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Friday, January 17, 2025

01/17 Links Pt2: ‘Back to Normal’ After the Gaza War?; Melanie Phillips: 10 Steps the West Must Take In Order to Survive; JVP is a shield for hate, not a voice for peace

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: ‘Back to Normal’ After the Gaza War?

If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement really does herald the end of this war, then combined with the transfer of power in Washington, the political world will largely move on from its yearlong fixation with the Mideast. But we’ve learned some important things about American politics that should inform any attempt to go “back to normal.”

The Israel-Hamas war exposed, for example, the hypocrisy of the #MeToo movement. The more that evidence of Hamas’s use of mass rape and sexual torture mounted—including detailed and graphic admissions by Hamas terrorists who carried out these monstrous acts—the more progressive voices denied it.

We also learned the hard way that “speech is violence” contains some important caveats. The truth, we now know, is that as far as campus activists and Squad-affiliated members of Congress are concerned, Jewish speech is violence—and anti-Jewish violence is speech.

The struggle against racism is noble, which is why it must be continued without the participation of people who fill the streets chanting for the Houthis, a slave-driving and institutionally racist arm of Iranian expansionism, and without white kids from Brooklyn who scream “white imperialist” at a woman from Ethiopia because she wears a Star of David around her neck.

The fight for artistic freedom and freedom of speech will be an uphill battle. The publishing industry has gone to great lengths to suppress Jewish voices; the same is true of the music industry and Jewish performers. The banishing of Jewish authors from bookstores and films with Israeli characters won’t make it any easier, nor will the violent hounding of Jewish and Israeli speakers from campuses.

Speaking of which, reclaiming academic freedom might be the longest of the long shots, as loyalty oaths have come roaring back in America’s institutions of higher learning. Nor does the anti-disinformation campaign have much hope, led as it is by those who post only disinformation and blood libels.

I could go on, but the point is made. Of all the hypocrisies facing the Jewish community post-ceasefire, however, surely none stings more than the one regarding the concept of ceasefires itself.

House Republicans urge Trump to immediately nominate an Abraham Accords ambassador

A group of 47 House Republicans led by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) urged President-elect Donald Trump to immediately nominate an ambassador-rank special envoy for the Abraham Accords, a position that has been left empty since it was created by Congress in late 2023.

Lawler and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) introduced legislation in 2023 to create a new ambassador-level position for the Abraham Accords, Negev Forum and Middle East regional normalization, which was incorporated into and passed into law through the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in December 2023.

But the position was left empty as normalization efforts became a secondary priority in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

In a letter to Trump on Thursday, the lawmakers said that they’re confident Trump will “prioritize” expanding normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab world in his second administration, and said that having a dedicated official leading those efforts would be “key to a cohesive, effective, and long-lasting normalization effort.”

The lawmakers said that the Biden administration’s failure to fill the slot — in spite of bipartisan pressure to do so — showed “clear indifference to the Abraham Accords,” which they described as “incomprehensible, bad policy, and after the NDAA’s passage in 2023, unlawful.”

“In light of President Biden’s shortcomings, we urge you to make this nomination an immediate priority,” the lawmakers continued. “We know expanding the Abraham Accords remains a key priority for your Administration and having a Presidential Envoy will be a key player in spearheading these efforts. We look forward to working with both you and the Presidential Envoy in the future to strengthen Israel’s role in the Middle East and reach long-lasting stability in the region.”

Ilya Shapiro’s new book ‘Lawless’ calls out dysfunction in higher education

Legal scholar Ilya Shapiro had a personal run-in with cancel culture in 2022, when a tweet he later admitted was poorly worded sparked an online uproar and allegations of racism, leading to an official investigation by Georgetown University Law Center, where he had been hired to lead the university’s Center for the Constitution.

Months later, the university closed its investigation and cleared Shapiro’s name. But too much damage had been done, Shapiro said, and he resigned just days after formally taking the helm of the center.

Now, three years after he posted the ill-fated tweet that criticized President Joe Biden for promising to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court, Shapiro has many more allies in his criticism of the “illiberal takeover” of higher education and legal education in particular, a problem he describes in his new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elite.

The aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel and the rise in antisemitism that followed at many top American universities proved to be a tipping point, Shapiro argued.

“It raised the issue of the dysfunction and pathologies in our institutions of higher education to a national level,” Shapiro, a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, told Jewish Insider in an interview on Thursday.

Shapiro, whose career has been spent in libertarian and conservative institutions, asserts that his critique of legal education today is not about the fact that most law school faculty at the nation’s top universities lean to the left politically. In other words, he insists that his concerns are not just the grievances of someone whose views place him firmly in the minority in the legal sphere.

“I want to emphasize that this is not the decades-long complaint that conservatives have with the hippie takeover of the faculty lounge, if you will,” said Shapiro.

Instead, Shapiro is sounding the alarm about what he fears is the corrupting of the legal profession, a field that is crucial to so many facets of American life, by a culture of silence and groupthink.

01/17 Links Pt1: Melanie Phillips: Dealing with the devil Schrödinger’s Ceasefire; Antisemitic vandals target home once owned by high-profile Jewish leader

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: Dealing with the devil

Taking the Israeli hostages was an evil masterstroke by Hamas. However, America is largely responsible for abandoning them to their fate and allowing Hamas to continue to deploy these innocents as an infernal weapon of blackmail and extortion.

The “hell” of which both Trump and Cotton have spoken should have been threatened on Oct. 8, 2023, against Hamas’s sponsor and protector, Qatar. If the Biden administration had told Qatar that unless the hostages were released within five days the United States would end every arrangement with it on which the Gulf state depends, the hostages would have been freed.

Not only did the Biden administration not do this, but it has continued to this day to treat Qatar as a legitimate interlocutor—while undermining Israel’s desperate attempt to defend itself.

The United States threatened and blackmailed Israel into admitting into Gaza aid supplies most of which were stolen by Hamas, enabling it to make millions of dollars to reinforce its own genocidal war machine. The Bidenites repeatedly instructed Israel to reduce attacks on Iran or its proxies, forcing it to fight its war of survival with its hands tied behind its back in a way that America wouldn’t have dreamed of behaving had it been targeted itself in this way for annihilation.

