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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21June2024-Shabbat Shalom
#ShabbatShalom is a bit like the Jewish version of “TGIF” but with a dash of spiritual elegance. “Shabbat Shalom” is Hebrew for “peaceful Sabbath,” and it’s a greeting used by Jews around the world to wish each other a serene and meaningful day of rest.
The expression of “Shabbat Shalom” embraces the spirit of the Sabbath. It’s our chance to unplug from the hustle and bustle of the week. Shabbat reminds us that we are souls and not robots. Shabbat replenishes the soul. Shabbat means connecting with Hashem, with family and with our own souls
So, whether you’re praying, munching on challah, sipping a glass of fine Israeli dry red wine or just taking a nap in the middle of the day, remember to spread the “Shabbat Shalom” love and enjoy a peaceful day of rest. Shabbat Shalom, cherished friends.
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Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office
4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
This is what happens when you make peace
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Israel Derangement Syndrome
Los Angeles – Pico-Robertson Pogrom 23June2024
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“If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Prophetic words of the Lubavitcher Rebbe osb”m, 1970: “If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.” Tonight, 3 Tammuz, is his 30th yahrtzeit.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
When talking about the 1st Lebanon War in 1982, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “You’re fighting terrorists. Hit them before they hit you. Finish the job, swiftly and completely.” Prophetic words on deaf ears. The deafness is from a lack of emuna.
harabi_770-tweeet-30July2024-We must end the war in the north!
חייבים לסיים את המלחמה בצפון!
Translated from Hebrew by 
We must end the war in the north!
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
Bibi, switch the horses already
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
This tune is going viral in Israel, “Bibi, switch the horses already,” sung by Ariel Zilber, and it really makes you smile because it’s so true how the anti-emuna junta here messes things up. Enjoy – smile, don’t get angry. Hashem is doing everything for the best.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
זאת הפצ”רית של הרצי וחונטת סיירת מטכ”ל בראשות אהוד ברק. הם האחראים הבלעדים לאסון שמחת תורה. לא נוכל לישון בשקט כל עוד הם ממשיכים לשלוט במטכ”ל.
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This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi and the commander of a general patrol led by Ehud Barak. They are solely responsible for the Simchat Torah disaster. We will not be able to sleep peacefully as long as they continue to control the General Staff.
Michael Ben-tweet-29July2024-
במו ידיה הגברת הזו תביא לנו את הרפורמה המשפטית.
כמה את טיפשה גברת….
Translated from Hebrew by
With her own hands this lady will bring us the legal reform.
How stupid you are lady…
 Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
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This is leadership
Hillel Fuld-tweet-24November2024-This is leadership
This is leadership. This is what good leaders do for their people. This is how a normal society functions. Too bad our enemies still haven’t gotten it.
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PM dismisses Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing ‘significant gaps’ and lack of trust, appoints Israel Katz in his place.
Israel National News / 5November2024, 8:16 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398672
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday evening.
Netanyahu explained that this is the result of a crisis of trust and significant differences between the two in the management of the war.
“As the Prime Minister of Israel, my chief obligation is to preserve the security of Israel and to achieve our total victory. In the midst of war, more than ever, complete trust is required between the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister,” Netanyahu began.
“Unfortunately, even though such trust was present during the first months of the military campaign, and we had a very productive cooperation, during the past several months this trust between myself and the Defense Minister has begun to crack,” he stated.
Netanyahu continued, “Defense Minister Gallant and I had substantial disagreements on the management of the military campaign, disagreements which were accompanied by public statements and actions that contravened the decisions of the Government and the Security Cabinet.”
“I have made multiple attempts to resolve these disagreements, but they became increasingly wider. They were also brought to the knowledge of the public in an inappropriate manner, and what is even worse, they have reached the knowledge of the enemy; our enemies have taken great delight in these disagreements and have derived much benefit from them,” he added.
He explained that “different opinions in open debates, as anyone who knows me can attest to, are my way of holding discussions and consultations, and making decisions. Everyone knows that. However, the increasingly wide crisis of confidence between myself and the Defense Minister had become public knowledge, and that crisis is hindering the continued proper administration of the military campaign.”
“I am not the only one with this opinion; in both the Government and the Security Cabinet, the majority of the members of which, virtually all members, share the feeling that this state of affairs cannot continue,” he noted.
“In view of the above, I have decided today to remove the Defense Minister from his post. In his stead, I have decided to appoint Minister Israel Katz to this position. Israel Katz has proven his abilities and has made a contribution to national security as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence for five years, and equally important, as a long-standing member of the State Security Cabinet,” Netanyahu declared.
“Israel Katz brings to the table an impressive combination of rich experience and executive capabilities. He is known as a man of action who combines responsibility with reserved decisiveness, all important qualities for driving a military campaign,” he said.
He further stated that former Minister Gideon Sa’ar would take Minister Katz’s place as Foreign Minister. “Also, I have spoken today with Minister Gideon Sa’ar and proposed that he join the coalition along with his faction and serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a member of the Government and Security Cabinet for many years, Gideon Sa’ar will bring to the table much experience and consideration in the areas of policy and security, and will be a significant addition to our leadership team.”
“Gideon Saar’s addition and the addition of his faction will increase the stability of the coalition and the government, important factors at any time, and especially important in time of war. I am convinced that these steps will reinforce the Government and the Security Cabinet, transforming them into bodies that work cooperatively and harmoniously for the security of the State of Israel, for the citizens of Israel, and for our victory,” he said.
Gallant stated in response, “The security of the State of Israel always was, and will always remain my life’s mission.”
Incoming Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “I thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for the trust he placed in me in appointing me to the position of minister of defense. I accept this responsibility with a sense of mission and a deep commitment to the security of the State of Israel and its citizens.”
“We will work together to advance the defense establishment to victory against our enemies and to achieve the goals of the war: the return of all the hostages as the most important mission, the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the curbing of Iranian aggression and the safe return of the residents of the north and south to their home,” he added.
The move was welcomed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who said, “The prime minister did well to remove him from his position.” Ben-Gvir claimed that “it is not possible to achieve absolute victory” with Gallant as Defense Minister.
On the other hand, opposition figures condemned Gallant’s firing, Democrats chairman Yair Golan called on the public to “take to the streets” in protest.
National Unity MK Orit Farkash Hacohen said, “A Defense Minister who announces conscription orders for thousands of Haredim is fired in the middle of a war on the eve of an [expected Iranian] attack for the sake of the evasion law.”
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Many fingers are pointed in the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the evidence—and blame—says otherwise.
 Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security and Mossad chief David Barnea attend a ceremony of laying of the Israeli flags on each fallen soldier’s grave at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash 90.
https://www.jns.org/a-coup-attempt-in-the-shadow-of-oct-7/
 Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. She appears regularly on U.S., British, Australian and Indian television networks, including Fox, Newsmax and CBN. She appears, as well, on the BBC, Sky News Britain and Sky News Australia, and on India’s WION News Network. She speaks regularly on nationally syndicated and major market radio shows across the English-speaking world. She is also a frequent guest on major podcasts, including the Dave Rubin Show and the Victor Davis Hanson Show.
(6December2024/ JNS) This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on the Israel Defense Forces’ self-investigation of the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, which took place a kilometer from the Gaza Strip. Hasson’s reports reinforced the fact that the IDF and Shin Bet top brass are to blame for Hamas’s successful day of genocide.
A total of 364 people were brutally murdered at the Nova music festival and along avenues of escape. Thirty-nine were taken hostage. The rave opened on Oct. 5 with 3,800 revelers.
According to earlier investigative reports, the IDF intercepted Hamas’s invasion plans a year before Oct. 7. They received multiple, rapidly escalating warnings of the impending invasion from a variety of sources in the Southern Command in the months, weeks and days prior to that day. Intelligence head Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar did not share the warnings or Hamas’s intercepted invasion plans with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead, they repeatedly briefed him that Hamas was deterred, and Israel simply needed to provide it with more cash from Qatar and more work permits for Gazans in Israel to keep the terrorist regime fat, happy and deterred.
On Oct. 10, we learned that on the night between Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, Halevi, Bar, Southern Command Chief Maj. General Yaron Finkleman, Operations Directorate Chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk and Haliva’s assistant (Haliva was on vacation and not answering his phone), held two telephone consultations, at midnight and 4 a.m., when they discussed multiplying indications that Hamas was about to carry out its invasion, slaughter and kidnapping plan. They chose to do nothing, told no one and agreed to meet again at 8 a.m. Hamas invaded at 6:30.
Hasson’s reported excerpts from two-and-a-half hours of recordings of a conversation between Halevi’s representative Brig. Gen. Ido Mizrahi and police commanders in the Southern District. Halevi appointed Mizrahi to conduct the IDF’s inquiry into the slaughter at Nova.
The police were the heroes of the festival. By declaring that Israel was under invasion at 6:30, Southern District Commander Superintendent Amir Cohen precipitated the Ofakim police station commander’s order to disperse the concert-goers. That decision is credited with saving the lives of 90% of the party’s attendees. According to Mizrahi, about 200 people were at the party site when the Palestinian rape, murder and kidnapping gangs arrived a bit after 9 a.m.
Forty policemen and women died staving off the invading Palestinian terrorists from the Nova festival. IDF forces didn’t show up until after the massacre was over and the 39 hostages had been taken to Gaza. All the same, Mizrahi tried to shift the blame for the mass slaughter from the IDF onto the police, asking why there were still 200 people at the party site at 9.
Surprised, the police explained that they couldn’t enforce the order because they were busy fighting Hamas since the IDF didn’t arrive.
Mizrahi disclosed to Cohen and his officers for the first time that on nighttime telephone calls, Bar, Halevi and their associates discussed the Nova festival but opted to do nothing. The police officers noted that had they known this at 4 a.m., the slaughter would have been prevented.
Plugging the leaks
Hasson’s reports were a grim reminder of the IDF General Staff and the Shin Bet director’s unforgivable and arguably criminal dereliction of duty in everything related to the events of Oct. 7. They were the only ones with knowledge of Hamas’s preparations to invade. They were the only ones who knew that Hamas was taking concrete steps to invade in the hours before the invasion. And they told no one and did nothing.
Since Oct. 7, Halevi and Bar—and their equally culpable subordinates—have tried to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu by insisting that the reason they were unprepared was because of the prime minister’s longstanding policy of containing Hamas. But this claim is nonsensical given that Netanyahu based his policies on false information they provided him.
Their efforts to avoid accepting responsibility for their cataclysmic failures—and to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu whom they kept in the dark—has brought us to Israel’s current state, where by the looks of things, Halevi, Bar, their comrades in the legal system (led by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara) and the justices of the Supreme Court are engaged in an all-out effort to oust Netanyahu from power as quickly as possible.
Their efforts have been ongoing since the start of the war. The generals have all but openly accused Netanyahu of blocking a hostage deal. This comes despite the fact that they have known all along that Hamas has never been willing to free the hostages, whom it rightly views as its life-insurance policy. Halevi, Bar and their subordinates are assumed to be behind nearly all of the leaks to the media related to Israel’s internal discussions regarding the hostage talks. Those leaks have repeatedly been used by Hamas to justify their consistent refusal to make a deal.
The generals are likewise fingered as the most likely sources of real-time leaks from cabinet meetings, geared towards scuttling Netanyahu’s plans to advance military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. They have cooperated under the shadow of the Biden administration to subvert Netanyahu’s orders.
The leaks from the cabinet meetings are all felonies. Yet, despite Netanyahu’s repeated requests that criminal probes be opened to find the leakers, Baharav-Miara has refused.
Her visible determination to enable the subversion of normal workings of government by refusing to investigate the leaks is prima facie illegal. All the same, this is her policy.
In shocking contrast to her consistent protection of anti-government leakers, over the past six weeks, Baharav-Miara has been at the center of a bold-faced effort to criminalize any IDF officer, police officer or public servant who provides Netanyahu and his ministers with information that the IDF and Shin Bet are determined to hide from them, as they hid Hamas’s pre-Oct. 7 invasion plans from Israel’s elected leaders; or advance ministerial policies that Bar, Halevi and Baharav-Miara oppose.
Six weeks ago, Shin Bet officers staged dramatic bedroom arrests of two military intelligence officers and an intelligence NCO, dragging them out of their homes in the middle of the night. They also brutally arrested Eli Feldstein, a military affairs spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office. The two officers were later released, but despite three orders from magistrates and district courts to release Feldstein and the NCO, acting on appeals from Baharav-Miara’s prosecutors, the Supreme Court has kept them behind bars. The NCO is accused of transferring classified information to Feldstein in a manner that endangers national security. Feldstein is accused of leaking classified information to Germany’s Bild newspaper in a manner that endangers national security. The cover story is that the NCO gave Feldstein a Hamas document showing that the terror group is unwilling to make a hostage deal under any conditions and is using Netanyahu’s political opposition to blame the premier for the absence of a deal.
This week, attorney Uri Korb, who represents the NCO, explained the actual story. Several months ago, a group of intelligence officers and NCOs were concerned because Haliva, his replacement Maj. Gen. Yossi Binder, Bar and Halevi were deliberately blocking information from Netanyahu that the officers and NCOs considered essential to the premier’s ability to make decisions related to the war. The NCO transferred this information to Feldstein to be delivered to Netanyahu. The Bild story was just one of many documents the IDF and Shin Bet were hiding from the premier. From the prosecution’s court declarations against Feldstein and the NCO, we learned last week that the NCO provided Feldstein with information about a state actor’s collusion with Hamas in perpetrating Oct. 7. The name of the state entity is blacked out in the document. But the most reasonable interpretation of the text is that it refers either to the Palestinian Authority or Egypt.
In both cases, blocking Netanyahu from receiving the information undermines his ability to understand the nature of the enemy. It also prevents him from developing a strategy to effectively combat hostile actors that the IDF, Shin Bet and Biden administration have been keen to shield from public scrutiny.
Feldstein and the NCO were denied communication with their attorneys for several weeks. Their families attest that the men have been treated as terrorists, and are in psychological and physical distress. Both have also been subjected to massive pressure to incriminate Netanyahu.
Rupture among law-enforcement agencies
The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.
In response to the two men’s plight, the Knesset is advancing a bill that would provide immunity for whistle-blowers who share classified information with the prime minister. In an act of gross insubordination, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari harshly criticized the bill in a press conference on Wednesday night.
The legal system, IDF General Staff and Shin Bet’s joint abuse of Feldstein and the NCO has exposed Israel’s three ruling institutions to harsh criticism for their political subversion. But they don’t care. Far from standing down, last week they upped the ante precipitously.
Last Monday, the Shin Bet arrested Koby Yaakobi, head of the Israeli Prison Service, at gunpoint. They similarly arrested Avishai Muallem, deputy superintendent and the head of the Serious Crimes Unit in the Samaria and Judea District. Yaakobi is suspected of informing Muallem that he was under investigation. Muallem is suspected of refusing to open investigations against Jewish Israelis in Judea and Samaria that the Shin Bet’s “Jewish Division,” has fingered as terror suspects. The Shin Bet accuses Muallem of seeking a bribe in the form of a promotion from Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in exchange for not prosecuting Jewish Israelis.
In recent testimony before the Knesset, Muallem told lawmakers that most complaints filed by Palestinians and anarchists in Judea and Samaria against Israeli Jews are frivolous. Until Muallem took over the unit, its officers served as rubber stamps for the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division’s accusation against Jews.
The self-evident political nature of the two senior officers’ arrests and interrogations has caused a rupture of relations between the police and prison service on the one hand, and the attorney general and the Shin Bet on the other. As in the case of Feldstein and the NCO, Yaakobi and Muallem’s arrests serve a twofold goal.
First, the purpose is to intimidate police officers not to work with Ben-Gvir. Second, Muallem and Yaakobi are being pressured to incriminate the security minister. Last month, Baharav-Miara unsuccessfully tried to coerce Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir. Under extra-legal Supreme Court guidelines, if she indicts Ben-Gvir, then Netanyahu will be required to fire him. Baharav-Miara and her colleagues are convinced that if he is fired, Ben-Gvir will pull his party out of the governing coalition and precipitate its overthrow.
This brings us back to Oct. 7.
Bar, Halevi and the political left have demanded the formation of a commission of inquiry to be controlled by the Supreme Court. The government seeks the establishment of a public commission of inquiry whose members will be chosen in equal numbers by the coalition and the opposition. A judicial commission of inquiry will be chosen by radical leftist Yitzhak Amit, acting president of the Supreme Court. He is expected to appoint commission members who will protect the IDF and Shin Bet from scrutiny and place all the blame for their failure on Netanyahu.
If Netanyahu’s government falls and the left is able to form an alternate government in the existing Knesset, that successor government would pass a law authorizing a commission of inquiry into the Oct. 7 invasion to be appointed by Amit.
As the days and weeks pass, and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws nearer, Israel’s ruling class is becoming desperate to oust Netanyahu from power. They fear that without Biden supporting their efforts and with Trump determined to rout out their American administrative state counterparts, they will lose their grip on unchecked power. Muallem, Yaakobi, Feldstein and the NCO have become victims of their desperation.
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by Rivka Levy 19August2024 https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/finally-prayer-rally-in-hevron-sept-12th/
I just got sent this:
 Prayer rally in Hevron-12September2024
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The Rav has called for a prayer gathering in Hevron, on Thursday September 12th, 2024, beginning at 9pm.
BH, the Rav will be coming, too.
Strange to say, this is a very good sign.
All year, I’ve been waiting for one of these prayer gatherings to be called in Hevron – because I’ve seen so many times in the past, how they literally make ‘the problem’ disappear overnight – and all year, it just hasn’t happened.
I guess we hadn’t reached the part in this massive process of awakening and teshuva where the prayer gathering would be effective.
Now, BH, I’m hopeful that the end of the nightmare situation that has been 5784 is in sight.
If, enough people show up in Hebron on September 12th.
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While I was browsing the RavBerland.com site, looking for more stuff about the concept of ‘MBY’ from the Rav, I came across something I wrote five years ago now, in 2019:
https://ravberland.com/5779-the-year-in-review/
It talks a lot about different prayer gatherings in Hevron that took place throughout the year of 5779 – just before the Evils unleashed the scamdemic on the world.
Perhaps more to the point, it reminded me of how many ‘tough times’ were going on in 5779 – and how these prayer gatherings literally turned everything around for Am Yisrael.
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Five years ago, it was way harder to ‘get with the Rav’, in some ways.
You had to have already figured out that the masonic media lies about everything, collaborates with the corrupt State to frame innocent people for political ends – and that the State itself is rotten to the core, morally.
That was quite an ‘ask’ five years ago.
But now?
This should be obvious to any awake person (awake defined as, literally, not asleep, and with two functioning brain cells.)
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So, if you can make it to Hevron on September 12th at 9pm, even with mesirut nefesh, please come and join the prayer gathering, with the Rav.
At the very least, these prayer gatherings ‘work’ to sweeten things for the people who make the effort to participate.
And if you only help yourself by coming – dayenu.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody’s predictions 28July2024
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-predictions
I hope I’m wrong on both counts, but here are my predictions:
1) Israel will make a very lukewarm attack against Hezbolla, maybe killing 12 porcupines in a deserted Hezbolla base;
2) Kamala Harris will win the US Presidential Elections.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-predictions
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Israel hits Iran
“Operation Days of Teshuva” 26October2024
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-27October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva
The more the smoke clears from yesterday’s miraculous IAF strike against Iran, the more we must thank Hashem and praise His Name for giving our airmen the skill and success for accomplishing the impossible. Iran is now completely exposed, and that’s not all:
1) Satellite photos show damage on Iran’s missile production that will take 2 years to repair.
2) All four Russian supplied S300 missile defense systems were destroyed.
3) All radar defenses surrounding Tehran were destroyed.
4) 12 different ballistic-fuel mixing centers were destroyed.
5) Several weapons research centers were destroyed. One of them may have been a nuclear research center as a message to Iran: You could have been hit much worse…
Successes like this carry a pricetag. No wonder the mission was called, “Operation Days of Teshuva (Repentance)”; maybe the IDF was referring to the recent High Holidays, but Hashem is referring to the coming days, when all of us should strengthen ourselves in emuna and Torah observance. Hashem is showing us what He can do for us when we do. Let’s start with something easy – stop badmouthing other people and stay away from those who do. Unity is what Hashem wants from us.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-27October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva-Shabbat Breishit
Thank You, Hashem, for a successful “Operation Days of Teshuva” strike against Iran, early Shabbat Breishit. Here’s what we know now:
1. Dozens of IAF F16s, F15s and support aircraft departed for Iran at about 2AM Shabbat, local time.
2. Iran’s proxy air defenses in Iraq and Syria were first neutralized.
3. Israel attacked the plant that produces Russian S300 ballistic missiles, drone-manufacturing plants and other strategic sites.
4. There was no attack against oil fields, nuclear plants or civilian centers.
5. The attack lasted for 3 hours until 5 AM.
6. All of our personnel and aircraft returned home safely, Baruch Hashem.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva-Shabbat Breishit
19April2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
HonestReporting Canada-tweet-19April2024-Israeli strikes on Iran
According to @abcnews, at least 7 different #Iranian locations have been struck so far tonight by #Israeli airstrikes.
 HonestReporting Canada-tweet-19April2024-Israeli strikes on Iran
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Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-1September2024-Those who destroy you
Why were Isaiah’s eyes red from crying? Yet why is Sinwar laughing?
Sinwar wants the address of the National Labor Union (Histadrut) head to send him a bouquet of flowers. While foreign governments, including Biden and Blinken, are condemning the Hamas savages who murdered our hostages in cold blood – Bar David, head of the leftist deep-state mafia aka Histadrut, is calling for a general strike tomorrow. While Israel’s right is busy fighting the enemy, Israel’s left is busy fighting Israel’s right. This is what brought tears to Isaiah’s eyes: מְהָרְסַיִךְ וּמַחֲרִיבַיִךְ, מִמֵּךְ יֵצֵאוּ. – “Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst (Isaiah 49:17).
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-1September2024-Those who destroy you
List of Cities not striking
Malkah Fleisher-twert-1September2024-List of Cities not striking
This is a partial list of the cities which have refused to take part in the demoralizing and highly politicized strike the labor unions decided to foist on the backs of Israelis who have already been suffering and struggling for almost a year:
Jerusalem
Ashdod
Netanya
Ramle
Dimona
Holon
Petach Tikva
Tzfat
Efrat
Ariel
Katzrin
Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Motzkin
Kiryat Bialik
Beit Shemesh
Mitzpe Ramon
Arad
Maale Adumim
Migdal Haemek
Harish
Nahal Sorek
Bnai Brak
Shlomi
Maale Tarshisha
 Malkah Fleisher-twert-1September2024-List of Cities not striking
Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant.
Caroline Glick-tweet-2September2024-The American announcement-Yoav Galant
ל”עסקה,” איננה סיבה למסיבה. להיפך. זה איום אסטרטגי ממעלה ראשונה. התזמון אינו מקרי. מדובר ככל הנראה במהלך מתואם עם ראשי כנופיית קפלן שמאשימים באופן בלתי נתפס, את ראש הממשלה בפשעי חמאס. הלחץ האמריקני לא מופעל כיום, ומעולם לא הופעל עד כה, על חמאס אלא רק על ישראל. והמסר שמועבר בהודעה על “הצעה סופית,” הוא, זהו יהודונים, שיחקתם מספיק. עכשיו תתקפלו! ומי מחולל את הכל כאן בפועל? מי אדריכל המהלך שנועד להביא לכניעה? יואב גלנט. כאשר ההיסטוריה של תקופה זאת תיכתב, נדמה שגלנט ייזכר שם כמולל המערכה שנועדה להביא להתפרקות של המהפכה הציונית. אם אני צודקת, אז ההתנהלות הבלתי נסלחת שלו בקבינט ביום חמישי והציוץ שלו אתמול בבוקר יתבררו כמצית של ליל גלנט השני, והאסוני ביותר. בפעם הראשונה, המעשה שלו הביא לפירוק יכולת נבחרי העם לתפוס את הגה השלטון מהפקידים הפוסט ציונים העוינים לעם ולשלטונו. בפעם השנייה, כעת, המעשה שלו עלול, חלילה, להביא לאובדן הריבונות שלנו. לא הגענו עד הלום כדי להתקפל. אסור למצמץ. אסור להתבלבל.
