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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

10/29 Links Pt1: Phase II of the Gaza Agreement: The American Vision and Israel's Security Considerations; UNICEF data show there was no famine in Gaza

From Ian:

Jonathan Sacerdoti: A "Two Gaza Solution"
The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed shape. The American vision that has emerged is vast in ambition and uncertain in outcome. President Trump's envoys have constructed a regional framework that joins the recovery of Gaza to a broader project linking Arab capital, American protection, and Israeli restraint. For the moment, it works. Hostages have been released, the guns are quieter, and the promise of a new Gaza is being drawn on every conference table.

Yet on the ground, two Gazas now exist. To the west, the remnant of Hamas authority. To the east, the zone under Israeli control. Eastern Gaza will be demilitarized and reconstructed under international sponsorship. Western Gaza is left to Hamas's residual power and the patronage of its regional allies.

Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, insists that Hamas, as an Islamic jihadist movement, "will not lay down its arms voluntarily because that would be tantamount to erasing its identity" and argues that the only realistic agent of disarmament in the short term is the IDF. What remains now for Israel is to secure the gains, shape the reconstruction, and prevent the return of illusions.
Jake Wallis Simons: Hamas and the luxury of freedom
Imagine the horror of discovering that you have been rubbing shoulders with terrorists. No, I’m not talking about those gullible souls who join the Gaza marches in London, but about the British airline crew who had an unfortunate brush with Hamas at a five-star Marriott hotel in Cairo. Full marks to the Daily Mail, whose veteran photographer Mark Large snapped several of the 154 jihadis freed by Israel as they lived it up at the inexplicably named Renaissance Cairo Mirage City.

What’s a terrorist to do? You recruit suicide bombers, oversee a bus bombing or murder a police officer, get banged up, luck out with early release as part of an exchange for innocent Israeli hostages who had been kept in Hamas catacombs for two years, you’re just enjoying the first luxury buffet you’ve had in years – then the British press turns up! Frankly, it made me miss my time as a reporter on the road. The Marriott, we are told, boasts of being the ‘preferred air crew hub hotel in Cairo’, hosting six airlines regularly due to its proximity to the airport. Or perhaps that should now be ‘boasted’, as one imagines that its time catering to air crew has rather passed.

Cabin staff at the hotel, where rooms start at £200 per night, told the Mail that they were contemplating piling furniture in front of their bedroom doors just in case 7 October came knocking. And who can blame them?

Among the terrorists enjoying the Marriott’s facilities were Mahmoud Issa, who founded Special Unit 101 of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a Hamas kidnap unit, and had been in prison since 1993; Islamic State hijacker Izz a-Din al-Hamamrah; bus bomb mastermind Samir Abu Nima; kidnapper Ismail Hamdan; and Yousuf Dawud, who murdered a border police officer. These monsters have now apparently been sent packing, leaving Marriott to (presumably) call in the crisis management bods as their customers desert them in droves. Chief foreign correspondent Andrew Jehring, Middle East correspondent Natalie Lisbona, snapper Mark Large: sterling job.

Aside from the sheer journalistic accomplishment, however, there is much to be said about this darkest of stories. Think about it from the point of view of the victims, or the families that survive them.
Why Aren't Human Rights Groups Denouncing Hamas Atrocities Against Gazans?
Following the ceasefire in Gaza, numerous corroborated testimonies - some supported by filmed evidence - have emerged of Hamas's executions of political opponents, particularly brutal torture of civilians in broad daylight and killings or beatings of civilians who merely expressed gratitude toward the U.S. or criticized Hamas.

Given these facts, I was astonished to look at the X accounts of two of the world's largest human rights organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and find that there has been not a single reference to these atrocities. Every day more atrocities occur, and silence confers a degree of legitimacy upon them.

Initial statements about atrocities have in the past been issued far more rapidly by human rights organizations. Yet two weeks after the ceasefire there was still no comment, not even a demand that Hamas comply with international humanitarian law.

