainly can help. Still, no matter how much effort is put in, it wouldn’t be enough to counteract belief systems that are the result of choices about identity, religion and politics that predispose people on the left to think that Israel is always wrong and the Palestinians are right, no matter what either of them actually does.
Encouraging more Jews to care about Israel, and to be willing to listen to the truth and disregard blatant falsehoods about it, involves investments in education and Jewish experiences like schools, summer camps and trips to the Jewish state, not hiring influencers to post on TikTok. And if you want to put them in touch with accurate information about what actual Israelis and Palestinians do and believe, then you have to invest in alternatives to a corrupt and biased mainstream media that is more interested in producing work that conforms to their ideological prejudices about intersectional victims than in telling the truth.
It is awful that so many people who claim some sort of Jewish identity are willing to believe the lies spread about Israel. That they do so even while telling pollsters that they feel less safe because of the increase in antisemitism fueled by such coverage is not so much ironic as indicative of the problem posed by the spread of disinformation about Israeli “genocide.”
Support alternative voicesThe good news is that outlets like the Post, which lie at the heart of the problem in Jewish disaffection, are declining in influence. Even as the liberal-leaning plurality sinks further into assimilation and a willingness to believe smears of Israel as being true, alternatives to mainstream thinking are proliferating. Outlets like JNS, The Free Press, Tablet and a host of non-leftist foundations and educational institutions are gaining in strength and growing both their reach and support. That’s the real story of Jewish revival that papers like The Washington Post and The New York Times ignore while they highlight the activities of anti-Israel and even antisemitic organizations that claim to be Jewish.
As this poll shows, much of American Jewry is abandoning its heritage and drifting toward the acceptance of antisemitic blood libels to stay in sync with liberal fashion. We have all witnessed the way antisemitic propaganda has been promoted by the political left, as well as by a loud but influential minority on the political right.
But the battle for the soul of America and American Jewry is not lost. Those Jews who understand that their safety—and that of Israel—is bound up with a struggle to defend Western civilization against toxic leftist doctrines, and the bizarre red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists, are not giving up. More to the point, they are on the same side as the majority of Americans who, with good reason, don’t believe what the liberal press tells them about any topic. The triumph of woke progressivism that is integral to the turn against Israel reached its peak during the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020 and then during the Biden administration. It is now in retreat.
As sobering as some of the recent samples of public opinion about Israel may be, we should not be too discouraged. The majority of Americans, and even most Jews, still stand by Israel. Poll results notwithstanding, Jewish backers of Israel are still on the right side of history.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll findsMost Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.Updated 6October2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/
By Naftali Bendavid, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.
The findings are striking given the long-standing ties between the U.S. Jewish community and Israel, suggesting the potential for a historic breach over the Gaza war. Two years after Hamas militants poured into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage, Israel’s retaliatory incursion has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians but says the majority of the dead are women and children — displaced many more, and led to widespread hunger in the territory.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians
American Jews are particularly unhappy with the current Israeli government. Sixty-eight percent give negative marks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel, with 48 percent rating it “poor” — a 20-percentage-point jump from a Pew Research Center poll five years ago. But Jews also overwhelmingly blame Hamas, with 94 percent saying Hamas has committed war crimes against Israelis.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 American Jews are much more critical of Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership than in 2020
Jews in the poll are almost evenly divided over Israel’s actions in Gaza, with 46 percent approving and 48 percent opposing. That remains more supportive than many other groups: Among all Americans, 32 percent approved of Israel’s actions and 60 percent disapproved, according to a July Gallup poll.
Many of those who spoke to The Post in follow-up interviews said they supported Israel’s military incursion at first, given the brutality of the Hamas attack and the need to respond. But as the war has dragged on, with reports of atrocities accumulating and little evident progress, they have recoiled at Israel’s actions.
“Initially, Israel in a sense had no choice. You can’t let your national security be threatened that way,” said Julia Seidman, 42, a writer from Issaquah, Washington. “But in no way does that justify what is happening now, two years later. The amount of human suffering that we are seeing now … I’m just disgusted.”
Still, the poll finds that many American Jews retain strong emotional, cultural and political bonds with Israel and its identity as a Jewish state. About three-quarters, 76 percent, believe Israel’s existence is vital for the future of the Jewish people, and 58 percent say they have some or a lot in common with Israeli Jews.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 How connected American Jews feel to Israel
“When things get tough, the first suspects and therefore the first victims are Jews, so I think the existence of Israel is very important to the Jewish people,” said Bob Haas, 71, a business consultant in Devon, Pennsylvania, whose grandfather fled to the United States to escape pogroms in Poland. “But the way the Netanyahu government has conducted itself does nothing to safeguard Jews, in Israel or around the world.”
The poll reflects a community in deep turmoil, with multifaceted and sometimes conflicting feelings about the Jewish state 77 years after its founding. The Gaza war in a sense accelerated trends that were already underway, as a relatively liberal U.S. Jewish community has for years been edging away from an increasingly militant and conservative Israeli leadership.
The Gaza war has also torn apart the population of Israel itself, with tens of thousands of Israelis regularly taking to the streets to protest policies that are isolating the country globally. Many Israelis say Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his own political benefit, hoping to postpone his corruption trial and an inquiry into the security failures of Oct. 7.
The growing divide between American Jews and Israel may have consequences for U.S. politics as well. Top Democrats, including Jewish lawmakers, are far more critical of Israel than in the past, and they arguably face less risk of a backlash from Jewish voters deeply skeptical of Netanyahu.
When the Senate in July voted on two resolutions to block the sale of arms to Israel, most Democrats voted yes, although the resolutions failed in the face of Republican opposition. The resolutions were offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who is both a prominent Jewish politician and a leading voice urging consequences for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Also in July, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and other Jewish senators, including California’s Adam Schiff and Hawaii’s Brian Schatz, led a call for a major expansion of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Schumer last year called for Netanyahu to step down and allow new elections.
The mix of emotions among many Jews — concern for Israel combined with abhorrence at its behavior — has yielded complicated feelings about how much America should keep supporting the Jewish state, the poll suggests. Most American Jews, about 6 in 10, say they want the U.S. to keep sending military aid for Israel’s fight against Hamas.
But when the merits of the U.S.-Israel alliance are divorced from the Gaza war, 47 percent say U.S. support for Israel is at about the right level, with 32 percent — about a third — saying the U.S. is too supportive of Israel and 20 percent saying it is not supportive enough. The share saying the U.S. supports Israel too much is up 10 points since 2020 and 21 points since 2013 compared with Pew surveys conducted those years.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Share of American Jews saying the U.S. is too supportive of Israel
Max Parke, 38, a software engineer in Brooklyn, said the fastest way to improve conditions in Gaza is for the U.S. to restrict aid to Israel or impose conditions on it.
“Jewish principles would say we need to respect everyone’s humanity,” he said. “In Israel, that is not the case; it privileges Jewishness in countless policies, without following actual Jewish principles.”
President Donald Trump, unlike many Democrats, has strongly embraced Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war in Gaza. Still, his pro-Israel message sometimes appears aimed more at his conservative and evangelical Christian supporters than at American Jews, who he has complained are insufficiently appreciative of his positions on the Middle East.
Trump and Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday, and Trump put forward a multipart peace deal for Gaza that Netanyahu said he accepted.
But with 22 hostages remaining in captivity, many complications remain. Hamas said on Friday that it would accept the deal to release all the hostages, but with unstated conditions and a call for continued negotiations over many of the details.
Among the poll’s most striking findings is the relatively large minority of American Jews who believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The term genocide was introduced in 1944, amid revelations of the Nazis’ killing of millions of Jews and a sense that a new word was needed to describe the enormity of trying to wipe out an ethnic group. The state of Israel, born four years later, was seen by many Zionist leaders as a safeguard against anything like the Holocaust happening again.
The accusation that Israel itself is committing genocide — reiterated by a team of United Nations experts last month — has prompted furious reactions. Netanyahu’s government sharply denounced it, saying it mischaracterizes a war aimed at defeating a terrorist group after a savage attack.
Yet a significant minority of American Jews agree with the U.N. panel’s conclusion.
In the poll, respondents were told that the United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Asked whether they thought Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, 39 percent said yes, 51 percent said no, and 10 percent had no opinion.
Dana Witten, 59, who lives in Boston, was among those respondents who rejected the genocide allegation. The Israelis are clearly not trying to eliminate all Palestinians the way the Nazis sought to erase every Jew, he said.