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The American announcement that the administration is preparing a “final offer” for a “deal,” is no cause for celebration. on the contrary. This is a strategic threat of the first order. The timing is no accident. This is apparently a coordinated move with the leaders of the Kaplan gang who unimaginably accuse the Prime Minister of Hamas crimes. The American pressure is not applied today, and has never been applied until now, on Hamas but only on Israel. And the message that is conveyed in the announcement of a “final offer,” is, this is Jews, you have played enough. Now fold up! And who creates everything here in practice? Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant. When the history of this period is written, it seems that Gallant will be remembered there as the instigator of the campaign that was intended to bring about the disintegration of the Zionist revolution. If I’m right, then his inexcusable conduct in the Cabinet on Thursday and his tweet yesterday morning will turn out to be the igniter of the second, and most disastrous, Night of Gallant. For the first time, his act resulted in the dismantling of the ability of the people’s elected officials to seize the helm of power from the post-Zionist officials hostile to the people and their government. For the second time, now, his act may, God forbid, result in the loss of our sovereignty. We didn’t come this far to fold. Do not blink. Don’t get confused.
 Caroline Glick-tweet-2September2024-The American announcement-Yoav Galant
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by Bassam Tawil
8October2024 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20998/palestinians-celebrate-death-of-jews
- Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists.
- It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. It is also hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to condemn the October 7 atrocities and massacres against Israelis. Palestinian leaders have good reason not to speak out: they are afraid of being killed by their own people.
- Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, ignored the Hamas attack and instead accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “crimes,” and “genocide” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Needless to say, Abbas also ignored the fact that a large number of Palestinians expressed support for the Hamas-led October 7 attack and took to the streets to celebrate the brutal mass-murder of Israeli women, children and the elderly.
- Palestinian leaders who do not have the courage, or are unwilling, to denounce terrorism will never be able to call on their people to recognize Israel’s right to exist, let alone make peace with it. Palestinians who celebrate the murder of their neighbors are not ready for a state, which will undoubtedly be used as a springboard to slaughter more Jews and to try to destroy Israel.
- There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people’s lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
 Palestinians celebrating in the streets Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists, and it is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. Pictured: Palestinian Arabs celebrate Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel and pose, flashing the “V for victory” sign, with a piece of a downed Iranian missile that they moved to the town square of Dura (near Hebron), on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images)
Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists.
The latest Palestinian celebrations took place on October 1, 2024, when Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel. The celebrations occurred even though some of the missiles fell in Palestinian areas in the West Bank and the only person killed was, ironically, a Palestinian man in the city of Jericho.
In one West Bank village, Palestinians erected a monument from the tail of an Iranian missile to celebrate Iran’s attack on Israel.
Similar celebrations took place in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and in many countries when Iran launched its first direct missile and drone attack against Israel in April. According to a report by Iran’s Tehran Times:
“It was also a sleepless night in Ramallah and other cities in the occupied West Bank, that saw excited crowds of Palestinians gathering in the streets and pointing to the skies amid the visible trails of Iranian missiles flying, with a celebratory mood until the early hours of Sunday morning.”
The largest celebrations occurred a year ago, on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Iran-backed Hamas terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip and murdered 1,200 Israelis. During the attack, thousands of Israelis were raped, tortured, and burned alive, while more than 240 others were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. A year later, 101 Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas terrorists.
A video from the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television network titled “Palestinians overjoyed with the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation” (the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 attack) showed celebrations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Iranian-affiliated Lebanese TV station Mayadeen aired a report about Palestinian celebrations in the West Bank, where sweets were handed out in Nablus and guns were fired in Jenin “in jubilation.” A little girl can be seen waving a rifle and a handgun in the air.
Palestinian activist Omar Assaf praised the Hamas attack:
“The resistance has proven today, once again, that the only option the people support is the option of resistance and confrontation, and proved, once again, that this occupation is weaker than a spider web, like [Hezbollah leader] Hassan Nasrallah said.”
In 2004, thousands of Palestinians spilled onto the streets of the Gaza Strip to celebrate a twin suicide bombing in southern Israel that killed 16 people. The Palestinians celebrating, estimated to number about 20,000, threw sweets in the air and chanted slogans in support of Hamas, which took credit for the terrorist attack.
The Palestinians are also happy to see Americans targeted by terrorists. While Israel declared a “national day of mourning” in solidarity with the US after the 9/11 attacks, Palestinians celebrated by handing out sweets, firing guns in the air and chanting Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest).
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has since been celebrating the 9/11 attacks with cartoons glorifying Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or mocking and attacking the US.
The PA’s official media outlets made a concerted effort to bash the US by rubbing salt in its most sensitive wounds, and by depicting America as evil, while appropriating Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as the victims.
In one Palestinian cartoon, bin Laden is shown forming a victory sign with his fingers, which are made up of the smoldering Twin Towers next to a plane about to fly into them.
In another cartoon, the PA mocked the US by portraying Uncle Sam fleeing in terror from the date “September 11.”
After the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians on October 7, a senior Palestinian official repeated the accusation that the US knew about the 9/11 attacks but wanted them to happen:
“They [Israel] knew about this [Oct. 7 attack] and were silent because they wanted that what happened would happen, just as their teacher [America] did in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.”
— Fatah Revolutionary Council member Adnan Al-Damiri, Facebook, December 20, 2023.
It is hard to forget how the Palestinians also celebrated when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel more than 30 years ago.
Here is what The Washington Post wrote about the celebrations back then:
“As Iraqi missiles fell on Israel’s coastal plain Friday and Saturday, Palestinian residents here huddled in rooms sealed with masking tape and bleach-soaked cloths, in case the warheads contained deadly chemical agents. Still, when they heard the thud of explosions, they cheered for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
“‘We were happy. A little scared, maybe, but mainly happy,’ said May, a shopkeeper, during a two-hour break today in the military curfew imposed by occupying Israeli forces. Added Amer, a 15-year-old boy who stood nearby: ‘It’s wonderful that missiles hit Tel Aviv…’
Two Western reporters in search of opinions were quickly surrounded by Palestinians on a downtown street. Everyone who passed by, it seemed, wanted to express admiration for Saddam. Most seemed full of emotion. ‘Saddam is winning, of course he is winning,’ said Sammy, 27, an employee in a United Nations refugee camp. ‘Why? Because he is still fighting. He is fighting 28 countries, and yet after two days he fired 11 missiles at Tel Aviv, with precision. This is a victory.'”
It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. It is also hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to condemn the October 7 atrocities and massacres against Israelis. Palestinian leaders have good reason not to speak out: they are afraid of being killed by their own people.
Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, ignored the Hamas attack and instead accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “crimes,” and “genocide” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Needless to say, Abbas also ignored the fact that a large number of Palestinians expressed support for the Hamas-led October 7 attack and took to the streets to celebrate the brutal mass-murder of Israeli women, children and the elderly.
Palestinian leaders who do not have the courage, or are unwilling, to denounce terrorism will never be able to call on their people to recognize Israel’s right to exist, let alone make peace with it. Palestinians who celebrate the murder of their neighbors are not ready for a state, which will undoubtedly be used as a springboard to slaughter more Jews and to try to destroy Israel.
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people’s lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East. His work is made possible through the generous donation of a couple of donors who wished to remain anonymous. Gatestone is most grateful.
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JerusalemCats Comments: The Palestinians won’t be celebrating when they are Deported to some “Hell-hole”.
The law permits the Minister of the Interior to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
Hezki Baruch / 7November2024, 3:31 AM (GMT+2) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398747
The Knesset plenum approved early Thursday morning the second and third readings of a law allowing the deportation of families of terrorists, proposed by MKs Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud), Eliyahu Revivo (Likud) and Almog Cohen (Otzma Yehudit).
61 MKs voted in favor of the legislation and 41 voted against it.
The law stipulates that the Minister of the Interior will be permitted to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, after a hearing, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
In addition, the option will be given to deport a family member who expressed support or identified with the act, or published words of praise or encouragement for a terrorist act or a terrorist organization.
The validity of the deportation order for an Israeli citizen shall not be less than seven years and shall not exceed 15 years, and for a permanent or temporary resident – shall not be less than 10 years and shall not exceed 20 years.
The explanatory notes to the bill read: “In recent years, and in particular after the beginning of the Swords of Iron war, which broke out following the terrorist attack that began on October 7, 2023, the cases in which citizens and holders of a permanent residence permit in Israel incite to terrorism have increased, either by publishing direct calls to commit terrorist acts or by publishing words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for these acts, supporting them or identifying with them.”
The notes further states that “from various studies conducted over the years, both by the National Security Council and by the IDF related to dozens of terrorists with Israeli citizenship, it emerged that the terrorists’ only concern was what would happen to their families after the attack. There is no doubt that many terrorists will refrain from carrying out an attack, as long as they know that their families will be punished for it.”
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Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza?
Jewish Uncensored-tweet-17November2024-Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza
U.S Senator Tom Cotton:
“Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza? Israel is the victim. We did not provide aid to Germany and Japan in World War II.”
 Jewish Uncensored-tweet-17November2024-Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza
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A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food
Yehuda Teitelbaum-tweet-12December2024-Nova survivor response
A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food.
Her response?
“For me, Gaza should not exist. I stared death in the eyes. I was there. I came back from the dead…It doesn’t matter who you are they simply want to kill. Someone who doesn’t want that the other side lives, for me has no place in this world”
 Yehuda Teitelbaum-tweet-12December2024-Nova survivor response
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Qatar wants Hamas to win
Daniel Rubenstein-tweet-24October2024-Qatar wants Hamas to win
Qatar wants Hamas to win. Qatar told Hamas to keep the hostages. Qatar mourned the death of Yahya Sinwar. Qatar condemned Israel on October 7. This is what the State Department calls “promoting regional peace.”
Matthew Miller-tweet-24October2024-SecBlinken in Qatar
In Doha, @SecBlinken will meet with officials to discuss seizing the moment to end the conflict in Gaza and secure the release of hostages. The U.S. is grateful for Qatar’s indispensable role in promoting regional peace.
 Daniel Rubenstein-tweet-24October2024-Qatar wants Hamas to win
JerusalemCats Comments Remember who is in Qatar.
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny
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Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
Sangharsh Lokhande-tweet-8November2024-Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
Qatar has started expelling Hamas officials, reportedly telling them, “You’re no longer welcome here” 🇶🇦🚫. This major shift comes just hours after @realDonaldTrump U.S. election win, according to @kann_news.
 Sangharsh Lokhande-tweet-8November2024-Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
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Fatah demands Progroms
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-11November2024-Fatah demands Progroms
Reminder, this is Fatah, the party of Mahmoud Abbas. These are the folks you wanna give a state too? They would do a pogrom every day of the week if they could!
 Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-11November2024-Fatah demands Progroms
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Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-30May2024-UNRWA
Introducing Episode #1 – UNRWA of the Deep Dive series with Dr. @EinatWilf
Dr. Einat Wilf is a former member of the Knesset and author of the best-selling book “The War of Return.”
#deepdive #israelicitizenspox
 IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-30May2024-UNRWA
Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-6June2024-Anti Zionism is now live
Dr. @EinatWilf is back with Deep Dive!
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
If you like to access a free course on Zionism and Anti-Zionism taught by Dr @einatwilf
you can access the link here: https://tikvahfund.org/course/zionism-and-anti-zionism-the-history-of-two-opposing-ideas/
#israelicitizenspox #deepdive #einatwilf #antizionism
 IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-6June2024-Anti Zionism is now live
Episode #2 Anti-Zionism | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
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Dr. Einat Wilf explains how wars should end
Israeli Citizen Spox-tweet-17November2024-victory and defeat
FULL VIDEO: It is time to bring back words like “victory” and “defeat.” Citizen Spokeswoman Dr. @EinatWilf explains how wars should end.
 Israeli Citizen Spox-tweet-17November2024-victory and defeat
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4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-8June2024-4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival.
They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations.
We will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home.
 Israel Defense Forces-tweet-8June2024-4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
Noa Argamani, taken hostage on Oct.7, was rescued yesterday in a miraculous special-forces mission in Gaza. Despite 2 rescue vehicles that broke down, Hashem made the mission succeed. The photo, from a few months ago, is her dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite.
harabi_770-tweet-8June2024-Ya’akov Argamani praying at Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
הבקשה שנענתה: יעקב ארגמני, אביה של נועה שחולצה השבת מהשבי בעזה, מעתיר בתפילה על ציונו הקדוש של הרבי לפני מספר חודשים.
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The request was answered: Ya’akov Argamani, the father of Noa, who was rescued on Shabbat from captivity in Gaza, petitions in prayer for the Rebbe’s holy grave a few months ago.
 Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
hostages return celebrations
Im Tirtzu-tweet-8June2024-hostages return celebrations
Just imagine the celebrations when all the hostages return!
 Im Tirtzu-tweet-8June2024-hostages return celebrations
If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-say Thank You Hashem
If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile. Before you do something, solicit Hashem’s help by saying “B’ezrat Hashem.” Once you’ve done it, say “Thank You, Hashem”. Wait and see how successful you’ll be.
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Hamas abuses the hostages
Eylon Levy-tweet-10June2024-Hamas abuses the hostages
We are learning more about how Hamas abuses the hostages (and these are the ones held in civilian homes):
▪️Beatings “almost every day”
▪️No protein, so muscle wastage
▪️Malnutrition, periods of “almost no food whatsoever”
▪️Medical neglect
▪️No sunlight
 Eylon Levy-tweet-10June2024-Hamas abuses the hostages 
10 June 2024, 10:05 pm https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostages-were-beaten-abused-almost-every-day-says-doctor-who-treated-rescuees/
 File: Itai Pessach, director of the children’s hospital at Sheba Medical Center, during a television interview (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
The doctor in charge of treating the hostages rescued from Gaza on Saturday tells CNN that the abductees were regularly beaten by their captors.
“It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Medical Center says. “Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”
According to the American outlet, Pessach says the eight months the hostages spent under Hamas captivity “left a significant mark on their health,” despite them appearing outwardly to be in good shape.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he says, adding that they said the supply of food and water varied, and that they were moved a few times and dealt with different guards.
“There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever,” Pessach adds. “There were other periods where it was a little better, but all in all, the combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition or not getting enough food or not getting the right kind of food, medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun and all of the other things have [a] significant effect on health.”
Elaborating on the psychological strain, he says: “As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith, I think, is where you get to the breaking point.”
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Oli London-tweet-13June2024-Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov had his hands and feet bound for 2 months during captivity.
His parents have revealed the horrific conditions he was subjected to during the 245 days he spent as a hostage.
“He told us that for two months, they were tied up by their hands and feet. In the first weeks, their hands were tied behind their backs…
In other cases, they had to relieve themselves in a bucket. The terrorists engaged in psychological abuse, constantly telling each captive, ‘Israel has forgotten you.”
Source: Ynet News
 Oli London-tweet-13June2024-Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
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The JC can reveal previously unknown details of the daring mission, which was the result of weeks of intelligence work culminating in a 45 minute shoot-out with Hamas terrorists
BY Elon Perry
13June2024 08:32 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/the-inside-story-of-israels-dramatic-gaza-hostage-rescue-e2t1d8qu#:~:text=On%2012%20May%2C%20Israel%20received,to%20locate%20the%20exact%20location
On 12 May, Israel received intelligence about the location of four hostages in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the Gaza Strip. From that day on, every branch of Israeli intelligence was focused on the area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to locate the exact location. A team of undercover ‘Mista’arvim’ (units that assimilate into local populations to gather intelligence) were sent there, mainly in the local market of Nuseirat.
Their role was not only to gather intelligence from locals but also to check information from the interrogations of captured terrorists. In addition, information was gathered by aerial observation and other sophisticated technological means.
After 19 days of intensive cooperative intelligence gathering work, the combined units managed to compile solid and accurate information about the location of the Israeli hostages. It was discovered that the hostages were being held in two separate buildings in the same area. Noa Argamani was held in the first floor of one and three other hostages were in another building, 800 metres away, on the third floor.
At the beginning of June, this information was brought to the War Cabinet, and the Chief of Staff of the IDF and head of the Shin Bet were asked to present a rescue plan. The intelligence was kept top secret. Even the other forces in Gaza, including senior commanders, were not informed about it. As the War Cabinet discussed options, the preparations and training for the operation began.
In order to finally verify the information and to prepare the ground for the operation, another team of undercover soldiers (including several women dressed in hijabs and long black dresses) was sent into the Nuseirat refugee camp. Pretending to be two Gazan families looking for a large house in Nuseirat, they arrived in two cheap-looking old cars loaded with domestic items characteristic of those families displaced in the Strip, such as mattresses and clothing identical to those of the locals.
When the residents of the Nuseirat camp asked the undercovers where they came from and what they were looking to do in Nuseirat, they replied that they had fled from Rafah due to “deadly shelling from the Israeli army”, and decided to rent a house in the area. Then they pointed to the building where Noa Argamani was being held. They showed one of the locals a large amount of cash and offered to pay three times the going rate for rent. The local agreed to help and within three hours found a large house on the very street where Argamani was held. This was only 800 metres away from where the other three hostages were held.
A few days later, after settling into the house and getting to know the area, including shopping at the local market, and realising that they did not arouse suspicion, the undercovers began their mission: verifying the location where the hostages were held. They split into two teams. One team consisted of two commandos, a man dressed as a typical Gazan local and a woman dressed in a long black dress and hijab. They began marching down the street towards the ‘Al-Auda’ medical centre where, in a nearby residential building 200 metres from the hospital, Noa Argamani was held. The undercovers walked with complete confidence as if they were walking down a street in Tel Aviv. To add to their authenticity, they stopped from time to time at stalls along the sides of the street, showing interest in the products while complaining about the difficult situation in Gaza. This was done in fluent Arabic with a perfect Gazan accent. Behind them, walked four more undercover men, armed to give backup in case a ‘Fauda-like’ situation occurred (Fauda in Arabic means unexpected chaos).
The second team consisted of four female soldiers dressed as typical Arab women (one feigning being pregnant) carrying plastic bags full of food products and vegetables. They walked in two pairs (a young Muslim woman is not allowed to walk around alone) towards a nearby residential building, where, on the third floor, the three male hostages were held. Behind them walked four more undercover men armed to give them backup.
Meanwhile five other members of the undercover team stayed at the house to guard it and make sure the teams had not been exposed and that no nasty surprises would await them.
Three hours later, at the prearranged time, the two teams came back to the rented house and began to process the information they had obtained. Now it was confirmed: the four hostages were being held in two homes of Gazan families. The force commander confirmed to Israel that the two locations were correct.
The cabinet decided to act. Twenty-eight fighters from the ‘Yamam’, a commando unit that specialises in fighting terrorists and rescuing hostages, began training on two specially built models that replicated the two buildings where the hostages were held. After three days of training, the commander of the force informed the IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, who then informed the Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, that they were ready to carry out the operation. After Prime Minister Netanyahu had been informed and given permission to launch the operation, it was able to proceed.
On Thursday night, 5 June, the undercovers were ordered to leave the area of Nuseirat refugee camp without arousing suspicion, although four remained to keep an eye on the buildings to make sure that the hostages were not transferred to another location.
Only at this time were senior Israeli commanders and other cabinet members informed about the operation.
On Friday morning, 6 June, the 28 commandos of the ‘Yamam’ unit began making their way in two teams towards the two buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp. To maintain the element of surprise as much as possible, the unit’s fighters travelled hiding in two trucks.
Just before 11 am the commandos arrived with precise timing at the two targets and awaited the order to attack. Observations and technological surveillance measures from IDF aircraft reported that the area was ‘clean’, with no suspicious movements near the two buildings. The information and live coverage of the alleys and the 800-metre-long street that separated the two target buildings were transmitted directly to the screens in two command and control rooms in Israel from which the operation was being overseen.
At 11.00 am exactly the commandos received the order to go ahead and stormed both buildings simultaneously in full coordination, to prevent the terrorists from endangering the hostages and the entire operation.
The Israeli soldiers eliminated the terrorists guarding Noa Argamani, and within six minutes had rescued her unharmed from the apartment. They then took her to a waiting helicopter that immediately flew her back to Israel.
But while the rescue of Argamani went smoothly, the task of rescuing the other three hostages on the third floor of the second building became complicated.
They were held in the home of Dr Ahmed al-Jamal, a medical doctor, who was a Hamas activist. His son, Abdullah, a journalist who had written for Al-Jazeera, was also staying in the apartment.
Some of the commandos used a ladder to enter directly into the room where the three hostages were held. This coincided with the entry of the rest of the force who came up the stairs from the main entrance of the building.
But Commander Arnon Zamora’s team, which broke into the apartment at the head of the force, encountered massive fire from around thirty Hamas terrorists in the apartment They fired with machine guns, threw grenades and some even fired rocket-propelled grenade missiles at the surprised Israelis. This is how Arnon Zamora was killed.
The fact of the presence of 30 terrorists in the apartment had not been known to the undercover teams who had reported the information about the hostages’ location back to Israel. It is assumed that the terrorists arrived at the apartment only that morning or the night before, to strengthen the guarding of the three hostages.
Nevertheless, the experienced Israeli commando fighters were not deterred by the deadly surprise and continued to fight the terrorists with determination at close range, joined by the other fighters who were waiting outside the apartment. The three hostages had to hide in the bathroom of the apartment, protected by several Israeli fighters, during the battle. There was no way to leave the apartment due to the massive unexpected gunfire as it might endanger the hostages.
After a long face-to-face battle, the Israelis managed to eliminate all the terrorists in the apartment. But during the shooting from dozens of guns inside a crowded two-room apartment, Arnon Zamora was hit and lay on the floor bleeding, while three medics and a doctor leant over him, under heavy fire, trying to save his life.
Meanwhile, dozens of terrorists emerged from the tunnels around the building and began to fire at the Israeli fighters with machine guns and RPG missiles. The Israelis started making their way out of the building (several of them carrying Arnon Zamora on a stretcher), running through smoke-filled alleys and the nearby market which was crowded with thousands of Gazans who would not have hesitated to lynch them. The Israeli forces tried, under constant fire, to get to the rescue vehicle that was waiting for them, but it was hit by two RPG missiles.
The commander of the operation in Israel then activated ‘Plan B’, the rescue plan that had been prepared in advance: a daring operation under massive, very close fire from the enemy, covered by Israeli fire from ground, sea and air.
With the help of tanks, hundreds of soldiers (from the Golani and Givati infantry brigades and paratroopers) charged on foot into the refugee camp, fighting face-to-face battles with Hamas terrorists while navy ships covered them from the west and air force helicopters from the east. Fire from the air hit the terrorists just ten metres from the Israeli soldiers.
The reinforcement forces and the air force managed to isolate the battle scene, providing a safe escape route for the main force escorting the three hostages.
At the end of an exhausting and continuous battle the Israeli fighters eliminated all the armed threats in the battle arena.
Hamas claims that during the rescue operation in the crowded streets of the refugee camp, 274 Palestinians were killed. However, the IDF says that 104 Palestinians were killed or wounded – all of whom were Hamas terrorists or armed civilians who collaborated with the terrorist organisation.
After the battle, the three abductees (who had kept their cool throughout) were led by the fighters to one of the Israeli helicopters waiting for them and flew them to Israel.
Meanwhile, the air force planes bombed the building which collapsed within seconds.
The special forces soldiers then boarded the other two helicopters that took off back to Israel. Attempts to revive Arnon Zamora continued on the short flight, but l he was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital.
Elon Perry is a journalist and former commando in the Golani Brigade of the IDF
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ISRAEL AT WAR 5784: Time and Again
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21June2024-Shabbat Shalom
#ShabbatShalom is a bit like the Jewish version of “TGIF” but with a dash of spiritual elegance. “Shabbat Shalom” is Hebrew for “peaceful Sabbath,” and it’s a greeting used by Jews around the world to wish each other a serene and meaningful day of rest.
The expression of “Shabbat Shalom” embraces the spirit of the Sabbath. It’s our chance to unplug from the hustle and bustle of the week. Shabbat reminds us that we are souls and not robots. Shabbat replenishes the soul. Shabbat means connecting with Hashem, with family and with our own souls
So, whether you’re praying, munching on challah, sipping a glass of fine Israeli dry red wine or just taking a nap in the middle of the day, remember to spread the “Shabbat Shalom” love and enjoy a peaceful day of rest. Shabbat Shalom, cherished friends.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21June2024-Shabbat Shalom
Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office
4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
This is what happens when you make peace
Israel Derangement Syndrome
Los Angeles – Pico-Robertson Pogrom 23June2024
Around the World
“If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Prophetic words of the Lubavitcher Rebbe osb”m, 1970: “If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.” Tonight, 3 Tammuz, is his 30th yahrtzeit.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
When talking about the 1st Lebanon War in 1982, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “You’re fighting terrorists. Hit them before they hit you. Finish the job, swiftly and completely.” Prophetic words on deaf ears. The deafness is from a lack of emuna.
harabi_770-tweeet-30July2024-We must end the war in the north!
