Tuesday, July 29, 2025

07/29 Links Pt1: Starmer Wants to Create a New State to Punish an Existing State; One week later NYTs corrects blood libel photo; Hamas's Dream: Turning Palestinians Into a 'Nation of Martyrs'

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Keir Starmer Wants to Create a New State to Punish an Existing State
So Starmer and his merry band of Eurocrats chased Hamas away from the negotiating table and want to punish Israel for it. Since Starmer helped sabotage cease-fire talks, it sure looks like he just wants an excuse to recognize the “state of Palestine” in September, following France’s lead.

But unlike France, Starmer is making his framing of a Palestinian state explicit: He views it as bad for Israel and therefore only to be done if the Israelis really deserve to be punished.

Is that how we create nation-states? Is it merely an exercise in negative reinforcement? A sibling of mine has a dog that chews socks. Should I tell her to try recognizing Palestine, so the ’doodle knows she’s serious?

“Recognizing Palestine” has indeed become some sort of standing threat, which I assume bothers Palestinians greatly. We’ll give you self-government, but only if the Jews make us so angry we don’t know what else to do.

Does the reverse work as well? Will Sir Keir welcome Israeli annexation of the West Bank if the Palestinians bother him enough?

Generally speaking, true statesmanship treats the world as it is. “Recognizing” something that doesn’t exist is usually evidence of a high fever, not strategic foresight.

And that just goes to show how imaginary all this is to some of the world’s most important policymakers. It’s a game. It’s a prop bet. Emmanuel Macron double-dog-dared Keir Starmer to recognize Palestine, so off we go.

The conditions for statehood are met by the polity seeking to declare statehood. Starmer knows that in this particular case, those conditions haven’t been met—otherwise there would be a state already! Since the Palestinians have not met the conditions for statehood, Starmer understands that recognizing such statehood would simply create another problem. He doesn’t care because he thinks it’ll be Israel’s problem.

Recognizing Palestinian statehood isn’t technically a “bad idea,” because it isn’t an idea at all. It’s a visceral reflex. It’s what happens when a European head of government loses his temper.

If Gaza descends into misery, hunger, and anarchy, Starmer will make it a state. If things level out a bit, he’ll put it back in his pocket—no reason to reward stability. If you can think of a less serious approach to statecraft, please don’t say it out loud. I don’t want Keir Starmer to get any ideas.
Brendan O'Neill: Keir Starmer’s blackmailing of Israel is a depraved new low
The imperial arrogance is off the scale. Maybe Starmer thinks it’s the 1920s and there’s still a British Mandate for Palestine that lets London boss around the Jews and Arabs of the Middle East. To make such haughty demands of any ally at war would be bad enough – to make them of an ally that is fighting a brutal battle against an army of anti-Semites that hates the West as much as it does Jews is flat-out psychotic.

Like President Macron before him – who announced last week that France would recognise Palestine in September – Starmer has clearly not thought through his imperious actions. Where would this State of Palestine be? Who would govern it: the corrupt Palestinian Authority or the demented Jew-killers of Hamas? Starmer paid lip service to the need to disarm Hamas, but he cannot escape the sick fact that he is rewarding terrorism. That he is gifting the Palestinian territories with statehood less than two years after a neo-fascist army from those territories launched a barbarous assault on the Jews of southern Israel.

Hamas won’t hear Starmer’s criticism of its actions or his demand that it release the remaining hostages. It will only hear that killing Jews has benefits. It will only hear that its pogrom of 7 October 2023 – the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust – did more to bring about a Palestinian state than anything else over the past four decades. Starmer and Macron are truly playing with fire. They are witlessly signalling to Islamists that if you rape and murder Jews, you might just get a nation.

In fact, what Starmer has done is worse than what Macron did. Using the recognition of Palestine as a stick with which to beat Israel into submission, to force it to call off its war against Hamas, is geopolitics at its most cynical and cowardly. It will isolate the Jewish State and embolden Hamas. Hamas now knows that Israel is on the backfoot. That even its old friends are refusing to stand by it. ‘One more push and Israel will be fucked and Palestine will be a state’ – that’s what these Jew-killers will glean from Starmer’s depraved blackmailing of their enemy.

