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From Hamas to Iran to Turkey, when our enemies tell us what they're going to do, we need to listen.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
PT Senior Fellow A.J. Caschetta is a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum where he is also a Ginsberg-Milstein fellow.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After issuing the threat, Tamimi's Instagram account, which had almost 100,000 followers, disappeared.
Grow up. Instead of being Woke, the real world invites you to awake.
A call for a ceasefire, in other words, is a call for Israel’s suicide.
These are the same voices which have been busy rationalizing what Hamas perpetrated on October 7 and what the terrorist group has been perpetrating non-stop since seizing control of Gaza after Israel relinquished the strip nearly 20 years ago...
“We are here for the Jews, we came to kill them with knives and shoot at them.”
By Baruch Lytle
Mr. Melamed pointed out that Hamas has a strong relationship with Russia, and even has a delegation based in Moscow. He said at first the Russians were sympathetic to Hamas' plight, but in the last few days there has been a shift in their position, calling for Hamas to release all the hostages.
We wonder, though, exactly when, since Oct. 7 has it been independently determined that Israel has intentionally pursued civilians or that the notion that it does, is not anything but yet another example of Hamas slipshod surmise or outright misrepresentation.
One of the reasons that the conflict with the Palestinian-Arabs in general and Gazan Arabs in particular, has dragged on for years, is that Israel has failed to conceptualize the conflict correctly
Our current unity is the emergence of our pure core, with the many external layers of strife and internecine conflict stripped away by the brutal pain inflicted by Hamas.
Mob was shouting, "Allahu Akbar", not "Praise Putin" or "Hail Ukraine".
Fatah students call on Allah to murder Jews
Turning terrorism into a math problem never made any moral, logical or strategic sense.
The choice between Hamas and Israel is not complex. It is one between an Islamist tyranny and a democratic state, between a group whose Western ideology isn’t merely alien to Western thought but steeped in what can only be described as evil.
Whether in Gaza, on American streets campuses, or on the pages of “The New York Times,” they can’t understand why their war on Israel isn’t a universal guarantee of support.
So what will be? How should we confront the new reality we have seen?
By Gregg Roman
After Hamas’s recent massacre, Qatar issued a statement that Israel was “alone responsible” due to repeated raids on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Given such evidence, it is undeniable that Qatar is openly on the side of Hamas in this war.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained in an interview recently that Europe had made a serious mistake by creating within itself, through mass immigration, populations that reject all its norms, values and a "constitutional basis".
It is probably the easiest conflict in the world to explain. It may be the hardest to solve, but it is the easiest to explain. "In a nutshell, it's this: One side wants the other side dead."
By Sara Lehmann
I hope everyone understands that these savages don’t differentiate between Orthodox, Ultra-Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, secular, right wing, left wing. They want to annihilate all of us. It’s exactly the Nazi ideology.
By BESA CENTER
As stated in its charter, Hamas has been committed since its inception to the genocidal destruction of the Jewish people. Beyond that goal, it shares with al-Qaeda and ISIS the objective of global Muslim conquest and views all Western countries as Crusader enemies, with the United States at the forefront.
While the history of our people has been one long sacrifice of so many millions over the centuries, how could this tragedy occur here in our country?
No other nation, most especially the United States, has ever been held to such an exacting standard of precision while responding in self-defense.
Islamic terrorism – which has been a Middle East fixture since the seventh century - is neither driven by the 18th-century-established US, nor by the 20th-century-established Israel. It has been driven by a 1,400-year-old fanatic, religious, imperialistic non-compromising vision.
By Mark Durie
The Hamas Charter cites the words of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan Al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it."
Given the sensitive nature of the news during a widening conflict, and the prominent promotion it received Times editors should have taken more care with the initial presentation, and been more explicit about what information could be verified.
Many outlets engaging in Israel advocacy are discussing the rampant hypocrisy and double standards applied against Israel in the current war, but few are discussing facts from not-too-distant history.
Why did it have to be so soon? Could he not have been allowed to accomplish some more things before leaving us?
Maariv’s polling numbers do not usually mean all that much. But when they find that voters prefer Benny Gantz at 48 percent to Binyanim (“Bibi”) Netayanhu’s 28 percent, and that National Union now polls at 40 Knesset seats versus 18 for Likud, serious-minded right-wing and religious Israelis and their supporters cannot turn a blind eye […]
Below are The Jewish Press endorsements for the November 7, 2023 General Elections in New York.
