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Thursday, January 4, 2024

01/04 Links Pt1: Biden is abandoning Israel; The Tunnels: An Existential Threat; Israel defending itself is not ‘escalation’; ISIS claims Soleimani Bomb

From Ian:

Bethany Mandel: Biden is abandoning Israel
We aren’t even three months after the attack that took more Jewish lives than any day since the Holocaust, and we’re already seeing the limits of the United States’ patience with the Jewish State’s war on those who were responsible. Unfortunately for Israel, the United States was one of the most patient countries in the world at the outset.

If Biden refuses to show moral leadership, we may witness the same backsliding in the US as was visible from the Spanish and Belgian governments in late Novemeber. Holding a press conference at the Rafah Crossing minutes before the appearance of thirteen hostages, Prime Ministers Alexander De Croo and Pedro Sánchez demanded a permanent ceasefire while drawing attention to the entry of aid trucks into Gaza.

Despite the fact that Belgium and Spain took no part in talks for the hostages’ release, they inserted themselves into the situation minutes before the exchange was about to take place, risking the entire transfer. Their contemptible bid for attention was more important to them than the safe return of over a dozen hostages. The wider world may have moved on from this stunt – but it’s one that Israelis will never forget.

The increasing impatience of the Biden administration, compounded by international hostility towards the Jewish State, is an important reminder of why exactly Israel exists in the first place. As international conflict sparks around the globe, it will be easy for those in the State Department and media to turn their attention elsewhere. But Israel, as always, has no choice but to continue their fight.
Israel Must Send a Clear Message to the U.S.
A decisive victory in the complex campaign against Iran and its proxies requires a clear outcome in Gaza. This war has been forced upon Israel, and it began under extremely difficult opening conditions. For that very reason, both Israel and the U.S. must end it in victory. This means Israeli control at the end of high-intensity fighting over the entire area, including Rafah and the Philadelphi Route on the border with Egypt.

Ending major combat operations before this goal is achieved will allow Hamas to claim that it forced Israel to effectively change its war goals and will encourage its supporters who set themselves the goal of ensuring Hamas' survival in Gaza. As long as Hamas is perceived by the population as a governing entity, it would be able to claim it had won.

It is also important to drive home the message in talks with the U.S. that defeating Hamas requires creating a reality that will not allow terrorists to rear their heads. Gaining control over the entire area will also give Israel the necessary leverage to release the captives. The Americans' stated desire to avoid getting dragged into a regional war and have Israel end major combat operations even before completing the takeover of the entire Strip encourages Iran and its proxies to continue to gradually escalate their use of force, in the hope that the U.S. administration will stop Israel.

Defeating Hamas and convincing the U.S. that this is also a war over the regional and global order are key in the effort to create a new security reality along the northern border that will give residents a sense of security and allow them to return home. This is the condition to secure shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb strait. And this is the condition to promote efforts to establish normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Israel defending itself is not ‘escalation’
What Israel’s critics continually fail to acknowledge is that it is surrounded by groups that have pledged to destroy it. It has faced overt genocidal threats not only from Hamas in Gaza, but also from Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Such threats are not empty words. Since the 7 October pogrom, Hamas has shelled Israel from inside Lebanon, no doubt in collusion with Hezbollah, and it has units operating in the West Bank. Hezbollah has also been firing across the Lebanese border into Israel for months, while the Houthis have launched missiles and drones from Yemen.

Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all part of what Iran calls its ‘axis of resistance’ in the Middle East. These are armed Islamist groups that are allied with, although not necessarily controlled by, the Iranian regime – a regime that has itself threatened genocide against Israel. This is why the media talk of Israel’s ‘escalation’ is absurd. Israel is already the target of concerted military attacks on multiple fronts.

From Israel’s perspective, the most imminent risk is that Hezbollah steps up its attacks and launches an all-out war across the Lebanese border. There probably will be some kind of Hezbollah retaliation for the al-Arouri assassination, given the attack was carried out in an area of Beirut that it controls. But Israel has apparently concluded that the risk of a much larger conflagration is limited at present. According to a study by a think-tank with close links to the Israeli security establishment: ‘Despite Nasrallah’s interest in continuing the fighting and confining the IDF to the north as long as the war in Gaza continues, he is still not interested in the situation deteriorating into a broad war with Israel at the current time.’

In any case, Israel probably felt it had little to lose from its aerial strike in Lebanon. Not least as Hezbollah has already pledged to carry out genocide against Israel. On 8 October last year, the day after the Hamas pogrom, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, praised the mass killings. He went on to tell viewers of Al-Manar TV to: ‘Just imagine when these images repeat themselves one day, but on a scale dozens of times larger – from Lebanon and from all the areas bordering with occupied Palestine.’ This was a pledge to kill tens of thousands of Israeli civilians, regardless of what actions the Israeli government takes.

The skewed discussion of the al-Arouri assassination follows a pattern that has become all too familiar since 7 October. No matter what Israel’s enemies do, no matter how many times they pledge to murder Israeli civilians, Israel will always be condemned as the aggressor.


Arsen Ostrovsky: Israel is not committing genocide — but Hamas is
As 2023 drew to a close last week, South Africa decided to file a claim at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, preposterously accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.

The crime of genocide, coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin to describe the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazis, is one of the most serious accusations that can be leveled in international law. Today, it has a very specific definition under Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948, meaning committing acts, including by killing, that are intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

It is important to underscore that the commission of genocide has nothing to do with the number of civilian casualties; the key element of the crime is the need to possess relevant “intent.” Whatever criticism one may have of Israeli policies or Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions in Gaza, Israel is not seeking to destroy the Palestinian people, whether in whole, in part, or in any manner.

During a Nov. 20 briefing, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby eviscerated the inappropriate use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza, forcefully stating:

“Israel isn’t trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel isn’t trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So, if we’re going to start using that word, fine. Let’s use it appropriately.”

