Tuesday, May 27, 2025

05/27 Links Pt1: Israel’s latest crime? Feeding the people of Gaza; Aid distribution centers in Gaza 'mark end of Hamas rule,'; Israeli deputy FM: The world loves dead Jews

From Ian:

Seth Frantzman: Trump lays out new Middle East vision, from ceasefires to regional partners
US President Donald Trump has been laying out a vision for how his administration views the Middle East. The administration came into office hoping that it could end the conflict in Gaza and bring about a hostage and ceasefire deal.

It was initially successful, but the ceasefire fell apart in March.

The administration is now laying out a broader vision for how it views the region, as reflected in Trump’s trip to the Gulf in mid-May and also recent comments from his envoy to Syria.

On May 25, US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, who is the new US envoy to Syria, wrote a message for Damascus on social media: “A century ago, the West imposed maps, mandates, penciled borders, and foreign rule. Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain – not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make it again,” he wrote. This is an important message that is linked with Trump’s speech in Riyadh.

It’s not the first time that the US has sought to contrast its role in the region with the role of European powers. In fact, the US has often sought to differentiate its policies from those of the Europeans. Franklin Roosevelt often reiterated that the US would not enter World War II in order to preserve European colonies.

Later in 1956, the Eisenhower administration was also not pleased with the French and British intervention in Egypt. However, the sense that the US role is different has changed over recent decades. After the Gulf War, the US was the main hegemonic power in the region.

This was a shift from the Cold War, when the US did support friendly countries. The US was now viewed as a nation builder and global policeman. Countries chafed at the imposition. Extremists flourished.

Today that has changed. The Obama administration sought to chart a new course most notably during Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo. However, he was critiqued for his policies during the Arab Spring and his drive for an Iran deal.

Barrack wrote that “the era of Western interference is over. The future belongs to regional solutions, to partnerships, and to a diplomacy grounded in respect. As Trump emphasized in his May 13 address in Riyadh, ‘Gone are the days when Western interventionalists would fly to the Middle East to give lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.’”

Barrack wants to build on Trump’s doctrine and apply it to Syria. Trump reached out to Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, following support from Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and from Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Both MBS and Erdogan are close to Trump. They encouraged him to meet Sharaa and change US policy on Syria. “Syria’s tragedy was born in division. Its rebirth must come through dignity, unity, and investment in its people. That starts with truth, accountability, and working with the region, not around it,” Barrack wrote.
Brendan O'Neill: Israel’s latest crime? Feeding the people of Gaza
What’s really bugging the anti-Israeli elites is that this uppity little state has the temerity to circumvent the UN. Israel outlawed UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian-assisting wing, in Gaza and the West Bank following revelations that some UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023. Its new humanitarian foundation is designed precisely to get around UN mechanisms and put grub and drugs directly into the hands of Gazans who need them. To some of us, this makes sense – UNRWA is a profoundly morally compromised institution. But to the army of influencers who hate Israel, it is tantamount to blasphemy.

Behold the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen on the Today programme this morning. In tones of such world-weary vanity, he insisted Israel should be working with the UN, not the US. After all, there were only ‘a dozen or so cases’ of UNRWA being ‘infiltrated by Hamas’, he said, with the breeziness of someone ordering a caramel latte. Actually there have been more cases than that. But even if it were only a ‘dozen or so’ instances of a UN body being infiltrated by an army of anti-Semites devoted to the destruction of the Jewish nation, shouldn’t that be enough to put Israel off? In Bowen’s eyes, how many cases of UN complicity with 21st-century fascism are acceptable? Twelve? Twenty? A hundred? He should say.

The sheer delirium in the response to Israel’s humanitarian push was best summed up in an AP headline. ‘UN agencies warn that Israel’s plans for aid distribution will endanger lives’, it says. Drink in the Orwellianism of that. Providing aid is deathly now. Providing people with food ‘endangers lives’. Feeding the hungry kills. The doublethink of the Israelophobia pox has rarely been so beautifully illustrated. War is peace, freedom is slavery, giving people the essentials of life will end their lives. Imagine the arrogance and outright inhumanity it must require to wring your manicured hands over the delivery of life-saving aid just because you hate the state that’s delivering it.