As human rights activists, our message should be clear: We will not ignore any atrocity; we will not abandon Gazans now that Hamas is attacking them; we will not hesitate in voicing strong condemnation. I call on the human rights community to urgently denounce Hamas's atrocities against Gazans.
Phase II of the Gaza Agreement: The American Vision and Israel's Security Considerations
The series of visits by senior U.S. administration officials to Israel, alongside the deployment of American forces at the forward headquarters in Kiryat Gat overseeing the Gaza ceasefire agreement, reflect President Trump's strong commitment to ensuring the agreement's success.

Despite broad understandings between Jerusalem and Washington, the American determination to accelerate implementation may generate significant gaps between the sides. The U.S. favors an international mechanism under its supervision to ensure a phased disarmament process alongside a gradual Israeli withdrawal. Israel insists on complete dismantling of terrorist infrastructure as a precondition for any change in troop deployment and rejects parallel or reciprocal frameworks.

Washington, backed by Arab states, tends to soften the condition that the interim governing body be fully detached from the Palestinian Authority, while Israel opposes the inclusion of figures affiliated with it or with Hamas and demands binding security guarantees before reducing the IDF's presence. Moreover, Israel conditions any reconstruction step on the completion of disarmament and strict security oversight, rejecting the transfer of funds before "the military threat is completely removed."

The second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement places U.S.-Israel relations in a delicate test between an American political vision and Israel's imperative to maintain security control. While Trump views the agreement as a lever for building a new regional order, Israel's priority remains safeguarding its security and operational independence.


Qatari PM indicates Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire with deadly attack on IDF
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani indicated on Wednesday that Hamas violated the US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday when it attacked IDF soldiers and killed a reservist. Al-Thani stopped short of specifically blaming Hamas, referring instead to “the Palestinian party.”

The deadly incident in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip was “very disappointing and frustrating” for Qatar, said al-Thani, who was giving an onstage interview at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

On Tuesday afternoon, a cell of Palestinian terror operatives targeted troops with sniper fire in Rafah’s Jenin neighborhood, killing Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum, before following up a short while later by firing several RPGs at IDF forces.

The military responded by striking several targets in the area that posed a threat to troops, including buildings and tunnel shafts. The Israeli Air Force then conducted a wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, with Hamas health authorities — who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants — reporting at least 104 dead, including dozens of women and children, before Israel announced that it would resume observing the ceasefire.

“What happened yesterday was a violation,” al-Thani said, acknowledging that mediators had expected Israel to respond after one of its soldiers was killed.

Pressed on who specifically was responsible for Tuesday’s “violation,” al-Thani responded, “What happened yesterday — the attack on the Israeli soldiers — that’s basically a violation by the Palestinian party.

“Hamas has put [out] a statement that they are not in communication with this group [that carried out the attack],” he said. “We don’t know yet [if that’s true].”

Clarifying further, the Qatari premier said that Hamas had offered “conflicting statements” regarding the attack on Israeli troops, with one claim being that the gunmen responsible for it “lost communication” with the Hamas leadership and “didn’t know what they were doing.” Hamas also claimed that those responsible for the violation belonged to a different group “that is not related to them.”

“It doesn’t matter for us who did what; what matters to us… is making sure that this event doesn’t… make this agreement collapse,” al-Thani said, noting that both Israel and Hamas have subsequently expressed their desire for the ceasefire to hold.


Trump's Push for Gulf States to Pay for Rebuilding Gaza Faces Hurdles
Persuading Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to hand over funds for Gaza's reconstruction is unlikely to be easy. All three have specific reservations about unconditionally providing financing.

Saudi Arabia is constrained in terms of what it can commit financially to Gaza, due to lower oil prices which have fallen more than 10% this year. Plus, Saudi Arabia has ended a long tradition of grant-giving. Riyadh "is allergic to writing blank checks given decades of corruption and misuse by recipients across the Arab and Muslim world," said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi author and commentator close to the royal court.

