Wednesday, October 01, 2025

10/01 Links Pt1: Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: Path to Peace or New Disaster?; Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla, detains Thunberg and others; Yossi Cohen: How We Got Iran's Nuclear Secrets

From Ian:

Let this week be the beginning of the end of our Hamas nightmare
For leaders like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Trump’s plan – and Netanyahu’s acceptance of a formal Palestinian Authority role in postwar Gaza – is seen as a fatal mistake. Yet what they fail to grasp is that the true answer to Hamas and the war is not another settlement on some hilltop. The answer is to demonstrate to Palestinians and to the region that, even after two years of war, the Arab world seeks to normalise ties with Israel.

That is real victory. And it requires vision and leadership. Trump’s plan, at least on paper, seems to lean in this direction. It preserves Israel’s security needs by allowing the IDF to maintain a perimeter along Gaza, including in the strategic Philadelphi Corridor where smuggling tunnels once thrived. At the same time, it provides Palestinians with a credible path to a different future.

But everything hinges on Hamas. The group must accept the plan. Only then can the war truly end, allowing Israelis and Gazans to heal and rebuild.

Here lies a question that will accompany Israelis for some time: did it really need to take this long? For months, the IDF top brass insisted that Hamas was already sufficiently degraded. They warned that the extended operations in Gaza City were unnecessary. They knew that some form of alternative governance was the only way forward.

Instead, precious months were squandered. Leaders rolled out illusions – a Gaza Riviera or annexation schemes – that were never going to happen. These distractions only delayed the inevitable. Had international, Arab and Israeli leaders accepted earlier that there would be no riviera, no annexation, that Israel would remain in parts of Gaza and that the PA would need to play a role, perhaps lives could have been spared – soldiers, hostages, and civilians alike.

We will never know. But we must acknowledge the cost of delay. The war may now be approaching its end in terms of high-intensity combat, yet the road ahead will not be smooth. Israel must rebuild diplomatic ties frayed by two years of war, it will need to learn and implement the lessons of October 7, and it will need to begin the painful process of healing as a society. And just as that process begins, elections are expected, forcing the nation of Israel once again to confront questions of leadership, accountability, and vision.

Israel has won the battle. But whether it can win the war will depend not only on the setbacks to Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran’s nuclear programme. It will depend on whether Israel’s leaders can rise above politics, embrace the opportunities created by military success, and chart a course toward a new regional architecture.
Why are there no mass protests for Hamas to accept Trump Gaza peace plan?
CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin said on Monday on X/Twitter that the plan was a “demand of surrender” to colonial and imperial powers. WOL leader Nerdeen Kiswani called it a “A complete political surrender of Palestinian resistance."

“The Palestinians must reject this surrender deal,” 5Pillars editor Roshan Muhammed Salih said on social media.

The problem of the peace plan was that it did not allow Hamas a strategic respite, but if implemented as planned would remove the terrorist group's abilities to fight and control the Gaza strip. Most of all, the plan would give up on the dream of Israel's destruction.

Activists rejected the deal's proposal to disarm Hamas, because it removed the option of continued fighting. Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah said that disarming Hamas but not Israel revealed the plan to be evil. US model Bella Hadid’s sister, Alana Hadid, said in an Instagram video that demilitarization just means stripping Palestinians of any ability to resist occupation while Israel keeps its full military arsenal."

Ousting of Hamas from political control of its territory to a transitional government would likewise preclude the ability to be able to restore its former strength. Far from seeing the potential groundwork for a free and democratic Palestinian polity, activists see the "resistance" losing ground in a long-term war.

“Trump and [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu call this a peace plan, but it’s nothing more than a blueprint for permanent occupation,” Benjamin said in a video.

Kiswani derided the potential replacement of Hamas with a planned reformed Palestinian Authority, as imposing "Israel’s subcontractor" on Gaza. With no arms or territory to continue a future fight, activists would be denied the dream of a Palestinian state "from the river to the sea" in Israel's stead.

True peace, it was argued by several groups and activists, came from the "justice" of "liberation," which anti-Israel groups detailed in January meant the destruction and replacement of Israel.

Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee member Yasemin Acar said on Instagram that the plan "offered terms of surrender, not terms of justice.”

Acar, calling on pro-Palestinian activists to stand in solidarity with Gazans in their fight for liberation.

