Deterring but Not Defeating Hamas Allowed It to Grow Stronger
In order to limit civilian loss of life in Gaza, a lot of well-meaning people in the West are calling for a cease-fire or suggesting that Israel should limit its response to Hamas to precision airstrikes and commando raids to take out high-level Hamas operatives and to free hostages. That advice is well-intended but ultimately misguided and futile. If Israel were to declare a cease-fire now, that would be tantamount to rewarding aggression and inviting more of it in the future.Prof. Alan Johnson: Israeli Military Action to Defeat Hamas Is Proportionate to the Threat from Hamas
A narrowly focused counterterrorism strategy is being pushed by analysts who warn that Israel should avoid the kind of quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan that the U.S. found itself in after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But there is a big difference in scale between Hamas now and al-Qaeda then. Al-Qaeda in 2001 had only 170 members, according to terrorism expert Peter Bergen. A few thousand other jihadists, who were not formal members, had been trained in its camps in Afghanistan. The 9/11 "planes operation" itself was carried out by 19 terrorists.
The Oct. 7 assault on Israel, by contrast, involved an estimated 1,200 Hamas militants. The organization has 15,000-40,000 fighters in Gaza, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad might have 15,000 more. That makes Hamas closer to a conventional military force than a terrorist cell. It can't be destroyed by a small number of special operations forces, no matter how skilled. Nor can it be defeated from the air: There is no history of air operations proving decisive in warfare absent a ground component.
If Israel were to rely on special operations raids and airstrikes, it would be reverting to the "mowing the lawn" strategy it followed for years of trying to degrade and deter, but not defeat, Hamas. The Oct. 7 attack revealed that policy's failure by showing that Hamas actually grew stronger and bolder after previous Israeli assaults.
What is meant by "proportionality" in war? The goal pursued by military action must be proportionate to the ongoing threat faced. Israel's goal of the removal of Hamas as the controlling political and military power in Gaza is proportionate because 7 October made clear that Hamas now poses an existential threat to Israel.Prof. Cary Nelson: If Hamas' Crimes Are Allowed to Stand Unanswered, They Will Be Repeated
Israel's goal is proportionate to the revelation that the mass slaughter of all the Jews of Israel will be attempted again and again by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad until successful, under the guiding hand and financial support of a nuclear threshold state religiously committed to Israel's destruction, Iran. Although Hamas has declared this eliminationist goal openly, again and again, Western liberal opinion refused to take it seriously. ("No, they can't mean that! No one can mean that!")
7 October 2023 should have brought an end to the games that Westerners play with genocidal Hamas statements, to their clever-clever "translating" of them into mere "rhetoric." But Israel's neighborhood is a bit different from the Modern Languages Association annual conference. In that region, when someone says they intend to kill you, they really intend to kill you. All of you.
Two to three thousand members of highly organized murder squads cross an international border and set about murdering civilians in as gruesome and indiscriminate a manner imaginable. With that barbaric mission completed in a day, some in the international community immediately begin calling for a ceasefire. A ceasefire keeps Hamas in power.Dennis Ross: I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire With Hamas, but Not Now
Those urging a ceasefire stand behind what appears to be the most basic humanitarian motive: prevent further loss of life. Meanwhile, no reprisals for murdering men, women, and children are to follow. No sanctions. No punishments. No accountability. We are all to accept what happened and move on. Except that if the crimes are allowed to stand unanswered, they will be repeated or horrifically reinvented within a few years at most.
If Israel fails to demonstrate that organized, wanton, antisemitic murder sprees will not be tolerated, these new forms of Hamas butchery will become Israel's new normal. The Hamas pogrom presents Israel with what really is this time an existential threat. It has to be treated that way. There will need to be a definitive material difference in the status of Hamas if Israelis are to feel safe again. Deterrence regarding Hamas has lost its credibility.
Decades of wishful thinking must come to an end. Hamas is not and never will be a partner for peace. Its charter's call to kill Jews by any means possible has only one meaning: the literal one.
For 35 years, I’ve devoted my professional life to U.S. peacemaking policy and conflict resolution and planning — whether in the former Soviet Union, a reunified Germany or postwar Iraq. But nothing has preoccupied me like finding a peaceful and lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
In the past, I might have favored a cease-fire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel. But today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza. Hamas’s power and ability to threaten Israel — and subject Gazan civilians to ever more rounds of violence — must end.
After Oct. 7, there are many Israelis who believe their survival as a state is at stake. That may sound like an exaggeration, but to them, it’s not. If Hamas persists as a military force and is still running Gaza after this war is over, it will attack Israel again. And whether or not Hezbollah opens a true second front from Lebanon during this conflict, it, too, will attack Israel in the future. The aim of these groups, both of which are backed by Iran, is to make Israel unlivable and drive Israelis to leave: While Iran has denied involvement in the Hamas attack, Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has long talked about Israel not surviving for another 25 years, and his strategy has been to use these militant proxies to achieve that goal.
Given the strength of Israel’s military — by far the most powerful in the region — the aims of Iran and its collaborators seemed implausible until a few weeks ago. But the events of Oct. 7 changed everything. As one commander in the Israeli military said, “If we do not defeat Hamas, we cannot survive here.”
