Wednesday, November 22, 2023

11/22 Links Pt1: The Silence From International Bodies Over Hamas' Mass Rapes Is a Betrayal of All Women; Hamas and its perversion of the UN and international law

From Ian:

Michal Herzog - First Lady of the State of Israel: The Silence From International Bodies Over Hamas' Mass Rapes Is a Betrayal of All Women
In the 1990s, international agencies and legal experts finally began to see violence against women as a particular category of war crime. Organizations like UN Women exist to protect women from such crimes, while Israeli experts and activists have been involved in these international efforts. Thus, our second shock: The inconceivable and unforgiveable silence of these organizations when faced with the rape and murder of Israeli women.

It is not that condemnations of gender-based violence by Hamas have been weak or insufficient – there have been none at all. Statement after statement by organizations like UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have failed to condemn these crimes. They failed us, and all women, at this critical moment.

As a woman and a mother, my heart goes out to women and children in Gaza suffering the consequences of the war started by Hamas. I believe they deserve aid and support. But this does not mean the erasure of the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists on October 7. The silence of international human rights organizations, and the unwillingness to believe Israeli women in the face of overwhelming evidence has been devastating.

For the Israelis who have always been on the forefront of the fight for women's rights worldwide, this was a moment of crushing disappointment. A disappointment shared with me by one of our most prominent women's rights advocates, Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a former CEDAW vice-chair.

"I knew it would be difficult to get them to issue a reasonable statement," she said of the UN committee in a Harvard Medical School video conference., "but never did I imagine that when faced with such undeniable atrocities – given the very purpose for which they have been established,– - that they would actually resort to not acknowledging it at all."

Ignoring the "unprecedented, premeditated and extreme cruelty of the sexual violence committed by Hamas," Prof. Halperin-Kaddari added, meant not only failing Israeli women but failing the entire international human rights system. "I still am a believer in this system. But this was a huge blow to this belief."

I agree with every word.

To mark this year's International Day for the Prevention of Violence against Women, Israeli women – Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druze – will gather at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. We will meet in the lingering shock of the violation of our rights, and with the profound sense that all of us who believe in those rights have been betrayed.

Yet we will persist in presenting the truth to the world and to every human rights organization. We owe it not only to our own victims, but to all women who will face these crimes in the future and must know that they are not alone.

Michal Herzog is First Lady of the State of Israel.
Melanie Phillips: The inconvenient truth about the Middle East conflict
There may well be Palestinians who want to live in peace alongside Israel. However, the evidence suggests that these are sadly in a minority. Opinion polling among Palestinians in the disputed territories and Gaza, conducted during the fourth week of the war by the Arab World for Research and Development, has revealed that 75 per cent support the Hamas atrocities of October 7 — with support among those living under rule by the supposedly moderate PA notably even higher, at 83 per cent, than in Gaza.

How indeed could these dismaying figures be otherwise, given that even the “moderate” PA unceasingly pumps out Nazi-style demonisation of the Jews, incitement to Islamic holy war to wipe them all out, and the brainwashing of Palestinian children to believe that their highest calling is to murder Jews and destroy Israel.

Who can be surprised therefore that, as PMW reports, videos of students in the disputed territories show their support for Hamas, the massacre of Israelis and slaughter of Jews, and the continuation of the war.

The dismal reality is that there is no Palestinian leader nor a majority of Palestinians who are prepared to live in peace with Israel.

Whatever PA leaders may say in English for naive western consumption, their real agenda — as has been stated by Palestinian activists themselves — is the “strategy of stages” in which a Palestinian state will be the means to destroy Israel altogether.

If only “two states” were indeed the solution. A Palestine state has been offered multiple times over the past century, most recently in 2008 when Israel offered a state on 93 per cent of the disputed territories.

On every occasion, the Palestinians have not only refused but stepped up their war of extermination against the Jewish homeland.

Yet not only is the Biden administration insisting that the PA rule Gaza once again but it is continuing to fund the PA — despite the fact that it handsomely rewards terrorists and their families.

