tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19054614633767432732024-03-17T22:59:49.596-04:00EoZUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26049125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-84963042420261561822024-01-31T09:05:00.001-05:002024-01-31T09:05:26.451-05:00Everyone in Gaza knew that Hamas built weapons tunnels under UNRWA schools - since 2008!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
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<div>The Palestine Press Agency, a pro-Fatah news site that no longer exists, reported in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080915104513/http://www.palpress.ps/arabic/index.php?maa=ReadStory&ChannelID=29137">March 2008:</a></div>
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<div> A reliable source revealed to the Palestine Press News Agency, “The outlaw Hamas movement is digging tunnels under the densely populated western camp, specifically in the Qatatuta camp area in the city of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.”</div>
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<div>The source said, "Hamas militias are digging these tunnels that lead to the UNRWA school in the camp as part of their plan to store heavy weapons (Dushka machine guns and missiles) in tunnels under the students' schools."</div>
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<div>The source added, "While Hamas militias were digging a tunnel in the area, they broke one of the main water pipes in the camp, which led to water leaking onto the neighboring residents, which sparked the residents' anger at these foolish actions."</div>
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<div>A couple of months later, the same news site <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2008/05/hamas-digging-weapons-tunnels.html">reported</a> on a network of tunnels in Khan Younis that went under a number of elementary and secondary schools as well as a Gaza City tunnel underneath the Islamic University of Gaza,</div>
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<div>This is 2008. Residents knew about it then. And there is no way they didn't know about the thousands of tunnel shafts that Hamas dug in homes, in cemeteries and in schools since then. </div>
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<div>In fact, in the comments, one person named Samer from Khan Younis added information about other tunnels he knew about, under mosques and houses.</div>
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<div>Firstly, Yunus Al-Astal has at least three tunnels around his house on the eastern line. Secondly, Fawad Abu Marouf has two tunnels, one of which is Mariout <b>in the Halima Mosque</b> near his house, and there is another tunnel that leads to Ibn Ummah’s house east of Khan Yunis’ license. Amjad Abu Al-Tajja has a tunnel that leads in only three directions. <b>Al-Muttaqeen Mosque in Al-Bahr Street has a large weapons storehouse</b> supervised by Mounir Abu Hatab, <b>an explosives storehouse</b> in Omar Al-Najjar’s house in the Rantissi area, <b>a lathe, a weapons storehouse, and four tunnels near Al-Salam Hospital</b> on the eastern line road.</div>
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<div>At the time, in 2008 and over the next several years, Western media reported on tunnels - but only on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfxq3qB05rQ">smuggling tunnels</a> underneath the Egyptian border. As far as I recall, no one reported about tunnels wholly inside Gaza that were planned specifically as military assets and specifically to make Gza civilians into human shields above them - tunnels that were storage for weapons systems and escape routes (and bomb shelters!) for terrorists and Hamas leaders in 2008.</div>
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<div>Yet Gaza residents knew. <i>Everyone knew</i>. That includes every reporter living in Gaza. (Have you noticed any media outlet apologizing for ignoring and covering for Hamas crimes for the past decade and a half? )</div>
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<div>And UNRWA knew this as well. The agency officially tasked with protecting "refugees" did not do a thing or say a word about weapons caches directly under their schools. Indeed, some of the commenters complained that the publication of the article - not the tunnels themselves - put students at risk because Israel would attack the tunnels. </div>
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<div>Let's put to bed the lie that Hamas tunnels were secretly built and that Gazans didn't know, that the UN didn't know, that reporters didn't know. Everyone in Gaza knew about them since at least 2008, and with very few exceptions, they didn't say a negative word and chose to protect Hamas, either out of solidarity or out of fear.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-59765360120473480632024-01-31T07:05:00.001-05:002024-01-31T07:05:49.752-05:00Al Azhar University denies it is antisemitic. Let's see!<div>Israel's Channel 12 reported about antisemitism a Egypt's Al Azhar University, the most important educational institution in the Sunni Muslim world. The report said “the educational curricula in its schools incite hatred.” </div>
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<div>According to the report, 1.8 million students are being taught to hate Jews in the Al-Azhar educational system.</div>
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<div>Al-Azhar University <a href="https://almogaz.com/news/politics/2024/01/30/2106781">denied the accusation,</a> saying that the report, and indeed all Zionists, are nothing but a bunch of liars. </div>
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<div>Dr. Ahmed Zaree, spokesman for Al-Azhar University, told the Cairo 24 website: “The Zionists have mastered lies, and what was written and said about Al-Azhar is nothing but slander and a violation of the Islamic religion, and this is not new to the Zionist entity. They have mastered lies as well as extreme hostility.”</div>
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<div>Zaree added that Zionists are nothing but an outcast body rejected by Europe and the West to be an instrument of destruction and usurpation of the Arab homeland. </div>
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<div>Yeah, "Zionists" are who were discriminated against in Europe through the centuries.</div>
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<div>So let's look at what Al Azhar faculty and leaders have said about Jews over the years.</div>
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In <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153207,00.html">2011</a>, head of the school Dr. Ahmed Tayeb told a rally that promised genocide for all Jews that Jews everywhere in the world are seeking to prevent Islamic and Egyptian unity.</div>
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<div>In <a href="https://www.andrewbostom.org/2019/04/ahmed-al-tayeb-sunni-islams-jew-hating-papal-equivalent-in-his-own-words/">2013</a>, Tayeb said, "See how we suffer today from global Zionism and Judaism…Since the inception of Islam 1,400 years ago, we have been suffering from Jewish and Zionist interference in Muslim affairs."</div>
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<div>In <a href="https://www.andrewbostom.org/2019/04/ahmed-al-tayeb-sunni-islams-jew-hating-papal-equivalent-in-his-own-words/">2018</a>, Tayeb said, "As long as this entity is alive and active, the Arabs will remain neither living nor dead, and the Muslims will remain under attack. Note that if we continue this way, it will not end with the Al-Aqsa Mosque. <b>They will march on the Kaaba and on the Prophet’s Mosque</b> [in Medina]. This is on their minds and in their hearts.." This goes beyond the "Al Aqsa Mosque is in Danger" myth to say the Jews want so Judaize Meccan and Medina. </div>
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<div>After October 7, <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/virulent-incitement-al-azhar-praise-palestinian-jihad-fighters-israel-destined-perish-us">Muhammad Omar Al-Qady,</a> dean of the Faculty for Islamic and Arabic Studies at Al-Azhar, wrote, "[When I say] resistance I mean the jihad fighters in Palestine, who defend their honor and land, those who fight against their enemy and ours, <b>namely the Jew</b>s… I ask Allah to strengthen His soldiers and his camp and grant our brothers in Gaza, in Palestine and in the rest of the Muslim countries victory over their enemy and ours, the enemy of Allah and humanity, the cursed descendants of apes and pigs [i.e., the Jews]."</div>
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<div>And people still buy the "we hate Zionists not Jews" lie.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-51420359699288251672024-01-30T11:04:00.001-05:002024-01-30T11:04:51.633-05:00Leading military expert: " Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties in urban warfare than any other military in history."John Spencer is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on urban warfare. One of his books, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Urban-Warfare-Liam-Collins/dp/1912440350">Understanding Urban Warfare</a>," is considered a leading source on the topic. He is the chair of <a href="https://mwi.westpoint.edu/urban-warfare-project/">Urban Warfare Studies with the Modern War Institute,</a> United States Military Academy. He served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier and is a highly decorated combat veteran. Spencer is the host of the <a href="https://mwi.westpoint.edu/category/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-podcasts/">Urban Warfare Project podcast</a>, in which he interviews fellow industry experts.
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<div>In my opinion, <b>Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties in urban warfare than any other military in the history of war.</b> This includes many measure the U.S. has (or has not) taken in wars and battles but also <b>many measures no military in the world has ever taken</b>. </div>
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<div>Precautions during the initial air campaign to target enemy military capabilities to include using precision guided munitions and strict targeting protocols in both pre-planned and dynamic strikes against only military targets. </div>
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<div><b>Use of precision guided munitions (PCMs): </b>Despite the ignorance of reporting on ratios of PCMs to non-PCMs, Israel has used many types of PCMs to include lower collateral damage munitions/small diameter bombs and technologies and tactics that increase the accuracy of non-PCMs (dive bombing) limit civilian causalities (sat imagery, AI, cell phone presence) </div>
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<div>The idea that a military must use more PCMs vs non-PCMs in a war is a myth. In the First Gulf War the U.S. fired 250,000 individual bombs and missiles in just 43 days. A small fraction of those <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/analysis.htm">would fit the definition of PCMs. </a></div>
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<div>Also myths about choice of munitions and proportionality assessment/value of target/collateral damage estimate such as saying a 500 lbs bomb would achieve the same military task of a 2,000 lb. bomb with no mention of tunnels that would require greater penetration or availability of types/quantity of munitions. </div>
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<div><b>Call/Text ahead of a strike</b> with (at times) roof-knocking (<b>no military has ever implemented in war</b>). In some cases, IDF will call, text, drop small munitions on the roof of a building. While limited in the context of the strike it has been used in this war. </div>
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<div><b>Provide warning and evacuate urban areas/cities</b> before the full combined air and ground attack begins. While the tactic does alert the enemy defender and provide them the military advantage to prepare further, it is one of the best ways to prevent civilian casualties. </div>
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<div>The U.S. did not do this in the invasion of Iraq or attack of Baghdad in 2003. Did not do this in the 2004 1st Battle of Fallujah but did do this in the Second Battle of Fallujah 6 months later because of the different context. </div>
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<div>In the 2016-2017 Battle of Mosul, the Iraq government told the civilian to not evacuate and shelter in place during the battle for both Eastern and Western Mosul, but <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/world/middleeast/iraq-mosul-isis-civilians.html">later changed instructions</a> further into the battle.</div>
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<div>Israel provided days and then weeks of warnings and time for civilians to evacuate multiple cities in northern Gaza before starting the main air-ground attack of urban areas. </div>
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<div><b>Use of air dropped flyers to give instruction on evacuations</b> and establishing evacuation corridors (U.S. implemented in 2nd Fallujah & assisted 2016-2017 Mosul). Israel dropped over 520,000 pamphlets, broadcasted over radio and through social media messages to provide instruction for civilians to leave combat areas using corridors.</div>
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<div><b>Use of real phone calls (19,734) to civilians in the combat areas,</b> SMS texts (64,399) and pre-recorded calls (almost 6 million) to civilians to provide instructions on evacuations. <b>No military has never done this in urban warfare history. </b></div>
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<div><b>Daily pauses for civilian evacuations.</b> Israel conducted daily 4-hour pauses over multiple consecutive days. While pauses for civilian evacuations after a war or battle have started is not completely new but the frequency and predictability used in Gaza may have been historic. </div>
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<div><b>The distribution of Israel military maps and urban warfare graphic</b> (GRG - gridded reference graphic) to the civilians to assist with day to day evacuations, alerting civilians and enemy to where the IDF will be operating. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-aide-israel-taking-steps-to-protect-civilians-that-even-us-might-not-have-done/">No military in history has ever done this.</a></div>
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<div>There is no modern comparison to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel is not fighting a battle: it is fighting a war. </div>
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<div>No military in modern history has faced 30k defenders embedded in more than more than 7 cities, using human shields and hundreds of miles of underground networks purposely built under civilian sites while holding hundreds of hostages and launching over +12k rockets at the attacking military's civilians areas. </div>
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<div>Again, <b>Israel has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in the history of war.</b> While some have argued Israel could have waited longer, used different munitions, or not conducted the war at all - but these all fail to acknowledge the context of Israel’s war from the hostages, rockets, tunnels, existential threat of Hamas, and more, but also fail to recognize what Israel has done to prevent civilians casualties. </div>
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<div>I trust soldiers with real combat experience a lot more than I trust CNN or the New York Times to explain how wars can and should be waged. Soldiers also know the international laws of armed conflict far better than the "experts" at Human Rights Watch or Amnesty. <br />
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<div>Critics of Israel's actions never offer any alternative that doesn't involve keeping Hamas functioning as a threat to Israel's population. That is the easiest way to know that they are not showing concern for civilians, but carrying water for Hamas jihadists.</div>
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<div>In December, Marc Rowan, a major donor to the University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Board of Advisors of Penn's Wharton School, sent a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vjF7G78CcwmVdblA68Cxz6zT4Lk4qaVg/preview">letter</a> to the trustees of the university, framed as a series of questions. The questions are all reasonable. Here are major excerpts:</div>
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<div>What is the University’s mission? What is the process for evaluating whether the University’s actions are consistent with its mission? Is the intention to have one mission for the entire University, or does each school/college have its own mission? In what way should the mission be incorporated into academics, admissions, and faculty selection?</div>
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<div>Does the University have proper governance and are the responsibilities of Trustees clearly</div>
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<div>What is the role of merit/academic excellence in admissions, faculty hiring, and other areas of recruitment? Is merit/academic excellence paramount, or one of many factors?</div>
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<div>What are the Board’s criteria for qualification and admission for membership in the Faculty?</div>
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<div>What are the Board’s criteria for the instruction of students and recommendations for degrees in course and in Faculty?</div>
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<div>Should any of the existing academic departments be closed and/or combined as per Provision 10.6 of the Charter?</div>
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<div>The Supreme Court recently ruled on affirmative action in college admissions. How does the University intend to comply with the ruling?</div>
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<div>What is the University policy on free speech, civil discourse, hate speech, outside actors, respect, and tolerance?</div>
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<div>How important is viewpoint diversity in the hiring of our faculty, our administrators and the</div>
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<div>While recognizing the complete academic freedom of the faculty and the freedom afforded</div>
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<div>Is the University a neutral body that is a hosting entity for its community members or does it have an institutional opinion?</div>
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<div>Is the University a U.S. institution with foreign diversity, or a global institution based in the United States?</div>
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<div>What is the University’s policy on direct and indirect foreign donations from countries/individuals and, specifically, what is the policy on publicly identifying any such contributions? Similarly, what is the University’s policy on direct and indirect foreign donations to student organizations?</div>
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<div>Typically, if a major donor asks fundamental questions like these, a university would scramble to address them. While the questions have a viewpoint, Rowan is not advocating any changes and even he said through a spokesperson that "ultimately, it is what the trustees and faculty want." The letter is simply asking for clarification on the University's stance on important issues. </div>
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<div>Yet instead of embracing transparency in answering the questions, the university's faculty is claiming that the letter itself is an assault on academic freedom. </div>
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<div>And the New York Times is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/university-of-pennsylvania-marc-rowan-magill.html">happy to highlight</a> that absurd viewpoint.</div>
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<div>The early paragraphs of the article say:</div>
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<div>Mr. Rowan sent a four-page email to university trustees titled “Moving Forward,” which many professors interpreted as a blueprint for a more conservative campus.</div>
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<div>Amy C. Offner, a history professor who led the protest, called the document a proposed “<b>hostile takeover of the core academic functions of the university</b>.”</div>
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<div>Only in paragraph 17 did the Times mention that the letter made no demands or even suggestions but only asked questions. </div>
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<div>There is an unmistakable subliminal message in the NYT article, and it is that rich Jews are trying to subvert academic freedom.</div>
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<div>The article ties Rowan's letter to the larger question of antisemitism on campus. Undoubtedly the letter is related to that issue, as Rowan was a <a href="https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/marc-rowan-to-funders-show-upenn-that-words-matter/">major critic</a> both of the infamous "Palestine Writes" conference at Penn last year and of former president Elizabeth Magill’s failure to address campus antisemitism. There is nothing wrong with looking at the issue of antisemitism on campus and seeking root causes.</div>
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<div>Yet the NYT does not look at this through that prism.</div>
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<div>Instead, the link between the letter and the uproar over campus antisemitism is framed more as a bunch of shady Jewish billionaires trying to impose their conservative ideas on faculty from the outside.</div>
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<div>Penn is now being assailed from many sides. It is the defendant in a lawsuit filed by Jewish students and <b>partly financed by unnamed donors,</b> and the subject of a congressional investigation with subpoena power. ...</div>
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<div>Two alumni, Mr. Rowan and <b>Ronald S. Lauder,</b> <b>the cosmetics heir,</b> were notable among the sponsors of a fund-raiser for the re-election of Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, whose House committee is investigating Penn and other universities over claims of antisemitism.</div>
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<div>Mr. Rowan and Mr. Lauder did not attend the fund-raiser, but the event’s organizer — Andrew Sabin, <b>a New Yorker who made a fortune in metal recycling</b> — said that the sponsors shared an opposition to antisemitism and are hoping to pressure Congress to remove federal funding and the tax-exempt status of some universities.</div>
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<div>A separate investigation by the House Ways and Means Committee has questioned whether campus antisemitism jeopardizes the nonprofit status of Penn as well as Cornell, Harvard, and M.I.T.</div>
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<div>“We’ve got a very, very aggressive path forward,” said Mr. Sabin, <b>who did not attend Penn</b>.</div>
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<div>“This is an anti-democratic attack unfolding, not just at Penn, but all across the country, including at public universities in Florida, in Texas, Ohio and beyond,” said Dr. Offner, the president of the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a professional faculty organization.</div>
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<div>Penn, she said, had become “ground zero of a coordinated national assault on higher education, <b>an assault organized by billionaires, lobbying organizations, and politicians who would like to control</b> what can be studied and taught in the United States.”</div>
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<div>All of these paragraphs are written before a token lone dissenting voice at the university, who the article takes pains to show is Jewish and Zionist:</div>
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<div>The faculty, however, is not of one mind. Michael J. Kahana, a professor of psychology, responded directly in an email to the faculty senate.</div>
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<div>“Your letter specifically calls out Marc Rowan’s questions, which I have studied and found to be reasonable and helpful,” wrote Dr. Kahana, who shared his email with The New York Times. <b>Dr. Kahana recently organized a trip to Israeli universities by Penn professors, as a show of solidarity with academic colleagues in Israel.</b></div>
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<div>The overall framing of the article is that people who care about campus antisemitism are rich, meddling Jews who want to take over campuses just as they already have taken over Wall Street and Congress. </div>
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<div>Unmentioned is the fact that American universities, including the <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/03/upenn-foreign-donations-china-saudi-arabia-kashoggi">University of Pennsylvania</a>, accept hundreds of millions of dollars from countries like China, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These repressive autocracies have an undeniable influence on what universities teach. University faculty associations are silent about that. </div>
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<div>Apparently, their concern over "academic freedom" is one-sided.</div>
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<div>On a personal note, sometimes I wonder if I see antisemitism in innocuous articles, since antisemitism is a major focus of my website. But I read the <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/education/university-pennsylvania-protest-faculty-marc-rowan-20240122.html">Philadelphia Inquirer</a> article about the same faculty protest. While that article is clearly sympathetic to the faculty, I did not detect even a whiff of antisemitic dog-whistles in that coverage. </div>
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<div>It isn't my bias - it is the New York Times.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-76735952997668982162024-01-30T06:04:00.001-05:002024-01-30T06:04:51.615-05:00Antisemitic acts in France went up by 1,100% immediately after October 7SPCJ, France's society to protect Jews, <a href="https://www.spcj.org/antis%C3%A9mitisme/chiffres-antis%C3%A9mitisme-france-2023-b">issued a report</a> on the massive increase in antisemitism in that country after October 7.
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<div>The total number of antisemitic incidents nearly quadrupled from 2022 to 2023:</div>
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But most of that increase came in October and November.
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That is an 1,100% increase in antisemitic acts between September and October.
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<div>In fact, there were five <i>days</i> where the number of antisemitic incidents were higher than the entire <i>month</i> of February.</div>
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<div>372 of the post-October 7 antisemitic acts in France mentioned "Palestine." Of those:</div>
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<div>* more than 10% also advocate Nazism </div>
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<div>The increase in antisemitic acts was most pronounced in schools, where antisemitic incidents soared by over 1,600% between September and October. In November, there were 31 incidents advocating Nazism in French schools. </div>
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<div>The antisemitism did not begin as a response to Israel's actions in Gaza. <i>They began on October 7 itself</i>, as soon as the slaughter of Jews was known. The SPCJ notes:</div>
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<div>It should be noted that the outbreak of anti-Semitic acts in France began on October 7, the day of the surprise attack carried out by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP. Thus, <b>on the very day that images of the massacre of Israeli civilians were broadcast, antisemitic acts increased by more than 700% compared to the daily average observed from year to year.</b></div>
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<div>This similar reaction had already been observed during the upsurge in antisemitic acts following the attack on the Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 (an increase of almost 200%) and after the Hypercacher attack in 2015 (increase of almost 300%).</div>
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<div>In light of these three events, a surprising and worrying phenomenon emerges: the media coverage of the massacre of Jews causes an increase in antisemitic acts. </div>
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<div>Antisemitic acts are one of the best predictors of more antisemitic acts. Jew-haters see attacks by others as a green light for them to join in. </div>
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority and the chairman of the PLO, criticized the nations who are suspending aid to UNRWA.
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<div><a href="https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/141128">Read his words carefully</a>, because they say exactly why UNRWA should be dismantled.</div>
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<div>The Palestinian Presidency expressed today its strong rejection of the oppressive campaign led by the Israeli government against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).</div>
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<div>“<b>The campaign aims to liquidate the issue of Palestinian refugees</b>, contradicting UN Resolution 302, based on which the UNRWA was established on December 18, 1949, and other UN resolutions related to the refugee issue,” said the Presidency in a statement.</div>
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<div>The Presidency emphasized that “<b>the refugee issue is at the core of the Palestinian cause</b>, with dozens of UN resolutions adopted on the matter. There is no solution to the Palestinian issue <b>except for the return of refugees</b>, in accordance with Resolution 194.”</div>
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<div>His reasons for maintaining UNRWA are not because of humanitarian aid. He is stating - as he has stated countless times before - that the purpose of UNRWA is to keep the issue of "refugees" alive, with the ultimate aim to destroy Israel via the fictional "right of return" of millions of descendants of 1948 refugees to Israel.</div>
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<div>Indeed, that is UNRWA's real purpose. It has taught generations of Palestinians not to accept a two state solution but that all of the area from the river to the sea is theirs and theirs alone, and Israel is an illegitimate state stealing their land. </div>
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<div>So when Abbas says that UNRWA must be funded, he is not talking about it to help feed or house or treat Palestinians in Gaza. He couldn't care less about them. He is saying that UNRWA is an essential Palestinian weapon to destroy the Jewish state, and that's why it should be funded to the tune of billions by the world. </div>
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<div>A similar message came from <a href="https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/141111">Hussein Al-Sheikh,</a> Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the PLO and possible successor to Mahmoud Abbas, who also downplayed the aid aspect funding UNRWA.</div>
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<div> "We urge the countries that have declared a halt to their support for the UNRWA to immediately reverse their decision, which carries significant <b>political and humanitarian risks</b>." </div>
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<div>Note how "political" is ahead of "humanitarian."</div>
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<div>UNRWA insists, <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/04/unrwa-commissioner-claims-agency-is-not.html">against all evidence</a>, that it is not a political organization. But Palestinian leaders know the truth - it is little but political. </div>
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<div>At any rate, Palestinian leaders are explaining exactly why they want UNRWA to be funded -and it has nothing to do with helping Gaa civilians. It is their atom bomb to destroy Israel. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-86943550823024918842024-01-29T09:04:00.001-05:002024-01-29T09:04:31.523-05:00Most UNRWA funds go towards incitement against Jews in schools, not to food or shelterThe world is finally taking a critical look at UNRWA after Israel provided its donors with a dossier showing that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/gaza-unrwa-hamas-israel.html">at least 12 of its employees were actively participating in terror on October 7</a>.
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The accusations are contained in a dossier provided to the United States government that details Israel’s claims against a dozen employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency who, it says, played a role in the Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7 or in their aftermath.</div>
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<div>The dossier said that Israeli intelligence officers had established the movements of six of the men inside Israel on Oct. 7 based on their phones; others had been monitored while making phone calls inside Gaza during which, the Israelis say, they discussed their involvement in the Hamas attack.</div>
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<div>Three others got text messages ordering them to report to muster points on Oct. 7, and one was told to bring rocket-propelled grenades stored at his home, according to the dossier.</div>
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<div>Predictably, UNRWA's supporters are screaming about nations withholding funds, claiming that UNRWA services are essential. </div>
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<div>[UN Secretary General Antonio] Guterres strongly appealed to the governments that suspended contributions to, at least, guarantee the continuity of UNRWA’s operations.</div>
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<div>“The abhorrent alleged acts of these staff members must have consequences. But the tens of thousands of men and women who work for UNRWA, many in some of the most dangerous situations for humanitarian workers, should not be penalized,” he said.</div>
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<div>“The dire needs of the desperate populations they serve must be met.”</div>
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<div>A look at UNRWA's staff and budget tells a different story, though.</div>
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<div>Most of the accused terrorists were teachers, and two others also worked at UNRWA schools. One was a social worker.</div>
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<div>This is not surprising. The vast majority of UNRWA employees in Gaza work for UNRWA schools. According to <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/2020-2021_programme_budget_blue_book.pdf">UNRWA's 2021 budget</a>, 83% of UNRWA employees in Gaza work in their education program. </div>
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<div>UNRWA controls a multi-nation school system with over half a million students - all of them in areas where there is a public education system. It is not the world's job to provide free education to Palestinians when they live in areas that the governments already provide public education to all.</div>
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We know that UNRWA schools teach <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/01/school-materials-created-by-unrwa.html">incitement</a> against Israel and Jews. They encourage students to aspire to "martyrdom" - dying while attacking Jews. The teachers have been directly supporting terror attacks for years, - I <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160102042441/https://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/02/a-u-n-agency-teacher-allegedly-posted-a-jihad-promoting-cartoon-depicting-jews-drinking-childrens-blood-and-the-u-s-is-the-agencys-biggest-funder/">exposed</a> the issue <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/10/for-third-time-unrwa-engages-in-coverup.html">over a decade ago</a>. And these are all being taught by thousands of employees - over 10,000 in Gaza alone - who work for the UNRWA education system. </div>
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The bulk of UNRWA's budget doesn't go to food or housing or works programs, but to teaching kids to hate Jews and Israel. </div>
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<div>There are no less than <a href="https://palestine.un.org/en/about/un-entities-in-country">23 UN entities in Gaza,</a> some of which actually provide essential services. There are so many UN agencies in Gaza that there are two agencies (OCHA and UNSCO) to coordinate the other agencies. UNRWA is by far the largest, but given that most of its budget is spent on schools that are not even open and paying teachers who are not teaching, the appeals to keep it funded ring hollow. </div>
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<div>If critics of defunding UNRWA really cared about Gaza civilians, they would be asking for nations to compensate for suspending UNRWA funds by giving more money to UN agencies that actually do important work as their main functions, like the World Food Programme or the World Health Organization. While they are also biased against Israel, they at least do real work, and have professionals who <a href="https://www.emro.who.int/images/stories/palestine/WHO_Operational_Response_Plan_oPt.pdf">create plans</a> on how best to <a href="https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/palestine-emergency">help Gaza civilians</a> under trying circumstances. </div>
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<div>Those who insist on funding an agency where most of its budget does not help people in need of food or medicine don't really care about Gaza. They care about UNRWA's main mission of keeping the fictional "refugee" issue alive forever and delegitimizing Israel. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-81512147527808579742024-01-29T07:05:00.001-05:002024-01-29T07:05:32.958-05:00Egyptian media marks Holocaust Remembrance Day by ....denying the HolocaustEl Watan News is a popular Egyptian news site that says it is independent.
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<div>An article this past weekend, the same weekend of Holocaust Remembrance Day, denied the Holocaust. Its title is "<a href="https://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/7112605">The Big Lie</a>."</div>
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<div>If the Jewish Holocaust is not a big lie, it is at least misleading information full of lies. There are many documents and papers that indicate this, and there are some writings that say that the Holocaust is merely a conspiracy between the Zionist movement and Hitler to push the Jews to immigrate to Palestine, which witnessed 5 Migrations that began from 1882 until the beginning of the 1940s, and all of them took place as organized migrations with fabricated historical incidents.
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<div>6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust according to the Zionist narrative, even though the number of Jews on the European and Asian continents during this period did not exceed 4 million, according to all statistics and data, which refutes the Holocaust narrative. </div>
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<div>Assuming that the Zionist narrative is believed, the death toll of Jews in the World War is 4 or 6 million, compared to 55 million Christian citizens and one million Muslim citizens, which confirms that Hitler did not intend to eradicate the Jews, but it is a matter of coincidence and these are normal and logical numbers for world wars of this size, <b>according to historian Muhammad Al-Shafi’i</b> speaking to Al-Watan.</div>
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<div>Al-Shafi’i pointed out that the outbreak of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7th is consistent with international laws and treaties because it was done on occupied land, according to all international classifications, whether historical Palestine from the sea to the river, or according to the 1948 partition resolution, or pre-1967 Palestine, or Palestine according to the 1993 Oslo Accords, so resisting the occupier is considered legitimate and legal in all parts of the world.</div>
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<div>Al-Shafi'i has <a href="https://almelnoujoum-com.translate.goog/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%80-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en">written a number of books.</a> This gives an idea of what is considered scholarship in Egypt. </div>
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<div>There is a gaping hole in the ICJ provisional measures ruling issued on January 26.</div>
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<div>The major provisional measure requested by South Africa - indeed, <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf">the first one listed in its application</a> - was "(1) The State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza." </div>
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<div>The ICJ provisional measures included six orders, that roughly correspond to most of the other measures requested by South Africa. And the orders that it did consider were overwhelmingly approved by the judges, either by votes of 15-2 or 16-1.</div>
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<div>So <i>why didn't the ICJ judges vote on the main request from South Africa?</i></div>
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<div>The <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf">ruling itself</a> barely addresses this issue. It says (76-77), "The Court recalls that it has the power, under its Statute, when a request for provisional measures has been made, to indicate measures that are, in whole or in part, <b>other than those requested</b>.... In the present case, <b>having considered the terms of the provisional measures requested by South Africa and the circumstances of the case,</b> the Court finds that the measures to be indicated <b>need not be identical to those requested</b>."</div>
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<div>Reading between the lines, it seems that the ICJ considered South Africa's main request for Israel to immediately stop all military activities to be so absurd as to not even be worth consideration or discussion. </div>
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<div>In his <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-03-en.pdf">separate declaration</a>, Judge Dalveer Bhandari (India) wanted to add this order: "All participants in the conflict must ensure that all fighting and hostilities come to an immediate halt and that remaining hostages captured on 7 October 2023 are unconditionally released forthwith." Even he did not consider South Africa's demand for Israel - and only Israel - to stop fighting, without a similar demand of Hamas and a demand for Hamas to release the hostages, to be worth considering.</div>
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<div>Now, imagine if the ICJ judges would have voted on the request by South Africa for Israel (and only Israel) to stop fighting. <i>The vote would have been overwhelmingly if not unanimously against it. </i></div>
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<div>What would the world headlines have been? "The ICJ rules for Israel and dismisses South Africa's main demands."</div>
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<div>The ICJ did not want to make it appear as if Israel won and South Africa lost on the main points. So it changed the provisional measures voted on to only the ones that could appear to be overwhelmingly against Israel. And it didn't even discuss why the main South African demand was not considered.</div>
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<div>This indicated that the ICJ cared more about optics than law. It didn't want to make South Africa look bad, even as it dismissed its main legal argument for a unilateral Israeli ceasefire without discussion.</div>
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<div>But it had no problem writing paragraph after paragraph that Israel might "plausibly" be committing genocide, using extraordinarily thin evidence compared to that used in similar cases brought before the court, as <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-05-en.pdf">Judge Aharon Barak's separate opinion</a> showed (paragraphs 34-36.)</div>
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<div>Barak wrote plainly what the ICJ refused to say explicitly:</div>
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<div>By burying its rejection of South Africa's attempt to hamstring Israel's ability to defend itself, and instead emphasizing the supposed "plausibility" of the genocide charge, the ICJ showed that the law is not its main consideration when it comes to Israel. It knows that any explicit ruling in Israel's favor on even one point would result in thousands of op-eds, articles and posts attacking the legitimacy of the Court from antisemites. </div>
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<div>It didn't want to be the object of protest. It didn't want the roads to the ICJ to be blocked by angry Jew-haters. </div>
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<div>Its ruling showed that it cares more about politics and optics than the law itself. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-40251182876389084482024-01-28T06:04:00.001-05:002024-01-28T06:04:38.865-05:00In 2005, the UN bent over backwards to NOT accuse Sudan of genocide in Darfur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VPc4jOePStmd8ut27j2C2vjYERoILRmaf_1yZcvbpyxZ6Gq0tcMQ3f1kcMAw59RhpcclSNlNFCgrYYrVmHc35nhfPoqEXIxlHAEINa_7ObfSFbpsirzW341YPdUmYeZMXrW0e-qT7KZdFK-Mvg7Q2fxLzF8gvhMiCghgwMPQsLNDqPfgGUiYnA/s561/darfur%20report.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="561" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VPc4jOePStmd8ut27j2C2vjYERoILRmaf_1yZcvbpyxZ6Gq0tcMQ3f1kcMAw59RhpcclSNlNFCgrYYrVmHc35nhfPoqEXIxlHAEINa_7ObfSFbpsirzW341YPdUmYeZMXrW0e-qT7KZdFK-Mvg7Q2fxLzF8gvhMiCghgwMPQsLNDqPfgGUiYnA/w640-h392/darfur%20report.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>
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In <a href="https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/1480de/pdf/">January 2005</a>, an International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur presented the results of its research to the United Nations Secretary-General - and determined that, contrary to what many nations insisted, there was no genocide in by the government of Sudan against the Black African tribes targeted in Darfur. They were behind some horrific war crimes but not genocide.