The UAE is hesitant to allocate significant funds to Gaza before it sees "political clarity on where this is going," as well as operational and security arrangements on the ground, Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said last week. Abu Dhabi wants to first see the full disarmament of Hamas and its exclusion from any future governance role in Gaza, as well as a complete overhaul of the Palestinian Authority.

Qatar, which has hosted Hamas officials in Doha for more than a decade, is focused on making sure Israel will implement its part of the peace deal before it puts any money into rebuilding the territory. Gulf states "all agree they won't put money into Gaza unless they are first sure this won't happen again,' said Yasmine Farouk, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula project director at the International Crisis Group. This "entails getting guarantees" from Hamas that it will not attack Israel, she said.
Countries Unwilling to Join International Stabilization Force to Disarm Hamas
A senior Israeli official told Israel Hayom: "Israel is now dealing with a bloc that includes Turkey, Qatar and Egypt - countries interested in preserving Hamas's role in Gaza to varying degrees and refusing to pressure it to disarm." In recent days, countries that were expected to deploy forces to help stabilize Gaza have made it clear they will not do so as long as Hamas retains its weapons. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE oppose sending troops to Gaza while Hamas continues to wield military power.

Arab diplomatic sources say Egypt is also unwilling to deploy troops at this stage. Egypt, like others, understands that clashes between its troops and armed Hamas operatives are only a matter of time, especially if there is any serious effort to disarm the terrorist group. This position is shared by other potential contributors to the stabilization force, including Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Morocco.

The practical result is that no international force is currently willing to take responsibility for Gaza or carry out its primary mission of disarming Hamas in line with the Trump plan.
Do Qatar and Turkey Really Want to See Hamas Disarmed?
President Trump has succeeded in gathering mediators, including Qatar and Turkey, to pressure Hamas into implementing the rest of the peace agreement.

But it is not yet clear if they have the wherewithal to push Hamas to give up its weapons, its terror infrastructure, or its status as the ruler of Gaza.

Qatar and Turkey have conflicting interests since they would like to see Hamas stay in power because they ideologically support the terror group.

However, if the world does not pressure Hamas to disarm, Israel will likely feel the need to step in and forcibly disarm Hamas to prevent another attack and to ensure Oct. 7 is remembered in Palestinian history as a failure.
Jonathan Spyer (WSJ): The Iranian Islamist Bloc Has Been Weakened, but the Sunni Islamist Alliance Has Grown Stronger
After two years of war, it becomes clear that the battles haven't led to a fundamental strategic transformation of the region. The balance of power between existing power blocs has been somewhat altered, but no one has faced total defeat, with the notable exception of the Assad regime in Syria.

The war of the past two years consisted of a clash between the Iran-led regional alliance and Israel, with crucial support from the U.S. The result is that Iran and its allies have been bloodied but not destroyed.

Iran itself was pounded by Israeli and American ordnance, which it proved unable to divert. Its nuclear program has been damaged and its centers of governance attacked. Its efforts to strike at Israel proved generally ineffectual.

Lebanese Hizbullah's historic leadership is decimated, its missile array largely destroyed, and many of its midlevel commanders killed. The Yemeni Houthis have been severely mauled by Israeli air power, with little to show for their many attempts to attack the Jewish state. The Iraqi Shiite militias, after some drone and rocket attacks on U.S. forces, scaled back. Hamas and Islamic Jihad suffered enormous losses and ceded most of Gaza. In all these cases, recovery and rebuilding are underway.

The Sunni Islamist alliance, whose main components are Turkey and Qatar, appears to have played a crucial role in cajoling Hamas to accept the Trump plan and the Gaza ceasefire. It did so not to secure a lasting peace, but to ensure Hamas's survival. The Sunni Islamists of Gaza are a natural and comfortable ally of this bloc, whose outlook they share in all essentials.