And why is he doing this? To appease his backbenchers. To try to stave off a rebellion by his MPs. To hush the Israelophobic left. He is sacrificing an ally at the altar of narrow self-interest. He is heaping pressure on the Jewish State as it fights for its life against an army of anti-Semites in order that he might enjoy an easier ride in parliament. These are Chamberlain levels of spinelessness. Starmer has just announced to the world that Britain is an unreliable ally. Even if you’re invaded by an army of racists and your people are held hostage, we will turn on you eventually. For shame, Sir Keir.
Europe's Embrace of a Phantom State Is Fueling Antisemitism
French President Emmanuel Macron is leading a diplomatic charge to recognize a Palestinian state, rallying the usual bloc of Norway, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia. 34 former Italian ambassadors have urged Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to follow suit. This isn't diplomacy. It's performance politics - an ideologically driven campaign to punish Israel - pandering to a postmodern public square that sees Jewish sovereignty as an affront.

For years, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have rejected every reasonable peace offer. Neither faction has shown interest in democracy or coexistence. Yet their Western backers demand nothing in return - no condemnation of terror, no commitment to peace, no pretense of democratic reform. The goal is not statehood. It's to wound Israel.

Macron and his allies offer recognition not to help Palestinians build a viable future, but to appease anti-Israel sentiment disguised as virtue. They've normalized antisemitism and rebranded it as "human rights." The Italian ambassadors who demanded that Israel be punished for defending itself in Gaza are not champions of peace - they are enabling extremism.

They say the recognition of Palestine is an "urgent political priority." But there is no urgency for Palestinian reform. No questions asked about the aid stolen by Hamas. No mention of the hostages still held in Gaza. No call for condemning the Oct. 7 atrocities.


Seth Mandel: The terrible Hamas lie that ‘the Jews did this’ spreads around the world
The truth, then, is that Hamas has engineered real suffering in Gaza, and the lie — that Israel is intentionally starving children — enables Hamas to engineer more suffering by creating global pressure on Israel to let Hamas control the aid again.

That way Hamas can keep the cycle going.

And so it matters who is at fault. Since being fooled by Hamas propaganda at this point requires a degree of self-lobotomizing, converts to the cult of Hamas can get quite defensive about it online.

Those of us who have praised Collier or amplified his investigation get criticized for our callous insistence on the truth.

Why, I have been asked, should we quibble over the cause of this poor child’s suffering?

Does it really matter if the Jews are being falsely accused if it raises awareness to the plight of sick Gazans?

That is like asking why we take pains to ensure we convict the real perpetrator of any crime.

Why are juries so preoccupied with the concepts of guilt and innocence?

It’s a preposterous question.

Riles up the loonies
And anyway we know precisely why it matters, and so does the questioner.

It matters because pro-Palestinian advocates read stories like this and then take it upon themselves to avenge the injustice.

It matters because this kind of libel has inspired murderous lunatics to burn an 82-year-old woman alive and to gun down people at the Capital Jewish Museum in broad daylight and it has inspired pogroms in Russia and Amsterdam and assassination attempts on a Jewish governor and his wife and children during the holiday of Passover and an almost incomprehensible number of similarly motivated violence and attempted violence pretty much everywhere there are Jews in the past year.

Antisemitism on rise
Go ahead: Close your eyes, spin the globe, and wherever your finger is pointing when it stops will be a place with a likely unprecedented explosion of antisemitic activity.

But of course that’s the reason the photo of the Palestinian child was published and shared everywhere in the first place.

And it’s the reason the next one will be shared, and the one after that, and the one after that.

Pointing to a suffering child and saying “the Jews did this” when in fact the Jews did no such thing is an intentional act.

At the end of the “House” episode, the dextro fiend doesn’t get clean.

He finds it easier to live life as a coward.

Considering the number of people who are insisting that the truth of a story doesn’t matter, he’s right about that being the less lonely way to live.


Israel’s intractable war in Gaza
For years, we heard of Gaza as the “world’s largest open-air prison” – a myth that ignored Egypt’s control of the strip’s southern border and the fact that thousands of Gazans – citizens of a hostile government that regularly attacked Israel – were nevertheless allowed to enter the Jewish state for work and medical care.

