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Elon Musk’s Revelation – He Didn’t Know it Was About Israel: The Land of Israel Fellowship
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.  Elon Musk-tweet-31October2023-The real battle is between the extinctionists and the humanists. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Islamic Conquest between 7th and 9th Century Islamic Conquest between 7th and 9th Century-Map Map: Islamic Conquest-634AD – After 1300AD Map: Islamic Conquest-634AD – After 1300AD
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South Africa takes Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ, UN) for the Gaza War
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Palestine invaded by Arabs.
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It was never about land.
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Israel Hamas War RANTYishai Fleisher @YishaiFleisherTV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1EasxeXGzoXJb2y3HTMsLA
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That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.
Total votes in 2020 – 155,508,985 2012 Obama 66M 2016 Clinton 63M 2020 Biden 81M? 15 Million? 2024 Kamala: 67M  Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election
Hard Times Create Strong Men
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Every time anyone in the West mentions ‘international community’
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Why are there no Muslims in Star Trek?
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 Born in Egypt and died in Iran
“Hamas leaders thought that if they dress up terrorists as doctors, journalists and aid workers – then western media will fall for it – and millions of westerners will march waving Palestinian flags. They really thought people in the west were that stupid. and they were right.” – David Collier, Journalist  Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-17January2025-Hamas really thought people in the west were that stupid
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Do not Trust Israel’s leftist media
זה היה העמוד הראשי של ידיעות אחרונות לפני חצי שנה…
This was the front page of Yedioth Ahronoth six months ago…  Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-27November2024-Do not Trust Israel’s leftist media
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How the Media would report Passover
 Cheryl E-tweet-18December2024-How the Media would report Passover
Why are we so happy on Passover Seder night? Any 7-year-old will laugh and say, “What a dumb question! That’s when Hashem took us out of slavery in Egypt!” Is it such a dumb question when I show little 7-year-old Chaimk’e and his parents that in the three days that preceded our Exodus from Egypt in the Hebrew year of 2448 (1282 BCE), eight million Jews died, and that’s according to the conservative figure. Some say it was 10 million. Rashi explains that only 1 out of 5 Jews left Egypt in the Exodus; the other 4 died during the three days of darkness. Since a minimum of 2 million left, that means that at least 8 million perished! Why, therefore, do we not mourn during the three days that precede Pesach, and declare them as national Holocaust Days, when 33% more Jews died than during the entire six years of the Nazi Holocaust? Not only do we not mourn, we rejoice! What’s going on? Our sages rule that we do not mourn anyone who denies the Redemption and refuses to be a part of it, just as we don’t mourn a heretic who denies the veracity of Moses’s prophecy and the Torah (Rambam, Laws of Teshuva, 3:8, and other places). This notion is even anchored in The Code of Jewish Law (see Shulchan Oruch, Yora Deah 345:5; Mishna Berura on Orach Chaim 126:1, letter b). Moses, in the Name of Hashem, told the Children of Israel to arise, we must quickly leave Egypt. 80% didn’t listen to him. They paid a steep price but we don’t mourn for them. They had become used to Egypt and had no desire – despite what Hashem wanted – to leave Egypt. Even though they were slaves, they liked the Egyptian culture, music, pastimes and food. Moses said no, we must go to our Promised Land. Egypt is not our home. Moses’s voice saying, “We must go to our Promised Land”, echoes through all of our history.
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Israel can’t win the social media war and that’s OKIt’s important to recognize that in the greater scheme of things, the battles on social media don’t really matter.https://www.jns.org/israel-cant-win-the-social-media-war-and-thats-ok/
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
(10August2025 / JNS ) Zionists and Israel supporters who have spent any time on social media since the Oct. 7, 2023, Simchat Torah massacre have become increasingly frustrated and concerned over the significantly higher amount of anti-Israel sentiment expressed than pro-Israel sentiment.
Pro-Israel social media content creators have been frequent targets of anti-Israel and antisemitic “social media bombings,” where tens, hundreds and sometimes even thousands of accounts, many bots, swarm and “bomb” pro-Israel posts with antisemitic messages.
There is no question that to be pro-Israel online is to be a minority voice among billions of people. Research from Northeastern University reveals pro-Palestinian posts to the social media app TikTok significantly outnumber pro-Israeli posts and follow a very different pattern.
The pattern of pro-Palestinian posts is consistent with a prolonged social movement, the research suggests, while the pattern of pro-Israeli posts is typical of what follows a major news event. The number of pro-Israeli content posted to TikTok has steadily declined since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the research shows. The opposite has happened with pro-Palestinian content.
According to an analysis by Humanz, a social media research company, 7.39 billion posts with pro-Israeli tags were published on Instagram and TikTok since Oct. 7, 2023, compared to 109.61 billion posts with pro-Palestinian tags. Humanz CEO Liav Refael-Chen commented, “It’s hard not to see that there is money behind this.”
The distribution of posts on these platforms is clearly skewed against Israel, with only 6.3% of them using a pro-Israeli hashtag, and 93.7% using a pro-Palestinian hashtag.
A report in The Economist on social media sentiment found that on Oct. 7, 2023, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian posts had roughly equal shares of support on social media. By October 19, 2023, pro-Palestinian posts were 3.9 times more common than pro-Israeli posts.
Within two months of Israel’s war in Gaza, Mark Scott of Politico was able to write, “In that sense, the Gaza conflict is no different from other 21st-century wars where dominating the digital media landscape is now part of combatants’ overall strategy to win hearts and minds, engage with like-minded supporters, and count claims from opponents.”
“But what sets the Middle East war apart,” he continued, “is how disproportionate the online messaging has become. It’s hard to generalize because of how unique everyone’s social media experiences have become via algorithms tailored to individual interests. But, on average, there are just much more pro-Palestinian messages on the likes of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube compared with pro-Israeli posts.”
Scott speculated, “Based on the volume of pro-Palestinian content compared with pro-Israeli material (itself, an imperfect science), we can surmise more people, globally, are engaging collectively with those posts—just given the sheer amount of content produced.”
A Washington Post article comparing pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian content surmised that pro-Palestinian hashtags are older and more established, giving them more time to accumulate posts, and that global demographics, particularly in Muslim-majority countries, contribute to higher engagement with pro-Palestinian content.
These statistics have many in the Pro-Israel community increasingly concerned. The Israeli government isn’t sitting by passively. In its latest budget, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs will receive $150 million, on top of what it gets for its existing activities, for what’s officially known as public diplomacy or hasbara in Hebrew. That sum is more than 20 times what such efforts have typically been allotted in past years.
Many in the pro-Israel community feel the Israeli government isn’t doing enough. They call for a “war room” of soldier media soldiers who pounce on anti-Israel posts with facts and figures that contradict the anti-Israel posts of Israel’s online opponents. Their logic is sound. If IDF soldiers can dominate on the battlefield as they have over the past two years, Israeli social media warriors can dominate the internet.
There are several flaws in the notion that Israel can win the social media war. The most fundamental problem that Israel will always face is numbers. There will always be more people opposing Israel than supporting it. Since Israel will always lose the numbers game, we’ll never be able to answer every tweet.
Even if Israel’s crack unit of social media warriors identified the top five thousand accounts and only answered those, it would never be able to keep up with the comments and responses and any point they’d make in response would be drowned out. In the end, the unit would only be paid attention to by people already supporting Israel. This unit would exist solely in an echo chamber.
The second flaw in the idea of a social media warrior unit is thinking that facts matter on social media. Posts that lie with horrific doctored images win the social media war. Israel will never be prepared to lie and fabricate images to win the social media war. In a war with two sides and only one plays by the rules of decency, we are set up to fail and have no path to succeed.
This pessimistic view might be depressing to some, and maybe even inconsistent with the Zionist ethos of there’s no war Israel can’t win, but it’s important to recognize that in the greater scheme of things, the battles on social media don’t really matter.
Although the subject hasn’t been sufficiently studied to fully rely on already established assumptions, early research on the effect social media has on public opinion and policy suggests that social media does not significantly fuel political polarization or public opinion.
These studies lead to the conclusion that social media amplifies existing divisions rather than creating them. As one researcher stated about their findings, “These results should alleviate the widespread worry that social media is a major driver of polarization in society”.
Real-life battles that change facts on the ground are fought on the battlefield and in the capitals of the nations of the world, especially the United States Congress. Contrary to contemporary fears, members of Congress do not follow social media sentiment when forming policy on Israel. While there will always be members of Congress who trade in their values for the next microphone or more likes on Instagram, most members of Congress base their decisions on the U.S.-Israel relationship with American national security in mind. A strong relationship with Israel is in America’s national security interest and that is why it has strong support in Congress.
Scrolling through a timeline full of hundreds and thousands of anti-Israel and antisemitic posts is disturbing and can lead the social media consumer to fret that the entire world is against Israel. It’s important to recognize many, if not most, of these posts are bots, the product of a paid campaign, or posted by a collection of losers with little to no influence on the real world. Ceding the social media “battlefield” to Israel’s enemies isn’t a loss for Israel, but a recognition of social media’s insignificance.
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Why we fightHamas’s amen chorus is worried about having to face the truth of their evil deeds and intentions—with good reason. Joseph Goebbels – Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Leonard Grunstein https://www.jns.org/why-we-fight/ Leonard Grunstein is co-author of the book Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
(May 28, 2024 / JNS) During World War II, a series of documentary films were made, directed by Frank Capra, that set out in explicit and graphic detail the precipitating causes and reasons why the United States entered the war to defeat the Axis powers, including Nazi Germany.
Before Imperial Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, many Americans were beset by doubts about the war. Even after Nazi Germany declared war on Washington on Dec. 11, 1941, there were still those who did not know or understand why it was so important for America to be involved.
Nazi propaganda had been hard at work for years dulling American sensibilities and outright lying to the American people to justify the Nazis’ evil deeds. The chief architect of this reprehensible propaganda program was Joseph Goebbels. His dictums included, “Accuse the other of that which you are guilty” and “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
The Capra documentaries were a clarion call that awoke Americans to the danger posed by Nazi Germany and catalyzed a nation to fight and defeat the Axis. I saw the documentaries when I was a young student. They left a lasting impression on me regarding the battle between good and evil and the imperative not to be complicit by idly standing on the sidelines.
The genocidal terror group Hamas, the spiritual successor to the Nazis, is intent on eliminating the Jewish people and Israel. It has falsely accused Jews and Israel of genocide in a moral inversion that channels the evil techniques of the notorious Goebbels.
The massively funded and premeditated barrage of antisemitic slurs and slogans, including the “genocide” blood libel, is poisonous to the minds of many college students and other ignorant useful dupes. They now suffer from a malady I call the “Goebbels Syndrome.” Much like the original syndrome, the cure is plain-spoken, sobering and graphic truth like that featured in the Capra-directed documentaries of yesteryear.
In this regard, the apprehensions expressed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at the recent congressional hearings on campus antisemitism are telling. She complained bitterly about what she referred to as vile and disturbing footage on large screens. She was referring to the video footage taken by the Hamas rapists, kidnappers, murderers and perpetrators of sadistic atrocities on Oct. 7. She did not condemn the terrorists and their evil deeds.
It would appear that Hamas’s amen chorus is worried about having to face the truth of their evil deeds and intentions. The recently released horrifying video of the confessions of a Hamas father and son, who on Oct. 7, together with a cousin, gang-raped a woman and murdered her is nearly impossible to watch. So is the video depicting a group of handcuffed young women kidnapped on Oct. 7 being referred to as sex slaves by their disgusting Hamas captors. But these videos ignited the moral conscience of many.
To the hideous Oct. 7 deniers and others suffering from the Goebbels Syndrome: Watch these videos and end your moral malaise.
Efforts to propagate false narratives are failing because the truth is coming out and it will triumph. The overwhelming majority of the American people are not buying into the propaganda generated by Hamas and American supporters.
The good people of America are waking up and rejecting the evil that is Hamas and its repugnant sponsor the terrorist Iranian regime. Some 79% of Americans polled in the latest Harvard-Harris poll rightly support Israel in the war started by Hamas. 69% correctly believe Israel is seeking to minimize civilian casualties. 78% agree that Hamas must be eliminated. 74% favor Israel proceeding with its Rafah operation and finishing off Hamas. The poll also showed a nuanced understanding of what a ceasefire means to the American people. 66% oppose a ceasefire unless the hostages are released and Hamas is removed from power.
Interestingly, even the International Court of Justice didn’t wholly buy Hamas’s propaganda. It didn’t outright order a halt in military operations in Rafah. Its order stated that Israel should “immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
Thus, the order was qualified and may be interpreted to apply only to those military operations in Rafah that may inflict such “conditions of life” on the Palestinians. In essence, Israel can continue with military operations so long as Israel complies with international law, which Israel is doing anyway. It is reported that a number of the ICJ judges support this interpretation.
It’s time for Israel to enlist a prominent Hollywood director like Steven Spielberg to make a documentary that uses documentary footage of the horrible events of Oct. 7 to explain why Israel is fighting the evil that is Hamas.
Israel is winning its just and legal defensive ground war against Hamas. It can win the PR war, too.
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How many Arabs lived in “Palestine” before the establishment of the State of Israel?
A list of facts with historical sources: 🔸In 1785, Constantine Francois Volney describes the “ruined” and “desolate” state of the country: “We with difficulty recognized Jerusalem… The population is supposed to amount to twelve to fourteen thousands…” 🔸In 1843, Alexander Keith wrote that “in this [Volney’s] day the land had not fully reached its last prophetic degree of desolation and depopulation.” 🔸In 1816, J.S. Buckingham had described Jaffa as “a poor village”, and Ramleh as a place “where, as throughout the greater portion of Palestine, the ruined portion seemed more extensive than that which was inhabited.” 🔸In 1835, Alphonse de Lamartine gave this description: “Outside gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound. We found the same void, the same silence as we should have found in the enrombed gates of Pompeii and Herculaneum… a complete, eternal silence resigns in the town, in the highways, in the country… The tomb of a whole people.” 🔸In 1857, the British consul in Palestine, James Finn, reported back to England: “The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.” 🔸In 1867, Mark Twain wrote in The Innocents Abroad: “Stirring senses… occur in this valley no more. There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles in either direction.” He goes on to describe Galilee, Judea, and around Jerusalem as deserts devoid of population. And for the country as a whole: “Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies… Palestine is desolate and unlovely… It is hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land.” 🔸In 1881 (the year designated by Arafat as the beginning of the Zionist “invasion” and “displacement” of the local population), English cartographer Arthur Penrhyn Stanley wrote: “In Judea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there was no appearance of life or habitation.” 🔸By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, Arabs and Jews, was only 400,000. Less than 3% of today’s figure.  Dr. Eli David-tweet-27April2024-How many Arabs lived in Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel
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The founding of Tel Aviv April 11, 1909
It demonstrates perfectly why nobody really cared about the British Mandate prior to Jews living there: It was sparsely populated land with no natural resources. It also demonstrates that terrorists are lying when they talk about “stolen land.” They want to kick Jews out of Tel Aviv—a place where literally nobody lived before Jews moved in. The existence of Israel made Israel a valued place.  Max-tweet-24May2024-The founding of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv was founded on the empty sand dunes
The famous picture below shows the drawing of lots for purchase by individuals on the empty land. Tel Aviv is an example of Zionists making the desert bloom. The “River to the Sea” movement claims Tel Aviv as Palestinian. They are genocidal liars.  Barry Tigay-tweet-25May2024-Tel Aviv was founded on the empty sand dunes
 the Jewish Virtual Library. logo https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org Tel Aviv: The Founding of Tel Aviv(April 11, 1909)https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-founding-of-tel-aviv In 1909, a number of Jewish residents decided to move to a healthier environment, outside the crowded and noisy city of Jaffa. They established a company called Ahuzat-Bayit and with the financial assistance of the Jewish National Fund purchased some twelve acres of sand dunes, north of Jaffa. In 1910, the suburb was named Tel Aviv after Nahum Sokolow’s translation of Altneuland, Herzl’s fictional depiction of the Jewish State.
Meir Dizengoff was Tel Aviv’s first mayor serving in that capacity from 1911 until his death in 1936. The main street in today’s sprawling city is named after him.
Today, Tel Aviv is the heart of the conurbation known as Gush Dan in which over one third of the country’s population lives. This area extends from Rishon Le-Zion, Holon and Bat Yam in the south to Herzliya in the North. To the east lies Petah Tikva. Tel Aviv is situated on the shore of the Mediterranean sea.
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 The OU Jerusalem world Center Torah Tidbits #1185 B’chukotai 5776 OU Torah Tidbits 1185whole A Mitzva’s Messages – But first…It’s the old, “I’d like to say a few words before I speak” line. Bear with me… For Naveh not to like the ices is one thing, but not jumping at the opportunity to live in Eretz Yisrael…We could go on and on about this topic (and we often do), but for this week, we leave it to you to ponder…  Torah tidbit CHIZUK and IDUD CHIZUK and IDUD for Olim & not-yet-Olim respectively When Mark Twain visited Eretz Yisrael in 1867, he vividly described a pitiful and forlorn land: “Palestine is desolate and unlovely…. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, unpicturesque in shape… Palestine sits in sack cloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies… Where prosperity had reigned and fallen; where glory had flamed and gone out; where beauty had dwelt and passed away; where gladness was and sorrow is… We never saw a human being on the whole route… There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country…” What a contrast to the Eretz Yisrael of today!  Mark Twain’s Palestine Although the verses can be read as punishment for our sins, Rashi points to the positive results of the land being barren and inhospitable: this will deter our enemies from inhabiting the land in our absence. The Ramban similarly states that this verse contains a good tiding: The Land will not accommodate our enemies, it will not accept another nation, and it will only bloom for Am Yisrael.  Ramban Shul greatly forsaken and her desolation is great… The more sacred the place, the greater the devastation it has suffered. Yerushalyim is most desolate and devastated”. Those who pray in the Ramban Shul in the old city today, built upon the land bought back in 1267, cannot even begin to imagine what things were like back then.  Tu-b’Shevat Seven Species The Sforno explains this blessing saying that: “Wherever you walk I shall be with you. My presence is not restricted to one specific place. Rather, my Shefa is directed towards you wherever you, the righteous, are to be found.” What must one do in order to merit having the divine presence leave M’kom HaSh’china and come reside in their home? Is this blessing relevant only to Messianic times, when the divine Shefa will be spread out over the entire universe – visiting the righteous wherever they may be found? Rabbi Yerachmiel Roness, Ramat Shiloh, Beit Shemesh Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yosef “Today thank God most of the nation of Israel is here in the land of Israel.”Be part of the Majority. Make Aliyah Today! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH UK 0800 075 7200 Come home to the Land of Emuna
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Excerpted from The Chanukah Scroll by Hagi Ben Artzi: [When Antiochus sent a demand for the return of captured ‘Greek cities’ in Eretz Yisrael] …Shimon rebuffed these demands…, and responded in resolute and firm terms: “We didn’t take a foreign land and we didn’t exist on the spoils of other nations, but on the lands of our fathers that through the years was illegally seized by our enemies. We, when we had the opportunity, restored our birthright.” – Shimon Maccabee to the Greek Antiochus 2158 year ago. 3626 -136BCE
Those Inspiring Maccabees!
1 Tevet 5784 12December2023 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/12/those-inspiring-maccabees.html
Following is a sampling of inspiring speeches made by the Maccabean leaders which aroused the Jewish neshamahs of their followers to greatness in the Name of Hashem. Excerpted from The Chanukah Scroll by Hagi Ben Artzi:
[To the Greek officer who bid him come and sacrifice a pig on the altar to Zeus,]…Matityahu’s response was delivered in a loud and confident voice, and was clearly heard throughout the city square. Matityahu said: “Even if all the nations in the Kingdom of Antiochus hearken to him and abandon their traditions and customs and follow the paths of the Greeks, I, and my sons and my brothers will continue to walk in the ways of our Forefathers, and will not betray the covenant of our God. We dare not leave our Torah and our national tradition! We will not follow and will not hearken to the words of King Antiochus, for the God Who dwells in Heaven is our King.”
…”Jews, we are going out to war! Whoever is zealous for the Torah, whoever is loyal to the covenant with our God, follow me to fight for our faith and our Torah!”
[Even from his deathbed, Matityahu persevered]…”My sons, be zealous for the Torah; give your very souls for the sake of the covenant of your Forefathers. Remember the actions of your fathers, how they gave their lives and brought salvation to their nation. Remember Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov; remember Moshe and Pinchas; remember Yehoshua and Calev; remember David and Eliyahu; remember Daniel, Chanayah, Mishael and Azaryah. Carefully reflect on the previous generations; learn from them that one need not fear an evil man, even if he is strong and threatening. Our fathers trusted in God, and He came to their salvation. You, as well: Believe in God, and become strong with Torah – for only this way will bring you pride. In your war with the enemies of our nation, Yehuda will be your Chief of Staff and commander, and Shimon will be your advisor and father. Gather to you all those who uphold the Torah, and avenge the honor of your people. Give the Gentiles what they deserve, and hold fast on to the Torah’s commandments.”
With these words, Matityahu passed away….
…when Yehuda’s few men saw the great Syrian army marching towards them, great fear fell upon them. They called to their commander Yehuda: “We are few and weak; how will we be able to fight this great camp?” Yehuda then gathered all the men together, and strengthened their spirit with words of faith.
Thus he said to them: “Nothing can prevent God from saving us, whether we are few or many. It is not great numbers of soldiers or heavy weaponry that brings victory in war. It is rather a spirit of valor, one that stems from true faith. We are fighting for our nation and our Torah, whereas they are coming upon us with haughtiness and evil, to destroy us, our wives and our children, and to take our property. The God of our fathers will not abandon us; He will smite them before us.
Arise, my brothers! Go out and fight without fear!”
When Yehuda finished speaking, a spirit of valor overtook his men, and they fell upon their enemies with great force.
[When the war had continued many years, Shimon, the last of the Maccabees] …gathered a large crowd in the courtyard of the Temple in Jerusalem, and encouraged them and raised their spirits. He said to them: “You know that which we have done – I, my brothers, and my father’s house – on behalf of the Torah and the Temple. All my brothers died in the great war, in which they gave their lives for their people; I, alone, remain. Do not fear that their deaths have caused me to be afraid or to seek my own personal safety, for I know that I am no better than my brothers. Just as they did, I will continue to lead you in the way of the Torah and to fight the wars of God.”
[When Antiochus sent a demand for the return of captured ‘Greek cities’ in Eretz Yisrael] …Shimon rebuffed these demands…, and responded in resolute and firm terms:
“Not foreign land did we take, and not over property of foreigners did we take control. We have returned to the inheritance of our forefathers, from which we were unjustly banished by our enemies. And now, with the help of our God, we have returned to the inheritance of our fathers.”
AMEN AND AMEN!!
And the Spirit of the Maccabees lives on…
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Our Holiday, Our LandHow do you describe the simple pleasure of celebrating Chanukah in a place where everyone is also rushing home to light their menorah? Our holiday, our land…Natalie Kovan | Posted on 09October2023 | https://breslev.com/366335/
 Our Holiday, Our Land by Natalie Kovan I can’t believe we’ve been here for a few years. Even so, when it comes to Chanukah, I still feel that same excitement I felt the first time we celebrated it as new olim (immigrants) in our homeland. I didn’t realize just how deep the disconnection with all things secular in America was until a recent conversation with my Mom. As she described my brother’s vacation on the 23rd and 24th of December, I asked her if it was a holiday or something.
Silence.
“It’s X-mas!” my mother piped up, in total disbelief. Like, only the entire world knows what holiday falls on those dates! What my mother forgets is that here in our Blessed Land we are not constantly bombarded or reminded since the end of October when the pumpkins are just being put away, and the Jack-o lanterns are beginning to rot. My mailbox is not overflowing with ‘holiday’ themed catalogs, and red and green trees are not to be seen. The flora and fauna around me don’t suddenly sprout colorful blinking lights. Reindeer (especially those sporting red noses) are basically extinct. In short—Gan Eden! And after five plus years of breathing in the kedusha (holiness) of Eretz Yisrael, the 23rd and 24th of December became just that—two regular days in the Gregorian calendar.
The first and most obvious pleasure of being in Israel this time of year is that the only men you see with long white beards are those who are wearing black coats. No man in the red suit in sight. No flashing-colored lights. No green and red plastered on any store fronts. Not a one. Here, we are absolutely oblivious on what day the ‘big day’ actually falls. Yes, there is actually a place on this earth where the big arm of the catalog behemoth does not reach, and we are blessed to be totally clueless about the latest twenty-eight-inch Bob Sponge whatever –his-name-is who dances and sings and twirls in a 360-degree pirouette with accompanying ukulele accoutrements—all for the low price of $28.99!
 Sufganiyot at Mahane Yehuda shuk Here we have been overdosing on suffganyot (fried doughnuts filled with jelly—or caramel as the case may be) since Simchat Torah. Supermarkets display an endless supply of menorahs, chocolate covered Chanukah gelt (“money”), candles, oil—you name it. The entire nation puts aside their differences for eight days, as they wish each other a Chanukah sameach (Happy Chanukah!). Everything shuts down early—so that everyone can light their menorahs with their loved ones. As you stand on the street after dark, you see menorah upon menorah—lights upon lights—lights belonging to us, bridging century upon century of Jews keeping the fires of Yiddishkeit burning, living—in our Land.
Even the dreidel—a simple dreidel brings home the knowledge that living in Israel is, well—miraculous. Our son, looking at an Israeli dreidel for the first time, suddenly burst out, “hey—there’s no ‘Shin’ on this dreidel!’. Upon closer inspection, we found a ‘Pey’ where the shin should have been. In the rest of the world, the letters ‘Nun, Gimmel, Hay, Shin’ (נ ג ה ש) for “a big miracle happened THERE’. But for us living in Eretz Israel, it’s “Nun, Gimmel, Hay, Pey’ (נ ג ה פ) “— a big miracle happened HERE’. Here. In our backyard (almost literally—Modiin is but a drive away). Here. Not there, but here. Jews all over the world light menorahs and celebrate a miracle that happened not too far away from our living room, in a place that is still seeing miracles to this very day.
How do you describe the simple pleasure of celebrating Chanukah in a place where everyone is also rushing home to light their menorah? It’s a communal event, where every single one of your neighbors is celebrating with you. Our holiday. Our land. Here we don’t take second place as ‘the consolation holiday ‘. Here, our holiday is THE holiday. Here everything stops for Chanukah. Everything revolves around lighting the menorah, not the other way around. No jingles in the supermarket overloading your subconscious. In their stead, Jewish children walk around singing Chanukah songs, filling the air with their pure words. How does one grasp it? Here it is a tangible. You are enveloped in it day and night, not just as you huddle with your family around the menorah. I can’t describe how wonderful it is not to have to endure another “Merry (insert name of holiday here)”, while internally screaming, “But I’m Jewish!” No generic “Happy holiday” greetings either. Here, your taxi driver wishes you a “Chanukah sameach,” and your soul responds, because it feels right. That’s the magic of living in Israel.
The other major difference is that Chanukah in Israel is not so much about the presents—it’s about the miracle. When you live in a country that exists because of one long continuous miracle sustained by Hashem—it’s the miracle that counts. When a sonic boom breaks the silence of the night sky, as army planes ‘do their job’ up North—and the realization that this little country with a spirit which is too big to fill its borders—is being guarded by Hashem and His emissaries because we have a right to be here—then the miracle that is Israel—that is Chanukah—takes on a whole new meaning.
As we read about the battles fought by Judah Maccabee and his army, the mind can’t help but marvel at the fact that not much has changed since those days, except for the fact that technologically, warfare has evolved drastically, to say the least. We are still the few against the many. A small nation surrounded by those who would love nothing more than to see our destruction. The story of Chanukah is not a quaint and inspiring story that we celebrate as part of our past—it is also the story of our present.
I remember two years ago, during Operation Cast Lead, as we lit our menorahs with the backdrop of a war going on at several of our borders. Stories of soldiers requesting tzitzit before they would go into battle streamed out to the public. And that is what Chanukah is about. Keeping our identity separate and whole from the rest of the nations as we do spiritual and physical battle with our adversaries. Looking at our uniqueness not as an impairment, but an asset to be celebrated and protected at all costs. For when we act like Jews, proud in ourselves, our Land and our Torah—then defeating our enemies becomes a reality, with the help of our Creator.
It is only by the benevolence of Hashem that Israel and the Jewish people exist. Without the Land of Israel, there is no nation, and vice versa. It is here that the plans for Am Israel took root, and it is here where they will culminate when Mashiach comes (may it be speedily in our days). Even though we wandered for centuries without a ‘home’, Hashem has gifted us in the last 60 years with concrete borders to come home to. A Kotel to pray at. Land to be populated and bring back to life. He is setting the stage for our ultimate return and Redemption (may it be His will). To be here and call this home—despite the hardships—is a miracle. As painful as it is to be so far from loved ones, friends and all things familiar—there is nothing like the miracle of finally coming home. Home where the soul and body are finally in alignment for the very first time. That is a miracle all its own.
Even as I write, it is impossible to describe in mere words the enormity of living here. Sometimes it’s a struggle, sometimes it’s a cultural shock, sometimes it’s just plain hard. And sometimes, while standing at the top of a hill, looking out at the valley, and at cities that were not here that long ago, brimming with Jews—and the eyes fill at the intensity of the knowledge that you are home—finally—then you say, “Thank You, Hashem, for the miracle that is Israel. Thank You for bringing me home.”
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Palestinians are Arabs who rebranded their “ethnicity” in 1964. “Palestinians” have ZERO historical, religious or anthropological ties to Israel, Gaza or the West Bank. #StandWithIsrael  The Persian Jewess-tweet-23April2024-Jews are Indigenous to Israel
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Hashem Signals our SettlersOften, when we look below the surface of what appears to be a dismal situation, we can find the hidden solution. So too, in our current situation in Eretz Yisrael, we see the glimmer of redemption!David Ben Horin | Posted on 13December2023 | https://breslev.com/4078471/  Hashem Signals our Settlers by David Ben Horin On the surface, the news looks like one series of uppercuts to the head of Am Israel. Look deeper, and you will see Hashem’s blessings.
In 1914, there was a convention of Sages from Agudat Israel in Switzerland. They wanted to discuss Zionism – were they for it or against it?
They invited Rav Avraham Kook to come and speak. He resisted. His heart was in the Land of Israel, and to him, a mere moment outside the paradise God gave him was like an eternity in Gehinnom. Reluctantly, for the sake of Israel, he left the Land to attend the conference. When he arrived, World War I broke out. As a result, he was stranded in Europe and couldn’t get back to Israel.
On the surface, it was a nightmare.
He made his way to England and became a powerful voice in the British Jewish community. By 1917, the British Parliament debated whether to declare the Land of Israel the homeland of the Jewish People.
The loud voice of assimilated Jews lobbied the MPs to reject the proposal. They protested that they were English first and shouldn’t be branded as dual loyalists.
Rabbi Kook was asked to present a counter claim in favor of the proposal before the House of Commons. He gave a passionate speech. When he met objections, the non-Jewish lawmakers stood up and said, “Look at the man. Head to toe, he lives in the service of God. He represents the Jews.”
Had Rav Kook remained in Israel, would Britain’s Balfour Declaration that gave political backing “to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine” become reality?
A Hundred Years LaterIn November 2023, American President Joe Biden issued a statement which decreed that anyone in the “occupied territories who acts in opposition to peace will be denied entry into the US.” (The Caroline Glick Show In-Focus|Nobody is Decrying Jewish Genocide (@10:18-15:08) ).
It doesn’t specify “violent settlers” or “Jewish extremists.” President Biden refers to anyone who lives in what is called “occupied territories,” which includes most of Jerusalem.
On the surface, this is a disaster. The city of Efrat has thousands of people with dual citizenship who make their livelihoods going back and forth from America to Israel. Thousands of residents throughout Yesha are dual citizens who may be torn apart from their families living abroad.
Think about how COVID-19 split families. How many tragedies did we hear about mothers not being able to see their daughters and fathers not being able to see their sons because of the pandemic?
Major MiraclesHashem is bringing His children home. He is encouraging countless Jews outside of Israel to come here as often as possible.
What about the residents of Judea and Shomron? Hashem is giving them the ultimate gift. He is keeping them in Israel. Could this be to protect them from catastrophe in America?
Could Mashiach be HERE and Hashem doesn’t want His precious children to be anywhere else when He reveals His anointed to the world? Are these decrees a signal from God that everyone should be in Israel right now – that we shouldn’t leave, not even for a moment?
The Tanya Rebbe Yehuda writes that just before Mashiach comes, Jews living along the borders of Israel will be without homes and will wander from city to city. (Sanhedrin 97a) Currently, 100,000 Israelis in Kiryat Shemona (near the Israel-Lebanese border) and in border towns along the Gaza belt are relocated in temporary living quarters throughout the land.
Has the time come?
From Woke to AwakeningWhenever you hear “From the River to the Sea,” follow it up by saying “Hashem natan ha’aretz li” (God gave the Land to me)!
Non-Jews can’t say that! *** David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, millions of sunflowers, and Matilda, our local camel. David‘s Israeli startup, 300 Marketing Solutions, is a lean marketing agency for startups and small businesses that creates and promotes SEO-optimized ROI-driven to the right audience on LinkedIn to make your business the star of the show.
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Large “Palestinian” families and tribes in Israel are from: Ottoman Empire History-1699-1914-Map
Large “Palestinian” families and tribes in Israel: – Al-Masri – Al-Baghdadi – Halabi – Al-Lubnani – Al-Kurd are from Kurdistan – Al-Zarqawi are from Jordan – Al-Hijazi – Al-Maghrebi – Abid are from Sudan – Al-Shishani are from Chechnya  Visegrád 24-tweet-20April2024-large Palestinian families and tribes in Israel are from
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What the Palestinians really think about the October 7th massacre and Hamas.
Spoiler: Their responses are extremely disturbing. Watch:  Israel-tweet-24July2024-What the Palestinians really think about the October 7th massacre and Hamas
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Schroedinger’s Palestinian state
Does that mean that Hamas is responsible for the safekeeping of the people of Gaza, preparing ahead of an inevitable war to ensure their welfare, and not use them as human shields rather than expecting Israel to do everything? Then no Hamas is not a government.  Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-25May2024-Schroedinger’s Palestinian state
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Palestinians are a tiny bunch of whining Arabs-NOT INDIGENOUS
 Hussain Abdul-Hussain-tweet-22February2024-Palestinians are a tiny bunch of whining Arabs
האמת על ה״סוגייה״ ועל ה״פלסטינים״ “The truth about the “issue”  Yiskah Chaya-tweet-23February2024-WHAT’S AN ARAB?
 JonJon from SF-tweet-3February2024-Palestinians are NOT INDIGENOUS
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Why Israel can’t accept a ceasefireHamas has dictated the parameters of victory
23December2023 https://unherd.com/2023/12/why-israel-cant-accept-a-ceasefire/
During their protected wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s leaders and generals could never define victory. Hamas, by contrast, has a clear understanding of what it looks like. Now that the terror group has demonstrated the failure of Israel’s deterrence, it insists it will not any more short ceasefires in exchange for hostages, but only a complete end to Israel’s offensive, which would of course leave it in full control of Gaza.
What would this entail? Most immediately, this would also hand Hamas the millions of dollars in aid that will arrive from Western nations, as well as the billions coming from Qatar, Kuwait and other oil-rich countries. And while these funds are intended for welfare distributions and for civilian reconstruction, Hamas will of course use them to rebuild its underground tunnel networks, and to fund its military training, propaganda and political units in and out of Gaza.
The reason it would get away with this is straightforward: Hamas has never pretended to be fighting for the well-being of Gaza’s population, or for Palestine as a national cause. It serves global Islam —the Umma — that rejects all nationalisms and demands supremacy over all other religions. In other words, it accepts no responsibility for the dead and wounded of the war, or for Gaza’s reconstruction.
Hence, if there is a permanent ceasefire, Hamas can start to prepare its next surprise attack, hoping for another October 7 of indiscriminate killings and rapes. If anyone in Gaza objects, Hamas will also act as it did in the past, shoving sacks over their heads and shooting them in front of crowds.
And yet, steadfastly ignoring this inevitability, retired generals and even, in an unguarded moment, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, have urged the Israelis to reduce their bombing or even their attacks altogether, in order to win over Gaza’s population. Yet this is to forget that such a formula failed in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan: populations dominated by brutal extremists cannot be “won over”.
For the Israelis, however, there is clarity: because Hamas defines its victory so clearly, so can the Israelis. While the “complete end of the offensive” that Hamas, the UN and countless American and British undergraduates demand would mean a complete defeat for Israel, the continuation of the war — sine die, as they say in diplomacy — is the essential precondition of victory.
In this sense, little has changed since 1948: the Israelis might have to keep fighting on their own without US support. As soon as the first of Israel’s wars started on May 15, 1948, the US and the British, then very much the senior partner in the Middle East, imposed a total arms embargo on everyone involved. This favoured the Arab armies, who already had their British-supplied kits of small arms, machine-guns, field artillery and even a few aircraft and tanks, while the Jews only had rifles and submachine guns. It was very much the goal of the British Foreign Office and US State Department that the newly proclaimed State of Israel should be defeated as soon as possible, so as to preserve the stability of British power over the region.
But, then, something entirely unexpected happened: the Jews started winning. As a result, having favoured war to put a quick end to Israel, the Brits then had to end it to save their collapsing Arab allies. And the resourceful Foreign Office had the necessary remedy, promptly backed by the obedient State Department: on June 11, 1948, the UN Security Council imposed a total ceasefire, after 26 days of fighting. Had the Israelis not resumed fighting on July 9, Israel could not have emerged as a viable state.
Even so, this set the pattern for all subsequent UN ceasefires in the region: as soon as Israel launches its counteroffensives and starts winning, the UN General Assembly demands an immediate ceasefire, and pressure builds on the UN Security Council to actually order one.
But here the continuity ends. Everything else is very different now that Israel is a stronger, more self-sufficient military power. The US can certainly help to deter Hezbollah, and is the only power that can disarm the Houthi menace in the Red Sea and Suez Canal. But only Israel can incapacitate Hamas, by fighting in one alley, tunnel and bunker after another right across the Gaza Strip.
Very reasonably, the Biden Administration has been asking the Israelis to hurry up with their fighting, instead of prolonging the suffering of Gaza’s civilians. And just as reasonably, the Biden Administration has been asking the Israelis to use less air power, less artillery and more infantry to reduce civilian casualties. But to move faster in Gaza’s intricate urban terrain would sharply increase Israeli casualties. The same is true of any imposed reduction in artillery fire and air strikes. And to do both simultaneously would not just add to Israeli casualties but multiply them.
Because the leaders on both sides know those things, and because they respect each other, there is a back-and-forth process of mutual accommodation day by day. But the unavoidable reality is that Israel cannot end its offensive, nor even accept protracted ceasefires in exchange for hostages.
Instead, its forces must persist until every basement and tunnel has been cleared and Hamas’s cadre of trained fighters has been drastically reduced. Nor is the capture of Yahya Sinwar, the top Hamas leader in Gaza, a realistic goal — with the help of Sinai Bedouin smugglers, it would be all too easy for him to escape and join Hamas’s other leaders in their five-star suites in Doha.
Of course, although essential, destroying the military power of Hamas cannot by itself bring about a permanent state of peace in Gaza. But if Hamas can no longer subject Gaza’s population to its perpetual war, it will be victory enough.
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Forget Gaza: The EU’s Genocide is Worse
The so-called ICJ (Institution of Corrupt Judgments) has just declared: Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s population has INCREASED by 2.02%, while the European Union’s population has only grown by 0.43%. Do you see the absurd bullshit the people of “Gazawood” are trying to sell you? Palestinian propaganda is more skillfully produced than Alice in Wonderland. 🇮🇱 Israel committing genocide in Gaza? Shut the hell up.  Yossi Amar-tweet-19November2024-Forget Gaza-The EU’s Genocide is Worse
 Forget Gaza: The EU’s Genocide is Worse
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A guide to the chants at ‘pro-Palestinian’ rallies:Please send this to anyone at a School, College or University. Parents, Students, Administrators and Teachers. These are Felony Death Threats. This violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/antisemitism-dcl.pdf  Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/
 Elder of Ziyon-tweet-29October2023-A guide to the chants at ‘pro-Palestinian’ rallies:  A guide to the chants at ‘pro-Palestinian’ rallies: The Proper Jewish Response:“Hashem natan ha’aretz li” (God gave the Land to me)! “Eretz Yisrael Yehudi ” (Eretz Yisrael is Jewish land)
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Pallywood: Palestinian PropagandaPallywood: “it’s just an act mommy”
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JerusalemCats Comments: Least We forget who our Enemy is:
Israel approves emergency regulations that could pave way to closing Al Jazeera officesBy Jeremy Sharon 20October2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-approves-emergency-regulations-that-could-pave-way-to-closing-al-jazeera-offices/
The government has approved regulations that will allow it to temporarily shut down foreign news channels during states of emergency, such as the current war with terror group Hamas in Gaza, if it believes the outlet is damaging national security.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has led the charge to pass these regulations in order to shut down the Al Jazeera news channel, which he claims has damaged national security.
The regulations are retroactive, meaning broadcasts by the Qatari network since the war started can now be used as the basis for a decision to shut down the staunchly pro-Palestinian news outlet’s local branch.
“Israel is at war on land, in the air, at sea, and on the public diplomacy front. We will not allow in any way broadcasts that harm the security of the state… The broadcasts and reports of Al Jazeera constitute incitement against Israel, help Hamas-ISIS and the terror organizations with their propaganda, and encourage violence against Israel,” says Karhi.
According to the new regulations, the communications minister — with the agreement of the defense minister — will be able to order TV providers to stop broadcasting the news outlet in question; close its offices in Israel, seize its equipment, and shut down its website or restrict access to its website, depending on the location of its server.
The decision must be approved by the security cabinet, must be based on legal opinions by the security establishment that the outlet is indeed harming national security, and is subject to the review of a district court.
Such a decision will be valid for 30 days but can be extended for additional 30-day periods. The emergency regulations will be in place for three months, or until the specific state of emergency is formally ended by the government.
UPDATE:
Knesset approves bill to shut down Al Jazeera in IsraelNew law approved in second and third reading stipulates Communications Minister could act against foreign media channels in Israel should they be found to harm the country; White House spokeswoman criticizes billMoran Azulay| 01April2024 | 20:02 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b17yvd00yr
The Knesset approved Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi’s bill ordering Qatari news network Al Jazeera to cease its operations in the country in a final reading on Monday. “Hamas mouthpieces won’t have any freedom of expression in Israel. Al Jazeera will be shut down in the coming days,” Karhi said in a statement.
The law promoted by Karhi and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shut down foreign channels (including Al Jazeera, Al Mayadeen, and others), was approved by the Knesset Plenum in second and third readings.
The law stipulates the Communications Minister could act to shut down foreign media channels in the country should the prime minister find it is harming Israel after reviewing at least one security assessment on the issue and conditioned by the approval of the government or security cabinet.
Actions will be approved by orders signed by the Communications Minister, and will include: closing down the channel’s offices in the country, confiscating broadcasting equipment, preventing channel reporters from broadcasting, removing the channel from cable and satellite providers in the country, blocking its websites in the country, and more.
“We have approved a quick and efficient tool to act against those who use the freedom of the press to harm Israel’s security and IDF soldiers and incite terrorism during wartime,” Karhi said in a statement following the law’s approval.
Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the law on social media, writing on his X account: “Al Jazeera has harmed Israel’s security, actively participated in the October 7 massacre, and incited violence against IDF soldiers. The time has come to remove Hamas’ mouthpiece from our country. The terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel. I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activities.”
Despite Netanyahu’s praise, other members of his Likud party criticized the bill’s wordings. “The bill as presented by the Communications Minister is both ineffective and damaging,” Likud MK Amit Halevi told Ynet. “It’s absurd that our coalition will vote in favor of such a bill. It primarily reflects an extreme lack of judgment aimed at gaining popularity.”
According to Halevi, the approved law in its current form isn’t effective. “The overwhelming majority of Al Jazeera viewers in Israel’s Arab sector watch it via satellite dishes or the internet, not Israeli broadcasters. The agency’s internet servers and offices will reopen in Ramallah if shut down in Israel.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre criticized the law in a statement, saying, “We believe in the freedom of the press. It is critical. It is critically important, and the United States supports the critically important work of journalists around the world, and that includes those who are reporting in the conflict in Gaza.”
“So, we believe that work is important. The freedom of the press is important. And if those reports are true, it is concerning to us,” she added.
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Al Jazeera admits the ‘rapes’ at Shifa hospital were a complete LIE
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Israel cutting all ties with Haaretz 31October2024
If you’re not familiar, Haaretz is an ultra left basically anti Zionist Israel newspaper. Some of their writers, most famously Gideon Levi should be behind bars for treason. Truly. Some of the stuff Haaretz has published are truly repulsive, let alone totally false and antisemitic. Well, today, after already cutting ties with UNRWA, today the state of Israel is cutting all ties with the Haaretz publication. A totally reasonable and even necessary move. It should not have taken this long, but thankful it’s happening now. To sum up, it says that Haaretz published an article calling Israel an apartheid state and calling the terrorists of 10/7 freedom fighters. The office responsible for issues of antisemitism in the government is shocked that such lies could originate from an Israeli organization and effective immediately, there will be no communication or collaboration of any kind with Haaretz.  Hillel Fuld-tweet-31October2024-Israel cutting all ties with Haaretz
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Haaretz is Der Stürmer produced by Jews
The question is why anyone buys or advertises in it. It’s time every right-thinking person in Israel boycotts any products or services advertised in Haaretz. They would shut their doors in a matter of weeks. In many cases, that reason matters more to them than being Jewish and makes them prone to being Pick-Me’s or Useful Idiots for truly terrible causes.  Dani Epstein-tweet-31October2024-Haaretz is Der Stürmer produced by Jews
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Only about 1% of Israelis use Haaretz online as their news source.Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/ Here’s how little Israelis care about Haaretz’s reporting30December2024
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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EXPOSED: Reuters Mideast Visuals Chief Openly Supported Terrorism as a Pro-Palestinian ActivistReuters’ regional head of video and pictures in the Middle East has publicly supported terrorists while working for a pro-Palestinian organization, demonized Israel, and criticized the US for providing military aid to the Jewish state,…HonestReporting Staff 23October2023 https://honestreporting.com/exposed-reuters-mideast-visuals-chief-openly-supported-terrorism-as-a-pro-palestinian-activist/
Reuters’ regional head of video and pictures in the Middle East has publicly supported terrorists while working for a pro-Palestinian organization, demonized Israel, and criticized the US for providing military aid to the Jewish state, HonestReporting exposed Monday in a revelation that calls into question his journalistic objectivity.
