Tuesday, January 21, 2025

01/21 Links Pt1: Hamas held hostages at new Gaza hospital as UN health agency criticized for inaction; Report: Four female hostages to be released Saturday; Australia is in the grip of an anti-Semitic nightmare

From Ian:

Israel Enters Truce with Unfulfilled Goal: Destroying Hamas
As a ceasefire begins in Gaza, Israel hasn't fulfilled its top war aim: to destroy Hamas. Hamas is claiming a win despite its heavy losses, and parading its fighters in the streets of Gaza, because it has reached its own goal of surviving the onslaught. Yet the strategic gains from 15 months of war are almost all on Israel's side. The country has emerged stronger, having cut several of its adversaries down to size.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian cause is facing its bleakest prospects for decades. Despite widespread international sympathy, the Palestinians are more divided internally, more isolated in the region, and face an Israel that, after Oct. 7, 2023, is even more firmly against a Palestinian state.

"On the Israeli side, there is disappointment and frustration about the war in Gaza," said Michael Milshtein, a former head of Palestinian affairs for Israeli military intelligence. "But Israel has a lot of strategic achievements. It caused severe damage to all its enemies. They are not the same threats that they were on Oct. 7. Israel's deterrence is much improved, and the society demonstrated its resilience."

The real defeat for Hamas came on Israel's other fronts, where Hamas's allies in what is known as Iran's axis of resistance suffered a string of setbacks. The all-out regional war on Israel that was dreamed of by Hamas's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of Oct. 7, turned into a fiasco.

"Hamas lost a lot of fighters and equipment and infrastructure, but what forced it to the negotiating table was the changed regional situation, plus the arrival of Trump," said Ofer Fridman, a former Israeli officer and war-studies scholar at King's College London.
Seth Mandel: What the Pardon Controversies and the Israeli Hostage Deals Have in Common
In 2013, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition by family members of terror victims seeking to halt a Palestinian prisoner release. The families also argued that, just as in criminal clemency cases, the victims should have an opportunity to register their opposition before the court. In probably the most significant part of the decision, the court said that families of victims don’t retain the same rights if the clemency being granted is through a political deal and not through the normal legal process.

It is crucial to understand how much this concept—that political decisions override the government’s legal obligations—irritates the public. Some of that sentiment seems to be building in the U.S. as well in the wake of bipartisan misuse of the pardon power.

There is one other consideration in Israel’s case that helps explain why Katz might have tied his administrative-detention change to the ceasefire deal. As one Israeli academic warned in 2018: “there is a correlation between people who demonstrated their desire to punish terrorist Palestinians more harshly in [a recent public opinion] survey and the people who showed mistrust in Israeli institutions and their capability to deal with terrorism. It is possible that Israelis do not trust their justice system and government to keep perpetrators behind bars.”

Repeated attempts to severely limit the government’s power to make such deals have failed, and the death penalty is not coming back into use. Similarly, in the U.S. the pardon power is constitutionally explicit and broad, and therefore difficult to limit. But mistrust of the legal system in a democracy will have its own corrosive effect if politicians neglect to maintain the political legitimacy they need to make these decisions.
Israeli intel indicates Hamas held hostages at new Gaza hospital as UN health agency criticized for inaction
With the first three Israeli hostages freed in the cease-fire for hostages deal, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned that several terrorists captured by Israeli forces last month confessed that Israeli captives were held at different times at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently completed a major raid on the hospital, arresting some 240 terrorists. The director of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, the Israelis claim, had gathered intelligence showing that he not only allowed Hamas to infiltrate the hospital, but actively collaborated with the terror group.

Another captured terrorist, Anas Muhammad Faiz al-Sharif, who worked at the hospital as a cleaning supervisor and joined the Nukhba forces of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades in 2021, told Israeli interrogators that the northern Gaza facility was viewed as "a safe haven for them because the [Israeli] military cannot directly target it."

He revealed that inside the hospital, terrorists distributed grenades and mortars, along with equipment for ambushing IDF troops and tanks.

Fox News Digital asked a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman if, based on the IDF's new allegations about holding hostages at Adwan Hospital, they would condemn Hamas' use of hospitals for military use.

In a statement, the spokesman said, "The International Humanitarian Law is very clear. Healthcare workers and healthcare facilities are off limits. They must not be attacked. They must not be used for military purposes. They must be protected at all times. The point is both to protect civilians, as well as to protect the health systems and infrastructure that communities depend on for life-giving care and continuity of services.

"Failure to protect and respect healthcare devastates twice. First, in the initial harm, and then again for the months or years it takes to rebuild the health systems."

The statement concluded without condemning or singling out Hamas. "The protection of healthcare also includes the prohibition against combatants using health facilities for military purposes. IHL is also clear that even if healthcare facilities are being used for military purposes, there are stringent conditions which apply to taking action against them, including a duty to warn and to wait after warning and even then, disproportionate attacks are strictly prohibited."

Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Trump National Security Council official, claimed, "Several international organizations operating in Gaza likely had direct knowledge of Hamas using hospitals as terror headquarters and only publicly protested Israel’s attempt to clear the terrorists. The Red Cross, UNRWA, World Health Organization - they were all collaborators." Ambulances carrying patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahya, northern Gaza Strip since services stopped within 24 hours due to lack of fuel, arrive at Shifa Hospital, accompanied by UN teams, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Oct. 12, 2024.


Hamas says four female hostages to be released Saturday
Four female hostages are set to be released on Saturday, Hamas official Taher al-Nunu told AFP on Tuesday.