In the Middle East, one Islamist bloc, that of the Iranians, has been considerably weakened. Another, that of Turkey and Qatar, has grown stronger. The contest is set to continue.
The State of the Axis of Resistance
Iran has suffered repeated defeats across the Middle East since the beginning of 2024. Tehran has thus become more vulnerable and lost much of its regional influence and ability to project force, bringing it to its weakest in decades. These defeats have reduced the threat to U.S. interests, personnel, and partners in the Middle East.

There is no guarantee, however, that these victories will last. Iran and its Axis of Resistance remain hostile to the U.S. and its partners. They will spend the coming years rebuilding their strength and collaborating with major U.S. adversaries, such as China, North Korea, and Russia, to erode U.S. global influence and undermine the U.S.-led international order.

The U.S. should therefore capitalize on the moment of relative weakness affecting Iran and its Axis of Resistance to make lasting gains and prevent them from rebuilding. That means using the positive momentum to further constrain Iranian and Iranian-backed forces across the Middle East. Pressing this advantage could reduce the medium- and long-term threats to U.S. interests, personnel, and partners and help stabilize the region.

To contain the Iranian threat and promote Middle Eastern stability, the U.S. must remain prepared to use force - as it has already to tremendous effect - to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

The U.S. should seek to render the Houthis unwilling to attack international shipping and U.S. partners. The U.S. cannot tolerate a future wherein transit through the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman is under the constant threat of Houthi attack.

The U.S. should be prepared to support local partners in conducting offensive ground operations against the Houthis. A committed U.S. effort to back partners in challenging Houthi political control is the most straightforward - and perhaps only - path to render the Houthis unwilling to conduct attacks outside Yemen.
How the “Experts” Lost Credibility: 10 Predictions About Israel’s War That Fell Apart
1. The General Who Underestimated the IDF
Soon after October 7, a U.S. three-star Marine lieutenant general assigned to advise Israel warned against a ground invasion, predicting Israel would lose 20 soldiers a day. His projection – over 14,000 fatalities – proved vastly exaggerated. The 918 IDF soldiers killed remain a national tragedy, but the prediction of catastrophic losses was, like many others, baseless.

2. The Hezbollah “Victory” That Never Came
On October 4, 2024, Samer Jaber, a PhD researcher at Royal Holloway University, wrote on Al Jazeera: “Hezbollah has been dealt a heavy blow, but it can still win over Israel.” A year later, Hezbollah has been dismantled as a fighting force, and even Lebanon’s own government now regards it as an enemy.

3. The “World War III” Predictions
When Israel – and later the U.S. – struck Iran in June 2025, media outlets including The Independent and The New York Times warned of “catastrophic consequences” and “the start of World War III.” The Iranian ambassador to France declared such a scenario inevitable. Yet instead of triggering global war, the strikes crippled Iran’s terror network and, in the absence of one of its primary sponsors, forced Hamas to accept a ceasefire.

4. The UN’s “14,000 Babies” Claim
In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the UN’s humanitarian chief, told BBC Radio 4 that “14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.” His words were repeated uncritically by The New York Times, NBC, ABC, TIME, and The Guardian. The prediction never materialized – but the damage to Israel’s image did.

5. The Manufactured “Famine”
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini repeatedly warned of an “imminent famine” in Gaza. Yet under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, famine can only be declared if three specific thresholds are crossed: 20 percent of households face extreme food shortages, 30 percent of children suffer acute malnutrition, and two or more people per 10,000 die of hunger each day. None of those conditions was met. For Gaza’s population, that would mean over 400 starvation deaths daily – a figure not claimed even by Hamas.

6. The “Genocide Scholars”
Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, declared in The New York Times: “I’m a genocide scholar. I know it when I see it.” He first accused Israel of genocide in December 2024 – months before the war’s end. Yet Gaza’s population rose throughout the conflict as Israel consistently evacuated civilians from combat zones. Genocide requires intent to destroy; Israel’s intent was to protect. As HonestReporting board member Salo Aizenberg dryly noted, to become a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, “all you need is a credit card.”