The inconvenient truth is that the century-old Arab war against the Jewish state has been kept going by the west. Ever since the 1930s, when the UK tore up its legal obligation to settle the Jews throughout what is now Israel, the “West Bank” and Gaza to recreate their homeland and offered instead to divide the land between the Jews and the Arabs, the western powers have rewarded, sanitised and incentivised the Palestinian war against that homeland while pressurising Israel to compromise its security.

With the exception of Qatar, which created and heavily funds Hamas (but to which the west grovels on account of extensive Qatari holdings in western institutions) the Palestinians have virtually zero support among the leaders of the Arab world. The Palestinians’ principal weapon is the liberal west, which can be relied upon to disseminate their propaganda and demonisation of Israel.

The fact that this has become the cause of causes for progressives helps explain the shocking support for or indifference towards the genocidal chanting against Israel and the Jews on the streets of London and other western cities.

If the west were to wake up and tell Palestinian leaders that until they stop their incitement to destroy Israel and wipe out the Jews they will receive no funding, recognition or support of any kind, this terrible conflict would end.

And so too would the intellectual corruption that has knocked the west off its moral compass and brought it to the edge of the civilisational precipice.
Hamas and its perversion of the UN and international law
The floodgates of Jew-hatred have now opened, courtesy of the United Nations, the same body created in the wake of the Holocaust, which has still been unable to condemn Hamas even once. This perversion of international law has now become official policy of the UN.

What soon followed, when Israelis were burying their dead, the twisted minds of the UN Human Rights Commissions released an update to their Commission of Inquiry led by renowned anti-Israel figure, Navi Pillay. Israel, its allies, the Western and civilized world remained in shock at the gravity of the disaster of October 7, but the UN unashamedly released a report that mentions Israel 269 times and Hamas only 4 times, twisting every norm of international law to excuse Palestinian terror.

Taking hostages, seeking to wipe Jews off the map, eradicating the only Jewish state in the world, murder, rape, savagery, using their own civilians as shields, using mosques, schools, hospitals, and residential buildings as bases for attacks and munition storage, violating every single norm of IHL, are but a few of the crimes committed by Hamas against Israel and against its own citizens in Gaza. But has the UN made a single proclamation calling out Hamas as terrorists? Sadly, they have not.

Hamas and its depraved allies (Iran, Hezbollah, and others) pervert the concepts of international law, they speak the language and make declarations as though they adhere to the principles of law. They twist the words, their logic is inverted, they commit every crime imaginable, and they are not held accountable. Yet, those voices are being heard and worse, their utterances are used as ammunition against the State of Israel.

85 years ago, the world witnessed a sickening pogrom in Nazi Germany. Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. Jews were demonized, and the world was indifferent. What followed was a war that saw millions of deaths and the near decimation of European Jews.

International Law grew from the depths of the horrors of WWII, but today, the weaponization of these laws has real-life consequences and manifests into violence against Jews and their institutions. Streets around the world are witnessing a surge in antisemitic attacks and reports are showing a surge in antisemitic incidents in the US.

If logic would prevail then the twisted manipulation of international law and the perversion of legal concepts would be eradicated from this conflict. When clear minds are willing to accept the evil that is Hamas and not allow the UN to succeed in enabling terrorist organizations and allied state actors to create a bully platform on the world stage, then perhaps we could free little Ariel Bibas and the hundreds of other hostages from the clutches of a vile terrorist group.


Hamas Wants Its Monsters Freed
ith Israel under severe pressure to make a deal with Hamas to free some of the 240 hostages in Gaza, a counterterrorism expert warned the United Nations yesterday that Hamas had great hopes of using the situation to spring one of its most murderous leaders from an Israel prison: Ibrahim Hamid, a man serving multiple life sentences.

“They want him. He’s on top of their list to be released,’’ said Mosab Hassan Yousef. Known as the Green Prince, Yousef is the eldest son of a founder of Hamas, but he came to renounce his father’s work and take a different path. Yousef has spent 10 years in Israeli counterterrorism as part of his own mission to see Hamas defeated and dismantled in his lifetime.

