Wednesday, July 02, 2025

07/02 Links Pt1: Netanyahu: ‘There will be no more Hamas’; While Iran Speaks with Missiles, NGOs Blame Israel; Vote passes to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation

From Ian:

Netanyahu: ‘There will be no more Hamas’
On a visit to the southern city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the Hamas terror group would be eliminated from the Gaza Strip.

“There will be no more Hamas. It’s over. We will free all of our hostages, and we will eliminate Hamas down to its very foundations,” he said.

While noting that some may say the objectives sound contradictory—destroying Hamas and releasing the hostages—Netanyahu said they fit together.

The prime minister’s remarks focused mainly on the energy sector while he was visiting the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) facilities. EAPC is an Israeli pipeline transporting oil from Eilat on the Red Sea to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean.

Netanyahu said Israel would connect the energy resources of Asia, the entire Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula.

“Expected revenues from gas in the coming decade will be almost 300 billion shekels [$89 billion],” he said.

“We are going to increase and strengthen Israel’s energy capability. We have a very considerable capability,” he said, noting that Israel is also building other energy installations.

“Our opportunities are enormous. We are not going to miss them or lose them,” he said. “There is a huge opportunity here, both to defeat our enemies and ensure our economic, national, international and energy future.”
While Iran Speaks with Missiles, NGOs Blame Israel
A new report from NGO Monitor shows how global NGOs, especially those funded by European governments to “uphold human rights and international law,” didn’t just stay quiet. They blamed the victim. Again. When Israel struck Iranian nuclear and military targets—targets linked to a regime that funds Hamas, Hezbollah, sponsors global terror, and openly threatens genocide—Western NGOs condemned it as “aggression.”

Let’s be clear: Iran is not just a state actor. It is a state sponsor of terror, a violator of international law, and the core funder of a global proxy war spanning Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, Latin America, Europe, the US, Canada and beyond. Chanting “Death to Israel” daily and building an nuclear bomb. But to read the NGO statements released in June 2025, you'd think Israel bombed Tehran for sport.

- Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International condemned Israel, while ignoring the Iranian regime’s violations of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and war crimes.

- AFSC, CODEPINK, and DAWN not only justified Iran’s missile attacks, but blamed U.S. support for Israel as the “real crime.”

- FIDH, Al-Shabaka, and the European Council on Foreign Relations reframed Iran’s aggression as a “response” and cast Israel as the regional aggressor—despite Iran’s repeated promises to erase it from the map.

- Masar Badil, a Palestinian revolutionary group aligned with the Iranian axis, outright called for the expulsion of U.S. military forces from the region—and endorsed total war against Israel.

- Some groups, like Zochrot and B’Tselem, accused Israel of “fabricating the war” as a “media distraction” from “genocide” in Gaza—a claim as cynical as it is detached from regional reality.

What They Said—And What They Didn’t
Across these statements, three trends dominate:
Israel as Perpetual Aggressor
Every act of self-defense is “genocide.” Every strike is “colonialism.” Every war, regardless of context, is framed as Israeli-instigated. No nuance, no complexity—just blame.

Iran as the Victim—or the Avenger
Despite launching missiles at civilian targets, Iran is portrayed as justified, restrained, even noble. Its role as a state sponsor of terrorism? Completely ignored.

The West as Enabler
The United States, Europe, and NATO countries are all lumped together as Israel’s willing accomplices. Their crime? Supporting an ally under attack.

But as always, what’s missing is always more revealing. Not one of these groups issued a condemnation of Iran’s attack. Not one acknowledged its own side’s violations. And almost none offered even token calls for de-escalation or dialogue. There is none. Because for these NGOs, “international law” is not a framework. It’s a club to beat only one country: Israel.


'Ambushed' Anti-Israel vandal who was caught ripping down hostage posters arrested after pepper-spraying NYPD cops in Times Square: sources
A hateful anti-Israel vandal who was caught viciously ripping down Israeli child hostage posters while yelling “F–k Israel” after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack was arrested Wednesday after she randomly pepper-sprayed two NYPD officers in Times Square — and tried to take a gun from one of them, according to law enforcement sources.