Labib Nasir, who is currently based in Dubai and editorially supervises Reuters visual content coming out of the region, openly praised terrorists at a media conference in Beirut in 2004 while he was working for the pro-Palestinian organization “Miftah.” According to the conference proceedings, in his public remarks, he said:
Nasir continued to falsely claim that Israeli communities in the West Bank were not “civilian,” thus suggesting they were legitimate targets:
While his words are appalling in their own right — because they refer to communities inhabited by families and children — they resonate ever more loudly in light of Hamas’ brutal massacre of innocent Israeli civilians on October 7. How can a person who holds such views have any editorial say about Middle East coverage at this sensitive time? How can a person with such views be trusted to provide objective, unbiased content on the region? It cannot and should not be tolerated.
Nasir’s full address to the conference (which was ironically held under the title “Media Ethics & Journalism in the Arab World”) is rife with more inaccuracies and anti-Israel vitriol. To quote just a few:
More examples of his activism include an opinion piece titled “Checkpoint Guide,” which refers to the everyday reality of passing through security checkpoints set up by Israel to protect its citizens against terrorists. In it, he called Israeli army soldiers “killer soldiers,” and demonized the Israeli “enemy” as an adversary of humanity:
A decade later, years after he’d already been hired by Reuters, Nasir took part in a demonstration against Israel’s 2014 Gaza operation that targeted Hamas terror tunnels and publicly criticized the US for providing billions of dollars in military aid to the Jewish state, as quoted in Boston’s WBUR news:
Unfortunately, it’s not the first time a biased Reuters journalist is exposed, as in the case of Henriette Chacar who has questioned the difference between Israeli civilians and combatants. But Nasir has risen to a much more senior position in the news agency. Activist-Turned-JournalistNasir attended the 2004 conference as the media and information coordinator for “Miftah,” an organization with an anti-Israeli agenda that was headed by then-senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi. Several months later he joined Reuters as a reporter and a producer in Jerusalem, clearly without a sufficient background check. He has climbed the news agency’s ranks ever since.
Did he attempt to set aside his activist agenda? Quite the opposite, as apparent from an interview he conducted in 2010 for Reuters with none other than his former boss Hanan Ashrawi. Any decent journalist would have excused themselves from doing so, but Nasir let Ashrawi get all her talking points across.
The problem is that Nasir understood the power of media already in 2004 when he stated in his conference presentation that: “The visual media have become highly developed in recent years and are a powerful tool that has forced itself into every house.”
Now, this activist-turned-journalist gets to decide what images from the war-torn Middle East are seen in every house worldwide and what stories are told in video and pictures — the most effective ways to influence hearts and minds. And hundreds of media outlets that subscribe to Reuters rely on this coverage.
As the region is still reeling from Hamas’ atrocities, a person who openly supports terrorism and believes that Israeli civilians’ blood is forfeit should not be allowed near any newsroom, let alone that of one of the world’s largest news agencies which claims to uphold the strictest standards of unbiased journalism.
HonestReporting has submitted an official complaint to Reuters, calling upon it to take the necessary action to maintain the values its audience deserves.
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CNN, the Modern Der Stürmer Propaganda“Die Juden sind unser Unglück!” “The Jews are our misfortune!”
 The-Mossad-Satirical,-Yet-Awesome-tweet-22October2023-CNN, News you can trust
 Map of Israel according to CNN For those that are graduates of Ivy League Schools, this is a Map of Israel. GoogleMaps screenshot / Simcha Pasko – A map of Israel and the West Bank. Map of Sderot, Israel Map of Sderot, Israel. From Wikipedia |
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‘Too many red lines crossed’: Israeli hospital bans BBCThe Galillee medical center “refuses to cooperate with media outlets that refuse to see Hamas as a terrorist organization.”https://www.jns.org/too-many-red-lines-crossed-israeli-hospital-bans-bbc/  The Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. Photo by Noam Falakasa/TPS. (October 22, 2023 / JNS) Citing BBC News’s “biased coverage” of the war against Hamas, staff at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya banned a film crew from entering the hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokesperson said.
“When there is no clarity, and this is sometimes the nature of this situation, it is good for such a popular media outlet to check, delve and investigate before publishing its reviews to hundreds of millions of people in the world,” hospital director Professor Masad Barhoum told Jewish News Syndicate.
“In everything related to the BBC network, too many red lines were crossed, so when they asked to film at our medical center and interview doctors, it was clear that they were looking for manipulations and distortions, so we informed them that we have closed our doors to them until further notice,” he added.
Hospital spokesperson Gal Zeid told JNS, “I issued the announcement to the media in the hope that other bodies and institutions in the health system, including in the country as a whole, will show solidarity, certainly during the war, and refuse, like us, to cooperate with media outlets and parties that cover the reality in a biased way and refuse to see Hamas as a terrorist organization, which harms all citizens of Israel indiscriminately.”
The publicly funded British news service is facing harsh criticism for its coverage of the Gaza war. President Isaac Herzog and other officials have blasted the BBC for refusing to describe Hamas as “terrorists.” “We are dealing with one of the worst terrorist organizations in the world,” Herzog told visiting British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday.
“I know that in modern democracies, like ours and yours, you can’t interfere per se, but since the BBC has a certain linkage and is known as British all over the world, there has to be an outcry for it to be corrected, and that Hamas will be defined as a terrorist organization there as well,” Herzog said. “What else do they need to see to understand that this is an atrocious terror organization?”
Meanwhile, the BBC was forced to apologize for its coverage of an explosion that devastated Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday night. Correspondent Jon Donnison reported from the scene that the hospital had been hit by a missile or shell, adding, “But it’s hard to see what else this could be really given the size of the explosion other than an Israeli air strike or several air strikes.”
The Israel Defense Forces released intercepted Hamas communications and security footage confirming that the hospital was devastated by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
Initial news reports and social media posts erroneously blaming Israel for the blast sparked Arab riots across the Middle East. |
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The New York Times and Hamas
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The New York Times – If We Don’t Astroturf Far-Left Jews, Why Are We Even In Business?by Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor, The New York Timeshttps://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/if-we-dont-astroturf-far-left-jews-why-are-we-even-in-business/
Lest you think I’m infringing here on the Opinion editors, I assure you, they do not need my help in this respect. No, I refer here to our news coverage, our language, our choice of stories. Our headline composition. Our choice of photographs – such as that one with the Palestinian child with a birth defect whom we portrayed as starving because of Israeli actions. And the one we replaced it with that was the same thing, as if in correction. But that’s not what I’m talking about either. I’m talking about platforming, interviewing, and writing articles about the farthest left among Jews, to imply that their opinions reflect something authentically Jewish, something that holds true for Jews in general.
You know whom I mean: Peter Beinart. Norman Finkelstein. Every random as-a-Jew at pro-Hamas rallies and encampments. You can even platform people whom the majority of Jews don’t even accept as Jewish in the first place. That’s better, in fact. It allows us to force an ideology onto demographics who wouldn’t otherwise espouse it.
Think of it as the converse of what we do in the Middle East. There, we begin with the assumption that the Palestinian position is for a peaceful two-state solution and conciliation with Israel, and frame everything through that lens. Palestinian terrorism we treat as an aberration or a just reaction to Israeli evil. We impute to Palestinian leaders peaceful intentions even when they explicitly call for the violent extermination of Jews from the river to the sea. We cannot allow our readers to gain the impression that the mainstream Palestinian position sees violence against Jews as inherently legitimate, and that the exterminationist rhetoric even in non-Hamas Palestinian media and school curricula means anything.
That would be wrongthink. There will be no wrongthink in the news section of The New York Times.
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Time to debunk the media’s anti-Israel narrative: You have blood on your handsOpinion: The only way to end the all-pervasive anti-Israel bias in so much of the media is to shake their underlying narrative, which forms part of the greatest slur campaign in historyCol. Richard Kemp |2023-10-22 | https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjqi11m7ma
Much of Western media has blood on its hands. Following the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, many news outlets have been acting as willing tools of the genocidal terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip that perpetrated it. This is neither new nor unpredictable. An anti-Zionist narrative has for many years displaced media objectivity in every conflict involving Israel.
The strategic objective of Hamas’s attacks is to incite international condemnation of Israel by compelling it to take military action in which Gaza civilians will inevitably be killed despite unparalleled IDF measures to prevent it. Whenever this happens, like Pavlov’s dogs a chorus of reporters, tame analysts and newscasters immediately appear on the airwaves to accuse Israel of war crimes. Such accusations are loudly echoed in universities, human rights groups and international bodies. Exactly as Hamas intended.  Pro-Palestinian demonstration following reports of Al Ahli Hospital blast, in Rabat, Morocco, April 18, 2023 That in turn encourages Hamas to do the same thing again and again and is the real “cycle of violence” that many journalists love to accuse others of but are in fact themselves active participants. When Donnison retweeted a photo of a girl from Syria, as PalestinianA few days ago, an explosion occurred in the parking lot at Al Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip. No one outside Gaza knew what had caused it. Immediately, the Hamas disinformation machine swung into action, accusing Israel of attacking the hospital and causing hundreds of casualties. Across the world, media parroted their accusations without question or challenge.  Pro-Israel rally outside BBC studios, in London, October 14, 2023 One of the worst offenders was the BBC, by far the most influential media organization in the UK, and with one of the largest audiences internationally. It is regarded by many as the most authoritative and impartial news organization in the world and has been seen as a beacon of truth going back to the Second World War.
“Hundreds killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital — Palestinian officials,” was the BBC headline. The next day, the British Financial Times splashed with: “Gaza Health Ministry says hundreds killed in Israeli air strike on hospital”. Across the Atlantic, the New York Times, among others, reported the Al Alhi incident in similarly false terms.
BBC reporter John Donnison told viewers: “It is hard to see what else this could be really given the size of the explosion other than an Israeli air strike or several air strikes.” Well, if he was incapable of comprehending the other obvious possibility — a terrorist rocket falling short, which it turned out to be — then perhaps he should have restrained himself from venturing any opinion at all.
Donnison has a track record. During an earlier Gaza conflict in 2012, he retweeted a picture of a young girl lying in hospital with bloodied clothes, presented as a casualty of Israeli strikes in Gaza. In fact, it was a photograph from Syria. Terrorists attacking Israel are always “militants”He is far from alone. Six BBC Arabic language journalists “liked” X.com postings praising the 7th October attacks, with one reporter celebrating the slaughter as a “morning of hope.” And back in 2009, the BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, now World Editor, was censured by the BBC’s editorial standards body over complaints of impartiality and inaccuracy in his reporting on Israel. In 2004, after complaints about anti-Israel bias at the corporation, the BBC commissioned its own investigation which resulted in the 20,000-word Balen Report. Since it was written, the BBC has spent more than $425,000 in legal fees to contest demands that it should be published. It remains under wraps nearly 20 years later.
Even after the 7th October massacre, the BBC still refuses to call Hamas what everybody else knows they are: “terrorists”. Instead, terrorists attacking Israel are always referred to as “militants”. Meanwhile, the BBC are happy to brand as terrorists the 9/11 attackers, the London suicide bombers in 2005 and the 2017 Manchester Arena bombers. And despite digging their heels in against complaints over their stance on Hamas, the BBC described a shooting in Brussels last week as a “terrorist attack”.  BBC studios covered in red paint in protest of coverage of Israel-Hamas war, in London, October 14, 2023
The same deliberate mischaracterisation of terrorists attacking Israelis is shared on the UK’s Sky News, who have also referred to Hamas as a “political organization”. This is much more than mere semantics: it can only reflect these media outlets’ real view of Hamas and their cause.
Wider concerns about the BBC help shed light on what lies behind their anti-Israel bias. In 2021, the Simon Wiesenthal Center rated the corporation as number three on its annual “Global Antisemitism Top Ten”. Iran was number one with Hamas in second place.
Jewish students at colleges – physically attackedOne example of the BBC’s alleged antisemitism cited by Wiesenthal was their reporting of an attack on a bus containing Jewish teenagers in London’s Oxford Street as they celebrated Hanukkah. Rabbi Mervin Hier, the center’s chief, said: “The BBC falsely reported that a victim on the bus used an anti-Muslim slur”. The BBC had misinterpreted the words of a distressed Jewish man speaking in Hebrew appealing for help. Again, they instinctively leapt to the wrong conclusion, but the one that fitted their narrative.
Discussing the Al Alhi hospital incident with a British reporter, I was told the accusation against Israel was made because it was “a fast-moving news situation”, and that corrections were published by many papers and broadcasters as the situation became clearer. But “clarification” usually meant substituting the false assertions against Israel with reports that “both sides traded blame”. As though there can be any equivalence between a proscribed terrorist murder gang and the official statements of democratically accountable armed forces.
I got no answer from the reporter on why Hamas statements were automatically given immediate credence, including the grossly exaggerated casualty figures churned out by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. When media did correct their fake news it was too late and their stories had already been eagerly recycled, including by politicians such as Canada’s Justin Trudeau and former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as well as human rights organizations like Amnesty International, well known for their anti-Israel bias.
 Aftermath of Al Ahli Hospital blast, in Gaza City, October 18, 2023 Such stories are also seized on in the streets, leading to mass protests, violence and even terrorism. Three days after media accused the IDF of the Al Ahli incident, the Daily Telegraph reported that a terrorist attack occurred in Britain; when arrested the perpetrator told police he had done it for “Palestine”. No further details have yet been published, supposedly for legal reasons.
In the last few days, Jewish students at colleges in the U.S. and UK have been set on and physically attacked as a result of disinformation spread by the media, which stokes and inflames pre-existing anti-Zionist movements so rife on many university campuses. Police in London report a 1,353% increase in antisemitic offences this month compared to the same period last year.
During a Sky News interview a few years ago, I contested the standard falsehoods about illegal occupation, illegal settlements and the old trope of “Israeli apartheid”. Afterwards, a veteran Sky Middle East correspondent told me privately that he agreed with me. I asked him why, then, did his reporting always reflect the opposite perspective? He told me if it did not he would be fired.
This sums up the intractable problem that dominates the editorial policies of the BBC, Sky and so much of U.S. and European media. That is the lie that Israel is an illegitimate state that deliberately oppresses innocent, peace-loving Palestinians whose land has been stolen. They may not say as much publicly, but the dominant view, even after such horrific attacks as 7th October, is that the Israelis had it coming, or at least have a major share in the blame.
 Colonel Richard Kemp The flimsy mask seemed to slip last week when Sky News journalist Kay Burley claimed the head of the Palestinian Authority mission to the UK had said Israel “had it coming”, a remark he did not make.
Perhaps a case of projection of her own views and so many of her media colleagues? The only way to end the all-pervasive anti-Israel bias in so much of the media is to shake their underlying narrative, which forms part of the greatest slur campaign in history. And how, exactly, do you do that? Colonel Richard Kemp is a former UK Armed Forces commander |
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Unmasked: The Pro-Hamas ‘Sources’ Used by International MediaThe Associated Press was recently exposed over its long-running usage of the unreliable eyewitness accounts of the director of Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital, who was unmasked as an associate of recently-eliminated Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh. Dr….Rachel O’Donoghue 19August2024 https://honestreporting.com/unmasked-the-pro-hamas-sources-used-by-international-media/
The Associated Press was recently exposed over its long-running usage of the unreliable eyewitness accounts of the director of Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital, who was unmasked as an associate of recently-eliminated Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh.
Dr. Fadel Naim, whose Facebook page is awash with violent and antisemitic rhetoric, was also revealed as a source of information about the conflict that was later found to be false.
The issue of untrustworthy sources extends beyond the Associated Press and its reliance on Naim. We can now reveal that numerous other leading news organizations have also published information from questionable sources in Gaza. These individuals, often cloaked in professional titles that lend them a veneer of credibility, have been found, like Naim, to support violent terror activities.
The ‘Journalist’ Documenting GazaIn addition to the Gaza freelance journalists who HonestReporting revealed had invaded Israel on October 7 and were paid by news outlets for the documentation of their crimes, other self-described journalists in Gaza have played a key role in providing eyewitness accounts to high-profile news outlets.
One such figure is Plestia Alaqad, an “aspiring journalist” who has been featured in various media outlets, including the Washington Post and recent opinion editorials in The Guardian. Despite her portrayal as a credible source, Alaqad and others like her have been found to disseminate misleading information that aligns with Hamas propaganda.
In one recent Guardian piece, Alaqad repeated the false claim that a Lancet “study” stated that up to 186,000 people could be dead in Gaza, a figure that actually came from a letter to the journal and was discredited.<
Alaqad has also been known to spread Hamas propaganda and anti-Israel libels, including claims of genocide and the false assertion that went unchallenged during a BBC interview that Israel killed 1,000 Palestinians in a “massacre” at the Al-Ahli Hospital—an explosion that was later determined to have been caused by an errant Islamic Jihad rocket.
Yet, this is the individual that reputable media outlets, including the Washington Post, Guardian and BBC, turn to for “expert” testimony. They present her as a journalist, lending her a veneer of respectability, while ignoring the fact that she consistently promotes narratives that are not just misleading but dangerous.
In a similar case, BBC Verify, the team responsible for fact-checking news events, relied on the testimony of Mahmoud Awadeyah, a journalist reportedly affiliated with an Iranian news outlet linked to the Revolutionary Guards Corps. Awadeyah, who has openly praised terrorist attacks against Israelis, was cited by the BBC to support claims that Israel deliberately targeted civilians during an aid convoy incident in Gaza.
Heartwrenching Civilian StoriesNumerous news outlets have not only relied on questionable figures like Plestia Alaqad but have also turned to other so-called eyewitnesses whose credibility has been undermined by disturbing online postings.
Dunia Abu Rahma, a 22-year-old architecture student from Gaza, for example, appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper and NBC News, where she painted a heart-wrenching picture of life in Gaza, emphasizing her desire for peace and a normal life. “All I want them to know is that there are civilians, people who wish to live a normal, peaceful life,” she told Anderson Cooper, framing herself as an innocent bystander hoping for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.
However, Abu Rahma’s social media history tells a very different story. HonestReporting uncovered numerous posts where she celebrated the October 7 Hamas massacre, glorified violence against Israelis, and expressed antisemitic views. On the day of the attack, she tweeted with apparent glee about the invasion of Israeli communities, even expressing a desire to participate in the violence. In another instance, she lamented that Adolf Hitler did not finish his Holocaust of Jews.
Hatred Masked by ‘Advocacy’HonestReporting has also found examples of media outlets relying on individuals from charitable organizations or activists whose online presence reveals a pattern of promoting extremist views or spreading misinformation.
The BBC cited a central Gaza-based “advocacy officer” for a UK charity, Tarneen Hammad, in a recent piece that cited her determination to work for “justice and peace.”
 BBC-Tarneen Hammad Yet, shortly after the October 7 attack, Hammad was tweeting support for the horrific massacre.
 Tarneen Hammad-tweet-8October2023 Former Amnesty activist Hind Khoudary was used by the BBC, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and The Independent, as a source in the Strip before she was outed as a Hamas collaborator whose information led to the arrest of Palestinian peace activists. In 2020, she informed on Gazans who participated in a peace dialogue with Israelis, resulting in their imprisonment on charges of “treason.”  Amnesty activist Hind Khoudary
The international media’s reliance on testimony from eyewitnesses in Gaza is expected. However, it is unacceptable to present as credible journalists, medical workers, activists, or bystanders those who, in some cases, have a history of disseminating violent, pro-terror rhetoric.
These sources, with their troubling views, are shaping Western audiences’ understanding of the conflict. Media outlets are failing in their most basic duty to perform due diligence by not properly vetting the individuals they rely on for information.
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Fact-Checking Website Snopes Shills For Hamas & Debates Beheaded Babies in Sickening ‘Debunking’ ArticlesSnopes is one of the most well-known “fact-checker” websites worldwide, regularly posting articles debunking online conspiracy theories, dispelling media misinformation and separating satire from serious news. Its website boasts of the stringent process its editorial…Rachel O’Donoghue October 23, 2023 https://honestreporting.com/fact-checking-website-snopes-shills-for-hamas-debates-beheaded-babies-in-sickening-debunking-articles/
Snopes is one of the most well-known “fact-checker” websites worldwide, regularly posting articles debunking online conspiracy theories, dispelling media misinformation and separating satire from serious news.
Its website boasts of the stringent process its editorial team undertakes to ensure the veracity of information, including contacting primary sources, finding experts who have relevant expertise in the subject at hand, and using non-partisan information and data sources to inform its pieces.
However, since the outbreak of the October 7 war against Israel, Snopes has been producing some dubious content that requires some fact-checking of its own.
Here are just a few examples of Snopes’ problematic fact-checking on the Israel-Hamas war: Sneaky Editing on Gaza Hospital BlastThe explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital sparked a flurry of media misinformation and social media disinformation.
From the New York Times headline that an “Israeli airstrike” was responsible for “killing 500″ to the BBC’s correspondent Jon Donnison confidently announcing live on-air that he found it “hard to see” who else could be responsible other than the IDF, the lie that Israel bombed a civilian hospital spread like wildfire.
But then the truth emerged. The Israeli military released satellite imagery, videos of the blast, and tapped phone recordings that proved it was a misfired rocket shot by Islamic Jihad that was responsible.
What’s more, further evidence came out that the rocket did not directly hit the hospital and that nowhere near 500 people died.
On October 19, two days after the explosion, Snopes published an article asking, “Did Israel Warn Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza to Evacuate?” written by former Al Jazeera journalist Nur Ibrahim.
In addition to relying on widely discredited reporting on the events from the New York Times for its “fact-checking,” the article also fails to acknowledge the many pieces of evidence released by Israel that exonerate itself, as well as the United States’ own findings that Islamic Jihad was responsible.
Perhaps owing to her employment history, Ibrahim uses a statement given to Al Jazeera without noting the outlet is a state-run propaganda arm of the Qatari government and fails to note that the “unnamed senior health official in Gaza” who spoke to Al Jazeera would be affiliated with Hamas, which controls the Gazan health authorities.
It is also clear that Snopes did some sneaky editing of the article where it had initially made errors. An original version of the piece states unequivocally that “500 people were killed” which was later amended to read “hundreds of people” even though that figure is still in dispute.
 Did Israel Warn Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza to Evacuate-old version.  Did Israel Warn Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza to Evacuate-new version.
Fact-Finding Over Beheaded BabiesOne of the most disgusting “debates” that has taken place during the war is whether Hamas terrorists beheaded babies or shot them during their murderous onslaught in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7.
Also written by Nur Ibrahim, the Snopes article allegedly debunking the claim flippantly describes the atrocity as a “viral rumor spread by news media, the US president, and so on.”
It also includes this disturbing paragraph: “As we looked into the claim, we found contradictory reports from journalists, Israeli army officials, and almost no independent corroborations of the alleged war crime, leading to concerns among fact-checkers that such a claim may be premature or unsubstantiated.” This is a lie. In addition to numerous eyewitness accounts, including from independent journalists who saw the aftermath of the massacre and photographic evidence, there is enough proof to say that babies were indeed beheaded during the Hamas rampage.
More importantly, Ibrahim’s insistence on calling it an “alleged war crime” is baffling. For, even if babies had not been beheaded, what Hamas did would have still amounted to a war crime — there is nothing “alleged” about the events of October 7.
Lastly, Ibrahim claims details of the massacre being released could lead to hatred toward Muslims, explaining that people should be “wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric, or statements that compare the violence in Kfar Aza to ‘ISIS-style’ killings — i.e., beheadings that have taken place in a different context and were committed by a different group” because they have the “potential to become dangerous propaganda.’
HonestReporting-tweet-11October2023- BREAKING: Israeli official confirms two important details. ⭕ Babies were decapitated at Kibbutz Be’eri. ⭕ Women were raped next to the bodies of fellow festivalgoers at Re’im. They were “killed twice, first raped and then murdered,” the official said.  HonestReporting-tweet-11October2023-Israeli official confirms two important details
Shilling for the Iranian AyatollahIbrahim acted as an apologist for another Islamist regime in an October 10 article that asked, “Did Iran Say It Will Hit Israel with Missile Strikes from Lebanon, Yemen and Iran if Attacked?”
According to the Snopes piece, the following claim that appeared in the Wall Street Journal remains unproven: “During the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Iranian officials said that if Iran were attacked, it would respond with missile strikes on Israel from Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, and send Iranian fighters into Israel from Syria.”
Citing the fact the WSJ only cited one source for the threat, Ibrahim concluded Snopes “cannot independently verify whether such a threat was sanctioned by the Iranian state.”
But just days after the Snopes article was published, Iran effectively confirmed its threats when its foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned the regime may take “preemptive action” against Israel via its proxies, which happen to be based in Lebanon and Yemen.
“Today, when we talk about the resistance in the region, it is not only Hezbollah, and we are witnessing the activities of various resistance groups in the region,” Amir-Abdollahian added.
Did Snopes update its article to reflect this? Nope. Found this article informative? Follow the HonestReporting page on Facebook to read more articles debunking news bias and smears, as well as others explaining Israel’s history, politics, and international affairs. Click here to learn more! |
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Media Rush To Defend Hamas Ministry Providing Skewed Data on Gaza CasualtiesIt was impossible not to notice a disturbing trend that took place last week, as respectable news outlets rushed to publish almost identical reports defending their only source of information on Gaza casualties: The Hamas-run…
Rinat Harash 29October2023
It was impossible not to notice a disturbing trend that took place last week, as respectable news outlets rushed to publish almost identical reports defending their only source of information on Gaza casualties: The Hamas-run Health Ministry.
Reuters, AP, The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine and The Washington Post included all or most of the following elements in their pieces: The release by the Hamas-run Ministry of a list of victims, flawed reasoning, attributions to the same problematic sources, and ridiculous attempts to claim that the Ministry was actually run by the PA, Hamas’ rival. This orchestrated pattern seemed like it carried the heavy footprints of an agenda-driven effort that journalists were all too happy to parrot. Victims List and Logical FallacyAll of the outlets mentioned above based their apologetic reports on the release of a list of Palestinian victims that the Hamas-run Health Ministry sent out after US President Joe Biden had questioned its reliability. The list — which was not published — reportedly included the names and identity numbers of 6,747 Palestinians who according to the Ministry had been killed in Israeli bombardments of the enclave.
But almost all outlets failed to notice or mention that the document included 471 victims from the blast at al-Ahli hospital, which according to analyses of several intelligence services was the fault of a misfired Palestinian missile and not an Israeli strike. And that number, which is still disputed, was modified from an earlier estimation of 500 fatalities falsely provided by the ministry in the immediate aftermath of the blast.
Related Reading: Gaza Hospital Explosion: The Evidence But this is just one symptom of a deeper problem. When analyzing the reasoning behind these reports, a logical fallacy emerges. Here’s how AP makes its case:
How does the fact that other bodies rely on a sole source make it reliable? They simply don’t have any other choice.
So the argument fails. But it fails also because some of the bodies quoted as part of this equation — like the UN’s OCHA and Human Rights Watch — are problematic in their own right. Agenda-driven AttributionsThe main talking head in all of the reports is none other than Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch.
Yet no report mentions that Shakir is far from being impartial when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Shakir was forced to leave Israel in November 2019 after his work visa was not renewed due to his support of the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Both Reuters and AP also quote OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) as a body whose reliance on the data provided by the Hamas-run Health Ministry is a testament to its accuracy.
But OCHA, as detailed by NGO Monitor, is a body that oversees funding for anti-Israeli NGOs, including some that engage in blatantly antisemitic activities and have ties to the PFLP, a proscribed terrorist organization.
AP also mentions Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra, who is described as a logistical genius:
While this may be true, al-Qidra is working for Hamas. As former Reuters bureau chief Luke Baker recently wrote on X/Twitter, “any health official stepping out of line and not giving the death tolls that Hamas wants reported to journalists risks serious consequences.”
HonestReporting-tweet-25October2023- A former @Reuters Jerusalem bureau chief spells out the clear problems with the media coverage of Gazan casualty figures: The numbers are supplied by Hamas and Hamas can’t be trusted.  HonestReporting-tweet-25October2023-The numbers are supplied by Hamas and Hamas can’t be trusted Moreover, an Israeli think tank estimated in 2014 that al-Qidra was a former Hamas activist who has been affiliated with the terrorist movement since the 1990s.
It is no wonder, then, that several media outlets added a ridiculous argument to their case, defying reason and reality altogether: The Gaza-Health Ministry is actually not run by Hamas. Denying Hamas’ ResponsibilityThree media outlets — Reuters, AP and The New York Times — have made a special effort to distort reality by falsely claiming that the Gaza Health Ministry is supervised by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas’ rival which holds sway in the West Bank. Here is Reuters’ version:
And AP’s:
And The New York Times:
Did these outlets forget the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007? Do they not know that a Gazan civil servant who doesn’t abide by Hamas’ dictates risks his or her life? Why are they parroting agenda-driven talking points without adding a shred of factual context? Their absurd description makes Gaza look like a pluralistic society in which the two rival Palestinian factions have reconciled.
Unfortunately, all these outlets know that Hamas is skewing the data. Their contradictory reports even say so:
So why are they dedicating entire pieces to defending this source of twisted information? Why can’t they just include a skeptical line in every relevant piece saying the tally by the Hamas-run Ministry cannot be independently verified? Why do they try to “counterbalance” any such caveat with a false doubt cast on Israel’s tally of its own victims, which is publicly available?
Why do they fail to accept that a terror group which can slaughter, rape and kidnap to achieve its goals can also, quite easily, just lie?
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These are foreign concepts to the Western mind which doesn’t comprehend how the Palestinian Arabs are so radicalized that parents look forward to their children being needlessly martyred to equality needless killing.  HonestReporting-tweet-12February2024-Washington Post fake numbers
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Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza13th December 2024
On 7 October 2023, Hamas militants launched a war on Israel. After Israel launched its military response, media outlets around the world began to report on death tolls in Gaza, frequently citing numbers from the ‘Gaza Ministry of Health’ as though it was a fully independent, unbiased source.
In reality, the Ministry of Health (MoH) is under the full control of Hamas. It was established by Hamas in 2007 after it took full control of the Gaza Strip following its violent clashes with the Fatah faction of the Palestinian Authority. Since then, Hamas has managed governmental functions in Gaza, including health care services through the MoH.
Given that Hamas is a direct party to the conflict, this creates an obvious conflict of interest.
These MoH figures have been repeatedly cited by major news organisations throughout this conflict. For example, an April 2024 headline in The Observer stated: ‘Gaza death toll passes 34,000 as Israel and Iran missile strikes grab global attention’. In August 2024, this toll passing 40,000 was the focal point of much of the day’s BBC News coverage, as catalogued by the Cohen report of September 2024.
The reporting of these figures has been analysed by a group of international scholars, who meticulously analysed reports of Gaza war fatalities from February 2024 through May 2024. They examined 1,378 articles from major English-language newspapers and media outlets, specifically The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, the BBC, Reuters, The Associated Press and the Australian ABC.
Over that four-month period, 84% of those publications failed to make the critical distinction in total numbers between combatant deaths and civilian deaths.
Only 5% of the surveyed media organisations cited numbers released by the Israeli authorities, while 98% cited fatality figures provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.
In 19% of media reports examined, numbers provided by Hamas-run institutions were used without citing any source, thereby suggesting those figures were undisputed.
Furthermore, fewer than one in every 50 articles mentioned that the figures provided by the MoH were unverifiable or controversial. Strikingly, the Israeli statistics had their credibility questioned in half of the few articles that incorporated them.
This report raises serious concerns that the Gaza MoH figures have been overstated. The data behind their figures contains natural deaths, deaths from before this conflict began and deaths of those killed by Hamas itself; it contains no mention of Hamas combatant fatalities; and it overstates the number of women and children killed.
Serious errors have been discovered on the Ministry’s lists of fatalities. These errors include a 22-year-old registered as a four-year-old, a 31-year-old registered as a one-year-old and several men with male first names registered as female – artificially increasing the numbers of women and children reported killed. The lists also include people who died before the war and people who died from attacks by Hamas rather than the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
They likely include around 5,000 natural deaths per year, including cancer patients who were listed by the Ministry for hospital treatment after they had already appeared on fatality lists. Hamas also claimed hundreds of fatalities from attacks which turned out to be misfired rocket launches by Gaza factions.
It is indisputable that natural deaths which occur in times of peace would also occur during a war. The pre-war rate of natural deaths in Gaza is known from relevant mortality data presented by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, based in Ramallah in the West Bank.
Media reports claiming totals killed in Gaza by IDF action have not verified the figures cited and fail to account for the deaths of upwards of 17,000 Hamas and affiliated combatants as part of that toll.
This report also shows that the methodology of data collection by the Ministry of Health is not scientifically valid, and that its reports from previous conflicts have also concealed combatant deaths.
This fatality analysis recognises the immense toll of the war on Palestinians in Gaza. Even as fatalities are discussed as quantifiable numbers, it is important to remember that innocent people are suffering, and each number represents a human life. Many of those lives were innocent people caught in the middle of a brutal war started by Hamas on 7 October. The suffering, death and destruction are very real for actual human beings.
An understanding of the Gaza fatality data is critical in understanding the conduct of the war by the Israel Defense Forces and the State of Israel’s leadership. International humanitarian law does not require that no harm happen to civilians. Rather, it demands that parties to war use their best efforts to mitigate harm to civilians. All parties to a war are required to adhere to certain rules of war. As the United Nations frequently posits: “even war has rules”. When one party in a war disregards the rules, the consequences do not convict the other party or prevent them from prosecuting the war.
Global media outlets have, understandably, focused on the number of deaths in Gaza as a lens of critique of Israeli operations. Many media outlets give the proviso that the Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas-run, but few give the same level of attention to IDF reports of the numbers of fighters killed as part of the overall Israeli fatality total. Nor do media outlets give the methodology, reporting or content of the lists of names the scrutiny they deserve.
A definitive figure of fatalities is impossible, due to the lack of transparency from the MoH, a general lack of access to the Palestinian Population Registry and the challenges of counting militants killed in combat. However, this report finds numerous errors that cannot be explained by a lack of access to the Ministry of Health computer network that went offline in November 2023.
We have identified distortion of statistics, misreporting of natural deaths, deaths from before the war started and a high likelihood of combatant deaths being included on the list. This report also challenges the assumption that MoH fatality reports from previous conflicts are reliable and reveals evidence of efforts to hide militant fatalities. We also identify critical differences in the demographic breakdowns reported by the MoH and the Hamas Government Media Office.
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Not Reported
So here, a nice Palestinian woman just approached soldiers and when they picked up on suspicious behavior and stopped her, this is what they found on her. After interrogation, she admitted she was there to commit a terrorist attack. Ya know, because today is a good day to kill Jews, right? Do they ever have a day that’s NOT a good day to kill Jews? The only chances you’ll hear about this is if some “journalist” reports that “IDF soldiers arrested an innocent Palestinian woman.” But you also don’t hear about the constant Hezbollah attacks on Israel. You don’t hear about the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who were displaced from their homes in this war. You won’t hear about the rocks that Palestinian kids throw at Israeli cars daily, and by rocks, I mean boulders. You won’t hear about the daily Palestinian attempts to run civilians over with their car. You won’t hear about the mass marches in support of Hamas throughout Palestinian towns and villages. Listen, I can go on. You won’t hear about any of that. You’ll only hear about it if Israel retaliates. Dead Jews don’t get clicks. Happy to be your source of truthful information because truth is a novelty nowadays. You’re welcome. The Palestinian culture is rotten to the core and they are indoctrinated from age zero. This is a population, as politically incorrect as it may be to say, that needs to be uprooted the same way Nazi Germany was. If that statement offends you, I’d go searching for your moral compass. Hamas and its supporters = Modern day Nazis.  Hillel Fuld-tweet-11April2024-Not Reported
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The Journalists are the Terrorists
Israel demands clarification from global media over photographers during Hamas assaultAP, Reuters, NY Times deny any prior knowledge, say their job is to cover news; CNN suspends ties with freelancer; Israel warns those present could be held accountable for crimesBy Stuart Winer 9November2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-demands-clarification-from-global-media-over-photographers-during-hamas-assault/
 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip enter Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7, 2023, amid a massive assault by the Hamas terror group. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah) Israel on Thursday demanded that international media outlets explain the circumstances under which photographers in their pay were present at the scene of the surprise October 7 assault by the Hamas terror group on southern Israel, and warned they could be held complicit in the crimes. The move came after the pro-Israel watchdog group Honest Reporting published a report Wednesday showing that photographers used by The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN provided images taken as the attack was ongoing from the border area and including from inside Israel — intimating they may have had advance knowledge of the assault.
The report also raised questions about the relationship between some of the photographers and the Hamas terror group that rules Gaza. AP, Reuters and The New York Times all denied having any prior knowledge of the attack and reiterated that their role is to cover breaking news events. CNN said it had cut ties with one of the photographers named in the report even though it had no reason to doubt the “journalistic accuracy” of his work.
The National Information System, a department of the Prime Minister’s Office, said in a statement Thursday that it “takes very seriously the phenomenon of journalists working with international media joining [with attackers] to cover the brutal massacres by Hamas terrorists on Saturday 10/7/2023 in the communities surrounding Gaza.”
It said the Government Press Office “issued an urgent letter to the heads of the media systems where these photographers are employed, and asked for clarification on the matter.”
Still, without receiving answers, it concluded that: “These media people are complicit in crimes against humanity.” “This is a violation of the rules of professional ethics,” the statement said. “The National Information System demands that immediate action be taken.”  Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Masoud) Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi also sent a letter to The New York Times asserting that photographers and others at the paper had prior knowledge of the attack and urging the paper to investigate.
“I write to you with deep concern regarding recent reports about your employees’ alleged involvement in the tragic events in southern Israel,” Karhi wrote. “It has come to our attention that certain individuals within your organization, including photographers and others, had prior knowledge of these horrific actions and may have maintained a troubling connection with the perpetrators.”
“I urgently request a thorough investigation into this matter,” Karhi wrote. “The gravity of the situation demands a swift and thorough response.”
The New York Times rejected the accusations, saying regarding photographer Yousef Masoud that “There is no evidence for Honest Reporting’s insinuations.”
While noting Masoud was not working for the paper on the day of the attack itself, the paper added: “Our review of his work shows that he was doing what photojournalists always do during major news events, documenting the tragedy as it unfolded.”
It added that freelance photojournalists’ jobs “often require them to rush into danger to provide first-hand witness accounts and to document important news.”
Minister Benny Gantz, a member of the war cabinet set up to oversee the conflict, said in a post to his X (formerly Twitter) feed: “Journalists found to have known about the massacre – and still chose to stand as idle bystanders while children were slaughtered – are no different than terrorists and should be treated as such.”
On October 7, Hamas led over 3,000 terrorists who burst through the Gaza Strip border and rampaged murderously through southern Israel. The gunmen overran communities, slaughtering some 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians in their homes or at a massive outdoor music festival. At least 240 people were taken hostage and dragged into Gaza. Hundreds of cases of brutality and abuse were recorded.
Many of the attackers recorded their acts on body cameras or other video equipment and the images were published by Hamas.
The onslaught, which began at around 6:30 a.m., came under the cover of thousands of rockets fired at Israel. It was reportedly planned under great secrecy with only senior Hamas commanders being aware of the full scale and scope of the attack before it went ahead.
In its report, Honest Reporting asked: “Is it conceivable to assume that ‘journalists’ just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?”
“Some of [the Hamas terrorists’] atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for The Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border raises serious ethical questions,” it wrote.
The website listed four photojournalists whose names appear in Associated Press pictures from the Israel-Gaza border area on the day of the attack: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
Eslaiah, it said, crossed the border into Israel and took pictures of a burning IDF tank. He also photographed attackers entering Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where dozens of civilians were massacred. The report said that in now-removed tweets posted to his X feed, Eslaiah was seen in front of the tank but not wearing a press vest that would identify him as a member of the media.
A photo has also emerged online of Eslaiah being kissed by Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar. It is not clear when the photo was taken, but it seems to have been prior to the October 7 attack.
Here he is pictured with Hamas leader and mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar. Note that he is not identifiable as a member of the press. But AP & CNN deemed it acceptable to use his services.  HonestReporting-tweet-8November2023-In the hours following our expose
Honest Reporting said Masoud also took pictures of a destroyed tank. Mahmud and Ali both took pictures of people being abducted from Israel into Gaza, the report said.
The names of several of the photographers have since been removed from images of the attacks in the AP database, the watchdog said. (At time of writing, Eslaiah’s credit had indeed been removed in AP’s database from the photo at the top of this article and from other photographs he took on October 7.)
Reuters published images from two photographers, Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa and Yasser Qudih. Both men apparently crossed into Israel from Gaza to photograph a burning tank, according to the report.
“Even if they didn’t know the exact details of what was going to happen, once it unfolded did they not realize they were breaching a border? And if so, did they notify the news agencies? Some sort of communication was undoubtedly necessary — before, after or during the attack — in order to get the photos published,” the watchdog asked.
“Either way, when international news agencies decide to pay for material that has been captured under such problematic circumstances, their standards may be questioned and their audience deserves to know about it. And if their people on the ground actively or passively collaborated with Hamas to get the shots, they should be called out to redefine the border between journalism and barbarism.”  Palestinians celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah) Israel’s Channel 12 stated on Thursday, without attribution, that these photographers “were not there at 6:30 in the morning” when the border fence was breached in multiple locations, “and apparently not in the first wave after the breach.”
The arguments are over “the second wave and a little after that, at around 8 in the morning,” the TV report said. In a response to the Ynet outlet, CNN said it has stopped working with Eslaiah. “We are aware of the article and photo concerning Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance photojournalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets. While we have not at this time found reason to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work he has done for us, we have decided to suspend all ties with him,” CNN said.
The Associated Press said in a statement that it “had no knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks before they happened. The role of the AP is to gather information on breaking news events around the world, wherever they happen, even when those events are horrific and cause mass casualties.”
“AP uses images taken by freelancers around the world, including in Gaza,” it said. The Reuters news agency also denied having any prior knowledge of the assault.
Update: Israel demands clarification from global media over photographers during Hamas assault
They documented some of the kidnappings. Did these “journalists” know of the plan ahead of time? Ali Mahmud and Hatem Ali shot pictures of the abductions of Israelis into Gaza. Mahmud also captured the pickup truck carrying the body of Shani Louk. Great expose—- https://honestreporting.com/photographers-without-borders-ap-reuters-pictures-of-hamas-atrocities-raise-ethical-questions/
 Marina Medvin-tweet-8November2023-Notice the AP reporter  Marina Medvin-tweet-8November2023-AP had photographers embedded with the terrorists
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Crossing the lines of integrity with a Hamas-praising photojournalist – analysis‘Post’ revelations show Hassan Eslaiah likely knew about the planned massacre ahead of time and expressed support as he watched the murdersBy MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN  A photograph taken by Gaza photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah. (photo credit: Screenshots from Telegram)
CNN hired a photojournalist who just three days before posted videos and photos of himself inside Israel during the Hamas massacre, including with an Israeli tank and a room of bloody, dead bodies.
Gaza photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah crossed into Israel on October 7 to document the Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. His photos from the scene appeared on several international news outlets, including The Associated Press, the Jerusalem-based watchdog HonestReporting revealed last week.
The watchdog’s story sparked a series of questions and international outcry, ultimately leading to his being let go from the two institutions.
However, CNN said in a statement last week that their working relationship with the freelancer began after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, on October 10. It also noted that despite its decision to stop working with Eslaiah, it did not have “any reason to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work he has done for us,” as reported by Ynet and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post.
 Images taken by Gaza photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah, who worked for both AP and CNN, of the Hamas massacre on October 7. (credit: Screenshots from Telegram)
The Post confirmed that Eslaiah was not fired for his work on the 7th but for a separate but related concern.
It was unclear if CNN knew about Eslaiah’s posts on Telegram before offering him work.
CNN told the Post it will not be commenting further on the matter. Crossing the line: Did a photojournalist support the massacre of Israelis?The issue goes beyond issues of accuracy or bias but is more about the lines that get crossed when a photojournalist appears to act with delight in response to witnessing the killing of civilians, while working for a major news outlet.
HonestReporting showed a screenshot of a now-removed post of the photojournalist on X standing in front of the Israeli tank without a press vest or helmet. The tweet read, “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.” A similar image still appears on his Telegram page.
HonestReporting also published a separate image from well before the massacre showing Eslaiah buddying up with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
However, by scrolling through Eslaiah’s personal Telegram channel, the Post has found that Eslaiah posted much more than a tank on the 7th, including items that indicate that not only did he likely know about the planned massacre before it began at around 6:30 a.m., but that he supported the deaths of the innocent Israelis he watched being murdered.
Eslaiah’s first post on October 7 was at 5:59 a.m.: “We wake up to the great gifts of God,” he posted, according to a translation by ChatGPT. “The spirit has returned, and our blessings have increased.”
Within half an hour, he is posting about the rockets being launched at Israel and the sounds of the Iron Dome intercepting them over Khan Yunis. Then, between 6:55 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., he posts multiple variations: “To follow the latest news moment by moment, follow me on my media platforms.”
At 8:29 a.m., he appears “live from inside the settlements near the Gaza Strip” with a picture of a burning tank in the background.
At 8:36 a.m., after witnessing nearly 10 minutes of the massacre, he posts images from the scene with a verse from the Koran: “ And on that day, the believers will rejoice in the victory of Allah” and the hashtag “#AqsaFlood.”
At 9:25 a.m., the most gruesome of posts is revealed: a video with his watermark: “Filmed by Hassan Eslaiah” in the center, depicting a room full of dead, bloody bodies.
This particular video does not appear to have been published anywhere else. In the background, you hear a calm voice that sounds like his from other videos, and is spoken in his Arabic dialect, stating the following: “[Animal] carcasses, carcasses. God is great. This is the path to Jerusalem.”
There is another video at 9:49 a.m. of his standing in front of burning Jewish homes as terrorists run by. And a final video one minute later of his leaving Israel on the back of someone’s motorbike.
Is this the kind of photojournalist that major news outlets should be hiring? What kind of vetting process should be required before hiring someone in a foreign country?
Perhaps these are the questions that all international outlets should now be asking themselves.
