BOYCOTT PALESTINIAN PRODUCTS!!!
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Israel’s Real BordersKontorovich Reveals the REAL Legal Borders of Israel and Why the World Lies About ItThe Elizabeth Farah Show
The United Nations did not create Israel. The Holocaust did not create Israel. The Balfour Declaration did not create Israel. And the borders of the modern Jewish state were not drawn by diplomats, activists, or postwar sentiment. International law scholar Eugene Kontorovich joins Elizabeth Farah to expose the real story, the one the media will not touch and most politicians do not understand.
Eugene dismantles every myth surrounding Israel’s sovereignty, showing how global powers tried to prevent the state’s creation, embargoed its weapons during its war for survival, and still push false narratives about its legal borders. He walks through the mandates, treaties, and governing doctrines that shaped the modern Middle East, and explains why the only binding international rule for new states, uti possidetis juris, places the borders of Mandatory Palestine, Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem squarely within Israel’s legal territory.
Together, Eugene and Elizabeth reveal how the collapse of the Ottoman Empire created every modern state in the region, why British obstruction trapped millions of Jews in Europe as the Holocaust unfolded, and how the same legal principles that define today’s borders for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Ukraine, and dozens of African nations apply with full force to Israel. This is the historical and legal record the world refuses to acknowledge.
They call out the diplomats, academics, and institutions that rely on political narratives instead of law, and they issue a challenge: if international law matters, then it must be applied consistently. And if it is applied consistently, Israel’s borders are not a debate. They are already defined.
This is the conversation that cuts through propaganda, resets the legal record, and exposes the truth about Israel’s sovereignty.
Guest: Eugene Kontorovich, Professor of International Law, Director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the legal status of Israel’s borders.
Host: Elizabeth Farah , Founder of The Elizabeth Farah Show and co-founder of WND.com
What You Will Hear
Prof. of Law Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict. Below, Kontorovich discusses Israel’s real borders and exposes many false narratives which defy reality and truth about those borders.
Key points
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Palestinians don’t want a Homeland, They just wanted to kill the Jews – Bill Clinton
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 https://news.sky.com Palestine Action latest: Protesters removed by police after legal win for Home Office on banThe government’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terror organisation was lawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Protesters at the court were removed after a backlash against the judgment. Catch up on what happened below.Monday 15 June 2026 18:38, UK https://news.sky.com/story/palestine-action-latest-judges-to-rule-on-home-office-appeal-over-protest-group-ban-13554254?postid=11870454#liveblog-body
Home Office wins Palestine Action appeal
The Home Office has successfully challenged the High Court’s ruling that the banning of Palestine Action was unlawful.
Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr tells the court:
She adds that Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori’s application for a cross-appeal has been dismissed.
Baroness Carr also acknowledges that Palestine Action “is supported by many otherwise law-abiding citizens” and the prescription of it is “highly controversial”.
However, she turns back to her argument that Palestine Action is not a non-violent, direct action group like the suffragettes.
Instead, she says:
Three judges ruled in February that the then home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 last year was unlawful.
The ruling followed a legal challenge from the group’s co-founder, Ammori.
The ban, which began on 5 July last year, made membership of, or support for, the group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison, and has remained in force as the government has attempted to challenge the ruling.
Thousands of people have been arrested since the proscription.
Lawyers representing the government told an appeal in April that the High Court’s findings about the impact on human rights of banning Palestine Action were “overstated and wrong”.
But representatives for Ammori said there were “plenty of alternative measures that could have been used” to limit Palestine Action’s activities that were “less intrusive” than banning it as a terror group.
It led to today’s appeal hearing. Key points
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ICJP Ordered to Pay Costs After Devastating Court Defeat Over IDF Private Prosecution22June2026 https://www.uklfi.com/icjp-ordered-to-pay-costs-after-devastating-court-defeat-over-idf-private-prosecution
The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has been ordered to pay costs after suffering a crushing defeat in its attempt to bring a private prosecution against a dual British-Israeli citizen who returned to his Israel Defence Forces reserve unit following the Hamas atrocities of 7 October 2023.  Bindmans LLP and International Centre of Justice for Palestinians In a highly critical judgment delivered by Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring, Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, Westminster Magistrates’ Court refused ICJP’s application for a summons and condemned what it described as profound failures in the organisation’s duty of candour to the court.
The proposed prosecution had alleged that the defendant had committed an offence under section 4 of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 by travelling to Israel on 8 October 2023 and rejoining his military unit. However, the court rejected the application in its entirety, finding that it was fundamentally misconceived in law, unsupported by evidence and tainted by serious disclosure failures.
The judgment was particularly notable for its criticism of ICJP’s conduct. Judge Goldspring stated that the courts “must not be used as a vehicle for political debate” or to expose individuals for alleged wrongdoing falling outside the criminal law, adding: “I fear that is close to being the case here.”
The court held that ICJP had failed to disclose a series of highly material matters, including repeated statements by successive UK Governments confirming that British dual nationals are entitled to serve in the armed forces of their other nationality, including the IDF. The judge found that these omissions constituted “profound and serious breaches of the duty of candour”.
Judge Goldspring also rejected ICJP’s central legal argument that a dual British-Israeli national serving in the armed forces of Israel could be regarded as a “British subject” joining the forces of a “foreign state” for the purposes of the 1870 Act. He described that interpretation as “fundamentally flawed” and warned that it would lead to absurd consequences, potentially criminalising British Commonwealth nationals serving in the armed forces of countries such as India, Pakistan or Cyprus.
The court further found that the defendant had not “enlisted” on 8 October 2023 at all. Rather, he was already an IDF reservist and simply reported for duty pursuant to an existing legal obligation under Israeli law. As the judge observed, section 4 criminalises enlistment, not continuing service.
In one of the most damaging passages of the judgment, the court concluded that ICJP had failed to disclose important information concerning its links with its solicitors, Bindmans LLP, and with one of its expert witnesses, Dr Mandy Turner. The judge found that Dr Turner was not an independent expert but should properly be regarded as “a campaigner and activist” whose evidence displayed bias and lack of independence.
Having dismissed the prosecution attempt, the court then considered applications for costs. In a further ruling delivered on 19 June 2026, Judge Goldspring refused an application for wasted costs against Bindmans LLP and ICJP’s barristers, finding that the high legal threshold for such orders had not been met. However, he reached a different conclusion regarding ICJP itself.
The judge held that ICJP had acted improperly within the meaning of section 19 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 and specifically identified its failures in relation to the duty of candour. He found that these failings had caused the defendant to incur additional legal costs and described them as “egregious”.
Referring back to his original judgment, Judge Goldspring noted that compliance with the duty of candour is “the foundation stone upon which such decisions are taken” and that, in this case, “that foundation stone has crumbled.” He therefore ordered that costs be awarded against ICJP, with the amount to be determined at a later hearing.
The ruling represents a significant setback for ICJP and raises serious questions about its decision to pursue a politically charged private prosecution that the court ultimately found to be legally unsustainable and procedurally defective.
Bindmans also informed they Court that they had reported themselves to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA).
The proposed defendant was represented by barristers Peter Wright KC and Natasha Hausdorff, instructed by solicitor Daniel Berke of 3D Law. Natasha Hausdorff also serves as legal director of UKLFI Charitable Trust. Daniel Berke is also a director of the association UK Lawyers for Israel.
A spokesperson for UK Lawyers for Israel said:
“The main judgment was a complete vindication of the position that British-Israeli dual nationals who serve in the IDF are not committing criminal offences under the Foreign Enlistment Act. The court rejected ICJP’s case on every point and delivered a devastating criticism of the way in which the application was presented.
“Particularly concerning are the court’s findings that ICJP failed to disclose material information and breached its duty of candour. Private prosecutors are expected to act as ministers of justice. The court’s decision to order costs against ICJP reflects the seriousness of those failures.”
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The myth of the ‘Palestinian’ causeStop pursuing solutions that empower those whose identity exists only by erasing the Jewish one.
(July 6, 2026 / JNS) U.S. President Trump signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran and the Trump administration is in talks with the Palestinian Authority to “boost their strained bilateral relationship,” as Washington seeks Ramallah’s cooperation to advance its landmark policy initiatives in the region.
No Palestinian Authority leader has ever condemned the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ensuing slaughter of 1,200 people and kidnapping of 1,200 others into the Gaza Strip. Polls show overwhelming support for the Oct. 7 massacre among the Arab Muslim populations in Gaza, and in Judea and Samaria. And the P.A. continues to pay salaries to terrorists and their families for attempts to kill Jews as part of its longtime “pay for slay” policy.
Under the Taylor Force Act, U.S. law explicitly prohibits American aid to the P.A. And yet, the Trump administration is nevertheless working to transfer billions of dollars in P.A. revenues currently withheld by Israel to the underfunded Board of Peace. This body was established by Washington to advance its 20-point plan for ending the war in Gaza and rebuilding the enclave—a plan that envisions the P.A. eventually taking over governance of the Gaza Strip after carrying out “comprehensive reforms.”
This latest push for engagement and funding, however well-intentioned, collides with a deeper reality: What began as terror attacks against Jews in Israel has evolved into the central cause uniting every radical movement in the West. From climate activism to feminism, Black Lives Matter to LGBTQ+ efforts and indigenous rights movements, the entry ticket is now hatred of Israel and support for Hamas. The Palestinian flag has become the radical left’s new uniform.
This did not happen organically.
As Romanian KGB defector and secret police operator Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa revealed decades ago, the Soviet Union under Yuri Andropov deliberately invented a Palestinian national identity in the 1960s as a weapon to destroy Israel, and to undermine America and the West. Moscow recruited and trained Yasser Arafat, created the Palestinian Liberation Organization, crafted its cause, wrote its charter and rebranded Jew-hatred as a “national liberation” movement. The strategy was never about Palestinian statehood. It was designed to legitimize terrorism against the Jews to destabilize the West, fracture America from within and turn the free world against itself.
The Soviet Union is gone, but the Red-Green alliance it midwifed, bolstering radical leftists and jihadi Islamists, continues executing the plan with precision.
And yet, far too many in the Jewish world still miss the point. Legacy organizations speak of “peace,” “two states” and “ending the occupation,” while attacking figures like Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir; Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria; and anyone in Israel working toward a strong, unapologetic Jewish state.
This stubborn refusal to confront the manufactured origins and true purpose of the “Palestinian” cause perpetuates the same deadly delusion: more concessions, more funding, more naive hopes pinned on reforms and handshakes, and more international pressure for policies that a post-Oct. 7 Israel now recognizes as suicidal.
The news of American billions flowing again and plans for the P.A. to govern Gaza after “comprehensive reforms” is the latest chapter in this dangerous pattern of delusion. But by definition, an identity forged for the explicit goal of erasing Israel and the Jewish people cannot coexist with a sovereign Jewish state in its ancestral homeland.
It’s time for the Jewish people to wake up. Stop thinking and acting like victims—endlessly explaining, apologizing and begging the world to finally distinguish truth from lies. Stop pursuing solutions that empower those whose identity exists only by erasing the Jewish one.
Instead, Jews should act like the victors they are. They are the people who rose from the ashes of the Holocaust and returned to their ancestral homeland after 2,000 years of exile and persecution. They are the people who turned a desert into one of the most innovative nations on Earth. They formed a military in Israel to keep its people safe from those who want to harm them. And, after the worst massacre since the Holocaust, they are fighting on multiple fronts and emerging stronger.
From the Druze in Syria to Christians in Southern Lebanon, freedom-loving people across the region need a strong, confident Israel as a bulwark against jihadi evil. The world needs to witness what real victory over this darkness looks like. It is not a U.S. president praising an ISIS-linked mass murderer like Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria as the solution to defeating Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Today, Israel stands as one of the strongest and most moral countries on the planet, and in the best geopolitical position in its modern history as America’s key strategic ally. Despite all the challenges we still have ahead of us, we are not merely surviving this war. We are winning it.
Do not be discouraged that they have “globalized the intifada” under the flag of an invented identity called “Palestine.” Be invigorated. The masks are off for anyone willing to see reality.
The age of Jewish victimhood is over. The age of Jewish victory and Jewish pride has arrived.
Israel is not the problem. It is the solution.
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2005: Israel GAVE Gaza away.
— Every soldier: gone. 2006: They elected Hamas a genocidal terror group whose founding charter calls for the murder of every Jew on earth. Read it. It’s not subtle. 2005–2023: The world gave Gaza tens of billions of dollars. What did Hamas build with it? — 300 to 500 MILES of terror tunnels longer than the NYC subway system. Under hospitals. Under schools. Under UNRWA facilities. Built with concrete meant for civilian housing. What they did NOT build: — A single functioning hospital they didn’t weaponize Since Israel withdrew in 2005, Hamas and other Gaza terror groups have fired OVER 20,000 rockets at Israeli civilians. — 2008: rocket barrages + cross-border raid → Cast Lead ISRAEL STARTED NONE OF THEM. Every single war, every single round, started with rockets from Gaza or attacks on Israeli civilians. October 7 was not “resistance.” Gaza looks like this because the world continues to excuse barbaric terrorism instead of wiping it off the face of the map. And some people still don’t call this genocide?  Insurrection Barbie-tweet-20April2026-2005 Israel GAVE Gaza away
Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace
The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a terror fortress. For years, the world has been fed lies.  Vivid.-tweet-22July2026-Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace
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The Jewish people: Myth or reality? A lie with a purposeBy: Dr. Alex Grobman February 11, 2026 https://diariojudio.com/opinion/the-jewish-people-myth-or-reality-a-lie-with-a-purpose/517123/ While the Prime Minister is in Washington fighting for Israel’s survival, it is crucial to remember that the Jewish people’s attachment to its tiny land was continuous, documented, and unmatched by any competing national claim. It was also legally recognized. Hanukkah-menorah-in-Rostov-on-Don-Russia
One of the oldest and most dishonest arguments used to deny Jewish rights in the Land of Israel is the claim that Jews are not a people-only a religion. This falsehood resurfaces whenever Israel asserts itself as a Jewish state and whenever Jews insist on their right to national self-determination.
It reemerged loudly in December 2019, after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at combating antisemitism on American college campuses. Almost immediately, critics claimed that Jews were merely adherents of a faith and therefore not entitled to the legal protections afforded to national or ethnic groups.
This was not an academic disagreement.
It was ideological warfare.
The argument that Jews are “not a people” is not an innocent error. It is a calculated strategy. Its goal is singular: to delegitimize Jewish nationhood and invalidate the Jewish state. Strip Jews of peoplehood, and Zionism becomes colonialism. Strip Jews of history, and Israel becomes theft. This argument has been recycled for generations-and it has never been honest.
>h3>International Law Settled This Long Ago International law has never been confused on this question.
Professor George Scelle, one of the most influential international jurists of the twentieth century and a member of the UN International Law Commission, defined a “people” as any collective bound by conscious solidarity, as determined by its own members. By that standard, he concluded unambiguously that the Jewish people constitute a nation.
Scelle acknowledged that Jews were dispersed and lacked territorial continuity. But instead of weakening Jewish peoplehood, dispersion reinforced it. Jews retained their identity precisely because they refused to dissolve into surrounding societies. Their shared traditions, historical memory, religious practices, and-above all-the persecutions they endured forged a cohesion stronger than that of many territorially concentrated peoples.
Paul Fauchille, another leading French jurist, reached the same conclusion. Writing after World War I, he stated plainly that the war brought “official recognition of the nationhood of yet another persecuted people: namely the Jewish people.”
This recognition was not symbolic.
On July 24, 1922, the League of Nations formally recognized the Jewish people and their historic and religious connection to the Land of Israel through the Palestine Mandate. The Mandate explicitly affirmed Jewish national rights and recognized the Zionist Organization as the representative body of the Jewish people.
This was not charity. It was law.
Even the Nazis Knew Jews Were a People
After World War II, the Nuremberg Tribunals (1945-1949) reaffirmed this reality. The judges ruled that “atrocities against the Jewish people were committed.” Throughout their judgments, they referred repeatedly to the murder of “the Jews” across Europe.
Professor Nathan Feinberg, former dean of The Hebrew University Law School and a leading authority on international law, explained that the tribunal used the term “Jewish people” in an ethnic-not religious-sense. Jews were murdered not for what they believed, but for who they were. Converts were murdered alongside observant Jews.
The Nazis understood Jewish peoplehood clearly-even if today’s deniers pretend otherwise.
Jewish Nationalism Is Not Colonialism
From 1517 until World War I, the Ottoman Empire ruled the Land of Israel. Ottoman sovereignty collapsed with the Treaty of Sèvres (1920), transferring authority to the Allied Powers. This enabled the implementation of Jewish national rights that long predated modern international law.
Britain did not “give” the land to the Jews. As former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold explained, the Mandate constituted de jure recognition of a historical and legal reality-not an act of imperial generosity. Jewish attachment to the land was continuous, documented, and unmatched by any competing national claim.
The British hoped Arabs and Jews could live together and that Arab society would benefit from Jewish development. But even British officials recognized an overriding fact: the Jewish claim was unique-sui generis. No other people returned to its land after two millennia with its language, laws, religious observances, and national consciousness intact.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, noted that more than 3,000 years before the Mayflower sailed to the New World, Jews fled Egypt. Every year, Jews commemorate that liberation at the Passover seder, concluding with the words:
“This year we are here; next year in the Land of Israel.”
Ben-Gurion observed that he knew of no other people exiled from its land, scattered among the nations, hated, persecuted, expelled, and slaughtered-yet refusing to vanish from history, refusing to assimilate, yearning for two thousand years to return, and ultimately restoring its independence.
Former Israeli Ambassador Yaacov Herzog articulated this bluntly in his famous debate with historian Arnold Toynbee. The Jews, Herzog said, are the only people who insisted they could not live without their land-even after 2,000 years of exile. The normal laws of history do not apply here.
“If the world agrees that there is something unique about the Jews in the history of mankind,” Herzog argued, “it cannot deny the right of the Jews to this land.”
That uniqueness was recognized thousands of years earlier. The prophet Balaam described Israel as “a people that dwells alone.” Whether this reality inspires moral responsibility or provokes resentment is the central tension of Jewish history.
The Double Standard
Those who attack Israel’s Jewish character conveniently ignore a basic and damning fact: many modern states-Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and numerous Eastern European countries-were created in the twentieth century with artificial borders, invented identities, and no prior history of sovereign nationhood. Their legitimacy is rarely questioned.
The Jewish people, by contrast, existed as a nation thousands of years before the rise of modern nationalism. Jewish nationhood did not begin in 1948. It was restored in 1948.
-To deny Jewish peoplehood is not critical inquiry.
-It is historical falsification.
-It is ideological erasure.
-And it is the intellectual foundation of anti-Zionism-and increasingly, of modern antisemitism.
The question, therefore, is not whether there is a Jewish people. The question is why so many persist in denying what history, law, and even Jewish enemies have always known.
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‘Palestine’ as a flat-earth catachresisTwisted language is an existential threat of real violence against Jews and Israel.Yisrael Medad
(July 7, 2026 / JNS) A catachresis is a forced and paradoxical figure of speech, the wrong word in the context of a subject that signifies an unexpected or implausible metaphor. It originates from a Greek word meaning “misuse.”
I have discovered that an Indian postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, applies the term to “master words” imposed upon people that draw an arbitrary connection to the meaning of those words.
In February 2024, Spivak spoke out against Israel’s so-called “settler-colonialist genocide.” A professor of humanities at Columbia University, she considers the Arabs of “Palestine” as residing on “ancestral lands.”
Spivak was a friend and colleague of the late Columbia professor Edward Said, a Palestinian American who was among the founders of post-colonial studies. At a June 2018 conference in Berlin, she announced: “I am, of course, a member of the BDS.” That is, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
Catachresis, according to French philosopher Jacques Derrida, is a term indicating the original incompleteness that is a part of all systems of meaning. Derrida was perceived as being sympathetic to Israel, and when he referenced the term “war for Jerusalem” as metonymic for global religious struggle, he was criticized as “effacing the colonial nature of the continuing occupation of the holy city more historically known by the name Al-Quds.”
This attack came from Native American academic Christopher Wise, who, in a 2001 essay in the journal Diacritics titled “Deconstruction and Zionism,” first rejected Derrida’s universalizing term “messianicity,” seeing it as too Jewish, as well as Derrida’s sympathetic views about Zionism. Wise argued that because Derrida was a Sephardic Jew from Northwest Africa (his family originally came from Toledo, Spain), his work was not at all useful.
It is particularly ironic that Derrida—being the father of the deconstructionist school, which emphasizes the deferral of meaning and the utmost need for context—has become a target for those enthralled with the paradigm of probably the most pernicious employment of the misinterpretation of meaning: That is “Palestine,” which represents a reconstruction of false history, an example of which is the above-quoted claim by Wise regarding his preferred term, the Arabic “Al Quds,” for the name of Jerusalem.
Several months before his death, Derrida made clear in a May 2004 speech, published in Le monde diplomatique in November of that year, that he supported the aspirations of the Arabs seeking a state of Palestine, while expressing disapproval of the suicide attacks and antisemitic propaganda present in the Arab world. As for Zionism, he opposed then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s call for European Jews to come home to Israel.
In a sense, it should be obvious that championing the cause of “Palestine” is a perfect flat-earth paradigm that without the use of multiple forms of catachresis would not exist.
As a first example, take Wise’s claim that the name “Al Quds” is “historical.” Besides the uncomfortable lack of the city being mentioned in the Quran (which should signify that the Al-Aqsa Mosque might not have been in Jerusalem in the first place), his ignorance is, if anything, embarrassing.
The earliest Islamic text that mentions Jerusalem, written in the eighth century C.E. and published in the ninth century, is Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. In it, Muhammed flies to a place called “Aelia,” which was the Roman colonialist Latin name for Jerusalem, just like Palaestina was the Roman name for the country with its three districts—Prima, Secunda and Tertia—from the fourth century C.E. on.
This form of anachronist inversion is not unique in Islam. For example, the Quran at Sura 3:67 declares that “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was one inclining toward truth, a Muslim.” As Islam was only formulated at the beginning of the seventh century C.E., this is a flat-earth fraudulent formulation.
Another early Islamic term was al-Bayt al-Muqaddas, the Holy/Sacred House. That, of course, was an adoption of the Hebrew term Beit HaMikdash, the Temple.
In fact, that building is referenced in the Quran as “Solomon’s temple” in Sura Al-Isra 17:7. Warning the Jews of Divine retribution, the text recalls the destruction of Jerusalem: “If you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves. … [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple, as they entered it the first time.”
The phenomenon of flat-earth Palestinianism is not just one of linguistic oddities or minor incorrect facts of history. It has a very direct influence on current affairs and the well-being, lives and security of Jews and the State of Israel.
On June 5, Ohio immigration attorney Shayan Parsai gave a sermon at the Ursuli Institute located in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area, which can be viewed on YouTube. He asserted, starting at 49 minutes or so, that Jews have no connection to the Western Wall. Instead, the Jews use the Wall as a pretext to “sneak ever closer to the Al-Aqsa mosque in order to destroy it.”
Parsai flat-earth insisted that “The Wailing Wall is nothing in Jewish tradition … they kiss that wall because they’re digging under it, and they’re going over it, and they’re going inside it.” Jews seek to “crush the Al-Aqsa mosque … trying to remove it.” Moreover, Jews “are psychopaths who engage in the same rituals of child sacrifice and child cannibalism.”
In case you’re wondering, the Ursuli Institute is “commit[ted] to pursuing beauty, reasonableness and the principles of Godliness.” It views itself, according to its website, as part of the “movement to reinvigorate beautiful and ethical Islam.” That, I would assert, is a flat-earth catachresis.
We have already experienced flat-earth rhetoric regarding a supposed Gaza genocide, famine and starvation. Colonialism and “Zionism as racism,” we have heard. “Globalize the intifada” has been chanted, as well as “eliminate Israel.”
You are now being welcomed to a new phase of catachresis: Jews as cannibals, Jews who purposely kill children, Jews who commit ethnic cleansing. One need not be Muslim to engage in the linguistic exercise.
In their joint pastoral letter following their five-day pilgrimage “to the Holy Land,” Anglican Archbishops Sarah Mullally of Canterbury and Hosam Naoum in Jerusalem say there is a “desperate” situation in Judea and Samaria (their term: “the occupied West Bank”). Palestinian Christians face an “existential challenge.”
I suggest that their catachresis is an existential threat of real violence against Jews and Israel. Let us not be taken in by this flat-earthism, and may we convince others not to be taken in either.
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United Nations-operated Prostitution ring-Drug Dealing in The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Armon Ha’Natziv, Government House, Jerusalem
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In 2019, there were 175 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against UN staff members, Supplementary information to the report of the Secretary-General on special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (A/74/705). Of those allegations, 16 were substantiated, 15 were unsubstantiated and all others were still being investigated.Allegations by number of victims reported by all United Nations entities in 2019
UN sex abuse scandal: Rise in allegations against peacekeepersPublished: 4 March 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-35724978
Most of the allegations came against UN peacekeepers in Central African Republic (CAR)
Allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse by United Nations peacekeepers rose by a third last year, according to a UN report.
There were 69 claims against peacekeepers in 2015, up from 52 in 2014 was 66 in 2013
Almost a third of the 2015 claims were made in the Central African Republic.
For the first time, the report has also set out all the countries whose soldiers are reportedly involved under a new “name-and-shame” policy.
Overall, 10 peacekeeping missions were subject to allegations in 2015.
The allegations involve military personnel, international police, other staff and volunteers.
According to the UN’s latest figures, external, there are 124,746 personnel serving in 16 peacekeeping missions worldwide.
It has been criticised for failing to act quickly on sexual abuse allegations made against peacekeepers.
Last December an independent panel, external calling the UN response to allegations in the Central African Republic (CAR) “seriously flawed” and a “gross institutional failure”.
It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
‘Court-martial’UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s report called for an international convention on “crimes committed in peacekeeping operations”.
He also urged countries to change their laws so that they apply to sex crimes committed by citizens serving in UN peace operations.
Mr Ban also called for “on-site court martial proceedings” for some crimes and a DNA database of all peacekeepers.
UN peacekeepers operate under the legal jurisdiction of their home countries, making prosecution more difficult.
In February, the UN said it would send home more than 100 peacekeepers from CAR following sexual abuse allegations.
A 10,000-strong UN force took over a peacekeeping mission in the country in September 2014.
After CAR, the second highest number of allegations was at the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, with 16 cases, followed by Haiti with nine.
United Nations: Survey finds third of workers sexually harassed16 January 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46891882
More than half of staff surveyed say the harassment took place in an office environment
One in three UN workers has been sexually harassed in the past two years, a UN report has revealed.
Just 30,364 staff and contractors completed the survey in November – 17% of the total number eligible to do so.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the report, and the “moderately low” response rate, is a sign that they “still have a long way to go”.
The report comes amid the global #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, abuse and assault.
Mr Guterres says the relatively low number of participants in the survey could be a sign of an “ongoing sense of mistrust, perceptions of inaction and lack of accountability” in the UN.
The survey contained “some sobering statistics”, he added, as well as “evidence of what needs to change to make a harassment-free workplace real for all of us”.
“As an organisation founded on equality, dignity and human rights, we must lead by example and set the standard,” he said.
What does the report say?According to the survey, which was carried out by Deloitte, more than half of those who experienced sexual harassment at the UN say it happened in an office environment, while another 17.1% say it took place at a work-related social event.
Central African Republic peacekeepers to be sent home over ‘sex abuse’Published: 4 February 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35496785
There have been repeated allegations of child sex abuse by international troops in CAR
More than 100 UN peacekeepers will be sent home from the Central African Republic after an investigation into sex abuse allegations, the UN says.
The UN says it is investigating eight new reports of sex abuse, following more than 20 previous allegations. One 14 year-old says she was raped by an armed soldier near the airport.
The 120 soldiers who will be repatriated are from Congo-Brazzaville. During the investigation, they will be confined to barracks.
Last week the UN said European troops were implicated in child sex abuse allegations.
Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the UN envoy for CAR, travelled to Bambari, the country’s second biggest city where the latest abuse allegedly occurred, on Thursday.
He expressed outrage and shame.
There is “sufficient initial evidence” that five of the alleged victims are minors and one adult has been sexually exploited, according to a fact-finding expert sent to the city.
The NGO Human Rights Watch said most of the abuse occurred while the Congolese peacekeepers were temporarily deployed to protect the city’s airport.
UN assistant secretary-general Anthony Banbury said there are likely to be 22 confirmed allegations of sexual abuse or exploitation in the UN’s peacekeeping mission in CAR. That may rise as a result of the latest allegations.
Last week, the UN said a number of girls aged between 14 and 16 alleged they had been raped by Georgian members of the EU’s operation Eufor in CAR.
A seven-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy said they were abused by French troops.
The troops were sent to stem violence between Christian militias and largely Muslim rebels.
‘Gross institutional failure’The rebels seized power in March 2013 – in response, the militias took up arms against them.
Last December an independent panel criticised, external the UN’s handling of abuse allegations in the CAR, calling it “seriously flawed” and a “gross institutional failure”.
It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
A 10,000-strong UN force took over a peacekeeping mission in September 2014.
Israel detains UN peacekeepers for drug smuggling An Israeli soldier stands next to signs pointing out distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an observation point in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing, Israel May 10, 2018. (File photo: Reuters) AFP, Suva https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/06/29/Israel-detains-UN-peacekeepers-for-drug-smuggling- Published: 29 June ,2023: 10:46 AM GST
The United Nations on Thursday vowed a thorough investigation after three Fijian peacekeepers were detained by Israel on allegations of drug smuggling.
A trio of blue berets serving with the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights were detained Sunday at the Israeli border, accused of carrying bottles of liquid cocaine.
“We are looking into the matter to ascertain the circumstances and find out more details,” a UN Peacekeeping spokesperson told AFP. “Including with the view to investigate this matter thoroughly.”
The detained soldiers were serving in the Fiji Battalion of the UN force, authorities in Suva have confirmed.
Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, commander of Fiji’s military, said in a Monday statement that the troops had been returning from leave in Jordan when they were stopped at the frontier on “allegations of drugs smuggling”.
“All soldiers concerned will be dealt with in accordance with the military law and laws of Fiji,” he said, promising “zero tolerance” for “any criminal activities”.
Fijian authorities are said to be liaising with their Israeli counterparts on the matter and will send an investigative team to the region.
Israel’s Tax Authority said that “three UN employees, serving on the Syrian border” were stopped during a routine inspection at the Jordan River Crossing – also known as Sheikh Hussein Bridge – on Sunday.
Suspicions were raised about perfume-making kits that members of the group were allegedly carrying and “which included bottles with liquid cocaine”.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
In 1974, a UN force was dispatched to a buffer zone and tasked with monitoring a ceasefire.
Today, the force includes about 1,000 troops from a dozen nations, including Fiji, Argentina, Ireland and Nepal.
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UN COI Report Discredits Itself With Claims About IDF Quadcopter Attacks On MinorsUN COI Debunked: The COI report claiming the IDF targeted minors is full of tech and tactical inconsistencies designed to lead to a guilty verdict. By Michael Starr 01July2026  HonestReporting-UN COI Report Discredits Itself With Claims About IDF Quadcopter Attacks On Minors
Key Takeaways:
The June 18 Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (COI) report, alleging that the Israeli military deliberately targeted Palestinian children as part of a strategy to commit genocide during the October 7 War, is based heavily on fantastical beliefs, presumptions, and speculation about Israeli military technologies and tactics that severely discredit the document’s conclusions. In the first in a series of articles on the claims, the COI’s allegations about fleets of firearm-equipped quadcopters demonstrates the unreliability of the report.
COI Commissioner Srinivasan Muralidhar explained to CNN in a Saturday video interview that the “strongest evidence” that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was deliberately targeting children was “a combination of quadcopters, sniper rifles, and drones.” Yet the arguments regarding these quadcopters are also the elements that most cast doubt on the veracity of the report.
Many of the alleged incidents highlighted as evidence in the COI report involved the ostensible use of quadcopters equipped with rifles and sniper rifles to target children, claiming that of 168 minors reported to the COI killed or wounded by gunshots between November 2023 and July 2025, 70 were supposedly shot by quadcopters. Anonymous doctors reportedly told the COI that there was a consistent pattern of children seeking treatment from quadcopter gunshots. One doctor reportedly estimated that, within two weeks of her tenure in a hospital, she supposedly saw around five children shot by quadcopters.
Firearm Quadcopters are UncommonThe chief problem with the underlying claim that serves as the basis of much of the COI report is that firearm-equipped quadcopters are simply not in service to the extent that would match the supposed widespread pattern. Prototypes for firearm-equipped quadcopters exist, but there is no evidence for widespread deployment in Gaza. To the contrary, the use of firearm-equipped quadcopters is rare enough that Gaza deployment veteran IDF soldiers consulted with by HonestReporting had never seen or were unfamiliar with such a platform. Military analyst Andrew Fox also wrote in 2024 that his sources within the IDF indicate that the weapons were not in widespread use by the Israeli military.
Cube-Shaped BulletsPerhaps the most implausible claim about the armed quadcopters is that they shoot cube-shaped pellets. Muralidhar told CNN that cube-shaped pellets were used by armed quadcopters in at least one instance. The report asserted that the supposed ammunition was designed to cause superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering. The quadcopter models mentioned in the report are equipped with standard firearms adapted for the drones. These firearms operate in a manner unlikely to facilitate cubed projectiles. This, along with the ballistic aerodynamic issues for such a projectile, make them unlikely to exist.
Unexplained Forensic ProcessBe they cube or normal bullets, Muralidhar and the other two commissioners, have somehow been able to trace the bullets in their case studies back to firearm-laden quadcopters, despite having no military experience or according to the report having consulted with relevant military experts. There is no indication in the report methodology indicating how they achieved this feat. The report details that they viewed images of a bullet supposedly from the story, and were able to not only determine the caliber and the type of firearm-used, but that the firearm was placed on a quadcopter. There would not be any marks on the projectile to indicate that the firearm was held aloft by a drone. Forensic ballistics analysis can determine the model and trajectory of a bullet, but from the methodology described, this investigatory process was not applied. It is also not explained how the anonymous doctors cited in the report could determine that gunshot wounds were inflicted by quadcopters, which presumably are indistinguishable from gunshots inflicted by a rifleman.
Nuseirat Case StudyThe three suspicious elements come together in one case study, with a April 2024 incident featured in the report. In Nuseirat a 10-day-old baby boy was supposedly shot and wounded by a quadcopter while being breastfed by his mother in a tent.
“The mother was alone in the tent, breastfeeding her baby, when a single bullet from a quadcopter hit the baby in the head and exited through the back of his head, hitting the pillow behind her. The baby survived but sustained brain injuries and now suffers from seizures,” read the report. “The Commission viewed and analyzed images of the bullet that hit the baby. The Commission concluded on reasonable grounds that the bullet was fired from a sniper rifle mounted on a quadcopter. Considering that the shooting occurred in broad daylight, the Commission concludes that the quadcopter controller would have been able to see inside the tent and assesses that the target was a mother and a baby.”
The Commission was again able to determine, only by viewing pictures of the bullet that allegedly struck the child, that the bullet came from a quadcopter rather than any other platform. The weapon was determined to be a sniper rifle, despite most sniper rifles being too long, heavy, and chambered with too large of a caliber for it to be feasible for a quadcopter to reliably utilize the system. The bullet, as implied by Muralidhar in the CNN interview, was supposedly a cube-shaped round. Though supposedly being a particularly damaging type of round, the bullet did not kill the child.
The quadcopter controller was determined, without explanation, to have been able to see inside the tent, despite the angle of the shot and location of the device not being known. The shot was deliberately targeted against the baby rather than the mother, as opposed to any other explanation such as a miss or mistake.
Muralidhar told CNN that the thermal imaging sights and cameras on quadcopters allows controllers to be able to always determine whether they are viewing a child or an adult. Yet in reality, thermal imaging often is limited by environmental factors such as fog, objects in the field, and even a sense of scale.
Claims that technology or viewpoint meant that a perpetrator, always assumed to be the IDF, pervade the entire report. The same massive leaps in logic and presumptions that allow the Commissioners to determine that a rare quadcopter is responsible just by glancing at the image of a bullet is played out more broadly with the claims that Israel is deliberately targeting Gazan children.
The tragic outcomes of the October 7 War appear to have been given predetermined backstories that are designed to fit the crimes, even if the trajectory doesn’t make any sense.
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UN ‘settler violence’ report based on distorted data“The UN’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews,” international law expert Eugene Kontorovich told JNS.David Isaac https://www.jns.org/news/world/un-settler-violence-report-based-on-distorted-data  The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Photo by Jean-Marc Ferré/U.N.
(Jun. 12, 2026 / JNS) A new United Nations report on “settler violence” in Judea and Samaria portrays its findings as carefully researched, when, in fact, it relies on data built on sand, observers tell JNS.
The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is its fifth report since it was established in May 2021 by the U.N. Human Rights Council in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls.”
Previous reports from the commission have all condemned Israel, accusing the Jewish State of “genocide,” “imposing starvation” and “systematic destruction” of healthcare and education in Gaza. Israel refuses to cooperate with the commission due to its bias. The United States has also criticized it.
In its most recent report, the commission claimed “settler violence” is on the rise and accused the State of Israel of being “primarily responsible.” Israel enables such attacks through “financial and military support,” it said. Israeli courts and law enforcement grant impunity to those purportedly carrying out the violence, it continued.
Largely invented The main problem with the report is that the so-called “settler violence” is largely invented, say Eugene Kontorovich and Avraham Shalev, authors of a Kohelet Policy Forum report that debunks the U.N. statistics used to assert such a problem exists.
“The U.N.’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews, and depends for its facts almost entirely on Palestinian self-reporting,” Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and director of the international law department at Kohelet, told JNS.
“Yet even by their statistics, the so-called settler violence epidemic is a mirage, with serious violent crime by settlers occurring at a rate vastly lower than major American and European cities. According to the U.N., the settler violence problem is about as severe as the violent crime problem in Boise, Idaho, or Gilbert, Arizona,” he said.
The main source for “settler violence” statistics are those compiled by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OCHA-oPT).
“The report relies on the flawed statistics provided by OCHA,” Shalev told JNS. “Every event between Jews and Arabs is considered settler violence regardless of who initiated it.”
OCHA-oPT counted as “settler violence” a well-publicized incident in which David Stern, a U.S. citizen and former Marine, wounded a Palestinian who opened fire on him. Stern was seriously injured in the attack.
Kontorovich and Shalev note in their report that OCHA-oPT uses phrases such as “settler violence,” “settler-related incidents” and “settler attacks” so broadly as to include anti-terror operations and clashes with Israeli security forces. Virtually all, between 98%-99%, of incidents recorded on OCHA-oPT’s database “involve confrontations with Israeli security forces, not settlers,” according to their report.
Nonviolent and noncriminal activities OCHA-oPT doesn’t collect the raw data itself, relying on left-leaning NGOs. Among them are Addameer, B’tselem, Defense for Children International–Palestine (DCI-P), Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR). All these groups endorse the worst libels against Israel, including that it commits genocide.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense has designated Addameer, Al-Haq and DCI-P as terror organizations affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Nonviolent and noncriminal activities are also counted as “settler violence.” According to the analysis, OCHA recorded more than 8,000 incidents between January 2016 and April 2023, including cases of alleged trespassing without injuries or property damage.
The Kohelet report states that of 1,704 incidents logged in eastern Jerusalem, 1,361 involved Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, while another 1,613 incidents in Judea and Samaria involved Israelis hiking or touring areas claimed by Palestinians, meaning from their perspective that Jews should be barred from entering.
Kontorovich and Shalev debunk the characterization of “settler violence” as a large-scale or pervasive phenomenon.
Citing U.N. figures claiming nine Palestinian deaths and 838 injuries attributed to settlers in 2025, they show that assuming all nine deaths were homicides—a characterization they dispute—the resulting per capita rate among the Palestinian population would be lower than homicide rates in major European cities and well below those of many large U.S. cities. The average American city has a murder rate between 15 and 25 per 100,000 residents per year. Nine deaths in a population of roughly 3.2 million Palestinians translates to a per capita rate of about 1.29 deaths per 100,000 people.
While the U.N. report misleads about “settler violence,” it “ignores the background of increasing Palestinian terrorism, both organized and grassroots,” Shalev told JNS.
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) recorded 1,374 foiled Palestinian terrorist plots and 54 successful ones in 2025. That included 717 cases of gunfire, 630 involving bombs, along with stabbings, rammings, suicide attacks and kidnappings. In 2025, 197 Israelis were injured and 25 murdered, according to the Kohelet report.
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Laundering Propaganda: How UN actors manipulated information in the Gaza War (2023-2025)
Laundering Propaganda: How UN actors manipulated information in the Gaza War (2023-2025)
The report exposes a highly coordinated 3-stage data laundering pipeline used by the United Nations to sanitize terrorist propaganda: 1️⃣ Initial Attribution: A UN agency (like OCHA) reports Gaza casualty or infrastructure numbers, citing a “local entity” while completely hiding that the source is a fully Hamas-controlled ministry. 2️⃣ Institutional Laundering: Other UN bodies cite that original report, changing the source credit to the first UN agency (e.g., “according to OCHA”). The original Hamas source is completely erased from the record. 3️⃣ Authoritative Rebranding: Global media, governments, and diplomats cite the data as an undisputed fact originating from or verified by a neutral international body (e.g., “according to the UN”). This explosive report directly confirms what CAMERA researchers have been at the forefront of documenting for years. When it comes to Israel, the UN and the media aren’t interested in verifying facts. They’re laundering a narrative.  CAMERA-tweet-2June2026-UN Laundering of Hamas Data in 3 Simple Steps
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State Department identifies Code Pink and other far-left groups as vectors of Chinese influence operationsBy Victor Nava
The State Department transmitted a report to Congress Tuesday linking lefty nonprofits Code Pink and the People’s Forum to Chinese influence operations.
“Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,” Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said in a statement provided to The Post.
“Organizations like Code Pink and the People’s Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for China while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party,” Rogers added.
“The State Department will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for our adversaries and seek to weaken the resolve of the United States.”
The report on “Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference” alleges that China “spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by nonprofit organizations like Code Pink, the People’s Forum and groups linked with the notorious Singham network.”
The so-called “Singham network” are nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink.
Singham, an American expat living in China, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide,” the New York Times reported in 2023.
“Chinese diplomats, state media, and pro-China influencers use social media, content-sharing agreements, and local partnerships to publish pro-CCP propaganda,” the report continues. “China invests in [public diplomacy], exchanges, reporting tours, and educational and cultural initiatives to boost its image.”
“The Department assesses that China, Iran, and Russia aggressively use state media, proxies, and digital platforms to spread propaganda and falsehoods, undermine U.S. credibility and policies, and expand their influence.”
Code Pink, founded as an anti-war organization in 2002, has accused the US of launching a “war on China.”
The nonprofit peddles its pro-China talking points through its “China Is Not Our Enemy” working group, according to the State Department.
Code Pink encourages Americans to travel to China and solicits contact information of individuals interested in visiting the US adversary.
The group touts one such trip where participants “studied revolutionary history in Ruijin” and explored “villages transformed by poverty alleviation programs” on its website.
One participant reflected that the trip made him think people must “defend [China] from our government’s aggression.”
Code Pink has also hosted pro-China webinars, including one where an activist applauded the Chinese communist revolution, which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, arguing that it provides a “path forward to liberation,” according to the State Department.
“I had already been out of love with our country for a long time but this really … put the nail in the coffin,” another American activist complained on a webinar following her China trip.
Meanwhile, the New York-based People’s Forum praises the Chinese Communist Revolution and studies it as a potential model for revolutionary leftists in the United States, according to the State Department.
The department noted that the group once hosted a three-part lesson on the revolution intended for those “who aim to study revolutionary processes in order to make one!” and organized pro-Maduro protests in the wake of the ousted Venezuelan dictator’s capture by US forces.
The group’s founder, Manolo de Los Santos, reportedly met with Maduro in 2021.
Code Pink and the People’s Forum did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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 At the first Hague Group gathering in 2025 The Hague Group’s terror links exposedPublished 1 week ago on May 14, 2026 https://www.sajr.co.za/the-hague-groups-terror-links-exposed/
When the anti-Israel bloc of countries known as The Hague Group resolved to target the Jewish State with legal, economic, and diplomatic measures in July 2025, the terrorist group Hamas issued a statement of approval. It has now been revealed that the bloc, led by South Africa and Colombia, has been advised by groups supportive of terrorism from its inception.
South African Zionist Federation National Chairperson Craig Pantanowitz says this is a “national embarrassment” for South Africa.
Pantanowitz says the government’s posture “does not elevate South Africa, but diminishes it. When the language of justice is captured for narrow political ends, every genuine human rights cause is weakened, and South Africa bears a measure of responsibility for that loss.”
On a webinar on 30 April, Executive Secretary Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla said that The Hague Group, and its South Africa and Colombia co-chairs, are advised by “a variety of Palestinian organisations [sympathetic to Hamas]”, from “Al-Haq to Al-Shabaka, both based in Ramallah”, as reported by Jewish news site JNS.org. Gandikota-Nellutla went on to say that these groups have been present at “every single ministerial meeting”.
She said the groups have not been “formally” included in The Hague Group “because that’s precisely what would scare away the Europeans ‒ to see this as a radical campaign group, not as a diplomatic bloc”. The South African and Colombian co-chairs of the group have “done a fantastic job building this hybrid model, getting advice [from anti-Israel groups] while still retaining diplomatic integrity”, she said.
Formed in January 2025, The Hague Group was created to coordinate measures to hold Israel accountable”. Ignoring human rights abuses and wars in members’ own backyards, the first meeting included representatives of the governments of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa. However, Honduras and Bolivia left the group in March, after establishing warmer ties with Israel.
Gandikota-Nellutla’s comments were made during a webinar hosted by United Staff for Gaza, an organisation that consists of current and former United Nations (UN) staff members, who push for boycotts of Israel. She may have thought she was speaking confidentially. On the call, Andrew Gilmour, United Staff for Gaza Chair, told her “not to tell us anything that you would rather was not made public”.
Regarding the groups that Gandikota-Nellutla said are advising The Hague Group, Al-Haq’s General Director, Shawan Jabarin, has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organisation. In 2024, The Jerusalem Post and NGO Monitor reported that Jabarin was part of the South African delegation to the International Court of Justice, along with other individuals linked to Al-Haq and the PFLP.
Al-Shabaka, a US-based nonprofit, is billed as a Palestinian think tank but has a long history of boycotting Israel and justifying terrorism.
In February 2025, news site Jewish Onliner reported that the first gathering of The Hague Group was hosted by Progressive International, which “has repeatedly expressed support for terrorist groups”. For example, in November 2023, Progressive International published excerpts from a PFLP programme, advocating for “armed struggle” against Israel. In September 2024, Progressive International praised former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In October 2021, it condemned Israel for designating PFLP-affiliated groups such as Al-Haq as terrorist organisations.
Gandikota-Nellutla is also the Co-General Coordinator of Progressive International, and has stated that “Zionism turns everything it touches into evil”.
One of the speakers at the first meeting of The Hague Group was Ahmed Alnaouq, Outreach and Advocacy Officer for Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Investigative organisation Gnasher Jew found that Alnaouq spreads antisemitic narratives and promotes terrorist propaganda, and his family has deep ties to Hamas.
Dr Ariel Cohen, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia and Global Energy Centers, tweeted in response to the JNS.org report, “By collaborating with these terrorist organisations, South Africa, Colombia, and other UN members are providing state support to terrorism.”
Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer tweeted, “the mask has slipped … the so-called ‘Hague Group’ is not a neutral coalition defending international law but a coordinated political campaign guided behind closed doors by PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organisation]-linked organisations in Ramallah, including Al-Haq, a group under US sanctions and tied to the terrorist PFLP.”
Pantanowitz says, “The Hague Group has now been exposed for what it is.” A coalition that presents itself publicly as the “conscience of the international legal order”, while “disguising the company it keeps”, has “forfeited any serious claim to credibility. Coalitions built on concealment do not defend international law, they corrode it.”
He says this pattern is familiar. “A network of governments and activist organisations, several with documented links to extremist and sanctioned actors, drapes itself in the language of human rights to pursue the isolation of the world’s only Jewish state.”
The selectivity “gives the project away”, says Pantanowitz. “No comparable energy is directed at the regimes that detain, torture, and slaughter their own populations across the region. Only Israel attracts this elaborate diplomatic apparatus, because Israel is the target it was built to attack.”
David May, a research analyst at US think tank The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says international law has become another front in the campaign to destroy Israel. “Palestinian terrorist groups have branched out into this space, using nonprofits to raise money and attack Israel.”
Al-Haq is one of the primary embodiments of this strategy, says May. “Jabarin was a senior PFLP activist according to Israeli court documents, simultaneously overseeing human rights work and terrorist activities.”
Al-Haq’s involvement in The Hague Group and other lawfare efforts is unsurprising, says May. “It has been a chief architect of this strategy. The only surprising thing is that some Western countries have come along for the ride, and in so doing, have exposed the hypocrisy of political activism posing as an impartial pursuit of justice, potentially undermining the very foundations of international law.”
Former senior White House official Lawrence J Haas is a senior fellow for US foreign policy at the American Foreign Policy Council think tank. He told the SA Jewish Report he, too, is not surprised that The Hague Group is being advised by these organisations.
“Global institutions, from the UN to various collective bodies of nations, have long been infused with anti-Israel outlooks and activities,” says Haas. The Hague Group is a “quintessential example of such a collective body”.
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ISLAM NOT WELCOME IN JAPAN
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Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation OrganizationMedia Note
The State Department has reported to Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority (PA) have, once again, failed to live up to their commitments as described in the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 (PLOCCA) and the Middle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002 (MEPCA). This includes initiating and supporting actions at international organizations that undermine and contradict prior commitments in support of Security Council Resolution 242 and 338, taking actions to internationalize the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict including through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeking to bypass negotiations through seeking unilateral recognition, and continuing to pay stipends to terrorists and to glorify acts of terrorism and terrorists in public pronouncements and school textbooks.
As a consequence of their failure to reform, contrary to their commitments to the United States, and their ongoing activities that undermine the prospects for peace, the United States will extend sanctions that deny visas to PLO members and PA officials in accordance with section 604(a)(1) of the MEPCA. The Department has maintained the standing waiver for personnel notified to the PLO Observer Mission to the United Nations as was the case in the Department’s prior determinations. It is in our national interest to impose consequences and hold the PLO and PA accountable for glorifying terrorism.
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JerusalemCats Comments: Remember the lockerbie bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 21December1988
‘Free Palestine’ stickers placed on 140 El Al passengers’ suitcases at LAXStickers placed on passengers’ luggage at Los Angeles airport triggered security checks, a two-hour delay and the removal of 140 bags from the flight to Israel, according to travelersItamar Eichner | 18February2026 | 21:57 https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bkw4otx00bl
An El Al flight from Los Angeles to Israel was delayed by about two hours Monday after 140 passengers’ suitcases were removed from the aircraft when “Free Palestine” stickers were found attached to them, prompting a security concern.
According to passengers, the incident occurred on a regularly scheduled afternoon flight that was set to depart at 2 p.m. The flight was largely filled with Israeli travelers returning home after attending the NBA All-Star weekend events to see Israeli player Deni Avdija.
Passengers said they were initially informed of a 25-minute delay. Shortly afterward, airline staff announced a longer delay due to an issue involving luggage. The aircraft ultimately departed at approximately 3:45 p.m.
One passenger described mounting frustration onboard as the delay stretched on. “It was a regular El Al flight on Monday afternoon from Los Angeles, full of Israelis who had gone to the All-Star to see Deni Avdija and were heading home,” the passenger said. “We checked our suitcases as usual and were supposed to take off at 2 p.m. At first they said there would be a 25-minute delay, then they said there was a bigger delay because of an issue with luggage. Only around a quarter to four did we take off.”
During the delay, a passenger shouted in frustration, according to those on board. The captain and the head purser later explained that 140 suitcases had not been loaded onto the aircraft after “Free Palestine” stickers were found on them. Security officials were required to inspect each suitcase individually to ensure there were no explosives, passengers said.
Because the inspection process was taking longer than expected, the airline ultimately decided not to load the luggage onto the flight and departed without the 140 suitcases.
One passenger who protested the delay said his wife’s suitcase contained a dress for their daughter’s wedding. The head purser responded that “it’s better to arrive safely without the suitcase than the alternative,” according to passengers.
After landing in Israel, travelers received notification from El Al that their luggage had not been sent on the flight. The suitcases are expected to be placed on the next direct flight from Los Angeles to Israel.
Passengers described the incident as a scandal and questioned how an airport worker had been able to place the stickers on the luggage.
“How did they allow this employee to put the stickers on?” passengers said. “If they allowed him to do that, how can they ensure that next time something won’t be put inside the suitcases?”
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PALESTINIAN CULTURE LESSON: PALESTINIAN AFFILIATED BUS BOMBINGS 1978-2021
Did you know: Between 1978 and 2020, innocent Palestinian civilians bombed 141 buses and bus stations. They believe that Allah commanded them to murder bus passengers, as mass murdering bus passengers will grant them entry into the highest levels of Jannah (Heaven). Imagine how deranged your society is to behave in such a way. It not started 7 October.  Max-tweet-11June2026-palestinian-affiliated-bus-bombings-1978-2021
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Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)Type: Information – Topic: Terrorism – Secondary topic: Palestinian Terror and Incitement – Publish Date: 06April1994 – https://www.gov.il/en/pages/suicide-and-other-bombing-attacks-since-the-declaration-of-principles
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 Suicide terror attacks 2000-2007
Apr 6, 1994 – Eight people were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 13, 1994 – Five people were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 19, 1994 – In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed.
Nov 11, 1994 – Three soldiers were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.
Jan 22, 1995 – Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 9, 1995 – Seven Israelis and one American were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jul 24, 1995 – Six civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.
Aug 21, 1995 – Three Israelis and one American were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.
Feb 25, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 1996 – One Israeli was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 3, 1996 – In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
Mar 4, 1996 – Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and one soldier).
Mar 21, 1997 – Three people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.
Jul 30, 1997 – 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
Sep 4, 1997 – Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
Oct 29, 1998 – One Israeli soldier was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
Nov 2, 2000 – Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 20, 2000 – A roadside bomb exploded at 7:30 in the morning alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, were killed and 9 others, including 5 children, were injured, 5 of them seriously.
Nov 22, 2000 – Shoshanna Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera’s main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work.
Dec 22, 2000 – Three soldiers were injured in a suicide bomb attack at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley. The terrorist, who detonated a belt of explosives strapped to him, was killed in the blast.
Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 8, 2001 – A powerful car bomb exploded at 4:40 PM in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael in Jerusalem, causing mild injuries to four people.
Feb 14, 2001 – Eight people were killed and 25 injured when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv.
Mar 1, 2001 – One person was killed and 9 injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
Mar 4, 2001 – Three people were killed and at least 60 injured in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya. Mar 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at 7:40 in the morning in the Talpiot industrial/commercial zone in Jerusalem. Seven people were injured, one moderately. The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2001 – 28 people were injured, two seriously, in a suicide bombing directed against a northbound No. 6 bus at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 28, 2001 – Two teenagers were killed and four injured, one critically, in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom (“peace stop”) gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 22, 2001 – A terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets in Kfar Sava. One person was killed and about 60 injured in the blast, two severely. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
Apr 23, 2001 – Eight people were lightly hurt in a car bombing in Or Yehuda, a few kilometers north of Ben-Gurion Airport, which senior police officers said could only be described as a “miracle” in an area packed with pre-Independence Day shoppers.
Apr 29, 2001 – A car bomb blew up close to a school bus travelling near the West Bank city of Nablus. There were no injuries in the attack. The body of the suicide bomber was found in the car. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest detonated himself outside the Hasharon Shopping Mall in the seaside city of Netanya. Five civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in the attack. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 25, 2001 – 65 people were injured in a car bombing in the Hadera central bus station. The two terrorists were apparently killed in the explosion. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
May 27, 2001 – A car bomb exploded in the center of Jerusalem shortly after midnight. There were no injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
May 30, 2001 – A car bomb exploded shortly before 16:00 outside a school in Netanya while a number of students were still in the building studying for matriculation exams. Eight people were injured, suffering from shock and hearing impairment. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
June 1, 2001 – 21 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a disco near Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday, June 1, while standing in a large group of teenagers waiting to enter the disco.
June 22, 2001 – Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 2, 2001 – Two separate bombs exploded at about 8:20 Monday morning in cars in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Yehud. Six pedestrians were lightly injured. Police sources say the bombs were probably set by terrorists. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction, claimed responsibility.
July 9, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber was killed in a car-bombing attack near the Kissufim crossing point in the southern Gaza Strip, causing no other casualties. Disaster was averted as the bomb exploded without hitting any other vehicles. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2001 – Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded – 3 seriously – when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 8, 2001 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated his car bomb, lightly wounding one soldier, at a roadblock near the B’kaot moshav in the northern Jordan Valley shortly after 9:00. One soldier was lightly wounded.
Aug 9, 2001 – 16 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2001 – 21 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the Wall Street Cafe in the center of Kiryat Motzkin at 17:30. The terrorist was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 21, 2001 – A bomb placed under a car exploded at 14:15 near the Russian Compound in downtown Jerusalem; one woman was treated for shock. A second, very large unexploded bomb was discovered inside the car and dismantled.
Sept 4, 2001 – 20 people were injured when a suicide terrorist exploded a powerful charge on Hanevi’im Street near Bikur Holim hospital in central Jerusalem shortly before 8:00 AM. The terrorist, disguised as a Jew in ultra-orthodox clothing, aroused the suspicion of passersby due to the large backpack he was wearing. As two Border Police officers approached the man, he detonated his shrapnel-packed bomb. Both officers were wounded – one critically. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
Sept 9, 2001 – Three people were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel. The terrorist, killed in the blast, waited nearby until the train arrived from Tel-Aviv and people were exiting the station, and then exploded the bomb he was carrying. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2001 – A car bomb exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, injuring 17 people. One person killed in the explosion is believed to be the terrorist bomber.
Oct 1, 2001 – A large car bomb exploded in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Several people were lightly injured.
Oct 7, 2001 – Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist affiliated with the Islamic Jihad detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She’an Valley.
Nov 26, 2001 – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and lightly wounded two Border Policemen at the Erez crossing point in the Gaza Strip. The bomber joined workers waiting to be cleared for entry into Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 29, 2001 – Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 1, 2001 – 11 people were killed and about 180 injured when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 2, 2001 – 15 people were killed and 40 injured, several critically, in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb shortly after 7:30 AM on King David Street in Jerusalem. A number of people waiting at a nearby bus stop were lightly injured. The terrorist was killed in the blast. Police are investigating whether the bomb, packed with nails and shrapnel, went off prematurely. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Dec 9, 2001 – A suicide bomber exploded a powerful bomb near a bus stop at the Checkpost Junction in Haifa shortly after 7:30 AM. About 30 people were injured, most lightly and suffering from shock. A second explosive device was found and detonated nearby. The terrorist was killed.
Dec 12, 2001 – Four people traveling in two cars were lightly wounded in an attack at 18:00 PM by two suicide bombers near the Gaza Strip community of Neve Dekalim.
Jan 25, 2002 – 25 people were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a cafe on a pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station at 11:15 AM on Friday.
Jan 27, 2002 – Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.
Feb 16, 2002 – Two teenagers were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. A third person subsequently died of his injuries. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 18, 2002 – Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma’ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 27, 2002 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at the Maccabim roadblock on the Jerusalem-Modi’in highway Wednesday night, injuring three policemen.
Mar 2, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.
Mar 5, 2002 – Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 7, 2002 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of a hotel in the commericial center on the outskirts of Ariel in Samaria. 15 people were injured, one seriously. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 9, 2002 – 11 people were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in the crowded Moment cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 17, 2002 – A suicide bomber exploded himself near an Egged bus no. 22 at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 25 people were lightly injured.
Mar 20, 2002 – Seven people, four of them soldiers, were killed and about 30 wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 21, 2002 – Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 27, 2002 – 30 people were killed and 140 injured – 20 seriously – in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist was a member of Hamas from Tulkarem, on the list of wanted terrorists Israel had requested be arrested.
Mar 29, 2002 – Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2002 – One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – 15 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 31, 2002 – An MDA paramedic was very seriously injured along with three other people at 17:00 Sunday afternoon in a suicide bombing at the emergency medical center in Efrat, in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem.
Apr 1, 2002 – A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian suicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 10, 2002 – Eight people were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 12, 2002 – Six people were killed and 104 wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 7, 2002 – 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2002 – Three people were killed and 59 injured – 10 seriously – when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.
May 20, 2002 – A suicide bomber, apparently bound for Afula, killed himself after Border Policemen approached him for questioning at a bus stop. There were no other injuries.
May 22, 2002 – Two people were killed and about 40 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.
May 23, 2002 – A bomb planted by terrorists exploded underneath a fuel truck at the Pi Glilot fuel depot north of Tel Aviv. The truck burst into flames, but the blaze was quickly contained.
May 24, 2002 – A security guard opened fire on a terrorist attempting to ram a car bomb into the Studio 49 Disco in Tel Aviv. The terrorist was killed and five Israelis slightly injured when the bomb exploded prematurely.
May 27, 2002 – A grandmother and her infant granddaughter were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 5, 2002 – 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 11, 2002 – A 14-year-old girl was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.
June 18, 2002 – 19 people were killed and 74 injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2002 – Seven people were killed and 50 injured – three of them in critical condition – when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 16, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus no. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001.
July 17, 2002 – Five people were killed – two Israeli and three foreign workers – and about 40 were injured, four seriously, in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 30, 2002 – Five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a suicide bombing at a felafel stand on Hanevi’im Street in the center of Jerusalem. The bomber, who was killed, apparently exploded prematurely.
July 31, 2002 – Nine people were killed and 85 wounded, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University’s Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 4, 2002 – Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 5, 2002 – A bomb exploded in a car at the Umm al-Fahm junction in northern Israel, killing the terrorist and wounding the driver, an Arab Israeli resident of Nazareth.
Sept 18, 2002 – Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 19, 2002 – Six people were killed and about 70 wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.
Oct 10, 2002 – Sa’ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 21, 2002 – 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 27, 2002 – Two IDF officers and a non-commissioned officer were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The victims were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.
Nov 4, 2002 – Two people – a security guard and a teenage boy, both recent immigrants from Argentina – were killed and about 70 were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nov 21, 2002 – Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2003 – Twenty-two people were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.
Mar 5, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2003 – Over 40 people were wounded in a suicide bombing on the pedestrian mall at the entrance to the London Cafe in the center of Netanya. The bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 24, 2003 – Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.
Apr 30, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 60 peoople were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub “Mike’s Place” in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the suicide bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.
May 17, 2003 – Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 18, 2003 – Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2003 – Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured when a Palestinian on a bicycle detonated explosives next to a military jeep near Kfar Darom in the southern Gaza Strip. The bomber was killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 19, 2003 – Three people were killed and about 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2003 – Nine Israelis were injured when a roadside bomb was detonated next to a bus near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
June 11, 2003 – Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Clal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
June 19, 2003 – Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 7, 2003 – Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 12, 2003 – Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was killed and three people wounded when a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.
Aug 19, 2003 – Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Nine IDF soldiers were killed and 30 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldier outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 9, 2003 – Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 4, 2003 – Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 60 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Oct 9, 2003 – A Palestinian suicide bomber exploded himself at the DCO located at the entrance to Tulkarm. The bomber approached the reception window and exploded himself, injuring two IDF soldiers and a Palestinian.
Oct 15, 2003 – Three Americans were killed and one wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.
Nov 3, 2003 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the West Bank village of Azun, near Kafr Qasem, when he saw Israeli security officials searching for him. One IDF soldier was lightly wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade claimed responsibility for the failed attack.
Dec 25, 2003 – Four Israelis were killed and over 20 wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 14, 2004 – Four Israelis – three soldiers and one civilian – were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2004 – Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem.
Feb 22, 2004 – Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za’ul, from the Bethlehem area.
Mar 6, 2004 – Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a terror attack on the Erez crossing in northern Gaza involving rifle fire and suicide car bombs, including jeeps camouflaged as IDF vehicles. Two of the vehicles exploded on the Palestinian side of the crossing, and four terrorists were killed. There were no IDF casualties. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the military wing of Fatah all claimed responsibility.
Mar 14, 2004 – Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
Apr 17, 2004 – Border Policeman Sgt. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.
May 22, 2004 – A suicide bomber was killed when he detonated an explosive device at the Bekaot checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The commander of the IDF checkpoint was lightly injured, as well as several Palestinians. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 11, 2004 – Sgt. Ma’ayan Na’im, 19, of Bat Yam, was killed and 33 wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.
Aug 11, 2004 – Two Palestinian bystanders were killed and 18 people were wounded, including six Border Policemen, when a bomb was detonated south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jerusalem.
Aug 31, 2004 – Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba’s main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 8, 2004 – A booby-trapped car exploded next to Israeli security personnel at the Baka al-Sharkiyeh checkpoint, near the Green Line border with the West Bank. The Palestinian driver of the car was killed in the blast. The Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sept 14, 2004 – A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up near an armored IDF jeep at an agricultural gate, south of Qalqilyah, injuring two IDF soldiers.
Sept 22, 2004 – Two Border Policemen were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 7, 2004 – A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded.
Nov 1, 2004 – Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus.
Dec 7, 2004 – St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinsky, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 5, 2005 – A terrorist infiltrated the Erez crossing terminal in the Gaza Strip, activated an explosive device, hurled grenades and opened fire. An IDF force shot and killed the terrorist. The Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 12, 2005 – One Israeli civilian was killed and three IDF soldiers wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 13, 2005 – On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side of the crossing, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and during exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack.
Jan 18, 2005 – An ISA officer was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and 4 IDF soldiers and 3 members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being carried out, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 25, 2005 – Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
July 12, 2005 – Five people were killed and about 90 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug 28, 2005 – A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Beersheba Central Bus Station. Two security guards who stopped the bomber were severely wounded and about 50 people were lightly wounded or treated for shock. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Oct 26, 2005 – Seven people were killed and 54 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 5, 2005 – Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Dec 29, 2005 – Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.
Jan 19, 2006 – Thirty-one people were wounded in a suicide bombing in a shawarma restaurant near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Jerusalem Battalions of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 30, 2006 – Four people were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.
Apr 17, 2006 – Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, at the Rosh Ha’ir shawarma restaurant, site of the Jan 19 bombing. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
Jan 29, 2007 – Three employees of a bakery in the southern city of Eilat were killed in a suicide bombing. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
Feb 4, 2008 – Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded – Razdolskaya’s husband critically – in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. A Hamas statement from Gaza praised the attack, calling it an “heroic act”.
Mar 6, 2008 – Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer.
May 14, 2008 – At about 6 pm an Iranian-made Grad rocket launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip hit a busy shopping mall in central Ashkelon. 90 people were wounded, four of them seriously, among them a 24-year-old mother and her infant daughter.
July 2, 2008 – Three people were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.
Mar 23, 2011 – One woman, a 59-year-old British national, was killed and about 50 wounded when a bomb exploded across from the Jerusalem Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station. The bomb had been placed near a telephone booth at a crowded bus stop next to Egged city bus #74.
Aug 18, 2011 – In a series of terrorist attacks was perpetrated against civilians and IDF soldiers in Israel’s southern region, six civilians were killed as well as one soldier and a police officer, and at least 31 were wounded. The terrorists responsible for the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip and crossed into Israel via Egypt. IDF forces pursued and killed a number of the terrorists responsible for the attacks.
July 18, 2012 – Six people, five Israelis and the Bulgarian bus driver, were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing attack on a bus carrying Israelis at Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria. The seventh body was identified as the suicide bomber.
Nov 21, 2012 – Shortly before noon a bomb exploded in a Dan city bus no. 142 on Shaul Hamelech Street in the center of Tel Aviv. 21 people were wounded, three in moderate to serious condition. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing.
Oct 11, 2015 – A female terrorist detonated an explosive device, lightly wounding a police officer near the checkpoint on the road between Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A traffic police officer stopped the driver, who was in the lane reserved for public transportation, and approached the car. The driver exited the vehicle, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and detonated an explosive device. The terrorist was seriously injured in the attack and was evacuated to hospital in Jerusalem with burns to her entire body.
April 19, 2016 – Jerusalem: In the early evening, an explosion on a bus and a subsequent fire led to the injury of 21 people, including passengers on a passing bus and in a nearby car. Two of the injured are in serious condition, 7 were moderately injured and 12 were lightly injured.
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Shmuel HaNavi bus bombingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing The Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing was the suicide bombing of a crowded public bus (Egged bus 2) in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 19, 2003. Twenty-four people were killed and over 130 wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants.[1] The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing was the suicide bombing of a crowded public bus (Egged bus 2) in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 19, 2003. Twenty-four people were killed and over 130 wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants. The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. On August 19, 2003 (22 Av 5763), a Hamas suicide bomber sent out by the organization’s Hebron cell disguised himself as a Haredi Jew and detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus traveling through Jerusalem’s Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood. He blew himself up after entering the back door.[2] The double-length bus was crowded with Orthodox Jewish children returning from a visit to the Western Wall. The huge explosion killed 7 children and 16 adults, among them an eight-months-pregnant woman, and injured more than 130 people. The bomb was spiked with ball-bearings designed to increase injuries on the crowded bus. Hamas said the bomber was a 29-year-old mosque preacher from the city of Hebron. Because so many of the dead were young children,[3] the media dubbed it the “children’s bus”. According to an Associated Press report,
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Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a five-kilogram device packed with ball-bearings on a crowded No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Many of the passengers were returning from prayers at the Western Wall when they were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
For the ultra-Orthodox, the attack took place not only during the vacation, but also on the eve of the month of Elul, the month of selihot – the special penitential prayers recited during the week before Rosh Hashanah.
As a result of the attack, the Cabinet decided on September 1, 2003, among others, to wage an all-out war against Hamas and other terrorist elements, and to freeze the diplomatic process with the Palestinian Authority.
The victims:
– Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem
– Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem
– Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem
– Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem
– Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak
– Lilach Kardi, 22, of Jerusalem
– Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem
– Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak
– Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zichron Ya’acov
– Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak
– Mordechai Reinitz, 49, and Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya
– Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines
– Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem
– Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak
– Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, and Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York
– Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem
– Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem
– Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem.
– Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 23.
– Mordechai Laufer, 27, of Netanya died of his wounds on September 5.
– Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak died of her wounds on September 12.
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Suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem
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Suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem
August 9, 2001
16 people were killed, including 7 children, and about 130 were injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem. Concealing the explosives in a guitar case which he had carried with him into Jerusalem, the terrorist entered the restaurant just before 2 PM and detonated the bomb. The 5 kg.-10 kg. bomb, which was packed with nails, screws, and bolts to ensure maximum damage, completely gutted the restaurant, which was full of lunchtime diners.
The terrorist was killed in the blast. His controller was on the list of wanted terrorists submitted by Israel to the Palestinians Authority this week. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The names of the victims:
- Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil
- Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel
- Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.
- Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem
- Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem
- Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem
- Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem
- Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria
- Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria
- Ra’aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria
- Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria
- Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria
- Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem
- Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem
- Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem
- Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, of Modi’in, was 31 at the time of the attack. Severely injured, she was in a coma for almost 22 years and succumbed to her wounds on Thursday, 1 June 2023.
The Israeli response:
Foreign Minister Peres (August 9): “If the Palestinian Authority had acted with the necessary determination and carried out preventive detentions of Hamas terrorists and their operators, the murders today in Jerusalem would have been prevented.”
In response to these terrorist attacks, Jerusalem police closed down the PLO’s east Jerusalem Orient House headquarters and nine other Palestinian buildings, while the IDF has taken control of Palestinian military and political headquarters at Abu Dis just outside Jerusalem early Friday morning. The IDF also attacked the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank police headquarters in Ramallah.
- IDF forces take control of Governor’s House Compound in Abu Dis – Aug 10, 2001
- Israeli Measures in the Jerusalem Area in Response to Palestinian Terrorism – Legal Aspects – Aug 10, 2001
- Briefing following Israeli Cabinet Meeting – Aug 10, 2001
Reactions of world leaders:
US President George Bush:
“I deplore and strongly condemn the terrorist bombing in downtown Jerusalem today. My heartfelt sympathies and those of the American people are with the victims of this terrible tragedy and their families.”
White House press release – August 9, 2001
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
“UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned today’s terror attack by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. He deplored all acts of terror and is deeply disturbed by the terrible loss of life.”
UN Secretary-General press release – August 9, 2001
European Union
Belgian EU Presidency:
“The Presidency of the European Union unreservedly condemns the bombing of a Jerusalem shopping centre today, 9 August. It abhors this cowardly act which mainly claimed the lives of innocent civilians.”
EU press release, August 9, 2001
Major terrorist attacks in Jerusalem since July 26:
In the past two weeks, there has been a Palestinian effort to concentrate terror attacks in Jerusalem, as follows:
- July 26: Small arms fire on from an ambush towards an Israeli vehicle close to Givat Ze’ev. An Israeli youth was killed and his father was wounded.
- July 27: A watermelon containing an explosive charge based on high explosives, standard and improvised, nails and a cellular detonating system was placed in a bus parked near the Malha shopping mall and was neutralized following a bus driver’s alertness.
- July 29: Following intensive incitement regarding the Israeli intention to take over the Temple Mount, there were severe disturbances by Muslim worshippers on the Temple Mount, resulting in the injury of 15 policemen and some 20 Palestinians.
- July 29: A car bomb (containing 5 gas canisters, a hand grenade and nails with an alarm clock) exploded in the car park of an apartment building in Pisgat Ze’ev in Jerusalem. Two persons were lightly injured.
- July 30: A beer can containing high explosives, nails, and a digital watch was placed in the commercial center in the city center, probably by a member of Hamas from Nablus. There were no casualties.
- July 31 and August 4: Small arms fire towards Gilo nieghborhood, resulting in an injured woman and 14 damaged apartments. Carried out by Fatah operatives.
- August 1: Explosion of a pipe bomb in the King David Hotel car park – there were no casualties. The Hamas claimed responsibility
Never forget: Sbarro Pizzeria Massacre, Jerusalem, Aug. 9, 2001
15 people, including two Americans, murdered by Killer-Turned-TV Star Ahlam Tamimi
Posted by Miriam Elman Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 02:30pm<
On this day 15 years ago, a Hamas terror gang based in the West Bank executed a bombing attack on a busy restaurant in the center of Jerusalem. In the horrific act of savagery 15 people were killed, including 7 children.
Two U.S. citizens were among those murdered. Four additional Americans were wounded — one severely.
In total, some 130 were injured with varying degrees of severity by the “human bomb” and his team of accomplices.
The mastermind was Ahlam Tamimi, relative of Bassem Tamimi, and a hero to this day in her home village of Nabi Saleh where international activists still protest the security barrier constructed in response to the Sbarro and dozens of other suicide bombings.
Ahlam Tamimi-MEMRI-revised-2012 mastermind Sbarro suicide bombing
In this post, I revisit the 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing.
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I’ll describe the attack, its victims, and the team of terrorists involved in order to underscore the disgraceful fact that for over two decades the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has not prosecuted a single Palestinian terrorist who has killed Americans in Israel or the disputed territories, even though U.S. law requires it to do so.
Included at the end of the post is a statement exclusive for Legal Insurrection by Frimet and Arnold Roth—the parents of Malka (Malki) Roth, a 15-year-old American girl who was murdered in the Sbarro atrocity.
>Malka (Malki) Roth | August 8, 2001 |one day prior to her murder
August 9, 2001: The Sbarro Bombing
At 2:00pm on a hot summer day, a Palestinian terrorist entered the Sbarro Pizzeria and detonated a bomb.
Situated at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, probably one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in Israel, the bomb blast completely gutted the restaurant.
I ate at this Sbarro a number of times when I lived in and visited Israel. It was a popular kosher eatery, conveniently located, and a good place to bring the kids.
On August 9, 2001 the restaurant was filled with lunch-time diners—many of them children and their mothers. The street was also crowded with pedestrian traffic.
At the time, like most public spaces in Israel the pizzeria wasn’t guarded, something which enabled the human bomber to enter the place unimpeded.
According to media reports, documentation by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and accounts piece together by those who lost loved ones in the horrific attack, the terrorist and his 10 kilogram bomb was transported by taxi to the site by a woman named Ahlam ‘Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi, also known as Ahlam Tamimi, and another Palestinian, Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri.
Ahlam Tamimi in 2012
They reportedly concealed the explosives inside a guitar case. The case was also packed with nails, screws, and bolts to ensure maximum damage.
Sbarro minutes after the bombing | Credit: Times of Israel
Sbarro aftermath | Credit: UK Media Watch
Sbarro Attack | Victim | Credit: YouTube
Sbarro victims assisted | Credit: Israel National News
The terrorist al-Masri was killed in the blast. Tamimi escaped but was arrested a few weeks later. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Jerusalem municipality police closed down the PLO’s east Jerusalem headquarters (known as the Orient House) and the IDF took control of Palestinian military and political buildings at Abu Dis, just outside of Jerusalem. The IDF also attacked the PA’s West Bank police headquarters in Ramallah.
Although perpetrated by a Hamas terror cell, Israeli officials at the time held the Palestinian Authority and the late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat complicit in the carnage. Then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the architect of the Oslo peace accords, reportedly said on the day of the attack:
If the Palestinian Authority had acted with the necessary determination and carried out preventive detentions of Hamas terrorists and their operators, the murders today in Jerusalem would have been prevented”.
Six weeks after the bombing an exhibit at Al Najah University in the West Bank, which included a mock-up of the Sbarro pizzeria complete with bloody plastic body parts and partially-chewed pizza crusts, glorified the attack and the bombers:
al-Najah-U-celebrates Tamimi | Credit: ADL
The Terrorists
The Sbarro attack was coordinated and planned by Hamas’ branch in the West Bank.
Shuheil al-Masri, the human bomb of the Sbarro restaurant massacre, was a 22-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Aqaba, north of Tulkarm. He was single and came from a relatively well-off family.
Poster of al-Masri | Credit: This Ongoing War
The explosive charge was manufactured by Abdallah Jamal Barghouti, a Kuwaiti national who moved to the West Bank in the late 1990s and became Hamas’ chief engineer.
For his involvement in the Sbarro bombing and in a number of other horrific terrorist attacks during the second intifada, he was sentenced to 67 life sentences. As I noted in a prior post, he’s one of the highest paid Palestinian mass-murderers now serving time in an Israeli prison.
Marwan Barghouti was also implicated in the terror plot. The former leader of Fatah’s armed militia (the Tanzim) and a still-prominent Palestinian political figure, he’s now also serving five consecutive life sentences for orchestrating the murder of a Greek Orthodox monk outside of Jerusalem in June 2001 and carrying out hundreds of deadly attacks against Israeli civilians during the second intifada.
He reportedly paid Abdallah Barghouti $500 to build the bomb. He also reportedly armed and sheltered Billal Barghouti—another Hamas terrorist who was also captured and admitted his participation in the Sbarro attack—when he was on the run from Israeli authorities.
While incarcerated, Marwan Barghouti has become something of a folk hero. He was recently recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Several local councils in France are also seeking to name him an honorary citizen.
Marwan Barghouti | Credit: Breaking Israel News
Based on the information that I could find while researching this post, at least two of the human bomber’s accomplices are no longer locked up in jail.
Mohammad Daghlas, a university student who delivered the bomb that was used in the Sbarro massacre, served time in Israel, but was released to freedom in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange.
That’s what also happened to Ahlam Tamimi, the human bomber’s guide.
Ahlam Tamimi: Massacre Mastermind
Then a 20-year-old Jordanian national living in Ramallah, Tamimi was studying at Bir Zeit University and was working as a part-time journalist when she was recruited by Hamas’ Izzadine el-Qassam terror organization.
Tamimi was reportedly involved in gathering intelligence for the attack and in selecting the venue. She was also instrumental in assisting al-Masri in getting there. She reportedly carried a camera to look like a tourist and spoke in English with the suicide bomber so that he would look less conspicuous.
For her role in the Sbarro massacre, she was sentenced to 16 life terms (320 years).
In 2011, just a few months prior to her release from prison, official PA TV honored her and her family (at the same time, Daghlas was also honored):
The PA’s official daily also published an article on the day before Tamimi’s release glorifying her as a “spirited fighter”.
PA Honors Tamimi and Daghlas | Credit: PMW
Tamimi was deported to Jordan.
There, she’s become a celebrity and a media starlet in the Arab world—a “Palestinian Oprah” who hosts her own weekly talk show on the Hamas satellite TV channel, Al Quds. The show is broadcast to her adoring fans across the Middle East and the world.
Last year, on the 14th anniversary of the Sbarro bombing, websites and Facebook pages across the Arab world and in the West Bank paid tribute to Tamimi.
In between extolling the virtues of “martyrdom attacks”, this depraved woman routinely celebrates her own monstrous achievement. Her Twitter account is full of the glory of the killing. Here is a recent tweet where she pays poetic homage to the Sbarro attack’s human bomber:
Tamimi poetic homage | Credit: This Ongoing War
Living in total freedom in Amman, Tamimi married another convicted terrorist a few years ago—a cousin who was also released in the Shalit prisoner deal. Despite the protests of the Roths and other victims of Palestinian terrorism, he was reportedly allowed by Israeli authorities to leave the West Bank on account of it “being easier” to have hardcore terrorists living in places other than Israel or the West Bank.
The joyous nuptials were covered live on TV.
Tamimi has said on repeated occasions that she carefully selected the Sbarro restaurant in order to maximize civilian casualties—especially children and religious Jews.
In multiple publicly-aired TV interviews, she has never expressed remorse of any kind. In fact, she is proud of the deaths that she helped to cause. During an interview in 2012, she recounted how happy she was to hear of the rising Sbarro attack body count. She had been under the impression that fewer Jews had been killed.
Back in 2006, while still in an Israeli jail cell, she reportedly said: “I’m not sorry for what I did”.
It’s a sentiment she’s repeated ever since.
Ahlam Tamimi and the Tamimi Clan
Ahlam Tamimi is a member of the extended Tamimi family. Based in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, they’ve become heroes in the West—particularly among journalists who frequently feature them as prominent civil society leaders of “non-violent resistance” against Israeli occupation.
The reality, as we’ve noted in prior posts, is that the Tamimis are a bunch of terrorism-promoting and blood-libeling Palestinian activists who have the nasty habit of spending much of their time exploiting their and other village children for anti-Israel publicity stunts.
In an important essay published yesterday in Tablet the German-Israeli researcher and historian Petra Marquardt-Bigman critiques journalist Ben Ehrenreich’s sympathetic treatment of the Tamimis in his new highly-acclaimed book. Marquardt-Bigman marshals considerable evidence from publicly available social media sources (primarily in Arabic) to show how the Tamimi clan openly trade in antisemitic tropes and support terrorism against Israeli civilians (see also her earlier LI post here).
Ehrenreich and other Western mainstream media outlets paint a glowing picture of the Tamimis—especially the matriarch Nariman, who is extoled as a paragon of virtue, an admirable activist, and devoted mother and wife.
