Wednesday, November 01, 2023

11/01 Links Pt1: Sharansky: Never Again Is Now 15 IDF soldiers killed fighting Hamas; FBI Director Says Hamas Attack Will Inspire ISIS-Level Terror Threat

From Ian:

Natan Sharansky: Never Again Is Now
With this, the parallel between these contemporary critical theories and the Marxism-Leninism of my Soviet youth has received new proof. Recall that the major pogroms in Eastern Europe started in 1881, when Tsar Alexander II was killed and his murder blamed on Jews. The organization behind the murder, Narodnaya Volya (the People’s Will), was a predecessor of the Communist Party, with both an extremist wing responsible for the killing and a more moderate wing that spread propaganda to the people. When the awful pogroms started, the latter tried to defend these aggressions by explaining that this was how the social movement of the masses—and with it the worldwide revolution—would begin. They argued that their target was not the Jews per se, but an entire oppressive system, which their movement sought to overthrow in the name of justice and liberation.

The rationalization of today’s Hamas sympathizers on campus are remarkably similar to these. And if the connection seemed largely theoretical before, today it is practical, articulated and even acted upon not by extremists but in the heart of the academy. While Jewish organizations were busy fighting tactical battles against BDS and other localized affronts, we failed to see that terrorism received an intellectual rehabilitation in the most prestigious segments of American society. Consider the words of prominent feminist scholar Judith Butler, who in 2006 proclaimed at the University of California, Berkeley, that “understanding Hamas [and] Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important.”

The struggle for campuses is a struggle for America and its values—for an America that is liberal, that supports free speech and human rights, and that protects all of its citizens, regardless of race or creed, from vicious, lawless assault.

Even the presidents of leading universities—unlike the president of the United States—have refused to denounce Hamas’s evil, speaking instead about violence on both sides. Those who protest microaggressions are unable or unwilling to differentiate between the most awful forms of pogrom and the legitimate self-defense of the attacked.

As a result, if 20 years ago to be openly and proudly pro-Israel was bad for students’ careers, today it is a threat to their physical safety. The number of antisemitic events, including physical assaults, has skyrocketed since Oct. 7, and campuses are now flooded with the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” For those unfamiliar with geography, this means that there is no place for a Jewish state on the world map.

Israel is currently fighting a war for its survival. We realize that Hamas crossed a red line on Oct. 7 and that for the state to continue to exist, we have to win. In fact, we know that we are fighting not only for ourselves but for the future of the free world, to preserve the values of democracy and freedom in the face of an organization that would destroy them completely.

In a different way, the United States is also fighting a war for its survival. American universities crossed a red line in the aftermath of Oct. 7. The struggle for campuses is therefore a struggle for America and its values—for an America that is liberal, that supports free speech and human rights, and that protects all of its citizens, regardless of race or creed, from vicious, lawless assault.

In 2015, following the terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and on Jewish targets in Paris, I asked the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut whether he thought there was a future for Jews in Europe. He responded that he could not answer my question directly, since he was not part of the organized Jewish community, but that he worried there may not be a future for Europe in Europe—that is, for a Europe that cherishes liberal values and is willing to defend them in the face of barbaric assault.

If there is to be a future for America in America, it is time to step up in defense of its core values, and in this American Jews can play an important role. Let us start with a March of One Million: students, parents, Jewish organizations, and allies coming together in support of academic freedom and against a primitive ideology that silences truth and justifies murderous rampages as a form of liberation.

We have done this before: In 1987, hundreds of thousands of Jews marched to Washington, D.C., to support their brethren in the Soviet Union, chanting the slogan “Let my people go.” In 2002, thousands rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol in opposition to terrorism and support for the Jewish state.

Only this time we will be fighting not only for our own people, but for America as well—for the values it represents and for its continued role as a beacon of light around the world.
Dennis Prager: The Hamas Slaughter Confirmed Everything I Have Believed
Why Jews are hated
There is no hatred like Jew-hatred. It is the longest ongoing hatred in history. It is the most universal. And it is the one exterminationist hatred: Those who hate the Jews want them destroyed. There is a Hebrew statement that is probably two thousand years old, and which is recited during the Passover Seder service: “In every generation, they arise to annihilate us.”

Note that the sentence does not say “to persecute us” or “to enslave us,” but “to annihilate us.”

The question is why?

I wrote an entire book — “Why the Jews?” — 40 years ago explaining antisemitism. But I can sum it up in a few sentences: Jew-hatred is largely a result of the Jews being The Chosen People. You can laugh at the idea if you are secular and inclined to do so. But those who hate the Jews have not laughed at the idea; they have hated the Jews because of it — because they believed it and/or because it is true.