“To call it a genocide is a false equivalence to in some ways demean the Jews, because they should know better or something,” Witten said. “I don’t understand that. And it’s harmful to the discourse. It’s craziness to say it’s genocide.”
In an illustration of how the genocide question has split the Jewish community, Seidman, the writer from Washington state, said she and her husband have had “repeated disagreements” about it. Seidman said she is not an expert on the definition of genocide but is open to the possibility that it is occurring.
“He believes you shouldn’t use the word unless it absolutely meets the textbook definition,” Seidman said. “It’s not because he thinks what is going on is excusable; it’s certainly not. But if we muddy the waters by calling it genocide when it’s not, he thinks we risk losing the moral authority. I am much less certain about that.”
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 More than twice as many American Jews blame Hamas than Israel
The Post poll also revealed a generational divide. While 56 percent of Jewish Americans overall say they are emotionally attached to Israel, among those ages 18 to 34, that drops to 36 percent. But that share rises steadily for older groups, jumping to 68 percent for those over 65. Younger Jews are also more likely to say Israel has committed genocide, with 50 percent of those ages 18 to 34 saying so and the number hovering in the 30s among older groups.
On other issues, the generations are far more aligned. More than 80 percent of Jews of all ages said they are concerned about civilian deaths in Gaza and Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas. And majorities across age groups say they are concerned about the safety of Israeli soldiers in Gaza and the threat Hamas poses to Israel.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews voice concern over Israeli hostages
Jewish Americans’ views of the war also split sharply by partisanship, gender and education. More than 8 in 10 Jewish Republicans support Israel’s military actions in Gaza, compared with about half of independents and roughly 3 in 10 Democrats. A 56 percent majority of men approve, while 55 percent of Jewish women disapprove. And although 54 percent of Jews with some college education or less approve of Israel’s actions, that falls to 47 percent among those with bachelor’s degrees and 36 percent of postgraduates.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 American Jews are split on whether they approve or disapprove of the military action Israel
Overall, American Jews’ view of the situation unfolding in Gaza appears to be that everyone involved bears some culpability. Asked who is responsible for the war’s continuation, 91 percent say Hamas bears responsibility, 80 percent say Israel does and 86 percent say Netanyahu bears responsibility. A 61 percent majority holds the U.S. responsible.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews say Hamas and Netanyahu bear a great deal of responsibility
But as reports of hunger and starvation multiply, 59 percent of American Jews say Israel is not doing enough to allow food into the territory, while 30 percent say it is doing enough. Israel has denied that people are starving in Gaza, questioning international organizations that say otherwise and insisting it has made efforts to improve the humanitarian conditions.
Despite the bleak assessment, many Jews remain optimistic that Israelis and Palestinians can ultimately reach a peace agreement. The poll finds that 59 percent say a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestine to coexist peacefully, while 41 percent disagree.washingtonpost poll 9-2025 A majority of American Jews say Israel and an independent Palestinian state
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 A majority of American Jews say Israel and an independent Palestinian state
Yet challenges are apparent even in this modestly hopeful outlook.
Sixty-two percent of American Jews say it would be acceptable for Gaza to be governed by an elected Palestinian government, and only 4 percent say it would be acceptable for it to be governed by Hamas. Yet when elections were held in the Palestinian territories in 2006, it was Hamas that emerged victorious.
 washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews accept Gazans being governed by leaders of their choice but reject Hamas
For many Jews, the rise in antisemitism has only bolstered the sense that a Jewish state is necessary.
“I think that it’s the only place they can call home,” Witten said. “It’s certainly the only place that can feel, you can’t say safe, but at least they have a place they can defend. It’s hard. When there is antisemitism running rampant in Europe and our own country, at the highest levels of academia, what does a Jew do?”
But for Jews like Parke, Israel has forfeited any claim to represent the Jewish people. He said he has taken to distinguishing between Israel as a nation, a land and a state.
“As a nation, the Jewish people around the world, that is a connection I feel,” Parke said. “Israel as a place, a land where we have history, that is a connection I could see myself having. But Israel the state — even though it has the same name as the land and the people, it does not speak for me.”
The Washington Post poll was conducted Sept. 2-9, among a random national sample of 815 Jewish Americans drawn through SSRS’s Opinion Panel, an ongoing survey panel recruited through random sampling of U.S. households. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
The sample includes adults who identify as Jewish by religion as well as those who identify as adults with no religious affiliation but Jewish ethnically, culturally or through their family background — and either were raised Jewish or have a parent who is Jewish.
In all, 76 percent of the sample was Jewish by religion and 24 percent was Jewish without a religious affiliation.
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Sept. 2-9, 2025, Washington Post Jewish Americans pollResults from a nationwide survey of Jewish Americans on views of Israel, Gaza and other topics.6October2025
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Hoshana Rabbah 5786 13October2025 – 20 Hostages freed
Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Now We Dance!
To get 20 Hostages back Israel surrenders
Now the result:
Israel left Gaza on Tisha B’Av 5765! What did the Jews of Israel get with the “Disengagement”? Gush Katif and Hurricane Katrina
7 Hostages Released
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After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱
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13 Hostages Released
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It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.
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To get 20 Hostages back Israel surrenders
The Sovereignty Movement responds to the signing of the agreement
https://www.israpundit.org/the-sovereignty-movement-responds-to-the-signing-of-the-agreement/
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The Sovereignty Movement responds to the signing of the agreement Alongside the joy — together with all the P????? of Israel — at the return of all the hostages, we must clarify that although the full details of the agreement are not yet known, if the agreement indeed includes those same 21 points that were published previously, then this is a defeat and a humiliation for the honor of Israel. The only response that would have been appropriate toward Gaza after the October 7 massacre was its erasure from the face of the earth, just as the Almighty taught us by overturning Sodom and Gomorrah. That is true justice; that is the necessary rectification.
If the agreement is indeed subject to those 21 points and limitations, then its implementation will increase and strengthen the evil in the world and the confusion between good and evil.
Gaza is an inseparable part of the Land of Israel, and by our withdrawing from it again, for the second time, we inflict a blow to our national honor, and conversely we return to the Arab enemy the hope — G-d forbid — of taking the whole Land of Israel into his hands.
In order to restore our national honor, to cut off the enemy’s hopes, to deliver a decisive crushing blow to our enemies and to return to true justice and morality, we must choose the path of sovereignty and apply it over all of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
Here we must add and emphasize that there is no difference between the Arabs of Gaza and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The same ideology, vision and hopes drive both groups, and now they are receiving validation for the success of their way and encouragement to continue that cruel and murderous path in the future in order to reach the goal they declare again and again: the destruction of the State of Israel.
The people of Israel were given a role and a destiny that fill it with meaning — to distinguish between light and darkness, between life and death, between meaning and morality and distortion and trampling of justice — yet we repeatedly betray our mission and adopt distorted, illogical moral rules.
In two years of war the people of Israel have taken significant steps toward clarifying their identity and their connection to it, but the completion of the task remains.
We are confident that the destiny of the people of Israel will be fulfilled in the future, for that is why we were created as a people.
Our hope is that the next opportunity to return to our selfhood and our identity will not include much more painful and heavy prices.
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The Sovereignty Movement
https://linktr.ee/sovereignty.il
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Hoshana Rabbah – The captives return
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Absolutely
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Hoshana Rabbah-the captives return
7 Hostages Released
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13October2025-7 Hostages Released
After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱
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13 Hostages Released
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It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.
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Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah – Now We Dance!
Simchat Torah at the Nova Festival venue
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Simchat Torah at the Nova Festival venue.🇮🇱
We’re dancing again.💛
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Simchat Torah Tel Aviv
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It’s hard to capture the pure joy and jubilation on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight.
We were having a late al fresco dinner when throngs of people would come by at regular intervals, singing and chanting merrily.
They carried Torah scrolls like they were Stanley Cup trophies, hoisting them into the air and dancing around it. They have many reasons to celebrate today.
The hostages are home, war is over, and it’s Simchat Torah – the happiest day of the Jewish holiday season where they celebrate and honor God’s Word.
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Trump’s Gaza Deal: A Win for Islamic Jihad
Posted 10October2025 Avi Abelow:
Trump’s Gaza Deal may look like a diplomatic victory on paper for Israel with the hopeful return of all the remaining hostages, but in reality, it hands the Sunni and Shia jihadis exactly what they want – legitimacy, survival, and time. Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt agreed to sacrifice Hamas to regroup and attack Israel in the future in some other constellation.