In part, the Bidenites’ attitude toward Israel—in many respects a continuation of former President Barack Obama’s profound animus against the Jewish state—has been driven by malice. But it’s also infused with the belief that Israel can never win its battle against the Palestinian Arabs and therefore must compromise with them.

That, in turn, is rooted in the liberal belief that all conflict is soluble through negotiation and compromise. But when the conflict is between those committed to genocide and their intended victims—as is the case between the Iran/Palestinian Arab axis and Israel’s Jews—any compromise by Israel is tantamount to offering its throat to be slit.

Trump doesn’t subscribe to this liberal delusion. And his commitment to Israel is genuine and deep. However, Trump is famously transactional. He appears to believe that all conflict is soluble through a deal—provided that he, the supreme practitioner of “the art of the deal,” is directing it.

And so, alarmingly, he has apparently reached out to Iran to begin negotiations over its nuclear program and other nefarious activities. But any negotiation with people who have a non-negotiable agenda strengthens them and weakens their victims.

Trump doesn’t want a war on his watch. He has virtually promised the American people that he will bring an end to war. But sometimes an enemy arises with whom any agreement is a deal with the devil.

If Netanyahu is seen to have been forced to agree to Israel’s defeat in Gaza, he will be finished. As for Trump, the fear is that his transactionalism will mean he ends up playing the same role as the Biden administration in empowering evil.

We can only hold our breath.

Douglas Murray: A real cease-fire deal must ensure the destruction of Hamas

“Bring them home” has been the slogan of the hostage families in Israel since October 7, 2023.

But when Hamas murdered 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, and when it took 254 people hostage, including 12 Americans, there should have been a different slogan: “Give them back. Now.”

Since that day, so many opportunities have been missed.

On October 8, Joe Biden could have called up the governments in Qatar, Iran and other rogue states and told them to get their friends in Hamas to hand over the hostages now.

Or else.

With the leverage the US has in the Middle East, a hardball approach against the Qataris, Iranians and Turks could have solved this mess 15 months ago.

Instead it has taken the pressure of the incoming Trump administration to get a deal agreed to.

It is still a bittersweet moment.

On the one hand, everyone except Hamas and its goons in the West must feel their hearts lift at the idea of the remaining hostages being released.

These are men, women and babies who did nothing wrong but have spent 15 months in the hell of Hamas captivity.

On the other hand, the deal includes the release of Palestinian prisoners, including murderers.

In the first round of releases, nine ill and wounded hostages will be exchanged for 110 Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences.

Just think about that.

An Israeli baby could be released in exchange for a dozen grown murderers.

This is very difficult for the Israeli public to stomach, not least because the last time a similar deal was done, Israel released Yahya Sinwar, who went on to mastermind October 7.

Biden has tried to make matters worse by claiming this deal is exactly the same as one he had put in place last May.

What he misses is the work that the IDF has managed to do in the last eight months.

Seth Mandel: Schrödinger’s Ceasefire

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was confident enough to make his farewell speech all about implementing a plan for postwar Gaza: “For many months, we’ve been working intensively with our partners to develop a detailed post-conflict plan that would allow Israel to fully withdraw from Gaza, prevent Hamas from filling back in, and provide for Gaza’s governance, security, and reconstruction… We will hand it off to the Trump administration to carry forward.”

But now that another full day has gone by without a signed agreement, a familiar feeling that comes when covering the Middle East is overtaking the media. The New York Times currently has the following two headlines next to each other on its website: “Hamas After Cease-Fire: Weakened, Isolated but Still Standing” followed immediately by “Deadly strikes in Gaza continue despite the announcement of a cease-fire deal.”

Indeed, according to the IDF, “Muhammad Hasham Zahedi Abu Al-Rus, a Nukhba terrorist who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and participated in the massacre at the Nova Music Festival, was eliminated overnight in an intelligence-based strike. Additionally, the IAF conducted strikes on approx. 50 terrorist targets across Gaza over the last day, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, military compounds, weapons storage facilities, launch posts, weapons manufacturing sites, and observation posts.”

Meanwhile, the Washington Post’s headline writers must think they’re being pranked, as they ping-pong from “Gazans eye ceasefire with mixed feelings: ‘What do we have left?’” to “Ceasefire deal delayed as Netanyahu bargains with far-right allies” and back to “Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal brings hope for devastated northern Gaza”—again, one right after the other.

It’s Schrödinger’s ceasefire!

The real lesson, however, is that there is no such thing as a permanent ceasefire so long as Hamas is in power. After all, there was a ceasefire in place on Oct. 6, 2023. And the trove of reporting in the wake of the attacks made clear that Hamas never had any intention of upholding that ceasefire: its restraint was a key part of its Oct. 7 strategy to lull Israel (and the world) into thinking it was becoming a responsible party in Mideast politics.

Yes, this particular deal is unique because of the circumstances, namely Israel’s hopes of getting back its captives—not because it is going to bring about a permanent truce.

The Middle East you’ll find in Western newspapers doesn’t exist. The reality for those who live in Israel is that, as its enemies say every day, there is one conflict: the attempt to eradicate the Jewish state. Does a boxing match end permanently between rounds? In football does the score go back to 0-0 after halftime?

There’s nothing wrong with diplomats touting a deal they helped negotiate. But the triumphalism from every corner except Israel ought to tell you that one party isn’t expecting a reprieve.

Richard Kemp: Hamas must be eradicated. If it isn’t, this Gaza ceasefire is a failure

Hamas is now isolated and to crown it all Donald Trump is entering the White House next week. They fear that will unshackle Israel from the constraints of Joe Biden who tried his best to prevent Netanyahu’s “total victory”. They also fear that Trump will do what Biden failed to do: force Qatar to expel their political leadership and also reduce the international pressure on Israel on which Hamas depends. There is every likelihood Trump will sanction the International Criminal Court and at the same time put the boot into the Israel haters at the UN.