On Saturday, the second round of releases in the first stage of the hostage deal is expected after Hamas released 28-year-old Emily Damari, 23-year-old Romi Gonen, and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher on Sunday.

There are seven women who remain on the list of now 30 hostages expected to be released from Hamas captivity in the first phase of the hostage deal.

The hostages on the list are set to be freed in exchange for security prisoners, humanitarian aid, and an IDF withdrawal from some areas in Gaza.

Release planned Saturday
On Monday, Hamas said the second hostage release would occur on Saturday, January 25, 2025, as planned, hours after it had claimed it would be delayed to Sunday.


Matti Friedman: Hamas Murdered Their Son. What Do They Think of the Ceasefire?
Yesterday, three women returned to Israel after 15 months as hostages of Hamas. Their release marks the beginning of a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza and of an exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners. One of the three, Romi Goren, 24, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, where Palestinian terrorists killed 364 people during the invasion of October 7, 2023, and kidnapped dozens more.

Another young Israeli seized at the same festival was Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Badly wounded, Hersh was spirited into Gaza, and for months it wasn’t clear if he was alive or dead.

I knew Hersh—his parents are friends—and saw him a few weeks before October 7 at a family dinner, where he regaled us with tales of working on a falafel truck at an electronic music festival in Italy that summer. He was smart, and funny, and his future was bright. He was 22.

In April, after more than six months of torturing Hersh’s family with uncertainty about his fate, Hamas released a coerced hostage video. Hersh looked gaunt, and his dominant left arm was severed beneath the elbow. But he was alive.

Throughout the months of his captivity, his parents, Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin, inadvertently achieved global fame as spokespeople for the Israeli hostages. They appeared at the United Nations and the Vatican, met world leaders, addressed the Democratic National Convention, and were featured on the cover of Time. They faced their nightmare with extraordinary grace.

They were told by leaders in Israel and abroad that Hersh’s captors were certain to return him alive. They were told that America, where Hersh was born and where he was a citizen, was behind them. For months they flew anywhere necessary to meet anyone they thought might help, speaking beautifully in the language of liberal values and of Jewish tradition, always expressing sympathy for innocents caught on the other side of the war. They kept going even as it became clear that much of the world—including the United Nations, global human rights organizations, and even Israel’s Western allies—had little sympathy for Israeli hostages and would take no significant steps to save them, or even to see them in captivity.

There was never a global outcry about the hostages, a fact that outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken remarked upon in an interview this month: “Why there hasn’t been a unanimous chorus around the world for Hamas to put down its weapons, to give up the hostages, to surrender—I don’t know what the answer is to that.”

In August, 11 months after he was seized, Hersh’s body was found by Israeli soldiers in the fetid tunnel where he’d been imprisoned under the Palestinian city of Rafah. The bodies of five other murdered captives—two women, Eden Yerushalmi and Carmel Gat, and three men, Alex Lobanov, Ori Danino, and Almog Sarusi—were found with him, all with gunshot wounds, along with bottles of urine and puddles of blood. Carmel was 40. The rest were in their 20s.

I sat down with Jon and Rachel to ask them about what they’ve learned this week and through the darkness of the past 15 months—about Israel, the Middle East, and a world that permanently changed on October 7, 2023.


Nicole Lampert: ‘If my brother is released by Hamas, how do I tell him they killed his wife and daughters?’
There is still so much uncertainty around whether he will ever see his brother Eli return from Gaza that Sharon Sharabi has, until now, put off thinking about how to tell him his loved ones are dead.

A return to Israel will mean explaining to a man, no doubt already broken after so long in captivity, that his darling British wife and teenage daughters were killed on October 7 by the same terrorists who kidnapped him. Piling the agony on, Sharabi will also have to break the news that Eli’s adored big brother Yossi was killed after being taken hostage himself too.

Until now, such thoughts have been present but rarely articulated. Sharabi, 49, and his family – aside from Yossi and Eli, he has two other siblings – have been too busy travelling around the world, imploring all who will listen that the hostages have to be released by Hamas.

Now, it seems, that may finally be about to happen. Eli is one of 33 set to be released under the terms of Israel’s ceasefire with the terror group. (Israel says 91 hostages are still being held in Gaza, of whom 34 are presumed dead.)

“How do I tell him they killed his wife and daughters?” says Sharabi. “This morning, I met a doctor and had a professional conversation about it. He told me that no one in the world could plan for what the right words to use are, because nobody in the world has been in a situation like this. We have been thinking about what to say. I don’t really know how we get ready for this moment.

“He will need to focus on his rehabilitation, but there is also this big tragedy for him. A huge emotional challenge. Our life mission in our family will be to raise the sunshine for him as he begins a new life.”

Sharabi doesn’t know for certain whether his brother, 52, is still alive. But if he is, Eli is likely to be returned towards the end of the six-week-long first phase of the ceasefire deal. The agreement’s second and third phases envisage the return of all the remaining hostages, including the bodies of those who have died in Gaza.

Sunday’s joyous scenes of the return of Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher and Romi Gonen – the first to be released by Hamas as part of the ceasefire deal – have made Sharabi realise that he may before long experience both the euphoria of seeing his brother returned and the agony of having to tell him that his world has been totally destroyed.


The Taylor Force Act, the October 7 Massacre, and the PA's "Pay-for-Slay" Terror Reward Policy
In 2018, the U.S. Congress enacted the Taylor Force Act (TFA), named for a West Point graduate and veteran of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who was murdered on March 8, 2016, in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian terrorist. The TFA sought to address the Palestinian Authority practice of paying a financial reward to the family of the terrorist, known as the "Pay-for-Slay" policy. Imprisoned terrorists and released prisoners from Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and others are all adopted by the PA and paid salaries.

