Thursday, October 26, 2023

10/26 Links Pt1: UN is rationalizing slaughter of Jews; USC Shoah Foundation to Collect Testimony from Survivors, Witnesses of Hamas Terror Attack

From Ian:

Jonathan Tobin: UN is rationalizing slaughter of Jews
The rise of intersectionality and critical race theory (CRT), which promote the division of the world into two immutable warring racial camps of victims and oppressors, has resulted in the acceptance of mainstream discussions about Israel being a state of “white privilege” and guilty of mistreating Palestinian “people of color.” Such distinctions are irrelevant to the Middle East, where Jews are as likely to be “people of color since the majority of Israeli Jews trace their origins to the Middle East or North Africa as Arabs. Moreover, it is the Jews who are the “indigenous” people of the country.

In the moral panic that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020, even legacy Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (whose job is to oppose antisemitism) endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement that was itself steeped in anti-Jewish thinking. Desperate to remain in sync with their left-wing allies and fashionable opinion, such groups ignored the consequences that the widespread acceptance that these toxic theories received was bound to create.

Once a movement and ideology that accepted the specious notion that the Palestinian war to destroy Israel was in some way connected to the struggle for civil rights in the United States became accepted by liberal opinion as valid, the next step was inevitable. It was only a matter of time before a considerable portion of elite American opinion was going to start treating Hamas terrorism as nothing more than the Jews getting their comeuppance.

More than three years later, it’s both sad and easy to see how lies about Israel have become so commonplace that no one need wonder why so many, especially young people, take it as a given that the war launched against Israel is in some way its own fault.

Yet the ability of the intersectional left to smear Israel and have its accusations considered credible can also be traced back to the way that the United Nations has legitimized these lies on the international stage.

Both it and the so-called “human rights” organizations it has spawned are the source material for the smearing of Israel by intersectional advocates dating back to the 2001 Durban Conference on Racism when, only days before the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, the event in South Africa became ground zero for international antisemitism.

The United Nations, its misnamed Human Rights Council that targets Israel and its kangaroo court Commission of Inquiry (COI) devoted to demonizing the Jewish state and ignoring Palestinian terrorism have provided an otherwise obscure toxic set of beliefs with the sort of official imprimatur that has allowed it to spread and essentially go unchallenged in mainstream venues. In particular, the COI and its South African leader, Navi Pillay, have become a constant source of antisemitic invective and discrimination against Israel.

At the root of this moral rot that has been on display since Oct. 7 is the way the international community has validated antisemitic lies about Israel. It’s time to stop ignoring the role that the United Nations plays in fomenting and legitimizing not just antisemitism but indifference to Jewish suffering. Both the way its agencies and American leftist ideologues have mainstreamed false assumptions about Zionism being a form of racism rather than the liberation movement of the Jewish people can no longer be ignored. It is directly connected to the ability of critical race theory advocates to gain credibility for their toxic ideas about Israel and the Jews.

So what to do now? The vast majority of Americans who reject these lies must demand that Congress defund the United Nations and its agencies, which have provided the foundation not just for antisemitism but support for the mass slaughter of Jews in 2023.
Arsen Ostrovsky: Israel is acting proportionately against a terrorist enemy
There is, perhaps, no principle in international law that’s as reflexively thrown around to castigate Israel and charge it with war crimes than that of “proportionality.”

But we need to throw away the notion that proportionality is measured by some kind of perverse equivalence in civilian deaths. It is not.

Under International Humanitarian Law, also referred to as the Laws of War, the doctrine of proportionality requires that in the event that there should be any loss of civilian life, it mustn’t exceed the potential military advantage to be gained from such a strike or action.

In relation to Israel’s current military operation, the goal is clear and stated — eliminating Hamas, a genocidal terrorist group following the unprecedented and wanton massacre of civilians. To state the obvious, saving the lives of millions of your citizens from an attempted genocide is an entirely legitimate, legal and just military purpose by any measurement.

And in the fog of war against such an implacable enemy, as regrettable as it is, the loss of civilian life is almost always inevitable. However, in this case, the fault lies entirely with Hamas. As British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak noted, “the terrorists murder Israeli children, then run and hide behind Palestinian children.”

Hamas even sought to block the evacuation of Palestinians in Gaza by setting up roadblocks and confiscating car keys. This is how perverse it is, and the West’s failure to call the organization out only emboldens it further.

Notwithstanding, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been going to extraordinary lengths, not seen in the history of modern warfare, to avoid civilian casualties, even at risk to their own soldiers.
Col Kemp: Israel can win a war on three fronts
Israeli military and intelligence have been working flat out to find the 220 hostages Hamas is holding, dispersed around the Gaza Strip. Rescuing them is a primary objective and locating them takes time, a process that might further delay a ground offensive. Hamas’s uncharacteristic release of four hostages so far shows their leaders’ desperation in the face of an IDF assault of unexpected ferocity that threatens to annihilate them. Now they are attempting to dangle the prospects of hostage release over Israel’s head to prevent an IDF incursion altogether. Israel cannot allow that to happen: although getting the hostages back is a core focus, it will not take precedence over the need to create security for Israel’s entire population.