All that is why Hamas has now accepted Israel’s red line: the IDF will maintain military forces in key strategic areas in Gaza and Israel retains the right to resume the war when the ceasefire ends. The terrorist organisation will meanwhile be planning to utilise its international backers to pressure Israel not to resume hostilities – including the useful idiots who parade on our streets and university campuses every week.

But while any hostages are retained in Gaza and while Hamas continues to represent a threat to its people, Israel can and should go back on the attack. For that they will have Trump’s backing. His nomination for National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, told Fox News: “I’d like to make something very clear to the Israelis, if you need to go back in, we are with you. We are 100 per cent committed to destroying Hamas as a military organisation”.

Meanwhile the focus of the war is likely to shift to the head of the jihadist octopus, Iran. Netanyahu and Trump have almost certainly already agreed on that, and this deal should be seen as one element of their joint strategy. Eliminating the ayatollahs’ nuclear programme and further undermining their regional proxy network is vital. Isolating Iran and strengthening Israel’s security is not a military project alone. Trump is also likely to return to the Abraham Accords, bringing Saudi Arabia into the fold. The prospect of that alarmed Iran so much that it triggered Hamas’s murderous atrocities on 7th October.

Nevertheless, those who are horrified by this deal are right to highlight its grave risks. It seems to involve release of more than a thousand Palestinian terrorists in exchange for 33 Israeli hostages. And a cessation will give Hamas some opportunity to regroup and rebuild its capabilities. Above all it leaves Hamas in a position to maintain its stranglehold on Gaza’s population. That would certainly be disastrous and the eventual eradication or survival of Hamas will be the true measure of the success or otherwise of this ceasefire.

The worst part of the hostage deal

Perhaps the worst part of the hostage deal is that it was made without Israel knowing which hostages are still alive. That information should have been a prerequisite for even negotiating to begin with, not a detail to find out after Hamas gains anything.

In February 2006, Hassan Nasrallah announced in Hezbollah media that he planned to get Samir Kuntar released from Israeli prison that year. Kuntar was the most loathsome terrorist in Israeli custody, having murdered a father in front of his 4-year old daughter and then smashing her head, killing her too. (It gets worse. Gruesome details here)

In July Hezbollah ambushed IDF soldiers on the border, kidnapping two and killing three - and killing five more during a frantic attempt to get the soldiers back. Immediately Nasrallah announced he wanted Kuntar released in exchange for the two soldiers, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

Israel refused and went to war instead. But in the end, Israel agreed to the deal Nasrallah launched the war to get.

During the negotiations for the exchange two years later, Hezbollah did not reveal whether Regev and Goldwasser were still alive. Hezbollah never let the Red Cross visit them. The entire country was kept in agony during the negotiations, hoping they were still alive.

No one knew for sure until the actual deal occurred and all Israel receive was two coffins in exchange for Kuntar, several other Hezbollah militants and 200 bodies.

Hezbollah achieved all of its war aims and Israel achieved none. The only thing Israel seemed to gain was UNSC 1701, which by the time of the exchange was clearly never going to be implemented by Lebanon. The deal is what made Hezbollah the unquestioned victor of the 2006 war.

All of this feels like déjà vu now. This nightmare is being repeated. Getting thousands of prisoners released was one of Hamas' primary aims in the October 7 attacks. Israel learned nothing from the deal they made in 2008.

The worst part is that we do not know the fate of a single hostage. Even those that made videos may, God forbid, no longer be alive. Hamas already claimed that one female hostage was killed by an Israeli airstrike this week - psychological torture fo rwhich it pays no price.

Like 2008, Israel is trading living terrorists for what may be only corpses. It is important to retrieve bodies, of course, but not nearly as important as saving the living. The price being paid is way too steep without knowing how many are alive.

Israel is bound by international law to treat its prisoners humanely. Hamas has no such concerns. I personally would have no moral qualms about killing every single Palestinian terrorist with blood on their hands and then telling Hamas as their bodies are returned, "oops, they must have been killed by your rocket attacks." Unfortunately, Israel cannot do that, and the next Yahya Sinwar could be freed in this deal.

But after the Kuntar deal, how could Israel make an agreement without knowing ahead of time which hostages are alive and which aren't?

(From a tweet early this morning. I couldn't go back to sleep until I wrote it.)

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The Arab inability to recognize defeat, and what it means for the future

Yasmine Mohammed tweets:

Victory parades for defeats. Catastrophic losses recast as glorious wins. This is the Islamic propaganda machine in full force.

From Egypt’s 6th of October War to Saddam Hussein’s “Mother of All Battles” to Hezbollah’s boasts of “divine victories,” the pattern is clear: when the reality is defeat, the narrative becomes celebration. Roads, bridges, and entire holidays are dedicated to battles that ended in retreat, humiliation, or worse. Textbooks have rewritten incontestable historic fact, poisoning children’s minds and revving them up about “armed resistance” and martyrdom.

It would be hilarious if the consequences weren’t so tragic.

A number of people are responding with their own experiences of seeing Arabs and Muslims who have celebrated their losses as victories.

There are two counter-examples which are worth examining: 1948 and 1967.

One was the 1948 war. The Arab world was deeply humiliated by a military defeat by weak, dhimmi Jews. There was a little attempt to brag about tiny victories - Jordan gaining the West Bank and Egypt staying in Gaza as a foothold in "Palestine." But the people, the leadership and the media looked for reasons that they could be so humiliated - people blaming their leadership, and conspiracy theories about the US or the UN helping Israel.

The humiliation was quickly replaced by a desire for vengeance. And that was the prominent theme in speeches and articles in the subsequent 19 years, to turn the anger into finally wiping out Israel.

The 1956 Sinai campaign, even though it highlighted Egyptian military weakness, was indeed celebrated in Egypt and the Arab world as a political victory when the US and Soviet Union forced Israel, Britain and France to withdraw. It was spun as a heroic Nasser standing up to major powers and bringing pride back to the Arab world.