Instead of a deal that deals a crushing blow to the Qatari-led jihad that financed the Oct. 7th massacre, it rewards it, signaling to every Islamist movement that terror and kidnapping Israelis pays.
It is about time that the Western world understands the Islamic jihad enemy we are up against and what motivates them, not their lives or their homes or cities.
With it all, this is the best agreement Netanyahu was able to achieve under the circumstances.
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Jerusalem Humiliated
The Sovereignty Movement to the Prime Minister: Your role is to protect the dignity of the people of Israel, even when facing a friendly American president. There is no place for threats, condescension, or disrespect between allies. Sovereignty is a necessity.
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
23October2025 https://ribonut.co.il/BlogPostID.aspx?BlogPostId=993&lang=2
J.D. Vance feels “offended” and it’s really not clear about what or why. The ones who are truly offended are actually us, in light of the blunt and threatening tone of the American president toward the government of Israel, toward the Israeli parliament, toward the people of Israel, toward the Jewish people as a whole, when he tells us that if Israel applies sovereignty to the heart of our land it will lose all American support.
The ear hears his words and the heart contracts. Is this the friendly, sympathetic and supportive president? He is the one who speaks about us with such contempt?
With all due respect to the President of the United States, and with all gratitude for his contribution and assistance, we cannot accept such a tone and remain silent. American aid in wartime is not meant to be m golden handcuffs on Israel’s hands. Israel is not a star on the American flag. The assistance we received from the Trump administration helped the U.S. in its efforts to show it stands on the moral, good and just side of history. Israel granted the United States the privilege to take part in the defeat of evil. Israel and the U.S. are partners and as such they assist one another in different ways. There is no place for a condescending discourse full of arrogance and lordliness between partners.
We did not hear President Trump or any of his people speak in such a way toward the Arabs, despite violations of agreements.
A purely democratic process took place in the Knesset of Israel. The prime minister was supposed to defend the Knesset. As the leader of the greatest democratic power in the world, the American president ought to understand the meaning of democratic discourse, understand the right to express a position — even one he does not agree with — and act in a parliamentary democratic manner to promote a principled, ideological worldview. In a democracy there is no place for threats and intimidation.
The one who should and is obliged to respond to this blunt style is the prime minister of Israel as the representative of the Jewish people, yet to our regret and shame he apologizes and chooses to reprimand the coalitionembers who acted according to the dictates of their conscience and values.
Mr. Prime Minister, by your response you weaken us in the eyes of the nations. They detect weakness and smell slackness. The October massacre was such a moment when weakness and slackness were detected in Israel. The results were disastrous.
The issue of sovereignty is an existential necessity for Israel. Regional normalization can and should occur, but not at the price of harming the sovereignty, security and future of the State of Israel. Stability will come to Israel only when Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Bashan are officially defined as an integral part of the State of Israel. Only then will these areas not become nests of terror.
Mr. Prime Minister, we recall the rabbinic ruling: a king who relinquishes his honor has no honor. His honor is the honor of the people.
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Muslims Murdering Jews since 628 CE
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Muslims are right. It didn’t start October 7 2023.
It started in 628 CE.
What do you think they mean when they chant “Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud?”
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“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE. The full verse is: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud.” It translates to “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-6December2024-Muslims Murdering Jews since 628 CE
“Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud” is the first verse of an antisemitic chant used to massacre the Jewish population in the Khaybar Oasis of modern-day Saudi Arabia in 628 CE. The full verse is: “Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud, jaish Muhammad soufa ya’oud.” It translates to “Khaybar Khaybar oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”
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The Bomber was a Muslim
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Truth is not subject to opinion polls.
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9/11 Twin tower attack
7 July 2005, four British Islamist men detonated four bombs—three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom’s worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as well as the country’s first ever suicide attack.
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October 7, Only full sovereignty will prevent the next massacre
“The Next October 7 — Even More Horrific — Is Closer Than We Think”
Kobi Gideon, GPO
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of Israel Once someone who believed that if only Arabs had a better future and economy they wouldn’t want to kill us, Aviyad Bachar, a resident of Be’eri, has become convinced that only full sovereignty over the entire Land, cleansed of the enemy, will prevent the next massacre — which, he warns, could be far worse.
2October2025
The interview first appeared in Issue 19 of Ribonut (Sovereignty).
The name Aviyad Bachar, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri who lost his wife Dana and son Carmel in the October 7th massacre, has become a symbol of the painful and rapid awakening that many in Israel have experienced. Since witnessing the murder of his wife and son before his and his daughter’s eyes, he has taken it upon himself to share his story and the insights it burned into him — insights that, in truth, have been seared into the heart of an entire nation.
On a visit to Samaria hosted by Yossi Dagan, head of the regional council, Bechar declared: “There must be full sovereignty here. If that doesn’t happen, another October 7 is just a matter of time. Sovereignty is what will give us maximum security.”
In an interview with Sovereignty, he expands on his message, sharpens it — and makes it even more severe.
“I Don’t Believe Anyone — Another October 7 Is Coming”
Bachar flatly rejects the common reassurances that a massacre like October 7 won’t happen again, because the security establishment is now better prepared and experienced: “I don’t believe anyone. There’s no such thing as ‘it won’t happen again.’ The next October 7 is coming, and we don’t know how soon — but it’s coming, and it’ll be much worse. It will come simultaneously from Metula, from Jenin toward Afula, and toward Kfar Saba. There will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead.”
This apocalyptic scenario comes not from fearmongering, but from a cold, rational analysis based on what he and his family experienced.
“I realize we were actually lucky on October 7… If they had been a bit more coordinated, and attacked from four or five fronts at once, we wouldn’t have had 1,200 dead — we’d have had 200,000, and we wouldn’t have regained control in 36 hours — it would’ve taken two weeks. I understand that the day will come again when we’re not prepared. I don’t know exactly when it will happen, but I do know it will happen. That’s why, if we want to prevent it, the enemy in Judea and Samaria and Gaza must disappear. As long as they’re there, they’re motivated to kill me.”
“I No Longer Believe They’ll Protect Me”
To those who try to reassure the public by claiming that Hamas has “learned a lesson” after the IDF’s blow to Gaza, Bechar reminds them that even the so-called experts — military, political, and civilian — admit that it could happen again. “They say, ‘we’ll do everything to make sure it doesn’t,’ but I no longer believe they’ll protect me.”
“What’s holding them back is a mindset — they tell themselves, ‘we can’t act.’ They understand the solution and agree with me, but then they add three words: ‘I can’t do it.’ And that paralyzes them. I, on the other hand, say I can do anything. Whatever we choose, we can carry out. The choice won’t always be easy — but I can do it. So removing them is an option I can implement — and it’s necessary if we want a future for the Jewish people for generations to come.”
“The Only Border Is the Jordan River”
“When natural disasters kill people, we bow to nature and say it’s stronger than us — a decree of fate. But when people destroy you, that’s not fate — it’s a choice. You’re choosing to let them slaughter you,” says Bachar, who believes fears of global reactions are exaggerated and baseless. “We give too much importance to other nations. They don’t care what happens in Israel. They won’t care if the enemy kills 10 million Israelis. So if we do what needs to be done, no one will really care.”
“Our only option for survival in Israel — for generations — is if they’re no longer here. What should we do with them? I would send them to sovereign states like Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. And when we present the world with the other option — that they die — we’ll see how quickly the world prepares to receive them.”
He adds: “When I used to tell Carmel, my son, not to play on his phone, he could tell by my tone whether I was serious or not. We need to speak with the world firmly and seriously. Tell them: ‘If by tomorrow the hostages aren’t in Israel, we’re annexing the territory and destroying everything there.’ And then we’ll see that the hostages come back faster than we think. But instead, we keep saying, ‘We can’t do that. Who knows what the world will do to us?’These are fictional stories we invent in our own heads — and we believe them.”
“Take Down the Fence — This Is the Whole Land of Israel”
As for the future of Judea and Samaria, Bechar’s stance is firm and clear: “Tear down the fence. The fence is the Jordan River. There are no more fences. This is the whole Land of Israel, and there are no longer any non-citizens here.”
When asked to reflect on his views from two and a half years ago, before the personal and national tragedy, he replies: “Back then, I thought that if I just loved and embraced the Palestinians, if I gave them money and a future — they wouldn’t want to kill me. But I’ve come to understand that they want to kill me because I’m sitting on land they think is theirs. That’s what the war is about — and once we take the land, it will be resolved.”