The IDF, in short, is prepared to deal with a multi-front war. But the labyrinthine military equation confronting the war cabinet is complicated even further by international opinion. Today, the UN Secretary General came close to accusing Israel of breaking international law in its operations inside Gaza. That is an accusation that Israelis are used to, despite their scrupulous adherence to the laws of war.

But as memories of 7 October fade, casualties mount and the humanitarian situation deteriorates, such accusations will proliferate and pressures on Israel to cease its attacks will mount, including from the US. The Israeli war cabinet will have to withstand such inevitable coercion. The last thing this region and the free world can afford is the defeat of another US ally, and that is what failure to crush Hamas would mean.
Israel Declares Global War on Hamas
Expert Analysis
“It was clear from the outset that if Israel is serious about dealing with Hamas, uprooting the group in Gaza would not suffice. Its foreign command, funding, and logistical network in places like Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, and Qatar also demands attention. The Hamas terrorists arrayed abroad would already have known that they can no longer sleep easy. Netanyahu has now given their hosts — especially NATO-power Turkey and Qatar, which is designated a major non-NATO ally of the United States — notice to turn them away.” — Mark Dubowitz, FDD CEO

“Israel is taking its time on launching a ground invasion of Gaza, knowing that this favors its forces in terms of training and preparation while disadvantaging Hamas, which must hunker down under withering fire and husband dwindling resources. Now, the Israelis have added psychological pressure, designed to make Hamas leaders wonder to what extent their military secrets are secure and whether Palestinians sick of their harsh rule will turn against them.” — Joe Truzman, Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal

Intensified Airstrikes on Gaza
On October 25, the IDF stepped up efforts to destroy Hamas’ tunnel and bunker network from the air, unleashing an intensive bombardment of Gaza City. Separately, the Israeli government published contact information and promises of a cash reward and personal safety to Gazans who provide intelligence on Hamas.

Unmasking Hamas’ Spokesman
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s spokesperson to Arabic media, published a video on X showing the face of Hamas’ longtime spokesman, Abu Obeida, who usually masks himself with a keffiyeh. The IDF first revealed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 that Abu Obeida’s real name is Hudhaifa Kahlout.

“He and other Hamas-ISIS leaders like to hide inside tunnels and behind women and children, as well as behind masks and shadows,” Adraee said. “It is time to drop the cover.”


USC Shoah Foundation to Collect Testimony from Survivors, Witnesses of Hamas Terror Attack
First-hand testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists will be collected by the USC Shoah Foundation.

The move confirms the attack that saw the mass rape, torture, and slaughter of Israeli civilians is being considered part of Holocaust lineage of events.

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides.

The Times of Israel reports the foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg, currently holds 56,000 testimonies from 65 countries where genocidal attacks have taken place.

Over 1,400 people, most of them civilians, were killed and more than 224 people were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in the brutal Hamas onslaught with stories still emerging of the horrific crime against humanity that took place, as Breitbart News reported.

Teams working for the foundation have reportedly already recorded the first testimonies in Israel.

One released hostage, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, said Tuesday she “went through hell” during her abduction by rampaging Hamas terrorists, being moved though a “spiderweb” of muddy tunnels before starting more than two weeks as a captive in Gaza.

Lifshitz was a resident of Nir Oz kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip which Hamas militants invaded on October 7.

Some 180 of the kibbutz’s 400 residents were killed or abducted in the terror raid.

Lifshitz is one of only four hostages to be released — and the first to speak publicly — of the more than 220 Israeli and foreign nationals believed held by Hamas.

“I went through hell, I didn’t think or know I’d get to this situation. They went on a rampage in our kibbutz, kidnapped me, lay me over a motorcycle… and sped off with me through the ploughed fields,” she said a day after her release.
More than 800 civilian victims of Hamas massacre identified
Israeli authorities said on Thursday that 808 civilian victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel have been identified.

Police said this represents 84% of the civilians believed killed during the attacks.

Authorities have encountered difficulties in identifying scores of additional bodies that were burned or mutilated.

A total of 1,400 people were killed in the cross-border invasion, in which Hamas terrorists raped, tortured and butchered men, women and children in Israel’s southern communities.

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers and security forces were killed during battles spanning 48 hours to retake Gaza border towns from Hamas.

So far, 701 victims have been buried.

On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that it had contacted the families of 224 hostages taken by Hamas back to Gaza on Oct. 7.