The Six Day War could not be spun. At that time, there were no Arab celebrations. The war was so one-sided, so fast, and lost so much ground that there was nothing that could possibly be seen as a silver lining to the defeated Arabs. However, the name that they gave to the defeat was "naksa," chosen to rhyme with the "nakba" of 1948. Nakba means "catastrophe" but naksa means "setback." The implication is that even though the Arab armies were thoroughly beaten, it was only a temporary setback, and they would come back again and again.

As with everything in the Arab world, it must be looked at through the prism of craving honor and avoiding shame. 1948 and 1967 were shameful and humiliating, so the best that could be done is to promise that they will be victorious next time. In the other wars they lost, they could compare them to 1967 and say that Israel could not duplicate that feat (we saw lots of that in Lebanon and previous Gaza wars, saying that the Palestinians held out longer than the combined Arab world did in '67.)

I admire Daniel Pipes and his book "Israel Victory" promotes the idea that peace is only possible when Palestinians admit they have lost. (I haven't read the book.) Looking at this history I am skeptical whether this is even psychologically possible. Overwhelming, undeniable defeats are followed with vows to get rid of Israel next time.

Even peace with Egypt and Jordan has not made their citizens any more tolerant of Israel. The peace agreements are seen as a temporary emergency measure. Unlike Israel, Egypt does not celebrate the anniversary of the peace agreement. Also, remember that officially Israel is at "peace" with the Palestinian Authority.

Detente is the best possible scenario. To be sure, the normalization with the UAE, Morocco and Bahrain are better, and Saudi Arabia is a possibility, but these were never direct enemies of Israel and therefore not humiliated. Arabs who are directly humiliated can never truly accept Israel's existence, and each peace agreement with them is viewed as a hudna, not a permanent peace.

In the end, the only constant is Jew-hatred. Everything else Israel does, unfortunately, must be geared towards minimizing harm to Israeli citizens and Jews worldwide. "Total victory" requires the other side accepting defeat, and as we see, that will never happen.

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Human Rights Watch issued a press release condemning Israeli airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Everything you need to know about how biased they are is in these paragraphs.

The Israeli military said it had struck military targets. The Hodeidah and Ras Issa ports, however, are critical for delivering food and other necessities to the Yemeni population, who depend on imports. About 70 percent of Yemen’s commercial imports and 80 percent of its humanitarian assistance passes through Hodeidah, Ras Issa, and Salif ports, which United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Auke Lootsma said are “absolutely crucial to commercial and humanitarian activities.” Rosemary DiCarlo, under-secretary-general for the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, described the ports as a “lifeline for millions of people” that should be “open and operating.”

The Hezyaz power station is the central power station of Sanaa, providing electricity to the city’s population. After the attack, power across the city was cut for one to two days, and has been cutting in and out since according to three people who spoke to Human Rights Watch.

Deliberate attacks on objects indispensable to survival are war crimes.

This is not the first time Israeli forces have attacked critical infrastructure in Yemen. ....

The Houthis’ drone strikes and missile attacks on Israel, if deliberately or indiscriminately attacking civilians or civilian objects, may also amount to war crimes.

HRW is quite deliberately twisting and ignoring international law.

The entire text doesn't admit that Israel's targets are critical for Houthi military activity and therefore valid military objectives. That means that attacking them is certainly not a war crime - it is absolutely allowed under international law.

For example, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission wrote about an Ethiopian attack on an Eritrean power plant:

On May 28, 2000, two Ethiopian jet aircraft dropped seven bombs that hit and seriously damaged the Hirgigo Power Station, which is located about ten kilometers from the port city of Massawa. .... Eritrea asserted that the bombing of the plant was unlawful because the plant was not a legitimate military objective, and it requested that the Commission hold Ethiopia liable to compensate Eritrea for the damage caused to Eritrea by that violation of international humanitarian law. ....The Commission, by a majority, has no doubt that the port and naval base at Massawa were military objectives. It follows that the generating facilities providing the electric power needed to operate them were objects that made an effective contribution to military action.

International law goes beyond that case to even attack economic targets beyond power plants.

Australia’s Defence Force Manual includes as military objectives "power stations [and] industry which support military operations " but also adds that “economic targets that indirectly but effectively support operations are also military objectives if an attack will gain a definite military advantage”.

Belgium’s Law of War Manual says "resistance also depends on the economic power of the adversary (its war industry, its production capacity, its sources of supply, etc.); in short, its economic potential. The breaking up of this economic potential has of course a direct influence on the armed forces’ capacity to resist, so that this economic potential also becomes a war objective."

Germany’s Military Manual provides that military objectives include, in particular, “economic objectives which make an effective contribution to military action."

Sweden IHL Manual states, "How and to what extent a given object can effectively contribute to the adversary’s military operations must be decided by the commander. This need not imply that the property in question is being used by the adversary for a given operation . . . It may even be a question of . . . energy resources or factories that indirectly contribute to the adversary’s military operations."

The US Naval Handbook says "Proper economic targets for naval attack include enemy lines of communication, rail yards, bridges, rolling stock, barges, lighters, industrial installations producing war-fighting products, and power generation plants. Economic targets of the enemy that indirectly but effectively support and sustain the enemy’s war-fighting capability may also be attacked.."

Ports and power plants, along with industrial buildings, roads, bridges and anything else the military uses are valid objects for attack as long as the attacks respect proportionality. HRW is knowingly lying when it flatly accuses Israel of war crimes. HRW is twisting international law to only condemn Israel.

Furthermore, HRW claims that mentions that the Hezyaz power station is "indispensable to survival" while admitting that Yemen civilians were only without power for a day or two. It makes up a new definition of "indispensable" just to be able to accuse Israel of war crimes. (This would be part of a proportionality calculation, and attacks that are not intended to hurt civilians are not war crimes even if disproportionate, which this attack wasn't.)

It brings no evidence that humanitarian aid to Yemen was affected by the attacks on the ports.

To add insult to injury, after declaring Israel 100% guilty of war crimes, HRW offhandedly mentions that the hundreds of Houthi drones and missiles shot at Israeli civilian areas - with deadly results - only "may be" war crimes.

