Monday, December 30, 2024

12/30 Links Pt1: Gaza, Land of Make-Believe; NYTs’ Muddled View of Law of Armed Conflict; Hamas gathered intel for 7 years before Oct. 7; Jimmy Carter: A Jewish tragedy

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Gaza, Land of Make-Believe
In September, the Emmys awarded a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist for her “coverage” of the war, despite her work with the designated terrorist organization being well-known by then. The media have already mourned as fallen journalists a Hamas tank operative, a deputy Hamas commander in its Khan Younis Battalion, a Hamas drone operator, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket specialist, an engineer in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade and the like, as noted here.

As for Kamal Adwan itself, when Hamas operatives returned to the area in the fall, they did their best to draw the IDF to buildings around the hospital itself, hoping to protect the higher-level Hamas officials stationed in the hospital (along with weapons). When it finally cleared the way to the hospital complex, the IDF evacuated the premises, moving hundreds of patients and actual medical personnel to other facilities. Two Hamas cells tried to escape and were eliminated via drone. Medical equipment was then transferred to the nearest hospital, as were the patients. There is so far no evidence of civilian deaths at the complex.

That leaves a very different impression from the one pushed by media. But it’s easy to see through the mainstream press’s smokescreen if you try: The medical staff and patients who aren’t medical staff or patients trying to flee the hospital that isn’t a hospital; the journalists who aren’t journalists getting caught in the field of battle rather than at a newsroom working the phones; the teachers who aren’t teachers gathering at schools that aren’t schools.

And the aid workers that aren’t aid workers—who are these folks even trying to fool? When Israel’s Channel 12 was finally given access to the Palestinian side of one of the crossings, their cameras surveyed a staggering amount of aid just sitting there, expiring by the day. This is all aid that Israel has approved to be distributed, so it’s waiting for these humanitarian relief organizations to live up to their names. Instead, they mostly complain.

So on top of everything we can add humanitarian organizations that aren’t humanitarian organizations.

In Gaza, under the umbrella of Hamas, nothing it what it seems. It’s always much more sinister.
How the West could actually help prevent the next Gaza war
History’s most successful nation-rebuilding projects occurred in Germany and Japan after World War II. Both were transformed from aggressive nations bent on domination to thriving democracies.

For that to happen, the people of Germany and Japan needed to internalise that they and their supremacist ideologies were totally defeated. There could be no fantasy of a resurrected German Reich or Imperial Japan.

Similarly, the international community must declare the state of Palestine concept dead. The October 7 massacre buried that idea. Israel will never risk the creation of a state dedicated to its destruction on its border.

The Palestinian Arabs have wasted the past century trying to destroy the Jewish homeland while Israel has gone from strength to strength. To prevent the next 100 years of war, they must understand the Jewish state is not going anywhere. They must internalise that terrorism and massacres will not be rewarded.

The West must stop infantilising the Palestinian Arabs and shielding them from the consequences of their actions. There should be no rebuilding of Gaza until the society there commits to peaceful coexistence.

The Palestinian Arabs are the globe’s largest per capita aid recipients. The West has turned them into the world’s perpetual welfare junkies. Western aid often has served as a money-making scheme, filling Swiss bank accounts for decades.

Many have grown incredibly wealthy, including in Europe the widow of former Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat and the surviving Hamas leadership in Qatar. Lucrative aid contracts have created a culture of nepotism, not innovation.

A chief contributor to prolonging the conflict is the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. No other people have a dedicated UN refugee agency and no UN agency has failed as badly in its mission. Every other refugee crisis from the 1940s has long been resolved. UNRWA textbooks have educated generations of Arab children to hate and imbued them with a false promise that they will return to Israel, a place most have never set foot in.

UNRWA should be disbanded. There are moves in Israel and the US to make sure it is. After revelations that numerous UNRWA employees took part in atrocities on October 7, 2023, Australia suspended funding.

Foolishly the Albanese government resumed funding, pledging tens of millions in taxpayer funds. Just last week Foreign Minister Penny Wong promised increased aid for Gaza.

The greatest contribution Australia could make to resolving the Middle East conflict would be to make it clear that we won’t keep rebuilding Gaza after every failed war they launch.

Such a stance would save lives in Gaza and Israel. It also would save money in the budget, freeing funds to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for Australians.
Israel Shouldn’t Wait to Attack Iran
While Israel has already done significant damage to the Houthis’ military assets, and the civilian infrastructure that undergirds their power, it is not clear that continued attacks of this kind will deter these Iran-backed jihadists from firing missiles at Israeli cities or at ships passing through the Red Sea. The only option that remains, then, would be to take the fight directly to Iran. Something similar can be said about Hizballah’s attempts to rebuild in Lebanon. Now that Syria has fallen, Seth Cropsey argues that Jerusalem shouldn’t wait to strike the Islamic Republic:

The Assad regime was crucial to Iran’s strategy. Transit of Syrian territory enabled Iran to sustain Hizballah in Lebanon, threaten Israel from two axes in the north, pressure Jordan through cross-border drug smuggling, and transfer arms to Iran’s partners in the West Bank. Critically, Iran could also forward-deploy several air-defense and early-warning radars in Syria. . . . Without Syrian-provided early warning, a strike against targets in Iran becomes much more practical.

If Israel could pull off a strike on the Iranian nuclear program in the coming weeks—or against other critical targets in Iran from arms factories to intelligence and security institutions—then the Iranian state may well face a broader domestic and regional backlash, with each actor it has contained sensing weakness.

Israel may be tempted to wait until Trump’s inauguration to move against Iran. This is a mistake. . . . [T]he U.S. needs a new strategy to apply pressure on Tehran, one that incorporates sanctions, threats and action against proxies, and intelligence operations to degrade what remains of Iran’s Axis of Resistance.