Congress concluded in the TFA that "The Palestinian Authority's practice of paying salaries to terrorists serving in Israeli prisons, as well as to the families of deceased terrorists, is an incentive to commit acts of terror." It conditioned the bulk of U.S. aid that directly benefits the PA on the complete abolition of the policy. PA terror reward payments totaled over a billion dollars from 2018 through 2023.

Due to the PA's financial crisis, it has applied a pay cut to all salaries, including those of imprisoned terrorists. Yet this disruption may be temporary. Any entity that pays huge sums to terrorists as a reward for their participation in terror cannot be seen as a partner for peace. Rather, it should be recognized as a sponsor of terror.
Trump is Crucial For Hostage Deal Says Israeli Colonel
On Thursday, January 16th, 2025, Israel and Hamas announced a six-week cease-fire and hostage return deal. IDF Colonel Golan Vach joins Standpoint to discuss the suspicious timing of this deal, with President Trump taking office on January 20th, 2025, and what is to come in the next weeks between Israel, Hamas, and their respective allies. Colonel Golan Vach also has his critiques about the hostage deal and describes the horrendous things he witnessed at the hands of Hamas during his rescue missions after the October 7th attack on Israel, describing Hamas as “worse than Nazis”.




Call Me Back: HOSTAGES COME HOME - with Yossi Klein Halevi & Wendy Singer
On Sunday evening in Israel, after 471 days in captivity, three hostages — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — were released from Gaza and returned home to Israel, as a ceasefire in Gaza went into effect.

There has been speculation as to why this deal was agreed upon now, and about whether January 19th effectively marked the end of the Gaza war. And more than anything, there is palpable anxiety about the fate of the remaining hostages.

To take in this moment and unpack these questions about what comes next, we are joined by Yossi Klein Halevi and Wendy Singer.

Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Yossi has written a number of books, including his latest, "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor," which was a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Times of Israel. He is co-host of "For Heaven's Sake" podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Wendy Singer was the professional founder of Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), where she served as Executive Director for nine years. Wendy currently serves as a strategic advisor to select Israeli start-ups and NGOs, including the National Library of Israel. Before joining Israel’s tech scene, she spent sixteen years as Head of AIPAC’s Israel office. Wendy is a board member of the Shalom Hartman Institute; and a Trustee of the Russell Berrie Foundation.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
05:54 Mood in Israel as the hostages returned
11:02 How are those without connections to hostages, and those who oppose the deal, experiencing this moment?
16:38 Reactions to the Palestinian prisoners release as part of the deal and those who oppose the deal
26:53 Competing Israeli ethoses at this moment and reservations towards the deal
35:44 How are the hostage families reacting to the deal, and experiencing the next 42 days?
44:41 Sentiments around the second phase of the deal
49:46 Reactions to this hostage release as compared to the deal in November 2023
52:37 Will January 19th be remembered as the day the war ended?


MUST SEE: Moment First Three Hostages Are Freed | The Quad
In this episode, "The Quad" is joined by a special guest from California: podcaster and entertainer Barbara Heller.

They will be discussing the renewed hostage release deal with the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip and share video footage of the emotional first moments after the captives were freed.




‘I was certain that I’d die in Gaza’ – freed hostages share their testimony after 471 days in Hamas captivity
The three Israeli hostages returned from Gaza have shared how they helped each other survive for 471 days in Hamas captivity.

In statements vetted by the military censor and approved by the hostages for publication, they recalled living in underground facilities with little medical attention and daily uncertainty over their fate.

Emily Damari, who has a leg injury and lost two fingers on her left hand during the October 7, 2023 terror attacks was treated in captivity by Romi Gonen, another of the hostages freed on Sunday and a trained paramedic, according to Channel 12.

One of the hostages, who was not identified, said: “I didn’t think I’d return, I was certain that I’d die in Gaza.”

The newly-freed trio—Gonen, Damari and Doron Steinbrecher—were initially held together, but became separated later on, according to the report. Damari and Gonen reported being moved dozens of times between different hiding places, both above and below ground.

The hostages rarely saw the light of day and were held in underground facilities most of the time. However, they were temporarily imprisoned in humanitarian compounds originally intended for displaced Gazans, according to the report.

During their captivity, the women cooked and cared for each other, and some of them received medication. One hostage recalled undergoing a medical procedure without anesthesia.

The hostages noted that they also gained limited access to television and radio broadcasts in captivity.

"We saw your struggle, we heard our families fighting," one of the women told her relatives, who participated in rallies and lobbying for their release. "We realized that our families had survived, but we discovered that we had lost a great many friends."

They also said they were "scared to death" during their transfer from Hamas hands to the Red Cross.


Seth Frantzman: Trump's first decisions already shaping America's Middle East doctrine
ANOTHER ORDER canceled a Biden-era decision that had reversed sanctions on the International Criminal Court. The ICC has targeted Israel in the last year. It also appears the administration may move to pause funding for UNRWA, as it had done in the previous Trump term. Another expected decision will reverse a Biden-era one that had paused delivery of 2,000 lb. bombs to Israel. In these cases, the incoming president reversed decisions rather than putting in place new policies.

In another decision that may have tangential implications for Middle East policy, Trump wrote on social media that he had fired “Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars.” This was part of a wider push to identify and remove “over a thousand” presidential appointees who are not “aligned with our vision,” Trump wrote on social media.

Hook was well known in the first Trump administration as the envoy on Iran issues. In November 2024, it was reported that he was involved with the transition team, but that involvement apparently ended quickly, Politico reported in early January.