“If Hamas is not eradicated in Gaza, it will inspire many groups around the globe,’’ Yousef said. “They will see that a few thousand savages can blackmail the international community, the superpowers and bring them to their knees.”

In yesterday’s remarks, Yousef recalled the eight years he and Israeli authorities labored to capture Ibrahim Hamid, a senior military commander of Hamas who orchestrated a spree of suicide bombings during the second intifada in Israel that killed 46 Israelis and wounded others. These plots included attacks on Zion Square, Café Moment, and Café Hillel in Jerusalem; Sheffield Club in Rishon Lezion; and one at Hebrew University.

Israel finally apprehended him in May 2006. “It took us eight years to capture him, while he was sending suicide bombers every other day,’’ Yousef said. “It was a big nightmare to capture him and you know now what they are doing, why (we have) the hostage situation we have in Gaza. They want him. He’s on the top of their list to be released….They want mass murderers to go back on the street.”

The issue of exchanging prisoners-for-hostages is a delicate but highly charged one in Israel. There’s been an enormous outpouring of support for the families of the hostages and any steps Israeli authorities and their allies might take to free those Hamas dragged back to Gaza on October 7. Forty of the hostages are thought to be children and many of the others are frail, injured, or in need of medical help.

At the same time, Israel is aware that any deal that releases terrorists may undermine Israeli security and feed further violence. Yousef pointed out that Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 atrocities, was himself part of an exchange of more than a thousand prisoners in 2011. Israel acquiesced to that deal for the return of one captive soldier, Gilad Shalit.
Son of Hamas Co-Founder Denounces Group at UN, Exposes 'Savage' Indoctrination of Palestinian Kids
The son of a co-founder of Hamas blasted the terror organization in a blistering half-hour speech at the United Nations on Monday.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, defected from the terrorist group in the late '90s and secretly worked with Israel's security services to expose and prevent several Hamas terrorist attacks. He later gave his life to Christ and wrote a 2010 autobiography titled Son of Hamas.

Yousef, 45, now endeavors to expose the true face of Hamas' genocidal death cult.




Alan Dershowitz: Palestinians Share Hamas Guilt
When Hamas deliberately attacked Israeli civilians, they knew full well that Israel would have to respond, that Hamas would use civilians as human shields, and that despite Israeli efforts to avoid civilian casualties, some Palestinians would become "collateral" damage — that is, be killed or wounded when Israel took military action necessary to prevent a recurrence of the massacres of Oct. 7.

Hamas is thus responsible — morally, legally, and politically — for the civilian deaths that were the predictable and indeed intended result of the Oct. 7 attack.

These civilian deaths were intended to shift the focus away from the Hamas barbarities and toward the collateral damage resulting from Israeli self-defense measures.

The adult civilians of Gaza who encouraged, supported, rewarded and cheered on the massacres of Israelis also bear some moral and political, if not strictly legal, responsibility.

This leaves the children.

It must first be determined what constitutes a "child" in the enumeration of Hamas?

That depends of course on the way children are used.

When it comes to recruiting child soldiers, Hamas considers 13, 14- and 15-year-olds as sufficiently mature to become terrorists.

But when it comes to publishing inflated figures about the dead, suddenly every 17-and-a-half-year-old mass murdering terrorist is counted among the poor "children" mercilessly killed by the bloodthirsty Israelis.

Also, every mass murdering woman, regardless of age, is separately listed, as if that suggest that their sex automatically makes them innocent civilians.

And the media and others willingly fall for these cynical bait-and-switches.

Let the Hamas authorities at least separate the terrorist combatants — including women and children — from the total numbers allegedly killed.

They should also separate out the Gazans who were killed by errant terrorist rockets, as well as civilians who were killed by Hamas trying to go south pursuant to Israeli safety instructions.

It is highly likely that a list of purely innocent civilians who deserve our sympathy —babies, very young children, non-supporters of Hamas — would be a fraction of the inflated numbers uncritically and often provocatively regurgitated by the media.