7. The Misread ICJ Ruling
In May 2024, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt any actions in Rafah that could bring about the destruction of the Palestinian people in whole or in part. But major outlets – BBC, CNN, NBC, Newsweek – misreported it as a blanket ban on Israel’s Rafah operation. The IDF proceeded, eliminated Hamas’s last stronghold, and the supposed “violation” never materialized.

8. The “Restrained” Hamas
On the eve of the October 7 attack, Israel’s own National Security Adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, confidently described Hamas as “restrained.” Speaking privately on the afternoon of October 6, he noted that Hamas had stayed out of Israel’s recent clashes with Islamic Jihad and was focused on sending more Gazan workers into Israel. Sixteen hours later, Hamas invaded.

Hanegbi – fired by Prime Minister Netanyahu this week – had also told Maariv in September 2023, “I don’t see our enemies raring to fight, not in Lebanon, not in Gaza, and not in Syria.”

9. Did Hamas Choose Stability Over Jihad?
Historian and former deputy minister Michael Oren wrote after Operation Shield and Arrow in May 2023 that Hamas had “chosen social and financial stability over jihad.” In reality, Hamas’s “restraint” was strategic deception – a prelude to October 7. The calm wasn’t peace; it was preparation.

10. The Prophet of Doom
In May 2025, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman predicted Israel was “preparing to re-invade Gaza” and “advance annexation” in the West Bank. His headline read, “This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally.” Six months later, President Trump declared the war over. There was no annexation, no mass expulsion – just another failed prophecy from the paper that rarely learns.


UNICEF data show there was no famine in Gaza
Critics have long said that accusations of famine in Gaza have a gaping hole right in the middle: the staggering amount of emaciated, dead bodies, part and parcel of a famine, are simply nowhere to be found.

When the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a United Nations-linked food-security agenda, determined in August that a famine was indeed ongoing in parts of Gaza, those behind the report said that the sheer devastation in Gaza did not allow for an accurate accounting of starvation-related deaths.

Instead, they said, they were using another key criterion for famine that generally goes hand in hand with malnutrition deaths, and that extrapolating on the former to determine the latter was taking place.

That key criterion, called mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), appears to have never been met, according to data recently released by the Global Nutrition Center, which is staffed by UNICEF, the U.N.’s agency for children. The measurement serves as an easy and generally accepted way to gauge malnutrition. The IPC standards say that when 15% of children sampled show signs of malnutrition, it’s indicative of a famine.

The IPC’s August alert, determining that famine was already taking place, said there was a rapid rise in child malnutrition, based on a two-week data sample from mid-to-late July.

The newer information, released on Sept. 17 by the “State of Palestine” Nutrition Cluster, reveals that IPC-standard age-weighted MUAC data—as opposed to the unweighted data in the IPC’s famine report—did not meet the IPC’s own famine criteria.

And without MUAC data showing famine levels, it becomes impossible for the IPC to extrapolate famine level deaths, said Mark Zlochin, a former artificial intelligence researcher who has spent months poring over data from Gaza.


IDF kills elite Nukhba terrorists, Hamas leaders, October 7 participants in Gaza strikes
Following the violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement by Hamas and prior to its renewed enforcement, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Wednesday attacked dozens of terrorists in the Gaza Strip, including two battalion-level terrorists, two deputy battalion-level terrorists, and 16 company-level commanders.

The Israel Air Force attacked the terrorists under the guidance of the IDF and Shin Bet.

Also among the targets attacked were observation posts, a weapons production site, rocket and mortar launch positions, and underground tunnels.

October 7 terrorists eliminated by IDF
Among the terrorists attacked and eliminated were those who infiltrated Israeli territory during the murderous massacre on October 7:

Muhammad Issa Asher, who served as a commander of the Hamas's Nukhba Force, Fuaz Awida, who served as the head of a Nukhba squad, and terrorists from the “Desert Lords” terrorist organization, Muhammad Abu Sharia and Nidal Abu Sharia.