The Jews introduced to humanity the God in which most of the world believes; brought into existence the Bible that is the basis of the New Testament and the Quran; gave the Christian world its Messiah; and gave much of the world its morality through the Torah, the Prophets, and the Ten Commandments. Those who hate that moral code hate the Jews. The two groups who have tried to exterminate the Jews in the last hundred years, the Nazis and the Islamists (not all Muslims), hate that moral code. And they hate the Jews for embodying it — compared to the Nazis and compared to Islamic regime of Iran, Hezbollah, ISIS and Hamas, Israel is composed of saints.

So, when I read about the horrors inflicted by Hamas on young Jews, old Jews and Jewish babies, I was horrified, but not at all surprised. That is what the most evil of any generation do to Jews. And that is why non-Jews who dismiss Iran, Hamas, or Hezbollah as the Jews’ problem are fools. Tens of millions of non-Jews were killed because most people dismissed Hitler and the Nazis as the Jews’ problem.

In fact, aside from increased loathing of Hamas and their Muslim and left-wing supporters, the only effect the events of Oct. 7 had on me was to reinforce my faith in the chosenness of the Jews.
Kurt Schlichter: America's Shame
America has seen these little Kristallnachts erupt all across the country in the wake of the hideous October 7th massacre in Israel. The anti-Semites have been emboldened, and they have been worse than merely tolerated. They have been celebrated. From college faculties to Hollywood jerks, they have been in encouraged in their support of not just Hamas but the whole agenda of “decolonialization.” And it’s not like they do not know what that means. They do. It is some of the targets of “decolonialization” who refuse to accept the reality that these people want to exterminate first the Jews, then the Christians, then anyone else on the far side of the oppression hierarchy bell curve.

You would think maybe self-preservation would inspire them, but no. Are they just delusional, or do they think that the monster will just rape and behead them last?

Their stupid/cowardly refusal to not accept this degeneracy has made this degeneracy acceptable. That anyone can go out in decent society waving their Palestinian flag and giggling about their transgressive paraglider sign without being shunned and despised like some doofus wearing a white robe setting fire to a cross illustrates the depravity of our elite. But they can do it, and they will be applauded for doing it.

Their objection to the Holocaust is not that it happened but that it ultimately failed. Understand what “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” means. It means free of Jews. And it’s not like the Jews – the “settlers” – are meant to have a chance to pack up and travel to their exciting new home. They are meant to be butchered in an orgy of blood. And when that’s done, it’s time to do the same to the settlers here in America. Do you think those idiotic land acknowledgements are meaningless exercises? They are laying the groundwork for the same kind of ethnic mass murder. “We acknowledge that this ground was stolen form the Whatever Whoever tribe by the European bad people of badness” is moronic but not meaningless. It seeks to established a blood guilt for those races and religions and political affiliations that have been declared subhuman. If you are reading this, you probably fall into the subhuman category. And the end state the bad guys want is you dead.

But there is resistance. Many of our politicians are rejecting the bigotry. A few people in the pop culture are too. In the social media world, many of us are taking a hard stand for what is right. Sadly, though, far too many on our side have somehow decided to sit out the battle or have cavorted with the enemy. They use terms like “Zionist” and “neocon,” and talk about forever wars,” but what they mean is “Let them kill the Jews.”








Israeli lawmakers watch video of Hamas atrocities
Members of Israel’s parliament were invited to view a compilation of video footage on Wednesday showing some of the atrocities that Hamas terrorists committed on Oct. 7.

Lawmakers were allowed to view the footage behind closed doors following a request made by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit.

The 43-minute-long video, which was previously shown to the foreign press, included footage captured by body cameras worn by Hamas terrorists, security cameras, dashcams, smartphones and social-media accounts.

Likud Party Knesset member Gilat Distel-Atbaryan said the Knesset physician offered MKs anxiety medication before they entered the auditorium. “I held out in the hall for five minutes and then I ran out sobbing and shaking,” she wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Fellow Likud member Eli Dallal left after 10 minutes, he said. “After briefly watching such atrocities, I say unequivocally: Revenge is needed and a resurgence of Hamas cannot be allowed,” Dallal wrote on X.

“Remember what Amalek did to you,” wrote Education Minister Yoav Kisch following the screening, referring to the biblical archenemy of the Jewish people. “Israel needs to destroy every trace of Hamas just like Amalek.”

Likud MK Tsega Melaku reportedly fainted as psychologists were called to the Knesset.


116 Israeli children lost parents to Hamas’s onslaught

An Israeli first responder recalls tending to the body of a baby burnt in an oven
It was on the fourth day of the war between Israel and Hamas, Asher Moskowitz recalled, that he saw the baby among the corpses at Camp Shura.

Moskowitz had come to Shura, a military base near the central Israeli city of Ramle, as a volunteer with the United Hatzalah emergency response corps. The base had been transformed into a center for identifying those killed in the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas, the terror group that controls Gaza, and Moskowitz was soon pulled into the gruesome task of helping to unload and transfer dozens of bodies that arrived there.