By BESA CENTER
Unlike during previous conflicts, Israel is not constrained this time by a “political hourglass” and it would be wise to remove this concern from the table if a decisive outcome in the ground operation against Hamas is to be achieved.
By BESA CENTER
A decade ago, in 2013, I published an article with Professor Ephraim Inbar entitled “Mowing the Grass.” In it, we explained the Israeli rationale behind various rounds of conflict in Gaza. We discussed the lack of a better alternative to ground incursions into Gaza, despite the significant losses and harsh international criticism involved. There are […]
The poll, the widest and most in-depth on the Israeli public's attitudes towards issues relating to the war on Israel
By Guest Author
How can we understand Hamas’ actions in the context of Jewish history?
Should a second front be opened up in Lebanon, by contrast, the implications would go far beyond Israel, Gaza, or indeed the Levant area.
AMP's executive director Osama Abuirshaid implied at an Oct. 13, 2023, rally in Washington, DC, that those who stand with Israel are "animals" who "don't deserve to be called humans."
If trials are to be held, then the military must instruct its soldiers to gather and preserve evidence.
They never really cared whether Yasser Arafat ever fulfilled his obligations, including fighting terrorism or halting Palestinian incitement.
Any nation which declares that its policy is to destroy the Jewish people is Amalek.
By Eve Glover
As of this writing, according to the IDF, there are currently 203 Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.
What exactly is the motivating thought animating Hamas on Israel’s south, Hezbollah on Israel’s north, and the Evil Palestine Authority of lifelong terrorist Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) on Israel’s east?
It is abundantly clear that despite Israel’s best attempts at public diplomacy, public opinion and the mainstream media has shifted far away from Israel, especially among young Americans.
By Avi Ciment
President Biden, who I rarely compliment, humbled me with his strong show of support for Israel.
Hamas launched its attack on Israel because it does not see a difference between a Jew living in a West Bank settlement and a Jew living in a city inside Israel.
As we must go out to battle again, we are reminded of the chain of succession and success from the time of Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua ben Nun.
But of course, despite all these signals that something was very, very, very, wrong, nothing in my wildest imaginations conceived of the full horror that confronted me upon opening the news motzaei Simchat Torah.
LeAdam Maarechei Lev, UMeiHashem Maaneh Lashon – The thoughts of the heart are man’s, but from G-d comes the utterance of the tongue (Mishlei 16:1). I barely know what I am feeling yet I trust Hashem to give me the words.
Since 1994, Israeli governments have supported the PA The “Palestinian Authority” as one unified body has ceased to exist.
By Sydell Stern
As I watch the Western and European news, which at first was so supportive, I knew that it would be only a matter of time before the support for Israel started to be challenged.
They are scared. They are dealing with emotions adults struggle to deal with. Breathe, I say to my youngest son. Breathe and know we have each other.
By Shui Haber
Our world seemed to shift overnight. Flights canceled, a family bar mitzvah postponed, the resurgence of online school – we were thrust back into a lifestyle reminiscent of the covid era.
Everyone has a husband/son/brother/nephew/cousin who has been called up, and ten days in, already everyone knows of someone who won’t be coming home.
As the days of this war proceed, possibly well-meaning people ask us to care for those who may be collateral damage. The actions of Hamas have made that quite impossible. The responsibility lies exclusively on their shoulders.
By Ariela Davis
The fear and stress are very real and while we are mostly managing now, the questions about how bad it could get are a place where our minds don’t want to go.
By Avi Ganz
We have all fallen into a sort of lull wherein this is the new normal, but it is not the new normal and it is not any normal, and guess what? Not everything needs to be normal.
By Naami Ganz
We are all being called up. None of us are untouched by this war. It may be different for you or for me, but at the end of the day, as Jewish people, we are all connected.
One thing of which we are certain, and something that provides moments of not just comfort, but of hope, is the response of the ordinary people of Israel to the difficult times in which we find ourselves.
We are a resilient people. We have survived thousands of years with a lot of hatred and evil directed at us over the generations. All we can do is trust that as a nation we will get through this. By hook or by crook.
Each circle is crucial. Each circle reinforces and enables the others, and each contributes to the extraordinary effort that we must collectively make.
I can handle navigating a slew of complicated existential questions from my kids, but when my sweet, caring eight-year-old daughter turned to me one night and asked the simplest question of all, But why? Why do they hate us so much? I have no answer for her.