In a precise strike in the southern Gaza Strip, the terrorist Khatam Maher Musa Qadra, commander of a Nukhba company in northern Khan Yunis, who led the raid on Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha during the murderous massacre by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7, was eliminated.


IDF Soldier: “It’s TIME To Tell You EVERYTHING That Happened To Me…”
A fascinating interview with IDF soldier Yonatan Haber, in partnership with StandWithUs UK.


Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf
Trump's peace plan explicitly calls for deradicalization of the Gazan population. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are hoping to take part in Gaza's rebuilding in part so they can help push back against the radical Islamism of Hamas, which those countries see as a larger threat to themselves as well.

Can Palestinian society be deradicalized? What might that even mean? Is the problem a religious one? A political one? Can Israel play a part, and how would that look?

We turned to Dr. Einat Wilf, a leading thinker and writer on Israel, on the conflict, on the history of the two peoples, and on Israel's foreign and education policies. Wilf has long argued that Palestinian society is in thrall to a particular ideological narrative that goes beyond Palestinian self-determination and fixates on the demand for a complete eradication of Israel - and that Palestinian ideologues and elites have been advancing that desire for generations, nearly always at the expense of Palestinian interests and wellbeing. She also believes they will continue to do so until this impulse is understood, named and tackled head-on.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Einat Wilf and Her Expertise
02:24 The Current State of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
05:09 Assessing the Recent War and Its Implications
08:13 Understanding the Broader War Against Zionism
11:09 The Role of Propaganda in the Conflict
14:02 Palestinian Identity and the Right of Return
17:01 The Dilemma of Palestinian Leadership
20:04 The Impact of External Influences on Palestinianism
22:50 The Historical Context of the Conflict
25:44 The Future of Israeli-Palestinian Relations
36:19 The Right of Return and Sovereignty
38:23 The Trump Peace Plan and Its Challenges
40:47 Hamas's Role and Future in Gaza
42:12 Defining the Enemy: Hamas and Palestinian Identity
45:32 Constructive Specificity in Peace Processes
47:53 The Ideological Battle: Palestinianism and Its Future
50:35 The Role of Islam in Palestinian Identity
56:10 Reformist Impulses in the Muslim World
58:13 The Abraham Accords and Future Stability
01:09:57 Optimism for Change and Leadership in Israel


The Canadian Jewish News: Israel's outgoing antisemitism envoy on why Israel is still facing an 8th front in the war
While U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff flew to Israel this past week to prop up the shaky ceasefire with Hamas, Israel's former antisemitism special envoy Michal Cotler-Wunsh warns there is no cease fire in sight for the “8th front": a surging public information campaign of antisemitism that's demonizing Israel and Jews around the world. The Canadian-raised diplomat and lawyer resigned from her role on Sept. 29 (the same day as the Trump 20-point peace plan was released) citing lack of resources and understanding inside the Israeli government's Foreign Ministry for fighting an existential battle being waged successfully by extremists to hold Israel to a double standard. To be fair, she says Israel has been busy fighting military battles against terrorists on seven fronts. Hear why she's leaving to take a new job as CEO of the International Legal Forum, based in Jerusalem.


Trump Deputy Assistant accuses Hamas of waging ‘psychological warfare’ against Israel
Deputy Assistant to the US President Sebastian Gorka accuses Hamas of implementing “psychological warfare” against the people of Israel.

“If you just look at the public reporting for the last 20 years … let’s be very clear, a form of psychological warfare has been implemented against the people of Israel,” Mr Gorka told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“The psychological exploitation will likely continue, but they’re messing with the wrong president and at the same time, they’re also messing with the wrong prime minister in the form of Benjamin Netanyahu.”


‘Hamas has not disarmed’: A ‘new Middle East’ is not ready under Trump’s peace plan
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan claims the Middle East peace plan by United States President Donald Trump would be the “best news” the residents of Gaza have gotten in decades.