“This Realization Came Later — Through Rational Thought”
Bachar explains that this transformation of consciousness didn’t happen in the bomb shelter surrounded by dozens of terrorists trying to kill him and his family — it happened later, when he rationally processed the events and data. “Some people go through trauma and crash. Others rise. Those who can take their feelings and translate them into simple words — to make sense of what happened — can move forward in life. But those who remain stuck in emotion will collapse.”
“So I began analyzing everything: What is bereavement? Suddenly you’re a widower. Your son is listed as ‘of blessed memory’ in your ID card. You begin to understand why you were killed, what the solution is, and what love means after losing your wife.” “I also ask: What is victory? And what is total victory?” “To e, total victory is when Israel is a sovereign state, bordered by four other sovereign countries who are responsible for their own citizens. Any entity that is not sovereign — has no responsibilities. It’s a terror organization with only one goal: to kill you because of the land. That’s my understanding.”
“There’s No Such Thing as ‘I Can’t’”
Bechar says that this shift — both ideological and political — has been shared by many of his acquaintances. “But they say, ‘I can’t.’ Everyone’s stuck on those words. They tell me: ‘Aviyad, if there were a button to press to implement your solution, we’d do it — but we can’t.’That’s the problem. They give too much weight to the world, to liberalism, to human rights.” “My true life mission is to say: There’s no such thing as ‘I can’t.’
Anything we choose — we can do. And ultimately, I understand that if I want to survive, I have no choice. With any other option, I’m not sure Israel will even reach 100 years old — and I want to talk about generations upon generations of a future for the Jewish people.”
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Hamas Attacks Israeli Positions Amid Ceasefire Announcement, IDF Concerned About Kidnapping Attempts
9October2025 https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/10/09/hamas-attacks-israeli-positions-amid-ceasefire-announcement-idf-concerned-about-kidnapping-attempts/
Latest Developments
FDD Expert Response
“It should surprise no one that Hamas may be attempting a last-ditch effort to earn a battlefield victory by either exacting additional IDF casualties or abducting a soldier. Israel learned a valuable lesson following Hamas’s abduction of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin during a ceasefire period in the 2014 war. Furthermore, renewed rocket fire toward Israeli communities remains a distinct possibility, as Hamas and its allies might seek to prove that — despite the damage inflicted by the IDF — they continue to have operational capacity to strike the Jewish state.” — Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at FDD’s Long War Journal
“This is not the first time Hamas has tried to abduct Israeli soldiers during ceasefire negotiations. They attempted the same tactic in July to shape the narrative in their favor and have the last word. This serves as a testament that, despite the positive news that the hostages will return home, allowing Hamas to operate as it did before October 7, 2023, would mean that it will remain a threat to Israel in the future. That is why Hamas must be disarmed and prevented from ruling the Gaza Strip.” — Ahmad Sharawi, Research Analyst
FDD Background and Analysis
“Israel and Hamas Agree to First Phase of Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza,” FDD Flash Brief
“Hamasniks in fox holes,” by Clifford D. May
“How Israel Can Defend Itself in the Future,” by Jonathan Schanzer
“Releasing All Hostages at Once Essential to Success of U.S. Peace Plan,” by Aaron Goren
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To Preserve the Gaza Deal, Keep Qatar at Arm’s Length
Natalie Ecanow
Senior Research Analyst
22October2025 https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/10/22/to-preserve-the-gaza-deal-keep-qatar-at-arms-length/
Qatar is already backsliding just days after pressuring Hamas to clinch a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel. During his annual address to Qatar’s legislative body on October 21, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani accused Israel of “continued breaches of the ceasefire in Gaza” without blaming Hamas for provoking Israeli action. At no point did Al-Thani mention Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 people, which dragged Israel into war two years ago. Rather than working with the United States to facilitate Hamas’s disarmament, Doha appears to be signaling a return to obstruction, with the apparent goal of securing Hamas’s position in Gaza.
Qatar’s Ongoing Relationship With Hamas
Qatar’s relationship with Hamas predates the current war and even Hamas’s reign over Gaza. Qatar offered sanctuary to Hamas leaders in 1999, when Jordan expelled the group from its soil. At that point, Hamas chose to relocate to Syria, but the relationship between Hamas and Doha continued and intensified after the terrorist group seized control of Gaza in 2007. In 2012, former Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was the first world leader to visit Gaza under Hamas rule. He pledged $400 million in assistance to the enclave. The same year, Hamas opened a political office in Doha.
Qatar has since pumped approximately $1.8 billion into Gaza as Hamas leaders amassed personal fortunes in Doha. Additionally, Israeli troops have uncovered documents in Gaza indicating that a “discreet” funding channel existed between Qatar and Hamas. One of them, a 2021 communique between Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, suggests that Qatar’s emir had “agreed in principle” to fund Hamas’s military operations and that $11 million had already “been raised from the emir.”
A Deal Gets Done
In the lead-up to the October 10 ceasefire deal, there were indications that Qatar was prepared to take a step back from Hamas, its longtime client. In July, Qatar did an about-face and signed a declaration condemning Hamas’s October 7 massacre and calling for Hamas to disarm and “end its rule in Gaza.” Previously, Qatar’s prime minister told Israeli media in January 2025 that Doha would support Hamas returning to power in Gaza so long as that was the “decision” of the Palestinian people. After Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas operatives in Doha, Qatar appeared to pick up the pace, turning the screws on Hamas, and ultimately helping push a deal across the finish line.
Moving forward, Qatar is expected to play a role in ensuring that Donald Trump’s 20-point plan is implemented, beginning with the release of the remaining hostages’ bodies, the disarmament of Hamas, and the end of the group’s Gaza reign.
Beware of Qatar’s Role in Postwar Gaza
Qatar may have compelled Hamas to accept Trump’s plan, but, if Al-Thani’s October 21 speech is any indication, the emirate is slumping back into its old, unproductive ways. Israeli and Arab officials are now warning against a serious Qatari role in postwar Gaza, and Washington should take heed. On October 20, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for involving “Qatar and Turkey, who now influence Gaza.” Earlier, a Saudi diplomat told Israel Hayom that, “Excessive Qatari involvement in the next stages of the plan and Gaza’s reconstruction will cause Trump’s plan to collapse” because Qatar “will undermine deradicalization efforts and try to ensure that Hamas remains in the picture and returns to power in the not-so-distant future.”
Trump said on October 21 that, “There is still hope that Hamas will do what is right,” but, “If they do not, an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL.” Allowing Qatar into Gaza is more likely to lead to Hamas’s survival than its destruction. To see his Gaza peace plan through, Trump should keep Qatar at arm’s length from the enclave.
Natalie Ecanow is a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). For more analysis from Natalie and FDD, please subscribe HERE. Follow Natalie on X @NatalieEcanow. Follow FDD on X @FDD. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on foreign policy and national security.
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BARRY’s Newsletter
The New Trump-Blair Gaza is Frightening.
Read this, and then the GITA Summary.
BARRY SHAW
11October2025 https://barryshaw.substack.com/p/the-new-trump-blair-gaza-is-frightening
I have read the Confidential Summary of the proposed Gaza Transitional Authority (GITA) Institutional Structure.
This is the body to be led by Tony Blair and is a gift to a Palestinian leadership that has proven its Ramallah-based authoritarian corrupt violent anti-Israel record since 2007, unless, of coure, Hamas does a Hezbollah by gradually exerting its administrative power in Gaza.
Nowhere in this report does it ban Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad from participating in this new Trump-Blair Gaza.
To say the 21 page summary is an eye opener to the dangerous shallowness of the intent of this future governance of Gaza is to put it mildly.
It designates that “all mayors and senior municipal administrators are nominated by the Palestinian Executive Authority.” What could possibly go wrong with that? Well, which unelected people will sit on this nominating PEA?
Obviously, there is no democratic elections by the people to decide who rules over them.
Then we come to a strange section on Page 14 that talks about “gender inclusion” in its public health promotion, but a serious and dangerous omission in that there is zero mention of the necessity to cancel indoctrination in the GITA’s educational system. In other words, unless this section is amended, the new Palestinian flagship of a future Gaza can continue to indoctrinate its children and its youth in its education system to a world without Israel and the holy order to kill all Jews where ever you find them.
This then is the proposed Palestinian Gaza entity that Tony Blair will govern with his central Middle East partners – Qatar and Turkey.
What possibly could go wrong?
For Israel, an awful lot.
Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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New York, New Jersey Declare State of Emergency as Region Braces for Nor’easter
High winds and flooding are expected for the region.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-jersey-declares-state-of-emergency-as-region-braces-for-noreaster-5928316
Sam Dorman
Washington Correspondent & Joseph Lord
12October2025 | Updated: 12October2025
New York and New Jersey have both declared a state of emergency as the region braces for a nor’easter bringing high winds and heavy flooding.
Earlier, New Jersey declared a state of emergency to be in effect until Oct. 13.
After initially urging residents to “stay alert,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul followed suit on Oct. 12.
The declaration, which affects Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, and Westchester Counties in New York, includes a coastal flooding advisory until 8 p.m. on Monday, and a high wind warning lasting until 6 p.m. on Monday.
Wind gusts exceeded 30 mph on Oct. 12 and were expected to pick up further as the storm hits the East Coast. The National Weather Service (NWS) has also issued a coastal flood warning and wind advisory, with winds potentially reaching 50 mph. Water is projected to reach two to three feet of inundation above ground level in areas near shorelines and waterways.
“At this level, flooding may become severe enough to cause structural damage along with widespread roadway flooding in coastal and bayside communities, and near inland tidal waterways,” the NWS stated in an Oct. 12 advisory.
“At this level, widespread roadway flooding occurs in coastal and bayside communities and along inland tidal waterways. Many roads become impassable.”
In a statement, Hochul’s office said it expected between 1 1/2 inches and three inches of rainfall downstate, with beach erosion likely.
New York City Emergency Management stated in an X post that New York City was under a flood warning and wind advisory through the afternoon of Oct. 13.
“Stay safe: secure outdoor items, avoid flooded areas, and check on neighbors,” it posted on Oct. 12.
In a statement, the New Jersey governor’s office said the state could face sustained winds of up to 60 mph and localized precipitation of up to five inches.
“In preparation for this storm, I am issuing a State of Emergency for all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to activate as necessary,” said New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, serving in the capacity of acting governor in Gov. Phil Murphy’s absence.
“I urge all New Jerseyans to exercise caution, monitor local weather forecasts and warnings, stay informed on evacuation protocols, and remain off the roads unless absolutely necessary.”
In her executive order, Way said that “serious weather conditions could make it difficult or impossible for residents to obtain the necessities of life, as well as essential services such as police, fire, and first aid.”
The order authorizes multiple offices within the state government to respond to the storm. It also permits the state director of emergency management to use facilities as shelter for residents.
The storm is working its way up the coast after hitting the mid-Atlantic region with flooding. NWS meteorologist Bob Oravec said, “The greatest effects are going to be the coastal flooding potential, especially for areas from northeastern North Carolina northward to much of the New Jersey coast.”
Flight delays have been issued in airports from Washington to Boston. High winds have prompted New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority to prohibit empty tractor-trailers and tandem trucks from using certain bridges on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13.
The Associated Press and T.J. Muscaro contributed to this report.
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Hamas won’t give up arms or Gaza control — despite agreeing to Trump deal, spokesman says
By Ronny Reyes
Published 14October2025 Updated 14October2025, 12:18 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/world-news/hamas-wont-give-up-arms-gaza-control-despite-agreeing-to-trump-deal-spokesman-says/
Hamas appeared to renege on key demands of President Trump’s cease-fire deal just hours after the world celebrated the end of the Gaza war — with a top official saying the terror group will not give up its arms or control over the Gaza Strip.
Spokesman Hazem Qassem claimed Monday that Hamas has no need to abide by every word of Trump’s 20-point peace plan, including calls for the terror group to lay down its arms.
“We do not need to limit ourselves to the Israeli terms and definitions related to weapons,” Qassem told the Al-Arabiya news channel.
“We will not be captives to Israeli terms or demands,” he added. “This is one of the focal points of the struggle in the next stage, after the cessation of aggression in the Gaza Strip.”
Qassem echoed Hamas’ long-standing position that it will neither give up its weapons nor cede governance over the Gaza Strip until a path is laid out for Palestinian statehood.
Trump’s plan, which saw all 20 living hostages freed on Monday, provides for how Gaza should be governed after Hamas cedes control.
However, the details of how and when that will happen have not yet been agreed upon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected any and all deals that would see a Palestinian state form.
Netanyahu’s administration has also made it clear that Hamas must disarm for the cease-fire to go through, warning that the military will not allow the terror group to continue posing a threat to the Jewish state.
One of the stated aims of Hamas is the destruction of Israel.
Qassem also appeared to suggest that Hamas would not completely abandon its role as the de facto governors of the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas spokesman claimed Hamas should remain as part of the “administrative arrangements” in the Strip, but he did not specify to what extent.
Qassem claimed that Hamas was open to allowing Palestinian technocrats to lead the management of the enclave, as laid out in Trump’s cease-fire deal.
Hamas was also open to allowing the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank to play an active role in governance despite accusing the group of standing by and doing nothing during the two years of war.
“Despite all our criticism, we do believe that it (the PA) is one of the national addresses, and we are ready to open a new page with it or for it to open a new page with the residents of Gaza and with the political forces and to be truly sincere in its intention to reach shared political understandings,” Qassem said.
Along with laying out his stance, Qassem also accused Israel of violating the cease-fire on Tuesday after five Palestinians were shot and killed in Gaza City.
The IDF claimed the suspects were the ones violating the deal after they allegedly crossed a “yellow line” and approached IDF troops operating in the Strip.
“After multiple attempts to distance them, the suspects refused to comply, prompting troops to open fire to remove the threat,” the Israeli military said in a statement.
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Hamas executes Gazans amid fierce clashes with local clans
The terrorist group reportedly killed 32 “gang” members in Gaza City.
JNS Staff
https://www.jns.org/hamas-executes-gazans-amid-fierce-clashes-with-local-clans/
( 15October2025 / JNS) Hamas terrorists have executed 32 Palestinians amid fierce clashes in recent days with militia groups opposed to the Islamist group, Reuters reported on Monday.
The news agency cited a “Palestinian security source” as saying that they belonged to a Gaza City “gang.” The official also said that six Hamas terrorists were killed in the violence, claiming it was a targeted operation against members of a “dangerous gang affiliated with a family in Gaza City.” Twenty-four people were arrested and 30 others were wounded, the official said.
Video circulating on social media Tuesday appeared to show masked Hamas gunmen publicly executing men in what CNN reported was the Sabra neighborhood in western Gaza City, in an incident that likely took place after the ceasefire with Israel entered into force last Friday.
Radaa, a Hamas-affiliated security force, said in a statement that it carried out a “precise operation” in central Gaza City that killed several wanted men and suspected criminals.
Palestinian NGO the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights termed it the “extrajudicial execution of citizens,” CNN reported, calling for an investigation into the incident and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
The office of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas condemned the killings as “heinous crimes” and “a blatant violation of human rights,” according to the official P.A. news agency Wafa.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry tweeted the execution video Tuesday, writing: “The ceasefire isn’t 100 hours old yet. Hamas is killing Palestinians. The terror group rules through fear—executing civilians, torturing dissenters, shooting those who dare protest. Palestinians seeking food or freedom are met with bullets, not compassion. It’s not resistance—It’s tyranny. Hamas must go.”
Asked about his message for Hamas after the reports that the terrorist group is rearming and reinstituting itself as a police force and shooting rival clans, Trump said Monday on Air Force One that “they do want to stop the problems and they’ve been open about it. We gave them approval for a period of time. You have to understand. They’ve lost probably 60,000 people. That’s a lot of retribution …, and the ones that are living right now were in many cases very young when this all started, and we are having them watch that there’s not going to be big crime, some of the problems that you have.
“When you have areas like this that have been literally demolished. You have two million people, probably it will be less than that, but you have two million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. We want it to be safe. I think it’s going to be fine. Who knows for sure, Katie [the reporter who asked the question], but I think it’s going to be fine.”
Trump later said he will hold Hamas to its pledge to disarm and accused the terrorist group of misrepresenting the number of dead hostages it holds.
Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, the president said his “people” were told by Hamas that it would disarm, as is called for in the Israel-Hamas peace plan that Trump put together with mediation from key Arab leaders.
Israel and Hamas both agreed to the plan, setting into motion the ceasefire and the subsequent exchange of hostages and Palestinian security prisoners.
“I spoke to Hamas, and I said, ‘You’re going to disarm, right?’ ‘Yes, sir. We’re going to disarm.’ That’s what they told me,” Trump told reporters, initially describing it as a direct conversation.