חייבים לסיים את המלחמה בצפון!
We must end the war in the north!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
Bibi, switch the horses already
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
This tune is going viral in Israel, “Bibi, switch the horses already,” sung by Ariel Zilber, and it really makes you smile because it’s so true how the anti-emuna junta here messes things up. Enjoy – smile, don’t get angry. Hashem is doing everything for the best.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
זאת הפצ”רית של הרצי וחונטת סיירת מטכ”ל בראשות אהוד ברק. הם האחראים הבלעדים לאסון שמחת תורה. לא נוכל לישון בשקט כל עוד הם ממשיכים לשלוט במטכ”ל.
This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi and the commander of a general patrol led by Ehud Barak. They are solely responsible for the Simchat Torah disaster. We will not be able to sleep peacefully as long as they continue to control the General Staff.
Michael Ben-tweet-29July2024-
במו ידיה הגברת הזו תביא לנו את הרפורמה המשפטית.
כמה את טיפשה גברת….
With her own hands this lady will bring us the legal reform.
How stupid you are lady…
Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
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This is leadership
Hillel Fuld-tweet-24November2024-This is leadership
This is leadership. This is what good leaders do for their people. This is how a normal society functions. Too bad our enemies still haven’t gotten it.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-24November2024-This is leadership
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Netanyahu fires Gallant as Defense Minister
PM dismisses Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing ‘significant gaps’ and lack of trust, appoints Israel Katz in his place.
Israel National News / 5November2024, 8:16 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398672
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday evening.
Netanyahu explained that this is the result of a crisis of trust and significant differences between the two in the management of the war.
“As the Prime Minister of Israel, my chief obligation is to preserve the security of Israel and to achieve our total victory. In the midst of war, more than ever, complete trust is required between the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister,” Netanyahu began.
“Unfortunately, even though such trust was present during the first months of the military campaign, and we had a very productive cooperation, during the past several months this trust between myself and the Defense Minister has begun to crack,” he stated.
Netanyahu continued, “Defense Minister Gallant and I had substantial disagreements on the management of the military campaign, disagreements which were accompanied by public statements and actions that contravened the decisions of the Government and the Security Cabinet.”
“I have made multiple attempts to resolve these disagreements, but they became increasingly wider. They were also brought to the knowledge of the public in an inappropriate manner, and what is even worse, they have reached the knowledge of the enemy; our enemies have taken great delight in these disagreements and have derived much benefit from them,” he added.
He explained that “different opinions in open debates, as anyone who knows me can attest to, are my way of holding discussions and consultations, and making decisions. Everyone knows that. However, the increasingly wide crisis of confidence between myself and the Defense Minister had become public knowledge, and that crisis is hindering the continued proper administration of the military campaign.”
“I am not the only one with this opinion; in both the Government and the Security Cabinet, the majority of the members of which, virtually all members, share the feeling that this state of affairs cannot continue,” he noted.
“In view of the above, I have decided today to remove the Defense Minister from his post. In his stead, I have decided to appoint Minister Israel Katz to this position. Israel Katz has proven his abilities and has made a contribution to national security as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence for five years, and equally important, as a long-standing member of the State Security Cabinet,” Netanyahu declared.
“Israel Katz brings to the table an impressive combination of rich experience and executive capabilities. He is known as a man of action who combines responsibility with reserved decisiveness, all important qualities for driving a military campaign,” he said.
He further stated that former Minister Gideon Sa’ar would take Minister Katz’s place as Foreign Minister. “Also, I have spoken today with Minister Gideon Sa’ar and proposed that he join the coalition along with his faction and serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a member of the Government and Security Cabinet for many years, Gideon Sa’ar will bring to the table much experience and consideration in the areas of policy and security, and will be a significant addition to our leadership team.”
“Gideon Saar’s addition and the addition of his faction will increase the stability of the coalition and the government, important factors at any time, and especially important in time of war. I am convinced that these steps will reinforce the Government and the Security Cabinet, transforming them into bodies that work cooperatively and harmoniously for the security of the State of Israel, for the citizens of Israel, and for our victory,” he said.
Gallant stated in response, “The security of the State of Israel always was, and will always remain my life’s mission.”
Incoming Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “I thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for the trust he placed in me in appointing me to the position of minister of defense. I accept this responsibility with a sense of mission and a deep commitment to the security of the State of Israel and its citizens.”
“We will work together to advance the defense establishment to victory against our enemies and to achieve the goals of the war: the return of all the hostages as the most important mission, the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the curbing of Iranian aggression and the safe return of the residents of the north and south to their home,” he added.
The move was welcomed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who said, “The prime minister did well to remove him from his position.” Ben-Gvir claimed that “it is not possible to achieve absolute victory” with Gallant as Defense Minister.
On the other hand, opposition figures condemned Gallant’s firing, Democrats chairman Yair Golan called on the public to “take to the streets” in protest.
National Unity MK Orit Farkash Hacohen said, “A Defense Minister who announces conscription orders for thousands of Haredim is fired in the middle of a war on the eve of an [expected Iranian] attack for the sake of the evasion law.”
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A coup attempt in the shadow of Oct. 7
Many fingers are pointed in the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the evidence—and blame—says otherwise.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security and Mossad chief David Barnea attend a ceremony of laying of the Israeli flags on each fallen soldier’s grave at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash 90.
Caroline B. Glick
https://www.jns.org/a-coup-attempt-in-the-shadow-of-oct-7/
Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. She appears regularly on U.S., British, Australian and Indian television networks, including Fox, Newsmax and CBN. She appears, as well, on the BBC, Sky News Britain and Sky News Australia, and on India’s WION News Network. She speaks regularly on nationally syndicated and major market radio shows across the English-speaking world. She is also a frequent guest on major podcasts, including the Dave Rubin Show and the Victor Davis Hanson Show.
(6December2024/ JNS) This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on the Israel Defense Forces’ self-investigation of the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, which took place a kilometer from the Gaza Strip. Hasson’s reports reinforced the fact that the IDF and Shin Bet top brass are to blame for Hamas’s successful day of genocide.
A total of 364 people were brutally murdered at the Nova music festival and along avenues of escape. Thirty-nine were taken hostage. The rave opened on Oct. 5 with 3,800 revelers.
According to earlier investigative reports, the IDF intercepted Hamas’s invasion plans a year before Oct. 7. They received multiple, rapidly escalating warnings of the impending invasion from a variety of sources in the Southern Command in the months, weeks and days prior to that day. Intelligence head Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar did not share the warnings or Hamas’s intercepted invasion plans with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead, they repeatedly briefed him that Hamas was deterred, and Israel simply needed to provide it with more cash from Qatar and more work permits for Gazans in Israel to keep the terrorist regime fat, happy and deterred.
On Oct. 10, we learned that on the night between Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, Halevi, Bar, Southern Command Chief Maj. General Yaron Finkleman, Operations Directorate Chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk and Haliva’s assistant (Haliva was on vacation and not answering his phone), held two telephone consultations, at midnight and 4 a.m., when they discussed multiplying indications that Hamas was about to carry out its invasion, slaughter and kidnapping plan. They chose to do nothing, told no one and agreed to meet again at 8 a.m. Hamas invaded at 6:30.
Hasson’s reported excerpts from two-and-a-half hours of recordings of a conversation between Halevi’s representative Brig. Gen. Ido Mizrahi and police commanders in the Southern District. Halevi appointed Mizrahi to conduct the IDF’s inquiry into the slaughter at Nova.
The police were the heroes of the festival. By declaring that Israel was under invasion at 6:30, Southern District Commander Superintendent Amir Cohen precipitated the Ofakim police station commander’s order to disperse the concert-goers. That decision is credited with saving the lives of 90% of the party’s attendees. According to Mizrahi, about 200 people were at the party site when the Palestinian rape, murder and kidnapping gangs arrived a bit after 9 a.m.
Forty policemen and women died staving off the invading Palestinian terrorists from the Nova festival. IDF forces didn’t show up until after the massacre was over and the 39 hostages had been taken to Gaza. All the same, Mizrahi tried to shift the blame for the mass slaughter from the IDF onto the police, asking why there were still 200 people at the party site at 9.
Surprised, the police explained that they couldn’t enforce the order because they were busy fighting Hamas since the IDF didn’t arrive.
Mizrahi disclosed to Cohen and his officers for the first time that on nighttime telephone calls, Bar, Halevi and their associates discussed the Nova festival but opted to do nothing. The police officers noted that had they known this at 4 a.m., the slaughter would have been prevented.
Plugging the leaks
Hasson’s reports were a grim reminder of the IDF General Staff and the Shin Bet director’s unforgivable and arguably criminal dereliction of duty in everything related to the events of Oct. 7. They were the only ones with knowledge of Hamas’s preparations to invade. They were the only ones who knew that Hamas was taking concrete steps to invade in the hours before the invasion. And they told no one and did nothing.
Since Oct. 7, Halevi and Bar—and their equally culpable subordinates—have tried to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu by insisting that the reason they were unprepared was because of the prime minister’s longstanding policy of containing Hamas. But this claim is nonsensical given that Netanyahu based his policies on false information they provided him.
Their efforts to avoid accepting responsibility for their cataclysmic failures—and to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu whom they kept in the dark—has brought us to Israel’s current state, where by the looks of things, Halevi, Bar, their comrades in the legal system (led by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara) and the justices of the Supreme Court are engaged in an all-out effort to oust Netanyahu from power as quickly as possible.
Their efforts have been ongoing since the start of the war. The generals have all but openly accused Netanyahu of blocking a hostage deal. This comes despite the fact that they have known all along that Hamas has never been willing to free the hostages, whom it rightly views as its life-insurance policy. Halevi, Bar and their subordinates are assumed to be behind nearly all of the leaks to the media related to Israel’s internal discussions regarding the hostage talks. Those leaks have repeatedly been used by Hamas to justify their consistent refusal to make a deal.
The generals are likewise fingered as the most likely sources of real-time leaks from cabinet meetings, geared towards scuttling Netanyahu’s plans to advance military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. They have cooperated under the shadow of the Biden administration to subvert Netanyahu’s orders.
The leaks from the cabinet meetings are all felonies. Yet, despite Netanyahu’s repeated requests that criminal probes be opened to find the leakers, Baharav-Miara has refused.
Her visible determination to enable the subversion of normal workings of government by refusing to investigate the leaks is prima facie illegal. All the same, this is her policy.
In shocking contrast to her consistent protection of anti-government leakers, over the past six weeks, Baharav-Miara has been at the center of a bold-faced effort to criminalize any IDF officer, police officer or public servant who provides Netanyahu and his ministers with information that the IDF and Shin Bet are determined to hide from them, as they hid Hamas’s pre-Oct. 7 invasion plans from Israel’s elected leaders; or advance ministerial policies that Bar, Halevi and Baharav-Miara oppose.
Six weeks ago, Shin Bet officers staged dramatic bedroom arrests of two military intelligence officers and an intelligence NCO, dragging them out of their homes in the middle of the night. They also brutally arrested Eli Feldstein, a military affairs spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office. The two officers were later released, but despite three orders from magistrates and district courts to release Feldstein and the NCO, acting on appeals from Baharav-Miara’s prosecutors, the Supreme Court has kept them behind bars. The NCO is accused of transferring classified information to Feldstein in a manner that endangers national security. Feldstein is accused of leaking classified information to Germany’s Bild newspaper in a manner that endangers national security. The cover story is that the NCO gave Feldstein a Hamas document showing that the terror group is unwilling to make a hostage deal under any conditions and is using Netanyahu’s political opposition to blame the premier for the absence of a deal.
This week, attorney Uri Korb, who represents the NCO, explained the actual story. Several months ago, a group of intelligence officers and NCOs were concerned because Haliva, his replacement Maj. Gen. Yossi Binder, Bar and Halevi were deliberately blocking information from Netanyahu that the officers and NCOs considered essential to the premier’s ability to make decisions related to the war. The NCO transferred this information to Feldstein to be delivered to Netanyahu. The Bild story was just one of many documents the IDF and Shin Bet were hiding from the premier. From the prosecution’s court declarations against Feldstein and the NCO, we learned last week that the NCO provided Feldstein with information about a state actor’s collusion with Hamas in perpetrating Oct. 7. The name of the state entity is blacked out in the document. But the most reasonable interpretation of the text is that it refers either to the Palestinian Authority or Egypt.
In both cases, blocking Netanyahu from receiving the information undermines his ability to understand the nature of the enemy. It also prevents him from developing a strategy to effectively combat hostile actors that the IDF, Shin Bet and Biden administration have been keen to shield from public scrutiny.
Feldstein and the NCO were denied communication with their attorneys for several weeks. Their families attest that the men have been treated as terrorists, and are in psychological and physical distress. Both have also been subjected to massive pressure to incriminate Netanyahu.
Rupture among law-enforcement agencies
The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.
In response to the two men’s plight, the Knesset is advancing a bill that would provide immunity for whistle-blowers who share classified information with the prime minister. In an act of gross insubordination, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari harshly criticized the bill in a press conference on Wednesday night.
The legal system, IDF General Staff and Shin Bet’s joint abuse of Feldstein and the NCO has exposed Israel’s three ruling institutions to harsh criticism for their political subversion. But they don’t care. Far from standing down, last week they upped the ante precipitously.
Last Monday, the Shin Bet arrested Koby Yaakobi, head of the Israeli Prison Service, at gunpoint. They similarly arrested Avishai Muallem, deputy superintendent and the head of the Serious Crimes Unit in the Samaria and Judea District. Yaakobi is suspected of informing Muallem that he was under investigation. Muallem is suspected of refusing to open investigations against Jewish Israelis in Judea and Samaria that the Shin Bet’s “Jewish Division,” has fingered as terror suspects. The Shin Bet accuses Muallem of seeking a bribe in the form of a promotion from Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in exchange for not prosecuting Jewish Israelis.
In recent testimony before the Knesset, Muallem told lawmakers that most complaints filed by Palestinians and anarchists in Judea and Samaria against Israeli Jews are frivolous. Until Muallem took over the unit, its officers served as rubber stamps for the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division’s accusation against Jews.
The self-evident political nature of the two senior officers’ arrests and interrogations has caused a rupture of relations between the police and prison service on the one hand, and the attorney general and the Shin Bet on the other. As in the case of Feldstein and the NCO, Yaakobi and Muallem’s arrests serve a twofold goal.
First, the purpose is to intimidate police officers not to work with Ben-Gvir. Second, Muallem and Yaakobi are being pressured to incriminate the security minister. Last month, Baharav-Miara unsuccessfully tried to coerce Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir. Under extra-legal Supreme Court guidelines, if she indicts Ben-Gvir, then Netanyahu will be required to fire him. Baharav-Miara and her colleagues are convinced that if he is fired, Ben-Gvir will pull his party out of the governing coalition and precipitate its overthrow.
This brings us back to Oct. 7.
Bar, Halevi and the political left have demanded the formation of a commission of inquiry to be controlled by the Supreme Court. The government seeks the establishment of a public commission of inquiry whose members will be chosen in equal numbers by the coalition and the opposition. A judicial commission of inquiry will be chosen by radical leftist Yitzhak Amit, acting president of the Supreme Court. He is expected to appoint commission members who will protect the IDF and Shin Bet from scrutiny and place all the blame for their failure on Netanyahu.
If Netanyahu’s government falls and the left is able to form an alternate government in the existing Knesset, that successor government would pass a law authorizing a commission of inquiry into the Oct. 7 invasion to be appointed by Amit.
As the days and weeks pass, and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws nearer, Israel’s ruling class is becoming desperate to oust Netanyahu from power. They fear that without Biden supporting their efforts and with Trump determined to rout out their American administrative state counterparts, they will lose their grip on unchecked power. Muallem, Yaakobi, Feldstein and the NCO have become victims of their desperation.
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Think for yourself
Finally: Prayer rally in Hevron, Sept 12th 2024
by Rivka Levy 19August2024 https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/finally-prayer-rally-in-hevron-sept-12th/
I just got sent this:
Prayer rally in Hevron-12September2024
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The Rav has called for a prayer gathering in Hevron, on Thursday September 12th, 2024, beginning at 9pm.
BH, the Rav will be coming, too.
Strange to say, this is a very good sign.
All year, I’ve been waiting for one of these prayer gatherings to be called in Hevron – because I’ve seen so many times in the past, how they literally make ‘the problem’ disappear overnight – and all year, it just hasn’t happened.
I guess we hadn’t reached the part in this massive process of awakening and teshuva where the prayer gathering would be effective.
Now, BH, I’m hopeful that the end of the nightmare situation that has been 5784 is in sight.
If, enough people show up in Hebron on September 12th.
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While I was browsing the RavBerland.com site, looking for more stuff about the concept of ‘MBY’ from the Rav, I came across something I wrote five years ago now, in 2019:
https://ravberland.com/5779-the-year-in-review/
It talks a lot about different prayer gatherings in Hevron that took place throughout the year of 5779 – just before the Evils unleashed the scamdemic on the world.
Perhaps more to the point, it reminded me of how many ‘tough times’ were going on in 5779 – and how these prayer gatherings literally turned everything around for Am Yisrael.
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Five years ago, it was way harder to ‘get with the Rav’, in some ways.
You had to have already figured out that the masonic media lies about everything, collaborates with the corrupt State to frame innocent people for political ends – and that the State itself is rotten to the core, morally.
That was quite an ‘ask’ five years ago.
But now?
This should be obvious to any awake person (awake defined as, literally, not asleep, and with two functioning brain cells.)
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So, if you can make it to Hevron on September 12th at 9pm, even with mesirut nefesh, please come and join the prayer gathering, with the Rav.
At the very least, these prayer gatherings ‘work’ to sweeten things for the people who make the effort to participate.
And if you only help yourself by coming – dayenu.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody’s predictions 28July2024
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-predictions
I hope I’m wrong on both counts, but here are my predictions:
1) Israel will make a very lukewarm attack against Hezbolla, maybe killing 12 porcupines in a deserted Hezbolla base;
2) Kamala Harris will win the US Presidential Elections.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-predictions
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Israel hits Iran
“Operation Days of Teshuva” 26October2024
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-27October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva
The more the smoke clears from yesterday’s miraculous IAF strike against Iran, the more we must thank Hashem and praise His Name for giving our airmen the skill and success for accomplishing the impossible. Iran is now completely exposed, and that’s not all:
1) Satellite photos show damage on Iran’s missile production that will take 2 years to repair.
2) All four Russian supplied S300 missile defense systems were destroyed.
3) All radar defenses surrounding Tehran were destroyed.
4) 12 different ballistic-fuel mixing centers were destroyed.
5) Several weapons research centers were destroyed. One of them may have been a nuclear research center as a message to Iran: You could have been hit much worse…
Successes like this carry a pricetag. No wonder the mission was called, “Operation Days of Teshuva (Repentance)”; maybe the IDF was referring to the recent High Holidays, but Hashem is referring to the coming days, when all of us should strengthen ourselves in emuna and Torah observance. Hashem is showing us what He can do for us when we do. Let’s start with something easy – stop badmouthing other people and stay away from those who do. Unity is what Hashem wants from us.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-27October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva-Shabbat Breishit
Thank You, Hashem, for a successful “Operation Days of Teshuva” strike against Iran, early Shabbat Breishit. Here’s what we know now:
1. Dozens of IAF F16s, F15s and support aircraft departed for Iran at about 2AM Shabbat, local time.
2. Iran’s proxy air defenses in Iraq and Syria were first neutralized.
3. Israel attacked the plant that produces Russian S300 ballistic missiles, drone-manufacturing plants and other strategic sites.
4. There was no attack against oil fields, nuclear plants or civilian centers.
5. The attack lasted for 3 hours until 5 AM.
6. All of our personnel and aircraft returned home safely, Baruch Hashem.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26October2024-Operation Days of Teshuva-Shabbat Breishit
19April2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
HonestReporting Canada-tweet-19April2024-Israeli strikes on Iran
According to @abcnews, at least 7 different #Iranian locations have been struck so far tonight by #Israeli airstrikes.
HonestReporting Canada-tweet-19April2024-Israeli strikes on Iran
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Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-1September2024-Those who destroy you
Why were Isaiah’s eyes red from crying? Yet why is Sinwar laughing?
Sinwar wants the address of the National Labor Union (Histadrut) head to send him a bouquet of flowers. While foreign governments, including Biden and Blinken, are condemning the Hamas savages who murdered our hostages in cold blood – Bar David, head of the leftist deep-state mafia aka Histadrut, is calling for a general strike tomorrow. While Israel’s right is busy fighting the enemy, Israel’s left is busy fighting Israel’s right. This is what brought tears to Isaiah’s eyes: מְהָרְסַיִךְ וּמַחֲרִיבַיִךְ, מִמֵּךְ יֵצֵאוּ. – “Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst (Isaiah 49:17).
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-1September2024-Those who destroy you
List of Cities not striking
Malkah Fleisher-twert-1September2024-List of Cities not striking
This is a partial list of the cities which have refused to take part in the demoralizing and highly politicized strike the labor unions decided to foist on the backs of Israelis who have already been suffering and struggling for almost a year:
Jerusalem
Ashdod
Netanya
Ramle
Dimona
Holon
Petach Tikva
Tzfat
Efrat
Ariel
Katzrin
Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Motzkin
Kiryat Bialik
Beit Shemesh
Mitzpe Ramon
Arad
Maale Adumim
Migdal Haemek
Harish
Nahal Sorek
Bnai Brak
Shlomi
Maale Tarshisha
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Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant.
Caroline Glick-tweet-2September2024-The American announcement-Yoav Galant
ל”עסקה,” איננה סיבה למסיבה. להיפך. זה איום אסטרטגי ממעלה ראשונה. התזמון אינו מקרי. מדובר ככל הנראה במהלך מתואם עם ראשי כנופיית קפלן שמאשימים באופן בלתי נתפס, את ראש הממשלה בפשעי חמאס. הלחץ האמריקני לא מופעל כיום, ומעולם לא הופעל עד כה, על חמאס אלא רק על ישראל. והמסר שמועבר בהודעה על “הצעה סופית,” הוא, זהו יהודונים, שיחקתם מספיק. עכשיו תתקפלו! ומי מחולל את הכל כאן בפועל? מי אדריכל המהלך שנועד להביא לכניעה? יואב גלנט. כאשר ההיסטוריה של תקופה זאת תיכתב, נדמה שגלנט ייזכר שם כמולל המערכה שנועדה להביא להתפרקות של המהפכה הציונית. אם אני צודקת, אז ההתנהלות הבלתי נסלחת שלו בקבינט ביום חמישי והציוץ שלו אתמול בבוקר יתבררו כמצית של ליל גלנט השני, והאסוני ביותר. בפעם הראשונה, המעשה שלו הביא לפירוק יכולת נבחרי העם לתפוס את הגה השלטון מהפקידים הפוסט ציונים העוינים לעם ולשלטונו. בפעם השנייה, כעת, המעשה שלו עלול, חלילה, להביא לאובדן הריבונות שלנו. לא הגענו עד הלום כדי להתקפל. אסור למצמץ. אסור להתבלבל.
The American announcement that the administration is preparing a “final offer” for a “deal,” is no cause for celebration. on the contrary. This is a strategic threat of the first order. The timing is no accident. This is apparently a coordinated move with the leaders of the Kaplan gang who unimaginably accuse the Prime Minister of Hamas crimes. The American pressure is not applied today, and has never been applied until now, on Hamas but only on Israel. And the message that is conveyed in the announcement of a “final offer,” is, this is Jews, you have played enough. Now fold up! And who creates everything here in practice? Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant. When the history of this period is written, it seems that Gallant will be remembered there as the instigator of the campaign that was intended to bring about the disintegration of the Zionist revolution. If I’m right, then his inexcusable conduct in the Cabinet on Thursday and his tweet yesterday morning will turn out to be the igniter of the second, and most disastrous, Night of Gallant. For the first time, his act resulted in the dismantling of the ability of the people’s elected officials to seize the helm of power from the post-Zionist officials hostile to the people and their government. For the second time, now, his act may, God forbid, result in the loss of our sovereignty. We didn’t come this far to fold. Do not blink. Don’t get confused.
Caroline Glick-tweet-2September2024-The American announcement-Yoav Galant
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The Palestinian Tradition of Celebrating the Death of Jews
by Bassam Tawil
8October2024 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20998/palestinians-celebrate-death-of-jews
Palestinians celebrating in the streets
Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists.