The only time Gaza has truly resembled a prison was when civilians desperately needed to flee and Egypt reinforced and closed the border – in breach of international law. Rather than condemning Cairo, the world looked away. Fears that Israel would prevent Gazans from returning were always absurd – a policy Israel could never have enforced against the will of the international community. Even if that concern were valid – and the presence of the far right in government did little to ease it – it’s a strange kind of “humanitarianism” that prefers civilians remain trapped in a war zone rather than escape it.

These conditions created impossible challenges for Israel: to wage war in a narrow, booby-trapped, tunnel-riddled strip where two million civilians were trapped and used by Hamas as human shields – all while trying to free hostages, eliminate Hamas, and avoid widespread destruction, suffering, and food insecurity. No army in history could have succeeded.

As the food crisis deepened, Hamas sabotaged a ceasefire and hostage deal that would have eased conditions on the ground and could have paved the way for a permanent end to the war. Hamas’s decision was not made in isolation. International pressure on Israel was mounting. Joint statements from 28 Western governments blamed Jerusalem alone for the humanitarian situation and effectively called only on Israel to halt the fighting. France went further still, announcing it would recognise a Palestinian state in September. Hamas, unsurprisingly, welcomed these developments which it clearly interprets as a reward for its massacres.

Whatever the intent behind such lopsided pronouncements, the effect was clear: Hamas was given every reason to believe it could dig in. That global pressure would eventually force Israel to concede on terms dictated by its attackers.The EU is now threatening sanctions even as Jerusalem is expanding aid efforts. This will only further encourage Hamas to reject a ceasefire the West claims it so desperately wants. This is not responsible diplomacy. It is certainly not moral statecraft.

Serious diplomacy, and serious moral reasoning, must weigh not only immediate suffering but long-term consequences. Those calling for Israel to simply end the war must reckon with the likelihood that this would not secure the release of all hostages. It is doubtful Hamas would have released the 148 hostages during the two previous truces without sustained military pressure. The remaining hostages – and the two million Gazans under Hamas’s rule – are the jihadists’ insurance policy. That’s why they may never give up every last captive. Let’s not forget that two Israelis had been held hostage since 2014 and 2015, respectively, long before October 7.

Ending the war unilaterally would also preserve Hamas’s rule – condemning the very people whose suffering moves the world to continued tyranny. It would give Hamas time to regroup, rearm, and plan the next invasion.

That does not mean calling for an immediate end to the war is illegitimate. It is a moral position. But let us be intellectually honest: it won’t magically solve all the ethical dilemmas facing Israel. Such a decision would come with its own security, political – and yes, moral – costs.


Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas's Dream: Turning Palestinians Into a 'Nation of Martyrs'
[Hamas official Ghazi] Hamad made the threat [to carry out more massacres against Israelis... until Israel was annihilated] from Qatar, where he and several other leaders of Hamas have been leading comfortable lives for the past few years.

Hamas's leaders do not care if another 50,000 Palestinians are "martyred" in the war they started in 2023. The more bodies pile up, the more they can blame Israel.

It is easy for someone well-fed and sitting in a villa or hotel in Doha to talk about the suffering and pain of others in a war far away.

Hamad and the Hamas leaders sheltering in Doha and Istanbul should be apologizing to the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip... In fact, they should be arrested and put on trial for their crimes against both Israelis and Palestinians.

Hamas also has no problem lying to Trump and US envoy Steve Witkoff, as they have probably already figured out.

After months of direct and indirect negotiations with Hamas, Trump and Witkoff have finally understood that Hamas is not acting in good faith and, as Trump put it, "want to die." To be more accurate, it is not Hamas's leaders who want to die. Instead, they want ordinary Palestinians to die so that the leaders can stay in power forever and remain wealthy -- some are, or were, billionaires.

Since its establishment in the late 1980s, Hamas has been consistent and clear about its goals: the elimination of Israel through jihad. That is the real reason Hamas has never accepted any peace process with Israel. That is also the real reason Hamas views as traitors those Palestinians who recognize Israel's right to exist and are willing to make peace with Israel.