Israel is not alone in believing it must defeat Hamas. Over the past two weeks, when I talked to Arab officials throughout the region whom I have long known, every single one told me that Hamas must be destroyed in Gaza. They made clear that if Hamas is perceived as winning, it will validate the group’s ideology of rejection, give leverage and momentum to Iran and its collaborators and put their own governments on the defensive.
Honest Reporting: How In The World Did We Get Here?
Over the years, media outlets have become islands of ideological conformity, where the need to affirm supersedes the obligation to inform. In the case of Israel, the subordination of Truth to ideology by some of the most revered international news outlets has led to levels of global antisemitism not seen since the Holocaust.
Under the guise of “objective journalism,” journalists frame information in such a way that ignites our confirmation bias while trying to mask their own biases and agendas. Given the constant bombardment of information from these sources, seeking out alternative views requires Herculean discipline, which few of us possess.
Media bias did not light the fuse for recent events, but it certainly fanned the flames. The dangers of media bias cannot be underestimated.
Sadly, bias presumes unconscious intent, and I do not believe the rush to judgment by the BBC, New York Times, and others in blaming Israel for the purported attack on the Gaza hospital, or in CNN’s case, equivocating over the likely culprit, was unconscious. It was malicious and intentional.
Their false reporting based on verifiably false information led to violent global protests and raised the prospect of a world war. It’s only natural to ask, “How in the world did we get here?”
I’ll try to shed light on how we got here by exploring the convergence of four cultural trends in Western nations, most notably the US and the UK, and the ensuing psychological prisons that capture minds.
The incredible, bone-chilling speech by Dr. @mijalbitton during today's "Never Again Is Now" rally outside @nyuniversity 🇮🇱עם ישראל חי🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/BMeTQwabIT
— elisha (@elisha__jacobs) October 26, 2023
"Like their masters in Tehran, Hamas is a genocidal, totalitarian death cult. And against such an existential threat, Israel's natural right to self-defense can only mean, as the European Parliament demanded last week, the "elimination" of Hamas."
— Daniel Schwammenthal (@DSchwammenthal) October 27, 2023
"I want to particularly thank… pic.twitter.com/CpSUOfhlkN
State Department Email Consoling Employees After Hamas Attack Omits Mention of 'Israel' and 'Jews'
The State Department sent an internal email consoling its employees in the wake of the mass terrorist attacks in Israel that omitted any mention of "Israel" or "Jews," while warning that the war could provoke "antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab prejudice."
The 872-word message, which was sent Wednesday, addressed the "professional and personal effects of a region in crisis," and decried "Hamas’s terrorist attack, the ongoing conflict, and the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza." It did not directly mention Israel or the Jewish people.
The email comes as the White House has faced criticism for waving off journalists’ questions about rising anti-Semitism while invoking concerns about the potential for increased Islamophobia. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, for example, drew criticism on Wednesday after she appeared to duck a question about Biden’s "level of concern right now about the potential rise of anti-Semitism."
Richard Verma, the State Department deputy secretary for management and resources, wrote that he had "heard from team members here in Washington and at posts around the world with concerns that horrible acts of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab prejudice could ripple even further." This could make it "feel more dangerous to be who we are, express who we are, or gather at this most important moment with our communities," he added.
Verma included a list of resources, such as mental health counseling, for "those impacted by antisemitism; American Muslims and Arab-Americans; and anyone seeking healthy coping strategies to address the personal, emotional, and mental health impacts of this crisis."
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment.
Jean-Pierre seemed to dismiss concerns of a rise in anti-Semitism following the Hamas terror attack when questioned by reporters on Wednesday.
The press secretary said the administration has "not seen any credible threats," before adding that "Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks."
There have been dozens of high-profile anti-Semitic incidents since the Oct. 7 onslaught, which was the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust. Law enforcement officials have also reported a spike in anti-Jewish attacks in the United States.
The Anti-Defamation League said this week that it has documented 312 anti-Semitic incidents in the three weeks since the war broke out, a 400 percent increase since the same time last year.
The people who have hired each other to run American diplomacy are in open revolt because they think America is doing too much to support an American ally against genocidal Iran-controlled terrorists. Thousands of staffers. The entire institutional apparatus has been inverted. https://t.co/lS9ZrgmTNv
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 26, 2023
How do you justify killing people as they sleep?': Top Hamas spokesman storms out of BBC interview after being confronted about terror group's murder of Israeli families
This is the moment a top Hamas spokesman stormed out of a BBC interview after being asked how the terrorists justified the killing of Israeli families as they slept in their beds.
The deputy foreign minister for Hamas in Gaza, Ghazi Hamad, was being grilled by the BBC's Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega about the barbaric murders of up to 1,500 Israelis.
In the sit-down interview, Mr Hamad suggested there was no command to kill any civilians when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 which saw the terrorists paraglide into the desert, surround the Nova Festival and slaughter 260 festivalgoers as they fled for their lives.
Footage has since emerged of the massacre of Be'eri Kibbutz where people were slaughtered in their beds. Images shown to MailOnline by the Israel Embassy in London, which are too graphic to publish, show the blood-splattered rooms.
Inside the bedroom of one home, three dead bodies were left to rot by Hamas fighters, who killed at least 100 people in the community. A woman lies face down in a pool of her own blood. Her blonde hair is blood stained and the wall behind her has at least six bullet holes.