Another decision that took place in the first 24 hours of the Trump presidency was the confirmation of Marco Rubio as the new Secretary of State. Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar welcomed the news. “Congratulations to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on your confirmation. You have been a steadfast friend of Israel, unwavering in your support for many years. There is much to do and I look forward to working closely together to elevate the great alliance between Israel and the US.”

This is important because Rubio is a friend of Israel and also has important policy views on the wider Middle East in terms of hitting the ground running to put in place necessary US policies. Rubio’s confirmation was also welcomed by Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He was recently in the UAE and Jordan shoring up the Kurdistan region’s ties in the Middle East. The Kurdistan region will want to have close US support in coming years, a key pillar of US policy in the region.

A NUMBER of statements by Trump during his first 24 hours also reflect Middle East expectations. He said that he expects that Saudi Arabia “will end up being in the Abraham Accords.” Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the US, Reema Bandar Al-Saud, congratulated President Trump in a post after attending the inauguration. “The relationship between our two countries is historic, and we look forward to continuing our work together for the benefit of both our peoples and our region,” she wrote.

Trump also made some comments about Gaza on January 20. He said the area would need to be rebuilt after being turned into a “massive demolition site” in the war. He noted how Hamas had misruled the area but also said that Gaza has a phenomenal location on the water, implying it could look to a brighter future.

The president has been paying close attention to the hostage deal, and former hostage Noa Argamani was at one of the inauguration events on January 20 where Trump spoke.

The overall picture emerging from Trump’s first day and his overall doctrine is that he wants to reverse what he sees as mistakes from the last four years.

In terms of overall policy, the administration wants to see more peace and stability in the region, but it is also clear that when it comes to enacting policies, such as whether Israel should return to fighting in Gaza, that is a decision Jerusalem will have to make; the administration is not seeking to be bellicose.
Senate votes unanimously to confirm Rubio as secretary of state
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a hawkish supporter of Israel and a harsh critic of Iran and China, was confirmed on Monday evening by a unanimous bipartisan vote as the nation’s 72nd secretary of state.

Rubio, the three-term senator who served as the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee prior to being nominated for the secretary of state role, was the first of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to be confirmed after Trump was sworn in for his second term earlier Monday.

All 99 senators present — including Rubio himself — voted in favor of his confirmation, a rare sight and one not likely to be repeated for any other Trump Cabinet nominees. Vice President J.D. Vance’s former Senate seat is currently empty.

Shortly before the full Senate vote, both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressed enthusiastic support for Rubio.

“Anyone in America who wants to see what American foreign policy looks like and get a good rundown on it needs to watch that hearing,” Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) told reporters after voting in committee to advance Rubio’s nomination. “He was flawless in his presentation of American foreign policy.”


Trump: "You Certainly Can't Have the People that Were There" Running Gaza
President Donald Trump, while signing a slew of executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday night following his inaugural parade event, was asked if he was confident he could keep the ceasefire in Gaza and complete the three phases of the deal.

"I'm not confident," Trump replied. "It's not our war. It's their war. I'm not confident, but they're very weakened on the other side."

Trump said he looked at a picture of Gaza and said it's like a "massive demolition site" and that it's "really got to be rebuilt in a different way."

The President said Gaza is a "phenomenal location on the sea" with the best weather.

"You know, everything's good," he said. "Some beautiful things could be done with it, but it's very interesting, but some fantastic things could be done with Gaza.

On the future governance of Gaza, Trump said, "You certainly can't have the people that were there. Most of them are dead."

"But they didn't exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly," he said. "You can't have that."
President Donald Trump was asked Monday if he was confident the ceasefire in Gaza could be kept. He replied, "I'm not confident. It's not our war. It's their war. I'm not confident, but they're very weakened on the other side." He said Gaza is a "phenomenal location on the sea" with the best weather. "Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza."

"You certainly can't have the people that were there. Most of them are dead. But they didn't exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly. You can't have that."


Air France to resume flights to Israel
Air France said on Tuesday that flights to Israel will resume this weekend.

The move comes as an increasing number of foreign airlines are renewing flights to Ben-Gurion International Airport as regional tensions de-escalate.

An Air France spokesman said the airline will restart service to Israel on Jan. 25 with seven weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Paris.

The announcement comes a day after British Airways confirmed to JNS that it will resume service to Israel this spring.

The renewal of service on the British flag carrier comes a week before the weeklong Passover holiday—a time when flights to and from Israel are heavily booked.

The Lufthansa Group of airlines announced last week that it will resume service to Israel next month. The global aviation group includes Lufthansa, Swiss International Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, ITA Airways and Eurowings.

The three major U.S. legacy carriers are still not flying to Israel, sending fares spiraling on Israel’s national carrier, EL AL, which operated a virtual monopoly on the lucrative transatlantic route for most of the 15-month-long war. Delta Airlines is due to resume service to Tel Aviv from New York in April.


Trump revokes Biden order that removed his 2020 sanctions on the ICC
Among the Biden executive orders reversed by US President Donald Trump on his first day in office is one that overturned sanctions Trump had issued against the International Criminal Court in his first term.

This ostensibly means that those economic sanctions and travel restrictions against ICC workers, which Trump instituted in 2020, will be back on the books.

Israel has been urging Trump to sanction the ICC over arrest warrants it issued against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant. Congress has been advancing its own sanctions against the court, but the effort still needs to get through a divided Senate.

The 2020 sanctions were implemented over the court’s efforts to investigate American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan.

Neither the US nor Israel are parties to the court and have therefore argued that it has no jurisdiction to probe either of them.
Trump halts funding to Unrwa and revokes sanctions on settlers in executive orders
US President Donald Trump revoked a host of what he called “harmful” executive orders and actions under former President Joe Biden that included the sanctioning of Jews living in the West Bank accused of undermining peace and security.