The baby came from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the communities hardest hit in the attack. It arrived in a small bag whose contents told a grim story: a tiny body, burnt and swollen, with the telltale marks from being pressed against a heating element.

“They took the baby and put it, literally, in a kitchen oven,” Moskowitz said in a video testimony recounting the assessment of professional staff at the base.

The video was recorded at Hatzalah’s request to preserve a firsthand account of what Moskowitz saw, and it was shared with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Tuesday. The video, one of several recordings of Hatzalah volunteers describing what they saw, had not been made public as of Tuesday afternoon. “The body hardened and, unfortunately, appeared to have also swollen,” he said. “And really, the heating element of the oven was on the body itself.”


Martha MacCallum: I witnessed the darkest evil that can exist
FOX News anchor Martha MacCallum explains the horror of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack after viewing unfiltered video of the event at the Israeli consulate.




15 IDF soldiers killed fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza Strip
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday morning the deaths of nine additional soldiers in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 16 the number of troops killed in action this week.

The soldiers were identified as Lt. Ariel Reich, 24; Cpl. Asif Luger, 21; Staff Sgt. Halel Solomon, 20; Staff Sgt. Erez Mishlovsky, 20; Staff Sgt. Adi Leon, 20; Staff Sgt. Roei Dawi, 20; Sgt. Adi Danan, 20; Cpl. Ido Ovadia, 19; and Cpl. Lior Siminovich, 19.

Reich and Luger, who served in the 7th Armored Brigade, died when their tank drove over an explosive device. Two other soldiers were seriously wounded by the blast.

The other troops, who served in the Givati Infantry Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, died when their armored vehicle was struck by a Hamas anti-tank missile. Four additional soldiers were wounded in the incident, one seriously.

Local authorities also said that 2nd Lt. Pedayah Mark, 22, was killed in action. Mark’s father, Rabbi Michael Mark, was killed in a Palestinian shooting attack in Judea in 2016.

Later Wednesday, the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council issued a statement announcing that Staff Sgt. Roi Sargosti was also killed in battle.

On Wednesday afternoon, the IDF confirmed the deaths of two additional soldiers: Staff Sgt. Itay Yehuda, 20, and Staff Sgt. Shay Arvas, 20. The military also announced that Sgt. First Class (res.) Shalev Zion Sharabi, 22, was killed by mortar fire near the southern community of Be’eri.

“We are in a difficult war. This will be a long war. We have so many important achievements but also painful losses,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.

“We know that every soldier of ours is an entire world. The entire people of Israel embraces you, the families, from the depth of our heart. We are all with you in your heavy sorrow.

“Our soldiers have fallen in the most just of wars, the war for our home. I promise the citizens of Israel: We will complete the job, we will continue until victory,” the premier said.
Battles in Jabaliya: This is the senior Hamas commander killed by the IDF
A senior Hamas commander who was one of the leaders of the October 7 massacre in southern Israel was killed, the Israel Defense Forces announced. Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas' Central Jabaliya Battalion, was killed on Tuesday afternoon by IDF fighter jets, acting on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet.

Biari was also responsible for sending the terrorists who carried out the 2004 terrorist attack in the Ashdod Port in which 13 Israelis were murdered, and was responsible for directing rocket fire at Israel, and advancing numerous attacks against the IDF, over the last two decades.

Since IDF forces entered the Gaza Strip, Biari has directed all the Palestinian fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.

The assassinationn was carried out as part of a wide-scale strike on terrorists and terror infrastructure belonging to the Central Jabaliya Battalion, which had taken control over civilian buildings in Gaza City. "The strike damaged Hamas’ command and control in the area, as well as its ability to direct military activity against IDF soldiers operating throughout the Gaza Strip," the IDF said in a statement.

As a result of the strike, a large number of terrorists who were with Biari were killed, according to the IDF. Underground terror infrastructure embedded beneath the buildings, used by the terrorists, also collapsed after the strike, it noted.

Biari was killed in the same attack in which the Hamas Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip claimed earlier that at least 50 people had been killed; it later increased that number to an estimated 400 killed and injured, though search and rescue efforts had just begun. Biari was in the building that was attacked, and the IDF and the Shin Bet say that minutes before the bombing, a warning was sent to the occupants of the building to get out.

Jabaliya is a fairly crowded refugee camp, and apparently many residents have remained there despite the IDF's call for civilians to evacuate to the south of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the IDF spokesman announced that IDF forces under the command of the Givati Brigade took control of a Hamas military stronghold in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, and that in Tuesday's ground operations, approximately 50 terrorists were eliminated.

The captured stronghold is located in western Jabaliya and was used by the commander of Hamas’ Jabaliya Battalion for training and the execution of terror activities, according to the IDF. The area contains firing positions, terror tunnels used by terror operatives as a passageway to the coast, and a large stock of weapons used by the terrorists, the IDF said in a statement.