“We have told them we want them to disarm, and they will disarm. And if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them, and it’ll happen quickly and perhaps violently, but they will disarm,” Trump said.
He later explained that Hamas’s affirmed pledge to disarm was delivered to him not by the terrorist group directly, but by “people,” likely referring to U.S. peace deal negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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Terrified Gazans fear Hamas won’t disarm as terrorists massacre Palestinians: ‘Punishing families’
By Caitlin Doornbos
Published 14october2025 Updated 14october2025, 6:40 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2025/10/14/world-news/terrified-gazans-fear-hamas-wont-disarm-as-terrorists-massacre-palestinians/
The war in Gaza has stopped — but the killing hasn’t.
Palestinians are scared for their lives as many fear Hamas has no plans to saddle up for “phase two” of President Trump’s peace deal and will continue to slaughter civilians who stand up against the terror group.
“From the first moment the Israeli planes disappeared from the sky, Hamas began punishing the families,” one Gazan activist in the war-torn land told The Post.
“They accused people of collaborating with Israel — but that’s not true. They just opposed Hamas during the war.”
The resident described grisly scenes of men dragged from homes and shot in the street without trials.
“Hamas executed civilians in front of people’s eyes,” said the activist, who asked not to be named for security reasons. “No names, no confessions — nothing. Just death.”
Activist Amin Abed — who fled Gaza after Hamas tortured and nearly beat him to death over his opposition to the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel — said the terror group was using the executions as a show of force and has no intentions of relinquishing power or giving up its weapons.
“Hamas is much stronger than any family or civilian group,” Abed said. “They can crush anyone who stands against them. What we’re seeing now is Hamas waging a war against its own people.
He added that most Gazans oppose Hamas and long for peace — but feel powerless.
“We couldn’t stop Oct. 7, and we can’t stop Hamas now,” he said. “The world needs to understand that Gazans are not Hamas. We want peace, not war. But every time we speak out, Hamas kills us first.
“We see Hamas restoring its full strength. They’re everywhere again — as police, as militia, as security,” he said. “We are deeply concerned about the return of Hamas to power and the continuation of the violence under Hamas in Gaza and exposing us again to the same injustice that we experienced for the last 17 years.”
If Hamas remains in power, Abed warned that the “cycle of violence between Israel and Hamas will emerge again sometime soon.”
“We are afraid that the bloody war would be back and Hamas will wage another Oct. 7 attack,” he said. “We believe the world will forget about us, and Hamas will rule us with an iron fist for many more years.”
The source in Gaza predicted Hamas would next try to convince Trump and his allies that only the group can maintain “security and stability” in Gaza as a strategy to stay in power.
“Trump and Netanyahu must pressure Hamas and its backers — Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey — to truly implement the terms of the peace deal,” the activist said. “If Hamas keeps even some weapons, it means they keep everything. They’ll never leave Gaza.”
While some analysts have speculated that a civil war could break out among the factions in Gaza, the activist in Gaza said it would not be possible — because Hamas is simply too powerful.
Risking his life by speaking to The Post from Gaza, his over-arching message to the world was simple — and desperate.
“Don’t leave us to Hamas again.”
The domestic bloodshed comes as Trump on Tuesday said phase two of the peace agreement — which calls for the disarmament of Hamas and establishment of a new governing body — had begun.
“… A big burden has been lifted, but the job IS NOT DONE,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Tuesday, referencing the return of the living Israelis Hamas took hostage on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Hamas is secretly working to circumvent Trump’s peace plan
Israel War Room-tweet-21October2025-Hamas is secretly working to circumvent Trump’s peace plan
‼️BREAKING: Hamas is secretly working to circumvent @POTUS
Trump’s peace plan by embedding loyalists in Gaza’s future technocratic government, @eliorlevy
reports.
🚨KEY DETAILS:
1. Despite U.S. conditions requiring Hamas have no role—“directly, indirectly, or in any form”—in Gaza’s governance, the terror group is participating in secret in forming the next governing body, with full knowledge of Arab mediators.
2. Hamas reportedly selected half of the proposed technocratic cabinet—individuals who back Hamas’s ideology, even if not openly affiliated.
3. Egyptian mediators presented the full list to Hamas for approval, to “reassure” the group.
4. The other half of the cabinet was chosen by the Palestinian Authority, which is reportedly turning a blind eye to Hamas’s involvement.
5. This maneuver effectively grants Hamas continued control over Gaza through the back door—a direct violation of the peace framework.
Hamas is once again trying to preserve power and influence in Gaza—despite the bloodshed it caused—by manipulating postwar arrangements in violation of international understandings.
Israel War Room-tweet-21October2025-Hamas is secretly working to circumvent Trump’s peace plan
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HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN, GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER
Mossad Commentary-tweet-23October2025-HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN-GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER
🚨 HAMAS DOUBLES DOWN, GIVE TRUMP THE FINGER 🚨
In an interview tonight, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said:
“Hamas’ weapons are legitimate weapons for the defense of the Palestinian people… The main problem is the weapons in the hands of the occupation (Israel)… Raising the issue of Hamas’ weapons is intended to cover up the crimes of the Israeli enemy, supported by the USA.”
Let that sink in.
While Western diplomats talk about “reconstruction,” “technocratic governments,” and “postwar governance,” Hamas is openly declaring, again, that it will never disarm.
• Trump reminds everyone daily that disarmament was supposed to be the first step.
• Hamas reminds everyone daily that it never will be.
Hamas seeks to HUMILIATE the Trump administration.
Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
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Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-22October2025-Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
Last week Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme — a Palestinian NGO partnered with the UN’s WHO and UNICEF — and evicted its staff. Hamas operatives and their families have been living there ever since.
It took them a week just to find the courage to make this announcement.
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-22October2025-
Source
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1238984114925925&id=100064430452060&rdid=lEmnN6acxq9BGaYT
The Mossad Satirical and Awesome-tweet-22October2025-Hamas gunmen took over the headquarters of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
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Israel left Gaza on Tisha B’Av 5765! What did the Jews of Israel get with the “Disengagement”? Gush Katif and Hurricane Katrina
Hamas Rise to Power: Short History of Hamas in Gaza
25January2018
IDF Editorial Team https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/hamas-rise-to-power-short-history-of-hamas-in-gaza/
In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, uprooting all communities and military installations within Gaza. This allowed the PA (Palestinian Authority) full control of the area and the Rafah land crossing to Egypt.
In January 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian Parliamentary election (although it did not win the presidential election in 2005).
Following the election, the International Quartet (United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union) declared that in order for the then Hamas-run Palestinian government to continue to receive foreign aid, it must recognize the State of Israel, end terrorist activities, and adhere to all previous agreements. Hamas rejected these terms, and international aid was halted.
Over the years, Hamas has challenged the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, causing conflicts between the sides, culminating in June 2007 with Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and the suppression of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority members. Ever since, the rift between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority has grown.
The Hamas terrorist organization and their leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007. It has both a political and a military organization. Hamas refuses to recognize the State of Israel and vows to fight until Israel is destroyed. The Hamas charter calls for the death of all Jews. The US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Israel all recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.
In June 2007, Hamas violently took power over the Gaza Strip. Within a few days, Hamas executed dozens of its opponents and went as far as pushing them out of building windows.
Hamas’s fight against its enemy, Fatah, has cost the lives of 600 Palestinians, killed 188 people in one week in June 2007. Numerous Palestinians threatened with death, took refuge in Israel.
Hamas puts its political interests above those of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, of which they are responsible. Hamas’ actions deprive Gazans of their rights and basic needs.
Since then, the Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and imposes its totalitarian ideology. Hamas controls what Gazan civilians say, what their children learn, and spreads propaganda and hatred through TV, especially on children’s programs.
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The EXTREME DANGER of social media
Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-20October2025-the-extreme-danger-of-social-media
This post is a perfect example of the EXTREME DANGER of social media
The Evil Inclination often tries to dress up a sin as a “mitzvah” a good thing
Rabbi Natan of Breslev said – “I don’t want any of these “mitzvot”
SIMPLE RULE:
I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW, HEAR OR SPEAK ABOUT ANY JEW!
Social media creates terrible opportunities to spread lashon hara – evil speech which is true – against Jews. If there is no specific “toelet” purpose, which has a number of requirements, even spreading true bad speech about Jews is FORBIDDEN
But even worse is OUTRIGHT SLANDER. So much of what is said – and spread – is lies. If even a small detail is added or embellished, the entire story is now labeled SLANDER – LIES AGAINST JEWS.