Creating this strategy will take time. An Israeli attack on Iran directly, whether against the nuclear program or other critical targets in the country, will help set the parameters for U.S. policy towards Iran, and open other possibilities for American action to end the radical clerics’ rule.
Ex-UK defense chief: 'We've all gained from Israel's experience
The British government's decision last September to suspend 30 of 350 arms export licenses to Israel raised a troubling question: had we lost British support? Did Israel, in the current climate, let relations with a vital ally slip through its fingers?

But feelings are one thing. Numbers are another: according to a report by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) organization, defense exports to Israel approved by the UK government in 2023 totaled £17 million ($23 million).

The basis of cooperation between the two countries is not the arms trade but the coordination between their militaries in training exercises and in moments of truth. Such a moment came when the Iranians carried out their threat and attacked Israel directly in April and October. British forces assisted Israel in intercepting the missiles. The cooperation proved itself once more.

A highly important figure in the strengthening of this military relationship is the former Chief of the Defence Staff, General (Retd.) Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, who, in December 2020, just months before completing 43 years of service in the British Armed Forces, signed an agreement with then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (Res.) Aviv Kochavi to strengthen defense ties between the countries.

The other week, Carter returned to Israel to participate in the DefenseTech Summit, hosted by the Yuval Ne'eman Workshop for Science, Technology, and Security at Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense's Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D-MAFAT).

In an exclusive interview with "Globes," Carter addresses the looming alliance between Russia, Iran, and North Korea ("A coalition of hostile powers"), views dialogue with Tehran as a solution to the nuclear threat ("All conflicts end in dialogue"); and states that, for the time being, "the world is at war, but not yet in World War III."

"The change in dynamics in Syria might possibly be beneficial."

Iran's nuclear program is at its most advanced stage ever in uranium enrichment. Data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicate that, since August, Iran has accumulated 17.6 km of 60% enriched uranium, for a total of 182.3 kg. This is the equivalent of four nuclear bombs, with nuclear weapons requiring uranium enriched to about 85% or higher.


Michael Oren: Jimmy Carter: A Jewish tragedy
Among many other time-tested attributes, the Jewish people have a long memory. Aid us in the manner of the ancient Persian King Cyrus, and we will remember you forever fondly. Cross us as Seleucid King Antiochus IV did, and we will curse you every Hanukkah.

Our talent for remembering is particularly salient today after the death, at age of 100, of former president Jimmy Carter.

While the rest of the world is now hailing him as a statesman who, after his failed one-term presidency, rose to become an unstinting peacemaker, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and a paragon of now non-existent virtues, many Jews will have a far more ambivalent reaction.

The man whose legacy could have been cherished by future Jewish generations, with streets in Jerusalem named for him and communities created in his honor, will be at best forgotten, if not reviled. That is the tragedy of Jimmy Carter, a leader who could have gone down in Jewish history as a second Truman, will be recalled, if at all, as another Bernie Sanders.

The tragedy is compounded by the fact that the Jewish state owes Carter an immense historical debt. In an anomalous way, his insistence on including the Soviets in the Middle East peace process immediately after Egypt succeeded in evicting them convinced president Anwar Sadat of the need to act swiftly and independently of the United States.

The result came in November 1977, with Sadat’s groundbreaking visit to Israel. Carter, to his credit, leaped into the diplomatic breach, and devoted 13 presidential days to forging the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel. Though never close to yielding a warm peace, that treaty has since withstood tectonic pressures and relieved Israel of the threat of large-scale Arab armies.

But, sadly, that achievement proved to be a one-off. The self-proclaimed champion of human rights, Carter was comfortable with Middle Eastern dictators like Sadat, Hafez al-Assad, and the shah of Iran, but endlessly critical of Israel’s democratically elected leaders, beginning with Menachem Begin.

No sooner were the Camp David Accords signed in 1979 than Carter embarked on a 40-year smear campaign against Israel.

In my meeting with him several years after, Carter insisted that Israel was violating UN Resolution 242 by not withdrawing to the pre-Six Day War boundaries and failing to create a Palestinian state.

My assurances that the resolution specifically voided the return to the indefensible 1967 borders and made no mention of the Palestinians, much less of a state, were righteously rejected.
Jonathan Tobin: Jimmy Carter’s personal virtue didn’t ensure a virtuous or successful presidency
Carter and Israel
Carter is also given credit by his apologists for helping to broker peace between Israel and Egypt at the 1978 Camp David Summit. That’s true, but it must also be remembered that the Mideast peace process was begun by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with his historic 1977 flight to Jerusalem took place in spite of Carter, not because of him. Carter had tried initially to involve the Soviets in these peace efforts, something the Egyptian leader rightly feared.

He also despised Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin for his tenacious defense of Jewish rights and unwillingness to bow to pressure from Washington. He blamed Begin for somehow deceiving him about Israel’s intention to defend the right of Jews to settle in Judea and Samaria, which the president wanted to end. But that was not true since, if anything, Carter deceived himself about what Begin’s promise of limited autonomy for Palestinian Arabs in the territories really meant.

Carter’s hostility to Israel was no secret, and it played a part in the failure of his bid for re-election in 1980. Reagan achieved a modern record of 40% of the Jewish vote not so much because of his appeal but because of Carter’s unpopularity—something that Republicans have failed to remember as they’ve sought in vain to replicate that feat.

In fact, Carter blamed the Jews for his defeat. His hard feelings about that colored his post-presidency as he began a decades-long effort to promote Palestinian statehood and to smear Israel. He was not the only person to be wrong about the necessity for a two-state solution, but few matched the virulence with which he assailed Israel, and especially its American supporters, for their refusal to listen to his consistently bad advice.

That culminated in the publication of his 2006 book—Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid, which in no small measure began the effort, at least in the United States, to mainstream the big lie that the Middle East’s only democracy was morally equivalent to apartheid-era South Africa.