This week, asked about South Africa’s claim against Israel, Kirby could was unequivocal, saying the U.S “find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”

Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, have been unequivocal and repeated in stating that the goal of the operation in Gaza is to eliminate Hamas, by destroying its military and governing capabilities.

If anyone is guilty of genocide here, it is the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas. Not only does Hamas openly state that the destruction of Israel is its ultimate goal, as evidenced in its Charter, it acted out on those intentions on Oct. 7, when Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis, including raping, burning, mutilating and executing women and children.
US rebukes South Africa for ‘meritless’ genocide suit against Israel
The Biden administration criticized South Africa on Wednesday for filing a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague last week.

“We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, completely without any basis in fact whatsoever,” said U.S. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby at a press conference on Wednesday.

Similarly, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller said in response to a reporter’s question at a media briefing yesterday, “We have not at this point seen acts that constitute genocide, no.”

He said the United States hasn’t spoken with South Africa about its court petition, but added, “We don’t think it’s a productive step.”

South Africa asked the ICJ on Dec. 29 to declare Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention over its war against Hamas in Gaza. Hamas praised the move.

The ICJ announced it has scheduled public hearings regarding the suit.

The hearings will be held at the ICJ headquarters in The Hague on Jan. 11 and 12, the court announced on social media.

The Genocide Convention, to which Israel is a signatory, was drafted in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent the destruction, or intent to destroy, “in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

“South Africa is cynically using the convention adopted after the Holocaust against the very Jewish state that is protecting itself against Hamas perpetrators of genocide after the single largest attack on Jews since the Holocaust,” noted Avraham Russel Shalev, a lawyer at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based think tank.


Johnson condemns Met Police investigation into Israel ‘war crimes’
Boris Johnson has condemned a Metropolitan Police investigation into Israel over alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Scotland Yard counter-terrorism police have launched an appeal for witnesses travelling through British airports to report allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Mr Johnson told The Telegraph on Wednesday he was concerned about “the worrying politicisation of the Met Police”.

The inquiry is being conducted by the war crimes team within the force, supporting a long-running investigation into Israel by the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in the Hague. It will also examine events since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7 and investigate allegations of war crimes by Palestinian factions.

The Met investigation has caused serious concern among British Jews and threatens a diplomatic rift with Israel.

Scotland Yard said British police had a “responsibility to support” the ICC and that with “higher volumes” of British nationals returning to the UK since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, it anticipated a greater number of potential witnesses and victims of war crimes arriving from the region.

However, critics have said police resources would be better spent on tackling domestic problems such as knife crime.


Seth Frantzman: Israel Shifts Tactics in Gaza
Three months into the war in Gaza ,with the defeat of most of the Hamas battalions in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing for a new phase of fighting. The new phase will focus on removing terrorist infrastructure in northern and central Gaza. It will include continued battles in and around Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip. Many IDF reserve units that played key roles in bolstering forces in Gaza are now returning to Israel and preparing for new missions. The IDF will focus on more precision strikes conducted mostly by its regular forces. This is in line with its training over the last several years.

Whether this defeats Hamas remains to be seen.

On January 2, Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant went to Gaza and visited troops on Salah al-Din Road. The road connects northern and southern Gaza. This is the junction where the 36th Division cut Gaza into two parts in late October 2023, during the beginning of the ground campaign, preventing Hamas from supplying its northern battalions. Ten of those battalions were then ground down, bit-by-bit, street-by-street, until they had to go completely underground. Now it appears they have lost command and control, fighting in uncoordinated small units from the tunnels.

“The feeling that we will stop soon is incorrect – without a clear victory, we will not be able to live in the Middle East,” said Gallant. This has been his narrative throughout the war. “We are ending this campaign when Hamas no longer functions as a governing body and certainly not as a military body that sends troops [to conduct attacks].”

Gallant’s view may not be shared by all of the political leadership, because there are differing views about what it means to defeat Hamas. Does it mean to eliminate Hama’s capacity for offensive military action? Does it require the complete removal of Hamas from Gaza? Could “victory” in Gaza mean merely degrading Hamas’ battlefield capabilities, so that Hamas no longer poses a “threat” but still operates thousands of terrorists in Gaza?

Gallant met with IDF soldiers from the new Division 99 and its commander Brigadier General Barak Hiram. Division 99 is part of the combined arms approach the IDF has sought to roll out as part of its Momentum Plan since 2020, part of previous IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi’s concept of how to achieve victory. It is designed to move intelligence and other resources to the front, to close “sensor-shooter” loops and making things move faster in order to more quickly defeat enemy capabilities.

Hamas has been mostly defeated in northern and central Gaza, and its capabilities are reduced. However, it is not entirely clear if those capabilities have been reduced more effectively in this war than in previous ones. Hamas was still able to fire a barrage of long-range rockets at central Israel just after midnight on January 1, showing that it could threaten Israel in the new year. But Hamas has fewer rockets now, reducing the threat in practical terms.
Seth Mandel: The Tunnels: An Existential Threat
These tunnels aren’t dug with plastic shovels and pails. The Lebanon tunnels were constructed with the help of North Korea and maintained by Iranian proxy militias. The existence of such infrastructure in the West Bank is indicative of a threat far greater than smuggled weapons, as Oct. 7 showed.

Those aren’t the only tunnel-fronts that Israel has to worry about. As our own Jonathan Schanzer explained here last week: “the Gaza-Sinai border has become a major zone for Hamas smuggling activity. Weapons and cash move all too freely beneath what is known as the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Sinai border. In recent years, these tunnels have also enabled Hamas leaders and fighters to come and go as they please. Once we understand that, we begin to understand how Hamas was able to re-arm and replenish after multiple rounds of fighting over the years. We can also begin to understand how Hamas leaders and fighters have been able to get training and advice from the outside.”