In fact, as Marquardt-Bigman meticulously documents, this woman routinely praises and promotes the online material of Ahlam Tamimi, which incites to violence and glorifies terror attacks.
Tamimis love Ahlam Tamimi | Credit: The Tower
Tamimis love Ahlam Tamimi | Credit: The Tower
Nariman’s promoted posts on social media—including those of the notorious Sbarro murderess—put the lie to Ehrenreich’s glowing depiction of a family committed to nonviolence and justice.
Here’s a new video produced by Marquardt-Bigman and the blogger Elder of Zion which offers a glimpse into the intense Jew-hatred and support for terrorism that drives Ben Ehrenreich’s favorite people:
The Victims
Here are the names and selected photos of the victims in the August 9, 2001 terrorist bombing at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem which were released by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
The names of the victims:
- Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil
- Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel
- Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.
- Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem
- Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem
- Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem
- Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem
- Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria
- Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria
- Ra’aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria
- Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria
- Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria
- Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem
- Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem
- Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem
- Chana Tova Chaya Nachenberg, of Modi’in, was 31 at the time of the attack. Severely injured, she was in a coma for almost 22 years and succumbed to her wounds on Thursday, 1 June 2023.
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The majority of those killed were children.
Many young children were also among the injured. Eight-year-old Haya Schijvesschuurder, who was hospitalized for her wounds, lost five members of her family, including both of her parents.
Of the 130 others maimed, many have life-long injuries.
Among those killed in the bomb blast were two American citizens: Judith L. Greenbaum (31) of New Jersey (who was pregnant at the time) and Malka (nicknamed Malki) Roth (15) who lived with her family in Jerusalem.
Our daughter Malka Chana Roth
A beautiful life | 1985-2001
Four other Americans—David Danzig, Matthew Gordon, and Joanne (Chana) and Sarah Nachenberg—were also injured.
Chana Nachenberg—a mother whose only child Sarah was then two-years-old—is still in a vegetative state today, never having regained consciousness. You can read her daughter Sarah’s moving words about her Mom here.
Sarah Nachenberg with her father | 2014
Malki’s parents, Frimet and Arnold Roth, went on to establish an organization for special needs children—the Malki Foundation (Keren Malki)—dedicated to the memory of their daughter.
Over the last fifteen years, they have also spoken and written frequently in print media and online about their personal experience with radical Islamist terrorism and about losing their daughter Malki.
Their website and blog, This Ongoing War, is also an important resource for those who study jihadist terrorism and counter-terrorism efforts.
This Ongoing War https://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/
This Ongoing War https://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/
In November Malki would have been 30-years-old—she would have undoubtedly been married with kids, bringing her parents much naches (pride and joy). Today, in her August 9, 2016 blog post, Frimet Roth writes about her “never-ending nightmare”, the “raw grief” and the “fresh outrages”.
Mr. and Mrs. Roth are inviting well-wishers to their daughter’s gravesite for her yahrzeit at the end of the month. Here’s the recent entry on their blog:
come to gravesite of Malki
An Exclusive Statement for LI from Frimet and Arnold Roth
Since 1993, when the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the PLO and the Palestinian Authority (PA), nearly 70 U.S. citizens have lost their lives and dozens more have been wounded (some severely) in attacks perpetrated by jihadist-inspired terrorists in Israel and the disputed territories.
Some of the perpetrators have been killed by Israeli security forces in the process of committing their heinous acts. Others are incarcerated in Israeli jails, where they’re earning hefty salaries and other bonuses in a deplorable PA “pay to slay” system that we documented in a previous post.
But many of the terrorists behind these attacks “continue to roam free across the Middle East”. None of them have ever been prosecuted by the United States.
The parents of Malki Roth aren’t hopeful that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) will start a U.S. criminal prosecution of their daughter’s killer, despite a congressional mandate ordering the Justice Department to take action against such individuals and the forceful pressure that’s recently been brought to bear by lawmakers.
Arnold Roth had been among those testifying last February at a congressional subcommittee hearing where he said that his goal was to “reassert the humanity of the victims” by calling for increased action from the DoJ.
Arnold Roth and daughter Malki before the Hamas bombing
During the hearing he said that while DoJ officials always exhibited “unfailing courtesy”, the tangible results have been in short supply, noting that he learned more about his daughter’s killers from YouTube and Twitter than from the department’s updates.
Here’s a statement that the Roths emailed to me for inclusion in this post:
Recognizing that terror victims, no matter where, go through an intensely personal, often terribly lonely and isolating, process of dealing with the loss and pain and insult and sense of violation, the U.S. Congress legislated an exemplary law in 2005 that works to ensure that where Americans are injured or killed in terrorist attacks overseas, investigation and prosecution remain a high priority within the Department of Justice. The Attorney General at the time, Alberto R. Gonzales, sounded optimistic in a public statement accompanying the establishment of the Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OVT for short). It would ‘guarantee a voice for victims and their families’, he said, in investigations and prosecutions of terrorists where Americans overseas were the victims. ‘Our commitment to these victims is as strong as our dedication to bringing their terrorist attackers to justice.’
It has not worked that way.
As a parent of a US citizen murdered in a 2001 Hamas attack in Jerusalem, I was invited to testify before the House Oversight Committee in February 2016.We know precisely who murdered Malki, our daughter, and where they are today. All but one of the terrorist gang were freed in the catastrophic 2011 Shalit deal. We have laid out our expectations before the OVT’s people over the years, and have met with them face-to-face several times. We have been told repeatedly to wait, and that updates would come. But as I put it to the House Oversight Committee, ‘there have been no updates.’ We are as much in the dark today about the pursuit of justice for Malki’s murderers as we were when we first went to Washington to speak to the OVT in 2012”.
Possibility of Prosecuting Ahlam Tamimi in U.S.
According to Adam Turner, an expert on national security law and former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the DoJ could certainly prosecute Tamimi for her criminal murders of two Americans and the wounding of other U.S. citizens in the 2001 Sbarro terror attack (see his articles here and here).
Basically, Turner claims that Tamimi’s post-imprisonment media appearances have made an “airtight case against her even tighter”.
Tamimi has admitted to her crime—repeatedly confessing—in taped interviews which she cannot claim were coerced or somehow forced by Israel. As Turner rightly notes,
In Jordan, she is under no duress from anyone; in fact she is celebrating her terrorist actions”.
According to Turner (see also this article by Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney whose daughter was murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in April 1995), Tamimi’s prosecution wouldn’t have any problems with the chain of custody of evidence or the admissibility of confessions, that could possibly be issues with regard to prosecuting some other Palestinian terrorists in U.S. courts.
The tapes aren’t banned hearsay under U.S. law and they would be admissible to be used by the court to convict her.
As Turner claims, “There is no credible legal reason…that would bar [the DoJ] from prosecuting Ahlam Tamimi for her 2001 terrorist crime against six Americans citizens”.
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The U.S. government has “plenty of leverage” to convince Jordan to hand over Tamimi, and can secure the necessary evidence to indict. It’s just doesn’t seem all that interested in doing so.
I contacted The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a non-partisan Washington, D.C.-based think tank which has spearheaded efforts to achieve justice for the American victims of Palestinian terrorism, about the U.S. Department of Justice’s apparent foot-dragging on prosecuting Palestinian terrorists.
I knew from media reports that back in February the congressional subcommittee had instructed the DoJ to put together a task force to examine the challenges that the department faces in prosecuting foreign terrorists. If the DoJ was being responsive, the task force should’ve been up and running right about now.
Sarah N. Stern, EMET’s Founder and President, confirmed my suspicions: it doesn’t look like the DoJ will meet the deadline. Stern emailed me the following statement to include in this post:
As someone who grew up fully believing in the American justice system, the most heartbreaking endeavor I have ever been engaged in is the pursuit of justice for the at least 67 Americans, (that I know of), who have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists, since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. After more than five years of consistent efforts working, with the help of Congress, to get the Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism opened, I am sorry to say that it has been opened for 11 years now, and they have not brought a single Palestinian suspect to justice on these shores, despite the fact that there is a prior law that says that any time an American is murdered or injured abroad by terrorism, we are entitled to do so. Worse than not doing anything at all, this office has played on the emotions of the victims’ families, by meeting with them once every five years or so, and telling them not to do anything, that they are very close to apprehending their loved ones’ murderer. I had erroneously thought that once an office was opened in the Department of Justice and “Justice” was the name on the door, as opposed to “State”, whose major role is diplomacy, we would get a pure crack at justice, uncontaminated by political or diplomatic factors. However, for the Americans unlucky enough to be killed or injured by Palestinian terrorists, they are regarded as mere pawns on a political and diplomatic chess board. This should not be. It is morally wrong. And it is not what the America I grew up believing in is all about”.
Conclusion
Terrorists from around the world are routinely extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for attacks on Americans abroad. But Palestinians seem to be one class of killers that’re immune from extradition.
The DoJ and the OVT are obviously failing to do their job when it comes to prosecuting those terrorists. The grieving families of Americans killed in Israel deserve better from these U.S. prosecutors.
Families of US Victims of Palestinian Terrorism Wait for Justice for Years.
Quite simply: their pain is being compounded by the lack of justice coming from their own government.
But there’s another good reason not to let the Palestinian killers of Americans, like Ahlam Tamimi, escape justice to enjoy fame and good fortune.
The obvious reluctance to prosecute Tamimi and other Islamist terrorists like her undermines U.S. policy and national security because it “sends the wrong message” to would-be terrorists around the globe. As EMET’s Sarah N. Stern rightly notes, it contributes to the terrorists’ sense of “impunity and invincibility”.
It also allows the Palestinian governing authorities, and even allies like Jordan, to act dismissively toward the United States and the lives of American citizens. As EMET’s staff legal counsel Adam Turner puts it:
A woman responsible for the deaths of two Americans—one only 15 years old and another one pregnant with a child—is smiling and celebrating her crimes all over the Arab world, and she and the Arab governments that celebrate and reward her have absolutely no fear or concern that the United States will take any action to punish her or them. The twisted moral code shown here, and the lack of respect for the U.S., is almost unbelievable”.
Bottom line: Ahlam Tamimi is more than just another Palestinian terrorist. She is a “symbol” of U.S. weakness and a prominent example of how unserious we are about fighting the war on terror. If she continues to escape justice, there will undoubtedly be a lot more dead Americans.
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Miriam F. Elman is an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She is the editor of five books and the author of over 60 journal articles, book chapters, and government reports on topics related to international and national security, religion and politics in the Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She also frequently speaks and writes on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) anti-Israel movement. Follow her on Twitter @MiriamElman
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The Press Tours Hamas Massacre at Kfar Aza, Israel
This is what I saw at Kfar Aza, Israel. pic.twitter.com/ZkE213V1YU
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) November 20, 2023
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This is what I saw at Kfar Aza, Israel.
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Kibbutz Kfar Aza-Mezukeh מזוכה
Here’s your Hebrew word for today: Mezukeh, מזוכה. What you see is not mundane graffiti on the wall of this Kibbutz Kfar Aza home on the Gaza border. It’s the word מזוכה, with the initials of the ZAKA volunteer who completed the sacred task of gathering all body remnants of this… pic.twitter.com/8xrB8JJWFR
— Rabbi Lazer Brody (@LazerBrody) October 6, 2024
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Here’s your Hebrew word for today: Mezukeh, מזוכה. What you see is not mundane graffiti on the wall of this Kibbutz Kfar Aza home on the Gaza border. It’s the word מזוכה, with the initials of the ZAKA volunteer who completed the sacred task of gathering all body remnants of this home’s martyred residents and bringing them to proper burial. Literally, mezukeh means “merited”. In ZAKA terms it means “all clear”. On the sofa is a ZAKA body bag. This photo more than anything is a reminder why we’re still at war in Gaza and why we went to war in Lebanon, so that this scene won’t be repeated up north.
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Israel’s Wars & Operations: First Intifada
(1987 – 1993)
By Mitchell Bard
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/first-intifada
False charges of Israeli atrocities and instigation from the mosques played an important role in starting the intifada. On December 6, 1987, an Israeli was stabbed to death while shopping in Gaza. One day later, four residents of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza were killed in a traffic accident. Rumors that the four had been killed by Israelis as a deliberate act of revenge began to spread among the Palestinians. Mass rioting broke out in Jabalya on the morning of December 9, in which a 17-year-old youth was killed by an Israeli soldier after throwing a Molotov cocktail at an army patrol. This soon sparked a wave of unrest that engulfed the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.
Over the next week, rock-throwing, blocked roads and tire burnings were reported throughout the territories. By December 12, six Palestinians had died and 30 had been injured in the violence. The following day, rioters threw a gasoline bomb at the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem. No one was hurt in the bombing.
In Gaza, rumors circulated that Palestinian youths wounded by Israeli soldiers were being taken to an army hospital near Tel Aviv and “finished off.” Another rumor, claimed Israeli troops poisoned a water reservoir in Khan Yunis. A UN official said these stories were untrue. Only the most seriously injured Palestinians were taken out of the Gaza Strip for treatment, and, in some cases, this probably saved their lives. The water was also tested and found to be uncontaminated.
This uprising or intifada was violent from the start. During the first four years of the uprising, more than 3,600 Molotov cocktail attacks, 100 hand grenade attacks and 600 assaults with guns or explosives were reported by the Israel Defense Forces. The violence was directed at soldiers and civilians alike. During this period, 16 Israeli civilians and 11 soldiers were killed by Palestinians in the territories; more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 1,700 Israeli soldiers were injured. Approximately 1,100 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Throughout the intifada, the PLO played a lead role in orchestrating the insurrection. The PLO-dominated Unified Leadership of the Intifada (UNLI), for example, frequently issued leaflets dictating which days violence was to be escalated, and who was to be its target. The PLO’s leadership of the uprising was challenged by the fundamentalist Islamic organization Hamas, a violently anti-Semitic group that rejects any peace negotiations with Israel.
Jews were not the only victims of the violence. In fact, as the intifada waned around the time of the Gulf War in 1991, the number of Arabs killed for political and other reasons by Palestinian death squads in what amount to an “intrafada” exceeded the number killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat defended the killing of Arabs deemed to be “collaborating with Israel.” He delegated the authority to carry out executions to the intifada leadership. After the murders, the local PLO death squad sent the file on the case to the PLO. “We have studied the files of those who were executed, and found that only two of the 118 who were executed were innocent,” Arafat said. The innocent victims were declared “martyrs of the Palestinian revolution” by the PLO (Al-Mussawar, January 19, 1990).
Palestinians were stabbed, hacked with axes, shot, clubbed and burned with acid. The justifications offered for the killings varied. In some instances, being employed by Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank and Gaza was reason enough; in others, contact with Jews warranted a death sentence. Accusations of “collaboration” with Israel were sometimes used as a pretext for acts of personal vengeance. Women deemed to have behaved “immorally” were also among the victims.
Eventually, the reign of terror became so serious that some Palestinians expressed public concern about the disorder. The PLO began to call for an end to the violence, but murders by its members and rivals continued. From 1989-1992, this intrafada claimed the lives of nearly 1,000 Palestinians.
The Second Intifada: A defining event that reshaped the nation
20 years on, the memory of the Second Intifada still lingers
A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001
(photo credit: REUTERS)
By HERB KEINON
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 14:34 https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/the-second-intifada-a-defining-event-that-reshaped-the-nation-642644
The place names still send shivers up and down the spine.
The police station in Ramallah; Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood; the Dolphinarium discotheque in Tel Aviv; the Sbarro Pizzeria and Cafe Moment in the capital; the Park Hotel in Netanya; Maxim Restaurant in Haifa. The names bring to mind some of the bloodiest atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists during the Second Intifada that began 20 years ago this month, on September 28, 2000.
Each of Israel’s wars have had their memorable battles. There was Operation Nachshon in the War of Independence; the Battle for Sharm e-Sheikh in the Sinai Campaign; Ammunition Hill in the Six Day War; the Chinese Farm during the Yom Kippur War; the Battle of Jezzine in the First Lebanon War; Bint Jbeil during the Second Lebanon War.
But those were battles: tanks vs. tanks, artillery vs. artillery, even hand-to-hand combat. And while during the Second Intifada the Battle of Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield, the intifada’s turning point, has been seared into the country’s memory, for the most part it is the names of eateries, road junctions or markets – Mike’s Place, Megiddo Junction, the Carmel Market – that are associated with this period. Because it was the restaurants, bars, buses and road junctions in the heart of the country that constituted the main front in that war
More Israelis were killed during the Second Intifada – 1,053, according to Foreign Ministry figures – than were killed in the 1956 Sinai Campaign (231), the 1967 Six day War (776) or the 2006 Second Lebanon War (164). More civilians, about 70% of the total fatalities, were killed in the Second Intifada than in any campaign with the exception of the War of Independence, when 2,400 civilians were among the 6,400 Israeli dead.
The Second Intifada, which for the average citizen felt very much like a war in everything but name, was a defining event in Israel’s history, akin to the War of Independence and the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars. Israel after September 2000 is not the same as Israel before September 2000.
This harrowing period fundamentally altered Israeli society because it impacted everyone. No one, regardless of their political opinions, level of religious observance or ethnicity, was left unaffected.
Mind-numbing terrorism made it scary to ride a bus, nerve-wracking to send kids to school, a psychological effort to take the family downtown for a falafel. Everyone eyed fellow passengers warily on the bus at one time or another during these years – especially fellow passengers wearing coats on a sunny day – wondering if they may be hiding explosives.
And the trauma of that period remains. Time may have dulled the intensity of the trauma, but it has not erased it.
To understand Israel today – to understand its political turn to the Right, why it has voted time and time again for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its complete lack of confidence in the Palestinians, its indifference to the lack of a diplomatic process with the Palestinians – is to understand the strain and pressure that everyone in the country labored under during the four years and five months of that intifada.
Israelis were well acquainted with security challenges before September 2000. But for the most part there was a strong sense of personal security in the cities up until then. Sure, you didn’t want to walk along the borders or traipse around in the West Bank cities or even part of east Jerusalem, but there was a sense of being safe at home, in the streets, in the cinema, at restaurants.
The Second Intifada changed all that. Then no place seemed safe: riding the bus felt like a dice roll, coffee shops a potential deathtrap. The whole security equation changed.
A reservist wearing a flak jacket and carrying an M16 serving in a small outpost just across the Syrian border fence on the Golan Heights in March 2002 – the deadliest month of the intifada – felt more secure in his well-guarded base ringed by tanks than his elementary school children felt riding public buses to school in Jerusalem.
And everyone, literally everyone, knew someone either killed or injured during the violence – a relative, friend, coworker, schoolmate, client, business partner. The intifada was not something out there happening far away to other people, it was real and happening next door.
This reality of intense insecurity seeped into everyone’s lives and left an indelible impact.
ONE OF the ways to gauge that impact is to look at the country’s political map. Israel goes to elections quite a bit. Since 1999, the year before the Second Intifada, it has held 10 elections, including an election just for the prime minister – not the Knesset – in 2001.
The results: The Left won one election, Ehud Barak in 1999. The Center won one, 2006 with Kadima headed by Ehud Olmert, and tied another, Blue and White’s showing in September 2019. The Right won six times, and battled to a draw in one (March 2020).
Why? Did the country all of a sudden grow callous? Did it give up on a dream of peace? No, coming out of the Oslo euphoria of the 1990s, Israel was simply mugged by the reality of the Second Intifada.
“The voting patterns shows that the right wing not only now has a majority, but has even gotten stronger, and this is a result of the scope and intensity of the intifada,” said Meir Elran, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv who has written extensively on Israeli national resilience during and after the intifada. “This was mainly terror against civilians. And unlike the First Intifada, which took place mainly in the territories, this took place for the most part inside the Green Line – it was extremely traumatic.”
One of the reasons it was so traumatic, said Elran, who was deputy director of Military Intelligence during the beginning of the First Intifada that began in 1987, was its intensity and duration.
Elran dates the Second Intifada from September 28, 2000, when opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount and the Palestinians responded with riots that swiftly spread, to September 2004, when the number of terrorist attacks began to decline. Others, however, extend the intifada’s duration another five months until February 2005, after Yasser Arafat’s death three months earlier, when Sharon – then prime minister – met new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a summit at Sharm e-Sheikh.
Regardless, this was a long war, of at least four years, even four years and five months. Not only was it long, it was harsh – with more than 130 suicide bombings.
“It is an event that left emotional and cognitive scars,” Elran said. “There was also the sense of a great insult involved. What did they do to us? They hit us at home. They undermined our sense of security. The trauma was physical as well as psychological.”
The intifada, Elran said, disabused many Israelis of a belief in being able to reach any agreement with the Palestinians and created a sense in the mind of millions that there was simply no one on the other side to talk to.
TAMAR HERMANN, director of the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute and a political science professor at the Open University, agrees with Elran and said the now deeply held belief among many Israelis that there is simply no partner on the other side is one of the most significant lasting impacts. She characterized this as a “major change.”
“It is quite obvious that the Second Intifada made even those Jewish Israelis most supportive of the peace process rethink not their perspective on the desirability of peace, but rather on its feasibility,” she said.
Paradoxically, Hermann added, it was Ehud Barak who pumped up the notion of there being no Palestinian partner when he came back from the failed Camp David summit in July 2000 and said the refusal of the Palestinians to accept his generous offer was proof there was no one to talk to on the other side.
“Israelis still support the idea of peace – we all allegedly support peace – but they don’t see it as a feasible political goal anymore, and put most of the blame on the other side,” she said.
Elran takes this even further and said that not only do Israelis not believe there is a partner on the other side, but because of the intifada “the Israeli public doesn’t want to hear about the Palestinians, they don’t want to see them.”
The pain caused to Israel during the intifada led Israelis into wanting an “emotional separation from the Palestinians. It created this feeling, we don’t want to see them, they don’t concern me, I don’t care,” he said.
“The violence led Israelis to place an ‘X’ on the Palestinians,” he said. “And there are two factors now reinforcing that ‘X’ – one is the behavior of Hamas in Gaza, which always reminds Israelis of what they are dealing with, and the second is the leadership in Ramallah, whose behavior only reinforces the feeling that there is no one to talk to.”
Hermann said that another significant element of the intifada is that the Israeli public credits Israel’s security apparatus for ending it.
“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”
“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”
“It appears that the Israeli Jews, when they think about the Second Intifada, think that the Israeli security agencies are responsible – in a positive way – for the sharp decline in the terrorism, and that they acted very effectively against it. They do not attribute the decline of the intifada to any decision by the other side to stop using terror, or to minimize the use of terror.”
“The First Intifada did one thing clearly: it made clear to the Israelis that there are no free lunches, and that there is a price to holding on to the territories,” he said.
And the main lesson for Israelis from the Second Intifada, he said, “is that if you do not control the territory, you can’t fight terrorism.” The intensity and lethal nature of the Second Intifada could only happen, he argued, “because we did not control the territory.”
Another key lesson the public took away from the rampaging violence, said Amidror, today a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, is that it “is impossible to trust the Palestinians.”
Amidror noted that the intifada broke out “after we had an agreement with Arafat. This wasn’t the First Intifada, where there was nothing between us and the Palestinians beforehand. We were after the Oslo Accords when we let them back into the territory. This led to a dramatic loss of confidence in them.”
Amidror said that a key operational lesson learned from the violence is that force is not the only way to deal with local uprisings, and that force – the “stick” – must be combined with “carrots” in the form of economic benefits and enhanced personal security.
Amidror, who stressed that he is not a psychologist, said that what remains in the minds of Israelis two decades after the eruption of the Second Intifada is “the sense that in the final analysis our security has to be in our own hands,” and that this “cannot be compromised in any way.”
Asked if this was not something obvious to most Israelis even beforehand, he replied: “We had illusions. Oslo was built on the premise that we could work with the Palestinians.”
Amidror argued that this premise was embraced by the politicians who negotiated the Oslo Accords, but was never accepted by the security establishment or “professional echelon,” of which he was a part at the time in his role as head of Military Intelligence’s research division.
“We said this won’t work, and the reality turned out to be even more difficult than we imagined.”
As to the intifada’s long-term impact on the Palestinians, Amidror said they realize now that if they initiate violence against civilians, they will “pay a much heavier price than we will.”
“I think they now understand that if they use violence we will respond in a much stronger way because our capabilities are so much greater, and that if they pass a certain line we will respond with great strength, so they need to keep things below that line,” he said.
Amidror said the Palestinian Authority now also understands that the only guarantor keeping Hamas from taking over all the territories is Israel.
THOSE TWO lessons, in addition to an Israeli policy aimed at improving the economic and security situation for the Palestinians in the West Bank, is preventing another intifada-type explosion, he maintained.
“If you take an average Palestinian in Nablus, and ask him where it is better to live today – in Cairo, Amman, Damascus or Baghdad, without occupation, or in Nablus with all the limitations of Israeli occupation, what do you think his answer will be? He has to be stupid not to think that life is better in Nablus.”
Reminded, however, that people are motivated not only by material good but also ideology, Amidror replied, “I’m not saying that the occupation doesn’t bother him, and that if you give him independence tomorrow he will not grab it. But when he wakes up and asks where life is better for him and his children, the answer is clear.
“People are not driven only by ideology,” he continued. “It is part of the drive, but not the only thing. If you don’t think I give enough importance to ideology in what motivates people, perhaps you give it too much importance and do not give enough weight to people wanting to live well and give their kids a better future.”
And finally, Amidror said, the Second Intifada also left its mark on Israel’s neighbors. He drew a direct line from the way Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000 – he used the expression “ran away” – to the outbreak of the intifada, saying this created a perception that Israel was not as strong as it appeared.
This intifada was the result of a decision taken by Arafat, not a spontaneous combustion, he stressed, adding that Arafat’s decision was made within the context of the Lebanon withdrawal.
“There is not doubt that the intifada came against the background of a perception in the Arab world of Israeli weakness following the retreat from Lebanon,” he said.
But, Amidror continued, the manner in which Israel dealt and eventually put down the intifada “made clear to the neighborhood, that if Israel is cornered, it will respond with great might. I think the Arab states saw that there is a line which, when passed, Israel will respond forcefully. You can push a long time – it took a long time before Sharon gave the order to move back into Judea Samaria [March 2002] – but when you cross a certain point, and nobody knows exactly where that point is, Israel will respond with great power and might.”
It is that power and might that eventually did put an end to the nightmare of the Second Intifada, but its memory more than just lingers 20 years after its start and continues to impact strongly on how the country acts, votes and views solutions to the Palestinian issue.
Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”
Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”:
Esther Ohana, H”YD, a 20-year-old girl who was driving to her wedding rehearsal when she was murdered by rock throwing.
Vardi Bamberger, 25, was severely injured when rocks were thrown at the vehicle in which she was riding at… https://t.co/23QXxwt7cL
— Rabbi Shalom Arush – Breslev English (@ShalomArushEN) October 21, 2025
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Remember all those killed by “Just throwing rocks”:
Esther Ohana, H”YD, a 20-year-old girl who was driving to her wedding rehearsal when she was murdered by rock throwing.
Vardi Bamberger, 25, was severely injured when rocks were thrown at the vehicle in which she was riding at the same spot where Ester Ohana was killed. Bamberger suffered a fractured skull, but B’H survived.
Yehuda Haim Shoham, H”YD, just five months old, was hit by a rock to the head while he was strapped into his car seat killing him.
Eleven year-old Chava Wechsberg, H”YD, was killed when the car in which she was riding was attacked by rocks in the Gush Etzion region on February 24, 1993, causing it to crash.
Amnon Pomerantz, H”YD, drove by mistake into the Arab town of El-Bureij on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 1990. Arabs stoned the car until he crashed. Then, as he lay slumped unconscious over the driving wheel, they burned him alive.
Yeshohua Weisbrod, H”YD, made a wrong turn into Rafah on March 4, 1993. Arab rock-throwers attacked, causing the car to crash. A terrorist with a machine-gun then walked up to the vehicle and finished him off.
Asher Palmer, H”YD, and his baby son Yonatan, H”YD. On September 23, 2011, they were driving on Highway 60, on their way to Jerusalem to meet Palmer’s wife, who was then expecting their second child. Near the village of Halhoul, rocks were thrown at their car from passengers in an Arab car traveling towards them from the opposite direction. The tremendous impact of the rocks smashed the front windshield of Palmer’s car and fractured Palmer’s skull, causing him to lose control of the vehicle. Both he and his son were killed in the crash.
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“He only threw a rock.”
Tell that to Adele Biton, age 4, killed by one.
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The Real “Gaza Model”: How Hamas and Hezbollah Tactics Shape the Battlefield
Key Takeaways: International media have frequently referred to Israel’s strategy in Lebanon as the “Gaza model” without explaining the similarities in Hezbollah and Hamas’ strategy. Both terrorist organizations systematically embed military infrastructure within civilian environments,…
Sharon Levy 30April2026 3:24 pm https://honestreporting.com/the-real-gaza-model-how-hamas-and-hezbollah-tactics-shape-the-battlefield/
Key Takeaways:
- International media have frequently referred to Israel’s strategy in Lebanon as the “Gaza model” without explaining the similarities in Hezbollah and Hamas’ strategy.
- Both terrorist organizations systematically embed military infrastructure within civilian environments, including tunnels, homes, and medical facilities, shaping how the IDF must respond.
- By omitting this context, major media outlets present a distorted narrative that frames Israel’s actions without acknowledging the conditions that precede them.
The tactics being used in Lebanon are the same as those employed in Gaza.
Yet The New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian won’t explain why.
All three outlets claim Israel is applying a “Gaza model” in Lebanon, but none examine the underlying reason: the nature of the enemy.
Hezbollah, like Hamas, embeds itself within civilian infrastructure, exploiting hospitals, ambulances, homes, and other protected sites to launch attacks on Israel. This is not incidental. It is central to their strategy. And it is routinely omitted from media coverage.
The phrase “Gaza playbook” may be accurate, but not in the way it’s being framed. The similarity lies not in Israeli tactics, but in the identical operational models of the terrorist organizations Israel is confronting.
Tunnel Infrastructure
As the IDF continues to destroy terrorist tunnels in Gaza, it is encountering the same threat in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s tunnel network is still being uncovered and is widely believed to be more sophisticated than Hamas’.
Just last week, the IDF uncovered two fully equipped Hezbollah tunnels stretching approximately two kilometers near Israel’s northern border.
❗️ EXPOSED: Underground tunnel network built by Hezbollah in the Qantara area of southern Lebanon.
IDF troops located 2 underground Hezbollah tunnels, with a total length of ~2 kilometers, situated ~10 kilometers from Israel’s northern communities.
Inside the tunnels, soldiers… pic.twitter.com/Kq8NZlPzO7
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 28, 2026
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❗️ EXPOSED: Underground tunnel network built by Hezbollah in the Qantara area of southern Lebanon.
IDF troops located 2 underground Hezbollah tunnels, with a total length of ~2 kilometers, situated ~10 kilometers from Israel’s northern communities.
Inside the tunnels, soldiers located a large quantity of weapons, living quarters, water tanks, and equipment for prolonged stays.
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But tunnels are only part of the story.
Like Hamas, Hezbollah embeds its military infrastructure inside civilian spaces. In Gaza, tunnel shafts have been found in homes. In Lebanon, Hezbollah has turned children’s bedrooms into weapons depots.
🔎 LOCATED: Weapons storage facility with numerous weapons was located inside a children’s room in the area of Aadshit al-Qusayr.
Among the weapons located: explosives, ‘Kalashnikov’ rifles, grenades, RPGs, machine guns, munitions, and combat equipment. pic.twitter.com/vBtZQo76NJ
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 27, 2026
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🔎 LOCATED: Weapons storage facility with numerous weapons was located inside a children’s room in the area of Aadshit al-Qusayr.
Among the weapons located: explosives, ‘Kalashnikov’ rifles, grenades, RPGs, machine guns, munitions, and combat equipment.
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This threat is not new. For years, Israel’s security establishment has warned of Hezbollah’s plans to infiltrate northern Israel via underground networks long before October 7, 2023.
Hezbollah has repeatedly attempted cross-border attacks, and as early as 2011, Lebanese media were reporting on plans to invade the Galilee.
After Hamas’ October 2023 massacre, Hezbollah had thousands of terrorists positioned for a similar assault. Captured members of its elite Radwan unit have confirmed plans to seize parts of northern Israel. Despite heavy losses, the Radwan Force remains a serious threat.
Abuse of Medical Infrastructure
The parallels extend beyond tunnels.
Both Hamas and Hezbollah systematically exploit medical infrastructure for military purposes.
Under international law, hospitals and ambulances are protected unless they are used for combat. When terrorist groups weaponize these facilities, they forfeit that protection.
Hamas has repeatedly exploited healthcare sites for terror activity. Yet when Israel acts against these locations, media coverage often defaults to accusations, stripped of context.<
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Ambulances. Hospitals. Schools. These safe spaces no longer exist in Gaza because Hamas exploits them all.
Drone footage from northern Gaza shows Hamas terrorists using ambulances to transport fighters between a hospital and school. This wasn’t a one-off. It’s a systematic tactic the deliberately endangers civilians.
Even during a ceasefire, Hamas is rebuilding its military infrastructure. Gaza’s devastation is the result of these choices.
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Hezbollah operates in much the same way.
As a hybrid organization embedded within Lebanese civilian society, it deliberately blurs the line between civilian and military infrastructure, erasing the distinction altogether.
This is not accidental; it is strategic. Civilian environments provide cover, both operationally and in the court of international opinion.<
Evidence of Hezbollah using ambulances for military purposes has been publicly exposed by the IDF. Yet much of the media ignores this reality, instead reinforcing the narrative that Israel is targeting healthcare.
The IDF publishes footage it says shows Hezbollah using ambulances for military purposes.
The footage released by the military shows weapons troops found inside ambulances bearing the logo of the Risala Scout Association, a paramedic group affiliated with the Hezbollah-allied… pic.twitter.com/ir3dxzHBwX
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The IDF publishes footage it says shows Hezbollah using ambulances for military purposes.
The footage released by the military shows weapons troops found inside ambulances bearing the logo of the Risala Scout Association, a paramedic group affiliated with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement.
The IDF says Hezbollah “systematically and repeatedly uses medical facilities and equipment — particularly ambulances — to conceal terrorist activity,” including by using “vehicles and medical teams as cover for transporting weapons and operatives, thereby undermining the special protections granted to medical facilities and equipment under international law.”
During an incident this week, the IDF says, several armed Hezbollah operatives were killed in the Qantara area after violating the ceasefire terms and posing a threat to troops. During scans in the area following the incident, troops of the Golani Brigade located “an ambulance used by the terrorists to conceal weapons,” including explosive devices, mortar shells, magazines, and a grenade, the military says.
In another incident this month, troops of the 7th Armored Brigade killed an RPG-wielding Hezbollah operative near an ambulance. The IDF says “weapons were uncovered inside the ambulance, which had been used by the terrorist to establish himself in the area and carry out attacks from a ‘protected’ position.”
Additional footage released by the IDF shows what it says are Hezbollah operatives who survived Israeli strikes fleeing and hiding until an ambulance arrives to collect them.
According to the IDF, Hezbollah has “increased its use of ambulances to transport operatives between locations while disguising their identities,” due to Israeli warnings to Lebanese civilians ahead of strikes, which make it “harder for Hezbollah operatives to blend in with non-combatants and move throughout the area.”
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The Real “Gaza Model”
The similarities between Gaza and Lebanon are not coincidental.
They are engineered by the same organizations the IDF is fighting to eliminate.
What the media describes as the “Gaza model” or “Gaza playbook” is not Israel exporting tactics. It is Israel confronting the same strategy deployed by two different terrorist organizations.
So when schools, hospitals, and homes along Israel’s borders become part of the terrorists’ infrastructure, this is not about Israel repeating a playbook.
It is about Hamas and Hezbollah operating from the same one.
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🚨A PUBLIC ADMISSION BY DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF) EXPOSES THE TRUTH ON GAZA HOSPITAL:
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has now made the rare, public acknowledgment, of how terrorists operate inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, with details most international aid organizations have ignored or denied altogether. The IDF and Israeli Foreign Ministry have been warning about this for years: 🔹 Terrorist groups exploit medical facilities as cover and operational space 🔹 This further proves why Hamas must be comprehensively disarmed MSF’s workers allege facing intimidation, armed men, and kidnapping of patients being treated, many still requiring care. MSF has chosen to scale back it’s presence due to safety and security threats. Nasser Hospital is in Khan Yunis is the largest functioning hospital in Gaza. Will the international media report these findings, or continue to neglect these reports, risking injury or death to those wishing to offer aid to those needing care? Source: Israel Today  Mossad Commentary-tweet-17February2026-MSF how terrorists operate inside Gaza Hospital
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Western aid kept Palestinian Authority from financial collapse, Israeli study findsAll Israel News Staff | Published: 27July2026 | https://allisraelnews.com/western-aid-kept-palestinian-authority-from-financial-collapse-israeli-study-finds
Funding from the World Bank and the European Union prevented the Palestinian Authority (PA) from suffering a financial collapse, according to a new study by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) released last week.
The report found that while the PA has relied heavily on foreign aid since its establishment in the 1990s, the vast majority of recent emergency funding came from Western donors rather than Arab states.
The study concluded that the surge in European and World Bank assistance has kept the Ramallah-based administration financially afloat despite declining revenues, mounting debt, and growing economic pressures following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
The PA has also faced increasing financial strain after Israel reduced tax transfers over the administration’s controversial pay-for-slay payments that reward lethal terrorism against Jews and Israel.
Despite reassurances to the Trump administration that this antisemitic practice had ended, the PA appeared to have restored the pay-for-slay policy in May 2026. Endemic mismanagement and widespread corruption have also contributed to the PA’s worsening financial situation.
Israel’s collection of tax revenues on behalf of the PA was once one of the administration’s primary sources of income. The INSS report noted that Israel continues to collect taxes and customs revenues for the PA under the 1994 Paris Protocol.
However, since July 2018, Israel has deducted amounts equivalent to the PA’s spending on anti-Israel terrorism and has also used some of the funds to cover electricity and water expenses. As a result, annual tax transfers have fallen from approximately NIS 11–12 billion to just NIS 2 billion in 2025.
The INSS report noted that the PA’s financial crisis deepened significantly following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and the subsequent Gaza war.
“Since the outbreak of the “Swords of Iron” war in 2023, the economic collapse of the Palestinian Authority has become one of the most frequently discussed scenarios in Israeli political and security discourse. Israel’s withholding of clearance revenues, the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in Israel, the sharp decline in economic activity in the West Bank, and the PA’s steadily mounting debt have led many to assess that its collapse is only a matter of time.”
Israel’s decision to replace many Palestinian workers from Judea and Samaria, internationally known as the West Bank, with foreign workers from India, Thailand, and China was driven by security considerations.
Some analysts in Israel and abroad have warned that a complete collapse of the PA could pave the way for a Hamas takeover of the territory.
The report highlighted the depth of the PA’s fiscal imbalance. In 2023, the administration collected NIS 3.9 billion (about $1.15 billion) in domestic tax revenue and NIS 1.6 billion (nearly $470 million) in non-tax revenues, while total expenditures reached NIS 14.8 billion (about $4.35 billion).
To offset the shortfall, foreign aid increased dramatically, rising from NIS 755.2 million (around $222 million) in 2023 to NIS 2.5 billion (about $735 million) in 2024 and NIS 6.2 billion (approximately $1.82 billion) in 2025. According to the report, this influx of foreign assistance prevented the PA from accumulating a deficit severe enough to trigger a financial collapse. Most of the funding came from the European Union and the World Bank.
In comparison, Arab states contributed only NIS 611.2 million (about $180 million) in 2024, with that figure falling further to NIS 392.3 million ($115 million) in 2025.
The INSS attributed the sharp increase in Western assistance to a broad consensus among Western governments that the PA remains “an indispensable partner for any future diplomatic settlement – and that its collapse could destabilize the West Bank and undermine broader regional interests.”
The Western funding is officially intended to stabilize the PA’s finances. However, The Jerusalem Post previously reported that European funds are frequently deposited in Palestinian Arab banks that are reportedly facilitating the continuation of the PA’s pay-for-slay policy that supports terrorism rather than improving the economic situation for local PA residents.
Earlier this month, an EU-backed donor initiative pledged $1 billion for Gaza reconstruction. The project is supported by 10 EU member states, Switzerland, and the European Investment Bank.
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Abbas’s message: ‘We’ll continue to demand the right of return’The chairman of the Palestinian Authority calls for the continuation of “peaceful popular resistance” and full commitment to realizing the right of return of refugees to Israeli territory.Dalit Halevi / Published: Jun 11, 2026, 10:58 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428510
Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah movement leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) chaired the opening session of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council today (Thursday) in Ramallah.
In his speech, Abbas said that Palestinians must continue focusing on steadfastness, strengthening “peaceful popular resistance,” and defending the Palestinian national project.
According to him, the issue of Palestinian Arab refugees will remain at the center of the Palestinian national project. He emphasized that the Palestinian Arab eadership will continue to defend the “right of return and compensation” in accordance with UN Resolution 194.
Abbas also addressed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), declaring that the Palestinian Arabs will continue to defend its activities and support it.
He said UNRWA would continue operating until a “just solution” is found for the issue of Palestinian Arab refugees, in accordance with what he described as legitimate international
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Hawala: Terror Money Laundering
Cash is collected in some part of the world and becomes terror money elsewhere. Hamas exploits it. The Iranian regime built it into its financial apparatus. This is how terrorists hide the money that fuels terror. @terrorisminfo  Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-19August2026-How HAWALA works
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Palestinians finance terror via their Pay-for-Slay policy
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EU Parliament Slams Palestinian Authority Textbooks for Promoting Antisemitism, TerrorismEU resolution calls for “due diligence, monitoring and control mechanisms” to “prevent any form of ideological infiltration in programmes financed by the Union.”Posted by Vijeta Uniyal 2May2026 at 02:00pm https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/eu-parliament-slams-palestinian-authority-textbooks-for-promoting-antisemitism-terrorism/
In a rare act of prudence, the EU Parliament adopted a series of resolutions this week criticizing the antisemitic content and incitement to violence found in Palestinian textbooks. “The European Union passed several resolutions condemning Palestinian Authority educational materials containing antisemitism and glorification of jihad,” the Jerusalem Post reported Saturday.