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<div>The report shows how high the bar is for determining genocidal intent. And part of that calculation is saying that if the Janjaweed or the government had the opportunity to murder someone in the targeted tribes and didn't, that is a good counterargument to the charge of genocide. </div>
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<div>513. Was there a genocidal intent? Some elements emerging from the facts including the scale of atrocities and the systematic nature of the attacks, killing, displacement and rape, as well as <b>racially motivated statements by perpetrators that have targeted members of the African tribes only</b>, could be indicative of the genocidal intent. <b>However, there are other more indicative elements that show the lack of genocidal intent.</b> The fact that in a number of villages attacked and burned by both militias and Government forces <b>the attackers refrained from exterminating the whole population that had not fled, but instead selectively killed groups of young men,</b> is an important element. A telling example is the attack of 22 January 2004 on Wadi Saleh, a group of 25 villages inhabited by about 11 000 Fur. According to credible accounts of eye witnesses questioned by the Commission, after occupying the villages the Government Commissioner and the leader of the Arab militias that had participated in the attack and burning, gathered all those who had survived or had not managed to escape into a large area. Using a microphone they selected 15 persons (whose name they read from a written list), as well as 7 omdas, and executed them on the spot. They then sent all elderly men, all boys, many men and all women to a nearby village, where they held them for some time, whereas they executed 205 young villagers, who they asserted were rebels (Torabora). According to male witnesses interviewed by the Commission and who were among the survivors, <b>about 800 persons were not killed</b> (most young men of those spared by the attackers were detained for some time in the Mukjar prison). </div>
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<div>514. This case clearly shows that the intent of the attackers was not to destroy an ethnic group as such, or part of the group. Instead, the intention was to murder all those men they considered as rebels, as well as forcibly expel the whole population so as to vacate the villages and prevent rebels from hiding among, or getting support from, the local population. </div>
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<div>515. Another element that tends to show the Sudanese Government’s lack of genocidal intent can be seen in the fact that persons forcibly dislodged from their villages are collected in IDP camps. In other words, <b>the populations surviving attacks on villages are not killed outright,</b> so as to eradicate the group; they are rather forced to abandon their homes and live together in areas selected by the Government. While this attitude of the Sudanese Government may be held to be in breach of international legal standards on human rights and international criminal law rules, it is not indicative of any intent to annihilate the group. This is all the more true because the living conditions in those camps, although open to strong criticism on many grounds, do not seem to be calculated to bring about the extinction of the ethnic group to which the IDPs belong. <b>Suffice it to note that the Government of Sudan generally allows humanitarian organizations to help the population in camps by providing food, clean water, medicines and logistical assistance</b> (construction of hospitals, cooking facilities, latrines, etc.) </div>
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<div>516. Another element that tends to show the lack of genocidal intent is the fact that in contrast with other instances described above, in a number of instances villages with a mixed composition (African and Arab tribes) have not been attacked. This for instance holds true for the village of Abaata (north-east of Zelingei, in Western Darfur), consisting of Zaghawa and members of Arab tribes. </div>
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<div>517. Furthermore, it has been reported by a reliable source that one inhabitant of the Jabir Village (situated about 150 km from Abu Shouk Camp) was among the victims of an attack carried out by Janjaweed on 16 March 2004 on the village. He stated that he did not resist when the attackers took 200 camels from him, although they beat him up with the butt of their guns. Instead, prior to his beating, his young brother, who possessed only one camel, had resisted when the attackers had tried to take his camel, and had been shot dead. Clearly, in this instance the special intent to kill a member of a group to destroy the group as such was lacking, the murder being only motivated by the desire to appropriate cattle belonging to the inhabitants of the village. Irrespective of the motive, <b>had the attackers’ intent been to annihilate the group, they would not have spared one of the brothers</b>.</div>
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<div>The report bends over backwards to find reasons not to call the actions genocide. It goes way beyond the Genocide Convention definition - there actually was a genocide in Darfur and the UN report whitewashed it. </div>
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<div>The COI didn't even bother to catalog racist statements by the Sudanese government and its Arab allies. A <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707480/">2009 study</a> of women raped by the groups concluded that "Combined attacks by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia forces led to <b>racial epithets</b> being used more often during sexual victimization in Darfur. Our results suggest that the Sudanese government is participating in the use of sexual assault as a racially targeted weapon against ethnically African civilians." Another observer <a href="https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/the-genocide-in-darfur-dr-james-smith/">said</a> that the Janjaweed would frequently refer to the Blacks as "<b>slaves</b>". And before this study was published, the <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/36028.htm">US State Department documented</a>, </div>
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<blockquote>When describing attacks, refugees often referred to GOS soldiers and Jingaweit militias as a unified group; as one refugee stated, "The soldiers and Jingaweit, always they are together." The primary victims have been non-Arab residents of Darfur. Numerous credible reports corroborate the use of racial and ethnic epithets by both the Jingaweit and GOS military personnel; "<b>Kill the slaves; Kill the slaves!</b>" and "<b>We have orders to kill all the blacks</b>" are common. One refugee reported a militia member stating, "<b>We kill all blacks and even kill our cattle when they have black calves</b>." </blockquote>
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<div>What is clear is that by the criteria that the UN COI used in Darfur, it is absurd to charge Israel with genocide. Every reason that the UN gave to exonerate the Sudan government of genocide applies a thousandfold more to Israel. </div>
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<div>As usual, standards applied to Israel do not apply to anyone else, no matter how heinous their crimes. The double standards show that this isn't a question of human rights, but of antisemitism. <br />
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Seth Mandel: <a href="https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-uns-complicity-in-terrorism/">The UN’s Complicity in Terrorism</a>
<blockquote>The timing of this disclosure is interesting for another reason. On Tuesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing titled “UNRWA Exposed: Examining the Agency’s Mission and Failures.” Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Richard Goldberg and UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer are two of the planned witnesses.<br />
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Last night, an administration official told Israel Hayom that “UNRWA continues to deliver critical assistance in Gaza and remains a trusted US partner. UNRWA will be a central pillar of stability in post-war Gaza, and we strongly support it.”<br />
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Perhaps that assessment, like U.S. funding to the agency, will come under some much needed reconsideration by the Biden White House. As it is, President Biden had restored U.S. funding to UNRWA after President Trump put a stop to it. Like the removal of the Houthis from the list of foreign terrorist groups, re-funding UNRWA looks to be another case of the president’s desire to undo the vestiges of Trump’s foreign policy without giving thought to whether those policies were correct. That’s a shoddy way for a superpower to act, and it ought to change.<br />
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UNRWA is not just corrupt; its existence is a corruption of international laws and norms. It has created its own definition of “refugee” only for Palestinians, because its goal is to keep the conflict unsolved so it can act as a vanguard of the war on the Jewish state. It is a cash conduit to one of the world’s major terrorist groups, which also happens to be an Iranian catspaw. May this be the beginning of a thorough investigation and the end of our complicity in UNRWA’s reign of terror.</blockquote>
Aviva Klompas: <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-remembrance-means-rooting-out-oct-7-denial-opinion-1864346">Holocaust Remembrance Means Rooting Out Oct. 7 Denial</a>
<blockquote>Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned Holocaust denial. In all, 114 countries co-sponsored the resolution. They sent a statement to the one dissenting voice—Iran—that even the UN, a frequent critic of Israel, would not give quarter to distorting the history of atrocities against Jews.<br />
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As we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 this year, we face a startlingly different reality.<br />
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Hamas's Oct. 7 attack awakened a sense of horror and helplessness that Jews haven't felt since the Holocaust. Our shattered sense of security has been compounded by the vitriolic nature of protests that have sprung up all over the world.<br />
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Returning to a Scene of Horror<br />
Just two days after the Saturday massacre, before all the bodies were collected or the full number of hostages known, protesters gathered outside the Sydney Opera House and chanted, "Gas the Jews."<br />
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This was not an isolated incident. It took frighteningly few days for revulsion at Hamas's attack to morph into revulsion at Israel's response. Since October, among the swells of protesters who have flooded major cities all over the world, it's not hard to spot overtly antisemitic sentiments, including calling for the obliteration of Israel and violence against Jews.<br />
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And it's not just on the streets. Individuals who have pledged their careers to defending civilians have applied an appalling double standard by denying or downplaying the atrocities committed on Oct. 7.<br />
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The former director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East Department blamed Israel for the massacre. The director of a sexual assault center at a Canadian university denied that Hamas committed rape and other sexual crimes. It is chilling to watch those who hold positions of influence downplay or deny the crimes.<br />
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Holocaust denial stretches back almost to the Holocaust itself. In the decades after World War II, Nazi sympathizers ignored forensic, first-person, and photographic evidence to claim the Holocaust never happened or that it wasn't as bad as claimed. The movement gained momentum in the 1970s with the rise of pseudo-academic organizations like the Institute for Historical Review and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.<br />
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Not surprisingly, these deniers found allies among Middle Eastern voices who oppose Israel's existence. If the Holocaust never happened, they reason, do Jews really need the protections afforded by having their own nation-state?</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/history-is-repeating-itself-once-again/">History is Repeating Itself Once Again</a>
<blockquote>I recently watched the Oscar nominated film Zone of Interest and a few things really struck me. In case you haven’t seen or heard about it, it’s a work of historical fiction centered around an Auschwitz commandant and his family, who happen to live directly adjacent to the death camp. The most striking thing about the film, and this is no spoiler, was simply the juxtaposition of the world’s most notorious extermination factory and the idyllic, pristine family home of the camp’s commanding officer. The meticulously manicured garden, swimming pool—complete with a slide to delight their five Aryan children, the greenhouse and the lavish parties. They entertained guests, basked in their good fortune, all with billowing smoke ever-present in the distance and a muted soundtrack of desperate screams, barking attack dogs and intermittent gunfire eerily humming in the background. The scariest part was that no one—save for one of their blonde, blue-eyed children and a mother in-law with a hacking, human ash-induced cough–appeared to notice any of it. This model Nazi family and their guests were somehow able to inure themselves to what was happening just on the other side of a ten-foot cement wall. There was no empathy, conscience or even recognition of the horrors that were taking place a mere stone’s throw away. In their minds, they had reached their zenith. They were living in their dream home not despite the cruelty, but because of it–and their relishing of the spoils of war was yet another profoundly disturbing display of man’s inhumanity to man. And it made me wonder, “what did they tell themselves to justify their existence?” “What lies did they feast upon in order to dehumanize the screams and the wafting scent of burning flesh?” And then a chill ran down my spine as it dawned on me that this is precisely what’s happening right now.<br />
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On October 7, Hamas didn’t just attack Israel, it attacked every Jew on planet earth. It punctured the tenuous bubble that we were living in, resurrecting our generational trauma and once again reminding us of our vulnerability. And the aftershocks of this seismic shift in our collective psyche continue to reverberate as we witness not just silence, but pure, unadulterated hatred – from all corners. It’s as if the anti-Semites of the world now have license to unleash the venom they’ve been keeping under wraps. And how is this Jew hatred justified? With the same lies that everyday Germans told themselves when their neighbors were being thrown onto cattle cars—except now, the conduit for this disinformation isn’t leaflets, radio addresses and offensive caricatures, but something far more efficient and global in reach.<br />
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Social media is propaganda on steroids. Goebbels would have had a field day on TikTok, X and Instagram, with their supercharged ability to disseminate lies, conspiracy theories and blood libels with immediacy and on a massive scale. This capability, combined with a public that sees no value in truth or facts, and seeks only to reinforce pre-existing narratives propagated by terrorists and self-promoting influencers, has gotten us to the Twilight Zone in which we are living today. A world where GoPro footage shot by Hamas themselves is labeled as Israeli propaganda, where a sovereign nation that was savagely attacked on 10/7 is being charged with Genocide at the Hague for defending itself, where our supposed best and brightest are loudly and proudly calling for death to Jews on their Ivy League campuses, where morons in Keffiyehs are chanting “Allahu Akbar” mere steps away from the site of 9/11, where the Red Cross refuses to lift a finger to help our hostages, where the UN is complicit in funding and enabling Hamas’ terror tunnels, where feminists are silent in the face of barbaric sexual violence and where Queers for Palestine are rallying for savages who would throw them from a roof if they dared to wave a rainbow flag anywhere in the Middle East, other than Israel.</blockquote>
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Jonathan Tobin: <a href="https://www.jns.org/a-hollow-holocaust-remembrance-day/">A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day</a>
<blockquote>The failure of Holocaust education A process of dehumanization of Jews led an educated nation to become “Hitler’s willing executioners” and active participants in the murder of 6 million Jews. The same “treason of the intellectuals” now does the same to the Jews of Israel and Jews elsewhere who stand with them.<br />
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The sort of Holocaust education and commemoration that became commonplace in the United States in the last generation, in which antisemitism is considered to be just another form of intolerance, does little to combat woke indifference to assaults on its designated “white” evil-doers. Antisemitism isn’t a function of ordinary unkindness but a weapon in which the Jews are demonized to achieve a political purpose. That is how Jewish victims of terrorism can be erased and their plight put down as what happens to oppressors who run afoul of an act of justified “resistance.”<br />
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Hamas, which is a movement that has the support of most Palestinians and now the sympathy of many Western intellectuals, explicitly seeks the elimination of the one Jewish state on the planet and the genocide of its 7 million Jews. What happened on Oct. 7 was merely the trailer for what it intends to do in the near future.<br />
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There is no middle ground on this subject. Anyone who is indifferent about what happened on Oct. 7, or who claims that of all the peoples in the world, the Jews alone are undeserving of a state or the right of self-defense (anti-Zionism), or who argues that Hamas must be allowed via a cease-fire to survive the current war and left in charge of any part of Gaza or anywhere else where it will rearm and prepare, as it pledges to do, commit many more such atrocities, can’t be allowed to call themselves “progressive” or opposed to genocide. Because what they are doing by taking such stands is essentially putting themselves on the side of those who wish for a second Holocaust in Israel.<br />
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That’s why I don’t want to hear a single word of Holocaust commemoration from anyone this year who isn’t prepared to unreservedly support Israel’s justified war to eliminate Hamas in the same manner that the Allies belatedly destroyed Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. In the months since Oct. 7, we have seen what this generation’s “treason of the intellectuals” has wrought as antisemitic ideas, conduct and speech have once again become commonplace. If you aren’t willing to stand with the Jewish state against Islamist murderers and their woke fellow travelers and useful idiots, then at least have the decency not to bother us with your insincere grief about the Holocaust.</blockquote>
Brendan O'Neill: <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/27/the-rise-and-rise-of-holocaust-envy/">The rise and rise of Holocaust envy</a>
<blockquote>Britain’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is not famed for its astuteness. These omnipresent public-school leftists, who rock up to every radical demo to holler facile chants in fake accents they learnt from EastEnders, are about as far from scholarly as you can get. Yet a few years ago they did something that was world-beatingly dumb, even by their famed low standards. They handed out a leaflet about the Holocaust that described it as an unspeakable tragedy in which ‘thousands of LGBT people, trade unionists and disabled people were slaughtered’. Spot the omission?<br />
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Yes, they forgot the Jews. They forgot the Jews. It was 2008 and the SWP was skulking around a festival organised by the far-right British National Party (BNP). They handed their leaflets to anyone who’d take one. The leaflet denounced the BNP for ‘deny[ing] the Holocaust’, which was apparently an act of mass murder against gay people, trans folk and the disabled. No one else. Just them. The irony of the SWP slamming the BNP for ‘denying the Holocaust’ while simultaneously erasing from the record the six million souls obliterated by the Nazis was too much to take.<br />
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Their omission of the very people the Holocaust was designed to destroy did not go unnoticed. Even other radical leftists were appalled. The SWP seems to have discovered a ‘Jew-free Holocaust’, swiped the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty. Perhaps the SWP is keen to appeal to people who think it was ‘all right that Hitler killed six million Jews, but think it too much that he also killed LGBT people’, the AWL said. Then came the AWL’s keenest observation: yes, the omission of the Jews was probably ‘a slip’, it said, ‘but for such a slip to pass unnoticed through writer, typesetter, printer, organisers and distributors, without anyone at any stage picking it up, must say something’ (my emphasis).<br />
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Indeed it must. And indeed it did. It spoke, at some level, however subconsciously, to one of the most disturbing trends of recent times: the ideological assault on the Jewishness of the Holocaust. The slow but sure divorcing of the Holocaust from the Jews and the Jewish experience. The transformation of the Holocaust from the mass burning – literally – of the ‘Jewish race’ into a tragedy that befell all sorts of people. The SWP’s ‘Jew-free Holocaust’ may have been ‘a slip’, but it also foretold a future in which the Holocaust would be ‘liberated’ from the Jews, turned from a concrete and unique crime against the Jewish people into a generalised sad event that any victim group can lay claim to. We’re in that future now.</blockquote>
Italian pro-Palestinian activists employ Holocaust symbols as a form of protest against Gaza war
<blockquote>‘There is a sizeable number of Arabs in Italy who have chosen this sacred day of commemoration to try to draw a comparison’<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/2805190/the-dangers-of-progressive-antisemitism/">The dangers of progressive antisemitism</a>
<blockquote>Like most American Jews I know, I spent Oct. 7 scrolling through social media, listlessly pushing my toddler on a playground swing as I swiped between images of burning kibbutzim, fixing dinner to television images of a modern-day pogrom. Yet for all the horror of that day, I was not especially surprised that a group founded in 1987 to destroy Israel by killing Jews was doing just that. Hamas was, in comedian Chris Rock’s famous formulation, the tiger that “went tiger.”<br />
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It was the response of American progressives that left me by turns outraged and perplexed. As a group, we American Jews had proven ourselves to be reliable liberals who have voted Democratic for decades. We had marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and fought to preserve Roe v. Wade. Some of the closest advisers to Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were, or are, Jews.<br />
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None of that mattered anymore. Suddenly, our shade of blue was no longer palatable to factions of the liberal establishment. Oct. 7 marked the final phase of a rupture that had been widening for years. No longer is the Left’s hostility to Jews a fringe preoccupation. Since the Hamas attacks, large swaths of American elite culture have treated Jews like a transplanted organ the body suddenly refuses to accept. If history is a teacher — and history rarely misses an opportunity to teach the present a thing or two — we may be heading down a path any healthful democracy should strive to avoid.<br />
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The surety and swiftness of the progressive response felt almost like a catharsis, as if an antisemitism long held in abeyance was finally allowed to explode into the open. After all, some seemed to conclude perversely, what better time to heap scorn on the Jews than while they are being massacred?<br />
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So the podcaster Edward Ongweso Jr., whose critiques of Big Tech I had previously appreciated, posted a video of Gazans smashing through Israeli border defenses that morning. “This is a glorious thing to wake up to,” he wrote. “Staring down the barrel of a fascist government that has put you in a cage for your entire life and is itching for an excuse to kill everyone in it with you, I can’t imagine anything braver.”<br />
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Later, I messaged Ongweso to say that I was disappointed by his jubilant message precisely because I respected his thinking on other subjects.<br />
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It is telling that so much of the progressive response was recorded on X, formerly Twitter. The site had become a conservative clearinghouse since it had been purchased by Elon Musk, sanctimonious misinformation “experts” such as Ben Collins of NBC News had claimed. But much of the hate was now coming from the Left. If that animosity was somewhat more sophisticated than edgelord Pepe-in-Auschwitz memes, that only made it worse. The people celebrating Hamas or blaming Israel for the attack were not lonely teenagers looking to get attention by trolling. They were elites expressing genuine satisfaction at seeing Jews killed.</blockquote>
<a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/01/22/for-all-that-changed-hamas-is-still-hamas/">Hamas Is Still Hamas</a>
<blockquote>Whereas some assessed that ruling Gaza would moderate, or at least co-opt, Hamas' inclination to violence, that did not prove to be the case. The Oct. 7, 2023, massacre demonstrated in the most visceral and brutal way that Hamas ultimately prioritized destroying Israel and creating an Islamist Palestinian state in its place over its governance project in Gaza, Palestinian national reconciliation, or the end of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a two-state solution.<br />
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In July 2007, Hamas took over Gaza from Fatah by force of arms. It diverted funds intended for civilian public services to build tunnels and a robust weapons production program. Hamas played a long game, investing in efforts to instill a "culture of resistance" in Gaza society, with a focus on schools and youth. Hamas duped Israeli and Western officials into thinking it would not put its governance project at risk and therefore could be deterred.<br />
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After it consolidated power, by December 2008 Hamas initiated the first in a series of rocket wars with Israel. By 2015, after three rounds of rocket wars, some still assessed that Hamas would prioritize survival over "resistance."<br />
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Yet Oct. 7 was the war Hamas always wanted. Hamas remained committed to its core principle of prioritizing the destruction of Israel over the well-being of Palestinian civilians. That explains why Hamas executed the brutal Oct. 7 attack and why Israel responded with an assault aimed at ending the Hamas governance project in Gaza.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783989">Netanyahu holds up Mein Kampf to protest ICJ ruling, calls Hamas 'new Nazis'</a>
<blockquote>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and called Hamas the “new Nazis’ as he attacked as “ridiculous” the International Court of Justice’s decision to give a nod to South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel.<br />
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“The very willingness in The Hague to discuss this ridiculous claim,” Netanyahu told reporters during a press conference in Tel Avi on Saturday night. “The very fact that it was not dismissed.. proves that many in the world have learned nothing from the Holocaust,” Netanyahu stated. 'South Africa came to ICJ in the name of the new Nazis'<br />
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“I have here Hitler's book in Arabic, "Mein Kampf". This book was “found by our soldiers in the homes of civilians in the Gaza Strip. They found extensive anti-Semitic and Nazi literature there. This is what they educate their children about.”Netanyahu said<br />
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He stressed that Hamas doesn’t just teach its children to execute terror attacks, but also about how to destroy Israel and the entire Jewish people.<br />
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He noted that the 17-member tribunal issued its first statements on the case, on Friday, just two days before International Remembrance Day, an event that was marked already on Friday by the United Nations.<br />
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Both events, the one marking Holocaust remembrance day and the reading out of the initial ICJ action on the genocide case, could be viewed simultaneously on the UN’s web page.<br />
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“There is no greater absurdity than that precisely yesterday, on the eve of International Holocaust Day, there were those who came to The Hague to accuse us of the false and outrageous charge of genocide.<br />
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“In whose name did they come? In the name of Hamas - in the name of the "new Nazis" - who came to commit genocide on us,” Netanyahu said.</blockquote>
FDD: <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/01/26/icj-rejects-gaza-ceasefire-demand-urges-hostages-released/">ICJ Rejects Gaza Ceasefire Demand, Urges Hostages Released</a>
<blockquote>Expert Analysis<br />
“That the Palestinians and their South African and Islamic Republic sponsors welcomed this ruling is telling. Their case has been fatally flawed from the outset given the abundant evidence of Israel’s extraordinary efforts to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza and Hamas’s brutal use of human shields to kill as many Palestinians as possible. For them, the victory is that Israel, rather than Hamas, is in the dock. The genocidal Palestinian terrorist group has already described the ICJ proceedings as a means of ‘isolating’ the one Jewish state. Any countries that care about the law or basic sanity in geopolitics must now redouble their support for Israel’s justified war of self-defense.” — Mark Dubowitz, FDD CEO<br />
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“The ICJ rightly rejected South Africa’s attempt to deprive Israel of its right to defend itself. At the same time, the ICJ’s failure to entirely dismiss South Africa’s meritless claims undermines the Western world’s ongoing fight against authoritarian and terrorist leaders who are willing to drive up their own side’s casualties by using their own civilians as human shields.” — Orde Kittrie, FDD Senior Fellow<br />
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“It’s quite notable that not a single organization cited by the ICJ in its ruling recognizes Hamas as a terrorist organization. Instead, those sources of information have often been complicit in Hamas’s war crimes. Even so, the lawfare attempt by Hamas and its supporters to stop Israel’s just war against terrorism did not succeed.” — Richard Goldberg, FDD<br />
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“The ICJ’s reputation, not Israel’s, was on trial, and the results were mixed. Declining to dismiss the bogus charges outright will severely handcuff democracies fighting against terrorist groups that cynically use human shields to amplify civilian casualties.” — David May, FDD Research Manager and Senior Research Analyst Background on the Case<br />
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South Africa orally presented its case to the ICJ on January 11, and Israel responded to those charges the following day. Israel’s defense team highlighted the dangers facing Israel, challenged South Africa’s “deliberately curated, decontextualized and manipulative description of the reality of current hostilities,” and recounted the many ways in which Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties. Rejecting South Africa’s assertion that several statements by Israeli officials demonstrate genocidal intent, Israel’s legal team pointed out that the quotes were taken out of context, rejected by Israel’s war cabinet, or uttered by people with no control over Israel’s decision-making process regarding the war.<br />
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ICJ Case Risks Undermining International Law<br />
In its January 12 defense, Israel cautioned the court regarding the dangers of allowing anti-Israel animus to undermine international law. In his concluding remarks, Israeli Deputy Attorney General Gilad Noam warned, “Entertaining the applicant’s request would weaken efforts to punish genocide and instead of [the court] being an instrument to prevent terrorist horrors would turn it into a weapon in hands of terrorist groups who have no regard for humanity and rule of law.” Following the ICJ decision, Israel’s Foreign Ministry denounced South Africa’s spurious genocide charge, which would “empty the word genocide of its unique force and special meaning.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1bzkp119a">Israel survived the display of hypocrisy at the International Court of Justice</a>
<blockquote>Israeli ears found it hard to hear the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) statements issued by its president Joan Donoghue on Friday. The rhetoric used against Israel was harsh. The ICJ’s primary focus was directed at the Palestinian population in Gaza, and only a few words from the president were dedicated to the horrific massacre on October 7 and the hostages still held by Hamas. However, the bottom line is good for Israel – no order was given with practical significance in real-life situations.<br />
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In essence, the ICJ called on Israel to adhere to international law and prevent actions that could be contrary to the Genocide Convention. Actions that Israel currently already takes.<br />
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The significant achievement in the trial is that none of the ICJ’s 17 judges granted South Africa's request for an order to stop the fighting in Gaza. South Africa attempted to rely on precedents established in the case of Ukraine against Russia, where a temporary order was issued based on the Genocide Convention, instructing Russia to immediately stop all military operations in Ukrainian territory. However, no judge of the ICJ accepted South Africa's position on this matter.<br />
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Furthermore, no ICJ judge mandated that Israel should minimize its military operations or allow some of Gaza’s population to return to their homes, and no operative orders were given regarding the supply of a specific amount of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Additionally, no judge decided to issue an order instructing Israel to reduce or cease military operations "except actions necessary to exercise the right to self-defense."<br />
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In practice, the ICJ provided six general interim orders: to do everything required within its authority to prevent acts going against the Genocide Convention; to ensure the IDF doesn’t engage in actions contrary to the convention; to take all measures to prevent and bring to justice public statements encouraging the killing of Palestinians; to take effective measures to provide humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip’s residents; to preserve and prevent the destruction of evidence related to Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip; and to submit a report to the ICJ regarding the implementation of these actions.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-says-it-has-considerable-concerns-about-icj-ruling-rejects-genocide-accusation/">UK says it has ‘considerable concerns’ about ICJ ruling, rejects genocide accusation</a>
<blockquote>The British government said Saturday it had “considerable concerns” about a ruling by the United Nation’s top court that Israel should do everything it can to prevent any acts of genocide in Gaza.<br />
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Friday handed down its first judgment in a case brought by South Africa that also ordered Israel to allow humanitarian access to the Palestinian territory, but did not call for a ceasefire.<br />
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“We respect the role and independence of the ICJ. However… we have considerable concerns about this case, which is not helpful in the goal of achieving a sustainable ceasefire,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.<br />
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“Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas in line with IHL [international humanitarian law],” the spokesperson added.<br />
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“Our view is that Israel’s actions in Gaza cannot be described as genocide, which is why we thought South Africa’s decision to bring the case was wrong and provocative.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">'The court just issued this preliminary order telling Israel not to commit genocide, which I think is asinine. They didn't even mention the word <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a>... it was a completely one-sided order,'<br />
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— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1750911640235622819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">“The court threw out South Africa's attempts to get an immediate stop to the war that would leave Hamas free to re-offend.”<br />
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The ICJ’s order for Israel is just to “remind Israel of what its obligations are under international law”,says Israeli government spokesperson, Eylon Levy. <a href="https://t.co/nEm82X6Fy9">pic.twitter.com/nEm82X6Fy9</a></p>
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1750947784339988698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">From my interview on <a href="https://twitter.com/SABCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SABCNews</a> following the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICJ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICJ</a> judgement:<br />
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"Perhaps South Africa ought to be more concerned about having proper running water and providing for its own citizens, then acting as a legal arm of Hamas, in these mendacious and baseless proceedings against Israel." <a href="https://t.co/UG9Si07tsP">pic.twitter.com/UG9Si07tsP</a></p>
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1751340356312908273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">When the ICJ bases its information on UNRWA, a front organization for Hamas, no wonder it thinks poorly of Israel. <a href="https://t.co/15hU4t0lsq">pic.twitter.com/15hU4t0lsq</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751211717894324629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The official Palestinian position: Palestinian terrorists get to rape, behead, and burn—and their victims have no right to fight back.<br />
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Thanks for clearing that up. <a href="https://t.co/TBOmPFVyFv">https://t.co/TBOmPFVyFv</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1750999423696449760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-783929">Aharon Barak's chilling ICJ testimony: 'Nazis failed to take our humanity'</a>
<blockquote>"Genocide is more than just a word to me," wrote Aharon Barak, former Israeli High Court President and Israel’s appointee to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) panel, where South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide as it fights against Hamas in Gaza.<br />
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Barak wrote these words within the framework of the ICJ's decision in The Hague, in a document that, beyond being part of a legal ruling, also includes a personal testimony.<br />
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"I was a 5-year-old boy when, as part of Operation Barbarossa, the German army occupied my hometown of Kaunas in Lithuania," he wrote, "within a few days, almost 30,000 Jews from Kaunas were taken from their homes and placed in the ghetto. It was as if they were sentenced to death, and we awaited execution," he went on to say. "On October 26, 1941, all the Jews in the ghetto were ordered to gather in the central square, known as 'Democracy Square.' About 9,000 Jews were taken from the square that day, and executed by machine gun fire.<br />
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Barak opened his remarks by criticizing South Africa's appeal to the court. He then reminded Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, alongside acknowledging Israel's right to defend itself, and emphasizing the importance of providing humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. He noted that the court emphasized that "all parties in the conflict in the Gaza Strip are subject to international law - which certainly includes Hamas as well."<br />
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Barak explained in great detail why he opposes the demand for an immediate cessation of hostilities, and the definition of Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide," a concept that represents, in his view, "calculated destruction, and human behavior at its worst." According to him, "this is the most serious accusation possible, and it is woven in the experience of my personal life."</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Full opinion of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICJ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICJ</a> Judge Aharon Barak explaining in detail how the ruling of the court “reaffirmed Israel's right to defend its citizens”. Reproduced as images for Twitter (Pages 1-4). Full PDF link at bottom of thread. <a href="https://t.co/3ScwrI3sjl">pic.twitter.com/3ScwrI3sjl</a></p>
— Adam Ma’anit (@adammaanit) <a href="https://twitter.com/adammaanit/status/1750939061177446544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Judge Nolte is not convinced that South Africa has shown genocidal intent by Israel. The reason why he voted in favour of provisional measures was because he felt Israel was not doing enough to punish incitement of genocide uttered by its high-ranking officials and soldiers</p>
— Alonso Gurmendi (@Alonso_GD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1750969848291541120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Some tidbits about Julia Sebutinde, the only ICJ Judge who voted against all measures requested by South Africa, that are sure to make Israel's haters particularly furious:<br />
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🔸️She is the first African woman to sit on the ICJ<br />
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🔸️She was born in 1954 during a period when Uganda… <a href="https://t.co/vxnNcLc0PY">pic.twitter.com/vxnNcLc0PY</a></p>
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1751229656886329508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">🚨🇺🇬 Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinde has been subject to a horrific racist cyber campaign for voting against all of South Africa's allegations against Israel at the ICJ. She's even been called "a genocidal monkey" on Arabic pages.<br />
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Absolutely disgusting.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithJulia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithJulia</a> <a href="https://t.co/Dzy82OTORr">pic.twitter.com/Dzy82OTORr</a></p>
— Luai Ahmed (@JustLuai) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustLuai/status/1751201434232553963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
<script async="async" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10253841/canada-icj-gaza-genocide-interim-ruling/">Canada takes no clear position on ICJ interim ruling in Gaza genocide case</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">You do not honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust when you tell their descendants not to fight against terrorist monsters who reduced whole families to human ash and are threatening to do it “again and again.” <a href="https://t.co/LzWTtkPE24">https://t.co/LzWTtkPE24</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751214878646304998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">If you’re remembering the Holocaust without mentioning Jews, you’re not doing it right (h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankPILA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FrankPILA</a>) <a href="https://t.co/FGypbjHKFP">https://t.co/FGypbjHKFP</a></p>
— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) <a href="https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1751308144750350637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-finland-italy-join-us-in-halt-of-unrwa-funds-for-alleged-role-in-oct-7-massacre/">UK, Finland, Italy join US in halt to UNRWA funds; Israel wants it replaced post-war</a>
<blockquote>Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Finland became the latest countries on Saturday to pause funding for the UN refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), after the body said Friday that it had sacked “several” employees accused by Israel of involvement in Hamas’s October 7 massacre.<br />
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The United States, Australia and Canada had already paused funding to the aid agency, a critical source of support for people in Gaza, after the allegations by Israel. The agency said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees and severed ties with those people.<br />