While harrowing photos showed the aftermath of a bloodbath caused when Hamas barbarians opened fire at a pre-school - leaving teddy bears riddled with bullets and killing an unknown number of innocents.
But Mr Hamad incredulously suggested 'because the area was very wide' there 'were clashes and confrontations'.
Mr Bachega said it was not a confrontation when they invaded people's homes to which he replied: 'I can tell you we didn't have any intention or decision to kill the civilians.'
He was then asked how he can justify killing people as they slept. Mr Hamad then looks to the side and pulls off his microphone attached to his dark-coloured suit jacket and declares: 'I want to stop this interview.'
He then chucks the microphone onto the floor.
Up to 1,500 Israelis have been killed at the hands of Hamas with at least 200 taken hostage back to Gaza.
BBC: “How do you justify killing civilians?”
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 27, 2023
Hamas Spokesman: “Our attack was targetted on military sites. No command was given to kill civilians.”
BBC: “But hundreds of civilians were killed, entire families, in their sleep.”
Hamas Spokesman: “I want to stop this interview.” pic.twitter.com/XSZpVGatZd
Hamas are at least 30% of the Palestinian population, says Palestinian diplomat Hanan Ashrawi, “They ran for elections”.
— 🇮🇱Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري🇮🇱 (@Jonathan_Elk) October 27, 2023
So you’re saying at least 30% of the Palestinians in Gaza support the murderous “organization” they voted for, thus supporting the slaughter of Jews and… pic.twitter.com/RLNnX3bzyz
“We saw elderly people whose skulls were crushed.”
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 26, 2023
Ilana is a dentist and volunteers with the Israeli police’s dental forensic unit. This is her testimony. pic.twitter.com/cQ5xtrtz26
⚠️TRIGGER WARNING!
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 26, 2023
A difficult day visiting the scenes of the massacre committed by Hamas in Kibbutz Beer, where dozens of civilians were brutally murdered, with some beheaded, tortured, and burned alive by Hamas terrorists. pic.twitter.com/3U19TZxKhs
Simcha Greinman, a member of @zakaHQ, Israeli humanitarian org that rushes to terror scenes to collect blood and body parts, described the evil he encountered at Kibbutz Holit after the Hamas massacre. He could not keep his composure. Neither could I. pic.twitter.com/AzBz2ukUma
— Len Khodorkovsky (@MessageFromLen) October 27, 2023
A radio interview this morning with the director of Israel's Institute of Forensic Medicine describes the current situation.
— (((Emanuel Miller))) 🌻 (@emanumiller) October 26, 2023
There are 400 parts of bodies left unidentified. There are no longer whole bodies left. Just a collection of body parts.
Body parts belonging to 400… pic.twitter.com/NZH7IVK6W6
Israel Antiquities Authority using archeological methods to uncover human remains after Hamas' massacre in Kibbutz Be'eri.
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 27, 2023
Imagine what Hamas did to these civilians that three weeks later you need to use methods intended for detecting human remains from thousands of years ago... pic.twitter.com/6V80vfKTGd
Palestinian Hamas terrorists admit the massacres committed in southern Israel against children and civilians in this recorded call between Hamas terrorists and their commanders pic.twitter.com/E2sB7aKgjR
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 27, 2023
Israel Abandoned My Son Out of Fear
Over 1500 lawyers worldwide demand that International Red Cross act to save Israeli hostages in Gaza
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) October 27, 2023
ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK – FIGHT BACK WITH SHD NOW! https://t.co/mMhkbcCXI6
US strikes Iranian assets in Syria after attacks on American troops
I don't quite know why we should expect our enemies to be deterred by our resolve if we don't exhibit any.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 26, 2023
Three contradictory statements by the Secretary of Defense in two paragraphs. pic.twitter.com/ydd17vIXMK
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 27, 2023
IDF sends tanks, troops into Gaza for second straight night
How Israel's tanks swooped on Gaza in lightning raid on Hamas: Heavy duty bulldozers and APCs lead the charge smashing through border defences in 'targeted' night attack ahead of IDF's major ground assault
Israel’s Iron Dome working hard pic.twitter.com/NqTsGbD9O5
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 26, 2023
Israeli Iron Dome salvo over Tel Aviv, intercepting the most recent Hamas rocket salvo from the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/ggUEFYiW9E
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 27, 2023
NAVY RAID: Israel’s Flotilla 13 conducted a raid against southern Gaza overnight to destroy Hamas targets pic.twitter.com/o0qBwt0yWw
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) October 27, 2023
The IDF released this video showing Hamas military instillations embedded withing the complex of Shifa hospital, Gaza's main medical center. pic.twitter.com/PQsXUSBn7k
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 27, 2023
Hamas is a plague hiding in a hospital. pic.twitter.com/w1rgBN81TJ
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 27, 2023
There’s been a lot of talk recently of the tunnels that Hamas controls in Gaza.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 26, 2023
The hostages who were released mentioned them and others have discussed how they’re used to hide and smuggle weapons.