Meanwhile, Hamas's leaders evidently do not mind if dozens of Palestinians are killed and wounded every day, because the international pressure is directed against Israel.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt sign declaration calling for Hamas to disarm, leave Gaza at UN 2-state confab
Arab countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have signed onto a statement calling for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

Seventeen countries, plus the European Union and Arab League, are throwing their weight behind a seven-page text — obtained by The Times of Israel — agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.

“In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State,” says the declaration.

The text also condemns the deadly Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, which launched the war.

France, which is co-chairing the conference with Saudi Arabia, calls the declaration “both historic and unprecedented.”

“For the first time, Arab countries and those in the Middle East condemn Hamas, condemn October 7, call for the disarmament of Hamas, call for its exclusion from Palestinian governance, and clearly express their intention to normalize relations with Israel in the future,” says French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot.

The text, co-signed by France, Britain, and Canada among other Western nations, also calls for the possible deployment of foreign forces to stabilize Gaza after the end of hostilities.

Israel and its ally, the United States, did not take part in the meeting.
France fails to secure a consensus for Palestinian recognition at two-state conference - exclusive
France on Tuesday failed in its attempt to rally all participants at the UN Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution in New York to call on countries to recognize a Palestinian state.

A document presented to the participating countries and obtained by The Jerusalem Post, read: “We, the foreign ministers of countries that have recognized Palestine as a state or have expressed our willingness to do so, call on other countries around the world to join the call to recognize Palestine as a state.”

The failed event took place at a closed-door meeting of foreign ministers who attended the conference in New York. The French delegation, led by Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, presented the proposal to the participants, but in some cases, it was not well received.

Some of the countries that have already recognized Palestine, such as Norway, Slovenia, Iceland, and Ireland, called on additional countries to join them.

Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel said during the discussion that Israel only understands pressure, and that President Emmanuel Macron should not be left alone.

He said that Israel wants France to be isolated in its recognition of a Palestinian state, so it can argue that the move is illegitimate.

Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Harris agreed and said the move would give significant momentum to the peace process. In their experience, such declarations are very important.

On the other hand, a significant number of European countries said they could not agree to such a document when being asked to respond on such short notice, within 48 hours. Some of them expressed support for the idea of a Palestinian state but said they would feel more comfortable joining a collective move rather than acting alone.

Asian countries that participated in the discussion did not express interest in joining the joint declaration. Japan, Singapore, and South Korea said they supported the idea of a two-state solution but could not join such a declaration without further consideration.

Australia cannot recognize Palestinian state if it remains unclear whether Hamas will play a role
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in the discussion that they could not recognize a Palestinian state immediately because it was still unclear whether Hamas would play a role in such a state. Once that issue was clarified, and it was confirmed that Hamas would have no role, Australia could proceed with recognition.
A Reality Check on Gaza
One central fact seems to have been completely overlooked in the rush to blame the miserable plight of Palestinian civilians on Israel. It was Hamas, not Israel, that was ultimately responsible for the collapse of the Trump administration's latest efforts to arrange a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

Allowing Hamas to retain any vestige of influence in Gaza is, understandably, anathema to Israel after the horrors it suffered during the Oct. 7 attacks in 2023, which resulted in the cold-blooded massacre of 1,200 people - including women and children - at the hands of deranged Islamist fanatics. No sane government in the world would allow such an organization to remain intact after the trauma its citizens have suffered.

The fundamental truth of the Gaza tragedy, one that the legions of anti-Israel protesters across the globe willfully ignore, is that Hamas does not want peace. The architects of this Islamist death cult seek martyrdom, and now that it has run out of fighters to sacrifice in its increasingly futile war against Israel's superior military might, Hamas is using Palestinian civilians effectively in its quest to survive the conflict.


UK plans to recognize Palestinian state absent ‘substantive’ Israeli steps
Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, told reporters on Tuesday that he intends to recognize a Palestinian state in September, before the U.N. General Assembly, “unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza” and agrees to a ceasefire and to “commit to a long-term sustainable peace, reviving the prospect of a two-state solution.”

“This includes allowing the United Nations to restart the supply of aid and making clear that there will be no annexations in the West Bank,” Starmer said during the briefing at 10 Downing Street.