In these people’s eyes, everything Israel does is a crime. If it bombs Gaza, in pursuit of the Jew-hating militants that attacked it, that’s a war crime. But if it pleads with civilians to flee before it drops its bombs, that’s a war crime, too – the war crime of ‘forced displacement’. If it enforces a siege on Gaza, to try to suffocate Hamas’s army of anti-Semites, that’s ‘genocide’. Yet when it lifts the siege and brings in truckloads of necessities, that goes against ‘humanitarian principles’, too. That also ‘endangers lives’. If Israel takes lives, it’s a crime. If it tries to save lives, it’s a crime. If it cuts off deliveries, it’s a crime. If it lets deliveries in, it’s a crime. No one should be in any doubt now: Israelophobia is a libellous monstrosity underpinned less by an opposition to war than by a frothing, post-truth hatred for the world’s only Jewish nation.

Hamas has instructed the people of Gaza not to cooperate with Israel’s delivery of aid. The UN has noisily rejected it too. And the commentariat is branding it ‘problematic’. They’re all on the same page. They’re all telling the suffering folk of the Gaza Strip not to accept the Jewish State’s help. This is a kind of psychosis. If you really believed that Gaza faces one of the worst famines of modern times, you would tell its people to take anything they can get. The hysterical reaction to the Gaza Humanitarian Fund suggests these people either don’t believe that, and they’ve been lying, or they do believe it but they hate Israel so much that they would rather see Gazans starve than eat Israel’s evil food. And honestly, I don’t know which is worse.
Eitan Fischberger: Starvation by Feeding: The New "Genocide" Narrative
You honestly can’t make this up. Hamas and its acolytes in the West are in full-blown meltdown mode—not because Gazans aren’t getting food, but because they are… just not through the “right” channels.

What’s the issue, exactly? Simple. The new aid model being rolled out in Gaza commits three unpardonable sins, according to Hamas and its allies:
A. It’s facilitated in part by Israel.
B. It cuts out the UN (and other ineffective, corrupt aid organizations).
C. Gazans have to—brace yourselves—wait in line to get their food. I’m not kidding.

Let’s take this apart.

First, the Israel component. Apparently, starving children are less important than making sure no Jew touches the logistics. If Israel helps facilitate food getting to civilians without Hamas skimming off the top, it’s suddenly a problem. Not because the aid isn’t real, but because it doesn't serve the political theater.

Second, the UN. The same UN whose track record in Gaza reads like a how-to manual in inefficiency and corruption. The same UN that allowed Hamas to operate freely, hoard resources, and manipulate aid flows to serve its war terror machine. Now that they’ve been sidelined, aid will move faster, more securely, and with actual accountability—and that is what’s got them rattled. Not the welfare of Gazans. The fear of being exposed as irrelevant.

Third: the lines. Yes, there are lines. Big ones. Welcome to literally every humanitarian zone in a war-torn region. These are the same people who were lying about 14,000 babies starving to death just last week—based on completely fabricated data. Now they’re clutching their pearls over the existence of food lines?


Amb. Alan Baker: France's Malicious Recognition of "Palestine": The Ultimate Reward for the October 7 Massacre
Ten countries have already given Hamas the greatest reward and have responded to the Oct. 7 murder, torture, rape, beheading, and kidnapping of over 250 people by recognizing the "State of Palestine."

Next in line to reward the wanton murder of Jews appears to be French President Emmanuel Macron who, together with the UK and Canada, is promoting a high-level conference on "the two-state solution."

The 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States provides the most widely and internationally accepted formula for recognizing statehood in international law, requiring the new state to meet four cumulative criteria: a permanent population; a defined territory; a government; and capacity to enter into relations with other states.

Of the 147 UN states that ostensibly have recognized the "State of Palestine," 100 countries did so between February 4, 1988, and November 1, 1995. 82 of them gave their recognition in November and December 1988, in response to the November 15, 1988, "Declaration of Independence" issued by Yasser Arafat and the PLO. At the time, the PLO was being hosted in Tunisia and was an entity incapable of performing any of the requisite functions associated with governance.

The Oslo Accords established a "Palestinian Authority" with powers and responsibilities to govern the daily lives of the Palestinians resident in areas that would be transferred to its control. The accords made absolutely no mention of the creation of a "State of Palestine." To the contrary, in the accords, the issue of statehood was left open for "permanent status negotiations."