The calculus of history
For all of the applause he has received for his life as an ex-president, Carter’s animus against the Jewish state and willingness to use his moral standing and influence to besmirch it and aid the efforts of antisemitic hate-mongers and terrorists to undermine its existence is also part of his legacy. Indeed, when considering the role he played in bringing the Iranian regime—now the world’s leading state sponsor of terror into existence—all of its crimes can be traced back in some ways to Carter. That includes the actions of murderous proxies and allies, like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, which led to the atrocities committed by Hamas operatives and Palestinians in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. His moral preening and bad judgment weren’t just insufferable; they materially contributed to the polar opposite of virtuous outcomes around the world.

When assessing his legacy, how do we weigh that against the many good things that can be said for Jimmy Carter as an individual? There is no calculus by which these competing arguments can be measured exactly. Like everyone, his life was a mixture of good and bad. It is entirely possible to acknowledge his outstanding personal qualities and even his undoubted positive intentions, but also to judge his presidency to be a disaster and his post-presidential efforts to have also done as much harm as good.

His passing should be acknowledged with all of the solemnity and respect due to a former president of the United States. But we should not let that desire to think well of a historic figure to color the verdict of contemporary public opinion or history. Nor should he or his presidency be used as a club with which the corporate liberal media can assail Trump. Jimmy Carter may have been a very decent man in many respects, but he was still a very bad president and someone whose unfair attacks on the Jewish state deserve to always be held against him.
Herzog hails Carter for ‘historic’ 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday eulogized former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died the previous day at the age of 100.

“In recent years I had the pleasure of calling him and thanking him for his historic efforts to bring together two great leaders, [Menachem] Begin and [Anwar] Sadat, and forging a peace between Israel and Egypt that remains an anchor of stability throughout the Middle East and North Africa many decades later,” wrote Herzog on X.

“His legacy will be defined by his deep commitment to forging peace between nations. On behalf of the Israeli people, I send my condolences to his family, his loved ones, and to the American people,” he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, while he recovers from prostate surgery, released a statement on Monday saying, “We will always remember President Carter’s pivotal role in facilitating the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty, signed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. This treaty has endured for nearly half a century, offering hope to future generations.”

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi acknowledged Carter’s pivotal role in brokering the 1978 Camp David Accords, in comments shared on X late Sunday night.

“In this sorrowful moment, I offer my heartfelt condolences to the family of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, as well as to the president and people of the United States of America. President Carter was a symbol of humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, and his unwavering belief in peace and justice inspired many individuals and organizations worldwide to follow his example,” al-Sisi wrote in Arabic.

He continued, “His key role in securing the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain forever etched in history. His humanitarian work represents a shining example of love, peace and brotherhood, ensuring that his memory endures as one of the world’s most generous leaders for humanity.”

Al-Sisi concluded with, “May God have mercy on former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.”
Israel Sends Condolences to U.S. on Carter’s Passing; Downplays ‘Apartheid’ Smear, Hamas Visit
Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told journalists on Monday that “Israel will always remember Carter’s role in forging the first peace treaty” between Israel and an Arab state — namely, the Camp David Accords with Egypt in 1978 — which has lasted for nearly half a century.

The Israeli people extended their “condolences to the Carter family and the American people,” he said.

Asked by Breitbart News how Israel dealt with Carter’s other legacy — such as his 2006 book Palestine Peace not Apartheid, which took a staunchly anti-Israel line and even appeared to excuse suicide bombing — Mencer was diplomatic.

“We deal with that issue by stating the facts,” he said. “We have expressed our condolences on the passing of President Carter. … But … we just simply state the facts, because the facts don’t lie. And the facts are that this is a country that protects its minorities.

“This is a country where Christians are able to celebrate Christmas in freedom,” he added, noting that it was the only country in the region where that is the case today.
2016: What Jimmy Carter Got Wrong about Middle East Peacemaking
In December of 2016, the late Jimmy Carter published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, in which he, naturally, touted his achievement in mediating the 1978 Egypt-Israel peace treaty. But it was the accompanying graphic, of a mother bird feeding an olive branch to two nestlings, that revealed much about Carter’s thinking:

If you take the image seriously, it’s clear that the mother bird is America, the larger chick Israel, and the smaller one the Palestinians. In other words, the two parties to the conflict are helpless infants—unable to fly—who need an attentive America to feed them peace. Such is the attitude not only of Carter but of much U.S. policy over the past half-century, with Barack Obama being one of the worst offenders. Israel needs America to force it, like an uncooperative child, to act in its own (supposed) best interests by taking the “tough steps” for peace. And the helpless Palestinians need their “mother” to gift-wrap statehood for them.

And then there’s the second graphic, appearing on the left-hand side of the page. It’s a photo of Menachem Begin exchanging an awkward embrace with Anwar Sadat at Camp David. Carter stands to the side, foolish grin on his face, clapping. This image quite nicely captures how the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty . . . came to be in the first place. Sadat and Begin laid the groundwork for peace behind Carter’s back, in no small part because Sadat wanted to be spared Carter’s ill-conceived attempts at international arm-twisting. Only afterward were the Americans invited to help work through the details. In other words: Sadat and Begin made peace; Carter applauded from the sidelines.
Seth Frantzman: Carter’s legacy: A misguided trip to meet Assad and Hamas in 2009
Carter didn’t mention human rights abuses or critique the Assad regime. Instead, he went and met “Khaled Mashaal and other leaders of Hamas. Our primary goals were to induce them to comply with the Quartet’s ‘3 conditions’ (recognize Israel’s right to exist; forgo violence; and accept previous peace agreements), help form a unity government with elections next January, and exchange the release of Corporal [Gilad] Schalit for a reasonable number of prisoners held by Israel.