Dana Baraket approached the pair of male officers as they walked at Broadway and 47th Street around 1:20 a.m. and doused them in the eyes and face without warning, police and sources said.

The 19-year-old then tried to grab one of their guns from its holster as she repeatedly yelled at them to “kill me,” according to sources.

Baraket did not get the gun and was arrested at the scene, the sources added.

She was charged with robbery, assaulting a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful possession or selling of a noxious material, and harassment, cops said.

The two cops, who are assigned to the NYPD’s Times Square Unit and are relatively new to the department, were taken to a local hospital in stable condition, cops said.

“The officers did an excellent job under extreme pressure and stress when they were intentionally ambushed by the attacker,” a law enforcement source said.

“Within seconds of being attacked, they quickly de-escalated the situation without anyone being seriously injured, and placed the attacker in handcuffs.”

In October 2023 — just weeks after Hamas launched its bloody attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages — Baraket was filmed tearing down Israeli child hostage posters from a storefront window with her sister Aya while yelling “F–k Israel” on the Upper West Side.

The siblings were confronted by Marilyn Adler and her two adult daughters, who said the pair then turned on them, leaving her frightened that they would harm her children.

In the video, shared widely online by the nonprofit StopAntisemitism, Adler’s daughter Melissa pleaded with the women to stop, stressing that those pictured on the posters were “innocent civilians.”

In response, one of the women yelled, “F–k you, f–k Israel.”

The sisters’ father, Hasan Baraket, said he spoke with his daughters after the disturbing confrontation made The Post’s front page.


Hamas confirms it is examining ceasefire proposal received from mediators
Hamas confirms in a statement that it is discussing a proposal received from mediators to “end the aggression in Gaza, ensure [the IDF’s] withdrawal, and provide urgent aid” to Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

The terror group says that it received a proposal from the mediators and is holding talks with them to “bridge gaps” on returning to the negotiating table to try to reach a ceasefire agreement.

A Hamas delegation is expected to meet with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo today to discuss the proposal, according to an Egyptian official.

Earlier today, a Hamas official indicated that the group was open to a ceasefire agreement with Israel, but stopped short of accepting the US-backed proposal announced by President Donald Trump hours earlier, insisting on its longstanding position that any deal bring an end to the war in Gaza.


IDF: Explained: Operation Rising Lion



US strikes ‘seriously damaged’ Fordo nuclear site, Iran’s FM says
The US bombing of Iran’s key Fordo nuclear site has “seriously and heavily damaged” the facility, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said in an interview with CBS News broadcast Tuesday.

“No one exactly knows what has transpired in Fordo. That being said, what we know so far is that the facilities have been seriously and heavily damaged,” Aragchi said in the interview, which took place in Iran and was broadcast in two parts, on Monday and Tuesday.

“We need to wait and see if they are able to be relaunched or if they will be relaunched,” he said.

“The Atomic Energy Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran is currently undertaking evaluation and assessment, the report of which will be submitted to the government,” he said through a translator. CBS did not say if it provided the translator.

US President Donald Trump has said the US strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, but US officials acknowledge it will take time to form a complete assessment of the damage caused by the US military strikes last month.

Intercepted Iranian communications downplayed the extent of damage caused by the strikes, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing four people familiar with classified intelligence circulating within the US government.

The top Iranian envoy also addressed the question of talks over a nuclear deal, saying that while discussions may not be held immediately they were still an option so long as the US did not carry out any further strikes during talks.

“In order for us to decide to reengage, we will have to first ensure that America will not revert back to targeting us in a military attack during the negotiations. And I think with all these considerations, we still need more time,” he said.

However, Araghchi also insisted that “the doors of diplomacy will never slam shut.”