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Terrorist as journalists
This is a lie… watch as we unmask the so-called journalists and expose how 75% of them aren’t who the media portrays them to be.  Israel Advocacy Movement-tweet-21January2024-Terrorist as journalists
 Michael Elgort-tweet-11February2024-Muhammad Washah Hamas-Al Jazeera journalist
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The Associated Press-POYIPICS Winner-Hamas-journalist 2024! Her name is SHANI LOUK
🔥She was RAPED. Raped so brutally her legs were broken and bent backwards from her body 🔥She was MURDERED. Her murderers paraded her dead body through Gaza and defiled it. 🔥She was DECAPITATED. Her body has yet to be recovered, only a piece of her skull was found. @AP and POYIPICS you’re an absolute disgrace.  The Persian Jewess-tweet-28March2024-Her name is SHANI LOUK  The Associated Press-POYIPICS Winner-Hamas-journalist 2024
“Three men shouting “Allah and Akbar.” One vile photograph and my crushed granddaughter. And the world is silent. My dead granddaughter stars in a photograph that won a prestigious photography competition. And the world is silent!!! The body of my granddaughter, after she was brutally murdered and taken to Gaza as a sign of victory, is displayed for all to see. And the world is silent!!!! My granddaughter’s body, after the vile murderers broke her bones so she could get into the back of the van, this body that was only a few hours ago so full of life, love, and light. Tossed as a victory trophy for terrorists and vile photographers. And the world is silent!!!! My beautiful dead granddaughter, surrounded by three bloodthirsty murderers. This is the heroic photo that was chosen first in a prestigious photography competition. And the world is silent. And I’m screaming, how could you?? And how much more pain can we contain? And the world is silent. #AntizionismIsAntisemitism  The Persian Jewess-tweet-4April2024-And the world is silent
 Im Tirtzu-tweet-19May2024-Shani Louk’s funeral
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All of Shani Louk’s Hamas Terrorist Eliminated
ONE. BY. ONE. 💥  Nazi Hunters-tweet-14July2025-All of Shani Louk’s Hamas Terrorist Eliminated
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The RJI’s Pictures of the Year award spits on Shani Louk’s grave
 HonestReporting-tweet-9April2024-the RJI’s Pictures of the Year award spits on Shani Louk’s grave
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NBC journalist arrested for inciting terrorismJerusalem police have arrested a journalist employed by NBC for posts lauding the Hamas invasion of Israel.18November2023 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380527
Maariv reports that Mirvat al-Azzeh, a 45-year-old journalist who works for NBC, was arrested on Thursday on suspicions of inciting terror and identifying with a terrorist organization. The arrest comes after she published posts on Facebook commenting on the Hamas invasion of Israel
Police claim that she arrived at the station “ready to be arrested,” without her mobile phone and with the telephone numbers written on her leg. During her investigation, she admitted to the deeds ascribed to her. A representative of the police summarized the interrogation at the court hearing Friday in Jerusalem: “This is a serious crime during a declared war, during which the defendant is living and employed in the country that is under attack, and still decided to incite and praise the attacks against citizens.”
Her attorney commented: “The woman in question is an ordinary woman, who works as a journalist and whose work is important to us all. She was asked during her investigation about her employment. I believe she admitted to all the deeds described to her, and cooperated fully with the investigation. She did not attempt to conceal the offenses or claim that her accounts had been hacked. Even when she didn’t have a mobile phone, which is the main tool involved, she still said, ‘Yes, those are my posts.'”
“This makes many more steps completely superfluous. You have her confession and there is no further need to investigate. I request that she be released on any conditions that the court seems appropriate. She is from a very respected family.”
At the end of the hearing, her detention was extended. Over the past month, the police has asked the prosecution for a permit to investigate the journalist and the permit was granted last week. The journalist, as stated, was arrested two days ago by Jerusalem police, and her detention was extended in a court hearing for four days.
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EXPOSED: Hamas Honored Reuters Journalists in GazaFor years, particularly during conflicts between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian journalists in Gaza have proudly accepted international press awards. What they have kept quiet — for obvious reasons — was the fact that they were…HonestReporting Staff September 5, 2024 https://honestreporting.com/exposed-hamas-honored-reuters-journalists-in-gaza/
For years, particularly during conflicts between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian journalists in Gaza have proudly accepted international press awards. What they have kept quiet — for obvious reasons — was the fact that they were also showered with honors by Hamas. An HonestReporting review of Palestinian media revealed that since 2015, the proscribed terror group has hosted annual ceremonies to honor these Gazan journalists for their prestigious awards, including photographers from Reuters. A further review of their social media accounts revealed terror group insignias adorning what was then the Reuters office in Gaza. This cozy relationship between Gaza’s terror groups and the journalists tasked with covering them objectively is ethically flawed. It exposes the disturbing entanglement between terrorists and the media, shaping a distorted global narrative about Gaza. Honored by TerroristsIn 2017, Hamas held a commendation event for international award-winning journalists in Gaza, where it honored Reuters photographer Suhaib Jadallah Salem, who is currently the agency’s head of visuals for Gaza.
One of the photos from the event shows Suhaib’s brother Mohammed Jadallah Salem, a Reuters photographer who recently won the Pulitzer prize and the World Press Photo award, receiving Suhaib’s commendation plaque on his behalf. Two senior Hamas officials are granting the plaque: Khalil al-Hayya and Mushir al-Masri:  Mohammed Jadallah Salem, a Reuters photographer who recently won the Pulitzer prize and the World Press Photo award at the Hamas 2017 commendation event for international award-winning journalists in Gaza.
Al-Hayya has publicly called for a fight against Israel as “the head of the serpent,” and al-Masri has vowed to “uproot The Zionists With Our Axes, Knives, Guns.”
Receiving commendation from such terrorists is a mark of Cain. It should get any journalist disciplined by any respectable media outlet.
Yet Reuters journalists — knowing perhaps that their bosses won’t find out or even care — had no qualms getting into bed with Hamas. Another photo from the event shows other Reuters journalists around a table not too far from al-Hayya: Reuters Senior Gaza correspondent Nidal al-Mughrabi is sitting near Suhaib’s brother Mohammed and photographer Ashraf Amra (who was also honored at the event and exposed by HonestReporting for endorsing infiltration into Israel on October 7). Beside them is Belal Jadallah, who headed the allegedly “independent” Gaza Press House:  Hamas honored Reuters journalists 2017
Suhaib himself attended a separate Hamas commendation event for journalists later in 2017. This time, he was honored for performing the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca:  Hamas honored Reuters photographer Suhaib Jadallah Salem 2017
Suhaib received the commendation from al-Masri and Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum (who have often been interviewed by Reuters), along with the movement’s media officials.
It’s worth noting that four of the Jadallah brothers work for Reuters, in Gaza and Dubai. And the links of the Jadallah family to Hamas go back years. One of the brothers of Suhaib and Mohammed, Sallah, was among the terrorists who kidnapped and killed Israeli soldier Nahshon Waxman in 1994.
The mastermind behind that operation was Moahmmed Deif, who was recently eliminated by Israel. As Hamas’ military chief, Deif was also one of the masterminds behind the October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
If Suhaib and Mohammed were professional journalists, such background wouldn’t necessarily matter. But if they have been hosted and honored by Hamas, it’s alarming.
Related Reading: EXPOSED: Gaza Photojournalists Shared Call to Infiltrate Israel on Oct. 7 Terror Groups Insignias in Reuters OfficePerhaps this terrorists-journalists entanglement also explains the following photo from 2013, found on Suhaib’s Facebook page, which shows scarves with terror groups insignias decorating the Reuters office in Gaza:  Terror groups insignias decorating the Reuters office in Gaza 2013
Like the Nazi Swastika, these are emblems of genocidal groups — Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades — that call for the killing of Jews/Israelis (like some of Suhaib’s colleagues in Reuters).
The agency’s top editors, who periodically visit the Gaza office, either ignored it or didn’t recognize it for what it was — which would only prove their ignorance.
They probably know it’s impossible to be a journalist in Gaza without links to Hamas, which controls the information flow. In other words, professional journalism in Gaza is impossible, and news outlets should admit it to their audience.
But being hosted by Hamas, receiving its commendations, and displaying terror groups’ insignias isn’t a case of journalists even trying to be professional. This is an agenda-driven, cooperative, symbiotic, reciprocal, and personal nexus that benefits each side.
A Hamas statement from one of the commendation events said it best:
HonestReporting has submitted an official complaint to Reuters. Journalists who violate the agency’s code of ethics by receiving de-facto bribes from terrorists to “serve the Palestinian cause,” and decorate their office with terror symbols, are not deserving of international praise but scrutiny and disciplinary measures.
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Head of BBC Global Service ‘Told Journalists That Hamas Is No Less Credible Than Israel & October 7 Attack Should Not Be Called a Massacre’There has reportedly been turmoil in the BBC’s Middle East offices since Hamas launched its brutal October 7 attack on Israel after some of the broadcaster’s own journalists turned against their employer and accused the…Rachel O’Donoghue , 16November2023 https://honestreporting.com/head-of-bbc-global-service-told-journalists-that-hamas-is-no-less-credible-than-israel-october-7-attack-should-not-be-called-a-massacre/  Lilliane Landor_BBC There has reportedly been turmoil in the BBC’s Middle East offices since Hamas launched its brutal October 7 attack on Israel after some of the broadcaster’s own journalists turned against their employer and accused the BBC of promoting a “pro-Israel” narrative in its coverage.
Allegations of such slanted reportage will, no doubt, come as a surprise to many — not least because the BBC’s reporting has repeatedly come under fire since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, including when it backtracked after falsely reporting that an Israeli strike on the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza had killed hundreds
The BBC has also shied away from addressing concerns about its coverage, preferring instead to issue mealy-mouthed apologies about how such mistakes merely “fell below the BBC’s editorial standards.”
That’s a pretty low bar these days, @BBCNews.
@bbcnews have just issued an on air apology (again) for their report last night that stated the ‘IDF are targeting medical teams and Arab speakers’
Not good enough. Time and again they defame & smear Israel and think a simple apology will suffice after the damage is done  HonestReporting-tweet-15November2023-That’s a pretty low bar these days
But accusations by staff of a pro-Israel bias were reportedly enough to compel the director of the BBC’s Global Service, Liliane Landor, to hold a series of meetings with employees to address their concerns.
According to BBC journalists quoted in Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, Landor is said to have asked staff for evidence of the alleged pro-Israel bias while assuring them that both Hamas and the Palestinians “should not be considered less credible than the Israelis.”
Landor also reportedly said that “it is wrong to use expressions like massacre to describe Hamas’s behavior and avoid using them to describe Israeli attacks” on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
One journalist who attended the meeting is quoted in Al-Ahram saying that they “have never seen such a widespread revolution, comprehensive dissatisfaction, and open anger from Arab journalists since [they] joined the institution more than 22 years ago.”
Another journalist working in the BBC’s Jordan office is said to have cried and told Landor: “I never imagined that the BBC would follow double standards in covering the war. I can no longer be proud to be a journalist at the BBC.”
One staff member reportedly warned that the “BBC does not realize or appreciate the extent of dissatisfaction in the Middle East from our shameful coverage that makes us threatened in our countries.”
Following the meetings, it is claimed a special team was formed that would specifically deal with staff complaints about the coverage and receive opinions on rectifying harm caused by the alleged bias.
The new measure, however, was apparently not enough to quell staff outrage and a journalist told Al-Ahram that discussions are underway for Arab service journalists to take part in a strike “unless the management takes urgent measures to fix the clear professional flaw in the BBC’s coverage of the current war on Gaza.”
At least two journalists — one in the BBC’s Beirut office and another correspondent based in Tunisia — reportedly resigned in protest at the corporation’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
HonestReporting has reached out to the BBC to comment on the remarks made by Landor, specifically if it is the UK taxpayer-funded corporation’s official position that Hamas should not be considered less credible than the Israeli government and whether the BBC agrees with Landor that the October 7 attack should not be described as a “massacre.”
In addition, we asked whether the broadcaster wished to address reports that two journalists had resigned from their jobs. We received no response. We wonder whether saying a terrorist group that slaughtered 1,200 mostly Israeli civilians should be considered as trustworthy as the democratically elected government of Israel lives up to the BBC’s supposedly high editorial standards.
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Can The BBC Ever Be Trusted Again After Israel-Hamas War?In summarizing its mission as the publicly-funded broadcaster in the United Kingdom, the BBC states it must “provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.” This involves…Rachel O’Donoghue December 6, 2023 https://honestreporting.com/can-the-bbc-ever-be-trusted-again-after-israel-hamas-war/
In summarizing its mission as the publicly-funded broadcaster in the United Kingdom, the BBC states it must “provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.”
This involves — the corporation promises — providing accurate and impartial news, current affairs and factual programming” that conforms to the highest editorial standards.
The commitment to impartiality is — or should be — what sets the BBC apart from other media organizations that nail their political colors to their mast.
While the BBC has staunchly defended itself against criticism that it has a deep-seated bias against Israel, its critics have pointed to many examples over the years of the broadcaster’s journalists brazenly breaking the corporation’s impartiality guidelines.
But the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7 has seen criticism of the BBC reach a climax amid accusations of an abject failure by the organization to report on the Israel-Hamas war fairly, accurately and transparently. Spreading MisinformationThere is an irony in the BBC’s publishing of a piece one week after Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel that asked: “Who’s behind Israel-Gaza disinformation and hate online?”
The article, by the corporation’s so-called “disinformation and social media correspondent” Marianna Spring, reported how social media was “awash with false claims, conspiracy theories and hateful content surrounding what’s happening in Israel and Gaza.”
This, Spring warned, was resulting in successful attempts to distort and confuse the online conversation,” which “can have serious implications for the international community when it comes to investigating allegations of war crimes, providing aid and figuring out what’s happening where.”
Yet, the BBC itself has been guilty of spreading its distortions and false claims about the Israel-Hamas war online.
One of the most damaging was undoubtedly the corporation’s reporting on the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion in Gaza, which saw the BBC print unverified (and later debunked) claims by Hamas-linked officials that hundreds of Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli airstrike at the hospital.
Even as Israel said it was investigating the blast and as facts were still emerging, the corporation doubled down on its misinformation when BBC correspondent Jon Donnison announced live on air that he thought it was most likely that Israel was to blame.
And when conclusive evidence emerged that a misinformed Islamic Jihad rocket was responsible, the BBC still sought to defend its coverage on the basis that while it made a mistake, it was a “fast-moving story,” where there were “claims and counter-claims” and where its journalists were “reporting in difficult and dangerous conditions.”
It was only a matter of time I guess https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1720495432550273287  HonestReporting-tweet-3November2023-Hamas-A BBC reporter The Obsession With BalanceBalance is important when it comes to the news: outlets have a duty to report both sides of the story.
However, the BBC has been accused of having a fetish with its attempts at balance in its reports on the current war.
But giving equal weighting to claims made by an internationally recognized terrorist group to those of a democratic state such as Israel is simply absurd.
The absurdity of this was perfectly encapsulated in the BBC’s refusal to call Hamas what it actually is — a terrorist organization.
The BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson even defended the decision not to call Hamas terrorists because, “terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn — who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.”
And yet the BBC does a damn good job of portraying Israel as the bad guys.  HonestReporting-tweet-11October2023-According to BBCNews
While the corporation eventually walked back from its insistence that it would refer to terrorists as “militants” following a considerable backlash — announcing that in future coverage it would make clear that Hamas is a UK-proscribed terrorist organization — the fact that the BBC couldn’t decide who’s the good guy and the bad guy between Israel and Hamas speaks volumes.
Another example of the BBC trying to offer “two sides” in a report where none exists was during the IDF’s raid on Al-Shifa Hospital, which for many years has been used as a Hamas command center.
@BBCNews reinterprets it to libel the IDF as *targeting* medical teams & Arabic speakers. Just how much lower can the BBC go? You’re happily disseminating Hamas propaganda without bothering to check its veracity Israel WILL NOT be targeting medical teams. Hamas terrorists are hiding in the hospital How many times must you fuck up before you learn your lesson?  HonestReporting-tweet-15November2023-BBCNews reinterprets it to libel the IDF
When the IDF provided real-time evidence of how Hamas had embedded itself within the hospital, the BBC seemed to work overtime to try and undermine and discredit as much of the IDF’s proof as possible.
Included in the many instances of its disturbing tendency to give weight to the claims of a bloodthirsty terror group, the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen suggested that the caches of weaponry uncovered by Israeli soldiers inside Al-Shifa may have belonged to the hospital security team.
Keep going, Jeremy. Maybe you’ll end up on Israel’s favorite satirical comedy show next week. Rather than applying Occam’s Razor, @BowenBBC strains every sinew to cast doubt on the claim that the hospital was being used by Hamas terrorists.  HonestReporting-tweet-17November2023-BowenBBC
Turmoil Among BBC StaffThe BBC is also facing what appears to be growing anger from within its own ranks at how the corporation is covering the Israel-Hamas war.
HonestReporting recently revealed that the head of the BBC’s Global Service, Liliane Landor, was forced to address allegations from reporters based in the Middle East that the corporation is biased in favor of Israel.
Yet, rather than robustly challenge staff who threatened to walk out in protest, Landor reportedly promised to set up a special team to handle staff complaints and receive opinions on rectifying harm caused by the alleged pro-Israel bias.
Meanwhile, bosses at the BBC’s London HQ denied permission for journalists to attend a massive march against antisemitism using guidelines that prevent employees from attending demonstrations deemed “controversial.” This despite the BBC having a policy that allows staff to demonstrate in “opposition to racism [which] is a fundamental democratic principle.”
That’s a fact. But for @BBCNews, the Hamas ceasefire violation is couched in terms of an Israeli “accusation.” Because the BBC can only ever see Israel as the aggressor.  HonestReporting-tweet-1December2023-But for BBCNews
Why the Must BBC Rebuild TrustAs mentioned, allegations of an anti-Israel bias have dogged the BBC for years.
But the barrage of criticism aimed at the BBC over its coverage of the current Israel-Hamas war has shown that the corporation cannot continue burying its head in the sand where this issue is concerned.
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 BBC Broadcasting House, London The BBC: We need to face up to the scale of the axis against IsraelThere is onslaught against Israel and the Jews from an unholy alliance between extremist Muslims, the left and the political class, and we need to start taking the fight to themMelanie Phillips January 17, 2024 https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/we-need-to-face-up-to-the-scale-of-the-axis-against-israel-xz0m5uxt
The Conservative MP Andrew Percy has accused the BBC of putting British Jews directly at risk through its coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Absolutely. The BBC’s relentless portrayal of the Israelis not as the victims of genocidal terror but as hard-hearted, vengeful and wanton killers of children and the innocent has channelled ancient antisemitic tropes of Jewish blood-lust and helped fuel an enormous increase in attacks on Jews.
As Percy said, the BBC’s double standards on Israel, treating patently absurd civilian casualty figures from Hamas as reliable while casting doubt on Israeli statements, present Israel rather than Hamas as the aggressor and rogue actor.
A principal offender has been the Today programme presenter, Mishal Husain. Interviewing the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps on Monday, she unleashed a barrage of distorted and out-of-context quotes to demonise Israel as a bloodthirsty aggressor.
Claiming that the IDF spokesman, Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari, had said in October that “our focus is on creating damage not precision,” and that Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, had said “we will eliminate everything” in Gaza, Husain said these remarks suggested Israel wasn’t acting within international law and might be why “so many Palestinians have died”.
Yet as the Guardian acknowledged on 5 December, Hagari had been mistranslated. He had actually said: “While balancing accuracy with the scope of damage, right now we’re focused on what causes maximum damage”.
Gallant’s words have been taken out of context. He had said: “Gaza won’t return to what it was before, and Hamas will not exist. We will eliminate everything”. He meant eliminating Hamas, not Gaza’s civilians.
In any event, what matters is not what’s said but what Israel does. For the ratio of civilians to combatants killed by Israel is around two to one.
This is far fewer than the proportion of civilians killed in war by any other nation’s army — and when taking into account the Hamas rockets falling short into Gaza and killing its people, fewer still.
Most disgusting of all was how Husain twisted Benjamin Netanyahu’s reference to the ancient Israelites’ biblical foe, Amalek, when he said: “We remember, and we are fighting.”
Husain claimed that “Amalek” involved the injunction to spare no-one and destroy “every man, woman and child, sheep, camel and donkey”. And she suggested this was the cause of Israel’s rate of death and destruction in Gaza.
This was grotesque. Amalek was the genocidal enemy of the Jewish people, whose attack was so lethal that the Jews have a religious commitment to “remember” him in order to destroy any such enemy before it can wipe out the Jewish people again.
Yet Husain and other Israel-haters have abused this sacred duty to defend the Jewish people against genocide by claiming obscenely that it meant Israel intends to wipe out the Palestinians as an act of malign aggression.
The government has supported Israel over its show trial at the International Court of Justice. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron, has said South Africa’s accusation against Israel of “genocide” is wrong because “genocide” involves an intention to wipe out an entire people whereas Israel is merely defending itself in Gaza.
Defending Israel, however, takes more than objecting to “when did you stop beating your wife” harassment. It involves calling out the murderous lies that are circulating about Israel’s behaviour, and stating the truth instead.
But instead, Cameron took aim at Israel with a few poisonous barbs of his own. He was “worried,” he told a parliamentary committee, that Israel “might be in breach of international law” in Gaza and that “on lots of occasions” its compliance was “under question”.
Since he offered no evidence of any such breaches, his remarks served merely as yet another smear against an Israel fighting for its life according to international law and yet being demonised for doing so.
The Jews find themselves in the hallucinatory situation of being under unprecedented physical and verbal assault by a western world determined to erase genocidal Jewish victimisation and instead delegitimise Israeli Jews as enemies of humanity.
This has been building up for years. Yet the community’s leadership has chosen not to call out publicly the enemies of the Jews in British society. Instead it has sought to appease, to genuflect and to grovel.
Last week the Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, indicated the desperate failure of that approach when he called for British Jews to be “brave” and challenge Muslims over Israel following the “deeply disappointing” Muslim attacks on the Jewish state since the October 7 pogrom.
Candidly, Mirvis regretted that he hadn’t always prioritised Israel in interfaith dialogue, which mostly “focused on what unites us”.
The community needs to start calling out the unique evil of the onslaught against Israel and the Jews from the unholy alliance between extremist Muslims, the left and the political class.
Instead of responding with instantly forgettable rallies against antisemitism to the malevolent falsehoods raining down daily from the intelligentsia, the church and the Hamas Broadcasting Corporation, British Jews should start taking the fight in public and by name to those intent on destroying truth, justice and the Jewish people.
Melanie Phillips is a Times columnist
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1,500 Breaches of Editorial Guidelines: BBC Excoriated in Scathing Report on Israel-Hamas War CoverageOn December 6, HonestReporting highlighted significant issues with the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, nearly three months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. After multiple serious violations of its editorial guidelines by journalists covering…Rachel O’Donoghue 9September2024 https://honestreporting.com/1500-breaches-of-editorial-guidelines-bbc-excoriated-in-scathing-report-on-israel-hamas-war-coverage/  Rape is NOT resistance BBC On December 6, HonestReporting highlighted significant issues with the BBC’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, nearly three months after the October 7 Hamas massacre.
After multiple serious violations of its editorial guidelines by journalists covering the conflict, we questioned whether the publicly-funded broadcaster’s reputation could recover. We also called out the corporation’s unconvincing defense of its editorial mistakes, as the BBC sought to justify its errors by claiming that its journalists were “reporting in difficult and dangerous conditions.”
This excuse was particularly troubling in the case of Jon Donnison’s coverage of the Al-Ahli hospital incident, especially given that Donnison was reporting from Jerusalem, not Gaza.
The BBC’s coverage has shown little improvement since then, with HonestReporting repeatedly exposing further breaches of the corporation’s guidelines in its coverage of Israel (see here, here, and here).
This week, a damning report exposed the full extent of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias during the Israel-Hamas war. The analysis, spanning four months of the broadcaster’s coverage starting on October 7, uncovered a staggering 1,500 breaches of the BBC’s editorial guidelines and highlighted systemic failures to maintain its commitment to impartiality and accuracy during a conflict that has fueled a troubling rise of antisemitic bigotry worldwide.
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The 199-page report, reviewed by HonestReporting, was the result of an extensive investigation carried out by a team of around 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists, led by UK lawyer Trevor Asserson and his firm. The research also employed artificial intelligence to calculate the “sympathy ratio” in the BBC’s Israel-Hamas war coverage, analyzing a vast dataset of over nine million words. The findings expose significant bias, with a consistent pattern of language and reporting that favored Palestinian narratives while downplaying or misrepresenting key facts about the conflict:
One of the most notable examples of the BBC’s reporting failures involved the Al-Ahli hospital blast in Gaza on October 17, 2023. BBC correspondent Jon Donnison, reporting live, speculated that an Israeli airstrike was the most likely cause of the explosion that he claimed had killed 500 people. However, it soon emerged that the explosion occurred in the hospital’s grounds and was caused by a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad, not an Israeli airstrike. Despite this, Donnison stated, “it is hard to see what else this could really be other than an Israeli airstrike.” Even after the truth was established, the BBC delayed issuing a clear correction.
Throughout its coverage, the BBC refused to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization, despite its official designation as such by numerous countries, including the UK. Instead, the BBC often portrayed Hamas in sympathetic terms, framing the group as a “resistance movement” and its fighters as “soldiers.” This failure to accurately label Hamas contributed to a skewed portrayal of the conflict, in which the brutality of Hamas’s attacks, including the kidnapping of over 250 Israelis, was downplayed or presented in a neutral tone. Particularly outrageous was a headline describing Hamas’s October 7 attack as a “spectacular” operation.
And yet the BBC does a damn good job of portraying Israel as the bad guys.  HonestReporting-tweet-11October2023-the BBC does a damn good job of portraying Israel as the bad guys
In BBC Arabic coverage, the glorification of Hamas was even more pronounced. For example, a report from October 8, 2023, showed celebratory scenes in Ramallah, with residents handing out sweets following Hamas’s attack on Israel. Rather than questioning or contextualizing these celebrations, the BBC Arabic segment amplified Hamas’s propaganda under the headline: “Hamas’s military prowess has shocked Israelis.”
Is there anything else he omits in his heartbreaking firsthand Gaza experience in order to blame Israel?  HonestReporting-tweet-21December2023-Why does BBCArabic cameraman omit
The report used artificial intelligence to calculate a “sympathy ratio” in the BBC’s coverage, revealing a stark imbalance favoring the Palestinian narrative. Headlines and body text overwhelmingly evoked sympathy for Palestinian casualties, while the suffering of Israeli victims was largely ignored or downplayed. Even when articles did include sympathy for Israel, it was often buried deep within the text, whereas sympathy for Palestinians was prominently displayed in the headlines. This was especially evident in the coverage following the October 7 massacre, where, despite the unprecedented brutality of this attack, the BBC focused disproportionately on Israel’s immediate military response.
Is this how you describe armed Hamas terrorists, @BBCWorld? And you seem to have forgotten the bit where they infiltrated Israeli villages and towns, murdering and kidnapping Israeli men, women and children. It was more than just a rocket attack. Israelis will now be asking why their nation’s spies failed to see the deadly attack coming ⬇️  HonestReporting-tweet-7October2023-BBC-Hamas terrorists are Palestinian forces
The BBC’s failure to issue prompt and transparent corrections for its reporting mistakes was another critical issue highlighted in the report. In one example, after falsely reporting that Israel had executed 137 Palestinian civilians, this inaccurate information was repeated in six different broadcasts before the BBC finally issued a correction—12 days later.
Bottom line: This latest exposé shows it’s impossible to trust anything @BBCNews broadcasts from Israel and Gaza.  HonestReporting-tweet-17March2024-impossible to trust anything BBCNews broadcasts
The BBC has consistently downplayed Palestinian terrorism while portraying Israel as a militaristic, aggressive nation. According to the report, the BBC suggested that Israel faced “no substantial threat,” effectively delegitimizing Israel’s right to defend itself. By contrast, the coverage of Hamas’s military strength and its role as a terror organization received far less attention.
In one breath @JaneHillNews refers to “Hamas militants.” In another, she says “Hamas is proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK and other Western governments.” It’s high time the BBC faced reality and called Hamas what they are: terrorists. Don’t you think, @JamesCleverly?  HonestReporting-tweet-8October2023-The lunacy of BBCNews
The report highlighted a specific example from BBC Arabic in November 2023, where a roundup of newspaper coverage contrasted a photograph of a Gazan girl after an air raid with a photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jew carrying a machine gun. The context of the second image was entirely omitted—the man was returning from the funeral of a Jewish student shot by Palestinians in the West Bank. Furthermore, the photo was taken in October 2000, more than two decades before October 7, 2023.
The BBC’s coverage frequently minimized the suffering of Israeli victims while giving detailed attention to Palestinian casualties. For example, a picture of Israeli hostage Noa Argamani used by the BBC on January 1, 2024, showed her smiling before the war, rather than the distressing image of her abduction by Hamas, which had been widely circulated.
No mention that the hostages were murdered by Hamas. Just that they were “taken to Gaza.” 🤦 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3dnn7zlyo  HonestReporting-tweet-4September2024-trust BBCNews to skew reality
The Sad TruthYet, even in the face of the evidence presented in the Asserson report, the BBC continues to deny that there is any substantial problem with its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. In response, the BBC stated it would “carefully consider” the findings but quickly moved to undermine the credibility of the research, questioning both the methodology and the use of AI. In the BBC’s typical evasive fashion, a spokesman for the corporation told The Telegraph: “We don’t think coverage can be assessed solely by counting particular words divorced from context.”
The corporation’s World Affairs editor, John Simpson, who previously justified the BBC’s refusal to call Hamas terrorists by stating, “It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn,” also dismissed the Asserson report on X.
 John Simpson-tweet-8September2024-the BBC continues to deny
His statement—presumably what he sees as a measured position—perfectly illustrates the BBC’s ongoing issue of prioritizing neutrality over accuracy, creating the false impression of two equal sides where none exists. This approach has long been part of the BBC’s defense, and Simpson’s justification for his employer mirrors the broadcaster’s broader reluctance to admit bias, even when faced with undeniable evidence.
This denial is not a new phenomenon. More than 20 years ago, the Balen report similarly identified bias in the BBC’s coverage of Israel, yet the broadcaster has never released the findings to the public. For years, the BBC has fought legal battles to keep the Balen report under wraps, a telling sign of its damning contents.
The Asserson report is merely the latest in a long line of warnings. It reveals not just isolated errors, but a consistent pattern of bias that undermines the BBC’s journalistic integrity. But how can the BBC begin to address its failings when it refuses to acknowledge that there is a problem?
The question remains: how long can this continue? Can the BBC withstand any further blows to its credibility?
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Captured Hamas Terrorist: False Claims
❌ Mass graves. In reality, there are already reports that some of these men have been released…  HonestReporting-tweet-9December2023-Captured Hamas Terrorist: False Claims
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Unabated, Unhinged, Orgiastic Jew-hatred!
Gad Saad-tweet-24October2023-Over the past two weeks, the reality has been unabated, unhinged, orgiastic Jew-hatred. They are coming from all directions. I do not see a way out of this. Nothing seems to temper the attacks, the delusions, the hateful fervour. I’m trying to play out different scenarios and it looks so bleak. I always believe in the power of reason but not if your predators are foaming with genocidal zeal. I truly think that this might be a historical tipping point in the West. Good night.  Gad Saad-tweet-24October2023-the reality has been unabated unhinged orgiastic Jew-hatred
Charlie Kirk-tweet-23October2023-TThis is our @TPUSA staffer, Peter Christos, who is Christian, not Jewish. Yesterday, he was violently attacked while he and another TPUSA staffer were trying to escort an elderly Jewish couple away from a pro-Israel rally. On the way to their cars, they encountered pro-Hamas supporters who assaulted them, punched them repeatedly, and hit them with a flag pole before cops could pull them away to safety. All of these thugs need to be arrested and charged with hate crimes.  Charlie-Kirk-tweet-23October2023-This-is-our-TPUSA-staffer-Peter-Christos-who-is-Christian
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TIME photo from Gaza was completely staged
But they published it anyway. Because when it comes to Gaza, basic journalistic standards no longer apply. The media is a joke.  Eyal Yakoby-tweet-5August2025-TIME photo from Gaza was completely staged
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Mainstream Media use of ‘Palestinian Journalist’
#JournalistOrTerrorist  HonestReporting-tweet-28October2023-When Palestinians tried to connect with Israelis to build a better future, @Hind_Gaza  HonestReporting-tweet-28October2023-When Palestinians tried to connect with Israelis to build a better future, @Hind_Gaza
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Who Are the Killed Gazan Journalists Affiliated With Palestinian Terror Groups?One of the more widely discussed facets of the Israel-Hamas war has been the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7. The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and…Chaim Lax 22February2024
One of the more widely discussed facets of the Israel-Hamas war has been the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7.
The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Financial Times are just some of the mainstream media organizations that have featured in-depth reports on the Palestinian journalist casualties in Gaza.
However, what these reports fail to disclose is that a substantial number of these Gaza-based journalists were either members of proscribed Palestinian terror organizations or affiliated with these groups. These groups include Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Based on information provided by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), of the 83 Palestinian journalists identified by the CPJ as being killed in Gaza to date (February 22, 2024), 45 (roughly 55%) were either members or affiliates of a Palestinian terrorist group.
The following is a list of the killed Palestinian journalists who were associated with Gaza-based terror groups:
*= Since 2010, Al-Aqsa TV has been designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Department of the Treasury.
Note: This list is based on the number of Palestinian journalists recorded by the Committee to Protect Journalists and does not include journalists who are solely affiliated with Fatah or the Palestinian Authority.
The list will be periodically updated.
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6 Al Jazeera journalists have been exposed as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists
The IDF has disclosed intelligence information and numerous documents found in Gaza confirming military affiliation of six Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations, including personnel tables, lists of terrorist training courses, phone directories, and salary documents for terrorists. These documents serve as proof of the integration of Hamas terrorists within the Qatari Al Jazeera media network. Most of the journalists that the IDF has exposed as operatives in Hamas’ military wing spearhead the propaganda for Hamas at Al Jazeera, especially in northern Gaza.  Israel Defense Forces-tweet-23October2024-6 Al Jazeera journalists Hamas-Islamic Jihad terrorists
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Hamas Oscar Nominations 2024 Hamas Oscar Nominations 2024
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Cycle of Violence-misleading terminology
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CBS: Do not refer to [Jerusalem] as being in Israel
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How In The World Did We Get Here?Over the years, media outlets have become islands of ideological conformity, where the need to affirm supersedes the obligation to inform. In the case of Israel, the subordination of Truth to ideology by some of…GuestPost [Mark Sachs]
Over the years, media outlets have become islands of ideological conformity, where the need to affirm supersedes the obligation to inform. In the case of Israel, the subordination of Truth to ideology by some of the most revered international news outlets has led to levels of global antisemitism not seen since the Holocaust.
Under the guise of “objective journalism,” journalists frame information in such a way that ignites our confirmation bias while trying to mask their own biases and agendas. Given the constant bombardment of information from these sources, seeking out alternative views requires Herculean discipline, which few of us possess.
Media bias did not light the fuse for recent events, but it certainly fanned the flames. The dangers of media bias cannot be underestimated.
Sadly, bias presumes unconscious intent, and I do not believe the rush to judgment by the BBC, New York Times, and others in blaming Israel for the purported attack on the Gaza hospital, or in CNN’s case, equivocating over the likely culprit, was unconscious. It was malicious and intentional.
Their false reporting based on verifiably false information led to violent global protests and raised the prospect of a world war. It’s only natural to ask, “How in the world did we get here?”
I’ll try to shed light on how we got here by exploring the convergence of four cultural trends in Western nations, most notably the US and the UK, and the ensuing psychological prisons that capture minds. The Role of the UniversitiesLet’s start with the trend affecting the media and proceed from there. Many journalists are educated in elite institutions like Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Oxford, Stanford, and Yale. Even those who attended other institutions of higher learning could be considered somewhat elite since approximately only 38% and 26% of the US and UK populations earned a bachelor’s degree.
Unfortunately, elite institutions possess very little viewpoint diversity. As I wrote in my book, The Cancel Culture Curse, “At Brown, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Princeton, liberal students outnumber conservative ones by a ratio of at least 4:1.” It’s safe to assume that Columbia, NYU, and Stanford suffer the same lack of viewpoint diversity.
Notice that the elite universities with the lowest viewpoint diversities are the very same universities now hosting pro-Hamas and “pro-Palestinian” protesters chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and signing letters pronouncing Israel as the aggressor while ignoring the atrocities perpetrated against Israelis. In the US, Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Penn, and Stanford have become ground zero for antisemitism and anti-Israelism.
While being a college liberal in no way guarantees a student is anti-Israel and pro-Hamas, every pro-Hamas or “pro-Palestinian” protester at the dozens of protests across the US and the UK falls decidedly in the liberal camp.
I can hear some of you questioning, “What about the far right?!” The far right does in fact have a “Jew problem,” and they no doubt are aligning in words and deeds with their brethren on the far left. However, the trends I’m discussing, and which are playing out in colleges and media outlets across the country are not being driven by the right.
The UK has its own long history of antisemitism and anti-Israelism, but British universities are likely on par with US universities when it comes to viewpoint diversity. Hence, the BBC, the Financial Times, and The Guardian are bastions of anti-Israel viewpoints.
The changing college milieus in which current and would-be journalists are cultivated is a trend that profoundly impacts what and how “news” is presented and received. Now, let’s explore why these educational environments became ground zero for anti-Israel sentiment. Saudi-Funded ProgramsFor decades, Saudi Arabia funneled billions of dollars into hundreds of American universities to fund Islamic studies and international relations programs as well as other programs in science and technology. In 2019 alone, 144 American universities received a total of $270 million from Saudi Arabia. When Qatar and China are added to the mix, the total amount is estimated to be $43,000,0000,000 since 1990. Yes, forty-three BILLION dollars.
The well-funded Islamic Studies and International Affairs programs helped lay the groundwork for pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel narratives to take hold throughout the US and no doubt the UK as well.
The promotion of these viewpoints created fertile ground to enable these Islamist and pro-Palestinian voices to ingratiate themselves into left-wing politics. Once inside, these voices started appropriating left-wing causes as their own: aligning themselves with African-American activism by referring to themselves as “people of color,” describing Israel as a colonial power, and conflating Palestinian rights with reproductive justice, gay rights, and transgender rights.
That’s how we get a group called SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Campaign conflating reproductive justice, which does not exist in Gaza, with the understanding “that Palestine and the freedom of the Palestinian people is an issue of reproductive justice.” Freedom from whom, we all know to be Israel, not Hamas.
Once these alliances were formed, they started to snowball. Despite the fact that upwards of 70% of Israelis could be classified, using the left’s definition, as “people of color,” all Israelis, in fact, all Jews, are viewed as white oppressors. These identitarian gymnastics are the result of intersectionality, a framework to classify groups of people as oppressors and oppressed.
According to intersectionality, Jews are white oppressors and Israel is a white colonial oppressive nation. Palestinians and Muslims, on the other hand, are considered oppressed “people of color.”
Each of these trends has dramatically changed college education and culture, and it is on these campuses where many current and most future American and British journalists were and are nurtured. They then take their viewpoints to the media outlets that employ them.
These outlets have become ideologically homogenous echo chambers that promote intersectionality either consciously or unconsciously. As such, conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians can be viewed as a conflict between the “oppressor” and “oppressed” or the powerful and the powerless.
Regardless of the sheer magnitude of the atrocities perpetrated by the “oppressed” Palestinians, outlets such as the BBC will rationalize such violence based on the status of oppression. “Intelligent Stupidity” and Cognitive DissonanceThe coalescing of these trends has resulted in two dangerous consequences. The first is amathia, a Greek word that can be defined as lacking wisdom, or as “intelligent stupidity.”
Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of philosophy, explains amathia in this way: “It is the opposite of wisdom, a kind of dis-knowledge of how to deal with other human beings, and it results in awful actions undertaken by otherwise perfectly functional, intelligent human beings. Moreover, people characterized by amathia cannot simply be persuaded by reasoned argument, because they understand the argument but are crucially deficient in their character, which…is developed over time by a combination of instincts, environment influences [author’s note: college, media, social media], and reason.”
Those protesting on elite college campuses and journalists at the NYT, CNN, and BBC are all intelligent, very much so. However, their characters are flawed. But for the fact that our laws prevent them from dismembering or killing people, these people possess the intelligence to rationalize any form of violence against people they don’t like. The only check on their reason would be to possess the right character. This is the danger of intelligent stupidity. It leads to what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil.
The second is cognitive dissonance, which is the tension created when someone is faced with information that conflicts with their strongly held beliefs. To resolve that tension, people tend to double down on their beliefs with more aggression and conviction rather than change their position.
Amathia and Cognitive Dissonance help explain why Ivy League protesters, purportedly the brightest among us, having been birthed in anti-Israel incubators, not only look askance to the reports of horrific atrocities perpetrated by the Palestinians but double down on their support of Hamas.
Only those who suffer from amathia and cognitive dissonance could argue that slaughtering babies, disemboweling mothers, and burning alive innocent people are fair acts of resistance. Signs of ResistanceKnowing from where all this came can be instructive for how to move forward from here. Thankfully, we are seeing signs of resistance. 1) Huge donors to Ivy League schools in the US have finally started speaking with their dollars. While losing millions here and there when an endowment has billions, may not have a huge financial impact. But, it sends a powerful message of “no more.” 2) Exposure is the best disinfectant against dangerous ideological viruses. Americans are now seeing what has been lurking in certain corners of American educational institutions, and most Americans are disgusted by what they are seeing. Finally. 3) This is one issue that is not partisan. The overwhelming populations in Western nations are banding together to confront this assault on reason, compassion, and humanity. The lines are no longer left versus right. Instead, the battle lines are between wisdom and amathia, civilized and uncivilized, and good and evil. Each of us has a role to play. Sapir Journal has put out a comprehensive list of actionable steps each of us can take: signing college petitions, taking political action, and seeking out news sources that more fairly present information. You are sure to find something constructive from Sapir’s list. It’s on all of us to toe the line.
Mark Sachs is the founder of Orwell Grey Strategic Communications and a long-time pro-Israel activist. Mark co-authored the book, The Cancel Culture Curse. |
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SEE: 30 November The Expulsion of the Jews in Arab Lands
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” Genocide: “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group” or “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” Israel could annihilate all of Gaza & the Palestinians if it wanted. Whose Genocide Is It Anyway?Afshine Emrani MD FACC-tweet-2November2023- Where are the Jews in Arab countries?  Afshine Emrani MD FACC-tweet-2November2023-Speaking of ethnic cleansing  Displacement of Jewish communities and when they were founded Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
 Dr. Eli David-tweet-22November2023-Ethnic Cleansing 101
 This is Ethnic Cleansing
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Turkish genocide
We will never forget:  HayAghchig-tweet-23April2024-Turkish genocide
 Genocides committed by Turks during the last 200 years
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Arab lies
I can’t stand the lies anymore!!! I’m not referring to subjective opinions or analysis. I’m talking about facts, 100% objective, undeniable facts. Does truth even matter anymore? Well, I guess we can’t blame people for their ignorance unless we make sure the facts are accessible to them, so I’ll do my best. Hopefully this post can be useful to others who face the lies on campuses, on the streets, and even in parliaments across the globe. So let’s get to it. Lie by lie. Watch the video. Let’s see, what lies did I miss? I’m sure there are many more but if you have a half a brain in your head, you’ll read this carefully and realize you’re being fed lies and propaganda by a globally recognized terrorist organization. You’re choosing to believe the lies. These are all hard facts backed up by indisputable evidence. 1- You’re ignorant and refuse to learn history. 2- Your intelligence level prevents you from understanding facts. 3- You are a good ol’ fashioned Jew hater and have now successfully found a way to disguise your hatred of Jews by making things up to vilify the Jewish people. So which one is it? Stop believing lies. Stop spreading lies. Open your eyes. Believe what Hamas tells you when they say they want all Jews dead and then, they’ll come after all infidels. Stop dismissing and discounting their words. I hope this equipped you with some facts for you to let your Ivy League college friends know that they’re siding with actual genocidal lunatics who will absolutely come after them next. Good will always prevail and that’s why Israel will be here in 50 years while Hamas will join ancient Egypt, the Romans, the Greeks, the Nazis, and anyone else who has tried to annihilate the Jews. They are long gone but the Jews and their homeland is here, strong, united, and 100% set on sending Hamas straight where they belong. Stand with Israel.
 Hillel Fuld-tweet-9November2023-I can’t stand the lies anymore
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A short lesson in “facts” about Palestinian history…
 Yoseph Haddad-tweet-12November2024-A short lesson in facts about Palestinian history
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Arab Diplomacy
Enough. Qatar is no longer a productive partner in securing the hostages’ freedom. They must expel Hamas terrorists out of their nation immediately, or risk repercussions. ראש ממשלת קטאר בוועידת מינכן: שחרור החטופים לא צריך להיות תנאי להפסקת אש בעזה. המלחמה בעזה צריכה להיפסק מיד
 Senator Ted Budd-tweet-17February2024-the Qataris promised  Barak Ravid-tweet-17February2024-The Prime Minister of Qatar
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny
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Hamas’ Hidden Strategy
 Hillel Fuld-tweet-19November2023-Hamas’ Hidden Strategy
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What the “Arab Street” thinks of Hamas
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Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/ Here comes a “new” Arab boycott27December2023 https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/12/here-comes-new-arab-boycott.html  The Arab Parliament
The Arab Parliament, which is the legislative body of the Arab League, is trying to bring back the Arab boycott of Jews…I mean, Israel.
Ahead of a planned emergency session on Gaza tomorrow, the speaker of the Arab Parliament, Adel Al-Asoumi, called on the Arab people to adhere to the economic boycott of companies that support Israel.
Al-Asoumi said that the Arab Parliament has supported the Palestinian cause since the first day of the war on Gaza on the seventh of last October, which sure makes it sound as if they supported the massacre on October 7.
The funny part is that the Arab League boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, which started in late 1945, has never officially ended. Syria and Lebanon still adhere to it fully, everyone else abandoned it.
So this is a call to follow an existing 78 year old boycott. A boycott which was always against Jewish companies.
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Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/ Arab antisemitic articles are getting worse: now they are praising Hitler, praying for genocide30October2023 https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/arab-antisemitic-articles-are-getting.html  cairo24 hit-What did Hitler say about the Jews Antisemitism in Arab media has been getting much worse lately.