Starmer’s office stated that London is “taking additional immediate steps to alleviate the humanitarian situation, including air drops of humanitarian supplies along with Jordan, and getting injured children out of Gaza and into British hospitals alongside pressing strongly for U.N. deliveries of humanitarian assistance to resume.”

Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, noted that Paris had recently said it would recognize a Palestinian state in September.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry stated that the Jewish state “rejects the statement by the prime minister of the United Kingdom.”

“The shift in the British government’s position at this time, following the French move and internal political pressures, constitutes a reward for Hamas and harms efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a framework for the release of hostages,” the ministry stated.


Melanie Phillips: Starmer is further fuelling rampaging Jew-hatred
This reinforces the lie that Israel was withholding aid whereas Israel was allowing it in and the UN was refusing to distribute it unless this was handled by the UN and Hamas — which has been stealing it for itself intending the Gazans to starve. No mention of that by Starmer.

By demonising Israel in this way, Starmer is further fuelling the rampaging Jew-hatred which is consuming the country he leads.

Whether he is kow-towing to Britain’s increasingly powerful Muslim bloc or to his own hard-left is irrelevant. Just as he campaigned for the hard-left Jeremy Corbyn to become prime minister at the last general election while ostensibly holding his nose, he really believes he is being principled and decent while plumbing the depths of moral bankruptcy.

This is not just hypocrisy. Not just moral blindness. He and his wretched Labour party are now a lethal threat to civilised values.

Today’s accomplices to barbarism aren’t dressed in jackboots or the shades and braid of a junta generalissimo. They wear the suit and earnest spectacles of a human rights lawyer. It is today’s banality of evil, and it is frying the western brain.
Israel’s UN ambassador slams UK’s threat to recognize Palestinian state
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, criticized the United Kingdom's threat to recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes “substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza,” according to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement to the UK Cabinet on Tuesday.

"Israel has already agreed many times to a ceasefire," Danon wrote on X/Twitter, following the UK's demands for an immediate ceasefire, aid to be allowed into Gaza on a continuing basis, and the release of hostages.

Danon pointed out, “No token recognition and no UN resolution will change the basic fact that there are those who fight terrorists and extremist forces, and then there are those who turn a blind eye or resort to appeasement.”

"The State of Israel will not lower its waiver after the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7," Danon stressed. "We will do whatever is necessary to bring home the hostages and defeat Hamas."

Danon slams UN for hypocrisy
Last week, Danon condemned the UN for its hypocrisy regarding Israel. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, he stated, "Hamas causes the crisis, and we get the blame."

“We are not ignoring the suffering in Gaza, but the blame lies with Hamas, not Israel," Danon added.

He argued that the pressure Israel is facing in recent weeks stems more from "a calculated propaganda campaign orchestrated by Hamas and its allies" than from genuine humanitarian concern.

"People see the images, they hear the outcry, but they don’t check the facts," Danon said. "That’s why we’re fighting not only on the battlefield, but in the arena of perception." See mor
Trump says Palestine recognition ‘rewarding Hamas,’ didn’t discuss issue with Starmer
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday says he and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not discuss Britain’s newly announced plan to recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel ends the fighting in Gaza and takes a number of steps to improve life for Palestinians.

“It was never really discussed… We have no view on that,” Trump, who hosted Starmer at his Scottish golf course on Monday, tells reporters on board Air Force One.

He is then pressed on whether pressure for a long-term solution should be placed on Israel.

“You could make a case that you’re rewarding Hamas if you do that. I don’t think they should be rewarded. I’m not in that camp,” Trump responds.

Still, he avoids criticizing Starmer or French President Emmanuel Macron, who announced last week that he would recognize a Palestinian state in September.

“That’s [Macron’s] opinion. He can have an opinion,” Trump says. “I guess Starmer is doing the same thing as Macron, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean I have to agree.”
'Reward for Hamas terror': British Jewish groups slam Starmer's Palestinian state plan
British Jewish groups expressed deep concern on Monday night that Keir Starmer's proposition of a Palestinian state would be a reward for terrorism.