As many as 500 terrorists affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad trained in Iran leading up to the attack, according to The Wall Street Journal.
COLONEL KEMP: THE SHOCKING PARALLEL BETWEEN HAMAS AND RUSSIA
Colonel Richard Kemp is currently in Israel to share his testimony of Hamas war crimes exclusively for @online.ua. Hamas and Russia have both used wicked and depraved tactics — the kidnap of children. The Russians have abducted Ukrainian children from areas they seized and transported them into the heart of Russia. When Hamas massacred Israelis in their homes and in the streets, raped, tortured, and burnt them alive, they dragged children as well as men, women and old people into captivity inside Gaza.

Russia should immediately release the children and adults they have abducted. And Hamas should immediately release the children as well as the adults that they have abducted.




‘I Understood My Life Is Going to End’: A Mother Describes 20 Hours in a Safe Room
Sofie Berzon MacKie is a British Israeli artist, a mother, and the director of Be’eri art gallery. She is a survivor of the Hamas massacre of Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7. Below, the writer Max Raskin asks Sofie about the 20 hours she spent under attack. This interview originally appeared on his Substack.

Max Raskin: How do you feel right now?

Sofie Berzon MacKie: Relatively okay.

I lost track of time, in a way. I know it’s been 13 days since the 7th of October, and I think, “Wow, it’s already two weeks?” But at the same time… “Only two weeks?”

So it’s a really strange feeling of being disoriented in time. Time stretches and is compacted at the same time. I’m not so shaken anymore. I kind of have a vision of what needs to be done in the near future and that’s all I can hope for at this point in my life, where we lost everything. Besides we have our lives, that’s about it.

MR: If any of these questions are too personal or intrusive, or make you uncomfortable, please just let me know.

SBM: No, no, feel free. Really, ask whatever.

MR: Are you in therapy right now? How is your family dealing with it?

SBM: Well, of course I’m in therapy. I have a psychologist and also a psychiatrist. I need to take a pill every night or I have really bad anxiety attacks. And if I don’t take something to calm down, then I have the worst possible nightmares and I can’t sleep. So, I take a pill every evening. I go to sleep. I have this really deep sleep and I wake up with a very heavy feeling of, “Wow, another day in this surreal life that I now lead.”

But then the day goes by, and I get very busy trying to rebuild whatever I can with whatever I have right now. And the children are also, I think, okay. I have really strong children and they’re very smart and very resourceful. So, I hope—and I dare say, I know—that it might take some time, but the horrific ordeal we went through will be a very bad memory, but it will be just a memory. I don’t think we’re going to be post-traumatic in the long term.

MR: Let’s say someone woke up from a coma today and you were the first person they talked to, and they said to you, “Hey, great to meet you. What’s going on?” What would you say to them?

SBM: In a sentence, I would say that the most brutal, sadistic, inhuman, murderous attack was made on a peaceful civilian population—mostly left-wing, by the way—where 1,400 people were murdered in their homes. . . babies, the elderly, mothers. Another 200 are kidnapped, also children among them, without their parents. And now, in many ways, what we went through is very similar to the Holocaust, but much worse because it happened in our land, in our homes. So, if I had to summarize it, that’s it.


The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Israel Needs to Win
Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti Eli Lake joins us today to continue our conversation about the nature of the rhetorical and protest attacks on Israel and how they are meant to befuddle, confound, and depress Israel’s followers. The only real solution: Israel needs to win in Gaza. Plus: A new speaker!


IDF conducts targeted raid inside the Gaza Strip
Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night in a pinpoint raid “as part of preparations for the next stages of combat,” the army said.

Under the lead of the Givati Brigade, an infantry unit, Israeli forces struck terrorists and their infrastructure, including anti-tank missile launch posts, and “operated to prepare the battlefield” before returning to Israeli territory.

Army Radio reported that the raid was more extensive than other ground activities that have been carried out in Gaza in the last two and a half weeks since the start of “Operation Swords of Iron,” which was declared by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli government in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas operatives throughout southern Israel near the border with Gaza.

Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,400 Israelis and wounded some 5,000 others in the massive offensive, which included the firing of thousands of rockets at Israel and the abduction of some 200 hostages, most of them civilian men, women and children.

A total of 267 people are still hospitalized in Israel from the Oct. 7 attack.

And rockets continued to be launched from the Gaza Strip.

Israel Air Force fighter jets have continued to hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on a daily and nightly basis since Oct. 7, with the military reporting on Thursday afternoon that the commander of Hamas’s northern Khan Younis rockets array, Hassan al-Abdullah, was killed in one such airstrike.


EXCLUSIVE: Israeli CEO Said Goodbye to His Kids, then Raced to Fight the Terrorists
Nimrod Palmach, 39, is a father of two and the CEO of a non-governmental organization. He is also a hero. On October 7, when he learned about the Hamas terror attacks, he raced south, armed only with a pistol, to join the fight.