HRW never wrote an article solely on Houthi attacks on Israel. The only times it mentions those attacks are to add a sentence of faux objectivity to reports falsely condemning Israel.

This is not a major HRW report. But it proves that, like Amnesty, Human Rights Watch is obsessively anti-Israel to the extent that it will knowingly misrepresent international law just to damn Israel.

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Hamas issued a series of instructions to Gazans Tuesday ahead of the anticipated cease-fire.

Two of them are:

*Beware of bombed and demolished homes:* We call upon citizens to stay away from destroyed or bombed buildings, as there may be sudden collapses or falling pieces and rubble from bombed and destroyed buildings, which pose a direct threat to their lives.

*Beware of unexploded weapons:* We call upon our honorable Palestinian people to beware of the remains of bombs, missiles and unexploded ordnance, which pose a grave danger to your lives. You should not approach or touch them, and immediately report them to the competent authorities to avoid accidents that may harm you or your loved ones.

We know that Hamas set up booby-traps in virtually every house in areas of combat. As the Jerusalem Post reported two weeks ago:

As its fighters attempt to flee northern Gaza and those that are remaining struggle to maneuver in the area, Hamas has pivoted it combat strategy to booby-trapping almost every structure that remains standing.

This is typically done by hiding explosives inside closets or other furniture to harm troops conducting searches. Additionally, the buildings are stocked with weapons, including rifles, anti-tank launchers, and grenades.

The IDF discovered a Hamas video documenting the placement of explosives in a house.

Hamas themselves published a number of videos of houses that they proudly booby-trapped and they claim to have exploded them with IDF troops inside, and many soldiers did fall from booby traps.

Everyone admits that Hamas secretly wired up thousands of Gaza homes with explosives. (It's a war crime, of course, but human rights groups and the UN are quite uninterested in that.) What happens when the owners return to rebuild or retrieve their stuff? It will be very embarrassing for Hamas for the world to see their own explosives killing Gazans. Their booby traps can also kill aid workers who want to help.

We will soon be seeing more evidence of Hamas killing its own people. Hamas didn't care about them until the shooting stops - and once that happens, it makes it harder for Hamas to blame all those deaths on Israel.

No doubt Hamas will claim that they are killed by leftover ordnance from the IDF. Much of the world will believe the lie.

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01/16 Links Pt2: Where are the righteous of Gaza?; UN’s anti-Israel biases can’t hide facts of terror; The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2024

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Where are the righteous of Gaza?

During the Holocaust, even in areas where Nazi propaganda was dominant, there emerged righteous individuals who saved Jewish lives. Israel’s major Holocaust museum and education centre is Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. It records and honours 28,217 individuals with the title of Righteous Amongst the Nations. So where are the righteous in Gaza?

There have been reports of hostages being moved through various facilities and held by different militia groups and Gazan civilians. Freed hostages report being held in the homes of a doctor and a teacher employed by Unrwa. On three occasions Israel has conducted hostage rescue raids on residential premises.

There could be many hundreds or possibly thousands of Gazans who have some knowledge of the whereabouts of hostages.

To incentivise people in Gaza to assist, Israel has offered US$5 million per hostage and safe passage for resettlement. As hostages have been held in small groups, a successful release might mean multiple rewards. To most in Gaza this would be a truly massive fortune. But there have been no takers, none.

Perhaps the reaction to the conflict by nearby Arab Muslim countries assists in understanding what’s going on. Egypt, like Israel, has a border with Gaza. It is usual practice that a neighbouring country will take refugees during times of conflict. Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine , has over 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. But Egypt has reinforced its border with Gaza and refuses to accept refugees.

Indeed, no other Arab Muslim country in the Middle East will accept their brethren in Gaza as refugees. There is no shortage of space and some are very wealthy but no refugee program for Gazans is entertained. Saudi Arabia has facilities to accommodate over 2 million for the annual Hajj pilgrimage but is assisting no one from Gaza.

There is an interesting biblical story which occurred not far away, namely the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God told Abraham of the forthcoming destruction and that his nephew Lot who lived in Sodom would be saved. Abraham bargained with God for the cities to be saved if righteous men could be found. The bargaining began at 50 and cascaded down to 10. Alas, righteous men could not be found.

Israel has said the war could end with the release of the hostages and the surrender of Hamas. If there were righteous in Gaza to facilitate the release of the hostages, that would be enormously positive not only from a humanitarian perspective but in neutralising Hamas’ only major strategic lever.

The Australian Labor government takes a different view to the Arab Muslim world and thinks it is a good idea to bring in thousands from Gaza with minimal screening and to actively support the creation of a state of Palestine.

Gaza has been a de facto Palestinian state since 2005 and has proved to be a massively destructive failure. Historically, there has never been a sovereign state of Palestine. Never was, and post 7 October 2023, never will be.

Two-state solution all but dismissed by Trump confidant

A senior figure within US President-elect Donald Trump's innermost circle has recently said that the establishment of a Palestinian state was not under consideration. The source, who belongs to Trump's and his family's closest orbit of confidants and has carried numerous crucial assignments for him previously, made these comments during recent private conversations at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The senior Trump-world persona offered no explanation for this position, simply stating that "it's clear this won't happen."

Notably, Trump in December spoke about what kind of Mideast peace he would back. "I support whatever solution we can do to get peace. There are other ideas other than two-state, but I support whatever is necessary to get not just peace, [but] a lasting peace. It can't go on where every five years you end up in tragedy. There are other alternatives," he said at the time.

On Tuesday, Mar-a-Lago hosted a Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast conference, bringing together Christian and Jewish participants as part of the effort to bolster Israel-US relations. American and Israeli speakers uniformly expressed firm opposition to both the establishment of a Palestinian state and any Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. They emphasized that both religious and security considerations make it imperative for Israel to maintain its presence in these territories.

In a related development, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, during his visit to Italy on Monday, addressed the ongoing discussion about a "Palestinian state," stating that "the two-state solution is a slogan and an illusion. A 'Palestinian state' in the heart of our country would be a Hamas terror state that would undermine stability in the entire region and severely harm Israel's security."