The Gemara says the punishment for lashon hara is WORSE than the punishment for murder, sexual immorality and idol worship – COMBINED!!!
https://x.com/i/grok/share/AvmTIGaIHCs6TkQCrvdRLwRqk
This is a very big conflagration – one no one wants to get anywhere close to. And this is true if it is said about ONE SINGLE JEW
Now, spread a lie about a group of Jews? Oy oy oy. A separate sin against each and every one. That’s more than 500,000 sins in this post
https://x.com/i/grok/share/TBEmNJQeChb5uvuBRl8DD5TWU
NOW add on spreading Chillul Hashem – desecrating God’s Name – which is called on the Jewish people. Saying His people are doing terrible things also desecrates God’s name. This also has a terrible punishment.
AND you are helping our enemies by saying that this is real – while they scream that they need a “State” in order to “protect themselves from the Jews”!!!
DELETE THE POST NOW!
And everyone be warned – think twice and three times before posting or commenting on social media!!!
Hen Mazzig-tweet-19October2025
There’s no excuse for this sort of violence. It doesn’t matter who the perpetrators are.
I have zero tolerance to any kind of extremism and it must be condemned because it’s not who we are.
Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English-tweet-20October2025-the extreme danger of social media
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The 24th of Tishrei will be observed in Israel as the national remembrance day for the events of the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War.
the Jewish Virtual Library. logo https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Remembrance Day for the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War
Or Shaked, May 9, 2024
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/remembrance-day-for-the-october-7-disaster-and-the-swords-of-iron-war
Establishment of the Holiday
The Remembrance Day for the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War (Heb. יום זיכרון לאומי במדינת ישראל לאירועי ה-7 באוקטובר 2023 ומלחמת חרבות ברזל) is the day Israel commemorates the tragic events and the victims of October 7th, 2023, and its aftermath, including those who fell in the war and civilians who were murdered in acts of terrorism.
The Knesset adopted a resolution on March 17, 2024, to remember the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. Although such a tragic event would normally be commemorated on the day it occurred on the Gregorian calendar (even the name of the memorial day refers to October 7, 2023), the Knesset decided the Remembrance Day should be observed on the 24th of Tishrei (כ”ד בתשרי), consistent with Israel’s usual practice of marking holidays on Hebrew dates. In this case, because the attacks occurred during the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, which fall on the 22nd and 23rd (abroad) of Tishrei, the next day on the calendar was chosen for the memorial day.
The decision was controversial because October 7 is the date most people remember and therefore was considered more appropriate.
In addition to the annual national remembrance day marked on the Hebrew date, a state ceremony will also be held, but only on the first anniversary, on October 7, 2024. In subsequent years, the 24th of Tishrei will be observed in Israel as the national remembrance day for the events of the October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War.
Sources: “Government Unanimously Approves National Remembrance Day for October 7 Disaster and the Swords of Iron War,“ Israel Prime Minister’s Office, (March 17, 2024).
“Establishing the annual national memorial events to commemorate the Swords of Iron War (provisional name) and amending a government decision,“ Israel Prime Minister’s Office, (March 17, 2024) [Hebrew].
Ben Sales, “Israel establishes an annual commemoration of the Oct. 7 attack — but not on Oct. 7,“ The Jerusalem Post, (March 18, 2024).
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Today marks the National Remembrance Day for the October 7 massacre.
We remember and honor the fallen.
We continue to wait for the hostages whose bodies remain in captivity — to be brought home and laid to rest with dignity. 🇮🇱🕯️
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Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War
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Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War:
Knesset Speaker MK Ohana lights memorial candle and lays wreath, flags in Knesset Plaza lowered to half-mast
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October 7, 2023 – a day that changed us forever.
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October 7, 2023 – a day that changed us forever.
Palestinian Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 people and took 251 hostages into Gaza.
We remember how it began – and we will never stop bearing witness.
But Israel stands tall – for life, for freedom, against terror.
#RememberOctober7 🕯️🎗️
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Israel faced the darkest day in its history
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🕯️ At this very moment, two years ago, Israel faced the darkest day in its history.
On October 7th, Palestinian Hamas jihadists invaded our land — murdering, burning, and kidnapping innocent men, women, and children.
Two years later, we remember October 7th — we remember the victims, we pray for the return of the hostages still held in Gaza, and we stand united against terror. Hamas must be dismantled to end this war.
We remain committed to our values, now more than ever.
Light will rise over darkness.
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Israel is arming at least 4 anti Hamas militias in Gaza
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Israel is arming at least 4 anti Hamas militias in Gaza.
They are all protected behind the Israel held yellow line in Gaza.
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19October2025-Hamas fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire at IDF
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⭕️ Earlier today, terrorists fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire toward IDF troops operating to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in the Rafah area, in southern Gaza, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.
In response, the IDF has begun striking in the area to eliminate the threat and dismantle tunnel shafts and military structures used for terrorist activity.
These terrorist actions constitute a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, and the IDF will respond firmly.
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19October2025-Hamas violates ceasefire
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⭕️In response to Hamas’ blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement this morning, the IDF struck dozens of Hamas terror targets across Gaza.
The strikes targeted weapons storage facilities, firing posts, terrorist cells and additional Hamas terror infrastructure.
In addition, the IDF struck and dismantled ~6 km of underground terrorist infrastructure, used to advance attacks against Israel, using over 120 munitions.
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Hamas approaching IDF forces
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🎥WATCH: Several armed terrorists identified approaching IDF forces operating in the Beit Lahia area behind the yellow line, posing an immediate threat to the troops.
In accordance with the ceasefire agreement, the terrorists were struck after crossing the yellow line.
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The Yevsektsiya, the “Jewish Section” of the Soviet Communist Party
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Few people today know the story of the Yevsektsiya, the “Jewish Section” of the Soviet Communist Party.
Formed in 1918, it was made up almost entirely of Jews whose mission was to eradicate Judaism, Zionism, and Jewish identity from within.
The Yevsektsiya saw Jewish religion and nationhood as “bourgeois relics.”
They shut down synagogues, banned Hebrew, outlawed Zionist groups, and persecuted rabbis.
They infiltrated Jewish communities, dismantled Jewish schools, and replaced them with Soviet Yiddish institutions stripped of any connection to Jewish faith or Israel.
These weren’t outsiders attacking us. They were Jews who believed loyalty to ideology came before loyalty to their people.
They thought they were modernizing Judaism, making it fit into a new political order.
In truth, they were dismantling 3,000 years of Jewish continuity to please a regime that despised them.
By the 1930s, Stalin had no more use for them.
The Yevsektsiya was disbanded, its members imprisoned or executed.
They helped destroy their own heritage and were destroyed by the very system they served.
History has a way of repeating itself in different costumes.
Today, there are Jews who distance themselves from Israel, believing that rejecting Zionism aligns them with justice or progress.
But like the Yevsektsiya, they risk confusing moral virtue with self-erasure.
When Jews deny the right of our own people to self-determination, they aren’t breaking new ground. They are walking an old and tragic path.
The lesson of the Yevsektsiya is not about blame, but about memory.
Every time Jews try to cut themselves off from their people to gain acceptance from powerful movements, it ends the same way.
The movements move on. The Jewish people endure.
Am Yisrael lives. Ideologies fade.
We survive because we remember who we are, and we refuse to let others define us.
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At least the Odessa Council of Rabbis in 1918 excommunicated Leon Trotsky, Gregory Zinoviev and other Jewish Bolsheviks.
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Katz nixes reserve duty of protest leader who urged refusal to serve over judicial overhaul
Defense minister says Eyal Naveh, a leader of Brothers in Arms and reservist commander in elite unit, is not fit to train soldiers; opposition MKs pan move as politicization of IDF
By Stuart Winer
2December2024, 10:04 am https://www.timesofisrael.com/katz-nixes-reserve-duty-of-protest-leader-who-urged-refusal-to-serve-over-judicial-overhaul/
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that he was suspending the army reserve service of a leader of a prominent protest group who had called for reservists not to show up for their military duty in 2023 as the government advanced its controversial judicial overhaul.
Eyal Naveh, a former member of the Sayeret Matkal commando unit, is a leader of the Brothers in Arms movement, which arose to protest the government’s plans for far-reaching changes to the judiciary that critics said would erode the democratic nature of the country.