Earlier in the evening, the British prime minister announced that the UK would recognize a Palestinian state should Israel not agree to a Gaza ceasefire by September.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews announced it was seeking urgent clarification from the British government that it will not recognize a Palestinian state if the hostages are not returned or if Hamas continues to reject a ceasefire.

"We must neither forsake the hostages nor reward Hamas terror or intransigence."

Campaign Against Antisemitism called Starmer's declaration "morally indefensible."

"There are still hostages held in torturous conditions in Hamas dungeons in Gaza. Keir Starmer should be saying that he will take the issue of Palestinian statehood off the table if the hostages are not returned by September or sooner."


Stephen Pollard: The numbers that shape Labour’s Middle East policy: 37, 73, 110
According to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the answer to the “Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”.

I’ve an alternative suggestion when it comes to politics. Specifically, for anything relating to Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Jews, Islamism…etc. It’s 37. Or 73. Or 110. Let me explain.

There are 37 constituencies which have a Muslim population over 20 per cent, and in another 73 seats the Muslim population is between 10 and 20 per cent. Labour’s vote fell by over 14 per cent last year from 2019 in those constituencies where the Muslim population was above 15 per cent. Understand that and you understand pretty much everything you need to know about what’s been happening since the last election – and what will happen for the rest of this Parliament. The size of the Muslim vote, and where it is placed, is the single most important factor in all of these issues.

Take the most pressing, the demand by Labour MPs that Keir Starmer immediately recognise a Palestinian state.

This isn’t a column about the rights and wrongs of such a policy but rather about the why. In that context, it’s fascinating to look at the list of Labour MPs who signed last week’s letter to the prime minister pushing for recognition now, and to see how many of them are in those 110 seats – and even more fascinating to see how many of the signatories have been supporters of Labour Friends of Israel. With a majority of the Cabinet reportedly pressing for recognition, understanding this electoral demography is vital.

Take Wes Streeting, the health secretary and MP for Ilford North, which has long had a significant Jewish population. Far be it for me to suggest that Streeting’s long-standing support for Israel has been based on political expediency, but Ilford North’s Jewish vote is now dwarfed by its Muslim vote. There are 27,166 Muslims in Ilford North, of which (according to one analysis) around 19,000 are on the electoral roll. In the general election last July, Streeting’s 2019 majority of over 5,000 collapsed to 528 in the face of a challenge by independent Muslim candidate Leanne Mohamad. And guess who is said now to be one of the leading advocates of immediate recognition of a Palestinian state within the Cabinet? Streeting is also one of those who has been pushing for the government’s move to define Islamophobia (the dangerous consequences of which I wrote about earlier this month).

When it comes to self-preservation, nothing sharpens the mind more than the threat of defeat – and in Streeting’s case, defeat at the next election seems more certain than merely likely, given the growing strength of the sectarian Muslim vote.


Natasha Hausdorff discusses proposed UK recognition of a Palestinian State on Talk TV
Natasha Hausdorff, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director, discusses ‎the validity and consequences of proposed UK recognition of a Palestinian State on Talk TV, interviewed by Ian Collins.


GHF Addresses Personnel Matter in Briefing, Sets Record Straight on Falsehoods in the Media
Today the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) conducted a virtual briefing alongside legal counsel regarding a personnel matter that has attempted to distract from GHF’s life-saving mission to feed the people of Gaza. David Panzer, counsel for UG Solutions, presented facts and various pieces of evidence related to former UG Solutions contractor Tony Aguilar’s false accusations.


Most Senate Democrats sign letter accusing US-backed aid group of failing Gaza
Senate Democrats are imploring US President Donald Trump’s administration to step up its role in addressing suffering and reported starvation in Gaza, with at least 40 senators signing onto a letter Tuesday urging the resumption of ceasefire talks and sharply criticizing an Israeli-backed American organization that had been created to distribute food aid.

In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Republican president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the US senators said the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created in February with backing from the Trump administration, has “failed to address the deepening humanitarian crisis and contributed to an unacceptable and mounting civilian death toll around the organization’s sites.”

Near-daily mass casualty incidents in Gaza have seen Palestinians killed and wounded, often by IDF fire, as crowds rush to aid sites and, amid the chaos, frequently deviate from approved paths.