In 2021, VICE’s @IsobelYeung agreed to be blindfolded and led to one of Hamas… pic.twitter.com/zVX5u7NuHT
Israeli airstrike targeting a Hamas tunnel complex in Gaza city pic.twitter.com/6ppn7ot36j
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 27, 2023
Israeli airstrike targeting a Hamas tunnel complex in Gaza city pic.twitter.com/6ppn7ot36j
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 27, 2023
Tel Aviv apartment hit by Hamas rocket, four woundedThis is a Hamas terror tunnel we destroyed. Notice how it runs through a residential area.
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 27, 2023
Hamas don't care. pic.twitter.com/Xw3SgIYfOH
Direct hit in tel aviv in the rocket barrage not long ago pic.twitter.com/jCrJbGtELn
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 27, 2023
Just mere seconds between life and death! Security footage inside apartment building in central Israel capture the moment residents, incl. young children, just narrowly escape a direct rocket hit from Gaza. pic.twitter.com/uX1LY9aJ0Y
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) October 27, 2023
A missile struck a building in Taba, Egypt right next on the border with Eilat, Israel and wounded 6 Egyptians.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 27, 2023
Did Hamas just accidentally strike Egypt? pic.twitter.com/RoGW3cP2Jn
However considering where the Town of Taba is on the Red Sea I have a feeling this could possibly have been a Missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen towards Israel. pic.twitter.com/aG1CFedaGm
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 27, 2023
A New Advisory has been released for the Eastern Mediterranean Sea by the U.S. Maritime Administration stating that Commercial Vessels operating in the Region should Exercise Caution, conduct Risk Assessments, and Review Security Measures as well as NATO/Coastal Shipping Warnings… pic.twitter.com/8nykq8xIv6
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 27, 2023
48 Hours in Hell: Colonel recalls battle to save civilians from Hamas
Avi Yemini hears from an Israel Defense Forces colonel who recalls the 48-hour battle to save civilians after Hamas terrorists attacked Kfar Aza, a border town near Gaza.
The deadly Hamas rocket strike that wiped out three generations of an Israeli family
In southern Israel, where the constant threat of rocket attacks looms large, a strike on October 7th shattered the lives of an innocent family, challenging the mainstream media's narrative on the impact of Hamas rockets.
Israeli Special Forces hero has a warning for Hamas terrorists
The echoes of a brutal attack still linger in Sderot, southern Israel, where Avi Yemini met with a member of the Assam, the Israeli special forces police unit, recounting the intense struggle to reclaim this town from the clutches of Hamas terrorists.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a co-founder of Hamas, says the group has “opened up the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.”
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) October 26, 2023
"Hamas's cause is a sick one... only God knows what will happen next, if Hamas is not finished."@piersmorgan | #PMU | @MosabHasanYOSEF pic.twitter.com/dIltVZ2BTD
Mosab Hassan Yousef: "Israel is fighting on behalf of America, Israel is fighting on behalf of the Palestinian people. Israel now is fighting on behalf of the free world.
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 27, 2023
This is not political propaganda.
I as, as an ex-Hamas member, the son of the founder of Hamas… pic.twitter.com/uESDUG51La
A wave of support: Israelis rally behind soldiers on the front line
In southern Israel, a support surges as volunteers stand tall for their soldiers, epitomising the nation's spirit.
It's a reference to the WW2 inglorious bastards team. pic.twitter.com/GIDe5YJ29v
— Michael Weingardt (@Michael_Wgd) October 26, 2023
Babylon Bee: Hamas Clarifies They Only Want Israel To Cease Fire (satire)
Explaining our first mechanized raid into Gaza and the security situation in the north, while antisemitism on US campuses and American cities is on the rise. With @greta on @NEWSMAX pic.twitter.com/zHVHewBdyr
— Jonathan Conricus (@jconricus) October 27, 2023
"In less than a day we will not be able to continue operations', - statements made by WHO, by UNICEF and by UNRWA. Some of these statements were made 10 days ago", says IDF Spokesperson LTC @jconricus addressing the increasing pressure on Israel to supply fuel to Gaza pic.twitter.com/aLJbmXoIyV
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 26, 2023
Gazans admit Hamas is stealing fuel from the hospitals for terrorist activities and they have at least half a million litres of fuel.
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) October 27, 2023
“Even if Israel kills 10,000 people a day, it won’t matter to [Hamas] and they won’t care. They only care about staying in power” says Gazan… pic.twitter.com/RgsggAVWL1
Now the scam artists at Human Rights Watch feel comfortable reporting that "prior to hostilities" there were
— Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) October 26, 2023
FIVE HUNDRED TRUCKS PER DAY ENTERING GAZA FROM ISRAEL. https://t.co/Tl8gfLq1QO
OMG I can't believe I'm saying this, but....go John Kirby?
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 26, 2023
TV Globo’s @RKrahenbuhl: “So, besides saying that he doesn't have confidence in these numbers, the President went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war. You also said that.”
Kirby:… pic.twitter.com/PhB5SxEHTe
The "Gaza Health Ministry" doesn't report breakdown of civilians and terrorists.
— Fusa (@GrapefruitGals) October 26, 2023
The numbers are meaningless without that distinction, but not surprising since Hamas wears civilian clothes and hides in residential neighborhoods while firing rockets.