During the British Mandate period (from 1923 to 1947) and the early years of the state of Israel, the need for “defensible borders” was a constant source of tension in negotiations. Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in 1967 gave the country the bare minimum of breathing room to prepare for an Arab invasion over land. But the advent of the rocket war by Israel’s enemies in the 2000s closed the distance between borders. So Israel and the U.S. developed the Iron Dome defensive system to shield its population from most of the rockets. Then Israel’s enemies dug tunnel systems to close the gap back up.

All of this is about making parts of a country the size of New Jersey unlivable, with the Palestinian threat closing like a vise around the Jewish state’s throat. And that is why so much of the discussion of this war is divorced from reality. This is not a punitive war to make Gazans pay, although reestablishing deterrence from terror groups is both legitimate and essential. The ground above must be cleared of fighters and held by the IDF so that the threat below can be neutralized.

As Ron Ben Yishai explains, in past wars, tunnel systems were largely for hiding troops and materiel. But Hamas built an underground city to live and fight in. The presence of hostages underground also means that this second level has to be cleared and held all over again. The IDF is fighting a double war in each theater. The extent of the underground part of that war is unprecedented. And Israel’s enemies will attempt to replicate it from every direction.
Take a 360° Tour of the Hamas Terrorist Tunnels Dug Below Shifa Hospital
Hamas has been constructing and developing an extensive network of underground tunnels under Gaza's Shifa Hospital for years. During the war against Hamas, our trained combat engineering and S&R forces uncovered the tunnels under Shifa and filmed an exclusive 360° tour exposing Hamas' exploitation of the hospital to the public.

The tunnels were destroyed following their uncovering and documentation.


Caroline Glick: NEW THREAT: Terror Tunnels in Judea and Samaria
Top Hamas official is assassinated in Beirut, the US condemns Israeli statements about the relocation of displaced Gazans, and a new terrifying discovery of what looks like terror tunnels in Judea and Sumeria.


WAR UPDATE: Caroline Glick discusses explosions in Beirut and Iran
Journalist Caroline Glick talks with News Nation about the recent elimination of a Hamas general in Beurit and the explosions in Iran.


Andrew Klavan: Alan Dershowitz's Plan to End Hamas Barbarism
Professor Alan Dershowitz, Lawyer and author of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism, joins us to discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the wake of the devastating attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7th, the prevalence of and reasons for antisemitic sentiment in the west, what the response to Hamas' aggression should be, and his outlook on the upcoming 2024 presidential election.


Communications Ministry funds network reception for bomb shelters
In a strategic move to reinforce emergency communication capabilities, the Communications Ministry has collaborated with the IDF to introduce emergency radio reception through AM transmitters.

The inaugural broadcasts of IDF Waves, powered by Bezeq’s transmitters, commenced Wednesday night, signaling a significant advancement in fortifying communication infrastructure nationwide, including within protected areas and shelters, the Communications Ministry said Thursday in a press release. Complete protection - and coverage

Collaborating with the National Emergency Authority, IDF Waves, and Bezeq, the Communications Ministry has successfully implemented AM transmitters operating at frequencies of 1,287 kHz in Haifa and the North, and 945 kHz between Haifa and Beersheba.

The transmitters provide radio reception coverage from Metulla to Beersheba, extending into protected areas and shelters. This stands in contrast to FM transmitters, which require widespread dispersion and may encounter limitations in reception within protected areas and shelters.

“As part of our commitment to preparedness, particularly in communities near the border and areas under threat, we are introducing radio reception through AM transmitters with broader coverage,” Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (Likud) said. “Recognizing the pivotal role of communication in emergencies, we have expanded the Idan Plus system and allocated funds for its integration into shelters. Additionally, we are providing communication services to residents in border communities, along with additional emergency broadcast channels. Preparedness and fortifying the home front are crucial steps toward ensuring victory.”
Female Reservists from the Sky Rider Drone Unit Helped Soldiers Destroy the Enemy and Emerge Unscathed
For more than two hours, female soldiers from the IDF's Sky Rider drone unit, who were watching the sector from above, escorted the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion inside Gaza, guarding it from enemy fire. They saw from above how the terrorists tried to get close to the battalion's Namer APCs and how, thanks to the orders and direction they gave to the forces on the ground, the terrorists retreated under fire. Thanks to their directions, the soldiers emerged from the fierce battle almost unscathed.

The Sky Rider unit belongs to the 215th Artillery Brigade. Using UAVs, it is responsible for providing visual intelligence to forces maneuvering on the ground. It is also responsible for dispatching combat helicopters or sending in additional forces.

Lt. S.T. describes how on Nov. 1, "we saw with the drone heavy fire directed at our forces' vehicles....At first, the battalion was ordered not to leave the vehicles to keep the soldiers safe. They were traveling with hatches and turrets closed, and they had no way of knowing what was going on outside the APCs. So, the fact that we were there with the battalion was critical for them." Minute by minute, they directed combat helicopters, as well as artillery and mortar fire, to the site of the battle.

Sgt. S., 24, said, "Suddenly, we saw an insane amount of fire directed at our soldiers. These are soldiers we were with in preparation for battle, people we know; we're directing the troops and the helicopter and hoping that our directing fire is really helping our forces."

Staff Sgt. A., 23, recalls, "The terrorists were so close that it looked like they wanted to place IEDs on the vehicles. But the fire we directed at them managed to drive them away....It's an amazing feeling to see a tank moving in the right direction thanks to our reporting and then firing a shell that pushes the terrorists away. That's why I volunteered for this position. Just for that moment."

R., 23, said, "We saw squads of terrorists who wanted to hit our soldiers from close range. We were also afraid that they would try to kidnap soldiers....We were sure we had just seen the 13th Battalion hit really hard." But on the day after the battle, they were told that the 13th Battalion had left the field with only seven lightly wounded from smoke inhalation. They had managed to protect the soldiers from enemy fire.