Cairo24 uses the Gaza war as an excuse to praise Hitler:
They also publish the fake quote that antisemites ascribe to Hitler, “It was in my power to eliminate all the Jews of the world, but I left some of them so that you would know why I was exterminating them.” But they also favorably quoted some antisemitism from Mein Kampf.
That is only one article in the past 24 hours.
Algeria’s El Khabar has an article that says:
Egypt’s El Balad publishes a prayer for genocide of Jews. Here is a small part:
A columnist in Saudi Arabia’s Al Madina writes:
But while some articles ue the Quran to justify hating Jews, others claim that Jews are not really the Jews in the Quran to begin with. Dr. Ahmed Rabie , former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Dawa at Al-Azhar University, said that “today’s Jews are not descendants of our Prophet Jacob” and only arabs are the remaining descendants of Abraham.
But why seek consistency in the details? The main point remains: Jews are evil and must be destroyed.
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Mein Kampf in ArabicMein Kampf in Arabic in Gaza
IDF forces found a copy of Hitler’s antisemitic work “Mein Kampf” in a child’s room of a home in Gaza used by Hamas as a terrorism hub. The terrorist highlighted portions of the book and included his own notes. It starts with words. It ends with Jewish blood in the streets.  Israel-tweet-12November2023-Mein Kampf in Gaza
Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
This is a school textbook based on Hitler’s “Mein Camp”, on the extermination of the Jewish people, with additions, upgrades and streamlining suggestions for the jihadist Muslims known as “Palestinians”. We fight monsters. #AINewsIL #MuslimInvaders #TheWestIsNext  Rubi Yona-tweet-15October2024-Mein Kampf in Arabic in Judea and Samaria
Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian storesSEE: From 9January2014 Sales Of Hitler’s Mein Kampf Are Surging
When you hear how many Palestinians talk about Hitler, you quickly understand why. Listen to Yussuf from Bethlehem.  Eli Kowaz-tweet-4January2024-Mein Kampf sold at many Palestinian stores
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Arab Reality
Arab Blogger Tells You the Truth About GazaBy Hana Levi Julian – 14 Tevet 5784 – 25December2023 – https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/hamas/the-gaza-you-thought-you-knew-versus-the-real-gaza/2023/12/25/
 Muslim girls study the Koran during a summer camp at a mosque in Gaza City, June 13, 2023. For decades, Palestinian Authority propaganda and misinformation conveyed to the European Union, the United States and various Arab nations by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has lamented a Gaza populated by downtrodden Arabs steeped in abject poverty and misery, blockaded, occupied and besieged by the State of Israel.
A Gaza with frequent electrical outages due to a lack of fuel. A people forced to live with unclean water due to old, broken-down sewage facilities. Families desperate for a little more food for their children.
Gazans suffering dying due to lack of medical facilities and quality medical care. All the while, Gazans were apparently raking in the dough while living a better life than many of their Palestinian Arab peers in nations like Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and the like.
Arab blogger Hoda Jannat exposed the lies in a series of posts on the X social media platform, together with video footage to substantiate his claims.
Behold.
هذه غزة قبل السابع من أكتوبر تم استحمار العقل العربي على أساس أن غزة محاصرة .. وهنالك شعوب عربية في دول عربية تأكل اللحم مرة في السنة مثل الشعب الجزائري
This is Gaza before October 7th The Arab mind was fooled on the basis that Gaza was besieged. There are Arab people in Arab countries who eat meat once a year, like the Algerian people  Hoda_jannat-tweet-25December2023-This is Gaza before October 7th
In a separate tweet, @HodaJannat writes:
? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was getting water, electricity, gas, and fuel for free from Israel.
? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was receiving $30 million a month from Qatar alone
? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was not besieged, and all goods were entering it, as were foreigners and people of foreign nationalities. Its residents were traveling to Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, and Fafo is the biggest example.
? Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was living better than many Arab countries…and its people were living better than many Arab peoples.
Suddenly…we discovered that our minds were besieged by a programmed lie…by the (Muslim) Brotherhood media.
🔴فجأة اكتشفنا أن غزة التي يسكنها 2 مليون نسمة … فيها 36 مستشفى وهنالك دول عربية بها 30 مليون مواطن وما فيها هذا العدد من المستشفيات . 🔴فجأة اكتشفنا أن غزة كانت تحصل على الماء والكهرباء والغاز والوقود بالمجان من اسرائيل . طبعا ليس هنالك مواطن عربي لا يدفع فواتير الماء والكهرباء والوقود . 🔴فجأة اكتشفنا أن غزة كانت تصلها 30 مليون دولار شهريا من قطر وحدها و120 مليون دولار شهريا من الأونروا و50 مليون دولار شهريا من الاتحاد الأوربي و30 مليون دولار شهريا من امريكا. وهنالك دول عربية غارقة في الديون ولا تجد من يساعدها ولو بمليون دولار واحد . 🔴فجأة اكتشفنا أن غزة لم تكن محاصرة وكانت تدخلها كل السلع ويدخلها اجانب وأصحاب جنسيات أجنبية ..وكان سكانها يسافرون إلى مصر ومنها إلى باقي دول العالم وفافو اكبر مثال. 🔴فجأة اكتشفنا أن غزة كانت تعيش افضل من بلدان عربية كثيرة …وشعبها كان يعيش افضل من شعوب عربية كثيرة. فجأة …اكتشفنا أن عقولنا هي المحاصرة بكذب مبرمج …من قبل الإعلام الاخونجي.
🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza, which is inhabited by 2 million people… has 36 hospitals 🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was getting water, electricity, gas, and fuel for free from Israel. 🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was receiving $30 million a month from Qatar alone 🔴 Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was not besieged, and all goods were entering it, as were foreigners and people of foreign nationalities. Its residents were traveling to Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, and Fafo is the biggest example. Suddenly…we discovered that our minds were besieged by a programmed lie…by the Brotherhood media.  gevwey-tweet-24December2023-Suddenly we discovered that Gaza
Surprisingly, Hoda Jannat is not the only one to expose the real quality of life enjoyed by Gazans prior to October 7th. Meet social media poster @Imshin, who specializes in showing what life in Gaza was really like by showing videos and photos from Gazans themselves, including videos, blog posts, and news that was posted by middle-class and wealthy Gazans. Imshin posted this Feb. 2022:
 Imshin-tweet-11February2022-Gaza Land of Contrasts
And this was posted on Dec. 25, 2023, also by Imshin:
“We lived well, no blockade or anything. #TheGazaYouDontSee https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSNG6YS66/  Imshin-tweet-25December2023-What was Gaza like before the hostilities
And this:
 Imshin-tweet-25December2023-Shopping in Gaza City before October7massacre
Was there hardship in Gaza? Yes. As in any other society — including that in Israel, and in the United States — there were families who had less; but they learned to make do. But those who suffered did so at the behest of their Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist rulers who were overwhelmingly, democratically, elected into power by Gaza voters themselves.
Israel withdrew any presence from the enclave well before the January 2006 elections won by Hamas against the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah faction in a vote of 74 to 45 seats.
Gaza hasn’t been “occupied” since August 2005, when the government of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon instituted the Disengagement from Gaza, expelling nearly 10,000 Jews from their homes and communities in the Gush Katif region of the enclave.
In response, Israel was rewarded with more than 10,000 rockets fired at its civilians by its neighbors in Judenrein Gaza, not to mention the series of mini-wars forced upon the Jewish State by Gaza since that time, and during which Israeli soldiers worked hard to “mow the lawn” and trim back the threat to Israel from Hamas.
But it didn’t work. Between October 7 and December 25, 2023, Hamas and its ally, the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization have fired more than 12,500 rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians, and they continue to fire sporadically, whenever they manage to scurry out from beneath the rubble to launch another barrage.
Since October 7, IDF soldiers have uncovered at least 1,500 tunnel shafts leading to the subterranean labyrinth known locally as the “Gaza Metro” comprised of more than 500 miles of tunnels — a veritable underground city — built by Hamas during the years of its rule.
Hundreds of subsurface rocket launchers are so well concealed, they barely peek above the surface, and one practically has to stumble on to them before being able to see them and destroy them. Entire command and control complexes, all of them built 30 to 50 meters (98 feet 164 feet) below the surface — deeper than any grave.
However long it takes, Israel no longer has any choice but to completely wipe out Hamas and its terrorist allies in Gaza, because at this point, it’s either them or us.
Special thanks to Hoda Jannat and Imshin!
9 minutes of how Gaza used to look like before October 7th
Hamas ruined the lives of more than 2 million people  Visegrád 24-tweet-17February2024-9 minutes of how Gaza used to look like before October 7th
9 minutes of how Gaza used to look like before October 7th
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Does the UN hate the Gazans?Or does it simply hate Israel so much it is willing to use Gazan Arabs as pawns and cannon fodder. The MUST READ concise history of Gaza. Op-ed.Lt. Col.(res.) Maurice Hirsch / 8January2024 / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383231
Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch is the director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform in the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; a senior legal analyst for Human Rights Voices; and a member of the Israel Defense and Security Forum.
Over the last 500 years, at least, the Gaza Strip has been a backwater. No one has ever truly invested in Gaza or the Gazans. For the last 100 years, Gaza and the Gazans have increasingly been used as pawns, by both the Arabs and the international community, in their efforts to vilify Israel and the Jews.
When push came to shove, the international community, led by the United Nations, preferred dead Gazans over losing leverage against Israel. Paradoxically and entirely contrary to common perception, Israel did more for the Gazans and the Gaza Strip than any of its many rulers, and had the international community not hated the Gazans so much, their situation today could have been drastically different.
Gaza under the OttomansFor 400 years (1517-1917), the area known today as the Gaza Strip was part of the Ottoman Empire. It was not recognized as an independent area or as being at all linked to Judea and Samaria. Under Ottoman rule, the Gaza Strip saw changing fortunes and investments, depending on the circumstances and the identity and connections of its appointed governor.
Gaza under the MandateIn the aftermath of the First World War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Gaza Strip was included in the area that came under the control of Great Britain. Following the Balfour Declaration (1917), the Paris Peace Conference (1919), the San Remo Conference (1920) and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, Great Britain controlled the area with the sole purpose of it becoming part of the Jewish national homeland. One of the more substantial moves made by Great Britain during the period of the Mandate (1922-1948) was to finalize the official border separating Egypt from the Gaza Strip.
After Great Britain betrayed the Mandate and capitulated to Arab violence instead of giving the Jews the land designated for their national homeland, the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan (which suggested an Arab state and a tiny Jewish state on that same land), included the Gaza Strip in the territory of the “Arab State.” However, having ceremoniously rejected the Partition Plan, the Arab countries chose instead to wage war on the nascent Jewish state. While Israel managed to survive the onslaught of five Arab armies, when the fighting came to its end, it did not conquer the Gaza Strip, which would now be under Egyptian rule. Except for a short break between 1956 and 1957 duing the Sinai War, the Strip remained under Egyptian control from 1948 to 1967.
The Arab countries reject IsraelPositive proof of the disdain of both the Arab countries and the international community toward the Gazans appeared during this period.
According to U.N. records, during Israel’s War of Independence (9 months and 3 weeks, ed.), the population of the Gaza Strip swelled from about 70,000 people to 270,000 people. In the multilateral discussions that followed the war, Israel offered to include the Gaza Strip within the borders of the Jewish state and give all its residents full Israeli citizenship. Had the offer been accepted, the Gaza Strip would today be an integral part of Israel, all its residents would hold full citizenship and both the area and its residents would have shared and enjoyed the prosperity of Israel.
However, both the Arab states and the international community did not care about the fate of Gaza’s residents, old and new. The Arab countries rejected the offer, preferring to continue their fight against Israel’s very right to exist. For its part, the international community allowed the Arab countries to reject the offer without providing any substantial alternative.
Unlike Jordan’s unsuccessful claim of ownership of Judea and Samaria (also supposed to be part of the Jewish national homeland), Egypt never claimed to have any proprietary or sovereign claim to the Gaza Strip. It merely administered the Strip under perpetual military law, never granting its residents Egyptian citizenship.
The colossal UNRWA failureThe disdain of the international community for the Gazan residents was further expressed by its inaction.
While allowing the Egyptians to deny the Gazans any opportunity to settle, deny them citizenship and deny them rights, the international community simultaneously failed to provide the Gazans with any alternative. Between 1948 and 1967, no U.N. resolution ever called on Egypt to end its illegal occupation of the Strip and withdraw or to recognize the new Arab state envisaged by the Partition Plan. It was not called an occupier. The areas that are now so often referred to as the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” do not appear to have been considered “Palestinian territories” until they were liberated by Israel in 1967.
Instead of developing a comprehensive solution for the residents of Gaza, the Arab countries and the international community decided to establish the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the U.N. organization dedicated solely to dealing with the non-Jewish so-called “Palestine refugees.”
UNRWA’s raison d’etre is to perpetuate the falsehood that the perpetual “Palestine refugees” will eventually flood Israel, thereby demographically and democratically destroying Israel as a Jewish state.
True to its mission and sadly for the Gazans, despite having received tens of billions of dollars of international aid in the 74 years since its creation, UNRWA has failed to settle the “Palestine refugees” permanently. The opposite is true. Since the creation of UNRWA, the number of “Palestine refugees” has swelled from 711,00 initially to over 6 million people. According to UNRWA, the original 200,000 “Palestine refugees” who settled in Gaza in 1948 have multiplied at a staggering rate and now number no fewer than 1,577,522 people, an unmatched 4th generation of “refugees”..
Amazingly, according to UNRWA statistics, over 20% of the original “refugees,” now all aged over 80 (41,842 people), are still alive and living in Gaza.
For 74 years, UNRWA has ensured that the Gazans and other “Palestine refugees” remain stateless, living in poverty and constantly dependent on international aid. (That is how it continues to exist and its staff retain their salaries, ed.)
Gaza under Israeli ruleOnce Israel liberated Gaza from the Egyptian occupation, things started looking up for the Gazans. Israel not only allowed the Gazans to enter Israel to work, allowing for substantial growth, but also started linking Gaza to Israeli infrastructure, such as electricity and water.
Gaza under the Palestinian AuthorityDespite the positive change, the Arab countries and the international community refused to accept the Israeli presence in the Strip, inventing the false claim that Israel was an “occupier.” Over time, the rhetoric against Israel as an “occupier” intensified until Israel agreed to enter into the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and pave the way for the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
Instead of promoting the needs of the Gazans, the P.A., with the help of the international community, again subjugated the Gazan population. While the PLO/P.A. promised peace and democracy, all it delivered was brainwashing to hate Israel, and incitement of violence, murder and terror.
Democracy was a fleeting incident, with elections taking place only twice, once in 1996 and then again in 2006. The first elections ushered in the dictatorial leadership of Yasser Arafat and his Fatah party, and the second ushered in the dictatorial rule of Hamas, an internationally designated terror organization.
Israel’s disengagement from GazaPursuant to its agenda to destroy Israel, in September 2000, the PLO/P.A. launched a terror war. During the war, which raged till 2005, Palestinian Arab terrorists carried out thousands of terror attacks. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to “disengage” from the area. Thus, in Sept. 2005, Israel completed the total expulsion of all the Israelis from the Gaza Strip (over 8000 people were displaced from thriving communities they had built with government encouragement, ed.) and withdrew all its forces, redeploying to the Armistice Line agreed upon in 1949 at the end of Israel’s war of independence.
Gaza in its entirety, including an advanced agricultural industry built by Israeli know-how and hard work, was handed to the P.A. (Gazans promptly set fire to the greenhouses that had previously provided Europe and Israel with a significant percentage of its flowers and vegetables, and had been donated to them to help them make sea-fronted Gaza into “the Singapore of the Middle East”, ed.)
Hamas takes control of GazaShortly after the “disengagement” in January 2006, the P.A. held a general election. Again, showing its disdain for the Gazans, the P.A. and the international community persuaded Israel to agree to the participation of Hamas in the elections. While P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas did his utmost to manipulate the elections in favor of his Fatah party, Hamas won, receiving 74 of the 132 seats in the P.A. parliament. After a period of turmoil, a year later, in the summer of 2007, Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. (It then murdered Fatah rivals, often by pushing them off the roofs of buildings, ed.)
Again, abandoning the Gazans to their fate, the international community did not protest the rulership of a terrorist organization over the area but instead developed a policy of wilful blindness, rebranding the terrorists as the “de facto” leadership of Gaza.
Under the guise of expressing concern for the Gazans, broad international support poured into Hamas coffers for 16 years. With the international aid, Hamas and its leadership grew rich, while the average Gazan remained poor and impoverished. Instead of using the aid to develop Gaza, the Hamas terrorists diverted their resources to build hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels.
Despite the Israeli “disengagement” and the fact that the Gaza Strip was controlled by a terror organization, the international community refused to hold the Gazans and their leadership responsible for their actions. Instead of demanding that Hamas and the Gazans abandon their desire to destroy Israel, the international community flouted international law and invented the sui generis claim that Israel remained an “occupier” of Gaza. In no other situation in the world is a country considered an “occupier” of another region without “boots on the ground” and without exercising effective control. (Israel does control the border into its territory as does every sovereign state, and after ships filled with arms tried to deliver them to Gaza, controls the sea border,, while Egypt controls its own border with Gaza, ed.)
From 2006 through Oct. 6, 2023, the terrorists in Gaza fired tens of thousands of rockets into Israel, indiscriminately targeting its civilian population, and made hundreds of attempts, many successful, to infiltrate Israel and carry out terror attacks. These attacks inevitably ended in war-like “cycles of violence” between Israel and the Gazan terrorists.
Instead of condemning the terrorists and their homicidal actions and holding them responsible for their aggression, the international community again chose to abandon the Gazans to their fate and their terrorist leadership, preferring to focus all criticism on Israel’s self-defense.
The Oct. 7 massacreIf the disdain of the international community for the Gazans was unclear until now, their actions following the 10/7 massacre leave no room for doubt.
On Oct. 7, 2023, over 3,000 terrorists infiltrated Israel from Gaza, led by the Nukhba forces of Hamas. The terrorists murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and foreigners. Some were tortured, some, even infants, burned alive, some raped and some beheaded. An additional 240 people—men, women, children, babies, the disabled, the elderly and the sick—were taken hostage. ( A not insubstantial number of Gazan “civilians” also took part in the murder and pillage, ed.) Israel responded by declaring all-out war on the Gazan terrorists. As part of the operation, the Israeli forces attacked thousands of targets from the air, the sea and the ground. In preparation for the ground operation, Israel recommended that the civilians living in the northern Gaza Strip leave their homes and travel south.
To put the situation into context, it is essential to note that the Gaza Strip is only 41 kilometers (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 miles) wide, and has a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 square miles). Approximately 2 million people inhabit it. As a result of the fighting in the north, over 800,000 people were displaced.
Egypt and the international community refuse refuge for the GazansIn normal circumstances, wars almost always results in the creation of refugees. Thus, for example, as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, over 6,332,700 Ukrainians became refugees. As a result of the Syrian civil war, approximately 5.5 million Syrians were forced to flee Syria, becoming refugees. (They will probably settle successfully in their new homes, as other refugees have throughout history, ed.)
Despite the high intensity of the war in Gaza, exacerbated by the confined space and high population density, astonishingly, the war created no refugees.
While Gaza is surrounded from the north and east by Israel and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza also shares a border with Egypt. Instead of welcoming their Arab brothers, Egypt refused to allow Gazans to cross into the Sinai Peninsula and seek refuge. Soon after the start of the war, Egypt reportedly lined up tanks and armored vehicles along the Gazan border specifically to prevent the Gazans from fleeing the war. Shamefully, despite clearly putting the Gazans in mortal danger, the international community remained silent in the face of the Egyptian cold-heartedness.
No U.N. resolution called upon Egypt to show humanity towards the Gazans, and no U.N. resolution condemned their decision to refuse the Gazans refuge. While Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, did offer the Gazans refuge in Scotland and called on the United Kingdom and the international community to provide refuge for the Gazans, nothing happened. Canada also made positive overtures and even adopted relaxed criteria to allow Gazans to seek refuge, but as yet, no Gazans have been able to take advantage of the change. (It is not too late – petition your government to rescue the Gazans, ed.)
The world hates the GazansGiven the repeated approach of the international community and its consistent decisions to abandon the Gazans—even leaving them to face mortal danger—one would not be entirely mistaken to conclude that the world does hate the Gazans.
There is, however, another possible conclusion, which is no less nefarious. The international community may not actually hate the Gazans. Rather, the international community hates Israel and is willing to do its utmost to vilify and condemn the Jewish state. (It may even intend to sit by placidly while the Gazans re-arm for their next try. After all, the arms came through the tunnels under the border with Egypt, with whom Israel signed a peace treaty, and no one knows how many terrorists were among the Gazans who fled south at Israel’s suggestion, ed.) To serve this goal, the international community uses the Gazans as pawns and cannon fodder.
Gazans’ lives don’t matter to the international community unless they can be weaponized against the Jews and the Jewish state. Originally published by The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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NGO Propaganda
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The International Community
Israel: The international community: “Yea, we don’t care until you prove it!” “Ok, here are the testimonials.” “Sure. Photos.” “Ok, here’s video evidence.” “Ok, here are the actual victims and their stories.” “Here is Hamas admitting it all!” “Here are the bodies.” Israel: 🙄 Hamas: “Israel killed 10 zillion people in Gaza, 100% of them are children. Trust us.” The international community: “It’s a genocide!! JerusalemCats-tweet-1January2024-What needs to be done
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The EuropeansDanish ambassador, JPost’s Caroline Glick exchange verbal blows over EU attitude toward Israel19January2015
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Israel needs to treat NGOs [Non-Government Organizations] as terror supporters until proven otherwise
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Lies against the IDF: Hamas PURPOSELY drew fire to the World Central Kitchens (NGO) truck
🔥At around 10 pm, the IDF noticed suspicious activity as the WCK vehicle was joined by a convoy of several other Hamas vehicles. 🔥 Hamas terrorists then climbed ONTO and INTO the WCK truck and FIRED several times indiscriminately into the air to ensure the IDF would see them. 🔥The convoy then split up and entered a hanger, where it became difficult to 🔥IDF attempted to call both the WCK workers and WCK HQ on TWO separate occasions to confirm whether they were with the Hamas convoy but their calls remained unanswered. 🔥When the vehicles left the hangar OVER AN HOUR LATER the IDF drone unit misidentified the WCK vehicle for a vehicle from the Hamas convoy and mistakenly struck. The IDF has provided their full findings to both WCK and Jose Andres, and are now requiring new stickers for aid vehicles which can be seen via drones even in the dark. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-795514  The Persian Jewess-tweet-7April2024-Hamas PURPOSELY drew fire to the World Central Kitchens truck
~ Richard Littlejohn, in Daily Mail.  Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-8April2024-When NATO kills-friendly fire When Israel kills-war crime
 JerusalemCats-tweet-3April2024-During World War 2 humanitarian aid workers WERE NOT in German or Japanese Cities While they were being Bombed
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Hamas was with the World Central Kitchens (NGO)
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Tragic World Central Kitchen Aid Workers Incident Exposes Rank HypocrisyThe tragic killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza in an IDF drone strike has undoubtedly changed the direction of Israel’s war against Hamas. As the IDF admitted making “grave mistakes” in the strike…Rachel O’Donoghue 8April2024 https://honestreporting.com/the-rank-hypocrisy-exposed-by-the-tragic-world-central-kitchen-strike/
The tragic killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza in an IDF drone strike has undoubtedly changed the direction of Israel’s war against Hamas.
As the IDF admitted making “grave mistakes” in the strike on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) vehicle convoy, pressure has piled on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the Strip, as well as other unpalatable terms Hamas put forward.
In the immediate aftermath, Israel dismissed two military officers and reprimanded several others.
The point that has been ignored by the vast majority of media pundits and politicians as they line up to criticize Israel is that holding up the WCK incident as proof there must be an immediate ceasefire is tantamount to saying that Hamas should stay in power.
Some of the harshest criticism leveled at Israel has come from its staunchest allies, including the United States and the United Kingdom, which have previously stopped short of calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
The UK’s foreign minister Lord David Cameron, for example, warned that Britain’s support for Israel was “not unconditional,” while describing the deaths of the WCK workers as “tragic and avoidable.”
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden released a statement on April 2 — mere hours after the incident — which called for a “thorough investigation” that brings full “accountability.”
“Even more tragically, this is not a stand-alone incident. This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed,” the statement added.
Such criticism was mirrored in the international press
An editorial by The Observer argued that “only a ceasefire in Gaza can save [Israel] from its worst-ever crisis” and called for an “independent, international inquiry into last week’s outrageous killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers.”
“The IDF’s internal investigation and its limited admission of error do not begin to excuse or explain the army’s trigger-happy behaviour and ongoing, systemic problems with targeting,” it added.
Writing in The Guardian, Nesrine Malik described the World Central Kitchen incident as evidence that “Israel has gone rogue.”
The Wall Street Journal attempted to explore what it called the “deadly mistakes of Israel’s military in Gaza” in a piece that observed how the aid convoy strike had “crystallized a broad international backlash against Israel’s war in Gaza.”
However, the swift and unforgiving reaction to the WCK incident by both international leaders and the media has exposed another issue: a glaring hypocrisy where Israel is judged by a standard that is not applied to its allies.
Opinion writer Brendan O’Neill was among the handful of media pundits to call out this double standard in a piece for The Spectator:
Another op-ed in Newsweek by international human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky and urban warfare expert John Spencer noted how one inevitable consequence of war is that “errors will occur” and that the US too had made similar errors during its conflicts:
A piece published in the Daily Mail by columnist Richard Littlejohn called out the “nauseating” double standards that the WCK strike has exposed.
Recounting the events that followed the death of his friend, ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd—who was killed alongside several other journalists in a US strike on their clearly marked vehicle on the outskirts of Basra, Iraq, in March 2003—Littlejohn wrote:
Every innocent person killed in this war is a tragedy, whether they are international aid workers or Palestinian civilians. However, suggesting that Israel’s tragic accidents are somehow unique or more severe than others is hypocrisy of the highest order.
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World Central Kitchen fires 62 Gaza employees after Israel finds connections to terror groups
World Central Kitchen fired dozens of their Palestinian staff in Gaza after discovering that at least 62 of them WERE LINKED TO TERROR GROUPS. Unlike @UNRWA, World Central Kitchen understands that it shouldn’t keep terrorists on its payroll.  Aviva Klompas-tweet-11December2024-World Central Kitchen fires 62 Gaza employees
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Qatar funded Human Rights Watch
@BenWeinthal investigates  i24NEWS English-tweet-23November2023-Qatar funded Human Rights Watch
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JerusalemCats Comments: When you think of the Red Cross, Think of the Medieval Christian Knights Templar slaughtering Jews during the Crusades! A knight of the Templar. Warrior Monk
הוועד הבינלאומי של ארגון הצלב האדום הוא רשע / The International Committee of the Red Cross is Evil27December2023 http://esseragaroth.blogspot.com/2023/12/international-committee-of-red-cross-is.html ט״ו לחודש העשירי תשפ״ד
English follows the Hebrew.
עשר אגורות (2¢):
לא היום. אף פעם לא מספיק להדגיש דבר כזה כשיהודים עושים אותו הטעות פעם אחר פעם ומצפים לתוצאות שונות. איזה טעויות? לסמוך ותמוך בהוועד הבינלאומי של ארגון הצלב האדום, ולצפות מהם החלטות צדקות.
אני מזכיר לכם על האירועים שעברו על ידי הוועד הבינלאומי של ארגון הצלב האדום (הכתבות באנגלית):
אם אתם עדיין לא יכולים להבין שהוועד הבינלאומי של ארגון הצלב האדום רשע מכה אלה, אז לא נראה לי שאני מוסגל להוכיח לכם את זה.
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Not today. It is never enough to emphasize such a thing when Jews make the same mistake over and over and expect different results. What mistakes? To trust and support the International Committee of the Red Cross, and to expect it to make just decisions.
The original Hebrew says that Mirjana Spoljaric responded, “Surely, you can find ways to get these to them.”
Here are a few of the Red Cross’s past strikes against Israel and the Jewish People:
If you still cannot see how evil the Red Cross is, then I am not sure I can help you to see the light.
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Israel: Red Cross has ‘no right to exist’ if it can’t help hostages in GazaFM Eli Cohen’s remarks come after organization warns Israel over emergency law concerning conditions of security prisoners in Israeli jailsBy ToI Staff 1November2023, href=”https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-red-cross-has-no-right-to-exist-if-it-cant-help-hostages-in-gaza/
Amid an ongoing spat with the Red Cross, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen demanded Wednesday that the group visit the 240 hostages Israeli believes are being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and harshly criticized the organization’s conduct.
The foreign minister told the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, that the ICRC must demand to meet and provide medical assistance to all the hostages, Cohen’s office said.
“The Red Cross has no right to exist if it does not succeed in visiting the hostages being held captive by the Hamas terror group,” Cohen told Spoljaric, and noted that “children, women and Holocaust survivors” are being held captive.
“The Red Cross must act decisively and with a clear voice and utilize all leverage it has to push for a visit to the hostages as soon as possible,” Cohen added.
Cohen’s statements came after the Red Cross sent a letter on Tuesday to the Israel Prison Service, cautioning the state about a wartime law passed in the Knesset two weeks ago that allows National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to worsen the conditions of security prisoners if a “prison emergency” were to be declared.
The foreign minister criticized the ICRC for focusing on Israel, “which is bound by international law and acts in accordance with it,” instead of the enormous humanitarian crisis created by Hamas.
Prison Service commissioner Katy Perry, in a statement Wednesday, said that the Red Cross would not be allowed to visit Palestinian terror prisoners held in Israeli jails until the organization is able to provide assistance to the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7 with Hamas’s shock assault, which took the lives of some 1,400 people in Israel, the vast majority of them civilians. More than 240 people were taken captive as Hamas terrorists rampaged through the communities adjacent to Gaza.
Since then, while waging war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel has agitated for the International Red Cross to be allowed to visit the hostages held in the Strip, but so far the terror group has shown little inclination to permit such visits.
The Red Cross has also made multiple statements concerning the war, has cautioned Israel in regards to civilian casualties in Gaza, and is involved with providing humanitarian aid packages to Gaza. When two Israeli-American hostages, Judith and Natalie Raanan, were released by Hamas on October 20, they were first turned over to the Red Cross.
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Red Cross in 1944: “We found no trace” Red Cross in 2023: “We found no evidence”
Red Cross in 2023: “We found no evidence of weapons or hostages being kept in hospitals in Gaza”  Dr. Eli David-tweet-26November2023-Red Cross in 1944-2023-We found no trace
 Red Cross in 1944-We found no trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners in Auschwitz
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PROOF: Red Cross is Antisemitic
The Red Cross prides itself on being unwaveringly neutral, but when it comes to Israeli lives, they are just unwaveringly absent! @ICRCPresident  JerusalemCats-tweet-17December2023-ICRC is Antisemitic
Red Cross asked to expel MDA over emblem violationPro-Palestinian groups say using Star of David shape in West Bank violates Geneva Convention protocolBy Tamar Pileggi
 MDA paramedic Tal Rabin attends to displaced Nepalese locals in Kathmandu. (photo courtesy Magen David Adom)
A number of pro-Palestinian organizations have petitioned the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to expel Israel’s national emergency medical service for using the emblem of the international federation on its ambulances operating in West Bank.
The Palestinian groups charge that Magen David Adom — the country’s medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service — is in violation of a Geneva Convention protocol stipulating Israeli paramedic teams use a neutral emblem while working outside the country, the Yedioth Aharonoth daily newspaper reported Sunday.
In 2006, the MDA emerged from decades of isolation and was admitted to the ICRC after agreeing to abide by a protocol adopted by Geneva Convention signatories the year before.
The protocol introduced a neutral “red crystal” emblem to be used by any relief teams in areas where there is sensitivity about Christian or Muslim symbols.
The MDA, along with IDF medics, were instructed to use the new symbol — a red square at an angle on a white background — when participating in operations outside Israel.
While operating in missions in conjunction with other ICRC agencies, the red crystal emblem was to be used in conjunction with MDA’s star of David. In Israel, MDA was allowed to keep its traditional logo.
According to the report, ICRC officials will discuss the complaint at the body’s annual meeting in December. A Foreign Ministry official told the paper that the initiative was being followed up though diplomatic channels. “We will not allow anyone to remove MDA from the Red Cross,” the official said, dismissing the complaint as mere “threats and catchphrases.”
“Its a shame that officials choose not to address the issues in Syria, Libya or Yemen and instead choose to focus on Israel — a country that provides emergency and standard medical services to Jews, Muslims, Christians, Palestinians and Israelis alike.”
Dror Futter’s PostDror Futter 1mo  International Committee of the Red Cross List of Accepted Logos What is Missing from the International Committee of the Red Cross List of Accepted Logos?
▶ Although the ICRC contends that the symbols are not religious, evidently that logic applies solely to the Magen David (the Star of David) but not to the Christian cross or the Muslim crescent. For almost the first 60 years of its existence, based on opposition from Muslim countries, Israel’s Magen David Adom (Israel’s Red Star of David ie. its Red Cross) was denied admission to the ICRC.
▶ Israel was finally admitted in 2006, under heavy pressure for the American Red Cross. However, to do so, it was forced to agree that the Star of David would not be recognized as an official ICRC symbol. Instead, the ICRC created the red crystal. Here are the “rules” of the red crystal:
🔹 Within its own national territory, a national society can use either of the recognized symbols alone, or incorporate any of these symbols or a combination of them into the Red Crystal.
🔹 For indicative use on foreign territory, a national society which does not use one of the recognized symbols as its emblem has to incorporate its unique symbol into the Red Crystal, based on the previously mentioned condition about communicating its unique symbol to the state parties of the Geneva Conventions.
🔹 For protective use, only the symbols recognized by the Geneva Conventions can be used. Specifically, those national societies which do not use one of the recognized symbols as their emblem have to use the Red Crystal without incorporation of any additional symbol.
➡ Wrap your head around this. The ICRC “allows” Israel to use the Star of David in Israel. If it wants to display its symbol outside Israel, it can only do so if it displays it inside the diamond. Finally, if it wants the protective benefits of displaying the symbol outside of Israel (such as in combat) it cannot display the Star of David within the crystal.
▶ The ICRC website states: “The emblems are not religious symbols. They serve humanity. They are symbols of protection and convey that help is at hand. They also signify hope, and must be respected.” I guess if you are Jewish, you are only entitled to protection and hope if you do not identify as Jewish.
▶We are conditioned to give respect to humanitarian organizations. Many do not realize that many of these global organizations are structurally anti-Jews and anti-Israel.
▶ In the weeks to come, the news is likely to be full of statements about the war in Gaza from “humanitarian organizations.” Without minimizing the tragedy of the loss of an innocent on either side of the border, when you read and evaluate statements by the ICRC and organizations like the UN, Amnesty International, UNRWA and others, keep in mind their long standing prejudices with respect to the parties in the region. Heck, the ICRC isn’t even hiding it.
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‘Abandoned Twice’: Daughter of Freed Hostage in Critical Condition Rips Apart Red Cross“The Red Cross refused to bring her her medications.”Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, 27November2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/abandoned-twice-daughter-of-freed-hostage-in-critical-condition-rips-apart-red-cross/
 Elma Avraham, 84, a freed Hamas hostage, remains in critical condition. Elma Avraham, 84, a freed Hamas hostage, remains in critical condition. Tali Amano, her daughter, ripped apart the Red Cross for not bringing her mom the medications she needed. From The Times of Israel:
Tal Amano, daughter of Elma Avraham, 84-year-old freed from #Hamas says her mother was abandoned twice. First on #October7 and then by all the organizations whose responsibility it was to save her  i24NEWS English-tweet-27November2023-Red Cross-Mother was abandoned twice
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The Red Cross is violating its neutrality principleBlocked from visiting hostages, the aid organization should give Hamas an ultimatum: Let us see them or we’ll leave GazaShlomo Levin 14December2023, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-the-red-cross-must-visit-the-hostages/
The International Committee of the Red Cross recently had a highly visible role, transporting released hostages out of Gaza in vans displaying plastered with the Red Cross logo and flying their flags. But this has also renewed criticism of the organization, as in spite of their heavy presence in Gaza helping Palestinians this is the first time they’ve done anything for the hostages. Some Israelis have called the Red Cross nothing more than an Uber service. It moved the hostages once they were released, but its job should have been to care for them all along.
Is that fair? What are the Red Cross’s responsibilities, and what can we reasonably expect? To answer, we have to understand the special legal status of the Red Cross and the code of conduct by which it operates.
A key principle of humanitarian law is that medical personnel and equipment, even if belonging to an enemy or treating enemy soldiers, cannot be the target of military attacks. The reason is that medical personnel take no part in military operations and exclusively work to help the wounded. There is therefore no military benefit in attacking them. Doing so would be uselessly destructive and is therefore not allowed. The Red Cross emblem serves as a sign making known to all combatants that an individual, vehicle, or other piece of equipment is being used solely for medical purposes and thereby enjoys this immunity from attack.
But this alone does not explain the Red Cross’s role in facilitating the release of hostages. For example, even though Hamas allowed the Red Cross to transport the hostages from Gaza, there is no way it would have allowed IDF medical units displaying the Red Cross symbol (or in this case the Magen David Adom) to do the same. Impartiality and NeutralityThis is because the International Committee of the Red Cross commits to also following two additional principles. These are impartiality and neutrality. The Red Cross defines impartiality as being guided solely by the needs of people who are suffering, prioritized by the urgency of the case, without discriminating due to nationality, race, religion, or other status. They define neutrality as not taking sides in hostilities or engaging in controversies of a political, racial, religious, or ideological nature. You can see this on their website here.
This principle of neutrality in particular requires explanation. A simple way to look at it is that the Red Cross readily admits that it as an organization, as well as its individual members, take political and ideological positions. The best example is their commitment to humanitarian law itself. The Red Cross states clearly that taking hostages is wrong, and that it condemns Hamas for doing it. The Red Cross does not require itself to be neutral or non-committal about that point.
What neutrality means is that even though they have a clear position about what humanitarian law is and that it must be followed, acting in their official capacity they vow not to take any actions to stop humanitarian abuses or other wrongdoing they encounter of any sort. So in return for access to visit hostages, they pledge not to help them escape, not to reveal to the outside world where they are being held, and so forth. They even commit not to cooperate with any future war crimes investigations or the International Criminal Court. An Israeli medical unit, even though it is also legally shielded from attack and bears the proper logo, would never agree to that (and there is zero chance they would be believed even if they said they would).
The Red Cross believes that neutrality and impartiality taken together mean there should be no grounds for any party to a conflict to deny it access to anything. Since even if a group is committing the most heinous war crimes, such as holding civilian hostages and deliberately targeting civilians, the Red Cross while acting in its territory under its protection will take no actions to hinder those violations now or in the future, there is no valid reason to keep them out. The HostagesSo why hasn’t the Red Cross visited the hostages? They’ve reassured Israel they want to and are trying. But they don’t know where the hostages are, and even if they did know the Red Cross cannot just barge in. They depend on Hamas to allow them access, and so far Hamas hasn’t obliged.
Now of course it’s true that they cannot visit the hostages without Hamas’s permission. The question becomes what their response should be as Hamas continues to refuse.
In the beginning, the Red Cross could have argued that the logistics of visiting the hostages are difficult and it takes time for them to reassure Hamas of their neutrality and work out a system for visiting without giving away information to Israeli intelligence. But by now it’s clear Hamas is just saying no.
This is in effect causing the Red Cross to violate its principle of impartiality. Surely the hostages are in grave need of medical and psychological assistance. But the Red Cross is discriminating against them. It’s helping only Palestinians in Gaza who need assistance, while it ignores Israelis (and other foreigners) being held in that same place.
I’m sure the Red Cross will argue that it’s vital that it remain in Gaza because of the immense need for medical services that it is helping to fulfill. But by doing so it is compromising its principles. The Red Cross could tell Hamas that either they allow it to treat everyone in order of need without regard to nationality, hostages included, or that it will pack its bags and leave. While various Israeli political leaders, joined recently by the US Secretary of State, have urged the Red Cross to continue pushing Hamas to grant access, it’s unclear to what extent they’ve demanded the Red Cross take such a stand.
It should be noted that Israel also has additional, unrelated complaints that the Red Cross has violated its commitment to impartiality and neutrality in other ways. But this demand that the Red Cross visit the hostages, reassure families about their condition, and provide them urgent medical attention, Israel can make clearly, unequivocally, and based on the Red Cross’s own guiding principles. If the Red Cross meekly accepts Hamas’s refusal and just goes on treating Palestinians without visiting the hostages, it should lose its lofty humanitarian status. Israel can also deny Red Cross workers some of their privileges of coming and going through Israeli territory, and internationally it should forfeit some funding as well.
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ICRC appoint Palestinian activist next Director General
Because @ICRC has not shown enough hostility towards Israel and outright indifference to Jewish lives, they are now set to appoint Palestinian activist and former head of @UNRWA, Pierre Krahenbuhl, as their next Director General. Neutrality, hey?  Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-22December2023-ICRC appoint Palestinian activist next Director General
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The International Red Cross is Hamas
 Hillel Neuer-tweet-2May2024-icrc investigating Head of Office Haythem Abid
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I Assure You The Red Cross Is Working As Hard As It Can To Facilitate Terrorismby Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president, International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric Egger Geneva, January 25 – Since its founding in 1863, this organization has led the world in first aid and disaster response, and continues to do so even in the most dangerous locations worldwide. This mission includes the Gaza Strip, where the ICRC has responded to the most recent outbreak of violence by making every imaginable effort not to get in the way of Hamas’s operations, even going as far as to refrain from criticizing Hamas.
Unfair accusations have stemmed from the Red Cross’s handling of Israelis held hostage in Gaza: that we have neglected to insist on visiting them; that we have cooperated with a terrorist organization; that when some hostages were freed, we served as little more than couriers. Those charges are profoundly insulting to anyone who knows what our organization does, the values it upholds, and how it operates.
To begin with, open criticism of Hamas in a Hamas-controlled area would put our personnel at risk and threaten the crucial functions that the Red Cross plays in Gaza. Without a robust ICRC presence, Hamas might be forced to provide health care for Gaza residents, and that would hamper the group’s ability to, and resources toward, killing and torturing Israelis. Imagine how annoyed that would make Hamas! We cannot take that risk.
Thus our refusal to convey medications to hostages in need of it is understandable in context. The same for our silence on the question of hostages being raped or otherwise mistreated. We simply have to take Hamas at their word, since they are known for strict adherence to the truth in medical matters, such as the bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital and the total absence of Hamas military infrastructure in or under health care facilities.
Also the death toll and classification of every single casualty as a noncombatant, which we all know to be unimpeachable and completely in line with every other urban combat situation in military history. The missiles into Israel are launching themselves!
Israeli sources enjoy no such credibility, as they contradict what everyone knows without checking. This is common knowledge. I cannot believe it requires explaining. It is precisely the attitude we were trying to get across when we told the family of an Israeli held hostage in Gaza, “Don’t you feel sympathy for the Palestinians?” Because that it hat one says to a suffering, grieving, terrified person. If they’re Jewish.
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The Red Cross is humiliated as it again serves murderers of JewsIt succeeded in making its profile invisible while not gaining the release of a single hostage or providing them with any assistance.https://www.jns.org/the-red-cross-is-humiliated-as-it-again-serves-murderers-of-jews/  Israelis and families of those being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip protest in Tel Aviv outside a meeting of the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, on Dec. 14, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
(Jan. 22, 2025 / JNS) It was a joyous moment to see three female Israeli hostages finally released from 15 months of harrowing captivity. That happiness was tempered by the disgusting spectacle orchestrated by Hamas and enabled by the Red Cross. This humiliating episode highlighted its total failure to assist Jewish victims, evoking bitter memories of its inaction during the Holocaust.
I wrote in November 2023 about the attitude of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from the beginning of the war. On Oct. 7, 2023, the ICRC released a statement expressing concern over “armed violence in Israel and the occupied territories.” This mealy-mouthed response ignored the slaughter of civilians by Hamas terrorists, instead framing the events as mutual violence and subtly implicating Israel.
Days later, the ICRC issued another statement acknowledging “premeditated killings of civilians” but avoided identifying either the perpetrators or victims. In the same breath, it criticized Israeli “bombings in residential neighborhoods,” drawing a false equivalence between terror massacres and defensive military actions.
It took more than a month before the American Red Cross said the ICRC was pursuing “every possible avenue to secure the release of all remaining hostages.” It would remain silent, however, because its experience—ignoring the Holocaust—was that it was most effective if it kept a low profile. Well, it succeeded in making its profile invisible while not gaining the release of a single hostage or providing them with assistance.
For the transfer, they showed up as if they were heroes when they were essentially Uber drivers taking the former hostages a few miles to an awaiting military helicopter.
First, though, they played a part in the grotesque Hamas spectacle in which heavily armed masked terrorists in freshly laundered uniforms delivered and surrounded the hostages. Hundreds of jeering civilians lined the streets celebrating the dehumanization of the women right to the end of their ordeal. Civilians, including children—frequently portrayed as innocent victims of “genocide”—actively participated in the degradation of survivors of the Hamas massacre.
The Israelis were given “goodie bags” as if they were leaving a bat mitzvah, but instead of shouts of mazel tov! they heard only blood-curdling chants of Allahu Akbar. The Red Cross literally endorsed this farce by co-signing Hamas-drafted “certificates of release” that the hostages were forced to sign before posing for photos holding the documents with their captors.
You must give Hamas credit; their skill in media manipulation has not diminished with their loss of power. The terrorists carefully stage-managed the handover with their Al Jazeera collaborators to show pictures designed to give the world the impression of widespread support and military resilience. For their supporters, Hamas wanted to pretend that thousands of fighters survived the war to pursue their goal of committing repeated massacres. Aerial photos later revealed the crowd was no more than a few hundred people crammed into a narrow street that was part of a calculated media strategy to portray Hamas as victorious despite its decimation.
At this point, the least the Red Cross can do is to ensure that it does not participate in another terrorist photo op to promote the Hamas narrative. The organization, backed by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, must ensure that future transfers occur in neutral, secure locations with no armed personnel or civilian onlookers. Hamas has managed to keep the location of the hostages secret for this long; let them maintain that secrecy for the point of exchange.