“Colonizers don’t get to define peace,” she said. “Justice comes before negotiation. This is a fight for liberation and for our shared humanity.”

Hadid explained in her video that any end to the conflict had to involve justice – the ending of the blockade and “occupation.”

Disarming and decommissioning Hamas would mean the end of the decades long military campaign against Israel. There are no calls of "peace now" on academic campuses because they would be calls for Hamas to "surrender."

With "Peace" meaning "surrender" and "ceasefire" meaning "victory," anti-Israel activists have shown that the fighting isn't the issue, the problem is who is winning.
Why Is the 'Free Palestine' Crowd Trying to Kill the Ceasefire?
The contrast between the emerging consensus among the “pro-Palestine” crowd and the cries of actual Palestinians in Gaza could hardly be starker. And it begs urgent questions about just how deeply the Palestinians’ supposed supporters care about their wellbeing and whether they are simply instrumentalizing — and, at this point, actively trying to perpetuate — their suffering to attack Israel.

Gaza-born Palestinian activist and writer Hamza Howidy may have put it best.

“I opened my feed today to see countless posts by Gazans desperate to see an end to this war by any way possible and the huge disappointment they have after many of those who claimed to stand with them during the past two years [have asked] the Gazans to continue get[ting] killed because they don’t like the Trump proposal to end the war,” he wrote Tuesday morning. “Shame on everyone who used their name and refuses to listen to their needs.”

Inundated by angry responses on the part of many such activists, Howidy later put up a second post.

“Apparently one post about Gazans’ opinions was enough to upset lots of those who worship Hamas and its fantasy of ‘armed resistance,’” he wrote. “Anyway, as my friends in Gaza told me, anyone who wants to lecture them on resistance and what they should and shouldn’t accept should go spend two days in a tent in Gaza amidst relentless bombardment, and then they would listen to them.”

It is notable that the critics of the ceasefire proposal include some of the individuals who first accused Israel of “genocide” and have worked assiduously to popularize the smear over the past two years.

Indeed, it is hard to imagine anyone witnessing an actual genocide and claiming to fight for its victims — say, during the Holocaust — quibbling over the technicalities or optics of a plan to end it and save lives in immediate peril.

That so many “pro-Palestine” activists are openly bashing the U.S. proposal to immediately end the war — and, in some cases, openly calling on Hamas to reject it — raises two possibilities: that they never actually believed it was a genocide at all, or that the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza is secondary to their utility as a cudgel against Israel.

It increasingly seems as though both are true.

The “Free Palestine” crowd would be perfectly content to sacrifice the people on the ground, Palestinians and Israelis alike, on the altar of their forever war against the Jewish state. We must not let them. Now is the time for people of conscience around the world to drown out the hate and elevate the voices of those who live in this narrow strip of land and want nothing more than to leave this nightmare behind them.

When this war ends — and it will end — it will be despite the “Free Palestine” crowd, not because of them. And we will remember.




Dave Rich: The end to "genocide"? Not quite.
The UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign have even claimed that Trump’s plan “should be understood as a continuation of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people rather than a plan to end it” - which just goes to show that Israel will be accused of genocide whether it kills or doesn’t kill, bombs or doesn’t bomb. It is as if, when it comes to Palestine, “genocide” has shed its legal meaning and become a political label, whose antithesis is “resistance”. These two terms are treated as the only two options by Western activists convinced that Gaza is the frontline in an existential global struggle against the entire Western capitalist colonial power structure - with “resistance” serving as a value and political identity all of its own. And if “resistance” ends then its opposite value, “genocide”, which is inherent in colonialism, becomes inevitable. That’s the thinking that drives radical anti-Zionism. In reality, though, if Trump’s deal works - and that is far from certain - then hopefully it will mean that Palestinians and Israelis can stop being metaphors for the political fantasies of Western activists and start to rebuild their real lives.

What will stick, though, is the harm to Israel’s reputation, and through that to Jews around the world. Very few people will read the UN report in full or the detail of the IAGS motion. All they see is the headline that the UN and genocide scholars agree that Israel is committing genocide, and the damage is done. This is the basis on which Labour Party conference passed a motion accepting that Israel is committing genocide, and it is why Israel may be thrown out of European football, Eurovision, and probably other international arenas too. Perhaps some of this is self-inflicted, and Israel’s failed strategy of trying to control food supply in Gaza was particularly damaging. But the drive to make Israel a pariah nation was the goal of the genocide narrative all along, and even if Israel has won the military confrontation and succeeds in removing Hamas as the political authority in Gaza, this wider defeat on the international stage and in global public opinion will take years to overturn.