“As in previous meetings, my impression was that they were frank and honest with me, listening carefully, quickly accepting or rejecting my suggestions, and being flexible when possible.”

He didn’t have any negative comments about Hamas, instead, he saw them as honest and flexible. However, when Carter next met with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, he now found time to critique them.

“I then met with [Palestinian Authority] minister of interior Sayed Abu Ali and his police commander. The minister seemed to think he should arrest any activist supporting Hamas, including well-known NGOs and financial groups and could name none of the 600 or more prisoners who had been given a civilian trial or legal council.

Many of the prisoners, such as the associates of Barghouti, are obviously just political opponents of Fatah. We then met with prime minister Salaam Fayad, who promised to investigate police policies and correct abuses.”

Note how Carter’s tone changes here. In Damascus, he is happy to meet with Assad and his officials and Hamas leaders. He doesn’t critique them. He only explains what they want.

However, when he meets with the PA, he critiques them for arresting Hamas members and for persecuting political opponents. He cares about police policies and “abuses.” He never uses the word “abuses” in regard to the Assad regime and its abuse of minorities and political opponents.

He doesn’t critique Hamas in Gaza for its illegal coup in 2007 where it took over Gaza and murdered Fatah members. He only critiques the Palestinian Authority.Carter only mentions “human rights” once in his trip, when meeting people in Jerusalem.

“During our time in Jerusalem, we also met with civil society leaders and key players in the peace and human rights movements.” The agenda is clear. No human rights for Syrians. No human rights when it comes to Hamas abuses. Only human rights when it comes to Israel and the West Bank.

In Gaza, Carter wrote that he “planted a beautiful tree given to us by Speaker [Nabih] Berri in Lebanon. We drove to another building where we had extensive meetings with prime minister [Ismail] Haniyeh and other government officials who are pleading for building materials and other supplies to be permitted to enter, either from Egypt or Israel.”

There is an interesting sentence here. Carter notes that the Hamas leader Haniyeh wants building materials. We know now where these materials went – to build tunnels and rockets.

Carter doesn’t critique Hamas. He doesn’t critique it for illegally taking over the Gaza Strip or its abuses of political opponents. He does say, “After meeting with groups of wounded orphans and families of Palestinian prisoners, I delivered a letter from Noam Schalit to be given to his son, and made the same arguments as in Damascus for peace and reconciliation.”

The pattern is clear. This is Carter in his own words. He had ample time to critique Hamas and Assad. He critiqued Israel and the PA. He didn’t critique the Assad regime.

Instead, he was part of the cavalcade of voices that appeared to want to give voice to Assad and his regime and bring him in from the cold. We know what Assad did. We know what Hamas did. Carter had a chance to speak truth to power to these regimes. He was a much more harsh critic of Israel and the PA than of Hamas and Assad.


Professor Gerald Steinberg: Jimmy Carter blamed "the Jews" for 1980 loss
Professor Gerald Steinberg posted a thread a short time ago today (Monday) on X, noting that the recently deceased President James Carter had a "very problematic" relationship with Jews and especially Israel.

Steinberg, the founder of NGO monitor and a scholar of the 1979 Camp David accords, said that Carter combined "ignorance with arrogance and a thinly hidden Christian theological hostility to Jewish sovereignty and power" in his attitude to Israel and Jews.

He claims that Carter's relationship with both Labour Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his time in office was "hostile and manipulative," to the point that Begin refused to speak with Carter after he left office.

Even regarding his signature achievement - the Camp David Accords - Carter reportedly distorted his part in achieving peace between Israel and Egypt, even contrary to American official documents.

His post-presidency was reportedly no better when it came to Israel, as Carter "embraced and propagated the Palestinian Arab victimhood narrative, joining in blaming Israel rather than 100 years of rejectionism, wars, terror, incitement, etc. for the conflict and suffering."


NYTs 2007: Carter Center Advisers Quit to Protest Book
Fourteen of the city’s business and civic leaders resigned from the Carter Center’s advisory board on Thursday to protest former President Jimmy Carter’s recent criticisms of Israel and American Jewish political power.

Their joint letter of resignation denounced Mr. Carter’s best-selling book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” for its criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The letter also took issue with comments Mr. Carter has made suggesting that Israel’s supporters in the United States are using their power to stifle debate on the issue.

“It seems you have turned to a world of advocacy, even malicious advocacy,” the letter said. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.”

The 14 who resigned were members of the center’s board of councilors, a group of more than 200 local leaders who act as ambassadors and fund-raisers for the center but do not determine its policy or direct its operations.

Among the letter signers were Michael Coles, the chief executive of the Caribou Coffee Company; William B. Schwartz Jr., the ambassador to the Bahamas during Mr. Carter’s presidency; Liane Levetan, a former chief executive of DeKalb County, Ga.; and S. Stephen Selig III, who served as national finance chairman for the Carter-Mondale Presidential Committee.

“I felt very passionate about this,” Ms. Levetan said. “You can’t, when something is not correct, sit back. You have to stand up for what you believe.”

Several members said they had admired Mr. Carter for years and found it difficult to resign, but could not remain associated with his recent statements.

“I was very offended with the views that he espoused in that book,” said Jonathan Golden, a board member for 10 years and chairman of the Arnall Golden Gregory law firm in Atlanta.

In an e-mailed statement responding to the resignations, John Hardman, executive director of the Carter Center, thanked the resigning members for their “years of service and support,” but also played down the significance of their departure. Mr. Hardman pointed out that those who resigned were just a fraction of the overall board and were not “engaged in implementing the work of the center.”

The resignations are the latest in a recent string of public defections from Mr. Carter and the ideas he espouses in his book, which has been on The New York Times best-seller list for the last five weeks.