By definition, the Israeli-Palestinian commitment to "permanent status negotiations" precludes any predetermination by any foreign state, parliament, international or regional organization president or international leader, of the outcome of such negotiation by attempting to recognize, initiate, support, or sponsor a Palestinian state outside the agreed negotiating forum.
French textbooks found light on contemporary antisemitism
French textbooks detail Jewish history but provide superficial coverage of both the collaborationist Vichy regime during the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism in France, a study published on Tuesday found.

While Jewish history, Israel, the Holocaust and antisemitism are taught in French textbooks used in school, “gaps remain” in the educational system on Jewish-related topics, the London-based IMPACT-se watchdog found.

The textbooks include various aspects of Jewish history, but there is limited content on the historic role of Jews in French public life. Similarly, they address the theme of antisemitism and include examples, but there is little on contemporary French antisemitism, the report found.

“The Jewish story is primarily portrayed as one of victimization, with little mention of Jewish contributions to French art, science, philosophy and politics, or of significant Jewish figures,” the report states.

While the 1894-1906 Dreyfus Affair is given prominence in the school curriculum, recent examples of deadly antisemitism in France—such as the 2012 Toulouse school shooting and the 2015 Hyper Cacher supermarket massacre—are omitted.

The textbooks note, however, that “racist and antisemitic acts increased significantly in France” over the last decade, citing the role of the internet in normalizing such attitudes.

The Holocaust is covered in detail, although content on the Shoah in France and the role of the Vichy government “could be expanded,” while the establishment of the State of Israel is addressed within the post–World War II narrative but “could be enhanced” with deeper historical context, the survey says.

“The founding of Israel is largely framed as a reaction to European antisemitism and post-World War Two decolonization, while textbooks also tend to emphasize the Arab–Israeli conflict without fully exploring Jews’ millennia-long ties to the land,” it states.
Norway’s parliament said to reject blanket divestment from firms in West Bank, Gaza
Norway’s parliament is poised to reject campaigners’ calls to instruct its $1.8 trillion wealth fund to boycott any company selling products and services in the Palestinian territories, according to a person familiar with the process.

A majority in the Norwegian parliament’s finance committee has decided that only companies that can be linked to the violation of international law should be excluded from the fund’s portfolio, not just any companies with a presence in these areas, the person said.

The International Court of Justice said last year Israel’s “occupation of Palestinian territories” was illegal and it should pull out as soon as possible, in a ruling that Jerusalem rejected as “fundamentally wrong” and one-sided.

The court was referring to the West Bank, and also to East Jerusalem, which was formally annexed and designated as sovereign Israeli territory in 1980. The court also said that despite the complete civilian and military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Israel has “remained capable of exercising, and continued to exercise, certain key elements of authority” there.

Currently, Norway’s fund, which operates under ethical guidelines set by the Norwegian parliament, has blacklisted 11 companies for assisting Israel’s policies in the territories, most recently Israeli gas station chain Paz earlier this month.

At the end of last year the fund had just over $2 billion invested in 65 Israeli companies, or 0.1% of its total.

Since the start of the war in Gaza — which began when the Hamas terror group led a thousands-strong invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023 — the fund has faced growing pressure to divest from Israeli companies and all companies active in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

That would effectively force it to sell billions of dollars in stakes in major Western brands, some of which have already faced consumer boycott calls, especially in Muslim-majority countries, because they were perceived as friendly to Israel.

Campaigners want the Norwegian government to take the same action on Israel-linked investments as it did on Russian ones in 2022, when three days after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine it instructed the fund to dispose of all of its holdings in Russia.

However, the decision by the parliamentary finance committee means no blanket ban would be imposed on Israeli firms or on multinationals with global sales only because their products and services are available in Palestinian territories.
Ireland’s cabinet formally backs trade ban on West Bank settlements
Ireland’s cabinet gave its formal backing on Tuesday to drafting legislation on restricting trade with Israeli communities in East Jerusalem and West Bank settlements, but the bill is unlikely to be passed by parliament until later in the year.

While Ireland does very little trade with West Bank settlements, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said it was a “symbolic move” that follows Ireland’s official recognition last year of a Palestinian state, alongside a small number of other European countries.

The bill, which would ban the import of goods from settlements but is unlikely to include services, will be considered by a parliamentary committee in the coming weeks, Foreign Minister Simon Harris said.

A final bill will then go through parliamentary scrutiny before the upper and lower houses vote on it, likely later this year.

“In many ways, this is a small measure, but it is imperative on all countries to do all that we can to maximize the pressure and conditions to bring about a ceasefire,” Harris said, adding that he hoped other countries would bring in similar measures.