I write this as Yom Kippur approaches, a second year in which this solemn day takes place with deadly war ongoing in Gaza and the remaining hostages still not home with their families. Whether Trump’s deal proves to be the solution or not, my only hope is that, one way or another, the war comes to an end, the hostages are returned, and this terrible suffering amongst Israelis and Palestinians becomes part of the past, not the future.


German Police Arrest 3 Suspected Hamas Operatives Over ‘Assassination’ Plots Targeting Jews
German police on Wednesday arrested three suspected Hamas members for allegedly procuring weapons to carry out "assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions," according to a CNN report.

Prosecutors said the suspects, arrested in Berlin, "have been involved in procuring firearms and ammunition" for the terrorist group Hamas since at least this summer, CNN reported. Authorities have charged the three individuals with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing an act of violence endangering the state.

The suspects—two German citizens and one born in Lebanon—are scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Their arrests came just a day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

During the arrests, officials discovered "various weapons, including an AK-47 assault rifle and several pistols, and a considerable amount of ammunition," prosecutors said.

This is not the first time that German authorities have investigated suspected Hamas operatives. In February, four men arrested in a joint German-Dutch operation went on trial in Berlin, accused of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe and of working under the direction of Hamas leaders.
Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla, detains Thunberg and others, says ‘she and her friends are safe’
Israel’s navy on Friday night began to intercept the large flotilla attempting to break its maritime blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, after the military issued a final warning for the pro-Palestinian fleet to change course.

The Israeli Navy operation, which came as the country marked Yom Kippur, continued overnight and into Saturday morning.

Troops had boarded at least six of the 47 ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla by midnight, detaining the activists aboard after jamming their signals.

One of the first boats to be boarded was carrying Greta Thunberg, with the Foreign Ministry sharing a video of an Israeli soldier handing her belongings to her after she was detained.

“Already several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port. Greta and her friends are safe and healthy,” the ministry said.

Once brought to Israel, the activists are to be deported.

French politician Marie Mesmeur and Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan reported that their boats were also intercepted. Livestream footage showed activists throwing their phones into the sea after soldiers boarded a ship.

The flotilla — which departed from Spain a month ago — is carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid for Gaza and over 500 people, according to the organizers, some of whom Israel has accused of having ties to Hamas.

The Foreign Ministry published a video of a naval lieutenant speaking over a radio to the activists, warning they were “approaching a blockaded zone.”

“If you wish to deliver aid to Gaza, you may do so through the established channels. Please change your course toward the Port of Ashdod, where the aid will undergo a security inspection and then be transferred into the Gaza Strip,” she said.


Turkey accuses Israel of ‘act of terrorism’ with Gaza flotilla interception
Turkey’s foreign affairs ministry accuses Israel of “an act of terrorism” by intercepting an activist flotilla bound for Gaza with humanitarian aid.

“The attack by Israeli forces in international waters against the Global Sumud flotilla, which was on its way to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, is an act of terrorism that constitutes the most serious violation of international law and endangers the lives of innocent civilians,” the ministry says in a statement.


Italy’s largest union calls general strike for Friday in support of Gaza aid flotilla
Italy’s largest union has called a general strike for Friday in protest at the treatment of a flotilla seeking to bring aid to Gaza, it says.

Protests are also being held in a number of Italian cities late, including in Naples where demonstrators halted train traffic at the main station after reports that some 20 unidentified vessels were seen approaching the international flotilla.


‘Hamas Cares More About Its Own Survival’: Why the Future of the War May Hinge on One Decision
Jonathan Conricus, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former IDF international spokesperson, outlines what rejection of the American president’s proposal would mean for Gaza, Israel, and the region

The world waits as Hamas weighs President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. Accepted by Israel, endorsed by the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, and cautiously welcomed by most international actors, the proposal hinges on one question: Will Hamas comply?

For Jonathan Conricus, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former international spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, the answer is painfully clear. “Hamas cares more about its own survival than the interests of the Palestinian people or civilians in Gaza,” he told The Media Line, adding that “the chances are much higher that they will not accept it.”

