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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

02/11 Links Pt2: Progressives’ Sickening Embrace of the PFLP; The UN’s loathing of Israel is out of control; Simon Sebag Montefiore: The “Golden Age” for Jews Has Ended

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Progressives’ Sickening Embrace of the PFLP At a student roundtable with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, a Georgetown law student told the premier about an upcoming event at her school featuring a convicted terrorist with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Netanyahu was aghast. The conversation elevated concerns...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Hamas’s Torture Tactics Are Finally in the Spotlight Now that Hamas’s abuse of Israeli hostages threatens to derail the cease-fire, the subject will get more attention. The hostages, especially those who were freed recently, have been concentrating on recovery. In the future, we expect to learn in much greater detail what happened to the captives in...

By Forest RainPsychological Warfare 101: Humiliating the Enemy Hamas can release hostages any day of the week. They’ve proven this before—hostages have been returned on Thursdays, for example. So why do they choose to release hostages on Shabbat? Because it’s not just about returning captives. It’s about humiliating the Jewish nation. This is psychological warfare at its...

By Daled Amos (updated with new information)Jordan's King Abdullah II will be the first Arab leader to meet with Trump since he assumed office. In past years, when the King of Jordan visited the US, a major topic of discussion has been its refusal to honor its treaty with the US and extradite Ahlam Tamimi for her role in masterminding the Sbarro Massacre in 2001. Instead...

The New York Times has a "gotcha" article aimed at Donald Trump: How can Gaza be cleared of explosives when the US has stopped funding NGOs that do exactly that?The article does not mention the thousands of houses booby-trapped by Hamas; only the unexploded ordnance from Israeli actions. This bias is a major reason the article is highly deceptive. It talks about the difficult...

Yeni Akit: Did you say Jews? They are the cursed ones who do not hesitate to set the world on fire to fry eggs.Also Yeni Akit: It is not possible to come across any other nation other than the Jews that has been consistently exiled throughout the recorded history of humanity, whether known or claimed to be known.Regardless of the nation, humanity has performed various...

02/10 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: What Israel is really up against; The strange reluctance to see Jews as victims; Beinart goes down a rabbit hole; USAID’s demise is nothing to mourn

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: What Israel is really up against In short, Palestinian society is entirely constructed around a poisonous and murderous hatred of Jews and the desire to remove them from the face of the earth. The emaciated figures who staggered out of their Gaza hellhole have illuminated the obscenity of the way in which so much of the west has behaved — trying...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: The Chilling Implications of Hamas’s Suspension of Hostage Releases Throughout the period of the current cease-fire, Hamas has been systematically dismantling its own side’s propaganda. The claim of Israeli “genocide” was always false, but Gaza officials acknowledging that the enclave’s population increased during the war, and that Israeli bombs were...

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports that the PLO will stop what is popularly known as "pay for slay," where terrorists and their families get paid by the PLO. Prisoners get salaries, they get do-nothing jobs when they are released, and those killed trying to murder Jews have their families paid.The announcement says:President Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State...

One of the fascinating things about Donald Trump is that he can, and does, change the conversation with his way-out-there ideas and musings. Things that have been excluded from public discourse become ideas to be talked about, even if it is only to treat them dismissively.Trump's moves to close USAID might have a ripple effect on similar development agencies in Europe.Hundreds...

Last Thursday, Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian promised to enter into a dialogue with the West on Iran's nuclear facilities. On Saturday, Donald Trump said he would prefer to make a deal with Iran rather than “bombing the hell out of it.”But on Sunday, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamanei quashed that idea, saying negotiations with America “are not intelligent,...

Last week, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini tweeted:The rights of the Palestinians continue to be violated.Since the war began, people in #Gaza have undergone systematic dehumanization. Palestinians do matter, including those in Gaza.Their rights, lives & futures matter.Human rights cannot be applied selectively.As the UN Secretary General said: “Peace ...

Here's a little detail about the movement of Palestinians in Gaza that no one is reporting.While it was widely reported that over half a million Gazans moved back to northern Gaza when circumstances allowed, what is not mentioned is that some 45,000 of them - as of February 5 - decided to go back south. From UN-OCHA:Since 30 January, SMWG [Site Management Working...