In December, Kenneth W. Stein, a professor at Emory University who was the first executive director at the Carter Center, resigned his most recent position as a fellow there. Days later, Dennis Ross, a former envoy to the Middle East who is now a news analyst, accused Mr. Carter of using maps that Mr. Ross created without his permission, and mislabeling them in the book.


CNN panelist's embarrassing takedown after praising Biden's Middle East 'accomplishments'
A panelist was embarrassingly taken down by CNN pundit Scott Jennings after she praised President Joe Biden for his 'accomplishments' in the Middle East.

Karen Finney, a US political consultant and Hillary Clinton's former spokesperson during her 2016 campaign, told Jennings that those 'accomplishments' will 'also stand the test of time.'

As she said this, Jennings, who has become known for his dissonance from the network's progressive stance, quickly shot her down and corrected her statements.

In reference to Biden, Finney said: 'I think he still, look, he showed up for the job. He got the work done.

'I think some of the accomplishments also, in the Middle East and foreign policy will also stand the test of time,' she added.

'You think the Middle East is in better shape today than when he took office?' Jennings asked Finney as he smirked toward the camera.

'Well, I think he got our hostages home. I think that's a big deal. I think it's important..' Finney said as Jennings cut her off and looked at her in awe.

'I'm sorry, which hostages?', he questioned. Finney then said Biden 'has gotten a number of people home,' as she stumbled on her words.

'There's still 100 people over there,' Jennings said, referring to the hostages still trapped in Gaza as the Israeli-Palestinian war continues more than a year later.

In an effort to save herself, Finney told Jennings: 'Well, there were more than that,' just before he makes it clear that some of the hostages are Americans.


Legally Blind: The New York Times’ Muddled View of Law of Armed Conflict
In an investigative piece, “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians,” The New York Times reports it found that “Israel severely weakened its system of safeguards meant to protect civilians; adopted flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk of civilian casualties; routinely failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm or punish officers for wrongdoing; and ignored warnings from within its own ranks and from senior U.S. military officials about these failings.”

The New York Times summed up its findings in a separate article, “Eight Takeaways: How Israel Weakened Civilian Protections When Bombing Hamas Fighters.” While there was actual acknowledgment that Jerusalem has complied with international laws of armed conflict, the NY Times reverted to type, revealing that their recent investigation found that Israel had “…severely undermined its system of safeguards to make it easier to strike Gaza.”

Critically, The New York Times fails to mention that following the October 7 massacre, the elevated threat level posed by Hamas provided a legally justifiable reason for Israel to change the way it interprets its rules of engagement. By not acknowledging this point, the December 26 piece displays a remarkable ignorance of the legal doctrine of proportionality regulating the conduct of hostilities.

“Eight Takeaways” claims that the IDF is using “…flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk to civilians.” But according to the law of armed conflict, as long as an attack is proportionate to the concrete and direct anticipated military gains, any incidental wounding or killing of civilians may not automatically be deemed an unlawful act, subject to individual assessment.

In other words, The New York Times is working off a false assumption, whereby the number of civilian casualties – potential and actual – between both sides of a conflict should be roughly even in order to not weaken one side’s ‘civilian protections.’

New York Times Forgets All About Proportionality
But, under the laws of armed conflict, an attack is only considered disproportionate, and therefore illegal, “if the anticipated collateral damage to civilians and civilian objects would be excessive in relation to the military advantage expected from the attack.”

Moreover, what is considered proportionate and legal can evolve based on changing circumstances. Before October 7, Hamas was considered to be an ongoing security concern that Israel had managed to contain. But the post-October 7 reality is very different. Hamas now represents an existential threat to not only the citizens living in the region near Gaza, but the entire country. And let’s not forget Hamas’ Iranian connection.

Since the threat level is so much greater, Israel is legally justified to operate with more force.


Israel warns Houthis of consequences for missile attacks
The US called on the UN Security Council to respond to Iran’s “flagrant violations” of its resolutions to arming terrorist groups, and implored members with direct channels to Tehran to press its leaders to stop the Houthis from launching attacks that put civilians in harm’s way.

"It is past time for the Houthis to cease their reckless and destabilizing behavior, and this council should ensure that there are consequences for their actions,” the US said on Monday during the UNSC’s emergency session on the threat of the Houthis.

The session followed last week’s petition from Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar to convene the meeting.

“The Houthis have also taken hostages, including UN workers. I call on all countries who seek global stability to designate the Houthis as a terrorist organization,” Sa’ar said on Monday.

“It’s time for the international community to take action to counter the Houthis’ aggression.”

Houthis' latest attacks on Israel
The US reiterated that it condemned the Houthis’ latest attacks on Israel and supports Israel’s right to self-defense, a statement also supported by the United Kingdom.

While the UK said, “Iran bears responsibility for the actions of its proxies,” it also said Israeli action must be consistent with international humanitarian law.

The UK added that it is concerned by Israel’s strikes on Yemeni civilian infrastructure, including Thursday’s strike on Sana’a’s airport, in which three people were killed and 16 were wounded.

UNSC members, including South Korea, Ecuador, Japan, France, and Switzerland, echoed the condemnation of the Houthis’ attacks on Israel, while also raising concern over Israel’s attack on the airport.
Seth Frantzman: Houthis brag about thirteen attacks on Israel
The Iranian-backed Houthis say that they have carried out 13 attacks on Israel over the last ten days. The claims were repeated by Iran’s state media. This indicates how the Houthis are carrying out their attacks in order to show off their capabilities to the Iranian regime.

The IRNA report said that according to “sources, the group said in a statement that these attacks were in line with support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and in response to the regime's aggression against Yemen.”

The report went on to note that the spokesperson for the group “was cited by media as saying that most of these operations targeted the Tel Aviv region in central Israel.” The Houthis have launched numerous missile attacks on Israel over the last two weeks.