The resolutions, passed with an overwhelming majority, observed that the school curricula designed by the Palestinian Authority promote Jew-hatred and glorify terrorism. The parliament urged the EU Commission, the bloc’s executive body, to ensure that European taxpayers’ money does not go towards financing terrorist and antisemitic indoctrination.
One resolution stressed the “necessity for the Palestinian Authority to remove all educational materials and content that fail to adhere to UNESCO standards, particularly those encouraging antisemitism and including violence, to which Palestinian children should not be exposed.” The resolution further urged the EU “Commission to ensure that no Union funds are allocated, directly or indirectly to educational materials that contain antisemitic references or examples which incite hatred and violence.”
Another resolution called for “due diligence, monitoring and control mechanisms” to “prevent any form of ideological infiltration in programmes financed by the Union.”
The EU is the largest international donor to the Palestinians. Since the October 7 massacre, the EU and its member states have given around $ 2.2 billon worth of “humanitarian financial support” to the PA and other corrupt Palestinian entities.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The EU resolutions highlight the refusal of the Palestinian Authority to remove hate-filled content from the schoolbooks despite repeated assurances given to Western donors. According to IMPACT-se, an Israel-based NGO that monitors school education, PA-run schools continue to indoctrinate Palestinian children into hating Jews and glorifying Islamic terrorism.
It is worth noting that the PA is frequently characterized in the media as a moderate entity and as a desirable alternative to Hamas’ rule in Gaza.
The Israeli newspaper continued:
In a 2025 study of Palestinian textbooks, released by the IMPACT-se in December 2025, it was discovered that “Israelis are not depicted as human beings, as in the case of one example, demonic monsters.” Children’s poems and texts likened Jews to “serpents, vipers, and Satan’s aides.”
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$100 million spent on anti-Israel efforts yearly at UN, says Israeli envoy Danon“It is a shame that so much money is dedicated to activities against Israel instead of going to places that really need the investment.”Mike Wagenheimhttps://www.jns.org/100-million-spent-on-anti-israel-efforts-yearly-at-un-says-israeli-envoy-danon/  Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council on June 4, 2025. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. photo. (26December2025 / JNS) Israel’s envoy to the United Nations claimed this week that the global body spends upward of $100 million on anti-Israel activity each year.
Ambassador Danny Danon said the United Nations intends to soon approve its 2026 operating budget, and that his office has identified the $100 million “which is dedicated to activities against the state of Israel—to investigations, to discussions, to comprehensive decisions that work against us.”
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, commonly known as UNRWA, is tabbed to receive $86.5 million next year, according to documents viewed by JNS.
The Palestinian-only aid and social-services agency is under fire for ties to Hamas, and several countries and entities, including the United States, have suspended and reduced funding for the agency.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told JNS at a press briefing last week that “I think we can deliver humanitarian aid without UNRWA,” calling it “a corrupted organization that’s unsalvageable, period.”
Critics have accused the agency of primarily serving a political agenda, but U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres refused to propose financial cuts or related reform for UNRWA, despite the severe cash crunch the United Nations currently finds itself in.
Outside UNRWA, documents viewed by JNS attribute $4 million in budget requests for entities housed within the U.N. Division for Palestinian Rights, including the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which largely acts as an advocacy organization.
Without parallel in the U.N. system, the Division for Palestinian Rights employs 15 people. Israeli officials accuse the entity, which falls under the purview of the U.N. Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, not of aiming to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but of disseminating a one-sided narrative.
Elsewhere, the budget documents viewed by JNS show approximately $800,000 a year dedicated to funding travel and training for Palestinian journalists—some $4 million for the U.N. Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has issued a series of reports highly critical of Israel, including charges of genocide and calls for boycotts; and nearly $1 million promoting a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone, which Israeli officials say singularly targets Jerusalem.
Additionally, the United Nations itself estimates that the cost of a debate runs between $11,000 and $17,000, and an 8,500-page report costs around $24,000 for production and translation services.
With debates and reports aimed at criticizing Israel running at around 100 per year across the U.N. system, according to figures viewed by JNS, the cost runs at around $3 million a year, and with 30 regular U.N. General Assembly debates last year dedicated to recurring Israel-related items, plus other Israel-focused debates at other U.N. institutions, the cost for those likely exceeds $1 million.
Other costs were more difficult to pin down. These include the salaries and related expenditures for four U.N. High Commission for Human Rights staff members dedicated to investigating, compiling and publishing the annual U.N. blacklist of companies that do business in Judea and Samaria, as well as five staff members employed by the same entity’s Working Group of Business and Human Rights that focus on encouraging boycotts of Israel.
While U.N. special rapporteurs and so-called independent experts are not salaried, their travel and other administrative costs are paid for by the United Nations. This includes Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, who was sanctioned by the United States for threatening American businesses with reputational harm and prosecution for doing business in and with Israel.
“It is a shame that so much money is dedicated to activities against Israel instead of going to places that really need the investment,” said Danon.
Israel paid nearly $21 million in dues to the United Nations this year, while the Palestinian Authority, which holds non-member observer status but was granted enhanced rights last year by the U.N. General Assembly, contributes nothing to the general budget since it is not required to do so.
Guterres’s office has repeatedly demurred when asked by JNS about the significant financial costs of anti-Israel activity within the U.N. system, saying that it is a matter for member states.
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UN Faces ‘Imminent Collapse’ as U.S. Funding StallsTrump withdrew the U.S. from multiple U.N. agencies and bodies, citing mismanagement, waste, and redundancy… including UNESCO and WHO.Posted by Ben Smith 31January2026 at 07:00pm https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/un-faces-imminent-collapse-as-u-s-funding-stalls/
The United Nations is sounding the alarm again about an “imminent financial collapse,” but it is not hard to see why the institution is panicking. The bill is coming due, and the organization that has spent decades scolding the United States is now warning it may have to literally close up shop in New York if Washington and other deadbeat contributors do not pay.
The numbers are staggering, and they cut through the usual U.N. talking points. The General Assembly approved a $3.45 billion regular budget for 2026, and U.N. officials told the New York Times that the United States is responsible for about 95% of the money currently owed, roughly $2.2 billion, combining unpaid 2025 dues and the 2026 assessment. The U.S. also owes far more beyond the regular budget, including about $1.9 billion for active peacekeeping missions, $528 million for closed missions, and $43.6 million for tribunals.
In other words, the U.N. financial model still assumes America will keep paying, even while U.N. actors and allied governments posture as if the U.S. is just another member state to be lectured.
President Trump has responded the way a lot of Americans have wanted presidents to respond for years. The Times reported that Trump withdrew the U.S. from multiple U.N. agencies and bodies, citing mismanagement, waste, and redundancy, including pulling out of UNESCO, the World Health Organization, and the U.N. Human Rights Council. He also moved to reduce funding for peacekeeping operations, while U.N. officials said Washington indicated it would pay only about $160 million toward active peacekeeping and would not pay for tribunals.
The BBC’s reporting underscores that the U.N. understands this is not a routine cash flow squeeze. It is a credibility crisis and a structural failure.
So here is the part the U.N. does not want to say out loud. If your institution can collapse because the United States stops writing checks, then you were never a serious independent global body. You were a dependency. And after years of waste, perks, and anti-American political theater, the shock on display now is not that the money is drying up. The shock is that the U.N. ever believed the American taxpayer would keep financing an institution that so often treats America like the problem.
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Trump announces US exit from dozens of UN, international groups“The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over,” the U.S. secretary of state said.Mike Wagenheimhttps://www.jns.org/trump-announces-us-exit-from-dozens-of-un-international-groups
(8January2026 / JNS) U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw Washington from 66 United Nations and international organizations, agencies, commissions and conventions.
Trump signed and published a presidential memorandum on Wednesday which, he said, followed a review of which “organizations, conventions and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States.”
The withdrawals will come with full U.S. funding cuts for all of the entities.
“The Trump administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms and general prosperity,” stated Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state.
Washington will exit the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which serves as the central international agreement on climate crisis solutions, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other assorted environmental organizations.
America joined the convention via Senate ratification. It was not immediately clear if Trump had the authority alone to order a unilateral withdrawal. Trump announced last year that the United States would exit the Paris climate deal as well.
The memo on Wednesday also calls for withdrawals from the U.N. Population Fund, which focuses on maternal and child health, and the U.N. offices of the special representative of the secretary-general for children in armed conflict and sexual violence in conflict.
The children in armed conflict office has accused Israel for two years in a row of being a mass violator of children’s rights, despite wildly-inconsistent, internal U.N. data and standards.
António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, warned Israel it was in danger of appearing on this year’s sexual violence in conflict blacklist, as well. (The Israeli mission to the United Nations declined to comment.)
“President Trump is clear: It is no longer acceptable to be sending these institutions the blood, sweat and treasure of the American people, with little to nothing to show for it,” Rubio stated. “The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over.”
Since the start of his second term in January last year, Trump has withdrawn the United States from other U.N. bodies, including the World Health Organization and the U.N. Human Rights Council, and he has called for dismantling UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinians, which Washington, Jerusalem and others have said has extensive ties to Palestinian terror organizations.
“The secretary-general regrets the announcement by the White House regarding the United States’s decision to withdraw from a number of United Nations entities,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Guterres, said on Thursday.
“As we have consistently underscored, assessed contributions to the United Nations regular budget and peacekeeping budget, as approved by the General Assembly, are a legal obligation under the U.N. charter for all member states, including the United States,” he said.
Dujarric said that all U.N. agencies would continue to implement their mandates.
According to Trump’s memo, the United States intends to exit other entities, such as the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.
A U.S. State Department source said that no decision has been made about personnel affected by the withdrawals and would likely be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch, told JNS that the administration’s decision to “disengage from dysfunctional U.N. agencies highlights a broader credibility crisis.”
U.N. Women, for example, failed to take meaningful action against its deputy chief, Sarah Douglas, who endorsed more than 150 anti-Israel social media posts that violated the U.N. code of conduct, Neuer said.
“That absence of accountability, compounded by electing regimes like Saudi Arabia to lead its women’s rights commission last year, reinforces why reform—or recalibration of U.S. engagement—is necessary,” Neuer said.
Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University Scalia Law School and executive director of its Middle East and international law center, stated that the Trump administration’s action is “beginning to dismantle the opaque web of globalist institutions—including numerous organizations, whose exit I have called for over the years.”
“Some of these are minor niche organizations that do no harm but cannot be justified from the point of taxpayer expense,” wrote Kontorovich, who is also a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “Others, like the Vienna Commission, seek to manufacture lay down astroturfed international ‘soft law’ that overwhelmingly aligns with progressive values. U.N. Women neglected mass rape by Hamas but remembered Amal Clooney’s birthday.”
To Kontorovich, the biggest thing was the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, “because it was joined via a Senate ratified treaty, making reentry by a subsequent president almost impossible.”
“UNFCCC violated federal law by admitting the PA as a ‘state,’ and will now reap the consequences,” he stated.
There has never been such a broad shakeout of America’s position in international organizations, and it is much overdue. Needless to say, a Democratic president will undo much of this, because these organizations embody their globalist worldview,” he added. “But for decades Republican presidents played along. The Left had normalized their preferences as ‘good global citizenship.’ Trump’s action puts an end to all that.”
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Trump admin launches campaign to dismantle ICC ‘brick by brick, if necessary’U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington will press allies to withdraw from the Hague-based court while weighing sanctions, visa bans and other measures against its officials.Mike Wagenheimhttps://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/trump-admin-launches-campaign-to-dismantle-icc-brick-by-brick-if-necessary
(July 13, 2026 / JNS) The Trump administration launched a campaign Monday to “dismantle the threat” that the International Criminal Court poses to U.S. sovereignty. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the initiative, which will be led by the State Department and include diplomatic pressure on countries to withdraw from the court, particularly nations that receive U.S. military protection, security cooperation or other assistance.
“A wide range of options are available to ensure the ICC is completely and utterly incapable of threatening the U.S. and our people,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott stated. “No diplomatic option will be off-limits in the campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the ICC to Americans.”
A State Department official added that the department “will watch with interest which nations join ranks with us against this threat to Americans who are willing to risk their lives to protect others.”
The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the Hague-based court. The ICC prosecutes individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
The administration’s campaign follows years of U.S. opposition to ICC efforts to assert jurisdiction over American personnel. During U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, the court opened an investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan that included U.S. forces, although prosecutors later shifted their focus primarily to alleged crimes committed by the Taliban and ISIS-K.
The ICC also issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, despite Israel not being an ICC signatory either.
“The United States does not recognize the authority of international bureaucrats an ocean away who seek to upend America’s 250-year history of self-governance and impose an illegitimate legal order on our sovereign nation,” Pigott stated. “America’s sovereignty is and always will be non-negotiable.”
According to the State Department, options under consideration include a diplomatic outreach campaign, visa revocations and travel bans for ICC personnel, expanded sanctions on the court and affiliated organizations, and increased scrutiny of countries that continue to support the ICC while relying on U.S. security assistance.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion article published on Monday, Rubio called the ICC “backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.,” and pledged to “dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary.”
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Why Israel Bulldozed UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQKey Takeaways: Israel’s dismantling of UNRWA represents a shift from diplomatic opposition to direct action against an agency whose unique mandate entrenches permanent Palestinian refugeehood rather than resolving it. Assertions that Israel lacks evidence of…Ben M. Freeman 22January2026 3:00 pm https://honestreporting.com/why-israel-bulldozed-unrwas-jerusalem-hq/  Why Israel Bulldozed UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ
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Israel’s Challenge to UNRWA’s ImmunityOn January 21, Israel began dismantling UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. By demolishing UNRWA’s East Jerusalem offices, Israel took a further step following its October 2024 decision to bar the organization from operating within Israel’s borders. The site is now reportedly slated for redevelopment for public use, including the construction of approximately 1,400 apartments.
In short, this represents a decisive shift from diplomatic and legislative opposition to a direct challenge to UNRWA’s physical and institutional presence in Jerusalem.
The international media responded somewhat predictably to the move, accusing Israel of violating international law in coverage that led with colorful descriptions of bulldozers massing as the eastern Jerusalem site. Jonathan Fowler, a UNRWA spokesman, described the move as “an unprecedented attack against UNRWA and its premises,” claiming it constituted “a serious violation of international law and the privileges and immunities of the United Nations.” Absent from this coverage was any sustained engagement with the underlying question of whether UNRWA’s conduct warrants immunity from state action.
Founded in 1949, UNRWA presents itself as a humanitarian agency providing relief and support for Palestinian refugees. In practice, however, it has entrenched a permanent refugee status that is unique in international law, one that is inherited by descendants rather than resolved. No other refugee population is governed by a dedicated UN body whose mandate explicitly preserves refugeehood across generations. Rather than resettlement, rehabilitation, or integration, UNRWA has institutionalized a frozen political and national identity rooted in 1948.
AP and the BBC aren’t just reporting what happened; they’re quietly framing how you’re supposed to understand it. Look closely. ⬇️ That line does a lot of work by quietly telling readers not to believe what comes next. Except the evidence exists. And it always has. By declaring “occupied East Jerusalem” as fact in the headline, the BBC isn’t describing a dispute. It’s unilaterally drawing the borders of another country’s capital. And it is the only one that: That isn’t humanitarianism. It’s institutionalised dependency. But this isn’t abstract. The speaker: an UNRWA employee. He describes infiltrating Israel and holding Israeli captives. This is what the media calls “little evidence.” ⬇ Journalists suspend skepticism. Evidence is minimized. Take this claim, reported uncritically: that UNRWA leased the land from Jordan since 1952, even though Jordan claims no sovereignty there, and all water and electricity in Jerusalem are provided by Israeli authorities. Absurd on its face. Reported anyway. It’s media institutions protecting a failed UN agency, even after terror infiltration and involvement in October 7 massacre. Notice what’s framed. Notice what’s omitted.
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Terror Affiliation and Institutional RadicalizationDefenders of UNRWA frequently argue that Israel has provided little or no evidence that the agency is implicated in terrorism, or that it plays a role in fostering hatred of Israel and Jews. This claim does not withstand scrutiny. According to Israel Defense Forces intelligence, more than 450 individuals employed by UNRWA in Gaza are also members of terrorist organizations, primarily Hamas. This assessment is reinforced by evidence of UNRWA employees’ direct involvement in the October 7 massacre, including participation in the kidnapping of Israeli hostages. Among these was the abduction of the body of Israeli civilian Jonathan Samerano, which was taken into Gaza. An investigation conducted by the UN’s own Office of Internal Oversight Services found that at least 19 UNRWA staff members took part in the atrocities committed that day.
Criticism of Israel’s actions also ignores UNRWA’s broader role in perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is the central issue. Israel banned UNRWA and dismantled its extensive office complex, reportedly spanning nearly two city blocks, because the agency functions not as a neutral humanitarian body but as a structural enabler of Palestinian terrorism and political radicalization. Despite its stated mission, UNRWA does not work to improve Palestinians’ prospects for peace or stability. It exists to preserve a narrative of permanent grievance and displacement.
UNRWA’s ties to extremism are not limited to Gaza or the West Bank. The agency operates across the Arab world wherever Palestinians are deliberately kept in perpetual refugee status, including Lebanon and Syria, exporting the same patterns of incitement. In Syria, UNRWA math teacher Adnan Shteiwi publicly praised Diaa Hamarsheh, who murdered five Israelis in the March 2022 Bnei Brak terror attack, calling him a “martyr” whose name should “forever remain in letters of fire, might, and magnificence.” Another UNRWA employee in Syria, Labibeh Iskandarani, shared an image of Hitler online, urging him to wake up because “there are still some people you need to burn.” In Lebanon, Fathi Sharif, Hamas’s leader in the country, also served as head of UNRWA’s 2,000 teachers. He was killed in Israeli airstrikes in 2024. Taken together, all of these incidents demonstrate a consistent ideology rather than random extremism or “bad apples”. Terror Affiliation and Institutional RadicalizationThese cases illustrate one of UNRWA’s most serious failures: its role in indoctrinating Palestinian children. As the primary education provider in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA has shaped generations of students. This constitutes institutionalized harm. UNRWA curricula and teaching practices promote violence against Jews, as documented by UN Watch. In one widely circulated video, a young Palestinian girl attending UNRWA’s Tulkarm Camp Girls’ School states that she has been taught that Palestinians should shoot Israelis and that she hates Jews “a lot.” This is consistent with recordings released by the IDF of UNRWA teachers participating in the October 7 attacks, declaring, “I’m inside, I’m inside with the Jews,” and, “We have female hostages, I captured one.”
Journalist Nicole Lampert interviewed Dr. E. J. Brearley, an aid professional with direct experience working alongside UNRWA, who described an education system designed not to prepare children for civilian life but for perpetual conflict. He characterized the indoctrination as so sophisticated that it eclipsed even the propaganda of Rwanda’s Radio Mille Collines, noting that whistleblowers inside Gaza who warned about UNRWA’s collaboration with Hamas were ignored because the aid industry was financially invested in maintaining the status quo.
The reality is that UNRWA obstructs peace by denying Palestinians a future beyond victimhood. It conditions children to view martyrdom as destiny and embeds hatred of Jews at the core of its institutional culture. Its employees have not merely tolerated violence but, in documented cases, actively promoted or participated in it. In response to growing scrutiny, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated bluntly that “UNRWA is a subsidiary of Hamas.” In both its aims and its practices, the evidence strongly supports that conclusion.
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ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar @gidonsaar announced the immediate suspension of contacts with seven UN bodies, following a Foreign Ministry review and the US withdrawal from similar organizations. 🔹 Ties cut with: 🔹 Israel says additional UN bodies are under review. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil  Mossad Commentary-tweet-13January2026-ISRAEL SUSPENDS CONTACTS WITH UN AGENCIES
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Israel to strip licenses from aid groups in West Bank, Gaza over terror linksThe government has begun revoking licenses from several international aid groups operating in the West Bank and Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, citing refusal to complete legal registration and the employment of staff linked to terror groupsItamar Eichner | 30December2025 | 04:37 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1svo2e4z
The Israeli government has begun a process to revoke operating licenses from international organizations working in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after they failed to complete registration procedures required by law. The decision also followed findings that some employees at the organizations were involved in terrorist activity.
The move, led by an interministerial team headed by the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, includes sending formal letters to more than 10 international organizations, among them Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF. The letters state that their licenses to operate in Israel will be revoked as of Jan. 1 and that they must wind down their activities by March 1.
The action comes after the organizations were given extensive time to comply. The original deadline was Sept. 9 and was later extended to Dec. 31 to allow for full preparation, a total of about 10 months. Despite the extensions, some groups refused to meet a central requirement: submitting full lists of their Palestinian employees for security screening.
Security checks found that employees of Doctors Without Borders were involved in terror activity. In June 2024, an Islamic Jihad operative employed by the organization was killed, and in September, another employee was exposed as having served as a Hamas sniper. In both cases, the organization refrained from providing information about the employees’ identities and roles.
Political and security officials stressed there is no intention to disrupt the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip. They said the organizations facing license revocation account for only a small portion of overall aid, most of which continues to be delivered through other bodies and controlled channels.
This is your employee, @MSF. A physical therapist by day and terrorist by night. Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was eliminated by the @IDF 2 days ago, worked both as a physical therapist for Doctors Without Borders and as a prominent terrorist in the PIJ terrorist organization. Fadi Al-Wadiya developed and advanced the terrorist organization’s rocket array for 15 years, and was a central figure in the terrorist organization’s knowledge of electronics and chemistry. The same year that Al-Wadiya joined the MSF, he tried to leave Gaza to Iran, along with two other terrorists, in order to engage in terrorism training there.  COGAT-tweet-27June2024-This is your employee MSF
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said it expects the organizations to launch what it described as false campaigns aimed at smearing Israel and claiming the move will worsen humanitarian conditions in Gaza. The unit said, however, that enforcement of the law will not affect the scope of humanitarian aid, noting that the organizations warned of closure have not delivered aid to Gaza during the current ceasefire.
COGAT also said the organizations’ refusal to operate transparently and cooperate with required screenings is not incidental but raises serious suspicion about the nature of their activities and their partners.
Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said he was proud the government had empowered his ministry to lead the effort to end activity against Israel under humanitarian cover. “The message is clear,” he said. “Humanitarian aid, yes. Exploiting it for terror purposes, no.”
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Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the Al-Aqsa IntifadaType:Information – Topic: Terrorism – Publish Date: 30January2003 – Updated date: 30November2021
Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the “Al-Aqsa” Intifada
(Communicated by Israeli security sources)
During the Al-Aqsa intifada we have witnessed an evolving phenomenon of the exploitation of teenagers and children by various terrorist organizations in order to perpetrate terrorist attacks, among them suicide attacks against Israeli civilian and military targets. Children and teenagers between the ages of 11 and 18 have over the past few months carried out suicide and other terrorist attacks in which innocent Israeli civilians have been killed and injured. In addition, Israeli security forces apprehended a considerable number of these teenagers and children prior to the perpetration of the terrorist attacks. Terrorist organizations exploit the innocent look of children and teenagers, which does not arouse suspicion and enables them to blend into populated areas. In addition, these children and teenagers, who have not yet reached adulthood, are more susceptible to the terrorist organizations’ influence and the recruitment of suicide bombers.
Children and teenagers who are supposed to dream of a better future and enjoy innocence and happiness are thus sucked into the reality of killing and hate. The terrorist organizations which convince the children and teenagers that they will enjoy a life of happiness after death, are actually uprooting these children from their homes and families, and by religious or nationalist incitment are encouraging them to perpetrate terrorist attacks.
Salah Shehade, one of the heads of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip, recently deceased, discussed the use of children in terrorist attacks in an interview on the Islam On Line internet site (May 26, 2002). He said that the children must be trained well prior to perpetrating terrorist attacks and be recruited into a special branch within the organization’s military apparatus in order to instill the Jihad culture and teach them right from wrong. Expressions such as these represent one of the primary elements in convincing parents to send their children to perpetrate terrorist attacks.
Ala Saftawi, the chief editor of the Islamic Jihad’s “Alastaklal”, said on Tehran radio that Gaza Strip residents, especially children, have a high level of willingness to die a martyr’s death, because they have nothing to lose.
On June 27, 2002 Palestinian television screened a movie entitled “Children who love the homeland and the martyr’s death,” in which Dr. Fadel Abu Hin, a psychologist, speaks of the evolving phenomenon of children’s involvement in the intifada. Abu Hin mentioned that the word “shouhada” – martyrdom – has a multitude of meanings for Palestinian children in particular and for the entire Islamic community, and it is not simply a matter of putting an end to one’s life. Through this action, the children are able to take an active part in the intifada.
Abu Hin produced a poll carried out in the Islamic University in April 2001, on 1,000 teenagers between the ages of 916 in the Gaza Strip: 49% claimed to have taken an active part in the intifada and 73% expressed the desire to be a “shahid” (martyr). These statistics clearly show the growing radicalism among children and teenagers in the territories, who are easily recruited by the terrorist organizations to perpetrate terrorist attacks. During the interview the anchorwoman stated, “The hearts of the Palestinian children are filled not only with anxiety and fear, but also with a strong will to achieve ‘Shouhad’a (martyrdom)… Shouhada has become the greatest aspiration for many children who believe that this is the way to win prestige, and to be immortalized among their people.”
Not only does the Palestinian media incite and influence the children and teenagers, but the education system and summer camps “brainwash” the adolescents. The adolescents are inculcated with Islamic precepts that call for and encourage Jihad against Israel. At the beginning of July the Islamic Foundation in Gaza organized summer camps called the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs summer camp”. These camps continued until the end of July. On July 2, the “Al-Quds” newspaper quoted Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Baher, the chairman of the Islamic Foundation, as saying that the foundation attempted to keep the summer camps going despite the ongoing conflict, because they deeply believe in the values the summer camps are instilling in the children.
In addition, Dr. Baher stated that there is a constant stream of children who want to participate in the Hamas summer camps, where the children receive uniforms, shoes, exercise books and attention from the camp organizers. According to him, non-religious children join the summer camps due to the vast number of attractions that the organization offers. In addition, they teach the children the history of Islam, with pictures of the “martyrs” displayed everywhere, and in this way “instill the seeds of hate against Israel.”
Similar summer camps are being conducted by the Palestinian Authority Ministry for Youth and Sport, designed to incite the children, recruit them against Israel and train them in the use of weapons for future terrorist attacks against Israel.
An additional phenomenon worth mentioning is the fact that parents are allowing their children to dress up as “martyrs”. More and more, we are witnessing the phenomenon of children participating in marches and parades while dressed as “martyrs” and wearing props similar to explosive charges and slogans proclaiming their “martyr” status. A picture was recently found of a baby wearing an explosive charge and a headband with a slogan dedicating his life to Allah. There is no doubt that this phenomenon has a destructive effect on the education of these children, who imbibe the Jihad culture, making them easy targets for recruitment by terrorist organizations for perpetrating attacks.
The Involvement of Children and Teenagers Between the ages of 11-18 in Terror
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Anwar Ahmed Abd El Khalek Hamed, currently 18 years old, an illiterate resident of Rafah, was previously involved in drug trafficking and use. He is affiliated with the Abu Rish faction of the Fatah and was apprehended on his way to perpetrate a suicide attack when he was 16.5 years old. He confessed during questioning that he was on his way to carry out a suicide attack against a convoy of IDF soldiers along the Gaza coastal road. The attack was planned and directed by Mohammed Sinwar, a senior military operative in the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. In addition, Anwar confessed that PFLP activists had proposed that he perpetrate a terrorist attack in the community of Morag during the month of Ramadan.
Regrets on the global stage as countries rethink bans on IsraelThere was a price to be paid for withdrawing from one of the most forward-thinking, productive and defense-oriented countries in the world. Anti-Israel protests march through Madrid calling for a boycott of Israel after the cancellation of the Vuelta a España cycling race. 14September2025. Credit: Barcex via Wikimedia Commons.
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(10November2025 / JNS) The timing was extraordinary. As I was moderating a conference entitled “U.S.-Central Asian Relations in the Era of the Abraham Accords,” Kazakhstan announced that it was, in fact, joining the pact. The reasons are many, and more Central Asian countries are likely to join, but it is the timing that leads to a larger understanding of Israel and the often hypocritical world. To be clear, it is neither the Abraham Accords countries nor those of Central Asia that are hypocritical.
Before the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and the gruesome massacre of more than 1,200 people, Israel and the countries of Europe had deep and long relations: political, economic, defense, cultural and sporting. But, in the eyes of many European governments, it was Israel that had to be penalized in all of those areas.
In 2023, the pan-European UniCredit put Israel on a “forbidden list.” Norway’s Storebrand group and French insurer sold shares of some Israeli firms, including banks. In 2024, several of Europe’s biggest financial firms cut back their links to Israeli companies or those with ties to the country.
Spain maintained what it called a “total embargo” on Israeli weapons. Madrid canceled a $207 million deal to buy targeting systems, following Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s description of Israel’s operations as “the genocide in Gaza.”
The British government canceled partnerships between the United Kingdom and Israel worth 6 billion pounds and supporting 38,000 jobs, as well as the provision of “significant information” to U.K. intelligence by Israel, including information that thwarted an Iranian-linked terrorist plot.
Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia and others announced varying degrees of suspension of military and economic cooperation with Israel. The United Kingdom banned Israeli soccer fans, and the Netherlands had an actual pogrom. But it was always a convoluted set of decisions.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund had loudly announced its divestiture from Israel. Yet, at the end of 2024, the fund had more than $2 billion invested in 65 Israeli companies. The Norwegian Parliament rejected calls for a blanket ban, but the fund blacklisted 11 Israeli companies for assisting Israel’s “occupation,” primarily by providing gas and electricity to Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
French and British pandering for a “Palestinian state” garnered headlines and victory cheers from Hamas, which credited Oct. 7.
Countries wanted to look strong, often in the face of violently anti-Israel and antisemitic mobs at home. But now, things are getting real and, as one analyst noted, “When things get real, countries put politics aside and go for Israel.”
The reality is that there was no famine in Gaza. There was no genocide. Hamas committed various heinous crimes against Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians. And there was a price to be paid for withdrawing from one of the most forward-thinking, productive and defense-oriented countries in the world.
According to World Israel News, Israel’s Ministry of Defense reported that Israeli arms exports hit a record $14.8 billion in 2024, with 54% of those exports going to European countries; a dramatic rise from just over 33% in 2023. World Israel News also reported: “Despite public statements about severing ties with Israeli defense firms, Spain has authorized a €350 million ($420 million) deal with Elbit Systems for tactical radio communication systems.”
Norway declined to enforce its rules requiring divestiture from companies that have investments/facilities in Israel, including Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet. Finance minister Jens Stoltenberg said withdrawing “would undermine the purpose of the fund to be a broad, diversified global investment fund.”
After a September announcement that German arms exports to Israel had fallen to zero, Ha’aretz reported in October that Germany had, in fact, approved arms exports worth at least $2.9 million.
The Israeli and Greek Air Forces held a joint aerial refueling drill, and Israel, Greece, Cyprus and the United States met to discuss restoration of the East Med Gas Pipeline, which had been nixed by the Biden administration.
The “State of Palestine” offered little in the way of progress to real Palestinians. And, on the side, after months of nasty rhetoric emanating from Cairo, and weapons smuggling in Sinai near the Israeli border, Egypt acknowledged its dependence on Israel and signed a new natural gas deal. Israel still has to address the weapons in Sinai.
Even in Hollywood, reality may be intruding on fantasy. In October, as the ceasefire was drawing closer, a new boycott of the Israeli film industry and Israeli actors took shape. But Warner Bros. Discovery told Variety, “Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies.” After a boycott letter circulated at Paramount, the studio released a statement condemning it for “silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality.”
To close the loop, the countries of Central Asia were always smarter about their interests. They have longstanding ties with the State of Israel. They are increasingly interested in increased relations with the Gulf states and the United States, particularly in light of their concerns about China and Russia, the historic powers in the region. Neither they nor the Abraham Accords countries were taken in by the propaganda shared by Hamas, Russia, Iran and Qatar about Gaza (although Gulf state concerns were sincere and expected).
Central Asia and the Abraham Accord countries are moving ahead, and Europe and Hollywood are catching up.
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How Israel avoided Eurovision ouster and the diplomatic push that changed the voteIsrael’s delegation mounted an intensive lobbying effort in Geneva, backed by a special team formed by President Herzog, as the EBU advanced new rules critics said targeted IsraelRan Boker | 4December2025 | 22:24 https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/rjx22d1mwg
Israel secured its place in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest only after an intensive, months-long diplomatic campaign that unfolded largely behind the scenes, Israeli officials said Thursday, describing a coordinated effort involving KAN executives, government advisers and the President’s Residence to prevent the country’s expulsion.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) approved rule changes at its general assembly in Geneva that cleared the way for Israel to participate in next year’s competition in Vienna. The decision followed rising calls from several European broadcasters to bar Israel, and what officials described as the most serious push yet to force a vote on its removal.
Eden Golan’s Eurovision2024 performance
KAN chief executive Golan Yokhpaz and attorney Ayala Mizrahi, who has handled legal strategy for two years of mounting boycott efforts, led Israel’s delegation in Geneva. Both engaged in direct lobbying of EBU members, aiming to prevent the assembly from moving to a binding vote that Israel feared it might lose.
President Isaac Herzog created a dedicated team at his residence to coordinate diplomatic outreach, convinced that an expulsion could snowball into a broader political setback for Israel in Europe. Israeli officials said Herzog personally urged international partners to oppose a vote on Israel’s removal and instead back reforms that would ease tensions inside the EBU.
Those reforms — including restrictions on governmental involvement in song promotion and adjustments to jury-public voting rules — were widely interpreted as compromises aimed at addressing complaints raised by critics of Israel without triggering expulsion. EBU members adopted the package in a secret ballot.
But the move immediately triggered a backlash: the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia announced they would withdraw from the 2026 contest in protest of Israel’s continued participation.
A senior EBU official, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to comment publicly, told ynet the organization now faces “a major challenge,” pointing to a wave of cancellations and reputational damage.
Herzog praised the Israeli delegation for what officials described as a painstaking diplomatic effort. “Israel deserves to be represented on every stage,” he said, adding that the decision reflected “solidarity and cooperation” among those who defended Israel’s participation.
In its statement, the EBU said the reforms were designed to strengthen trust and preserve the contest’s neutrality, and that all members agreeing to the new rules may participate in 2026.
The next Eurovision is set for Vienna in May.
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Yuval Raphael’s Eurovision2025 performance
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UN made ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Jew-hatred in 1975, expert says at Geneva eventAntisemitism at the global body “hides behind a veneer of commissions, rapporteurs, expert reports and biased agenda items and resolutions that disproportionately single out Israel year after year,” a U.S. diplomat said.Mike Wagenheimhttps://www.jns.org/un-made-rosetta-stone-for-jew-hatred-in-1975-expert-says-at-geneva-event/
 A banner by the collectif Palestine 69 with the words “Fascism, Racism, Zionism: Same Enemy, Same Fight,” using 50-year-old terminology begun by the United Nations. The cross-party call to bring together political parties, associations and trade unions against racism and push for equal rights for all took place at a demonstration in Lyon, France, on March 22, 2025. Photo by Antoine Boureau/Hans Lucas/ Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.
(14November2025 / JNS) Nearly 35 years have passed since the United Nations voted, in 1991, to revoke its 1975 resolution declaring Zionism to be racism. But that statement 50 years ago set the stage for the attacks on the Jewish state today, several speakers said during an event hosted this week by the U.S. and Israeli missions to the global body in Geneva.
“U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, which wrongly declared that Zionism is a form of racism, was a symbolic assault on the Jewish people and the legitimacy of the State of Israel,” Mireille Zieseniss, acting U.S. deputy chief of mission, said at the event.
“The adoption of this antisemitic resolution marked an unfortunate chapter in the U.N.’s history, undermining the organization’s founding principles,” she said. “Then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned in his remarks opposing the resolution that ‘a great evil has been loosed upon the world.’”
Though revoked, the “resolution’s impact, including the establishment of anti-Israel bodies within the U.N. system, reverberates to this day, emboldening those who seek to delegitimize Israel and marginalize Jewish communities worldwide,” Zieseniss said.
She added that “in the U.N. context, antisemitism, which is among the world’s oldest hatreds, hides behind the veneer of commissions, rapporteurs, ‘expert’ reports, and biased agenda items and resolutions that disproportionately single out Israel year after year.”
“Ancient prejudices are perpetuated, masquerading as criticism of Israel,” she said.
She spoke as part of a discussion that ran for about an hour and 45 minutes on “1975-2025: Confronting antisemitism and racism at the U.N.,” which the two missions hosted.
‘It planted seeds of hostility’Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, delivered recorded remarks at the event, a half-century after his father, Chaim Herzog, then the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, tore a copy of the resolution and delivered a stinging rebuke in the General Assembly’s hall after it passed.
Chaim Herzog’s granddaughter, Ariel, attended the event on Nov. 12, as did representatives of 37 countries, according to the Israeli mission.
Daniel Meron, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, told JNS that the 50th anniversary of the resolution offered a chance to highlight its current impact on the global body.
“There are forces which are continuing to try to use the United Nations as a platform to portray Israel as the mother of all evils, and where the anti-Zionism and antisemitic notion is very prevalent,” he said. “We thought it was very good to have this event.”
Meron told JNS that the U.S. mission is to be applauded for seeking and obtaining a waiver so that its members could participate during the government shutdown.
The resolution fueled racism rather than fought it, Meron told the audience.
“It emboldened extremists, legitimized hatred and provided ideological cover for the oldest hatred known to humanity,” he said in his remarks. “It planted seeds of hostility that continue to bear poisonous fruit today, in the streets, on university campuses and across the digital world.”
‘It created the playbook’Gil Troy, an author, historian and senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, told attendees that “one of the key words that’s often missing from definitions of antisemitism is the word ‘obsession.’”
He stated that “anti-Zionism has become a modern obsession. What do we know from obsession? We put the Jew, as we did in the Middle Ages, and now the Jewish state, at the center of all the world’s troubles.”
Troy denounced the United Nations for “betraying its founding ideals” by adopting the resolution.
“The United Nations created the Rosetta Stone for antisemitism and anti-Zionism, because the two merged. It created the playbook,” he said. “It created the precedent for institutions to single out Israel. It created the playbook for uniting on campus, uniting in the media, uniting in the art world against Israel and the Jewish people.”
David Harris, former CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told attendees that many Israelis thought of the 1975 resolution as “a mosquito bite.”
“‘We’ve had them before.’ ‘We’ll have them again.’ ‘It’ll go away.’ ‘It doesn’t matter,’” he said. “But it mattered.”
Meron told JNS that the U.N. plan to combat Jew-hatred, which it debuted in April, has had little if any practical impact.
“I’ve seen a lot of talk,” he said. “I put together a report, which I delivered here in Geneva and in Washington, of how the United Nations needs to reform and get rid of all this singling out of one country, and nobody’s taking it seriously except the American administration.”
“The United Nations is not taking it seriously,” he said. “If they were really serious about antisemitism, they would stop singling out one country: the Jewish state.”
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Always remember… Lies are spread by ‘Palestinians’, repeated by fools, and accepted by idiots.
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Dublin Tech conference canceled by BDS Hamas Terrorist threats
Around 200 people had registered for the July 8 event. The campaign targeted an Israeli former chairman of Python Ireland who had completed compulsory service in the IDF roughly 25 years ago, along with Israeli entrepreneur Inbal Goldberger, who was labeled a “former intelligence operative.” Activists circulated posters featuring bloodstained handprints and the inverted red triangle commonly associated with Hamas supporters. Neither of the targeted Israelis was even planning to attend the event. MongoDB said it canceled the meetup because participant safety was its top priority, while Python Ireland stressed it is a non-political community dedicated solely to professional learning and collaboration. Goldberger, who had previously been branded an “Israeli spy” in similar campaigns targeting Israeli tech workers in Ireland, warned of “a dangerous process of complete exclusion,” accusing American companies of giving in to extremist pressure instead of defending their employees. After the cancellation, pro-Hamas activists celebrated online, claiming: “We canceled another event because of the Zionists,” and also boasted of forcing the cancellation of another event planned for Trinity College Dublin.  Visegrád 24-tweet-17July2026-Dublin Tech conference canceled by BDS Hamas Terrorist threats
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Gaza flotilla Consequences
Switzerland has issued invoices of up to €11,000 to the 20 Swiss nationals who joined the pro-Gaza flotilla “Sumud.” According to officials, the charges cover: A Swiss government spokesperson said the move reflects a clear policy: Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.  Mossad Commentary-tweet-11December2025-Gaza flotilla Consequences
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Hamas operatives flotilla organizersHamas’s Flotilla Network: The Evidence
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US sanctions Gaza flotilla organizers, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates“The pro-terror flotilla is a ludicrous attempt to undermine President Trump’s successful progress toward lasting peace in the region,” the U.S. treasury secretary said.
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( May 19, 2026 / JNS ) The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Tuesday on several organizers and backers of the “Global Sumud Flotilla,” a Gaza-bound convoy intercepted by Israeli forces this week.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said the effort was backed by Hamas-linked entities operating under the guise of humanitarian activism. Israeli authorities claim that no humanitarian aid was found on the vessels.