The latest Palestinian celebrations took place on October 1, 2024, when Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel. The celebrations occurred even though some of the missiles fell in Palestinian areas in the West Bank and the only person killed was, ironically, a Palestinian man in the city of Jericho.
In one West Bank village, Palestinians erected a monument from the tail of an Iranian missile to celebrate Iran’s attack on Israel.
Similar celebrations took place in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and in many countries when Iran launched its first direct missile and drone attack against Israel in April. According to a report by Iran’s Tehran Times:
The largest celebrations occurred a year ago, on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Iran-backed Hamas terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip and murdered 1,200 Israelis. During the attack, thousands of Israelis were raped, tortured, and burned alive, while more than 240 others were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. A year later, 101 Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas terrorists.
A video from the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television network titled “Palestinians overjoyed with the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation” (the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 attack) showed celebrations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Iranian-affiliated Lebanese TV station Mayadeen aired a report about Palestinian celebrations in the West Bank, where sweets were handed out in Nablus and guns were fired in Jenin “in jubilation.” A little girl can be seen waving a rifle and a handgun in the air.
Palestinian activist Omar Assaf praised the Hamas attack:
In 2004, thousands of Palestinians spilled onto the streets of the Gaza Strip to celebrate a twin suicide bombing in southern Israel that killed 16 people. The Palestinians celebrating, estimated to number about 20,000, threw sweets in the air and chanted slogans in support of Hamas, which took credit for the terrorist attack.
The Palestinians are also happy to see Americans targeted by terrorists. While Israel declared a “national day of mourning” in solidarity with the US after the 9/11 attacks, Palestinians celebrated by handing out sweets, firing guns in the air and chanting Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest).
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has since been celebrating the 9/11 attacks with cartoons glorifying Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or mocking and attacking the US.
The PA’s official media outlets made a concerted effort to bash the US by rubbing salt in its most sensitive wounds, and by depicting America as evil, while appropriating Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as the victims.
In one Palestinian cartoon, bin Laden is shown forming a victory sign with his fingers, which are made up of the smoldering Twin Towers next to a plane about to fly into them.
In another cartoon, the PA mocked the US by portraying Uncle Sam fleeing in terror from the date “September 11.”
After the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians on October 7, a senior Palestinian official repeated the accusation that the US knew about the 9/11 attacks but wanted them to happen:
It is hard to forget how the Palestinians also celebrated when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel more than 30 years ago.
Here is what The Washington Post wrote about the celebrations back then:
It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. It is also hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to condemn the October 7 atrocities and massacres against Israelis. Palestinian leaders have good reason not to speak out: they are afraid of being killed by their own people.
Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, ignored the Hamas attack and instead accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “crimes,” and “genocide” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Needless to say, Abbas also ignored the fact that a large number of Palestinians expressed support for the Hamas-led October 7 attack and took to the streets to celebrate the brutal mass-murder of Israeli women, children and the elderly.
Palestinian leaders who do not have the courage, or are unwilling, to denounce terrorism will never be able to call on their people to recognize Israel’s right to exist, let alone make peace with it. Palestinians who celebrate the murder of their neighbors are not ready for a state, which will undoubtedly be used as a springboard to slaughter more Jews and to try to destroy Israel.
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people’s lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
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JerusalemCats Comments: The Palestinians won’t be celebrating when they are Deported to some “Hell-hole”.
Law allowing deportations of families of terrorists approved in second and third readings
The law permits the Minister of the Interior to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
Hezki Baruch / 7November2024, 3:31 AM (GMT+2) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398747
The Knesset plenum approved early Thursday morning the second and third readings of a law allowing the deportation of families of terrorists, proposed by MKs Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud), Eliyahu Revivo (Likud) and Almog Cohen (Otzma Yehudit).
61 MKs voted in favor of the legislation and 41 voted against it.
The law stipulates that the Minister of the Interior will be permitted to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, after a hearing, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
In addition, the option will be given to deport a family member who expressed support or identified with the act, or published words of praise or encouragement for a terrorist act or a terrorist organization.
The validity of the deportation order for an Israeli citizen shall not be less than seven years and shall not exceed 15 years, and for a permanent or temporary resident – shall not be less than 10 years and shall not exceed 20 years.
The explanatory notes to the bill read: “In recent years, and in particular after the beginning of the Swords of Iron war, which broke out following the terrorist attack that began on October 7, 2023, the cases in which citizens and holders of a permanent residence permit in Israel incite to terrorism have increased, either by publishing direct calls to commit terrorist acts or by publishing words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for these acts, supporting them or identifying with them.”
The notes further states that “from various studies conducted over the years, both by the National Security Council and by the IDF related to dozens of terrorists with Israeli citizenship, it emerged that the terrorists’ only concern was what would happen to their families after the attack. There is no doubt that many terrorists will refrain from carrying out an attack, as long as they know that their families will be punished for it.”
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Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza?
Jewish Uncensored-tweet-17November2024-Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza
U.S Senator Tom Cotton:
“Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza? Israel is the victim. We did not provide aid to Germany and Japan in World War II.”
Jewish Uncensored-tweet-17November2024-Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza
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A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food
Yehuda Teitelbaum-tweet-12December2024-Nova survivor response
A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food.
Her response?
“For me, Gaza should not exist. I stared death in the eyes. I was there. I came back from the dead…It doesn’t matter who you are they simply want to kill. Someone who doesn’t want that the other side lives, for me has no place in this world”
Yehuda Teitelbaum-tweet-12December2024-Nova survivor response
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Qatar wants Hamas to win
Daniel Rubenstein-tweet-24October2024-Qatar wants Hamas to win
Qatar wants Hamas to win. Qatar told Hamas to keep the hostages. Qatar mourned the death of Yahya Sinwar. Qatar condemned Israel on October 7. This is what the State Department calls “promoting regional peace.”
Matthew Miller-tweet-24October2024-SecBlinken in Qatar
In Doha, @SecBlinken will meet with officials to discuss seizing the moment to end the conflict in Gaza and secure the release of hostages. The U.S. is grateful for Qatar’s indispensable role in promoting regional peace.
Daniel Rubenstein-tweet-24October2024-Qatar wants Hamas to win
JerusalemCats Comments Remember who is in Qatar.
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny
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Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
Sangharsh Lokhande-tweet-8November2024-Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
Qatar has started expelling Hamas officials, reportedly telling them, “You’re no longer welcome here” 🇶🇦🚫. This major shift comes just hours after @realDonaldTrump U.S. election win, according to @kann_news.
Sangharsh Lokhande-tweet-8November2024-Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
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Fatah demands Progroms
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-11November2024-Fatah demands Progroms
Reminder, this is Fatah, the party of Mahmoud Abbas. These are the folks you wanna give a state too? They would do a pogrom every day of the week if they could!
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-11November2024-Fatah demands Progroms
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Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-30May2024-UNRWA
Introducing Episode #1 – UNRWA of the Deep Dive series with Dr. @EinatWilf
Dr. Einat Wilf is a former member of the Knesset and author of the best-selling book “The War of Return.”
#deepdive #israelicitizenspox
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-30May2024-UNRWA
Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-6June2024-Anti Zionism is now live
Dr. @EinatWilf is back with Deep Dive!
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
If you like to access a free course on Zionism and Anti-Zionism taught by Dr @einatwilf
you can access the link here: https://tikvahfund.org/course/zionism-and-anti-zionism-the-history-of-two-opposing-ideas/
#israelicitizenspox #deepdive #einatwilf #antizionism
IsraeliCitizenSpox-tweet-6June2024-Anti Zionism is now live
Episode #2 Anti-Zionism | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
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Dr. Einat Wilf explains how wars should end
Israeli Citizen Spox-tweet-17November2024-victory and defeat
FULL VIDEO: It is time to bring back words like “victory” and “defeat.” Citizen Spokeswoman Dr. @EinatWilf explains how wars should end.
Israeli Citizen Spox-tweet-17November2024-victory and defeat
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4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-8June2024-4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival.
They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations.
We will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-8June2024-4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
Noa Argamani, taken hostage on Oct.7, was rescued yesterday in a miraculous special-forces mission in Gaza. Despite 2 rescue vehicles that broke down, Hashem made the mission succeed. The photo, from a few months ago, is her dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite.
harabi_770-tweet-8June2024-Ya’akov Argamani praying at Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
הבקשה שנענתה: יעקב ארגמני, אביה של נועה שחולצה השבת מהשבי בעזה, מעתיר בתפילה על ציונו הקדוש של הרבי לפני מספר חודשים.
The request was answered: Ya’akov Argamani, the father of Noa, who was rescued on Shabbat from captivity in Gaza, petitions in prayer for the Rebbe’s holy grave a few months ago.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
hostages return celebrations
Im Tirtzu-tweet-8June2024-hostages return celebrations
Just imagine the celebrations when all the hostages return!
Im Tirtzu-tweet-8June2024-hostages return celebrations
If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-say Thank You Hashem
If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile. Before you do something, solicit Hashem’s help by saying “B’ezrat Hashem.” Once you’ve done it, say “Thank You, Hashem”. Wait and see how successful you’ll be.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-9June2024-say-B’ezrat Hashem-Thank You Hashem
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Hamas abuses the hostages
Eylon Levy-tweet-10June2024-Hamas abuses the hostages
We are learning more about how Hamas abuses the hostages (and these are the ones held in civilian homes):
▪️Beatings “almost every day”
▪️No protein, so muscle wastage
▪️Malnutrition, periods of “almost no food whatsoever”
▪️Medical neglect
▪️No sunlight
Eylon Levy-tweet-10June2024-Hamas abuses the hostages
Hostages were beaten, abused ‘almost every day,’ says doctor who treated rescuees
10 June 2024, 10:05 pm https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostages-were-beaten-abused-almost-every-day-says-doctor-who-treated-rescuees/
File: Itai Pessach, director of the children’s hospital at Sheba Medical Center, during a television interview (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
The doctor in charge of treating the hostages rescued from Gaza on Saturday tells CNN that the abductees were regularly beaten by their captors.
“It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Medical Center says. “Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”
According to the American outlet, Pessach says the eight months the hostages spent under Hamas captivity “left a significant mark on their health,” despite them appearing outwardly to be in good shape.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he says, adding that they said the supply of food and water varied, and that they were moved a few times and dealt with different guards.
“There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever,” Pessach adds. “There were other periods where it was a little better, but all in all, the combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition or not getting enough food or not getting the right kind of food, medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun and all of the other things have [a] significant effect on health.”
Elaborating on the psychological strain, he says: “As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith, I think, is where you get to the breaking point.”
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Oli London-tweet-13June2024-Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov had his hands and feet bound for 2 months during captivity.
His parents have revealed the horrific conditions he was subjected to during the 245 days he spent as a hostage.
“He told us that for two months, they were tied up by their hands and feet. In the first weeks, their hands were tied behind their backs…
In other cases, they had to relieve themselves in a bucket. The terrorists engaged in psychological abuse, constantly telling each captive, ‘Israel has forgotten you.”
Source: Ynet News
Oli London-tweet-13June2024-Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
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The inside story of Israel’s dramatic Gaza hostage rescue
The JC can reveal previously unknown details of the daring mission, which was the result of weeks of intelligence work culminating in a 45 minute shoot-out with Hamas terrorists
BY Elon Perry
13June2024 08:32 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/the-inside-story-of-israels-dramatic-gaza-hostage-rescue-e2t1d8qu#:~:text=On%2012%20May%2C%20Israel%20received,to%20locate%20the%20exact%20location
On 12 May, Israel received intelligence about the location of four hostages in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the Gaza Strip. From that day on, every branch of Israeli intelligence was focused on the area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to locate the exact location. A team of undercover ‘Mista’arvim’ (units that assimilate into local populations to gather intelligence) were sent there, mainly in the local market of Nuseirat.
Their role was not only to gather intelligence from locals but also to check information from the interrogations of captured terrorists. In addition, information was gathered by aerial observation and other sophisticated technological means.
After 19 days of intensive cooperative intelligence gathering work, the combined units managed to compile solid and accurate information about the location of the Israeli hostages. It was discovered that the hostages were being held in two separate buildings in the same area. Noa Argamani was held in the first floor of one and three other hostages were in another building, 800 metres away, on the third floor.
At the beginning of June, this information was brought to the War Cabinet, and the Chief of Staff of the IDF and head of the Shin Bet were asked to present a rescue plan. The intelligence was kept top secret. Even the other forces in Gaza, including senior commanders, were not informed about it. As the War Cabinet discussed options, the preparations and training for the operation began.
In order to finally verify the information and to prepare the ground for the operation, another team of undercover soldiers (including several women dressed in hijabs and long black dresses) was sent into the Nuseirat refugee camp. Pretending to be two Gazan families looking for a large house in Nuseirat, they arrived in two cheap-looking old cars loaded with domestic items characteristic of those families displaced in the Strip, such as mattresses and clothing identical to those of the locals.
When the residents of the Nuseirat camp asked the undercovers where they came from and what they were looking to do in Nuseirat, they replied that they had fled from Rafah due to “deadly shelling from the Israeli army”, and decided to rent a house in the area. Then they pointed to the building where Noa Argamani was being held. They showed one of the locals a large amount of cash and offered to pay three times the going rate for rent. The local agreed to help and within three hours found a large house on the very street where Argamani was held. This was only 800 metres away from where the other three hostages were held.
A few days later, after settling into the house and getting to know the area, including shopping at the local market, and realising that they did not arouse suspicion, the undercovers began their mission: verifying the location where the hostages were held. They split into two teams. One team consisted of two commandos, a man dressed as a typical Gazan local and a woman dressed in a long black dress and hijab. They began marching down the street towards the ‘Al-Auda’ medical centre where, in a nearby residential building 200 metres from the hospital, Noa Argamani was held. The undercovers walked with complete confidence as if they were walking down a street in Tel Aviv. To add to their authenticity, they stopped from time to time at stalls along the sides of the street, showing interest in the products while complaining about the difficult situation in Gaza. This was done in fluent Arabic with a perfect Gazan accent. Behind them, walked four more undercover men, armed to give backup in case a ‘Fauda-like’ situation occurred (Fauda in Arabic means unexpected chaos).
The second team consisted of four female soldiers dressed as typical Arab women (one feigning being pregnant) carrying plastic bags full of food products and vegetables. They walked in two pairs (a young Muslim woman is not allowed to walk around alone) towards a nearby residential building, where, on the third floor, the three male hostages were held. Behind them walked four more undercover men armed to give them backup.
Meanwhile five other members of the undercover team stayed at the house to guard it and make sure the teams had not been exposed and that no nasty surprises would await them.
Three hours later, at the prearranged time, the two teams came back to the rented house and began to process the information they had obtained. Now it was confirmed: the four hostages were being held in two homes of Gazan families. The force commander confirmed to Israel that the two locations were correct.
The cabinet decided to act. Twenty-eight fighters from the ‘Yamam’, a commando unit that specialises in fighting terrorists and rescuing hostages, began training on two specially built models that replicated the two buildings where the hostages were held. After three days of training, the commander of the force informed the IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, who then informed the Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, that they were ready to carry out the operation. After Prime Minister Netanyahu had been informed and given permission to launch the operation, it was able to proceed.
On Thursday night, 5 June, the undercovers were ordered to leave the area of Nuseirat refugee camp without arousing suspicion, although four remained to keep an eye on the buildings to make sure that the hostages were not transferred to another location.
Only at this time were senior Israeli commanders and other cabinet members informed about the operation.
On Friday morning, 6 June, the 28 commandos of the ‘Yamam’ unit began making their way in two teams towards the two buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp. To maintain the element of surprise as much as possible, the unit’s fighters travelled hiding in two trucks.
Just before 11 am the commandos arrived with precise timing at the two targets and awaited the order to attack. Observations and technological surveillance measures from IDF aircraft reported that the area was ‘clean’, with no suspicious movements near the two buildings. The information and live coverage of the alleys and the 800-metre-long street that separated the two target buildings were transmitted directly to the screens in two command and control rooms in Israel from which the operation was being overseen.
At 11.00 am exactly the commandos received the order to go ahead and stormed both buildings simultaneously in full coordination, to prevent the terrorists from endangering the hostages and the entire operation.
The Israeli soldiers eliminated the terrorists guarding Noa Argamani, and within six minutes had rescued her unharmed from the apartment. They then took her to a waiting helicopter that immediately flew her back to Israel.
But while the rescue of Argamani went smoothly, the task of rescuing the other three hostages on the third floor of the second building became complicated.
They were held in the home of Dr Ahmed al-Jamal, a medical doctor, who was a Hamas activist. His son, Abdullah, a journalist who had written for Al-Jazeera, was also staying in the apartment.
Some of the commandos used a ladder to enter directly into the room where the three hostages were held. This coincided with the entry of the rest of the force who came up the stairs from the main entrance of the building.
But Commander Arnon Zamora’s team, which broke into the apartment at the head of the force, encountered massive fire from around thirty Hamas terrorists in the apartment They fired with machine guns, threw grenades and some even fired rocket-propelled grenade missiles at the surprised Israelis. This is how Arnon Zamora was killed.
The fact of the presence of 30 terrorists in the apartment had not been known to the undercover teams who had reported the information about the hostages’ location back to Israel. It is assumed that the terrorists arrived at the apartment only that morning or the night before, to strengthen the guarding of the three hostages.
Nevertheless, the experienced Israeli commando fighters were not deterred by the deadly surprise and continued to fight the terrorists with determination at close range, joined by the other fighters who were waiting outside the apartment. The three hostages had to hide in the bathroom of the apartment, protected by several Israeli fighters, during the battle. There was no way to leave the apartment due to the massive unexpected gunfire as it might endanger the hostages.
After a long face-to-face battle, the Israelis managed to eliminate all the terrorists in the apartment. But during the shooting from dozens of guns inside a crowded two-room apartment, Arnon Zamora was hit and lay on the floor bleeding, while three medics and a doctor leant over him, under heavy fire, trying to save his life.
Meanwhile, dozens of terrorists emerged from the tunnels around the building and began to fire at the Israeli fighters with machine guns and RPG missiles. The Israelis started making their way out of the building (several of them carrying Arnon Zamora on a stretcher), running through smoke-filled alleys and the nearby market which was crowded with thousands of Gazans who would not have hesitated to lynch them. The Israeli forces tried, under constant fire, to get to the rescue vehicle that was waiting for them, but it was hit by two RPG missiles.
The commander of the operation in Israel then activated ‘Plan B’, the rescue plan that had been prepared in advance: a daring operation under massive, very close fire from the enemy, covered by Israeli fire from ground, sea and air.
With the help of tanks, hundreds of soldiers (from the Golani and Givati infantry brigades and paratroopers) charged on foot into the refugee camp, fighting face-to-face battles with Hamas terrorists while navy ships covered them from the west and air force helicopters from the east. Fire from the air hit the terrorists just ten metres from the Israeli soldiers.
The reinforcement forces and the air force managed to isolate the battle scene, providing a safe escape route for the main force escorting the three hostages.
At the end of an exhausting and continuous battle the Israeli fighters eliminated all the armed threats in the battle arena.
Hamas claims that during the rescue operation in the crowded streets of the refugee camp, 274 Palestinians were killed. However, the IDF says that 104 Palestinians were killed or wounded – all of whom were Hamas terrorists or armed civilians who collaborated with the terrorist organisation.
After the battle, the three abductees (who had kept their cool throughout) were led by the fighters to one of the Israeli helicopters waiting for them and flew them to Israel.
Meanwhile, the air force planes bombed the building which collapsed within seconds.
The special forces soldiers then boarded the other two helicopters that took off back to Israel. Attempts to revive Arnon Zamora continued on the short flight, but l he was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital.
Elon Perry is a journalist and former commando in the Golani Brigade of the IDF
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Everyone in Gaza is Hamas! There are NO Civilians.
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-8June2024-Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people
Why are not enough people asking the question: Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people?
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-8June2024-Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people
Hamas is intentionally involving the civilian population of Gaza in its war crimes
Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-10June2024-Hamas intentionally involving Gaza civilian population
We need to talk about the elephant in the room.
Many Gazan civilians participated in killing, raping, and kidnapping Israelis on October 7.
It is also reported that Gazan civilians were paid by Hamas to hold hostages captive in their homes.
Hamas is intentionally involving the civilian population of Gaza in its war crimes.
The world must condemn this in the strongest terms.
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Al-Jazeera held hostages
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal
Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal, despite the fact that he is literally listed on the Al Jazeera website.
But even more telling, they call the rescued Israelis “PRISONERS” and not “HOSTAGES.”
Prisoners? What was their crime? Being Jewish?
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Abdallah AlJamal-Al Jazeera journalist terrorist
Meet Abdallah AlJamal, Al Jazeera journalist by day, terrorist kidnapper of Jewish civilians from peace festivals by night.
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal
Abdallah AlJamal-Al Jazeera journalist terrorist
OSINTdefender-tweet-9June2024-Al-Jazeera held hostages
The Israel Defense Force has now Confirmed what was reported earlier today, which is that Abdallah Aljamal, a Photojournalist as well as Writer/Editor for Al-Jazeera and several other Palestinian New’s Organizations was a Member of Hamas and was holding several of the Hostages which were Rescued yesterday from the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, inside of his Home in the Central Gaza Strip. Both Abdallah and several Members of his Family were Killed while trying to Resist the Rescue of Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv who were all being held within the Home; with Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, the Commander of the Israeli Police’s “Yamam” National Counter-Terrorism Unit, who the Operation is now named after, being Killed while entering the House.
OSINTdefender-tweet-9June2024-Al-Jazeera held hostages
UPDATE
Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Oli London-tweet-9July2024-Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit The Palestine Chronicle after one of its employees held him hostage.
Almog Meir Jan was held in the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a contributor to the website The Palestine Chronicle for nearly 250 days.
His captor also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labor ministry in Gaza before being killed in the rescue mission to free Almog and the other hostages.
The Palestine Chronicle is a U.S. operated non-profit, run by the tax-exempt group, the People Media Project.
Whilst Aljamal kept the Israeli man hostage, he continued to write articles for the newspaper and pushed anti-Israel propaganda.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Washington state alleges The Palestine Chronicle “knowingly and willfully procured and disseminated Hamas propaganda to the Palestine Chronicle’s readers in the United States,” citing reports alleging “at least six Palestine Chronicle writers and contributors have been affiliated with Iranian propaganda outlets.”
Source: Fox News
Oli London-tweet-9July2024-Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Hostages were held here
The Persian Jewess-tweet-9June2024-Everyone Knew about the imprisoned hostages
As a Middle Easterner, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that there is ZERO CHANCE Abdullah Al Jamal imprisoned hostages in his home for 246 days without his neighbors, in laws, cousins, second cousins, siblings, and mother’s uncle’s cousin’s dentist knowing about it.
The Persian Jewess-tweet-9June2024-Everyone Knew about the imprisoned hostages
Nioh Berg-tweet-8June2024-hostages were held here
Apparently this was the location in Nuseirat where the hostages were held.
If you as a civilian agree to keep hostages imprisoned in your home, you become a combatant. Simple as that.
Nioh Berg-tweet-8June2024-hostages were held here
Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area
HonestReporting-tweet-10June2024-Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area
🤷 It’s really that simple.
No one is saying Palestinian lives don’t matter. It’s about who you’re blaming and where you’re directing your anger. Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area during the IDF rescue mission tells you everything you need to know.
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The Entebbe Rescue
IDF-tweet-4July2016-Entebbe-Rescue 40 yrs ago, the IDF rescued 102 hostages in the historic Operation Entebbe rescue mission
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by a hijacker of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO)
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by a hijacker of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO)
Operation Entebbe
This is the remarkable account of the successful completion of Operation Entebbe as Lt. Col. (res.) Avi Mor – the navigator of three of the four planes sent to rescue the hostages in Uganda – describes in detail his experience in directing 103 Jewish hostages to freedom.
02January2018
IDF Editorial Team
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/wars-and-operations/operation-entebbe/
Lt. Col. (res.) Mor knows what it means to fight for freedom. He was born in Poland and escaped to Israel with his parents and seven siblings during the Nazi regime. He enlisted in the Israel Air Force and passed the rigorous Flight Academy course. During his time as a captain in the IAF, he became a trained navigator. His talent for navigation was put to the test when, on June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked.
