Tuesday, April 30, 2024

04/30 Links: Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?; VDH: Iran just pulled its own nuclear teeth; The Al Dahdouh clan – kings of the two industries in Gaza

From Ian:

Walter Russell Mead: Hamas' Passionate Campus Supporters' Incoherent and Unrealistic View of the World
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is barnstorming the Middle East to develop plans for a ceasefire and for postwar reconstruction in Gaza. American national interests demand that the U.S. resist Iran's drive to disrupt what is left of the post-Cold War order in the Middle East. Failure to stabilize the region could lead in the short term to inflationary gasoline price spikes, and in the longer term could seriously weaken Washington's position in the contest with the revisionist powers seeking to overturn the American order worldwide.

Many of Hamas' most passionate campus supporters believe that the organization wants to establish a secular Palestinian state. They also believe that Israeli Jews are European immigrants displacing an indigenous population - white settlers who should go home to Poland. They think that Israel survives only because America supports it and that an American president who "gets serious" with Israel can make it do almost anything he wants.

They see Hamas as part of a global coalition of "progressive" movements advancing causes such as climate change, democracy and LGBTQ rights against global capitalism. But the wisest heads in the world all working together couldn't craft a feasible diplomatic strategy based on such an incoherent and unrealistic view of the world.
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran just pulled its own nuclear teeth
Now that the soil of both Iran and Israel is no longer sacred and immune from attack, the mystique of the Iranian nuclear threat has dissipated.

It should be harder for the theocracy to shake down Western governments for hostage bribes, sanctions relief and Iran-deal giveaways on the implied threat of Iran successfully nuking the Jewish state.

The new reality is that Iran has goaded an Israel that has numerous nuclear weapons and dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles in hardened silos and on submarines.

Tehran has zero ability to stop any of these missiles or sophisticated fifth-generation Israeli aircraft armed with nuclear bombs and missiles.

Iran must now fear that if it launched two or three nuclear missiles, there would be overwhelming odds that they would either fail at launch, go awry in the air, implode inside Iran, be taken down over Arab territory by Israel’s allies or be knocked down by the tripartite Israel anti-missile defense system.

Add it all up, and the Iranian attack on Israel seems a historic blunder.

It showed the world the impotence of an Iranian aerial assault at the very time it threatens to go nuclear.

It revealed that an incompetent Iran may be as much a threat to itself as to its enemies.

It opened up a new chapter in which its own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no longer off limits to any Western power.

Its failure to stop a much smaller Israel response, coupled with the overwhelming success of Israel and its allies in stopping a much larger Iranian attack, reminds the Iranian autocracy that its shrill rhetoric is designed to mask its impotence and to hide its own vulnerabilities from its enemies.

And the long-suffering Iranian people?

The truth will come out that its own theocracy hit the Israeli homeland with negligible results and earned a successful, though merely demonstrative, Israeli response in return.
This Is No Genocide
As I write, students in universities across the U.S. are occupying their campuses in protest at what they consider to be Israel’s genocide against the Gazan people. Unlike the Met Police who freeze at the prospect of arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators guilty of breaching the peace, the American police have no such hang ups and are arresting protestors in large numbers for their illegal encampments. So far, around 120 students have been arrested at Columbia University alone.

What makes these illegal occupations particularly contemptible is the antisemitism of some of those taking part. Jewish students and university staff have been harassed with taunts of “Go back to Poland” and “October 7th is about to be every day for you”.

These barbs are not only revolting, they also display the monumental moral stupidity of those conducting this harassment. How can a person demonstrate against what they think is a genocide in Gaza whilst calling for the genocide of Jews? But what did we expect – irrationality is integral to extremism.

But there is also the empirical question of whether Israel’s actions in Gaza actually are a genocide. It is time to listen to an expert rather than students who mentally and emotionally are still in nappies. Enter John Spencer, the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point and a former infantry soldier of 25 years’ service.