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Encouraging more donor suspensions, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Saturday UNRWA should be replaced once fighting in the enclave dies down and accused the agency of ties to Islamist terrorists in Gaza.<br />
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“In Gaza’s rebuilding, UNRWA must be replaced with agencies dedicated to genuine peace and development,” he added on X, formerly Twitter.<br />
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Deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq, asked about Katz’s remarks, said: “We are not responding to rhetoric. UNRWA overall had had a strong record, which we have repeatedly underscored.”<br />
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UNRWA has always rejected accusations of ties to terror in the past and maintained it is a relief and humanitarian agency.<br />
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The Palestinian Authority foreign ministry criticized what it described as an Israeli campaign against UNRWA, and Hamas condemned the termination of employee contracts “based on information derived from the Zionist enemy.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-783944">Largest pro-Israel Christian group to Biden: Permanently defund UNRWA</a>
<blockquote>The leadership of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) has questioned the long-term intentions and effectiveness of the Biden administration’s decision to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).<br />
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This decision came amid an investigation into a dozen UNRWA employees who are alleged to have participated in the October 7 Hamas massacre against Israel. Canada, Finland, Australia, Italy, and the UK also froze funding.<br />
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“While we welcome the decision to stop funding UNRWA, the Biden administration should make this temporary pause permanent,” said CUFI Action Fund Chairwoman Sandra Parker. “Unfortunately, the State Department’s action in this context is typical of their too little, too late approach to the Middle East.<br />
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“No US taxpayer dollars should’ve been flowing to UNRWA, just as no sanctions relief should’ve been provided to Iran,” Parker continued. “I’d love to believe the Biden administration has learned its lesson, but how much time do we really believe will pass before the White House turns the spigot back on?”<br />
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CUFI has over 10 million members and is considered the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States. Its Action Fund works on Capitol Hill to ensure America’s elected officials hear the perspective of the millions of Christian Zionists across the country.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/01/26/israel-asks-unrwa-to-vacate-plot-pay-fine-in-capital-over-illegal-activity/">Israel asks UNRWA to vacate plot, pay fine in capital over illegal activity</a>
<blockquote>The Israel Land Authority (ILA) has recently sent a letter to the UNRWA demanding that the UN Palestinian relief agency vacate the premises of a compound in the village of Kafr Aqab, a neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, citing its lack of permit to use the state-owned plot.<br />
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In the letter, the ILA's legal counsel for the Jerusalem District emphasized that UNRWA has taken over the land in the city without a permit and that the ILA demanded its evacuation and the retroactive payment of 17 million shekels ($4600) in usage fees.<br />
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The UNRWA compound in question was allegedly built without a proper permit for its current usage. The land, spanning 21 acres, is located near the Qalandiya checkpoint and was purchased at the beginning of the 20th century by Jewish philanthropists abroad, who donated it to a special fund for developing Jewish settlement in the Jerusalem area. UNRWA-affiliated people took over the land and built on it, among other things, a school and a memorial for terrorists who were involved in terror activities in Jerusalem.<br />
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On January 14, the ILA sent the letter to UNRWA in Jerusalem, demanding retroactive payment of the fee due to the illegal construction and usage "You are hereby required to immediately cease all unlawful use, demolish everything you have built illegally, evacuate the land of all persons and/or objects and restore the situation to its previous state, within 30 days of the date of this letter," the letter reads.<br />
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Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King, sent a letter to Chairwoman of KKL-JNF Ifat Ovadia Luski, noting that the organization should act to reclaim the place that it rightfully owned. King wrote: "The school in Kafr Aqab sits on a plot purchased 100 years ago by overseas donors, who transferred ownership to KKL-JNF for the purpose of reclaiming land." King added that "in the past, part of the land contained a KKL-JNF forest called Qalandiya; UNRWA personnel uprooted most of the trees."</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Is UNRWA finally facing a reckoning? Maybe.<br />
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The US has pulled funding and the UN Secretary-General is allegedly horrified, despite knowing UNRWA's history. What happens next? We'll have to wait and see, but we're not holding our breath. <a href="https://t.co/As4J7gzK95">pic.twitter.com/As4J7gzK95</a></p>
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1751135850933436811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/scotland-announces-suspension-of-funding-to-unrwa-calls-allegations-concerning/">Scotland announces suspension of funding to UNRWA, calls allegations 'concerning'</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">UPDATE: 🇳🇱 Netherlands freezes funds for UNRWA. “We are enormously shocked. The charge is that with UN money, with our money, the attack was committed on October 7th,” said Minister Geoffrey Van Leeuwen.<br />
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Also: 🇨🇭 Switzerland announces no funds for UNRWA pending investigation. <a href="https://t.co/JJf2fVVhPW">https://t.co/JJf2fVVhPW</a></p>
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1751317621205578089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Israel FM <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel_katz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Israel_katz</a> calls for firing of <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> chief <a href="https://twitter.com/UNLazzarini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNLazzarini</a> after countries pull funding over u<br />
UNRW staff involvement in Oct 7 Hamas massacre. <a href="https://t.co/rVhisGAoW7">pic.twitter.com/rVhisGAoW7</a></p>
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1751307636065067508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Israel 🇮🇱 ambassador to the UN 🇺🇳 <a href="https://twitter.com/giladerdan1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@giladerdan1</a>:<br />
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“How symbolic is it that on Holocaust Remembrance Day it was exposed that <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> employees took part in the massacre? The <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> is weaponized to delegitimize our existence and to physically exterminate us.”<br />
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— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1751009122634318008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Min. <a href="https://twitter.com/Antonio_Tajani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Antonio_Tajani</a>: The 🇮🇹 Gov’t has suspended <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> funding after Hamas' heinous attack on Israel on Oct7. Allied countries have recently made the same decision. We are committed to providing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people while protecting Israel's security <a href="https://t.co/DAlwAkvTCF">https://t.co/DAlwAkvTCF</a></p>
— Italy MFA (@ItalyMFA_int) <a href="https://twitter.com/ItalyMFA_int/status/1751198588300829045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783950">Italy suspends financing for UNRWA: Foreign Minister Tajani</a>
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— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) <a href="https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1751278604334276821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/demands-for-canada-to-suspend-unrwa-funding">Canada suspends UNRWA funding after employees implicated in Oct. 7 terror attacks</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Canada unequivocally condemns the October 7th attack on Israel. I am deeply troubled by the allegations relating to some UNRWA employees. I have instructed Global Affairs Canada to pause all additional funding to UNRWA pending the outcome of the investigation. Read my statement: <a href="https://t.co/YfEbwhKvzx">pic.twitter.com/YfEbwhKvzx</a></p>
— Ahmed Hussen (@HonAhmedHussen) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonAhmedHussen/status/1751000728057876899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">We had repeatedly urged PM Trudeau to stop funding UNRWA teachers who encourage and promote terrorism.<br />
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He never bothered to answer us. He failed to take action. Ottawa's claims of UNRWA assuring “neutrality” proved a complete failure.<br />
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Our report on 🇨🇦: <a href="https://t.co/d6zsCa2ekq">https://t.co/d6zsCa2ekq</a> <a href="https://t.co/QyraleelFG">pic.twitter.com/QyraleelFG</a></p>
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1751033009581732017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">We expect <a href="https://twitter.com/UNLazzarini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNLazzarini</a> to make it clear within UNRWA's workforce that all forms of hatred and violence are totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated. UNRWA‘s important role is to provide indispensable, life-saving assistance to Palestinians. 2/2</p>
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1750950297235525643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What’s amazing about Finland’s halt in funding is that it comes just days after Finland’s <a href="https://twitter.com/elinavaltonen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elinavaltonen</a> FM called on Israel to halt the war.<br />
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Turns out, Finland was financing Hamas indirectly.<br />
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You cannot make this stuff up. <a href="https://t.co/1Kypk4ZyNx">https://t.co/1Kypk4ZyNx</a></p>
— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchanzer/status/1751228877093945548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.news.com.au/world/australia-pauses-funding-for-united-nations-agency-amid-october-7-terror-allegations/news-story/d03782c1e917d3e05b8641bd3a762983">Australia pauses funding for United Nations agency amid October 7 terror allegations</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Allegations UNRWA staff were involved in the abhorrent October 7 terror attacks are deeply concerning.<br />
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Australia welcomes UNRWA’s swift response and will engage closely on investigations.<br />
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We are speaking with partners and will temporarily pause disbursement of recent funding. <a href="https://t.co/Havwserjh3">pic.twitter.com/Havwserjh3</a></p>
— Senator Penny Wong (@SenatorWong) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorWong/status/1751103658509644035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Allegations of the involvement of <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> staff in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a>’ barbaric terrorist attacks against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> on 7 October are shocking and alarming.<br />
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> must be beyond reproach. This is a question of credibility.</p>
— MFA Austria (@MFA_Austria) <a href="https://twitter.com/MFA_Austria/status/1750935342377541925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">In light of today’s decision by the State Department to put a temporary pause on funding for UNRWA based on allegations that some of its employees were involved in the Oct 7th attack. I asked an UNRWA coordinator about these allegations several weeks ago. <a href="https://t.co/EHYVHhdCJU">https://t.co/EHYVHhdCJU</a></p>
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) <a href="https://twitter.com/biannagolodryga/status/1750903366534791352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">I wonder how he can say this with a straight face, when his employees were found to have taken part in the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundTheUN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DefundTheUN</a> <a href="https://t.co/x2SELvxBId">https://t.co/x2SELvxBId</a></p>
— GnasherJew®גנאשר #IStandWithIsrael (@GnasherJew) <a href="https://twitter.com/GnasherJew/status/1751271279502508058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Only an antisemitic mind could see Holocaust refugees as settler colonialists. <a href="https://t.co/7FZDzbDrWt">https://t.co/7FZDzbDrWt</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751287271376973905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The UN feigning surprise that <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a> workers were involved in the Oct 7 massacre of Israelis.<br />
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Was there any indication this was coming? Why yes!<br />
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There were the 15 years of discovering rockets in URWA schools, tunnels under UNRWA buildings, and an entire generation of… <a href="https://t.co/tKQPRS5IQY">https://t.co/tKQPRS5IQY</a></p>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1751283120836407686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="de" dir="ltr" xml:lang="de">⚠️CALL TO ACTION⚠️<br />
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On April 1st, 2024, Pierre Krähenbühl, the disgraced former chief of <a href="https://twitter.com/UNRWA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNRWA</a>, will take over as the director-general of <a href="https://twitter.com/ICRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICRC</a>.<br />
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During his tenure at UNRWA, Krähenbühl blatantly ignored the rampant antisemitism of UNRWA teachers and allowed the indoctrination of…</p>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1750069822975844733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Substantiated. So very substantiated. <a href="https://t.co/xmkRgOJci7">https://t.co/xmkRgOJci7</a></p>
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1751138142256587110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">That UNRWA tweet did not age well 👀 <a href="https://t.co/73cC1yaAQ2">https://t.co/73cC1yaAQ2</a> <a href="https://t.co/AUirmNTZEA">pic.twitter.com/AUirmNTZEA</a></p>
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1751042845383737676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">June 2021: Hamas made UNRWA fire their Gaza rep for saying on TV that IDF strikes were precise.<br />
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Then Deputy Chief <a href="https://twitter.com/LeniStenseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LeniStenseth</a> met Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and “affirmed her solidarity.” She called her rep’s remarks “indefensible.” <a href="https://t.co/8QkEu4Rx7D">https://t.co/8QkEu4Rx7D</a><br />
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Hamas controls UNRWA. <a href="https://t.co/Y4EJcEmvxP">https://t.co/Y4EJcEmvxP</a> <a href="https://t.co/SdGobBSCgv">pic.twitter.com/SdGobBSCgv</a></p>
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1750931937609257110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jan 4th: <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-aide-unrwa-not-responsible-for-hamass-depraved-use-of-civilian-infrastructure-for-terror-purposes/">Biden aide: UNRWA not responsible for Hamas’s depraved use of civilian infrastructure for terror purposes</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Started // Going <a href="https://t.co/g34gEOjYOF">pic.twitter.com/g34gEOjYOF</a></p>
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1750918685709959526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783952">Palestinian Authority panics, official calls to reverse UNRWA funding cut</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The PA is unhappy with the US decision to pause funding for UNRWA.<br />
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The PA should have dealt with this problem years ago.<br />
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Instead, it encouraged it. <a href="https://t.co/GhZMEnL5B1">https://t.co/GhZMEnL5B1</a></p>
— Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchanzer/status/1751214282337894872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Gene? Why not call for measuring the skulls of Israelis to prove that they are a criminal race and find a solution for them?<br />
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As civilization shuts down UNRWA, why is this “expert” still speaking on behalf of the UN? <a href="https://t.co/4yHAbcx5Eh">https://t.co/4yHAbcx5Eh</a></p>
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) <a href="https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1751258852010406385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.humanrightsvoices.org/?post_type=article&p=393197">Israel says WHO ‘colluding’ with Hamas by ignoring ‘terrorist use’ of Gaza hospitals</a>
<blockquote>"Israel on Thursday accused the World Health Organization of collusion with Hamas by ignoring Israeli evidence of the ‘terrorist use’ of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, during a session when the global health body’s chief described conditions in the coastal enclave as ‘hellish.’<br />
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Israeli ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar told the WHO’s executive board that there could not be health care in the Palestinian territory when Hamas ‘embeds itself in hospitals and uses human shields.’<br />
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In ‘every single hospital that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) searched in Gaza, it found evidence of Hamas’ military use,’ she said. ‘These are undeniable facts that WHO chooses to ignore time and time again. This is not incompetence; it is collusion.’<br />
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Israel has repeatedly said Hamas is using civilians as human shields, including by locating operations bases under hospitals. Captured Hamas terrorists have confirmed the claims, explaining that Hamas knows Israel will not bomb a medical center.<br />
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On X, formerly Twitter, the ambassador insisted there was evidence of Hamas’s ‘terrorist use’ of hospitals.<br />
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During the same session on the organization’s work in health emergencies, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who lived through war as a child and whose own children hid in a bunker during bombardments in Ethiopia’s 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, became emotional describing conditions in Gaza...<br />
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‘I think all of you have said the two-state solution and so on, and hope this war will end and move into a true solution,’ he said, before breaking down, describing the current situation as ‘beyond words.’...<br />
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Eilon Shahar said Tedros’s comments represented a ‘complete leadership failure.’<br />
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‘The statement by the director-general was the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the WHO since October 7th. No mention of the hostages, the rapes, the murder of Israelis, nor the militarization of hospitals and Hamas’ despicable use of human shields,’ the Israeli ambassador said in comments sent to Reuters...<br />
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783987">Netanyahu doubles down on Qatar criticism: 'I don't retract a single word'</a>
<blockquote>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his harsh critique of Doha ahead of an anticipated meeting by US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns with Qatari, Egyptian, and Israeli officials in Europe on the possibility of a second hostage deal.<br />
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“I do not retract a single word I said,” Netanyahu exclaimed during a Saturday day press conference with reporters in Tel Aviv.<br />
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“I will not give up even one option of placing pressure on Hamas or on anyone who can pressure it,” he stated.<br />
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Netanyahu spoke on Channel 12 last week and published a leaked tape in which he referred to Qatar, which along with Egypt, is attempting to mediate a deal to free the remaining 136 hostages held in Gaza. Qatar has since said that such comments have harmed the negotiations for a deal.<br />
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On Saturday night Netanyahu stated that “Qatar hosts the leaders of Hamas and finances the organization. It has leverage over Hamas.”<br />
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Netanyahu also pointed to the deal made earlier this month with France’s help by which medicine was supposed to be delivered by the hostages, but no proof has been given It has pledged that the drugs will reach the abductees.”<br />
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“Qatar has put itself forward as a mediator, so it should prove it by making sure that the medication reaches the hostages and by securing their release,” Netanyahu stated.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jns.org/dead-on-arrival-biden-israel-aid-package-in-jeopardy/">Biden Israel aid package in jeopardy</a>
<blockquote>U.S. President Joe Biden’s $106 billion supplemental foreign aid package, with $14.3 billion for Israel, appeared to be in jeopardy Friday with House Republicans signaling that they would oppose a Senate-led compromise bill.<br />
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, wrote a letter to Republican colleagues on Friday suggesting that the supplemental foreign aid bill, which also includes $61 billion for Ukraine and billions for Taiwan, Gaza and other global hotspots, would be unacceptable to House Republicans even if it included reforms to U.S. border security policy.<br />
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“I wanted to provide a brief update regarding the supplemental and the border, since the Senate appears unable to reach any agreement,” Johnson wrote to colleagues. “If rumors about the contents of the draft proposal are true, it would have been dead on arrival in the House anyway.”<br />
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Biden first proposed the aid package in October, shortly after the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.<br />
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The Republican-controlled House passed the Israel portion of the aid in November but attached it to budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service that were not viable in the Democrat-controlled Senate.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/world/europe/gaza-peace-plans-day-after.html">Gaza's "Day After": A Year of Low-Intensity Warfare</a>
<blockquote>There is increasing talk of some "day after" formula for Gaza, but there is not going to be a bright line between war and peace there. Israel has made it clear that it will not subcontract security along its border to anyone else.<br />
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The vision is a managed intermittent conflict without a large permanent Israeli presence, said Yediot Ahronot columnist Nahum Barnea. The military envision a situation akin to that in the northern West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin, where the IDF goes wherever it wants. It envisions operating from a buffer zone inside Gaza, now being constructed, and going deeper into the territory from time to time on specific operations, based on intelligence.<br />
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While President Biden has said he would like a "revitalized Palestinian Authority" eventually running Gaza, at a minimum this would require the retirement or "emeritus" status of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, internal reform, and some form of Palestinian elections, senior American officials say. But new elections would almost surely result in some political role for Hamas.<br />
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Yaakov Amidror, a former general and national security adviser, said he sees 2024 as a year of low intensity warfare. The next year or 18 months will be dedicated to finding and destroying Hamas tunnels, infrastructure and fighters. At the end, by mid-2025, he believes Hamas will no longer have military and political capacity to run Gaza. And the Israeli army may be in a position to operate in Gaza along the lines of its West Bank model. There is a long road ahead to a true "day after."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.inss.org.il/publication/north-gaza/">Preventing Hamas' Recovery</a>
<blockquote>The IDF has successfully dismantled Hamas' operational framework in northern and central Gaza. More than 11,000 rockets have been fired into Israeli territory. More than 95% of those that threatened to hit targets inside Israel were intercepted by Israel's aerial defense systems.<br />
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Much of the humanitarian aid that enters Gaza through the Rafah border crossing does not reach northern Gaza because Hamas members and criminal elements hijack the trucks as they make their way northward.<br />
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Hamas' emergency councils, which are responsible for civilian activity in wartime, are still functioning and have regained their strength in northern Gaza after the IDF withdrew from neighborhoods and refugee camps. Hamas civilian police are starting to operate openly. Hamas is trying hard to create a myth whereby it cannot be defeated, in the expectation that domestic and international pressure on Israel will force it to halt the war.<br />
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Israel needs to recapture northern Gaza to prevent Hamas from returning to the area, allowing a new local leadership to emerge who have no connection to Hamas, to run civilian matters, stabilize northern Gaza, and start the reconstruction process. Only if the IDF has military control of the region will a local leadership emerge that is not afraid of Hamas. Israel must also hermetically seal the Philadelphi corridor separating Gaza from Egypt to prevent Hamas from rearming.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-north-idf-drills-for-urban-warfare-as-health-system-preps-for-attack-scenarios/">In north, IDF drills for urban warfare as health system preps for attack scenarios</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-hezbollah-targets-in-lebanon-after-rocket-drone-attacks-on-north/">IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after rocket, drone attacks on north</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/intense-battles-rage-in-heart-of-khan-yunis/">Intense battles rage in heart of Khan Yunis</a>
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More weapons facilities found and destroyed in Khan Younis. Many more armed terrorists found and destroyed.<br />
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The Hamasectomy will continue. <a href="https://t.co/JObkr3e6Il">pic.twitter.com/JObkr3e6Il</a></p>
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1751140518392709358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783966">Gazans call for overthrow of Hamas as they flee through IDF humanitarian corridor</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Gazans know something Western liberals don’t: Hamas is a disaster for them.<br />
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That’s why they’re chanting “down with Hamas!” as they move to the humanitarian zone through a humanitarian corridor secured by Israeli forces.<br />
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— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751264992182104076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Qatar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Qatar</a>/Hamas's Al-Jazeera star mil expert Fayez Duwairi says if <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> forces enter Khan Younes, Sinwar, Hamas leadership and Israeli hostages will go elsewhere through the 700km of tunnels.<br />
Duwairi has given up on the "Hamas is holding its ground" myth and replaced it with… <a href="https://t.co/M3IbPxrvh0">https://t.co/M3IbPxrvh0</a></p>
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) <a href="https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1750942370927976768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">An IDF airstrike targeted an armed cell in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian media reports one of the terrorists killed is Muhannad Jibril, a member of Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/Jq6gVp23vr">pic.twitter.com/Jq6gVp23vr</a></p>
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1751283169943486767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This is an example of DIP or Deceptive Imagery Persuasion. The <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@QudsNen</a> is claiming that this round was fired at a hospital in Khan Yunis and they are counting on your lack of knowledge of how firearms work to use this image against you.<a href="https://t.co/dhwdwy4E4T">https://t.co/dhwdwy4E4T</a></p>
— Ryan McBeth (@RyanMcbeth) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMcbeth/status/1751236511167635544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Israeli forces visit a statue honoring suicide bombers in Jenin in the West Bank<br />
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Via <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheMossadIL</a> <a href="https://t.co/SEKQUwTrsf">pic.twitter.com/SEKQUwTrsf</a></p>
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1751248125161869469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Went on <a href="https://twitter.com/skynewsarabia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@skynewsarabia</a> (Arabic) with a pundit from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a>, another from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Iran?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Iran</a>, both were harping on "the rights of the Palestinian people" and that the Red Sea crisis will not be solved unless <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> stops Gaza War.<br />
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China's declared policy is for every country to…</p>
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) <a href="https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1750982043909992870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/un-official-accused-of-silence-on-oct-7-to-visit-israel-to-learn-of-hamas-sexual-violence/">UN official, accused of silence on Oct. 7, to visit Israel to learn of Hamas sexual violence</a>
<blockquote>Pramila Patten, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, plans to arrive in Israel on Monday, the United Nations announced on Thursday.<br />
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Patten, who was invited by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also plans to visit Palestinian-controlled areas in Judea and Samaria on the trip, which is expected to last into early February.<br />
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The Mauritian barrister will “gather information on sexual violence, reportedly committed in the context of the attacks of Oct. 7 and its aftermath,” the international body announced earlier this month.<br />
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The United Nations and its agencies have come under heavy scrutiny for failing, for two months, to acknowledge credible, mounting allegations of sexual violence committed by Hamas and Palestinian civilians from Gaza during the Oct. 7 massacre.<br />
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The Israeli mission to the United Nations told JNS that Gilad Erdan, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, will accompany Patten on parts of the trip.<br />
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The U.N. official was involved in a confrontation days ago with Linor Abargil—an Israeli lawyer, actress and former “Miss World,” who is a rape victim and who advocates against sexual violence.<br />
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Abargil approached Patten during a U.N. event and told her, “I have to tell you that as a rape victim, I’m so disappointed from your behavior and from you not condemning all the abuse that happened to our women.”<br />
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Patten responded, “Maybe you should have all the facts.”<br />
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“I have the facts, and after two months you didn’t have even one response,” said Abargil as one of Patten’s apparent handlers asked her, “Can we not have this in front of the camera?”<br />
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Undeterred, Abargil continued, “Why? You saw the testimony. This is now the time for action.”<br />
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“If it was your daughter, would it take you two months? If it was your sister?” she pressed. “Tell me. Why you don’t answer?”<br />
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Patten promptly departed the event.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This morning, I went to the <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> wearing a shirt with the photos of the 136 hostages who are in Gaza for over 100 days.<br />
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I was told by UN staff I am not allowed in with the shirt because it is “propaganda.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BringThemHome?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BringThemHome</a></p>
— Michal Cohen// מיכל כהן (@michal_cohen72) <a href="https://twitter.com/michal_cohen72/status/1750905919431401869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Daniel Greenfield: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-admin-wont-stop-pro-hamas-protests-but-demands-israel-stop-hostage-families-from-blocking-hamas-aid/">Biden Admin Won’t Stop Pro-Hamas Protests in U.S., But Demands Israel Stop Hostage Families From Blocking Hamas Aid</a><br />
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<a href="https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-rape-crisis-centre-supporting-pro-hamas-rally-another-low-in-toronto">Rape crisis centre supporting pro-Hamas rally another low in Toronto</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre has said nothing about the horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas.<br />
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Nothing about the rape of Israeli women being held hostage.<br />
Not one word.<br />
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Imagine being a Jewish woman who needs to use their services? <a href="https://t.co/neRHNfFFP3">pic.twitter.com/neRHNfFFP3</a></p>
— Ariella (@ariellakimmel) <a href="https://twitter.com/ariellakimmel/status/1750334046750626139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Israel-Hamas war will end after ‘destruction of Hamas’ and ‘release of hostages’
<blockquote>Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy says the war on Hamas will end when their goals of “the destruction of Hamas” and the “release of hostages” have been achieved.<br />
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The International Court of Justice is demanding Israel do all it can to avoid acts of genocide in its war against Hamas.<br />
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Judges in the Hague are considering a case brought forward by South Africa, which alleges Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.<br />
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“This war will end when we have achieved our goals – the destruction of Hamas and the release of the hostages,” Mr Levy told Sky News Australia.<br />
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“We wished that we had a magic wand that we could wave and the hostages would come home, and Hamas would stop being a genocidal terror organisation committed to our destruction, but the first thing Hamas did after slaughtering 1,200 people and abducting 253 was to tell us that it wants to do it again and again.<br />
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“We’re fighting Hamas so they can’t do it again and again, and we’re fighting to release the hostages we fear are being tortured and executed and raped in its tunnels right now, and there is no way we’re going to abandon them, and so we will continue to fight, not because we want to, but because we must.<br />
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“Hamas declared war on us, it started this war, and we are going to end this war – and we are going to end this war in a way that makes sure it can never hurt us again.”</blockquote>
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Douglas Murray: Palestinian Authority 'rewarding terrorism' with international taxpayers' money
<blockquote>Author Douglas Murray has sensationally pointed to the Palestinian Authority’s “slay-for-pay” policy where international taxpayer funds are used to “reward and incentivise terrorism”.<br />
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"Western politicians seem to think the Palestinian Authority are sort of good guys and Hamas are admittedly the bad guys – sometimes they admit that,” Mr Murray told Sky News Australia host Liz Storer.<br />
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“Therefore you should give stuff to the good guys, the thing is, the Palestinian Authority are not good guys – among other things, they have amazing amounts of support for Hamas.”<br />
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“Much of the Palestinian Authority’s current budget is paid for by international taxpayers including Europeans, Americans, and, I think, Australians.<br />
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“Much of the budget of the Palestinian Authority’s budget goes to the so-called ‘slay-for-pay’ awards which is money from the Palestinian Authority budget, which goes to the terrorists who carry out attacks on Jews and, if they are killed, to their families to reward them on a scale that advances depending on how high in casualty figures your terrorist attack was.<br />
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“This is money for terrorists paid by the PA, paid to the families of terrorists to reward and incentivise terrorism – that’s the Palestinian Authority.<br />
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“And they have just admitted, boasted in fact, they are going to pay the terrorists and families of the October 7 attack.”</blockquote>
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FDD PODCAST | Colonel Richard Kemp on Israel's Long War
<blockquote>Colonel Richard Kemp has spent three decades fighting terrorists and insurgents around the world, including as commander of British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has been present during each conflict between #israel and #hamas since 2008 and has been in Israel since the beginning of the current #gaza war.<br />
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Col. Kemp joins Cliff to discuss why Israel is not guilty of genocide and why Hamas, #hezbollah and their patrons in #tehran *are* guilty of genocide; the measures taken by Israel to reduce civilian harm — including their unparalleled ratio of civilians to combatants killed — in what the Col. calls the “single most challenging battlefield”; how South Africa and other members of the so-called ‘international community’ reinforce Hamas’ use of human shields; and the Colonel’s thoughts on the recent U.S.- and UK-led defensive strikes targeting Houthi assets in Yemen.<br />
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Col. Kemp also shares a battlefield assessment from his time spent in Ukraine and explains to Cliff why he fears the war is likely to end in defeat for Kyiv.</blockquote>
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The Israel Guys: Over 19,000 HAMAS Terrorists Are Now Killed, Wounded, or Captured by ISRAEL
<blockquote>Israel is winning control of Khan Yunis in the heart of Gaza, and have now killed and captured over half of Hamas’ fighting force. Also amid truce talks, Israel strikes the Iranian airport in Lebanon possibly escalating the situation. This is going to be a packed show, so hold on.</blockquote>
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the purpose of this post is to provide you with easy access to every post which debunks a major subject of the Palestinian narrative. Enjoy.<br />
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About the Hamas massacre, and the current Israeli-Gaza war:<br />
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1. All documented evidence (so far) of the Hamas massacre on… <a href="https://t.co/0Ike4vX3Oa">pic.twitter.com/0Ike4vX3Oa</a></p>
— Shlomo Fishman (@shlomo_fishman) <a href="https://twitter.com/shlomo_fishman/status/1751171253161918542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/2822085/john-fetterman-greets-protesters-outside-his-home-by-waving-israeli-flag/">John Fetterman greets protesters outside his home by waving Israeli flag</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WATCH?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WATCH</a>: Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnFetterman</a> waves Israeli flag from a roof amid jeers from anti-Jewish protesters. <a href="https://t.co/z3QxVC1irT">pic.twitter.com/z3QxVC1irT</a></p>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1751083108563304895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Real Time with Bill Maher: Hamas in Higher Education
<blockquote>Bill argues that student support for Hamas, a terrorist organization, can be traced to their college professors.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">So the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry's numbers are not to be questioned despite evidence of numerous inconsistencies, but estimation that Israel has taken out 9K out of ~30-40K Hamas fighters (pre-war) is "implausible".<br />
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Also, doesn't seem like the best day to cite UN workers… <a href="https://t.co/lgeIRrfIFz">pic.twitter.com/lgeIRrfIFz</a></p>
— AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1751038815010001235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/27/metro/nyc-teachers-twist-wheels-on-the-bus-to-celebrate-israel-hate/">Anti-Israel NYC elementary teachers twist ‘Wheels on the Bus’ song to celebrate the eradication of Jewish state</a>
<blockquote>A pair of Brooklyn public school teachers are plying kids as young as eight with anti-Israel propaganda, drawing lessons from material that twists the classic “Wheels on the Bus” song into a hateful screed that cheers the eradication of the Jewish state, The Post has learned.<br />
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In Giuseppe Rebaudengo and Anna Battaglia’s third-grade classrooms at PS 705 in Prospect Heights, young minds are being molded into “social justice warriors,” learning from materials that morph the beloved 1939 kiddie tune into a Palestinian resistance cry called “The Wheels on the Tank.”<br />
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“The wheels on the tanks go round and round, all through the town. The people in the town they hold their ground, and never back down,” the sick new rhyme goes, illustrated with Palestinian kids hurling rocks at Israeli tanks.<br />
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“The bombs in the air go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, all through the skies. From every river to every sea the people cry, cry, cry. Free Palestine till the wheels on the tanks fall off.”<br />
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The lessons are inspired by the ultra-left wing website Woke Kindergarten, including one that demeans Israel as a “made up place” that has “settlers called Zionists who are harming and killing the Palestinian people.”<br />
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And drawings of watermelons — used as a symbol of resistance by anti-Israel activists — line the hallways at PS 705, according to a post from the NYC Public Schools Alliance, which fights bias in schools.<br />
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Critics ripped the lessons as nothing more than hateful indoctrination.<br />
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“I want teachers to have leeway but we should also embed teaching with fact, not propaganda,” said Tova Plaut, founder of the NYC Public Schools Alliance, which fights bias in schools.<br />
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“When we embed this bias inside young children, removing it is nearly impossible,” she added.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/ny/nypd-warns-pro-hamasniks-we-will-flood-our-jail-cells-with-you/2024/01/27/">NYPD Warns Pro-Hamasniks: We Will ‘Flood’ Our Jail Cells With You</a>
<blockquote>New York’s Finest warned pro-Hamas demonstrators this weekend via social media not to carry out their announced plans to “flood” a highway leading to JFK International Airport, and to attempt to shut down Terminal 4 at the airport itself.