Brothers in Arms called on army reservists to refuse to volunteer for service if the required legislation was advanced, with Naveh saying in July 2023 that “we’ve tried everything, This is where we draw the line. We pledged to serve the kingdom and not the king. We are determined, we are fighters, we love this country and we will not give up on it.”
At one point the group claimed that 10,000 reservists had committed to not showing up, among them pilots and others in key military roles.
In a statement Katz said: “Anyone who calls for mass absences and refusal to serve is not suitable to train the next generation of IDF fighters.”
“The same law must be applied to all,” he added in an apparent reference to the pausing of reserve duty last month of another Brother in Arms leader, Ron Sharaf, who also served in Sayeret Matkal.
Sharaf was serving in the reserves as commander of the selection test to join elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal and after his suspension, Naveh was installed as his replacement, Channel 12 reported.
Sources told Haaretz that Naveh does not currently have an active call-up for reserve duty, and that the selection tests for the unit were held last week.
Naveh responded in a statement that Katz is a “malleable and cowardly defense minister” and urged that the minister issue call-up orders to tens of thousands of members of the ultra-Orthodox community who do not serve in the army, calling them “the real service refusers.”
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi of the Likud party congratulated Katz on “stopping the impertinence, the audaciousness, and the contempt of a group that tried to destroy the army and nearly managed to.”
MK Almog Cohen of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party claimed that Naveh “traded in the safety of our children” and that his views “seriously harmed the cohesion and security of the country, and were a catalyst for the events of October 7,” when the Palestinian terror group Hamas led a devastating cross-border attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Head of the opposition Democrats political party Yair Golan slammed Katz’s move, also referring to legislation in the works to preserve the exemptions Haredi men receive from military service.
“Anyone who was appointed to be defense minister to pass the ‘evasion law’ should not preach to those who really serve, and to those who saved the country when the failed government wasn’t functioning,” he said, referring to the action taken by Brothers in Arms on October 7 to save people in the south, and the massive civil society operation it built in the following months.
MK Gilad Kariv, also of the Democrats party, accused Katz of “grossly interfering” in military matters that are not his responsibility.
“This is a dangerous campaign to cleanse and politicize the army,” he said.
The judicial overhaul plan provoked mass demonstrations for months in 2023. It was eventually put on hold, and then dropped from the agenda after the Hamas attack, though coalition members have recently talked of restarting the process.
Katz was recently appointed defense minister after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his predecessor Yoav Gallant amid differences over handling the war and the ultra-Orthodox draft bill. Netanyahu had previously fired Gallant in 2023 when the latter called to freeze the judicial overhaul but was forced to reinstate him amid public outcry.
In the wake of the Hamas attack, Brothers in Arms diverted its resources to become a civilian relief and support organization, though its leaders have also participated in protests calling on the government to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that would secure the release of hostages who were abducted during the October 7 assault.
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Lawfare: The Benjamin Netanyahu trial
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פוסט חשוב שכתב אלי ציפורי. תקראו:
הדרמה היום במשפט נתניהו:
🔴החוקר דובי שרצר חשף את שם החוקר שפנה למח”ש בזמן אמת כדי להתלונן על מעשים פסולים בחקירות תיקי נתניהו – מדובר בסגן ניצב בדימוס צחי חבקין שהיה מעורב בתיק 1000, 2000 ו-4000. תלונתו של חבקין מעולם לא נבדקה כיוון שקרן בר מנחם, ראשת מח”ש, דרשה שיכתוב את שמו ואת דרגתו ואילו חבקין רצה לשמור על אנונימיות. חבקין החל להעיד היום, למרות שהפרקליטות ניסתה לדחות את עדותו, ומנה שורה ארוכה של אירועים שמצביעים לשיטתו על התנהלות “לא תקינה” או “חריגה” בתיקי נתניהו.
🔴החוקרים חרגו מאישור מנדלבליט בתחילת החקירה בתיק 1000: חבקין הודה שמנדלבליט תחם את האישור רק לשימוש בדירת ג’יימס פאקר במלון רויאל ביץ’ אך צוות החקירה התעלם מכך, חרג מהאישור ושאל על מתנות לבני הזוג נתניהו – “אמרתי רגע, זה משהו שחרגנו. שאלנו שאלות רחבות בשלבים מוקדמים”.
🔴מנדלבליט לא איפשר לחקור את יוסי כהן, לשעבר ראש מוסד, על שימוש בדירת פאקר במלון רויאל ביץ’, אבל אישר לחקור את יאיר נתניהו למרות שאינו עובד ציבור: חבקין הודה שראה בשימוש של יוסי כהן בדירה כעבירה – “חשבתי שנכון וצריך לפתוח בחקירה, או לכל הפחות בבדיקה. מנדלבליט הנחה שנעשה הפרדה מלאה של החומרים והאירוע של יוסי כהן ייחקר בהמשך בנפרד. עד שאני עזבתי הוא לא נחקר”.
🔴 החוקרים ידעו בזמן אמת שגרסת פילבר על פגישת ההנחייה, עליה התבסס כתב האישום בתיק 4000, אינה מתיישבת עם הראיות: חבקין הודה שכבר בזמן אמת ידע צוות החקירה שמועד תאריך פגישת ההנחייה על פי עדות פילבר אינו תואם את האיכונים ושאר הראיות – “זה נושא שדובר ביחידה”.
🔴 אילן ישועה לא נחקר באזהרה למרות שהיה שותף לשיטתו לעבירות: חבקין הודה שלא הבין למה אילן ישועה אינו נחקר באזהרה למרות שסיפר בעדותו שהוא בפועל שותף לעבירות כביכול – “ישועה סיפר מרצונו שהוא חלק מהעבירה. שאלתי למה לא נחקר באזהרה, אמרו זה מה שהיועץ מנדלבליט הנחה וזה מה שעשו”.
🔴 מוטיבציית שיא בחקירות תיקי נתניהו: חבקין הודה שהייתה מוטיבציית שיא אצל היחידות החוקרות בתיקי נתניהו – “עשינו מאמצי על, יחידות החקירה יעשו הכל כדי להצליח”.
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An important post written by Eli Tzipori. Read it:
The drama today in the Netanyahu trial:
🔴 Investigator Dubi Shertzer revealed the name of the investigator who approached the Department of Investigation of Police Officers (Machash) in real time to complain about improper conduct in the investigations of the Netanyahu cases – it is retired Deputy Superintendent Tsahi Havkin, who was involved in Cases 1000, 2000, and 4000. Havkin’s complaint was never investigated because Karen Bar Menachem, head of Machash, demanded that he provide his name and rank, while Havkin wanted to remain anonymous.
Havkin began testifying today, despite the prosecution’s attempts to delay his testimony, and listed a long series of events that, in his view, indicate “improper” or “irregular” conduct in the Netanyahu cases.
🔴 The investigators exceeded Mandelblit’s authorization at the start of the Case 1000 investigation: Havkin admitted that Mandelblit had limited the authorization to only the use of James Packer’s apartment at the Royal Beach Hotel, but the investigation team ignored this, exceeded the authorization, and asked about gifts to the Netanyahu couple – “I said, wait a minute, this is something we went beyond. We asked broad questions in the early stages.”
🔴 Mandelblit did not allow the investigation of Yossi Cohen, former Mossad chief, regarding the use of Packer’s apartment at the Royal Beach Hotel, but permitted the investigation of Yair Netanyahu despite him not being a public official: Havkin admitted that he viewed Yossi Cohen’s use of the apartment as an offense – “I thought it was right and necessary to open an investigation, or at the very least a review. Mandelblit instructed that the materials be completely separated, and the Yossi Cohen incident would be investigated separately later. Until I left, it was not investigated.”
🔴 The investigators knew in real time that Filber’s version of the guidance meeting, on which the indictment in Case 4000 was based, did not align with the evidence: Havkin admitted that the investigation team already knew in real time that the date of the guidance meeting according to Filber’s testimony did not match the location data and other evidence – “This was a matter discussed in the unit.”
🔴 Ilan Yeshua was not investigated under caution despite being a partner, according to him, in the offenses: Havkin admitted that he did not understand why Ilan Yeshua was not investigated under caution despite testifying that he was actually a partner in the alleged offenses – “Yeshua voluntarily said he was part of the offense. I asked why he wasn’t investigated under caution, and they said that’s what the Attorney General Mandelblit instructed, and that’s what was done.”
🔴 Peak motivation in the investigations of the Netanyahu cases: Havkin admitted that there was peak motivation among the investigating units in the Netanyahu cases – “We made extraordinary efforts, the investigation units would do everything to succeed.”
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