I would, of course, prefer for our hostages to be released. But I think in the big picture of things, Hamas, sadly, will not agree.

He did not disguise his frustration. “I say that with great regret because what that means is it puts our hostages at significant risk. And I would, of course, prefer for our hostages to be released. But I think in the big picture of things, Hamas, sadly, will not agree.”

Conricus laid out, in a measured but stark sequence, what rejection would trigger on the ground. “Immediately in terms of military operations, it means that the IDF will enhance and intensify military operations in Gaza City and apply more military pressure and do things that so far the IDF has refrained from doing when it comes to the fighting in Gaza City.”

The second consequence, he said, is even more direct for the families of hostages. “The IDF will try to conduct operations to extract hostages based on the understanding that Hamas is not going to agree to a deal. And therefore, the only way of getting hostages out will be to use force. And I think there will be a larger likelihood that the Cabinet will order the IDF, special forces, Shabak, etc., to take military action in order to get hostages out, even if it means that there’s additional risk for the hostages.”

A third potential outcome, he argued, lies beyond the battlefield. “I hope—I think it’s a very reasonable outcome—that for the first time in two years of war, there will be enhanced American pressure, American and global, but mostly American pressure on Egypt to open the gate at Rafah and to allow Gazans to flee the war zone and to seek temporary shelter outside of the Gaza Strip. What that will do is tip the scale and really be a game changer in terms of the war, because that will deprive Hamas of its main asset—or its secondary asset. The main asset are the hostages. Secondary assets are civilians in Gaza that Hamas uses as human shields and that they leverage for pressure over Israel.”
Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: Path to Peace or New Disaster? (w/Ruthie Blum)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no choice but to go along with the scheme but believing that President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip can work still requires a leap of faith, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin. He believes that there’s little reason to think Hamas will free the hostages and surrender their arms and control of the Strip even if Trump is offering them no alternative.

Tobin is joined in this week’s episode of Think Twice by JNS contributing editor and columnist Ruthie Blum who believes that while an end to the war with the “barbarians” of Hamas on Trump’s terms is possible, but she said we shouldn’t call that “peace” if it involves releasing more terrorists in exchange for freeing Israeli hostages and believing that the Palestinians are ready to change.

While she was skeptical that Hamas would take this opportunity to end the war, the Trump plan won’t involve trust since nothing will move forward if all of the hostages are not freed first. Still, she feared that any deal that will mandate the release of Palestinian terrorists from prison may lead to more bloodshed in the same way that the 2011 agreement that freed kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit led to the Oct. 7 massacres.

She also agreed with Tobin that the Trump administration’s faith in the good will of Qatar is a mistake since that regime funds terrorism and Islamist fundamentalism around the globe. Blum believes that businessmen like Trump and his envoy Steve Witkoff simply don’t understand Muslim fanaticism since they view the world solely through the prism of business deals based on mutual interests. They fail to realize that the war between Jews and Arabs is about much more than real estate.

Blum pointed out that those who claim that Israel can’t achieve its objectives by military means are wrong and that Netanyahu is right. If there is to be any progress toward ending the war it is only because of the military pressure that Israel has exerted on Hamas. What will be needed for Trump’s deal to do more good than harm, as was the case with previous attempts to broker peace, is for him to stick to his word and let Israel “finish the job” of defeating Hamas if they don’t agree to the deal or violate it afterward. That’s not what happened in the past when Israel made concessions to the Palestinians in the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.

Blum sympathizes with Netanyahu when he tells his supporters to pipe down about extending Israeli sovereignty to Area C of Judea and Samaria where Jewish communities exist. His priority must be to avoid alienating Trump and showing patience on the issue since that is in Israel’s interests.


Desperate Gazans speak of desire for Hamas to accept Trump deal to end war
Some Gazans have spoken of their desire for Hamas to accept Donald Trump’s peace plan, bringing the war that has devastated the territory to an end, and of their wish for the terror group that runs the strip to be “eradicated” – though others view the proposal with scepticism and fear it will not improve the situation.

News outlets have heard from residents expressing hope that the deal, which Israel has signed up to, will go through, putting a stop to the relentless military bombardment and the widespread hunger and displacement across Gaza.

Their comments came, however, as it emerged that the terror group was likely to reject the US president’s deal, with an unnamed senior Hamas official telling BBC News the agreement "serves Israel's interests" and "ignores those of the Palestinian people".

