Biden Sending 1,000 US Troops to Bring Aid to Gazans, 0 to Retrieve Hostages
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
European Jew-hatred too deep to identify ‘even after years of therapy,’
Iran has made serious inroads into Gaza.
The Cure for Biden's Disastrous Qatar Policy
By Sara Lehmann
Amnesty International is pardoning terrorists for the brutal murder, rape and hostage-taking of Jews. Worse, they are willfully conflating the perpetrators with the victims.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the PA was supposed to have been fighting terrorism since it was created back in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords – but it never has done the job.
Humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day.
Those first days, we couldn’t believe the numbers. First, it was 50, then 100, then over 250 hostages? Could it be true? How could we ever bring them home?? It has been 150 days of asking the same question.
...not knowing when they’ll have to return to the frontlines is only one of the challenges facing the released reservists.
Hamas recently acknowledged that Israel has successfully eliminated 6,000 terrorists, approximately half the number that Israel is claiming. It is worth bearing in mind that Hamas has been training kids as young as eight years old to attack Jews, so many of their “civilian” statistics are highly questionable.
Since Israel unwisely withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the only things that have not flown over the fence into Israel are doves of peace.
Some of us spent a lot of time seriously parsing the constitutional language and its history. But the experts jumped up and down and insisted that they were right and Trump was ineligible to run.
While it may still be too early to tell whether the uncommitted will eventually trigger dramatic change in the Biden policy, it is clear that it continues to be slowly blunted in drip-drip fashion.
"The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid... No excuses"
Saadat Shukurova Israilov, head of channel 24, vice president of the International AzIz organization and chairwoman of the Donna Gracia Center for Diplomacy, stated in an interview: “Azerbaijan is the world's center of tolerance. We observe this in everyday life..”
Both US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron reveal their simplistic, and somewhat imperialist, Western approach to a complex Middle Eastern situation
“I never have felt scared to be a Jewish student on campus until last night”
Bushell by committing suicide wants to “… create a turning point in the methods and tools of the solidarity movement with the Palestinian issue in the world.”
Yet it was a “blindness to the Arab problem,” and lack of historical perspective that led Major-General Aharon Haliva, IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate, and others to believe that in Gaza, “our military force and deterrence,” and efforts “to stabilize the economy, allow in workers, and improve the quality of life all have the potential to create years of quiet.” He made this prediction in June 2021, and again in September 2022
By Alex Traiman
Former Ambassador David Friedman's proposal "protects Israel's security, respects biblical covenants and affords civil rights and human dignity to all."
Instead of good and evil, we now have a set of other moral categories: rich and poor, white and black, colonizers and colonized, strong and weak, oppressors and oppressed.
Where Iran and Armenia traded $350 million worth of goods in 2021, the expectation is that this figure will rise to $1 billion this year.
By Avi Ciment
When it came to other mitzvot, like davening, which were very dear to him, he would pray for twice as long as the average person, constantly criticizing the chazan for moving too quickly.
The Israeli people, irrespective of their political differences, will never accept any long-term deal that allows the terrorist masterminds of Hamas to remain in control of Gaza.
According to the Baker Institute, the debate centers on varying interpretation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that an occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
A better way to ensure inclusion would be a different acronym: DTALE – diversity of thought and life experience. This ideology would emphasize the importance of varied perspectives but highlight diversity in its truest form, which is a mosaic of unique personal stories rather than an oppression Olympics.
I was neither shocked nor surprised by the news. It was inevitable from the moment the pro-Hamas fifth column in the United States began its pro-terror campaign. The instant the genocidists took to the streets, it was obvious that behind all the screaming and slogans was nothing more than an inchoate murderous rage.
Our soldiers discovered Hamas paraphernalia and munitions in almost every civilian home. Yet, there are many totally innocent people who have been caught in the crossfire of this just and moral war. Such is the horrid legacy of terror. It kills indiscriminately.
In an instant the law made about 800,000 non-citizens eligible to vote and the impact on New York City local elections could be profound given the fact that the city has just under 5 million registered voters – and even less active voters – and a major effort to register the immigrants could reshape politics in New York, according to Politico.