In an article for Newsweek, Spencer, who studies and advises the American military on the kind of warfare in which Israel is currently engaged, namely urban warfare, argues that no other nation in history has shown as much concern to protect civilians as the Israeli Defence Force has done in Gaza. If the IDF were carrying out a genocide, civilians would be targeted too, but they are not. Yet still the international community does not acknowledge Israel’s concern for non-combatants and continues to scold it for failing to protect them. So exemplary has the IDF been in minimising civilian casualties, it is Spencer’s opinion that the U.S. ought to learn the IDF’s methods.

What is more remarkable according to Spencer is that Israel’s concern for Gazan civilians defies military orthodoxy regarding offensives. According to the theory and praxis of manoeuvre warfare, the attacker must smash an enemy morally and physically with surprise, overwhelming force and speed, and destroy political and military centres. Warning civilians to evacuate is forbidden as enemy forces would learn of the coming attack.


Melanie Phillips: An arresting story
Khan, who became the ICC Prosecutor in 2021, is undoubtedly keenly aware of the ICC’s deeply damaged reputation as a court owing more to international power politics than to the rule of law, and which was all but wrecked by his two incompetent and deeply partisan predecessors in the post.

While the current investigation into possible abuses in Gaza and the disputed “West Bank” territories of Judea and Samaria dates back to 2014 and has been marked by a number of malign moves against Israel, Khan will be acutely concerned to repair the ICC’s reputation as an impartial and fair court of law.

Among other considerations, that means abiding by court’s own fundamental rule of complementarity. As an informal expert paper published by the ICC put it:
The statute recognises that states have the first responsibility and right to prosecute international crimes. The ICC may only exercise jurisdiction where national legal systems fail to do so, including where they purport to act but in reality are unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out proceedings. under which it has to give a state time to investigate itself any claims that have been made against it.

In practice, this means that before the ICC can make any move against Israel, the Jewish state must be given the chance to investigate any charges laid against it. Since the war in Gaza is still under way, that is clearly not yet possible.

In addition, Khan has pledged to deliver impartial justice. In a statement he made at the end of October, when he spoke emotionally about his horror and repugnance at the crimes committed against innocent Israelis on October 7 and also about the suffering of the “innocent Palestinians” in Gaza, he said he would investigate possible crimes committed “on the territory of Palestine by any party”.

So if these reports of imminent arrest warrants against the Israelis are fundamentally untrue, what is the explanation for them? It’s possible that other agendas are in play, aiming to whip up a storm to service self-serving or partisan interests of one kind or another.

In relation to that, Caspit’s story contains one further intriguing nugget. Having reported that Khan’s teams have been working to collect evidence about the kidnap into Gaza of the Israeli hostages, Caspit writes:
However, in the meantime, a second ICC team has been operating as well, a separate team that decided that a balance had to be maintained and that the “other side”— in other words, Israel — also had to be dealt with.

Israel reportedly pressed the panic button having obtained “sensitive information” about the ICC’s deliberations. Might this have been obtained by listening in to the ICC “second team” investigators’ conversations? Might these “second team” investigators themselves have been malignly disposed towards Israel?

But whatever the investigators might be saying, the person who decides whether or not to act against Israel is no-one but Khan himself. Is it likely that such a man would act in such a way?

On the other hand, is it likely that the Israelis can be so ignorant of the way the ICC actually works?

Maybe these alarmist reports are indeed well-founded. Maybe Karim Khan is about to finally destroy what’s left of the ICC’s reputation. Maybe this really is the apotheosis of the current infernal global drive to destroy Israel through a lethal pincer movement of military entrapment and a legal sucker punch.

If so, it would mark a new and even more terrifying low in this crisis point for the Jewish people and for civilisation.
Amb. Alan Baker: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Has Been Hijacked, Politicized, and Abused
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) reported intention to issue warrants for the arrest of Israel's senior governmental and security personnel shows that the international judicial body has been simply hijacked, politicized, abused and, to all intents and purposes, ruined.