Questions arise on the morality of Israel’s attack on refugee camp
Council of Foreign Relations Senior Fellow David Scheffer says questions arise about whether Israel’s bombing of a refugee camp in Gaza was a war crime.

Israel confirmed an airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp killed a senior Hamas commander.

“Israel also claims that that kind of force of munitions is the kind that one needs in order to crush those tunnels underneath buildings that Hamas has built," Mr Scheffer told Sky News Australia.

“The problem is we don’t know without the kind of investigation that war crime investigators take or do, whether the number of civilian deaths in striking the camp in precisely the way that it was struck, was disproportionate to the military objective that was achieved.

“Those rules are there during a combat situation – if this were not a combat situation, it would be a different calculus entirely.”

The Palestinian Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, has claimed “at least 47 bodies” have been recovered and the death toll is expected to rise.


Hamas ‘hides behind’ civilian areas during war
The Washington Institute Koret Project Director David Makovsky says Hamas “hides behind” civilian areas.

Israel's airstrikes on a refugee camp in Gaza has sparked controversy regarding the amount civilian casualties involved for a military objective.

Mr Makovsky told Sky News Australia that the military is there to protect the civilians and not the civilians protecting the military.

“We need to wait and see, but I’m glad the media is here and focusing on this.

“I hope the situation will be clarified.”




The Israel Guys: Israel REVEALS Hamas’ Headquarters INSIDE Gaza Hospital
Social media is now deluged with images of the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Media is reporting that the hospital is barely functioning, and that they are running out of electricity and supplies.

Interestingly enough, there is an incredibly sinister reason why thousands of civilians may actually be suffering at this hospital. Hamas’ headquarters is located inside the hospital complex. Why? Because they think they are safe from Israel’s wrath there….




Top UN official in New York resigns and accuses body of supporting Israel
Craig Mokhiber, the director of the United Nations's human rights office in New York, has resigned from his position in protest of Israel’s counterattacks in the Gaza Strip, calling it “a text-book case of genocide.”

"The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine,” Mokhiber said in a letter to Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights. “What’s more, the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault."

Mokhiber's resignation is the culmination of a long history of criticism from Jewish groups who have blasted him for his perceived antisemitic and anti-Israel comments. He was accused of antisemitism and "extreme bias" against Israel earlier this year when controversial tweets were exposed by U.N. Watch.

Mokhiber took aim at the U.S. in his resignation letter on Tuesday, stating that key parts of the U.N. have "surrendered" to the "power of the U.S." and therefore abandoned their principles. He said the organization should recognize that the U.S. and other Western nations are not "credible mediators" but rather "active parties" in the conflict and "we must engage them as such."

He recently called the war between Israel and Hamas, the governing body of the Gaza Strip, "the product of decades of Israeli impunity provided by the US & other western governments," as well as "decades of dehumanization of the Palestinian people" by the media.

"We have lost a lot in this abandonment, not least our own global credibility," Mokhiber said. "But the Palestinian people have sustained the biggest losses as a result of our failures."

Mokhiber proposed "ten essential points" in his exit letter, including calling for an end to the two-state solution and ending the "pretense that this is simply a conflict over land and religion between two warring parties." He said the U.N. needs to "admit the reality" that Israel is "colonizing, persecuting, and dispossessing" Palestinians based on their ethnicity.


GnasherJew: High-ranking UN official’s antisemitism and extreme bias revealed

UAE official: Abraham Accords here to stay
The Abraham Accords between the United Arab Emirates and Israel are not at risk, despite Abu Dhabi’s criticism of Israeli military actions against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a senior Emirati official said on Tuesday.

“From the UAE perspective, the Abraham Accords are there to stay,” Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, chairman of the Defense Affairs, Interior and Foreign Relations Committee of the UAE Federal National Council, told a briefing organized by the European Jewish Association and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan in the fall of 2020, are the future of the Middle East, Al Nuami explained.

“It is not an agreement between two governments but [rather] a platform that we believe should transform the region where everyone will enjoy security, stability and prosperity,” he told those on the call.

“We want everyone to acknowledge and accept that Israel is there to exist and that the roots of Jews [and] Christians are not in New York or Paris but here in our region. They are part of our history, and they should be part of our future,” said the UAE official.


Daniel Greenfield: Muslim Org Issues “Ultimatum” to Biden Over Hamas Attacks
There’s been quite the pressure campaign until now from Islamic organizations on the Biden administration.

But this time it comes from a Muslim Dem group issuing an official “ultimatum” threatening a Republican victory. And I do mean “ultimatum.” This is the title: “2023 Ceasefire Ultimatum”.

The National Muslim Democratic Council, a nationwide group of Democratic leaders and activists, threatened President Joe Biden that if he does not force Israel to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization, by 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, they will work to mobilize against him in the 2024 presidential election.