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What can I say that has not been said. Dont flood our highways and inconvenience our hard working tax paying New Yorkers. If you do, we will try to flood our jail cells with you and take your car! On behalf of the 99.9% of New Yorkers, enough already! Strength and Honor!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/A0WWsQdlh6">https://t.co/A0WWsQdlh6</a></p>
— NYPD Chief of Patrol (@NYPDChiefPatrol) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDChiefPatrol/status/1751057226670735775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The anarchists’ use of the word “Flood” is a direct reference to “Al Aqsa Flood,” the name of the war against Israel launched by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists on October 7th. On that Shabbat Simchat Torah, some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel and slaughtered more than 1,200 people, including hundreds who were attending the “Super Nova” music festival at nearby Kibbutz Re’im, plus soldiers and local residents of 22 Jewish communities and several IDF military bases along the Gaza border. In many cases, the terrorists tortured their victims, mutilating, raping and dismembering them. Thousands were grievously injured in the attack, and more than 250 others were kidnapped and dragged into Gaza captivity.<br />
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The “Flood JFK for Gaza” event was set to begin from Brooklyn and Queens, first at 12 noon with a car caravan heading out from Brooklyn, then at 1 pm with a pedestrian “mobilization” at the Air Train station in Jamaica, Queens. The pro-terrorist activists were then set to “rally” at 2 pm outside the Arrivals Hall at JFK’s Terminal 4, the terminal that hosts El Al Airlines and other carriers flying to and from the Middle East.<br />
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“Trying to shut down an airport?” NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry wrote in a post on the X social media platform. “You will be the one getting shut down! We respect peaceful protest but will not tolerate lawlessness. The NYPD stands ready to ensure that our airports are operational and that hardworking New Yorkers going on vacation are not inconvenienced.”<br />
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Retweeting that post, NYPD Chief of Patrol Chief John Chell added, “What can I say that has not been said. Dont (sic) flood our highways and inconvenience our hard working tax paying New Yorkers. If you do, we will try to flood our jail cells with you and take your car! On behalf of the 99.9% of New Yorkers, enough already! Strength and Honor!!!!!”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">I toured what’s left of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. This is what the masked Jihadists blocking your morning commute mean by ‘Free Palestine.’ Here’s your DEI ⬇️<br />
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(Put together by <a href="https://twitter.com/SimonM_1776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SimonM_1776</a>) <a href="https://t.co/kj4iJH0erC">pic.twitter.com/kj4iJH0erC</a></p>
— Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) <a href="https://twitter.com/Justine_Brooke/status/1750884360918618374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Today, anti-Israel demonstrators desecrated International Holocaust Memorial Day.<br />
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If this is how they behave today of all days, what can we expect during next week’s protests? <a href="https://t.co/5EWakLv5IC">pic.twitter.com/5EWakLv5IC</a></p>
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) <a href="https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1751304710647083447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Do you know what Jihad means?<br />
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Hint: It does NOT mean freedom fighter. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AntizionismIsAntisemitism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AntizionismIsAntisemitism</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HamasISIS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HamasISIS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HamasRapist?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HamasRapist</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BringThemHomeNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BringThemHomeNow</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithIsrael?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithIsrael</a> <a href="https://t.co/cHUJNU9rX4">pic.twitter.com/cHUJNU9rX4</a></p>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1751023550616707107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13012031/Pro-Palestine-protesters-clash-cops-four-arrested-massive-protest-outside-American-Israel-Public-Affairs-Committee-headquarters-New-York-City.html">Pro-Palestine protesters clash with cops - with at least four arrested - at massive protest outside American Israel Public Affairs Committee headquarters in NYC</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"I'm doing this for your safety!" - Police push back as confrontations begin between Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel crowds outside of AIPAC headquarters in NYC, for "Flood AIPAC, Elbit and friends of the IDF" protest.<br />
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Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/yyeeaahhhboiii2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yyeeaahhhboiii2</a> Desk@freedomnews.tv to license <a href="https://t.co/4mTER6bOPA">pic.twitter.com/4mTER6bOPA</a></p>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1750980108356132995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NOW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NOW</a> Counter protesters hold "Nova Festival" banner across from large Pro-Palestine protest that gathered on 44th and 3rd Avenue AIPAC Headquarters.<br />
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Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/yyeeaahhhboiii2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yyeeaahhhboiii2</a> Desk@freedomnews.tv to license <a href="https://t.co/PzYv67tSK8">pic.twitter.com/PzYv67tSK8</a></p>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1750982736297468181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"This is what your tax dollars are funding!" - Person shouts as multple people are arrested during confrontations between Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel crowds outside of AIPAC headquarters in NYC, for "Flood AIPAC, Elbit and friends of the IDF" protest.<br />
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Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/yyeeaahhhboiii2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yyeeaahhhboiii2</a>… <a href="https://t.co/LK5cNpebUc">pic.twitter.com/LK5cNpebUc</a></p>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1750990699762266380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NOW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NOW</a> Pro-Palestine Protesters Burn American flag chanting "Genocide Joe! Has got to go!" during dueling rallies outside of AIPAC headquarters in NYC <a href="https://t.co/geYR3N9ryS">pic.twitter.com/geYR3N9ryS</a></p>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1750997279517864415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">D.C. in front of the Israeli Embassy - two individuals deface the Israel and U.S. flags while police stand nearby watching them. <a href="https://t.co/ZLMsoqINF2">pic.twitter.com/ZLMsoqINF2</a></p>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1751068283841761330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> NYPD arrest Nerdeen Kiswani, leader of WOL organization, after clashes broke out outsode AIPAC where Pro-Palestine protesters attempted to protect her from being arrested as she moved into the crowds.<br />
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— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1751007535073558746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">3rd arrest in a month. Wonder if there will be actual charges.<br />
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“Free palestine”.<br />
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NYPD: “Worry about freeing yourself from jail first”<a href="https://t.co/TM7qtiIgDd">https://t.co/TM7qtiIgDd</a></p>
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShirionOrg/status/1750996077996802332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Justin Rivera is a certified teacher at <a href="https://twitter.com/YogaAlliance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YogaAlliance</a> - <a href="https://t.co/duy8ZbVH8A">https://t.co/duy8ZbVH8A</a><br />
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Imagine being a Jewish customer & taking a class with someone like him who wishes more violence against Jews! <a href="https://t.co/Tn0M8ULlaO">pic.twitter.com/Tn0M8ULlaO</a></p>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1750990584406577171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What better way to mark Holocaust Memorial Day than shouting at Starbucks in Cardiff? You know, those child killers? A bit of vandalism too, hurrah!<br />
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It's all fine by the police, who just look on. <a href="https://t.co/AWUROFbzxv">pic.twitter.com/AWUROFbzxv</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751284239411171800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"Shout at people in a bank and shriek for Israel's annihilation to Free Palestine!"<br />
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Peckham, today. A normal Saturday outing for racist thugs.<br />
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Note the National Socialist Workers Party placards. They "rejoiced" when Jews suffered the worst massacre since the Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/0FmPXeaxAF">pic.twitter.com/0FmPXeaxAF</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751246596325454274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Leftist anti-Israel protesters try to ruin the womens final at the Australian Open tennis. <a href="https://t.co/FzdxY6bgDQ">pic.twitter.com/FzdxY6bgDQ</a></p>
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AustralianJA/status/1751207602061545872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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MEMRI: <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/columbia-university-professor-joseph-massad-al-jazeera-tv-us-was-and-still-settler">Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad On Al-Jazeera TV: The U.S. Was, And Still Is, A Settler Colonialist Country; America Supports Israel Because It Reminds It Of Its White Supremacist Past</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-features/2805394/americas-foreign-enemies-stoke-jew-hatred-on-campus/">America’s foreign enemies stoke Jew hatred on campus</a>
<blockquote>Immediately after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, in which Hamas murdered and tortured 1,200 while capturing 240 hostages, celebrations of this “victory” over the Jewish state broke out in leftist bastions all over the United States. The firestorm of antisemitism on college campuses and in major cities ever since is unique in coming almost exclusively from left-wing sources. David Bernstein, founder and CEO of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, told the Washington Examiner he used to consider left-wing antisemitism “like climate change, slow-moving and corrosive. But that’s no longer the case. On the Left, antisemitism is now a complete tsunami.”<br />
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Dr. Charles Small, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, told the Washington Examiner that intolerance in the U.S. “was even shocking to me, [and] I knew that antisemitism was increasing exponentially.”<br />
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Hatred on college campuses has had a staggeringly damaging effect on Jewish students. A survey by the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel International found that following Hamas’s pogrom, only 46% of Jewish students feel “physically safe” and 33% feel “emotionally safe” on campus. A reported 73% have witnessed antisemitism in the 2023-24 school year.<br />
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Research from Small and the ISGAP and indications from foreign adversary watchdogs point to the likelihood that overseas provocateurs have played a role in creating today’s intolerance. Terrorist propaganda, possibly from terrorists themselves, is being shared on U.S. campuses. Some countries, including Qatar, Iran, and China, are involved in long-term efforts to stoke college antisemitism. In more recent efforts, Russia, Iran, and China have worked online to foment further discord, widening the fractures in American society. Identifying and counteracting these efforts is a vital necessity if we are to create an environment in which American Jews are not attacked for events unfolding in the Middle East.</blockquote>
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/?post_type=post&p=1853607">MIT Parents Press School To Address 'Threatening' Anti-Israel Disruptions</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.camera.org/article/brown-universitys-middle-east-studies-faculty-profiles-in-extremist-anti-israel-bias/">Brown University’s Middle East Studies Faculty Profiles in Extremist Anti-Israel Bias</a>
<blockquote>Recently, CAMERA published two important reports detailing anti-Israel and often antisemitic bias emanating from Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) and the university’s Choices Program, which provides curricula for secondary schools.<br />
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As one of those reports explained, nearly one in three faculty members of the CMES are supporters of the BDS Movement against Israel. According to the AMCHA Initiative organization that produced this data, “the presence and number of faculty who expressed support for an academic boycott of Israel prior to the onset of the [2021] Israel-Hamas war were strongly and reliably associated with every measure of faculty and student-perpetrated antisemitic activity…” Brown University has one of the highest numbers of faculty BDS supporters, comparable to Harvard University which has three times as many total faculty.<br />
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But the bias, extremism, and antisemitism among faculty in the CMES goes far beyond just support for the BDS Movement. Provided below is a non-exhaustive list of anti-Israel and antisemitic public rhetoric from many of the Center’s faculty members. The rhetoric shown helps demonstrate the level of bias and hostility toward the Jewish state.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What is even more ludicrous about Klein's piece is his comic blindness to the hundreds of anti-Semitic incidents on campuses in the past three months because he parachutes down for a $10,000 speaking fee and walks across a quad for an hour like he has any idea what's going on. <a href="https://t.co/nITZlmGwkA">https://t.co/nITZlmGwkA</a></p>
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1751110388521808018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">OCT 7 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Kinza Khan, a domestic violence & sexual assault attorney as well as a prof <a href="https://twitter.com/DePaulLaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DePaulLaw</a>, helped rip down posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN">https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN</a> <a href="https://t.co/GklcHMgDmm">pic.twitter.com/GklcHMgDmm</a></p>
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) <a href="https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1750999553619460324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">OCT 7 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Hana Odeh is on the faculty of <a href="https://twitter.com/Penn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penn</a>'s medical school in the dept. of biochemistry and biophysics. <a href="https://twitter.com/PennMedicine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PennMedicine</a> <a href="https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN">https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN</a> <a href="https://t.co/8udIXHijhw">pic.twitter.com/8udIXHijhw</a></p>
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) <a href="https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1751032271791087676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">OCT 7 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Bentley Wall, a science professor <a href="https://twitter.com/KentState?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KentState</a> & facilities manager <a href="https://twitter.com/UChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UChicago</a>, was caught ripping down posters on UChicago's campus of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas. <a href="https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN">https://t.co/kXhHWwKjGN</a> <a href="https://t.co/14IzGPKZej">pic.twitter.com/14IzGPKZej</a></p>
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) <a href="https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1751017171223036035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/sky-news-apologizes-after-anchor-compares-idea-of-relocating-gazans-to-holocaust/">Sky News apologizes after anchor compares idea of relocating Gazans to Holocaust</a><br />
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/27/news/jamaal-bowman-loses-key-endorsement-over-israel-stance/">Rep. Jamaal Bowman loses key Jewish organization’s endorsement over Israel stance</a>
<blockquote>Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost a major Jewish endorsement this week after making a joint appearance with an accused antisemite who publicly celebrated Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel.<br />
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J-Street, a politically left-leaning Jewish advocacy nonprofit, removed Bowman’s name on Friday from a list of 122 members of Congress it is backing in 2024.<br />
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“When the rhetoric, the framing and the approach go too far, that’s where we are going to hold our line,” J-Street boss Jeremy Ben-Ami told The Forward, which first reported the story. “And that’s when we felt that Bowman crossed the line here.”<br />
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“The rhetoric around genocide, the singling out of Israel, and at times Jewish people, that happens in some of these events — that needs to be called out in real time,” Ben-Ami continued.<br />
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The J-Street leader specifically cited Bowman’s recent appearance with Norman Finkelstein as the last straw. Finkelstein, who has been denounced by critics as an “antisemite” for decades, wrote the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre “warms every fiber of my soul.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">🚨SHOCKING: Rep. Jamaal Bowman - Uncovered Hamas Connection<br />
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👉We are being infiltrated by radicals.<br />
👉👉FOLLOW to join the resistance!<br />
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⚠️ Leaked footage shows Rep. Bowman applauding Hamas-connected WESPAC leader’s anti-Jewish rhetoric, echoes ‘Free Palestine’ chants”<br />
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✅… <a href="https://t.co/dCayAMgzdt">pic.twitter.com/dCayAMgzdt</a></p>
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShirionOrg/status/1751096713538937193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This guy was a terrorist shill from back when Arab terrorists were pushing Jews in wheelchairs off cruise ships. He’s a foul excecresence in the pay and pocket of Jew-hating genociders. Welcome to social media, you octogenarian filth. <a href="https://t.co/HdvFJAN5VB">https://t.co/HdvFJAN5VB</a></p>
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1751309320631841139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">🚨 TODAY: Jewish Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio Attacked.<br />
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👉WE are being infiltrated.<br />
👉👉FOLLOW to stay informed!<br />
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This pro-Hamas group targeted him during lunch.<br />
Police were called.<br />
Awaiting more details.<br />
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🎥<a href="https://twitter.com/ShelleyGldschmt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShelleyGldschmt</a> <a href="https://t.co/BzTq5rDb9b">pic.twitter.com/BzTq5rDb9b</a></p>
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShirionOrg/status/1751100841757491528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Maybe the ICJ could “order” you to stop being a traitor to your people and a shill for evil. That order would be as effective as any other order it could issue but would have the advantage of being true. <a href="https://t.co/3F2i9AnRGe">https://t.co/3F2i9AnRGe</a></p>
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/1751285288729559116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-783956">Iceland may pull out of Eurovision over Israel’s attendance in light of Gaza war</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"Again and again and again" is just what Corbyn's evil terrorist friends want.<br />
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You know, the ones who he says are seeking "social justice".<br />
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Go away. Shut up. Never come back. <a href="https://t.co/btNvH8TxW1">pic.twitter.com/btNvH8TxW1</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751311608528187403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Now he can spend more time with his racist friends.<br />
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Labour gain. <a href="https://t.co/UVd0Yclqsn">https://t.co/UVd0Yclqsn</a> <a href="https://t.co/MMQVTxc3AK">pic.twitter.com/MMQVTxc3AK</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751295654087868548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Just days after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the thoughts of Zahed Fettah turned to helping Palestinians. With money. So they could buy weapons.<br />
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He was speaking at The Wisdom Cultural and Islamic Centre in Birmingham, a registered charity. <a href="https://t.co/mWFL0YJmid">pic.twitter.com/mWFL0YJmid</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751308288484897213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">It is so appropriate that the National Socialist Workers Party marked Holocaust Memorial Day with a man who really likes Nazi abuse.<br />
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"Warsaw Ghetto - Gaza Ghetto"<br />
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Upstanding left wing "anti-racist" groups never have anything to say about the National Socialist Workers Party. <a href="https://t.co/1uzOxxXuNL">https://t.co/1uzOxxXuNL</a> <a href="https://t.co/TQyaZuoOEE">pic.twitter.com/TQyaZuoOEE</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1751317375096385610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hamas says “again and again”. And you supported South Africa’s despicable attempt to get the ICJ to order Israel to leave it free to do so. Have you no shame? <a href="https://t.co/MyFraJpNWQ">https://t.co/MyFraJpNWQ</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1751324287477141715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The top one says October 7 Café. The one on bottom left you can see yourself. It's a supermarket. The one on bottom right says "Flood of Al-Aqsa Station". It's an oil change shop for vehicles.</p>
— Imshin (@imshin) <a href="https://twitter.com/imshin/status/1751310204556185940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Another Jordanian store named after the October 7th massacre.<br />
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Israel is surrounded by sociopaths. <a href="https://t.co/oeQE7tvLAj">pic.twitter.com/oeQE7tvLAj</a></p>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1751136235056468182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-01-22/ty-article-opinion/i-grew-up-in-gaza-this-is-what-i-hope-for-its-future/0000018d-304c-db77-ad9f-ff7e89f50000">Palestinians Must Reject Hamas' Suicidal Adventures</a>
<blockquote>I left Gaza one month before the Israeli withdrawal in 2005. Since Hamas' horrendous Oct. 7 attacks on Israelis, difficult, uncomfortable questions are surfacing about the future of the Palestinian national project. Hamas' terror, which the group presented as legitimate armed resistance, seriously harmed the Palestinian cause and has led to thousands of Palestinians killed in Israeli retaliation. Armed resistance by Hamas and others failed to liberate any territories.<br />
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Gaza's destruction is forcing unprecedented questioning of Hamas and the viability of armed resistance by its displaced, hungry, sick, and exhausted residents. Hamas propaganda has consistently told Palestinians that its resistance prevents Israel from operating freely in Gaza. The 2023 war decimated this notion and claims that asymmetric guerilla power can seriously challenge Israel's overwhelming military superiority. No amount of rockets, tunnels, or violent attacks emanating from Gaza is going to address Palestinian grievances or result in the establishment of a Palestinian state.<br />
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Gaza should have become a model for what a prosperous, developed Palestinian state would look like. It was Hamas' choices that took Gaza down a dark path of recurring cycles of war, destruction, temporary reconstruction, and stalemate. The international community and the Arab world are tired of having to foot the bill for Hamas' suicidal adventures.<br />
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There must be a cultural shift within Palestinian society to reverse decades of incitement and anti-peace sentiments. There must be a once and for all disposal of the notion that Israel can be dismantled or erased. It is time for the Palestinians to embrace peace, reject violence, and genuinely believe in coexisting with their Israeli neighbors.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">That is an unfired bullet.<br />
You habitual liars. <a href="https://t.co/0VKRQE73wQ">https://t.co/0VKRQE73wQ</a></p>
— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) <a href="https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1751177952190947732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hezbollah has become the butt of jokes for publicizing what it said was its destruction of an Israeli espionage facility at the border (the white ball-shaped thing). The Lebanese questioned: What missile has a colored camera that is better than that of an iPhone, while IDF… <a href="https://t.co/6PE1OQV44A">https://t.co/6PE1OQV44A</a> <a href="https://t.co/wrL3rmdD4u">pic.twitter.com/wrL3rmdD4u</a></p>
— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) <a href="https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1750953717774307487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">A video that has gone viral in Iran shows a group of young Iranian women and men dancing together in public in the snow-blanketed streets of Tabriz in the country’s northwest. <a href="https://t.co/6XJax3SrOy">pic.twitter.com/6XJax3SrOy</a></p>
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) <a href="https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1751131129384464776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13011773/Israel-Viva-Hitler-Jewish-Simpsons-memorial-Milan-hours-Holocaust-Memorial-Day-postpone-pro-Palestine-marches-Italy.html">'F*** Israel' and 'Viva Hitler' scrawled across Jewish Simpsons memorial in Milan hours before Holocaust Memorial Day - as officials postpone pro-Palestine marches across Italy</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Deborah Lipstadt, <a href="https://twitter.com/StateSEAS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateSEAS</a>, accuses China of engaging in "utilitarian antisemitism" by spreading antisemitic content and "adding fuel to the fire."<br />
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"If I can plant antisemitism in a Western democracy, I can suggest to the people in that country that this is a failed state." <a href="https://t.co/HZzslSAxhz">pic.twitter.com/HZzslSAxhz</a></p>
— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiringLineShow/status/1750983856142922131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/fury-as-labour-mp-claims-holocaust-memorial-day-should-recognise-gaza-genocide/">Fury as Labour MP claims Holocaust Memorial Day should recognise ‘Gaza genocide’</a>
<blockquote>A Labour MP has infuriated Jewish local party members after claiming “Gaza” should be added to a list of “recent genocides” to be remembered alongside the murder of six million Jews on Holocaust Memorial Day.<br />
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Kate Osamor, the MP for Edmonton, and a former frontbencher under Jeremy Corbyn, was photographed signing the Holocaust Educational Trust’s commemoration book in Westminster.<br />
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In her weekly mailout on Friday to local members in her north London constituency, the MP noted that Saturday is HMD, and said there was an “international duty to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust” as will as the millions of others people murdered under Nazi persecution.<br />
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Then, listing the “more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia” to be remembered on HMD, Osamor wrote in the newsletter “and now Gaza”.<br />
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Karen Pollock, chief executive, Holocaust Educational Trust, responded to the MP’s comments telling Jewish News: “This disgusting post is a malicious distortion of the truth, a painful insult to survivors of the Holocaust and particularly distressing to see on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day.”<br />
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A Jewish Labour Movement spokesperson added: “This is wholly inappropriate. This week we have been commemorating the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust – and those who perished in subsequent genocides, as listed by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.<br />
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“Unilaterally co-opting the war in Gaza, despite the horrific suffering there, on to that list is wrong and offensive.”<br />
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The Jewish Leadership Council also confirmed they would be raising Osamor’s conduct with Labour.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The International Definition of Antisemitism, adopted by <a href="https://twitter.com/UKLabour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UKLabour</a>, lists comparing Israel to Nazis as an example of antisemitism.<a href="https://twitter.com/KateOsamor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KateOsamor</a> has just done that. Even if her apology is genuine (many are doubtful), she evidently does not understand that her comment was… <a href="https://t.co/fuX1L8h2LE">pic.twitter.com/fuX1L8h2LE</a></p>
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) <a href="https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1751315804316946737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/jacksonville-killers-madman-diary-full-of-vitriol-includes-jew-hatred/">Jacksonville killer’s ‘madman diary,’ full of vitriol, includes Jew-hatred</a>
<blockquote>Jewish leaders issued statements last summer after Ryan Christopher Palmeter killed three people, all of them black shoppers, and then himself on Aug. 26 at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla. At the time, the city’s sheriff T.K. Waters referred to writings of Palmeter’s that were discovered as “the diary of a madman.”<br />
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The sheriff’s office recently released that “diary,” a manifesto that runs 27 pages and cannot be easily quoted for its hateful ranting and racist language. At one point, the killer expressed some skepticism about Jews controlling the word.<br />
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“While the evidence points strongly towards the existence of a cabal of elite jews [sic] conspiring (seemingly telepathically) to destabilize the nations of the world so that they can make a quick buck in the aftermath, the idea seems far-fetched, and Occam’s Razor leads me to believe that there is no centralization among those behind the West’s decay,” he wrote at one point.<br />
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“I encourage the reader to investigate the world’s most powerful people and form their own conclusions on whether their religions and ethnicities correlate and causate (hint: look into how many major players in media companies and big tech are jews [sic]), or whether this is mere coincidence,” he wrote.<br />
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He then posed: “Why is it that Adolf Hitler’s speeches are shown so often on television, and yet never given subtitles? If the man were such a villian [sic], there would be no reason to censor his words. “Perhaps coincidence, perhaps an attempt to conceal arguments against the jew [sic] crafted more convincingly than any others, especially mine.”</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/horrified-australian-pm-condemns-neo-nazis-after-arrest-of-disguised-group/">‘Horrified’: Australian PM condemns neo-Nazis after arrest of ‘disguised’ group</a>
<blockquote>Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned on Saturday domestic neo-Nazi activity after a black-clad group was arrested on the country’s national day, which saw rallies in support of its Indigenous people.<br />
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Police said late on Friday, a holiday known as Australia Day, that they arrested six people and issued 55 others with infringement notices for offensive behavior at a train station in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state.<br />
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The group was “heavily disguised,” police said.<br />
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“I was horrified,” Albanese told reporters in the town of Orange, about 203 kilometers (126 miles) from Sydney, when asked about the group on Saturday.<br />
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“I don’t want to see people in balaclavas dressed in black from head to toe, who are engaged in neo-Nazi activity in this country,” Albanese said.<br />
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Such activity “is rightly being condemned by all decent people,” he said, adding that Australia had seen a rise in neo-Nazism.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13012017/Actor-Michael-Rapaport-activist-Emily-Austin-rapper-Kosha-Dillz-attend-star-studded-event-help-stop-rise-anti-Semitism-devastating-October-7-attack.html">Actor Michael Rapaport, activist Emily Austin and rapper Kosha Dillz attend star-studded event to help stop the rise of anti-Semitism in the US after devastating October 7 attack</a>
<blockquote>A philanthropic event aimed at supporting an organization that aides IDF soldiers rallied some of the most unapologetically pro-Israel voices in the entertainment industry, all conveying a unified message: 'Do something.'<br />
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The Let's Do Something Gala, in support of 'Soldiers Save Lives,' held in the heart of New York City Thursday night, was in honor of David Newman, a close friend of the founder, who was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.<br />
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The lineup featured keynote speaker Michael Rapaport sharing inspiration, Israeli Activist Emily Austin advocating for change, and a lively musical performance by rapper Kosha Dillz.<br />
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The stories shared throughout the night reinforced the gala's message: to turn tragedy into triumph and contribute to the fight against anti-Semitism, noting the importance of holding the event one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day.<br />
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Rapaport expressed his commitment to supporting Israel and the Jewish community.<br />
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He acknowledged the somber circumstances of the evening while simultaneously highlighting the joy and importance of unity at this time.<br />
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'The event is nice, it's nice to talk to people but anything around Israel right now theres going to be a sense of sadness and heartbreak,' he said. 'But it's good to see people come together, and see Jewish people stand up and stand together and stay brave under the insane circumstances that we are under right now.'<br />
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He emphasized the need to raise funds for a great cause and dispelled the myth that all Jewish people are wealthy.<br />
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'My goal is to continue to raise money. A lot of uniformed people think every Jew is gazillionaire - that's not the case,' he said in an exclusive interview with Dailymail.com.<br />
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'This is a great cause. these kids put this into action. I want to try to keep my and other Jewish people's morale as positive as it can be under these circumstances.'<br />
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Rapaport concluded the event with a powerful message: 'Keep fighting.'</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-warns-against-downplaying-oct-7-ahead-of-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/">Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Biden warns against downplaying Oct. 7</a>
<blockquote>Ahead of Saturday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, US President Joe Biden has warned against an alarming rise in antisemitism after Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught against Israel, along with efforts by some parties to minimize what happened that day.<br />
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Biden, who launched the first US national strategy to counter antisemitism in May 2023, said Friday the need to remember the Holocaust and the “scourge of antisemitism” was more pressing than ever after the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people, the biggest loss of life on a single day since Israel’s founding in 1948. Two-hundred fifty-three people were also taken hostage, with 132 still in captivity.<br />
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“In the aftermath of Hamas’s vicious massacre, we have witnessed an alarming rise of despicable antisemitism at home and abroad that has surfaced painful scars from millennia of hate and genocide of Jewish people. It is unacceptable,” Biden said in a statement.<br />
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“We cannot remember all that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust experienced and then stand silently by when Jews are attacked and targeted again today,” he said, calling for forceful pushback against Holocaust denial and “efforts to minimize the horrors that Hamas perpetrated on October 7, especially its appalling and unforgivable use of rape and sexual violence to terrorize victims.”<br />
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UN experts this month demanded accountability for sexual violence against Israeli civilians during the October 7 attacks, including allegations of rape, mutilations and gunshots to genital areas.<br />
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US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in November said the rise in antisemitism since the start of the Israel-Hamas war was a “five-alarm fire” that threatened the safety of Jews worldwide and the future of Israel.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The Gipsy Kings sing Hatikva in Spanish to show their support for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> “From Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.”<br />
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🎶💙🇮🇱💙🎶<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmYisraelChai?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmYisraelChai</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithIsrael?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithIsrael</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BringThemHomeNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BringThemHomeNow</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZCWdaebJJ0">pic.twitter.com/ZCWdaebJJ0</a></p>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1750977549507887505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">90% of my mothers side of the family were murdered in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Holocaust?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Holocaust</a><br />
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My Grandmother survived <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Auschwitz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Auschwitz</a><br />
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My Grandfather survived <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dachau?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dachau</a><br />
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We will live on.<br />