Evacuated Entebbe hostages
The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv, had a scheduled layover in Athens, Greece, before it was to continue to Paris, France. Shortly after taking off from Athens, four of the new passengers hijacked the flight and demanded the release of hundreds of prisoners worldwide. The hijackers – Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann of the German Baader-Meinhof militant group, and two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – directed the hijacked flight to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where Ugandan soldiers, under the leadership of then-Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada, helped support the hijackers and trap the hostages.
Upon arrival, the terrorists immediately separated the Jewish and Israeli hostages from the rest of the captives. “Even now, as I am telling you the process by which the terrorists selected their hostages, it hurts me to say it,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said, recounting that “it was a similar selection process the Nazis administered when selecting who would go work and who would be sent to the gas chambers.”
Evacuated Entebbe hostages landing in Israel
The Israeli security establishment faced a ticking clock. Room for negotiation? None. Information about the terrorists’ plans? Minimal. Deadline for terrorists’ demands? Forty-eight hours – or else, they threatened, they would start murdering hostages.
Gathering Intelligence
With the deadline in motion and little known about the underlying motives of the hijackers, their exact whereabouts in Entebbe Airport, and their plans moving forward, Israel’s government and security officials sought to collect information about the situation as quickly as possible.
“One of the biggest problems we had,” recalled Lt. Col. (res.) Mor, “was that we were operating with minimal clarity throughout the entire mission, as we had no reliable source of information. And, when faced with an ultimatum, time is of the essence.”
In the week before the raid, Israel tried a number of political avenues to release the hostages. Faced with little choice, the Israeli government announced that it would enter into negotiations. This provided Israel with just enough time to consolidate a seemingly impossible military rescue operation, as the terrorists issued a new ultimatum for July 4.
Gathering intelligence took a few days and, by midday Tuesday, IDF forces were able to gather enough information about the situation to provide them with basic clarity to work desperately on a possible rescue attempt.
In the middle of the night on Wednesday, Lt. Col. (res.) Mor received a house visit from a friend and fellow soldier in the Israel Air Force.
“My wife answered the door. My friend told her ‘Norit, I suggest you go to your room and close the door,’” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor recalled. “By 6 the following morning, I was at an exercise with Sayeret Matkal.” From that moment on, every single person who was in some way relevant to the mission was in a period of intensive brainstorming for the best possible rescue scenario to present to Israel’s governing officials.
A few options were thrown around until, on July 1st, the mission’s main commander, Brig. Gen. (res.) Dan Shomron (later to become the IDF’s Chief of Staff), presented the rescue plan to Lt. Gen. (res.) Mordechai Gur (then Chief of Staff), Shimon Peres (then Israel’s defense minister) and Yitzhak Rabin (then prime minister) for final authorization to complete the highly secretive rescue mission.
One of the aircraft crews that landed at Entebbe poses with their plane after the mission.
One of the aircraft crews that landed at Entebbe poses with their plane after the mission.
Ready, Set, Don’t Fire
Out of this plane emerged two jeeps and a black Mercedes, practically identical to the car of then-Ugandan president Idi Amin Dada. Lt. Col. Netanyahu’s unit drove slowly and calmly towards the old terminal, appearing as if they were Ugandan forces in familiar vehicles. They were ordered not to shoot before reaching the old terminal and to take the terrorists by surprise. However, one of the IDF soldiers shot at a Ugandan soldier who was heavily armed and close to their vehicle. They were no longer undercover, and their plan was now altered as they had to reach the old terminal as quickly as possible.
The second and third Israeli planes arrived six minutes later, carrying reinforcements and troops assigned to help fight the Ugandan forces surrounding the airport. “I had the great honor of being the leading navigator for aircrafts two, three, and four,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said proudly.
The fourth aircraft – the only aircraft with enough gas to fly to Entebbe and back to Israel, arrived empty, ready to evacuate the hostages and take them home. “The rest of us had no details about the first aircraft and what was going on down there. I was in the second aircraft and, whether the first was successful or not, we had to land at the airport precisely six minutes after them,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said. “Luckily, they succeeded and, in six minutes, killed the terrorists and rescued the hostages.”
Within 20 minutes of their arrival, IDF soldiers began evacuating the hostages in the fourth aircraft. “Our mission was accomplished the instant the hostages had left Entebbe,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor recalled.
Entebbe Raid-two jeeps and a black Mercedes
Everyone was accounted for besides one: Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the commander of the first aircraft’s Sayeret Matkal rescue unit, who had been shot and killed while helping hostages return to the aircraft. At least five other soldiers were wounded during the escape, but the soldiers finished evacuating the hostages, loaded Lt. Col. Netanyahu’s body into one of the planes, and left Entebbe Airport only 58 minutes after their arrival. The operation was later named “Operation Yonatan” in honor of its commander and one of Israel’s greatest soldiers.
Returning Home
On the morning of July 4, 1976, the rescued hostages and their defenders landed safely in Israel, concluding one of the most daring chapters in the history of the IDF. “I did not register it then, as we were still in mission mode,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor explained, “but we landed at Ben Gurion [Airport in Israel] to a sea of Israelis swarming with pride, elated to welcome us home.”
Looking back, Lt. Col. (res.) Mor insists this was one of Israel’s finest moments, as its heroic actions were heard around the world. “It marked one of the best times in Israel’s history in terms of international recognition and respect,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor stated.
Operation Entebbe marked a dramatic victory over international terrorism, but it did not eliminate the danger. Thirty seven years later, as Israel continues to cope with the threat of terror, the rescue at Entebbe serves as a reminder that victory is worth the fight.
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They Criticized the Entebbe Rescue, Too
The Soviet and Chinese governments denounced what they called “the Zionist aggression.” United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim charged that Israel had committed a “serious violation of the sovereignty” of Uganda.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/372241/they-criticized-the-entebbe-rescue-too/
It may seem perplexing that anybody would criticize Israel’s rescue of four hostages from Gaza. But in 1976, there was criticism of Israel’s rescue of hostages from Entebbe, too.
While Israelis celebrated the June 8 rescue of hostages held by Arab terrorists and civilians in Gaza, United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese accused the Israeli commandos of “perfidiously hiding in an aid truck” in order to enter the neighborhood where the hostages were imprisoned.
MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin asserted that the rescuers’ tactics “raise(d) moral and ethical questions,” while former MSNBC host Krystal Ball denounced celebrations of the rescue as “depraved.”
In June 1976, Palestinian Arab terrorists hijacked a French plane on its way to Israel and forced it to fly to the Entebbe airport in Uganda. There they released the non-Jewish passengers, and held the remaining 106 passengers and crew hostage, demanding the release of terrorists who were imprisoned in Israel. Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deeply sympathetic to the terrorists, and Ugandan soldiers helped the hijackers guard the hostages.
On July 4, Israeli commandos raided the airport and freed the hostages. All seven terrorists, and several dozen Ugandan soldiers, were killed. The only rescuer killed was the raid’s leader, Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Israel’s current prime minister. Mrs. Dora Bloch, an elderly passenger who had been taken to a local hospital, was murdered there by Ugandan soldiers.
Most of the world celebrated the rescue raid on Entebbe. But not everybody.
The Organization of African Unity, consisting of several dozen African countries, accused Israel of “wanton aggression” and demanded reparations for damage to the airport. The Soviet and Chinese governments denounced what they called “the Zionist aggression.”
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim charged that Israel had committed a “serious violation of the sovereignty” of Uganda. A few years later, Waldheim’s past as a Nazi war criminal was exposed. (However, that did not prevent his election as president of Austria in 1986.)
The Mexican government criticized Israel’s “flagrant violation” of Ugandan sovereignty, and declared its “firm rejection of the use of armed force by any state as a means of trying to solve conflicts.”
The Mexican position was especially surprising because just months earlier, it had explicitly promised to refrain from anti-Israel policies. That promise was made in order to secure an end to the boycott of Mexico announced by Jewish organizations following its support of the infamous Zionism-is-racism resolution at the U.N. in 1975.
The French government’s response to the Entebbe rescue was particularly troubling, given the fact that it was a French plane that was hijacked, and French crew members who were held hostage. The French Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement which expressed satisfaction at the rescue, but emphasized its condemnation of the casualties, almost all of whom were the terrorists or the soldiers who assisted them.
A spokesperson for the Air France crew read a statement hailing President Amin for his “constant care to ensure our safety, our material comfort and even our health.” The statement appeared to have been dictated by French officials.
The U.S. government publicly praised the Israeli rescue mission, but it also introduced an “even-handed” resolution at the U.N. Security Council. While condemning the hijacking, the resolution also affirmed “the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States.” The resolution did not secure enough votes to pass, so it was withdrawn.
At the same time — according to declassified documents — Secretary of State Henry Kissinger informed Israel’s ambassador in Washington that because the Israelis had used US equipment in the raid, “we will have to put a temporary freeze on military shipments.”
Ambassador Simcha Dinitz replied: “You are kidding me.” Kissinger was not kidding. “You know you have no right to do this without prior consultation,” he admonished the ambassador. Dinitz argued that the relevant U.S. law applied to “only weaponry, not equipment.” But Kissinger insisted that the U.S.-made C-130 transport planes were a “military version” of that aircraft and therefore could not be used outside Israel’s borders. Kissinger could have looked the other way; instead, his response was to penalize Israel following its miraculous rescue of the hostages.
Israel’s prime minister in those days was Yitzhak Rabin, and the government was ruled by the Labor Party — a reminder that whether Israel’s government is from the political left or the right, and whether its leader is named Rabin or Netanyahu, there will always be those who complain when Israel takes action to defend the lives of its citizens.
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is “Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America,” a nonfiction graphic novel with artist Dean Motter, published by Dark Horse / Yoe Books.
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Making peace with invaders
Brett Chapman-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
Native Americans didn’t simply “lose” land, it was stolen from. Important distinction.
Historic Vids-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
This is a map that shows the land loss of Native Americans in the United States
Brett Chapman-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
Jose Muniz-tweet-11July2024-Christians kick Islam out of the Peninsula
In 722 a group of christians in the north of Spain decided that they would wake up every day for the next 800 years with just one mission. To kick Islam out of the Peninsula.
In 1492 they did it
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Israel gave up the Sinai and Southern Lebanon for what?
Remember Gush Katif, What did the “Disengagement” get you? Rockets landing in Tel Aviv!
Map of Israeli Withdrawal from Sinai
South Lebanon security zone
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Israel gave up land for a piece of Paper
What did the Jews of Israel get with the “Disengagement”?
Rockets from Gaza rain havoc on Israeli cities in latest war
15 Seconds in Sderot, Israel
An Open Letter to Critics of Israel
BLOOD CELLS EVERYWHERE: An IDF map of the locations of rockets launched from Gaza from July 8th to August 4th. (Still awaiting a map from Hamas, in case the terrorist group disagrees.)
Violent Hamas Riots and Rockets summary 2018
Friday, 11 July 2014 Miracle in Ashdod: Direct Hit on Gas Station, no Fatalities What’s the war like in Ashdod?
Tel Aviv hit with rocket fire from Gaza
LONGSHOT: At a cost of as much as $100,000 per unit, Israel’s Iron Dome, seen here in action, has a rocket-interception rate of 85-90%. But it doesn’t cover the whole country—not by a longshot.
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Listening to Bad Advice
Alex Traiman-tweet-20June2024-This is when momentum shifted in the war
This is when momentum shifted in the war:
When photos began to surface of Hamas terrorists and their supporters being arrested, blindfolded and stripped to their underwear, I knew the end of the war, including the release of hostages was just weeks away.
Yet almost just as quickly, the images stopped appearing, with the Biden Administration claiming the images were “disturbing.”
These images were actually benevolent, and could have saved thousands of lives.
Why? If you want to survive in the Middle East, it is critical to understand the Arab culture of honor vs shame.
These images completely humiliated Hamas. To destroy Hamas, and to make the Palestinians stop supporting them, they need to be thoroughly humiliated by the IDF.
The IDF’s killing Hamas terrorists, in the eyes of Palestinian society, is projected as an honor. Those killed are “martyrs.”
To defeat Hamas, Israel needs to create less martyrs, and create more losers.
In preventing the IDF from publishing the photos, and by Israel’s adhering to the Biden administration’s Western sensitivities and directives, the war has dragged on to the detriment of all parties.
Alex Traiman-tweet-20June2024-This is when momentum shifted in the war
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Israel’s most successful war was in 1967
Israel’s most successful war was in 1967.
– No significant foreign aid.
– No American terms and conditions
– Pre-emptive strike instead of responding after being attacked
Seems to me like relying heavily on US weapons and money is a recipe for failure.
SELF SUFFICIENCY NOW.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Israel’s most successful war was in 1967
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-We now know
We now know:
– The US doesn’t want Israel to retaliate
– The US has been leaking Israeli attack plans to Hezbollah
Israel needs to become self sufficient, stop taking US aid, and fight wars on their own terms. Demcrats clearly are backstabbers.
Larry-tweet-29July2024-Israel has to make all their military equipment themselves.
Israel has to make all their military equipment themselves.
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Israel vs. its mortal enemies: Deeper meanings of terror, violence against Jewish state – opinion
In Israel’s no-choice war against Hamas and Iran, the death and injury of Palestinian noncombatants are the legal responsibility of “perfidious” jihadist enemies.
By LOUIS RENÉ BERES
22SEPTEMBER2024 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-821136
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other jihadist foes of Israel are ultimately more focused on transcendent goals than on tactical or strategic advantages. This focus is “power over death.” How ought Israeli military planners to grasp and operationalize such an abstract notion?
While Israel’s attitude to counterterrorism is based on logic, science, and engineering, jihadist violence revolves around mystery, paradox, and witting self-delusion. Accordingly, a core question should now present itself in Jerusalem: In what usefully precise manner should jihadist beliefs in immortality be understood by Israel’s national security decision-makers?
There are pertinent particulars.
In facing jihadist ideologies that promise eternality to the faithful, Israel needs to be wary of projecting ordinary political and strategic preferences onto Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Houthis, and Iran. While enemy irrationality may not be uniform, certainly normative secular political preferences, such as self-determination, are generally secondary.
Though Israel’s immediate security concerns center on counterterrorism in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, direct conflict with Iran is on the near horizon. What would be the longer-term implications of such a direct war – one that could become continuous and protracted?
If Israel’s national decision-makers were to survey the current configuration of global jihadist terrorist organizations (Sunni and Shi’ite) from an augmented analytic standpoint, the need to acknowledge the enemy philosophy of “power over death” (the nexus between “martyrdom operations” and “life-everlasting”) would be clear.
Jerusalem’s national security planners could then begin to place themselves in an improved operational position to deter Islamist murderers, hostage-takers, and suicide-bombers as individual terrorist-criminals and as enemy states that support the jihadist terrorist microcosm.
There are corresponding elements of law to be applied in such scenarios. In law, right can never stem from wrong.
Jihadist insurgents who seek to justify barbarous attacks on Israeli noncombatants in the name of martyrdom are acting contrary to international law. Insurgents’s intentional killing or maiming of noncombatants is always defined as terrorism. It is irrelevant whether the expressed cause of the terror-violence is presumptively just. Using unjust means to fight for allegedly just ends is never permissible.
Sometimes, martyrdom-seeking terrorist organizations such as Hamas or Hezbollah advance a supposedly legal argument known as tu quoque. This authoritatively discredited argument stipulates that because the other side is allegedly guilty of “similar, equivalent, or greater criminality,” the terrorist side is innocent of any wrongdoing. Jurisprudentially, any such argument is invalid – especially after the landmark postwar legal judgments of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals.
A no-choice war
In Israel’s no-choice war against Hamas and Iran, the death and injury of Palestinian noncombatants are the legal responsibility of “perfidious” jihadist enemies. Because Hamas and its Iranian state mentor place terror fighters in protected places (schools, hospitals, mosques), these places are no longer off-limits to defensive military action by Israel. For the Jewish state, enemy use of “human shields” is exculpatory of all necessary exertions of military force. In law, this is called “military necessity.”
Whenever an insurgent group resorts to unjust means, its actions constitute terrorism. Even if adversarial claims of a hostile controlling power could be taken as plausible, corollary claims to “any means necessary” would remain false. Recalling Hague Convention No. IV: “The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited.”
Though Israel’s bombardments of Gaza produce Palestinian casualties, legal responsibility for these harms still lies entirely with Hamas/Iranian perfidy. While Israel-inflicted Palestinian casualties are unwanted, inadvertent, and unintentional, the killing and wounding of Israeli civilians are the verifiable result of Palestinian mens rea – criminal intent.
In law, there is a consequential difference between raping and murdering celebrants at a public music festival and the lethal consequences of a state’s self-defense operations. Insurgent movements that fail to meet the test of just means can never be defended as lawful or legitimate in themselves.
Even if relevant law was somehow to accept the argument that terror groups had fulfilled all valid criteria of “national liberation,” it would still not satisfy the equally significant legal standards of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity. These critical standards were applied to insurgent or armed sub-state organizations by the common Article 3 of the four Geneva conventions of 1949 and by the two 1977 protocols to these conventions.
Standards of “humanity” remain binding on all combatants by customary and conventional international law, including Article 1 of the Preamble to the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907. This rule, commonly called the Martens Clause, makes “all persons” responsible for the “laws of humanity” and associated “dictates of public conscience.” There can be no permissible exceptions to this universal responsibility.
Terrorist crimes mandate universal cooperation in apprehension and punishment. As punishers of “grave breaches” under international law, all states are required to “extradite or prosecute” individual terrorists. Under no circumstances are states permitted to treat terrorist “martyrs” as law-backed “freedom fighters.” International law is binding on all nations, including the United States and Israel.
Remarkably, legal authority for the American republic was largely derived from William Blackstone’s Commentaries, a magisterial work that owes much of its clarifying content to the principles of the Torah.
The writer is an emeritus professor of international law at Purdue University and the author of many books and scholarly articles on international law, nuclear strategy, nuclear war, and terrorism. His 12th and latest book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016; second edition, 2018).
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The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty!
Im Tirtzu-tweet-28July2024-The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty
Galia Hoshen, the mother of Hadar Hoshen HYD, who was murdered in Nova, cries out:
“The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty! The people are the sovereign power. The time has come for the court to stop taking powers that are not in its control and to stop deciding on matters that are not theirs to discuss!
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https://www.fdd.org/
June 19, 2024 | The Washington Times
Israel’s long war
A “ceasefire deal” won’t end it
Clifford D. May
Founder & President https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/19/israels-long-war-2/
The Nova Music Festival was billed as a celebration of “Friends, Love, and Infinite Freedom.” On Oct. 6, 2023, attendees from more than two dozen countries gathered in Israel’s Negev Desert just three miles from Hamas-ruled Gaza to sing, dance, and celebrate peace through the night.
At dawn the next day, Hamas terrorists used bulldozers and bombs to break through Israel’s high-tech fence that was thought to secure the border. Arriving at the festival grounds, they began slaughtering, raping, mutilating, and kidnapping concertgoers, exuberantly shouting: “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is greatest!”
On a visit to Israel earlier this month, I wandered through that killing field, now a makeshift memorial. Atop a small forest of poles are pictures of the more than 360 victims, most of them young, and, in these photos, smiling and full of life. Flowers and Israeli flags surround them.
I also toured Be’eri, a nearby kibbutz, a farming community, where the invaders from Gaza gleefully tortured, shot and burned alive men, women, children, toddlers, and babies.
Oct. 7 was the bloodiest day in Israeli history, the worst Jew-killing orgy since the Nazis overran Europe. Within hours, jihadists and their secular allies were blaming Israelis and/or Jews for Hamas’ crimes and atrocities.
Hamas, they insisted, was responding to the Israeli “occupation” – ignoring the plain fact that, in 2005, the Israelis withdrew from Gaza, a territory they’d taken from Egypt in the defensive war of 1967.
Hamas seized full control of the territory in 2007, after waging a brief war to oust the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas then began importing weapons and ammunition – provided mostly by Iran’s rulers – and constructing the expensive and elaborate subterranean fortress in which Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas honchos are believed to be ensconced, presumably surrounded by hostages in chains.
Aboveground, Hamas fighters have blended in with noncombatants serving as human shields.
That this is a key component of Hamas’ warfighting strategy was confirmed by the Wall Street Journal’s publication last week of secret messages Mr. Sinwar has sent to his compatriots outside Gaza. Dead Gazans, he told them, are “necessary sacrifices” in the long war to annihilate Israel and exterminate Israelis.
Israel’s many critics and enemies refuse to recognize this reality. On June 8, Israeli commandos staged a daring broad-daylight rescue of four hostages from two civilian buildings in Nuseirat, a city in central Gaza.
Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s foreign minister, called the operation a “massacre.” How dare Israelis return fire at those trying to kill them as they were extricating their citizens! Indeed, the leader of the Israeli mission was mortally wounded by heavily armed Hamas terrorists.
The Washington Post headlined: “More than 200 Palestinians killed in Israeli hostage raid in Gaza.” The Post is one of many media outlets that parrots whatever numbers Hamas provides without attempting to verify or distinguish civilians from combatants. (Israel’s military estimates about 100 Gazans were killed or wounded, most of them gunmen.)
BBC news anchor Helena Humphrey asked Jonathan Conricus, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces, whether Gazans should not have been warned of the impending rescue operation. (The BBC has gone beyond parody.)
While the media remains focused on Gaza, there are other fronts in this war. Most significantly, since Oct. 8, Hezbollah, Tehran’s most formidable foreign legion, has been firing rockets and drones from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, the Galilee and the Golan. The attacks have sharply escalated over recent days.
This demonstrates – to anyone with eyes that see – that “ceasefire deals” and “peace agreements” with proxies of Tehran are useless or, worse, lethal traps.
Recall that Hezbollah’s last major war against Israel was in 2006. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 mandated a “full cessation of hostilities” by Israel in exchange for the establishment of a zone from Lebanon’s border with Israel to the Litani River “free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon” and U.N forces. It also called for Hezbollah’s disarmament.
But the 10,000 U.N. troops charged with enforcing the demilitarization of southern Lebanon merely watched as Hezbollah hid thousands of missiles in mosques, hospitals, schools, and homes. And the American-supported Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has acted as Hezbollah’s auxiliary.
Hezbollah’s attacks have forced more than 60,000 Israelis to abandon their homes, farms, villages and cities. Hezbollah rockets have sparked fires that have consumed thousands of acres of forest.
Another full-blown war with Hezbollah would cause many deaths and much destruction in Israel. As for Lebanon, already a failing state thanks largely to Hezbollah, it might never recover.
But it’s hard to see how the Israelis can long allow a proxy of Tehran to turn regions of their small country into an uninhabitable free-fire zone.
Final note for today: On June 10, the U.N. Security Council passed an American ceasefire proposal for Gaza. Biden administration officials then pleaded for Mr. Sinwar to agree to it.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken observed that Gazans are “suffering every day,” adding – with determined naivety – that if Mr. Sinwar “has their interests at heart, he will come to a conclusion to bring this to a conclusion.”
To what should be nobody’s surprise, Mr. Sinwar rejected the proposal. He expects President Biden to pressure the Israelis to offer more concessions – or end the war as Mr. Biden ended the conflict in Afghanistan: by capitulating.
For now, the Israelis are continuing to battle Hamas in Gaza while preparing for the eventuality of an all-out war against Hezbollah. And, at some point, they will need to attend to unfinished business with the patron of both terrorist groups, the jihadist and genocidal regime in Tehran.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.
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Islamophobia
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-19November2024-Islamophobia definition
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-19November2024-Islamophobia definition
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Islamophobia
They can’t live peacefully with Hindus
They can’t live peacefully with Jews
They can’t live peacefully with Christians
They can’t live peacefully with Atheists
They can’t live peacefully with Buddhists
They can’t live peacefully with other sects of Islam
They can’t live peacefully with LGBT.
They don’t like Free Speech
They don’t like Religious Freedom
They don’t like free Women
But they constantly want Islamophobia criminalized.
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Islamophobia
This is Islam
Salwan Momika-tweet-14July2024-This is Islam
This is Islam
Salwan Momika-tweet-14July2024-This is Islam
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics: behead
The optics:
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics behead
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics: Rape
The optics:
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics Rape
Muslim Scholar Says it’s OK to Rape Non-Muslim Women
The Jordan Rules-tweet-14November2024-I came to correct God’s word said Satan
Islam is a cancer in the world
The Jordan Rules-tweet-14November2024-I came to correct God’s word said Satan
I came to correct God’s word said Satan
RoyR-tweet-13November2024-Please list what can say about Islam
Please list what can say about Islam without being accused of Islamaphobia?
How can anyone be accused of such when it’s been 100% proven that Islam isn’t a religion but an idealogy cult with baseless foundations & a threat to all in society across the globe?