In Gaza push, IDF kills Hamas terrorists in tunnels, others surrender

Fighting intensifies in Gaza as Israel-Hamas war enters 90th day

Top Israeli defense officials want Gazan clans to run post-war Strip
Top defense officials want to initially hand local management of Gaza over to clans who are traditionally connected to specific cities and sectors, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The idea would be to replace Hamas with family groups who have not been as connected to the terror group and to give control over food, water, and other key supplies to groups in Gaza who are not Hamas.

This will be challenging since Hamas has run Gaza for 16 years, and defense officials have not explained how they will be able to guarantee such a separation, but the tactic was used with some success in the US in Iraq and Afghanistan after the fall of regimes there.

Hamas has run Gaza with constant brutality cracking down on any group which tried to establish itself as a competitor on any level, sometimes killing and sometimes maiming opponents.

It is also unclear how this will operate given that almost all of northern Gaza's 1.4 million people evacuated to southern Gaza, and most of northern Gaza is expected to be uninhabitable for a period of years, some saying as long as five years.

US wants role for Palestinian Authority
Further, the US and the international community want a role for the Palestinian Authority, something which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has resisted, even as his his current partner, but future main likely rival for the premiership, Benny Gantz, has kept open as an option.

Another possibility could be a mix of local clans, with the PA, and with other Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE involved all under some kind of UN umbrella.
Islamic State claims responsibility for blasts near Soleimani's grave in Iran
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone in 2020.

The group posted a statement on its affiliate Telegram channels.

Suicide bomber cause of first explosion near Soleimani's grave, Iran claims
An informed source told Iranian state media that the first explosion in Iran yesterday was caused by a suicide bomber.

This claim comes after a review of evidence, including CCTV footage.

Iranian state television reported a first and then a second explosion during an anniversary event at the cemetery where Soleimani is buried in the southeastern city of Kerman.

Iranian Health Minister Bahram Eynollahi told state TV the death toll was at 95, down from 103, and said 211 others were injured, making it the deadliest attack in the history of the Islamic Republic, which has faced similar incidents in the past from various groups, including Islamic State.


Israel’s UN envoy links Iran to Houthi attacks in Red Sea
Imploring the United Nations Security Council to address the “radioactive Shi’ite elephant in the room,” Israel’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday linked Iran to the conflicts throughout the region.

“The ayatollah regime is the one thing that ties together all the elements of destruction in the Middle East,” said Gilad Erdan during an emergency session on the growing Houthi threat in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. “It funds, arms, trains and directs the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, other terror groups in Syria and Iraq, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Iran has spent decades spreading cancerous jihadism across the region.”

Eight of the 15 Security Council members called for Wednesday afternoon’s briefing and closed consultations to address Yemen’s Houthi rebels and their increasing attacks on commercial vessels, which they seek to prevent from reaching Israel in retaliation for Israel’s war against Hamas, a fellow Iranian proxy.

The hijackings and strikes by the Houthis—officially known as Ansar Allah—have severely disrupted international shipping, forcing many vessels to instead traverse Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, adding weeks of travel and significant costs.

On Nov. 19, the Houthis captured the MV Galaxy Leader, a Japanese-operated cargo ship with links to an Israeli businessman, and its 25 crew members.

U.S. naval vessels thwarted multiple attempted seizures and drone attacks in the weeks following.

On Dec. 18, Washington announced the establishment of a multinational task force, called “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” to deter and counter the Houthi attacks. Countries openly participating include Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

However, attacks have continued, and on Dec. 31, U.S. Navy helicopters sank three ‘Iranian-backed Houthi small boats’ which had come dangerously close to a container ship. The same ship had been struck with a missile the day before.


Hezbollah withdraws 2-3 km from Israeli border—report
Hezbollah has withdrawn its forces 2 to 3 kilometers (1.24 to 1.86 miles) from the Israeli border, The Economist reported on Thursday.

The retreat is described as a “tactical withdrawal” and a signal to the United States and Israel that the Iranian terrorist proxy wants to avoid an all-out war.

Gallant: Time running out for diplomacy
It will soon be too late to find a peaceful solution for Hezbollah’s attacks from across the Lebanese border, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told U.S. presidential adviser Amos Hochstein on Thursday.

During the two men’s meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Gallant conveyed the message that “There is only one possible result—a new reality in the northern arena, which will enable the secure return of our citizens. Yet we find ourselves at a junction—there is a short window of time for diplomatic understandings, which we prefer. We will not tolerate the threats posed by the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and we will ensure the security of our citizens.”

Gallant emphasized that Israel’s top priority is changing the security situation at the border to enable the return of over 80,000 internally displaced Israelis to their homes.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog and senior defense officials joined the briefing. IAF attacks Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

An Israeli Air Force fighter jet struck a Hezbollah observation post and terrorist infrastructure in the Maroun El Ras area of Southern Lebanon on Thursday following several launches towards Israel from the location, the IDF said.

A short while later, the IDF attacked an anti-tank squad that was operating in the same area, located adjacent to the border.

On Monday morning, an Israeli jet struck a Hezbollah terrorist cell attempting to launch drones from a civilian area of Maroun El Ras. The UAVs were destroyed.
Lahav Harkov: Assassinated Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri was key conduit between Hamas, Iran
From the moment Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, described by the terrorist group as “one of the architects” of the Oct. 7 massacre, was killed in a drone strike in Beirut on Tuesday, Israel has been on high alert. With the war against Hamas in Gaza ongoing, plus constant shelling in the country’s north from Hezbollah, which has a massive missile stockpile, the response could come from either direction.

Arouri was an “arch-terrorist,” Dikla Cohen, a research fellow at the Truman Institute for Peace at Hebrew University, said. “His whole life was dedicated to terrorism against Israel.”

Arouri was a key figure in bringing Hamas and Iran closer together. Documents and other evidence uncovered by the IDF in Gaza show how effective Arouri was in that role. Cohen said that Iran’s “fingerprints are everywhere, and at a level that you can understand that they worked together for 12 years…to prepare Oct. 7.”