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We’re not going anywhere.<br />
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Get used to it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverAgainIsNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NeverAgainIsNow</a> <a href="https://t.co/430vOddYeq">https://t.co/430vOddYeq</a></p>
— David Draiman 🟦 (@davidmdraiman) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidmdraiman/status/1751245507668689114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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🕯️245,000 remaining Holocaust survivors are alive today<br />
🕯️ 49% live in Israel<br />
🕯️ 16% live in the United States<br />
🕯️ 12% live in former Soviet Union countries<br />
🕯️ remaining are spread through Australia, Europe, and Canada… <a href="https://t.co/dGb9sDzJWG">pic.twitter.com/dGb9sDzJWG</a></p>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1751264930966163601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-holocaust-remembrance-day-survivors-mark-79th-anniversary-of-auschwitz-liberation/">On Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation</a>
<blockquote>A group of survivors of Nazi death camps will mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony Saturday in southern Poland.<br />
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Some 20 survivors from various camps around Europe were to lay wreaths at the Death Wall in Auschwitz and hold prayers at the monument in Birkenau. They will memorialize some 1.1 million camp victims, mostly Jews. The attentively preserved memorial site and museum are located near the city of Oswiecim.<br />
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Nearly 6 million European Jews were killed during the Holocaust.<br />
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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the survivors are to be accompanied by Polish Senate Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska, Culture Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz and Israeli ambassador Yacov Livne.<br />
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The theme of the observances is the human being, symbolized in simple, hand-drawn portraits. They are meant to stress that the horror of Auschwitz-Birkenau lies in the suffering of people held and killed there.<br />
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A memorial ceremony with prayers was held Friday in Warsaw at the foot of the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, who fell fighting the Nazis in 1943.<br />
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Earlier in the week, the countries of the former Yugoslavia signed an agreement in Paris to jointly renovate Block 17 in the red-brick Auschwitz camp and install a permanent exhibition there in memory of some 20,000 people who were deported from their territories and brought to the block. Participating in the project will be Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.<br />
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Preserving the camp, a notorious symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, with its cruelly misleading “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes One Free”) gate, requires constant effort by historians and experts, and substantial funds.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/27/netanyahu-unless-we-destroy-new-nazis-of-hamas-next-massacre-is-a-matter-of-time/">Netanyahu: Unless We Destroy ‘New Nazis’ of Hamas, Next Massacre Is a Matter of Time</a>
<blockquote>In an address to the nation on Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged that South Africa took Israel to the Hague “at the behest of the new Nazis” of Hamas. The leader condemned the fact the “ludicrous” accusation got a hearing at the International Court of Justice.<br />
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Netanyahu held aloft an Arabic copy of Mein Kampf, the notorious autobiography by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, as he condemned the indoctrination of Palestinians to the genocidal hatred of the Jews that erupted on October 7, the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust.</blockquote>
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In the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/opinion/south-africa-israel-genocide.html">New York Times</a>, an associate professor from The New School named Sean Jacobs gushes over the morality of his native South Africa charging Israel with "genocide" at the ICJ:
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<div>On the eve of the hearing, a friend messaged me from Cape Town: “It feels a little bit like Christmas Eve or something here. Or the night before a big final.” Because of the time difference, I watched a recorded version once I got to my office on Jan. 11, the first of two days of hearings. By then, Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, had already sent a message on X that “watching African women & men fighting to save humanity” from the “ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens.”</div>
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<div>As a Black South African who grew up during the nation’s liberation struggle and came of age watching the birth of South African democracy, for me, Albanese’s words resonated.</div>
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<div>[By] forcing the International Court of Justice to act, South Africa is putting down a marker for global civil society. <b>South Africa stepped up.</b> It showed what we could be and how groups that have faced oppression and violence can stand up confidently for one another on the world stage. </div>
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<div>So moral! So righteous!</div>
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<div>And so silent on Arabs deliberately murdering many black Africans on the same continent, in the same place that there has been a real genocide two decades ago!</div>
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<div>As summarized in <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/90517/the-imminent-risk-of-genocide-in-darfur-never-again-cannot-become-a-relic-of-the-past/">Just Security</a> last month:</div>
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<div>Less than 20 years after the Darfur genocide unfolded, history is repeating itself. The current conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group established by Sudan’s deposed president Omar al-Bashir, has <b>already claimed the lives of more than 12,000 and displaced more than six million people</b> since it broke out in April.</div>
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<div>This is all happening against the backdrop of one of the world’s largest, most pressing humanitarian disasters. According to the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), approximately 25 million Sudanese people, or half the country, are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. In Darfur, hundreds of miles away from Khartoum, the indigenous non-Arab ethnic groups are even more vulnerable, living under the reign of RSF terror and genocidal violence. The RSF has left a trail of mass atrocities in its wake with near impunity, reminiscent of the same brutal tactics used by the Janjaweed in the 2000s. <b>Today, the RSF, as the Janjaweed’s successor entity, is committing the same atrocities and targeting the same indigenous groups on the international community’s watch.</b> During the Janjaweed atrocities of the 2000s, policymakers not only failed to act in time to prevent genocide but even downplayed the nature of the violence to preserve other political interests. This time, there can be no debate over the magnitude of the horrors facing non-Arab ethnic groups at the hands of the RSF, or excuse for the repetition of our collective failure to uphold the promise of never again.</div>
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The Economist <a href="https://archive.is/7xDXB#selection-1077.0-1093.28">describes</a> how the Arab RSF is murdering all the men they can find, shooting babies and raping women:</div>
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<div>Hanan Khamis just wanted to get to safety. In mid-June, after surviving weeks of gunfire and rockets directed at the Masalit, a black African ethnic group, she fled el-Geneina, the capital of the state of West Darfur in Sudan. Hoisting her 23-month-old baby boy, Sabir, onto her back she started walking towards Chad. Yet fighters wearing the uniforms of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soon surrounded them. They dragged men to the side of the road and told the women to run. Before she could do so, a gunman wrenched open the shawl on her back that covered Sabir. “No men can escape to Chad,” he shouted. <b>Then he shot her baby in the head.</b></div>
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<div>In Chad a humanitarian worker identifies four other mothers who tell of similar horrors. One says she was stopped at a roadblock where Arab militiamen murdered the men in her group. When they saw her 15-month-old son strapped to her, they shot him dead as he clung to her. <b>The bullet burst through his tiny body and into hers, where it remains lodged.</b> “If that isn’t a genocidal act, I don’t know what is,” says Mukesh Kapila, a former un chief in Sudan who blew the whistle on massacres in Darfur 20 years ago.</div>
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<div>Zahara Adam Khamis, a women’s rights activist, weeps as she recounts how <b>a 27-year-old university student she knows was gang-raped</b> by five militiamen in front of her mother. ”<b>The baby will be Arab</b>,” they said as they finished.</div>
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<p>In November, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/africa/ethnic-groups-rounded-up-in-sudans-darfur-intl/index.html">CNN aired this searing report</a> showing videos of atrocities by the Arab gangs against Black African tribes:</p>
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<p>Sean Jacobs founded a website called <a href="https://africasacountry.com/about">Africa Is A Country.</a> But he hasn't written or <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=sudan(from%3A%40_SeanJacobs)&src=typed_query&f=live">tweeted</a> a word about Darfur or Sudan over the past year. And he has <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=israel%20(from%3A%40_SeanJacobs)&src=typed_query&f=live">tweeted obsessively about Israel</a>, dozens of times, i the same timeframe.</p>
<div>And the government of South Africa has been curiously silent about the targeting and murder of Black Africans much closer than Gaza. The only <a href="https://dirco.gov.za/south-africa-calls-for-cessation-of-hostilities-in-sudan/">statement</a> they made was out the outset of the war, expressing concern - but the words "Masalit" and "RSF" or "Darfur" are not to be found in any of their official statements. </div>
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<div>Using the ICJ case as proof of South Africa's concern over human rights is absurd, when that country doesn't defend Black Africans being systematically murdered on its own continent. The South African case against Israel while ignoring actual attacks against its fellow Africans in truth indicates antisemitism, not human rights. </div>
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<div>Not surprisingly, in its bio of Jacobs, the New York Times edited a book titled "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Apartheid-Israel-Politics-Sean-Jacobs/dp/1608465187">Apartheid Israel</a>." The New York Times didn't mention that he has a vested interest in this topic.</div>
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<div>And if you want one more example of the world's hypocrisy, in 2009, the UN said that what happened in Darfur <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-s-mass-killings-not-genocide-un-report-1.519924">was not genocide,</a> saying, "the crucial element of genocidal intent appears to be missing, at least as far as the central government authorities are concerned."</div>
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<div>These attacks go beyond defacing or taking down websites. They are actually affecting the lives of Iranians, and they show that cyberwar can not only affect cyberspace but the real world as well.</div>
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<blockquote>Predatory Sparrow is distinguished most of all by its apparent interest in sending a specific geopolitical message with its attacks, says Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, an analyst at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne who has tracked the group for years. Those messages are all variations on a theme: If you attack Israel or its allies, we have the ability to deeply disrupt your civilization. “They're showing that they can reach out and touch Iran in meaningful ways,” Guerrero-Saade says. “They're saying, ‘You can prop up the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah in these proxy wars. But we, Predatory Sparrow, can dismantle your country piece by piece without having to move from where we are.’” </blockquote>
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<div>“There’s no such thing as effective signaling if you can’t show credibly to the other person that not only do you have the capability, but that you’re willing to use it,” Guerrero-Saade says.</div>
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<div>In 2021, Predatory Sparrow triggered malware on Iranian transportation systems, forcing train delays and other problems. </div>
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<div>Later that year, the group performed a limited attack on Iranian gas station point of sale systems, but made it clear that they could have caused far more damage. They even warned Iranian emergency services to fill up their vehicles with fuel before the attack.</div>
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<div>The next next attack was game changing. "In June of 2022, Predatory Sparrow carried out one of the most brazen acts of cybersabotage in history, triggering the spillage of molten steel at Iran's Khouzestan steel mill that caused a fire in the facility." </div>
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<div>And recently, the group repeated its attack on gas stations in Iran, causing chaos for drivers.</div>
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<div>There are other attacks attributed to Israel itself that have affected real world living in Iran. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet">Stuxnet</a> attack on an Iranian nuclear plant was the most famous one. And in 2020, Israel is suspected to have mounted a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/middleeast/israel-iran-cyberattacks.html">cyberattack on an Iranian port,</a> effectively stopping most imports to Iran from sea for days. This was in response to an Iranian attempt to poison Israel's water system in its own cyberattack. </div>
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<div>Cyberwar is real. And it has real-world consequences. But it is not only limited to state actors, and talented private individuals and groups can cause mass chaos if they choose. </div>
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Al Jazeera Arabic features a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/1/25/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%A9">30 minute long interview</a> - in English - with Moshe Aryeh Friedman, who they describe as a "haredi Jewish rabbi" and "former chief rabbi of Austria."
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<div>He tells them what they want to hear - that the war in Gaza is a genocide that is the worst in history.</div>
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<div>He said in the interview that history “will condemn everyone who stood silent in the face of the bloodbath now flowing in the Gaza Strip, which exceeds all the massacres of history,” including, he said, the Holocaust.</div>
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<div>In reality, Friedman was never chief rabbi of Austria, and he does not appear to have even ever been ordained.</div>
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He <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120214001405/http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/western_europe/13029">attended the infamous Holocaust denial conference</a> in Iran in 2007 and embraced then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At the conference he said he didn't deny the Holocaust, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Friedman">claimed that only one million Jews perished</a> - which indeed makes him a Holocaust denier.</div>
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<div> The Austrian Jewish community then excommunicated him, forcing him to move to Boro Park in Brooklyn.</div>
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<div>There Friedman and his family moved into two apartments but <a href="https://nypost.com/2011/12/04/ajad-pal-rabbi-a-deadbeat/">refused to pay rent</a> for two years. It appears he was evicted as a result, and then moved to Antwerp in 2011, where the schools refused to admit his children because of his noxious views on the Holocaust.</div>
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<div>The supposedly religious "rabbi" then sued to allow his boys to attend an all-girls Belzer hasidic Jewish school. He <a href="https://joodsactueel.be/2013/02/06/zaak-schoolkinderen-friedman-hof-van-beroep-stelt-school-in-het-gelijk/">lost that case on appeal. </a></div>
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<div>This is the "rabbi" that Al Jazeera is pretending is a respected scholar and religious figure. </div>
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A <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1749959187268841484">great catch</a> by UN Watch's Hillel Neuer.
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<div><a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1748078446482165845">Last week,</a> former UNRWA Gaza Director Matthias Schmale , who is now a UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator, was asked a question in a press conference:</div>
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<div>Q: Given the UN's big role in Gaza, UNRWA, has there ever been any indication to the UN that tunnels are being built under the city?</div>
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<div>UN: Not to us. I mean... it seems to me that all this infrastructure was <b>built in a highly secretive way</b>. I mean, I see it just as an observer... To think that the UN had any understanding of what was… any information about those operations, I think, is... <b>No is clearly the answer to that.</b></div>
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<div>This is even though the UN has <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-strongly-condemns-neutrality-breach-against-agency-gaza">admitted</a> in previous <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/neutrality-and-inviolability-unrwa-installations-must-be-respected-all">years</a> that <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-neutrality-violation-gaza-strongest-possible-terms">tunnels</a> were found underneath their own schools. </div>
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<div>But the absurdity doesn't end there - because Schmale himself had admitted that it is a "safe assumption" there were extensive tunnels under Gaza, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056254276/gaza-united-nations-schmale-palestinians-israel">in a 2021 interview:</a></div>
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<div> One of our schools...less than half a kilometer from our compound, you can see it from our compounds very close, the [Israeli] military bombed, put two missiles into the courtyard of that school.</div>
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<div><b>They destroyed a tunnel going underneath that school. And again, with precision</b>. They struck exactly at one end of the tunnel and the other end of the tunnel. So they closed it off, basically. Very clear. They knew exactly what they were hitting.</div>
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<div>Many people told me through my four years, <b>there's tunnels everywhere and it's a safe assumption.</b></div>
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<div>Whether there are tunnels under our main compound, I cannot say, you know, that's speculative at this point. But yes, why would they hit so close if there is not something there?</div>
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<div>This is the same interview that <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/05/10000-gazans-demand-resignation-of-gaza.html">got Schmale fired from his UNRWA job</a>, because he said that Israeli airstrikes were accurate, and Gazans protested that he said out loud something that contradicts Hamas' narrative. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-36955731771796783712024-01-25T09:05:00.001-05:002024-01-25T09:05:23.788-05:00More evidence that the Palestinians literally make up casualty statisticsThe Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is keeping its own <a href="https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/site/lang__en/1405/Default.aspx">tally of deaths</a> in Gaza that they claim comes from the Gaza ministry of health and the UN.
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<div>As of today, they are claiming that there have been 25,700 total deaths, of which 12,345 have been children and 7500 women.</div>
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<div>That would mean that 77% of those killed were women and children, far higher than the 70% that Hamas claims.</div>
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<div>Here's the problem: the Hamas health ministry has not issued any statistics on the number of women and children killed for <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-un-no-longer-parrots-hamas.html">over a month</a>. The last time they did, on December 11, they claimed an already absurd 70% were women and children. </div>
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<div>As of <a href="https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-66">December 11,</a> Hamas claimed that there were 5,153 women and 7,729 children killed out of a total of 18,205 deaths.
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<div>As of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240116095946/https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/site/lang__en/1405/Default.aspx">January 16,</a> the PCBS - claiming to be using figures from the same source - said that there were 12,345 children and 7,100 women killed out of 24,100.</div>
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<div>That means that during those 36 days, there were 5,895 new total "martyrs" - but 6,563 additional women and children killed. </div>
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<div>Yes, they are claiming that there were 668 more women and children killed than there were total deaths. Truly miraculous!</div>
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<div>Not only that, as of January 16, the PCBS claims that some 81% of all deaths were women and children, which is far higher than the total percentage of women and children in Gaza (I <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1423040/gaza-age-structure-of-population/">estimate</a> it is 73%.) Any terrorists killed are just accidental, apparently. </div>
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<div>It's all made up.</div>
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<div>The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics brags how professional and accurate it is. But these numbers are completely fictional (isn't the number of children being 12345 a little odd?) </div>
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<div>If they really are getting these numbers from the Hamas authorities, then Hamas is obviously lying. If Hamas hasn't updated its women and children numbers since December as the UN says, then the PCBS is obviously lying.</div>
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<div>In truth, both are. As <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/12/proof-that-gaza-health-ministry-just.html">we've shown</a>, Hamas statistics sometimes also counted more women and children than total deaths. We see here that the "professional" PCBS happily posts numbers that simply don't add up. </div>
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<div>And the world media apparently doesn't have a single employee with a spreadsheet that can notice that the Palestinian authorities are proven to be liars.</div>
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The IDF <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1750238497204482242">released three samples</a> of memos written from Gaza's Al Qassam Brigades to Dr. Muhammad Hamdan, Head of the Directorate of Education and Teaching in Gaza, asking teachers to be excused from work because of military training ahead of October 7.
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<div>With regard to the matter mentioned above, we ask of you to provide the brother Nur-Aldin Naim Mahmoud Siam, who works at the Aljanan high school (as a math teacher), with a flexible work schedule, as the nature of his position with us requires constant follow-ups.</div>
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<div>With regard to the matter mentioned above, we ask of you to release the brother Moataz Abed-Alrazk Muhammad Alfara, who works at the education administration in west Khan Yunis, as we need him for military training on the date <b>28/09/2023</b>. This date is not flexible.</div>
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<p> With regard to the matter mentioned above, we ask of you to release the brother Hani Saeed Saleem Salah, who works at the education administration in west Khan Yunis, as we need him for military training on the <b>28/09/2023</b>. This date is not flexible.</p>
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<p>So we know that Gaza teachers, <a href="https://themedialine.org/top-stories/claims-that-israel-is-targeting-journalists-are-unsupportable-and-disgraceful-fiction/">journalists</a> and even <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-hospital-director-admits-hamas-used-medical-complex-as-operational-hub/#:~:text=According%20to%20Kahlot%2C%20who%20said,wing%20of%20the%20terror%20organization.">doctors</a> are also Hamas members. But how many articles that blame Israel for targeting specific people mention this quite important fact?</p>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-42340267505630234362024-01-24T12:05:00.001-05:002024-01-24T12:05:36.285-05:00NYC public school principal seems to be recommending her teachers attend an event claiming Israeli "genocide" in Gaza<div>I received this letter, apparently written by the principal of a New York City high school, from multiple sources. She is recommending that her teachers attend an event by "Educators for Palestine" to share anti-Israel curricula. </div>
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On February 3rd from 10AM-12PM Educators for Palestine will be hosting a virtual "curriculum share" geared to K-12 classroom teachers. In the first part of this session, teachers will have the opportunity to hear from a panel of organizers and legal experts on how to combat censorship as we strive to create classrooms that foster justice, understanding, and healing. </div>
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<div>In the second part of this session, teachers will have the opportunity to present and share original lessons and materials they have developed on topics such as Palestinian history, the history of Israeli occupation, and <b>the ongoing genocide in Gaza</b>—<b>every teacher who attends the curriculum share will leave with a collection of lessons they can use with their students.</b> </div>
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<div>Our hope is that by creating space to share resources and build meaningful connections, that we can empower each other to serve as changemakers within our individual schools. We especially want to highlight the incredible work educators are doing right now to combat hate, misinformation, and misunderstanding during this critical time. If you are an educator who has developed a lesson around Palestinian history, the history of Israeli occupation, <b>the ongoing genocide in Gaza</b>, or a related topic, and you'd like to present it to other teachers on February 3rd, please fill in ! Generous humans who donate lessons will be contacted by event organizers to answer questions and provide further details. </div>
<div>Anyone interested in attending should please RSVP HERE. We hope to see you on February 3rd, NYC Educators for Palestine, Working Group on Education & Curriculum Development </div>
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<div>Your Partner in Education and Proud Principal, </div>
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<div>The <a href="https://twitter.com/nycedpalestine/status/1748493198849122594">February 3 event is real. </a></div>
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<div>It seems that a New York City public school principal is encouraging her teachers to attend a session where they will receive curricula for their classrooms that spread antisemitic conspiracy theories that Israel intends to destroy all Palestinians. </div>
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<div>"Educators for Palestine" seem to be <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjF9Kv2F9NKfv2GH6PnVIG7pjuvf74D_wZyHIwrphI01V3ew/viewform">associated</a> with <a href="https://theprogressiveclassroomproject.com/">The Progressive Classroom Project</a>, as well as with the Democratic Socialists of America <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PUBLIC_-Educators-for-Palestine-Summer-Series-1-Pager.pdf">BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group</a>.</div>
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<div>They held a small demonstration last week outside the United Federation of Teachers offices in Manhattan, mindlessly repeating anti-Israel chants.</div>
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Principal Terri Grey herself is part of the <a href="https://solidarityuft.org/?page_id=10030%C2%A0%C2%A0UFT%20Solidarity%20is%20a%20progressive%20caucus%20(a%20political%20group,%20in%20short)%20of%20the%20United%20Federation%20of%20Teachers">Solidarity Caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.</a></div>
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<div>While her school is an academy school and is not required to use the official New York public school curriculum, schools chancellor David Banks <a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2023/11/8/23953148/david-banks-political-speech-warnings-to-teachers-over-gaza-walkout/">warned teachers</a> about violating Education Department rules on political speech. He wrote an email in November to school staff urging educators to keep their personal political beliefs out of the classroom.</div>
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<div>Encouraging teachers to attend a curriculum development program that is explicitly anti-Israel and antisemitic appears to violate that directive.</div>
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<div>The seminar, and similar ones in recent years, also shows how far behind pro-Israel organizations are in reaching out to teachers. No one seems to be doing anything even close to this in influencing K-12 classrooms to tell the truth about Israel. Outside of Holocaust education, what is the Jewish community doing to promote schools teaching Jewish history, Jewish culture, the Jewish influence on world religions, the affinity the founding fathers had for Jewish history, the influence of Jews in medicine, science, law - and the centrality of Israel to Jewish belief and thought?</div>
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Independent Arabia is a London-based newspaper that is jointly owned by the Independent (UK) and Media Arabia which is apparently <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1441096/media">Saudi-based</a>. It calls itself the "Arabic version of the British newspaper 'The Independent'" but it has many stories that are not in The Independent itself.
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<div>Yesterday, it published a story by Lebanese journalist Sawsan Mhanna, "<a href="https://www.independentarabia.com/node/524811/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1/%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D8%BA%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B5%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A">Jewish pressure groups and their influence on global decision-making</a>." It uses the visit by Elon Musk to Auschwitz as a springboard to describe how Jews have immense influence on global affairs.</div>
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<div>The article heavily relies on a study by the Arab Gulf Center for Studies and Research, "<a href="https://www.csrgulf.com/2019/01/30/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B7/">The hidden Jewish empire and the plan to control the world</a>." Its choice of photos indicate how professional it is.</div>
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<div>The study itself, which is the third most popular article on the CSR Gulf site, is laughably bad, twisting news articles to say things they don't say. For example, it says that "more than 17 thousand young Jews in 2016 were able to enter the millionaires’ club and achieve great wealth" when the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/04/22/where-millionaires-are-moving/?sh=640725fa700f">article</a> they link to doesn't say that at all: it discusses not people becoming rich but how the rich are moving from large cities to elsewhere, and it peripherally mentions wealthy Jews who fled an increasingly antisemitic Europe for Israel. </div>
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<div>The CSR Gulf insists that it is not a conspiracy theory, and then says things like:</div>
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<p>CSR Gulf is a Kuwaiti based think tank whose president is unapologetically pro-Iran. He <a href="https://www.csrgulf.com/2023/12/23/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%87%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%a8%d8%b1-%d9%84%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d8%a7/">gave a speech in Tehran last month</a> supporting Hamas and the entire Iranian "axis of resistance" against world Zionists.</p>
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<div>After extensively quoting the CSR Gulf "study" (including the paragraph above,) Mhanna then goes to another source, the Egyptian sociologist Abdel-Wahab Al-Mesiri who wrote the “Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism,” who says that the Jewish lobby controls America both through legal and illegal means, including through blackmailing and bribing government officials. </div>
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<div>Needless to say, both the CSR study and the article assume that Jews all collude together, that Jews all have their own unique agenda at odds with that of their host countries, and all Jews agree on how to spend their wealth. </div>
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<div>Independent Arabia uses the same logo as the Independent UK, and as mentioned is part owned by it. Which means that the "mainstream" British media is helping to spread classic antisemitic conspiracy theories.</div>
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<div>As I and others noted in a <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/academic-malpractice-for-hamas-scholars.html">number</a> of <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/10/israel-isnt-doing-anything-illegal.html">articles</a> in October, a military siege is legal under international law. Moreover, even stopping food and medicines from entering an encircled area can be blocked if there is a significant chance that the enemy would steal the goods and use them first.</div>
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<div>The <a href="https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/law_war_manual15.pdf">US Department of Defense Manual</a> says this clearly:</div>
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<div>5.19.1 <b>Siege and Encirclement Permissible.</b> It is lawful to besiege enemy forces, i.e., to encircle them with a view towards inducing their surrender by cutting them off from reinforcements, supplies, and communications with the outside world. In particular, <b>it is permissible to seek to starve enemy forces into submission.</b></div>
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<div>5.19.3 <b>Passage of Relief Consignments</b>. Commanders should make arrangements to permit the free passage of certain consignments: </div>
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<p>Since we know from previous wars, as well as this one, that Hamas controls all access to food - at gunpoint - allowing any food into Gaza is giving Hamas a definite advantage, and it is impossible to starve Hamas without also blocking food from the civilian population. </p>
<div>And what should the civilians do? The customary international humanitarian law from the ICRC quotes Israel's military manual in its <a href="https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule53">Rule 53:</a></div>
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<blockquote>The prohibition of starvation as a method of warfare <b>does not prohibit siege warfare as long as the purpose is to achieve a military objective and not to starve a civilian population.</b> This is stated in the military manuals of France and New Zealand. Israel’s Manual on the Laws of War explains that the prohibition of starvation “clearly implies that <b>the city’s inhabitants must be allowed to leave the city during a siege</b>”. </blockquote>
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<div>The civilians could seek food and shelter elsewhere. Israel's telling them to leave is not only congruent with international law - it is humanitarian. </div>
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<div>If the siege would have been allowed to complete, Gazans could have escaped and Hamas could have been forced to surrender. Perhaps months ago.</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, the siege in Gaza was only short-lived - and it was the US that pressured Israel to allow in the food for everyone, including Hamas, after only ten days of war.</div>
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<div>That was the first thing the US did to ensure that Hamas could stay underground indefinitely.</div>
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But there was a second decision the US made. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/world/middleeast/blinken-gaza-egypt-sisi.html">Earlier this month</a>, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that it was U.S. policy to ensure that Palestinians are not "resettled" outside Gaza. But he said this during the same trip where he met with Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has built huge wall to ensure that Gazans cannot flee to Egypt. </div>
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<div>The US has not said a negative word about this. </div>
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<div>Between those two facts, it is clear that US policy is that Palestinians, unlike every other people who live in war zones, do not have the right to seek refuge in other countries. </div>
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<div>Which means that US policy is that Israel must fight with its hands tied behind its back: it must try to avoid civilian casualties that Hamas has made unavoidable, and it must provide supplies to Hamas to allow it to stay underground and in fighting shape indefinitely.</div>
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<div>Neither of these are international law. </div>
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<div>And in fact, both of them are the opposite of humanitarian. More Gazans are dying because the war will be extended for many more months, and because they have nowhere to go. And everywhere they can go, Hamas embeds itself among them.</div>
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<div>A third decision by the US this month also effectively helped Hamas. The US signed an agreement with Qatar to extend its use of the Al Udeid air base for another ten years. </div>
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<div>Why didn't it withhold this agreement until all Israeli hostages are freed? Qatar has supported Hamas for many years; it provides Hamas with a great deal of aid ostensibly meant for Gaza. <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/why-do-us-and-israel-tolerate-qatars-blatant-anti-us-and-anti-israel-policies">It has influence with Hamas.</a> The US had a bargaining chip and threw it away. One must ask....why?</div>
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<div>Hamas' strategy is to keep civilians between it and Israel. The US and the West are doing everything they can to help Hamas in that aim. And when civilians are killed, Israel is blamed. </div>
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<div>For all of the weapons and ammunition that the US is sending Israel, it is not letting Israel win. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-15589395782792000592024-01-23T09:05:00.001-05:002024-01-23T09:05:02.296-05:00Unlike Gaza, Lebanese terror groups announce their "martyrs." And it proves that Israel only targets terrorists.AFP has been keeping <a href="https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/302919-israel-firing-in-south-lebanon-kills-over-200-since-start-of-gaza-war">a tally of deaths</a> in the mini-war between Hezbollah and Israel.