Nimrod, a military reservist like so many Israelis, spoke to Breitbart News and recalled the story of how he had been called up to his search-and-rescue unit in Jerusalem shortly after the attack began on that fateful Saturday morning.

But as he began seeing posts on social media about the gruesome attack, he decided to go south instead, defying orders from his commanding officer.

Nimrod had a close connection to the communities around the Gaza Strip — what Israelis call the “Gaza envelope.” He developed a leadership program on a kibbutz (collective farm) called Nahal Oz, training young people so that people would not leave the area, which was threatened by occasional Palestinian rockets and infiltration. His approach worked, and young families moved in.

He received a desperate phone call from his ex-wife, telling him that her boyfriend and his children were trapped at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza Strip, trying to hold the door of their “safe room” closed while Hamas terrorists raked it with bullets and tossed grenades.

He called a friend to help; both were armed only with their own pistols. Each only had one magazine — with just ten bullets for the fight.

His hope, he told Breitbart News, was to kill as many terrorists as possible, then perhaps to ake an AK-47 off a dead terrorist and keep going.

While he waited at the southern town of Netivot to meet his friend, Nimrod recorded a final message to his fiancée and his children:
My beautiful Guni and Alumah, I love you. Daddy thinks about you all the time. I worry about you, and I know that you are the most, most wonderful kids in the world.

Baby, I love you. We’re here in a battle. I’ll come back to you later. I hope everything will be good.
Unsung Heroes: Lone soldiers on the frontline against Hamas
“When we first got there, there were terrorists still alive, some dead… a lot of injured soldiers, dead soldiers, dead civilians, bodies everywhere.”

These are the words of D., a member of the Israel Defense Forces Sayeret Haruv special forces unit, which on Oct. 7 was sent into Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the many Israeli towns that had been overrun by Hamas terrorists. An estimated 130 residents were killed and around 50 were taken into Gaza as hostages.

D. was having coffee with another member of the unit, L., at a cafe on Agrippas Street in central Jerusalem on Monday, across from the city’s famous Mahane Yehuda outdoor market. On 12-hour leave, they were both still in combat fatigues, and it was easy to tell from their appearance that they had recently been in combat.

The identities of IDF special forces—like those of combat pilots—are classified. But one aspect of both soldiers’ identities that can be revealed is that both are Americans who came to Israel to serve in the IDF. They are what is known in Israel as “lone soldiers,” individuals serving in the military who have no family in the country.

D. was 18 when he enlisted. He was born in Israel, but his family moved to the United States. He came back to serve in the IDF.

L. grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and was already 23 when he began his military service. This is no easy feat for someone going into one of Israel’s special forces units. The extra five years in age makes a significant difference; it’s difficult to keep up with 18-year-olds.
Voices from the battlefield: IDF soldiers open up about the reality of war against Hamas
In a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the heart of the conflict, Rebel News reporter Avi Yemini took to the front lines, where Israeli soldiers gear up not out of aggression, but out of duty.




Heroic British-Israeli soldier threw back SEVEN Hamas grenades and saved dozens of people hiding in a shelter during festival massacre - before eighth exploded in his hand

Horrifying footage shows Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas terrorist blew off his arm and then bundled him into the back of a truck - as heartbroken dad says 'we have no proof of life'



The George Kennan Who Wasn’t
The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, whose function is to retail White House PR for the Nantucket brunch set, came closest to a plausible depiction of “the Democrats’ foreign-policy golden boy” in her own recent profile of Sullivan, who nevertheless emerges again covered in Vaseline. (“One night a few months ago, Sullivan discovered an intruder who had broken into his home at around 3 a.m., because he was still up working.”) According to colleagues, Glasser found, Sullivan “likes to look at every facet of a problem and wants to understand everything,” a virtue which nevertheless reveals “the tragedy of government—you have to make decisions behind a veil of irreducible ignorance.” “He wants a real debate, and he fosters that,” which unfortunately means “that sometimes he can blow in the wind.” But that’s the price of keeping America safe from nuclear war. Sullivan counters with the final word: “You have an obligation to the American people to consider worst-case scenarios. That’s our job.”

As it happened, The New Yorker profile arrived just in time to rescue Sullivan from the now-infamous statement he made at the 2023 Atlantic Festival: “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades,” Sullivan claimed on Sept. 29. “The amount of time that I have to spend on crisis and conflict in the Middle East today, compared to any of my predecessors going back to 9/11, is significantly reduced.”

On Oct. 2, however, Foreign Affairs went to press with a 7,000-word essay by Sullivan which repeated his statement to The Atlantic, in addition to claims such as, “The Israeli-Palestinian situation is tense, particularly in the West Bank, but in the face of serious frictions, we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence.” (Foreign Affairs later scrubbed at least five of Sullivan’s more embarrassing Middle East predictions in the essay’s online version, but not before the original appeared in print.)