Put another way: If you're a normal person who relies on Wikipedia in Arabic for basic outlines of history and events, you would not know Hamas perpetrated the greatest slaughter of Jewish men, women, and children since the Holocaust. It's just not there.https://t.co/qoja55zoZe
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 27, 2023
How many times will this dude get counted? pic.twitter.com/B9EpFxdaYK
— B.T. Mattison (@BT_Mattison) October 26, 2023
This is a viral video from SYRIA during the ASSAD and PUTIN bombing campaign against civilians in Idlib, where my mom's side of the family is from.
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) October 26, 2023
Falsely purported to be from Gaza with one million views. There is ongoing Assad regime bombing against Idlib as we speak. https://t.co/KAMv9lHGjU
Pallywood: Richard Landes' examination of "news" created in Palestine
More hearteningly, there is majority support for doing the reminding in unmistakable ways with lasting consequences. Executing that imperative will be met with loud objections from the minority, but it’s still just a loud minority. pic.twitter.com/iIJCUNtpBo
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) October 27, 2023
Watch @piersmorgan's full interview with @naftalibennett on YouTube 👇https://t.co/sAkn1HGcR9
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) October 27, 2023
Watch @piersmorgan's interview with @MosabHasanYOSEF in full on YouTube now: https://t.co/a7APbMXJ28
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) October 26, 2023
⚠️UAE MINISTER CONDEMNED HAMAS
— Loay Alshareef لؤي الشريف (@lalshareef) October 27, 2023
HE Reem Al Hashimi 🇦🇪 is facing a smearing campaign by many Palestinian and Muslim Brotherhood activists for stating the truth!
I explained what happened in context.
I commend her bravery, SO SHOULD YOU! pic.twitter.com/8vMHwOZsb2
New House Speaker Suggests Republicans Ready To Fund Israel, Not Ukraine
House Lawmaker Wants Full Accounting of US Arms Stockpiled for Israel
This is reprehensible.
— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) October 26, 2023
The only thing that belongs on a wall right now is this: https://t.co/BjuNaPe7CY pic.twitter.com/tuiKor8o3z
“Anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism,” they chant, as they parade around the giant pape mache Jew Stereotype https://t.co/mj64Z4g8Kq
— poorly hidden account (@poorly_hidden) October 26, 2023
The Commentary Magazine Podcast: Going After Jews After Jews Are Slaughtered
Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti Today’s podcast is about how the idea that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are two different things has been completely demolished by the targeting of Jews worldwide in the wake of a massacre…of Jews.The Caroline Glick Show: Victor Davis Hanson: Biden Is Not With Israel, But The American People Are
Where do the American people stand on the Israel/Hamas war? Is the Biden administration out of step with its policies? Should Israel continue listening to the United States on how to conduct the Gaza war?
Caroline Glick's guest this week is historian, commentator and classicist Dr. Victor Davis Hanson.
They discuss
- American public opinion on the Israel/Hamas War
- Biden's policies that have actively weakened Israel and made a mess of the Middle East
- The need for Israel to hit Hamas hard for the sake of peace.
Israel: Restrained or Reborn? | The latest episode of Israel Update with me and @GadiTaub1. | https://t.co/UYWU1R1TVl
— Mike (@Doranimated) October 26, 2023
On this week’s episode, I talked to @dansenor about Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7. What happened? Why did it happen? Why would Hamas’s apologists say it happened? Was Dan surprised that it happened? Has the reaction shocked him? What happens next? https://t.co/I9hTGPr8I5 pic.twitter.com/2vTCkmgy4Q
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 26, 2023
Call Me Back: A brief history of Hezbollah – with Dr. Matthew Levitt
Much like our earlier episode on the history of Hamas, today we look at the history of Hezbollah, an even greater threat to Israel than Hamas. Our guest is Dr. Matthew Levitt.Unpacked: Why Israel Must Destroy Hamas | Explained |
Matt is the director of the Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. During his tenure at Treasury, he played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. He later served as a counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security. Previously, Matt was a counterterrorism intelligence analyst at the FBI, where he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counterterrorism operations, focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
He is the author of several books and monographs, including Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press, 2006), Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown University Press, 2013). He is the host of the podcast series, Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule.
Even as we condemn the atrocities Hamas committed on October 7th, 2023, many are now asking, "Why should the Palestinians of Gaza have to pay?" and "Why is Israel making them suffer?" Gazans have been suffering at the hands of Hamas for decades, and this most recent attack on Israeli civilians forced Israel to commit to destroying Hamas once and for all. This current war, as devastating and ugly as it may be, will ultimately ensure that both Israelis and Gazans can have a future free of terror, destruction, and blood.
The Israel Guys: Joe Biden is ALARMED By So Called “Settler Violence” | Here is What Happened. . .
The world is turning its attention from the massacre of 1,400 Jews to blaming Jewish Settlers as the REAL threat to peace in the Middle East. Even President Joe Biden is now joining the uneducated Jew-haters.
Is there any truth to “extremist Settlers” violently attacking Palestinians in the West Bank?