He also halted funding to Unrwa, the agency which distributes aid in Gaza but which Israel has repeatedly accused of employing staff with close links to terror group Hamas. The UN has admitted that nine of the agency’s staff may been involved in the October 7 attack on Israel.

On his first day in office, Trump stated on Monday, “The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal and radical practices within every agency and office of the federal government.”

He said the revocations he announced on Inauguration Day would be “the first of many steps the United States federal government will take to repair our institutions and our economy.”

Both American and Israeli hostages who had been held in Gaza appeared at Trump's inauguration ceremony on Monday. They were welcomed on stage by Middle East Envoy Steve Witcoff, a key figure in facilitating the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Standing directly behind Trump was Noa Argamani, one of the few hostages rescued during an IDF operation. Meanwhile, Daniel Neutra, the younger brother of Omer whose body remains in Gaza, drew thunderous applause after raising a poster of his brother and pumping his fist in the air.

Trump also signed an executive order to protect the United States from “foreign terrorists and other national security and public threats”, which mandates the government to remain "vigilant" in issuing visas to foreign nationals. The order stresses that those approved for entry must not pose a threat to Americans or national interests.

The US had historically been Unrwa’s largest contributor but had suspended contributions to the agency until March this year in the wake of the recent conflict.


Elise Stefanik Vows To Fight 'Anti-Semitic Rot' at United Nations
Elise Stefanik, President Donald Trump's nominee for United Nations ambassador, vowed to fight the "anti-Semitic rot within the United Nations" and argued that Israel has a "biblical right" to the West Bank during her Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman from New York, said she will focus on combating anti-Israel bias and defunding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency—the Hamas-linked organization that delivers aid in Gaza—if confirmed as ambassador.

"Our tax dollars should not be complicit in propping up entities that are counter to American interest, anti-Semitic, or engaging in fraud, corruption or terrorism," said Stefanik during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

She criticized UNRWA over its terrorist ties, noting that "Hamas leader Sinwar [was] carrying an UNRWA teacher's passport" when Israeli soldiers killed him and that there were "individuals within UNRWA who participated in the terrorist attack against Israel on October 7."

"We should never tolerate any U.S. taxpayer funds going towards terrorism," she said. "So I fully support the President's commitment to defunding [UNRWA], and I'm proud to have voted for that in the Congress."

Stefanik gained national prominence after grilling college administrators about campus anti-Semitism at a House hearing in 2023, during which several university presidents refused to say that calls for genocide against Jews violated their schools’ anti-discrimination policies. The hearing led to the ouster of former Harvard president Claudine Gay.

Stefanik said she would deliver similar results at the U.N. Fighting anti-Semitism is "something that I am deeply committed to doing in this role," she said.

"If you look at the anti-Semitic rot within the United Nations, there are more resolutions targeting Israel than any other country, any other crisis combined," said Stefanik. "We need to be a voice of moral clarity on the U.N. Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with Israel. And I intend to do that."


Stefanik: Israel has biblical right to Judea, Samaria
Israel-related issues dominated the Senate confirmation hearing of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Nearly every senator on the Foreign Relations Committee probed her views on the Jewish state and the region.

The congresswoman vowed to use her seat in Turtle Bay to combat antisemitism just as she had done in Congress.

“If you look at the antisemitic rot within the United Nations, there are more resolutions targeting Israel than any other country, any other crisis, combined,” Stefanik said. “We need to be a voice of moral clarity on the U.N. Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with Israel and I intend to do that.”

Stefanik said that she would like to emulate Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who as U.S. ambassador to the global body in 1975 spoke out forcefully against a General Assembly resolution that determined that “Zionism is a form of racism.”

That resolution passed with the support of Muslim and Soviet-aligned countries but was later revoked in 1991. It is to date the only G.A. resolution ever to be withdrawn.

Stefanik’s nomination was greeted warmly by Republicans but met with greater skepticism from Democrats, who questioned her about what the “America First” agenda would mean for engagement with multilateral institutions during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term.


AOC attacks leading Jewish civil rights group over its defense of Elon Musk
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed the Anti-Defamation League on Monday for issuing a defense of Elon Musk, the billionaire advisor to President Donald Trump, after Musk delivered a hand gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally that some saw as a Nazi salute.

The ADL, running counter to the quick condemnation of Musk from liberal Jewish circles, urged restraint, saying that Musk appeared to have made the gesture unintentionally.

“This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety,” the ADL said in a statement. “It seems that [Musk] made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge. In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who has faced condemnation from the ADL and others in the Jewish community for perceived antisemitic comments, declared that the ADL’s statement was disqualifying.

“Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X. “People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.”

Democratic Georgia state Rep. Esther Panitch blasted Ocasio-Cortez, saying, “Perhaps sit this one out when you can’t seem to identify antisemitism from your fellow Squad members.”

Panitch also shared a post responding to Ocasio-Cortez showing anti-Israel demonstrators making Nazi salutes.


IDF chief of staff resigns over Oct. 7 failures amid political pressure
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi announced his resignation, effective March 6, citing his “responsibility for the failure of the IDF on October 7” in a letter tendered to Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday.

Halevi’s resignation came at a time of increased political pressure from the governing coalition for him to leave his position.

“Recognizing my responsibility for the failure of the IDF on Oct. 7, and at a point in time in which the IDF recorded significant achievements and rehabilitated the deterrence and strength of the State of Israel, I ask to finish my position on March 6, 2025,” Halevi wrote. “I made this decision long ago. Now, when the IDF has the upper hand in all of the arenas of war and an additional agreement to free hostages is underway, the time is ripe.”