The letter marked a mostly united plea from Senate Democrats — who are locked out of power in Washington — for the Trump administration to recalibrate its approach after the collapse of hostage-ceasefire talks last week.

Trump on Monday expressed concern about the worsening humanitarian situation and broke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that people are not starving in the Gaza Strip. But it is unclear how Trump will proceed.

Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii said it was “not at all credible” to think the Israeli military — one of the most advanced in the world — is incapable of distributing food aid or performing crowd control.

“They made a choice to establish a new way of doing food distribution,” he said. “And it’s not working at all.”


IDF intercepts ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis; no injuries
The Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen fired a ballistic missile at Israel on Tuesday, which the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted, the military said.

The attack set off sirens across central Israel and the Jerusalem area, alerting millions to enter shelters or protected rooms.

There were no reports of impacts or injuries.

The Houthi rebels — who control a large part of Yemen, including its capital Sanaa, but are not the country’s internationally recognized government — took responsibility for the missile launch, claiming to have targeted Ben Gurion Airport.

Tuesday’s attack was the first such incident since the Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Israel on Friday night. That missile, too, was intercepted successfully.

On Monday, Israeli Air Force drones struck Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Hodeida port in response to the Iran-backed group’s continued attacks.

The army said in a statement that the airstrikes destroyed “military infrastructure of the Houthi terror regime” at the western Yemen port, after attempts were made by the Houthis to repair areas previously targeted by Israel in response to missile and drone attacks.

Monday’s sortie marked the thirteenth time Israel has attacked Yemen, located some 1,800 kilometers away.


Convincing the World that Israel Is Doing the Right Thing
Israel is doing the right thing. It is defending itself. And along the way, it is making the world a safer place and a better place - now and for generations to come.

Morally, ethically, Jewishly, and according to international rules of war, Israel is operating on the right side.

There are still some sane people in the world who are not obsessed with the Jewish state, who do not hate Israel, who do not embrace the enemies of Israel and celebrate their unfathomably unjust and immoral cause.

It can be excruciatingly difficult to watch and witness the spread of rash, harsh bile and unsubstantiated hatred directed at Jews and Israel.

Haters and their messages have been amplified in new media, explicitly directed toward young people. Israel is constantly portrayed as wrong, as the evil aggressor.

The big issue is messaging. It means not just doing the right thing - it means convincing the world that Israel is doing the right thing.


Commentary Podcast: A Fresh Approach to Gaza
COMMENTARY contributing editor Jonathan Schanzer joins the podcast to discuss his innovative plan for Israel to stop playing Hamas's game and bring the war in Gaza to a victorious end.




Andrew Fox: Is There Starvation In Gaza??? 🪂 🤸 #breakingnews #gazaaid
Andrew Fox just returned from Gaza, where he went to report on the humanitarian aid situation there. He offers a rare, insider's glimpse into the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and reports on what's working, what's not, what can be improved, and the prospects for the future.

Andrew is the only researcher invited to witness the Gaza humanitarian program firsthand, and his analysis is always objective and unbiased.


Famine in Gaza and Israel Flailing - Vivian Bercovici & Jonathan Conricus

Visegrad24: Israel’s GENOCIDE in Gaza?
The New York Times ran an op-ed by American-Israeli historian Omer Bartov titled: "I'm a genocide scholar. I know it when I see it." in which Israel is accused of genocide. V24 founder Stefan Tompson goes through the claims made in this bold article to try and figure out the truth.

00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - The Article
01:06 - Defining Genocide
02:01 - Claim 1: Hamas Will Pay Huge Price
04:01 - Claim 2: Hamas Will Be Destroyed
05:03 - Claim 3: Remember Amalek
06:13 - Claim 4: "Human Animals"
07:07 - Claim 5 - Smotrich and Vaturi
08:47 - How Israel Fights?
09:19 - Scale of Aid
09:58 - The Death Toll
11:03 - Flawed Logic
11:44 - How War Is Judged


Decoding Iron Swords - SHUEFTAN FILES ep 01 | LIFE INSIGHTS
The English series with Prof. Dan Schueftan kicks off – and we’re starting big.