Jonathan Tobin: The pathetic finish to Joe Biden’s failed presidency

Gaslighting, censorship and antisemitism
His subsequent farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office was in some ways even more troubling. Sounding themes that were standard Democratic campaign rhetoric these past four years, he claimed that Trump and the Republicans were threatening democracy and instituting an “oligarchy” where the wealthy ruled and took away the rights of everyone else.

This was as ironic as it was untrue since it had been during his four years in office that the Democrats had completed their journey from its old stance as the party of the working people to one that is now solely aimed at protecting the interests of the credentialed elites.

Yet in the same speech, he lamented the end of “fact-checking” on Facebook, which was supposedly aimed at stopping “misinformation” but was really a censorship regime. Indeed, in his announcement and subsequent interviews about the decision, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg confessed that it was a scheme largely driven by politics and used by the Biden administration to silence views on a wide range of issues that dissented from their policies.

As he had for four years, Biden was gaslighting the country. He claimed that his foes were against democracy. But it was his Department of Justice that prosecuted Trump, his chief political opponent. It treated Americans who differed from liberal orthodoxy on gender ideology, critical race theory or abortion as if they were domestic terrorists while largely ignoring the very real threat of Islamist terror.

Biden was no ideologue; he was an unprincipled politician who always followed his party’s fashion of the day, whether it tilted right, as it did in the 1990s, or hard left, as it has in recent years. Elected as a moderate who would restore normalcy to the nation, he took his cues from left-wingers on most domestic issues. That’s why he became a supporter of the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and imposition of it throughout the government.

His policies not only enabled the same leftist ideology that fueled the unprecedented post-Oct. 7 surge of Jew-hatred that happened on his watch. His inability to unreservedly condemn those who engaged in antisemitic agitation on college campuses and elsewhere was motivated by a futile effort to rally support from his party’s intersectional left wing that he previously done so much to appease.

Biden proved that having a half-century of experience in government is no guarantee of wisdom, political or ethical principles or an ability to learn from the past. He also showed what happens when weakness is treated as a virtue rather than a liability.

He leaves office as a forgotten man who, regardless of one’s opinion of Trump, was largely overshadowed by him even when his opponent was out of office. Though historians will likely treat him as an accidental president better remembered for his decline in office than any achievements, his mistakes must be remembered. As pathetic as his exit from the White House has been, the record of failure he leaves behind is his true legacy.

01/16 Links Pt1: In Israel, Rage, Disgust and Relief Follow Gaza Hostage Deal; Is Trump Pushing Israel toward a Bad Deal?; VDH: What We Have Forgotten About War

From Ian:

Aviva Klompas: In Israel, Rage, Disgust and Relief Follow Gaza Hostage Deal

Hamas is not a political organization seeking reconciliation. It is a genocidal terror group. Its charter calls for the annihilation of Israel and the murder of Jews. Can you imagine the United States negotiating with the Taliban as equals just 15 months after the Sept. 11 attacks? I can't.

For Hamas, this deal is a victory. The group will boast that it outmaneuvered Israel, extracted concessions, and reaffirmed that terrorism works.

In Gaza, people are already dancing in the streets. Khalil al-Haya, a senior Hamas leader, has already declared that the Oct. 7 attacks will "forever be a source of pride" and promised another assault. "Our people will expel the occupation from our lands and from Jerusalem in the earliest time possible," he said.

We've heard these threats before. We've seen what follows.

The grim reality is that some families will remain in agonizing limbo because Hamas knows it can ensure its survival by holding onto hostages and extracting more concessions from Israel.

Still, despite the immense cost and risk, I believe Israel must bring its hostages home.

There is no doubt that Israel has made significant military gains since the start of the war. It has destroyed most of Hamas's battalions, wiped out the top leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah, humiliated Iran, and restored its regional deterrence.

But for all those gains, Israel remains frozen in time on Oct. 7 — the day 1,200 people were slaughtered. The country is desperate to save the lives of those who can still be saved. The state has a duty to bring home the civilians who were ripped from their homes and the soldiers who were sent to protect the state. Prioritizing life is an agonizing choice, but it is the right one.

But the world must understand the dangerous precedent this deal has set. For 15 months, the terrorists watched as Israel, a democratic nation subjected to atrocities by a brutal terror organization, was castigated in international courts and demonized in the court of public opinion. Israel was restrained militarily and made to negotiate with its terrorist attackers.

This moral equivalence is wildly dangerous. Today, it is Israeli civilians. Tomorrow, it will be others. Hamas's existence isn't just a threat to Israel—it's a threat to all of us. And it will come at a cost we cannot yet fully comprehend.

The return of hostages is not a victory. It is a tragic necessity.

Victor Davis Hanson: What We Have Forgotten About War

All of Israel’s current terrorist enemies are supplied and guided by Iran. After sending 500 projectiles into Israel, and after, in response, Israel had dismantled Iran’s supposedly formidable air defenses, what might have followed had Israel invested another week in destroying Iran’s nuclear capability, with threats to continue on with its military bases and energy sector? Would Iran have been able or willing to supply any further its diminished terrorist appendages?

What if 100 percent of Gaza has been entered, disarmed, occupied, and purged of Hamas terrorists, in the manner that much of it had already? Would Israel have eventually destroyed the entire Hamas leadership, dismantled the entire subterranean labyrinth, and taught the population that Hamas would be a longer politically viable?

Would neighboring so-called “moderate” Arab countries have been more or less willing to ally with a formidable, and unpredictable Israel? And would the United States, even under the sanctimonious and sermonizing Biden administration, privately have been more willing to aid Israelis under such vast geopolitical transformations?

Would hostile enclaves and nations, whether in Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, or Yemen, been more or less willing to negotiate with Israel in a post-Hizballah, post-Hamas, and even post-theocratic-Iran era?

I believe Baratz is right not because I wish him to be, but because I think he has a better understanding of human nature than do his opponents, in that he understands that the revolution in military affairs, new weaponry, artificial intelligence, cyberwar, and smart bombs and shells have changed not the rules of war, but merely the velocity and lethality of it.