Arouri and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in November, asking for Tehran to supply the group with weapons if the war lasts over six months, a Hamas official told The Wall Street Journal. The two were reportedly unsuccessful in convincing Iran to engage in a broader war against Israel.

Arouri’s ties with Iran helped him build Maquar al-Dafah, Hamas’ West Bank command. Tal Beeri, head of research at Alma Research Center, which specializes in analyzing threats against Israel’s north, said that Arouri “was in very close contact with Hezbollah and the Iranians about how to develop Hamas terrorism with better infrastructure, transferring money, weapons sent via Syria and Jordan.”

In the years since he was released from Israeli prison in 2010 as part of a deal, Arouri moved from Jordan to Syria, Turkey, Qatar and Lebanon. It was in Beirut that he developed close ties with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and reportedly was the one to tell him about the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Even as he climbed the ranks to become Haniyeh’s second-in-command, Arouri “dedicated the last 12 years to directing murderous attacks against Israel,” Cohen said. “The best known is when he publicly took responsibility in 2014 for the kidnapping and murder of three teens… His death notice was already signed then.”

“If Israel really killed him, as we can likely understand from the kind of drone used, it is a great achievement,” she added.

But Cohen was skeptical that ties between Hamas and Iran would be significantly weakened by the strike: “We learned from the IDF’s findings in Gaza that Iranian involvement [with Hamas] is so deep that assassinating one person is not enough to break it.”


Hezbollah chief to continue to drag Israel into war: Sarit Zehavi
Research and Education Center President Lt. Col. (Res) Sarit Zehavi has discussed Hezbollah's supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah's recent warnings following the attack which killed Hamas' deputy leader in a rare public address.

"I think that Nasrallah will continue to drag Israel into war," Ms Zehavi told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus.

"I can say that this morning, there was a killing of a Hezbollah military operative, which is relatively more senior than the others who were killed.

"This would be very interesting to see the retaliation of Hezbollah to this ... maybe even more interesting than to the killing of a Hamas senior."

Hezbollah's supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah warned the Lebanese terror group "cannot be silent" and is "ready for a war without limits" in the wake of the assassination of Hamas deputy leader in Beirut on Tuesday.

Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack but is largely believed to be behind the killing.


Nasrallah warns Israel of war ‘with no rules’

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Jews ‘From the River to the Sea’
Arouri's death removes a big name from Israel’s most-wanted list of top Islamist foes, but could drive Hamas's exiled leaders deeper into hiding, hampering efforts to negotiate further Gaza ceasefires and hostage releases.

Hamas politburo member Hossam Badran said in a eulogy for Arouri: "We say to the criminal occupation (Israel) that the battle between us is open."

Israel had long accused him of orchestrating attacks on its citizens. But a Hamas official said he was also "at the heart of negotiations" conducted by Qatar and Egypt over the outcome of the Gaza war and the release of Hamas-held Israeli hostages.

Nasrallah also said Hamas's lightning incursion on Oct. 7 dealt a severe and deliberate blow to a process of normalisation between Israel and various U.S.-backed Arab governments unfolding since 2020, even after the collapse of talks on a Palestinian state in Israeli-occupied territory.

Nasrallah spoke to commemorate four years since the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards top commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. Two explosions on Wednesday during a memorial ceremony at a cemetery in southeastern Iran where Soleimani is buried killed over 100 people, at a time of high tension between arch-enemies Iran and Israel.

Since Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attacks, several anti-Israel demonstrations in America have featured slogans with variants of the phrase, "from the river to the sea," which critics have roundly denounced as anti-Semitic, given that Hamas has also used it to call for the destruction of the state of Israel.

The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at George Washington University in late October projected the slogan onto a building on campus, and students at the University of Pennsylvania conducted a similar display weeks later. The administrations of both schools condemned their campus's respective demonstrations.

Several Democrats in the House of Representatives voted with Republicans to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) for her use of the slogan, which she said was "an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate."




Fatah official eulogizes Hamas terror master as an ‘extraordinary leader’ Two IDF soldiers wounded in 40-hour Samaria operation
Two Israel Defense Forces troops were wounded during a 40-hour counterterror raid on the Nur Shams camp in western Samaria, the military said on Thursday.

The soldiers were slightly and moderately injured by shrapnel from an explosive device and were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.

In another raid in the northern Samaria town of Sir, just south of Jenin, a soldier was seriously wounded by an explosive charge, the military added.

Reserve forces operating in Nur Shams “searched hundreds of buildings, detained hundreds of suspects for questioning and arrested 11 wanted persons,” per the IDF.

Troops also destroyed terrorist infrastructure and confiscated many weapons during the raid, it added.

Troops discovered a U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) daycare center that terrorists had booby-trapped.


Eve Barlow: Front seat to the show
Who better to tell you what’s going on in Gaza than the IDF soldiers? The Israeli army is unique. Its soldiers are civilians called up to serve, some a whole lifetime after they were first in the army. And they serve to defend the land of Israel. So when the Jewish nation is under attack, the whole country feels the effort, because every single family is affected by war.

“Real heroes don’t wear capes” - that’s what it says at the entrance to the ward I visited today at the Sheba Tel HaShomer hospital. They don’t wear capes, they wear casts and bandages, and in a few months some will wear IDF uniforms again. I walked into a hospital today but it wasn’t like any other hospital I’ve ever visited. It was full of life; outdoor areas with instruments and games, volunteers bringing amazing food, visitors coming in from all over the world with drawings and notes from Jews throughout the diaspora. It’s a place where the injured rock stars of the IDF are getting medical treatment for their wounds from Gaza.