“The pro-terror flotilla attempting to reach Gaza is a ludicrous attempt to undermine President Trump’s successful progress toward lasting peace in the region,” Scott Bessent, the U.S. treasury secretary, stated. “Treasury will continue to sever Hamas’ global financial support networks, no matter where in the world they are.”
Treasury said the flotilla was organized by the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad and Samidoun, both of which are under U.S. sanctions for alleged ties to terrorist organizations.
Among those designated was Saif Hashim Kamel Abukeshek, a Jordan-based member of the PCPA’s General Secretariat and the flotilla’s steering committee. Israeli authorities detained him for questioning following the interception before releasing and deporting him, according to reports.
Also sanctioned were Hisham Abdallah Sulayman Abu Mahfouz, the Spain-based acting secretary-general and president of the PCPA; Mohammed Khatib, the Belgium-based European coordinator for Samidoun; and Jaldia Abubakra Aueda, Samidoun’s Madrid coordinator.
The United States designated Samidoun last year as a fundraising front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
“The PCPA was established with funding from Hamas’s International Relations Bureau, and Hamas directs its activity through the placement of Hamas officials throughout the organization, including its executive body, the General Secretariat,” Treasury said.
The department advised those seeking to deliver “legitimate humanitarian assistance” to Gaza to do so through approved international channels.
“So-called humanitarian flotillas that are organized by or supporting designated parties represent a significant compliance risk for financial institutions,” Treasury said.
The department added that “Hamas relies on a diverse web of international partners to expand its malign political influence, facilitate violent terrorist activity and undermine international efforts to achieve lasting peace in Gaza.
Treasury also announced sanctions on Marwan Abu Ras, a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated cleric who heads the Palestinian Scholars Association, which U.S. officials say coordinates religious messaging in Gaza aligned with Hamas.
Additionally, the department imposed sanctions on three affiliates of HASM, an Egypt-based organization that Treasury calls a “violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States designated HASM as a foreign terrorist organization in January 2021.
Those designated include Hamas operatives Muhammad Jamal Hassan Al-Najjar, Sherif Ahmed Ewis Ahmed and Karim Sayed Ahmed Moghny, whom the department alleges “formed several networks whose aim was to attack Israeli interests.”
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EU behind illegal Palestinian building in Judea and Samaria, Israeli NGO saysEven as the European Union sanctions Israeli civil society groups for the supposed illegal demolition of Palestinian property, it funds illegal construction on Israeli state land.
David Isaachttps://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/eu-behind-illegal-palestinian-building-in-judea-and-samaria-israeli-ngo-says
 A new illegal Palestinian compound has been discovered in Area C. Credit: Regavim.
(July 22, 2026 / JNS) An illegal Palestinian Authority compound funded with European Union money was recently discovered in Area C by Regavim, an Israeli NGO focused on land-use issues. It sets in stark relief E.U. hypocrisy, the group said.
The recently discovered recreational compound and public park was built in 2025 on the outskirts of the village of Silat ad-Dhahr in northern Samaria. Part of it is located on Israeli state land in Area C, near the renewed community of Sa Nur, one of four settlements evacuated in Samaria during the 2005 Gaza disengagement.
“Constructed less than a year ago, the compound includes an impressive entrance gate, a broad access road, benches, a pergola, playground equipment and a light-construction utility structure. According to official signage at the site, the planning and construction of the compound and access road were funded directly by the European Union,” Regavim said in a statement.
The site fits into a broader pattern of Arab encroachment on open areas to seize Israeli state land and create facts on the ground in preparation for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state.
The site was found during a routine field inspection to assess the condition of state land in the area as the Israeli government takes steps to expand Jewish communities in northern Samaria.
The government wants a bloc of settlements to regain control of this “strategically crucial area that has become a hotbed of terrorism,” Naomi Kahn, director of the International Division of Regavim, told JNS.
“Our field coordinator did a standard sweep to update our data on the areas being re-populated by Jewish communities in northern Samaria. He discovered a recently-built recreational compound with European Union sponsorship signage and Palestinian Authority credits. But the compound, which ‘spilled over’ from Area B, is sitting on Israeli state land in Area C,” she said.
“The whole thing is illegal, and comes at precisely the same time the EU has sanctioned law-abiding Israeli civil society organizations, including Regavim, without even the pretense that they are guilty of doing anything illegal,” Kahn added.
 A sign showing the European Union sponsored the new illegal Palestinian compound in Area C. Credit: Regavim.David Isaac
The European Council adopted restrictive measures against Regavim and its director Meir Deutsch on May 28. It accused Regavim of petitioning the courts to demolish “Palestinian property with the aim to expand the control of Israel to the whole West Bank and institute legal proceedings to that end.”
Kahn said the E.U. targeted Regavim as payback after the group successfully foiled illegal EU building activity, particularly an EU-funded school deemed a serious safety hazard by the Jerusalem District Court, which was then demolished.
The E.U. referred to this structure specifically in its sanctions announcement. “The organization [Regavim] also lobbied for the demolition of an EU-funded Palestinian primary school at the Jabbet al Dhib village, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank,” the E.U. said.
Kahn is convinced that E.U. sanctions against Regavim and other Israeli civil society groups are only a first stage.
“Their aim is to curb the independence of Israeli courts and then the Israeli government,” she said. “Knowing that Regavim has been sanctioned for bringing suit, a reasonable judge will ask him or herself whether it’s worth having their assets frozen, their travel restricted, their reputation dragged through the mud for the sake of enforcing the law against a rinky-dink structure that the E.U. will simply pay to rebuild.”
Roi Drucker, Regavim’s field coordinator who discovered the illegal structure, said, “This is an unprecedented act of audacity by the European Union, which imposes sanctions with one hand while, with the other, violates international law and Israeli jurisdiction in Area C.”
He called for the Palestinian Authority and its European benefactors to obey the law. He also demanded that Israel’s enforcement authorities restore order and governance to the region, starting with the demolition of the illegal compound.
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UNRWA IS THE UN FAILURE IN ONE ACRONYM
According to the newly released Misgav Institute report, @MisgavINSen In Gaza, the report says UNRWA was thoroughly penetrated by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups. Among 12,521 UNRWA employees in Gaza, at least 1,462 — about 12% — were members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organizations. Among 546 principals and deputy principals in UNRWA education facilities, at least 80 — about 15% — were members of terrorist organizations. This is not a small oversight. Link to full report in comments.  Mossad Commentary-tweet-19June2026-unrwa is the un failure in one acronym
From UN Bureaucracy to American Global Leadership – Misgav Institute – Fredman
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BREAKING: UNRWA CAN NOW BE SUED IN ISRAELI COURTS
This legal breakthrough isn’t just about one case.  Shurat HaDin-tweet-19January2026-BREAKING UNRWA CAN NOW BE SUED IN ISRAELI COURTS
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 Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs https://jcfa.org Why Israel Should Close Every UN Office in the CountryIn response to the latest UN decision to blacklist Israel, Israel announced that it was cutting all ties with the office of the UN Secretary-General. While this is a step in the right direction, it is insufficient.Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch
When it comes to the United Nations, Israel needs to take a much more aggressive response. As a preliminary step, and a potential precursor to entirely pulling out of the organization, Israel should immediately and permanently close every single UN office operating in the country.
The events of the last week have again exposed that the UN is an infested cesspit of Jew-hatred.
Distorting fact, truth, and reality, the UN Secretary-General included the Israeli security forces in a blacklist of bodies and countries guilty of “conflict-related sexual violence.”
The basis for the inclusion was a cacophony of baseless allegations that the UN claimed to have “verified,” but provided no actual proof. That claim was coupled with the allegation that Israeli authorities continue to hold over 9,000 Palestinians in detention, “including over 4,000 detained without charges or trial or administratively detained, raising concerns of arbitrary detention.” Never once did they mention the unequivocal fact that the detainees are terrorists, that each is brought before a court, or that thousands of them are convicted offenders.
Placing Israel on the conflict-related sexual violence blacklist, similar to placing Israel on a similar blacklist for abuse of children in armed conflict, has been a long-time goal of the terrorists and their supporters, including UN organizations. In the eyes of the terrorists, the blacklists were perceived to be some of the most effective vehicles through which they could vilify and delegitimize Israel.
The UN actors were more than useful idiots. For decades, the UN actively engaged with a host of NGO’s, many of which were either fronts for terrorist organizations or, at the very least, had close connections to terrorist organizations. The “evidence” provided by the terrorists was then UN-washed and presented to the world as legitimate and reliable information.
Those tried and tested mechanisms, too often ignored by the Israeli authorities, were just exposed by an Israeli governmental report – “Laundering Propaganda: How UN actors manipulated information in the Gaza War” (2023-2025) – that demonstrated how UN officials, with little basis, or no basis whatsoever, were at the forefront of distorting reality and promoting blood libels against Israel
From referencing Hamas-reported death tolls, sometimes alleged to be exaggerated, to claims such as 14,000 babies could die in 48 hours, the Israeli report cites these as examples of contentious data used by UN agencies against Israel.
The common denominator for both the inclusion of Israel on the blacklists and the report of the government was the work done by the UN organizations operating in Israel.
Over 78 years, Israel has hosted a plethora of UN organizations. Astoundingly, there are no fewer than 22 different UN organizations, devoted to the Palestinian cause of destroying Israel, that operate in Israel. 17 have a physical presence in Israel, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHAoPt) and the UN Children’s organization, UNICEF.
From its offices in the heart of Jerusalem, OCHA coordinates the other UN organizations and leads the unhinged charges against Israel. According to OCHA, it was Israel who bombed the Al-Ahli hospital in October 2023, killing 471 Gazans. It is OCHA leading the global campaign to vilify the “violent Israeli settlers.”
In reality, it was a missile fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad that landed on the Al-Ahli hospital, killing no more than 50 people. The “settler violence,” according to OCHA, includes Jews defending themselves against homicidal terrorists or visits to the Temple Mount. In both instances, it is irrelevant for OCHA if the Jew being attacked or the Jew visiting Judaism’s holiest site is indeed a settler or not. In the eyes of OCHA, similar to the outlook of the other Palestinian terrorists, every Jew living in Israel is a “settler.”
UNICEF is no better. UNICEF was the first UN organization to falsely accuse the State of Israel of committing crimes against humanity. The charge was made in the context of a report on the arrest and prosecution of Palestinian minors, including those who murdered Israelis. From UNICEF’s perspective, there is no difference between operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz and prosecuting terrorists like Murad A-Dayis, the Palestinian minor who murdered Dafna Meir when he stabbed her to death in her home.
In response to the latest decision to blacklist Israel, the government announced that it was cutting all ties with the office of the UN Secretary-General. While this is, of course, a step in the right direction, it is insufficient.
Government House, situated adjacent to the Haas Promenade and overlooking Jerusalem’s old city, has been occupied by the UN for 78 years. Without any basis whatsoever, the UN treats the compound as its own fiefdom, even building or placing structures without the necessary building permits. The compound is host to a number of useless UN organizations, such as the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), which, outrageously, supervises the 1948 truce between Israel and its hostile neighbors. Alongside the useless UNTSO sits the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General on the Middle East conflict.
Israel’s experience in the UN is often characterized as that of a battered wife. Intoxicated by the pro-terror Palestinian propaganda, every day the violent UN will attack and assault Israel. Every day, Israel will barely escape with its life.
To paraphrase the late Menachem Begin, we are not Jews with trembling knees. We are proud Jews with 3,700 years of history. The UN has regularly failed to support Israel. To date, even after the events of October 7, the UN has not designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.
If Israel seeks to survive and avoid the inevitable consequences of the UN attacks, Israel must take the initiative and fight back. The first step on the way to survival should be to exorcise the cancerous UN-growths. Every UN organization should be permanently closed. The offices of OCHA, UNICEF, and all the UN organizations that occupy the Governor’s Palace should be the first ones closed, and all their UN staffers, together with the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, should be the first ones expelled.
It is not enough to complain about the UN bias. It is not enough to make symbolic decisions to cut ties with the Secretary General, who has long suffered from deep-seated Jew hatred.
If Israel can send aircraft to distant targets, then perhaps the time has come to show similar resolve in reconsidering the presence of UN organizations in Israel, especially in Jerusalem.
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Israel begins dismantling process of banned UNRWA’s Jerusalem headquartersThe measures against UNRWA began in late 2024 with Israel’s decision to outlaw all of the organization’s activities within the country’s borders.
By TPS, SHIR PERETS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli personnel arrived to dismantle the UNRWA (UN Relief Works Agency) headquarters on Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.
Ammunition Hill is the central headquarters from which all of the organization’s activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem were managed. UNRWA’s main logistical infrastructure was concentrated within the building.
Israel Police noted that security forces were at the scene to ensure the safety of workers demolishing the site, which had been vacant for at least a year.
Since the beginning of the war, UNRWA’s ties with the terrorist organization Hamas have been exposed, and it was discovered that some UNRWA operatives even took part in the October 7 massacre. In addition, numerous tunnels and terrorist infrastructures were found under buildings belonging to UNRWA in the Gaza Strip.
“This is a historic day, a holiday, and a very important day for Jerusalem’s governance,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated.
“For years, these terror supporters were here, and today they are banished with everything they built.”
“This is happening as a result of the laws I initiated to expel UNRWA from Israel. And redemption has come to Zion!” MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beytenu, one of the initiators of the bill to sever ties with UNRWA, said.
The Foreign Ministry stated that the demolition was not because of any new policy, “but rather the implementation of existing Israeli legislation concerning UNRWA-Hamas.”
“The State of Israel owns the Jerusalem compound in which the Israel Land Authority operates today. Even prior to the passage of legislation in January 2025, UNRWA-Hamas had already ceased its operations at this site and no longer had any UN personnel or UN activity there,” the ministry stated.
“The compound does not enjoy any immunity, and the seizure of this compound by Israeli authorities was carried out in accordance with both Israeli and international law.”
“The evacuation of UNRWA’s offices is not collective punishment or politics, it is the legal consequence of an organization that lost its neutrality,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of Shurat HaDin, which represents victims of the October 7 attacks in a major lawsuit against the UN body. “When UNRWA facilities and staff are tied to Hamas terror, Israel has both the right and the obligation to remove that presence from its capital.”
Measures against UNRWA started in 2025The measures against UNRWA began in late 2024 with Israel’s decision to outlaw all of the organization’s activities within the country’s borders.
In December 2025, the Knesset voted to disconnect UNRWA facilities from water and electricity.
Less than two weeks ago, Israeli forces arrived to evacuate the UNRWA facility in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Final approval: No water or electricity to be supplied to UNRWA propertiesThe Knesset has approved the bill by MK Limor Son Har-Melech, which imposes sanctions on UNRWA, including cutting infrastructure, revoking immunities, and seizing assets.Israel National News / Published: 29December2025, 6:35 PM (GMT+2)
The Knesset plenary approved tonight (Monday), in the second and third readings, the bill proposed by the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Limor Son Har-Melech, which aims to stop the activities of UNRWA within the State of Israel.
The bill, which received broad support, includes a series of sanctions against the organization, marking the end of UNRWA’s operations in the country.
The new law revokes the United Nations immunity that UNRWA, its employees, and its assets have enjoyed, and imposes significant economic and infrastructural restrictions. Among the sanctions are: cutting off electricity, water, and gas services to any property where UNRWA is listed as a consumer, a ban on financial institutions providing banking or payment services to the organization, and a demand for communication providers to disconnect telecommunication services to UNRWA.
In addition, the law stipulates that the state and local authorities will have the authority to seize land held by UNRWA within 30 days.
Following the approval of the law, MK Son Har-Melech stated, “UNRWA is a terrorist organization that was a full partner in the massacre, abduction, and murder on October 7th. Today, the State of Israel has made it clear in no uncertain terms that it has no place within its borders. We didn’t come to make declarations, but to change the reality on the ground and restore national sovereignty and honor.”
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UNRWA has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem
UNRWA does not pay its bills. The Municipality sent the debt to Israel’s civil enforcement authority, which is fully empowered to: @israelpolice are on site to ensure security for municipal staff carrying out a lawful enforcement action. The reality: UNRWA failed to pay what it owes. And Jerusalem is enforcing the law like it would with any debtor. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil  Mossad Commentary-tweet-8December2025-UNRWA has significant debts owed to the City of Jerusalem
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Europeans finally waking up to Hamas-enabling UNRWA scamBy Post Editorial Board Published 10December2025, 10:55 p.m. ET
It looks like the days are numbered for the terrorist-infested UN Relief and Works Agency, as UNRWA loses support from major European nations that have long backed it.
Cheers for Germany, Italy, Czechia and Hungary, joined by Bulgaria and Latvia last Friday in withholding support for the renewal of UNRWA’s charter. Austria, Romania and Lithuania joined in on a separate resolution.
Close observers have always known that UNRWA — the special UN agency charged with caring for Palestinian refugees, and only Palestinian refugees — works hand-in-glove with Hamas in Gaza.
But then it turned out that UNRWA directly employed Hamas fighters who joined in the Oct. 7, 2022, terror assault on Israel; the course of the war exposed many more, deep Hamas-UNRWA ties.
Israel has since banned UNRWA from working in its territory, and Washington cut off aid to the agency early this year, following a temporary suspension under President Joe Biden.
Israel, citing non-payment of taxes, even took over a former UNRWA center in East Jerusalem, raising the national standard in place of the flag of the United Nations.
Without Israel’s cooperation, UNRWA’s capacity to work in Gaza is next to zero, but that didn’t stop more than 150 nations voting Friday to keep the agency rattling along.
Remember: Every other refugee population in the world is helped by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists people displaced by war or persecution in resettlement and integration into their new homes; former refugees become residents and eventually citizens, losing their refugee status.
Only Palestinians, under UNRWA’s “care,” retain refugee status forever, even unto the third, fourth and fifth generations — and so perpetuating the eternal victimhood of the Palestinian people by shackling them to aid and legalizing their segregation inside neighboring nations long decades after their forebears arrived.
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ISRAEL AT WAR 5786: Time and Again
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7 Hostages Released
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After 738 days in captivity in Gaza, Matan, Gali, Ziv, Alon, Eitan, Omri and Guy are coming home. 🇮🇱
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It’s official: There are no more living Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity.
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1500 year old Jericho synagogue named “Shalom al Yisrael”, Peace upon Israel
1500 year old Jericho synagogue mosaic
God’s Level of Morality, Not Man’s
For ages, spiritual movements reshaped themselves to match human appetite. Only Judaism was bound to G-d Who demanded we confront these appetites. He dares us to fight our lowly human natures and rise higher.
David Ben Horin | Posted on 03February2026 | https://breslev.com/5205718/
God’s Level of Morality, Not Man’s by David Ben Horin
For more than 1,300 years, the banner of jihad or “holy war” has been used to justify an unbroken trail of bloodshed. The Sunni–Shia feud that started in the first generation after Muhammad evolved into a centuries-long cycle of massacres, reprisals, and “holy” score-settling.
The same script played out in Lebanon and Syria, where entire cities were dragged into wars fought less for God and more for power dressed in “holy” clothing.
On October 7, that same ideology tore through our own communities, transforming homes and families into targets.
And in Iran, tens of thousands of men and women—people who dared to push for something as simple as human freedom—were eliminated under the pious marketing slogan of “religious duty.” Thousands more face the death penalty after being branded “enemies of god” for wanting their own taste of what Judeo-Christian values label “God-given freedoms.”
A religion made to validate and even accommodate their darkest impulses.
Although Christianity is far less egregious in its blanket permissions for evil such as murder, it still falls far short of pushing mankind to the highest levels of morality, honesty, and refined behavior.
A Covenant That Elevates Rather Than Accommodates
Judaism, on the other hand, demands as the basis of Jewish law or halacha the highest, exacting standards of honesty and morality. Even jealousy, which is a normal human emotion in a particular set of circumstances – is banned – as one of the Ten Commandments! Jewish law demands 10% of income be tithed to the poor, demands honest weights and measures and honesty in business, demands lost items be returned and not taken as “finders keepers,” and so much more. There is no “well, I’m not evil so I’m good” in Judaism. Goodness, honesty and morality are demanded as the most basic level of keeping Jewish law!
An excellent example of this requirement not just to be OK, but to be moral and honest to the highest degree, is found in the story of the young rabbi who bought a desk, and discovered $98,000 cash that had been hidden by the owner, and the recipient of his inheritance didn’t know was there. He asked his rabbi who confirmed that the money had to be returned since the owner didn’t intend to include it in the sale of the desk. The Los Angeles Times titled the article on this story “The Most Honest Man in America?”1 The answer is that any Jew who follows Jewish law would have done the exact same thing, because this is the standard of honesty and morality that G-d demands and Judaism does not water it down for the desires of humans!
This is what makes the covenant, or Brit, between Hashem and the Jewish People so extraordinary. It isn’t shaped to suit our whims or comforts. Instead, God invites us to rise, to grow, to refine ourselves so we can live in alignment with Him.
It begins on the eighth day of life, with a moment that signals something profound: our journey toward discipline, holiness, and purpose. It extends by controlling the desires attached to the organ we circumcise.
What the ancient Romans dismissed as strange, and what later cultures would never dare attempt, becomes for us a declaration of devotion. It is not an act against others, but an act of commitment — a reminder that our path starts with transforming ourselves.
God doesn’t shape His Torah to match our impulses. He gives us the Torah as a blueprint for reshaping who we are. He asks us to mold our lives, our desires, and our choices toward Him — not the other way around.
The Brit is a lifelong pledge to elevate our instincts, to channel the strongest human drives toward something higher, something sacred. From the eighth day onward, we carry a sign that our bodies, our passions, and our purpose are meant to serve something far greater than ourselves.
It is the beginning of a life lived with intention, direction, and holiness — a covenant that lifts us toward God every single day.
Walking the Straight Path to God Under Fire
We stand in the days of Shovevim — our season of intensity, commitment, and spiritual fire.
This is the time when we’re called to go all-in, to awaken every ounce of discipline, drive, and conviction inside us. Not to unleash violence on the world, but to unleash force on ourselves — on the impulses that pull us away from God.
What are our Jewish fantasies?
To wage war on our own yetzer hara with the same relentless determination that empires used on their enemies. To confront our desires head-on and overpower them with the ferocity of a soldier who refuses to surrender his ground.
Loyalty to Hashem means guarding every doorway into the soul — from the phone, the screen, the bar, the office, the street — and shutting down temptation the way an IDF defender shuts down a Hamas terrorist.
🔥This is our battlefield.
🔥This is our mission.
Every victory is carved inside the heart long before it appears in the world.
The name “Israel” means Yashar Kel — the straight path to God. Walking that path demands that we move toward Him, not toward comfort or indulgence. It means choosing His will over our wants, His discipline over our impulses, His direction over our distractions.
🔥This is our war — the only war that matters.
Every act of resistance against the pull away from the path God commands us is a step closer to His mercy, His compassion, and His wrath against those trying to destroy us.
God is great.
He calls us to greatness.
Editor’s Notes:
1 Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2013
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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, 60,000 passionate Israelis, and Matilda, our local camel.
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Quiet megillah readings: Combat veterans, loud sounds and firecrackers can cause traumatic flashbacks
Rabbinical Organization: Skip the Noisemakers This Purim for IDF Veterans
Tzohar calls on communities to avoid loud noisemakers during Megillah readings, citing trauma triggers for veterans and war-affected Israelis.
Israel National News
25February2026, 7:34 PM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422982
Ahead of the upcoming Purim holiday, the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization is issuing a call to communities across Israel to show consideration for individuals suffering from PTSD and other war-related emotional challenges by refraining from the traditional use of loud noisemakers as part of the Megillah reading.
The call comes amidst a growing number of combat veterans reporting how loud sounds and firecrackers can cause traumatic flashbacks. Tzohar is therefore urging relevant congregations to embrace “quiet megillah readings”.
“Many communities are home to heroes who have returned from the battlefield. Our brothers and sisters continue to suffer the emotional impacts of combat, and it is therefore critical that everyone, children and adults alike, be sensitive to those challenges. For these individuals, the sudden loud sounds that are traditionally part of the Megillah reading are not innocent or fun, but can be painful triggers bringing them back to the traumas of war. While we know that the widely accepted custom of blotting out Haman’s name through noisemaking is an important one, there is no doubt that respecting the sacrifices of these IDF heroes is paramount, and we therefore suggest that in settings where these individuals might be present, such loud sounds should be avoided.”
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Director of the Tzohar Center for Jewish Ethics, recorded a public awareness video on this issue where he explained, “On Purim, we are accustomed to the sounds being noisy and including firecrackers and explosions… chaotic noise. But for the next few years, we have no choice but to abstain from all that. Because among us are many people for whom these things cause a real sense of horror.”
The call comes amidst planning for Tzohar’s annual Megillah B’Kehilah program, where an estimated 100,000 people will be gathering at over 600 different sites for megillah readings presented by Tzohar rabbis and volunteers. With the goal of making the readings accessible and enjoyable to as many people as possible, the readings include explanations of the Purim story and its relevance for Jewish tradition and identity, with a focus on communal responsibility, unity, joy, and hope even in the face of dangerous threats.
Rabbi David Stav, Chair and Founder of Tzohar, explained the program saying, “Purim is in essence a communal holiday, characterized by friendship and social responsibility where we can display our inherent caring for one another. Particularly in these days where we are dealing with so many internal and external threats and challenges, these programs give us the opportunity to unite in spaces that are infused with light, joy, and a sense of common purpose and camaraderie. Megillat Esther is an annual reminder that our strength as a people lies in our unity. Through the tens of thousands of people who we are blessed to welcome to these programs, we are able to share this critical and eternal message.”
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Proud Israeli Jews Producing and Selling Ben and Jerry’s Israel Milk and Honey Ice Cream גלידת בן וג’ריס חלב ודבש in Eretz Israel
Ben & Jerry’s launches ‘Israel flavour’ ice cream – with Star of David fudge
The latest offering is called, appropriately, Milk and Honey
June 23, 2026 15:32 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/new-ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-israel-milk-honey-israeli-flavour-dk7arxto
Ben & Jerry’s new Milk and Honey
By JC Reporter
Ben & Jerry’s Israel has launched an ice cream that it is billing as “the most Israeli flavour there is” – milk and honey.
In a case of “it does what it says on the tub”, the ice cream combines milk, cream and honey, and it also contains chocolate fudge pieces shaped like Stars of David.
All of the ingredients are sourced from produce grown in collaboration with farmers, local businesses, and social organisations from the south of Israel and the Gaza envelope.
Unveiling the new flavour, the business said: “In the wake of the events of October 7, as a company based in the south that employs hundreds of workers from the region, we at Ben & Jerry’s Israel felt a responsibility to play an active role in the region’s recovery process.
“The idea for Milk and Honey – an Israeli ice cream that symbolises positive action and regional reconstruction – was born out of a sense of resilience and a desire for renewal.”
It continued: “Hundreds of employees at our factory in Be’er Tuvia took part in the development and production, driven by a desire to help rebuild the community, to provide strength and sweetness even in difficult times, and by a shared belief in hope and in our ability to build a better future together.”
The brand has high hopes for Milk and Honey beyond satisfying the cravings of sweet-toothed Israelis: “Our aspiration is that, beyond being a sweet and exceptionally delicious ice cream, Milk and Honey will also serve as a symbol of hope, recovery, and positive action for the community,” it said.
Royalties from sales will be donated to support recovery initiatives and community and educational projects in the south and the Gaza envelope, in partnership with the Ayalim Association, a non-profit organisation helping to build student communities across the Negev and Galilee.
Ben and Jerry’s Israel is run as an entirely separate entity from the global Ben & Jerry’s brand and the latter’s parent company, consumer goods giant Unilever.
The division stems from a major corporate dispute that arose in 2021 when Ben & Jerry’s global board announced its intention to halt sales “in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)” – meaning the West Bank, (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza strip – because selling there was “inconsistent” with the brand’s values. It noted at the time that the decision reflected the concerns of its “fans and trusted partners”.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield – both of whom are Jewish – wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times: “The company’s stated decision to more fully align its operations with its values is not a rejection of Israel. It is a rejection of Israeli policy, which perpetuates an illegal occupation that is a barrier to peace and violates the basic human rights of the Palestinian people who live under the occupation. As Jewish supporters of the State of Israel, we fundamentally reject the notion that it is antisemitic to question the policies of the State of Israel.”
They added: “We believe this act can and should be seen as advancing the concepts of justice and human rights, core tenets of Judaism.”
The following year, however, Unilever sold its Ben & Jerry’s ice cream business in Israel and the West Bank to its long-term local licensee.
“The new arrangement means Ben & Jerry’s will be sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel and the West Bank under the full ownership of its current licensee,” Unilever said at the time.
Last September, Greenfield resigned from Ben & Jerry’s after nearly 50 years.
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Hamas, Gaza 6:28 – 7:10 Never forget
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HELL you wanted and HELL you will get!
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Israel imposes the ultimate justice on the October 7 killers
Slowly but steadily, Israel is ensuring that the people who crossed its borders with murder on their minds face an appropriate consequence.
Andrea Widburg | 14July2026 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/israel-imposes-the-ultimate-justice-on-the-october-7-killers/
“To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.” — Proverbs 21:3
“Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man.” — Genesis 9:6
Israel may be a leftist country, but it’s still one that was founded on the Bible—and the Jewish Bible is about the rule of law and the necessity for justice. That’s why it was good to learn that a special Israeli unit is bringing justice to the October 7 attackers.
On October 7, 2023, an estimated 6,000 men from Gaza entered Israel. Of that number, around 3,800 were official Hamas fighters, while another 2,200 or so were civilian men excited to have the opportunity to participate in a violent, often sexual massacre.
When the blood orgy ended, 1,200 Israelis and guest workers were dead, around 5,400 were physically wounded (the psychological wounds are uncountable), and 251 were kidnapped, of whom only 166 made it home. Most of the invaders were caught on camera—many, indeed, filming themselves.
To understand the immensity of the attack given Israel’s tiny population, if this had happened in America, it would have been equivalent to a neighboring country (not naming names) crossing our borders, and in a single day, brutally killing 41,000 people, wounding 185,000, and kidnapping 8,600, only 5,700 of whom returned home alive.
America would have done two things, and no one would have challenged it: It would have invaded that neighboring country because the neighbor would obviously be harboring a toxic ideological pathogen that must be destroyed if America is to survive, and it would have brought justice to the actual killers.
Everyone knows that Israel did the first thing—and, unlike any other country in the world, was viciously attacked for daring to try to erase a genocidal militia living on its borders.
But what few know is that Israel has also been engaged in the second activity, relentlessly hunting down every single person who crossed into Israel on October 7 and participated in the rapes and slaughter.
Israel’s low-key justice tour shouldn’t be a surprise. Many of us remember that, after the terrorist attack against Israel during the 1972 Munich Olympics, Israel embarked upon Operation Wrath of God to identify and execute the terrorists involved.
Indeed, Steven Spielberg even made a movie about it, though it was an insult. It was based on a book of dubious accuracy and written by at least one hard-left, anti-Israel activist (Tony Kushner). It created a moral equivalence between the PLO and Israel and humanized the murderers. In other words, typical leftist garbage.
Given Israel’s history, it comes as no surprise that Israel would ensure that the October 7 attackers were brought to justice. After all, as the quotations at the head of this essay show, Judaism is about justice—and it is a religion based on law. (Just read the Torah, that is, the first five books of the Bible, if you doubt me.) Allowing killers to roam free because they are outside of Israel’s borders cannot stand—and it isn’t standing.
Streiff at RedState summarizes Israel’s activities, which are currently aimed at the official Hamas members who entered Israel on October 7:
It helps, adds Streiff, that the massacre’s perpetrators do not have a “bro code” that sees them protect their comrades from Israel’s righteous vengeance. Instead, they seem to have a different attitude, one that can be summed up as “If I’m going to suffer, he should suffer, too.” So, once caught, they’re happy to squeal.
This isn’t surprising. As those who have witnessed Arab warfare for over a century know, they are beyond vicious when they feel they are ascendant and craven when finally caught. Just think of Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole…
There are still a lot more killers to go, so I wish Israel luck in its hunt. Justice matters, and what happened on October 7 was an epic injustice that needs to be addressed.
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Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: This is why fewer Arabs visit Temple Mount
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu says number of Arabs visiting Temple Mount has dropped by half – and shares why.
Dvir Amar
6February2026, 1:23 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422052
Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu has offered an explanation for the decline in the number of Arabs ascending the Temple Mount.
According to Rabbi Eliyahu, the number of Arabs visiting the Temple Mount is now down by half.
Sharing a conversation that one of his friends had with a senior Arab official on the Temple Mount, Rabbi Eliyahu said that the Arab official claimed that Jews bowing on the ground on on the Temple Mount caused less Arabs to visit the site.
Rabbi Eliyahu quoted the Arab as saying to his friend, “The reason is that you started bowing on the ground to the Holy One, Blessed Be He. When we see you bowing, we are afraid of you, because you humble yourselves before G-d. If you humble yourselves before G-d, who can stand against you? So, we don’t come anymore.”
The Temple Mount Yeshiva issued a statement: “Blessings to Minister Ben-Gvir for restoring governance and honor to the Temple Mount, the holiest and most important place for the People of Israel. Since Ben-Gvir took office, the Temple Mount has returned to being a holy and pleasant place, and instead of chants inciting the murder of Jews, we now hear wedding songs, prayers, and Torah lessons. It is moving to witness the awakening of the rabbis ascending, and the bowing which is growing stronger. The People of Israel have returned to the Temple Mount.”
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Prayer gathering called in Hevron for Dec 22nd
Rivka Levy / 19December2025 https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/prayer-gathering-called-in-hevron-for-dec-22nd/
More details when I have them, but Rav Berland is calling for a prayer gathering in Hevron on December 22nd.
The time: Starting 8pm.
The place: Me’arat HaMachpela.
The reason: Your guess is as good as mine, but I have lost count of the number of times the Rav has called prayer gatherings to ‘ward off’ some bad decree before we even know about it.
The other reason for the prayer gatherings is to try to ‘sweeten’ bad decrees that have already manifested, lo alenu, like the ‘Stabbing Intifada’ in Jerusalem a few years back, when the Rav said it would stop if 10,000 Jews gathered at the Me’arat HaMachpela to do 7 Tikkun Haklalis.
And, exactly as he said, it stopped to the day.
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What was interesting is that the Rav barely called for any prayer gatherings during the Gaza War.
I guess he already knew that was a massive decree, a tikkun, that would take the time it took, prayer gatherings or no.
So instead, he asked for a special Torah scroll to be written, and told us that the day the Torah scroll was ready and given to him, the war in Gaza would stop.
Again, to the day, that’s what happened.
All this stuff has been documented ‘live’ on the blog here, there is no funny business going back and rewriting history.
Or faking ‘history’, right from the start…
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So, it looks like something ‘big’ is brewing again, in my opinion, and the Rav is trying to ward it off.
The natural-resource-gobbling Evils have their eye on the oil fields in the Golan Heights now, as they had their eye on the gas fields off the Gaza coast.
Once you look at world events from the prism of ‘where are the natural resources, and who wants to exploit them’, all this starts to make far, far more sense.
Remember, we said years ago that Trump and his team of ‘businessmen’ had an eye on the Golan resources (remember ‘Trump Heights’?) and the Gaza gas fields.
They are just seeing which of their ‘puppet politicians’ will find it easier to sell their own people out and deliver the goods, without anyone noticing.
Al-Golani, or our own dear leader, who has served them so very faithfully for years and years, but now maybe doesn’t have the cred and power to carry on just giving away bits of Eretz Yisrael under the guise of more American-sponsored and orchestrated ‘war and peace’.
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So, 8pm, December 22nd, 2025, at Hevron.
That is this coming Monday night.
If you live abroad and can’t make it yourself, consider helping Shuvu Banim to sponsor a bus, to bring people in from around the country.
That stuff costs hundreds of thousands of shekels, and there are no slick ‘Go Fund Me‘ campaigns being set up for the Rav, within 10 seconds of ‘bad stuff happening’ that get millions in donations in less than 24 hours.
(Mamash, ask anyone who knows anything about crowdfunding, and they will explain to you just how very unusual all this is… And BTW, it’s also a super-great way of laundering funds, to make sure no one knows where exactly all that cash is coming from…)
Just a simple link, on a very simple site that has been under attack, in so many senses of the word, for years and years, which you can access here:
https://ravberland.com/en/donate
And may we just hear good news.
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PS: Here’s a bit more about Ahmed Al Ahmed ‘Go Fund Me’ campaign, screenshot from HERE:
Ahmed Al Ahmed ‘Go Fund Me’ campaign
Tom Traynor starting things off with a $50k donation… then Bill Ackerman (yes, that Bill Ackerman) joined in with $99.99k – the most you can give, apparently. And then, Greg and Anna Brockman of Open AI joined in with another almost $40k…
You can always tell when the billionaires get involved, that it must be something very good and very special for humanity.
Deep, deep sigh.
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Meanwhile, look at this:
One Mitzvah for Bondi Screenshot-2025-12-19 ICA
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I went looking for this, and here is the OFFICIAL New South Wales government website for this project:
One Mitzvah for Bondi | NSW Government
Screenshot:
One Mitzvah for Bondi Screenshot-2025-12-19
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Here’s the text (screenshot):
One Mitzvah for Bondi Screenshot-2025-12-19 text
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Here is a headline from the JC, 2024, for comparison:
https://www.thejc.com/community/interfaith-action-is-at-the-heart-of-mitzvah-day-2024-o5co4pmq
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And here is the page from ‘badd outreach, again, just for comparison:
https://www.chabadoutreach.org/therebbe/onemitzvah_cdo/jewish/One-Mitzvah.htm
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Great, how all these billionaires and interfaith people are jumping on the bandwagon, here.
Pushing that idea that ‘we’re all just one big, happy family’…
That is the hallmark of the satanic freemasons, and has been for at least 200 years.
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Tov.
Don’t forget, if you want an authentic Jewish response to the madness going on in the world, that really will make a positive difference for the very difficult situation we currently find ourselves in, join in, however you can, with the Rav’s prayer rally on Monday, December 22nd.
It feels like a lot is hanging in the balance again.
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22 wounded as Houthi drone from Yemen hits Eilat
Magen David Adom medics treated victims at the scene and evacuated them—including two in serious condition—to Yoseftal Hospital.
Charles Bybelezer
https://www.jns.org/five-injured-as-houthi-drone-from-yemen-strikes-eilat/
Israeli security forces at the scene of a Houthi drone strike in Eilat, Sept. 24, 2025. Photo by Yehuda Ben Itach/Flash90.
(24September2025 / JNS) Twenty-two people were injured on Wednesday evening when a drone launched by Houthi terrorists in Yemen struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat.
Magen David Adom said its medics treated victims at the scene and evacuated them—including two in serious condition—to the city’s Yoseftal Hospital.
Video circulating online showed people scrambling for cover as air-raid sirens sounded, with the UAV appearing to strike near a major shopping center adjacent to Eilat’s main boardwalk.
The Israel Defense Forces said interception attempts were made, and that search-and-rescue teams were operating at the impact site.
The Israeli Air Force opened an investigation after the two Iron Dome interceptor missiles failed to down the UAV.
Itay Blumental-tweet-24September2025-Houthi UAV in Eilat
Initial report on the fall of a Houthi UAV in Eilat, the second within a week
דיווח ראשוני על נפילת כטב”ם חותי באילת , שני בתוך שבוע
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The Israel Police urged residents to stay away from the crash site and avoid touching debris, warning it may contain explosives.
The military urged the public to continue adhering to Home Front Command guidelines.
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday night wished a full recovery to those injured in Eilat.
“The Houthi terrorists refuse to learn from Iran, Lebanon and Gaza—and they will learn the hard way,” Katz said, adding, “Those who attack Israel will be struck back sevenfold.”
Israeli security forces at the scene of a Houthi drone strike in Eilat, Sept. 24, 2025. Credit: Israel Police.
Last Thursday, an unmanned aerial vehicle that was launched toward Israel “from the east” impacted in the courtyard of a hotel in Eilat. No injuries were reported.
A second drone was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force minutes later, the IDF said.
The term “from the east” is typically used by the IDF to refer to attacks by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
Approximately an hour later, the Houthis fired a ballistic missile that triggered air-raid alerts across central Israel, sending millions of civilians to bomb shelters.
On Sept. 16, the IDF struck Hudaydah Port in Houthi-controlled Yemen, accusing the terrorist group of using the facility to transfer Iranian-supplied weapons for attacks on Israel and its allies.
The strike targeted a “military infrastructure site,” with the IDF saying it was “in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel, including the launch of UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles.”
The Houthis have carried out missile and drone attacks on the Jewish state—including a direct missile hit near Ben-Gurion International Airport on May 4—since the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
A Houthi explosive drone crashed into Ramon Airport near Eilat on Sept. 7, shortly after the IAF intercepted three UAVs launched from Yemen.
Jerusalem has conducted several rounds of strikes against the Houthis, including an Aug. 28 operation that killed their “prime minister” and several other Cabinet officials.
Defense Minister Katz said on Friday that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Houthis, and his government would be sent to “the depths of hell.”
“Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, your time will come,” Katz said, adding that he and his subordinates will meet “all the envoys of the Axis of Evil.”
The slogan “Death to Israel, curse upon the Jews,” written on the Houthi flag, Katz added, “will be replaced by the blue-and-white Israeli flag that will fly in the capital of united Yemen.”
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Israeli forces kill two PIJ terrorists in Samaria
Alaa Ga’udat Bani Ouda and Mohammad Qassem Suleiman were part of a cell planning an imminent attack.
JNS Staff
https://www.jns.org/israeli-forces-kill-two-pij-terrorists-in-samaria/
(25September2025 / JNS) Israeli forces operating overnight Wednesday in the Palestinian town of Tammun, eight miles northeast of Nablus in Samaria, neutralized a terrorist cell planning an imminent attack.