“It has become evident that our voices are being ignored, but our votes will not be. Simply put, as Gaza turns red, so could crucial battleground states,” the council said in a letter Monday to the White House and Democratic Party.

“We will mobilize increased voter turnout to make our voices heard,” the council also wrote. It added that Michigan, a swing state with a large Muslim population that went for former President Donald Trump in 2016, went for Biden by 2.6% in 2020.

The council’s letter only refers to Israel one time, stating: “We pledge to mobilize Muslim, Arab, and allied voters to withhold endorsement, support, or votes for any candidate who did not advocate for a ceasefire and endorse the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people.”

The National Muslim Democratic Council, like other Dem identity groups, is supposed to exist to rally support among Muslims for the Democrats. Instead, the NMDC is making it clear that its mission is the exact opposite of that, which should no come surprise to anyone who knows its history or what Islamists do: a category that excludes the Dems.

Of course, there’s no such thing as a ceasefire with Hamas. The recent Hamas atrocities occurred by taking advantage of a ceasefire.

But that’s by design.

Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson were the National Muslim Democratic Council’s founding honorary co-chairs.
FBI Director Says Hamas Attack Will Inspire ISIS-Level Terror Threat
The attack by Hamas on Israel will inspire the most significant terror threat to the United States since the rise of ISIS nearly a decade ago, FBI director Christopher Wray said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.


Anti-Semitic incidents are ‘off the chart', says former Israeli ambassador to the US
FBI Director's warning that Hamas could inspire an attack in the US is a "very real threat", says former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren.

FBI Director Chris Way warned US Congress that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East will likely motivate terrorism in the West.

Mr Wray claimed that the attacks on Israel by Hamas could fuel home-grown terrorism, similar to the threats posed by ISIS several years ago.

"The threat is very real," Mr Oren told Sky News Australia.

"Anti-Semitic incidents are literally off the chart, the increases are in the hundredth percentile in Europe in some places, in Germany, in England they are even higher than they are in the United States," Mr Owen said.

Jewish institutions are "heavily guarded by police", he said.

Mr Owen added that Jewish institutions are also guarded by the Secure Community Network which is an organisation of former FBI agents who monitor and intercept threats to about 12,400 Jewish institutions across the United States.

"So it’s a very real threat", he said.




Jordan recalls envoy over ‘raging Israeli war on Gaza’

FDD: How Biden Should Handle Missiles from Yemen
The Biden White House has an opportunity here. The administration infuriated the Saudis back in 2021 when it de-listed the Houthis from the sanctions list against terrorist groups, reversing a designation by the Trump administration made at the eleventh hour as Trump was leaving office. The Biden administration’s reversal was completely disconnected from the question of whether the Houthis met the criteria for a terror designation. As I wrote in the Wall Street Journal last year with my FDD colleague Matthew Zweig, the Houthis met and meet this criteria in spades. It is an Iran-funded group that is armed and trained by the regime, even though it didn’t get assistance from the Islamic Republic at its inception. The group has launched more than 1,000 attacks against Saudi Arabia in recent years, and the Saudis have expressed frustration that the Biden White House has been seemingly indifferent to this.

The decision to de-list was a political one. It was driven by a desire to treat Saudi Arabia like a “pariah” in the early days of the Biden administration. It was further fueled by a desire to appease the regime in Iran in an attempt to return to nuclear diplomacy, and perhaps also to keep the Houthis engaged in a delicate U.S.-led political process to reach an enduring quiet in the war-torn country, led by special envoy Tim Lenderking.

The re-listing of the Houthis, ideally done publicly alongside Saudi officials, would send an unequivocal message to the Iranians and the wider Middle East. The message: the U.S.-Saudi relationship is back on track, and a revitalized U.S.-led regional alliance—one that includes both Israel and the Saudis—is taking shape. Such a move might be exactly what is needed to get those normalization discussions back on track between Riyadh and Jerusalem, whenever this war ends.

Critics of such a move might warn that it would needlessly provoke the Houthis. My response: They appear to be needlessly provoked already by the regime. Critics might also argue that re-listing the Houthis would prevent aid from entering Yemen. This is simply not true. Look at how much aid is pouring into Gaza, where a U.S. sanctioned terrorist group has (until now, anyway) maintained control.

A separate but interesting development to track is whether Hamas or Hezbollah operatives were involved in the recent launches out of Yemen. Saudi and Israeli officials in recent years have noted in closed-door meetings that they have observed foreign fighters from the Levant on the ground in Yemen. The Iranian regime was reportedly unsuccessful until now in getting their Yemeni clients to join the regime-engineered “ring of fire” strategy against Israel. But with more urgent efforts by the regime to spark a wider regional war against Israel, we could be watching a joint operation of Houthis, along with Hamas and/or Hezbollah operatives.