Five days later, on Oct. 7, the genocidal regime in Tehran—the recent recipient of $16 billion in sanctions relief from the White House—drove a murderous wedge between the Sunni Arab states and Israel, turning the Jewish state into the site of pogroms worse than Kristallnacht. Nuclear war isn’t entirely out of the question.

It is not for a journalist (I’m talking about myself now) to insist that there is something morally or intellectually wrong with someone whose political analysis is baldly and repeatedly contradicted by events. But there is clearly something morally and intellectually wrong with the cult of Jake Sullivan, which in turn suggests a crisis of greater proportions than the abject analytical and geostrategic failures of a single individual.

For nearly 15 years, Sullivan has been one of the American officials most responsible for managing and executing the realignment of the United States in the Middle East with the most antisemitic political and military force in the modern world—a revolution in America’s foreign policy posture which along the way has required consent to genocide in Syria, appeasement of Vladimir Putin, cash support for Iran’s expeditionary terror forces, the routine payment of ransom for hostages, the normalization and “regional integration” of Hezbollah and Hamas, the scuttling of Saudi-Israeli peace, the constraining of Israeli military options for enforcing its own red lines, the construction of an Iranian nuclear weapons program under the protective umbrella of a U.S.-backed international agreement, and now, full Israeli mobilization for an existential war.

At every step of this deranged foreign policy nightmare, perpetrated by the richest and most powerful state on earth, Sullivan has been feted unironically by the Washington foreign policy establishment as a wunderkind—the best and the brightest. “What it came down to was a search not for the most talent, the greatest brilliance,” wrote David Halberstam of Sullivan’s unmistakable antecedents in the Kennedy administration, “but for the fewest black marks, the fewest objections. The man who had made the fewest enemies.”

Jake Sullivan’s rise, and the avalanche of bien pensant flattery that has validated disaster after disaster, contrary to every real-world indicator, as marks of genius, is as sure a sign as any that the United States is once again ruled by a vain and arrogant aristocracy that prizes credentials over experience, and prestige over integrity, and which spends its days endlessly gratifying each other. The resulting stench will not soon be forgotten, especially by the people of Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, and other nations, and American servicemen and women, who have already paid for the horrifically bad judgment of American commanders-in-chief, and of their high-class servants, with their blood.

In his famous history of the origins of the Vietnam War, Halberstam tells the story of Vice President Lyndon Johnson returning from his first cabinet meeting at Camelot with “the new breed of thinkers-doers, half of academe, half of the nation’s think tanks and of policy planning … not doubting for a moment the validity of their right to serve, the quality of their experience.” Johnson went to his mentor, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, “and told him with great enthusiasm how extraordinary they were, each brighter than the next.”

“Well, Lyndon,” Rayburn answered, “you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say. But I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”


Qatar Plays Both Arsonist and Firefighter
While Iran may be Hamas’s main provider of weapons, training, and strategic cooperation, Qatar gives it funds, a base of operations, and diplomatic cover. But yesterday, Tsachi Hanegbi—the Israeli national-security advisor and a Likud-party veteran—took to social media to praise Qatar as an “essential . . . stakeholder in the facilitation of humanitarian solutions,” a reference, at least in part, to Doha’s role in the release of four of Hamas’s hostages, and its attempts to negotiate the freeing of others. Hanegbi was quickly lambasted by the former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Benny Avni explains why:

The wealthy gas-producing Gulf country has long played a dual game, financing Hamas in Gaza and hosting the terrorist group’s top leaders, while claiming a peacemaker role. Qatar’s arsonist-and-fireman play is now culminating as it becomes key negotiator over the release of more than 220 Israeli hostages Hamas holds in Gaza.

For years, some $30 million in monthly cash transfers from Qatar mostly covered Hamas officials’ salaries. Each time it ran out of cash, Hamas would fire at Israel. The Qatari envoy to Gaza, Mohammed al-Emadi, would then drive to the Strip with suitcases filled with hundred-dollar bills. The bribes bought Israel calm—until the next rocket rounds.

That delicate dance ended with the horrific October 7 attack, which destroyed the Israeli illusion that Hamas’s genocidal goals, as explicitly expressed in its founding charter, could be moderated by Qatari development funds.

By only issuing . . . mild criticism of Qatar, Washington, [for its part], seems to be encouraging its diplomacy with regard to Hamas’s hostages. Yet, by releasing a small number of hostages at a time, Hamas is attempting to put a humanitarian gloss on its atrocities. More strategically, Qatar’s diplomacy is helping Hamas delay Israel’s long-promised Gaza invasion.
Opening Remarks -- How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran...
Richard Goldberg testifies before the GOP Financial Services committee on How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror.