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<div>16 Hezbollah members in Syria</div>
<div>10 Hamas members in Lebanon</div>
<div>10 Islamic Jihad members in Lebanon</div>
<div>7 Hamas members in the Salah Arouri assassination assumed to be Israel</div>
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<div>Plus apparently 9 undetermined (AFP's numbers don't add up)</div>
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<div>This means between 85% and 88% of those killed in Lebanon were militants. </div>
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<div>As opposed to Hezbollah, which is <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/hezbollah-has-innovated-brand-new-war.html">literally targeting civilian houses</a> and <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/11/human-rights-watch-report-on-lebanon.html">civilians themselves</a> with anti-tank weapons and posting videos.
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<div>And Hezbollah explicitly says that they will <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/a-civilian-for-a-civilian-nasrallah-threatens-attacks-against-israelis-us-troops-in-region/">target Israeli civilians. </a> They have killed six so far, and the only reason the number is that low is because Israel evacuated all civilians from near the Lebanese border: Hezbollah has targeted dozens of civilian structures.</div>
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<div>The difference in both sides' morality couldn't be starker. Yet Israel is the side called "genocidal."</div>
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An op-ed in <a href="https://www.raya.com/2024/01/23/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%8E%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8F-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%91%D9%8E%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%90%D9%86%D8%A9/">Qatari site Raya</a> by Dr.. Ayman Al-Atoum:
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<div>I participated in a conference in support of Gaza a few days ago in Istanbul, and I was invited to recite one of my poems on its sidelines in the presence of the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, and a large number of leaders of parties and union institutions from various parts of the world, including Jews belonging to Neturei Karta movement. In the poem, I said: "we are against the Jews forever and ever."</div>
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<div>One of the honorable attendees jumped up and shouted: “<b>Say the Zionists and do not say the Jews</b>.” I immediately responded briefly, saying, God Almighty said: “You will find the people most hostile to God [are Jews.].” I wondered: Should I respond to your words or to the words of the Lord of the Worlds? I continued: The Jews that I meant in my poem are the Jews that God meant in his book. </div>
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<div>The Jews are Jews in faith, and I will not change the concept of the conflict because ten or a hundred of this type of Jews from the Neturei Karta party went out with me in a demonstration here or there.</div>
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<div>The Neturei Karta movement does not oppose its Zionist government in our sight; It opposes it because of their different prophecies regarding the establishment of the State of Israel. If the two had the same goal but differed in timing, does this call for me, the slain victim, to put my hand in his?! No and a thousand times no. </div>
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<div>Make no mistake - he hates the "Jewish Voice for Peace" Jews just as much. </div>
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<div>Atoum is a fairly well-known <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85">Jordanian poet and novelist.</a> One of his novels, <i>His Name is Ahmed</i>, has as a hero Ahmed Al-Daqamseh , who murdered seven Jewish schoolgirls and their teacher in the 1997 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Peace_massacre">"Island of Peace" massacre.</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905461463376743273.post-37081344319383272412024-01-22T16:04:00.001-05:002024-01-22T16:04:38.536-05:0001/22 Links Pt1: Israeli FM demands EU backing for hostages’ return, defeat of Hamas; Former Miss World slams women’s groups for Oct. 7 ‘silence’From Ian:<br />
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<a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/second-exile-sinai-gaza-hamas-evacuations">A Second Exile</a>
<blockquote>For over a quarter-million Israelis, Oct. 7 didn’t only signal the start of a war. It was also the day they realized they’d have to leave their homes. Some of them had a sense of déjà vu. They had been exiled from their homes before.<br />
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For Pnina Rogolsky, this evacuation brought back memories of the spring of 1982, when she lost her home in southern Sinai after Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt.<br />
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Dreaming of a quiet agrarian life, Rogolsky and her husband had moved to the Yamit settlement bloc in the early 1970s in response to a government call to settle the Sinai, which had come under Israeli control after the Six-Day War in 1967. They joined a brand new moshav near Yamit called Netiv HaAsara.<br />
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“The Jewish Agency gave us a tract of land and a tractor, which we shared with another family,” Rogolsky told me. “We grew tomatoes, mangoes, and flowers. I had my first baby. We were all young. We helped each other out. We socialized. It was a good life.”<br />
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She didn’t expect it all to end, and certainly not so quickly. “When the talk started about a peace treaty with Egypt, we assumed that we’d remain in our homes,” she said. “We didn’t think we’d give back Sinai.”<br />
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Initially, Rogolsky and the other Sinai settlers fought the plan. “We lobbied Knesset members, we demonstrated, we even burned tires,” she recalled. But by the spring of 1982, she said, the battle was lost: “We left our moshav in a caravan with our lights on as if we were on the way to a funeral.”<br />
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Rogolsky and her family—along with the other 70 families who evacuated the moshav in the Sinai—helped to reestablish the moshav, also called Netiv HaAsara, in what they hoped was a more secure location just outside the Gaza Strip.<br />
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Starting again wasn’t easy. “Losing our moshav in the Sinai felt like losing a limb,” said Rogolsky. “Some of our people could barely function.” But Rogolsky, who was then in her 30s, felt compelled to pull herself together. “Working the land helped me to heal,” she said.<br />
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Then came the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, when terrorists killed 20 members of the moshav. Rogolsky and her husband were in another part of the country visiting friends, but her son was at the moshav leading the security team. Fortunately he survived the attack. Rogolsky has been back several times since Oct. 7 “to visit and to do laundry,” she said; her husband goes back more frequently to tend to the family’s chicken coop. But neither of them stays for long.<br />
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Netiv HaAsara is in its second exile, its 900 residents scattered in hotels and apartments throughout central Israel. Rogolsky lives in the Yearim Hotel in the Judean Hills just outside of Jerusalem with several dozen of her neighbors, most of them like herself in their 70s and 80s, but it’s far from ideal.<br />
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The first days were the hardest, she said: “That whole first week we went from funeral to funeral, shiva to shiva.”</blockquote>
Dr. Albert Bourla is Chairman and CEO of Pfizer: <a href="https://time.com/6564827/israeli-hostages-call-to-action-davos-encounter/">An Unexpected Encounter At Davos Inspired My Call to Action For the Israeli Hostages</a>
<blockquote>It is our moral duty, as global citizens, to take the necessary steps to help the hostages. To start, we can learn more about them. They are real, innocent people facing unspeakable cruelty.<br />
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As citizens of the digital generation, we have the opportunity to raise public awareness, calling for the release of all hostages using the hashtag #BringThemHomeNow. We must rally around those elected officials who are advocating to bring the hostages home. By participating in the democratic process—sending an email or calling our senators, representatives, and the White House—we can give a voice to the hostages.<br />
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Join Ms. Goldberg, just as I did in Davos, by wearing a piece of tape on your shirt, counting the number of days that the 136 hostages are still not home. As the devoted mom told me, it reminds the world of the inhumanity at play.<br />
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As a healthcare leader, I have a responsibility to stress the urgent need for hostages to gain access to medication. International organizations need unfettered access to assess the conditions of the hostages, so that they can receive the necessary care. Supporting the families of hostages, and of course, the hostages themselves, does not end when they are brought home; mental health services must be made available to those in need, for as long as necessary.<br />
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The conditions for a return to calm and stability should be our priority. We owe it to the hostages to hold tightly to the hope that eventual peace, and the end to this cycle of violence, is within reach.<br />
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I will sign off with a question: Imagine if it were your loved one being held captive. What would you do?</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/former-miss-world-slams-womens-groups-for-oct-7-silence/">Former Miss World slams women’s groups for Oct. 7 ‘silence’</a>
<blockquote>Israeli lawyer, actress, model and beauty queen Linor Abargil, who won the Miss World title in 1998, has spoken out against the silence of women’s organizations in the wake of the murder, sexual assault and kidnapping of women by the Hamas terror organization.<br />
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“On Oct. 7, we witnessed the most horrible massacres, atrocities, rape, mutilation—the worst human behavior,” Abargil said at an event organized as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos.<br />
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“I turned to all my colleagues and friends worldwide, as well to the leading women’s rights organizations, to expose this terrible event, certain that they would speak out and condemn this unspeakable event. And what did I discover? That there is a discriminatory approach— violence against one woman doesn’t equal violence [toward] another,” she said.<br />
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“Their silence, apathy and oblivion shocked me to the core. They even had the cheek to ask for evidence when it was all there to see. There is no need for more proof, it’s all out there to see,” she added.<br />
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The event, titled “Women at the Forefront of the Global Peace and Security Agenda” and organized by Israel, was also attended by Tatiana Kotlyarenko, an international expert in gender-based violence and human trafficking, Qanta Ahmed, a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum and Anastasiya Dzyakava, adviser on human online safety.<br />
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Abargil shared how at a young age she, too, was assaulted, and what helped her survive and speak up.<br />
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“I was invited to speak all over the world. I gave lectures, and I spoke about the fact that we women truly understand the world and its needs. I found out that this world of men, weapons and war doesn’t understand that women can work without agendas…[and] politics and rise above all this. I decided to dedicate my life to this cause. And it’s been my life’s journey [for] the past 20 years,” she said.<br />
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“Hamas established a new evil strategy: Openly abusing mostly the female hostages, and also men, mutilating them—not in secret and not in the dark. Everything was filmed. Anyone who doesn’t speak up against this is silently complicit in sexual violence against all women, not just Israeli women,” she continued.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Israeli lawyer, women’s rights activist, and winner of Miss World 1998 Linor Abargil confronts a <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> rep for her damning silence over the mass rape committed by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HamasRapists?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HamasRapists</a>.<br />
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“After two months you didn’t have even one response?!”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveIsraeliWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BelieveIsraeliWomen</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BringThemHomeNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BringThemHomeNow</a>… <a href="https://t.co/rKQqYUBOML">pic.twitter.com/rKQqYUBOML</a></p>
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1748443850732192101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Seth Mandel: <a href="https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-red-sea-crisis-how-we-got-here/">The Red Sea Crisis: How We Got Here</a>
<blockquote>The Saudis were already put in a tough spot by the Obama administration’s overall strategy of elevating Iran’s influence in the Gulf, of which the nuclear deal was a part. Fearing that the Yemen developments would push Saudi Arabia into open opposition to the Iran deal, the Obama administration had to come up with a response that would placate Riyadh without totally alienating Tehran. In the end, that meant supporting the Saudi blockade and providing logistical support to Saudi military strikes in Yemen. Once we started in this vein, we were locked in: Obama couldn’t afford to abandon the Saudis completely, but he also couldn’t risk the U.S. taking the lead in antiterrorist operations against Iran. Thus Yemen was caught between the Saudi blockade and the demonic ruthlessness of the Houthis.<br />
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The Saudi inability to dislodge the Houthis raised the pressure on the U.S. government to end its support for the blockade, and President Biden came into office promising exactly that. Indeed, Biden announced as much in March 2021, and then the administration took the Houthis off the list of foreign terrorist organizations. But reality, as it always does, intervened.<br />
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Now the Houthis have turned their fire on U.S. ships, in addition to other international commercial vessels traversing the Red Sea route. Biden’s removal of their terrorist designation only enabled their mischief, and has now been partially reversed. Nearly a decade after the U.S. began its passive participation in Yemen’s civil war, it has been forced to get directly involved by leading the coalition bombing of Houthi sites inside Yemen.<br />
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After ten days of strikes, the Biden administration has admitted that it’ll require an extended campaign to sufficiently weaken the Houthis’ ability to threaten Red Sea shipping, exacerbating the tensions within the president’s party between the hawks and the doves.<br />
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It turns out when you knowingly let a problem fester, it doesn’t solve itself. When you lead from behind, you often end up back where you started.<br />
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Every concession to Iran has been corrupting. Nearly a decade on, we find ourselves still paying for that ill-advised nuclear deal. There’s a lesson here about deferring our responsibilities in the hopes that someone will magically solve our problems for us. It didn’t work for the Mets, and it definitely won’t work for the leaders of the free world.</blockquote>
Seth Frantzman: <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-783191">With DeSantis out, will Mideast calculate odds on Trump win?</a>
<blockquote>The question that regional leaders will begin to ask now is what might come of US policy over the next year. So far, media in the Gulf have been circumspect, with no major articles yet about what DeSantis’s decision means for the region. But regional leaders don’t always say what they are thinking.<br />
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A good example is the China-brokered Saudi-Iran deal, which was not leaked before it happened. There are also many trends afoot in the region, such as the Arab League welcoming the Assad regime back into its fold. There is also a rising crisis in Sudan, which is largely ignored by the world but nevertheless affects the region.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Hamas attack has also become an inflection point and has revealed that some countries in the region, such as Qatar and Turkey, continue to host Hamas leaders, and Russia and China did not condemn Hamas. It also appears that Russia and China are benefiting from the Houthi attacks, as their ships are not being targeted.<br />
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Regional media are also messaging about Saudi-Israel peace. Saudi Arabia-based English-language newspaper Arab News reported about how Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan had discussed the importance of resolving the Palestinian issue via a Palestinian state, which could lead to Israeli normalization with Riyadh.<br />
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Saudi Arabia has long had a proposal along these lines, so it isn’t exactly new. But Riyadh may now shift some calculations if it believes Trump is returning to office. Ankara may also shift its policies in Syria to be more aggressive in its strikes on eastern Syria. In addition, Russia’s war in Ukraine looms in the background of the region.<br />
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It appears that Moscow, for instance, did not condemn the Hamas attack, in part, because the distraction from its war in Ukraine was a welcome reprieve, with many issues up in the air.<br />
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Israel’s politics could also be affected by the US election, and its calculations about the Gaza war timetable may be altered.<br />
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It’s important to understand that US domestic politics has global ramifications, and many countries will be watching the GOP carefully to see what happens.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-hamas-has-made-no-serious-proposal-for-hostage-deal/">Netanyahu: Hamas has made no serious proposal for hostage deal</a>
<blockquote>Hamas has failed to offer any serious proposal for a deal that would see the 130-plus captives held by the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip released, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.<br />
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“Contrary to what is [being] said, there is no genuine proposal by Hamas,” Netanyahu told representatives of the hostages’ families during a meeting, according to a statement from his office. “This is not true.<br />
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“On the other hand, there is our initiative, which I will not detail,” stated Netanyahu, likely alluding to Saudi reports confirming renewed talks aimed at reviving the hostages-for-ceasefire deal that Hams violated in November.<br />
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On Sunday night, the prime minister confirmed that Hamas during negotiations had demanded that the Israel Defense Forces retreat from Gaza and end its war against the terrorist group, in addition to “the release of all the Nukhba [terrorist commando] murderers and rapists, and leaving Hamas intact.<br />
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“If we agree to this, our soldiers will have fallen in vain. If we agree to this, we will not be able to guarantee the security of our citizens. We will not be able to return the evacuees safely to their homes, and the next October 7 will only be a matter of time,” Netanyahu said.<br />
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On Monday, around 20 relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas disrupted a committee session at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, demanding that lawmakers do more to free their loved ones.<br />
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Knesset security was unable to prevent the entry of the protesters, many of whom carried pictures of their family members taken to Gaza, and had to remove the group using force.<br />
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“Is it reasonable that 260 trucks of flour are entering Gaza now while my brother is eating nothing?” screamed Adi Angrest, whose brother Sgt. Matan Angrest remains in the Strip. “It doesn’t make any sense that my brother isn’t eating anything when they bring them 260 trucks of flour.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783150">'Gazans can't return home before hostages': 100 IDF officers in letter to government</a>
<blockquote>Over 100 IDF officers who have served in Gaza signed a letter on Saturday addressed to the Security Cabinet saying not to let residents of Gaza return to their homes until the hostages are released.<br />
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The letter begins with the reiteration of the two main goals of the IDF in this war: The total destruction of Hamas and the successful release of all of the hostages.<br />
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According to the letter, the military operations in Gaza have been going fairly well until this point, and the officers expressed their appreciation for the progress being made toward these goals.<br />
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Mission not yet accomplished<br />
However, the letter takes a shift in responding to recent developments in the war, including the IDF beginning to release reserve brigades and remove them from Gaza. "We see the IDF releasing brigades, and immediately the following questions arise: Did we achieve the goals that we set out to accomplish? What can we do with what we've achieved up until now?" the letter asked.<br />
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It proceeded to answer its own question by stating that the IDF and the Israeli government failed to turn the numerous small victories achieved around the Gaza Strip into an "overwhelming victory" to a systematic and strategic extent. Simply, the achievements until now have been significant but not enough to truly claim "mission accomplished," the officers argue.<br />
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The letter continued, claiming that it would be unfair to allow citizens of Gaza to their homes while there are still hostages that haven't been returned. The fact that hostages are still in captivity demands the simple equation, "there is no reason for Ahmed to return to his home in Gaza before Ziv and Gali return to their home in Kfar Aza," the letter states.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783233">Hamas releases propaganda doc denying atrocities, blaming Israel for civilian deaths on Oct 7</a>
<blockquote>Hamas has published a 16-page document presenting a justification for its actions on October 7. The document denies that the terror group committed atrocities against civilians, and calls for an international investigation into the events of the day, branding Hamas a “national liberation” group, battling “colonialism.”<br />
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On its front and back covers, the document features pictures of Gazans on an Israeli tank, as well as images of paragliders reminiscent of the early phases of the assault.<br />
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The document, titled “Our Narrative: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” is addressed to “Arab and Islamic nations” and “free peoples worldwide.” It is divided into five parts: a narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict; an account of October 7; a call for an “international investigation” of what happened; a presentation of the terror group itself; and a set of demands and calls to action.<br />
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The first section of the document presents the conflict as a 105-year battle by Palestinians against “colonialism.” It makes reference to the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate, and recounts the formation of Israel by “Zionist gangs” while “the Palestinians were denied from [sic] the right to self-determination.”<br />
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The document levies accusations against Israel related to the Six Day War, West Bank settlements, and the supposed “Judaization” of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; it also makes reference to the issues of Palestinian prisoners, the blockade of Gaza, and the denial of a Palestinian right of return— maintaining, all the while, that the United States is complicit in Israel’s actions.<br />
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Denying atrocities on October 7, blaming Israel for civilian deaths<br />
Hamas’s account of the October 7 attacks alleges that the “operation…targeted the Israeli military sites… and sought to arrest the enemy’s soldiers.” It avoids any mention of the bloody raids on Israeli towns and Kibbutzim.<br />
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It also avoids any mention of the approximately 240 people that Hamas took captive on October 7 as hostages, only implying their captivity in a claim that Israeli operations in Gaza were responsible for their deaths.<br />
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The document boasts of the Hamas terrorists’ “religious and moral commitment,” claiming that the “Al-Qassam Brigades fighters…avoid[ed] harm to civilians, especially children, women, and elderly people.” It adds that “if there was any case of targeting civilians; [sic] it happened accidentally and in the course of this confrontation,” and “maybe some faults happened during… implementation due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system.”<br />
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The terrorist group claims that “testimonies by Israelis” show that Hamas “did not target civilians,” invoking the “lie of the 40 beheaded babies”— a ‘debunked’ claim that was never in fact made by any Israeli press or spokespeople— and a report by the anti-Israel outlet Mondoweiss that reported a “lack of any evidence of mass rape.” The group blames Israeli helicopters for killing “many” of the 364 civilians massacred at the Nova music festival, saying that Hamas “had no prior knowledge of it.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hamas was so proud of its atrocities that it broadcasted them to the world.<br />
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Most were horrified. So the group's supporters abroad resorted to sickening denial.<br />
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Interestingly, it seems Hamas itself has finally caught up. A bit late, boys.<a href="https://t.co/DOt2yPq54a">https://t.co/DOt2yPq54a</a> <a href="https://t.co/4klIDhvJeh">pic.twitter.com/4klIDhvJeh</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1749196675543896309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">At this point Hamas should just start adding in sections about how they did October 7th to call for universal health care in the US and student loan forgiveness, because the left will literally believe anything they tell them. <a href="https://t.co/g6PYtu2MSO">https://t.co/g6PYtu2MSO</a></p>
— Danny Gold (@DGisSERIOUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/1749305935573680457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">For more than 16 years, Hamas has exploited civilians in Gaza and used them as human shields as it advanced Iran’s terrorist agenda.<br />
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(Video from a recent lecture at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun) <a href="https://t.co/N8JTTqiuDy">pic.twitter.com/N8JTTqiuDy</a></p>
— Bassem Eid (@realbassemeid) <a href="https://twitter.com/realbassemeid/status/1749145083109159141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/01/21/biden-middle-east-gaza-palestinian-state-israel">Behind the Curtain: Biden's Middle East moonshot</a>
<blockquote>President Biden plans to keep pushing a grand bargain in the Middle East for the days after the war in Gaza — with the hope it could happen before the election, despite Israel's opposition, U.S. officials tell us.<br />
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The plan: Israel gets normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, in exchange for agreeing to an irreversible pathway to a Palestinian state — and allowing the Palestinian Authority to have a role in post-Hamas Gaza.<br />
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Why it matters: The Israelis aren't ready to accept a deal like this anytime soon. But they might eventually take it as U.S., international and internal pressure mounts in coming months, U.S. officials tell us.<br />
- Biden needs to tap into and intensify that pressure without alienating pro-Israel American Jews at home.<br />
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Between the lines: This isn't a way to end the war. It's more aimed at setting up what comes after it.<br />
- The administration — including Secretary of State Tony Blinken and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan— used comments in Davos, Switzerland, this past week to lay down its thinking more clearly than ever, in an effort to push world opinion.<br />
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What's happening: Biden is growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to engage in how to rebuild and run Gaza once he's done trying to decapitate Hamas, as Axios' Barak Ravid has reported in vivid detail.<br />
- Bibi has vowed publicly to oppose any deal that provides the Palestinian Authority control over Gaza.<br />
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So U.S. officials are working with and around Bibi on a grand bargain to eventually stabilize the region. They believe Gaza needs to be run by a "revitalized Palestinian Authority," and that a new, formal Israel-Saudi alliance could help stabilize the surrounding environment.<br />
- Tom Friedman flicked at the many obstacles to this deal in a New York Times column. Notably, he detailed the issues after speaking with Blinken in Davos.<br />
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How it works: New insight into these talks was some of the biggest news to emerge from Davos, which was otherwise dominated by talk of AI. As Barak Ravid chronicled in real time:<br />
- Sullivan said the Biden administration's strategy for post-war Gaza is to link normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia to create a pathway for the establishment of a Palestinian state.<br />
- The Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, said later that any potential normalization agreement with Israel would be conditioned on a ceasefire in Gaza and the creation of an "irrevocable" pathway toward a Palestinian state.<br />
- Blinken said the Israeli people and every Israeli "who's in office" will have to make hard decisions about this potential post-war diplomatic initiative.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The U.S. Biden Administration is playing a very dangerous game. They are attempting to bring down the Netanyahu government by saying that the war is unwinnable and that the hostages have to be brought home now. They are seriously misreading the Israeli public. The upshot of…</p>
— Marc Zell (@GOPIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPIsrael/status/1749139812496371874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">2 days ago <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a>'s leader Khaled Mashal rejected the two state solution. Proving yet again that they are not interested in having an independent Palestinian state, next to a Jewish one.<br />
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So if anyone is denying the right to statehood for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinian</a> people, it's the… <a href="https://t.co/7BNmxQgabj">https://t.co/7BNmxQgabj</a></p>
— Tamer Masudin (@TMasudin) <a href="https://twitter.com/TMasudin/status/1749301377245843578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Our allies know that this war must end with a total Israeli victory over Hamas. They back Israel’s goals of dismantling Hamas and bringing the hostages home.<br />
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Anything else would leave Hamas free and emboldened to do October 7 again. <a href="https://t.co/yu6xoaLUN5">https://t.co/yu6xoaLUN5</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1749448216238547133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The US, UK, and Australia are also imposing new sanctions targeting Hamas-affiliated financial networks and facilitators that have helped transfer funds from the IRGC Quds Force to Hamas and PIJ in Gaza.<a href="https://t.co/i1O9lZhs7i">https://t.co/i1O9lZhs7i</a></p>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1749443551287464442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">PM <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netanyahu</a>’s position is that Israel must retain full security control west of the Jordan River, so Palestinian terrorists can’t pull off another October 7. They should have all the powers to govern themselves, and none of the powers to massacre us. This morning on <a href="https://twitter.com/TimesRadio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@timesradio</a> <a href="https://t.co/gdTFEvW9bU">pic.twitter.com/gdTFEvW9bU</a></p>
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1749409638770970762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/01/19/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-40/">White House: U.S. Still Opposes a Ceasefire in Gaza</a>
<blockquote>White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on Friday that the U.S. still opposes a ceasefire in Gaza "for the same reason that we have in the past: We don't believe a ceasefire is going to be to the benefit of anybody but Hamas."<br />
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"We do support humanitarian pauses, as I said, to try to get hostages out and more aid in. But we don't support a ceasefire at this time. I think it's important to remember that there was a ceasefire in place on the 6th of October, and Hamas, Mr. Sinwar, chose to break that ceasefire. He's the one that chose this war. There was a ceasefire, which we obviously were supportive of, and Hamas chose to break it."<br />
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"The Israeli people have every right to expect that their military and that their government is going to act in their safety and security. And I guarantee you that if this was any other country, including this one, we wouldn't stand for that kind of threat to live next door to us like that - a threat that truly has existential ambitions. They want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. So the Israeli people have a right to expect that their government is going to try to protect them from that threat."</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">A secret plan to end the war? ..."The mediators proposed a 90-day plan that would first halt fighting for an unspecified number of days until Hamas first released all Israeli civilian hostages." This is reportedly being pushed by the US, Qatar and Egypt.…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749365145778729391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The Hamas plan is basically it returns to run all of Gaza, like in 2009, 2014...it will rebuild the rockets and terror tunnels and do another October 7 in a few years.<br />
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After Israel's leaders promised "there won't be Hamas"...it will be interesting to see how they would get the…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749365151696855347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This raises two key issues. First, whether Israel's leadership is willing to follow through on the goals it claimed in the beginning, that "there won't be Hamas"....because it also has voices that want to just reduce the "threat"...meaning there will be Hamas just minus 50%…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749322402368979227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The second key issue, therefore, is the lobby behind Hamas which includes several countries and international organizations which invested heavily in this group and don't want to let it be defeated.</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749322406139686926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">So the challenge to defeating Hamas is multi-layered. It requires Israel's leadership actually wanting to defeat Hamas, and being willing to use new innovative methods to do so. It requires a major shift in the international addiction to Hamas including the way aid money is…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749322409860071616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/un-secretary-general-israeli-refusal-to-accept-two-state-solution-totally-unacceptable/">UN chief: Israeli opposition to two-state solution ‘totally unacceptable’</a>
<blockquote>Without mentioning Benjamin Netanyahu by name, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres took aim at the Israeli premier on Sunday.<br />
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On Shabbat, Netanyahu issued a statement suggesting that Israeli security needs are incompatible with Palestinian statehood.<br />
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“The repeated refusal yesterday to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is totally unacceptable,” Guterres said at the U.N. Third South Summit.<br />
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“The denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security, exacerbate polarization and embolden extremists everywhere,” he added.<br />
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After a conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, and comments from Biden suggesting he might be able to convince Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state under the right conditions, Netanyahu posted on social media on Saturday, “I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan—and this is contrary to a Palestinian state.”<br />
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Those comments did not sit well with Guterres, who was addressing the South Summit, the supreme decision-making body of the Group of 77, which consists of 135 developing countries and includes China.<br />
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In the speech, which Guterres delivered in Kampala, Uganda, the Middle East was a major focus.<br />
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“In Gaza, Israel’s military operations have spread massive destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary general, including more than 150 members of our own staff, following the horrific terror attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7,” said Guterres. “The Middle East is a tinderbox. We must do all we can to prevent conflict igniting across the region.”<br />
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After chastising Netanyahu, Guterres made no mention of consistent polling suggesting that most Palestinians don’t favor a two-state solution, or that Hamas officials have repeatedly called for Israel’s destruction.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jns.org/israeli-fm-demands-eu-backing-for-hostages-return-defeat-of-hamas/">Israeli FM demands EU backing for hostages’ return, defeat of Hamas</a>
<blockquote>Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz presented photos of Hamas captives baby Kfir Bibas and abducted women to the Council of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday.<br />
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“I came here to talk with the European Union’s foreign ministers about two key issues—to return all the abductees and to receive the backing and support of the European Union for the elimination and dismantling of the terrorist organization Hamas to restore security to the citizens of the State of Israel,” Katz said.<br />
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The council brings together the top diplomats of all 27 E.U. member states. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt also attended the meeting, as did representatives of the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League.<br />
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Israel’s top diplomat will hold individual meetings with his counterparts from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark France and Greece.<br />
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“We are continuing a diplomatic campaign to support the heroic IDF soldiers and defeat Hamas,” said Katz, according to a statement released ahead of the meetings. “I will work to mobilize the E.U. to exert pressure to secure the return of the hostages, take action against Hamas and advance economic projects that will transform the region and counter Iran.”<br />
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He said he would present strategic plans and projects to promote regional stability, including the “Tracks for Regional Peace” project linking Haifa to the Saudi Gulf port of Damman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.<br />
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Katz will also meet with Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s high representative for foreign affairs, and other officials.<br />
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Borrell, who is known for his anti-Israel sentiment, criticized Jerusalem’s conduct of the war to the media on Sunday, saying Israel “is seeding the hate for generations.<br />
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“To say that the goal is to destroy Hamas is something one-sided because it means that Israel will decide when it considers that [Hamas] has become sufficiently weak. It can’t go on like this,” the Catalan diplomat said.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Then there’s the one year deadline for these external parties to agree a comprehensive peace framework. Yes they’d like to be in permanent contact with the Is and Pals on it. But if one of the parties doesn’t engage, that’s it’s problem. On they go designing a solution. -2-</p>
— laurence norman (@laurnorman) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurnorman/status/1749382628065587542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">I look at this and have only one question. Is it small wonder that the EU have become so irrelevant to reality on the ground in the Middle East?</p>
— laurence norman (@laurnorman) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurnorman/status/1749383154492711072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/01/19/hamas-wont-enter-hostage-deal-without-pressure-intensifying-operation-will-make-it-buckle/">Hamas Seeks to Wait Out Israel, Restore Presence in Northern Gaza</a>
<blockquote>The Israeli campaign in Gaza is intense, but is unfolding in parameters Hamas has prepared for well.<br />
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Fuel, food, and logistical support for Gazans have resumed, as has the presence of residents and terrorists in areas recently defined as combat zones.<br />
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Such circumstances do not add pressure on Hamas. They only serve its "waiting-out and wear down Israel" strategy, providing Hamas with the hope that it could withstand the Israeli attack and ensure its continued existence as a military and governing entity in Gaza. For Israel, this is an intolerable scenario.<br />
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On a practical level, it is appropriate to step up Israeli airstrikes in any area where ground forces have been reduced. Hamas must not be allowed to establish governance in these areas. Hamas terrorists and officials should be targeted wherever they try to renew their presence.<br />
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Likewise, Israel should prevent residents from returning to northern Gaza and designate any area with tunnels as a combat zone.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783243">Hamas losses: Up to 60% of terror forces out of action</a>
<blockquote>Charting Hamas’s losses over more than 100 days of war with Israel, there are some critical data points:
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On the positive side: 48-60% of Hamas’s forces are out of commission – meaning either killed, wounded, or arrested.<br />
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On the negative side: the IDF killed around 3,500 in northern Gaza in the initial three weeks of the invasion, but has only killed around 2,000 more in the last six weeks, indicating that elimination of Hamas forces has dropped steeply.<br />
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The IDF estimates it has killed 9,000 Hamas terrorists, wounded around 8,000 to a degree that they cannot easily return to battle (a much larger number have been wounded at lower levels), and has arrested 2,300.<br />
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This means 19,300 can no longer fight.<br />
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WSJ reported the number of dead, but not the number removed from battle<br />
When The Wall Street Journal published a report citing US officials estimates that the IDF had only killed around 20-30% of Hamas’s forces, the report mentioned, but did not add together all of the elements of removing Hamas forces from the battlefield. So the WSJ figures did not encompass capture the whole picture.<br />
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But the most relevant question is how many battle-ready Hamas fighters remain. The problem is that the IDF has provided many different estimates of Hams numbers.</blockquote>
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Seth Frantzman: <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783159">The Hamas numbers game: Recruiting new terrorists</a>
<blockquote>Israel is fighting a complex war in Gaza. But the question remains, when do you call success and how do you measure it? During the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF claimed to have targeted 1,500 Hamas terrorist sites and eliminated 19 leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In 2014, the IDF said it eliminated hundreds of terrorists in Gaza during Protective Edge.<br />
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Over the years, Hamas has taken losses, but it also continued to expand its arsenal and the number of men it has under arms. For instance, back in 2009, it had an estimated 20,000 armed men; when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, it had around 30,000 armed men, according to estimates, organized into 24 battalions and 140 companies of men.<br />
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In essence, a Hamas “company” of men is supposed to have more than 215 men, fairly heavy companies in terms of a military organization. Hamas may have lost half its battalion commanders by December, while half its battalions had been broken down as well. The battalions are named after the areas in which they operate and are quite territorial units in that sense. The “Shati” battalion operated in Shati; it was later destroyed, and cannot be reconstituted in Shati. But, it can probably be reconstituted by recruiting among people who fled Shati to southern Gaza.<br />
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This is the question that now must bedevil Israeli policymakers regarding Gaza. With most of Gaza’s population now in the south – including more than a million people who fled the north during the fighting – Hamas now has a concentrated civilian population that can be preyed upon to serve its interests.<br />
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All Hamas has to do is recruit a small number of people – less than one percent – to fill up its ranks again. Hamas also has a lot of weapons to hand out to potential recruits, including AK-47s and RPGs.<br />