From the very establishment of the court, Arab and Palestinian leaders have eyed the ICC as a potential target for their struggle to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, in addition to the various UN bodies that they have already politicized and ruined.

Despite the clear and basic requirement that only sovereign states may be party to the 1998 Rome Treaty which defines the aims and purposes of the ICC, the UN Secretary General accepted the Palestinian request to be recognized as a "state party" to the ICC. Thus, a non-existing, terror-oriented state was granted full party status in the ICC, although its sole purpose was not to advance the cause of international justice but to undermine the legitimacy of Israel.

Accompanied by some accommodating and politically-oriented prosecutors, the Palestinians have succeeded in manipulating the ICC into possibly issuing arrest warrants against Israel's leadership, while the brutal Palestinian Hamas perpetrators of the largest and cruelest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust apparently go scot-free and enjoy apparent immunity.

People like myself who were heavily involved in negotiating, drafting and creating the ICC and who are intimately familiar with its original aims and purposes cannot but shudder in fear at the unbelievable abuse of that Statute and of the noble aims and intentions of its founding fathers.
WSJ Editorial: The International Criminal Court and Israel
The Israeli media is flush with reports of imminent International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for Israel's political and military leaders. If President Biden and British Prime Minister Sunak don't act, they risk finding Americans and Britons next under the gun.

The Israeli high command has prosecuted a limited war in self-defense against a genocidal terrorist group. Israel has a civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio that compares favorably with other urban conflicts. Israel takes extraordinary measures to spare civilians, and it has disciplined and relieved officers for wrongdoing.

The ICC prosecutor is supposed to investigate before indicting a world leader, not the other way around. An indictment now would be highly irregular and revealing of bias or great-power pressure. The ICC is supposed to complement national legal systems, intervening only when they are unable to investigate. Is that really the issue with Israel's Supreme Court - famous for its judicial activism and antigovernment tilt?

There's a reason the U.S. isn't a party to the ICC and Congress has long authorized a President "to use all means necessary and appropriate" to resist ICC arrests of Americans and U.S. allies.


Bassam Tawil: U.S. Campuses Grooming Terrorists
While protesters at Columbia University and Yale celebrate Hamas and its "resistance" (a euphemism for violence and terrorism), Arabs have been ridiculing the "pro-Palestinian" demonstrators on American college campuses.

For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing "pro-Palestinian" about supporting Iran-backed Hamas.

While there were some relatively small protests at a few universities in Jordan and Egypt, they did not come close to the wave of antisemitism sweeping U.S. campuses.

Those who are chanting "we are all Hamas" are not helping the Palestinians of Gaza even slightly. They are being used by the terrorist group Hamas in its genocidal war against Israel and Jews.

These students and faculty members are actually saying that they approve of the atrocities committed by Hamas over the past three decades, including suicide bombings, stabbings, and firing of thousands of rockets and mortars into Israeli cities.

Loay Al-Shareef from the UAE wrote on social media: "Dear White Americans and Gen Zs who support or tolerate Hamas supporters on U.S. campuses, a gentle reminder from a credible Arab Muslim voice from the Middle East."

"You are supporting a terror group with the same Islamist/ Muslim Brotherhood pathological creed that brought down the twin towers in Manhattan in 2001."

"You would not survive a day in Gaza under Hamas, which demands that 'infidels' live with dignity only if they are subordinate to Islamists."
David Collier: The Al Dahdouh clan – kings of the two industries in Gaza
There are two flourishing industries in Gaza – terrorism and journalism. One is all about killing Jews, the goal of the other is to deceive the world about it. The Al-Dahdouh family provides a perfect example of how they exist in a symbiotic relationship.