Houthis escalated attacks
This is one of the first indications of how the Houthis view their escalation. It is clear they have escalated attacks in December, with ballistic missiles launched every tow days at Israel during the last two weeks of December. The report says the “attacks were carried out from December 19 to 29.

On Saturday, Ansarullah also targeted the Navatim Air Base in southern Israel, in the Negev region, with a ‘Palestine 2’ type hypersonic ballistic missile, which the resistance group said was successful.” This is important because it indicates what the targets of the Houthi attacks have been.

The Iranian report also claimed the Houthis have targeted Ben-Gurion International airport. They took credit for preventing flights temporarily to the airport. The Houthis “said the attack was in response to Israeli airstrikes on Sana'a and Hudaydah in the past few days. Yemeni armed forces have threatened to expand their range of targets in Israel and to respond with countermeasures to any escalation by Tel Aviv.”

This is an important indication of how the Houthis are attempting to replace other Iranian-backed proxies as the main front against Israel. At the same time this week, Iran’s president has called for closer ties with Oman.

Oman is a neighbor of Yemen. “Pezeshkian hailed the longstanding friendly relationship between Iran and Oman and emphasized that further development of bilateral ties is of paramount importance to Iran,” Iran’s state media said. Iran’s leader also said he supports regional peace.


Israel targets Hezbollah ‘exploding pager’ fundraising
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday the imposition of economic sanctions on a Hezbollah fundraising campaign that purports to help terrorist operatives wounded during Israel’s September “exploding pager” operation.

The sanctions, recommended by the Israeli National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing, are part of a broader initiative by the Defense Ministry to disrupt the financial networks of Iran’s Lebanese terrorist proxy.

The campaign, hosted on various crowdfunding platforms, has raised tens of thousands of dollars through credit card transactions, bank transfers and PayPal. These funds have reportedly been channeled to reinforce Hezbollah’s personnel and restore its operational capabilities.

“We are taking decisive action to dry up Hezbollah’s financial resources as it works to rebuild its capabilities. Every dollar blocked is a step closer to weakening this terrorist organization,” Katz said.

He added, “This move underscores our zero-tolerance approach and sends a clear warning to those attempting to fund terrorism under the pretense of humanitarian aid. Israel will thwart every effort to jeopardize our security and will ensure the safety of our citizens.”
IDF advances deep into Quneitra city in Syria
The IDF has begun a significant operation in Quneitra city, with Syrian sources confirming Israeli tanks have encircled government buildings while issuing evacuation orders, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday.

Social media platforms have circulated footage documenting the military presence.

Concurrent reports from Arab media outlets detailed Israeli forces entering Al-Baath city, commonly referred to as “New Quneitra,” situated 1.9 miles from the Israeli border. Israeli forces approached government buildings and institutions, instructing officials to evacuate the premises.

The pro-Iranian Al Mayadeen news outlet confirmed that IDF tanks and other armored vehicles had moved into Al-Baath with the objective of accessing government offices for inspection purposes.

The Israeli military presence in southern Syria has triggered widespread protests among local residents, with several demonstrators sustaining injuries after approaching the deployed forces.

In a related development, Arab media reported Sunday on an attack targeting weapons storage facilities near Damascus. Foreign sources indicated that approximately 20 casualties resulted from the drone strike, which has been attributed to Israel.

The IDF is preparing for a prolonged stay on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, at least until the end of winter.

Since the fall of the Assad regime on Oct. 8, Israeli troops have taken up positions inside and beyond the Golan buffer zone, including on the strategic Syrian side of Mount Hermon. The Israeli Air Force has conducted hundreds of strikes on Assad military assets.

Jerusalem has warned Syria’s de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammad al-Julani) that it will not tolerate jihadist groups establishing a foothold in southern Syria.

In the message, Israel stressed that it is prepared to keep troops positioned in the demilitarized Golan Heights buffer zone as long as is necessary to maintain border security, Ynet reported.


Soldier KIA in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 825
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, the military announced.

The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Uriel Peretz, 23, of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Beitar Illit.

Three additional soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident in the Beit Hanoun area.

On Sunday, Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, 22, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 9th Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed in action in northern Gaza. Following an inquiry into the incident, the IDF said that he died due to an “operational accident in a tank.”

The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 393, and at 825 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.

Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded there in May.


Fallen soldier knew hostage Goldberg-Polin: He went around Gaza looking for him and shouting ‘Hersh’
The brother of Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, 22, killed yesterday in Gaza, says the fallen soldier knew murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin and looked for him while serving in the Strip.

“The concept of bringing back the hostages was in his heart,” Shahar Shoham tells Ynet. “He knew Hersh Goldberg-Polin personally and the fact that he was there [in Gaza] connected him even more. He went around Gaza looking for him and shouting ‘Hersh.'”

The Shoham and Goldberg-Polin families were friends and members of the same community in Jerusalem.

Shahar says that yesterday his parents had traveled south from their Jerusalem home with a package for Yuval, but when they arrived at his base they were met by officers who informed them of his death. The army announced the circumstances of his death earlier today, saying he was killed in an accident during fighting in the Jabalia area.

Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage from the Nova festival on October 7. He was killed by his captors alongside Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi in a tunnel in Rafah on August 29.


Hamas gathered intel, footage from Gaza border towns for 7 years before Oct. 7 slaughter
Hamas was monitoring local Israeli leaders, security officers, and individual communities near the border with the Gaza Strip for at least seven years before carrying out its brutal October 7, 2023, massacre, a television news report revealed on Sunday evening, airing for the first time surveillance camera footage and sensitive documents seized from computers used by the terror group.

Among the material showcased in the Channel 12 news report, one document dated November, 2020, showed that Hamas had the IP addresses and serial numbers of all of the security cameras in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and the Ashkelon beach areas, including Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the worst-hit communities on October 7.