“Despite JD Vance whom I respect in everything and despite wanting Trump’s plan to work,

“No plan is being implemented. Hamas has not disarmed.”


‘Self-involved narcissist’: Douglas Murray blasts Mamdani over ‘fictitious’ aunt story
Author Douglas Murray rips into New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for a “fictitious” story about his aunt, describing him as a “self-involved little narcissist”.

“This is such a self-involved little narcissist with so little going for him that he even decides to turn the memory of 9/11 and the 3,000 Americans murdered that day into a story about his aunt and the subway,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“He’s trying to smarm and smile his way into office, but this statement alone … would demonstrate the extremism of his views because he is not able to focus on the things that actually have affected Americans.

“Instead, wants to keep on creating, as so many radicals like him do, wants to create fictitious narratives about America and Americans being bigoted.

“Americans can’t even be murdered by Jihadists without people like Mamdani turning it into a fear of a pseudo fictitious aunt of theirs, once feeling sad about possibly being looked at meanly ... this is just outrageous.”


travelingisrael.com: I defended Israel for the last two years — big mistake...
I defended Israel for the last two years and realized my focus was in the wrong place. This video exposes the anti-Zionist movement for what it truly is: a hate movement driven by self-righteous emotion rather than facts or genuine concern for Palestinians.




Senator Chandler Probes Legal Basis for Recognising a Palestinian State
Kosher Cockney: Truly frightening. I can’t believe what I’ve just witnessed. @SenatorClaire asks some serious questions to Australian Senior Legal Advisors and Civil Servants on recognising a “Palestinian State”

They can’t answer any of the questions.

My thoughts:

It’s a difficult watch but important.

This just shows how much of a FARCE the whole thing is.

And the reason it’s frightening is that, in my opinion, any “State” could be recognised for no reason at all - other than, I guess maybe, a terrorist organisation starting a war by massacring innocents - a seriously grave precedent to be set surely?


The Adam King Show: Dinesh D'Souza Live - Israel, Antisemitism, The West, And His Newest Movie: The Dragon's Prophecy!!!
Dinesh D’Souza joins us for a one of a kind discussion on Israel, Antisemitism, The West, and his new movie: The Dragon’s Prophecy! Tune in and share the links!


Mamdani's mother in unearthed 2013 interview: 'He is not an American at all'
The mother of New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gave an interview when he was a 21-year-old American college student discussing how her son is "not an American at all" while using terminology that some view as derogatory toward the United States.

"He is a total desi," filmmaker Mira Nair told the Hindustan Times in a 2013 interview, when her son Zohran was 21 years old. At the time, Mamdani was attending Bowdoin College, where he co-founded the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and was pushing for academic sanctions against Israel.

"Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian."

In Hindi and Urdu, "firang" is an informal term historically used to describe foreigners or Westerners.

But Mehek Cooke, an attorney born in India who serves as a GOP consultant and commentator, told Fox News Digital that the word is not "some harmless cultural term," but rather a "slur."

"It’s the word used back in India to mock outsiders, to say you don’t belong," Cooke said. "Using it here about your own child raised in the United States carries the same tone as calling someone a derogatory word — or worse. It’s flippant, divisive, and dripping with contempt for the very country that gave your family a better life."

Cooke added, "When Mamdani’s mother says her son was ‘never a firang and only desi,’ it’s a rejection of America. It’s ungrateful, disrespectful, and frankly repulsive to live in this country since age seven, receive every freedom, education, and opportunity America offers, and still deny being American."


Rabbis slammed for ‘cringy’ video supporting Mamdani
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz labels a video of Rabbis supporting New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “cringy”.

“I’m ashamed to say that if you look at the last three polls, on average, 33 per cent of Jews in New York will vote for Mamdani,” Mr Horowitz told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“They didn’t mention a single Jewish issue.”






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