MEMRI: How To Rescue All The Hostages Quickly – And Protect The West From The Islamic Terrorism Of The Crime Family That Rules Qatar
The main argument of Netanyahu and his henchmen is that inaction against Qatar is necessary because it helps the negotiations for saving the hostages, and that Netanyahu is doing everything in his power to save them. Both of these claims are outright lies. Qatar is not assisting in the negotiations – it is hindering them, representing Hamas's demands. It has no interest in helping Israel – only in helping Hamas.

Netanyahu's depiction of Qatar as helping Israel is aimed at saving his skin from his heavy culpability in allowing Qatar to build up Hamas's military force and bring the October 7 catastrophe upon Israel. The blood is on his hands – and if he stands up against Qatar in any way, he will incriminate himself as having allowed it to build up Hamas's military force.

It is also unclear why Qatar is even involved in the negotiations, and who brought it in. Why isn't Egypt enough? Egypt was astonished that Israel and the U.S. are talking with the Qatari enemy and involving it in the negotiations, instead of dealing only with Egypt. Indeed, Qatar has nothing to offer that Egypt cannot offer – and, unlike Qatar, Egypt doesn't care about the interests of Hamas, as it is in conflict with both Hamas and with Hamas's parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, and has itself imprisoned Al-Jazeera journalists.

Who, then, brought Qatar into the negotiation process, and why? This clearly serves Netanyahu – i.e. presenting Qatar as a positive and helpful element, even though the reality is just the opposite. The U.S. might want Qatar's participation for its own reasons – but Israel is under no obligation to accept this, because it is at war with a Qatar-established terrorist organization that is holding Israeli hostages (let alone the fact that Hamas murdered 32 American nationals and is holding 12 among the hostages). While it isn't easy to stand up to the U.S. under such difficult circumstances, the U.S. must be told that any cooperation with Qatar is against Israeli existential interests. Netanyahu is, as noted, doing the opposite in order to save his own skin.

Is there another way for Qatar to help?

The answer is yes – not by begging and pleading, but by applying massive pressure that will undermine its existence as a state. Only if it feels threatened will Qatar truly help – if its existence is in question and chances are that it will cease to exist. Only then will it mobilize to help the U.S. and Israel. Right now, it is cheating them both while trying with all its might to help Hamas.

Qatar will not, however, commit suicide for Hamas, and when it sees that it must choose between Hamas and ceasing to exist, it will choose existence, and Hamas will comply with its demands because Qatar is its lifeline without which Hamas will not exist – especially during and after a war.

Thus, there is no way but to start down this other path – the path of massively pressuring Qatar.

How can Qatar be persuaded to use its power and influence over Hamas to free the hostages?

This can be done by implementing the following:

1. Political pressure – declaring Qatar a state sponsor of terrorism, which it is, and implementing the accompanying legal sanctions.
2. Legal pressure – filing international lawsuits over Qatari assistance to terrorist organizations, not just Hamas but also Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, and Hizbullah. Instead of accepting Qatar's sheltering of the Hamas commanders, their extradition must be demanded.
3. Economic pressure – by directly impacting, by various means, Qatari economic institutions that attract foreign investment.
4. Security pressure – by striking Hamas commanders who have sheltered in Doha for years.

By failing to take these measures to pressure Qatar, Prime Minister Netanyahu is sacrificing the hostages and soldiers. He is continuing to protect Qatar's image in order to protect himself from questions about why he allowed Qatari funds to build Hamas's military power.

In light of the growing danger to the hostages, and the fact that over the past six weeks no deal has been reached – and even if there is one it will be a limited deal serving the interests of Hamas and Qatar – the time has come to try the other path, the path of massive pressure.

With regard to the hostages, it is also important to note that in addition to pressuring Qatar on all levels noted above, Israel should add to the mix its willingness to accept a comprehensive deal for all the hostages in exchange for all the terrorists in Israeli prisons. I proposed this on the very first day of the war. This is a moral imperative. We owe this to the families of the hostages. This situation is an historic exception, involving babies and children whose parents were slaughtered. No past criteria for releasing prisoners apply here.