The Red Cross should not allow its reputation to be dragged further through the mud by being a party to the disgraceful abuse of innocent Israelis who miraculously survived months of torture and abuse without its medical or any other assistance.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross did not do their Job
Did the Red Cross—which gladly plays along in Hamas’s staged propaganda—visit them even once in 490 days? No! And after all this, is Israel supposed to listen to the international community? The answer is NO! 📸 @HenMazzig  Michael Livschitz-tweet-8February2025-the Red Cross did not visit them even once in 490 days
This is the opposite of neutrality. It’s aiding and abetting evil. An absolute disgrace.  Joe Roberts-tweet-8February2025-ICRC is openly participating in Hamas propaganda
Red Cross: Humanitarian bystander of the yearPosted 6February2025 Eretz Nehederet The Red Cross did NOTHING to help the Israeli & American Hostages tortured by Hamas and UNRWA for 15 months. This is a NOT A “Parody” of what the Red Cross has turned into. This is reality. Israel has for 15 months asked the Red Cross to do it’s job and it just gives excuses and Bullshit.
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South Africa takes Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ, UN) for the Gaza War International Criminal Court trying October 7th 2023 Israeli Rape Victims
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South Africa has one of the highest murder and gender based violence rates in the world
So what is the country’s leadership focusing on? Taking Israel to court for defending itself against maniacal Hamas terrorists determined to wipe out 7 million Jews. 🤯.  StopAntisemitism-tweet-12January2024-South Africa the highest murder rates takes Israel to the ICC for Gaza War
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 ICJ and Hamas-Israel Hayom-Caricature-28January2024 South Africa Lawfare against Israel
 UK Lawyers For Israel-tweet-11January2024-South Africa Lawfare against Israel Natasha Hausdorff talks to I24’s Laura Cellier about the ICJ
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Masterful display of international law
Our superstar legal team rebutting South Africa’s absurd blood libel at the ICJ, headed by the expert who literally wrote the textbook on international law.  Eylon Levy-tweet-12January2024-Israel’s superstar legal team
 Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13January2024-Prof Malcolm Shaw international law South Africa case at ICJ Prof. Malcolm Shaw’s masterful display in international law and meticulous take-down of South Africa’s case at International Court of Justice
Today Dr. Tal Becker and Israel’s legal team presented its case to the @CIJ_ICJ. With them stood the souls of the more than 1,000 Israelis who were murdered by Hamas on October 7th and are unable to testify. Watch Dr. Becker’s opening remarks:  Israel-tweet-12January2024-Dr Tal Becker legal case at ICJ SA-Israel ICJ case | Tal Becker: Legal advisor to Israel’s department of foreign affairsSA/Israel case at the ICJ: Dr. Galit Raguan, Israeli Ministry of Justice on SABCNewsPosted 15January2024 AIJAC:
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The ICJ called for the release of Israeli hostages
The ICJ called for the release of Israeli hostages, and declined to order an immediate ceasefire. They also called for Israel to do measures such as “preventing the commission of genocide” which Israel ALREADY ACCEPTS & which the Israeli judge voted for  John Aziz-tweet-26January2024-The ICJ called for the release of Israeli hostages  StandWithUs Supporting Israel StandWithUs Rejects ICJ Ruling & Language, but Agrees with Court’s Decision Demanding Hostages be Released and Not Calling for a Ceasefire
(Los Angeles, January 26, 2024) https://www.standwithus.com/post/standwithus-expresses-disappointment-over-icj-ruling-but-agrees-with-court-s-decision-demanding-host
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected a demand by the South African government to order a “ceasefire” that would allow Hamas to remain in power in Gaza, continue to oppress its own people, and rearm for the next massacre of Israeli civilians. However, StandWithUs is appaulled by the ICJ’s decision to accept other parts of this slanderous case, which uses the Genocide Convention to defame Israel and undermine its right to defend itself against genocidal terrorism. Read the entire press release HERE.
In its ruling, the ICJ calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the remaining 136 hostages held by Hamas since October 7. We take note that Hamas said they would abide by the court’s ruling, and as such Hamas must release the hostages immediately.
Of note, the ICJ did not rule on South Africa’s main and unsubstantiated contention that Israel is committing a “genocide” in ongoing war started by Hamas on October 7th. A decision on this matter is not expected until years from now, if at all.
We take further note that the majority opinion of the court relies exclusively on statements made by UN officials, including leaders of UNWRA, about the situation in Gaza. The anti-Israel bias of these officials and the UN system has long been known and proven.
South Africa’s decision to bring Israel before the ICJ was politically motivated and lacked legal merits. The South African government has allied itself with the genocidal Hamas terrorists responsible for the October 7th massacre. The Jerusalem Post revealed, a “network of several South African organizations and straw man companies deeply involved with funding Hamas activities through the Al-Quds Foundation, an international group sanctioned by the US and outlawed by Israel, using accounts registered in major local South African banks: Standard Bank, Nedbank, and Absa.” Furthermore, after the October 7th atrocities, a senior level delegation of Hamas officials visited South Africa for a global “solidarity” gathering held from December 3-5, 2023.
The evidence South Africa presented to the court was decontextualized and often deeply misleading. Their case relied heavily upon inflammatory and out of context statements, demonstrably false claims, and gross misrepresentations of Israel’s actions. Israel is acting in accordance with international law as it is waging a war of self-defense against Hamas, an antisemitic terror group with explicitly genocidal aims.
Hamas started this war when it invaded southern Israel on October 7th, 2023. Their death squads attacked 22 Israeli towns and villages, murdered 1,200 Israelis and other nationals, committed mass rape against scores of Israeli women, burned entire families alive in their own homes, paraded the naked bodies of women in the streets of Gaza, and kidnapped over 250 people, including children, women, and the elderly, most of whom are still being held hostage in Gaza. Their leaders have promised to repeat these atrocities again and again until Israel is destroyed.
StandWithUs calls on the international community to stop demonizing Israel in forums like the ICJ. For the sake of Israelis, Palestinians, and humanity, the world must unite around pressuring Hamas to release the hostages, surrender, and bring this war to an end.
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High Noon at the Hague: South Africa vs IsraelThe ICJ ruling is unsatisfactory for at least six reasonsRaymond Wacks
The world has watched the apocalyptic scenes of medieval privation and devastation in Gaza with horror. The scale of death and injury is a damning indictment of the callous indifference and cruelty of the jihadists whose well-heeled leaders are safely ensconced in five-star hotels or luxuriating in lavish spas. Provoking Israel by their despicable depravity of 7 October — murder, rape, torture, abduction, arson, and pillaging — the butchers have reaped a whirlwind whose calamitous consequences will endure for decades.
Gazans obviously deserve better, and it is incomprehensible that their voices have not been raised against the terrorists for triggering their disastrous predicament. Exhorting them to surrender and release the surviving hostages would bring an end to their torment.
Amid this seemingly intractable chaos, it fell to South Africa to assume the role of conscientious accuser. Although its application to the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention failed to secure a ceasefire as a ‘provisional measure of protection’, the court ordered Israel to observe with several requirements to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, including the killing of Palestinians, causing serious bodily or mental harm to civilians, and ending the imposition of measures intended to prevent births. Israel is also to directed to take immediate steps to permit the provision of humanitarian assistance to residents in Gaza.
It is important to note that the decision is both interim and unenforceable by the court. And while it explicitly avoids deciding on the merits, the judgment does constitute an uncomfortable rebuke to Israel in respect of its military execution of self-defence.
The decision is, I believe, unsatisfactory in a number of respects.
First, the Court passes lightly over Israel’s defence. It is extraordinary that the judges fail to acknowledge the critical fact that Israel is fighting an enemy that is demonstrably committed to the Jewish state’s annihilation. The 2017 revised Hamas Charter is explicit in its ambition to continue its resistance until Israel is obliterated: “Palestine symbolizes the resistance that shall continue until liberation is accomplished, until the return is fulfilled and until a fully sovereign state is established with Jerusalem as its capital…[Palestine] was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project…” A pronouncement that requires little clarification.
Second, it surprisingly overlooks the terrible reality that Israel’s cold-blooded foe hides its fighters, weapons, and hostages in a subterranean city, and operates amongst civilians in schools, mosques, and hospitals. It also continues to fire rockets into Israel.
Third, the court uncritically concurs with the applicants’ assertion that various bellicose statements, uttered in the aftermath of the gruesome 7 October attacks, demonstrate the requisite intention by Israel to commit genocide.’ A moment’s thought would explain why, following the barbaric, sadistic onslaught, which left at least 1,200 dead, many wounded, and some 250 taken hostage, certain Israeli political and military leaders rashly unleashed clamorous calls to arms, promising vengeance and retaliation for the unspeakable suffering that befell so many innocent citizens and foreign visitors. To treat such injudicious remarks—made in the heat of a national tragedy—as evidence of a state’s intention to commit genocide is both disingenuous and highly tendentious, especially as they included comments made by individuals with no direct role in Israel’s military decision-making.
Fourth, the court ought to have considered whether the Genocide Convention is, in fact, the appropriate legal basis for the litigation. As the ad hoc Israeli judge, Aharon Barak points out in his dissenting judgment, the framework of international humanitarian law affords a more congenial authority under which the application should have been mounted. It provides that harm to innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure should not be excessive as compared with the anticipated military advantage. The loss of innocent lives is not unlawful providing it complies with the rules and principles of this law.
Fifth, the court abjures finding of facts, yet it unhesitatingly cites a plethora of evidence from various agencies of the United Nations whose neutrality is, at the very least, questionable. They include the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN Human Rights Council, and the Commissioner-General of (the recently discredited) UNRWA.
Sixth, the judges fail to enquire whether South Africa’s application might be tainted by its cordiality towards Hamas. The country, it seems, wishes to be seen as the conscience of the world. To this end, it predictably invokes the memory of Nelson Mandela to shore up its crumbling legitimacy. One might have thought that the moral standing of the ANC government, mortally wounded by years of corruption and broken promises, had reached rock bottom. Yet its shameless embrace of the Hamas murderers and rapists condemns it to infamy from which it may never recover. A mere ten days after 7 October, South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, held a telephone call with the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, to express the country’s ‘solidarity and support’ for the Palestinian people. This was followed in January by a delegation of three Hamas officials to Pretoria.
Is it unreasonable to detect a thinly disguised strain of antisemitism in this opportunistic campaign? While strongly castigating Israel, the social justice warriors of Pretoria barely mention the malevolence of Hamas and other Iranian proxies. Could it be that in this conflict Jewish lives are regarded as somehow less worthy? Or is it simply that the ANC’s yearning to burnish its radical pro-Palestinian (and even pro-Iranian) credentials, blinds it to the suffering of the victims of these crimes—particularly as it faces a general election this year?
Among the ironies at play in this sorry charade is the fact that many South African Jews were in the vanguard of the struggle against the grotesque injustice of apartheid. They were tortured, imprisoned, and vilified by the apartheid state. In his memoir, Mandela reflects:
I have found [South African] Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.
He might have added that several had relatives who were victims of a real genocide at the hands of the Nazis.
Unlike most of his successors, Mandela was, in many ways, a paragon of humility and modesty. I was fortunate enough to spend an hour with the great man soon after his release from almost three decades of incarceration. These virtues were palpable; the nearly total absence of ego and bitterness was genuinely unsettling. This, unhappily, is a far cry from the tone of pious hubris of the South African submission to the ICJ, quick to assign all blame to Israel for defending itself against the sadistic barbarity of terrorists (exultantly recorded and celebrated by them). South Africa’s application—and the court’s judgment—is silent on the scourge of antisemitism and the existential threats to Israel from its neighbours since its very establishment in 1948.
The sad state of South Africa must, in large part, be attributable to the governance of the ANC. The level of violence (27,000 deaths in a single year), corruption, unemployment, poverty, and falling life expectancy, speak for themselves. Solemn undertakings to provide basic utilities—water, electricity, housing—have not been met. None of this is easy to achieve, but ought not the focus of the administration be directed toward improving the plight of its people rather than posturing on the world stage and cosying up to authoritarian regimes and terrorists?
In fairness, I do wonder whether my revulsion at South Africa’s allegation of Israeli genocide is principally based on the fact that it has been brought by a country whose motives seem, at best, impure. Is it the moral turpitude of the ANC that troubles me so deeply? Suppose that, say, Sweden, Switzerland, or Spain had launched the application. Would that diminish my indignation? It would not, of course, alter the spurious nature of the case—the notion that Israel is engaged in genocide is both odious and absurd—but it might conceivably subdue my irritation.
Sadly, the leaders of post-apartheid South Africa have failed to follow the laudable example of its first President. That they have the audacity to side with savagery, renders it morally unfit to stand before the World Court—and the world— to denounce a country engaged in defending itself against an abhorrent, inhuman adversary.
Raymond Wacks, Emeritus Professor of Law and Legal Theory, is the author of 16 books, and editor of ten. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. His books include Personal Information: Privacy and the Law; Privacy and Media Freedom; Privacy: A Very Short Introduction; Law: A Very Short Introduction; and Justice: A Beginner’s Guide. Among his most recent publications are Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered, COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age, and National Security in the New World Order: Government and the Technology of Information (with Andrea Monti). The sixth edition of his Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory appeared in 2021, as did The Rule of Law Under Fire? His latest book, Animal Lives Matter: The Continuing Quest for Justice, is to be published next month.
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Israel can limit the ICJ’s damageIsrael must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ’s jurisdiction with respect to the Genocide Convention. Even a slight change in the composition of the Court or the geopolitical climate would bring a disastrous result – and hostile states like South Africa can roll the dice as many times as they want, with no consequence if they lose and a huge payoff if they win.By Prof. Eugene Kontorovich
Israelis on Friday displayed what is called Jewish joy – they celebrated that the pogromniks only broke the windows, but did not kill anyone. The good news was the International Court of Justice did not effectively order us to wait to be tortured and murdered, by demanding a halt to the Gaza War. That is certainly good – but only in the twisted world where the ICJ is putting Israel, not Hamas, on trial for the absolutely absurd charge of genocide.
Otherwise, the decision was horrible. The Court accepted South Africa’s argument that it has jurisdiction and that Israel could possibly be proven to be committing genocide. The case is not over and will go on for years. In the meantime, the Court has made clear that it considers itself to have authority to review and superintend every aspect of Israel’s war for survival – and demands monthly reports. No other country receives such treatment, and it is designed to make the military constantly look over its shoulders.
The ICJ is not an independent body – it is an organ of the United Nations. They serve a renewable nine-year term, further undermining their independence. Its judges are elected by the General Assembly and Security Council, and their positions largely track the foreign policy of their home countries. Thus while we might get lucky sometimes, over the long run, the policy of the Court will reflect the policy of the United Nations.
The General Assembly’s obsessive condemnation of the Jewish State is well known – Israel would never agree to have its fate determined by them. But agreeing to the jurisdiction of the Court indirectly does the same thing. In Israel it is thought unacceptable to have judges appointed by democratically elected politicians decide the meaning of ordinary laws. Yet we have agreed to have judges elected by dictatorial regimes decide the basic question of whether we can exist – whether we can defend ourselves.
It does not have to be this way: the ICJ does not automatically have jurisdiction over countries – they must specifically agree, typically by agreeing that The Hague can decide a specific dispute or questions under a specific treaty. In this case, Israel signed the Genocide Convention, which provides that “disputes between the …parties” about the treaty can be decided by the ICJ. But that does not mean cases like this, where a totally unrelated State has brought a purely political complaint in a matter it has no relation to. The Court should not have accepted jurisdiction, and by doing so it effectively claimed for itself power to supervise the conduct of wars around the world, so long as some country claims genocide is involved.
Israel did not have to agree to the ICJ jurisdiction to be a member of the Genocide Convention, and in retrospect, doing so was a major mistake. Countries are allowed to opt out of ICJ jurisdiction in various treaties, and very commonly do so. Indeed, sixteen countries have opted out of the Genocide Convention minus the ICJ jurisdiction – including the world’s largest democracies, the United States and India. Even the world’s biggest superpowers did not trust the ICJ to hear cases involving the use of force in an apolitical way.
The United States also did not agree to the provision of the Genocide Convention that deals with speech, knowing the Court can twist legitimate speech into supposed “incitement.” Indeed, those who think the statements of some MKs are what got Israel into trouble should consider the comments of President Obama, who spoke of “eradicating a cancer” in the campaign against ISIS, or Biden, who once said, “We should never take anything off the table when we are in war.”
But Israel did not opt out, leaving itself exposed. The Genocide Convention was a response to the Holocaust, and it seemed appropriate that the Jewish State would be fully on board. Also, Israeli officials did not expect such a gross abuse of the Court’s authority. But they should have. And the Genocide Convention which Israel so respected was turned into a farce, a platform to accuse the Jews of genocide even as they defend themselves from a systematic attempt to wipe them out.
The hearings in The Hague were a judicial Oct. 7th – a completely unjustified surprise attack that shows us we must fundamentally rethink our defensive posture. In this case, the extraordinary work of the State’s lawyers, and good fortune, prevented disaster.
But we must see that mere sentimentalism, or some lingering faith in international institutions, cannot leave us open to such attacks again. Even a slight change in the composition of the Court or the geopolitical climate would bring a disastrous result – and hostile states like South Africa can roll the dice as many times as they want, with no consequence if they lose and a huge payoff if they win.
Thus Israel must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ’s jurisdiction concerning the Genocide Convention. This will not end the current proceedings, but it will prevent further such attempts in this or other conflicts. Moreover, Israel must review all of its treaties for provisions granting ICJ jurisdiction and opt out of those. The US did just that when Iran used a long-forgotten treaty to bring America to The Hague a few years ago.
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Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein of South Africa-Put the UN on trial, not Israel at ICJ
Allegations of genocide against Israel are bizarre and without foundation in fact or law, and the ICJ proceedings are a dangerous farce. The UN General Assembly, who appoints ICJ judges, is dominated by dictatorships and riddled with antisemitism. Therefore by definition, those judges lack the moral authority to stand in judgment over any democracy, especially Israel. The UN and its institutions have increasingly been hijacked by undemocratic societies to advance objectives that threaten freedom, peace, and prosperity in the world. The majority of countries making up the General Assembly and UN Human Rights Council (HRC) are repressive, authoritarian regimes. Consider that of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly only 84 are ranked as free societies, according to Freedom House. Or that of the 47 members of the UN Human Rights Council (whose very reason for existence is to protect and uphold human rights) only 13 can be defined as fully economically and politically free, according to the Social Research Foundation Global Freedom Scores. That makes the ICJ case against Israel a theater of the absurd – where a majority of non-free societies are weaponsing a UN platform to undermine the self-defense rights of a liberal democracy. Allow that precedent to continue and the outlook for freedom in the world is dire. Among the ICJ judges hearing this case, one is from serial human rights abuser, China, and another is from Lebanon, where Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy and combatant in the current war on Israel, is a key member of the government. The UN’s anti-Israel bias and obsession with the world’s only Jewish state, and the only free democracy in the Middle East, is clear. At the General Assembly, each year there are more condemnations of Israel than the rest of the world combined. The HRC has adopted 103 resolutions condemning Israel, and zero for countries guilty of real human rights violations such as China, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. The ICJ case is nevertheless an opportunity for free countries to reassess their relationship with the UN. For constitutional democracies to continue to submit themselves to the judgment of UN institutions is ludicrous. No UN body should exercise authority over Israel or any free society’s sovereignty, and certainly not over national security decisions such as how to conduct an existential war of self-defense. The time has come to build a new global alliance of free societies with shared values and a sincere commitment to human rights. View the full video ➡️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=UbWeJrpuxGA #PutTheUNOnTrial  Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein-tweet-11January2024-Put the UN on trial, not Israel at ICJ
Chief Rabbi: Put the UN on trial, not Israel at ICJ
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BREAKING: Israel on Trial in the Kangaroo Courtroom of the ICJ | The Caroline Glick ShowPosted 14January2024 JNS TV: Caroline Glick speaks with Professor of Law (Bar Ilan University, San Diego School of Law) Avi Bell on the inner workings of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and what the accusation of genocide from South Africa is really about.
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Judgement below13January2024 https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/judgement-below/ This morning, I had an amazing thought pop into my head, during hitbodedut.It was this: JUDGEMENT BELOW. (Can you tell where this is going already?) ==== The Midrash in Devarim Rabbah 5:4 says this
This is a very well-known teaching in Breslov circles, as it’s part of the explanation for why we do hitbodedut every single day (try to….) in order to ‘catch’ what we might be thinking, saying or doing that isn’t what it should be.
When a person ‘judges themselves below’, then there is no ‘judgement above’. And then, all the spiritual harsh decrees are ripped up. ==== Unless you live in a cave, you are probably aware that the misnamed International Court of Justice is currently ‘judging’ the State of Israel for war crimes in Gaza.This is ‘judgement below’ – mamash. We all know, the puppets here are working with the puppets there to give the nations of the world an excuse to gang up on Israel and ‘invade’, whenever this pre-planned exercise in hypocrisy actually ends. (My guess is: in super-quick time.) ==== It’s already totally ridiculous that this ‘came to trial’ so quickly – what a joke!Anyone who has ever had a court case understands that even the most simple ‘infraction’ takes many weeks, months, and even years before it comes to court.
But here, literally in 10 seconds, Puppet 1 here sent Puppet 2 out for the ‘show trial’ and it’s foregone conclusion.
(Whisper it: a two state solution, ‘imposed’ by the nation of the world….) ==== In the meantime…..All the nations of the world have now officially ‘ganged up’ on Israel.And spiritually, this is also fantastic news. Why? This comes from something that Rav Yaakov Moshe Salmanovitch had to say eight years ago, at the height of the first wave of terrible persecution of Rav Berland. Snippet:
==== Yet again, we see the parallel between what the (misnamed) ‘justice system’ in the State did to the Rav over the last 12+ years…. and what is now happening to Israel, internationally.But pay attention to this bit:
==== B’kitzur – the nations of the world have just managed to blast all the ‘spiritual dinim’ stacked up against Israel into outer space.Let them chase, with all their puppet-show planned show trial. Where it really counts, now THERE IS NO JUDGEMENT ABOVE.Which means things are about to get really interesting. In a good way, for the Jewish people who are doing their best to hold on to Hashem, to at least try to follow His Torah – and to stick close to the real Tzaddikim.Hold on to your hats. ==== REMINDER:You can help to write the Rav’s Sefer Torah for the soldiers in the following ways: 20,000 nis – donates a whole section of parchment (including the actual writing), and gets your names transcribed as donors. 5,000 nis – donates a page (parchment and writing). OR, donate whatever amount you can afford.In all cases, just go to THIS link, and make it clear in the comments that the donation is for the Rav’s Sefer Torah. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE A ‘STAGED’ DONATION OVER A FEW MONTHS, IF YOU WANT TO BUY A PAGE ETC, BUT CAN’T AFFORD TO DO IT IN ONE SHOT. Once again, click: HEREAnd may all the decrees be sweetened very, very fast.
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‘Modern Antisemitism’: Israel Justice Minister Lashes Out at ICC for Seeking Arrest Warrants Against Netanyahu, GallantIncluding Hamas leaders is a cover because we all know the ICC only wants to target Israel.Posted by Mary Chastain 20May2024 https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/modern-antisemitism-israel-justice-minister-lashes-out-at-icc-for-seeking-arrest-warrants-against-netanyahu-gallant/
Justice Minister Yariv Levin blasted the International Criminal Court (ICC) for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
President Biden and AdministrationPresident Joe Biden also slammed the decision in an emailed press release:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also disagreed with the ICC:
Israeli ParliamentThe ICC managed to bring together Netanyahu’s side with the opposition, as 106 of the 120 members of the Israeli parliament condemned the decision:
Those who did not sign belong to the Hadash-Ta’al, Ra’am, and Labor parties. Labor MK Naama Lazimi described the petition as “meaningless” and called it a “pawn in Bibi’s game to receive legitimization and fortify his corrupt and bad government.”
Lazimi found the ICC decision “disgraceful” but added that “it was also part of Netanyahu’s ‘total failure’ in running the war.” ICCICC Prosecutor Karim Khan wants arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Hamas Leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar, and Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Khan claims Netanyahu and Gallant committed:
Khan cites supposed evidence from “survivors and eyewitnesses, authenticated video, photo and audio material, satellite imagery and statements from the alleged perpetrator group.”
The alleged evidence “shows that Israel has intentionally and systematically deprived the civilian population in all parts of Gaza of objects indispensable to human survival.”
Khan also claims Hamas committed the following war crimes:
“My Office submits that the war crimes alleged in these applications were committed in the context of an international armed conflict between Israel and Palestine, and a non-international armed conflict between Israel and Hamas running in parallel,” stated Khan. “We submit that the crimes against humanity charged were part of a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Israel by Hamas and other armed groups pursuant to organisational policies. Some of these crimes, in our assessment, continue to this day.”
Why hasn’t the ICC gone after Russian President Vladimir Putin? Did the court ever go after Syria or Iran?
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The entire ICC is a clown show.
“State of Palestine” The entire ICC is a clown show.  Nioh Berg-tweet-20May2024-‘Territory of Israel’-‘State of Palestine’
Open Source Intel-tweet-24May2024-Country ICC seeking arrest warrant Countries ICC Not Seeking Arrest Warrant: 1. Ali Khamenei (Iran) 🇮🇷 Country ICC seeking arrest warrant: 1. Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) 🇮🇱 Ana Elenzo-tweet-24May2024-The ICC is a Kangaroo court
 Open Source Intel-tweet-24May2024-Country ICC seeking arrest warrant
 Ana Elenzo-tweet-24May2024-The ICC is a Kangaroo court SEE: The Iranian Boomerang
Netanyahu: “Not worried about world travel – the prosecutor should worry”  Open Source Intel-tweet-21May2024-Netanyahu-Not worried about world travel
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ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan KC and Staff Reported to Regulators regarding Applications to Arrest Israeli Leaders9September2024 https://www.uklfi.com/icc-prosecutor-karim-khan-kc-and-staff-reported-to-regulators-regarding-applications-to-arrest-israeli-leaders Karim Khan KC, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and some of his staff face disciplinary investigations regarding applications to arrest Israeli leaders.
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has reported them to regulators for not complying with their professional obligations. UKLFI points out that they were obliged to provide the Court with information and evidence that exonerates the accused, Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant of the charges, including extensive information and evidence that has come to light since the applications were filed.
UKLFI had provided extensive details of its concerns, backed by numerous cited documents, to the Prosecutor in a letter and annexes on 27 August 2024. In that letter, UKLFI expressed its dismay that the Prosecutor has asked the Court to ignore any information or evidence other than the material he originally filed in his applications for the arrest warrants, “despite [UKLFI] having shown that every allegation against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant set out in [the Prosecutor’s] published summary of them is false, and despite the highly relevant evidence that has emerged since [the Prosecutor] filed the Applications.”
Having received no reply, UKLFI has now reported the Prosecutor, Karim Khan KC, and his assistant, Andrew Cayley KC, both English barristers, to the Bar Standards Board for England and Wales (BSB). UKLFI accuses Khan and Cayley of not complying with their duty not to mislead the Court.
This is a continuing duty – as the BSB’s guidance observes, “knowingly misleading the court also includes inadvertently misleading the court if you later realise that you have misled the court, and you fail to correct the position”.
The ICC Prosecutor has specifically claimed that the Applications for arrest warrants are made ex parte, without the accused being heard. English judges have emphasised that a Prosecutor seeking an ex parte order has a duty to disclose ‘“any material which is potentially adverse to the application” or “might militate against the grant” or which “may be relevant to the judge’s decision, including any matters which indicate that the issue….might be inappropriate”’.
In the words of Hughes LJ, “a prosecutor seeking an ex parte order must put on his defence hat and ask himself what, if he were representing the defendant or third party with a relevant interest, he would be saying to the judge, and, having answered that question, that is what he must tell the judge….”
UKLFI hs also requested the Registrar of the ICC to set in motion a disciplinary investigation of staff of the Office of the Prosecutor (OtP), including Andrew Cayley KC and Brenda Hollis, for breaches of the ICC’s rules.
The ICC’s rules similarly require staff of the OtP to seek truth objectively, including by investigating exonerating material and ensuring that the results are disclosed to the Court. It appears to UKLFI that OtP staff who participated in the preparation of the Applications for warrants to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant have manifestly breached this and other obligations.
The ICC’s Rules require any complaint to the ICC against the Prosecutor to remain confidential. UKLFI Chief Executive, Jonathan Turner, said: “We have shown that every phrase of every sentence of the Prosecutor’s summary of the applications to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant in his public statement is false. If it was a fair and accurate summary of the applications, which have not been published, the applications themselves are entirely false. The Prosecutor’s insistence that the Court must act on these applications as filed, disregarding all other information and evidence, is most unsatisfactory.
As the Prosecutor made his public statement he was flanked by Brenda Hollis and Andrew Cayley KC. They appear to be complicit in misleading the Court.
The BSB and ICC should investigate this apparent misconduct thoroughly. Pending the outcome of these investigations, the Court should not make any rulings relying on any material provided by the Prosecutor or the OtP in this situation.”
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ICJ-After 9 months South Africa has no evidence of Israeli genocide
They said 9 months ago Israel was committing genocide, but 9 months later and no evidence. SEE: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-819470  Eyal Yakoby-tweet-10September2024-ICJ-After 9 months South Africa has no evidence
The ICJ has denied South Africa’s request to extend the deadline to submit proof
South Africa has until October 28, 2024 to submit evidence or the case will be dismissed  The Persian Jewess-tweet-12September2024-The ICJ has denied South Africa’s request to extend the deadline
BREAKING NEWSICJ refuses SA request to delay date to submit evidence of alleged genocide in GazaBy JERUSALEM POST STAFF The International Court of Justice in The Hague has refused South Africa’s request to postpone the deadline to submit evidence showing the alleged genocide, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
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Iran paid South Africa genocide case
An ISGAP report reveals South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel is part of a strategy by Iran, Qatar, Hamas, and Hezbollah to undermine Israel, using South Africa’s social justice legacy as a cover. Have you seen this in the media?  HonestReporting-tweet-18November2024-Iran paid South Africa genocide case
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli leaders
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Israel’s response to the ICC should be to rebuild Gush Katif and annex north Gaza now
The arrest warrant also applies to alleged crimes against humanity, including starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.  Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21November2024-rebuild Gush Katif and annex north Gaza now
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The entire post-war international system has become irredeemable
 Caroline Glick-tweet-21November2024-The entire post-war international system has become irredeemable
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Report: Israel prepared list of actions against ICC for Trump adminIsrael has compiled a list of suggested actions and sanctions against both the court and even specific individuals in it.Israel National News / 21November2024
Israel has already begun laying out a list of recommendations for the Trump administration for ways to combat the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
According to the report by Kan News, over the past few days, Israel has compiled a list of suggested actions and sanctions against both the court and even specific individuals in it.
Officials in both Israel and around the world have condemned the ICC’s decision.
The Prime Minister’s Office called the decision “antisemitic” and likened it to the Dreyfus trial, adding that “No anti-Israel decision will prevent the State of Israel from defending its citizens.”
Incoming US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz pledged a “strong response to the antisemitic bias of the ICC & UN come January.”
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President Trump signs Executive Order unleashing a fury of sanctions against the ICC
 The International Legal Forum – ILF-tweet-7February2025-Trump signs Executive Order sanctions against the ICC
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Israel-Hamas ceasefire would breach international lawInternational law has precise form and content. It cannot be invented and reinvented by terror groups. Such law does not support the hope-based adoption of cease-fire agreements between sovereign states and criminal gangs.Prof. Louis René Beres 25August2024 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395115
Israel and Hamas could still reach an agreement on a “cease fire.” But because the jihadist terror organization still regards all of Israel as “Occupied Palestine,” this agreement will almost certainly fail. Accordingly, for both Israel and the “international community,” there will be injurious consequences for international justice. Some of these consequences would be “force-multiplying” and irremediable.
It’s high time for realistic understandings of these urgent issues.
The immediate effect of any anticipated cease-fire agreement would be the defiling bestowal of legal legitimacy on insidious terror-criminals. The longer-term effect would be to undermine the authority of international law in general and to enlarge the prospects of a continuous regional war.
In principle, at least, even such grievous effects could be acceptable if accompanied by a return of hostages (criminally-abducted citizens from over twenty separate countries, including a one-year old Israeli child), but no such humanity should be expected from Hamas. If perchance Hamas did actually return some of the still-living hostages, it would assuredly compensate for this “generosity” by attempting to repeat October 7th atrocities at later dates and in different venues.
There are further legal details. No authoritative system of law can encourage or allow accommodation between a legitimate national government and a barbarous criminal organization. Though any promised cessation of hostilities could conceivably benefit Israel as well as Hamas, the cumulative costs for both Israelis and Palestinians would plausibly exceed anticipated gains. Even if Israel could expect the return of some hostages, Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) would feel incentivized to launch future hostage-taking operations. Lest anyone forget, Hamas is motivated at its core by “criminal intent” or mens rea. Hamas is an illegal organization. This inherent illegality is deducible from the far-reaching criminalization of terrorism discoverable under binding international law. Such a primal status can never be correctly overlooked by third party agreement brokers (e.g., the United States), however well-intentioned.
Before the ancient Hebrew laws of Deuteronomy, there already existed determinable rules of warfare. Today, these “peremptory” norms (rules that are over riding and ought never to be broken) bind insurgent fighting forces, not just traditionally uniformed national armies. Conspicuously, these rules stem from the St. Petersburg Declaration (1868), a codification that followed still-earlier limitations identified at the First Geneva Convention (1864).
Under longstanding international law, “the means that can be used to injure an enemy are not unlimited.” No matter how allegedly just the cause, the willful maiming, rape and murder of noncombatants is always a crime. The ends can never justify the means. Regarding the deaths of many Palestinian Arab civilians occasioned by Israeli bombardments, these harms are not witting violations of the law of war. They represent the wholly unintentional result of necessary counter-terrorist operations, not of “criminal intent.” In Gaza, such harms are the collateral outcome of Hamas’ resort to “human shields.” The technical name for this ongoing Islamist crime is “perfidy.”
Whenever Hamas or other Palestinian terrorists claim the right to “any means necessary,” they intend to deceive. Even if their corollary claims of “national self-determination” were in some way reasonable, there would still remain distinctly tangible limits on permissible targets and legitimate weapons.
Any calls to “Free Palestine from the River to the Sea” are exterminatory on their face. In law, such calls are always an expression of “intent to commit genocide.” Reciprocally, whatever one hears from so-called protestors, Israel-inflicted harms upon perfidy-shielded Palestinian Arab populations have nothing to do with genocide. These harms remain the unavoidable correlates of Israel’s inextinguishable right to self-preservation.
International law has precise form and content. It cannot be invented and reinvented by terror groups or by aspiring states (here, “Palestine”) to accommodate narrow geo-strategic interests. Back on November 29, 2012, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was upgraded by the U.N. General Assembly to the status of a “nonmember observer state,” but the PA subsequently declared itself nonexistent.
On January 3, 2013, Mahmoud Abbas formally “decreed” the absorption of the “former “PA into the “State of Palestine.” While this administrative action did eliminate the PA, it did not create a new Arab state. Leaving aside Abbas’ law-violating refusal to negotiate full sovereignty directly with Israel, the codified criteria of “nonmember observer state” fall far short of expectations of the governing international treaty on statehood: The Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (aka the “Montevideo Convention”) of 1934.
There are further details. “National liberation movements” that fail to meet the test of “just means” are never legitimate. Even if one were to accept the argument that Hamas goals do meet the identifiable criteria of “just cause,” they would not satisfy the additionally limiting standards of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity. These standards are compulsory and were applied to insurgent organizations by (1) the common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; and (2) the two 1977 protocols to these Conventions.
These same standards are also binding upon all combatants by virtue of broader customary and conventional international law, including Article 1 of the Preamble to the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907. This rule, called the “Martens Clause,” makes “all persons” responsible for upholding the “laws of humanity” and the “dictates of public conscience.”
In essence, every use of force by Palestinian Arab insurgents must be judged twice, once with regard to the justness of the objective and once with regard to the justness of the means employed. This signifies that even if Hamas were somehow law-compliant in seeking to carve a Palestinian state from the still-living body of Israel, the means adopted to achieve this goal (terror, rape and murder) clearly would be law-violating .
The egregious crimes committed by Hamas terrorists mandate universal cooperation in apprehension and punishment. As punishers of “grave breaches” under international law, all states are expected to search out and prosecute or extradite individual terrorist perpetrators. In no circumstances are states permitted to acknowledge terrorists as “freedom fighters.” Under no circumstances is it permissible for an established state to create “cease fire” agreements with an unambiguously criminal non-state organization.
The implications are plain. In the final analysis, the broader international community should be working with Israel to delegitimize and disarm Hamas, not to broker an intrinsically illegal and war-fostering “cease-fire” agreement. By initialing such an agreement, Israel would effectively enhance Hamas’ plans to dismantle the Jewish State and wreak chaos in the wider region.
A cease-fire agreement could possibly bring certain short-term benefits to Israel, but only at the expense of variously insufferable longer-term costs. Plausibly, the immediate benefits of a cease-fire would not bring back the hostages. Moreover, at some not too distant point, the foreseeable costs could become existential. This is especially likely on account of Hamas ties to Iran and Iranian ties to North Korea.
International law clarifies and codifies millennia of human wisdom. Such law does not support the hope-based adoption of cease-fire agreements between sovereign states and criminal gangs.
In the case of Israel and Hamas, history reveals that any terrorist release or exchange leads directly to new acts of hostage-taking and jihadist barbarism.
LOUIS RENÉ BERES, born in Zurich, received his Ph.D at Princeton and is the author of many books and articles dealing with terrorism, counter-terrorism and international law. His writings have been published at The Atlantic; The New York Times; JURIST; Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; Brown Journal of World Affairs; Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law; BESA Perspectives (Israel); Jerusalem Post; Israel National News; Israel Defense; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Oxford University Press. Professor Beres is the author of seven principal articles in the annual Oxford University Press Yearbook on International Law and Jurisprudence.
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Understanding Occupation Under International Law and the Case of Judea and Samaria
Occupation, as defined under international law, specifically applies to the territories of sovereign states. This concept is rooted in the principles established by the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. However, the status of Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) is often misunderstood in this context. Key Points: Definition: Occupation refers to the control of a territory by a foreign military power. For it to be considered occupation, the territory must belong to a sovereign state. Sovereignty: The occupying power must displace the previous sovereign authority of the state. Territories without a recognized sovereign status do not fall under this definition. Uti Possidetis Juris: The international law principle of Uti Possidetis Juris, which means “as you possess under law,” establishes that newly formed states presumptively inherit the borders of the preceding administrative entity upon independence. This principle has been influential in determining the territorial boundaries of many newly independent states, including Israel. Occupation vs. Right to Self-Determination: The concept of occupation pertains to the control of a sovereign state’s territory by a foreign power, while the right to self-determination refers to the ability of a people to determine their own political status and pursue their own economic, social, and cultural development. These are distinct legal principles. The lack of recognized Palestinian sovereignty means Judea and Samaria are not “occupied” under international law, although Palestinians may still pursue self-determination through other legal and political avenues. Judea and Samaria Context: Historical Background: Before 1967, Judea and Samaria were controlled by Jordan. However, Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank was only recognized by a few countries, and it relinquished its claims to the territory in 1988. Oslo Accords: Sovereignty: The Oslo Accords did not transfer sovereignty over these areas. The agreements were interim arrangements intended to facilitate a peace process, with final status issues, including sovereignty, to be negotiated later. Arabs from Judea and Samaria Refusing Israeli Citizenship: The Six-Day War: In June 1967, Israel fought against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, resulting in Israel capturing the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). Citizenship Offer: After the war, Israel offered residents of the newly controlled territories, to Arabs living in East Jerusalem, the opportunity to apply for Israeli citizenship. The majority refused for several reasons: Jordanian Citizenship and Jordanian relinquishing its claims over West Bank sovereignty: Semi-Citizenship under the PA: Implications: Given that Palestine do not meet the criteria of a sovereign state, Judea and Samaria cannot be classified as occupied territories under international law. This distinction clarifies that the term “occupation” is not applicable to this region, impacting how international bodies and government’s view and address the situation.
Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-6July2024-Understanding Military and Land Occupation in the Context of Judea and Samaria Military Occupation: -Definition: Involves a military controlling a territory during or after armed conflict. Land Occupation: -Definition: Control or possession of land, not necessarily involving military forces. Context of Judea and Samaria (West Bank): Area B: Under the Oslo Accords, Area B is under Palestinian civil control but Israeli military control. This distinction clarifies that while Israel exercises military control for security in Area B, it remains part of Israel’s sovereign territory. Similarly, the example of Northern Cyprus demonstrates how land can be illegally occupied without ongoing military control over the population.  Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-6July2024-Understanding Occupation Under International Law and the Case of Judea and Samaria  Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-6July2024-Understanding Military and Land Occupation in the Context of Judea and Samaria
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MUST READ! THE DIABOLICAL BLINKEN PLAN EXPOSED!
It is crystal clear now that Blinken is exploiting the war against Israel to destroy the existing state of Israel by using pressure, threats, blackmail, leaks, the media, diplomatic backstabbing, the Arab states, the EU, and the UN. Read the Blinken memo I have included in this post. Here’s a pull paragraph: “…. As I said in private and in public, we believe Palestinian people’s voices and aspirations must be at the center of post-crisis governance in Gaza. We believe in Palestinian-led governance of Gaza, with Gaza unified with the West Bank. Gaza’s reconstruction must be supported with a sustained mechanism. We also underscored America’s firm opposition to actions that would undermine efforts to build lasting peace and security. No forcible displacement of Palestinian civilians from Gaza – not now, not after the fighting stops. No reoccupation of Gaza after the conflict. No attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza. No reduction in the territory of Gaza. No use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism or other violent attacks, and no tolerating the use of the West Bank to carry out such attacks. No more violence from extremist settlers in the West Bank. These steps are not ends in themselves. They must lead to Israelis and Palestinians living side.”
This also explains the current pressure campaign by leftists in Israel to try and topple the Netanyahu led conservative government and replace it with radical leftwing parties that will deliver Israel to the effective control of United States State Department where Blinken, a mere appointed U.S. cabinet secretary in our government, will determine Israel’s fate. And with the Blinken plan, Israel will not survive, certainly not for long. This has been the plan since Obama was president, when Blinken was deputy secretary of state. John McCain was 100% right when he went to the Senate floor to excoriate Blinken and he refused to vote for his confirmation as deputy secretary of state. Check this out:
Blinken, the Biden whisperer, is behind pouring $100 billion into the rearming of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Youtes. Blinken set the Middle East on fire immediately upon taking office at the State Department nearly 3-years ago, lifting or refusing to enforce virtually every sanction on Iran. Blinken destroyed the popular uprising in Iran, where the Iranians sought to remove their murderous regime, by backing the Iranian regime over its people. Blinken chose Robert Malley, a Marxist supporter of Iran, as the U.S. envoy to Iran to negotiate another nuclear deal. Malley installed a high-level Iranian spy ring in DC and undermined our nation (and Israel) at every turn. Check this out:
The Obama-Biden-Blinken “Realignment” is now underway, and the consequences are dire and grave for Israel and the United States, indeed for the entire Middle East and the world. It is a hideous and diabolical plan, being instituted right now without any transparency, involvement of Congress, or the American people. It is the brainchild of a small cabal of rogue, radical leftwing foreign policy arsonists who could easily trigger WWIII.
The question is, how long will this go on before Blinken is stopped? Where are the House Republican committee chairmen? Where are the Senate Republicans? Where are conservative think-tanks? Where are the conservative media? I understand that the Democrat Party media and the Democrat Party are worse than useless. In fact, they are colluders and propagandists for this, from Thomas Friedman at the New York Times to Jamie Raskin in the House. But if there is not an organized pushback immediately, a relentless and public demand for accountability and transparency, and the targeting of Blinken for impeachment (successful or not), evil to prevail. Never forget all the disasters the Biden whisperer has unleashed in a mere 3-years running American foreign policy, and the death, inhumanity, and impoverishment he has imposed on one region and society after another.
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Leftist Propaganda vs Reality
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Jewish Voice for Peace has a Twitter account managed by the Hamas
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J STREET’S TWO FACES ON PRO-HAMAS PROTESTERSBy Moshe Phillips 24August2024 https://www.israpundit.org/j-streets-two-faces-on-pro-hamas-protesters/
In public, J Street says it’s horrified by the antisemitism of pro-Hamas protesters. But in private this week, J Street’s president pressured Jewish Democrats to stop accusing the protesters of being antisemitic. Why the two faces?
After last month’s pro-Hamas protests in Washington, D.C., J Street issued a statement denouncing what it called “the hateful, antisemitic, protests and harassment.” The July 25 news release said it was “vile and abhorrent” for the protesters to use “pro-Hamas slogans” and charged that their behavior “instills fear and fuels hate.” J Street said anybody “associating with the brutal terror organization Hamas must be condemned.”
But J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami sure sang a different tune at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. During a meeting with Jewish Democrats, Ben-Ami said the pro-Hamas protesters outside the convention “don’t intend” to offend Jews and merely need help understanding “the history of the Jewish people and the things that they can and can’t say that will rub the wrong way and trigger us in ways that they don’t intend.”
As if the problem with cheering for gang-rapists is that their loud cheering might rub a few people the wrong way!
The J Street president emphasized: “I think it is so important that we not adopt a position that holds those who are wearing a keffiyeh, or carrying a Palestinian flag, or chanting a stupid slogan, that they are all somehow anti-Semitic or even anti-Israel.”
A few blocks away, those protesters were waving Hamas flags, burning American and Israeli flags, calling for Israel’s destruction and chanting pro-Hamas slogans such as “Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!” and “Intifada Revolution!”
So what’s J Street up to? How come one minute it’s calling pro-Hamas slogans “hateful, antisemitic, vile and abhorrent,” and the next minute it’s saying that such slogans are “not anti-Semitic or even anti-Israel”…?
The answer is that the two faces of J Street were for two different audiences: one public, one private.
J Street was forced to say something about the pro-Hamas protests in Washington, DC: they took place practically in J Street’s back yard. Plus, even President Biden condemned those protests and said that “celebrations of October 7” are an example of “antisemitism.” So J Street had no choice but to condemn them. Hence the moderate face of J Street in public.
But in private, behind closed doors, J Street’s president expressed his true feelings. He doesn’t really want the Jewish community speaking out against the antisemitic pro-Hamas protesters. That would discredit the protesters—and those protesters are Jeremy Ben-Ami’s biggest ally right now.