The individual added that Hamas is unlikely to agree to disarming and handing over their weapons - a key requirement included in Trump's 20-point plan.

BBC News also reported that Hamas’s military commander in the territory, Ez al-Din al-Haddad, is thought to be determined to keep fighting rather than accept the plan.

The agreement, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted, and which has been welcomed by a host of Arab countries would see all the hostages, living and dead, released within 72 hours, and an intermediary governing body called the Board of Peace set up during Gaza's transitionary period until ultimately, the Palestinian Authority could take control, providing it deradicalises.

One Gazan, Nabil Al-Hissi, told Canadian broadcaster CBC: "We call on the governments of the world to erase this movement [Hamas].

"This is a corrupt movement, since the day they came to Earth, they are corrupt. This is a terrorist organisation not an Islamic one."

Commenting on the plan, he said: "We hope to God that this plan is good, and we, the Palestinian people, agree to it.

"We hope to God it is real. We have no water, no food we are hungry. We are kicked from one place to another."


Qatar, Egypt and Turkey said to urge Hamas to accept Trump’s Gaza ceasefire proposal
Qatar, Egypt and Turkey have urged Hamas to give a positive response to US President Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal, Axios reported Tuesday, as separate reports indicated the terror group considers the offer unjust and is likely to reject it.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, two of the mediators in the talks, met with Hamas leaders in Doha on Monday night, and again on Tuesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin also in attendance, Axios reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the talks.

During the Monday meeting, al-Thani told Hamas leaders that he would be unable to secure a better deal for them, that he was confident Trump was committed to ending the war and that this was a strong enough guarantee for Hamas, according to one of the sources cited by Axios.

Hamas responded that it would study the proposal in good faith, the source said, echoing Qatar’s statement on Monday that the terror group had vowed to examine the offer responsibly.

The proposed deal enjoys the support of Western, Arab and Muslim nations, as well as the Palestinian Authority. Russia and the Vatican also extended their support for the deal on Tuesday, as anti-Israel US activist groups rejected it.
Hamas said split on whether to back Trump’s plan to end Gaza war, seeks amendments
Hamas officials want amendments to clauses in US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan including on disarmament, a Palestinian source close to the terror group’s leadership told AFP on Wednesday.

Hamas negotiators held discussions Tuesday with Turkish, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Doha, the source said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters and adding that the group needed “two or three days at most” to respond after Trump stated it had “three or four days” to agree “or pay in hell.”

Trump’s plan, which is backed by Israel and has received praise from a range of Arab states and other countries, calls for a ceasefire, the release of hostages by Hamas within 72 hours, the Islamist terrorist organization’s disarmament and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

But the Palestinian source said: “Hamas wants to amend some of the clauses, such as the one on disarmament and the expulsion of Hamas and faction cadres.”

Hamas leaders also want “international guarantees for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip” and guarantees that no assassination attempts will be made inside or outside the territory.

The source said Hamas was also in touch with “other regional and Arab parties,” without giving details.
Failed Israeli strike in Doha sparked push that led to Trump’s Gaza plan — report
Israel’s failed attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders in Qatar last month sparked the diplomatic push that lead to the formulation of US President Donald Trump’s newly proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, according to a Wednesday report citing US and Israeli sources.

According to Axios, the unprecedented strike in Doha on September 9, which targeted several top Hamas leaders at their offices in the wealthy Gulf nation’s capital, led to a wave of outrage among Arab leaders against Israel and renewed calls to find a diplomatic end to the war in Gaza.

“The Arabs were speaking with one voice,” the report quoted a Trump adviser as saying, noting that the backlash against Israel presented “a rallying cry that seemed negative at first” but could be “turned into something positive.”

At the time, Trump’s advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were already holding discussions with Israeli officials, including Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, about a post-war vision for Gaza, the report said. When they learned about the Israeli strike, the two were furious, it added.

Recognizing the diplomatic opportunity, Witkoff and Kushner got Trump’s approval to begin crafting a broader peace plan, the outlet added, building on the US ceasefire proposal and a post-war framework Kushner had already worked on with former UK prime minister Tony Blair. This evolved into the current 20-point plan unveiled by Trump and approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, which Hamas has yet to respond to.