The expectation that the impact of the Oct. 7 attacks and a surge in antisemitism would prompt a shift in the way Jewish groups operate was probably misplaced.
Harvard found itself in more hot water this month when the House committee which conducted the hearings subpoenaed the school for allegedly obstructing the government’s investigation of antisemitism on college campuses.
By Bennett Ruda
The claim that Gaza is occupied is debatable at best. The legal precedent in international law is that occupation requires boots on the ground -- an actual, physical presence in the territory that allows the "occupying" force to exercise control and authority to the exclusion of local government authority. That is clearly not the case in Gaza, where Hamas is in control.
Everyone in UNRWA knew and lied, just as everyone in Gaza knew
Warners Had To Choose Between Harry Potter and DEI. It Chose Wrongly.
Under Biden, important foreign policy interests are being sacrificed domestic ones
Biden's threat to recognize a Palestinian state derives from his personal dislike of Netanyahu
Ramadan is two weeks away and the clock is ticking.
Only when the Arabs truly understand that the Jews are in Israel to stay can there be a chance for a dialogue. Until then, Israelis are negotiating with themselves and seen by some as "walking like sheep to slaughter."
While most of us may not be guilty of heinous, public crimes, aren’t we all guilty of faux pas, bad judgments, slights, even sins? Are all our other efforts and contributions therefore annulled and void?
"When a woman is raped, the humanity of a human being is severely violated.”
We are currently experiencing a technological revolution, and we have not yet begun to understand the ramifications. As much as we have all benefited from these new tools, we also have a grave responsibility to use them for good.
By Gregg Roman
When the Red Cross speaks about the Israel-Hamas conflict without mentioning Hamas' attacks, and its president meets with Hamas' leader but does not advocate for Israeli hostages, the message is clear.
The exclusion of Palestinians who do not meet the criteria depends, of course, on enforcement by DHS, which does not necessarily inspire confidence.
As we have been suggesting for some time, the so-called two-state solution seems higher on the Biden agenda than that of various Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, who recognize the Iranian threat implicit in a Palestinian state.
They fail to understand a traumatized nation facing genocidal foes—one that is united behind a war whose aim is the preservation of their very existence.
For a culture which discourages ostentation and flashiness, the attire of the kohen gadol seems aberrant. His glittering clothing clashes with our overall inclination to dress quietly and discreetly.
Those of us who wake up to see our children every day cannot fathom the reality people like Rachel and Jon have been subjected to.
In this Trump case the valuations he offered were just that, offers, and made in the context of industry-wide practice that lenders always do their own due diligence in verification of what they understand to be subjective presentations.
One of the many distressing aspects of the campaign to criminalize Israeli civilians is that it’s apparently the first target. The next one? The IDF.
Egyptians identify with the Pharaohs and Syrians and Lebanese with the Phoenicians, so the Palestinian Arabs decided to claim to be part of the Jebusites, an extinct tribe who lived in Jerusalem before being conquered by the Jews.
It would be a mistake to ignore the simmering tensions in the area south of Jerusalem.
Inside Gaza, allegiance to Hamas turns to scorn.
[T]he reports about military reservists threatening not to report for duty created the impression among Iran's mullahs and their terror proxies that the Israeli security establishment had been seriously undermined and was on the verge of collapse.
Instead of a statue of Queen Elizabeth, Trafalgar Square will feature "transgender sex workers"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Will this be the spark that Gen Z needs to be more open-minded? Did we connect with the right feelings to inspire action?
Those who helped were few and far between
Nearly a century after Winston Churchill’s surrender of Palestinian land to the King of Transjordan, the boundaries of the Jewish state remain a continuing source of contention.
The leaders of Hamas in Gaza, including Sinwar, are currently evading capture, possibly seeking refuge in the Rafah area. It is imperative for the IDF to promptly take control of Rafah to locate him.
In both Britain and America, politics is becoming increasingly distorted.
By Bassam Tawil
One cannot understand why the foreign media is turning a blind eye to the critical voices coming out from the Gaza Strip and Palestinians and Arabs living outside the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.
Is history written by the victors?
As part of a campaign to discredit Magram and push him out of the Air National Guard, Beevers allegedly coached a witness who claimed that Magram used subordinates for personal errands.