Wiped off the map: Before-and-after satellite images show how Israeli airstrikes have laid waste to entire Gaza neighbourhoods after two weeks of bombardments

Gaza tunnels, terrorist infrastructure uncovered by Israeli geologist



LISTEN: Gazan Man Says Hamas Is Shooting at Civilians Who Try To Evacuate





GAZAFELLAS: Versatile crisis actor plays variety of roles in Hamas' Hollywood
A versatile actor known for the variety of his performances is now being called the Gielgud of Gaza.

If you have been on social media platforms like Twitter or TikTok over the past three weeks, chances are pretty good that you’ve seen him.

The anguished. The hospital bed death scene. The triumphant raising of the AK-47. Give the man an Oscar!

The use of crisis actors for the purposes of propaganda isn’t new but apparently, the acting talent in Gaza is thin on the ground. The Brad Pitt of Palestine has made more appearances than a British character actor on Midsomer Murders.

According to his most recent one-man show — a day after a near-death experience — his name appears to be Saleh Aljafarawi. He is also a singer.

And he’s popular! Since hostilities began he now has a whopping 1.5 million followers on Instagram and more than 9,000 subscribers on YouTube.


The Israel Guys: The Unprotected War Front in Israel That No One Knows About
500,000 Israeli Jews, a quarter of whom are under the age of 14, live in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s Biblical Heartland. These Jewish communities, in a region sometimes referred to as the West Bank, are surrounded by 2 million Palestinians, the majority of whom support Hamas, or at a minimum, violence against Israel.

Operation Ittai’s mission is to airlift emergency supplies and equipment to the small Jewish communities and farms located in Judea and Samaria during this time of crisis. Your support will enable us to bring protective vests, helmets, night vision goggles, binoculars, flashlights, and much more to those in Israel who need them most.


The Israel Guys: Is Gaza ACTUALLY Running Out of Fuel?
58 Hamas members were arrested last night throughout Judea and Samaria in overnight operations by the IDF. Is Gaza actually running out of fuel like the world says they are? We’re going to get into that along with the UN Secretary-General almost justifying the attacks by Hamas on October 7th.


Peter Hitchens: The UN boss should know there's no historical wrong which can be used to justify or excuse the Hamas atrocities
How things change. But perhaps the most profound and obvious point is that, had the Arab armies won in 1948, the Jews already living in that territory could not have expected much mercy.

The new state went on to face decades of hostility, cross- border attacks, threats and finally a full-scale Moscow-armed two-front invasion in 1973, by Syria and Egypt combined. Israel fought this off, eventually, but if things had gone the other way, where would the Jewish state and its inhabitants be now?

This is a very old, deep dispute with very high stakes for the Israelis if they ever lose. Over many centuries before these events, Jews in the Holy Land had been third-class citizens under Ottoman Turkish rule.

When Jewish migrants began to settle there in large numbers in the 1930s, they faced violent opposition, led by the unpleasant fanatic Haj Amin al Husseini, British-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

Al Husseini (said to have been a hero of the late Fatah leader Yasser Arafat) hated Jews so much that he went to work for Hitler during World War II, recruiting Balkan Muslims for the Waffen-SS.

So to say, as Mr Guterres does, that the events of October 7 'did not take place in a vacuum' is in one way a statement of the obvious.

So why say so? It is a two-sided struggle which has seen quite enough blood and it did not begin 56 years ago, as Mr Guterres seems to think.

If you understand what is really going on in this part of the world, you realise that quite enough innocent blood has been shed and far too many people have tried to justify it when they should not have done.

Actually, I share Mr Guterres' view that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza should cease (it should never have begun), and that Gaza's power and water supplies should be restored. But there is no kind of context or historical wrong which in any way affects the proper human response to the Hamas pogrom.

That response must be utter disgust and condemnation without a hint of qualification. So he must not be surprised, working as he does for a body which has long shown a bias against Israel, if many people think he was making excuses for murder.
Col Kemp: Guterres is now part of the problem
The UN Secretary General knows all of this, so why does he distort the truth to the Security Council and the world? Because he presides over a systematically anti-Israel organization that believes Israel is not a legitimate state. Giving evidence to a heavily biased UN commission of inquiry into a previous Gaza conflict I was met with undisguised hostility from UN civil servants who could not stand to hear the truth when it contradicted their agenda of delegitimisation against Israel.

I have spoken at a number of UN Human Rights Council emergency debates on Israel and listened to a never-ending litany of venomous speeches supporting twisted resolutions aimed at delegitimizing Israel. During these sessions I warned the UN’s diplomats that their twisted justification of terrorist attacks served only to encourage violence and would lead to further vicious assaults against Israeli civilians.

In a meeting I had with Guterres shortly after he took office, he claimed to recognize the bias within the UN institutional machinery and undertook to address it. Instead he has become its chief propagator.