Wael Al-Dahdouh is a face of the current conflict in Gaza. He is the head of Al Jazeera’s Gaza office. Western media have consistently presented him as an innocent and tragic hero – and have even defended his family against Israeli accusations. Our media has let us down again. The truth is that the Al-Dahdouh clan is Islamic Jihad royalty. Wael spent seven years in an Israeli jail. His cousins have led the Islamic Jihad military apparatus. His own brother was targeted by Israel. Another cousin carried out a terror attack in Tel Aviv. His family even took part inside Israel in the Oct 7 massacre. In all I found that over twenty of Wael’s clan have been buried with honours by Islamic Jihad.

It is worth remembering that Islamic Jihad is a more extreme terrorist group than Hamas.

Taking us all for fools
On October 25, the IDF struck a house at the Nuseirat camp that belonged to some members of the Al-Dahdouh clan. The journalist Wael Al Dahdouh lost his wife, a child, and several other family members in the attack.

Wael Al-Dahdouh is the head of the Al Jazeera office in Gaza. His tearful reporting following the incident went viral and he swiftly became one of the faces of the conflict. On December 15, Wael Al-Dahdouh was apparently injured in the incident in which Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed. Then on January 7, another of his sons, Hamza Al-Dahdouh (also apparently an Al Jazeera ‘journalist’) died after Israel targeted the car in which he was travelling.

A few days later the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken got on his knees during a visit to Qatar to speak of the ‘unimaginable loss‘ that Al-Dahdouh had suffered.

Wael Al-Dahdouh now has 4.6 million followers on Instagram. If you have not seen his face – you have not been following news of the conflict.

Setting the scene
Wael’s own father ‘Haj Hamdan Al-Dahdouh’ died in 2012, but several of his uncles are still alive. Most people in the west do not understand Palestinian Arab society at all. Each clan has status, a leader, affiliations, and enemies. The Al-Dahdouh clan is large and powerful, and both Wael and his son Hamza married inside the clan. The head of the Al-Dahdouh clan is ‘Abu Shaaban Al-Dhadouh’.

We can see some of these connections from a FB post Wael’s son Hamza put out in August last year. While giving thanks to the safe return of one of those uncles, Hamza references others. We see names such as ‘Jaber’, ‘and ‘Ali’. He gives additional honour to the head of the clan – the ‘chosen’ – Abu Shaaban.


Phyllis Chesler: Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?
Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?

Do these educated daughters of affluence understand that were they to express any views deemed dissident in Gaza, Teheran, or Kabul or, were they to announce that they were “queer” or gay, (which is how some of these activists identify themselves), that they would be instantly honor killed?

In the months since 10/7, in addition to the odious, faux-feminist silence about the gang-rapes of both women and men, the torture of babies and whole families, the kidnapping of civilians — a terrifying tsunami of hatred towards Israel, America, and Jews has exploded into non-stop jihadi-style, belligerent mobs, whose goal is to disrupt civil society and gain both attention and followers for their reprehensible views. The news of Hamas’s pogrom on steroids, unleashed their Jew hatred, and whetted the mob’s appetite for more of same.

Post Iran’s most recent attack on Israel, in the past few days in New York City, where I live, such activists camped out on the lawn at Columbia University “for Gaza,” “for Hamas,” endangering Jewish students, daring to be arrested. For the first time, Columbia’s President actually had them arrested. Although they were all quickly released, many returned later that same night, with celebrities in tow, to re-constitute their encampment. (READ MORE from Phyllis Chesler: Opera House Bigotry)

Those who were detained, included the daughter of Democratic Congresswoman and “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar; a young female intern for New York State Attorney General Letitia James; a third young woman who is about to intern for Democratic Senator Dick Durbin; and two daughters of corporate titans. Three of the five are Columbia students.

Are they stupid? Has their indoctrination into politically correct narratives utterly blinded them to reality? Do they wish to die? How are we meant to understand this?

Well, some women are famously known to propose marriage to convicted male serial killers, who primarily kill women. One woman actually married the jailed monster, Ted Bundy, got herself impregnated by him, and gave birth to a daughter.