Acting on intelligence, the forces located members of the cell affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including Alaa Ga’udat Bani Ouda and Mohammad Qassem Suleiman, both armed operatives involved in planning shooting and explosive attacks.
During the operation, forces encircled the building where the terrorists had barricaded themselves, engaged them with precise fire, and killed them.
During Israeli operations on Wednesday in the Anzah area, near Jenin in northern Samaria, a terrorist hurled an explosive device at soldiers. The troops returned fire, killing the assailant. No IDF injuries were reported.
A day earlier, Israeli forces identified a rocket in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, in western Samaria. The Israel Defense Forces said the rocket was neutralized by Border Police sappers, while troops scanned the area. The military has opened an investigation into the incident.
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Nile Crocodiles to be stationed outside security prisons
Bookmouse Comments: All you can eat buffet, just like Pechanga (Pechanga Resort Casino Pechanga Indian Reservation adjacent to the city of Temecula, California), California.
Work begins on crocodile barrier pilot at Ketziot Prison
Excavation work began Wednesday at Ketziot Prison in the Negev to construct channels intended for a proposed crocodile barrier, part of a pilot project promoted by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for a wing housing security prisoners.
Israel National News / 22July2026, 3:00 PM (GMT+3) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/430577
Excavation work began Wednesday at Ketziot Prison in the Negev to construct channels intended for a proposed crocodile barrier, part of a pilot project promoted by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for a wing housing security prisoners.
The National Security Ministry confirmed that preparations are underway. In a statement, Ben Gvir’s office said, “Those who slaughtered, whoever raped, whoever murdered and behaved like an animal deserve to have an animal like him watching over him.”
According to a source in the Regional Council, the excavation is taking place inside the prison compound around one of its special wings. The channel is approximately 170 meters (560 feet) long and is not visible from outside the facility. The source told Ynet that it remains unclear whether crocodiles will ultimately be introduced, but said the infrastructure is being prepared in advance.
The work follows a decision last week by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman to classify the Nile crocodile as a “domesticated wildlife animal.” The change, made at Ben Gvir’s request, allows security agencies, including the Israel Prison Service, to pursue a pilot program for keeping crocodiles on their premises, provided appropriate welfare standards for the animals are maintained.
The proposal was first raised by Ben Gvir about six months ago as part of a plan to surround a prison housing security prisoners with crocodile-filled channels. Since then, the Israel Prison Service has conducted feasibility studies, including consultations with professionals and visits to zoos. Officials concluded that such a system could potentially reduce security costs while serving as an additional deterrent against escape attempts.
Until now, the Nile crocodile had been classified as a protected wild animal, limiting its captivity to licensed zoos. The revised legal status allows authorized security bodies to move forward with the proposed pilot project..
חקמת גזרת תנינים קציעות מנהלת 3000
Move toward allowing crocodiles to be stationed outside security prisons
The Minister of Environmental Protection has signed a declaration that will allow a pilot program to examine the use of crocodiles around prisons housing Nukhba terrorists.
Israel National News / Published: 16July2026, 9:20 PM (GMT+3) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/430295
Nile Crocodile
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is continuing to advance his plan to use crocodiles around prisons holding security prisoners.
Following Ben Gvir’s request, Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman signed a declaration today (Thursday) classifying crocodiles as a “domesticated wild animal.” The official designation means that security agencies such as the Israel Prison Service (IPS) will be able to launch a pilot program to keep crocodiles on their premises, while ensuring their welfare and providing appropriate living conditions.
The move comes about six months after Ben Gvir proposed adopting President Donald Trump’s model of a prison surrounded by crocodiles and establishing such a system around a security prison housing Nukhba terrorists.
The Israel Prison Service embraced the idea and began extensive planning on the project, including a series of studies and professional visits to zoos. According to the IPS, the findings indicated that constructing a prison surrounded by moats containing crocodiles would significantly reduce ongoing security costs while also creating a strong deterrent against escape attempts by security prisoners.
After Minister Ben Gvir approved moving forward with a practical pilot program-which includes construction planning and the creation of appropriate safety and environmental conditions for keeping the crocodiles-the initiative encountered a legal obstacle. Under existing law, the Nile crocodile is classified as a protected wild animal, a designation that prohibits it from being kept outside licensed zoos.
To overcome the legal hurdle, officials developed a solution based on classifying the crocodile as a “domesticated wild animal,” a legal status that permits it to be kept for commercial purposes.
Such a designation existed under Israeli law until 2013 and allowed crocodiles to be bred and killed for commercial use. It has now been adapted to meet Israel’s security needs, with the new declaration limiting the designation solely to the keeping of crocodiles and only by authorized security agencies.
Crocodiles authorization letter 13July2026
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BACKGROUND: What Israel has to deal with. Mein Kampf
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Mein Kampf in Arabic
Mein Kampf in Arabic in Gaza
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Antisemitism kills.
IDF forces found a copy of Hitler’s antisemitic work “Mein Kampf” in a child’s room of a home in Gaza used by Hamas as a terrorism hub.
The terrorist highlighted portions of the book and included his own notes.
It starts with words. It ends with Jewish blood in the streets.
Israel-tweet-12November2023-Mein Kampf in Gaza
They found “Mein Kampf” in every second house in Gaza
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The Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, @SharrenHaskel, told German Media that they found “Mein Kampf” in every second house in Gaza.
How much more proof do you need that lying comes as naturally to them as breathing?
WELT-tweet-16October2025
„In jedem zweiten Haus in Gaza fanden wir ‚Mein Kampf‘ von Hitler“
Translated from German by Grok
“In every second house in Gaza we found ‘Mein Kampf’ by Hitler”
https://www.welt.de/videos/video68f095c6dbad4b72062aefe0/israels-vize-aussenministerin-in-jedem-zweiten-haus-in-gaza-fanden-wir-mein-kampf-von-hitler.html?wtrid=socialmedia.socialflow….socialflow_twitter
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Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
Rubi Yona-tweet-15October2024-Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
No, our fighters didn’t find it in Gaza but in “Judea and Samaria” (what the jihadist-loving left calls the “The West Bank”), 20 minutes from our central cities.
This is a school textbook based on Hitler’s “Mein Camp”, on the extermination of the Jewish people, with additions, upgrades and streamlining suggestions for the jihadist Muslims known as “Palestinians”.
We fight monsters.
#AINewsIL #MuslimInvaders #TheWestIsNext
Rubi Yona-tweet-15October2024-Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian stores
SEE: From 9January2014 Sales Of Hitler’s Mein Kampf Are Surging
Eli Kowaz-tweet-4January2024-Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian stores
While visiting different Palestinian cities in the West Bank, I was shocked to see Mein Kampf sold at many stores (even those that are not bookshops).
When you hear how many Palestinians talk about Hitler, you quickly understand why.
Listen to Yussuf from Bethlehem.
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Who’s afraid of diplomatic isolation?
There is no Palestinian state not only because Israel maintains full control over the territory, but also because of the Palestinian Authority’s failure to establish functioning governing institutions, and Hamas’ dominance.
by Prof. Eyal Zisser – Published on 09-28-2025 10:05 – Last modified: 09-28September2025 10:15 https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/whos-afraid-of-diplomatic-isolation/
Eyal Zisser is a lecturer in the Middle East History Department at Tel Aviv University.
On December 13, 1949, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and ordered the transfer of state institutions there from Tel Aviv. In the UN Partition Plan of November 1947, Jerusalem was not included in the Jewish state’s territory. During and after the 1948 War of Independence, proposals were even raised internationally to place the city under international rule, or to hand it over to Jordan. Israel effectively set its capital in Tel Aviv, where the president, government, Knesset and other state institutions sat.
Ben-Gurion’s announcement came, naturally, as the UN General Assembly was meeting in New York to debate the Middle East. At the time, Israel was waging a tough diplomatic battle to preserve the gains of the War of Independence, against most of the world, which demanded territorial concessions and the return of Palestinian refugees as the only path to peace.
But Ben-Gurion did not back down and decided to move the capital to Jerusalem. As expected, the world erupted in protest, condemned Israel harshly, and threatened retaliatory steps. Leading the opposition, as usual, were European countries, joined by the United States, whose ties with Israel in those years were cool and even hostile. But the die was cast, and Jerusalem became the capital. Inside Israel, too, many opposed the move. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett even submitted his resignation to Ben-Gurion, perhaps as protest, having warned that the step would bring disaster, or perhaps, as he later claimed, because he had not foreseen the diplomatic tsunami that swept over Israel.
Today we are once again warned that Israel is on the verge of diplomatic isolation, highlighted by the recognition of a Palestinian state by Britain, France and other Western countries. But such warnings should be taken with a grain of salt. First, most of the world, 147 of the UN’s 193 member states, has already recognized a Palestinian state for years, yet it has not come into being nor is it likely to in the near future. Second, a Palestinian state has not emerged not only because Israel controls the territory, but also because of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing failure to maintain functioning institutions and, above all, because of the looming threat of Hamas, which could seize control of any area handed over to the Palestinians.
In 1955, as Israel battled waves of terrorist attacks while being urged to exercise restraint out of fear of international criticism, Ben-Gurion declared: Only the courage of the Jews established the state, not some ‘UN-shmun’ decision… Our future depends not on what the nations say, but on what the Jews do. Still, Ben-Gurion was mindful of limits and the need for alliances. He launched the 1956 Sinai Campaign only after securing French backing, which for a time provided Israel with political cover and military aid.
The historical lesson is clear. A country like Israel, facing existential security challenges in a complex and hostile regional and global arena, cannot base its actions solely on how the world will respond.
The decision by some European states and others to recognize a Palestinian state stems from political calculations, appeasing the radical left and Muslim immigrant communities. It carries no real weight or meaning and will ultimately fade into history. Yet Israel must know what it seeks and can achieve, what is worth fighting for, and where to show flexibility. With all due respect to Gaza, it is not Jerusalem. As Menachem Begin once put it: Learn from Masada how not to reach it, and from Modiin how to build it.
The real question we must keep in sight is how to preserve cohesion and unity within Israeli society, and around what shared principles and goals to forge broad national consensus.
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Politicians Are Speaking Out! A Massive Awakening is Happening in Israel…
Posted 28September2025 JNS-TV:
Most people outside of Israel probably don’t realize what’s happening right now. In the middle of a war, with the country on edge, one unexpected name has suddenly been thrust into the spotlight: David Zini. He’s not a politician or a public figure, but a career IDF general who has just been appointed to head Israel’s most powerful security agency, the Shin Bet. In this episode, we break down who he is, why this move surprised so many, and how his sudden rise is already sparking political battles inside Israel.
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CABINET APPROVES MAJOR STEPS TO EXPAND ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
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🚨 CABINET APPROVES MAJOR STEPS TO EXPAND ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
Just before Prime Minister Netanyahu’s departure on an official flight, the cabinet approved a series of dramatic policy decisions affecting land policy in Judea and Samaria, led by Ministers Israel Katz and Bezalel Smotrich, according to reports.
Key elements of the decisions reportedly include:
• Changes to land registration and acquisition procedures
• Removal of confidentiality protections on certain land registries
• Measures that could enable demolition of unauthorized Palestinian construction in Area A
• A significant expansion of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
The moves are described as deepening de facto Israeli sovereignty in the region and could have major legal and diplomatic implications.
Some analysts say the decisions may conflict with understandings from the 1997 Hebron Agreement, part of the Oslo-era framework.
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FIRST U.S. EMBASSY CONSULAR SERVICE IN JUDEA
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🇺🇸 FIRST U.S. EMBASSY CONSULAR SERVICE IN JUDEA
The town of Efrat in Gush Etzion is set to host the first U.S. Embassy consular service branch in Judea, part of the embassy’s “Outreach Program.”
The new office, expected to open in the coming weeks, will provide passport renewals, birth registration, and other consular services for American citizens, eliminating the need to travel to Jerusalem.
With a large English-speaking population and many American residents, Efrat was seen as a natural location for expanded U.S. services.
Local leaders are calling the move both a practical improvement for residents and a symbolic milestone in U.S.–Israel relations in Judea and Samaria.
Source: The Jewish Edition
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Gush Etzion restaurant serves cholent and sovereignty
A new Cholent restaurant was opened at the Oz Vegaon reserve in Gush Etzion with two goals – serving customers and bringing more Jewish identity to Judea and Samaria.
Evyatar Moshe / 15March2026 / , 2:47 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423967<
Cholent at Oz veGaon – Arutz Sheva
Over the weekend, Yehudit Katzover and Nadia Matar, leaders of the Sovereignty Movement, inaugurated a new Cholent restaurant at the Oz veGaon Nature Reserve in Gush Etzion. The site is operated by Ephraim and Yoni Rozen and serves cholent, the traditional beef-and-grain stew widely associated with Jewish Shabbat meals and often eaten late at night before or after Shabbat. In many communities the dish is also known as hamin.
The opening event was attended by Knesset member Ohad Tal of the Religious Zionist Party.
Katzover and Matar explained that the initiative aims to combine a culinary experience with Jewish tradition. “Efi and Yoni wanted to do something good for the soul and for the reserve, and decided to open a cholent spot – something deeply Jewish, a traditional food enjoyed by Jewish communities everywhere,” they said.
At the launch, visitors were served Ashkenazi-style cholent. The organizers added that additional varieties are planned, including Moroccan-style hamin with wheat.
According to the organizers, the evening took place in a festive atmosphere. “It was tasty, pleasant, and warm – another night of Jewish presence filled with joy over the victories and miracles we experience every day and night,” they said.
They also addressed the significance of the location. “People asked how this is connected to sovereignty,” they said. “The answer is that the owners chose to open specifically in Judea and Samaria to express Jewish identity. There is nothing more associated with Jews around the world than cholent.”
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1500 year old Jericho synagogue named “Shalom al Yisrael”, Peace upon Israel
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You can call it Palestine all you want, but 1500 years ago, there was a synagogue here in Jericho named “Shalom al Yisrael”, Peace upon Israel, with a mosaic still there that says exactly that.
A menorah, a palm branch, and a Shofar.
Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel.
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1500 year old Jericho synagogue mosaic
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Gaza, A collection of memories from the Gaza Strip, BOOM
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A collection of memories from the Gaza Strip.
Have a Good night.
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Bye bye Gaza
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Bye-bye, Gaza!!!
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Boom morning Gaza-For the children’s sake keep going
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Boom morning Gaza
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For the children’s sake keep going
daniel hanuka-tweet-14April2025-Boom morning Gaza
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Enough with the Blood Libels – There Is No Settler Violence
Enough with the Blood Libels – There Is No “Settler Violence”
They are trying to manipulate your consciousness through the blood libel known as “settler violence.” Do not be dragged into this false discourse. Before you condemn, stop and think for a moment…
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
28December2025 https://www.ribonut.co.il/BlogPostID.aspx?BlogPostId=1010
Once again, we are witnessing videos that serve the “settler violence” campaign—a campaign that raises its head whenever the left identifies an opportunity for diplomatic pressure that could lead to further Israeli withdrawals.
The purpose of the blood-libel campaign against the Jews living in Judea and Samaria (labeled in English “settlers” but really should be called “inheritors of the land”) is to serve as a tool in the hands of those demanding their uprooting and expulsion from Judea and Samaria and the establishment of an Arab terror state in the heart of our land. It is entirely possible that the current timing of the renewed push of the false and libelous “settler violence” campaign was chosen due to the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House and the left’s hopes for American pressure to force Israel’s willingness to establish a Palestinian state.
In the face of this campaign of lies and defamation, we must stand firm with a decisive response whose headline is clear: there is no settler violence! To clarify this, we will begin with the obvious—unlike what occurs among the Arab enemy, where education toward hatred of Jews and the aspiration to kill Jews begins even before kindergarten and only intensifies over time, among Jews there are no people who wake up in the morning burning with a desire to attack Arabs for no reason. Jewish lives revolve around a normative daily routine of work, study, and family life.
Because this fact is well known, clear, and self-evident, when we are exposed in the media or on social networks to a widely circulated video showing a Jew who supposedly attacks an Arab, before rushing to condemn and defame, stop for a moment, take a deep breath, use your brain, and ask the necessary question: if a Jew arrived at such a situation, it is entirely possible that this is a completely different event—that it is part of a broader story deliberately not presented to us. Someone is trying to manipulate our consciousness in order to weaken the people of Israel and the State of Israel.
In these lines we wish to present one incident that occurred several months ago—one example that illustrates many others:
One day we received an agitated phone call. On the other end of the line was a distressed friend who told us how shocked she was by a video she had seen showing a Jew attacking an Arab and stealing his mobile phone. “Settler violence is shocking,” she concluded.
As we listened to her shock, it was already clear that this was a biased video backed by “consciousness engineers” and experts at manipulating the minds of innocent viewers. Nevertheless, we needed to present this friend with verified facts to prove that she too had fallen victim to the illusions of blood libels. The facts indeed arrived after an inquiry that took a little over a day. The story, as we suspected, was completely different:
It involved two young Jewish shepherds grazing their flock on pastureland belonging to a nearby Jewish community. A group of Arabs arrived at the scene and began throwing stones at them. One of the stones struck the head of one of the Jewish shepherds, who fell to the ground bleeding. The injured shepherd’s friend pulled out his phone and began filming the Arab attackers. When they realized they were being filmed, they attacked him, beat him, stole his phone, and began fleeing toward the Arab village from which they had come.
The shepherd did not give up and bravely pursued the fleeing rioters. He reached the village, entered a building where one of the rioters was hiding with the phone, struggled with him, and extracted the device from his hands. Friends of that rioter (in other words, a terrorist) filmed the struggle and the moment when the shepherd reclaimed the phone that had been stolen from him, and immediately distributed the end of the story detached from everything that had occurred beforehand. Thus, we are presented with an entirely different spectacle: a Jew beating someone and stealing a phone, instead of the true story of a Jew fighting to recover his phone, which contained footage of rioters who had attacked him and his friend.
Such incidents occur again and again throughout Judea and Samaria. There is no settler violence here, but rather straightforward self-defense.
Another incident occurred just in recent days, in which footage was circulated showing a reservist allegedly running over a praying Arab. Knowing the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria, we know full well that no one simply gets on a tractoron and runs over Arabs during prayer. However, the quick tendency to react from the gut without thinking lead to condemnations and rejection. Therefore, once again, the recommendation is to pause, breathe, and think before responding.
In this most recent incident, the truth became clear the following day. Once again, it was an attack on Jewish shepherds. This time, after the shepherds called for help, that same reservist arrived at the scene and, alone, managed to drive away the Arab rioters. Instead of being praised for his swift action in defending the shepherds and for his effective activity without fear, even as one man facing the rioters, he was met with condemnation, attacks, and accusations. After the true circumstances of the event became clear, did any of those who condemned and defamed him apologize?
Defamation of this kind has been repeatedly directed in recent years at hilltop youth and at the residents of the farms—noble-spirited and idealistic people who abandoned comfortable bourgeois lives and invest all their strength, resources, and energy in the people of Israel and the Land of Israel. Yet the day will come when we all look back, remember their deeds, and thank them for safeguarding national lands and maintaining a presence on the ground.
In summary, the next time you encounter a supposedly “shocking” video, do not fall into the trap of blood libels and consciousness manipulation. Do not rush to condemn. Do not become a plaything in the “settler violence” campaign, whose goal is to turn the residents of Judea and Samaria into a cruel demon that must be fought and expelled from its land—our G-dgiven Biblical heartland. At a time when settlement is developing and discourse about sovereignty is returning to the table, do not be dragged into the places the radical left is trying to pull us toward.
Say it clearly and loudly: there is no settler violence. There is self-defense by Jews living in their land.
Beware! Blood Libel ahead
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Israel is the West’s Last Line of Defense
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The US supporting the Jewish state is not merely an expression of friendship or a strategic alliance; it is an investment in safeguarding its own future and the values upon which Western civilization itself depends
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar-SOVEREIGNTY
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At a time when the West is grappling with a crisis of identity and the rise of fundamentalist Islamism, Israel is doing more than defending itself—it stands on the front line of a broader struggle for freedom, identity, and democracy.
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, The Sovereignty Movement
The global order that has shaped the past several decades is increasingly showing signs of strain. The world’s two leading powers, the United States and Russia, have both struggled to achieve decisive victories and secure their strategic objectives. Russia has failed to subdue Ukraine despite years of fighting, while the United States has repeatedly discovered that military, technological, and economic superiority does not guarantee success in a complex and rapidly changing world.
Yet the defining challenge of the twenty-first century is not primarily military, economic, or diplomatic. It runs much deeper.
We are living through an era of ideological reckoning – an age in which humanity is being compelled to revisit fundamental questions: What is our purpose? Which values should guide the future? And how do we build a better society for generations to come?
Across the Western world, a growing sense of uncertainty has emerged. Values once regarded as self-evident- family, community, nationhood, tradition, civic responsibility, and a sense of belonging – are constantly being reassessed. There is nothing inherently wrong with self-examination; free societies must be willing to question themselves. But when criticism evolves into a persistent doubt about every foundation upon which a society rests, that society risks losing confidence in itself and its ability to articulate a shared vision.
By contrast, the fundamentalist Islamist world projects a very different picture. It operates from a clear sense of identity, deep conviction, and well-defined goals. Its influence grows when it confronts societies that are no longer certain of their own direction.
At the same time, humility is essential. The West cannot present itself as having discovered the perfect formula for improving humanity. History tells a different story. It was, after all, in the heart of enlightened, educated, and advanced Europe that the Holocaust emerged. One of the greatest crimes in human history did not arise in distant deserts but at the center of European civilization. It serves as a painful reminder that technology, education, and progress do not guarantee morality, and that even the most sophisticated cultures can lose their way.
The real question, therefore, is not which side is stronger, but which worldview is capable of leading humanity toward a better future. Is it a world stripped of identity and roots? A world governed by religious or ideological coercion? Or is there another path – one that succeeds in reconciling values that often appear to be in conflict?
This is where Israel’s uniqueness stands out.
Israel is a remarkable human laboratory: a young and innovative nation with ancient roots; a modern democracy grounded in a profound historical and spiritual heritage. It is a society in which secular and religious Jews, traditional and ultra-Orthodox communities, new immigrants and veteran citizens, Jews and diverse minorities all live side by side. The encounter is not always easy, and at times it can be turbulent and deeply challenging. Yet it is precisely within this complexity that a distinctive model continues to evolve.
Israeli society is far from perfect, but it repeatedly strives to find a balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, identity and openness, tradition and renewal. In a world increasingly drawn toward extremes, Israel demonstrates that another way is possible.
For that reason, Israel’s role extends far beyond its borders. It is not only a center of innovation or a significant military power. It is also a nation wrestling with some of the most fundamental questions facing humanity’s future. How can a society preserve its identity without sacrificing democracy? How can an ancient heritage be integrated with technological progress? How can a people remain faithful to its roots without fearing renewal and change?
The world needs more than power. It needs direction. It needs vision. It needs a renewed understanding of meaning, responsibility, and purpose.
The great struggle of the twenty-first century will not be decided solely on battlefields, in trade balances, or in research laboratories. It will be decided by which culture can offer people a genuine sense of meaning.
That is why the United States and the nations of Europe should do more than observe Israel’s experience from afar. They should recognize that the struggle Israel is engaged in is also their own. Today, Israel stands on the front line in defending the values of freedom, identity, and democracy against forces seeking to undermine them. Supporting Israel is not merely an expression of friendship or a strategic alliance; it is an investment in safeguarding their own future and the values upon which Western civilization itself depends.
This is the great challenge of our generation—and also its greatest opportunity.
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Foreign Aid to Israel: A Bonanza for US Taxpayers
Yoram Ettinger • Summer 2026 https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2026/07/07/foreign-aid-to-israel-a-bonanza-for-us-taxpayers/
In the arena of US alliances, no relationship delivers the outsized return for the American taxpayer that the US-Israel partnership does.
Conventional wisdom often frames the annual $3.8 billion US credit to Israel (spent on the acquisition of military systems only in the United States) as solely foreign aid – a one-way handout at the expense of American taxpayers. Formally, it is foreign aid. However, due diligence reveals that this is a low/no-risk, high-return investment for the United States.
Since 1967, Israel has functioned as Washington’s premier dollar and defense multiplier, the most effective battle-tested laboratory, the most sophisticated commercial and defense research and development center (for over 250 US high-tech giants and the US defense and aerospace industries), a unique intelligence powerhouse, and a geopolitical force amplifier with no American military bases on its soil.
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In fact, US-Israel cooperation has been mutually beneficial, generating an annual Return-on-investment (RoI) of more than 1,000 percent on Washington’s foreign aid to Israel. This has yielded the United States billions of dollars in research and development savings, bolstered economic output and export, expanded employment, increased tax revenues, technological edge, and enhanced US national and homeland security. No other ally can deliver such benefits.
At the heart of this multiplier effect lies Israel’s role as a real-time, combat-proven showroom and innovation hub for the US defense and aerospace industries. For example, in 2018, Israel was the first country to receive the F-35 combat aircraft for operational use. At the time, leading US experts considered it a failed program.
However, by 2019, the combat-experienced Israeli Air Force, together with Lockheed-Martin, had solved practically all software/technical and hardware/mechanical glitches. This transformed the F-35 into the flagship of the US Air Force’s future fighter fleet and the premier project of the US aerospace industry. The Israeli experience and resulting upgrades have been shared daily with the US manufacturer, saving 10 to 20 years of research and development and perhaps tens of billions of dollars. These battle-tested refinements have dramatically enhanced the aircraft’s reliability, maintainability, electronic warfare capabilities, weapons integration, and survivability. As a result, since 2019, the uniquely intense use of the F-35 by the Israeli “showroom” has yielded a surge in global demand. More than 1,200 F-35s have been exported since 2019 to US allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Italy, and others. By late 2025, Lockheed-Martin reported a staggering $173 billion to $179 billion backlog and $72 billion in annual US economic output, including $40 billion in exports.
Currently, the F-35 project supports 290,000 jobs (a 35 percent expansion since 2019). It contributes about $3 billion in annual corporate and personal income tax revenues to the US Treasury. This almost completely offsets the $3.8 billion annual investment in Israel from this single platform alone.
This role of Israel as a unique dollar and defense multiplier for the US applies to dozens of advanced military systems, enhancing the fortunes of American US defense and aerospace industries, which employ 2.5 million people. For instance, Boeing’s Apache attack helicopter and Lockheed Martin’s Black Hawk utility helicopter have benefited from Israel’s intense operational tempo since the 1990s. Israeli combat use has resulted in upgraded avionics, survivability features (including advanced missile warning, electronic warfare, and countermeasures), and combat networking for the helicopters.
These improvements, validated in real-world conditions rather than simulations, have slashed research and development timelines and costs. For the Apache the figure is $16 billion; for the Black Hawk, $21 billion in today’s dollars. Moreover, Israel’s track record has propelled American exports, such as recent Apache deals with Poland, South Korea, Britain, and others, in excess of $20 billion. Black Hawk sales to Greece, Australia, Sweden, Brazil, and others totaled $8 billion to $10 billion for 2023–2026 alone. Similar dividends flowed from F-16 and F-15 combat aircraft, and from US-made precision munitions, drones, and air defenses.
Israeli Innovation
Beyond hardware, Israel serves as the US armed forces’ premier innovation center for battle tactics and training. Israeli operational lessons—drawn from thousands of hours in high-intensity, do-or-die environments—have reshaped US doctrine in air-to-air combat, radar suppression, urban warfare, counter-IED (improvised explosive devices) operations, special forces raids, and hostage rescue. In addition, US Special Operations battalions on their way to Iraq and other countries spend a few weeks in Israel, trained by Israeli experts in facing car bombs, suicide bombers, and the deadly IEDs.
US urban warfare units have adopted a training program based on the Israeli daily experience in facing Islamic terrorism in Lebanon, Syria, Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, the 1976 Entebbe (Jonathan) Operation directly inspired US counter-terrorism in general and creation of the Delta Force in particular. The 1982 “Operation Mole Cricket 19” destroyed 20 advanced Soviet surface-to-air missile batteries (which were perceived by the US to be impregnable) and downed 82 Syrian (Soviet) MiGs without Israeli losses, remains a cornerstone of US Air Force training programs and battle tactics.
More recently, Israel’s systematic sharing of maintenance, repair, and performance data on the F-35, F-16, and F-15 in the war against Iran has provided the Pentagon with priceless insights into the vulnerabilities of Chinese and Russian air defenses, aircraft, and ballistic missiles, which are deployed throughout the globe. These insights have impacted the global balance of power by eroding China’s and Russia’s deterrence posture, while bolstering the US’s own deterrence. No other ally provides the US with such an intensive, high-quality volume of national and homeland security support.
Intelligence Cooperation
Intelligence cooperation delivers a most staggering RoI due to Israel’s demography, which includes many people who could easily blend into every Muslim country, as well as Israel’s daring, innovative, can-do, defiance of odds, and out-of-the-box state of mind. Former US Air Force Intelligence Chief, General George Keegan, stated in an interview with the New York Times that the scope of intelligence provided by Israel would require the US to maintain “5 CIAs.” The annual budget of one CIA is around $15 billion, which amounts to a 400 percent annual RoI on the $3.8 billion annual investment, and probably three to five times as much. Senator Daniel Inouye, who served as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, assessed that Israel shares with the US more critical intelligence on enemy and rival military systems and counterterrorism than all NATO countries combined.
For example, in 2017, Israeli human and signal intelligence exposed a Syrian ISIS unit, which developed the means to insert explosives into laptops, bypassing US civic airport security. Upon receiving the information from Israel, the US upgraded its airport security systems, which prevented a catastrophic loss of human lives, severe cost to US airliners, and a grave blow to public morale and the US’s deterrent posture. Israeli tracking aided the elimination of key Shiite and Sunni Islamic terrorists.
Moreover, Israel has delivered Soviet-era advanced military hardware, such as the MiG-21 and MiG-23, the T-72 tank, the SA-6 missile, and the P-12 radar to the US. These were leveraged for reverse-engineering, radar-jamming techniques, and battle-tactic refinements that tilted the Cold War balance of power. Recent contributions include detailed profiles of Iranian drones, North Korean ballistic missiles, and Hezbollah networks in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and on US soil. This directly enhances US homeland security, the safety of US installations in the Middle East and worldwide, and the stability of all pro-US Latin American and Arab regimes.
Strategic Value
Strategically, Israel serves as the largest US military beachhead with no American troops on the ground. This is equivalent to several unsinkable aircraft carriers and multiple ground divisions in the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf theater. During the 1970s and the 1980s, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who served as Chief of Naval Operations, and General Alexander Haig, who served as NATO Supreme Commander and US Secretary of State, contended that Israel’s experience and potential replaced the need to manufacture and deploy a few more aircraft carriers to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea and deploy a few ground divisions to the Middle East. The cost of one advanced aircraft carrier is $10-$13 billion (more than 300 percent RoI), and the cost of deploying one ground division to the Middle East is $1 billion.
This region serves as the source of 48 percent of global oil reserves, the intersection of critical shipping lanes between the Far East and the West, and the epicenter of global anti-US Islamic terrorism. Israel’s deterrent posture has minimized the instability of pro-US Arab regimes (especially Jordan), facilitated six Israeli-Arab peace treaties, and constrained the maneuverability of Russia, China, and anti-US Sunni and Shiite Islamic terrorists. Contrast this with the $35 billion annual cost of US military bases in Western Europe, in addition to 80,000 US servicemen stationed there.
Historical Precedents
Israel’s 1967 victory aborted the Soviet-backed Egyptian offensive to assume pan-Arab leadership, while toppling all pro-US Arab oil-producing regimes. That would have dealt the United States a historic economic and national security setback, while boosting the global strategic stature of the US. In 1970, pro-Soviet Syria invaded Jordan, aiming to topple the pro-US Hashemite regime and trigger ripple effects, toppling pro-US Arab Gulf regimes. This was averted by Israel’s deployment of military forces to the Golan Heights (the tri-border area of Israel, Syria, and Jordan) at a time when the US was bogged down in Southeast Asia. The 1973 Yom Kippur War victory convinced Egypt to realign itself from pro-Soviet to pro-US. The 1981 Israeli destruction of Iraq’s nuclear reactor snatched all pro-US Arab oil producers from the jaws of pro-Soviet Saddam Hussein, and spared the US a potential nuclear confrontation during the 1991 First Gulf War.
Israel’s 2007 destruction of Syria’s nuclear reactor averted the first civil war in a country possessing nuclear weapons, (Syria). The 2024 Israeli offensives against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon sparked the toppling of Syria’s Assad regime. That in turn opened the door for the US to replace Russia as Syria’s major influencer. The June 2025 Israeli air offensive against Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime devastated Tehran’s air defenses and air force, enabling the US air force to bomb the three leading Iranian nuclear sites unimpeded. This exposed the vulnerabilities of Chinese and Russian air defenses and tilted the global balance of power in favor of the US.
Israel’s Reliability
Israel presents zero “zig-zag” risk, unlike other allies of the US, like regimes in Iran, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, and Yemen, which have flipped from pro-US to anti-US overnight due to coups, revolutions, or ideological shifts. Qatar hosts the massive Al Udeid base, yet bankrolls Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, anti-US Sunni terrorists, while on-again off-again cozying up to Iran’s anti-US regime. European allies’ support of US action is often conditioned upon domestic politics or multilateral approval, earning the quip “NATO = No Action Talk Only.” Realistically, Western Europe is not willing to flex a muscle against Islamic terrorism and additional threats, if – given shrunken military establishments – there is substantial muscle left. Israel, by contrast, maintains a rock-solid, cross-spectrum pro-US domestic consensus (Left and Right, secular and religious, hawks and doves). It does not wish US bases on its soil; it almost fully funds and fully mans its own military forces, and acts preemptively against mutual threats. Since joining the CENTCOM (Central Command) in 2021, operational integration has surged dramatically, enhancing CENTCOM’s preparedness and battle tactics.
Israel’s multiplier-effect extends beyond defense into commercial high-tech. More than 250 US firms such as Google, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, John Deere, Johnson & Johnson, and General Electric maintain R&D centers in Israel, leveraging its brainpower, defiance-of-odds culture, and frontier mentality to pioneer dual-use breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, cyber, communications, medicine, agriculture, irrigation, and financial technology. These innovations sustain US global technological supremacy, boost exports, and create high-value jobs.
The Bottom Line
Israel is to the US what Michael Jordan was to Nike—a transformative global ambassador and performance enhancer—but on a vastly larger, strategic scale. It is a self-funded, battle-hardened, democratic partner whose contributions to the US economy, national and homeland security, and power projection dwarf the annual investment (misperceived as “foreign aid”) of $3.8 billion.
In an era of peer competition and persistent threats, this mutually beneficial alliance remains indispensable. Elected officials and constituents alike would do well to recognize it as one of Americas most astute investments—delivering the American taxpayer unmatched financial and defense returns that help secure freedom, prosperity, and deterrence
In a world of costly uncertainty, a compact, capable ally that translates battlefield lessons into market-ready solutions is not merely valuable—it is indispensable.
Amb. Yoram Ettinger (ret.), served as Israeli consul-general in Houston, Texas and chief congressional liaison at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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The first brick in Israel’s ‘deep state’ wall has fallen
Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi must be stripped of her rank and face jail time for the damage she did to IDF soldiers and the State of Israel.
Avi Abelow
https://www.jns.org/the-first-brick-in-israels-deep-state-wall-has-fallen/
(2November2025 / JNS) In a disturbing revelation this past week, Israel’s Military Advocate General (MAG) Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted to personally authorizing not just the release, but the amplification of a fabricated video accusing IDF soldiers of committing sexual atrocities against Hamas prisoners.
The individual entrusted with defending our military instead became the mouthpiece for a lie so grotesque it painted our defenders as monsters and helped fuel anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations, branding them as rapists.
In doing so, this senior legal official created the worst blood libel in all of Jewish history, with billions of people around the world seeing that doctored video and believing the outrageous charges.
It only came to light because of an internal Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) report that surfaced, showing that officials admitted the MAG authorized sending the fabricated video to the media. Not because of the attorney general (AG). Not because of the Supreme Court. And certainly not because of the mainstream media.
They all covered up this scandal for a year and a half while some of them screamed for a proper investigation. The explosive piece of intelligence did not emerge by chance. It was escalated thanks to the courage and integrity of the new head of the Shin Bet, David Zini. Remember his name.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Zini for the Shin Bet position, the legal establishment and its mainstream media allies launched an all-out smear and legal campaign to destroy his appointment. They called him “unqualified,” “dangerous,” and “politicized” because he is a religious man with 11 children!
Now we know why. Zini represents a serious threat to the political Left deep state, not to Israel’s security, but to their deep state’s control of the running of the country. They were right to fear his appointment.
Had someone from the deep state’s approved list been appointed instead of Zini, this whole scandal would have stayed hidden. Their approval always comes with a price, loyalty to their cover-ups.
Zini took office because Netanyahu stood firm through a year of legal warfare and smear campaigns, and the truth finally broke through their wall of silence. The first brick of Israel’s deep state has fallen, and now the decay underneath is being exposed for all to see.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara appointed the same MAG who opposed his appointment to investigate the scandal, despite the conflict of interest, since only someone in her office could have escalated the fabricated video.
When that decision was challenged in the Supreme Court, justices sided with her, approving an arrangement that would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. It’s like letting the arsonist lead the fire investigation, with one corrupt legal official covering for another.
For years, many of us have warned that senior figures in Israel’s legal system operate as a self-protecting, ideologically driven network. This deep state shields its own and crushes dissent. And every time we spoke out, we were called conspiracy theorists or extremists.
• The MAG caught approving a fabricated attack on IDF soldiers.
• The AG blocking accountability and covering for her.
• The Supreme Court signing off on the cover-up.
• The mainstream media cheering them on and ignoring any factual investigative reporting on this huge scandal.
Yet despite it all, Zini and the brave people inside the Shin Bet who refused to stay silent changed everything
The political Left, which never stops preaching about “democracy” and “rule of law,” has been defending a system that subverts both, a system that protects corrupt insiders while targeting the patriots who defend this country.
This scandal is a turning point. The mask has fallen. The wall of lies and power that has propped up Israel’s deep state for decades is starting to crack.
Tomer-Yerushalmi must be stripped of her rank and face jail time for what she did to IDF soldiers and for the diplomatic damage she did to the State of Israel.
And that’s only the beginning. We must demand true, comprehensive judicial reform to dismantle the unelected fortress that has hijacked Israel’s democracy, betrayed its soldiers and manipulated the public for years.
Israel belongs to its people, not to the legal elites, not to the mainstream media and not to the deep state. The first brick has fallen. Now it’s time to bring down the entire wall.
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IDF SURVEILLANCE SOLDIERS WARN: “JUST LIKE OCTOBER 6”
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13August2026-IDF surveillance soldiers-warn just like on October 6
🚨 IDF SURVEILLANCE SOLDIERS WARN: “JUST LIKE OCTOBER 6” ON GAZA BORDER
Israeli surveillance soldiers say they are again seeing armed terrorists operating and planting explosives near the Yellow Line — echoing warnings they say were ignored before Oct. 7.
“I feel just like on October 6,” one soldier says. “What’s the difference? That we’re identifying it on the Yellow Line and not on the [border] fence. That’s the difference. We’re really seeing that they know we won’t fire on them. The Gazans aren’t idiots. In the end, they’re constantly testing us and seeing if we react or not. It’s just like before October 7.”
With international pressure pushing Israel to halt strikes, that restraint may be emboldening terrorists to test Israel’s limits.
Another soldier says she feels “helpless,” questioning the point of surveillance if identified threats aren’t acted upon.
A soldier warns that troops in Gaza are being used as “human shields.”
“In the end, the soldiers are stationed a few hundred meters from these terrorists,” she says. “We can’t just abandon them.”
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13August2026-IDF surveillance soldiers-warn just like on October 6
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Only about 1% of Israelis use Haaretz online as their news source.
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Here’s how little Israelis care about Haaretz’s reporting
30December2024
Every day I browse through Haaretz’s headlines. Its obsessive hate of Netanyahu and most Israelis still surprise me after all these years.
It occurs to me that Haaretz headlines are pretty much clickbait. They are designed to outrage and get you to read the vapid analysis and obsessive hate.
Haaretz’s newspaper circulation is tiny in Israel. In 2009, it was at 7.1%, in 2022 it was down to 4.7% exposure rate.
But what about online? Most people get their news from online sources, not physical newspapers – maybe Haaretz has an outsized influence there?
I found an April report on online media usage in Israel from the Israel Democracy Institute. It asked people which Internet site was their primary source of news.
It divided up the results by people who identify as left, center or right:
Israel Democracy Institute online media usage in Israel poll
Nobody on the Right uses Haaretz as their news source. Only about 1% of the center do, and a mere 8% of the Left use Haaretz as their news source.
In recent years, however, the number of Israelis who identify as Left has dwindled as well. It is now only 16%. So according to this poll, only about 1% of Israelis use Haaretz online as their news source.
That is practically nothing.
Haaretz says it has over 100,000 digital subscribers. I would love to know a breakdown of how many are in Hebrew and how many are in English, how many are in Israel and how many outside. My guess is that the bulk of their readership is not even Israeli.
Haaretz is the number one primary source of anti-Israel propaganda. It represents a minuscule number of Israelis.
Haaretz’s very existence proves how free the Israeli press is. Its numbers prove how irrelevant it is to the average Israeli.