Trump said Monday he was not offering Iran anything nor engaging in talks since the country’s nuclear facilities were “totally obliterated.”
Pentagon spokesman: Iranian nuclear program set back two years
The Pentagon’s chief spokesman said on Wednesday that the U.S. strikes against the Iranian nuclear program had set the program back by two years. His estimate appears to be the most specific information the Trump administration has shared on the extent of the damage caused by the strikes.

U.S. allies “share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran’s nuclear program and the fact we have degraded their program by one or two years … I think we’re thinking closer to two years,” Sean Parnell said at a press conference.

The administration has consistently claimed the strikes completely destroyed the nuclear program. During the briefing, Parnell said that he believed the combination of U.S. and Israeli strikes would be successful in deterring Tehran from continuing its nuclear program in the future.

“We believe that sending bombers from Missouri, 37 hours on a mission, not a single shot fired on them, took a very strong psychological toll on the Iranian leadership,” Parnell said. “So, when you take the constellation of different things into consideration, we believe Iran’s nuclear capability has been severely degraded, perhaps even their ambition to build a bomb.”

Parnell’s remarks came hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS News that the country’s nuclear facilities were “heavily and severely damaged.” Araghchi maintained that Iran’s enrichment equipment and knowledge base were not impacted, despite Israel assassinating several of the country’s senior nuclear scientists.
Sa’ar urges ‘snapback’ sanctions after Iran suspends IAEA cooperation
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Wednesday urged the international community to “utilize all means at its disposal” to confront the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions.

“Iran has just issued a scandalous announcement about suspending its cooperation with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),” Sa’ar wrote on X, referencing reports in Iranian state media that Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian had ordered the implementation of June 25 legislation to halt inspections of Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

Accusing the Islamic Republic of a “renunciation of all its international nuclear obligations and commitments,” Sa’ar said the international community must respond decisively.

“The time to activate the Snapback mechanism is now! I call upon the E3 countries- Germany, France and the U.K. to reinstate all sanctions against Iran!” Jerusalem’s top diplomat wrote in the X statement.

Tehran’s state-run Mehr news agency reported earlier on Wednesday that Pezeshkian had approved the bill, which bans IAEA inspectors from entering the country until the Supreme National Security Council determines that the security of nuclear facilities is guaranteed.

Speaking during an official visit to Latvia on Tuesday, Sa’ar said that “Operation Rising Lion” against Iran had “demonstrated the extent of the Iranian regime’s threat to Israel, Europe, and world order.”

“Iran deliberately targeted civilian population centers with its ballistic missiles. Your own deputy ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv was unfortunately hit,” Sa’ar said alongside his Latvian counterpart at a press conference, warning, “The same missile threat can reach Europe, including Latvia and the Baltic states.”

Accordingly, “Israel’s actions against the head of the snake in Iran contributed directly to the safety of Europe,” the top diplomat said.


Iranian bots posted 240k times to block Trump strike on Iran
Iran mounted a comprehensive campaign to undermine American public support for military action against its nuclear facilities by deploying a sophisticated bot network that disseminated hundreds of thousands of deceptive messages, according to groundbreaking research commissioned by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.

The investigation, which analyzed social media activity on X during “Operation Rising Lion,” identified at least 100 fabricated accounts systematically promoting Tehran’s strategic messaging. Beyond merely spreading disinformation to glorify Iranian successes while fabricating Israeli failures, Tehran invested substantial resources in targeting domestic audiences within Israel and the United States.

Researchers examined approximately 100 X accounts exhibiting clear signs of automated rather than human operation. These accounts maintained continuous activity across all hours without typical human patterns of rest.

Moreover, they generated content at superhuman speeds, posting thousands of messages daily. The content frequently appeared identical or remarkably similar across multiple suspicious accounts, strongly indicating coordinated bot activity. The examined network ultimately distributed 241,712 posts reaching millions of users worldwide.

Iranian messaging operations were divided into four distinct categories—promoting regime loyalty and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. “The bot network advanced Iranian nationalism, seeking to frame the conflict as targeting Iran’s people rather than its government,” according to the research.