The move comes after Britain last week paused free trade talks with Israel and announced further sanctions against a small number of West Bank settlers.

The European Union also announced a review last week of a pact governing its political and economic ties with Israel, a step Ireland and Spain first proposed together over a year ago.

A bill limiting trade with settlements in territories considered to be under Israeli occupation was first advanced in 2018 by an Irish independent lawmaker but blocked by the then-government because the EU, not member nations, is responsible for the bloc’s trade policy.
EU sports chief seemingly backs BDS-style boycott of Israeli athletes
The European Union's sports commissioner has hinted at support for a BDS-style boycott of Israeli athletes in European sports due to the war in Gaza in an interview with Politico.

“When it comes to sports, I think there should be no space in sporting events for those who do not share our values,” European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport Glenn Micallef told the outlet in response to a question about whether Israel should face sporting sanctions over the war.

“These spaces are big stages for political messages, big stages where we should promote values that we stand for in the Union, and where we should give space to those who have similar values to us in general,” said Micallef, who is from Malta.

He was responding to a question that referenced Spanish President Pedro Sánchez's recent call to ban Israel from participating from the Eurovision Song Contest over its military actions in Gaza.
Jordanian envoy, who has said Israel at war with ‘people of Gaza,’ elected to UN high court
The United Nations Security Council elected Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud, Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations, to serve as judge on the 15-member International Court of Justice by a unanimous vote on Tuesday.

Hmoud ran unopposed for the seat on the court and will serve out the term of Nawaf Salam, who resigned in January to become Lebanon’s prime minister.

The Jordanian diplomat has described Israel’s war against Hamas as a “vicious attack against the protected population of Gaza.”

“Stressed the urgent need for stopping the Israeli war on the people of Gaza and necessity of ensuring unhindered access of aid into Gaza,” he wrote in January, after meeting with Sigrid Kaag, the U.N. humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza.


First Gaza aid distribution centers open as part of US initiative
Two humanitarian aid distribution centers officially began operations in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, marking the start of the U.S.-led initiative to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to the coastal enclave.

The centers, located in the Tel al-Sultan area of the southernmost Strip and the Morag Corridor between Khan Yunis and Rafah, are managed by international NGOs and secured by an American security company.

The centers began “distributing food packages to thousands of families in the Gaza Strip” on Tuesday, the IDF said, noting that two more aid distribution points will be opened as part of the American initiative.

Amid widespread reports of overcrowding, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced that its security team at one of the sites “fell back” on Tuesday to allow “a small number” of Palestinian looters to take food packages, adding that normal operations have resumed.

The decision to temporarily withdraw “was done in accordance with GHF protocol to avoid casualties,” the NGO stressed. Approximately 8,000 food boxes were distributed on Tuesday, totaling 462,000 meals.

The Israeli army in a statement said that its troops “fired warning shots in the area outside the compound” as it was overrun by Palestinians.

“Control over the situation was established, food distribution operations are expected to continue as planned, and the safety of IDF troops was not compromised,” the IDF stressed.

The opening followed months of preparation, with Jerusalem working closely with the Trump administration to facilitate the move, according to the military. The effort involved the IDF, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), humanitarian groups, and the American security firm now operating on the ground.

“The IDF will continue to facilitate humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip, while making every possible effort to ensure that the aid does not reach the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization,” stated the army.
Aid distribution centers in Gaza 'mark end of Hamas rule,' source tells 'Post'
The opening of the humanitarian aid distribution centers marks the beginning of the end of Hamas rule, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday as the IDF announced the two large food distribution centers, which are said to be able to feed up to 600,000 Palestinians over the course of a week.

This is happening alongside the decisive military defeat of Hamas through intense and widespread fighting that includes conquering, clearing areas, and holding them, according to the source.

Despite Hamas’s attempts to prevent the population from reaching the aid centers, the terror organization is failing.

The more Hamas tries to continue blocking the population, the more it will face mass resistance, the source said.

Activists from protest groups Tzav 9 and the "Generation of Victory" blocked humanitarian aid trucks bound for Gaza at the Ashdod Port on Tuesday morning, the organizations said.

Challenges in aid distribution in Gaza
On Saturday, five aid trucks were taken over by looters, according to Israeli media. The stolen goods were sold to Gazans at inflated prices in areas such as Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp.