The Libertarian: Life During War Time: Israel’s Fight For Hearts and Minds | Libertarian: Richard Epstein
Richard Epstein responds to the argument that Hamas’s actions were justified because Israel is a colonizer, an occupier, and an apartheid state.Richard Epstein: Accusations and Anger Work Against Gaza Peace
There is no question that the struggle in Gaza is as much about words as it is about hostages, guns, and rockets. In my last column, I decried the constant efforts by Western journalists to downgrade the culpability of Hamas terrorists by calling them “fighters” and “militants.” Belatedly, one such offender, the BBC, issued a wishy-washy explanation for its past practice of calling these terrorists “militants” and “gunmen.” But its explanations and its backtracking on one inflammatory story, paralleling a similar weak response in the New York Times, did not undo the untold harm from its sloppy reporting, which sparked additional protests in Arab lands by first saying that an Israeli missile, and not an errant Hamas rocket bound for Israel, damaged a Gaza hospital.
Its act of “speculation,” as the BBC characterized it, was relatively small change compared to the nonstop campaign by Hamas and its supporters to brand Israel an outcast “colonial” nation whose “occupation” and “apartheid” actions justified Hamas “resistance,” even in the form of mass slaughter of innocent Israelis whose only crime is to live in a land that Hamas claims as part of a greater Palestine that runs from “the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea,” an area, which now becomes increasingly clearer, that should in their view be “Judenrein,” that is, free of all Jewish people.
It is wholly illegitimate to treat these political claims, even if true, as any justification for the mass slaughter that took place, which has spurred Israel’s determination to rid Gaza of all elements of Hamas, after which it might be possible to have some responsible discussion of future relationship between the two warring peoples. But that discussion can begin only if the supposed justifications for the “resistance” are decisively laid aside.
This is not Auschwitz - it's Hamas! We are not fighting against humans - we are fighting monsters! Israel will not stop until Hamas is destroyed!
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 26, 2023
This is what I said at the General Assembly podium when I showed footage of Israeli civilians burnt alive by Hamas and of Hamas… pic.twitter.com/9ncVdog3us
Ahead of the UN's emergency session, @IsraelinUN distributed papers with a QR code that, when scanned, leads to a video depicting Hamas's horrific atrocities - piles of burned bodies, a baby shot in its bed, civilians lying dead in cars, and a gagged woman who had been burned to… pic.twitter.com/DEwiXS4cw7
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) October 26, 2023
Ben Shapiro: The Evil of "Queers For Palestine"
A manhunt is underway after mass shootings occurred in Lewiston, Maine; We examine why America’s university campuses are overrun with Hamas fans; and Republicans finally choose a new Speaker of the House.
Ben Shapiro: The Rise of Anti-Semitism | With Jeff Rabhan
Jeff Rabhan, former chairman of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU, joins the show to discuss the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Megyn Kelly: Jews Shelter From NYC Anti-Israel Protesters, and Biden's Middle East Fails, with The Fifth Column
Megyn Kelly is joined by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch of The Fifth Column podcast join to talk about the horrible mass shooting in Maine, guns and mental health conversations after shootings, actual solutions to the problem, how mental health facilities could be used effectively, the horrifying video of Jewish students sheltering in a New York City library while anti-Israel protesters banged on the locked doors, the need for Jews and gentiles alike to help and fight back, the media spinning the story of these anti-Semitic kids and faculty, the statement from Cooper Union President Laura Sparks that barely addressed the fears of Jewish students, an emotional CNN report about one of the young men Hamas took hostage from Israel on October 7, the true scope of Hamas' atrocities, the Biden administration's failures in the Middle East, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's column that needed to be updated after October 7, the stupid and ignorant college students who are pushing anti-Semitic talking points and tropes, protesters who claim to support Palestinians actually calling for the destruction of Israel, the refusal by many to condemn Hamas, a viral social media post featuring a woman telling men all the places she refuses to go on a first date, tips on her suggestions, and more
"There's a lot of people walking around saying the Jewish people are shaking, the Jewish people are scared. We're not scared, we are livid." @bungarsargon reacts to the lack of support for Israeli hostages. | @dagenmcdowell @SeanDuffyWI pic.twitter.com/ilGhhfAnSs
— The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) October 26, 2023
"There's no such thing as an innocent Jew in the woke mindset because they are on the side of the oppressor."
— Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) October 26, 2023
Listen to my full conversation with @bungarsargon now on the podcast: https://t.co/wR0UPVKYfu pic.twitter.com/h3iUu3bZS1
Evacuation Support in Israel: Dean and Alana Stott - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’s guests on this episode of Danger Close are Dean and Alana Stott.
For the last two weeks, Dean has been in Israel helping with evacuations following the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th. Alana has been coordinating efforts from the United States.
About Dean:
Dean Stott is a security consultant, speaker, author, and former Special Boat Service (SBS) operator. After a parachuting accident in 2011, he began working in the private security sector focusing on high-risk jobs involving extortion campaigns, kidnappings, pirates, military coups, and civil unrest. He led the evacuation of the Canadian Embassy in Libya in 2014.
Doron Keidar: The Frontlines of the Israel-Hamas War - Danger Close with Jack Carr
Today’s guest on this special episode of Danger Close is Doron Keidar.
Doron has served in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the IDF reserves. His unit was mobilized on Saturday, Oct. 7, and he is currently on the frontlines of Israel’s war with Hamas.
He is also a security professional, serving as the Director of International Relations at the BHS Security Defense.
Hi @MayorofLondon 👋
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 27, 2023
Over a hundred thousand people just marched in London calling for massacre and cheering raping women and kidnapping babies.
Aren't you aware that you are next?
Deal with your own problems, before it's too late.