If Hamas rejects this proposal, we can look to the families and say we have offered it all that we possibly can. If Hamas accepts it, and tries to depict it as a victory, let it do so, while half of the Gaza Strip is already destroyed, and the longer the war continues, the more will be destroyed. A great victory indeed.
Daniel Greenfield: 7 Reasons Why the Hostage Deal is a Mistake
It may be stating the obvious, but here’s why the hostage deal is a terrible idea.

1. After Oct 7, the new rule was that Hamas would no longer be treated like a normal entity, but like an abominable evil that had to be destroyed. The negotiations kill that. Once you negotiate with evil, it stops being unacceptable. That’s why we had rules against negotiating with terrorists. When the taboo is broken, it’s a lot harder to put back into place.

Oct 7 should have restored an absolute taboo. No more.

2. Hamas has been losing. Its defense strategy has failed. Its best hope for staying in power is to boost morale and make its forces and Arab Muslims in Gaza think that this was all for something.

In today’s article, I delved into why the poll numbers for Hamas and the war were worse in Gaza than in the West Bank. Now Hamas will claim to have delivered a win.

3. The deal endangers other hostages. Hamas wants time to relocate its forces and the hostages. This deal gives it that. Beyond the temporary cessation of attacks, Israel will ‘blind’ itself to its movements. This not only sets back the war effort, but it allows Hamas to make off with and then kill more hostages.

4. The deal means that Israel is falling back into the same bad habits of believing in negotiated deterrence that led to the Oct 7 attack. Delusions of diplomacy are a bad idea. Especially when it comes to terrorists. Hamas can’t be negotiated with or deterred. No Islamic terrorist group can. The moment anyone thinks that way, they’ve lost.

5. Negotiating for hostages leads to the taking of hostages. Period.

6. Israel had a clear moral case for taking out Hamas. Negotiating with it muddies it and undermines Israel’s supporters.

7. After Oct 7, there was a conflict within the Biden administration over diplomacy vs. force. The ‘diplomacy’ crowd will now claim to have won and be in the driver’s seat for setting policy. That means people who are basically agents of Qatar and Iran are back in charge of foreign policy. This will have terrible implications for American support for Israel’s war effort.


Dangerous honey-trap: What is Hamas's Sinwar plan for IDF after ceasefire?
There is a growing estimation amongst Israeli authorities that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, intends to exploit a humanitarian crisis in the southern Gaza Strip. The outcome of this strategy would be substantial international pressure that could deter the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from intensifying its operations in the Khan Yunis area, which serves as Sinwar's main command center. The concern is that the Israeli forces might settle for a relatively limited operation, one that would not significantly harm Hamas's vital assets.

Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, is believed to be planning to delay the resumption of ground operations after the ceasefire, according to current assessments in Israel.

Within the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the Foreign Ministry, there is a belief that several Arab and European countries are planning to bolster the southern Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid. Their aim is to assist more than a million refugees residing in the region.

Officials from both of these bodies share the view that Hamas will wait for the arrival of the French field hospital, and the entry of international aid organizations and logistics forces from various countries. They anticipate that these events will trigger a campaign highlighting a humanitarian crisis in the region. "Sinwar isn't merely biding his time," explained a knowledgeable source. "He's actively seeking momentum. This is the trap he's setting. The longer time passes, the more he will publicize images of a tent city to depict the southern Gaza Strip as an area experiencing an international humanitarian crisis. In this way, he intends to exert pressure on the IDF and thwart its attempts to intensify operations in the south."


Israel to be ‘relentless’ in its pursuit of Hamas
Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus says Israel will continue to be “relentless” in its pursuit of Hamas.

He said civilians in Gaza are not Israel’s enemy, Hamas is.

“We will continue to distinguish between them and the civilian population,” Lieutenant Colonel Conricus told Sky News Australia.

“At the end of this war, I think that we will free (the) Gaza Strip from Hamas.

“And at the end of it, the people of Gaza will be in a much better place than they have been for the last 17 years under the oppressive rule of Hamas.”