Halevi said that in the coming weeks, he will complete investigations into the IDF’s response to the Oct. 7 attack and will continue to work on military preparedness for the challenges ahead.

He concluded the letter by saying he will “always be a soldier of the State of Israel.”

Katz thanked Halevi “for his contributions to the IDF throughout all of his years of service as a fighter and commander and for his part in the great achievements of the IDF in the difficult war that was forced on us.”

Halevi will be leaving his position as the first phase of the cease-fire with Hamas is slated to finish.


Four wounded in suspected Tel Aviv stabbing rampage
Four people were injured Tuesday night in a suspected stabbing spree in Tel Aviv, according to Hebrew media reports.

The victims included two men, ages 28 and 24, who sustained moderate upper-body injuries, and two other male victims, ages 24 and 59, who were lightly injured.

Ichilov Hospital reported that one of the victims was admitted in moderate-to-serious condition and taken to the operating room with a stab wound to the neck.

While the motive remains unclear, authorities suspect a terrorist attack. The assailant was reportedly neutralized at the scene, likely shot by armed civilians.

The incident, which unfolded across multiple locations, including Nahalat Binyamin and Kalisher streets, sparked chaos as residents reported hearing gunfire.

Police spokesperson superintendent Arieh Doron told Kan News: “We are in the early stages of the investigation, and it appears to be a terror-related incident. Officers from the Tel Aviv District are securing the area and searching for potential accomplices.”

Channel 13 reported that the attacker, identified via an ID card found on his person, is a U.S. permanent resident originally from Morocco. He had entered Israel as a tourist just days earlier. The assailant reportedly arrived at the scene on a motorcycle accompanied by another individual who fled.


Reports: U.S. green card holder carries out terror attack in Tel Aviv
A stabbing attack in Tel Aviv in which four people were wounded on Tuesday night was carried out by a man carrying an American green card, according to documents publicized by a Kann news reporter that were said to have been found on his body after he was shot and killed.

The U.S. permanent resident card belonged to Abdelaziz Kaddi, a 29-year-old born in Morocco, and indicates his residency in the U.S. started in September 2022. An Israeli tourist visa indicating that he entered the country on Jan. 18 was also reportedly located on the attacker’s body.

Security officials are still working to gather additional information on the terrorist, who was killed at the scene. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of the victims were in moderate condition and two had minor injuries.


Seth Frantzman: Jenin and the West Bank: Israel's new battlefronts after Gaza, Lebanon ceasefires
Israel has been fighting a multi-front war for fifteen months. The Hamas attack on October 7 was the trigger for Iranian-backed groups to attack Israel. This war has developed in stages.

The West Bank was not considered a major front of the war. However, the northern West Bank has seen increasing and growing threats to Israel. The threats include the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as well as a large number of rifles in the hands of terrorists.

Israel launched a new operation in the West Bank on January 21. This followed a clear decision to use the ceasefire and relative calm on the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, to begin a crackdown in the northern West Bank.

The political leadership care a lot about this battle. It’s not just another tactical operation, as Israel has been conducting over the last year and a half. In fact, the IDF has carried out increasingly heavy operations in Jenin and other areas over the last two years.

This began with Operation Home and Garden in July 2023 which was the largest operation in the West Bank in almost two decades. The IDF also began using drones against terrorists in the West Bank and airstrikes, something that was also the first time since the Second Intifada.


‘Iron Wall’: Israeli forces enter Jenin in large counter-terror operation
Israeli security forces have launched a large-scale operation to destroy terrorist infrastructure in Jenin in northern Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.

Dubbed “Iron Wall,” the operation includes IDF troops, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) officers and Border Police, according to the military.

The IDF entered Jenin immediately after Palestinian Authority police officers left the area, according to Arab media reports. Earlier this week, it was reported that Ramallah struck a deal with the Iranian-backed Jenin Battalion terror coalition, ending a rare month-long P.A. operation in the city.

Israeli ground forces entered the city with the stated goal of preserving Jerusalem’s ability to swiftly act against terrorist groups in Jenin, known among Palestinians as the “Martyrs’ Capital” due to the significant number of suicide bombers that have emanated from the area.

Palestinian reports cited the P.A. Health Ministry as claiming that one person was killed in an airstrike shortly after the start of the operation. Arab media also reported wounded in firefights throughout the city.

On Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi ordered the military to prepare for counter-terrorism operations throughout Judea and Samaria amid an uptick in terror following the ceasefire in Gaza.


UKLFI: Natasha Hausdorff discusses the Middle East with Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk
Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director, discusses the release of some hostages and Trump’s approach to the Middle East with Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV on 21 January 2025.


Australia is in the grip of an anti-Semitic nightmare
The standard you walk past, as the famous Australian saying goes, is the standard you accept. Unfortunately for Jewish Australians, the standard set by the Labor government when it comes to anti-Semtism could hardly be any lower.

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Australians woke to the news that a Sydney childcare centre had been firebombed and sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti. Last weekend, two masked figures attempted (and failed) to burn down a synagogue. These would once have been significant national events. But not so now, in Anthony Albanese’s Australia. They were merely just the latest of several recent attacks on Jewish property.

In December, Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, in the prominent and historic Jewish suburb of Ripponlea, was burnt to the ground in possibly the most significant act of anti-Semitism in Australian history. Last week, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, two cars were set alight, many more were graffitied with anti-Semitic slogans, and the former home of Alex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was doused in red paint.