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Haaretz dismisses Chaim Levinson for taking NIS 200,000 from Qatargate suspect
Between 2019 and 2024, Surlik Einhorn’s company Perception transferred the money to a company that Levinson owned, the Israeli daily paper reported.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
OCTOBER 31, 2025 07:39 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-872278
Israeli journalist Chaim Levinson was dismissed from Haaretz due to allegations that he received at least 200,000 NIS from the Qatargate and leaked document affair suspect Yisrael “Srulik” Einhorn’s company, Haaretz reported on Thursday.
Between 2019 and 2024, Srulik Einhorn’s company Perception transferred the money to a company that Levinson owned, the Israeli daily paper reported.
Levinson, a host on Channel 12 news and former Haaretz political correspondent, denied any connection to Qatar, but confirmed that he worked with Perception, and added that he was unaware that Einhorn was working for Qatar.
He further alleged that the money transferred to him was payment for campaigns he had ghostwritten for Einhorn in eastern Europe.
Haaretz’s Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn terminated Levinson’s position at the newspaper.
Levinson also admitted that he and Einhorn had been friends for many years.
A poster reading ”Qatar sponsored the massacre and Netanyahu’s office”, seen in Tel Aviv. April 20, 2025. (credit: MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH90)
Einhorn’s role in Qatargate, leaked document affair
Einhorn is suspected of fraudulently receiving funds from Qatar as part of a public relations campaign to improve the state’s image.
He also reportedly acted as a liaison between the Prime Minister’s Office and Bild, a German tabloid that published classified documents reportedly leaked from within Israel’s security establishment. Einhorn is further suspected of harassing Shlomo Filber, a state witness in Case 4000.
He was deposed in Serbia in July by both Israeli and Serbian investigators, according to Channel 13.
In September, Einhorn addressed the allegations against him for the first time, claiming that his work had been entirely legal.
“Hamas is a Nazi terrorist organization. Israel must eliminate it. Hamas leaders are in Doha because Israel and the United States asked Qatar to gather them there, to enable a monitoring and communication channel,” he added. “The alternative would have been Beirut or Tehran.”
“We worked together with Jay Footlik and Eli Feldstein to present the reality to the public, even if it’s uncomfortable to hear. Footlik approached us in an attempt to help with the release of hostages, endorsed with a legal opinion from attorney Gilad Sher,” he continued.
Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.
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Israeli union leader detained in major bribery, fraud probe
Over 350 people were reportedly questioned Monday following a raid on the Histadrut’s Tel Aviv offices.
JNS Staff
https://www.jns.org/israeli-union-leader-detained-in-major-bribery-fraud-probe/
(3November2025 / JNS) Arnon Bar-David, who heads the Histadrut, Israel’s most powerful trade union, was detained for questioning by police alongside his wife on Monday morning as part of a major probe into bribery and fraud.
According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, over 350 people were questioned Monday, including several mayors and “very senior” players in the Israeli economy, following a raid on the Histadrut’s Tel Aviv offices.
The affair, dubbed “Hand Shaking Hand” by police, is “one of the most serious cases we have encountered,” Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levi said in remarks to fellow officers cited by the channel.
“There is a link between businesspeople and senior figures in the economy, including labor union officials, involving the creation of electoral and promotional connections in parallel,” Levi stated.
“We will act with determination and without fear of investigating senior officials in order to uncover the truth,” he vowed.
A prominent businessperson from Israel’s insurance sector, described as a close associate of Bar-David, allegedly leveraged his Histadrut ties to secure lucrative jobs and install allies in key union and board positions with local authorities, state-owned enterprises and major companies.
Police allege the businessman used his connections to obtain insurance contracts with labor unions and municipalities, offering senior roles in return, including positions at Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and Israel Railways. Police also allege that the suspect spent illicit funds on luxury dining, travel and personal expenses.
The arrests followed a two-year undercover probe led by the police’s Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit, which led to the wave of coordinated raids at 50-plus homes and municipal offices of six local authorities.
Authorities said that the arrested suspects are under investigation for bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax offenses.
Lahav 433 head Meni Binyamin said the probe revealed “a pattern of quid-pro-quo relationships between businesspeople and public-sector officials,” emphasizing that the unit “will continue its uncompromising fight against public corruption with professionalism and integrity.”
The investigation is being conducted under the supervision of the Economic Department in the Office of the State Attorney, which is reportedly preparing indictments against key suspects in the case.
In a statement cited by Ynet, the Histadrut said it would fully cooperate with the investigation: “The Histadrut, its traditions, and its people are committed to transparency and law enforcement.” It added, “We are confident the probe will prove that no wrongdoing was committed.”
In September 2024, an Israeli labor court cut short a strike called by the Histadrut in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s failure to secure a truce deal with Hamas terrorists.
It came after the military announced that the bodies of six hostages had been found in a tunnel in southern Gaza, sparking anti-government protests and calls by left-wing political leaders for a general strike.
Judge Hadas Yahlom, president of the Labor Court in Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv, said in her decision that “the strike is political; there is no connection between the killing of the hostages and the economy.”
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Military Advocate General
Top IDF lawyer faces criminal probe after admitting to misleading High Court
Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi’s abrupt departure and confession come amid a criminal probe into alleged obstruction and false statements to the High Court, deepening a scandal that has shaken the military and sparked fierce political backlash
Tova Zimuky, Yoav Zitun, Yuval Karni | 31October2025 | 14:51 | https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1njr7zywx
The resignation of Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi on Friday and her admission that she authorized the leak of the video depicting alleged abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman base have marked a major turning point in the investigation rocking the IDF.
The focus of the inquiry is now shifting from who leaked the video to whether Tomer‑Yerushalmi obstructed justice by providing false information to the State Prosecution’s High Court department and other legal bodies, and whether she deliberately misled the courts.
The leak in question involved footage that allegedly showed reservists abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman. It sparked a High Court petition demanding an investigation into the source of the leak and questions over whether the clip was edited with bias.
Tomer‑Yerushalmi had previously told the court that an internal investigation failed to identify the responsible party—but in her resignation, she wrote that she bore “full responsibility” for the release of the material.
Among those who weighed in, former defense minister Yoav Gallant said Tomer‑Yerushalmi had lied to him when he asked why the leaker had not been found. “Her resignation letter is a mockery,” he said, adding that the matter must be fully investigated.
In the wake of her departure, Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir announced they would jointly seek to bring immediate stability to the Military Advocate General’s Office, with the chief of staff compiling a list of candidates for a successor and the minister to approve the final choice.
The probe’s outcome could carry significant implications for the IDF’s legal and operational procedures during the war in Gaza and for the military’s public standing.
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Police arrest Military Advocate General and former Chief Military Prosecutor
Police arrest Military Advocate General, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, along with the former Chief Military Prosecutor. Both are being questioned on suspicion of obstruction of investigative proceedings and breach of trust.
Israel National News / Published: 3November2025, 12:49 AM (GMT+2) Updated: 1:07 / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417197
Police arrested the Military Advocate General, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, along with the former Chief Military Prosecutor, early Monday morning.
Both are being questioned on suspicion of obstruction of investigative proceedings and breach of trust, partly in connection with the disappearance of Tomer-Yerushalmi’s mobile phone.
The Israel Police spokesperson said, “Following inquiries from reporters, we update that as part of the ongoing investigation conducted by a special team within the Israel Police – on suspicion of leaking and other serious criminal offenses – it was recently decided to arrest two key individuals involved in the case.”
The statement noted, “Depending on the progress of the investigation, the two are expected to be brought tomorrow for a remand hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court.”
On Sunday evening, police announced that Tomer-Yerushalmi had been found safe and sound after being declared missing with serious concern for her life. She contacted her husband, who immediately informed the police.
Despite being found safe and sound, police continue to search for her mobile phone, which has not yet been found and is currently believed to be turned off.
Tomer-Yerushalmi was scheduled to be questioned in the coming days on suspicion of obstruction of investigative proceedings, unauthorized disclosure of classified materials, and submitting a false affidavit.
She is currently at the center of a public storm after it was revealed that she was behind the leak of a video from the Sde Teman base, in which soldiers were allegedly seen assaulting a Hamas terrorist.
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Home Front Command alerts during Shabbat and the holiday
Silent wave during Shabbat and the holiday
During Shabbat and the holidays, you can receive Home Front Command alerts via the Silent Wave frequencies
https://www.oref.org.il/eng/articles/haredim/rockets-missles/4401
Radio Stations operating in “Silent Wave” format, providing preliminary guidelines, alerts, and end-of-event notifications; the National Emergency Portal on your computer; and the Home Front Command app—this is how you can receive the alerts in your area on Shabbat and Holidays.
Shabbat and Holidays observant citizens can receive the alerts and guidelines through the following means:
Silent Wave on Radio Stations
The following radio stations cease broadcasting on Shabbat and holidays and provide preliminary guidelines, alerts, and notifications regarding the end of an event and exiting the protected space. Starting on the first day of Passover, on every Shabbat and holiday, the “Silent Wave” will broadcast the guidance area on every preliminary guideline and end-of-event notification.:
Please note: During Operation “Roaring Lion”, you can also receive Radio Kol Chai and Kol BaRama in the Northern region:
Leave the radio device turned on to one of these frequencies to receive only instructions and alerts during Shabbat and holiday.
To find the name of the guidance area for your town – enter the site homepage and enter the name of your town into the box at the top of the page.
National Emergency Portal
You can connect to the National Emergency Portal (this website) before Shabbat, approve the activation of voice alerts in the pop-up window on the homepage, then go to the “Alerts” tab and define your location. The computer must be left active during Shabbat (it is important to disable “Sleep Mode” in the computer settings so the screen remains on). If rocket or missile fire occurs in your defined area, an alert will be received via sound and an on-screen display.
Home Front Command App
If you have a smartphone—you can receive alerts on the Home Front Command app if a threat is posed to your location (location services must be enabled) as well as for 10 areas of interest of your choice. On iPhone—ensure the device is not on “Silent” mode. People with hearing disabilities can set the alert to a 10-second vibration (on Android—set this in the app’s settings page; on iPhone—set the vibration in the device’s system settings). Additionally, the alert can be received accompanied by the flashlight flickering.
Home Front Command Quiet Wave on Shabbat
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This is How You Prepare for Shabbat in an Emergency
Using a few simple actions you can prepare for Shabbat in emergency situations, while following the Home Front Command guidelines and observing Shabbat
https://www.oref.org.il/eng/articles/haredim/rockets-missles/4400
The State of Israel is in the midst of a war in the south and in the north. During a war, even when there is a temporary respite, you are still in a time of emergency that does not stop on Shabbat, so people who observe Shabbat must prepare and make the necessary adjustments before Shabbat, by following a number of simple steps.
This preparation is important and essential to enable you to follow the Home Front Command guidelines in full, even during Shabbat, while keeping both life-saving guidelines and the Shabbat.
Receiving alerts during Shabbat:
To guarantee that you continue to receive alerts during Shabbat, you must connect before Shabbat to the Home Front Command’s means of alert.
Click here for information on receiving alerts on Shabbat and holidays.
Preparing the protected space before Shabbat
At this time, we must be prepared and have the protected space ready in case an alert is received. This is even more significant before Shabbat, to make sure the protected space can serve us as needed during Shabbat. Therefore, it is important to perform the following actions before Shabbat begins:
• Make sure the light in the protected space and on the way to it is switched on, so we can safely reach the protected room and avoid tripping in the room or on the way to it.
• Remove any Mukze items that may interfere with the arrival and stay in the protected space.
• Make sure that before Shabbat starts you leave some useful items in the protected room: bottles of water, a radio operating on the silent wave, a siddur, toys for the children, etc.
Spending the Shabbat away from home?
• Make sure you hosts have a protected space that is suitable for your needs and those of your family.
• Find out what is the time available to reach shelter in the location where you will be spending the Shabbat.
• Prepare the protected space in the place where you will be staying before Shabbat starts and according to guidelines.
Preparing for emergencies in Shul
On Shabbat and holidays, it is customary to go to Shul with the children and the women’s gallery is also fuller than on ordinary days. Therefore, it is important to know and remind the members of the family of the behavioral guidelines at the Shul.
Even outdoors, the Home Front Command guidelines save lives
Naturally, many families go on Shabbat with the children for walks in the neighborhood, to play in the park and visit extended family and friends. Therefore, it is important to know and to remind the children of the behavioral guidelines when receiving al alert on rocket and missile fire outdoors, according to the following:
• In a built-up area – enter a shelter or a stairwell in a nearby building for 10 minutes. Stay away from the entrance area.
• In an open area – lie on the ground and protect your head with your hands.
A special letter from the Chief Rabbis
When the Iron Swords War erupted, the Chief Rabbis, The Rishon Lezion Rabbi Izhak Yossef Shalita (שליט”א) and the Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Lao Shalita (שליט”א), issued a letter with specific Halacha rulings for behavior in Shabbat during a war, along with Halachot referring to the behavior in time of war on normal days.
These are the main points in the letter:
1. You must follow all Home Front Command guidelines and recommendations to the letter. When the guideline is to remain at home, do not leave the home at all, even not to pray, say your prayers alone.
2. Pray only in Shuls that have protected space or are close to protected spaces. If an alert is received, go to the protected space immediately until the danger passes. People who are ill and walk slowly should pray in their homes, unless the Shul is in a shelter.
3. If you receive an alert during Amida, you must stop immediately and walk silently to the protected space, and then return and pray. If the delay was no more than five or six minutes, continue where you left off, if it was more than five or six minutes, start over from the beginning of Amida. If an alert is received in the middle of reading from the Torah, close the scroll immediately and place a cloth over it and then go to the protected space, even if the Torah is left unguarded. When you return, continue the reading where you left off.
4. In every Shul, leave a mobile phone that is switched on before Shabbat, so it can be used to call emergency services in case of need. A mobile phone can be kept in your pocket on vibration mode.
5. Those who have a licensed weapon, should carry the weapon also on Shabbat, even if you do not usually trust the Eruv. It is important to make sure that in every Shul there is at least one person who is armed. Walk with your weapon covered by your clothes.
6. Leave the radio on, tuned to the silent wave, to make sure you receive the Home Front alerts.
7. In all prayers, include the Avinu Malkenu prayer, including on Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh (omitting the “Katvenu” part and in Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh omitting Chatanu Lefanecha), when opening the Heichal, repeat 12 times “Leolam Hashem Dvarech Nitzav Bashamaim” and the Psalms 20, 100, 121, 230, 242 as well as the special prayer we issued for this time.
8. For matters relating to Tvila and Tahara, consult your local rabbis.
9. Simchas such as weddings, Briths and such like must be conducted according to the Home Front Command guidelines.
ויהי רצון שלא ישמע עוד שוד ושבר בגבולנו, ושב יעקב ושקט ושאנן ואין מחריד, ובא לציון גואל במהרה בימינו אמן.
Shabbat Shalom
Venishmartem Meod Lenafshotechem, with G-D’s help, together, we shall win!
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Nearly 50,000 Jews celebrate Sukkot in Hebron
Fifty percent more worshippers than last year visited Judaism’s second-holiest site during the first days of the Feast of Booths.
JNS Staff
https://www.jns.org/nearly-50000-jews-celebrate-sukkot-in-hebron/
Israel flags decorate the 2,000-year-old Cave of the Patriarchs complex in Hebron in anticipation of Independence Day, May 2018. The same Herodian masonry is used for the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by Yishai Fleisher
( 12October2025 / JNS) Almost 50,000 Jews visited the Cave of the Patriarchs in the Judea city of Hebron Octoberduring the first two days of the joyous Sukkot festival on Oct. 7-8, according to Israel Defense Forces data.
A total of 47,000 Jews visited Judaism’s second-holiest city during the first two days of the weeklong Feast of Booths—1.5 times as many worshippers as last year, the data cited by Arutz 7 on Sunday indicated.
The Cave of the Patriarchs (“Mearat Hamachpela“) is the burial place of the Jewish patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. According to the biblical account, the cave was purchased by Abraham from Ephron the Hittite more than 3,000 years ago.
Hebron is home to some 800 Jewish residents—there is a waiting list to move there—who live surrounded by some 200,000 Arabs.
At dawn on Wednesday, thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Cave of the Patriarchs for a traditional Hallel prayer led by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed in the Upper Galilee, and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Schwartz, the chief rabbi of Hebron-Kiryat Arba.
Among those attending the service were bereaved Israeli families, IDF troops and their relatives, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu and other senior officials.
Eliyahu told attendees at the prayer service, “The Zohar [book of Jewish mysticism] teaches that in the future, the enemies of Israel throughout generations will reappear in the enemies of today. At the same time, the patriarchs themselves are revealed through the righteous of our time.”
He added that this includes “all the righteous and soldiers who risk their lives not just to save one soul, but to save an entire people—and through them, an entire world.”
Also on Wednesday, Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, declaring victory at the holiest site in Judaism two years after the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist invasion of the northwestern Negev.
“We are two years after the terrible massacre—here at the Temple Mount there is victory, in every house in Gaza there is a picture of the Temple Mount, and we today, two years later, are victorious at the Temple Mount,” the leader of the Oztma Yehudit Party exclaimed.
Almost 70,000 Jews ascended the Mount in the Hebrew year 5785, a 22% increase compared to the previous year and a modern-day record, the Beyadenu—Returning to the Temple Mount group stated on Sept. 24.
According to the Israeli advocacy group, 68,429 Jewish worshippers entered Judaism’s holiest site since the previous Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, on Oct. 2, 2024. In 5784, 56,057 visited the site.
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Michael Eisenberg: ‘Aliyah is about growth, not just integration’
Speaking with Arutz Sheva at the Ministry of Immigration’s conference, Michael Eisenberg called on Israeli companies to lead a ‘million Olim’ initiative to boost growth.
Israel National News / Published: 22October2025, 10:13 PM (GMT+3) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416663
Aleph Venture Capital Co-founder and General Partner Michael Eisenberg stopped by the Arutz Sheva-Israel National News broadcast booth at a special conference organized by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration titled ‘Aliyah as a Growth Engine for the Israeli Economy,’ and spoke about the vital role of Israeli industry and the private sector in supporting new Olim and strengthening Israel’s economy.
Eisenberg emphasized that Aliyah should not be viewed merely as an integration process, but as a key driver of national growth. “This is about growth. This is about economic growth. Olim, with the talent that they bring to Israel, are an incredibly rare asset, and one that we need here to grow our economy,” he said. “A strong Israel, both from a defense perspective and from an economic perspective, is what will enable us to be safe in this area.”
He cited remarks by President Trump in the Knesset, saying, “You are a small country, and that is a problem. You know how we can become a big country? In three ways: innovation, a strong economy, and Aliyah – and of course, having babies. We do that well. Now we need immigration to increase, and particularly bring talent that grows the economy.”
When asked about the role of Israeli companies in the process, Eisenberg stressed that Zionism itself includes building a sustainable economy. “This is Zionism. When Herzl writes Altneuland, he talks about the economy too, a uniquely Israeli economy. This is Zionism. Zionism is building this country. They built railroads. They built roads. They built hospitals. They built a labor union that we’re still stuck with. It always needs to build the economy,” he said.
Eisenberg highlighted that the government alone cannot carry the responsibility for absorbing new immigrants. “The world is moving so fast, the government cannot do this on its own. I question whether it can do it at all. They can kind of point the direction and clear the bureaucracy. Citizens need to take responsibility for this. Businesses need to take responsibility for this. High-tech entrepreneurs need to take responsibility for this. We can do this. We can bring one million Olim in the next 10 years.”
Asked what should happen next, Eisenberg called for a shift in mindset and an appreciation of Israel’s achievements. “There’s a tendency sometimes in Israel to look at the glass half empty. The glass is not only half full, it’s very full. It’s been a very difficult two years, but also very inspiring. We have the greatest citizens in the world. This is the greatest place in the world to raise a family. This is one of the most innovative economies in the world, top three. This is an incredible place to live. And we need to say that openly to people. Come here. This is the best place to raise a family on planet Earth.”
He urged company leaders to take practical steps and personally reach out to potential immigrants. “I told 150 people in there, leaders of companies: get on a plane. You take Australia, you take France, you take the UK, you take the United States, you take Argentina – get on there. Tell them there’s economic opportunity here. Tell them you can help them. Be their best friend. Because when you land here, look, I’m an immigrant, you’re an immigrant. I came 32 years ago. I still have an accent in Hebrew. There are still things I don’t understand. I struggle to read my bank statement. People need help when they come here.”
Eisenberg concluded with a call for collective responsibility: “When they land here, you actually encounter the reality and the bureaucracy, and everyone needs help. We have to help these people. We have to stand by their side. Before the end of the plane and when they get here, everyone needs to take responsibility for an Oleh.”
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Netanyahu Says IDF Losses Due to Ammunition Shortage Before Trump Intervention
Israeli prime minister vows no reconstruction or Palestinian state in Gaza before full demilitarization.
28January2026 https://israfan.com/p/netanyahu-idf-losses-gaza-trump-ammunition
In a powerful joint press conference with Hostage Coordinator Gal Hirsch, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that IDF soldiers who fell in Gaza did so, in part, due to an ammunition shortage one he claims was corrected after U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office.
“Our soldiers fell [in Gaza] because we didn’t have enough ammunition,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday evening. “That changed when Trump took office.” The statement marked a sharp reflection on recent military challenges and underscored the importance of strong international partnerships.
Netanyahu and Hirsch stood before the nation with a bittersweet announcement: for the first time in over a decade, no Israeli hostages remain in the Gaza Strip. The return of St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili’s remains, after he was killed defending Israeli civilians on October 7, completed what both leaders called a sacred mission.
“One hundred and sixty-eight hostages were returned alive. Eighty-seven were returned dead,” Hirsch said emotionally. “I remember each name and face.”
“This was the most difficult task of my life,” he added, visibly moved by the weight of the mission.
Netanyahu declared that Israel had achieved what many thought impossible, bringing all hostages home. But the mission is far from over. The prime minister reiterated his unwavering objective: the total dismantling and disarmament of Hamas and the Gaza Strip.
“There are only two ways to disarm Gaza the easy way or the hard way,” Netanyahu said, echoing prior statements made in coordination with President Trump.
He dismissed any speculation about rebuilding Gaza before it is demilitarized. “That won’t happen,” Netanyahu asserted. “I’m also hearing that we will bring Turkish and Qatari soldiers into Gaza. That won’t happen. I’m hearing that I will allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza. That hasn’t happened, and it won’t happen.”
The prime minister also issued a stark warning to Iran. “If Iran makes the grave mistake of attacking Israel, we will respond with a force that Iran has never seen before.”
Netanyahu acknowledged that while Israel and the U.S. may take different tactical approaches to Tehran, both nations remain in close communication. “I don’t want to dictate to President Trump what he will or will not do,” he said, “but we report fully to one another on Iran.”
Tuesday’s press conference followed the recovery of Sgt. Ran Gvili’s body from northern Gaza, where he fell heroically protecting civilians during the October 7 terror assault. His return symbolizes not only national closure, but renewed resolve.
Israel’s defense and future cannot depend on others’ permission. The path ahead is clear: no reconstruction before disarmament, no surrender to terror, and no tolerance for threats to Jewish sovereignty.
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Israel will build ‘Independent Arms Industry’ amid worry of international constraints: Netanyahu
Posted 25September2025 The Economic Times:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday (September 16) that Israel will create an “independent arms industry” that can “withstand international constraints”. In his address, Netanyahu spoke about the Israeli economy and that it withheld through two economic crisis, the COVID and the two year war on Gaza. He also added that President of the United States, Donald Trump had invited him to the White House in two weeks, after his speech at the U.N.
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Israel investing over $100 billion in homegrown arms production, Netanyahu reveals
Premier says country will build an independent munitions industry over the next decade, ‘reduce dependence on all players’ after threat of arms embargoes, boycotts during Gaza war
By Lazar Berman
25 December 2025, 1:33 am https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-investing-more-than-100-billion-into-independent-arms-industry-netanyahu-reveals/
Israel is working to gain as much independence as possible in its weapons production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday, in a development he said was the result of the lessons learned during the past two years of war on multiple fronts.
“I approved, along with the defense minister and finance minister, a sum of NIS 350 billion [$108 billion] over the next decade to build an independent Israeli munitions industry,” Netanyahu said in an address at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots.
The move, he said, stemmed from a desire to “reduce our dependence on all players, including friends,” after allies including the US, UK, and Germany all imposed various restrictions on weapons sales to Israel since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
Still, he noted, many countries around the world, including Germany, “want to buy from us more and more systems.”
The premier has long been calling for Israel to develop its own self-reliant military industry, and in January 2024 announced that the government would invest in a “multi-year plan to free Israel from dependence on external purchases.”
The matter returned to the public eye earlier this year as Jerusalem’s European allies began to grow impatient with Israel’s conduct in Gaza, with some calling for arms embargoes and sanctions.
People march behind a banner reading “Against Genocide Let’s block everything” during a nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and calling for a halt to arms shipments to Israel, in Rome on September 22, 2025. (Andreas SOLARO / AFP)
In that light, Netanyahu briefly caused an uproar in September when he admitted that Israel was facing increased isolation on the world stage and that, to combat that, it would have to become a more self-reliant “super-Sparta” in the years to come.
The remarks sparked outrage and spooked the markets, forcing him to clarify them in a follow-up press conference the next day, when he insisted that he had been referring only to the defense ministry rather than the overall Israeli economy.
In his speech on Wednesday, Netanyahu also addressed Israel’s aerial superiority, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled reference to Turkey’s quest to receive F-35 fighter jets from the US.
Israel will “prevent whoever must be prevented from receiving these instruments,” the premier promised, adding that the Jewish state’s “aerial superiority in the Middle East is a cornerstone of our national security.”
Maintaining this, he said, rests on Israel’s skilled pilots and “the best aircraft in the world.”
Israel is currently the only country in the Middle East with F-35s in its arsenal, currently operating 45 of the aircraft with another 30 units on order.
During US President Donald Trump’s first term, Washington removed Turkey, a NATO ally, from its flagship F-35 fighter jet program, after Ankara purchased the S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia.
But now, anxious to bolster its air power, Turkey has proposed to European partners and the US ways it could swiftly obtain the fighter jets as it seeks to make up ground versus regional rivals such as Israel.
Turkey is one of the world’s most outspoken critics of Israel, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan often accusing Israel of genocide over the past two years, and praising Hamas.
Further bolstering Israel’s fears, Trump recently announced the sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia, although US officials and defense experts told Reuters that the jets to be sold to the Saudis will be less advanced than those used by the IDF.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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Amid embargoes, how independent can Israel’s defense industry be?
Analysts agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could become more self-sufficient, but there are clear limits to the push.
By Seth J. Frantzman on September 30, 2025 12:43 pm https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/amid-embargoes-how-independent-can-israels-defense-industry-be/
JERUSALEM — Facing foreign arms embargoes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for Israel to become far more self-reliant on homegrown defense products, describing his vision of the Middle Eastern power as a “super Sparta.”
But analysts told Breaking Defense that while it would be in Jerusalem’s interest to build more defense components and platforms at home, there are clear limits to what the defense industry is capable of on its own.
“Israel will not be totally independent,” Yaakov Amidror, who served as Netanyahu’s national security advisor between 2011 and 2013, told Breaking Defense. “It will not produce F-35s or submarines, for example, but Israel can be and should be less dependent on others regarding munitions and spare parts.”
In a speech on Sept. 15 Netanyahu acknowledged that economically Israel is “in a sort of isolation.”
“I am a believer in the free market, but we may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries are blocked. We will need to develop arms industries here — not only research and development, but also the ability to produce what we need,” he said. After the comments sparked a vocal backlash, Netanyahu clarified that the defense industry was already “soaring,” but reiterated Israel needed to “achieve security independence.” (Days later, scores of delegates walked out ahead of Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly.)
Eran Lerman, a former deputy for foreign policy and international affairs at the national security council in the Israeli prime minister’s office, noted “there is a reason Netanyahu quickly walked back his earlier comment about becoming generally self-reliant — it simply cannot work in an economy fully geared towards export.” Lerman, who is vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, added that in more narrow terms relating to military supplies, “it does make sense to generate alternatives to the occasionally problematic chains of supply. But to wrap this in the red battle cloak of Sparta was an obvious mistake.”
Yaakov Katz, author of Shadow Strike, a book about Israel’s raid on Syria’s nuclear program and a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, said that Netanyahu was right regarding Israel’s need to be more self-reliant in terms of weapons production. However, he agreed with Amidror that when it comes to major platforms like warplanes, it won’t be possible.
“Take the Air Force as an example: All of the IAF’s aircraft except the trainer aircraft are US made. [These] are F-15s, F-16s, F-35s and so much more. Without spare parts, maintenance and more from the US, Israel will not be able to fly and hence, will not be able to fight. So while independence is important, so is ensuring we have bipartisan support in the US for decades to come.”
While some European nations have announced embargoes on arms sales to Israel over its conduct in Gaza, Washington has maintained its close relationship with Jerusalem, even if President Donald Trump appears at times to have been frustrated with Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister concluded a visit to the White House on Monday, after which Trump presented a 20-point plan to end the conflict in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israeli defense firms have been logging record export sales, despite the ongoing war against Hamas. Israel has also been plowing funds into local defense contracts, which Israel’s Ministry of Defense says is part of an attempt to invest in what are called “blue and white” local industries to create “manufacturing independence.” This has included everything from manufacturing munitions to repairing and producing tanks.
One way Israel is responding to the new self-reliance drive is to establish a National Armament Council. Israel Ministry of Defense Director General Amir Baram said on Sept. 15 that the new council would “accelerate our preparedness for third- and fourth-tier threats dramatically. This comprehensive body will unite all stakeholders around a unified table: the defense establishment, Treasury officials, the Ministry’s R&D directorate, defense industries, and additional relevant entities.”
Speaking that day — a day before Netanyahu’s controversial comments — about Israel’s outlook, Baram noted that “security and economic strength are inextricably linked, particularly in Israel. Fundamental security is a cornerstone of national security — alongside robust economics, social cohesion, and cutting-edge technology.”
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EU Approves Sanctions on Israel
Peloni
The European Union approved a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organizations connected to the targets of the Settler Violence campaign in Israel. According to the reports, EU foreign ministers agreed to the measures on May 11, just days after Hungary’s block on the sanctions was lifted as part of the consequence of Orban having recently lost his election. The timing is such that it appears that this was one of Peter Magyar’s first moves upon taking power only two days ago. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc approved sanctions on Israeli settlers over violence against Palestinians.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar responded by condemning the sanctions, highlighting their “arbitrary” and “political” nature. He rejected what he described as a moral equivalence.
Of course, this latest attack on Israel by its European antagonists is the end goal of the maliciously manufactured ‘Settler Violence’ campaign recently described by Naomi Kahn.
This is likely just the first shot across the bow by Europe’s unified opposition to Israel, but Europe is not invulnerable. It has a need of Israeli arms and Israeli gas. These commodities are important to Israel’s economy, but they fill an important need for Europe’s opposition to Russia. The threat and abuse from Europe will only grow if the limit of Israel’s responce is verbal.
Sources
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426904
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260511-eu-approves-new-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers-over-west-bank-violence-palestinians
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11/eu-backs-sanctions-on-violent-israeli-settlers-in-the-west-bank
The Reality
Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-11May2026-EU Approves Sanctions on Israel
Oddly enough, to this very moment the European Union has still not officially and transparently published the list of Israeli individuals and organizations it decided to sanction.
Information circulating through diplomatic channels indicates that the sanctions list (the contents of which have also not been disclosed) includes individuals and organizations that have no connection whatsoever to violence or criminal activity.
The European Union’s rhetoric is about sanctions against “settler violence.” The practice, apparently, is sanctions against political views that don’t conform with the EU’s own views.
Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-11May2026-EU Approves Sanctions on Israel
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Failed leftist Jewish leadership is causing needless antisemitism
By Seth Grossman 21October2025 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/failed_leftist_jewish_leadership_is_causing_needless_antisemitism.html
A new and vicious antisemitism has become fashionable for many young Americans on both the left and, sadly, the right. Conversations praising Hitler and joking about “a so-called Holocaust” are all over X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Most Jews of my “Boomer” generation know nothing about this.
We grew up in an America where it was normal for Jews to live safe and comfortable lives. We laughed at Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song because it seemed like almost everyone in public life had a Jewish connection. American Jews generously funded the ADL, AIPAC, and countless Jewish Federations and other organizations to protect Jews and fight antisemitism.
What happened?
The short answer is that America today is no longer the “goldene medina” (golden land) it was for us Boomers, our parents, and our grandparents. It is quickly becoming like the “Old Country” that our parents and grandparents left.
To make things worse, the “best and brightest” of American Jews—that is, the ones lauded and given power with the Democrat party and further left—openly and loudly promoted and cheered that “fundamental transformation” and advanced many of the worst tropes.
We need to talk. We cannot blame Netanyahu. We saw this antisemitism on October 8, 2023. That was months before Israel attacked Gaza.
Until recently, there was very little antisemitism from conservatives. Most hatred and deadly attacks against Jews came from Blacks, Muslims, and “woke” activists on the left.
Notably, in 2017, “Unite the Right” could bring only a hundred Tiki Torch boys to Charlottesville, Virginia, from all over America. Many were undercover police agents or as fake as Jussie Smollett. The media made them important headline news for weeks to embarrass President Trump. They chanted “Jews will not replace us.”. This was after the ADL joined President Obama’s lawsuit to stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws. It was after Jewish charities like HIAS resettled thousands of Muslim “refugees” throughout America.
Leftist Jewish elites—and it’s very important here to distinguish between religious Jews and those whose creed is variations of Marxism—created similar hatred against Jews in America. Here are seven examples:
1. Openly and proudly supported socialist and left-wing causes and politicians. This included “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” programs and the transgender madness that put men into women’s sports.
2. Attacked and ridiculed Christian and American values and traditions in the media, Hollywood, and TV pop culture, and in schools and colleges.
3. Openly supported, defended, and advised politicians who got rich and powerful from massive government spending, debt, bureaucracies, and Wall Street bailouts that crushed the middle class.
4. Falsely accused Bible-based Christians who supported and defended Jews and Israel of being “far-right” and “white-supremacists.”
5. Taught a narrative that falsely blamed irrational “hate” and the “far-right” for the Holocaust while avoiding the obvious cause—National Socialism. (Goetz Aly explained this in his book Why the Germans, Why the Jews?).
6. Openly and proudly supported massive legal and illegal immigration to America of Muslims and others who hate Christians and Jews and basic American values.
7. “Built bridges” with Muslims while snubbing Hindus and Christians whose families were persecuted and murdered by Muslims in Africa and Bangladesh.
For the past fifty years, nonreligious or superficially religious American Jews within the Democrat party enabled and supported our worst enemies. At the same time, they insulted and attacked our best friends. Now we are hated by both sides. We need to talk.
Seth Grossman is a retired attorney in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was active in Republican politics for many years. He was a member of the city council and county commissioners during the 1980s. He was the Republican nominee for the House of Representatives in 2018 and was narrowly defeated by the “Blue Wave” that defeated most Republicans then. He is the Executive Director of Liberty and Prosperity. That is a New Jersey organization that has promoted American liberty and constitutional government since 2003.
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Biased media fuels American Jewish opposition to Israel
A poll shows that liberals and those who think being Jewish is unimportant are more likely to believe Hamas propaganda that the mainstream press reports as facts.
https://www.jns.org/biased-media-fuels-american-jewish-opposition-to-israel/
Jonathan S. Tobin
(10October2025 / JNS) The data is staggering. No matter how you look at it, a Washington Post poll conducted last month showing that 61% of American Jews believe that Israel has committed “war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza” is shocking for those who worry about declining Jewish support for Israel. The same survey shows that 39% of American Jewry believes that Israel is committing “genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
The headline on the article discussing the results characterized them as demonstrating that “many American Jews are sharply critical of Israel on Gaza.” It fits with the results that showed them disapproving of Israel’s war in Gaza by a slender but still telling 48% to 46% margin.
The ‘genocide’ blood libel
The answers to the questions about “war crimes” and “genocide” demonstrate that—at least as far as the respondents in question—the state of American Jewish opinion about Israel has gone far beyond criticism. It’s one thing for Jewish liberals living in the United States to think ill of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his coalition of nationalist and religious parties, whose supporters have very different worldviews about a variety of topics, not the least of which is their support for U.S. President Donald Trump.
But if a critical mass of those who self-identify as Jewish is willing to swallow blood libels that allege that Israelis are attempting to wipe out an entire people, then clearly something is very wrong. That’s the sort of news that should be enough to send Jewish leaders and organizations into a state of panic, as well as worry Israelis, many of whom have already begun to conclude that their Jewish brethren are far less reliable supporters of their right to live in peace and security than evangelical Christians.
This data will, like many other surveys over the years that have provided results that demonstrate a decline in Jewish support for Israel, provoke discussions and plans for more projects aimed at reversing this trend. While efforts along these lines are, in principle, praiseworthy, those friends of Israel who are panicking about this particular poll—and those antisemites and other enemies of Israel that are rejoicing over it—need to place it in perspective.
It tells us a lot more about the state of American Jewry in 2025 than it does about Israel’s conduct of the post-Oct. 7 war against Hamas in Gaza.
Just as important, the survey answers are in large measure a direct result of the biased coverage of Israel and the war in the Gaza Strip that has been provided by corporate legacy press outlets like The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and MSNBC. So, as much as anything else, what the Post is revealing in this poll is that people who depend on mainstream liberal media for their information are frankly ignorant of the truth about the war, believing what the misleading and often downright lying coverage about Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs tells them. No wonder they believe the misinformation they are being fed about the Jewish state committing “war crimes” and “genocide.”
The survey’s breakdown of their respondents’ beliefs helps us understand why they are so “critical” of Israel.
Decline in Jewish peoplehood
Like more detailed studies of American Jewry, the Post’s sample showed that a significant portion of those who identify as Jewish don’t consider their identity to be very important to them, with 29% saying it meant little or nothing to them and 24% saying they did not consider Judaism to be their religion. Some 42% of them said they had little or nothing in common with Israelis, and 44% said they were not emotionally attached to the Jewish state. If you drill down further into the numbers, you see that those who are not “Jewish by religion” are much more likely to blame Israel for the suffering in Gaza than those who do claim Judaism as their faith.
The point being that those who are either more likely to be religious or deeply connected to Israel—or are politically conservative and reject the toxic leftist myths of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism that claim Israelis and Jews are “white” oppressors—are more likely to have alternate sources of information about the war and Israel. As a result, they are also less likely to believe the Hamas blood libels about Israeli war crimes and genocide that have been normalized and mainstreamed by international media.
Not all the results in the poll are bad news for the U.S.-Israel relationship. A whopping 76% of the respondents say that Israel’s existence is vital to the future of the Jewish people, although considering that about half of the world’s Jews live there, that’s a fairly obvious truth. More of them believe that Hamas—the side that started the war with unspeakable atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023—is more responsible for the war than those who blame the Israelis, who were attacked in the early-morning hours that Saturday, and their leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But most of the results simply reflect what anyone who depends on liberal media like the Post for information, with otherwise little knowledge about the conflict, would be expected to think.
It’s also true that the way the questions were framed and the sequencing of them were designed to produce “both sides are bad” answers that inflated the number of those who supported the most egregious accusations against Israel.
Yet at its heart, the poll is a reflection of not so much failures in Israel’s information policy and the success of Hamas propaganda (or even genuine evaluations of the shortcomings of Netanyahu’s government) as it is American Jewish demography.
As Jews assimilate, drop Judaism as a religion, and even more importantly, lose a sense of Jewish peoplehood in which they identify with and feel responsible for the safety of other Jews and Israel, it stands to reason that fewer of them are supportive of a Jewish state under fire. For these reasons, it’s not surprising that so many of them are willing to believe the outrageous lies about Israel that have gone viral amid a worldwide surge of antisemitism primarily aimed at demonizing the one Jewish state on the planet and its supporters.
But their lack of a sense of Jewish peoplehood and the left-leaning tilt of the majority of American Jews also makes them more likely to be consumers of anti-Israel mainstream media, rather than the few independent and/or Jewish news outlets, like JNS, that reject the pro-Hamas spin, and whose coverage tells the truth about the care Israeli forces take to avoid civilian casualties and the way the Palestinian terrorists seek to sacrifice as many of their civilians as possible.
Biased coverage influences opinions
It’s simply a matter of “garbage in—garbage out” as with any system. If people are fed biased coverage produced by a generation of liberal editors and writers more interested in activism than journalism, and who have already been indoctrinated to believe that Zionism is racism, then why be surprised that a demographic slice of their most loyal readers and viewers—liberal Jews—have been heavily influenced by their efforts?<
So, what should be the response of the Jewish community to these troubling results?
While an increased campaign to combat anti-Israel disinformation on social media is important, let’s not kid ourselves. Clever use of the tools of modern communication certainly can help. Still, no matter how much effort is put in, it wouldn’t be enough to counteract belief systems that are the result of choices about identity, religion and politics that predispose people on the left to think that Israel is always wrong and the Palestinians are right, no matter what either of them actually does.
Encouraging more Jews to care about Israel, and to be willing to listen to the truth and disregard blatant falsehoods about it, involves investments in education and Jewish experiences like schools, summer camps and trips to the Jewish state, not hiring influencers to post on TikTok. And if you want to put them in touch with accurate information about what actual Israelis and Palestinians do and believe, then you have to invest in alternatives to a corrupt and biased mainstream media that is more interested in producing work that conforms to their ideological prejudices about intersectional victims than in telling the truth.
It is awful that so many people who claim some sort of Jewish identity are willing to believe the lies spread about Israel. That they do so even while telling pollsters that they feel less safe because of the increase in antisemitism fueled by such coverage is not so much ironic as indicative of the problem posed by the spread of disinformation about Israeli “genocide.”