The more sophisticated we become, the more difficult it becomes to remember that war is fought collectively by humans. Human nature stays constant across time and space. And thus, it remains predictable and subject to universal laws that, if only understood, can mitigate the violence of war—through strategic victory.

Seth Mandel: A Soldier’s Perspective on the Ceasefire

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have fought in the war against Hamas since October 2003, yet the perspective of the Israeli soldier is often missing from the discussions of the conflict. A friend of mine who is serving his fourth tour in Gaza in this war alone yesterday posted his perspective on this week’s ceasefire deal, and it’s worth considering, since it addresses some of the skepticism toward the deal. G. is a master sergeant, a reservist, and makes two arguments worth grappling with.

First, he writes, “As the military campaign reaches a turning point, it is crucial for Israeli society to begin moving forward. In my opinion, the time has come to focus on healing the nation, supporting those who have suffered, and rebuilding the foundations of strength and resilience. This includes addressing the needs of bereaved families, aiding displaced communities, reuniting a society that has endured immense strain, and supporting soldiers, reservists, and their families in returning to routine, managing trauma, and recovering from life-changing injuries. The long-term stability and strength of Israel depend on repairing the societal fabric that has been tested during this prolonged war.”

That last sentence is similar to one of the practical arguments that helps explain Israel’s determination to redeem its captives even at the cost of incentivizing the continued practice of hostage-taking. Simply put, the Israeli people have made a pact with the state that they will send them their grown children when they reach the age of military service, and the state is to return them home when their service is up.

In that vein, the social fabric of Israeli society cannot be allowed to unravel, because (from a strategic perspective) it would threaten the foundation of Israel’s security. On the other hand, so would permitting Hamas to regroup. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fond of saying that in politics, leadership often requires choosing between two bad choices. This would be one explanation for Netanyahu’s thought process behind the deal.

There is also the question of war aims: Although under the terms of the deal, Israel retains the prerogative to resume military operations if Hamas violates the ceasefire, the agreement suggests an implicit acceptance of a new policy in which Hamas’s total defeat is no longer a primary Israeli goal. But if Hamas’s continued existence isn’t a dealbreaker, why couldn’t an agreement along these lines have been signed earlier in the war? After all, the details don’t appear to have changed significantly from the outline the Biden administration first advanced in May 2024.

Supermarkets Banking A Little Too Much On Shoppers' Enthusiasm For Tu B'Shvat (PreOccupied Territory)

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Supermarkets Banking A Little Too Much On Shoppers' Enthusiasm For Tu BiShvat

Jerusalem, January 16 - Retail grocery stores have again decided to assume a far greater interest among Israeli consumers in dried fruits, nuts, date spread, and various fruit preserves than actually exists among the buying public, industry observers noted today, as evident in the elaborate displays of such products, either individually or in gift packages, in honor of the upcoming New Year for Trees.

At Osher Ad, a chain of large supermarkets that caters in the main to Haredi consumers, store managers at the Giv'at Shaul branch have created an elaborate spread of such delicacies in anticipation of buyers snatching them up ahead of Tu BiShvat, the fifteenth of the month of Sh'vat - a day that in Jewish tradition and law marks a new year for various agriculturally-related commandments such as tithing fruit. Tu BiShvat will occur this year in about four weeks. Whether shoppers intend to buy anything for it, however, remains a tenuous assumption.

"It's gonna be huge," predicted Polly Anna, an assistant manger. "Lots of ads mention it. Companies give their workers fruits and stuff for it. Preschools make a big deal of it. Must be a tremendous time for sales. I remember bringing home Tu BiShvat stuff from school such as dried figs and dates, and my mom would get so excited! We never ate any of it, though. Just kind of put it out with dessert over the next several weeks until acknowledging no one wanted."

The origins of the day's observance comes from ancient texts that identify the fifteenth of Sh'vat as the day by which most of the winter's rain has fallen, and thus it became a harbinger of spring and the next season's harvest - an intuitive line to draw for defining fruit-tithing seasons and for uniform determination of what year of a tree's productive life yielded fruit (the first three are forbidden, while the fourth must be eaten in Jerusalem). Later centuries saw the harbinger-of-spring aspect of Tu BiShvat evolve into both a time of hope amid cold, dark exile and persecution, and a celebration of the bounty of land to which the Jews longed to return; it sits at the annual pole opposite Tu B'Av, a day of hope and potential for love even after catastrophe.

Since the only way to obtain fruits at all, and certainly the more exotic fruits associated with the land of Israel, in climes such as Eastern Europe, involved dried figs, dates, or raisins, those items became associated with Tu BiShvat even though no one actually likes them.

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Highlights of a Visit to the War-Ravaged Galilean Panhandle (Guest post by Jerry Schwartz)

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Highlights of a Visit to the War-Ravaged Galilean Panhandle

Unprovoked, Hezbollah attacked northern Israel on October 8, 2023, only 25 hours after Hamas initiated its invasion and atrocities of the farming villages of southern Israel the day before. Breaking the cease-fire that had been in effect for 18 years, Hezbollah had been firing guided antitank missiles at the northern Israeli border communities as well as longer-range rockets into the Galilee daily.

After more than a year of these attacks, a new cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel came into effect on November 27, 2024. Hezbollah’s firing of antitank missiles at Israeli border villages from southern Lebanon has finally ceased.

Taking advantage of this lull in hostilities, I joined a guided tour of the Galilean Panhandle Thursday, January 2, 2025. The purpose of this tour was to afford an opportunity to Israelis who don’t live in the border areas to see for themselves the extent of the damage to the border villages and towns, the toll on the population, and the early stages of rehabilitation.

First Stop–Kibbutz Manara

The village of the kibbutz is perched on the highest point of the mountain ridge that runs in a north-south direction along the Lebanese border (legally an armistice line). This point rises steeply 800 meters above and to the west of the Hula Valley.

Figure 1 Hula Valley from the Ridge Looking East, the Golan & Snow-Capped Mt. Hermon Opposite.