How so? The screaming flab-burners enable Ben-Ami to play a good cop-bad cop game. He can say to the White House: “Look how angry these people are. You better pressure Israel, otherwise you’ll lose Michigan.”
The pro-Hamas protesters whom J Street pretends to condemn actually give J Street a weapon that it would not otherwise have. But if Jewish Democrats, like the ones Ben-Ami met with last week, start denouncing the protesters as antisemitic, it could undermine the Biden administration’s policy of trying to appease them by pressuring Israel.
For J Street, it’s all part of a cynical political strategy. Say one thing in public, say something different in private. Manipulate Jewish leaders, ply sympathetic reporters with well-timed leaks, and think up new ways to embarrass and pressure Israel. It’s a cold and sometimes brutal game played along the shores of the Potomac. But for Israelis, it’s a matter of life and death.
Moshe Phillips is National Chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel, a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization
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J Street is calling for a US arms embargo against Israel in time of War
This can’t be delayed any longer. Full statement ⬇️  Caroline Glick-tweet-14November2024-J Street is calling for a US arms embargo against Israel in time of War
J Street to Biden Administration: Time to Withhold Some US Weapons to Israel for Continuing to Block Humanitarian Assistance to GazaNovember 12, 2024 https://jstreet.org/press-releases/time-to-withhold-some-weapons-to-israel/
J Street – the pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy group – today called on the Biden Administration to enforce American laws which require the United States to stop supplying arms and assistance to governments found to be obstructing humanitarian assistance, and to follow through on the 30-day deadline for action the administration set last month for the Israeli government.
In an October 13 letter, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined serious concerns over the “increasingly dire” situation in Gaza and failures to meet “essential survival needs” for civilians. The letter stated this was in large part due to the Israeli government obstructing aid deliveries, halting commercial imports and blocking nearly all aid to North Gaza.
“The time for action and enforcement of American law is long past,” said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. “The law is clear: American arms should not be provided to countries that block humanitarian assistance. The White House should not give any country – even its closest friends – a pass. This can’t be delayed anymore.”
“The law must be fairly and equally applied to all recipients of US aid. We are not calling for new legislation or special conditions specific to Israel. The President has the necessary flexibility to – and should – continue resupplying Iron Dome and other purely defensive weapons systems,” Ben-Ami added.
Since the October 2024 letter, Israeli authorities have continued to reduce truck entries to historic lows and block nearly all aid access to North Gaza. The Netanyahu government has also passed legislation to ban UNRWA – the most significant and irreplaceable distributor of humanitarian aid in Gaza – from operating in Israeli territory.
According to data published by the UN and scorecards compiled by humanitarian aid agencies – which is corroborated by Israel’s own reporting – the Israeli government has not met any of the main benchmarks outlined in the October letter. Indeed, a number of actions have made the situation even worse. Just last week, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller gave the Netanyahu government a “fail” grade on addressing the administration’s concerns.
J Street has for months called on the Biden Administration to withhold certain offensive arms transfers if the Netanyahu government continues to violate US law and has strongly supported National Security Memorandum 20, in which President Biden provided a framework for action. We have also supported the calls by a majority of congressional Democrats to uphold these requirements. As a pro-Israel group, J Street supports a safe and secure Israel, a strong US-Israel relationship and American security assistance to Israel that adheres to the requirements of US law.
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Queers for Palestine v Palestine for Queers
 Paddy Manning-tweet-13October2023-Queers for Palestine v Palestine for Queers Wishful Thinking/Propaganda Queers for Palestine This is like Chickens being “Chickens for KFC !” This is like Chickens being like “Chickens for KFC !” vs. RealityPalestine’s Official message to-Queers for Palestine
Gay Palestinian living under asylum in Israel murdered, beheaded in HebronSuspect uploaded footage of murder to social media; unclear how the victim ended up in the West Bank, with some claiming he was kidnappedBy Jack Mukand 6October2022 https://www.timesofisrael.com/gay-palestinian-living-under-asylum-in-israel-murdered-beheaded-in-hebron/
 Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh (Social media) A gay Palestinian man living under asylum in Israel was murdered and beheaded Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron. The unnamed suspect, who was arrested by Palestinian Authority police near the scene of the crime soon after committing it, recorded the act in a video that he uploaded to social media before his capture.
The victim was 25-year-old Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, who according to reports on Ynet and Channel 12 had been living in Israel for the past two years as an asylum-seeker after authorities acknowledged his life would be in danger if he returned to Palestinian territory.
It was not immediately clear how or why the young man ended up in Hebron. Friends of Abu Murkhiyeh in Israel believe he was kidnapped to the West Bank before his murder, though it was not clear that they had evidence of this. Rita Petrenko, founder of Al-Bayt Al-Mukhtalif, a non-profit organization for the empowerment of the Arab LGBT community, said that she had helped to arrange for Abu Murkhiyeh’s asylum papers in preparation for his eventual resettlement in Canada and that he’d actively participated in LGBT discussion groups. Describing the young man as “hard-working and intelligent,” Petrenko regretted that he had not been transferred to safety in Canada before his life was brutally taken from him.
Israeli sources, the PA police and the Abu Murkhiyeh family have all been unable to clarify if the victim and his killer had any prior relationship. No motive has yet been disclosed as a result of the Palestinian Authority police’s investigation, but the suspect is currently being interrogated.
A spokesman for the PA police, Lu’ay Arziqat, described the beheading as a “new kind of crime in Palestine” and urged people to refrain from circulating the morbid video.
The circumstances surrounding the crime remain unclear while the Palestinian police in Hebron carry out a full investigation.  A view of the West Bank city of Hebron. (photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90) In an interview with Palestinian radio station Karama, an older member of the victim’s family, also named Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, asserted that the young man was residing in his father’s native Jordan but often visited Hebron to work and to spend time with family in the city.
That account contradicted multiple Israeli sources, and was possibly indicative of relatives’ reluctance to acknowledge his reported life in Israel.
Petrenko said that to the best of her knowledge, Abu Murkhiyeh had not returned to the West Bank since his asylum, out of fear for what his estranged family and residents of his native village might do to him. She added that his stay at various LGBT shelters in Israel is a documented fact. He had not informed any friends of an intention to enter the West Bank.
Palestinians have expressed revulsion at the exceptionally violent nature of the crime, even as Abu Murkhiyeh’s sexual identity and Israeli residency have been kept under wraps in Palestinian reports. The presenter on the Karama radio station distilled the common outrage when saying the beheading “crossed every single red line in our society, whether in terms of morals, customs, or basic humanity.”
The filming of such brutality for distribution on social media has had a particularly shocking effect. Speaking for police, Arziqat said the recording and upload of the video represented “the most dangerous” aspect of a crime he characterized as the most terrible one he’s ever dealt with.
About 90 Palestinians who identify as members of the LGBT community currently live as asylum-seekers in Israel. They suffered discrimination, and, in extreme cases, violence in their communities before fleeing. Until this past July, the law allowed them to reside in Israel but not to work.
Petrenko said that since the law changed, Abu Murkhiyeh had been searching diligently for a stable, legal job, but only managed to find low-paying, under-the-table gigs at restaurants in Tel Aviv’s Sarona neighborhood, one of the city’s upscale culinary hubs. |
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Palestine’s Official message to-Queers for Palestine
Visegrád 24-tweet-28October2023- A Palestinian scholar from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem sends a message to the “Queers for Palestine-crowd” in the West: “The people of Palestine will not allow a single homosexual in our land,” such perversion brings the wrath of Allah”  Visegrád 24-tweet-28October2023-message to-Queers for Palestine-crowd
Gay Conservative-tweet-24October2023-This is how Palestinians respond to those “Queers for Palestine” (sorry to be so graphic)  Gay Conservative-tweet-24October2023-This is how Palestinians respond to those “Queers for Palestine”  Palestinians respond to those -Queers for Palestine-1  Palestinians respond to those -Queers for Palestine-1
Doug-tweet-21October2023-Pride month in Gaza  Doug-tweet-21October2023-Pride month in Gaza
 Pride month in Gaza-21October2023
⚠️WATCH: As a Reminder for Pride Month 📰 A gay man in Palestine is brutally thrown off a roof by Hamas militants, only to be stoned by a crowd as he lies dying. The usual way of dealing with such things in the Palestinian community. Most members of the LGBTQ+ community in the West support a regime that commits such atrocities. This sheer blindness is not just deeply misdirected and dangerous but, for gay people, it’s mind-bogglingly stupid and self-destructive. ✅ Follow @ShirionOrg to Stay Informed.  Shirion Collective-tweet-1July2024-Palestinian Gay Man Thrown Off Roof by Hamas
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Iran’s FM affirms right to execute gays and blasts U.S. and IsraelRonzheimer wrote that Zarif answered: “The problem is the aggressive policies of Israel and the USA.”By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
 People stage a mock hanging as they protest outside German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin February 4, 2013, where Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi’s was due to deliver a speech. In response to questions today in Tehran from a reporter for the mass circulation German paper Bild, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated his country’s lethal homophobic law and its opposition to the Jewish state and the US.
Paul Ronzheimer, a reporter for the Bild, wrote on Twitter that he asked Zarif two questions: “1. Where do you stand regarding Israel’s right to exist? 2. How do you deal with the executions of gays?”
Ronzheimer wrote that Zarif answered: “The problem is the aggressive policies of Israel and the USA.”
Regarding Iran’s execution of gays, Zarif said that: “Our society has moral principles, and according to these principles we live. These are moral principles regarding the behavior of people in general. And that’s because the law is upheld and you abide by laws.”
Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday: “The UN’s Declaration of Human Rights makes clear that these answers from the Iranian regime are violating basic UN principles. UN members should agree with the Declaration in order to be members. Criminalizing homosexuality violates the Declaration, plain and simple.”
Volker Beck, a German Green party politician and LGBT activist, told the Post: “Zarif makes clear what Iran stands for: contempt for the human rights of homosexuals, women and religious minorities.” Beck, who is also a lecturer at the Center for Studies in Religious Sciences (CERES) at the Ruhr University in Bochum, added whoever supports the mullahs knows what they represent. He said that “The hanging of homosexuals and stoning women is considered a moral principle by the Islamists in Tehran.”
The Post reported in January that Iran’s clerical regime publicly hanged a man based on an anti-homosexual Islamic law. The unidentified man was hanged on January 10 in the southwestern city of Kazeroon.
According to a 2008 British WikiLeaks dispatch, Iran’s mullah regime has executed “between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians” since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In 2016, the Post reported that Iran’s regime had executed a gay adolescent that year – the first confirmed execution of someone convicted as a juvenile in the Islamic republic.
Hassan Afshar, 19, was hanged in Arak Prison in Iran’s Markazi Province on July 18, 2016, after he was convicted of “forced male-to-male anal intercourse” in early 2015.
In 2011, Iran’s regime executed three Iranian men after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality.
The Post report detailing the Iranian regime’s public hanging of the man in January played a role in the announcement by US President Donald Trump’s administration in February that it will be launching a campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality across the globe.
Grenell – who is the administration’s most high-profile openly gay official – told the Post in February that “71 countries criminalize homosexuality and eight will put you to death for being gay. The Trump administration is launching a new push with our European allies to end this human rights outrage.”
The ambassador is spearheading the international effort to stop the persecution of the LGBT community in countries that impose criminal penalties – including the death penalty – on homosexuals.
Grenell credited the Post in a commentary that he wrote on February 1 for the Bild, Europe’s largest paper: “The recent press reports, first carried by The Jerusalem Post, that the Iranian regime publicly hanged a 31-year-old man for being gay, should be a wake-up call for anyone who supports basic human rights. Politicians, the UN, democratic governments, diplomats and good people everywhere should speak up – and loudly.”
“In Iran, where children as young as nine can be sentenced to death, gay teenagers are publicly hanged in order to terrify and intimidate others from coming out. Iran’s horrific actions are on par with the brutality and savagery regularly demonstrated by ISIS,” he added.
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How Queers react to: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on 7October
She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast. “One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said. She said the men sliced her face and then the woman fell out of view. Around the same time, she said, she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women. Sapir provided photographs of her hiding place and her wounds, and police officials have stood by her testimony and released a video of her, with her face blurred, recounting some of what she saw. Yura Karol, a 22-year-old security consultant, said he was hiding in the same spot, and he can be seen in one of Sapir’s photos. He and Sapir were part of a group of friends who had met up at the party. In an interview, Mr. Karol said he barely lifted his head to look at the road but he also described seeing a woman raped and killed. Since that day, Sapir said, she has struggled with a painful rash that spread across her torso, and she can barely sleep, waking up at night, heart pounding, covered in sweat. “That day, I became an animal,” she said. “I was emotionally detached, sharp, just the adrenaline of survival. I looked at all this as if I was photographing them with my eyes, not forgetting any detail. I told myself: I should remember everything.” ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html  Bari Weiss-tweet-28December2023-How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on 7October |
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Live Action Role-Playing gamers-Keep standing on the side of genocideA live action role-playing game is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically portray their characters. The players pursue goals within a fictional setting represented by real-world environments while interacting with each other in character. Wikipedia
Elder of Ziyon-tweet-29October2023-FAKE JEWS FOR HAMAS This rally, which shut down Grand Central Station on Friday night, started after Shabbat began. These aren’t Jews. They are LARPers who use kippot and tallitot as props against the vast majority of real Jews. Their only use of Judaism is to twist it into ammunition against the Jewish state. Their knowledge of Judaism starts and ends with a wrong interpretation of “tikkun olam”. Their only use of Jewish practice or objects is to subvert them; if it wasn’t for their political play-acting, they would never don a kippah or attend a seder. In short, they twist and trivialize a great religion in the service of terrorism and genocide against Jews. They are the modern version of the Verband Nationaldeutscher Juden, a tiny group of pro-Nazi Jews who derided everything about Judaism (and Zionism) in a failed attempt to ingratiate themselves with Hitler’s Germany. They ended up in the gas chambers along with those they hated. See more: https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/07/ifnotnow-jewish-voice-for-peace-and.html JVP and IfNotNow are disgusting pieces of garbage, and have no place in the Jewish community. https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/07/ifnotnow-jewish-voice-for-peace-and.html
 Elder of Ziyon-tweet-29October2023-FAKE JEWS FOR HAMAS
 Don Incognito-tweet-29October2023-Keep standing on the side of genocide
So proud to organize Hanukkah Shlishi
The guy with the mask needs to be kept away from any place where children congregate and the dude in the front looks like he’s building a pipe bomb out of a Chanukiah. Make your own judgements… 🇮🇱  Rabbi Linda Goldstein-tweet-20February2024-So proud to organize Hanukkah Shlishi
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Israel bars UK Jewish leftist provocateur from AliyahJerusalemCats Comments: Israel is a traditional society, If you want to contribute to Israeli society by getting a job, create a family and raise children here, cone to Israel. If not stay home! Anyone at any age can contribute to Israeli society by being here of stead of protesting and causing trouble. Israel bars UK Jewish leftist provocateur from Aliyah Source: Vomit Warning – Read on an empty stomach. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-bars-uk-jewish-left-wing-activist-from-immigrating-orders-him-to-leave-by-sunday/
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Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/ IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, and their spiritual ancestor the Verband Nationaldeutscher Juden01July2021 https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/07/ifnotnow-jewish-voice-for-peace-and.html Today’s antisemitic Jews of IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace have an illustrious antecedent.
 Dr. Max Naumann Still Loyal to Nazi Opppressors
Anti-Zionist? Check.
Sound familiar?
Even in 1935, as members of his group realized that Hitler is not someone to rely on, Naumann held his course – and accused his detractors of being “Zionists.”  Nazi Jews hold Stormy Berlin Session What happened to Dr. Naumann? From the B’nai B’rith Messenger, 20 December 1935:  Exit: Dr. Max Naumann
 Exit: Dr. Max Naumann – continued
Taking the side of the enemies of the Jews invariably ends up badly.
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You can’t hijack planes. You can’t throw Molotovs. You can’t self-immolate
 Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-2March2024-The problem is not with the means but with the goal
 Mohammed El-Kurd-tweet-26February2024-You can’t
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HonestReporting: Wikipedia is not a reliable source
Remember: Wikipedia is not a reliable source.  HonestReporting-tweet-31October2024-Wikipedia is not a reliable source
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ISRAEL AT WAR 5784: 1 sheep and 70 wolves
THIS IS REALITY IN ISRAEL
“Surely, they are a people who dwell alone, who need not consider the nations.” -Numbers 23:9
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-24September2024-Biden is at it again-ignore them
Every time the IDF smells victory, Biden & Co. hit the air brakes. Up until now, Bibi & Co. heeded them. But now, as Hezbolla is crumbling, Biden’s at it again, trying to restrain Israel. This is your teshuva test, Bibi – ignore them, like the Torah says you should. @IsraeliPM
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-24September2024-Biden is at it again-ignore them
Thank You, Hashem, and thank you, IDF. Moadim l’simcha! Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-17October2024-Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar
“When the wicked perish, there is joy” (Proverbs 11:10). Thank You, Hashem, and thank you, IDF. Moadim l’simcha!
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-17October2024- Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar.
Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-17October2024-Eliminated Yahya Sinwar
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Even the Cats Pray in Israel
Frum TikTok-tweet-14November2024-Even the Cats Pray in Israel
WOW: A cat prays at the Western Wall in Israel. 🐈
Frum TikTok-tweet-14November2024-Even the Cats Pray in Israel
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The Jews are a source of Light in the World.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-27May2024-The Jews are a source of Light in the World
It’s time we owned the truth, as offensive as some people might think it is. It’s the truth, and for us to win the messaging war, we need to unite over this narrative, and we need to do it fast!
Hillel Fuld-tweet-27May2024-The Jews are a source of Light in the World
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“How dare you,”
Noa Tishby-tweet-18December2023-How dare you
HOW DARE YOU @GretaThunberg
. How DARE you call for ethnically cleansing the Jewish people from our ancestral land?? You know nothing. No history, no reality, no truth. So I have this to say to you.
Israel is not a colonialist state – it’s a refugee state which was literally decolonized from Britain.
The majority of Israeli Jews are people of color, whose families were ethnically cleansed from other parts of the Middle East.
Throughout history, the only indigenous sovereign entities to exist in the land have been Jewish states.
Jews originate from the land, derive our religion and our practices from it and despite centuries of exile and displacement have always kept an unbroken presence there.
And you Greta Thunberg, are chanting “crush Zionism” on the streets of Sweden.
Zionism is the Jewish people exercising our right to self-determination in some parts of our only historic, ancestral and indigenous homeland.
Hamas showed us on October 7 what “crushing Zionism” looks like and you want to cheer that on Greta?
Greta Thunberg, if I can borrow your famous phrase, “how dare you!”
But this is how antisemitism works – Find what is most evil to you, and blame it on the Jews, or today – on the Jewish state.
I can understand that younger generations in western societies feel guilty about the evils of colonialism.
But Israel’s history is not your history, and whatever guilt you feel, supporting the massacre of Jews in their ancestral land will not wash away the sins of your fathers. When your ancestors were colonizing the world, my ancestors were being slaughtered by Cossacks.
We were dreaming – next year in Jerusalem – of building a life raft in our homeland. We fled genocidal violence in Europe. We were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries all over the Middle East. And we built a liberal, democratic Jewish state. That is not a colonial enterprise.
Zionism is not a colonial enterprise – Zionism is the decolonization movement of the Jewish people.
And to anyone who cannot accept our presence or who slanders Israel as something it is not, we are here to say: “how dare you.”
Noa Tishby-tweet-18December2023-How dare you
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“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.” – Moshe Dayan
Im Tirtzu-tweet-20May2024-Moshe Dayan Quote high price for our Blood
Wise words.
“It is in our hands to fix a high price for our Blood, So high that the Arab Community and the Arab Military Forces will not be willing to Pay it.” – Moshe Dayan
Im Tirtzu-tweet-20May2024-Moshe Dayan Quote high price for our Blood
“It is in our hands to fix a high price for our Blood, So high that the Arab Community and the Arab Military Forces will not be willing to Pay it.” – Moshe Dayan
It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.
As quoted in Warrior : The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon (1989) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan
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Smotrich’s Revenge: Biden’s Sanctions on Settlers Turned into Potential Collapse of PA Banking System
By David Israel – 5 Adar II 5784 – March 15, 2024 https://www.jewishpress.com/news/business-economy/smotrichs-revenge-bidens-sanctions-on-settlers-turned-into-potential-collapse-of-pa-banking-system/2024/03/15/
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has had it up to here with US sanctions against Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria, and this week decided to release the kraken.
Smotrich responded to the sanctions: “These decisions are a surrender of the Biden administration to the BDS campaign designed to blacken the entire State of Israel and lead to the elimination of the settlement enterprise and the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state. The Israeli government is standing to the right of the settlement. These measures are completely unacceptable and we will fight to cancel them.”
It began with this week’s Axios’ exclusive report that the Biden administration is expected to impose new sanctions on two Jewish outposts in Judea and Samaria from which settlers went out to attack PA Arabs.
In early February, the Biden administration weaponized its “settler violence” mantra (based on fake reports by anti-Israel NGOs, according to the Israel Police) as a tool for pushing through the two-state agenda.
The President signed an executive order allowing the United States to issue financial sanctions against “those directing or participating in certain actions, including acts or threats of violence against civilians, intimidating civilians to cause them to leave their homes, destroying or seizing property, or engaging in terrorist activity in the West Bank. And the State Department also today issued four designations under this new executive authority,” NSA’s John Kirby told reporters.
A reporter then asked Kirby: “Is this a signal to those officials in the Israeli government who openly support and facilitate such violence, including Itamar Ben Gvir, who supply the weapons to these people who perpetrate?”
Kirby’s response: “I think it’s a signal to the whole world how seriously President Biden takes this violence against the settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.”
YOU WANT SANCTIONS? WE CAN DO SANCTIONS
In retaliation, according to Israel Hayom, Smotrich refuses to renew his signature on a document that provides protection from lawsuits to the Israeli banks doing business with the Palestinian Authority – Discount and Po’alim.
Without government protection, the Israeli banks are expected to sever ties with the PA banks, fearing that they would become exposed to lawsuits on charges of transferring funds to entities that pay out salaries to terrorists.
And since the PA’s economy wholly depends on its relationship with Israel, this means an immediate freeze of economic activity in the Palestinian Authority.
Following the Biden administration’s announcement of sanctions against four Jewish settlers (who had not been convicted of any crime), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the US Treasury Department updated its list of sanctioned individuals, and overnight Bank Leumi and Postal Bank froze their accounts.
Now, Smotrich, who prefers his revenge dish eaten cold, is turning the damage of a few thousand shekels to four Jewish settles into the possible collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
In 2018, the Israeli government created the Correspondence Government Company, to absorb the financial risks undertaken by Israeli banks doing business with PA banks. This was done after the Israeli banks threatened to sever their relations with PA institutions lest they be sued for collaborating with terrorists. The new company provides clearance services to Israeli banks, thus keeping them protected from lawsuits. But the new company is also leery about doing business with the PA, which is why the political and security cabinet each year issues a letter of protection to the Israeli banks, signed by the finance minister, absolving the of fiduciary responsibility for the PA’s terrorist shenanigans.
Now Smotrich is refusing to sign this letter of protection.
Israel Hayom’s Ariel Kahana suggested the finance minister is expecting that just as the Americans do not complain to the Israeli banks about their relationship with the Palestinian Authority, they will make it clear that they have no objection to releasing the frozen funds of the sanctioned Jewish settlers.
Otherwise, perhaps the US should start airdropping food packages on Ramallah.
The move means the immediate freezing of significant parts of the economic activity in the Palestinian Authority, whose currency is the shekel. Also, the vast majority of PA exports and imports are done through Israeli ports – no backing from Israeli banks, no trade. And of course, Smotrich’s favorite, the tax money that Israel collects will now be frozen until further notice, tell Ramallah to raise more rabbits and chop more wood for heating – it’s back to a barter economy.
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Biden Cries Uncle as Smotrich Wins War against Sanctions on Settlers
By David Israel – 19 Adar II 5784 – March 29, 2024 – https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/biden-cries-uncle-as-smotrich-wins-war-against-sanctions-on-settlers/2024/03/29/
Thursday Bezalel Smotrich beat the Biden administration at its own game.
On March 14, the US Treasury Dept. announced new sanctions against two Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria that the administration accused of being used as a base for attacks on innocent PA Arabs. The Treasury Dept. also sanctioned three Israeli settlers: Moshe Sharvit, Zvi Bar Yosef, and Neriya Ben Pazi.
They followed earlier sanctions against four other Jewish settlers, which Israeli banks promptly blocked from accessing their personal accounts.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced in response, “These decisions are a surrender of the Biden administration to the BDS campaign designed to blacken the entire State of Israel and lead to the elimination of the settlement enterprise and the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state. The Israeli government is standing to the right of the settlements. These measures are completely unacceptable and we will fight to cancel them.”
In retaliation, Smotrich refused to renew his signature on a document that protects Israeli banks doing business with the Palestinian Authority from lawsuits, namely Discount and Ha’Po’alim.
Without government protection, those Israeli banks would have been forced to sever their ties with the PA banks, fearing that they become exposed to lawsuits on charges of transferring funds to entities that pay out salaries to terrorists.
And since the PA’s economy wholly depends on its relationship with Israel, this meant an immediate freeze of economic activity in the Palestinian Authority.
This week, according to Israel Hayom, the US Treasury Dept. sent an urgent letter to the finance minister, explaining that there is no reason for the banks in Israel to prevent Israeli citizens who appear on the sanctions list from making routine use of their bank accounts.
The treasury official explained that the sanctions do not include routine checking or business account operations, which are permissible and will not result in the administration punishing the Israeli banks that allow Jewish settlers to access their money.
The treasury’s letter essentially kills the entire Biden sanctions attack, because the only real harm to the Jewish victims of those sanctions was from not being able to access their bank accounts in Israel. All the other components of those sanctions, originally designed against Russian tycoons, have nothing to do with the settlers who don’t hold assets that can be frozen in America, and don’t fly there.
Back on March 14, Minister Smotrich stated that “these measures are completely unacceptable,” and vowed, “We will fight to cancel them.”
On the eve of Shabbat, Parshat Tzav, 5784, we declare that he did and they got canceled.
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Smotrich to transfer $35m in PA funds to families of terror victims
Some families had been waiting for 20 years, despite courts ruling the Palestinian Authority was responsible for their loved ones’ deaths.
https://www.jns.org/smotrich-to-transfer-35m-in-pa-funds-to-families-of-terror-victims/
(June 13, 2024 / JNS) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered his office to deduct 130 million shekels ($35 million) from tax and tariff revenue collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority and redirect it to families of terror victims.
The monies will be transferred to 28 families who have won lawsuits against the P.A. over its financial backing of attacks against Israelis, Smotrich, who is also the leader of the Religious Zionism Party, told Arutz 7 on Thursday.
“This week, I signed an order to transfer millions of shekels to the families of terror victims,” he said. “The Palestinian Authority continues to tell the world that it is on the verge of collapse and continues paying the families of terrorists and transferring money for terror.
“The minimum of the minimum [we can do] is to transfer compensation to the families of terror victims from these funds,” added the minister.
Smotrich’s decision puts an end to years of delay on the part of the government. In some cases, families had been waiting to receive the funds for 20 years, despite Israeli courts ruling that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for their loved ones’ deaths.
The newspaper noted that in addition to the 28 families expected to be compensated this week, hundreds of other lawsuits are still pending.
Jerusalem collects 600 million-700 million shekels ($161 million-$188 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.
Almost one billion shekels ($278 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.
In 2018, lawmakers from 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.
Smotrich’s decision to transfer the funds joins 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.
Last month, he announced his intention to immediately halt the transfer of all tax revenue to the P.A. following its push for statehood and support for the International Criminal Court case against Israel.
“The Palestinians are working against Israel with political terrorism and promoting unilateral measures around the world—I cannot continue to transfer funds to them. If this causes the P.A. to collapse, let it collapse,” Smotrich said.
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Smotrich threatens to topple PA if ICC, UN take unilateral action against Israel
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the U.N. General Assembly will result in an immediate halt to all transfers of funds to the P.A.
https://www.jns.org/smotrich-threatens-to-topple-pa-if-icc-un-take-unilateral-action-against-israel/
(April 25, 2024 / JNS) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to crush the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) financially if certain unilateral actions are brought against Israel in the international arena.
In an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Smotrich warned that if any decision is made by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to unilaterally issue arrest warrants against Israeli citizens, or “a decision is made unilaterally in the [United Nations] General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state, I will unilaterally and immediately stop the transfer of all funds to the P.A.”
Smotrich was referring to a recent Channel 12 report that the ICC was considering issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials with the tacit approval of the United States.
Earlier this month, the P.A. submitted a request to the U.N. Security Council to accept it as a full member, a move Israel said would be a reward for terror.
Smotrich said that in the event of either occurring he would stop the transfer of all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the P.A, and would also rescind the immunity of Israeli banks that have financial dealings with Palestinian entities.
Smotrich threatened the latter move in March in response to sanctions imposed by the United States on seven Israeli settlers. Israeli banks, fearful of running afoul of U.S. sanctions, also closed the accounts of the seven.
Smotrich’s threat appeared to work, as shortly afterwards the U.S. Treasury Department, in a letter to the Bank of Israel, clarified that the sanctions weren’t intended to include Israeli banks.
Smotrich’s letter also referred to rumors that the Biden administration is considering sanctions against the ultra-Orthodox Netzach YehudaBattalion.
In October 2022, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) submitted to the State Department a Leahy Law referral against the battalion for alleged “systematic and widespread abuses.”
According to an NGO Monitor report from March, DAWN executive director Sarah Leah Whitson served as director of the Middle East and North Africa Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW) from 2004 to 2019.
“Working closely with executive director Ken Roth, she played a central role in HRW’s antisemitic obsession with Israel,” according to the report.
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Smotrich moves to collapse PA economy after ‘political terrorism’
Israel’s finance minister is acting in response to Ramallah’s pursuit of unilateral statehood, ICC prosecution.
Akiva Van Koningsveld
https://www.jns.org/smotrich-moves-to-collapse-pa-economy/
(May 22, 2024 / JNS) Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday called for a series of punitive steps against the Palestinian Authority in response to Ramallah’s push for unilateral statehood and support for the International Criminal Court case against the Jewish state.
In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the finance minister announced his intention to immediately halt the transfer of all monthly tax revenues that Jerusalem collects on behalf of the P.A.
The announcement came hours after Norway, Ireland and Spain declared their recognition of a Palestinian state, in decisions that the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terrorist organization welcomed.
Oslo in recent months has been serving as an intermediary to transfer some funds earmarked for the P.A. that Israel froze in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led terrorist massacre in the country’s south.
“Norway was the first to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state today, and it cannot be a partner in anything related to Judea and Samaria. I intend to stop the transfer funds and demand the return of all funds transferred,” Smotrich wrote to the prime minister.
Approximately 1 billion shekels ($272 million) has been parked in Norway over the past three months, while Jerusalem transfers some 600 million shekels ($163 million) to Ramallah directly every month.
“The Palestinians are working against Israel with political terrorism and promoting unilateral measures around the world—I cannot continue to transfer funds to them. If this causes the P.A. to collapse, let it collapse,” Ynet cited Smotrich as saying.
The finance minister also decided to cancel a waiver shielding major Israeli banks with business ties to Ramallah from lawsuits stemming from charges of supporting terrorism, a move that the United States previously warned would collapse the Palestinian Authority’s economy.
In addition, the Religious Zionism Party leader demands that Netanyahu take a series of steps to bolster Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, including the immediate approval of 10,000 new housing units, establishing a new town for each country recognizing “Palestine” and advancing a proposal to strengthen Israel’s hold on the area.
Smotrich is also requesting that the government permanently revoke all VIP travel passes for P.A. officials and impose additional sanctions on those leading the campaign against Israel in international bodies.
“I and many other ministers have made an unequivocal demand to take severe measures against the Palestinian Authority for its unilateral actions against Israel, including its pursuit of unilateral recognition of statehood at the U.N. and through bilateral agreements with several countries, and the legal battle it’s waging against the State of Israel in the international court at The Hague to stop the war,” wrote the minister.
“I don’t intend to allow officials to dismiss the issue. There’s urgency for an immediate response that will impose a significant cost on the P.A. for its actions and deter it and other countries,” he said.
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Temple Mount structures ages The Jews were here First, Arabs Get Out.
so you built this (1330 years old)
on top of this (2978 years old)
And I’m the one occupying your land?
Marina Medvin-tweet-31March2024-Temple Mount structures ages, And I’m the one occupying your land
An Israeli posted this in response to a Palestinian in the comments to one of my posts and it was just perfect.
Marina Medvin-tweet-31March2024-Temple Mount structures ages
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Israel Beauty Queen has been called up for military service
MOT-tweet-19March2024-Israel Beauty Queen has been called up for military service
Israel’s 2021 Beauty Queen, Noah Kohwa, has been called up for military service. Am Yisrael Chai #Israel #VictoryForIsrael #IDF #Zionism #IDFHeroes
MOT-tweet-19March2024-Israel Beauty Queen has been called up for military service
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How it Started: Jimmy Carter
Elliot Kaufman-tweet-25August2024-Carter accused Begin of sacrificing permanent security for Israel
Carter accused Begin of sacrificing “permanent security for Israel” and “the approbation of the world” for the sake of a few settlers in Sinai.
Begin gave in. Israel is still waiting on the approbation, but take a look where those settlements, the Yamit cluster, were located…
Elliot Kaufman-tweet-25August2024-they were just south of the Gaza Strip
As you can see, they were just south of the Gaza Strip, cutting it off from Egypt. The sort of thing that would have frustrated Hamas’s weapons smuggling and arms buildup.
But it’s always nice to be lectured about permanent security.
Elliot Kaufman-tweet-25August2024-Carter accused Begin of sacrificing permanent security for Israel
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The pundits in DC, the EU and the UN will never understand Israel
David M Friedman-tweet-18March2024-The pundits in DC, the EU and the UN will never understand Israel
Spent this evening at an Army Base in Israel where a Torah Scroll was dedicated to the soldiers. Yishai Rebo, who fills 25,000 seats at Madison Square Garden, showed up to perform for 200. The world doesn’t understand the commitment and spirit of the IDF. These soldiers, almost all reservists with families at home, serve with incredible patriotism and loyalty. They are determined to defend their homeland and the Jewish People. The pundits in DC and at the EU and UN never visit places like this. And that is why they will never understand Israel.
David M Friedman-tweet-18March2024-The pundits in DC, the EU and the UN will never understand Israel
The World needs to Know
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The Anti-Israel Sanctions Machine
In response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, the Biden-Harris administration assembled a team tasked with toppling Bibi
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Michael Doran
August 12, 2024 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-harris-anti-israel-sanctions-machine
President Biden recently achieved a historic first for which he has received no credit. He is the first president to form an interagency team dedicated to imposing sanctions on an ally, namely, Israel.
To be sure, the United States sanctioned allies on many occasions. Recent examples of this kind include sanctions designed to prevent Germany from completing the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, and sanctions on Turkish defense industries to penalize Ankara for its procurement of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system. These sanctions resulted from a specific action by an allied government that Washington sought to reverse.
But the sanctions against Israel are of a qualitatively different kind. The Biden administration has assembled an interagency team of targeteers tasked with finding individuals and groups to sanction—not to reverse a specific policy, but to weaken if not topple the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The existence of this machine has been hiding in plain sight since last February, when Biden issued an executive order claiming that violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank was threatening the stability of the entire Middle East. The order laid out the justification for the interagency team of targeteers and provided it with the necessary legal authorities to generate sanctions packages.
The press has reported on the executive order and has taken note of the sanctions the administration has generated, but it has also failed to ask some basic questions, which I put to contacts in the government. Here is what I gleaned.
The White House has established an interagency initiative to produce sanctions against Israeli entities and individuals. The International Economics Directorate at the National Security Council (NSC) leads the effort. Ilan Goldenberg, who until April worked for Vice President Kamala Harris and has now moved to the Strategic Planning Directorate in the NSC, also plays a very enthusiastic role. In the State Department, the Office of Economic Sanctions Policy has the lead. It works closely with the Office of Foreign Assets Control at Treasury. Together they prepare evidentiary packages.
The team convenes frequently, to meet the goal, set by the president and his top advisers, of rolling out packages of sanctions with regularity. By my count, six tranches have been rolled out so far. The next tranche, I have learned, is already prepared, waiting for release after Iran attacks Israel, so that the administration can dodge the accusation of weakening Israel in time of war.
The regularity of the rollouts, which average about one tranche per month, matter to the administration more than the specific content of the sanctions. The goal is not to reverse any policy by the Israeli government but to create a climate of controversy around Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition partners.
Biden did not create this sanctions machine in response to any development on the ground in the Middle East other than the surprise attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. When the attack generated the fear in Washington that the resulting war would strengthen the Israeli right, Biden launched an initiative to counter it.
Tom Nides, Biden’s ambassador to Israel until July 2023, almost certainly reflected the current view of the Biden administration when, at a recent conference, he called for substituting right-wing ministers like Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir with opponents of Netanyahu like former prime ministers Naftali Bennet and Yair Lapid. “We need to get the crazies out. We need to bring the moderates back in,” Nides said.
It was undoubtedly with this goal in mind that Biden’s Israel sanctions machine proposed sanctioning Ben-Gvir. Biden personally nixed the idea, but someone in the administration made sure to leak to the press the fact that the proposal was under consideration. Even sanctions that do not receive approval can still generate press reports that further the goals of the campaign.
The administration’s cover story, that it is issuing sanctions in reaction to events on the West Bank, evaporates when one examines the specific content of the sanctions. Consider the case of Elor Azaria, whom Secretary of State Blinken sanctioned last month. An Israeli medic, Azaria shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, a Palestinian terrorist who was laying wounded on the ground. The administration homed in on Azaria’s story because it can be easily manipulated to support a headline, such as “The Radicalization of Israel’s Military.”
Under scrutiny, however, the propagandistic intentions of the administration become obvious. When I served on the National Security Council in the White House of President George W. Bush, I frequently helped with the sanctioning of specific individuals. This time-consuming process requires meeting strict evidentiary criteria. Treasury regulations require that misdeeds by potential subjects of sanctions must be recent, committed within the last five years.
It was eight years ago, however, that Azaria killed al-Sharif, when President Obama was still in office. Treasury regulations will not allow him to be fitted for economic sanctions. A different legal instrument would be required to make Azaria’s story newsworthy again. Biden’s team found it in a law that bars entry to the United States to foreign officials guilty of gross human rights violations. Azaria is not an official, nor is he the leader of a death squad. He’s a simple baker, who plays no role in politics, but the administration’s lawyers gave the green light, nonetheless.
Azaria served time in an Israeli prison for his crime. Azaria claimed that he used his gun because he feared that al-Sharif was wearing a suicide vest and had made a sudden movement. The Israeli military doubted this defense, tried him for manslaughter, and found him guilty. Stripped of rank, he also served half of an 18-month prison sentence and was released.
Regardless of whether Azaria acted appropriately, or whether he received a just punishment, two things are obviously true. First, his case has nothing to do with the very dubious allegation of a spike in settler violence. Second, he poses no danger to the peace and security of the Middle East—the ostensible reason for creating the interagency team targeting people and entities in Israel.
The rise of the Israel targeteers is not the only historic first of Biden’s presidency. On his watch, the International Court of Justice smeared Israel with the accusation of apartheid. An unprecedented number of American allies have moved to recognize the state of Palestine. Iran attacked Israel with the largest ballistic missile barrage ever launched by any country against another. And for the first time, Tehran mobilized all elements of its “Resistance Axis” in a coordinated campaign.
There is a clear connection between the elements on this list of firsts. Israel’s detractors and its mortal enemies feel they can act with impunity, because Biden has signaled clearly that the United States cares as much about weakening the Israeli right wing as it does with defeating Israel’s foes.
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Biden/Harris Withholding Weapons from Israel-The LIST
David Milstein-tweet-29July2024-Biden-Harris Withholding Weapons from Israel
Last night – @marklevinshow reported on his @FoxNews TV show Life, Liberty, and Levin a long list of ammunition and weaponry the Biden Admin is holding up, delaying, and not using emergency authorities to deliver to Israel. The Biden Admin lies when claiming to only hold up 2,000-lb bombs – which is also illegitimate.
This is another example of not having an “ironclad commitment to Israel’s security”. America should instead be fully supporting Israel with all the military assistance Israel requests / needs including what Congress has appropriated to defeat Hamas and counter Hezbollah.
Full clip begins around 15:15 minute mark – https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359533980112
David Milstein-tweet-29July2024-Biden-Harris Withholding Weapons from Israel
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Biden Regime Considering New Move to Stab Israel in the Back and Hand Hamas Victory
Robert Spencer | 12:44 PM on March 21, 2024 https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/03/21/biden-regime-considering-new-move-to-stab-israel-in-the-back-and-hand-hamas-victory-n4927520
The Biden regime is in a tough spot. Its far-left base is enraged over its ongoing ostensible support for Israel. Instead of acting with integrity despite the electoral cost and standing by a loyal ally in its time of need, the regime is making a series of moves to betray Israel and give aid and comfort to its enemies.
Now it’s mulling over a step that would constitute the biggest betrayal of all and would hand victory to the Hamas jihad terror group. For the unprincipled Biden regime apparatchiks, it’s all about winning in November.
The New York Sun reported Monday that Old Joe and his henchmen are “reportedly considering leaving Israel short of the armaments it needs to fight Hamas.” The veiled threat was there on that same day, during the callow but thoroughly indoctrinated National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s White House press briefing. A reporter reminded Sullivan that “the deadline for Israel to comply with the National Security Memorandum 20 is coming up on Sunday,” and asked him: “Has Israel responded in writing?”
National Security Memorandum 20 is not exactly a venerable cornerstone of American foreign policy. It is only a few weeks old, dating from Feb. 8. It seeks, among other things, to “prevent arms transfers that risk facilitating or otherwise contributing to violations of human rights or international humanitarian law.”
Given the fact that Biden issued it during a time when Israel was being falsely accused of massive human rights violations and when the Biden regime was under heavy pressure to betray Israel or face a massive loss of votes from Muslims and their allies in November, this memorandum has the look of a trap that was being laid and is about to be sprung now.
Sullivan answered: “So, first, when you say ‘to comply,’ what they have to do by Sunday is just provide credible and reliable assurances that they will abide by their international obligations, not obligations we’ve imposed upon them, but — but obligations they have freely accepted with respect to international humanitarian law, which, of course, includes not arbitrarily impeding the flow of humanitarian assistance where they can control that. So, I cannot tell you today — confirm today that they have provided that. Obviously, as you said, they have several more days before they have to do so. And we anticipate that they will.”
So Israel had, as of Monday, not yet complied with a new rule the Biden regime just made up, that arms sales can only go to nations that respect “international humanitarian law.” Israel does respect this law; when independent observers have dubbed the IDF “the most moral army in the world.” The international outrage, however, is growing against the Jewish state. Hamas is eagerly fueling that outrage, fabricating casualty numbers before a world that has been all too eager to be fooled, and even preposterously claiming that Israel was conducting a “genocide.”
Meanwhile, you will be absolutely unshocked to learn that Old Joe’s new rule is being applied selectively. The Sun notes that “In reality, arms are sold to foes and allies alike in all five continents, with little notice of rights violations. Mr. Biden urged Congress last month to approve the sale of F-16s to Turkey, even as it massacres Kurds in Iraq and Syria.” No one asked Jake Sullivan at Monday’s press briefing if arms sales to Turkey would be cut off.
This is just the latest in a growing series of indications that the Biden regime is abandoning Israel and pulling for a Hamas victory. After threats from Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza City) to withhold the Muslim vote if the regime doesn’t betray Israel, the regime began doing just that, step by step, in slow motion, sending $100 million to Gaza and $10 billion to Hamas’ financiers, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and putting ever-increasing pressure on the Netanyahu government.
Aside from the monstrous immorality of supporting forces that really do want to commit the genocide that Israel is falsely accused of committing, this is short-sighted in the extreme. What do Biden regime apparatchiks think will happen if Hamas defeats Israel and survives this war? Do they think that the jihadis will be so overflowing with gratitude to the U.S. that they won’t ever strike Americans or U.S. interests? They’re in for a rude surprise.
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The Politics of AI: Biden Targets Israel
Shoshana Bryen • 15January2025 https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2025/01/15/the-politics-of-ai-biden-targets-israel/
Is the Biden administration computer illiterate? Is it technology-innovation-unaware? Is it malicious when it comes to Israel? The third seems to be the case.
On its way out, the administration’s “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion,” announced on Jan. 13, would place new limits on how many artificial-intelligence chips companies, including Nvidia, Intel and AMD, can send to different countries without making special arrangements with the U.S. government. Israel is one of the countries for which they will have to get permission.
Nvidia will be impacted the most, given that it produces an estimated 90% of the world’s AI chips. Stephen Bryen, a technology specialist (full disclosure: also my husband), adds: “Nvidia owns significant properties in Israel including Run:ai, an Israeli startup that has built software to help developers and businesses manage complex AI workloads and computing resources on a single platform.”
Nvidia’s second-largest development center outside of the United States is in Israel, with 3,300 employees, including residents of the West Bank and Gaza, representing 13% of its global workforce. Nvidia recommitted to its Israel operation in March.
Regarding Intel, Bryen points out that it is one of the largest employers in Israel’s high-tech industry, and one of its major development centers is in Israel, accounting for much of what Intel designs. “Years ago, the co-founder of Intel told me that his investment in Israel had turned out brilliantly. In addition, Israel’s NeuReality is slashing the high hardware costs and energy consumption required for AI processing. It has partnership agreements with IBM, AMD and other computing powerhouses and is set to transform the AI landscape.”
So, Israel needs special U.S. government permission to use what it works to develop and build?
No, actually. There is fraud in this. And the fraud is uglier for appearing to have no lasting, political or security rationale.
The new rules are meant to keep advanced chips and AI models under the control of the United States and its allies, a worthwhile objective. But the president-elect will have the final decision on whether to enforce them. And regardless, the rule doesn’t take effect for 120 days. It is unlikely that the “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” will be applied.
So, why do it?
To “put Israel in its place.”
First, there are friends/allies. The list of countries to whom the rule will not be applied includes Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, French Guiana, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
Then there are the adversaries, including China and Russia, which are already subject to existing semiconductor trade restrictions. There are others.