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Senate Passes Resolution Condemning Campus Anti-Semitism
Josh Hawley:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 26, 2023
"We must speak with one voice as a nation: attacks on Israel and Jewish Americans are evil." pic.twitter.com/ypN3pY2pjX
Exclusive — Poll: 60% of Voters Want Groups Who Support Hamas Investigated
John Podhoretz: Rather than protecting Jews, we’re being told to hide — again
Hani Saleh mugshot; he was arrested two blocks away from the site of a pro-Israel rally slated to take place later that evening. pic.twitter.com/ikGJhyACjM
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 27, 2023
Hateful teen shouts ‘I will kill you, Jew’ at 9-year-old boy at NYC playground
This 'Grassroots' Anti-Israel Group Is Actually Part of a Left-Wing Dark Money Behemoth
Thunberg and her buddies are at it again, and again - there’s not even one sign calling for the release of the 200+ kidnapped, among them children and babies, but there is a sign stating that “Climate Justice = No Opression” (spelled wrong) whatever that means pic.twitter.com/DLfK6v9dDP
— Boaz Arad 博雅 (@aradboaz) October 27, 2023
Harvard Israel-Hamas 'doxxing truck' parks outside students' homes
While universities refuse to fire anti-Semites, the private sector holds them accountable
Anti-Israel protesters BURN Stars and Stripes outside City Hall in NYC - after demonstrators marched from Wall Street and accused Biden of 'genocide' for supporting Jewish state after Hamas terror attack
Students chant “Free Palestine” pic.twitter.com/V2mS8by6Vr
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) October 26, 2023
“What would you have done during the Holocaust?” - Pro Palestine Georgetown student asks crowd pic.twitter.com/hctqaSUls0
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) October 26, 2023
Let's drill down a little on this, shall we? pic.twitter.com/bROPmd4qEq
— Noam Blum 🚡 (@neontaster) October 27, 2023
Good question https://t.co/dizdekhbYJ pic.twitter.com/UBN4YRurpf
— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) October 27, 2023
UPDATE: New, incredibly weak statement from NU, packed with morally obtuse both-sidesism. It does refer to “the murderous attack by Hamas,” as well as the hostages, at least. But the rest is mostly pablum. “Slogans in support of a terrorist group” lumped in with various other… https://t.co/MRB1xBTbDd pic.twitter.com/qX0KAkPug8
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 26, 2023
This is so insane.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 27, 2023
The person is saying they took the hostage signs down because it’s making the conflict worse and that the hostages didn’t authorize their images to be used?! https://t.co/9lv4rjUoQ0
THREAD:
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 26, 2023
57 anti-Israel students were arrested last night at UMass Amherst after occupying the administration building.
They called police pigs and called for the destruction of Israel. pic.twitter.com/65uvUSuIdE
Young Moroccan migrants interviewed in central Madrid, Spain.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 27, 2023
“Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it’s a movement of national liberation. Long live Hamas”
🇪🇸🇮🇱🇲🇦 pic.twitter.com/I62HhP9qE7
Students in Scarborough, Ontario, have organized an anti-Israel walk-out protest from school.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 27, 2023
What’s going on at universities across the West?
🇨🇦🇮🇱
pic.twitter.com/8pnlxET5Fy
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 26, 2023
Seen at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/F1kFeXmTEm
— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) October 27, 2023
Posters that are there to keep small children, elderly people and others who have been dragged off to a Gaza dungeon in the public eye are being defaced and torn down.
— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) October 27, 2023
Don't approve of this, like Asa does. pic.twitter.com/1WwJpuZadr
⚠️ language - antisemite in NYC confronted by non Jews after he’s caught tearing down posters of Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas. pic.twitter.com/Bcni0Tlwth
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 27, 2023
The second woman (upfront) tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis in NYC has been identified as Hala Al Shami and appears to be an employee of NYU.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 27, 2023
Imagine being a Jewish student in her classroom. https://t.co/AESNpcuONr pic.twitter.com/zBsvCRT5ER
WATCH: Student at @ChapmanU claims Hamas is not a terrorist organization and didn’t attack Israel. She also filmed herself ripping down posters of the hostages and stole another student’s Israeli Flags.#HamasNazis pic.twitter.com/B1q9n26e2r
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 27, 2023
Other controversial comments from the @ucsantabarbara black studies professor just a few days ago at a mosque: https://t.co/kgF39hIMgD
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 27, 2023
Breaking: Shellyne Rodriguez, the violent, far-left @cooperunion instructor in New York who put a machete to the throat of a journalist, was seen at the leftist anti-Israel direct action outside the office of Rep. @RitchieTorres in the Bronx on Oct. 25. It was the same day Jewish… pic.twitter.com/uXtsIYQCat
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 26, 2023
Even more outrageous since Tulane has always had a significant proportion of Jewish students. Somewhere around 30%, I believe. Just to be clear about who is the direct target of this vicious protest. https://t.co/5Y8LsNOePx
— Brian Holmes (@MrBrianHolmes) October 27, 2023
Update: this fiasco took place off of campus as Tulane University would not allow the anti Israel/pro Hamas event to occur on its campus (kudos to Tulane!).
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 26, 2023
Instead, the Palestinian agitators took to the perimeter of the school and started burning the Israeli flag.