As I was milling around waiting for two soldiers to tell me their stories, released hostage Mia Schem walked past me, looking bright and relaxed. I didn’t ask questions, but was told that every hostage who comes back from Gaza is offered outpatient treatment for their psychological health at their own discretion whenever they want it. It’s their choice. Mia was here to get her arm treated. Sheba takes in 70-80% of the injured soldiers. I asked for the percentage of the injured who are reserves, but I didn’t get a clear answer. I was told that many reserves come for treatment here.

I met Itamar. He’s a 26-year-old computer science student, and a captain in the IDF reserves. He lives in Bet Shemesh. At 10am on October 7, Itamar knew he had to go to his unit to prepare for war. At that point nobody understood the amount of damage in Israel. They heard there were dozens of terrorists in the country, not thousands. He brought his laptop with him, hoping he’d be able to spend his waiting time studying. But at 6pm, his unit started preparations for a ground offensive in Gaza. For three weeks, they became game ready. Their mission was to fight in Gaza, entering on October 27, immediately discovering that there were more terrorists there than anticipated. His unit killed 200 terrorists in the first week. Itamar was responsible for 36 soldiers. One fell in battle. “The war is scary,” he said. “But a healthy scary.” A scary that keeps you vigilant. “It’s a shitty war, in a shitty place,” he said, describing the treacherous pursuit of Hamas terrorists in both overground and underground levels. “They had 18 years to prepare for this war,” he said. “Fucking crazy!”

“There isn’t a neighborhood in Gaza that doesn’t have tunnel shafts.” At night they would be fighting, from every range possible. Itamar almost died a few times.
US-based volunteers helping to equip IDF fighters
Operation Israel, a U.S.-based nonprofit, has provided more than $7 million worth of supplies, medical equipment and protective gear to IDF soldiers since Hamas launched the current war with its massacre of 1,200 people on Oct. 7, the NGO said on Thursday.

Since then, the organization has received requests from nearly a thousand IDF units and provided some 10,000 soldiers with a total of more than 50,000 items, including ceramic vests, ballistic goggles and tactical gear together weighing over 66,000 pounds (30,000 kilograms).

The group works with IDF representatives to facilitate direct requests from combat units and then orders are placed through vetted suppliers.

“I was devastated in a way that I had never been, although I’ve seen a lot. I needed to do something productive that would keep me from sinking,” Adi Vaxman, president of Operation Israel, told JNS.

“I received calls from friends who were drafted or volunteered to serve the country asking for equipment. I immediately took action. I knew what decisions needed to be made and how to fund-raise,” Vaxman, who worked as a paramedic during the First Intifada and helped victims of 9/11, added.

Operation Israel, which collects most of its donations from the United States and Europe, works directly with IDF commanders on the ground to identify the needs of soldiers. It then purchases the gear, ships it and coordinates delivery.

“What sets us apart from makeshift organizations is that we found out all the regulations and all the customs [requirements] ahead of time. It changes every five minutes, but we are ahead of the game,” Vaxman said.

“Our deliveries were delayed on maybe three occasions since we started, but only because of changes in bureaucracy once the gear was already on the plane,” she added.
Courage and bravery: These are the 175 soldiers who heroically fell in the war
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit has named 175 soldiers who fell in battle since the beginning of the ground incursion in Gaza.

On Wednesday, January 3, 2024, it was cleared for publication that Sergeant first class Meiron Moshe Gersch, 21, from Petah Tikva, fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip. Gersch fought in the Yahalom unit, a special unit of the Combat Engineering Corps.

On Tuesday, January 2, 2024, the IDF cleared for publication that Staff sergeant Sufian Dagash, 21, fell in battle in Gaza. He served in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion.

On Monday, January 1, 2024, the IDF cleared for publication that Sergeant First Class (res.) Amichai Yisrael Yehoshua Oster, a resident of Karnei Shomron who served in Battalion 7020 of the 5th Brigade, fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.

Sgt. Oster, 24, was a resident of Karnei Shomron and served in Battalion 7020 of the 5th Brigade. His family has been notified of his passing.

On Sunday, December 31, the IDF cleared for publication the names of four fallen soldiers whose families have been notified:

Captain Harel Ittah z”l, 22 years old, from Netanya, a commander in the Givati brigade, who died of his wounds after being wounded in action in southern Gaza.

Master sergeant (res.) Constantine Sushko z”l, 30 years old, from Tel Aviv, served in the 7086th combat engineering battalion in the Golani brigade.

Sergeant First Class (res.) Liav Seada z”l, 23 years old, from Tverya, served in the 7107th combat engineering battalion and was killed in northern Gaza.

Sergeant Major (res.) Eliraz Gabai z”l, 37 years old from Petah Tikvah, served in the 7810th battalion of the Yiftach Brigade and was killed in central Gaza.


Three missing Israelis were taken hostage in Gaza, IDF says

‘Every night I hear Mum calling out Dad’s name. Hamas took everything from us’
Ella Ben Ami wishes her mother would tell her what happened to her in Gaza in the six weeks she was a hostage. She knows her mother is trying to protect her, but every night she can hear her mother pacing and crying and calling out the name of her father Ohad who is still held hostage.

Neither of them can sleep.

Since October 7 this is a family which has been living in a very particular hell. Ella, 23, was born and raised in Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the epicentres of the Hamas attacks. While the terrorists thankfully didn’t spend too much effort getting into the block of single people where she lived, within just a few hours of their attack on the kibbutz they had taken both her parents.

At 9.30am her father, the kibbutz’s accountant, messaged her to say the terrorists were in their house. They shot him and snatched him while he was still in his underwear. Her mother, Raz, hiding under a blanket in the safe room, was then caught, threatened with an axe and led out onto a motorbike by terrorists while she was still in her pyjamas. Even as she was being hauled onto the bike, the thugs were hitting her with sticks.

By 11am Hamas had posted footage of Ohad, 55, in Gaza. It took two weeks for Ella to discover that Raz, 57, was there too, via another piece of footage.