And, finally, there is a sort of lumpy category into which Israel has been placed. This includes the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Eastern European countries, including Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Mexico and countries in Latin America. According to Bloomberg, there will be a quota of 50,000 advanced graphics processors over three years for these countries, from 2025 to 2027. According to the Biden administration, Israel is not a security ally, tech ally, democratic ally or any other kind of ally. They say it is Peru.
To repeat, this appears to be theater. Played right by the incoming administration, it will likely be an aggravation rather than a serious blow to Israel’s security or economic future. And, it should also be said that, while following in the ignominious footsteps of his political mentor, Barak Obama, Joe Biden probably did less damage.
The Obama administration showed Israel the sole of its shoe by declining to veto U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, which called for “an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.” It further demanded that countries “distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967.”
Israel was concerned that the language would lead to a surge in BDS efforts, destructive of its economy. But Israel’s growth rate in 2017 was 4.39%. With negative growth only in 2020—the year of the COVID pandemic—Israel’s growth has been positive, even after the terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
High-tech investment in Israel by American and other Western companies has been the backbone of much of Israel’s economic growth. Nvidia’s Run:ai deal, completed in April 2024, is worth between $600 and $700 million. And Israeli innovation is used by the United States in a variety of way—for defense, for medicine, for education, for games.
In July, Nvidia, Pfizer and Thermo Fisher invested in Israel’s CytoReason, which uses AI to develop disease models. Funding could reach $110 million. “The rapid expansion of new technologies, like artificial intelligence, holds tremendous potential to help transform what is possible in human health,” said Pfizer’s chief scientific officer.
It could, unless, like the outgoing Biden administration, you find nasty theater to be of greater interest.
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Biden’s BDS of Jews in Judea and Samaria
Caroline Glick-tweet-5April2024-US to start placing special labels on goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria
Financial Times is reporting that the US is going to start placing special labels on goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Marc Rudov-tweet-5April2024-Like this in a DC-area Safeway
Like this in a DC-area Safeway
Caroline Glick-tweet-5April2024-US to start placing special labels on goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria
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Israel doesn’t trust the Biden administration
Marina Medvin-tweet-13July2024-Israel doesn’t trust the Biden administration
This is the most vital piece of information to come out of Israel as of recent — Israel doesn’t trust the Biden administration with intel against terrorists.
Remember that in November. Our own ally doesn’t trust Biden with intelligence against joint enemies. How can we trust Biden? We can’t.
Do not vote for Biden in 2024.
Barak Ravid-tweet-13July2024-Israel can not trust Biden
Netanyahu said Israel didn’t inform the U.S. in advance of the airstrike against Deif because it didn’t want to take the risk that it would leak, and then the Hamas commander would go underground again
Barak Ravid-tweet-13July2024-Israel conducts deadly airstrike targeting Hamas
Israel conducts deadly airstrike targeting Hamas’ top military leader Mohammed Deif – one of the primary masterminds of the October 7 attacks. My report on @axios https://www.axios.com/2024/07/13/israel-airstike-mohammed-deif-khan-younis
Marina Medvin-tweet-13July2024-Israel does not trust the Biden administration
Barak Ravid-tweet-13July2024-Israel can not trust Biden
Lily_West-tweet-13July2024-Biden administration untrustworthy
This Admin. has proved, they are untrustworthy.
Lily_West-tweet-13July2024-Biden administration untrustworthy
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US envoy Amos Hochstein passed information of Israeli strikes in advance of those strikes to Hizballah
David Wurmser-tweet-28July2024-US passed information of Israeli strikes to Hizballah
This is very serious. Israeli reports say Lebanese officials now confirm that US envoy and NSC official Amos Hochstein passed information of Israeli strikes in advance of those strikes to Lebanon (which mean Hizballah).
Now14Israel-tweet-28July2024-
הבכיר הלבנוני מודה: עמוס הוכשטיין העביר לנו מידע לפני התקיפות הישראליות
לכתבה – https://now14.co.il/?p=986914
צילום: רויטרס
The Lebanese official admits: Amos Hochstein gave us information before the Israeli attacks
to the article – https://now14.co.il/?p=986914
Photo: Reuters
David Wurmser-tweet-28July2024-US passed information of Israeli strikes to Hizballah
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Future of Jewish
An Open Letter to the Jewish People
“Gather about you all who observe the law, and avenge your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”
Stephen Schecter
11May2024 https://www.futureofjewish.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-jews
When the ancient Greek king’s emissary came to the ancient Israeli city of Modi’in and demanded that the Jews make a sacrifice to the pagan gods, Mattityahu refused, stabbed the Jew who was ready to submit, and called his people to revolt.
“Let everyone who is zealous for the law and who stands by the covenant follow me,” he cried.
The Jews who remained faithful to the covenant joined him, and after many battles drove the Greek army out and recovered their land and their Temple. This victory was not achieved in his lifetime, but in that of his son Judah Maccabee.
Yet on his deathbed, Mattityahu enjoined his sons that although “arrogance and scorn have now grown strong, it is a time of disaster and violent wrath, be zealous for the law and give your lives for the covenant of our ancestors … Do not fear the words of sinners, for their glory ends in corruption and worms.”
And so it was, then as now.
In every generation, we Jews say, someone rises up and wishes to destroy us, but the Lord Who stands steadfast with us as we stand steadfast with Him shall smite our enemies and bring them down.
Passover follows Hanukkah as spring follows winter, and before the next Passover comes upon us, heck before even next Hanukkah comes upon us, the so-called Palestinians will have received their comeuppance, their cities of Gaza shall lie waste and they shall reap the whirlwind of the evil they have sown for over a century.
The only question, my fellow Jews, is whether we will have the courage and fortitude of the Maccabees to redeem our holy land and wage war against our enemies until they have been utterly vanquished.
For over a century, the so-called Palestinians who were not yet Palestinians have been refusing to recognize our aboriginal title to the land. Ever since the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, the so-called Palestinians who were not yet Palestinians have rioted, pillaged, and murdered to forestall the great Jewish return to settle in our ancient homeland and reassert our sovereignty as a nation state.
In 1920, 1921, 1929, 1935 to 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1953 to 1955, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1976, 1987, 1993, and all the years thereafter the Muslim Arabs of “Palestine,” of Jordan, and then of Judea and Samaria and now Gaza have attacked, murdered, slandered and hounded the Jews and the Jewish right to statehood. The recent massacre perpetrated by Hamas has a long and ignoble history to which only but a few so-called innocent Palestinians have raised objection.
And so the time has come, my fellow Jews, to deal the so-called Palestinians the death blow for which their death culture has led them to clamor for over a hundred years. Anyone who believes the so-called Palestinians have a legal claim to a state in the land of Israel is both a legal and historical ignoramus, and perhaps antisemitic.
As for those who prefer to argue the case only on the grounds of morality, thinking there is no smoke without fire and therefore advocate partitioning the land, I would remind them of the Biblical story of the two women who came to King Solomon, each claiming the baby in one of the women’s arms was hers.
When Solomon ordered the baby be cut in half, the real mother protested and asked that the baby be allowed to live with the other woman. The latter eagerly exclaimed let the baby be killed. The wise king then allotted the baby to the former, knowing that no mother would allow their baby to be slaughtered — no mother except a so-called Palestinian mother, who proudly rears her son to be a martyr and go and kill Jews.
These are the innocent civilians over whom ignorant and malicious people the world over, some marching in cities, some running interference in the chancelleries of countries, are now shedding tears and on their behalf imploring, when not indicting, Israel to cease its military campaign in Gaza.
Israel must do no such thing. It must conquer Gaza, all of Gaza. It must demolish every building built by the heathens because it is now treyf (Yiddish for “non-kosher”), and the laws of the Torah insist that no booty should be taken by Jews from enemies who seek their destruction.
Every known Palestine Liberation Organization member, which includes Hamas, should be eliminated. The remaining Muslims in Gaza should be told that until arrangements have been made for their transfer to other countries, they will be allowed to work and rebuild under Israeli supervision, but nothing more.
The mosques will be closed. The United Nations and its agencies will be kicked out of Gaza. All international aid must go through Israel. Any contravention of Israeli rules will be met with severe punishment. And best of all, Jews will be invited to settle in Gaza.
Once Gaza is pacified, this policy should then be applied to the so-called Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority should be dismantled, its rulers killed, its cities destroyed, and the remaining population subject to a like-minded supervision.
No protests. No rock throwing. No incitement. Every such action will be punished severely and immediately. Eventually, arrangements will be made, as they have been made in the past in similar situations, for the transfer of so-called Palestinians out of the land. In the meantime, Jewish settlement throughout Judea and Samaria will be encouraged and expedited.
This is the only way to resolve the so-called Arab-Israeli conflict and put an end to it once and for all. The Muslim states, Arab or otherwise, can scream all they want. But unless they are willing to send armies against Israel, they will eventually get hoarse and quiet down.
Even Hezbollah. Even Iran. They too may not want to see Lebanon go down to the sea like a ship. China and Russia may not like it, but they are too busy with imperial adventures in their own backyards to want to divert energy to a situation they misunderstand, and which does not concern them.
As for the Western countries, always ready to mouth pieties about Israel’s right to defend itself but never ready to back it up with words and deeds when Israel is threatened, they are free to threaten Israel with military action and economic boycott which they will justify in the name of tough love between friends.
But the Western democracies, to the extent that they are still democracies that believe in the value of their societies, would be hard pressed to do that without protest from a substantial segment of their citizenry, especially in the United States. Not to mention that Israel also possesses nuclear weapons.
And so the question remains and returns to us Jews: Will it be Hanukkah or Purim? Are we going to be Maccabees or Court Jews? Is the Gaza war going to be a final resolve to build Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s iron wall or simply another occasion for people to argue and protest at Jewish expense about their own agendas for the future of the world?
In my mind, there is no doubt what the answer should be. Mattityahu’s words to his sons on his death bed still ring true: “Gather about you all who observe the law, and avenge your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”
Amen and amen.
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Al Jazeera reporter blames Israel for the rain, hail and flooding
Avi Kaner-tweet-19March2024-Al Jazeera blames Israel for the rain
Al Jazeera reporter blames Israel for the rain, hail and flooding that is causing Jerusalem residents to stay at home instead of going to pray at Al-Aqsa. @hahussain
Avi Kaner-tweet-19March2024-Al Jazeera blames Israel for the rain
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is breaking agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports
Israel Katz-tweet-2May2024-Erdoğan Trade War
.@RTErdogan is breaking agreements by blocking ports for Israeli imports and exports. This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements. I have instructed the Director General of the @IsraelMFA to immediately engage with all relevant parties in the government to create alternatives for trade with Turkey, focusing on local production and imports from other countries.
Israel will emerge with a strong and daring economy.
We Win, and They Lose.
Israel Katz-tweet-2May2024-Erdoğan Trade War
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Jihad Watch
The Iranian Regime Has No Answers to the Economic Degringolade It Has Caused
12April2024 By Hugh Fitzgerald https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/the-iranian-regime-has-no-answers-to-the-economic-degringolade-it-has-caused
The latest, and most dramatic, indication of Iran’s impoverishment is discussed here: “Iranian rial collapses, ‘loses 30% of value’ – reports,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, April
The Afghans who have fled the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are being scapegoated by Iranians. Their sins of omission (not working, and thus living on the dole) and commission (working, so taking jobs away from Iranians) help the regime to deflect popular anger onto a largely helpless group of foreigners, who are mostly Sunni Muslims. But the Afghans are not the real problem. The rial has been declining for more than four decades, long before the Afghan refugees arrived in Iran.
Since the regime has no answers to the economic degringolade it has caused, it tries to focus attention on the permanent foreign enemy — Israel, the Little Satan. It whips up war sentiment, making threats, showing videos of missiles being fired at the Jewish state, and putting online photos the various missiles Iran has in its armory, all to impress the populace with Iran’s military might. But Iran doesn’t dare to follow through; it knows what destruction Israel can inflict in response to a major attack by Iran.
Not everyone is swayed by the online swagger of the regime, threatening revenge for the Israeli airstrike on Iran’s so-called “consulate” in Damascus that killed several high-ranking generals, including Mohamed Reza Zahedi, the head of the IRGC-Al Quds in Syria and Lebanon. Almost two weeks have passed, and there is still no sign of that terrible revenge. Perhaps that is because the Iranians have seen what the IDF is capable of in Gaza, and want to make sure that they carefully choose a site to attack that will not trigger too devastating a response from Israel, that in turn might force the Iranian regime to launch an even stronger attack, so as not to lose face, and that could end up triggering a full-scale war with Israel, a war that Iran is not prepared for and does not want. For the Iranian regime, it’s a harrowing decision, fit for Goldilocks: what attack will be seen as not too small by fellow Muslims, nor too big by Israel, but just right, prompting the same in response?
Meanwhile, Tehran cannot possibly admit to the real reasons for the economic collapse. There are four:
First, the regime prefers to rely on Muslim fanatics, rather than gifted technocrats, to run the economy.
Second, the regime is riddled with corruption. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars. No one seems to know exactly how much, with estimates as high as $95 billion. Other former regime leaders have also made out like bandits, with hundreds of millions of dollars in net worth. This is not going to stop.
Third, the regime continues to spend billions of dollars on weapons and financial aid to five main proxies and allies, including the Houthis in Yemen, the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, the Kataeb Hezbollah militia in Iraq, Hamas in Gaza, and most important of all, Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iranians in past protests, in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023, have shouted “Death to Palestine” and “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, may my life be sacrificed for Iran” and “Leave Palestine, Think About Us Instead.” In October, at a soccer match at Azadi Stadium, when a minute of silence for the people of Gaza was declared at the beginning of a Friday match between Esteghlal and Havadar football teams, there was instead mass booing in the stands. Earlier In the same month, Persepolis fans were heard chanting “take that Palestinian flag and shove it up your a**.”
The regime is not listening. The destruction of Israel is central to its existence. It isn’t about to limit the amounts of money it spends to arm and fund its proxies and allies, and on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The rial will fall further still, the mass discontent at the country’s impoverishment will grow, and ultimately, the regime won’t be able to contain the widespread rage, just as the Shah was unable to contain the people’s rage in 1978. An Israeli attack to which the regime dare not respond in kind, and will thus be exposed as weak, might be just the spark to set off that popular revolt that so many Iranians long for.
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Stuck In The Middle East…
The Persian Jewess-tweet-18March2024-Stuck In The Middle East
🎶Stuck In The Middle East…🎶
Give us tragedy, we’ll heal through comedy. Or in this case, HILARIOUS song parodies. 😂😭
#StandWithIsrael
#AmYisraelChai
🎥 RoiHarel on IG.
The Persian Jewess-tweet-18March2024-Stuck In The Middle East
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Thank you, God ❤️❤️❤️
Im Tirtzu-tweet-14April2024-Thank you God
Thank you, God ❤️❤️❤️
Im Tirtzu-tweet-14April2024-Thank you God
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Changes to the Home Front Command’s defensive guidelines 13-15April2024
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13April2024-Changes to the Home Front Command’s defensive guidelines 13-15April2024
Following a situational assessment, it was determined that as of 23:00 (IST) tonight, changes will be made to the Home Front Command’s defensive guidelines.
As part of the changes, it was decided to prohibit educational activities across Israel. In green areas, gatherings will be limited to 1,000 people.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-13April2024-Changes to the Home Front Command’s defensive guidelines 13-15April2024
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Jordan announces it’s closing its airspace-13April2024
Visegrád 24-tweet-13April2024-Jordan announces it’s closing its airspace
BREAKING:
Jordan announces it’s closing its airspace
Visegrád 24-tweet-13April2024-Jordan announces it’s closing its airspace
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Iran attacks Jerusalem 14April2024
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-14April2024-Iran attacks Jerusalem
Israelis’ reality in the last hours:
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-14April2024-Iran attacks Jerusalem
FUNNIEST THING HAVE SEEN TODAY-tweet-14April2024-Israel 99 percent shootdown success rate
Of the 331 missiles and drones launched by Iran at Israel:
– 185 out of 185 Kamikaze Drones were shot down
– 103 out of 110 Ballistic Missiles were shot down
– 36 out of 36 Cruise Missiles were shot down
– 7 Ballistic Missile impacts have been recorded on Israeli territory
FUNNIEST THING HAVE SEEN TODAY-tweet-14April2024-Israel 99 percent shootdown success rate
JerusalemCats Comments: Didn’t Saddam Hussein have the same problem?
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When Iran decided to attack “zionists”:
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🚨 Breaking: British 🇬🇧, American 🇺🇲, Israeli 🇮🇱, Jordanian 🇯🇴, and Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 air forces are intercepting drones over Jordanian airspace right now.
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Meet the real Israel
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Meet the real Israel – the grassroots emuna Israel. Paratroop spec ops performing havdala service last night before combat deployment this morning. Brothers in arms, may Hashem protect them all, amen.
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כזאת הבדלה עוד לא ראיתי
עורב צנחנים לפני כניסה לפעילות
I have never seen such a difference
Paratroopers sing Havdalah before entering the activity
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Gaza War: It’s a new world and Israel is adapting to it in real time.
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Trigger warning!!
This is a very unpopular opinion that will surely anger a lot of people.
One of the things that has bothered me most about this war is the fact that it’s taking us this long to wipe out Hamas.
After all the wars we won against multiple armies, some of which took just days, how is it that we’re this many months in to a war against a terrorist organization and not even an army?
Is the IDF losing its edge? Did it already? Is the old strong courageous IDF a thing of the past?
I don’t know about you, but this issue has been weighing on me for months.
Well, let’s talk about it.
If you’re too lazy to keep reading, I’ll give you the punchline. No. The IDF isn’t weaker. The IDF is infinitely stronger now than ever before.
So then, how do I explain the fact that we’ve been at this war for six months and there is no end in sight?
The answer is simple. The IDF hasn’t changed, the nature of war has changed.
Mark my words. Not only will Israel win this war, but Israel is establishing itself as we speak as the global authority on urban warfare. All countries will be turning to Israel in the future to learn how to fight a war in the 21st century.
So why is it taking so long?
Well, for a lot of reasons.
Let’s start with the enemy.
Wars have rules. Rules of engagement. Certain things can’t be done in war. There are war crimes. When two sides of a war are playing by the same rules, there can be a clear winner and a clear loser. Victory is clearly defined.
But not in this war.
Our enemy in this war has no restrictions or guidelines. There is nothing they can’t, won’t, and haven’t done.
I don’t need to tell you this. You’ve read about it.
– Using innocent women and children as shields as they attack IDF soldiers? ☑️
– Setting up bases in a hospital? ☑️
– Attacking from within nurseries? ☑️
– Hiding weapons and ammunition in kids’ rooms? ☑️
That’s them.
On our side?
– Ignoring human shields and attacking anyway? ❌
– Flattening the hospital that’s hosting the terror base? ❌
– Bombing nurseries from which our enemies attack? ❌
– Destroying kids rooms because they are storing weapons and ammunition? ❌
So you see, we’re playing chess and they’re playing basketball.
They have their own rules and we won’t play by their rules. They sure as heck won’t play by ours.
But that’s only the beginning.
What did every war ever have in common that this war does not?
Um, they were all conducted above ground. You know, like a battlefield…
Not this one.
There has never been a war that is primarily fought under ground.
I don’t know if any of us understand the complexity here.
A friend fighting in Gaza told me that he cannot walk ten steps without stepping on an opening to a terror tunnel. They created a full blown underground system that is larger than the London Underground.
Add to that, that Hamas had decades to prepare for Israel’s ground invasion. Setting up traps in tunnels, elaborate hiding places, and more. They had all the time and money in the world to ensure a maximum number of IDF casualties.
But it doesn’t end there. Not even close.
Again, imagine the old school battlefield. Or if you want to look at more modern wars, there are tanks, artillery, infantry, and Air Force, all with a clear target and a clear mission.
Now forget all of that.
There is no battlefield. There is no clear target. There is a clear mission but total lack of clarity of how to finish this mission because there are surprises waiting for the soldiers at every corner.
The separation between civilian buildings and military structures does not exist. The battlefield here is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and that is Hamas’ best weapon, its own people.
Again, we’re playing chess, where the objective of the game is to minimize civilian death and maximize the elimination of terrorists. They’re playing basketball where the objective of the game is to maximize civilian deaths thereby getting the world to pressure Israel to withdraw and end the war.
IDF soldiers in Gaza are facing unprecedented complexity that has never been seen in the history of wars.
Think about it.
They can’t walk a single inch without the threat of an attack.
They could be attacked from above using an RPG or a sniper. They could be attacked from below using grenades and automatic weapons. They could be attacked using anti tank and anti aircraft missiles from within buildings. They can be attacked by walking into a booby trapped structure. And remember, they can’t just fire indiscriminately to clear the area before entering. There might be civilians there.
Add to that, Hamas has zero concerns about losing people. They thrive on it because every single person killed is presented as innocent, a lie the world has completely adopted and used to pressure Israel. So Israel wants minimal death. Hamas wants maximum death. Chess and basketball.
Also, we define victory as getting our hostages back and eliminating Hamas. They define victory as literally anything else. If one Hamas terrorist is left alive, in their book, they won this war. In fact, in a sick and twisted way, their leadership already thinks they won the war by the very fact that Israel is still fighting.
And finally, let’s talk tech.
The amount of tech being used in this war for the first time in history is truly insane. That requires a learning curve.
Take drones for example.
Drones have the potential to change the game.
They can go into tight spaces. They can detect terrorists in places humans can’t. They can give the IDF a Birds Eye view of an area. Drones are a no brainer in a war like this. The only issue is that no one knows how to maximize the effectiveness of drones without training.
There are endless types of drones.
There are tiny bug size consumer drones. Then there are larger consumer drones that use GPS to maintain stability. Well, that can’t work. So we need to remove the GPS chip from all the drones. Otherwise they pose a threat and can be used against us. Then there are larger drones that can carry weight. Then there are FPV drones that can fly in much tighter spaces but require more training. Then there are commercial drones. Thermal drones. Long range drones. And the list just goes on and on.
And that’s just drones.
What about robotics? Robotics are also used extensively in this war. Then there is endless vision tech, some of which was developed by Israeli startups. There is tech that can see through walls. There is tech that can see around corners.
All of this requires training.
So let’s just summarize this.
We have a war between two sides who are playing a totally different game with different rules and different definitions of what constitutes victory.
You have one side with zero restrictions and zero need to behave morally. You have the other side that is held to a higher standard of morality than anyone, and one little mess up can cause an international crisis. You have one side that wants to minimize civilian death and one side that’ll do anything to maximize it. You have one side behaving like cockroaches and hiding in every corner and under every rock and you have another side that has to use cutting edge tech to kill the bugs.
The bottom line is this.
What the IDF has accomplished in this war is not only incredible, it is historically unprecedented. Right now everyone is falsely claiming that Israel is committing genocide or killing indiscriminately, but when this war is over and the real numbers are exposed, the world will be in utter shock about how Israel won this war with historically low casualty numbers on its side and the total destruction of a terrorist organization that had decades to prepare for the war.
The few military strategists who are already analyzing this war have said clearly that what Israel is doing in Gaza right now is borderline miraculous and has never been done before.
If you want to get a clear picture of just how complex this war is and just how sophisticated the IDF is, just think about all the assassinations Israel has carried out, or even just look at the latest one carried out in Syria.
Not enough has been said about this assassination.
You have to remember that this was a highly senior and top secret meeting between the highest ranking Iranian official outside of Iran along with his deputy and multiple other senior terrorists from Iran and the Islamic Jihad.
Now remember, this wasn’t Israel’s first assassination. We’ve been doing this for decades. The world recognizes Israel’s superior intelligence capabilities. These officials clearly recognized the threat of being assassinated by Israel and took measures accordingly.
No one knew about this meeting. The meeting was intentionally held in a very sensitive and explosive (I am going to award myself ten points for that pun) area with several government buildings all around it, including the Iranian consulate as well as the Canadian one. That was not an accident.
And yet, Israel was able somehow, and I genuinely cannot understand how, to get the intel of who was in the meeting and where it was being held. They were able to take off in Israel, fly into enemy airspace without getting detected, and then conduct a precision attack that would take out everyone in the room and cause zero damage to the government buildings in its vicinity.
We read about this news and then continue scrolling. Few people understand just how complex this mission was and how miraculous it is that it was a perfect success. We take it for granted now, but military strategists will be teaching and analyzing this event for decades into the future.
So, no, the IDF is not weaker than in the past. The IDF is learning on the job how to fight a war that is near impossible to win, succeeding, and maintaining historically low casualty numbers on its side. There is no country or military that can teach Israel how to win this war. It’s never been done before.
Israel isn’t weaker. The nature of war has changed dramatically and Israel is writing the rule book in real time while withstanding unprecedented pressure from all directions. Military pressure. Political pressure. Diplomatic pressure.
And I haven’t even mentioned Hezbollah in the north.
It’s a new world and Israel is adapting to it in real time.
The statement that Israel is the strongest and most moral army in the world has never been truer than it is today!
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On the Spiritual Level, this War is Biblical. Worldwide the Antisemitism is through the roof. That is forcing Jews to leave Colleges and make Aliyah. It is separating the World, the Erev Rav and Jews In Name Only from the Jews. It is motivating Jews to be more observant.
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Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
Worse than Again
Henryk Grynberg
Published online: 04 July 2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/23739770.2024.2365025
Is it happening again? No, it is worse. Antisemites of the 1930s weren’t always aware of the consequences of what they were saying or doing, while our contemporaries know and understand all too well. Back then, most of them couldn’t even imagine that a multimillion-strong ethnic group could be demonized and systematically annihilated by such advanced and seemingly cultured and civilized segments of humankind. In the 1930s, no one chanted “Gas the Jews!”
Writing in his Jewish News Syndicate on January 26, 2024, Jonathan S. Tobin wonders what allowed the Nazis to succeed as well as they did in exterminating European Jews and “how a supposedly civilized people like the Germans, with the help of various collaborators from other nations, convinced themselves that it was not only acceptable to kill that many people but justified to do so.”
As an eyewitness to and survivor of the greatest crime against the Jewish people and perhaps humanity, my answer is that a pre-existing conviction—Jew-hatred or antisemitism—which had been an inherent part of culture long before the emergence of Fascism or Nazism, meant there was no need to convince anybody of anything. According to sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, all that was necessary was twentieth-century technology and communication. Pointing to Fascists, Nazis, Germans, Austrians, or other major participants only adds to the confusion. They were all antisemites, and hatred of Jews was their common denominator.
For many years after the Holocaust, antisemites badly needed a substitute or a code name to camouflage their hatred. One such euphemism was “anti-Zionism,” a term invented by Soviet propaganda mavens after Israel had attained its independence and most Zionists had turned to the West instead of to the East. The popularity of this clever new code name skyrocketed after Israel’s stunning June 1967 victory over the Arab–Soviet coalition. Anti-Zionism as a cover for antisemitism has been especially useful in my native Poland—the epicenter of the Holocaust—where “Jew” was always, and still remains, a dirty word. Overnight, every Jew and virtually anyone related to anyone of Jewish descent was branded a “Zionist,” though most of them were actually anti-Zionists of pro-Communist or Bundist persuasion. Ironically, until 1967, some of those who were later victimized as Zionists had not even known of their Jewish roots. Nonetheless, they were all purged from their jobs, universities, and the country.
However, even at the height of that political hysteria, they were not denied the right to live in Israel (never called the “Zionist entity”). Equipped with one-way passports that barred them from returning to Poland, they were harassed and maltreated by officials all the way to the border, not unlike what happened during the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain. Yet contrary to what is being heard nowadays, nobody denied them the right to live. Yes, there were demands that Israel withdraw to the pre-1967 demarcation lines, but nobody anywhere chanted “from the river to the sea.” On the contrary, Polish protesters chanted “Zionists to Zion!” Some of the more disoriented carried banners proclaiming “Syjoniści do Syjamu!” [Zionists to Siam].
Yes, in 1975, the UN, led by an Austrian ex-Nazi, adopted Moscow’s infamous “Zionism = Racism” resolution. Yet no one dared publicly declare that Zionists “don’t deserve to live,” as did a Black American student activist on a worldwide social network after October 7. I mention his race because “students of color” are prominent in the global academic coalition against Jews, having forgotten that Blacks had been our fellow Untermenschen according to Nazi race theory, and that we had been true allies in the long struggle for human and civil rights in America and Africa. It is important to draw attention to the differences between the 1930s and the 2020s, when, due to intersectional race theory—more preposterous, divisive, and disastrous than even Nazi race theory or the Communist class war—we are now being more alienated and isolated than ever.
Yes, forty-two Holocaust survivors were butchered in a shocking pogrom on July 4, 1946, in Kielce, Poland, but at that time, governments and the media both in the East and the West condemned the crime, and no one dared publicly justify or support the perpetrators. This stands in stark contrast to what has been seen since the even more heinous, and genocidal, pogrom of October 7, 2023, which claimed the lives of thirty times more victims. Yes, the cruelty and inhumanity of the October 7 assault was much like the 1940–41 pogroms in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, and Iraq—amazingly perpetrated in the absence of “Zionist occupation,” “Zionist genocide,” or a “Zionist entity” of any kind. Despite a thoroughly Nazified Europe and a Nazi-influenced Middle East, however, public opinion in those days was clearly divided between left and right, and a chance for shelter and protection could still be found on the left. Now the diabolically clever totalitarian intersectionality leaves us virtually alone.
In the summer of 1967, I met a translator in Poland employed by Interpress, a government PR outfit producing material for foreign consumption—the Warsaw-based counterpart to the US Information Agency (USIA). The man, a skilled Anglicist (also an alcoholic), tearfully confided in me that he was forced to translate disgusting antisemitic propaganda from Polish to English for Poland’s not-so-clever Arab allies. Once I defected to the US (in late 1967) and was employed by the USIA a few years later, I often detected Polish- and Soviet-style anti-Jewish tropes and tricks—particularly misinformation, disinformation, and censorship—not only in the Arabic Middle Eastern media, but even in the supposedly sophisticated West.
Now I can see that this trend has only intensified. For example, a short satirical poem on Karl Marx’s antisemitism that I posted on Facebook was at first blocked and then restricted with a warning. The same happened when I merely quoted Steven Spielberg’s prediction that we may “once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish.” Even more “community standards” were invoked in response to my attempt to demonstrate the idiocy of the antisemitism of supposedly bright and educated Ivy League co-eds who loudly support Hamas—the backward and bloodthirsty Iranian proxy that fanatically denies women equal rights, including the right to education.
Trying to outsmart Facebook’s AI, I clicked on “boost post,” which promises additional exposure for a moderate price. To my surprise, my request “wasn’t approved.” Why? “Your ad may have been rejected because it mentions politicians or is about sensitive social issues that could influence public opinion or how people vote and may impact the outcome of an election or pending legislation.” First, it wasn’t an “ad,” but a statement. Second, under the US Constitution, I have the right to speak about “sensitive” issues that may influence public opinion or affect the outcome of an election or pending legislation. Facebook also asked who was paying for the ads. This was all in response to my logical observation that support of Hamas among women is idiotic. This makes me suspect that “anti-Zionism” is more welcome in American social media than my opposition to it as a Jew. I suspect these “community standards” were invented in order to gag opinions inconvenient for antisemites— a new form of censorship that muzzles a Holocaust survivor who resists post-Holocaust antisemitism.
After fleeing Communist antisemitism in 1967 for American freedom, I wrote The Victory, a sequel to The Jewish War, which had been written and published in Poland. While writing The Victory, for the first time in my life I experienced the feeling that no one was looking over my shoulder, and the lack of such control or the need to exercise self-censorship—the strange feeling of freedom. Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, an iconic figure in twentieth-century Polish literature, praised The Jewish War for its skillful “concealments and insinuations.” In The Victory—considered by some literary experts to be my best prose—I did not need to make use of such a technique.
But now, in the same America, I again have that familiar feeling of my writing being scrutinized by someone who may not “approve” of it. Correction: This is not the same America. For years now, a creeping coup against its freedom has been underway, stealthily waged by forces that usually show their true colors when they are firmly in power, as my generation experienced in postwar Poland and other “people’s republics,” or later in Cuba. Here, I pose a rhetorical question: Are those who seek to gag or castrate the opinion of a Holocaust survivor merely antisemitic? I think not. An unusually candid professor in Tehran has admitted, “The anti-Israel protestors are our people.” In other words, antisemitism is yet again a means to achieve a more important goal.
“Life as Disintegration” was the title of the first in my collection of essays, The Non-Artistic Truth, because disintegration was the predominant phenomenon in my life: the disintegration of a feudal-based countryside and the Jewish shtetl; one culture after another; the physical annihilation of Yiddishkeit as well as of the Haskalah; a liberation that quickly became the opposite; and, finally, the persistent increase of post-Holocaust antisemitism that logically seemed impossible. Even the traditional escape to America now seems futile.
Nowadays, paradoxically, the old country seems less hostile. “American politicians have sufficiently learned from their Eastern colleagues, and the owners of American mass media from their Eastern counterparts,” I noted forty years ago in the aforementioned essay. That statement was never truer than it is now. The widespread “anti-Zionist” campaign, containing overt promises that October 7 will be repeated “10,000 times” and “every day,” and declarations that “Zionists have no right to live” have surpassed all the murderous Jew-baiting of my own memorable past (even Hitler himself didn’t dare spell out his plans so literally). These utterances have to be taken at face value, as they cross a new red line, and we have yet another reminder of something that I have long insisted: that the Holocaust was not a crime against what, ironically, is called humanity, but by it.
In conclusion, I turn to Jews who once again sympathize with the suffering of their enemies more than that of the people into which they were born. Make no mistake: Genocide is the premeditated slaughter of 1,200 Jewish men, women, and children in southern Israel on October 7, not the subsequent bombings of Gaza. Genocide was the deliberate murder of at least one million children by European antisemites in the 1940s, not the unintentional deaths of thousands of children in Gaza—the unavoidable collateral damage of Israeli air raids over Hamas targets. In World War II, as I remember it, the air forces of all sides involved perpetrated such acts without being accused of deliberate mass murder, except for the German Luftwaffe.
The latest war in Gaza—still much less devastating and tragic than concurrent conflicts in Sudan and Yemen, which have not precipitated a single student protest—can be halted immediately by those who started it in the first place if they release all the hostages and surrender. For incomprehensible reasons, such a simple solution is hardly ever taken into consideration. Instead, all demands are being directed at Israel and the Jews, who were the first victims of this latest Jewish war for survival. I wonder whether post-Holocaust Jews are prepared to accept this new anti-Jewish precedent, this “for-Jews-only” new normal. I certainly am not. And I must confess that I am glad that most of my fellow Holocaust survivors have not lived to see what I am seeing.
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Henryk Grynberg
Henryk Grynberg is a Polish–Jewish novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist who has won many prestigious literary awards and is the author of more than forty books, many of which have been translated into other languages. His works tell the story of Polish Jews murdered in the Holocaust and the challenges faced by the survivors in postwar Poland and the United States. The struggle for me
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Biden-Blinken presented Tehran list of Mossad agents
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The “alleged” is true. The Biden-Blinken treachery is deeper and more sadistic than a normal imagination can fathom.
For months, on this forum, I’ve been yelling about the tragedy of trusting in flesh&blood favors rather than trusting in Hashem. It’s painful when your so-called best friend sells you down the river, but this is not new. The current Gaza war should have lasted no more than 6 weeks. Bibi has allowed the mole Blinken, the arch-treacherous self-hating Jew, to dictate to Israel. “Feed your enemies; put fuel in their rockets.” Here O Israel what happens when you lack emuna.
Bibi, this is your last chance to draw the line. Start observing Shabbat, eat kosher and stand up to America. If you choose political convenience again, selling our bravest warriors down the river, you will prove that all your opponents were right.
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US allegedly presented Tehran list of Mossad agents involved in Haniyeh assassination – report
The delegation sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AUGUST 14, 2024 22:16 Updated: AUGUST 15, 2024 04:08 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-814793#814793
An unnamed source in Iran’s Supreme National Security Council told Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran, the Kuwaiti paper wrote on Wednesday.
“This is categorically false,” a US National Security Council spokesperson told The Post.
Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel, al Jarida noted in their reporting of the story.
The mission was reportedly to convey to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that the Biden-Harris administration was “kept in the dark” by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the assassinations of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr. Israel took responsibility for the assassination of Shukr but has yet to comment on the death of Haniyeh in Tehran.
Allegations behind the death of Hamas leader Haniyeh
Haniyeh was killed by an explosive device that was smuggled into his guesthouse in Tehran, the New York Times reported, and the Jerusalem Post independently confirmed. The bomb was hidden in June and utilized remote technology.
An earlier report by The Telegraph alleged that the Mossad hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in Haniyeh’s room, citing two unnamed Iranian officials in the report. The same report stated that the agents left the country but maintained a close source in Iran.
Fox News also reported on the recent development, noting that the American delegation was speculated to arrive in Iran through Turkey, landing at the Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj last Thursday and engaging in a two-hour meeting with Iranian officials before returning to Turkey.
Allegedly, the American delegation presented a list with the names of ten Mossad agents within Iran whom the Americans believed were involved in the assassination, directly or indirectly.
Al Jarida said that the Americans would have reportedly done this as a “good faith” initiative in response to Israel’s strikes, which were carried out without American coordination.
Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report
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Is the US intel community leaking Iran information on Israel’s plans?
AUTHENTIC: Leaked Classified U.S. intelligence documents show Israel’s plans to strike Iran
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NEW: A set of classified U.S. intelligence documents purporting to show information about Israel’s plans to strike in Iran have been confirmed as authentic in a report by CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/19/politics/us-israel-iran-intelligence-documents/index.html).
Drop Site News has also been reviewing these documents since they were posted on a pro-Axis of Resistance Telegram channel on October 17. The documents are labeled top secret and only to be shared by Five Eyes intelligence partners. The nature and motivations of the leak are as yet unknown, while the U.S. government claims to be conducting an internal investigation. The documents, which make reference to Israel’s unacknowledged nuclear program, can be seen below:
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Pentagon official Spy for Iran IRGC
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Breaking: Israel Hayom reports that the leaker of classified documents from the Pentagon was Ariane Tabatabai.
Tabatabai kept her security clearance in Oct. 2023, despite credible allegations she was spying for Iran. The failure to remove her security clearance led to this.
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MUST SHARE: Ariane Tabatabai is the Pentagon official suspected of leaking highly classified Israeli intel. As a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, she used her Harvard email to *communicate directly with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps* a U.S. designated terrorist group
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Seeking the Favor of Nations?
A Jew who thinks that earning favor with the non-Jews and blending into their culture will benefit him is sorely mistaken. Everything depends on Hashem alone and His Divine Providence.
Kalever Rebbe | Posted on 26May2024 | https://breslev.com/4128693/
Seeking the Favor of Nations by Kalever Rebbe
“For the children of Israel are servants to Me”. (Vayikra 25:55)
Only One World Power
Throughout history, there have always been nations who became the world’s leading power. They were the strongest, mightiest nation and it considered itself the “leader amongst nations.”
These countries are always exerting their power and influence over the other nations, which do everything they can to try and please the leading nation.
While these countries might seem strong and powerful, the yidden must always remember that Hashem rules over all of the nations. He is the King of Kings. Hashem alone determines who will lead the world at different times. Hashem designates kings as we say on the Yomim Noraim in the V’Chal Maminim: “Who grants kingship to kings, and [all] sovereignty is His. And all believe that He the eternal King…”
There have been times when the yidden have forgotten this fundamental principle. They admired these nations and their leaders. And, as a result, they emulated their cultures and behaviors slowly assimilating into their host cultures. They believed that this would help them earn society’s respect and favor.
However, in the end, this has always been proven to be a fruitless effort. Assimilation never secured the safety of these Jewish communities. These nations have always – at one point or another – turned against the Jews. They would issue harsh and horrific decrees that targeted the Jewish communities. All their efforts to be accepted were for naught. For, in the end, everything depends on Hashem, the Supreme Ruler of the world.
While you can see this reality during any point of history, it was patently clear during the Holocaust. The nations of the world did not heed the Jews’ call for help.
It’s Only Jews!
In Parshat Vayishlach, after Dinah was defiled, the children of Yaakov demanded that the people of Shechem should circumcise themselves.
R’ Yehonason Eibshitz, zt”l, explained the reason of this demand:
A Friend Quickly Becomes a Foe
This was also true in Egypt. It was a world power. And the Jews began assimilating. They indulged in the culture’s decadence. Eventually, Hashem turns Pharaoh’s heart and the Jews, despite their efforts to be accepted by society, become vilified, hated, and enslaved.
The slavery itself inspired the Jews to want to return to Hashem. They realized the errors of their ways. The slavery made them understand that they needed to maintain their Jewish identity and that sacrificing that identity to try and earn favor by the non-Jews was useless.
They began to be more diligent to differentiate themselves from the non-Jews through their clothing. They dressed like Jews and not Egyptians. By doing so, they merited the redemption as Chazal taught (Pesuksa Zutrasa, Parshat Veira 6:6) that the Jews were redeemed because they did not change their style of dress.
The Modesty and Merit of the Jewish Women
There was a special merit for the holy Jewish women. Egypt was known for its immodesty. The Egyptian woman would wear revealing clothing. They dressed and acted promiscuously. However, the Jewish women did not change their clothes. They still dressed and behaved modestly.
This was not easy. It took tremendous devotion and sacrifice. They were mocked and ridiculed. They were degraded by the Egyptians. The Jewish women could have spared themselves this humiliation had they decided to dress like the Egyptians. In fact, they could have dressed in a way that no one would have been able to recognize that they were Jewish. They could have left the Jewish “ghetto” in Goshen and tried to blend into Egyptian culture.
However, these righteous Jewish women would not bend in the least. They continued to dress, walk, and behave modestly. Married women covered their hair. And, because of this, they were called “the righteous woman”, and it was in their merit that the entire Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt.
The Lesson from Egypt
We constantly remember this story of Egypt. And we must always learn this practical but critical lesson. For example, for a Jew think that if he changes the way he dresses during the week he might be able to be more successful in business, he needs to remember that is based on a false narrative.
A Jew who thinks earning favor with the non-Jews and trying to blend into their culture can be beneficial, mistakenly thinks that these non-Jews can actually help him.
Everything depends on Hashem and His Hashgacha Pratis. He alone controls this word. The only “being” that can help a Jew is Hashem. Therefore, the Jew’s only focus must be to earn favor in Hashem’s Eyes. He must realize that if he violates Hashem’s Will, then he loses everything. And, if he fulfills Hashem’s Will, he can receive everything with serenity and ease, as we saw in Egypt.
More Than Style
Jewish clothing is like the seal of the King, the King of the World. A Jew’s clothing distinguishes him as a Jew and as a member of the King of King’s legions. It is our uniform. As it says (Devarim 28:10), “Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you… ”
This is even more relevant to the kippah one wears on his head. This is the most obvious Jewish identifier. Therefore, you should never be ashamed of it or hide it. You must always walk proudly and openly with your kippah on your head demonstrating and proliferating the Glory of the Heavens. <
“I am the Lord!”
This is the meaning of the pasuk quoted above. Hashem tells the Jewish people, “For the children of Israel are servants to Me… ” Jews most proudly remember that they are members of Hashem’s legions. We are His rank and file. Therefore, the Jews must not try and assimilate into the non-Jewish cultures to be viewed favorably. You cannot tend to the non-Jews like a slave who eagerly tries to please his master since everything in his life depends on that master. The Jews must remember that the non-Jews themselves are under the domain of the King of Kings.
We need to contemplate that Hashem declares that: “They are My servants, whom I took out of the land of Egypt”. The Jews must remember the clear lesson of Egypt: our only mission is to be faithful servants to Hashem.
We are subservient only to Him and therefore, “I am the Lord, your God…” The faithful are rewarded, men and women, for being proud of their Judaism, and adhering to the Jewish identities expressed in their dress and behavior which are aimed to cause favor in Hashem’s Eyes.
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Three parables of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk on the upcoming Geulah | Rabbi Elchanan Shalom Elgrod
Rabbi Elgrod brings three parables of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk on the upcoming Geulah that explain todays reality
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Kosher inside not only outside
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-2April2024-Hate for law and order
“Hate for law and order” – look at this as the so-called “brothers” throw torches at policemen and try to lynch the Prime Minister. Where on earth is the Shin-Bet who is charged with guarding the PM? https://twitter.com/liran__tamari/status/1774158077559759047
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-2April2024-Kosher inside not only outside
A pig shows a kosher foot but everyone knows it’s not kosher. Some people call themselves my brothers. They use outward kosher symbols such as the Star of David. Yet inside, they seethe with hate for law and order, Torah and observant folks. You decide who they resemble.
Liran Tamari-tweet-30March2024-Anarchists, Violent Criminals
עשרות מפגינים פרצו חסימה משטרתית ועושים את דרכם לבית נתניהו
Dozens of protesters [EDD: Anarchists, Violent Criminals] broke through a police blockade and are making their way to Netanyahu’s house
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-2April2024-Hate for law and order
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A Kosher Foot
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Persecuting our finest soldiers won’t buy us the love of the world
Yekutiel Ben Yaakov via email 31July2024
Persecuting our finest soldiers won’t buy the love of the gentiles and won’t gain immunity for Bibi and Galant from the International Court of Injustice in Hague
10 combat soldiers from Israel’s Elite Force-100 were brutally arrested by the military police in an unprecedented raid on the Sde Teman Base, where the ten serve as part of an emergency intervention force that protects the military police guards and the rest of us from the dangeorus “Nukhba” terrorists detained there. Force-100 was created in the aftermath of the Oct. 7th massacre after the IDF captured thousands of Arab terrorists, and at the request of the military police who were inept and ill equipped to quell riots and attempted breakouts as well as attempts to injure and assault the less trained Israeli military police. In one such case a Hamas Nukba platoon commander, who was responsible for instructing his fellow terrorists how to behead Jewish children and how to rape and murder Jews on Oct. 7th, attempted to instigate a revolt in Sde Teman. Sources claim that when Force-100 was called in to intervene, the terrorist, who would later lodge a complaint, injured and allegedly bit one of the soldiers and attempted to steal his tayzer gun. The rest is the terrorist’s word against the testimony of the ten soldiers who deny any wrong doing during the mayham. The only evidence army prosecutors have presented in addition to the allegations made by the terrorist is a medical report that says that the terrorist suffered an injury to his buttocks that was caused by a third party. It is well known that Arab terrorists regularly hide cellphones and make shift weapons in their buddox. Thus, the Israeli guards often check them in these sensitive areas. Was our “poor” terrorist injured in such a search? Was he injured while trying to smuggle a weapon or phone in his butt? I don’t know, but the cameras appear to support the denial of the Force-100 suspects, who have apparently not been seen committing any fowl-play on camera. In Sdeh Teman there are cameras everywhere.