A second messaging category targeted both Iranian domestic audiences and Israeli citizens with fabricated reports of Israeli military failures. These automated accounts circulated manipulated imagery and AI-generated content depicting false scenarios such as Tel Aviv engulfed in flames or Israeli aircraft destroyed over Iranian territory.

Additional messaging streams sought to characterize Israel as a terrorist state that “murders children” and “massacres Palestinians.”

However, the research identifies Iran’s most significant operation as systematic efforts to turn American public opinion against U.S. President Donald Trump’s military action targeting Iranian nuclear infrastructure.

These accounts amplified messaging identical to Republican critics of the military strikes. Following Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exercised control over the president, Iranian accounts circulated imagery depicting Trump as Netanyahu’s marionette or as a dog owned by the Israeli leader. Research findings show Trump was consistently portrayed across the bot network as Netanyahu’s puppet, according to the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs investigation.


Soldier KIA in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 881
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed in combat with Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Wednesday.

The fallen soldier was identified as Sgt. Yaniv Michalovitch, 19, from Rehovot, who served in the 82nd Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade.

According to the IDF, a tank commander and another soldier were seriously wounded in the same incident. They were evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been notified.

On Sunday, the military announced that Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, was killed in action in northern Gaza. Last week, seven IDF troops were killed when their armored vehicle was struck by an explosive in the Strip. The same day, an Israeli soldier was killed by an Iranian missile launched at the Jewish state.

The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 437, and at 881 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, per official military figures.


IDF elite unit 504 interrogations lead to bust of Iranian terror cell operating in southern Syria
The IDF arrested members of an Iranian terrorist cell while operating in southern Syria following receiving special intelligence from interrogations of other Syrian operatives by the elite Unit 504, the military said on Wednesday.

Intelligence that Unit 504 (“the IDF’s Mossad”) acquired during interrogations of operatives it captured in Syria opened up the ability to plan and execute the nighttime operations, which led to the arrests.

In the past, before the Assad regime fell, the air force did kill Iranian operatives moving around in Syria as part of its often under-the-radar “war between wars,” but it rarely was able to capture such Iranians, which would require more boots on the ground and for longer.

During the operation announced Wednesday, the IDF also located weapons in the areas where the terrorists were arrested, including several firearms and grenades.

One of the commanders in the field said they are “working day and night to ensure that the residents of the Golan Heights can sleep in peace.

“We will not allow terrorist organizations or hostile elements to establish themselves in this area.” On June 11, Unit 504’s interrogations of other operatives in Syria led to the arrest of Hamas terrorists in Beit Jinn in Syria.

In January, the IDF released unusual footage that showed the interrogation of a Hamas terrorist by Unit 504 after he had been arrested at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Anas Muhammad Faiz al-Sharif was captured during an operation by the IDF’s 401st Brigade and Unit 504 near the hospital and transferred to Israel for questioning.

During his interrogation, Sharif outlined his role within Hamas and revealed how it uses the hospital as a base for operations.

He disclosed that hospital grounds were used to transport equipment and weapons for launching attacks against Israeli forces.


Feed the People, Not the Problem
Despite unprecedented challenges – including Iranian missile attacks, active conflict, and the brutal killing of more than a dozen of our own aid workers – GHF has continued to operate. Some of our wounded team members are still being denied care or freedom of movement in Hamas-controlled medical facilities. In some cases, Hamas has openly threatened both our Palestinian staff and the civilians who line up at our sites. These threats are meant to intimidate, destabilize, and ultimately dismantle one of the few systems that bypasses Hamas’s control and delivers food directly to the people. Yet every day, our trucks are loaded. Our staff arrives ready to work. The work continues because we know what is at stake. We know that food is more than a ration. It is a lifeline.

By contrast, traditional aid delivery efforts in Gaza remain paralyzed. Other aid organizations, despite good intentions, are hemorrhaging supplies. Their trucks are routinely looted at gunpoint, their food diverted, their credibility undermined by repeated compromise with those who weaponize hunger. These failures are not just operational. They are moral. Because every stolen pallet, every lost shipment, every corrupt bargain leaves another person unfed.