2014: Gaza reporters’ tweets: Hamas using human shields
Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of “informing” the IDF.

On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australia’s Channel Nine News tweeted: “Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.”

An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovic’s fourth time “passing and fabricating information to Israel... from GAZA” and threatened to sue him. Another account, @longitude0 wrote: “You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF” and “in WWII spies got shot.”

Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing “two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.” Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip.

In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: “We’ll hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.”

Another twitter user, @ Faysal_FreeGaza, said he’s “subtly justifying and encouraging IDF attacks on hospitals,” and @Maysara_ ara wrote: “Get out of Gaza u informant.”

Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted on Tuesday a photo of a Hamas official using Shifa hospital for media interviews, writing: “You have to wonder w the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see interviews.”

By Wednesday, the tweet was deleted, but pro-Palestinian Twitter accounts continued to include him on lists of “journos in Gaza [who] lie/fabricate info for Israel” and “must be sued for crimes.”


'Post' joins Israeli forces in Hamas's Gaza tunnel underworld

Hamas victims oppose hostage deal that includes release of terrorists
Bereaved families and survivors of Hamas's October 7 attack have issued a statement on Tuesday stating their opposition to a hostage deal that would include the release of terrorists in a prisoner exchange.

"We know and warn that any terrorist who is released now will return and cause harm in the future. In the Gilad Shalit deal, the perpetrators of the October 7 massacre were released, and there is no reason why the release of the terrorists should be any different this time."

The families and survivors also stated that they are waiting to hear the details of the transaction before any appeal is submitted.
Sharon Stone meets with families 'who have children held as hostages by Hamas' as she urges followers not to 'support violence' amid Israel's war with Hamas

The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Bring One-Fifth of Them Home
Dan Senor joins the pre-Thanksgiving podcast to discuss the contours of the deal to release hostages from Gaza, along with some of the horrifying details of how the soldiers in Israel who will take custody of the children are being instructed to deal with them and the questions they ask, like “Where are Mommy and Daddy?”


"Incredibly Complex Operation" Douglas Murray Talks Israeli Hostage Deal With Hamas
Journalist Douglas Murray talks President Netanyahu saying progress was made on hostages as 50 hostages will be freed by Hamas during a four-day ceasefire under a new deal with Israel which was brokered by the Qatar and the United States after weeks of negotiations.

Douglas says: "Nobody knows how many of the hostages are still alive or what condition they're in"


Israel releasing ‘convicted terrorists’ for hostages: IDF Lieutenant Colonel
IDF Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner says Israel will be releasing “convicted terrorists” in exchange for 53 women and children Hamas have been holding hostage since October 7.

The deal will the 53 hostages held by Hamas to be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and teenage prisoners, as well as a four-day ceasefire with Hamas to allow the exchange to occur.

Israel will also allow more food and fuel into Gaza as part of the deal.

“The situation is one that is going to be determined by the government of Israel and, I guess, the terrorist government of Hamas,” Mr Lerner told Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt.

“From our position, of course, we need to look at the disparity, we need to keep in mind that those being released by Hamas … are innocent civilians, women and children … where we will be releasing convicted terrorists.

“This war effort from our perspective has always had two goals … dismantling and destroying Hamas as a terrorist government of the Gaza Strip so they can never have the power to govern the Gaza Strip as a terrorist organisation … and the release and the rescue of the hostages.”


‘Anxious time’ for families of Israeli hostages after deal with Hamas struck
It will be an “extremely anxious time” for families of Israeli hostages as they hope their child, parent or sibling will be among those released by Hamas, says Sky News host Sharri Markson.

Israel has agreed to a deal that will see 50 Israeli hostages freed in return for a five-day ceasefire and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners.

The deal was reached during a late-night seven-hour emergency sitting of the Israeli cabinet.

Ms Markson said she has spoken to sources and her understanding is that each night Israel will be handed a list with the names of around 12 hostages who will be freed the next day.

“Israel doesn't know ahead of time who they'll be,” she said.