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Hamas may have lost most of its rocket arsenal, its “commando” units have been defeated or eliminated, and it may have lost battalion commanders and company commanders. But Hamas is also going to ground and seeking to fight a new kind of insurgency – so its need for heavy units, like a “company” of 200 men, is less relevant. It wants to use hit-and-run tactics, and it doesn’t need to train up new “battalions.”<br />
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If what Hamas wants is to recruit a few thousand more men, it likely has an easy resource in the fact that a million Gazans fled northern Gaza and are now sheltering in southern Gaza, where Hamas uses them as human shields.<br />
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The fact that the population that fled is composed mostly of women and children doesn’t prevent Hamas from recruiting from among the teenagers and young men that made up its ranks in the first place. Herein lies an issue with the numbers game, it’s not that the metrics are an issue, but that Hamas recruitment will be an issue as the war drags on into more and more months.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jns.org/israel-foils-isis-inspired-terror-attack-near-knesset/">Israel foils ISIS-inspired terror attack near Knesset</a>
<blockquote>Israeli security forces recently thwarted an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack that was to be carried out near the Knesset in Jerusalem, the Israel Police and Israel Security Agency reported on Monday.<br />
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The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office on Monday submitted to the city’s district court an indictment against two eastern Jerusalem residents who identified with ISIS— Mustafa Abdel Nabi, 19, and Ahmad Natsha, 20. The pair were arrested in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem on Dec. 26.<br />
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According to the charges filed, the two watched daily videos released by the ISIS terror group, including religious sermons, beheadings and other executions. ISIS and Hamas flags were also found with them, as well as chemical materials to prepare explosives and a notebook with instructions on how to prepare explosives, among other findings. Hamas flags found in the homes of two eastern Jerusalem residents arrested on suspicion of plotting a major terror attack in the city. Credit: Police Spokesperson.<br />
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They intended to blow up a truck full of gas tanks near Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in the Givat Ram neighborhood.<br />
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Israeli security forces last month also arrested two other Palestinians planning ISIS-inspired terror attacks in Jerusalem, the Israel Police and ISA cleared for publication earlier in January.<br />
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The suspects, both in their twenties, were arrested in December in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jebel Mukaber, according to a joint police and ISA statement.<br />
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During a weeks-long investigation, authorities learned that the two were influenced by ISIS content online and on Telegram, including graphic videos of killings around the world.<br />
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The pair planned to plant improvised explosive devices around eastern Jerusalem aimed at security forces, and to commit other acts of terror.</blockquote>
<a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/death-penalty-military-tribunals-oct-7-terrorists-israel-hamas-simcha-rothman/">Knesset considering military tribunals, death penalty for Oct. 7 terrorists</a>
<blockquote>Over 100 days after they massacred Israelis in kibbutzim and cities near the Gaza border, hundreds of Hamas terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 attack remain in Israeli prisons. The terrorists are in administrative detention, and a recent Knesset amendment extended the period in which the state can bar them from seeing a lawyer until April, as they await trial.<br />
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But the kind of trial they will face remains an open question — one that the Justice Ministry began to consider shortly after the attack, and one that will likely require legislation. The Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee has established a confidential subcommittee meeting to discuss prosecuting Hamas terrorists who are part of the group’s special forces unit, Nukhba; the subcommittee held its second meeting on Sunday.<br />
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Committee Chairman Simcha Rothman of the Religious Zionist Party told Jewish Insider that “the Justice Ministry already understands that we need an amendment to the law, because current criminal law does not fit the events of Oct. 7.”<br />
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Regular courts would likely be overwhelmed by the number of terrorists who would need to be put on trial, creating a backlog and long delays, Chagai Vinizky, a military judge and candidate for the Supreme Court in 2021, noted in a paper for The Begin Institute for Law and Zionism submitted to the subcommittee.<br />
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Rothman expressed concern that such lengthy regular criminal proceedings “would be taken advantage of to disrupt investigations and coordinate between [the Nukhba terrorists].”<br />
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There are also difficulties in finding evidence to tie individual terrorists to specific victims beyond a reasonable doubt, as required in a murder trial. DNA samples were not collected according to usual procedure in light of the scale of the attack — 1,200 killed and thousands injured — and the need to collect the bodies in what remained an active combat zone for days. Other than the attack on the Nova music festival, the vast majority of the survivors hid and were unable to provide eyewitness descriptions of the killers. In addition, the terrorists burned many structures and bodies that could have carried evidence.<br />
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Yet, Israeli law allows for the death penalty or life in prison for those who abetted or failed to prevent genocide, including incitement or attempted participation, which may be easier to prove. In the case of Oct. 7, GoPros and cell phone recordings provide video evidence of the presence of terrorists during the attack. In addition, genocide charges would “express the unique severity of the actions,” according to the Begin Institute paper.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jns.org/idf-kicks-off-fierce-battle-in-western-khan-yunis/">IDF kicks off fierce battle in western Khan Yunis</a>
<blockquote>Israel Defense Forces troops are engaged in a massive military assault against Hamas targets in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, killing more than 50 terrorists, including a Hamas company commander, the military said on Monday evening.<br />
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The combat inside the city—preceded by airstrikes on Sunday night and includes parts of the IDF’s Givati Infantry Brigade, 7th Armored Brigade, paratroopers and commando forces—is expected to last at least several days.<br />
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Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza and one of the masterminds of the Oct. 7 massacre of some 1,200 persons in Israel, is believed to be hiding in Khan Yunis, as is Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades “military wing.”<br />
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Israeli forces are surrounding the terror hotspot and steadily advancing towards “the center of gravity” of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade, wrote Ynet, describing it as Sinwar and Deif’s “home brigade.”<br />
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Ahead of the battle, civilian homes were marked to avoid collateral damage, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported. Palestinian civilians have started to leave western Khan Yunis due to “heavy Israeli bombing,” Arab media said.<br />
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Earlier on Monday, the army said that soldiers of the Kfir Infantry Brigade operating in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis, killed dozens of armed Hamas terrorists and discovered large numbers of firearms, explosive devices, grenades and rockets.<br />
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As Israeli troops moved to surround western Khan Yunis on Sunday night, the Kfir Brigade was pulled out of Gaza for rest and training and was replaced with other units, the IDF said.<br />
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Three IDF soldiers fell in battle during fighting in southern Gaza, the IDF announced on Monday night. The troops were named as Maj. David Nati Alfasi, 27, from Beersheva; Maj. Ilay Levy, 24, from Tel Aviv; and Capt. Eyal Mevorach Twito, 22, from Beit Gamliel.<br />
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Their deaths bring the number of military personnel killed since Oct. 7 on all fronts to 535. A total of 200 soldiers have died in the Strip since the start of ground operations there on Oct. 27.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This IDF soldier was born in this area in Gaza when it belonged to Israel, it was Gush Katiff. He says he remembers many places he sees around there such as where the synagogues and certain other places were. <a href="https://t.co/5YwR1i0g9Y">pic.twitter.com/5YwR1i0g9Y</a></p>
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocumentIsrael/status/1749462454071878024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">IDF Uncovers Weapons and War Room Inside Mosque in Khan Yunis, Gaza <a href="https://t.co/EHFEdb7nAW">pic.twitter.com/EHFEdb7nAW</a></p>
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehoffather/status/1749327973029990666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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IDF soldiers operated in a tunnel located at the heart of a civilian area in Khan Yunis that was used to hold about 20 hostages at different times. The tunnel was about 830 meters long and about 20 meters deep.<br />
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We cannot and will not rest… <a href="https://t.co/fDxLNr6lXb">pic.twitter.com/fDxLNr6lXb</a></p>
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1749180583584870498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">One of the most extensive tunnels built by Hamas was discovered under Khan Younis by Israeli troops. The tunnel held hostages kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas-led terrorist attack. <a href="https://t.co/74IdzAAWGB">pic.twitter.com/74IdzAAWGB</a></p>
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1749129927344156830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Footage from October 7 shows Yotam Haim being abducted by Hamas. Yotam didn't survive to return home. <a href="https://t.co/Y17Vw9mt7J">pic.twitter.com/Y17Vw9mt7J</a></p>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1749347198066635115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">We will not forgive and we will not forget.<br />
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There will be no more tunnels of death in the Gaza Strip after this war. <a href="https://t.co/GU7Ery4fiP">pic.twitter.com/GU7Ery4fiP</a></p>
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1749179249997561996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This IDF soldier dedicated this demolition in Gaza to all of the wives of IDF combat soldiers who are at home praying for their husbands to return safe, for the heroes they are having to continue with life with the kids etc during such hard times. <a href="https://t.co/HLLlHPRgZS">pic.twitter.com/HLLlHPRgZS</a></p>
— Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/DocumentIsrael/status/1749175850514198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783202">Father of decapitated soldier whose head was for sale tells of son's final moments</a>
<blockquote>David Tahar greets us at the door of his sister’s apartment in Jerusalem. He offers coffee and a comfortable place to sit in the winter sun by the open kitchen window. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org<br />
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We are here to speak about his son, Sgt. Adir Tahar, a sniper in the Golani Brigade’s Unit 13 who served on a base near the Erez crossing on the northern Gaza Strip border.<br />
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David Tahar's pride in his son is clear. His army hat "never leaves my head," says Tahar.<br />
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But clear too is the pain in David Tahar's eyes. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists infiltrated his son’s base. They beheaded 19-year-old Sgt. Adir Tahar and stole his head back to the Gaza Strip. And then they attempted to ransom it.<br />
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The terrorists filmed and published video footage of their attack on the base, including of Adir Tahar’s headless corpse. The footage has been made available to The Media Line, although we will not be publishing it, in accordance with David Tahar’s wishes.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-783237">Three IDF soldiers killed in ambush in Khan Yunis</a>
<blockquote>The IDF on Monday announced that three IDF soldiers were killed in an ambush in Khan Yunis.<br />
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The three were IDF Maj. David Nati Alfasi, 27 from Beersheba, IDF Maj. Ilay Levy, 24 from Tel Aviv, and IDF Capt. Eyal Mevorach Twito, 22 from Beit Gamliel. All three were in Battalion 202 of the paratroopers. The total number of fallen soldiers since October 7 is now 535.<br />
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IDF's Khan Yunis push<br />
Additionally, the IDF has launched a major division-level new push in western Khan Yunis, ushering in likely the most intense fighting since early December when the military first entered other parts of Hamas’s southern capital.<br />
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Division 98 has unleashed serious forces from its seven brigades, artillery, tanks, and air support, and surrounded western Khan Yunis which until now the IDF had mostly steered clear of.<br />
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The IDF’s message earlier in the morning about large amounts of airstrikes was in preparation to give the ground forces an easier time moving into the new areas.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">We are heartbroken to report on the deaths of 3 additional <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IDF</a> soldiers: Major David Nati Alfasi, Captain Eyal Mevorach Twito, and Major Ilay Levy fell in the line of duty. May the memories of these brave IDF soldiers forever be a blessing. 🕯️ <a href="https://t.co/wz4lagFUPk">pic.twitter.com/wz4lagFUPk</a></p>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1749474853952823578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEW</a>: The <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IDF</a> releases footage of its forces eliminating terrorist cells in central and northern Gaza.<br />
🔻In central Gaza, a terrorist cell advancing toward forces in the area was killed. A number of terrorists who attempted to ambush troops were also identified and struck by an… <a href="https://t.co/n3RAxnaB1W">pic.twitter.com/n3RAxnaB1W</a></p>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1749343150240358603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Watch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Watch</a>: Incredible footage: IDF fighters neutralize a terrorist with an RPG just before he launches it. The explosion then detonates on the terrorist. <a href="https://t.co/z6ebrrtGhW">pic.twitter.com/z6ebrrtGhW</a></p>
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href="https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1749182274468303086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The Palestinians, as usual, do not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity!<br />
The IDF distributed leaflets with pictures of the hostages in Gaza so that they would help bring information to them about the end of the war... and here’s a Gazan Palestinian showing how he feels… <a href="https://t.co/uBWEbJ8WTM">pic.twitter.com/uBWEbJ8WTM</a></p>
— יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) <a href="https://twitter.com/YosephHaddad/status/1749139384496984183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">New data from the IDF:<br />
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“Medical Aid and Field Hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the war, 12,000 trucks with 1,052 tons of medical equipment have entered Gaza. In coordination with the international community, the IDF continues to facilitate humanitarian and…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749410783656636744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Floating Hospitals: 🏥 🚢<br />
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The Italian 🇮🇹 Ship: ⁰- 75 patients treated ⁰- Scheduled to leave on 31/1/24<br />
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The French 🇫🇷 Ship:⁰- 2,000 patients treated, of which 110 were complex medical cases⁰- 18 patients were brought to the ship by helicopter⁰- Scheduled to leave in a…</p>
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfrantzman/status/1749421372214784393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-782797">Israel Has Tactical Superiority over Hizbullah in Lebanon Fighting</a>
<blockquote>Israel's northern border area is an active combat zone.<br />
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About 170 Hizbullah fighters have been killed since Oct. 8, along with 19 members of other terror groups. Israel has lost nine soldiers and six civilians.<br />
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U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel and Lebanon last week in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the current impasse.<br />
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Diplomatic processes generally require concessions on both sides. The systematic violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, however, has come from the Hizbullah side alone.<br />
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Hizbullah began to rebuild its presence along the border immediately after the ceasefire that ended the 2006 war, in direct contravention of Resolution 1701, which requires it to stay north of the Litani River.<br />
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From the Israeli point of view, it is being asked to discuss territorial concessions as a reward for Hizbullah's unilateral violations.<br />
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The number of fighters that Hizbullah has lost is large and creeps up every week. In tactical encounters, Hizbullah appears to have little response to superior Israeli intelligence, and use of drones and missiles to target its teams close to the border.<br />
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Hizbullah's fighters' recent combat experience was in fighting poorly armed and trained Sunni Islamist militias in Syria. It is now encountering a very different enemy that has tactical superiority.<br />
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Hizbullah-associated Arabic media channels are nearly silent on the fighting at the Lebanon-Israel border, while giving saturation coverage to events in Gaza.<br />
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Evidently, Hizbullah sees little to celebrate as its forces continue to absorb losses.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The IDF says it carried out airstrikes against a series of Hezbollah targets in five different areas of southern Lebanon today.<br />
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Sites hit by fighter jets in the Maroun al-Ras area included a military building where Hezbollah operatives were gathered, the IDF says.<br />
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It says… <a href="https://t.co/2Jrxi8MfKF">pic.twitter.com/2Jrxi8MfKF</a></p>
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) <a href="https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1749447200524923109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hezbollah announces a death in its ranks:<br />
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Sameh Asad, a resident of Kafrkela near the border with Israel.<br />
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Number 165 <a href="https://t.co/rWXhNDVUu2">pic.twitter.com/rWXhNDVUu2</a></p>
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelWarRoom/status/1749347168098406618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hezbollah mourns the death of two fighters, both killed by Israeli fire. <a href="https://t.co/DuAL74JtS2">pic.twitter.com/DuAL74JtS2</a></p>
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeTruzman/status/1749472892746858949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-783135">US Navy declares two SEALs missing in Gulf of Aden as deceased</a>
<blockquote>Two US Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on a boat carrying Iranian weapons have not been located following an exhaustive search and their status has been changed to deceased, military officials said on Sunday.<br />
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The SEALs were reported missing after boarding the vessel in a Jan. 11 operation near the coast of Somali, the US Central Command said on X.<br />
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“We mourn the loss of our two Naval Special Warfare warriors, and we will forever honor their sacrifice and example. Our prayers are with the SEALs’ families, friends, the US Navy, and the entire Special Operations community during this time,” CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla said in a statement.<br />
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Ongoing recovery mission<br />
A joint operation carried out by the United States, Spain and Japan searched more than 21,000 square miles of ocean for the missing SEALs, CENTCOM said in the statement.<br />
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That mission had now become a recovery operation, CENTCOM said.</blockquote>
JCPA: <a href="https://jcpa.org/article/irans-economic-attack-blocking-israels-trade-artery-in-the-red-sea/">Iran's Economic Attack: Blocking Israel's Trade Artery in the Red Sea</a>
<blockquote>On Nov. 19, 2023, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called on the Muslim countries to "block Israel's [vital] arteries."<br />
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Iran is using the Houthis to prevent goods from reaching Israel through the Red Sea. Israel's Eilat Port has seen an 85% reduction in activity.<br />
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The aim is to increase the pressure on Israel at a time when Iran is in no position to take part directly in the war against Israel and the U.S. because of its own economic crisis.<br />
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Iran's economy is based on oil and its foreign currency revenues depend on its oil exports. It is necessary for the West to augment the pressure on Iran by ramping up economic pressure, among other things by preventing its illegal oil exports.<br />
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Israel should consider adopting a policy of an eye-for-an-eye or "a trade artery for a trade artery."<br />
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Israel should cooperate with international bodies to locate, track, and report on the Iranian tankers' violation of international laws on shipping, and consider more creative actions to hamper their movement.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The US "could send several Iranian ships aiding the Houthis to the bottom of Red Sea. We could attack air defense sites inside Iran. We could go after military headquarters of (IRGC) Quds Force," the Trump administration's national security advisor <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AmbJohnBolton</a> told <a href="https://twitter.com/SkyNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SkyNews</a>. <a href="https://t.co/azF3kAAV4h">pic.twitter.com/azF3kAAV4h</a></p>
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) <a href="https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1749163210337292420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"Iran is not feeling any pain for what's happening here. And what is happening is not a series of discrete, isolated clashes... Iran didn't arm and equip and train and finance the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Shia militia groups in Iraq to use these resources for their own benefit…</p>
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) <a href="https://twitter.com/IranIntl_En/status/1749212309120065567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">So Iran bombed innocent people in Iraq and to cover it up they accused the victims of being secret Mossad agents, but to support the claim Iranian state news is using obviously photo-shopped pictures of the victim with a Jewish person at a wedding:<a href="https://t.co/BSDfJWAWXI">https://t.co/BSDfJWAWXI</a> <a href="https://t.co/iLJfMcIBqO">https://t.co/iLJfMcIBqO</a></p>
— AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1749280056000565420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Very Rolling Stone... <a href="https://t.co/DAX72Rwkr0">pic.twitter.com/DAX72Rwkr0</a></p>
— Roger (@Roger247_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Roger247_/status/1749425375787020617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkxcieckt">Saudi Arabia, Jordan Help Circumvent Houthi Blockade of Red Sea</a>
<blockquote>To circumvent the dangerous waters in the Red Sea, where cargo vessels have come under repeated attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Israeli companies were being assisted by Gulf nations and even Israel's neighbor to the east, Jordan.<br />
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The Houthis began what is essentially a blockade near the Bab el Mandeb straits to prevent the movement of ships they say are connected to Israel, in their efforts to assist the Hamas terror group in its war in Gaza.<br />
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Cargo vessels and oil and gas tankers have come under missile and drone attack forcing many companies to reroute their ships to longer and more expensive passages around Africa, refusing to endanger their cargo and using the ports in southern Europe, including in Greece and Italy while preferring to avoid Israel all together.<br />
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The economic damage however is felt not only by Israel and has impacted the supply chain in Europe as well. Electric car giant Tesla announced it would be closing its Berlin plant for two weeks due to a shortage of parts after delays in supplies caused by the Houthi threat.<br />
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One company that found a solution to the blockade is Mentfield logistics, which supplies much of the cargo destined for Israel. In coordination with the Israeli envoy to Bahrain, Eitan Naveh, ships traveling from China and India, unload their cargo in Bahrain and Dubai where it is loaded on Saud and Jordanian trucks and makes its way over land, to Israel, where Israeli trucks then receive the goods at the King Hussein border crossing with Jordan.<br />
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Company CEO Omer Yitzhari said the company has had to be creative in its solutions, even during the coronavirus pandemic when it chartered planes to bring essential goods such as medical protective gear or eggs, into the country.<br />
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"Today we are dealing with the Houthi threat to maritime routes. We understood that the shortest and least expensive solution to transport goods from the east is via Saudi Arabia and from there, overland to Jordan and then into Israel," he said.<br />
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Industry officials said the advantages of the land rout is its speed. The cost of transporting a container from the east to Israel before the war was around $2,000. Today because of the need to take a longer route, the cost it had spiked to $8,000. Before the war it would take the container 30 days to arrive but now it could reach up to 60 days. Over land, containers arrive within 20 days.<br />
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"If you are an Israeli importer and you want to transfer materials ahead of the Passover holiday, you are in trouble if you use a sea route. You have no choice but to use the ports in Bahrain and Dubai and transport your goods over land," one importer said. "There is also an interesting political aspect to this and a kind gesture from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. There are now more trucks making the trip over land and the number is growing at a maddening speed," he said.</blockquote>
<blockquote>To circumvent the danger in the Red Sea, where cargo vessels have come under repeated attacks from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, ships traveling from China and India are unloading their cargo in Bahrain and Dubai.<br />
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Eve Barlow: <a href="https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/we-will-dance-again">we will dance again</a>
<blockquote>Your silence isn’t deafening. It’s antisemitic. This is how a Holocaust happens.<br />
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I know it’s not sexy. There is nothing to be gained from talking about rape, mutilitation, mass death. Nothing. There is no “selling” the fight against antisemitism. It cannot be popularized. It is the face of true evil, exposed. The truth. Too much for most to handle. But you know what the fight against antisemitism is? It’s the right thing to do. So you just have to get stuck in and do it. That’s it. End of story. The truth is a hard pill to swallow. People need it shoved down their throats.<br />
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As for my fellow Jews: standing up for ourselves isn't bold or courageous or brave, or any of those things. It's normal. When people are trying to come for you, it's normal to speak out about it and say - I will defend myself from your baseless life-threatening attacks. Jews won't tell you to "educate yourselves", instead it's normal for us to explain our point of view, and it's normal for us to realize that you'll look for another point of view until you have the one that suits you best. We know you'll do that and we'll laugh because it's so silly. Cool! But we will continue to stand up for ourselves because that's normal. It's a normal human reaction. What isn't normal is avoiding it or being quiet or trying to play both sides. That's weird and stupid and unhealthy. It's good and healthy and normal to stand up for yourself. So be normal. Don’t be like the Jewish popstar who saw me running the other morning and covered their entire face with one hand to avoid having to face me, and their own shame. We partied at Glastonbury together many, many years ago. Never again.<br />
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It’s awards season right now. In years gone by that would be a busy time of year for me. But no more. That part of my life ended, and it’s never coming back.<br />
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There are bigger things happening now than awards or industry developments that I would join in celebrating or crying over. For me life got slow and alienated and isolated when I spoke out against what I essentially identified as progressive radicalization a few years ago. I spoke out against it because I saw what was coming, and people responded to me like I was some extremist conspiratorial nutcase. But I was right. I was right.<br />
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And so I lost my career and almost all my friends. I lost my social life. I lost everything that was attached to my identity apart from one thing: who I am. I’m a Jew and I believe in the truth. And because of that over the course of time I started to attract more and more people like me. Some Jewish. Some not. But everyone could identify that the loudest people were not telling the truth. They were creating a tribal war and signing up to an ideology they didn’t fully understand. It went from one cause into another into another. So much so that now the people I once knew in the fields of Glastonbury are actively marching in the streets in support of a terrorist organization who mass raped women, kidnapped babies and murdered elderly people in their homes.<br />
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I have no regrets. As dark as the world is, I feel security knowing I am aligned with people who see the truth, who have stopped lying to themselves. I’m so grateful to have a platform that means something to people who need it, who congregate around it. Together we can build something better. Something honest. Something that has teeth. Thank you for being here and for supporting me through the worst years, the gaslighting, the bullying and the mocking, the being told I was hysterical, the dehumanization. You came along with me, and there aren’t enough words to thank you. I don’t care about being trolled. I care about fighting terrorism.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Hundreds of participants commemorated today the 1st birthday of Kfir Bibas in captivity. The participants gathered at Central Park, NYC, with orange balloons, a birthday cake & both American & Israeli flags, voicing their calls for the captives' release. 136 Israelis are still… <a href="https://t.co/DQqcPYGzrl">pic.twitter.com/DQqcPYGzrl</a></p>
— Israel Nitzan🇮🇱 (@IsraelNitzan) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelNitzan/status/1749279732527513806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The most insane and compressive list of sentences that, in a normal world, would be the opposite of controversial, but today, puts the anti-Israel crowd into cardiac arrest.<br />
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1. “Rape is wrong no matter what.”<br />
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— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) <a href="https://twitter.com/HilzFuld/status/1749411329880793147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">On Friday, I met with former hostages and family members of those still held by Hamas. Their stories about the horrors of October 7 and time in captivity are gut-wrenching. As they work to secure the release of all hostages, I told them they are not alone in this fight. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>,… <a href="https://t.co/9ODIVXThMJ">pic.twitter.com/9ODIVXThMJ</a></p>
— Douglas Emhoff (@SecondGentleman) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecondGentleman/status/1749216012505960713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Why are you silent now? <a href="https://t.co/HfAziMVZAN">pic.twitter.com/HfAziMVZAN</a></p>
— raz_sauber (@raz_sauber) <a href="https://twitter.com/raz_sauber/status/1744397279878840628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Imagine being so malicious and vile as to deface the posters of women and babies held hostages by terrorists. That's exactly what happened at Harvard.<br />
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via <a href="https://twitter.com/ShabbosK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShabbosK</a> <a href="https://t.co/TM6D7d3k9U">pic.twitter.com/TM6D7d3k9U</a></p>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1749323988210270428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Call Me Back PodCast: <a href="https://ricochet.com/podcast/call-me-back/israels-escalating-internal-debates-with-haviv-rettig-gur/">Israel’s escalating internal debates — with Haviv Rettig Gur</a>
<blockquote>Hosted by Dan Senor<br />
In today’s weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur from the Times of Israel, we discuss intensifying debates within Israel over the leadership of the government, how to reconcile seemingly irreconcilable war aims as Israel transitions to a new phase in the war, is there an actual disagreement on concrete policy objectives between different members of the War Council, and what to make of the growing protest movement.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Listen to the latest <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StandWithUs</a> briefing as a podcast, featuring Lt. Col. <a href="https://twitter.com/jconricus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jconricus</a>, Israel government spokesperson, <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EylonALevy</a> and digital influencer and activist <a href="https://twitter.com/LizzySavetsky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LizzySavetsky</a>:<br />
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Spotify: <a href="https://t.co/gNpvh9OCEG">https://t.co/gNpvh9OCEG</a><br />
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Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://t.co/OBVPcH4184">https://t.co/OBVPcH4184</a> <a href="https://t.co/9JNh8B1ZVk">pic.twitter.com/9JNh8B1ZVk</a></p>
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeldickson/status/1749196155005632513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">'If Israel will need to use force, it has the ability, will to do so, and I think it will eventually have international support,'<br />
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— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1749190491780850070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Quad: Israel on Trial! The Hypocrisy of the "Palestinian Genocide" Claim
<blockquote>This week, the Quad discuss the case brought before the International Court of Justice that claims that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Should Israel have gone? Is there any merit to the claims? Why is South Africa the country that is bringing this claim? Is the world once again taking its eye off the ball on who the real terrorists are?<br />
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In addition, the Quad interview actor and comedian Ben Gleib who has also been battling against the claim of genocide nightly with one of the most virulently anti-Israel activists Cenk Uygur. He explains why he continues at the Young Turks even though it is outspokenly anti-Israel and what he is currently doing in Israel.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Someone should tell the Qataris that threatening not to help with the hostages if Sen Cruz or Sen Cotton pursue this matter further (which is really what this statement is) doesn’t work well when: 1) Qatar isn’t helping anyway & 2) Cruz and Cotton don’t take kindly to threats. <a href="https://t.co/H1kdwDWjei">https://t.co/H1kdwDWjei</a></p>
— Richard Goldberg (@rich_goldberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/rich_goldberg/status/1749211155090870611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Here's <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnFetterman</a> with a moment of clarity and sanity: “I honestly don't understand. I don't understand why it's controversial to anybody to decide that you're going to stand with Israel in this situation.” <a href="https://t.co/TBR3W6DSD1">pic.twitter.com/TBR3W6DSD1</a></p>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1749199892218560728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Notice he says he changed his mind on October 7th because Biden didn't go out kissing Hamas ass as they were raping people to death. He didn't say he was supporter till "October 29th". <a href="https://t.co/Zi2PwOyTCF">https://t.co/Zi2PwOyTCF</a></p>
— CA SCHOOL BONDS (@AuhsdBond) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuhsdBond/status/1749295069277094187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">“Rape is not resistance or freedom fighting.” Gwyneth Paltrow shared a story with a powerful message in support of the innocent Israeli victims of October 7th. There is NO excuse for the horrific violent acts of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a>. <a href="https://t.co/kPGWbjYjPs">pic.twitter.com/kPGWbjYjPs</a></p>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1749424035908198689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/uk-will-always-stand-by-right-of-israel-to-defend-itself-sunak-tells-cfi-event-yhq1cgkg">‘I’ll always stand by Israel’ Sunak tells CFI event</a>
<blockquote>Rishi Sunak has repeated his calls for a “sustainable ceasefire” and an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, along with talks aimed at forging two states, but made clear that before they could happen, Hamas must release all its hostages and be removed from power.<br />
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The prime minister made his remarks in his keynote speech at the annual lunch hosted on Monday by Conservative Friends of Israel in front of no fewer than 19 of his Cabinet colleagues. The audience included former British PMs Liz Truss and Boris Johnson; their Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak; Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely and the families of four of the hostages still being held by the terrorists in Gaza.<br />
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The only members of the Cabinet not present were Scottish Secretary Allister Jack, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and First Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott. The JC understands that the absent ministers also wished to attend, but had unavoidable commitments elsewhere.<br />
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After the event, Barak told the JC: “This was a very important show of support for Israel in time of war and it is so obviously genuine. Coming here today has shown me how closely Jews are integrated into the heart of this nation, which is very encouraging.”<br />
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Before the event, held at the Intercontinental hotel in central London, Foreign Secretary David Cameron (who is also a former PM) spent time with the families of hostages Liri Albag, 19, who was kidnapped on October 7, and Danielle Gilboa, also 19, who was taken at the Nova dance festival where Hamas murdered 360 people.<br />
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Also present were friends and close family members of Ziv and Gaeili Berman, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Azar, and of Elia Cohen and Idan Stivim, who were both abducted from the festival.<br />
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Sunak said: “To the families of the hostages here today we say, you are in our thoughts, and we say with one voice, ‘bring them home’.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">“Tin-pot town hall Jeremy Corbyns” won’t be allowed to boycott Israel on local council level once the BDS legislation passes the Lords, vows <a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rishisunak</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/CFoI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cfoi</a> lunch today <a href="https://t.co/hRdvGfGcOp">pic.twitter.com/hRdvGfGcOp</a></p>
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1749456451876102598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/mps-tom-tugendhat-and-lisa-nandy-to-address-manchester-march-emorr9gz">MPs Tom Tugendhat and Lisa Nandy to address Manchester march against antisemitism</a>
<blockquote>MPs Tom Tugendhat and Lisa Nandy will be speaking at Manchester’s march against antisemitism on Sunday, at what is expected to be the largest gathering in history of the Manchester Jewish community.<br />
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Tugendhat, who is security minister and Nandy, the shadow minister for international development will be joined by MP Nicola Richards, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism and Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism.<br />
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Marc Levy, CEO of Manchester Jewish Representative Council, said they were hoping for a turnout of around 5,000 people.<br />
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He told the JC: “Jewish people are having to endure an unprecedented surge in hate crime directly stemming from the terrorist atrocities committed in Israel on October 7th.<br />
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“Across the region, the Jewish community has been subjected to appalling abuse, physical attacks and desecration of property.”<br />
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He added that members of the community had “been forced to conceal their identities” while the city centre had “effectively been turned into a no-go zone most weekends due to overt antisemitism on anti-Israel marches”.<br />
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Other speakers will include The Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, Marie van der Zyl, President of the Board of Deputies and Auschwitz Birkenau survivor, Ike Alterman.</blockquote>
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✊“AM YISRAEL CHAI!”✊<br />
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Witness Manchester, UK, rallying with 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇱 flags in a vibrant show of support for Israel.<br />
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👍 Like and share to celebrate this unity.<br />
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🔔 Follow for more inspiring solidarity… <a href="https://t.co/VHUqBqjkk3">pic.twitter.com/VHUqBqjkk3</a></p>
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShirionOrg/status/1749243372655522180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">My comments on <a href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@i24NEWS_EN</a> on the insane glorification of terrorism taking place on social media today, including the Houthis, and what we should make of it. <a href="https://t.co/IErJRj1Qde">pic.twitter.com/IErJRj1Qde</a></p>
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1749205565299970275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">❗<a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillMaher</a> exposes the hypocrisy of those who rally in support of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a>: <a href="https://t.co/CBLoLjBV3j">pic.twitter.com/CBLoLjBV3j</a></p>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1749171004826403074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2808429/protester-disrupts-dean-phillips-event-over-ceasefire/">Protester disrupts Dean Phillips’s campaign event over ceasefire</a>
<blockquote>Rep. Dean Phillips‘s (D-MN) get-out-the-vote rally in New Hampshire was interrupted Saturday by a protester who pressured the congressman to endorse a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.<br />
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During the question-and-answer portion of the event, the protester began shouting over Phillips to get him to call for a ceasefire.<br />
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“I hope you never see the videos of what they propagated that day in Israel,” Phillips said about the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel that killed over 1,400 people.<br />
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“We have seen the videos,” the man interrupted Phillips.<br />
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“Let me answer the question, sir,” Phillips shot back.<br />
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The crowd shouted down the protester to be quiet.<br />
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“So here’s how I feel,” Phillips continued in his response. “I believe in the State of Israel and I believe it should be safe and secure and prosperous and should exist.”<br />
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Phillips also said Palestinians deserve to live in peace.<br />
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“Now, I also believe deeply in the Palestinian cause,” Phillips said. “I believe deeply that Palestinians should have self-determination. I believe deeply that there must be a State of Palestine created and (that) we recognize. I believe that they should live side by side in peace.”<br />
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Once the congressman finished his response on the topic, the protester asked for a follow-up question and then shouted at him.