“The failed Doha attack changed the regional dynamics and opened the door for a real discussion about how to end the war in Gaza,” a US official was reported to say.
Any attack on Qatar is attack on US, Trump says in executive order
Washington will defend Qatar from future attacks, including with military force if needed, according to an executive order that U.S. President Donald Trump signed on Monday.

“The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States,” the order states.

If the Gulf state is attacked, Washington “shall take all lawful and appropriate measures, including diplomatic, economic and, if necessary, military, to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar, and to restore peace and stability,” the order says.

Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, told JNS that Trump’s order is “misguided” and “counterproductive.”

“It’s basically rewarding Qatar for a whole slew of policies that run counter to any understanding of U.S. interests in the region—its support for Al Jazeera, its enablement of Hamas and encouragement of Hamas’s intransigence in the Gaza negotiations,” Ruhe said.

The order is “fairly unprecedented,” according to the JINSA official.

“We haven’t had a peacetime guarantee of another state’s sovereignty like this that obliges us to do contingency planning to support them militarily even if they’re attacked,” he told JNS.

The United States has made security guarantees with other countries, but those arrangements have been reciprocal. In this case, Qatar is “getting something for nothing,” according to Ruhe.


Francesca Albanese says Hamas doesn’t need to release hostages for peace
Marco Massari, mayor of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, was presenting a civic honor to Francesca Albanese, a United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, on Sunday, when he told an audience of hundreds, “the end of the genocide and the release of the hostages are necessary conditions to start a peace process.”

The U.N. adviser, who has a long history of Jew-hatred, reportedly scolded Massari, as the crowd jeered the mayor.

“The mayor was wrong and said something that is not true,” Albanese said. “Peace does not need conditions.”

Washington has sanctioned Albanese, and it and other countries have decried her antisemitic comments.

“I do not judge the mayor. I forgive him,” Albanese said at the event on Sunday. “But he has to promise me that he doesn’t say this thing anymore.”

“Maybe I said something incomplete,” Massari said. “But I reiterate what I said. Let us not make harsh judgments with each other and seek unity among us.”


UN Watch: Hillel Neuer on Fox News Radio: U.N. General Assembly is Anti-Western “Catwalk for Dictators”
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was interviewed on Fox News Radio's “The Brian Kilmeade Show” to discuss the current U.N. General Assembly, including speeches by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as the international recognition of a Palestinian state, and UN Watch's new 216-page report detailing how UNRWA schools in Gaza and Lebanon were taken over by Hamas terror chiefs.


UN Watch: U.N. Can’t Handle the Truth from Natasha Hausdorff
British barrister and international law specialist, Natasha Hausdorff, blasts U.N. Human Rights Council for becoming the world's foremost platform for the dissemination of disinformation. In 90 seconds, Hausdorff exposes the "cycle of fraud" that consistently churns out Hamas propaganda under the banner of the United Nations.




Crowd STUNNED! Mark Levin pulls NO PUNCHES against America and Israel's enemies (JNS Assembly)
Mark Levin unleashes a full-throated defense of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump in the wake of the October 7th Hamas massacre. Levin calls out global hypocrisy, slams Western leaders for their betrayal of Israel and exposes the dangerous alliance between Marxists and Islamists taking root in the West. From Qatar’s funding of terror to antisemitism in American institutions and the weaponization of media influencers, Levin names names and pulls no punches. With his signature clarity and passion, he makes the case that Judea and Samaria are inseparable from Jewish identity, and warns that silence is complicity in the face of evil. Watch until the end to hear his powerful message to patriots in both Israel and the United States.


Triggernometry: How We Got Iran's Nuclear Secrets - Ex Mossad Director Yossi Cohen
Yossi Cohen is a former Mossad Director (2016–2021), known for leading daring operations like seizing Iran’s nuclear archive and helping broker the Abraham Accords.

00:00 - Introduction
01:22 - What Is Mossad?
04:17 - Criticism Of The Israeli Military On October 7th
12:57 - Why Did The Military Response Take So Long?
17:10 - Why Had Mossad Not Infiltrated Hamas?
20:25 - The Mindset Of An Operative
36:00 - The Stealing Of Iran's Nuclear Secrets
47:07 - Did The Strikes On Iran By The US Destroy Their Nuclear Programme?
50:14 - Why Does Iran Want A Nuclear Bomb?
58:03 - How Big Are The Threats To The UK From Terror Cells?
01:12:02 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be?