Support alternative voices
The good news is that outlets like the Post, which lie at the heart of the problem in Jewish disaffection, are declining in influence. Even as the liberal-leaning plurality sinks further into assimilation and a willingness to believe smears of Israel as being true, alternatives to mainstream thinking are proliferating. Outlets like JNS, The Free Press, Tablet and a host of non-leftist foundations and educational institutions are gaining in strength and growing both their reach and support. That’s the real story of Jewish revival that papers like The Washington Post and The New York Times ignore while they highlight the activities of anti-Israel and even antisemitic organizations that claim to be Jewish.
As this poll shows, much of American Jewry is abandoning its heritage and drifting toward the acceptance of antisemitic blood libels to stay in sync with liberal fashion. We have all witnessed the way antisemitic propaganda has been promoted by the political left, as well as by a loud but influential minority on the political right.
But the battle for the soul of America and American Jewry is not lost. Those Jews who understand that their safety—and that of Israel—is bound up with a struggle to defend Western civilization against toxic leftist doctrines, and the bizarre red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists, are not giving up. More to the point, they are on the same side as the majority of Americans who, with good reason, don’t believe what the liberal press tells them about any topic. The triumph of woke progressivism that is integral to the turn against Israel reached its peak during the Black Lives Matter summer of 2020 and then during the Biden administration. It is now in retreat.
As sobering as some of the recent samples of public opinion about Israel may be, we should not be too discouraged. The majority of Americans, and even most Jews, still stand by Israel. Poll results notwithstanding, Jewish backers of Israel are still on the right side of history.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate). Follow him: @jonathans_tobin.
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Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
Updated 6October2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/
By Naftali Bendavid, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.
The findings are striking given the long-standing ties between the U.S. Jewish community and Israel, suggesting the potential for a historic breach over the Gaza war. Two years after Hamas militants poured into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage, Israel’s retaliatory incursion has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians but says the majority of the dead are women and children — displaced many more, and led to widespread hunger in the territory.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians
American Jews are particularly unhappy with the current Israeli government. Sixty-eight percent give negative marks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel, with 48 percent rating it “poor” — a 20-percentage-point jump from a Pew Research Center poll five years ago. But Jews also overwhelmingly blame Hamas, with 94 percent saying Hamas has committed war crimes against Israelis.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 American Jews are much more critical of Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership than in 2020
Jews in the poll are almost evenly divided over Israel’s actions in Gaza, with 46 percent approving and 48 percent opposing. That remains more supportive than many other groups: Among all Americans, 32 percent approved of Israel’s actions and 60 percent disapproved, according to a July Gallup poll.
Many of those who spoke to The Post in follow-up interviews said they supported Israel’s military incursion at first, given the brutality of the Hamas attack and the need to respond. But as the war has dragged on, with reports of atrocities accumulating and little evident progress, they have recoiled at Israel’s actions.
“Initially, Israel in a sense had no choice. You can’t let your national security be threatened that way,” said Julia Seidman, 42, a writer from Issaquah, Washington. “But in no way does that justify what is happening now, two years later. The amount of human suffering that we are seeing now … I’m just disgusted.”
Still, the poll finds that many American Jews retain strong emotional, cultural and political bonds with Israel and its identity as a Jewish state. About three-quarters, 76 percent, believe Israel’s existence is vital for the future of the Jewish people, and 58 percent say they have some or a lot in common with Israeli Jews.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 How connected American Jews feel to Israel
“When things get tough, the first suspects and therefore the first victims are Jews, so I think the existence of Israel is very important to the Jewish people,” said Bob Haas, 71, a business consultant in Devon, Pennsylvania, whose grandfather fled to the United States to escape pogroms in Poland. “But the way the Netanyahu government has conducted itself does nothing to safeguard Jews, in Israel or around the world.”
The poll reflects a community in deep turmoil, with multifaceted and sometimes conflicting feelings about the Jewish state 77 years after its founding. The Gaza war in a sense accelerated trends that were already underway, as a relatively liberal U.S. Jewish community has for years been edging away from an increasingly militant and conservative Israeli leadership.
The Gaza war has also torn apart the population of Israel itself, with tens of thousands of Israelis regularly taking to the streets to protest policies that are isolating the country globally. Many Israelis say Netanyahu is prolonging the war for his own political benefit, hoping to postpone his corruption trial and an inquiry into the security failures of Oct. 7.
The growing divide between American Jews and Israel may have consequences for U.S. politics as well. Top Democrats, including Jewish lawmakers, are far more critical of Israel than in the past, and they arguably face less risk of a backlash from Jewish voters deeply skeptical of Netanyahu.
When the Senate in July voted on two resolutions to block the sale of arms to Israel, most Democrats voted yes, although the resolutions failed in the face of Republican opposition. The resolutions were offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who is both a prominent Jewish politician and a leading voice urging consequences for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Also in July, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and other Jewish senators, including California’s Adam Schiff and Hawaii’s Brian Schatz, led a call for a major expansion of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Schumer last year called for Netanyahu to step down and allow new elections.
The mix of emotions among many Jews — concern for Israel combined with abhorrence at its behavior — has yielded complicated feelings about how much America should keep supporting the Jewish state, the poll suggests. Most American Jews, about 6 in 10, say they want the U.S. to keep sending military aid for Israel’s fight against Hamas.
But when the merits of the U.S.-Israel alliance are divorced from the Gaza war, 47 percent say U.S. support for Israel is at about the right level, with 32 percent — about a third — saying the U.S. is too supportive of Israel and 20 percent saying it is not supportive enough. The share saying the U.S. supports Israel too much is up 10 points since 2020 and 21 points since 2013 compared with Pew surveys conducted those years.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Share of American Jews saying the U.S. is too supportive of Israel
Max Parke, 38, a software engineer in Brooklyn, said the fastest way to improve conditions in Gaza is for the U.S. to restrict aid to Israel or impose conditions on it.
“Jewish principles would say we need to respect everyone’s humanity,” he said. “In Israel, that is not the case; it privileges Jewishness in countless policies, without following actual Jewish principles.”
President Donald Trump, unlike many Democrats, has strongly embraced Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war in Gaza. Still, his pro-Israel message sometimes appears aimed more at his conservative and evangelical Christian supporters than at American Jews, who he has complained are insufficiently appreciative of his positions on the Middle East.
Trump and Netanyahu met at the White House on Monday, and Trump put forward a multipart peace deal for Gaza that Netanyahu said he accepted.
But with 22 hostages remaining in captivity, many complications remain. Hamas said on Friday that it would accept the deal to release all the hostages, but with unstated conditions and a call for continued negotiations over many of the details.
Among the poll’s most striking findings is the relatively large minority of American Jews who believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The term genocide was introduced in 1944, amid revelations of the Nazis’ killing of millions of Jews and a sense that a new word was needed to describe the enormity of trying to wipe out an ethnic group. The state of Israel, born four years later, was seen by many Zionist leaders as a safeguard against anything like the Holocaust happening again.
The accusation that Israel itself is committing genocide — reiterated by a team of United Nations experts last month — has prompted furious reactions. Netanyahu’s government sharply denounced it, saying it mischaracterizes a war aimed at defeating a terrorist group after a savage attack.
Yet a significant minority of American Jews agree with the U.N. panel’s conclusion.
In the poll, respondents were told that the United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Asked whether they thought Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, 39 percent said yes, 51 percent said no, and 10 percent had no opinion.
Dana Witten, 59, who lives in Boston, was among those respondents who rejected the genocide allegation. The Israelis are clearly not trying to eliminate all Palestinians the way the Nazis sought to erase every Jew, he said.
“To call it a genocide is a false equivalence to in some ways demean the Jews, because they should know better or something,” Witten said. “I don’t understand that. And it’s harmful to the discourse. It’s craziness to say it’s genocide.”
In an illustration of how the genocide question has split the Jewish community, Seidman, the writer from Washington state, said she and her husband have had “repeated disagreements” about it. Seidman said she is not an expert on the definition of genocide but is open to the possibility that it is occurring.
“He believes you shouldn’t use the word unless it absolutely meets the textbook definition,” Seidman said. “It’s not because he thinks what is going on is excusable; it’s certainly not. But if we muddy the waters by calling it genocide when it’s not, he thinks we risk losing the moral authority. I am much less certain about that.”
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 More than twice as many American Jews blame Hamas than Israel
The Post poll also revealed a generational divide. While 56 percent of Jewish Americans overall say they are emotionally attached to Israel, among those ages 18 to 34, that drops to 36 percent. But that share rises steadily for older groups, jumping to 68 percent for those over 65. Younger Jews are also more likely to say Israel has committed genocide, with 50 percent of those ages 18 to 34 saying so and the number hovering in the 30s among older groups.
On other issues, the generations are far more aligned. More than 80 percent of Jews of all ages said they are concerned about civilian deaths in Gaza and Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas. And majorities across age groups say they are concerned about the safety of Israeli soldiers in Gaza and the threat Hamas poses to Israel.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews voice concern over Israeli hostages
Jewish Americans’ views of the war also split sharply by partisanship, gender and education. More than 8 in 10 Jewish Republicans support Israel’s military actions in Gaza, compared with about half of independents and roughly 3 in 10 Democrats. A 56 percent majority of men approve, while 55 percent of Jewish women disapprove. And although 54 percent of Jews with some college education or less approve of Israel’s actions, that falls to 47 percent among those with bachelor’s degrees and 36 percent of postgraduates.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 American Jews are split on whether they approve or disapprove of the military action Israel
Overall, American Jews’ view of the situation unfolding in Gaza appears to be that everyone involved bears some culpability. Asked who is responsible for the war’s continuation, 91 percent say Hamas bears responsibility, 80 percent say Israel does and 86 percent say Netanyahu bears responsibility. A 61 percent majority holds the U.S. responsible.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews say Hamas and Netanyahu bear a great deal of responsibility
But as reports of hunger and starvation multiply, 59 percent of American Jews say Israel is not doing enough to allow food into the territory, while 30 percent say it is doing enough. Israel has denied that people are starving in Gaza, questioning international organizations that say otherwise and insisting it has made efforts to improve the humanitarian conditions.
Despite the bleak assessment, many Jews remain optimistic that Israelis and Palestinians can ultimately reach a peace agreement. The poll finds that 59 percent say a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestine to coexist peacefully, while 41 percent disagree.washingtonpost poll 9-2025 A majority of American Jews say Israel and an independent Palestinian state
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 A majority of American Jews say Israel and an independent Palestinian state
Yet challenges are apparent even in this modestly hopeful outlook.
Sixty-two percent of American Jews say it would be acceptable for Gaza to be governed by an elected Palestinian government, and only 4 percent say it would be acceptable for it to be governed by Hamas. Yet when elections were held in the Palestinian territories in 2006, it was Hamas that emerged victorious.
washingtonpost poll 9-2025 Most American Jews accept Gazans being governed by leaders of their choice but reject Hamas
For many Jews, the rise in antisemitism has only bolstered the sense that a Jewish state is necessary.
“I think that it’s the only place they can call home,” Witten said. “It’s certainly the only place that can feel, you can’t say safe, but at least they have a place they can defend. It’s hard. When there is antisemitism running rampant in Europe and our own country, at the highest levels of academia, what does a Jew do?”
But for Jews like Parke, Israel has forfeited any claim to represent the Jewish people. He said he has taken to distinguishing between Israel as a nation, a land and a state.
“As a nation, the Jewish people around the world, that is a connection I feel,” Parke said. “Israel as a place, a land where we have history, that is a connection I could see myself having. But Israel the state — even though it has the same name as the land and the people, it does not speak for me.”
The Washington Post poll was conducted Sept. 2-9, among a random national sample of 815 Jewish Americans drawn through SSRS’s Opinion Panel, an ongoing survey panel recruited through random sampling of U.S. households. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
The sample includes adults who identify as Jewish by religion as well as those who identify as adults with no religious affiliation but Jewish ethnically, culturally or through their family background — and either were raised Jewish or have a parent who is Jewish.
In all, 76 percent of the sample was Jewish by religion and 24 percent was Jewish without a religious affiliation.
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Sept. 2-9, 2025, Washington Post Jewish Americans poll
Results from a nationwide survey of Jewish Americans on views of Israel, Gaza and other topics.
6October2025
By Washington Post staff https://www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2025/10/06/sept-2-9-2025-washington-post-jewish-americans-poll/
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Gaza ‘Doctor’ Murdered Hostage Noa Marciano, 19, as She Begged For Mercy
Shocking: Father of Noa Marciano reveals how she was murdered
Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, recounts for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity.
Israel National News / 11December2025, 12:07 AM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419132
Avi Marciano, the father of IDF lookout Noa Marciano, who was abducted from the shelter at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7, appeared in a video posted on Instagram by pro-Israel activist Shai DeLuca, where he revealed for the first time how his daughter was murdered in Hamas captivity.
In a recording sent to him, Noa described the airstrikes in the area and pleaded for her distress to be conveyed: “They’re bombing us,” she said in the video. She made a desperate request: “Stop the bombings because you might hit us.”
Later, as IDF forces approached the area, Hamas terrorists attempted to move Noa into central Gaza City. On the way, the car she was in was struck, and Noa sustained injuries to her leg and head, though they were not life-threatening. She was evacuated to Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Her father recounted that one of the medical staff at the hospital decided to murder her. “He injected air into her vein,” he said. Marciano received confirmation of Noa’s death through another video sent to him, in which his daughter is seen begging for her life. At the end of the footage, she appears to be sweating but lifeless.
Afterward, Hamas terrorists attempted to smuggle Noa’s body out of the hospital, but IDF forces prevented this. Ultimately, she was brought to Israel for burial.
“What I went through is the greatest nightmare I know,” Avi Marciano said tearfully. “Noa was my eldest daughter. She was so loved, and there isn’t a moment in the day when I don’t miss her.”
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A warning shot to Erdogan: Israel’s message to Turkey comes via Athens and Nicosia
Commentary: Jerusalem denies joint military force plans with Greece and Cyprus, but has ordered the IDF to begin planning in signal to Ankara to shift course; existing trilateral ties already act as a counterweight to Erdogan’s rising influence with Trump
Ron Ben-Yishai | 20December2025 | 22:57 | https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/rksxtfexzl
Security cooperation between Israel, Greece and Cyprus, including joint air, land and naval exercises, has been ongoing for several years. While Israeli officials have denied a Greek news report claiming the three countries intend to form a “joint intervention force,” ynet has learned that the political echelon has already informed the IDF of such a plan and even issued instructions to begin preliminary planning.
However, no concrete steps have been taken, and military planners in Tel Aviv are awaiting further directives from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz. For now, the government has instructed the IDF not to move beyond the initial planning stage.
The caution is understandable. If established, the main mission of a Greek-Israeli-Cypriot intervention force would likely be to counter Turkish activity in the eastern Mediterranean basin.
The envisioned force would protect the economic and strategic interests of Israel, Greece, Cyprus and potentially Egypt in the region. This includes defending offshore natural gas and oil production zones and fishing rights in areas claimed by Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a self-declared entity created following Turkey’s 1974 invasion of the island.
It would also involve safeguarding Israel’s proposed gas pipeline to Europe, which Turkey opposes, and could extend to territorial disputes between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty claims to several Aegean islands.
Although both Greece and Turkey are NATO members, their decades-long hostility, centered in large part on the Cyprus dispute, remains unresolved and could ignite at any moment. Turkey’s military, particularly its navy and ground forces, is larger, stronger and more modern than Greece’s. Ankara also holds a clear edge in defense manufacturing, thanks to Turkey’s rapidly developing military industry.
However, Turkey’s air force is relatively weak. Israeli security officials believe that if Israel joins forces with Greece and Greek Cyprus, contributing the IDF’s aerial and intelligence capabilities, it could significantly shift the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean, potentially deterring President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from escalating tensions with Athens under such conditions.
Still, Israel’s primary strategic objective in pursuing this alliance is not to confront Turkey directly, but rather to create a flanking deterrent. The aim is to contain Erdoğan’s growing military presence along Israel’s northern and southern borders.
Since the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, Turkey has worked aggressively to expand its military and political foothold in the country. This includes deploying early-warning radar systems and air defense batteries that could dramatically restrict Israel’s aerial freedom of operation over Syria, Iraq and even Iran, narrowing the IDF’s strategic options and its ability to pose a credible threat to Turkey itself in the event of a future conflict, fueled by Erdoğan’s increasingly hostile posture toward Israel.
The possible inclusion of Turkish troops in the proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza, as outlined in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, is viewed in Jerusalem as a direct threat. Israel strongly opposes Turkey’s participation in the ISF, arguing it would limit the IDF’s operational freedom to prevent Hamas from rebuilding its military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Erdoğan’s open support for Hamas has further deepened Israeli concerns.
If Turkey were permitted to contribute forces to the ISF, expected to be a brigade-sized deployment of 1,000 or more personnel, Israeli officials warn it could facilitate weapons smuggling into Gaza or aid in rearming Hamas through the transfer of dual-use materials.
This may be one of the reasons Erdoğan is lobbying Trump to allow Turkish involvement, despite Israel’s firm objections. In response, Israel appears to be signaling its own potential counter-move: advancing the idea of a joint intervention force with Greece and Cyprus. Such an alliance would present a political and military counterweight to the threats and hostility Israel perceives from Turkey on both its northern and southern fronts.
Israel has no desire for direct military conflict with Turkey. However, given Erdoğan’s policies and his close ties to Trump, Israeli officials see a need to send a clear warning, strategic and symbolic, by aligning with Turkey’s historical (and predominantly Christian) rivals in the region.
However, the proposed joint intervention force remains at the conceptual stage. While preliminary planning is underway at IDF headquarters, no concrete steps have been taken. So far, the idea exists mainly through regional media reports, particularly in Greece, intended, it seems, to signal to Ankara that the option is on the table and to pressure Erdoğan and his foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, to reconsider their approach.
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Israel’s new foothold on the Red Sea to fight the Houthis
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Israel 🇮🇱, you are invited to establish your presence at the Republic of Somaliland’s Berbera, gateway to the Bab el-Mandeb and the Red Sea.
– Berbera Airport: longest runway in Africa
– Berbera Port: one of the world’s most strategic deep-water ports
A strategic corridor carrying:
– 15% of global trade
– 30% of global container traffic
– 10% of global seaborne petroleum
Let’s forge security ties and mutual prosperity. 🤝
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Since 1947, one truth has never changed: Israel chooses peace. Arab leaders chose war
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Since 1947, one truth has never changed: Israel chooses peace.
Arab leaders chose war, terror, and rejectionism – again and again.
But Israel still says YES.
YES to peace. YES to coexistence. YES to the future we deserve. 🇮🇱✨
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Palestinian Authority is preparing a Trojan Horse for Israel
Palestinian Authority possesses an armed force three times larger than that agreed upon in the Oslo Accords, elite units, and offensive weapons. ‘No one can say they were not warned,’ says MK Avigdor Liberman.
Israel National News / 22March2026, 6:31 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424379
On Sunday former Defense Minister and MK Avigdor Lieberman sharply attacked reports about the Palestinian Authority’s “shadow army.”
Lieberman warned that the conduct of the Palestinian forces indicates preparation for a widespread attack against Israel, similar to the events of the October 7th (2023) massacre.
“The Palestinian Authority is preparing a Trojan Horse for Israel. No one can say they were not warned,” Lieberman wrote. According to him, the danger from the forces in Judea and Samaria and in the center of the country is real, and he called on the political echelon not to ignore the PA’s military buildup.
“Everything we experienced on October 7 in the Gaza Envelope could be repeated in Judea and Samaria, only this time by the ‘security apparatuses’ of the Palestinian Authority,” he wrote.
ieberman’s remarks came following an investigation by the Regavim movement into the Palestinian Authority’s “shadow army,” which presents a picture of the building of an offensive military force in the heart of Judea and Samaria.
According to the findings, the Authority currently has more than 60,000 terrorists – three times the number stipulated in the Oslo Accords – equipped with rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles.
The investigation reveals that the fighters belonging to the PA undergo advanced military training abroad, including armor and artillery training in Pakistan, officer training in Russia and tactical parachuting in Italy and Egypt. Training bases in Jordan and Jericho are conducting infantry and combat training in built-up areas, capabilities clearly intended for offensive activity rather than civilian law enforcement.
Among the elite units exposed are the 101st Commando Unit, which has about 2,000 fighters, the SAT Unit, which is intended for deep-cover raids, and the secret intelligence “Atalef” unit. The investigation shows that in the Palestinian Authority there are 19 armed men for every thousand people, a ratio seven times higher than that existing in the Israeli police.
Regavim representatives emphasize: “This unusual figure shows that the forces do not function as a standard civilian police, but are also intended to constitute a full-fledged army, with one armed man for every 53 citizens. The clear conclusion from the findings and testimonies on the ground is that the forces have begun practical preparations for raid and occupation scenarios, similar to the events of the October 7th massacre.”
The organization called on the government not to rely on the Palestinian Authority as a security partner in Judea and Samaria or in plans for the “day after” in the Gaza Strip, as this is, in their opinion, a dangerous misrepresentation that threatens the security of the state. “Israel’s security must rely solely on its strength and sovereignty.”
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Palestinian Authority banks to expedite 4.5-billion-shekel transfer to Bank of Israel, sources tell JNS
The announcement comes as Israeli banks are expected to end correspondent banking services to Palestinian counterparts.
Akiva Van Koningsveld https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/palestinian-authority-banks-to-expedite-4-5-billion-shekel-transfer-to-bank-of-israel-sources-tell-jns
(Aug. 6, 2026 / JNS) The Bank of Israel on Thursday declined to comment on a Palestinian Authority announcement that Israeli authorities had agreed to bring forward the transfer of some 4.5 billion shekels ($1.5 billion) in surplus cash accumulated in P.A. banks.
P.A. monetary chief Yahya Shunnar said on Tuesday that the decision moves up the fourth-quarter shipment of excess shekels to the Bank of Israel, crediting “intensive interventions” by the P.A. leadership in coordination with “international partners,” the P.A.’s official Wafa news agency reported.
The decision will “ease pressures resulting from the accumulation of excess shekels, improve banks’ ability to manage liquidity, support the needs of citizens and the private sector for banking services and enhance financial market stability during the current period,” he added, per Wafa.
Israeli officials have not publicly confirmed the decision to expedite the transfer, which sources told JNS was approved in recent days.
The P.A. announcement came as two Israeli banks are expected to end correspondent banking services provided to their Palestinian counterparts in the coming weeks, a move expected to cut Palestinian banks in Judea and Samaria off from the shekel-clearing system and disrupt cross-border payments and access to international banking channels.
Shunnar in the Wafa report described the expedited shekel transfer as an “urgent measure” rather than a fix, saying it underscored the need to reduce reliance on the shekel and expand the use of electronic payment methods.
Under agreements signed with Israel, Palestinian banks have no direct access to the Jewish state’s payment system and cannot clear shekel transactions on their own. They rely on the Bank of Israel to take in surplus banknotes and credit their accounts, and on Israel Discount Bank and Bank Hapoalim for correspondent clearing and cross-border payments.
The Bank of Israel accepts up to 18 billion shekels a year in notes, while an economist who has advised the P.A. told the Associated Press last month Palestinian banks take in an estimated 30 billion annually. The rest sits in vaults, earning nothing and unavailable for loans, transfers or paying Israeli suppliers.
The 4.5 billion approved for transfer this week is one quarter’s worth of that 18 billion ceiling and does not represent an increase or an additional transfer beyond it.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has repeatedly vowed to collapse the P.A. financially over Ramallah’s “pay for slay” policy that rewards terrorism against Israelis and its actions against the Jewish state in international fora. Asked by JNS whether he would seek to block the early transfer, a spokesperson for Smotrich’s office did not respond by time of publication.
Israel Discount Bank and Bank Hapoalim provide correspondent services to Palestinian banks under a Finance Ministry indemnity that shields them from liability stemming from Israeli terror-financing law.
Last year, Smotrich ordered then-Accountant General Yali Rothenberg to cancel the indemnity waiver, citing what he described as the P.A.’s “delegitimization campaign” against the Jewish state.
However, amid reported pressure from the Trump administration, Smotrich reportedly extended the indemnity through the end of 2026.
Nevertheless, Israel Discount Bank notified its Palestinian counterparts in July that it would end correspondent banking services starting Sept. 1, with Bank Hapoalim following on Oct. 1, with the former citing elevated risk due to the absence of a permanent solution.
Israel Discount Bank told local media it had provided the services “on a temporary basis” for years while waiting on an official arrangement the state had failed to deliver.
Successive governments have pointed to the Company for Correspondence Services, a state body established under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2019, as the permanent solution. However, it has never begun operating because the Knesset has not passed the legislation required for it to do so, and with parliament dissolved ahead of the Oct. 27 elections, that legislation is unlikely to pass in the coming months.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment to JNS on Thursday on the progress regarding a permanent solution that would allow the Palestinian Authority continued access to the Israeli financial system.
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Israel again withholds over $200 million in PA tax revenues
“We will not transfer funds that ultimately reach terrorists who harm Israeli civilians,” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
27April2026
JNS Staff https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/israel-again-withholds-over-200-million-in-pa-tax-revenues
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads the Religious Zionism Party’s faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
( Apr. 27, 2026 / JNS ) Jerusalem has again withheld the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority this month, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday, citing Ramallah’s support for terrorism.
In a statement cited by Arutz 7, the Finance Ministry said that of more than 740 million shekels ($200 million), some 590 million shekels were deducted to cover debts owed by the P.A. to the Israel Electric Corporation, as well as to “water and environmental corporations.” The ministry said deductions were also made for funds that Ramallah intended to transfer to terrorist elements.
The remaining balance has been frozen in line with a policy implemented by Smotrich over the past year, under which the Jewish state has stopped transfers to the Palestinian Authority over the P.A.’s actions against Israel in international forums and its support for terror.
“We will not transfer funds that ultimately reach terrorists who harm Israeli civilians,” said Smotrich. “Our policy is clear: every shekel intended to encourage terrorism or hostile activity will be offset and stopped. At the same time, we are acting responsibly to ensure that the funds are directed toward safeguarding the vital interests of the State of Israel.”
He added, “Whoever chooses to fight the State of Israel in the international arena and to support terrorism will bear the price.”
P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa on Sunday accused Jerusalem of imposing an “economic occupation” on his organization, which has a level of self-governance in parts of Judea and Samaria.
Mustafa told reporters at a press conference in the Samaria city of al-Bireh that he was working with the international community to pressure Israel to release the funds, Xinhua News Agency, China’s official state-run outlet, reported.
“We are living without our income from customs and taxes collected by Israel on our behalf,” the Palestinian politician confirmed.
Jerusalem collects 600 million-700 million shekels ($160 million-$190 million) in tax funds on behalf of the P.A. every month under the terms of the Oslo Accords, signed with the PLO in the 1990s.
The Protocol on Economic Relations, aka the Paris Protocol, was signed in April 1994 and incorporated with minor changes into the Oslo II Accord of September 1995.
In 2018, lawmakers from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party initiated and promoted legislation to offset the sum to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to stop rewarding terrorism.
Around one billion shekels ($270 million) in yearly tax revenue that Israel collects on behalf of the P.A. goes towards its “pay for slay” policy, under which it disburses monthly stipends to terrorists and their relatives.
Smotrich’s decision to withhold the funds is part of a series of steps taken by the finance minister to punish the Palestinian Authority for its support of terrorism and diplomatic measures against the Jewish state.
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The true face of the Palestinian Authority
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Ahmed right here has seen the true face of the Palestinian Authority.
When will the West see it too?
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Palestinian Authority We will return
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“The PA Is Moderate” – A Claim That Doesn’t Survive Contact With Their Own Content
Every Friday – “Juma Mubaraka” (Blessed Friday) – Palestinian Authority official media, mosques, and social channels flood with a consistent message: Jaffa is ours. Haifa is ours. Beer Sheva is ours. We will return.
This isn’t Hamas. This is the PA. The entity the international community keeps calling “moderate” and wants to run a future Palestinian state.
Here’s what people who make that claim need to reckon with:
1. Official PA television repeatedly broadcasts songs declaring “Jaffa, Acre, Haifa and Nazareth are ours” – naming cities deep inside sovereign Israel, not in the West Bank.
2. Senior Fatah officials say it plainly. Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi stated on Lebanese TV: “Don’t you dare think there is even a single Palestinian who would agree that Haifa, Jaffa and Acre are not Palestinian. No. Haifa, Jaffa, Acre and Nazareth are Palestinian, despite the Americans and the Israelis.”
3. PA children’s programming tells kids that all of Israel is “the ’48 lands” and that “all of this land belongs to us… and will return to us.” This isn’t fringe content. This is the official PA children’s show.
4. PA textbooks (2025-2026) still show maps where Israel simply does not exist. The entire area from the river to the sea is labeled “Palestine.” Tel Aviv doesn’t appear. Israel is referred to as “the Zionist entity.” A 10th-grade Islamic education textbook asks students: “Under what circumstances is jihad to liberate Palestine considered a personal duty for every Muslim?”
5. Even crossword puzzles in PA newspapers list Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Tiberias, and Haifa as “Palestinian cities.”
6. PA sports coaches tell young athletes that “today we are Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and Acre… today we are the Palestinian entirety.”
This is not about the West Bank. This is not about settlements. This is about Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beer Sheva – cities within Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
The PA signed a letter of intent with the EU in 2024 promising curriculum reform. The EU sent over 400 million euros based on that promise. An independent review found that as of late 2025, zero reforms had been implemented.
So the next time someone tells you the PA is a moderate peace partner that just wants a state alongside Israel – ask them a simple question: If that’s true, why does every piece of their own media, education, and political messaging tell their people they’re coming back to Jaffa?
The difference between Hamas and the PA isn’t the goal. It’s the timetable.
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🚨 REGAVIM: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PERSONEL LINKED TO TERROR
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🚨 REGAVIM: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PERSONEL LINKED TO TERROR
According to a recently released report by @RegavimEng, members of the Palestinian Authority’s own security forces have been directly LINKED TO TERROR.
The report details cases where individuals serving within official PA security structures were involved in attacks against Jews.
This directly challenges the widely accepted view that the Palestinian Authority is moderate.
Full Report in the Comments.
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BREAKING: HAMAS ALREADY PLANNING THE NEXT MASSACRE
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BREAKING: HAMAS ALREADY PLANNING THE NEXT MASSACRE
A newly uncovered internal Hamas document, exposed by @Adkaneng, reveals preparations for a coordinated, multi front attack involving Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and Lebanon.
According to Gilad Ach, Hamas views October 7 as a success, not a failure, and believes the next round will be even larger.
Key takeaways from the document:
• Hamas claims it remains operational and organized
• A vast underground tunnel network is still intact
• Next war envisioned as a simultaneous multi front assault
• Goal remains unchanged: Israel’s destruction
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HEBRON OCT 7 STYLE ATTACK AVERTED
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🚨 BREAKING: OCT 7 STYLE ATTACK AVERTED
Security forces launched a large-scale counterterrorism operation overnight in the Jabal Johar area of Hebron.
• Led by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet and dismantle terror infrastruct and seize illegal weapons
• Operation expected to last several days
• Explosions and heavy troop movement may be heard in the area
Security officials say the move follows intelligence warning of planned Hamas-style raids on communities in Judea and Samaria, similar to October 7 tactics.
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IDF operating in Hebron
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⭕️Overnight, in the Jabal Johar area in Hebron, security forces began an operation to dismantle terror infrastructure sites, eradicate illegal possession of weapons, and enhance security in the area.
The operation is expected to continue for several days, and increased movement of IDF forces will be noticeable in the area.
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IDF SEALS ROADS OUT OF HEBRON
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BREAKING: IDF SEALS ROADS OUT OF HEBRON
IDF engineering units are closing all roads leading out of Hebron as part of an ongoing counterterrorism operation. Security forces say the move is intended to restrict movement and prevent the escape of suspects as the operation continues.
Source: Israel Live News
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Battalion Commander: ‘We don’t buy calm in Judea and Samaria, we make it nightly’
Lt. Col. Yossi Levi, commander of Battalion 21, tells Arutz Sheva about his unit’s rapid shift from Gaza to Judea and Samaria.
Nitzan Kedar / Published: 11March2026, 12:54 PM (GMT+2) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/423753
Lt. Col. (res.) Yossi Levi is widely known for his civilian role as CEO of the Netzah Yehuda association, which works to integrate haredi soldiers into the IDF through support for the Netzah Yehuda Battalion. At the same time, he serves as the commander of Battalion 21, currently operating in Judea and Samaria during the ongoing war.
“Until the week of October 7, promoting haredi enlistment was the main focus of my civilian life alongside my military role,” Levi said. “Since then, everything has changed.”
Following the outbreak of the war, Levi joined intense combat operations beyond the Judea and Samaria sector. He fought alongside the 450th Battalion in heavy fighting in Khan Younis and Rafah in Gaza. That unit later took part in the operation that eliminated Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. After completing those combat rotations, Levi returned to command Battalion 21 in the Binyamin and Etzion areas.
Today, the battalion is responsible for security in the Beitar Illit sector and nearby villages, including sensitive seam-line areas. According to Levi, the unit maintains constant offensive activity designed to prevent terrorism from gaining momentum.
“We are a very offensive battalion,” he explained. “We operate in the villages every night with significant operations, and that’s what brings calm to the sector. We don’t buy quiet. Quiet doesn’t fool us. There is calm because we are constantly working to maintain it.”
Levi says the strategy adopted by the Etzion Brigade during the war has made it one of the most aggressive formations in the Judea and Samaria Division.
“There is a brigade commander here who constantly thinks about how to generate more offensive activity and how to truly create calm,” he said. “That’s what brings stability. The quiet can be very deceptive. Judea and Samaria didn’t suddenly become peaceful – it only appears that way. Our role as the army is to make sure that calm continues.”
Much of that work takes place at night and largely out of public view. According to Levi, these operations are essential to preventing another front from erupting in the center of the country.
“There isn’t a house we don’t map or intelligence detail we don’t identify,” he said. “Every night we rethink how to reach more places and prevent attacks before they happen. Our goal is that residents of Judea and Samaria and all citizens of Israel can feel safe in their homes. It’s a challenge, but we constantly think creatively about how to reach anyone planning to cause harm long before they can carry it out.”
As the war continues, one of the major concerns facing the IDF is the strain on the reserve system. Still, Levi says he remains repeatedly impressed by the dedication of his soldiers.
“Reserve fatigue is no secret,” he said. “But what surprises me each time is the turnout. Despite the fatigue and the personal and financial pressures, the response rates remain very high.”
Levi believes the real strength of the IDF in this war comes from the unique mindset that reservists bring from civilian life.
“The creativity among reservists is something you won’t find anywhere else,” he said. “There is the army, and there is the regular army that sustains it – but the army itself is the reservists. You can’t ignore that reality during a war. As reservists, we bring a civilian mindset that allows us to think more creatively and less rigidly. That flexibility helps us reach solutions and places that would otherwise be impossible.”
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Netanyahu’s rivals secretly promised EU to weaken Israeli control in Judea, Samaria – report
16July2026 – https://worldisraelnews.com/netanyahus-rivals-secretly-promised-eu-to-weaken-israeli-control-in-judea-samaria-report/
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot reportedly told European leaders they would reverse steps taken by the Netanyahu government strengthening Israeli control over Judea and Samaria.
By World Israel News Staff
Associates of former prime minister Naftali Bennett and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot have told European officials that a future Israeli government would reverse major steps taken in Judea and Samaria by the current coalition, according to a report which both opposition leaders’ parties denied.
Channel 14 reported Wednesday that people close to Bennett and Eisenkot, working alongside left-wing research organizations, had recently held discussions with government officials from several European countries, including Britain and France.
According to the report, the associates sought to reassure European officials that a new government would roll back settlement policies adopted during the past three years and restore international and Israeli political legitimacy to the Palestinian Authority.
The alleged commitments included reversing the establishment of newly recognized communities and removing existing agricultural farms and outposts, Channel 14 said.
The broadcaster did not identify the associates, research organizations or European officials involved in the reported discussions. It also did not publish documents or recordings supporting the allegation. Neither the British nor French government has publicly confirmed that such commitments were presented.
Eisenkot’s Yashar! party categorically rejected the report.
“Lies and falsehood,” the party said. “No messages on this subject were conveyed between Eisenkot’s circle and any party, domestic or international. Channel 14, in a panic, publishes false reports as a method and chooses its familiar path — inventing news.”
Bennett’s Together party issued a similarly forceful denial, calling the story “a complete lie” with “no connection whatsoever to reality.”
“Former prime minister Naftali Bennett will not hand over a piece of land, will not evacuate Jewish communities built legally and will not permit the establishment of a Palestinian state — as he has done until now,” the party said.
Bennett’s response specifically rejected the suggestion that he would dismantle legally established communities. His publicly stated position, however, distinguishes between authorized settlement activity and construction erected without legal approval.
During an interview with the Kan public broadcaster in June, Bennett said he supported Jewish construction on state land in Area C but believed unauthorized structures and outposts should be removed.
“As far as I am concerned, legal construction in Area C, on state land that is not privately owned Palestinian land, is welcome,” Bennett said. “Construction that is illegal, outside Area C or on private land is not legitimate.”
“What is not legal will not exist,” he added when asked whether unauthorized outposts would be evacuated.
Bennett also said Area C should ultimately become part of Israel, while Areas A and B would remain under Palestinian autonomy. He has repeatedly declared his opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Those positions differ from Channel 14’s broader claim that Bennett’s associates promised a wholesale reversal of the government’s settlement policies and the removal of farms regardless of their individual legal status.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has made the government’s expansion of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria a central component of his campaign ahead of the October 27 election. Israel’s security cabinet this week approved approximately NIS 1.3 billion for the establishment of 34 new communities, along with an additional NIS 1.075 billion for roads and related infrastructure.
Smotrich said the new approvals would bring the number of communities initiated during his four-year term to 103.
“We are strengthening the security of the State of Israel, killing the idea of establishing a terrorist state in the heart of the country and strengthening our hold on the homeland in Judea and Samaria,” he said.
The current government has also approved changes to land-registration and purchasing procedures in Area C, expanded the recognition of previously unauthorized communities and transferred additional administrative authority over the territory to Israeli civilian bodies.
European governments have increased pressure on Israel over the issue. European Union foreign ministers discussed proposals this week to restrict commerce with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria through tariffs, import-licensing requirements or a full trade ban.
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Judea and Samaria: Plan to pave safe access roads takes off
Government expected to approve over 1b NIS to pave security and access roads to dozens of new towns in Judea and Samaria.
Hezki Baruch / Published: 10July2026, 1:00 PM (GMT+3) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/429945
The Israeli government is expected to approve on Sunday a NIS 1.075 billion budget plan to build transportation and security infrastructure for dozens of new communities in Judea and Samaria.
The initiative is being led by Finance Minister and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich, following approximately two months of planning by a professional team in the Settlement Administration.
The funding is designated for the construction of access roads and security routes to communities approved by the Security Cabinet during the war. Among these communities are four northern Samaria towns evacuated under the 2005 Disengagement Plan – Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim, and Kadim – as well as a number of additional new communities slated to be established in the coming years.
Government officials said the decision is intended to address the immediate need for secure access and security roads for the new communities, noting that such projects cannot be financed through the standard infrastructure costs associated with land development. To that end, the Transportation Ministry, in cooperation with the Settlement Administration in the Defense Ministry and the Finance Ministry, formulated a detailed multi-year plan.
Under the proposal, the budget will be spread over three years and allocated to the Transportation and Defense ministries. The plan includes designing and paving new access roads, upgrading existing roads, and completing connecting road segments between communities where needed. Security components will also be incorporated as an integral part of the infrastructure planning for communities throughout Judea and Samaria.
The proposal further stipulates that if the government approves additional communities in Judea and Samaria in the future, or normalizes existing communities, these will automatically be incorporated into the multi-year infrastructure plan and receive funding under the program.
Smotrich welcomed the initiative, saying: “The historic decision we approved will enable the establishment of dozens of communities at strategic locations in Judea and Samaria. We are leading a settlement and security revolution, with more than 100 communities and 160 farms strengthening the security of the State of Israel and putting an end to the dangerous idea of establishing a terrorist state in the very heart of the State of Israel.”
“Faced with plans by an [MK Gadi] Eisenkot[-led] government to evacuate the new communities we have established, the multi-year program we are advancing will ensure the planning and construction of new access roads, the upgrading of existing routes, and connections between communities, alongside the integration of critical security components. We are working with determination alongside all government ministries to remove obstacles and obtain the necessary approvals to guarantee safe and orderly access for the new communities.”
The government said the initiative forms part of its broader policy of expanding Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, with the infrastructure investment intended to facilitate the population of the new communities and integrate them into the regional transportation network while addressing the area’s security needs.
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IDF prepares to seize another Judea and Samaria ‘refugee’ camp
Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to expand counterterror operations and prepare to take control of another terrorist stronghold in Judea and Samaria.
Uzi Baruch / Published: 28July2026, 1:39 PM (GMT+3) / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/430880
Minister of Defense Israel Katz held a security meeting on Monday attended by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, to discuss Judea and Samaria.
The heads of the Operations Directorate and Intelligence Directorate, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the commander of the Judea and Samaria District Police, the Defense Minister’s Military Secretary, BG Hisham Ibrahim, and Shin Bet and defense establishment officials.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Katz ordered the IDF to expand its offensive operations against Palestinian terror, which, according to him, “Is trying to lift its head again,” and to prepare to take control of an additional “refugee” camp.
The directive is to follow the model implemented in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur a-Shams terror camps, which were evacuated, cleared of terrorist infrastructure, and constantly occupied by IDF forces.
The Defense Minister’s office noted that Katz directed the policy upon taking office with the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The office further stated that, according to defense establishment figures, these operations led to an 80% decress in terrorist activity in 2025, with the trend continuing into 2026.
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