The masked military police who launched the raid at the request of the Army prosecutor’s office, confiscated the weapons and the phones of the suspected soldiers, hoping to censor any information about the bizarre arrest to the public. However, they were not quick enough. One soldier succeeded in catching the shameful raid on camera and sent it out to the free world before his phone was confiscated. The embarrassing footage triggered public outrage, and mass protests outside of the make-shift Sde Teman prison base as well as infront of the military police courthouse in Beit Lid. Police claim that angry protesters, including Knesset Members stormed and penetrated Sde Teman as well as the courthouse in the two simultaneous protests which have been ongoing since the arrests.
The military prosecutors requested that the 10 be held without bail for further investigations, but an agreement was reached, and two suspects were released last night while the judge ruled that the remaining 8 soldiers wuld be held until Sunday for further interrogation and to give the Army prosecurtors time to pen indictments.
The Israeli prosecutor’s office conceded that they were wrong for carrying out the arrest in the shameful and embarrassing fashion that it was carried out, which was reminiscent to arrests and raids against hardcore criminal gangs or terrorists. I think that the government wanted to the images broadcasted around the world to show the world how much we will hit ourselves to protect the rights of poor terrorists.
A representative from the military prosecutor’s office appeared before an urgent session convened by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee and admitted that they initiated calls to Gaza – to released Arab terrorists who had been held in Sde Teman to try and collect information that could lead to prosecution of Israeli soldiers. It is unclear whether the prosecutor’s fishing-expedition uncovered any evidence that could be harmful to the IDF or its soldiers. I could only imagine the looks on the faces of these bewildered and confused baby-killers who received these incredible phone inquiries to rate the hospitality they received in Israel’s prisons. It might have gone something like this: “Shalom, this is Captain David, from the Israeli military prosecutor’s office. We have some intimate questions to ask you about your stay in our Israeli jails. We want to enlist your help to persecute and prosecute Israeli soldiers.” And poor Mahmud who might very well have been suspected of raping a dozen Jewish victims and murdering who knows how many Jews, surely must have answered – “Please don’t kill me, I did not kill any Jews.” The Israeli prosecutor might then have continued, “No Mahmud, we are on the same side. We want to get the Jew-guards who watched you in Sde Teman to suffer in prison for crimes they may have committed against you. Surely you can remember something; anything at all that could lead us to arrest and convict an IDF soldier.” Mahmud, must have thought and thought more: “Hmm. Yes, come to think of it, now I remember that they treated us horribly as if we were terrorists and not the freedom fighters who we are, long live Palestine and the Chief IDF prosecutor.”
The ultra-leftist Israeli media is riddled with opeds and articles quoting Israeli pols and generals who all mimic the same nonsense to justify the arrests. The choir of the very same offcers responsible for the conceptions and misconceptions that led to the massacre on Simchat Torah now babble about the protective-judicial-net that these (false) arrests will provide to help dismiss future allegations of genocide and war crimes against soldiers, and Israeli politicians, now that Israel will be able to claim that we are vigilant in investigating our own soldiers, even if the complaint was made by a lone-terrorist rapist and mass murderer with zero supporting evidence.
Let it be known, our poor Nukhba terrorists not only excel in the art of raping Jewish men and women, chopping off Jewish heads, and ripping babies out of their mama’s wombs, they also excel in tearing soldier’s away from their post and from their task of preventing terrorists from attacking prison guards and breaking-free to kill more Jews. They are excellent murderers and they are slick cry-babies. The soldiers were not arrested for any crimes that they committed. They committed no crimes. It is their word against the word of a modern day Nazi terrorist commander. Force-100 is only called in to intervene when there is a riot or a terrorist who is posing an immediate threat to prison guards. It is alleged that our poor terrorist bit and injured a prison guard, as he attempted to steal a weapon. The jail-cells have cameras. Any wrong doing would have been recorded. It is much more likely that any injuries sustained in the butt of the terrorist was caused by his fellow terrorist inmate buddies or by smuggling a knife or cell phone up his butt, a known Arab prison stunt and common practice among Arab detainees.
Let the obvious be known: Israel will not buy the love of the Goyim haters who sit and misjudge Israel in the Hague or the U.N.by persecuting our finest soldiers. Bibi, Galant and Herzi will not gain immunity from prosecution for alleged war-crimes by prosecuting soldiers on trumped up charges. If anything, this will only fuel further misplaced prejudice against themselves and fellow Jews. These cases can and will be used against Israel in a court of law in the future. Bending over backwards to appease the Goyim only backfires, as our Rabbis teach us in the Talmud, tractate Sota 41, Appeasing the evil causes you to fall into their hands. Israel has taken insane and suicidal steps causing the unnecessary death of so many soldiers due to misplaced compassion and “purity of arms” to protect “innocent” Gazans. Israel has held itself to insane standards that no army in the history of moderrn-day warfare ever followed. And as we have learned, the more Israel risks its own soldiers, and the more precautions taken to protect the lives of the “non combatatnts”, the more Israel is charged with committing genocide.
This bizarre and grotesque theatre of the absurd being acted out by self-hating, frightened Israeli politicians and generals will not save them from future prosecution. Sacrificing our very best soildiers on an altar to find favor in the eyes of anti-Jewish judges by producing the findings that they fabricate in their local Israeli Kangaroo court will be only be used against them in the international tribunals and courts of injustice.
I know the brave and special souls in Force-100. Some of them are volunteers in IDU and have volunteered to save the lives of many missing people in Israel. The soldiers in Force-100 have been enlisted into this holy unit, risking their lives daily to defend the nation of Israel from the most barbaric and cunning terrorists. How twisted and sad to see our defenders treated like terrorists. Only a corrupt system will prefer the claims of a sole terrorist to the ones made by close to a dozen soldiers, who have sacrificed themselves, leaving their families and buisnesses to protect all of us.
I have several proposals for the heads of Israel’s military prosecutors and for Israel’s Attorney General. Why don’t they leave their ivory towers and fancy air conditioned offices and homes to maintain the peace and guard these barbaric terrorists with their peace loving and immoral suicidal methods and standards that they impose upon our soldiers? I have an even better idea if they want to make certain that no soldier abuses any poor terrorist. Enforce a mandatory death penalty. In fact, had Israel given Yihya Sinwar the death penalty, instead of releasing him in a prisoner exchange, there never would have been terrorists imprisoned for committing the massacre. Sinwar was the mastermind behind the Simchat Torah massacre. One good thing might yet come out of these false arrests. The people of Israel have had enough! There is only so much our courts and judicial system can get away with doing on behalf of our must brutal enemies and agaisnt our most loyal sons that can be tolerated. There is change in the air. The recent spontaneous protests from grass-roots Israelis is a sign that the average Israeli has seen enough!
Tomorrow there is a big protest planned for 6:00 PM in Tel Aviv at Henrietta Sold 1, Thursday Aug. 1, “The people of Israel Salute our Soldiers – hands off of our soldiers”
See the attached posters, and help spread them to friends and family in Israel. Join the protests, and help sponsor more posters demanding freedom and justice for our soldiers. Am Yisrael Chai!
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Why Has the Biden Administration Donated Close to One Billion Dollars in “Aid” to Hamas since the October 7 Massacre?
by Robert Williams
July 31, 2024 at 5:00 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20811/biden-administration-donates-to-hamas
Blinken meets with the Emir of Qatar
The US has donated close to a billion dollars of taxpayer money to Gaza, ruled by the officially designated terrorist group, Hamas, in the eight months following October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Iranian proxies that invaded southern Israel, carrying out this act of war on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran. There, they brutally murdered 1,200 people, raped and mutilated women and children, burned children to death in front of their parents, and abducted more than 250 people into Gaza.
Also, starting on October 7, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad – in close cooperation with their allies in Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon – have launched more than 19,000 rockets, missiles and attack-drones at Israel, a country smaller than New Jersey.
And yet, since October 7 the Biden administration has rewarded Hamas with the gift of close to a billion dollars in US taxpayer money, disguised as “humanitarian aid”, most of which clearly ends up in the hands of Hamas (here, here, here, here, here and here).
Since October 7, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) gave more than $674 million in “humanitarian aid” to Gaza. On July 11, USAID announced another $100 million for Gaza, making it a total of more than $774 million. In addition, since October, the Biden administration has given $122 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which effectively functions as a branch of Hamas in Gaza, bringing the total of US taxpayer funds donated to Gaza as a reward since the October 7 massacre on to $896 million, or close to a billion dollars.
The overlap between UNRWA and Hamas has been an open secret for the past decade, but became fully public only after October 7 with the findings that at least 12 UNRWA staff actively participated in the October 7 attack. Most recently, on July 4, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked UNRWA to terminate the employment of 100 terrorist operatives still working for the organization.
“In recent months Israel has discovered that hundreds of terrorists, members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have been employed by UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, some of them holding high-ranking positions in UNRWA or in Hamas,” Ambassador Amir Weissbrod wrote in the letter to UNRWA.
A lawsuit, brought in December 2022 and updated in March 2024, by Rep. Ronny Jackson and victims of terror attacks in Israel, alleges that President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken “knowingly and unlawfully” provided more than $1.5 billion in aid to Gaza and the West Bank since taking office. Biden and Blinken have “known for years” that the US aid is providing “material support” for Hamas’ “tunnels, rockets, weapon procurement, and command and control infrastructure,” among other terror structures, the lawsuit stated.
The Biden administration has sought to have the case dismissed twice but failed. On June 28, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the lawsuit can proceed, and that there is evidence the Biden administration continued awarding taxpayer cash to UNRWA even after Congress blocked funding to that group due to its support for Hamas’s military infrastructure.
So, billions in US aid for the Gaza Strip, which is home to just two million people, most of whom actively support the terrorists running the territory and their Iranian handlers according to poll after poll. The Biden administration would have Americans believe it is all about humanitarian aid for people in extreme need.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (ICP), a UN-affiliated body, published two reports in June, concluding that there is no famine and that the supply of food to Gaza has, in fact, increased, not decreased, in recent months. The UN has also admitted that until now there have only been 32 deaths in Gaza from malnutrition, 28 of them among children under 5 years old.
The question nobody seems to ask is whether it is a reasonable policy to send billions in aid to a terrorist group supposedly for two million people who apparently do not receive it — rather than to, for instance, according to the US World Food Program (US WFP), which works in cooperation with USAID, “nearly 350 million people around the world [who] are experiencing the most extreme forms of hunger right now. Of those, nearly 49 million people are on the brink of famine.”
US WFP lists the ten countries suffering the most from hunger right now (updated on June 25), including Sudan (26 million people facing extreme hunger), the Democratic Republic of Congo (23.4 million facing extreme hunger), Yemen, (17 million), Syria (12.9 million), Afghanistan (12.4 million), and South Sudan (7.1 million people). Gaza is nowhere to be found on the list.
Sudan is the country in the world with the most people facing hunger and the situation is extreme, with people eating grass and peanut shells.
“At least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger,” the New York Times reported last month. The famine has been deliberately induced by the warring sides, according to anonymous sources within the UN, and is therefore a war crime. By the UN’s own admission, although Sudan is the country with the worst famine, it is also the most forgotten and ignored.
How much aid has the Biden administration, so concerned with humanitarian assistance and people in dire need, donated to Sudan in fiscal year 2024? About one third of the aid to Gaza, namely $280 million. Let that sink in: Gaza’s Hamas terrorists, who shoot at their own people when they try to take some of the aid intended for them, received almost three times as much as Sudan in fiscal year 2024, even though Sudan, a country of 48 million, is in the midst of devastating famine.
How about DRC Congo, where 23.4 million people face starvation? The Biden administration, so concerned with humanitarian compassion for victims of famine and war, has donated around $424 million dollars from June 2023 to June 2024 to DRC Congo — about half the amount that Gaza received.
In short, the Biden administration has donated less to Sudan and DRC Congo combined, where a total of nearly 50 million people face starvation, than to Gaza, where 2 million people face no such thing. What is going on? And where is Congress?
There is more: Hamas is an Iranian proxy: Iran orchestrated the October 7 attacks. Iran sends $100 million to Hamas, $700 million to Hezbollah, and tens of millions to Islamic Jihad every year. Biden has actively enabled those Iranian donations by propping up the Iranian Islamic regime’s generous financing of its terrorist proxies, most recently in March by offering Iran sanctions waivers worth $10 billion.
It is evident that US foreign aid is not premised on humanitarianism and alleviating suffering, as the Biden administration would like to have us all think. Because if it were, its foreign aid would be channeled where people are actually starving to death — not to Gaza and straight into the pockets of Hamas.
According to FBI director Christopher Wray, “the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate years ago.” Iran, officially labeled the world’s leading sponsor of state terrorism by the 2023 US annual Terrorism Report, calls the US “the Great Satan” and continues to vow “Death to America.”
Blinken casually announced in a July 19 interview that Iran had reduced the time it would need to create sufficient fissile material for a nuclear weapon “to one to two weeks.” He then went on to gaslight the audience by claiming that the Biden administration has been “maximizing pressure on Iran across the board.”
Why is the Biden administration, under the pretense of “humanitarian aid,” drowning these terrorist enemies of America in US taxpayer money? And what, if anything, is Congress going to do about it?
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HAMAS IS IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE
Caroline Glick-tweet-1July2024-White House officials hate Israel
Maher Bitar, Karine Jean Pierre, Reema Dodin and a host White House officials hate Israel. Susan Rice runs the White House. As Obama’s NSA, Rice was so hostile to Israel, she refused to meet with Israeli officials.
These positions are a feature not a bug in Biden’s White House.
SAFE CAMPUS-tweet-18May2024-HAMAS IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
🚨 ‼️ 🚨 HAMAS IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
**MAHER BITAR**
Biden’s Top National Security Council Advisor is a radical Palestinian, Anti-Israel activist, former Board Member of the radical Anti-Israel activist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and a former UNRWA employee [UNRWA is intertwined with Hamas, a U.S. designated terrorist organization. SJP is the subject of multiple investigations and lawsuits for alleged ties to Hamas].
Bitar worked as an intern for the anti-Israel organization Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP). FMEP has provided grants, via dark money Far-Left NGO groups such as George Soros’ Tides Center, to multiple radical anti-Israel groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), IfNotNow, and Palestine Legal among many others.
In 2021, Rep. Michael McCaul (Texas), the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said the following: “U.S. and Israeli intelligence cooperation has repeatedly saved American lives and advanced U.S. national security. Maher Bitar is a long-time Boycott, Divest, and Sanction activist who has called for the abandonment of Israel. “Appointing him for an integral role on the National Security Council is a slap in the face to our important ally Israel, and it sends a terrible message to the rest of the world. I strongly urge the Biden administration to quickly retreat from this dangerous decision and to appoint someone who is better aligned with our allies and less divisive.”
https://canarymission.org/individual/Maher_Bitar
Chaya Raichik-tweet-13May2024-This is Maher Bitar
This is Maher Bitar. He was appointed as Biden’s special counsel. He’s also the director of intelligence and defense programs in the National Security Council.
He was the president of the radical extremist organization SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) at Georgetown University.
Caroline Glick-tweet-1July2024-White House officials hate Israel
SAFE CAMPUS-tweet-18May2024-HAMAS IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Chaya Raichik-tweet-13May2024-This is Maher Bitar
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Biden’s Colour Revolution in Israel during WAR
Caroline Glick-tweet-3April2024-The US has never been more open about its efforts to oust a foreign government
The US has never been more open about its efforts to oust a foreign government in a color revolution than the Biden administration is today in its singleminded quest to overthrow Israel’s democratically elected government.
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Israel Faces ‘Color Revolution’ as Opposition Protests, Gantz Wants New Elections
Israel color revolution (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty)
Joel B. Pollak 3 April 2024 https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/03/israel-faces-color-revolution-as-opposition-protests-gantz-wants-new-elections/
Israel faces the prospect of a U.S.-backed “color revolution” in the middle of its war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza as the opposition backs street protests against government, and a key cabinet minister has demanded new elections.
A “color revolution” is a coup d’état accomplished through mass protests targeting the existing government, elected or not, with the assistance of the media — and, usually, with backing from foreign powers, including the United States.
For the six months since the October 7 terror attack, Israel had seen remarkable unity, with protests — mostly centered in Tel Aviv — against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms — a distant memory.
There were weekly protests in favor of a deal to release the Israeli hostages from Hamas custody, but organizers were careful to steer clear of electoral politics — and the decision to reach a deal was not entirely in Israel’s own hands.
But in early March, U.S. intelligence agencies released an assessment that stated that “we expect large protests demanding [Netanyahu’s] resignation and new elections. A different, more moderate government is a possibility.”
That news emerged just days after war cabinet minister Benny Gantz suddenly visited the U.S. for talks with Biden administration officials. Gantz leads an opposition party that joined Netanyahu’s government in an emergency government of national unity, but he also remains Netanyahu’s main political rival. Gantz reportedly did not clear his trip to the U.S. with Netanyahu beforehand. A few days after the U.S. intelligence assessment emerged, another rival to Netanyahu, Gideon Sa’ar, left Gantz’s party, suggesting the possibility of renewed domestic political turmoil.
Then U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivered a bizarre speech demanding new elections in Israel to oust Netanyahu. President Joe Biden backed Schumer, calling for regime change in Israel (and not Iran).
Meanwhile, in Israel, the issue of drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) emerged as a political issue, with the left-wing judiciary saying that religious scholars could no longer be exempted from the draft. That decision, in turn, threatened to bring down Netanyahu’s government, as religious parties opposed the draft.
Meanwhile, hostage protests and left-wing political protests began to merge. And last week, a four-day protest began — not in Tel Aviv, but in Jerusalem, with tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrating outside Netanyahu’s office. A tent city — with most of the tents curiously identical — went up at the site, with protesters occupying the area, demanding new elections. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak — a key figure in leading last year’s protests, who had also called for Israelis to “beseige” the Knesset, or parliament, in February — gave a speech there, demanding “elections now.”
And on Wednesday, Gantz held a press conference on his own, demanding that new elections be held in September.
Notably, Schumer rushed to congratulate Gantz:
Josh Kraushaar-tweet-3April2024-Chuck Schumer responds to Benny Gantz call for new elections in Israel
FIRST @J_Insider: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer responds to Benny Gantz call for new elections in Israel (September):
Schumer: “When a leading member of Israel’s war cabinet calls for early elections and over 70% of the Israeli population agrees according to a major poll, you know it’s the right thing to do.”
Josh Kraushaar-tweet-3April2024-Chuck Schumer responds to Benny Gantz call for new elections in Israel
Originally, Gantz had criticized Schumer for meddling in Israel’s internal politics. But now he has vindicated Schumer — who is taking a victory lap, and will keep the pressure on.
The political crisis is taking place against the backdrop of growing international pressure on Israel, with the Biden administration opposing Israel’s plans to destroy the last Hamas battalions in the city of Rafa, and with the White House slamming Israel for a mistaken airstrike on an aid convoy.
It is suddenly possible that Netanyahu could be toppled — just as the Biden administration wanted — with unclear consequences for Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
In addition, Israel faces growing threats from the north (Hezbollah), the east (terror in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank, and Iraqi militias), and the south (Houthis), all fueled by the Iranian regime.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Purim and the Betrayal of American Jewry
By Tzvi Freeman https://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/6366328/jewish/Purim-and-the-Betrayal-of-American-Jewry.htm
New York City and Haman
If there is any one word that can describe the emotional reaction of Jews to the sudden flood of antisemitism in America today, it is “betrayed.”
Who has betrayed us? Not the white supremacists, not the neo-Nazis and the ignorant, brainwashed skinheads—there’s no element of surprise there—but the educated, humanitarian left, that segment of society that Jews have embraced more than any other, both ideologically and socially. The gentle souls who walked with us in sympathetic conversation have turned with teeth, claws, and venom against us.
What prompted their betrayal? Because they saw that it was possible to murder, rape, and torture over 1,200 of us, abduct our babies and elderly, and get away with it. That was “exhilarating” and “awesome.” That very morning, there were those who jumped out of bed eager to blame the victims, defend murderers and rapists, and celebrate our pain. Only later were they angered that we dare attempt to rescue our loved ones and protect ourselves from those who would destroy us, dampening the perverse antisemitic exhilaration that comes from seeing a Jew suffer.
Why is betrayal so shocking? Because it redefines not only the present but the past. It means that all along, the people you thought were your friends were holding a dagger for you in their back pocket. It disrupts your sense of reality so that you are now forced to think and live in an entirely different way.
The Jewish people, on their long trek through history, carry a sort of mirror, a statement of a time that was then as it is now, here as it was there, because it continues to play and replay in endless variations. There’s a time for pulling this mirror out, around winter’s end, as the blossoms begin to appear, on Purim. It’s called the Scroll of Esther, or just “the Megillah” (the Hebrew word for scroll).
The story of Esther takes place in the world’s first cosmopolitan civilization, the Persian Empire. With a network of highways and the first postal system, with appointed governors over lands from Ethiopia to the Indus Valley, comprising a vast diversity of some 60 million people, the Persian Empire by necessity relied on a policy of tolerance.
We had been exiled from our land to the heart of this empire for over three generations. As an educated class, we had made great contributions to their economy, their culture, and their civilization. Among us were scribes, scholars, political advisors, such as Daniel, Mordechai, and even the queen herself, Queen Esther.
The capital city of Shushan was filled with successful Jews. When the king made a banquet for all the city’s inhabitants, we were there, and we were treated no differently than any other subjects of the king. In the royal palace, a Jew could ask for kosher food and be served it, or for whatever food or wine he or she may please.
And then the news arrives that the king has secretly signed off on Haman’s plan to render his empire Judenrein. It makes sense that we would be left in shock (as the Megillah puts it1). We had been betrayed by the empire we had come to consider our home. It was a shock perhaps even more sudden and bewildering than that which American Jewry experienced on October 8, 2023.
In Ancient Persia, it probably wouldn’t have helped to stand up at a public award event and declare that you don’t consider your Jewishness a justification for whatever blood-libel Haman’s thugs had fabricated. Or to publicly divorce yourself from the actions of Mordechai and his refusal to bow to Haman. On the other hand, you could likely escape the wrath of Haman’s protesters by getting out of your typically Jewish mode of dress and pretending you were just another fire-worshiping Persian.
But this magical mirror tells us, no, that is not what saved us. No Jew at that time even considered jumping ship.
Haman had declared we were a scattered, fragmented people.2 So we united as one.3
As Esther instructed Mordechai, “Go, gather all the Jews.” And as many midrashic accounts describe at length.
Of course, being united didn’t change the minds of Haman’s terrorists. Neither did it directly change the mind of the king. It worked for only one reason: Because we are not a normal people. We do not exist within the natural universe. We are a special people with a G‑d-given task to bring His oneness into this crazy world. And only when we embrace that task of oneness can we rise above the natural ramifications of being the proverbial lamb among seventy wolves.
What does it mean to be united as one? Does it mean that we all agree on everything? In the Jewish sense of the term, definitely not.
Jewish unity means that we listen to one another, care for one another, and work together for the good of us all. That gives us strength, and the strength brings with it more unity.
When Jews feel united, we are not afraid to stand out as Jews, to do the things Jews do in public, to stick mezuzahs to the doorposts of our homes and offices, to request a kosher meal at the office lunch party, or to turn up at school or work one day with a kippah.
It empowers us to embrace a new, lucid notion of reality—the notion that we are here with a purpose to change the world, that we have largely succeeded, and that those who despise us are those who despise change for the good. They themselves may not recognize their resistance, their subliminal desire to return to the savagery of pre-modern times. They may cloak themselves in a gown of humanitarian concern, dressed with the badges of the struggle of the oppressed.
But the masquerade is over, the masks have been removed, and everyone now knows what the word “Zionist” really means when issued from their histrionic mouths. It’s up to each one to choose which direction you wish to travel on history’s highway.
This is the miracle of our current situation: The Jewish people have never been so united. Past pogroms and outbursts of antisemitism brought fear, anger and assimilation in their wake. This horrific attack has acted as a great shofar call to bring us together. Perhaps for the first time in Jewish history, there is a shortage of tefillin, as scribes struggle to keep up with the demand. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a Jewish woman who does not light Shabbat candles.
Perhaps we will discover divine meaning in all this pain, that all we really have is that which we had from the beginning.
Last week, Brigadier General Dan Goldfus, much-admired commander of the 98th division of the IDF, spoke to his nation with great emotion. “From my heart,” he pleaded, “I ask of you to be together, united, to push away the extremism, and to adopt togetherness. Find what unites us. We on the battlefield found it and we will not give up on it. Make this all worthwhile.”
There are many who do not believe in us. But we believe in ourselves. We look in our mirror and we see, as in the Purim story, that the tables will soon be turned. And if the darkness can become light, and our pain transformed to joy, then, too, perhaps this time around, all the hatred in the world can be forever put to rest. For real.
FOOTNOTES
1. Esther 3:15.
2. Esther 3:8.
3. Esther 4:16;
By Tzvi Freeman
Tzvi Freeman is the author of Bringing Heaven Down to Earth and, more recently, Wisdom to Heal the Earth. Subscribe to The Daily Dose of Wisdom and Freeman Files for regular updates.
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Jews In Name Only – Purim Edition
Associated Fress-tweet-24March2024-JVP-Everyone Clapped for Haman
AF – At Megillah (Book of Esther) Reading Tonight for Jewish Voices for Peace Everyone Clapped for Haman
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The Canary Mission database was created to expose individuals and groups that are anti-Freedom, anti-American and anti-Semitic in order to protect the public and our democratic values.
CODEPINK
https://canarymission.org/organization/CODEPINK
Overview
CODEPINK: Women for Peace is an anti-war activist group in the United States that engages in regular actions to harm the State of Israel. The organization aggressively promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has been criticized for maintaining close ties to the Hamas regime in Gaza.
CODEPINK describes itself as “a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.”
With members wearing the group’s signature pink color, CODEPINK has conducted marches, protests and high-visibility publicity stunts in pursuit of its goals. It has regional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York.
Background
CODEPINK was founded on November 17, 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and other anti-war activists. The group’s name is a play on the United States Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded alert system in which Code Red signifies the highest level of danger.
In September 2008, a number of CODEPINK leaders personally met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York City. CODEPINK subsequently launched an aggressive anti-Israel campaign that included open support for Hamas. That November, Jodie Evans and a CODEPINK contingent visited Iran at the personal invitation of Ahmadinejad.
Meeting With Hamas
In March 2009, CODEPINK led an international delegation of anti-Israel activists to Gaza. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addressed the activists in Gaza by phone while other Hamas officials addressed them in person.
Hamas protected the demonstrators during their two-day stay in Gaza by tightly controlling CODEPINK’s movements and contacts which included Palestinian homes, local NGO’s and Palestinian refugee camps run by the United Nations. Activists also stayed in a luxurious hotel owned by Hamas.
In 2009 CODEPINK further escalated the intensity of its international campaign to stop the blockade that Egypt and Israel had imposed on Gaza (to prevent the importation of weaponry) after Hamas‘s 2006 election as the region’s dominant political entity.
CODEPINK helped to organize an “International Women’s Day” delegation to Gaza in March of 2014. Upon arriving at the Cairo airport on March 3, 2014, however, Benjamin was detained by Egyptian authorities. She was reportedly injured by Egyptian security forces and deported to Turkey. Other members of the international delegation who arrived the next day were also deported. Some members made it into Cairo, although none from the delegation made it to Gaza.
Identifying with Al Qaeda
On June 14, 2014 – CODEPINK founder Benjamin posted a photo on Facebook, with the caption: “Foto from last night here in Yemen with Nasser Al-Awlaki, whose son Anwar and grandson Abdulrahman were killed by drones.”
Anwar al-Awlaki was linked to the Fort Hood Shooting and, identified by the U.S. government as involved in senior recruitment and planning for Al Qaeda terrorist operations.
On June 17, 2013, Benjamin and fellow CODEPINK founder Jodie Evans organized a protest in Yemen with Al Qaeda-affiliated group al-Karama. Later that year, the U.S. Treasury Department determined that al-Karama’s founding president, Qatari history professor and human-rights activist Abdul Rahman Omeir al-Naimi, was an Al-Qaeda financier.
Anti-Israel Activism
CODEPINK’s official position is to “stand(s) in solidarity with Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent activists and human rights advocates working to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law” and to “educate Americans about the realities of Israel’s occupation and to change U.S. foreign policy in the region.”
CODEPINKdivestment campaigns have specifically targeted RE/MAX, Ahava, SodaStream, Hewlett Packard and Airbnb.
On November 20, 2016, CODEPINK leader Ariel Gold disrupted a speech given by the actor Ashton Kutcher, who later defended Airbnb. Kutcher stated, “I can appreciate that where there is change there will be a fringe case that feels objectified. But this company is about bringing people together and about loving one another.” Gold was escorted off the stage by security.
Prior to the “Gaza Freedom March,” CODEPINK endorsed the “Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid” that calls for comprehensive boycott of Israel.
During the march, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin coordinated the organization’s stay with the Hamas government. Members stayed in the Commodore, a Hamas-owned five star hotel in Gaza City.
While Benjamin claimed that the Hamas government had “pledged to ensure our safety” other CODEPINK leaders accused Hamas of hijacking the initiative and imposing prohibitions on the organization’s movements around Gaza.
Funding
CODEPINK has received financial support from the Benjamin Fund, Global Exchange, the Streisand Foundation, the Threshold Foundation and the Tides Foundation.
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Hamas At The Oscars 2024
Canary Mission-tweet-11March2024-celebrities at the Oscars wore a button celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre
It has literally gotten to the point where celebrities at the Oscars wore a button celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre symbolized by one horrific event in 2000 where a violent lynch mob slaughtered & dismembered 2 IDF reservists who got lost & ended up in Ramallah.
Canary Mission-tweet-11March2024-celebrities at the Oscars wore a button celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre
Irish Jewish Voice-tweet-11March2024-Red HandPin stands for murder Jews
#Oscar2024 #Oscar A Red HandPin was worn by some last night. Here’s what it stands for.
In 2000 two Israeli soldiers went the wrong way and ended up in Ramallah where they were captured and slaughtered. A gleeful raging Palestinian mob disemboweled them and ate their organs.
There is a photo of one of the terrorists, his bloodied hands pressed against a window.
That’s your red hand pin.
Irish Jewish Voice-tweet-11March2024-Red HandPin stands for murder Jews
UPDATE:
Red Hand Terrorist eliminated
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-3October2024-Red Hand Terrorist eliminated
🔴We eliminated terrorist Aziz Salha, who took part in the Ramallah lynching in Oct. 2000, in the area of Deir El Balah in central Gaza.
Salha took part in the brutal lynching of Sergeant First Class (Res.) Yosef Avrahami and Corporal (Res.) Vadim Norzhich in Ramallah in 2000. Salha was photographed with blood on his hands waving from a window following the lynching.
Salha was involved in terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria and remained involved in Hamas terrorist activities.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-3October2024-Red Hand Terrorist eliminated
The Persian Jewess-tweet-15March2024-Oscar2024 Blue Pin
I like our pins better. 😎
#AmYisraelChai
#StandWithIsrael
The Persian Jewess-tweet-15March2024-Oscar2024 Blue Pin
A shield from the “evil eye”
Chabad.org-tweet-26February2024-The Hamsa-A shield from the ‘evil eye’
I see it everywhere, the iconic wide-open eye on the palm of the hand.
Buts the Hamsa a Jewish Symbol?
https://chabad.org/lxuabf
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6324210/jewish/Is-Hamsa-Jewish.htm
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Is Hamsa Jewish?
By Menachem Posner https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6324210/jewish/Is-Hamsa-Jewish.htm
Hamsa
A Hamsa is an amulet that depicts a symmetrical open hand, typically used decoratively in the home or worn on jewelry. Its name—Arabic for “five”—is representative of the five fingers of the hand and the protective qualities associated with that number. While designs vary, it is common for there to be a wide-open eye on the palm of the hand—symbolizing the desire to be shielded from the “evil eye.”
The Hamsa is widespread among Sephardic Jews, many of whom hail from Arabic lands. But it is also common among Muslims and Christians from those same lands. So can the Hamsa be considered a legitimately Jewish symbol, or is it something borrowed from non-Jewish neighbors, or even a holdover from idolatry which was once ubiquitous in those lands?
This question has been hotly debated, with great halachic authorities supporting various approaches.
Following the opinion that considers it foreign to the Jewish religion, many Jews refrain from using the Hamsa or hanging it in their homes.
However, many Sephardic rabbis taught that it was a legitimate Jewish symbol. Prime examples would be Rabbi Chayim Yosef David Azulai (Chida), as well as Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad (the Ben Ish Chai), who records the custom of hanging a small hand engraved with the Hebrew letter hei (which has the numerical value of five) to ward off the evil eye.1
So if this was the custom of your community, you may continue to use one with confidence. If you have no such custom, it would be wise to consult with your rabbi before purchasing that flashy little Hamsa charm.
Furthermore, it is important to keep in mind that the Talmud reassures us that the evil eye only affects you if you give it credence and if you worry about it; if you ignore it, the evil eye does not affect you at all.
Footnotes
1. Ben Ish Chai, Second Year, Parshat Pinchas, 13.
By Menachem Posner
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Americans airdropped MRE food into Gaza, Gazans throw it out
Aviva Klompas-tweet-4March2024-Americans airdropped MRE food into Gaza, Gazans throw it out
Americans airdropped food into Gaza.
This man throws it in the trash.
Aviva Klompas-tweet-4March2024-Americans airdropped MRE food into Gaza, Gazans throw it out
American Humanitarian Aid washing up on Tel Aviv beach
Lee Caspi-tweet-16March2024-on Lee Caspi-tweet-16March2024-on Tel Aviv beach
Spotted on this morning’s Tel Aviv beach walk: unopened canisters of cooking oil, individual soap packages, and a few bottles of condensed milk. They were being cleaned up by a municipal employee, who told me “it’s a humanitarian delivery to Gaza” 💔💔💔
Lee Caspi-tweet-16March2024-on Tel Aviv beach
Steaming hot shawarma in Gaza
Marina Medvin-tweet-5March2024-steaming hot shawarma in Gaza
No wonder they’re throwing American air-dropped dry meals into the trash— they got steaming hot shawarma in Gaza right now. I too prefer shawarma to dry ramen noodles.
Marina Medvin-tweet-5March2024-steaming hot shawarma in Gaza
The Gaza genocide is a blatant lie
Marina Medvin-tweet-7March2024-Gaza genocide is a blatant lie
Man from Gaza confirms a food deficit and destruction but says people are alive and living their lives.
The Gaza genocide is a blatant lie— it’s literally a Holocaust smear they use to prod at Jews.
Marina Medvin-tweet-7March2024-Gaza genocide is a blatant lie
Marina Medvin-tweet-11March2024-they have better food on the table
The reason they throw away the dehydrated American parachute drop meals is because they have better food on the table.
The only people starving in Gaza are the Israeli and American hostages.
Imshin-tweet-11March2024-Displaced Gazans in South Gaza Strip eat their first Suhour meal
Displaced Gazans in South Gaza Strip eat their first Suhour meal before dawn today, in preparation the first day of the Ramadan fast.
#TheGazaYouDontSee https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSFf3psp5/
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Hamas MRE Review
John Aziz-tweet-17March2024-air dropped aid
There is something really twisted about dismissing air dropped aid that has been delivered to help Palestinians in Gaza to stay alive and survive.
This aid will save people’s lives.
But this guy went to the trouble of making a video denigrating it.
Quds News Network-tweet-16March2024-Ahmed Kouta MRE review
Palestinian activist Ahmed Kouta exposes the contents of US airdrops to the starving population of Gaza.
Readers added context
An MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) are packages of condensed calories meant for military, and also used for humanitarian aid.
According to the Defense Logistics Agency, “The contents of one MRE meal bag provides an average of 1250 kilocalories” made of “13% protein” and “36% fat”.
https://www.dla.mil/Troop-Support/Subsistence/Operational-rations/MRE/
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Egypt supporting Hamas-tunnels linking Gaza with Egypt, Hamas supplied with American weapons
Cheryl E-tweet-19August2024-Egypt supporting Hamas
You wanna know why Biden, Harris and the US Administration were so hellbent and forceful about Israel not going into Rafah a few months ago?
Because they knew exactly what Israel would find. They knew we would find hundreds of tunnels linking Gaza with Egypt. They knew full well that Egypt, who was a key member of the negotiations for a ceasefire, was arming and funding and fully supporting Hamas in breach of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. They knew, and instead of doing the right thing and rebuking Egypt both diplomatically and publicly, they chose to rebuke Israel for finding the truth and cutting it off. They wanted to brush it under a rug because they knew it would change everything about Biden’s desperate attempts to get a ceasefire for his own election campaign needs. Instead of standing up to terrorism, they threw their ally under a bus.
But we did find the tunnels and the evidence and the American weapons and bombs Hamas were supplied indirectly and directly by the administration. All the public pressure and humiliation of Israel by the US was to cover up the damage that the truth of what we discovered would bring.
And now that truth has rightfully changed things. We should tell the US and Egypt and Qatar and importantly Hamas that everything has changed and can never be undone.
Egypt are complicit. But America’s actions are a betrayal of immense magnitude.
We now know, and we are the only party that has any right to make any demands.
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Destruction of Egypt and Jordan
Rabbi Jacob Y. Herzog-tweet-15August2024-Destruction of Egypt and Jordan
معلومات اليوم. لن أجامل في قول الحقيقة.
⭕️خراب مصر جاء وحصل على يد الرئيس السيسي. لن تتعافى مصر من ما فعل هذا الرجل . مصر الآن ماء نيلها مهدور وقريبا محظور. جفاف مقيت ثم سيل مميت والسبب ضعف السيسي. جوع وفقر ووجع وقهر والسبب كبرياء السيسي.
⭕️هذا هو خراب مصر الذي حدثت عنه بطون الكتب القديمة وشفت الثورة جاءت بسبب هذا الرجل والغريب أن الرئيس السيسي يعلم ذلك وقد وصله تحذير من الفلكي المصري أحمد شاهين ولكن اعتماده على خاتمه المسحور جعله يعتقد أن الشعوذة تغير السياسة والواقع وفعلا مصيبة أن اكبر دولة عربية حاكمها يؤمن بالسحر والكهنة.
⭕️الشعب الأردني مستمر في الجوع ومصاريف الطعام فقط في القصر الهاشمي في الأردن 2,000,000 دولار يوميا والطباخين فرنسيين مشاهير العالم والميزانية مفتوحة وذلك اكل فقط. الملك عبدالله يعيش بين الأدوية المهدئة الموصوفة من طبيب بريطاني الويسكي والكونياك الفاخر أحيانا زجاجتين في اليوم. فهو غافل وسيصحى فقط عندما تأتي الثورة على باب القصر. هو من أسقط نفسه ونحن لا نراهن بعد على خاسر دلعناه طويلا ولم ينفع معه شيء.
⭕️الجيش الأردني يجري اجتماعات خطيرة جدا وسرية جدا ومع علية القوم للحديث عن مستقبل الأردن القادم والملك يعلم ورغم عنه ولكن لا يستطيع أن يفعل شيء في حين ملكة الأردن منفصلة عن الواقع وتعيش وتحلم أن تصبح الملكة الأم مثل الملكة إليزابيث طبعا أحلامها لا قيمة لها وفترة حكم النظام الملكي في الأردن انتهت إلى الأبد.
⭕️قبل نهاية السنة توجد خضات كبيرة لثلاث بيوت حكم. يليها الجميع ما عدا السعودية و #قطر هما بيوت الحكم الثابتة وجميع الباقي سيهتز ويواجه مشاكل وسقوط حاكمين عربيين خلال اقل من سنة بل ربما ٩ شهور.
⭕️السياسي والشيخ ثائر البياتي له دور كبير في العراق القادم بعد طرد ايران وسيهرب إلى الأردن العام القادم لان ايران ستنوي قتله. هذا الرجل لن يصبح رئيس العراق ولكنه سيكون له دور كبير في تحرير العراق من ايران.
⭕️نكسة صحية حادة لبرلماني عراقي مهم جدا ويتبعها طيران الكثير من الروؤس البرلمانية الفاسدة.
⭕️انفجار موكب مهم في العراق 🇮🇶 ونعرف من الضحية ومن فعلها ولكن ليس كل ما يعرف يقال. تذكروا المشهد حيث سيصوره الإعلام الدولي والسيارات المحروقة جسكرات لاندكروزر.
⭕️قلت لكم سابقا “مشهد معين لطائرة مزعج حدا” وقد تحقق في السقوط العجيب للطائرة البرازيلية. والان اقول مشهد طائرة تهرب ثروات الشعوب ضمن محاولة تكتم لا تنجح. والمتهم دولة عربية فقيرة وشعبها ميت جوع كلمة السر “الصرصور”.
⭕️اغتيال في تونس.🇹🇳
⭕️عارضة الأزياء التونسي عزة سليمان تسبب اللغط والملاسنات وهجوم إلكتروني عليها. السبب بسيط، رفضت دخول غرفة نوم احد الفاسدين لانها شريفة والفاسد يريد ان يدفعها الثمن.
⭕️سيف الإسلام القذافي يبدا التحرك علنا في ٢٠٢٥ وحكم ليبيا يعود لاسرته بعد بضع سنين والسياسي الجنرال حفتر يروح في المبكبكة هو وابنه صدام.
⭕️اين انتم عن السودان يا اعلام العرب والعالم؟ هل دم السوداني المسلم رخيص ولذلك لا تذكرون مذابح السودان؟ والإبادة الجماعية والتهجير؟ إلا تخافون الله؟
⭕️رامبو العرب الذي اشعل السودان وتسبب في المجازر اقول لك سينقلب كل هذا عليك حسرة ووبال وستخسر كل ما انفقت وستطرد من السودان شر طردة وتدفع الثمن مسجونا في قصرك مثل ما حصل مع الكبير.
⭕️مشهدان لهليكوبتر واحدة مزعجة ومنظرها محزن والثانية لحاكم عربي ينقل وهو مريض مرض الموت. ليس خليجي.
⭕️مديري المخابرات المصرية والأردنية في دائرة الخطر. ملك الأردن قد يصفي مدير مخابراته ورئيس مصر قد يصفي مدير مخابراته ايضا. #حاخام_جزيرة_العرب #السعودية_فوق #ازرق_اليمامة
Today’s information. I will not be polite in telling the truth.
⭕️ Egypt’s destruction came and happened at the hands of President Sisi. Egypt will never recover from what this man did. Egypt’s Nile water is now being wasted and will soon be banned. A despicable drought and then a deadly flood, and the reason is Sisi’s weakness. Hunger, poverty, pain and oppression, and the reason is Sisi’s arrogance.
⭕️ This is the destruction of Egypt that was mentioned in the old books, and I saw that the revolution came because of this man, and the strange thing is that President Sisi knows this and he received a warning from the Egyptian astronomer Ahmed Shaheen, but his reliance on his enchanted ring made him believe that sorcery changes politics and reality, and it is indeed a disaster that the ruler of the largest Arab country believes in sorcery and priests.
⭕️ The Jordanian people continue to starve and the food expenses in the Hashemite Palace in Jordan are $2,000,000 per day and the chefs are world-famous French and the budget is open and that is just food. King Abdullah lives between sedatives prescribed by a British doctor and whiskey and fine cognac sometimes two bottles a day. He is oblivious and will only wake up when the revolution comes knocking on the palace door. He is the one who brought himself down and we are no longer betting on a loser we have pampered for a long time and nothing has worked for him.
⭕️ The Jordanian army is holding very dangerous and very secret meetings with the elite to talk about the future of Jordan and the king knows despite himself but cannot do anything while the Queen of Jordan is detached from reality and lives and dreams of becoming the Queen Mother like Queen Elizabeth. Of course her dreams are worthless and the period of the monarchy in Jordan has ended forever.
⭕️ Before the end of the year there will be major shocks to three ruling houses. Everyone else will follow except Saudi Arabia and #قطر which are the stable ruling houses and all the rest will be shaken and face problems and the fall of two Arab rulers in less than a year, perhaps 9 months.
⭕️ Politician and Sheikh Thaer Al-Bayati has a big role in the future Iraq after the expulsion of Iran and he will flee to Jordan next year because Iran intends to kill him. This man will not become the president of Iraq but he will have a big role in liberating Iraq from Iran.
⭕️ A severe health setback for a very important Iraqi parliamentarian, followed by the flight of many corrupt parliamentary heads.
⭕️ An important convoy exploded in Iraq 🇮🇶 and we know who the victim was and who did it, but not everything we know is said. Remember the scene where the international media will film it and the burning cars and Land Cruisers.
⭕️ I told you before, “A certain scene of a plane is extremely disturbing,” and it was realized in the strange crash of the Brazilian plane. Now I say, a scene of a plane smuggling the wealth of peoples in an unsuccessful attempt at cover-up. The accused is a poor Arab country whose people are dying of hunger. The password is “cockroach.”
⭕️ Assassination in Tunisia. 🇹🇳
⭕️ Tunisian model Azza Slimane causes controversy, altercations and an electronic attack on her. The reason is simple, she refused to enter the bedroom of one of the corrupt people because she is honest and the corrupt person wants her to pay the price.
⭕️ Saif al-Islam Gaddafi begins to move publicly in 2025, and the rule of Libya returns to his family after a few years, and the politician General Haftar and his son Saddam go to hell.
⭕️ Where are you from Sudan, O media of the Arabs and the world? Is the blood of the Sudanese Muslim cheap and that is why you do not mention the massacres in Sudan? And the genocide and displacement? Do you not fear God?
⭕️ The Arab Rambo who set Sudan on fire and caused massacres, I tell you that all this will turn against you into regret and calamity, and you will lose everything you spent and you will be expelled from Sudan in the worst way and you will pay the price by being imprisoned in your palace like what happened to Al-Kabeer.
⭕️ Two scenes of a helicopter, one disturbing and sad-looking, and the second of an Arab ruler being transported while he is terminally ill. He is not from the Gulf.
⭕️ The Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence directors are in danger. The King of Jordan may liquidate his intelligence director, and the President of Egypt may liquidate his intelligence director as well.
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