On Friday, 15 World Food Program trucks were looted overnight in the Strip that were carrying humanitarian aid.

A hundred trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the UN and the international community, including flour, baby food, and medical equipment, were transferred on Wednesday through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza after Israel lifted an 11-week blockade and began allowing limited deliveries into the enclave via the crossing.


COGAT accuses UN aid chief of 'libel' for claiming 10,000 aid trucks sat at
Israel accused Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, of “libel” for a second time after the relief chief said there are 10,000 aid trucks on the Gaza border, cleared and ready to go.

“We’ve got 10,000 trucks on the border right now, cleared [and] ready to go, and we’ll do everything to get them in and save lives,” Fletcher told CNN’s Christine Amanpour on Monday.

When she repeated the number back to him incredulously, Fletcher nodded and replied, “Full of food.”

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) posted the video on X/Twitter, saying, “Look, it’s @UNReliefChief with another libelous lie.”

“There are no 10,000 trucks waiting to go into Gaza. What there are, are hundreds of trucks’ worth of aid the UN hasn’t picked up from the Gazan side over the last few days after we gave you plenty of routes you can use to safely distribute the aid throughout Gaza.”

This comes less than a week after Fletcher told the BBC that 14,000 Gazan babies would die within the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.

“There are five trucks just sitting on the other side of the border right now,” he said last Tuesday. “They have not reached the communities they need to reach. This is baby food, baby nutrition. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs later retracted the statement when asked to verify by the BBC, saying it was rather about “the imperative of getting supplies in to save an estimated 14,000 babies suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza.”


IDF kills elite Hezbollah terrorist 3 miles from northern border
An Israel Defense Forces aircraft eliminated a terrorist of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in Southern Lebanon on Monday, the military confirmed on Tuesday, sharing footage of the aerial attack.

The strike was carried out in the Majdal Zoun area, approximately three miles north of the border with the Jewish state, according to the IDF.

The Radwan Force is Hezbollah’s elite unit, aimed at infiltrating Israeli territory and capturing areas around the country’s northern frontier. https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1927372498082930919

Overnight on Thursday, the IDF struck 15 Hezbollah terrorist sites across Southern Lebanon. No details about the targets were provided.

Also on Thursday, Israel Air Force fighter jets struck a “military site in the Beqaa region in southeastern Lebanon that housed Hezbollah rocket launchers and other weapons. In separate strikes, the IAF targeted additional terrorist infrastructure across the region.

The same day, an Israeli aircraft killed a Radwan Force operative in the Rab Thalathin area, which is less than a mile from Israel’s security fence.


Ami’s House: Israel Lost The PR War. Melanie Phillips May Know How Win It Back
Why has Israel failed to win the PR war — and what can be done to change that? In this gripping episode, British journalist and thinker Melanie Phillips lays out a bold new strategy: Stop apologizing, Stop defending, and Start exposing the moral inversion at the heart of modern anti-Zionism.

We cover:
→ The roots of Western antisemitism in intersectional ideology
→ Why calling Israel a "colonizer" is a complete inversion of history
→ The truth about Palestinian nationalism and the myth of the Nakba
→ How to flip the moral script and go on offense in the information war
→ The missing link between Jewish survival and saving Western civilization

Go find Melanie's new Book, "The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It" on Amazon!

00:00 – Zionism101
03:10 – What actually happened in 1948: war, not displacement
05:36 – The invention of Palestinian identity and Soviet propaganda
10:22 – Why Israel’s morality has made it more vulnerable
16:15 – Western weakness and the survival mindset in Israel
21:00 – How left-wing “intersectionality” fuels antisemitism
24:20 – Why anti-Zionism quickly turns into antisemitism
32:45 – The real reason October 7th broke Western moral logic
38:10 – The West’s refusal to pressure Qatar or end the hostage crisis
45:50 – Melanie’s plan: Shame, clarity, and moral offense
53:37 Melanie’s brand new book, “The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It”


Globalized Intifada Comes to Washington: Who’s to blame? | The Quad
On this episode of “The Quad,” hosted by Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Israel’s innovation envoy, we unpack the shocking murder of two young Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.—a tragic act of antisemitic terror that has sent ripples around the Jewish world. Joined by co-host Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, Rashi Elmaliah, and Avi Mayer, this all-star panel dives into the global consequences of media-fueled blood libels.