Not only did Guterres misrepresent history and the current situation and attempt to justify Hamas’s horrific violence, he also preposterously took aim at the IDF, effectively accusing them of war crimes in their prosecution of a defensive war. He suggested they have been illegally killing innocent civilians. Yet he has been briefed on and knows only too well the reality that the IDF scrupulously adheres to the laws of armed conflict in every situation. He knows that responsibility for civilian deaths lies with Hamas who attack Israel from within their own civilian population, using them as human shields and forcing them to stay put when the IDF warns them to leave a potential target area. He knows that despite all reasonable efforts made by the IDF it is impossible to avoid civilian casualties when the enemy fights in this way.

Guterres is now part of the problem. He has become an active propagandist for Hamas. His words and his actions will help give heart to Hamas and its supporters, encouraging it to fight on knowing its message of anti-Israel hate is promoted from the very top of the world’s pre-eminent international body. More than that his words give validity to any other violent jihadist gangs that want to terrorize any part of the world. Guterres has rendered himself unfit to lead the UN, and should resign immediately or be dismissed.


The Caroline Glick Show : Obama and the UN Betray Israel...Again
The UN Secretary-General justifies Hamas attacks, Obama lectures and lies about Israel, and the moral depravity of the world continues to shine through.


Ben Shapiro: F*** The United Nations
The Secretary General of the UN “contextualizes” Jew-hating mass murderers; the Biden administration tries to deter Iran; and the wheel of Republican speaker of the House candidates keeps on turning.




At UN Security Council, competing US, Russian resolutions fail

House votes 412-10 to support Israel, condemn Hamas and Iran

Congress Eyes Crackdown on US Funding for Iran-Backed Terror Orgs



Megyn Kelly: Free Speech for Jew Haters, and Britney's Must-Read Memoir, with Gad Saad, Evita Duffy & Will Witt
Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing Christiane Amanpour's outrageous CNN interview with Jordan’s Queen Rania exposing extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments, her failure to acknowledge the murders of Jews in Israel by Hamas, and more. Then Gad Saad, host of "The Saad Truth," joins to discuss the lack of moral clarity by those attacking Israel but apologizing for Hamas' horrific actions, Jew hatred on public display in the West, discuss posters continuously being torn down of Israeli hostages at universities, one Jewish student in Boston explaining why she was doing it, polling about Europeans shockingly supporting Hamas in the conflict, the Northwestern professor who claims Hamas never committed certain atrocities against Israel, why universities all of a sudden care about “free speech,” fearing for the future of the West after the hatred over Israel and Hamas, Megan Rapinoe supporting Palestinians but not Jews, the connection between being anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, Hamas interrogations and bragging about killing Jews, why Saad the "happy warrior" is feeling negative about the future, the state of Canadian politics, and more. Then Evita Duffy-Alfonso, The Federalist contributor, and Will Witt, author of "Do Not Comply," join to discuss Governor Ron DeSantis disbanding pro-Hamas college groups, if this is an overreach on DeSantis’s part and if he is overstepping on freedom of speech, students displaying anti-Israel sentiment and if and employers potential reactions, the state of the GOP primary, Trump's verbal stumbles and if it will affect his gigantic lead in the race, Biden's mental decline and whether it's the biggest issue in America today, radical gender ideology leading to doctors trying to rename men's and women's body parts as "chesticles" or "dicklets," Britney Spears’s new memoir that describes disturbing childhood stories, why our next generation should read it and learn, chasing after fame and the harms of doing so, and more.


Daniel Greenfield: Biden Admin Let Muslim Staffers Vet Israel Speech



'Spare us your outrage while you live in luxury & refuse to take Palestinian refugees': Fury at Queen Rania of Jordan's interview attacking US and Israel for Gaza strikes and questioning if Hamas killed babies



Moment LA home invader screams 'Free Palestine' after being arrested by cops 'for bursting into home while parents and four children slept inside'



Suspect yells ‘Free Palestine’ following home invasion of Studio City family



Richmond, California, council meeting explodes over resolution blaming Israel after Hamas attack
A California city council has passed a controversial resolution backing Palestinians in Gaza that some local Israeli supporters say will "only incentivize the Hamas Nazi terrorists" and "greenlight the endless attempts to kill more Jews."

The measure, which states that Palestinians are "currently facing a campaign of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment by the state of Israel," passed in the Bay Area city of Richmond early Wednesday morning by a 5-1 vote. A public comment hearing that lasted for hours leading up to the vote became heated at times with shouting between audience members.

"I'm a Richmond resident and of Jewish heritage. I totally oppose this resolution because it is full of lies that will only incentivize the Hamas Nazi terrorists and their supporters and add to the suffering of the poor Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for decades," one resident said, adding that "this resolution supports the goals of the Palestinian dictatorships to kill all Jews and destroy Israel."