Raz, who does art therapy with the elderly in Be’eri, was among the last of the hostages released during the humanitarian pause from fighting on November 29. Ella, who has two sisters, got the call saying Raz was on the list at 3am “and I danced and screamed around the apartment I am staying in” she says.
Freed Israeli hostage calls capture ‘psychological warfare’
An Israeli mother and her two young daughters experienced “psychological warfare” over the 50 days they were held hostage by Hamas, including being told, “In Israel, no one cares about us.”

Doron Katz Asher and her daughters, 5-year-old Raz and 2-year-old Aviv, were not physically harmed — but subjected to extreme emotional torment that included witnessing Asher’s mother being shot dead by Hamas while they were forcibly being taken to Gaza, Asher told CNN.

Asher, 34, and her daughters were first held in a house in Gaza, where her captors tried to sell them a story that no one was fighting for their release.

“They didn’t give us a lot of information, they mainly tried to say that Hamas wants to release us but in Israel, no one cares about us,” Asher said.

“That we won’t return to live in the kibbutz because it’s not our house — it’s not the place where we belong.”

But she didn’t believe that narrative as the sound of fighting booming outside the building reassured her “that something was going on in order to get us back home, to put pressure on Hamas to release us.”

Sixteen days later, Asher and her daughters were taken to what she called a “so-called” hospital — because a hospital is “a place that is supposed to take care of people, but instead, it was taken over by Hamas and they used it to hide hostages,” Asher noted.

US officials are “confident” Hamas used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold “at least a few” hostages seized during the bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, though it’s unclear in which hospital Asher and her daughters were held.

While in the hospital, Aviv contracted a fever and had to be kept in a sink with cold water to keep her temperature down.

“She was screaming. They would tell us to keep quiet, but the girl had a fever and I had to take care of her somehow,” Asher said.
Frmr. White House Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt visited Israel's southern communities
'Nothing can prepare you for what I saw... We got to keep people going there so they can understand the atrocities that happened there,'

Frmr. White House Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt talks about his experience visiting the southern Israeli communities






Call Me Back PodCast: Gaza’s “Operating System” – with Nadav Eyal Hosted by Dan Senor
Gaza runs like no sovereign entity. On the one hand, Hamas rules Gaza like any government does — it has a health system, an education system, a security, force, and a finance system. Hamas works with international agencies based in Gaza (like the U.N.). But Hamas does not see itself as responsible for the people it governs. How does this all work at a practical level? What is Gaza’s unique operating system? That is the focus of today’s conversation, along with the latest analysis of the death of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri.

Our guest is NADAV EYAL who is a columnist Yediiot. Eyal is one of Israel’s leading journalists, and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news. He received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


TravelingIsrael: I Can Understand Why The Palestinians Hate Us Israelis



Pinsker Centre: Updates from Israel with Paul Gross: when will the war end?
In this podcast Mackenzie France sat down with Paul Gross, Senior Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, to discuss the recent developments and likely prospects of the war in Gaza, tensions within the government, Netanyahu's popularity, and the role the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states may play in the eventual solution for Gaza.


Douglas Murray blasts UN Women charity for response to Hamas attacks
Author Douglas Murray has blasted UN charity ‘UN Women’ for their response to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

“It took the group a full 57 days after the Hamas attack to make any official statement,” Mr Murray said.

“Even then that was to condemn gender-based atrocities or mass rape as the rest of us call it.

“This group really has a problem with language and also with reality.”

Mr Murray said this is a “good reason” all women should “rip up their membership’.


‘Disgraceful’ how long it took for people to believe ‘atrocities’ committed by Hamas
Sky News contributor Nicolle Flint says it is “disgusting and disgraceful” how long it took some high-profile Australian feminists to accept reports of the “atrocities” inflicted by Hamas against Israelis during the October 7 terror attacks.

An investigation by The New York Times has uncovered new details, showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

“Anyone who took the time to educate themselves on the atrocities inflicted by Hamas … condemned what happened immediately and especially when it came to women,” Ms Flint told Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus.

“It is just disgraceful and disgusting that there are so many people that had to be presented with this level of truly horrific detail in order to believe Israel and Jewish people as to what exactly happened and what Hamas inflicted on Israelis on the 7th of October.

“I hope everyone has a long memory, about particularly these feminists who refused to accept the earlier reports.

“I’m glad to see people are now somewhat accepting them, but it should not have taken this [long]. It’s really, really disappointing.”




Ben Shaprio: Harvard’s Untouchable Woke President Is GONE
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns after yet more plagiarism allegations emerge; diversity, equity and inclusion advocates call her a martyr; and Star Wars is about to get even more woke.


UPenn professor posts photo of faculty BEAMING in bomb shelter after being rushed to safety while on 'apology tour' of Israel following president Liz Magill's resignation in wake of antisemitism denial
UPenn faculty professors visited Israel this week in a show of solidarity in the aftermath of president Liz Magill's resignation following her disastrous Congress hearing on campus anti-Semitism.

Approximately 30 faculty members commenced a 'three-day solidarity tour' on Tuesday, navigating through a spectrum of emotions - from smiles during their initial meeting with President Isaac Herzog to a photo capturing them beaming inside a bomb shelter during their visit to Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the south.

Their packed itinerary included meetings with government officials, visits to major universities and a tour of devastated communities in the Gaza envelope, where hundreds were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7.

The group is also scheduled to meet with Penn alumni and attend an academic conference on trauma at Tel Aviv University on Thursday before returning to the US.

It is unclear if former UPenn President Liz Magill was invited to participate.

Faculty snapped pictures as they toured Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The group wore bullet proof vests and helmets, highlighting the ongoing security concerns in the area.

One striking moment shows the delegation smiling while seeking refuge in a bomb shelter as rocket sirens sounded.

Ron Berman, Associate Professor of Marketing at Wharton, shared the photo.