GHF is succeeding where others are failing. But we cannot do it alone.

Rather than partnering with us to scale what works, some legacy organizations have chosen to obstruct, deflect, and discredit. We have invited cooperation. We have called on the United Nations and others to work with us and help scale this model to meet the true needs of the people of Gaza. Thus far, our calls have been met with silence – or worse, obstruction.

It is not enough to mean well. Aid groups that continue to operate through failed structures are not merely wasting resources. They are prolonging suffering, and they are feeding the desperation that makes this crisis more dangerous by the day.

To the international aid community, we continue to offer an open hand. If your mission is to deliver aid, then you must have the courage to follow the evidence. We are delivering food. You are losing it. The burden of proof is no longer ours. It is yours.

Ours is a food delivery structure built on accountability, discipline, and impact. It is not perfect, but it is working. Now, we need support to expand it.

The people of Gaza deserve food that reaches them. GHF is proving every day that this is possible. We are not here to seek credit or win arguments – we are here to feed people. That mission should unite us, not divide us.

It is time for the world to stop feeding the problem — and start feeding the people.
‘Immoral’ U.N. ‘sabotaging’ food distribution, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation chairman says
Rev. Johnnie Moore, a member of President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory committee, has years of experience with complex situations in the Middle East. He helped evacuate Christian refugees under threat from ISIS and has advocated for religious freedom and tolerance for minorities in the region.

But the challenges Moore faces as executive chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the U.S. group, supported by Israel, that began distributing food and humanitarian aid in Gaza in May, have been unique.

Since its inception, GHF has faced a pervasive negative narrative in the international media and among aid organizations. More recent statements from U.N. and other aid groups in effect accuse the GHF of being an IDF front luring Gaza residents to one place so they can be attacked, while largely ignoring Hamas violence against Palestinians working with the GHF.

In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Misgav Institute for National Security’s “Mideast Horizons” podcast, co-hosted by Jewish Insider’s Lahav Harkov, Moore pushed back against what he says are false narratives about the group’s work and accused aid organizations of “sabotage” and spreading disinformation, while acknowledging the challenges of aid distribution in an active war zone.

GHF is addressing “a problem that everyone knew and admitted existed … and now everyone has amnesia,” Moore said. “The vast majority of humanitarian assistance that has gone into the Gaza Strip over many, many, many years, was almost immediately diverted into the hands of Hamas, and then used for various nefarious purposes. And I’m not talking about some of the aid — I’m talking about almost all of the aid.”

As such, the mission of GHF is to equally and directly distribute aid to Gazans without having it be “used to prolong a conflict or hoarded,” he said.

Since the beginning of GHF’s operations on May 26, the organization has opened four distribution sites in southern Gaza, from which it said it has provided Gazans with over 958,000 boxes of food. Moore said the GHF calculates meals with a greater caloric value than what the U.N. aid organizations distribute, and by the GHF’s count, it has distributed over 54.8 million meals.

“In an objective world, this would be viewed as an incredible success,” Moore said. “To my great surprise, we poked a number of bears that I wasn’t anticipating, and not all of them are Hamas threatening our local aid workers and the Americans helping these people. A lot of [the antagonists] wear suits and are in places like Geneva and New York City.”

Moore quipped that he has faced “lots of trouble” in his career advocating for religious freedom for Christian minorities around the world, including death threats and sanctions from the Chinese Communist Party, but that the negative response to GHF is unique.

“Respectable — I don’t even call them respectable anymore — elite organizations that we would assume [have] good intent have just attacked us again and again. The whole time, we’re like ‘cooperate with us … teach us, let’s find ways of solving problems together,’” to no avail, he said.

Moore said he would have liked to collaborate with major humanitarian organizations, such as the World Food Program, but that the U.N. has “been trying to sabotage us from the very beginning.”

“We’d really like the people whose job it has been to do this for many years to decide to help us,” he added. “Instead, they spread lies that originate in Hamas and try to shut us down, and I can’t think of anything more immoral than trying to shut down an operation that’s … feeding millions and millions of meals every day.”