In this inaugural episode, Israel’s leading strategic thinker gives a deep and unfiltered analysis of Operation Iron Swords: what led to it, what it reveals about Israel’s enemies, and what’s really at stake in the broader Middle Eastern and global context.

We discuss the October 7th massacre, regional shifts, Iran, Gaza, Western misperceptions – and where things may be headed next.


A Never Ending War: The Israeli - Arab Conflict Unveiled | SHUEFTAN FILES ep 02 | LIFE INSIGHTS
In this gripping episode of The Shueftan Files, renowned geopolitical expert Prof. Dan Shueftan unpacks over a century of one of the most complex and enduring conflicts of our time – the Israeli–Arab struggle.

From the roots of Arab nationalism to the rise of Palestinian identity, from Egypt’s shifting role to Iran’s growing ambitions, Prof. Shueftan offers a sweeping and uncompromising view of the key players, turning points, and deep cultural rifts that shape the Middle East today.


travelingisrael: No, Gaza Isn’t Starving – Here’s Proof in Under 60 Seconds
Radio is a 2003 film directed by Mike Tollin that is based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones and a mentally challenged young man James Robert "Radio" Kennedy.


The Druze Massacre—and Why Israel Attacked Syria
Many horrifying scenes unfolded in mid-July, when sectarian violence erupted in Syria’s southern province of Sweida. According to early estimates from human rights groups, more than a thousand people were killed—hundreds of them civilians, including women and children—and tens of thousands displaced in what quickly became one of the deadliest episodes in Syria since the fall of Assad.

This isn’t the first massacre targeting Syrian minorities since Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda member who vowed to unify the country, took the reins of Syria late last year. In March, hundreds of people were slaughtered in the predominantly Alawite coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia. And long-standing tensions between the Druze and neighboring Bedouin tribes in southern Syria have flared for centuries.

But what set this latest round of bloodshed apart was a chilling new development: For the first time, the new Syrian government, feted by many Western leaders as one they can do business with, formally picked a side.

“This episode marks the first time that the central government in Damascus deliberately took the side of the Bedouin tribes in these clashes with the Druze,” said Michael Nahum, the chief operating officer at The Center for Peace Communications (CPC). “And it did so for fairly clear, opportunistic reasons.”

Through our partnership with the CPC, The Free Press obtained rare on-the-ground footage and exclusive testimony from inside Sweida—as the fighting was still underway—to piece together the events in a remote corner of Syria with massive geopolitical consequences.


Former Labor minister dashes Bob Carr’s claims of Israel using starvation as ‘weapon of war’
Sky News host Chris Kenny sits down with former Labor minister Mike Kelly to go over former NSW premier Bob Carr's assertions Israel employs mass starvation as a weapon.

“I should point out, of course, you were a military lawyer who has served with the Australian Defence Force in Iraq and elsewhere as a lawyer, so you know this stuff intimately,” Mr Kenny said.

“The actions he is not just inferring, he is claiming Israel is using mass-starvation as a weapon of war.”


‘There is no starvation in Gaza’: Benjamin Netanyahu denies famine claims
Sky News host Chris Kenny discusses the current situation in Gaza relating to the population's starvation, saying the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies that Gazans are starving.

“International pressure is growing on Israel,” Mr Kenny said.

“But around the world, people are not accepting the information coming from Israel; they are forming their views based on other sources.”


Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar SLAMS Australian PM Albanese’s comments: “THIS IS A LIE!”

Erin Molan: ENOUGH! YES Children Are Suffering In Gaza... THIS IS WHY: Erin Molan's EMOTIONAL Plea!
In this powerful video, Erin Molan delivers a fiery and emotional response to the latest wave of misinformation coming from the Gaza conflict — specifically a fake photo allegedly showing child suffering that has gone viral.

Erin breaks down how the image has been used to unjustly target Israel, calls out the media's failure to verify, and shares a passionate rebuttal to those immediately blaming Israel without facts.

She also addresses the broader implications of weaponized imagery, the emotional manipulation of global audiences, and why spreading falsehoods only worsens suffering for everyone involved.

This is Erin Molan at her sharpest — clear, factual, and unafraid to call out the hypocrisy.






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