The Israelis are not likely to respond directly to this. Their goal is to focus on the dismantling of Hamas before turning their sights on other foes. But don’t discount Israeli actions in Yemen at a later date. And don’t discount Saudi actions sooner than that, particularly if the White House begins to signal a long-overdue shift in policy.
Israel deploys missile boats to Red Sea after Houthi attacks

Mansour Abbas: For Arabs and Jews in Israel these dark days, patience is a civic duty

Polls Showing Support for Israel Hide Some Ugly Truths
According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel. It’s heartening that Americans overwhelmingly support civilization over the Islamofascists of Gaza and Iran.

Then again, “The Palestinian Authority” gets 17% support, and Hamas has a 14% positive rating — which is to say 14% of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14% of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, we would probably be concerned.

Anyway, those numbers seem far too small to me. I think there’s a good reason why. For one thing, many of those who claim to be “supporters” of the Jewish state are not. The Barack Obama types, who do the perfunctory throat-clearing about Israel’s right to exist before going into the usual reasons it should not. This faction — let’s be generous and call them “both-siders” — is a growing concern in the Democratic Party and on the fringes of the Right.

According to the Harvard poll crosstabs, 36% of “liberals” of all ages agreed that the Hamas attack on civilians was justified, and 15% of “conservatives.” While antisemitism isn’t the exclusive domain of left or right, full-blown Hamas apologists are now deeply embedded in left-wing institutions such as universities, major newspapers, cable news, progressive politics, think tanks, and the State Department. They have the kind of disproportionate reach and institutional respect that cosplaying Nazis standing in front of Disney can only dream about.

Also, according to the Harvard poll, a majority of 18- to 24-year-olds believe the killing of more than 1,200 Israeli and American civilians was justified. Nearly half of those 25 to 35 believe it was justified. That percentage might be a bit lower than what you find in The New York Times newsroom; nevertheless, it is only going to get worse.

How many young people working as engineers or carpenters, starting a new business, or at home tending to a new family support Hamas? Very few, one imagines. What about the literature majors or those pursuing international relations degrees or Ph.D.s in one of the social pseudosciences? There is little hope for those who attend hermetically sealed ideological laboratories of higher “learning,” where identitarianism, intersectionality and other iterations of Marxism — most contingent on some form of antisemitism — are taught.

These institutions are run by cowardly administrators who only stand up for free speech when defending terror apologists. They will continue to create credentialed moral nitwits. These are not often places for young people to learn critical thinking skills. But they are places that produce ideologues who’ll be getting those editorial jobs and professorships and teachers union presidencies and law clerkships and security clearance jobs at the Pentagon.
Dem Rep. Goldman: Israel-Blaming Is Absolving Hamas of Its Duty to Palestinians to Free Hostages and Surrender

Triggernometry: Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine
Sam and Eric join us to discuss current events and debate the wider issues at play.

Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. A central voice in the New Atheism movement, he is a well-known critic of religious ideology. Eric Weinstein is a mathematical physicist, public thinker and host of the podcast ‘The Portal’.




Ben Shapiro: Here's the Difference Between Israeli & Palestinian Arabs
There's been a lot of confusion around the historical difference between Israeli and Palestinian Arabs. Join me as I traverse the topic and hopefully shed some light on your questions.


Ben Shapiro: What I Learned At Oxford
I speak at Oxford and have my worst suspicions of the West’s weakness confirmed; the international community increasingly calls for a ceasefire to protect Gazan civilians while Hamas brags about exploiting them; and a university professor explains the Left-wing perspective on race relations.


FULL INTERVIEW: Dr Jordan Peterson and Piers Morgan break down Israel-Hamas war
Clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson has examined the ongoing brutal war between Israel and Hamas during an insightful and confronting wide-ranging interview with Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.

Dr Peterson, a world-famous public intellectual, spoke of the “moral quandary” associated with war and discussed how the current conflict may end up being “played out”.

He also said the demonstrations being seen around the Western world are likely to get larger and more effective in direct proportion to Israel’s military success.

“Palestine is a reality that isn’t going to go away and Israel’s a reality that isn’t going to go away,” Dr Peterson argued.

Piers Morgan and Dr Peterson also discussed the anti-Semitic response being seen across parts of the world amid the ongoing conflict.

“The anti-Semitic response in the last three weeks has been actually quite terrifying to watch,” Mr Morgan said.

“I’ve got Jewish friends who are literally living in real fear now.”


‘Blood, fire, and death’: War footage screened to journalists by Israel
The Australian’s National Affairs Editor Joe Kelly says he thought carefully about attending the screening of 43-minutes’ worth of war footage by Israeli officials, but decided it was important as a journalist to witness.

Mr Kelly sat down with Sky News host Rita Panahi to discuss the Israel-Hamas war and ongoing conflict.