Moore said details his staff on the ground in Gaza have heard from residents have been “a shock to us,” and revealing about other humanitarian aid groups’ conduct.

“Early on, we had a number of people who wanted to confirm that the aid was free, because in every other circumstance, their experience was that the aid that was coming in from the United Nations and other organizations was being taken and sold to them. It was unbelievable to them that we were giving this stuff away for free,” Moore said.
Mideast Horizons interviews Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Chair Rev. Johnnie Moore
In this episode of Mideast Horizons, hosts Lahav Harkov and Asher Fredman interview Reverend Dr. Johnnie Moore, Executive Chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. He discusses the GHF's mission to feed and support Gazans by ensuring aid is not diverted by Hamas. Rev. Moore reveals that the GHF successfully delivered over 50 million meals in its first month, without a single aid truck diverted—an unprecedented achievement despite facing severe threats, terror, and misinformation campaigns by Hamas, the UN, and international aid groups. Rev. Moore also shares insights from his recent two-and-a-half-hour meeting with the new Syrian President, and discusses the future of the Abraham Accords and Evangelical support for Israel.




Israel Somehow Keeps Killing Exactly ‘81’ Gazans
Numerology is a major matter in Islam and ‘81’ is seen as one of Islam’s ‘magical’ numbers. Muslims think of ‘81’ as a special number because they believe that they can see the numbers ‘18’ and ’81’ on their hands written in Arabic and that these numbers together form ‘99’ which is the total of names for their deity ‘Allah’. Thus ‘81’ plays an important role in their prayers.

Hamas may not have intentionally planned to cite ‘81’ repeatedly, but as devout Muslims, the number was already on their minds and when picking a figure out of thin air, they chose 81.

They may have been at it longer than anyone realizes because the earliest media mention of 81 in Gaza dates back to July 2014 when a CNN report claimed that, “At least 81 killed in Gaza.”

It’s possible that after this article comes out, they will stop, but also equally possible that they will keep it up because no one in the media had noticed it and no one will comment on it now.

CNN passed on Hamas claims that 81 people had been killed in Gaza beginning in 2014 and, since Oct 7, on Oct 20, 2023, May 26, 2024 and Jan 16, 2025 without doing a double take.

And the rest of the media is no better.

What’s at stake here is more than ‘81’, it’s the entire war propaganda narrative of tens of thousands of dead women and children delivered to the media by Hamas. If that narrative collapses, the push for a ‘ceasefire’ that leaves the terrorists in power, a mission that has become the core political activity of both Islamists and the far left, will also fall apart.

The media can’t allow itself to spot even the more obvious ‘tells’ of fraud. Including Israel somehow repeatedly killing precisely 81 people on different dates and operations.

To Muslims, 81 is sacred, but to everyone else it ought to be a measure of the Big Lie.

After Oct 7, Hamas took its hostages, retreated to its tunnels and counted on its Muslim Brotherhood parent group and the MB’s network of allies to launch a propaganda campaign based on fake atrocities and an equally fake civilian death toll. The media continues printing every lie sent by Hamas, sometimes at least citing the ‘Gaza Ministry of Health’ as “Hamas-run” and other times misleadingly calling the genocidal Islamic terrorists “Gaza health officials”.

81 is also the degree to which the media chose not to examine the numbers it was getting from Hamas. Why? Because the media wants the terrorists to win and it wants America, Israel and the rest of the civilized world to lose.

The next time you hear another nonsensical death toll out of Gaza, just reply with ‘81’.


Douglas Murray | How Democracies Battle Modern Terror
Award-winning British author, journalist, and political commentator Douglas Murray joins State of a Nation for an explosive two-part special.

Recorded back in March, this special part 2 of our deep-dive with renowned British author and commentator Douglas Murray, we turn the spotlight to the implications for Western democracies and the stakes at play for not just Israel but the Western World. How do democracies like Israel battle a terrorist organization like Hamas on the information front? What happens behind closed doors when world leaders, journalists, and spokespersons debate the truth?