Another document featured in the report showed a semiofficial list of security guards working in the Sha’ar Hanegev area, with their phone numbers, including those from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Kibbutz Nahal Oz and Kibbutz Mefalsim.

In a particularly grim finding, the report showed six pages of case files on each community with assessments of the status of the attack plan for each, which the terror group eventually put into action on October 7, 2023, sending some 3,000 terrorists across the border into Israel. Some 1,200 people were murdered and 251 hostages were taken to Gaza by terrorists that day.

The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — including babies, children, and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 360 people were slaughtered at an outdoor music festival, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.

Some of the public places raided by Hamas on October 7 were seen in the materials seized from the terror group’s computers dating back to 2016, including the health clinic and kindergarten in Kibbutz Be’eri, and the police stations in the cities of Ofakim and Sderot. There were also lists of libraries and synagogues, according to the report.

Alongside the intelligence effort, the Hamas terrorists involved in the devastating attack were reportedly selected from among hundreds of elite commandos from all over Gaza, and underwent training for several years along with continuous testing to gauge their skills.

“We see very, very precise and very detailed intelligence from an army, an army for all intents and purposes, the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip that is collecting information on targets for attack and essentially preparing intelligence target files,” Shalom Ben Hanan, a former top Shin Bet official, told Channel 12. “The resolution, the details that are all so precise, and the very, very wide deployment of many intelligence assets is what is so surprising.”


IDF eliminates dozens of terrorists in Jabalia escape attempt
Dozens of terrorists trying to escape Jabalia in northern Gaza on Sunday night were killed by Israeli forces, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Some 100 operatives were slain within two hours.

The IDF released footage showing terrorists trying to escape before being neutralized by units from the 162nd Division, including the 401st Brigade, Givati Brigade and the Multidimensional Unit, supported by strikes from the Air Force.

According to the IDF, many terrorist squads were shot in ambushes after being observed fleeing while armed. Intelligence had indicated plans to exploit the stormy weather for an escape attempt, prompting the operation.

This action followed a targeted operation over the weekend against a Hamas command center located inside Kamal Adwan Hospital. During that operation, more than 240 terrorists were apprehended, and approximately 20 were killed.

Six Hamas Oct. 7 attackers slain in recent IDF ops
Israeli forces killed 14 Hamas terrorists during recent operations in Jabalia and Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip, including six who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said on Sunday.

On Nov. 27, troops from the 162nd Division’s Givati Brigade raided a terrorist gathering point in the Jabalia area, killing Mohammed Abd al-Hamid Salah, who infiltrated Israel during the Oct. 7 invasion. At least two other Hamas commanders were also killed.


FDD: ‘Valuable Intelligence’: IDF Arrests 240 Terrorists in Northern Gaza Hospital
Latest Developments
240 Terrorists Arrested in Kamal Adwan, 15 Participated in October 7 Attacks: The IDF said on December 29 that it arrested over 240 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists who were using Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza as a base. Among those arrested were 15 individuals that took part in Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7, 2023. Israel said the arrested terrorists are “expected to provide valuable intelligence” for future IDF war efforts.
Terrorists Pose as Patients, Attempt to Flee: During the operation, which the IDF said was one of the “largest arrests of terrorists” since the war began, some terrorists hid in ambulances, disguising themselves as patients to escape, but were subsequently captured. Nearly 700 patients, caregivers, and civilians were evacuated safely from the hospital during the course of the operation.
IDF Operations Continue in Northern Gaza: Following the IDF’s mission at Kamal Adwan hospital, Israeli forces spearheaded by the 162nd Division carried out ambushes in Jabalia between Sunday and Monday which killed “many dozens” of terror operatives. The IDF has been operating in the northern Gazan cities of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya — where Kamal Adwan is located — since October.

FDD Expert Response
“Hamas has been playing a double game throughout this war. Its fighters operate out of civilian infrastructure, humanitarian zones, and hospitals. When the IDF disrupts these activities — such as in the recent operation at Kamal al-Adwan Hospital — Hamas issues statements condemning Israel for targeting civilians and vehemently denies any presence of its fighters or allied factions. This tactic reflects Hamas’s savvy manipulation of the narrative, leveraging propaganda to sway public opinion.” — Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at FDD’s Long War Journal

“Hamas has systematically used Kamal Adwan and other hospitals in Gaza throughout the war since October 7, 2023, and this operation represents at least the third time that the IDF has had to clear the same hospital from terrorist infiltration. While the detention of more than 240 terrorists is a positive, Hamas must be prevented from resurging in public health facilities.” — Seth J. Frantzman, Adjunct Fellow

“Hamas’s cynical strategy of hiding behind its most vulnerable citizens is a feature, not a bug. The Iran-backed terrorist organization has repeatedly exploited hospitals for its own purposes. Instances of terrorists using hospitals as bases of operations are well documented and undeniable.” — Enia Krivine, Senior Director of FDD’s Israel Program and National Security Network


Jake Wallis Simons: I was interviewed on LBC about antisemitism. It didn't go well
So I found myself on LBC today, discussing the news that some of Britain’s largest police forces have reported sharp increases in religious hatred in the past 18 months. At least, that’s what we were supposed to be discussing. Call me naïve, but I hadn’t expected demands for “Jewish figures” for casualties of the Gaza war, to be confronted with odd claims about the “Israeli secret service” or to encounter a fixation with Jews killing children. Welcome to my world, I guess.

To be fair, if I had done more thorough research, I would have unearthed this clip from April in which the presenter, Matthew Wright, had stated that “Jewish people have been killing Palestinians for years”. That would have given me a bit of a heads-up.

You can’t move for irony at the moment. Here was an impeccably liberal radio presenter on an impeccably liberal channel, interviewing a Jewish newspaperman about rising antisemitism. You’d have thought that it would be conducted with sensitivity and concern, given how much the left worries about diversity and inclusion.