'Dangerous moment' for Israel after ceasefire deal made with Hamas
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan says it’s currently a “dangerous moment” for Israel after it made a deal with Hamas to pause fighting for four days in exchange for the release of hostages.

“I think they had to agree to something like this because the sense of solidarity in Israel with the innocent hostages is overwhelming – but these hostages deals actually have been very bad for Israel in the past,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“There’s going to be a four-day pause in the fighting, and Hamas will release 12 or 13 prisoners every day, at this stage, only women and children.

“Israel is determined that, for the moment, it won’t be releasing any Palestinian with blood on their hands directly but will be releasing female prisoners.

“Israel has said though that it will extend the pause in fighting for a day every time Hamas releases another ten prisoners.”


Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal the 'only option' for some hostages
Bar-llan University Professor of Politics Gerald Steinberg says nobody thinks of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal as fair “at all”.

“No one’s using the term ‘fair’ at all – it’s the only option we have to get at least 50 of our people back, mainly women and children or particularly women and children,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“It’s been 45 I think, 46 days since they were kidnapped, many of them went through terrible trauma watching the brutal killing and torture of their patents, their loved ones.

“They’ve been held in some tunnel somewhere by Hamas for now over now six weeks.

"I think the Israeli public wants them back but nobody thinks of it as fair at all – it’s pure blackmail – terrorist blackmail – and of course it’s worked again.”


Israeli hostage deal a ‘tremendous relief’ for kidnapped victims: Dave Sharma
Australia’s former ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma says the Israeli hostage release deal with Hamas is a tremendous relief for the kidnapped victims and their family members.

The Israeli cabinet has agreed to a hostage deal with Hamas that will see 50 Israeli hostages be released during a four-day ceasefire in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons.

“It’s very welcomed news for the families, we’re talking here about 30 children, 12 mothers, a number of women, some children as young as 10 months old," Mr Sharma told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“Bear in mind they were kidnapped and taken hostage, a clear war crime and they’ve now been held for 46 days.

“It’s a tremendous relief for them and their family.”




Israel Advocacy Movement: Palestinian and Jew don't hold back on Gaza

Andrew Klavan: There's No Two-State Solution with People Who Want to EXTERMINATE Your State
The ongoing Israel-Hamas War has elicited a cascade of idiotic leftists calling for a cease-fire and a two-state solution. What these morons don't seem to understand is that Hamas is a terrorist organization whose sole purpose is the extermination of the Israeli state. There can be no cease-fire, no two-state solution, and no mercy. This is war.


Joel Pollak: Israelis no longer want a two-state solution after Oct 7 | JNS TV
JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman sits down with Breitbart Senior Editor-At-Large Joel Pollak to discuss what he is doing here in Israel, what he feels Americans aren't hearing about and how US Jews can fight back against rising antisemitism.

Pollak's opinion is that although the American public stands with Israel, the political class in Washington is steeped in an "unreality" of the Middle East, in an "impractical" ideology of a two-state solution, and a refusal to understand what the October 7th attacks mean for the region.


West ‘plagued by self-doubt’ as they fail to condemn Hamas ‘death cult’: Tony Abbott
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says the Western world is “plagued by self-doubt” as they fail to condemn the actions of the Hamas “terrorist death cult” after Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for clarity in condemning anti-Semitism.

Mr Dutton and Prime Minster Anthony Albanese attended the re-opening of the Melbourne Holocaust Museum on Wednesday in a display of bipartisan support against anti-Semitic hate speech.

Mr Dutton said there was a need for “moral courage and moral clarity” in unequivocally condemning ugly scenes of anti-Semitism as Mr Albanese moved to reassure the Jewish community that he would protect social cohesion.

“There’s a real crisis of self-confidence in countries such as ours,” Mr Abbott told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“The Anglosphere, which has done so much to lead the world into a better place, is plagued by this self-doubt, and this is why so many people in countries like Australia seem to prefer Hamas, a terrorist death cult, to a liberal democracy such as Israel.