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Protestor at Dean Phillips event kicked out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FITN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FITN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dcexaminer</a> <a href="https://t.co/Tf09vIFpuk">pic.twitter.com/Tf09vIFpuk</a></p>
— Mabinty 🦋 (@MabintyQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/MabintyQ/status/1748805905632698771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In the Senate, smelly activists with hands drenched in fake blood play victims, as they wait for a supervisor for their unsettling harassment of senators – a scene that begs the question: How did they even get inside?<br />
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⚠️ WATCH: Their… <a href="https://t.co/8hX4oVlK5A">pic.twitter.com/8hX4oVlK5A</a></p>
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShirionOrg/status/1749350343543025833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Exclusive audio reveals NSW cabinet minister’s wife disciplined for pro-Palestinian activism
<blockquote>Sky News host Sharri Markson has revealed a NSW cabinet minister's wife has been disciplined by the Department of Education for pro-Palestinian activism at the public school where she teaches.<br />
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Despite this action, the Emergency Services Minister Jihad Dib's wife, Erin, was part of a small group of teachers on Friday plotting a protest outside the offices of Chris Minns, Anthony Albanese or Jason Clare.<br />
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During the meeting, Ms Dib, a teacher at Burwood Girls’ High, offered to help produce a booklet to distribute at schools which accuses Israel of genocide and it explains how to get around the Education Department code of conduct.<br />
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Sky News has obtained an exclusive audio recording of the Teachers for Palestine group meeting on Friday which was attended by about 15 people.<br />
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In the explosive audio recording, Ms Dib discloses who her husband is as they debate which politician's office to hold a rally outside of.</blockquote>
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‘Something has to give’: Pro-Palestinian 'cannot continue' as they currently are
<blockquote>Sky News host Caleb Bond says “something has to give” as pro-Palestinian rallies are costing the Australian taxpayer over $200,000 each time they go through with a protest.<br />
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“$220,000, something has to give, at some point,” Mr Bond said.<br />
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“Surely, whether it is the state government stepping in or the police simply saying well we’re going to show you and we’re not going to rock up and patrol this protest.<br />
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“Then someone will have to do something about it after that.<br />
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“It cannot continue as it currently is.”</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/dozens-of-doctors-reported-to-watchdog-over-israel-gaza-social-media-posts-20240119-p5eyof.html">Dozens of doctors reported to watchdog over Israel-Gaza social media posts</a>
<blockquote>Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler made a complaint to AHPRA in October about a Melbourne doctor who he claims played down Hamas’ massacre of 260 partygoers at the Supernova Music Festival in Israel.<br />
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He alleges the doctor said: “There is no denial that crimes were committed, but the whole ‘naked women were pack raped or disrobed and displayed’ narrative is not factual ... It’s a rave party … the attire doesn’t include long sleeves and pants.”<br />
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Leibler said the GP, who this masthead has chosen not to name, “owes professional obligations in how she uses her profile and platform as an Australian medical doctor”.<br />
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Medical indemnity insurer Avant emailed its members in November to advise them to carefully consider how they comment on the crisis.<br />
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They were advised not to post social media content that may “reflect poorly on your role as a doctor and on the reputation of the broader medical profession”.<br />
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Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dr Dvir Abramovich said he had been shocked by some of “the hateful posts” he had seen from doctors.<br />
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“These include posts comparing Israel’s defence of its citizens to the Holocaust, others labelling Israel an apartheid state and calling for a boycott of Israel. It is antisemitic to its core,” he said.<br />
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“Clinics should not be turned into battlefields and hotbeds of anti-Israel propaganda and incitement.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The UK banned this video so let's make sure to spread awareness <a href="https://t.co/6ehCDTDxkH">pic.twitter.com/6ehCDTDxkH</a></p>
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) <a href="https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1749091209572741615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jns.org/met-fails-to-respond-after-three-attacked-for-being-jewish/">Jews attacked in London; police respond only after being called 10 times</a>
<blockquote>Three Jews, all in their 20s, were violently attacked in Leicester Square in central London early on Sunday morning. The victims were reportedly targeted after being overheard speaking Hebrew.<br />
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Tehilla, 28, told the Telegraph about the harrowing experience. Despite making 10 distress calls to the Metropolitan Police fearing for her life, no officers responded, she said.<br />
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En route to a nightclub, the trio initially sought to defuse the situation when accosted for speaking Hebrew and opted to walk away. The three were confronted again about 2 a.m., this time with threats and offensive language in Arabic.<br />
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“They heard us talking and said, ‘Are you Jewish?’” Tehilla told the paper. “I said, ‘Yes, I’m Jewish.’ And then they started chanting ‘Free Palestine’, and [expletive] Jews, all this kind of swearing at us.”<br />
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The situation escalated rapidly, with assailants growing from two or three to a mob of 15 to 20 people, who attacked the three physically, according to the Daily Mail.<br />
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Tehilla was disheartened by the police’s lack of immediate response to her repeated calls.<br />
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“They don’t really care. They kept saying ‘I’m sorry. It takes some time, you are not the only one that called tonight,’” she said, expressing shock at the incident.<br />
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According to the Daily Mail officers arrived at the scene only after 28 minutes had elapsed.<br />
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Police arrived at Tehilla’s residence some 16 hours after the first call.<br />
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A friend of the victims claimed that police did not show up at the hospital, where the victims were being treated, despite assurances they would do so.</blockquote>
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The woman was raised in London. The two men came to visit her from Israel, a cousin and a friend.<br />
Last night, they visited Leicester Square. One of the men is wearing a Kippah, but decided to take it off… <a href="https://t.co/iLT2k3OSay">https://t.co/iLT2k3OSay</a> <a href="https://t.co/Euzbgk630t">pic.twitter.com/Euzbgk630t</a></p>
— Elad Simchayoff (@Elad_Si) <a href="https://twitter.com/Elad_Si/status/1749158651854504257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">For the <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@metpoliceuk</a> to have taken 28 minutes to arrive on the scene of a violent antisemitic hate crime in Leicester Square, the heart of London, is completely outrageous.<br />
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Leicester Square is always filled with police officers. I don’t believe I’ve ever NOT seen at least a few… <a href="https://t.co/notgeduCmG">https://t.co/notgeduCmG</a> <a href="https://t.co/XXZhfr6FOD">pic.twitter.com/XXZhfr6FOD</a></p>
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1749372294080720937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Reminder: there are weekly marches full of antisemitism in our city. <a href="https://t.co/4ohA8bx0RL">https://t.co/4ohA8bx0RL</a></p>
— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicolelampert/status/1749393361130111299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-783144">Pro-Palestine protests shut down main street of Sundance Film Festival</a>
<blockquote>Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Sunday, attempting to capture the attention of international media, Deadline Hollywood reported.<br />
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The crowd, shouting, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," was joined by actress Melissa Barrera. Barrera is a Mexican actress known for her roles in the film series, "Scream" and "In The Heights." Barrera joined nearly 100 protesters, chanting against President Joe Biden and shouting at protesters from the Bring Them Home movement to return Israel's hostages in Gaza.<br />
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The group of protesters were under heavy police surveillance, US media reported.<br />
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Deadline Hollywood reported that the protesters likely wanted to gain as much attention as possible from Sundance's huge media presence.<br />
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The group of protesters shouted remarks against President Joe Biden's ties with the Jewish State over the destructive October 7 Massacre. US media reported that protesters recycled an "old anti-Vietnam War chant," with signs referring to the President as a "butcher" and people shouting, “Genocide Joe, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”<br />
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Melissa Barrera shows support for Palestinians, even after losing jobs due to antisemitic remarks<br />
Celebrity supporter Barrera was fired by Spyglass Media from Scream VII in November following the actress' pro-Palestinian remarks made on social media. The studio found her remarks antisemitic, though she disagreed.<br />
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Days later, she posted on her Instagram story exclaiming, “First and foremost, I condemn Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I condemn hate and prejudice of any kind against any group of people.”</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This speaker represented the PSC. No ambiguity here. Be “inspired” by Palestinian “resistance”.<br />
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“Long live Yemen!”<br />
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“Long live the resistance!” 2/7 <a href="https://t.co/ru9JoT6gou">pic.twitter.com/ru9JoT6gou</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1749153347486011485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">There were many shouts for the Houthis.<br />
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Here's another one.<br />
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“Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around!” 4/7 <a href="https://t.co/NVB0giSp8G">pic.twitter.com/NVB0giSp8G</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1749153351671898420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">A proper Israel hatred rally features foul Nazi abuse.<br />
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Birmingham didn’t disappoint.<br />
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And Labour abuse too. There was plenty of that, including “shame!” shouts from the stage.<br />
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The PSC hates Labour. 6/7 <a href="https://t.co/BTxiqtTGVB">pic.twitter.com/BTxiqtTGVB</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1749153355836862934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What you see apparently depends on where you stand on the issue…<br />
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Yesterday in Brussels some saw “no hate”.<br />
We saw-<br />
-Flags of Yemen (!)<br />
-Flags with terrorist’s portraits<br />
-Screams “with souls, and blood we will redeem you Gaza”<br />
-Hundreds chanting calls for Intifada and… <a href="https://t.co/8mXM51xct2">pic.twitter.com/8mXM51xct2</a></p>
— Ambassador Idit Rosenzweig-Abu (@IditAbu) <a href="https://twitter.com/IditAbu/status/1749441732847014020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">"Palestine Solidarity Campaign" thugs really do think democratic processes are there for them to wreck.<br />
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This is the Hillingdon lot, proud to have "disrupted our local council meeting".<br />
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They are very dear friends of John McDonnell MP. <a href="https://t.co/gP4KQHvC9g">pic.twitter.com/gP4KQHvC9g</a></p>
— habibi (@habibi_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/habibi_uk/status/1749428349708218694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Despite what this protester thinks, Zionism is not, in fact, based on white supremacy.<br />
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Jews are not white supremacists. White supremacists have historically been the ones to persecute Jews.<br />
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We hope that clears things up. <a href="https://t.co/wx9PIxelRM">pic.twitter.com/wx9PIxelRM</a></p>
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) <a href="https://twitter.com/antisemitism/status/1749414521859436686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">‘iSrAeL iS aBoUt WhItE sUpReMaCy” <a href="https://t.co/IlG1Tt72b4">pic.twitter.com/IlG1Tt72b4</a></p>
— Kosher Cockney🎗 (@KosherCockney) <a href="https://twitter.com/KosherCockney/status/1749449318056992862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/democratic-socialists-face-seven-figure-crisis-amid-palestinian-support-that-may-force-dreaded-layoffs-of-staff/">Democratic Socialists face seven-figure ‘crisis’ amid Palestinian support that may force dreaded layoffs of staff</a>
<blockquote>The Democratic Socialists of America are red all over — with a financial situation so dire that some leaders are demanding job cuts and the layoff of staffers just like a corporate America entity, The Post has learned.<br />
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The DSA — which has led protests against Israel over the Jewish state’s retaliatory response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack — is deep in a seven-figure hole and desperately in need of a way to stanch the red ink, members acknowledge.<br />
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“We will cut $500,000 from staff-related expenses. We will first ask for volunteers from both director-level and bargaining unit staff to have their position cut and receive severance,” according to a proposal advanced by members of DSA’s National Political Committee affiliated with its Marxist Bread and Roses caucus.<br />
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“If necessary, we will then explore initiating lay-offs according to the DSA union’s contract,” the DSA officers said.<br />
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The situation appears to be a case of an organization that blindly seeks utopia and professes support of the working class clashing with reality — forcing it to have to balance a budget like the rest of America and even contemplate layoffs hated by labor unions.<br />
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“DSA is in a financial crisis and staff-related costs account for 58% of our total expenditures and 72% of our projected income,” wrote DSA members Alex Pellitteri, Kristin Schall and Laura Wadlin in the cost-cutting proposal.<br />
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“The current deficit will force us to make 7-figure budget cuts. This will require us to make painful decisions that will impact all levels of the organization. … Given our current financial state, we do not believe we can have a healthy, democratic, and effective organization while spending the amount we currently do on staff,” they said.<br />
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“If necessary, we will then explore initiating lay-offs according to the DSA union’s contract. Be it resolved: The Personnel Committee will be responsible for determining the quantity and type of positions to be eligible for buy-out or layoff, and they will assist with logistics and a staff transition plan,” the group said.<br />
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Progressive Jewish activists are blaming DSA leaders who blindly back Palestinian groups at least partly for the fiscal crisis, saying they have damaged the group’s credibility and lost support by backing the Hamas terrorists.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Seattle closes light rail stop before 'Shut it down for Palestine' protesters march on station<br />
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The group was joined by Antifa, communist & Marxist activists who promoted antisemitic rhetoric & anti-capitalism messaging<br />
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My latest team-up with <a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@choeshow</a> <a href="https://t.co/B7NXg3CTzj">https://t.co/B7NXg3CTzj</a></p>
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehoffather/status/1749250530486997098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">JEWISH DYKE: Saturday night, an activist outside the U District Station in Seattle was holding a sign that read: "Jewish Dyke For A Free Palestine."<br />
When I asked what this was all about, she seemed offended by my lack of knowledge in this particular area.<br />
Of course I tried to… <a href="https://t.co/WCkueHVTZR">pic.twitter.com/WCkueHVTZR</a></p>
— Jonathan Choe Journalist (Seattle) (@choeshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow/status/1749255355144732781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">A leader of the pro Hamas (Naveed Awan) gatherings targeting the Toronto Jewish Community, is upset because the police will not allow him to hold banners or flags on any of the Hi way bridges. The Canadian public is sick of these Pro Hamas gangs that disrupt traffic and more. <a href="https://t.co/0crNsdhBwS">pic.twitter.com/0crNsdhBwS</a></p>
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) <a href="https://twitter.com/neveragainlive1/status/1749265921464471902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2024/01/22/free-palestine-protest-fans-australian-open-cameron-norrie/">Australian Open fans take hands-on approach to dealing with free-Palestine campaigner</a>
<blockquote>The incident took place in the third set of the match involving British No 1 Norrie and world No 6 Zverev, which was staged on the tournament’s second-biggest court: Margaret Court Arena. All 7,500 seats were filled for a contest that was delivering some high-quality tennis.<br />
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As Norrie tried to close out a service game, deep in the third set, a woman stood up from her seat near the front of the stands, shouted “Free Palestine”, and started tossing pamphlets in all directions. The front cover of the pamphlets were emblazoned with the message “War crimes and genocide. Free Palestine.”<br />
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In an echo of last year’s security issues over pro-Russian protests on the steps of Rod Laver Arena, there was no uniformed guard to deal with the issue. But a woman in a flowery shirt took the initiative, grabbing the satchel from which the protester was pulling the pamphlets, and then dragging her out onto the stairway.<br />
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A second, male fan then joined the first. Together, they grabbed an arm each and forced the struggling protester up the stairs and out of the arena. Norrie and Zverev were able to resume play after only 90 seconds, because the ball-kids had been able to gather the fallen pamphlets from the court’s surface without much trouble.<br />
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There was a second brief delay after a couple more points had been played, because the two fans came back into the arena and resumed their seats to an ovation from the rest of the stadium. It was arguably the largest cheer of the day.</blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Pro-'Palestine' attempt to disrupt the Australian Open tennis.<br />
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They tried to ruin Christmas Carols, Boxing Day Sales, New Years Eve fireworks, the cricket.<br />
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Now this.<br />
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They hate Israel, they hate Jews and they hate Australia too.<br />
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Australia Day will be next. <a href="https://t.co/2BYakLkhbU">pic.twitter.com/2BYakLkhbU</a></p>
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AustralianJA/status/1749365381545050194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">West Hartford, CT - this is the result a quaint town in New England is forced to deal with because of the vicious and destructive "Free Palestine" protest.<br />
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The hate rally was organized by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Connecticut Chapter, an entity with alleged terror… <a href="https://t.co/eaDmOBlt5c">pic.twitter.com/eaDmOBlt5c</a></p>
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1749452938047569951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Arabs insist on everyone “decolonizing” but themselves <a href="https://t.co/jXJUUqDnbp">https://t.co/jXJUUqDnbp</a></p>
— Bad antizionist takes 🍉 (@antiantizionist) <a href="https://twitter.com/antiantizionist/status/1749129307589353680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">ANYONE RECOGNIZE THIS GUY?<br />
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This is one of the Hamas supporting jackasses who saw my Jewish friends and their Jewish photographers in downtown Seattle taking pre wedding pics and started harassing them.<br />
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Tell me again how anti Zionism isn't antisemitism <a href="https://t.co/UlKS7QjUkp">https://t.co/UlKS7QjUkp</a> <a href="https://t.co/RUWRwKCc1q">pic.twitter.com/RUWRwKCc1q</a></p>
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehoffather/status/1749282369994125738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Declassified UK, a British open source intelligence website that appears to be anti-Israel, <a href="https://paltoday.ps/ar/post/499957/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7">reports</a> that they have seen evidence of regular British flights over Gaza by planes whose job is to gather intel:
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<div>The UK military has flown 50 surveillance missions over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.</div>
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<div>The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December. </div>
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<div>The British plane used is the Shadow R1, which is known as an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) aircraft.</div>
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<div>The Shadow R1 is operated by the UK military’s No.14 Squadron, which is based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, east England. </div>
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<div>The British flights began on 3 December when two R1s flew over Gaza. The flights have continued nearly daily up until now, with around half the days featuring two flights. On 3 January, the British sent an R1 over Gaza three times. </div>
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<div>The flights appear to last around six hours. </div>
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<div>The purpose of the flights has not been revealed, although UK officials have given two separate reasons for these flights.</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/02/uk-surveillance-aircraft-to-search-for-hamas-hostage-sites-in-israel-and-gaza">One</a> is to help search for British hostages in Gaza. There are two British citizens there.</div>
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<div>The other, mentioned in November, came from an answer to a <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-07/48">question to Parliament:</a></div>
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<div>A total of 12 aircraft have deployed to the eastern Mediterranean. These flights have provided surveillance support to Israel, including preventing the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups, and to wider regional security. They have also delivered humanitarian aid into Egypt.</div>
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<div>It is unclear whether the UK is sharing the information gathered with Israel, and what kinds of data it can gather than Israel cannot with its own technology.</div>
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<div>The same site had <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/u-s-flies-routine-spy-flights-from-uks-cyprus-base-near-gaza-for-third-party-governments/">previously reported</a> on a 2008 Wikileaks cable that said the US was routinely operating spy missions from that same British airbase in Cyprus but that memo mentioned Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, not Gaza. But the US has stated that they are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-hostages-us.html">using their own drones and flying over Gaza</a> to help with the hostage rescue efforts. </div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Eugene Kontorovich writes in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-helps-make-gaza-an-open-air-prison-palestinians-policy-war-zone-refugees-0e5a9b28?mod=opinion_lead_pos8">Wall Street Journal op-ed:</a></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>America Helps Make Gaza an Open-Air Prison</b></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Refugees flee every other war, but Palestinians are kept prisoners of Hamas.</i></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gaza is unique among modern war zones. Despite being the center of a conflict fought in dense urban areas, it hasn’t produced waves of refugees leaving for neutral countries. This has been deliberate, the result of policies by Hamas and Egypt tacitly supported by the U.S.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Every prolonged conflict creates refugees. Months after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, 3.5 million Ukrainians had applied for temporary residence in countries such as Poland and Germany. The Syrian civil war produced five million refugees—nearly a quarter of the country’s prewar population. The U.S. invasion of Iraq produced two million international refugees, and a similar number of people were displaced internally. Fleeing a war zone and seeking asylum in a neutral country is a human right enshrined in the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. If civilians hadn’t been allowed to flee past conflicts, their death tolls would have been even higher.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Yet three months after Oct. 7, fewer than 1,000 people—either foreign nationals or wounded—have been allowed by Egypt and Hamas to leave Gaza. In Israel this month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected the possibility of Israel helping Gazans who wish to escape the conflict to do so. But he also complained that the war’s toll on Gaza civilians was “far too high” and echoed earlier demands that Israel “do more” to reduce the collateral damage caused by Hamas’s hiding behind its population.</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1748889147669119414">I had created this infographic</a> to show the hypocrisy of the Arab and Muslim nations who allowed millions of Syria refugees to take refuge in their countries, compared to Gaza refugees.</div>
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<div>Palestinians and the Arab world alike like to talk about Palestinian "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumud">sumud</a>," or steadfastness - how they heroically stay on what they consider their land.</div>
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<div>But <i>Gazans want to leave.</i> They are trying any and every means to find ways to exist Gaza. Their families are paying <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/gazans-desperate-to-leave-human-rights.html">thousands of dollars</a> to Egyptian brokers to in turn bribe officials to put their names on the lists of people allowed to leave. (That bribery system has been around from <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/09/gazans-forced-to-pay-thousands-in.html">way before October 7</a>.)</div>
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<a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/where-are-human-rights-ngos-who-condemn.html">Egypt and Jordan</a> have flatly stated they do not want any Palestinians to take refuge in their countries, ostensibly both for security reasons and to enhance Palestinian "sumud." But as this infographic shows, there was no such insistence to keep Syrian civilians out of their countries during that country's civil war.
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<div>Not that Arab countries welcomed the Syrians with open arms; there was resistance. But in the end, millions of Syrians were able to flee to other Arab or Muslim-majority countries. Many of them returned in recent years. And these countries had also allowed refugees from Iraq and other trouble spots.</div>
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<div>But no one wants Palestinians. </div>
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<div>Even when Palestinians want to leave. </div>
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<div>Before the war, some <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/last-summer-29-of-gazans-wanted-to.html">29% of Gazans</a> said they would like to emigrate. </div>
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<div>The news media simply doesn't want to highlight the hypocrisy in the Arab and Muslim world towards Palestinians - they claim that they support Palestinians but they simply do not want to save any of them. </div>
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<div>And nothing shows that hypocrisy better than comparing how Muslim countries allowed millions of Syrians to take refuge - and not one says they will accept the Palestinians they claim to support.</div>
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