A Lebanese village, also perched on a mountaintop, is situated a few hundred meters to the west of Manara. The line of site from the Lebanese village to the houses on the kibbutz is unobstructed. This topography is ideal for Hezbollah fighters who live in the Lebanese village to fire laser-guided antitank missiles at their Israeli neighbors’ homes, and so they did 260 times during the war. Three-quarters of the houses were damaged to the point of being uninhabitable.

We were not allowed to enter the village itself because of the widespread destruction. We viewed it from a lower point from where we could see blown-out windows and rocket holes in the walls of the row of houses visible from there.

She recounted that within the first few days of the war all 260 inhabitants fled except for four who refused to leave. They fled not only because of the antitank missiles, but especially because of fear of an invasion, atrocities, and capturing of hostages such as were perpetrated on the farming villages of the Gaza Envelop in the south on October 7, 2023. Such a fear was well-founded because they knew that several thousand battled-hardened troops of Hezbollah’s Radwan Brigades were stationed just on the other side of the armistice line.

Confirming these fears were detailed plans and maps for such an invasion that were found in Hezbollah’s network of terror tunnels in South Lebanon adjacent to the border with Israel.1 Thankfully, that invasion didn’t materialize. But the threat of it was the impetus for evacuating 65000 residents of the northern border area from their homes in the first days of the war.

Another frightening finding in these tunnels was “astronomical quantities of weapons and ammunition...and they began to empty it out on us,” she said.2

A major consequence of the kibbutzniks’ fleeing was that there was no one left to work the orchards and vineyards. Making matters worse, any workers in them were sitting ducks. As a result they were able to harvest only 10% of their crops in the last year.

Regarding the future of the kibbutz, she lamented that it will take several years to bring the orchards and vineyards back into full production, and said, “We’re only at the beginning of the process of rehabilitation. It will take many months before people can begin to return to the kibbutz. I work every day with insurance assessors and tax authorities.”

The kibbutzniks and their families are now scattered all over the country. She and other responsible members of the kibbutz make sure to keep track of them all, where they are located, their welfare, any needs they may have, and any distress they might be in. Once every six weeks, they hold a kibbutz-wide meeting by Zoom in an effort to ensure cohesion among the members.

At a later stop in the tour, one of the guides commented that at the outbreak of the war there were 20 Gazan workers employed at Kibbutz Manara. The members of the kibbutz assigned the highest priority to ensuring that their workers got back home safely from Manara in the far north to Gaza in the south, by then engulfed in war, and they managed to do so.

Second Stop–Moshav Margaliot

Located a ten-minute drive north of Kibbutz Manara on the same ridge, Moshav Margaliot is a major domestic producer of eggs. Their chicken coops sustained extensive damage from antitank missiles.

Figure 2 Destroyed Chicken Coop

As opposed to a kibbutz, which is owned collectively, the families of a moshav each own their own houses and farms. This means that each family is responsible for rehabilitating its own house and agricultural infrastructure independently.

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One of the moshav’s farmers spoke to us. Standing next to the border fence, he pointed out a Lebanese village on the other side situated on a higher ridge and separated from his moshav by only about 300 meters. From there, looking down on Margaliot is like “looking down at the palm of your hand,” he said. From the elevated position of the Lebanese village, Hezbollah repeatedly fired antitank missiles down onto Margaliot and all the houses were destroyed except for a few at the far end of the agricultural village.

He reported that during this war more cross-border tunnels penetrating into Israeli territory were discovered, including at Manara. Margaliot dealt with several attempts at infiltration. In one incident an armed terrorist managed to sneak into the moshav village. Guards pursued him but couldn’t find him until the next day when they shot him.

Our “additional war” is to restore the damaged agricultural infrastructure, the farmer explained. “Feed bins were destroyed. During the war mine was completely damaged but I repaired it because I still had poultry in the structure. The assessors said because you repaired it you don’t have to replace it, so no compensation for me even though it was already 20 years old. The others will get compensation to buy new ones prorated based on the remaining useful life before the war. A feed bin today costs ten thousand shekels. Repairing the structures themselves will cost 20 to 30 thousand shekels from your own pocket.”

He shuddered at the thought of what would have happened if three or four thousand battled-hardened troops from the Radwan Brigades had crossed the Lebanese border and in the twinkling of an eye covered the short distance to the small city of Kiryat Shmona in the valley below at the outbreak of the war.

Figure 3 Looking East Over the Hula Valley with Kiryat Shmona Below and the Golan Opposite

Looking ahead, he expressed uncertainty about “what would happen six months…, four years…, seven years into the future. So far between 20 and 30% of the residents have returned to the moshav. I estimate another 30 to 40% will return. 30% are estimated not to return. This is the moshav’s most pressing problem.”

The organizers had wanted to take us to Metula, the northernmost village in Israel on the Lebanese border. Before the war it was a popular tourist destination and hosted an annual Israeli poetry festival; during the war 300 of its houses were destroyed. The mayor refused to allow us to visit because he doesn’t want his village to be seen by outsiders in the devastated condition it’s now in.

Heading back to Tel Aviv, we stopped in the town of Kiryat Shmona in the Hula Valley. It was mostly empty, just like the southern town of Sderot was earlier in the war. From a bustling town it is now a ghost town.

Conclusions

During this war the northern communities were hard hit. Of the sixty-five thousand residents from the border communities that had to be evacuated to other parts of the country, so far few have returned because of a persistent perception of insecurity. The cease-fire now in effect is scheduled to expire at the end of this month. In any case, Hezbollah has been violating it since the first hours of its coming into effect by attempting to rearm by importing weapons and ammunition through Syria. The Lebanese army, assigned the role of enforcement, has been completely ineffectual so far, as predicted. So the IDF has had to stay in southern Lebanon to ensure compliance with the terms of the agreement. But the determination of the kibbutzniks and moshavniks, as conveyed to us by the representatives of the communities we visited, gives reassurance that the area will recover from the devastation and depopulation of the war, and will flourish again as long as security can be maintained.

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