Together, they confront the lies about “starving babies in Gaza” that paved the way for this hate crime, examine the silence and complicity of international institutions like the UN and the Red Cross and expose the dangerous fusion of radical leftism and Islamist extremism targeting Jews worldwide.

The episode covers:
The embassy attack in Washington and the role of incitement
UN official Tom Fletcher’s debunked “14,000 babies” narrative
Hamas’s theft of humanitarian aid
The media’s manipulation of facts to vilify Israel
Growing fear and antisemitism on U.S. college campuses
Global cowardice from UK, France and Canada




Israeli deputy FM: The world loves dead Jews
European leaders who have recently criticized Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza have succumbed to political pressure fueled by a nefarious international media campaign against the Jewish state, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said on Tuesday.

The unequivocal remarks by Israel’s second-highest diplomat come amid some of the harshest criticism leveled against Israel by British, German, French and Canadian leaders since the war began nearly 20 months ago, following the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.

“What we are seeing is the capitulation of several European leaders to a very loud political campaign in countries with a massive immigrant influx from many Muslim countries together with an immense propaganda campaign waged against Israel on international TV networks,” Haskel told JNS ahead of a series of meetings in Europe this week.

“The world loves dead Jews, and one day after they turn their backs on us,” she said, referring to the day after the Oct. 7 massacre.

Haskel noted that international protests against Israel began the day after the massacre and weeks before the Israeli military launched its ground operation in Gaza.

“If I need to choose between the life of my children and the sympathy of the Europeans the choice is clear, since we know what Hamas would do to us again if they could,” she said.

Although criticism of Israel’s handling of the war has intensified over the past week—including threats of sanctions from some European leaders—Haskel argued that the Jewish state has weathered harsher diplomatic fallout in previous conflicts.

“Unfortunately, Israel being bashed in the international community is a norm,” she said as she prepared to fly to the Czech Republic, one of Israel’s staunchest allies in Europe. Haskel is scheduled to address a Jerusalem Day event in the Czech Parliament on Wednesday, and to hold meetings with European diplomats as part of the Transatlantic Defense Forum.
Israel willing to agree to ceasefire for ‘lengthy period of time’ for hostages return
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel says many countries around the world are continuing to “put pressure” on Israel for a ceasefire when Hamas repeatedly rejects deals.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff has told CNN that Israel will agree to a temporary ceasefire/hostage deal which would see “half of the living and half of the deceased return and lead to substantive negotiations to find a path to a permanent ceasefire”.

“The pressure should be on Hamas, and not on Israel,” Ms Haskel told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“We are willing to go to a ceasefire, also for a lengthy period of time, in return for hostages.”


'Liar' lefties show no sympathy for Jews murdered in Washington DC
The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair claims the left-wing people who have shown no sympathy to the two Jews murdered in Washington, DC, are “liars”.

“They’ll adopt any sort of posture that is to their advantage but with no moral or factual or ethical underpinnings,” Mr Blair told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.

Mr Blair says these “snowflakes” were not phased by the attacks on October 7 as they were killing “the right people”.




Palestinian flags spark abandonment of women’s football final
A regional women’s cup final was abandoned midway through play on Sunday after officials at Maidstone United’s Gallagher Stadium reportedly objected to the display of Palestinian flags and protest banners in the crowd.

Clapton Community FC Women were leading 2-0 against Dulwich Hamlet Reserves in the London and South East Regional Women’s Football League Trophy final when a stadium representative asked supporters to remove a Palestinian flag and a sign reading “Show genocide the red card.”

When fans refused to comply, officials gave players two options: finish the match behind closed doors or halt the game. Clapton declined to continue, and the fixture was abandoned.

In a statement to the Daily Telegraph, the club said: “Thirty-two women were denied the opportunity to play a final. Our players and supporters are united in their concern for Palestinians who are being bombed daily. A flag or banner is no reason to abandon a cup final.”

Photos from the match show supporters waving Palestinian flags and holding banners supporting trans rights. After the game was called off, fans of both sides remained in the stands chanting and holding placards.

The league has since declared the match void. Both clubs may now face action from the Football Association, which bars political messaging at games.

Clapton CFC, a fan-run club based in east London, supports the BDS campaign and has previously hosted Palestinian teams at its home ground. Dulwich Hamlet, known for its activist fanbase, has promoted refugee, LGBTQ+ and mental health causes.

Maidstone United has not commented on the incident.




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