A Jewish…
Victoria Huynh, the ethnic studies Ph.D. student and instructor who offered extra credit to students at @UCBerkeley for anti-Israel activism, is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees of communism. It's unclear when Huynh became radicalized for revolutionary abolitionist politics,… pic.twitter.com/mDmkvAej27
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 26, 2023
NYC teen, 19, who was filmed carrying anti-Semitic sign is identified - as her high school condemns her 'serious error in judgement'... but doesn't boot her out
The same girl been on a viral video in 2021 where she said "white lifes don't matter". pic.twitter.com/nsfICU2yd1
— daniel amram - דניאל עמרם (@danielamram3) October 26, 2023
They dismiss me as some fringe conservative. But they’re the ones covering for an anti-Semite fomenting hatred against Jews. They hope this story goes away. I promise that it won’t.
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 27, 2023
More on Tamer: https://t.co/qqDIvK4uC5
Muslim tradie Abdullah Al-Taay who allegedly told four teenagers he would 'kill them' if they did not hide their Israeli flag in Bellevue Hill tries to duck court appearance because of media attention
Hamas in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Footy legend Bachar Houli ignites controversy with pro-Palestine video - as club bosses beg him to take it down
This is a viral video from SYRIA during the ASSAD and PUTIN bombing campaign against civilians in Idlib, where my mom's side of the family is from.
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) October 26, 2023
Falsely purported to be from Gaza with one million views. There is ongoing Assad regime bombing against Idlib as we speak. https://t.co/KAMv9lHGjU
Bella Hadid breaks silence on Israel-Palestine conflict calling for 'urgent humanitarian' aid in Gaza - and reveals she's been sent hundreds of death threats daily
The supermodel said that 'seeing the aftermath from the air strikes in Gaza, I mourn with all the mothers who have lost children and the children who cry alone, all the lost fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, friends, that will never again walk this earth. 'Regardless of the history of the land, I condemn the terrorist attacks on any civilians, anywhere. Harming women and children and inflicting terror does not, and should not do any good for the Free Palestine movement.' Bella addressed the plight of 'the Israeli families that have been dealing with the pain and aftermath of' the October 7 attack from Hamas, saying she 'mourned' for them. 'I believe deep in my heart that no child, no people anywhere, should be taken away from their family either temporarily or indefinitely,' she said. 'That goes for Israeli and Palestine people alike.' Bella said that 'it’s important to understand the hardship of what it is to be Palestinian, in the world that sees us is nothing more than terrorist resisting peace,' calling the characterization 'harmful,' 'shameful' and 'categorically untrue.' Bella in her statement opened up about her family's 'generational trauma' stemming from the longtime conflict in the Middle East. 'My heart is bleeding with pain from the trauma I am seeing unfold, as well as the generational trauma of my Palestinian blood,' she said. Bella continued: 'My father was born in Nazareth in the year of the Nakba (the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948). 'Nine days after he was born, he, in his mothers arms, along with his family were expelled from their home in Palestine, becoming refugees, away from a place they once called home. My grandparents, Never being allowed to return.' Bella said her family has 'witnessed 75 years of violence against Palestinian people – most notably, brutal settler invasions, which led to the destruction of entire communities, murder in cold blood and the forcible removal of families from their homes.'Wikipedia: Nazareth
Nazareth itself was not a field of battle during the 1948 War, which began on 15 May, before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) had entered Nazareth on 9 July. The local defense of the town consisted of 200–300 militiamen distributed along the hills surrounding the town. The defense in the southern and western hills collapsed after Israeli shelling, while resistance in the northern hills had to contend with an incoming Israeli armored unit. Not long after the Israelis began shelling the local militiamen, Nazareth's police chief raised a white flag over the town's police station.[86] Most of the fighting around Nazareth occurred in its satellite villages, particularly in Saffuriya, whose residents put up resistance until largely dispersing following Israeli air raids on 15 July.[87] During the ten days of fighting which occurred between the first and second truce, Nazareth capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel on 16 July, after little more than token resistance. By then, morale among local militiamen was low and most refused to fight alongside the ALA because of their perceived weakness in the face of Israel's perceived military superiority and the alleged maltreatment of Christian residents and clergy by ALA volunteers. The Muslim mayor of Nazareth, Yusef Fahum requested a halt to all resistance put up by Nazarenes to prevent the town's destruction.[86]
Remember the “f*ck around and find out” Hamas actor (who was almost dead yesterday and fully healthy today)?
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 26, 2023
I'm saddened to update you that his account with 1.6 million followers on Instagram was suspended 🤣
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— Yosef H (@yossy770) October 27, 2023
Please retweet so all “queers for Palestine” folks could enjoy this once in a lifetime trip pic.twitter.com/xp0rGwmSwc
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 26, 2023
A couple of key highlights from my interview with a major eyewitness/student at this incident:
— Jake Novak (@jakejakeny) October 26, 2023
1) Cooper U. dean said before the protest that he cou;d not stop it because it was not slated to enter school property (which it obviously did)
2) NYPD was called as soon as the… https://t.co/RX2JTJyvSm
Colleges Graciously Offer Attics For Jewish Students To Hide In During Violent Rallies https://t.co/vYYt2UN8aX pic.twitter.com/WMkeAP5J0x
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 26, 2023
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