'Some of us are smiling, but we are in a mobile bomb shelter under rocket attack,' he wrote on X.'

'To clarify - I posted this after the all clear and we're off to the rest of our day.'

Berman said visiting the communities in southern Israel was the 'most difficult and emotional' part of the visit.

'Traveling with a group of Penn Faculty on a Mission to Israel to build bridges with the Israeli academic community and bear witness to the impact of the Hamas attacks,' he wrote about the trip.
Bomb Threats at Synagogues, Jewish Schools Throughout Southern California
Bomb threats were sent to Jewish schools and synagogues across Southern California this week, as a wave of antisemitism continues.

Breitbart News sources indicate that 20 Jewish institutions in Los Angeles received bomb threats on Tuesday, causing those Jewish schools that had been scheduled to open on January 2 to remain closed.

In San Diego, six synagogues (or temples) were threatened, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Wednesday:

Six Jewish temples in San Diego County were threatened Tuesday morning after someone sent a message saying a bomb was hidden in their respective buildings.

The local synagogues were among 91 total Jewish houses of worship in California that received similar threats, according to officials.

Most of the synagogues have some form of preschool education on their sites, officials said.

Though the threats were hoaxes, they exacerbated fears in the Jewish community in the wake of an outburst of antisemitic rhetoric and violence since the Palestinian Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7.
Two people charged with arson over fire at Golders Green MPs office
Two people have been charged with arson over a fire which started at the office of Golders Green MP Mike Freer.

On Christmas Eve, a fire was lit in a shed at the constiuency office of the Conservative MP. Police were called to the blaze at 7pm by the London Fire Brigade.

Paul Harwood, 42 and Zara Kasory, 32, both of no fixed address, were initially arrested on Wednesday over the incident.

The Met Police said that despite widespread community fears, the incident is not being treated as a hate crime.

Harwood and Kaory are due to appear at Willesden Magistrates Court on Thursday.

Speaking to the JC after the attack, Freer said he was “always worried if I'm going to come home each night”.

The MP, who wears stab vests at public events after previous threats, said he had recieved on an email following the fire that said he was “the kind of person who deserved to be set alight”.

He added: “I think obviously because I have such strong views on the Middle East, and I’m pro-Israel, this has led me to become a target.”


'Pro-Palestinian' blockades are now just actively targeting Jewish neighbourhoods
For nearly a week, anti-Israel demonstrators in Toronto have consolidated their efforts on blockading a single overpass overlooking the city’s Highway 401.

Men clad in keffiyehs have led Muslim prayer services right in the middle of roads approaching the bridge. Crowds carrying Palestinian flags and placards comparing Zionism to Naziism have blockaded streets and intersections surrounding the overpass. Demonstrators have set off red and green smoke bombs and kept up a steady stream of honking and bullhorn-amplified chants of “free, free Palestine.”

And since at least New Year’s Eve, the Toronto police have assisted in overseeing daily closures of the bridge, reportedly to preserve the safety of “demonstrators” and “counter-demonstrators.”

“Due to public safety concerns, the Avenue Road Bridge will be closed,” read the Toronto Police’s most recent update, issued early Wednesday morning.

There’s no obvious reason why this particular overpass — one of more than one dozen Toronto-area bridges over the 401 — has been made a target. It’s not in a central area. It’s not located near any Israeli consulates or diplomatic missions. It’s nowhere near the offices of any senior Canadian politicians.

But as noted by a growing chorus of local representatives and Jewish leaders, the country’s most sustained anti-Israel protest has set up shop in the heart of the Canadian Jewish community.

“There is no logic as to the choice of this location other than the large local Jewish population,” wrote Liberal member of Parliament Anthony Housefather in a Wednesday social media post that also questioned how the blockade “can still be happening.”

“This appears to me to be a refusal by the City of Toronto police to enforce existing laws,” he wrote.
Jewish-owned Toronto deli set ablaze in suspected antisemitic arson attack
A Jewish-owned delicatessen in Toronto was set alight Wednesday in what Canadian police are investigating as a hate crime.

Early on Wednesday, firefighters were alerted to a blaze inside International Delicatessen Foods, located in the north of Canada’s largest city.

No one was injured, according to Toronto media reports.

Graffiti reading “Free Palestine” had been painted on the doors of the establishment.

Toronto Police Staff Superintendent Pauline Gray said the arson attack could not be considered a lawful protest.

“It’s criminal. It’s violent, targeted, and organized. We’ll use all resources available to investigate, arrest, and prosecute those who are responsible for this,” she said.


Pro-Palestine Qantas stewardess threatens to ‘fight against’ person who reported her to media
The Qantas stewardess who was photographed wearing a Palestinian flag badge on a recent flight has threatened to “fight” the person who reported her to the media, says Sky News Senior Reporter Caroline Marcus.

Last night, Sky News revealed some Qantas staff wore a Palestinian flag badge on a recent flight from Melbourne to Hobart, which the airline said is in breach of its uniform policy.

The flight attendant has threatened to “fight against” the passenger who took the photos, Harris Grafanakis, for reporting her to the media.

“A woman claiming to be the Qantas stewardess in this photograph … is the flight attendant who works for Qantas that is in that photo and is a ‘strong advocate for a Free Palestine’,” Ms Marcus said.

“She also claimed, as of this morning - almost 12 hours after our broadcast - she was yet to have a conversation with her employer.

“Ms Ale reached out to a group called The Voice of Palestinian Christians in Australia for help, and that group dutifully shared her message to its public Facebook page.”

The group posted a message to its public Facebook page which said: " Should this lady lose her job for wearing Palestine flag? Certainly not … Show your support and let racists Sky News know where you stand. Show your support and send message to the airline.”

The Qantas employee was not named by Sky News in its report however she later posted publicly to social media, revealing her identity.




California Assembly goes into recess after pro-Palestinian protesters chant 'ceasefire now' in chamber



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