“I thought it was important as a journalist who has covered parts of this story over the last few weeks, and the message from officials at the Israeli embassy also was they felt there was an obligation to show journalists this footage in the interest of getting the truth out there,” Mr Kelly told Ms Panahi.

“It is extremely disturbing … without a doubt the most disturbing footage I have ever seen.”

Warning: This video contains distressing content.


Israel has ‘no choice’ but to destroy Hamas: Andrew Hastie
Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says Israel has “no choice” but to destroy Hamas.

Mr Hastie says Hamas is guilty of a war crime which is using innocent Palestinian civilians “as a shield”.

“It’s young Israeli men and women … who have to find their way through an infinitely complex battlefield and use discriminate fires to kill Hamas and destroy the movement,” Mr Hastie told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“That’s going to be very, very difficult – we can expect casualties on both sides.

“It was Hamas who started this – Hamas used paragliders, motorbikes, vehicles to get into southern Israel and murder people in the most horrible way possible.

“They want to destroy Israel and so Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas.”


Protesters are ‘supporting terror’ more than Palestinian people
Palestinian peace activist Bassem Eid says it is “very sad” to see the protesters supporting Palestine as they are more closely supporting Hamas’ actions as a Palestinian victory.

“It’s very sad to see those, the so-called pro-Palestinians … much more supporting terror rather than they are supporting civilians,” he told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“On the morning of October 7, they start dancing around the world, considering the Jewish massacre by Hamas as a Palestinian victory.

“If massacres became victories in the 21st century, this is the end of humanity.”

This comes as the Israel-Hamas war has intensified, as the death toll continues to climb following the IDF’s ground invasion of Gaza.


‘Women and children’: Hamas leader wants ‘human shields’
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Hamas’ leader wants “women and children” to die to give Palestinians what he called “revolutionary spirit”.

“He wants human shields and wants them to die,” he said.

Mr Bolt said a recent bombing from Israel has “worked,” killing the “local Hamas commander”.

“One of the leaders of the October 7 terror attack on Israel – plus about 50 terrorists,” he said.

Mr Bolt was joined by Filmmaker Ami Horowitz to discuss the media and their coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.


Megyn Kelly: Woke Frauds Exposed, Jew Haters at Colleges, and Matthew Perry & the Drug of Fame, w/ Andrew Klavan
Megyn Kelly begins the show by describing how the "woke" fraud is now being exposed after the terror attack in Israel, the anti-Jewish sentiment in plain sight at college campuses, the women and girls we see ripping down Israeli hostage posters, and more. Then Andrew Klavan, author of "The House of Love and Death," joins to discuss why it's been a bad month for the "woke warriors," how it's better to expose the Jew haters in America, why race essentialism is so toxic to our culture, the anti-Jewish sentiment happening at top universities in America, the Yale newspaper refusing to acknowledge the beheadings and rapes that happened in Israel, our culture making it costly to speak the truth, the sad and untimely death of Friends star Matthew Perry, his legacy and addiction battle, the drug of fame, attacks by the media on Speaker Mike Johnson over his Christian faith, the terrible Jen Psaki MSNBC show, faith and constraint versus materialism, lies about mental health related to mass shooting, a trans activist embarrassing waiters for calling him "sir," how LGBT activists hurt their own communities, and more. And Megyn closes the show with a Halloween horror story featuring her dog Strudwick.


‘We will stand up to you’: Megyn Kelly unleashes on anti-Israel protesters
The Megyn Kelly Show host Megyn Kelly says the persecution of Jewish kids on university campuses in the US is not how things should work.

Ms Kelly discusses the eruption of anti-Israel protests and demonstrations on university campuses which have forced Jewish students to stay inside.

“The answer is not Jews stay home, the answer is aggressors who are threatening them, we will stand up to you,” Ms Kelly told Sky News host Paul Murray.

“In all three tests so far, we have failed – we have sent a message that we cannot protect the Jewish targets and that they must barricade from the rest of society to be safe.

“It doesn’t make sense and it is actually really dangerous.”




‘Speaking with a forked tongue’: Bolt slams Albanese government over Israel-Hamas war
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the government is “speaking with a forked tongue” regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

“He did at least concede the barest minimum, Israel has a right to defend itself, but today again insisted Israel should restrict itself in fighting back,” Mr Bolt said.

“Israel’s never going to do to Palestinians what Palestinians have just done to some Jews, 1400 of them.”

This comes as the Israel-Hamas war has intensified, as the death toll continues to climb following the IDF’s ground invasion of Gaza.

Warning: This video contains distressing content.


Sharri Markson condemns Albanese govt's lack of leadership on anti-Semitism
Another leader has now shown up Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when it comes to condemning the terrifying recent rise in anti-Semitism, says Sky News host Sharri Markson.