No racism
No hate.
RoyR-tweet-13November2024-Please list what can say about Islam
Winston Churchill on Islam
Anglophobia
Margaret Thatcher on Islam
Pandora’s Box-Hope
Oscar Ekman-tweet-12June2024-Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion was designed for Christian denominations or Judaism.
But it should not apply to Islam as a warfaring and conquering religion. It should only be allowed with severe and specific restrictions.
Oscar Ekman-tweet-12June2024-Freedom of religion
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Amateur Jew-tweet-12June2024-Buddhists on Islam
Amateur Jew-tweet-12June2024-Buddhists on Islam
Buddhists on Islam
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How to properly treat Islamophobia
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-14June2024-K9 Neutralizes Terrorist
K9 Neutralizes a Terrorist that Threw an Explosive on Soldiers and then Went into Hiding.
Jihadists killed by women or dogs don’t win 72 virgins. They become unclean and lose the heavens pass.
There is no “I’ll just be a tough guy” when one of these dogs bites you. Same for all the big predators of the animal kingdom. It’s somewhat like taking pliers to your body.
Congrats! You are food. Your primal brain is now on fire.
Add to your knowledge. Jihawg ammo (You can Google)
Not only does Jihawg guarantee that all of their ammunition meets or exceeds S.A.A.M.I. standards for velocity, penetration, and accuracy, they also coat each projectile with a special ballistic paint infused with pork to make it “Haraam” or unclean to a radical Jihadist.
This makes Jihawg Ammo the only commercially available ammunition with the added deterrent factor of eternal damnation for the fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist.
Christian Hall-tweet-14June2024-ammo
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-14June2024-K9 Neutralizes Terrorist
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Back to the Future: 1948 All over Again
Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-18November2024-Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti
“Not like Dachau, is it, herr mufti?”
I absolutely love this 1948 New York Times cartoon.
Notice that “Palestine” represents here the Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti. At the time, when people said “free Palestine” they meant “establish a Jewish state.”
Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-18November2024-Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti
Not like Dachau, is it, herr mufti?
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Start fighting for our existence
The Persian Jewess-tweet-11June2024-Start fighting for our existence
Dear Jews,
We could be perfect and they would still find reasons to hate us.
It’s time to stop apologizing for existing and start fighting for our existence.
Because if we won’t do it for ourselves then why in the world would anyone else want to do it for us?
The time for silence is over. SPEAK UP!
Precious Ndlovu-tweet-11June2024-
😡☠️😎
The Persian Jewess-tweet-11June2024-Start fighting for our existence
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Nothing infuriates them more than this.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Only in Israel. 💙
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Hillel Fuld-tweet-14March2024-Jews are able to fight back
Not something you’d see very often 6 months ago, but a pretty normal thing you’d see now.
I know that it’s inconvenient that the Jews are able to fight back but you’re just gonna have to get used to it.
💪✡️🇮🇱🙏
Hillel Fuld-tweet-14March2024-Jews are able to fight back
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Dearborn, Michigan: “We don’t have terrorists”
Open Source Intel-tweet-19September2024-Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan: “We don’t have terrorists”
Also Dearborn, Michigan: “Come to the memorial of one of our neighborhood Hezbollah Martyrs”
Open Source Intel-tweet-19September2024-Dearborn Michigan
Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
Joe Truzman-tweet-19September2024-Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
Following the Israeli targeting of potentially thousands of Hezbollah fighters, the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, will be holding a medical fundraiser for Lebanon on Friday.
Joe Truzman-tweet-19September2024-Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
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Muslim countries taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-16June2024-Muslims taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
On auspicious Eid day, feeling charitable, 57 Muslim countries’ foreign ministers voted in a Zoom meeting, on taking Palestinian refugees.
The results are: 46 countries politely voted, “No”
11 countries voted non politely, “No Fucking Way”
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-16June2024-Muslims taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
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Despite conflict, scores of Jews move to Israel
Despite the ongoing war and lack of safety, a new wave of Jews from the US and France choose to make aliyah, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the State of Israel.
By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
JUNE 10, 2024 15:33 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-805738
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked an emotionally charged phenomenon: a new wave of Jews choosing to move to Israel despite the war, lack of safety, and numerous challenges.
For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org
According to Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, from the war’s onset until the end of May 2024, 1,169 new immigrants arrived from the US and 587 from France. Remarkably, the number of new Israelis from America and France has not decreased in comparison to last year. The same period last year saw 1,321 immigrants from the US and 628 from France.
Marc Rosenberg, vice president of Diaspora partnerships at Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit organization that promotes and facilitates aliyah from North America, told The Media Line that Americans are now mainly moving to Israel for ideological reasons, although some are also coming for practical reasons.
Desire for connection
“We’ve seen that a majority of North American Jews want to make their connection with Israel stronger. Therefore, those who were thinking about immigration to Israel, have sped up their plans,” Rosenberg said.
“People seem to be determined, despite the insecurity that’s happening here. War increases passion for Israel, they want to be a part of the story,” he continued.
According to Rosenberg, Nefesh B’Nefesh now sees three main groups of people who are immigrating to Israel: singles under the age of 30, who are coming to serve in the Israeli army or study in Israel; people who are 60+ and are coming to retire; and families.
“We see an increase of people asking about serving in the army, which is fascinating considering the danger that is involved,” Rosenberg said.
An event for Israeli immigrants. (credit: Gvahim)
Another reason that American Jews are immigrating to Israel is antisemitism, which has increased since the war in Gaza began, asserted Rosenberg. “It’s something that people are mentioning, but usually it is not the main reason [for their move t Israel]. But surely, even a few antisemitic cases create a certain atmosphere,” he said.
Twenty-four-year-old Hadar Amar from California hadn’t thought about moving to Israel before last year, although her two older siblings moved to Israel six and nine years ago, respectively.
“I got my degree in the States and started working at a corporation. However, there was always a sense of loneliness. I just didn’t feel connected; in America, I felt like a stranger,” she told The Media Line.
In 2023, when Amar found herself in a romantic relationship with an Israeli, she started thinking about moving to the Jewish state. She got a job offer during the summer of 2023 and planned to make aliyah on October 18. But then the war happened.
“On the 7th of October, I was still in America with my family and boyfriend. He was visiting us at that time. As the war started, at first I was doubting my decision to come to Israel,” Amar explained. “Physically, I was in America, but my heart was in Israel,” she added.
‘My heart was in Israel’
Amar said that both her brother and boyfriend serve in the Israel Defense Forces.
“They were in reserves for weeks, and I decided to come to Israel and be with them. Talking to them with the difference in time zones was horrible. Being far from them was pure torture,” she said.
Amar came to Israel on November 6 and received Israeli citizenship on November 14. Amar’s mother decided to travel to Israel with her daughter to support her children and stayed in the country for five months.
“My parents understood that I wanted to be in Israel, although everyone was scared. They were trying to be as supportive as possible, but I know it was hard for them,” she shared.
Regarding antisemitism, Amar said that although it hasn’t affected her personally, she saw many instances of antisemitic while still in California.
“When the war started, I saw that a lot of people who I grew up with were sharing pro-Palestine posts on Instagram. I know that they just aren’t educated about the situation. There was nothing that personally targeted me. I did lose some friends though, but I am okay with it because now I know that they weren’t my true friends,” she said.
Jacob, Panina and Miriam Licht. (credit: Courtesy)
In the middle of February 2024, Jacob Licht, 50, moved to Israel from the US with his wife Panina and their daughter Miriam.
“One of our other daughters had already made aliyah and was serving in the Air Force in Israel. Now she is working for the year, and then she’ll start college in Israel,” Licht told The Media Line.
Licht explained that 22-year-old Miriam has a disability, and she gets better support in Israel than she does in the US.
“That’s why we had started the [immigration] process and decided that we want to move over the summer, but when October 7 happened, it accelerated the process in our minds,” he explained.
“Our desire was even stronger after October 7, because there was an attack on our people and our land,” Licht added.
Licht emphasized the importance of Jewish people having a homeland, a place to live unconditionally.
Working in the business side of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, Licht expressed his deep desire to help Israel develop this industry.
“I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and some of my work has overlapped with Israeli companies, but I’ve mostly worked in the US, Europe, and in Asia. I understood that Israel has a lot to offer, and I want to be a part of the Israeli ecosystem,” he explained.
“I want to be here and help companies grow through partnerships and alliances with the rest of the world,” he added.
Licht further shared that his niece is now finishing her first year at Columbia University.
“She couldn’t go to Pesach seder there as the police said that it would require protection… My daughter then said to me: ‘Isn’t it strange that we’re sitting in a restaurant in a country that’s actually at war, and it’s my cousin in America who is afraid?’” he recalled.
Besides the US, Israel has seen an influx of new immigrants coming from France, despite the ongoing war.
Leon Cohen, the head of France projects in Gvahim, an organization that facilitates the successful integration of new immigrants into the Israeli labor market, explained to The Media Line that Zionism has been one of the most important reasons for French Jews to move to Israel during the war.
“In their hearts, October 7 activates and embraces the thought that Israel is their place, it’s the place where they have to go,” he said.
According to Cohen, in his professional experience, most of the Jews in France have felt an increased desire to come to Israel since the war began.
“They were hurt in their hearts, as if they, themselves, were in the Kibbutz Be’eri, as if the attack happened to them. For many, it felt like something terrible was happening to their family members and they just have to be in Israel,” he said.
Cohen also mentioned that for some new immigrants, ordinary household situations also motivated them to leave France and come to Israel. “They divorce, or don’t like their job in France, or want to change something in life… Some people also immigrate to Israel simply because of it,” he said.
Conversion to Judasim
Meanwhile, Rebecca, who requested not to use her surname, immigrated to Israel from France in April 2024 with her husband Michael and their 3-year-old daughter after October 7.
Rebecca grew up in Morocco but felt a strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people. She converted to Judaism three years ago.
“I come from Sumerian parents. My path of life made me discover Judaism and feel very close to it and to the land of Israel. Conversion took years. It [the desire to convert] emerged when I was 17 years old, and I started the process when I was 21. I had to study for three years,” she explained.
Given that she hasn’t yet found unemployment in Israel, Rebecca said that she feels “new” to the country and as if she’s still experiencing the aliyah process.
Rebecca shared that although she and her husband had thought about moving to Israel before the Hamas attack on October 7, the events of that day inspired them to embark upon the immigration process faster.
“We felt that everything that’s happening in Israel was affecting us. We felt that for us it is better to be here,” she said.
Rebecca shared an example of antisemitism that she had experienced in France. Their nanny had refused to take care of her daughter once Rebecca told her that they were Jewish.
Another Zionist who made aliyah from France is 27-year-old Maxime Horwitz from Metz, who moved to Israel in mid-November 2023.
“It was planned at the beginning of mid-October. I really wanted to come but because of the situation, my parents were really afraid. We had a clash because of my departure, and I agreed to wait, but no more than one month or a few weeks,” he told The Media Line.
Horwitz explained that he prefers to live in a Zionist environment.
“I feel that there is one place for Jewish people, and it’s in Israel. I just knew that I want to live in Israel,” he shared.
Today, despite the difficulties of immigration and the danger of war, Israel’s new immigrants felt that living in a Jewish state was a positive experience.
“Being in Israel now makes me feel safe, happy and connected. I’m with my loved ones. I’m also creating the life that I have been waiting for, for years. It’s not easy, especially having the people closest to you serving in the army, but this experience helped me to realize what it’s like to be a Jew in today’s society,” concluded Amar.
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Israel Revamps Aerial Bomb Production
Defense Business Weekly News Summary
By News Desk – 3October2024 https://defense-update.com/20241003_defense-business-news-summary.html#:~:text=Elbit%20Systems%20has%20signed%20a,before%20Elbit%20Systems%20acquired%20it.
Elbit Systems has signed a 1.5-billion-shekel (approximately $400 million) contract with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to establish an aerial bomb manufacturing bombs for the Israeli Air Force. In the past, the government-owned IMI operated this factory before Elbit Systems acquired it. This strategic move aims to reduce Israel’s dependence on bomb supplies from abroad.
Elbit System’s product portfolio comprises a wide range of aerial bombs and deep penetrator bodies with precision-guided aerial weapons. Until recently, Israel’s defense companies focused more effort on the advanced, precision guidance kits rather than the explosive and bunker buster bombs used as warheads, considered by many as ‘commodities.’ The shortage of bombs and other munitions emphasized the need for Israel to maintain local supplies of ammunition. The company currently operates several production lines for manufacturing artillery and tank rounds, mortar bombs, and small-caliber ammunition. Expanding those lines is part of Israel’s broader strategy to strengthen domestic production capabilities and expand manufacturing lines within Israeli industries, as outlined by the Ministry of Defense.
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NIS 2 billion deal to expand Iron Beam laser defense system signed
Defense Mistry signs landmark deal worth approximately NIS 2 billion (over $500 million) to expand serial production of Israel’s first domestically developed laser interception system, the Iron Beam, with lead developers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.
Israel National News / 28October2024, 6:13 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398230
Signing of Iron Beam deal
The Israel Ministry of Defense signed a landmark deal worth approximately NIS 2 billion (over $500 million) yesterday (Sunday) to expand serial production of Israel’s first domestically developed laser interception system, the Iron Beam, with lead developers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.
Director General of the Ministry of Defense, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir, signed the deal at a ceremony at the Ministry’s headquarters in Tel Aviv attended by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold, Head of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D); Yoav Tourgeman, CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, CEO of Elbit Systems; Dekel Cohen, CPA, Head of the Ministry’s Finance Department; attorney Itay Ophir, Legal Advisor to the Defense Establishment; and other senior officials.
Iron Beam is a ground-based high-power laser air defense system designed to counter aerial threats, including rockets, mortars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and cruise missiles. The Ministry of Defense’s (IMod) DDR&D’s R&D Unit leads the project with primary developers Rafael and Elbit Systems. The Iron Beam system represents a global technological breakthrough, with its impressive interception capabilities demonstrated through a series of successful trials. The system is expected to integrate into Israel’s multi-layered defense array as a complementary capability to the Iron Dome system. This integration will significantly enhance Israel’s defense capabilities against current and future threats while offering substantially lower operational costs.
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir, Director General of the IMoD: “Since the outbreak of war, the Ministry has signed hundreds of orders worth billions of dollars to strengthen domestic production capabilities and build the IDF’s force. The Iron Beam deal is among our most significant agreements, as it heralds the beginning of a new era in warfare. The initial capability of the ground-based laser system developed through collaboration between the DDR&D, major defense industries, and startup companies is expected to enter operational service within one year. The Iron Beam deal will ensure continued and accelerated procurement of many additional laser systems.”
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold, Head of the DDR&D: “The Iron Beam system further demonstrates the exceptional expertise of our defense industries under DDR&D’s leadership, combining creativity, innovation, and inventiveness with effective management and execution capabilities. We have achieved a qualitative military edge and its battlefield implementation by successfully integrating defense industries and startup companies. The Iron Beam will complement the Iron Dome, and the combination of laser and missile interception will further strengthen our defense systems against rockets, missiles, UAVs, cruise missiles, and additional threats.”
Yoav Tourgeman, CEO of Rafael, commented: “Rafael is proud to lead the development and delivery of the world’s first advanced high-power laser system for intercepting a wide range of aerial threats. After years of research, development, and significant technological breakthroughs in laser technology at Rafael, along with an extensive series of successful trials, the Iron Beam system will soon reach maturity for operational deployment. The Iron Beam project marks a significant milestone in upgrading Israel’s air defense capabilities. Iron Beam will join Iron Dome and David’s Sling, providing optimal protection for Israeli citizens through breakthrough technologies and superior performance.”
Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, President & CEO of Elbit Systems: “As Israel’s global leader in high-power laser technology, Elbit Systems welcomes the significant progress in the Iron Beam project and is proud of its contribution to its success. The capabilities developed at Elbit that will be integrated into Iron Beam represent a quantum leap in future defense technology against various threats. Elbit’s management and employees take pride in contributing to Israel’s defense through groundbreaking strategic systems. The development of laser technology and its integration into a national project led by the IMoD is another significant step in maturing Elbit Systems’ diverse capabilities in transforming and advancing defense and warfare technologies.”
In the photo alongside the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, from right to left: Legal Advisor to the Defense Establishment, attorney Itay Ophir; President & CEO of Elbit Systems, Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis; Rafael CEO Yoav Tourgeman; Head of the DDR&D, Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Daniel Gold; and Head of the Ministry’s Finance Department, Dekel Cohen, CPA.
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France bans all Israeli defense companies from the Euronaval Defence Expo in Paris
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The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
An Israeli mother-tweet-23July2024-The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
A thread on some of the Israeli delegation to #paris2024olympics. It’s also a thread on Israeli society.
Let me begin by saying to all of those who will use the incredible diversity of the team to pretend we’re not “indigenous”: you’re WRONG.
Jews, as we celebrate today with the 17 Tammuz fast, have been exiled and dispersed all over the world, that’s true. Now they’re BACK, each with what they picked during their travels.
It would have been easier, and many did it, to just forget about our roots and assimilate.
That’s why each and every Israeli Jew you see here is the scion of a family Jewish enough, and attached enough to its ancestral Land of Israel, to bear 1950 years of exile and humiliation, in the inextinguishable, stubborn waiting to go back home.
We came back from places as diverse as Ghana and Ukraine, USA and China. We’re coming home.
An Israeli mother-tweet-23July2024-The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
Donna Barford-tweet-12August2024-The Games May Never Recover
Olympic Committee Announces $2 Billion in Lost Revenue: “The Games May Never Recover”
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Haredi leader Goldknopf on army draft: ‘You don’t want us and you don’t need us’
At event marking Bnei Brak centenery, UTJ chief wonders why ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral achievements do not enable them to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community
By ToI Staff
17 June 2024, 5:00 am https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-leader-on-army-draft-you-dont-want-us-and-you-dont-need-us/
Leader of the United Torah Judaism party Yitzhak Goldknopf argued Sunday night that Israel does not need or want Haredi conscripts, while wondering whether ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral victories did not give them the right to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community.
Goldknopf, speaking at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bnei Brak, a city whose population is mostly Haredi, said: “You still don’t understand us, why we say we live on the Torah, that without the Torah who knows where we’d be.”
Citing a tweet by former politician Haim Ramon, Goldknopf claimed that “four thousand Haredim asked to enlist since the beginning of the year — though that’s not good to hear — but you ruled out 3,300 of them. You don’t want us and you don’t need us. Why do you abuse us?” (Ramon in his tweet cited data from the Knesset, though he later acknowledged that some individuals had challenged the data as problematic.)
Goldknopf went on to ask: “Have we no worth, since we won elections? The attorney general says ‘This can’t be done, this can be done.’ It has nothing to do with her legally. Do we have no right in elections to negotiate and receive what we deserve?”
Israel has seen an intensifying public and legal debate over blanket ultra-Orthodox exemptions from the military draft, as the High Court of Justice considers multiple petitions demanding the immediate drafting of young Haredi men.
Ultra-Orthodox men of military age have been able to avoid being conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces for decades by enrolling in yeshivas for Torah study and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption. In 2017 the High Court ruled that mass exemptions to military service on a group basis are illegal and discriminatory. Successive governments have since that time tried and failed to formulate new legislation to settle the matter, while requesting repeated deferrals from the court.
However, justices have shown diminishing patience, and the need to fill the military’s manpower shortfalls has become far more acute since the outbreak of the war in Gaza and the threat of war on the Lebanese border.
The court ruled in March that the state must cease subsidizing Haredi yeshivas whose students are eligible for the draft, since the legal framework for doing so had expired. As a result, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had to deal with a severe political headache owing to the high priority Haredi political parties place on both yeshiva funding and military exemptions.
Lawmakers last week voted to apply “continuity” to a bill from the previous Knesset dealing with the military service of yeshiva students, reviving the contentious legislation, but it is not expected to solve the matter.
If eventually approved, the bill would lower the current age of exemption from mandatory service for Haredi yeshiva students from 26 to 21 and “very slowly” increase the rate of ultra-Orthodox conscription. The vote was to renew the legislative process where it left off, without having to start from scratch in the current session. The legislation will now advance to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to be prepared for the second and third readings it must pass to become law.
Netanyahu declared his support for advancing the bill last month after failing to come to an agreement with his ultra-Orthodox partners on legislation to enlist members of their community. By working to advance the legislation, Netanyahu appeared to be trying to show the High Court that he is working on the enlistment issue, which would buy him time while keeping his Haredi coalition partners on board.
However, deep abiding disagreements over the bill between Haredi lawmakers and Likud members mean it is highly unlikely to advance through the committee stage.
Meanwhile the government on Sunday gave its backing to a draft bill raising the retirement age for IDF reservists, amid widespread criticism of its recruitment policies, which many Israelis believe place unequal burdens on different segments of the population.
The proposal, a Defense Ministry-backed “draft Security Service Law,” calls to extend for several more months a temporary measure raising the exemption age for reserve military service from 40 to 41 for soldiers and from 45 to 46 for officers due to an ongoing manpower shortage.
Specialists such as doctors and air crewmen will be required to continue serving until 50, instead of 49.
The current law raising the exemption age, which was initially passed by the Knesset late last year, is set to expire at the end of the month.
After canceling a scheduled cabinet discussion on the measure on Sunday morning following harsh public criticism, the government referred the matter to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The committee approved sending the legislation to the Knesset, where it must pass three readings to become law.
If eventually approved by the Knesset, the draft bill would mark the second extension of the measure, which was intended as a stopgap solution to prevent a mass release from the reserves of those soldiers reaching the exemption age amid ongoing combat operations in Gaza.
It was first extended for four months by 44-33 a Knesset vote in late February.
Despite the Defense Ministry calling to extend the measure until the end of the year, the committee only supported a three-month extension, following objections by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
Baharav-Miara told the government on Sunday that the bill was legally unacceptable unless an immediate effort is made to draft extra military power “from the entire population,” a reference to the tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who receive blanket exemptions from military service.
The government has faced harsh public backlash over extending reservists’ service while appearing to take little action to draft the ultra-Orthodox.
While being careful not to comment on any current legislation or wade into politics, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi also endorsed integrating the ultra-Orthodox into the army during comments released on Sunday.
Speaking to soldiers during a visit to Gaza over the weekend, Halevi said that there “is now a clear need” for Haredi soldiers and that every new “ultra-Orthodox battalion [the army establishes] decreases the need for the deployment of many thousands of reservists.”
Over the past eight months, reservists have complained of economic and familial problems brought about by their long, repeated stints in the army. In many cases, spouses were left alone to care for children — sometimes with schools and kindergartens closed due to the war, depending on the area — and were unable to work for months.
Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.
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How the Allies in World War 2 treated German Terrorist after 1945
Werwolf pennant with the Wolfsangel symbol
Werwolf (pronounced [ˈveːɐ̯vɔlf], German for “werewolf“) was a Nazi plan which began development in 1944,[1] to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany in parallel with the Wehrmacht fighting in front of the lines. There is some argument that the plan, and subsequent reports of guerrilla activities, were created by Joseph Goebbels through propaganda disseminated in the waning weeks of the war through his “Radio Werwolf”, something that was not connected in any way with the military unit.