Anti-Semitism now pervades Australian society. It began, as most of the world now knows, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, with crowds celebrating Hamas’s atrocities on 7 October 2023. It blossomed into regular, vicious anti-Israel marches, including one mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader responsible for the indiscriminate bombing of northern Israel. During that time, protesters have routinely damaged the offices of politicians deemed supportive of Israel – and they’ve done so, for the most part, with impunity. By the time the office of Jewish MP Josh Burns was targeted last June, with vandals deploying an age-old anti-Semitic trope by adorning his photograph with Satanic horns, hardly anyone could claim to be surprised.

This resurgent anti-Semitism has varied in scale and nature. Alongside the Third Reich-style attacks on synagogues and prominent Jewish Australians, there have also been myriad more ‘minor’ incidents. Jewish academics have had their talks cancelled. Jewish creatives have been censored, harassed and doxxed.

But what unites all these instances of anti-Semitism has been the pitiful response of the authorities. The 17-year-old who caused around $100,000 AUD damage to Burns’s office is set to avoid a criminal conviction. The same leniency was afforded to the people who breached security at Parliament House, traipsed across the roof and draped the building’s entrance with banners accusing Israel (and Australia) of genocide.
Hate preachers and pro-Palestinian activists who sow division with racist vitriol to face new anti-hate speech laws in NSW
Hate preachers and pro-Palestinian activists, who sow division with racist vitriol, will face new anti-hate speech laws under the New South Wales government.

Premier Chris Minns vowed to crackdown on hate-speech after the shocking firebombing of a childcare centre, saying violent attacks “begin with words”.

“I don’t think these antisemitic attacks begin with someone committing a violent offence, I think they begin with words, in particular racist words, vitriolic words, that then spark something in a bad actor who goes and commits a terrible offence,” Mr Minns said in an exclusive interview with Sky News.

“So we want to nip it in the bud at the beginning. We’ll do that with law.”

Mr Minns said current laws targeted hate speech were inadequate to address the racism targeting the Jewish community.

There are frequent pro-Palestinian protests where activists call for massacres against Jews in Arabic.

Police in NSW and Victoria have also failed to prosecute any hate-preachers for derogatory and racist remarks against Australian Jews.

Asked about these ongoing threats, Mr Minns said the new legislation, adopted from Western Australia, would prosecute individuals for hate speech, without requiring that additional element of incitement to violence.

“Since similar laws have been in place in WA, there has been 52 prosecutions against individuals who weren’t taking the extra step of promoting violence, but were in fact promoting hate towards someone’s race,” he said.

“I think we can have similar laws here in NSW, so that we can stop it before it happens. Now I cant promise – no political leader can promise – and end to antisemitic attacks Unfortunately there are some terrible, terrible people in our community. But what I can do is say we will put all of our resources as well as changes to the law to keep the community safe.”


Australian police suspect ‘overseas actors’ paid for recent Jew-hate attacks
Following a snap cabinet meeting on antisemitism in Australia on Tuesday, officials said that the recent spate of antisemitic incidents could, in part, be attributed to “overseas actors” hiring locals to carry out attacks.

“We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs. We are looking at if—or how—they have been paid, for example, in cryptocurrency, which can take longer to identify,” Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said at a press conference after the meeting, 9 News reported.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese convened the meeting after a Sydney child-care center was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti and set on fire early on Tuesday. No one was injured in the attack.

Police have received 166 reports in recent weeks about antisemitism, with 15 under investigation. Prosecutors have charged 36 people with “antisemitic related offenses” in New South Wales, and 70 arrests had been made in Victoria, Kershaw also said.

Iran is believed to have paid criminals in Europe to carry out attacks on Jews and in Israel to perpetrate acts of vandalism and psychological warfare.

“The prime minister, state premiers and chief ministers unequivocally condemn antisemitism and reaffirmed to stamp it out in Australia,” a statement from Albanese’s office read, adding that leaders were “united in working together to stamp antisemitism out—and keep it out.”

Opposition leader Peter Dutton suggested Albanese, a Labor Party leader, was not genuinely interested in addressing the situation.

“This is a national crisis. We are having rolling terrorist attacks in our community, and the prime minister is being dragged kicking and screaming to hold a meeting of our nation’s leaders,” Dutton said at a rally on Tuesday.


Albanese government introduces fresh measures to combat antisemitism in wake of overnight attack on childcare centre
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new measures to address antisemitism in Australia following a meeting of National Cabinet on Tuesday night.

Mr Albanese had initially pushed back on calls to hold a meeting of National Cabinet before changing his mind on Tuesday in the wake of an attack on the Only About Children Maroubra Preschool and Early Learning childcare overnight.

The childcare was significantly damaged in the attack, with the phrase "F*** the Jews" also seen spray painted in black on a wall.

It comes weeks after the recent vandalism of two synagogues and a home in Sydney, as well as the firebombing of another synagogue in Melbourne in December.

The meeting was addressed by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw who provided the latest police intelligence.

Commissioner Kershaw said 15 serious incidents of antisemitism that happened since December were being investigated under the AFP's Operation Avalite.

"The Prime Minister reaffirmed that the full resources of the AFP and federal intelligence agencies stand ready to assist the efforts of Strike Force Pearl, Operation Shelter and Operation Park, and actions by other State and Territory Governments, as has been occurring to date," Mr Albanese said in a statement.

The government announced it would be establishing a National Database to track antisemitic crime and other antisemitic incidents and behaviours.


Sydney daycare centre targeted in suspected antisemitic attack
Forensic teams are investigating the scene of a suspected antisemitic attack at a daycare centre in Sydney.

Emergency services were called to the facility in Maroubra after receiving reports of a fire.

Crews managed to extinguish the flames which caused significant damage to the building.