NSW Premier Chris Minns gave a speech to The Sydney Institute on Tuesday night where he strongly denounced the explosion in anti-Semitism in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks.

Ms Markson said the Premier is the only Labor politician around the country who is “showing leadership” on this matter.

“Where is Anthony Albanese on this? Where’s Penny Wong? By contrast, I feel that the Albanese government is adding to the problem of anti-Semitism.”

Ms Markson referred to “shocking comments” from Foreign Minister Penny Wong who on Monday told ABC Radio there are “civilians on both sides” being murdered.

“So she’s saying there that both Hamas and Israel is guilty of murder. That's appalling. And utterly inaccurate.”


‘Not out there enough’: Israeli activist flags importance of discussion about Hamas hostages
Israeli activist Noy Miran says the issue of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza is “not out there enough”.

Ms Miran says despite the rolling coverage of the Israel-Hamas war in the media, “no one wants to talk” about the hostages that are still out there.

The number of hostages believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza is up to 240, according to an IDF spokesperson.

“Their story is being hidden … no one is putting pressure on all the communities to bring them home,” Ms Miran told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“Every day that’s passing, their lives are at risk and people don’t understand that.”


Activists exposed for spreading ‘fake news and dangerous views’ on Israel-Hamas war
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has exposed two people who are making Australians “less safe” by spreading “fake news and dangerous views” about the Israel-Hamas war.

“War is horrible, and innocents will die,” Mr Bolt said.

“But you’ve got to call out the people that bring that war too close to our home now, by not calling out the monsters who started it … and are spreading fake news of atrocities.

“And you’ve got to ask our government, what is it doing to counter this wicked and dangerous misinformation?”

Mr Bolt urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to “speak up” on this issue.


Rita Panahi calls out the left’s ‘lunacy’ at pro-Palestinian protests
Sky News host Rita Panahi has called out the “lunacy” of the left at pro-Palestinian protests with groups such as “Queers for Palestine” attending the rallies.

“Just incredible examples of leftist activists advocating for those who would have them locked up, bashed and even killed,” Ms Panahi said.

Ms Panahi showed a clip of the lunacy on display from Europe to the US.

“It's little wonder that groups such as 'Queers for Palestine' have been likened to 'Chickens for KFC'.

“How can you convince people who identify as queer and yet rail against Israel, the only country in the Middle East where they are afforded full rights?”


When anti-Semitism 'rears its ugly, nasty head', Australian Jews feel it 'strongly': Walt Secord
AIJAC Public Affairs Director Walt Secord says when anti-Semitism spikes and “rears its ugly, nasty head,” Australian Jews feel it strongly and personally.

“It’s a very tough time, and it’s been a tough three weeks,” he told Sky News Australia.

Mr Secord said the Executive Council of Australian Jewry reported that there’s been a “significant spike” in anti-Semitism in the last three weeks.

“On the positive side, the community is pulling together in supporting each other,” he said.

“And showing a great warmth and love to everyone in the community.”




Pro-Israel students counterprotest pro-Hamas classmates

Now another McDonald's is hit by pro-Palestine mice attack: Rodents painted in red, white and green are released into second Birmingham restaurant after chain was accused of being pro-Israeli - as police probe sick pranks

Riot police raid family home of convicted fraudster over Pro-Palestinian McDonald's stunt that saw box of mice thrown onto floor of restaurant in Birmingham - after he insisted he wasn't mastermind

Cornell engineering student Patrick Dai, 21, is charged with threatening to kill Jewish students at the Ivy League college in vile antisemitic social media posts: Faces five years in jail

Who is Patrick Dai, Cornell student accused of threatening Jewish peers?
The Cornell University student accused of making violent threats against his Jewish peers is a 21-year-old engineering student who suffers from such “severe depression” that his mother worried he was on the brink of suicide just moments before his arrest.

Patrick Dai, a junior at the prestigious university, was arrested by federal authorities Tuesday for allegedly making a string of disturbing online posts over the weekend threatening to kill and rape Jewish students and to “bring an assault rifle to campus.”

Investigators traced the deranged posts to Dai’s IP address at his off-campus apartment, where he allegedly admitted to being the culprit, according to a federal complaint.

Dai’s parents, however, believe their son is innocent.

“My son is in severe depression. He cannot control his emotion well due to the depression. No, I don’t think he committed the crime,” his father, who asked that his name not be used, told The Post in a text message.


Columbia civil war over antisemitism: Hundreds of professors sign NEW letter slamming 'appalling' colleagues who defended students for supporting Hamas

CUNY adjunct professor is filmed ATTACKING onlookers who filmed her tearing down posters for kidnapped Israelis

Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden says it is 'totally unacceptable' for police to pull down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas terrorists after officers in London and Manchester sparked backlash

Pro-Palestine protestors storm Richard Marles' office and chain themselves by the neck as they call for an end to 'genocide' in Gaza





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