By David Nabhan
Pretending and hoping, however, that sooner or later the Gazans would come to their senses, look to their children’s futures, put down their slingshots, cease and desist with the tunnel digging, and take advantage of their astoundingly fortuitous location astride the Mediterranean Sea, was a colossal failure.
For reasons that are far beyond our comprehension, G-d wants to be in this world with humanity and wants us to be His partners.
Our common struggle for survival dwarfed every petty difference which, in the past, divided us.
In fact, Republicans even rejected a Biden administration proposal for funding for a border crackdown because they said it didn’t go far enough.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Unless we retain control of Gaza, we may have won the battle but did we win the war?
One would think that academic leaders would take proactive measures to combat antisemitic behavior and protect Jewish students, given these alarming numbers, but many have done the opposite.
I walk the freshly showered streets of Beit Shemesh and I think of spring. I think of spring in Jerusalem where I lived for 62 years. I think of you, Adar, when joy will increase; when this war, Iron Swords, will be over; when I hope something new will be ready to debut.
By Ayoob Kara
“Iran is acting against Azerbaijan on multiple fronts, with the IRGC’s Quds Force transferring weapons and military equipment to Armenia.”
By Ariel Kahana
Among the many challenges facing Israeli leaders, there is no choice but to go to battle over Biden's Executive Order targeting individual Israelis with sanctions.
I have written here before about Facebook’s abysmal and ongoing inaction over antisemitic content on its site. Much worse; since October 7, has been its Fact Checkers interventions to quell and stifle posts supportive of Israel or condemning Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
All that glitters is not gold, and what might appear to be a good way forward on paper is far from providing even an adequate solution to the deeply entrenched, fundamental problems.
To the contrary, what Mr. Hur did say was that Mr. Biden had willfully retained and shared classified material implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
Western appeasement of Shiite, Sunni and Palestinian terrorism has ignored the well-documented fact, that terrorists bite the hands that feed them,
Dealing with the Middle East today isn't as easy as it was even a decade ago
"A military operation now in that area cannot proceed."
"On the second floor, Louis and Fernando were held by armed Hamas terrorists"
By Justin Amler
UNRWA was tasked to look after the needs of Arabs displaced by the conflict... instead, it became twisted into a mechanism for continuing the Arab war on Israel.
This is not the first time the ICRC ignored the plight of Jewish victims. During the Holocaust, the ICRC did nothing to help any of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and instead wrote a "favorable report of the good treatment of Jews in German camps."
While the current coalition is far from unblemished, things could be worse—and have been, recently.
Secretary of State Blinken's call for “a concrete, time-bound and irreversible path” to a Palestinian state presents serious dangers to Israel and to Palestinians as well.
Soros has invested millions of dollars in the “defund the police,” movement, “social justice” projects and Left-wing grassroots organizations advocating for environmentalism, gun control, court-packing, legalizing drugs and abortion.
Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.
Should Soros and allies be arrested for failing to register as foreign agents?
By Irit Tratt
Visiting Israel and engaging with its citizens is integral to nurturing the affection and enhancing relations between the two cultures.
It's “shocking" that a U.S. administration would push for a Palestinian state under ordinary circumstances, let alone after Oct. 7, said former U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.
In the theatre of the absurd, commonly known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judges are again preparing to ignore history, facts, and the fundamental truth. Having weaponized the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Jewish state, the judges are now preparing to hear oral arguments […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
For the first time since the founding of the experiment in Jewish nationalism, the events that have unfolded in Israel raise questions about the “Zionist dream.”
Meanwhile, the NFL continues to paint "anti-racist" slogans in end zones and play the "black national anthem" before important games.
It’s very poetic because her whole journey started when she had an Israeli boyfriend in Montreal, who had come to Canada to avoid serving in the army. Up until meeting him, she had had no contact with Jews.
What is one of the major signs we need to be aware of in ascertaining the danger of antisemitism? ...it is when we should determine whether antisemitism has becomes a mass movement.
By Avi Ciment
I can honestly and regrettably say that up until I graduated high school, every conversation I had with rabbis always involved my grades, or rather my lack of them. I can’t recall any exchanges that endeared me to Torah observance.