Douglas gives a raw, unfiltered look into the invisible battlefield: one waged on TV screens, in headlines, and through viral tweets. This is the side of the war you won’t see on the news.

👇 Key topics in this episode:
Douglas’s take on the moral confusion in the West
Why the media war is as important as the military one
The tactics Israel uses to brief foreign press
How Hamas manipulates civilian imagery for global gain
The unseen challenges Israeli spokespeople face
What a real strategy for global messaging could look like

00:00 – Opening & Recap from Part 1
02:42 – Israel’s Media Response Strategy
06:15 – Fighting Propaganda: A War of Narratives
10:50 – Briefing the Press During War
15:08 – Western Hypocrisy & Media Double Standards
19:40 – Psychological Warfare & Image Management
24:05 – How Israel Can Win the Narrative War
40:25 - The Israeli social contract
58:43 - The "original sin" of Israel
1:13:01 - War has returned to Europe


Most People Have NO IDEA What's Really Happening in the Middle East...
In this week’s episode of “Israel Undiplomatic,” senior JNS contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former Israeli ambassador to the U.K. Mark Regev—both former advisers at the Prime Minister’s Office—discuss the proposed ceasefire with Hamas, Netanyahu's upcoming visit to the U.S., and what could happen next in Gaza.


Victor Davis Hanson on left-wing rage, Musk’s grudge, & America’s identity crisis
Victor Davis Hanson, classicist, historian, and author of The End of Everything, joins Freddy Gray to discuss Zoran Mamdani’s shock candidacy win, the future of the Democratic Party, and rising class tensions in American politics. They also explore third-party prospects, Trump’s economic policies, and shifting global dynamics.

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – Zoran Mamdani’s surprising primary win in New York
12:17 – Radical statements and “globalize the intifada”
15:31 – Class politics
18:22 – Weakness of Mamdani’s political opponents
21:15 – Implications for Democrats and Trump’s advantage
24:45 – Third parties, Elon Musk, and MAGA dynamics
29:09 – Trump’s fiscal policies, tariffs, and economic impact
33:06 – Geopolitics, deterrence, and Trump’s foreign policy style
37:15 – NATO, Europe, and Trump’s influence on allies




Commentary PodCast: Gaza Ceasefire and Supreme Courtapalooza
Adam White joins us today to talk about the blockbuster cases that concluded this year's Supreme Court decision season. But before that, we discuss the proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and the shocking new evidence of how deep anti-Semitism continues to sink into the American school system, both for little kids and for post-doctoral students.




MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation
MPs have voted in favour of legislation to proscribe direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

Wednesday’s Commons vote saw the Home Secretary’s move to ban the group alongside two other organisations heavily supported with a majority of 359, as MPs voted 385 to 26 in favour of the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025.

Home Office minister Dan Jarvis had earlier told the Commons “By implementing this measure, we will remove Palestine Action’s veil of legitimacy, tackle its financial support, and degrade its efforts to recruit and radicalise people into committing terrorist activity in its name.

“But we must be under no illusion, Palestine Action is not a legitimate protest group.

“People engaged in lawful protest don’t need weapons. People engaged in lawful protest do not throw smoke bombs and fire pyrotechnics around innocent members of the public.

“And people engaged in lawful protest do not cause millions of pounds of damage to national security infrastructure, including submarines and defence equipment for NATO.

“Proscribing Palestine Action will not impinge on people’s right to protest. Those who wish lawfully to protest or express support for Palestine have always been able to and can continue to do so.”

Jewish communal organisations have called for the government to proscribe the group, after they took part in repeated violent actions outside British factories of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Several of the group’s actions also targeted Jewish owned businesses linked to support for Israel.

But in a bad-tempered Commons debate, hard-left and pro-Gaza MPs expressed opposition to the move.

9 Labour MPs, 6 Liberal Democrat MPs, all 4 Green MPs and 1 SDLP MP opposed proscription, alongside 6 Independent MPs including Zarah Sultana, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.




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