Maybe this is a familiar form of female ambition, that Beauty can tame the Beast — an even darker version of “Fifty Shades of Gray,” in which girls are attracted to Bad Boys who will, fairy-tale style, ultimately love and marry them.

On the other hand, and rather paradoxically, the body language of these BLM/Antifa-style female activists is often rather male-like. Most of the female demonstrators are loud, aggressive, angry, arrogant, and young; they shout, bang drums, blow whistles, wear face masks, keffiyehs, sneakers, or combat boots. While Arab Muslim girls in hijab do participate, the majority seem to be bareheaded Caucasian students, and self-identifying lesbian, queer, and transgender activists.

The Jews and queers among them are not “self-hating” Jews or persecuted queers. Rather, they are privileged political opportunists posturing as victim-pariahs who feel that they are “occupied” by Western patriarchy, just as Palestine has allegedly been occupied by Israel. They are more obsessed with the rights of a country that has never existed than with the rights of their Muslim “sisters.”


New York City’s Jewish Population Under ‘Dark Cloud’ as Tensions Rise
Several Jewish people said the attacks steeled their identity and spurred them into public shows of solidarity. Yoav Davis pivoted the “Jews of NY” Instagram feed that he started in 2017 from a focus on fun restaurants and celebrities to remembrances of hostages and videos of some of the rhetoric at pro-Palestinian rallies.

“I don’t think there’s a Jew in the world who could continue business as usual,” said Davis.

Omer Lubaton Granot, 33, came to New York from Israel in 2022 and studies public policy at Columbia. He has organized rallies to keep attention on hostages, including a Sunday gathering in Central Park that draws hundreds of people—often including Sheinson—each week.

“New York is like a second Israel for a lot of people,” said Granot. Now he has stopped speaking Hebrew on the street.

There are also Jewish New Yorkers who have joined demonstrations calling for cease-fires, as well as Jewish students who are part of the Columbia encampment. On Tuesday last week, ralliers filled Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza for a protest organized in part by the group Jewish Voice for Peace. Attendees chanted “Let Gaza live,” and projected messages on the wall of a nearby library, including, “Stop arming Israel.” Two hundred people were arrested, the NYPD said.

Some politically progressive Jews said in conversations with other activists they find themselves holding a line between arguing for peace while also pushing back on antisemitic or pro-Hamas rhetoric.

“Many people in and out of the Jewish community are being told, ‘You have to pick a side,’ ” said Amy Spitalnick, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an advocacy group. “The reality is the vast majority of American Jews, and certainly New Yorkers, can hold the complexity of this.”

At a family Passover Seder last week, Arthur Schwartz, a progressive who lives in Manhattan and hosts a weekly radio show on WBAI-FM, said there was an addition at the portion of the meal where participants spill a drop of wine on their plates for each of the 10 plagues inflicted on Egypt before the Israelites escaped.

The leader of the dinner then called for 10 drops of wine to commemorate communities in southern Israel attacked on Oct. 7, and then 10 drops for towns and cities in Gaza that have been destroyed.

“It was very controversial around the table,” Schwartz said. He spilled all the drops, but in the last round, some of his relatives just sat and stared.


Four out of five Americans favor Israel over Hamas, most back Rafah operation: poll
Americans favor Israel in its war against Hamas by a margin of four-to-one and nearly three-quarters support a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Four out of five voters (80%) back the Jewish state in its nearly seven-month-old war against the Islamic terrorist group, with the highest levels of support concentrated among older age groups, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey released Monday.

Meanwhile, 72% of voters say they back an Israel Defense Forces military operation in Rafah to “finish the war,” with 28% saying Israel should “back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza.”

The poll was released as college students and faculty have erupted in protests supporting Hamas and denigrating Israel and Jews on campuses across the country, erecting encampments at many prominent universities including Columbia and NYU.

President Biden, 81, has taken flack from his progressive base for his handling of the conflict.

He has also pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against going into Rafah without a plan to protect civilians from harm.