How can anyone lay that savagery at the doorstep of the victims? How can such depravity be cast in a positive light?
An attack that no one saw coming.
Israel has a right under international law to prefer preventing the deaths of its own civilians over inadvertently causing the deaths of enemy civilians.
Sadly, however, to the Biden administration, the glaringly central role of Iran, without which Hamas would be able to do nothing, remains nowhere in sight.
Either Moral Confusion or Hatred of Israel
If Netanyahu fails to stand up to the United States, if he buckles, the pressure from Washington won’t stop
Sadly, however, to the Biden administration, the glaringly central role of Iran, without which Hamas would be able to do nothing, remains nowhere in sight.
The Israelis have dropped thousands of leaflets over northern Gaza telling the people immediately to go to southern Gaza; Hamas instantly announced that the leaflets were merely propaganda, ordered its citizens not to move, and reportedly is now blocking their passage there.
By BESA CENTER
Hamas made a strategic mistake: It should have calculated that there was a possibility that the State of Israel would respond by acting to eliminate its physical existence. The most important thing in the coming weeks is to focus on achieving this goal.
Israeli leaders tried to apply to Hamas the strategy they had used against hostile Arab neighbors since 1948: "Taking them to the dentist every 10 years to defang them."
By BESA CENTER
Hamas is still sending attack units into Israel, though these are being defeated.
By Naomi Kahn
Hamas official tells Sky News that no Israeli civilians have been killed by Hamas.
The political rationale of the Gaza conflict can be mirrored in the inexorable logic of an almost mathematical algorithm—studiously ignored by Israel's policy-making echelons
By Guest Author
The blood libel du jour took presented itself in the form of publications from several major Western media outlets, including CNN and the AP
By Gregg Roman
Congress should go even further than this and pass a resolution calling for the dismantlement of Hamas.
Haim denied that any Israeli children had been kidnapped or any Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas! The interviewer was flabbergasted.
if a club were formed at any of these universities that advocated rape or the lynching of African Americans, the newspapers would most assuredly publish the names of everyone associated with such a despicable group. Why is this different?
Monday we had sirens in Jerusalem. It's very frightening. It's hard for me to rush anywhere, and the only place I can go is into the hallway – and then comes the loud boom, thank G-d.
By Hillel Fuld
We are in this together and we will win this, no matter how long it takes. We have no choice. As a nation, we’ve gotten through much harder times. They hurt. We lost so many. But we are here and we are not going anywhere.
He could be hit by a bus in Toronto, or die because he is a Jew in Israel. One death is meaningless; the other has infinite meaning.
But we citizens, especially religious citizens, must take this terrible debacle as a severe wake-up call to unite again as a people.
Can there be a better name for this child born on the brink of one of Israel’s worst wars than one that means – Hashem, listen to our hearts!
By Ben Waxman
If there is one thing that I can take comfort in, it is that the Arabs misunderstand us just as badly as we misunderstand them. If they thought that surprising Israel would bring us to our knees, then maybe they should have checked with Nassrallah about that assumption.
I don’t get it. What cruel version of humanity kidnaps a Filipino caretaker and her Alzheimer’s patient? For what purpose?
There is hardly a home in Israel that has not been touched. But the People of Israel are the eternal people – and we will prevail.
Hamas will ask for a lot for the hostages. Hamas will rightly believe that there will be intense political pressure to rescue the captives at almost any price. Although we think that no price is too high for the return of Jewish hostages, there may be some prices that are too high.
When several large banks went under a few months ago, horror stories began surfacing as to how they and other sectors in the economy had been held hostage to the woke agenda.
There are good people in the world. There were many non-Jews during the Holocaust who risked their lives to save Jews. Evil is real, and we have very real enemies. But not every Muslim, Arab, or Palestinian is our enemy.
By Avi Robinson
I hope you will decide that encouraging your children to experience Israeli solidarity, in the way that we have, is a worthy educational goal.
Given the scale of the tragedy and the weight of the fear we all feel, our societal divisions that are normally so acute – the religious secular divide, the huge arguments between right and left – seem to have evaporated completely.
There is one difference, though, between 1905 and 2023. We have our land and we have our army, and despite whatever shortcomings were exposed, our army, with Hashem’s help will punish the murders and continue to protect us.
September 18, 2026 