"Please vote no on this resolution," another woman said. "Do not greenlight the endless attempts to kill more Jews."

The resolution says the "state of Israel is engaging in collective punishment against the Palestinian people in Gaza in response to Hamas attacks on Israel," naming Israel’s blockade of electricity, water and other medical supplies into the densely-populated territory.

Israel has offered to end the blockade if Hamas releases its hostages, but the Palestinian terrorist group has been holding firm, effectively prolonging the suffering.

"Israel is now engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign by explicitly requiring 2 million Palestinians to leave Gaza immediately or risk being bombed in their homes by the Israeli army," the resolution says.


Guess Who Funded the Pro-Palestinian ‘Insurrectionists’ on Capitol Hill
Last week a group of pro-Palestinian protestors stormed the Cannon House Office Building and staged a protest inside the Rotunda. Protests are not allowed in congressional buildings, so they had no right to be there. Roughly 300 of these protesters were arrested for illegally demonstrating, and a few more were charged with assaulting police officers.

The protest, which promptly met the qualifications of an insurrection (according to Democrats), was organized by the supposed “Jewish” organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow. How Jewish are these groups in reality? I dare say very little.

IfNotNow claims to be an organization of Jews but doesn’t appear to have any good relations with longstanding Jewish advocacy groups. Similarly, JVP is likely no more Jewish than Joe Biden. JVP doesn’t even claim to be an organization exclusively for Jewish anti-Zionists but merely “an organization that is inspired by Jewish values and traditions to work towards peace and justice.”

How did such fringe groups acquire the resources to stage a massive protest at the Capitol? Just follow the money, which leads us to George Soros.

“Through Soros’s philanthropic work, JVP was awarded several grants totaling $650,000 that bankrolled its ‘human rights’ campaign and ‘social welfare activities’ in the Middle East, according to a grant database maintained by the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the central hub of the financier’s anti-capitalist, redistributionist network,” writes Mia Cathell over at our sister site Townhall. “The Soros-branded Open Society Policy Center Inc. — once the second-largest spender on federal lobbying after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — donated $150,000 and $200,000 in 2021 and 2019, respectively, to the Jewish Voice for Peace Action Incorporated, JVP’s tax-exempt 501(c)(3). And, in 2017, Soros’s primary grant-giving vehicle, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, gifted JVP $300,000.”


Jewish students take refuge in library and lock themselves in while pro-Palestinian activists POUND on the door to gain entry at NYC's liberal Cooper Union College



Eventbrite Prohibits Riley Gaines Event Promotion, But Allows Pro-Hamas Listings
The leadership team at Eventbrite is steadfast that women should share their locker rooms with men who call themselves “women.”

Thus, groups are not allowed to support a traditional view of female athletics or to protest the advent of transgenderism on the site.

The company made that clear in July when it removed the page for “Let Women Speak Austin,” an event focused on protecting women’s sex-specific spaces like bathrooms.

Eventbrite called that listing a violation of its “hateful content” policy.

But what is allowed, and apparently not hateful, at Eventbrite is the advertising of rallies that spread the messaging from the terrorist group Hamas.

Today, Eventbrite users can sign up to attend an event on Nov. 1 called “”Stop the Genocide! Free Palestine!” at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City.

A description for the event, uploaded to Eventbrite, carries the following telling of the events on Oct. 7:
“Early on Saturday, October 7th, Palestinian resistance fighters broke through Israel’s siege of Gaza. In response, Israel has declared total war against the people of Gaza, completely cutting off access to food, water, and electricity, while bombing the Strip and killing entire families. This attack on Gaza takes place after 75 years of settler-colonial violence conducted by the Israeli state. This panel will explore the historical context that led to the current moment, the dynamics currently at play, and the possibilities for building international solidarity for Palestinian liberation.”

That is one way to describe how Hamas organized a coordinated offensive on southern Israel by massacring 260 civilians at a music festival, the largest one-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.


Backfire! Pro-Hamas thugs call for a boycott of a Jewish-owned Toronto café



NYU students hold anti-Semitic 'keep the world clean' signs at Washington Square Park protest

Cornell University is defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti reading 'f**k Israel' and 'Zionism equals racism' - just days after professor who called Hamas attack 'exhilarating' and 'energizing' took a leave of absence

Revealed: NHS physician 'celebrates' Hamas terror attacks on Israel and advocates 'flogging' of journalists in series of disturbing online posts

Moment pro-Palestine protesters shout 'boycott McDonald's' outside Bristol branch as they accuse fast food chain of 'killing innocent people' by giving 'funding to Israel' - after firm faced backlash for giving free meals to Israeli soldiers



Celtic supporters defy club AGAIN by displaying Palestinian flags during their Champions League clash with Atletico Madrid



Dershowitz: The Gay and Trans ‘Students for Palestine’ Should Go Volunteer in Gaza





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