On Sunday, the two leaders had a phone call, and Biden “reiterated his clear position” on Rafah, according to a readout from the White House.

However, two-thirds of voters in the Harris poll said Israel was already trying to avoid civilian casualties in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

Respondents also gave Biden low marks for his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, with just 39% saying they approved of his response.

While Americans were overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, the Harvard CAPS-Harris poll flagged a deep schism by age.


Report: Saudi Arabia has decided to normalize relations with Israel

Borrell: At least 5 EU countries to recognize Palestinian state

ICRC Head of Office posts Hamas propaganda, says “f*** neutrality” in leaked Facebook posts

Report: Israel killed IRGC operative in Iran who had plotted against German Jews

Netanyahu: IDF will enter Rafah ‘with or without a deal’

Terrorist wounds policeman near J'lem’s Herod’s Gate

Biden's Pier in Gaza To Cost $320 Million

Two IDF reservists killed, one seriously wounded in fighting in central Gaza

The Commentary Magazine Podcast: The Torment of Israel
Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
Dan Senor, co-author of The Genius of Israel, reports on his recent trip there and how torn the Israeli people are between the fate of the hostages and the country’s final push against Hamas in Rafah. And how the protests in the United States are only emboldening Hamas.
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor: Proof of Life - with Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin
After over 200 days, Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin saw proof of life of their son Hersh Goldberg-Polin for the first time, who was severely wounded in the October 7th massacre and taken hostage by Hamas.

Just last Wednesday, a video surfaced — which was produced by Hamas — of Hersh speaking to camera. In short, in the video, Hersh describes the he was taken hostage, he criticizes the Israeli Government, and he expresses love for his parents, Jon and Rachel and his two sisters. He addresses his severe wound from October 7th, in which his left hand — his dominant hand — was blown off.

When I was in Israel,I visited with Rachel and Jon and we recorded a conversation for this podcast about the video, as well as what else they had learned from it, especially about Hersh’s severe wound — he continues to be medically fragile. Jon and Rachel discussed why they decided to approve media release and coverage of the video. Rachel and Jon also reacted to the shocking protests on US campuses — they are both from the US, as is Hersh, and they reflected on what they regarded as some encouraging news about a statement on the hostages, which was signed by 18 countries. They also addressed the possibility of Israeli elections in the midst of this ongoing hostage crisis and war.

Follow “Bring Hersh Home” on Instagram: bring.hersh.home

Hersh Goldberg Polin video: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostage-hersh-goldberg-polins-family-approves-publication-of-hamas-propaganda-video/

Column by William McGurn of the WSJ: “Hamas’s American Hostages” — https://tinyurl.com/ymraw2yv
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor: An Insider's Account of Columbia's Pro-Hamas Protests - with Shai Davidai
Since 10/07, no faculty member at Columbia University (or any university for that matter) has been more outspoken about the shocking and staggering rise in antisemitism than Shai Davidai. He brings his first-hand accounts to our conversation today.

Shai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2015. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, Shai spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research.

Since Columbia students established the most recent pro-Hamas encampment on the Columbia campus days ago, Israeli-born and raised Shai Davidai has been barred from campus.

Having just now arrived in Israel, Shai joins us in Tel Aviv today to describe what exactly has been happening since 10/07, the early signs of antisemitism he identified at Columbia well before 10/07, and the common misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the rhetoric and incitement being used by a number of Columbia student organizations and faculty.
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor: Bonus Episode: Diary from Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’ - with Michael Powell
Michael Powell has been covering New York City life and politics for decades, as a long-time reporter for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and now the Atlantic. He recently was on Columbia’s campus to try to better understand the encampment movement that has taken over the campus. He joins us to report what he saw and learned.

Article discussed in this episode: The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’ — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbia-university-protests-palestine/678159/


"I Don’t Need Your Pity!" Rahma Zein vs Mosab Hassan Yousef
Piers Morgan Uncensored's latest debate focuses on Israel's intention to invade Rafah, the southern Gazan city where more than a million people have sought refuge on the rest of the strip.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country in the world that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah. And President Biden has told Israel to go no further. But can he really do anything to stop it? And should there be consequences if Israel presses on with an invasion its most important ally does not support?