“We should be doing everything we humanely can to redeem ourselves by making it absolutely crystal clear that in this existential struggle between the Hamas death cult and the only liberal democracy in the Middle East … we are unequivocally on Israel’s side.”


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Elon Musk announces he will donate X advertising revenue to hospitals in Israel and the Red Cross in Gaza after backlash over his anti-Semitic tweet

Why the Candace Owens-Ben Shapiro Feud Matters The Israel Guys: This is Why Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are Wrong About Israel & Hamas There’s a popular new trend. It is for conservative commentators to go to great pains to maintain “moral equivalence” regarding the current war between Israel and Hamas. If they’re not talking about moral equivalence, then they’re touting the fact that America should not be involved in any foreign wars, including intervening in the Middle East, or getting involved in stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear capability.

On a surface level, these issues may seem morally and sensibly correct. As you know however, I am an unapologetic Christian Zionists who stands unconditionally with Israel,
especially now. I’m also an American citizen who ironically, has no problem with the “America first” stance.

That being said, I have two specific reasons why it is absolutely vital for America and Christians all over the world to stand unconditionally with Israel. The second reason however, may surprise you.


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Pensioner who admitted throwing red paint over the Israeli embassy on Armistice Day faces jail

'Bubbling undercurrent of hatred': Patrick Christys swarmed and berated at pro-Palestine rally
GB News host Patrick Christys has spoken about going to a pro-Palestine protest in the UK to see what was “making them tick”.

Mr Christys went to Tower Hamlets, where he was surrounded by pro-Palestinian protesters who were shouting “shame on you” at him.

“We have had now a series of pro-Palestine demonstrations here,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

Mr Christys said the narrative being put out was that pro-Palestine rallies in the UK are peaceful – to which he went out to investigate if this was true.

“I just wanted to go and see why people were there and what was making them tick,” he said.

“And what you can see there is clearly the bubbling undercurrent of hatred.”


BBC's Gary Lineker sparks fresh impartiality row by sharing video which accuses Israel of committing 'textbook genocide' in Gaza

Susan Sarandon is DUMPED by her agent after saying Jews are now 'getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in the US'

Susan Sarandon dumped by Hollywood agency over anti-Jewish rant
Actress Susan Sarandon has been dropped from talent agency UTA after she claimed Jewish people have been getting a “taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim”.

The Thelma and Louise actress made the comments during a speech at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City on Friday, November 17.

“There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence,” Ms Sarandon said.

There has been fierce backlash to the comments, including from Muslim American writer Asra Nomani.

"Don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries,” she wrote on X.

Other users on social media said Sarandon should “stick to acting” and “stop the divisive rhetoric”.




Melissa Barrera is fired from Scream VII over social media posts critical of Israel amid ongoing war with Hamas

Woke UPenn vows to identify group responsible for hanging hundreds of horrific 'Missing Cow' posters that appear to mock murdered and kidnapped Hamas terror attack victims

Vile moment pro-Palestine activist declares she's 'cleaning the s*** off the street' as she tears down posters of kidnapped Israeli children in North London - before 'making antisemitic remark at passerby'

Palestine football fans stage protest during men's team's World Cup qualifier against Australia amid Israel conflict

Wild scenes as a BABY is caught up in pro-Palestinian protest as it descends into violence with demonstrators trying to block an Israeli ship: 23 arrested

Chris Minns ‘courageous’ for comments on school strike for Palestine
Psychiatrist Dr Tanveer Ahmed says it was “courageous” of NSW Premier Chris Minns to take a strong stance against the school strike for Palestine protest tomorrow.

“We’ve just set a precedent around the climate strikes where you’ve just got groups saying oh, if we care about an issue enough, we think there’s a religious zeal around an issue, oh yeah it supersedes school,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“I think it’s absolutely terrible and it’s kids being exploited by their elders.

“It’s interesting Minns is taking such a strong position.

“He may well upset some figures in his party – this is where there’s a real tension on the left and there’s a lot of Labor MPs with big sort of Muslim communities who will have strong issues probably against what Minns is saying.”






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