Police said antisemitic graffiti was spray painted onto the wall outside the property.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns attended the “abhorrent” scene.


‘Pure evil’: Police investigating antisemitic attack on Sydney Daycare centre
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Michele Goldman denounced the antisemetic attack on a Sydney daycare centre as “so sad and so disturbing”.

Ms Goldman told Sky News Australia the attack was on innocent children who have “done nothing to harm anyone” and have “no hate in their hearts.”

“It’s really pure evil to be attacking a childcare centre.”


PM Anthony Albanese finally agrees to convene National Cabinet to tackle rising antisemitic violence after Sydney childcare attack
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally submitted to pleas from the opposition, Jewish community and officials by agreeing to hold a National Cabinet on antisemitism.

The decision comes after a horrific firebombing attack on a childcare centre in Sydney on Tuesday, in which vandals plastered the facility with graffiti that said “F*** the Jews”.

Mr Albanese responded to pleas for a National Cabinet on Monday by saying, "what people want to see isn't more meetings, they want to see more action".

The Prime Minister confirmed on Tuesday that he had succumbed to the public outcry and called a meeting with state premiers.

"Yes. National Cabinet will convene... And there's a couple of other issues today," Mr Albanese said when asked by reporters at a press conference.

"The agenda, of course, comes through with the premiers. The national cabinet will meet at five o'clock this afternoon.

"This afternoon we will hear from the AFP commissioner.

"It will be an opportunity for us to discuss collectively the responses that are being made by state and territory governments and the coordination with the Commonwealth."
Labor drops Senator who accused Israel of 'apartheid' as Head of Delegation to Auschwitz memorial following Jewish community outrage
A controversial Labor Senator, who once accused Israel of “apartheid”, has been removed as Head of Delegation to an Auschwitz memorial following reports by Sky News Australia.

Senate President Sue Lines will no longer represent Australia as the Head of Delegation at the holocaust memorial, with Labor instead drafting in Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.

It is not yet clear whether the Senator will be dropped from attending the trip altogether.

The news comes hours after Sky News Australia revealed Jewish leaders had been told in writing that Senator Lines would lead the delegation, prompting outrage in the community over her past anti-Israel statements.

Following the widespread criticism, Labor media spinners attempted to background Australian journalists suggesting Senator Lines had not yet officially been confirmed as Head of Delegation.

However, Sky News Australia has seen written documentation naming the Western Australian Labor Senator as “Head of Delegation”, which was provided to members of the Jewish community and relevant stakeholders.

Contacts within PMO also confirmed Senator Lines would be attending the memorial, prior to the article being published.

While the demotion of Senator Lines may soothe some community outrage, the presence of Australia's Foreign Minister will likely be met with mixed feelings.

Senator Wong has also faced criticism from Jewish groups over her own record on Israel, including for overseeing Australia's decision to support a United Nations motion that called for an end to the nation's "unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible".

It was the first time in two decades Australia had voted in favour of the motion.

That vote, along with Senator Wong's decision to throw support behind a separate motion condemning Israel's ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), led to a fierce series of exchanges with Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

Senator Wong has also been called out for having mentioned Israel alongside Russia and China in a recent speech and for supporting an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza, prior to the agreement of the hostage deal this month.
James Paterson criticises Labor delegation choice for Auschwitz commemoration
Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson has criticised Labor Senator Sue Lines after it was revealed she will represent Australia at an event marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.

A commemoration held next week in Poland will mark eight decades since the remaining 7,000 prisoners held at Auschwitz were freed, on January 27, 1945.

Sky News understands Sue Lines, a Labor senator for Western Australia since 2013, has been chosen to lead Australia's delegation, which also includes the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Jewish-Australian community leaders.

In a speech to the senate in February 2022, before the last election, Senator Lines quoted an Amnesty International report in the senate, which "confirms that Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid".

"Amnesty International is calling on Israel to dismantle this cruel system, and the international community must pressure it to do so," she said at the time.

Mr Paterson posted on social media platform X, writing Sue Lines is 'one of the most unhinged anti-Israel members of Parliament from the far left of the Labor Party'.


Liberal MP slams Albanese’s 'appalling' decision to send Sue Lines to Auschwitz Memorial
Liberal MP Andrew Wallace has slammed the “tone deaf” decision to send Labor Senator Sue Lines to a commemoration event at the Auschwitz Memorial.

Mr Wallace told Sky News Australia Ms Lines is “one of Israel’s greatest critics from the parliament”.

“The Prime Minister of Australia is absolutely tone deaf, he does not get it," Mr Wallace said.

He described it as an "appalling decision".

A commemoration held next week in Poland will mark eight decades since the remaining 7,000 prisoners held at Auschwitz were freed, on January 27, 1945.

Sky News understands Sue Lines, a Labor senator for Western Australia since 2013, has been chosen to lead Australia’s delegation, which also includes the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Jewish-Australian community leaders.

In a speech to the senate in February 2022, before the last election, Senator Lines quoted an Amnesty International report in the senate, which “confirms that Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid”.

“Amnesty International is calling on Israel to dismantle this cruel system, and the international community must pressure it to do so,” she said at the time.


Penny Wong and Mark Dreyfus to attend Auschwitz memorial following Sue Lines controversy
AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie discusses the new revelations of Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Attorney General Mark Dreyfus now attending the Auschwitz memorial.

Labor Senator Sue Lines was set to represent Australia at a commemoration event marking the liberation of Nazi death camp, Auschwitz.

“The idea that she [Sue Lines] would be the one and only member of government to be sent to the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz is another slap in the face to the Jewish community,” Mr Burnie said.






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