Piers Morgan is joined by Egyptian podcaster Rahma Zein and Israel defector and son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Mosab Hassan Yousef.

00:00 - Piers’ monologue
01:55 - What is happening now in Gaza?
04:00 - Mosab: Israel needs to go hard on Rafah to finish Hamas
07:15 - “October 7th was a genocide”
10:15 - “The cycle of violence must stop”
12:00 - “My relationship with my father was excellent”
14:00 - “You are just creating chaos and borrowing a victim narrative”
14.:25 - University campus protests
17:07 - How should Israel have responded to October 7th?
19:15 - ‘Hamas broadcast what they were doing to the world’
20:45 - Piers: ‘This war started on October 7th’
23:00 - Expansion of Israeli settlements
26:10 - Mosab: Palestinians are playing ‘the victim card’
28:50 - Who should be in charge of the Palestinians?
31:25 - “These are not numbers, these are people with stories”
32:45 - “Their game is for power and money”
35:20 - Piers: “It may be Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza”
36:30 - “Is it normal to have children being kidnapped?”




Fetterman not bothered by GOP support as he swipes at anti-Israel students and their ‘pup tent for Hamas’ protests

‘Guerrilla journalist’ says he was beaten by anti-Israel protesters at CUNY for waving American flag on campus: video

Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal

Piers Morgan: Where the hell are the parents of these deluded Columbia students chanting about attacking Jews?



Columbia Students Storm University Building and Hoist Banner Calling for 'Intifada'

Columbia Suspends Media Access to Campus 'As a Safety Measure'

Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue Takes a Cut of Donations to Michigan State University’s Anti-Israel Tent Encampment

Jamaal Bowman Excuses Columbia Students Who Stormed Building: 'The Protesters Are Gonna Do What They Got To Do'

College Dems Endorses 'Protests for Peace' as Demonstrators Trash Columbia Campus

Columbia President Shafik Pleads With Protesters To ‘Voluntarily Disperse’ After Days of Negotiations Bring No Results

Anti-Israel activists smash through windows to seize historic building on Columbia University campus and say they won't leave until 'all of their demands are met'

Columbia President Shafik Said This Anti-Semitic Prof Was Grading Papers Before His Exit from Columbia. He’s Been a Constant Presence in the Encampment Ever Since.

Fact Check: Columbia Professor Says Student Protesters Have Not Called for Violence Against Civilians

Columbia sued over failure to protect Jewish students

Jerry Seinfeld’s Wife Donates $5,000 to Pro-Israel UCLA Rally

Palestinian 'kidnapper' ATTACKS Jewish journalist Avi Yemini
Palestinian protest leader Mohammad Sharab, who's on bail for allegedly kidnapping and torturing his victim, was not happy to see a Jewish journalist on the streets of Melbourne.


Top French university loses regional funding over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests

GUARDIAN GRUDGINGLY AMENDS OP-ED WHICH PEDDLES OCT. 7 INVERSION

BBC NEWS ERASES TERRORIST THREATS FROM REPORT ABOUT US AID PIER

Prominent British radio host issues apology, donates salary after questioning Hamas sexual violence

World Court refuses to take action against Germany for arms sales to Israel

German ambassador attacked by Palestinian mob during Ramallah visit

MEMRI: Columnist In Palestinian Authority Daily: Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV Is Not A Source Of Truth; It Serves Hamas And Terror Organizations

PMW: PA’s 3 “models of inspiration” murdered over 167 Israelis Revitalized PA still sees PA as its stars

Australian police say teens planned to buy guns, attack Jews after stabbing priest

Five teenagers arrested in connection with alleged attempt to kidnap Jewish man Postcards looted from Jews by German soldier returned by granddaughter 80 years later



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