Ilan Goldenberg and Eugene Kontorovich - 24th of September 2025
'How Might the US React to the Occupied Territories Bill Becoming Law?' Over the Summer many US politicians have been increasingly critical of Ireland’s moves to pass the Occupied Territories bill into law with many calling for Ireland to face sanction if it does so. To discuss the implications of these developments and what measures the US might take, Insights will be joined by Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at J Street, who has previously served at the US State Department Department of Defense. Also joining the discussion is Eugene Kontorovich, Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation and professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, whose opinion article in the Wall Street Journal in early July advocated for a strong US response in the event of Ireland’s enactment of the Occupied Territories bill.


The Rest Is Classified: Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1)
"The smartphone is a lethal collaborator. " This was the stark warning from Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in February 2024. In the wake of intense conflict with Israel, the group made a fateful decision to abandon high-tech communications. They knew that their phones could be used by the Israelis to pinpoint their location. The solution? Go analog. Go back to pagers.

This episode begins an explosive two-part series on a truly audacious operation conducted by Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad. Mossad didn't just infect Hezbollah's supply chain; they became the supply chain, creating a unique product to use against their enemy.

Join Gordon and David as they unravel the complex groundwork laid by Mossad to decapitate their Lebanese enemies. This is the story of the high-stakes push-pull of espionage, where technological decisions set the stage for one of the most remarkable, and deadly, covert operations in intelligence history.
The Rest Is Classified: Mossad Pager Attack: Crippling Hezbollah (Ep 2)
Hezbollah thought they’d found the perfect solution to Israeli surveillance: the pager. In the midst of their paranoia, they negotiated a cut-price deal for thousands of new devices, but what they received was a trap.

The mass explosions on September 17 2024, injured 3,000 people and killed dozens, including civilians and children. The victims - many of them part-time militia members or political operatives - were not just front-line fighters.

Listen as David and Gordon tell the astonishing and devastating story of how Israel achieved what it could not in 2006: the neutralisation of its most dangerous adversary on its northern border. This is the story of how an innovative, physical supply chain attack fundamentally changed the balance of power in the Middle East.


US judge rules Trump administration’s arrests of pro-Palestinian students were illegal
US President Donald Trump’s administration violated the country’s Constitution when it targeted non-US citizens for deportation solely for supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israel, a federal judge said Tuesday in a scathing ruling directly and sharply criticizing Trump and his policies as serious threats to free speech.

US District Judge William Young in Boston agreed with several university associations that the policy they described as ideological deportation violates the First Amendment as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, a law governing how federal agencies develop and issue regulations. Young also found the policy was “arbitrary or capricious because it reverses prior policy without reasoned explanation.”

“This case – perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court – squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in the United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do,’” Young, a nominee of Republican then-president Ronald Reagan, wrote.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, released a statement that didn’t directly address the ruling but said Young was “smearing and demonizing federal law enforcement.”

“Our ICE law enforcement should be thanked for risking their lives every day to arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members and terrorists instead of being vilified by sanctuary politicians,” she said. “It’s disheartening that even after the terrorist attack and recent arrests of rioters with guns outside of ICE facilities, this judge decides to stoke the embers of hatred.”


Largest protest yet in defiance of Palestine Action ban set for this weekend
More than 1,500 people so far have pledged to take part in a central London demonstration in support of banned group Palestine Action.

The event, set for Trafalgar Square on Saturday, aims to be “the biggest ever mass action yet defying the ban on Palestine Action”, organisers Defend Our Juries say.

Hundreds of people are set to risk arrest at the protest as they showed support for Palestine Action, which has been banned by the Government as a terrorist organisation.

The organisers claimed that officers were tied up for hours in dealing with protests earlier this week at the Labour Party conference, and warned: “If they can’t enforce the ban on their own doorstep, how do they expect to stop the biggest act of mass civil disobedience in Trafalgar Square this weekend?”

A spokesman said: “It’s nothing short of a scandal that thousands of people are being arrested – from vicars and priests to students and retired healthcare workers – as our fundamental rights to free speech and protest have been stripped away, not to keep us safe, but to protect weapons manufacturers’ interests and enable Israel to continue to slaughter Palestinian people.”

Saturday’s demonstration is part of a week of mass protests that has seen 66 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for supporting the proscribed terrorism organisation.




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