Allied reprisals
According to Biddiscombe “the threat of Nazi partisan warfare had a generally unhealthy effect on broad issues of policy among the occupying powers. As well, it prompted the development of draconian reprisal measures that resulted in the destruction of much German property and the deaths of thousands of civilians and soldiers”.[52] Ian Kershaw states that fear of Werwolf activities may have motivated atrocities against German civilians by Allied troops during and immediately after the war.[53]
The German resistance movement was successfully suppressed in 1945.[54] However, collective punishment for acts of resistance, such as fines and curfews, was still being imposed as late as 1948.[55] Biddiscombe estimates the total death toll as a direct result of Werewolf actions and the resulting reprisals as 3,000–5,000.[56]
Soviet reprisals
In the Soviet occupation zone, thousands of youths were arrested as “Werwolves”.[57][58] Evidently, arrests were arbitrary and in part based on denunciations.[57] The arrested boys were either executed or interned in NKVD special camps.[57] [ See Below:] On 22 June 1945, Deputy Commissar of the NKVD Ivan Serov reported to the head of the NKVD Lavrentiy Beria the arrest of “more than 600” alleged Werwolf members,[59] mostly aged 15 to 17 years.[60]
The report, though referring to incidents where Soviet units came under fire from the woods,[59] asserts that most of the arrested had not been involved in any action against the Soviets, which Serov explained with interrogation results allegedly showing that the boys had been “waiting” for the right moment and in the meantime focused on attracting new members.[60] In October 1945, Beria reported to Joseph Stalin the “liquidation” of 359 alleged Werwolf groups.[57] Of those, 92 groups with 1,192 members were “liquidated” in Saxony alone.[57] On 5 August 1946, Soviet minister for internal affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov reported that in the Soviet occupation zone, 332 “terrorist diversion groups and underground organizations” had been disclosed and “liquidated”.[57] A total of about 10,000 youths were interned in NKVD special camps, half of whom did not return.[58] Parents as well as the East German administration and political parties, installed by the Soviets, were denied any information on the whereabouts of the arrested youths.[57] The Red Army‘s torching of Demmin, which resulted in the suicide of hundreds of people, was blamed on alleged preceding Werwolf activities by the East German regime.[61]
American reprisals
Eisenhower believed he would be faced with extensive guerrilla warfare, based on the Alpine Redoubt.[52] The fear of Werwolf activity believed to be mustering around Berchtesgaden in the Alps also led to the switch in U.S. operational targets in the middle of March 1945 away from the drive towards Berlin and instead shifted the thrust towards the south and on linking up with the Russians first.[62] An intelligence report stated “We should … be prepared to undertake operations in Southern Germany in order to overcome rapidly any organised resistance by the German Armed Forces or by guerrilla movements which may have retreated to the inner zone and to this redoubt”.[62] On March 31 Eisenhower told Roosevelt, “I am hopeful of launching operations that should partially prevent a guerrilla control of any large area such as the southern mountain bastions”.[62]
Eisenhower had previously also requested that the occupation directive JCS 1067 not make him responsible for maintaining living conditions in Germany under the expected circumstances; “… probably guerrilla fighting and possibly even civil war in certain districts … If conditions in Germany turn out as described, it will be utterly impossible effectively to control or save the economic structure of the country … and we feel we should not assume the responsibility for its support and control.”[52] The British were “mortified by such a suggestion”, but the War Department took considerable account of Eisenhower’s wishes.[63] In addition, civilians held by the U.S. climbed from 1,000 in late March to 30,000 in late June, and more than 100,000 by the end of 1945.[64] Conditions were often poor in the camps for civilians.[64]
British reprisals
In April 1945 Churchill announced that the Allies would incarcerate all captured German officers for as long as a guerrilla threat existed.[63] Hundreds of thousands of German last-ditch troops were kept in the makeshift Rheinwiesenlager for months, “mainly to prevent Werwolf activity”.[63]
Prior to the occupation SHAEF investigated the reprisal techniques the Germans had used in order to maintain control over occupied territories since they felt the Germans had had good success.[65] Directives were loosely defined and implementation of reprisal was largely left to the preferences of the various armies, with the British seeming uncomfortable with those involving bloodshed.[65] Rear-Admiral H.T. Baillie Grohman for example stated that killing hostages was “not in accordance with our usual methods”.[65] Thanks to feelings such as this, and relative light guerrilla activity in their area, relatively few reprisals took place in the UK zone of operations.[65]
NKVD special camps in Germany 1945–1950
NKVD special camps (German: Speziallager) were NKVD-run late and post-World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950. They were set up by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and run by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).[1] On 8 August 1948, the camps were made subordinate to the Gulag.[2] Because the camp inmates were permitted no contact with the outside world, the special camps were also known as silence camps (German: Schweigelager).[3]
The Soviet occupation authorities did not admit to the existence of the camps until the Western press led the Soviet Union to respond with a moderate propaganda campaign of their own admitting and defending the camps’ existence.[4] No inmates were released before 1948.[2] On January 6, 1950, the camps were handed over to the East German government,[2] who tried the remaining detainees.[2] Officially, 157,837 people were detained, including 122,671 Germans and 35,166 citizens of other nations, at least 43,035 of whom did not survive.[2] The actual number of German prisoners was about 30,000 higher.[5]
Inmates
The NKVD Main Camp Administration (GULAG) controlled the special camps from Moscow. All of the camp commanders were senior Soviet military officers. and the camps were laid out to GULAG camp specifications just as in Siberia or Central Asia. The camps, however, were not slave labor camps attached to factories or collective farms. On the contrary, prisoners were not allowed to work. Strictly speaking they were not death camps such as the Nazi annihilation camps in Poland, but the death rate nevertheless was very high due to malnourishment and disease.[6]
Charges
People were arrested because of alleged ties to the Nazis, because they were hindering the establishment of Stalinism, or at random.[7] The legal basis for the arrests was the Beria-order No. 00315 of 18 April 1945, ordering the internment without prior investigation by the Soviet military of “spies, saboteurs, terrorists and active NSDAP members”, heads of Nazi organizations, people maintaining “illegal” print and broadcasting devices or weapon deposits, members of the civil administration, and journalists.[8] This was the same type of NKVD order for administrative arrest and deportation to Gulag camps in the Soviet Union used extensively by the Soviet security services where the victims had absolutely no legal recourse.[9]
Inmates were classified “sentenced” or “interned” depending on whether they were tried by a Soviet military tribunal (SMT) or not.[10] A decree[11] issued by the Allied Control Council on 30 October 1946 made a trial prior to internment obligatory, yet in November 1946 only 10% of the inmates were “sentenced”, this proportion rose to 55% in early 1950.[10]
Of the “interned”, 80% were members of the Nazi Party in early 1945, two thirds in late 1945, and less than half after February 1946.[7] Of the “sentenced”, 25% were members of the Nazi Party in 1945, 20% in 1946, 15% in 1947, just above 10% in 1948, and less than 10% since 1949.[7] A significant actual prosecution of Nazi war crimes by the SMT did not take place.[7] Among the alleged Nazis were also boys suspected to be Werwolf members:[12] About 10,000 internees were youths and children, half of whom did not return.[13]
Among the inmates were many supporters or members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which the Soviet authorities sought to suppress, particularly from 1946.[14] When the Social Democratic Party was merged into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), renamed Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), Social Democrats were interned to ensure Marxist–Leninist dominance in the party.[14] Also, people were interned as “spies” because they were suspected of opposing the authoritarian regime, e.g. for having contacts with organizations based in the Western occupation zones, on the basis of Article 58 of the Soviet penal code dealing with “anti-Soviet activities”.[14] In the Bautzen special camp, 66% of the inmates fell into this category.[14]
Isolation policy
The Soviet authorities enforced a policy of total isolation of the inmates. A decree of 27 July 1945 reads: “The primary purpose of the special camp is the total isolation of the contingent therein and the prevention of flights”, and prohibits all mail and visitors.[15] Another decree of 25 July 1946 confirmed the “total isolation from the outside world” as a primary purpose, and further reads:
No inmate could contact a relative, nor the other way around (with some exceptions in the early stage of the camps).[16] Relatives were not able to retrieve any information and were not even informed of inmate deaths.[17] Exceptions were not made. In one case, the chief of special camp No. 8 asked the supreme chief of the special camps, Colonel Mikhail Sviridov [ru], whether people arrested in their summer clothes were allowed to request winter clothes from their relatives, and pointed out that the situation was very urgent and that some of the inmates did not even have shoes. Sviridov forbade contact.[17]
In late 1947 the inmates were allowed limited access to Communist newspapers, which represented their first contact with the outside world since their arrests.[18]
First releases
A first 27,749 were released mid-1948 after a revision of 43,853 cases by a joint commission of SMAD, MGB and MVD (the successor of the NKVD).[2] Among the released were primarily people whose arrest was based on a suspected Nazi background, which was found to be of low significance by the commission.[2]
Numbers and casualties
The total number of detainees and deaths is uncertain. In 1990 the Soviet Ministry for the Interior released numbers, which were based upon a collection of data compiled after the dissolution of the camps by the last head of its administration in 1950. According to these numbers, 122,671 Germans, 34,706 citizens of the Soviet Union, and 460 foreign citizens had been received. While 40,244 detainees were deported to the Soviet Union, 45,635 were released, 786 were shot and 43,035 died. 6,680 Germans were turned over to POW camps, 128 inmates managed to escape. 14,202 German detainees were handed over to the East German Ministry of the Interior.[19] A critical examination of the data by Natalja Jeske concluded that approximately 30,000 more Germans were detained in the special camps than officially acknowledged.[5] The official number of deaths is nonetheless considered to be accurate. Older estimates, according to which 65,000 to 130,000 or between 50,000 and 80,000 interned persons had died, are too high.[20] Most people died from starvation and diseases. The death rate was particularly high from the end of 1946 to early 1947, when the already low food rations had been reduced further. The food rations for detainees did not differ significantly from the food rations in the Soviet occupation zone in general, but the prisoners were cut off from the black market.[21]
Among the dead were an estimated 12,000 discovered in 1990 in mass graves near the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Six thousand of the captives in Sachsenhausen were German officers sent there from Western Allied camps.[22] The major causes of death of the prisoners were starvation, disease, particularly tuberculosis and dysentery or torture and execution. Their health was completely neglected.[23]
Camps in Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD)
See also: Soviet Military Administration in Germany
A total of ten camps existed, set up in former Nazi concentration camps, former stalags, barracks, or prisons.
In addition, numerous prisons were either directly assigned to or seized by the NKVD.[10]
Prisons and camps in East Central Europe prior to May 1945
Numerous prisons and filtration camps were set prior to May 1945, in an area that is today Poland and Russia, Slovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. The Soviet forces detained German civilians in the regions they conquered in early 1945. Some were sent for Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union and others transferred to the NKVD special camps in occupied Germany after May 1945. These temporary prisons and camps were set up according to the same Beria-doctrine as their counterparts west of the Oder-Neisse line.[24] Almost the complete male German population remaining east of Oder and Neisse, numbering several tens of thousands, was arrested as “Hitlerites” by the NKVD.[25] Only very few actual Nazis were among them.[25]
According to records from the Soviet archives by early May 1945 215,540 persons were interned by the Red Army on the territory of present-day Poland: 138,200 Germans, 36,660 Poles,27,880 USSR citizens and 10,800 from other countries. Amongst the 215,540 detained 148,540 were sent to the USSR, 62,000 were held in prisons in the battle area and 5,000 died [26]
As of 10 May 1945, there were NKVD camps in what is today Poland and Russia
NKVD prisons in
and NKVD camps as well as NKVD prisons in
An additional NKVD prison was in Slovak Ružomberok.[27][28]
A couple of weeks after the war had come to an end, the prisoners were subsequently transferred to the Soviet Occupation Zone.[29] While immediately after the Soviet occupation of that zone some people detained west of the Oder-Neisse line were transferred to Landsberg east of that line, inmates from camps east of the line who had not been deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor were transferred to camps west of the line following the Potsdam agreement.[30]
While the abovementioned camps and prisons were all listed in attachment 1 to the Beria-doctrine 00461, signed by Beria’s substitute Tshernyshow, there were other camps not included in this list.[28] Already on 15 December 1944, Beria had reported to Stalin and Molotov that
These were all the people holding German citizenship remaining in these countries.[31]
Additional NKVD camps in Poland, which were likewise not listed in the Beria-doctrine 00461, are known from Polish sources.[32] These camps included
and others.[32]
Handover to East Germany
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided on 28 September 1949 to hand the camps over to the authorities of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), that was about to be formed from the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.[2] The East German republic was officially founded on 7 October 1949. On 6 January 1950, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Kruglov ordered[33] the handing over to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs of 10,513 inmates for further detention and of 3,500 for trial.[2]
These trials were the so-called Waldheim trials [de] (German: Waldheimer Prozesse) – a series of show-trials. They took place in Waldheim prison in Saxony and handed down previously prepared and overly long sentences.[2] The trials often lasted only a few minutes, and took place behind closed doors. The judges refused to admit evidence for the accused. The sentences were based on the original NKVD arrest protocols, which often involved torture. By June 1950 over 3,000 had been condemned to various additional prison sentences. Many of the convicted had already spent over four years interned in the special camps, and more than half were emaciated and sick. The Waldheim trials introduced the vigorous use of the judicial system as an instrument of political repression of all dissident elements in the GDR.[34] Many of these sentences were revised in 1952.[2] Before the hand-over, a number of inmates were deported to Siberia – their fate remains unknown as of 2015.[13]
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Israel must defeat bloodthirsty Jew hating Islam
Cheryl E-tweet-18November2024-Israel must defeat bloodthirsty Jew hating Islam
keep seeing the same tired question being asked over and over for months now by Islamists and peaceniks and leftist delusionals – “What is the number? How many lives will it take for Israel to be satisfied and have their revenge?”
This isn’t about revenge, at all, but I’m going to answer these questions here and now as clearly and brutally honestly as humanly possible:
On October 7, between 5000 and 6000 heavily armed terrorists from Gaza, both Hamas and civilians, and even Gazan children, both broke through the fences and paraglided into Israel and raped, mutilated, burned alive and massacred 1200 innocent men, women and children in the single largest loss of life of Jews since the Holocaust. If they could have massacred 5000, 10000, 100000+ more, they would have done it in a heartbeat. They came to slaughter anyone and everyone. They did it with joy and excitement. They then kidnapped 250 more with the intention of holding them hostage in Gaza indefinitely.
Not only during the massacre, but also on their return into Gaza, they were met by the hysterical celebrations of every Gazan. They celebrated the murder of Jews.
Within minutes of the massacre beginning, thousands of Islamists and Gazans took to social media to celebrate the ongoing massacre and to cheer the terrorists on, laughing about it all. Hours after the atrocities, tens of thousands across many countries flooded on to the streets to celebrate the massacre of Jews. All this still on October 7.
The very next day with Israel still in shock and grief, Hezbollah chose to fire barrage after barrage of rockets into Israel in an unprovoked attack. Nearly a hundred thousand Israelis were evacuated from their homes in the North and still are to this day.
Just a day after that, on October 9, mass protests erupted around the world calling for a ceasefire many days before Israel even went into Gaza or fired a single airstrike. Everything was funded and choreographed months in advance. Hamas then spent a week coordinating with their friends at the UN to gather as many Gazans into pre specified locations for use as human shields in anticipation of Israel’s response. Everything was planned. The UN immediately called for Israel to not attack and even before the first airstrike, the UN inadvertently already were calling it a genocide. This was followed by the fake massacre at the hospital where it was claimed 500 civilians were killed and this was pushed by media around the world. Yet this was shortly after proven to have been a PIJ rocket that hit a car park and just 26 people died. Everything from start to finish was a lie and a sign of what was to come. The casualty rates were being thrown out by Hamas like sweets. And the media just bought it and fed it to the world.
While all this was happening, Hamas’s leaders were giving interviews from the safety of their homes in Doha where they promised this was just the beginning and that they will repeat it over and over and over again until every Jew was dead. They are the only ones wanting OUR genocide.
And for 13 months, tens of millions of people around the world have been marching openly on western streets calling for the total elimination and genocide of all Jews in Israel and the destruction of the state.
So here is my answer to all those who ask:
I don’t give a flying f*** about “the children” or the women or any of them. Our IDF have done everything humanly possible to avoid civilian deaths. Every death is on Hamas.
So what’s the number? The number is how ever many it damned well takes for the Islamists to stop murdering Jews which they have been doing with for 1400 years, and within just the land that is now Israel, since at least the 15th century. Pogrom after pogrom. In the 1930’s they even allied with Hitler and the Nazis to exterminate us. So the number is however many it takes for them to stop trying to wipe us out.
The world may not care, but when we said Never again, it means NEVER AGAIN!!!
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This is what you get when you start a War.
Bombing of Cologne in World War II
By http://www.anicursor.com/colpicwar.html credited Courtesy of Kevin “The Rocketeer” via flickr-Website., Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4579919
For those who don’t recognize it, the picture is Dresden February 1, 1945.
Hiroshima atomic bombing
Gaza Today
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Gaza Today.
Don’t start wars you can’t win…
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New drone footage from the red. Media Gaza crew shows the scale of destruction caused by Israel’s nonstop 7-week shelling. Israel has destroyed half of all homes in Gaza, 278,000 residential units, either completely or partially.
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Irrationally anti-Israel
How is a rational person to deal with someone under the influence of Israel Derangement Syndrome? One possibility: Don’t waste your time with such a person.
By Alan G. Futerman and Walter E. Block – Published on 04June2024 11:14 – Last modified: 04June2024 11:14 https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/irrationally-anti-israel/
Participants march way up Fifth Avenue in New York City during the annual Israel Day Parade on June 4, 2023 | Photo: Getty Images / Ryan Rahman
There is a new virus that has been spreading all over the world. It is called Israel Derangement Syndrome. It is especially virulent at prestigious university campuses, newsrooms and left-wing political parties the world over. It consists of simply being unable to see any merit in the Israeli side in its present battle with Hamas, and also, to see any fault with the latter group of terrorists. As early as October 8, 2023, one day after one of the worst, most vicious attacks on civilians in all of history, those afflicted with IDS were blaming the victims.
Consider trying to show someone suffering from IDS the error of his ways. If you show him pictures, he’ll claim they’re fake; show him videos, he’ll claim they are created by AI; show him testimonies, he’ll say they are lies; show him documents, he’ll claim they are fabricated; show him audio, he’ll claim they are hoaxes; show him historical facts, he’ll claim they never happened or are lies; show him the videos uploaded by Hamas assassins themselves, he’ll claim that Israelis died of “friendly fire” anyway; show him that even if Israelis died as a result of “friendly fire”, this was in the course of eliminating the Hamas invaders and as a consequence of Hamas genocidal invasion, he’ll claim that in fact it was all a false flag because the border “could not have been easily overcome by Hamas” (paraphrase); show him that Hamas indeed prepared for the attack and launched its operation motivated by what they themselves say in their own Charter, he’ll claim that the Charter changed; show him that the Charter really never changed, he’ll claim that Hamas in fact was created by Israel; show him that Hamas was created by followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and is funded by Qatar, Iran and Turkey, he’ll claim that Hamas is the result of Israeli “occupation”; show him that the intent to destroy Israel preceded Israeli control of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, he’ll claim that it all began in 1948 with the ethnic cleansing of Arabs; show him that there was no ethnic cleansing of Arabs in 1948 and that the Arabs who left (most of them due to fear) or were displaced while the ongoing fighting during the War of Independence did so as a result of the war the Arab states themselves launched, he’ll claim that Arabs were dispossessed before the creation of Israel and that created the animosity against Jews; show him that Jews were attacked by Arabs in the preceding decades even before the creation of the state of Israel, he’ll claim again that this was due to dispossession; show him that Arabs sold land to Jews and Jews homesteaded a part of the land, he’ll claim that Arabs owned most of the land anyway; show him that Arabs did not own most of the land, that a great part of that which was regarded as Arab land was considered “uncultivable” and hence unhomesteaded and illegitimately owned actually as government concessions, and that most of the land was really owned by the government (Ottoman or British), he’ll claim that the Jews had no right to any land in any case and that the land was “Arab” anyway; etc. etc. etc.
In other words, it is impossible to convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced. No evidence could be shown to those who are not willing to look at it in the first place. He already knows that Israel and Jews are to blame and that no good can come from Jews and no bad can come from Israel’s enemies since Israel is the source of all evil.
The motto of those afflicted with IDS might well be, “Don’t confuse me with the facts.” Or, “No matter what has happened, Israel is in the wrong.” Or, “No matter what are the facts, Israel is a colonist, racist, genocidal, western, evil country, unmatched by any other in all of human history.”
How is a rational person to deal with someone under the influence of Israel Derangement Syndrome? One possibility: don’t waste your time with such a person. Another is to keep on trying since this issue is so important, not only to Israel but to all civilized people. If Hamas can get away with its depredations, no civilized people are safe. Perhaps IDS can be overcome with patience and generosity despite the foregoing considerations.
We doubt it because IDS, as the Anti-Zionist mentality in general, is not motivated by reason but by hate. In any case, truth will eventually prevail.
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You may be Jewish, but any connection between you and Judaism is purely coincidental, you are definitely useful idiots
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You may be Jewish because you were born into Jewish families, but any connection between you and Judaism is purely coincidental. One thing’s for sure, though: you’re definitely useful idiots
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Antisemitic Zombies in Valley Village-California
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HAPPENING NOW 😡😡😡
Outside the school at Shaarey Zedek Congregation in Valley Village
Protestors yelling in loudspeaker at Jewish school: “FREE FREE PALESTINE!”
Parent: “You’re coming to our school?!”
Protestors: “Go across the street if you’re going to be an agitator!”
Parent to police: “But this is our school!”
Police to parent: “We understand but they have the right to protest.”
Is this a protest? Or is it targeted harassment of Jewish kids?
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Los Angeles-Pico-Robertson Pogrom 23June2024
‘They came for the Jews’: Inside the LA pogrom
Caroline B. Glick
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) A mob attacks Jews outside of a synagogue in Los Angeles; pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas protests crop up across America; AOC spreads antisemitic rhetoric; and a new communications hire at the White House, Tyler Cherry, has a terrible history of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric.
All this and more on Caroline Glick’s “In-Focus!”
Inside the LA Pogrom: “They came for the Jews” | Caroline Glick In-Focus
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Anti-Israel mob surrounded a synagogue in LA hosting an Israel real estate event Sunday. The mob spread out to a Jewish neighborhood & restaurant. In all locations, they were met by Jews defending themselves & pushing back after word went out that police were told to stand down.
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Jewish victim of the Palestine mob, outside of a synagogue in LA.
This is not what fighting for human rights looks like.
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What I Saw at a Terrorist Rally Outside a Synagogue
“Billions of us will come and kill you.”
25June2024 by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-i-saw-at-a-terrorist-rally-outside-a-synagogue/
Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.
Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.
And then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from Islamic terror in Iran.
“Billions of us will come and kill you,” a heavily accented Middle Eastern man in a keffiyeh unprompted rasped at me as I walked up. Only dozens had actually shown up, but they made up for it with bullhorns, robotic chants, and assaults in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood.
The Jewish counterprotesters had come waving American and Israeli flags while the other side was a sea of terrorist flags. A man wore an Antifa cap, another had come in ski goggles during 90-degree heat, while others toted bear spray, metal bottles, and other implements of violence.
The Jewish community members included older men and women, as well as families, while the Hamas contingent was mostly young and many were masked. A pair of rabbis led a melodic song that could hardly be heard over the harsh clatter of the hateful terror chants.
Despite knowing that a terrorist rally was planned outside a synagogue, the LAPD had allowed the terrorist supporters to take over the entire sidewalk leaving only a thin lane for attendees to walk through to get inside. The LAPD did little to interfere with the terrorist supporters, but did block Jewish counterprotesters from reaching their own synagogue. The police also did nothing as clumps of masked Hamas supporters broke away from the synagogue and began confronting, threatening, and attacking Jewish community members on the street.
LAPD officers did not stir as confrontations escalated into assaults, shoving into mace and bear spray. Jewish community members rushed to provide water bottles to the affected. Only after several such incidents did the LAPD finally bring in reinforcements and push the Hamas supporters away from the synagogue entrance (dispersing them to harass and threaten two other synagogues) while also clearing Jewish families away from the other side of the street who had been peacefully waving flags near a children’s school.
The terrorist hate rally spread outside three synagogues, Congregation Adas Torah, Chabad Persian Youth, and Congregation Ateret Israel (Glory of Israel), and the confrontations in the center of the street continued. There were running battles along the large commercial street with violent assaults outside a Kosher luncheonette and running battles down a residential street in the Jewish neighborhood.
The terrorist hate rally was not an aberration, It’s become the new normal.
On Thursday, Hamas supporters showed up at Congregation Shaarey Zedek (Gates of Righteousness) in the San Fernando Valley formerly attended by Ben Shapiro, yelling abuse at parents taking their children to school. Other Jewish schools have been similarly targeted.
Beginning with the assault on the Museum of Tolerance when it was screening a documentary on the Oct 7 massacre to the violence at UCLA, it has played out this way for 8 months.
The LAPD has consistently failed to secure protest zones, to separate different groups of protesters and to prevent violence, and only steps in when it escalates past a set point. That point usually comes when the Jewish counterprotesters start fighting back. And then the LAPD begins arresting both sides while politicians, including Mayor Bass, deplore the violence.
Media accounts, especially from the Los Angeles Times, CNN and the JTA, falsely characterize the violence as coming from the Jewish counterprotesters rather than the terrorist supporters.
I had previously heard first person accounts from people who were assaulted while the police and security at UCLA did nothing, but now I saw it for myself. And after 8 months of the same thing, it’s hard to believe that it’s simple incompetence or that a major urban police force has no idea how to handle the same kind of protests and is incapable of figuring out how to do so.