‘Absolute outrage’: TV host calls for Israeli hostages to be released
Sky News host James Macpherson speaks out about the ongoing war in the Middle East.

“There are still 96 Israelis being held captive in Gaza,” he said.

“Men, and women, and children snatched from their homes by terrorists 450 days ago.

“I'm trying to imagine the absolute outrage I would feel if one of my family members was taken hostage, let alone still being held hostage 14 months later as the world dithers.”


Labor’s ‘approach and mindset’ slammed since October 7 terror attacks
Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin slams the Albanese Labor government over their “approach and mindset” since the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.

“It is entirely consistent with the government’s approach and mindset ever since October 7,” Mr Ryvchin said.

“They clearly see no connection between demonising Israel, using offensive and abusive language toward its people … and sorting domestic antisemitism.”




World Bowls Tour bans Israelis from championship event in Norfolk
Three Israeli international bowls players have become the victims of a sustained campaign against their participation in forthcoming bowls championships in Norfolk.

A fourth player, Shalom Ben-Ami, was due to take part in the World Bowls Tour (WBT) Scottish International Open in West Lothian, Scotland, in November. But, despite the fact that he was unable to attend for technical reasons, an aggressive online boycott campaign was launched by groups such as Action Network, supported by Scottish Sport for Palestine, Red Card Glasgow and Norfolk Palestine Solidarity.

In its campaign, Action Network said: “We call on the World Bowls Tour (WBT) to immediately withdraw its invitation to Israeli players Amnon Amar, Itai Rigbi and Daniel Alonim. These nationals belonging to the apartheid and genocidal state are set to compete against Scottish bowlers at the World Indoor Bowls Championships on 10th and 13th of January 2025 in Potters Resorts, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth”.

Invoking the Gleneagles Agreement, and the pronouncements of the International Court of Justice about Israel’s status as “an apartheid state”, the complainants said that Scotland was “obligated by both the spirit and letter of the Agreement to boycott sporting organisations, teams or competing nationals from any country ‘where sports are organised by race, colour or ethnic origin.’”

This week the boycott groups were celebrating their victory after the WBT board withdrew its invitation to the Israeli players to take part in the January World Indoor Bowls Championship.

In a social media post, the WBT board said that the “difficult decision” to withdraw the invitation to the Israeli players had “not been taken lightly”, but claimed that it had been made “in the best interests of the event’s success and integrity. Bowls is, and has always been, a sport that unites people and this choice reflects our commitment to protecting the Championships and ensuring they run smoothly for everyone involved”.

The board said it remained “hopeful” that it would be able to welcome back Israeli players to “the WBT stage in the future”.

Zvika Hadar, president of PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) Israel, told Jewish News that Israel had been among the founders of the WBT and associated with it for more than 30 years. He had only received notification from the WBT board on Sunday, he said, that due to “much pressure” it had been decided to withdraw Israel from the tournaments organised by the WBT “indefinitely.”


Jake Wallis Simons: Why are Palestine marches routed past synagogues?
Far be it from me to suggest a New Year’s resolution to the police. But given the rows over “two-tier policing” and “non-crime hate incidents” in 2024, a January reset might be a good idea.

Ideally, the boys in blue would resolve to go back to upholding the law without fear or favour. Given how far standards have slipped, however, that might be setting the bar too high. Instead, here’s an achievable goal to kick off 2025: stop the pro-Palestinian marches from going past synagogues on Saturdays.

Seven “forming-up points” have been authorised in central London this year, two of which are near synagogues. Funnily enough, those are the two that are used most regularly. For ordinary Jews, the experience has often been ugly.

Shabbat prayers have been disrupted by chants of “from the river to the sea”, with Palestinian flags lurching past the windows. Synagogues have been covered in spit and banners draped over their walls. One was temporarily besieged.

As one might expect, attendance has halved as many congregants, particularly the elderly and young families, have stayed at home rather than risking assault. Celebrations and events have been cancelled. Observant Jewish life in the capital has been strangled as the city is conceded to the mob.

For Jews in central London, the Metropolitan Police has almost certainly failed to uphold Article 9 of the Human Rights Act, which enshrines freedom of religion. This is little short of capitulation to racism. Blocking marches near synagogues would not inhibit anyone’s right to free expression – the activists could simply use the other five routes – but it would send a strong message to the right people. The Met, however, has turned a deaf ear to pleas from Jewish leaders.

It’s not that the police are progressive anti-Semites. Rather, they are intimidated. They are up against a well-oiled machine that has deep pockets and learnt long ago how to play the system.


Anti-Israel vandals arrested for hammering UK factory wall while riding cherry pickers
Five anti-Israel vandals were arrested on Christmas Day for attempting to tunnel through a Elbit Systems-linked UK factory wall using hammers and chisels, according to the Staffordshire Police and Palestine Action.

The Wednesday incident saw the Palestine Action vandals riding the basket of cherry pickers while smashing and removing bricks from the wall of the UAV Engines Limited Lichfield District factory, according to footage published by the activist group. The cherry picker’s cabs were barricaded with barbed wire and metal grates to prevent police from entering the vehicles.

In videos posted by Palestine Action on Instagram, police and security could be seen observing the vandals damage the Shenstone parish facility. Eventually, police managed to drag away the recalcitrant vandals.

The five vandals aged between 20 to 60 were released on bail, police said, investigations continued into alleged crimes including aggravated trespass, criminal damage to property, conspiring to destroy or damage property, and locking onto an object to cause serious disruption.

Palestine Action celebrated the release of their activists, sharing a video on Thursday of the suspects holding a Palestinian flag while chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and that “Palestine is Arab.”

The vandals targeted UAV Engines Limited because of its affiliation with Israeli defense firm Elbit. Several officers are listed on a UK government registry as having an Elbit correspondence address.




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