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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

After October 7: Why American Jews Still Voted Democrat (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.I should be overjoyed that Donald Trump won the election. But the truth is, I’m angry. Even deep into February. Still angry. I had thought, ‘Finally, finally, American Jews will wake up and stop voting Democrat, the party that hurts Israel.’ Instead,...

Ahmet Davutoğlu is a former prime miniister and foreign minister of Turkey. Now is is the chairman of Turkey's opposition Future Party.Last week, he responded to Donald Trump's plan for the US to take over Gaza by suggesting that ...Turkey should take over Gaza.Speaking to a group of aligned politicians, Davutoğlu stated, “Now, as a Turk, as a Turk who is a subject of...

By Daled Amos The Associated Press cheerfully reports that the Egyptian plan for Gaza is moving right along:Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out in a counter to President Donald Trump's proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said the proposal calls for establishing...

In 2021, Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, wrote an article in Al Jazeera where he insisted that UNRWA was not a political organization.The charge most frequently levied against us is that UNRWA plays a political role. This could not be further from the truth. UNRWA is mandated to provide direct, vital humanitarian assistance to Palestine refugees...

Nael Barghouti, who has been in Israeli prisons for 44 years, is set to be released this weekend in a swap for Israeli prisoners.Hamas' mouthpiece Felesteen says the 67-year old Barghouti is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the "oldest prisoner in the world," which is obviously not true. But he is listed in Guinness, in a shameful entry, as the "longest serving...

02/18 Links Pt2: The End of the ‘Deliberate Starvation’ Lie; BBC put on a Hamas Propaganda Pantomime; Is Al Jazeera Providing Material Support to Hamas?

From Ian: Seth Mandel: The End of the ‘Deliberate Starvation’ Lie Turns out you really can prove a negative, some of the time. Israeli researchers have released a study of the food aid allowed into Gaza during the current war and—surprise!—there was no genocide, no starvation policy, no manmade famine. (At least none made by Israel.) As Haaretz reports, possibly through...

From Ian: Bernard-Henri Levy: The Hostage Releases Are Obscene One watches captives on their way to freedom. But what one sees - comparable or not - are survivors of the Nazi death camps. The same bodies, reduced to bags of bones. The same hollow eye sockets, with that vacant stare. The same despair, gaunt and dazed. Only one feeling takes hold over these days - rage -...

L'Orient Today reports that the new government has released its ministerial statement, and it is notable for two reasons.It is the first time since the Taif Agreement [which ended the 1975-90 Civil War] that a ministerial statement makes no mention of "the people's right to resist by all means the Israeli occupation."Instead, the new ministerial team emphasized that "the state...

The New York Post reports:GOP Rep. Nancy Mace is blasting supermodel Bella Hadid as “disgusting” for sharing an old photo of herself promoting a map that portrays all of the land in Israel as Palestine.The photo appears to have been taken during Hadid’s 2022 visit to the Qatar National Library, an event in which the 28-year-old nepo-baby cat-walker posed with the map, titled...

Last week I noted that Australian Muslim groups were silent as the larger Australian community expressed outrage at the video of Muslim healthcare workers claiming to kill Israelis and promising to kill more.Now we know why. They were outraged at the reaction, not the video itself. The nurses who were laughing at the idea of killing patients were "clearly emotional." They...