Especially when it’s been standard procedure by other urban police forces.
The LAPD is clearly aware of the potential for violence because it sends out offices in riot gear. But rather than engaging in proactive policing to prevent violence, they stand passively and wait for orders from higher up before taking any action. This is not normal policing during protests and counterprotests when the standard doctrine is for police to set up barriers and stand between groups of protesters before they bring out the riot gear. But the LAPD brings out the riot gear, allows the radicals free rein and waits as long as possible before taking any action.
Why is this happening? I previously reported that Mayon Karen Bass is a close political ally of BLM LA boss Melina Abdullah, who has backed the pro-terrorist campaign against Jews. When Jews were attacked at UCLA, Democrat members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion to fund legal support for the terrorist supporters. The resolution to use taxpayer money to fund legal defenses for antisemites was put forward by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath who ‘represents’ CD3 where the synagogue hate riot was taking place. After all the antisemitic violence at UCLA, the only one facing serious charges is a Jewish student.
The Democrat leadership of Los Angeles does not stand with the Jewish communities being targeted by hate, but with the antisemitic mobs surrounding synagogues.
Behind the masks, keffiyehs and the terrorist flags is the new Democratic Party.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Fed up Canadians are leaving
Gad Saad-tweet-7June2024-Leaving Canada
Hopefully my family and I will follow suit. Canada is a failed society. The top 5% of earners are sucked dry in order to create the parasitic Ponzi scheme known as the socialist welfare state.
Maxime Bernier-tweet-6June2024-fed up Canadians are leaving
While the Liberals are destroying our economy and society, and importing the third world, fed up Canadians (including disillusioned immigrants) are leaving for greener pastures in increasing numbers.
Gad Saad-tweet-7June2024-Leaving Canada
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Hamas celebrates October 7 in New York
“Long Live October 7”
Aviva Klompas-tweet-11June2024-Hamas outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC-Long Live October 7
Cover of today’s @nypost shows the mob outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC with a banner that reads “Long Live October 7”
Aviva Klompas-tweet-11June2024-Hamas outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC-Long Live October 7
Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Israel-tweet-11June2024-Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Pro-Hamas demonstrators violently set off smoke bombs in front of the Nova Exhibition in NYC which commemorates the hundreds of Israelis murdered by Hamas at a music festival.
When people show you who they are believe them.
Israel-tweet-11June2024-Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Todd Richman-tweet-11June2024-Hamas Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit
OMG THESE PEOPLE HAVE LOST ALL THEIR MORALS!!!! Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit, honoring the hundreds massacred, raped and kidnapped by Hamas. Totally disgusting and shameful. My sister said she was trapped inside and could not get out. Really, 2024 in NYC and Jews are unable to leave a building!?!? I thought we had a few decent people there. On my way to a charity event I stopped to speak to a few people. We even shook hands thinking we could agree to disagree. Had a good feeling about them until they started telling me that I was a Nazi and all Zionists were Nazis. And that Hitler was a Zionist and then to F@&k off. And then another got in my face until the @nypdnews told him to back off. Wow, these are my fellow New Yorkers. Freakin scary!!!!! Well you know what, I am a Loud and Proud Zionist! And I love @Israel and America. #AmYisraelChai! @bringhomenow #BringThemHomeNow
Todd Richman-tweet-11June2024-Hamas Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit
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New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
Marina Medvin-tweet-11July2024-New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
Wow.
New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC.
44% has experienced personal fear about living in NYC. That’s astounding.
Marina Medvin-tweet-11July2024-New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
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Most American Jewish organizations are leftist first and foremost
Karol’s Substack
I have spent the last year angry at Jews.
What if Jews don’t wake up?
Karol Markowicz
Karol Markowicz
6October2024
Tragedy unites.
I was in New York on 9/11 and despite the pain and fear, or because of it, there was so much warmth, care and love. I know Israel had a similar occurrence, briefly, after 10/7. Buildings in Tel Aviv were lit up with the message “together, we will win.” Israeli flags were everywhere.
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In the diaspora, Jews attempted the same. But in America, Jews and their Jewish organizations had leaned so far into their leftist identity that this was difficult to accomplish, especially as October 7th brought the realization to many of them that their leftist friends were very much not on their side.
For those of us on the right, we had to be patient and watch them figure out for themselves the serious mistakes they had made over the course of decades. Some are not quite there yet and it’s been hard to watch.
Some Jews, you can not reach. Every Jewish society in history had people who lined up to help the enemy and ours is no different. Jewish Voices for Peace, and nonsense groups like that, are Jews who use their Judaism only to harm other Jews with it. Their stupid tallit, meant to be worn only in prayer, suddenly a shmata they wear to choke other Jews. They cry out for peace only when it’s time for Jews to fight back and never when Jews are attacked. They are best shunned and forgotten.
Then there are Jews who do get the moment, understand what we are up against, but have spent so long in their “we’re Democrats-first” world that they don’t know how to adjust to our current time.
An important Jewish teen organization held a major conference in Florida in February and one of the speakers was anti-Israel Congressman Maxwell Frost. Frost had called for a ceasefire in October. Yet he was invited to speak to Jewish youth at an organization that touts its connection to Israel. When I called the organization, with smoke coming out of my ears, they explained to me that yes, their event featured only Democratic politicians and elected officials but hey, they had Meghan McCain too. I love Meghan McCain, this is in no way a shot at her. She is an incredible friend to Jews and I’m so grateful for her voice. But the event was in Florida and they couldn’t find a single pro-Israel Republican elected official to speak? They actually had to work to locate an anti-Israel one, even among Democrats in Florida.
The problem is, if they could have the entire Democratic party, even the squad who openly despise them, at their event to talk to the next generation, they would. They could have prominent Republicans, who actually support them, at their event but they don’t. They seemed shocked that anyone thought they did anything wrong. They have been on the Democratic reservation so long that they openly celebrate people who punch them in the face and expect the rest of us to do the same.
Jews are traditionally liberals, that’s true, but we’re not traditionally stupid. We can see with our eyes who is on our side and the lack of gratitude from Jewish organizations, because they still hope that their political team will someday take them back, is abominable.
There were the galas, for example, thrown by many Jewish organizations. I don’t begrudge anyone pretty dresses and rubber chicken or self-congratulating awards. It was a tough year and the people who helped us get through it, standing up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, should be singled out for praise.
But where were the invites and awards for the conservatives who had unwaveringly stood by us? Where was Megyn Kelly? Where were Clay Travis and Buck Sexton? Dan Bongino? Xaviaer DuRousseau? Erick Erickson? Dana Loesch? Glenn Beck? Guy Benson? Sohrab Ahmari? Stephen “RedSteeze” Miller? Kurt Schlichter? Mary Katharine Ham? Pretty much everyone on Fox News? I only leave off Douglas Murray because he did get one from the country of Israel and one from the Manhattan Institute for his “unwavering defense of Western values,” which is for something even wider than just his defense of Israel and Jews, and Meghan McCain because she got one from the right-leaning magazine Algemeiner Journal. They both deserve even more.
My list of well-known non-Jewish conservatives, with giant platforms, who spent the year standing up for Israel and for Jews in America, could go on and on. These people went above and beyond and got no official thank you from the American Jewish community at all, not a single Jewish organization celebrated them. It’s sickening. These mensches didn’t benefit one iota from standing with Jews and with Israel. They took shots for us, they suffered abuse for us. They’ll say they don’t need the praise. They did it because it was right. But how dare we not say thank you? Throw your Tikkun Olam in the nearest trash can and learn Hakarat Hatov. And then wonder: where is the similar cadre of liberal writers and media personalities to defend you? It does not exist. Face it.
And that’s before we get into the moguls and the politicians. If there was a non-Jewish leftist billionaire who went to Israel, wore the dogtags, he would be headlining every major Jewish event. But it was Elon Musk so that didn’t count? Nearly every Republican politician effusively stood up for Israel and demanded the protection of American Jews. Where is Ted Cruz’s award? Ron DeSantis’s? Tom Cotton’s? Where is Donald Trump’s?
We know why. Most Jewish organizations are dinosaurs, committed to Democrats just as the Democrats make clear they are not at all interested in them. That’s the problem with tying your religion to a political party. The political party can tell you that your enemies, who want to destroy you and murder your children, “have a point” and you’ll just take it.
Then there are the Jews who do get it, who know what history has taught us about times like these, but think they can somehow duck this moment. They’ll never find out that you’re Jewish, Betsy Silverman [this is a generic Jewish-sounding name, not attacking anyone named Betsy Silverman in particular], or that you’re obviously a Zionist because that word means that you have faced the reality that Israel exists and will exist and should. You’ll stay popular at your safe job in Hollywood or Fashion. You’re one of the good ones, they’ll believe, because you’ll always highlight every single cause but your own. You couldn’t post about the hostages, because then they’d know you don’t want Jews killed or maimed and you can’t let them find out! You also couldn’t laugh with us when crotches of Hezbollah fighters exploded in supermarkets. Oh no, serious face, this might lead to escalation. As if the 80,000 people evacuated from the north of Israel because Hezbollah shoots rockets at their house daily isn’t already an escalation. You couldn’t celebrate the hostages being rescued, the fist bump between the IDF guy and Almog Meir Jan, even though you know what you felt in that moment. You have to performatively hate Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, and celebrating the successes of Israel would place you on the wrong “side.” Your politics have separated you from your people. It’s pathetic. I feel sorry for you for having to live your lie.
Or the actual Hollywood stars who are super Jewish when they can profit off of it but mute when it matters. Jews control Hollywood? I wish. Hollywood controls Jews and makes sure they stay quiet.
Even groups I should like, formed to combat antisemitism, are leftist first and foremost. They post about pride month, they celebrate the almost entirely mute Barbra Streisand. What is the point of you, I want to yell at these groups. But instead I google what they’re up to, hoping it’s something more than the nothing I see on X, and see they’ve gotten another $100 million for their…what, exactly? Ads with silly blue boxes and a hashtag that makes it sound like they’re fighting hateful Jews?
I’ve never been to a therapist. I know it’s the Jewy thing to do but I always felt I could ask myself the questions a therapist might. What are you mad at, really? What’s at the root of this anger?
It’s this: It was not hard to be a Jewish conservative my entire life because my Soviet Jewish community in Brooklyn got it. They understood what the world was really like. When I met liberal American Jews, they seemed to live in a land of make believe but I never held it against them. They were the luckiest Jews in history. I got why they prioritized other issues ahead of our collective interest. They had known nothing but security. They were unbelievably naive. I understood.
I no longer have that space in my heart to understand. I don’t even mean just voting right, though why not talk about the election: Donald Trump was the most pro-Israel president in my lifetime and it’s not particularly close. Other presidents said the right words, he had the actual right deeds. The American Embassy is now in the capital of Israel, in Jerusalem, where it should be, because of Donald Trump. You don’t care about that? You’re into peace? The Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. There hadn’t been a peace agreement in nearly 30 years but Donald Trump got one done. Democrats see Israel as a problem to solve. Donald Trump sees Israel’s enemies as the problem. They are not the same.
But forget about Israel. You’re an American Jew and, ahem, it’s America first. Think about your kids on college campuses, think about where your family is safe and where it is not, think about the side that lets you fight back and doesn’t want you to just take it. It is not the side you’re desperately trying to find your way back to.
Jews are changing, I wrote even before October 7th, for the better. But what if I’m wrong? What if they don’t? What if they put all of us in peril because they have chosen a side the way a child might choose a football team and they will support that side to our collective demise?
Antisemitism thrives when Jews are weak. There’s a reason the glee on streets around the world was on October 8th and not when Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, not when Israel shrugged off Iranian ballistic missiles, not when Israel went into Gaza and saved hostages. People are drawn to the strong. When we cower and fear, we lose. When we’re begging to be loved, that’s when we’ll be most hated.
Chazak, Chazak, V’nitchazek we say on Shabbat mornings when we finish a book of the Torah. Be strong, be strong, and let us strengthen each other. When the safest Jews in the world don’t speak up, don’t fight back, don’t care about each other, it harms us all.
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Suicidal Jews
By Joan Swirsky 23September2024 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/suicidal_jews.html
When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness.
But how to explain group suicide? There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:
Clearly, some groups took their lives en masse for ideological reasons, whereas others — particularly vulnerable people in dire need of a “leader” — simply followed orders. In all the mass suicides in recorded history, dozens, hundreds, and up to one thousand people took their own lives.
But today, when looking at suicidal Jews, the numbers could be in the millions!
Currently, out of a worldwide population of eight billion people, there are about 15 million Jews — approximately seven million in Israel, almost seven million in the United States, and one million throughout the world. This is, by any measure, a few grains of sand compared to the massive total population of the world.
According to U.S. voting patterns, Jews are overwhelmingly liberal — up to 80 percent — which means they vote in huge numbers for leftists like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. These people’s staffs have comprised, almost exclusively, career antisemites, who have done everything in their power to effect anti-Israel policies like the Iran nuclear deal, knowing that the fanatical mission of the mullahs in Teheran was — and is to this day — to wipe Israel off the map and exterminate every Jew in existence.
As Karin McQuillan explained in “Leftist Jew Hatred Has Come to America,” “the Left began with blacklisting and boycotting conservatives. Now American Jews are in the crosshairs, no matter how liberal their politics.”
But they won’t jump off the bandwagon, she wrote, because that would mean “losing your friends, being shunned at synagogue, and stunting your career[.] … [C]hanging party affiliation is such a tall cliff, it feels suicidal, that is the loss of their entire identity.”
McQuillan quotes the estimable Daniel Greenfield: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”
Look no farther than the full-bodied ideological and financial support that liberal — suicidal — Jews lend to virulently anti-Israel organizations, many of them founded and financed by leftist Jews, such as the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, the fascistic Antifa, J Street, If Not Now, Americans for Peace Now, B’Tselem, Bend the Arc, Breaking the Silence, New Israel Fund, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the newspaper The Forward (recently defunct), Michael Lerner’s Tikkun magazine, Reform Action Center, T’ruah (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights), Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, et al.
Why? Because it’s hard to be a Jew, and liberal Jews are simply not up to the task. The desperate need to be liked, accepted, admired, and embraced is the historical downfall of weak Jews.
That is why so many Jews adored President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who stacked his administration with Court Jews and then stabbed every Jew in the world in the back, refusing refuge to the few who escaped Hitler’s murderous onslaught by turning away thousands from our shores and sending them back to their grisly deaths. And he counted on — who else? — weak liberal Jews and a complicit leftist media — to cover for his mortal sins!
WHO HATES THE SUICIDAL LIBERAL JEWS?
We Jews are taught by our sages to accept and embrace all Jews, no matter their flaws or shortcomings. We are a tiny people, and only by understanding the imperative for unity will we survive. Look for the good in even the most egregious behavior of our fellow Jew — does he help the poor, take in the widow and orphan, donate generously to charity, etc.? Then accept that Jew, embrace him, love her.
In Genesis 12:3, God tells Abram (before he becomes Abraham): “I will make you into a great nation[.] … I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”
Personally, I don’t embrace the quisling Jews and other antisemites who opt for the toxic American liberalism that vilifies Jews and Israel. I curse them. And I promise them that their determination to destroy the Jewish state — because of their rancid hatred and obsessive jealousy — will fail as thunderously as all attempts over the past 5,000 years have failed.
Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
UK Lawyers For Israel-tweet-12June2024-Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
Customs officers @HeathrowAirport selected all incoming passengers from El Al flight last night after seeing Israeli flag on suitcase & directed them to room on left where their bags were scanned. No other passengers selected for this treatment at the time. @UKLFI writing to HMRC. Does it remind you of anything?
Jacklondon-tweet-11June2024-the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe
@HeathrowAirport the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe:
UK Lawyers For Israel-tweet-12June2024-Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
Jacklondon-tweet-11June2024-the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe
Heathrow accused of Harassment of Jewish and Israeli passengers as Security Staff sport Pro-Palestine Badges
June 19, 2024 https://www.uklfi.com/heathrow-accused-of-harassment-of-jewish-and-israeli-passengers-as-security-staff-sport-pro-palestine-badges flag, Travelling
All five security staff at Heathrow Terminal 4’s Fast Track lane were sporting Palestinian Flag badges when scanning El Al passengers and their luggage.
El Al passengers who were on their way to catch their flight back to Tel Aviv last Sunday 16 June 2024 felt intimidated by this display of badges on the lanyards of the security staff. Two of the staff were also wearing watermelon badges – these days a symbol for Palestinian solidarity and “resistance”.
One of the passengers remarked “The people responsible for making sure terrorists don’t blow up aeroplanes were wearing badges that identify with terrorists.” A passenger complained and eventually the five security staff were moved and replaced by others, and their badges were taken.
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has written a letter of complaint to Heathrow’s services director, pointing out that not only were the staff in breach of Heathrow’s own uniform regulations by wearing political badges, they were also breaching the Equality Act 2010.
By wearing the badges, the security staff engaged in “unwanted conduct” relevant to a protected characteristic (being Jewish and Israeli), and this had the purpose of creating an intimidating and hostile and offensive environment for them.
This show of anti-Israel feeling amongst Heathrow staff comes just a week after all the passengers from an El Al flight were taken to one side at customs at Heathrow, whilst going through the Nothing to Declare channel, and made to have their luggage scanned. The passengers were made to feel as if they were being called out as Jews.
A spokesperson from UKLFI commented: “It is obvious that if staff wear these badges it would make most Jewish, Israeli and Israel supporting passengers feel uncomfortable and unsafe, particularly in the area of security checking at Heathrow.
We would like to know why so many security officers were allowed to wear highly offensive, divisive and political badges attached to their Heathrow uniform, when it was a breach of Heathrow’s uniform policy.”
Canary Mission-tweet-22June2024-Heathrow Airport security staff identify with terrorists
“The people responsible for making sure terrorists don’t blow up airplanes were wearing badges that identify with terrorists.” El Al passengers called out security guards in @HeathrowAirport who had Palestinian flags pinned to the lanyards of their uniform https://www.uklfi.com/heathrow-accused-of-harassment-of-jewish-and-israeli-passengers-as-security-staff-sport-pro-palestine-badges
Canary Mission-tweet-22June2024-Heathrow Airport security staff identify with terrorists
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IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
Cheryl E-tweet-13July2024-IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
Many studies on the effect of psychedelics on depression and mood have proven that they are an effective therapy to treat anxiety and depression.
Well, I can say without any doubt that these magical bunker busting mushrooms that took out Mahmoud Deif, Rafe Salame and 75+ other Hamas terrorists made me feel very very bloody happy 🤭. I can’t stop smiling and dancing.
Cheryl E-tweet-13July2024-IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
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Houthis in Yemen attack Israel, The results.
20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Israel Nitzan-tweet-19July2024-Iranian-made Yemen Houthis UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv
Iranian-made UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv. The drone was launched from Yemen by the Houthis.
This attack is part of the Iranian war against Israel, using Iran’s terrorist militias in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria.
It’s not about Gaza.
It’s about Iran.
Israel Nitzan-tweet-19July2024-Iranian-made Yemen Houthis UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
After 9 months of continuous aerial attacks by the Houthis in Yemen toward Israel, IAF fighter jets conducted an extensive operational strike over 1,800km away against Houthi terrorist military targets in the area of Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen. This port serves as an entryway for Iranian weapons for the Houthi terrorist regime.
The IDF is capable of operating anywhere required and will strike any force that endangers Israelis.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
War Monitor-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Big. Mistake.
War Monitor-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Video
Visegrád 24-tweet-20July2024-largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames
BREAKING:
2 days ago, the Houthis in Yemen carried out their first ever deadly drone attack against Israel.
Now, Israel has answered with their first ever missile strikes against the Houthis.
The largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames.
Visegrád 24-tweet-20July2024-largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames
Summary of the Israeli strike
Open Source Intel-tweet-20July2024-Summary of the Israeli strike
Summary of the Israeli strike according to what is known so far:
– Approximately 25 F-15 and F-35 aircraft, accompanied by refueling planes, flew about 2000 kilometers toward the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
– The strike was carried out in 8 waves.
– The attack destroyed fuel depots, inflicted damage on the port, and destroyed a power station north of the port.
– The fire is still burning and is expected to continue for several more days.
– There is a power outage across the entire region.
– The message of the strike is clear: this is not a strike on military targets (which has been done by the coalition over the past 9 months) but an attack on the already struggling Yemeni economy, causing significant economic damage.
– The attack on the port is a direct response to the damage Yemenis have caused to the port of Eilat.
– The message to the rest of the Middle East is also clear: the Bandar Abbas port and the Kharg Island, from where most of Iran’s oil is exported, are in Israel’s sights, as well as the port of Beirut.
– Israel has decided to take off the gloves; this is not a minor strike like those in Iran.
– The Houthis are threatening to retaliate, but it is unclear what the threat entails, as they have already attacked Israel 200 times.
@orfialkov
Open Source Intel-tweet-20July2024-Summary of the Israeli strike
29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
⭕️BREAKING: The IAF struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in Yemen in response to their recent attacks against Israel.
The targets included power plants and a seaport, which were used by the Houthis to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil.
Over the past year, the Houthis have been operating under the direction and funding of Iran, and in cooperation with Iraqi militias, in order to attack the State of Israel, undermine regional stability, and disrupt global freedom of navigation.
The IDF is determined to continue operating at any distance—near or far—against all threats to the citizens of the State of Israel.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
V.O.H-tweet-29September2024-Yemen’s oil depots refineries power plants and airport now on fire
Yemen’s oil depots, refineries, power plants and airport controlled by Houthi terrorists are now on fire. 👇
Israel is on a roll and is sending a clear message: we will screw those who attack us. 🇮🇱THE EXPLOSION 💥 SHOWS YOU MUST OBEY OR YOU (KPAI)DIE!!
V.O.H-tweet-29September2024-Yemen’s oil depots refineries power plants and airport now on fire
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History is repeating again, first with President Ronald Regan in 1981 with Iran
Trump War Room-tweet-2December2024-Hostages-what will happen in 2025
🚨 🚨 🚨
Trump War Room-tweet-2December2024-Hostages-what will happen in 2025
Ash-tweet-2December2024-Here is how you get it done
Here is how you get it done.
1. Go to Qatar and demand every penny of Hamas’s money.
2. Go to Abu Mazen and demand that he intervene or he will lose 100% of his funding and you will recommend that Bibi annex Gaza + Judea & Samaria immediately.
3. Tell Iran that if they do not call off their dogs, their nation will become the largest pane of glass on planet earth.
4. All Hamas captives will face medieval torture, to be inflicted by the families of the hostages. Their family homes will be demolished, and their families will be extradited to Antarctica.
Ash-tweet-2December2024-Here is how you get it done
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The terrorists got instant karma
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-13August2024-terrorists got instant karma
This is the power of teshuva, and there was a lot of that in Israel today, TY, Hashem!
Documenting Israel-tweet-13August2024
A car bomb exploded earlier in Hebron which had terrorists in it and it was supposed to be used against Jews in Israel.
The terrorists got instant karma
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-13August2024-terrorists got instant karma
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Thank You Hashem! Miracle in Tel Aviv
OSINTdefender-tweet-19August2024-Miracle in Tel Aviv
Israeli Police are now almost Positive that yesterday’s Explosion in Tel Aviv was the result of a Failed Terrorist Attack, which if Successful would have been First Bombing within the City in over 18 Years. The Terrorist, who is now believed to have been a Palestinian Resident of Nablus in the West Bank, was carrying the Explosive Device in a Backpack when it suffered some kind of Malfunction and Prematurely Detonated, resulting in his Death. His Intended Target is still Unknown, though he was nearby several Synagogues and Shopping Centers at the time of the Detonation, with him even being seen on CCTV Camera near multiple Large Crowds right before the Explosion. Sources with the Israeli Police have stated it is a “Miracle” that the Explosive Device suffered such a Malfunction, and that if it hadn’t the results would have been Catastrophic.
OSINTdefender-tweet-19August2024-Miracle in Tel Aviv
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-19August2024-Divine protection
Look what a 50lb backpack of nails & TNT did last night in S. Tel Aviv near the Rashbi shul. The terrorist was on his way to downtown, but the bomb exploded before planned on a quiet street. Only the terrorist was killed. It could be that your one mitzva, prayer or daily Gemara learning saved dozens of lives. No one – not police, IDF, Shin Bet or anyone else – thwarted this heinous crime. It was some special mitzva that someone – maybe you – did. Don’t let up!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-19August2024-Divine protection
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